Rushmore / Stranahan's Original American Single Malt

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In 1999, director Wes, Anderson
and starred.

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Jason Schwartzman gave the world
as splendidly offbeat, romantic

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comedy, that follows no known
formula in 2022.

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We returned to Colorado to try a
single malt.

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The film is Rushmore.
The whiskey is Stranahan is

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original and more view them,
both.

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This is the film and whiskey
podcast.

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Welcome to the Billman whiskey
podcast.

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Where each week we review a
classic movie and a glass of

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whiskey.
I'm Bob book, I'm Brad G and

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this week we are diving into a
mini series of films from

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director, Wes Anderson and we're
kicking things off with his 1898

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breakthrough Rushmore Bob this
is like the long-awaited

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movement back into the territory
of Wes Anderson.

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I've been really excited for
this Brad because I did not

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expect you to enjoy the Royal
Tenenbaums like after after the

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Eternal Sunshine debacle.
I was thinking that like

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anything out of the ordinary,
might just be a red flag and you

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really love Royal Tenenbaums.
And to be fair like I think

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you've actually brought up how
excited you were about this more

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than I have.
So, like, I'm really, really

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pumped to look at these three
films over the next few weeks

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bread.
Yeah, I think that when you dive

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into the world of movies as
deeply as we have over the last

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two and a half, almost three
years at a certain point, it's

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fun to just get a really
original unique vision and sit

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with it for a little bit.
So I'm excited for these next

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three movies, man.
You know, I'm going to try to

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draw parallels between Wes
Anderson, and other directors,

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and this movie and other movies
as we talk today.

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But this is Wes Anderson's.
Second film, his first movie was

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called bottle rocket.
That came out in 1996 and it was

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a very small Indie movie that
really didn't make any sort of a

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dent critically or commercially
and but it's, but it opened the

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doors for him to make Rushmore,
which was a much higher budget,

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comparatively and became a
critical darling.

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And there are Still a lot of
people out there that would rank

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Rushmore as their favorite Wes
Anderson film.

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The critic, Matt zoller Seitz,
he calls this one of the very

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few perfect.
American movies ever made.

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So like there's a lot of people
out there that think not only is

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this the best Wes Anderson movie
but it's like a perfect film.

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So we're really diving in here
with a guy who had made one

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movie prior and then kind of
explodes on the scene similar to

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Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs
and then Pulp Fiction, just

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being like this atomic Bomb that
goes off in the Indie movie

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Community.
Yeah, and jumping into Wes

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Anderson, feels like kind of a
big commitment because

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similarly, to Tarantino, the way
he constructs a movie is just so

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vastly different than almost any
other filmmaker out there that

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it's definitely a bit of a
commitment.

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You know, I'm going to say this,
I'm going to challenge the two

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of us as we, as we talk about
Wes Anderson, for the next three

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weeks to try our hardest to not.
Not use the word quirky because

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it's not just that it's so
overused to talk about Wes

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Anderson.
But from the time Anderson,

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really burst on the scene here
in 98 to now, Cinema has really

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undergone a lot of different
iterations of what quirky is.

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And for a while there it was
just like Wes Anderson and

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people who made movies like Wes
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And I remember reading an
article that was about like the

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new quirky and it was Wes
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And at that time, it was David O
Russell's.

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Soul who had just made the
movie.

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I heart huckabees and they were
all about like this very

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meticulously put together.
Offbeat kind of comedies that

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these two guys were making, but
I think quirky could mean a

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whole bunch of different things
in today's landscape of movies.

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And when I think about Wes
Anderson, I've been trying to

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think of words to describe, not
just his directing style, but

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his attention to detail.
And so, I'm going to do my best

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to be a thesaurus here and use
other words besides quirky Cuz I

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just think like the word quirky
has really lost.

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Its meaning a lot.
Especially in relation to Wes

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Anderson.
Yeah, I think that the main word

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I would use to describe Wes
Anderson after having seen two

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of his films.
Now would be deliberate.

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Mmm like not only is every scene
kind of very deliberately lit.

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And the color scheme is all you
know aligned and obviously

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people talk about is symmetry a
lot but even his Is the way they

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all act.
It's almost like everybody takes

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a pause to think about what
they're going to say next.

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Yeah, before they say anything.
And it seems to be this

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trademark that he's a he's a
very patient director and he and

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he wants all of his characters
to come across as well thought

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and you know really working
through what they want to say

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next.
And every scene, I'm really

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excited for the three films.
We're doing we're doing Rushmore

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followed by Moonrise Kingdom,
followed By The Grand Budapest

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Hotel and along with Tenenbaums,
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his for most well-regarded films
and Rushmore kind of Falls right

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in the middle of the other two.
If you're plotting Anderson out

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on a spectrum.
Because I think that in in more

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recent years, Wes Anderson has
gone so far into the stylistic

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and the like attention to detail
in the sets that sometimes the

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story seems to take a back seat
if I'm being honest and Moonrise

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Kingdom, for me is Where I mean
the attention to detail is

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definitely still there but it is
like all story.

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All heart.
And really seems kind of like an

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outlier among more recent Wes,
Anderson's and Rushmore Falls.

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Like I said, right in the middle
of those two Brad, I think the

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word that is coming to mind for
me, when I think about Wes

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Anderson, and it's word.
I know I've never used on this

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show before it's the word
fastidious, and that is a great

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word and I'm glad I got a chance
to use it.

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That's, that's what you call a
ten-dollar word right there.

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That's a heck of a word.
Bob, here's the definition.

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Ignition, very attentive to and
concerned about accuracy and

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detail.
And that is, you know, like if

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you wanted to be negative
towards him, you'd call him like

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nitpicky or finicky.
And I don't think that's

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necessarily the case, but he
just loves filling his frames

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with these tiny little details.
That only would come from the

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mind of somebody like him.
And I'd be curious to hear about

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how he is on set, because in my
research for two facts and

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falsehood, it seems like
everybody gets Along with him

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pretty well which for somebody
who is, you know, pays so much

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of attention to detail.
You might not always get.

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So I it seems like he's a
director that simultaneously can

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care for his cast and and his
co-workers.

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Well but at the same time really
bring about a unique Vision on

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screen.
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And I think that he's such an
interesting character because

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he's so unique but he also
shares so much in common.

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With many, many other directors,
like before Wes Anderson, I

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think, like the king of quirky,
if you wanted to call him that

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would be like Tim Burton.
You know, if you watch Edward

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Scissorhands, or it Tim Burton's
Batman, or any of the movies

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that he produced, like Nightmare
Before Christmas, you're like,

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okay.
Like I get this guy and his

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weirdo Tendencies, and then Wes
Anderson comes on the scene, and

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I don't think he's a weirdo.
I think he's just very like,

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he's a kid that grew up in
Texas, that went to boarding

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school like a Rushmore.
And has this kind of like in

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some ways punk rock mentality
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his movies through that very
prim and proper lens.

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It's such an interesting world
that his characters, inhabit and

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Brad.
I think that's a good segue into

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talking about Rushmore.
This was your first time seeing

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Rushmore correct?
Yes, it was Rushmore was a big

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blind spot for me until about
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My wife and I decided to watch
through all of Wes Anderson

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Filmography in order and maybe
this was only like a year ago

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actually.
And so we went through Rushmore

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was the first time I'd seen it.
And I wasn't a huge fan

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especially for knowing that it
was one that was considered like

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a perfect movie and it was on
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Maybe six months ago, I went
back and watched it again

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thinking.
Maybe I'll like it better this

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time and now I've watched it a
third time in the course of like

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a year.
So I feel like out of nowhere, I

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went from being totally
unfamiliar with this movie too.

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Intimately familiar with what
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You almost became one might say
obsessed with uh, it's like a

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theme.
It's it is like a theme.

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All right, man.
Hey, let's jump over to Brad

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explains the part of the podcast
where Brad breaks down the plot

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of the film that he has just
seen often for the first time.

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As we know, this is Brad's first
time with Rushmore Brad.

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We're going to give you 60
seconds on the clock.

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Can you break down the plot of
this movie?

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Rushmore is a body.
A young preparatory, school boy,

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named Max.
He is precocious and takes part

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in every single extracurricular
activity that he can, however,

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his grades are suffering because
of it, he has the belief that he

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can overcome any obstacle, but
he can't when he meets the first

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grade teacher Rushmore, who is a
middle-aged woman who was a

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widow and he tries to win her
affections, he becomes friends

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with a A steel tycoon played by
Bill Murray, tries to enlist his

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help to win over the first grade
teacher.

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However, Bill Murray falls in
love with her too.

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And he goes after her, it turns
into quite the love triangle

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with with schwartzman's
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Just going absolutely insane for
a large portion of the movie and

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he eventually settles into his
life as a Barber's son, and

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writing plays at a local high
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That is not a Fancy Preparatory
School, boom, nicely done, sir,

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thanks man.
Hey I don't usually give notes

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on Brad explains but I'm gonna
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correction here.
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I don't know if I would call the
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teacher middle-aged like, 35
know, she's like somewhere

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between 20 and 30.
Dude, she just she's not dressed

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like it's 1998.
That's just everyone wore, the

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equivalent of burlap sacks back
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Now, she first off to say that
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that she Could be 21.
Well, she's old enough to be a

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teacher, but she's clearly
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I mean, if she's middle-aged,
we're middle-aged is what I'm

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saying.
Yeah, we are.

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I don't know where.
I don't know if I could tell

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myself to be in the middle of my
life here.

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Yeah, I mean if you do the math
on it, Bob you see if you live

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the average of 76 years then
clearly 31 years old.

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Alright is early middle age.
Alright so we're going to call

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her 30 and we're also going to
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middle-aged now that's mine.
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All right man, I think a good
place to start is actually just

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to continue this conversation
about Wes Anderson for a minute,

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because I want to compare him to
the director that we just came

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from Edgar Wright.
You know, they kind of come up

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at around the same time,
obviously, Wes Anderson starts

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about 10 years earlier, but very
similar types of directors in

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that like they bring a very
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And Edgar Wright.
You know, we joked about the

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like, really fast montages and
insert shots and whooshing

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sounds in the background and Wes
Anderson, doesn't really do

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that.
But his movies tend to move at a

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pace that's actually quicker
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credit for and like, he's
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montage and jumping from scene
to scene in a way that like,

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propels the action forward.
It's just the his movies or not

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like he's not making baby
driver, you know what I mean?

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No, he's not his camera.
Work is very Not slow.

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He'd man, I already used this
word.

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It's deliberate Bob.
Yeah, but I think sometimes

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deliberate means like slowly
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either of the movies that we've
watched by him for the podcast

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so far, I would call like
slow-paced movies.

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They tell small stories, but
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I don't know, man, I will say
that this time around with Wes,

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I would, I was feeling a little
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with the movie.
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Yeah, I checked how much time
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hour and six minutes left and an
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And I was like oh this is a this
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know.
This movie definitely has some

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pacing issues and I think that's
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this movie is that, you know,
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until ironically the part where
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up a little bit and everybody
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movie seems Kind of on an
upswing and there's like maybe

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25 minutes left in the movie at
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minutes for me, felt like an
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So yeah, I did.
I could long time.

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Sure.
I definitely think this movie

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has pacing issues, but I don't
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a long-winded director overall.
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I mean, in the end, this is
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category that we call the
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Bob.
I know you love the 90-minute

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movie.
I am such a fan of the hour and

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a half long film.
And so it's not that this movie

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takes terribly, long to say what
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It's just very I don't know if
10/10 is like the fastest paste

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movie you've ever seen.
I would paste this.

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Probably at like a three and a
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Wow it just it really takes its
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even when there's a lot of
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it.
So part of the reason I brought

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up the Edgar Wright, Then was
because I want to compare this

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movie to Scott Pilgrim, because
I think it's, it's a very

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similar story to Scott Pilgrim.
Obviously like it's not, there's

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no like older man in a love
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But there is the sort of like
Pursuit of somebody that he may

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or may not actually be good for
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But, but mostly it's because,
when I was watching Scott

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Pilgrim and I made this point in
our episode, I had a really hard

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time understanding During the
rules of the world, that was on

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screen.
Is this a completely Fantastical

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world where these things can
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Or should we just be
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metaphorical, for what's really
going on in this young guys

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brain?
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Like it's he just kind of
projecting these things and

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using that to understand what's
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And similarly the world of Wes
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sometimes seems like there's
eccentric people in a very real

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world like Royal Tenenbaums and
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It seems like these people exist
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Universe.
That could only exist in Wes,

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Anderson's head, and kind of
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with Tim Burton and this movie
kind of feels like it has one

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foot in each of those polls and
I couldn't quite get a grasp on.

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Like, are these real people?
Does this world actually work

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like this?
How is this kid getting away

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with all these things or like is
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World.
I will say, it feels like Brian

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Cox plays the most, like
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other than Max's, dad and the,
how angry and annoyed Brian Cox

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gets with him is probably the
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when he wakes up from his coma
and his wife's, like that's the

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first thing he's said in 10 days
it's just it's exactly kind of

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how I feel about Max and he's
like Like I don't think he knows

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it's me and he goes, it's
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It's so good, man.
I do love the very first time.

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They're in the office together
and he's telling him like, Hey,

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I'm gonna have to expel you,
you're like flunking out of

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every class and they do the
Godfather reference where he's

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like, hey can't you just let me
Float by For Old Times Sake

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because can't do it Max.
I just, yeah, I love Brian Cox's

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character in this.
Yeah, he is brilliant getting

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That's your main point though.
I think man the the biggest

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issue I have with this film as a
as a point of comparison to the

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Royal Tenenbaums is that Wes
Anderson is it has such a unique

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way of writing characters that
you know, he and Owen Wilson,

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right?
For this movie, that either

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everybody in the film needs to
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The way they are in Royal
Tenenbaums or nobody can like

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like the World needs to be a Wes
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none of them should be because I
get caught a few times

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wondering, like, what the heck
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Like, none of this would work.
None of this would make any

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sense and yet somehow it
happened.

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So I'm with you I wasn't as with
you as much with Scott Pilgrim

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because to me that very clearly
felt like a stylized world.

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But with this one, Anderson
seems to be kind of straddling,

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both sides of the equation and
it kind of De tracks from the

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film for me.
Well, in the thing is like I

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think sometimes people think of
Wes Anderson is this guy who

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just like lives in a in a world
that is not our own, that's not

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true.
Like he at at his core was

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raised on certain types of
American Media that he still has

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a really deep appreciation for
and he loves really goofy

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comedies like he all him.
And Paul Thomas Anderson talked

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about this kind of stuff all the
time and so like I think At its

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heart.
This movie does have that sort

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of almost like If this movie was
made by Will Ferrell, we

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wouldn't be having this
conversation because we would

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know for sure that they were
intending this to be a world

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where stupid and Fantastical
things happen and I'm Adam Adam

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McKay.
Yes, exactly.

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And like collaboration.
I think that's kind of the vibe

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he's going for in a lot of ways
here that like yes just accept

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that.
These these two men one who's 15

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years old and one who's like you
know, middle-aged can be having

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this back-and-forth war with
each other and that's The rules,

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this movie Works under and it's
funny and just go with it.

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But when you stop to think about
it for any length of time in a

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real world setting, they'll the
whole thing falls apart.

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Fun fact, Bob Olivia Williams is
31 years old when she filmed

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smooth.
Was looking it up as you were

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talking about her.
So there you go.

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Clearly middle-aged.
I'm just saying, man, she's an

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adult.
Well, let's talk about the cast.

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Since we've been kind of
circling Bill Murray and Jason,

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Jason Schwartzman and Olivia
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I think we should start with
Jason Schwartzman.

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I didn't come to Wes Anderson
films.

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Until I was like, in my
probably, in my early 20s.

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I had like avoided him like the
plague thinking I would never

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like his stuff.
And in a lot of ways, I'm glad I

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waited, because I can appreciate
like, the, you know, the style

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more than I could have almost at
the quirkiness.

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I all, I caught myself, you've
you have said that word at least

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four or five times.
Since you said, we shouldn't say

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it.
I'm trying my best dude.

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I've been fastidious about
avoiding that word.

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There it is.
All right, so I'm kind of glad I

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didn't come to them until my 20s
but because of that, I wasn't

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really familiar with a lot of
Jason, Schwartzman stuff.

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And I always assumed he was
older than he actually is I just

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thought that he had been working
for a long time and I was

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thinking that, you know, he's
got to be like in his 40s now

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and then find out.
Oh, he's only in his early 30s

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and way he makes this movie when
he's 17 years old.

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It comes out when he's 18, and I
don't want to consider this

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like, a child performance, but
he's, you know, he's not quite

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18 yet and to hang a movie on an
actor.

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This young really says
something, and I think because

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Schwartzman has gone on to have
such a really great career.

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We forget that he started here
as a 17 year old Brad.

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He's like incredible in this
movie.

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Well, and not only that, but he
auditioned against about 15 or

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1600 other.
More.

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Yeah, the role of Max.
So he beat out some pretty stiff

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competition to land this role
and you're right, he absolutely

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sells the part, you know, I
think that Wes is trying to

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shoot for this, this Visionary
playwright, you know, type of

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Trope for his character and and
Schwartzman just pulls it off.

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He is so full of himself
throughout the majority of this

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movie, till he does a little bit
of growing up.

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Up, he embodies that, that idea
of the college student who

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thinks that they're better than
the professors who are teaching

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them, you know, like we like I
can literally think of somebody

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in our, in our undergrad.
Bob that, that just fits this,

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this that meal.
Yeah, I think you probably know

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who I'm talking about.
I'm going to move away from that

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before the first census angry,
angry mail here.

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But I will say that part of what
makes the character work to the

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extent.
It does work and it sounds like

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there may be parts of this movie
where it doesn't work for you

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Brad but it works to the extent,
that Wes Anderson lets, you

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know, very early on in the movie
that a, he's full of crap,

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right?
And he's lying about all this,

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but be he's lying about so much
of it because he is so deeply.

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Deeply insecure that he is a
kid, whose mom has died.

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Who is ashamed of his upbringing
in the face of, like, all these

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rich people around him who's
trying to hustle his way to the

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top.
But like clearly has Some

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limitations like, he's not a
good student at all, and he

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tries to cover for it by being.
So involved in things that he is

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good at.
And I think it's a really, like

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it's a really beautiful portrait
of.

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I mean, it's a kid who acts like
an adult but behind all that is

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still, very obviously a kid.
Yeah, the line where he's

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talking to his dad and he's
like, well, I've tried doing all

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the things to be popular, but it
doesn't seem to work.

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Maybe I should just go after
girls.

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That's what everybody else is
doing.

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And it just has this feel of
this.

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I don't like I know this is like
your favorite television show of

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all time, but it feels like a
Sheldon desk feel from Big Bang

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Theory, right?
That like he's just so far

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Advanced from all of his peers
that he doesn't even know how to

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interact with them on a normal
level and it and it works

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because he's at Rushmore, which
is a very strange Preparatory

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School full of people from all
over the world.

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Old that are very interesting.
I like when he finally goes to

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Grover Cleveland High and Edison
the public school because there

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is an amusing, Just Fish Out of
Water.

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Yeah, yeah.
Where he's just totally, you

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know, flopping around trying to
get his bearings.

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And even when he's thrown, you
know, a lion to help him by

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Margaret Yang, he doesn't even
know to grab onto it.

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Yeah, and his character is
extremely Written and

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Schwartzman.
Really does a phenomenal job

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with it, alright?
And then the to supporting

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players that really kind of make
up the the, you know, the Triad

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we've been talking about here
are Bill Murray, and Olivia

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Williams.
Let's start with Bill Murray.

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This is his first collaboration
with Wes Anderson.

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He would go on to do many, many,
many more Wes Anderson, always

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appreciated.
The sort of deadpan humor that

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Murray did.
But I think that what he does

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with Marie is he takes that sort
of like fu, You deadpan attitude

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that he had, and he turns it
into this sort of like Sad Sack

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energy that he, that really
elevates Murray's acting

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performances like he does it
here.

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He does it in Tenenbaums, he
does it in Life Aquatic.

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Like I just really really love
what Wes Anderson has done with

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Bill Murray and like you know if
it wasn't for this and

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Tenenbaums, you don't get a
movie like Lost in Translation a

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few years after that, that gets
Bill Murray nominated for an

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Oscar.
And so you really do see the

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seeds of it planted here.
I think he's really, really

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great here.
And on top of that, he gets some

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terrific, like, one-liners and
punch lines as well.

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Oh, he is absolutely hilarious
in this film and I think that he

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does a really great job of
showcasing.

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A middle-aged man, who is just
completely beaten down and

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doesn't really know what to do
with his life.

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I mean, the the scene where he
kind of graduate ask Dives under

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the water and just like sits on.
Underneath the water trying to

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avoid his responsibilities is,
it's kind of everything you need

446
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,400
to know about his character.
And so when he meets this

447
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,400
teacher, you know, played by
Olivia Williams, you can

448
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:57,500
understand why he falls for her.
Even if spoiler alert, she's not

449
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,500
very interesting of a person,
that's very true.

450
00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:04,100
But I want to ask you real
quick, you made a graduate

451
00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:07,100
reference and I mean, there's so
many allusions to the movie, The

452
00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:08,500
Graduate.
In this movie.

453
00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,400
I Didn't Know.
Have You Seen The Graduate

454
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,300
before I have seen it so
interesting.

455
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,600
I am not a fan.
Yeah, I mean I like it.

456
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,700
I think it's a really important
movie in the history of Cinema

457
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,100
but like I've never thought that
it was in my top X number of

458
00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:25,200
movies.
You know what I mean?

459
00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:26,700
Yeah, that's why we haven't
talked about it on this show

460
00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:30,300
before.
So yeah, I watched it one night

461
00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:33,800
when Haley was working, it was
on Netflix and I was like yeah

462
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,500
it's a famous movie, I'll watch
it.

463
00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:38,800
And I was like, wow.
Well, I don't know if I can look

464
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,400
at this song, the same way
anymore, like it kind of bums me

465
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,000
out.
Oh man.

466
00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:46,800
Alright, so let's talk about the
mrs.

467
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,700
Robinson of this movie
apparently and that is Olivia

468
00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:51,800
Williams as the first grade
teacher.

469
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,300
I think she's really delightful
here.

470
00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:57,700
As like you said, she's a person
that has very little personality

471
00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:03,200
but like everyone else in this
movie is deeply, deeply sad and

472
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,600
really going through some stuff
and having to withstand the

473
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,300
Advances of two men who are
equally sad and desperate.

474
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:17,100
And I think like they put her in
a position where she is playing

475
00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:20,300
the straight man in, you know,
in the comedy triangle and

476
00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:23,300
everybody else gets the funny
stuff, but I really like her

477
00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:26,400
performance, Brad.
And she's an actress that she

478
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,100
just made a movie two years ago
with Anthony Hopkins called the

479
00:27:29,108 --> 00:27:32,200
father, which was up for a ton
of oscars, and she's really

480
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,800
great in that movie.
I wish that I saw her in more

481
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,400
things, but I really love her
here.

482
00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:41,200
Yeah, she She, she is such a
straight-laced straight-faced

483
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,900
character that it's easy to miss
her for a little while in the

484
00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:46,900
movie.
But those moments where she

485
00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:51,100
talks about her life, where she
engages with the other

486
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:53,900
characters, you know, to talk
about her husband, who has

487
00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:57,000
passed away, and why she's
working here at Rushmore.

488
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000
Like, even the moments where she
gets little pieces of Comedy

489
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000
where she's like, I never asked
anybody to build an aquarium for

490
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,200
me and they just like brushed
past.

491
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,600
It was like, Like almost like
drew a chuckle out of me the way

492
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,100
she delivered the line.
So I think that she does a

493
00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:19,100
phenomenal job with what she's
given and if not for her, this

494
00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:21,600
whole movie would completely
fall apart.

495
00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:24,600
I want to say real quick, before
we go to break, I think the line

496
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,600
that made me laugh.
The hardest is Bill Murray's

497
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,400
delivery of what he.
It's just like you're right.

498
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,100
I should not have given him
alcohol.

499
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,100
That was my favorite part of the
whole movie.

500
00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:37,500
What was your favorite line
bread?

501
00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:42,900
Oh man.
What would be my favorite line,

502
00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:45,500
Man.
Favorite line from the movie.

503
00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:49,300
I I don't know if this is my
absolute favorite but I do love

504
00:28:49,300 --> 00:28:54,000
when Max says to Bill Murray I
saved the Latin.

505
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,300
What did you ever do?
That's a great line and because

506
00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:02,200
it's also like it's kind of I
don't want to say it's sweet,

507
00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:05,400
it's really sad and he doesn't
realize that what he's saying is

508
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,100
like, dude, you're a kid.
You don't realize what you're

509
00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:11,500
dealing with you and you don't
realize that like, what your

510
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:14,100
meddling in is actually
affecting grown people's lives

511
00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:18,200
here but it's also like when
you're a kid and you don't have

512
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,100
any other frame of reference and
you want an adult to understand

513
00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:24,100
what you're doing, like you say,
stuff like that, and because

514
00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:25,400
that's the most important thing
to you.

515
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:28,200
He saved Latin.
So yeah, I love that.

516
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,100
Why no longer God, no longer a
dead language.

517
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,500
I love that line because it
works on so many levels.

518
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,200
It is funny but it's also funny.
One of those ways that make you

519
00:29:37,208 --> 00:29:43,300
go like, ah, like poor kid, you
know, I love the way you think

520
00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:47,500
of this, this poor child, Bob.
All right, man.

521
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:50,200
Hey, let's take a break, let's
try this strand, a hands

522
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,100
American single malt.
What do you say?

523
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,200
Let's get to ABAB some whiskey
Nation.

524
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,600
Do you ever think about Awards
course he do you drink whiskey

525
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,300
and watch movies which means
that, you know, that nothing is

526
00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:05,100
validated until a group of
random people say hey we love

527
00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:07,800
what you're doing.
The awesome thing about doc

528
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,900
Swensons whiskey is that it
isn't just some group of schlubs

529
00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:13,900
that are And them Awards, they
have been winning attention from

530
00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:16,500
some of the most important
whiskey experts, you can

531
00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:20,100
imagine, they've been voted best
distillery in Washington state

532
00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:22,900
by the New York International
Spirits competition.

533
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,000
They've been voted the best
Independent bottler by the Ascot

534
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,900
Awards, as well as the best
finished bourbon from the Ascot

535
00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:32,700
awards for their La.
Mente exploratory Cask their

536
00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:35,600
exploratory Cask series is where
they release some of the most

537
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,800
fascinating and adventurous
experiments.

538
00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,600
If you're ever checking out,
docks line up, and see a white

539
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,100
label.
There's a really good chance

540
00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:44,500
that that's the only time you'll
see that bottles, make sure you

541
00:30:44,508 --> 00:30:47,200
snatch it up.
Doc Simmons, has been offering

542
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,000
just phenomenal finished and
Blended whiskies for quite some

543
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,300
time.
Now, you can find them online at

544
00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:57,000
Doc's, whisky.com?
That's the OCS whisky.com.

545
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:06,300
Alright today we are checking
out Stranahan 's original

546
00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:09,800
American single malt.
It has undergone a little bit of

547
00:31:09,808 --> 00:31:12,600
a name change.
I used to be known as Stranahan

548
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,500
is Colorado, whiskey, which is
still the name of the brand but

549
00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:18,000
they've added all these other
little bits of language.

550
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,600
So, stranded hands.
Original American.

551
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,200
Single malt is what we're
drinking from Colorado, from

552
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,600
Colorado.
We even had a Colorado whiskey

553
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,300
in a while Brad.
We had that at one years and

554
00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:33,000
years ago.
Tin Cup that, oh, that's a

555
00:31:33,008 --> 00:31:34,900
Colorado one.
So it's been a minute.

556
00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,000
I think laws, whiskey house
operates out of Colorado.

557
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,600
So we've done some of their
stuff on bonus episodes, but

558
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,600
it's been a minute since we've
had one that's widely available

559
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,700
that we can do on a regular
episode, and we're back into the

560
00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:50,800
world of malt, once more.
Hmm, Baba.

561
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,500
The, the more we drink malts,
the more convinced I am, it's a

562
00:31:54,508 --> 00:31:59,400
phenomenal style of whiskey, I
mean it's the original That's

563
00:31:59,400 --> 00:31:59,900
right.
C.

564
00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:03,400
OG the only sheet for a good
reason, I believe.

565
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,000
So Stranahan was founded way
back in 2004, a lot of the

566
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,400
information for this particular
expression online comes from

567
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,400
around 2017, which is when this
was launched, I'm not entirely

568
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,600
sure how much of it is still
accurate Brad.

569
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:22,900
But what we do know is that this
is 94 proof, it is 100%, malted

570
00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:26,000
barley.
I am a big fan of what I'm

571
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,100
picking up on the nose here.
Brad, what are you picking up?

572
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,900
But yeah, the nose has some
really nice.

573
00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:37,200
It's got some Cola going on with
it, but some kind of an orange

574
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:42,300
zest when freshness as well that
it has this underlying

575
00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:46,000
Foundation of barley, it's a
pretty nice nose.

576
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,500
I think I'll give it a seven and
a half.

577
00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:50,900
Yeah, this had some really
interesting characteristics on

578
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:54,600
it where I couldn't tell if it
was, like, really young because

579
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,100
so like the 2017 notes that I'm
finding online, say that the the

580
00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:00,800
End of Whiskey's that goes into,
this is between two and five

581
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,800
years old.
And so at first, I was like, oh

582
00:33:02,808 --> 00:33:06,000
this smells really young but
then it had this depth to it

583
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,800
that I couldn't tell if it was
younger, if it's just super

584
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,800
unique.
But to me it smelled like

585
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,400
pretzel dough.
I like a real or a freshly baked

586
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:15,600
sourdough.
Pretzel.

587
00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:18,900
I really, really love that.
It had like some dark bready,

588
00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:21,600
almost Pumpernickel, type notes
on it for me, too.

589
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:26,500
I got a little bit of like, so
there's some earthiness to it.

590
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,100
We're getting into the fall
season here.

591
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,200
Brad.
It reminded me of like walking

592
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,700
through a corn maze in the fall,
where you've got the corn that's

593
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:36,200
like starting to dry out and it
doesn't it?

594
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,700
No, it doesn't smell like fresh
corn anymore.

595
00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:41,100
It smells like Dusty.
Like hey, almost and then you're

596
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,800
right on the back end of this on
the nose.

597
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,500
I got a lot of cinnamon and a
lot of cola.

598
00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:48,800
I think this is pretty complex,
whatever age it really is.

599
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,200
I'm going to give it an 8 out of
10.

600
00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:52,700
Yeah.
And then we get into the palette

601
00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:56,500
that orange continues to come
through, almost like an orange

602
00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:59,500
rind.
But You're on the pallet man.

603
00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:02,600
I am getting all sorts of a nice
sweet honey.

604
00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:08,100
And a little bit of like a dark
cherry on the backend mixed with

605
00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:12,600
a little bit of like, not even
like a mint flavor, but almost

606
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,300
like somebody, like, kind of
crumbled up a little bit of mint

607
00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:17,500
in the room and you can just
barely smell it.

608
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,800
It's a really nice flavor
throughout.

609
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,199
I think, I'll give it an 8 out
of 10 on the palate.

610
00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:26,199
Yeah, I'm going to come down.
Just a step to a 7 out of 10 on

611
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:28,600
the palate.
It's sweet on the front.

612
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,400
It does taste slightly young and
it has that kind of vegetal

613
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:37,000
note, that weird like weed note
that I keep getting on things

614
00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:40,800
like it has that going on a
little bit almost like some rise

615
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,900
that we've had.
And the more I sipped it the

616
00:34:42,908 --> 00:34:46,100
more I realized this honestly
tastes like just a slightly more

617
00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:50,400
diluted version of that laws
Henry Road Mulch that we just

618
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,800
had a few weeks ago that had all
of these notes on it, but that

619
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,300
was a hundred proof.
This is 94 proof and I think it

620
00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:00,900
reflects that It's just a little
bit more watery and because it's

621
00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:03,800
so similar to that.
I did ding it a little bit and

622
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,800
gave it a 7 out of 10.
Yeah.

623
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,200
And the thinnest here, you start
to get some of that Oak flavor.

624
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,600
The the honey is persistent
throughout the finish and it

625
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,800
really kind of had a bit of a
peppermint feel.

626
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:20,200
At the end lately, I've been
drinking like a good peppermint

627
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,800
tea at night and it really
struck me with those notes.

628
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,600
It's definitely come down a
little bit, though.

629
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,400
It's not very long-lived.
I'll give it a 7 out of 10 on

630
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,000
the Finish.
Yeah, I'm coming down again.

631
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,200
Brad, just like you.
I'm down to a six and a half on

632
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,300
the Finish.
There's just not much of one,

633
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,500
like it's not unpleasant.
It's just kind of short and

634
00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:41,400
nondescript.
For me, it was red, apple peel.

635
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:45,000
It wasn't really even Apple.
It was just apple peel and I

636
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,300
liked it.
But again, like it just it got

637
00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:52,300
less and less distinct.
The more the farther along, it

638
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:53,900
went through the tasting
experience.

639
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,000
So I'll start us off on balance.
I think this is a reasonably.

640
00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:01,500
Well, balanced whiskey, but
there was definitely a drop-off

641
00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:04,200
from nose to taste and then also
from taste to finish.

642
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:07,000
So I'm only going to give this a
seven out of ten on balance.

643
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:09,500
Yeah, I think I'll give it a
seven and a half on balance.

644
00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:14,400
I think that there's a pretty
consistent note going through

645
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,500
out with that orange and there's
a lot of nice honey, little bit

646
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:21,300
of cola.
The Barley flavors come through

647
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,600
that it's complex enough that I
think it's a pretty solid

648
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:30,400
balance, but when we get Into
value Bob, we are looking at a

649
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,900
55 dollar bottle of whiskey here
in the state of Ohio, which I

650
00:36:34,900 --> 00:36:39,700
don't think is necessarily a bad
value, because there's not a lot

651
00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:41,300
of American single malts out
there.

652
00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:43,900
It's definitely a growing
industry.

653
00:36:43,900 --> 00:36:48,200
Now, we're like sub-genre of
whiskey, but it's still not.

654
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,100
There's not a huge selection to
choose from.

655
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,600
This is still made in small
batches from what I understand

656
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,900
and I think it's pretty good,
it's not quite as good as that

657
00:36:56,900 --> 00:36:59,900
laws Henry Road.
You had, but you can't get that

658
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:01,700
everywhere.
So it's like, hey, if you could

659
00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:05,900
get a whiskey, that's like 85%
as good as this and it's widely

660
00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:09,200
available and it's 55 bucks.
I don't think that's terrible.

661
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,400
I just wish it wasn't 55.
I wish they could sell this at

662
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,400
35 and then I'd be like, oh this
is a pretty good 35 dollar

663
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,800
whiskey.
That 55 when I factor in the

664
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,100
market and everything else, I
think I'm only going to give it

665
00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:24,900
a six and a half on value.
Yeah, I'll give it a 7.

666
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,800
I think it's a solid value at
the $55 range.

667
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,200
It's just not out of this world.
So like you said, American

668
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,700
single, malts are pretty rare,
so we'll give it that, but I'm

669
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:39,500
coming to a total here of a 37
out of 50.

670
00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:42,800
Bob, where are you at?
I'm at a 35 and I feel for

671
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,900
myself at least like that's just
slightly high for what I would.

672
00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,300
If you just told me like drink
this and put a number on it

673
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:53,000
without scoring anything out.
I don't know if I land on 35 but

674
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,800
it's just solid enough to earn
that distinction.

675
00:37:57,100 --> 00:38:01,400
I think I would Trying it at the
bar before I'd recommend buying

676
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,800
a bottle of it.
Like it's just pricey enough

677
00:38:04,100 --> 00:38:06,500
that I don't know that I like
send someone out to go buy a

678
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:09,100
bottle but it's definitely not a
bad whiskey.

679
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,200
Yeah, I'm struggling to decide
if I would recommend a bottle.

680
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:18,400
I think I would stay recommend a
poor first just to make sure you

681
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:22,400
know what you're in for and if
that's good for you, then go for

682
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,200
it.
But yeah.

683
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,600
I think I'd recommend poor don't
buy which is not one that we

684
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,700
usually do.
We usually Say bye.

685
00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:31,000
Don't pour yeah it seems like
lately.

686
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,600
We've been in much more of a
buying vein than a poor vein.

687
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:41,200
Usually the the scale tips, once
you get into the 50 and up

688
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:45,600
range, the poor price isn't
going to be enough to make you

689
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,900
also just say a skirt.
I'm just going to buy a body

690
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:50,400
Wears Like a thirty dollar
bottle of whiskey.

691
00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:53,900
You're still going to pay five
to eight dollars for a poor of

692
00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:56,700
it which at that point was just
go spend $30, right?

693
00:38:56,700 --> 00:38:58,700
You'll get 750.
Love it.

694
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,600
All right, so we are coming out
to a 36 out of 50 or 72 out of

695
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:09,200
100 that has been strata hands.
Original American single malt,

696
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,300
Brad.
What do you say, we get back

697
00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:13,500
into talking about Rushmore?
Well, let's get to it.

698
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720
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721
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,600
Whiskey that's name is much
longer than I would have

722
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,600
expected coming into this.
Yeah, for sure, dude, that's a

723
00:40:37,607 --> 00:40:40,000
that's a mouthful but you know,
it isn't a mouthful.

724
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,400
Bob Canada's favorite segment,
two facts, in a false to facts

725
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,700
and a falsehood, you have been
coming back lately, Robert.

726
00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:53,400
Dude, IM 500 I'm five and five
on the season and just like any

727
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,400
good Browns, team five and five
is a Odds, for celebrate was

728
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:01,000
going to say, that's the goal.
Mediocrity is away.

729
00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:03,600
All right.
So for those of you who may not

730
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,400
have heard before, two facts, in
a falsehood is our segment where

731
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:10,400
Brad presents, three items, all
of them as fact, and I have to

732
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,700
figure out which one of the
three is a bold-faced lie.

733
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:15,600
Brad.
Why don't you hit me with your

734
00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:20,400
two facts and a falsehood fact
number one, the speech about

735
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,500
privilege that Herman Bloom
played by the illustrious Bill

736
00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:26,300
Murray.
Gives it the beginning of the

737
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:30,700
film was inspired by an actual
speech once given by Robert

738
00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:34,100
Wilson, father of Andrew, Luke
and Owen Wilson.

739
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:37,600
Fax number two, the played near
the end of the film.

740
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,600
Serpico, was originally supposed
to be a modern adaptation of

741
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,000
Hamlet to show how Max believes
he is.

742
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,100
Truly greater than the greatest.
Playwright of all time of her

743
00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:49,000
own Wilson.
Suggested a Play version of

744
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,400
Apocalypse Now.
Which one Anderson over, nice.

745
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,800
Fax number three, Wes Anderson
had.

746
00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:58,900
We envisioned that Noah Taylor
for the role of Max Fisher.

747
00:41:59,900 --> 00:42:01,800
But eventually Jason Schwartzman
won.

748
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,800
The role Anderson did eventually
work with Taylor on The Life

749
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:10,000
Aquatic with Steve zissou?
Hmm.

750
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:16,300
Hm.
So I know from doing research

751
00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:19,900
that he wanted, Wes Anderson
wanted like a Mick, Jagger type

752
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:24,700
to be Max and wasn't thinking
about schwartzman's type at all.

753
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,100
And you know what Schwartzman
impress him so much that he

754
00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:30,100
basically said after the movie,
like the final product of this

755
00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:33,900
movie is all Jason Schwartzman.
And so I'm kind of led to

756
00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:36,000
believe that three might be the
case.

757
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,300
Number one also sounds like
something that would would be

758
00:42:40,300 --> 00:42:43,500
real, from Wes Anderson's life.
I freaking love that.

759
00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:47,100
So funny that Bill Murray speech
in Chapel.

760
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:53,100
So I'm going to say to is the
falsehood based on nothing more

761
00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:56,400
than I just think it sounds like
it would be the falsehood.

762
00:42:57,500 --> 00:43:02,500
Bob, you are 100% correct.
Hey, look at that.

763
00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:05,300
Dude.
You you are just on a roll.

764
00:43:05,300 --> 00:43:08,300
My frie guess.
So, what do you think you'll do

765
00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:12,700
at the end of the the season?
If you are over 500, I'm going

766
00:43:12,700 --> 00:43:15,200
to get myself a trophy.
I'm just going to buy my own

767
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,800
Trophy, and it's going to say
you're above average.

768
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,300
Yeah, you're Bobby.
You're supposed to say, I'm

769
00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:24,000
going to Disneyworld.
Yeah, exactly.

770
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,100
Thanks.
All right, man, let's get back.

771
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:30,000
Into talking about Rushmore,
Brad.

772
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,600
I'd like to hear where you want
to go with this because again,

773
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,200
this is your return to the world
of Wes Anderson.

774
00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:38,500
Maybe this would be a good
place, to kind of talk a little

775
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:42,400
bit about similarities or
differences from Tenenbaums, but

776
00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:46,000
I'd love to hear what your
thoughts are on this movie and

777
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,500
on the to Wes Anderson's that
you've seen thus far.

778
00:43:48,700 --> 00:43:55,200
I think that Wes has a really
beautiful ability to dive into

779
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,500
the human soul.
And If there is a strength to

780
00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:01,500
this movie, it's that all three
of the main characters.

781
00:44:01,700 --> 00:44:06,200
Have genuine trauma that has
happened in their life while

782
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,100
it's partially it, like, kind of
outrageous and you can tell that

783
00:44:09,100 --> 00:44:13,400
it is highly stylized.
They're all acting in ways that

784
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,900
completely make sense for where
they're at in their lives.

785
00:44:18,100 --> 00:44:21,700
And so, I just really love the
characters that he writes in

786
00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:25,000
this movie, and it's really the
only reason the movie stays

787
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,900
afloat.
Because I think that, With Royal

788
00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:30,700
Tenenbaums, you have a lot more
polished of a movie.

789
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:35,600
This one's still feels kind of
raw and that makes it funnier at

790
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,800
moments and has some higher
Highs but I think that there's

791
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,900
some lower lows as well.
I'm with you.

792
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,600
The first time I saw this movie,
I was really underwhelmed,

793
00:44:45,700 --> 00:44:48,800
especially because the first Wes
Anderson I ever saw was Royal

794
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:53,900
Tenenbaums and then I went back
and watched Rushmore and like it

795
00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:57,500
just didn't do it for me.
Like I appreciate even In some

796
00:44:57,500 --> 00:45:01,700
of his more, fastidious movies
where it's just like, all flash

797
00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:04,500
all style and I think I'd put
like Grand Budapest in there.

798
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,300
I would probably rank even that
above this and we had a

799
00:45:08,308 --> 00:45:10,900
conversation with Jackie's, I
can where we talked about

800
00:45:10,900 --> 00:45:13,500
Darjeeling Limited.
I went back and watch that about

801
00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:17,300
a year ago and I loved that
movie and that's like probably

802
00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:20,800
Wes Anderson's most disliked
movie and I still think that it

803
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,500
does what it sets out to do
better than this movie.

804
00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:27,100
Does it what it sets out to do,
it's hard.

805
00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:31,200
Seeing him too much because he
has such a clear and unique and

806
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,700
singular style.
That I think he's operating it,

807
00:45:34,700 --> 00:45:40,900
like, 90% of what he can do in
this his second movie, but it's

808
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:43,700
still very clearly like his
second movie to me.

809
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,800
It just needed a little bit more
tweaking, if he'd made this,

810
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:51,100
this movie even 23 years later.
I think it really might be a

811
00:45:51,107 --> 00:45:54,700
masterpiece the way that
Tenenbaums is but it falls like

812
00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:57,100
just short of that for me and
that's no.

813
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:02,900
Knock on Anderson know like he
is putting together a fantastic

814
00:46:02,900 --> 00:46:05,800
movie here.
That is really engaging and kind

815
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:11,300
of Darkly funny at moments and
really utilizes Bill Murray and

816
00:46:11,300 --> 00:46:15,600
in such a beautiful way.
I the more I come back to this

817
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:19,100
the more I'm just like I think
that bill just knocks it out of

818
00:46:19,100 --> 00:46:23,100
the park here.
Even even looking at some of the

819
00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:29,100
smaller characters Seymour
Cassel, who plays His dad is

820
00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:32,600
just such a rock.
And so loving, like, he might be

821
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:37,100
one of the best movie, dads in,
any movie that we've ever

822
00:46:37,100 --> 00:46:39,600
watched and he's barely in the
movie.

823
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,700
Mmm.
Yeah, but he but he gives a

824
00:46:42,700 --> 00:46:47,600
phenomenal performance.
And you see Schwartzman or well,

825
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:52,000
you see, Max the character able
to be himself when he's around

826
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,100
his dad and I love that.
The more time he spends around

827
00:46:55,100 --> 00:46:59,800
his dad, the more he's Able to
leave the lies and the deception

828
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,900
behind and just be authentically
himself like even now as I think

829
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:06,400
about it, I'm like that's a
great writing decision because

830
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,800
if there's anybody who's known
for just being authentically

831
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:14,700
themselves in media, it's
Barbara's like as a character.

832
00:47:14,700 --> 00:47:18,200
They know who they are.
I mean, they're, they're kind of

833
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,400
like the daytime version of
bartenders, like, you just have

834
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,600
to sit there and listen to
people's problems all day.

835
00:47:25,100 --> 00:47:27,100
Yep.
And that's there's no.

836
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,300
There is no pretension there at
all.

837
00:47:30,100 --> 00:47:32,400
All right, man.
Before we wrap things up, let's

838
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,500
let's try our new segment, but
we just implemented a week ago

839
00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:37,800
that were calling.
I'll make it a double and that's

840
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,900
where we pair.
This movie up with another film

841
00:47:39,900 --> 00:47:42,400
to make the best possible double
feature.

842
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,100
Brad, if you had to pair up
Rushmore with another movie,

843
00:47:45,100 --> 00:47:48,400
what would you choose?
Hmm, I was thinking about this,

844
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,800
because you asked me right
before we started recording, I

845
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,800
think I would pair it with a
much much newer film.

846
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:58,900
By somebody you mentioned
earlier today.

847
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:00,700
I think I'd pair it with
licorice.

848
00:48:00,700 --> 00:48:02,800
Pizza from Paul.
Thomas Anderson.

849
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,900
Oh man, my favorite movie of
2021.

850
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,500
I loved that movie.
Yeah, I think that the underage

851
00:48:10,500 --> 00:48:15,300
male stocking and pursuing a
much older female.

852
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:20,600
It fits both directors are very
interesting in their own rights.

853
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,000
They both have their own like,
dedicated cult, fanbase.

854
00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:27,600
I think there's a lot of
similarities there and I think

855
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,000
if you enjoy Rushmore, you would
really enjoy licorice pizza.

856
00:48:31,100 --> 00:48:33,700
I love licorice pizza, man.
That is a movie that I would for

857
00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:35,200
sure.
Call slower paced.

858
00:48:35,300 --> 00:48:38,500
It's like it's essentially a
plotless movie and it's just

859
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:41,700
kind of like this is what it was
like to be a teenager in the

860
00:48:41,707 --> 00:48:45,200
1970s and I'm going to tell it
the way that your memories are

861
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:48,200
like when you think back to
being a teenager and it has this

862
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,800
almost kind of dreamlike aspect
to it.

863
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,600
Yeah man.
Fantastic choice actually wrote

864
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,400
down a list of three movies that
I'm that I thought that I could

865
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,900
pair this up with With and
licorice pizza was one of them.

866
00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:02,400
Hey, another one of them was the
graduate which we've already

867
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,200
talked about.
So I'm going to go with my third

868
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,400
one, which is compared to those
other two.

869
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,500
It's a little bit more of a
stretch, but I think the themes

870
00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:12,300
are still there, especially
because it's a movie about a

871
00:49:12,300 --> 00:49:16,600
boy, who has a lot going on in
the world around him, that he

872
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,700
doesn't quite understand.
And he Metals in the lives of

873
00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:24,500
adults in ways that don't make
sense to him in the moment and

874
00:49:24,500 --> 00:49:26,700
have really kind of devastating
effects.

875
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:31,800
Um because he when you're a kid,
everything you do seems to be

876
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,700
the most important thing.
But it's his growing up story

877
00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:37,800
and I have a long enough Brad
it's one of your favorite films

878
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,000
from The Last Five Years JoJo
rabbit.

879
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,200
Oh bro.
And like I said on the surface,

880
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,300
I don't think those were those
would be two movies that you

881
00:49:46,300 --> 00:49:47,900
would stack up next to each
other.

882
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,200
But when you think about like
what's driving, the two main

883
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:56,000
characters in these movies and
the sort of semi Fantastical

884
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,100
world's, they inhabit It.
Like I actually think that would

885
00:49:58,100 --> 00:50:01,500
be a really great pairing.
I think the JoJo rabbit is a

886
00:50:01,500 --> 00:50:03,500
phenomenal pairing with almost
any movie.

887
00:50:03,900 --> 00:50:08,800
So, I am in with JoJo, rabbits.
Are you gonna blame me a movie

888
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:13,700
that you couldn't pair that with
ice could say our go-to for like

889
00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:16,000
oh you can't pair it with that
would be Schindler's List but

890
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,700
you kind of shoot ya somatically
it.

891
00:50:19,700 --> 00:50:22,900
Likes that's a big yikes.
All right man, let's give our

892
00:50:22,900 --> 00:50:27,000
final scores here on Rushmore.
I have come up on this movie.

893
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,500
My three viewings of it now but
I still don't think I'm ready to

894
00:50:30,500 --> 00:50:34,200
put it any higher than 1/8 and I
think, based on the fact, it

895
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,000
took me three times to get here.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna give it a

896
00:50:37,008 --> 00:50:39,100
seven and a half.
It's the seven and a half.

897
00:50:39,100 --> 00:50:42,300
That you give a movie that is
like, very obviously

898
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:47,100
well-crafted and by a master
filmmaker but it's it's still a

899
00:50:47,107 --> 00:50:50,200
seven and a half.
Yeah, it just didn't click for

900
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:54,100
me the way that the Royal
Tenenbaums did and that's okay,

901
00:50:54,300 --> 00:50:56,500
I'm with you Bob I'm gonna give
it a seven half out of ten.

902
00:50:57,100 --> 00:50:58,500
All right.
That was that was pretty

903
00:50:58,500 --> 00:51:00,200
painless.
We didn't have any disagreements

904
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,400
like all day.
Except for what constitutes a

905
00:51:02,408 --> 00:51:06,000
middle-aged woman.
I was a film.

906
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,400
A whiskey Nation.
What do you think?

907
00:51:07,500 --> 00:51:11,100
Wait, wait in on this because
you also call aged you also

908
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:14,500
called, I'll just say you called
Bill Murray, middle-aged to, and

909
00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:16,600
he's very clearly like in his
50s here.

910
00:51:17,100 --> 00:51:19,500
So, how long does middle-aged
last?

911
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:24,300
I think this is the question.
It's like 30 to 60, so you're

912
00:51:24,300 --> 00:51:26,800
just talking like the middle
third of someone's life.

913
00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:30,100
That lets you literally just use
the word middle.

914
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:30,700
Okay.
Okay.

915
00:51:30,700 --> 00:51:33,200
Yeah I just think that when
people say middle-aged it's

916
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,800
usually like a nice way of
referring to people who are in

917
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,700
like they're late their late
40s, early 60s.

918
00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:43,400
Oh, I thought you were going to
say, like, 38 to 41, that's

919
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,300
that's middle-aged.
I'll tell you what, we'll look

920
00:51:45,300 --> 00:51:47,700
it up on Google after this.
But I also want to hear what

921
00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:50,400
filmin whiskey Nation thinks.
So please let us know what you

922
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,400
think of Rushmore.
Let us know what you think of

923
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,900
Brad's measuring of people's
lives.

924
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,500
You can find us on social media.
You on Facebook, Twitter,

925
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:03,100
Instagram and new Leon Tick-Tock
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926
00:52:03,100 --> 00:52:06,000
onto our Discord.
We are on there every single day

927
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,500
talking to the members of our
community.

928
00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:12,200
You guys, if you want to join
the conversation you can find a

929
00:52:12,207 --> 00:52:14,900
link to our Discord at the end
of every single one of our show

930
00:52:14,900 --> 00:52:17,100
notes.
Next week, we are going to be

931
00:52:17,107 --> 00:52:19,300
watching.
Maybe my favorite Wes Anderson

932
00:52:19,300 --> 00:52:22,500
film, that's 2012, Moonrise
Kingdom.

933
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:26,100
So join us for that next Monday.
But until then, I'm Bob book,

934
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:29,000
I'm Reggie.
She and we'll see you next time.