Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Milk Crates and Turntables is a Music Discussion Podcast. Each week Scott chooses a different music topic and discuss and debate the good, the bad and the ugly side of that particular topic. Maybe you'll agree or maybe you'll disagree. Listen in and find out.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
Ep. 163 - When Friendships Crumble: Navigating Political Discord, Cinematic Nostalgia, and New Beginnings
What happens when a political disagreement turns a friendship into a battlefield? Join me as I unravel the emotional and unexpected journey that led to a significant change in the Milk Crates and Turntables podcast. This episode is not just about transitions and challenges; it’s about navigating the complex terrain of personal relationships in the face of political discord. With the recent departure of my co-hosts Mark and Lou, find out how a once-solid bond crumbled under the weight of ideological differences, leaving me charting a new course for the podcast.
Take a walk down memory lane as we explore the cinematic masterpieces that have shaped our cultural landscape. From the whimsical world of "The Blues Brothers," to the dramatic clash between "Forrest Gump" and "The Shawshank Redemption," this episode is a love letter to film aficionados everywhere. Whether it's the adrenaline rush of action-packed thrillers like "Terminator 2" and "Speed," or the psychological intrigue of "The Sixth Sense," there's something for every movie lover to ponder and debate. Through spirited discussions, we dive into listener preferences, and reflect on how personal taste colors our viewing experiences.
As we navigate these changes, a heartfelt thank you goes out to our loyal listeners who have stuck with us through every twist and turn. Your support has been instrumental, and as a token of our gratitude, I'm thrilled to announce a special Veterans Day fundraiser for the One Man, One Mic Foundation. Your contributions will make a direct impact on the lives of veterans, as we strive to give back to those who've selflessly served. So, whether you're tuning in live from the Icon of the Seas or catching up later, prepare for an episode filled with gratitude, nostalgia, and a hopeful look toward the future.
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Speaker 1:I have zero time to do anything for the rest of the week. Like I am slammed with things to do, which isn't it's not a bad problem to have. So I decided, just on a whim, I got my Turbo Ice Coffee Big. It's a lot of Turbo Ice Coffee in it and not Dunkin's Turbo Ice. This makes that look like tea, look like tea. So I just decided, since I don't have time this week, and next week I'll be out on the high seas with the beautiful Dr Vera on a nice cruise on the Icon of the Seas, with the beautiful Dr Vera on a nice cruise on the Icon of the Seas, biggest ship in the world, and I won't be able to do a show. I could do a show from the ship, that's not out of the question. It won't have all the bells and whistles that this has, but you never know. Let me see, I'm sending somebody a text right now. Yeah, you're watching me just kind of.
Speaker 1:This is what I usually do before the show. I usually have before the show. I usually have everything ready to go, with the occasional fuck up, you know technically. But uh, hi, patty, blues Brothers was really good. What an expensive. Yeah, most cars crashed in one movie in the history of Hollywood, the history of movies. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep. So I have, uh, I have an announcement to make. Yeah, big announcement. Big announcement for the Milk Crates and Turntables podcast. Yeah, but I'll wait. I'll wait a minute, let me see. Big announcement. There you go. Yeah, big announcement regarding this particular podcast. Yeah, 27 and a half million dollars. Yes, patty, it's a great movie. Funny as hell. The Blues Brothers stands the test of time. I have tonight. I have, I have 40.
Speaker 1:You make the calls, it's going to be me and you guys again From 90s movies, 90s movies. So you know whether I go to the whole. You know I could do an hour. I might do 90 minutes. I might do 90 minutes, I might do a full two hours, who knows. Last week I did two hours, over two hours, by myself, and well, I'm used to it by now. Like I said last week, I used to be fucking terrified. To go live by yourself, that's kind of hard, yeah. To go live by yourself, that's kind of hard, yeah. So I uh, let me see, let me turn this down. Yeah, I'll, uh, I'll get it out of the way right now. What the hell, get it done early. Get it done early.
Speaker 1:I got an announcement regarding the Milk Crates and Turntables podcast live stream. Well, it's the same thing. This just turns into the podcast when I'm done with it. So you know, overall the show, well, I don't really know how to put this. I don't know how to put this. Um, it's not good. Well, I don't know, maybe it ends up being, it ends up being a good thing, um, so I, I did the show alone last week and you know it went fine, everything went good last week. And you know it went fine, everything went good and somewhere over the weekend, something happened that's going to, uh, basically change the whole trajectory of this podcast. So mark and lou will no longer be on the podcast. They're done. They're done. And there's a unfortunate reason to this. And I think, whether they like it or not, or one in particular likes it or not, I think the people that watch every week, the people that listen you know that don't watch the live stream, that don't watch the live stream. They just listen to the podcast. You know everything. It was a good run, but all good things must come to an end, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to say Lou evidently lost his way as far as a friendship goes, like he, he, he, uh, he. He literally became unhinged, starting, I think, probably Friday. Now he might disagree with me. Now let me give you a little background on this. So when I say somebody's my friend, they're my friend until they show me that they're not, and I've always said that, or not, and I've always said that. And friends, don't let politics get in the way. Good friends, don't let that shit get in the way.
Speaker 1:Me and Mark, we go back and forth every once in a while and we take little shots at each other. I know exactly where Mark stands and he knows exactly where I stand and there was a respect there. There was a built-up respect where you didn't cross a line, right? Well, lou evidently has been like a pressure cooker and he might not like this. He might not even watch this, he might not even see this, but at this point I really don't give a shit. Might not even watch this, he might not even see this, but at this point I I really don't give a shit when you start taking politics to the next level in a, in a friendship.
Speaker 1:Now again, this guy went through a hurricane and I felt for him. I talked about him on the podcast. I called this fucking guy. I called him to see if he was okay. I didn. If he was okay, I didn't have to do that. I didn't have to do that At the end of every show for the past year. The people that watch this all the way to the end or the people that listen to the end.
Speaker 1:There's two things that I've been saying. One is, to quote my favorite artist, morrissey, doing the show for you. The pleasure, the privilege is mine. The other has been since Mark and Lou came on the show. The other has been. I would look to those two and say I want to thank you for your time, thank you for your time, thank you for your knowledge, but most of all thank you for your friendship. I you for your knowledge, but most of all, thank you for your friendship. I said that every fucking show. Right, that's showing friendship, right?
Speaker 1:Dave Phillips, king of the 45s, welcome to the show. Evidently, that meant nothing to him. Like, evidently, lou is a different person than what I thought he was him Like, evidently Lou is a different person than what I thought he was. He started becoming unhinged on Facebook. Imagine that. And when I say unhinged, he started invoking fascism, fascist fascism, fascist Fascism. It's coming to America and so that was aimed at. We know who that was aimed at politically. So the question was asked if I support somebody who you think is a fascist or a Yahtzee, I can't say the N word or a Yahtzee, because YouTube, will they have the algorithm? Does that mean you think I'm one? And he never answered it. That's the first tell, right there, if you pay attention, that's the first tell. And then he just continues to escalate the fascism and look if you're.
Speaker 1:Oh, allison, thank you. She enjoyed Breakfast Club and Patty enjoyed watching the Blues Brothers and Allison came in at a weird time. Allison, I'm announcing that I am doing the show solo from now on. Mark and Lou won't be on anymore, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:And Mark, mark, who is, who's literally one of the sweetest guys I've ever met, he's gentle, he's a nice guy, he's he, he, he's very, very good at being self-deprecating, it's very good at it, although he wouldn't and I know, allison, I'm sorry too, really Mark just became in this thing. He's collateral damage, unfortunately, because it wouldn't be fair to him and I sent him a text explaining this to him. It wouldn't be fair to him if I said, hey, you stay on the show and but I can't have Lou on anymore because he's insinuating that I'm a fascist and I'm a Yahtzee, which that is literally unhinged, because if you see things through normal glasses, you, you know that I'm not either of them. So he, he won't answer the question. Uh, he's so politically unhinged that it blinded him and he didn't realize that what he was doing to a friendship he didn't care Like he literally did not care about the last year and almost a year and a half that meant nothing to him. He is so politically wound up, that he pissed away a friendship and does not seem to care about that, which tells me that maybe he wasn't really my friend. Maybe I saw things differently Because, like I said, if I say you're my friend, you're my friend until you show me you're not Well. He showed me me you're not Well. He showed me that he's not I can'twashed, I don't know, unhinged.
Speaker 1:And then he invokes this one. This was the final straw. He posts a meme that says it's a picture of some pilots next to a plane from World War II and it says our fathers fought fascism. They didn't vote for it. Now, now, if that wasn't an elevated like shot. Meanwhile, he never served. He didn't have the balls to serve His father, from what I told did not serve his father, for what I told did not serve um. But he decides to, to do, to do that like who's our fathers, first of all, wasn't yours, wasn't yours, um, wasn't you, you know? So that is when I just said you know what. This guy really has fucking lost his mind.
Speaker 1:And I sent a nice text. I could have been vicious, I could have been like extremely hardcore, but I didn't. I sent them a text, both of them saying listen. All good things must come to an end. I can't be, I can't have somebody in my life who even insinuates that I'm a fascist or a Yahtzee. That see, that is what is so. That's the nucleus of the insanity Me, me, me. Who is now? You know, I'm not blowing my own horn, I'm not feeling bad for myself, I'm just going to call it the way. It is me who served my country for 10 years. I served overseas. I carried a gun for this country for 10 years and then for 22 more on the front line of the drug war and the war on terror. 32 years I did this.
Speaker 1:But he can't answer the question do you think I'm a fascist? What kind of rational. Okay, and let's go to the next level, where now I've dedicated the rest of my life to helping veterans. But yet he cannot get out of that hive mind. He can't crawl out of it.
Speaker 1:Mark, mark understood, mark knows, look, me and Mark are on way opposite ends, and that's fine. We established that and we joke about it. Evidently, lou can't joke about it, he just doesn't have the capacity. Whether I can't figure it out, I just really can't. It's more. I'm not even mad, I'm more disappointed. Like you know, dude, you say that I'm, or we are, crazy, but you nuked a friendship. It's like, you know, I don't know Over politics. You hear about it, you hear about it. Well, I witnessed it firsthand. So you know, again, I don't know if he's going to watch it. I don't personally care at this point, because once you're in my rearview mirror, well, you're in my rearview mirror, that's it. There's no looking back.
Speaker 1:Oh, this song is perfect. This is probably good. Let's play this. The timing of this song on the playlist is impeccable. It's impeccable. Listen the Dandy Warhols.
Speaker 1:A long time ago, we used to be friends, but I haven't thought of you lately. How ironic is this? We used to be friends. That's good. That's good, that's good. So that's where we're at. Bring it on. Look, I could do this show standing on my head now. You know, now I just change it up. I change it up again. I changed it up when Jack couldn't do it anymore. I didn't come 163 episodes to think that that's going to ruin anything. Dave Phillips, king of the 45s. I could say something, but I'm not, and I appreciate that. I think you all, you know this is my thing and you all have your thoughts and I'm not looking for anyone to pile on Again.
Speaker 1:It's very unfortunate that he chose that path, that he couldn't help himself, that he couldn't get out of his own way, that he thinks he's I don't know who he thought he was dealing with. That's another thing. I mean, it's not like I'm not an intelligent person. I have a pretty high IQ. I don't brag about it, but I do. I know how to read situations. I know how to read people.
Speaker 1:The choice was this oh, I know, patty, I know you're not talking about me. The choice was this you either think that I'm a fascist or a Yahtzee, or and this is almost even more insulting that I am too stupid to realize what's going on in front of me. I'm too stupid to understand what's going on in front of me. I'm too stupid to understand what's going on. That, to me, is pretty much more insulting. Like the saying goes, don't insult my intelligence. That's a mistake, that's a big mistake. But yet he did so. You know that's it. That's it show is. You know that was a great. It was a great run. It was a great run and but it's all over. It's all over time for a new beginning.
Speaker 1:I'm going to reformat the show. I think I like doing these. These. You make thes interactive with the audience. I think I'm going to start bringing up some music articles, some good articles, and just kind of reading them and then discussing them and you guys can chime in. I think again I'll make it more interactive and I'll just go that way because again I can do this standing on my head. It's not hard anymore. It used to be, it used to be so.
Speaker 1:With that said, that's the announcement. Mark and Lou, the wrecking two, are no more. They wrecked it. One of them wrecked it. That's a good one. So I move on. Milk crates and turntables will not be slowed down. It will not be. I put too much into this, motherfucker, that's damn sure. Years, I put years of my life into this podcast, god damn it. So let's get into it. Let's do some 45 poke of me against you. Oh, by the way, last week I had 35 copyright infringements on that episode. So yeah, here we go. Here we go me against you, 45 poke. I like doing this.
Speaker 1:All right, you, the people have pulled Casablanca Records. Donna Summer Ooh, dim all the lights. That's a good one. All right, that's a good one. These games are going to be a lot faster, I can tell you that, a lot faster than before. All right, I pulled. Warner Reprise Records, Rare Earth, here Comes the Night or Born to Wander. Yeah, donna Summer winning. Look at this, I'm going to end up losing this hand too. All right, this is for you from. Let me see Asylum Records. Ooh, you guys won. I don't even know. I don't even know. I shouldn't even finish Asylum Records, the Eagles One of these Nights. Now I need a doozy to even get back in this. But I don't think I'm going to win this one. I'll pull one without a sleeve, just because, ah, staples Singers, I'll Take you there.
Speaker 1:This one was actually my 45. That was one of my favorite songs when I was a kid. I listened to that song over and over and over. I never knew it was a religious song, never knew. All right, here we go, you guys got RCA Records. Rca Records Elvis Presley, the Wonder of you, I don't know, or Mama Like the Roses. Either way, you guys win. There's nothing I'm pulling here that's going to get me out of this one.
Speaker 1:This was a beat down. All right, right, the war. Why can't we be friends? Still, I lost those. Thanks, thanks, everybody, yeah, thanks. Don't make me turn this into the king of facebook show. Oh, I'd never do that again. That was, that was a thing itself.
Speaker 1:Alright, let's get into this. Let's get into you Make the Call. 90s movies. I'm going to do 90s movies this week. Alright, here we go.
Speaker 1:You Make the Call. That was a good one. I don't know it. I don't know that one by Elvis. You know, I wasn't a big Elvis fan, wasn't a big Elvis fan, wasn't a big Elvis fan? Just wasn't. Yeah, he was good. Suspicious Minds, my favorite Elvis song Fine, young Cannibals do a good cover of that, really good cover. You wanted more ways than you think, patty. Thank you, patty. Patty said I wanted more ways than I think. Yeah, well, I did. I guess Life goes on. Que sera sera. All right, here we go. Everybody. You make the call. I don't know if this one has been up before. I don't know if I had this one before. All right, let's see. I wasn't crazy over Elvis either. Yeah, patty, ozzie says Dave Phillips says he wasn't an Elvis fan either. Now he's dead. We all come out of the woodwork. All right, you make the call.
Speaker 1:Forrest Gump, forrest Gump or the Shawshank Redemption? Ooh, forrest Gump. Or the Shawshank Redemption. Ooh, forrest Gump or the Shawshank Redemption. Hmm, let me think about this one. Allison says neither would she. Now we're piling on Elvis. Now we're piling on Elvis. Now we're piling on Elvis.
Speaker 1:Ah, bob Descent says Shawshank. There's no wrong answers here, by the way. There could be a little argument, but there's no wrong answers. Got to go, have a great show. All right, dave Phillips, king of the 45s, thanks for tuning in, thanks for watching, while you can, forrest Gump. And he says Shawshank, shawshank or Forrest Gump, you know what? Yeah, yeah, they both can rip your heart out At one point in time or another. But Shawshank, I gotta go with Shawshank. If I had to watch a Shawshank, I got to go. If I had to watch a movie, I think I'd watch Shawshank before I watched Forrest Gump. Yeah, all right, you make the call. Let me slide this over here, so I'm not. Yeah, that's not interfering with anything.
Speaker 1:You make the call Jurassic Park, the first one, or Jumanji. Don't sleep on Jumanji. That was a pretty good movie. It had a great. It was original. It was original, that's for sure. But it's got to be Jurassic Park, that was. I mean, that was original. It was original, that's for sure, but it's got to be Jurassic Park. That was crazy when it first came out. Got to go with Jurassic Park, okay. Then you make the call Home Alone or Mrs Doubtfire. Oh, home Alone.
Speaker 1:I wasn't really a big Robin Williams fan either. He was great. I didn't not like him, but I wasn't. You know, his comedy was funny at first and then it just became Bob D says Home Alone, yep. Then his comedy to me just became like his stand-up, just became the same thing. He was basically. He was just another version of Jonathan Winters, who was the originator of all that. Patty Aske says Home Alone, home Alone, it is Alright.
Speaker 1:One of these movies I've never seen. Todd Sagan, I wanted to wait until after the announcement. I'm here, entertain me, entertain me, big head, todd the Wet Sprocket. There you go, I'm trying to be entertaining. I know it's going to be hard. I'm boring when I'm by myself, right, I'm just boring like that. All right, one of these movies I've never seen and I probably will never see it. I have no desire, because I know how it ends.
Speaker 1:Titanic or Pretty Woman. Somebody asked me why didn't you see Titanic? I said because I know how it ends. Right, I don't care about everything in the middle. Fucking ship sinks, people die. It's a big deal. Look on the bright side for me, meaning Todd Big Head. Todd the Wet Sprocket says look on the bright side for me, meaning Todd big head. Todd the Wet Sprocket says look on the bright side for me, no one will take my line anymore. Yeah, well, this is true. Yeah, pretty Woman was a good movie. Titanic was this epic huge budget, big theme, big music, big everything. But I got to go with Pretty Woman because I never saw Titanic. Now this one's easy for me.
Speaker 1:You make the call Pulp Fiction or the Big Lebowski. Hmm, hmm, or the big Lebowski. I got to go with Pulp Fiction. Since I've seen it like I don't know 32 times, I can pretty much quote every line in the movie. It's one of the greatest movies ever made, one of the best scripts ever written. The dialogue in that movie is as good as the visuals. I mean it was brilliant. It was a brilliant fucking movie. It's a movie that you have to have.
Speaker 1:I'm not insulting anybody. I'm not insulting a fan. I just think it's true that if you watch Pulp Fiction, you have to have some sort of intelligence level to figure out where the pieces go and you've seen I'm sure you've all seen it the beginning is basically the end, but it's not because the end is pretty much the middle, because when they walk out of that diner they go to see Marcellus Wallace at the club. That's when they walk in and they look up and down and, like you know, the guy opens the door and looks at them Like just let me in, just let us in. Yeah, you have to figure it out. So I'd say Pulp Fiction.
Speaker 1:You make the call the Matrix. Ooh, this is a tough one. Well, no, maybe not the Matrix or Fight Club. I didn't fucking get the Matrix Like I got it, I watched it, I liked it. It was original, it was great cinematography, great special effects. But Fight Club was just fucking Fight Club. I mean, you want to talk about a twist in a movie. That's one of the great twists in movie history the Fight Club, fight Club. Who saw that coming? Nobody, nobody. Okay, bob Doucette says he has a good one Caddyshack or Animal House.
Speaker 1:Oof, oof, oof. Caddyshack or Animal House. Damn, that is a good one, that's uh. Honestly, I'd have to go with Animal House, but it's not. It's by a razor's edge. It's by a razor's edge. I just think Animal House, when it came out, was such a standout movie. In that sense Caddyshack came along, you know, in the midst of all these comedy movies, these great, great 80s and 90s comedies, movie, comedy movies. But I'd gotta go with animal house on that one, although caddyshack had the better cast. Uh, all right, I'm to say Fight Club over Matrix. Alright, you make the call. Yeah, animal House started it all it did.
Speaker 1:Silence of the Lambs or Seven, fucking chat GPT. Every week it just gets a little bit tougher. Silence of the Lambs or Seven, don't open the box. Don't open the box. I got to go with Seven. I got to go with Seven. I gotta go with 7. It was so dark. Yeah, everyone's saying silence of the lambs, I know, but 7 was just so dark.
Speaker 1:Silence of the lambs. Patty Allison. Dave Phillips, he's back, can't keep a good man down. Dave Phillips says seven. He's with me on this one. Silence is great, but seven was just fucking, had just a very yucky feeling to it, made you feel a little dirty, I don't know. All right, here we go. You make the call.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I saw the second one. Yeah, I think maybe I did. I'm not a rom-com guy. All right, patty, you got to watch Seven, but hang on when you watch it, just hang on. It's dark, it's very dark, but it's a good movie. It's a great Brad Pitt movie, great Brad Pitt movie. So that's some homework right there. Especially over Halloween, it's pretty much a good time to watch it. Dave Phillips King of the 45, says Scott, I'm proud to be your friend and I'm proud that you are my friend. Dave Phillips, I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah, patty's gonna watch 7 now I have a feeling the more I do these movie things, the more homework she's gonna have.
Speaker 1:You don't like Brad? What? How could you not like Brad Pitt? Everybody likes Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt is one likes Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt is one of the realest laid-back dudes. He's like Keanu Reeves, is the most laid-back and coolest dude in all of Hollywood for this generation. Brad Pitt is not far behind him. He's really not brad pitt's, he's the dude you know, okay. So let me tell you a story about brad pitt. You might have heard it, you might not have heard it when he was dating, uh, gwyneth paltrow. Uh, harvey weinstein tried to pull his shit. No, p Diddy likes Leonardo DiCaprio. Bob said says P Diddy likes Brad. No, that's Leonardo DiCaprio. He's got something to answer to coming up. But Gwyneth Paltrow, harvey Weinstein tried to pull his shit on her and she told Brad Pitt who she was dating at the time and he went to the studio, literally like stormed into the office, pretty much kicked the door open to Harvey Weinstein's office and told him I will fucking kill you if you touch my girlfriend or even go near my girlfriend again. He said I will fucking kill you, harvey Weinstein, and what are you going to say to Brad Pitt? And that's basically that's Brad Pitt. He wasn't afraid of anything and that's really where he gets a lot of respect from me.
Speaker 1:Might not like his movies but, like Allison says, legends of the Fall is a fucking amazing movie. Amazing movie, yeah, wasn't that the movie where they were the McLean brothers? The McLeans? Yeah, spelled differently. But Patty says she's replying to Daveave phillips. Uh, I'll check them out, I don't know what. Oh, the ocean movies yeah, oceans, oceans. 11 is another good. I mean, there's a lot of great brad pitt movies. Uh, uh, what was it? Uh, uh, 12 monkeys. That's a good one. Alright, moving on this again Clueless, or 10 Things I Hate About you, if I gotta pick Clueless, because what's her name? She was good to look at Alicia Silverstone and she was funny too. She was legitimately funny in those movies. See Ocean's Eleven there you go. Patty. Saw oceans 11. Uh, another uh uh movies, you know.
Speaker 1:Uh, you make the call the lion king a toy story. So the lion king was nothing but a ripoff of that 70s cartoon that we used to watch growing up in boston on channel 56. It was kimba the White Lion. Kimba the White Lion was one of those original animes that came to America along with Speed Racer. Kimba the White Lion was about a lion, that was, his parents got killed and he grew up on his own and he became this big, you know. And Disney just blatantly stole it. They just changed one letter in the name from kimba to simba and it just it really was a ripoff of kimba the white lion. So I never saw lion king and I won't.
Speaker 1:Just on general fucking principle, like like John Travolta said in Pulp Fiction, when they're in the diner and uh, what's her name? Uh, honey, bunny is up on the counter and she's pointing the gun at Jules and Tim Roth has the gun and John Travolto comes out of the bathroom, he pulls out his gun and he points it. He points it at Honey Bunny and Jules says put the gun down. Put the gun down, vincent. Put the gun down, vincent. And he tells Tim Roth, you can take the money. And he says if you give him that fucking money, I will shoot them on general principle. That was great. If you give him that fucking money, I will shoot her on general principal. That was great. If you give him that fucking money, I will shoot her on general principle. Put the gun down, vincent.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I guess I'd say Toy Story. Alright, this could be hard, could be easy. You make the call Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan or Braveheart? Saving Private Ryan or Braveheart? I guess it's got to be Saving Private Ryan, right? Yeah, and Braveheart was a great movie, but Saving Private Ryan is one of those standalone movies that's up there in the stratosphere of movies. So I think that's an easy one. All right, this is a pretty good one For you 90s movies fans. You make the call Men in Black the original Men in Black or Independence Day Both Will Smith movies, men in Black or Independence Day.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say Independence Day. Men in Black was funny and it had a lot of great scenes in it. But Independence Day was it's more of a, a movie you could kind of get into, like it brought you along to the end. And then they did Independence Day too, which they should never have done. They should never have done that P Diddy likes Will. And then they did Independence Day too, which they should never have done. They should never have done that. P Diddy likes Will, bob Doosan, p Diddy loves everybody. So yeah, men in Black, independence. I got to say Independence Day, all right. We got a couple Robin Williams Speaking of Robin Williams, a couple Robin Williams movies Good Will Hunting or Dead Poets Society.
Speaker 1:Good Will Hunting or Dead Poets Society. I got to say Good Will Hunting, I don't know, I wouldn't even, I don't think that's close. Good Will Hunting, again one of those great, great, great movies Came out of nowhere and it's a Boston-based movie. Ah, descent says dead poets, but very tough, okay, all right. Like I said, no wrong answer. No wrong answer. This is a blow-by. You make the call Perry Denevich, the AI. Welcome to the show, my friend. If you missed the beginning, watch the beginning, perry. Big announcement was made. This is a blow-by. Aladdin or Beauty and the Beast. I'll go Beauty and the Beast. Just to get past this one I gotta go. P Diddy loves the king. Way to stick with the theme, my friend. Way to stick with the theme. Long live the king. Yeah, all right, all right, here we go.
Speaker 1:You make the call Dumb and Dumber or ace ventura, pet detective couple, jim carrey classics. Dumb and dumber was so fucking dumb it was great. It legitimately was so dumb that it was great, brilliant. That which makes it brilliant makes it brilliant, right. Right, ace Ventura, great character, had a good run with it, has some legendary one-liners, great scenes. But Dumb and Dumber was just so fucking funny. I don't know who wrote it, but it was fucking brilliant, it was brilliant. You know what dumb and dumber is, is that I guess they call them dad jokes. It's so fucking stupid that it's funny. But that was how they did it, so they pulled it off. Alright, here you go.
Speaker 1:You make the call Terminator 2. But that was how they did it, so they pulled it off. All right, here you go. You make the call Terminator 2. Terminator 2, which was a much bigger budget, a better movie, all in all, right Technically.
Speaker 1:And or Speed Terminator 2, judgment Day, or Speed Terminator 2, judgment Day or Speed. You make the call. I'd have to go with Speed was good. Speed was original, it was constant, constant action throughout the whole movie, whole movie. Well, once they got on the bus, it was constant action. Judgment day was a like I said big budget, big special effects. Arnold was back, better movie. I'll go with speed. I'll just go outside the box. I'll say Speed. It was a better movie. Yeah, all right, so that's that. I okay, these are good. You make the call. Better Movie?
Speaker 1:The Sixth Sense or the Blair Witch Project? That fucking Blair Witch Project. That fucking Blair Witch Project. I bought into that fucking hook line and sinker. I bought into it hook line and sinker. They marketed that movie so fucking good. The Sci-Fi Channel did like a mini documentary on, like leading up to the movie, on how they found these tapes. It was and I believed it. I literally believed it and I got taken and so did millions of other people.
Speaker 1:But the Sixth Sense is just another one of the greatest plot twists in history. I think I might have said this recently what had a better plot twist to it? What movie had a better plot twist? Would it be the Sixth Sense or the Crying Game? Remember the Crying Game. Remember the Crying Game, forrest Whitaker? That was a twist. That was a twist that nobody saw coming Like zero. There wasn't even a hint that this was going to happen. So bigger plot twist. I asked my wife, I asked Dr Vera, I said what's a bigger plot twist, the Sixth Sense or the Crying Game? And she didn't even take a breath. She was like Crying Game, like immediately, immediately. But with all that said, sixth Sense was just a better movie. It was a better movie.
Speaker 1:All right, you make the call the Green Mile or A Few Good Men. Ooh, wait a minute now. The Green Mile or A Few Good Men? Ooh, I don't know, man, I got to go with the Green Mile. I got to go with the Green Mile. Is my background music like blasting up, then coming down, up and down, up and down? I don't know. Green Mile, patty says Green Mile, yeah, I gotta go with Green Mile. Fugue of Men's a great movie. But Okay, then you make the call Halloween edition, scream. Or I Know what you Did Last Summer. I gotta go with Scream. Scream was actually good. Scream was actually a good movie. I Know what you Did Last Summer good horror. Scream was actually good, scream was actually a good movie. I know what you did last summer Good horror movie. But Scream was a better movie.
Speaker 1:I think you make the call A League of their Own or Jerry Maguire. League of their Own or Jerry Maguire Show me the money, or there's no crying in baseball. What's it going to be? Allison says no, no horror. No, okay, I respect that. I respect that. No horror. Allison is not watching a horror movie. No, go watch Dumb. And not watching a horror movie, no, go watch Dumb and Dumber. You're better off. I'd have to say A League of their Own. I actually met some of those ladies. Patty's not good with movies, yeah, I'm not too good with movies.
Speaker 1:Then next week well, I won't be here next week, I'll be on a ship out in the Caribbean, or is it the Caribbean? How do you say it? Caribbean or Caribbean? What does Billy Ocean say? Caribbean queen or Caribbean queen? Caribbean queen or Caribbean queen? Next time, queen or Caribbean queen? Huh, next time you hear that song, you're going to ask yourself I just fucked you up a little bit. Next time you hear it, is he saying Caribbean or Caribbean? Hmm, okay, so I'd have to go with. I'd have to go with League of their Own. Like I said, I met some of those ladies back in the 90's. They had a little resurgence. They were going to a lot of baseball shows, baseball card shows, signing autographs. They were wonderful, wonderful women, so I'd have to go with them.
Speaker 1:Alright, you make the call Space Jam, or the Mighty Ducks Space Jam, the original Space Jam. Or Michael Jordan Patty says Caribbean Queen Allison. I agree, the Mighty Ducks Space Jam, the original Space Jam. Michael Jordan Patty says Caribbean Queen Allison. I agree. Yeah, the original Space Jam. This last Space Jam was like nobody went to see it. It was a bomb. They tried to throw that piece of shit. Lebron James in there, bombed Because he's a piece of shit, a billionaire, but he's still a piece of shit. Space Jam, yeah, definitely. Mighty Ducks was good. Hey, look at it, a fucking hockey franchise. Nhl franchise came out of that movie. So there's something there. And Emilio Estevez was a good actor. He was good to watch in the 90s and the 80s and 90s.
Speaker 1:Okay, you make the call American Beauty. You remember American Beauty? With what's his name? Dude, that got Kevin Spacey. Or Donnie Brasco. I got something in my. How does something get in your eye when there's nothing like I'm indoors. Fuck American Beauty with Kevin Spacey or Donnie Brasco, with Al Pacino and Johnny Depp Was it Johnny Depp? I think so. What's it going to be? I think so. What's it gonna be? American Beauty was weird. It was a fucking weird movie. Nah, it's like something just got in my eye. I don't know what it is Like, something I don't know. I gotta go with Mob. Movies are always good, but American Beauty was kind of. It was like a disturbing kind of movie. I'll go with Donnie Brasco. I'll go with Donnie Brasco. This is a good one. You make the call Point Break Keanu Reeves and what was the other dude from Dirty Dancing? He was in it, I believe.
Speaker 1:Or True Lies? Oh, it's got to be True Lies. Got to be True Lies, patty. Did you ever see True Lies? Allison, you ever see True Lies? Mm? Yeah, if you haven't, that's homework. True Lies written by Quentin Tarantino, so you know it's good. You got to watch True Lies. Oh, that is a. Yeah, let me see, let me double check. Uh, not that, all right, here we go. Not true lies? Oh, I'm thinking. True romance. No, true lies. Let's see true lies. That might. That might be the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Yeah, that's the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. All right, you got to watch True Romance. You ever see that one.
Speaker 1:True Romance is the one I want you to watch. If you've never seen it. True Romance, you have some great actors in there. Brad Pitt's in it, but he's not a big part of it. Yeah, true Romance it's. Christopher Walken is brilliant again in that movie. It has a lot going on in it. So watch True Romance. True Romance, that's your homework.
Speaker 1:All right, where are we at? We're coming up on an hour. I'm going to do an hour tonight, yeah, so let's just push on a little bit. Oh, where are we here? Okay, you make the call Heat. I've heard this one before. I've heard. I've heard this one thrown out there for heat or casino heat or casino Heat or casino. I don't know, I can't Heat or casino. I'm going to go with casino, casino, buy again or raise his edge, but I'll go a casino, buy again or raise his edge, but I'll go a casino. Okay, you make the call fargo. If you've never seen fargo, fuck the narrow. I, I agree. Mock talent says fuck the narrow, I agree, I agree, I think the guy turned into an old douche, uh, but you can't deny, like the movies that we grew up on.
Speaker 1:You know you can't, you can't deny those movies. You don't have to like him today. Uh, evidently he was always like that. So you know, but you can, but you can't deny the movies. And he's not the only person in that movie I mean. So say we take Casino, say we take Joe Pesci out of Casino, then it's not, he is Joe Pesci, is Casino. Really, anybody could have played De Niro's pie, if you think about it. Joe pesci was made that movie, great. So denaro was just always being denaro and joe pesci he made that movie. So I, I gotta go with casino, let's see. Well, this is interesting.
Speaker 1:The rock with sean connery about alcatraz, or con air with, uh, with my boy, what's his name? Francis Ford Coppola's nephew. How do I forget his name? I fucking like him too. This happens. No, that's not it. How can I forget his name? Nicolas Cage, yeah, nicolas Cage. John Cusack's in it. I'll go with Con Air. Con Air was.
Speaker 1:That was another good movie. I'm actually coming up on the end. So, all right, I'll get through these, I'll push through. We'll go a little deeper than an hour. You make the call Armageddon or Deep Impact Armageddon. I don't really have a memory. I saw Deep Impact but it doesn't really stand out to me, which means it didn't really do me any good. So I'll go with Armageddon over Deep Impact.
Speaker 1:Let's see you make the call Starship Troopers, which was actually a good movie. Starship Troopers was one of those movies where you're like I'll never watch that movie. And you do, and you do, and it's actually enjoyable. It's's an enjoyable movie. It's a sci-fi movie that don't sleep on. Starship troopers if you get a chance to see it, watch it. It's very entertaining. It's over the top at points, but it's just an entertaining movie.
Speaker 1:Or Demolition man Come on, wesley Snipes, right, come on, come on, wesley Snipes, right, let me see. Let me pull this up. That's when he had the. Yeah, he had the. Let me see. Yeah, sylvester Stallone, wesley Snipes, he had the blonde mohawk. Wesley Snipes did a little. He did a little good cameo as Blade in Deadpool vs Wolverineine. He did a great job. He, he is blade. This. You can't make blade and nobody else could. They actually can that movie.
Speaker 1:Disney was trying to remake it and it just. They went through three writers, four directors. Uh, it was just a mess. They couldn't get the script right. They were going to bring blade back to like the 1920s and start back then, like when he, uh, when he became blade. I don't know like. Why would you do that, disney? Because you're fucking idiots. That's why Just stick to the formula Bring Wesley Snipes back, make him Blade and right around that. I could fucking do that, but not Disney. No, oh, this one's easy.
Speaker 1:You make the call Hook or the Sandlot. The Sandlot was a great movie. Talk about nostalgia, talk about going back in time when we were kids. Sandlot oh, definitely Perry Denevich. The AI says Passenger 57. Yeah, yeah, yeah, wesley Snipes, look it, he was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, wesley Snipes, look at he was good, he was good. He still has some legs, he still has something left in him. All right, you make the call groundhog day or office space. Office space was fucking funny. Office space was funny. That's what the TV show show the office was based on. But groundhog day was also funny. But I gotta go with office space. All right, two more.
Speaker 1:You make the call the fifth element with, uh, my girl, mila jovovich. Mila jovovich, mila Jovovich, to me, is the bad, most badass woman that ever came to Hollywood. She just Mila Jovovich. Not only that, it's just absolutely beautiful, absolutely beautiful Mila Jovovich. And she, let me see, she did the. She did the. Uh, what was it? The fifth element?
Speaker 1:And she did all those resident evil movies and she, just as alice, she just kicked ass in those movies. If you've never seen Resident Evil, you got to watch Great sci-fi movie based on a video game. There's like eight of them. Dr Vera in one weekend watched all eight of them. She binged them, like from Friday night to Sunday. She binged all the Resident Evil movies in a row. It's great. She also does. I think she did. Was it the Fourth Kind? Let me see what other movies did she do? Monster Hunter, she was in Hellboy, future World, resident Evil what was the other one? She did another really good. She was in the three musketeers ultraviolet. Ultraviolet is a good sci-fi movie. She was good in that. Alright, let's do the last one. Let's do the last one.
Speaker 1:You make the call the crow or the craft craft is about witches. I think the crow is the crow or the craft craft is about witches. I think the crow is the crow. And, by the way, the remake again, hollywood just doesn't fucking get it. They don't fucking get it. They uh talk about living in a bubble. They are in a fucking bubble. They tried to remake the Crow. Why would you do that? Brandon Lee is the Crow. There's no other fucking crow.
Speaker 1:They tried it for a new generation, a modern audience. Well, the fucking modern audience. Did you even know that the Crow had a remake? Did you even know that it was out in the movies, in the movie theaters, for like I don know three weeks? Shit bombed, just absolutely fucking bombed. Nobody went to see it because no one asked for that movie, no one asked for a remake of the crow.
Speaker 1:Yet hollywood and all their laziness, we're just going to let's take that IP and we'll redo it again for the modern audience. You know, hollywood talks about this modern audience. I'm into all that nerd stuff. I'm into pop culture and I watch a lot of that, a lot of YouTube channels on pop culture and people in Hollywoodwood, the writers, the directors, the studio heads, the activists. Oh, we're gonna make this for a modern audience. The fucking modern audience does not exist. That's why these movies bomb. That's why disney has lost a billion dollars in two years. There is no modern audience that they think is there. So they continue to make shit movies that make zero. Actually they lose money, and that's my rant about Hollywood. But I digress.
Speaker 1:The crow of the craft, gotta go with the crow. There's only one crow, that's it. Great movie Based around what used to be Hell Night in Detroit. You don't hear about that anymore, but in the 80s they would always call it Hell Night and they would burn the fucking city up. Detroit would be on fire. Literally, it was just insanity. They got it under control. So that's it insanity. They got it under control. So that's it, everybody. That's it To recap.
Speaker 1:Tonight, mark and Lou are no longer on the show. Unfortunately, lou became unhinged and well, I just can't fucking have it. So that's that. And we move on. The show moves on. No one stops the show. Nobody stops the show. Nobody stops milk crates and turntables. I adjust and I move forward and maybe someday somebody else comes along.
Speaker 1:Yeah, watch the Crow. You know what? The Crow? I think the Crow aged well. I think it aged well. The special effects might not be Well, they're not. They're not to modern standards.
Speaker 1:But think about it from when it was made and and watch it. It's still, it's, it's again. It's a dark movie, but it's a good movie. Of course, brandon Lee died halfway through it. So the second half of the movie they don't. It's not really, it's not him, they halfway through it. So the second half of the movie it's not really. It's not him. They don't really show him. They do some stuff, they try to put his face on something, but you know, it's still a good movie. Still a good movie. So that's that.
Speaker 1:Yep, like I said, we move forward, the show adjusts, the show adapts, the show moves on. I won't be here next week. I'll pick it up again in two weeks. Like I said, I'll read some articles, we'll discuss some music news, we'll do some more of these. You know there's always rabbit holes to go down and we just change the form, format changes and that's that. Maybe somebody else comes along who wants to be on the show, and well, and they and they're good enough and they're smart enough, and God damn it, I like them. And then they come on, then we have a new co-host and we just keep doing that. But me I'm going nowhere. I am going nowhere. Patty Yossi, thank you. She says you are the best. You and Dr Vera have a wonderful vacation. Thanks again, allison.
Speaker 1:This was a pop-up show, allison, so it's always going to be still Thursday nights. It's still Thursday nights. This was a pop-up because, well, I'll be at a comedy show tomorrow night and then Thursday night I have something plus. It's halloween. Yeah, I think ebola, I think ebola the clown might be might be reruns of the ebola the clown halloween special playing on this channel, I don't know. That's that's pretty interesting. Yeah, you've never seen Ebola the Clown. It'll be on Halloween night and then Friday's Friday.
Speaker 1:I don't really do them on Fridays anymore because I used to do this. I used to do this show on Fridays. No, I did the King of Facebook show on Fridays. King of Facebook show. I look back at that YouTube channel. There's like 140 episodes. I did a lot of those too.
Speaker 1:Holy shit, no more Mr X. Robert Kirkman aka Dr Porkchop says no more Mr X. Leave Mr X alone. Mr X is brilliant. He might make an appearance just because of that. Robert Kirkman aka Dr Porkchop.
Speaker 1:Alright, everybody, I'll let you go. I'll let me go again. It's me and for the foreseeable future, it's just me and you guys back together again. No one interfering with us. No one gets in the way of me and you, nobody. I might bring that back. No one interfering with us. No one gets in the way of me, and you nobody.
Speaker 1:Coffee with the king king was great. I might bring that back, that, I might. You know, that's that's the thing about that. I can pop up. I can do those pop-up shows too.
Speaker 1:Coffee with the king was fun, but you know what? I? I just I think I got to a point where I was doing milk crates and turntables. Then I was doing the king of facebook show, both live and then on sunday morning. So that was like, uh, you know what was it? Uh, thursday, friday and sunday, and sometimes you just want to take a break. Sometimes you just want to take a break and I I got in the habit of just having a relaxing sunday morning without getting on and doing the live stream Coffee with the King. But you know, yeah, it just sometimes is just too much and I enjoyed Sunday mornings without that little. Okay, I got to get up and do this, time to make the donuts, time to do the live stream. So that kind of fell off, but it had a good run.
Speaker 1:Dr Forkchop became famous because of Coffee with the King, so he misses it. I know that. But you never know. You never know in 2025. We'll see, we'll see what I'm doing. We'll see what I'm doing, but again, until then, everybody, I love you guys.
Speaker 1:I do this for you guys. I really do this is therapeutic to me, but I I love you guys that the the cult following that this podcast has. I do appreciate you guys watching and listening and putting me over 30 000 downloads, and that's not that I don't even check those. I used to check those more. I don't even look at them and I looked at it recently. I was like, damn, like there's 162 episodes out there, so people have enough to watch. But I appreciate everybody sticking with me, standing by me, uh, being my friends and yeah, and well, to quote my favorite artist, morrissey, doing this show for you. The pleasure, the privilege is mine and some of you know now where that came from. I revealed that last week. And yeah, until then, everybody, have a great weekend, have a great Veterans Day.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'll be doing a Veterans Day fundraiser on Facebook, so get ready. Yeah, I'm doing a fundraiser for the One man, one Mic Foundation. That's my Veterans Foundation and I will be doing a fundraiser. So if you feel generous when it pops up on your screen, don't be shy. Support my veteran organization so I can support those veterans. All the money I don't get paid Nobody gets paid in this organization All the money goes to a veteran doing the outreach that we do and what it takes to keep a foundation running. So, yeah, be on the lookout for that. It'll be the week leading Next week. While I'm on a cruise ship, I'll have a fundraiser going. So, like they say in politics, vote early, vote often, donate early, donate often. All right, everybody, thanks again.