The Kristian Harloff Show - The Suicide Squad SPOILER Review! | The Big Thing

Episode Date: September 3, 2021

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Progressive Cashelty Insurance Company Coverage provided in service by affiliates and third-party insurers. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the big thing. Have Mark Ellis here today. I finally watched The Suicide Squad. It's not going to be a spoiler review, but I'm definitely going to give my thoughts, talk to him about it. But before I even get into that with Mark, a reminder, speaking of Mark Ellis, myself and Mark on October 8th in New York at the New York Comedy Club, you get tickets at Mark Ellis. It's me, and Mark's obviously going to be headlining Ken Napsock on the bill. It's going to be a lot of people there.

And Mark's also doing a show there on Thursday as well. I'm going to try to pop in. So hopefully you guys can obviously go there support. Everybody, Mark, is going to be there Thursday and Friday. And then we have the Shmodown on Saturday night. So you can get those tickets at the Shmodown Live.com. Don't forget to subscribe to Apple Podcasts. If we're in Spotify and all of that stuff.

But we are now getting to the Big Thing. It's me. It's Mark Ellis. Here we go. Welcome back, everybody, to the Big Thing. Who was that look? You made a face like you didn't execute something properly. But that was just classic Wolfman Jack DJ.

Well, I'm getting used to it with this thing. You're spinning. You're spinning records. You're hitting buttons. I'm maneuvering. You're influencing minds. You're shaping opinions. Why do you hate the fucking headphones so much?

I'm just sure you always have. Since the collider days, you just hate them. Don't like stuff in my ears. Do you not like to hear your voice? Be honest. I don't need to hear my voice. I think a lot of people in our space and our community to hear the sound of their own voice.

Fall in love with their own voice. And I have a voice that is very fall and lovable. And I do enjoy my voice. I just don't need to stroke the ego like that. Someone told me yesterday, someone commented a new fan who'd been, or rediscovering our stuff, is just saying it happened. Oh, no, you know what it was? I think it was he found me from Kevin Smith's show, started listening.

I think so you have the ultimate game show voice. It's there. It is. It always has been. He said, no offense to me. It said, none taken. No wambies. Yes.

I mean, I can really lean into it. To press your luck when I went to. Yeah, it's tough to follow in the legendary footsteps of the late great Peter Tamarkin. Did he die? Yeah, he died in an airplane accident. It was like a single or a double-propped plane or something right out in the Santa Monica Ocean. The plane went down and people were filming it from the beach. This was, I don't know, six, seven years ago.

Oh, really? Somewhere around there, yeah. And then it came out that Peter Tamarca was on the plane and it was just such a tragic event. It's nice to watch that show religiously. Yeah, the Whamys were great. The Whamies kept us kids in line. I remember being in New York and getting ready to go out with friends, because they used to air it like in the afternoon.

It was on in the afternoon. This was before the days of the Game Show Network. And then Game Show Network, I believe, started airing old episodes of it again and again. Yeah, definitely. Because this was, there was a guy that beat the system. Did you ever see that one? And they were going to make a movie about it. Yeah, yeah.

And it was going to star Bill Murray as the guy. Is that true? Who beat the system. And then it just kind of went apart to the 11th hour. Oh, my God. He would have been great as that guy. Holy shit. Like, if there's a, I mean, as far as game shows, we all know how Josh feels about Jeopardy.

What game show would you want to actually know, let's do this for each other because we know each other pretty well. Yeah. We've worked together a few years. What do you think? What game show are you giving me? Yeah. And what game show am I giving you? Not to punish the person, not to F with them.

It's a good job for them. We think we would excel at the best. I just gave it to you. You think press your luck would. A hundred percent you would have been having fun because you could crack some jokes in between. For me? For me? For me. Oh, for you.

I'm taking mine. Yeah. Yeah. I think we'll have fortune because... I can see that, too. You get to crack jokes. Yeah. I'm a good speller.

That helps. Yeah. You know what? You can be Vanna. You can be... Because you are going to be so befuddled. I'm like, come on, asshole. It's right there.

Yep. It's right there. It's tomato. How do you miss tomato? You are going to be so preoccupied by trying to find which one lights up. Yeah. Like a dog or cat with a light. Oh, it's going to be so much fun torturing you.

We should switch. off. We should host People Forge together and switch off nights. Yeah, I'll give myself one. I would probably the dating game. You'd be really good to the dating game. You're good at those like getting those questions in. Yeah.

You know, getting inside somebody. You got like a real Brian Perez. Don't be a beardo streak like that where you just get into somebody's psyche. Right. So dating game for you would be pretty good. The newlywed game I might give you. Because it's sort of the same vein. Or hosting the, or Harrison's old gig on The Bachelor.

Yeah. That's a game show. You would be... What a gig that is. Well, I mean, I don't know, because you produced it. How hard is it to host that show? I mean, he was very good at his job. He's no longer there, obviously, but he was very good.

I just want to know because I'm a little cocky about it. I have to tell you that I think that it's not that necessarily that it's hard, but you've got to be good. Because my wife still watches the... I mean, I definitely watch Bachelor in Paradise. I think it's a train wreck. and I enjoy watching it. And the guy who's, this, we'll jump back to the Harrison thing in a second, but there's a guy, is his name, Brooks.

I can't remember his name, the bartender, right? This guy was a cast member on, I think he was even cast member in Bachelor of Paradise at one point. Gets a job as a bartender as a goof, and he becomes the regular bartender. He's had that job for like five years. Oh, what a gig. What a job. And then I think he's, like, married to like one of the actresses in modern family. This guy is made, like, made out of a barterner on a show like that.

We don't really have, I mean, look, you can do anything. I'm looking at gigs as far as how much fun can I have while I'm actually working, right? Because I enjoy having my fun, but I have to do the show first. It's like we tape schmow downs. I'm not drinking. I'm not really socializing until after all the matches. So if we're taping four or five matches in a day, I'm going to be all business. And then afterwards is when fun mark comes up.

That's when you do it. And I can't even do that. I can't even do that. I'll have like a drink with you or I'll have something like. Right. But it's, it's for me, at this. point running all of it. It's like it's, it's better that I just say, you have a great time, guys. Don't do anything stupid. But that's the toughest thing. I think our job is a little

similar to somebody who's hosting the bachelor just in the sense that you have, you have those live shows that they do, particularly like the reaction shows or afterwards where that's where you really got to be on your game because it's live. There's, there's so much other stuff. Like you can tape that rose ceremony 10 times if you need to. If you need to get a pickup, it's pretty easy to do. But he doesn't have to do anything for that. It's like the majority of the night for the cocktail night and everything. He's not there. He's just, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, When they need him, like, okay, we're going to get Harrison stuff at this point. All right, we need him to come in at two in the morning, have him ready, put him up at the hotel.

He comes in, he does this thing. But, you know, he was married for a long time, and then he wasn't. And that's going to put a strain. That's the one reason I probably don't know if I would do it or want to do it because... The travel. It's why I didn't take a larger job at production there because they wanted me as an on-set producer, but I didn't want to travel all the time. Well, no, you could have done that, though, when it was just you and your wife before you procreated.

heard me that it was right when we were thinking about having Vib. Yeah, that's, I mean, that's a, if you're already kind of going down that path. And we were working on our stuff at the time. You remember, I built, I built a lot of the stuff that I was doing, the marketing stuff. It all came while I did my work when I was there, but I also did our work when, when I was there. And, you know, it was a nice little podcast studio for, uh, for a few weeks. We used for a while, it was a couple months. Was it?

Yeah, we shot, we, we went in on the weekends and shot at the bachelor studios. It was great for me because I think at that, you. Yeah, yeah, we just roll over there on 10, 15 minutes from where we were. Hit Quiznos afterwards next to the strip club? Yeah, and we shot like three or four episodes a day, or like three episodes, I think it was a day. We would shoot, we would go in the morning. I don't remember that. Yeah, we'd shoot like three.

We put like three in the can because I remember that's when we had Katie, the producer. Not Katie, Sackoff, Katie. Right. She would come in and, like Jeremy Johns was in that one time. He came in. We had Stephen Azisi. Yeah. Matt Aitchity was in that?

Actually, that's when Achiti certified us. People still. All the YouTube people that are certified now and all they're like people, there's, you know, a lot of places. Even there's always like, who was the first champion? Who was the first this? No one says, the Shmoz, the first fucking certified YouTube reviewers. No one says it.

Sometimes when you make an accomplishment, they build you a statue outside the stadium and everybody sees and everybody acknowledges that, oh, that's a forefather. And then sometimes you take a famous lightsaber and you bury it in the bottom basement of some bar in the middle of nowhere on a lake. We are the buried. That's where our legacy is. You are the buried lightsaber. Somebody's going to discover it.

I got something fucking cool for you, though. I got something really cool for you. So a guy... Going to the phone. No, no, no. This guy wrote me, a fan, and he's military. And he told me a story. And this is...

And it's a crazy story. It's a really crazy story. Guy's name is Artie Burak. Which USO tour did he see me on? Well, listen to this. He says... Here's the story. He said that he was...

It's a while ago, but he said when he was stationed in Guant Montanamo Bay. He was assigned to interrogate this guy. Dagnino. Yeah. Who they knew had a very good intel on some people that they were trying to capture. Okay.

His deployment was nine months, and it took him a long time to crack this guy. So he said, long story short, he started playing Shmowdown matches in the day room for the prisoners. And he noticed that the guy that he was working on got really into the matches. And right before he finally requested the prisoner to be moved to a detainee. different cell away from his friends. He had no access to the day room anymore. So he would not find out what happened in any of the matches. And he ended up telling me everything that I needed to know in order to be able to watch

some more of this road out and additional hours in the day room. He said the whole process took him nine months. There was a lot missing, but at least you got the ideas. He said, nice group respond to him. Get out of here. Are you pulling my leg? The guy gave it up at the end for the matches. He said, dude, nine months working on this dipshit.

and he got addicted to the Shmowdown, and ultimately it was his downfall. We got to get this guy drunk. No shit. We got to take this guy out for drinks. I mean, we got to squeeze this guy for information. Like, he was squeezing the prisoner for information, because I want every ounce of this story.

Yep. I need to know everything about this. Everything. Yeah. It was, I mean, because he was, he had wrote me a little while ago, and then I saw it. And then I reached out. I was like, could you tell me what it is?

And he wrote that. I said, I got to say it on the show. And he's like, absolutely. Just let me know when you're going to. I mean, I said, I got to, I have to do it while you're on the show. That is just so exciting. You've got to think that guy, whoever the prisoner was. Yeah.

Flipped out when And Draco cleared the table. A hundred percent. And because he gets, I want to know what match he was watching. That guy was probably in the middle of Whitward Napsocks. And it's coming down to the wire. And this dude said, nope, you got to either tell me where your boys are. You ain't going to find out who won the fucking Star Wars. That's how you do it.

That was beautiful. We don't have to do any of those ancient medieval tactics. Don't need to waterboard anybody. We don't need to play loud, Lamb of God, heavy metal. We just need to give him this mo-down. That's it. That's all you got to do. I never got to go to, yeah, never been to Gitmo.

I've been to the Middle East three times for the U.S. So we got bit by the dogs, right? On purpose, yeah. Yeah, it wasn't like I was attacked by wild dogs. No, you just walked in and you got... Every time. Put on that big fat training suit, let them bite me. Have you done it every time?

Yeah, it's fun. It looks fun. I mean, it's fun, but holy crap, when you're actually in there and it's about to happen, you're like, okay, okay, good doggy. Because you got to even, even though they do it a thousand times over, you're like, what if this is the one time where he actually makes it through the suit? Well, because you've got to remember people who are training and they're training these dogs every day, they still are building a rapport with the dogs.

This dog, Eddie, doesn't know me from Adam. Eddie. So luckily, Eddie and I became good friends, and I keep up with Eddie. Do you really? Yeah. Yeah, with Eddie's owner? Yeah, Eddie's no longer an active service. You don't email Eddie.

I'm sure the emails get read to the dog. It's a German Shepherd Christian. It's a very smart animal. German shepherds are very smart animal. Yeah, now I could read an email to Molly and she'd be passed out halfway through it. But the German Shepherds, they're ready. As Freddie Lockhart says, they are the police officers of the dog community. They are.

Does he have a German Shepherd? He's got one, and he's got another big one now. I don't know what it is, and then they have a tiny one that kind of rules the ruse. So, yeah, Freddie's just raising a whole, he's got a whole operation out there. His posts and Jason Galern's posts really make my. my days. I really do. Because Freddy's got like,

he's, it's like, it's like, feel good posts. Yeah. And like he's just, you know, he's just such a good guy.

And, and glern is just off his fucking rocker and just one of the funniest dudes out there. It's just, uh, it's, it's a weird,

wacky, wild community. And how much do you owe me that I was able to, to show you in, uh, the Brian Holtsman Instagram. Yeah, that was pretty.

Yeah. That was a great discovery. That is, I'm very proud of that discovery. Every time I see Holtsman, he just comes up to me. He's like, hey, how do you get so many Instagram followers? When you took that picture with him and you meant, did you actually mention it?

Because there's no chance here. I've performed with him so many different times. I think he does remember you. Does he? I think so, yeah. Was there when he fought somebody at Dublin's, which was incredible. Yeah. I'm so glad.

Did you ever wind up watching the documentary in the comedy store? No. He never watched it. No. Haven't done it yet. I mean, I probably won't have. I'll have some time in Vegas to just relax, but I'm going to just be working a lot.

lot on a lot of different stuff there, so maybe I'll fire it up. But, oh, I heard about another documentary. I met a director. I was at the comedy store last night. I met a director afterwards, and she has a new documentary that's coming out on Vice that is called Too Soon Stand Up in the aftermath of 9-11, I think is what it is. Because, like, there was a big thing where 9-11 happens and all these- and then comedy club, it's like, what do we do? Are we allowed to go laugh? And so it's just people flooding comedy clubs the rest of that week because what else are we going to do? And so it's the experiences of comics, of audience members, just kind of going through that process and dealing with the grieving thing. It's a very different situation now. But there is something that we all are experiencing

that's very scary out there that comics are talking about with the pandemic. And so, and, you know, we're coming up on the anniversary. And so it's just like this weird confluence of events where it feels very relevant. So I cannot wait to check it. Yeah, I like to check out also. And it's It's funny because I've had this conversation with so many different people. And I'm sure you and I have talked about it before, too. But George Carlin always said, like, anything. Yeah. Anything can be funny.

Not anyone can make anything funny. And it's true. Like, I'll tell you what. Ari Shafir, I just saw him do a joke on Instagram recently. He had posted something about it was after the buildings fell in Miami. Yeah. It's a fucking, it's a joke. He goes somewhere and you're like,

I can't believe you're joking about it. And a lot of people were going to be, were offended by the joke. The joke's funny as far as, is it too soon? Maybe. But it's what he does and what he, and he basically is just talking about this one guy that was there in, in the whole thing that,

he said, the guy was just leaving, he wasn't even living at the building. He was there to, he went home from one night stand. Oh, wow. And he's like, and he's like, imagine this guy. You're like, this never happens to me.

Yeah. I'm lucky. man this is lucky and he goes into this whole thing and he's and it's like it's one of those jokes and already's always done this it's one of those jokes you're just like oh i can't believe he's going there but it's a fucking clever joke it's a funny joke but like there are not a lot of comedians that can do that there are not a lot of comedians that do that do that and like you're saying with this too soon thing with with 9-11 i remember being at the store and i mean it was you're already out here i was out right i was out here i didn't go to the i wasn't at the store i didn't start going to the

comedy store like a lot until like I think it was like June or July I had been there a couple times with June or July of like 2002 okay that's when I started going there a lot I started showcasing there in August I got past in November yeah um a nice little short showcase win I mean is facetious or no oh is that not at all okay see because I yeah right there are other people at the time I thought it was long yeah right because No, it feels like a grind, but if you can make it through, if you get past within the realm of one sports season, you're doing something right. Yes. Even baseball.

Well, I felt like I was in summer camp because I told this story many times over, blew in the face. But like, I was, I would, I don't know how it is now, how they showcase. I'm not sure. I don't even know they are showcasing right now. Yeah, but when they were doing it, I mean, the way that, and I don't know how it was even when you did it. But, like, it was, I think Sunday nights, Monday nights and Tuesday nights were the showcase nights. Potluck. Yes.

And it was Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. And then you start, you did three. And then if you, if you, the first round, you go back, you do six and then you do 10, right? Yeah. And if you were on the showcase list, you could go up every one of those nights. Regardless of whether Mitzie showed up. So I remember, I can't remember the guy's name to this day. And I remember, and I'm sorry to the people who have heard this story maybe 20 times,

but I don't really have ever talked about it with Mark. But this guy was like, yeah, I'm not going up tonight. She's not here. Oh, yeah, you have those people that are just like. I'm like, what are you talking about? Right. You're fucking three nights ago with the comedy store. Where else are you going to go?

We need to go to the coffee shop down the block? Get the fuck on the stage. Shut up. Yeah. And this guy, like, nah, he thought he was too good. Like, she's got to see me. And that was one of the main reasons I think that I, because out of that class, It was only me and one other person that got passed.

Yeah, I remember seeing people like do that process and go through. And I had the same attitude you did, but I was also by that time working at the comedy clubs. I can't escape anyway. And so you might as well go up. But I wanted to just because, again, it's reps. But you'd see people. And the fun thing for me is like people would come in and they'd like have an idea of what they're going to showcase with if Mitzie shows up. And then if she doesn't show up, it's like, well, all right, now I'm just going to go up.

And I'm just going to kind of, you know, try to feel something out, try to work on Tinker with something new. And so there's a thousand different ways to skin that cat. But the only way to do it would be to continually go up on stage. And so when I started showcasing, Mitzie was there for the vast majority of my showcasing. And then they started going to this thing where it was just an inevitability. It was just a question of what night I was going to get past. And then that was when they started doing the, they'd videotape it. Did she ever watch anything?

I have no idea. I have no idea. That's when it's like, wait, is Tommy Mitsy? Is Mitsy time? You never really seen me. in the same place. And then, you know,

and Tommy was always fine to me. But do you know, do you know who Tommy really was at that point? I wouldn't quite go as far as Norman Bates. Wormtale from,

from Lord of the Rings. The king is under a spell and he's like talking through him and stuff. Oh, really? Okay. I don't remember any of that from Lord of the Rings. Yeah, the dude from one flu

of his cuckoo's nest is wormtel. And he's just like, and the king is just, Thorin is just, is his name Thorin? I don't remember. But he's, but he's, we're not doing. We're not.

We're not. And he's just sitting there and, and I remember, it's definitely, well, you know, tell him, you can't go up tonight. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's not going to happen. It was probably a conversation as simple as, as Tommy telling her, hey, you know, that phone guy you like, still was showcased. He's like, oh, he can be it right. That was, I am very grateful that, though, that I have to interact with her a couple times, you know, and the fact that.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. And then I was, you know, when you hear that, because you also, you also. think maybe because you hear horror stories like oh she loves somebody and then she forgot about them like 20 minutes or she just like fire somebody yeah i don't like your voice she could have changed she could

change it immediately saw me like another time i'm like oh no and then i remember i was working at this management company answering phones at the time and then duncan called me yeah and trusel was booker and he's like yeah mitsy likes you you're in buddy i was like yeah well who screaming the hallway he's like yeah man he'll he'll scream it out it's like rudy like you don't know what to do it's like wait Wait, wait, wait, wait. I need to hear you say I made the team. Well, Duncan, I knew Duncan from, I mean, he was one of the first comics I met, like at Luna Park, the old school Luna Park.

And he was, and he would, oh shit, I totally forgot about this until I just said it. I have it somewhere. So Duncan went in like 99, right? He brought me up and there's a wrestling move called The Rack that I did to people in college. And I told this story once I was like, I was hammered. There was this kid walking across the street. I walked up to him, racked him. kid just went with it,

put him down the street, just walked away like a video game avatar, right? Florida State everyone. Everybody. Top-nodge education. 100% about as meat-headed as you get. But I went, I did it. It was just the fact, but you had this kid, though,

but going to that story. Imagine you just walk and doing your own thing. I wasn't, like, aggressive to him and violent to him. I just said, come here, picked them up. And he was like, all right. I put him down. He never said, what are you doing? He smiled.

And just, it was straight up out of, like, I'm sure you put a pep in his stuff. It was funny. But anyway, the point is, guys, you'll never be what happened. One of the cool kids picked me out. But Duncan Trussell and I, somewhere I had this video, he does some bit

and I racked him at Luna Park and I have him in my arms, like holding him, I have to find this. That sounds like something Duncan would sign off on him. He was loving. He's just one of the most original. He doesn't bring the dummy up anymore. No, little hobo got stolen or like

got lost or something. So now he's got like this whole thing about where it, where is little hobo. But yeah, his little hobo sets were pretty pretty great. He's one of the guys that I would always watch because you just never, because you just never knew what he was in. I really enjoyed watching some of Rusty Dooley's prop work too. Rusty Dooley was the top gun stuff that he would do. Yeah, he was so much fun to watch how the audience would react.

Totally. To his stuff. His energy was big. So they would put them on, they put them on, especially if they needed to any of the the energy of the room to go up. But speaking of energy, though, dude, suicide squad. Yeah, the new one. James Gun.

This movie's fucking awesome. I am so glad you enjoyed it. I didn't just enjoy it. I love this. I have not seen the picture, but I've heard nothing but great things. I loved this. I got to see it. I'm not trying to be a rebel.

You've got to see this movie. And the reason why I wind up watching it last night is because somebody lit a fire under my ass and said, dude, it's going to be off HBO Max in like four days, five days. Yeah. Same thing. So you want to watch it. You want to watch it? I should have told you. You could have watched it.

We could have just found a whole spoiler thing today. I just, for some reason, I thought you already saw it. Yeah. You mean, you should have texted me about what we're talking about. Yeah,

before I started driving here. Yeah. Yeah, probably. Oh, remind me, though, after you're done with this, yeah. There's another movie that I have to watch tonight

you're going to be very excited about. Okay. Well, let's talk. We'll talk about that. Yes. So this will be a non-spoiler, even though sometimes people have seen it already, because I think I'm going to do a spoiler review on this channel.

You can spoil it for me. I'll live. Well, I mean, I'll throw some stuff in there for some people who, if you haven't seen it, you know, maybe, I don't know what the hell I'm going to say. Well, you got to make a decision, Christian. There's people out there watching that don't want to be spoiled. Well, the hell with that. I'll do a spoiler review.

I mean, because you care? This is him picking us up on his shoulders. Do you not care? Are you serious? No, I want you to express your artistic vision. This is my favorite James Gun movie. Okay. Now, he's made The Guardians are Galaxy movies.

Super. Super. Yeah, he's done a lot of those. He's got a great sense in music. He always has. It's front and center in this film. You know where the first movie? I was going to say the first movie puts it front and center too.

The first movie feels like an overall just like just throwing music in to throw it in. It's like, oh, here's a music video now. Here's a music video now. This, every song fits the scene. You have been in reviews with me before where I've talked about John Cena and saying, sometimes he's kind of corny. He doesn't really. I think he worked in train rack and a couple of...

And blockers. And blockers. This is the best he's ever been. Wow. He's funny in this movie. He's got a edge to him. He is great in this movie. Iderselba steals the show.

As he does. But this is, they, you know, they couldn't get Will Smith and they wind up getting Indraselba. You could tell maybe that it was rewritten a bit because they still have kind of the daughter part of it. It plays. You got your Margot Robbie returning. You got your.

She's been, Jai Courtney, and you got your boy Joel Kinneman returning. All right, so this is where I'm going to give some spoilers. All right. I'm going to give spoilers here, too. So if you haven't seen the suicide squad, you should tune out to it. And I'm even going to put it in the title that we're going to do a spoiler review here. So you clicked on it. I was, so, and once again, you into our past, you talk about Jai Courtney.

You love the guy. I was not a fan him for a long time. And then. Then you met him. Well, no, before that. He was in that movie with Angelina Jolie. Oh, yeah. The, whatever it was, not always, but that's a spill.

The movie where the... Unbreakable. She directed it. Not unbroken. Unbroken. Unbroken. And then he was in the water diviner. He was in a few movies.

He was in a few movies as like a supporting character. And then he was in the Suicide Squad. The first one, which doesn't like that movie, thought he was great. And even before I met him. Then I met him, I interviewed him twice. And the first time I met him, I was like, this guy's a really fucking good dude. Yeah. passionate dude and then used in the right circumstances.

I think he fell into that Sam Worthington thing and people just shoving him down your throat and saying, this is your star, this is your star, this is your star, this is your star. But he was great. He is good in this movie, dead in first 10 minutes. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay.

So they set this whole... Buckle up. Dude, they set this whole thing up. Michael Rooker is in... It opens with him. and he's sitting on the bench and he's listening to this music. Oh, and it opens up with Johnny Cash, Falsam County Blues.

And he throws the handball, it kills his bird. And you see, that's James Gunn telling you this movie is going to be, because the way that it's shot, it's beautiful, the colors in this movie, he's going,

you're going to see a lot of pretty colors because it's significant throughout the entire film. Pretty colors, fucked up characters, a lot of gruesome, a lot of gruesome death. And he just killed. kills the bird with a handball, right?

And then Waller recruits him, says you're going on, you're going on this mission, sends him on this beach, and Pete Davidson is one of the guys also, winds up, and you think, okay, it's our, it's our crew. It's, it's, there's a lot of different, Nathan Philean is in this crew, and it's like, and Harley Quinn is there,

and, and, and, and this is where boomerang comes in, and they send them in, and the humor in this movie, movie. I heard it plays like a hilarious dark comic. It's hysterical. Yeah. And it's hysterical in a way that my biggest issue with Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

Are there funny jokes in that movie? Yes. But it gets in the way. It gets in the way. This does not get in the way. It feels like every part of it. It's like it's fucking lunacy. Lunacy from start to finish.

It never feels like, well, that just came out of nowhere. No, he's been setting his shit up from the second it starts. And it, I mean, this is a five out of five movie, by the way. Easily. Like one of my favorite movies that I've seen in a long time. I was hesitant at first when it started, and I'm watching it. I'm going, okay, how goofy is this going to get? Is this going to be Guardians again where everybody has a joke?

And then it's just balls to the wall. Hardar. Hard are. And everybody, like, but it's even though people are, it's like, because the first one is really built on, well, these guys are villains and you can't, you know, it's like they're really bad guys. It just, Alba has like a, you. the same way the Will Smith did. There's a goodness in there.

They have that odd code of chivalry. Yes. Where they're damaged individuals for the most part, but they still have some sort of moral code that may not fall into what societies. That's right. Morals are, but they have their own sort of path at their wife. Well, he's got this great scene with his daughter,

and it's the lead girl from, what's the Ava Duvonne? A wrinkle in time. Yes, thank you. And the lead kid in that movie plays his daughter, and they have this amazing scene where he's in jail where, because Waller's trying to recruit him. He's like, no. And she's like, well, I guess someone's here to see you.

And the daughter's there. And he's having this scene. And this scene between this kid is phenomenal. And they start, like, you're real. Okay, this is, he's going to be loving and caring his daughter. They start screaming, fuck you at each other. Because he says, she says something like about she got caught for stealing and she's waiting for him to go like, oh, I can't believe you did that.

And he's like, you know, next time have a lookout. Right. And she's like, that's what you have to say to me. She goes, fuck you. He goes, fuck you. You, fuck you, and they're screaming at each other. Get ready to be the dad of a teenager. But I'm telling you, I'm watching this.

I'm like, oh, it's so real. They're going back and forth. And that's the reason why he goes on the mission because Waller's like, well, look, she's 16 years old. We can put her in here with you now. We want it to. And he's like, you motherfucker. So he goes on this mission is an A team and a B team. The A team is the people that boomerang and Rick Flagg, Joel Kinneman, who's, again, same thing like Jai Courtney.

People pushing them down your throat going. He's the lead. Put him in Robocop. And then in side rolls, he's great in this movie. Great. Him and Idriselba and John Cena all have like the same type of skill. And they're all like ex-military and they, and... Who are we going against? Who's the main bad?

Because that was the downfall of the first one to me. Because I was really having a good time with Suicide Squad for the first two-thirds of that movie. Then Enchantress reveals her full self and I just thought it fell apart. You don't have to have seen the first movie, by the way, to like this one. Yeah, I would. I think that they give you a little like, nod saying, a little nod in a wink saying, you know,

there's a reason why Harley Quinn is pals with Rick Flagg and there's a reason why Boomerang and her here, because it exists, it exists, but it's not, but they don't, they don't make you rely on having to see it. So who are we going after here? So when they get to this beach, they're trying to figure out, it reminded me a predator a little bit,

right? Of like, well, why are we, why are we going here? What are, it's like this this group, and they just start getting picked off left and right. And everybody on the beach in the beginning gets killed except Rick Flag and Harley Quinn Harley Quinn gets taken and she winds up getting the German guy from

You probably know him he's a comedian And he was in pitch perfect And he was on he used to do like He's been in our space before I can't remember him They'll start screaming at me about it But he's got this staff that he gives Harley Quinn and she's It's like this really like he does this a lot

James Gunn throughout this movie He's got like these Mr. Rex And it's like oh here we go We got this nice scene and he's telling her Take this take my my javelin it's it's for you and it's meant for and he dies and this music's blaring she puts her her hand she goes to put his face and then she slaps him like real hard she goes it does what it does what it you didn't tell me what it does she's like beat the show she's like laying there right

and by the way it's so graphic and it doesn't look like expendables blood coming out it's like there's stuff happened with such an issue with cg i won yes and there's cgai blood in here that that looks great. And it's like, and it's just, you could just tell his, his horror instincts, like that fun kind of horror stuff

that he did. What did you do? Slither? Is that the one that he did? I think he did Slyther, yeah. So, like, which is really,

really cool. Like stuff like that, you, you could tell that this was a mixture for him of all the stuff that he's done in the past, but mixing it into,

like these anti-heroes, a big budget movie. The movie is gorgeous. It is gorgeous. There's a scene with Harley Quinn where she, She falls in love with, like, the president. So the answer to your question is, like, there's this bad, there's this government,

their mercenaries. They've done this. They've kind of overthrown the good people, and their family runs it. And there's this science experiment, this alien that they found. It's like it looks like a fucking starfish from SpongeBob SquarePants, actually. Or a xenomorph. But, and there's something happening with this starfish, and he's looking to, it's very, alien-esque. Parts of the thing come out

and can control their bodies and they've had it and he's trying to control it, right? So she gets, so after they capture her on the beach, he falls in love with her. And he's like, he's like, look, you're anti-government, you always have been, anti-America, I want you, I want you part, I want you with me, and they have this whole

scene. And it looks like, I took pictures of it. It looks like artwork in a museum, the way that he shot this thing. But it's going along with the music and everything and then he asked her to marry him. And she's like, absolutely, I'm in love, blah, blah, blah. And he starts talking about all the stuff that he's going to do with this starfish.

And he looks around and she fucking shoots him and kills him. Yeah. She's like, I just had such bad luck with dudes. And hearing you talk about what you're doing, it's just not going to end well. And the guy's like crawling and trying to find his way to like, you know, to breathe. And she's just talking over him. You know, the acting president now comes in, captures her. But the funniest fucking scene in the whole movie.

I was sitting here. I have not laughed out loud by myself sitting watching a movie since this film. And I did it like five or six times. But this one particular scene, they, so the B team, right? Idriselva, John Cena, they have to go, they're going to go rescue Rick Flagg. And I have this girl, I can't remember her name. She can control rats. And David Dalsmash, Dalshosh.

Malshin. I always mess up his name. He's, he's, he was an ant man. He was in Clyde a lot of a handful of times. Oh, yeah, I know what you're talking about. Sweetheart of a guy, right? He's at every Marvel premiere. He plays the polka dot man. And he's got like this thing happening with him.

And like this, these polka dots are coming up, but he's got to let him loose and they could destroy people's bodies and asses and stuff too. Like his mother experimented on him when he was younger. And that's what he always wanted to be a superhero. And he's been in tons of shit It's been great. This is the best he's ever been, right? So, and then Stallone plays the shark.

Yeah, right, right, right, right. And nom nom, or whatever the hell the guy's name. He says, nommon, that's what he wants to eat. And the girl, though, the girl who controls rats is really, like, the heart of the story. Because she, Idris Elbyssees his daughter and even says his much. So, and it's not, and what I was worried about is there were going to have, there's going to be all this conflict with all of them. And, like, they didn't want to work with.

with each other. Rick Flag and and I just Elba had been working together and they work together in their past, they're buddies and they work together fine. But Flag has gotten captured at this point, so they need to go find them and they feel, we know the village. So Sina and Albar are

kind of budding heads because they both have the same exact skill and they're both like assassins and the dialogue walking up and talking about it. I think it was in a trailer, the bag of Dix thing. Have you seen that? Is this? Sure. Yeah. But anyway, start to have a competition. They start going into this village and they're brutally murdering every one of these soldiers.

They're just taking them out and they've creative ways to do it. Elbe looks at Sina and electrocutes a guy who's taking a bath. The guy like they rip a guy's head off. They're just killing everybody left and right. And the shark is eating people killing everybody.

They walk in, they see, and they get Rick Flagg and he's sitting there with a drink and talking to a woman. He's like, what the hell is going on? He's like, oh, this is the the guys that rescued me. They fucking killed the whole village full of mercenaries that saved Rick Flag. And it was brilliant. They set it up as if they're wrecking shop like in Predator.

Yeah. But they just finally killed all the guys who held Rick Flagg. That's hilarious. It was hysterical. And then there's so much more that happens. Scenes like that throughout it. And they go back and forth. And there's like a mixture in time of how they maneuver.

It's so creative. It's so fun. it's a shame that this movie didn't crush. This is one of the most original, like, I don't want to say superhero, but comic book movies in since like Kickass. Yeah, can you compare it to anything? It's got like a kickass feel, I mean, but times 1,000.

Okay. Where Kickass was just raw. This movie is, it's gorgeous in the way that it's shot. It's creative and not, and you know me, when it's sometimes when it's just like excessive, it's like, this guy's just trying to be artsy-fartsy. It fits.

Like there's stuff like there's, when Harley Quinn gets out, she breaks out of, she's being held captive, and she breaks out, and she's killing all of her captors, and there's like these petals and flowers kind of flying up behind her,

and it just, it's gorgeous the way that it all works. Yeah, I mean, and again, like, I'm so attached to all of the characters watching it. I was really attached to Sina in the fact that he was so good and so clever and so funny in this movie, like the way his delivery was really good. Alba's hands down my favorite

throughout the whole thing. But, and the girl, and the girl's really good. And I forget which one of the Doctor Who's plays one of the villains also, but they, it's, this starfish thing at the end is that it gets loose. Yeah. And that's when they have to like try to bring it down. Because Amanda Waller is a part of this whole thing.

It's like the American government was part of the whole thing. Yeah. And like they, it's, it's like, like you said before, this moral compass of what do we do, it's not always going to go the way. This movie is not conventional. You can't predict it. Like, when you, like, it's like normally the things that normally happen, the normal tropes that happen, they don't happen in this movie. And it's very, like there's some fun, shocking moments throughout the entire thing. Do we have, are we looking at a sequel?

Is there a post-credit scene to stick around for? Absolutely there is. Rick Flagg fucking eats it, by the way. And I was, I was, I was so devastated by. that. And I've never been a Kinneman fan, because he was so good in this movie. Yeah.

And Sina kills him. And because Sina turns, Cena doesn't necessarily turn, but he's working for Waller. And he's, and he's like, we, they get this chip that basically says to the,

about the Americans were involved in it. And she wants it all destroyed. And flags like, no, we got to release this to the public. And Sina's like, no, that's not our objective.

And he, because his name's peacemaker. He's like, well, let's, what are we talking about here? And they start fighting. And he feels bad about it, Sina, you know, when they're fighting.

But then he realizes at the end he's got to do what he's due because Flags ready to kill him. He's ready to choke him. And then Sina stabs him in the heart, kills him. But it's, yeah, it's, they set it because Sina comes, because it just all but kills him at the end, you think. But in the post-credit scene, he was, he survived. Okay.

So they set it up for a sequel. I just worry because the movie is. You can tell that it was expensive. I mean, it's an expensive movie. Yeah, I think, I can't remember what I, what I read the budget was, but I think it was like 80? No, that movie did not cost. 70, 80? To make?

I can't, I don't know. No fucking way. The movie has to cost at least $150 million. Wow. If not more. Really? I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm just, just from the salaries alone, I would assume. He's going to the glasses.

I'm gonna, not yet I'm not, but I'm putting in, I haven't even used box office mojo in so long. It's such a terrible. It's all me sucks now. My goodness. What are you thinking when you're rebranding something? Like, hey, let's make it unusable. Let's see. I'm going to see how much to this.

Make it unutilizable. Well, so it only made, it made 52 domestic, international made 100 to me, 155 so far. What is it? HBO Max? Probably got some subscribers over there. That's what you would hope. It doesn't, I don't know how you read the budget. A budget was 185 million.

Yeah. You can tell to. When you see this, you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll, can tell. That's pretty penny. Remember, that movie was not made for HBO Max. It was made before there was a pandemic. It was made for all this stuff.

But you can tell, man, you can really tell that how much effort and love this guy put in this movie. I thought I would like it. I didn't know that I would love it the way that I did. I love this movie. Good for you. It was great. Okay.

Favorite comic book movies of all time. Is this? It's hard. Is this in the top 10? And recency bias. Recency bias. Right now I'd say yes. But recency bias.

Yeah, you got to really sit down and think about all the comic book movies you've seen. Like, how does this stack up to the original Superman? How does this stack up to 89 Batman or even Batman begins or the dark night? I'll tell you how it stacks up to both Superman and Batman 89 because those are both movies that changed the game. Yeah. Because nobody was doing superhero movies that you took serious until Superman came out. And then Batman was Adam West. until Michael Caten hit there.

And that was like a, that was, you and I remember, that was what a blockbuster was all about. That entire summer was all about Batman. Lines wrapped around the block, shirts everywhere you wear, shoes, the converse, shoes, the comic books. I mean, everything is, Prince on the radio. Everything. It was massive, right?

So that kind of changed the game. So how does it compare is that it's different in genre. This movie is a different, different type of movie. And I'm telling you, the best way I could, and it's a super it's a compliment it's fucking crazy all right it's a watch it it is a crazy movie and I enjoyed every second of it I thought the stuff they did was shark the shark and stallone you yeah yeah that's perfect okay so where do I watch it if it's gone from HBO max in like four days so I think you're going to still be able to you can still rent it I think you can still rent it

okay um and then I think that it's going to be back on HBO max in I don't know a couple of months probably going to happen you should you should watch I'll try to catch it I'm trying to This weekend. It's really funny. Yeah. It's like, and that was my biggest concern was, as you know, like when, like if the humor gets in the way of what we're trying to do. If it doesn't feel like it, like it works. Yeah.

There's a scene that there's so many funny scenes in this movie. There's a scene where they're walking through. It's they had gone through that whole Rick Flagg thing I told you about. And then they go back. They go seven minutes earlier because these explosives go off and it and now and it's like a Tarantino type of three. row, right? Like seven minutes earlier. You see how we led to those explosions going off. But so

Inderselva, Harley Quinn, polka dot man, and then the security, that's a guy that's been helping them, this guy Milton, he's a regular guy, you know, has been helping them out. They're walking through this, like, it's like an office building, and I say, it's quiet, and then soldiers pop out and start

shooting, Milton's dead, goes down, right? Yeah, I was going to guess. And so it just hits the side. Harley Quinn, it's the side, Pocodot man is upset and he's just like, they killed Milton. They killed Milton. And then she said, Selva goes, Milton was still with us? He was walking, he was with us? And he's like, what do you mean?

He's been with us the whole time? He's like, I thought he stayed in the car. And Harley Kohn goes, who's Milton? Then they have this. He's like, you don't know. Are you? He's like, you're kidding me, right? You don't know who Milton is.

Like, he's been around blah, blah. And she's like, no, got no recollection of a Milton. She comes out. She goes like, oh, that's Milton. She's like, oh, I remember him. Love it. And then at the end of the movie, after it's all over,

like they're having a conversation for Harley Quinn and, because PolkaDop, man, fucking E2. I was very upset about that. But then Idriselba was talking to Harley Quinn and she was like, I can be your friend Milton. And he goes, not my name.

And she goes, yeah, it is. We just had a whole conversation about it. He's like, not, not my name. And it was like, that is how she would act. That is, she's out of a fucking mind. It's set with him. He didn't, he didn't, He wasn't the one.

I was worried he was going to be the one going, who's Milton? He just forgot Milton was there. He just forgot that he was there. And it was each bit of humor fit each character. And the Pocod Man had like these mommy issues. And every time he saw like a, he wasn't like a really evil guy.

He was just a guy that was tortured by the, I think somebody calls him Norman Bates at one point. And it's, and it is, I am definitely going to watch this movie again. I haven't heard a bad thing about it. From anyone that I've seen discuss this movie, have not heard a bad thing about it.

It's a fucking bummer that it didn't do as well because I definitely want to see a sequel and I definitely want to see him. If you told me right now, you only get the Suicide Squad 2, which is really what it would be, or Guardians 3, the Suicide Squad 2. Really?

Yeah, every day. I prefer this over both Guardians 1 and Guardians 2. It's just very different. Wow. It's a very, it is, it's my type of, it's my type of movie. And I think it's your type of movie, too, because it's funny, dude. Okay.

It's really funny. I'm in. Yeah. And the music. I got the soundtrack ready as soon as, because you're soundtrack guy. Yeah. Yeah. It's got a great sound track.

It's like when we left Baby Driver. It's like, man, the music just didn't get in the way. It accelerated the action. It accelerated it as opposed to the first one where it was just, it was just over your, beating you over the head. It's like, here's a music video now. And it's like, uh, right. Right.

This, there's, the music dominates in this movie, but it's for purpose. Yeah. So anyway, I loved it. I mean, I really did. I think that for those people who were telling me to get on it, watch it, you were right, 100%. Five out of five schmose. Easily.

From Christian Harlow. One of my favorite movies that I've seen in a long time. The ultimate honor you can bestow upon a picture. Yeah, it is easily one of my favorite movies that I've seen in a while. And in D.C. might be, not including the Nolan trilogy, probably it's up there. They made a third Batman movie? What's that?

You hate that movie, huh? I like that movie. I like that movie. I can go along with it for a little bit, but man, that movie just bugs me. I got to rewatch it. It just bugs me more and more. There's good in it, but it's like I'm Luke talking to Vader. I'm like, look, I know there's good in you, but kind of ruined some shit here.

You never, you never, you never, you never faulted from that. I will never forgive that movie. No, I like that movie. So I have a movie I need to watch. Oh, yeah. What are you going to watch? Before the Suicide Squad, because it's for work. This is a movie.

Yes. Note, I didn't burp during his review. This is a movie. Then I'm watching tonight because... It's not a review yet. It's a preview. For Rod and Tomatoes, it's on the podcast. Now, you're going to get upset.

Can I guess first what it is before you... You give me some hints and I guess? I'm going to say you're going to be very upset that you are not the guest on this show. Okay. Is it one of the Rocky... You've seen all the Rocky movies. It's something... It's got to be a movie I had not seen.

It's something you've never seen. And it is a comedy. A comedy. Yes. Is it a sports comedy? Yes. And I wouldn't count the program as a sports comedy. Neither would I.

Okay. Some dramatic stuff. It's a sports comedy. Sports comedy. Well, if you give me the movie. Ridiculous, hairbrains. If you, well, not catty-shad. Extreme sport.

Extreme sport. Fits in the X-Games mold. Hmm. I believe you're one of the big champions this movie. It's not hot rod. It is hot rod. I'm not a champion of that movie. I thought you, I see, I thought you were.

I couldn't quite remember because I know, I think a few of the wangers love it. No, I just spoke about this movie. funny you bring that up. I am actually upset that I'm not watching with you because I just, it's funny you bring this up. I talked about this movie two or three episodes ago. That's what I do. I went magic to a podcast. You were listening to the episode

and decided you were going to lie and say you were going to see this movie. But it's one of the few movies I walked out on. You walked out of Hot Rod. Yeah, because I had seen the movie. It was before we were getting screenings, right? And we had to review one of the Harry Potter movies.

So you weren't with me. It was me. and Mike Citizen. Okay. And so we went, we saw the Harry Potter movie, and then we said, all right, well, now we watch that. Let's watch it down with a comedy. And Annie Sandberg, who was a guy.

And it's in the theater? Are you theater hopping? Yeah, yeah, we're at the Grove. And so we go in there, and I was, obviously, just did you stand up with Andy? So we wanted to support by going free to his movie. And watching it, excited for it, and I'm going, this is fucking stupid.

And I left. But everybody swears by the movie. I've not seen it since it came out in the theater. I might have just been exhausted from Harry Potter from watching, you know, 20-a-half Harry. It's a lot. And maybe just wasn't in the mood to do it. So I think I have to go back and watch.

People swear by it. I have to watch it. People of it is not well. It's not high on the tomato meter. Do you know what it is, the score? Because I'd like to guess. I do not, but I will look it up while you tabular. I'm going to say 34%.

I think it's probably lower. Is it lower than 34%? I want to say it's like in the teens, but apparently our beloved guest, which is the only reason you're not on. Who's the guest? Chance the rapper loves this movie. You can see getting him.

So. I think you're going to say Chance Ellison. Hot rod. Yeah, what do you got? 39%? You're pretty close. Oh, it's pretty close. But the audience score is fresh, 64%.

Audience loves it. I got to, I don't know. I'm going to give it. I'm going to give it another shot. Because I love Pop. The pop star. Pop star is funny as hell. Never stop.

Never stopping or whatever. That movie didn't do very well. That movie was. No, it didn't at all. I mean, neither did it hot rod. So I saw that one. I don't know if you were with us. I was.

But I was definitely sitting next to McCuga. Yeah, you and I guess Josh. Josh was our Milton because I don't remember him being at that screen, but I remember laughing a lot at everybody, but Tim Meadows stole a lot of that movie for me. Tim Meadows is great. That one I thought my wife was going to like. She didn't bite. No, she didn't bite on that.

Because the comedies, comedies are like the other, there's tons of Like I didn't even attempt to watch the suicide with her. She would hate the movie. Why? Because the violence. The violence. Talking raccoons and talking sharks, she's out. Right?

But like... Really? That seems to be... What attracts people? Does she not like chimpanzees and tuxedos? Maybe not. But she was not... Everybody likes that.

Well, I didn't even bother because I did... I did exactly what I told myself I was going to do a month ago. Uh-huh. Grab some popcorn. Smoked a little bowl. Had a had a... Had a, not a beer, but just had a drink back here, put on the TV, put up the sound, and I let it blasts.

That's one of the reasons I was putting it off. I didn't want to have to keep putting the volume down because people were sleeping in the house or put the subtitles on. You wanted the full, the suicide squad experience. The dog and I came back here. The dude. The dude just crashed on the floor. By the way, he's keeping the dude away from me.

Again. Second week in a row. I know. The dude just crashed on the floor, out cold, and, blast as the sound is blasting through it like a surround sound it was awesome yeah and just everything like how i wanted to see this movie so um but yeah i didn't even attempt to try to get her to watch it but i'm doing all these we're doing the rewatches of uh the star wars movies for civil council yeah and i'm probably going to start watching them back here though because it's just it's just such a

i freaked out though i went to turn my tv on it wasn't turning on and i'm like are you fucking kidding me that this thing shorted out uh-huh and i'm hitting the remote and I'm like the batteries out. I'm redoing the batteries. And I don't know what's happened. So finally I'm like freaking out. I'm like this TV's like seven months old or whatever it is. Yeah.

And so finally, I don't know how, but it was connected to my Roku also and it turns on. But the big remote batteries did. It were shit. All the batteries in here were shit. But I replaced them. But it finally turned on last night. But man. That's the worst is when you're like really exciting prepare for something.

and you got your snacks, you got your drink. 15, 20 minutes. You're in the right mental state. Then he just hit a button and it doesn't work. And you're like, oh, God. You know what I love that scene in Spanglish? That movie with Adam Sandler? Yeah, I've never, pause Vega, right?

There's just, yeah, there's this scene where he's like this high-end chef. And he gets him, he's been working all day. He's been dealing with family, he's been dealing with work with everything. And he gets home, everybody in the house is asleep. And he's like, finally. So he makes himself this sandwich. It's like, yay big. And it just, it's got, he, he makes an egg and he puts it on there.

And he's just got everything. And he's just got his paper and he pours himself a beer. And it's just like a 30 minute process. But he's finally here at the moment. He's about to take a bite. And then like one of the kids wakes up or something. And it's just like you just work so hard. The best laid plans.

It happens to me all the time. I get ready to have some snack ready, this, that. I don't know what something I was about to watch. Either somebody comes in wants to watch something else. The kid wakes up. Tell me a story. And it's part of being a debt. But not last night.

I'll tell you. I wound up. I tweeted out last night. because I was like 50 minutes into it, loving it, tweeting it out about it. People are, you love me hanging? The truth behind it was I didn't, I couldn't finish it all. So I woke up first thing in the morning and finished it back here.

Okay. And it was, so that I wanted it all fresh in my head. So, um, yeah, man, get, do, I know I, I obviously spoiled the whole movie for you, but you should, it's, it's, it's worth the watch. I'm going to watch it. Yeah. You're going to watch it. But that's cool hot rod.

You're watching. And then, um, anything. Oh, check this out. Yeah, what are you got? So I downloaded this app last week. It's a sleep app. In case we ever get sponsored by a sleep app, I won't say which. He's not a sponsor at the moment.

No, no, no, this is actually my real life. So it tracks your sleep. Okay. You put it on the nightstand. You don't have to wear any apparatus. Yeah. You put it on the nightstand and then you hit start when you're, when you're, when, when it's bedtime. Yeah.

And it tracks your sleep. And it gives you all these stats, but it also selects recordings from the evening. What you've done? For you to listen to so is so. And it'll try to be like, oh, this is Mark snoring. Yeah. This is Mark. Hawking in his sleep.

Did you do that? Did you do that? Play it. I don't play it every day because I'm afraid I'm going to hear like, like, I don't know what I'm going to hear. So basically, uh, warm tongue will be talking through you. Yeah, so that's at 613. That might have been, I don't know what.

How time you go to sleep? Put it to the mic. Put it to the mic. Oh, over like that. Like that. That was apparently talking. This is going to be great, though, because this, you're definitely going to hear Maui's snoring because that's the thing.

I'm not sure. You were louder. You were Molly. Molly. I'm not sure if it's accurately tracking my sleep because, like, one time. Tracking the dog sleep? One time it said baby fussing and I hit play. It was a dog.

Yeah, but I was nervous. I'm like, is there the ghost of a kid hunting? Right. So this is going to be snoring. Oh, so it's going to. It sounds ecstatic. That's the dog. Yeah, it sounds like static.

Okay, let's try one more. It's like white noise. I heard that. That's the dog. One more. Here you go. I heard that. I heard that.

I heard that. It's like a big fart. That's the dog. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds like a dog. That's the dog. Oh, my God. Anyway, what else you get?

So, no word on, look. What? We're not going to talk about this? It's great. I'm glad you're happy. I'm super happy. I think, I think, did I tell you I was going to do it? You did?

And you got very excited about it. And you showed me a picture. I did. And I was happy for you. And if you, see, I'm trying to think, like, if we were back in the Schmo's day, where you, audio listeners, I'm showing him the Tony Supano. It's Schmose, no, I'm pretty sure they figured it out. Shmows know, where we have our background.

We're doing like our weekly Wednesday or Thursday show. If you had been like, okay, I really want this to be in the background. I'm trying to think of like what I have been cool with it. At my house, you were fine with it. No, at like at Collider, when we were. I think you would have been fine with it. I think I would have been very happy with it because it's a cool look. It's great.

And it's not the normal pop toy bobblehead. You know what the crazy thing is that back then we could have gotten that. because the show's been off the air for like 14 years. Well, yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it's, it's your fault. I'm fucking obsessed with it because I'm sitting here watching. Did you really watch The Suicide Squad? Or you just come in here and get high and stare at the painting for two hours?

I did both. I was, as I was watching, I was absolutely watching the movie. And then I found myself going, man, it's a great picture. It's really good. Kevin Smet's texted me. Yeah. And he was like, dude, you got to take picture of it and show me where it is. And I sent it to him.

He's like, it's beautiful. It's a thing of beauty. It's like what I love about it is people who don't know the Sopranos have no idea what it is. No, no. Yeah, because you haven't seen the, you haven't seen the episode yet. You got to figure out a way when you have guests in here. You got to figure out a way, maybe early in the show, ask them if they've ever seen the Sopranos. Just kind of do it flippantly, like talk about the many saints and say whatever it is.

Right. Figure out they've seen it and then go away. Go away from the Sopranos. Yeah, and just see if they bring it up. And then, like, the kicker at the end of the show is this, hey, look at that and tell me, what do you think that is. Bring it up in the beginning and then back at the end. Because it's not overwhelming that it's Tony Soprano. No, it's not. It kind of looks like Danilfini, but again, I know what it's from. The Napoleon outfit throws it off. If it was,

if it was the original, there's another, there's two photos that I was going back and forth on. The first one is him is the one that he actually asked the guy to paint. It's the one that he had commissioned and then this is the one. This is the Paulie one. This is the Paulie Walnuts one. So, so I would have guessed it's from, I would have guessed it's from that movie Get Shorty, where they have Danny DeVito playing Napoleon. Well, it's a good one, too. So Katie Sackoff is supposed to come on the show next, well, coming in tape next week. So probably airing in like a week and a half.

Good. To which I'm going to see. Hopefully you're available. You can come in for that show. I am in Vegas. Next Friday you are? Yeah. All right.

Well, it won't be you. Anyway. Not going to be me. So do we think that Katie used to watch The Sopranos is the first question. The second question is, will she recognize the poster? I think Katie has seen less than 50% of The Sopranos, but I think she's seen episodes. I don't think she's watches straight through.

I don't know. I mean, again, she's in the biz. She won't get it. I think that, I think that, I bet you she watched a few episodes. I think she will. You think she's going to know what that is? I think it's just enough like Gandalfini.

I have that much faith in our friend Katie. All right. We'll see. We'll debate it when she comes in. Six pack? What's a, what? Sixpack. What are you talking about?

It's like I'm talking to a wall. bet a six-pack. Oh, you want to bet a six-pack? Sure. I don't drink. I don't drink that much. You know, what a six-pack for you? Then I'll drink it.

Bottle of wine for me. Come on. Okay. Yeah. Of equal or lesser value. I told you what I'm doing for my birthday. What? Wife's making...

Roast? No, no, roasting. I'll roast you from my house. Okay. My wife is, um, is making, uh, is making baked Ziti. Yeah. Bottle of wine. Many Saints in Newark.

The prequel of the Sopranos comes out on my birthday. Oh, yes. On HBO Max. Oh, look at this. Perfect. Did they put ricotta cheese in Big Ziti? Yes.

Some, no, no, no. No, no. Motsorelle. Yeah, I just cannot stand the look, the texture, anything about ricotta cheese. I am so out. It depends, I think. It's different. Because lasagna sounds like my favorite food of all time.

Oh, it's so good. You just don't like ricotta out of there. That's what makes the dish. No, it doesn't, Christian. You can have letters of pasta and cheese and sauce without getting ricotta involved. I do things to the lasagna that my wife. wife makes a great lasagna. That sounded very, very American pie dirty.

I do things to lasagna. I do things to lasagna that Italian people might get mad at me at. Did Eugene Levy walk in on you with the lasagna? What are you doing? I am... Not this just bad reception is all. You're going to hate this because there's no chance that you like this. I've been doing it a lot with pizza.

I'm going to, and people are going to lose their fucking minds when I say this. If you say pineapple, I'm walking out of the studio. Get the fuck out of here, pineapple. What do you think I'm Russian? I put it here. I put, um, I put, uh,

goat cheese. No, I'm out. I put some goat cheese on lasagna sometimes. Yeah. I put some goat cheese on my pasta sometimes. Nope. I know.

I know. It was a, it was a dish that I had tried once before to just add it. And it's, it works for me. Your taste too continued to change and evolve as you get older.

Even for me, I'll admit that a creature had it. Ten years ago, you would not find me dead, eat it. I can choke down sushi on a dish. But no. I, you could not find me dead with an avocado.

I'm not going on a day with you. With guacamole. We went on a sushi date. It already happened. It's true. It's canon. That's right. Pesto, I've become a big fan of recently.

Pesto's good. So black beans. I never ate when I was like in my formative years. Love me some black beans now. So, you know, you're moving. I'm getting there. You're moving. You're shaking.

I'm getting there. But you said you weigh yourself every day. And I don't want you to do that. Why not? I want you to do it once a week. No. You can't tell. your trainer no.

When did you become my trainer? You just wanted to bet me a six-pack kind of fucking bullshit training. I heard you ruin a movie for me and then top it off with a little sprinkle of goat cheese. You told me to. You're wearing yourself once a week, you fat ass. I'm sorry.

I did it. You did it, didn't you? I went three times. I did it three times. Before we started the show, he's like, hey, man, I tell him down to one nine eight. You told me that a month ago. And anyway, yeah, I went back here. up to 203 and then I just feel your torture yourself

because I'm putting goat cheese on fucking lasagna every night that's why. But again you're eating one. I'm eating well. In your head there is this giant tug of war happening. It is. Between you wanting to get in shape and Morse felt and healthier, but there's the other side of you that wants to be that

so bad. You want to be Tony Soprano. As far as what... So bad. Oh, when he's crushing the Gabagoole and he's crushing all that stuff, I'm like, oh, throw it in my face. And then when... A lot of food porn in Because here's the problem with, because my wife even called me out the other day. I was, when I had dropped the significant amount of weight and everything, I was being very strict.

It was just like chicken and salmon and brown rice. That was it. Yeah. I'm throwing a little cheats in here too. My wife's like, did you just crush a gallon, a half a gallon of 1% milk in like a day and a half? I was like, we had a lot of banana bread. She's like, none of that is supposed to be what you're supposed to be. You just make up for it on the back end, you know?

You take a little something out the next thing. It's not a problem of the drop in the weight as much as it's like cholesterol-wise milk and banana bread and cheese is probably the best for you. It's the whole reason I stopped. I started this in the first place. It's just, it's just dairy. Dairy is my vice, man. Yeah, I enjoy dairy. I really have very little, you don't care.

No, you know what I realized? You go back and watch one of those Shmows novids. I got, I'm breaking out. I'm a 30-year-old man and I'm breaking out everywhere. A lot of them sometimes, yeah. Sometimes they just say hello. You just look around and go, hi. Yeah, there's multiple reviews.

If I don't like the way he reviewed a movie, I just explode. Yeah, but I became like Neo at one point. I expected it. We're talking about Harry Potter. It's just a, but I stopped eating dairy and then. That's it. Yeah. What's it out?

This is actually a very, I think we've learned some stuff. It's a therapeutic conversation I have with you. I hope for you. It was great. Because I got nothing out of it. Good. Well, listen, we're going to get some stuff out of this. October 8th.

Oh, God, I hope so. October 8th, everyone. Get on over to the New York Comedy Club. If you're going to be in New York, if you're going to be in the area, hell, if you're in Boston, you want to drive in. You're Philly. Driving. Come on.

Come on. Take the train. October 8th. 45 minutes out of your life. Are there tickets left? Do you know? I know they're selling very well for both nights. So Thursday and Friday, so you probably want to hop on those now.

All right. So it's a Schmodeon live. Yeah, I think you can get them at the Shepanon Live. You should be able to. Go to Mark Ellis. 10 years of jerking your chain, be like, hey, is there any way? You put them on the site. We could put it on the site.

JP probably handled it. Mark Ellis. Live. Got on over there, buy the tickets. I'm going to be on the Friday show. Mark's doing a show on Thursday and Friday. Ken Napsock will be on both shows on Thursday and Friday. Oh, God, really?

Hey, you're the one that booked them. I did? Yeah, and it's going to be a blast. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm mixing Milton. So bring your Milton's. And by the way, if you haven't had a chance to do it, bring your Milton's. If you haven't had a chance to do it, please subscribe to this show on podcast form,

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Please do it. Mark Ellis is here. We'll see them. Hopefully, well, you're going to be gone on next week. Yeah, now I'm thinking I'm really nervous because I'm going to do the sleep tracker thing. Yeah. But I'm nervous about firing it up in a hotel room.

Because who knows what's going to happen? You can hear stuff going on the other walls? What's going to happen? Yeah, it's true. Hotel room is notoriously haunted. You can get another sex choke out of it. I don't know. The one I got now is pretty good.

It's pretty good. All right, so go watch Jurassic Park, everybody. We'll see you guys. Dun, dan, dan, whatever you want. All right, check us out, by the way, and don't forget the episode on Monday will be myself, Kate and Brett. We're going to be talking about some shit. Wednesday will be a new guest. I can't follow them.

Katie Sack. I was coming on soon. Don't forget about the rewatches, by the way. The rewatches of the Sith Council. It's every Friday. Check out the old one. We did Phantom Menace. We attack of the clones.

We're doing Revenge of the Sith on Friday. That's it. Peace out, your rats.