#40. Zombieland, Star Wars, and Hospital Cafeterias!
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Mary Katherine Ham fills Sonny's chair — "there's a girl in the studio!" — and submits to a JVL personality battery (Moana over Frozen, Beatles, Bojangles, Fast and Furious over Mission: Impossible, Empire as the best Star Wars, and a Team Tapper answer that leaves JVL outraged on Chris Cillizza's behalf) before the review of Zombieland: Double Tap. JVL's big boy review is a demolition: the sequel to "2009's surprise mediocrity," featuring "Mark Zuckerberg as Columbus" and a Little Rock who "now looks like a Canadian stripper with a three-pack-a-day habit," unnecessary and forced and derivative, capped with "Zombieland Double Tap will make your head explode. Two stars." Ham, who says horror comedy is her favorite genre and had a Gremlins lunchbox in kindergarten, enjoyed it while wanting the Jesse Eisenberg voiceover cut in half, and keeps asking where the electricity, water and gas come from in this suspiciously comfortable apocalypse; she also cops to a political dopamine hit off the gun-melting hippie commune, right up to Woody Harrelson bellowing "Thank God for rednecks," which JVL reads as a Peter Thiel movie telling you not to go to college. Vic hands it an A+ on length, violence, legible plot and bonus Zoey Deutch, and all three agree the funniest thing in it is the mid-credits Bill Murray press junket for Garfield 3 ("drugs are expensive"). Ham's horror-comedy top four runs Gremlins, Slither, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Shaun of the Dead. Elsewhere: the final Rise of Skywalker trailer draws JVL's warning about Rey redeeming Kylo and his line that there will be another Star Wars movie every December for the rest of Flash's life; Ham admits she was a Star Wars virgin until 18 months ago and trolls her kids by insisting Elsa is the villain of Frozen 2; and Vic reports a week at Capital Health in Hopewell, New Jersey for his mother's successful surgery, awarding the Cascade Cafe three Michelin stars on the strength of a grill station that deep-fried something new daily. The World Series saga resolves happily — JVL bought a half-season plan for next year to get face-value seats to all three home games, then gave a pair away to teach Flash about sharing a windfall.
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Vic00:00:00Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sub-Beacon, sponsored by Ethos and Calm. I'm Victor Matus along with Jonathan V. Last and subbing this time for Sonny Bunch is Mary Catherine Hamm.
JVL00:00:15There's a girl in the studio!
Vic00:00:17It's true! Just a reminder, the Sub-Beacon is available on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Look on our podcasts and search for Sub-Beacon, you'll easily find us. Please subscribe, tell your friends and leave a review. This is like when you're, could you imagine JVL playing D&D and with your buddies when you're 14, 18, I don't know. And all of a sudden like a girl says, Oh, I want to play. The captain of the cheerleading squad shows up. Yeah. Yeah. The captain of cheerleading says, Oh, I want to play. I'd love to play. Okay. So that's, that's what it is right now.
JVL00:00:52It's very strange having, I would say, a girl in the show.
Vic00:00:55Is this our first time having? Yes. Period. Well, no, I mean, Warren, Mike Warren of CNN.
Guest00:01:01Yeah. I, I do not have a Michael Caine impression. You'll be delighted to know.
JVL00:01:06What are you saying about him? When you do use pine straw, I've come to North Carolina. Do you prefer mulch or pine straw in your garden?
Guest00:01:14I hate to betray my state, but I do use mulch. Wow. It's red.
Vic00:01:19It's pretty. Oh, red mulch. I'll let you know what my wife uses, uh, Mary, Mary Catherine. Welcome. Welcome to the show. Thank you.
Guest00:01:27I am both nervous and honored, and I was going to make a D and D reference, but I can't cause I don't understand it.
Vic00:01:32Wow. See, already the put downs begin already. Um, how, how was your week? How's your week going? Anything good? Anything interesting happening with you? There's a couple things going on. Yeah, please.
Guest00:01:42A, I'm moving. Uh, so I have to deal with this, which I know you'll sympathize with JVL. The thing where you have 18 drawers of catch all stuff and you're at the very end of the move and you have to figure out whether you should just dump all that in the trash. Trash or like a certain dishwasher rack. Will it come back to haunt you that you threw away all of these connectors and all of these things. And so that, that is what I'm, I'm weeding through at the moment and throwing just, just loads of nonsense into the back of my car that I tell myself I will deal with later.
JVL00:02:17Lord Bezos has made it easier to throw things away. This is true. Right? Because the truth is if, if you need any of this stuff that you throw away, he will bring it to you. For 24 hours.
Vic00:02:28This is true. The only thing is it's also part of the hoarder's complex. You're absolutely convinced that the one thing that you do throw away is the one thing you'll need. And that happens a lot. And you're going to end up saying, man, I wish I still had that menu from blue diamond Chinese restaurant. So what about this is a halfway option.
JVL00:02:44You take all of these things and you dump them into a cardboard box. Okay. Then you tape the park cardboard box and you like draw like the mystery sign on it. That's a good one. Okay. And then you move it with you, but you set a date on your calendar where if you have not had to go into that box to look for something by the, that expiration date, then without opening the box, you simply throw the entire thing in the trash.
Vic00:03:09Yeah.
Guest00:03:10Leave it in the curb. A, this assumes that there's only one box full B, uh, the date will be sometime next
Vic00:03:17week because I am moving in with my fiancee who is like, he's like customs.
Guest00:03:25When you come through that door, you got to check. Check everything you got.
JVL00:03:28Do you have anything to declare?
Guest00:03:31He is the opposite of a hoarder. So I got to just run everything through there.
Vic00:03:35He's a great guy. And if he's like, if listeners want to know what, what he's like, just picture the opposite
Guest00:03:42of me and that's a very good way to describe it in every, in every sense, in every sense, in every sense.
JVL00:03:48You know, this is good though, because you, if you throw it away and then come to regret it, you can then blame it all on him. That's right. So I would say that's freeing.
Guest00:03:56Just toss it all. That's true. That's true. And he's basically impervious to that complaint. There you go. He will, he will refer me to Lord Beezus.
JVL00:04:02There. Wonderful.
Vic00:04:04I like the way he rolls. JVL, what's going on with you?
JVL00:04:07Well, because this is sort of a milestone for us and we have our very loyal listeners and a regular audience who know us well, uh, I want them to be able to know a little bit about you and about where you're coming from and I would like them to understand just as a matter, your biases when it comes to the show so they can get what you, they can get what you mean here. Got you. So I've devised a small battery, a sort of global personality survey, perspective survey for you that I thought we could do just again in the interest of disclosure.
Guest00:04:43I can also disclose my Enneagram, my Myers-Briggs, whatever everybody needs, it's fine.
JVL00:04:48So Vic and I are going to ask you a series of either/or questions and we need you to just sort of snap response. I knew it.
Guest00:04:57I knew this wasn't going to be easy. You walked in, it's a trap.
JVL00:05:01Go ahead. Frozen or Moana?
Guest00:05:03Moana.
Vic00:05:04Ni Hao Kailan or Dora?
JVL00:05:08Dora. Paul Walker or Vin Diesel? Paul Walker. Beatles or Rolling Stones? Beatles. Daenerys or Cersei?
Guest00:05:19Ooh, Dany.
JVL00:05:22Bojangles or Popeyes?
Guest00:05:24Bojangles. Now that was easy.
JVL00:05:27Fast and Furious or Mission Impossible?
Guest00:05:29Fast and Furious.
JVL00:05:32Rommel or Montgomery?
Guest00:05:33I don't even know this one.
Vic00:05:37Pass! Marvel or DC? Marvel. Trump or Warren? You know it's binary.
Guest00:05:43Oh gosh. Pass again.
Vic00:05:46Disney or Pixar? Disney. Oh, look at that, there we go.
JVL00:05:52Hitler or Stalin? We're talking about like Battle of Stalingrad, who do you pick?
Guest00:05:57I can't go on record with this stuff.
JVL00:06:00Goddamn Style or Old Town Road?
Vic00:06:03Old Town Road. Okay. That's it for me. I've run out.
JVL00:06:07Tapper or Seliza?
Guest00:06:08Oh, wow. Team Tapper. What?
Vic00:06:11What? You know, I believe only one of them is a true listener to the show. I can't believe that.
Guest00:06:18He is so hurt. Seliza will understand.
JVL00:06:20I am outraged on Chris's behalf. That is terrible. That is terrible. We now move to the lightning round.
Guest00:06:25I knew I'd get in trouble with one of them.
JVL00:06:27Okay. We now move to the lightning round. The best animated movie of all time is?
Guest00:06:30Oh. Oh my gosh. I don't know. Hold on. I can't think about this so fast. Well, that's... The best animated movie of all time. I'm sorry. I can't. Oh. I'm overwhelmed.
JVL00:06:41It's like on the $64,000 pyramid. You got to pass to move on to the next category. Pass. Okay. Pass. The best kids TV show is?
Guest00:06:49Oh! Oh, this is silly, but I like the rebooted My Little Pony.
JVL00:06:52Oh! The best Star Wars movie is?
Guest00:06:56Empire Strikes Back. Empire Strikes Back.
JVL00:06:58The best comic movie, comic book movie is?
Guest00:07:02Oh. I like the original Avengers. Oh, no. Also, I love Thor: Ragnarok, though. That one is hilarious.
Vic00:07:11Superman III was the actual answer with Richard Pryor.
JVL00:07:15All right. Final question. Come on. Final question, then we can move on. You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and you see this. How does this make you feel?
Guest00:07:27I see what that is from here. I am confused and horrified. It's like a superimposed Vic.
Vic00:07:38It's like snuff.
JVL00:07:39Which one of them is superimposed?
Guest00:07:40It's he found it on the dark.
JVL00:07:41The one on the right. He found it on the dark web.
Guest00:07:44What is that?
JVL00:07:45So what I am showing is, if you guys will remember from last week, the Naughty Fork. There was the Vic doppelganger.
Vic00:07:51Yes. Morimoto.
JVL00:07:53Is that who that is?
Vic00:07:54Yeah, the Iron Chef.
JVL00:07:55Wow. Who looks exactly like Vic. And somebody went and took that picture and then superimposed Vic into the picture. And it looks like double Vic.
Vic00:08:04It does look like double Vic.
JVL00:08:05It looks like Vic and replicant Vic.
Vic00:08:06It looks like... That is...
JVL00:08:08It looks... Wow. This will haunt you for all your days.
Vic00:08:11It will. It's haunting me because he looks like he has such a nice sort of a pallor and it's hard to tell who's older. In fact, he's 64. He's 64. But that's a life of eating soup.
Guest00:08:26Sushi. His eyeglass frames are also under less stress.
Vic00:08:30Wait a minute. You're the new person here. Why am I getting teamed up on like this and not in a good way? So okay. Thank you. JVL, I was going to ask you, how about the Nats? You are... Oh, I was going to save my World Series update for later.
JVL00:08:49Okay, good. You can do that.
Vic00:08:51How are you, Victorino? I am doing fine. So just a little bit of personal news. Some of you who might have been, those of you who were wondering where I was last week and I think word had gotten out so some people did know where I was. I was up in New Jersey keeping my mother company because she had surgery. And so that's where I was. I was at the Capital Health Hospital in Hopewell, New Jersey and the surgery was successful. Everything went well but I was there for the whole week and I just wanted to give a shout out to all the doctors and the nurses and specialists at Capital Health. Dr. Cataldo Doria from Thomas Jefferson Medical Center was fantastic so I want to thank all of them. And I have to say, going up there JVL is going through your neck of the woods. So you go up through 295 and Hopewell is I think exit 67. You go off at 1, you get off of 295 to get on 1. So on the way up, I thought of you because exit 40. Exit 40, that's me baby. Is Moorestown. I have a question for you.
JVL00:09:56Yes? What is Rancocas Woods? Rancocas Woods is a little quasi-town nearby which is one of these, it's like an incorporated
Vic00:10:06burr. It's not actually like a forest per se or maybe it is.
JVL00:10:11Well, it might have been at one time. I mean at one time when I moved to Moorestown, it was a small town with peach orchards everywhere and now all the orchards are gone and filled with McMansions.
Vic00:10:21You're like Christopher Walken in Blast from the Past, your neighborhood was once
JVL00:10:26like, you know, orange trees and now it's something else. Yeah, it changed. It changed. Isn't 295 so much more pleasant than taking the Turnpike?
Vic00:10:34It is but, well, you have a lot more sites and a lot more options for food and bathrooms. It's also a whole, yes, that's definitely true, I'm sure Mary Catherine feels like Sonny when we have these conversations.
Guest00:10:46Yeah, I'm standing in quite well right now.
Vic00:10:48I guess you are. Also a whole different part of New Jersey. I know people all think that it's just one little tiny state but I'm telling you the difference. It's its own world. I pass towns like Repopo, West Deptford, and also there seems to be another Red Bank. There are two Red Banks. I didn't know there was a Red Bank in New Deptford.
JVL00:11:09The Red Bank down near Deptford is actually a Revolutionary War battlefield where they shelled the British ships from.
Vic00:11:17It's right on the Delaware. And then in Berlin. I'd live there in Berlin and then, but here's the thing, so there's been a living sort of near the hospital for a whole week and one of the things I really look forward, well, one of the things I look forward to, besides from seeing my mother recover so well, was the cafeteria.
Guest00:11:38Of course you did.
Vic00:11:40It was, if I could, let me just say this and I'm, as a connoisseur of- Subsidized cafeteria food. I know, well, as a connoisseur of hospital cafeterias, if they could like dole out Michelin stars to hospital cafeterias, I would say the Cascade Cafe. At Capital Health would get three Michelin stars. Wow. What was your favorite dish? Oh, this is really interesting. So I look every day. I'm like, oh, is it time for lunch? I'll see you later. I'm going down. And I would go down- Glad you're good, Ma. Hey, good. You're walking? Good. I gotta go down. It's 11:30. And I go down and as any good cafeteria has different stations, right? And so there was the pizza, right? Which is, you know, whatever that is that's pre-made, they put it in the heat in the oven. Okay. And then there's specials of the day, like the, uh, the Asian stir fry. Okay. Which is questionable. My dad kept calling it beef stroganoff. I'm like, no, it says it's Asian stuff. Ah, that's not Asian stuff.
Guest00:12:33Those are different.
Vic00:12:34Those are different. And then, uh, uh, and then they have deli, right? And then they had, uh, specials. And then they also had the one that was my big weakness was the grill. And the grill every day, they just decided to throw something into the deep fat fryer. So you would have, um, onion rings, mushrooms, uh, a popcorn shrimp. Like every time I walked by, Ooh, maybe I'll get a salad. I think I should get a chicken salad wrap. And then you'd go to the grill and there was always, I'm like, wow, I wonder how those button mushrooms taste fried.
JVL00:13:06Well, you know, I mean, what, what you need to realize is that of course the cafeteria also doubles as the business development unit for the cardiology.
Vic00:13:15I was going to go. Yeah, exactly. No, that's where it's coming from. And I thought, you know, if I stayed there for like another week, I'd probably just check myself in for diabetes, uh, but it was, but it was not good. I was like, really? You're being discharged. Are you going to stay for lunch?
JVL00:13:27I don't know if mom's ready to go home.
Vic00:13:28I don't know. I don't know because the special is chicken fingers and it was really quite something. Uh, Mary Catherine, uh, so anyway, uh, just want to thank everybody. Those of you who knew about it, thank you for your thoughts and prayers. And Mary Catherine, I forgot to ask you, uh, Halloween's coming up. That's usually a big time for you.
Guest00:13:44It is. And I've been so busy. I'm behind on costumes.
Vic00:13:48What are you going to be?
Guest00:13:49Well, one of the great things about my fiance is that he is into Halloween costumes, which is just a, to me. Just a sign from God that this is the right person for me. Yes. Uh, and so the girls and I will be the Powerpuff girls and he is going to be Mojo Jojo.
Vic00:14:06I don't watch any of it, but I bet it's going to look awesome.
Guest00:14:10Are the Powerpuff girls back for kids now? They have been rebooted. Wow.
JVL00:14:15Are they good? Cause my girls have just missed that. My girls are all descendants. I prefer. Oh, I know. We haven't gotten there yet.
Guest00:14:22I prefer original Powerpuff, but they, they have been rebooted.
JVL00:14:26Mike, let me give you one, just one question. Liv or Matty? Liv or Matty. Both.
Vic00:14:31Both. You know, it's a trick question. No, if you didn't know what you were going to be, Mary Katherine, I was going to suggest you could be like a Disney villainous. Speaking of which, over the weekend, Maleficent, Mistress of Evil took the top spot at the box office with $37 million, followed by Joker with 29 million. And in third place was Zombieland 2: Double Tap with $27 million. But, you know, last week you guys discussed Gemini Man, Gemini, Gemini Man, and it looks like it fell about 60% in its second week.
JVL00:15:07What happened JVL? I'm shocked that it only fell 60%. You did not force yourself to see this because you didn't have to. This is Will Smith. This should be making hundreds of millions of dollars. Well, you know what? Bad Boys 3, Ride or Die, or whatever you're calling it, that will make the $300 million because sign me up for like facts. That, halfway out of it, Martin Lawrence. Martin Lawrence. That Martin Lawrence is super funny.
Guest00:15:29I was like, "Where's Martin Lawrence's trainer?" No, but he's funnier this way though, right?
Vic00:15:31I know.
Guest00:15:32That's what I figured. That was the play. Yeah.
JVL00:15:35Like Vince Vaughn. Vince Vaughn is funnier when he's fat than when he's skinny, and so is Martin Lawrence. I stand by that.
Guest00:15:41I think that's a solid prediction.
JVL00:15:42Fat like in Big Mama's House fat, or just like naturally fat? No, just like puffy. Puffy.
Vic00:15:47Puffy. Puffy. And he looks a little sluggish. I saw the same trailer.
JVL00:15:51But that's great, right? Yes. Like it's really funny. Well, that's the joke. No, but this is, as our pal Richard Rushfield said, stars only matter if they're in roles that people want to see them in. And so you put Will Smith in Gemini Man, which is just a disposable action movie, and it just does nothing. But you put him in Aladdin, where he's the genie, and it's great, right? Yeah.
Vic00:16:19This is all in the same, I mean, we have to remember, this is all the same year he's doing all this different stuff. I mean, it's coming out obviously now. He's making his money regardless, obviously. So that's the end of Gemini Man.
Guest00:16:28Is this his attempt at a sort of mcconisence? Because I feel like he was out of the picture for a while, and then he's suddenly bursting back with Bad Boys and Aladdin.
JVL00:16:37I don't know, he's working more, I guess, but he never really went away.
Vic00:16:41I have a mcconisence thought later on the show, but before we get to that, as I mentioned, third place was Zombieland 2. Did you see it? I did.
?00:16:53Good.
Vic00:16:53I saw it. Did you see JVL? I saw it. Did anyone else see it? It's not worth the energy for Zombieland 2. However, JVL, since Sonny isn't here, how about a big boy review?
JVL00:17:07Zombieland 2: Double Tap is the sequel to 2009's surprise mediocrity Zombieland. Returning director Ruben Fleischer brings back the lovable crew from the first installment, including Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee, Mark Zuckerberg as Columbus, Emma Stone as Wichita, and Abigail Breslin as Little Rock. Double Tap begins with our crew setting up as a quasi-nuclear family in the White House where they do hilarious things like use the canvas from a portrait of President Taft as wrapping paper. And Columbus uses the Hope Diamond to propose to Wichita, but there's tension. Wichita has commitment issues, and Little Rock, who was an adorable 12-year-old in the first installment, now looks like a Canadian stripper with a three-pack-a-day habit. And she's itching to leave the nest and start her own life. Little Rock and Wichita split, Columbus finds a rebound girlfriend played by the delightful Zoe Deutsch, and then our three leads reunite to go find—I'm sorry.
Guest00:18:02Jamie, that's the most—that's the most vicious—
JVL00:18:05I don't care what happens in this movie.
Vic00:18:08Pod will enjoy this line. And neither— I'm going to say this is the most vicious review since Stuart Klein.
JVL00:18:13He'll appreciate that. I don't care what happens in this movie and neither do you. No one asked for this. Nobody needed this movie. I don't know. It's the worst—the worst kind of sequel. It's both unnecessary. Unnecessary and forced and derivative. It takes whatever meager amounts of charm existed in the first one with the rules that appear on screen and the endless voiceover narration from Jesse Eisenberg. And I mean endless. And just repackages it all with the mere—the bare minimum amount of like dutiful, "Eh, here's your Zombieland."
Vic00:18:46Does it sort of depend on the fact that they have to keep on moving? They're always going from place to place. They can't settle down, right? They got to keep on going. They can't. Right? I mean, that's the part of the whole—
JVL00:18:54Let me just finish my big— Oh, I didn't realize it's still happening. Okay, go ahead. Zombieland double tap will make your head explode. Two stars. Thank you. Thank you. Now I'm done.
Vic00:19:06Now it's done. Now that's complete. That was the most meaningful part. I was going to say they're always on the move. They keep on putting things off like getting married. So this is the whole thing about that. But I was thinking maybe you're putting things off like getting life insurance because you think it's complex, expensive, and time-consuming. Not so. Ethos is a faster, easier, and more affordable way to get life insurance to make sure your family's taken care of, even if you aren't around to take care of them. They're committed to finding the plan that's best for you and your budget, all from the comfort of your computer, tablet, or phone in just 10 minutes or less. Simply answer a few questions online about things like your health, age, income, then finish your application and get a near instant approval. Everyone is different, but a healthy 35-year-old can get a million dollars of coverage for only $50 a month. With Ethos, you can rest easy knowing the people you love are taken care of. Confusing terms and piles of paperwork not included. Our listeners can get started by going to ethoslife.com/subbeacon and clicking on "Check My Price." Again, get a fully personalized quote by going to ethoslife.com/subbeacon. One more time, make sure to visit ethoslife.com/subbeacon so they know we sent you. Mary Katherine, perhaps you have a different opinion of this movie.
Guest00:20:27Well, first of all, I appreciate being asked to do this movie because this is my favorite genre of movie. Zombies! No, just horror comedy. Sorry, but close. Just horror comedy is one of my favorite things. As proof of this, my kindergarten, this is like my badass creds, my kindergarten lunchbox, and I was in the time when they were still 10 and awesome, was a Gremlins lunchbox. Which means that my parents let me watch Gremlins at 5.
JVL00:20:56That's good. That's good. My family would approve. Wait, you were raised by Vic's parents too?
Guest00:21:00I am a little bit Lady Vic without the Hitler and the underage thing. What? I eat a lot of bad food. My parents let me watch insane movies. So, and I'm easy to please with movies.
JVL00:21:11Same.
Guest00:21:12Okay. But this being said, because it is my favorite genre, you would think that I'd be over the moon about this movie, and yet I was not. I enjoyed it. Cute for what it is. The voiceover cut it down by 50%.
Vic00:21:27Let me say, is it the voice? Is it just, is it too much voiceover? Or is it because it's voiceover by Jesse Eisenberg?
Guest00:21:33It's too much Jesse for me. It was slow to start, which I wasn't too upset about because, you know, you're going to have these weird relationship moments in the apocalypse as well. I'm a little bit like the comic book pedant. In about the pot, the apocalypse in that the whole time I'm thinking they are living an extremely comfortable life with almost no worries during the apocalypse. Where's the electricity coming from? Where is this food coming from? They never seem to worry about it.
JVL00:22:04The thing about the electricity, which is clearly a script note. Somebody had said to them like, Hey, we ought to mention where they get electricity from.
Vic00:22:11What was I, did I miss that? What did they say?
Guest00:22:13As long as the, as long as it keeps raining, the dams keep giving us electricity. But they don't, they don't load up pallets of water before they leave to go from D.C. to Memphis.
JVL00:22:25Where are they getting their gas from?
Guest00:22:28So actually, actually. Yes.
JVL00:22:31Okay. Did you like the first Zombieland?
Guest00:22:34I enjoyed the first one, but that was a bit like this one is derivative. So that one was a little bit more surprising. I will say in this one, I got some of my, I got some of my political dopamine hits. Yeah.
Vic00:22:46There was a moment. Extremely 2A. Extremely.
Guest00:22:49There was a moment where I was about to lean over to my fiance and say, I am kind of enjoying the message here. At which point, Woody Harrelson screams, not subtext, subtext, but text. Thank God for rednecks.
Vic00:23:02Yeah, no, it was really quite, quite surprising. Now I do have a question. If Jesse Eisenberg was the last man on earth, would you like Emma Stone marry him?
Guest00:23:11He's not my type. He's not my type.
Vic00:23:15Okay. So here's, here's my question. Here's my, uh, my thoughts. Okay. I go through my criteria duration short, right? It was an hour and a half. It was an hour and a half. Although, uh, I, I, so then as soon as the movie ended, I did go to the bathroom and then out of curiosity, I popped in and suddenly I see Bill Murray and Al Roker. So I did sort of miss part of the opening to that.
JVL00:23:39You actually missed the funniest part in the movie. Did you stay for this Mary Catherine? I did. Okay. I saw, did you know that it was going to be there?
Guest00:23:45No, I hadn't. Right. I saw some whispers about it after the fact, but I didn't know.
Vic00:23:49So I caught, I had no idea and I only saw it by luck. I think same. I think I caught most of it, uh, is the opening is, is it take place prior to yes.
JVL00:23:59So the, what they, they, Jesse Eisenberg does another voiceover where he says, oh, uh, and we're just going to give you a little bonus here. And so it's supposedly found footage of Bill Murray on the international press junket for Garfield three. Right. Flabby tabby. I don't think. Garfield three exists and the funniest stuff in the movie is Bill Murray's outtake interviews with the international press core and it gets stupid once it goes to zombie stuff, but while it's him and they says, you know what, so what, what was it about the third Garfield movie that made you want to do this and he goes, well, drugs are expensive.
Vic00:24:38That's great. Um, so I would say yes. Duration was short hour and a half, uh, violence I thought was entertaining plot. Easy. Very easy. You were able to keep up with it, able to keep up with it and bonus Zoe Deutsch. So therefore a plus. Thank you. What do you mean by that? She was great. She was bubbly, bubbly, and, uh, she's, she's a talented actress, mounds of talent.
JVL00:25:04The other, the other funny, actually the single funniest line about this is when Zoe Deutsch is trying to get Jesse Heisenberg into the sack. And he says something about, you know, he's watching and he's talking about the Lincoln bedroom. Oh, right. Who? Jesus.
Vic00:25:19I know a way to get around that. No. Okay. But she was great.
JVL00:25:23She's actually, I thought the whole movie only worked when she was on screen because she was the only fresh thing in it.
Guest00:25:31She was charming. I thought the, the dialogue was overdone. It was so dumb that it was a lot.
JVL00:25:37Yeah, but she's, but I enjoyed that taxi line a lot.
Vic00:25:40That's true. Yeah. Right. Did, did you, did you like the cameos by Luke Wilson? Luke Wilson and Thomas Middleditch. I thought that was kind of funny that they are parallels to Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.
Guest00:25:51I thought it was funny. I thought it was funny, but like the Hobbs and Shaw, uh, back and forth, it went on too long.
JVL00:25:58Maybe a minute too long. It did not. You know what? Luke Wilson does not make it for a Woody Harrelson crazy analog. Like that's, that's just, he cast was cast wrong.
Guest00:26:09Yeah.
JVL00:26:10Team Woody on that one.
Vic00:26:11Yeah. I have to choose. All right. Um, but I would, you know, but I mean, it's like as far as zombie movies go and I, I've seen a few. Right.
Guest00:26:16Yeah. Enjoyable. And the culminating fight is colorful and ridiculous and the things you want. And I enjoy it. Like I said, I'm sorry. I enjoy the message that these hippies are basically useless and these guys with the guns are great.
JVL00:26:29Right. Do you know? That's not the real message. I know the real message is don't go to college. Oh, because the commune is the stand in for college. This is a Peter Thiel movie saying, just live in the real world and live your life. Don't go to college with a bunch of useless morons who sit around playing hacky sack hacky sack. I saw that.
Guest00:26:51But I actually I did. I do think maybe the hippies were given short shrift because they had lasted that long and they had built this thing. And I would have liked to know. I'm not sure how. Well, I don't even know if they built the tower, but there's this whole society around it. And the melting of the guns really hurt me.
Vic00:27:06Well, that's right. Because, of course, then they said, did you melt all the guns? And they said, well, yeah, how do you think we made these great peace, you know, sign necklaces, necklaces, the peace necklaces. And then the other one was when he asks when when the hippies ask, can you fight or do you know how to fight? And he says, yeah, fight for social justice and equality.
Guest00:27:25That was one of the funnier lines in the movie.
Vic00:27:27It's surprising, isn't it, though? I think it's kind of surprising that it was so obvious.
Guest00:27:31I was surprised it was so explicit.
Vic00:27:32Yes. But I found it to be a very sort of fun for the family zombie movie versus twenty eight twenty eight days later or twenty eight weeks later.
JVL00:27:41Have you watched family? Have you taken your girls to see this? And you went to see Zombieland to double tap.
Guest00:27:45We will wait at least two years on at least two years, at least, but then they're ready to go. Well, the younger one needs to be five and then we can clearly watch it.
Vic00:27:53You know, because twenty twenty I remember twenty eight weeks later, I think Jeremy Renner was in that one. But I get confused between the in that series with the the rage virus. But it still has one of the worst death scenes of all time. Do tell Robert Carlyle is reunited with his wife, but doesn't realize I think the wife is a what do you call it, a person who carries a carrier or she's a, you know, but she doesn't get sick from the virus herself. Help me, Mr. Science guy. What do you call it when a person is sort of a carrier carrier carrier, a carrier, but it doesn't. It's on me. It's not science. I can't really help. What if somebody is recessive? It's recessive. I don't know what it is. He kisses her on the lips. And because of that pass, the transference of the saliva, suddenly he gets affected. By the virus flips out. She's strapped to this, this, the, the, the, the table, the, the, the hospital table thing and has to watch her husband go insane and then kill her and, and, and kills her in the worst possible way. He punches her, he bites her face, and then he gouges her eyes out and they actually show the thumbs going into the eyeballs. I can't, I almost, I almost, I almost looked away. It was so horrible. Wow. So this is not that. And I, so I, again, I thought this was, this was enjoyable and I do enjoy Woody Harrelson's sort of continuing, um, amazingly continuing.
JVL00:29:23The Harrel-sons? The Harrel-sons.
Vic00:29:25The Woody-sons. So what is that all about? And you know, if you go to IMDB, you look at, he's been, you know, it turns out he's just been busy every year or almost every year since, since, since Cheers, uh, but in, in our minds, I think it feels like there was a stretch, but there really wasn't. He's been busy with everything. I enjoyed him in True Detective.
Guest00:29:42I love that guy unabashedly. I love that guy.
Vic00:29:44Despite his politics.
Guest00:29:45And I would, I would, and I think the movie partly survives on Woody's charm because I think he's just fun and I think Zoe Deutsch was, Zoe Deutsch was funny and pulled that off. Emma Stone is generally charming too, although that's not her most charming turn, I would say.
JVL00:30:03No.
Guest00:30:04But I liked, I liked the moment where she says, uh, you know, I don't like, uh, when women apologize for things, but I actually need to apologize for this. I thought that was nice.
Vic00:30:13Um, it's funny because Woody Harrelson, uh, there are people who think that he hasn't, my mother-in-law thinks that, I think she thinks that he hasn't done anything since Cheers. So I'll mention, oh, you know, you might like this movie, The Highwaymen and with Kevin
JVL00:30:28Costner and Woody Harrelson and she'll be like, Woody Harrelson, what's he been doing? And I'm sure she, she listens to the show.
Vic00:30:35Uh, she also says the same thing about Drew Barrymore, she, oh, poor Drew Barrymore ever since ET. She was so good at ET. She was so good at ET. And now all she does is host Turner. Classic movies. And it's because of drugs and alcohol ET Turner, classic movies.
Guest00:30:48There you go.
Vic00:30:49It's a career arc. That's that's it. Uh, do you have any other, uh, Zombieland thoughts or anything? Uh, well, I have questions. Oh yeah. For you guys. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. And we have other things to discuss. Don't get nervous listeners.
JVL00:31:02It's not over yet. So MKH, you, you are a lover of this genre, the, the Shaun of the dead ish sort of genre. Could you do a ranking?
Guest00:31:11Oh gosh, I thought about this in the car on the way over and I, I will attempt it. Let's see.
Vic00:31:17Um, since you were driving, you weren't taking notes. Is that it?
Guest00:31:20Yeah. I didn't take notes. Um, let's see my top couple. I'm not even gonna give it a number right now. Give us top three. Okay. My top three. Uh, my top three would be actually, maybe I'll do a top four because Shaun of the dead. I'll put four, three, uh, this is so silly Tucker and Dale versus evil. Ooh. Wow. I really enjoy that movie. Number two, slither an early James Gunn, uh, movie, which I, is that the one with Sharon
Vic00:31:55stone and Billy Baldwin, it has Nathan Fillion and everybody want, went to see after basic instinct. Go ahead.
Guest00:32:05Sorry. Nathan Fillion. And, uh, is it Elizabeth banks? Is that her name?
JVL00:32:09Oh, maybe.
Guest00:32:10Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Blinking on her name. It just cracks me up. And as the reason I've followed James Gunn since I just delighted in that movie.
Vic00:32:18And number one, the classic gremlins, there, there are some people who like gremlins too. I think continuity is in that camp.
Guest00:32:25Gremlins two is great.
Vic00:32:26It's diehard with gremlins, is it, but is it not, is it not Phoebe Cates?
Guest00:32:31Yeah. No.
Vic00:32:33She's in it.
Guest00:32:34And the guy, the same guy and girl, uh, they're, they're grown up and chasing their dreams.
JVL00:32:39Phoebe Cates.
Vic00:32:40Okay. Um, you're right there. I have a question. I have a question. Oh, I have a, yes. Do you, do you have another question? No, I just, when you said Phoebe Cates, you just started staring, you know, I zoned out, zoned out to a fast time, basically in the movie there, uh, would you live in someone did, would you thank you that in blue lagoon, which I always bring up blue, I never, I never knew they got rescued. Um, I thought it, I thought the movie ended when she got pregnant, fell asleep when you
JVL00:33:11were watching it.
Vic00:33:12I just, I kept very tired. Uh, would you live in Babylon or would you be like, we got to just be on the fight, go on the hunt and I'll take, I'll kill zombies. Or would you be happy to live in Babylon?
Guest00:33:24I would live at the hotel with Rosario. Oh, yes, totally.
JVL00:33:28Absolutely. No, I'm not fortified enough, but it's on low, you're right. Low ground.
Guest00:33:33She seemed to do pretty well for herself.
JVL00:33:35Yeah. I mean, that's cause she's below the radar and just one person. She's very cool. She's very cool. No, no payoff about the blue suede shoe stuff.
Guest00:33:43Yeah, that was odd.
JVL00:33:44Yeah, that was odd. Yeah. Again, this is just, it feeds to me the sloppiness throughout the movie and the, you know, you know what? Man, I love me Rosario Dawson. I think she's great in everything she does. Even here.
Vic00:33:57I was like, yeah, they don't give her a lot to work with. They don't give her a lot to work with. Um, uh, anyway, I was thinking about Babylon and everything. I live there, but I bet they do a lot of meditating in Babylon. Speaking of which JVL. Wow.
JVL00:34:11That's like a C minus. Transition. So, uh, we're back with our friends@calm.com calm.com C A L M.com. It is a sleep app for your phone. We are big users of it at our house. Everybody except for the baby uses it. Even flash uses it now, uh, it is a, an app with meditations and guided breathing exercises and an ever expanding library of sleep stories, which is largely what we use it for. Uh, and I always like to play little clips of. Of what we're listening to this week. And so this week favorite has been listening to a story called Luna's lullaby, which is read by the amazing Tamara Levitt.
Guest00:34:53Hi, my name's Tamara and tonight I'll be reading a story called Luna's lullaby. Cozy up under the covers and get nice and comfortable.
JVL00:35:11So I have a little bit of a celebrity story. Here.
Vic00:35:14Oh boy.
JVL00:35:15Oh, because Shannon, my wife, uh, after favorite, you know, it was one of these, she's like walking around the house at like 9:45, but I can't fall asleep and we're like, well, did you put on calm? She's like, no. Cause she does this a lot because she doesn't really want to go to sleep. She wants to stay up reading. And uh, so we're like, all right, well, you know, go, go get in bed. We'll put on calm. And so it knocks her the F out as it always does, because it's like, you know, covering her mouth with a rag of what? Chloroform. Chloroform.
Vic00:35:45Chloroform. Chloroform.
JVL00:35:47Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Chloroform. Why, why are you looking at me for that? Well, I'm, yeah, no, who could say? She thinks that my wife is now super cool because, because she knows.
Vic00:36:16Tamara, right.
JVL00:36:17This is a funny thing. And so she's like, I have an idea. Would you mind sending her my idea? And so she, yeah, I guess my wife DMs Tamara with, you know, hey, my daughter just asked me to pass on this idea for Sleep Story. Tamara's like, that's great. I'll intro, I'll mention that to her story editor. And anyway, so it's not only a great product, but it's made by great people. So anyway, the, we pay full freight for Calm.com, but you don't have to. Right now, SubBeacon listeners will get 25% off. A Calm premium subscription at Calm.com/SubBeacon. That's C-A-L-M.com/SubBeacon. 40 million people have downloaded Calm. Find out why at Calm.com/SubBeacon Tamara Levitt calmed me down just the other
Guest00:37:01day. So shout out to her. Yeah. Oh, you, you're a user too? I woke up, I woke up a little stressed out. It was very early in the morning and I was like, you know what? I could use a little more sleep. And I turned on Calm.
JVL00:37:10Yeah. Do you do the meditations or the? I actually did a sleep story. Yeah. Do you like the kids ones or the grown up ones?
Guest00:37:16It was a grown up one. Yeah. Although when she says, an adult sleep story, I go, oh, is it really?
Vic00:37:23Is it now? Hold on. I'll be right back. I was going to make a joke, but we value our sponsors, so I won't. Thank you. Wait till we're off air. That's right. No, no, no, no, no. It's for premium content. Two other things going on this week. One is we, I think we, even though I'm sure it's going to kill Sonny. Cause he'd love to talk about it, but the Star Wars final trailer is out. The final trailer, the one that you watch and you say, this is it. I thought Empire Strikes Back was great, but this movie is going to clinch it. MKH, you go first.
Guest00:37:59Oh, geez. This is, this is where the audience bails on me. I have some confessions to make. I was a Star Wars virgin until about a year and a half ago.
JVL00:38:10I remember this. Yeah. I remember this whole thing with Kristen asking people what order to show it to you in. Yes. So did you just cram it all in there? I mean the movies.
Guest00:38:18I mean the movies. So I did actually watch the original Star Wars last year.
JVL00:38:23What order did you do that? Yes. Very important question.
Guest00:38:26Did you do machete order? I did. Well, let me, hold on. I did Rogue One and then the originals and then moved on and I have, I must confess, I have not finished all the prequels.
JVL00:38:35It's better that way. You can skip one, two and three. It's better that way.
Guest00:38:39But, uh, I, you know, in the silly way that's someone who's never seen Star Wars would say, wow, these are fantastic films. This is great. This really holds up. Uh, and it holds up despite Lucas's attempts to mess with it. The, the original effects are fantastic. You would, I wondered if somebody who was not into it as a kid coming back to it at this point would think, oh, this is cheesy now they look fantastic. Great job. Yup. Understand the whole thing. Uh, that being said, now that we're here and I'm not a super fan and I watched this trailer there's one line that comes across the screen, like the story goes on forever or something like that. And I thought, indeed it does.
JVL00:39:22Have you seen the new ones? In the theaters.
Guest00:39:25Now, now I'm going to have to figure out what I was saying and what I have not. The Force Awakens. I have seen the Force Awakens.
JVL00:39:31Then the. Enjoyed it. The Last Jedi.
Vic00:39:34Was that what it was called? The Last Jedi. And then what's this one called? The Rise of Skywalker.
JVL00:39:38Okay. So isn't that kind of weird? The one where Luke goes and milks the dinosaurs.
Guest00:39:42Yeah. I have, I have not seen The Last Jedi, but I saw The Force Awakens and enjoyed it. It just, the ones, the first and second Empire Strikes Back specifically, I just obviously was like, well, this is. Yeah. This is, I get why people love this. Particularly Empire.
JVL00:39:57And so when you saw this trailer, did you think to yourself, boy, well, I got to go out and see that.
Guest00:40:02I, I didn't, sorry.
JVL00:40:05The opening of the trailer.
Guest00:40:06I like, I like Rey. She's, I find her interesting, but I had the same. What do you find interesting about her? Well. I just kind of dig her as an actress. I, but I have the same issues that you guys have discussed, which is like, where does all this skill come from? I don't.
Vic00:40:23Yeah. The opening of the, oh, here's the new final trailer, right? Rose is in it. I saw that.
JVL00:40:28Thank goodness.
Vic00:40:29Thank goodness for Rose. Thank goodness. Insert joke here. Okay. So I was, I was excited. I said, oh, final trailer. Here we go. And it opens very quiet and still, and then boom, off to the races. They've never done that before. Have they? Can't remember. It starts off quiet. It never is like that. No, they've never done that. That was really something. And C3PO, uh, is no longer having the red arm. The nostalgia porn of C3PO.
JVL00:40:57Just want to look at my friends, sir, for one last time, like he's a Dickens character
Vic00:41:02or something. People said that Anthony Daniels is very difficult to work with. Don't people say that about Anthony Daniels? Okay.
JVL00:41:08Is he still alive? Uh, that's him.
Vic00:41:10Is he still doing the voice? Yeah, it's not. I'm pretty sure it's not true about Chewbacca died.
JVL00:41:14The original Peter Mayhew.
Vic00:41:15Yeah. Yeah. He did. He did. Uh, okay. So what is happening in, what are we supposed to figure out here? The, the emperor is back with force. The original empire. Is that what's going on? So they wouldn't call it the, the, the new empire. It's the old empire with all the star destroyers. That's what's been happening.
JVL00:41:31It's called the first order.
Vic00:41:32Help me out. It's not what, but is he taking control of the first order then? And is that what's happening? Time travel. Time travel. I'll take time travel.
JVL00:41:41Right. Is there a death star somehow in an ocean? Cause that makes sense. Yes. Yes.
Vic00:41:49Like we've, there's always a death star. Or it looks like the remains.
Guest00:41:51Were there horses at one point?
JVL00:41:53Oh, there are horses running across the death star in the ocean. Yes.
Guest00:41:57Okay. This reminded me of the Fast and Furious submarine scene. Which was not a stretch. I think it was Fate of the Furious.
Vic00:42:03Which it was not, not a stretch. That was very realistic. Uh, and, and maybe they'll show the casino. That would be nice.
JVL00:42:10I hope so.
Vic00:42:11I assume that that's where all the recruits. Because when we finished.
JVL00:42:13The kids. There were 13 people as part of the resistance at the end of the last movie and they said we have everything we need. The other guys have, uh, thousands of worlds, trillions of star destroyers, the entire currency system, uh, and absolute control of all transport and trade routes.
Vic00:42:34Not enough.
JVL00:42:35Not enough. But it isn't enough. That's right. To hold up against the 13 people sitting around in the hold of the Millennium Falcon. Yeah.
Guest00:42:42Do they have heart?
JVL00:42:43I would say the, the good news is.
Vic00:42:44The ground game is in their hearts. Hypothetically, hypothetically, if like there's a new death star, right? There's multiple death stars. Is that what's happening? If the death star happens to blow up the rebel base and the planet explodes, luckily Princess Leia, uh, General Leia can go through space and cold temperature.
JVL00:43:01So I gotta, I gotta, I'm just gonna lay down one marker because each one of these movies has been a, an inferior retelling of the original trilogy. And if this movie ends. With Rey turning Kylo back to the light side of the force. Well, you know, that's what's gonna, yeah, teaming up mm-hmm you, there's a clip of them,
Vic00:43:22two of them breaking up the emperor statue.
JVL00:43:25Come F on. Right. You saw that. Did you see the two of them teamed up?
Vic00:43:30Obviously. This is what happened. I mean, she starts off bad and then she eventually comes around. And then.
JVL00:43:37No, he starts off bad and then he brings her.
Vic00:43:40Right. Doesn't she? She flips obviously. So she's briefly bad.
Guest00:43:44And the story goes on forever. It will.
JVL00:43:47It will never. So, so flash said to me after he saw this trailer, he says, wait a minute, there's another star Wars movie coming out. And I laughed at him and I said, I said, son, there's another star Wars come movie coming out every December for the rest of your life.
Guest00:44:01Yep.
JVL00:44:02And he didn't understand it. I said, you know what? It's called intellectual property. I'll explain it to you when you're older. That's that's right. It's it.
Guest00:44:08Go ahead. Well, the, the fiance is a big star Wars fan. And I think this speaks to the, the issue with this trailer is that I said, I think we're going to talk about this. And he had very little to say about that, what he wanted to talk about. And he said, and I quote, put on your seatbelt because we're going on a nerd ride was he wanted to talk about, and forgive me, cause I forget the details, uh, something about Disney plus and how that old, the Mandalorian he's much more interested in the Mandalorian I G 14, 40, 12 and something, the Mandalorian.
Vic00:44:4188. It's a different IG.
Guest00:44:43Go ahead. There's more interested in the Mandalorian. It sounded like, and something about what Disney plus portended for star Wars gaming. I was, I didn't fall right now.
Vic00:44:52Sonny Bunch is banging his head, something about Netflix, Disney. I don't know. Something's going on out there.
Guest00:44:59Look, I put on my seatbelt, but I was not paying attention to the road.
JVL00:45:03Okay. What are they doing? Are they taking the giant star Wars MMORPG and putting it on Disney plus somehow?
Guest00:45:10See, this is what I don't know.
JVL00:45:11I don't know. I'm sorry to bring you half.
Guest00:45:14Yes. Half. I can't even get it out.
Vic00:45:17All I know is that Verizon is carrying it for a year. That's all I know. Uh, Disney plus will carry Verizon, Verizon will carry it for a year. So then they'll sort of get us addicted to that channel and then we'll see what happens.
Guest00:45:30Point being the trailer was not what interested him.
JVL00:45:32Yeah, no, I, I don't want to, I am very, very interested to see how this movie opens because on the one hand it is. It is really the analog is the Avengers infinity wars, right? This is the summation of what has been a decade long journey, even though it hasn't really taken a decade in terms of movie time, but they've been playing this out for like a decade and they're going to bring it out. But it is after a movie that everybody hates, like everybody hates the last Jedi. Yeah, this is going to be hard. And I wonder if there is any hangover effect there. Solo got punished. Solo got punished and I sure hope this movie gets punished. To and yet we're going to have to see it. Well that's that's the thing. At what point does duty, at what point do people feel like they're no longer married to Star Wars? That's right. That they don't have to wait. Star Wars is the uncle that you don't like and you have to see him once a year at the family Christmas party or something. But at some point everybody says, you know what, I'm fed up with Aunt Kathy, right? Or I'm just not going to see Aunt Kathy anymore. And that's it. We're doing our own thing. Yeah. Maybe this is the year. I don't know.
Vic00:46:41Okay. You threw me off. I was going to say something. Now I forgot.
Guest00:46:45This is y'all's. This is y'all's Frozen 2. Like I'm, I'm infuriated that I'm going to see Frozen 2.
JVL00:46:52I am so angry about being made to see. Is it look horrible or, or am I wrong?
Vic00:46:58Is there going to be a new let it go song that every girl is going to be singing or
Guest00:47:02guy? I mean, I was not as enamored as we know of the, of the first Frozen as you are.
JVL00:47:07But you are a pretty big fan.
Guest00:47:09But I enjoyed it. Yes. And I, I don't. I know why they're doing this one and it's the part where I know why they're doing it for the, you know, the merchandising, the, I'm not interested, but I'm going to go do it. I'm going to go do the thing and I'm going to take my kids.
JVL00:47:24My target has an entire, I would say probably 1500 square feet of floor space already for set up and has been for the last month all around Frozen 2 merchandise. Yeah. Yeah. The nightgowns, the lunch boxes, my daughter, my daughter's Lego sets.
Vic00:47:40My daughter. She turned against, uh, she is very anti-Frozen now because I think it's the attitude of what's for babies is what it's all about. Descendants.
Guest00:47:50I'm told that movie I'm told this princess phase does end.
Vic00:47:55And when it does, it ends violently and I'm certainly, it certainly did for, for my daughter,
JVL00:48:00but I don't know if that's, it goes from like princess to tiny whore. So you will someday, you will someday be longing for the princess.
Guest00:48:07I do have a, I have a star Wars like debate with my children going over. I troll them by. Announcing to them that Elsa is the villain of this movie.
JVL00:48:15Oh, wow.
Guest00:48:16That throws them off. They will fight, they will throw down over it.
Vic00:48:21That's crazy. That's crazy stuff. JVL. Uh, before we move on, did you want to talk world series? Uh, I can do it during outtakes. Okay. Sounds good in that case. And we don't have any more corrections, shout outs, nothing. You gave your shout outs. Mary Katherine. Vic. I have a question. Shoot. When you're at the hospital.
JVL00:48:40Yes. Is the staff, the way you work every other room that you're in instead of inquiring about your mother's condition, you're more over the shift desk, talking to everybody, bringing
Vic00:48:52in donuts for the nurses. I leave the shift desk people alone. They look very serious. Uh, but certainly all the nurses that come in. Vic Mattis really love your support on October 4th. Hi, nice to meet you. The, the, the, the, what do you call it? The respiratory therapists, the physical therapist is hi, how are you? Thank you so much. The whole deal. Uh, and the funny thing is for me, um, I w if I, if I were a, if I were like my dad, I would, you know, the first thing I would say is hi, by the way, I'm a doctor, you know, so let's, you know, I know what you're, I know what you're up to. Don't try to pull one on me, but my, I don't think my dad necessarily did that, but I, but then I think they just could tell, cause I'll start asking questions, you know, what's her hemoglobin count or whatever. And I'm like, ah, no, what's going on there. I ask those sorts of questions too. None. Oh yeah. You know, like they're, they're like removing like these drainage tubes. It was like, it was like saving private Ryan.
Guest00:49:48I just like pass.
Vic00:49:49It was like, oh, are you all in the medical field? I said, take a wild guess. The one who have us here in this room, who's not in the medical field. I said, I'm going to go, I said, you, you, you, you clean up the dressing and I'm going to go speaking of dressing, I think I'm going to go down to the cafeteria and put some on my salad. Okay. That's all the time we're given to this episode, questions, comments, complaints, compliments, tweet us at Victorino Mattis at JVL. You kind of reply the Morimoto thing gone really in and out at MK hammer.
Guest00:50:24That's right.
Vic00:50:25And I should shout out.
Guest00:50:26Oh yeah, please.
Vic00:50:27KSA. Fan of the show.
Guest00:50:29Oh yes.
Vic00:50:30Who made me watch the star. Is she, she's never going to speak to us again for bringing you jealous that, that she haven't
JVL00:50:36told her. She's going to drop us like a, like we're hot.
Vic00:50:39I know. I know. I know. I know.
JVL00:50:43That was a hard call. We love you both. We love you both. God knows we couldn't have had two girls in the studio at the same time. Sonny would have Sonny would have broken up with us. You would have broken up with us.
Guest00:50:52Sonny would have killed the show. We would have really checked up your dude's chat and despite my engagement this week, I did not check it up too much or left it a, you were very, you were very chill.
Vic00:51:01You were very chill about it.
Guest00:51:02I could have done a bunch of ring details, but I did not a lot of people do that sort
Vic00:51:06of thing. Uh, again, be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes, Google play or stitcher, just type in sub speaking at a podcast. We're there. Leave a review.
JVL00:51:14Tell your friends until next time Sonny, I'm sorry, uh, JVL, uh, so you're excited. So neither of you were here last week when we were talking about my world series dilemma. Oh, I, well, I heard about how the dilemma was resolved, but please tell us my question was what is the dividing line? Price wise between father of the year, taking his 11 year old son to the world series and, and like absolute insane, don't waste your money like that. What, what is the price point at which you tip over from one into the other one game,
Vic00:52:00one for one game for one game, $400 tickets to $400 tickets. Okay. This could be, I mean, it's not like I remember watching the, uh, uh, the documentary. On the red Sox before they won the world series. And they talk about that, you know, you gotta see this now because you'll never see this in your lifetime. Again, this will never happen again. I don't know if I necessarily have that feeling. It's a very young franchise per se, at least in its current iteration. And I don't, so I don't feel like, oh, you know, I was, I was, you know, eight and now I'm 75, you know, so I wouldn't spend more than that, but there is somebody in our office who, you know, who has spent 400 and 400. Please. MKH.
Guest00:52:43MKH. MKH. Where are you on this? I think sort of close to the same place. I think once you pass over a thousand bucks for the, I'm a person who wants to spend money on sports moments. I mean, this is huge.
JVL00:52:53I was gonna say, this is.
Guest00:52:55Flash is a huge baseball fan and this is a moment. I think it's worth, I don't think you'd regret spending a bunch of money on it later.
JVL00:53:04But for you, a bunch of money on it is $400 a ticket.
Guest00:53:07Yeah. I think once you hit a thousand, that, that's a lot. Then you're insane and you should be committed.
JVL00:53:14JVL, what did you end up doing? So you couldn't get even to a standing room seat for under $800 a place. So understand. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. Understand that. And that struck me as a little nuts. I w I might've gone as high as a thousand dollars a seat for like a seat, but for standing room. Yeah. Just to be in the moment. Yes. Wow. Was, was more than I was willing to spend.
Vic00:53:40Yeah. I bought a box seat for the WNBA final.
JVL00:53:44However, your friend in mind, Aaron Harrison, God bless him. He starts texting me after we did the show last week and he's like, I can fix this for you. Because it turns out if you will simply buy a half season ticket plan for next year, they were willing to sell you face value tickets no joke this year. And so I bought two seats for a half a season next year. And then got two seats, actual seats, not standing room for all three home games of the world series. Wow. Yup. You could be there for a while. That is a hundred percent worth it. That's amazing. That is worth it. That is amazing. And because father of the year, when I told Flash all about this and he went over the moon, I also informed him that we were giving away the two tickets for one of those games to a very close friend of ours who has a daughter, who the two of them are giant
Vic00:54:40Nats fans.
JVL00:54:41Yeah. And they weren't able to get tickets. And I said, and we're going to give them to our buddies. And Flash looked at me with this like look of horror in his eyes and I was like, cause I want you to learn this thing, that this is a windfall, this is a blessing. And what we do is we share our blessings with the ones we love. And I feel like this was me crushing fatherhood.
Guest00:55:00Now I agree with that. I was going to say as consolation for Flash, if you had not gotten the tickets, that there is utility and there's, there's character building in learning that you don't always get these big moments. That's right. As I learned when my, my father got several tickets for the game I wanted to see more than anything, which is the Duke Carolina basketball game at Cameron. And he shared them with visitors from our Russian sister city instead of me. What? And I thought, well, I'm sure they'll enjoy this cultural experience. What, what, what, what is the Russian sister city? It was Kostroma. Yeah.
Vic00:55:35Is that a real city? Was it one of these fake cities that were built in like 1970? Was this like the Americans?
JVL00:55:40I know.
Vic00:55:41I know. They were spies. Was there an RBMK reactor?
Guest00:55:44Well, all I know is they got my tickets.
Vic00:55:46Okay. Did you enjoy doing the show?
Guest00:55:48I did. I, I think, I think the audience, I should have shouted out to the audience for not immediately rejecting me and turning it off. So I know. I think we'd love to.
Vic00:55:56Check in the room. Next, next time, next time, uh, one of us is missing. We'd love to have you back. In fact, I was thinking, uh, you know, what, would you see the movie for Christmas last Christmas with Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding? Oh, I'll see any of those movies. You know, those movies. Nobody else wants to see it. And you know what? I want to see it. We should do a show because of the parallels with that movie. You are a white woman and I'm a attractive Asian man.
Guest00:56:20Yeah, this is, we're going down a great path.
Vic00:56:23I'm sure it's fine.
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