[00:00:00] And welcome to episode 548 of the Pittsburgh Nerd Podcast. I'm Sean and I'm Ian and this is the only podcast that says, This team stinks. Do they? Here's a first. A first ever in the
[00:00:48] 100 plus years at a national football league. Never have before until this week has a team with an over 500 record lost twice to teams that only had two wins at home, let alone in
[00:01:08] in back to back weeks, let alone within four days. Yeah. Terrible. And for those who don't know, we're talking about the Steelers who lost not only to the lowly Arizona Cardinals, a two-win team at the time now with three wins compliments of their the Steelers. But then
[00:01:26] they go on Thursday night football in front of a national audience and stink out the joint and lose to the lowly Patriots who are also two wins at the time now of three.
[00:01:39] Right. This is unacceptable. It is like, I'm far from like a reactionary guy. Like I try very hard to like be like the Steelers and be even handed with things. But this is unacceptable. Yeah. This is completely unacceptable. And like, and for those who are like, Oh, well,
[00:02:01] it's Kenny Pickett. He stinks. Well, no, obviously it's not pink as Mitch Shabisky is not an upgrade. No, no. And I'm sorry for those who call for Mason Rudolph. I don't ever
[00:02:11] want to see him throw a football in combat ever again. I saw it a few years ago. I saw enough. Yeah. I mean, the dude lost his job to a guy named duck. No, I know. You know what
[00:02:26] I mean? Like, I'm sorry. Yeah. So like, and there's a lot of like what Tom was got to go. And I understand it when you explain it properly. And that is he's been here 17 years. Maybe
[00:02:45] he's gotten steel. It's not that he's a bad coach, even though he has made some time off decisions that baffle me these past two weeks. Yeah. Like when the defense was giving up the 99 yard drive to end the first half against Arizona, he was calling time
[00:03:01] off and helping Arizona. Yeah. If they would have been calling those time I say probably wouldn't have gotten the touchdown, but he gave it to him. Yeah. Like in the last 30 seconds, they still had three time offs because Tom and thought we're gonna get the ball back here.
[00:03:16] Yeah. What? No, don't help them. Right. And then I mean the way that you utilize your time offs in the second half against New England. I didn't watch the second half. Well, I didn't see the first half because I would go to go see Godzilla minus one,
[00:03:38] which we'll talk about in a minute. So I get like, yes, Mike Tom is a good football coach. You know, he's proven over years and but I, you know, maybe there is a possibility that
[00:03:53] you're stale that you need to move on. You know what I mean? Like, and we may be in an era where like the Steelers pride themselves on three coaches over 50 years. But the 55 years we've only had three coaches or they've only had three coaches, excuse me.
[00:04:13] And that's really impressive. You know, I mean there are teams that have had three coaches in three years. Yeah, I know. You know, I mean, so but you might be reaching a point like the NFL may have changed to a point that
[00:04:29] having that level of stability might not be the best thing for you. Right. You may need to change a coach after 10 years now because players react differently. Yeah. You know, this is a completely different generation of people taking the field now. And you know, you can't like,
[00:04:55] I heard people talk about like when when when when Chuck Noel was here, you're like, they're they were like military style practices with precision and you can't do that anymore. You know, the NFL has limited the number of times you can hit in practice. Right. For safety reasons.
[00:05:18] And I understand that to an extent but there's also a part of me that's kind of like, and you got to hit. You know what I mean? Like training camps should be all about hitting.
[00:05:27] Yeah. You know, I understand like in the regular season, maybe you want to limit that but like, I mean these guys are out there in basically shorts and t-shirts with their helmets on. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it's not live. Right. You know and
[00:05:47] but also like a guy like Talman with his talismanism and stuff like that message can get stale. Agreed. You know what I mean? And if you're somebody who's been around five years, yeah three years, you might be like, I've heard this shit already.
[00:06:03] Right. You know what I mean? Like I'm like, it all was like, it could happen. Yeah. Because today's generation of athlete reacts differently than even the previous generation. Right. Like a guy like Ken Hayward may still respond to that but you know, some of these younger players
[00:06:23] maybe like, man I've heard this shit already. I'm tapping on. Yeah. You know and when you have that like it might be as, I'm not condoning it but what I am condoning is this off season you have got
[00:06:40] to completely rebuild the staff offense and defense. Yeah. Like nobody is safe. Like, you know what I mean? Like anybody who was a part of this offensive staff has to go. I'll be honest, Tarrell Austin has not impressed me as a defensive coordinator. Yeah. Like again,
[00:07:01] your defense gave up a 99 yard drive to one of the worst teams in the NFL. Like I did not mind them going forward on fourth down. I thought the play call was awful but I didn't mind
[00:07:16] them going forward on fourth down. Fourth and one, fourth and goal at the one yard line. Go for it. Yeah. Makes sense because at worst your pit Arizona deep maybe they get a first
[00:07:28] down or two you're still getting the ball back with decent field position. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like no, they went 99 yards and basically closed out the first half. Yeah. That's ridiculous. I'm calling for like and if you're telling me like, well this defense is so
[00:07:42] fucking good. Well, it's pure talent and it's not scheme because the scheme ain't working. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I have no interest. No, I mean neither do I. That's the problem.
[00:07:56] And like you're looking at these last four games and I'm being honest, like I don't know if they can win them. Right. I mean you got the Colts on Saturday. They're on a hot
[00:08:08] streak right now. Yeah. And what then after that is Cincinnati who you know under that quarterback is starting to get their shit together. Yeah. And then you got Seattle at Seattle. Yeah. That'll
[00:08:24] be a tough one and you finish the season at Baltimore. Yeah. You know and I mean in all honestly, Baltimore may sit their starters in that game like if they have this division sown
[00:08:36] up, which is a possibility like but even then against Baltimore second team, I'm like like sitting on. Oh, that's an easy win. Oh no. No. I mean you just lost these two teams. You
[00:08:50] just lost the Bailey Zapp. You made Bailey Zappy look like a fucking Hall of Famer. Bailey fucking Zappy. It's uncalled for. It's just terrible football. It is and like I'm just at
[00:09:10] a point where it's like everybody needs to go. Like I mean if they were to let Tom and go or if they were like, I mean the rumor, like the thing they talk about is that you know they
[00:09:24] trade them. Like maybe to Carolina. You know Carolina just fired their coach. The guy who owns the Carolina Panthers was a minority owner of the Steelers for a long time. I
[00:09:42] bet he would make Mike Tallman a very wealthy man. Yeah. You know what I mean? And it's one of those deals where it's like, what can you get? Can you get like two first round draft picks
[00:09:55] from Mike Tallman? I don't know. But I mean like that's the thing like okay so you get let's say you get a first round draft pick this year and a second round draft pick the
[00:10:05] next year. Okay. Carolina is so bad that's putting you in a top five position now and it all wants you at that point. Yes, I would condone drafting a quarterback. Yeah.
[00:10:20] Like if you could get a generational talent and there are a number of them that are going to be in this draft apparently. Like as much as like and I've said I'm a Kenny Pickett supporter.
[00:10:30] Kenny Pickett supporter. I am not a Kenny Pickett apologist but if you if you could upgrade at that position based upon trading Tallman then I would say go for it. Yeah. I don't think it's going
[00:10:46] to happen. I would not I mean at this point I don't know. Yeah. Like I mean all honesty if they tank directly and I'm not saying that they would do it deliberately but if they lose the next
[00:10:58] four games like that's going to have them at seven and seven and ten. Yeah. Yeah. So that'll be Tom and first ever losing season. You'd be looking at it saying well you lost six
[00:11:14] straight. Yeah. Down the stretch. Like you the team fell apart. How do you defend yourself? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. You know I mean that's that's the way I'm looking at it like it's an odd way
[00:11:33] of looking at it but like and again like if you're the Steelers you could say to yourself let's go get ourselves an offensive minded head coach that's rebuild this this franchise essentially and let's go get you know we trade my Tallman we get our first
[00:11:53] round draft pick let's go get our franchise quarterback. Sorry Kenny. Yeah. And maybe you trade Kenny and you get a third round draft pick four. Yeah. Something needs to happen. Yeah.
[00:12:09] And I mean but other than it pisses me off like I hear these people like oh they're going to trade for Lance LeVance Fields from Chicago. I don't want that guy. He's fucking garbage. Yeah. He is
[00:12:23] fucking trash. You can't hit the broad side of a barn. Yeah. You know I mean like he like those people who are like oh yeah that's the guy that's the well we've already gone through what
[00:12:36] a Chicago second overall draft pick that didn't work out for us of Mitch Trubisky so yeah let's do it again with the Chicago second overall draft pick in LeVance Fields. Yeah. Fuck. No let's go get bonex
[00:12:55] if that's the case. That's that's go you know I mean if you want to replace Kenny that's what you do. You go you go and you get a guy like bonex you get Michael Penix Jr. You you get
[00:13:05] Caleb Williams from USC like you you get the kid from North Carolina. Sam Hartman from Notre Dame like those are the names you need to be looking at then like that that's
[00:13:17] not not the you know the screw up from Chicago. Right. No let's not get a retread again. Let's do it right. Right. You know but it's going to take draft capital to do that and if you're not
[00:13:31] willing to do it then you write it out with Kenny and you hope which I do you hope getting him a different offensive coordinator a different quarter-bast coach can get him right heading in the right
[00:13:47] direction now. Right. You know I mean like that's those are your two options. Right. I don't know it's just some terrible football right now. It is it's bad and like I said like the other
[00:14:01] side of it is like the defense hasn't looked good. They gave up 20 they gave up 21 points to a New England team at the three games previously could not score more than 10 points. They lost to the
[00:14:15] C&D ego Chargers 6 nothing on Sunday. Yeah and turn around and score 21 on the Steelers the Vaunted Steelers defense. I know like Trubisky through an interception that led to seven points but outside of that you you still made Billy Zappi look really good. Yeah we know we did.
[00:14:39] Juju had a game. You did have a game. I haven't heard Juju Smith Schuster's name all year long until Thursday night. Yeah. You know two former Steelers have massive games against them.
[00:14:55] So James Cooner on Sunday and now Juju you know like a punishment. So I mean it's it's it's frustrating. I'm frustrated and I don't know man I'm just I'm at a point where it's
[00:15:22] like man I need to see wholesale changes. Well the past two seasons have been bad. You know what I mean. I mean just bad. But the problem is that you hold in your breath every time
[00:15:37] somebody fires a ball out. But here's a problem though like you had hope like you had like you clung to hope you said to yourself wow you know down the stretch I went six and two
[00:15:52] Kenny made those big throws and in big big big situations against Baltimore against Oakland and you know like you saw like glimpses of what you think this could be. Yeah. And this year it's been a clusterfuck of epic proportions and how they've won games is more baffling
[00:16:18] than how they've lost games. Yeah. Like you know I mean like and I mean and again it's like you look at the Browns win like in week two like the defense won that game. Yeah. You know
[00:16:33] but it wasn't the scheme that the defense was running because we were out gained. You know what I mean. Yeah. It was talent talent one that's the thing like we love talking about this defense
[00:16:46] and how great it is. And all JJ Watts amazing and Alex Highsmith and Ken Hayward and Michael Fitzpatrick and you know Joey Porter Jr is a future stud but they're winning with talent not with scheme.
[00:16:59] Yeah. You know what I mean like and when the talent doesn't break through the scheme fails. Right. I know. It's the same thing with the offense like I said like on fourth and two who the fuck is going for a 40 yard bomb.
[00:17:22] But it's because like every other offense in the NFL would have run a scheme of some type they would have had a play drawn up that would open somebody up three to four yards down the
[00:17:33] field. Yeah. And it's just a pitch and catch. Yeah. They would have had something drawn up where you get your tight end open and he just runs four yards on the field and turns around
[00:17:42] but because everybody else is doing something it the scheme creates the open man. Yeah. The Steelers don't have that like that play does not exist in their toolbox. Yeah. So on fourth and two like I heard Trubisky say well you know we had that they were looking at
[00:18:09] pickings. They were double in George and so I just went deep to Deontay. Well okay do we not have an audible to get out of that. Yeah. Do we not have a way to like sit there and say
[00:18:21] well let's start the 50-50 ball. Yeah. Like those are the things that drive me bad. The people who are like well you can't have it both ways. They can't be conservative and go down the
[00:18:34] field won't that's not it there's a difference. There's a time to be conservative and there's a time to open it up. Yeah. Fourth and two is not the time to go down the field. That's not
[00:18:46] a 50-50 ball play. That has to be a guaranteed play. Yeah. It doesn't exist in their playbook. Yeah. Like there are a hate because like every team does this to the Steelers. It's a
[00:19:01] high low run and what they do is it's like the take advantage of the Steelers linebackers in the zone they will run a receiver like 10 yards across the middle and they'll run the tight end
[00:19:16] five yards across the middle and now the linebacker has to make a choice. Right. And the choice is usually I'm going to go back and take the high man because I don't want to give up a long
[00:19:28] play. And so now the short man is wide open because the defense has gone back and that five-yard pass turns into a 10-15 yard play. Yeah. Because of the concept that they've run. That's
[00:19:42] gotten the Steelers playbook. It doesn't exist. They have no way like I've said this before other teams have plays that will get you open. Like it's the way the routes are drawn up, the way
[00:19:59] they work together that causes a player to become open. Yeah. The Steelers do not have that. They have you run a route and you try to get open. Right. Like there is no offensive scheme.
[00:20:21] It's just plays. It's just a bunch of plays. Yeah. And it's the same on defense. The defense is relying on talent and the scheme fails. Now some of it is, I don't want to say like you can look at
[00:20:39] the Steelers inside linebacker situation and go man, they've been dissipated by injuries. There's a lot of guys who you know they were looking really good at inside linebacker but now they're out for an extended period of time and that's understandable but still the scheme should
[00:20:52] make up for that a little bit. And it doesn't. It is. So anyway, that's my random out to Steelers. Okay. How have you been? Good. Good. I watched Indy. Okay. Yeah. I loved it. I thought it was good.
[00:21:32] I didn't think it was as better. I didn't think it was as good as Crusade but no. But it was good. I don't think it was as good as any of the original trilogy movies but it was
[00:21:40] much better than Crystal Skull. Like you know what I mean? Like, I mean, I'm sorry. Like Raiders, Temple of Doom and Crusade. Like those three movies are all three of them very high esteem.
[00:22:02] Yeah. This comes in below those but I'm not saying it's bad by any such an imagination and it was much better than. Yeah. Agreed. I mean, it had some flaws. Yeah. I thought the ending was very clunky. Yeah but I understand why you would say that.
[00:22:27] And I understand the ending of the movie even like I understand why he would want to stay. Like, that's the swole of movie. Like, I understand why he why he would want to stay in ancient
[00:22:36] Greece. He was done. Yes. He was a man out of time. Time had passed him by. And he knew Latin. Yeah. Or Greek. And he knew Latin. Yeah. But I mean, that part of it I understood. So I understood
[00:22:49] why he would want to stay but like the ending of the in his house was like. That was good. It was good but it I don't know. I like the ending. I mean, I liked it but it.
[00:23:08] I like Karen Allen. So that like, yeah, I agree. But it was just like this. It was it just felt clunky to me. That's the way you describe it. Like, I was okay with it. It was slightly mishandled. It was it was what it's the ending. It should
[00:23:26] have been there. I agree but it just didn't feel right. Right. Yeah. I was okay with it. I enjoyed the beginning. Like, I didn't think the de-aging phased anything. I was like, the de-aging actually looked pretty good. Yeah, I said it.
[00:23:50] I did like I mean, I liked that he's a man at time is passed by. Yeah. Well, and there's evidence is I you know, there's I don't know what to call it scenes with that. Yeah.
[00:24:04] Kid with the space. Right. There's all these moments right like where it was like yeah, you know what I've done? You know who I am? Right. It's kind of like
[00:24:22] I like when he got up from his chair and how old he was. Yeah. I like that part. Yeah. I thought that was neat. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. I enjoyed the aging indie. I like when they were
[00:24:40] going up the cliff and he starts bitching about his medical rolls. Yeah. Yeah, that was funny. I know but it made sense. It did. Music was right on the money. Oh, yeah. It was really good.
[00:24:56] It was. It was very good. Like, is the said dog he deserves? Yeah. Absolutely 100%. Yeah. I've got I mean, like my my criticisms aside, I still thought it was a very enjoyable
[00:25:08] movie. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Yeah. You know, I didn't sit there like at the end of Crystal Star Guard. What the fuck? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, this felt
[00:25:19] better. Yeah. Yeah, it did. I thought it was good. Yeah. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed his goddaughter. I thought she was a great character. She's great. The kid was really good. Yeah. Oh, the acting ensemble was phenomenal. Yeah. I don't think there was a moment
[00:25:54] in the film where I was like, get the fuck out of here. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I agree. Like in Temple or in Raiders. Right. There was never a
[00:26:07] moment in that film that I was like, yeah, there's no way. Yeah. Human body. You know what I mean? Yeah. No way. Right. But I didn't feel that way in Raiders. Even with an arc and shit if
[00:26:23] you believe in that kind of stuff. Right. Believable from a biblical sense. Right. Real stunt, stuntmen stuff. Yeah. You know what I mean? Now Temple, when they jump out of the plane in the inflatable raft. Right. I get Temple of Dimm. I thought
[00:26:43] I think that it's Crystal Skulls last in Temple for me. I didn't like Temple of Dimm. I wasn't into it. I felt like it was with the monkey brains and the dinner scene and
[00:26:56] in the bug scene and all that stuff. I thought that was really forced into the movie just to see the reaction. Right. Do you know what I mean? Steven Spielberg's wife, I couldn't stand her. All she did was scream the entire movie.
[00:27:12] Yeah. From the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie she screamed. Right. That's all she did. Right. Like it goes to a very dark place. It does and I like short round in it too.
[00:27:23] Yeah. I didn't mind a short round. Yeah. But you should have just left her. Yeah. It had been a better movie. Yeah. And brought Karen Allen in or something because I just, I could not. Yeah. I couldn't. I just couldn't get into that. Like I watched,
[00:27:43] I watched them again. Yeah. In order. Yeah. And yeah, I just couldn't stand it. I won't try to invalidate your criticisms because they're valid and I understand them. But like I can look past that for some reason because I think right. But there was just a
[00:28:06] lot of moments in that movie that were just forced in. Like the monkey brain stuff doesn't bother me. And I'm not saying it bothers me that they were eating monkey brains. I don't care.
[00:28:15] It was the fact that they cut open a gigantic iguana and snakes come out and they're eating them live like this. Yeah. The fuck out. I mean because she picks up all these,
[00:28:24] all of a sudden it was like Pee Wee Herman. Right. When he turned the fucking eyeball, the glasses lights on. Yeah. And that's exactly what it was because there was like the fuck out of here. Right. I mean that is so forced. Right. That.
[00:28:42] But I think it was ridiculous. I think the reason it's forced is because of how dark the movie is. Like George Lucas went to a dark place riding at because he was giving divorce.
[00:28:54] Yeah. He was pissed. He was angry. And that's where he was. Yeah. So you get, that's what you get. So I feel like yes, the humor is forced because of how dark
[00:29:03] that movie becomes at certain spots. You need that. But yes, you're right. It is forced and if it just stayed a dark movie, I think it would have been like, I'm not denying it because the thing it does
[00:29:20] drive you nuts is like while they're having like these goofball reactions like the fucking Stooges, Indy's having a very interesting conversation. I'm much more interested in than their reactions to the eyeball soup of the monkey brains. Yeah. You know what I mean?
[00:29:33] Like that conversation is dark. Right. But it's being levied. Like that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to lighten it with this humor that you're not appreciating because it does feel forced and it probably was forced because of, you know, just couldn't stand it.
[00:29:53] But the flip of that is Crusade, which is so light. I mean, it's dealing with fathers and sons, but it's still a much lighter movie. Yeah. You know, than even Raiders is. Yeah, Raiders is pretty
[00:30:14] dark. I do love the like, the, the, the, it's not even a fear. I mean, it's basically fact. Raiders is the only movie I've ever watched where if Indiana Jones had done absolutely
[00:30:28] nothing, the result would have been the same. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like nothing he did caused those, those Nazis to die. Yeah. Like so if he had done nothing,
[00:30:44] the result, you know, the only thing would have been like the, the arc would have been on that island. Yeah. Forever. You know, instead of that area 51. Or wherever it was. Yeah. So I mean, like definitely wasn't the same warehouse that was the warehouse in Christmas
[00:31:03] called. No, no, I got moved there. Yeah. Cause that, that warehouse was yeah insanity. And I think, I think one of the reasons I liked another one of the reasons why I like Indy so much Raiders versus Temple or
[00:31:23] um, the crusade versus Temple is because I don't know it dealt with. I like the fact that it dealt with the Nazis. Yeah. And that was a very real historic thing
[00:31:40] that Hitler did not getting the cup. I mean the cup of Christ or the garg of the covenant, but he did search for yeah, that stuff. That was a real thing that Hitler did.
[00:31:50] Yeah. You know what I mean? Right. Like he, right. He firmly believed that shit. Right. And so there was a point of realism. Right. In that aspect too that I appreciate it. Right. But you know, Linga, Linga, you know, this dog, I mean, all right.
[00:32:12] But I mean, I mean, I think it's the odd thing of like now the beginning of that movie was excellent. Oh, and in Club Obi-Wan. Yeah. Yeah. The club scene. Yeah. The guy getting shot. Even the beginning like the song and dance number. Yeah.
[00:32:36] Fantastic. Yeah. It was great. Yeah. I was like, oh, this is, yeah, this is gonna be wicked. You know? Yeah. And then you know, you're jumping out at 40,000 feet and up a line. Boat. Okay. I know. Screaming all the way down. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
[00:33:01] I guess you should be screaming. But so. Well, and what's interesting is I also watched a documentary on Disney Plus. You watched the documentary too? Yeah. It was interesting. Yeah. I didn't know that about the sword scene. No, neither did I. I didn't know he had stomach
[00:33:21] problems. No, I that's a weird thing like you would think I would know that. And he was sweating his he had this meat sweats dude. Yeah. He looked at everybody else then they're not as meat sweaty as
[00:33:33] he is. Yeah. Yeah. He yeah, I can't do it. I'm just gonna shoot you. Yeah. I gotta finish. But it and what's funny is like it because it's one of the most iconic scenes in movie history. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? Like it's like
[00:33:47] so like what would have been the scene like would have been like this elaborate sword fight that you would have probably forgotten. Yeah. But because he gets sick and you just I just gotta shoot him
[00:33:57] like it becomes this iconic moment in movie history. You know, yeah, I thought it was good. And I thought the documentary was real good. I mean, it was I mean, it was
[00:34:11] it was clearly about him and the connection to to Indiana Jones. But I did look like he talked about like they talked a lot about witness. Yeah. Like, and that was like a big step for him and
[00:34:25] doing something completely different from Star Wars and Indiana Jones and yeah, like, you know, they talked he mentioned one of his favorite roles was in on Mosquito Coast. Yeah. That's a great movie. Did you notice in temple too? He kept calling her sweetheart. Yeah. Like
[00:34:51] a lot. Oh, it felt I mean that Star Wars ish. It felt like the character was being channeled a little bit probably, you know, anyway, back to the documentary. Yeah. I thought the documentary was really,
[00:35:08] really well done. I thought it was very interesting. Like, I mean, it's it's very not that I know if there is any like issues that Harrison Ford has ever had. Like I
[00:35:20] can't recall anything but it's it's very like glowing of Harrison Ford. Like, you know what I mean? Which didn't bother me. Like I enjoyed it because like I like Harrison Ford. I
[00:35:33] like Harrison Ford movies. Yeah. You know, I liked him as Jack Ryan. I liked them in the fugitive. But you know, there's so many. I like them working girl. You know, there's so many movies he's done
[00:35:46] over the years that there are very few I could sit there and say like man, I had, you know, six days and seven nights and he wasn't even that bad. Well, it wasn't that he was bad. It
[00:35:58] was just the movie was bad. Yeah. You know, and there's the one I can't remember the name of it where he's like a cop who also like, you know, he's a real estate agent. And
[00:36:07] yeah, it's it's Hollywood homicide. I think it's called. Yeah. It's it's a bad move. It's horrible. You know, but I think I said like, I mean, outside of those two, those are the only two
[00:36:20] like stinkers I can really think of. Yeah. Yeah. Alright, so before you have to get a smoke. We would go see Godzilla minus one we saw an IMAX. It is amazing. Yeah. Well, I'm not just saying that like, Godzilla's amazing. Okay, like don't get me wrong. When
[00:36:48] it tells a compelling story. Now, here's what's sad. If this movie did not have Godzilla in it, I would never watch it. It's a very interesting story about a comic-cause you pilot who
[00:37:06] failed. Yeah, he couldn't he couldn't do it. He turned around and he had a problem with his problem with his plan. I mean, he landed at some remote base because he couldn't do it.
[00:37:22] And the things that happened after that haunt him. So it's a redemption story for him. It's again, this is a he's taking place in 1948. It is post-war Japan. It is very much
[00:37:42] a statement about the use of nuclear arms. But at the same time, it's still a Godzilla movie. And it's the you know, as much as I love the universal movies like Godzilla vs Kong, the new trailer for Godzilla Kong, the new empire looks amazing. I don't
[00:38:10] know if you saw that or not. I'll show it to you. Like, I love all forms of Godzilla. Like, I love the 70s movies where he's the hero to the children. You know, he gives little salutes and
[00:38:24] he's surfing on his tail to kick people and like all the goofiness that comes with that. I love. I loved 2000s Godzilla, which is much more serious, but he's a protector of earth
[00:38:35] and you know, he's a bad mofo. Shin Godzilla is very, very good. I have problems with it, but those problems are just based upon the fact that it's made by the same guy who did, you know, even jealous, even jealous evolution or whatever that was called. And
[00:38:57] you can tell in this, it's that guy. But Godzilla minus one is so fucking good. And like Shin Godzilla was even a top. It was a commentary on like how Japan was handling the nuclear reactor meltdown that they had and how it was affecting the, the environment and
[00:39:20] stuff like that. So like at its heart, it's still an environmental movie much like this is, but shit goes down in this movie with Godzilla that is so fucking cool. Yeah. Like his atomic
[00:39:33] breath is an atomic bomb. Nice. Like there's this great moment like, because he does, it takes a while to power up, but since he's not facing any other monsters, it's not a big deal. But like I said,
[00:39:48] like, is this power up? Is those fins are going blue? Like they're lifting and locking in the place as it's going up his back. And then he lets it go and it has an atomic bomb
[00:40:03] like feel to it as like when it explodes, when it hits what he's targeting and explodes, things go rushing in and come rushing back out like an explosion would. Yeah. And there's this great moment. It's like poster worthy moment where it's like Godzilla standing there in Tokyo
[00:40:25] and like where he hit is a mushroom cloud. Oh really? Like and he's like super imposed against this mushroom cloud. It's like, oh shit, that is so badass. You know, and
[00:40:38] like I liked the ending of it. I liked where it went. I liked how it did things. I liked how explain things. I liked like, I don't want to give anything away because I want people to watch
[00:40:49] this movie. Yeah. I want you to see this movie because I think you'll really enjoy it for what it is. I mean, even Nancy enjoyed it and she's like, like when we go into a theater, this was not
[00:41:03] dubbed. We had it was with subtitles. Yeah. She hates subtitles, but she was wanting to go through it for a Godzilla movie at the end of it. She really enjoyed it, like not just for the
[00:41:14] Godzilla aspect, but like the human aspect of it. But um, oh, it's really, really well done and the suit looks amazing and Godzilla looks fantastic. I mean, it's, it's a really impressive
[00:41:29] movie and I really, really enjoyed it. I highly recommend it. I know, I know it's going out of theaters in the next couple of days. So it's tough, but once you see it on like a streaming service
[00:41:41] where if you see a physical, you know, physical copy you can, you can purchase, if you, if you're a fan of Godzilla, I highly recommend it. If you, if you enjoy a good
[00:41:54] human story being told on the backdrop of a Godzilla movie, it's also very much worth your time. I think you'll enjoy it. I hope, I hope it gets some recognition from the academy. Okay. Because it's
[00:42:10] that good. Okay. It's not just a Godzilla movie. Like there is a very Oscar way. It's a funny thing to say, but there is an Oscar worthy story being told. Yeah. You know what I mean? And it's really,
[00:42:23] really well done, but it's to a backdrop of Godzilla and I think, I guess I just, I hope it gets some sort of recognition. Like even if it just gets like a nod for best picture because it's, it's
[00:42:36] certainly worthy of that in my opinion. Yeah. Maybe the best porn film. I'm sure it'll be up for that. Yeah. But like I do think it deserves merit. Like I'm not saying it should win
[00:42:48] because I don't know what else to like, I honestly, I don't know. Yeah. But like I do think it deserves like, you know, with it being like a 10 picture category now, I think it deserves that recognition
[00:42:57] at least being nominated. Yeah. Because it is that good. And then I watched, coming off the past two days, I watched yesterday a movie on Netflix called Leave the World Behind. This has Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Masala Ali and Kevin Bacon in it. This movie stinks. Really? Oh,
[00:43:31] it was trying so hard to be an M Night movie. Yeah. Like everything down to like the way it used music to set like tone, like there was like this like,
[00:43:45] you know, this eerie piano, you know, it was that the whole basis of the story is like Julia Roberts takes her family with Ethan Hawke and they have two kids, teenagers to
[00:43:58] like this place on Long Island, they like they run an Airbnb. It's just like it's September. So it's still warm out but it's like just out of the off season. So you got a good D one and it's
[00:44:14] near the beach and there's all this shit going on, you know, and meanwhile, there's a cyber attack. Well, like they're not able to put the pieces of the puzzle together because they're kind
[00:44:26] of out of contact and like shit's going down. Yeah. And it just it does shit that it like it never fucking explains. Like that some of it like is explained, like you're like, okay,
[00:44:41] okay, that makes sense and that makes sense. I get that. Okay, that's explained to me. Thank you very much. But then there's this whole other thing. Like with the deer, we're all like,
[00:44:50] what the fuck is going on? Like, like if you watch the movie, I don't recommend it because it's like I was just like at the end of it. I was like, really? That's it. But like there is stuff like
[00:45:08] like there's this moment where like there's a herd of deer, like cornering people. But that's never explained like why are they doing that? Yeah. Like if you explain it to me, like I'd be like, okay, thank you. But it's never fucking explained.
[00:45:25] Yeah. And like, but that would have not like the deer would have nothing to do with the cyber attacks or why are they acting goofy? Yeah. You know, but they're acting goofy. And it's never
[00:45:35] explained why and it's like, what the fuck is going on? You know, it was just and it's like two and a half hours long and like, I was okay with it being slow.
[00:45:46] Like, I'm like, okay, I'm along for the ride. You know, you don't have to explain everything to me all at once but pieces of the puzzle were coming together slowly. But at the end of it,
[00:45:55] you're just like, and that's it. Fuck. You know, let it was there's a massive letdown. And I was like, man, I do not like if you're somebody who's like in like M light movies,
[00:46:10] I give it a try but I can't recommend it. Like at the end of it, I was just like, this wasn't an M night. No, it wasn't. But it was trying really, really hard to be an M night movie. Yeah, I know.
[00:46:22] You know what I mean? Like it had like all like the components of an M night movie. But at the end of it, it was just like, wow, that's a fucking rip off. I'm glad I didn't pay to see this.
[00:46:40] And then to finish it off the past couple of days, I've watched all three of the new Doctor Who specials. Okay, I watched the first one. Okay. I like course. I liked all three of them. Yeah.
[00:46:59] Um, I have a little problem with the end of the third one. How they resolve some shit. But overall, I like them like tenant was amazing. It was so good to
[00:47:19] have tenant back. Yeah, it was pretty much needed. Well, I need to go back and I need to watch the final season of Jodie Whitaker was the doctor. And I stopped watching not because of Jodie Whitaker.
[00:47:35] I liked her as the doctor. I wish she had a better writer, a better show runner. It just the stories weren't interesting. Now apparently, because like the whole thing was like, like Russell T Davies and the guy who did it after him with Matt Smith and
[00:47:58] Capolty. Like there, there were always like these like, like you had like the down moments or like the slow moments that didn't feel all that important, but sometimes hit you just right. Like, like the one with Van Gogh. Yeah. Like I mean that that story, like
[00:48:17] it doesn't feel epic, but yet it's very touching face of bow face of bow. Yeah. Like stuff like that. Like there were these moments that you had the down moment, but other moments felt epic. Like felt like, oh, shit, this is important. And I never really got that
[00:48:40] from Jodie Whitaker's run at least in the first two seasons. Yeah. So I need to go and watch the third season because apparently there is some shit that takes place here that I need to
[00:48:49] learn about. Okay. Outside of that though, like so coming back to Tenet, Russell T Davies taking over his showrunner again. Like you're right. Like Tenet was like a breath of fresh air. But also the story, the first story and the third story feel important. Yeah. The second
[00:49:16] story was like a very self contained little story with only two actors. Yeah. But it was really, really well done. You know, but this like the first one, like the one that you watched, like it felt
[00:49:32] like Dr. Who again. It didn't. It did. Like it really did. Even the effects were old school. Yeah. Somewhat. Somewhat. You know what I mean? But also looked updated. Yeah, but still had that.
[00:49:52] I mean the meep looked like a fucking puppet. Yeah. But the guys, the bug guys. Yeah. Look, you know, sort of like the Cybermen. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely something mean
[00:50:04] reused there. Yeah. But what I'm saying is like it was kind of yeah, had that old school feel. Right. I agree. And I like that. Yeah. It kind of got away from that. Yes. And I enjoyed that.
[00:50:26] I enjoyed Tenet period. Yeah. Because I mean like there were parts that were heartbreaking. Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh yeah. So. And it gets worse later on down the line.
[00:50:40] Yeah. But I mean like, but still like, like David Tenet is like so fucking good as a doctor. Like he's my favorite doctor. Yeah. I like Matt Smith. I like Capolty. But you know, David Tenet is my guy. You know, and in the later, in the third episode,
[00:51:02] I'm going to put on old doogie howser. Can't think of his name. Neil Patrick Harris. Neil Patrick Harris. Yeah. He's the villain. He's phenomenal. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, loved him. So there's a lot of like, there's a lot of good stuff.
[00:51:24] I'm looking forward to the Christmas special now. Yeah. I'm intrigued to see how that all plays out. Yeah. And I mean, it's just, it feels like Dr. Who is back. Yeah. And again, like I,
[00:51:43] I hate saying that because it's like, I like Jody Whitaker as a doctor. But I just, I feel like she just got a bad run because of the stories. Right. And it's a shame. Yeah. But I did like her a lot as the doctor. I watched, um,
[00:52:07] Sweet Home season two. Okay. I found it very hard to follow. Yeah. Yeah. I, uh, I love the first season. Yeah. And I think I liked it so much because it was contained within this building. Yeah.
[00:52:27] You know what I mean? And it was the fear of going what's outside of the building. Yeah. You know what I mean? Now they're out in the open sometimes. Yeah. Well, they're out of that
[00:52:38] building period. Right. And, um, there were moments that were good, but I just couldn't, I couldn't get into it. Yeah. I'm kind of disappointed about it. I was looking forward to that series. That sucks. And so I binged it. Yeah. I found myself fast forwarding through parts
[00:53:00] that kind of tells you. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, and that's really as far as series wise, I think that's, that's all I watched. I did start your show. Oh, um, obliterated? Yeah. And then Ellie came downstairs. So you had to turn that
[00:53:21] shit off. Yeah. And I was like, I couldn't get it off fast enough. I'm like, shut your eyes. It's just right at the part of course when they went into the bedroom and I'm like,
[00:53:32] and I didn't think it would be that graphic. Oh yeah. It wasn't graphic, but it was. Yeah. But it was enough. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like what the fuck? So started that.
[00:53:45] Oh, trust me. It gets, I'm sure it does. But like you said, there's plenty of man meat to go around. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. It was funny when I saw it was pretty good. Yeah. So we'll see
[00:54:02] whenever I get the chance to watch it. Yeah. So that's hysterical. Cover your eyes. It was awful. I just didn't think it would be that. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Because you see stuff with MA on it all the time and there's nothing. Yeah.
[00:54:29] Like especially there's, there's these weird, I'm telling you, there's those weird movies. Yeah. Like freebie movies. Yeah. And they're horrible. Yeah. But they always have MA by it. Right. You know, like the red wearables or dumb shit. Yeah. And uh,
[00:54:48] hmm. Yeah. So, you know, there's MA on that shit all the time. Why? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. So when you see this MA. Yeah. That's MA. Yeah. And I started with, you know, it was funny. Not that, but you know, I started, I was gonna watch Rambo.
[00:55:16] Yeah. The last Rambo movie that was made. Yeah. And I was like, I'm just not gonna make for Rambo. So then I turned on Bobo. Yeah. I'd rather watch. I'd rather have a Rocky story than a
[00:55:28] John Rambo story. Yeah, I get that. Not that I didn't like that Rambo because I thought it was good. Yeah. Not to go on about that movie but I thought the real plot twist was when his daughter died.
[00:55:44] Yeah. Or what? Yeah. When she died, I was like, oh, fuck. Yeah. You know, that was like, oh yeah. I didn't see that. No. Did you? No. No, no, no. Like, yeah. Are you kidding me? Yeah.
[00:56:01] He's gonna go ape shit. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's a male of nothing to lose now. No, nothing. Anyway. That's it. That's all I got to. Really? Yeah. Hey, you know, basically what I've been watching, I haven't been, nothing's jumped out on me in social
[00:56:32] media where I'm like, oh, I gotta look that up. Yeah, nothing really. Yeah. Is he gonna ride or die? I don't know. Yeah. So we'll wrap it up. It'll be a shorty. Okay. All right.
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