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The God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hello everyone, and
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welcome to Planet Bruce. Of course, I'm your host Malenko and I'm Alex
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Nice. And today we're talking about two thousands of the kid. It's not
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even a two thousands away. It feels like an IT nineties movie. Dude,
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it's so majestic. It feels like a movie that wasn't was like nineteen
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ninety eight. Oh my god, dude, at the latest, that the
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latest. It feels very comfortably in nineteen ninety four for me. Even though
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Bruce's balding is very two thousand, very dense, the piece, the piece
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is glued in such a way that it looks like mimicking is perfectly seated hairlines.
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Yeah, totally. I think. I think the addition of the piece
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to Bruce is to make him look younger, to make him a thirty nine
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year old man. I mean, which he was in this movie. Was
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he he's yeah, and he was he was like he was a boomer boomer
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is forty five. Yeah, for sure. He was a guy whose dad
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got weekend alcoholic. Well, he was a guy who, like you know,
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skin routine was for the other kinds of Hollywood. Yeah, not a
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man's man. Yeah, totally, but a skin routine would have benefited him
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a little bit. Dude. Can I just say that I was so hot
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in this? Yeah? Absolutely? Who jeans smart the lady? Who's the
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young lady. Well we'll get we'll get we'll get tall of that, we'll
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get we'll get to that. But before we start today, I had a
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guest that I wanted to come in. So I'm gonna go away for a
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second. Okay, okay, all right, I won't go away. I'm
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going to be here and I'm going to invite our guests on. Okay here,
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Alex, how you doing, schwartzy, How are you well? I'm
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doing really good today because you know, this morning I released my newest plan
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for how to like, you know, get ahead. You know because in
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my email that is called the positive Corner of the Internet. Of course,
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dude, I've been getting those. I wanted to tell you about the six
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qualities of real manliness. Oh manly, I mean yeah. We talked about
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manliness on the show all the time. We talk about how you were a
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man and you had another kid, didn't tell your life Listen, you know
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the details of my personal life. I like to leave out the door because
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of course, of course. Yeah, we didn't invite you on to interrogate
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you. I just please you know I love you guys. The first season
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was some of the most antion episodes I've ever heard. I mean, yeah,
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I'm sorry we made fun of your other children so much. Well,
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listen, you know Catherine's a little bit of a bitch. We all know
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that. And Christopher, like, nobody likes Christopher, but Patrick Swatzi,
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he's peace to. He's my peace to. Yeah, he's good. I
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like him a lot. I like him. And Daniel is it real?
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And Josephvaniel looks so much like you did. He's like in my movies.
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He's now trying to recreate my movies. Please tell us about the positive corner
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of the internet, please, you asked whole. To be rugged is to
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be tough, determined, solid and strong. To be flexible is to be
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soft, supple, to bend easily without breaking. Put them together, and
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the result is rugged flexibility, a great endurance in anti fragility that drives over
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the long haul. Here are some of the core qualities of rugged inflexible masculinity,
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all of which I aspire to in still in my son, Speaking of
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my son. Number one genuine strength, clearheadedness, composure, stability amid uncertainty,
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the ability to respond to challenging circumstances instead of reacting. Not to be
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confused with chest stumping, peacocking or machismo acts of power, because you know,
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Schwarzi is not about the toxic masculinity. I'm woke Schwarzi. He is
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very woke Schwarzi. Number two is wisdom allowing yourself to be open and shaped
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by experience, not scared of change, and not being scared to change,
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knowing your core values the hills you'll die on, but being willing to apply
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them in different ways and circumstances, much like I spoke out about Crystal knached
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of course, and climate change of course, you know really important something that
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your your your co host here, Melanko, me, what are you talking
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about? Well, you know you know all about climate change because that's what
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you do in your tay job. You work in climate advocacy. And I
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really appreciate that. I appreciate it, you dude, not just Schwartzy.
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Allowing yourself to be open and shape for experience. Right. So, emotional
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flexibility is number three, and feeling the feelings and being able to name them,
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talk about them, and let them move through you instead of repressing them
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or fusing them. You know, my father, he was so overcome with
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what he had done with the Nazi Party that you know, he was doing
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all kinds of things like drinking alcohol and maybe a little bit of opiates on
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the side. We don't know, it's not been confirmed, but you know
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you need to try to suppress these feelings and escape it. It can hurt
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you inside. So I advocate for you really going to speaking in therapy.
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Nice, Nice, dude. There's a lot of therapy in this movie too,
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which we'll get to, of course. But number four is humility knowing
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what you don't know, which for almost all of us is the vast majority
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of everything. Understanding that your view of the world is merely one of billions
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being curious instead of certain, open instead of closed. Man, Schwartzy,
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you're dropping some real fucking truth bombs. Dude, Okay, I've got I
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mean, you didn't drop the truth bomb to Maria, but that's okay.
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I know, I know, I listen, I fucked up, and like
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I'm able to take myself to task for something that I did and actually I
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did a lot of growing from that situation, you know, because I cheated
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on her. My sons were born almost four days apart. My two sons
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born in the same year. And then everybody was joking about how much Joseph
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looked at like me, But he really is. He's my blood, you
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know, he's my flesh and blood. And also, I mean, like
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Patrick looks like you too, right right from the forehead up. I know
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he's got a little bit of the schwartz Yeah, schwartzy eyes. You know,
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I heard the drop. I love the drop. Every time you do
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it. It's the best. What does it feel like being like influencer?
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Now? Well, you know, like I don't want to talk too much
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about that because I've got like two more points here I need to get to
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it. But what I will say is that Lulu and Whiskey, my miniature
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horse and donkeyo when I try to like discipline them. Something that I learn
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about myself is that I cannot be so closed off. These animals are so
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smart, and we thought that they were dumb, but now they live with
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me. My house probably smells like fucking shit, But what are you gonna
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do? Okay? Number five true confidence not feeling the need to intimidate one
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up or make others feel bad, to be okay with yourself, realizing that
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confidence is an inside game, knowing that when you aren't feeling okay with yourself,
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that's fine too. Asking for help when you need it is not a
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sign of weakness, It's a sign of strength. So this is one that's
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really dear to my heart because when I had open hearts surgery, you know,
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I couldn't be the confident guy I was anymore. You know, I
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can't lift like Slide. Does you know Slide didn't have any open heart surgeries
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and he takes all that ahgh Still, so he looks really fit, you
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know. And he grew, he grew. Hey stacked bota, we all
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stack both. But let me ask you something, shortzy, what about your
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height? It's been much for the way listen, I know I'm shorter than
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you guys, but like listen, I I you know just what I'm finished?
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Dude, What are you talking about his height for? Please? Thank
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you? I really appreciate you. Speaking of height, the sixth to one
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number six is physicality, connecting with to your body, no matter how tall
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you are, even if you lied about your sixty three height, and being
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grateful for what it can do, maintaining your health so that you can show
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up, protect and care for those around you for a long time. You
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may wonder on those qualities for everyone, not just men. Dance is probably
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yes, this is really about being a good person regardless of your sex or
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gender. And as you know, as woke Schwazi, I accept all genders.
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I'm not only talking about the men and woman. These are antiquated ideas.
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You know, back in the day, if I found somebody who is
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a damn hot I would probably touch their fucking ass, you know. But
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that's the old Schwarz. Essentially, that's the old Swazi. I was never
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consensual in the past. I admitted to these wrongs they then she heard,
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doesn't matter to me. I touched ass. You know he did? You
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did, dude. I accepted this, Meude, But I got soft Me
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two in two thousand and eight. But people forgot about it because I so
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forcefully came out against it. Yeah, I'm reformed Schwazi. You know,
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when Me Too was happening, I was quaking in my boots. But the
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cancelation did not happen because I was spoken about Crystal Nacht. But I'm a
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dude, and I think dudes in particular would benefit from this road map.
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I look forward to continuing to explore masculinity in the coming days along with the
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other guys from Pump Club. Until then, be rugged, be flexible,
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and be well, my friends. And you know this proves actually with that
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last sentence, be well, that's like proves exactly what Sly was predicting in
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the movie Demolition Man. He predicted every kind of thing that I'm going to
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be president. You know, I believe it, I see it. I
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hope so well. Thank you for having me on as a guest. I
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really appreciated the next hole. We know you have to go, dude.
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You have a busy schedule of being on other people's podcasts. Dude, I've
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been seeing you on a bunch of podcasts as an influencer. You know,
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you have to make the rounds, you know. But I always got a
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new book. I've always had time for my favorite podcast. Let's not talk
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about my book. You know, I'm not here for some promotion. I'm
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here to talk about six positive masculinity traits. Well, I appreciate, uh,
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I appreciate it, dude, I appreciate you being on Schwartzy. Thank
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you so much. Although to see you guys later. Wow, dude,
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you go to SCHWARTZI I mean it was hard, dude, Like it was
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pretty good for a really long time. But he was he was able to
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join us. Anyway, I was glad that Schwartzy dropped by. Would you
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like to have some visits from Schwartzy for the positive corner of the internet,
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Like, let us know if that's a welcomed bit. I'm talking to you
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the audience. So, dude, this movie it's amazing, dude, it's
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kind of amazing, kind of amazing. It's kind of a bold ass idea
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number one for a kid's movie, Like who's this movie for? This movie
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is not for kids at all, Like not not for kids in the way
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that like Pee's Big Adventure isn't for kids. No, no, no,
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this movie straight up for adults. It's only for adults. Somebody made this
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movie now they'd be like, wow, this is a millennial masterpiece. A
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millennial masterpiece. This is a millennial masterpiece. It's not for it's not for
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children, it's for it's for millennials. And it's like it feels like it
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this feels like it's for jet extras. Oh totally, it is for gen
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xers, And I think like it was really really well done. Yeah it
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was. Yeah, yeah, this is I think Bruce is getting more less
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crazy eyes, even though he did have some crazy eyes of this one.
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Dude. He in comedies, Bruce Comedy, Bruce lets his eye zoo wacky
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eyes. Yeah, oh yeah, totally totally. But this movie is really
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good. Yeah, I'm really glad. I was like kind of like,
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ah, fucking like, this is fucking shit. Watch this. I'm so
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glad we watched it. I want to talk about a couple of things to
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you before we start. Okay, this is what I wanted to say.
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We need to talk about the mechanics of the magic in this movie, because
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I think they're really interesting. We also need to talk about the little kid
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acting because this is some of the best little kid acting that I think I've
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ever seen. This kid strikes such an incredible balance of like annoying a humility.
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There's a humility to him. There's a kind of like just genuine little
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kidness to him. But he's annoying, but not in a in a like
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oh I'm in a movie. No No, he's not in a movie.
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He's really very real, annoying in a way that this kind of kid,
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this slobbery kid, would totally be, but just just making him the absolute
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kid that he is, the innocent, dumb little kid, and he is
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worked so perfectly for the lesson that older Bruce needs to learn from his little
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kid's self. Yeah, and also gives him reason to be like I need
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like it gives him the ability to be like, I need to teach this
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kid a lesson and well the hubris that he needs. He thinks he needs
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to teach him the lesson because what he does for a living is he fixes
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other things. He fixes other people's people's images. So let's let's roll it
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back for a second the movie. To describe it quickly, it's about Bruce
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Willis meeting his younger self in present day, just right about as he's about
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to turn forty, and he thinks he's going crazy, But it's really about
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a lesson that needs to be learned, and we go through the movie,
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and the movie like unfolds that way. But that's kind of like the crux
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of it. Bruce learns a lesson, but also, what are you doing?
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You know he does like like like abusive yelling at a kid totally,
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But like I was thinking about this, all of the shit things that he
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does to the kid and all of the shit ways that he is as a
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person are a direct result of like his childhood trauma, but also other things
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that happen throughout his life like create him in a particular kind of way,
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and even like the people in his life kind of accepting that he's like not
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crazy that he tells the story of this little boy fucking being himself. Like
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Jeane Smart, who he needs to right at the beginning of the movie in
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a plane, She's so amazing, but she's like she's like I do say,
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I do say, so I do say, but she's so thirsty for
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him, dude. It was like it was like like, oh, you're
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gonna give me some free advice, are you? And it seemed like he
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could have just been like, well, why don't you want to join the
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male ac club with me? Like I guarantee at any point he could have
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done anything. The way that she was acting, yeah, totally, like
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she was just like literally, I mean she was acting it away that no
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one ever does it on a plane ever. No, no, one is
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trying to fuck this much on a plane. It's you feel dirty. You
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feel dirty the whole time, dude, And there's like, for sure pooh
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on all of the places. It's the whole blade is the whole plane is
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covered in poo and pooh and or poop particles because you just because you open
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that door, the flatty door, listen, and as soon as it closes,
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it wafts all the poo out. It doesn't matter how much suction.
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The airplanes are like filthy, they're like filthy like that. They're like poop
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particles and they wouldn't be having sex with my high club poop particles. He's
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like, let me give you some free advice and then tears her down.
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Your hair is too big, and it's kind of is like nagging in a
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way. It's like what what like? But she's like super into it and
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like follows his rules. It's the rules that part of it feels weird of
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like this what you gotta do, baby, No, but no, keep
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the accent. In six months, you'll have a promotion. Yeah, totally.
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What does he say to her? He gives one of the six months
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you'll have you'll get a promotion, and in twelve months, you'll be a
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star. Make your eyes bluer, yeah, put contact lenses on. And
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then the the they're already blue. The plane flies down and almost he like
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ducks out of the way, and then he's like, hey, did you
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see that? To the to the guy in the closes the window, and
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it's it's a pretty funny movie actually, Like I had a really good time
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watching it. It's exactly it's Alex Humor to a t. It's totally me
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absolutely and jokes that you go amazing as the secretary and like did you get
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sexually? She's totally that kind of well secretary liar style secretary. So like
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do you think that movies a very Seinfeld actor? Dude, do you think
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totally this was a trope the kind of like homely middle aged woman like this
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is what a woman of middle age who's probably unwed could be likely and also
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amazing like hyper competent, thus getting away like you know, she's too competent
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for men to handle. So she's well, she's because she's got strong lesbian
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overtones, of course, and I think I like, kudos to her for
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playing it very lesbian. I also think like there's a kind of like a
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boy's I can hang with the boys, has to be able to hang with
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the you know what else has to be able to hang with the boys in
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this movie, Madily boredemer Yeah, really you don't think so? Oh yeah,
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she does have to hang with Oh I thought you meant lesbian. I
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was like, really, no, no, no, she has She definitely
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has to have a different kind of be able, not a lesbian with the
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boys, but like a cool girl to hang with the girl like somewhat picked
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me, but has to be a little bit kind of do I majestic?
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Like he's so good at it. He's turning forty and she's turning thirty.
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I don't know if you caught that. Yeah, a ten year gap.
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Yeah, they made it a ten year gap, which is a yellow flag
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to me. But his boss can't be him being a boss. That's a
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huge red flag. She's only barely in her twenties. She's only she's she's
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barely twenty. But then, speaking of Seinfeld actors, we've got what about
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George oh Man Kruger, Kruger, Kruger, Yo that this is my boss,
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mister Kruger. Have you seen the poll cougar? He doesn't need to
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see the poll. He's going to see it. My son's got Kruger.
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My son tells me, like, you know, doesn't care. Yeah,
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yo, Kruger. My son tells me your company stakes. Oh good,
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you'll get yours in a minute. Kroger, you couldn't smooth or soak shed
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if you had a hot date with a baby. I lost my train of
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thought. Jerry Stiller did such a good job of like that kind of old
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man doesn't care. It's gotta spill Eddy sort of like truth. Yeah,
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totally, totally. I Actually, I think what I really enjoyed most in
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George George, What about George? About George? What I enjoyed most about
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this movie is that I kind of this is the most I related to Bruce.
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I think I like was like yeah, yeah, yeah, I was
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like this is who I kind of ended up becoming, you know what I
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mean in a way yeah, where it was like, oh yeah, like
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his dad comes to the office to like kind of reach out to him and
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be like, hey, I wanted to to come and and you know,
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maybe you can help me move or whatever. And your brother is or your
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sister is with me. That's why I gave you the check I don't want
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to be your friend. Yeah. Well, like I mean, this is
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also very tough the energy to like come to clear pitively and be like,
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hey, I'm old. Yeah, why did you come be with me because
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I'm old? Isn't Isn't that enough? Isn't that enough me being old?
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No, dude, it's definitely not enough. And then we go to see
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Emily Mortimer, who is so plucky and and so she did such a good
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job in this movie, like she did, she did the writing doesn't do
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her any favors, unfortunately, the favor going to be done for you.
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Yeah, definitely. But like you know, as this character, which is
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like a very familiar trope, she really did a good job. She did
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a really good job, and she had clearly of the kinds of Tom Cruise
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of this era here. But at the same time, I mean, like
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she's so charming in it, and she like plays it so well, stands
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big and the magic you fully buy it from everybody. Everyone reacts to it
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kind of pitch perfectly because there's not enough. There's not too much excitement about
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it. It's kind of like, oh, yeah, this makes sense.
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It's not like now the way they would do it is it's me as a
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kid. What are you talking about? It's you as a kid. That's
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impossible. What do you mean You sound like you're being crazy? What are
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you talking about? Whereas it like everybody's a little magic in this everybody has
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to sort of accept a little bit of That's why it feels like like very
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like you know what kind of reality it felt like to me a little bit
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the magic of Hook Yeah, yeah, totally, or any of the nineties
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like magic movies. It's more an adulton, it's more adultant hook. But
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but yeah, Home Alone has magic too. Home Alone does fully have magic.
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Yeah. But he goes to this is the first when he meets up
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with Emily Mortimer. Uh, and they go to that like head of that
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baseball team who promises to children that he's gonna make a baseball camp or whatever.
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This is the first time we see the glimpses of her being charmed by
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him, while at the same time seeing like, oh, man, like
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he's such a dick though, and not only is such a dick, but
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this guy's such a mess. Yeah, I don't know. Bruce was in
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a lot of movies where he's like a hot shot who's like got like a
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expensive house and car, even if it's in a movie where he steals it
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from his dead best Yeah, oh yeah, totally. It's interesting how often
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he's humbled in a lot of movies. Bruce has has the most humilities.
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Yeah, he learns lessons. But he he films this thing with the baseball
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manager guy where he gets a bunch of kids, which again this is a
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Disney movie. Yeah, Like he's like get four white, three Latino,
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No, no, uh, four white, four Latino and one and three
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black. Yeah, and he splits it in into like because of course he
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wants to give cream pies to this guy. He wants to film cream and
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he does film cream pies with the guy and she she like calls him out
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on it. She's like, this is a little sick that you're like trying
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to rehabilitate this guy's career who promised the camp thing, and like now you're
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getting these kids to cream behind him And he's like yeah, yeah, and
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he wants to film it to leak you on the internet videos of this old
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man's But then he has a change of heart. He realized, you know,
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you ordered scream pies. Though, how many did you get nine cream
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pies? I was like, wait, know how many cream pies? You
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know, because sometimes some of those videos there's a lot of a lot of
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a lot of them. But yeah, what ends up happening is he tricks
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Emily Mortimer that he that he throws the cream pie video in the garbage,
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and she is so impressed with him, and she's like, she's like,
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you didn't leak those those cream pie videos. It's amazing. And then she
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goes, look at the moon. Look at how awesome the moon is.
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She's she's almost the I'm in a movie character in this movie. Well,
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so we had a party, a sultist party. Well, she said that
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was about the moon. It was long, it was about the moon because
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I only believe in the moon and the gods in that he was not like
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that every name is Jade. I went to her station. She's kind of
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almost proto Pixie dream Girl, you know, she is this is very proto
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Pixie dream Girl, and he like viciously makes fun of her like in this
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role, which I was like kind of impressed that they took such like weirdly
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dark turns where it's like it almost feels like when Jack makes fun of Shelley
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Duvall in Shining where he's like, Yeah, where do you think we should
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dick do a doctor? And it's like, oh, this is so cruel,
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dude, why are you doing this? You know? But it then
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makes sense. Yeah, like she's really her by it, and he is
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like still kind of like a dick. He's a dick through like most of
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this movie and like only gets the arc far far into the which I liked.
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I appreciated the setup because you know, you get a lot of like
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you get the first glimpses of the kid running around, like sneaking around,
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and it's like, what is happening, dude? Like when I saw the
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Kid, because I've seen this movie and I liked it when I saw it
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too when I was younger, and I was like, whoa dude, Like,
27:27
but kill? I was like, I'd be so scared if I was
27:33
like eight years old. Well, part of the magic of this movie is
27:37
that this kid's not phased or scared by any of this. Yeah, like
27:41
you know, if he went to the future, he would be phased then
27:45
scared and he would be weird of the future dude. No, but no,
27:48
I mean like if if like a real life kid went into the future.
27:52
Oh yeah, he would be like, like really scared. If a
27:55
little me, if an eight year old me went to meet a thirty nine
27:57
year old now me, I would be terrified. Yeah, I'd like,
28:02
I'd be like, whoa dude, you're bowling so much. And I'd be
28:07
like, yeah, dude, I'm on my hair growth journey, reconstructed this
28:11
hairline. Listen, listen, dude, let me tell you something. Let
28:14
me give you some advice. Starting monoxy Listen, starting monoxid. Literally,
28:21
it's not that bad for starting It's okay. You might get like weird hot
28:25
flashes or something, but but yeah, Bruce wakes up. He's like,
28:32
you know, you get some still some more talking to Lily Tomlin, Lily
28:36
Tomlin doing her fucking job from bed. Didn't she have a husband? No?
28:41
No, But anyway, he finds a little plane and he's like,
28:44
Rusty, that's me, man, dad's getting weird. Yeah. Yeah.
28:48
He thinks that his Tata left something on his doorstep, his feeble Krueger Kruger.
28:57
Yeah, totally, and then he goes to chase himself down like riding
29:02
on a bike. It's kind of cool, like it's kind of like some
29:04
of the shots are cool. It's kind of an interesting the direction. Yeah,
29:08
the direction is like like no, this is actually like not bad and
29:12
then he ends up. It felt very nineties directed. Yeah, it's a
29:18
very very nineties Do you not know? You don't know who directed it?
29:23
Offhand? Something Talbot? Do you know what else he's done? No?
29:30
But does he have a name? Call him lawyer jud Turtle Talb. What
29:36
a crazy name? And what is he directed? Turtle Talb? Whoa,
29:41
he's a sorcerer's apprentice. Then oh, the National Treasure movies. Those are
29:45
also very magical movies. Cool Runnings, dude, Cool Runnings, which we
29:52
should do for a boner show, Dude, I love that movie. That
29:55
would be cool. Like it's bad and it's a problematic movie, but it's
29:59
a really good movie. I mean, you should do it for a boner
30:00
show, dude, Dude. The main character of that movie is definitely John
30:04
Candy Three Ninjas. He does do magical movies. He does do magical movies.
30:11
Bruce ends up at the airport where he goes into this like weird diner
30:17
that's like also like an existential diner. What's happening? What's happening. Did
30:22
you see a kid like his panic? Is kind of magical too, because
30:29
it's like, why do you care this much of a like, I don't
30:32
know if this would be the reaction, but I kind of loved his react.
30:36
Do you think he's like got a feeling it? I'm not beating I
30:41
can't. I don't know. He recognized himself, Yeah, he totally recognized
30:47
himself. But then he goes to see the therapist and she's like, oh,
30:51
who what this woman is? She's the fucking lady for the This is
30:56
the concierge sah, speaking of home alone too, totally, totally, this
31:02
is this lady is such a magical actress. She is such a magical actress.
31:06
She's the lady who's like, how may I help you? Yeah,
31:11
Dana Eve Eve doctor Alexander's Daniel von Bargain is what about George? Like Daniel
31:21
von bark the character guy's name. That's the no, that's the real dude's
31:25
name. Which real dude, Oh oh what the yeah? But I like
31:32
that that. He's like, man, this therapist is terrible. She's just
31:37
or psychologist. She's just like, here, take this heavy dose of medication.
31:42
It's a sedative. It should put you out for several hours before you
31:47
come back here. And I do mean you should come back here. Yeah
31:51
yeah, And it's like we don't see you again. I don't think no,
31:56
no, And it's like, no, he solved all his problems,
31:59
dude, he's childhood trauma. He actually did do therapy. Yeah, he
32:04
just actually real life did therapy. He didn't have to because that's what you
32:07
do in therapy. Yeah, you touch your face gently, you talk to
32:12
your little kids. Al yeah, I mean, like that's what I really
32:15
enjoyed about the movie is that it's like because of the magicalness, it really
32:22
is just a movie about a guy who's like, no, dude, like
32:25
you were so hard on yourself, and like that's kind of why there is
32:30
there is like a cringe element of like whoa dude, you're being so mean
32:36
to this little kid, Like he calls him a loser, He calls him
32:39
fat constantly and like literally is constantly calling him a loser, and like,
32:45
fucking loser, your old man, it's a loser, dude. Like I
32:51
would say that it's pretty staple now that that Bruce Willis is like fat phobic.
32:57
Well, I or like I don't know if he is, but it's
33:00
mentioned in a lot of his movies, like watching his movies consecutively and being
33:05
able to he's Schwartzy only said that in audio commentaries Listen, I only said
33:08
that in audio commentaries. I came back just to say and in defensel,
33:13
in defense of myself that with the fourteen percent, you know, lines like
33:16
that are much less forgivable because that's like twenty fifteen, you know. But
33:21
something I found so weird the very attractive waitress who is fat you mean,
33:25
Melissa MacCarthy. She's so attractive and she's like fat, you know what I
33:30
mean, Like she's like got like a beautiful, beautiful body. It's crazy
33:35
that this was Melissa McCarthy, I know. But but what I want to
33:38
say is, and now she's a star. She she's in this role in
33:44
this scene. And he then proceeds to yell at this kid for being fat,
33:49
you know what I mean. It's kind of weird because it's like it's
33:52
the movie is actually showing that it's only his problem. No, yeah,
33:57
totally fat, this is only his Yeah. That's kind of what's what's interesting
34:00
about it. And the magical moment where they realize they're each other and they're
34:05
like showing different scars and whatever. I thought that was great. I though
34:08
it was very cute. The whole Moviees really rides this line of being really
34:14
adorable and also like kind of like, again, who is this for?
34:19
Like how did this movie even get made? It doesn't feel like a movie
34:23
that's like an adult because like it's like, also, Bruce willis like in
34:30
a Disney movie. I mean, you don't really see it until you see
34:36
it, and then it's like, dude, this guy's got range. Yeah,
34:39
he's got a lot of chops. But it's also him taking it very
34:43
very seriously, like he is not phoning it in at all. Like it
34:49
does feel like he's he's doing a really good job at also doing Then I'm
34:55
gonna take the medicine and you're gonna disappear, you know, man, that's
35:00
such a good impression. He really wants this kid to disappear. And and
35:07
the first sort of his experience of the kid, uh, and that denial
35:14
is actually really cool because he does it does sort of start to take us
35:17
on a journey. First, he's super confident, he's unbreakable, he's stone
35:22
cold, and suddenly he's faced with something that like is super traumatic and triggered.
35:29
He's triggered, That's what it is, because the entire thing is like
35:34
fight or flight, like panic and like going to the tones of his own
35:39
life that give him stability. And it's also all women too that give him
35:45
stability, which is which is connects with the mom stuffs that we find later
35:51
and it's like he's got mom issues. He's got mom issues. He's he
35:54
goes to Lily Tomlin to solve the problem first and he's like, I don't
36:00
know, Like it's what is he? You're the assistant, you know,
36:06
yeah, assist yeah, which is hilarious, and then her being like like
36:12
I'll use my magic assistant powers that I thought it was really her performance being
36:17
like dude, I take so much shit from you. What are you doing?
36:21
What do you do? Take me for? Like I can't deal with
36:23
this problem, You deal with it. She's so good, she's so funny.
36:28
You need these kinds of actors to flesh out of movies like this because
36:32
it's not gonna be taken seriously if you doubt have these people. What did
36:37
you think of Bruce keeping Emily Mortimer's character in the dark about the true nature
36:44
of who this kid is, like lying about a new nephew. Well,
36:46
the thing is, you need that moment. It feels like more writerly because
36:52
you need the moment of her to fight realize for herself that it is.
36:57
That's because she throws bullshit too, right. But what's also that's why she
37:01
thinks it's his son. Yeah, so exactly exactly. But what's amazing about
37:07
that too is that they also everybody immediately likes the kid way more than they
37:14
like Bruce. But they like Bruce for the things that the kid has already.
37:19
If he was just more like this, he would be more fun to
37:22
be around, you know, fun, really fun fun. Well, do
37:27
you think this movie is also about being healed enough to have kids? Yeah?
37:31
You know, he ends up being able to have kids because he's able
37:36
to heal his own inner kid. Yeah, absolutely, I think that's true.
37:40
This lady wrote George of the Jungle about George and under the Tuscan son
37:46
Audrey Wells. A woman wrote the script. Yeah, yeah, it feels
37:52
like somebody with emotional maturity. It doesn't feel like a man wrote the script.
37:55
I could see a man writing the script, But you're right, it
37:59
does have an emotional maturity that most kids movies don't. Yeah, like where
38:04
it's like the willingness to deal with such like an intense topic of like time
38:10
traveling young kid to meet his older and like again, like I don't write
38:16
like this. I could never write a story like it would be like I
38:21
have to be like wait, but how does that happen? But does it
38:23
justify the other? Like the ability to like let go? There's actually that's
38:37
not true. There's a lot of magic stuff that I've written, but like
38:39
I know what you mean though, Like there's a kind of there's a kind
38:44
of like boldness in some of the like mechanisms of certain things. Yeah for
38:49
sure, where it's like you know they go to like the kid's house and
38:53
he's like, I don't know, we moved like twelve times. We moved
38:58
a dozen times? Yeah, twelve is a dozen? Good for you?
39:01
You know, just like so mean, so mean, but like it's it's
39:06
that kind of like you know, you didn't figure things out fast enough,
39:12
And it's like he's blaming himself for not figuring things out fast enough or like
39:17
being like not giving him like a sense of like confidence to be like hey,
39:22
yeah, that's awesome. You know what it doesn't is you know what
39:24
I mean, It's like, it's it's sad. It really is set and
39:29
the kid cries a lot, and the kid is annoying a lot in very
39:32
real ways. Yeah, and it's like and he's so wide eyed in a
39:38
very acute way as well, he cares about the moon. He cares about
39:43
the moon. Well, she said that was about the moon. He was
39:45
about the moon because I only believe in the moon and the gods in it.
39:49
That he was not like that. Every name is Jade. I went
39:52
to her station. What did you think of that? Because I actually really
39:55
thought the moon stuff was interesting. Yeah, I think the moon stuff was
40:00
interesting as well. Like this idea of being able to maintain a wonder about
40:06
the world, a childlike wonder about the world and not be cynical. Yeah,
40:09
yeah, was you know, like I think, like an important point
40:14
in this movie. Yeah, totally. And you and we find out what
40:17
his childhood was in a way that what his passions were, or like being
40:22
a pilot, having a dog named Chester, and having a like a partner,
40:25
and he has none of those at forty so it's like a big deal
40:30
for him and he thinks he's a loser. Your old man is a loser,
40:35
like the kid thinks he's a loser. And he's like, I love
40:37
that. Yeah, I love that. The kid thinks. He's like,
40:39
you mean you don't have a dog, you can't fly a plate, have
40:44
a fucking loser. Yeah, totally. They both think each other are a
40:46
loser. Yeah, totally. I mean I would probably think I was a
40:50
fucking loser. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
40:52
think for you or for me. Okay, a fucking lose. No,
40:58
maybe maybe maybe you're right. Maybe both of us would be like, oh
41:00
dude, cool cool, Yeah, and then Emily Mortimer realizes there. It
41:07
cuts to Bruce waking up and thinking the kid is gone, and he's like,
41:13
oh, thank god, I don't have to deal with this mental breakdown
41:15
anymore. And he goes to try and convince like a tech bro, a
41:21
billionaire to shave his beard and hair to become like a CEO more. But
41:28
this guy is a libertarian tech bro who will eventually cut his hair and beard.
41:31
And this guy is none other than Rip deceased recently deceased Matthew Perry.
41:40
Yeah, and we recently talked about the whole nine yards. Yeah, and
41:45
between movies, somehow, Thirsty for More always manages to stay like on the
41:52
cutting edge, dude, in moments like this, it feels like there's a
41:57
serendipity with some of the things we're covering, because a lot of the time
42:00
when we're covering something, something relevant to what we're covering is going on.
42:05
So I you know, he was an amazing actor. He was great and
42:09
friends. He will be missed. He'll never be able to be in that
42:14
that s Craigsaller movie that you wanted him to be. Oh man, Yeah,
42:16
I was saying. I was just saying, I was just singing his
42:21
phrases about how he could be like have a return to like movies or something
42:25
or show or something. You know, I would have for sure what he
42:30
wasn't old he was like fifty forty four or fifty five something like that.
42:34
Like, it's crazy, speaking of four, it took four hours to put
42:37
this makeup on, and the entire he was in the movie for forty seconds
42:42
whatever. They were just friends, dude. That's kind of amazing. It's
42:45
amazing they were just down there. Now they starting three different things, is
42:54
it three. Yeah, friends, Bruce Willis was on Friends whole nine yards,
42:59
two whole ten yards and yeah, so we're gonna get to talk about
43:02
them again together and it'll have a different meaning unfortunately, and like who knew
43:07
that speaking of recent news about people were covering Bruce's we've recently learned like totally
43:15
nonverbal and totally non like he he almost doesn't comprehend language anymore and he can
43:25
no longer read, which it's really sad. It's like it's hard. It's
43:30
hard to know that, like that's where the decline is headed for him,
43:37
in the trajectory of us talking about him on the show. So like,
43:42
I think there's like an inherent tragedy to Bruce, you know that I maybe
43:49
I'm only really coming to grips with now. Yeah, all of that being
43:52
said, this scene is really great. They go to get the kids some
43:55
food and he's like, where are we gonna go eat? I'm hungry?
44:01
And then it just said eat here in the in the what's it called the
44:07
chemtrails? So that old Bruce leaves, she's following them. Yeah, we'll
44:15
get to them, and then and then I'm hot. Melissa McCarthy goes,
44:19
what do you like to eat? What do you want to eat? So
44:22
hot? I think she's still hot. She's she's still hot, but I
44:25
like I remember seeing her in this role and being like what oh. And
44:30
then Bruce Willis has this idea that he's like, that's what I'm supposed to
44:36
do. I'm supposed to train you to fight. You're supposed to fight those
44:39
people. And then he takes him to uh, what's it called Kenny,
44:44
a boxer that he also Fat James in the movie Please Do This is an
44:49
extra twenty pounds, Jesus, Bruce, extra twenty bounds. Yeah, we
44:54
know you've been eating your whole life. So he takes her to his boxer
44:58
friend to teach the kid how to box. I love this scene because it's
45:01
like, really cute and they actually look like they're just having Him and this
45:06
kid are just having a good time and it's very fun. And Emily mortimercy
45:12
gets to see how similar they are and it's it's very cute. It's a
45:16
very cute scene. And she she gets to consider motherhood. Dude, she
45:20
does get to consider motherhood. And also she gets to consider that, like
45:23
she's like, is he a dead bee? Dead? That I've never met
45:30
this kid before and I've been working for him for so long. Yeah,
45:34
And like, I think the weight of her believing something kind of potentially bad
45:39
and scary about him is because she's weighing the life decision of whether or not
45:45
she wants to be with him. Yeah, if we're giving it generously,
45:47
like the whole time she wants to be with him, Yeah, totally.
45:52
And she does a really good job at freaking out in a very realistic way.
45:58
Again, like the standard for this movie are pretty low. They were
46:01
really low for me in terms of like, man, like, what does
46:06
this movie hold up? And it does? It fully? Does it does?
46:08
And then like them like the kid and him having the argument being like,
46:14
we gotta tell her, and it's like she's not gonna believe us.
46:17
It's weird. Tell me what And she's like, what's in fuck outside of
46:22
man? What's in fucking side? Bay leland Orsers And they're like, he's
46:29
me, I'm thirty years from now me. But she does believe him.
46:37
She's one of those thirty years. She wants to believe him. Yeah,
46:42
she's Scully, she wants she's Mulder. I want to believe but man,
46:58
like something that was really heartbreaking in the movie, She's like he's so cute
47:02
and adorable and he's like him, he's like such a flicker. He's a
47:07
fucking fat loser, and it's like whoa dude, dude, Like, but
47:13
he wasn't like like your old man, it's a loser. Oh, I
47:16
mean, I don't know how you felt, but like it wasn't like like
47:20
he's speaking about himself. He's speaking in a way where like because the dramatic
47:23
irony of you knowing that he's speaking about himself, yeah, it simultaneously makes
47:28
it tragic that you would speak that way about anybody, but knowing that some
47:34
people do speak that way about themselves, Yeah, totally. But like I'm
47:37
fat, I'm on this way about myself, and that's why I felt like,
47:42
man, dude, Like like I felt like, man, dude,
47:45
are you okay? Like that's not a nice thing to say, Like that's
47:49
sad, dude, Like, don't say that. And then like you find
47:52
out that Kenny is like uh ring boy is sick, and he he gets
48:00
replaced by you know, young Bruce, who eventually, I mean realistically we
48:07
all know he grows up into Joseph Gordon Levitt in Weird wea party face,
48:13
but he is a cute little boy. And then the old lady who's like,
48:16
that little boy was the only fat boy we could get to fit in
48:20
the suit. Thank you, Bruce. I mean, the fatness ends up
48:23
being good for something. Yeah, so I don't know if that was on
48:28
purpose, but it's definitely on purpose. And then he ends up Bruce ends
48:31
up dancing with her. It's Kenny's mom, Bruce's boxer friend's mom. And
48:37
as they're dancing, the kid comes up to him and he's like, it's
48:44
really important. I gotta tell you something. And he's like, yeah,
48:47
kid, whatever, I'm dancing with this, I'm flirting with this old lady.
48:51
And then the kid goes to propose to Emily Mortimer. But listen,
48:54
like, that's so interesting because it's like not listening to the little kid of
49:00
yourself and like not seeing because that's what's being signaled, like the beauty of
49:06
the world with the moon, what the moon, and not seeing like this
49:10
person who clearly cares about you, just not being able to appreciate any of
49:15
those things. And then so you're like, as a kid, you're like,
49:17
hey, I'm not going to make this mistake. Now I'm going to
49:21
propose to you. And this is really like a really interesting moment because he
49:25
proposes to her as a kid and then he, like Bruce shows up to
49:30
find it happening, and he's like kind of like a ghast but like embarrassed
49:37
a little bit. Also like acts as in a way that's like I've never
49:42
thought about this before. Yeah, totally, And I think that further kind
49:46
of amplifies the realization part of it because then it's like, whoa, I've
49:53
never thought about this before, but little kid me thought of it? Why
49:57
didn't I think of it? And then it kind of like it makes you
50:00
ask yourself and it makes her ask herself as well, and like the great
50:05
thing about the great thing about it is that the the writing does quite a
50:10
bit of work in this movie, like like intertextually with with the timelines and
50:20
like how a kid would feel, how an adult feels, how an adult
50:22
feels about their kids self, and like it's very interesting, very interesting stuff.
50:28
You know what else? This movie reminds me of what specifically because of
50:31
how this episode is unfolding, it reminds me of ants like a kid's movie
50:37
that's able to say that you're able to mind so much adult stuff from Yeah,
50:42
totally, totally, And and then she finds the video, the leaked
50:46
cream pie video, and she gets really really mad. Well she sees the
50:51
cream video with it, well, yeah, because who wouldn't be discussed by
50:57
kid the guys getting kis is leaking down his face, Yeah, dude.
51:06
And the kid gets mad at him too, But there's a moment where he
51:08
gets like gives her the sleek side eye Bruce, where he's like, well,
51:14
I mean, what would you've said? What would you said? You
51:17
know, he has these like moments with the kid where he's starting to kind
51:22
of realize like what he should be getting from him, which is like and
51:28
why the kid's there, Yeah, he should be getting sort of mining the
51:31
kid for information. But first the kid is like where did you go to
51:35
school? What did you do? And he's and he like he kind of
51:38
doesn't care what the kid has to say almost at all. For a lot
51:43
of the movie, he's not really listening to him. No, he's not,
51:45
because he's the adult, right he needs to be like there as he's
51:51
still programmed to feel that way. But he still sees him, so he
51:54
keeps telling himself how much of a loser he is and was throughout his teen
52:00
and he didn't really get to where he is until he started doing harder in
52:04
school and challenging himself in a way. And then he sees Jeane Smart on
52:09
the TV, like following the advice that he gave her. This is when
52:15
she becomes an actual character as opposed to just thirsty for brudes. But this
52:20
was awesome. I loved this scene where she's like she just also fully believes
52:24
that this kid came back in time or it came forward in time to like
52:29
have an adventure or whatever. But she does something. Dog shows up.
52:31
He's like, oh, those kids were cream buying you money. I was
52:43
masturbating to it. Money. Don't judge me for it. But Jeane Smart
52:47
gives him the smart idea that she's like, he came back. He came
52:55
in time to tell give you a lesson and it's not to give cream pies
53:00
to children, and he's like he kind of like takes it in and like
53:07
realizes like, oh, no'm I was so stupid. I was so stupid,
53:12
you know. And she's like, dude, maybe that's the thing,
53:15
Like maybe he came back to help you not be like this to yourself,
53:20
you know, and you've been like this to everybody around you too. And
53:24
she's still so thirsty for him to. Oh okay, So how did he
53:29
find her? Well, he knew the studio that she was at because she
53:32
was doing the live programming. But it's a little magical, like what would
53:37
actually happen was if he showed up, she'd be like, oh uh hi,
53:40
yeah, it would totally be like instead of like let's go for coffee,
53:45
it's like hi to Tom. Oh yeah, totally totally like where it's
53:52
like off put and like but trying to diffuse the situation. Tom, Hi,
53:58
yeah, totally. Oh man, you should want such a good job.
54:00
There's that one. She knew this. We're talking about Alex's movie Tom
54:04
Works Nights that you should all watch. But isn't it on Is it on
54:07
the Patreo? It's on the Patreo. Oh yeah, you should watch it.
54:10
But also he does this, you can type in the search bar Tom
54:15
Works Nights. There's this amazing there's this amazing take that Tom does where instead
54:22
of going he goes Wendy and it's like he like SLINKs into the shot.
54:28
Dude. It's one of the best things ever. Do you which why did
54:32
you use Wendy Because I needed it to be to be a little bit like
54:38
I think, but I think the fact that an alternate Ghostly take exists is
54:43
a basically so good, dude, it's so good. Could you just put
54:46
just the Ghostly take online? Yeah, dude, I'll put it on.
54:52
We should put it on a thirsty on like like our TikTok. We should
54:55
start it. We should start a TikTok. Dude, Yeah, totally.
54:59
But he comes back and he waves the kid up and is like, okay,
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like I think I know what I need to do, and he like
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starts kind of like not interrogating the kid, not like making the kid feel
55:12
small or bullied or anything like that. He starts asking the kid questions about
55:15
himself and like what he likes, what he what he remembers, and like
55:21
the kids like, hey, do you know this thing? And he's like,
55:23
nah, I don't remember that thing, and it's kind of sad.
55:28
Yeah. And then like as he's like telling him more stuff, Bruce starts
55:32
remembering more yeah, and he's like I remember that, I remember yeah,
55:37
And they're driving somewhere where they're driving, uh, and uh. He passes
55:44
by a dog and a truck, a red truck. Oh man, and
55:47
then the he drives through a portal and the plane from the beginning flies through
55:52
the portal as well, and he's driving like an old timey car. It's
55:58
kind of sick. It's kind of like an awesome transition. And he starts
56:01
telling him a story about this three legged dog and where he came to love
56:07
wanna love dogs and stuff like that, and he takes him to the school
56:09
and he thinks he remembers what the tragic moment was with the three legged dog
56:15
and these three bullies. But what's really interesting is how the kind of realities
56:20
of their lives start converging, because he's like immediately brought back literally to that
56:25
place in time. So he starts remembering that because of that, and he's
56:30
like, oh, yeah, there was a three legg a good dog.
56:31
Actually, what happens here is they tie that three legged dog up these bullies
56:37
in order to fucking bully you. You get beaten up, and then you're
56:40
humiliated for the rest of your high school career. Everyone hates you. And
56:45
it's like he's like, this is the thing that makes you a loser.
56:53
Yeah, a fucking loser. And it's kind of sad because it's like it's
56:58
not actually a thing that makes them a loser. Well, not just that,
57:00
it's it's not the thing a thing that makes him loser. That's not
57:04
even the climax of the movie. That's the interesting thing is that he still
57:07
doesn't realize what the point of because he should be like like, oh,
57:14
you should be more confident or whatever. That is like a lesson in the
57:16
movie. But what's interesting about it he's like, oh, no, this
57:20
is also the same day my mom or like I find out that my mom
57:24
is dying of cancer and that like he and then and then he he he
57:30
comes home, his mom brings him home. He he his dad is freaking
57:39
out at him because he doesn't know how to do anything either. And then
57:45
the mom you find out that the mom dies and that the dad had to
57:50
raise him alone. And it's like he at the end, he gives the
57:54
kid a hug and he's like, hey, man, like it's okay that
58:00
you're you're who you are, you know, he like has that realization.
58:14
Omah, yeah, it's so good. Uh, it's really nice. It's
58:36
actually really really nice. Ending and like but what the what what happens at
58:42
the actual end is they end up back in the same diner a third time,
58:46
and they go outside and they see even older man Bruce, completely verbal
58:52
dude of yeah, older man Bruce, which like, can can we talk?
58:58
Can we talk just like a little more about the previous scene. Sorry,
59:02
I got very emotional. It's just really it was very touching. Yeah,
59:10
and yeah, yeah, yeah, and like there there's a part that
59:19
there's a part that he kind of like just you know, he's like this
59:27
thing happens, you know, and like it really sucks, and like he
59:30
just kind of gives it, like gives it to himself sort of really honestly.
59:36
And then like he's like he hugs himself and like to be able to
59:43
do that is like a really amazing thing I think, and like everybody I
59:47
think should be able to to do that, to do that, do that
59:51
for themselves. Sorry, yeah for sure, just be be like, you
59:57
know, realize that, like things can be hard sometimes and it's okay,
1:00:07
and that like, you know, he gives him the okay to be him,
1:00:12
you know what I mean, he doesn't he stops being like, ah,
1:00:14
you're a loser. You're fat, you're you know what I mean,
1:00:16
And he just gives him a hug and he's like, oh yeah, like
1:00:20
maybe this is the whole the whole time. What I needed to do was
1:00:22
just give him a hug, yeah, and like be there because because of
1:00:28
that older Bruce coats Man, random older Bruce with a mustache, and like
1:00:35
he's like, yeah, that was me. I showed you eat here,
1:00:40
and then I followed you a couple other times. I flew really close to
1:00:45
you and it's like, yeah, did you do that? Yeah, And
1:00:47
then when he sees himself as a kid, he's like, that's good to
1:00:52
see you too. It's even better. It's been a longer time since I've
1:00:54
seen you. Yeah. Man, It's it's really cool. It's really it's
1:00:59
a really profound movie. I think, like, yeah, it's like interesting.
1:01:02
It's like what Disney made this? What? Yeah, it's just like
1:01:07
it's it's rare that I I you know that I get like this choked up
1:01:12
a better movie, you know, like and it's like especially I think because
1:01:15
it touches on these like kid things and like figuring things out for yourself as
1:01:19
an adult and you know, like you know, like going through a hard
1:01:23
time and knowing that like it's gonna be okay, or it'll be some version
1:01:28
of okay, you know, like yeah, totally, and then like he
1:01:30
fulfills that kind of dream too. He's got a dog named Chester. He's
1:01:35
married to old lady, and he flies yeah, and he flies a plan.
1:01:38
You know, he actually gets three wishes fulfilled. He gets married,
1:01:42
has kids and a dog, and he has and he flies a plane and
1:01:47
they cheer with each other, which is very cute, and they start dancing
1:01:51
like it's it's very wholesome. It's very wholesome, and it's like cool that
1:01:55
Bruce could do it. He's the only one who could really do it.
1:02:00
Yeah, because like even schwartzy like Kindergarten Cop, I mean, it's a
1:02:06
good movie, but like it's it's it's not this, It's not this.
1:02:12
It's magical in a different way. It's magical in a different way. It's
1:02:14
magical in a funnier, cuter a way. It's cute. This is like
1:02:19
it's this is hard. This is gut wrenching, you know at times,
1:02:22
like it's that movie never gets they don't. They're forming traumas because this kid
1:02:28
is because this dad is doing crazy things, like they'll talk about this in
1:02:31
twenty years and be like to therapy, be like, God, my dad
1:02:35
like fucking broke into his school, whereas Bruce like his life is already you
1:02:39
know, like he's already lived that that youth part, you know. Yeah,
1:02:44
and so like he's done his youth effectively, he's moving on into another
1:02:47
phase into his life. Yeah, and like it's it's really cool. It's
1:02:52
really cool, it's really profound. And then at the end when he yells,
1:02:57
I am not a loser, Like it was like, yeah, dude,
1:03:00
like you never were. You didn't you You weren't a loser, you
1:03:02
were just the person, you know. Uh. And then like he has
1:03:07
his like moment of realization where like it cuts to like reality again after his
1:03:10
psychotic break, which is this is truly just a psychotic break, and he's
1:03:15
pulled other people into his delusion, I mean yeah, and nobody knows where
1:03:20
this kid is. No, no, And then he he gives fucking Lily
1:03:27
Tomlin a trip to Hawaii, which she deserves, clearly deserves this woman,
1:03:31
clearly she's gonna take her partner. She also later on reveals that she also
1:03:39
is a lesbian. You know yeah, and it's a it's amazing, Yeah,
1:03:44
it's amazing. Yeah. And and then like he what what happens?
1:03:49
Does he do an Emily Mortimer thing? Yeah, he goes to Emily Mortimer
1:03:52
and he bought Chester the dog and it's a puppy okay, And they I
1:03:58
don't know, I guess get married. I guess they're married. Yeah.
1:04:01
And then he comes back and he's like, my he does oh yeah he
1:04:10
does. Does the pope pokes his penis? Oh? And also a question
1:04:15
gets answered at the end of the movie, which was why why does the
1:04:19
moon have that orange look to it? The kid asks, oh, yeah,
1:04:25
yeah, Uh, the full moon sometimes looks orange when it rises because
1:04:29
the light has to travel through more of the atmosphere, uh than the Then
1:04:34
when the movie is the moon is in the high in the sky, the
1:04:41
blue light waves scatter, but the red light waves make it through. Just
1:04:45
in case you are wondering, which is a cute ending. So we had
1:04:48
a party, a Sualtis party. Well, she said that was about the
1:04:54
moon. It was it was about the moon because they only believe in the
1:04:57
moon. And the guys in the this was I like that. Every name
1:05:00
is Jade, I went to her station. Well, because they're kind of
1:05:03
playing on the whole wonder of being a little kid and they're like, hey,
1:05:10
isn't it cool that you know this now as an adult something that's cool
1:05:13
from when you were a kid. And it's like because even that moment in
1:05:17
the movie when when he asks Bruce that when he's like when the kids like,
1:05:21
hey, do you like do you know do we even know why the
1:05:26
moon? Like we're an adult now, do we even know why the mood
1:05:29
is orange? Sometimes? And like anyway, it's really cool and it's it's
1:05:34
a really good movie. What would I write it for you? It's it's
1:05:41
definitely a red geet. But what would you rate it as a movie?
1:05:43
I mean what I would I rate it as a movie? I would rate
1:05:45
it an eight. You'd rate it an eight? Yeah, maybe a nine
1:05:49
nine? All right? Cool? I would rate it a seven as a
1:05:54
movie. I mean, I don't know like any movie that can elicit a
1:05:58
reaction like that in me where it's like that emotional. I feel like it
1:06:02
is like I've got to give it some like a lot of credit, you
1:06:06
know what, Like it made a pretty I watched this movie so many times
1:06:12
when I was young, and it's it's weird to think about because it was
1:06:16
like it did. It was kind of pantheon for wees. So I might
1:06:20
give it an aid. It is an aid. I might end up buying
1:06:24
it just by Worthy the kid. It feels by Worthy. It's like kind
1:06:28
of it's a good movie. Good movie, a good movie. Like I
1:06:31
watched it with that and we were both like in tears the whole time.
1:06:34
We were like, oh man, this is really good. Yeah it's yeah,
1:06:39
yeah, yeah, follows that. And I just wanted to say one
1:06:43
more thing, like I once we didn't rate it out of Bruce's I what
1:06:46
did a really good job in this? I would give a nine Bruces.
1:06:49
He plays three characters, dude. Yeah, he plays himself as a kid.
1:06:54
Yeah, he plays himself as an old man, as a majestic old
1:06:58
man. Yeah, he's great. He's great in it. And he did
1:07:00
a really good job. And yeah, it's like I'm really I'm really glad
1:07:06
we're doing Bruce, and I'm really glad we did this movie. I was
1:07:11
pretty excited to watch this. I was pretty excited to like talk to you
1:07:14
about this movie. Yeah, yeah, so what oh and the kid the
1:07:18
relationship with the kid, and the kid did a really good job too.
1:07:21
It was just like it made the movie, you know what I mean,
1:07:25
it made the movie. You don't have this movie without the kid totally.
1:07:30
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1:07:35
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