Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / Reel Justice
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Well, Merry Christmas. Many of you that may be listening
- 0:04Speaker 1: right now, you might be traveling to go see family
- 0:06Speaker 1: right now, and we thought we would pause from politics
- 0:10Speaker 1: on this Christmas and first off just say Merry Christmas,
- 0:14Speaker 1: but also to talk about something completely different, and that
- 0:18Speaker 1: is center. People that don't know you, well, I'm gonna
- 0:23Speaker 1: give them a little bit of a clue. You absolutely
- 0:27Speaker 1: love movies, and you put together a list of your
- 0:31Speaker 1: favorite movies and also series and shows that you watch.
- 0:35Speaker 1: And if you've ever wondered what Senator Cruz is watching
- 0:37Speaker 1: when he's flying all the time, here's a really good
- 0:40Speaker 1: list we're gonna be giving you on this Christmas.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Well, and let me just echo that Merry Christmas. I
- 0:45Speaker 2: hope you're having a wonderful and blessed day. I hope
- 0:47Speaker 2: Sanna came down the chimney and your kids are overjoyed,
- 0:51Speaker 2: and you're spending time, maybe with some hot cocoa. We
- 0:54Speaker 2: often do Christmas by the tree, where all be in
- 0:57Speaker 2: my bathrobe. We'll all be in our pajamas, the kids
- 1:00Speaker 2: will be opening presents. We all actually have cups of
- 1:03Speaker 2: hot cope coat and it's a beautiful time and it's
- 1:06Speaker 2: a beautiful time to reflect not just on the love
- 1:08Speaker 2: your family has for each other, but the love God
- 1:11Speaker 2: has for us and the salvation He sent for us. Now,
- 1:14Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but over holidays, what my
- 1:17Speaker 2: family has always done is we go to movies. We
- 1:18Speaker 2: go to movies over Thanksgiving break, we go to movies
- 1:21Speaker 2: over Christmas break. I love movies. As a kid, both
- 1:24Speaker 2: my parents love movies. I would go to movies with
- 1:26Speaker 2: my mom and dad when I was a little kid.
- 1:28Speaker 2: I still go to movies with them now.
- 1:30Speaker 1: But I mean, you're a movie theater guy. Just so
- 1:32Speaker 1: people know this, I like.
- 1:33Speaker 2: The real theater, so I like the big screen. I
- 1:35Speaker 2: like popcorn and gummy bears, and you know, the experience
- 1:40Speaker 2: of being there. And by the way, I'm also rabid
- 1:43Speaker 2: about staying until the very end, till the last moment
- 1:46Speaker 2: of the credits play. I will not get up and leave.
- 1:49Speaker 2: There's a sense of completeness of appreciating the entirety of
- 1:53Speaker 2: the movie. And so what we decided we do today
- 1:56Speaker 2: is put together just a compilation of movies that that
- 2:00Speaker 2: I love, that I recommend to you, and and hopefully
- 2:03Speaker 2: as you're taking some time with your family, maybe you'll
- 2:05Speaker 2: go watch one of them and laugh or cry, and
- 2:08Speaker 2: it'll touch you and you'll enjoy it. And I think
- 2:10Speaker 2: art and storytelling are beautiful, beautiful things.
- 2:14Speaker 1: So that being said here in the big shows and
- 2:17Speaker 1: the big movies on Senator Cruise's list, Merry Christmas. I
- 2:22Speaker 1: get asked all the time from many of you guys
- 2:24Speaker 1: that are watching or listening right now, what is Ted
- 2:27Speaker 1: Cruz like behind the scenes. So we thought we'd have
- 2:31Speaker 1: a little fun. I'm gonna ask him some questions, and
- 2:33Speaker 1: you're even gonna find out what his favorite movies are. Senator,
- 2:37Speaker 1: We're gonna have a little fun. I get asked all
- 2:39Speaker 1: the time when I'm all over the country. In half
- 2:41Speaker 1: of this last week in New York, so what is
- 2:43Speaker 1: Ted Cruz really like behind the scenes? And I say,
- 2:47Speaker 1: I actually, if people got to see the side of
- 2:49Speaker 1: you that I know, you're actually really fun to be around.
- 2:52Speaker 1: You're also a huge movie buff as well, and so
- 2:57Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask some fun questions just to kind of
- 3:00Speaker 1: let people know behind the curtain who you really are.
- 3:03Speaker 1: So let's start with this. What is the last thing
- 3:06Speaker 1: you watched on a plane?
- 3:08Speaker 2: What is the last thing I watched on a plane?
- 3:11Speaker 2: Was outer Banks. Okay, which is a series. It's a
- 3:15Speaker 2: teeny bopper series, and it's phenomenal. I am in the
- 3:18Speaker 2: middle of season three. And there's a reason I'm watching
- 3:20Speaker 2: a teeny bopper series, which is my youngest daughter, Catherine
- 3:24Speaker 2: loves Outer Banks. She's at camp right now, yep. And
- 3:27Speaker 2: when I dropped her off at camp, she said, Dad,
- 3:30Speaker 2: I want you to watch out her Banks, and I
- 3:32Speaker 2: want you to write to me in letters and tell
- 3:35Speaker 2: me what you think is the season's progressing. And so
- 3:38Speaker 2: I've been regularly. I write to her about every couple
- 3:40Speaker 2: of days and I tell her, Okay, here's where I am.
- 3:43Speaker 2: I'm at this point. I'm at this point. This character
- 3:46Speaker 2: just my favorite character, JB. Yeah too, no doubt about it.
- 3:49Speaker 2: So she asked me that I'm a little troubled. Her
- 3:51Speaker 2: favorite character is JJ who who is kind of a
- 3:55Speaker 2: look I guess if you're a thirteen year old girl,
- 3:57Speaker 2: he's you know, he's always doing the dumbest thing imaginable,
- 4:01Speaker 2: but he's kind of a I like John B. John
- 4:03Speaker 2: B is a good character.
- 4:04Speaker 1: It's such a fun show. So when you were growing up,
- 4:07Speaker 1: what was it that you were watching high school college?
- 4:10Speaker 2: But by the way, spoiler alert. I apologize if you
- 4:12Speaker 2: haven't seen seen it, I'm gonna give a spoiler alert
- 4:14Speaker 2: right now, So just fast forward through this if you
- 4:16Speaker 2: don't want a spoiler alert. But in season two, when
- 4:20Speaker 2: when when Ward is blown blown up, I knew Ward
- 4:23Speaker 2: was not blown up, and so I wrote her, I said, yeah,
- 4:25Speaker 2: Ward just died. I'm very confident he's alive. And I
- 4:28Speaker 2: remembered they keep scuba gear in the boat. He got
- 4:31Speaker 2: in the scuba gear and then like seven.
- 4:32Speaker 1: EPs books remember those there you got to figure it out,
- 4:36Speaker 1: and you're like, they got to keep this, they gotta
- 4:38Speaker 1: keep the series.
- 4:38Speaker 2: So I felt pretty good that I was at least
- 4:40Speaker 2: a step ahead of the teeny Bopper series.
- 4:43Speaker 1: I like that. So what were you watching in high school?
- 4:45Speaker 2: Like?
- 4:45Speaker 1: What were your favorite shows? What was your favorite movie?
- 4:49Speaker 2: So I love movies. My parents love movies, like like
- 4:52Speaker 2: we would, you know, this is what we do. So
- 4:55Speaker 2: so every holiday, every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, my family got
- 4:59Speaker 2: and watch movies.
- 5:00Speaker 1: I heard a Christmas movie.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Of course it is okay good, absolutely, yes, there's only
- 5:03Speaker 2: one right answer. Guy Heart is absolutely a Christmas movie.
- 5:06Speaker 2: But we would go out and do movies When I
- 5:09Speaker 2: was a kid, when I was like eight nine years old,
- 5:12Speaker 2: my dad would drop me off at the theater all
- 5:14Speaker 2: Saturday and I'd watch like five movies. I'd go from
- 5:17Speaker 2: one theater to the next to the next and just
- 5:19Speaker 2: watch everything there. It's we all love movies. So what
- 5:22Speaker 2: I've done done today for this show is I put
- 5:26Speaker 2: together a list of twenty five movies. Now this is
- 5:29Speaker 2: not exclusive, this is not the only twenty five movies
- 5:32Speaker 2: I like, and I don't even know that it's my
- 5:34Speaker 2: twenty five favorite. But it's twenty five awesome movies, which
- 5:38Speaker 2: if you haven't watched, I recommend you watch. You will
- 5:40Speaker 2: enjoy them. You will laugh, you will be moved, you
- 5:43Speaker 2: will get good things from them. So let's go through
- 5:45Speaker 2: the twenty five.
- 5:46Speaker 1: I gotta ask for one more question for your twenty
- 5:47Speaker 1: five What movie have you watched the most in your
- 5:50Speaker 1: life over and over again?
- 5:51Speaker 2: Well, that actually happens to be number one on the list.
- 5:53Speaker 1: I knew it. I like this.
- 5:54Speaker 2: So my favorite movie of all time is The Princess Bride. Really,
- 5:58Speaker 2: I love The Princess Bride the Prince. I think every
- 6:02Speaker 2: character in it is exquisite. Every line from every character
- 6:06Speaker 2: is fantastic. I'll tell you. In college, we used to
- 6:09Speaker 2: play a game called Drinking Princess Bride. And so the
- 6:13Speaker 2: way you play Drinking Princess Bride as you sit down
- 6:16Speaker 2: with a bunch of college kids, you put the movie
- 6:18Speaker 2: on and you try to say each line immediately before
- 6:22Speaker 2: it's said. If you get it right, you point at
- 6:25Speaker 2: somebody they have to drink. If you screw it up
- 6:28Speaker 2: even slightly, you drink. And if two or more people
- 6:32Speaker 2: say the same line at the same time, everybody drinks.
- 6:36Speaker 2: So when you get to the wish, why you.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Were so sober in college now I understand.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Look, when you get to the as you wishes, everyone
- 6:42Speaker 2: can get them. So they're all socials and it is
- 6:44Speaker 2: a fun game. My problem is I know just about
- 6:47Speaker 2: every line from the movie, but I'll screw them up slightly,
- 6:50Speaker 2: so I end up kind of getting myself because I
- 6:53Speaker 2: try an awful lot of them. But is an exquisite movie.
- 6:56Speaker 2: I probably watched The Princess Bride, I don't know a
- 6:58Speaker 2: couple hundred times. No way, it is fantastic. So that's
- 7:01Speaker 2: number one on your list, far and away. Number two
- 7:05Speaker 2: on my list is The Godfather Saga.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Couldn't agree with you more? One of the best series
- 7:09Speaker 1: ever made, period.
- 7:11Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna break it down between one, two
- 7:13Speaker 2: and three. I even like three, which is a bit
- 7:16Speaker 2: of a heretical idea. I think three stands on its
- 7:19Speaker 2: own as its own movie. The least that three only
- 7:23Speaker 2: makes sense in conjunction with one and two.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Which is when you're in the club. I kind of
- 7:28Speaker 1: like that, like you can't fake it and go see
- 7:30Speaker 1: number three and and think oh, that was incredible. You
- 7:34Speaker 1: have to be in it.
- 7:35Speaker 2: And look, I quote all of them all the time,
- 7:37Speaker 2: you know, from three. Every time I get out, they
- 7:39Speaker 2: keep pulling me back in. I will say it was
- 7:43Speaker 2: a little depressing with with my team where I turned.
- 7:47Speaker 2: You know, senate staffers are all children. You know, your
- 7:50Speaker 2: average to put that on a T shirt, your average
- 7:53Speaker 2: senate staffer is like twenty three, twenty four, twenty five.
- 7:57Speaker 2: So so things like Godfather quotes they just don't get.
- 8:00Speaker 2: And so I said something, I said, you know, this
- 8:05Speaker 2: is the business we have chosen, and like everyone looked
- 8:08Speaker 2: at me confused, and I said, okay, I like six
- 8:10Speaker 2: staffers there. I said, all right, do any of you
- 8:13Speaker 2: have any idea what I'm saying. They're like, no, no, no,
- 8:16Speaker 2: I said, okay, this is Godfather too, And this is
- 8:20Speaker 2: a conversation between him and Roth, who is clearly modeled
- 8:24Speaker 2: after Myer Lanski, hym And Roth and Michael Corleoni. And
- 8:29Speaker 2: they're down in Miami and Hyman Roth goes Michael. I
- 8:34Speaker 2: had a friend. I had a friend since childhood, Moe
- 8:37Speaker 2: Green was his name. And one day somebody put a
- 8:42Speaker 2: bullet in his eye. I did not ask who was responsible.
- 8:50Speaker 2: I did not seek retribution. I said, this is the
- 8:58Speaker 2: business we have chosen. None of them had any idea
- 9:02Speaker 2: what I was talking about.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Team building night in the Senate. You should totally. You
- 9:05Speaker 1: should totally bring them in one, two and three.
- 9:07Speaker 2: It's nine hours.
- 9:09Speaker 1: This is what you're gonna do. That's team building.
- 9:11Speaker 2: One one Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday.
- 9:14Speaker 1: A favorite line from any of the Godfather is the
- 9:17Speaker 1: best one. Mine's a canoli.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Leave leave the gun, take the canola.
- 9:21Speaker 1: Yeah, no brainer. Number three on your list Scarface? Really?
- 9:26Speaker 2: Oh I love me some scarface. Why notice Pacino has
- 9:30Speaker 2: two spots in my top three here? I like Pacina, Okay,
- 9:34Speaker 2: I love crime movies and look Scarface. Stony Montani's Cuban.
- 9:38Speaker 2: I'm Cuban. It's you know, it is larger than life.
- 9:43Speaker 2: I can quote a lot of lines from it. To
- 9:45Speaker 2: be honest, I'm not going to because they're pretty off
- 9:48Speaker 2: color and I'm going to avoid putting out on the
- 9:50Speaker 2: podcast some of the language uh from from it. But
- 9:53Speaker 2: uh it is. So crime genre is your thing and
- 9:58Speaker 2: I like Pacino.
- 9:59Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing.
- 10:00Speaker 2: So my favorite TV show is Criminal Minds. I love
- 10:03Speaker 2: Criminal Minds.
- 10:04Speaker 1: I'm actually shocked by that one because if there is
- 10:07Speaker 1: only one box that I can take with me my
- 10:09Speaker 1: whole life, like if I was stuck on it as
- 10:11Speaker 1: a island, it'd be West Wing.
- 10:13Speaker 2: West Wing is fabulous. I've watched every episode of West Wing.
- 10:15Speaker 2: I've watched every episode of Criminal Minds. But Criminal Minds
- 10:18Speaker 2: is I just find it fascinating. Heidi hates it, by
- 10:20Speaker 2: the way, when Criminal Minds is on, She's like, turn
- 10:22Speaker 2: that garbage off because you know you've got evil, vicious murderers.
- 10:25Speaker 2: I'm like, no, no, they're the bad guys though, it's
- 10:27Speaker 2: all about stopping them. But she just doesn't like that.
- 10:29Speaker 2: In the house, all right. Number four Fletch never seen it.
- 10:34Speaker 2: You've never seen Fletch. Go home tonight and watch Fletch.
- 10:40Speaker 2: It may be the funniest movie ever made. Really, Chevy
- 10:44Speaker 2: Chase plays Irwin Fletcher, an undercover investigative reporter. It is
- 10:49Speaker 2: absolutely hysterical. You know, I love Tivy Chase.
- 10:52Speaker 1: So that's that's It's.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Chevy Chase's best movie, much much better than Lampoon's Vacation,
- 10:58Speaker 2: much better than and He's Done It. I love chevy Chase.
- 11:01Speaker 2: But Fletch is head and shoulders above them all. You know, Grant,
- 11:06Speaker 2: who heads up my security detail. Grant and I quote
- 11:09Speaker 2: Fletch lines back and forth at each other every week.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Really, it is Go and watch the movie. Never seen it.
- 11:16Speaker 1: It is spectacular, all right, Fletch, I'm on it all right,
- 11:19Speaker 1: Number five amazing. Grace also never seen it.
- 11:24Speaker 2: A lot of people have not seen it, but it
- 11:25Speaker 2: is a very good It is the true story of
- 11:28Speaker 2: William Wilberforce. Now William Wilberforce was a member of Parliament
- 11:32Speaker 2: in the United Kingdom who led the effort to abolish
- 11:36Speaker 2: the slave trade.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Very cool, is it true? Store?
- 11:39Speaker 2: True? Store and Wilberforce. So when he started as a
- 11:43Speaker 2: young MP, the slave trade was the United Kingdom's single
- 11:50Speaker 2: greatest source of revenue. It was their business. And he
- 11:54Speaker 2: begins as this young MP arguing we must end the
- 11:57Speaker 2: slave trade. It is wrong, it is immoral, and everyone
- 12:00Speaker 2: laughs at him. And it would be like if you
- 12:03Speaker 2: were in Texas standing up saying we should ban oil
- 12:06Speaker 2: and gas.
- 12:07Speaker 1: I mean, it was that absurd of an idea back then.
- 12:10Speaker 2: And he spends fifty years battling for it, and the
- 12:13Speaker 2: movie ends with him successfully championing and passing the legislation
- 12:19Speaker 2: abolishing the slave trade and shutting down their most lucrative
- 12:23Speaker 2: business because it was evil. And by the way, the
- 12:27Speaker 2: title amazing grace, you know where it comes from. What
- 12:31Speaker 2: So the person who wrote the hymn amazing Grace was
- 12:36Speaker 2: a friar who had been the former captain of a
- 12:41Speaker 2: slave ship. Really, he was the captain of a slave ship.
- 12:46Speaker 2: And think of the words of the song, amazing grace,
- 12:48Speaker 2: amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch
- 12:53Speaker 2: like me. I once was lost, but now and found,
- 12:57Speaker 2: was blind, but now I see and imagine the person
- 13:01Speaker 2: writing that in that context was the captain of a
- 13:04Speaker 2: slave ship. Presumably he had murdered people, he had beaten people,
- 13:09Speaker 2: he had whipped people. He I mean, I mean, you
- 13:11Speaker 2: think of the evil entailed in being the captain of
- 13:15Speaker 2: a slave ship, and then the amazing grace that that
- 13:19Speaker 2: that God offered redemption even in the face of the
- 13:23Speaker 2: horrific evil. It puts a whole different character that the
- 13:28Speaker 2: book is is by Eric metaxash' A, who's a fantastic author.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Christian author does great biographies. I highly recommend Amazing Grace
- 13:36Speaker 2: Number six. Unforgiven, Never seen it? Oh, Unforgiven is.
- 13:41Speaker 1: This is why it makes me laugh when we get
- 13:43Speaker 1: to do shows like this, because I I mean, I
- 13:45Speaker 1: will go watch these now.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Okay, so Unforgiven Best Western ever made won the Academy
- 13:51Speaker 2: Award for Best Picture. Clint Eastwood is in it.
- 13:54Speaker 1: I could I could do an age joke. Here was
- 13:56Speaker 1: it in black and white?
- 13:57Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, it was actually laid Eastwood. You
- 14:00Speaker 2: were actually out of diapers when it came out.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Morgan Freeman is in it. Gene Hackman is in it.
- 14:06Speaker 2: Gene Hackman is spectacular. What's interesting about Unforgiven that is
- 14:11Speaker 2: so powerful is it turns all of the stereotypes of
- 14:16Speaker 2: the Western on its head. So, for example, Clint Eastwood
- 14:21Speaker 2: plays this this outlaw who had turned over a good
- 14:26Speaker 2: leaf and was good and then was going back gets hired.
- 14:29Speaker 2: What happens is a a woman who is a prostitute
- 14:33Speaker 2: is badly cut up by a drunk cowboy and they
- 14:38Speaker 2: put out a reward to kill the cowboy who cut
- 14:41Speaker 2: her up. And Clint Eastwood, as this retired outlaw, needs
- 14:46Speaker 2: the money and so is coming to collect the reward,
- 14:49Speaker 2: and and Morgan Freeman, his partner, comes with him. But
- 14:51Speaker 2: there's a point where where Clint Eastwood, you know, there's
- 14:54Speaker 2: there's a young kid who wants to be a gunslinger
- 14:57Speaker 2: and and he's like practicing on shooting fast, and like
- 15:00Speaker 2: Clint Eastwood says, well, you know, for me, this is
- 15:06Speaker 2: about as fast as I can draw my gun, point it,
- 15:10Speaker 2: aim at it, pull the trigger, and hit what I'm
- 15:12Speaker 2: aiming at. And he said, in most firefights, people are
- 15:17Speaker 2: scared out of their mind and they're just terrified. And
- 15:20Speaker 2: whoever can kind of calmly engages who wins. And there
- 15:24Speaker 2: are scenes where like everyone's like, oh crap, and they
- 15:26Speaker 2: shoot their foot and they drop their gun and they're
- 15:28Speaker 2: like freaking out. And he kind of and he would
- 15:30Speaker 2: just get drunk and just sort of systematically bang, and
- 15:34Speaker 2: it really did invert many of the conventional wisdom.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Of being a fast draw on everything else.
- 15:42Speaker 2: And Gene Hackman's character is hysterical. It is. He's the
- 15:46Speaker 2: sheriff who initially you think might be the hero, but
- 15:50Speaker 2: he very quickly becomes an anti hero. So excellent. Movie
- 15:56Speaker 2: number eight, Team America.
- 15:58Speaker 1: I've actually seen it, Hilary.
- 16:00Speaker 2: And I'm going a little edgy. So Team America, Team America,
- 16:03Speaker 2: World Police. It's a puppet movie.
- 16:06Speaker 1: I remember when it came out. Everybody was in shock,
- 16:08Speaker 1: but I was dying laughing.
- 16:09Speaker 2: So Heidi didn't like movies very much. I took Heidi
- 16:12Speaker 2: to see it. She almost fell to the floor laughing.
- 16:14Speaker 1: So she y'all clicked on that.
- 16:16Speaker 2: It is screamingly funny. Now it makes fun of both sides.
- 16:20Speaker 2: It makes fun of Republicans, Democrats, every ding. It's the
- 16:23Speaker 2: guys who do South Park who did it? It is puppets.
- 16:28Speaker 1: They are truly equal opportunity offenders.
- 16:30Speaker 2: It is now. I'm going to give a warning. Every
- 16:33Speaker 2: third word is a profanity. If you're offended by profanity,
- 16:37Speaker 2: skipped this suggestion, I will say. When we were fairly
- 16:40Speaker 2: newly weeds, we went on vacation with Heidie's parents down
- 16:44Speaker 2: at Lake Powell, which is fabulous, and we brought it
- 16:47Speaker 2: with us and we sort of like, Heidi and I remember,
- 16:50Speaker 2: this is really really funny, and I think we didn't
- 16:52Speaker 2: quite remember that every third word is a profanity. And
- 16:56Speaker 2: I'm sitting there with Heidie's parents as we're listening to
- 16:58Speaker 2: the blinkety blink blink blink, blink blink. We didn't finish
- 17:02Speaker 2: the movie really, like ten minutes into it.
- 17:04Speaker 1: We just I can't believe you brought this in front
- 17:06Speaker 1: of your parents, right, yeah, it was, but it's still
- 17:10Speaker 1: funny as I'll get it, all right.
- 17:12Speaker 2: Next movie, Patten.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Yep, amazing, amazing movie. I've watched Patton probably five six
- 17:18Speaker 1: times in my life.
- 17:19Speaker 2: All Right, do you know what I did before every
- 17:21Speaker 2: Supreme Court argument I ever did?
- 17:22Speaker 1: Well, I can figure it out now you watch Patten.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Not the whole thing, just which scene the opening speech? Okay, yeah,
- 17:28Speaker 2: just the opening speech George C. Scott in front of
- 17:31Speaker 2: the gigantic flag, standing up and saying, men, the objective
- 17:36Speaker 2: is not to give your life for your country. The
- 17:39Speaker 2: objective is to make that other poor son of a
- 17:41Speaker 2: bitch give his life for his country. I mean, I
- 17:45Speaker 2: can dig that.
- 17:45Speaker 1: I can dig that.
- 17:47Speaker 2: It is sound advice. If you can watch that speech
- 17:51Speaker 2: and not be inspired, you're dead. Yeah, like it is.
- 17:54Speaker 1: See, those are my weakness movies. I love true stories.
- 17:57Speaker 1: I love good versus evil movies. I absolutely love sports
- 18:01Speaker 1: movies as well, but there's always usually a big speech
- 18:03Speaker 1: in those.
- 18:04Speaker 2: By the way, a buddy of mine collects historical military
- 18:07Speaker 2: equipment and clothing and uniforms, and he has patents dog tags,
- 18:12Speaker 2: no way, And I actually have worn Patten's dog tags.
- 18:16Speaker 2: They have rested on my bare chest and I literally
- 18:19Speaker 2: felt like I was ready to pull out a pistol
- 18:21Speaker 2: and start shooting in an airplane. Like it made you.
- 18:24Speaker 2: You think about that that actually rested right above the
- 18:27Speaker 2: heart of patent.
- 18:29Speaker 1: That's incredibly wild. That's a good thing known all right.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Next movie The Sting Classic. Have you seen this? You've
- 18:36Speaker 2: never seen the sk.
- 18:36Speaker 1: I don't even know what it's about.
- 18:38Speaker 2: Oh, oh, Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin The Sting All time classic.
- 18:43Speaker 2: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, they're they're con men. It is
- 18:47Speaker 2: this is.
- 18:48Speaker 1: This is when I can really mess with. Wait. Newman
- 18:50Speaker 1: does something outside of like SASA like.
- 18:52Speaker 2: It is hysterical. It is beautifully done. Go and watch
- 18:56Speaker 2: what's it about? It's about conmen, okay, and it's it's
- 19:00Speaker 2: worth watching. I'd probably watched it one hundred times in way.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Such a good movie. All right, next movie, Awakenings. Yes,
- 19:09Speaker 2: I've seen that, so Awake. It's only one. So Awakenings
- 19:12Speaker 2: is fabulous. Robert de Niro, you're a de Niro fan.
- 19:15Speaker 2: I like de Niro a lot. Not a fan of
- 19:17Speaker 2: his politics, but a big fan of his acting. He
- 19:19Speaker 2: is a great actor. Although as much de Niro got
- 19:21Speaker 2: all the acclaim but I actually thought Robin Williams stole
- 19:24Speaker 2: the show.
- 19:25Speaker 1: Well, I love Robin Williams, So this is what this
- 19:27Speaker 1: is right at my alley.
- 19:28Speaker 2: Robin Williams is one of my all time favorite actors ever.
- 19:32Speaker 2: I mean, he's an incredible comedic actor, so.
- 19:34Speaker 1: You're gonna laugh. I was asked the question if you
- 19:36Speaker 1: could have dinner with like any five people who would
- 19:38Speaker 1: be at your table, living or alive or dead. I
- 19:41Speaker 1: had Robin Williams for years in my list because I
- 19:44Speaker 1: think he's just one of the most brilliant actors and
- 19:47Speaker 1: genuinely funny human beings.
- 19:48Speaker 2: So when Robin and Williams passed, I genuinely cried and
- 19:52Speaker 2: I wrote a long statement about Robin Williams on Facebook
- 19:54Speaker 2: that I put up, but it just I hammered it
- 19:56Speaker 2: out of my iPad because he he is so so funny.
- 20:00Speaker 2: His stand up If you've ever watched his stand up
- 20:03Speaker 2: routine golf, yeah, I've watched the one on golf is
- 20:06Speaker 2: again profane language, but as funny as anything that has
- 20:11Speaker 2: ever been said, like screamingly funny. Awakenings, the portrayal he gives.
- 20:16Speaker 2: I actually like Robin Williams even better in dramatic performances
- 20:19Speaker 2: than comedy. And he's one of the funniest human beings
- 20:22Speaker 2: ever alive. So Awakening on the list, Yes, fabulous, all right.
- 20:29Speaker 2: The next two I view together, Braveheart and Gladiator.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Both amazing, no brainers, incredible and all Gibson Russell Crowe right, yes,
- 20:40Speaker 1: back to back. How can you get that wrong?
- 20:43Speaker 2: And both standing and fighting and and fighting against oppression
- 20:49Speaker 2: and their epic epic movies. Again, if you're not inspired
- 20:54Speaker 2: by them, you're dead, I will say, Mike Lee. There's
- 20:59Speaker 2: an app where you could can put yourself you speaking
- 21:05Speaker 2: into an audio clip. And he and I used to
- 21:09Speaker 2: send things back and forth. And you know at the
- 21:11Speaker 2: end when mel Gibson is being executed. He screams freedom,
- 21:18Speaker 2: so Mike would send me videos of him screaming to
- 21:21Speaker 2: Mel Gibson's voice Freedom. It was pretty powerful, all right. Next,
- 21:28Speaker 2: Beverly Hills.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Cop hands down one of the funniest movies ever.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Just screamingly funny. Eddie Murphy, you're gonna laugh.
- 21:36Speaker 1: I consider that a Christmas movie because it's like days off.
- 21:38Speaker 1: I want to watch the classic. I watched that.
- 21:41Speaker 2: It is every moment of it. Eddie Murphy remains one
- 21:44Speaker 2: of my favorite actors of all times.
- 21:46Speaker 1: He's got a new one coming out, a sequel coming
- 21:49Speaker 1: out on Amazon. I think it's on Amazon Prime. Did
- 21:52Speaker 1: you see that recently? I just saw it this last week.
- 21:54Speaker 1: I don't know which one it was, but they were teasing.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Yes, they're doing a Beverly Hills.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Cop too, Okay, is that what it is? Three?
- 22:01Speaker 2: But look, the original Beverly Hills Cop is screamingly funny
- 22:05Speaker 2: and and I actually have three Eddie Murphy movies in
- 22:07Speaker 2: a row because I love Eddie Murphy. Beverly Hills Cop,
- 22:11Speaker 2: Trading Places, Yes, and Coming to America.
- 22:14Speaker 1: So Coming America is one of the first movies that
- 22:16Speaker 1: was like really edgy that I remember, like in my
- 22:18Speaker 1: adolescent sing hilarious.
- 22:21Speaker 2: Again, screamingly funny, and Eddie Murphy and our Cineo Hall,
- 22:25Speaker 2: and they play multiple characters at all the different you
- 22:27Speaker 2: know in the barber shop, when you have Eddie Murphy
- 22:30Speaker 2: in our Senel Hall, going back and forth. I mean,
- 22:31Speaker 2: it's amazingly And you know what, they probably wouldn't let
- 22:34Speaker 2: you make that movie today because it gets racially edgy
- 22:38Speaker 2: in a way that like, now you know the woke world. No no, no,
- 22:41Speaker 2: you can't laugh at me that no, no, no no
- 22:43Speaker 2: you can't. You can't. You can't have any of that humor.
- 22:46Speaker 2: By the way. You want funny humor, go back to
- 22:50Speaker 2: young Eddie Murphy on sen L when he was like
- 22:52Speaker 2: nineteen years old, brilliant and just edgy, comedic like brilliance.
- 22:59Speaker 2: I love He's by far my favorite character ever on
- 23:02Speaker 2: SNL was young Eddie Murphy because it was just so funny.
- 23:06Speaker 1: I like it. Mine's Farley by the way.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Look he was he was great and he put his
- 23:12Speaker 2: hole into it.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I also love that man
- 23:16Speaker 1: and a little Jack, that man down by the river.
- 23:19Speaker 1: I mean, but I also love like comedy when there's
- 23:22Speaker 1: people falling over and he could do that. His physical
- 23:25Speaker 1: comedy was incredible, all right. Next on the list, Wall Street, Yep,
- 23:31Speaker 1: just all time Gordon Gecko one of the great all
- 23:34Speaker 1: time classics. By the way, a line that I quote
- 23:37Speaker 1: frequently Gordon Gecko is is in the locker room getting
- 23:42Speaker 1: cleaned up after playing playing racquetball, and he turns to
- 23:46Speaker 1: Charlie Sheen and he goes, I'm on the board of
- 23:50Speaker 1: the Bronx Zoo. Cost me a million bucks. That's the
- 23:54Speaker 1: thing about wasps love animals, hate people.
- 23:59Speaker 2: There's some insight.
- 24:00Speaker 1: There is some insight there for sure.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Hidden figures. Yes, wonderful movie. Incredible movie about the African
- 24:09Speaker 2: American female mathematicians who were foundational to America going to
- 24:15Speaker 2: the Moon. And for me, there are two kind of
- 24:18Speaker 2: personal reasons why that movie is significant to me.
- 24:21Speaker 1: Well, it's got to be because of Houston.
- 24:23Speaker 2: Well, when we went to see the movie, I took
- 24:25Speaker 2: my mother to the movie. I took Heidi to the movie.
- 24:27Speaker 2: I took both my daughters to the movie. And it
- 24:30Speaker 2: was interesting my girls. It was the first time they'd
- 24:32Speaker 2: seen a movie that had segregation.
- 24:34Speaker 1: Yeah, the bathroom is the one of the most iconic
- 24:37Speaker 1: scenes in that whole movie.
- 24:38Speaker 2: And it led to I had a long conversation with
- 24:40Speaker 2: both of them and they were like, well, why would
- 24:42Speaker 2: people have done that? And to talk about segregation and
- 24:45Speaker 2: civil rights and just sort of walk through the history
- 24:47Speaker 2: of it. It prompted really good conversations with my girls.
- 24:52Speaker 2: But secondly, so my mom. My mom graduated from Rice
- 24:57Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty six and she had a degree and
- 25:01Speaker 2: she went to work as a computer programmer at Shell.
- 25:05Speaker 2: She subsequently went to work at the Smithsonian. And you
- 25:09Speaker 2: remember the movie Hidden Figures begins with Sputnik being launched
- 25:12Speaker 2: and sort of the space race being beginning. One of
- 25:16Speaker 2: my mother's first assignments at the Smithsonian was to help
- 25:20Speaker 2: compute the orbits of Sputnik. And so in front of
- 25:24Speaker 2: the girls, I asked my mom. I said, Mom, you
- 25:26Speaker 2: were doing this, and in fact, you were doing it
- 25:28Speaker 2: ten years earlier. You were doing it in the fifties.
- 25:31Speaker 2: Hidden Figures is set in the sixties, And I said,
- 25:33Speaker 2: how accurate is it? And my mother thought it was
- 25:36Speaker 2: very accurate. That it did a really good job of
- 25:39Speaker 2: conveying what it was like to be a woman in
- 25:43Speaker 2: space and science and in a technical environment. And I
- 25:47Speaker 2: commented to her, I said, okay, one of the strange
- 25:51Speaker 2: things to a more modern ear is that they referred
- 25:57Speaker 2: to the women there as computers. Yeah, and we think
- 26:00Speaker 2: of a computer as a piece of metal.
- 26:02Speaker 1: But they were actually called computers because they were actually
- 26:05Speaker 1: doing the math.
- 26:05Speaker 2: And my mother started laughing at me and she said
- 26:08Speaker 2: her first job title was computer and when she started
- 26:12Speaker 2: at Shell, she had a business card that said eleanor
- 26:15Speaker 2: dearra computer No way. And so in response to that,
- 26:21Speaker 2: I introduced legislation to rename the street in front of
- 26:25Speaker 2: NASA headquarters hidden Figures Way. And this is actually a
- 26:29Speaker 2: really cool story. I introduced that legislation before it could pass,
- 26:33Speaker 2: and we would have gotten it passed, but a DC
- 26:36Speaker 2: City councilman saw that legislation and said, you know what,
- 26:39Speaker 2: that's a great idea. And the DC City councilman introduced
- 26:43Speaker 2: it in the DC City council. Guy's a Democrat, and
- 26:45Speaker 2: he got it passed. So the DC City Council passes.
- 26:48Speaker 1: It's cool.
- 26:49Speaker 2: So I went to the street signed dedication and that
- 26:52Speaker 2: that is the street sign there, and I was there,
- 26:54Speaker 2: I spoke at the denaway it is the headquarters of NASA, Inc.
- 26:59Speaker 2: And so NASA so the address of NASA is one
- 27:01Speaker 2: hidden figure's way. And so I spoke of the dedication.
- 27:04Speaker 2: The DC City councilman spoke, and he's a Democrat. I'm
- 27:07Speaker 2: a Republican. And I told the story of my mom,
- 27:10Speaker 2: which was really cool to get to tell. And I said, look,
- 27:13Speaker 2: at some level, you might say, listen, the street sign's
- 27:16Speaker 2: not that big a.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Deal, that one is.
- 27:18Speaker 2: But at another level, you know, fifty years from now,
- 27:20Speaker 2: one hundred years from now, some little girl, some little
- 27:23Speaker 2: boy is going to come visit NASA and they're gonna
- 27:26Speaker 2: look up and see the street sign and they're gonna say, hey,
- 27:28Speaker 2: what does that mean? Yeah, and they're going to hear
- 27:31Speaker 2: the story of the pioneering African American women who were
- 27:36Speaker 2: the mathematicians that got us to the moon. And so
- 27:38Speaker 2: it's where movies and stories are powerful.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Did any of the characters of the movie, Did any
- 27:44Speaker 1: of them get to come to.
- 27:45Speaker 2: That that they had passed by the time we did that?
- 27:48Speaker 2: So no, all right, we just got a few more.
- 27:51Speaker 1: Schindler's List one of the hardest movies to watch. Yes,
- 27:56Speaker 1: The other one is that I can't. I've only watched
- 27:58Speaker 1: it one time because I just can't bring myself to
- 28:00Speaker 1: watch it again. Is Loan Survivor. Those two movies to
- 28:04Speaker 1: me are must sees. But I just I don't know
- 28:07Speaker 1: if it's because I've become a dad and having kids
- 28:10Speaker 1: now and watching the kids, I just can't watch them
- 28:12Speaker 1: like I used to.
- 28:14Speaker 2: So, as you know, a couple of weeks ago, I
- 28:16Speaker 2: was at Normandy for the eightieth anniversary of D Day,
- 28:19Speaker 2: and wildly enough I got to meet Steven Spielberg and
- 28:22Speaker 2: Tom Hanks, which was really cool, and I had pretty
- 28:25Speaker 2: extended conversations with both of them, and they've done Look,
- 28:28Speaker 2: their politics are both left of center, but they've done
- 28:31Speaker 2: an amazing job really honoring and telling the stories of
- 28:34Speaker 2: the greatest generation, whether saving Private Ryan, whether Band of Brothers,
- 28:39Speaker 2: whether the Pacific and so we're talking about that, and
- 28:42Speaker 2: I was talking with Spielberg about about Schindler's List and
- 28:47Speaker 2: just you know, talking with the heroes, the World War
- 28:52Speaker 2: Two heroes who almost all say, well, I could have
- 28:54Speaker 2: done more. I could have done more, and the real
- 28:57Speaker 2: heroes are under those crosses behind us. And I was
- 29:02Speaker 2: telling Spielberg, I said, hearing them say that reminds me
- 29:05Speaker 2: of the end of Schindler's List, where Oscar Schindler is like,
- 29:09Speaker 2: I could have done more, and he looks down at
- 29:11Speaker 2: his gold watch and he said, this watch, this watch
- 29:13Speaker 2: could have saved three more people. Three more people are
- 29:16Speaker 2: dead because I kept my watch. And you think about
- 29:20Speaker 2: the heroism of his rescuing Jews from the Nazis and
- 29:24Speaker 2: incredible courage. But at the same time, the like, why
- 29:27Speaker 2: didn't I do even more? And that that, to me,
- 29:30Speaker 2: is the most beautiful moment of that movie, is the
- 29:33Speaker 2: sort of did I do enough? Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna
- 29:38Speaker 2: take a detour, a detour to the world of musicals.
- 29:43Speaker 2: So I like musicals.
- 29:45Speaker 1: Do you like Broadway?
- 29:46Speaker 2: I do. I love Broadway absolutely so.
- 29:48Speaker 1: Like you if you go to New York, you would
- 29:50Speaker 1: put it on your list to go see a show.
- 29:52Speaker 2: I love Broadway, and I'm gonna have four musicals on here.
- 29:54Speaker 1: I'm ready.
- 29:55Speaker 2: So number one is my father's favorite movie of all time,
- 29:59Speaker 2: which is My Fair Lady. Okay, and My Fair Lady
- 30:02Speaker 2: is fantastic.
- 30:03Speaker 1: I've seen it because of my mom and my sister
- 30:05Speaker 1: multiple times.
- 30:07Speaker 2: I've met the English.
- 30:08Speaker 1: I've never watched that.
- 30:08Speaker 2: You've got children how to speak, Norwegians learned, Norwegians the
- 30:14Speaker 2: Greeks are taught their Greek.
- 30:16Speaker 1: See, this is why I said this show would be entertaining,
- 30:19Speaker 1: because I would have never thought you were musical. It
- 30:22Speaker 1: is Spectator Broadway you've ever been to.
- 30:24Speaker 2: I'm gonna get to that.
- 30:25Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, going to get to that.
- 30:26Speaker 2: So the second one there is Oliver. Yep, great, Oliver
- 30:31Speaker 2: is spectacular. So so look, I was in high school.
- 30:34Speaker 2: I was president of the drama club.
- 30:36Speaker 1: I have way too many one liners, but I'll leave
- 30:38Speaker 1: that for another show. Keep going.
- 30:40Speaker 2: You were captain of the tennis team. I was president
- 30:41Speaker 2: of the drama club. Okay, I get that. There's a
- 30:43Speaker 2: reason why you would have stuck me in the locker.
- 30:46Speaker 1: If if that would have that would have gotten you
- 30:49Speaker 1: a SmackDown for sure.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Yeah. But so look, I all politicians are frustrated actors.
- 30:55Speaker 2: It's just it's just part of the the it is.
- 30:57Speaker 1: You act in high school?
- 30:58Speaker 2: Oh yes, a lot were you in? So I did?
- 31:01Speaker 1: Do we have eight tracks of this or what what
- 31:04Speaker 1: was it? Beta? Can there?
- 31:06Speaker 2: They may be somewhere. So let's see, I've done Sound
- 31:09Speaker 2: of Music twice.
- 31:11Speaker 1: What did you play?
- 31:11Speaker 2: So I played the first time I played Rolf?
- 31:14Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 31:15Speaker 2: Uh, you know and I warbled out, you are sixteen
- 31:18Speaker 2: going on seventeen, no way. And then the second time
- 31:21Speaker 2: I played max Yep, I also so I did Oliver
- 31:28Speaker 2: and Oliver.
- 31:29Speaker 1: Is a fabulous classic.
- 31:30Speaker 2: So Oliver was my senior year, and the head of
- 31:33Speaker 2: the music department told me, hey, we're doing Oliver next year,
- 31:35Speaker 2: and he said, you know, I'd love to have you
- 31:37Speaker 2: play Fagan if you can sing it. And and my curse, Look,
- 31:42Speaker 2: I'm a terrible singer. I cannot carry just save my
- 31:46Speaker 2: in a bucket like like I wish I could I have,
- 31:50Speaker 2: you were not given to it. And so I actually
- 31:53Speaker 2: went and for like six months I took voice lessons,
- 31:56Speaker 2: so try to get be able to sing Fagan is such?
- 32:00Speaker 1: Did you get any better in the six months?
- 32:02Speaker 2: A little bit? And so what happened? And the nice
- 32:05Speaker 2: thing about Fagan is is Fagan's songs are more spoken
- 32:16Speaker 2: than saying. So for example, the song reviewing the situation
- 32:21Speaker 2: a man's got a hot, hasn't he? Joking apart? Hasn't he?
- 32:28Speaker 2: And though I'd be the first to admit that I
- 32:30Speaker 2: wasn't a saint, I'm finding it hard to be really
- 32:34Speaker 2: as bad here I.
- 32:35Speaker 1: See your dad next I'm gonna say, those six months
- 32:37Speaker 1: is worth it now right, I'm.
- 32:39Speaker 2: A viewing the situation. Can a fellow be a villain
- 32:45Speaker 2: all his life, all the trials worry about? To settle
- 32:51Speaker 2: down and get myself away.
- 32:54Speaker 1: And you remember.
- 32:56Speaker 2: I will cook and sew for you, and comfort you
- 32:59Speaker 2: and go for what are you in? Golder?
- 33:00Speaker 1: Are you?
- 33:01Speaker 2: And nagget you the finger? She will wag at you.
- 33:04Speaker 1: How many tickets they sell for? This is what I
- 33:05Speaker 1: really want to know.
- 33:07Speaker 2: So I prepared that song was one. Now it's mostly spoken,
- 33:12Speaker 2: it's not release, so I could do it marginally competently
- 33:17Speaker 2: after six months practicing. I did that at the trio
- 33:20Speaker 2: and then and then afterwards music director said, hey, Ted,
- 33:23Speaker 2: stick around, and he went to the piano and he
- 33:25Speaker 2: said sing this, and he went d and I went
- 33:29Speaker 2: and he did it like three times and he goes, okay,
- 33:32Speaker 2: damn it not happening. So I was cast as Bill Sykes.
- 33:35Speaker 2: It's the second male lead with no singing. It's a
- 33:39Speaker 2: fun role. You're the villain. You get to like beat
- 33:41Speaker 2: up Oliver, twist and like you're but but I wanted.
- 33:46Speaker 2: I wanted to play that role badly, and I did
- 33:49Speaker 2: not get it. All right. Two more musicals. Hamilton, which
- 33:57Speaker 2: is utterly exquisite. I've seen it multiple times. It is brilliant,
- 34:02Speaker 2: it is beautiful, it is powerful. My girls know the songs.
- 34:06Speaker 2: There are few things that make me happier than when
- 34:08Speaker 2: my daughters are singing songs from Hamilton. I mean it
- 34:11Speaker 2: was there was a period where they were obsessed with it.
- 34:13Speaker 1: You and I were talking about this the other day.
- 34:15Speaker 1: My dad I took him to New York for the
- 34:16Speaker 1: first time ever for seventh birthday, and you said, did
- 34:19Speaker 1: you go see a show? And I was like, do
- 34:20Speaker 1: you want to see Hamilton? He's like, I'd rather go
- 34:22Speaker 1: the Yankees game. And then the next night I was like,
- 34:24Speaker 1: we just that I'd rather have a nice meal. I
- 34:26Speaker 1: tried hard. I tried to get him to Hamilton. It
- 34:29Speaker 1: just wasn't on the list.
- 34:30Speaker 2: And then my favorite music of all time is Lemis
- 34:33Speaker 2: Really and I love le miss I think, do you
- 34:35Speaker 2: get choked out?
- 34:36Speaker 1: Be honest, because I'm a sucker for this. I get
- 34:39Speaker 1: I get the lump in the throaked up. Yeah, all right,
- 34:41Speaker 1: So what song gets you choked up? Oh? The one
- 34:43Speaker 1: that the most famous. I'm terrible with it. It's the
- 34:45Speaker 1: one that Anne Hathaway does It's so good.
- 34:48Speaker 2: Oh, and she won won the Academy Awards. One every
- 34:51Speaker 2: time it gets me, so that is beautiful. I'll tell
- 34:54Speaker 2: you that the two that get me choked up are
- 34:58Speaker 2: number one, when John Valjean is saying let him live, yep,
- 35:02Speaker 2: and he's looking down and he says, you know, if
- 35:06Speaker 2: I die, that one's InCred to me die. Yeah, let
- 35:10Speaker 2: him live. And it's a prayer to God to let
- 35:12Speaker 2: him live every time. I have tears every time. Then
- 35:17Speaker 2: the other one that gets me is the song empty
- 35:20Speaker 2: chairs and empty tables at the end when everyone has died.
- 35:24Speaker 2: And I will confess at the end of the presidential
- 35:27Speaker 2: campaign in twenty sixteen, as I walked through the empty
- 35:29Speaker 2: campaign office and I saw the empty chairs and empty tables,
- 35:33Speaker 2: I heard that rephrames of that song, so les miz
- 35:40Speaker 2: is exquisite. All right, by the way, when I was
- 35:44Speaker 2: all right, So nineteen ninety three, I was just finished
- 35:48Speaker 2: my first year of law school, and I had a
- 35:49Speaker 2: job in New York. I was working in a law
- 35:51Speaker 2: firm in New York for the summer, and I decided
- 35:56Speaker 2: to fly my mom to New York for the weekend,
- 35:58Speaker 2: and so it's nineteen ninety three. So actually fedexed a
- 36:01Speaker 2: plane ticket. And this is back when a plane ticket
- 36:03Speaker 2: was a piece a piece of cardboard. Yeah, I fedexed
- 36:05Speaker 2: a plane ticket to her with nothing else. It was
- 36:08Speaker 2: literally she opened the FedEx package and just a plane
- 36:10Speaker 2: ticket to New York fell out. And she called me
- 36:12Speaker 2: and she's like, Ted, I assume this is you. I said, yeah,
- 36:14Speaker 2: I had no note, no nothing, just a plane ticket
- 36:16Speaker 2: and the FedEx thing.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Get on the plane. I'll see you soon, mom.
- 36:18Speaker 2: So I fleird in New York and we went out
- 36:20Speaker 2: to dinner at Boulet, which at the time was the
- 36:22Speaker 2: nicest restaurant in New York. Was fabulous, and then I
- 36:26Speaker 2: took her one night to see Camelot, which was really fun. Yep,
- 36:29Speaker 2: and then the next night to see Le Miz And
- 36:31Speaker 2: did she love it? She loved it?
- 36:32Speaker 1: And it I that's one of those ironed memories for
- 36:35Speaker 1: us of life.
- 36:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that. That was just very cool to
- 36:39Speaker 2: go do that. All right, So we have a total
- 36:42Speaker 2: of three more. I'm gonna say the Magnificent.
- 36:45Speaker 1: Seven, incredible, watch it ten times, the original one? Yes
- 36:49Speaker 1: with my dad? All right, all right, that's like in
- 36:51Speaker 1: my Dad's like I grew up on John Wayne and
- 36:54Speaker 1: war movies.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Yeah, like Magnificence seven and that was, like, I remember
- 36:57Speaker 2: what the unforgiven The Magnificent seven is the greatest Western
- 37:00Speaker 2: that's actually originally at a Western. I'm forgiven. It was
- 37:02Speaker 2: sort of a modern remake format, but Magnificent seven exquisite
- 37:07Speaker 2: with you know, Uill Brenner and Charles Bronson.
- 37:10Speaker 1: And that was the Moss Coburn. Oh, when mom was
- 37:13Speaker 1: out of town, that was one of the movies we watched.
- 37:15Speaker 2: Oh, it was so good. It's it's a fabulous movie.
- 37:19Speaker 2: And then I'm gonna end with two Quentin Tarantino, is it?
- 37:23Speaker 1: The Inglorious Bastards? Is that where we're going with this?
- 37:26Speaker 2: So I'm gonna start with pulp fiction, okay, which is fantastic,
- 37:29Speaker 2: and then the last one is in Glorious Bastard yep.
- 37:31Speaker 2: And I feel bad that I left Reservoir Dogs off
- 37:33Speaker 2: because Reservoir Dogs is exquisite too. But if you made
- 37:37Speaker 2: me pick two, I go with pulp fiction and Inglorious.
- 37:40Speaker 2: Inglorious Bastards is a spectacular movie. So that's twenty five movies,
- 37:46Speaker 2: which if you've got some downtime, download them. Watch them.
- 37:50Speaker 2: You will enjoy them, you will laugh, you will be moved,
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- 37:58Speaker 1: can only take one movie and one TV series to
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- 38:08Speaker 2: The Princess Bride and Criminal Minds.
- 38:09Speaker 1: There you go, that's it.
- 38:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it.
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