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- 0:00Dead and Biden the sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky.
- 0:05We wouldn't know because we're so happy inside. Some people boat boot on some
- 0:12skis, but we would rather sit on down and talk some movies. Where
- 0:17the Abbot indoorsmen gun. Listen to our show. We're the Abbot indoorsmen at
- 0:25home on the go, where the Abbot indoors man. So come on in
- 0:32and stay. We'll do our best to make you smile. We're indoors man.
- 0:41What is happening? I'm Rob Blunt Quiz, I'm beaut and we're the
- 0:45Abbot Indoorsman. Hello everyone, Hello, Hello, How are you doing today?
- 0:49Budd you know I'm doing pretty good, Pal, doing pretty good.
- 0:52We're in the throes of springs slash summer now. Yeah, uh, life
- 0:58is good. I already went for one hike that was too long this year,
- 1:03so I'm sore and that's fun. Got sun burnt already. We're we're
- 1:07doing it. We're doing it, Bell, how are you doing? I'm
- 1:11good. Today is the birth of my sister who's it's younger than me,
- 1:19and so this is that better line as we all know her. Yeah,
- 1:23that's kind of true, but I do love you true, thank you,
- 1:26thank you, thank so. This is the one month where we're both thirty
- 1:32nine. Oh that's fun. So we're the same for a little bit,
- 1:37and I'm trying to get as much thirty nine as i can until cherishes.
- 1:42Yeah cherish. We just had dinner with her. I was like that thirty
- 1:47ninth year goes real fast, fast, you take advantage. Oh that's fun,
- 1:53that's great. Live every day to its fullest. Yes, do it
- 1:57for me? Please not all this can be the beginning of thirty nine.
- 2:04Oh cut. Yes, But we get to see her later on this week
- 2:10because we're gonna go Twins game. The Twins game. I'm very excited.
- 2:15I'm super pumped. Dude's great play the Cubbies. Oh is that who they're
- 2:20playing? They're playing? Yeah, yep, I mean I knew that.
- 2:23I'm a big fan. Well that makes sense why Dave was so hot to
- 2:27see this game. Then, so I want to desperately go to Wrigley.
- 2:35That's like, let's do it be aside from Fenway, Wrigley is my second
- 2:42probably that I want to posting. Dave went last year and they had a
- 2:45real nice time, and Jigs last one too. Yeah. Well, we
- 2:50should make that happen. Maybe we can find some time this summer. I
- 2:53want to do that. We could go, but the Twins don't play there.
- 2:58I was hoping to get you know, but I still just want to
- 3:02see all the stadium. So I would go just see a couch, you
- 3:07know. We could test run it. Well, then we'll go back when
- 3:08the Twins play. There. Sounds where we go. Yeah, sounds fun.
- 3:12I'm in pretty cool. We'll get this set up on the old emails.
- 3:15But until then, have you been watching any fun movies recently? I
- 3:21sure have. So we had a family movie night and we watched Jennica's favorite
- 3:25movie, Oh my God, Lego Batman. Yeah, and I know you
- 3:32haven't seen it, but it feels like such a fraud. It's so worth
- 3:37seeing. You will absolutely love it. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna do
- 3:39it. It's gonna be great. I'm gonna do it. It makes fun
- 3:42of itself, which is really fun. Will Arnett and Michael Sarah as Batman
- 3:46and Robin so great. Zach Alfanakis is the joker. Amazing, really fun
- 3:53um and I get why Jennica loves it so much. It's genuinely funny,
- 3:58like not just for kids funny. Love that. Um but my kids loved
- 4:02it. We all had a lot of fun. We had to rent it,
- 4:05so it's not like streaming or anything. Um so it maybe maybe it
- 4:11is streaming and I just don't have whatever it's on. But yeah, but
- 4:15we had so much fun with it, dude, and the kids liked it.
- 4:17You guys liked it, that's awesome. It was super fun. Yeah.
- 4:20And I have seen it when it first came out and didn't really remember
- 4:25anything. But it is like legitimately funny. That's cool. It hasn't been
- 4:30like I haven't been avoiding it or anything, you know what I mean.
- 4:33It's just like, hasn't haven't seen it? Yeah, I'm stoked. That's
- 4:36great a little treat. Well, if this pushes you to go and see
- 4:41it, I'll be happy because it you're really gonna like it. I know.
- 4:46I should have known that when Jennica loved it so much. I mean,
- 4:49she's such a treasury. And then if you guys like it too,
- 4:51I'm in. You're in, let's do this thing. It's fine, cool
- 4:55man, love it. Have you watched any movies recently? I have?
- 4:59We book about this offline just a little bit. But I watched a Christopher
- 5:04Guest movie that I didn't know existed. It's from twenty sixteen. It's called
- 5:09Mascots. Yeah, I still haven't seen that. It's it's essentially like very
- 5:14similar to the Best in Show, but in this one, the competition is
- 5:19they are like college sports mascots. So it's kind of like Best in Show
- 5:26slash Furree Convention. You know, humor and stuff, and it's it's exactly
- 5:30what you think. I don't think it's like rated super high, but I
- 5:34had a great time just because it was that similar style of humor that I
- 5:38like, and the people are really funny in it. Um there's some new
- 5:42faces. There's that Zach Woodscott. I don't know if you know him by
- 5:46name, but he was in Silicone Valley as like the assistant dude. Uh
- 5:54god, what is his name in that show? I can't think of it.
- 5:58He's the assistant to Richard. Yes, he's on the office. Yeah,
- 6:04should definitely know his name because he is hilarious. That's what I thought
- 6:09too, because I had the same thing. But he's in it. Sarah
- 6:13Baker's in it. She has also been in a ton of stuff, just
- 6:15like sort of as a side character and stuff. And then just all these
- 6:19other improv folks um and then some of the bigger names that are smaller parts
- 6:24are Chris O'Dowd and Parker Posey and she's so great. Yeah, all these
- 6:30people are just super super fun and and lovely and and yeah, it's if
- 6:35you like those those silly, you know, kind of comedies that are like
- 6:40mockumentary kind of style. I know, I think you'll like this a lot,
- 6:45So check it out. I think it's on I believe Netflix is where
- 6:47I watched it, So check it out. It's worth a little gander.
- 6:51Nice. But how about streaming. Have you've been streaming anything? Yeah,
- 6:55I went over to HBO Max and I went and saw The Staircase, which
- 7:01is a dramatization of the true crime story of Michael Peterson who was convicted of
- 7:09murdering his wife Kathleen. So there was a documentary about it. It was
- 7:15called The Staircase that was on Netflix a long time ago, and I watched
- 7:20that then. Yeah, but they decided to make it a show and they
- 7:26made the main guy, Colin Firth. The woman that was murdered, Tony
- 7:30Collette they got Michael Stuhlberg in there to be the lawyer. I do love
- 7:38a Schulberg, you know that. And there's a bunch of other great actors
- 7:42you'd recognize. Parker Posey's also in this and she's really really good. But
- 7:46our good buddy Joel McKinnon Miller is also in it, and that was kind
- 7:54of the impetus for me watching it, because I was like, I know
- 7:58this story, like, I know what happens, I'm familiar with it.
- 8:01I don't know if I need to see it, like yeah, whatever,
- 8:05but I'm really glad that I'm watching it. Colin Firth he sounds just like
- 8:09this guy. It's really weird dude, because he has kind of a weird
- 8:16delivery. And sure there's in the third episode for sure he had like his
- 8:20mannerisms and his voice down perfectly, just like this is this is a little
- 8:26creepy. I don't know. Yeah, but yeah, so far, I'm
- 8:31I'm only four in. I think there's eight episodes. Great performances, compelling
- 8:35story so far. Definitely worth checking out if you're into that sort of thing.
- 8:41Yeah, well, you couldn't get through the whole thing. I mean,
- 8:43it was clearly watched this the same night you watched Lego Batman and this.
- 8:46The kids had to go to bed. They had to go to bed.
- 8:50Yeah, the kids were like, Daddy, this is really weird watching.
- 8:58I doubt that's what happened. I have to check that out. That
- 9:01sounds pretty neat. Yeah, have you been streaming anything fun? Yeah?
- 9:05The final season of what? Yeah, it's the final season of Barry.
- 9:11I've been watching. I started it. I think I don't remember because they're
- 9:16doing like I think they're releasing two episodes a week or something, so it's
- 9:20throwing off my whole I think I've watched six. I think maybe four.
- 9:26I don't really have only seen the first two. Really fun. I feel
- 9:31like it's getting a little bit back to some of the silliness that I loved
- 9:37so much in that first season. Not completely obviously, but it was getting
- 9:41real dark though. Yeah, Like last season was really well done and I
- 9:46did enjoy it, but in a different way, you know what I mean,
- 9:50Like it wasn't I loved that that first season was dark but also super
- 9:56silly, yeah, like farcical almost, you know. It was so fun
- 10:00seeing him like try and become an actor and Henry Winkler as the acting coach
- 10:05is so fun and what's dude's NoHo hank or whatever? He is? Like
- 10:11that guy just kills me. He's hilarious, so funny, soum. But
- 10:15anyway, yeah, it's they're continuing the story in a great way. I
- 10:18can't wait to see how they finish it. It's super super fun if you
- 10:22don't mind some violence and stuff. There's some great acting in this And every
- 10:28time I watch it, I just think about how because doesn't he like write
- 10:31and direct a lot of these episodes now or all of them maybe and everything?
- 10:35Now, yeah, I don't think he directs all of them, but
- 10:39he Okay, I think he does the majority of it. And you know,
- 10:43he created the show too. I think that's crazy, dude, And
- 10:46he's so good in it. Like I still don't really get how you can
- 10:50direct yourself in something. Yeah, like that just seems like very separate skill
- 10:58sets and just a lot to be juggling at once, you know. But
- 11:01I mean it's super impressive and I really like the show a lot, so
- 11:07it's been fun. It'll be like a little bit of a bummer to see
- 11:09an end, but also opens him up right to like be able to do
- 11:15more things and maybe he'll want to just act for a while, you know,
- 11:18because it's a little easier or whatever. So excited. But yeah,
- 11:22so I've been watching that. It's been fun, cool man being fun.
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- 12:20we also like to give our patrons an extended version of every episode we put
- 12:24out. We do a top five draft that pertains to the movie we're talking
- 12:28about. For this one, it's interesting. We're doing a top five movies
- 12:33where someone appears on a movie or TV set draft. Pretty wide, pretty
- 12:39wide net. We've cast wide open. I was in charge of this one,
- 12:43and I didn't put a lot of effort in, so you know,
- 12:46it is what it is. We're all here. Let's lower expectations and raise
- 12:52our intentions to have a nice time. Okay, great, well, okay
- 12:54great, Like it will be super fun. I'm excited. There's some bangers
- 13:01of movies out there, so to check it out. Coming attractions will be
- 13:07touching a movie that I love dearly from my past, a movie called Trading
- 13:13Places. Fortieth anniversary for that guy. Forty anniversary. Oh mamma, that's
- 13:20crazy to think, so very cool. Everything wonderful and joyous in the world
- 13:26is turning forty this year, so I think we can all agree. It's
- 13:28a lovely lovely time to live and speaking of lovely people, who I can't
- 13:35imagine our forty I don't know this man. No, he's forwell, but
- 13:39much younger than us. Right, can't be true? Right? Okay?
- 13:43Cool? Well he's also very handsome and very smart too, so let's welcome
- 13:48him back to the pot. It's our good pal, jaw sh Adams.
- 13:52What's up, Josh? Hello, good to see you brother. You missed
- 13:56you guys. Oh oh, we missed two man. Very excited to be
- 14:01it is Uh, it's difficult to wrangle you in. You are busy,
- 14:05man. I try to block out chunks of just fun stuff and like I
- 14:11have to schedule fun things. Yes, yes, but it's important. It's
- 14:18important or else they don't happen, Yes, exactly A. Yeah, I
- 14:24love it man. You've been traveling all over. Everything's good. You feel
- 14:26good life. Yeah, a little tired, but I'm doing my best to
- 14:33manage my sleepings and try to keep on top of it. But yeah,
- 14:37I can't complain. Remind the listeners here while you're traveling all the time and
- 14:41busy constantly. So I work for a comedian named Joe koy Um and I
- 14:48do his his videography. He's he's great, He's he's such a good time.
- 14:54He's such a cool, cool person to be around. Um, but
- 14:56yeah, I do his videography, so I follow him a round. Um.
- 15:01We just finished up in the States the last couple of months, went
- 15:03to Europe, and then now we're about to go to Australia, which I'm
- 15:07really excited about it. He uh. I keep getting like my TikTok algorithm,
- 15:16I get a bunch of comedians, but so much of it totally is
- 15:18Joe Koy And he just was like such a good dude. He really is.
- 15:24He's he's really cool and um he uh. One of the biggest things
- 15:30that he cares about is having his son with him out on the road.
- 15:33Um, because he had to you know, he had to miss a bunch
- 15:37of stuff. Um well he was on his way way to this. So
- 15:39now that he has the ability to bring him along, he's always out there.
- 15:43So and he's the coolest so it he's Yeah, he cares about the
- 15:48people around him very deeply, So it's great. And probably just wants like
- 15:54nice, cool, chill people around his something. Yeah right, everybody's everybody's
- 16:02yeah, that's great. Yeah, yeah, very much. So I love
- 16:04that. Man. Well, I'm so glad you're able to take some time.
- 16:07Man, It's it's gonna be fun talking with you about this too.
- 16:11Yeah, And we are here today to talk about the Truman Show, a
- 16:15great movie that is celebrating its is it twenty twenty five came out ninety Holy
- 16:23Cow, which will be super fun. But Rob, I think you should
- 16:27get us started with just a rough alrighty. He doesn't know it, but
- 16:32everything in Truman Burbank's life is part of a massive TV set. Executive producer
- 16:38Christoph orchestrates The Truman Show, a live broadcast of Truman's every move captured by
- 16:45hidden cameras. Kristof tries to control Truman's mind, even removing his true love
- 16:49Sylvia from the show and replacing her with Merrill. As Truman gradually discovers the
- 16:55truth, however, he must decide whether to act on it. Oh that
- 17:00was it? That was damned Yeah. Sorry, I thought I thought it
- 17:03was like act on it or but it wasn't on it? Got it?
- 17:10Sorry? Thank you, great stuff. I was with you the whole time.
- 17:15Let's go rotten tomatoes and hear what they have to say. Critics have
- 17:18this coming in at just a scorching hot ninety five percent. Who wait,
- 17:25yikes, super super fresh. What's the difference between critics and audience on this
- 17:32one, A lovely question. Audience me is just a tick below that at
- 17:36eighty nine percent. So no, I mean it's pretty artsy, so I
- 17:41almost could have expected it to be a little worse than so, not terrible
- 17:45terrible. I think, yeah, pretty good, but I think we should
- 17:48go in and talk about what we think. It's time for our hot take.
- 17:52Spicy, that's a hot take. That's a hot tape. I will
- 17:57go first on this one. I like this movie be a ton but I
- 18:00also found out I haven't watched it in a long time, and it's very
- 18:06different than I remember. Well, it is considerably different than I remember.
- 18:11I actually, like, really remember this movie being much sillier, much more
- 18:15zany, a lot more Jim Carrey esque, and it definitely has those portions
- 18:19for sure, But it also is like very artsy and very serious for a
- 18:25lot of it, which I was like kind of pleasantly surprised by this time.
- 18:29I thought it was super fun to get to see, you know,
- 18:33like these kind of moral questions about privacy and broadcasting our lives and you know,
- 18:37consent to some degree and all these things, and just the sort of
- 18:41media machine that was alive twenty five years ago and I don't think has gotten
- 18:45any smaller since, you know, by any means. So it was super
- 18:51fun to watch that. I thought it was kind of a kind of interesting
- 18:53that the two like co leads in this other than Jim Carrey, of course,
- 19:00who's phenomenal and I really love him in this role, but Laura Lenny
- 19:04and Noah Emeric are both like famous to me now for other TV shows that
- 19:10they've done since then, you know, with The Americans and then Ozark.
- 19:15So I just thought that was kind of funny, Like I kind of especially
- 19:18Emeric. I forgot that he was in this oh real at all, to
- 19:22be honest, I don't know why. Like once I saw him, I
- 19:26was like, oh my god, of course, right, but I just
- 19:27didn't. It didn't click beforehand, which was super fun to see. But
- 19:33uh yeah, I just I loved a ton about this. I thought it
- 19:36had a ton of heart to it. A lot of that is probably thanks
- 19:38to Jim Carrey, who brings that like spark to every role that he plays.
- 19:44I feel like, which it could have been somber and kind of sad,
- 19:47and there's some there's some trivia about that later that will be interesting to
- 19:52go into. But overall, I think this is a great movie that,
- 19:56like the whole story is super fun and encapsulated by ending of the film where
- 20:00he you know, doesn't know what to think about life, sort of learns
- 20:04the truth about his existence and then moves past it into the unknown. And
- 20:10I think that's a very like universal story for everyone, and it was just
- 20:14super fun and really well pulled off. I look forward to chatting about it
- 20:18more. That's my I've loved this movie since it came out. It's it
- 20:25turns out it's number one thirty seven on IMDb's Top two fifty, and it
- 20:30happens to be right in front of Guardians of the Galaxy three, which we
- 20:33will have just put out last week for amazing But yeah. It was nominated
- 20:41for three Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Supporting
- 20:47Actor f Ed Harris, none of them winning. But I thought it was
- 20:52such an original story. It was kind of at the beginning of the reality
- 20:56TV craze. I thought this was paid East really well. It never really
- 21:00lagged. I enjoyed how it went from the real world to Truman's world,
- 21:07having the interview of the director about the show and seeing the real life people
- 21:12who enjoyed the show. I thought that Law added to the film quite a
- 21:17bit. Um The acting performances were all fantastic. I really enjoyed the score
- 21:23from Burkehard Dolwitz, especially in those climactic parts, which I hadn't really thought
- 21:29about for a while, but when it came back, it was like,
- 21:30oh, yeah, this, I love this. It's so kind of gets
- 21:34height and they could like really lean into it because it worked with the TV
- 21:37show portion too, you know. So I loved that it was cool man,
- 21:41that's a great call. But I don't have any super super hot takes.
- 21:44It's just a really well done film that I can watch over and over
- 21:48and I'm I'm a big fan. Yeah, I love it, hot take
- 21:52take, love it. Josh, what do you got for this one?
- 21:55Buddy? What's your hat? Yeah? I um uh like along lines that
- 22:00you guys just mentioned the soundtrack this time around, watching it really uh like
- 22:06pulled me in. Especially I remember the scene where his dad comes back as
- 22:11the homeless man and then they all take him away and this like this like
- 22:15really haunting score just smacks you in the face and I got I got scared,
- 22:19like sitting there. Ye. So but um yeah, I think this
- 22:25this movie, Um, it's one of my favorites of all time. And
- 22:27I also think that it continues to become more relevant the more time that goes
- 22:36on, um because I think it, like Rob mentioned like it, you
- 22:41know, it was at the beginning of reality TV, but now this time
- 22:47around watching it, I felt a lot of parallels with like social media too
- 22:52now where just the like people want to post, you know, the thing
- 23:00of of Truman, like standing in front of his mirror getting ready, Like
- 23:03that's a thing that people post on their social media now. Yeah, so
- 23:07I thought that was all. It's cool when somebody has the foresight to write
- 23:11a story like that, um way before everything and um yeah, I uh
- 23:18yeah, there's a bunch of stuff that I noticed, uh, like you
- 23:22said, beings like watching it now watching it yesterday, like noticed a whole
- 23:27bunch of new things that I appreciated about it. And yeah, I think
- 23:32it's a It's a phenomenal movie. Yeah, also fun fun to see,
- 23:38like the hiding the cameras was such a fancy but now it's like they could
- 23:45be like the tip of a pann Yeah right now, and it's like,
- 23:48you know, that's just it was funny to see that play out. Absolutely
- 23:52take Uh should we go forward and talk about our favorite acting performance? Shall
- 23:57we name? I think we should. I'm the dude, So that's what
- 24:02you call me, you know, uh that or his dudeness or duder or
- 24:07you know, l dudino if you're not into the whole brevity things, Josh,
- 24:11who do you have the So this one, you know, I had
- 24:15to go with with Jim Carrey, of course, Uh had to. Um,
- 24:22he just there there were so many scenes where he was able to it's
- 24:27a short movie. I think I think you mentioned that like it's it's it's
- 24:30a short They pack a lot into a short movie, and so there's a
- 24:34lot of scenes where it's not about his dialogue. It's about him processing this
- 24:41absurd change in his life. And he does such a good job of expressing,
- 24:48like expressing what he's he's feeling and getting you into his head, uh,
- 24:52even without without saying much, and especially like in contract as to his
- 25:00character that he's done in so many other movies, which is so over the
- 25:04top intentionally, Um, it felt like he was effortlessly able to pull back
- 25:11on all that. I like that. That's great. Yeah, man,
- 25:17I'm with you. I think this is probably going to be a clean sweet
- 25:19But this was the first time we really got to see Jim Carrey take a
- 25:26stab at dramatic acting. He got a little serious and liar liar in some
- 25:32scenes. Yeah yeah, But for the most part it was just being super
- 25:36showy and entertearing Jim Carrey, who we all love. But he actually got
- 25:40to show off some some acting chops in this, and he had us rooting
- 25:45for him the whole time. We liked him and wanted him to figure out
- 25:48he was in this fake world, and we wanted him to find the woman
- 25:52he was crushing on, and we're just rooting for him. And when I
- 25:56feel that way, I know that the actor's done a really good job.
- 26:00So this is one of my favorite roles of his. I think he just
- 26:06crushed it definitely. I love that it is a clean sweeper. Yeah,
- 26:11you're right. This one was one of the easier dudes we've ever had to
- 26:15pick. It felt like just echoing the same things. I think he toes
- 26:19the line between like that sort of naivete and also a depth of character that
- 26:27I think is really well done. He's a weirdo, which like almost how
- 26:32could you not be with all these people kind of you know, not being
- 26:36super themselves around you, even if you don't realize that one hundred percent.
- 26:40So I just I loved all that. His goofy stuff was fun, but
- 26:44it wasn't over the top like you said, Josh, I'm with you on
- 26:45that. And yeah, it was just really fun to see him get to
- 26:49flex in a really brisk movie, like you said, really like they move
- 26:55it along, they're not waiting around for a lot. So yeah, I
- 26:57thought he was fantastic. I really picked them a lot. Nice. Well,
- 27:00let's talk about some of the supporting casts. Are a lot of good
- 27:03actors in this. Why don't we pick the two gia? So what do
- 27:10you got for this one? Pal? So? I thought about this one
- 27:12a lot because I actually saw um uh so his best friend Marlin and his
- 27:21wife uh this time around watching it, I really saw them as like dark,
- 27:27villainous characters and I don't remember seeing them that way, but like they
- 27:33are shady, shady shady characters, and uh so I commend both of them
- 27:40for their amazing job on on creating that tone. But I have to say
- 27:45that my favorite is Sylvia. I think it's Natasha Nicklhinney. Yeah, yeah,
- 27:52I'm saying that right. She doesn't have a ton of dialogue. She
- 27:56you know, she's not in there that much, but the short time that
- 28:00she does have in the movie, she really she's able to portray this person
- 28:06who, as far as Truman knows, is the only person that's different and
- 28:11the only person that's outside of this whole world that he knows. And she
- 28:17portrays that just from like the scene of them, you know, meeting each
- 28:21other's eyes when he's in the band outfit and like, yeah, just a
- 28:26lot of she she I completely believed that she was this what's the word,
- 28:36like some she was completely selfless in just falling in love and like wanting to
- 28:40help this person. So yeah, I loved it. Nice man, Yeah
- 28:45that was super great. She kind of becomes like his symbol of hope,
- 28:48yes, and like you know what I mean, like a little bit,
- 28:52and that the only person to look at him like without that secondary agenda is
- 28:56how I took like the eyeball stuff and all that, which was super neat.
- 29:00Absolutely loved the way they unfolded that. Yeah, that was super cool.
- 29:04Yeah, yeah her like, Yeah, I love that her character like
- 29:08became a metaphor in itself. Yeah. Absolutely, absolutely, that's a great
- 29:14pick, great pick, dude. Um, I went with Laura Lenny as
- 29:18Merrill, and I'm going into it. I didn't think I was going to,
- 29:23Um, but on this rewatch she really impressed me. I mean,
- 29:27she's fantastic always she's so it's not like that a bit of a stretch that
- 29:33I'm picking her, but she did. I guess I just didn't realize she
- 29:37had so much going on in this film. She was acting as a wife,
- 29:41which seems pretty messed up having to like prostitute yourself out to be on
- 29:45a TV show. So that's, yes, that's pretty ethically not great.
- 29:51Um, but yeah, she had to try and keep him interested in her,
- 29:57knowing all the while he's obsessed with this other woman. And um,
- 30:03she also at the same time had to try and get all of these commercials
- 30:07in Everyone's which did the like spot reads every single time, try it out
- 30:17today. But you know what put it over the top for me and why
- 30:22she's going to get the words just when when she sees him losing it and
- 30:26she's actually like terrified of what. Yeah to her, I thought those reactions
- 30:33were pretty incredible. But she looked genuinely terrified. Yeah, finally breaks character,
- 30:40you know and all that. Yeah, that's great, that's a good
- 30:44call. Great pick those you know probably would have been up there for me.
- 30:48I will pick just to say a different person, Noah Emeric, we'll
- 30:51talk about him now. I thought he, uh, he was great in
- 30:56this. I actually thought he sort of sympathized with Truman a little bit more
- 31:00than anyone else, Like he felt the closest to being like, dude,
- 31:04this isn't real, like like he almost wanted to do that is how I
- 31:08took it. Um So, but I thought he just did a great job
- 31:12with that, and also like had to take control and was sort of like
- 31:17their man on the ground, you know, for Christoph and all that stuff.
- 31:21So I just think that's a really cool. I thought he did that
- 31:25scene with him being fed the lines and him taking them and making it his
- 31:30own so impressive. That was that was a fun scene. All I could
- 31:34think about was like that would be so hard. Yeah, just hearing it
- 31:37to hear it, process it, but like, do it it sound like
- 31:42a robot? Yeah that would be impossible, absolutely right. It was like
- 31:47I would fail so bad. And I love that he always had his like
- 31:51six pack of beer ready to have, like a heart to heart always always
- 31:55always, Hey, I love it yep, yeah, drink a little too
- 32:02much. No, Marlin was a severe alcoholic when they didn't know. But
- 32:13yeah, that that scene too, Like when they're the scene on the bridge
- 32:15where they're talking with each other, they have that that soundtrack that they show
- 32:20you the production is doing that mix. Yes, so heartfelt. It it's
- 32:23like if the tone of that scene is so dark because they're like they're just
- 32:31manipulating and lying to this coin and it's it's so dark and disturbing, but
- 32:37they made it feel heartfelt. And then they show the people uh in the
- 32:40bar watching it like crying. Yeah, it's like a it's beautifully twisted.
- 32:46Yeah yeah, absolutely, absolutely love that. And then another person, I
- 32:52feel like we have to mention this Ed Harris, right, Yes, absolutely,
- 32:55he was pretty great as Christoph um Are. I mean it's in his
- 33:00name. He's our sort of god complex character Slash the Christ guy almost you
- 33:07know. They even call him Chris at one point, which I thought was
- 33:09pretty funny, just like just sprinkled that. Um. But I thought he
- 33:15was great as like sort of the artsy like kind of almost a madman,
- 33:21but very in control, which is you know, also scary when it happens,
- 33:25and just kind of like control freaky guy. I thought. I thought
- 33:29he did a big Yeah. Well, well he literally is like on the
- 33:36moon looking and directing this guy's life, right, Yeah, it's a power
- 33:40trip. Yeah. That was another another detail about him that I didn't really
- 33:45realize the other times watching is like the show is about him. It's like
- 33:50true is the face of it, but in his eyes, like I am
- 33:52the person this is all about, you know. Yeah, It's almost like
- 33:58Truman is like his paintbrusher or whatever. I mean, like like but he's
- 34:01the one making the you know, the thing everyone loves, which is an
- 34:06interesting way to think about it. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, I
- 34:09thought for sure he was and a runner up for sure. This was one
- 34:13of the first times I saw Paul Jamadi um and he is in the control
- 34:17room. Um, and he got to show off a little bit in a
- 34:22very limited role. Um. You know, he disagreed with Christoph starting up
- 34:28the storm and even got emotional thinking they were they were going to kill him.
- 34:31But it was yeah, very little screen time and you could he was
- 34:37really flexing, like he did a great job totally. Yeah, there has
- 34:40to be like a two and a half hour cut of this movie something,
- 34:44right, like right, there's got to be more on the floor somewhere,
- 34:47you know. Yeah, but I loved what they did how they edited it
- 34:51up, because it was totally it felt good, you're in, you're out.
- 34:54Yeah, Yeah, definitely moved it along. And uh yeah, have
- 35:00to absolutely mention our guy Joel McKinnon Miller, Yeah, because I clearly remember
- 35:07him because he's got the last lines in the movie. But he was by
- 35:12far the best of the whenever they would switch over to real life people watching
- 35:17it, he stole every scene when he was doing it was so funny.
- 35:23Yes, he's so hysterical, like the whole time. It's just so like,
- 35:28I don't know, there's something about him. He's just so just by
- 35:31existing funny, you know what I mean, Like that's such a special quality,
- 35:36felt so conversational. I want to ask him if he like ad libbed
- 35:40any of that stuff or Oh, that's a great question. Yeah, felt
- 35:44very off the cuff, so yeah, it was wonderful. He's great.
- 35:47Yeah fun. Also shout out to the dude the tub because he was Yeah,
- 35:53good for him. I don't know what that his name is, but
- 36:00yeah, I guess anything else. Yeah, it's got an iconic role.
- 36:07I'd had to spend probably what at least the full it's so I need ten.
- 36:22Oh well, why don't we start talking about some of these scenes and
- 36:25let's let's pick the dhis so Dingas's quite simple, really, dass, I
- 36:34could talk about my dinghis all long. You have for this one, Josh,
- 36:36what's your favorite scene? I I like the darkest scenes looking back at
- 36:45them now, like the scene of his dad dying on the boat. That's
- 36:51yeah, I've ever since I saw that as a kid, like I,
- 36:54you know, I that scene was like plastered in my in my mind because
- 37:00it's it starts off with Jim Carrey sitting on the beach as an adult and
- 37:05they'd play like a flashback, which was small, which was like genius in
- 37:08itself of it's showing like how the production of the show works for the people
- 37:14watching it, and they do these best of highlights and stuff. Um,
- 37:17and that in itself was a really deep line of they start showing the clip
- 37:24of his losing his father, and the manager at the bars like, ah,
- 37:30we already have this in the best of the best of collection yea,
- 37:34and yeah yeah exactly. So that scene was just uh yeah, you know,
- 37:42makes you cry. It's rough yea, perfectly done. Um. And
- 37:46then my other favorite scene is the one we mentioned before about his side story
- 37:52with Sylvia or not side story, but the you know, the flashback again
- 37:59where the two of them make eye eye contact and then they meet in the
- 38:04library runs down to the beach with them. That was another scene where I
- 38:07got freaked out, where the car comes swooping down onto the beach. But
- 38:10yeah, they already yeah, they already have an actor planned to be her
- 38:16father with her schizophrenic daughter, like it's yeah, they're also fast and good
- 38:22at that stuff. Yeah yeah, yeah, they're just like okay, great,
- 38:27you know right, like they it's almost like they have like disaster plans,
- 38:32like they have disaster actors just sitting on set like waiting for for if,
- 38:37in case something happens. Yeah, totally. Yeah. So those two
- 38:43terribly sad scenes. So I have a few. But I always thought the
- 38:50best parts of this movie are when kind of to your point, when the
- 38:53other actors inca and are trying to force him to go somewhere else, pecularly,
- 39:00when he is convinced Laura Lynn he's in on it and follows her to
- 39:04the hospital, when the like eight folks in wheelchairs are desperately trying to get
- 39:10in front of him. Yeah, it's like I always always thought it was
- 39:15like whatever, but this last time I laughed so hard. I thought it
- 39:19was so funny. It's also like kind of terrifying fast. Oh man,
- 39:27um, but I love that. I love. I love when he's at
- 39:31the travel agency and he's sitting under a poster of an airplane that's being struck
- 39:37by lightning, and it says this could happen to you, just so subtle
- 39:45to melous. I mean, that's it's pretty impressive that you know, he
- 39:50went thirty years and never left his town is like thirty they were there for
- 39:57thirty years. Yeah, just like how I guess I can't even imagine that.
- 40:02Yeah, but yeah, so I'll throw maybe the hospital scene because then
- 40:07you also have you have her in the surgery and like there's a noise that
- 40:14happens in the person who's like supposed to be under you know, anesthesia,
- 40:19like freaks out thinks that this actor doctor the doctor. The doctor's like,
- 40:24I'm gonna make my first decisions just above the right. That was so great
- 40:34that I guess something like that. That's a great one. That's a great
- 40:39one. Um. Yeah, it's all just really fun. I also love
- 40:45that end scene when he's back in the boat. So I love that firston
- 40:50that you said, Josh, where we get like the flashback and all that,
- 40:52because it is so cool the way they do that. We get to
- 40:55see this sort of like voyeuristic nature of like only looking at the good parts
- 41:01of people's lives, which is kind of like the social media stuff that you
- 41:05talked about, you know, But we also get to see like they're manipulating
- 41:09this poor kid that killed his dad, you know, like they made him
- 41:14like that is brutal when you really like think think about it. Um.
- 41:20But then I love at the end when he sort of reclaims that and is
- 41:23back on the boat and then he gets to have that big line he's like
- 41:27you're gonna have to kill me, and like all that stuff. I just
- 41:30and like you said, Rob, then Giamati gets to be like he's not
- 41:34he's not gonna turn back, like this is we're killing him, you know.
- 41:38I just thought all that was super fun. Um. Yeah, so
- 41:43I love those a lot. M My runner up is definitely just right after
- 41:49that, when, yes, when you have Christoph and Truman speaking for the
- 41:53first time and after he's you know, almost drowned and all that, and
- 42:00I thought that was the best acting from Ed Harris throughout the whole film.
- 42:02Yeah, he's like talking to him on his monitor and he's like kind of
- 42:07like touching his face as he's like talking to his creepy but just like,
- 42:12yeah, I don't know, that's kind of always a scene I think of,
- 42:16and bad guys that makes sense, right, are always kind of extra
- 42:21special in their own way, and he is maybe not a bad guy,
- 42:24but he has sort of in this movie at least, um, and for
- 42:28him to make sense and then for Truman to be like, yep, but
- 42:30I'm gonna go on anyway, because like, yes, this is uncertain and
- 42:34it's scary, but I'm gonna go it's such a great you know, that's
- 42:37such a great resolution for that character. I love that. Yeah, yeah,
- 42:42and that was that was such a cool metaphor. That ending scene is
- 42:46like, Okay, now you know that all of this is fake, but
- 42:52it's very safe here. It's very comfortable. You're gonna be fine, yeah,
- 42:57or you can you know, take a chance and maybe experienced something that
- 43:00you've never seen before. And so he was there was a piece of a
- 43:06piece of Christoff that was like it doesn't matter that Truman knows this is not
- 43:09real anymore, because like this is so this is so safe here, this
- 43:13is so comfortable here. So he really believed he was going to turn around
- 43:15and just live the rest of his life there. I also just love that
- 43:21Truman. I mean not to say that he's not going to be upset about
- 43:24it when he thinks back, and undoubtedly has to go three years of therapy
- 43:29to get over all that, but he is more excited about the future than
- 43:36he is resentful of the past. And I just thought that was like a
- 43:39very that's a very optimistic way to end a movie that could have absolutely been
- 43:45taken in a different lens. Yeah, which is very fun and I like
- 43:49that. My other runner up scene that I wanted to mention is when he
- 43:52does take Laura Lenny basically hostage. Yes, they do like the car stuff.
- 43:58They get blocked and then they go rat like he's cracking, right,
- 44:01And then they do go over the bridge, so he like gets over that
- 44:06one hump of his fear and they go through the fire. And then they
- 44:08have like the nuclear fallout stuff, which is so funny and such a great
- 44:14way of doing it, you know, of having like that final fail safe,
- 44:17But just that whole thing is like it's wild because we get to see
- 44:22Jim Carrey go a little crazy there, which is kind of fun. Um
- 44:25And yeah, I just I really liked that whole That whole unraveling scene was
- 44:30really fun too. We try to pick one, I don't know that a
- 44:34few uh yeah, I think this one. You can just have a bunch
- 44:37of scenes. I don't think we need to pick just one. I love
- 44:39it there' stingus is everywhere. Let's go on to our favorite quotes. It's
- 44:44time to show Josh you want to do a few of your quotes. Yeah,
- 44:55uh, I'm sure that both of you have this one. But uh,
- 45:00of course, in my opinion, the most legendary line is the last
- 45:05line of the movie. Yeah, yeah, what else? What else is
- 45:09one exactly yet little dated, which is fine. Yeah, yeah, so
- 45:17great, agreed, but it's still what else is on still fully applies to
- 45:23current day where we're so like next, Wow that was yeah, even though
- 45:29this was like groundbreaking, like this guy we've watched for thirty years, figured
- 45:35it all out and he's leaving. What are we watching next? Yep?
- 45:39Yeah yeah I felt that way, especially like when you watch something super heavy
- 45:44and then you're just like, okay, cool, let's move on to media.
- 45:46It's like, calp down, just like think about it for a minute.
- 45:52But no, I need a palate cleanser. I want to get away.
- 45:55Yeah right right right, Yeah, I love that. That's great.
- 46:00Oh. One of my lines that always kills me is when he's in school
- 46:07and he's like, I want to be an explorer like Magellan. Yes,
- 46:09his teacher pulls down the match. She's like, there's nothing left to explore.
- 46:14Yes, you're you're too late. Yeah, she's just very fact.
- 46:20Yeah. That is so funny. Kills me every time. Yes. Um,
- 46:25and then one more is uh the scene you mentioned where he's he's driving
- 46:30in the circles and he goes, somebody helped me. I'm being spontaneous.
- 46:37Running that love it. Yeah, and on that same line, I think
- 46:42it's kind of when he's unraveling, but he's like the early bird gathers no
- 46:45moss, the rolling stone couches the worm. Yeah, yes, so much.
- 46:51That's pretty great. Yeah. The line I think of always for this
- 46:55is, uh, good morning and in case I don't see a good afternoon,
- 47:00good evening, and goodnight iconic iconic. That is love. That's going
- 47:06to be the title of this episode for sure. Yeah. Yeah, another
- 47:12one from John McKinnon Miller. It's art like it's it's in the middle of
- 47:15the movie and uh, he's talking about the lack of sex scenes in the
- 47:21show, and he's like, you don't just see anything anyway, And the
- 47:23wind blows in and the curtains move and you don't see anything. Hammer cuts
- 47:30away just so mad. I'm so good. Made me laugh a lot.
- 47:37Begs why don't you say somebody? Yeah? I love when uh it's Laura
- 47:43Lenney is like freaking out. It's when he pulls like the knife thing on
- 47:47her or whatever, and she's freaking out, like it's like, I don't
- 47:50know how anyone can expect me to work under these conditions. It's on profession.
- 47:54Yes, I was cracking up during that. I thought was so great.
- 48:00I loved that. I also loved Christoph saying there's no more truth out
- 48:05there in out there in the world than in this world I created for you,
- 48:10same lies, same deceit, but in my world you have nothing to
- 48:14fear. And I was just like, damn, that's that's a lot.
- 48:19There's a lot going on there. Uh. And then followed up by another
- 48:22one. Uh. I think it's one of the producers. Maybe Uh,
- 48:28it's or no, it's the interview guy, which by the way, we
- 48:32didn't mention. Yeah, super fun right, Like he was great too in
- 48:36that role. I loved that. But he's like, let me ask you,
- 48:38why do you think Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature
- 48:43of his world until now? And then Christoph just says, we accept the
- 48:46reality of the world which we are presented. It's as simple as that.
- 48:51It was like, yeah, that's good line. That's heavy stuff. That
- 48:53guy took the rest of the day off when he was nailed that moving on.
- 49:00Uh. And then maybe my my favorite like sneaky line of the movie
- 49:06was Fiji, you can't get any farther away without starting to come back,
- 49:10and I just love I think that's such a cool idea and how he showed
- 49:14it on the golf ball. Yeah, on the golf ball. That was
- 49:16such a that was very effective. The way they did that that was really
- 49:20neat. I liked that. I didn't have too many either. One other
- 49:25one Truman was like was nothing real, and Christoff said, you were real.
- 49:30That's what made you so good to watch. I thought that was good.
- 49:35But other than that, yeah, I don't really hope much else.
- 49:39Yeah, Josh, did you have any other ones that we didn't say?
- 49:43No, Yeah, just Ed Helms had so many like really provoking yeah,
- 49:47yeah, yeah, sorry thought provoking lines in there that we're just yeah,
- 49:55like made a pause for a little bit. Yeah, totally man, Yeah
- 50:01yeah. And then I just love all the uh his buddy Marlin, all
- 50:07the lines that he said that we're trying to convince Truman like there's nowhere else
- 50:13that's cool to go, right, they were so like the way he delivered
- 50:17them were. It felt perfect because it felt like an exact line that the
- 50:23producers tell him to say whenever Truman starts talking about leaving, So he delivered
- 50:30it like he delivered it in a way where Truman feels normal about it,
- 50:36but we all know the producers told him to say it. Right. There's
- 50:38a bunch of just like little things like we wouldn't enough that we can tell
- 50:42he's being fed at but not you know, like also believable enough. Yeah,
- 50:46when he's like, oh no, you know, have you ever been
- 50:50anywhere else would know we're better than yeah, exactly, Like he's like navigating
- 50:53him back. Yeah, I don't come back. Yeah, yeah, that
- 50:58is great. Nice, nice, Well, why don't we move to the
- 51:04crying game? Bugs? Boohoo moments? Strong men also cry? Strong men
- 51:10also cry? Strong man also crying. I picked five, We picked five
- 51:19for this. I love it. The first one is when Truman's crush gets
- 51:23taken away and she's trying to explain that nothing is real. So that scene
- 51:28at the beach probably yeah that's hard. Ye. When he is tackled to
- 51:34the ground by the dudes in hasmat suits, um with the nuclear fallout,
- 51:39maybe yeah, yeah, totally just like that whole un rampling for sure.
- 51:45Um, when they are actively trying to drown Truman but he's able to prevail,
- 51:52and when he like the what is the bow of the ship goes through
- 51:58like the mastheads, so that later I think that's such a cool Peah,
- 52:01I agree, But I had that as a separate one. So are we
- 52:05counting that all this one? Oh no, I lifted. You're right,
- 52:10I listed them separate. I mean there's somewhat close, but like he they
- 52:15have him sailing for a while after he you know, is up. Yeah,
- 52:22they're separate, separate. Um. So yeah, then I had when
- 52:23he reaches the wall and starts punching it after that, you know, and
- 52:29is breaking down and then I look like it hurt right ouchim? But that
- 52:35yeah, that last line before he steps through the door, so he like
- 52:39takes his bow and everything, so fun. Love that That is what I
- 52:45had. Were there any more Bahoo's? Yeah? Actually I did count those
- 52:51this one, You're right, I counted that kind of a one because the
- 52:53only extra one that I had was the flashback to him losing his dad,
- 52:58because that was all just so messed up. Okay, it just it got
- 53:02me go, Yeah, it's crazy. See that one doesn't really get me
- 53:06because I know that he didn't come. Yeah you know, yes, and
- 53:14maybe the very first time I felt that way, but yeah, I don't
- 53:20know. I just yeah, I get you, but you got the number
- 53:22right because it was take that as a win. For sure. It might
- 53:25not be the right five, but I'll take it. And five makes me
- 53:29feel like such a more of a normal human than the last year. We
- 53:34just did the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and he had roughly three thousand
- 53:40bohos in those three movies. You guys mentioned Guardians of the Galaxy three,
- 53:51Yeah, earlier and I just saw it yesterday. Yeah, that must have
- 53:54been another three thousand cries, so many, so many. I can't remember
- 54:02how many go to be a lot because we haven't done it yet, but
- 54:06it's a lot. I had an actual, like all all of my eyes
- 54:10will get watery, you know during movies plenty of times, but I had
- 54:15an actual physical tear coming down twice. Yeah, yeah, bro, very
- 54:24good. I was almost like heave crying. There's two spots where I was
- 54:30like, it's man, Yeah, it's a beautiful movie. It's great,
- 54:37Yeah, really well done, super fun, but yeah, only only five.
- 54:42Nice. Don't you throw some trivia at us, somebody, I shall
- 54:45movie trivia. Ed Harrison Jim Carey never met during filming, which I think
- 54:51is weird, but I guess makes sense because they're never together, so makes
- 54:55sense. Uh. I though this was cool. In an early scene,
- 55:00a bottle of vitamin D is on Truman and Meryll's kitchen table and they you
- 55:05know, they need it because people without exposure to the actual sun have to
- 55:08take that. But it was such a cool, like what a nice touch.
- 55:13I love that really fun um, so really fun scene that we kind
- 55:19of mentioned. But when he draws the soap and makes himself into like the
- 55:23Marsher camp and the Trumania and all that stuff, that was all improv which
- 55:29I think is super fun and also makes a ton of sense because Jim Carrey
- 55:31is so good at that stuff. And there was I think one or two
- 55:36more that got kind of cut out as well, but I just thought that
- 55:39was really neat. So he made all that up and it was just lovely.
- 55:44I loved that. Um. In the original script, he's supposed to
- 55:47be like a just getting out of high school UM, so maybe that makes
- 55:52sense rob why he has a But they wanted Jim Carrey, so they turned
- 55:59it to like a mid life crises kind of situation more than like a teenage
- 56:02angsty kind of thing. Yeah, I feel like you know, plot wise
- 56:06and plausibility wise, it makes way more sense him being a high story.
- 56:09It's like, yeah, you never leave your time. It'd be a different
- 56:14thing obviously because he couldn't be like married. But yeah, I agree,
- 56:17it kind of makes more sense in a weird way. But yeah, whatever,
- 56:22it's still great. Let's see. According to the two thousand and eight
- 56:25New York Times article, psychologists in Britain and the US reported a number of
- 56:30people experiencing the Truman syndrome or the Truman Show delusion, which is the belief
- 56:36that they are unwitting stars of their own reality TV shows. Reportedly, many
- 56:40afflicted specifically mentioned this film in their therapy sessions. That was wild. That's
- 56:46related schizophrenia, I guess. I mean, it's yeah, I don't know.
- 56:52It is paranoia to some degree, I guess probably, But it's interesting.
- 56:58They glommed onto that. They were like, yeah, this may sense,
- 57:00you know, interesting, Um, this was cool. In a deleted
- 57:06scene, Truman runs into a jogger played by the same actor who played a
- 57:08homeless man in a wheelchair two days earlier. And that would have been pretty
- 57:13interesting to see go down there. But that's pretty fun. Uh. People
- 57:17on the set were forbidden from uttering phrases from Jim Carrey's past silly movies.
- 57:24Wow, that doesn't sound very fun. I love that. So that's probably
- 57:30in his contract for every right, Yeah, gotta be wow. And I
- 57:36think I think I even read he took a pay cut to do this.
- 57:38He like kind of famously used to demand twenty million per per film, I
- 57:44think, and he took twelve I think for this one. So that's kind
- 57:47of interesting. But yeah, they couldn't say his lines to be scary.
- 57:52What if you accidentally did it? Alrighty? Then I was just saying,
- 57:55alrighty, then that wasn't it? Wasn't you, sir um. The iconic
- 58:02boaster, which is Jim Carrey's face, comprising of like hundreds of those individual
- 58:07images, was created by the artist Rob Silverman, and it's rumored to cost
- 58:14seventy five thousand dollars. That is too much. Do we know who has
- 58:20it? I don't know. I didn't say. That's a good question,
- 58:23wonder. I wonder that would go for a probably pretty good money. Probably
- 58:29Cage has all that kind of yehs got it in his sixth castle over in
- 58:35Ireland or wherever he's got it. Yeah, totally. Uh. Siskel and
- 58:40Ebert reviewed the film on their TV show. They not only gave it two
- 58:45thumbs up, but they gave an on air apology to Jim Carrey for saying
- 58:50that he would never have a career when they panned ace Venture a pet Detective.
- 58:55I saw a thing recently where Jim Carrey was in this like round table
- 59:00and there was a lot of different actors there, and he got kind of
- 59:04emotional talking about how Siskel and Ebert just completely just his very first time out
- 59:13when they apologized to him. He yeah, I got kind of emotional talking
- 59:19about it. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. And also, you
- 59:22know, A Spenture is a great movie. Stop it, okay, uh?
- 59:29Like I said, the original script was darker and had crucial differences from
- 59:32the draft that they shot. So the city was not a utopian society,
- 59:37but there were staged criminal incidents that happened throughout it. Truman actually had a
- 59:42drinking problem, and it's stated clearly that Truman makes love to his wife and
- 59:51like, like they said, the intention was that they would get pregnant and
- 59:54then the child would carry on and there would be a spin off show,
- 59:59so it would be the would watch Truman in his life still, but then
- 1:00:01they would also focus on the kid, sort of restarting the cycle all over
- 1:00:06again. And then finally they say, after Truman passes the door, he
- 1:00:12meets Christoph and the main cast members on a rooftop and they all just kind
- 1:00:17of have this awkward moment and then Truman, in his rage, attacks Christoph
- 1:00:23and tries to strangle him and kill him, but they all hold him back,
- 1:00:28and yeah, he's reunited with Sylvia then, So I feel like they
- 1:00:31picked a better way to go, because that's it was way more optimistic and
- 1:00:37yeah, just him going and trying to kill the guy, which it makes
- 1:00:39a lot of sense too, but it does. Yeah, I wouldn't blame
- 1:00:44it, but yeah, it's kind of weird and why would they all just
- 1:00:46be sitting there like that'd be weird, but who knows. Probably the I
- 1:00:52would imagine the studio too, was like this camp this won't be a commercial
- 1:00:58success. If it's totally that would have turned it into like a real art
- 1:01:02film, yeah, whereas this is like families watch this movie. Yeah,
- 1:01:08yeah, I think you're totally right about that. Absolutely. Let's see A
- 1:01:15deleted scene reveals that Truman had not realized what was or that that had Truman
- 1:01:20not realized what was going on, Kristoff and the network execs, we're gonna
- 1:01:24oh, that was the spin off show. I combined to malf just move
- 1:01:29forward. Uh oh, this was cool. Just before the boat stops,
- 1:01:32we see the number one thirty nine prominently displayed on its sale, and the
- 1:01:37ensuing dialogue between Truman and Kristoff contains some paraphrased references to Psalm one thirty nine,
- 1:01:44as do many other aspects of the film. And I always just think
- 1:01:46that's really interesting when they work in stuff like that. It's pretty cool.
- 1:01:52Nice. That was what I had, you have any I had just some
- 1:01:54other actors up for roles. Dennis Hopper was originally cast as Christoff, but
- 1:02:00he walked off the set after his first day and Ed Harris replaced. Hopper
- 1:02:07went on to a supporting role in ed TV, which came out the next
- 1:02:13year, and it had striking similarities to the premise of The Truman Show.
- 1:02:17Sure, so that's weird. I don't know why. I know. Um,
- 1:02:25yeah, other ones I saw. Robin Williams was considered to star as
- 1:02:30Truman Burrbank and when Andrew Nicol was going to direct. He was the writer.
- 1:02:37Um, Gary Oldman was going to star as Truman, which, yeah,
- 1:02:46that would have worked. Robin would have, I mean, been great,
- 1:02:49but you really run into because he would have been even older than Jim,
- 1:02:52right, so that would have been that problem would have been here,
- 1:02:58I feel like. But Peter Weir, who ended up directing Jim Carrey,
- 1:03:02was his first choice, which had worked out very well for him. Yeah,
- 1:03:07it's a good call. And so the Gary Oldman was who the writer
- 1:03:12wanted. Yeah, so that would make sense if it was the original dark
- 1:03:16script, right then I could see right there for sure, that would make
- 1:03:22sense. Yeah, he's incredible. Um. And the last one I have
- 1:03:28is Hope Davis was in the running for the role that went to Laura Lenney.
- 1:03:32Man. Laura Lenney just crushed it. Who's Hope Davis? Do I
- 1:03:37know that? Who? Definitely recognize her? She she's in succession? Um
- 1:03:43oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah. It's in the new West Anderson movie,
- 1:03:45which looks fun. O. Yeah, she would have been great for sure.
- 1:03:50She's about schm Yeah that great, great film. You love about Schmidt?
- 1:03:55Um, love it. I just saw that. Imp Well, let's
- 1:04:06go to Judgment Day. Will there be a sequel? M M. There
- 1:04:12could be, but I doubt it right at this point. Yeah, I
- 1:04:15mean I certainly wouldn't put it past Hollywood to go for a sequel. Even
- 1:04:18though it's been twenty five years. Um, you know, they still have
- 1:04:23that enormous set. Maybe do it all over again with someone new, um,
- 1:04:29but yeah, yeah, that set still exists, I mean in this
- 1:04:34world about yeah, right, so, like you know, it would be
- 1:04:42It also could be interesting if they don't dove into Truman's life outside of See
- 1:04:45Haven, like in the real world. Like, but I feel like too
- 1:04:48much time has passed for something like that. I don't know how that would
- 1:04:53work, right, Yeah, So I don't know unless they Hunger Games are
- 1:04:57kind of the spiritual successor to these Yeah, yeah, I just I was
- 1:05:03just kidding. Well, no, I think, yeah, if they if
- 1:05:05they did revisit this, they would have to do something darker. Uh.
- 1:05:12And I think if they followed Truman's life after he left, um, that
- 1:05:18story like the only reality I imagine that is. I think you mentioned it
- 1:05:24before. Bub's like just therapy and trauma, trauma, like that would not
- 1:05:30be a fun movie of him just trying to like make sense of the new
- 1:05:34reality around him. Well, and he would be just the most famous person
- 1:05:40on the planet. I mean he already was, but then he actually I
- 1:05:44mean it would be like Jim Carrey in real life, right, and there
- 1:05:47would be yeah, they you know that there would be uh uh studios trying
- 1:05:54to make like a reality show of his new life. Now. Yeah,
- 1:05:59absolutely, he would not be a fun life. Yeah, he'd probably like
- 1:06:03take them to court and demand like payment and stuff as well. First,
- 1:06:09you know, like especially the court battle of like can a child be adopted
- 1:06:14by corporation? And all that stuff like that is super interesting. Yeah.
- 1:06:18I think it'd be cool if we really went weird though, and did like,
- 1:06:24uh, there's some sort of plague that's happening in the world and Truman
- 1:06:28decides to go back with his child, and part of the agreement that they
- 1:06:31get to go back and be in safety is it has to be broadcast all
- 1:06:35the mutants that are outside. I'd see it. This is a good pitch
- 1:06:42meeting. Let's let's work. There's a lot of there's a lot of avenues
- 1:06:46to revisit this movie. Um, I don't think they should be visited,
- 1:06:51but yeah, I'll take that. Well, you guys, you want to
- 1:07:00play a game? Yes, yeah, I decided to make a starting five
- 1:07:05and again, how we do this. I'm gonna name five actors from a
- 1:07:09film, and once you know the name of the film, you ring in
- 1:07:13with your name, so I know who is ringing in, and if there
- 1:07:17are remaining names left, you can answer who I would have picked for more
- 1:07:23points. And if you get any of those wrong, the other person can
- 1:07:28come in and guess for points. And all of these ten films have something
- 1:07:32in common. When you know what the theme is, ring in at any
- 1:07:35time for a point? Sound good? Love it? Yes, sir?
- 1:07:41All right, let's do it. Number one The first name Alan Rickman,
- 1:07:51the second name, and Hathaway, but it didn't Yeah. The third name
- 1:08:01Johnny Depp. What the hell? Oh it's uh buse uh rango, No,
- 1:08:16that is not rango. Oh he went to thirty would have probably been
- 1:08:20last, though, I think. Yeah, um so, Josh, you
- 1:08:23get to listen to these bugs can't answer anymore. But um so we got
- 1:08:27Alan Rickman and Hathaway. Johnny Depp. Helena Bonham Carter is the fourth name,
- 1:08:33and then the fifth and final name is an actress named Mia Wasikowska.
- 1:08:43I have no idea because I was thinking Sweeney Todd when you said, yeah,
- 1:08:49right, exact yeah, Alan Rickman, Johnny Depp and Helen O Bonham,
- 1:08:54Carter All and Sweeney Todd as well, it's not it's another Tim Burton
- 1:09:00film. Oh big clue. Um, all right, nobody got this.
- 1:09:06But Mia Wassakowska played Alice from Alison Wonder. Yeah. Yeah, I never
- 1:09:16actually saw them that movie. I went when I was unemployed and decided to
- 1:09:23spend way too much money on a new television and I got one of those
- 1:09:30three D TVs and it came with the glasses and everything, and uh,
- 1:09:36that was the movie that came with it. And that was the only time
- 1:09:41I ever watched something in three D on that television because they stopped making three
- 1:09:47D. I think they had some to choose from, but I was like,
- 1:09:50yeah, nothing from it, and you had to like look at it
- 1:09:59straight on, like if you were to the side at all. No,
- 1:10:03no, this is not where that's funny. Turn your head. It came
- 1:10:08with a movie like the TV came with Yeah. Well, because I got
- 1:10:12the whole package. Man, I spent so much money that I didn't have
- 1:10:17um, all right, so also Wonderland that was number one. Let's go
- 1:10:23to number two. The first name is Michael baraluco Oh sure. The second
- 1:10:31name is Danny i Ella. The third name is Natalie Portman and we're getting
- 1:10:42somewhere. The fourth name is Jean reyno In. The fifth and final name
- 1:10:53is the aforementioned Gary Oldman. Oh Josh yeah. Um the professional, Leon
- 1:11:02the professional, you got it, Leon, the professional. He is on
- 1:11:09the board. Mostly done, buddy. Let's go to number three. The
- 1:11:16first name is Jeffrey Arand who you guys have seen but you don't know his
- 1:11:23name. Um. The second name is Matthew Gray Goobler, who, funny
- 1:11:29enough, Austin Brown gets he gets mistaken for him pretty regularly. Really,
- 1:11:36he was on one of those procedural shows, uh, criminal minds, I
- 1:11:44think yes, and so he kind of looks like him. Um. The
- 1:11:49third name is the third name is Chloe Grace Moretz. The fourth name Joseph
- 1:12:00Gordon Levitt okay, And the fifth final name is Zoe Deschanel Bukes Pukes five
- 1:12:12hundred days of Summer. You got it? Boom. You're on the board,
- 1:12:16all right? Are we seeing at the theme? It all here.
- 1:12:21No, okay, wait wait, oh go ahead? No, no,
- 1:12:27no, no, I don't know, go ahead, carry on? Is
- 1:12:30it? Is it just movies with three words in the title? Oh,
- 1:12:36it's not so far? Oh no, days of Summer never never mind?
- 1:12:42Um no, if we don't count, yeah, that's a nubral damn it.
- 1:12:45No yeah, so not it. We don't have it yet. Let's
- 1:12:50go to number four. Maybe number four will make you think of it.
- 1:12:54Here, but the first name Chris Elliott. Oh. The second name is
- 1:13:00Keith David. Oh is that not that guy's name. There's something about Mary
- 1:13:12You got it? Why done that? I don't think I would have gotten
- 1:13:15it there? That was impressive, David. Is the beans about the frank
- 1:13:18guy? Right? No, No, that's that's actually no hilarious. That
- 1:13:26guy's name is w Earl Brown. Keith David is her like step dad?
- 1:13:32M h um. You can look him up? Yeah? Okay, um,
- 1:13:38but yeah, you still have three names remaining. Oh I'm sorry,
- 1:13:42Ben Stiller, yes, Cameronde yes, and then five. I don't know
- 1:13:50the dude's name, so I'm gonna say Brett Favre. I should have picked
- 1:13:56him first. But yeah, I think you guys would have gotten it right
- 1:14:00away. But um, do you know the actor's name Josh that Ukes can't
- 1:14:03think of. No, he's the like dark haired guy that is the pie.
- 1:14:10He was my number one pick on this. Yeah, he's really and
- 1:14:15he's been in other stuff too, but yeah, yeah, his name is
- 1:14:19Matt Dillon. Matt Dillon, Matt Dillon. So but you got three points
- 1:14:27for that, buddy. Nice. So again I'm going to recap. We
- 1:14:31have Alice in Wonderland, Leon the Professional, five hundred Days of Summer,
- 1:14:35and there's something about Mary. Do we know, yes, Bukes. They
- 1:14:41all have a person's name in the title. It is specifically main character's name,
- 1:14:45a main character's first name. It's only only a first name. Okay,
- 1:14:54so that might help, just a first name, not a full name,
- 1:14:57not a full name or off. That's off the board. We have
- 1:15:01no last names, only their first name. That's tricky because five hundred days
- 1:15:06with summer Summer, I know, but that was always name in there.
- 1:15:11That was a character's name, is true, and then he meets Autumn.
- 1:15:15But um, let's go to number. I completely forgot that. Uh Chloe
- 1:15:20plays her little sister in that movie, right, Yeah, I forgot about
- 1:15:25that. Yep. Oh I wouldn't have got it from her. There's no
- 1:15:28way, yeah, no chance. Um, all right, let's go to
- 1:15:32number five. You guys, the first name Chris Farley, Bukes, Bukes,
- 1:15:41Wayne's World, Wayne's World. Got it nice. I'm so mad you
- 1:15:45guessed it there. That was the worst time. But let's go to them.
- 1:15:50Let's go the other four names here, Dannik Carvey. Yeah, here's
- 1:15:56my number one. Uh uh yeah, I think of his name right.
- 1:16:00Five? Four Mike Myers, Yes, two more names. I can't think
- 1:16:09of his stupid name career, Yes, nicely done. Whoa, No one
- 1:16:15thought it was more name. It's the dude. Three Benjamin is his name
- 1:16:24in the movie Benjamin Josh you know the actor that Beux is thinking of.
- 1:16:30Yeah, he wore a generic NFL hat when he was on to promote the
- 1:16:34nine one Texas Or is it not Hill. It's been so long since I've
- 1:16:41seen that movie too. I don't know what you're referring to. I don't
- 1:16:44know what that nine one one Texas is. Oh, that's it the show
- 1:16:46that he's in. It's the the super handsome comedic guy, right, yeah,
- 1:16:50yeah, he's my first name. What the hell is his name,
- 1:16:58yes, rob oh, yes, yes it's Roblo. Yes, good call.
- 1:17:01Yeah. He So when he was he does that Fireman show nine to
- 1:17:06one Austin or something. Yeah, And when they were promoting that, he
- 1:17:11went to a football game because it was on the same channel, and they
- 1:17:14cut to him and he was sitting there just stoically with like the most generic
- 1:17:19hat that just said NFL on it. I think it was at the Super
- 1:17:23Bowl actually, but he just his hat only said NFL and he was sitting
- 1:17:27completely still and it was hysterical. I have not seen that. It's really
- 1:17:30funny. I'll try to find it. It's funny. Well, you definitely
- 1:17:34got Wayne's World, Tia career, Mike Myers day in Carve. You got
- 1:17:38four on that for sure. So that's yeah, all right, the blue
- 1:17:45out, We've got Tia Carrera. You sure did? Who am I?
- 1:17:47I mean? Yeah, Well, let's go to number six. The first
- 1:17:53name is Carrie Washington. The second name is Samuel L. Jackson. The
- 1:18:03third name is Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh. The fourth name is Christoph Waltz.
- 1:18:16Ohs uh jango unchained yea sir? And who is that last name? Uh?
- 1:18:27Jamie Fox Jamie Fox, who I hope is doing better. It sounds
- 1:18:30like, yeah, yeah, not doing well. So we had some liking
- 1:18:36about him specified health stuff going on. Yeah, I've heard a lot of
- 1:18:41different things, and I just so it sounds serious whatever it is. Definitely
- 1:18:45hopefully he's doing okay. Yeah. Yeah. Someone came out and was like,
- 1:18:48he's probably. We feel pretty good. He's gonna live now, and
- 1:18:51I was like, wait, what Jesus what happened? Very quickly? Good?
- 1:18:57Lord? Um, where we're sitting after getting to number seven? Here
- 1:19:01mutes, I have ten, Josh has one. Yeah, gotta get going
- 1:19:06here, Josh. Here we go about it all right. I should have
- 1:19:10known that one. Yeah, it's tough when you're in it, though,
- 1:19:14Um it is. Yeah, I'm sitting here going through all of the other
- 1:19:16Tarantino movies and I was like, that's not a person's name, yea,
- 1:19:20Yeah, all right, Well let's go to number seven. The first name
- 1:19:25is Lily James. The second name is the aforementioned Jamie Fox, who we
- 1:19:35all hope is doing well. The third name is John Hamm, the fourth
- 1:19:46name is John Burnthal, and the fifth and final is that Baby Driver because
- 1:19:58baby right name is baby I don't know that dude's name though, Yeah,
- 1:20:03do you know who plays baby driver? Josh? I didn't even see that
- 1:20:06one. Oh you got it's so good because I think that I think that's
- 1:20:13Edgar Wright, who we all yeah, yes, yeah, it's impressive.
- 1:20:17One of my favorite like opening scenes of any movie ever. Really, yeah,
- 1:20:23it's very well. It's a little more problematic now that Kevin Spacey is
- 1:20:27a big douche. But you're all right, that's right. I didn't even
- 1:20:30put them on those five names. Even though name in it, it's it's
- 1:20:35still worth watching. I think, Man, it's so good, so good,
- 1:20:40a great flight movie. Oh, Army or iPad or something. His
- 1:20:45name though, is Ansel el gort Ansel. I did know that name.
- 1:20:50Actually, I wouldn't have thought of it, right, So that's another point
- 1:20:56for you there, bugs. Yes, now this one it's difficult. Let's
- 1:21:01go to number eight. The first name is Ellen Burston. Oh, sure,
- 1:21:08she's very famous older actress. The second name is Kathy Baker. The
- 1:21:15third name is Michael Huisman, okay great. The fourth name, however,
- 1:21:26Harrison Ford. Oh and the fifth and final name is Blake Lively. Five
- 1:21:36four bus Bukes Age of Adelaide. You got it. No way, that
- 1:21:45was it. I would have only been able to get it with Blake Lively
- 1:21:51there at the end, for sure. I don't even remember that one.
- 1:21:56It I don't think I saw. I saw it, and it's math.
- 1:22:02It's great. It's just so bad though she's so good. There's just so
- 1:22:09many things to see. Um number nine Vivica Fox. Second name bugs kill
- 1:22:18Bill, kill Bill? Which one though, first one, volume one,
- 1:22:28because she's only the first one, and that's why I picked. That's why
- 1:22:31I said her name. Um, all right? Four names Buddy, oh
- 1:22:36god, Uma, Thurman, Yes, uh, Madson. I didn't pick
- 1:22:45Madson, but he is in that. Yeah. Two more what is her
- 1:22:51name? Five? Hannah Daryl Daryl Hannah Yeah yea. One more guess Hi
- 1:23:03the Bill guy. Three? I don't know his name though. One do
- 1:23:10you know any actor's names from Kill Bill, Josh not that have not been
- 1:23:15mentioned yet? Okay? Yeah, David yep, David Carradine. And then
- 1:23:21the other one I picked with Lucy lou so, Um that makes sense.
- 1:23:26Shoot, yeah, but you got Uma and Darryl and kill Bill. So
- 1:23:30another three definitely won. But here is the last one. Um. The
- 1:23:36first name is Alison Janny. The second name is Brad Garrett. The third
- 1:23:45name is Willem Dafoe. Whoa The fourth name Ellen DeGeneres. Oh, that's
- 1:23:59Jukes Finding Memo, Finding Nemo. It's like although they both have first names
- 1:24:13in them, and what is the last person? Albert Brooks. Albert Brooks,
- 1:24:20you rocked it out, dude, man effort, well on this.
- 1:24:27I'm impressed. So the shark in that he's in the he's in the cage
- 1:24:35with him. He's not a shark. He's like a in the aquarium in
- 1:24:42the aquarium with him. Yeah, he's still like the sharks, like Australian
- 1:24:49guy I think or something. He's like a black and whitefish with the Scots
- 1:24:55or something. That's right. Those movies are so fun. I should really,
- 1:25:00Yes, they were fun. I've seen those ones. Oh I bet
- 1:25:06that one life. Every time we are going to go like up to our
- 1:25:11cabin which is along like you'd hear Finding Nemo twice in the back, just
- 1:25:15like that's a lot. It's so funny. I as a kid, you
- 1:25:20can rewatch a movie like over and over and over and over and over.
- 1:25:25For sure. Oh man, yeah, but bugs are going to tell us
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- 1:25:46Do that right now. Buddy, thanks so much for coming on. It
- 1:25:48was such a blast having your back. Thank you guys. There's an absolute
- 1:25:51pleasure and I always enjoy talking to you guys. Heck yeah, man,
- 1:25:56Well we'll get you, you know, in between your jet setting and well
- 1:26:00more, you know, as soon as we can here for sure, let's
- 1:26:02do it for fun. Stay tuned. We're gonna do Trading Places coming up
- 1:26:06next for its fortieth anniversary, so stay tuned for that. And but yeah,
- 1:26:12that does it today for the Truman Show. Right on, I'm roblund
- 1:26:15Quiz and Bix. Thank you guys so much for listening. Until we talk
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