The Reel Rejects - Why Is Kristian Harloff?

Episode Date: October 20, 2024

🎙️ Diary Of A Reel Reject Episode 3: Kristian Harloff’s Journey! 🎙️ Before Greg became a Full Time YouTuber, he was (and still is) a fan of the greats—Jeremy Jahns, Chris Stuckmann, and of course, Schmoes Know with Kristian Harloff and Mark Ellis. Over time, Kristian Harloff became one of the original YouTube movie reviewers, a massive Star Wars fan, and the creator of The Schmoedown. Today, Kristian runs his own channel, offering movie reactions, UPA coverage, movie news (The Big Thing with Roxy Striar), and much more.  But how did Kristian Harloff become the influential figure he is today? What shaped his career and personal journey? In this candid interview, we dive into his celebrity crushes (like Julia Roberts), early movie memories with his family, a touching story about experiencing Queen with his daughter, and the lasting influence of Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back in particular) on his life. We also cover a range of topics including his experience working with his wife and balancing career and family, his comedy inspirations like Bill Burr, Richard Pryor, and Chevy Chase, his thoughts on classic films like The Terminator and Beverly Hills Cop, and his favorite horror movie moments, including the scariest films and his take on the Halloween franchise. Plus, we explore the powerful moments movies create with loved ones, and so much more! Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions!  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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threats of diary of a real reject formerly called diarrhea of a real reject so when I first launched this podcast I called it real rejects diaries and I had it back and forth with a few people this did not influence a decision but I thought it was a hilarious story one of the first person I told of who I want to call what I want to call this is Christian Harloff I remember me on the phone with him saying like I want to call diary of a real reject and he paused for a while I was like he sure he sure he wanted to do that I was like

I felt so unconfirited in my idea I'm like what's wrong with it he's like I mean you got to think about like future guests that you have on or they're really going to want to go on a show called diarrhea of a real reject that's so good no no no diary

it was like no you said you said uh afterwards then I was like I'll just call real rejects diaries And then after I launched it to that, everyone was like, you should call it a diary of a real reject. And I'm like, that's what I wanted to call it originally. So I just changed it back. So good. And that's the story of how we messed up the title on the first couple episodes.

I said that makes so much more sense. But yeah, Christian is one of the people who drastically influenced the decision and actually starting up a podcast. And he was one of the first people I told about what. I wanted to do with this one. And Christian and I have a fun history where we were like colleagues in passing and occasionally collaborating. And then one day a phone call of Greg crying led to a lunch and then we became buddies. Now here we are. It's true. Yeah. It is true. It's funny how that happens too. Like we always got along very well and always respected each other. But it was that phone call the Smodown days of like I was like I saw my friend distraught and I was like, and I don't want to be

part of that. I was like, let's, uh, let's have a conversation. We did. I've always felt that that's the most healthy thing. You guys do you, where you're having healthy conversations with people. And then, and I think we had pizza. And that always is the best. You took me a place called Pizza Wagon of Brooklyn, a delicious place. You live in the East Coast now, so we have to do this via Zoom. I wasn't going to drive all the way to Hollywood to use the other set. It's like, fuck that. I'll just use my own studio set. But Christian, let's hop into the fun and games of this, shall we? Sure. Let's do it. My opening question that I want to get to people. I want to make sure I ask this question right up front, and I haven't been.

I keep waiting on it. Who was your celebrity crush growing up? It could be actress or character. Oh, I feel that everybody probably, if they're familiar with me, they're going to know the answer to this, but if they're not, it's Julia Roberts. Is Julia Roberts? I was going to guess Princess Leia. Julia Roberts, really?

Maybe, I mean, you could probably go a little, if you're going on TV, you could probably go Alyssa Milano from who's the boss. Okay. Or even Commando, she was in that. But, yeah, Julia Roberts was the first person. I said, oh, my God, people can look like that. I said, what? And that was the end of me.

Wait, so how old do you think you were when you first saw Julia Roberts? Probably like 11 or 12, whether it was Mystic Pizza or whatever it was. Or, you know, yeah, maybe around that. And then, but it was really pretty woman was the first one. I was just like, whoa. Was anything beyond, obviously, she's very physically beautiful, but is there anything about her personality that you found yourself as a kid

particularly attracted to? Yeah, I mean, especially that particular role and pretty woman, it's just like there was that, you know, and you always talk about the hooker with the heart of gold thing, but it was just like a real person who just, there's something about her. She was like super charming and like, you know, she felt very real to me in the way that she would,

I don't know, the way she would kind of fight back with Richard Gere in certain things laughing in the way that she would, I don't know, there's just something about a personality that she was very, like, welcoming, and the most unrealistic hooker of all time, obviously, but like, no hookah behaves like that, on Hollywood Boulevard? I mean, come on. It still, it was just one of the, it was, it was presented as a fair.

That whole movie, though, do you know the whole history with that thing, what it, what it originally was into what it became? No, I don't know, actually. That movie was, it was called like 3,000, it was like a dark drama where for a long time, And she was attached to it, but it was a dark drama that, you know, at the end of it, like, he kicks her out of the car. She's addicted to drugs. It's like, it was supposed to be like the heavy tale of like, like, yeah, prostitution and all this stuff. And then Disney bought it and turned it into a fable, basically.

And Gary Marshall directed and he got one of the biggest romantic comedies of all time. That's pretty cool. I actually like when they do that. I mean, I remember hearing about like Goodwill Hunting having a bit of a trajectory like that, where it was so much more intense and convicts. then convoluted and going for all these other crazy depth on things. And they're like, let's streamline it. Like, let's simplify this. Yeah, get all the conspiracy.

And all the conspiracies and all that kind of stuff and government stuff. And they said, I can't remember who it was, but they said, they took it to someone. They said, no, take all that stuff out and just focus on, on the guys and their relationships and him in the school and stuff. Yeah, much of crazy bullshit. So with Julia Roberts and all the things you talked about were their personality traits, is there, do you think that you've a, attracted like woman that you've dated or maybe even your wife who resembles these personality traits. Yeah, most people tell like if you my wife has started to do reactions with me and people like if you look at the comments on them it's just like oh so now I get the Julia Roberts thing and then they're like

personality wise and everything too and she's she gets it everywhere we go out she gets it but yeah their personality traits for sure look wise for sure. So yeah and I've always kind of been in that general, you know, like Kate Mulligan always mentions like my type, you know, and that the Julie Roberts type has always been a thing. So like for me, I'm, I'm constantly surrounded by women who are very, I really think they're very, like, even my female friends, they're all very strong personalities. Yeah. And I kind of like wonder what it was that I found of how I tracked that into my life and then I was like oh my mom definitely someone who was she was the bread winner so one was financially independent while emotionally unavailable with her Filipino side you know

she was still the strong one between the two parents in that regard um so was there something about and even like with certain characters that I was very much drawn to as well uh for in terms of like women characters is was there anything about Julia Roberts in particular at least these personality choice we're talking about because it might not even be Julie Roberts yourself but just the person I'm sure that you might have seen

that oh you must have maybe found something of that from like your upbringing with your family my family I don't necessarily know but I know what it I mean I've always like humor wise I mean I think even

going back to the Julie Roberts of the whether it's witty smart strong you know funny like those things have always been something for sure I don't know necessarily family wise or where that comes from

in general but like it's just something that I've definitely been you know drawn to and and obviously you know me like humor has been a big part of my life so that had to be something it's got to be not even somebody who necessarily can throw the witty banter but somebody's got to be able to take the witty banter you know someone who's not going to a easily get offended but also be able to laugh with me and things and I mean that's my wife to a T you know she she gets she gets my we make each other laugh all the time and that's why That has always been a thing. So I don't necessarily know.

I kind of know if I can track it back to anything in my family per se of why that is. But yeah, I don't know. I haven't really, really analyzed it, Dr. Alba. Yeah, that's what I'm going to. I'm like, I go for something a little different every one of these I noticed. And I'm like, I'm going to go pure psychoanalysis here today on Christian Arla. You talked about humor. Yeah.

Who were the influential comedians or better yet. Okay, because you do stand-up comedy. I think it might be easy to pinpoint who the influential comedians were. What about film or TV? What would you say there was ones that were the personality traits that you most were influenced by or perhaps adopted intentionally? Chevy Chase for sure. I see that actually.

In most of the movies, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray. But when it came to a comedian, my Neil at the altar was George Carlin. my friend who I've talked to you about my friend who passed away 9-11 my friend Brian his his dad owned a video store and at the time it was before Blockbuster and everything too is right before Blockbuster blew up so like it video stores and Queens and everything too but like you had like a good one like he was like the king and my and my friend was like the prince because he had he had a laser disc player

it was like for people don't know basically records the size of records were what DVDs ultimately became and the little ones. These were like these big laser dust and he had one. He had a laser disc player and he had all these movies and all these things and he was the first person I ever saw the first Terminator with was him. He showed me all these comedians and he showed me

George Carlin at Carnegie and I remember just being a kid like in the same way that I discovered when I saw Empire Strikes Back I was like people can in the same way that when I the first time I saw Julie Roberts I'm like people can talk like this on stage and people can do that this guy and he had no fear and he was

hilarious he was goofy um but he was also smart um so carlin was definitely a comedic my main comedic influence roddy dangerfield was another one for sure sam kinnison like those were the guys but as far as movies go yeah i think Chevy chase i vacation was one of my favorite movies of all time is like you kind of growing up and watching watch a nose but um when it's comedic influences for sure those guys and then i used to watch all the like saturday live like religiously and i'd go back and watch the old ones like John Belushi and and then later on with Farley and Adam Sandler and those guys for sure. Wow. Yeah, actually, as you were talking, I started one of those like it's like Spider-Man opening credits in my mind. I started seeing like this, the webs connecting

certain aspects of like influence. Even some of your smile sometimes looks like young Chevy Chase to me now that I think about it. I mean, that's Chevy Chase, Dr. Rosen Rosen, Dr. Rosen penis. Dr. Rosen Who? Do you ever seen, have you seen all Terry Chase's movies? Like the early one? I haven't seen all. I haven't seen them all. Have you seen Fletch? No. Oh, dude, I can't wait for your first reaction. You know I watch your reactions all the time, right? Really? There's a lot of them. I watch your reactions. I mean, not the whole crew all the time, but for you, for you, for you. I watch a lot of your stuff for sure. You got a family to raise, Christian. These are hour-long videos. I don't know if you should be watching our video. I know. Well, the ones that I haven't seen. I mean, the ones that are like my favorites. And I think that's why you do. do this so well as that you understand that the people that like this love these movies and want to rewatch them like with you and you have them they experienced them for the first time I'd love to see you because you got a good sense of humor too so like Fletch and you've seen you've seen Caddyshack obviously yeah yeah of course um so yeah I'd love to see that those means the first Fletch is just is incredible the second one you can do with that did you watch

any movies with your family growing up my dad all the time yeah my dad was my dad was My dad's probably one of the main reasons I did this and knew I had such an extensive film interest, I think, is because my dad would take me to the movies every weekend. And it didn't matter if it was anything. Like most people, I noticed this as I was getting older and saying, most people will go and they look, what's coming out this weekend?

Is anything you want to see? No, we're not going to go. My dad took me to the movies every weekend. And he's like, who's in this one? Bruce Willis. I don't know. Is it any good? Color of night.

That sucked. We watched it. you know and we would just go we would see one or two movies a weekend if we had the time and and i'm when i especially when i went to visit him in florida he's like what do you want to do do you want to go movies i was like sure we'll go movies and we always went and i loved going and he loved going so we would just go and i's a lot my mom never never really was not a big movie going person she liked watching movies at home but she never was out like you know there was very i can like count them i can remember like my dad i saw so many movies with i'd be like oh yeah

I probably saw that with him. My mom, I know I saw Forrest Gump with my mom. I know there's a few movies for sure that I saw with her. Absolutely. You know, it's hilarious is that she doesn't, she says no, but I have a pretty good memory with this kind of stuff. I was trying to remember my first rated our movie that I ever saw. Oh, thank God.

You took one of my questions. Perfect. Well, I came out and I was trying to think of the two that I was, and I was like, for a long time, like, well, it was either Vision Quest with Matthew Modine or it was Beverly Hills Cop the first one I go

it was one of those two and then I looked at the date and it was like well it's clearly Beverly Hills Cop because that came out a year earlier and my mom took me to see Beverly Hills Cop and the theaters in the theater and my mom and I was like eight or something nine or something like that

and my mom if you knew my mom it's very unlikely that she would take me see Beverly Hills Cop my dad definitely my mom no way i don't think she realized what she was seeing at the time and we stayed there and watch it and she goes now today to even today that's not you're not remembering that right there's no way i took you to see it i'm like like i i saw the i saw the movie and i remember you being there but that's not you're just probably your father i was like it was not my father i know it wasn't and she took

me to see that it was that's one of my favorite movies all time by the way it's another reason why i remember i love i love that movie and i knew there's no world i should have been seeing it at that age but it was um it was it was great are you able to recall if your family would let's say like you know a movie like beverly hills cop which is more about the language being bad i don't remember there's like nudity in that movie or not uh yeah let's say well everything it's got it's got everything that kids shouldn't see at that age it's got a murder it's got it's got violence sex would they try to like close your eyes would they try to censor you my dad definitely no um But my mom, well, my mom, I remember when the Three's Company was on,

she wouldn't let me watch Three's Company. Why? Because there was a lot of sexual innuendos and a lot of sexual things. She would be like, she's like, that's not appropriate for you. That's why I'm saying it's so unlikely that she would have taken me to see Beverly's cop and she did. And I would sneak in anyway, the Three's Company. That's another, by the way, going back to your previous question,

John Ritter, big, big comedy influence growing. Big comedy influence. Jack Tripper was like hilarious I think it was the best yeah so not not shielding my eyes but but trying to say you're not you shouldn't be watching that

but then when I went to my dad's I'd be like watching everything that I wasn't supposed to anyway is there any movie that you can think of like what movie might come up where it's an instant association with your dad like for me whenever dog day afternoon gets put on I think of my dad it's one of those movies that I just

can't help but think about when I saw that with my dad. Yeah, because I think what I told you with the vet, I've seen just saw so many with him. But I think that the one, I think Empire Strikes Back. I was so young. I mean, I was probably three or four years old.

But the reason why I remember, I remember Return of the Jedi seeing with him for sure. But the story I remember from Empire is that because I was, my dad told me he would take me to the movies when I was really young. I would run up and down the aisles. and I never would sit he's like it was a disaster taking in the movies because like you would run up and down and back and forth and I was like I was the guy with the kid who just wouldn't sit down and shut up he's like he was and I finally he's like I took you to Empire Strikes back going okay here I just want to see this hopefully and he goes and I never saw anything like it he just sat there like this and I just he said you didn't move and I was like three or whatever I was and I was just like looking up at the screen and so that story I remember more because he told me it throughout my year I thought I'm my life and then um the the return of the jet i definitely remember seeing there's there's tons of movies tons of movies that i associate seeing with him because i just saw so many well star wars

is such a big part of the christian harloth identity i didn't realize that how the experience of star wars was actually so much connected to your dad at the same time so you don't recall though like the first time you saw empire strikes back and the big plot twist i was so young i was so, I mean, I was like, I was such a, I mean, like I said, I was, I remember it through my dad more than I actually seeing it. My best, that has nothing to do with my dad, but my best empire memory was actually when I lived in L.A. when I, this was probably in 2002, 2003, I went to see a screening of Empire Strikes Back at the Arklight and Irvin Kershner was presenting it when he was still live, obviously. And that was pretty great. And that movie, yeah, there's a lot of different memories I have of Empire,

but actually seeing it the first time, I don't obviously recall, but I remember my dad's stories continuously telling me that. What is it about Star Wars that you connect with so much? I know it's like such a broad-ant question. It's changed now over the last of what it was to what it is now. But I think that it's like that fantasy world and the idea that back to what we talked about before, like the fable and the idea of hope and the idea of,

And the idea of all the kind of things that you, all the, I mean, because you really look at it. It's a hodgepodge of all these different things throughout history and the things that we, in real, real life heroes with the World War II and other things that, you know, knights and swords and, you know, religion and all these different things. It's just so, it's everything is put together, which is, and I think that at that time, we're so inundated now with with blockbusters and especially me and you because we see so many different things all the time that there's, You really got to throw something at us to go, oh, I've never seen that before. Back then, you'd see nothing like Star Wars before. You never seen anything like that. And so when that sticks with you, especially as a kid,

and those types of creatures, those types of characters, now a lot of times you're like, oh, it's kind of like Star Wars. It's kind of like Star Wars. There was nothing. I mean, you could say if you really dissected Star Wars, you go seven samurai, all these different things, sure. But it really is more so now, like Yoda, when Yoda pop, up like Yoda was like yeah they even say it if Yoda would have failed that whole movie would

have failed but the philosophies but behind it like the the idea of um you know the the great masters and all those different things it just there was just something about the lore of it and not and not even necessarily good versus evil because there's so much more in between and choosing those moments um that's kind of thing what always was always stood out was there anything in there that actually maybe inspired life choices at all, or was it just purely loving, like, Star Wars and absorbing a movie? Yeah, I think it was, I don't necessarily know

if there was a lot of, it would relate back to that. I mean, I think maybe when it came to certain ideas creatively, if I was, you know, thinking when I was school and certain things, my mind would always be like, oh, what do George Lucas do? Those types of things and ideas of that. And coming up with, when I had created, a comic book idea and I was and I definitely was like oh yeah I wanted to do a science versus magic

type thing and that was obviously influenced by Star Wars so I think in that aspect creativity sure absolutely there's always certain things that come in there I listen to the John Williams music to stay inspired all the time and there's a do you know do you know Samuel Kim I definitely know the name so he's he's a YouTube music guy but he does like great he does great renditions of Star Wars stuff I think they should hire them to be honest I think that that's one of the biggest misses that they've done in the last five, ten years is that their musical choices. They've been fine the music, but it's just hasn't, they haven't had like the flare. For some reason, they've abandoned, like, yeah, I've heard of stuff. Yeah, I just looked him up, yeah. I listen to him

sometimes for when I'm writing and all those types of things. When you say writing, you mean like comedy? I mean, when I'm, if I'm, I'm, sometimes, I'm, I'm working on a, um, on a script right now with a friend. Oh, cool. I didn't know that. Comedy pilot and, and when doing like those types of things, but I also have, I mean, yeah, you know, same thing like anybody else wrote scripts and comedy things and other things. But even when I'm working, not even necessarily if it's something along the creative lines like that. But if I'm doing, even when I'm working and putting together emails and stuff too, I like to concentrate by having music going on in my head and focusing me that way. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm excited to shout out today's sponsor because it is an app that I have been using since before we partnered with them, which just makes my job easy, and I just get to share with you something I really do love.

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or that we actually really wanted to do before we started doing this platform. And then it just sort of became our career, whether that be intentionally or unintentionally. Yeah. Like I want, my main passion is really in writing. And I still pursue that. What was your pursuit? I know you do stand-up comedy, but did you have like a filmmaking pursuit that you were actually going after? Yeah. So my,

the journey for me is like when I, because you're, it's so funny you say that. I was thinking about that the other day is that I was actually, and it started with a thought process of you because you and I are thinking like about 10 years apart and in age. And as I was thinking about how you are where like the, you're, in your prime right now doing all this stuff and everything. And I was like, yeah, you know, when I started doing this with Mark, I think it was like 2008, 2009, and YouTube was three, four years old or whatever it was. And it's just changed dramatically. And you're so right where people are like now 11, 12 years ago, I want to be a YouTuber. I want to do this.

That wasn't, that wasn't anything that we thought of. For me, it was definitely filmmaking and like acting and stuff. I went to school, theater school in Florida State. That was my major. I wanted to get into the film school. Then I just didn't get into the film school, but I was a theater major, and it was inside of that,

but I just didn't really fit in. I did find it in all the classes, and part of the place, but I never really fit into that group there, and it was there that I discovered, I always, speaking to my dad, my dad was the one who got me in a stand-up comedy also. He would watch.

Oh, really? Yeah, my dad would watch the HBO comedy specials, you know, minus the George Carlin one that I saw, I had an interest in it, obviously, but my dad was watching the, it was like HBO one night stands is what they were called. And it was so many. And then it was Dangerfields where Dangerfield had on like Bill Hicks and he had on dice and he had all these different people. And I would watch these specials and I would watch them on loop. And I would just watch them over and over and over again.

And I was just like, that's something I definitely want to do one day. And I always wanted to do it. And it was when I was at Florida State and I was there. I saw this at the theater school there was a thing that was pinned up to the board

and it said you want to do stand up comedy we're doing this group this guy Mike Shader and he was putting together this group and so I called him

and I never done stand up before and he's like and I called him up and I was interested in seeing what we could do what I could do and how I would do this

because I didn't know and he's like oh well send me a tape of you doing stand up for like three or five minutes I'm like I'm going to stand up for three of my half minutes.

I'm like, thanks a lot. Never called him back. I was like, forget it. I'm not doing it. I was, I don't know what the hell. Three or five minutes. When I was standing in front of the mirror until like jokes?

I don't know what to do. So I didn't call him. So about three weeks later, a month later, he called me and he's like, you never send me your tape. I go, I gotta be honest. I don't have a tape.

I've never done stand up before. Yeah, you know, so I don't really into do. He was like, can you, he said, would you meet me for, for like lunch? And I said, sure. I'll meet you for lunch. Why not? So I met him for lunch and then he's like, why don't you just, and I've told him all, basically the same stuff I just told you about all the stuff that I had done with my dad and had an interest in it.

And he's like, we'll come, you know, try it and see if you like to do it. And so what's crazy is that, and I didn't realize this until many years later, when you're starting in stand-up, especially in California or New York, if you get up on stage and you can find anywhere to do three minutes, it's a blessing, right? It's a blessing to find three minutes anywhere to just be. able to do it. I was doing, they're like, okay, you start out, you can do 10 minutes. I go, great, 10 minutes. I was like, and that's it. And I didn't have any jokes. I was terrible. So I was like, sure. So I'll do, so I'll do the 10 minutes and I did and I relied on drinking and other things too. And that didn't work. And I stopped doing that because I was like, it's not what I want to be some screaming mess. I need to actually kind of formulate if I want to treat this right. So I started

to and I started doing more with them and realizing I really enjoyed doing it. And the funny story, and he tells this story on his show all the time. But Bert Kreischer, first time he ever did the stand-up was at this place with me called Pop Bellies. And so Bert had this whole, like Rolling Stone did this whole article on him. And they did, and like he, they were looking to see him do stand-up. So he came out and he did, and he had a drink.

And I walked up to him. And I said, if I can tell you, you know, and mind you, I'm like 20 years old at this point. And I had just gone through this. And I said, you might have. might not want to do drinking before you go on stage, especially for the first time. He goes, why not? I go, because you're going to rely on it every time you do it.

And he says to this, and he tells that story. He tells that story on this podcast all the time. It's so funny. So that happened. I do the, I do stand up with them. And then, you know, there's not, there's not much shelf life in Tallahassee to do it. So I was like, well, I would go back in the summers to New York. And I would start going up, but there's a place called the Boston Comedy Club in New York,

which Barry Katz owned and so the place. started doing stand-up there. And I just, and I loved it. But then I, when I went back to Florida State, finished up my year, there was, again, not a lot of comedy there. So I went, and I got on, I got into the car with my dad. We drove, when I graduated Florida State, we drove to L.A. And my goal was to my friend Aaron Wilhelm, who you've met.

He was, he was part of the Shmodeown. And he edited the Shmowdown for a while. Yes, yes, yes, yes. He helped me get a job at this company called Intermedia, and it was just answering phones and doing stuff too. And my goal was, okay, I'm going to write because my goal was to be a writer when I got out because I wanted to do more writing. And I wrote, I wrote some scripts when I was at school.

I wrote some, I did a film when I was there. You wanted to write like screenplays, TV and all that kind of stuff. And I was like, okay, and I wrote a couple things. And that's what I'm going to do. So I wrote, I went out and I said, you know, comedy, if it comes back in my life, it comes back in my life. And it hadn't. and I hated working at intermedia.

I just hated. I didn't, was answering phones. I was doing, I just, as you know, Greg, you and I are not nine to five people.

We're just, God now. No. And I, and I was trying to convince myself to try to do it, you know, and that's happened a couple times

in my life, but that one in particular, and I was there for a bit, I'm like, this is not, this is not working. And I, and I actually back then,

and I, and back then when I first, when I first got out there, I was going to, I contemplated, my dad just brought this up to me recently. I contemplated going back to New York at that point. And that was like two months fresh into it, not 25 years later, but two months into it.

And I decided to stick it out. And they went up, I don't know, it was like mutual at the intermediate thing where I stopped. And then I've told the, I think you've heard the story a million times about how I got back in the stand-up, the Sarah Silverman thing. So like that whole thing happened. And then after that whole Sarah Silverman thing went down, I was like, you know what? I'm going to, uh, I'm going to start doing standup again. So I didn't stand up was part of my life for, I mean, the next 15 years. How do you feel about the, it's kind of like a standup revolution of things that I've been

noticing, you know, like you brought up how the HBO specials used to watch and they used to feel like special, you know, like an occasion. Now everyone's getting like Amazon specials or Netflix specials, but a lot of times comedians can just take matters to their own hands and make a YouTube special. You know, the comedian, Josh Johnson, who sometimes on the Daily Show, has had huge stand-up specials. And he seems to put out, put them out on YouTube, like, once a week now. You know, and he's amazing.

And I discovered the comedian just recently. He's pretty popular, and I didn't know about him until, like, a week ago, Sam Morrow. Yeah, we had him on our show, yeah. He's so funny. He's hilarious. His sense of humor is so much my kind of, that dick is. sarcasm kind of humor. I love a lot. And I'm also noticing that there's the way how comedians are there, they've become like our modern day philosophers for some reason in a strange way.

I mean, how do you feel about the way how comedy has sort of evolved into something that really seems to, not comedy movies, doesn't even really exist that much anymore, but like the world of stand-up comedy in particular really seems to be a thing about conveying messages now. And when I feel like some comedians really aim for that and other comedians just want to be funny I think it's always been there man I think it's always been there just a matter there's just so much in the same way There's so many there's so many different ways to get it now that you're just more aware of it But like Lenny Bruce was doing it years years and years and go Lenny Bruce Bill Hicks George Carlin Richard Pryor

Sam Kinnis and there's I mean there's tons there were tons of people there was just a matter of There are more more they it's those guys that cross the limit past the idea. I mean, George Carlin was a guy that was started as the hippie-dippy weatherman, you know, and then he was doing goofy stuff and he had, and he does, this is not what I want to be talking about. And he kind of switched up and changed.

I mean, look at it, and now you look at someone, to me, the person that I think is Bill Burr. Bill Burr to me is the guy. I think he's the best. I think Bill Burr is the best because he, to me, is, I mean, the best now, you know, in the same way that if I look at like old school wrestling thing, You had Randy Savage, who was one of the best back then,

and you had The Rock years later. You know, it's the same way. And I think that Burr was in that George Carlin doc that they did on HBO that I saw. But I think that, yeah, it's just because there's so many more ways to get it out now and so much more ways to get the information. And because of clips, there's so many different clips, and you see things on scrolling through,

and you'll see a Bill Burr bit, you'll see somebody else too, and you'll see a message thing, and you'll see it. And it catches on because it resonates with people. So I think it's always been there. I just think that there's more ways to get it. And there's more opportunities like you just mentioned in the way that somebody can do a YouTube special and get those clips out there.

I remember back when YouTube was just starting and my friend Mark Hatchell, he was a comedian. And he was at this comedy store and I had put one of my sets up on YouTube. He was, I wouldn't do that. And I said, why? And he's like, because you never know who's going to be looking at that

and stealing your stuff. Because we didn't know what the hell the internet was kind of working back then. You know, so. and I remember people where I put a set from like the did of the improv or something and I was like maybe I shouldn't do that I don't know but anyway so I just think there's a lot of ways to get the information out there Hawaii starts with the music we play on our islands playing the moment you step on the plane Hawaii starts with extra space to spread out

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Shane Company, your friend and jeweler. I think it's just crazy how, like, now nowadays, like when a comedian, like Joe Rogan or Chappelle, who often are on the ones who seem to provoke the most. Yeah. And a lot of times now, like, context of comedy is especially taken out the fact that it's they're they're sometimes they're just aiming to be funny and they're taking this sentence and making it sound literal now when you when you put it in in quotes on a text form you know and it's it's just it's insane to me to see how how comedians

are like you just look at like an individual and they don't have like a PhD or something or really they're just observers of normal people who are who are funny observers and they have now become like the voice for the people and it's a really fascinating aspiration to me I don't know there's just something so strange to me about it yeah but going back to everything about with your dad one thing that was popping in my mind was um you as a dad you're a dad now yeah is there anything with your children that you have shown them um like whether it be a movie or a show that has really brought you that joy of bonding with them as you know like oh

watching this with them really did something special for me well so that just happened last night actually it's funny because of my my daughter my oldest who's going to be 13 in December and she she likes um she likes pearl jam she likes nirvana um and then she this in the yeah and this this weekend she was like you know i really like queen and she was telling me she's like do i feel she's like people think i'm a poser if i say my favorite song is bohemian rhapsie i'm like is it your favorite song she's like yeah i go then no you know you know poser that's your favorite song i was like you know you know other songs right you know other things that you like she said yeah and so we were watching she wanted to watch megan that movie megan first so we watched that together and then afterwards she was like you know

i wanted she wanted to watch some queen stuff so we watched the that concert that they did the basically the one that they cover in the uh in the live aid one yeah the live and one and we We watched that and we were watching Freddie Mercury and we watched it. We went through a couple different things that we did. And that was really cool because I, to be honest, I was supposed to, my youngest was sick all week. And so my, it threw off like my whole, my wife was supposed to come in and do stuff with me. That got thrown off. We didn't react to Agatha.

I didn't get a chance to do the penguin. I mean, I was still, all last week was shot because my little one was sick. So like last night, I was like, you know what I'll do is, I'll least. I'll watch the penguin and then I'll just do like just like immediate reaction afterwards and get that out there but I watched and I said after I watched Megan with my daughter so we watched it and then my daughter was like well let's watch uh queen I was like I could either you know watch the penguin which I'll eventually do or I can spend a little bit time with my daughter here and watch queen and that and I and I did and I watched that instead and we we had like

that's awesome yeah we had like a nice moment we watched the stuff because I'll get the reaction done I might not get the views that I want but I but who cares I didn't get that, I'm not going to get that time back with my daughter, you know, so eventually she's already going to be a teenager. She won't, the fact that she even wanted to do that was great. You know, like years, I'm really big in a personal development. And years and years ago, way before YouTube, I would have the phrase I'd hear all the time about time is more valuable than money.

Yeah. And I got to say, like, it is still one of the hardest things for me to apply. Yeah, I know. Like, I make so many decisions off of, what you just said like view count or um you know i got to make the money or there's always something that there's always a justification i could find my brain go down the rabbit hole of like well i do this and i could pay off pay this employee that i could pay this off or you know there's something like money and when like we're doing well right now um and that idea of time is more valuable than

money i've heard it forever and like hearing like a story like that that's a story like that that's like beautiful and inspiring to me. And yet it just does cause me to check myself and go, man, I really, I've heard, I've known, it's like that thing I've just known forever. Yeah, but also, but great. But I will also say to you too with that is that, like I mentioned earlier, you know, you and I were a little bit apart in years. You know, it's like when I was, you know, when I was your age too, it was the same thing.

And I had, and I was probably, and I probably could have done the same thing a couple of times too when she was even little there. Probably there are times when I was like, okay, well, I can't do that today because I got to go shoot this and I'm like I wish I wouldn't have done that but then again you start to you just it's hindsight stuff because you go if I hadn't would I be able to give my opportunity to do this if I hadn't done that because I mean even even with that like there's tons of stuff that I need to do like today and look here's another perfect museum and this isn't this is this is not to make you this is the opposite of trying to make you feel guilty like today I was like you know there's

tons of things that I'm supposed to be doing today I was like but like I really want to talk to you on your show because I support everything you're doing on your show plus I love talking to And I was like, I wanted to make sure that I'd carve this out because it is, and this is true, and I'm sure you'll agree with me here, it's hard for you and I to have an hour long conversation without the two of us going, oh, this is great. I'm talking to my friend, but we both could be doing some stuff right now, you know, but you're doing it for work right now. So it's like, okay, we have an opportunity to actually talk to each other and hang out. Yeah, I understand what you mean. There was a part, and I appreciate you doing that because there was that part of me in the conversation where I was like, I wonder for cancellations in the future.

No, I wasn't going to do that. You didn't? No, I wasn't going to do that. I just needed to, I just needed to figure out how to maneuver it because there was a couple things. Because of last week, it just all got pushed, and there's just so much that I have to do. Oh, yeah, no, that ripple effect. That's a snowball effect that just seems to cascade down into weeks and weeks. It just doesn't.

And then with you having a family, I can imagine it's even harder. Well, speak of family. I mean, you're showing your wife things right now. Yeah. You're reacting to things with her. And I did want a specific, because sometimes before I film, I have like a few specific things I want to maybe ask about. And I was, since I'm married now and me thinking about the question I was going to ask you, have me think about a memory with my wife where when we were early on dating, a movie that means a lot to me is the Ryan Gosling movie, drive. I love the hell out of that movie.

And I really connect with that film for a variety of reasons. And I showed her the movie. She had never seen it. And this was early on in dating. And then the moment in the battle, I don't know how well you remember it, but there's a moment where they're at a hotel. And then bad guy show up.

And then Ryan Gosling just murders the shit. The hammer, right? Is he the hammer? That's the scene right before the hammer. It's like it's in the bathroom. He takes the shower, a curtain head and stab someone to death. And my wife then girlfriend at the time,

Or just someone I was actually just dating at the time She's like got it from the couch and started freaking out And she's like oh my god He's a psycho and then she was so into the movie because of that And she was like leaning forward and laughing and smiling And I was like oh my god That's like I'm gonna this like that's like a wife material for me right there Because she's not like put off by this in fact

It made her so into the movie Is there some is there a movie with your wife Even though you're introducing her lot of new things right now Is there was there a movie with her where you had some type of, like, moment of love that you felt? The movie itself, you know, it's so funny because my wife has such, there's times that she has total opposite taste, and, like, she will watch them, and she bails on stuff all the time.

It's one of the reasons I am glad she's doing stuff on the channel because she won't be able to bail. Like, she kept bailing on the Batman. I'm going to make her watch the Batman. So there are things that she'll watch. It's hard for her to watch, like, people hitting each other. So I'm going to make her watch the Rocky movies. And like, and she did see Warrior when it came out.

She loved it when it came out. She won't, that's the other thing. She won't rewatch stuff. She does, she's like, I don't know. If I saw it once, I don't ever see it again. And I'm like, that's so not true because there's so many things you can pick up and things that you forget. So, you know, what's funny is that I always, her, one of our favorite movies is the

notebook, right? And I remember watching the notebook with her when we first started dating. and the reason why we connected to it is and I obviously it was a good movie but there was like there was some guy in the middle and you know me I'm going to crack jokes in the middle of something

if I can and we were essentially and that's why she said she wanted to do this because we've been watching movies together for so long we basically do reacting and talking and doing that type of stuff we've been doing forever and we were doing the notebook

and she there was some scenes and this guy's doing these really ridiculous dances they're doing and I go That's what I was doing at Ralph's last week And I don't know where And you know, as I was shopping for peas Or something stupid that I was saying

And I remember just losing laughing Because I, whatever dumb Jack Tripper dance I was doing, it got her And I said, oh, okay, she gets who I am. And that was a moment in the movie Where we were watching it Because it was like, she could have been like, Why is this asshole talking during my favorite movie

And crack in jokes? But instead, I cracked the joke and she went with it and you know and i was like okay she she gets it that's awesome yeah i'm i'm very much like i did and and you have roxy as one of your crew as well um and you know like one thing roxie and i have in common is her favorite shows friends and the character of chandler is very much someone i like hardcore identify with and like yeah i need i get my i sometimes don't feel like i have a doorway in to anyone unless they laugh at my jokes or something like that Like, that's, I need, I need it.

Well, because you and I also will take that, that chance with somebody who in the room, crack a joke. And if they get it, you're like, oh, I, I feel comfortable around that person doing that. Exactly. They don't get it. Then you're like, I don't, you almost feel like you can't be yourself in front of the person because you're like, oh, they're not going to get the joke. I got to watch what I say.

And that's not what I do. And that's not what you do. So it's like, forget that. I want to be around that kind of person. Did I ever, did you ever get a chance to meet Bonnie? No. She was, she performed at your show. She didn't she?

She didn't perform, but she, um, but she was, I mean, she was, I mean, she was, I mean, because I know you were, I mean. No, I didn't, no, I never met her. I don't think I ever met her. Because I know in Roxy, because Roxy geeked out when they did a show together. Oh, really? Yeah, because it was, you know, because, uh, I mean, she, you know, that whole story, Mona. She, Mona was even supposed to be a, a big, uh, a big character.

Like, is she, they, they had her come back. Who? Bonnie Somerville, from, you know, she was in Friends. Who was she in Friends? Wait, look, let me see. face. Mona. She was Ross's girlfriend. Mona. Oh, my God. Yeah, from like season three or something, season three or three. No, so

towards the end, at the wedding. She was like, towards the end, she was like, oh, yes, you met her at Chandler and Monica's wedding. Yes, that's right. Mona. Yeah, she was like, she was like, the people were saying that they wanted, she was the only Ross's girlfriend that people wanted him to actually be with. The other ones, like, they didn't like, they were minus minus Rachel, obviously, they wanted, they wanted Mone her to stick around.

She was likable, but she let Ross get away with way too much stuff. She did. That pink shirt thing, yeah. Yeah, there's just too much happening. Yeah, a lot going on. Well, dude, I know I've got a good amount of time with you here. I like the conversations that we had today because I feel like I got to learn so many new things about you. If you still, I mean, I can still stick around.

It's up to you. Yeah, no. I want to ask there some quick ones then that I kind of wrote down and I'm going to just see what I can go through super quick since this is going up in Halloween time Halloween month let me ask you this Christian what is the most memorable scene from a horror movie

that perhaps still haunts you today if not what is what is the answer for the most memorable horror movie scene man you're a wrong wrong guy to ask when it comes to you your particular don't think of just like what is your subjective

like that scene scared me I mean it's always I always give this answer and people don't expect it because they don't think of it as a traditional horror movie but it is and it's the Terminator the first Terminator is a science fiction horror film it's not a the second one's a full on science

fiction action film but the first one's what's the scene from it that the scene is when when when the the I guess at this point it's when Elon Musk robots chasing after her when she's

cut him in half in the metal factory and that screeching Brad Fidel music is playing and she has the thing in her leg Reese is dead and this thing is still coming after her and like it's got that metal face of Stan Winston kind of just art and it is it's just it always stuck with me

I can hear it as I'm telling you right now I can hear the music screeching as it's getting harder harder for it and she's like you're terminated motherfucker motherfucker yeah yeah and like that whole thing it's like that just leading up to that that always stuck with me do you remember when you saw that scene yeah was that was that was that was what my friend brian cashia i was that's right you said you said earlier in this yeah i saw that i saw that with him and i remember being pretty creeped out and another one as it was much older was uh was that

fan scene and paranormal activity three um i saw that with ellis and i always tell this i tell this story how like after that movie i lived in this place on right near the grove and it was this parked in this little garage and it was like a little walk from my garage into my apartment and I never forget like that I don't really get affected by those movies but for that one I was like I got

out of my car and I couldn't have got I was like the flash trying to get back into my house I'm like I'm out of here and I think something that fell out of my car and broke I didn't care I picked up the next day what is something what do you think is the thing that scares you the most and when it comes to horror you know a lot of people are like oh it's

the real life ones of like like a Michael Myers coming after me or some, for me, religious horror actually gets to me really strong. I was going to say that. I was going to say, I think religious horror because it's like you don't know it really crosses over what does and it was, especially now I'm paying attention to all the UAP

stuff and all the UFO stuff and all that. Like that's yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's, I think that it just I, even, I just so right before, I did, I'd never seen smile before. So I just reacted to that. And it's not like,

that movie's not going to stay with me. It's not creepy. It's when a movie is shot the right way. It's a movie that the music's the right way, the angles. It really can be anything, but it's a matter of how it's how it's brought to life by the director. You know, like even like long legs. There's another one. Long legs for the most part is there's some creepy stuff going on in that, but it's the way that it's shot. It's the music. It's the performance in it. I think it's all kind of like shining is another one. It's just all a combination of how it's kind of strung together and the conjuring. So there's like so many different movies. and it's not like one particular thing

that always gets me it's just a matter of because you can have a you can have somebody who has a creepy premise who executes it so poorly and goofy that you're like that just doesn't I know that it's dumb but I know you guys

you guys just watch like the terror fire things I'll never watch those like I'll never watch those movies not because they're not pleasant so I mean they're not because it's going to scare me it's just because like I saw a part of your reaction and you're like oh my god I can't believe they're showing that why are they showing that i'm like i don't need them to show that like i don't know that to me that's

not what i go to the movies for but there are but i'm not shitting on anybody who likes to watch that that stuff is just for me and i don't respond to that stuff they are weirdly because the first i would kind of compare you know how term maker one is like a simple straightforward sci-fi horror thriller and then the second one like maintains that but it becomes so much bigger and more character-driven and expansive and that's kind of a terrible Fire 2 does. Oh really is like oh there's like so much more character and it's a way longer movie um so there's something really compelling about it but it is only scary in the sense of I don't know how violent this scene's about to get like it's not scary because of like this

the scene is scary it's it's scary because you're like how how much can I endure watching whatever gore is about to happen on screen yeah yeah I get that kind of stuff is that that's not for me Yeah, it's tough. That's a tough one for me. What is a movie that I would say unexpectedly made you cry? Maybe, and it's probably easier to think of like a movie that does make you cry, but what's one that unexpectedly made you cry and why perhaps? So there's a, you can fact check the name of this movie, but I think I remember it.

And it is 2007, 2007, it's a documentary called Young at Heart. i saw this it was like when ellis and i were still reviewing movies for current tv and we went to see it and a documentary about these the old people home this old this home that there's old people that sing choir and they bring them to sing across the the world or across the country and they're dropping like flies throughout this movie because they're all really yeah they're old and they're like you you you start to attach to these people and then they're singing cold play and they're singing all this stuff

and I remember being there tears streaming down my face I'm like this is brutal I wasn't expecting this and I think it's called Young at Heart I think it is and it was a 2009 2007 documentary the other one that got me

was Fruitvale Station that was the other one that's the only one I haven't seen of his Fruitvale Station that's prepared yourself and especially as a dad and I was like that that one that one got me and I that was like almost like you know like the Denzel tier when it kind of he just kind of I was like I didn't even realize I you know you can feel it when it's coming when you're crying but like that one for

Fruitvale station it just started happening and I was like when did that happen I was like I felt the whole side of my face was wet I'm like what and so those those are the two that kind of stand out fascinating okay What was the craziest? I like actually knowing that I've best of everyone this. And I like here. Everyone's had like some. Kevin told me Terminator 2.

What was the craziest crowd experience you've had in the theater? I always tell my favorite one, which was the first Planet of the Apes, the rise of the planet of the apes, the one with the James Franco one. Yeah, yeah. It was because no one expected anything from that movie in general. And then when the scene happens when,

You know, everybody's like, there's so much tension at that point. With the point, it's about an hour into the movie. And when right before the apes are about to kind of break out of the place, and Draco Malfoy has the thing. And I remember the tension building in the theater was packed up. And they set up so well from when Caesar finally is going to say his first words. And he does. And he goes, no.

And this black dude goes, God damn. And it was so great. The place lost it, like, because everybody was feeling the same thing. And it was so great the way the guy just delivered it in the right moment. So that was a really fun one. And people were just kind of reacting to that. But I think, you know, it was, I think Endgame was a really good one because we were all. I was, I was lucky enough to be at the premiere for that one.

And the reactions are pretty, it was in that huge, almost like a stadium where they had it at. I remember where that theater was. But that was a good one, too. Dude, that game was nuts. I'll never forget that when he got the goddamn hammer. It was great. Yeah, it was great. That's a good lead up.

It's a great lead up. Crazy film. Okay. Now, my next one, hmm, I got kind of a good little list here, and I'm liking them all that I have here. What movie do you wish you could experience for the first time again and why? Maybe Inception. Why Inception? Exception to me is just, well, it's two, two.

Inception and this one right here. Eternal Sunshine and Spotless Mind. But I'll go with Inception first. Inception to me is being able to go through all of the different layers and the things that he's doing and when you're watching it, you're going through that and like watching what he's, the little pieces that are set up throughout the entire thing. And even get into that ending of knowing, you know,

where that's where that's all getting set up and ultimately when you get to the thimble you know um so that's that's one for sure I mean there's there's this this this we could we could do a full podcast on on the ones I love to experience again because there's hundreds of them um if not thousands of and then Eternal Sunshine is another one even though I feel like I'm like that one was there's two movies that were very therapeutic on my when I was I was dating someone for a long time and we broke up in 2004 and the two movies that really were therapeutic were that one and closer speaking of julia roberts those are the two that were super therapeutic through that

so um experience in that one again even though it's just such a great representation of real relationships like when you minus the science fiction you know layer of what's going on with it but like the ultimate what that's about, the ups, the downs, like the ending of that movie. You've seen the movie, right? I love it. It's one of my favorites. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. And so the ending in the movie when she goes, you're going to hate this about me,

you're going to this. And he goes, okay. And that's what it is. Okay. You know, we just will go this together. We tried to fix this thing that we shouldn't have tried to fix. And let's just be us. And it either works out or it doesn't.

And then, you know, but we're not talking favorite movies, like things like, inspiration this is another inspirational one like pump up the volume i'm assuming you've seen that pump up the volume you've never seen pump of the volume no oh dude it's the whole reason i wanted to be a broadcaster is is that really oh yeah who's in that christian slater it's i i feel like i see the the cover of it yeah it's essentially that that's the cover of it it's just not it's not in that in that kind of 80s i can't see on my end i can't see which oh you can't see so you'll see it you'll see it in the you'll see it in the recording but it's um you can't see you can't see it on that no i can't all right anyway i could i could also google it and then i'll get it

right it's so what it's a 19 it's either 90 or 91 um christian slater is this kid who he he's kind of an introvert and he moves to um he moves to the school in arizona he's from new New York, but he moves to his school from Arizona. And his dad gets a job at this school. And the school, they have a really good high SAT scores, but something's going on there. All the kids, like the bad kids, are either dropping out or something happens and they're getting kicked out.

And so at nighttime, what he does is he, this is, again, before the Internet and for everything, too. He has a microphone in his garage. He's pirate radioing. He finds a way to broadcast, and all the kids in the school are listening to him. And he becomes like this DJ. And he calls himself, happy Harry Hart.

on right he's the only and he's able to he's able and you talk about being influential and saying a word he actually there's even a scene where he he's reading a lenny bruce book but um he is um he's just he he's able to kind of come out of his shell and talk to people and he becomes like this big figure and starts like this whole whole revolution at this school to get to get to the bottom of uh of why this uh this shit's going down to this school and it's it's pretty uh it's pretty awesome i watch i watched it not too not too long ago damn okay yeah that sounds like a actually you really sold me on it

yeah Christian Slater man yeah it's it's great it's a great 90s movie and it's really the two um it's it had to I was like when I was thinking of the things I wanted to put on the wall it was like it's got to put I gotta put Harry on there and you find it you said it was the thing that inspired to become a broadcaster do you find it more inspired you've often cited Rocky and Rocky to me is one of the most

I mean it's an obviously inspiring film it's just a film but I do think that movie actually did play an influence in my life and do you find do you find this movie more inspirational than rocky um for your personal for me personally i mean look rocky's up there too so um it's uh rockies are some my favorite movies of all time but i think when it comes to broadcasting in particular the it this one's a little bit more inspiring to me because as far as broadcasting goes because it's what the movie's about right it's also about being able to like we all have it's like finding that voice because

I've been in that room where I've been what he does, he just kind of walks around campus and he doesn't really talk to anybody and just kind of nods his head, but when he gets behind the microphone, he's on. And here it comes. It's like, this is who the person really is. And that, to me, still

it speaks very true. That's cool. Damn, what a solid answer. What's your favorite Rocky sequel while we're on this topic? I just want an excuse to talk about Rocky. What's your favorite Rocky? Well, you know, it's funny. I'm producing Matt Serra's podcast. And I was actually on his show where we did the episode of the Rocky movies. And we talked about, my favorite Rocky movie changes all the time.

It could be, at any given day, it could be one, two, or three. It's always one, two, or three. If I woke up tomorrow, I said, you know what, I think today is two, but it's always three is on my wall. I know, well, actually, three's on that wall, one's on that wall. but um but i would say there's so many inspirational things about one just the making of it and everything and how it came to be um there's yeah there's a lot i don't know there's like there's so much i love about all three of them but i can change it up at any given moment of of which one is my favorite out of the three i was in the car yesterday and for some reason i randomly thought

about rocky two great movie just yesterday and i was it might have been because of all this talk about like Joker and what it is as a sequel and blah blah blah and I was like Rocky 2 is probably the most under recognized um category of a film that is a part two easily I'm like it is a perfect part two yeah it's like when you watch Rocky 1 like what do you really like I can only imagine at the time like what do you what do you do after Rocky 1 right you know it's kind of like a perfect film like what do you do and then he comes out of Rocky and it's just a solid continuation of the story and him becoming the champion at the end and like going through the love the storyline of him going through the media and

like not liking the bullshit of it and realizing he still has a fire guard hard despite his and how scary Apollo Creed becomes in that movie like when they cut back and forth with them training I'm like I was just like thinking about that is a perfect part two for yeah and And then it's like, man, you don't, I don't think people often recognize that because the franchise is so big. Right. But if there was only one and two, I'm like, those would be a, that's a perfect like one and two combo. Two's great. Two's great.

And it is, and it's still, it's, and it's less about just the fight of him winning. And it's all about the things that he's got to go through in order. He tries to take the time off to, you know, he tries to retire, but he can. He wants to make sure he's, he's providing and he tries to do everything he can. he can the same in the juxtaposition of that of Apollo trying to let his ego just subside he's taking that win he could continue on and do it the guy was 49 and no when he fought right he was 50 and no when he's going into that fight and he did not need to fight rocky again and that's why duke says to him he goes i saw you come after that man and i saw you beat that man like no man's been

beaten before and the man kept coming after you we don't need a man like that in our life baby and he's and and so like that whole thing like the back and forth the two of them leading up to and that's why I was so brilliant to have him lose in the first movie because you can get to that and the other thing I think that is understated is that Stallone directed that movie the second movie yeah and people don't talk about that excellent job but yeah that is a perfect sequel to me I think Rocky 3 is a lot of fun but yeah I think Rocky 2 to me is like all one and two are more solid as far as overall films with the story and three it's like as we're talking about Terminator and everything. Three is more of the spectacle, right? But the reason why I loved

three so much, especially as a kid as a big boxing fan, is three is the most boxing you get in the movies. I mean, Rocky is defending the title ten times. You get the two fights for clubber. You get the Thunderbolts, the Thunderbolips scene. You get all those things. So there's just, there's so much going on in it. And it's still, even though people make fun of it, it's still one of the most emotional scenes with Mick, Mick, Mick, it's devastating. that that one's devastating that that scene still chokes me up every time i watch it i mean yeah the story of a man being humbled while he's on top is a very very compelling like i like a lot of the concept of it a lot i love too like oh he doesn't really know how to box like that that

concept of like he's actually not that great of a boxer yeah and he has to learn to become a great boxer while he's a champion right he's a bruiser so ain't no box he's a bruiser Yeah, this is a great. I love those movies so much. I grew up. I definitely, like, my dad had like the, before Rocky Balboa came out and he had the, um, the five, like the red box that was like the five movies and the five DVD collection. And, and I think what rock, something that's so great about the Rocky movies that I think a lot of action movies don't have is those fights.

And even the Creed movies don't really. like creed three did not give me this because creed three was so like it was so it's a good good i really like creed three i think it's a really good movie um but the fighting in the ring itself yeah like when rocky's getting hit you feel like you're getting hit and then when he's hitting back you feel like you're hitting back yeah and there's there is this like cathartic connection that you are having in the fights that you don't i i think that lasted all the way up to Rocky Balbo, honestly. Like that, like when he when he's in the, for some reason, you really feel like you're getting hit and you feel like you're hitting back. Yeah, that's true. I love,

although I mean, like the show cheesy ones, like fighting Drago and stuff. Like I really think the those movies excel at that, that most action movies don't don't even get down. Me too. Yeah, they're, they're definitely in my, if I was, I always talked about this with Ellis when we're doing stuff and he still asked me to this day. I'm like, I wanted to do a video and I've never done it. my top, like, I don't know how long I'll take, every take a course of three or four videos to do it, but to do my, like, top hundred movies. And, and, like, those movies would rank pretty damn high.

At least the first four would rank pretty damn high. But, yeah, so they have a special place for sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, I think this is a good note to end it on. I think we asked a lot. I think I asked you a lot of good questions. Did I? I think so.

I took a really soft-spoken approach today. Very NPR. Yeah. It's maybe because I'm like totally by myself in this room. Yeah. And I'm like, like, I'm really just going to be really soft today. So funny. Are you at your house?

Yeah. Is Olivia there too? No, no, no. She's in the other. So funny. Every time. Now, that's the one thing I don't get anymore is if I'm at a, if I'm at an event, Olivia doesn't ask me if I,

Olivia never thinks I remember her name. I know that's the best part it corrects me that was such a funny day that was my favorite yeah that's well people there's a there was a there was a there was a

what movie was that I don't remember what movie it was it was it might have been Indiana Jones I don't know no it's like a Marvel movie it's like Eternals or something I don't know something but it was that it was at one of the

it was at the Kodak or whatever and yeah yeah the Kodak theater for a Marvel movie and bumped into you on the stairs and I was with Olivia of course and you said hi to me and we're talking. And what happened? I was like,

hi. It wasn't, it wasn't a matter of hi. It was a matter of she said, you don't remember my name or him, do you? Oh yeah, that's right.

She challenged you on that. It wasn't, it wasn't that I didn't say hi. It was in fact I didn't know. She's like, you don't know my name. And I said, and she's like,

I can't remember what it was. And I was like, I'm never going to forget her name again. And then we were at the comedy store. She's like, you don't remember my name. It's like, I do.

I do. I do. and I think I cracked the joke about it too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny. You were high that day. That's very true. All right. All right, guys.

Well, Kristen, thank you so much for taking time out of your day. I know your kids have been banging on the door being like, Daddy, I really want to spend time with you. You know, they're not here right now. That's a good, I'm about 70 minutes away from them. That's the beauty is I have my own studio now.

It's a beauty. That's why I moved. Yeah, that's why I moved all the way back to New York. Because I could have it. Let's do you. All right, brother. Well, thank you for your time. Thank you guys for being here. And hopefully, we'll see you for next week. Make sure to subscribe and leave a like on your way out. And follow Christian Harloff on the Christian Harloff channel while you're at it. Take care, gang.