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1:29

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1:31

peeking. You're ugly, child. You're disgusting.

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I am. You're fucking sweet. Damn

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it. It's wine. It's

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like wine. Yeah, people are gonna die. You

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think so? Yeah, baby. You did.

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Huh? In Jesus' name, amen. So.

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already did it. You

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already did it. Oh

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wow. Wow. Welcome

2:01

to Good Christian Fun. I'm Kevin. I'm

2:03

Jeremy. And I'm Alyssa. And we're here to

2:05

have Good Christian Fun. That was a drop

2:07

from a video we played on

2:10

last week's second service episode of Good

2:12

Question Fun. That was a video of

2:14

Alyssa. What year was it? What year did you

2:16

take that? Yeah,

2:19

20, yeah. Okay, so that was 11 years

2:21

ago. You were 23, 24 years old. I

2:25

was 22, I was 22. You were 22 years old?

2:28

You were 22 years old, but it was in 2013. My

2:31

birthday's in June. Yeah?

2:34

The video was in January. Does

2:37

that make, does that check out? Yeah, it does

2:39

check out. What?

2:42

Randy. Alyssa. Alyssa

2:45

told me. Just

2:47

kidding, no I didn't, but I wish you did because then it

2:49

would be really cool. This is a video of Young, 23,

2:52

you're the list dad just for the context for

2:54

the listeners that didn't hear last week's episode. No,

2:57

let me just record and document everything I

2:59

did on the day that I

3:01

decided I was moving to Hollywood. You

3:04

do, like does she sound like someone's mom?

3:06

I don't know if you sound younger, you just

3:08

sound different. Really? Yeah, like I don't know

3:10

if it's like, it's like.

3:13

It's very prepper. She's just

3:15

not in herself yet. It's the same. You're

3:18

not fully dropped into your. You

3:20

gotta drop in. Yeah. You gotta

3:22

do a drop in. It's, and

3:24

you know, and this is the thing, like

3:26

I said, I wasn't fully, that wasn't fully how

3:28

I was. I was putting on a little bit

3:31

of a, I'm recording a video. Like it was,

3:33

and that was. Wait, even that's too,

3:35

that's different. I'm recording a video.

3:38

Like it was like, there was something just, there was

3:40

something inherently Christian about it. You're talking about Tommy

3:42

Pickles. Yeah, she is. It's very inherently Christian in

3:44

the way that I was like. So

3:47

I'm going to Hollywood. Like,

3:50

oh my gosh, like somebody stop me. Do you

3:52

know? Now say Angelica. Angelica.

3:55

Well, that's Chucky. Angelica.

4:00

Eliza! You

4:03

do that impression with your whole body. She's

4:06

writhing around on the couch.

4:11

It's weird. I woke

4:13

up around 11 o'clock.

4:15

He's obsessed. Ate some cereal. I

4:19

can't stop watching. Wait for the

4:21

next drop. Watched the

4:23

office, of course. It was two

4:25

hours. Went for a 15

4:27

minute serious sprint outside.

4:29

That's more episodes than the office.

4:31

The office had just recently

4:33

ended when you recorded this

4:36

little video blog from the

4:38

past. Man, that's

4:40

good. Holy shit. Watched the office

4:43

for two hours, of course. That's

4:45

a Christian coded show now, isn't it? Yeah.

4:49

Co-worker culture. It's an amazing show. Yeah, it is an amazing

4:51

show. I stand by. Yeah. The

4:56

first maybe seasons two through four. Yeah. One,

4:58

two, three, four, the best. I don't know

5:00

about one. Yeah. And I don't know about four.

5:03

Okay. All right. Well,

5:05

we're sure about two and three, aren't we

5:07

folks? Well, look, for

5:09

me, Andy Bernard changed

5:13

the game for me. I love Andy

5:15

Bernard. Like on an attraction level? Everything

5:17

about him. Which is funny because

5:19

Ed Helms, Anthony Trolli energy. Oh,

5:22

you think so? Yeah. I think Ed Helms.

5:25

Yeah. For someone like me and, you

5:27

know, that girl to see him on there. And I

5:29

mean, he was just the funniest

5:31

person to me and the way that he was

5:33

like, because he was doing his like, you

5:36

know, and it was just like, it was thinking of

5:38

Jack Black. No.

5:40

Remember, he was like,

5:42

well, the best episode is when he was like, where's

5:45

my freaking phone? This is what

5:47

the podcast is now that Caroline's

5:49

gone is Alyssa quoting the office.

5:52

Specifically Andy Bernard. I

5:54

don't care. I stand by it. Like he

5:57

was giving Jim Carrey. Good

6:00

Christian Fun is the podcast where we talk

6:02

about Christian pop culture, the music, the movies,

6:04

the entertainment made for and made by Christians,

6:06

but we're not here to make fun of

6:08

you or to make you go to church.

6:10

We're going to take you away from church. What's that? We're

6:12

not making fun of you, although

6:16

Jim Carrey, 100% for

6:18

sure, if he was 19 years old, would be

6:20

on TikTok. Wow, I love

6:22

that. That is a fact. And he would

6:25

crush. He'd be very funny. Probably. Would he

6:27

be funny on TikTok? If

6:30

he decided to give it his all. Just be

6:32

different, I guess. The people that aren't funny are

6:34

not giving it their all. That's true. We can't

6:36

go back here. We cannot go back here. It's

6:40

true. But can comedy be taught, Jeremy?

6:42

Or is it something you're born with?

6:44

What's happening? Trauma. It's like, you know,

6:47

this gets into predestination stuff, Calvinism. I

6:49

love that. Vessels of wrath, vessels of

6:51

mercy. Right, sure. You know? Are

6:54

people born funny? Can you

6:56

teach it? Can you learn it? And then

6:59

there's no backsliding. Once funny, always funny. Backsliding

7:02

in comedy is being not

7:04

funny. Yeah. Once you're funny, if you're

7:06

funny for life. You

7:08

can lose it. What's the age of funny

7:11

accountability? Eight. If

7:14

you aren't funny by age eight. If

7:19

you aren't funny by age eight, you will never be

7:21

funny. What are you going to do

7:23

with your kid? It's not

7:25

funny. Kill them. Seven

7:28

and a half. It's like, oh, he's

7:30

like, doing

7:33

a lot of work with my kid.

7:35

It's really not working out. Got to

7:37

mainline some more family matters to teach

7:39

them real confidence. Not a lot

7:41

of time left. If

7:44

they reach eight, I have to kill them.

7:48

If they're not funny. Being

7:50

funny is the only thing that matters. I was

7:53

listening to a Jon Stewart interview where he was

7:55

talking. I love this interview, by the way. I

7:57

was on this podcast called The Town. He's very

7:59

candid. about how he left Apple, came back

8:01

to Comedy Central to do the Daily Show. He's

8:03

got a great run on the Daily Show right

8:05

now, once a week. Yeah, I like it. I've

8:07

been watching. Feels comfy, feels really good. I've been

8:10

watching. But he was talking about AI and just

8:12

different things that are coming. It made me real

8:14

freaked out about AI in a way that I

8:16

wasn't before. And he

8:18

said, when it comes to a lot

8:20

of this stuff and oversight and mitigation

8:22

and laws and how quickly things are

8:25

changing, he's like, every company is Urkel

8:27

right now. Yeah. Because they're saying, did

8:30

I do that? Yeah. Wow. Isn't that

8:32

amazing? I love him and Big Daddy.

8:34

Okay. Well, she heard one part of

8:37

what I just said. And Big Daddy?

8:40

She heard John Stewart. And she went

8:42

to Big Daddy. She's been there now.

8:44

She didn't hear what you said. She's

8:46

visiting Big Daddy. She's peeing

8:48

on that church door. For 45 seconds.

8:50

You know, I can't remember what else

8:52

they do in that movie. I believe

8:55

there's a Bruce Springsteen song featured in

8:57

Big Daddy. And they put the stick

9:00

and have the rollerbladers fall. They unfortunately

9:02

say Gayslur is a whole bunch in

9:04

that movie. It's too bad. All I

9:07

remember is Kangaroo Song. So how's the

9:09

podcast now that Caroline's not there? Well,

9:11

they quote the office and

9:13

Big Daddy. Do you

9:15

talk about Christian stuff? Bro time. Sometimes.

9:18

A little. In a

9:20

roundabout way. This

9:22

is bro time or is this a quote from

9:24

the movie? That's me saying that. But thank you

9:27

for thinking that that could be a quote. But

9:29

thank you for thinking that's something I say could be a

9:32

quote in Big Daddy. Which

9:34

is the highest compliment you could possibly

9:36

pay me. Have you ever, this is

9:39

going to sound like a but I'm

9:41

genuinely asking. All right. And a

9:43

not sort of like, Hey guys,

9:45

a pithy observation way. Have

9:48

you said something or made some sort of joke

9:50

in a group of friends or to a friend

9:52

and you do it in such a heightened way

9:54

that they go, where's that from? Oh, totally. Yeah.

9:57

And you have to be like, it's from me.

9:59

Jeremy has done that. Yeah, but yeah,

10:01

I think that happens to me a lot.

10:03

Yeah, people were like, where's that from? And

10:05

I say my brain. Wow.

10:09

They actually do it. There's like a really

10:11

throwaway line in Scott Pilgrim where

10:13

this happens. Mae Whitman

10:15

says to, you know, what's his name? Scott

10:17

Pilgrim? Yes, Scott. Thanks. Well, I was thinking

10:20

trying to think of his real name. Michael

10:22

Cera. I did it. And

10:24

he says, where's that from? And she says, my brain.

10:27

Oh, how funny. Oh, wow. Fucking

10:29

love that movie. That's a top 10 movie. Nobody really

10:31

says that about me. I

10:33

just did. I

10:36

literally 90 seconds ago

10:38

just did. Well, no, because the only thing I

10:41

ever do, and I

10:43

only ever quote like Anchorman and Pineapple

10:45

Express and

10:47

the Hangover. Yeah. I've

10:51

never heard you quote Pineapple Express ever.

10:53

Yeah, the comedy taste of my father.

10:56

I'm like doing a bit, Kevin. But

10:59

wait, you know, there's like this infamous. I

11:02

think I posted this on Instagram many

11:05

years ago. There's that infamous Facebook message

11:07

I sent to my Christian

11:09

fiance when I was in college. Sure. And I

11:11

was like, hey, man, I'm not sure

11:14

if you would feel comfortable watching this movie. And

11:16

I know it's kind of a crazy title for

11:18

a movie, but you

11:20

got to watch the Hangover. It's like

11:22

the most genuine message.

11:25

And I was like, I just was literally

11:27

laughing out loud, man. It's so good. Because

11:29

Andy Bernard's in it. I know. Oh, that's

11:31

why. It's a funny little DM

11:33

that I sent him. So. We're

11:38

talking about a movie today called The

11:40

Hill, the 2023 movie

11:43

The Hill. That's right.

11:46

Starring Dennis Quaid. The

11:48

Quaid. The Quaidster. Have

11:50

you ever seen Undercover Blues? No.

11:53

I've never seen. Have

11:55

you ever seen Postcards from the Edge? No.

11:58

Of course you haven't, because Meryl's there. We

12:00

were saying she's all that No,

12:03

but okay Dennis

12:05

Quaid and postcoach from the edge. He sure

12:08

is my watch list. Yeah, great movie Carrie

12:10

Fisher Undercover blues is pretty good Kathleen Turner

12:12

and Dennis Quaid. Mm-hmm. Really good movie

12:14

frequency is my favorite quite Oh very

12:16

Christian coded. It is Christ himself. That's

12:18

a good caveasal. I mean look Dennis

12:20

Quaid is you know, obviously the

12:23

parent trap Hot dad. He's

12:25

obviously the parent child It's

12:28

the hottest he's ever looked I was like act

12:30

two of his career But

12:32

the hottest he's ever looked maybe okay.

12:34

Yeah Just

12:39

say he's hot she's gonna keep saying it until

12:42

I think we say yes Well,

12:46

you say it's the hottest he's ever looked

12:48

have you seen the trailer for an upcoming

12:50

movie Oh No Coming

12:53

out in 2024 There's

12:57

nothing a retired governor can do but

12:59

a president now you can do a thing

13:02

or two God

13:07

I hate I hate trailers

13:09

now. I will be frank with you that as

13:11

a citizen I would not like to see any

13:13

political party Dennis Quaid

13:15

is Ronald Reagan Going

13:18

to watch that I mean you

13:20

couldn't I couldn't get there faster. It kind of looks

13:22

awesome Stars

13:24

him John Voight Is

13:26

it a Christian movie? I mean by

13:29

nature he is he is maybe the most famous

13:33

Republican Actor currently

13:35

Quaid the biggest maybe I'm trying to

13:37

think about I mean well Chris Pratt

13:40

actually Chris Pratt's more famous than he is Yeah,

13:42

but maybe of his Chris

13:45

Pratt is more famous. I'm sorry It's

13:47

more like currently the voice of Garfield

13:49

has more of a cultural impact than

13:51

the dad from the parent trap or

13:54

the ant from Jumanji Yeah,

14:00

but you watch. Dennis

14:03

Quaid, who is 70 years old currently,

14:05

7-0. Wow.

14:08

Look, he was acting his ass off in this

14:11

movie. Yeah. The hell. Did

14:13

you watch the movie? Oh, yeah. Oh,

14:15

yeah. And I got notes. Oh,

14:21

my God. My favorite character. Well, hang on. Hang on.

14:24

We're really good to go. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah, blah,

14:26

blah, blah, blah. I'm wondering, have you never been...

14:29

Sincere, I don't think you've ever been on an episode of this probably

14:31

when we talked about a movie. Not

14:33

watched a movie, for heaven is for

14:36

real. No, I've talked about movies. Like what? Not

14:39

just you mentioned the angle. Yeah,

14:41

not you've talked about movies. Not

14:43

you've talked about a movie. Episode-centric.

14:45

I've talked about a movie with you in my

14:48

life. Yes. Wait,

14:51

didn't you guys watch something with Alyssa? Yeah. We did

14:53

heaven is for reals, but I'm saying where we

14:55

watched the movie before. Yeah, yeah. Because...

14:57

Yeah, I did. You had me watch

14:59

Pure. Pure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The

15:01

horror movie. Yeah. Yeah. From

15:04

Blahmhouse. That was all right. During the pandemic. That's right. So

15:06

I kind of got memory hole. That was triggering. Yeah. That

15:08

was like a scary... I haven't seen that. Of course it

15:10

was. Ah, now we're at the time. OK. I wouldn't

15:12

watch it. I don't think so. There's very few

15:15

movies we watched that are worth the

15:17

time. But is this one of

15:19

them? You're going to find out after the break. I'm so

15:21

excited. But yes, it's our first...

15:24

During Jeremy and Alyssa's reign, during the Polycule's

15:26

reign on the pockets, the whole

15:28

spectrum of content. We talked about

15:30

music. We've talked about children's entertainment

15:32

with the donut man. That's right. Which

15:36

led to me getting

15:38

into a strangely heated conversation with

15:40

a friend of mine. Really?

15:43

What happened? Whoa. I should say

15:45

heated because of my

15:47

buffoonery. Not because of this person.

15:49

This person is the most patient person in the world. What

15:52

happened? Can I say it led to me getting

15:54

a donut? Is that true? I love that. On the way home?

15:56

I got a donut on the way home. And Jeremy loves

15:59

donuts. From what? Look, we talked so much

16:01

about donuts that it had to be done. Where did

16:03

you go to get it? I

16:05

went to this place over here. I can't remember

16:07

what it's called. Just like in the plaza? Yeah,

16:10

just... Classic? Yeah, I can't remember the name of

16:12

it. Oh, I know the name of it. You

16:14

need to shout it out. No, I'm not gonna

16:16

dock. We're recording. Oh. Oh,

16:19

yeah. It's on the cross street. You need to shout

16:21

it out. Am I being too specific? Maybe I'm really

16:23

bleep out that street now. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. That's

16:25

probably fine. Just in case. Just in case. No,

16:29

you know what it was. I

16:31

saw that new

16:33

Inside Out movie. Yeah. You

16:35

all haven't seen it. Not yet. I haven't seen it. I will

16:38

see it. You will? Oh, yeah. I love Inside Out. It's a

16:40

new movie. I'll see it. You

16:42

never know where she's coming from. I know. Well,

16:45

Bing Bong's not in it. He's

16:47

not in it. The way you said Bing Bong.

16:50

So funny. Did I say it weird? Yeah, but

16:52

I forgot. It was just like... It was the

16:54

turn of like, Well, Bing Bong really... It just

16:56

kind of... He's not in it. The

16:58

pacing, I think. Do it again. Bing

17:01

Bong's not in it. It is funny. I

17:03

don't know what I'm doing right now. Just let it

17:06

go quiet for a second. Way to go. So, yeah.

17:09

So Bing Bong's not in it. No way. Well,

17:13

Bing Bong, he's just like, You have a sing-songy

17:15

way of the way you did it. Here's the other

17:17

thing about it. The way you were like, Sing it

17:19

so seriously. And that's what's funny. And I'm not gonna

17:21

lie. I forgot there was a character named Bing Bong.

17:25

Who's your friend that likes to play? That

17:28

is so funny. Tim. I

17:31

was talking about Bing Bong with a friend of mine. And

17:35

they said, I don't like Bing Bong.

17:37

I think he's weird and creepy. I

17:40

was like, He's weird and creepy. She's

17:43

like, Yeah, I think you change the music in that

17:45

movie. It's a horror movie. I

17:47

said, You think Bing Bong is

17:49

creepy? She's like, Yeah, he's like Shrek or

17:51

something. I was like, Bing Bong

17:54

and Shrek. So we got into... It

17:56

got heated. A 50-minute conversation. This is

17:58

a fun argument. Shrek is

18:01

rude on purpose and

18:03

is basically nasty. Bing

18:05

Bong at worst is

18:08

annoying. At worst annoyer,

18:10

he's making too many jokes like your

18:12

uncle who gets out of his keys.

18:15

He's like, okay. Cut it out. Yeah. Like

18:17

too sticky and he brings up the flower

18:19

or something. Yeah, the defending Bing Bong. Well,

18:23

it really upset me. Why?

18:25

Let him bake. I'm

18:29

curious why you got so triggered. I

18:31

didn't say I was triggered. I think you're triggered.

18:34

That's another thing about therapy speaking movies, but we'll

18:36

get to that. But

18:40

the idea though is it's like it's

18:42

creepy because his voice is creepy. Do

18:45

the impression. You think Richard Kind's

18:47

voice is... I can't do it, but Richard

18:50

Kind though. That voice is creepy? I could

18:52

see that. And it reminded me of some

18:54

of the ways we were talking about Dona

18:56

Man. What's he doing with those

18:58

kids? And I realized

19:01

I was like, I feel... I

19:05

think this is a sensitive spot for me. I

19:07

don't like it when people either

19:10

make that joke or have

19:12

that suspicion about male figures. I've

19:15

realized and this is not rational. It's

19:18

like totally personal baggage. But the

19:20

idea I was talking on

19:24

a date with someone who saw... Who

19:26

saw this movie, The Taste of Things, which

19:29

was one of the best movies I saw

19:31

this past year. So good. And she described

19:33

the relationship between the protagonist of the movie,

19:35

this older Frenchman and this young girl in

19:37

similar terms when it's not textual at all.

19:40

Like their relationship ends up becoming more

19:42

of like a mentorship thing. But she was like, I

19:44

don't know. I thought it was kind of creepy. I

19:46

was like, what do you mean? And

19:48

just like that overlay or like, I heard

19:50

Mr. Rogers is actually fucking whatever. Right. Like

19:53

all that stuff. I was like, this pisses

19:56

me off and it's hitting on something deeper.

19:58

And I think... What that

20:00

thing is, is that I'm a

20:02

childless man in my 30s. And

20:05

I know who I am,

20:07

and I know my heart and my integrity, but

20:12

I feel guarded sometimes around-

20:14

Oh, about appearing as such yourself.

20:17

Like here, I'm aging, and

20:20

I could find myself being in this

20:22

accusatory position, or not accusatory position, being

20:24

accused. Yes, and I know I look

20:26

like a real tough guy. And

20:30

welcome to the Joe Rogan experience. No,

20:33

no, no, no, this isn't a me too thing. No,

20:35

it's not that at all. I'm saying there's

20:38

aesthetics of like, it

20:40

is differently coded in a

20:42

patriarchal society. Men

20:44

being alone, or childless,

20:47

and women being of equivalent ages.

20:50

People make different assumptions about that. Yeah,

20:52

I would agree with that. And a

20:54

lot of the neurosis I'm describing is

20:57

self-imposed. But I

20:59

just realized it so clearly because of

21:01

this comment about being gone. About being

21:03

bong, yeah, wow. Does

21:05

what I'm saying make sense? I think it does, yeah,

21:07

I think it absolutely does. I'm not saying like, I'm

21:09

right for being sensitive about this. In

21:11

like a really basic way too. It's like all

21:14

my friends are having kids now, I'm holding my

21:16

friends' kids. The temperature in

21:18

the room feels different when the ladies

21:21

are holding the babies. But when you pass it

21:23

to me, everyone's like, oh, that's

21:25

cute. It's somehow even like more

21:27

special that I'm participating. Yeah,

21:30

and you're like, wow, look, he's really trying to

21:32

be a human. Yeah, yeah, there's something to that.

21:34

But it's not anything,

21:37

it's just something. It's

21:39

definitely an interesting, like men

21:42

and women can both be creepy.

21:46

And you have kids, number one, I wouldn't post

21:48

them on the internet. And

21:51

number two. You'd kill them when they're eight if they weren't

21:53

funny. Well, that, and then also I

21:55

would have a watchfly toward

21:57

anybody showing them special.

22:00

interest that wasn't like a family member

22:02

or like a close friend of

22:04

mine. Yeah, I want to be clear. I'm not going

22:06

to the park and show you a special intro. Yeah.

22:11

You know, I'm glad you said that. I'm glad you said that. I

22:14

guess I'm just sort of like, wait,

22:16

what is that like? And I can't stroll down

22:18

to the park and park my little tissue there

22:21

on the bed and park my little tissue there

22:23

on the bench and try to talk to these

22:25

stranger children and start bing bonging kids all

22:28

willy nilly. I

22:30

guess as someone who. Hmm,

22:33

I don't know. It's interesting. I don't know if you guys

22:36

ever had any weird unsavory experiences

22:38

with adults as a child.

22:42

Did you? Never

22:44

mind. I think just go ahead

22:46

and talk from your perspective. Well, I

22:49

have some encounters with older

22:51

men that they were

22:53

very creepy, very. Well,

22:55

I mean, totally appropriate, violating.

22:58

And these happened to me when

23:00

I was a young girl and it's like. Nothing

23:04

ever, no one ever did anything to me. There

23:06

was a girl, a lady, but I know that

23:09

that happened, you know, but it's just like the

23:11

majority. Statistically

23:13

speaking, it's going to be. Well,

23:16

yeah. And then, Kevin, I don't think

23:18

you're saying like that suspicion is like

23:20

completely undeserved or something. Oh, yeah. I

23:22

mean, like, yeah. In the in the

23:25

arguing against. Don't be cautious.

23:27

Totally, totally. Yes, of

23:29

course, of course. Yeah,

23:31

you're presenting it to me of like, well, Kevin,

23:33

to be fair, it's like

23:35

I know I'm aware I'm on your side.

23:40

It's just like I you know what?

23:42

OK, I remember what I want

23:44

a ton of male elementary school teachers.

23:47

I remember that. And there was one Mr. Bosworth

23:51

name, Dr. But he

23:53

was great. But I just remember he was the only

23:55

one who was all ladies. Kate's father. Who?

24:00

Mr. Bosworth, oh But

24:04

you know what I mean, yeah, that's interesting. Yeah something

24:06

to think about something for me Little

24:09

homework for Kev. Huh? Go ahead

24:12

and just think on that Kevin There's

24:17

no answer to this and my little

24:19

like be in my bonnet about this

24:21

like genre of joke is obviously Very

24:24

small potatoes compared to everything of

24:26

course I just want it to

24:28

be very clear. I'm not Well

24:47

Kevin you have to admit I'm

24:49

like, yeah I Thought

24:52

you're talking about big boss. I guess

24:54

I'm just sort of like I

24:56

am curious Like why that is a trigger for you

24:58

then if you know that like well, yeah That's the

25:01

thing because you know what I mean. I think

25:03

you mean specifically in Sense

25:05

like in a joke giving sense, right? Like

25:07

oh, well, you know, I thought I was

25:10

a little creepy I think that reinforces all

25:12

this stuff. Mm-hmm. Oh like mr. Rogers I

25:17

Don't know Like

25:22

the last two Yeah,

25:27

it's just like well I'm gonna say it during the next

25:29

little pause break again It's

25:34

like the sound of listening to her it's like It's

25:39

like an alien coming down it's like humans listen like

25:41

this they just say some of the same words Again,

25:45

right Is that your

25:47

favorite out of selling movie? No, what

25:49

is happy Gilbert? Okay You

25:52

know minus What punch your

25:54

clothes? Yeah, but it's not he didn't like direct

25:56

that. You know, you know You

26:00

know, a little Nicky. That's

26:02

a funny one. That's insane. That insane choice. It's

26:05

not real. I was making a joke. I know

26:07

you were. I was being fun. What's your favorite?

26:10

I don't know. I

26:12

really like. What

26:15

did you do? P.D.O. Punch your eyes. I also

26:17

love the wedding singer. I could jam. I got

26:19

you. I got you. Keep going. So, OK, I

26:21

have a headache. I legitimately have

26:24

a headache. I don't know how we

26:26

got here. No. We're talking

26:28

big bong. We're talking about. I

26:31

just. Movies. We're talking about movies. I noticed

26:33

that and I know that there's no solution.

26:35

I just noticed that particular. So how did

26:37

the conversation end with your friend? Poor like.

26:39

No, I'm just kidding. Well, I mean, it

26:42

it it with me saying like, being

26:45

not nasty like Shrek is and

26:47

her like stifling laughter through tears.

26:49

Like it was because I'm like,

26:51

no. They're

26:54

different. They are different. Well, yes,

26:56

they are different. You know, Shrek's like farting

26:58

around on purpose. Yeah, Bong wouldn't do that.

27:01

And he's like, here's the gross humor. Yeah.

27:03

No, here's what I appreciate about Shrek as

27:05

opposed to Bing Bong. With

27:07

Shrek, what you see is what you get, baby. And

27:10

with Bing Bong, I don't know. He might

27:12

be a secret freak. He's

27:14

an imaginary friend. It's her. I don't know.

27:16

Are you trying to hurt this man? Are

27:19

you trying to get him riled up? I'm

27:21

just saying this plays into the thing. Whenever

27:23

someone is such a like nice character, when

27:25

like when you have your Paddington's, your Mr.

27:27

Rogers, your like these people that are

27:29

these nice. And now she's just going to do the

27:31

thing you're talking about. You know what this is? You

27:34

know what I genuinely think this is? I think

27:36

this betrays a very cynical view of the world.

27:39

Yeah, I think that's what it's scratching out for

27:41

you. But which is literally like big, but

27:43

because we have had we have time

27:45

and time again, experiences of these people

27:48

that are presenting as nice guys, be

27:50

bad guys. So sorry, that's the

27:52

world we live in. When Eve took a

27:54

bite from the apple. Oh, Mike. It's

27:56

fun. We

27:59

can't trust. We can't judge Mr. Rogers

28:01

because Eve took a bite from the apple. Hey

28:03

guys, what's up? This is good Christian, blah blah blah. I'm

28:05

your host, Lizzie Zoubo. She doesn't even know how it starts.

28:08

There's been so many of these. Oh

28:11

my God. But

28:14

that makes sense. Like the cynicism. I see

28:16

what you're saying. Of course, Alyssa,

28:18

you know, I see what everybody's saying. I

28:21

totally get it. Yeah. But you know what? And

28:23

this is something I'm trying to work on just in general

28:26

to not have a negative view of men in general. Because

28:28

that comes from a wounded feminine energy. Yeah,

28:31

I imagine so. Which is

28:33

not basically wrong. You

28:35

feel all right about me and Kevin? Just

28:39

answer quicker. Why is it taking her so

28:41

long? Just answer a lot quicker I would

28:43

say. Of course. Okay.

28:47

She's laughing like she's kidding. She

28:50

said, of course. What do you mean? Do I feel

28:52

all right about you guys going to a park? No.

28:56

Just about us being men

28:59

in the world. Y'all can go anywhere

29:01

as far as I feel. Do I feel all right about

29:03

you guys holding a young child? Yeah, I guess. How do

29:05

we heal? How do we break these cycles? How

29:08

do we not just give over to like, well,

29:10

it's irrevocably fun. Because you know what? You have

29:12

to be on the defensive. That's what my mom

29:14

taught me. When you're driving, you drive

29:17

as if everybody is drunk around you. You

29:19

have to drive that way. And I'm sorry,

29:21

but the world we live in is so

29:23

fricked. And you have to sort of be, you

29:26

have to kind of have your, you

29:29

have to, you have to be defensive. I'm sorry. There's

29:31

too many creeps about Mr. Rogers

29:33

being wrong in the donut man.

29:35

That's what I'm saying. I'm

29:38

saying real life wisdom and caution when

29:40

it comes to vulnerable situations. Okay. I

29:43

would like, I

29:45

was just using that as my connection.

29:47

I understand what you're saying. I understand

29:49

your friend being like, it's kind of

29:52

creepy. The sense of humor reinforces all

29:54

of these cycles and stereotypes. And stereotypes

29:56

makes it sound like it's not true.

29:58

Right. It

30:00

kind of reinforces the cynicism, I think.

30:02

And I take a more kind

30:04

of existential approach to it, where I'm like, what else are

30:06

you going to do? Because

30:09

this is the world we live in. Yeah,

30:11

I guess. Yeah, in the world,

30:13

but in cartoon land, where

30:16

the whole thing is supposed to be,

30:18

this is a breed

30:20

of escapism. It is a kid's movie.

30:22

This is fantasy. And this should be

30:24

like, when we apply this

30:27

harrowing real life stuff to things that

30:29

should be life giving. Yeah, well,

30:31

and your friend isn't a kid. And I know

30:33

that they tested Bing Bong with kids. So

30:35

I think kids probably really love Bing Bong. Because

30:39

that's how they do movies. They'll test this stuff

30:41

to be like, do kids like this? The

30:44

Hollywood Minute now. It's the

30:46

same. The behind the

30:48

scenes. Well, let me just peel back to Curtin

30:51

here and tell you how it really goes down. I

30:53

would could have been. I have your friend. They tested

30:55

Bing Bong with kids. And they did test Bing Bong.

30:57

I bet you. I was in that room. You're Kevin's

30:59

microphone king. I creeped my way into that room. And

31:01

I said, I'm a kid. And I like this. I

31:04

mean, yes, of course they focus. They

31:06

do testing. We've done one

31:09

episode where the three of us haven't stepped in

31:11

it yet. No. What

31:13

does that mean? Not quite. You've never heard stepped in

31:15

it. It's a polite way of saying

31:17

stepped in. Yes. Yeah. I love that.

31:19

It's fun. And that makes it interesting. I

31:22

think that we're creating kind of

31:24

an environment of tension. I

31:29

think that's not all the way wrong. Yeah.

31:32

Yeah. Well, yeah. Here's the

31:34

thing that we connect to. Bing Bong being

31:36

like a middle aged man's version of what

31:38

a young girl's imaginary friend would be. Because

31:40

he's like a borscht belt comedian. Right. In

31:42

the movie. Right. He's like, hi there. You

31:44

know, it's like that's what a sort of

31:46

like Pete doctor type in his late 40s

31:48

would be like, I don't know. I think

31:50

a kid would like this. Yeah. Right. Anyway,

31:54

I love that. You know who

31:56

else is a really great man? Another way she

31:58

listens. She'll just say yeah. I love

32:00

that. Wait, do you know the rat in

32:02

Charlotte's Web? Yeah, yeah.

32:06

Kind of a funny character that reminds me of Bing

32:08

Bong. Well, Charlotte, you know what

32:10

I mean? Like, yeah, I

32:12

played by your boy. I

32:15

don't know. Wait. The

32:18

Halloween special. Oh,

32:20

Paul Lind. Yeah, played by Paul Lind.

32:22

Oh, my God. There is as Marcus

32:25

Marcus Marcus. Word. I think that's great.

32:27

Oh, Templeton. Yeah. Good Paul. Thank you.

32:30

Paul Lind is Templeton. Yeah, Paul Lind, man. Well,

32:33

somebody had to be. Yeah, that's what I

32:35

mean. That's like fun and

32:37

little like, yeah, that's not creepy. I

32:39

understand like as an adult, you

32:41

watch it and you're like, it's kind of creepy, but like little kids

32:43

would be like, oh, my gosh. I love Templeton

32:46

was my favorite character. Right. Right. You

32:49

know, how do we navigate this world with wisdom and

32:51

caution, as well as open heartedness

32:53

and vulnerability at the same time? So that's

32:55

what we're getting after here. I think so.

32:57

Right. You're trying to police somebody's sense of

32:59

humor, though, which I am very against. No,

33:02

I didn't because police would be like, I

33:04

think it's ethically wrong to ever make this

33:06

kind of joke. I literally led the conversation

33:09

by saying, I'm sensitive to this, I realized,

33:11

and I'm not saying that's right or wrong.

33:13

Oh, that's good. Yeah. I love that you

33:15

said that. It'd be. Why did you say

33:17

that at the start? Yeah, I should. You

33:20

know, really vulnerable way to talk to people.

33:22

Yeah, I know. That's great.

33:25

I think that's great, too. Good job. I could never

33:27

do that. I know. I'm

33:29

so brave. You're brave. I think you literally

33:31

can't. I can't do that. That's

33:33

queen. So brave. Well,

33:35

I'm trying to think of how I would do that. If somebody if

33:38

I was getting I would be like, I don't know what I would

33:40

say. I would be like, well, we've

33:43

what's the scenario what you would do in

33:45

my thing? I'm trying to think. No, but

33:47

I'm saying what's the scenario famously. I remember

33:49

when COVID first happened.

33:52

I remember I was in like a group chat and I was like,

33:54

guys, we're not allowed

33:56

to make jokes about this. And

34:00

that is like and that's policing It

34:06

was funny it was like before I really knew it

34:08

was going I thought like everybody was dead I was

34:10

like what is happening? Yeah, why are people trying to

34:12

make sure it was like look it was a confusing

34:14

time We didn't know what the tone was out the

34:16

gate, and I was sort of like hey guys Stop,

34:20

I feel it. Can I tell you there's a vulnerable one I

34:23

think most or I don't know about most but what some

34:25

listeners won't agree with me I thought

34:27

submersible jokes were important The

34:31

submersible that imploded last year. Oh sure. Yeah.

34:33

Yeah, I actually was not a fan either

34:35

No, I really did not like this time

34:37

on the internet. This was not a good

34:39

couple of days And

34:42

some people would disagree with you and make the same arguments that you

34:44

did I've literally I

34:46

think I've laughed at one single thing

34:49

based on that whole what arguments would they

34:51

say well I've

34:53

heard because my whole thing is There

34:56

is a especially when it comes

34:58

to like classism and political

35:00

difference There's often a side

35:03

that the majority of which the the impetus

35:05

is to rob people of their humanity When

35:08

it comes like conservative lawmakers

35:10

and being against human rights civil

35:12

rights gay marriage, etc and

35:15

then doing that on a corporate level and doing

35:17

it on like a class level and So

35:20

sometimes the response as a

35:22

defense is to then say the same

35:24

thing Well, you don't have any humanity

35:26

So when this guy who

35:29

is a billionaire whatever and part of the

35:31

elites class that has contributed to the harm

35:33

of the world Now when you die, we

35:35

throw parade and kind of piss on your grave and make

35:38

a lot of jokes about it And I've gotten into

35:40

it about this too Where the argument was

35:42

you can do things to disqualify yourself from

35:44

being a human that way that was kind

35:46

of the counterpoint It's like well, everyone has

35:48

humanity, but you can lose it and I

35:50

think the idea that everyone Still

35:53

has inherent humanity and dignity despite

35:55

anything that they ever do. I

35:58

think still is an offensive idea Yeah, just

36:00

people. Yeah. Interesting.

36:03

I'm on your side, I think, with that. Yeah.

36:06

All right. No tension. Yeah. Well, pretty

36:08

good. I just like

36:10

my stomach is sick when we just do these

36:12

like react-a-thons now to whatever

36:15

happens. Even something that is

36:17

just like a tragedy. Like that was

36:19

a tragedy. Like who they were is

36:21

whatever. They were people

36:23

and they died. And then it was just

36:25

like, how fast can I make the funniest

36:28

little internet joke? And it's just

36:30

like it hurts. You're going to want to talk to the. What

36:33

is she doing? I was like, you're talking to

36:35

me. Yeah. But

36:38

thanks for agreeing. That's nice. Oh, my

36:41

gosh. Like

36:43

a scared rat. Yeah. Yeah.

36:47

Marcus, Marcus, Marcus, Marcus, Marcus, Marcus.

36:49

It's such a good voice. Charlotte.

36:52

Kevin nailed it. Well, Kevin's been practicing

36:54

his Paul in for many, many years.

36:57

No, this. I

36:59

know. She doesn't know.

37:01

Charlotte. That's so far off. I don't know if she's ever

37:04

seen me. Am I off? Yeah. Charlotte.

37:07

Yeah, that's not him. Well, Wilbur's

37:09

the good pick, Charlotte. 30% there. You

37:12

did Wilbur well. That

37:14

was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's OK.

37:17

Wilbur. Yeah. I do wonder

37:19

if that's a Christian idea though. What?

37:22

That people can't be disqualified from being human. You

37:25

know, there's that would be something to unpack,

37:27

yes, Kevin. Yeah, I think so. Because that

37:30

because I find it with a lot of

37:32

like the most progressive people I know sometimes

37:34

when they're inside. And by the way, some

37:36

of the most progressive people I know would also feel the same

37:38

way. I think certainly Ted Lasso

37:40

feels this way. I know that.

37:42

Oh, yeah. I do know Teddy L. You

37:45

got to believe. Yeah. No matter

37:47

what, for me. Here

37:50

we go. Dies.

37:56

Even if they're a really bad person. I

37:59

don't know. I know if it's like cool to

38:01

be like, hey

38:04

man, they're dead. You know what I mean? It's just like,

38:07

oh, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, you know

38:09

what? That's just not something I would do.

38:11

It's not kind of a joke I would make. No,

38:13

it's not. But I'm not against

38:16

people doing it. I'm just sort of like, and

38:18

I'm not gonna be like smashing the like button

38:20

on that. Yeah, it's not my Steve. You know what

38:22

I mean? It's not that I'm like, you can't do that. I'm

38:24

just like, I have a very different view on death.

38:28

And even if somebody is a

38:30

bad billionaire, whatever, like they

38:33

had a, you know, someone

38:35

they loved and someone

38:38

that loved them. Sure, everyone

38:40

was born. That was what he said for them

38:42

to see. And they also completely suck. Like all

38:44

these things are true. Yeah. Yeah.

38:47

I think it creates this like false hierarchy

38:49

of morality that weirdly

38:51

feels conservative. It loops back on itself.

38:54

Yeah. Well, yeah. It's like the worst

38:56

of evangelicalism where it's like, I'm saved. I know I'm going

38:58

to hell. I need to teach you the way. And

39:01

you've disqualified yourself from eternity with God because

39:03

of this thing. And then

39:05

we just do that in a different way where it's

39:07

like, because you're part of the club. Yeah. And

39:09

it's like, oh, there was just that one guy that died that everybody loved because

39:11

he did, he was a chef and

39:13

he would go to countries and eat food. You're talking

39:16

about Anthony Bourdain? Yeah. And it's like,

39:18

he's a millionaire and he dies. And everybody was like, no. I'm

39:21

not. That was my favorite explanation. I'm laughing. That

39:23

was the most important I've ever heard. He's

39:27

like a chef. He's like a chef and he

39:29

ate food. And he went

39:32

everywhere. To different countries and ate food.

39:37

Wow. But

39:40

why is it that when he dies everybody's like,

39:44

we don't know if he was a good

39:46

guy. We just don't know if anybody, everybody

39:48

is bad and good, you know? Yeah.

39:51

I agree with that. People like idolize also freaks me out.

39:54

I get freaked out by the way that people idolize

39:56

people too. Do you know what I mean? I

39:58

know. I'm starting to feel that. more. I

40:01

feel like I know a lot of people, especially people

40:03

who are really into film and get

40:06

into it in like a sort of like always see it

40:08

in the front row, a new bed of energy sort of

40:10

way. Where? Why are

40:12

you looking at Alyssa? Because she's

40:14

one of these people, but because she goes into the new bed a lot.

40:16

Okay, all right. Where it

40:18

is, and this sounds like such a hacky,

40:21

your youth pastor thought of this in the

40:23

2010s and ran with it sort of thing,

40:25

but it is like it is a

40:28

form of worship that feels

40:30

completely untenable. Ultimately, right?

40:32

You know, yeah, which gets us to this

40:34

moment and all the post 2016 stuff

40:37

I think about all the time where

40:39

it's like when

40:42

the institutions fail, as you look to these

40:44

other things and other individuals or this piece

40:46

of art or this artist of like, I'm

40:48

obsessed with this person. Where

40:50

it's like, like, like, that's okay. Like, it's okay to

40:52

be like, oh, I love him. I'm a fan.

40:54

But like, I think it just gets weird whenever

40:56

it's like a collective, like idolizing. That is what

40:58

weirds me. You know what I mean? Like, obviously

41:00

I have like, oh, I'm obsessed with William Peterson

41:02

and Gene Hackman, but that's like, it's like, of

41:04

course, sort of fake. Yeah. But like, it's not

41:06

real. But again, is TV show my

41:08

friend? The answer is no. Yeah. TV

41:11

show is not my friend. You know what I mean? The

41:13

way that Gene Hackman may not have marched would be,

41:15

you know, like that sort of thing. It's not a

41:18

people have forgotten the way to

41:20

engage with something in a way

41:22

that's not a full alignment of values.

41:24

It's like, you don't know these people.

41:28

Relax, you know. You don't

41:30

know these podcasters either. Well,

41:32

you can idolize us. Sort of. Yeah,

41:35

you can do that. And this doesn't go for

41:37

us. You can idolize us. But that's what's problem with

41:39

new media stuff is that like so much of it

41:41

is predicated on vulnerability where it's like, I

41:43

do know Alyssa. Yeah. Because I've seen so many of

41:46

her TikToks of her old journal entries. So

41:48

I feel like I, oh man. And that is Alyssa,

41:50

but you know, it's not all of Alyssa. But

41:53

I think, do you guys think that my, who

41:55

I am in real life is pretty much who

41:57

I present online? No. Really? No,

42:00

I'm just kidding. I just want to have a

42:02

hard stance. Really? No, it's just

42:04

completely it's totally incomplete. Yeah, as it

42:06

would be with anybody. It doesn't feel

42:08

like a small percentage. Also,

42:11

your deal isn't like I'm being my

42:13

raw, vulnerable self. It's like I know

42:15

it's almost like a flamboyant performance of

42:17

vulnerability. So it's already like

42:19

nasty with a layer of something. A

42:22

flamboyant performance of vulnerability. Hilarious

42:24

explanation. But then you also

42:26

like are a chef and

42:28

you. Yeah, and I do love

42:31

to go to different. Look,

42:33

and I'm not saying I think Anthony Bourdain is great, but

42:35

you know what I mean? It's the way that people are

42:37

like, and you know what? He was

42:40

amazed and it's like, relax, everybody. Well,

42:42

they're relating to his his work,

42:44

his mental health and how he was open

42:46

about. He had a very big evolution with

42:49

being like an asshole. And then a lot

42:51

of like, you know what? And I take it back and I

42:54

don't know much about him. I just know

42:56

that I'm not even around. I'm saying

42:58

your point still stands of like there

43:00

is sometimes an arbitrary nature by which

43:03

we judge because he

43:06

has said cancelable things and done

43:08

heinous things. But then honestly, he

43:10

had the kind of life up

43:12

until his like unfortunate passing where

43:14

there was sort of an arc

43:16

of redemption. Because Saul DePaul. Uh,

43:20

well, in some ways there was just he

43:23

had a capacity for reform

43:25

and change in a way that is

43:27

not often afforded to most

43:30

public. OK, you know what? Then that's kind

43:32

of cool. If that was his thing. Now I kind of

43:34

get the hype a little more. I

43:39

want you to describe another famous person who's passed

43:41

away in a manner like you described, Anthony Bourdain,

43:43

and see if we can guess. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

43:45

But don't tell us who it is. Yeah. OK,

43:47

OK. So, OK, he was like.

43:52

Um, he kind

43:55

of did like, you know, he

43:57

was always doing stuff and voices.

43:59

and everybody was like, oh my

44:01

gosh. Robin Williams. Yeah. Yeah.

44:05

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

44:08

Yeah. Let's take a quick break

44:10

and we'll be right back with more Good

44:12

Christian Fun. Welcome

44:17

back to Good Christian Fun. It's time

44:19

to dive into the topic. Come on,

44:22

let's go. What were you

44:24

laughing at? That was loud.

44:26

Were you laughing about it being like, bing bong.

44:29

Yeah. I'm not kidding. Bing bong.

44:32

No, you just kind of said, welcome back. Oh.

44:35

Okay, I had this journal and

44:38

it was like a tech journal. And

44:43

it would say, whenever I would open it with my

44:45

password, it would say, welcome back. What's new? Kind

44:48

of funny. That is kind of funny. I

44:52

had a Garfield alarm clock that when

44:54

it went off in the morning, it

44:56

said, get up, time to get up,

44:58

sleepy head. Oh my gosh. And

45:00

then I would press the nose, which was the

45:02

snooze button and he'd go, eh,

45:04

don't get up, stay in bed. I

45:07

love that. Sleep longer. What

45:09

would you do when you touched the penis? Eh.

45:12

What? There wasn't. By the way.

45:15

What, you were in your Jack Off slippers

45:17

and your Garfield Jack Off slippers. All right,

45:19

there's Carolina. We miss her every episode. I

45:21

really want to buy that alarm clock because

45:23

I had one that was sleepy from the

45:25

seven dwarves or that Snow White was that

45:27

movie. Is that wrong? No, you

45:30

just said it in a. Sleepy in the

45:32

Snow White. That's the tone of Tarantino. And

45:34

he said, oh, morning already? I'm so sleepy.

45:36

That's funny. Must've been the same

45:38

makers. I

45:43

feel like someone's trying to hit on

45:45

me at a bar right now and

45:48

relate to me in the most tenuous of ways.

45:50

Like, hey, you had an alarm clock,

45:52

I had an alarm clock. We both had alarm

45:54

clocks. What are we doing here? Let's get out

45:56

of here. What's happening between us? That's how I'm

45:58

going to act the rest of the episode. flirtatious.

46:01

No one will think anything of

46:03

it. Welcome

46:05

back to the Joe Rogan experience. Bad

46:08

flirting. Oh yeah,

46:10

you could give us an example of bad flirting. Okay, ready? Here's

46:12

an example. Should I say something

46:14

that you say? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

46:16

I'll just have a beer. Thanks. Oh

46:19

my gosh. I'll just have a beer.

46:22

What is this? Where are

46:24

we in? In London? Have

46:26

you ever been? Because that's... And I just got back

46:28

and they drink beer there. So

46:31

at this point... My name's Alyssa. At

46:34

this point, I've taken out my phone and I'm pretending I

46:36

don't care. Well,

46:38

I was gonna get Jeremy to give me one. Okay.

46:42

Oh, you're talking to me. We're two friends at a bar.

46:44

We're having a conversation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, yeah. And

46:47

I thought Inside Out 2 was pretty good. I

46:49

didn't like it as much as the first one.

46:52

Man, I canceled my AMCA list. I'm just not...

46:54

Really? I'm not going enough. Oh. Uh-oh.

46:58

We've got some movies. Hey,

47:00

I... Did

47:02

you guys... There's like a video store open.

47:04

Have you heard of that? People are watching

47:06

VHSs. What,

47:09

you guys want to be interested in doing that with me?

47:13

I'm actually just kind of hanging out with my friend

47:15

tonight. Yeah. I'm trying to be your friend. What? I'm

47:17

not trying to do anything on that. What

47:21

the fuck? Dude,

47:23

you think I'm into you? I don't feel comfortable.

47:26

You think I'm into you, bro? Uh...

47:29

Sorry. No, no. I don't feel that

47:31

way. Well, I am. Okay,

47:34

well, that's... Did

47:41

you really cancel A-list? No, I didn't. I was just...

47:43

Oh, thank God. Wow, these are really good actors. That

47:45

was me acting, Evan. What did you guys think of

47:47

that, though? As an exercise? Riz

47:49

level. Riz level. Oh, yeah. That's

47:51

not what I would respond to, I

47:54

think, in being approached. I think

47:56

you set out to be bad at flirting, and

47:58

I think you achieved that. I love that. Yeah,

48:01

you hit the goal post for what you sure did.

48:03

Thank you. Yeah. I

48:06

like that you're... And I like to play soccer. I like

48:08

how masculine you play. We're not doing the exercise anymore. Let's

48:14

take a watch of the trailer for The

48:16

Hill. You can't play baseball. What's

48:18

that sweet not bad? I eat

48:20

cripple gnomes. There's always

48:22

a trailer before the... I know what a trailer is. At

48:25

bat, Ricky Hill. Great

48:28

name. Ricky Hill. It is good.

48:33

Oh my gosh! What did you do? Let's

48:35

go! And then that

48:37

scene wasn't any fun at all. Ricky, I've seen

48:39

you out there swinging that stick. You're

48:42

a man of the separate. But you can't

48:44

play baseball. You're gonna get rid of

48:46

killing. You're

48:49

gonna wind up with an injury that

48:51

you'll never get over. God's gonna give

48:53

you a higher calling. But

48:56

all I want to do is play. When

48:59

I swing that bat, I eat cripple gnomes. I

49:06

ain't gay no more. You did four combs

49:08

in one game. Son,

49:11

you might be better. You're not

49:13

here. You're not here. Your bones are

49:15

rapidly depleting. It'll be a

49:17

miracle if you ever walk again. He has bone

49:19

depletion disease. Major league trials. You're

49:22

gonna paralyze him. I don't need you felling

49:24

in full of false hope. I need my

49:26

son. Oh

49:28

yes, the janitor of fine disease. I'm not making, I

49:30

don't want to make fun of this. Time

49:32

to figure out what you're gonna do with the

49:34

rest of your life. Well, what are we gonna

49:37

do for the disease? No, of course not. Just

49:39

to tell me to forget the only thing I

49:41

ever loved. What

49:43

has gotten into you? Some dreams. They

49:46

said he will never walk and he ran.

49:49

How many miracles do you need? Our

49:53

own breakthrough. You plan to join

49:55

the elite. I'm one

49:57

of the best hitters you're ever gonna see. But

50:00

that's... like the cost of team wins and money.

50:03

It's all stacked against me. If you

50:05

don't try, you're going to

50:07

die inside. I want my

50:09

dreamer back. All

50:13

right, we get it. Yeah, we understand. So,

50:16

yeah, no. It's

50:19

the Hill. It's a 2023 movie. A

50:23

real life guy, Ricky Hill. Really budget on this movie.

50:25

Do you know? Let's see what the. Sorry

50:27

to interrupt you. Well, the box

50:29

office was seven point six mill. OK,

50:31

I bet the budget was under 20.

50:34

It's under 20, right? It's got to be like 18, I'd say. Oh,

50:37

I would have guessed. But not a micro budget

50:39

like it doesn't it doesn't look bad. No, I

50:41

think it looks really good. Twelve million budget. You

50:44

think? Yeah. Well, they shot in Georgia as they

50:47

all do now. Oh. For

50:50

I'm sure. I guess the sets aren't

50:52

crazy, so you just go on location.

50:54

Can you imagine the SEO of the

50:57

Hill? Budget by the way, not

50:59

not helpful. Twelve

51:02

million. Is that right? I'm going 18. Looking

51:05

for the numbers here. They

51:08

have some shots where I'm like they spent money on this

51:10

big time. Sure. And then some stuff

51:12

where it's like, oh, there's a lot blue screen here.

51:15

Yeah, I I cannot find

51:17

the budget on the movie. It's

51:19

not on the Wikipedia. No. Well,

51:21

it doesn't matter that much. They might have gone to

51:23

great lengths to hide the budget for this. This

51:26

movie that is now streaming on

51:28

Netflix, one of a few faith based films Dennis

51:31

Quaids made in the last few years. Starting

51:33

with I can only imagine back in 20, gosh, 2018.

51:37

Only. Oh, yeah, he was in that. He

51:40

plays Bart Millard's dad. Bart's

51:43

dad Homer. He plays in that movie.

51:46

Hey, boy. I found this movie to be.

51:51

Oh, oh, I'm sorry. What did you think of the movie?

51:53

Oh, yeah, sorry. Oh,

51:57

right off the bat, I'm going to say

51:59

there was. Way too much. Riz,

52:02

right up the stick. It's too

52:04

much dramatic piano playing in

52:07

parts that it shouldn't. It took me

52:09

out of it. So Alyssa is talking

52:11

about the score. She's not talking about

52:13

characters being like, I'm so angry. Clink,

52:15

clink, clink, clink. I'm

52:17

playing the piano dramatically. I

52:19

thought the score was insane and

52:22

it took me out of it. Wow. The

52:25

piano. Jeff Zanelli found

52:27

dead in a ditch. Composer

52:30

of such movies as Mordecai. Oh,

52:33

my God. What

52:36

else? He he

52:39

he was the composer of

52:41

Maleficent, Mistress of Evil. Really?

52:44

Christopher Robin. Really

52:46

masterminds. Yeah, he needs to get back

52:48

to those movies. He was a little

52:50

off. Wow. I'm very

52:52

influenced by music. Very influenced.

52:55

What does that mean? The music can really

52:57

sell a movie for me or take me

52:59

out of it. OK, like

53:02

a bad score can be like, yeah. Yeah. You

53:04

know, genuinely not to burn this up again. I

53:06

felt this way about Inside Out 2. The

53:08

score. They replaced Gikino with a different composer.

53:10

And I thought it was very

53:13

poor by comparison. Wow. Interesting. And it

53:15

affected the way I felt about the

53:17

movie, certainly. Because guess what? When you're

53:19

when you hear the score. Guess

53:21

what? You shouldn't know that you're watching

53:24

a movie. And the whole

53:26

time with that score, all

53:28

that was going in my head was I'm watching

53:30

a movie. So you would you would chalk this

53:33

up to score film music. This should be one

53:35

of the invisible crafts, the way that some people

53:37

think of editing. The best editing is the kind

53:39

that you don't notice. Things

53:42

of that. Not even necessarily that you don't

53:44

notice it, because of course, my favorite movie

53:46

to live in, die in L.A., you notice

53:48

the music famously scored by Wang Chung. You

53:52

notice it. Is

53:54

that your favorite composer alongside John Williams?

53:58

It goes Wang Chung. I didn't know that. I

58:00

like sports movies. Yeah. Yeah. I unfortunately

58:02

really like sports movies. Did you like

58:04

this movie? Yes and no.

58:07

Dennis Quaid has a history of sports films,

58:10

obviously. Yeah. The Rookie. Mm-hmm. Others.

58:14

Others. Others. I thought it's. OK.

58:17

First off the bat, that. Parent drive came

58:19

to love. When that

58:22

lady was chewing tobacco.

58:25

Oh, yeah. Foul. And

58:27

the guy was smoking cigarettes. I was

58:29

like, what's happening here? So

58:31

let's set it up. They're grown

58:33

up in a small, impoverished town

58:36

in Texas. Pastor

58:39

James Hill, as played by Dennis Quaid.

58:42

What's the year's 75 or something like

58:45

that? 70s. Well,

58:48

it starts in 73. Then

58:50

flashes back, I think, to late 60s. So

58:53

it's a period piece. Georgia is standing

58:55

in for Texas, where they filmed it. And

58:59

they have to move because the

59:01

congregation fucking hates the

59:03

pastor. Because surely what I

59:05

thought, because they go to the church, they're growing

59:07

up very low income.

59:10

And Dennis Quaid is the pastor of this church, where

59:13

the only people that seem to be responding are

59:16

his own sons to a sermon. Yeah. But then

59:18

there's these other people you see. You see a

59:20

woman chewing tobacco and spitting it in the can

59:22

in front of her, very sabo-coated. You see a

59:24

man smoking a cigarette. And I did go out

59:26

for that role. I

59:30

wanted a humiliating one to lose on. They

59:33

said, too ugly. Not

59:36

conventional. Too old. Not

59:38

conventional, God. And

59:40

so what you think it's going to be is like, because

59:42

they keep cutting to these people, and you think, oh, OK,

59:45

this pastor's going to be like, you know what? These people

59:47

are acting up. But everyone's welcome

59:49

in the house. We want the sinners.

59:51

We want the messy people. But instead,

59:53

he's like, you're being rude. Don't do

59:56

that in here. I mean, I was

59:58

on his side. Yeah. I'm surprised by

1:00:00

that. A little bit. I was

1:00:02

like, well, first of all, you can

1:00:05

chew tobacco. But don't do

1:00:07

it. Don't miss the bucket. Don't

1:00:09

miss if you're going to come

1:00:11

for the shot. You can chew

1:00:13

tobacco and don't miss have the cup and

1:00:15

hold the cup up to you. Like that

1:00:17

was all I was looking for. Uh huh.

1:00:20

Yeah, it is very gross. You know what

1:00:22

I mean? It's nasty. I

1:00:24

come from a tobacco chewing family. Same year.

1:00:26

Yeah. It's not what I want.

1:00:28

But I'm like, you can do that in

1:00:30

a more like just be a little more

1:00:32

subtle. I'm like, so then they have to

1:00:34

move. They move to this much, an even

1:00:36

smaller, seemingly an even more impoverished town. The

1:00:39

young boy, Ricky Hill, he's got

1:00:42

leg braces. He's got he sustained

1:00:44

some some degenerative spinal disease. Had

1:00:47

it when he was a kid. So he's to wear

1:00:49

these leg braces. I thought that kid was a great

1:00:51

actor. The kids I thought were pretty good. I saw

1:00:53

it in the movie. The older brother's great, too. I'm

1:00:56

very harsh with kid actors. I hold

1:00:58

them in a very high standard. They

1:01:00

gave that why? Well, they

1:01:02

gave that poor little girl nothing to do. Oh,

1:01:04

I know. Isn't that sad? Oh, the sister. They

1:01:06

gave her nothing. I thought the kid actors were

1:01:09

so good. Yeah, I was sort of like, I

1:01:11

want to cast them in something. Yeah.

1:01:13

And my Arizona short film, I got it

1:01:15

coming up. But then they

1:01:17

moved to this other small town. He gets challenged by

1:01:19

a bunch of mean younger kids

1:01:22

to swing the bat, hit a

1:01:24

pitch, knock it out of the park. He

1:01:26

does it. He does it. He hits it.

1:01:28

He takes the braces off. Yeah. He like

1:01:30

smashes the knee to break it so he

1:01:32

can bend at the knees, which is pretty

1:01:34

hardcore. Excuse me. I was my face

1:01:36

when I was not seeing that. And I was like,

1:01:38

Oh, yeah. And I was hard to watch. Yeah. And

1:01:41

then basically the arc of this movie is Ricky

1:01:43

Hill at a young age and then flashes to

1:01:45

him in high school as well.

1:01:48

He is so gifted and hidden that ball.

1:01:50

He's so freaking good at it at the

1:01:52

at bat stuff. He's not as good of

1:01:54

a runner because of his disease. But all

1:01:56

that other stuff he's great for. But his

1:01:59

father. Dennis Quaid, the pastor, he doesn't like

1:02:01

it. He doesn't want him to play baseball.

1:02:03

He's not going to any of the games.

1:02:05

He does not support the dream because

1:02:08

he thinks God has something better for

1:02:10

him. And Ricky's argument is

1:02:12

like, no, this is what God asked for

1:02:15

me. He has this big sort of eloquent

1:02:17

speech about very adjacent

1:02:19

to the Charts of Fire stuff of like, I

1:02:21

feel God's pleasure in me. When I run, he

1:02:23

has a speech about like, when I hit the

1:02:25

bat, God is in every

1:02:28

cell of my being I

1:02:30

related to that. So that's sort of the tension

1:02:34

that's set up in the whole movie is like, is

1:02:37

he going to succeed, you know,

1:02:39

and be able to do his drink? Cause everything's

1:02:42

a struggle. He forges

1:02:44

his dad's signature and then his

1:02:46

older brother. There's an

1:02:48

almost spanking scene. I thought that scene in

1:02:50

this movie did such a

1:02:53

good job acting in that scene. For me, I was

1:02:55

like, oh, I would cast this. He

1:02:57

was great. And then the

1:03:00

kid actors and walk the line, I thought they

1:03:02

were great because they played Johnny and the brother.

1:03:04

You know what I mean? I was like, wow.

1:03:06

I thought it was so funny how they're like

1:03:08

at the baseball diamond and that other kid's like,

1:03:10

look, just force the signatures. You think he's going

1:03:12

to check the signatures? Next scene, he goes and

1:03:14

checks the signature. And

1:03:18

there was a little girl named Gracie who says,

1:03:20

you're going to be my boyfriend, Ricky. You are

1:03:22

my boyfriend. The one I was saying, Oh yeah,

1:03:24

you're crazy. You're my

1:03:26

boyfriend. You're my boyfriend. Yeah, that is creepy. Very,

1:03:29

very Elizabeth. And we love each other forever. Ny,

1:03:31

ny, ny, ny, ny. I'm

1:03:33

going to send you a letter every day. This

1:03:35

handwritten. They had like

1:03:38

six scenes where they were trying to set her

1:03:40

up to be like, you're still my boyfriend, right?

1:03:42

They just kept pressing that button. He really did

1:03:44

push that a little too much. He was like,

1:03:46

we got it. She's going to come back when

1:03:49

they're older. They're like longing stares and then they

1:03:51

see her again. And she

1:03:53

doesn't again. Well, it hurt dad. I'm like, what

1:03:55

are we doing? Wife, Peter. Yeah. Very

1:03:57

unfortunate. Yes. And

1:04:00

then again, we see these kids

1:04:02

when they're young, then they flash the older

1:04:04

and some of the actors are good and

1:04:07

some of them it's like, uh-oh, okay, well

1:04:09

those kids were really good, as

1:04:11

we can see. I don't know how

1:04:13

the woman who played Gracie really fared in the-

1:04:15

Yeah, they didn't get ready. As far as how

1:04:17

she grew up and learned to think her hair

1:04:19

was frizzy, that was it. The

1:04:22

only other life she had outside being a

1:04:24

little girl. Oh, you're saying for a sister.

1:04:26

Oh, for a sister, yeah. Oh, the sister.

1:04:29

Absolutely. Oh, yeah, the sister.

1:04:31

Yeah. She had- I

1:04:35

thought you were talking. Oh yeah, sorry. When

1:04:37

you talked about Gracie, I was like, did she have frizzy

1:04:40

hair? I wonder if y'all felt

1:04:42

like this for your particular

1:04:45

giftings, talents, and

1:04:47

abilities. Because the whole arc

1:04:49

of this thing is like this very old

1:04:52

man as embodied by an old man in

1:04:54

Dennis Quaid saying like, God's will

1:04:56

for your life is this. And

1:04:58

the kid saying, this is what I'm

1:05:00

good at. So I will do this to

1:05:03

the glory of God, whatever that means.

1:05:05

Oh yeah. This very

1:05:07

amorphous sort of idea of like,

1:05:10

I'm gonna be so fucking good

1:05:12

in baseballs that people will love

1:05:15

God because of it. Right. I will be

1:05:17

a part of the glorious creation, the way

1:05:19

that like sunsets are beautiful by the beauty

1:05:21

of the way I swing my bat. That's

1:05:24

so fucking cool. Man, I should find that space. I'm playing

1:05:26

part of that. Oh, he's talking about blessings. He's

1:05:28

been blessed with two hands or whatever they're

1:05:30

in that scene. And he's

1:05:32

like, I was blessed with this thing. Why

1:05:34

can't I do both things? Why can't I

1:05:37

be blessed with a heart for God and

1:05:39

also just be really good at smacking dingers?

1:05:42

Yeah, for me, the conflict

1:05:44

was insane because I was like, this

1:05:46

makes no sense. Like Dennis Quaid's character made no

1:05:48

sense to me because I was like, your kid

1:05:50

is like an amazing kid who you like love

1:05:53

and respect. And like, he's

1:05:55

clearly gonna keep being that amazing kid and gonna

1:05:57

like play baseball, which is like a fun sport.

1:06:00

Like I just was like, I don't

1:06:02

buy this. I don't see any, especially

1:06:04

like a hyper masculine, like

1:06:07

figure like that. I don't see him being like, you ain't

1:06:09

allowed to play this cool sport that you're good at. Like

1:06:11

I feel like you would have been, you know what I

1:06:14

mean? And so it kind of made me

1:06:16

just be a little like, you know what I mean? because

1:06:18

it did happen. Oh, it didn't. So this is

1:06:21

based on the true story. Oh, did it? Oh,

1:06:23

did it? It's

1:06:26

based on true story. Oh, did it? So

1:06:28

the idea of like you not buying it,

1:06:31

what went wrong in their

1:06:33

translation or their adaptation of real life events

1:06:36

where you're like, this doesn't make sense to

1:06:38

me. I think it's just

1:06:40

the impoverished community aspect. There's not a lot

1:06:42

of opportunities, perhaps inherent jealousy, which he sort

1:06:44

of cops to at the end of the

1:06:46

movie being like, I didn't, you know,

1:06:48

I chose this path. It's not that I didn't buy it,

1:06:50

but I was just sort of like, well,

1:06:52

that's dumb. Like, you know what I mean? So then I

1:06:54

want like, cause at least sometimes with the antagonist, I can

1:06:56

be like, I kind of get where they're coming from,

1:06:59

but I think because I had no ability to

1:07:01

like get where he's coming from, I was like,

1:07:04

this is, I'm kind of checked out. Well, and

1:07:06

if that makes sense, I would imagine that in

1:07:08

real life events, this man was probably far more

1:07:11

of an unsavory, unkind character too. I think

1:07:13

they painted him a little bit. Then when

1:07:16

you're like, you're casting Dennis Quaid who has

1:07:18

this natural empathy and magnetism of a movie

1:07:20

star. Like, it's like, well, I like this guy,

1:07:22

but I remember when they showed him like helping

1:07:25

the family and then like he beat up

1:07:27

that guy and like, dad's a badass. Yeah.

1:07:31

So it was like, you're painting this guy as like

1:07:33

this great hero. Yeah, Dennis Quaid was like,

1:07:35

well, he was in some ways, that's why he was

1:07:37

complicated with his, with his son. They

1:07:39

revered him, but they also knew he was unfair.

1:07:41

And the older brother knew that too. Like even

1:07:43

the older brother who was looking out for Ricky

1:07:45

was like, yeah, I love dad too. He's great,

1:07:48

but I'll forge the signature for you. Cause I

1:07:50

think you should do this. You know, they sort

1:07:52

of revered him and had

1:07:54

a slice of disobeying towards

1:07:56

his, his worldview as well. That was just the

1:07:58

one thing where I was like, I'm not fully in

1:08:00

it because I don't fully buy. And I

1:08:02

can normally get on board, especially with Christian

1:08:04

stuff, because I grew up in it. So

1:08:07

I can understand it, but I think the way

1:08:09

that that kid was just so mature and

1:08:12

respectful and had all of these, it wasn't like

1:08:14

he was saying, I wanna do baseball and do

1:08:17

drugs and not believe in God. That would be

1:08:19

one thing, but he was like, I love God so much.

1:08:22

It's like, this is how I honor God. I

1:08:24

thought they were really gonna hit that heavy

1:08:26

in the later scenes when he's really playing

1:08:28

baseball, and they're like, you're so

1:08:30

good. And he was gonna be like, it's for

1:08:33

God. I thought they were gonna do that. And

1:08:35

they kind of didn't, which I thought was nice.

1:08:37

Yeah, well- But it also sort of betrays the

1:08:39

idea of the movie. They probably should have done

1:08:41

it, but I thought it was less annoying. Well,

1:08:44

there was that conversation he has with Gracie, his

1:08:46

adult girlfriend. He has an old girlfriend. Where?

1:08:48

Gracie. Gracie. Well,

1:08:51

obviously there's so much

1:08:53

forced-gump energy in

1:08:55

this movie with the braces. I couldn't stop

1:08:57

thinking about it. Sometimes the voice did get

1:08:59

there, but he said, she's like, I don't

1:09:01

know how you do it. Like how you

1:09:03

hit those balls or whatever. And he said,

1:09:05

well, it's not me doing it. Or it's

1:09:08

like something else. Oh, I used to say

1:09:10

that stuff. Yeah? What

1:09:13

do you say now? What?

1:09:17

What do you say now? If

1:09:20

somebody gives me a compliment or I don't know how you do that, I

1:09:22

go, oh, thanks, yeah. All

1:09:24

right. Having a lot of fun. It's not

1:09:26

as serious. But before I would have

1:09:28

been like, people would have been like, oh, listen, why are

1:09:30

you so happy all the time? I'd be like, well, it's

1:09:33

God. Funny you ask. Or they'd be like,

1:09:35

wow, you're so fast. And I'd be like,

1:09:38

yeah. Time to spring my God trap on

1:09:40

you. You've stepped in my mouse trap for

1:09:42

God. Here's

1:09:44

that scene where young Ricky

1:09:46

approaches his stern father from

1:09:48

the church. You

1:09:51

know you're not supposed to interrupt me when I'm

1:09:53

writing a sermon. Love that. Go off, King. Yes,

1:09:56

sir. Quaid's been gargling rocks for 15

1:09:58

years. I'm kidding. Something's happened to do

1:10:00

when I need to tell you

1:10:03

with his chin that I is catching my eye No

1:10:07

May as per Reagan prep He's

1:10:15

kind of bad piece That's

1:10:21

not you gave

1:10:23

me a choice it is awesome and

1:10:25

it's good I've been thinking real hard

1:10:28

on it You're right God

1:10:31

is number one He has

1:10:33

isn't always will be and

1:10:36

like you've preached so many times God

1:10:39

don't make mistakes Amen So

1:10:43

far so good Perfection guide

1:10:45

me when I swing that back I

1:10:49

bear witness to his power When

1:10:52

the ball sails over the backfield fence, this is

1:10:54

me talking Jack I Choose

1:11:02

both this is tip T. Vote. You

1:11:05

choose God and

1:11:07

baseball His

1:11:12

perfection we can only do one One

1:11:20

man one each bless into his glory

1:11:22

I Can

1:11:25

do all things through crafts to

1:11:28

strengthens me this kid made

1:11:30

me like believe You're

1:11:33

Christian again. Yeah, I Don't

1:11:38

get this what's this drawing?

1:11:45

He brings out a piece of paper where

1:11:47

it's a baseball diamond But

1:11:49

he's drawn across and all that and then he

1:11:51

draws across in the dirt which is impossible as

1:11:53

we all know because the Baseball

1:11:55

diamond is actually an equal square. It's Yeah,

1:11:58

it's equal this and all across it doesn't I actually couldn't

1:12:00

draw a cross in the middle of a baseball dive. And

1:12:02

I did know that, and I'm

1:12:05

not realizing that right now.

1:12:07

Oh, nice. I did know that. You're

1:12:09

not telling me something that I think I kind

1:12:11

of knew. Oh, sure. Yeah.

1:12:13

Forgot it. I've known it for a long time.

1:12:15

Yeah, you did as well, Jared. Of course I

1:12:18

knew that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad

1:12:20

you're kind of just rehashing him for me. I know.

1:12:22

I said it for the listeners, because you guys already know that. Yes.

1:12:25

And for the listeners at home, we're talking

1:12:27

Red Cross. Right? It's

1:12:30

kind of like in his character's mind, like

1:12:32

in Dennis Quaid's character's mind, like he

1:12:35

believes in God so much so everyone must be

1:12:37

a preacher. Yeah. Like other jobs, other

1:12:39

professions, like you want to be a wood, a doctor? Nah. Well,

1:12:42

I think it's informed by his

1:12:45

physical disabilities, though, where he's like, just do a

1:12:47

safe thing where you're smart. Because

1:12:49

then it gets like the arc

1:12:51

of the movie spoilers. I guess that makes

1:12:53

more sense. He tries out. He gets spotted

1:12:56

by what? You

1:12:58

were kind of checked out? A little bit when I was watching the movie.

1:13:00

Right now? When I was watching the movie.

1:13:02

But now I'm kind of understanding that he was saying like, no,

1:13:04

this needs to be your job. Preacher.

1:13:07

Yeah. It was the safety thing probably as much as

1:13:09

that. I'm too quick. Wait, you're team Quaid. I

1:13:13

get it now. I understand. Have you

1:13:15

checked out his music recently? He's got a gospel

1:13:18

album. Oh. Oh,

1:13:20

Lord. Also, I was just looking at some

1:13:23

interviews before this episode. Fully

1:13:25

fucked my YouTube algorithm. Because he's

1:13:27

making the rounds on Tucker

1:13:30

Carlson. Yeah. There's

1:13:32

more about this movie. Jordan B. Peterson's

1:13:35

YouTube show. I mean, he's just

1:13:37

incredibly Trumpian Republican. Yeah.

1:13:40

And conservative. Yeah. And

1:13:46

it's like his all

1:13:48

of the conversations are so like on peers,

1:13:50

he's like, he's doing the

1:13:53

Republican like they weaponized the judicial

1:13:55

system against the snap from the.

1:13:57

Felony convictions and they'd

1:13:59

weird. the conversation on Jordan B.

1:14:01

Pearson, I was like, oh, this is kinda

1:14:03

interesting. Because they were just talking about, they

1:14:06

were talking about like movie theaters and the

1:14:08

Hollywood star system of like how that functions

1:14:10

now and how people used to

1:14:12

have scarcity. He was talking about Jack

1:14:14

Nicholson, you would never see him on

1:14:16

TV. He would do like one

1:14:19

magazine interview a year. So to

1:14:21

see him, you had to go to a movie theater. No

1:14:24

one is like that now. Right. Like

1:14:26

everyone's- I know. And the most famous people in

1:14:28

fact, a lot

1:14:30

of people made this point. But the most famous people,

1:14:32

the play now is like, I'm

1:14:35

accessible. I'm a regular

1:14:37

person. Reese Witherspoon's posting on Instagram

1:14:39

stories every day. Like that's

1:14:41

how they stay in your consciousness. Whereas before

1:14:43

it was total scarcity. And

1:14:45

there's only a few people- We need to get back to that. There's

1:14:48

a few people carrying that torch like

1:14:50

Leo or Tom, but very few. Tom

1:14:52

who? Arnold? Leo

1:14:56

DiCaprio. Wow.

1:15:16

Leo DiCaprio and Tom. Arnold.

1:15:21

I don't believe Donald has ever made

1:15:23

himself in a house. I think

1:15:25

so. I love him. I

1:15:28

don't think that's ever been his strategy. Disquae

1:15:30

Dad also reminds me so much

1:15:32

of Dewey Cox's father in Waccard

1:15:34

obviously. Yeah. Never gonna

1:15:36

make it, wrong kid guy

1:15:38

energy. Yeah, exactly. Grandma

1:15:42

dies of course at a ripe old age

1:15:44

of 76. That's right.

1:15:46

I thought that scene when she was

1:15:48

yelling at Dennis Quaid about

1:15:53

just giving them corn bread, I was like

1:15:55

I'm team Grandma. Of course.

1:15:57

Yeah, definitely. I think the movie

1:15:59

wants you to be. Yeah. because it's like you

1:16:01

have to have protein. That

1:16:03

stuff is done in a little bit of an

1:16:05

annoying eye roll way too. It's like, you

1:16:08

can have my cornbread son. It's just like,

1:16:10

yeah, everyone's so happy. It was

1:16:12

giving Tiny Tim vibes. Yeah.

1:16:18

It was giving Tiny Tim vibes. We get

1:16:20

it. They don't eat any food. It's like

1:16:22

they pushed it so hard. That's kind of

1:16:25

like girl dinner. This movie should have, okay,

1:16:27

it's giving Tiny Tim vibes. That's my girl

1:16:29

dinner. Girl dinner, cornbread

1:16:31

and coming here. Not me in

1:16:34

my cornbread era. I

1:16:36

do love cornbread. That made

1:16:38

me really, I was hoping that you two would

1:16:41

want to get cornbread with me. After?

1:16:44

After the somewhere where there's cornbread. I'm sure there's

1:16:46

cornbread around here. Situation. Yeah. Somewhere

1:16:49

where there's cornbread. Jiffy

1:16:51

Paul. Lord, leave me on

1:16:53

somewhere where there's cornbread. Lead

1:16:56

me to the cornbread where

1:16:58

the cornbread is bread. Lead

1:17:01

me to the corn where

1:17:04

the bread is corn. Oh,

1:17:07

we also didn't talk about it. That was awesome.

1:17:09

That was great. Let's

1:17:11

make music together. Randy Houser. Are you a fan

1:17:14

of Randy Houser? Is that the guy in vertical

1:17:16

limit? I

1:17:19

don't know. I did not

1:17:21

expect to think about vertical limit today. There

1:17:24

was an actor from vertical limit. No, it's

1:17:26

not. Randy Houser is a country

1:17:29

music star who plays the neighbor, who he

1:17:31

hits his windshield. He loved him. He was

1:17:33

my favorite character. He's kind of an awesome

1:17:35

actor. Is it his song at the end?

1:17:38

It sure is. And we will play the song

1:17:40

in the second. Great, because that's really important that

1:17:42

we do that. Randy Houser's great. And as kids,

1:17:44

they're hitting rocks. They hit his windshield. He's like,

1:17:47

you hit my windshield from way over there. I

1:17:50

fucking love it. Okay, I'm gonna say this. That scene was

1:17:52

my favorite scene in the whole movie. It's my least favorite

1:17:54

scene in the whole movie. Okay, that was my favorite scene

1:17:56

in the whole movie. And I'll tell you why, because growing

1:17:58

up my dad was really into his car. knows

1:22:00

what emails are. Oh, I love that.

1:22:02

The extension of that is what people.

1:22:04

She does not look like she belongs

1:22:06

in the 70s. This is right. Oh,

1:22:09

totally. So so the term iPhone face

1:22:11

and sometimes it means, oh,

1:22:13

there's like fillers or whatever or, you know, what

1:22:17

was it called? Whether the lip

1:22:19

implants. No, what are the teeth called? Veneers. They're

1:22:22

called ears. Gosh, I couldn't think of that word.

1:22:24

Thank you. Veneers like like anything where it's like,

1:22:26

this is a modern. This is a 2020 like

1:22:29

the Daisy Jones and the six cast

1:22:32

full of iPhone face. Right. These show where

1:22:34

it's like these are not women and men

1:22:36

who look like they belong or something in

1:22:39

makeup where they're not hitting it right. You

1:22:41

know, this period of time. And then there's some

1:22:43

people where it's like, this is

1:22:46

not an iPhone. Like Keira Knightley, not an

1:22:48

iPhone face. Right. Totally Domhnog Leeson. No, I

1:22:50

feel I was in a show that took

1:22:52

place in the 70s. Do you think I

1:22:54

looked like I belonged in the 70s? You

1:22:56

do not have iPhone. Yeah, no, no. Taylor's

1:22:59

all the Julia Roberts. But

1:23:02

she's also Julia Roberts. No, because she's Julia

1:23:04

Roberts. Yeah, she's pre iPhone. Yeah. She her

1:23:06

fame is pre iPhone. But it's yeah, it's

1:23:08

interesting. You're right about that. Yeah, I think

1:23:10

there's some people have it. Some people don't.

1:23:13

And it's kind of like and especially with the veneer

1:23:16

shit like that's I

1:23:18

think people are going to start to rebel against

1:23:20

veneers in a big way. I'll never do it

1:23:22

because you'll never get veneers. No, I'll never rebel

1:23:24

because they look so good on my boy Brandon

1:23:27

Flowers. Well, that's

1:23:29

one thing. He doesn't have to

1:23:31

pretend to be different people. He

1:23:33

was Brandon Flowers was on vertical limit. Don't look it

1:23:35

up. I'm wanting gum really. It's

1:23:38

clot glen. I'm climbing up this

1:23:40

mountain and I've been feeling so

1:23:42

cold. No, we should watch vertical

1:23:44

limit, though. Yeah, we will. Please.

1:23:46

I'm going to more episodes. You

1:23:48

guys think you have this great

1:23:50

question. That's a really good

1:23:53

question. They

1:23:55

let him hit. They're mad at him. They're like, get out

1:23:57

of here, whatever it takes to get you out of here.

1:24:00

The guy Glenn has a sort of begrudging respect of

1:24:02

like, yeah, I guess we'll see a

1:24:04

hit. And then meanwhile, Pastor Dad,

1:24:06

who's never seen his boy play baseball, is

1:24:08

preaching a sermon that night that most of

1:24:10

the town is at to see him be,

1:24:13

what's it called, designated hitter? Yeah, designated hitter. For both

1:24:15

teams. That's right. As far as tryouts. So instead of

1:24:17

the pitcher hitting, they have a designated hitter hit. That's

1:24:19

right. And I did know that, and you were reminding

1:24:22

me of that. That's right, I was just for the

1:24:24

listeners and definitely not a listen to. And

1:24:26

so, Pastor Dad, Dennis,

1:24:28

is like, you know what, actually,

1:24:31

I've been bad, I've suck, I

1:24:33

should have been there for my

1:24:35

boy. Yeah, he's telling like

1:24:37

six people this. I've been a bad,

1:24:39

bad boy. Okay, we got it. It's

1:24:43

getting worse. This

1:24:46

girl needs cornbread. And I can't

1:24:48

emphasize enough to the listener at home, because this is

1:24:50

why I thought we were listening to one of our

1:24:52

episodes the other day. Alyssa

1:24:54

is 95% of the time not on her phone.

1:24:58

So when you hear her just pop in

1:25:00

and out of consciousness, it's not because she

1:25:02

was reading a bunch of tweets or something.

1:25:05

Right, yeah. She's just looking at us. She's

1:25:07

just looking at us. But

1:25:09

I would also say maybe looking through.

1:25:11

Right, because she's watching Big Daddy and

1:25:14

her brain. See you on the

1:25:16

road. That's right. She's

1:25:19

on scene six of Big Daddy. At the

1:25:21

end of the tryout, the pastor comes. See's

1:25:25

Little Ricky. I love Lucy.

1:25:27

Little Ricky. He hit the ball. He's round in

1:25:30

second after that 11th hit, which

1:25:33

happens to go over the backfield fence. After he

1:25:35

gets hit. In the ribs.

1:25:37

In the ribs. Oh my ribs. Round

1:25:40

second and sees his daddy. He makes a

1:25:42

cross in the dirt and sees his daddy.

1:25:45

And then they did have a line. Jesus

1:25:48

Christ. It's

1:25:50

my savior. They

1:25:53

go away from the mound. He

1:25:56

just quite told in the baseball. Guys

1:25:58

armor has done. And he. He

1:26:00

doesn't say, he does not say, I could get

1:26:02

used to this. Does not say, I could get

1:26:04

used to this. What he

1:26:06

does say is, I guess

1:26:09

I'll have to get used to this. That's

1:26:11

right. Yeah. I love that. That

1:26:13

shot is so annoying too. It's like in the

1:26:15

empty, that shot is only a shot because you

1:26:17

thought of it. Yeah. You know

1:26:19

what I mean? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's a good poster.

1:26:21

And Jerry, you're in the front row. And you're

1:26:23

in the stadium and you're in center field. You're

1:26:25

like, oh cool, you thought this would look cool.

1:26:27

And that's why we're doing it. So this, it

1:26:30

does eventually bend towards like, okay, I see the

1:26:32

glory of God in you when you do. I

1:26:34

mean, these are all just like very general sports

1:26:36

as perseverance. We've talked about movies on this show

1:26:38

before. They're like that American Underdog starring Zachary Levi.

1:26:40

I've like, I've been chosen to

1:26:42

do this because I'm great. And God's

1:26:44

greatness is in me. Right. And sports.

1:26:46

It's so funny to apply that to

1:26:48

other things that a lot of us

1:26:50

do. Right. Like

1:26:53

otherwise, because sports is so binary and everyone

1:26:55

does the Philippians 4-13 thing. Yeah.

1:26:58

It's winning or losing. It's things that are

1:27:00

so analogous to biblical virtues, but

1:27:03

anything else of like, I'm doing improv to the

1:27:05

glory of God. I was. Did you

1:27:07

think so? Oh yeah. How did you

1:27:09

do it to the glory of God? Well, it's easy. Bringing

1:27:11

joy is a

1:27:14

way to glorify God. If you bring

1:27:16

joy to others, easy. Next.

1:27:19

I guess we're glorifying God in this podcast. If

1:27:21

we brought you any bit of joy, you

1:27:24

would call this joy. Well,

1:27:26

it is up for the listener to

1:27:28

decide. All right. Take it easy. Why?

1:27:31

Yeah. It's fun. It's fun.

1:27:34

We're having fun. Does it smell good in

1:27:36

here? I can't really smell. Does

1:27:39

it smell good in here, Jeremy? I can't

1:27:41

smell anything. Okay. Why? I

1:27:43

just have my suspicions. I got a candle. I

1:27:46

had some Febreze, but. Oh no, you're doing fine.

1:27:48

Your suspicions about what? You asked this question four

1:27:50

hours into today. I know. I

1:27:53

know. Did Dexter poop his pants? No. Okay.

1:27:57

We got her. She's like.

1:28:00

in a way that I haven't seen. I am hungry.

1:28:02

Like it's huge. Hold on,

1:28:04

with this whole concept of the

1:28:06

movie, I do think I relate to

1:28:08

it in a certain way because when I was

1:28:11

raised in the church, when I'm moving down here

1:28:13

to go to school and take film classes, et

1:28:15

cetera, I was like, yeah, I wanna make movies.

1:28:17

I was like, lots of people in my church

1:28:19

community knew this about me because I was making

1:28:21

them in high school, et cetera. And

1:28:24

like, so many older people were like, that's

1:28:26

so great. You can make movies like

1:28:28

fireproof or like you can

1:28:30

shine a light in the devil's

1:28:32

playground known as Hollywood. And

1:28:35

that was what old people told

1:28:37

me that I was going to go do. And I was

1:28:39

like, hold on a second, I don't wanna do any of

1:28:41

that. Like I just, I wanna make

1:28:43

funny movies. Like I wanna make silly movies. Why

1:28:47

did he wanna make silly movies? To

1:28:49

bring joy? Is that true? What

1:28:52

do you want me to say? I'm

1:28:55

curious because some people don't

1:28:57

necessarily wanna make funny stuff for like to bring

1:29:00

joy to others. Like they just, you know what

1:29:02

I mean? Oh, okay. No.

1:29:04

What are the reasons? Well, I can just

1:29:07

answer, I guess truthfully. That is

1:29:09

what interested me. That's what I wanted to do was

1:29:11

make funny movies. I wanted to make people laugh. Yeah.

1:29:16

But yeah, but people couldn't, I

1:29:18

almost felt like I was disappointed. I was like, oh

1:29:20

no, do I have to like, I felt that added

1:29:22

pressure from like my church community to be like, oh,

1:29:24

I need to like make something like godly

1:29:27

or like I need to have a message. Like, do I

1:29:29

have to do that? And then, you know,

1:29:31

I went to a Christian university too and it was like, lots

1:29:34

of kids were making all like faith adjacent or

1:29:36

like messaging where it was like kinda, and some

1:29:38

kids were excited to do that. I was like,

1:29:40

oh really? I just thought I kinda wanted to

1:29:42

just do my own thing. Is

1:29:44

that gonna be allowed? And then the university didn't celebrate

1:29:46

any of my work. You know, I feel like when

1:29:48

I was making stuff in college. It was just funny.

1:29:50

Yeah, cause it was only funny. I was like the

1:29:52

only people, I was the only person in school, in

1:29:55

the film school, just making like comedies for

1:29:57

comedy's sake. Oh. So it

1:29:59

wasn't like. like I was showing up in the

1:30:01

newsletters, you know what I mean? You weren't getting the

1:30:03

claim even within that community. No, but that is an

1:30:05

interesting thing that I think about even today. Like, what

1:30:07

do I want to put out there? Like,

1:30:10

what are you trying to do? Yeah, that's what I'm, you

1:30:13

know, I'm interested in myself and what I

1:30:15

am trying to do and why I'm doing it. Because

1:30:17

whenever I, you know what I mean? Whereas like, when you're

1:30:19

like, I'm doing this for God. And it's like, all right,

1:30:21

well, period, see ya, bye-bye. But now-

1:30:23

It is sort of a get out of jail

1:30:26

free card of further interrogation of what that desire

1:30:28

is. You just say, God's

1:30:30

glory, he's glorified if I'm awesome. Period,

1:30:33

yeah. Whereas now I'm

1:30:35

like, why am I doing this? And

1:30:38

what would you say? I feel that I don't

1:30:40

know how to do anything else. Do

1:30:42

you think that's genuine? Because that makes it sound

1:30:44

like it's out of lack or

1:30:47

necessity. It's kind of Ricky Hill though, what

1:30:49

she's doing. I do feel little Ricky Hill

1:30:51

vibes where it's like, not

1:30:53

that I'm bringing glory to God. That is a

1:30:55

sentence no one has ever seen. Ricky Hill vibes.

1:30:58

That was the first time

1:31:00

in human history someone said

1:31:02

that. Ricky Hill vibes. Yeah,

1:31:04

I think you're right. I'm

1:31:06

feeling, I am feeling Ricky

1:31:08

Hill vibes. We're doing

1:31:10

original work on the podcast. Ricky

1:31:12

Hill vibes. Jason Alexander, love your

1:31:15

work, by the way. I

1:31:19

am feeling Ricky Hill vibes. You're

1:31:21

gonna be great. I just mean that he's like, this

1:31:24

is where I feel like, I do feel calling

1:31:26

to what I'm doing. And it doesn't

1:31:29

have to be like, A higher vocation. It doesn't have

1:31:31

to be spiritual, but I feel like

1:31:33

I was sort of like born to make

1:31:35

people laugh. No matter what, even if I

1:31:37

decide to become a teacher, whatever, do something

1:31:40

else, I believe that like

1:31:42

I was, I'm on the earth to make people laugh because

1:31:44

I love doing it. It's what I feel the most

1:31:46

comfortable doing. And it's the best

1:31:48

thing in the world. And it brings me joy. So that's

1:31:50

what I want to do. You know what I mean? Anyways,

1:31:53

but that, yeah, so I

1:31:55

don't know. You bailed

1:31:58

on yourself immediately. You

1:32:01

ended so well, and then you were like,

1:32:03

but maybe not, no. Yeah, and I take

1:32:05

it back. And I take it back. Yeah,

1:32:08

well, there's a lot of things that can feel like

1:32:10

a shortcut to purpose if you don't examine

1:32:13

them too closely. And

1:32:15

I think for the most part, I am not

1:32:17

waking up every day and thinking, why

1:32:20

am I doing what I'm going to

1:32:22

do today? That's not a common thought

1:32:25

for me. I do

1:32:27

what's to be done. But

1:32:30

then I think sometimes that lack of

1:32:32

interrogation or whatever can mitigate ambition,

1:32:37

ascendance, things like that.

1:32:40

So yeah, I guess I have a

1:32:42

lot of work to do here. No,

1:32:44

you're doing, your consistency is

1:32:47

something that I would be, I'm very,

1:32:49

very impressed, and I

1:32:51

admire it. Hey, that's nice, thank you. Absolutely.

1:32:53

But are you saying that the other side, where

1:32:55

you're going to compliment Amy? I just want to

1:32:57

leave space for that. Compliment you? I

1:33:01

think she was about to take back my compliment in a

1:33:03

black-handed way. Was she about to

1:33:05

do that? No. No. No.

1:33:08

No. Okay. Okay. Okay.

1:33:11

Okay. Okay. Okay.

1:33:13

No. No. All right.

1:33:17

You want a compliment? Yeah. God.

1:33:21

Like she's handing them out like, oh, you want

1:33:23

one too? Like, they're so embarrassed

1:33:26

for me right there. No, I

1:33:28

was just saying like, I know, because I was just

1:33:30

speaking to Kevin because he said like, I don't know

1:33:32

if I feel that way and pull of love, and

1:33:34

I'm like, I still think like what you're doing is

1:33:36

like, is really

1:33:39

something to be admired. I feel the same way about you.

1:33:41

If you ever question. Okay, so that's me, I got it,

1:33:43

cool. No, I'm saying if you ever question what you're doing,

1:33:46

I don't think you should, because I think what

1:33:48

is admirable about what you're doing is like, you

1:33:52

also have the consistency. You're putting

1:33:54

on a show every single month

1:33:56

in your home. Like there's so.

1:33:58

I don't think that what you're

1:34:00

doing that I've never seen done

1:34:02

in my 10 years of doing

1:34:04

comedy, the community that

1:34:06

you have created with a comedy

1:34:09

show. And I know that you're

1:34:11

like, oh, but it's not whatever. But like, I'm

1:34:13

sorry. What you have created with

1:34:15

the garage show is so

1:34:18

commendable and something that is like beyond

1:34:21

what any of these like big theaters

1:34:23

could ever could ever establish. And

1:34:25

I don't know if you realize that. Very

1:34:28

nice. Yeah, I don't realize that a lot. Yeah.

1:34:30

Okay. Well, there's your call. Well,

1:34:34

thank you. I appreciate that. That's

1:34:36

very kind. I think just

1:34:39

I'm not trying to counterpoint this, but like, like,

1:34:42

I think often if you are questioning your, well, why

1:34:44

am I doing this today? It doesn't just have to

1:34:46

be like, because you have doubts, you can just be

1:34:49

like, it can be a path

1:34:51

to reaffirm a mission statement to or

1:34:53

like, yeah, or really check it. Make

1:34:55

sure you're staying true with your, you

1:34:57

know, whatever you're trying to achieve. Get

1:35:00

your sites on the right, you

1:35:02

know, achievements and goals. Yeah. Like, why

1:35:04

am I doing this today? Yes, I know, because I'm

1:35:07

trying to get to this place. I'm trying to improve

1:35:09

my life in this way or I'm trying to orient

1:35:12

my life towards these goals. So

1:35:14

yeah, I think it's a healthy. I did. And

1:35:17

I do that a lot. I did that recently, like really deep dive because

1:35:19

I was like, am I just trying to like, what

1:35:21

am I, what do I want here? That's a good

1:35:23

conversation. What am I doing?

1:35:25

No, you know what I mean? And I had to

1:35:28

really kind of sit down with myself. And

1:35:30

then what'd you come up with? Well, what happened was

1:35:32

once I did that, then I

1:35:35

started sort of like, okay,

1:35:38

then I was like, you know what, I have an opportunity to do

1:35:40

a show and I'm actually going to

1:35:42

do a show and I'm going to do some storytelling

1:35:44

and I'm going to share because I do want to,

1:35:46

I want to make people laugh, but I also want

1:35:48

people to feel encouraged. That's a big part of my

1:35:52

mission statement in

1:35:54

what I'm doing. Not only do I want

1:35:56

people to laugh, but I want them to not feel so alone

1:35:58

in their pain. because

1:36:02

that's what comedy has done for me. And

1:36:04

so that's what I want to do for people. Whatever

1:36:07

I'm doing, whether I'm on a podcast or you know what

1:36:09

I mean? So it does feel, I

1:36:13

don't know, you know. Yeah, you got to

1:36:15

stay connected to those. Yeah, because when you

1:36:17

lose that, then you know, and then I get an

1:36:19

oh, and it's ego. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I

1:36:21

don't know. That resonates. Yeah.

1:36:24

Because often I don't think about it in

1:36:26

the comedy sense, in the sense of. No,

1:36:30

in the sense. Donald Trump. Right,

1:36:32

right. He was gonna claim your toilet. I

1:36:35

think about it on the

1:36:38

spectrum of connection. I

1:36:40

think about that. I think the most validating

1:36:42

compliments or feedback is when it

1:36:45

feels connective, when it feels like

1:36:47

I didn't know other people felt

1:36:49

this way or you articulated something

1:36:51

and I had trouble before, but then

1:36:54

that really gave me words or vocabulary

1:36:56

for something I didn't have. Or

1:36:59

like some of the, hopefully, I don't know. I don't

1:37:01

know if that's true, 334 episodes into the podcast. But

1:37:05

like sometimes conversations had

1:37:07

on the show or people we've had on

1:37:09

the show where it reflects some part of

1:37:11

someone else's experience. Because the whole idea behind

1:37:13

GCF was everyone felt a little

1:37:15

cuckoo experiencing this in a silo. And

1:37:18

then not like we're not allowed to talk about it, but it didn't

1:37:20

feel, I feel like it's different now, seven

1:37:22

years on from when we started it, but

1:37:24

just being able to be like, you remember

1:37:26

that Michael W. Smith reference in an improv scene?

1:37:28

Oh my God, I grew up with this fucking,

1:37:31

all this stuff and I had to do this. And it does that

1:37:33

for sure. But even to go back to

1:37:35

like Jeremy talking about just making comedy

1:37:38

for the sake of comedy, that is

1:37:40

also commendable and beautiful and like

1:37:42

should absolutely be treasured.

1:37:45

And they're like, cause it doesn't always, and

1:37:47

like I'm not saying that all comedy has to have like

1:37:50

a message where it's, you know what I mean? Like I

1:37:52

think sometimes the things that have healed me the most are

1:37:55

just the dumbest. Silly. Silliest things,

1:37:57

yeah. I found that there's certain low

1:37:59

points. experience in my life where

1:38:01

there's, I'm not gonna say what they are,

1:38:03

but there's like a handful, maybe there's one

1:38:05

or two podcast episodes. I'll

1:38:08

re-listen, to be clear, not of my

1:38:10

own, of other people's

1:38:12

podcasts that I'll re-listen to that

1:38:16

comfort me when I'm having

1:38:18

a funky time, that are

1:38:20

only silly, that are purely

1:38:22

that. I have no function

1:38:24

beyond that. Those are like comfort

1:38:26

me, but that's like, it's

1:38:28

like so powerful. I think it's so beautiful. And

1:38:30

that's why I'm like obsessed with comedy. I just,

1:38:33

you know, patch

1:38:36

out. The

1:38:39

cloud, the healed. No, I'm just-

1:38:42

Robin Williams is really on your mind. These

1:38:45

are these little kids. They're sick.

1:38:48

We need to make them better. The power of laughter. I'm

1:38:51

just saying. Mr. Your

1:38:53

joke, pay your money for it. How does everybody

1:38:55

feel? Are we ready for cornbread?

1:38:58

Yeah, I think we're ready for cornbread. I'm ready,

1:39:00

but before cornbread. Oh yeah, we do. We have

1:39:02

to get through this last bit. You

1:39:05

know, I might recommend a garnish

1:39:08

for your cornbread. Maybe

1:39:11

Rub a Little Dirt on it. The movie

1:39:14

ends with a song by the aforementioned

1:39:16

Randy Houser called Rub a Little Dirt on

1:39:18

It. So good. Go.

1:39:39

Every movie should end with an original song over

1:39:41

the credits. Rub

1:39:47

a Little Dirt on it. Six

1:39:55

pack open. A.I.

1:39:58

Rub a Little Dirt on it. Hell

1:40:00

yeah Rub

1:40:09

a little squirt on it Thank

1:40:11

You Randy for that Wow. I

1:40:14

like almost exit out of the movie really quickly when

1:40:16

it ended But that when this song started going I

1:40:18

was like wait a second Yeah,

1:40:24

that's that's for you also

1:40:27

this letterbox review Log

1:40:30

this from a user usually Christian drama flicks

1:40:32

like this get extremely bogged down With

1:40:35

heavy-handed prioritization of their messaging over

1:40:38

their stories Technical crafting

1:40:40

characters while the hill sometimes gets

1:40:42

preachy and sometimes is held back

1:40:44

by corny dialogue Bad dubbing

1:40:46

and poor supporting actors it Excells

1:40:50

because it gives thought and care to the

1:40:52

important elements of filmmaking. It's gorgeously

1:40:54

shot on film. It's not it's

1:40:56

definitely not digital Definitely not it's

1:40:59

sensitively directed always visually emphasizing its

1:41:01

character psychology to great effect the

1:41:03

script avoids succumbing to too much Sports

1:41:06

drama cliches. It's a human story in

1:41:08

the shell of a Christian sports film

1:41:10

and these humans are wonderfully brought to life

1:41:12

by these actors Aside

1:41:15

from a handful of distractingly poor

1:41:17

supporting cast members the leads

1:41:19

really kill it Even the

1:41:21

child actors I would say especially the child actors

1:41:24

Dennis Quaid is the obvious stand-up bringing so

1:41:26

much life and emotion to his character that doesn't

1:41:28

necessarily on the page That isn't

1:41:30

necessarily on the page His characters arc is

1:41:33

the soul of the movie and if there

1:41:35

was any justice in this industry Quaid would

1:41:37

be in serious consideration Oh,

1:41:39

we've gone off the rails long live

1:41:42

baseball and long live Dennis Quaid. Are

1:41:44

you serious long live baseball? Mike

1:41:47

and I would like to do with anything to

1:41:49

which no one there was a comment saying thank

1:41:52

you for articulating And

1:41:54

I would like to review from a user

1:41:56

that just says of course he was gonna

1:41:58

play baseball. Have you? I've seen his

1:42:00

ass and he did have

1:42:02

a nice... Was that your review

1:42:04

of it? No. I do love that.

1:42:07

Do you know there's a man that plays

1:42:09

professional baseball right now for the Seattle Mariners

1:42:11

whose nickname is Big Dumper? No,

1:42:13

I didn't know that. Holy shit. He's got

1:42:15

a big butt and they call him Big Dumper. So you

1:42:17

have to have a big butt to play baseball? It is

1:42:19

part of it. Why? It is.

1:42:22

The butt culture in baseball is

1:42:24

a thing. Unrealistic beauty standards are

1:42:26

right at it. Why does having

1:42:29

a big butt... Anything else before we

1:42:31

rate this movie? Let's

1:42:35

rate this movie. Let's rate this thing. All right, holy

1:42:37

toast. We're going to give it either holy toast. That's

1:42:39

a thumbs up. And bounce.

1:42:42

Holy roast. That's a thumbs down

1:42:44

where we send it all the way

1:42:46

to hell. Or if

1:42:48

we're not quite sure one way or the

1:42:50

other, we can send it to purgatory, otherwise

1:42:53

known as... So. Jeremy,

1:42:57

we'll start with you. That letterbox review

1:42:59

you just read has got a lot

1:43:01

of my feelings in the first half of it,

1:43:03

I would say. You don't feel long-lived baseball? What

1:43:08

does that mean? Baseball was under attack and

1:43:10

we need to protect it. What are we talking about

1:43:13

with baseball? Baseball is doing just fine.

1:43:16

It's actually more popular in more recent years than other

1:43:18

years. But no, you

1:43:20

know what? I actually think this movie is pretty good. But

1:43:23

no, you know what? I actually think this movie

1:43:25

is pretty unoffensive in a lot of ways. There's

1:43:28

a lot of it where I was like, sure. You

1:43:31

know, I'm not like... And with

1:43:33

the setup of it being a Christian sports movie, even

1:43:35

with sports cliches like that, letterbox review is talking about,

1:43:38

I'm expecting really corny sports

1:43:40

stuff all throughout. It's predominantly

1:43:42

a family drama. And I

1:43:44

don't know, it's done kind of OK. I'm

1:43:46

not mad about really most of it. There's

1:43:48

parts of it that irk me. I'm talking

1:43:50

about the like, yeah, go way back in

1:43:52

the field and hit it to my truck

1:43:54

again. Or like, you know, a couple of

1:43:56

shots or whatever. The chemistryless performance of the

1:43:58

two older leads. is actually atrocious.

1:44:01

But I don't know. I think the

1:44:03

main messaging and the conflict

1:44:06

between Quaid and the sun,

1:44:09

I think are explored. They

1:44:11

spend the right amount of time in it. The

1:44:13

pacing's okay. I'm

1:44:15

not that mad about it. I'll be real,

1:44:17

I'm gonna toast it. He's toasting the movie.

1:44:20

We're done here to Alyssa. Yeah,

1:44:22

I feel similar, Luke. I

1:44:25

didn't hate it. It wasn't like,

1:44:28

oh my gosh. I

1:44:31

have a soft spot for an old

1:44:33

country church in

1:44:35

an impoverished town. And

1:44:38

I do like sports movies. And the fact

1:44:40

that the person that wrote this wrote Hoosiers

1:44:46

is really something for me. But no, I thought

1:44:48

just like, the kids were such good actors. Very

1:44:51

good. I gotta give it a

1:44:53

holy toast. A holy toast. This

1:44:55

is the worst thing I ever seen. It

1:44:58

sure wasn't. And look, did I check my phone

1:45:00

a bunch during this movie? Oh, yeah. For sure.

1:45:03

I got up and got a bunch of snacks.

1:45:06

The movie's 20 to 30 too long. It's

1:45:08

so long. It's too long. Even the beginning

1:45:10

is like, oh my god, the setup is

1:45:13

so... Feels like I'm watching a prequel. Let's

1:45:15

roll, people. Let's go. Most

1:45:18

of my favorite scenes were in the beginning. Wow.

1:45:22

They reconnect that scene later. And

1:45:24

I'm like, we didn't need either of these scenes. Yeah,

1:45:26

that opening had me looking like... I'm

1:45:32

showing a picture of young Alyssa's little

1:45:34

face. Those eyebrows. Frida

1:45:38

Kahlo has entered the chat. Oh

1:45:45

my god. Kev, what's your review? It

1:45:49

was so competently done, but just too

1:45:52

shagging along in the tooth. There was

1:45:54

genuinely nothing terribly offensive in it. And

1:45:59

I am... I'm interested in

1:46:01

that chariot's a fire idea of how's

1:46:04

the glory of God manifest in you. And

1:46:06

especially when it's so synonymous with what

1:46:08

we would probably call... Sorry, I got it in

1:46:11

my... Get that out of there. Take a

1:46:13

picture of it. I will. Are

1:46:15

you gonna make the

1:46:18

face too? No, she's

1:46:21

not. She's not even gonna try.

1:46:26

I'm just gonna try that idea of God's glory being

1:46:28

felt when we're doing something that's transcendent

1:46:31

with our bodies or whatever that endorphin rush

1:46:33

is. And we'd probably call that

1:46:35

something different now, but I liked

1:46:38

a lot of the performances. Wait, do you feel that way when you

1:46:40

run? Oh, yeah. Love

1:46:43

that. I wouldn't run. I wouldn't

1:46:45

run if I didn't. It's a spiritual feeling.

1:46:47

If it was just like, I'm sweaty or

1:46:49

this is hard, wouldn't do it. Yeah. It's

1:46:52

so enjoyable. Yeah. Otherwise, you

1:46:54

know... It is so enjoyable. That's why

1:46:56

I get out to that run club. Yeah.

1:47:00

Uh, anyway. That's

1:47:02

how I feel. Ricky Hill ass over here. I'll

1:47:05

give it Ricky Hill vibes. You

1:47:07

know, in solidarity... I'm not

1:47:09

Ricky Hill vibes, but in solidarity, I will

1:47:12

also give it a holy toast. That's what

1:47:14

I'm talking about. Wow. We

1:47:17

gave it a holy toast. Why not? It's not

1:47:19

bad. All the way around. You did a good

1:47:21

job. It's not too bad. It's

1:47:23

our five of the podcasts. Good call.

1:47:25

Dim the lights in here, light the

1:47:27

candles and other shows. We might promote

1:47:30

ourselves or plug our projects. We're not here to

1:47:32

do that. We're here to lift them up to

1:47:34

the Lord. That's right. The last great thing we

1:47:36

enjoyed in secular culture. Last

1:47:39

great thing that we watch red. It's all listened to.

1:47:42

We start with Jeremy. You can lift me up.

1:47:44

Don't say vertical event. You

1:47:46

can lift me up at Jeremy P. Olsen, everywhere,

1:47:49

the L box, et cetera. I

1:47:52

want to lift up. I

1:47:54

mean, I want to lift up my wife, Charlie X,

1:47:56

CX, her new album. Brad

1:48:00

is that I'll tied the knot. It's

1:48:02

Brad summer. Wow. Yeah. Uh,

1:48:04

me and Alyssa just went and saw her on

1:48:06

Saturday. It was also we went to the shrine

1:48:08

here in Los Angeles and saw her. I

1:48:13

love her so much. I had the

1:48:15

greatest time. I don't think I stopped

1:48:18

moving one time. Wow. I was pouring

1:48:20

sweat. Wow. We got a

1:48:22

sweet spot on the balcony and we could see

1:48:24

we could see it all. It was great. And

1:48:26

speaking of manifesting Alyssa was like, we're going to

1:48:28

stand here. And we were behind some guy and

1:48:30

he was like tall and I was like, no,

1:48:32

we maybe we should move. And then he moved

1:48:34

and we got his spot. She

1:48:36

did. She somehow knew that that

1:48:39

guy would move. Yeah, I guess that's manifesting.

1:48:41

Yeah, I guess that's what that is. She

1:48:44

might have played her entire new album,

1:48:46

including all three bonus tracks. Holy shit.

1:48:48

Which I don't think I've ever heard

1:48:50

a bonus track live. Uh,

1:48:53

in such a way. But

1:48:56

then Alyssa, don't worry. She got

1:48:58

her party for you as well

1:49:00

from two albums ago during the

1:49:02

encore and she closed with I

1:49:04

love it by icon

1:49:06

a pop, which she actually wrote.

1:49:09

It was. I don't care. I

1:49:11

love it. That's right. And it

1:49:13

went off. Kevin, it went off.

1:49:15

Yeah. And I just keep thinking about the energy

1:49:17

in the room and like top

1:49:20

five show. We could see it all. I don't

1:49:22

know about top. I don't know. Ten. Yeah.

1:49:25

Top ten for top ten for. Yeah. I mean,

1:49:27

I just love her so much. And I love

1:49:29

watching her and I love what

1:49:31

she stands for. And I love her music and

1:49:34

her new album. Slaps. I love that. So

1:49:37

good. Summer Bratz. A happy Bratz

1:49:39

summer. She literally walked off the stage and said,

1:49:41

happy Bratz summer. She said

1:49:43

enjoy Bratz summer. I'm going to go see Garth

1:49:45

in theaters and have a happy Bratz summer. So

1:49:51

good. There's no way Alyssa heard what I

1:49:53

said. You said I'm going to have a

1:49:55

Bratz summer. Watch Garth Field. I'm always listening,

1:49:57

baby. She really did. I

1:50:00

know you think I don't hear but I

1:50:02

hear everything. I return to Alyssa. Okay. Hey

1:50:04

guys My name is Alyssa Sabo and you

1:50:06

can follow me on Instagram at Alyssa underscore

1:50:08

Sabo And

1:50:11

I also want to lift up Obviously

1:50:16

that album but I don't really

1:50:18

have anything too crazy because I've been I'm

1:50:22

a little busy with social obligations But

1:50:25

I just saw this is like a crazy

1:50:30

Need to explain everything saying sorry,

1:50:33

was that a brag? I just mean that I

1:50:35

had my birthday party Oh, yeah, we

1:50:37

don't need to list everything you've got going. Oh, I

1:50:43

Just saw Miley Cyrus Do

1:50:46

a cover of psycho killer and it was

1:50:48

made by talking heads Maybe one of the

1:50:50

greatest covers I've ever seen she kills a

1:50:52

cover. Have you seen this any cover? She's

1:50:55

ever done. I like it.

1:50:57

She's so good at it. Have you seen this one?

1:50:59

I don't think I have no Oh my gosh, we'll

1:51:01

watch it after this sounds good. Amazing. So I just

1:51:03

want to lift up that and Covers

1:51:07

in general Melissa wants to lift our

1:51:09

covers in general covers are great Although

1:51:12

I'm not Charlie XCX because that wasn't a cover because

1:51:14

it's actually her song. No, I know it's a Carole

1:51:16

King Oh, right and I want to lift up Kevin

1:51:20

and Jeremy is the covers that they

1:51:22

did at my karaoke birthday party. I'm

1:51:24

sure yeah Jeremy killed it when

1:51:26

nothing's gonna stop us now. He was hitting notes

1:51:28

that I never heard of hit Yeah,

1:51:31

it might be my best performance of that

1:51:33

sounded really Kevin, of course did I'm

1:51:36

on fire by Bruce Prickly, which is my favorite

1:51:38

song He also did some chair work, which I

1:51:40

thought was very very very savory. Yeah, so those

1:51:42

gotta give him something So is that okay for

1:51:45

me to lift up my my guys? Yeah My

1:51:48

name when I'm guys, I think

1:51:51

so my hungry guys Well,

1:51:54

you can lift me up at Kevin

1:51:56

Teaport everywhere, especially on only fans Alyssa

1:52:00

I lift up. He says it to

1:52:02

her, specifically. I

1:52:06

lift up Babe Pig in the city. Bing

1:52:09

bong. Oh, God. I

1:52:13

watched Babe Pig in the city for the

1:52:15

first time. Wait, for the first time

1:52:18

since I was a little kid. Oh, I see.

1:52:20

Okay. Yeah. That movie is so awesome. It's really

1:52:22

good. It's so awesome. It made me cry. I

1:52:25

got it on Blu-ray just so I could watch it.

1:52:27

Nice. That's good. Did you rent

1:52:29

it or buy it? I bought it. Wow. Yeah,

1:52:31

it was like five bucks on eBay or something.

1:52:33

Nice. But I loved it. I loved that little

1:52:35

pig. He's got me in the palm of his

1:52:37

hoof, I guess. Yeah. Little

1:52:39

hoof. Piggy. It's such a good

1:52:42

movie. I need to see it. There's a movie score

1:52:44

that's underrated. Very scary in parts,

1:52:46

like very dark. Yeah. All those