Pairing the 2023 Oscar Nominees with Whiskey

0:00 As we get into today's episode, I just want to take a second, remind you that there's a ton of extra content available to the members of film and whiskey Nation who support us through our patreon. Check us out on patreon.com film whiskey. On today's film and whiskey, I'm joined by a very special guest to break down the 10 best picture nominees at this year's Oscars and pair each movie up with its perfect whiskey. That's all ahead on filmin Whiskey. Well, hey, there everybody welcomed into the film and whiskey podcast.

0:55 I'm Bob book, and I am kinda sorta flying solo today. Luckily, you don't just have to listen to me. We do have a special guest today, but as we mentioned, at the end of our bracket episodes, not only are we taking some time off for the month of March as we ramp up for season 7 but Brad just had a baby or rather it would be more appropriate to say that his wife had a baby and Brad is helping to That baby into the world. So Brad's taken some paternity leave right now and that means that as we talk about the Oscars, you get to listen to the more pompous half of film and whiskey wax, poetic about his favorite time of year and joining me to do, that is one of our very favorite people.

1:38 A guy who drags me back down to Earth, every time we talk and is also probably more educated than me, so he's a, he's a perfect balance and renders me obsolete. Zach, Johnston. From up rocks. Zack, how are you today? I'm doing very well and I hope I can be half the man. Brad has. Listen, I'll say it because he's not here. Being Half the Man, Brad, is, is only about two foot six. So that's that's all you gotta be, man. Well, maybe I three times man. Yeah, yeah, we are recording this on Wednesday night. This episode is going up Thursday morning in advance of the Oscars. So we're going to do as little editing as possible. No pressure zaph But we can't screw up. We gotta plow Straight Ahead through here. What Zack and I are doing is we're releasing this episode in conjunction with an article that's coming out on uproxx under Zacks by line and we're going to be looking at the 10 best picture nominees at this year's Oscars. And we're going to be pairing.

2:36 Each one of them up with a whiskey. I'm super excited to do this. It kind of goes off the up rocks article. We had a few weeks back where we just took 10 movies that we've reviewed on the show. We're here. We're narrowing it down, we're honing our craft, a little it to talk specifically about this year's Best Picture nominees Zach. Had you seen all ten of these before? We got this idea, I have actually okay. I sort of I had been through them, I thought I hadn't but I turns out I had so write, stories act. Yeah, exactly. As a guy who watches tons of movies, the pre Oscar nominations season is always a little chaotic because there's always a bike, 15, 20, movies, that could be nominated. You always know that there's like five to seven that are locked.

3:22 So then those last three, no one really knows what's going to happen. And so like we're going to talk about movies like triangle of sadness, and women talking. And I remember women talking came out in my area like the weekend before Oscar nominations hit. And so I just happened to get it in just under the wire before before they nominated it. But maybe it's really hard to keep up with some of these especially in markets like you and me, like, I don't live in New York, I don't live in LA. And a lot of times these Movies don't come out in theatrically to like February. Exactly. Yeah, it's it's really hard to catch up. I would be really surprised, you know, if we did a film and whiskey Nation, pull if most people have seen more than like, five of these, like, it's just and it's another year where a lot of the Indie movies are represented here.

4:10 There's not a ton of Blockbusters. There's a few obvious Blockbusters, but not a lot of movies that I would expect. Everyone has seen. No. And I even compared to how it was even five ten years ago. Much less 20, 30 years ago. All this stuff is Jean streaming now, but it's also it gets lost even there. I mean, try to finds you know, I said, women talking, you have to go and look for it it's not like, you know, Top Gun which is all over Apple TV. Yeah. Paramount you know you can't miss it or even how many how many people actually have All Quiet on the Western Front pop up on their Netflix page as some right and the watch, you know. Yeah. Exactly. So it's a good, it's a good point, because I remember when banshees a finisher and hit HBO Max, it was just like on a random Tuesday or something and it was it immediately buried. And, you know, as a movie guy, I knew banshees of, in a Sharon was going to be a movie that was likely to be nominated for best picture.

5:09 And then I got this news that, oh, it's actually coming to HBO Max in like, five days. And I was pumped. I'll tell everybody like this really important movie is going to hit HBO Max and then, of course, like there's no Banner on the The top, there's nothing for you to like, to draw your attention to it. It's almost like you have to know what to look for, even when you're going into the platforms that are hosting these things, right, right? Yeah, exactly. It's been it's, you know, it would almost be easier if they were all just in a theater. Even if it was, you know, like an art house theater and the AMC and maybe a landmark because at least you know where to find them, somewhat. Yeah, man. So, what we're saying is we expect this article to get millions and millions of page views because Because of the popularity of these movies. Before we jump into the best picture nominees Zach, are you sipping on anything tonight?

5:56 As we talk? I am. So I was thinking about just how the sort of Glamour of it all because it's still got like that old Hollywood by and so I grabbed myself a dow more. Oh, scuse me. Know now more and the cigar belt, it's one of my favorite just sort of easygoing Singapore's. It's cover. A lovely sort of, you know, that caramel peppery nose to it. Yeah. And it, you know, it's just one of those nice sippers that perfect for midweek. You know you just want one good whiskey. I'm sippin on some Doc's win since tonight and turn their blenders cut. It's a five-year Bergen, we just reviewed it on.

6:38 I think our last bracket episode. So it's still sitting here next to my computer and I was like, you know, I might as well polished that off because absolutely it's delicious and be, they sponsored us this season. So when you Me money. I will drink your whiskey numerous times on air. Let it be known film in whiskey. Let's be nice. Doc Swenson is a it's a fantastic toddler. They're getting some just really special stuff out there and yeah a third Washington for sure. I really enjoy everything after I. All right, Zach. So as we get into the Oscar thing, you know, every year when nominations come out people talk about snubs and movies that didn't get nominations. That should have gotten nominations. What do you think back on your movie watching year of 2020? To like, what movies that aren't that we aren't going to talk about today?

7:29 Do you want to mention what stood out to you? I mean, I think the menu was see, kind of snubbed because, of triangle of sadness. Hmm. I think those films have similar themes. Also, it kind of felt like it just Ray Fiennes character way from Ray Fiennes in the menu was phenomenal. Like just how he didn't get a nomination is beyond me and listen. I know how it works. You have, they have to go out for the campaign and they have to put in for it, and it's a whole huge thing and maybe he just didn't want to do it. Totally, get that. To me, that's still one of his Great Performances. That was overlooked. Yeah, that was, I would say that's the big one for me. There's other little films that I really enjoyed, I really got back into or this year.

8:18 I really like fresh and Barbarian but you know, that's never going to get anything from right out of me. And I again fully aware same thing with like pray. This kind of surprised, pray didn't at least get like a costume or a special effects. I really enjoyed the fights. Things in that, I enjoyed, you know, the entire look of yeah, for sure for be really fantastic. And then there were, you know, other little things that you kind of get surprised about I guess I would say as in I kind of like Babylon because it was so crazy and I kind of felt like that should have fallen right into that narrow thing where it's Hollywood celebrating Hollywood.

9:03 I know it got a couple side nominations that nobody cares about but I don't know, that's kind of guess it was not Margot Robbie's here between right. Right that and her other films put out this year. I don't know, it's sort of wasn't like the most exciting year for like, mainstream mainstream stuff outside of the obvious that Avatar and Top Gun. Because I don't think anyone thought everything everywhere. All at once would be no no way game. And that was the thing I was I was listening to a podcast today and they were talking about how typically like the the film that would come in second place in best picture, that's like a little too risky or a little too out there to win best picture.

9:46 Well, normally win. In the screenplay Awards and this year it looks like everything everywhere. All at once might win a screenplay award but it's also the lock for best picture at this point. It just like this is the kind of movie that you know, like what's the, What's the phrase? Like the jet? Not General consensus. But general knowledge would tell you if, you know your Oscars history that this is not the kind of movie that wins that award. Exactly. Yeah, it would be it's the Tarantino effect. Hyo-eun screenplay, but never best picture. Yeah. Daniel's would get screenplay. But no way we get this picture. That being said, I do put a lot of weight behind the baffles. There's a lot, a lot of continuity between those two Awards. And I also put a lot of weight behind beautifully made war movies, that Academy voters cannot help themselves to vote, right?

10:37 So I could see that being an upset, but I don't ask, I guess it, you know, very out there think that it would happen. I Like mcdonough's. Going to get the screenplay this year. Hmm, because that's the out sort of the outsider Tarantino choice and it's all Bantry. It's completely dialogue-driven, you know, you could have it is a stage play. Just set on what three locations to be houses in a pub. Yeah. And so, to me because it is so dialogue-driven, I can see that. Yeah, you can like that, but I also I don't know. This is another thing, I've noticed, like, Steven Spielberg, never does interviews and you did a whole late night, little bear. She met.

11:23 He is out there campaigning hard right now, right? So hard. And that makes a difference in the reality of the voters. Yep. Same thing with Tom Cruise showing up being on Kimmel going to the Oscar parties that which he never ever does. Yeah that makes a difference to so you know and those they are I called yep that people. Door and the Daniels are just straight up. Not like I don't mean to be blunt or and everyone loves Michelle yeoh. Yeah. But you know I kind of feel like people really get their hopes up about her getting Oscars like I can see it going other ways because for sure they it's the Oscars they often go to Sentimental.

12:07 Route will get into all that I want. I want to give a couple of my like I guess what do you want to call them? Honorable mention movies, movies that Did not make the Oscars cut when I look over my like Best of the Best of the year list here. There's a few of them that Sonic tubes, Sonic 2 Electric Boogaloo. I mean, the movie that I keep referencing on this podcast, like all year, I talked about Michael Bay's ambulance, which was just yeah, just chaotic and one of the best, a movie theater experiences, I saw. So I saw ambulance and the Indian movie rrr on the same day in the movie theater and I have Never been as overwhelmed, like act.

12:48 Like I walked out of the theater and I think my ears rang for a day and a half afterwards. Okay. It was just looking for a fight for no reason. It was awesome. Yeah, I wanted to go out and find a tiger. It was freaking incredible, man. So both of those movies are worth mentioning, you know, obviously, Brendan Fraser's up for the whale, the whale is a movie directed by Darren Aronofsky, who, I really don't like any Darren Aronofsky movies. I just there's something about him as a director that has never done it for me. Me and I'm not here to bash anybody, but but I was surprised at you. I thought the movie itself was a little corny, not gonna lie. But well, he's kind of like creepy, Uncle Soderberg, right, yeah, right that. So, the movies based on a stage play, as is women talking, and both of those films, I really waited until the last minute to see, because I could tell they built just seem like they're going to be downers and they felt like Oscar bait. They felt like they were going to be super didactic and like I was going to sit in the theater and roll my eyes. That how hard these people were trying to win an Oscar and I have to stay with both of those movies. What really struck me was how entertaining they were, like they told a heavy stories, but they knew when to use humor, there were some big laughs in my theater for both women talking and the whale at very specific moments. And I like, if nothing else were both of those movies, I'm glad to see screenplay nominations because I thought that they were scripted just beautifully for sure. Absolutely.

14:15 All right. Man, three women, talking that movie kind of blew me away freaking blue, and no one's talking about it. Like, I can't believe it. It's when you look on gold Derby, which is a website that I use to kind of track the odds of what's, you know, what the experts are saying is going to win. They have women talking as the 10th Place finisher right now, in best picture, it just never seem to get any traction. I thought they held it a little too long. They really didn't release it publicly until right before nominations came out. And I just I don't know if it was a lack of Of campaigning effort or funding, or what. But I was surprised to even see it sneak into the best picture race, to be honest with you because like, literally nobody was talking about it, right? Yeah, it's sort of, I remember seeing the trailer, like got nine months ago, six months ago, not he read another thing about it until the nominations.

15:07 All right. Well, on that note, I think we should just jump in here. And what we're going to do is we're going to use these gold Derby odds to inform how we break. It down our ten nominees here. We'll start at the bottom with the movie women talking. And what I wrote about women talking was essentially this, I would not have expected this movie to be as entertaining as it is. It's a movie that really catches you off guard. There's a love story at the center of it and it's, I mean, it's a heartbreaking movie, but it's not a downer. And I think that's the thing that really shocks me about this movie. It, it told a complete narrative Arc, I thought it asked some really beautiful ethical and Theological questions. You know, if you listen to our podcast, you know that movies like Life of Pi are among my favorite movies because they ask these questions and they don't offer easy answers and this movie does the same thing. And when I think about women talking and what I could pair that movie with whiskey wise, I went with a tried-and-true film and whiskey classic going all the way back to, I think season one.

16:07 It's the Glenmorangie Keen to Reuben if they're after Bill. You know? If there is one whiskey that That people continually ask us about, it's the cancer. Reuben, because we've listen II, you know, I have no idea what kind of Roi Glenmorangie is getting off of our podcast here, but they have invested zero dollars and they have gotten at least 100 bottle sales just for me telling people about it like Word of Mouth wise because it's like a 50. I think it's up to about 57 dollars now in my area and it's still a steel, it's a 14-year single malt, it is like one of the most Beautifully finished scotches that we've ever had.

16:49 It is a perfect entry way into the world of single malt Highland Scotch. If you've never been a scotch person, I always always recommend the key to Reuben. And so, I think that both women talking and the King to Reuben, are more than meets the eye. You know, I didn't expect much from women talking going in and I was really pleasantly surprised. And I think cancer ribbon really fits that bill as well. Absolutely just to add to the the Glenmorangie or than all I would argue one of the best port finishes that you can actually afford and get that gives you an exact idea what that means without going overboard or getting to musti. It's so well attenuated that you're like oh this is what they mean by Port finish.

17:35 This is something special that is extra and clearly so hmm. All right Zach, what's your Is your first movie to break down here. So going off, our goal Derby list, it's the menu, sorry, I mean, triangle of sadness. So I did enjoy triangle of sadness because it did go in a direction that I'm not going to spoil here because again I don't know how many people have actually seen this movie. It went in a direction, I did not expect many was actually kind of refreshing and I really got into it in the back half. The first half I found kind of derivative that's why I don't think it's really going to win anything.

18:16 Yeah, that I mean it was there were funny moments, don't get me wrong, I was giggling. When I supposed to be giggling and, you know, but because of the sort of, you know, parasite of it all, I feel like this is that nominations slot for that. And it's always about class, right? And so, I think anybody who watched the trailer knows it's about the Uber Elite rich, And you know, the people who have to work for them unfortunately, and then the film goes in a very different direction, focusing on what people know from the trailer and the general thrust of evil rich versus poor and it being such an elitist film. I had to go with the most elitist bottle of whiskey, I could think of.

19:01 So I'm going with Pappy Van, Winkle 2000. I love it. I love it specifically because that is my least favorite Pappy to. So it is it is what those books on that ship would be demanding to drink. So you should pour a glass of that if you're going to watch this movie. So I was actually, I'm so glad to hear you say that we and we have not revealed our picks for this article to each other at all yet. So I'm literally hearing your picks for the first time here. I was going to say I was so happy that triangle of sadness ended up on your list because it was of the 10 movies. It was the only one that I can say. I really didn't like I thought it was entirely too long. It was at least a half hour.

19:41 Too long. It's a movie that split into three acts and only two of the acts. I feel like really actually are pertinent to the plot like the first kind of prologue act. Really has no bearing on the rest of the plot. It sets up two characters but I don't really know that it adds very much to the theme of the movie. And the thing is, it's very flawed. The thing with this movie is, you know, a few years ago, I feel like there was really kind of a Groundswell of people pushing back on specifically movies that were being made by. Disney and how, you know, there was a perception of the way that they were portraying. Quote-unquote woke - right and Brad and I never talked about woke nests on this podcast. I lean more left, Brad leans more, right. But I felt like they were a couple films in a row that were released by Disney that there were, there were characters and they were thematic developments in those movies that weren't earned and it felt like they were really trying to check boxes.

20:39 And I think that people Studios have taken note of that now, but what they've pivoted to is taking that really simplistic understanding of diversity. And instead they've made a really simplistic theme which is just like rich people, bad. And so like we get movies this past year like Glass Onion which I really liked and liked the menu which I liked quite a bit and and like triangle of sadness. But I think people are starting to hit their limit with these kind of movies, even if we All agree with the core premise of the movie. And even if we really do like seeing arrogant and pompous rich people meet their downfall, this movie of those three, I thought was the most simplistic and reductionistic and like it just, I don't know.

21:27 It beat its principal into your head and it beat you over the top of the head. I'll say, for 2 hours, and 40 minutes, without letting up, and I don't know if Academy members were just kind of like bludgeoned into liking this movie. Not but it didn't do it for me, man. Again I almost want to say it's just a parasite slot. Everything. Everything everything ever were all once is the superhero slot, you know, like I it sounds very basic in terms but it kind of is that we're all. So if you do watch triangle sentence, I would argue you can skip the first our names, just start when things go awry. Yeah.

22:10 When people start vomiting. Meeting. That's where you need to start the movie. Exactly. And that being said, the reason I pick the most elusive Pappy, is that. That's what those Rich aspect would be demanding. Okay, I just felt right. Yep, I feel it. Alright, my next pick, which is listed currently as Avatar. The way of water at number 8. I loved Avatar the way of water and I only kind of liked Avatar. James Cameron is back babies, freaking back. And I'll tell you what, I went to see the re-release of Titanic in the theaters a couple weeks ago and was once again reminded that that is truly one of the great films to ever come out of Hollywood.

22:50 It is a Monumental achievement. And when I think back on the way of water, which I've seen twice now, it is much closer to being Titanic than it is to being the first avatar. There is a great there's a Level of Storytelling there there's really rich thematic developments. I feel like every character is finally fully fleshed-out the new characters that are introduced I think are really great additions to this world of Pandora. And I mean I got to say man, Cameron does this thing with every one of his sequels where he takes the source material of the first film and he says, okay. But what if we make them a family? Now what if we introduce a kid and it never fails, he does it with aliens. He does it with T2 and he's doing it here with Avatar and the introduction of kids and familial responsibilities. And the sort of like, I don't know, the the weight of Parenthood.

23:45 I feel like I really made Jake Sully a better character. I thought that the choice to end the movie with the scene that he does which is like a very quiet meditative kind of like recollection. It's kind of a really heartbreaking ending to the movie and I thought it was just one of the more poetic things I've seen from Cameron and his whole career. I really love the way of water. Unfortunately, I went as simplistic as possible with this pairing, and I wanted something kind of aquatic to match it up with. Now, there is an aquatic themed whiskey out there that is aged on the high seas. But you've heard Brad. And I talked about that before and it's not one of our favorite Whiskey's out there.

24:26 So I went with my second pick, for aquatic themed whiskies and I went with Barrel. Seagrass. Rad's favorite, whiskey of all time. The only whiskey to ever achieve a 50 out of 50 from either of us in the history of the show. It is just a beautifully complex rye and it pairs up pretty perfectly with the way of water. Yeah. I mean this is one of my favorite Whiskey's as well. It's just so beautifully done. I mean with the team over a barrel are doing is just kind of like Doc Swenson were talking about earlier. They're just doing wonderful work and the fact that It's kind of a global issue whiskey as well. So it kind of pairs with Avatar that way in that, you know, Kentucky, Indiana and Canada's all in there.

25:10 Yep. Yeah. Martinique rum barrels. And vedera from Italy and apricot. Brandy. Barrels. You know, it's like all this different stuff. Coming together to create a beautiful poor of whiskey. Yeah, for sure. All right, Zach you're up man. All right, let me let's see. So that takes me too. Something that I like I said before, it might be, this is the sleeper win just because I believe the power of the baftas but All Quiet on the Western Front. And in all honestly this was actually one of my favorite films of the year like top three. For sure. I'm a huge fan of book. It has one of my favorite stories of all time in the publishing of it.

25:56 I'll tell a very quickly because it's a quick story but it's proof of the power of Human translator in translating from one language to another in that. The name of this book is conditional is investing that there's nothing new in the west, but the translator didn't literally translate it because that wouldn't have to say meeting. He went from Snick noise and investing to All Quiet on the Western Front which is the power of truly beautiful arched in translation Because if you're an English speaker, there's nothing new in the west sense, stupid fight on the Western Front but that's not right. It sounds poetic that aside such a beautiful film to look at. I mean, the scene when they're standing outside the farm in the snow and it's quiet, but you can almost hear the snowflakes falling and you hear, you know, the geese and the pigs and everything inside the farm and it's just so beautifully put together as a film. that you kind of get transported in a way in The Quiet Moments is a very loud film. There's no massive amounts of cord violence of course because it's about trench warfare.

27:09 But I think why the film is so good? Is it has that balance of both? It can be quiet and beautiful and tragic and funny and they can be loud and bombastic and horrifying and heroin bloody. And so for me, it just hit every moment of that film going experience. For me, on top of which, after all that, the story is also great. It's classic for a reason. So, I didn't go with a classic whiskey. I went with the German whiskey. All right? So this is sort of like my ringer outside sort of curveball, but for your fans, I live to Berlin for 14 years.

27:50 I basically lived in Europe for 20. I really got into German rise, German Whiskey's. There's a lot of very interesting things going on in Germany right now in the whiskey scene, of course a lot. Don't get it. Oh get over here but back in 2020. The number one Whiskey in the world according to the I WS C of the world spirits. Come here, natural world, Spirits competition which is like the Oscars of spirits competitions name this whiskey best whiskey, the world and that's the Vespa lien 2012. Six year old single malt. That's a peated. German single malt. Wow. And so this whiskey is is 100% delicious. I mean I Lucky enough to years ago at solingen Germany I was able to get my hands on some and the nose has this sort of multi vanilla chocolate. He's sort of like a Whopper sense to it you know those like ball.

28:42 Like yeah malted milk balls. Yeah multiple balls. Yeah with sort of like a floral vanilla and marzipan and like freshly grilled pancakes with you know floral honey and old leather and you know dried peacoat orange teeny and just and In the penis is like, layered in just so beautifully that you kind of expect surprises you. Hmm. But is part of the overall ecosystem of the whiskey, like, it all makes sense. A sort of like you've lit those teams on fire or you've, you know, you've lit them all balls on fire and I see sort of It's just a beautiful whiskey. Like I can see why they named it. The best whiskey in the world, back in 2020. It's extremely hard to get your hands on here. You can get.

29:29 It just really expensive again. Sorry, I have expensive picks but vest Fallen is Fallen. They do a whole bunch of stuff. They do a great ride, they do a great Court whiskey. They do a lot of great single moms as well. Of course, obviously peated, and on peated. And it's just one of those things where it's like hardcore whiskey nerds making whiskey in Germany and doing a really Job one was and I'm not going to let you come on my show and tease me with this whiskey that I've never tried before. So I'll be expecting my sample in the mail here. In the next few days I will do my best to find us a bottle. All right, we both have three picks left. I think this is a good place for us to hit pause. We got to get to a quick break and then we'll come back and we'll finish out our nominees. Alright, I'm back with Zach Johnson, we're walking through the top 10 movies of the Year, according to the academy, we're talking about, the best picture nominees. And we're looking at a movie that I freaking loved that, I really did not expect to like it all. And that is the movie Elvis a smash success at the box office. I remember seeing the the trailer to this movie narrated by Tom Hanks as some sort of Dutch Foghorn Leghorn. I don't understand exactly what that accent. It is, but in the context of the film it works. And the reason that it works is that this is a film directed by baz luhrmann.

30:49 And if you're not familiar with baz luhrmann, if you've ever seen Moulin Rouge, if you've ever seen the 1996 Romeo + Juliet movie. If you for some reason, watched his movie Australia, which I do not recommend, or have you seen the Leonardo DiCaprio, The Great Gatsby, then you have an idea of baz luhrmann's filming style. It is frenetic. It is kinetic. It is Hunting. And it is designed to be as opulent and over-the-top and maximal istic as possible. And what better? Subject matter for a filmmaker like that, then Elvis Presley, a person who seems Larger than Life who's like, if we're being honest here, whose life story were really not that interested in, as consumers, we want the Elvis mythology.

31:39 And what I think is so brilliant about this movie is that it has almost No interest in being a biopic quote-unquote, it doesn't care. If the story that it's telling is true or false. It doesn't care if most of it is the legend and not the facts. Because as we learned from the movies, when the legend becomes fact, you print the legend. That's what baz luhrmann is doing here, when Brad and I were in seminary and in college, you know, we studied biblical studies and we learned a lot about what's called form criticism which is where you look at the genre of the text that you're reading and Talk about how the genre itself, informs how you're supposed to read that text, that's pretty simplistic way of explaining it, but what baz, luhrmann doesn't this movie is he takes the form of a biopic and he takes all of the tools of Cinema to make something that is so much more than a biopic. It's a movie that comments on myth-making and myth building, at the same time that it is totally leaning into that myth-making and myth building.

32:41 It was just Such an immersive impressive experience. It was freaking bananas. I loved every second of it and for a movie like that, I got a pair it up with something as grotesque as Elvis's. Appetite itself as over the top. Elvis's, favorite sandwich. Very famously was a grilled peanut butter banana and bacon sandwich. And while I couldn't find a whiskey that had all of those flavors for me, one that came very close, was Jack Daniels triple Mash Which is one that we just did on the podcast, this past season, this is a new issue release from Jack Daniels. It's coming in those 700 mL bottles, not 750s, which it was a bit of a controversy for a little bit there, but it has all those classic Jack Daniels notes that we got on, you know, the Baseline offering lots of banana on Jack Daniels and ever see a lot of people mention it, but I always get banana on Jack Daniel's and then there's this beautiful, peanut butter and, and maple, it just, it tastes like a stack of pancakes.

33:42 Is covered in maple syrup and peanut butter and it is for $40. I think one of the best values out there. So Elvis is getting paired up with Jack Daniels. Triple mesh. Yeah, I love this movie. I think I've watched it three times. Perfect. I saw in the Cinnabon. I've watched it twice since on HBO Max like it's almost like comfort food. Yeah. You know. Like a, I guess like a peanut butter that a bacon sandwich. Just yeah, I agree. 100% like baz luhrmann found his perfect Muse for gaudiness and Ridiculousness and his editing style and I don't care about Boston, Butler's accent at all the kid.

34:24 Hit it out of the park, like just unreal. Yeah. And I, you know, I think A+ A+ on the pic in the movie before Brad had his child and had to, you know, dip out of this recording. And we had two sub Zach in here. Elvis was one of the movies that Brad was going to be reviewing and he had to watch it. Still I told him like, look, man, I tried to convince you to go see it in the theater. It's not going to be as good on HBO Max and he's like, dude, it shouldn't matter if it's a good movie, I should like it anyway. Brad G. Not a fan of the movie Elvis and I know this because we share an HBO Max account. And I saw the he made it about 20 minutes in and stopped. And the next day, he watched about another half hour and he finally made it to about the halfway mark and now that he doesn't have to record this episode, I can tell you. 100% certainty that he will never be finishing this film. So, it's nice to have Zach here because that means that we both are fans of Elvis.

35:22 I do a lot of people complain about certain aspects of it. It's like it's baz luhrmann, and it's fantasy, write fanfiction, you know, and even even like I thought Tom Hanks was brilliant in it because how else is it Dutch? Cardi want to be Kentucky? Yeah, that's supposed to sound a cent piece, but it's so like He was a weirdo. Yeah. But now you know, you talked about, you know, some movies being slaughtered in like the parasite, slider the superhero slot. I think this movie is being slotted into, you know, the Bohemian Rhapsody slot from a couple years ago and trillion times better. And that's the thing I've been trying to prep my defense of this movie where I hated Bohemian Rhapsody and I think, ultimately what it comes down to is this neither of these movies is interested in the truth, but only one of these movies feels like it has Intentionality behind it and is like actually the vision of a Visionary filmmaker, Bohemian Rhapsody was all over the place man but also even grappa's Rhapsody felt like a betrayal because it was so heavily influenced by Brian May. And the former band members into their Narrative of someone else's life, who they didn't really get on with that. Well, yeah.

36:37 And didn't like that much and that was bullshit on top of which Grammy Malik. It looked like he was always like a scared rabbit who just got like shocked by a cattle prod in every scene. Listen, man, I can't believe that like, in the year of Our Lord 2018, or whatever, that movie came out, that the solution was just. Let's put big fake teeth in his mouth and it'll and he'll look like Freddie Mercury. It was the most ridiculous looking thing I've ever seen and it was I think I've nothing against him as an actor, he can obviously do great work, it is all on the director and the producer. Ooh, sir of that film for what was put up on that screen, he was doing his job and what he was told and you know, he brought what he brought but that is one of those that up there with crash of ridiculousness at that.

37:27 I've got an award like just come, I specially especially they fired the director and the director is next film was rocket man, which Again full on fantasy? Yeah, I'm fiction, but 10 times better. Ten type. Again, that's a movie. I watch probably once a year. Maybe it's a crappy movie can throw out on a Sunday while you're folding laundry. I know. All right. Zach what's your next pick here? So I'm going with another heavy hitter that probably five people have seen. That is tar tar. I initially went to see this because it was Kate Blanchet because she is the goat.

38:09 I mean is there? No my gosh, it was better but also it was filmed in Berlin. Like I said for you to live in Berlin, blah, blah, blah, I know also, another thing about me, I first two years of college, I was a music Major. I was going to be a concert pianist, I've been playing since I was six. I was home-schooled so I could practice piano, six hours a day, like so movies like this, always get my attention again without spoiling too much of the movie. You know, this is very much of its time, I think to its detriment. In that it's about, you know, looking back at artists and asking whether the art is ever worth it. If the person making the artist a piece of, I don't know, I'm not going to stop watching The Shining because Cooper was a piece of shit to Jack and you know his actors it's a very 2022 movie.

39:04 Yeah that won't be timeless gem because of that I do think Kate Blanchet is phenomenal in it. Of course I think the directing is Excellent, it looks great. You know he's got some interesting ideas. I think it's an important conversation but as with anything, a conversation that is pertinent to a year for the last, how many times have you talked about Kramer vs Kramer? You know, those conversations passing? We forget the movies that were part of the conversation because we hopefully move on and better ourselves. That being said, I picked the whiskey and it's abrasive and overdone and let's just say an acquired taste and that's the optimum or 13.3 Edition.

39:52 Mmm, super heavily peated, Ila. Single malt scotch for the last year. It's the sort of whiskey that if you are not attuned to heavily peated, I love Scotch. You will probably spit it out because it is hard to swallow. If you love that stuff or are willing to take the time to enjoy it, like you have to be willing to take the time to enjoy a lot of the classical music and tar-like baller and holds and Bach and stuff like that. Once you take the tide will find this whiskey is quite excellent. Hmm. And very very, very delicious, very deeply built. If you can get past the insanely heavy ashy penis where it feels. Like you're licking the inside of a smoker that's been going for a week, you do find these lovely layers of dark fruit, and leather, and vanilla and lovely floral honey, and brininess and like, all of the The Luminous and it's just a phenomenal whiskey.

41:00 And so I chose it for that dichotomy tar as an idiot are being that like Ike this, she's too much. I can take it. But then the classical music side of the film being like, if you Grace it and get a time, I assure you. You'll start to love it. Did you like the movie tar? No, I didn't either. Yeah, well, I'll tell you where I fell on it. I gave it a six out of ten and okay. Yeah, so it reminds me of a very particular brand of movie and you mentioned Kubrick and I have a very love-hate relationship with Kubrick because I feel like in his later years, he was put on such a pedestal that his movies were allowed to be.

41:44 As overindulgent as they want it to be and no one ever questioned him. And in fact it for me it's always been like an Emperor's New Clothes thing. Like I just don't see what's there in some of those movies and I think that people just know that they're supposed to Revere Kubrick and so they do and I think that carries over into today. There are certain movies that come out that are very Kubrick Ian and I think of like some of my, the Lesser Paul, Thomas Anderson movies, for me, do this. I was not a phantom. I'd guy right now. I'm also not really a master guy. I know a lot of people love the master, but this movie reminded me so much of, you know, some of the more pompous scenes in There Will Be Blood.

42:26 Some of them are pompous moments of phantom thread, where the length of the movie seemed, like a challenge to the audience. Like, can you even get through this? I thought that the movie was probably 40 minutes too long to tell the story that it wanted to tell. I thought that that final joke of the movie I was just, I mean, it was vicious and I laughed for sure, but it reminded me a lot of There Will Be Blood and the way that that movie ends on this, weirdly out of place, out of character, kind of joke. So if you're a fan of There Will Be Blood but you'd like to watch a movie where nothing happens like Phantom thread. I think that you might be a huge fan of tar.

43:07 If not if those movies, didn't do it for you. I don't know if tar is going to be your movie. It's interesting because I would push back a little bit about PTA in that. Fathom, thread, does have a more Universal albeit. Very fetishized, POV mmm. Also with the master, I mean, the master is just very limited, I mean, yeah. You know, Lord, bullingdon getting tortured by Barry Lyndon and tell, you know, they have their moment at the end. That's literally the master. Yeah, that's Philip Seymour. Hoffman, torturing you up, blocking Phoenix. And so I agree with you there. I enjoy Barry Lyndon more than I did the master, but I'm I get nerdy about the way that film looks.

43:52 Oh, it's beautiful. See the atmosphere? Yeah, like, he actually feel like you're in those places in a way. That is kind of mind-blowing to me because it's rarely replicated. Yeah, I feel with tar, I guess going back to my earlier point is it's so painful to such a specific conversation about our culture. Now that It just felt too flash in the pan. Like, I kind of felt like there is a bigger, there was a bigger conversation that was like, lurking behind that that they didn't quite get to like, yeah, we know, artists have pieces of sometimes, and, but they create great art. How do we deal with that?

44:32 Obviously, is 2022. So cancel culture became the sort of way that's dealt with. And obviously there's the grooming aspects and, you know, she's a horrible person. Like it's made, very clear that she's a horrible person. Person. But the sort of like, what is the bigger message there? That I think with something, like with was taking their really blood with PTA, like the bigger message there is that, you know, universally, no matter what area you're in, that sort of person in that sort of wealth, that sort of Drive is going to destroy everything around you and it doesn't matter what the art is. It doesn't matter what the oil did, it doesn't matter. You know, I kind of feel like wood Parts like well, it emphasized too much on the art and not enough on the person.

45:14 Right. That makes sense. Yep, yep. All right. Well, we're pivoting from. Probably the most pompous of the Ted event that in triangle is sadness to the least pretentious movie of the time. When we're talking about top gun Maverick, probably my number one film of the year. It's either that or women talking if you want to truly insane, double feature. Okay, great top gun. Maverick was a movie that I saw in the theater and I loved but I wondered if my love for that, movie was a All bit performative. If I was just falling victim to how everyone loved that movie, because let's be frank here. Some of the dialogue is really bad, some of the dialogue is, you know, it's classic 80s action movie, dialogue brought into 2023 so that Tom Cruise can look directly in the camera and tell Ed Harris. I'm not going extinct today like it's it's over the top, it's cheesy and yet every moment of it works, And I went back to see it a second time and I was still a little iffy on it and then I, you know what I did.

46:19 I saw it a third time in the theater sack because that movie The cinematography that the incredible cameras at they mounted inside of those airplanes. The entire last 45 minutes of that film is one of the best edited piece of pieces of Cinema. I have ever seen. I don't know how much film or I guess digital footage they Had to comb through to get all of those shots and if some of them are assisted with CGI, but it is like a truly staggering work of Cinema, it is so tangible that I can brush aside, the sort of like action movie trappings of the first half of it because the back half of that movie is like, it was like a Transcendent experience, man.

47:10 Absolutely. But I would add to that, they are self-aware. Yes, trappings it's not. You know, it's not people weren't laughing at it because it was dumb, were laughing with it because they were making the joke, right? Right. So that's why I think it connected. Yeah. I think it did too and maybe this is an awkward segue because I don't know if people are laughing at or with this, whiskey at all. But I'm certainly not because the whiskey that I decided to pair this with comes from probably my favorite current line of Whiskey's, and that is the rebel distillers. Collection interest. I am a huge fan of rebel. I know a lot of people look down on it and I think it's because it's always competing with Weller in people's minds as a weeded Mash bill. You know, the not so well kept secret for a long time was that this was being sourced from Heaven Hill. I know that lux row Luxe.

48:02 Go is making its own distillate now and so I'm not sure exactly like what's in the bottle at this point. I think is probably still, at least somewhat sourced. However, The rebel distillers collection is basically the the Luxe. Go response to well or foolproof. Well, if foolproof I believe clocks in at 114 proof, always distillers, collection, always clocks in at 113 proof, it is 50 times easier to find it is $40. If you can find it on the Shelf, there's not like a huge secondary market for it so you can usually even find it on secondary and it's not going to be marked up that much and it is to me every bit as good as Weller foolproof is and you don't have to do the legwork to track it down.

48:48 So for me, it was just a question of whiskey and a movie that didn't want to be anything more than what they're trying to be a movie and a whiskey. That remind me of the good old days. Tom Cruise still living His Glory Days. I love this whiskey. And I love this movie Zach. And, you know, it's a perfect, it is perfect. In that I've had this looks key and my biggest takeaway or what I remember most about it is It's like a root beer float and nothing says like Diner Nostalgia, then a root beer float and it looks like I could imagine having a root beer float and watching Top Gun Maverick like it just feels right. All right, we've got I think you've got two left, I've got one left.

49:29 Let's get to these last three. Movies is the Banshees of in a shattered. And I saw this movie in Portland, I was there for work and had an afternoon off and I was like, ooh, I can actually see this on the big screen and I vastly enjoyed it because I love Hello Gleason and Farrell and just their banter back and forth. You know but I'd or Ireland I've been there over a dozen times so it was nice seeing it in film Carrie kind of condom. Okay Condon. Yeah yeah Terry Collins and I thought was fantastic. He said incredible sort of calling them all the tasks you know and speed like be talking about your old dull. I love that.

50:14 I love that monologue. you know, and just obviously there's a lot of things, you know, the Civil War, you know, the stuff on the surface but also, you know, the only therapy access to therapy or help to have is a priest that comes once a week and there's no one else to talk to and you know the hypocrisy, if you do Gleason going and hanging out the pub with the worst man on the island and waste his time, drinking with him but not with his best friend from, you know, the last their life and the hypocrisy of, you know, all that and I do like this film but I also understand the criticisms of Irish people who do not like McDonough or a film like this. So that said, it's kind of got to be an Irish whiskey. No.

50:59 Yeah. Like how fun it would be if I was just like Jack Daniels Old Number 7. But this is where I've talked about this with you guys before and how you guys kind of create a nice balance for me because I feel Work. I get sent a lot of stuff when I end up having a lot of higher, ed whiskies that tend to be what I gravitate toward. I like talking to you guys because you, you focus on things people can get and you are care about the price, which is extremely important. And I forget that sometimes. Yes, and this is an example of me, forgetting that sometimes because I chose writers. Tears, red. Hello, nice. Which is a fairly new ish expression like it's not brand new but it is not going around that long.

51:44 Writers tears, always does some, you know, classic stuff. This is a, this is a single malt. Actually, you know it, rest and Status all oloroso, Sherry butts. Until you know, it's just drags. It's actually bought a little bit higher at 46 percent, which is nice is no 43. 40 percent is more that you have in Ireland. So, this has a little bit more depth to it, and it's just for me. It trampled, transports, me there, where I'm sitting in a pub and you, you smell the pies baking. In the back and you smell the Guinness and you kind of, you know, you get that old world Vibe of mincemeat pies and you know, old vanilla cakes and cupcakes and you know, you know, English or Irish Breakfast tea and you know, Creamy Honey and orange marmalade on scones and all this lovely stuff that just takes me to Ireland.

52:36 So for me with this film being so beautifully sort of rendered in the, you know, Irish Pastoral Countryside. It just felt like the exact right thing. Plus you know, redhead police and made sense. It's Colin. Farrell does such incredible eyebrow work. In this movie, I feel like Colin Farrell deserves that best actor nomination and maybe even the trophy, but his eyebrows deserved to be nominated for best supporting actor because they are. So they are incredible in this film. All right, they really are the number two movie on this list. I guess it's the number three but we're going out of order a little bit here. Is another Dark Horse. I really do think that even though everything everywhere, all at once, seems to be the lock at this point, there's a couple movies that could just kind of get a Groundswell of support in these last few days of voting.

53:25 And the Fable men's is one of them. This is, Steven Spielberg's autobiographical telling of his childhood. Essentially. You know, it's a slightly fictionalized version. The family's name in this movie. Obviously, is Fable m'n. It is not Spielberg but it is Steven Spielberg's story. And what I love about this movie is that despite what the trailers would lead you to believe, this is not a sappy saccharine. Look back at the 50s and 60s, this is somebody who is 75 years old still grappling with his childhood trauma. Still grappling with his own response to that still grappling with his Cummings as a person and his inability to communicate and it's really like you can't divorce the Steven Spielberg hot divorce, you can't divorce the Steven Spielberg divorce. Origin story from his discovery of Cinema because his coping mechanism is to make movies and he has said it himself, there's a great documentary on HBO Max called Spielberg and he says, in that documentary, I never went to therapy because making movies was my therapy.

54:35 It's all through his movies to the point that it's become a running joke on film and whiskey. But there is a moment in this movie where Spielberg his his Avatar Sam is watching. As his parents, finally announced that they are going to get a divorce and he sees his little sister, just breaking down and sobbing and he glances up into the mirror, that's hanging on the wall and he sees an imagined version of himself. Entering the frame carrying a camera filming the whole thing and it's this really tragic and kind of heartbreaking, you know, ponderous on how filmmakers like him and artists in general, don't know how to express themselves in any other way, but through their art and how it is both rewarding. And the most crippling thing about them, there's a scene where he's talking to his sister behind closed doors and she's asking him, like, I can't believe like this isn't affecting you more essentially and he doesn't know what to say and she gets up to leave and then he just says, will you watch my movie with me as if that is? The only way that he can make contact with her? It is I mean, I'm selling it like, it's a complete Downer, it's also not a complete Downer, it's a great, great movie. And it's told with that classic Spielberg Showmanship. But what I loved about this movie was its ability to balance.

56:00 The really delicate notes with some truly hard hitting and and hard to. Wallow moments. And for that reason, I paired it up with one of my favorite Bourbons Noah's Mill. Now, it's a polarizing, very nice. It's a polarizing bourbon because it comes from Willy and everything. That will, it makes I feel like is polarizing amongst okay you know amongst the populace here but it has that great. I always call it the Willett funk. I think I've come to just accept that will it has these wonderful rose petal notes for me. I get tons and tons of rows on, will it products? And Noah's Mill is probably the one I get it. The Most on that. That's another one. That I thinks it's right around. 114 proof. I love Noah's Mill because it has that high proof, you know, Kentucky hug on the way down.

56:47 But you never lose that floral know that sits right on top of everything. And I think, you know, if I could pick a whiskey to epitomize that balancing act that Spielberg has its Noah's Mill, Absolutely. I mean, great great whiskey. I love it at Manhattan's, but also, just on the rocks on its own, it's always always delivers. And the film was one of my favorite films of the year as well. Another one I could watch again. And I think, you know, a lot of those sort of things people talking about, you know, oh, Paul dado and she'll Williams aren't Jewish. Why were they cast? It was like, if you watch the cold air interview, they put up or Spielberg Cooks up a picture of his parents and they look identical.

57:32 Home to his parents buying the Louise Brooks haircut on his mom that like sort of Dopey tall, gangly dad was glasses. Yep. And it's shocking how much they look alike? I mean obviously it's movie stars versions because of course it is. But I'm he told such a touching story that, you know, he, when they were doing rehearsals and going over the script. He's like, listen, I've already been through all my emotions with this when we get on said, I'm there to protect you and guide you and don't worry and he said the first day he got on said he saw pulled out on the show Williams in their full costume and makeup at his parents and he just broke down sobbing and they had to hold him for a while until he was able to calm down, you know, start the day and I think That goes back to sort of what I was alluding to and car or what we're talking about with PTA and Kubrick is it's a universal movie.

58:25 Like there's it you'd like yes, some of takes place in the 60s but that kind of doesn't matter like anti-Semitism is real. Now my kids are going through that right now and happen for I'm internal, you know, and you know, people find their Arts through hardship, but not that bad a hardship. But one of the things I like about the films like he had supportive parents like he was Like oh you know like you know what was it a Straight Out of Compton where it's like you know raps not going to put any food on the table. What are you wasting your time with that for right? You know he had a father's like I will move to Los Angeles and change my job so you can follow your dreams because that's what happened and you know, that's why aren't you good parents do, right. And probably happens more often than not and, you know, I've always sort of Always kind of pushed away from the idea that art has to be created from pain.

59:17 Obviously, even through a huge trauma and has been dealing with that pain, but he also had a lot of support as well, and it's a balance. Everybody has a balance, you know, and some good, some bad and he's been able to create. You'll be most some of the most iconic films of all time from that and to see him come full circle with his film, especially as someone who grew up in the 80s with these movies as an iconic. Cornerstone. Of my cultural heritage. I mean, I was crying like 10 times in this movie, I do, you know, I was thinking sitting there in the theater by myself, just solving away, shutting popcorn and I'm out, you know, it was that, but it is another film. Like, it's one of those films, like, I will probably watch every year.

59:57 Yeah, you know, at least one now I will say this, this movie is still no ET which I have come to acknowledge and accept is maybe my favorite movie and probably one of the 10 best track in movies ever made and I will fight Brad in a cage. Which to defend the honor of that film. But just to say that it's not ET, doesn't mean that this is not a great movie. And it's honestly, it's one of the Spielberg's best from this Century. I would say, oh yeah, I would I would agree. That's well it. What's also interesting is how Sheree is in the stories, he's telling them that he knows what it's about, he goes in knowing full well what he's there to do and again if you go back and watch that Colbert interview, you know, Colbert brings up War of the Worlds in a way.

1:00:42 Where he has a incorrect assumption about what that book is about. Smokers like no, no that movies about 9/11 and US dealing with the Fallout of that and just moves on because that's what that movies about period. Like there's no no ew. What's the secret meaning of is like that? It's about 9/11 and that's what makes him a great is he knows what he's doing. And he's confident in telling that story at that time and it being essential and that's what I started with. Plus, he got an amazing performance out of Seth Rogen, which I thought was impossible. All right, we have just one movie left Zach, it's it's all up to you now. Bring it home, man. So surprising about the surprisingly, the almost longest name of any film on the list.

1:01:30 Everything everywhere all at once which other people seem to really like, hmm. Of course it's a Multiverse Phil, but I would argue done in A very intelligent way compared to I mean I'm out I go see all the Marvel movies, I'm not saying they're dumb, I'm just saying this kind of took the idea of a Multiverse and had a lot of fun with it. Also brought a lot of emotional depth ending the main character Evelyn her. Her journey is something again. I feel like it's a universal thing. We can relate to where you, this doesn't really spoil the film. But, you know, as opposed to not listening the people around you making Her life's better people around you in your life.

1:02:14 Will be better. Universal truth, not always accomplishable. You can always do that but sometimes you got to stop and remind yourself that you can. And that's why I think why this film connected so well, but also looked great but it's not tonight, it looks, it's flashy, it's got great costume design. Great, you know, production design Act is amazingly. Well, you know seeing Short Round come back for my childhood was the most amazing thing that left field. I never expected to see and I really hope. If he gets an Oscar for best picture for this, you know, as much as I want All Quiet on the Western Front of wind and fine with that getting best International teacher because this is such a wonderful cinematic experience that again. I don't think anyone thought this was going to be what it was.

1:03:06 I think it was just going to be another Daniels movie that's was in the art houses. The cool film kids would talk about and that would be it. Instead, it's here, huge hit. Critical hit, could win some Oscars. All of that aside, I had to go with where the film starts starts at the Lunar. New Year, when Evans father comes to celebrate and this is a bottle that still on shelves right now because the Lunar New Year and that's Johnny Walker Chinese New Year, you're the rabbit. Mmm. I love these bottles because they're hand-painted, and they're always beautiful, but I think they're hand-painted and designed by Chinese artist. They look great. They're special their unique, there's something you only see once a year, you know, kind of like everything everaldo once, it's very unique and looks beautiful. So the bottle in the film sort of matches in that, that aesthetic of beauty and I find Johnny Walker Blue to be a good pour 40.

1:04:06 Want to watch a good fun movie as you don't have to think too much about the whiskey and you can just enjoy the film and get a buzz on. I personally like Johnny Walker, Green that is My go-to if I'm drinking Johnny Walker. That is in no way saying Johnny Walker Blue is bad. It's great fine. It's got dead. Distillery juice in the mix stuff, you can't get anywhere else so it is kind of like traveling to a different Universe where whiskey that doesn't exist anymore is in this bottle are isn't being made anymore at least plus it's just one of those I feel like you know Johnnie Walker Blue is fine but the New Year bottles really are special and you know they have they Have something to them.

1:04:48 That's just that little bit extra like this bill. This is something to this film. That's that little bit extra. Yeah, hot dog fingers aside. You don't just go with it. Enjoy it and don't think too much about it. Yeah, I mean it's it's probably the first movie in. I don't know how long that has been a a genuine crowd-pleaser and be had this much consensus around it like I just I can't remember another movie, you know, back in whatever it was 2018 when green book one, no one wanted that movie to win even though it is a crowd-pleasing movie. And so like it's the complete opposite of this film. Was this my favorite movie of the year? No. Like I think I gave it an eight point five when I first watched it because I thought it was a little too silly. A little too long before the heart of the movie came in that last Act is unimpeachable, man.

1:05:38 I have no complaints about the way that movie wraps up and I have no complaints. If this movie wins best picture, it's a feel-good movie. It's a movie that you can recommend to people. It is just wacky enough that I can't believe I'm about to see it. Maybe win best picture. Like when I think about Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle yeoh sticking their hot, dog, fingers into each other's mouths. And then, I think this is gonna Have a Blu-ray with a sticker on it, that says Academy Award for best picture like that, blows my mind. And I think that I kind of want to live in a world where that happens. And so I'm really excited if it wins it wins and it has my full support in that regard so like Robert Evans. That's a picture baby.

1:06:22 But yeah, as fully fully agree and it's the for, you know what, it reminds me of and I don't mean this in story or anything like that because it is longer. It's the The cable movie that you're flipping through the channels and it's on and you're going to stop and watch the rest yappin, just like once upon a time in Hollywood, like that is the perfect flipping around film. And if you hit it to right, seen your in. Yeah. But you're never going to watch the whole thing from the start, unless you're like a high college student at door. Hi there. You have it. Those are the Oscar nominees for 2023. We'd like to know what you think. Hey, how many of these movies, have you even seen? How many do you intend to see and what would be your Pick for best picture. You can find us on our social media accounts, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram at film whiskey Zack, where can the people find you and find our article? So it will be on uproxx.com.

1:07:15 Have a look there. You can also find me there everyday writing about whiskey. Usually very profusely. You can find me at ztp Whiskey on Instagram and not on any other socials or go to up. Rocks life on Instagram but aprox, not calm. CTP whiskey. All right, we we will be back next week with one more bonus episode and then you're not going to hear from us from a couple more weeks until we promo and preview season 7. So that'll do it for us and signing off without Brad. I am Bob book and we'll see you next time.