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Episode 9: Forrest Gump (1994) aka Gump and Dump · Take #2: Movie Reviews

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  Alright, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Take Two pod
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  with Mom and Dad. We are back for episode 9.
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  I'm Dad. And I'm mom.
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  We are now exhausted, Kids are down.
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  There's been some positive things, though.
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  As we've made quite some headway with our potty training, yes, I
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  don't think you guys understand. We have been potty training for
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  nine months. Yeah, three day fucking potty
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  training Bonanza my ass. Yeah, it's bullshit.
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  We have. We've made like no headway.
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  He just doesn't go. He doesn't do it.
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  But the last two nights. She's pooping in the toilet.
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  He's pooping in the toilet. Oh my.
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  God, I can't. I fucking didn't believe.
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  I didn't actually believe this day was gonna come.
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  I'm just too tired. I'm I'm too tired to even be
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  happy about it unfortunately. I'm really happy about it.
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  We are back, everybody. We were away for a little bit at
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  this point. It's been 10 days since we
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  posted by the time this goes. Up, God forbid.
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  That time this goes over, it'll probably be more like 12 days.
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  We had some family come in town. We were very busy, so we were
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  unable to post. But we're really, really happy
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  to be back and we're doing one of our favorite movies of all
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  time today. So I say let's get into it.
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  OK, drumroll Mom. Mama always said life was like a
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  box of chocolates. That's right everybody.
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  This week we are doing Forrest Gump, released in 1994, directed
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  by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary
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  Sinise. Gary Sinise.
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  I thought it was sinus before we started so I'm glad I clarified
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  this. Alright, the synopsis for
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  Forrest Gump, a heartwarming drama about a kind hearted
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  Alabama man with a low IQ who, despite his limitations,
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  witnesses and influences pivotal 20th century American historical
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  events. And that's pretty, pretty
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  accurate. Nailed it.
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  That's boring. I mean, it's yeah, it's
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  synopsis. Synopsis are not always the most
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  synopsize, you know, taglines are what catches you to watch
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  the movie. Yeah, you know, but.
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  What's the tagline on this? The tagline is Life is like a
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  box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna
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  get. Yeah.
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  All right. That'll grab you.
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  That'll grab you. So the budget for this movie was
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  55,000,000 came out in 94 and it did a box office of 700 million
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  worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, that's
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  like $1.4 billion. So this movie made a lot of cash
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  at the theatre. It's a pretty epic movie, so
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  that doesn't surprise me. Yeah, this movie is very epic.
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  Forrest Gump is known to be like one of the greatest films ever,
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  even though if you really sit down and break it down, it's
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  kind of ridiculous, but in a good way.
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  Yeah, we're going to get into that.
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  All right, when was the first time you watched this?
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  Surprise surprise, Mom does not know the.
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  First time I ask you anymore. You can still ask me because
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  there are movies I do remember, but Forrest Gump, for a lot of
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  people born in the 90s, it was just a movie that was always
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  around. It's like it is the movie that's
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  on on Sundays that you'll see on TV all the time.
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  Still, still it's like that, Yeah.
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  So I think the first time that I saw it, my parents were watching
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  it. It was on.
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  I know we never rented it. You didn't ever have to rent
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  Forrest Gump. It's just on like cable TV.
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  Is on hold. Everybody knows this movie.
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  Everybody has seen this movie 100 times.
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  Yes, they have. So no, no recollection was the
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  first time like do you remember watching it like fully?
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  Honestly, probably not until I was an adult.
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  Just only in pieces. Yeah, because I saw pieces of it
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  so many times. Like I think the first time I
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  sat down and watched it and it's an entirety.
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  I was probably like, oh, maybe a teenager.
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  Yeah, this movie, like Forrest Gump, I don't recall personally
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  for myself, I don't remember the first time I watched it all.
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  I remember it was always around, it was always on.
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  And it was the movie where all you remember is run, Forrest run
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  as a kid, like that's all you remember.
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  And then people used to say it at school just, yeah, because it
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  was one of those things. Yeah, it's very quotable, and
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  it's also intentionally and unintentionally funny, which is
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  rare. I think it's rare that something
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  is trying to be funny and also accidentally is hilarious.
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  Yeah, it's it gives me Cohen Brothers vibes where there's
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  some dark comedy where you shouldn't be laughing, but you
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  you're supposed to be funny. And then this one's not super
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  dark, but even the really sad moments, you kind of sometimes
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  you're just like, oh, you crack, you laugh a little bit.
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  Yeah, there's some darkness, but I feel like Forrest optimism
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  really brings a lot of levity to this movie because like the
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  Vietnam scene could be 20 times more fucked up than it is, but
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  it's not that fucked up because he like runs in and saves
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  everybody. Like it just, it makes it kind
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  of a little bit silly. It's because, well, I mean, he's
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  narrating, right? So he could be technically an
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  unreliable narrator or he's telling us his point of view.
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  Whereas really horrible. And he's just like, dude, you
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  know, he's going through it like Homer Simpson.
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  Yeah, well, it's also the way it's shot, though.
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  It's not shot like Saving Private Ryan.
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  Like we don't see people walking around holding their limbs, it's
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  like. That probably happened, but he's
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  like they did it. It's more of like a family
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  friendly version of like war and all these horrible things.
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  Even like her drug addiction, we don't see her sticking a needle
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  in her arm or anything really, really dark.
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  That's true. OK, so why do you love it or
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  hate it so much? Um, so I love this movie so
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  much. Like I said, it was, it's, it's
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  been around almost my entire life.
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  It came out two years after I was born, so it's very familiar.
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  Tom Hanks at this point, Tom Hanks's family, we all know him.
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  We all know his face. He's like, he's like that
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  friendly uncle. He's the goat.
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  He's the goat. You see him and you have like a
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  warmth spread through you. I don't know anybody who doesn't
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  like Tom Hanks. Regardless of your political
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  views, regardless of the type of movies you like to watch,
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  everybody likes him. Why do you like it or hate it so
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  much? So I love this movie for a lot
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  of reasons. One of the main reasons being
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  it's a very nice cohesive story. It's almost like a fairy tale
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  because he's narrating it. And I love movies with
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  narration. As you know, Goodfellas is one
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  of my favorite movies, the favorite movie of mine, and it's
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  narrated. Shawshank Redemption narrated,
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  Blow narrated, you know, you get the point.
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  Movies with narration. People say that movies with
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  narration it's it's a lazy way of storytelling because it fills
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  in gaps without you actually having.
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  To, you know, think about what you're saying is being Dicks
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  because a lot of movies with narration fucking slap.
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  I agree, I like a lot of movies with narration too but there is
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  like people that are really into like introspective stories you
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  have to dissect. They're like, Oh well, narrated
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  stories are for the dumb public because it tells you exactly
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  what they want you to think rather than letting you think of
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  yourself. I guess, but you still have to
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  tell the story. You can't just narrate garbage
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  either. So anyway, yeah, so narration.
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  Love this movie because of that and just the story, the
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  characters and fuck man this movie watching at this time as a
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  parent Oh my God. You were in shambles.
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  Listen, I love this movie because it takes force through
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  critical moments in his life, and the audience can always
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  relate. You know, being a kid, growing
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  up, trauma, having loss in your life, the unknown, the fear of
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  the unknown. And then at the end of the
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  movie, you're left with a feeling of hope that at the end
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  of the day, everything's gonna just work out.
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  Well, everything works out for for us at least.
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  No, I know, but you just feel like that's the feeling it
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  leaves you with. You could say this movie is kind
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  of manipulate, manipulating the audience.
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  But this last viewing I bawled my eyes out like fucking 6
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  times. This movie just wrecked me.
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  Just absolutely wrecked me as a parent.
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  So we'll get into the hitting different as a parent, but holy
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  shit, how about? You.
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  Well, yeah, like I said, I. Didn't cry as much as me.
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  No. Cold hearted monster.
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  To be honest, if it's a movie that I've seen a lot, it's
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  probably not going to make me cry.
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  Like Titanic also didn't make me cry, even though it can be
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  really sad. Yeah, what usually gets me is
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  movies I don't know that well. Like when we watched what was it
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  called the counselor or something or the The Courier?
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  Was the. Courier.
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  Yeah, the Courier, remember? I bawled.
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  That was inconsolable. After that movie I didn't cry.
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  It was weird. And I still love Benedict
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  Cumberbatch to this day because that movie.
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  But yeah, it's it has to catch me off guard to make me cry, I
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  find. Really.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. This movie The like Forrest
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  Gump, the soundtrack. Anyway, it's just a huge
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  tearjerker, but unless you're cold hearted like mom over here.
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  OK, so let's get in this segments cringiest moment.
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  This is going to be fun. Go ahead.
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  Well, for me, it's not a very cringey movie.
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  I actually had a really hard time with this area, which I
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  usually don't. It's usually very easy for me to
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  find something that I was like you.
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  That's gross for me. I really only have two.
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  So one of them is when when that guy with the yellow T-shirt
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  gives Forest his the shirt to wipe his face off.
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  When he's running. And yeah, and he accidentally. 3
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  fucking years he's running. Well, we'll get.
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  Into yeah, three years. Get the fuck out of here.
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  Bro anyway he hands on the yellow shirt and he accidentally
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  makes the :) on the shirt his face and he gives it back to the
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  guy. The guy holds up the shirt and
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  looks at it and there's muddle over his face and he sticks his
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  tongue out and licks the mud off his face.
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  What the fuck are you? Do you?
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  I must have drank about 15 Nacho Peppers.
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  No, you're, you're, you're anyway.
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  So I, I hated that cause he licked mud off his face, which
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  was disgusting. And then the other one I have, I
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  don't know if the word for it is cringy.
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  OK, but when Jenny is playing the guitar naked on stage and
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  like all those men are just like being assholes, like somebody is
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  singing a song. And her name is Bobby Dylan.
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  Let her sing her song you assholes.
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  That was a cringy part. Or her being naked singing.
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  Her being naked, singing, and then like refusing to sit there
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  for a single song while she sings because they want to see
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  some titties. Like, are you fucking kidding?
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  Me strip joint and. Her voice was.
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  Weird strip joint. It.
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  Was it's like a talent show? Yeah, it was like a burlesque
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  show. But I don't know, I really hated
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  that scene because it it seemed like she was either naive to go
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  out there like that or the men watching her just assholes, or
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  both. Listen, we'll get into Jenny
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  later, but you, you said two cringey moments, so you broke
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  the rules. For me, it's the principle, AKA
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  Bernard from Lost having sex with Forrest Mom.
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  That was the cringiest shit I've ever seen.
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  And no matter how many times I've seen it, it doesn't get any
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  easier to watch. Yeah, why does he sound like a
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  baby lamb? Who?
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  The principal is like. That's gross.
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  I'll get into that later. I have a question about that
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  whole situation, but it's a really Hoey scene.
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  It kind of felt really out of place.
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  Like he's talking. Let's not judge for his mom.
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  What she was trimming. Yeah.
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  She was doing the best she could for her son.
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  She's a single mom. We're not.
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  We're not slut shaming Sally Fields.
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  But I am it's really uncomfortable seeing really
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  messed up just immediately goes to he's on vacation.
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  Like, I'm sorry, what kind of what kind of role model is this
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  person? Well, back then, you couldn't
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  like being divorced was very, very not risque.
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  What's the word I'm looking for? Taboo.
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  So if you were divorced, you would have a line like that.
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  He's on vacation. Doesn't anyway, that doesn't
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  validate what she did. OK, so anyways, cringey moment,
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  really awkward. And then him coming out and
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  saying your Mama really does love you boy.
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  And then for us again, it's so uncomfortable, Yeah.
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  Him saying that to a kid like I just fucked your mom real good
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  dude. Like Iowa?
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  Your momma show does care about your school and son.
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  You don't say much, do you? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
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  Yeah, really uncomfortable. Yeah, that is like.
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  Close the fucking window, put some loud music or something or
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  you're. I feel bad for Forrest when he's
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  on that little. Exactly.
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  And that's happening. It is.
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  It is just. Our bad parenting bad.
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  OK, Most iconic moment or quote? Why don't you go first for this
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  one? Oh my God, I might run through
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  all the quotes here so. We'll do a couple moments. 1st I
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  have some moments as well. For me, the most epic iconic
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  moment for this movie. There's several, there's tons of
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  them, but for me, the one that hits the hardest every single
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  time with the music and the the the slow motion forest running
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  and breaking out of his leg braces is so fucking inspiring
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  it and it literally you throat swells up because you feel for
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  the kid and Jenny's like. Run for forest.
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  Room and he's just like running and then out of nowhere the the
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  leg braces start breaking off and hit the kid turns into
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  lightning fast. The mute, the music for that
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  moment is really good too. It's it's really triumphant.
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  But did you know that that moment has actually been
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  cancelled? Why?
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  Because it's ableist. Oh fuck off Ablist.
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  It's supposed to be inspirational.
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  The rules. There's a lot of people that are
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  in physical rehab, they are down and out and they need something
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  to motivate them to push through, to try to rehabilitate
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  themselves. I.
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  Agree, I love that. Not everybody can, but those
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  people who say it's ablest, they're fucked.
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  I'm sorry. No I agree, I love that scene
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  and I think it is showing him overcoming one of many hurdles
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  in. His life, it's not just about
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  running. It's it's a, it's a metaphor for
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  struggle. And triumph and working through
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  them breaking free. Yeah, I don't.
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  I don't, I don't actually feel that it's ablest, but I it, it
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  has been cancelled for that fucking society, man.
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  I know. Everything is a problem.
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  Though I know OK, so for me, one of the most iconic moments for
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  me, I really like the character of Lieutenant Dan.
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  I think he has one of the best character arcs of of anyone in
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  the movie. So when Lieutenant Dan, thanks
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  for us for saving his life and then and then jumps into the
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  water to take a swim, so good. It's it's really and Jen for us
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  is like, I think he made peace. God, it really is.
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  It's an arc. It's inspirational too, isn't?
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  It it is inspirational. Exactly.
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  He was he was mad at the world, he was mad at forest, he did not
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  want to survive in Nam and he was finally allowing himself to
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  live his life and enjoy his life again.
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  I never thanked you for saving my life.
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  Yeah, he he understood that that was his destiny was to live the
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  rest of his life. And that motherfucker did not
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  let being disabled slow him down.
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  He's on a boat. He's like, he was on like the
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  top of the sale shouting at the storm.
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  He was an inspirational. Character and then he gets his
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  magic legs at the end. Yeah, he does.
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  Yeah, that's a great scene. Like I said, this movie has a
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  lot of moments, like really amazing ones.
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  Even the one where the one of my favorites is when he's in Nam
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  and they all get attacked and he's like running into the
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  towards the gunfire and the Rockets to save all his crew.
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  Yeah, he really is fearless in that scene.
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  Yeah, it's really like a gut wrenching, thrilling moment in
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  the movie. I agree.
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  I also really like the scene where Forrest and Jenny find
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  each other in Washington. Oh yes.
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  He gives his speech and she's like forest and she goes into
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  that water and you know. Monument you get.
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  Well, it's just like he sees his favorite person in the world.
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  Yeah. Like no way my favorite person
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  in the world is here. You cannot help but get choked
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  up. Yeah, that's that's that's
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  really amazing moment. Those are the only scenes I
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  have. I have quotes.
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  Other than that, you have any more scenes?
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  No, no, no, I say. Let's, let's go through the
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  quotes. You you want to go first.
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  Yeah, because I think probably some of yours are going to step
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  on some of mine. OK, you'll do them and then I'll
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  do them again with the voices if you want.
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  OK, could go. What's normal anyways?
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  His mom always says that when people ask like is he normal or
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  what? Like you know what's normal?
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  Because she is very protective of her son and she loves him
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  regardless. Like what is normal?
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  Is anybody really normal? You want to take turns.
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  Yeah, you got. Tanks.
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  If God had intended for everyone to be in the same, he would have
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  given everyone braces on their legs.
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  Pulled from her. Yeah, no, she has really good
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  moments. That's why I don't understand
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  the the scene where she's banging Bernard from Lost like.
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  Fuck, I think it's showing that she will not let anything get in
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  her son's way she wants him to have.
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  Every opportunity but they it's just weird.
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  It's a weird, out of place moment in the movie for me.
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  Well, people also. It's such a happy go lucky movie
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  and he just, you know, OK, next one.
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  Go ahead. I can run like the wind blows.
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  Baby's crying Go. Sorry folks, I had to go give
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  our baby her Passy back. She has yet to learn how to find
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  it and put it in her mouth in the dark.
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  Well, yeah. And then she, yeah, we could
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  barely hear her. And I just my Spidey sense, my
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  daddy's sense was tingling so. Yeah, anyway, so the quote I had
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  said was I can run like the wind blows.
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  Hell yeah. It's such a good, such a good
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  quote and it just, it really it's a big piece of of his
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  personality throughout the movie.
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  I'll say the one I said to open the show.
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  Laugh is lack a box of chocolates.
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  Fucking iconic. It's everywhere.
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  It's it's cliche now. It's also true, yeah, everybody
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  has bitten into a piece of chocolate and it's like a
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  Raspberry cream and it's disgusting.
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  But the box of chocolates part is a little misleading.
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  Like there's a fucking key on every box you fucking idiot.
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  Like, yeah, but sometimes you're just gonna, you're gonna blind,
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  you're gonna blindly go in. No, never.
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  That's how people fucking have allergic reactions.
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  They have a key for a reason. OHP If you're allergic to
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  something, you're not gonna reach into a box of chocolates
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  blindly. You will if you're a kid or a
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  fucking idiots. That's that's true.
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  Emma drank me about 15 doctor Peppers.
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  Almost dragged me about 15 Doctor Pepples.
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  You're better at the voice than me.
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  What else you got? I think you should go back to
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  Greenbow Alabama. The audio didn't peak.
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  I'm sorry. Greenbow, Alabama.
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  Such a good line I was running. It's the hard G, yeah.
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  I gotta find Bubba. Also heartbreaking.
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  They decided the best way for me to beat the communist was to
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  play ping pong. Beat the Communists.
• 20:00
  There's an awful lot you can tell about a person, about their
• 20:02
  shoes, where they've been, where they're gone.
• 20:07
  And that's a fact because I have a habit now, personal habit.
• 20:11
  I look at people's shoes not because I wanna know where
• 20:14
  they've been and where they're going, but it tells me a lot
• 20:17
  about their personality. You're also a sneaker head
• 20:19
  though. Yeah, but think about it, you
• 20:21
  can tell a lot about people's shoe, about the person by what
• 20:24
  they wear on their feet because like if they are at work and
• 20:28
  they were, you know, let's say they have a corporate office job
• 20:30
  and they wear, you know, dad shoes, dad sneakers, you know,
• 20:34
  they depends like those those year round shoes that people buy
• 20:39
  at sport check. Like you can tell this person's
• 20:42
  utilitarian. They're not worried about
• 20:44
  fashion. They go to dinner with stretchy
• 20:46
  pants on, you know what I mean? Like that type of person.
• 20:49
  And then you see a person with fresh nice white sneakers,
• 20:53
  you're like, OK, this person cares about their self-image.
• 20:57
  You know, they're trying to depending where they're going,
• 20:59
  obviously. Or like if you go to the grocery
• 21:02
  store to grab something quick, you wear flip flops or
• 21:04
  something. But yeah, you can tell a lot.
• 21:06
  It's true. Because how funky, how much, how
• 21:09
  fashionable this person. Is no how comfortable a pair of
• 21:11
  shoes is. It'll tell you everything you
• 21:13
  need to know. There are some women that will
• 21:16
  wear the most horrendously uncomfortable shoes.
• 21:19
  To look good, That's true, that's true and then vice versa.
• 21:22
  When you get to a certain age, you're just like fuck everything
• 21:24
  and you just wear the same. You know what shoes like really
• 21:27
  popular and I fucking hate the Hakkas, those really thick ass
• 21:32
  like the soul is like 3 souls. It's a running shoe.
• 21:36
  It looks awful, but it's like it's the trend.
• 21:39
  I think it looks terrible. I think it's like popular
• 21:42
  amongst boomers. Haka, it's called.
• 21:44
  No Skechers popular amongst boomers or boomers.
• 21:47
  No, but Hakkas like the the high end boomer sketches like the.
• 21:52
  The Lululemon. Most the one above payless kind
• 21:54
  of vibe. Fair enough.
• 21:56
  Yeah, the little lemon boomers are wearing haka.
• 21:58
  What else you got? I have stupid is as stupid does.
• 22:02
  Yep, so many times that gets pulled out.
• 22:05
  You're smart man, but I know what love is.
• 22:09
  You say that at home, sometimes for no reason.
• 22:12
  Yeah, because you, if you question me and I'll be like, I
• 22:16
  may not be a smart man, but I know where I put that thing
• 22:20
  last. I remember.
• 22:24
  So I have Lieutenant Dan says. Have you found Jesus yet?
• 22:27
  Gump and Forrest, Gump says. I didn't know I was supposed to
• 22:31
  be looking for him, Sir. It's such a good one.
• 22:34
  Oh, yeah. So when Forrest comes back from
• 22:36
  Vietnam and he goes to Washington and there's that
• 22:40
  whole, you know, anti war group and there's a stage, they pull
• 22:44
  him onto the stage, right, to talk about the war.
• 22:47
  And the forest says that thing. He says what he says.
• 22:52
  But one guy pulls all the microphones out.
• 22:55
  So nobody hears what Forrest says until he plugs in and he
• 22:58
  says that's all I have to say about that.
• 23:01
  And then the other guy goes Forrest Gump.
• 23:05
  I love that line. Forrest Gump.
• 23:07
  That's how you say the title of this movie.
• 23:08
  Always go Forrest. Gump because it's so, it's so
• 23:11
  epic, how the guys. Yeah, but we don't say it,
• 23:13
  right. When I heard it in the recent
• 23:14
  watching, I was like, that's not how we say it.
• 23:17
  With like way more of an accent than that guy actually had.
• 23:19
  I disagree, I just have one more.
• 23:25
  Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks, which is a really
• 23:29
  sad scene. It's when it's when Jenny's
• 23:32
  throwing the rocks at her. Ohe yeah, that's well you
• 23:34
  because she really sad. She's throwing rocks at like a
• 23:38
  memory that there's nothing you can do about it and she's just
• 23:40
  trying to click cause harm to a building as retribution for what
• 23:46
  happened to her. It's really sad.
• 23:48
  I know I got a couple more here. Oh, my God.
• 23:50
  I don't know how you didn't say this one, Lieutenant Dan.
• 23:54
  Ice cream. I have that later, but that's a
• 23:57
  classic. You better tuck that in.
• 24:00
  Don't want to get a car or a tripwire?
• 24:02
  Bubba. Bubba's fucking lip.
• 24:04
  We both died laughing when he said.
• 24:06
  That one hit hard this time. I was laughing so hard, but I
• 24:09
  tucked that shit in like it's a shirt.
• 24:12
  This is a fucking lip. What's wrong with your lip?
• 24:18
  I was born with big guns That. Well you better talk that in
• 24:22
  going to get that caught on a tripwire.
• 24:26
  Why are you boys running the world, Alabama?
• 24:30
  Caught over Tripwire. He was.
• 24:33
  I was born with big gums. Yeah, it's such a savage roast.
• 24:40
  Alright, is this movie a classic in 2026 or is it cancelled?
• 24:46
  Do you wanna go first? Because I have some stuff to
• 24:48
  say. I got some.
• 24:50
  I gotta, I gotta, I got a hot take here.
• 24:52
  So I'm gonna say this movie is fully cancelled in 2026.
• 24:57
  And not because I think it, but because society, if I take what
• 25:00
  society looks at now, this movie like it would never get made.
• 25:05
  And if it did get made, it would be totally, totally like redone.
• 25:09
  Because this movie is a story of a guy who's a descendant of the
• 25:15
  founder of the KKK, who is named after the KKK leader, and he
• 25:20
  punches a guy at a Black Panther Party.
• 25:23
  He throws a woman off his lap. He starts fights with almost
• 25:27
  everyone he sees or hangs out. Every time he runs into Jenny,
• 25:30
  he throws a punch at somebody. He doesn't mean to though.
• 25:33
  He's protected. I'm not done.
• 25:35
  He moons the president in front of people gay shows him his ass.
• 25:42
  Like you're fucking cancelled bro.
• 25:45
  He's like 17 HMR violations right now.
• 25:48
  He takes money from the peak communist China for ping pong
• 25:52
  for for ping pong battle it takes money.
• 25:54
  She was employed by the US military when.
• 25:56
  He did that takes money, his sponsorship from Communist
• 25:59
  China. I'm talking about like how
• 26:01
  people. Just look at those.
• 26:02
  Just the yeah. Yeah, it's a bad look.
• 26:04
  Yeah, a little bit. And also Tom Hanks is playing a
• 26:07
  developmentally delayed person. Also public urination.
• 26:11
  He's like in Vietnam. He's just like, if we had to go,
• 26:14
  we went like you just fucking shitting and pissing everywhere.
• 26:18
  There's just pee and shit everywhere.
• 26:19
  Like, come on, man. What are you supposed to do?
• 26:21
  Hold it? You have to.
• 26:24
  Well, he's canceled guy. Public urination is not a cool
• 26:26
  thing. Oh my God, I did not think you
• 26:29
  were gonna go there with that. But just to play on the Tom
• 26:32
  Hanks playing a disabled person. There were several movies that
• 26:35
  came out in the 90s where a non disabled person, Cuba Gooding
• 26:39
  Junior, played radio. Yeah.
• 26:43
  Who played Rain Man? Dennis Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman,
• 26:45
  Dustin Dennis, Dustin Hoffman played Rain Man, several others.
• 26:51
  At that time it was fine like that was the they wouldn't
• 26:54
  expect you to get somebody like with ASD to play somebody who
• 26:59
  has ASD. Well, that's the least of my
• 27:02
  thing, honestly. I'm just talking about Forrest
• 27:04
  Gump as the character. We're talking about a story of a
• 27:07
  guy who supposed to feel bad for, but all these things that
• 27:09
  he does, like he's named after a KKK leader.
• 27:12
  Like nobody would be like, oh, this is a great movie.
• 27:15
  They'd be like what the fuck? I don't think we're supposed to
• 27:17
  like the fact that he's named for a KKK.
• 27:19
  I think that's a slight on his mother, that she's a.
• 27:22
  Little so much shit. Like he pushes people, he
• 27:25
  punches people. Oh yeah, everybody's fucking
• 27:27
  ship goes down during a hurricane and he gets all the
• 27:30
  shrimp. All those poor shrimp.
• 27:33
  Boat captains lose all their fucking livelihood and he just
• 27:36
  makes. A hurricane that's his fault.
• 27:38
  But do you think he fucking handed out to Maybe he hired
• 27:41
  some people and helped them? Out.
• 27:42
  I'm sure he did. He had like 17.
• 27:43
  Geno. On the water, I'm sure he.
• 27:45
  Hired some of them. If he did, I don't know if he
• 27:47
  he, he paid back, you know? I'm sure he does he so my my
• 27:53
  cancelled item is a little heavy.
• 27:56
  Jenny has been cancelled. Seemingly frustrating for us
• 28:00
  along and not giving him a chance.
• 28:02
  Sure, until she's dying of AIDS and basically wants to be cared
• 28:06
  for and wants somebody to look after her kid.
• 28:08
  So a lot of people called Jenny a villain, and there actually
• 28:13
  isn't a villain in this movie. So it is kind of easy to pin the
• 28:17
  villain narrative on her, but Jenny has trauma from her
• 28:22
  childhood. Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't
• 28:24
  agree with people that throw her into.
• 28:26
  That No, it's ridiculous. Yeah.
• 28:27
  She does not believe that she deserves love because she was
• 28:31
  molested by her father, the person who's supposed to love
• 28:33
  and protect her. This is why Jenny.
• 28:35
  She has all those shitty boyfriends.
• 28:37
  Yes, This is why Jenny pushes Forest way she doesn't believe
• 28:40
  she deserves that pure form of love and she also does not want
• 28:43
  to take advantage of an innocent the way she was taking advantage
• 28:47
  of in her innocence. The scene in her dorm room where
• 28:50
  she is helping Forest dry off. She.
• 28:53
  She shows him her tits. That's hilarious.
• 28:56
  He comes right away and he's, he's like.
• 28:58
  Ohhhhh he dumps. Yeah, and he seemed, he seems
• 29:02
  upset and then like a little bit scared and she, she feels like
• 29:07
  she just violated someone the way she.
• 29:11
  No, I'm just saying the way she was violated, which This is why
• 29:14
  she doesn't end up with him until the end.
• 29:16
  She had to do some serious healing before she could accept
• 29:19
  that pure form of love, and before she could understand that
• 29:22
  Forrest did in fact, want to be with her sexually once he once
• 29:26
  he had grown up a little bit. Sure, but I don't think that's
• 29:28
  what she felt. I think she would just like all
• 29:30
  this poor guy. He's never been with a girl and
• 29:33
  he's like ooh I'm dizzy like that seems really funny.
• 29:37
  And then the poor roommates fucking blanket.
• 29:39
  I think it is that she didn't want to take advantage of
• 29:41
  someone the way she was. Taking over the poor roommate
• 29:43
  blanket like fuck. Off it was her robe.
• 29:46
  That's even worse. I know I'd be pissed if it was
• 29:49
  me, but I I just, I had to say that about Jenny because she's
• 29:52
  been vilified and whoever vilifies or does not understand
• 29:57
  the extent of childhood trauma, especially severe trauma, yes,
• 30:00
  it affects everything you do. She has problems.
• 30:02
  She has problems and the she has, other than Lieutenant
• 30:05
  Dance, she has the most impressive character arc because
• 30:07
  she really does grow and develop in this story.
• 30:10
  She's not a villain, she's a human.
• 30:13
  I agree. A human who's damaged.
• 30:16
  She's got some cars. Everybody has scars.
• 30:19
  Yeah, she's got some deep scars. OK, does your category.
• 30:24
  It's 2026, so we touched on this a little bit already, but if
• 30:29
  this movie came out today, it would be explicitly stated that
• 30:33
  Forrest Gump has ASD, which is Autism spectrum disorder.
• 30:37
  He was actually more of a savant in the book, like he was a
• 30:41
  genius, but they chose to steer away from that narrative in the
• 30:45
  movie to avoid comparisons to Rain Man.
• 30:47
  They didn't want to make him like basically somebody with
• 30:50
  with Asperger's or like a high functioning autistic.
• 30:53
  Person OK but they don't really say, they just use low IQ.
• 30:56
  Yeah, yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying.
• 30:57
  But if it came out today, they would have like a.
• 30:59
  Diagnosis. Oh, I see.
• 31:01
  They that's what they would give him.
• 31:02
  OK, yeah, cause they like, it's the only thing they really say
• 31:05
  is that he's slow or that he has a lower IQ.
• 31:07
  They don't, actually. He's just a little bit
• 31:09
  challenged. Yeah.
• 31:10
  And in the era that he was born, like in the 50's, the 40s or
• 31:12
  whatever, when he was born, he wouldn't have been diagnosed.
• 31:15
  So it does fit the timing. OK, OK.
• 31:19
  Jenny would be put in therapy like they just take her out of
• 31:23
  her rapist dad's house and send her to live with her grandma.
• 31:26
  Like if that came out today or if that happened today, the
• 31:28
  child would be put like in therapy with social service or
• 31:33
  with social services to like help her.
• 31:35
  Maybe, Yeah, maybe. I mean, I don't know what it
• 31:38
  would be like depending on the scenario.
• 31:40
  I mean, it is Alabama, so I don't know what the system is
• 31:46
  like there in terms of helping out.
• 31:48
  I think it's mandatory if someone has been sexually abused
• 31:51
  that they have to go to therapy. Yeah, like I said, I don't know
• 31:54
  the details on that, but yeah, I see what you're saying.
• 31:57
  So that would happen and then Jenny would have died from a
• 32:01
  fentanyl overdose instead of AIDS.
• 32:04
  That's fucked up. Well cause no aids.
• 32:06
  Is very laughing bro. Cause AIDS AIDS is very 80s and
• 32:09
  she died in the 80s. From I don't think it was AIDS.
• 32:11
  They never say it's AIDS. They never say it's AIDS, but
• 32:13
  it's implied it. Could have been cancer.
• 32:15
  It No it's not. It's implied to be AIDS because
• 32:18
  she used intravenous drugs. Yeah, but it could have been
• 32:21
  cancer. It could have been the form of
• 32:22
  hepatitis. It could have been but they
• 32:26
  don't really say. But no I'm saying it was aids
• 32:28
  cause it's implied to be aids. But if it was today she would
• 32:30
  have died from fentanyl because nobody really gets AIDS anymore.
• 32:36
  Why are you laughing? I don't know.
• 32:37
  I'm sick. I'm comfortable.
• 32:41
  It is kind of yeah, it it would be, it would be a designer drug
• 32:44
  if it was today, like she's doing coke and stuff.
• 32:47
  That's what I'm saying. Like it would have been.
• 32:49
  Yeah, yeah, it would have been a great feel.
• 32:51
  Weird. Fucking horrible.
• 32:54
  Place just laughed about it because the face you made like I
• 32:56
  don't think. AIDS.
• 32:57
  I didn't expect you to say that. You were saying all this nice
• 32:59
  shit about Jenny a minute ago. She's traumatized.
• 33:02
  She's got childhood trauma. Yeah, she would have died from
• 33:04
  fentanyl instead of AIDS. Yeah, but she's snorting coke
• 33:07
  like it's going out of style. Like she wouldn't, she would
• 33:09
  have tried fentanyl 100%. Did you have anything for this?
• 33:14
  Category yeah, the CGI, it would have been way worse if it was
• 33:19
  made today because. It is good that.
• 33:23
  People doing the ping pong. Great CGI.
• 33:25
  The ping pong playing is none of it's real.
• 33:26
  It's all CGI ping pongs. It's it's great.
• 33:29
  If it was made today it would have been shit.
• 33:32
  That's what I'm saying. The feather at the beginning is
• 33:33
  not great. It's pretty good, you can tell.
• 33:36
  You fucking asked me if it was a real feather, so don't you dare.
• 33:40
  You ask at the very beginning it looks really good and then when
• 33:43
  it gets near shoe it looks. It looks like a freaking cartoon
• 33:47
  burst out laughing. I don't want to make you feel
• 33:48
  bad. We're gonna roast your ass here
• 33:50
  on the pod. How the fuck would they have a
• 33:52
  camera that high to follow a feather?
• 33:56
  OK, I. Couldn't 1990?
• 33:59
  Four, I couldn't leave you. And yes, the CGI is very good.
• 34:02
  The only time. But when it gets by his shoe, it
• 34:04
  looks like a cartoon feather. Looks like a video game feather.
• 34:07
  No the the part that's crazy is they cut from the fake feather
• 34:11
  to a real 1 and he puts it in the book.
• 34:13
  That's fucking cool. Yeah, but that's when it looked
• 34:15
  like. Right before it becomes real is
• 34:16
  when it looks the most fake. Well, you couldn't tell before
• 34:19
  because it wasn't like in 4K, but that.
• 34:21
  Is it's it is a good feather at the beginning, but they got lazy
• 34:25
  right before. It touched his shit that easy.
• 34:27
  It was. The technical spent less time on
• 34:29
  that. No less movie Jurassic Park.
• 34:31
  They're fucking CGI is unbelievable for the time.
• 34:34
  It completely holds up. Yeah, and also the only time
• 34:37
  like all the scenes where he's in real life situations, like
• 34:41
  when they're doing, when he's in the the Oval Office with the
• 34:44
  presidents, like you got Kennedy there.
• 34:47
  You've got. Fucking yeah.
• 34:48
  They used real footage and they put him inside real footage
• 34:52
  which. Was crazy.
• 34:53
  Exactly. That's epic.
• 34:55
  That's a flex. Also CGI would have been shit
• 34:59
  unless David Fincher did it because David Fincher is psycho
• 35:02
  and he would have made it look really good in Zodiac he redid
• 35:06
  all of like San Francisco from the 70s and 60s with CGI and
• 35:11
  people were like is this real? It's unbelievable.
• 35:14
  Next time you watch Zodiac look at it.
• 35:16
  People to this day, they can't tell if it's real or not, but
• 35:19
  it's all CGI. OK, now with the David Fincher
• 35:21
  praise. We're not even doing it with
• 35:22
  Fincher movie. OK.
• 35:23
  Who plays Forrest if it comes out today?
• 35:26
  If it comes out today, yeah. Tom Holland.
• 35:29
  Tom. Holland Yeah, it has to be a
• 35:32
  beloved actor. What the fuck is Tom Holland
• 35:35
  gonna play Forrest Gump for? If it came out today or the guy
• 35:40
  you know who actually the guy who baby driver, who's that guy?
• 35:44
  That guy would. Play.
• 35:45
  I can't remember his name. Driver.
• 35:47
  Oh. Yeah, Baby Driver could do it
• 35:48
  because he's like tall and handsome and sweet.
• 35:50
  And they think he's Kevin, Spacey says.
• 35:53
  He's slow, remember? Is that why the movie?
• 35:57
  They think he's slow. Oh no, that's not why.
• 35:59
  But it I mean, he could. No, I could change.
• 36:03
  My pick was Adam Driver. You are.
• 36:07
  What do you mean he's big bulky guy.
• 36:10
  He could. He kind of looks like he could
• 36:12
  make a doofus face to be. Somebody who loved he has to be
• 36:16
  like, why sweet? Why would he have to be sweet?
• 36:18
  I don't drivers like. Nobody cared about Tom Hanks
• 36:22
  until later. He's he's Darth Vader.
• 36:24
  I don't want him. He's not Darth Vader.
• 36:27
  What's his name? And then I don't even know.
• 36:30
  I don't know either. Darth.
• 36:34
  He's he's, I don't know, he's a Darth, Yeah.
• 36:36
  Sure, the fucking. Read the remakes of the Star
• 36:41
  Wars was so bad. We didn't even watch the last
• 36:43
  one, we watched the 1st 2:00. First one was good because it
• 36:46
  was the episode 4 again. But yeah, the second one was
• 36:49
  trash. He likes the rogue one.
• 36:53
  Was it called Rogue? One Rogue One.
• 36:54
  Yeah, it was good. The Rogue One.
• 36:56
  The Rogue One. OK, so who plays Jenny 2026?
• 37:06
  Ah, that's that's hard. You know what?
• 37:08
  You know what's weird? I have a non actress I want
• 37:10
  Taylor Swift play Jenny. People will fucking hate her
• 37:14
  even more for screwing Jenny Force over.
• 37:17
  No, no. For Swifties, be like you bitch.
• 37:20
  Taylor Swift is very beloved. I think she could.
• 37:22
  Get away with it. Emma Stone as Jen A I don't know
• 37:27
  if she's. Not soft enough, You have to be
• 37:29
  soft. Soft.
• 37:30
  She's soft. Robin right, isn't soft.
• 37:33
  You know, Jennifer Lawrence could be Jenny.
• 37:35
  She could do it, yeah. She's dots.
• 37:36
  Off. She's soft.
• 37:38
  What do you mean soft? Like like has a like feminine
• 37:42
  sweet like Emma Stones. Like.
• 37:44
  Emma Stones looks and voice. Nothing is soft like Jennifer
• 37:48
  Lawrence looks very soft. No, but Jayla would just come
• 37:51
  off as a bitch by saying you know, you don't know what love
• 37:54
  is like, I think. She just think she could.
• 37:57
  I think she could do it anyway. You're underestimating her.
• 38:01
  No, I think she's great. I think she's wrong for the
• 38:03
  role. OK, can you watch this with your
• 38:06
  parents? Yes, it's actually a great
• 38:09
  family movie. It's pretty wholesome and
• 38:11
  there's very limited nudity and sexuality.
• 38:13
  I mean, there's a couple of scenes, but.
• 38:15
  Yeah, I said yes, but the premature ejack scene is a it's
• 38:19
  pretty suss. Yeah, but it's brief and it's
• 38:22
  not it's, they don't explicitly say that he jacked off.
• 38:25
  Like if a kid was watching that, they wouldn't really know what.
• 38:27
  Happened. Did Jack off He came.
• 38:28
  Or came sorry. Yeah, but it's, it's, it's
• 38:32
  uncomfortable to watch that scene with your parents.
• 38:36
  I'm dizzy. Oh, see, that's why she felt
• 38:40
  bad. He's like a child.
• 38:42
  Why would a child say that? Why would you even think that?
• 38:46
  He's just slow. I know, but I don't know if that
• 38:50
  scene makes me feel sad. If it was a child, she shouldn't
• 38:53
  feel bad, it should be in jail. It's not actually a child is an
• 38:57
  adult with like a child like sensibility anyway.
• 39:01
  He gumps that's. A.
• 39:02
  So so you're agree you can watch it with parents?
• 39:04
  Yeah, yeah, it's got a Forward to Bernard part where he's
• 39:08
  banging his mom. What's your favorite and least
• 39:11
  favorite supporting character? I kind of already gave this
• 39:14
  away, but Lieutenant Dan, like, like I said, him and him and
• 39:18
  Jenny have the most. Yeah, him and Jenny have the
• 39:20
  most meaningful character arcs in the movie.
• 39:23
  He starts out as a hard ass army Lieutenant.
• 39:26
  He becomes a bitter cripple and then I'm an angry first mate on
• 39:30
  gum shrimp boat and finally becomes a healed person who's
• 39:34
  found someone to love and found meaning in his life.
• 39:36
  When he comes to the to the wedding, we really see a new man
• 39:41
  with a with a fiance. I've got a really deep cut.
• 39:46
  I was gonna say Bubba, but he's not really in it that much.
• 39:49
  Yeah, they don't delve into Bubba very much.
• 39:51
  Yeah, so I I picked honestly, I picked someone that I noticed
• 39:54
  more this time the drill Sergeant when he goes to the
• 39:57
  Army. I liked him.
• 39:58
  Into a female Omilami this guy is fucking like he's epic he's
• 40:04
  like you are God damn genius Gump.
• 40:06
  You're going to be the president.
• 40:07
  You're going to be a general one day, Gump.
• 40:09
  Like he's. Just you must have a high IQ of
• 40:11
  160 Gump. Yeah, he's fucking awesome.
• 40:14
  And he's coming for the crown, for Full Metal Jacket Drill
• 40:18
  Sergeant. Like he's coming for him.
• 40:20
  Like he's really good. Yeah, he is good.
• 40:22
  You know, I like him too. What's your sole purpose in this
• 40:26
  Army? To do whatever you tell my drill
• 40:29
  Sergeant. Go.
• 40:30
  Damn it come your God damn thing.
• 40:33
  Yes, that's the most outstanding answer I've ever heard.
• 40:36
  You must have a God damn IQ of 160.
• 40:38
  You are God damn gifted, Private Gump.
• 40:41
  Why did you put that gun together so quickly?
• 40:43
  Because you asked me, drill Sergeant.
• 40:45
  You God damn genius, Gump. Like, I love that.
• 40:48
  It's so good. I liked him too.
• 40:50
  I really noticed him this time too and he's only in two scenes,
• 40:53
  but he he does make an. Impact really stands out.
• 40:56
  All right, OK, who's your least favorite character?
• 40:59
  So listen, when I was looking, there's not that many people in
• 41:04
  this movie. No, it's not.
• 41:05
  That make like there's like 6 people in this movie.
• 41:08
  Yeah. So I I did a deep cut for my
• 41:10
  least favorite. It's it's Jenny's abusive
• 41:12
  boyfriend. Which one?
• 41:15
  The abusive one in Washington. OK, the hippie.
• 41:18
  Yeah, she it's just showing like her, her abysmal taste in men.
• 41:23
  This is the only relationship of hers we get more than a glimpse
• 41:26
  of cause we see other men that are clearly being abusive and
• 41:29
  shitty and throwing her out of cars and, you know, leaving her
• 41:33
  with black eyes and so on and so forth.
• 41:35
  But we get we get to see him for a for a minute.
• 41:38
  He slaps her in the face in the Black Panther Party and she
• 41:40
  immediately starts making excuses for him when she's
• 41:43
  talking to Forest. Sorry I broke up your Black
• 41:45
  Panther Party. Yeah but afterwards when she's
• 41:48
  walking with her she's like, he just gets this way cause he's
• 41:50
  upset about the war. It's like no no he slapped the
• 41:53
  fuck out of you in public. Maybe don't make excuses for
• 41:55
  him. So I just really hated it.
• 41:57
  And then she goes back with him to Berkeley.
• 41:59
  Like it just. It's.
• 42:00
  Yeah. It's like watching someone drink
• 42:02
  poison. Well, you know it's not going to
• 42:04
  end well. That's what it is right abusive
• 42:05
  relationships like that and being a parent.
• 42:07
  Sometimes you toddlers are are like that they fucking treat you
• 42:10
  like garbage. They throw your food at you and
• 42:14
  we something really sweet, you know, like ohhhhh ohhhhh and you
• 42:20
  forgive everything and then they fucking treat you like garbage
• 42:23
  again. Yeah, really toxic.
• 42:25
  We joke that our toddlers and abusive husband because like he
• 42:27
  has, he's effed both of us up intentionally and
• 42:31
  unintentionally. And they'll make him like a
• 42:33
  really nice meal and he'll throw half of it on the floor.
• 42:35
  He'll take him to do something really fun and then he'll come
• 42:38
  home and act like. An ass, mind you, he's only done
• 42:40
  that very few times. He's a really sweet kid.
• 42:43
  Oht he's the best. I love him but he can be a Dick
• 42:47
  sometimes. Yeah, abusive.
• 42:51
  Alright, what about you? Who's your least favorite?
• 42:53
  Least favorite for me, I'm gonna have to go with that fat guy on
• 42:59
  the bench when he's talking about like he runs Bubba Gump
• 43:04
  shrimp and this and that and that guy walks off the bench,
• 43:07
  starts laughing at fucking Forest.
• 43:09
  OK just mocking the guy like we were sitting next to a
• 43:14
  millionaire and fucks off. Because you wouldn't believe it
• 43:18
  if a guy was like, I'm Jeff Bezos.
• 43:19
  You'd be like, no, you're not. No, you just listen to the guy's
• 43:23
  story and then Forrest opens his suitcase and he's got a fucking,
• 43:27
  you know, Fortune magazine there with him and Gary Sinise on
• 43:32
  there with Lieutenant Dan. Yeah, I really like that picture
• 43:35
  of him and Lieutenant Dan. I was gonna say Bernard from
• 43:38
  lost the principal cause he's a dirtbag.
• 43:40
  Yeah, you kinda like that scumbag vibes.
• 43:43
  It was. So it was a tough call, but I
• 43:46
  mean, he did let him in the school after.
• 43:48
  So I have to give him that. He did sleep with his mom.
• 43:51
  He did. He did hold up his end of the.
• 43:53
  Bargain. And he got to have a normal
• 43:54
  education because of that. Yes.
• 43:57
  So. OK, cultural impact.
• 44:00
  Um, so Forrest Gump is heavily quoted and widely known as one
• 44:04
  of the best American movies of all time.
• 44:07
  It explores the AIDS epidemic, the Vietnam War.
• 44:10
  It tackles cultural issues like those living with developmental
• 44:14
  disabilities as well as physical disabilities.
• 44:17
  In the case of Lieutenant Dan Classroom, the movie has been
• 44:22
  judged for being too conservative and showing an
• 44:25
  image of America that is perhaps less than truthful and more so
• 44:29
  idealistic. However, we do see some very
• 44:34
  real struggles that people go through like Jenny suffering
• 44:38
  from sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, becoming a
• 44:42
  hippie, protesting the Vietnam War.
• 44:45
  Like it does delve into some very real issues.
• 44:48
  So I I wouldn't call it super idealistic because we do see
• 44:52
  some some darkness in it, but we're we are more seeing the
• 44:56
  world through a more innocent lens in forest character.
• 45:00
  So I think that's why it comes off that way.
• 45:01
  It's it's like you said, we're seeing he's the one telling the
• 45:04
  story. Yeah.
• 45:05
  So that's why it's like that. Yeah, I agree.
• 45:08
  It's like I said, it's the unreliable narrator, right?
• 45:12
  It's his point of view. It's not necessarily what
• 45:14
  happened. Maybe half the shit he said
• 45:16
  happened didn't even happen. That's the thing.
• 45:19
  He's just from his point of view No, no, but some of the details,
• 45:24
  you know, like he explains that oht it was raining up, it was
• 45:28
  raining down it was raining sideways it was raining from
• 45:31
  bottom up, but it was just bouncing off the water you.
• 45:34
  Know, so we don't know what else he misinterpreted.
• 45:37
  Exactly. Yeah, you're right.
• 45:39
  Another interesting thing about this movie is Tom Hanks actually
• 45:43
  didn't receive an upfront salary, but instead he took a
• 45:46
  percentage of the profits. So he actually ended up making
• 45:49
  like $40 million off this movie cause he, he believed in it.
• 45:54
  And there's, there's lots of stories like that, like Toby
• 45:56
  McGuire had a similar deal with Spiderman.
• 45:59
  Yeah, where people just believe in movies.
• 46:01
  They take a portion of the profits and they get like wildly
• 46:03
  rich. Toby McGuire did that.
• 46:06
  Toby McGuire did that I think with the second Spiderman and he
• 46:08
  like he has, he has like a billion dollars.
• 46:11
  He doesn't have to work. I don't really know why he works
• 46:13
  because he made so much money off of Spiderman.
• 46:16
  Because he got money to blow. And my last point on cultural
• 46:20
  impact is the Bubba Gump restaurant.
• 46:23
  The film was so popular that it inspired the real life
• 46:26
  restaurant chain of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, which was founded in
• 46:30
  1996. That's lit as fuck.
• 46:32
  I remember the first time I went to Manhattan, I saw the bubble
• 46:35
  gum sign and I looked at my mom and I was like, oh, from Forrest
• 46:38
  Gump. And she's like, no, that's a
• 46:39
  real restaurant. And I was like, are you, are you
• 46:41
  shitting me? It is from Forrest Gump.
• 46:44
  But they made it a real thing. Yeah.
• 46:45
  That's that's cool. That's power.
• 46:47
  That's how far this reach. Like, that's how well known it
• 46:49
  is. Yeah.
• 46:51
  So yeah, those are my points. What do you have for for
• 46:53
  cultural? Impact cultural impact, like
• 46:55
  you're talking about Bubba Gump. I I put that too.
• 46:57
  And part of me is like, why didn't they go, you know, full
• 47:02
  send on the marketing for this movie?
• 47:04
  So for example, um, run Forest run, everybody says it.
• 47:10
  Why hasn't Nike? They have the shoe, the Nike
• 47:13
  Cortez. They have the Forrest Gump
• 47:15
  edition, which is the white with the red check and then the blue
• 47:20
  stripe on the sole. Like, why haven't they done a
• 47:23
  Tom Hanks commercial for the Super Bowl for that shoe or a
• 47:26
  special edition of the shoe where you know Tom Hanks is
• 47:30
  wearing it and it's like they make multiple versions of it.
• 47:34
  You know, they make the Jenny, they make the Baba.
• 47:36
  Like that would be so cool. They would fucking sell out like
• 47:39
  crazy. Like Nike, he's never done
• 47:41
  anything like that before. I know.
• 47:43
  No, they have. What do you mean?
• 47:44
  They have done it with other artists.
• 47:46
  They've done it with so many different people.
• 47:47
  Yeah, but not with movie like with multiple movie characters
• 47:50
  or with a movie. They've done it with Singer
• 47:52
  should and should Fletes. And what Nike, if you're hearing
• 47:55
  this when you do it, I want some percentage points on that on the
• 47:58
  back end. Because cut that out podcast, we
• 48:01
  can't be giving away these $1,000,000 ideas.
• 48:03
  For free. It's in the podcast, so they'll
• 48:05
  give me my peace. Patent pending.
• 48:07
  Yeah, no, seriously. Like, you guys, you have all
• 48:10
  this opportunity to make so much more money and just, like, use
• 48:14
  the cachet from Forrest Gump and Tom Hanks to make something
• 48:20
  really cool happen. You know?
• 48:21
  I don't understand why, but now there's a lot of cultural impact
• 48:25
  for this movie. The quotes, like I said, life
• 48:27
  cycle, Box of chocolates, Run Forest, run.
• 48:31
  The shoes. I mean, I bought the shoes
• 48:33
  because they're wicked. Yeah, you say.
• 48:36
  You've said before that they're. The most comfortable shoes I've
• 48:38
  ever worn. And the fact that yeah, he ran
• 48:40
  three years. Little bit unreasonable, but you
• 48:45
  could probably run three years in those shoes.
• 48:47
  I well, when Jenny gets them for him, he says he got, she got me
• 48:51
  the best gift you could ever get.
• 48:52
  Anyone. I I went to New York like 2-3
• 48:55
  years ago for work and I was wearing those shoes and I walked
• 48:59
  about 75,000 steps in about 48 hours.
• 49:05
  You did. Yeah, 48 maybe.
• 49:06
  No, no, sorry. 72 hours in three days.
• 49:09
  I I I walked about 75,000 steps and my feet were feeling great.
• 49:16
  So those shoes are fire. You just bought me a pair of
• 49:21
  those too. I did.
• 49:22
  I bought you the big. Pink Blend, yeah, which I'm
• 49:24
  excited to wear once, once it stops being so disgusting
• 49:27
  outside. Yeah.
• 49:29
  So yeah, that's my cultural impact.
• 49:31
  What about the soundtrack? What are you saying?
• 49:34
  So we talked about this moment before, but like the triumph,
• 49:38
  the triumphant Symphony, when Forrest runs away from the
• 49:40
  bullies for the first time and breaks out of his braces, It
• 49:44
  just it it like makes the emotions happen.
• 49:47
  Like, it just strikes something in you.
• 49:49
  Yeah. So I I love that.
• 49:51
  And, and I just love how the music takes us through the
• 49:54
  decades and history. And we get Hound Dog with Forest
• 49:58
  Dancing with Elvis. Yeah, we get Blowing in the Wind
• 50:04
  sung by Jenny. It's a beautiful song.
• 50:06
  I mean, that scene is upsetting, but this song is beautiful and
• 50:08
  her voice is actually very beautiful.
• 50:10
  We get Fortunate Son playing when Forrest and Bubba arrive in
• 50:13
  Vietnam and that song has just become like a Vietnam.
• 50:17
  Song. Now everybody uses it.
• 50:19
  Because it's such a perfect choice that this movie made.
• 50:23
  And of course, Sweet Home Alabama plays when Forrest and
• 50:25
  Jenny dance at home because they're if they're in Alabama.
• 50:29
  Yeah, don't forget running on empty when he's running for
• 50:32
  three years. Yeah, there's so many good song
• 50:35
  choices. The soundtrack is amazing, yeah,
• 50:38
  and it gives the movie a lot of life and emotion.
• 50:41
  Yeah, I, I said this. The needle drops for this movie
• 50:44
  rivals Scorsese. Scorsese will pick songs that go
• 50:48
  with the scene, but they don't really like the lyrics.
• 50:52
  Don't like, you know, give me shelter Layla.
• 50:57
  He uses them in weird parts. They don't really go with the
• 51:01
  scene, but they fit really well. But this guy Zemeckis is like
• 51:06
  running on empty for the three-year running song.
• 51:09
  Like it's very on the nose, but it works.
• 51:11
  It's very on the nose, but it. Works.
• 51:13
  I know that you would appreciate that because Dad actually makes
• 51:16
  a lot of compilations of of our kids to music and you love to
• 51:21
  have. You just got to have the right
• 51:24
  songs. You like to have the part of the
• 51:26
  song which is saying with the person's doing so kind of hard
• 51:29
  to explain, but there's one song he did that goes Walk with me,
• 51:33
  Susie Lee, through there and then through and in that part of
• 51:36
  the song, it shows our son walking.
• 51:38
  Yeah. And you do that a lot.
• 51:40
  You'll like have it like. I don't know how you make it hit
• 51:43
  so perfectly, but that's I I know that you appreciate that
• 51:46
  because that's kind of editing you use.
• 51:48
  It's very. The literal, yes.
• 51:52
  If there's something about eating, you'll show our son
• 51:54
  eating. If there's something about
• 51:55
  running, you'll show a part where he's running.
• 51:56
  Yeah. And it, it, it fits so well.
• 51:59
  And it I think it's really impressive that you're able to
• 52:01
  do that. Listen, my brain works in a
• 52:03
  weird way. So we'll have like a bunch of
• 52:06
  videos of the kids or whatever, you know, a trip and I'll look
• 52:10
  at the clips and then my brain will just play back music in my
• 52:15
  head that goes with the clips and I, I can't, it's just like,
• 52:18
  it's weird. Call it a sixth sense or
• 52:23
  something. It's just some, it's like a, I
• 52:25
  don't know. You can't.
• 52:26
  You picked some some bangers. But anyway, I was just
• 52:28
  complimenting Dad's editing. But I appreciate it in the same
• 52:31
  way that this movie uses very literal parts of songs to
• 52:36
  express what's happening in the movie, but it also hits you in
• 52:39
  the emotions. It gets you feeling a certain
• 52:41
  way based based on the. Music being played?
• 52:43
  Yeah, the the soundtrack and the score, it's all done by Alan
• 52:46
  Silvestri. He also did Predator, so the
• 52:48
  guys got some range because Predator score is amazing.
• 52:52
  That's crazy. No, no, no.
• 52:55
  So good. But yeah, I said this.
• 52:57
  This. The main theme of this movie is
• 52:59
  emotional, emotional damage. Emotional damage.
• 53:03
  It's also happy like like the Sweet Home Alabama where he's
• 53:06
  dancing with Jenny in the living room.
• 53:08
  Like I know, but I'm talking, I'm not that that's a song.
• 53:10
  I'm talking about the the the main theme.
• 53:13
  Ohe actual theme, Yeah. Theme is because they have
• 53:15
  different variations of it, the triumphant one, the sad one, the
• 53:18
  opening sequence. It's really emotional damage.
• 53:23
  And it's so 90s, it's so nostalgic.
• 53:26
  It is because. They don't do that.
• 53:27
  Anymore, it hasn't aged a day. It hasn't.
• 53:30
  It hasn't. It still hits.
• 53:32
  It still fits. Perfectly and it works so well.
• 53:34
  Yeah, I agree. OK, who gets a spin off if
• 53:37
  anyone? You go first.
• 53:39
  What do you want for a spin off? You might be mad because it
• 53:42
  might be a very similar 1. So I got the the Lieutenant Dan
• 53:46
  movie, The prequel. About him being in Vietnam.
• 53:51
  Well, Lieutenant Dan is a very complex character.
• 53:54
  He is, because we see what happens to him.
• 53:56
  He runs into him in New York after he's on that talk show
• 54:01
  with John Lennon, and he's got it.
• 54:04
  He's in a wheelchair. Like we see all that part and
• 54:07
  then we don't see him As for a bit and then he comes back and
• 54:11
  he becomes forest first mate and then he leaves again when he
• 54:15
  says that, um, you know, I, I thank you for saving my life.
• 54:20
  And then we see him at the end of the movie when he met that
• 54:23
  that. Does he leave though or is he
• 54:24
  working on the shrimp boats that whole time?
• 54:26
  Does he stay and? Work on the shrimp so he leaves
• 54:28
  out of our sight. Yeah, we don't really.
• 54:30
  Know what he's doing? I wanna see the Lieutenant Dan
• 54:32
  before he gets to Vietnam. I wanna see him as a kid.
• 54:36
  Like I want to see the Lieutenant Dan Forrest Gump
• 54:39
  movie where this kid how? You have some lost years where
• 54:43
  he's just an alcoholic and a New York apartment.
• 54:46
  I wanna see that, it would make for interesting movie.
• 54:49
  I guess I mean, I, I think what we see of Lieutenant, Lieutenant
• 54:52
  Dan is what we was, what we need to see.
• 54:53
  I think would get a little depressing if we saw it all.
• 54:55
  Hey, there's some sad ass movies out there, but they're good.
• 55:00
  My spin-off actually thought a little bit outside the box.
• 55:03
  OK, so I want a TV show about Forrest Mom running her boarding
• 55:08
  house. Because there would be new
• 55:10
  characters and stories in each episode, new people coming
• 55:13
  through. You could have storylines based
• 55:15
  on them. You could have them interacting
• 55:17
  with their regular characters. But is it like PG or do you want
• 55:20
  the X-rated version? No, no, it could.
• 55:23
  Cause she's sleeping everybody. She's not sleeping with
• 55:25
  everybody, she slept with one person.
• 55:27
  No, it would be like a period piece about the 1950s.
• 55:31
  That would be cool to see that. And there could be.
• 55:33
  There could be people from all over, there could be all kinds
• 55:35
  of different storylines, all the crazy stuff happen.
• 55:38
  The movie tells us that they had Elvis stay with them and Forrest
• 55:42
  taught him how to do the what's that called the song?
• 55:46
  I don't know what the dance move is called.
• 55:49
  Well, that's the yeah, the move is called the dog.
• 55:52
  But yeah, like, that's just one small story.
• 55:55
  Like there could be all kinds of people from all kinds of
• 55:57
  different walks of life staying with them, and they could have
• 55:59
  all kinds of different storylines revolving around
• 56:01
  that. I think it would be really
• 56:02
  interesting. It would have to be super high
• 56:04
  budget though because it would be a period piece.
• 56:07
  Uh, yeah. I mean, it's not.
• 56:09
  That as a show or. A mini series, 1800s.
• 56:11
  It's just some old timey clothes, those houses.
• 56:14
  There's a dime a dozen in the US, so it should be easy.
• 56:17
  I think I think it could be a cool show would be alright.
• 56:20
  What's your double feature? You go first for this one.
• 56:23
  So I have two. One of them is Molly's Game has
• 56:28
  a similar feeling of someone narrating their life and then
• 56:32
  focusing in on the present era. Narration also banger movie.
• 56:36
  Yeah, it is a banger movie, but it's the same thing.
• 56:38
  She's telling what happened to her and then it it it comes out
• 56:42
  and braids into her current life.
• 56:44
  And that stop is the Forrest Gump.
• 56:46
  He tells his life story and then he goes and meets Jenny, and
• 56:48
  then it becomes his current life.
• 56:50
  OK, so I Yeah. So I like that.
• 56:52
  So I think that they're. Kind of very similar movies
• 56:54
  though. Yeah, they're similar in the way
• 56:56
  it's being told, but they stories are completely, wildly
• 56:59
  different. So you get, you know, a little
• 57:00
  bit of everything. And then also the burbs.
• 57:03
  Just because I love me. Sometimes you should.
• 57:04
  Yeah, the burbs. I would do some more.
• 57:06
  That's a great movie. Great movie.
• 57:09
  So I got double feature. Well, triple feature really.
• 57:12
  So Castaway right after this, OK, because of that thing, that
• 57:17
  quote you said, have you seen castaway?
• 57:20
  It's like Forrest Gump on an island.
• 57:23
  That's from Bridesmaids. That's not mine.
• 57:25
  OK, it's really funny because it's true.
• 57:27
  Same. Direction Castaway just came in
• 57:29
  on the Netflix. It's great.
• 57:30
  Have you seen it? It's like Forrest Gump on an
• 57:32
  island. It's the same director.
• 57:35
  Oh my God. Is it?
• 57:36
  Yeah. You didn't know.
• 57:37
  That I think you actually have told.
• 57:38
  Me that but also low key double feeds for this Forrest Gump and
• 57:43
  Waterboy they both play. Football fucked.
• 57:46
  Up. They're both from the South and
• 57:49
  they're both fucking stupid. OHS you take that back?
• 57:52
  Why Boris is not stupid? Stupid is stupid is as stupid
• 57:56
  does. He's got IQ fucking 75.
• 58:00
  OK, calm down. Wow.
• 58:02
  Anyways, that's my double feature.
• 58:04
  That's that's ridiculous. What you don't like?
• 58:07
  It you said triple feature. Yeah, Yeah, OK.
• 58:11
  I'd start with Waterboy, then I would go to Forrest Gump, then I
• 58:15
  would go to Castaway. Castaway is actually kind of
• 58:18
  locus lap like or Loki. Slap and they both said.
• 58:21
  Mom said. Mom said like mom said this.
• 58:23
  Mom said that. Yeah, Before Stump is a far
• 58:25
  better movie. Waterboy is fucking good.
• 58:29
  No, it's not. It's not.
• 58:32
  It's not love Spyder, OK, It's really.
• 58:34
  Good. Yeah, Rob Schneider also did the
• 58:36
  animal, so let's just move on. Fair enough.
• 58:41
  OK, laughing at a funeral. This is the segment where it's a
• 58:45
  scene that isn't supposed to be funny, but you can't help but
• 58:48
  laugh and it's kind of uncomfortable sometimes.
• 58:51
  So I have like, like, like I was saying earlier, yeah, this movie
• 58:56
  is intentionally and unintentionally funny.
• 58:58
  Yeah. So there are parts that are
• 59:00
  supposed to be funny, but these are parts that weren't
• 59:02
  necessarily supposed to be funny.
• 59:03
  OK. So I love Lieutenant Diane Asque
• 59:06
  Mean when he brings his ice cream, then he puts it directly
• 59:09
  into the bedpan. He's eating two of them.
• 59:11
  No, he's eating one of. Them.
• 59:13
  Yeah, there was really two. Yeah, yeah.
• 59:15
  Well, because he said the best part about being in the informer
• 59:17
  was all the ice cream you could eat.
• 59:19
  The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks is it
• 59:23
  ice cream. They gave me all the ice cream I
• 59:26
  could eat and guess what? A good friend of mine was in the
• 59:30
  bed right next door. Did it die?
• 59:35
  I got you some ice cream, Diane. Ice cream.
• 59:48
  Yeah, and then also she tastes like cigarettes.
• 59:52
  Oht long legs, Lenore. Yeah, and cunning Carla.
• 59:56
  Yeah, and there's so mean. The hookers.
• 59:59
  Yeah. Are they hookers?
• 1:00:00
  They're hookers, Yeah. I don't think they're hookers.
• 1:00:02
  I think they're. Like they're hookers.
• 1:00:05
  There he was, paying them to be. There 100% of their hookers,
• 1:00:07
  huh? Yeah.
• 1:00:08
  I don't. OK, Well, anyway, she tastes
• 1:00:11
  like cigarettes. Yeah.
• 1:00:13
  You you do it. I can't do it as Good to see
• 1:00:14
  you. She tastes like cigarettes.
• 1:00:18
  You go ahead. OK, so I mean, the main main
• 1:00:22
  scene for me is forest bus nut on the roommates robe.
• 1:00:26
  That scene supposed to be a little bit funny.
• 1:00:30
  It's a little bit sad. It's a little bit, you know.
• 1:00:32
  Uncomfortable. But I think it's really funny
• 1:00:36
  because of the way he like he, he's kind of looking away and
• 1:00:40
  then she takes her bra off and he he puts, she puts his hand on
• 1:00:45
  her boob. And then he said, oh, just the
• 1:00:48
  noise that Tom Hanks makes is really funny.
• 1:00:50
  And he's like, dizzy, like, OK. And then anyway, it's just, I
• 1:00:57
  think it's really funny. Yeah.
• 1:00:59
  Unintentional comedy just anytime for us just starts
• 1:01:03
  swinging at people like throwing punches.
• 1:01:06
  It's really funny cause he really does hate makers like he
• 1:01:10
  he, you know what haymaker is? Is that when you take someone
• 1:01:12
  right? In the face when you crank the
• 1:01:14
  punch really far back and if you miss like you're going to break
• 1:01:17
  your hand. But he just like throwing
• 1:01:20
  punches like super hard. The scene where you know, the
• 1:01:25
  doctors, you know, telling him that his backs is crooked as a
• 1:01:29
  politician. It's it's not, I don't know if
• 1:01:33
  it's supposed to be funny, but it.
• 1:01:34
  Feels like sad scenes though. That scene but sad.
• 1:01:37
  It's unintentional and also like the KKK thing, I can't tell if
• 1:01:41
  that's supposed to be funny. It is just see like Tom Hanks
• 1:01:43
  dressed as a click on. Cause he doesn't understand.
• 1:01:45
  He said they were acting like ghosts or Spooks or something.
• 1:01:48
  He doesn't understand what they were.
• 1:01:49
  And is he saying it to a black? Can't tell if it's supposed to
• 1:01:52
  be intentional. It is.
• 1:01:53
  It's. Supposed to.
• 1:01:54
  And then at the end of the movie where he meets Little Forest is
• 1:01:58
  that he's got a dad named Forrest too.
• 1:02:01
  You know, like that part, It's really funny.
• 1:02:03
  Like, are you fucking serious, guy?
• 1:02:05
  You don't get it. You gotta dad in Empires too.
• 1:02:08
  Well, the the movie is like a bit of a comedy in in some ways.
• 1:02:11
  But yeah, there are those moments like when Lieutenant
• 1:02:13
  Dans wheelchair slides backwards into traffic and force like
• 1:02:17
  Lieutenant Dan and runs after him.
• 1:02:19
  Like there's just like those moments that it's like, am I
• 1:02:21
  supposed to laugh? Is that funny?
• 1:02:24
  Or yeah, it kind of makes you question it.
• 1:02:27
  There's a lot of that in this movie.
• 1:02:28
  Yeah, there's honestly, it's a laundry list.
• 1:02:31
  I I can't think of all the funny ones, but it's it's really good.
• 1:02:34
  Even the part where he goes above his mom and gives her a
• 1:02:37
  check for the for the Bubba Gump business, his share, Bubba
• 1:02:41
  share. And she's like, are you you,
• 1:02:43
  you, you stupid or something? No, she says are you stupid or
• 1:02:46
  something when it comes and tells her he's buying a shrimp
• 1:02:48
  boat he mails. Her a check and she passes out.
• 1:02:53
  Stupid is as stupid does. Yeah, well, you call me stupid,
• 1:02:57
  OK, Lazy Sunday vibes. Absolutely.
• 1:03:00
  Yeah, I I said yes. It's a super chill movie to
• 1:03:03
  watch on the laziest of Sundays. Yeah, and it's so familiar and
• 1:03:08
  comforting, like, and I like, I don't know if this is just me.
• 1:03:11
  I feel like everyone feels that way about this movie because
• 1:03:13
  it's so well known. I haven't met anybody who
• 1:03:17
  dislikes this movie. And and so much like most people
• 1:03:20
  have seen it so many times that it's familiar and comforting.
• 1:03:22
  It's the perfect movie have on on the background because you
• 1:03:26
  don't pay attention. You've seen it a million times
• 1:03:28
  and you sit and watch a few of the scenes.
• 1:03:30
  Yeah, I agree. And we have our our darling Tom
• 1:03:32
  Hanks, who's just so comforting and familiar.
• 1:03:35
  The one thing about this movie now though, and I'll talk about
• 1:03:39
  it later, it's just it fucking is something different now for
• 1:03:43
  me. It's a very hard watch for me
• 1:03:46
  now. Yeah, we're.
• 1:03:47
  Gonna not in a bad way, not in a bad way, just anyway.
• 1:03:51
  Movie Alias. So I have three.
• 1:03:54
  OK, I have green bow. Oh, just call it green bow
• 1:04:00
  because, you know, really know that could be anything.
• 1:04:02
  Sure, box of chocolates. OK, that's just the name of the
• 1:04:08
  movie. Just box of chocolates.
• 1:04:09
  Yeah, because you never know what you're gonna get, OK?
• 1:04:12
  And then also peas and carrots, because several times throughout
• 1:04:16
  the movie said we was like peas and carrots again.
• 1:04:18
  Yeah, that's a great, that's a, that's a great quote.
• 1:04:20
  Why didn't you? Why don't we put that in?
• 1:04:22
  I don't know I should have. But it's a great one.
• 1:04:24
  But yeah, they're always like peas and carrots, so I thought
• 1:04:26
  that would be like a cute name for the movie.
• 1:04:28
  But honestly, Forrest Gump is the most it makes the most
• 1:04:30
  sense. Yeah, it's about him.
• 1:04:32
  That's his point of view. I got Gump.
• 1:04:36
  OK, shortening. 2 Pump Gump. Ohm my.
• 1:04:40
  God. Gump and dump.
• 1:04:48
  Dumb and dumb the also I wrote bloomers the documentary because
• 1:05:01
  he falls back ass backwards into money and other bullshit.
• 1:05:04
  My God, yeah. This is like a boomers wet
• 1:05:08
  dream. Yeah, it's bullshit.
• 1:05:10
  This guy, this guy has an IQ of 75 and he's a fucking
• 1:05:13
  millionaire. Fuck off.
• 1:05:14
  Lieutenant Dan invests for. Investing in a fruit company?
• 1:05:19
  Yeah, and he's like he invested all money into some fruit
• 1:05:22
  company or something. Now we don't have to worry about
• 1:05:25
  money no more. I wrote Serendipity because
• 1:05:31
  that's what fucking this movie. This movie.
• 1:05:33
  Is that actually works? That's what this There's another
• 1:05:36
  movie with John Cusack called Serendipity.
• 1:05:38
  But this movie is Serendipity. Everything about it.
• 1:05:40
  Yeah. There's just a bunch of happy
• 1:05:42
  accidents. It is.
• 1:05:43
  There's some sad moments, there's some tragic moments, but
• 1:05:47
  it's a lot of happy. Accidents, yeah, but you're
• 1:05:49
  you're happy for Forest though, because we want good things for
• 1:05:51
  him. Yes, he's, he's a, he's a very
• 1:05:53
  lovable main character. Agreed.
• 1:05:56
  OK, let's get into our favorite segment.
• 1:05:58
  Shower thoughts. How long is this motherfucker
• 1:06:01
  sitting on this bench? They have time to tell his whole
• 1:06:03
  God damn life story waiting for a fucking bus?
• 1:06:06
  Are you kidding me? Is he on that bench for hours?
• 1:06:11
  Sits with like 5 different people.
• 1:06:14
  I think he just is, he's, he says he's lost, right?
• 1:06:18
  He doesn't know how to get to Jennys.
• 1:06:19
  No, he's waiting for a specific bus and the the bus he's waiting
• 1:06:22
  for isn't coming well. So I think maybe he's sitting on
• 1:06:25
  the wrong bench or something. But like, are you sitting there
• 1:06:27
  for hours? Depends.
• 1:06:28
  I mean, if you tell like it depends how he's telling the
• 1:06:31
  story. If he's telling you that in
• 1:06:32
  super detail, he's been there for a few hours, but you know he
• 1:06:37
  he's a dumb ass. Like what do you want?
• 1:06:39
  It's funny that you mentioned that, because actually nobody
• 1:06:42
  drops in our bomb in this movie. Yeah, well, it's not Tropic
• 1:06:46
  Thunder. Like they're not going to just
• 1:06:49
  throw our bombs everywhere. Oh my God, that's a good point.
• 1:06:54
  And it's for it's Nam, too. Yeah, and they mentioned Forrest
• 1:06:57
  Gump in that movie. Yeah, they do.
• 1:06:59
  Like Tom Hanks. Yeah, they do.
• 1:07:01
  He didn't go full. He's like, you went full.
• 1:07:04
  That's true. Simple Jack or whatever.
• 1:07:06
  That's what it's. Called.
• 1:07:07
  Yeah, simple Jack. Our son had a bad haircut at one
• 1:07:10
  point. I used to call it a simple Jack
• 1:07:12
  haircut. You're a Dick.
• 1:07:14
  That's so mean. That was the one that you cut
• 1:07:18
  for him? It looked a little janky.
• 1:07:20
  No, that was the that was called the World War Two.
• 1:07:24
  I'm going to war cut over the fighting the Third Reich.
• 1:07:28
  Yeah, so imagine when he runs into Lieutenant Dan at his
• 1:07:34
  wedding when he shows up with the magic legs.
• 1:07:36
  Hmm imagine he cause it's it's forest he just runs up to him
• 1:07:40
  and picks him up and just hugs him and spins around and the
• 1:07:44
  legs detach. OK, but that's like Scary Movie.
• 1:07:48
  No, but it's something for us would do 100%.
• 1:07:51
  I don't think he ever tried to pick Lieutenant Dan up when he
• 1:07:53
  was. He didn't, he just saw him and
• 1:07:55
  he was excited. But imagine he ran towards
• 1:07:57
  Lieutenant Dan and then he grabs him cause he fucking sees
• 1:08:00
  Lieutenant Dan starts waving at him, jumps off the shrimp boat,
• 1:08:05
  lets it crash and destroy a dock just because he's excited to see
• 1:08:09
  him. So I expect his similar
• 1:08:11
  reaction. And he's got the magic leg, so
• 1:08:14
  you just pick him up, hug him, and don't realize the legs have
• 1:08:17
  detached and he's just flying around with like, you know, his
• 1:08:21
  suit pants. Also, he ran for two years,
• 1:08:25
  three years, two months. Like the fuck?
• 1:08:28
  Yeah, that's that's a little crazy that he ran for that long.
• 1:08:32
  Nobody's running like that. No, but he did say he slept when
• 1:08:36
  he needed to. He ate when he needed to.
• 1:08:39
  I guess he stayed at motel. Didn't rotate rest days when he
• 1:08:43
  needed to. Like yeah, run everyday.
• 1:08:47
  I'll be yours. Why are you running?
• 1:08:50
  Are you doing this for World Peace?
• 1:08:52
  Are you doing this for the homeless?
• 1:08:53
  Are you running for women's rights?
• 1:08:55
  Or for the environment, or for animals.
• 1:08:57
  They just couldn't believe that somebody would do all that
• 1:09:00
  running for no particular reason.
• 1:09:02
  Why are you doing this? Felt like.
• 1:09:05
  Running, I guess he ran across the country numerous times so.
• 1:09:09
  Yeah, well, maybe he took some breaks and then they didn't talk
• 1:09:11
  about, but it kind of just seems like he straight up ran for that
• 1:09:14
  that long, that many. Years.
• 1:09:15
  Somebody did that I recently in real life.
• 1:09:18
  The actual like similar path that.
• 1:09:20
  Force guess they did a similar path.
• 1:09:23
  I think they wore the Cortez and the guy was dressed like forests
• 1:09:28
  to start and then he started growing his hair out.
• 1:09:31
  He had a bubble gum hat on. Did he get a following?
• 1:09:34
  I don't know cause I just kind of heard about it as I was like
• 1:09:39
  looking up things about this movie so.
• 1:09:42
  I guess I didn't know that I have something else about
• 1:09:45
  Lieutenant Dan. It's it's ironic that Lieutenant
• 1:09:47
  Dan cares so much about proper foot care in the war and ends up
• 1:09:50
  losing both of his feet because they get there and he's like,
• 1:09:52
  change your socks as often as possible.
• 1:09:54
  Keep your feet dry when you can. It's foreshadowing.
• 1:09:58
  Maybe. Maybe I never thought of that.
• 1:10:00
  Yeah, but he loses his legs, not his feet.
• 1:10:02
  Yeah, but his feet are part of it.
• 1:10:03
  He fair enough. Like he's so concerned about
• 1:10:05
  proper foot care because you can get like trench foot and stuff
• 1:10:08
  if you don't change your socks enough.
• 1:10:09
  Gangrene. And stuff.
• 1:10:10
  Yeah, and he ends up losing his feet, which is pretty fucked up.
• 1:10:14
  What do you think the feather means?
• 1:10:16
  I think the feather is like it's blowing around, just showing
• 1:10:19
  that life goes in all kinds of different directions.
• 1:10:22
  Like like your life could be like a feather.
• 1:10:23
  Like it's taking swirls, it's going here, it's going there,
• 1:10:25
  it's going up, it's going down, and then finally it settles
• 1:10:28
  somewhere. I like that.
• 1:10:30
  I, I just thought it was just telling us the movie, The fairy
• 1:10:34
  tale, you know, because you know, fairies fly around and
• 1:10:38
  whatever and like fairy tale movies.
• 1:10:40
  Oh, I thought it was kind of a metaphor for his life.
• 1:10:42
  I thought it was just the movies of fairy tale, you know, you
• 1:10:46
  said like, it's a very idealistic version of life in
• 1:10:49
  America. Yeah.
• 1:10:51
  So I'm like, it's a fairy tale. Like all these crazy things
• 1:10:54
  happen. It kind of is a fairy tale in
• 1:10:56
  some ways. Yeah.
• 1:10:58
  Well, the interesting thing that's interesting, say, for a
• 1:11:01
  fairy tale, Forrest Gump is based on a book written in in
• 1:11:04
  1986. Yeah, but the book is far more
• 1:11:08
  satirical and more bizarre than the actual film.
• 1:11:11
  Believe it or not, a few of the things that happened in the book
• 1:11:15
  that don't happen in the movie are Forest becomes a a NASA
• 1:11:20
  astronaut goes to space. Well, that's basically Homer
• 1:11:25
  Simpson. He becomes a professional
• 1:11:27
  wrestler and his name as the wrestler is the dunce.
• 1:11:30
  Oh my God. He becomes a chess master and a
• 1:11:34
  musician. What instrument?
• 1:11:37
  I didn't find that, but the key difference is include for us
• 1:11:42
  being an astronaut with an ape named Sue being captured by
• 1:11:45
  cannibals. Oh my God.
• 1:11:46
  And Jenny in the book does not die of AIDS, but she actually
• 1:11:49
  leaves Fair Forest, takes his son and goes to be with another
• 1:11:54
  man. So I'm glad that, yeah, I'm glad
• 1:11:57
  that wasn't the movie, that. Quite a difference.
• 1:11:59
  But for. His son though, like they they
• 1:12:02
  matched the book OK. The forest in the book is like a
• 1:12:05
  savant. He's very smart.
• 1:12:08
  He doesn't have an IQ of 75. It was it was a little bit of a
• 1:12:11
  different person. They totally changed the story.
• 1:12:13
  Then they did, they changed the story pretty drastically.
• 1:12:15
  But the book, he's like a six foot six 240 LB like jacked
• 1:12:21
  savant who becomes an astronaut. Oh OK, so he has actually even
• 1:12:25
  more adventures. I think they what they did with
• 1:12:28
  the movie is very good because he's a way more relatable
• 1:12:31
  character. I agree.
• 1:12:34
  I agree. Why is Forest Mom single?
• 1:12:38
  I mean, she gives the principle the business like she's
• 1:12:42
  obviously. On vacation.
• 1:12:45
  What do you mean vacation? He wasn't on vacation.
• 1:12:49
  He's on vacation quotes. What does that mean?
• 1:12:53
  Why? Why are you doing?
• 1:12:54
  That maybe he abandoned them. Why?
• 1:12:56
  You know, I'm saying, why is she single?
• 1:12:58
  Why is any single mom single? It's hard.
• 1:13:02
  It's hard to find a man. When you I'm saying she gave the
• 1:13:04
  principle of the business, she can find a man, she knows what
• 1:13:07
  she's doing in the sack. I don't know if back then, if
• 1:13:11
  you had a kid, I don't know if anybody would have you.
• 1:13:14
  The Alabama. Like maybe my joke.
• 1:13:17
  Sorry to literally sorry. No, she's freaking.
• 1:13:20
  She's given the business. Yeah, she's a guy.
• 1:13:22
  He's screaming. He comes out sweating bullets.
• 1:13:25
  No, it's just cause he's a loser and because she's that good in
• 1:13:27
  the sack. We don't know.
• 1:13:30
  No, I would assume I actually found an interesting little
• 1:13:35
  tidbit. I know what he was going to say
• 1:13:38
  in the Vietnam rally speech I found.
• 1:13:41
  It online do. You want to know what it?
• 1:13:43
  Is. He said sometimes when people go
• 1:13:46
  to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs.
• 1:13:51
  Sometimes they don't go home at all.
• 1:13:53
  That's a bad thing, and that's all I have to say about that.
• 1:13:57
  OHC. Because he's talking about his
• 1:13:58
  experience, basically. Like the fact that Bubble
• 1:14:00
  couldn't do harm, and the fact that Lieutenant Dan went home,
• 1:14:03
  but he didn't have any legs. Forrest Gump.
• 1:14:05
  Forrest Gump because they were all like emotional after he said
• 1:14:08
  that because he he pulled from his real life.
• 1:14:10
  Experience. I didn't know that there was a
• 1:14:13
  real. Speech.
• 1:14:14
  How much? How much Apple stock do you
• 1:14:16
  think he had? How many shares?
• 1:14:20
  I I can't even begin to imagine because I don't know what they
• 1:14:24
  were worth nor what they eventually shot up to be worth.
• 1:14:27
  Yeah, I don't know what that point in in the company.
• 1:14:31
  I did look into it, it said based on a guess of what he
• 1:14:36
  could have bought with the money he got from Bubba Gump, if he
• 1:14:39
  was an Angel investor or something, his shares would have
• 1:14:44
  been worth 90 billion today. See, that is some boomer luck.
• 1:14:51
  Well, that's what it says. Boomers the documentary.
• 1:14:54
  Life, although in in our lifetime there was the Bitcoin
• 1:14:57
  moment where you could have that one guy became a billionaire.
• 1:15:00
  Very different thing. Yeah, but he got, he, he, he had
• 1:15:03
  $5 billion and he donated 4 billion of it.
• 1:15:08
  Can you believe? That Bitcoin is a different
• 1:15:10
  thing. Yeah, but I'm I'm saying it's a
• 1:15:12
  similar thing where you got rich overnight because that guy was
• 1:15:14
  not. Rich.
• 1:15:15
  Originally. So there's a theory online about
• 1:15:19
  Bubba Gump. So apparently when Bubba dies,
• 1:15:24
  it's there's the voodoo theory. So his spirit was angry and that
• 1:15:29
  he didn't make it back alive. So his spear did magic to to
• 1:15:33
  cause a hurricane and destroy all the other shrimp boats so
• 1:15:37
  Forest could make all that money and then help Bubba's family.
• 1:15:40
  That's the theory online. I don't hate it.
• 1:15:43
  Yeah. I mean, it's kind of, it's kind
• 1:15:45
  of weird. But shows his wrath.
• 1:15:48
  Yeah. Do you know who was supposed to
• 1:15:49
  audition for Bubba? Or who did audition for Bubba
• 1:15:53
  but they didn't get the part Tupac.
• 1:15:55
  No way. Can you imagine this?
• 1:15:58
  They're totally different character, right?
• 1:16:00
  Yeah. Tupac.
• 1:16:02
  What? Was Tupac kind of small?
• 1:16:03
  Wasn't he a small man? Yeah, he wasn't huge, but yeah.
• 1:16:07
  But I mean, Bob was. They make him look big.
• 1:16:10
  Bubba. Yeah, Bubba looked to be at
• 1:16:11
  least at least 6 foot or. Taller but yeah Tupac would been
• 1:16:15
  a different characters. Like ain't nothing but a shrimp
• 1:16:18
  boat party. Is that supposed to be Tupac?
• 1:16:21
  Tupac song Gangsta Party hit him up.
• 1:16:25
  You're a big Tupac fan, will love that.
• 1:16:28
  Wow, Tupac is the fucking best. Also, Joe Pesci was supposed to
• 1:16:32
  play Lieutenant Dan. No way.
• 1:16:36
  Can you? Could not have done it.
• 1:16:38
  Would not have. Done it justice, no, it would
• 1:16:39
  have been a different vibe though He.
• 1:16:41
  Would have been too angry. No, but it would have been good.
• 1:16:44
  Joe Pesci is. Lieutenant, I don't want any
• 1:16:47
  part of it. Or he's just swearing all the
• 1:16:49
  time. I don't want any part of it.
• 1:16:50
  I think Lieutenant Dan was perfectly cast.
• 1:16:52
  You stupid fuck, you supposed to leave me in the fucking my dear
• 1:16:56
  guy, you killed my destiny. You know, apparently the voice
• 1:17:00
  of Elvis was done by Kurt Russell, but it's unaccredited
• 1:17:04
  and unconfirmed, but it's widely believed to be Kurt Russell.
• 1:17:09
  Ohi didn't. It doesn't sound like, I mean,
• 1:17:11
  this sounds like Elvis. Apparently Kurt Russell does a
• 1:17:13
  really good Elvis. I could.
• 1:17:15
  Just believed to be. Him could see that.
• 1:17:17
  But of course it's uncredited and it's it's not confirmed.
• 1:17:20
  OK, so I gotta thing here, how many times did you cry in this
• 1:17:23
  movie? I wrote a bunch of times here
• 1:17:27
  and I can go down the list. OK, so.
• 1:17:31
  Because mine was 0. #1 Forrest and Jenny sitting on their tree
• 1:17:36
  as kids, where he tells us that she teaches him to read and he
• 1:17:41
  teaches her how to hang upside down.
• 1:17:44
  Now he teaches her how to dangle.
• 1:17:46
  Yeah, she taught me how to read. I taught her how to dangle. #2
• 1:17:50
  Jenny sees for us at the Washington Monument after his
• 1:17:55
  speech. You cried from.
• 1:17:56
  That I got choked up. Yeah, it's.
• 1:17:59
  A really just got little like it's so sweet.
• 1:18:03
  It's so girl. They both run into the friggin
• 1:18:06
  water and hug each other. Yeah, that's a really great
• 1:18:08
  moment. That's true friendship.
• 1:18:11
  Forest Mom telling Forest that she's sick.
• 1:18:15
  That seems. Really sad that scene broke my
• 1:18:17
  heart. Yeah, he he finds out she's sick
• 1:18:19
  and he like books at home. But if you watch the movie and
• 1:18:23
  you think about the scene in the beginning with the principle,
• 1:18:26
  it's a little. Just so bringing up the scene.
• 1:18:30
  But yeah, that seems really the whole sequence is sad because
• 1:18:33
  she's like, dying is a part of life and it's really, it's very
• 1:18:37
  sad. Yeah #4 Jenny coming home and
• 1:18:41
  being happy with Forest and he tells Jenny.
• 1:18:44
  Why won't you marry me, Jenny? Like they're dancing, He teaches
• 1:18:49
  her. She teaches him out of.
• 1:18:50
  Dance. Be a good husband.
• 1:18:52
  Yeah, that, that part really fucking sad.
• 1:18:56
  Yeah, well, it. Really shows but it really like
• 1:18:59
  you get like choked up because you're happy for him and then it
• 1:19:02
  doesn't turn out the way you want it to it's really sad well
• 1:19:05
  just. Shows how damaged she is because
• 1:19:07
  she could. She really couldn't accept his
• 1:19:08
  love. Bubba telling for us he wants to
• 1:19:12
  go home as he's dying in Vietnam.
• 1:19:14
  Oh, that's a fucking that'll that'll wreck you.
• 1:19:17
  Yeah, that part. You didn't cry from that fan.
• 1:19:22
  You too. You need some help.
• 1:19:23
  Bro, can I say a scene that wrecked me a little bit?
• 1:19:26
  Sure. So when Forrest asks if his son
• 1:19:32
  is smart or is he like me, that line specifically destroyed me
• 1:19:37
  because it's the first time in the film that Forest
• 1:19:40
  acknowledges that he is quote UN quote, slow.
• 1:19:45
  Mama, Mama. His name's Forrest.
• 1:19:53
  Like me. I named him after his daddy.
• 1:19:59
  He got a dad he didn't force too.
• 1:20:02
  You're his daddy for. First look at me.
• 1:20:11
  Look at me, Forest. There's nothing you need to do,
• 1:20:16
  OK? You didn't do anything wrong,
• 1:20:20
  OK? Isn't he beautiful?
• 1:20:28
  She most beautiful thing I've ever seen about is is he's
• 1:20:41
  smart. He's very smart.
• 1:20:45
  He's one of the smartest in his class.
• 1:20:47
  Yeah, I got that here. He does not bring it up at any
• 1:20:50
  other time. He he just mentions it at that
• 1:20:52
  time because he doesn't want his son to have to live through the
• 1:20:56
  struggles that he has. Experienced.
• 1:20:57
  Nobody does. And that's really sad and and
• 1:21:00
  like loving towards a kid he doesn't even know yet.
• 1:21:03
  Yeah, I got that here. It's a number.
• 1:21:06
  Sorry. It's #9 actually forest meets
• 1:21:08
  Little Forest. Fuck me up, fam.
• 1:21:11
  That whole part. The part that you just mentioned
• 1:21:14
  about, you know, asking is he like me when he puts his hand on
• 1:21:19
  his his chest, like his stomach and asks Jenny, Yeah, just that
• 1:21:23
  hand motion. Fuck Tom Hanks.
• 1:21:25
  You, you magician, you genius like.
• 1:21:28
  I know he really makes the emotions come.
• 1:21:31
  Out. I was like bawling my eyes out
• 1:21:33
  at that scene this time. And like I said, as a parent
• 1:21:38
  it's different. Fucking movie #7 Four is talking
• 1:21:42
  to Jenny at her grave and then he puts his sons letter on the
• 1:21:47
  tombstone. Get the fuck outta here.
• 1:21:54
  You're doing just fine. About to start school again
• 1:21:59
  soon. I make his breakfast, lunch and
• 1:22:04
  dinner every day. I'll make sure he Combs his
• 1:22:11
  hair, brushes his teeth every day.
• 1:22:16
  Kitchen. How to play ping pong?
• 1:22:20
  OK, he's really good. You go.
• 1:22:29
  We fish a lot. Every night we read a book which
• 1:22:35
  is so smart. Jenny, you've been so proud of
• 1:22:41
  you. I am here wrote you a letter and
• 1:22:51
  he says I can't read it. Not supposed to, so I just leave
• 1:22:55
  it here for you. That scene, Oh my God, it's like
• 1:23:00
  written mom on these tiny little, like cute little Kitty
• 1:23:04
  letters. Yeah, little kid left and he
• 1:23:06
  didn't open it because his son said he didn't want him to read.
• 1:23:09
  It, he said I'm not allowed to read.
• 1:23:11
  It Yeah, no, he's like Private. Dad's a dumbass.
• 1:23:14
  Like why did you leave me with this guy?
• 1:23:16
  It's private. It's really fucking sad.
• 1:23:20
  And then at the end, um, you know, the tree that they have
• 1:23:24
  the tree, the birds that fly away because Jenny always wished
• 1:23:30
  and prayed that she'd become a bird so she could fly away.
• 1:23:33
  Like I'd never noticed the birds until I remember the line.
• 1:23:37
  And then I saw the birds by other tree this time and I was
• 1:23:40
  like, Oh my God, this fucking movie.
• 1:23:42
  Just Water Works. I'm such a bitch.
• 1:23:45
  This movie turned me into such. A bitch when have you emotional
• 1:23:48
  because that's like kind of what we usually do in different as a
• 1:23:51
  parent segment. Well, this movie fucking from
• 1:23:53
  the get go. I don't know what it is.
• 1:23:56
  I mean, I know what it is, but it it's it's different.
• 1:24:00
  So let's get to it. Does this movie hit different as
• 1:24:03
  apparently? Before we get into that I just
• 1:24:05
  wanted to say one more thing about in shower thoughts and
• 1:24:07
  this isn't really a shower thought this is just I thought
• 1:24:10
  was it was interesting because my dad actually brought it up
• 1:24:12
  when we told him we were doing this. 1.
• 1:24:14
  The people that turned down the role for Forest?
• 1:24:18
  John Travolta. That would have been crazy.
• 1:24:22
  That would have been different. Bill Murray.
• 1:24:26
  Of yeah, it would have been big, big flop.
• 1:24:29
  Here's another flop Chevy Chase. Ah yeah, maybe.
• 1:24:34
  He can't play serious roles, maybe.
• 1:24:36
  And Bill Paxton were all considered for the role of
• 1:24:40
  forests, which ultimately went to Hanks.
• 1:24:41
  Biloxi could have done it. Yeah, I think he's.
• 1:24:43
  The only one on that list. John Travolta would have done it
• 1:24:46
  too. No, that guy.
• 1:24:47
  But it would have been maybe a little bit.
• 1:24:48
  Camp. No, he's got range.
• 1:24:50
  It's like looking at a mirror. Only not the next 100 years.
• 1:24:57
  If anybody gets that, just know you're.
• 1:25:00
  Gonna have episodes coming. That episode is definitely
• 1:25:02
  coming. Yeah.
• 1:25:05
  OK, um, so ask me the question again.
• 1:25:08
  Does this movie hit different as a parent?
• 1:25:11
  Do you wanna go first? You want me to go first?
• 1:25:13
  I'll go first. Definitely, definitely his
• 1:25:17
  different as a parent. This scene where Forest is
• 1:25:20
  getting the braces on his legs really affected me watching this
• 1:25:24
  because you never want your kid to be different.
• 1:25:26
  And it's hard going through something like that as a parent,
• 1:25:29
  especially a medical issue. Like once you have a kid,
• 1:25:32
  anytime you take them to the doctor or you get them checked
• 1:25:35
  or like they hit a milestone early or late, you find yourself
• 1:25:39
  in this position of being like, is my kid normal?
• 1:25:42
  Is my kid OK? Is my kid going to make it?
• 1:25:44
  Yeah. And you see Sally Fields
• 1:25:46
  character going through that and it's really fucking sad because
• 1:25:49
  she's watching potentially her kid not being able to walk
• 1:25:52
  properly. Yeah.
• 1:25:53
  That's devastating. Go run or do physical activities
• 1:25:57
  as a young boy. Yeah, so, so I felt for her.
• 1:26:00
  Her character in general is she's a great mother.
• 1:26:03
  She loves her son unconditionally and she doesn't
• 1:26:04
  want to be held back in life for any reason.
• 1:26:07
  She wants him to have the same opportunities as everybody else
• 1:26:10
  and he ends up having a spectacular life because she was
• 1:26:13
  so supportive and loving. Because especially back in the
• 1:26:16
  day, like if you had a kid that was special needs, a lot of
• 1:26:20
  times they didn't get the love and support that they needed.
• 1:26:23
  So that that really hit me different.
• 1:26:25
  And then for us discovering he has a son, this actually upset
• 1:26:31
  me. He missed out on his child being
• 1:26:33
  a baby. Yeah, he sees this 3 or 4 year
• 1:26:36
  old in front of him because he's been running for three years.
• 1:26:39
  I would be devastated to miss those early days with my kids.
• 1:26:44
  Yeah. My, my mat leave with our son
• 1:26:46
  was the best year of my life. Like hands down, yeah, the best
• 1:26:50
  year of my life to this day. That's very sweet.
• 1:26:53
  I had such an amazing time with him, such an amazing connection
• 1:26:56
  to my first baby. Like that's my little ride or
• 1:26:58
  die. He is my he.
• 1:26:59
  He and I have an unbreakable bond.
• 1:27:02
  Imagine missing those days with your kid.
• 1:27:06
  Like, no, that that really upset me.
• 1:27:08
  So I know that the Jenny character had to do some healing
• 1:27:13
  before she could let Forest back into her life and to be the
• 1:27:15
  father to her son, but she really robbed him of some really
• 1:27:19
  special times. Yeah.
• 1:27:21
  I mean, it's she may have tried to bring him, introduce him
• 1:27:25
  sooner, but like you said, he was running for three years so
• 1:27:29
  you couldn't really reach him. I'm I'm hoping that that's why
• 1:27:32
  it took so. Long.
• 1:27:32
  I think that's why. Cause cause he he lost out on
• 1:27:35
  some really. Beautiful because she left.
• 1:27:37
  There's no way that she knew she was pregnant right away.
• 1:27:40
  And then she's probably like in turmoil.
• 1:27:42
  Do I keep it? Do I not?
• 1:27:43
  And then she keeps it. And then she's probably going
• 1:27:46
  through a whole bunch of soul searching like she's, you know.
• 1:27:50
  I think the love of her child and her being able to love to
• 1:27:54
  love an innocent child and and and raise them as a loving
• 1:27:57
  mother healed the trauma inside her.
• 1:28:00
  I agree. And she couldn't be with Forest
• 1:28:02
  until that was healed. Yeah.
• 1:28:05
  I agree but she cause she's she's a she's a different person
• 1:28:08
  when he sees her again but she could she could have let him in
• 1:28:12
  sooner to see that child as a baby.
• 1:28:16
  That's destiny, right? Yeah.
• 1:28:19
  What do you have? OK, so like I said at the
• 1:28:22
  beginning of this podcast, this movie, um, I was basically
• 1:28:27
  sobbing in a lot of the scenes and it's this movie hits
• 1:28:31
  different as a parent. It is a completely different
• 1:28:34
  movie once you have kids. Every little moment from the
• 1:28:38
  beginning to the end when he gets his braces on his legs,
• 1:28:43
  Yeah, he doesn't get a seat on the bus.
• 1:28:46
  Um, you know, those kids are chasing him and bullying him.
• 1:28:49
  The braces, he breaks out of them, you know, all these little
• 1:28:54
  moments of him, you know, hanging out with Jenny, having
• 1:28:58
  his best friend, all these little things as when you're a
• 1:29:03
  parent, you're like, how do I protect my kid from all the
• 1:29:07
  horrible, horrible things that this world has and horrible
• 1:29:12
  people? Because life is hard.
• 1:29:15
  And then there's people that make it 10 times harder.
• 1:29:18
  And when you become a parent, the the first thing you realize
• 1:29:24
  right away is that your vulnerability is now.
• 1:29:28
  It's always skyrocketing and it does not let up and it's
• 1:29:33
  terrifying. Yeah, you're on alert.
• 1:29:36
  You're on alert. Your kid comes out of the womb
• 1:29:38
  and you're like, how many fingers do they have?
• 1:29:41
  How many toes do they have? You know, Can they?
• 1:29:44
  Breathe. Are they breathing?
• 1:29:45
  Are they breathing? Are they peeing?
• 1:29:46
  Are they pooping? Yeah, do they?
• 1:29:48
  Can they hear? Can they see?
• 1:29:51
  Can they eat? Properly and then as they get
• 1:29:53
  older, you're like, OK, we're past that stage now.
• 1:29:56
  It's something else. It's, you know, oh, are they
• 1:30:00
  reaching this milestone? Are they walking?
• 1:30:02
  Can they walk? Is this gonna be something, you
• 1:30:05
  know, you're terrified. Is this child gonna have mental
• 1:30:07
  disabilities, physical disabilities?
• 1:30:10
  And you're just like spiraling. You can spiral.
• 1:30:12
  And the sad part is you can't enjoy your kid because you're
• 1:30:16
  worried. And you every doctor
• 1:30:19
  appointment, like you said, you take your kid and you're like,
• 1:30:21
  you're praying that they don't say anything.
• 1:30:24
  That's going to fucking scare the living shit out of you.
• 1:30:27
  Yeah, from the minute you get pregnant it's like that.
• 1:30:30
  Cause every ultrasound you're like, is there a heartbeat?
• 1:30:32
  Are they normal? Is everything OK?
• 1:30:34
  Yeah, it's the scariest thing ever, but it's also the most
• 1:30:38
  beautiful thing ever. And then as they get older,
• 1:30:42
  you're because little forests. And I'm like thinking about like
• 1:30:45
  him. And even when Forrest Gump, like
• 1:30:48
  Tom Hanks character as a kid, I'm like you.
• 1:30:50
  You don't just love your kid because it's your your your kid
• 1:30:53
  anymore. It's you start to love their
• 1:30:54
  personality. There's little quirks, their
• 1:30:56
  habits, the little things they do, and then they start to talk
• 1:31:01
  and then they start to say things and you start to love how
• 1:31:05
  they say things and you just become even more vulnerable.
• 1:31:10
  It's really, really crazy feeling.
• 1:31:14
  And this movie shows it. You know, you see the struggles
• 1:31:17
  that Forrest Gumps having as a kid and he gets older and his
• 1:31:22
  mom's a single mom and you know, you, you feel for her.
• 1:31:25
  You feel for him. And then he gets older and then
• 1:31:30
  his mom is sick. And the, you know, the scene
• 1:31:33
  where he finds out that she's sick is, I don't know, it's just
• 1:31:38
  anybody who loves their parents like that.
• 1:31:42
  And I assume most people do if you have a good relationship
• 1:31:46
  with your parent. But he fucking jumps off the
• 1:31:48
  ship, off the boat, the shrimp boat, and swims to shore to go
• 1:31:53
  see his mom. And then he fucking runs to the
• 1:31:56
  house, drenched in sweat. And then she tells them that
• 1:32:00
  she's dying and you start to think about, you know, you have
• 1:32:03
  kids, you start thinking about your parents mortality.
• 1:32:06
  And that's fucking scary because you start to see your parents
• 1:32:09
  get older and they don't do things that they can do, you
• 1:32:12
  know? And it's really, really, you're
• 1:32:16
  super vulnerable. So yeah, it fucking hits
• 1:32:21
  different as a parent. Yeah, that took you on.
• 1:32:24
  Just an emotional roller coaster there.
• 1:32:26
  It does, and if you look at it through that lens, I think
• 1:32:29
  anybody with a kid is going to feel that 01 more thing.
• 1:32:33
  Sorry, the scene that really broke me in half.
• 1:32:38
  It's not even the scene where he meets Little Forest.
• 1:32:40
  That part is really sad and cute and like everything all at.
• 1:32:44
  Once so when they watch partner and together.
• 1:32:47
  The scene where he goes to Jenny's gravestone and he's
• 1:32:52
  talking to her is really, really heartbreaking because the whole
• 1:32:57
  time this guy has been trying to, you know, he loves Jenny.
• 1:33:02
  He wants to be with her. He wants to marry her and be
• 1:33:05
  happy with her. And he only gets her for a very
• 1:33:08
  short period of time and then she's gone.
• 1:33:12
  And then he's now a single parent and he's crying to her
• 1:33:18
  and he's saying that he's the smartest kid in the class.
• 1:33:20
  And that part fucking killed me. And then he puts the little
• 1:33:23
  envelope on her tombstone from her son's letter to his mom.
• 1:33:29
  You know, you think about yourself, you go, you imagine
• 1:33:32
  yourself as a single parent or you imagine your partner if
• 1:33:35
  something happened to you as a single parent.
• 1:33:38
  It's super heartbreaking. Yeah, we've all, we've all gone
• 1:33:41
  to that dark place, you know. Yeah, and my intrusive thoughts
• 1:33:44
  were on fucking full tap. Yeah, and it was high octane.
• 1:33:48
  It was not the regular. It was fucking premium.
• 1:33:51
  Premium intrusive. Thought you loved the intrusive
• 1:33:54
  thoughts? When it was 94 octane it was
• 1:33:56
  like she needs premium dude. Premium, dude.
• 1:34:04
  So yeah, if you're a parent, if you haven't seen Forrest Gump in
• 1:34:08
  a while, watch it as a parent and bring your Kleenex box with
• 1:34:12
  you. Yeah, It's really crazy how
• 1:34:14
  drastically movies change. And just the things that you
• 1:34:17
  never thought of or really are never noticed in movies just
• 1:34:20
  become such a moment that emotionally rocks you.
• 1:34:24
  Like that beginning scene with Forrest getting the braces on
• 1:34:27
  his legs. Like, it was always just kind of
• 1:34:28
  like, funny, you know? And then watching as a parent,
• 1:34:31
  you just, you think of any time you've taken your kid to the
• 1:34:33
  doctor anytime you're concerned about them.
• 1:34:35
  Like, you know that feeling you have a pit in your stomach?
• 1:34:37
  Yeah. And it's like, or if somebody's
• 1:34:39
  ever said anything about your kid, like they had enough
• 1:34:42
  starvation and you're just like, huh, You know, like, yeah, it's,
• 1:34:48
  I don't know. Being a parent is is fucking
• 1:34:51
  terrifying. It's a trip.
• 1:34:52
  It's a trip. It's it's, it's beautiful, but
• 1:34:55
  it's also the scariest shit ever.
• 1:34:57
  And all you can try to do is just enjoy the ride.
• 1:35:03
  Yeah, and enjoy your kids as much as possible.
• 1:35:06
  And I think that is a a beautiful thing about Forest is
• 1:35:08
  he actually is. He's enjoying his son.
• 1:35:12
  Yeah. And he it it.
• 1:35:14
  He doesn't need to be as concerned as his mom was about
• 1:35:19
  him. Yeah.
• 1:35:20
  But because he he's, he doesn't necessarily, I don't want to say
• 1:35:25
  he doesn't have the capacity to concern.
• 1:35:26
  Of course he does. But I think he is a little bit
• 1:35:29
  more carefree as a character which make which makes this ride
• 1:35:34
  with him so unique. I think so, but you know that
• 1:35:36
  scene where he's waiting for the bus at the end to for Little
• 1:35:39
  Forest to go to school for the first time?
• 1:35:41
  Yeah. Like our little man is going to
• 1:35:43
  be going to school this fall and I'm going to be a train wreck.
• 1:35:46
  Yeah, I've, I've, I'm specifically not going back to
• 1:35:49
  work until after he's in school for a couple weeks because I'm
• 1:35:52
  going to be, I don't even know I'm going to handle it.
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  That's what I mean. Like this parenthood and this
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  movie. This should, this movie
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  shouldn't be called. No, it shouldn't be Forrest
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  Gump. It should just be called
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  vulnerability. Emotional damage.
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  Emotional damage. You've just called vulnerable.
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  Vulnerability. It should be called that.
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  Yeah. Because everybody's vulnerable
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  in this movie. Bubba's vulnerable.
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  Lieutenant Dans emotionally vulnerable.
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  Jenny's vulnerable. His mom is vulnerable.
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  Forrest. Forrest is vulnerable.
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  Everybody is. Yeah.
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  So with that in mind, let's let's rate this.
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  Movie OK what are we rating this?
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  OK, so how many Doctor Peppers out of 10 are you giving this
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  are you can also give it 15 Doctor Pepper if you want.
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  I have about 15 doctor Peppers. Um, I'm going to give it 9.5
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  doctor Peppers out of 10. It's, it's almost perfect, but
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  there are just a couple things that that make it a little bit
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  less than perfect for me. And that's why I'm going to give
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  it 9.5, yeah. I have a couple of issues with
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  obviously the story, but it's a beautiful movie.
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  I I can't, I can't give it a perfect one.
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  I want to so badly. I'm gonna.
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  Yeah, I don't know why I can't I. 9.8 it's getting a 9.89.8
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  it's right up there with Goodfellas in terms of overall
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  movie from A-Z. Classic.
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  It's familiar. It's Tom Hanks at his best.
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  Yeah, it's a great movie. It's fucking wicked and Robert
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  Zemeckis is just everything about this.
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  Like you got Gary Sinise. This movie made Gary Sinise into
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  a household name in my opinion. Well, not for me, because I
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  thought it was named Jerry the penis.
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  Dairy Sinus seen as the penis. But yeah 9.8 I give it a 9.8 I I
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  fucking love this movie even more so as a parent.
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  And if you, you know, sometimes people just need a good cry.
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  If you need a good cry, just throw this on.
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  It'll give you a good laugh, but it'll give you a good cries too.
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  Yeah, if you're put. No, I'm just kidding.
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  Yo, you'll lower your fucking voice.
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  Um, anyway, thanks, thank you guys so much for listening.
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• 1:38:27
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• 1:38:29
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• 1:38:46
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  I'd make a good husband, Jenny. I should have did this whole
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  podcast with Forrest Gump voice. You should have you do it really
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  well. Alright, thanks for listening.
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  Everybody catch you next time. Catch you next time.
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  I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.