American Sniper / Rebel 10-Year Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey

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In 2014, director Clint Eastwood
and star Bradley Cooper gave the

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world a brutal introspection
into the eternal cost of war.

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In 2024, Brad, we get to try our
favorite brand once again.

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A very expensive version of it
the film is American Sniper.

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The whiskey is Rebel Single
Barrel 10 year bourbon.

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And we'll review them both.
This is.

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The Film and Whiskey podcast
Welcome to the Film and Whiskey

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podcast, where each week we
review a classic movie and a

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glass of whiskey.
I'm Bob Book.

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I'm Brad G.
And this week we are in 2014 to

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look at the highest grossing
film of that year, Clint

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Eastwood's American Sniper.
Bob, Clint Eastwood is just the

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wildest of directors 'cause I
don't know if we have many

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directors who have a starred in
a bunch of movies, starred in

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television shows, became a
director, directed.

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Probably.
He's probably directed like 40

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films and like 32 of them are
average to bad.

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And eight of them are like, I
don't know, is this going to be

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a best picture for the year?
Yeah, I mean, listen, he's

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batting 250.
Like, that's a that's an

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acceptable batting average in
the Major League. 100% man.

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And I like, dare I say it, I
think American Sniper might be

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my favorite of his films that
we've watched.

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I've been interested to hear
what's going to come out of this

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episode, Brad.
So let me give a little bit of

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context.
About a year ago, we were in one

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of our director based seasons
where we were watching four to

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five films from a director to
try to get a sense of who they

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are, what they thematically like
to make movies about.

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And Clint Eastwood was one of
those directors.

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And at the time we looked at
Unforgiven, Mystic River, we

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revisited $1,000,000 Baby for
our patrons.

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What else did we watch from
Clint Eastwood at the time,

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Brad?
Oh man, I honestly I can't

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remember right now.
We've watched a lot of Clint

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Eastwood films, Bob.
Yeah, we sure have.

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And Eastwood's an interesting
director because in our very

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charged political times, I think
people have really started,

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especially people on the left
have really started to criticize

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Clint Eastwood.
And I think in a really

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reductionistic way, they see him
as a conservative director, even

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though his films don't always
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Gran Torino was one of the films
we watched, Brad.

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And I think if any movie is ever
going to label Clint Eastwood as

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like, a black and white, sort
of, you know, conservative, it

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would be Gran Torino.
And I think it's unfair to

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Eastwood, though, to suggest
that he's not dealing with much

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murkier waters and that he's not
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aisle in a lot of his films.
And this is no exception.

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And I think this movie, I wanted
to wait until we got to this

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season to talk about American
Sniper because it it deserves

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its own conversation.
As Eastwood got older and people

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started lobbing these really
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You are conservative, so
therefore you are bad takes.

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I think this movie really became
the victim of that.

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And that's not really what this
movie's a about at all.

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And BI think it's a really bad
faith reading of the movie to

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assume the portrayal of what
happened to 1 soldier therefore

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is A what Clint Eastwood thinks
about war or B is an endorsement

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of war for the sake of war.
Like, it's just a really, really

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awful reading of this movie and
I wanted to get it out of the

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way now because I I frankly
think it's a waste of time to

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debate it.
I just reject that premise

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altogether.
This is a much more complicated

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and nuanced movie than that.
And while it is a flawed movie,

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I think there are better
conversations to have than that

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one. 100% I think that any time
you walk into something that

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someone has produced and created
and you've heard that they are X

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and your Y, therefore I'm going
to find the worst possible

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reading of this film.
Like, that's just boring.

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Like, I, I don't know, man.
Like, sure, people can do that

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if they want.
It's America.

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This is a free country.
I, I would rather have a

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conversation about how Clint has
created here.

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What I would say is a very
nuanced understanding of what it

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means to be an American at war
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I think there's going to be a
lot of comparison films brought

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up today, Brad, because as I was
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thinking of films we've done on
the show that I want to draw

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comparisons too.
But before we get into all that,

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let me set the stage here.
So if you're new to the show,

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welcome into film and whiskey.
The premise is right there in

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the title.
We talk about movies, we drink

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whiskey this season.
What we're doing is we're

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looking at the highest grossing
films of each calendar year from

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1988 to 2019.
American Sniper was perhaps

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among the biggest box office
surprises of any film we're

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going to be talking about this
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It is far and away the most
financially successful Clint

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Eastwood film it and it it's
kind of a weird asterisk year

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for us, Brad, because this
movie, while a quote, UN quote

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2014 film, it premiered in four
theaters in 2014 and it didn't

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go nationwide until mid January
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So when I was looking at like
the highest grossing in calendar

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year releases, it was actually
like one of The Hunger Games

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movies.
And then it said like, well, by

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March of 2015, American Sniper
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And it's like, yeah, but it made
all of its money in a completely

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different year.
So like I I just I hate how

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Hollywood does that.
Please know I understand film

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and Whiskey Nation that you
probably saw this movie in 2015,

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but you know, too bad we're
talking about it today.

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Yeah, and I'm really glad we
are, Bob, because this is an

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excellent movie that is worth
talking about.

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I do think that the fact that
this movie made half a billion

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dollars is kind of staggering.
It's Wildman.

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It's the highest grossing war
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Adjusted for inflation, I think
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war movie of all time, Is one of
the seven I think movies at the

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time that was an R rated film to
earn $500 million worldwide.

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And I already said it's it's
Eastwood's most successful

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movie.
And because of that, you know,

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people were expecting, OK, maybe
this movie, it came out on MLK

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weekend.
It was a long weekend in January

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where no one usually goes to the
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Maybe with the star power of
Bradley Cooper and the excellent

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marketing campaign, this'll earn
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And it went freaking bananas,
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I remember it was the year we
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I went to the movie theater that
weekend to see something else,

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and I walked into the lobby and
they had set up one of those

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like velvet rope, like snake
things because they're the the

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line inside the lobby to buy
tickets was so long and

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everybody was going to see
American Sniper.

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It was freaking nuts.
I'd never seen anything like it

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before.
This movie was an absolute

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phenomenon in the worst months
of the year, usually for movies.

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Yeah.
So did you end up seeing it?

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I waited a week, 'cause I didn't
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I'm just like, I'm not that guy
right now.

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Like, but yeah, I saw it in the
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It's, you know, and I remember
even in the build up to it, it

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had one of the best trailers for
a movie that I had seen in

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years.
It was basically just that scene

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of him up on the roof looking at
the mom and kid who have the

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grenade.
And they just play it out like a

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full 3 minutes of just an
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And that's the trailer for the
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It was suspenseful as hell and
it worked like crazy because it

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got people in the theaters.
Man, the moment I know we're

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not, we haven't even done, Brad
explains.

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But the moment when he's back in
the barracks and his buddies are

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trying to like, be like, hey,
man, it's no big deal.

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Like, you popped your cherry,
it's OK.

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Like, doesn't matter how?
And they zoom in on Bradley

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Cooper's face and he, I don't
remember the exact line, but he

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essentially goes like, I didn't
think it would be like this.

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I I already liked Bradley Cooper
as an actor.

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That was the moment for me where
I was like, oh, damn, yeah.

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Like Bradley Cooper's got some
chops.

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Well, we're going to talk about
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his movie through and through.
But before we get there, let's

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go to our first segment of the
day, which we call Brad

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explains.
Brad's going to give us the

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movie plots with only 60 seconds
ticking on the clock, so let's

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go ahead and hear your take with
this little segment that we

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call, Brad explains.
Brad Explains is the part of the

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show where Brad breaks down the
plot of the movie that he has

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has just seen, often for the
first time.

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Brad, how many times have you
seen American Sniper?

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1.
Oh, this is the first time.

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Wow.
OK, this is the first timer for

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me.
Yeah, It's one of those movies

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that, like, my brother was in
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never went to Iraq, but it
always kind of hung over us if

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he would go or not.
And I remember him seeing it and

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being a big fan of it.
And I, I, he gave me the book.

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I, I never got around to reading
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And so it's always been kind of
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But you know, life happens and
it's 10 years later and I, I

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finally sat down to watch this
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All right, man.
Well, I think you just wrapped

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up watching it a couple hours
ago too, so your thoughts are

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pretty fresh.
Let's dive right in, Brad.

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You have 60 seconds on the clock
to break down the plot of the

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film with full spoilers.
So folks, if you haven't seen

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American Sniper and you don't
want it spoiled for you, hit

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pause here.
Go watch the movie and then come

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back and join us again, Brad,
One minute and go.

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American Sniper is a biopic film
about the Navy SEAL Chris Kyle,

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who was a sniper during the Iraq
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He that follows him as he joins
the SEALS, goes through

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training, falls in love with his
wife Taya and eventually goes to

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Iraq 4 separate times, has two
children and kills a lot of

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people.
It it pits him against a Syrian

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sniper who is killing U.S.
troops and ends with him back in

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the US and trying to care for
other veterans and find his own

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peace in the midst of that and
ends up being killed by one of

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the veterans who has mental
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All right, there it is, American
Sniper.

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Now, Brad, this is, as with most
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the modern day, there's just
some difficulty inherently

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folded into it when you want to
critique a film because, again,

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we live in politically charged
times, but we also live in a

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time where, you know, the mantra
is we need to support our

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troops.
And you and I have have kind of

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discussed this already in a lot
of our episodes, Like, what does

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it mean to support the troops?
Does it mean inherently, you

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know, automatically approving of
everything that they do?

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That's.
I don't think that's the case,

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and I don't think you do either.
But I think this movie unfairly

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suffered for Eastwood, honestly,
portraying both the acts of

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heroism that Chris Kyle did and
he doesn't very matter of a

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matter of factly.
And frankly, like, if there is

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no big celebration of him and
all throughout the movie, he's

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like, oh, yeah, I do.
I have that many kills.

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All right, cool.
And it's so frank and so matter

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of fact that I think it rubbed
some people the wrong way.

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Again, I think there's there's
unfairness in how it's treated,

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but Eastwood basically just
portraying Chris Kyle as a guy

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who does his job garnered a lot
of criticism.

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And I guess I just want to start
today by asking you like when

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you think about the other movies
that we've talked about that

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fall into this camp.
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would be Saving Private Ryan,
where we talked a lot about

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Spielberg getting accused of
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that rah rah patriotism.
And I don't, I've never seen

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that film that way.
I think that he just says, like,

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these are guys that were there
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They did a job.
And if nothing else, we need to

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appreciate the fact that they
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Eastwood.
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probably what's the word not
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Kyle's motives more than
Spielberg interrogates the

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motives in Saving Private Ryan.
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for doing that.
So, you know, I'm, I'm wondering

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Brad, like taken as a whole,
what do you think Eastwood's

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trying to say with this movie?
I think that as I as the movie

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ended and and I'll I'll be
honest with you, Bob, I did not

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know that he passed away.
I I had like the ending was

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truly A twist for me.
I mean, the moment you know, she

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looked the the wife looks at
him, Taya and like you see her,

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you're just kind of like, well,
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Yep, this isn't good, but it
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freaking freight train man.
And, and I think the the thought

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that popped into my head was
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deep and abiding respect for the
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will cost you everything.
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things in tension where he
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the world and we have to fight
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And in the act of fighting it,
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and including your life.
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most brutal tensions that I
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willing to face.
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man, we, I think we could just
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I think you you summarize it
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And Eastwood to his credit,
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And so your reaction to this
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based on what side of that camp
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tension, because Eastwood
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of this film and the
celebrations of this film say a

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lot more about the people
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people that made the movie.
You said that he holds a respect

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for the military in one hand and
the belief that that violence

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and war will cost you
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I think that is a perfect
summary, Brad, because it does

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cost Kyle everything and it
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Unforgiven.
I think if there's a movie that

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I'm going to compare this to
throughout the day, it's going

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to be Unforgiven because that's
the one where he's really

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interrogating something to the
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that movie.
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mythos of the Old West and the
idea of the quote UN quote being

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a legend and what that does to a
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And that kind of happens here.
Like they call him the legend

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all through the movie, but
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legendary outlaw and having to
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like the Angel of Death, this
one is much more about the the

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same sort of burden, but on the
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What does it mean to deal with
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What does it mean when someone
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saved my life?
How do you handle that burden?

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How can you ever live up to that
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But also, when you are
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at as if you've got it all
together, and this guy clearly

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does not for the entire film.
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interesting part of this movie
is that it's not shipping on

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what he did, but it's asking
honest, true questions about the

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guy that is considered the
biggest hero is the guy no one

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checks in on throughout the
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Yep.
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interrogating anything, it's
interrogating the people around

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him.
It's interrogating himself and

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why he why his coping mechanism
is just to go do more heroic

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things to kind of paper over
what is really going on inside.

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I I found this movie incredibly
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I don't think that it's critical
of Kyle's actions on the

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battlefield, but it's also it
doesn't get enough credit for

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investigating and interrogating
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And frankly, Brad, like a lot of
biopics that are made by people

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on the political left about
their heroes, don't go this far

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into questioning motives.
And I think Eastwood really

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deserves more credit than he
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Well, and, and in the midst of
that, there, there's no

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commentary on whether or not
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Like, like throughout the movie,
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evil are depicted as evil for
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war.
And continually Kyle is

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portrayed as somebody who
defends his men.

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And he's given that that
motivation of like, I don't get

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jazzed about killing people.
I get jazzed about defending

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people.
And I, I think that there is an

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element of importance to that.
And at and at the end of the

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film, it's kind of it leaves you
with this question of was it all

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worth it?
And and that like that for me

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is, is a question that all of us
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Like in the midst of war, in the
midst of home life.

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Kyle continually had this
element of like, I want to

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defend my family and his family
extended to veterans who have

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come back from the war and he
cared for them and and tried to

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help them deal with their own
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And I, I think in the midst of
that, you, you see Eastwood

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struggling with this reality of
war and violence and brokenness

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and, and how it affects the
human soul and, and it, it

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interrogates Kyle to say, Hey,
like, was it all worth it?

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And when, you know, when
somebody dies early, I, I just

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love the moment where she looks
at him and says, like, I'm so

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proud of you.
You've done so much to become

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the man that I've always known
that you are, and the brutality

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of the ending then just it
forces you to reckon with like

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the journey.
Yeah, I do think that if there

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is a part of the movie that I I
want to focus on for an extended

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period of time, it is that
ending.

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So if if it's OK with you, let's
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little bit because I think we'll
come back to it and discuss it

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more in depth.
One of the things I love about

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the both the script and the way
Eastwood portrays this character

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of of Kyle is that it has a very
like 1970s character study vibe

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to it.
You know, we used to get movies

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about characters that were big
flawed people and there wasn't

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often comment on if their flaws
are supposed to be interpreted

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as good or bad.
They just were.

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There were people who just were
and you would go to the movies

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and be presented with complex
people.

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I think about movies like One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,

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right?
Like Jack Nicholson in that

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movie is the guy who I think is.
Being sent to the, you know,

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what do you call it?
The I almost said loony bin.

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That's incredibly offensive, but
there you go.

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Because because of I think he's
a rapist in that movie.

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Like your protagonist is a guy
who's convicted of rape.

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And in this movie, you get Chris
Kyle and I, I don't want to draw

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the comparison between those
actions, but what I'm saying is

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we're in an era of movie making
now where audiences on both side

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of the political divide need to
be spoon fed like this guy is

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bad, this guy is good.
And we're going to tell you out

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loud, this is good and this is
bad.

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This movie's not interested in
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And I appreciate that so much
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Whether that leads to some bad
faith readings or not, I'd

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rather have it this way than the
other way.

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But what I love about the
portrayal of Chris Kyle is that

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from the get go, he is not a
perfect person.

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Like he clearly has no
capability of discussing his

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emotions.
You know, you get a flashback to

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this pivotal moment where his
dad kind of gives him his

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mantra.
And I think that you can

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interpret that scene as like,
oh, that him up for life or like

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that implanted a seed of heroic
behavior or both.

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You know what I mean?
Like, I think it's kind of both

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happening.
I love the fact that the first

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time he gets an idea to join the
military, what's he doing?

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He he got dumped by his
girlfriend or he dumped his

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girlfriend and he has gotten
absolutely hammered sitting and

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watching TV with his brother.
And he's angry about what

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happened with his girlfriend.
And he's drunk.

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And in that moment, he decides
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Like, Eastwood is not, you know,
blinking a red alert sign that

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like, this is not the state of
mind he should be in to join the

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military.
But it's presented as this is

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how it happened.
Interpret it for yourself.

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And I appreciate that because it
is possible for a person to both

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do really good things and to
have severe character flaws.

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And Chris Kyle seems like that
kind of person who, you know, I

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don't want to say that like, his
work with veterans was was in

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any way a character flaw.
But he clearly also had some

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stuff going on psychologically
that he needed to deal with.

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That is presented just as
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I I guess what I'm saying in a
really long winded way, Brad, is

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I like that Eastwood is not
using kid gloves here.

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And then like a lot of it is
just laid out as kind of like

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unstructured data and you piece
it together to make meaning out

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of it as you see fit.
Viewer of this film.

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Yeah, And even in the way that
the girlfriend treats him at the

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start of the film, like there's
a, there's a layered nuance to

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that where what she accuses him
of is true.

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And that doesn't excuse her
actions.

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But he reckons with the fact
that like, you know, she's

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right.
Like I like, I treat her like

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garbage.
I leave her at home.

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I go do all these things, like,
who does that make me as a

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person?
And I, I think that that's kind

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of where the military catches a
lot of their recruits is in

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young people who are asking
themselves, who am I and what am

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I about?
Do I have a purpose in this

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life?
And, and the military provides

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that with so many people.
And I, I think that's why this

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movie is so successful in that
it portrays the entire arc of I

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don't know who I am.
The military gave me I an

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identity.
Who am I if the military is not

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my identity?
And, and it follows that entire

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arc.
And I think for the first time

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I've watched a Clint Eastwood
movie and said, like, I think

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Clint actually has some nuance
in his bones cause like that.

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Like what is our one critique
of, of, of Eastwood constantly,

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Bob.
Like, I mean, it's not even just

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that he has no nuance, it's that
he finds actors who have no

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nuance too.
Like just to double down on.

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Like, do you get what I'm trying
to say about poor people in

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Million Dollar Baby?
Yep, exactly.

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Yeah.
And, and so I think that here

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you finally have multiple actors
and characters as they are

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written that have a depth of
character and nuance to who they

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are.
And, you know, even the even the

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side characters, the guy in the
tire shop who who tells the kid,

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hey, your dad's a hero like
that.

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Like there doesn't need to be
any nuance there.

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He's just a character for one
minute in the film, but there's

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a depth to that little C tier
performance that felt authentic

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and real and it allowed Cooper
to play off of it.

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And and it gave Cooper a chance
to shine it and to flex his

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acting muscles in acting awkward
and uncomfortable and like, OK,

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yeah, thanks, man.
I yeah, cool.

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I'll just go pay the lady now.
Like, that was one of my

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favorite scenes of the film.
And it's not because he was

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being honored, it's because you
can feel the discomfort of like,

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what is going on in Cooper's
soul.

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So that actor, that scene is
actually Jonathan Groff, who

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just recently won his first
Tony.

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He's a very esteemed theatre
actor who has also done quite a

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few films and television shows.
And we just talked about him

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last week because he was the
voice of Kristoff in Frozen.

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Oh my goodness, showing up
again.

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And.
I.

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Think that's actually really
good segue into finding

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something redemptive about the
movie Frozen because we spent a

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long time talking about that
song Let It Go last week and how

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it is severely misinterpreted
and misused due to its placement

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in that movie.
Because Elsa gets really messed

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up by her parents, she has some
really unhealthy coping

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mechanisms wherein she sings Let
It Go.

445
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,960
And then the end of the movie
essentially undoes that mindset

446
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,480
of let it go where she actually
experiences healthy community

447
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,320
and and processing through her
trauma.

448
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,960
And I think this movie actually
follows a pretty similar pattern

449
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,760
to that Brad.
Like I don't think that Eastwood

450
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:23,560
is 100% endorsing the way that
Chris Kyle continually returns

451
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,240
to Iraq as a way of papering
over.

452
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,920
And I think, again, that's where
people continue to misinterpret

453
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,840
this movie.
But on the comparative front, if

454
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,080
there's another movie that this
is obviously a a comparison

455
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,400
point to, it's The Hurt Locker.
It's a movie we talked about a

456
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,760
lot last year, Brad.
I thought you were going to say

457
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,080
frozen.
That's why let's make it

458
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:49,120
embarrassments aren't obvious
with the Hurt Locker.

459
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,400
It's a movie that seems to get
the benefit of the doubt, and I

460
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,880
actually might scorching hot
take is that I think this is a

461
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,240
better movie than the Hurt
locker and I always yes, I just

462
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,040
think it's a it's a much better
produced movie.

463
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,640
I think it actually communicates
its point just as well with more

464
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,760
nuance than The Hurt Locker, and
I also think Bradley Cooper's a

465
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,120
better actor than Jeremy Renner,
so there you go.

466
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,640
But it's funny to me that with
The Hurt Locker, which follows

467
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,400
almost the exact same pattern as
this film, that movie seems to

468
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,760
get the benefit of the doubt and
this movie does not.

469
00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:21,960
Especially when you have Chris
Kyle following that sort of Elsa

470
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:27,640
Let It Go arc here.
If there's one thing I didn't

471
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,960
expect coming into this episode,
it was that we would be

472
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,240
comparing Chris Kyle to Elsa
from Frozen.

473
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,520
I mean, look, they both shoot
people in the heart like this is

474
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,680
the comparisons are never
ending, Brad.

475
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,640
Look at that.
I mean, Elsa doesn't shoot

476
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,400
children in the heart, so.
She, well, she shot her child

477
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,800
sister in the head.
That's true.

478
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,440
Headshot, headshots, dude.
She's more more vicious than

479
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,920
Chris Kyle.
OK.

480
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,240
Listen, we're in a spot right
now where we have not really

481
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,680
talked about the film.
We've talked about what the film

482
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,160
means.
I think that we need to take a

483
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,840
break.
Let's talk about the performance

484
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,280
of Bradley Cooper after the
break.

485
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,120
Let's talk about what we
actually liked in the film

486
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:12,280
making itself.
But before that, I'm really,

487
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:13,760
really anxious.
Not anxious.

488
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,840
I'm really, really antsy to get
to try this Rebel 10.

489
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,960
Brad, let's let's get to
whiskey, if that's OK with you.

490
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,680
I am so ready, Bob.
Let's get to it.

491
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,320
All right.
Today we are checking out Rebel

492
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,480
10 Years Single Barrel Bourbon.
This is the new release from Lux

493
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,480
Rd.
Distillers.

494
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,640
I think this is like our third
or fourth week in a row, Brad,

495
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,200
of doing new release whiskeys on
film and whiskey.

496
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,240
It's a wild time.
Yeah, I've been.

497
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,800
I've been enjoying it.
Now, as Brad said, this is one

498
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,280
of their more expensive
offerings.

499
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,920
It's because it's a single
barrel and it's 10 years old.

500
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,120
You know, we've, we've
established the principle of $10

501
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:01,280
per year of aging that our
friend Wes tells us about all

502
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,320
the time.
This is $100 at 10 years.

503
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,080
So it seems like at least in
terms of the market, this is

504
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,760
priced right where it should be.
Again, this is a weeded bourbon.

505
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,920
We've talked about Rebel a ton.
Rebel Distillers Collection is

506
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,840
one of our favourites.
Rebel 100 is one of our favorite

507
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,440
budget bourbons.
This one is bottled at 100

508
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,440
proof, Brad.
So we're talking about a 10 year

509
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,840
single barrel version of that
Rebel 100.

510
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,960
I'm freaking pumped, man.
And I have to ask you, have you,

511
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,280
have you had it already?
Are you drinking it live?

512
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,720
Oh dude I I cracked this bad boy
open immediately.

513
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:41,640
I was so, so excited about this
and not to spoil all my takes,

514
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,320
but I'm I'm excited to review
with you, Bob.

515
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,160
I'm drinking it live.
I've been holding on to the

516
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,480
bottle for a little over a week
now, so you can understand why

517
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,240
I'm so excited.
Brad, I've just poured it out.

518
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,520
I'm going to get into my nosing
here as you give your notes.

519
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,080
So why don't you lead us off?
I think this is a really solid

520
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,040
nose.
The there's caramel right off

521
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,640
the bat.
There is a really nice soft

522
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,680
oakiness to this, which is
making me excited.

523
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,520
There is some nuttiness.
It's very peanutty in my mind.

524
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,680
And, and the longer I sat with
it, the more I got some

525
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:23,000
interesting kind of fruity notes
that I, I finally labeled as

526
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,840
pineapple.
But I, I, I don't know, there's

527
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,000
this.
It's not quite citrusy.

528
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,440
It's not quite appley there,
there's just some sort of really

529
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,800
nice sweet fruity notes that I'm
enjoying.

530
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,960
I give it an 8 1/2 out of 10
here.

531
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,400
I think I'm going to be almost
in the exact same place score

532
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,640
wise as you.
Caramel dominates on the nose

533
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,520
and you know they have tasting
notes printed in their little

534
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,840
press release.
I I disagree with them frankly.

535
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,120
Like I don't get as much vanilla
as they said I was going to get.

536
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,760
It really is like almost caramel
cheesecake at first.

537
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,120
Those fruit notes start to come
out.

538
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,040
Brad, they came out a little bit
more like Peach for me than they

539
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,880
did pineapple.
But it does remind me of sort of

540
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,800
like an upside down cake.
Like there's that sort of

541
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,040
caramelized drizzle on top.
There's a little bit of

542
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,600
breadiness.
I don't know if they make Peach

543
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,120
upside down cakes but that's
what I'm going with here as.

544
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,560
It's Sat.
And it's been sitting in my

545
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,440
glass for a little over 10
minutes now.

546
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,600
There's a note that I'm glad you
didn't pick up on because I

547
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,720
think it would have lowered your
your nosing score once those all

548
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,080
dissipated.
It is like straight black

549
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,560
licorice to me and almost like a
powdery sort of black licorice.

550
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:32,960
Like it's a good and plenty or
something.

551
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,600
And I love good and plenty's and
I like black licorice so I'm on

552
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,800
board.
Dude, I'm giving it an 8 1/2 on

553
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,920
the nose.
Do I need to pour?

554
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,600
Some more because I did not get
any anise on this and and like I

555
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:46,920
said I'm.
Very glad you didn't.

556
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,600
You know what's a a whiskey that
I actually got black licorice

557
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,520
notes on after drinking it for a
while.

558
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,200
And I I used to really love it
and I still like it.

559
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,040
I still think it's a good one.
The Sexton.

560
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,840
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, I after.

561
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,280
Drinking it for a while, I was
like, man, this just has black

562
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,400
licorice notes on the nose, not
on the palate, not on the finish

563
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,080
anyways.
The the palate here, it turns

564
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,640
into a really nice dark cherry
for me.

565
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,400
There's oakiness all throughout.
There's a burnt caramel vibe, a

566
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,680
bit of like a sauteed butter.
Vanilla is coming through on the

567
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,800
palate, much more so than the
nose.

568
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,320
I think that this is a really
solid expression of Rebel I I'm

569
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,120
going to add an 8 out of 10 on
the palate.

570
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,760
Yeah, I think solid is the.
Word here, Brad.

571
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,080
It's a little bit thin on the
mouthfeel, which I wasn't

572
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,560
expecting.
Definitely still packs a punch

573
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,920
like that. 100 proof is coming
out, but it it almost has like a

574
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,520
pepper spice to it.
There's the burn from the

575
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,040
ethanol as well as almost like
some cayenne pepper on the back

576
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,400
of my palate here.
Oak definitely dominates.

577
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,800
You're absolutely right there.
It's oak and wheat and there's

578
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,520
not a lot of nuance to it, which
is unfortunate 'cause I think

579
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,960
like the Rebel Distillers
collection has quite a few more

580
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,400
waves of like sweet notes and
things going on.

581
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,800
In my mind, I'm kind of
comparing this Brad to a bottle

582
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,800
that we bought at the Kentucky
Bourbon Festival last year, that

583
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:20,160
Lux Roe 4 grain, which I think
it's probably a little bit

584
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,120
better than this.
I think there's definitely more

585
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,680
nuance and complexity to that
whiskey.

586
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:30,040
This one's just kind of like a
very above average notes of

587
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,400
anise wheat and oak flavored
bourbon.

588
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,680
So it's going to be a 7 1/2 for
me on the taste and I'm curious

589
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,640
to hear if it improved or kind
of fell off for you on the

590
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,400
finish.
I actually liked it.

591
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,000
On the finish, a little more
than the palate, the cherry

592
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:53,000
stuck through strong to the end,
the vanilla really rounded out

593
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:58,120
the experience for me, and the
the the nice dusty peanut vibe

594
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,120
just stuck around for the
finish.

595
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,160
I was at an 8 1/2 here and I
think overall this is a pretty

596
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,120
well balanced whiskey.
It's an 8 out of 10 for me.

597
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,000
On balance.
It has just enough complexity to

598
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,960
move it into that upper echelon
the the 8 out of 10 area.

599
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,040
I I just wish there's a little
more going on here that it could

600
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,159
hang its hat on.
Yeah, I'm going to give it A7.

601
00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:24,040
And a half on the finish, I
think.

602
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:25,199
I think you're pretty much
right.

603
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:27,719
The vanilla comes back and it's
really appreciated.

604
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,400
I'll give it an 8.
On balance, I was kind of

605
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,639
waffling between a 7 1/2 and an
8, but overall this is a well

606
00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:36,679
above average whiskey and there
weren't any like significant

607
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:40,400
dips, so I'll give it an 8.
When it comes to value again,

608
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,400
we're talking about a $100
bottle of whiskey.

609
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,320
This might be the first time
that I think a bottle of Rebel

610
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,639
is overpriced based on the
whiskey itself.

611
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,320
I do think it's a fair market
value here if you're, if you're

612
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,240
a fan of the Rebel line like I
am, I would still probably give

613
00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:01,160
it like between a 6 1/2 and a 7
out of 10 on value.

614
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,120
I don't really see myself
personally going back and buying

615
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,240
another bottle of this one,
Brad, especially when I can

616
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:08,880
still get distillers collection
for like half the price.

617
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,760
So I'll give it a 6.5 here.
Yeah, I am.

618
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,480
Literally at a 6.5 on value,
Like I think this is a good

619
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,600
whiskey that gives a pretty
solid experience.

620
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,280
It's just a little bit on the
expensive side.

621
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,000
All right, Brad.
That's bringing me out to a 38

622
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,080
out of 50.
What are you coming out to just

623
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,400
under?
40 I'm at a 39.5 All right, so

624
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,600
that takes us to a. 38.75 once
again, I mean, it's approaching

625
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,720
40 and 40 is where we consider
things like a no brainer

626
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:47,240
recommendation between 35 and 40
is is like a less enthusiastic

627
00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:49,320
thumbs up, but still definitely
a thumbs up.

628
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,160
I would recommend this whiskey.
It's good.

629
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,440
It's just that like, if you want
to get a pour of it at the bar,

630
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,000
this is going to cost you
probably, what, 20 bucks for a

631
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,200
poor Yeah at.
Least like 15 to 18.

632
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,520
Yeah, you're just kind of
starting to.

633
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,160
Get into some territory where
it's like.

634
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,840
For the price I think.
We could probably find things we

635
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,280
like a little bit better than
this one.

636
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,560
Yeah, 100.
Percent man, and I'm I'm not

637
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,320
sitting here saying it's not a
good whiskey.

638
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,800
It is absolutely delicious.
It's just the price here.

639
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,000
The the value is not quite
right.

640
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,960
But once again, Bob, we have
drink.

641
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,760
A rebel whiskey.
That just tastes delicious and I

642
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:33,200
I will never stop singing the
praises of Rebel now, I think.

643
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,280
We do need to add the caveat to
our score here.

644
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,040
This is a single barrel.
They could just be the barrel

645
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,800
that we got that it's not quite
hitting those extra decadent

646
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,720
sweet Rebel notes that we like.
They do make a Rebel 10 year.

647
00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,920
That is a a batch.
You know, that's a blended

648
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,960
version, and I think that I'd
really like to try that one on

649
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,960
the show, Brad, because I think
that will be a little bit more

650
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,960
in the sort of general flavor
zone that we're used to.

651
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,640
So folks, if you're a fan of
single barrels, I think this is

652
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,440
like, you're not going to go
wrong picking up a bottle of

653
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,040
this.
But in our specific case, it

654
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,080
just felt a little bit too far
outside of the general Rebel

655
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,800
vibe for me.
Yeah.

656
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:17,320
I think I'll recommend this.
I I think that you're getting

657
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,640
yourself a solid whiskey,
especially if you want to split

658
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,560
it with a buddy.
Pay 50 bucks each.

659
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,680
I think this is a good purchase.
All right, man.

660
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,240
We have drank our whiskey.
Let's get back into talking

661
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:30,200
about American Sniper.
What do you say?

662
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:38,000
Let's get to it.
All right, everybody.

663
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,240
That was Rebel 10 year single
barrel, a whiskey that we are

664
00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:44,960
fans of.
Just wish it cost a little less.

665
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:50,960
Just how Bob feels about war.
Big fan.

666
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,080
You know, I just, I got to give
it a three on the value score.

667
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,320
Yeah.
All right, man.

668
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,440
It is time for us to get into
our next segment, which we call

669
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,400
2 facts and a falsehood.
Brad.

670
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:09,880
Is going to try to stump your
ball 2 All right and what is

671
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,960
wrong?
2 facts and a falsehood. 2 Facts

672
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,680
and a falsehood.
Is the part of the show where

673
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,720
Brad presents me with three
items about the making of this

674
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:22,440
movie, all of them presented as
fact, one of which is completely

675
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,440
made-up by him.
Brad on the season, I believe I

676
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,560
am at 15 and 11 right now.
I am I'm slowly slipping back

677
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,760
towards 500 and I do not like
it.

678
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,040
Oh, I'm.
Definitely with you really don't

679
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,120
like it.
I I just want to see you

680
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,760
succeed, Bob.
I'm sure you do.

681
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,840
Brad, that's always been your
motivation.

682
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,960
All right man, hit me with your.
Two facts and a falsehood fact

683
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:53,000
#1.
Fact #1 pre fact, the IMDb page

684
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:59,720
for American Sniper is very
strange 'cause there's a lot of

685
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:02,560
facts on there that are just
kind of like weird things about

686
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,720
Chris Kyle's life.
So I'm just going to let you

687
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:09,880
know, Bob, this was a hard, a
difficult week, not to write the

688
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:15,480
falsehood, but to find, like,
decent facts about the making.

689
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,320
Yeah.
So I, I did my best.

690
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,680
We'll, we'll see how it goes.
Fact number one, the clothes

691
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,480
worn by Bradley Cooper whenever
he was at home were Chris Kyle's

692
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,360
actual clothes loaned to the
studio by the by his family.

693
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,280
The family was so grateful for
Cooper's portrayal of Kyle that

694
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,120
they gave him several items of
clothing as a gift after the

695
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,560
shooting was complete.
Fact #2 Chris.

696
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:45,920
Kyle met the star.
Well, the how would you say it?

697
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,120
I'll just read it as is and then
you'll understand my confusion.

698
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:54,080
Chris Kyle met lone survivor
from 2013's Marcus Luttrell

699
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,120
during their BUDS SEAL training
and became close friends with

700
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:58,480
him.
Although they graduated with

701
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,680
different classes, kept in
contact often, and they remained

702
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,920
friends for the remainder of
Kyle's life, specifically saying

703
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:09,440
that Marcus Luttrell was the
biopic subject.

704
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,000
Subject.
Thank you.

705
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,680
Of Lone Survivor fact #3 Bradley
Cooper used Chris Kyle's workout

706
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:21,080
playlist as music to to which to
listen to while working out for

707
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,000
the role.
He also pinned a picture of

708
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,760
Chris Kyle to his wall of his
gym to always have his goal in

709
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:31,000
front of him.
These are pretty good, Brad.

710
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,560
I'm not.
Going to lie, you did did a good

711
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,680
job rounding these up.
I'm going to go ahead and assume

712
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,280
that number two is true.
You've been getting better at

713
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,000
tricking me with these, so I
could be completely wrong, but

714
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,120
for the sake of argument, I'm
going to say that one or three

715
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,320
is the falsehood.
So it's really a question of

716
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:52,320
like, did they give the studio
his clothes and or does Bradley

717
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,560
Cooper work out facing a picture
of Chris Kyle?

718
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,920
Which one do you?
Feel worse about not being true.

719
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,200
I want #1 to be.
True, I think that's kind of

720
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,160
cool.
So I'll go ahead and.

721
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:13,440
Say #1 is true and say #3 is
false, with the caveat that I

722
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,800
have absolutely no confidence in
this one.

723
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,400
And you were?
Right to not have confidence,

724
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,160
Bob, because you were wrong.
What was the falsehood?

725
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,760
The number one was the
falsehood.

726
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,080
Was it OK?
Yeah, yeah.

727
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:29,760
Thanks.
A lot they.

728
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,160
Didn't even give him any
clothes.

729
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,120
Come on man, the guy exclusively
wore T-shirts.

730
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,880
You couldn't give him one
T-shirt that that is.

731
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,480
That's true, man.
They, they could have.

732
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,760
All right, man, Let's talk.
About the Bradley Cooper of it

733
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,520
all.
Cooper's a really interesting

734
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,760
figure in Hollywood, especially
in the 10 years since this movie

735
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,680
has come out.
So, you know, he was a, a member

736
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,160
of the Actor's Studio.
He kind of made his bones in

737
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:56,840
comedies.
Like I think one of the first

738
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,440
times I remember seeing him
outside of TV was in Wedding

739
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,040
Crashers as the like huge
douchebag boyfriend of Rachel

740
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,960
McAdams.
Then he does The Hangover and

741
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,280
really blows up.
But even in that movie, he's

742
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:10,640
playing the douchebag of the
group.

743
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,680
Like he's he's just a
self-centered prick.

744
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,560
He has the sort of face that
says I am a self-centered prick.

745
00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:20,760
And he makes, you know, a couple
movies with David O Russell.

746
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,000
He gets nominated for an Oscar,
I believe for American Hustle.

747
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,480
And then he goes into this movie
and he puts on like 40 lbs of

748
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,960
muscle and he takes on a
completely different persona and

749
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,520
demeanor for this film.
And I have to say, man, of all

750
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,200
of the Bradley Cooper
performances and I I really like

751
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,480
Bradley Cooper and I think he's
a very good actor.

752
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,800
He Hey, Bob, go.
Ahead, can you give me your

753
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,440
favorite line of the 2000s that
Bradley Cooper said.

754
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:49,320
Oh.
It would be.

755
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,440
Do you ladies like peanut butter
sandwiches?

756
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,440
I'm pissed off he didn't say it
in this movie.

757
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,080
I know it's it's a.
Very.

758
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,920
He should have said it right
before he shot.

759
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:02,560
Mustafa like it should have been
like an Arnold Schwarzenegger

760
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,960
one liner he liked.
These peanut butter sandwiches

761
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,120
bop you like peanut?
Butter sandwiches.

762
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,600
Poo poo poo poo.
OK, he actually shoots off 4

763
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,360
rounds all through the eyes.
Man that is impressive with the

764
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,720
50 Cal this.
Is his best performance in a

765
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:22,600
movie.
He is unbelievable in this film.

766
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:28,360
Brad, Bob, I've been waiting.
All day to talk about the fact

767
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,440
that Bradley Cooper is a
freaking revelation in this

768
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:33,520
movie.
Unbelievable.

769
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:41,560
I like, I don't know if there is
a better war portrayal character

770
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:48,720
ever done by an actor.
He has so much nuance in being

771
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:53,760
able to portray the exhilaration
of war, the brokenness of what

772
00:43:53,760 --> 00:44:02,240
it asks you to do, and the level
of PTSD and interiorness of a

773
00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:04,160
soldier who has come back from
the war.

774
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:09,360
I It's just stunning how he
juggles all of those different

775
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:14,680
aspects of the role and and it
all comes across so clearly on

776
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,960
the screen.
He does a believable Southern

777
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,800
accent.
He really put on the weight for

778
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,480
the movie.
I mean, like, so the physical

779
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,200
things he's doing, yes.
It never seems showy and it

780
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,480
never seems to be begging for an
Oscar.

781
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,800
And I think the worst Bradley
Cooper performances, including

782
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:36,920
this past year in Maestro are
like so nakedly begging for

783
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,480
attention that it it kind of
seems embarrassing for him.

784
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,520
And and this is like the
complete opposite of that.

785
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,600
And I think maybe that's why
this seems like such a

786
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,000
revelation to me upon revisit is
like the last time I've seen

787
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,880
Bradley Cooper was as Leonard
Bernstein in Maestro.

788
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:54,880
And this character couldn't be
farther from that.

789
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:59,040
But he's so perfectly embodies.
I, you know, I don't want to

790
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,120
just call him the strong, silent
type, but like, he has a laid

791
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:06,280
backness to him that really does
reflect the culture of the

792
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,120
South.
But there's also the

793
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,520
woundedness, the guardedness,
what he's able to do with like a

794
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:18,280
grunt or like a small little
tick when someone finally gets

795
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,600
to him.
It says so much.

796
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,920
It's a really restrained
performance.

797
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,480
And I think that Cooper, when
he's criticized, it's because

798
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,200
he's going too far in the other
direction.

799
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,440
And I'd like to see him do more
of this because this is just,

800
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:37,640
it's really nuanced stuff, man.
Yeah. 100% I am.

801
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,640
This might sound weird, but like
I'm thankful that we got to see

802
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,560
Bradley Cooper do this because
in my mind it, it puts him into

803
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:50,400
an upper echelon of actors.
And I, I just think that it's

804
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,120
incredible.
And, you know, a few, a few

805
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,840
years back, we were doing our
director series and we would

806
00:45:55,840 --> 00:46:00,000
rate the directors at like, man,
I wish that this had been on the

807
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:05,040
list for Eastwood because I I
think that the way he handles

808
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,600
Cooper as an actor is really
impressive here.

809
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,280
I do kind of wonder.
Like, you know, Eastwood is

810
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,080
famous for doing like the first
take is the take I use.

811
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,840
I just wonder if maybe Bradley
Cooper needs to be directed like

812
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,000
that more often.
Like, I I think when he's

813
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,240
directing himself like he did in
Maestro, I think he he

814
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:26,400
micromanages himself to death a
little bit.

815
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,840
Like he wants to be perfect so
bad that he ends up kind of

816
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,320
getting lost in the sauce a
little bit.

817
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,640
Oh, is that a?
Reference to burnt OH.

818
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,000
Oh no, it's not.
I've never seen that movie.

819
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,320
Is that good?
Yes.

820
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,880
I liked it.
It's not perfect there.

821
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,960
There's a lot of issues.
It's like a 7 1/2 to an 8.

822
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,040
But literally everything you
just said is the entire

823
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,680
character he plays in burnt like
obsessed with perfection, gets

824
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,040
lost in the sauce, doesn't know
how to connect with other

825
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,520
humans.
That's that's great.

826
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,240
My favorite?
Critique of a Bradley Cooper

827
00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:02,920
movie is in the office in the
episode where they're all going

828
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,160
to Gettysburg and they're
watching movies on the tour bus

829
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:10,080
and someone says after this I'm
going to turn on Limitless.

830
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,120
And Phyllis goes, is that the
one where the guy becomes

831
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:19,600
limitless?
Oh, man.

832
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,320
OK, So Bradley Cooper, what?
We've gotten him out of the way.

833
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:27,360
I do want to say this was an
absolutely crazy year for actor

834
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,880
performances at the Academy
Awards because this is the year

835
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:35,200
that Michael Keaton and Eddie
Redmayne were duking it out at

836
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,000
the Oscars for the for Birdman
and The Theory of Everything

837
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,480
right, respectively.
And it just makes me even more

838
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,640
mad that Eddie Redmayne won an
Oscar.

839
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,720
I think his performance in that
movie is very good.

840
00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:49,720
As Stephen Hawking, Michael
Keaton gives one of my favorite

841
00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:52,320
performances of the century in
Birdman.

842
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,600
And it's unfair to Bradley
Cooper because I I do think I

843
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,800
like Keaton just a little bit
better in Birdman.

844
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:03,520
But in any other year, I think
both Michael Keaton and Bradley

845
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,560
Cooper would be winning Oscars
for those two performances.

846
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,440
And it's just crazy to me that
like, now, now Eddie Redmayne is

847
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,080
the Oscar winner of the three.
What Bob?

848
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:14,800
What do you have against Eddie
Redmayne?

849
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,280
What?
Why do you hate the beloved soft

850
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,000
spoken British actor so much?
You know what's really funny is.

851
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,360
I I don't.
And he actually came under fire

852
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,440
this past couple weeks because
he gave a performance at the

853
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,840
Tony Awards that Twitter just
loved to make fun of.

854
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,120
He's he's starring in the
musical Cabaret right now.

855
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:37,680
And man, my guy got raked over
the coals and I don't understand

856
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:41,080
why people hate him so much.
I just think that he's made

857
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:45,200
really bad career choices ever
since he won his Oscar.

858
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,720
Like maybe he won it too young.
And it's like, how do I follow

859
00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:50,840
this up?
And so he's just, he's done some

860
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,000
bad work and he's been in some
bad films.

861
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,920
He seems like a good guy and I
like, I think he's got the

862
00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:00,960
chops, but because he's never
rebounded from winning that

863
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,040
Oscar, I think the Oscar win is
starting to look worse and worse

864
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,640
as the years go on.
Bob, do you want to know?

865
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:10,400
A personal embarrassing story
about me, always.

866
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,600
About.
Halfway halfway through college,

867
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,480
I nearly joined.
I auditioned for and received

868
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:25,160
the role in a like community
stage performance of Cabaret.

869
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,240
Oh, interesting.
And I was set up to be like one

870
00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:32,280
of the male dancers who had like
10 lines in the whole show.

871
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,320
And I didn't do it.
But I came close.

872
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,400
Why is that?
Embarrassing I.

873
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:44,240
Male dancer in a in a stage
production are are we

874
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:46,000
embarrassed?
Because you can't dance.

875
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,440
No, I can dance pretty solidly.
Bob, we've you and I have both

876
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,920
cut it up on the wedding dance
floor a few times.

877
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,240
Yes, we have.
We have done quite.

878
00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:57,640
A two step together.
I think it's it's not the.

879
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,440
Idea of a man dancing.
It was more of the male strip

880
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,600
club cabaret dance.
Got it.

881
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,000
That was slightly embarrassing.
Well, as you know, I've been.

882
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,080
Trying to talk you into doing
that on camera for an exclusive

883
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,400
Patreon tier that we're going to
introduce $25.00 a month for

884
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:16,520
Brad's Only Fans channel.
So now I just have more fuel to

885
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,400
add to that fire.
I'm going to.

886
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,080
Move on from that room.
American Sniper.

887
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:22,840
Yeah.
American Sniper Everybody I.

888
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,760
Want to talk about Eastwood?
Here, because it's pretty rare

889
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:30,480
that we get Eastwood in action
movie mode, and I don't think

890
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:34,200
that he has the action chops of
somebody like a Spielberg, where

891
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,160
you, like, completely understand
the geography of every space

892
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,400
you're in.
I was attached to direct this.

893
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,520
Film he was.
I just, I don't know that that's

894
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,360
necessarily Eastwood's intent
either.

895
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:49,000
The chaos of these hollowed out
cities is kind of the point.

896
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,320
And within, you know, I don't
understand where we are inside

897
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,760
this building.
But from shot to shot, he's not

898
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,120
breaking the rules of like the
180�� line.

899
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,240
It's solid filmmaking.
And I think when you couple it

900
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:02,840
with the fact that Eastwood was
like 82 when this movie came

901
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,000
out, like the energy my guy was
working with in creating this

902
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,840
film, it's an impressive movie.
Just on that front.

903
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,800
I think it captures.
The the fog of war element of

904
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,920
fighting in Iraq from what we
understand it to have been like

905
00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:23,320
incredibly well.
I think that that's what I've

906
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,280
started to really appreciate
about war films is how they

907
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,680
shoot the action.
And I always come back to like a

908
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:37,360
sicario as one of the few
examples of a, you know, quote

909
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,120
UN quote war film.
It's technically like the CIA

910
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:45,760
killing people, but it captures
the precision of the American

911
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,680
military industrial complex
really well.

912
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:55,560
And yet here in American Sniper,
I think you do capture the chaos

913
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,640
of door to door fighting so
incredibly well.

914
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:04,280
Along with one thing I
appreciated is that he captures

915
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,920
the boredom of being a sniper
really well too.

916
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:12,520
Like there's this, there's this
element of like the guys walk up

917
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,040
to tell him like, hey, you're
good to come down now.

918
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,000
And they're like, Oh my God, it
reeks up here.

919
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,000
Like you clearly have been
peeing in the corner and also

920
00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:25,920
you covered our asses and got us
out, got so many of us out of

921
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,320
there alive.
And once again, it's this

922
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,200
tension between like the
grossness of war and the honor

923
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,200
of war.
All right man, where do?

924
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,000
You want to go from here?
We've got just a few minutes

925
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,520
left before we get into our our
last couple segments.

926
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,400
Is there anything else about the
film making that you think we

927
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,440
should touch on?
He used Ennio.

928
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,360
Morconi at the end and.
I freaking loved it.

929
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:51,720
Man, it was so good.
It comes on and I'm like, oh

930
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:55,360
wow, they're playing, Oh no, Oh
no, they're not playing taps,

931
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:59,480
they're playing the funeral.
And I, it just, I didn't know

932
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:00,800
that they were going to use
that.

933
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:05,320
And I, I think it might be the
best use of that song in the

934
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,560
film.
And I say that knowing it was

935
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:11,320
written for a film, you know, 40
years before.

936
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,480
I want to talk about the.
Ending briefly and briefly

937
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,240
because I don't know if I can
actually articulate my feelings

938
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:21,080
about it without sounding like
callous, like this is a real

939
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,440
person who really died in a very
tragic way.

940
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,200
But every time I see this movie,
there there's two things that

941
00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:29,240
kind of strike me about the
ending.

942
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:35,360
It's a really abrupt ending and.
Because of its abruptness.

943
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,760
I always assumed that Chris Kyle
died like during the production

944
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,120
of the movie because the, the
ending feels so tacked on.

945
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:47,320
Like it's he comes back from
Iraq and he's readjusting, and

946
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,520
then all of a sudden the movie's
just like, boom, you know, he

947
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,800
died that day.
And I think that, A, it's really

948
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:57,200
abrupt, B, it's a very
respectful ending.

949
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:02,560
Obviously, Eastwood has the tact
and the class to not show this

950
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,400
man be murdered at the end of
the movie.

951
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,440
But I do think that it just ends
in such a way that's like fade

952
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,320
out.
He died that day.

953
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,480
And and then you get a shot of
the funeral, which is real

954
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,400
footage of his funeral
procession.

955
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,080
But I was expecting like, maybe
more words to come up on the

956
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,040
screen, maybe Eastwood to let us
sit with those images for a

957
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,400
couple minutes.
But it literally fades up on the

958
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,120
funeral procession.
It says directed by Clint

959
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,960
Eastwood.
There is really no epilogue or

960
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,880
epitaph or epigraph on this
movie.

961
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,880
It's just like he died, directed
by Clint Eastwood.

962
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,120
And I think that if he drops the
ball anywhere, it's in that

963
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:43,560
department.
Because while I respect how much

964
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:46,800
respect he gave to his subject,
you do kind of have a

965
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,800
responsibility as a filmmaker to
really land the plane at the end

966
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:51,720
of the movie.
And I know you said you were

967
00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:53,160
very emotional at the end of the
film.

968
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,800
I felt like frankly, he should
have, he should have milked it

969
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,760
just a little bit more or a
little bit longer with the

970
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,480
images of the funeral before
going to end credits, or he

971
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,120
should have put some more words
up on the screen.

972
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,760
Like something, something just
feels missing from this ending

973
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:11,120
for me.
And for a movie that has not

974
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:16,160
pulled any punches throughout
the film in terms of implicating

975
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:21,120
Kyle and interrogating Kyle's
own psyche and his unwillingness

976
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:27,280
to to work on his trauma, that
to just end that way, it puts a

977
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:31,680
finality on it without really
grappling with the implications

978
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,480
of that.
And, and I just, I don't know,

979
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,160
man, I don't know how to how to
phrase it.

980
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,000
It's, it's too, I don't want to
even call it stoic.

981
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,680
It's just too much of A bow to
put on a movie where it feels

982
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:43,440
like he hadn't finished tying
the bow yet.

983
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,200
You know what I mean?
Yes, I, I.

984
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:51,160
Think every single thing you are
saying is 100% true and I think

985
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,040
that is representative of the
life of Chris Kyle.

986
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,520
Like like to me.
That's the point of the ending.

987
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:04,080
Like we didn't get to experience
who Chris Kyle could have

988
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:08,920
become.
To me, it really brings you to a

989
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:14,200
place of where his family must
have been to say, we're proud of

990
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,440
you, you're making progress,
you're getting better, you're

991
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,280
helping others.
And yet.

992
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,440
It feels so.
Disconcerting and discomforting

993
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:31,000
and just broken To think that
this upward trajectory, this

994
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:36,960
this beautiful life in the
making just completely is gone

995
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:40,240
out of nowhere.
And, and I, I've sat with enough

996
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:45,000
families who have lost loved
ones suddenly to know that that

997
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:49,800
that feeling that you're feeling
is real when when you experience

998
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:51,880
the loss of somebody before
their time.

999
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:57,520
This movie wins at an.
Oscar for sound editing or sound

1000
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:58,440
mixing.
I don't know what they were

1001
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,520
calling it at the time, and I
think that it is absolutely

1002
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:03,720
deserved.
But what I really found

1003
00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:06,600
fascinating were some of those
moments where Eastwood's using

1004
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,480
both sound effects and the score
to have this kind of eerie,

1005
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,920
discordant sound.
The last time you get it in the

1006
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:17,400
movie is when the camera's on
Sienna Miller's face at the end

1007
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,000
as she's closing the door
because she understands, like,

1008
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,560
there's something off about this
guy that my husband's going off

1009
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,880
with.
And I found that like a really

1010
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,840
interesting addition because
it's not only saying like she

1011
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:32,120
feels unease because that's this
is the musical cue for unease

1012
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:33,480
that we've used throughout the
film.

1013
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,760
But it's almost like this idea
of, you know, throughout the

1014
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,600
movie, he's been on edge.
He's constantly checking like

1015
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,160
the rearview mirror every time
that they're driving to, to

1016
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:45,560
scope things out for threats.
Whenever the dog is playing with

1017
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,680
his kid and he thinks the dog is
a threat, these moments come up.

1018
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,080
And now it's not him who's
feeling it.

1019
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,520
Like he's finally let go of that
feeling.

1020
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,280
And the last time anyone in the
movie experiences that feeling,

1021
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:01,080
it's her.
And I found that to be to really

1022
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:04,200
under score the message of the
movie, which is to your point,

1023
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:09,440
Brad, the toll this takes on
families in America because it's

1024
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:13,800
almost like this.
This infectious.

1025
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:18,000
Disease, kind of like the the
sense of distrust and unease has

1026
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:20,800
almost passed from him to her at
the end of the movie.

1027
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,480
And then you get the tragic kind
of confirmation of that, that

1028
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:28,520
that feeling of unease that she
had proved to be true because

1029
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,720
her husband gets killed.
I just think, go ahead, sorry.

1030
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:35,240
I think that.
The military throughout the

1031
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:39,640
entire film represents Chris
Kyle's only blind spot.

1032
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:43,800
It's the only thing that he
doesn't question, that he always

1033
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,000
believes in that.
You know, it's always the

1034
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:47,440
mission.
It's always my brothers.

1035
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,160
It's always the people I need to
save.

1036
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:53,440
And she is the one who always
questions it, who says, hey,

1037
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,840
like I, I'm all about, you know,
country and, and all that.

1038
00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:02,840
But like, your family is here.
And so he never sees the

1039
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:06,200
military for the threat that it
is to his family.

1040
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,320
And she does.
And I think that's kind of the

1041
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,560
element you get there at the end
I, you know.

1042
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:14,760
IA 100% agree with you.
I think both things are

1043
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:16,800
happening there.
Honestly, you're right.

1044
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,680
Like it does portray the
military as his blind spot.

1045
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,240
And again, I've I've been trying
to under score this the whole

1046
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,800
episode.
Eastwood does a really good job

1047
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:29,080
of holding these things in
tension, and I think that people

1048
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:32,600
on both sides of the aisle have
really failed to grasp that

1049
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,240
tension when it comes to this
movie.

1050
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:38,520
I think a lot of people went to
this movie and supported it as

1051
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:41,360
the sort of rah rah patriotic
movie that it was accused of

1052
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,560
being.
And that's obviously a bad faith

1053
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,600
reading of the movie.
I think on the other side of

1054
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:49,400
things, the people that
dismissed this movie as just,

1055
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:54,080
you know, America, yeah, kind of
movie are also 100% wrong.

1056
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,360
This is a movie that's much more
interested in the toll that war

1057
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:01,560
takes on one life, and I think
it tells that story more

1058
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,520
powerfully than The Hurt Locker,
especially since this is

1059
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:09,920
ostensibly a true story.
Brad, I think I'm ready to get

1060
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:11,560
into.
Let's make it a double if you

1061
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:13,280
are.
We're near the end of.

1062
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,000
The episodes.
Oh, thanks.

1063
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:16,760
Listening to the film and
Whiskey Show.

1064
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,320
Let's pair another film with
this one, even if it's

1065
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,200
struggling.
It's a final segment of the day.

1066
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,120
Now let's make it a double.
Yeah.

1067
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:27,280
I'm 100% ready, man, this movie
is great and everybody should

1068
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,280
watch it.
And I think I'm, I've been

1069
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,720
really struggling with finding a
movie that captures the

1070
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:37,240
psychological nuance of war
quite in this way, 'cause like,

1071
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,800
you could, you could pair it
with an Apocalypse Now, but I

1072
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,840
don't, I don't know that that's
just vibes so much differently

1073
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,400
than this.
I think I'm actually going to

1074
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:51,920
pair it with Saving Private Ryan
'cause I think that that movie A

1075
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:56,560
deserves to be watched.
B is incredibly made, similar to

1076
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,120
what I think American Sniper is
incredibly made.

1077
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,960
And CI think it dives into the
mentality of the troops of their

1078
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:09,240
respective wars in a way that
matters and helps us think about

1079
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,400
war as a whole.
I have a.

1080
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:12,880
Million different directions I
could go.

1081
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:16,120
I just watched a new movie that
came out a couple weeks ago

1082
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:20,440
called The Bike Riders, and that
movie is freaking fantastic.

1083
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,000
It's one of my favorite films of
the year.

1084
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:27,440
But it's also about like people
who do dangerous, violent things

1085
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:30,040
as a way of covering up, like
the fact that they don't want to

1086
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:32,240
feel things.
And so that's been on my mind a

1087
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:33,400
lot.
I don't think I'm going to pair

1088
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,360
it with that, but I need a movie
that kind of fits that mold.

1089
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:41,080
And I think for me, Brad, you
mentioned how well this movie

1090
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,680
captures the boredom of being a
sniper.

1091
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,200
And it threw me back to a movie
that I haven't seen in almost 20

1092
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,880
years.
It's a movie by the director,

1093
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:51,640
Sam Mendes, and it's called
Jarhead.

1094
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,720
It has Jake Gyllenhaal in it as
a guy who is training to become

1095
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,440
a Marine sniper.
And it is all about the

1096
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:01,760
psychological toll that it takes
on a person to have to wait

1097
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:05,120
months and months and months to
take one shot and what happens

1098
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:06,640
to you if you don't make that
shot.

1099
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,920
I have no idea how that movie
holds up.

1100
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:11,640
Like I said, I haven't seen it
in 20 years.

1101
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:15,440
I might go ahead and make it a
double tonight, Brad, just watch

1102
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,280
Jarhead to see how that thing
holds up.

1103
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:19,000
But I think you can do it a lot
worse.

1104
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:22,120
You talked.
Earlier about American Sniper

1105
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:28,000
having a great trailer, I just I
have vivid memories of Jarhead.

1106
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,120
I don't even know the name of
the song that plays in the

1107
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:31,800
trailer.
Jesus walks by Kanye.

1108
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:34,480
I remember that trailer, dude.
Yep dude.

1109
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:36,600
Tell me that's.
Not just one of the greatest

1110
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:38,320
needle drops in the trailer
ever.

1111
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,560
It was such a good trailer.
That I was actively pissed off

1112
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,040
at the movie for not I don't
think it uses the song in the

1113
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,360
movie and I was like, God bless
it.

1114
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,400
Like I came here for that song.
Yeah, 100% maybe that's.

1115
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,600
My let's make it a.
Double Maybe I just want to pair

1116
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,600
this movie with Jesus Walks by
Kanye.

1117
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:56,000
Yeah, that's the.
Move 100%.

1118
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:58,160
All right.
Dude, let's get into some.

1119
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:00,120
Final scores here.
I'd like for you to go first.

1120
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:02,560
Brad, I've been talking a lot
today and it sounds like you

1121
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:04,520
might be even higher on this
movie than I am.

1122
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,560
Dude, I I.
Think this is one of the best

1123
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:11,240
war movies we have watched on
this podcast and we've watched

1124
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:15,520
quite a few, like all the way
back from like paths of glory up

1125
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:19,920
through I mean, American Sniper
might be the most modern war

1126
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:24,040
movie as far as made the latest
and you know, a war that is the

1127
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:27,000
most recent.
I think I'm going to give this

1128
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:27,920
A9.
And a half.

1129
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:29,400
Wow.
Like that.

1130
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:32,800
There are issues.
The not all the acting is

1131
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:36,240
perfect.
There are, especially early in

1132
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:38,520
the movie, there's stuff that
feels a little rushed and

1133
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:41,760
sloppy.
But I think he lands the plane

1134
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:47,840
and from about maybe 30 to 40
minutes into the end, you know,

1135
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,600
and this is a what, two hour and
15 minute movie?

1136
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:52,320
Yeah, somewhere in there.
Like.

1137
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:58,080
For solid almost two hours.
This is incredible filmmaking,

1138
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:01,680
investigating the psyche of an
American soldier.

1139
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,040
And I, I think it's great.
Now I think I'm actually going

1140
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:05,560
to come out.
Significantly lower than you

1141
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:09,520
then, Brad.
I think this movie is like for

1142
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,560
80% of its runtime.
It's like an 8 1/2 to a nine for

1143
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,000
me.
It's really, really good like

1144
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:18,800
you said, but the two bookends
on either side of the movie are

1145
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:23,240
like everything when Chris Kyle
is a kid is horrifically bad

1146
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,920
acting.
Like truly awful, awful movie

1147
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,680
making and acting.
And then I think the way this

1148
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:33,800
movie ends it, it both loses a
lot of steam and it feels like

1149
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:36,000
an anti climax.
And I understand to your point

1150
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,280
that that's probably part of the
movie making that his life felt

1151
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,520
anti climactic because it was
ripped away from him.

1152
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:45,320
I just think Eastwood has to do
a little bit more there to earn

1153
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,960
an emotional pay off for what
we've been watching for two

1154
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:51,280
hours and 15 minutes.
I've been waffling between an 8

1155
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:55,200
and an 8 1/2 on this movie.
I think I'll give it an 8 and a.

1156
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:59,160
Half, Brad, but that's probably
just because I, I am happy that

1157
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:02,960
you like it so much and I don't
want to hurt your feelings by

1158
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,360
giving it an 8.
So I'm, I'll give it an 8 1/2.

1159
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:08,480
That brings us out to a nine out
of 10 on average.

1160
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,000
This is one of our highest rated
movies of the year now, Brad

1161
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:15,640
really at a nine.
Out of 10, man, it's almost like

1162
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,720
we've had a lot of.
Sevens and eights this year,

1163
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:20,680
yeah, but really?
Fun sevens and eights.

1164
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:23,720
Yeah, and this is a nine.
And it's probably the least fun

1165
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:26,880
movie we've done all season.
Oh yeah, I, I.

1166
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,640
Will maybe watch this movie once
or twice more in my life.

1167
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:35,280
It was so hard to watch dude.
Looking ahead at the next few

1168
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:39,400
weeks, we've got three Star Wars
movies and two MCU movies to end

1169
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:41,840
the season.
I I want to put an.

1170
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:46,040
Asterisk 3 Disney produced Star
Wars movies.

1171
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:49,440
All that to say.
Maybe this does deserve an 8 1/2

1172
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,840
just for being the last real
movie we're going to watch for

1173
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,160
the rest of the season.
Thank you.

1174
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:57,320
So it's a nine out of. 10 from
us on American Sniper.

1175
01:05:57,320 --> 01:05:59,160
But we'd like to know what you
think.

1176
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:02,400
Reach out to us on social media.
You can find us on Facebook,

1177
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:08,000
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1178
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:09,160
can join the.
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1179
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:12,840
We are on there every single day
talking to you guys, fans of the

1180
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,080
Film and Whiskey podcast.
So if you'd like to join the

1181
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:17,720
conversation, you can find a
link at the end of every single

1182
01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:22,080
one of our show notes next week.
We're kicking off the Disney

1183
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:27,000
Star Wars Renaissance, Brad,
with The Force Awakens, JJ

1184
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,280
Abrams.
Absolute turd of a film that I

1185
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,400
can't wait to watch again.
All right, we'll see you next

1186
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:35,480
week for Force Awakens.
But until then, I'm Bob Buck.

1187
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:38,160
I'm Brad G.
And we'll see you next time.