Season 9 Bracket Challenge, Part 2: Round of 16

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Today on the Film and Whiskey
podcast, we are continuing our

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bracket challenge with the round
of 16.

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We're going to be whittling this
thing down to just 8 remaining

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movies.
We're going to be drinking

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whiskey while we do it, and
we're giving out the coveted

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Filmy Awards.
That's all ahead on Film and

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Whiskey.
Hey everybody, welcome into the

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Film and Whiskey podcast.
I'm Bob Book.

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I'm Brad Gee.
And Brad Gee, we didn't say this

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last time, but you know what
kind of episode this is?

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This is a bracket episode, Bob.
Well, I mean, but in the larger

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category, in the big scheme of
things, it's a bonus episode.

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It's a.
Bonus episode.

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We don't do enough bonus
episodes anymore, man.

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We have.
We have busy lives now, so this

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is a real treat to get to hear
that from you.

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Yeah, it it it does not get
shared as often as it ought.

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And in the spirit of the bonus
episode and not doing enough of

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them, we are bringing you extra
bonus bonus episodes because for

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the first time ever, we have
divided the bracket challenge

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into three episodes.
We tried our damnedest to get

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that thing down to under an
hour, and we've just barely made

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it, and we had only made it
halfway through what we intended

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to do.
So you get another episode,

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Brad.
This is the first time we've

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done the round of 16 as its own
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Yeah, and I'm very excited for
it.

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I I think A, we went really long
on the first round and B, this

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is A, this is a heck of a lineup
of movies, Bob.

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We watched a ton of great cinema
this year.

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We sure did, man.
Modern classics indeed.

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And I'll go ahead and real
quick, let's go through the list

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of 16 films remaining.
Folks, if this is your first

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time joining Film and Whiskey,
why did you choose this episode?

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First of all, like, why is this
your first one?

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But you know, welcome in and
we're glad to have you.

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But maybe go back and listen to
the prior episode where we start

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with the full battery of movies
from this season.

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We started with 32 films, and
these are the 16 remaining.

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Whiplash, Ratatouille 1917 La La
Land, Parasite, Spider Man, Into

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the Spider Verse, Inside Out,
The Holdovers, Oppenheimer, The

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Wolf of Wall Street, How to
Train Your Dragon, Mad Max Fury

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Rd., Past Lives, JoJo Rabbit,
Everything Everywhere All at

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Once, and Godzilla -1 dude, I
think things are going to start

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to get a little harder this time
around, Brad.

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Yeah, it's it's going to be a
little spicy this round of 16

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Bob.
Now while we get through these,

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we are going to be trying 1W
today from our friends at Old

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Hammer.
We tried the West Fork Whiskey

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last episode.
I liked it better than Brad did,

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but he has assured me that he
likes these old hammers a little

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bit better.
I think maybe today.

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Brad, do you want to do the cask
strength Old Hammer or do you

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want to do the rum barrel
finished?

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I think we should do the cast
strength, you know, stick with a

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more typical expression, and
then we'll move into their

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finished product with the final
episode.

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I like it, man.
But before we get into all that,

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folks, you can follow along with
this bracket if you haven't

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already done so.
Go to our website,

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filmwhiskey.com.
That's film whiskey with an

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e.com.
The Season 9 bracket will be at

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the top banner.
You can download your own copy

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and please share with us who
your pick for the Season 9

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champion would be.
Whether or not Brad, Brad and I

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have already thrown that movie
into the fiery chasm, That

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doesn't mean it has to be in
your fiery chasm.

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You know what I'm saying?
That sounds like a personal.

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Problem.
As soon as I said it, I was like

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Dang, what's in?
What's in your fiery chasm,

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folks?
So.

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On that, it's a great question.
On that note, Brad, first of

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all, folks, if if your chasm is
fiery, you want to get that

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checked out by a doctor like
let's.

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You should see a professional.
100%, Brad.

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Let's dive into the bracket.
We have 16 films remaining.

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We're going to start in the top
left quadrant.

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Last time around, we named these
after celebrities and their

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birthdays.
I don't remember a single thing

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about it.
What are we calling this

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quadrant this time around, Brad?
We are in the George Lucas

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universe over here.
Oh, are we sticking with the old

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ones?
You you're not going to take the

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opportunity to just rename.
We're going to rename the

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brackets.
Yeah, why not?

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Yeah, sure, we could call this
the Ryan Johnson Can Go blow a

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Fat 1.
Yikes.

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OK, never mind.
So the George Lucas quadrant

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here, we're starting with the
number one overall seed

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Whiplash, up against the number
16 seed, Ratatouille.

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Now, I would hear arguments for
Ratatouille in this in this

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matchup.
Brad and I know a lot of people

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love that movie.
I was slightly underwhelmed this

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time around.
You know, when you watch a movie

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for the podcast with a really
critical eye, kind of looking

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for flaws, you're going to find
them, right?

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And I think I did with
Ratatouille this time around.

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I think pretty crucially, I
didn't find very many with

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Whiplash.
Yeah, Whiplash is one of the

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closer to a perfect film like
movies that we've ever watched.

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I like, I truly don't know
anything they could have done to

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make that movie better.
I think if you didn't get hit by

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a semi truck and then just walk
away, that probably would have

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been, that's like the only part
of that movie that I'm like, you

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could have done something a
little different here.

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Have him drive into a telephone
pole or something, you know?

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Sure.
Yeah, that, you know, totally

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that that was the choice.
I'm pretty sure it's just, you

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know, a regular old like Dodge
Ram.

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I I don't think it's a semi
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Yeah, whatever.
In any case, that's like the

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only flaw I can find in that
movie, and for me it's a pretty

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easy candidate to move on into
the round of 8.

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Yeah, Whiplash.
I came into the season expecting

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it to be my number one movie.
It was my #2 in my heart list.

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So yeah, Whiplash is moving on.
All right, so we have our first

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entry into the round of eight.
It is whiplash.

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Now let's go to the final match
up in the Lucas Quadrant.

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Here we're talking about the
number nine overall seed 1917

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versus the number 8 overall seed
La La Land.

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I have a feeling you know where
I'm going to go here, Brad.

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Yeah, in the wrong direction,
Bob.

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Well, make your case.
Make your case for La La Land.

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A It's a beautiful film.
The jazz influence on Damien

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Chazelle and the movie as a
whole is like so clear and

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beautiful and not just in the
amount of jazz they talk about,

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but the way that they shoot the
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The the, the lighting is Moody
and beautiful and there's like

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bright colors where there need
to be that.

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There is so much to love about
the way this movie looks, paired

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with an absolutely
heartbreakingly beautiful story

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of people who are doing their
best to make it in life to fight

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their way to the top.
Like it really is an American

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like story of people trying to
find love on the way to making

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it in the world's that they
occupy.

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And you know, they don't end up
together in the end.

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And there's something beautiful
about that.

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And there's a nostalgia between
them as they see each other one

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last time, and yet a
contentedness with where they're

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at.
There's just so much to love

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about this movie.
And on top of that, the music is

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great.
So you can take your Fred

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Astaire comparisons and and eat
them, but this is one of the

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greatest movies made in the last
20 years.

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I really did think you were
going to continue, like the

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fiery chasm metaphor, say that I
can stick those Fred Astaire

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comparisons.
Right up your fiery chasm.

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Listen, I just think the 1917 is
a slightly better movie.

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La La Land is a good movie and I
think on many views I would call

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it like a very good, bordering
on great movie.

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I think 1917 is, I think I gave
it a nine and a half.

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Like it's just it works like
clockwork partially because it

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functions like a clock.
It's just a great ticking time

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bomb of a movie.
I had a blast watching that in

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the theater.
I had a blast re watching it

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this time around.
I did pick 1917 to move on.

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Now, Brad, because La La Land is
the higher seated film in the

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bracket at the eight seed, it
will be heads when you flip the

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coin of destiny to determine the
winner here.

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So La La Land is heads, 1917 is
tails.

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Brad for a spot in the final
eight.

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Flip that coin.
Ah jeez, dropped it.

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Let me redo.
Boo Boo Bob upon redo.

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Even though it fell and landed
on heads, it was not a proper

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coin toss and it has now landed
on tails.

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Oh man, a major upset for you.
We almost had a Chazelle versus

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Chazelle.
And I was looking forward.

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To it like a guaranteed Chazelle
entry in the final.

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Four, yeah, I there's something
about Damien Chazelle and Edgar

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Wright that like, I just love
those two guys as like young

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directors who have nailed a few
really great movies and I like,

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I want to see everything that
those two guys put out.

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So a top 8 Chazelle V Chazelle
would have been awesome.

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Well, alas, it is not to be.
So now we're moving down into

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the next quadrant, which again,
I have no idea what this

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quadrant was called.
We're going to say this was not

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the the Bobby Z quadrant.
This was the Blanchette.

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Blanchette bracket.
Yeah, that's right.

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OK, So we're looking at the
number four overall seed

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parasite up against the number
13 seed spider man Into the

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spider verse again, a really
interesting match up.

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Brad, I was blown away by into
the spider verse this time

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around.
Parasite is a movie that every

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single time I try watching it
again, I want it to be a 10 out

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of 10 for me.
And it just like it never is.

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It's a very good movie and I
would call it a 10 until the

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last like 20 minutes for me.
And partially it's because of my

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in theater experience watching
it.

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I I don't think I'm a qualified
person to speak on these

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matters.
What did you go with here?

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I went with Parasite.
I I think Into the Spider versus

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a very well made movie.
It's very interesting and fun

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and dynamic.
I think Parasite is a is a

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capital M movie.
Like it was well deserving of

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the 2019 Oscar for best picture
in a field that we have

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established was absolutely
freaking stacked.

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So I in my in my opinion, I
think Parasite is the very

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obvious winner here.
I also chose Parasite.

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It's a little less obvious for
me, but it's one of those

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instances where I have to kind
of take a step back and even

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though in my heart I don't know
which one I would pick here, I

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think it makes more sense for
Parasite to move on.

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So no drama in this one.
Parasite moves on to the round

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of 8 and that takes us to our
final match up on the whole left

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side of the bracket here.
The number 12 seed inside out up

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against the number 5 seed, the
holdovers.

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I have no idea what direction
you went here Brad.

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Let me just say, this is the
first match up in either round

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that I feel very strongly about
and will be horrifically upset

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if it does not go my way.
Oh man, that makes me want to

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make certain decisions.
Bob, Here's the thing man,

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Inside out is a top tier Pixar
film.

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I do think that the second one
might be better.

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I think this one's more
streamlined than the second one,

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but man, the second one's
incredible.

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I I think they nailed it with
inside out.

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They they proved that they still
had it in the mid twenty 10's.

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The Holdovers is, is better
though.

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Yes.
Yeah.

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I, I, I, I moved the Holdovers
on.

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I love the holdovers, dude.
I see the light.

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I've seen the light since the
moment I saw it.

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I, I really like the holdovers.
It is a well deserved Oscar

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nomination for Paul Giamatti,
who is one of the best actors of

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our generation.
Like he he is just incredible.

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Dominic, you know, doesn't
destroy the film.

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He is good and passable.
Divine Joy Randolph is just

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killer in her supporting role.
A true Paul Giamatti performance

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if there ever was 1.
Dude I'm so happy this was a

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fairly drama free side of the
bracket.

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Only one one bit of controversy
between the two.

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Drama free for you, Robert.
I have.

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I'm like what?
How many have we done now?

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16, We've done 20 picks.
I've only missed one so far.

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I'm, I'm doing OK.
I'm doing all right, man.

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I think I've only missed one as
well.

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I Bob, I think this is a a
unique year.

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We're very much so in agreement.
I know like.

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I'll tell you how how much
goodwill I'm feeling towards you

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right now.
Brad, before we dive into this

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whiskey, I think we should give
out our first couple filmy

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awards of the season.
Now folks, we have not been able

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to come up with a better name
for the Film and Whiskey Awards

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than the Filmy's A a horrendous
name for an award, but it's

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endearing.
Yeah, it's great.

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So we've come up with quite a
few filmies this season because

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we have now 3 episodes to fill
and I thought we'd get a little

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bit fun with some of these
possibilities this time around.

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Brad.
So why don't you introduce our

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first Filmy Award to the general
public, The 1st.

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Filmy of 2025 is the most
overqualified actor in a

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Thankless Role Award.
Oh man, who?

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Is it Bob, who of these 32 films
is just, you know, a, you know,

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we should, we should rename this
the Kane and Duvall Second Hand

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Lions Award.
Like, what are they doing in

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that movie?
It makes no sense, but they're

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perfect in it.
Do you want me to go first here?

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Because I I think I have my
answer.

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Yeah, I'd love to hear yours.
I think this goes to Stanley

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Tucci in Spotlight.
Oh, that's a good one.

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He freaking nails it.
He he and Paul Giamatti are like

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the greatest supporting actors
of all time.

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And it's so easy to forget that
Tucci is in that movie because,

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you know, he's kind of got that
wig and just, you know, he just

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looks different, but he nails
it.

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And he brings that emotional
weight at the end of the film

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when he's like, yeah, you nailed
it.

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You did great.
I'm going to talk to another

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victim right now.
So here's why I'd push back on

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that because the category is
overqualified actor in a

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thankless role.
And I actually think that you

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need a Tucci in a role like that
to make that role stick.

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Like when I think about this
performance, I'm like it's more

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of just like why is he in this
movie?

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Like this could have been played
by just like stock actor #3 and

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so I'm, I'm struggling, man.
I think that a good one we

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talked about this on the episode
would be John Goodman and Argo.

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Because like does John Goodman
need to be in that role?

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No, but does it make the movie?
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That kind of takes away from the
thanklessness.

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I think my part or my pick would
be Rafe finds as the new M in

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Skyfall.
You could get any British person

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to play M.
He barely shows up.

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He just says ah Bond damn it.
And then Bond walks away having

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an actor.
But he says, but he says, ah,

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Bond, damn it so well.
Better than anyone in the world.

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So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and
go with Rafe Fines here.

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So what do you think, man?
Who's who's the winner between

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our two?
I'll give it to Rafe Fines.

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I think that's.
Cool.

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All right, All right, Rafe, you
can come collect your award at

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Brad's house.
It will be waiting for you.

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All right, the second film me
we're going to give out this

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time around, Brad, is an
interesting one.

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Best final shot of a movie.
Now, this is an interesting one

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because I know for a fact you
probably can't remember half the

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final shots in most of these
movies, but you seemed very

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opinionated when you brought
this one up before we started

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recording.
So I'm interested to hear your

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best final shot.
Man, honestly, I think that

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there are a few great options.
I think inside out when, you

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know, they talk about her
growing up and the panel's

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expanding and they're all
working together.

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Great end of the movie.
I want to say, oh man, you're

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going to hate this, Bob.
I think I'm going to say

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parasite.
Like you get that final shot.

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It's like a crane shot and
you're like not sure about the

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reality of everything that's
happening.

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There's like hope that's like
almost like curdling into

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delusion and it like, I don't
know, man.

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There's there's a depth of
emotion there that is just nails

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it.
If I pick 1917, do I get to

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count the entire movie as the
final shot?

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Yes, Bob, that obviously.
I did it all right.

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Here's a couple other
possibilities for me.

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Brad, I think Oppenheimer is is
a pretty obvious choice here.

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The the shot of him imagining
the world blowing up and then it

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ending on his harrowed face I
think is a an all time great

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closing shot for a movie.
A real sucker punch.

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I think the final shot of
Whiplash where you just get him

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hitting the symbol and it
cutting to black after

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everything that's just happened
is really, really good.

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I think Mad Max Fury Rd.
As you see the women and Furiosa

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getting lifted on that platform
and then as it lifts off the

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screen, it just fades to black.
That's a great.

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Shot, I was just thinking about
Mad Max I I might have to change

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my answer.
I think Oppenheimer is the one

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that probably has the most
cultural cache, but I'd be OK

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with Mad Max if you want to go
that route.

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Yeah, I I think I'm going to go
with Mad Max because it's one of

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the greatest movies ever
created.

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All right, there you go, Mad Max
Fury Rd. you have the best final

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shot in a movie that's not
called 1917.

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So what?
What a great award to win, Brad.

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Let's drink some whiskey, man.
Before we get to the second part

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of this episode.
Today we are sticking with West

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Fork Whiskey, but we're trying a
different label of theirs called

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Old Hammer.
Now we're going to go with the

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Old Hammer Cask Strength.
We have another one to drink in

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episode #3 Oldhamer was an
Indiana brand over a century ago

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that West Fork acquired the
rights to the name for and and

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resurrected it.
Now crucially, Brad, they are

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not using their own distillate
in this brand.

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They're using MGP for this
distillate.

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It looks like the mash bill on
this is 99% corn, 1% malted

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barley.
So this is and almost entirely

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corn mash bill here.
It's, you know, again made at

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MGP in new charred oak barrels,
which now makes it a bourbon.

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Apparently they had bought the
light whiskey distillate and

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then by putting it in those
charred oak barrels, it is now a

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bourbon.
It's only aged for three years,

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which I find interesting because
we just drank the bottled and

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Bond from West Fork at four
years and that tasted a little

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young to us.
So I'm interested to see what

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MGP can do in even less time
here.

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This also is coming in at cast
strength.

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It is 118.2 proof, which means
it's got a little bit of heft to

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it.
It sure does man.

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Now just for you know those
people out there who are

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collecting every bottle of Old
Hammer they can find, this is

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batch #32.
Brad and I are both diving into

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it right now.
Brad, what are your nosing notes

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on this cask strength Old
Hammer?

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This is like a just a beautiful
classic bourbon experience.

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There is caramel and vanilla.
The vanilla reminds me of like a

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really rich vanilla frosting
with the amount of corn that is

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in this.
Like maybe it's because I knew

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the mash bill, but I was like
sifting it around in my glass

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and I was like, oh, this kind of
smells like like a cob of

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buttered corn before you put
salt on it.

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Like it's just really kind of
creamy and there is like a

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little bit of a marshmallow vibe
going on.

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Really pleasant nose overall.
I'll I'll give it a 7 1/2 here.

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Yeah, I think that overall it's
not a very complex nose.

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Like it's pretty one note and
it's like dusty corn.

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It smells a little bit light and
thin on the on the palate, on

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the nose, which does not bode
well necessarily.

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But there was one interesting
note that it was this kind of

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sweet powdery smell and I kept
bouncing back and forth between.

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Is it toasted marshmallow or is
it like pink bubble gum?

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And I think it's a little bit of
both.

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You definitely nailed it on on
the marshmallow.

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I'll say bubble gum just so it's
in our notes here, Brad.

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I'm going to give it just a 7
out of 10 on the nose.

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I.
Think when you get into the

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pallet I I'm kind of on a serial
kick with West Fork and old

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hammer.
This reminds me of cornflakes

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quite a bit with like a little
bit of sugar added.

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It got more spicy for me than I
expected.

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There's like some really nice
black pepper stuff going on.

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There's a little bit of a cherry
note that I'm picking up, almost

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like a maraschino cherry juice.
Really sweet.

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Overall man, this is a really
pleasant drinking experience.

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I'm going to stick it a 7 1/2.
Yeah, I like this a lot, dude.

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Again, could it have benefited
from another year or two in the

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barrel?
I think so.

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Way more syrupy sweet than I
thought it would be, and

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actually much more viscous too.
It's it's spicy all the way

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through, right on the tip of the
tongue, all the way across the

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palate.
There's a lot of like alcohol

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burn and prickle here, but it
opens up these layers of like

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black pepper.
For me, it was a ton of like

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vanilla buttercream frosting
right at the tip of my tongue,

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and then it expanded into some
pretty classic bourbon flavors.

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I got Maple on this.
I got a little bit of like the

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buttered popcorn Jelly belly on
this as well.

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That's sort of sweetened corn.
I really like this a lot man,

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and it does pack a punch, but
I'm going to give it an 8 out of

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10 on the palate.
Wow, yeah, I I think the finish

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is really good.
The black pepper really sticks

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around and gets a little bit
oaky, but in a way that makes me

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appreciate the three years.
It's like just enough of an oak

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taste to enhance the experience.
The corn definitely sticks

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around to the end.
I, I'm a little bit cooler on

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the finish.
I, I wish it had a little more

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complexity of flavor.
I, I wish it moved on from the

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nose and the palate, but it is
what it is.

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I'm going to give it a 7 out of
10 here.

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I think I'm going to give this
an 8 out of 10.

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Again, I it's a very specific
finish.

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It's pretty short and it's very,
very sweet, but I think we've

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talked about this on the podcast
before.

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Brad and I were part of a a
spirits judging competition a

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couple years ago where I fell in
love with this Mexican liqueur

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called Nicksta.
It reminds me of like if I took

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a shot of that, which is just
basically like sugar corn and

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then tried this to kind of see
what it could become.

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It's a great bridge from like
Nexta to this to more like high

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rye bourbons.
And this has that syrupy sweet

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note at the very back.
I really do love this a lot,

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man.
This is kind of like an ideal

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for what a younger whiskey
should taste like to me.

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Like heavy on the on the
sweetness and it nails like the

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notes it needs to to nail here.
So I'm going to give it another

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8 out of 10.
And then when it comes to the

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balance, I'm quite high on this.
I think I'll give it an 8.5

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overall bread.
I'll give it a 7 1/2.

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You know, I'm I've been at a 7
1/2 for everything but the

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finish.
I think this is a overall really

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well balanced, fun expression of
whiskey and I think the fact

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that they are selling it for
$50.00 is a really good value.

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I'm going to give it an 8 out of
10 on value dude.

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I think I am too because like if
you wanted somebody to taste,

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this is not necessarily, this is
not categorized as a corn

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00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,240
whiskey, right?
So I don't want to compare this

446
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,080
to Mellow Corn.
But if you were trying to get an

447
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,200
idea of what an all corn or a
nearly all corn bourbon would

448
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,600
taste like or something that has
that corn forward profile, I

449
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,680
would recommend this over Mellow
Corn 100 times out of 100.

450
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,680
Dude, any day of the week.
I know it's twice as expensive,

451
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,040
but it's worth it.
So I'm giving it an 8 out of 10

452
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,440
here, Brad, and that is taking
me to an extraordinarily high

453
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,520
39.5 out of 50 here.
Yeah, I'm two points below you.

454
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,680
I'm at a 37.5 out of 50.
So Westfork, I hope you guys

455
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,200
listened to our second episode
and not just the first one.

456
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,800
I'm sorry that for the lower
scores on the other whiskey.

457
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,720
But listen, we we shoot straight
here.

458
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,800
This one is phenomenal.
We're coming out to a 77 out of

459
00:25:54,800 --> 00:26:00,760
100 or a 38.5 out of 50.
Now, for context, 35 is where we

460
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,760
usually start recommending with
a pretty Hardy thumbs up. 40 is

461
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,840
like a no brainer
recommendation.

462
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,840
I'm very close to a no brainer
here.

463
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,240
Brad, for 50 bucks, this is damn
good whiskey.

464
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,120
Yeah, yeah.
In in the current world of

465
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:19,000
whiskey, 50 bucks doesn't go as
far as it used to and I think

466
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,320
you could spend it
extraordinarily well on this old

467
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,440
Hammer cast strength.
All right, man.

468
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,600
Well, man, what a great day
we're having here.

469
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,840
Very little disagreement.
Good whiskey, good awards.

470
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,600
What do you say we get back into
the bracket, Brad?

471
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,200
I am so ready, Bob.
Let's get to it.

472
00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:44,600
All right, everybody.
That was old Hammer Cast

473
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,880
Strength.
A whiskey that really impressed

474
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,960
us, Bob.
Yeah, that was really good, man.

475
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:54,920
Speaking of things that impress
us, not Bobby Zemeckis, but this

476
00:26:54,920 --> 00:27:00,040
is his bracket, his memorial
bracket in memory of a good

477
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,480
filmmaker.
He was very much still with us,

478
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:04,720
yeah.
Yes.

479
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:09,000
Memorial bracket.
It makes me laugh every time you

480
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,680
say that, dude.
All right, the first match up in

481
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,000
the Bob Zemeckis Memorial
bracket is the number two seed,

482
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,440
Oppenheimer up against the 15
seed, The Wolf of Wall Street.

483
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,760
Now, Brad, some match ups
require a lot of conversation.

484
00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:27,640
I don't believe this is one of
them, but who knows, maybe

485
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:28,960
you'll throw me a curveball
here.

486
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,720
Yeah, I mean, obviously Wolf of
Wall Street's moving on.

487
00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:36,080
It's made by Martin Scorsese,
Bob, I know.

488
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,120
How could you not move it on?
This is this is pure cinema,

489
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:40,720
right here.
Unimpeachable man.

490
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,640
Did Robert Oppenheimer throw any
little people at a dartboard?

491
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,920
I think not.
What a great movie.

492
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,920
Dude.
How many movies can you say that

493
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,440
sentence about?
I know, I'm trying to think of

494
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,720
all the stuff when they're like
going through the legality of

495
00:27:58,720 --> 00:27:59,680
it.
You know what?

496
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:05,120
I mean, it's, it's just pure
comedy, like one of the funniest

497
00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:07,320
movies I've ever seen.
It's a really good movie,

498
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,600
however.
Don't go watch Wolf of Wall

499
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,520
Street.
It's probably not good for your

500
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:12,720
soul.
Probably not.

501
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,800
At least don't go watch it with
your mom.

502
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,600
You know, that's that's
certainly not a movie that you

503
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,160
want to take home to
Thanksgiving with you.

504
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,960
Shouldn't that be a Film Me
movie?

505
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:26,440
You definitely shouldn't,
because Wolf of Wall Street

506
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,440
would probably.
That weighs easily.

507
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,440
I think Oppenheimer moves on
here, Brad.

508
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,040
Also a candidate for a movie I
don't want to watch with my mom.

509
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,240
Yeah, but I think, you know, we
could share in the harrowing

510
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,600
experience of Oppenheimer.
I don't know if my relationship

511
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,480
with my mom survives the wolf of
Wall Street.

512
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:43,240
That's.
Just.

513
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,920
You don't want to ask that of
anyone, man.

514
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,200
Oh man.
Well, Oppenheimer, the 2024 Best

515
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:55,920
Picture winner, is moving on.
Our next match up is between How

516
00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,200
to Train Your Dragon and Mad Max
Fury Rd.

517
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,840
How much do you want to be
witnessed, Brad?

518
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,640
I I want you to witness me so
hard, Bob.

519
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,840
Can I witness you right off into
the fiery chasm, is the real

520
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,200
question here, Brad.
Dude, if you if you put how to

521
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,320
train your dragon over Mad Max
I. 100% put How to train your

522
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,520
dragon over MAD.
Max, get the heck out of here,

523
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,600
dude.
There's I really like Mad Max.

524
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,200
Here's the thing about Mad Max.
I I really like it.

525
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,280
I really like it.
And I think that it is certainly

526
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,040
a bigger artistic achievement
than How to Train your dragon.

527
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,000
I think it's also one of those
things where it's like this is a

528
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,040
singular and unique work of art
and I celebrate that.

529
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,520
But like, it's just a, it's a
weird ass movie, you know, and

530
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,960
like there, there are moments of
the movie where it's like this

531
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,880
is great for being a weird ass
movie.

532
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,520
And there are other parts of
this movie that I'm like, this

533
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,920
is an 8.
I think in the balance of

534
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,720
things, this is like a nine out
of 10 for me.

535
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,560
I'm kind of in the same place
with How to Train Your Dragon,

536
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,400
and maybe it's because I'm a a
dad of small boys right now.

537
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,440
I am truly shocked at how well
How to Train Your Dragon works

538
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,600
for people of all ages.
Like it is a really well made

539
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,680
action movie that also happens
to be for kids.

540
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,280
I moved it on.
Oh, my.

541
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,000
I, I didn't even expect this.
I I wasn't prepared, Bob.

542
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,520
I told you in the Mad Max Fury
Rd. episode like it's a good

543
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,320
movie.
I think I ignored that cause

544
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,080
your opinion is invalid.
There's only one opinion on Mad

545
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,640
Max Fury Rd.
Bob and that is it's one of the

546
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,400
greatest movies ever made.
Listen, I I wholly and heartily

547
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,680
understand that, like I am in
the small minority, here it is.

548
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,080
It is perhaps the best reviewed
movie of this entire century.

549
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,120
It just isn't quite there for
me.

550
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,720
It's a good movie.
It is certainly in the pantheon.

551
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,360
It will be in our 21st century
Canon, but if you're talking

552
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,800
heart movies, I'm going How to
Train Your Dragon Man.

553
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:09,640
Oh man, I knew your heart was
flawed, but here we are about to

554
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,000
flip the coin.
Mad Max Fury Rd. is going to be

555
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,880
Heads as the number seven seed.
How to Train Your Dragon.

556
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,400
The lesser film is going to be
our ten seed at Tails.

557
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,560
So Are you ready, Bob?
Before you flip it, can I?

558
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:31,760
I will 100% admit to you it's
probably the lesser film.

559
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,320
Thank you.
But if you're asking me to be

560
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,040
honest as a person, I have to
choose it.

561
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,280
I.
Just you're how I am.

562
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:41,120
You're gonna shove Tom Hardy and
Charlize Theron up your fiery

563
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,640
chasm.
You're willing to?

564
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,040
Threaten me with a good time,
man.

565
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:57,320
Brad, flip that coin.
Hey, Bob.

566
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,280
Yeah.
What does mean?

567
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,640
What does?
Mean, I'm happy it moved on.

568
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,360
That was a kind of indefensible
pick for me.

569
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,960
I had to be true to my heart.
But like, you know, I'm glad.

570
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,440
I'm glad Fury Red moved on.
Like any good Disney Princess,

571
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,440
Bob has been true to his heart.
Mad Max is moving on.

572
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,600
Brad, I think before we get too
contentious because my heart is

573
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,240
on the line here with this next
match up, let's give out a

574
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,160
couple more filmies.
You want to lead the way on

575
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:31,840
these ones.
Yeah, our next filmy is the Why

576
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,400
wasn't this nominated for Best
Picture award?

577
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,640
I feel like that's half of our
movies, man.

578
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,720
Yeah, it could also be called
The Dark Knight Award.

579
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,440
I I.
Believe very much.

580
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,280
I don't, I don't know man, where
are you at on best pictures that

581
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,080
should have been from this
season?

582
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,240
Well, let's see.
Was whiplash not committed?

583
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,680
I would say the interesting
thing is many of these films

584
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,440
were nominated.
I don't.

585
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,480
If Whiplash wasn't nominated,
that's that's the winner.

586
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,880
Yeah, it's got, I mean it's our
number one seed.

587
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,160
Yeah, so Whiplash was indeed
nominated for the Academy Award

588
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,360
for Best Picture at the 87th
Academy Awards, Bob.

589
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,720
All right, I'm looking through
this list and it really is like

590
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,800
at least 2/3 of these that were
nominated for Best Picture.

591
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,880
So that really whittles it down.
I'm going to throw out a couple

592
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:28,040
that I know weren't.
I think the one that we could

593
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:33,280
both kind of coalesce around
here, Brad, is Godzilla -1.

594
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,280
Yeah.
I think Ratatouille and Inside

595
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,880
Out probably could get not like
nods as well, but Godzilla man.

596
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,080
Yeah, probably Godzilla.
I I mean, we could also flip the

597
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,760
award.
Why did this get nominated for

598
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,560
Best Picture?
That's a great one.

599
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:59,360
What what are the best picture
knobs are you like I mean?

600
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,560
A movie that won Best Picture.
Yeah, I would say Argo.

601
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,240
I'd say Ford V Ferrari.
Joker.

602
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,600
I don't.
Oh yes, obviously.

603
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,000
Didn't Joker win it?
No, no, he won Best Actor, but

604
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,800
thankfully it was one of the
2019 entries, so oh.

605
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,639
Parasite.
OK, Yep.

606
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,440
All right, well Joker, we hate
you.

607
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:25,520
And also Godzilla -1 come pick
up your You Should Have Been

608
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,120
Nominated award.
Yes, absolutely.

609
00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:34,080
All right, our next film E is
the most effective use of a non

610
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,679
original song or as we like to
call it, best needle drop.

611
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,440
Now, we had a lot of movies this
season that had fantastic

612
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,560
scores, but we're not talking
about that.

613
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,639
We're talking about non
original.

614
00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,280
So all the La La Land music,
except for when they do the

615
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,360
scene where they sing Iran is
pretty much ineligible.

616
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,719
It's got to be an existing piece
of music from outside that movie

617
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,800
that they plopped into a movie.
Brad, where you going with this

618
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,120
one?
Man, that is a really good

619
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:05,920
question.
I mean, Tarantino is obviously a

620
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,840
master of needle drops and I
think Out of Time is really

621
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,400
great in in Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood.

622
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,720
I think though I am going to go
with a foreign language song.

623
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:26,600
I am going to go with the German
version of Heroes by David Bowie

624
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,360
at the end of JoJo Rabbit.
That was my pick as well.

625
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,600
Let's.
Go dude, that was my pick.

626
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,200
I I actually like that scene.
I think people hate it and it is

627
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,240
corny and it is cheesy, but
watching those two kids dance

628
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,760
and be happy at the end of that
movie, it's just a it warms my

629
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,560
cold, dead heart, you know?
Yeah, it it fires up your fire

630
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,520
inferno, Bob.
No, it does not.

631
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,400
Nope.
We're not going there, Brad.

632
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,240
Don't.
Don't you dare put that on me,

633
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:57,440
Sir.
Don't you put that juju on me,

634
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,680
Ricky Bobby.
All right, JoJo Rabbit, you

635
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,760
could come pick up your one and
only award from film and whiskey

636
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,680
because as we transition back
into the bracket, we have a

637
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,280
match up here, Brad.
It's the number three overall

638
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,080
seed.
Past lives up against JoJo

639
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:17,560
Rabbit, the number 19 seed.
The only question to ask Brad is

640
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,760
where did you go with this match
up?

641
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:21,920
Because you know for damn sure
where I went.

642
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,480
Listen man, Past Lives is an
incredible film.

643
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,160
From start to.
Finish like.

644
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,280
You have just a.
Beautiful.

645
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,520
Like the opening scene where
like 2 random people are

646
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,080
discussing as anybody would
like.

647
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,680
What do you think's going on
over there?

648
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,960
Yeah, you got 2, you know, Asian
folk and an American guy hanging

649
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,120
out.
They obviously don't also be the

650
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,640
same language.
And then suing film is this

651
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:57,760
beautiful masterpiece of missed,
you know, missed opportunities

652
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,800
and the fluency of language and
how that plays in our

653
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,880
relationships.
There's so much to love about

654
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,280
past lives and that's why I
moved it on past JoJo Ram.

655
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,080
Oh, thank God.
Dude, listen, half the reason

656
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,120
that I was excited about Fury
Rd. winning the last match up is

657
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,480
because I I've started to
believe in in bad juju and karma

658
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,800
in these brackets.
And I was like, if I knock out

659
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,480
Fury Rd. then Brad's gonna knock
out Past Lives.

660
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,640
I just knew it.
So thank goodness there is no

661
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,400
controversy here.
The far superior Past Lives is

662
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:35,960
moving on here.
Bob.

663
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,360
I I love.
JoJo Rabbit I I think it's a

664
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:43,000
beautiful, fun film that has an
important message about humanity

665
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:48,560
and brokenness and the
ridiculousness of blindly

666
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:53,600
following propagandistic
dictators like it's a It's a

667
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,400
great film.
Past lives is a is a much.

668
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,920
Better movie, yes.
I knew that I'd taught you

669
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,720
something over the course of
these nine seasons.

670
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:04,960
Breath.
All right, listen.

671
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,080
Here's the last match up.
It's a match up that's.

672
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,400
Going to piss you all the way
off, Brad, because you could

673
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,560
just tell from the seeding of
these two where I went.

674
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:18,480
So it's Brad's number one seed
or number one favorite heart

675
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,840
film of the year.
Everything Everywhere All at

676
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,000
Once up against the number six
seed.

677
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:29,480
Godzilla -1 now Everything
Everywhere is the 11 seed.

678
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,400
So Brad had it at first.
Where does that tell you about

679
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,240
where I had it?
It is a really good movie that

680
00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:39,800
is not as good.
I don't know, like 25th.

681
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,840
Like somewhere in there?
It's good, Oh my soul.

682
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,800
It's good.
Bob this.

683
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:53,160
Everything Everywhere All At
Once is so stunningly beautiful

684
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:58,200
it the message it tells about
human relationships is so vastly

685
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:04,280
important, and it does it in a
fun, wild like way that

686
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,600
justifies the existence of
movies as a medium.

687
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,760
You've said that line a couple.
Times Now about that movie and

688
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,800
I'm I'm so happy for you.
I like I love that it does that

689
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,720
for you.
I can't tell me it didn't do it.

690
00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:20,440
For you, because you walked out
of the theaters feeling very

691
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,760
similarly to me, I felt like it
was a great.

692
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,200
Movie I don't know that I said
this justifies the existence as

693
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,720
if I was looking for a reason
for cinema to exist, like having

694
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:33,920
an existential crisis.
And then I was like here, here

695
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,360
is our savior.
It's not that there is an.

696
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,400
Existential crisis, Bob.
It's just that moment when

697
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,680
you're walking through life and
suddenly a beautiful flower

698
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,560
opens up right in front of you
and you're just like, wow.

699
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:52,240
Like the serendipity, the the
the thing I most needed and I

700
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,680
didn't even know it.
That is Everything Everywhere

701
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,120
all at once.
For me it wasn't so much.

702
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,520
Dildos and hot dog.
Fingers and all.

703
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,560
For me it wasn't so.
Much a beautiful flower opening

704
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:09,120
as much as it was an ancient
nuclear monster rising from the

705
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,920
deep, covered in icicles,
prepared to blast a nuclear bomb

706
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:19,320
upon the folks of Japan in a in
a horrifically horrifying way.

707
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,000
That was also the most badass
imagery I'd seen in years.

708
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:27,960
It Godzilla -1 absolutely clears
Everything Everywhere all at

709
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,880
once for me and like dude.
Will I hate to break your heart?

710
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,600
If this if this flip doesn't go
your way, I will, but I feel

711
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,480
very strongly that Godzilla is
just a better movie.

712
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,640
Godzilla -1 is.
Not a better movie The.

713
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,680
It's an incredible film.
I absolutely loved it.

714
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,200
It was the joy of my life to
bring Michael Klingis onto the

715
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,280
show.
Dear, dear friend.

716
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:57,840
However, Everything Everywhere
All at Once very clearly has a

717
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:02,160
larger impact.
It is a bigger film in a lot of

718
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,120
ways.
I Yeah, the choice is obvious

719
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,440
here, Bob.
We are moving on everything,

720
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,680
everywhere, all at once.
Well, I.

721
00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:11,800
Mean, before we close out this
episode, we're not.

722
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,240
Maybe we are.
But we got to do it through a

723
00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:17,120
coin flip.
So by virtue of being the higher

724
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,320
seed, Godzilla -1 is heads In
this coin flip, Everything

725
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,840
Everywhere is tails.
Brad, for the future of your

726
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:37,000
bracketing life, flip that coin.
Robert the coin has been

727
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,000
flipped.
Destiny has spoken.

728
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:43,440
The bagel consumes all.
Nah, damn it.

729
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,320
The bagel consumes all.
Dang it, dude, I I truly hate to

730
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,720
send Godzilla off into the abyss
here, man.

731
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,320
I I.
Don't worry, he will emerge

732
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,800
about 200 years from now, full
of nuclear power, ready to

733
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,160
annihilate your hopes and dreams
once again.

734
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,600
Can I give?
Out a a brief filmy for word

735
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,600
Brad has mispronounced the most
times over the course of this

736
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,680
season.
What would that be, Robert?

737
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:17,080
That would be the word nuclear.
Which George W Bush apparently

738
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:22,080
taught you to say as nuclear
and, and based on the fact that

739
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,440
we had Godzilla and Oppenheimer
and a whole bunch of war movies,

740
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:30,240
You have used the word nuclear
conservatively 7000 times this

741
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,920
season, Brad, and you got to
listen to it at.

742
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,880
Least two or three times more if
you would 'cause I was editing,

743
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,040
you know.
You are welcome.

744
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,040
It it's the curse of Saint Saint
Louis all over again.

745
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,120
It's one of those things that.
That never bothered me before.

746
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,440
And then by the end of the
season, I was like screaming at

747
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,000
my computer like it's, it's
comes from the nucleus.

748
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,200
It's nuclear.
It's not nuclear.

749
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,720
Like I have become a madman,
Brad.

750
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:55,600
Yeah.
I.

751
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,800
I was aware of that many years
ago.

752
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,320
Look, you're feeding.
Into it more now.

753
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,120
Hey, listen man, we've got a
couple more filmies to give out

754
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,400
here.
I think in the spirit of this

755
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,960
podcast, we are a group of
people that really appreciate

756
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,480
the old 90 minute movie.
Not just because it's short, but

757
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,680
because we respect when a
filmmaker can condense the

758
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:20,440
entire story and really maximize
the movie per minute.

759
00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:25,240
And I think that that's a good
filmy right, like most movie per

760
00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:29,640
minute or like maximum amount of
cinema bang for your buck.

761
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,800
It doesn't have to be a short
movie, but like which movie made

762
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,640
the best use of its time for
you?

763
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,720
Brad Man that that is a.
Good question.

764
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:44,000
It's kind of tough.
I mean are are we sticking to

765
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,960
like a 99 or less minutes?
No, I don't think so.

766
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,840
OK, then it's whiplash.
Like, I think whiplash is like

767
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:58,040
an hour and 45 minutes, which,
you know, if you, if you count

768
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,120
credits, it's probably like an
hour 3839.

769
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:07,320
I, I mean, if we're going for
most bang for your buck, I have

770
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,720
to say whiplash.
I, I don't remember how long was

771
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,800
spider man.
It's long.

772
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,200
It's like an hour and. 50 I
think, and it took a while.

773
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,720
To get going at the beginning.
As I remember it did I, I.

774
00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:25,480
Was thinking like, you know, if
that was a true 90 minute film

775
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,920
that might be best bang for your
buck as far as like action and

776
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,960
fun and whiplash.
Deed I.

777
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,720
Think I wrote down 3.
Candidates for this.

778
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:36,680
Whiplash is one of them.
I think it's, it's definitely

779
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,520
skewed towards movies where the
the plot of the movie means you

780
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,520
can't waste a minute.
So like Whiplash is an obvious

781
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,560
one here.
I think Fury Rd. is right there

782
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,400
too.
Like Yep, from the very

783
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,440
beginning they're like, let's
start chasing people.

784
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,880
And it's the same thing with
1917.

785
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,680
You know, it's just like you get
30 seconds of set up of like

786
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,760
here's these two guys.
OK, now the Colonel wants to see

787
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,960
you go on this mission.
So any of those 3 movies I think

788
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,440
would be a good choice.
I really thought you'd go Fury

789
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,120
Rd. here.
But I'm with you man.

790
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,040
I think Whiplash definitely wins
this award.

791
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,280
I.
That's wild dude, because I I

792
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:15,320
guess my brain was stuck on the
90 minutes elements of it.

793
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:20,240
I I actually do think Mad Max
gives you more movie for your

794
00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:22,040
minute.
Oh, it definitely gives you a

795
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:23,440
lot.
Of movie, that's for sure.

796
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,320
I'm I'm going.
Mad Max for your Rd. like that.

797
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:31,640
That is, if the qualification is
most movie for your minute.

798
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:37,760
How can you get more cinema,
more action, more witnessing

799
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,440
than the two hours you would
spend watching Mad Max Fury Rd.

800
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:42,920
You know what?
I'm not even going to argue.

801
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,000
With you man, I I'll let you
have this one.

802
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,640
Fury Rd. is going to get a
second filmy in this episode and

803
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:52,400
that takes us to our final filmy
of the day, one that I hope

804
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,560
warms our hearts, Brad.
It's the movie that's most

805
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,520
improved by watching it with a
friend.

806
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,400
You know, we do this with every
movie, Brad, despite our

807
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,680
differences, one of my best
friends in the world.

808
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,360
Nice to talk about movies with
you.

809
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,080
But I think that there are
certain movies that like we can

810
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,320
sit at our laptops and watch a
movie before we record, but

811
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,680
there's just like some some
layer of the communal experience

812
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,840
makes that watching like just
better.

813
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,640
And I think that again, there's
this is going to skew towards

814
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,360
movies that have an element of
fun.

815
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:27,880
Like you can't just be like, oh,
Oppenheimer so that I could, you

816
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,640
know, be shell shocked at the
end of that movie communally,

817
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:32,200
right?
There's definitely got to be

818
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,760
some watch Florence Pugh be.
Naked with my friend, right?

819
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:37,440
There's got to be an.
Element of fun.

820
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:38,960
So I'm sure it's going to skew
that way.

821
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,480
I'd love to hear what your
finalists are for this one.

822
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,800
I I think that.
John Wick is up there.

823
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,800
Like you know it's it's a fine
action movie but like getting 3

824
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,400
or 4 guys together and having
John Wick on and drinking

825
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,960
whiskey would be a great time
man.

826
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:02,160
I I think some other options I
mean Whiplash I have watched

827
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:06,000
with a group of friends and it
plays so well to a group of

828
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,160
people especially because it's
so quick.

829
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,880
I think District 9 would be a
sneaky fun movie to watch with

830
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,760
some buddies.
But at the end of the day, I

831
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:18,920
think.
It's got to be mad.

832
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:23,120
Max.
It's freaking dominating.

833
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,720
Tell tell me that that wouldn't.
Be such a fun movie to just get

834
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,600
a group of people together and
be like, let's watch cars

835
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,160
explode, let's witness it
together.

836
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,920
I am not I'm.
Not disagreeing with you, here

837
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,080
are my other finalists 'cause I
think that there's a few.

838
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,080
Godzilla -1 is.
Up there, that was it was such a

839
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,320
fun movie.
I took a group of four people

840
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,400
with me and at the end of it,
like one, one person told me

841
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,760
that was the first foreign
language movie I've ever

842
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,760
watched, which is like, I felt
very honored that like this

843
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,440
person would go to the movies
with me, watch a whole movie in

844
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,280
Japanese and then have that much
fun with it.

845
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,240
Like that was really cool.
I think, you know, for all of

846
00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:03,440
the weirdness I experienced at
the theater, Parasite in the

847
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:07,640
theater when that chick's head
hits the back of the wall, I

848
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,720
have never heard a group of
people collectively go like, it

849
00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:15,000
was awesome so.
Good dude.

850
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,000
I really wish I'd saw that in
theaters.

851
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:18,680
And then honestly, I think a
sneaky.

852
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,800
Candidate here is also the
holdovers because it's a

853
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,000
Christmas movie.
Like it really is a good movie.

854
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,040
It's not like a theater movie
necessarily, but it's a movie to

855
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:27,800
watch with a group of people
that you love.

856
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,200
So I, I think those are all good
candidates.

857
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,000
I don't know that I'm gonna talk
you out of Mad Max Fury Rd.

858
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:34,640
here.
Brad.

859
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:38,920
Nah.
Dude, even the way you talked

860
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,200
about all the other ones were
like, yeah, this is like a

861
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,800
pretty good option.
There's no beating Mad Max here.

862
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,400
All right, Well, we have now.
Witnessed Mad Max win, I think

863
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,760
three of our six warts this
episode.

864
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,560
So it is freaking dominating
right now, which does not bode

865
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,800
well for the film it's going to
face in the final eight.

866
00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:59,800
So we're wrapping it up here
today.

867
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,440
Let's give this list of our
final 8 movies.

868
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,080
Brad.
These are all absolute bangers.

869
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:12,240
So we've got Whiplash 1917,
Parasite, The Holdovers,

870
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:19,080
Oppenheimer, Mad Max Fury Rd.
Past Lives and Everything

871
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,760
Everywhere All at once.
What a great.

872
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,360
Collection of films.
Dude, I was going to say this

873
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,240
is.
My other than La La Land, this

874
00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:32,760
was my top 8.
Like tell me this isn't one of

875
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:34,960
the best brackets we've ever
had.

876
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,080
Oh, it's real good.
It's real good.

877
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:41,040
Here's Here's the wild.
Thing, dude, I think that this

878
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:45,400
year has shifted my attitude on
modern movies because it like,

879
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,400
at the end of the day, we have
spent so much time complaining

880
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:53,040
about Disney and Marvel and you
know, live action remakes

881
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,600
deservedly, right?
They have overwhelmed at the box

882
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,440
office in ways that I don't
think they deserve to.

883
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,240
It doesn't mean that great
movies aren't being made, and

884
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:06,240
this season has proven that to
me.

885
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,120
What a great.
Way to wrap up this episode.

886
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,240
It's the first time we've ever
done a round of 16 episode.

887
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:14,840
I think we may need to institute
it forever now 'cause this was

888
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,480
great conversation.
And again, a long episode, Brad.

889
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,640
So we'll be back on Tuesday to
breakdown all the way to the

890
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,000
championship, the round of
eight, the round of four and the

891
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,400
championship.
We'll also list our top five

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whiskeys of the season.
So join us on Tuesday for that

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episode.
One more time folks.

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If you go to our website,
filmwhiskey.com, grab your own

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bracket and tell us who your
champion would be.

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We would love to hear from you
on any of our social media

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accounts, Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Tiktok or YouTube at

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Film Whiskey, or if you want to
join the.

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Conversation you can jump into
our discord.

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We're on there every single day
talking about movies and

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whiskey.
So if you'd like to, you can

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find a link at the end of every
single one of our show notes.

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All right, make sure you join.
Us on Tuesday as we wrap up

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season #9 but until then, I'm
Bob Book, I'm Brad G.

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And we'll see you next.
Time.