Latest / The Bechdel Cast / The Princess Bride with Myq Kaplan
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- 0:00Speaker 1: On the Bedel Cast, the questions asked if movies have
- 0:03Speaker 1: women in um, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands,
- 0:07Speaker 1: or do they have individualism the patriarchy? Zef and best
- 0:12Speaker 1: start changing it with the Beckdel Cast. Welcome to the
- 0:16Speaker 1: Bechdel Cast. I'm your host, Caitlin Torante. Your other host,
- 0:19Speaker 1: Jamie Latus, and here we are. We are going to
- 0:23Speaker 1: talk about movies. That's what we do. That's what this
- 0:25Speaker 1: podcast is all about. Ye And why why must we
- 0:29Speaker 1: do this, Jamie? Impossible to say, Just kidding, We have
- 0:32Speaker 1: a great reason. It's because women are almost always underrepresented
- 0:38Speaker 1: or misrepresented in film. So that's why we started the podcast.
- 0:43Speaker 1: And we use the Bechdel Test as sort of a
- 0:46Speaker 1: guideline for how how some of our favorite movies are doing.
- 0:51Speaker 1: What is the Bechdel Well, we're doing really well, so
- 0:57Speaker 1: far smoother than ever. The Bechtel test is a test
- 1:02Speaker 1: where you apply it to a thing like a movie.
- 1:06Speaker 1: What what's a movie? Wait? A second movie passes the
- 1:09Speaker 1: Bechtel test. If there are we've explained this, our listeners know. Basically,
- 1:15Speaker 1: two women speak to each other in the story about
- 1:18Speaker 1: something other than a man. Right, So that's what that is?
- 1:23Speaker 1: I saw? Oh no, do we do all the intra
- 1:26Speaker 1: stuff pretty much? We can. We can do our thing
- 1:29Speaker 1: where um, I don't like to bring this up, but
- 1:31Speaker 1: some people want to know that I do have a
- 1:33Speaker 1: master's degree in screenwriting. Sorry, because they like, what what is?
- 1:39Speaker 1: What are your credentials? Girls? What do you want you?
- 1:43Speaker 1: This part is really evolved where yeah, we between the
- 1:46Speaker 1: two of us, we have three degrees and film. You
- 1:51Speaker 1: have two bachelors. And I just skipped straight onto The
- 1:53Speaker 1: Masters The Master, which would be a really interesting episode
- 1:59Speaker 1: of this. Oh you mean to discuss the movie The Master.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I did a I wrote something once for
- 2:07Speaker 1: the Bota Globe a couple of years ago where I
- 2:09Speaker 1: watched The Master and The Master of Disguise and I
- 2:12Speaker 1: tried to decide which one was more valuable. What did
- 2:15Speaker 1: you conclude Master Disguise? Yeah, obviously of course I hated
- 2:18Speaker 1: The Master. Anyway, it was an hour too long. We
- 2:22Speaker 1: have a guest, as we often do, to talk about
- 2:26Speaker 1: a specific movie, and let's let's introduce our guests. It
- 2:30Speaker 1: is our friend and a very funny comedian, Mike Kaplan. Hey,
- 2:34Speaker 1: thank you for having me. You're welcome, Yes, you are
- 2:36Speaker 1: allowed to speak. Now. I heard my name, so I
- 2:39Speaker 1: thought it was time. That's your cue. I didn't know,
- 2:42Speaker 1: we didn't really, I didn't know for sure. I made
- 2:45Speaker 1: a choice. We have to make sure pectel cast passes
- 2:48Speaker 1: the Bechtel test. You talk to each other first and
- 2:51Speaker 1: about something besides a man or you or we did it?
- 2:55Speaker 1: Can I ask? Can? I ask a quick question? Because
- 2:56Speaker 1: I've heard their versions, like alterations or variety of the
- 3:00Speaker 1: Bechdel test where some some people require that the women
- 3:03Speaker 1: both have names. There is that caveat which I don't
- 3:06Speaker 1: know know if we've discussed, but yeah, i've heard happy
- 3:08Speaker 1: to be a man bringing it up. Also, I don't
- 3:11Speaker 1: really identify a man. Please, man's plains to us, Well,
- 3:15Speaker 1: the thing is about me. I don't really have a gender.
- 3:17Speaker 1: I just seem to be a man, so people assume
- 3:20Speaker 1: I'm a man, and I'm like whatever, thank you, I'm privileged.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Do have another question? Also? This one is going to
- 3:27Speaker 1: sound sincere, but it's really mostly just so I can
- 3:30Speaker 1: make a joke. But you say that sometimes women are misrepresented,
- 3:33Speaker 1: and it's fun to think of miss represented, miss what
- 3:37Speaker 1: you might call a woman. Sometimes? Are you represented in
- 3:40Speaker 1: this movie? I'm misrepresented. I'm Mr representative. Hey, at least
- 3:45Speaker 1: she had a name. She has misrepresented misrepresented here. Yeah,
- 3:51Speaker 1: that's true. That isn't something we've discussed yet, but I
- 3:53Speaker 1: have heard that caveat that both characters have to have
- 3:56Speaker 1: been named in whatever narrative piece it is. I think
- 4:00Speaker 1: I don't know if we've covered a movie yet where
- 4:02Speaker 1: that has come into play. Maybe Beauty and the Beast.
- 4:04Speaker 1: I don't know if the chest of Drawer's head a name.
- 4:06Speaker 1: I don't think she does either, but Chester Chester, I
- 4:11Speaker 1: believe that was her name in life. It was, but
- 4:13Speaker 1: we don't. We discussed, well, we concluded that that movie
- 4:16Speaker 1: does not pass the Bechtel test anyway because they only
- 4:19Speaker 1: talk about although the Beast is technique he's a man,
- 4:23Speaker 1: he's not a man, he's a male creatures along podcast,
- 4:31Speaker 1: just quick question. I mean that is I think the answer.
- 4:33Speaker 1: I think I will understand the answer as I'm saying it.
- 4:35Speaker 1: But like say, you watch the animated Robin Hood where
- 4:39Speaker 1: none of the characters are humans, but there are still
- 4:43Speaker 1: you know, male female relationships. Yeah, we um since they
- 4:47Speaker 1: are humanized anthropomorph Yeah that's the way. Thanks for being
- 4:52Speaker 1: here with your words or I have a master's degree
- 4:55Speaker 1: in linguistics words masters in the house, I call it
- 5:01Speaker 1: a mistress's degree, though you may thank you anyway. So
- 5:08Speaker 1: why don't you talk to us about the movie that
- 5:11Speaker 1: you that we all watch. We're gonna be discussing. I
- 5:15Speaker 1: chose the movie The Princess Bride. That movie I chose.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Do you want me to tell you why I chose it? Uh?
- 5:21Speaker 1: It's a movie that when people ask you often people
- 5:24Speaker 1: will say what's your favorite movie? And I have some
- 5:26Speaker 1: new stuff I'm talking about on stage about the idea
- 5:29Speaker 1: that favorites don't even like as an adult. There's so
- 5:33Speaker 1: many things, Like when you're a child, it makes sense
- 5:35Speaker 1: to be like, I've seen three and so one of
- 5:37Speaker 1: them is favorite. But like you know, as an adult,
- 5:40Speaker 1: you can like I don't like to have the things
- 5:42Speaker 1: that I love compete against each other. And sometimes when
- 5:45Speaker 1: you tell somebody this is my favorite movie, they're like,
- 5:46Speaker 1: but what about this one? And this one? And and like, well,
- 5:48Speaker 1: I don't want to feel bad just thinking about all
- 5:50Speaker 1: the wonderful movies that I like. Like, but this is
- 5:54Speaker 1: the one. If I ever if people just tell me
- 5:56Speaker 1: what your favorite movie, I would be like, fine, the Princess,
- 5:58Speaker 1: but it was definitely it was at a time my
- 6:00Speaker 1: favorite movie, and so I remember it as sort of
- 6:02Speaker 1: my first favorite movie. How old were you when you
- 6:05Speaker 1: first saw it? I think it came out in around
- 6:11Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was wrong. I was in probably four. Yeah,
- 6:15Speaker 1: I was in fourth ish grade. I was like nine,
- 6:17Speaker 1: around nine years old, and we watched it in school,
- 6:20Speaker 1: and I hadn't heard of it, like some of the kids, like,
- 6:22Speaker 1: we're watching it on a video obviously because it was
- 6:25Speaker 1: in school. We didn't have a movie theater at school,
- 6:28Speaker 1: but I didn't know what it was. So some of
- 6:29Speaker 1: the kids had seen it and they were super excited
- 6:31Speaker 1: by it. And when it first started, you know, there's
- 6:33Speaker 1: like just the scenes with like Fred Savage in his
- 6:36Speaker 1: home in bed, and I'm like one of the princess
- 6:37Speaker 1: right wondering he does this make any sense at all?
- 6:40Speaker 1: And everyone's like it's good. And we also watched, like
- 6:43Speaker 1: at the same time, like in the same time period,
- 6:45Speaker 1: a movie about a hedgehog, Like it was a myth
- 6:47Speaker 1: about called Hans My Hedgehog. And so these two movies
- 6:50Speaker 1: like had for a while equal weight in my mind.
- 6:53Speaker 1: I'm like the two movies that I saw this year
- 6:55Speaker 1: are these two and people are like, Hans my headge like,
- 6:58Speaker 1: but yeah, the Princess Ride. It was so wonderful. And
- 7:01Speaker 1: then like I went, I bought the book at one
- 7:02Speaker 1: point and I read the book, which is written by
- 7:04Speaker 1: the same guy wrote the screenplay, William Goldman. William Man
- 7:09Speaker 1: trigger sorry, guys, Willamette gold Woman. William Goldman is a
- 7:18Speaker 1: fascinating dude. He's like, yeah, I have a bunch of
- 7:21Speaker 1: his books, brag. He's wonderful. Okay. And Jamie's comment, No,
- 7:26Speaker 1: that was great, thank you for contributions. I have a drink.
- 7:31Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah. So it was just a movie that
- 7:33Speaker 1: I've loved for a long time. And also I have
- 7:36Speaker 1: seen it so many times, but I hadn't thought about
- 7:39Speaker 1: it in the context of, like, I wonder how many
- 7:41Speaker 1: female characters are there? I mean, I can't remember all that, Like,
- 7:44Speaker 1: there aren't that many. Even a movie that has both
- 7:48Speaker 1: the words of the title are female thing, princess bride,
- 7:53Speaker 1: which I tend to not like any movie that has
- 7:56Speaker 1: any sort of wedding or bride or princess not my
- 8:00Speaker 1: kind of movie. But um, but this title is not,
- 8:04Speaker 1: you know, indicative of what the movie is like an ear.
- 8:08Speaker 1: I wonder why it was called that in the first place,
- 8:12Speaker 1: because it's not really like a movie that seems directed
- 8:15Speaker 1: at girls. It work, per se, it did work. I mean,
- 8:18Speaker 1: you guys are girls, and you you were a young person.
- 8:21Speaker 1: You were not alive when this movie came out. I
- 8:23Speaker 1: was not just one year old. So you saw it
- 8:26Speaker 1: when you were one, and you saw it many years recently.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Just now, and how did you like it? I didn't
- 8:33Speaker 1: really like it. Okay, well let's talk to Caitlin. What
- 8:38Speaker 1: didn't you like? Well? I mean, I just because I
- 8:41Speaker 1: have no sentimental attachment to it. I didn't have any
- 8:44Speaker 1: problems just sort of seeing the problems with the movie
- 8:49Speaker 1: jump out. Harsh realities are problems. Well the problem I mean,
- 8:53Speaker 1: there's just scenes that Princess Better comes in where she
- 8:58Speaker 1: doesn't she's there, but she doesn't seek that. We'll talk
- 9:01Speaker 1: all about it, right like that, that's infuriating. The other
- 9:05Speaker 1: female characters that I can remember at the top of
- 9:07Speaker 1: my head were like poor Wenches who would scream about yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 9:13Speaker 1: and uh. And also I just like I didn't like
- 9:18Speaker 1: Wesley very much. I didn't understand, like I I couldn't
- 9:21Speaker 1: stand the beginning where they were like they see each
- 9:25Speaker 1: other once a day and he says one sentence and
- 9:27Speaker 1: now they're in love forever and they are bonded, and
- 9:30Speaker 1: they didn't there weren't so many people back then. They
- 9:32Speaker 1: were you had to fall in love with your farm
- 9:34Speaker 1: boy because I was the only other thing you could
- 9:36Speaker 1: funk was a horse. But then it's five years later
- 9:39Speaker 1: and suddenly he has a personality. I'm like, where did
- 9:41Speaker 1: that come from? All of a sudden, he's like, he's
- 9:44Speaker 1: like a sassy boy and he's just like, I have
- 9:47Speaker 1: a lot of one liners taught him how to be
- 9:50Speaker 1: just like you were a fucking drag at the beginning,
- 9:53Speaker 1: and now you're a drag in a different kind of
- 9:55Speaker 1: smuggy kind of way. You can't have it both ways.
- 9:58Speaker 1: You can only just like him at one of the boys,
- 10:00Speaker 1: like him as a farm boy, or like him as
- 10:03Speaker 1: nothing is a farm boy. He's just like I'm a
- 10:08Speaker 1: true I am just. I am also prejudiced against adult
- 10:11Speaker 1: blonde males. I don't know why, but I find them creepy.
- 10:15Speaker 1: I feel like that's something you should I don't like
- 10:17Speaker 1: any area in looking people, but um of any age,
- 10:20Speaker 1: I do like that she kind of like puts him
- 10:22Speaker 1: in his place. Hey, farm boy, do this fucking thing
- 10:25Speaker 1: for me? And then there are so she's poor too,
- 10:29Speaker 1: like they're weird. It doesn't make any sense, um that
- 10:32Speaker 1: like a poor like farm family has another poor servant.
- 10:37Speaker 1: I'd write, I call it a farmily. There are so
- 10:42Speaker 1: few moments in this movie where she displays any sort
- 10:44Speaker 1: of agency that like her. Even saying farm boy, do
- 10:48Speaker 1: this is like wow, like you go moment for her. Yes.
- 10:53Speaker 1: So I first saw the movie when I was in
- 10:56Speaker 1: high school, probably like a sophomore junior, So I was
- 10:59Speaker 1: like sixteen or so venteen or so, did you like?
- 11:01Speaker 1: I did like it at the time, and I still do.
- 11:05Speaker 1: But upon the two rewatches I did because I'm a
- 11:08Speaker 1: crazy person and to prepare for every podcast, I rewatched
- 11:11Speaker 1: the movie twice. Yeah, I don't. I don't know master
- 11:14Speaker 1: life behavior. It's true, I have to. I have to
- 11:17Speaker 1: watch it once for each degree I have half. Oh
- 11:20Speaker 1: my god, I thought you only had one, right. Yeah,
- 11:25Speaker 1: I watched it for for each degree that Jamie has.
- 11:30Speaker 1: So upon rewatching, I was like, oh, this is pretty problematic,
- 11:34Speaker 1: as all the movies that we talked about are. Um. Yeah,
- 11:38Speaker 1: at the time. I liked it enough to like buy
- 11:39Speaker 1: it on DVD and I own it on DVD, and
- 11:41Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, what a great little movie. And I
- 11:44Speaker 1: wrote a paper about it in grad school. I plan
- 11:47Speaker 1: to read all of it on this podcast. I don't,
- 11:49Speaker 1: I'm kidding, but I should. It's a few sentences that
- 11:58Speaker 1: I might share. Maybe just you have it. But you're
- 12:06Speaker 1: something for a class, Yeah, for a genre class? And
- 12:10Speaker 1: what was the genre? The genre of the Princess Brian
- 12:13Speaker 1: Well Like? For example, IMDb lists five different genres for it, Uh,
- 12:18Speaker 1: family adventure, romance, far adventure, romance, and comedy. Was that five?
- 12:27Speaker 1: Family adventure, romance, comedy? Maybe action? I can't remember. My
- 12:32Speaker 1: thesis was something along the lines that I don't remember.
- 12:36Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to I'll tell you later than you
- 12:38Speaker 1: because but it was like the Grandfather, I got an
- 12:41Speaker 1: a on it. Great inflation anyway, because it wasn't that
- 12:44Speaker 1: well written. Who you were you were younger, they say, yeah,
- 12:49Speaker 1: that's true. I was like twenty seven back in a dummy.
- 12:53Speaker 1: You could write away better paper today, I will say
- 12:57Speaker 1: my one part of the line that made me laugh
- 13:02Speaker 1: was the line, please consider me as an alternative to suicide?
- 13:06Speaker 1: It's like that hit me like I was like, wow,
- 13:08Speaker 1: I've been of relationships where maybe that would have been
- 13:11Speaker 1: a very appropriate thing to say. That's funny. Yeah, there's
- 13:15Speaker 1: some there's a few lines in this movie. Why don't
- 13:19Speaker 1: we just do a very quick recap of the story
- 13:22Speaker 1: in case our listeners are unfamiliar. There's a there's a
- 13:25Speaker 1: farmerly so we meet a Buttercup and she bosses this
- 13:29Speaker 1: little farm boy Wesley around, and then they decided that
- 13:33Speaker 1: they're in love with each other. And he's like, I
- 13:35Speaker 1: don't have any money because i'm your servant, so I
- 13:38Speaker 1: have to set off to the seas and seek a fortune.
- 13:41Speaker 1: And she's like, all right, okay, bye, I guess why
- 13:44Speaker 1: are you doing this? And I'll take care of us.
- 13:46Speaker 1: I'm a modern woman. Then she discovers that he has uh,
- 13:50Speaker 1: he was attacked by the dread pirate Roberts and he's dead.
- 13:54Speaker 1: And then Prince Humperdink what a name body? Yeah, I
- 14:00Speaker 1: mean it was already Angelbert's name, right, that's must be
- 14:03Speaker 1: there's an Angelbert humbered Incus. Oh yeah, and singer. I'm
- 14:10Speaker 1: not familiar with that person. I'm pretty sure it would
- 14:13Speaker 1: be weird if I was making it up. I don't
- 14:16Speaker 1: think I'm making it up. And he is a singer
- 14:18Speaker 1: and he kind of looks like Yannie. Oh oh wait,
- 14:22Speaker 1: that's not the way. He's a musician. He is a singer. Yeah, okay, yeah,
- 14:25Speaker 1: he's like a singer that old people love. Yeah, much
- 14:28Speaker 1: like Yannie. Right. Prince is like, yo, you common or woman,
- 14:33Speaker 1: marry me, and she's like, mo, I'm not doing anything else.
- 14:36Speaker 1: And then she gets kidnapped by these three dudes, a
- 14:39Speaker 1: giant and then a swordsman, and then a little genius
- 14:43Speaker 1: little man, a little genius, the most important to which
- 14:49Speaker 1: played by Mandy Pitinken. The swordsman his name is and
- 14:55Speaker 1: he's got a father who's dead and he's prepared to
- 14:58Speaker 1: kill it. That's the quote wrap, I'm prepared to kill.
- 15:03Speaker 1: So she gets kidnapped. They take her to the cliffs
- 15:05Speaker 1: of Insanity and up the hill and all this stuff.
- 15:08Speaker 1: But then there's a man in a black mask who's
- 15:12Speaker 1: following them, and he and he has a personality, doesn't
- 15:15Speaker 1: suddenly not a personality because surprise reveal it's Westley the
- 15:21Speaker 1: farm Boy, an adult blonde, and then he bests all
- 15:26Speaker 1: these three dudes and he's like it's me as you wish.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. They go into the fire swamp and
- 15:34Speaker 1: there's a whole adventure there, and then they come out
- 15:37Speaker 1: of the fire swamp. And this is where I stopped
- 15:40Speaker 1: liking this movie. The first half is cool, it's exciting,
- 15:45Speaker 1: and then it gets dumb. It's okay, But Whence catches
- 15:52Speaker 1: up to them, yeah, and and she's like, oh, surrender,
- 15:55Speaker 1: we surrender, take him away. And so she makes a
- 15:59Speaker 1: lot of decisions are really stupid and that I but
- 16:02Speaker 1: she is allowed to. She can make her own decisions.
- 16:04Speaker 1: She doesn't accept what Wesley is doing. Although, but I
- 16:10Speaker 1: just don't woman the right to make dumb decisions. That's
- 16:15Speaker 1: what she wants to do. I'm trying to separate. Don't
- 16:18Speaker 1: let a man tell you how to be smart. That's true.
- 16:22Speaker 1: She's like, I'm gonna be a big dumb idiot. God
- 16:25Speaker 1: damn it. She is motivated by She says like, spare
- 16:28Speaker 1: his life and I'll go with you and be your wife,
- 16:31Speaker 1: which reminded me of the Being and the Beast thing
- 16:33Speaker 1: with Belle and her dad. Yeah, there we go. Huh.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I still don't know. I mean I don't I obviously
- 16:39Speaker 1: don't think that was the best decision, but that that
- 16:41Speaker 1: was like one of her I made like a note
- 16:44Speaker 1: of that. I was like, like, one hour into the movie,
- 16:47Speaker 1: she makes a decision that changes the plot line. That
- 16:51Speaker 1: is true. That is pretty much the single moment where
- 16:54Speaker 1: in the narrative that that happened. They could have just
- 16:56Speaker 1: lived happily ever after from that point, the same way
- 17:00Speaker 1: that they eventually did at the end where they're running
- 17:02Speaker 1: away from the same people. Right, yeah, yeah, it just
- 17:06Speaker 1: seems like, oh, there's a moment where the movie could
- 17:08Speaker 1: have vented. It's just what I don't like about it
- 17:11Speaker 1: is the decision she makes. I get like, I don't know,
- 17:15Speaker 1: it's just she's so naive to think it bothers me
- 17:18Speaker 1: how naive she is basically, but you know that that
- 17:21Speaker 1: it maybe it's just her. She overcomes out as a
- 17:23Speaker 1: character flaw that she grows to. She's like, oh wait,
- 17:26Speaker 1: I was dumb all this time. I stilly girl. Anyway,
- 17:30Speaker 1: that is what changes from then to the end. She's
- 17:32Speaker 1: not dumb anymore. I still think she's dumb. I don't
- 17:37Speaker 1: like hearing all this woman and woman hate. I know
- 17:39Speaker 1: we shouldn't really be That's true. Everyone in this movie
- 17:42Speaker 1: is a dumbass, I think, except for Mandy Pattenkin and
- 17:46Speaker 1: Under the Giant, yeah probably. So then something's happened. I
- 17:51Speaker 1: don't even remember. Wesley is taken away. They've lied torture,
- 17:57Speaker 1: steam punky machine that sucks the life out of you
- 18:01Speaker 1: one year at a time. Right, yeah, right, And then
- 18:04Speaker 1: Anigo and Fasick the Giant are reunited and they're like,
- 18:08Speaker 1: we gotta go find this guy because he's going to
- 18:09Speaker 1: help me kill this man who killed my father. They
- 18:13Speaker 1: do that, and they storm the castle and they're told
- 18:18Speaker 1: to have Billy wife another woman, a strong woman. I'm
- 18:26Speaker 1: not a witch wife. She's very memorable for she was
- 18:30Speaker 1: very memorable. Must she might have a name as well.
- 18:33Speaker 1: She may he may name her. They may have yelled,
- 18:38Speaker 1: he may have yelled it at her. Yeah. People are
- 18:41Speaker 1: listening at home are like, it's we can't remember I
- 18:45Speaker 1: remember Max a miracle worker's name anyway, So yeah, he
- 18:49Speaker 1: gets survived. There's a miracle. He comes back to life.
- 18:51Speaker 1: They stormed the castle and then Prince somber Dick is like,
- 18:55Speaker 1: I'm going to sit down and let you tie me up,
- 18:57Speaker 1: and then they jump out of a window and that's
- 18:58Speaker 1: pretty much how it is, and then many protecon does
- 19:02Speaker 1: get to kill the six fingered guys so and then
- 19:05Speaker 1: presumably becomes dread Pirate Roberts himself. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 19:09Speaker 1: let's not spoil. Oh yeah, they definitely. He says to him,
- 19:15Speaker 1: I think you'd make a great dread pirate Roberts. We
- 19:17Speaker 1: can presume he's like, oh, perhaps, Yeah, it's very important
- 19:22Speaker 1: that there be a pirate who everyone thinks kills people
- 19:25Speaker 1: and probably sometimes does. Right, It's like, well, maybe we
- 19:28Speaker 1: could just end it somewhere, how about the dead pirate
- 19:32Speaker 1: Roberts fell about it. You're welcome. So that's the story.
- 19:39Speaker 1: We've already sort of revealed some of our thoughts and
- 19:43Speaker 1: feeling we all love about Forever. So let's just jump
- 19:48Speaker 1: into As we already alluded to the fact that Buttercup
- 19:53Speaker 1: she's the title character. She is not the protagonist, though
- 19:57Speaker 1: I would not say because she there are large chunks
- 20:00Speaker 1: of time where she's not even on screen. All the time.
- 20:03Speaker 1: When she is on screen, she's not doing anything or talking.
- 20:06Speaker 1: That scene between Wesley and the baby genius who drinks
- 20:10Speaker 1: the wine and dies, I w oh, yeah, you see,
- 20:15Speaker 1: I I don't have any But she's in that scene.
- 20:19Speaker 1: And that scene is like seven or eight minutes long,
- 20:22Speaker 1: and she doesn't move, don't say anything. She's not really
- 20:26Speaker 1: restrained besides, like her hands are bound in her she's blindfolded.
- 20:30Speaker 1: She thinks he could have a knife to her throat.
- 20:32Speaker 1: She's scared. She doesn't look anything though, She's just a
- 20:36Speaker 1: blank slate of like, let me listen to how this
- 20:38Speaker 1: plays out. Well, eventually she becomes the very powerful wife
- 20:42Speaker 1: of the President of the United States of America. Card
- 20:48Speaker 1: I think we were doing I thought we were doing
- 20:50Speaker 1: a scandal. That's great too, Yeah, is she in that?
- 20:55Speaker 1: But also she's sort of like the title character of
- 20:58Speaker 1: the Raiders of Lost Art. She's like the Lost arc
- 21:00Speaker 1: Like it doesn't appear that much in it, but it's
- 21:02Speaker 1: like kind of what it's all about. Sure, she's the
- 21:06Speaker 1: vehicle that Wesley is like, Okay, I gotta save this
- 21:10Speaker 1: this lady, this play, this object. And that is what
- 21:13Speaker 1: continues to happen. I wrote down all the times where
- 21:15Speaker 1: someone has to save her, because it's several. The first
- 21:19Speaker 1: time is when she okay, she does make another choice
- 21:21Speaker 1: that doesn't really influence the direction of the story takes,
- 21:24Speaker 1: but at least she does something, and it happens kind
- 21:26Speaker 1: of early on whenever she's been captured by the three
- 21:30Speaker 1: dudes and they have run the ship and they see
- 21:33Speaker 1: that someone's following them, so she jumps into the eel
- 21:35Speaker 1: infested waters. So she does that, but then she needs
- 21:40Speaker 1: to be saved pretty much immediately because a neil is
- 21:43Speaker 1: coming for her, so the giant pulls her out. That's
- 21:46Speaker 1: the first time. The second time is when they're in
- 21:50Speaker 1: the fire swamp and Wesley has to save her like
- 21:53Speaker 1: three different times from the bursts of flame that whole
- 21:59Speaker 1: fires sequence. I was just like at one point he's
- 22:03Speaker 1: like just carrying her through it. She's like, I can't walk.
- 22:07Speaker 1: When that rat dog attacks him, she just watches. She's
- 22:12Speaker 1: just like Wesley, I was like, what are you doing.
- 22:15Speaker 1: You've got hands, he said he had under control. No,
- 22:20Speaker 1: it's infuriating to watch. They're like the worst couple ever.
- 22:23Speaker 1: I don't like either of them. Have you ever met
- 22:26Speaker 1: any couples? That's true, that's true. There are a few good.
- 22:31Speaker 1: When the road in some unusual size come and attack,
- 22:35Speaker 1: she just she stands there and watches for a long time.
- 22:38Speaker 1: She does pick up like a branch and sort of
- 22:42Speaker 1: hits it in the face a little bit, but like
- 22:44Speaker 1: almost immediately falls over and then doesn't do anything. She
- 22:48Speaker 1: gets back up and does land a blow to the
- 22:51Speaker 1: face of the r O U S, but then just
- 22:54Speaker 1: continues to stand there and not do anything untill find he'll.
- 22:59Speaker 1: Finally Wesley like pushes it into the burst of flame
- 23:02Speaker 1: and then stabs it several times with the sword. And
- 23:05Speaker 1: just before that, there's that moment where I forget what
- 23:07Speaker 1: he's saying to her, but it's it's another one of
- 23:10Speaker 1: his like, well do you think that it's just never
- 23:14Speaker 1: been done before, because and now we're going I don't know,
- 23:17Speaker 1: like one of his weird one liners. And then she says,
- 23:19Speaker 1: hmm okay, and then she falls into a hole. Immediately
- 23:23Speaker 1: I was like, Jesus, She's like, we'll never survive. He's like, ridiculous,
- 23:27Speaker 1: You're only saying that because no one ever has, and
- 23:29Speaker 1: he's like okay, and then she falls into all It's like, Jesus,
- 23:33Speaker 1: that's it. She couldn't tell it was not right, but
- 23:38Speaker 1: she could have been formulating a response instead of like
- 23:43Speaker 1: checks out. She deserved to fall into that quick Sandys.
- 23:47Speaker 1: That is one of the other times that she needs
- 23:50Speaker 1: to be saved by a man. Okay, Before they go
- 23:52Speaker 1: into the fire swamp, though, we find out that Wesley
- 23:56Speaker 1: is kind of a dick. Well, he became a pirate,
- 24:00Speaker 1: that's true, he didn't. You don't mean to be shooting
- 24:03Speaker 1: on your favorite movie, my favorite movie anymore. I'm happy
- 24:07Speaker 1: for you guys to say what you want. It's a
- 24:09Speaker 1: fun show. It's not me. I didn't make the movie.
- 24:13Speaker 1: I did. It's from over thirty years ago, or almost
- 24:16Speaker 1: thirty years ago. A great reveal if you're like there
- 24:22Speaker 1: were there's a bunch of lines he has about women
- 24:25Speaker 1: that she just takes lying down and I was like,
- 24:28Speaker 1: that is a crotch kicking offense. Oh right, not at
- 24:32Speaker 1: the time. This is a long time ago. I mean
- 24:35Speaker 1: the players, but I feel like the men in the
- 24:38Speaker 1: movie are given like more contemporary I don't know, they
- 24:42Speaker 1: felt like they had like values of the eighties and
- 24:46Speaker 1: she was stuck into a very artick. Just to be clear,
- 24:50Speaker 1: I'm joking on your side. I don't know's we're bad.
- 24:56Speaker 1: We don't know anything about comedy problem. Just kidding now
- 25:00Speaker 1: we're joking. Oh god, I gotten a spiral just doing
- 25:05Speaker 1: it for the listeners. I know you guys understand. I
- 25:07Speaker 1: assume your listeners don't know anything about comedy, as we're
- 25:11Speaker 1: in a feedback loop right now. God, it's like two
- 25:14Speaker 1: rors facing each other. Um. Anyway, at one point he
- 25:19Speaker 1: raises his arm to hit her. Do you remember this?
- 25:23Speaker 1: And then he says that was a warning, highness. The
- 25:26Speaker 1: next time, my hand flies on its own. For where
- 25:29Speaker 1: I come from, there are penalties when a woman lies, right, yeah,
- 25:34Speaker 1: I had that written down to It's just like I
- 25:37Speaker 1: think this is when he's still masked a K pretending
- 25:41Speaker 1: to be a dread private. Why does he do that
- 25:44Speaker 1: so long? Why does he like mask off? Hey, Buttercup,
- 25:48Speaker 1: it's me. Remember I'm going to be an asshole to you.
- 25:51Speaker 1: And then once we tumble down the hill with hilarious
- 25:54Speaker 1: a d r H, then this is like that is
- 25:59Speaker 1: how you would sound r um. It's audio recorded after
- 26:06Speaker 1: like they bring them in and they're just like, just
- 26:08Speaker 1: make a bunch of oofs and then he's like I
- 26:12Speaker 1: love you, and you're like when really all now? Um?
- 26:17Speaker 1: I mean, isn't the explanation that they would give, or
- 26:20Speaker 1: that they did give for why he stayed mass so
- 26:22Speaker 1: long is that he was mad that she immediately married
- 26:26Speaker 1: another dude, Well, I mean, she is terrible. That doesn't
- 26:29Speaker 1: I would be upset too. But also he let her
- 26:32Speaker 1: believe he was dead for a long time, and I
- 26:34Speaker 1: don't understand exactly why that was. Right. Yeah, he's mad
- 26:37Speaker 1: because she's gone off and gotten engaged to someone else,
- 26:41Speaker 1: but he was also gone for five years' monogamy guys
- 26:45Speaker 1: themselves everything. Yeah, it would be very unreasonable of him
- 26:50Speaker 1: to be like, you think I'm dead, but stay single forever,
- 26:54Speaker 1: just right? And then those like those exchanges they have,
- 26:59Speaker 1: and I know that are supposed to beautiful, but I
- 27:01Speaker 1: was just like, man, like, death cannot stop true love.
- 27:04Speaker 1: I was like, oh, she's not allowed to move on
- 27:06Speaker 1: with her life. And then she says, I will never
- 27:09Speaker 1: doubt again, and I'm like, no, doubt do sometimes discussion
- 27:16Speaker 1: to the movie Doubt right now? Oh my god, that's
- 27:19Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies. Yeah, that's no one's favorite movie.
- 27:22Speaker 1: But my brother and I used to do this double feature.
- 27:25Speaker 1: We still do it. Sometimes we'll watch There Will Be
- 27:28Speaker 1: Blood and Doubt back to back. No reason is there
- 27:32Speaker 1: a movie called Fire, because then you could watch Doubt
- 27:34Speaker 1: and Fire and then missus doubt Fire. Didn't think there
- 27:39Speaker 1: you go that's a closer. All right, good night everyone
- 27:44Speaker 1: in doubt Glenn Close or Meryl Street, I always get
- 27:47Speaker 1: them confused Closes Wonder they're both great. Okay, So he
- 27:52Speaker 1: Weslie is a dick. He threatens to hit her, he
- 27:57Speaker 1: does all kinds of ship oh, and then in the swamp.
- 28:02Speaker 1: But afterward after he's like, it's me Wesley. They're in
- 28:07Speaker 1: the fire swamp and he's explaining to her how he
- 28:10Speaker 1: became the dread Pirate Roberts and he's like he's so patronizing.
- 28:14Speaker 1: He's like, with me, so far does this make sense
- 28:16Speaker 1: to you? And it's like it's not a hard story
- 28:19Speaker 1: to understand, right, It's just like, hey, dummy, you get
- 28:23Speaker 1: it stupid And I also don't like maybe I missed
- 28:28Speaker 1: something because it was the first time I saw it.
- 28:30Speaker 1: But like he becomes the dread Pirate Roberts and that
- 28:33Speaker 1: becomes more important to him than getting back to he's alive,
- 28:39Speaker 1: and like that's never from what I gets, all that's
- 28:41Speaker 1: never explained of like why couldn't he just under that
- 28:45Speaker 1: like persona she she was still there. Maybe it didn't
- 28:49Speaker 1: move locations until she was kidnapped, but maybe it had
- 28:51Speaker 1: just happened. Maybe I mean for a while, because he's like, oh,
- 28:56Speaker 1: I was training and doing all kinds of like fencing, right,
- 29:01Speaker 1: they didn't give an exact timeline. Well, it's convenient for this.
- 29:04Speaker 1: It's kind of a plot device because as soon as
- 29:06Speaker 1: she gets kidnapped, now she needs someone to rescue her.
- 29:09Speaker 1: So it's it just happens to be at that moment,
- 29:12Speaker 1: and he puts his plans on hold. He was like
- 29:13Speaker 1: whatever it was, He's like, well, now it's important because
- 29:16Speaker 1: she has been kidnapped. That maybe he was. Wesley's just
- 29:21Speaker 1: I guess he just he Oh, now I'm gonna I'm
- 29:24Speaker 1: gonna go back for her. Oh. Convenient that she's been captured,
- 29:27Speaker 1: because now this cool story can unfold, called the Princess Bride.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Maybe he did find out that she was kidnapped. Maybe
- 29:33Speaker 1: I don't know. He's pure speculation to the ground. And
- 29:36Speaker 1: here's just a you know, this is an unnecessary, dumb
- 29:39Speaker 1: defense of him being mean to her and treating her
- 29:42Speaker 1: like she's dumb. She is dumb. She is this particular
- 29:47Speaker 1: person that he's talking to has been dumb before. How
- 29:51Speaker 1: did he get this way? Though? I don't understand. It's
- 29:54Speaker 1: like in the first, you know, when they're falling in love.
- 29:56Speaker 1: At the beginning, they say maybe twenty words to each other,
- 29:59Speaker 1: it's as you wish, as you wish, I love you
- 30:02Speaker 1: and I'll never leave you goodbye. Just yeah, And I'm
- 30:05Speaker 1: just like, Okay, these are very horny, blond adults, and
- 30:09Speaker 1: I'm not okay with any of that. I'll also add,
- 30:11Speaker 1: I do think that it's not nice to be it's
- 30:14Speaker 1: not good to be mean to dumb people, even if
- 30:16Speaker 1: they are dumb. I don't know about that. That's what
- 30:19Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's my position is, Mike takes one position
- 30:22Speaker 1: still to dumb people. I say, for sure, cyber bully
- 30:26Speaker 1: dumb people. Maybe not to their face, because dumb people
- 30:29Speaker 1: could be very strong, m M I understand what they
- 30:33Speaker 1: might be. Andrea the giant, and they might just Andrea
- 30:37Speaker 1: crushes it and he's a good he's a poet's great anyway,
- 30:42Speaker 1: She's maybe not dumb, but extremely naive, Yeah, which I
- 30:46Speaker 1: could understand if she had like grown up a royal
- 30:50Speaker 1: and like wasn't exposed to the world and like was
- 30:52Speaker 1: just oh, I'm a princess. I'm like, I don't haven't
- 30:55Speaker 1: have a new life experiences, but she's a commoner. I
- 30:58Speaker 1: feel like she should know her have some street smarts. Yeah,
- 31:01Speaker 1: there's no streets. That's old dirt path smarts. Actually because
- 31:11Speaker 1: she she goes on her daily ride. She rides all over.
- 31:14Speaker 1: But she should know stuff I don't know. But she
- 31:17Speaker 1: and I don't want to sound victim. Blame me because
- 31:19Speaker 1: she's captured against her will and she's a victim, and
- 31:24Speaker 1: but she is. She was wearing her capture me boots.
- 31:28Speaker 1: She also threatens to kill herself this movie, like the
- 31:33Speaker 1: towards the end with humber Dick. She you know, she
- 31:36Speaker 1: goes and she was like, well, if you do, you know,
- 31:38Speaker 1: I'm not going to marry you. I'll just kill myself.
- 31:41Speaker 1: And I was just like, you could try to escape.
- 31:43Speaker 1: There's so many, Yeah, alternate paths other than like killing
- 31:47Speaker 1: yourself because you can't be with this asshole. I don't
- 31:50Speaker 1: know totally. Um she does, like it said, she makes
- 31:53Speaker 1: that one escape attempt when she jumps into the el
- 31:55Speaker 1: infested waters. Why not try that again? There are like
- 31:59Speaker 1: no one's really holding her captive, Like what's it? Humberdink
- 32:04Speaker 1: is like off planning her murder. She doesn't like she
- 32:07Speaker 1: can just go like Lee like get on a horse
- 32:09Speaker 1: and ride out of town. Yeah. I don't understand her
- 32:14Speaker 1: at all. She seems like maybe she's just depressed and
- 32:18Speaker 1: she just doesn't know it, because she from the beginning
- 32:21Speaker 1: of the movie is like, maybe I'll just kill myself
- 32:25Speaker 1: if I can't be with Wesley. Maybe she has mental
- 32:28Speaker 1: health issues, and that's why she's falling back on this
- 32:31Speaker 1: suicidality because it's not just codependent on which brings me
- 32:37Speaker 1: to the point that of the pretty few lines of
- 32:41Speaker 1: dialogue that she does have at the course of the movie,
- 32:44Speaker 1: they are almost all about either Wesley or love or
- 32:49Speaker 1: being in love with Wesley. She doesn't talk about anything else.
- 32:53Speaker 1: We don't know anything else about her. Yeah, exactly, isn't
- 32:56Speaker 1: there the scene where the old lady says that she's
- 32:59Speaker 1: just garbage, and so that's like two ladies talking and
- 33:02Speaker 1: it's just but both of them. But so it does.
- 33:07Speaker 1: I've concluded that it does not pass the Bechtel test
- 33:10Speaker 1: because even though those two women speak well, the old
- 33:13Speaker 1: lady speaks at her, Buttercup doesn't really ever respond. But
- 33:16Speaker 1: we're going with the name thing too. She doesn't have
- 33:18Speaker 1: any she doesn't have a name, and they're talking about
- 33:21Speaker 1: the context of their conversation is Buttercup's portrayal to Wesley,
- 33:25Speaker 1: So it's about a man, and therefore, do not think
- 33:28Speaker 1: it passes the Betel test. But don't feel bad, Princess Brian.
- 33:33Speaker 1: A lot of movies don't. Also, don't feel bad because
- 33:35Speaker 1: you're a movie. Can I tell you a funny story
- 33:39Speaker 1: about the movie? I was. It's actually kind of a
- 33:43Speaker 1: touching story as well. Maybe only that who can say.
- 33:46Speaker 1: I'm not going to tip it any further, but about
- 33:48Speaker 1: two years ago, a friend of mine got married and
- 33:53Speaker 1: I was at the wedding. The person who was getting
- 33:54Speaker 1: married my friend. Her friend was officiating, and so the
- 33:58Speaker 1: at the beginning of the wedding, this prest was like,
- 34:00Speaker 1: I've never married anybody before. I just got the credentials
- 34:03Speaker 1: so that I could marry my friends. So it's really
- 34:06Speaker 1: a beautiful experience for me to get to do this.
- 34:08Speaker 1: And since I've never done this before, I may never
- 34:10Speaker 1: get it again. I was wondering if you guys would
- 34:13Speaker 1: indulge me for a moment while I just quote one
- 34:16Speaker 1: of my favorite lines from The Princess Bride, and it
- 34:19Speaker 1: was like, okay, great, sure, And then she says and
- 34:22Speaker 1: all right, everybody the shrieking eels okay, anyway, so now
- 34:26Speaker 1: we've it was super fun. Also, I don't know if
- 34:30Speaker 1: you guys know this, but getting a master's degree in
- 34:33Speaker 1: scriting screenwriting does automatically like ordained you to officiate weddings.
- 34:39Speaker 1: I also like that you called it scriting. I don't
- 34:42Speaker 1: know how to talk masters thing. Yep, it was a
- 34:48Speaker 1: joke that wasn't good to begin with, and I ruined
- 34:50Speaker 1: it because I don't know how to talk scriting. Can
- 34:53Speaker 1: we talk about the line that almost closes the movie
- 34:57Speaker 1: there's a shortage of perfect breast since the world, first
- 35:02Speaker 1: of all, and I come at this as someone in
- 35:05Speaker 1: a similar predicament of having perfect breasts. Uh no, she
- 35:11Speaker 1: she she is pretty flat chested. And not to shame her,
- 35:16Speaker 1: because I'm right there with her. But if someone said
- 35:18Speaker 1: I had perfect breast, I would be like, where you know? Uh?
- 35:22Speaker 1: And second of all, what an obnoxious thing to say.
- 35:25Speaker 1: And I hate that he said that. Yeah, I would.
- 35:28Speaker 1: It's like the people who are like fighting breast cancer
- 35:31Speaker 1: by being like, we've got to save the breasts, right right.
- 35:34Speaker 1: It's just I don't know. I wanted to harpoon him
- 35:37Speaker 1: more than ever at that moment, I need to harpoon
- 35:40Speaker 1: him the whole movie. I will say that, you know,
- 35:42Speaker 1: beauty is subjective, So if somebody ever tells you that
- 35:45Speaker 1: you have perfect breasts, I would say thank you. I
- 35:50Speaker 1: would rather harpoon someone than say thank you. Yeah, no
- 35:55Speaker 1: compliments please her. Yeah, it is. It's a silly moment. Also,
- 36:00Speaker 1: I just mean if it's like somebody that you care
- 36:02Speaker 1: about and like you're in a relationship, not just like
- 36:05Speaker 1: somebody on the street, sir. But I also think that
- 36:07Speaker 1: they just have a toxic, terrible relationship and you shouldn't
- 36:10Speaker 1: talk to her at all. Yeah, their relationship is very
- 36:14Speaker 1: This is one of those things where they fall in
- 36:15Speaker 1: love because one of them is a man and one
- 36:17Speaker 1: of them is a woman, and which is how it
- 36:21Speaker 1: worked for centuries. Work with my parents. Do you know,
- 36:25Speaker 1: do you read as on Sorry's Modern Romance book. Yes,
- 36:29Speaker 1: there's like in the first chapter there's like a thing
- 36:31Speaker 1: of where he interviewed people who are like the oldest
- 36:34Speaker 1: you know people today about their dating experiences. And there
- 36:37Speaker 1: were some numbers about like one in six people over
- 36:41Speaker 1: half without within a mile of them, and one in
- 36:45Speaker 1: six grew up in the same building. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, sure,
- 36:50Speaker 1: this was before the time, hundreds of years earlier, and no,
- 36:56Speaker 1: but people fell in love because even if they yeah,
- 37:00Speaker 1: they were near each other, but then they were, they
- 37:02Speaker 1: also had to be compatible. But there's like, no, there's
- 37:05Speaker 1: like they're like, oh, you have blond hair, I have
- 37:08Speaker 1: blond hair. We look like siblings, but we're not siblings, right,
- 37:13Speaker 1: So that's what's sexy about it. I'm really attracted to
- 37:17Speaker 1: the fact that you're in not my siblings. I guess. Yeah,
- 37:21Speaker 1: standards were not very high back then. Well, I mean,
- 37:24Speaker 1: I do think that there is something to you know,
- 37:26Speaker 1: like tribal sort of connections. You know, like sometimes like
- 37:30Speaker 1: Jews are attracted to other Jews, and you know, like
- 37:33Speaker 1: tall people are attracted to potentially, I mean, it's not
- 37:35Speaker 1: it's not a guarantee, but you definitely can see couples
- 37:38Speaker 1: that look alike as long as they know they're not
- 37:40Speaker 1: from the same actual family. Sure, you mean formally. I
- 37:44Speaker 1: don't know, I never heard of this think. Yeah, I
- 37:48Speaker 1: mean I do agree with that. I just think that
- 37:50Speaker 1: they're both insufferable in different ways. Well that's the thing too,
- 37:53Speaker 1: it's together. The thing about stories is that you can
- 37:59Speaker 1: build the world old and developed the characters and explain
- 38:02Speaker 1: why they're good for each other. Not not do that.
- 38:06Speaker 1: That's some scrider talk, gold Man. Come on, The book
- 38:11Speaker 1: actually goes way more in depth than a lot. I've
- 38:14Speaker 1: not read the book. I'm sure it also has some
- 38:17Speaker 1: of the same problems. But I did really I did
- 38:19Speaker 1: really like the book as well. I thought it was
- 38:20Speaker 1: very funny. I don't read books of a master's degree,
- 38:26Speaker 1: so I don't I actually don't know how to read,
- 38:30Speaker 1: so oh I wanted. We already touched on this a
- 38:32Speaker 1: little bit. But there is a chunk of time between
- 38:37Speaker 1: around minute thirteen whenever they reached the cliffs of Insanity,
- 38:41Speaker 1: to somewhere around minute thirty four, so almost twenty minutes,
- 38:45Speaker 1: which is right when Leslie beats the little of the
- 38:48Speaker 1: Baby Genius in the Battle of Wits, where she does
- 38:52Speaker 1: not say a single thing, but she is in the
- 38:55Speaker 1: in the scenes the whole time. She well, she only
- 38:58Speaker 1: has a few like sliver of screen time. Even during that,
- 39:01Speaker 1: I kept forgetting she was in that scene with the
- 39:05Speaker 1: Baby Genius and Wesley. I kept forget, and then she
- 39:08Speaker 1: would be sitting next to the baby Genius, and I'd
- 39:11Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, I guess she is just sitting
- 39:13Speaker 1: there like that was so that was like the most
- 39:16Speaker 1: frustrating part for me was watching that scene. My favorite
- 39:18Speaker 1: part of that scene is that the scene he had
- 39:21Speaker 1: just set up a little picnic for the There was
- 39:23Speaker 1: like graps and cheese and apples and like goblets and wine,
- 39:27Speaker 1: and it's like, what were you going to do? Like
- 39:30Speaker 1: you didn't decide to have the battle of wits until
- 39:32Speaker 1: Wesley showed up and suggested it. Like it wasn't get
- 39:35Speaker 1: a table I didn't even think of that. I think
- 39:38Speaker 1: there was a stone, okay, but he had like a
- 39:40Speaker 1: table cloth and stuff. He just like comes ready for
- 39:43Speaker 1: other people. He was like, oh man, I hope he
- 39:47Speaker 1: suggests that we have a battle of wits because I've
- 39:49Speaker 1: got at all laid out ready to go. He made
- 39:52Speaker 1: it happen. I did appreciate that he died, yeah, because
- 39:56Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, he's not gonna be there
- 39:59Speaker 1: to say that one word anymore inconceivable. I did not
- 40:04Speaker 1: find that charming. I don't think that he was meant
- 40:07Speaker 1: to be charming. I know, but I know that you're
- 40:09Speaker 1: supposed to like you like that's the fun thing. What
- 40:12Speaker 1: a bit of comic relief, and it's not. The Little
- 40:15Speaker 1: Guys did a funny thing. And I remember when I
- 40:19Speaker 1: first watched that movie the fact that he always like, oh,
- 40:21Speaker 1: I put poison both cups like I spent the past
- 40:23Speaker 1: few years growing up in immunity, I have caine powder.
- 40:26Speaker 1: And I was like, brilliant self really enjoyed them. It
- 40:31Speaker 1: was it was good, it was a clever thing to do.
- 40:35Speaker 1: I had one note, because Baby Genius and and Andre
- 40:40Speaker 1: the Giant are paired up to be like this, like
- 40:43Speaker 1: little guy big guy team. It's very fun. It is fun.
- 40:47Speaker 1: But I would argue that the best little guy big
- 40:50Speaker 1: guy team that I know of is in Jesus Christ
- 40:54Speaker 1: Superstar with Honest and Caiaphas. Oh I a little guy
- 41:00Speaker 1: big guy team to remember Jesus Christ Superstar would be
- 41:03Speaker 1: a very hard podcast. I have never seen it. I
- 41:08Speaker 1: thought you were going to say, what is it Junior
- 41:11Speaker 1: with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and oh, twins is what I mean? Yeah,
- 41:17Speaker 1: not Junior Junior. What's Oh that's one where he gets pregnant.
- 41:21Speaker 1: What I want a career? He said, yeah, baby in
- 41:27Speaker 1: him and they're like, let's see if a man can
- 41:29Speaker 1: carry a baby. I want to see that movie. I
- 41:32Speaker 1: just say, it's like a little noise, I got so excited.
- 41:35Speaker 1: I don't remember it super well. It's been probably two
- 41:37Speaker 1: decades since I've seen it. Okay, I didn't see it,
- 41:40Speaker 1: and I bet we wouldn't love it. Uh yeah, I
- 41:45Speaker 1: don't remember it being very good. The poster is terrifying. Wow, yeah,
- 41:51Speaker 1: it was inconceivable. Is that the tagline? Oh my god,
- 41:57Speaker 1: that is crazy that that happened, because that's the word
- 42:01Speaker 1: we were just talking about that. That is a good slogan.
- 42:07Speaker 1: That's a good slogan for that for that movie. Yes,
- 42:10Speaker 1: good catchphrase. It's like, you know the one for Doctor
- 42:12Speaker 1: Strange that I like that I've seen on posters. It's
- 42:16Speaker 1: the impossibilities or endless like that. Yeah, sometimes they're very bad,
- 42:22Speaker 1: like almost always. I'm like, I look at these posters
- 42:25Speaker 1: for movies and I'm like, if I'm gonna either see
- 42:27Speaker 1: the movie, I'm not going to see a movie. Like
- 42:29Speaker 1: I can't imagine the person that the tagline, you know,
- 42:32Speaker 1: pushes it over either to yes or no, like you know,
- 42:36Speaker 1: the gang's all here. What don't even just save some letters?
- 42:42Speaker 1: Show us the pictures of the people giving people what
- 42:46Speaker 1: they want. When I was in college, I made a
- 42:48Speaker 1: student film called Baxter the Clown, and it was about
- 42:52Speaker 1: a clown who was to George Knows, I don't know
- 42:57Speaker 1: what twist with bas Okay and he decides to run
- 43:03Speaker 1: away from the circus. That's fun twist. And he switched
- 43:08Speaker 1: his places with his brother. She was like a businessman.
- 43:11Speaker 1: His brother's name was Oliver, I think, and they switched places,
- 43:15Speaker 1: so Oliver's like, I'm going to run away enjoin the
- 43:17Speaker 1: circus and perfect brothers place. And Baxter was like the
- 43:21Speaker 1: twin in office. They weren't, so it doesn't make a whole.
- 43:24Speaker 1: But I didn't have access to all the idea of
- 43:29Speaker 1: twins right anyway, so you couldn't have two people. That's
- 43:34Speaker 1: exactly like I didn't have high tech c g I.
- 43:39Speaker 1: And then the Baxter has to decide whether or not
- 43:42Speaker 1: he wants to pursue this life as a businessman or
- 43:44Speaker 1: to return to the circus. But the tagline that I
- 43:47Speaker 1: wrote for this movie is he's climbing the corporate ladder
- 43:52Speaker 1: to the big top. Guys, I'm so clever. We've been
- 44:00Speaker 1: shooting on this movie, specifically, better cut the character for
- 44:04Speaker 1: a while on that every what characters do you like.
- 44:09Speaker 1: I do like an ego and yeah, so yeah that's
- 44:14Speaker 1: the Chandler and Joey of and Miracle Max. That's a
- 44:20Speaker 1: fun little cameo. But as well, yeah, sure, we do
- 44:27Speaker 1: have to take into account the genre, which is why
- 44:29Speaker 1: I wrote this. I chose this movie to write this
- 44:33Speaker 1: paper on because sure, like things are going to be exaggerated.
- 44:37Speaker 1: It's for kids, it's for the fun for the whole family.
- 44:39Speaker 1: So like, characters are going to be pretty like archetypal,
- 44:42Speaker 1: they're not going to be super nuanced, right, sure, hang on,
- 44:47Speaker 1: let me find that really cool paragraph. Oh yeah, cool paragraph,
- 44:52Speaker 1: come in right up. She doesn't read, but she does write.
- 44:56Speaker 1: I don't know how it works once the words are down.
- 44:58Speaker 1: She well, my thesis statement for this because I say, oh,
- 45:04Speaker 1: I am dB lists all these different Oh yeah, let
- 45:06Speaker 1: me see if I got it right. Uh, family, adventure, comedy, romance,
- 45:10Speaker 1: and fantasy. That's the one I left. And I said
- 45:13Speaker 1: that fantasy is the most prominent genre of these in
- 45:17Speaker 1: The Princess Bride because the story within a story highlights
- 45:20Speaker 1: the fantastical setting, characters, and narrative by juxtaposing them against
- 45:24Speaker 1: the ordinary, realistic world of the grandfather relaying this story
- 45:28Speaker 1: to his grandson, which we haven't really talked about yet,
- 45:30Speaker 1: And I say, but it is not just anywhere in
- 45:33Speaker 1: the middle fantasy. The Princess Bride is self aware to
- 45:35Speaker 1: the extent that it playfully satirizes its own genre. So
- 45:40Speaker 1: you guys, it's very academic plus today. And then I
- 45:47Speaker 1: go on to talk about how the love story portrayed
- 45:52Speaker 1: in this film is kind of the most fantastical and
- 45:55Speaker 1: unrealistic element of the movie. That's fine, that's good think
- 46:00Speaker 1: because like The Matrix, right, Hey, we already talked about
- 46:03Speaker 1: that movie. Did you know that, that's what we did
- 46:05Speaker 1: last week? I didn't know. Oh my gosh, I mean
- 46:08Speaker 1: you're in the Matrix? Uh Matrix, I am the one, actually,
- 46:13Speaker 1: I uh. We talked about it with Matt donnaher And
- 46:17Speaker 1: when I got home I was so mad at myself
- 46:19Speaker 1: because we had been talking about, like, oh, why isn't like,
- 46:22Speaker 1: why couldn't Morpheus have been a woman? Why couldn't one
- 46:24Speaker 1: of the agents have been a woman? Why? Like, why
- 46:27Speaker 1: couldn't one of the two brothers been a sister? And
- 46:30Speaker 1: then I was like, fuck, why couldn't they have been neo?
- 46:33Speaker 1: Like why couldn't a woman be the savior has to
- 46:38Speaker 1: be a man, But why couldn't everybody else? I was
- 46:42Speaker 1: just like, the patriarchy is just I've been so socialized
- 46:45Speaker 1: to think that the hero of a movie has to
- 46:47Speaker 1: be a man that I didn't even suggest that. I
- 46:50Speaker 1: was mad at myself for not suggesting it. But you're forgiving.
- 46:52Speaker 1: We're doing it now, Thank you, thank you. I pilled
- 46:55Speaker 1: up a paper I wrote in college, but it has
- 46:57Speaker 1: nothing to do you can. What's it about Andy Warhol
- 47:02Speaker 1: and the allure of photography? Don't worry? This is the
- 47:08Speaker 1: solid be Mechanical reproduction is the phrase that sticks out
- 47:13Speaker 1: when summarizing Andy warhol staggering volumes of artwork in the
- 47:18Speaker 1: four decades he was a working artist. That sounds right. However,
- 47:22Speaker 1: he uses this concept within so many different mediums in
- 47:26Speaker 1: different phases of his career that a primary process becomes
- 47:29Speaker 1: impossible to nail down. Wow, amazing that I have. I
- 47:35Speaker 1: don't even know what this class was. This guy is
- 47:38Speaker 1: hard to nail down. This guy, Yeah, you can't nail
- 47:41Speaker 1: him down. I'm pretty sure that's what I just repeat
- 47:43Speaker 1: for the rest of the Remember that was the class
- 47:46Speaker 1: that I passed out in once you do that. I didn't.
- 47:51Speaker 1: It wasn't on purpose. But what you did? What you do?
- 47:53Speaker 1: You like faint or did you? Yeah, I'm a I'm
- 47:59Speaker 1: a delicate flower and sometimes I I faint every couple
- 48:02Speaker 1: of years getting there are men around to save. To
- 48:06Speaker 1: my Andy Warhol professor, presumably, basically, I would have liked
- 48:13Speaker 1: to have seen just a more active female character. I
- 48:17Speaker 1: could have had more agency. Yeah, she could have had
- 48:20Speaker 1: a more fleshed out personality. She could have done she was.
- 48:23Speaker 1: She was put in several situations where she could have
- 48:26Speaker 1: made a decision to be like, oh, I should do this,
- 48:28Speaker 1: or I should try to help this person, or I
- 48:31Speaker 1: can save myself because I hear the popping sounds that
- 48:34Speaker 1: precede every little fire burst, like why don't I jump
- 48:37Speaker 1: out of the way instead of having the guy fling
- 48:39Speaker 1: me out of the way. And yeah, sure, it's a
- 48:42Speaker 1: fairy tale. She's a princess, she's a damsel in the
- 48:45Speaker 1: stress she had. He's gonna be saved. She's a delicate
- 48:48Speaker 1: little flower. Um, but if they're gonna The thing about
- 48:52Speaker 1: this movie is that it's look at this fantasy, but
- 48:56Speaker 1: it's like it's not. I don't know I feel like
- 48:58Speaker 1: every scene Buttercup appears in is a missed opportunity in
- 49:02Speaker 1: one way or another. Like there's either an opportunity for
- 49:05Speaker 1: her to do something that she doesn't, or there's an
- 49:08Speaker 1: opportunity in a scene, you know. And and I'm sorry
- 49:12Speaker 1: to bring up the baby Genius Wesley scene again, but
- 49:15Speaker 1: like there could have even been a witty interjection from her.
- 49:19Speaker 1: There could have been something at any time. And there's
- 49:22Speaker 1: all this time that we could hear. What has she
- 49:26Speaker 1: been doing for five years besides being sad and contemplating suicide? Right,
- 49:32Speaker 1: and all we know is that she likes to ride
- 49:34Speaker 1: a horse. And at the end, that's still all we know.
- 49:37Speaker 1: She likes to ride a horse, and she loves Wesley,
- 49:40Speaker 1: and it's just I don't know, she's pretty flat. Yeah,
- 49:43Speaker 1: she is a very one dimensional. There's no shortage of
- 49:47Speaker 1: flat chested. I'm just echoing what Jamie said. I'm not
- 49:54Speaker 1: adding my own. I stand by the comment. Yeah, it is.
- 49:59Speaker 1: It's movie full of missed opportunities. Or she could have
- 50:02Speaker 1: contributed so much more to the to the story and
- 50:05Speaker 1: to the dialogue. And maybe she'll do it all in
- 50:08Speaker 1: the Prince Groom. Love it, Love It love it. I
- 50:13Speaker 1: was like, oh, we can play a fun game and
- 50:15Speaker 1: we'll call it the Battle of the Tits or the
- 50:18Speaker 1: Battle of Clits. And then I forgot to act I
- 50:21Speaker 1: named the game, and then that's except for the Labyrinth episode.
- 50:27Speaker 1: We will have something for the Labyrinth. We're going to
- 50:30Speaker 1: talk about the Labyrinth soon with our friend Jenny, and
- 50:33Speaker 1: we have a game all planned out. I would know
- 50:35Speaker 1: we have the name of the game, and then nothing yet,
- 50:38Speaker 1: But there's time. There's time yet time. Let me ask you, guys,
- 50:41Speaker 1: here's a game on account of three. I'll ask the
- 50:45Speaker 1: say say question, and then I'll say three to one,
- 50:47Speaker 1: and then you guys, give an answer to this question.
- 50:50Speaker 1: Would you rather be if you could only be one?
- 50:52Speaker 1: A princess or a bride? Three to one neither princess
- 51:00Speaker 1: bred fun right, we'll see. If I was a princess,
- 51:05Speaker 1: I'd use that platform of like fame and influence and
- 51:08Speaker 1: power to change the world and make it a better place.
- 51:11Speaker 1: If I was a bride, I'd just be like, oh god,
- 51:14Speaker 1: I'm just married now. If I was a brad, I
- 51:17Speaker 1: would do anything I want because you could be married
- 51:20Speaker 1: to do anything you want. I mean, you can do
- 51:22Speaker 1: being married doesn't give you like superpowers. I would fly
- 51:27Speaker 1: whether or not you were married. It wouldn't change right now,
- 51:32Speaker 1: I'd do the same ship that I'm doing now, except
- 51:36Speaker 1: for like being on Tinder. That would be probably the
- 51:38Speaker 1: one thing I would stop. I see, Yeah, you can
- 51:41Speaker 1: still do that too. Hey, why you wanted married? True,
- 51:44Speaker 1: that's true. That's true if I was a princess. I don't.
- 51:48Speaker 1: I don't know. I just wouldn't want that. I feel
- 51:50Speaker 1: like it's kind of limiting it. Sure, I mean that's
- 51:53Speaker 1: what Aladdin is all about. Let's talk about that. I
- 51:57Speaker 1: should spend more time thinking about why I don't one
- 52:00Speaker 1: of you. So, I think we've come to a moment
- 52:05Speaker 1: where we can we can rate the is there anything
- 52:09Speaker 1: we want to any other topics we want to we
- 52:11Speaker 1: don't really discuss, like humber Dink or the story within
- 52:16Speaker 1: a story. Yeah, so, like what does make sense about
- 52:21Speaker 1: him is that he hires those three dudes to capture
- 52:25Speaker 1: her and start a war because he wants to start
- 52:28Speaker 1: a war with Guilder. For most of that just didn't
- 52:34Speaker 1: matter to me, Yeah, because it was like, whenever you're
- 52:36Speaker 1: saying that, I like, whatever he's trying to do will
- 52:37Speaker 1: not work. Out. He's a he's a sociopath and he
- 52:40Speaker 1: just likes to be you know, he likes power. He
- 52:43Speaker 1: likes to be. He doesn't care about love. He just
- 52:45Speaker 1: wants to be in power, and he wants to have
- 52:47Speaker 1: a reason to go to war with this neighboring land
- 52:51Speaker 1: that they have some treaty with. So if he could
- 52:53Speaker 1: frame them for you know, kidnapping her, then he could
- 52:56Speaker 1: be like, now a reason he just likes. He likes
- 52:59Speaker 1: far Wad. Yeah, we should. We should do shkar f
- 53:05Speaker 1: a r C. It's family adventure, romance and comedy by Caplet.
- 53:11Speaker 1: Everybody plus Fantasy is another farcus spelled with two f's
- 53:17Speaker 1: far Quad. Oh gosh, I liked the story within a story.
- 53:24Speaker 1: I thought that that was fun. I wasn't like friend savage, Yeah,
- 53:27Speaker 1: I mean, how could you not. Yeah, that's that's what
- 53:30Speaker 1: my whole That was what my paper was about. How
- 53:32Speaker 1: like to frame it in this like the Princess Bride
- 53:35Speaker 1: inside of another story was like it was allowed it
- 53:40Speaker 1: to like poke fun at its own genre. The book
- 53:42Speaker 1: is like that too. Yeah, There's there's like a chapter
- 53:44Speaker 1: in the book where it's like and this chapter is like,
- 53:47Speaker 1: you know, we've it's like they're they've discovered this old
- 53:49Speaker 1: you know, like they're like, I'm gonna do a modern
- 53:51Speaker 1: revamp of this old story from this you know, fake place,
- 53:54Speaker 1: but they're presenting it as real. And they're like, in
- 53:56Speaker 1: this chapter in the original it was about seventy three
- 53:59Speaker 1: pages of just the describing the princesses dresses. So you
- 54:02Speaker 1: don't need to hear that, so we'll just skip ahead.
- 54:04Speaker 1: Oh that's fun. I like that. Yeah, it is fun. Well,
- 54:08Speaker 1: you know, does a fun thing like that? Have you? Guys?
- 54:11Speaker 1: Head the book A couple Hood by Paul Riser. He's
- 54:14Speaker 1: one of the first comedians that I ever saw like
- 54:15Speaker 1: on TV and I loved it, and so I got
- 54:17Speaker 1: his book couple Hood, and I got it on tape
- 54:19Speaker 1: and him reading drive around listening to it, and I
- 54:22Speaker 1: believe the book, the physical copy of it starts on
- 54:24Speaker 1: page like a hundred and forty three. That's the first
- 54:26Speaker 1: page listed, and he's like, we're starting on page three
- 54:29Speaker 1: because it's so hard to get into a book. And
- 54:31Speaker 1: you know, like sometimes if if somebody like looks over
- 54:33Speaker 1: your shoulder and they see your on page like two,
- 54:34Speaker 1: then they judge you. So it's like this way like
- 54:36Speaker 1: if somebody on the train they're like, wow, D forty four,
- 54:39Speaker 1: that's pretty great, right, so nicely you feel like you're
- 54:41Speaker 1: already in the middle of a a hundred three. That's where
- 54:43Speaker 1: you start. Great guy, Paul Riser, was that like a
- 54:46Speaker 1: novel hero? Oh? It was. It was like a sort
- 54:49Speaker 1: of a memoir, but mostly about like his you know,
- 54:52Speaker 1: his relationship and relationships in general, his wife, like being
- 54:55Speaker 1: in a couple, the hood of a couple of nous,
- 54:58Speaker 1: a couple of I'll read it one day. I like
- 55:01Speaker 1: Craig Ferguson wrote a great novel that I would used
- 55:04Speaker 1: to be I used to vouch for maybe a little
- 55:06Speaker 1: bit too much in high school. Between the bridge and
- 55:08Speaker 1: the river and it's there. I just remember there's a
- 55:11Speaker 1: prominent character who's a televangelist and that he wore an
- 55:14Speaker 1: orange robe, and at sixteen, I thought that was very fun.
- 55:19Speaker 1: Orange robe like a prisoner. I thought of him a
- 55:22Speaker 1: prisoner of his own belief. That was so when we
- 55:29Speaker 1: rate the movie, what is the scale that we use
- 55:31Speaker 1: nipples from one to five nipples and more nipples is good?
- 55:36Speaker 1: Always more, always more? Five is the highest five nipples
- 55:41Speaker 1: of the high pers rating. You could give a movie
- 55:43Speaker 1: just to be I mean, we're reading it in the
- 55:45Speaker 1: context of its representation of female characters, and you have
- 55:48Speaker 1: to describe the nipples also really yeah, Like last week
- 55:51Speaker 1: we had like chrome nipples because we're talking about the Matrix. Oh,
- 55:54Speaker 1: I understand, yeah, but perfect breasted nipples I think. I
- 56:00Speaker 1: also just don't like the phrase perfect breasts. I feel
- 56:03Speaker 1: like that's something I would be comfortable hearing at KFC.
- 56:06Speaker 1: But I'm not directed at me. But that's a lot
- 56:09Speaker 1: of things too. Well. We've all got our own baggage.
- 56:13Speaker 1: I'll take please, all right, I would not be okay
- 56:16Speaker 1: someone saying that about my body. Bucket to Jamie, what
- 56:21Speaker 1: order do we go? I'll go first. So I grew
- 56:24Speaker 1: up liking the movie, and then the more I watch it,
- 56:28Speaker 1: the more I'm like, oh, this isn't as good of
- 56:30Speaker 1: a movie as I once thought it was, especially considering
- 56:34Speaker 1: it's portrayal of women as being stupid idiots who can't
- 56:39Speaker 1: do anything. For this podcast, I would give it like
- 56:42Speaker 1: two nipples. One from Physic the Giant, which is going
- 56:49Speaker 1: to be huge and Harry that's a lot of nipples,
- 56:53Speaker 1: and one from Baby Genius Fazzini, which is going to
- 56:56Speaker 1: be small and Harry. I'll give it one nipple, which
- 57:02Speaker 1: sounds harsh because it maybe is a little bit, but
- 57:06Speaker 1: it's buttercups nipple and it's really soft and afraid and inverted. Wow.
- 57:12Speaker 1: I like this might sound harsh because it is the
- 57:15Speaker 1: worst rating I can give it, but hear me out.
- 57:19Speaker 1: I would never say no nips. O there zero. You
- 57:24Speaker 1: can give no nips nips not me. I want at
- 57:30Speaker 1: least one, but also I'm fine with none. They're not
- 57:33Speaker 1: deal breakers to me. Any number of nips. It's fine
- 57:38Speaker 1: by me. I'll give it one point five. I give
- 57:42Speaker 1: it the highest rating, and I give it one point
- 57:45Speaker 1: five nipples because I have done an average of the
- 57:49Speaker 1: two ratings that you guys gave it. Because I'm bowing
- 57:52Speaker 1: to your experience in the issues of this female related matter.
- 57:57Speaker 1: What do I know? Very no, all of you what
- 58:00Speaker 1: a noble cause. We respect your decision and thank you
- 58:05Speaker 1: for recognizing that we are correct the true masters. Yes, great, well,
- 58:12Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on, Thank you for
- 58:15Speaker 1: having me. Yes, sorry for a ship to go to
- 58:18Speaker 1: a movie you liked for an hour. I am literally
- 58:21Speaker 1: don't care. It's not it's not part of who I am.
- 58:24Speaker 1: You also could have shut on me for an hour
- 58:27Speaker 1: and we didn't. We did not, thank you. I think
- 58:30Speaker 1: anytime we have a guest who's a man or who
- 58:33Speaker 1: presents as a man, because you say that um open
- 58:36Speaker 1: with a quick road genderless, I would say we just
- 58:38Speaker 1: should on them the entire time. Give them a taste
- 58:41Speaker 1: of how the patriarchy has treated up. Give me a
- 58:44Speaker 1: bucket of that. Contact. Oh, I'm on your bucket list.
- 58:51Speaker 1: Thank you. Is there anything you'd like to plug? Where
- 58:58Speaker 1: can people find you online? Which about your stuff? If
- 59:01Speaker 1: you put my name into online anywhere Mike Kaplan where
- 59:04Speaker 1: Mike is spelled weird sorry m y q Kaplan spelled
- 59:08Speaker 1: the quote unquote normal way. My caplan dot com is
- 59:12Speaker 1: my website. You'll find you can find my Netflix special
- 59:15Speaker 1: you can find my albums. I have a podcast called
- 59:18Speaker 1: hang Out with Me. Everything should be available through my website.
- 59:20Speaker 1: But if you also go to you know, any of
- 59:22Speaker 1: the places Twitter and Instagram and not buying anymore Facebook,
- 59:27Speaker 1: the things whatever, whatever things are, Yeah are good these days.
- 59:31Speaker 1: I maybe have it. Oh, I'm there, thank you. Yeah.
- 59:36Speaker 1: Check out Mike Caplan on the internet and in real
- 59:39Speaker 1: life I performed places. There's there's two dates on there, Jamie,
- 59:43Speaker 1: anything you wanna, I thought of something that's okay. Uh.
- 59:47Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Hamburger Phone. You
- 59:50Speaker 1: can find me on website at Jamie loftus is innocent
- 59:53Speaker 1: dot com. I'm also do it, uh plug in any crime.
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: I did not do it except I drive with a
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: little license. But that because let's it gives me anxiety
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: to say it all loud, but for good reason, I
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: should be afraid. But I also I just haven't gotten
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: there I'm doing. I'm doing a long show in Boston
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: on doing an hour in Boston on December six. If
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: you happen hopefully in this podcast or this episode comes
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: out by then, I was being optimistic, I'll be. I'll
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: be in Boston on January twelve to fourteen at Laugh Boston.
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: I love that place. Free diet cokes backstage. I remember
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: we're free diet cokes. Are sure. It'll be my first
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: time there. I didn't even know forward to it. Maybe Hey,
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: it's me Caitlin you I'm me on Twitter at Caitlin
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: Durante and some other places. I have a website Helan
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: Dante dot com. Also, if you live in l A,
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: which why would you live anywhere else? Our friend Mikey
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: years in a different place, and so do probably the
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: majority of the country. Definitely, most people don't live in
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: Los Angeles. But if you do live in Los Angeles
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: and you want to check out a new weekly comedy
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: show at Nerd Mount which is the place world. It's
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: called rabbit Hole with Jay and Rory, hosted by Jay
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: Larson and Rory School and I helped do things with it.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: So when does it happen? The first one is November
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: and then it's every Wednesday. That'll be fun. And I
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: think that's it. We've had a great time, guys. We
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: have farewell, we have thank you. Wait what does he
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: say as you wish? Okay, bye bye bye bye. We
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: did it. We