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America's Birthday: The 30 Best Movies of the 21st Century · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdicus Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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  Speaker 2: It's so nice to have you listening today on this
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  Speaker 2: fourth of July weekend. And we're gonna have a little
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  Speaker 2: fun with today's show because it is look for the
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  Speaker 2: July a lot of families hanging out having fun watching movies.
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  Speaker 2: And there was a list that came out and it
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  Speaker 2: irritated Center Ted Cruz the point where we're now doing
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  Speaker 2: a show over it, which makes me laugh.
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  Speaker 1: I love this.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna you're gonna get see the real Center Ted
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  Speaker 2: Cruse in this show, which makes me very happy. This
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  Speaker 2: list came out, you were a little cranky about it,
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  Speaker 2: and I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me say to everyone, I hope you're having
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  Speaker 3: a fantastic Fourth of July weekend. I hope you're celebrating
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  Speaker 3: America's birthday. I hope you're you're grilling hot dogs and
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  Speaker 3: burgers in the backyard and playing with your kids. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, if you are grilling burgers, I hope you're
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  Speaker 3: doing a better job of it than Chuck Schumer does.
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  Speaker 3: Do not put the cheese on the burger while the
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  Speaker 3: burger is still raw. That that that's a rookie mistake.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're anything like me, holiday weekends, what I
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  Speaker 3: love to do is go to the movies. When I
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  Speaker 3: was a kid, I went to the movies with my
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  Speaker 3: mom my dad all the time. And I love movies.
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  Speaker 3: And it happened this past week that the New York
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  Speaker 3: Times put out this list of the top thirty best
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  Speaker 3: films of the twenty first century, according to over five
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  Speaker 3: hundred actors, directors, and other names in Hollywood. And I
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  Speaker 3: got to say, this is the worst list I have
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  Speaker 3: ever seen. This is a list of a bunch of politicized,
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  Speaker 3: woke feet, out of touch Hollywood types, and no wonder
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  Speaker 3: the movie business is in trouble because most of these
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  Speaker 3: movies nobody's seen, and the movies that people go to
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  Speaker 3: don't make the list. So I'm just going to read
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  Speaker 3: you their top thirty, starting with number thirty. Lost in Translation, Arrival,
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  Speaker 3: The Dark Night Adaptation, Anatomy of a Fall, Phantom Thread,
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  Speaker 3: Her Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums, Wolf
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  Speaker 3: of Wall Street, Zodiac, Ethu, Mama, ta'm Ying, Broke Back Mountain,
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  Speaker 3: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, City of God, Inglorious, Bastards, Children
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  Speaker 3: of Men, The Zone of Interest, mad Max, Fury Road,
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  Speaker 3: The Social Network, Spirited Away, Get Out, Eternal Sunshine of
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  Speaker 3: the Spotless Mind, No Country for Old Men, Moonlight in
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  Speaker 3: the Mood for Love, There Will Be Blood, Mulholland Drive.
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  Speaker 3: And the number one movie of the last twenty five
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  Speaker 3: years according to the New York Times, is Parasite. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I gotta say there's some good movies on that list.
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  Speaker 3: They're not all dogs, but number one i'd be willing
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  Speaker 3: to bet of that list. Have you seen more than
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  Speaker 3: five of those movies?
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  Speaker 1: Ben Ah, I have seen maybe five.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple like Inglorious Bastards that I've watched that
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  Speaker 2: was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't throw that one in there.
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  Speaker 2: But overall I would have to google the majority of
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  Speaker 2: the list you just read right, Like the majority, I'd
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  Speaker 2: have to google.
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  Speaker 1: Make what is this? They were not on my top
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  Speaker 1: list at all.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it is a pretentious list, and it's a list
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  Speaker 3: with an agenda, and I actually liked so. Twitter was
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  Speaker 3: going back and forth about it. And there's this fellow
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  Speaker 3: named Mike Henry who asked chat gpt to analyze that
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  Speaker 3: list of film look for similarities and rank the films
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  Speaker 3: by how woke they are, and it came up with
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  Speaker 3: tier one. These are straight up ideological vehicles. Message is
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  Speaker 3: greater than story and according to chat GPT, number five
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  Speaker 3: Moonlight is about black queer identity, poverty, masculinity, deconstruction, Get Out,
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  Speaker 3: number eight is about white liberal racism, body autonomy and
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  Speaker 3: performative allyship. Number one Parasite is about anti capitalism, class warfare,
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  Speaker 3: rich equals evil symbolism. Number twelve the zone of interest
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  Speaker 3: Holocaust reimagined via ambient horror or villainy through banality. Number
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  Speaker 3: seventeen Broke Back abount and least surprising movie on the
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  Speaker 3: list if all was putting it together, and that is
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  Speaker 3: according to chat GPT, about queer repression, masculinity and rural stigma.
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  Speaker 3: Number eighteen itavamataming, sexual liberation, political awakening, class divide, and
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  Speaker 3: number thirteen Children of Men, anti fascist immigration, dystopian surveillance society.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they went with. Politics instead of good movies,
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  Speaker 3: instead of movies people like, instead of movies that inspire you,
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  Speaker 3: instead of movies that make you laugh, instead of movies
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  Speaker 3: that make you hug your kids. And so I decided
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  Speaker 3: to come up with my own list, I will say.
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  Speaker 3: A number of reporters called and said, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 3: you don't like this one, what's your alternative? And listen,
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  Speaker 3: We're going to put out a list of thirty. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to claim it is the definitive list
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  Speaker 3: of the thirty greatest films of the last twenty five years,
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  Speaker 3: but the aready excellent movies that came out in the
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  Speaker 3: last twenty five years. And I tried to think about
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  Speaker 3: how to do it, because you know, I do actually
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  Speaker 3: have a day drik job and I'm not a film critic.
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  Speaker 3: So what I did is I went and printed out
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  Speaker 3: a list of all of the nominees for the Academy
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  Speaker 3: Awards for Best Picture each of the last twenty five years.
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  Speaker 3: I figured, okay, that's a good place to start, and
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  Speaker 3: starting in two thousand and one for the two thousand movies,
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  Speaker 3: the winner of Best Picture in two thousand and one,
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  Speaker 3: any idea, ben no clue. Gladiator one of the best
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  Speaker 3: movies ever made. It is in my top ten all time,
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  Speaker 3: if not top five. And these idiots didn't put Gladiator
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  Speaker 3: on the list.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't surprise me, though, Like I feel like, if
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  Speaker 2: it's a movie that just makes you smile or makes
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  Speaker 2: you excited or happy. You're like, no, no, no, can't have
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  Speaker 2: that movie on the list, right, like, because that would
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  Speaker 2: just be too normal, insane.
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  Speaker 3: Gladiator was an extraordinary, fantastic movie. I can't watch it
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  Speaker 3: at enough times. It's perfectly done. You know what also
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  Speaker 3: came out in two thousand. It didn't get nominated to
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  Speaker 3: the Academy Awards, but it came out the same year,
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  Speaker 3: you know what movie The Patriot, which is another fantastic,
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  Speaker 3: amazing movie. It is an amazing movie. It also makes
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  Speaker 3: my top ten. It's not on their list, both of them.
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  Speaker 3: So two thousand was a good year for movies. You
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  Speaker 3: had both The Patriot and Gladiator come out that year. Fantastic, uplifting,
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  Speaker 3: nowhere on their list. How about two thousand and one?
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  Speaker 3: Two thousand and one, just from the list of Academy
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  Speaker 3: Award nominees, the winner was A Beautiful Mind, which is
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  Speaker 3: a great, powerful, touching movie. Doesn't make their list. Also
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  Speaker 3: that year in the Academy Award, didn't win it, but
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  Speaker 3: came out that year was Bulan Rouge, which was a musical.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun, it was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I laughed.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good movie. All right, doesn't make their list.
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  Speaker 3: How about two thousand and two, two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 3: there are two of the movies that the winner for
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  Speaker 3: Best Picture was Chicago. Chicago is a great musical. You've
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  Speaker 3: got Rick Richard Gear. I still like when he when
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  Speaker 3: he is trying to get out of trouble and goes
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  Speaker 3: and now a tap dance. And I will say more
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  Speaker 3: than once, when I have been in trouble at home
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  Speaker 3: with Heidi, I sort of think of Richard Gear going
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  Speaker 3: and now a tap dance.
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  Speaker 2: Also that year. All right, I got one thousand and two.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta hit pause here. I'm noticing a trend. Hold on,
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  Speaker 2: You're not getting out of jail on this one. All right,
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  Speaker 2: I got it. There's a trend here. Are you a
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  Speaker 2: Broadway musical guy? I'm not making fun I just have
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  Speaker 2: never asked you this question before. I've gone to I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe four or five you know plays. Hamilton's
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  Speaker 2: one of them, for example, that I've seen. Wicked was
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  Speaker 2: another one. Most of the time, it's going to New
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  Speaker 2: York with my wife and we'll go see a play
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  Speaker 2: because that's on her list. But I'm noticing a trend here.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like will you go to the Kennedy Center
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  Speaker 2: this year for some of the plays.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely hell, yes, And in fact I have already. I
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  Speaker 3: saw Le Miz just a couple of weeks ago in
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  Speaker 3: the Kennedy Center. It was fantastastic Ley Miz, Ley Miz
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  Speaker 3: or Hamilton or I think the two greatest musicals ever died.
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  Speaker 3: I love Le Miz. In fact, I'll tell you a
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  Speaker 3: story in just a minute about Ley Miz. Back when
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  Speaker 3: I was living for the summer in New York after
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  Speaker 3: my first year of law school. I'm living there and
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  Speaker 3: I send my mother an airplane ticket via FedEx flyer
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  Speaker 3: to New York, take her to Le Miz, take her
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  Speaker 3: to see Camelot, and take her out to a fancy dinner.
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  Speaker 3: We had a great weekend, just just my mom and me.
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  Speaker 3: Also in two thousand and two was Gangs in New York.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't win Best Picture, but great film. Daniel day
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  Speaker 3: Lewis rough Rugged, really well done. The next year, two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and three, the Best Picture winner was Lord of
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  Speaker 3: the Rings Return of the King. All three of the
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  Speaker 3: Lord of the Rings movies came out in the two thousands.
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  Speaker 3: All three were nominated for Best Picture, only number three
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  Speaker 3: one none of them make the list. All three of
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  Speaker 3: them are great movies, fantastic adaptations of of probably the
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  Speaker 3: greatest fantasy book ever written. All right, let's move forward
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  Speaker 3: to two thousand and six. Two thousand and six, a
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  Speaker 3: movie that came out that is not on this list
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  Speaker 3: and should be is a movie called Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace.
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  Speaker 3: If you haven't seen it, I would recommend you go
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  Speaker 3: see it. I'd recommend you take your kids to it.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing Grace is the true story of William Wilberforce. William
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  Speaker 3: Wilberforce was a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
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  Speaker 3: and he led the fight to end the slave trade
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  Speaker 3: in Britain and Britain at the time, the slave trade
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  Speaker 3: was the leading industry in the UK and Wilberforce, as
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  Speaker 3: a young MP, he leads the fight and it is inspirational,
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  Speaker 3: it is powerful, and at the end of his life
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  Speaker 3: he succeeds in getting the slave trade abolished. And do
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  Speaker 3: you know where the title comes from? Ben, Where's that
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  Speaker 3: the title of the movie, Amazing Grace comes from? Of course,
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  Speaker 3: the Great Gospel him Amazing Grace. Uh. The person who
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  Speaker 3: wrote it, who was a friar, was friends with Wilberforce,
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  Speaker 3: and before he became a friar, he had been the
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  Speaker 3: captain of a slave ship. And you think of the
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  Speaker 3: words of amazing grace, amazing grace, how sweet the sound
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  Speaker 3: that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost
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  Speaker 3: but now I'm found. Was blind, but now I see,
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  Speaker 3: and you think like it. It is hard to think
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  Speaker 3: of a more evil profession than being the captain of
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  Speaker 3: a slave ship. He had murdered people, he had whipped people,
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  Speaker 3: he had obviously enslaved people, and yet he repented and
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  Speaker 3: became a friar and gave his life to Christ. And
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  Speaker 3: that you think of the guilt and horror and evil
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  Speaker 3: that man had committed. To write maybe the greatest, greatest
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  Speaker 3: him ever ever written. That's where the title comes from.
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  Speaker 3: That it's from a book by Eric but Texas. Fantastic movie,
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  Speaker 3: of course, not on the New York Times list.
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  Speaker 1: You look at these movies that are left off, and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: A true story guy. I love true stories. There are
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  Speaker 2: some movies that I just I think of instantly. If
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  Speaker 2: someone said, hey, give me ten movies that you got
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  Speaker 2: to see. One of those, I don't know if you've
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  Speaker 2: ever watched it. Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. True story,
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  Speaker 2: actually great movie, incredible movie, and I go to those
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  Speaker 2: and Saving Private Ryan, I go, you know, these are
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  Speaker 2: the types of movies that I watch over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like Hollywood hates them, and they were successful.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and Saving Private Ryan is another phenomenal movie. And
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  Speaker 3: I went last year to Normandy for the eightieth anniversary
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  Speaker 3: of D Day and I actually got to meet Tom
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  Speaker 3: Hanks and Steven Spielberg. And look, both of their politics
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  Speaker 3: are are left. But I said to both of them,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, thank you for bringing bringing World War two
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  Speaker 3: alive to so many people. And I will say the
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  Speaker 3: first thirty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, when they're landing
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  Speaker 3: on that beach and the war, I will tell you
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  Speaker 3: that genuinely changed my view about war. Listen, I've never
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  Speaker 3: served in the military. I've never been in combat. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, look, when you're growing up as a kid,
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  Speaker 3: as a young boy, you're like, Okay, if I was
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  Speaker 3: in war, I'd be tough and I'd try to survive.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things that opening thirty minutes for
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  Speaker 3: me like made me see in a way I never
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  Speaker 3: had before, was how utterly random it can be. One
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  Speaker 3: guy is dead because his head was in the wrong place.
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  Speaker 3: And if his head had been six inches to the
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  Speaker 3: left or right, he'd still be alive. And just the
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  Speaker 3: utter randomness and brutality of it. And I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: something interesting, Ben, My uncle was a Vietnam vet and
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  Speaker 3: he spent about forty years as a counselor at the VA.
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  Speaker 3: And he said when the movie Saving Private Ryan came out,
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  Speaker 3: it was the first movie that had gotten the sound
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  Speaker 3: of warfare right, the sound of gunshots and ricochet. And
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  Speaker 3: my uncle said he had that's who'd been at Vietnam,
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  Speaker 3: and the movie triggered their PTSD. They were back in
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  Speaker 3: combat and they would come in and and and seek
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  Speaker 3: counseling because it brought them back. And I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: the power of cinema to trans transport you to a
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  Speaker 3: different life, a different time, a different world. And and
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's powerful and beautiful if it's not just
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  Speaker 3: just a agenda for left wing propagandizing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you go back to, as you mentioned, propagandizing,
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  Speaker 2: and that's one of the core things here. I also
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  Speaker 2: look at some of these movies that are on this list,
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  Speaker 2: and they do have just a disdain also for family.
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  Speaker 2: Did you notice that, like it's it's the extreme of
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood that they're promoting is quote the best.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think that's exactly right, and and it's there
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  Speaker 3: is look the fact that people don't go see these movies.
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  Speaker 3: People like to see movies there. There are a lot
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  Speaker 3: of big blockbusters. It's just the folks running Hollywood don't
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  Speaker 3: actually like anything that that that moviegoers go go see.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you move on to to two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and seven, two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 3: a couple that were on the list, No Country for
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  Speaker 3: old Men, great movie. I agree with them on that
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  Speaker 3: there will be blood another excellent movie. One of the
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  Speaker 3: movies they left off was that Departed. Departed as a
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  Speaker 3: great great story and in fighting organized crime, and it
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  Speaker 3: really well done. And then one another one they included
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  Speaker 3: that I agree that I agree with is The Dark Knight.
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  Speaker 3: And The Dark Knight I got to say, was a
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  Speaker 3: fantastic superhero movie. Yes, but but Heath Ledger's Joker was
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  Speaker 3: twisted it. I think it will go down as one
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  Speaker 3: of the greatest villain portrayals in cinema. It's right right
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  Speaker 3: up there with with Hannibal Lecter. It's right up there
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  Speaker 3: with Darth Vader of like classic all times. The creepy
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  Speaker 3: nonchalance of the evil of he Ledger in Dark Knight
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  Speaker 3: was truly spectacular.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Senta, let's get back into it. I do
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  Speaker 2: want to ask real quick, you're if you were on
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  Speaker 2: a desert island. This is what I love doing shows
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  Speaker 2: like this. You're on a desert island. You can only
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  Speaker 2: take five DVDs with you. Now, I've given you a
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  Speaker 2: Blu Ray, but I'm giving you above VHS quality only five.
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  Speaker 1: What five movies are you taking with you?
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  Speaker 3: And why oh look, my number one favorite movie is
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  Speaker 3: The Princess Bride. I've probably seen it one hundred times
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  Speaker 3: or more. I would take the Godfather trilogy, and I
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  Speaker 3: would take Scarface. Those are my top three. I might
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  Speaker 3: well throw Fletch onto that list. Fletch is pretty fabulous, great,
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  Speaker 3: great movie, funny as all get out. Early Eddie Murphy
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  Speaker 3: I love just about everything, but Beverly Hills cop or
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  Speaker 3: Trading Places are probably two of the very best early
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  Speaker 3: Eddie Murphy that are just hysterical. So that Ingladiator might
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  Speaker 3: well make the list. So so you know, I'm sort
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  Speaker 3: of rejecting your hypo and taking more than five. But
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  Speaker 3: but that's that would be the bag from which I
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  Speaker 3: was pulling.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha, And you all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: tell you there is a different there's a difference between
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  Speaker 2: you and I. By the way, because in age, this
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  Speaker 2: is when it shows, Senator, I have never seen the
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  Speaker 2: movie Fletch.
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  Speaker 1: I just googled it. As you said it.
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  Speaker 2: It came out at nineteen eighty five. I was four
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  Speaker 2: years old. You were obviously older than I am. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and we're able to see it. So I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know what Fletch is about.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Ben, I love you, but you're a communist. You're
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  Speaker 3: a philistine. You have been raised by wolves in a cave.
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  Speaker 3: Go watch Fletch. It's Chevy Chase. It is hysterical. I've
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  Speaker 3: probably seen Fletch fifty times. And and then you know, well, Grant,
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  Speaker 3: who heads up my security detail. Grant and I are
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  Speaker 3: about the same age, and I think the only way
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  Speaker 3: Grant and I communicate is in movie quotes, most of
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  Speaker 3: which are from Fletch. Like It's It's every line of it,
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  Speaker 3: much like The Princess Bride. Every line of Fletch is exquisite.
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  Speaker 1: So it's Chevy Chase. But what's the premise of the movie.
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  Speaker 3: So Fletch Irwin Fletcher is an investigative reporter for the
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  Speaker 3: La Times. But it's a comedy, and so he goes
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  Speaker 3: under cover. But he wears all sorts of different outfits
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  Speaker 3: on the beach and he's investigating drug dealing on the beach.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just it's funny as hell. There are all
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  Speaker 3: sorts of lines, love your body, Larry. It's all ball
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  Speaker 3: bearings these days, none of it. This will make sense
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  Speaker 3: without I will say one scene that that everyone who
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  Speaker 3: knows the movie knows is Moon River. I will say
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: that that would That would be when when Fletch was
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: getting an exam and he does does say to the doctor,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: ever do time. Doc at the end of the day
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: said I'm sorry, I couldn't find anything. Well, it's not
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: for lack of looking.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: All right, you're convinced me. Now I need to watch
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: this movie. I just hope they still have it out there.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: It may have to borrow. Do you have it on
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: HS or or is it like Beta CAS.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: That's probably Beta max. Like like there's a point where
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Fletch falls asleep and he's sleeping and dreaming and he's
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: watching a Lakers game and he and he Irwin Fletcher,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: the star of the Lakers six' five six' nine with,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: the afro and it has him flying through the air
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: and like biting people's arms. And defense it's it is
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: one of the best comedies. Ever written but it is not.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: The last back To The. Hollywood list let's get to
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: two thousand and Eight And. Glorious bastards they put it on.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Their list, they're right. Terrific Movie. Quentin tarantino just About
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: everything tarantino does. Is great he's a. Fabulous Writer But
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: glorious bastards is a Great pro america film About killing
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Nazis or Nazis as Brad Put brad pitt, Puts it Nazi.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: KILLING nazis, i mean it's it's exquisite. And powerful. All
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: right go to. Twenty eleven another movie that came out
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: in twenty Eleven With brad pitt And. A moneyball you're
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: a big. Sports. Guy moneyball both the book and the
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: movie changed, true story but changed till everyone thought about
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: baseball and putting a baseball.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Team together, All right so you're gonna laugh So at
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: moneyball came OUT and i Love Again, True stories like
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: if it Says, true story there's a ninete Percent chance
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: i'm gonna go.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: SEE it I. Love sports the movie comes OUT and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: i was so excited to. SEE it i kid. You
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: not my wife fell asleep in the.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: MOVIE and i was, Like rivaged like that was one
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: of the most Boring movies i've ever seen in my.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Entire LIFE and i, was like how did you?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Fall asleep like this kid figured it out and then
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: like he got traded for him And It's, Brad pitt
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: like you should just stayed away Because It's brad pitt for.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Goodness sakes and she so to, THIS day i don't
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: think she's ever watched the. Entire movie i've probably watched
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: that movie Every time I'm. ON united i fly a
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: time You're, on united probably ninety percent, of time and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: money balls on there right now on, Their flights AND
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: so i literally watched it like five.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Days Ago and i'll, tell you by, The way heidi
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: falls asleep in just about. EVERY movie, i mean she
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: she doesn't, do movies and she can't sit still for.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Two hours and if you put her in a dark
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: room with the, lights out she'll she'll be asleep within.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Ten minutes now you are going.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: To movies by, THE way i.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Like being in. THE theater i like the, big screen,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: the sound, the popcorn every bit. OF it i like the.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Real experience all, Right, now senator this and making a break.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Good question it's gonna it's gonna show how true you
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: are to the. Theater experience are you a must get
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: there for the, previews moviegoer or do you say the
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: movie says it starts, today Fifteen so i'm gonna get
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: there at eight.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: TWENTY eight i usually sit through, the PREVIEWS but i
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: don't Cry if i'm a few minutes late and miss
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: a preview. Or Two but i'm usually there pretty close to.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Dow time on the, BACK end i stay till the
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: very end of. THE credits i will. NOT leave i
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: view it as like there's a complete experience that the
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: artist to put. This together and so many of the
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: movies have like a tiny bit of content at the
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: end of. The, credits ANYWAY and i. LEARNED something i
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: read the CREDITS and i. LEARNED something i bet you
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: half THE movies I see i learn oh that was so,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: and so or you just find interesting things in.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: The, CREDITS hey i love that you're giving credit to
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: those that made. The movie well played on. That one,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: all right let's get back to the list and where
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: they got?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Another? One? Maybe right?
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: All right Twenty Twelve zero dark thirty that did not make,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: their list, of course not because it's a true story
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: of Taking out Osama. Bin laden it makes you Cheer
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: for america that could never make their list of the,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: best Movies because america's got to be the.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Bad guy one of my, top five by, the way
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: on my List Is zero. DARK thirty i Bought the
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: blu ray right when it, came out paid full price
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: because that's HOW much i want to support movies like that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Being.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Made amen, all right let's go to. Twenty thirteen the
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Winner Of best picture of that Year Was twelve Years.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Of slave, great story true story About An african american
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and spent
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: twelve years as a slave. And escape it's an amazing
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: story and it's a. True story didn't make. Their List
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: the Wolf Of wall street that made, their LIST and,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I agree Wolf Of wall street. Was terrific it, was fun.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Great acting that's on their list and. Belongs There but
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: i'll tell you what didn't make their list, Same Year Dallas,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: buyer's club, fantastic movie another true Story And Dallas. Bier's
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: club matthew McConaughey.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Is the, weight loss just the.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Weight, loss yeah so you've heard. THIS story i spent several,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: years ago got to hang out With with matthew mcconniey
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: and spend spend a weekend with him and his wife
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: and his kids and another couple of their kids and
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: our kids and. Great guy really enjoyed getting to, know
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: him hanging out. With him but we talked. A lot
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: we Talked About Dallas, buyer's club and it's a true
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: story about a a guy in the Rodeo In fort
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: worth who gets injured and has a blood transfusion and
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: he ends UP GETTING Hiv aids and this is early
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: on IN the, aids crisis and so. He's dying there
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: are not a lot. Of treatments and. You're right for,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: the movie McConaughey lost i, don't know like forty. Fifty
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: pounds he was emaciated by the end of. The movie
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: but he began driving Down to mexico AND buying aids
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: medicines on the black Market in mexico and bringing them
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Back to Dallas And fort worth and selling THEM to,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: aids patients mostly gay men who HAD contracted aids in.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: The EIGHTIES and i Was, TELLING matthew, i said, you
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: know that is a profoundly. Conservative movie and. He didn't
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: he didn't quite see it through. That lens but, you know, he, asked,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: me well what do. YOU mean, I, say look it's
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: all about, government regulations ridiculous Regulations from washington that made
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: it illegal for people to get life, saving medicines medicines
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: they needed to have the right. To have i'm a
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: big believer in right. TO try i THINK the fda
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: puts huge barriers to getting medicines we ought to be able.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: To have and it's a true story of in the
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: face of that, oppressive regulation this guy just went Down
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: to mexico and saved countless. People's lives it's just a,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: fantastic movie.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: All right so what's next on? The list?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: All right in, Twenty Fourteen, american sniper another, true story
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: the Story Of, chris kyle SOMEONE actually i got, to
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Know the navy's deadliest sniper that we, ever had sadly
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: was killed by a fellow VETERAN. With ptsd. Terrific movie
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: another movie that same Year Was The, imitation game another
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: true Story Of alan turing that the scientists who Cracked
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: the nazis code and helped Us Win World. War two.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Great movie neither of those make. Their, lists instead they
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: go with Movies where america is the bad guy and
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: anyone fighting To defend america's especially the. Bad guy, all
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: right so we've. Done twenty we have ten more to
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: do of movies that came out in the twenty. First
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: century in, twenty sixteen two movies, In particular, Number One,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: hidden figures. Great movie. TERRIFIC movie i took, my wife,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: my daughters my mom to see true story Of The
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: african american women mathematician who were FOUNDATIONAL to nasa going To.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: The moon it's an. Amazing Story, and ben as, you
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: know my mom was also a mathematician at the dawn
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: of the. Computer Age hidden figures Begins with sputnik being
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: launched in the space race. Being started my mom in
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: the nineteen fifties worked At. The smithsonian one of her
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: first projects was helping to compute the Orbit. Of sputnik,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: and actually in honor of, THIS movie i introduced legislation
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: that resulted in the street WHERE the nasa headquarters IS
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: in dc being Changed To hidden figures way to Honor
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Those african american women mathematician who were foundational In our
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: going To. The moon it's Not on hollywood's, list either
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: but it's a, great movie and it's a fabulous. Family
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: movie another great, Family Movie La la land. Same year it's,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: a musical, it's fun, it's light It's about hollywood. It
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: is it's a, terrific movie and yet it's nowhere on.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Their list. Twenty seventeen twenty seventeen a, Great Movie The
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Darkest Hour winston churchill in the Middle Of WORLD. War
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Ii Powerful gary oldham does a terrific Portrayal. Of churchill highly.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Recommend it. Twenty Eighteen. Black Panther black panther was a.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Terrific movie it's a comic. Book movie but there's a
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: reason so many people go go go see them because they're.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Really good. Twenty nineteen once Upon a Time in Hollywood Another.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: QUENTIN tarantino i thought it, was terrific. Loved It brad
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: pitt was in it. As Well, brad Pitt when tarantino is,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: directing him is really. Really good you then get on
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: to twenty Twenty Two Top. Gun maverick just a great,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: fun movie. Action film fun to go to the theater
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: and see the jets rocketing through the sky fighting the.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: BAD guys i will note That no hollywood theater will
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Now Make communist china the, bad guys because they all
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: want to sell Movies, in china so the bad guys
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: are always some made up. Fictional place onto twenty. Twenty
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: three two movies in twenty twenty three on, The. List
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: oppenheimer oppenheimer, was terrific, true, story, powerful interesting really. Well done,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Same year killers Of The flower moon another, true story,
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: really powerful. Well done, all right Pull.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: THE scorture i missed that movie apparently when it. Came
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: out what's? It about Because now.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I'm Interested So martin scorsese. Did it and it's based
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: on a. True story so it's Set in oklahoma in the,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: nineteen twenties and it focuses on a series of Murders
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Of osage indians after oil is discovered on their. Tribal
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: lands and it's got a. Fabulous Cast leonardo DiCaprio's, In
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: it Robert de niro is, in it and look. It's
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: brutal it doesn't paint a pretty insanitized picture, of history but.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: It is our history has moments, of brutality moments of evil,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: and Oppression and scorsese can tell a story as well
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: as anyone in.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: The, Business awesome i'm gonna have to grab that movie
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and check. It out.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Keep, going well that takes us to Twenty eight and
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: for the LAST two, i said, YOU know, i figured,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: all right who ought to decide what are really? Good
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: MOVIES and i came up with a, crazy idea how
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: about the? Ticket buyers AND so i just pulled what
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: are the top ten highest grossing films from twenty to twenty?
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Twenty five any idea with the number one film of
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: the last twenty five years has been in terms of box,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Office dollars.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: And god's a. HARD one i have no clue go.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: For it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I'm ready so number One is avatar two thousand and
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: nine and it brought in two point nine. Billion Dollars,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: And avatar i'm Gonna put avatar on my list because
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: it's a. Great film it really was novel how it
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: sort of stretched but brought you into an entirely, different
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: world and the effects. Were fantastic it was a well.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Done story the number two grossing film of the last
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: twenty five Years Was, avengers endgame and that brought in
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: two point eight. Billion dollars i'm gonna include both of
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: those as the final two on. My list they're the
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: top two. Grossing films. THEY'RE fantastic i like most comic,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: book MOVIES but i Do think Avengers at endgame was,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: was really, really good and it. Says something if you
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: look at the list of, top ten none of the
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: top ten grossing films Are on. HOLLYWOOD'S list i have
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: number Three As Avatar the way Of. The water number
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Four Is star wars, Episode Seven The, force awakens number
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Five As Avengers. Affinity war number Six Is Spider Man No,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: way HOME which i thought was the best Of The spider.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Man movies number Seven Was. NIJA ti i don't know,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: that Movie, MAYBE chinese I just i don't know. That
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: movie number Eight Was inside, Out too number Nine Was,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: jurassic world and number Ten Was The lion king in.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Twenty nineteen it says something when you have a product
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: and the people making the product don't like the product
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: that people like and, are buying there's a real. Disconnect there,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: you know you go back To That New york. Times
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: list most of the movies on the list nobody has
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: seen and nobody wants. To see and that really. Is
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: sad there used to be. A time look what's fun
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: about going to? The movies you'll. Notice THEMES so i like.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: TRUE stories i like. WAR movie i like, gangster movies
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Things like Godfather. AND scarface i, LIKE westerns i. LIKE
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: comedies i like. Some MUSICALS but i like. A STORY
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: when i go to the to, THE movies i want
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: to tell me. A story it can be a, sad
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: story it can be a. Funny story it can bring
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: me in, an adventure, you know CLASSIC movies i grew,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: up With Like, indiana jones like like it can be,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: You Know, star wars The Whole star, wars Series The. Hero's, journey,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Actually bet i'm going to say something, really funny really
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: good buddy of MINE that i went to high, school
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: with you Bet him, joel's's name great friend of mine
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: came came to our place IN. D c. Last weekend
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: he and his family were in town and, He, said
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: HEY can i crash at? YOUR place i, Said sure
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: and HE and i have gone to a lot of,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: movies together and he's A Huge star, wars buff and
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: so he went To The STAR wars I, Guess museum
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: AND when i get back TO my, dc apartment he's
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: replaced my Sheets With star wars sheets And A star
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: wars Comforter In star wars pillowcases and it looks like
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: a nine year old, boys ROOM and i just cracked.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Up laughing and then actually it was RIGHT after i
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Had The tucker carlson interview that was a lot. Of
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: fireworks so He Bought tucker carlson's book and he rested
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: it on. The PILLOWCASE so i was doubled over LAUGHING
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: when i walked in Walked in monday morning to the
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: apartment and saw my bedroom