#63. Extraction, Chris Hemsworth, and Graphing Calculators!
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With theaters shut, the movie of the week is Netflix's Extraction, the Chris Hemsworth mercenary picture written and produced by the Russo brothers and directed by former stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave. Sonny likes it without loving it: he admires its speed (credits roll at 105 minutes), reads the Russos' post-Avengers output as pleasingly 1990s-style action programming built around Marvel stars, and singles out the alleyway brawl with a gang of child soldiers as the best thing in the film — funny, brutal, thematically tied to Hemsworth's dead son, and proof he was born too late to be an eighties action star, "tossing around these four and a half foot street urchins." He is far less impressed by the celebrated faux-single-take chase through Dhaka, which he calls too ostentatious to fool anyone and lazily stitched together. JVL is a firm pass, calling it paint-by-numbers with nothing that isn't already in Black Hawk Down, Spartan or Man on Fire, at least thirty minutes too long, and existing more as a plan to serve multiple international audiences than as entertainment — he was more interested in identifying Hemsworth's Casio G-Shock Frogman than in anything onscreen, and misses the protector-protectee chemistry Val Kilmer and Kristen Bell had in Spartan. Vic gives it an enthusiastic A-plus for action, loves the grenade launcher (prompting instant G.I. Joe trivia — Gung Ho), and reads out his father's full review by text: "Good action movies." He and JVL also take a moment to salute Golshifteh Farahani, exiled from Iran after posing nude, as possibly the greatest hero of them all. Around the review: JVL discovers he and Vic fall in the narrow pre-graphing-calculator generation while Sonny's high school issued TI-83s to anyone who couldn't buy one, complete with bootleg drug-dealer video games; Sonny launches Rebeller Publishing's first book, Natasha Tynes's They Called Me Wyatt, after her original publisher dropped it; Vic masters simple syrup and loses a set of 45-pound dumbbells to Amazon; JVL homeschools amid slime and a butterfly garden; and he closes by pitching Stick It for next week.
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Guest00:00:00This is an extraction.
Sonny00:00:04So who are the players?
Guest00:00:05Biggest drug lord in India versus biggest drug lord in Bangladesh.
JVL00:00:08That's some mythic shit, huh?
Guest00:00:10It's a kidnapping. Drug lord's son. Clock's running at 16 hours. Proof of life is of six hours ago.
Vic00:00:28Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Sub-Beacon. I'm Victor Matus along with Sonny Bunch and Jonathan V. Last. Just a reminder, the Sub-Beacon is available on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher. Look on our podcast and search for Sub-Beacon. You'll easily find us. Please subscribe, tell your friends, and leave a review. Gentlemen, how are we? JVL, what is going on?
JVL00:00:49So as we were setting up to tape this, my wife looked at the little windows, looked at our little boxes here. What did she say? She goes, Oh, Vic looks so great.
Vic00:01:00He looks skinny. He looks like he's lost weight.
JVL00:01:02He looks fantastic. I'm like, I'm right here. I said, you know what? I saw her. When your head is that big, the camera actually subtracts pounds.
Vic00:01:11Well, JVL, you know, you know, the big head thing on camera, that works to my advantage, right? It does work to your advantage. That's what they say. That's what they say. So I have a funny...
JVL00:01:20Well, tell her thank you. I have a funny story for you boys. We are running out of things to do, as you might imagine. We... We've been making slime. Slime is a big thing.
Vic00:01:33What is it, like Nickelodeon over there?
JVL00:01:35Yeah. We have started a butterfly garden where we got, in the mail today, caterpillars that will turn into butterflies. Wow.
Sonny00:01:44So this is the Silence of the Lambs prequel that you're living in.
JVL00:01:47I was going to say, are you sure it's not like the Death's Head Moth? You didn't get the Death's Head Moth. The Painted Lady Butterfly. So we're sitting around the table talking about what's going to happen at dinner tonight. And Shannon explains. She explains to them, and so the caterpillars will go into chrysalis, and then they will emerge as butterflies, and we'll take them outside, and we will release them so they can go back to nature. And gee money. Like, you know, the kids are all just like shaking their heads, and gee money hoes. And I will pull my pants down, and maybe the butterflies will land on my privates. And it's just silence. The girls and flies. Flash, look at him. And he's not, like, going for a laugh. No. He just has this dream, I guess, of having butterflies alight upon his junk.
Vic00:02:39A little bit scary, but also interesting.
Sonny00:02:40Honestly, this is, in the age of social distancing, this is a whole new frontier in the strip club experience. You don't, it's man on insect. There's no, there's no, there's no transfer of disease.
Vic00:02:54What is that? Insectophilia? Is that what they call it? Entimo? Entimophilia.
JVL00:02:59So I have, I have one thing for real to talk with you guys about, because I have a feeling that there, I have encountered a divide that you guys are straddling on either side of. I was teaching Flash some math, now that I am a homeschooler, in addition to a person who works 40 hours a week. Yeah, 40. And we have hit the point where there's a lot of graphing calculator stuff, and I believe that Vic and I are like the last two years between when high school math was totally anti-calculator, because my sister was five years younger than me. By the time she hit high school math, everybody had to have their Texas Instruments TI-180 or whatever. TI-83. Giant. The graphing calculator doubled as a blackjack, like you could kill a man with it. And so it's just for my time. Just five years after you and I, Vic, everybody just as a matter of course learns how to use a graphing calculator, but you and I, if we showed up in calculus, they would know the
Vic00:04:09teachers wouldn't let you. I had a scientific calculator, Texas Instruments, and solar-powered. And you can get cosine and sine and tangent, and then you can say hello upside down. Boobless. Boobless.
Sonny00:04:25Ah, you beat me to it. You beat me to it. So I am... You had it, right? So you were a graphing calculator guy. I am absolutely of the generation where the graphing calculator was not only required, but the school had a surplus of them to give to people if you could not buy one on your own. It was like, it was so required that the school would purchase them.
JVL00:04:44So who did Texas... Texas Instruments must have spent millions and millions of dollars going from district to district across this country paying off school board members and saying... You know what? You gotta... If you require the TI-88 graphing calculator, we can make it worth your while. You'll get your beak wet too here. I picture the Texas Instruments guys all talking to the Texas... Are they wearing 10-gallon hats? They have cowboy boots and... Yes, 10-gallon hats.
Sonny00:05:12They got six shooters on their hips. Yeehaw! So what... No, I actually... Why did that happen? Whatever they spent...
JVL00:05:19What was it that made that happen?
Sonny00:05:20Whatever they spent was totally worth it because I drove past the Texas Instruments headquarters in Dallas. Not very... It's enormous. It doesn't just exist. It is enormous. It is like a five-city block campus, I would say.
Vic00:05:36What do they make now? I was going to say avionics. Quantum computers. What about avionics?
Sonny00:05:41Well, they still... I think they still make graphing calculators. I think you still... Because like... That's it. An entire empire built on the graphing calculator. Because now the graphing calculator... Well, who knows? I don't know what... You just do it with your phone, right? I don't... There's an app. No, no, no. But I'm sure that you're not allowed to use your phone. Because you can get Wi-Fi on the phone and download all... You can search the answers and blah, blah, blah.
JVL00:06:03Or because Texas Instrument paid off the school board member to say, No phones. The graphing calculator is great, but no phones.
Sonny00:06:10So now the calculator is like actually a deficit for these children. It's like a handicap.
JVL00:06:16It's like they're in Harrison Bergeron. I wouldn't... What? But you know what's funny is... Oh, I'm sorry.
Sonny00:06:23You don't understand my literary references like Harrison Bergeron? I don't know.
Vic00:06:26No, Tom Bergeron. No, because he was the... Wasn't he the host of America's Funniest... He's dancing with the stars.
JVL00:06:32Dancing with the stars. Dancing with the stars. What's funny is you go back 20 years before us and they all knew how to use slide rules. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Vic00:06:39Of course.
JVL00:06:40Right. And then so Vic and I are in this desert where when you encounter high school math, you have to do it with just a pencil and your wits.
Vic00:06:47Yeah. My dad had a slide rule. Struggle to the death. The only thing I knew how to read from that was square roots. But it had multiple things. I didn't even know that. Yeah, but it had multiple things or something. Square roots.
JVL00:06:58That's one of my favorite parts of Apollo 13 is when everything is going to shit. All the guys in Mission Control are scrambling to redo calculations with their slide rules. Yeah, that's right. That's when men were men.
Sonny00:07:10And that's one of my favorite parts in First Man too. It's not just that they are piloting this hunk of metal through hurtling through space, right? It's also that Ryan Gosling is doing math in his head. He's like, oh wait, I have to do the calculations here.
Vic00:07:27As he's bouncing off. Off the atmosphere.
JVL00:07:29Now, my favorite part in First Man was when nothing happened.
Vic00:07:33Well, even when nothing was happening, the camera was still happening. How are you boys? What's going on? Sonny. Sonny, you look like the meme. Is it the meme or the gif of Robert Redford as the mountain man nodding in the stream? Where is that from?
Sonny00:07:50That's Jeremiah Johnson, isn't it? I guess that's what it is. River Runs Through It? No, no. Jeremiah Johnson. That's after.
Vic00:07:56But that's what you look like now.
Sonny00:07:58I have not trimmed my beard in six weeks, seven weeks, so it's just growing. It's just growing. It doesn't really look better. It just looks kind of bigger.
Vic00:08:10You're like the punchline. You're like the punchline to one of my favorite jokes. I don't know, but the one in the middle looks like Grizzly Adams. You know that one?
Sonny00:08:17I don't know that one. What is the setup? I don't know. I don't know that one.
Vic00:08:20Oh, it's the woman who wanted the tattoo of Elvis Presley on her inner thigh.
Sonny00:08:25Oh, God.
?00:08:26Sorry.
Vic00:08:28Circa ninth, circa seventh grade. Sorry.
Sonny00:08:31I heard that joke on my graphing calculator in 11th grade. No, I actually, so we actually had the graphing calculator.
Vic00:08:40That was also in the 80s, Grizzly Adams, by the way. That joke would not work now if they say, I don't get it. There's another reason they don't get it, too, Vector.
Sonny00:08:47That's what I'm saying. We had the graphing calculators. And the great thing about the graphing calculator, you guys don't know about this, was that you could actually program video games into it. And so, like, there was, like, a brick-out game that was, like, kind of the standard, like, you download the program. But if you were a little bit edgier, there was a drug dealer game. There was, like, a game where you sold drugs in the game. Oh, come on. Basically, Oregon Trail or, like, Mule. Do you remember Mule? Did you guys play Mule? Oh, I remember Mule. I had Mule on my NES. That game was the bomb. That game was awesome.
Vic00:09:21Were you, like, a drug mule? Is that what that was? No, no, no.
Sonny00:09:24Anyway, but, no, you could play video games on your phone. On your calculator, you know. Wow. Back in the day, it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.
JVL00:09:34I'm great.
Sonny00:09:36I'm great. We launched the first book from Rebeller Publishing today. A little title called They Called Me Wyatt. So, here's the background of the story. I remember when I was being courted by Dallas Sanye to come to CineState and run the Rebeller brand. He mentioned that he had... gone out of his way to acquire a book that had been cancelled. And I was like, a book that had been cancelled? What are you talking about? And he reminded me of the story of Natasha Tynes. Now, Natasha Tynes was a woman who... She worked for the World Bank Group. She tweeted a photo of a Metro employee eating on the Metro train. And when she did this, she incurred the wrath of Black Twitter. I don't know if you guys are familiar with Black Twitter. Black Twitter is a collective of very, very... Very angry African-American tweeters who... Careful. Careful. Who take any sort of slights very, very angrily and viciously. And they said that Natasha Tynes' tweets were racist. Now, they weren't racist. They were classist. I think you could make the argument that she was snitching on a working class person who was just trying to get in a meal. Except for the fact that all of us who ride the Metro know that you are not allowed to eat on the Metro. In fact, if you eat a french fry on the Metro... You wind up in front of Justice John Roberts. That is a thing that happened before he was sent up to the Supreme Court.
Vic00:11:06That was the famous, the girl who was arrested for eating the french fry.
Sonny00:11:09For eating a single french fry. So, this is a very serious rule. She saw it. She tweeted about it. She tweeted a photo of the person eating. This was her big mistake. Instead of just tweeting about seeing a Metro employee eating, people got very mad at her. And she had just had her... They called me Wyatt. And she lost her book deal. The publisher canceled publishing. They pulled it off the market. They said, we're not going to allow this woman who supports systemic racism to be published under our label. And it was nonsense. It was nonsense. So, Dallas said that, you know, when I'm interviewing, he's like, yeah, I picked up this novel. We're going to try to figure out how to publish it with the Rebeller brand. And it's going to be fun.
JVL00:11:56And we published it today.
Sonny00:11:58And we spent a lot of time on the Rebeller social media accounts. Congratulations.
Vic00:12:04Now, you say Rebeller Publishing. Is that like your own in-house publisher? Yeah, we're like. Hachette Filippacci.
Sonny00:12:11Yeah, we're like. No, we're like, you know, Simon and Schuster. We're Random House. We're Random House. It's the same, but different.
Vic00:12:19Can you give me, what is the CliffsNotes?
Sonny00:12:21So, it's just, it's a novel about a.
JVL00:12:24Is there a lot of sex in it? No. That's what Vic really wants to know. I don't know. I'll just ask it for you. Book quadrants. It's a novel. Short. Well, I don't want to spoil it. No long words. I don't want to spoil it. Lots of sex. Those are Vic's quadrants, right?
Sonny00:12:36Not quite. So, it's a novel about a young Jordanian woman who is an immigrant, a student abroad, who is murdered. And she is reincarnated in the body of a young child with speech difficulties. And the whole, the point of the book is her trying to solve her murder from behind. And the, you know, four-year-old with speech difficulties. It's high concept. It's high concept. That is. That's really interesting. But it's a page turner. It is short, too. It nails that quadrant of the Vic Matus. Okay, good. Yeah. The Vic Matus scale. It's only like 215 pages long, something like that. So, it's...
JVL00:13:15Did you ever... Is it Dead Tree or Kindle?
Sonny00:13:18Both. It is. Oh, that's exciting. That is exciting. It is available for purchase in paperback from Amazon. Good for you. And also on the Kindle. So, anyway, I, like, we're... I love books. I'm excited... I like the way they look and smell. I'm ex... I'm still trying to finish... Are we still talking about books? Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah. We're still talking about books.
Vic00:13:43What are we talking about? Yes, yes, yes.
Sonny00:13:45I was very excited. It was just... It was a very long day on social media trying to promote this thing and get all of my friends... Did you get hated?
JVL00:13:54Did people get angry?
Sonny00:13:55No, no. Thankfully, no. Nobody has gotten very... Nobody angry about it yet. I think that might change tomorrow because we're going to publish an interview with Natasha and she, you know... She'll talk about it. She'll talk about it a little bit and some of the outrage and I'm looking forward to getting that up, but she's been a real trooper, real sport about this and we're excited to get it out today. So, if you want to stick it to cancel culture by They Called Me Wyatt. Oh, no. Oh, no. Jamie, I just ran out of books.
Vic00:14:28What are you going to do, JVL? Speaking of which, wow, we haven't had that one. Sonny, I finally made my own simple syrup. Oh. Good for you. It was... Oh, yes.
Sonny00:14:37A brand new one.
JVL00:14:401.5 liters of Kirkland Irish Country Cream.
Vic00:14:43How much cream can you take? That's the question.
JVL00:14:47You know, back in college.
Vic00:14:50It's okay back then. You were thinner.
Sonny00:14:52You're going to have to pump your stomach.
Vic00:14:53Oh, don't make any of those. I'm not going to say his name. Jokes. Who was that? Rod Stewart. I'm not... Yes. It was a malicious rumor by his ex-like bodyguard guy who was... He was whatever you call it. Not estranged, but he was...
JVL00:15:12You know, what's the word I'm looking for?
Vic00:15:14I can't remember anymore. Disoriented. No, no, no, no, no. He was, you know, very angry and upset at him. And so... Disgruntled. Thank you. Disgruntled. It's a long word. I can't. Disgruntled and that apparently. I'll believe Rod on that. Look at that. That is a lot of cream. For good times, make it Kirkland time.
JVL00:15:33Wow.
Vic00:15:34Okay. So, Sonny, I made the simple syrup and it was simpler than I thought. It's easy. It is just equal. Do you do two to one or one to one? One to one. Okay. Or one and a half to one. I do one to one granulated sugar, right? And it's great. The only problem is it's a lot of sugar. And now we have pretty much... I haven't told Kate. We pretty much have no sugar in the house. So, in case she wants to bake or anything, it's in a bottle in the fridge.
Sonny00:16:03That's fine. Just add some simple syrup to the recipe.
Vic00:16:06It'll probably work. And you know what? It was really interesting. So, it finally opened up all the other opportunities for so many drinks. You want to make a daiquiri or a Tom Collins or obviously the old-fashioned mint juleps and things. Once the mints start growing again, I'll totally be in business. But it was really interesting. The old-fashioned with that simple syrup. I mean, it just... It tasted less... It's so much better. It's so much better. It's in a weird way, I don't know, complex and much more interesting. And I did just the slice of orange. Quick question. What bitters did you use?
Sonny00:16:40Angostura.
Vic00:16:42Okay. You know what I used? I used the Peychaud's. You know who gave me that?
Sonny00:16:46Me.
Vic00:16:47Yeah.
Sonny00:16:47Yeah. No, I...
Vic00:16:49I'm glad you got rid of the stuff that you didn't want.
Sonny00:16:52You got to use the Angostura. That's the good stuff. Peychaud's is fine.
Vic00:16:55Peychaud's and then I have the orange ones. But I don't... You could do orange bitters, but you don't.
Sonny00:17:00Orange bitters, you want that more for the martinis and the... Yes. The... Yes, gentrification. Manhattan, kind of. I mean, I still prefer Angostura for all those, but...
Vic00:17:11Okay. And I used rye, bullet rye. Oh, yeah? Rye old-fashioned.
Sonny00:17:16You can do that.
Vic00:17:18You know what I was tempted to do? I was tempted to slice an orange and put some cherries in there and then just muddle it all and have a big party. No, no.
Sonny00:17:24Just throw some club soda in there.
Vic00:17:27Okay. Oh, speaking of which, because it reminds me of the old fashions from the Palm, but they didn't use club soda. Morton's did the club soda. Somebody...
Sonny00:17:36No, they definitely put club soda in those old fashions. Do you remember that? No, they put them in the old fashions at the Palm, too. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I don't notice that. Interesting. Absolutely.
Vic00:17:45Do you... Okay, Sonny's now left.
Sonny00:17:47I'm right here. I've got my headphones on.
Vic00:17:49I received a book today in the mail, anonymous. I opened it up, and it's the Palm Steakhouse from... 2002 Cookbook. Oh, yeah. Recipe book. And it's a used book.
JVL00:18:01Tommy sent it from the dead.
Vic00:18:04He maybe did. Well, it's signed, but it's not to people I know, so it's not signed to me. So it's like it clearly was found, like, you know, what do you call it, remaindered. And so I just want to thank whoever it is who sent it. Thank you very much. It's a great book. And as I mentioned on Twitter, there's a forward. There are two forwards in there. One of the forwards is from Brian Dennehy.
Sonny00:18:26Oh. Who? You murdered.
Vic00:18:28Well, yeah, but the other one is from Brian Dennehy. Maybe it's from Brian Dennehy. He's on the right side. And on the left side is Larry King. Oh, wait a minute. He's still alive. Okay. Who would have thunk?
Sonny00:18:39For the next six days.
Vic00:18:41Moving right along.
Sonny00:18:43Vic is basically the ring.
JVL00:18:45I was thinking of that when we talked about this last week.
Vic00:18:48You know how that cycle ended when people switched to DVDs?
Sonny00:18:52Vic just said Larry King. Vic just said Larry King. And, like, Larry King just got a call. He got a call on his cell phone.
Vic00:18:59Six days. That's how it works. In his face. Oh, the face thing already happened. The face thing already happened. Yeah, it's, yeah. That weird phantom thing that happens to her. Okay. So, other than that, it's fine. The only other thing I wanted to mention, sort of very annoyed, I'm very annoyed about, is I had, way back in the day, put an order in to get some exercise equipment in my house. Right? Namely, very simple. A bench and dumbbells. Little did I know there was this huge dumbbell, you know, it's like, it's right up there with toilet paper. You have as much chance of finding dumbbells anywhere now as you do Continental.
Sonny00:19:41Yeah, that sounds about right.
Vic00:19:42And so, I had placed an order that was supposed to come at the end of this month, and I hadn't heard anything. And so, I finally checked on Amazon, and it said, we think we lost your order. And I don't know if that's their exact words, but they think they said the order, I think they do it in a passive voice. The order has been lost. And they said, there's still a possibility they'll find it. What weights did you order? The only ones that were available, which were 45-pound dumbbells.
JVL00:20:07So, you ordered 90 pounds worth of dumbbells? Yes. The shipping costs alone on that must be triple the actual cost of the...
Vic00:20:14That's interesting. It didn't seem that bad, or maybe they just put it into the price of how much they were charging for it. It was like 60-something bucks. Including shipping?
JVL00:20:22Yeah. They lost money on that?
Vic00:20:25Yeah, they must have. Not only did they lose money on it...
Sonny00:20:27They made money on it by selling it twice. They sold it to Nick, and then they sold it to whoever they sold it to after they stole it.
Vic00:20:32So, they're offering me, obviously, as Amazon does, they offer the refund. But I haven't done it because they said there's still a possibility they'll find it, and I haven't done it because every time I look for other places, including at Dick's Sporting Goods, there's none to be found. There's none.
Sonny00:20:44Just start lifting paint cans. Go buy some paint cans.
Vic00:20:50It's kind of like, they'll be my version of kettlebells. And like unbreakable.
Sonny00:20:53And like unbreakable, right. You just put them on the end of the bar. And start pressing them. Okay. Is that what you do?
Vic00:21:01That's what I was going to do.
JVL00:21:03That's right.
Vic00:21:03Okay. So, that's what's going on. And otherwise, everything else is fine. Well, we don't have it.
JVL00:21:11What are we going to do about this section? It's very strange. I was listening. I've been running and listening to old episodes of our show, trying to figure out what we could do better. Yeah. And we just need a new section here during the box office talk. So, what should we do?
Vic00:21:27What does that mean, streaming thoughts? Are there new movies that are being streamed? Well, in fact, there are. But we can't discuss their box office.
JVL00:21:35So, what should we talk about? Should we talk about actors we would like to see dead? Should we talk politics? We'll think about it.
Vic00:21:42You know what? No. A little 2020 election? Definitely not. VP watch? Please. Definitely not. But.
JVL00:21:47That's Stacey Abrams. We could. Love that Stacey Abrams. A heartbeat away.
Vic00:21:53We could ask our listeners, and maybe they'll have some idea of how we could do that. We could fill that in. But in terms of. Okay. Well, speaking of movies. What, JVL? Watch talk. Speaking of movies, Sonny, I understand movie theaters might be reopening in your state.
Sonny00:22:10Yeah, Texas.
Vic00:22:11Along with other things. Abbott. Explain. What's happening?
Sonny00:22:14Governor Abbott's like, hey, we're going to open up the restaurants and the theaters.
Vic00:22:18You know what?
Sonny00:22:19It's called the JVL Suck It Act.
JVL00:22:24You know what? Was that on the spot?
Vic00:22:27Was that on the spot, Sonny? Or did you have that written down like you're ready to throw it out?
JVL00:22:31I can't wait to see how many people show up to the theaters.
Sonny00:22:34Well, there's nobody. There's nobody's going to go to the theaters because there's no new product for the theaters. AMC. Yes, correct. They're not going to open anything until there's new stuff in theaters. And that's fine. So we'll just all be inside until Tenet comes out in July. That's when the theaters will reopen.
JVL00:22:49Okay.
Sonny00:22:49Christopher Nolan will will the industry back to life with his bare hands. He'll have the theaters all to himself for two months.
JVL00:22:57And maybe Santis. Santa Claus will bring you presents.
Sonny00:22:59Everyone will go see his movies because they're so good. They got to be seen on projected onto the side of the moon that has been dragged down to the earth to watch the movies on. Can't watch it on TV. That's bullshit.
Vic00:23:13Are you going to go get a haircut or something when it finally when it when it finally.
Sonny00:23:18Yeah, I need it. I do need a haircut. Yeah. Yeah.
JVL00:23:21Okay. You should do that. I just don't wear a mask either. Don't wear a mask. Don't wear gloves. You should ask the guy. You cut your hair to lick your lick your eyeballs.
Sonny00:23:29Here's the thing. Here's the thing. And that is that this disease is horribly overrated. Nobody really gets sick from it unless you're old. And then everyone's nursing homes. Fine.
Vic00:23:38Nursing homes.
Sonny00:23:39I don't. I'm not. I'm not over the age of 65, so I'll be okay. Unless I get one of those. Unless I get one of those strokes.
JVL00:23:47We have to protect Vic.
Sonny00:23:49Yeah. Well, Vic.
Vic00:23:50I mean, I'm trying to go backwards here. Okay. So, yeah. All right. I mean, I mean, literally.
Sonny00:23:57Literally in the state of Texas, I think like 800 people have had this. So, I'm not. I'm sure it's fine. I'm not.
JVL00:24:04I'm not too worried about it. The Alamo just tweeted that they are not opening.
Sonny00:24:08Well, you know. We'll see. We'll see what happens. Yeah.
Vic00:24:11Okay. In the meantime, we decided that we would watch a new movie. A new movie has come out. A new movie. But at some point, I imagine that there are no longer these movies that have been sitting in the can. And then that'll be the end of it. Especially for TV. You know, TV sitcoms and stuff. But that'll... I mean, by the fall, I guess they'll be back. But the movie that we saw was on Netflix. It looked like a big budget movie by my standards. Extraction. Starring Chris Hemsworth. By a first-time director who stars... He has a cameo in the movie. Hargraves? Is that his name? Sam Hargraves? But it's by... Written by the Russo Brothers?
Sonny00:24:59Written by one of the Russo Brothers and produced by the Russo Brothers.
JVL00:25:03Adapted from a comic book. Called La Ciudad. So, I watched it last night. I watched it last night.
Vic00:25:14Sonny, did you watch it last night?
Sonny00:25:16I watched it two nights ago.
JVL00:25:17Did anyone else watch it?
Vic00:25:20Yes! My father! No, sorry.
JVL00:25:22My father. I bet your dad loved it.
Vic00:25:24You don't even say he texted. Well, hold on. I'll read it to you. Right now. Just give me a second. Do it in your father's voice, please. Okay, I will because it's a fantastic... Of course, I had turned my phone off for this segment. So, you're going to have to give me five minutes as my phone gets started. It's an Apple SE, which was just recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal as a perfect phone for people who hate technology. And for people, they said it was like a person said they got it over the jitterbug.
Sonny00:25:50Wait, did you... Is this a new phone?
JVL00:25:53No, it's not the new SE, but there's a new SE.
Vic00:25:55Yeah, I was going to say there's a new SE. There's a new SE. Yeah, that is correct. And...
JVL00:26:00It's the 1998 SE.
Vic00:26:02So, I said to my dad, I heard you saw Extraction. What did you think? And his voice... This is word for word. Good action movies. I'm also watching series. Freud. Interesting. Mom, don't watch this. In Netflix. That's what it is. Mom, don't watch this. So, I must... Freud? I'm not sure what that... What is Freud? Is that like Masters of Sex?
Sonny00:26:30I have no idea.
JVL00:26:31I have no idea. But it's on Netflix. I think it was autocorrect from Friends. Maybe he's watching Friends.
Sonny00:26:36Friends? Is Friends even on Netflix anymore?
Vic00:26:38I don't know why he's watching Friends. But you know what, though? Lots of action is right. That was a lot of action. And, well, Sonny, why don't you give us a big boy review?
Sonny00:26:48So, Extraction is, as Vic says, kind of a medium to high budget movie for Netflix made by, quote-unquote, the Russo brothers.
Vic00:26:59They must have a lot of money.
Sonny00:27:01Well, it's interesting what they have done with their post-Avengers success because they made this and they also made 21 Bridges. Do you guys, do you remember the ads for 21 Bridges, which starred Chadwick Boseman as the police officer who shuts down all of the bridges so nobody can get in or out of the city?
Vic00:27:22Is this the one in Detroit with the race riot?
Sonny00:27:24No, that was Detroit. Oh, okay. This is just another movie with a black person.
JVL00:27:31Detroit is next to the lake. They don't have bridges. It's landlocked.
Sonny00:27:35It's landlocked. I don't think it's a... No, but my point is they're making...
JVL00:27:42Detroit is not landlocked. It's on the Great Lakes. Well, whatever. They're trois, the three. Okay, go ahead.
Sonny00:27:47They are making interesting, like, kind of almost 1990-style action programming. Like, not movies that are necessarily designed to start franchises, though they could. Not movies that are based on, like, awesome intellectual property that everyone is well aware of and is, you know, is sure to gross $100 million to $500 million at the domestic box office. And they're using the stars who they worked with in the Marvel movies. Chadwick Boseman, of course, but also Chris Hemsworth in this film. I liked Extraction. So Extraction is about an Australian mercenary whose job it is to rescue an Indian drug lord's son from a rival drug lord. India Indian. Indian. Right. Indian from the subcontinent. Indian. From a Bangladeshi competitor. The whole thing takes place in Dhaka, more or less. It is well shot. It is high octane. It has a very good star performance from Chris Hemsworth. But I like it's it's totally fine. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. It's about an hour and 45 minutes, which is like the thing I might have liked most about it. It is very quick paced. It is very it is very Johnny on the spot. And here's here's what everyone is going to be. Here's what everyone is talking about. Everyone's talking about the scene, which is like this big action scene that takes place about 25, 30 minutes into the film. That's part car chase, part run through the slums of Dhaka, part, you know, whatever. It's stitched together.
Vic00:29:44It looks like single shot, right?
Sonny00:29:46It's it's stitched together to look like a single shot, but it's done so in such an ostentatious way that nobody could actually think of it as a single shot, which actually like annoys me in a way I don't. Like that, I think it's too ostentatious and I think it's too showy and like, frankly, not showy enough. It's lazy stitching it together like that. I don't I don't care for it. But what the scene I actually like the most in the scene that I think is the best thing in the movie and the thing that like most. It makes me most sad that Chris Hemsworth was not born in time to be a 1980s action star. There's a scene where he takes on a group of child soldiers in an alleyway. And it is just it is fantastically funny. And also violent and kind of brutal and like treats this whole thing very real. And it's very resonant thematically, too, because like Chris Hemsworth, his whole backstory is he had a sick kid who died. So he can't like kill kids and he wants to save kids and blah, blah, blah. So like he he's like faced with the the the this like gang of child soldiers who are armed to the teeth and trying to kill him. And he instead of just gunning them down as he has gunned down everybody else in this movie. As he has gunned down everyone else in this movie, he like takes the time to actually disarm them and disable them. And it's again, it's like it's funny and it's clever and it's well done in a way that that single stitched together scene is not. It's like actually thought through. And it's again, it's thematically resonant with what they're trying to get across about his character. But it's also very funny. And it like it this when I was watching it, I was like, this is totally a scene that Arnold Schwarzenegger or maybe even like a Harrison Ford. Could have done like it's not like Harrison Ford was never quite that physical of an action star, but it is it is it has that kind of sense of humor to it. And, you know, you've got this hulking six foot four Nordic god like tossing around these, you know, four and a half foot street urchins literally like grabs one by the foot and slams them into a van. And I was just like, this is fantastic. This is all I want from this movie. Bruce Willis could have done that scene. Bruce Willis could have done that. Totally. It's totally a Bruce Willis style. Scene, although Bruce Willis, like not really big enough to do. But yeah, but like that is like in Bruce Willis is like mode of action. Anyway, I like I like the movie. I didn't love it. I thought it was fine. It is a totally acceptable way to spend one hundred and five minutes as we're locked in our houses with nowhere to go.
JVL00:32:15I don't know. Hour fifty six. Yeah. No, but it's close to two.
Sonny00:32:19But it felt like that. That is what the that is what the time is with the credits. The credits start rolling at one hundred and five minutes, one hundred and six. Minutes. Really? Yeah. It's like ten minutes of credits.
JVL00:32:29Sure. It was an one hundred fifty six minutes. I started rolling. Pretty sure. Maybe a thousand fifty six minutes.
Sonny00:32:36I take it you thought this movie was a long slog.
JVL00:32:38What are you suggesting? JVL, what do you think?
Sonny00:32:43I forget me. Victorino, man of the people.
Vic00:32:48Yeah, yeah, yeah. A plus. A lot of action. I thought it was great. I mean, you know, you don't want to say you don't want to say the word derivative. I don't want to say it. I'm not that kind of a guy. I'm not a mean critic.
JVL00:33:01Is it better than the other extraction? Who's the other extraction? The 2015 Bruce Willis vehicle. Oh, man. I don't even remember that one. No relation.
Vic00:33:11Proof of life with Russell Crowe. So this man on fire. I thought, you know, what is the elevator pitch for this? Is it because I'm not saying this is it, but I'm just saying the elevator pitch was like, I don't know. Heat meets Blackhawk down. You know, Blackhawk down meets Slumdog Millionaire. You know, yeah, that's closer.
JVL00:33:32Do you know what the elevator pitch is? The elevator pitch is American movie star with a bunch of Bollywood people. So do you have two built in markets?
Vic00:33:42Built in and Netflix. But that's the that's the elevator pitch for it.
Sonny00:33:46Well, so the the Chris Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth, his counterpart in this movie is basically he's not quite a big Bollywood star, but he's like he's a no quantity.
Vic00:33:57And in India, people have come to watch him, too.
JVL00:34:00Yeah, there. And he's great in this.
Vic00:34:01And he's very good. Yeah, I know.
JVL00:34:03He's the movie. It plays almost like a silent movie. I mean, you barely need dialogue. That works for me to understand what's going on.
Vic00:34:10That works for me. And sometimes I couldn't understand the dialogue. But and I liked I thought there was a lot of accents. And I like David Harbour a lot. Small role. I love. So if you want to go to the quadrants, the. The duration was a little long. I'm with JVL on this. I felt that was a little felt long. OK, I had a late start to the movie, too. So that was a problem. The plot, I thought it's fairly straightforward. There's a there seems to be a double cross. Spoiler alert, a double cross. They I guess the drug dealer wanted the kid out. He wanted Chris Hemsworth to do the dirty work. And then the other guy was going to take the kid and rescue the kid himself. It's pretty straightforward. The money wasn't there was no transfer of funds.
Sonny00:34:56Is that what happened? It's not.
JVL00:34:57Can we, Sonny, can you just spell out for people what the other guy is here so they can understand?
Sonny00:35:03So so the I don't know their names. The the the son of the drug dealer, he is kidnapped and the son of so the kid's bodyguard drug dealer, the Indian drug dealer. Right. So the son of the Indian drug dealer is kidnapped and the kid's bodyguard basically is tasked with bringing the kid back or his family will be killed. And he says. He says to his wife at one point, I we can't there's no money to do this.
JVL00:35:31We don't have the money to do it, but we can still possibly get it done because the drug lord doesn't understand that all of his funds have been seized. He thinks he's still a big rich guy.
Sonny00:35:42Well, the drug lord, I think that I mean, it doesn't really matter if the drug lord knows it or not. I mean, I think the drug lord knows that that the money is not there. But the the but so the the this bodyguard sets up this extraction with the mercenaries. Who they paid for and then double crosses him with the intent of taking the kid back and killing the extraction team without paying them off because he can't pay them. And so that's how he's going to get his that's how he's going to get the kid back and save his family, which gives it like an extra level of pathos.
Vic00:36:15And like it's actually you kind of knew that the other guy who wanted also to rescue the kid and bring him back because he's worried about his own son. You knew that he was going to end up being sort of a good guy in the end. Because, you know, there is the otherwise it would be it would be an unnecessary scene to see him, you know, call home to talk to his son and say, I miss you and love you and stuff like that. But nevertheless, so violence, I thought, was amazing.
JVL00:36:41A plus.
Vic00:36:42A plus violence. There's one where he uses a guy's body and swings it and knocks the other guy's head almost off. I thought that was great. And grenade launcher, JVL, grenade launcher. See, I love that because it has that great noise. OK, I don't know how that. Sounds to the listeners. Trivia, JVL, G.I. Joe Trivia. Who had the grenade launcher? Gung Ho. Oh, wow. One point. Not even not even more than one point zero seconds. One point zero. Maybe even less than a second. Point nine.
JVL00:37:13You and I coordinated on that.
Vic00:37:14Not at all. Not at all. Not at all. I started when I looked at I had written down grenade launcher and then I wrote down G.I. Joe Trivia. See how long it takes for him to get that one. You know, as opposed to like a pistol with a rocket on it, which you can only fire once, which would be useless.
JVL00:37:28Yeah. OK.
Vic00:37:29I'm useless. And in terms of sex and nudity, obviously none. But I like that girl. She's Iranian. Go shift a goal. Shift a farahani. And I'd like to see her in more things. I thought she was great. Can we talk seriously about her? Yes. Yeah.
JVL00:37:44As an actress. Yes. Because Victorino, I don't know if you know much about her. She is an arthouse darling. Oh, no. And she chose to pose. Naked, without any clothes on. What? And for this, was told by the Iranian government that she need not come home. Back to Iran. Vic, she could stay here. I mean, in this country. In this country. Is it possible? I understand that we like the essential workers. I understand that the doctors and nurses are great. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Is it possible that she is the greatest hero of them all? Oh, yeah. She's up there.
Vic00:38:23She's up there. I also, I'm intrigued. Abraham Lincoln? Yeah. John Glenn? And then Golshifte Farahani.
JVL00:38:29Golshifte Farahani? I was intrigued by her eyebrows. You know, just for research purposes about political freedom, maybe you ought to go and look up some of those photos just to understand exactly what's going on with the Iranian mullahs. And you could do a piece about it for the Washington Free Beacon. I will look into that in 30 minutes. Okay.
Vic00:38:57JVLMotion.com. Okay, no, I'm just kidding. I don't even know what that is. What do you think this does for Chris Hemsworth, right? This is expanded. People think, oh, wow, he can act. He should be another star.
JVL00:39:06Buy a giant house with it.
Vic00:39:09Yeah. Well, there's that. I mean, we already know he does comedy because he did Lady Ghostbusters, right? Funniest thing in Lady Ghostbusters. Yeah. And he does this, and he's pretty serious. He has some serious moments here. So I thought, anyway, I thought it was good. JVL, you had some other, you had thoughts. He's a...
JVL00:39:27Hemsworth is a durable action star. He's fine. So, you know, the story behind the director here is a little bit like Chad Stileski. So Chad Stileski is a fight coordinator who gets in good with the directors and is given the keys to the car and then delivers to John Wick. And in this case with Extraction, Sam Hargrave winds up giving us a movie that is honestly pretty paint by numbers. There's almost nothing. There's almost nothing in this which stands out from any of a dozen other movies. You know, there's the slog through the streets just like in Black Hawk Down. There's the double crosses like in Spartan. There's the kill them all like in Man of Fire. You know, so the scene that everybody will talk about. The only thing I found interesting about that was that I believe it was shot not with a Steadicam but with drones.
Sonny00:40:26I think some of it probably was but I think a lot of it was just CGI together.
JVL00:40:31Oh, you think it was CGI together? Not a legitimate one take?
Sonny00:40:34Oh, no, no, not. None of like all those shots that are going through like windshields. Like there are shots where they like come they like jump off a balcony and he gets in a car and then the camera comes like into the windshield.
JVL00:40:49It's terrible. Okay, I was talking about the stuff where they are in the interior of the housing block and going from sort of hallway to all maybe yeah, maybe some of that stuff and then they jump off of off of the roof onto the next roof and follow people down and get into the street and I believe how do they do that? I believe it's being done with drones and if if you were an aspiring kid who wants to go to film school and get involved in film, I would highly recommend you learn how to
Vic00:41:17do drone photography because it's like the one growth industry or you can work for the Air Force.
JVL00:41:24I know, you know, I don't know like it's at least three. 30 minutes too long. The entire second act sequence with the guy's house is totally unnecessary.
Vic00:41:33Did you predict? Let me ask you this. Did you predict? As I the minute he picked him up.
JVL00:41:39Oh, no, no, no.
Vic00:41:40I was going to say besides that, even I thought this was going to happen. The kid, the kid who wants to rise up.
JVL00:41:50Oh, yeah. The kid who winds up killing him. Yeah.
Vic00:41:53Think.
Sonny00:41:54Yeah. Or almost killing him. And it's all.
JVL00:41:56I don't know. I found it boring and I found it a chore to slog through the entire thing. I didn't hate it. Like, I didn't dislike it.
Vic00:42:07But I don't know. I like the sound of the weapons going off. That was great. But in the end. I like his choice of watch.
JVL00:42:15He's wearing a Casio G-Shock Frogman. This is. Wow. Once you move to ultra high definition and you get a large enough screen, you can actually sit and pick out time pieces. And I was much more interested in figuring out what watch he was wearing than anything else that was happening in the movie.
Vic00:42:33The ending when he gets shot, when Hemsworth gets shot, reminded me of the ending of Carlito's Way. Do you remember this? Except that he's maybe alive.
JVL00:42:41Benny from the Bronx. That's true. Because there's no body.
Vic00:42:44And then when the Indian kid comes out of the sleep pool, there's a vision, which is why there's going to be sequel extraction to Electric Boogaloo. And I cannot wait for that.
JVL00:42:54I don't know. In a movie like this, when I think, because this is a genre piece, one of the important things is you need to have really interesting chemistry between the protector and the protectee. And I think my favorite of all these movies might be Spartan. And it's because of what you get with Val Kilmer and Kristen Bell. Like they have a really interesting kind of chemistry going on between them. And this whole thing just felt like, eh, paint by numbers. It felt like every other Netflix thing. Yes, why?
Sonny00:43:29It's too long. Too derivative? It's totally derivative. You can see the people getting rich on screen.
JVL00:43:36And it exists more as an idea for how to provide content for multiple international audiences than it does as any sort of either entertainment or artistic expression. And there's nothing to hate about it. But, yeah, I don't know. Pass. Okay. There.
Sonny00:43:55All right.
JVL00:43:56There.
Sonny00:43:57You know what I would say, though? What?
JVL00:43:59I would say over quarantine, the amount of Disney Plus we have watched and the number of times when we have thought there is this movie we want to watch and we go to look for it and it turns out it's on Disney Plus is so large. It's the exact opposite of the Netflix model. Netflix is 500 channels with nothing to watch. And Disney is, well, we only have like 100 things. But they're all good things. And they're all the things that you want to make an appointment to go and watch.
Sonny00:44:26What were some of the things you wanted to watch?
JVL00:44:29We wanted to watch The Parrot Trap. We wanted to watch Freaky Friday. Which Parrot Trap? The remake? They've got them both. But we watched the back-to-back Lindsay Lohan's. So we watched the Lindsay Lohan Parrot Trap and then Lindsay Lohan Freaky Friday.
Vic00:44:44Oh, what's her name? Hayley Mills? Hayley Mills. Yeah.
JVL00:44:47Who is in the second one. Oh, she plays it like a lady. Yeah, she has a small... Actually, and what's funny is the evil girl trying to steal the dentist's card. She is also in the second one. The one who played that in the original, the Hayley Mills one, is in this one, too. And she plays the mother of the evil girl in this one. Oh, that's great.
Sonny00:45:06And she's great. That's perfect. She's great.
Vic00:45:07That's the one with Dennis Quaid, right?
JVL00:45:09Yeah. Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson. Richards?
Vic00:45:14Richards. Oh, yeah. You mean... Yeah, the late wife. Yeah, the late wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, all right.
JVL00:45:21But Disney is just stuffed full because the Disney catalog is filled with properties that you actually want to watch. You want to see and not just generic product of the week.
Vic00:45:30There is, however, sometimes, you know, you go on Netflix and you'll find old... Is that the Netflix or Amazon? Because I get confused with the two of them when I'm surfing for movies. You get confused easily sometimes. I do. Just in general, I do. But two movies I saw recently. One I hadn't seen in a while and I thought it was great. It's still... For me, I thought it's great. It's Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman. But that is not the kind of movie that if you ran it... If you did it today, there's no way. When he shows up at the Russian Tea Room and his agent, the great Sidney Pollack, is there. What does he say to Michael? He says, you need therapy. That's... You couldn't say that today. And Bill Murray has jokes about that, you know. Or the idea that you're only doing it just to get the job because it's easier as a... You know, and... Oof.
JVL00:46:18It's complicated. Didn't that movie make a bazillion dollars? It did. It did. I saw that. I feel like Tootsie is one of those movies that did... for 12 weeks in a row or something crazy like that.
Vic00:46:29I get wary. You know, I mean, we joke about, you know, people I mention on the show and stuff, so I get wary about it. But I'll mention... Careful with Dustin Hoffman. I know, I'm sorry.
JVL00:46:36He's a national treasure. Don't you kill him, Vic.
Vic00:46:38Oh, no, because... You know, it's not who you think I was going to mention him because... And, of course, he has his own problems. He had his own problems with the whole Me Too thing. No, I was going to mention Dabney Coleman, who is now, like, 88. And he... Thanks. Sorry. He was so... He's so good. And every movie he did, 9 to 5, and... War Games, and Cloak and Dagger, and Tootsie, I mean, you name it, man, and even in You've Got Mail, years later, he's just fantastic. I love... I love Dabney Coleman. And Charles Durning was in that movie, too. It's a great movie. The other movie I finally saw, guys, was Death of Stalin, and you know what? That was a great movie. Too bad I didn't see it in time to discuss it on the show. I'll do it now. Stalin!
Sonny00:47:20No, I'm just kidding. So, Tootsie... Oh, come on.
JVL00:47:23Come on, do it. Do you have a gene with you?
Vic00:47:25No, I didn't have anything. I didn't have anything. I didn't have anything prepared. No, I was just going to say, Death of Stalin. You know? No. But I did see it. I said, oh, it's finally on. Wow. That was really good. And I'll tell you who was really... They're all great in it, and some of the actors, I don't know. I mean, the English ones. But Jason Isaacs is fantastic as Zhukov. He's fantastic. And when they first introduce him, he throws off this cape thing. He's just great. And, of course, the guy who plays Beria. I don't know that actor, but he was fantastic.
Sonny00:47:53Tootsie is adjusted for inflation the 76th. Highest grossing film of all time with $533 million in 2020 dollars.
Vic00:48:03That's amazing. Yeah, 1982. Jessica Lange.
JVL00:48:06For a movie that must have cost $9 million in 2020.
Vic00:48:10I love seeing it for a number of reasons, particularly because it's old New York. Terry Garr is in it. She's great, too.
Sonny00:48:17Budget $21 million.
JVL00:48:1920 of it to Dustin Hoffman.
Sonny00:48:21Yeah, I mean, I would assume at least 5 to 10 of that to Dustin. Something.
Vic00:48:27Okay. Do we have any other thoughts on nothing? No.
JVL00:48:31You know, I have a thought. I've thought about next week's show.
Vic00:48:33Oh, boy. Okay.
JVL00:48:35I want us to do Stick It. Neither of you have ever seen it. No, no. I'm going to pitch it to my wife as a movie to watch with the kids because I'm going to say the girls love gymnastics. It's a gymnastics movie. I think it's pretty much safe.
Vic00:48:50I don't think there's any hanky-panky in it.
JVL00:48:53I think it's just, you know, she's in an ice bath.
Sonny00:48:56She's in an ice bath because she's an athlete. I've actually seen Stick It. Oh, you have? I've totally seen Stick It.
JVL00:49:02Good. So let's do it. Vic, you haven't. And I will, if you need an alibi, I can help you out with that. Is it free? I'll talk to you. No, I will Amazon Prime gift it to you.
Vic00:49:14Wow, my goodness.
JVL00:49:15So you don't have to pay for it and it won't be on your charge card.
Vic00:49:18Which is better, Stick It or Bring It On?
JVL00:49:22Better in which way?
Vic00:49:23Which is a movie in general, movie qua movie.
JVL00:49:26Well, Bring It On is better.
Vic00:49:28Which is better, Bring It On or Bring It On 2? I'll say Bring It On 2.
JVL00:49:32Okay.
Vic00:49:33What? I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
JVL00:49:36I want to do Stick It next week. That's my proposal to you boys. Don't answer now. We'll see.
Vic00:49:40We'll see what else is going on.
JVL00:49:42But it would be our most downloaded episode ever.
Vic00:49:44I don't know about that. I don't know. It's very niche on Twitter, but there's a lot of listeners who are probably like, what? You know, I don't know. I don't know. Our friends would love it. Our friends would love it. It's very inside.
JVL00:49:55It's very inside. That's all we do this for. We do this show for our friends anyway.
Vic00:49:58Corrections and shout outs. Anything? Nothing? No. I'll tell you, the quarantine's killing us here. Oh, I shouldn't say that. You could bleep that. That's not appropriate. Sorry. Thank you. I meant that in a figurative sense in terms of the material. Sonny's laughing. I just meant in terms of the material. I know that. I know what's going on out there. It's terrible. Okay. Oh, man. That's all the time we're giving to this episode. Thank God. Short episode. Yeah. Well, short and to the point. Questions, comments, complaints, compliments, tweet us at SonnyBunch, at Victorino Matus. Again, be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher. Just type in Sub-Beacon on a podcast. We're there. Leave a review. Tell your friends. Until next time.
JVL00:50:51What happened to me?
Sonny00:50:54Sorry, I've got some ice on my mouth.
JVL00:50:55All right. Serious, serious point. It's the first time in my life ever that I'm like two sheets to the wind and Vic hasn't had a drop to drink. No, I had. Yeah, no. This has never happened in our lives.
Vic00:51:06Yeah, I couldn't after last night because I got so excited with the simple syrup. I had four old fashions and then two scotches of the, what is it? Oh, it was great. It's the Glenlivet 15. I forgot. It was under my table. So I've tweeted out photos of my bar and then I forgot that underneath the bar I had more. And so out. Came to Glenlivet 15, you know, just had a little, a wee couple of drams. And so that was, I'm recovering right now, but I'll be back tomorrow. I'll be fine.
JVL00:51:35So what I wanted to tell you guys is that the quarantine has changed us in many ways. Who us? As I'm sure it has changed you. All of us. Okay. We, we were home together as they say on the television. I looked down on Friday night and realized that I was wearing the same pair of jeans that I have worn since the quarantine began. Jeans. One pair of jeans for what is it now? Six weeks, 60 weeks. I don't know how long it's been.
Vic00:52:05I asked you about this once because I, the only pair of jeans I do wear now are those Prana jeans. The one with the studs on the inside and the leather, the chaps, the chaps, or as a tear away, the breakaway jeans.
JVL00:52:18What used to drive Sonny nuts was when people would say assless chaps, right?
Vic00:52:21Chaps are by definition assless. Right. And I asked you, well, how often do you think you have to wear them? Do, um, run it in the, in the, in the, in the wash. And you, you said like every couple months, that's what you said.
JVL00:52:32Well, uh, I'm sure it's fine.
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