#74. Unhinged, Russell Crowe Ranked, and a Return to the Theater
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The occasion is Unhinged, the Russell Crowe road-rage thriller that pulled roughly $4 million on 1,800 screens running at a third capacity with only twelve of the top twenty-eight markets open — numbers Sonny reads as about a third of the $10-15 million it would have made in a normal late-August slot. He gives it a soft recommend: a straightforward B-movie, Falling Down by way of Duel, elevated entirely by a terrifyingly enormous Crowe working "like a force of nature," bear-like in his rage, and mercifully done in 90 minutes. His real interest is how mean-spirited it is, the Jurassic World pterodactyl problem stretched across a whole film — the woman killed mid-eyeliner, the brother doused in gasoline and shown wetting himself, and an ending played for laughs in which the son congratulates his mother on not honking, revealing the movie's actual project was teaching her patience. Vic gives it an A, tallies seven deaths, marvels at Crowe as villain for the first time since Virtuosity, and calls Jimmy Simpson's diner death the most unexpected stabbing since the antler impalement in Silent Night, Deadly Night. JVL skipped it and cheerfully insists from the trailer alone that Crowe is the hero and the honking woman is the villain of the piece. The bigger story is the return to theaters itself: Sonny at the Alamo Drafthouse in Lake Highlands with ten people, pre-ordered popcorn through the app, a temperature check he calls hygiene theater, and three of ten patrons never masking; Vic in a Dolby Atmos house at Tyson's with fifteen spread-out viewers, no temperature check, and a shortened twenty minutes of trailers capped by Tenet. JVL wants an N95 before risking it; Sonny already has September 1 IMAX tickets. Vic opens with a root canal on a necrosing molar and then, at length and with characteristic gallows humor, the death of his mother on July 30 after cancer — the mercy of getting her home from the hospital when spring rules would have forbidden even a wake, his praise for hospice, the funeral-home casket showroom that felt like a car dealership, and the avalanche of Tom's River pizza. JVL contributes a patched-with-garbage-bags minivan windshield courtesy of Flash's pitching net, plugs for Sonny's new show The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, and a ranking of the top five movies Russell Crowe should have been in, ending with Mad Max: Fury Road, which nearly shot in 2001 with Crowe as Max.
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Guest00:00:00What we do in life, it goes in eternity. We all go for the blonde. We block each other. Not a single one of us is gonna get her. So then we go for her friends. But they will all give us the cold shoulder because nobody likes to be second choice. What if no one goes for the blonde? We don't get in each other's way. And we don't insult the other girls. That's the only way we win. That's the only way we all get laid. I don't think you really know what a bad day is. But you won't find out.
Vic00:00:39Hello 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 at our podcast and search for Sub-Beacon. You'll easily find us. Please subscribe, tell your friends and leave a review. Gentlemen, how are you guys? Jonathan, we can't see you. Instead, we're seeing a map. This is like that movie Enemy of the State. And it's just that aerial view where we could try to track Gene Hackman. Will Smith. Gene Hackman tracking Will Smith. Yes. So what happened here?
JVL00:01:16I'm great. I'm down at the beach in North Carolina. We've been here for a couple of weeks. We lost the first week because of the hurricane that was blowing through. I am working on a Corona right now. As we speak, can have any beer you like, so long as it's Corona. And, you know, my Vin Diesel. That is Vin Diesel. Remember from the original Fast and Furious?
Vic00:01:42And yeah, no, it's like family movie, as you know. It's all about family.
JVL00:01:47It's all about family. Now we had before we came down here, Flash put a baseball through the back windshield of my minivan, which was awesome, which I then had to because rear windshields evidently are type of things. They're not stocked anywhere. So I had to wait five days. This is as the hurricane was bearing down on Virginia. And so I went out with garbage bags and duct tape. To try to get that sucker watertight from Hurricane Force, from, you know, the Cat 5 that was bearing up from Florence or whatever the hell that storm was. And Isaiah, you know what? I did it. I did it. It held. It was awesome. So, yeah, that's all I've really got.
Sonny00:02:31That's interesting. So I guess, like, all the safe flight repairs, safe flight replace, you know, that's all just front windshields. That's just because that's what people need, I guess.
JVL00:02:41I assume it's for common glass, right? So I assume.
Vic00:02:44Yeah, I used them, but it was only for the front.
JVL00:02:46Front windshields and passenger windows, I assume, are pretty standardized, right? I mean, how many different kinds of sizes could there really be, right? I mean, but we used safe light. We did safe light. I had to take it to safe light. I had to take it to the safe light place and drop it off. The van didn't come? I couldn't get that set up.
Vic00:03:09You know, in the commercial, the glass van went to the amusement park, and then the family goes to the amusement park. And when they came back, the windshield was fixed.
JVL00:03:18Want to guess how much a rear windshield for a minivan costs?
Sonny00:03:22Oh, $600.
JVL00:03:25No, high. No, I was going to say lower. No, no, I'm saying you're too high. Oh, I'm too high? I don't know.
Vic00:03:32$200. $450. Oh.
JVL00:03:36Yeah. But, boy, it's great. The next time Flash loses control over his two-seam, he will not be.
Vic00:03:44Was it like a Charlie Sheen major league? It was moment.
JVL00:03:50100%. He needs glasses. This kid has an IQ of like 155. He needs glasses. And yet he set up his pitching net. In front of the back of the minivan. So instead of like setting it up in front of like the tree in the front yard or something like that, he like sets it up so that he's throwing at our cars. And then when one of them just sort of, you know, sails off a little bit and then goes over, he's like, oh, wow, I didn't think of that. Oh, she got my abs. Did not see that one coming. Yeah, that's great. He's a meathead. He really loves Corona, though. Boy, when I had one and popped one of these open for the first time last week and it was like an abs. I have some and I I thinking like Dr. Mattis, I was like, sure. Thinking he would taste the beer and be like, yeah, he was like, oh, this is great. I said, hold off. You can't drink those until you're 15.
Vic00:04:42I was going to say the Coronas. They're right back. Give him. He should try Corona light. That's practically water. Basically water.
Sonny00:04:48Yeah, it's put some lime in it. It's like limeade. Sonny, how are you, buddy? What's going on? I'm good.
Vic00:04:54What is happening down there?
Sonny00:04:56What is happening down there? Yes, I think that the things that the bulwark are good. I started a new podcast where I'm just interviewing people. It's great. I don't have to deal with any of your nonsense. Can I interrupt you for a moment? Yeah.
JVL00:05:12Plug your show in ways that you will be too reticent to do. Sure. So for for anybody listening to this show who is not listening to Sonny's new show, you should jump on it. The first episode is a conversation with Richard Rushfield, our buddy. The second one is. Is maybe the best hour of podcasting I've ever heard anywhere for people who care about movies. And Sonny talks with our buddy, Tony Davis, who was part of the team at Real D developing digital 3D. It's just an amazing show. Everything that we care about is in this this episode. Yeah, that that would go to sleep.
Sonny00:05:49That show. That show.
Vic00:05:50I think it sounds like I'm going to skip this podcast, but go ahead.
Sonny00:05:53Yeah, no, that that show was a lot of fun to do because it was just like like I am not even. A big 3D guy, as everybody on the show knows, I'm not I'm not really into 3D, but it was a really fun conversation because, you know, Tony, like I wrote the code for, you know, Gemini Man, which is like the only good 3D movie in the last five years. And it was just it was just a really interesting talk about not just 3D, but also like digital projectors. And, you know, the fact that like all the theaters, they're finding that the projectors that they were getting. That were supposed to last 20 years are burning out after 10 there. You know, they were like, what's going on? What's going on? It turns out there's like popcorn grease everywhere. Just gets in, just gets into the stuff. So little tidbits like that are throughout the show. It's it's a lot of fun. The bullpen goes to Hollywood is what it's called.
JVL00:06:44Popcorn grease can get everywhere. What do you think a virus could get in a movie theater? If the problem is that ventilation within the space of a movie theater is such that even the grease on your popcorn will waft through. The ducts and come out the filters. I guess I don't think it's going to hurt projectors, though.
Vic00:07:02No, I think it's I guess I guess JVL. You'll find out when you go see Tenet in a couple of weeks.
JVL00:07:10So the show is so good and you guys should should subscribe to it. And it's awesome. Sonny, you turn out to be as one surprised emailer said to me, I never realized Sonny could be such a great interviewer. I thought he just liked to chime off on his own. I said, no, Sonny is a great interviewer.
Sonny00:07:27Well, I. I it's funny, the I this is what I was nervous about, frankly, doing the show was that, you know, on on all the other shows that I've done, I'm either I've either just been, you know, kind of a panelist like on this one or a host directing the conversation. And it's it's slightly different than this. But as long as I, you know, I'm working within my wheelhouse, my wheelhouse being generally speaking movies and, you know, all that stuff, it it it seems to go pretty well and it helps also. So that I like have a self-imposed time limit on these things. Usually I like aim to have them about 30 minutes. The one with Tony Davis went forty five because it was just interesting. Like we were just talking about a lot of interesting stuff, but I try not to out outstay my welcome. I it's very I very much a hue to the the the quadrant system on my interviews. It's like, you know, when you do them, what's that? Are you naked when you do the interviews? Of course, I mean, quadrant. I mean, well, just bottomless. Oh, OK. Lovely, lovely. So anyway, everything in Dallas is good, I guess the the new podcast is going very well. The new newsletter at the Bulwark is going very well. People seem to like it. People either seem to love it or just ignore it, which is one of the best the best of all worlds. I haven't gotten any angry. Like, why am I getting this this crap emails yet? So, yeah, I guess I'm sure they're coming, but yeah. I don't know. Things are things are good here. Things are every everything in Dallas is opening back up. Oh, movie theaters are opening. I went to the Alamo Drafthouse to see Unhinged. We'll talk about that, you know, we will talk about a haircut two weeks ago. You know, I was, you know, restaurants opening up. Just I just go sit there and breathe the air, have a drink, you know, get, you know, coat my lungs with the air of other people, the exhalations of other people. It's great. Victorino.
Vic00:09:26JVL, how are you holding up, buddy? I am doing OK. Yeah. So I guess I'm surprised, you know, I guess not because not everybody's on Facebook, obviously. So when I mentioned it sort of in passing on Twitter, I was surprised by the reaction. Number one, working my way backwards, I'm getting a crown tomorrow on my back molar and that same molar two weeks ago, I had to get a root canal. And that that's because of an old filling. So just the filling gets old and it starts to basically kill the tooth sometimes, which is a weird thing. So it's like I brush and I floss every day. I'm really good about it. I get tons of compliments every time I go to the dentist for my six month cleaning. But then something like this happened and I was up in New Jersey and then one in the middle of the night, I just felt this pain and it was like a dull, throbbing pain, but it would come and go. And then by the time I got back to Arlington, a few. I tapped on it on the outside. Then it was like unbearable. But on the outside, like you did, they did an X-ray. Nothing shows up because I mean, the surface is clean. There's no cavity, there's no broken filling or anything. And the other telltale sign was not sensitive to ice cold or hot, like it's okay. In fact, it's kind of a relief, but it's underneath if you tap it. And that's when the doctor Cusimano, which is funny because the. The dentist in the Sopranos is Dr. Cusimano, Cus. He was like, he just nodded and he goes, uh-huh, uh-huh, you're going to need a root canal. And I just said, okay, let's do it. What's your schedule like? He goes, I could do it right now. Why don't I numb you up? I'll take care of a patient and I'll come back. So he did that. And once he went in there, we said there was not to get graphic, there was very little blood. In other words, the nerve root was already dying. So he said it was the right, he said he was glad it was the right call. I can't see Jonathan's face. But yeah. I can't. I don't do teeth or eyes. I believe, I believe, I believe the word, the interesting word was necrose. It was beginning to necrose.
Sonny00:11:34And so, uh, you know, you had, you had gangrene in your mouth.
Vic00:11:38Had I waited, had I waited over the weekend, it would have been like abscess city, you know? So there was none, there was no infection. Uh, so that was good. I mean, they just cleared it out and then, and then, uh, I had to take, um, uh, a lot of, uh, you know, me, Jonathan, I, I don't normally take. Uh, um, pain medications as you know, uh, but, uh, but I was popping it in every four hours. Uh, and they said that combat just to do a combination of like Advil and Tylenol. And, uh, I should have used the Oxycontin that I had, but speaking of, you just sell that. Yeah. No. Uh, so speaking of which, uh, uh, painkillers. Yeah. So I was in the, uh, the other big news was, uh, sadly on July 30, my mother died, uh, after a, I guess it was a two year battle with cancer. But it was really eight months from the time of her surgery. And so, uh, that happened, uh, my sister called and she just said on a Friday that, you know, CAT scans came back because she was back in the hospital and like, okay, we're going to go up and do this. And, uh, and we did, and you just sort of, uh, my sister always says, you know, it's like boxes, you put them in, you know, and I said the same thing. It's like compartmentalize and you just have to get stuff done, you know? And so it is a weird thing to, you know, start writing a eulogy. You know, she passes and then you, uh, then you got to go, you know, funeral home and you're picking out mass cards and flower arrangements. And then you're looking at caskets and things. It's grim, but at the same time, you sort of detach yourself from it and you're just doing it. And so, you know, I mean, at some point in time, my sister and I were just in the, you know, in the basement of a funeral home. And I turned to her, I said, it's like a car dealership. I said to her, you know, and you just sort of like, look at which one that you, which is the one that you want and, and like, let's just do it. And then you move on. And it's a weird thing, but, um, we saw my, I went to the hospital like every day where they give you the temperature check. And then they ask you, you know, have you been out of state for the last 14 days? I'm like, no, no, I'm local, you know, and then went in there. Um, but there are very few, uh, the, the COVID cases in ocean County are very, very low right now. And so, uh, went in and we were lucky enough to, uh, bring her home, uh, for the, for the last stretch because, uh, they were saying March, April, that was not an option, you know, not only was that not an option, but you wouldn't be able to see her and then you wouldn't be able to have a wake. You wouldn't have a funeral. You would just, you wouldn't even see her at all, at all. And even like that, you would like, maybe my dad could be on the phone, you know, talk to her, but that's it. But instead, I mean, the good thing is my, I mean, my dad, you know, I, he worked in that hospital for something like 32 years. So, you know, they didn't care if there was more than one person in the room. And so, and so that was good. So we brought her home. Um, and she, but she wasn't into hospice, official hospice, uh, for until like the last, so like the first three or four days we were like the caregivers, including Kate, Kate, who's, you know, a saint. And, uh, I don't know how much, uh, caregivers, uh, make, but they, I think they, they certainly deserve more having gone through this. And, uh, and my only advice, uh, for people who have to deal with this at some point in time and in their lives or their parents' lives is not to be afraid of hospice. It's not like, you know, oh, they, you know, the hospices, they starve you to death. That's the, uh, no, or, you know, whatever. But no, they do a great job and we use it for, uh, uh, visiting nurses association. Uh, and you know, it, it's, um, it's really, and people can get out of the, it's, yeah, go ahead, Sonny.
Sonny00:15:08Oh, I was going to say, you keep talking. I can hear somebody talking in the next room. I'm going to go tell him to shut up. Okay.
Vic00:15:13That's okay.
JVL00:15:14In the middle of this. I thought he was telling you to wrap it up.
Vic00:15:16I saw him do the finger thing. I go, are you kidding me? In the middle of this. So anyway. Um. Uh, you know, but there, you know, so we, uh, uh, you know, the hospice, people can get out of house. People think it's like, oh, I'm throwing in the towel, but the fact is the towel was already
JVL00:15:35thrown in, you know?
Vic00:15:36So, but in the middle of it too, I mean, there were moments of, I don't know, you have, there were moments of levity, uh, you know, in the middle of it, it's very sort of surreal. Uh, there was a moment where I was, you know, talking with the nurse and the, so they always bring in social workers. You got papers to sign and all sorts of things. And my mother was in the other room and my sister comes a couple of minutes. And she says, I'm sorry, I'm late. You know, mom opened her eyes and she turned to me and she actually said, I love you. And I said, really? She said that to you? And then I said, excuse me one minute. And I just left, pretended to leave to get the last, the last, I love you. It was sort of a battle, but I think she won that one. My sister did. Uh, and then, you know, at the, at the, at the wake, uh, Jonathan, you were there, you know, it was a, it was a huge turnout and, uh, those people did really good, uh, at Italian family, uh, run funeral home called Carmona Bolin. It's excellent. If you ever in Tom's river, it was so good. My father-in-law said he was thinking right before he dies, he'll just come down to Tom's river just so he can have it at Carmona Bolin. It was that good. And I turned, I turned to my sister. I said, it was so good. We should do this more often. I said to her, but you know, I mean, you have to have that sort of levity to just, you know, get through those, those moments. Um, and, uh, people were very generous. And when we get to the shout outs, I'll, I'll go through the whole thing, but I do want to say, um, you know, flowers were great for everybody. But also the food and, and, and that was really great. Uh, and we got so much because it's Tom's River. We got so much pizza. Uh, so one day somebody, we got like two pies and a giant tray of penny vodka from Capone's, which is a great place. And then like 30 minutes later, the doorbell rings and another pizza delivery guy shows up with four boxes of pizza. So it was a lot, it was a lot of pizza. We put it all in the freezer. Uh, and then, uh, and, and I, I was almost tempted to, uh, to post on Facebook, you know, thank you everybody for, you know, sending us all the pizza. We love it. We're kind of pizza'd out. So maybe Chinese would be good if you want to send us and maybe just, you know, provide a list of Chinese food.
JVL00:17:39I hear that doesn't freeze as well.
Vic00:17:41No, I would eat it. I would eat it. Most of it. I just love a list of, and they just have a list of things like people can bring like that, you know, like if, Oh, you know, like they need like a registry. Yes. Like a registry, low main dumplings, fried. Wantons Rangoon, the whole thing. So, uh, uh, anyway, no, but I, I, I did not, I did not do that. Uh, and, uh, and other people were asking about, uh, like Mary Catherine ham. In fact, she had also asked, you know, is there a particular charity, uh, that my mother liked to give to? And I said to her, yes, I believe her favorite charity was her son. I did not say that. I'm not completely unhinged. Speaking of which over the weekend. Oh, unhinged starring Russell Crowe. Now keep in mind, this is Sunday night, took in at least $5 million and counting. Well, I haven't said it in a long time. Yeah, it, uh, office thoughts. That's what I haven't said in a long time. Box office thoughts. Sonny.
Sonny00:18:41It grossed 4 million or so over the weekend. There was a million dollars in Canadian grosses, uh, from the week before that.
JVL00:18:49Are those rubles?
Sonny00:18:51I don't know. I don't know what they use. Canadian. Yeah. The coin wood coins of some sort. I think. I don't know. Uh, pelts, moose pelts. It's a million, a million dollars in pelts. Duck. Yeah. Um, uh, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's hard to like figure out if that's good or bad because we live in such a weird moment. Uh, you know, $4 million in a weekend would normally be terrible. That, that would be a bad, that would be a bad weekend. Um, but you know, the. Uh, this movie opened on only 1800 screens. Uh, those screens are operating at 30 to 40% capacity, uh, for the most part. And only 12 of the 28 biggest markets, uh, in the, in the country are, are open right now. And like, so New York city and Los Angeles, um, are, are closed as, as is every other market in New York state and California. Um, the, the Pacific Northwest is shut down. Uh, you know, uh, all of Maryland to shut down. DC is shut down. This is just America. So it's basically, it's, it's basically Trump tracks with, with the, the, the red, red America. Uh, but I mean, I, I think Chicago is open. Uh, maybe not. I don't know. I honestly don't know exactly what, what's open to Northern Virginia is open.
Vic00:20:15That is not Virginia is open.
Sonny00:20:17Virginia is open. The AMCs in Virginia are in fact open.
JVL00:20:20So Sonny in an alternate reality. Reality where this was just a late, a normal summer with a, this was a late August, you know, the dumping ground for late August stuff. And this movie comes out.
Sonny00:20:34Yeah. What range would you have expected it to open to?
JVL00:20:39Cause people liked it, right? I mean, it's, it's, it's a pretty good movie. There seemed to be a great amount of buzz about the trailer. People liked the, when the trailer first came out, it has a big star in it and Russell Crowe. It's sort of a genre piece. What? Just give me a, a, a very ballpark range of, yeah, I've got an 80% confidence. It would have fallen between X and X and Z.
Sonny00:21:02For an R rated movie of this sort, uh, uh, you know, I, I would say that a 15 to 20 million would be a very, very good opening for it would be a very strong opening for it. If I had to guess, I'd say it'd probably be closer to the 10 to $15 million range. Um, just if it was just opening as normal in a, you know, in like a February spot or a late August spot or something like that, which is about when this sort of thing would come out. I mean, every once in a while you get one of these movies that really pops like, uh, taken right. Or it could have been, it could have been something like that. I don't think, I don't think it, it would have, uh, just because of the kind of subject matter and, um, and all that. But, uh, I, I, if, if I was just like sitting down and like plotting out guesses off the top of my head of what is going to open at what I probably would have pegged this in the like 10 to 15 million range. So 12 million is a reasonable
JVL00:22:04guess. Yeah. Which would mean that we're living in a world where movies are doing 33%
Sonny00:22:13Yeah. I mean, if, I mean normal. Right. Totally. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, you know, this movie opened on 1800 screens, right? Normally this sort of movie would have opened on between 2500 and 3000 screens. But again, it's opening on 1800 screens operating at a third max capacity, more or less on average. Somewhere between a third and a half max capacity. And again, it's, it's, it's opening in a it's, it's, it is opening in places where that are not, not the biggest markets. It's not, it's definitely not entirely Trump country. I was, I was, a friend of mine who lives in Boston was sending me updates through the weekend and he was like, yeah, basically every theater that is showing this is sold out on Friday and Saturday. Like every, people, people were, people were into going out to the movies again.
Vic00:23:04Again, I saw this at Tyson's, you know. Well, let's I want to ask you about your movie experience Sonny, and then so we can compare and contrast. Go ahead. What theater
Sonny00:23:15chain was it? So I went to the Alamo Drafthouse in Lake Highlands in Dallas. It's the only one I think that's open in Dallas proper right now. The rest are opening this week. But the the auditorium I saw it in had about 10 people in it which again was like which was pretty close to sold out. I think there were like some front row seats that still could have been purchased or whatever, but it was it was pretty close to like max capacity for that auditorium. And and it was weird. It was weird. I mean like you, you know, you go to the movie theater and they like the first thing they do is they take your temperature right, which is the worst sort of like security hygiene theater because it doesn't actually prove that you're well enough to be in the movie theater. It just reminds you that you're like in the middle of a in the middle of a plague. Well
Vic00:24:13they do catch somebody who's like a hundred and three. It's a good thing that they
Sonny00:24:17caught him, you know, I guess I guess but I mean the real the real issue is the the asymptomatic super spreaders, right? Those are the people who are like doing all the damage. So anyway, you know, I go you go and you take your temperature and it's fine. So the draft house has some some of some people know some people don't it's one of these places where you go and you order you get like a meal of food, right? You get like beers and pizza or whatever but instead of ordering at the table, which is how it usually works in order to minimize you know interactions between people you have to order everything ahead of time. So yeah, I ordered I ordered popcorn and a soda just to see kind of what it would be like frankly to experience that and it was it was fine. Like I sat down and I sat down like two minutes before the movie started. I got there like usually I get there like five or ten minutes ahead of time. This time I got there at like start time. I
JVL00:25:12ordered through the app or you have to talk to a human being to order
Sonny00:25:16your order through the app order through the app. So you like when you're buying your ticket on the app that it takes you through a thing that's like, all right, you got to order food now because you're not going to be able to order food later. So order food now and we'll we'll bring it out to you when the movie starts. What did you get? I got a diet coke and popcorn. Usually at the draft house I get a beer because it's it's the draft house. But like I but you I didn't want to drink a beer because I was seeing it at like nine o'clock at night and was going to be up till two in the morning writing the newsletter that that so I didn't I didn't want a beer. I got a soda and a popcorn you know, you're supposed to have your mask on unless you're eating right? So at the draft house, everybody is eating or drinking usually. So like there's there's not a lot of mask wearing certainly at the beginning of the film. When the lights went up and I was looking around the auditorium to see who had like put their because I had put my mask back on after I was done with my popcorn and my soda like, you know, put my put my mask on and and I was looking around. I three people definitely did not have their masks on three of the ten in addition to me did not did not have their mask on. So you know, like I would say I would say mask usage is not optional exactly, but it was definitely not strictly enforced. And you know, the draft house is one of these places that like prides itself on enforcing rules bunch of Karen's in that theater. But the there was definitely no like there was no there was no employee going around doing spot checks for masks or anything
JVL00:26:59like throw you out. If you check your phone you don't follow the public health protocols. That's right. You know, totally optional, totally optional. Yeah, that makes sense.
Vic00:27:11I remember what was that? What was that movie that I went to see there that it was 50 50 shades freed. You know, they had a guy checking that theater
JVL00:27:21I don't know what
Vic00:27:24I don't know what he was checking before. Anyway, go ahead. So that was
Sonny00:27:28so the experience was I mean it was it was it was also just kind of like nice to be in a theater. I like more or less
Vic00:27:34weird about it. Yes. Okay.
Sonny00:27:36It was it was it was weird. It was definitely weird at first and it's weird wearing the mask. I like took my glasses off about 10 minutes into the movie after I put the mask back on because I like my glasses fogging up.
JVL00:27:48So fortunately I was like a normal human being. I don't
Sonny00:27:52I don't like contact lenses, but I might end up having to get them just so I can watch movies. I
Vic00:27:58love I love contact lenses except for now if you want to do they the progressive version of contact lens is one eye is for far and the other eye is for near and a lot of people they say they can get used to it and other people feel like they're going to throw up and I tried it. It was very disorienting. So that's why I don't yeah, I for the progressive. That's why I wear my Warby Parker hers. I went to the AMC and Tyson's. This was first of all, that mall was crowded. Most people wore masks except for I saw a few people in the changing room without the masks. I won't get into details of who they were or what changing room in this. I went to the I went to the gap. So afterwards, you know where you could change, you know, like you pass them in the hall and they're like, they're not wearing masks. I'm like, dude, what's going on there? So what? So do you look confused? I
Sonny00:28:47don't understand what I don't. I feel like I
Vic00:28:49went shopping for the movie theater.
Sonny00:28:51I feel like you're hinting at something and I can't
Vic00:28:53quite figure out what it is. I'm not. I'm not. But you know, the you know, the what do we used to call it? The you didn't touch him, right? Premium was the premium listeners will find out the full story later. So then but at the actual theater, so it was in the Dolby Atmos theater. Yeah. So it's huge. And I counted 15
JVL00:29:13people. Wearing masks?
Vic00:29:16Yeah.
JVL00:29:17Or just 15 viewers in the entire auditorium.
Vic00:29:2115 viewers total in the Dolby Atmos and they were all wearing masks as far as I could tell. And they were all very spread out from each other. So I had 15 seats. I was sitting on the aisle and then there was 15 seats of empty and then right on the other side of it was the next two people. And then there were some people on like lower below that handicap access thing there. And then there were some people, a couple people all the way up near the near the, you know, the rafters rafters. And that was it. Also, I noticed the trailers were shorter. So normally it's 25 to 30 minutes. This was 20 minutes. And I had a question. What do they show trailers for? I was so this is the thing, JVL. I was so surprised. I figured we reached that point now in our society because this has been going on for some time that we ran out of movies. But apparently there's still a ton of movies they're going to show us. So let me think of the movies that I saw. Oh, Tenet. Oh, they saved that one for the last. That was how they like, you think it's over and then there's one more and it was Tenet and that was fantastic. The New Mutants is it? The Teenage Mutants? Not Teenage Mutants. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
JVL00:30:31No, the New Mutants. The New Teenage Mutant
Vic00:30:33Ninja Turtles. With the girl from Game of Thrones and the guy from Stranger Things. And then what's her name? You know, Scarlet and Black Widow. Okay. And there is a couple of other scary movies that they were showing trailers for, but it was like a lot. It was 20 minutes. 20 minutes of trailers. So that was that. But again, this is probably not going to be, and they did not check my temperature. Oh, they didn't do the temperature check?
JVL00:31:05But you know, I'm not eating. I mean,
Vic00:31:06even for me. And I wore my mask. Sometimes I notice, you know, immediately when I go from one place to another that my mask is on because I can't breathe. And other places, like for whatever reason, I sat down. I was very comfortable. They kept it nice and cool in there I think so that I didn't feel like I'm like hyperventilating. I just didn't notice it. It was, I would surprise myself that it was not a problem because I thought for sure I was going to be like, ugh, I'm going to take
JVL00:31:34this thing off. Did you guys see the new study from Duke about the efficacy of different types of
Vic00:31:40masks? Oh, I know. The thing, the big thing that's in trouble now is the, what do you call it? The next gators. You know what? You know what? Of course. It's a
JVL00:31:50flawed study, they said. Those are the most comfortable of all the masks.
Vic00:31:54Do you have one of those? I don't know.
JVL00:31:56Yeah, I've worn a neck gator. I don't now because it turns out they are worse than wearing nothing because they're so thin and the perforations are so small that what all they do is they break up the large drop. Everything comes out and they break up the large droplets and I had a, I used
Vic00:32:12to have a, I used to have a bright red gator, but that was when I was a Cobra officer. That was a Cobra, sorry. Sonny's doesn't know what's going on there. I actually screwed up the joke. The Cobra officer
JVL00:32:26has the black, the black gator, sorry. So, Jeff, have I told you what we're doing?
Vic00:32:30What? Have I told you what you and I are doing? I'm afraid to know. Are you doing it right now? Because I can't
JVL00:32:36see. No, no, no, no. You and I and my brother-in-law. Oh, right. On my other show are going to hold a G.I. Joe vehicle draft.
Sonny00:32:48All vehicles, G.I. Joe and Cobra, are fair game.
JVL00:32:53And it's going to be a snake draft where we each get five, five choices.
Vic00:32:58I was home when I was home. It's going to be amazing.
JVL00:33:00It's going to be the best show of the JVL show ever.
Vic00:33:03Well, you let me know about it. I'm not going to even give away. I'm not even going to talk about it then because I'm going to give away the stuff that I like. I'll tell you what I was really surprised.
JVL00:33:14I'll tell you what I was surprised. I was surprised at how, eh, the
Vic00:33:18hiss is now. I rediscovered it when I was at my parents' house and there it was. And I'm like, you know, it used to be cooler than it
JVL00:33:26looks now. If the tracks were real tracks instead of just molded plastic with nails underneath it. That's a thing. It's no MoBat.
Vic00:33:32Okay, let's move on. So JVL, you did not see this movie.
JVL00:33:37No. But
Vic00:33:39And you know what? I saw the trailer.
JVL00:33:43But from the trailer, it sure looks to me like Russell Crowe's character is in the right.
Vic00:33:49Oh, no, no, no. I mean, he says to her, you have no idea
JVL00:33:54what happened. You should just give me a courtesy beep. He's totally right. I apologize. Right. But there's a totally reasonable
Vic00:33:59thing that in that moment, in that moment, if you just take that moment,
JVL00:34:03basically, he's the real hero of this movie. And the woman who's being quote, unquote, terrorized is the villain. She's really cute.
Vic00:34:11No, because there's a whole backstory and he's a monster. But you don't know that from the trailer. That said, Sonny, do you want to? How about a big boy review?
Sonny00:34:20Sure. So Unhinged stars Russell Crowe as an enormous fat man who
JVL00:34:26he did it for the role, right?
Sonny00:34:29He did it for the role. I don't I don't know if Russell Crowe put on all this weight for this role, but it works for the role. It works for the role. He is actually like terrifyingly large. He's like he's very bear like in his in his rage and in his size. But no, like the first thing you notice when he gets out of his truck for the first time is like, holy shit, holy crap. He's he's he's big, big man. So Russell Crowe, the Russell Crowe plays a guy who is in the midst of a divorce or I guess just after his divorce. He's had a series of bad days and it all culminates when this, you know, malicious millennial who overslept for her for her job and is super frustrated, starts honking her horn at him. With with callous disregard for the rules of society on the road. And he loses it a little bit. He goes he goes a little overboard in his response. But but no, it's it's a pretty it's a pretty straightforward B movie action thriller, right? It's it's it's it is a bit like falling down by way of the Steven Spielberg movie duel with the the trucker Yes, who also who is chasing a you
Vic00:35:51know, kind of also the Samuel Jackson movie where he lives out in California and he's a cop and his wife had died and you find out that the wife was having an affair with a white man. And that's why when the neighbors move in, it's a white guy and a black woman and then he starts to terrorize them. It's like Pacific something I kept on thinking. I kept on trying to remember to look it up before the show and sure enough, I forgot to look it up. Yeah, you know that way. It's like that because he's projecting in the most awful way.
Sonny00:36:21Yeah, so there's there's there's some of that but it's again. It's you know, it is it is a pretty straightforward solid B movie that it really is elevated by Russell Crowe. And I mean like Russell Crowe is he's been nominated for what three Oscars. He's won one. He he is he is one of our legitimately great actors and like him using all of his all of his actorly skill to create this kind of malevolent almost force of nature type character is is really something to watch. He's like actually scary and and and terrifying. I like I give it a it's a soft recommend for me. I enjoyed it. I certainly enjoyed it kind of more than I thought I would clocks in at 90 minutes, which is perfect. You know, this movie doesn't need to be any we don't we don't get tons and tons of backstory here because we don't need it. But it's it's it's it's good. It's fun. It's entertaining. It was it was nice to be back in movie theaters. I I had I had a
Vic00:37:28good time. Yes. Yes. And yes, except it paid me Sonny to see you die on screen.
Sonny00:37:36Jimmy Simpson is in this movie and as everyone knows, Vic is convinced that I look like Jimmy Simpson.
Vic00:37:42He weighs like 50 pounds.
Sonny00:37:44The guy from Less Than You.
Vic00:37:46Because have you seen he's very thin. This is no this is no knock on you. He's just very thin now. He used to not be that way, but he's extremely thin in this. Anyway, go ahead. The guy if people look up Jimmy Simpson, it's Sonny. And he's always
Sonny00:37:58Sonny in Philadelphia. And he's in he's a very good actor. First season of Westworld. He's a very good actor. I
Vic00:38:04saw an interview of him where he was talking about his acting coach from college and he didn't go to Muhlenberg, but it was one of these small schools and it was very thoughtful. And then every time he pops up in any sort of movie or TV show, I sort of perk up. I mean, one reminds me of Sonny, but two, he's he's very he's very good. And I thought he was very good in this in that it's a small bit. It's a small
Sonny00:38:26bit, but the just a supporting
Vic00:38:28character, but he you know, but he plays the sort of I you know, he comes across you know, friendly the way you would unassuming when Russell Crowe first meets him and then you see him sort of change when he realizes, wait a minute, this is not
Sonny00:38:40my friend guys. This guy's deranged. I mean, it's also this
Vic00:38:44movie awful ending. Yeah,
Sonny00:38:45this so this movie cost thirty five or forty million dollars, something like that. It's it's a mid budget sort of sort of thing, but they did. They did like actual stunt work with cars. There's there's big crashes and lots of lots of great violence.
Vic00:39:01It gives a whole new meaning to keep
Sonny00:39:03on trucking. Yeah, so like it's it you know, I it works for me. It works for me. I it's not going to work for everyone, but I I thought it was a perfectly acceptable kind of high concept. I was the movie. I
Vic00:39:21gave this movie an eight and a right. I mean, there's no sex nudity, although I really find her quite attractive. Karen Pistorius and I don't think she's she's from South Africa, but I don't think she's related to us, not related to the other areas. Right. But but I find her very attractive and what does that have to do with anything, Vic? But no, nothing really. But you know, but it's quadrant related. It's quadrant related. Okay. Okay. Engaging and like, oh, I can look at this, you know, plot a plus easily, right? Duration a plus and violence. That's a hard arm and that is an a plus. I was shocked. Can I just say this? I found this movie so disturbing and shocking in certain ways, but yet compelling. But I was like shocked, like, no, they're not going to show. Oh, my gosh. They just did that. What shocked you? Okay. Well, give me an example. I would say one thing. Okay. The most shocking. Okay. Hold on. I wrote it down here. Yeah. I mean, part of it is because I guess I haven't seen Russell Crowe as a villain since Virtuosity, so it's hard to see how much of a monster he is in this. He is responsible directly or indirectly for I counted seven deaths
JVL00:40:38in this movie. There's a gratuitous one where a woman
Vic00:40:43is like doing her makeup in the car.
Sonny00:40:45Well, this is the thing about this movie is that it's actually really mean-spirited. It's not just violent. It's like you remember in Jurassic World, everyone complained about the assistant who gets picked up by the pterodactyl and tossed around and dropped in the water and then eaten by the giant shark dinosaur. Everyone complained about that as being super mean-spirited. And this movie's kind of filled with little things like that, like this woman who's doing her eyeliner and then goes into a
Vic00:41:18barricade. Before it happened, they show it for like, I'd say they showed it for about two seconds. And I said, that was a really quick image. I wonder why. Oh, that's why. Yeah. That's why.
Sonny00:41:30But it's totally like it's totally like, look at this dumb broad doing her makeup in her car when she's not supposed to be doing that.
JVL00:41:38And then what happens?
Sonny00:41:40She dies.
JVL00:41:41She gets rammed in by the
Vic00:41:43terrible car accident. But that's not even the worst one.
Sonny00:41:46Yeah. So the thing about this movie is the ending in the at the end. So spoilers, if you if you're a spoiler, sorry, sorry. Minutes. Yeah, sorry. If you if you want to if you want to avoid the spoiler of right at right at the very end, you know, but I'm going to talk about that here. I'm giving you giving you some time right now. People just get bad. Skip ahead. Skip ahead. So the at the end of the movie, they play this for laughs. But like the the woman has survived her encounter with evil, deranged Russell Crowe, and she's about to pull into traffic and like almost pulls right in front of somebody who like lays on the horn is like, yeah, and she's about to honk and then she doesn't. And her son who who has been tormented this whole time along with her is like good decision or good choice or something like that. And the whole movie really in that moment, like in that moment, you realize that the whole movie is actually like about teaching her a lesson to be more to be more patient
Vic00:42:48and a lot of her family.
Sonny00:42:50So, you know, to be like, but no, but like it that is it. And again, it's just like it's it's like it is again. It's a it's a deeply mean spirited movie in a way that I really like that you like just don't you don't you don't you don't see a lot of Jimmy. This is what I mean.
JVL00:43:06Why isn't he the hero, right? No, the villain in this and he is no when
Vic00:43:11she takes he takes he takes the the the woman's brother younger brother and ties him up in duct tape and then pours gasoline and then forces him to read this thing and then he pees and they show him peeing himself and then he lights him on fire. It's not a dragon. That's another right. That's another
Sonny00:43:33that's another like really mean spirited thing is like they've he's not just tormenting this guy, but like we see him piss himself on on film and it's just like look at this look at this loser degrading
Vic00:43:45himself. The worst part about it is he gets so Russell Crowe gets the the brother's girlfriend and beats her up to the point of where near death and then so the boyfriend has the this the the knife like a butcher knife butcher knife and and then he's like chef's knife I was going to say that Sonny. It's the chef's knife. Yeah, and Russell Crowe's like you want her and then he throws her at her so inadvertently stabs her multiple times as he throws the body onto the kids on the knife
Sonny00:44:13and this is what I mean when it when I say that it like it actually helps the role that Russell Crowe was so enormous because you can believe him like this 350 pound
JVL00:44:24man shoving this body into a knife and saying are you stabbed or not me and maybe the brother just said you know what dude my sister is a hateful Karen and you're right. Thank
Vic00:44:33you for teaching her. Anyway, it was the most unexpected. It was the most unexpected stabbing since the woman or the victim in Silent Night Deadly Night who gets impaled on the deer antlers on the wall. If you're if you remember Silent Night Deadly Night, I'm like, oh no, I didn't see that coming, you know, and there she was. So this was real. That was unexpected. And then again, Jimmy Simpson's death in the diner. That was that was here because he was struggling like there were moments where he's cut, you know, where he come the first time is he gets his face knocked in with the coffee mug and he's sort of disoriented and then he gets punched around and then finally you know the and he's struggling and then finally takes the but that that knife and then he gets shoved into his brain in the diner and everybody just stands back, you know,
Sonny00:45:21everyone's just filming because you know, the real villain in this movie is not Russell Crowe by standards social
Vic00:45:27media. It's social media
Sonny00:45:29and it's I was can I say this is
Vic00:45:33a quick aside. This is not actually in any of my notes. I'm just thinking about it here at the time. Okay, so quick aside and we'll get back to it. A quick digression. I was in a this is like in the mid to late 90s. I was ready at the standard, but I was meeting with an old friend who used to work at Justice Department and so we had lunch at Bowie Mongers, the one in Friendship Heights and while we're eating there, I just got my sandwich. A woman barges in and says, oh my gosh, this guy just got hit by a car in the intersection. Is there is there anybody here who knows first aid or an EMT and my friend Howard? Hey, of course he's a he's a former cop. He's like I'll do it. I'll go and so he went up and people got up to see how they could help and then I was left there in the booth wondering do I eat my sandwich or do I watch
Sonny00:46:18you? I mean, what do you can't help? You got to see
Vic00:46:20you got to keep your distance. It was I believe it was it was that it was the tuna
Sonny00:46:24Turner. I think was it a hot was it a hot sandwich? No, no, it wasn't
Vic00:46:28the tuna Turner. It was like that. Yeah, it was one with the brie and roast beef. I'm like, God, it's really good. I'm sure I'm sure it's fine and I believe that the person was okay. So anyway, the question is, did you eat his sandwich? No, I, you know,
JVL00:46:42did you eat it? I mean, here
Vic00:46:44I am talking about these bystanders and then I was thinking about myself saying, well, do I eat, you know, I mean, would you continue eating while this is happening? But, you know, in any event, that was shocking. I was really I was really shocked by the violence in this in this movie. Me maybe because I haven't been to a movie. Also, it's a it's a bit of a time warp because, you know, we're this is a movie about what traffic congestion because what does she say? There's too many people too many cards, you know, too many cars on the road and not enough police. So there's a complaint you're not going to hear, right?
Sonny00:47:16Typical millennial sleeps in is like, oh, I can't I get to any place on time?
Vic00:47:20What is going on? I love, by the way, the candy cane scissor. That's the Chekhov's gun, right? In the beginning she says, where's that? Where's my scissors? Oh, and then you guys have not convinced me that she is the hero of this thing.
JVL00:47:34She sounds like the villain of the piece to me.
Vic00:47:36No, no, no. She was going through hard. It is unreasonable. It is unreasonable to say she was she was rude to him. She didn't know his backstory, but also prior to this, he kills the he was in the middle of a divorce and he kills his ex-wife and the the new the new husband and then burns their house down and then burns their house down. And then
JVL00:47:56when he's leaving and then as he's
Vic00:47:58leaving, that's when she's behind him and he he was passed out because of the the painkillers. That's why he was at the traffic stop, but he was sleeping or something. Lakeview Terrace. Thank you. Not Pacific. Pacific Heights is a different movie. Lakeview Terrace. Is that the most the dumbest, most generic name for a movie ever? I know. It's unfortunate because it's a really interesting movie.
Sonny00:48:23Was that a LeBoot? Neil LeBoot? Was that Neil LeBoot? I can relook it up. The director
Vic00:48:30of Unhinged is German.
Sonny00:48:32No, yeah, no, no, no, no, no. The Lakeside Terrace. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Vic00:48:35Lakeview, Lakeview, whatever. It's all with the backdrop of the California forest fires. So anyway, JVL, you said you had a ranking. So
JVL00:48:47I was going to do a ranking of Russell Crowe movies, but then I realized we just did that. Did we? We did. Yeah, we did. That's right. That's right. You forgot
Vic00:48:57Master and Commander. Oh, right. That's what it was and everyone said, how could you forget? Oh, how could you forget Master and Commander? I loved Master and Commander.
JVL00:49:05So I was looking through his filmography. The guy's been in 60 plus feature films. He's one of his generation's biggest stars. And it's weird that he has he rarely works with great directors. You know, he's got a bunch of Ridley Scott movies, a bunch of Ron Howard movies, but you know, no Martin Scorsese. He's did you know about this? Did you guys know about the man with the iron fists? What is that?
Sonny00:49:31Oh, the RZA movie. The RZA movie
JVL00:49:33written and directed by the RZA and starring Lucy Liu and Russell Crowe. I'm very familiar. How did we never see this?
Vic00:49:41When did that come out?
JVL00:49:43It's like 2012. Anyway, so I came up with a ranking that I think you guys are going to appreciate a great deal. Top five movies that Russell Crowe should have been in. Okay. Oh, come on. Yeah. Okay. Right. Yeah. Go for it. And I am going to start from the bottom and go to the top.
Vic00:50:06Number five. The Phantom Menace. Sorry.
JVL00:50:09Number five. Animal Kingdom. A 2010 Australian gangster movie with Guy Pearce and Joel Edgerton and Ben Mendelsohn. And it is a mystery to me how Russell Crowe is not in this thing. He's perfect. It's about this crazy ass gangster family. He would have been perfect. Number four. 1998's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Russell Crowe should have had the Vinnie Jones part because Vinnie Jones doesn't really sell the comic stuff very well. I mean, this is what you could see. He's like you know, he's a stunt casting and all of the comic beats would have been much better with Russell Crowe in that part.
Vic00:50:49You with me so far?
JVL00:50:51Okay. Number three. Wolf of Wall Street.
Vic00:50:55As who?
JVL00:50:56Jonah Hill's character, Donnie Azoff. Just sit with it for a minute. It would have been brilliant. He's a little bit too old, but again, he does the funny stuff very well. He's great. Number two.
Vic00:51:13Inception.
JVL00:51:15Crowe could have played the Tom Berringer part and it would have been a chance to get he and Chris Nolan together and he would have added even more awesomeness to it. But number one and once I say this, you are going to immediately be on board. Mad Max Fury Road. So Fury Road was originally supposed to shoot in 2001. It gets postponed because of 9-11 and then it's postponed because we go into that recession and the U.S. dollar collapses against the Australian dollar which causes the cost of production to blow up and George Miller then has to move on to direct. Do you know this off the top of your head? A pig in the city? Happy Feet. You know, Mad Max Fury Road or Happy Feet. If Fury Road had been had been shot in 2001, the guy to play Max would have been Russell Crowe and it would have been amazing. No one denies this. Sure.
Vic00:52:17Come on, that's a pretty esoteric ranking. It is.
JVL00:52:23Stop provoking. I had to bring something to the show.
Sonny00:52:27Do you guys have anything? JVL, when do you think the next time you will be in a movie theater is? It's got to be Labor Day.
Vic00:52:33You're going to do it because you know you can't miss it. You're dying.
JVL00:52:38I don't know, man. I don't know. I have to see. If I get my hands on an N95 respirator then I could go and see Tenet. I would do that.
Vic00:52:51I mean, it really depends on how many people they allow in the theater, right? And versus how many people will show up for Tenet will be the maximum minimum or whatever the max, you know what I mean? Are they going to reach that quota?
Sonny00:53:04I've already bought tickets for the Tenet early access, showing on Wednesday, September 1st.
Vic00:53:09At Alamo or somewhere else?
Sonny00:53:11It's at one of the it's on one of the IMAX screens.
Vic00:53:15Oh, right, of course. Did you get to choose your seat, Sonny?
JVL00:53:19I did. I should say, I am not an alarmist on all this stuff. There are plenty of situations in which people are wearing masks which make no sense, right? Or people are like, oh, I don't want to go to the beach or I don't want to go hiking because of, like, that. However, sitting in an enclosed space with questionable ventilation with a large number of people for two and a half hours does seem to me like one of those high-rate behaviors that... It's going to depend
Vic00:53:46on... It's going to depend on, you have no control over this, but how many people are going to want to see it in the theater. It will be
Sonny00:53:53very curious to see if in the next week or two we get a bunch of stories about, like, theater movie outbreaks, clusters, clusters in theaters. Because it's going to be in the theater for a
JVL00:54:04while. If we had contact tracing in place, this is... I don't know if you guys remember this, but when we had the first part of the flare-ups happening, one of the things which got shut down was river tubing. Right? And you think, like, oh, this is a bizarre thing. Why are states targeting river tubing as an activity? It turns out because they did some contact tracing, and there are a bunch of cases that came from this because you go up the river in a van filled with people. For 40 minutes, and then get dropped off, and so they were able to isolate and find out, okay, these people got it there, and, you know, you were cross-sectioned. Be harder to do that with the movies, probably, but this is one of those cases where, again, having a sophisticated regime of contact tracing would be very, very helpful to know whether or not it is getting passed along and spread at theaters or not. Yeah.
Sonny00:55:04We're all going to get it, so just
Vic00:55:06Okay, and do we have any other thoughts on, uh, no, we're ready
JVL00:55:12to move on? No, this is a long show, really. We thought we were going to take about 20 minutes.
Vic00:55:16Okay, corrections, shout-outs. For me, again, I just want to thank everybody for their condolences, their prayers, mass offerings, the SBEU, you guys, Sonny, Jonathan, the McGinnis's, Father Harrison, Father Anthony Sharapa. Apologies for, I'm going to forget a lot of people here, but thank you. A friend of the show, Rick Licari, came to the house yesterday as a special envoy to, on behalf of the SBSSEU to drop off some condolence gifts that included a bottle of my favorite gin, Plymouth, a bottle of Rittenhouse Rye, which was, I believe, a recommendation of another listener, 1967 Mustang Man, our friend, and I like Rittenhouse a lot. Rittenhouse Rye is going to be great. Manhattan's, old-fashioned, and also just on the rocks. And then really, the capstone here is Bib and Tucker, a six-year-old bourbon. I don't have any, that's the oldest bourbon that I have in my bar. So that's great. It goes, I had it yesterday so Rick stayed for a drink. I gave him a little bit of Whistlepig. I tried the Bib and Tucker. It goes great with amoxicillin. Yeah. Why does my teeth still hurt? Why do I have these problems? Uh, anyway, so thank you. Excuse me, everybody. Um, okay. I guess that's all the time we're giving to this episode. Uh, questions, comments, complaints, compliments, tweet us at SonnyBunch, at VictorinoMattis, uh, at JVLast, no, not JVLast, sorry. Thank you for doing, uh, sorry, I'm reading the script for the one that Mary Catherine was on. Thank you for doing the show. Uh, again, be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher. Just type in Sub-Beacon under Podcasts. We are there. Leave a review, tell your friends. Until next time.
JVL00:57:15Ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Do you have any, uh, thoughts? I have one. I just want to plug Sonny's podcast one more time, which is The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, and it's really good. If you are one of the 15 people who listens to this show for Hollywood and movie stuff, and not just for our weird relationship, then this is The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with Sonny Bunch is the show for you. It's fantastic. It's like a podcast made just for me. It's
Sonny00:57:44really good. Everyone loves it, so subscribe. Subscribe now. Leave a review of that show, not this show. I, uh, I am just glad we did this show so people will stop asking. You may have to Sub-Beacon is dead.
Vic00:57:57It's a great monthly podcast. It's, it's, it's
JVL00:58:00Victorino, what do you got? Do you got
Vic00:58:03something? I just want to say, you know, also it's really interesting. Uh, people who work at funeral homes are surprisingly normal. Like, you know, in the movies you, you know, we think of it when you open the door, like, welcome, you know, and then there's like box the cotta playing in the background and they're very, but in fact it's, you know, I mean, they're very sympathetic. They're very sensitive. They're very kind, but they're also very sort of like, you know, it's their job. Like, this is like normal. Like, you know, so they, like they go to an office with a lot of dark wood in it and it's a very quiet office, but they do their thing. And, uh, and so, I mean, that's one of the big surprises I had, I think, uh, working with these people, especially again at Carmona Bowen. Um, and in fact, uh, you know, at the wake, uh, and Jonathan, you were there, uh, they were very nice. And then somebody told somebody who told them that I had written a book on vodka. And then, uh, next thing you know, uh, they were telling me how, uh, they were buying copies of the book. And I said, oh, great.
JVL00:59:02They know how to get the way to your heart. Really, right now? Even in bereavement.
Vic00:59:06I know, in the middle of the wake, you just ordered the book. Um,
Sonny00:59:10anyway. I'm sure it's fine.
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