Mad Max: Fury Road / Bushmills Rare Cask 29-Year Irish Whiskey

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In 2015, director George Miller
and star Charlize Theron gave

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the world a Max octane pedal to
the floor experience that sent

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audiences into a frenzy.
In 2025 we try a whiskey that

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hasn't seen the Green Place in
over 7000 days.

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The film is Mad Max Fury Rd.
The whiskey is Bushmill's 29

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year old rare cask.
And we'll review them both.

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This is.
The the Film and Whiskey podcast

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Welcome to the Film and Whiskey
podcast, where each week we

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review a classic movie and a
glass of whiskey.

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I'm Bob Book.
Witness me.

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I could you nearly just blew out
my headphones.

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I I am not going to have fun
editing this today because I

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already could tell that you're
going to scream witness me 14

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times over the course of this,
this recording, Brad.

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Is it bad that I think that the
first Witness Me moment might be

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the best moment of this film?
I like the very last one but

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they're they're on par with each
other for sure.

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Yeah, the the first one I like
get like Holy Spirit chills.

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But you guys, I don't know if
that's the spirit that's

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chilling you in that moment,
Brad.

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But folks, welcome into the film
and Whiskey podcast.

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Today we are looking at the 2015
film Mad Max Fury Rd.

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Brad, I'm not going to bury the
lead here.

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This is one of the weirder hard
sci-fi films that we've done in

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a long time.
I say hard sci-fi.

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It still takes place on Earth,
but it is in a post apocalyptic

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wasteland where people have
forgotten everything that came

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before the apocalypse except car
stuff.

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And so we've got dudes doing
weird stuff, but say in car

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words.
And it is, it is a very

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interesting movie.
It's a very interesting

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franchise.
So it's the brainchild of this

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director, George Miller, who had
made three prior entries in the

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Mad Max saga.
I'm going to go ahead and go out

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on a limb and assume that you,
Brad, have not seen any of those

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movies.
Sure haven't.

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OK.
So the first one I think comes

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out in 1979.
It's one of Mel Gibson's first

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films.
It's a true Australian movie and

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it takes place pre apocalypse.
Like there's some elements of

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these weird biker gangs.
But it it's it's more like a

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societal collapse movie.
Whereas the second and third Mad

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Max movie are like true, hey,
the earth has been poisoned and

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now we are all in these weird
tribes.

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And from what I have heard,
because Brad, spoiler alert, I

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too have never seen the first 3
Mad Max films.

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You don't.
You don't seem much like a Rev

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head to me.
Not so much man, I am, I am no

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War Boy, but I saw this movie
and from what I have heard and

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what some random guy on IMDb
reviewed this movie as, this is

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like the third film in the
franchise.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome but
on acid.

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And I think that even without
having seen Beyond Thunderdome,

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I'm gonna go ahead and say
accurate statement.

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Yeah, this movie is trippy.
It is fast.

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Like there is all sorts of stuff
happening here, Bob and I'm.

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Don't go there yet.
Yeah, we're going to.

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We'll bury that lead a little
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But I do want to say, Brad, that
we need to set the stage for

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what we're doing on the podcast
and what we're doing this

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season.
So folks, welcome into film and

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whiskey.
We review movies.

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We review Whiskey this season.
We're looking at films from the

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last 20 years.
We're asking the question, is

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this movie a modern classic?
Here's the thing with Fury Rd.

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Brad, I'm going to come right
out and say I think this is a

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good movie.
I have never been as all in on

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this movie as a lot of people
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This has been like a critical
darling and perhaps the most

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beloved film in all of film
Twitter for the last decade.

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And it has been hyped as one of
the best action movies ever

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made, one of the best films of
the 20 tens.

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And I have to say, I stand
corrected on something I said

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earlier this season, Brad,
because our criteria for picking

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movies for this season fell into
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Was it a Best Picture nominee?
Did it make $100 million at the

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US box office?
Is it in the IMDb top 250?

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Is it in the letterboxed top
250?

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And I need to say, Brad, this is
a movie that checks all four of

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those boxes.
All four of the boxes.

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I didn't think we had any beyond
Oppenheimer and potentially Dune

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2.
This is the only other one man.

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Wow, so this this is a big deal
movie, Bob.

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It is a big deal movie.
And so the I'm kind of in in

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between a rock and a hard place
where it's one of those films

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that I have to kind of
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regardless of my own personal
feelings on it.

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I think it kind of is a
resounding yes to our question

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of is it a modern classic?
Because it clearly is clicking

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with a huge number of people and
it was gobbled up by the Academy

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and by all those people going to
see the movies.

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Yeah, I mean, this thing picked
up six Oscars, Bob that like,

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Yep, that's that's no joke for a
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For a movie to win two or three
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I I mean 6 probably puts it in
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A lot of them are what we call
below the line.

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So like, you know, not best
picture or not best director or

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actor or actress.
And I think that if there's

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anything that we're going to
talk about a lot with this

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movie, Brad, it's the
craftsmanship behind this movie.

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Like unbelievable amount of
craft went into this movie and

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it has a very specific look and
a very specific vibe that you

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kind of have to give credit to
the director, George Miller as

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well.
Again, regardless of if you vibe

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with it or not, it's a unique
movie and it got praised a lot

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for how much of the effects were
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And I think you can tell like,
there's obviously a little bit

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of green screen going on and
they used CGI to enhance some

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things in this movie.
But you know, there's also some

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part of me that is just like,
hey, there's a dude strapped to

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the front of a truck playing a
guitar that shoots fire.

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This this is kind of like
everything I want a movie to be

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in my 9 year old head.
It's it's literally like a

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Metallica ACDC concert on a
truck going like 80 miles an

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hour in the desert.
All right.

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With that said, I don't want to
go much further without really

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picking apart what you think of
this movie.

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So we have to get to our first
segment of the day, which we

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call Brad explains Brad's gonna.
Give us the movie plots with

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only 60 seconds taken on the
clock.

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So let's go ahead and do your
take with this little segment

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

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

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just seen often for the first
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Once again Brad, I'm assuming
first time watch with Mad Max

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Fury Rd.
Bob, I have an announcement to

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make.
Uh.

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Oh.
This is a first in the history

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of my life as well as the
history of the film and Whiskey

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podcast.
This was my first and second

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time viewing this movie in one
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You watched the whole thing
twice.

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I woke up at 5:30 in the
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I watched it from 5:30 to 7:30
and then I was doing dishes

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later that night and I was like
I can't stop thinking about this

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movie I need to watch it again.
And I texted my best friend

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Steven and was like bro witness
me and he came over and we and

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we watched it from 8:30 to 10:30
and I bookended my day with Mad

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Max Fury Rd.
That's insane.

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I'm I am so proud of you right
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I freaking loved this.
Movie.

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Did you really?
So much.

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Oh yeah, I thought you were
gonna hate it, Brad.

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Oh, this is awesome 'cause I, I
knew this was either gonna.

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There is no in between on this
movie.

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You're either going to be 100%
on board or all the way out on

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this movie.
And I will say I'm not gonna

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give this movie A10 out of 10.
Like it is not a perfect movie.

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So a little peek behind the
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We actually recorded the whiskey
segment earlier because we live

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busy lives.
So I'm going to say the same

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thing I say in the whiskey
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Friend of show David Thomas Tao
taught us a new term last week

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called crushability.
This is the most 11 out of 10

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crushable movie I think that has
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What a bro.
I love this dude.

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I'm so proud of you.
On that note, you have to break

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down what this movie is about,
which is it seems very simple.

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Like you could give a three
second description of this

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movie, but if you want to flush
out the world, you could

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probably fill a whole minute.
The time is yours.

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You get one minute on the clock.
Spoil the hell out of this movie

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and go.
What is me?

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Mad Max Fury Rd. is a post
apocalyptic film set in a world

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that is dominated by the desert.
There are three territories.

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There's the Citadel, Gas Town
and Bullet Farm, all of which

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maintain an iron grip on the
population that is left on the

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earth.
The leader of Gastown sends his

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Imperator, Furiosa, on a trip to
get supplies from the other

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towns.
She takes the war rig off into

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the desert, and for unknown
reasons, but she steals away his

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breeders.
Some beautiful young women that

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he is.
He's getting his nasties off.

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Yeah, he's breeding.
He is breeding and so a massive

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chase ensues.
The titular character is tied up

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like a a sack of potatoes as a
blood bag onto the front of a

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car.
He pairs up with the Furiosa and

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everything explodes and goes
fast and it's freaking awesome.

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Bob.
This is a 2 hour chase movie and

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I want to start today by asking
you about something you said a

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few weeks ago, A number of weeks
ago, I believe it was in our

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Ford V Ferrari episode where you
talked about how at the end of

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the day, car chases are just not
that entertaining.

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And I kept that nugget in the
back of my mind, 'cause I was

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like, well this does not bode
well for the two hour long car

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chase movie that we're about to
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Here's Here's the thing, Bob
Ford V Ferrari doesn't have cars

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that have stit like giant like
pole vaulting poles on the back

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of it with an engine, a whole
car engine on the bottom of the

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pole as a counterbalance with
wild psychotic suicide men

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hanging off the top of it
throwing bombs at, you know,

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Matt Damon.
But yes, we have these gigantic

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gas guzzling, welded together
hot rods racing through the

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desert.
There is a part in this movie

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where two men are on opposite
cars that are racing against

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each other, laying on the on the
hoods of these cars, siphoning

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gasoline and blowing gasoline
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as flames explode out the back
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It is perhaps more a peek into
the male psyche than any piece

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of film has ever been.
And the feminine disgust with

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the men in in the world.
So surprisingly, there was a ton

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of pushback on this movie for
minimizing the character of Max

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and making this essentially
Furiosa's movie.

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A lot of dude Bros on the
Internet got really mad that

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this was such a feminist movie
or they perceived it to be such

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a feminist movie.
So maybe let's get that small

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controversy out of the way here.
Brad having no relationship to

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the Mad Max films, what's what's
your opinion there?

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I mean, is this a feminist film?
And if it is like, does that

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even matter?
I, I don't think it does.

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I I mean of all the movies that
involve men fighting against

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women in like an actual physical
altercation, I don't know how to

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say this without like getting
like slightly political.

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This is the most bad ass of
them.

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This is the most realistic, you
know what I mean?

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Like, let's be really honest, if
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fighting a woman, it wouldn't go
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Sure.
The way that they set up the

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fight between Tom Hardy and
Charlize is so well done where

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there's always something holding
Tom Hardy back.

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And yet it doesn't do it in a
way that takes away from how

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badass Furiosa is.
So it makes it an even fair

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fight.
Even though we know like if Tom

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Hardy was at full strength and
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strength, like we know who would
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And so I, I, I actually think
that this movie makes the most

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sense as far as the feminineness
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the maleness of the men in this
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I like, I would actually, as the
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person in this podcast, I would
say they do a really good job

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with it.
Perfect.

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Now we don't need to discuss it
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So there you.
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OK, where do you want to really
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Because we could talk
performances, but at the end of

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the day, the performances are
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George Miller to just do cool
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Like there's really not.
There's no characters in this

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movie except Furiosa.
Like, I mean, there are capital

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C characters.
Sure.

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I don't know that we need to
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much.
I think we have to talk about

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it.
Morton, Joe for.

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Yeah, we.
Do 87 minutes.

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I So here's the thing about the
world that George Miller has

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created is that it is
simultaneously so cool and so

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inherently funny because the
people that are in control in

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this wasteland are just absolute
buffoons.

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They're the stupidest people
that have ever existed.

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Immortan Joe is, is cunning and
very evil.

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Everyone surrounding him is is
really dumb and everything they

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believe is really dumb and their
vocabulary is really dumb.

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And I just love that we're in a
world where the bad guy's name

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starts with Immortan, which is
the coolest sounding thing ever.

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And then just like Joe.
Yep.

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You know what I mean?
Like I may, I remember making a

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joke when, when Furiosa came out
this year that like they, they

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needed to just have a character
whose name is like Imperious

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Ned, like just something,
something that sounds cool.

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And then you you pick like Dave
or Keith to be the name that

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comes after it.
And it's Ned from Ned Flanders

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from The Simpsons.
So.

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Yeah, I, yeah, I think.
Go ahead, Sorry.

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I think where I want to start
with this movie is with my

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favorite part of the film, which
is not any of the action.

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It's not any of the acting.
I think I do.

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I don't think I've ever seen a
movie that does a better job of

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world building without dialogue
than this film.

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The way that Miller crafts a
world and not necessarily like

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it's not that the world isn't
built without human beings

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saying words.
It's it's built without tons of

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back and forth dialogue like
this is like the anti

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interstellar.
Like you have so many moments

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where slaves are peddling like
like 200 slaves are peddling on

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this giant machine to raise and
lower war machines from the top

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of the citadel.
And you have all of these

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drivers running up to this
massive altar, making a symbol

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with their hands as they pray
like to V8 the God of

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destruction or something like
and you know, the moment when

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the the I referenced it already.
It truly might be my favorite

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moment in the movie because it
represents so much world

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building.
The the moment when the the war

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boy is about to die and he looks
back at his compatriots and

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screams witness me and you feel
the whole war rig every war boy

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in the area like it feels like a
whole it's a holy moment and he.

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Sprays to them.
Yeah, to that.

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To them and they're very false
religion, but like let let us

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please get that on the table
here.

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Yes, yes, Jesus Christ is the
only Lord and Savior, but in the

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world of Mad Max, it's that
moment where you go, oh, these

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aren't just a bunch of like dumb
witless cancer ridden post

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apocalyptic idiots.
Like this is a true psychotic

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religion that a Morton Joe has
created in this world.

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And it like it's moments like
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it's not dialogue between 2
characters talking about like,

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oh like our religion is so cool.
It's a visual storytelling of

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the power of belief in this
world and what they believe in.

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And I, I just think throughout
the whole movie, he nails the

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world building like it.
Like if you ever had a pipe

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dream about what it would take
to defeat other vehicles in

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combat in a post apocalyptic
world, the weapons that they use

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in this movie are so freaking
cool.

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Like there's I could go on and
on and on, but I think the world

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building in this movie is like
second to none.

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Well, and one of the most
successful things that that go

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into that that doesn't require
extra explanation is you

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basically come to understand we
are perhaps one to two

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generations removed from the
apocalypse, whatever the event

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was that turned the Earth sour
because there is people still

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alive who are old who are
telling them about like, this is

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what a satellite did.
And you get glimpses of like

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what you can understand as an
audience member of like oral

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history that's been passed down.
Like they say stuff like, oh,

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they told us that everyone used
to have a show.

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Do you think they still have
shows anymore?

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And they don't know what that
means, but they know the

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language of it.
And so you get this mishmash of

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a language that's been created
or what's been leftover from the

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end times capitalism of before
the apocalypse happened.

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So you have the War Boys saying
stuff like I'm going to go to

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Valhalla.
But then they also say that in

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Valhalla they're going to be
Mick feasting.

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So like there's references to
McDonald's dude, which isn't a

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thing anymore, but it's.
Just that freaking got me.

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It's so good.
It's so good.

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To your point, there are also
like these little visual cues

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that are just like, huh?
So there's a moment, there's a

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stretch of the movie that is
really brilliantly done.

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It's it's supposed to be taking
place at night time and

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everything has this blue tint to
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And you can tell they filmed it
in the day.

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It's great old filmmaking
technique.

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But it's when they cut to the go
ahead.

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Sorry, quick, quick aside.
I learned that my TV needs

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replacing that I only use like
once a month maybe, but in that

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scene I was like Oh my TV does
not do Blues anymore.

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What color was everything?
Oh, it was like white, grey,

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bluish.
It was all washed out.

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It was so bad.
Like the first time I watched

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it, I watched on my computer, it
looked great.

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The second time I was like, I'm
going to put it on the TV and

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it's going to be awesome.
And those scenes were not.

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So in those scenes, though, they
cut to this random wide shot of

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a guy that's kind of dressed
like a bird and he's walking

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around through quicksand on
stilts and there's.

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Walking would imply that he's on
two stilts.

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Yeah, sure, hobbling.
He he's like crawling.

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He literally has a stilt for
each appendage and it's one of

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the most terrifying things I've
ever.

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Seen just a very unnerving image
and also not commented on at all

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because it doesn't need to
because they're they're passing

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by and they're just like, what
the fuck?

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And then they just then they
just move on.

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But it's great world building.
To your point, Brad.

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I think we could probably call
them the Edgar Allan Poe's.

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Sure, sure, quoth the Raven.
Even early in the film, and I

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think the the women reference it
a few times the the young women

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who are being I was about to
say.

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Traffic forcibly bred?
Yeah, traffic is the correct

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word.
I I meant I meant like

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trafficked away from him, like
anti trafficked.

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Anyways, they reference it a few
times, but I love when a Morton

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Joe goes to his vaults where he
keeps the women and they have

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like painted like you won't own
our babies.

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Our babies are not your
warlords.

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But over the door there's a
quick glimpse of who burned the

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world or something like that.
And they reference that in

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dialogue later in the film.
And it's, it's kind of this

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insinuation of like maybe a
Morton Joe was like the

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president of the US or, you
know, like he was a important

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political figure that started
the nuclear war.

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You know what I mean?
Almost like a a Doctor

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Strangelove type of character,
right?

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Let's let's do this real quick
because I don't want to

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necessarily move away from the
cast yet.

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We'll talk about Charlize Theron
because I think that's only real

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performance we're talking about.
No offense, Tom Hardy, but

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you've got kind of a nothing
burger of a part here.

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I would like to power rank
random dudes in this movie.

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Oh, I have a number one for
sure.

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All right, who's number one?
Number one is Furiosa's

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Lieutenant that keeps like
coming and checking in with her.

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Hey boss, you're going to Gas
Town.

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Yeah, I don't know what it is
about him, but the way he pops

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up in her window feels like I'm
watching like a cartoon, like,

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or, or like almost like he's a
comic book character.

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A segment that's like just her
and the empty space.

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And then the next segment, his
face is just there.

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Yeah, but he's talking to her.
Oh, it's, it's just my.

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Favorite.
Now, we've already mentioned the

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dude with the guitar whose whose
actual name in the script is the

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Doof Warrior.
Yes, come on.

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Dude, I mean just only that like
image, yeah.

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Absolutely.
One of the coolest things.

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One of my complaints about the
movie Bob, we didn't ever get

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like an extended like solo heavy
metal guitar riff for like a

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solid like 3 minutes, you know
what I mean?

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We.
Needed him to shred, but we

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needed him to shred.
Yeah, I'm a little.

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I understand that he is like
bungee corded to the front of

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this vehicle, but he's just
playing power chords, you know?

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Demonstrate that you have some
skill, man.

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Yes, yeah.
I attended an Underoath concert

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once and before Underoath, the,
the act right before them, I

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think it was called Animals
Before Kingdoms.

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But we were in the absolute like
front of the mosh pit, right up

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next to the stage.
And there was a their their

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guitarist was playing a double
necked guitar like 7 feet from

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my face.
And I understood after watching

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him play the guitar, why people
talk about their faces melting.

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Yeah, it was the wildest thing
and I wanted that in this movie.

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Well, see, the cool thing is
that they've built in a

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mechanism where even if his
talent doesn't melt your face,

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the flames coming out of the
guitar.

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Definitely.
Literally will do that for you

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my one of my other.
There's a couple more like

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random guys who come off the
bench and just hit 8 threes in a

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row and one of them is the fat
guy with the gold nose that Max

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uses the human shield.
Yes, yes.

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And then you've got the old
woman from Furiosa's, like, home

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village that gets chainsawed in
the neck at the end.

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She's wonderful.
I don't know what her name is.

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She's great dude.
Oh, absolutely incredible.

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I, I think that all of the young
women are great.

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They they do a great job.
You've got, I haven't said

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Imperator.
What's his name in Morton?

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Joe's two sons, who are named
Scrotus and.

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Rictus.
Rictus is incredible.

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The moment where he rips an
engine off of a car and then

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just screams his own name in
triumph.

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It's it's incredible.
I'm also very thankful that this

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movie came out in 2015 and not
like 2020 because he would have

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been played by Dave Bautista.
I like Dave Bautista, but you're

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correct, yes.
But I don't want him in this

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movie.
Like, I love that.

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There's no like, you know,
obviously Tom Hardy, Charlize

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Theron, other than them, there's
no like really big names in

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cinema in this movie.
Like, I think this was Nicholas

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Holtz.
Yeah.

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I mean, he had.
Broken through as a child actor

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and then kind of done a bunch of
indie stuff as an adult.

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First of all, love Nicholas
Holt.

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Oh, he's my.
Favorite apologies to him for me

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saying that only Charlize was
worth talking about.

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He he actually might be low key
the best performance in this

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whole movie.
I was about to say he's probably

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hands down my favorite
performance in the film when he

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is like reciting the prayer of
the of the war boy as he like

449
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,360
undoes all the gas lines in his
car to fill it up with gasoline.

450
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:42,720
Sorry to fill it up with
guzzling.

451
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:49,320
Guzzling.
At like the the the mantra that

452
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:54,160
he goes through and when he rips
the flare against the ceiling

453
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:59,040
and goes to slam it down and Max
barely grabs his hand.

454
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,040
Like incredible acting for
Nicholas Holtz.

455
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,080
There is so much slapstick
comedy in this movie too, and so

456
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,640
in this scene they're driving
through a literal sandstorm,

457
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,520
which apparently is also a
portal to hell.

458
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,240
And I was about to say, this
isn't in my mind.

459
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,640
It's not a sandstorm.
It's like a nuclear fallout,

460
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,120
Yes.
Yeah, sure.

461
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,280
But you you have him wanting to
commit ritual suicide and

462
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,680
there's no one around to witness
him except Tom Hardy, who is who

463
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,600
is called his blood bag because
he's been kidnapped and he's

464
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,240
being used for his blood for
transfusions for these war boys

465
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,000
that all have cancer and are
like the minions for Immort and

466
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,560
Joe.
And he just looks at him and

467
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,520
goes, witness me blood bag.
And then they cut to Tom Hardy,

468
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,160
who has a mask on his face and
can't talk.

469
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,280
And he has like a looney tune's
eyes bulging out of his head

470
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:59,040
like it is so funny.
Oh, it's incredible.

471
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,080
Can I also say I could not get
it out of my head both times

472
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:10,360
watching it that when Hardy has
that mask on his face he looks

473
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,240
like Gerard Butler?
Oh, interesting, I thought you

474
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,440
were gonna make a Hannibal
Lecter reference there.

475
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,800
Yeah, that that would be a good
reference, but for some reason I

476
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,240
I literally like was like, wait,
I thought Tom Hardy was in this

477
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,880
movie.
That that is Gerard Butler.

478
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,760
Gerard Butler would.
Absolutely fit in with a Mad

479
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,720
Max, but he has Mad Max energy.
He would kill it dude, it would

480
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,480
be so good.
All right, let's real quick talk

481
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,320
about Charlize Theron, because,
you know, they make a whole

482
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,360
Furiosa movie after this that
she's obviously not in.

483
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,000
It's a prequel, but I think one
of the failures of Furiosa is

484
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:50,120
that I buy Charlize Theron as a
badass and I do not buy the very

485
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:55,040
slight and slender Anya Taylor
Joy as someone capable of

486
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,840
whipping someone's ass.
No offense then.

487
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,160
That's not to say anything about
Charlize's body type either.

488
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:04,840
Like she's a very fit woman, but
she has a swagger and an energy

489
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,400
that just screams I will throat
punch you in a way that not many

490
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:15,400
people can pull off on screen.
Yes, 100% I, I'm, I'm gonna

491
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,880
upset you here, Bob.
I actually don't love her

492
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:22,120
performance here except her
eyes.

493
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:30,800
Like her eyes are like 50 out of
10, the most intense, sad,

494
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,920
broken, like absolutely
incredible.

495
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,200
And anytime she talks, I'm like,
I don't know if her heart is in

496
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,720
this role.
Yeah, and part of it.

497
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,920
So there's a a huge back story
about how she and Tom Hardy did

498
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,440
not get along at all on set.
So I wonder if that's carrying

499
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,560
over.
But also every line of dialogue

500
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,480
for her is very bad.
Just not good.

501
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,320
I mean, you know, they're like,
she's like, oh, I want to get

502
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,840
them salvation or whatever.
And he's like, well, what about

503
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,000
you?
And she just looks out the

504
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,720
window and goes redemption.
Redemption.

505
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,800
It's so bad.
It's such such bad dialogue.

506
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,920
And that's I feel bad for her
because anytime the script

507
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,360
doesn't have dialogue for her
but the cameras on her like she

508
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,040
might be the best performance of
the movie.

509
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,200
Agreed.
But in the scene where she just

510
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,480
like drops her arm and wails in
the sand, it's like dude,

511
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,920
incredible acting.
And there there's a few moments

512
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:36,640
like that where it I wish this
was more art housey of a film

513
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,680
and he was willing to just sit
in those moments like the second

514
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:46,360
time through of watching it.
I like there were like 3 or 4

515
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,480
moments like that where I'm
like, George, just just let us

516
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,760
sit with Charlize for like 6
more seconds.

517
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,000
But like, I'm not asking for a
minute of her screaming, but she

518
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,560
screams for like, I don't know,
3 1/2 seconds of film time.

519
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,440
And it could have been 9 and it
would have been perfect.

520
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,720
And the camera could have slowly
like zoomed out as it just the

521
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,640
sand whips around her eye.
It would have been incredible.

522
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,440
And, and there's just a few
moments like that where they cut

523
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,680
away from a beautiful,
cinematic, incredible shot.

524
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:28,080
And I'm like, oh like we we
spend about an hour and 37

525
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,200
minutes of the runtime in a
chase we could have done with an

526
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,240
hour and 35 1/2.
Agreed.

527
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:39,720
Yeah, and I actually have my
main criticism of the movie is

528
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,920
completely based around what you
just said.

529
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:43,880
I think we should take a break
here.

530
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,560
We'll come back, we'll we'll
get, you know, 2 facts and a

531
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,440
falsehood done.
And then I want to go in a

532
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:53,840
little bit on why I think this
movie doesn't totally work for

533
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,840
me in the way that it does for a
lot of people, but it's

534
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,040
definitely it.
It all has to do with that sort

535
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,400
of pacing thing.
So Brad, let's take a break.

536
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,160
Let's drink some Bushmills, and
then we'll come back and witness

537
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,480
each other.
What do you say?

538
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:14,800
Witness me.
All right, so today we are

539
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:21,040
checking out Bushmills, the rare
casks, 29 year old Pedro Jimenez

540
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,640
cask finish Irish whiskey.
That is a mouthful, Brad.

541
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,480
It really is.
That is incredible.

542
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:35,640
You did it Bob.
This is another wildly cool

543
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,080
whiskey that we are drinking
this week following our

544
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,800
Bushmills 30 from last.
Week.

545
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,720
That's right, we want to say
thank you again to our friend

546
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,840
Zach Johnston, who unloaded a
bunch of samples upon us.

547
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,000
As I look at this Bushmill
sample, it looks like it says

548
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:53,760
this is sample #14 of 50.
So Zach was in in rarefied air

549
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,800
even receiving a sample of this.
And even though this is a second

550
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,680
hand sample, I am still very
grateful that we're receiving

551
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,120
it, Brad.
Yeah, 100% from the start.

552
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,920
Bob, I I just want to take a a
Mosey down memory lane.

553
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,719
From the very start of this
podcast, I have been blown away

554
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,840
by the kindness and charity that
exists in the world of W100.

555
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,920
Percent like people just don't
say no, which is really awesome.

556
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,600
Like the spirit, the spirit of
sharing a pour with somebody

557
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:29,840
extends from like your basic
entry level PR Rep or sales

558
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,280
brand ambassador all the way up
to like CE OS in this industry.

559
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,639
It's been really, really great,
man.

560
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,199
Yeah.
And it's all it's LED us here.

561
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,440
It has culminated in Bushmills
29.

562
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,040
So like Brad said last week, we
had a Bushmills 30 year old

563
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,960
release that was not part of
this series that they call the

564
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,000
rare casks.
So these were annual releases

565
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,920
that Bushmills has been doing.
And after the first release, I'm

566
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,239
reading directly off of a
website called Whiskey Advocate.

567
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,160
Right now, the one we're
drinking today is the second

568
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,760
release in this series.
It says that after the first

569
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,240
release, Bushmills gave their
fans, some say in how they

570
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:07,360
picked the second rare cask
expression.

571
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,360
So they basically put a three,
three pack of samples out on

572
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,440
Flaviar's website and ask people
to pick their favorite.

573
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:19,400
And so the one that came forward
was this 1990, two distilled

574
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,800
Irish whiskey.
That isn't that crazy.

575
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,000
It was, it was aged for 12 years
in ex bourbon barrels and then

576
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,160
taken out of those bourbon
barrels and put into Pedro

577
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,000
Jimenez casks for another 17
years.

578
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,680
So the whiskey was distilled
April 6th, 1992.

579
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:43,600
It was recast on July 12th, 2004
and it was bottled on January

580
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,480
17th of 2022.
Just think about all of the

581
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,320
world events that this whiskey
has seen.

582
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:52,760
Absolutely crazy, man.
There.

583
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,760
There's a maturity here that
these young bourbons just don't

584
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,480
understand.
They'll never get it, man.

585
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:58,880
They'll never.
Just don't get it.

586
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:03,960
They're only like 8 years old.
Like man, this is this is a

587
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,760
mature drinker's whiskey.
Bob, now it looks like this was

588
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,560
limited to A500 bottle release.
So we're talking like 2 casks

589
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,640
and it was originally slated at
a $750 price tag.

590
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,280
We'll talk about value when we
get there.

591
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:23,920
It is 53% ABV or 106 proof.
And Brad, just like last week's

592
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,160
30 year old, this might have an
even darker color to it.

593
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:31,240
We're talking like when you go
to a wedding and they have like

594
00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:35,240
unlimited Coca-Cola and you kind
of get to like the third or

595
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:36,880
fourth glass and your ice has
melted.

596
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,280
It looks like just slightly
watered down Coca-Cola.

597
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,920
Yeah, no, absolutely.
This is a beautifully dark

598
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,000
whiskey, very rare for an Irish
whiskey.

599
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,240
But we are drinking a rare type
of Irish whiskey, so I would

600
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:53,600
expect something this beautiful
in my glass.

601
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:54,920
All right, let's dive in.
Man.

602
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,240
I am sipping it live.
You've already tried it, so why

603
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:58,920
don't you hit us with your
nosing notes?

604
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:05,480
This thing is incredible.
There is figs all over the

605
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,520
place, a really heavy Raisin
vibe.

606
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:14,040
There's white grapes.
It reminds me of like powdered

607
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:19,240
sugar as it's like going into a
baking mixture.

608
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,720
Like, you know, my, my wife
makes cook it like sourdough

609
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:26,840
cookies and she'll like mix the
powdered sugar in and it and it

610
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,560
smells like the KitchenAid mixer
is mixing it in.

611
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,960
And it also reminds me, I've
talked before about being in

612
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,560
Ukraine and they had fresh
cherry juice when I was over

613
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,560
there.
It reminds me of like a really

614
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:46,280
fresh, vibrant cherry juice.
This is an incredible nose.

615
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,440
I'm going to give it an 8 1/2
out of 10 here.

616
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,120
I'm getting so much date on the
nose here and it's funny because

617
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,600
like I've never really smelled a
date, but I've eaten them, you

618
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,360
know what I mean?
I've never taken the time to be

619
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,600
like, what's the smell like?
It smells like a date tastes

620
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,080
like it is super syrupy, really
sugary.

621
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,440
You get the powdered sugar note
that you gave is really great

622
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,960
here.
There's a ton of like molasses.

623
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,360
And then it tips into, I don't
know if it's 'cause I was

624
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,200
thinking about Coca-Cola.
I get a little bit of that kind

625
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:18,400
of like slightly cola note
effervescence on here.

626
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,160
There's some cherry which almost
reminds me of what we get on

627
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,400
some really well aged weeded
bourbons.

628
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,200
I think there is definitely some
bourbon influence here behind

629
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:30,640
all that PX cask influence.
I like this better than the 30

630
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,560
on the nose.
I'm going to give this a 10 out

631
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:37,480
of 10, Brad.
Holy cow, Bob Yeah, the pallet

632
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,760
here once again, absolutely
stunning.

633
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:48,560
Bob, this is the most pruney
whiskey I have ever drank in my

634
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,120
life.
And yet somehow like prunes are

635
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:56,080
not known as, you know,
everybody's go to relaxing

636
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:02,080
enjoyment type of food.
Somehow this is like so heavily

637
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,000
pruned.
There's cherry syrup.

638
00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:07,720
It gets into a little bit of a
baking spice clove type

639
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:12,160
territory.
I've never tasted a whiskey that

640
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:18,160
is so prune forward and I
absolutely love it.

641
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,120
Cannot get enough of it.
This is a 9 1/2 out of 10 on the

642
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:26,800
palate.
Brad, I don't know how to say

643
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,440
this man.
It it's perfect.

644
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:32,840
No, it's it's too much, dude.
It's too much.

645
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,800
Oh no.
The like it was a it was a

646
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,440
drastic difference between front
of pallet and back of pallet.

647
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,840
Front of pallet.
It's like, OK, here we go.

648
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:46,480
I'm picking up on the pruniness.
It definitely it's like drinking

649
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,080
prune juice.
And I'm like, all right, it's

650
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,720
going to land the plane.
It's going to be really sweet.

651
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,480
I'll get those dates back on the
end here.

652
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,360
And then it kicks to the back of
the pallet and it turns into an

653
00:39:55,360 --> 00:40:02,600
incredibly bitter and sour and
dry red wine note that is it's

654
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,760
yeah, it's not quite tannic.
Like it's it's still mouth

655
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,640
watering.
But it's really bitter, dude,

656
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,440
and I just think that it's it's
been in the cast too long.

657
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,520
I'm taking a second sip.
Please forgive the silence here.

658
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,120
I want to give this a fair shot.
No, I, I think for me, the back

659
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:23,600
of the pallet was more of like
that tart cherry sweetness that

660
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,640
I thought worked perfectly with
that Pruney approach.

661
00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:33,880
There's, there's a ton going on
here and I, I think it

662
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,160
absolutely the plane lands
beautifully.

663
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,200
Where are you at after your
second?

664
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,560
Yeah, I'm in the same spot,
dude.

665
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:46,240
It it unsweetened cherry juice
is a fantastic note on this, but

666
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:48,920
it's coupled with red wine and
prune juice.

667
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,040
And I think ultimately what's
bumming me out here is that it

668
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:56,280
completely swallows up any notes
that might be present naturally

669
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,440
in the whiskey.
Like it just tastes like we've

670
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,360
had a couple whiskeys that are
like they say that their wine

671
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,720
finished, but we know that
they're just like mixing wine

672
00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:09,160
into the blend.
This reminds me of some of those

673
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:13,840
in a really in a big bummer way.
Dude, I respect the craft.

674
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,600
I'm I'm coming all the way down
to a six out of 10 on this dude.

675
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,480
Wow.
All I hear you saying is

676
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,960
whatever is left in that sample.
Bottle you can have it 100% this

677
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,000
is this is one of the more
significant bummers of the past

678
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:27,960
couple months for me.
Dude, I.

679
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,920
Was going to say I I was just
telling a a good friend of the

680
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:37,240
show the other day.
This has been such an incredible

681
00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:41,160
spate of whiskeys that we've
drank like we've been on a good

682
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,240
run.
For me it's continuing.

683
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,600
I I guess we.
Should keep giving scores.

684
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,240
I think it's a nine and a half
on the finish.

685
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:54,160
It's a medium bodied like fresh
bread, baking spices, the figs,

686
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:58,000
the cherry, the prune.
For me, it's the breadiness on

687
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,080
the back end that I'm really
loving.

688
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,040
I I think this is just so good,
Bob.

689
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,800
Yeah, I I'm trying to separate
out the flavors of the finish

690
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,440
from like the overall experience
or like the, I don't know, the

691
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,560
structure of the finish.
I guess it's long lasting, it's

692
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,400
mouth watering, it is medium to
long like I think those are all

693
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,200
really good things here.
It just continues to carry over

694
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:28,200
flavors that I think are subpar.
Now that that really tart cherry

695
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:32,440
goes away, the prune lingers and
you get a little bit of ethanol

696
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,200
on the finish.
But again, what's really a

697
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,600
bummer for me is that Irish
whiskey, of all the types of

698
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,240
whiskeys we try, Brad is
probably, I would argue, the

699
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:44,960
most delicate whiskey and
probably therefore the most

700
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,280
susceptible to getting
overwhelmed by whatever they're

701
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,400
aging it in.
And the 17 years in PX casks is

702
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,440
just, it's taking everything
over for me.

703
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:58,200
And I think I'll come up to a 6
1/2 on the finish, but that's

704
00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,920
about as as high as I can go
here.

705
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:03,280
Oh, man, Yeah, dude, I'm.
I'm bummed.

706
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,280
I'm bummed too.
We'll kind of move to the finish

707
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,320
because Bob Bob's clearly sad
and I don't want him to be sad

708
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,800
to the balance.
So yeah, balance 9 1/2 out of 10

709
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,960
for me.
I think that they manage the

710
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,400
complexity of this whiskey
really well and it tastes

711
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:25,560
utterly delicious.
I, I will say last week with our

712
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:29,520
wonderful friend David Thomas
Tao, he introduced a new

713
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,880
category of grading, which you
know, we're not going to grade

714
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,840
on, but I, I think we're going
to reference from here on out

715
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,000
every once in a while of crush
ability.

716
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:43,680
This is not as crushable as the
Bushmills 30 like the Bushmills

717
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:49,920
30 just was so approachable for
a 30 year aged whiskey.

718
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,160
This one is much more.
You got to sit and take your

719
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,680
time with it, so the crush
ability isn't quite there as

720
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,280
much.
Balance is a 9 1/2 out of 10.

721
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:02,560
Where?
Where are you at on balance,

722
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,560
Bob?
Yeah, I it, it is a drastic

723
00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:11,600
change in nose and front of
pallet to back of pallet and

724
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,160
finish.
I'll I'll just stick it a 6 1/2

725
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,200
again.
I feel like I'm even being

726
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,720
generous here because I know
what this is and that it's very

727
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:20,680
expensive and I'm very grateful
to receive it.

728
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,080
What I will say though, Brad is
on the value category.

729
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:28,000
So this is MSRP 7:50.
I've seen it all over the place,

730
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,560
you know, in the mid $1000 to
$2000 range.

731
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,960
I actually am going to give this
a pretty good score value wise

732
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,880
for what I think it's worth
because again, we always say

733
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,080
that in the luxury category A,
you don't really need our

734
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,640
opinion.
If you're able to afford a

735
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,520
whiskey of this price, then
you're going to do it anyway.

736
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:54,160
I think that I've matured enough
in my whiskey drinking that I

737
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,200
can I can flat out say something
is not for me or is not to my

738
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,400
taste and that does not affect
what I think of the overall

739
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,360
value of it.
I would never pay the money for

740
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,680
this 'cause I don't like this
whiskey.

741
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,160
However, I'm going to give us a
7 out of 10 on value because

742
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,920
there's literally 500 bottles of
this it.

743
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,600
It took almost 30 years to make
this product like this.

744
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,960
There's an incredible amount of
craft going on here that is just

745
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,200
undeniable, regardless of what I
personally think of the final

746
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:25,960
product.
Yeah, I, I will say I think that

747
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,000
the Bushmills 30 is a better
value.

748
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,240
This is still a stunningly good
whiskey, not quite on the level

749
00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:37,520
of that thirty.
I'll give it a 7 1/2 on value.

750
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,000
Like I think you're getting a
great value if you buy this

751
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:47,360
bottle, but for, you know, 4 to
$600.00 more, which is a wild

752
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:51,960
sentence to say you could get
Bushmills 30 and I think that's

753
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:59,840
like a 9 1/2 out of 10 on value.
So I am coming out to a 44.5 out

754
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,640
of 50.
Dude you are way higher on this

755
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,240
than I am.
So much higher.

756
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:06,800
I'm at a 36 out of 50, Brad.
Wow.

757
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,720
Yeah, we're, we're way off of
this, which it's crazy because

758
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:11,840
I'm like, I'm looking at this
whiskey.

759
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:15,320
I'm like, this is not a 36 out
of 50 for me in terms of my

760
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,840
enjoyment of it.
But the nose was perfect.

761
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,200
The value is pretty good.
That brought it up a lot.

762
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:27,000
That takes us to an 80.5 out of
100 or a 40.25 5 out of 50.

763
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:31,320
So this has not only hit the 35
you know would recommend mark,

764
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,680
but the 40 out of 50.
This is a no brainer pick up

765
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,600
mark for us.
Yeah, just go buy it right now.

766
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,480
Every single listener of the
show.

767
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:42,440
Totally worth it.
You won't regret the money you

768
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,680
spend and your spouse will not
be upset with you at all.

769
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:50,080
Never ever would you?
OK, let's let's let's break this

770
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,400
down a little.
Would you recommend trying this

771
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,400
at the bar 'cause you're you're
looking at like a 90 or $100

772
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:01,920
pour here probably?
Yeah, it if you if you are

773
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:07,720
looking for a hell yeah birthday
pour a Witness me kind of

774
00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:12,360
birthday pour, then I would say
yes, go for it.

775
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,960
All right, I'm going to say no,
but that's just me.

776
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,520
If they have the 30 available, I
would say take that instead.

777
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,640
So Brad, there we are.
Let's get back into talking

778
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:23,960
about Mad Max.
What do you think?

779
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:32,960
Witness May.
All right, everybody, that was

780
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:40,240
Bushmills 29 Rare Cask series, a
perfect whiskey that we have no

781
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:41,800
notes on.
Ain't that right, Bob?

782
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,600
Yes No notes.
Loved it.

783
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,800
Loved it so much.
Oh you're ridiculous man, that

784
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,880
makes it was so freaking good.
Oh, man.

785
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,160
All right, Brad.
Well, at at least we can be

786
00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:01,840
agreed on one thing with Canada.
Their favorite segment is an

787
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,320
incredible experience.
We are talking 2 facts and a

788
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,440
falsehood Brad.
Is going to try to stump your

789
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:12,880
ball to our right and what is
wrong?

790
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,800
2 facts and a falsehood. 2 Facts
and a Falsehood is the part of

791
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,960
the show where Brad presents me
with three items as fact about

792
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:25,240
the making of this movie, one of
which is a complete lie.

793
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,920
I am not doing super duper great
Brad.

794
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:36,400
I I've now lost four games and
I've won, let's see, 12345678.

795
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,080
I'm eight and four down to a 66%
win total here.

796
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,800
If you were the Browns, oh.
That's like the best year we've

797
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,280
ever had.
Yeah, easily.

798
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,080
I really hope that all of these
3 facts have something to do

799
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,480
with witness me just so we can
get a couple more of those in

800
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,800
here.
I should have done that.

801
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,000
That's funny.
All right, man, take it away.

802
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,840
Fact #1 The film was originally
intended to star the one and

803
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:10,040
only Mel Gibson in the title
role back in 2003, but because

804
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,280
director George Miller ran into
problems with shooting locations

805
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,880
and Gibson's interest in
creating The Passion of the

806
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:21,480
Christ, it never happened.
Fact #2 Charlize Theron shaved

807
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:25,360
her head for the role of Furious
Said Mad Max Fury Road, and as a

808
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:31,040
result, she had to wear a wig
for her role as Anna in 2014's A

809
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:38,400
Million Ways to Die in the West.
Fact #3 Hugh Keys Byrne, who

810
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,360
played a Morton Joe, stayed in
character throughout filming,

811
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,320
demanding that the crew refer to
him as a Morton and saluting him

812
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,120
with Witness Me whenever he
entered A room.

813
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,240
My buddy #3 is the falsehood.
I'm like, I'm just, I'm just

814
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:55,040
going to say that right now.
I hope it's not so that we could

815
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,560
laugh about it.
I don't even want to entertain

816
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,920
the other two.
I #3 is the falsehood right?

817
00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:05,920
Witness me.
Am I correct?

818
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,080
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, that was that was the

819
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:12,840
worst one you've ever done, but
it provided you with more.

820
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,800
It's my favorite.
It's my favorite one I've ever

821
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:20,600
done, Bob.
Oh man, that's fantastic.

822
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:23,720
So yeah.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.

823
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,880
Can I tell you one of the facts
that I wanted to put on here,

824
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:31,200
but I knew well, maybe you
wouldn't have believed it.

825
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:36,560
Here's one of the facts.
There is a brand of like, it's

826
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:39,720
like a food company that makes
like baking goods.

827
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,160
I think it's called like
Wiltmore or something.

828
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:49,280
They make sprays that you use to
like spray cakes, right?

829
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,000
Like if you ever watched the
Great British Baking Show,

830
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:56,320
they'll like spray color onto
their cakes and they make a

831
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:03,240
brand called Something Silver
and a ton of people on their

832
00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:09,520
Amazon page and I verified this.
You can find it today like 2025,

833
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,120
January 1st.
You can still find this on their

834
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:16,120
Amazon page for their silver
food spray paint.

835
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:24,600
People have reviewed the product
as if they are a war boy and

836
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:29,720
they talk about it like 5 stars
brought me two steps closer to

837
00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:34,880
Valhalla and Morton Joe himself
uses this brand like and

838
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:41,040
there's, there's like multiple
reviews and I, I wanted to put

839
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,240
that in the two facts in the
fall So, but I didn't know how

840
00:51:43,240 --> 00:51:46,760
to do it in a concise manner.
But that is a real thing that

841
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,880
happened.
And I it's moments like that

842
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,760
where like my hope for the
Internet is restored.

843
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:57,080
So on that note, you know one of
the famous lines from the movie

844
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,320
is where they're talking about
going to the halls of Valhalla

845
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:03,640
all shiny and Chrome.
Dude, they released a cut of

846
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,880
this movie in theaters six
months after it premiered, which

847
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,840
was called the Mad Max Fury Rd.
Chrome Edition.

848
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:13,320
And it was in the black and
white version of this movie.

849
00:52:13,720 --> 00:52:17,280
Yeah, which is apparently
awesome and very bad ass.

850
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,040
I've never watched the black and
white version.

851
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,680
But this, I'm going to watch it
right now, Bob.

852
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,320
This is not the only time this
season we're going to run into

853
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,160
this problem, because not even
problem this cool feature,

854
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,640
because they did the same thing
with Godzilla -1 last year.

855
00:52:32,240 --> 00:52:34,880
And I did go see that movie in
black and white and that was

856
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,520
freaking awesome.
Yeah, absolutely ripped.

857
00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:40,800
Oh man, I'm so sad I didn't see
Godzilla -1 in theaters.

858
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,600
That's all right, you know, You
know what you did see twice

859
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,120
today?
Mad Max Fury Rd.

860
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,360
Mad Max Fury Rd.
All right, well, let me throw a

861
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,680
bucket of cold water on this
cool conversation we're having

862
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,840
with Bob's Nitpick Corner.
Oh my least favorite place.

863
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,640
Can you imagine what the music
sounds like for this this

864
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,720
segment?
Bob's Midpick Corner.

865
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,520
So here's here's my big issue
with the movie.

866
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,680
We have this saying when we talk
about films like this, which,

867
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:16,840
you know, it's not.
I wouldn't call it like a madcap

868
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,920
movie.
It's very relentless and kind of

869
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:24,560
breathless and it goes at
1,000,000 miles an hour and it

870
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:28,920
never lets up.
My issue with that is that that

871
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,840
statement is almost never
actually true of any movie.

872
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:37,480
Like even the most relentless
high octane action films have

873
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:42,120
these built in moments of
respite from the high energy

874
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,200
action sequences.
And I guess I'll call back to a

875
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,680
movie like Mission Impossible
Fallout that we reviewed just a

876
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,320
couple weeks ago, which also has
a car chase that Brad described

877
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,760
as kind of boring.
So this is really breaking a

878
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:55,200
trend for you, Brad.
Yeah.

879
00:53:55,680 --> 00:54:00,480
It explosions, people's faces
getting ripped off.

880
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,000
We haven't talked about it.
The Morton's Joe.

881
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,080
Death.
Oh my gosh.

882
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,040
Is incredible.
Truly brutal.

883
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:12,840
Oh man.
So my issue with this movie

884
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,360
though is that George Miller is
a good enough writer and

885
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,000
director that he knows that you
need these moments to catch your

886
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,880
breath.
However, the world that he has

887
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:29,360
created is such a heightened
thing and such a highly stylized

888
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:35,240
thing that even in moments where
you just need pure human emotion

889
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,720
to come out to give you a breath
of fresh air, you can't really

890
00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:42,840
fully get that breath of fresh
air because you're still

891
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,600
immersed in a world where a guy
named Rictus is chasing you.

892
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:47,920
Do.
You know what I mean?

893
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:53,240
Because Nicholas Holt says even
Larry and Barry weren't chewing

894
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:55,000
on my windpipe.
They've got little.

895
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,520
Smiley faces, she goes, Who's
Larry and Barry?

896
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:03,360
And he points to lumps on his
neck that he's drawn smiley

897
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:07,560
faces on.
So that's, that's because I can

898
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,680
never fully not disengage, but
you know what I mean, Like catch

899
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:15,600
my breath in this movie.
I think that it ends up being so

900
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:20,160
extreme all of the time that it
becomes kind of exhausting for

901
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:21,920
me.
I, I told you to watch this

902
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,800
movie in one sitting and I'm a
hypocrite because I, I couldn't

903
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,400
do it myself today.
Now, I've seen this movie

904
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:31,520
before, but this movie works
really, really well for me in

905
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:35,040
doses of like 1/2 hour and
anything more than that, it just

906
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,200
starts getting to the point
where I'm like, Oh my gosh, like

907
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:42,080
I feel like sensory overload all
the time and it it beats me down

908
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,240
a little bit.
I'll I'll make a small comment

909
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:47,760
on the the cinematic mastery of
it.

910
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,640
This is one of the most brightly
colored post apocalyptic films

911
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,320
I've ever seen.
Like even the sands themselves

912
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:59,800
have this bright redness about
them that I think is like so

913
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:03,720
attractive and draws you in it
makes the desert interesting as

914
00:56:03,720 --> 00:56:07,200
opposed to most like just bland
brown deserts.

915
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:14,960
The, the thing for me, friend of
show Jordan, who was on Whiplash

916
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:19,200
a few episodes ago, his
complaints about this movie was

917
00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:22,960
that the whole story revolves
around them driving out into the

918
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,560
desert and then driving back
from the desert.

919
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:31,120
And I, I, I think that as I
thought about that and as I like

920
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:35,960
reflect on the complaints that
you have, I think everything

921
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,680
makes sense within the world of
the movie.

922
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:44,280
And so for me, I like, I'm so
immersed in the world that the

923
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:49,240
way they choose to interact with
one another in their downtime

924
00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:53,920
just makes sense to me.
Like, like the the women who

925
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,840
clearly have had education and
you know, there's a piano in

926
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:02,520
their room and like they're a
step above the common populace.

927
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:06,520
Like the way that the red headed
woman engages with Nicholas

928
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:12,560
Holt's character, like feels so
genuine and meaningful because

929
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,640
they are able to find human
connection despite the

930
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:21,520
intellectual gap that very
obviously exists between the two

931
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,760
of them.
And like, it's just stuff like

932
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:29,080
that throughout the film that is
just so lovely and heartwarming.

933
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,920
And I, I, I think that's like
the whole purpose of a post

934
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,840
apocalyptic film.
If you're not going the nihilism

935
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:41,800
route, you have to go the we can
all find the core of what it

936
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,080
means to be humans when
everything else is stripped

937
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:47,640
away.
And you even see that in the

938
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:52,200
main relationship between
Furiosa and Mad Max, like from

939
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:55,360
the moment where, and I love the
moment where Miller has them

940
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,360
like lock eyes for the first
time.

941
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,840
From that moment through the end
of the film, you get to watch

942
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:07,360
them slowly build a meaningful
relationship with one another

943
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:11,680
based on respect for each
other's capabilities and you

944
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,440
know, trauma bonding, for lack
of a better word.

945
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,160
Like going through hard times
together.

946
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:21,480
It's all of those things layered
upon each other that, for me,

947
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:24,000
make this such a crushable
movie.

948
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,360
I'm with you in that I think
you've pinpointed that, like

949
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,640
everything makes sense within
the world of the movie.

950
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,320
But even if you take a universe
like Star Wars and and I'll even

951
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:35,560
go to A New Hope, a movie that I
don't particularly love that

952
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:40,400
much, But you know, you're
you're thrust into a world where

953
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,560
you will eventually get to like
the cantina scene where it's

954
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,440
just like dudes in rubber masks
who look silly.

955
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:51,720
But what grounds you in that
world is when you go into his

956
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,160
aunt and uncle's house and it
just looks like a house.

957
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,360
Not not before that when they're
still, when they're still

958
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,680
unburned and alive.
But you just get like, yes, Luke

959
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:05,920
is whiny, but you just get them
sitting at the dinner table

960
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:09,480
drinking milk.
And like that's it's a grounding

961
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,680
human moment where yes, this is
sci-fi and yes, they're on

962
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:14,840
another planet.
But like, we're in a house.

963
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:16,800
There's not a ton of stuff
distracting me.

964
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:18,680
We're just watching people be
people.

965
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,320
And to your point earlier, the
moment in the movie that had the

966
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,840
opportunity to kind of hit reset
and give me that breath of fresh

967
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:29,880
air was Furiosa by herself on a
sand dune grieving.

968
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,680
And we get 8 seconds of it, and
then we're on to the next thing.

969
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,920
And I think that when you have a
movie as heightened as this in

970
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:42,440
its stylistic choices, I was
trying to think of like, how

971
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,680
would I explain the aesthetic of
this movie to someone?

972
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,400
Because just saying like
steampunk doesn't work.

973
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:54,360
It it basically follows it.
Follows the story contours of

974
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:59,680
Children of Men.
But if Children of Men was acted

975
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:04,360
entirely by Muppets, I think
that you would have a sense.

976
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,760
Of the overall tone of this
film.

977
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:13,280
I think fair.
So, all right, so I have to ask

978
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:18,600
the question then, who is the
the real the Michael Caine If

979
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,240
everyone else's Muppets is it?
Is it Charlize?

980
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:24,760
Hmm, great question.
I think it has to be Charlize.

981
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,720
If you're the Charlize or Tom
Hardy, yeah, I want to find a

982
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:29,440
funnier answer.
But yeah, that actually is the

983
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:30,840
only way it works.
What?

984
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:33,880
What's the name of the old guys
up in the box making fun of

985
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,640
everybody?
Statler and Waldorf.

986
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:39,280
Yeah, I just want Statler and
Waldorf making fun of the War

987
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:43,160
Boys as War Boys themselves
every time one of them says

988
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:48,840
witness me.
So anyway, with, with that said,

989
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,640
I think that's why I'm still a
little bit held back on this

990
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:53,760
movie.
I do think to your point, there

991
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:57,360
are like there's some incredible
moments throughout the film.

992
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,720
And I keep thinking of this one
shot in particular.

993
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,840
And it happens in the 1st 10
minutes of the movie.

994
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:06,960
It's the first time you see
Furiosa like from inside the

995
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:11,320
truck cab, from like the
passenger seat facing out and

996
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,120
her face is painted.
You know, the top half of her

997
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:17,400
face is painted and they frame
this shot so perfectly where the

998
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,240
black, the the bottom line of
the black paint on her face

999
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:25,640
perfectly lines up with the
horizon line outside and the

1000
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,800
white sand extending into blue
sky.

1001
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:31,920
It is like it's, it's so good.
Unbelievable shot.

1002
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:35,480
There's so many like that too.
Throughout the film, they do

1003
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:40,440
such a great job with the
actor's eyes, like specifically

1004
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:44,680
Charlize and Nicholas Holt.
Like their eyes just burn with

1005
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,480
this intensity.
And like I said earlier about

1006
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:51,400
the colors of this film, it's,
it's almost like they maybe like

1007
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:59,240
put the contrast up just a tiny
bit so that you can see all of

1008
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:04,000
the emotions that these people
are going through in absolutely

1009
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,920
any moment of the film.
Brad, I think that we're in a

1010
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,680
good spot to move to our final
segment of the day, which we

1011
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,640
call Let's Make it a Double
presented by Blackwood

1012
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:15,920
Distilling Company.
We're near the end of the

1013
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:19,280
episodes of Things, listening to
the film and Whiskey Show.

1014
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:21,840
Let's have another film with
this one, even if it's

1015
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:23,520
struggling.
It's the final segment of the

1016
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:24,960
day.
Now let's make it a double.

1017
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:27,800
Let's Make It a Double is the
part of the show where we pick a

1018
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,760
movie to pair up with this one
to make the perfect double

1019
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:32,880
feature.
Brad, I'm going to go ahead and

1020
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,640
get mine out of the way here.
It's a movie that you've never

1021
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:39,520
seen and probably never will
based on just what I know about

1022
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:41,600
some things that you are
sensitive to in films.

1023
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:45,480
But I made a comment earlier
about how I loved the the

1024
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,040
language of this film and how
there's, it's mostly English,

1025
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:51,320
but there's some random words
thrown in that you just don't

1026
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:54,080
understand.
And it reminded me so much of

1027
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,320
Stanley Kubrick's movie, A
Clockwork Orange, where you have

1028
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:02,960
this kind of maybe a little bit
set in the future society where

1029
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:08,040
people use words like droogs for
friend, but everything else

1030
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,960
still kind of looks familiar.
It's just this weirdly

1031
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:14,080
heightened scenario.
And I kept thinking about

1032
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:15,840
Clockwork Orange throughout this
movie.

1033
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:18,720
Once again, I don't know when
we'll ever watch that movie.

1034
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:20,000
It's one of the best movies ever
made.

1035
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,400
But that's my pick for this one,
Brad.

1036
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,440
Yeah, I I don't know, man.
Clockwork Orange.

1037
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,720
Not my cup of tea, to use a
British reference.

1038
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:37,240
I think, man, I'm, I'm trying to
go between pairing this with

1039
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:43,400
another, just like I, I don't
know, like wild, great action.

1040
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:47,800
Like part of me is thinking
about Edge of Tomorrow,

1041
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:51,040
something like that.
I think I'm actually going to

1042
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,760
stick in the post apocalyptic
world with a movie that I really

1043
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,520
loved when it came out.
I honestly haven't returned to

1044
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:01,120
it probably since then.
I'm going to go with Book of

1045
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:02,800
Eli.
Oh, good one.

1046
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:09,000
I like, I I absolutely loved
that movie when it came out and

1047
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,800
I think the reason I'll pair it
is because I think both films do

1048
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:15,880
such a great job of world
building of what has happened to

1049
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:21,520
the world after the apocalypse.
Like, and even just the opening

1050
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:27,680
shot of Book of Eli is freaking
like beautiful and memorable.

1051
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,120
Yeah.
I I think it would be a heck of

1052
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:34,440
a post apocalyptic evening to
watch those two films

1053
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,640
back-to-back.
Man, we could not be more wildly

1054
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:40,040
apart in our picture.
Yeah, I was going to say I would

1055
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,560
start with Book of Eli and then
do Mad Max.

1056
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,120
So Brad picked a movie about the
Bible and I picked A Clockwork

1057
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:50,520
Orange.
Does not bode well for me at

1058
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:52,480
all.
All right, so those are our 2

1059
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:53,920
picks for Let's Make It a
Double.

1060
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,240
Let's make it a Double is
presented by Blackwood

1061
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,520
Distilling Company.
No matter what movie you choose

1062
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,480
to pair this up with, you can
always make it a double with

1063
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:05,560
Blackwood Distilling Co.
Brad, we are in 2025 now it's

1064
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,920
new year, hey.
Happy New Year, Bob.

1065
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,520
Happy New Year to you man.
But, you know, what has carried

1066
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:14,920
over from last year is big
discounts, baby on film and

1067
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:19,080
whiskey, 'cause you can still go
to bourbonoutfitter.com/film

1068
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:22,880
Whiskey, type in our code Film
whiskey at checkout and you will

1069
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:26,880
receive 5% off a bottle of
Blackwood Distilling Company.

1070
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,840
We've been raving about this
toasted rye for, I don't know,

1071
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,640
six months now.
Yeah, it's, I brought it out

1072
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:34,640
over the holidays.
It's a big hit, man.

1073
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,280
I I have finished my bottle, I
have moved on to their toasted

1074
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:41,560
bourbon.
It's freaking spectacular.

1075
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,200
If you can get your hands on a
bottle of it.

1076
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:48,040
If you have a little bit of that
Christmas money leftover and

1077
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:51,040
you're looking to splurge on
something just that will knock

1078
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,280
your socks off, check out
Blackwood.

1079
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:56,320
Bourbon All right, Brad, it's
time for us to get into final

1080
01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:59,000
scores on this movie.
This is really hard for me

1081
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,840
because there is no story to
this movie.

1082
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:05,080
There's very little plot, and so
everything that works about this

1083
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,480
movie is a testament to like,
filmmaking craft.

1084
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:12,600
You really could, and people
probably do, teach this movie in

1085
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:15,480
film school 'cause you could
watch it as a silent movie and

1086
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:17,640
it would work.
You can watch it not knowing

1087
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:19,760
anything about the Mad Max
universe and it works.

1088
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:21,520
It is like I.
Never thought about that.

1089
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:25,200
It I mean it truly is just like
this is what it means when

1090
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:28,880
someone talks about movie
making, making something out of

1091
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:30,920
essentially nothing.
Yeah, there.

1092
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:35,520
There's so many parts of this
movie that I think to myself,

1093
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:41,000
this is the combination.
Like this is the combination of

1094
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:47,360
like CGI and practical effects
coming together to be the

1095
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:52,920
definition of movie magic.
Like the fact that, you know,

1096
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:58,320
80% of this film is practical
and the CGI is used just to

1097
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:02,040
enhance and bring it along a
little further to tease it out.

1098
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:06,160
I don't know if there's many
movies that have done it better

1099
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:09,720
than this.
And I I can see why critics

1100
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:12,240
especially would give this movie
A10 out of 10 because they're

1101
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,360
not simply looking at
entertainment factor, they're

1102
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:16,560
looking at the craft behind it
too.

1103
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:22,200
For me, I am entertained by this
movie and I respect this movie a

1104
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:24,480
lot.
It just doesn't quite hit the

1105
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:26,400
heights that it does for other
people.

1106
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,600
I'm going to give this movie an
8 out of 10.

1107
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:32,240
I want to say 8.5, but I need to
be true to myself.

1108
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:34,960
It's an it's an 8 out of 10.
Only an 8.

1109
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:40,040
But it's an 8 with like 10 out
of 10 filmmaking behind it.

1110
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:41,440
You know what?
I.

1111
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:44,880
Mean, I don't know if I ever
thought I would hear you say

1112
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:49,520
this film's craft is perfect. 8
out of 10.

1113
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:53,360
I would I would imagine a
minimum of like an 8 and a half

1114
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:55,040
nine.
Brad, I am.

1115
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:56,720
I'm a new man.
It's 2025.

1116
01:07:56,840 --> 01:07:59,920
I will no longer be swayed in my
opinions on this.

1117
01:07:59,920 --> 01:08:03,440
Podcast, Bob, I mean, at the end
of the day, this is an 8.1 out

1118
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:04,640
of 10 on IMDb.
Yeah.

1119
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:09,600
So I I think you might be in
good company of the masses.

1120
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:13,720
I have ascended the masses.
I've been chosen by a Morton

1121
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:18,560
Joe.
I will say that this is a 9.5

1122
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:24,279
for me.
Wow I dude I could not stop

1123
01:08:24,279 --> 01:08:26,720
thinking about this movie for an
entire day.

1124
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:31,520
I like I could not have done
anything else with my time but

1125
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:38,560
watch it a second time in a
single like like 14 hour period.

1126
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,319
I can already tell what's going
to happen here.

1127
01:08:41,319 --> 01:08:44,279
This is going to be the sleeper
of the bracket this year.

1128
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,200
You're going to pick it to beat
every single movie.

1129
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,319
I'll have it get knocked out in
like round two and then it'll

1130
01:08:50,319 --> 01:08:53,319
still come back to haunt me.
That's funny.

1131
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,520
Yes, it is going to haunt you,
Bob.

1132
01:08:56,520 --> 01:09:00,960
This movie's so freaking.
I'm so happy you liked it, man,

1133
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:03,920
That's like seriously, that was
going to be miserable if Blake

1134
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:06,439
just had to come in here and and
hear you complain for an hour.

1135
01:09:06,439 --> 01:09:07,080
So this is.
Great.

1136
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:09,680
And then and then you'd be like,
yeah, it's pretty good. 8 out of

1137
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:11,920
10, yeah.
Not a good episode if that's the

1138
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:15,000
case.
So we're coming to an 8.75 out

1139
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,920
of 10 on average, but we'd like
to know what you think of Mad

1140
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:20,120
Max Fury Rd.
I'd also like to hear what

1141
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,840
people think of Furiosa.
I think that movie is like a 7

1142
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:25,720
out of 10.
But Chris Hemsworth in that

1143
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:29,279
movie is the best thing about
either of these two movies.

1144
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:31,960
So, Brad, you should first of
all watch Furiosa.

1145
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:33,080
Tell me what you think of that
one.

1146
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,200
But folks, we want to hear from
you.

1147
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,760
You can find us on any of our
social media accounts, Facebook,

1148
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:43,720
Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok or
YouTube at Film Whiskey.

1149
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:47,240
Bobby, you didn't mention our
LinkedIn profile.

1150
01:09:47,399 --> 01:09:49,880
LinkedIn baby.
Witness me on LinkedIn.

1151
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:58,040
If you want to have a
conversation about this movie,

1152
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:03,600
the this just Grand Imperator of
a film Bob, you can find a

1153
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,560
conversation happening every
single day on our Discord

1154
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:08,680
server.
We are over there talking all

1155
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:11,800
the time about movies, whiskey,
and all sorts of other things.

1156
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,520
If you would like to join the
conversation, you can find a

1157
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:17,880
link at the end of every single
one of our show notes.

1158
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:21,120
Next week we'll be back with a
movie that I really, really,

1159
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:23,840
really like, and I'm interested
to see what Brad thinks of it.

1160
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:25,920
It's a movie called The Big
Short.

1161
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:29,360
So join us for that next week.
But until then, I'm Bob Book.

1162
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:33,120
How many cars get blown up in
the Big Short?

1163
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:35,760
0.
Witness me.

1164
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:38,800
And we'll see you next time.