The Reel Rejects - NATIONAL TREASURE (2004) IS SO MUCH FREAKIN' FUN!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

WE'RE GONNA STEAL THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!! National Treasure Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Download PrizePicks today at https://www.prizepicks.onelink.me/LME... & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ With Nicolas Cage set for Spider-Noir, True Detective, & beyond, John & Coy UNITE to give their National Treasure Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Ending Explained & Spoiler Review! Coy Jandreau & John Humphrey react to National Treasure (2004), the wildly entertaining action–adventure treasure-hunt film directed by Jon Turteltaub (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, While You Were Sleeping) and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Blending American history, secret societies, and globe-trotting mystery, the film became an instant fan favorite — fueled by iconic set pieces and Nicolas Cage at his puzzle-solving best. Nicolas Cage (Face/Off, Con Air) stars as Benjamin Franklin Gates, a charismatic historian and treasure hunter searching for a legendary hoard hidden by the Founding Fathers. Joining him is Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, Troy) as Dr. Abigail Chase, a National Archives curator who is unwittingly pulled into the adventure, and Justin Bartha (The Hangover, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) as Riley Poole, Ben’s hilariously tech-savvy sidekick. “I’m gonna steal the Declaration of Independence.” With fun puzzles, clever humor, and blockbuster energy, National Treasure remains one of Disney’s most beloved adventure films — a thrilling modern riff on Indiana Jones–style storytelling. Follow Coy Jandreau:  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're watching National Treasure, not the movie. I love the movie, the Thing. You can watch that on this channel. Pretty great. Off-road intro complete. Yep. All right, gang. We're watching it.

It's National Treasure Time. Disney Plus, syncing up, a one, a two, and three. gang look we just discovered the treasure we did we just excavated he got a credit agent colfax agent colfax let's go eric king doing the work all righty that's what you love to see big old thank you to the team over at prepper for uh you know assembling this into the treasure that you see before you following the clues that our founding fathers left for them in the raw footage appreciate their efforts mightily also if you happen to be at this point in the video congratulations thanks for sticking around leave a like if you could subscribe hit that notification

bell so you get notified next time a national treasure joint comes your way all two of them so far so far and if you happen to be listening to this in review form as an audio podcast then go ahead to your favorite podcast platform of choice and leave us a little bit of a rating if you could be very much appreciated as I scrub through. I don't know why Disney doesn't do the scrub bar. Be nice if they did instead of making me dance for it. Oh, there we go. There's a bit of scrub bar.

I'm just making sure we got no post-credits. It's not the time where we used to do that. All right. Well, we've done it. We excavated the treasure. Sure did. We found the secrets of the founding fathers. We did.

And we were rewarded. It didn't seem like we were going to be. They actually drew that out at the end. And I was like, oh, shit, maybe we will. Is that why there's a sequel? Maybe we, yeah, literally, in my brain for a moment there, I was like, maybe. What a bold movie. They will do a Prometheus and be like, remember that shit we were looking for in this movie?

Not this movie. Catch you on the next movie. Not getting it today. But we didn't do that. And I appreciate them for really, you know, again, rewarding us. I'm glad I didn't read that comment before the movie. I know, I was going to say, it is good news. Did that, okay, so that doesn't make it, I think, these questions.

Oh, no, I'm looking at the wrong set. There we know. I want to make sure that this made it. A little scroll, there we go. There we go. There we go. All right. So we are all up to date.

I'm just going to read one comment straight off the top because we were greeted by it. Liam Harold, all I'll say is Sean Bean lives. And he does, man. This is a frigging revolutionary picture right here. In 04, Sean Bean lives. That is like hiker, Lord of the Rings era, peak Sean Bean dying era. Dude. Peak Bean.

Peak Bean. Did the work. All right. Before we hop into these questions here, Coy, I think the audience at home has been champing at the bit, waiting in suspense to know. Has this risen above a one star experience? It was one and a half. One and a half, sorry.

It is now. It was 1.75 in Act 1. So where do we get to now? I'm going to give it a 2.5. Two and a half. A whole star grade up. Because I have a weird system. All right. I go, five pretty much doesn't exist.

All right? Because there's so few. Yeah. To me, four and a half star is an A. So those are rare, but they happen. Four star is a B plus to A minus. That's where that lands. Three and a half star, B, B plus, depending on the field.

And so that makes two and a half star by that proxy a solid C, average. Fine. is right there in the middle, bell curve C. Sure. It was watchable. It was fun. It wasn't very, it thought it was smarter than it was. Sure. And a lot of the time, like, the fact that at the end, they're like, well, that clue could mean anything. All of the clues

couldn't mean anything. Like, when they give them a clue that's just as plausible, like with the lamp, one of white lamp, two of by C, and all the rest of the clues were just as multifaceted. It really undermines the writing. So, I had fun. It takes itself very serious. and also undermines itself in equal measure I'm gonna go two and a half but I had a good time because I watched it with John we got to play

I had a blast watching this and if I really put on my critical hat I'd probably have to meet you for funzies I'll say three or three and a half out of five oh for funzies three three and a half for writing one so two and a half

is a really fair I think nice average yeah and a seat you passed yeah you passed oh that's right no more memory card slot one we're going all slot two now baby uh yeah this was yeah this was a at a fun time this yeah as uh as uh you know american history tinged uh not james bon uh you know mission taking a back to one as an american history tinged indiana jones meets da vinci code meets a little bit of mission impossible uh i thought this was very fun And while we were watching it, granted, this isn't do all the stuff that, like, in Indiana Jones does.

But part of my brain was like, you know, instead of, yeah, trying to, in a day and age where we're keeping so many franchises alive for arguably past their goodbye date, you know, I feel like this is kind of what you want to do if you want to scratch a few itches, but not just do the same thing. And I don't know where we were at with Da Vinci Code in general at this time. And this was more historical than, like, religious or anything like that. But yeah, for what this is intended for, I had a blast. I really liked everybody in the cast. I thought, like, hats off to the editing. It's nice to watch a movie where you're like, the editor is fucking throwing down. They had a fun time.

It was panache in that editing. Solid editing. And, you know, it's not the most visually flashy movie in terms of cinematography. But there's a lot of stuff that's nice looking anyway. I mean, Caleb Deschanel, certainly a consummate professional. Good locations, like you said, felt, I. I think, too, when you're dealing with this subject matter, it behooves you to go to the actual places. And I'm sure some were sets, but they did a good enough job making you feel like all of them were practical.

Yeah, and you got some of that feel. Like, I haven't been all over the country, but I, you know, have family in further parts east than here, certainly. And have been, you know, at least to the East Coast ones in my life. And there's just a different flavor that the historical buildings and things have. Yeah. And I thought this, you know, you felt like that. You know, it had that. And certainly, yeah, convoluted, certainly, you know, a type of a movie.

But, yeah, I thought everybody, like, showed up and had a good time and, you know, and brought their A-game to, you know, this light, breezy fare that, yeah, isn't as smart as it wants to, you know, position itself to be, but it's still, like, throwing enough shit at you and moving in a fun enough pace that it's not, like, a detriment to the movie. I'm really curious if I love the second one, knowing what this is, and then adding it Harris. Yeah, man. You know what I mean? Like, that might be enough.

Yeah, that might be the perfect concoction. Yeah. But let's get into some questions right here. We got Andrew Nickerson up top. All right. Hey, John and Coy, Joy. That's right. That's our holy union.

Excited that you were reacting to this one. This is one of my guilty pleasure movies and genuinely love Nicholas Cage's more subdued performance. What is your favorite Nicklaus Cage performance? Pig might be my favorite. Says Andrew, I'm dying to see Pig. It's hard to top. Pig might be my favorite, too.

He's so good in pig. And Cage has said that's like his favorite of his own performances, I think. If not Pig, because I don't want to just take yours adaptation. I got to see that. I really love him. I love both cages and adaptation. Conner and Face Off are a blast, but I think it's either Pig or I think a very confident adaptation. Yeah.

Personally, God, there's so many great cages. Moonstruck is an excellent cage, and I grew up with that, and that's kind of baked into my I love Cage and Mandy both for how kind of stoic and silent he is for part of that movie and then for how big and, you know, anguished he is for the other part of that movie.

I think he's a fascinating sort of centerpiece to it. I feel like there's a movie I'm missing here. My big one before recent, because Pig is fairly recent. Bad Lieutenant Port of Los Angeles is a damn fine cage. I need to see that. You haven't seen any of my three. I know. John, there's so much

Vampire's Kiss. There's four at least. Oh, there, I mean, Cage. And he's got 117 credits. I'm really excited because, like, Cage is one of my all-time favorite actors, especially now.

And, like, there are still, I know that there's a good amount of, like, straight-to-video not great cage, but I feel like... 50 good cages, though. But there's still a lot of great cage, I feel like, for me, at least, to look forward to. Yeah, I'm trying to think if there's any other,

like, obvious cages that I'm missing. But, yeah, for me, it would probably be those couple of movies. I'm just looking at his IMDB now. Badly, Chan, he needs to be higher than 6.6. What are they doing? I got to see Drive Angry. Dude, kick ass. He's pretty sick and kick ass.

He is pretty great in kick ass. I'll give him that. Weatherman I like the lot. Oh, Lord of War. He's so good in Lord of War and Match Sick Men. I got to see Lord of War. People love that movie. 2003, 2005.

What a run. People like that Lord of War a lot. Oh, dude, so good. I got to see the Wicker Man, actually, too. Jesus. He's a Werewolf Women of the SS. Hell yeah. Haditation was 02, so 02 to 05.

What a run. What a run. Family man's grade two, gone in 60 seconds, a millimeter snake eyes. Oh, my God. He was Marley in a version of a Christmas carol? Dude, this man has worked. God, I've ever seen Gone in 60 seconds either.

Oh, dude, you're about to meet cars. I remember biblical way. I remember City of Angels as a kid. I did, too, the Goudel song. Yeah, that was the whole world that year. It was really TRL. The rock? I've never seen the rock, I don't think, either.

You said, there's Hamburgers was the same year as Moonstruck. Damn, that is crazy. 88. Crazy work. Okay. Raising Arizona is a classic. Obviously fast times where we meet Nicholas Coppola. I got to see Valley Girl too.

Oh yeah. Valley Girl's solid. God, Nicholas Coppola for two films and it's all cage from there. And that is named after? Do you know where you got the cage from? Luke Cage. There it is. Yes, Luke Cage.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I respect the hell out of. Absolutely, man. We love a little power man around here. That's right. Comment your guys' favorite cages. Please. But I did, you know what?

I must say. For a movie like this that is like a big mainline Disney blockbuster, Jerry Brookheimer thing. Like this is, you know, it's a big profile blockbuster.

And so for him to lead something like this, it's weirdly not the lane I associate him with. And I like that Cage is a journeyman and he's done a little bit of everything. But I thought like, actually,

for what this movie is, surprisingly good at leading this kind of thing. And it was fun, yeah, to watch him in a mode where he is, he's got some flavor on him, especially, like, as you get into, like,

the second act and stuff, and, and you see that whole scene where they're, like, in the park at the fan. He's, like, kind of cheeky with how he interacts with Diane Kruger, and he's, like, not flirty, but he does have this sort of, like, kid energy almost. And so, yeah, he was, like, subdued

and believable in parts, but, like, enough that you believe him to be the crazy swashbuckling guy. And all the long diatrives of breaking down clues. He sold those well. He freaking sold this And I was pleasant Like I will like a cage

Anyway But I was like Oh he showed up He understands this assignment Yes Doesn't lose his cagedness In doing so And I still like

Was really into watching him You know Despite all the other Like eye candy And fun stuff on display Agreed So heck yeah To the cage

Cody Price Thanks for chiming in Hi Coy and John Hi yourself As I rip things off Of my fingers Careful I love this franchise

And you know Disney can't help themselves, but they eventually reboot it, already tried to do a sequel series, which was canceled after one season. I forgot about that. Just curious, after Nicholas Cage is officially done with the part, rumors of a third film trying to be put together,

who do you think would be a good actor to be the next Benjamin Franklin Gates? Well, only one man can play Nicholas Cage other than Nicholas Cage. Oh, no, who's that? John Travolta. Oh, my God. Take his face. off. Yeah.

What a predicament. He and Justin, that's what he and Diane Kruger are going to do at the end. They're going to get in bed and they're going to do that. Yeah, a peach. I could eat a peach for hours. I would say in real life, a Benjamin Franklin Gates Tim Robinson. Well, Hank from Breaking Bad played Ben Franklin and that made for T-Me movies.

So you cast him. Dean Norris. Okay, who would be a good swashbuckling, but like fast-tonged and like dry but got enough charm. Well, and who's like just because part of me is like, oh, these days you would cast

like Glenn Powell to be your natural treasured. I like that he was older. I like he's a little bit older and like he, I noticed partway through the movie. I was like, I'm with it. I'm like sufficiently pulled into what you're doing and I'm not distracted at all by the fact that he doesn't look like he's super

buff or fit. Right. Yeah. It just looks like a guy who's accustomed to you know, just digging into tombs and traversing the world. Yeah. You know? Because, yeah, who has that unpredictability? I got it. Walton Goggins.

Goggins. I'm going to. Goggins. Dude. Benjamin Franklin Gates. Charming, dry at times we need to be weird sense of humor. Incredibly far back hairline. Okay. All the key ingredients. Okay. But, like, so sexy with it, but also, like, can deliver weird lines.

Sure. Gagins. Gagins made me think of Timothy Oliphant. Oh, he'd be the... Swashbuckling fucking coming into, like, a saloon to every scene. You mentioned somebody... You mentioned Gaggans, and that made me think of somebody else in a... Oh, no, who you should get is Michael Z-Haul.

Just pull together the Dexter of it all. They come back as these roles. Yeah. And then he has been from Franklin... Yeah. He does have that dry energy of charm, though. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Into it.

Into it. Leave us your casting choices, though. I feel like this is a... Questions like these cook my brain, because now I'm sitting here going like, who's my... I can't wait to read who I need to pick. Yeah.

Who I need to pitch to people. But yeah, that's what we got right now. Or Jeff Goldblum. I mean, always. Goldblum treasure. National Goldblum. He is. It's about him finding himself.

You get to the end, and it's just a mirror with a piano in front of it. God damn right. I'm just going to sit down and please. This is a national trigger. All right, Kevby, if you were Ben Gates, would you be driven more by the adventure of the treasure hunt, the need to protect your family's legacy, or just the thrill of pulling off the ultimate heist? All right, let me break that down. To be honest, adventure the treasure hunt, I would not have the patience to be a treasure hunter.

I like this clues and all that. I love deduction, but a lot of it would be like hours and hours of reading through stuff that might end nowhere. like obviously we see when it all works not the adventure treasure hunt part family's legacy I feel like my family would encourage me to not invest because they'd be like just do your

own thing like be your own man our legacy is just you doing your thing yeah like they so thrill of the ultimate heist I think that one I feel like I would want the like ha ha hoodwinked I did it yeah like for me I think it's

it's the heist for me this is in the exact right order I'm like just the weird adventure of traveling around seeing fun stuff and putting clues together which just sounds like a fun game sounds like a way more difficult undertaking than you ever see in a movie

because you don't spend all that frigging time just like sitting in an airplane or like reading a big tone but you know movies like this make research look way more fun but yeah I feel like just the adventure of it would be the thing family legacy

sure why not if that's tied up into it then sure I would have that kind in my mind as well and then you know the credit of pulling off the ultimate heist would be neat but I don't think that's what would like drive me to doing it. I don't I don't crave that

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So those clues are going to row back to the very era. The clues could have been, you know, important to all history. America. It's a Boston. But what landmark in Boston now becomes the question? You know, I got my sag card in Trinity Church because I played Chris Pratt's little brother. I had a lot of love for Trinity Church and it's pretty historic. I really love there's a trail that the Sam Adams has like a beer trail that's really fun that takes you all through the history of Boston.

There's like classic cemeteries and there's a beer you can only get on that trail. so I think like maybe like somewhere on that trail I think it'd be cool to have like a more grounded like you've got to walk this trail that other people walk through history and like keep it you know to one city that's a cool idea coy

yeah red brick ale only available on that trail what yeah it's about the red bricks of the cobblestone of Boston Sam Adams only sells it on that trail that's so cool there's a my favorite bar is called the bell in hand and bell in hand is the only place where you can buy Sam Adams that is made from herbs that existed in 1700 so it's really

hard to recreate but is the beer that the original founding fathers would have drank. It tastes and it is made of the ingredients that were only around in the 1770s and they only sell it at one bar and it's the oldest bar in all of America. Bell in hand and I go every time I'm on the East Coast, every time I can't. Bell in hand. Bell in hand. We've gots to go.

Rejects trip. Golly. Well, I don't know how to follow that because that's a really great idea with a really cool historical and beer-related context. I mean, what a payoff. The Hollywood sign. It's not that old.

But it would be fun. The missing land behind the Hollywood side. Like Alcatraz or the Griffith Observatory. I'm like, what's a landmark that's like kind of old school freaking? Like a nature guy, like Yosemite? Yeah. Something to do with... National Park?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. some in a national park I guess I don't know which one to pick because you're like LA and LA's brand new like L.A. is like 100 years old I'm like I would have had to have spent more time I mean yeah that's the problem is like you can't do much like ancient

like oh this goes back to colonial times and even before that here historical one person to go L.A. Yeah exactly like it's just new Hearst Castle's pretty old Hurst Castle yeah what do they get they got the Liberty Bell in here

that haunted hotel downtown What's that witch house in Beverly Hills? How about that? Oh, there you go. How about that? Something to do with Salem. There you go. Oh, I love.

Let's do some Salem. Dude, we could tie that end of the Boston tour. There you go. It's only an hour and a half away. Boston tour. Boom. 100%. Make a work.

Yeah. Yosemite. Why not? The Redwoods. One of the most beautiful place. You guys pick and that's my answer. Yeah. All right.

Comment below. What landmark in the USA? Maybe, oh, Area 51. There you go. There you go. I want some Area 51 juice. Into it. And mine takes place on Route 66.

Not as ancient of history, but still intrinsic American history. See, we got there. I would say the artery of America. We got there. The artery. Let's hope it's not too clogged. Keanu-Chinell, what U.S. historical document or artifact which you want to steal? See.

Probably the U.S. Mint. I want to print money. Oh, dude, that's a good one. Give me that $100 mint so I can just make my own. All right. Let's see. I'm going to choose. Oh, how about the light bulb patent?

Let's steal the light bulb patent. It's pretty great. Ooh, the Suffrage Act, the Women's Voting Act. Let's take that. I'd love to have Tupac's notebook. Let's take Elvis's letter to President Nixon. Like all of Tupac's handwritten wraps. Dude, hell yeah.

I saw Elvis. I see anything. Sure. I mean, Elvis of a certain time and place and, you know, the tradition of music. They wrote a check for Alaska? That sounds like fun. Thanks.

I'm like, this movie is also inspiring me to keep more just documents and artifacts from history in my random access memory. Artifacts I know how to spell. I'm like, let's look something up. 100 objects here, here we go. These are 100 objects that made America. let's uh ooh steal one of the moon landing spacesuits

how about that steel of freaking oh this is a theoretical this is like a cerebral list Smithsonian come on all right there we go there we go this is not America is everywhere oh god oh I was like this is Italy and China Museum of American

History all right here we go oh I know how about I want to go back to Roanoke where that Croatonin where that town disappeared that's what I want Let's get Paul Revere's spoon Everybody wants a spoon Let's take that Franklin's suit looking pimping

Dude Benny Frank's suit is here Pretty cool, pretty cool We got a lot of old clothing and things Ooh, 1800s We got a little musket Flags Some boards Ooh, let's see

Agerndrugne Ooh, a daguerre type Oh nice Some portraits A lot of guns Let's steal George Washington's Wooden Teeth Which I don't think

I don't think they were actually wouldn't, but it's an urban myth of the United States of America. Jesse James' death mask. Ooh. We're into some color boxing photos. Yeah.

Fall from guns into boxing photos. Roarings. This is a, this is quite, oh, there we go. Sluggers baseball bat. Hat worn by Harrison Ford. And then Joe's. We are right next to.

We're up into the 80s now in terms of the National Archive. Yeah. We gave some answers. There's got to be some good flags out there. Something from one of the Apollo missions, maybe. Abe Lincoln's top hat, there you go, because what it turns out to be in the context of the movie,

it's actually like a telescope for it. If you line it up at the exact right place, you can see the next clue into... I'm going to go with it so tall that there's hidden compartments and you can find clues in that. You open it up and there's more. See, like a Russian nest-y doll with clues. Ben Franklin's kite is in there.

That's how you find it. Definitely. That's Ben Franklin's kite. That's another one. See, we got there. We're doing it. We're getting them all. What are you guys going to steal? Leave it below. And we're back to Liam Harold. Sean Bean lives.

He does. Happy to see it. We got to count up how many times he's lived through a movie. The opposite of James' is death kill count. Yeah.

That means James, like we do Sean Bean, live count. Sean. Yeah. And you just go through each individual movie noting the times he could have died

but didn't. Yeah. Live count. Yeah. Yeah. Tally him up. I like that very much. All right.

Kiana Chanel. What's your favorite historical fact. I love time distortion and how insane it is. The difference between Cleopatra and King Tut. We're close to Cleopatra

than that, but that's not American history. So I'm going to go, the fact that the, this is French and American history, but the fact that the guillotine was used the same year that Star Wars came out, so the last person ever beat guillotine could have seen a Star Wars poster.

What? So the guillotine was used up until 1977. when Star Wars came out so their posters were already up so the person to be guillotined could have seen the Star Wars poster before their head rolled

that is that is quite that is wild to me think about that all the time that is wow I had no idea time is so weird like that's that's yeah

I I Willie mammoths were around when the pyramids were built what? Yeah all of our sense of time is yeah these are the things I think about

I like I remember I just looked it up to verify it we ran an article way back when I worked at Blumhouns.com We had one of our lanes among many would be like movie coverage and then there'd be like it's creepy pasta urban legend things and then there also be like

here's some crazy weird history facts and there was a piece that we ran once about I think it was John Quincy Adams actually believed that there might be mole people like a society of mole people in the center of the earth somewhere and actually sent expeditions for that to happen i love that fact uh to to discover that and uh yeah that's that i'm like man you're in the highest office in the land

in this era of time what do we spend in our time and resources on love to hear it excellent that's my man leave us your favorite history facts down below kev b trivia the rooftop scene where Nicholas Cage's character, Ben Gates, races across Independence Hall and pulls out of brick. We called it. Coy on the case. Immediately detected sleuth work. Not actually filmed at the real Independence Hall. Instead, the filmmakers used a precise replica of the building that was built back in the 1960s and Knosberry Farm in Buena Park, California.

They chose the replica because the government wouldn't allow those kinds of stunts on a real historic site. This replica gave them the freedom to shoot all the action-packed rooftop moments without worrying about damaging such an important land. And then they shot it in the real one and inserted the replica, and that's why the CGI looked a little dicey. That's so fun. But that's, you know, where it's back in that point in time where you're kind of like, oh, that's neat.

It's neat to see where the movie magic had to be employed for this. What was it, Turl Top done? Well, you were sleeping and Phenomenon. He did freaking phenomenon. I remember that when that movie was a phenomenon. He did cool running and the Meg. And an episode of the Rush Hour TV series. He's an extraordinary playlist that.

Okay, they do like that. Yeah, okay. And returns for the second National Treasure movie. There's an alternate ending. Oh, man, we're going to have to check it out at some point. That's crazy. It's got some Blu-ray. And Three Ninja's director.

Not a bad glow-up on you, Turtle Talb. get it turtle towel. Let's just see if IMDB has any interesting trivia before we head out of here. They added the water digitally to the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial

because it had been drained for maintenance. And Diane Kruger apparently did most of her own stunt work in the car chase. Let's see. The movie includes footage from the first filming

allowed in the Tower of Philadelphia. I mentioned that. During that scene, I said, look, they're using the Philadelphia. Oh, that's great. Dude. This movie suggests

that something is written on the back of the Declaration of Independence. It is true that something is written on its back. The writing on the back of the Declaration of Independence reads Original Declaration of Independence dated 4th July 1776 and it appears on the bottom of the document

upside down. While no one knows for certain who wrote it, it is known that early in its life, the large parchment document which measures 29 and 3 quarter inches by 24 and a half inches, was rolled up for storage. So it's likely that the notation was added simply as a label.

Oh, Ben Patrick and John Gates are all named after founding fathers, of course, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and John Adams. Abigail Chase is a combination of Abigail Adams, wife of John and Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and later an associate justice of the

United States Supreme Court. Shit's crazy, not too bad. Coitus. We did it. We did it. We discovered the National Treather was the sharing of this experience we made with you along the way. I was going to say, any other stray thoughts before we hit the bug. I'm more excited to watch the second one now than I had been

to sit down to watch this one and I'm very excited as Ed Harris because I don't know that I've seen the second one now that I've seen that as Ed Harris. So you and I might both get to go into that one unknown. I'm very excited. So yeah, I'm stoked and I would love to read your comments about who you'd cast and your favorite Nick Cage. Condo P. This was more genuinely enjoyable than I was expecting. I was pleasantly surprised. You know, I think it does the right amount of the right stuff that it needs to do to be a fun blockbuster movie and the cast does. a whole bunch to, like, you know, add the flavor that, you know, for a lot of people

out there, must elevate it to a movie that you might, you know, love and have in your collection. So, yeah, I thought this was nicely handled. Top of line production values, you know, some decent effects. You know, love the scope of the mystery, even if it's not like the most smart movie in the world.

Like, you know, I find, like, oh, Knight's Templar, and we're going all over the country, an historical site, and there's a secret door here, and there's a freaking tomb over here, and we're climbing down. This is a fun movie, big fun blockbuster, you know, production values and traditions, love cage at the helm. Big, uh, big enjoyment of him and Justin Bartha together. And, uh, yeah, this was a solid-ass time at the cinema.

So leave us your thoughts, gang, and, uh, answers to any and all of the questions we have entertained just now. And we'll see you, hopefully for the book of shadows secrets. What is it? Part two. It's a book of some. The book of shadows is Blair Witch. Okay. National Treasure.

Book of secrets. We'll see if we're surprised, motherfucker. I'll be all continuously surprised by him. Be well, people. Until next time. Treasure.