Season 9 Bracket Challenge Part 3 — The Final Reckoning

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On today's Film and Whiskey, we
are rounding out season #9 with

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our third and final bracket
challenge episode.

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This is the one where we crown
the champion.

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Also, we're going to reveal our
top five whiskeys of the season

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and give out a couple more filmy
awards.

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That's all ahead on Film and
Whiskey.

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Hey there everybody, welcome
into the Film and Whiskey

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podcast.
I'm Bob Book.

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I'm Brad G.
And we are coming at you, Brad,

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with guess what?
First time ever third bonus

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episode of The Bracket.
It has been a a true marathon

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recording session for us today,
Brad. 3 episodes in one calendar

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day.
This has not happened since the

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early days of the Film and
Whiskey podcast, and we swore

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we'd never do it again.
Yet here we are.

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But here we are.
Yeah, if if we recorded a fourth

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episode today, that would put us
back into the season 1 territory

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where we would get together on a
Saturday and record 4 episodes

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in one day.
It would be a legitimate 8 hour

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day.
That was work.

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That was actual work, man.
That was actual work and it was

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a time when, between the two of
us, we had one child.

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One child whom I abandoned once
a month to hang out with you.

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Sure did drink some whiskey.
Yeah, well, I mean, why not?

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If you're gonna abandoned your
kid, you might as well drink

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whiskey.
Too.

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I dude, I still look back on
that and I'm like, how did I

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keep 4 movies in my head to talk
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Because like, you know, you
watch them over the week and a

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half, two weeks beforehand.
Yeah.

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And then I would sit with you
for 8 hours and talk about them.

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I I don't know how I did that.
Do you remember in the very

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early stages of Season 1, we had
like a like a formatted, like a

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form document that we filled in.
It was like, what did you notice

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about this?
Yeah, I think that's what got us

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through those early few weeks.
I I totally forgot I haven't

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taken a single note since we
started recording online

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together.
Well, jeez, that's that's

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encouraging.
That's what you want to get.

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No, that's not true.
I have taken 22 pages of notes

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on one movie.
On The Last Jedi, that's true.

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Well, hey folks, welcome into
film and whiskey.

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If you're new to the podcast,
you have no idea what we're

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talking about.
On this podcast, we review

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classic movies and new whiskeys
each week.

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This season we've been going
through 32 films from the last

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20 years.
We've been asking the question,

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does this movie deserve to be
considered a modern masterpiece?

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Now at the end of every season,
we put the 32 films into a

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madness style bracket and we
seed them according to how much

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we liked the movies.
We are down to the final eight

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films in our bracket.
Brad, we left off last week.

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We've been running very long on
these episodes, so we left off

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last week after the round of 16
and I dare say this might be our

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strongest group of eight we've
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I would have to go back and look
at some of the other seasons,

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but this is an incredible
lineup, Bob.

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We have Whiplash versus 1917,
Parasite versus the Holdovers,

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Oppenheimer versus Mad Max Fury
Rd.

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Past Lives versus Everything
Everywhere All at Once.

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I don't don't think I didn't
notice that we found a way to

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pit the only two Asian women in
our bracket up against each

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other here.
Hey that.

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Was not me, man.
I'm gonna blame.

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Blame the blame the seating,
whoever does the seating.

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Yeah, whoever, whoever does the
seating, we should make up like

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an imaginary producer for our
podcast so that we can just

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deflect all things to him.
All right, man, let's dive into

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the bracket here.
Brad, I don't think we should

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waste any time here.
Let's go ahead and do the left

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side of the bracket, and then
we'll, we'll play it by ear as

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to what we want to do after
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But we've got 2 pretty huge
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which is our number one overall
seed, whiplash, going up against

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1917.
Now, I think on paper, one would

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think that this is where the
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consensus #1 Whiplash was at, I
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rated film or third.
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you, Brad.
I I just don't know that it's,

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it's going to be really hard to
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because it's our favorite film,
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undeniable as a pretty perfectly
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There's nothing about whiplash
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car accident for Bob.
Apparently that's just not his

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thing.
Car accidents in movies.

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I the the thing with 1917 is
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beautiful film that that hits on
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it it left me wanting more.
It left me feeling like it may

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have been better served as a
film with a traditional

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structure versus the one shot
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So I you know, it's not going to
be the film to beat with

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Whiplash.
Do you think that if 19/17 was 3

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hours long it would be better or
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It'd be more impressive and
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That's what I'm thinking.
Like, does the gimmick wear off

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the longer the movie goes, or do
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gimmick?
Like, wow, they sustained this

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for three hours, you know?
Yeah, I mean, at at a certain

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point it's impressive to keep it
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I'm actually how long Birdman
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Birdman is about two hours as
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It is on the .2 hours.
So yeah, I mean two hours seems

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like the limit without any, you
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Sure.
So yeah, I think I think 2 hours

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is about the right amount of
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Yeah, at 3 hours they tell you
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get it checked out.
So all right, man, I think I'm

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also.
Where are we going, Bob?

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Apparently we're going to the
ER, we're going to move Whiplash

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on to the round of four here,
Brad.

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There's really no drama.
There's no suspense needed for

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this one.
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the 100 minutes or so of
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we can move down into the bottom
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The Blanchette bracket for
parasites, the number four

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overall seed up against
holdovers, the number 5.

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So this was all the favorites
making it to the group of eight

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here.
This is a heart pick for me,

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Brad, I think you knew from the
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to go holdovers here.
Parasite I will grant the world

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is the more highly regarded
film, but this is this is not

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like me picking How to Train
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Like I actually think I have a
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People really love the
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The Holdovers is a great film.
It is no parasite there.

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There are no sewer drainage
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she is sitting on a toilet
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I I mean, if you don't have that
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doing?
Yeah, but you also don't have

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Paul Giamatti calling somebody
penis cancer in human form.

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That's.
A great line.

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That's a great new line, man.
And dude, when he drives off

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swigging that bottle.
What a great that should have

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been in our final shots thing
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end.
That was a good one.

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That's that is a good final
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All right, man, I I'm assuming
you went parasite here.

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Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I went holdovers.

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So it means it's time for us to
break out the Coin of destiny.

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Now again, folks, if you've been
listening, you know this.

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But the coin of Destiny decides
when Brad and I have come to an

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impasse.
The higher seated movie will be

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heads.
The lower seated movie is tails.

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That means Parasites heads and
the Holdovers is tails.

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Brad for the future in the final
four, flip that coin.

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Bob, at the end of the day, how
are you going to beat foreign

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cinema?
It's just where the it's where

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the true films are made.
There's nothing in America quite

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like they're what we can see
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Now listen, this creates an
absolute juggernaut of a group

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of four match up here between
Whiplash and Parasite.

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It is an easy, it's an easy
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But I think you put this choice
in front of the average movie

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goer.
This might be one of the hardest

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choices we've ever presented on
this podcast.

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I easily like these are both
beloved films that have their

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fan bases.
I would be very curious to see

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if you just you know, did a did
a poll of like IMDb users,

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letterbox users where this would
shake out.

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All right, Brad, we've got our
first two entries into the group

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of four here.
I think it's time for us to give

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out some of our famous Filmy
awards now, typically the way

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that we've done the filmies as
we give some of them out based

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on the scores we gave the films
and some of them just based on

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vibes and what Brad wants to do.
I think in the spirit of

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goodwill, since we have
eliminated goodwill in the form

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of the holdovers, I want to try
to keep hope alive.

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Brad, Let's do the Brad G
filmies here 1st.

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And as I remember, the first
Brad G filmi that we always do

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is Biggest Let down.
This is a movie that was either

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too hyped for you and just
didn't meet expectations, or a

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movie that you didn't expect
much from and still managed to

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be worse than that.
When you look over this list of

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32 films, what's the biggest let
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I will say the Joker scene where
he's like walking that dancing

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down the staircase was like
super hyped and that was a very

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big let down.
But overall, like the movie

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closely matched what I expected.
So I won't say that the whole

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film was a let down.
It it was just a crappy movie.

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Ford V Ferrari would be up
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I was pretty pumped for that and
found myself just going like,

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wow, that was a nice movie.
I think though, as I look

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through these 32 films, I'm
going to have to go with Zodiac.

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Oh, interesting.
You had really pumped that movie

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up over the years.
Like multiple mentions over

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multiple seasons about the how
tense it is and oh, if you like

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this, then you're going to like
Zodiac.

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I didn't love Zodiac.
It was.

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It was just OK.
Boo hiss.

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Yeah, most most biggest let
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Zodiac.
Jake Solan.

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Jake Gyllenhaal.
Who we had multiple times this

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season, but apparently it's a
greater success in other films.

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Yes, I I like Jake Gyllenhaal
don't love this specific movie.

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All right.
Well that takes us to a a bit of

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lighter fare here and that is
most unexpected.

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Now we leave this a little bit
open-ended.

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It doesn't necessarily mean like
biggest surprise or whatever,

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like in terms of it was better
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It could be as simple as like, I
thought that this was a movie in

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one genre and then it turned out
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genre.
It was unexpected.

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So, Brad, however you want to
interpret it, what is your most

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unexpected this season?
Oh man, I mean, I honestly, I

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could go with Everything
Everywhere all at once because I

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saw it twice.
The second time I was a little

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lower on it and then this third
time it just worked for me.

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I man there, there's a lot of
options here.

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I think I have to go with Mad
Max Fury Rd.

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I I.
Think you're on a mission to

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give it every filmy this year?
Dude, I'm dominating.

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Let's be honest, Bob, how many
times in the history of the

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podcast have I watched a movie
twice in a day?

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Because I was so.
How many times have you watched

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a movie?
Twice.

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Ever.
This is already up in the upper

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echelon of watches.
You know, it's probably in the

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top 30% of of movies based on
amount of times I've watched

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them.
Yeah, I'm 100% going to go with

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Mad Max Fury Rd. because it it
deserves more witnesses.

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All right, man, and that leaves
room for one more.

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Now we always just kind of leave
one open for the Brad G Special

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Award of the season.
It's one that you make up

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usually on the spot.
I am curious to hear what the

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Brad G Special Award is for
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Bob, this is an award we can
both give out.

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I want to know of all of the
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we watched, sans the one we're
going to mention, which

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character is most likely to
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So it can't be from Mad Max, it
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Yes, yeah, it has to be one from
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Is Paul Giamatti, elderly
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going to survive in a Mad Max
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Oh no, his his head will be
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immediately.
This is kind of a cop out

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because it's also a A sand based
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with either Paula.
Tradies.

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Either Josh Brolin or Javier
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I want, I want them screaming
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If if if Paula trades goes to
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sandstorm and the South side of
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is like my dream crossover.
Half the world is Dune, half the

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world is Mad Max.
Actually, could I just pick just

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the sandworm from Dune?
Does that count as a character?

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I think he would survive pretty.
Well, I, I'll, I'll give it to

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you the.
Sandworm.

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Everybody else is toast, but the
sandworm lives on.

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I'm going to give the award to a
hopefully somewhat unexpected

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character.
I am going to give this award, I

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can't remember his name.
Give me half a second.

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Is it Vickas Vandeverva from
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It should be Vickas Vandevere
vandevere Vande.

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I don't know, Vanda something,
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He, as an alien, probably could.
He he's going to violate some

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guys.
I am going to pick Jordan

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Belfort from the Wolf of Wall.
Street Are you sure about?

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This.
As long as he had cocaine he

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would become one of the warlords
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That's true, Donnie.
Donnie would not survive,

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though.
All right, so I went with just

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the sandworm.
Brad has given it to Donnie as

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Scrotus, right?
Is that what we're going with?

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Sure, Donnie and Jordan.
It's a it's a paired award.

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They they come together.
All right, so there is the Brad

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G Award for most likely to
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apocalyptic wasteland.
Brad, let's get back into the

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Brad, let's get back into the
bracket here.

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Why don't you take us to our
next match up?

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Oh Speaking of Mad Max Bob, we
are now facing off the pre

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apocalyptic nightmare of
Oppenheimer with his imagined

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reality in Mad Max Fury Rd.
Who I Who would have thought

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what a what a great match up.
Man, this is really hard.

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I, I mean, I think that for me,
I don't like Mad Max as much as

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you do.
However, if we're just talking

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about like the purest
distillation of cinema, I don't

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know if like, like Mad Max is
going to be studied in film

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schools forever.
I don't know if Oppenheimer is

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like.
I don't even know if I would

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call Oppenheimer the best
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So this is.
A really interesting pairing

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Brad shots.
Fired what?

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What would you say is his best
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I think if I'm like just
thinking about what's the most

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perfectly put together
Christopher Nolan movie, I think

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for me it's Inception, one that
people don't really like

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anymore.
But I freaking love Inception.

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How?
How do Pete the Internet's so

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dumb if you can't?
Find something to hate.

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You can't be on the Internet,
those are just the rules.

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Is that why I'm not on like
social media at?

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All no, you just direct that
hate towards me in my opinion.

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So you don't really need to be
on social media because I'm your

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outfit for that.
That is helpful, that man,

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that's a piece of
self-awareness.

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I appreciate that.
Brad, breakdown the match up

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from your side of things like
who's who's landing the winning

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blow here and why?
Man, I think Oppenheimer has a

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lot going for it.
It has easily the most

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influential like sex scene in a
movie that it actually made

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sense and he used it in a way to
advance the characters, which is

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like, I, I've never seen that
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So I will give Nolan props for
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It has Killian Murphy just
freaking nailing it.

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Matt Damon is incredible.
Like, like there's so many great

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performances in the movie, The
intrigue, the nuance, there's so

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much to love the the sound
design.

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Jeez Louise, man, what an
incredible movie.

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I think Mad Max hits it for me a
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Like it, it's paced perfectly.
There's just enough breaths of

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fresh air to let you dive into
the action, the emotions of the

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group slowly bonding and
becoming friends.

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And you know, you have the
Nicholas Holt's character, like,

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slowly integrating himself into
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of belief in his religion that
there's so much about Mad Max.

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That dude.
I might go watch it tonight.

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I freaking love this movie.
Mad Max is the winner for me.

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Wow.
OK, so even though you gave a 10

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out of 10 to Oppenheimer, Mad
Max has captured your heart.

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I think we may have discovered
your new favorite movie, if I'm

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being honest here, Brad.
Dude, it's it's up there.

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I I mean I gave Mad Max 9 1/2
why did I do that?

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I'm I should change that it's a
10 out of 10 movie?

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Brad, I went with Oppenheimer
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I think that at the end of the
day, it's just a movie that I

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like better.
I understand the arguments for

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Mad Max though, and I think this
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have here, and it's a match up
deserving of the Queen of

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Destiny.
Yeah, I will say there are very

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few movies in this bracket that
I would say are a worthy

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contender for Mad Max.
Oppenheimer is one of them.

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Like it is a masterpiece of
cinema.

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All right, so we have a Coin of
Destiny flip ahead of us for a

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spot in the final four.
We've got the number one seed,

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Oppenheimer, which will be heads
going up against Mad Max Fury

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Rd., which will be tails Brad
for that coveted spot.

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Flip that coin.
Bob, there is a film that will

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be moving on.
It will not destroy the world as

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we know it.
The math has has spoken.

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Oppenheimer moves on.
Mad Max has never exists.

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Wow, Oppenheimer doing some
damage here, Brad.

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All right.
So it is into the group of four

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here, and that takes us to what
is sure to be the most

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contentious matchup of this
bracket.

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Brad, I usually don't ask you to
spoil this so early on, but can

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I take a stab and say that I
think Everything Everywhere All

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at Once probably won your
bracket?

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Is that fair to say?
That is a great question, Bob.

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So I have like throughout these
three episodes, I have talked

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myself into a point where Mad
Max has a chance against

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Everything But Everything,
Everywhere All At Once did did

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win my original bracket.
And past lives won my original

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bracket.
So we're talking about the two

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winners like there's no way
either of us can get anything

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into the championship if we
don't get past this round here.

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So I'm, I'm man, this is
stressful.

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Past lives is the number three
overall seed.

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Everything Everywhere is
punching way above its weight as

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the number 11 seed here.
It had to survive a coin flip

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against Godzilla -1 just to get
here.

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Brad, why don't we do this?
Say a couple nice things about

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Past lives and then I'll say a
couple nice things about

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Everything Everywhere, and then
we can get at each other's

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throats.
Past Lives.

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Past Lives is beautifully shot.
Like there's so many great

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scenes of the characters walking
together in New York City,

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thinking specifically as they
were like walking past AI

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believe a carousel and then like
on to the docks and and the

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camera just follows them.
It's slow.

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What's the name of the husband?
The the actor?

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John.
Magaro John Magaro is freaking

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awesome.
Bob like his the depth of his

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vulnerability about his
insecurities is honest and raw

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and feels so true to anybody who
would be married to someone from

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another culture.
Like like the line when he talks

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about feeling like he he's not.
What is it?

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He doesn't speak the language of
her dreams or something.

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Oh yeah, he says.
You speak in a language.

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How was it you dream in a
language I can't understand?

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Yes, Yep, what a great what a
great freaking live dude.

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Yeah, no, I past lives if not up
against Everything Everywhere.

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I think for me, Past Lives has a
chance against Oppenheimer, Mad

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Max, Parasite, and Holdovers.
I don't know if it would have a

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chance against Whiplash and I
don't know if it has a chance

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against everything for me, but
it's up there, man.

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It is a beautiful movie.
Everything Everywhere All at

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Once is a movie that I think
takes some pretty tremendous

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swings and it's not afraid to be
silly while also like being

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incredibly earnest.
Like it's, it's not tongue in

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cheek when it matters the most.
And I think those emotional

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moments and especially Ki Kiwi
Kwan's performance are just next

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level, man.
It's a, it's a movie that I've

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cooled on a little bit, but what
it's good at, it's really,

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really good at Brad.
And that means that I, I think

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we go ahead.
I just watched In the Mood for

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Love because at some point
somebody mentioned that as like

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a very direct reference point
for Ki Hui Kwan in everything

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ever All at once.
A, what a great movie I really

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enjoyed In the Mood for Love and
B, like, it is A such a direct

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reference, but like everything
about the main character in In

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the Mood for Love is Kihui Kwan.
And I want to start smoking in a

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Gray suit in the rain so bad
because it's the coolest thing

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in the world.
I think that it's a direct

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reference on both of these
movies, honestly, like that you

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you probably couldn't have
brought up a better movie for

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like the themes and the pacing
of past lives and also for like

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direct visual representation in
Everything Everywhere.

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Brad, dude, I.
I didn't even think about that.

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You are right.
There is a huge amount of In the

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Mood for Love that you see in
past love.

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Holy cow, I'm.
I'm incredible, Bob, You really

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tell me how good I am.
I just did.

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Let's move past that and let's
flip this coin of destiny, Brad.

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We have not established past
lives is going to be heads and

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everything ever all at once is
going to be tails.

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I have flipped the coin.
It is lying on the top of my

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hand.
And Bob, is there anything else

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you want to say about past
lives?

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Don't do this to me.
No anything else.

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My my thoughts are on the
record.

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Your thoughts are on the record.
Yeah, well, it's good that you

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love this movie so much, Bob,
because it is moving on into the

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Final Four.
The dream lives on, man, Brad, I

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listen.
If I could make it my mission in

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life to make people watch one
movie, like that movie is so

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close to the top of movies I
want to make because like

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there's certain movies.
I know you didn't like ET, but

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like everyone's heard of ET and
even if they haven't seen it,

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it's like, yeah, I should
probably watch that.

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Past Lives is a movie you really
got to work hard to get people

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to watch, but once you watch it,
it's like, that is a life

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changingly good movie.
It's so freaking good, man.

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Yeah.
And it if, if you are of an age

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like Bob and I early to mid 30s,
you remember when Skype became a

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thing and do that scene the like
short little bit when they're in

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like the early to early to mid
2000s and they're using Skype, I

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like had flashbacks of using
Skype for the first time.

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Brad that sets up a match up in
the group of four between

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Oppenheimer and past lives, my
two of my top three movies from

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2023, another juggernaut year.
And that takes us to our final

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filmies of the day.
These are the ones that are

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based on the scores that we gave
the films at the end of each

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episode.
So what we're first looking at,

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Brad, is our most overrated and
our most underrated films of the

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year.
And we do that by taking our

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average score from an episode
and comparing it to that film

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00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,040
score on IMDb.
So we get a sense of where the

447
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,440
general public stands on this
compared to us.

448
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,480
Now, I think we should start
with the most overrated film, a

449
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,880
movie that IMDb users liked a
lot that we really didn't.

450
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,440
And Brad, I want you to go ahead
and take a guess as to what that

451
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:43,920
movie might be.
Oh man, I I have to imagine.

452
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:52,760
We were cool on Ford V Ferrari.
We were cool on the Big Short.

453
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:58,160
The Big Short feels like it
would be an IMDb darling look.

454
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,160
Oh sorry, I'm like looking
through the list giving options,

455
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,640
There's only one option.
It's Joker.

456
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:10,040
It is Joker I'm.
Sorry to have put you through

457
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,800
like 12 seconds of not having
the answer because it's very

458
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,320
clear that Joker sucks.
It's.

459
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,240
AI listen, I don't think it
sucks.

460
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,880
You gave it a six.
I gave it a seven.

461
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,240
I think it's a good movie that
people have read the wrong

462
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,160
meaning onto and have over hyped
a bit.

463
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:30,600
It has an 8.3 on IMDb.
We gave it a 6.5 on average.

464
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,440
So we are like 18 percentage
points away from where it is on

465
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,600
IMDb.
That's pretty drastic, man.

466
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:45,240
Oh yeah, Joker.
The messaging of the movie feels

467
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:49,760
so gross and like Todd Phillips
isn't taking responsibility for

468
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,160
it.
And I don't like that movie,

469
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,920
Bob, even if it is a competently
made film.

470
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,600
All right, let's move on to some
happier ground here.

471
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,360
The most underrated film.
A film that IMDb users gave a

472
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,600
lower score than we did, and
substantially lower in many

473
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,320
cases.
What do you think's the most

474
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:13,720
underrated of Season 9?
Man, I, well, I mean, we just

475
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,440
talked about it.
Is, is it past lives?

476
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:21,480
Because, because I know that we
both gave it a 10 out of 10 and

477
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:28,120
I can't imagine it has more than
like an 8 or an 8.2, which would

478
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:30,680
be a pretty big swing.
I I'm going to go with past

479
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,280
lives, Bob.
You are 100% correct Brad.

480
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,840
You were nailing this today.
Past lives it is.

481
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,920
Here's the depressing part.
IMDb score on Past Lives 7.8.

482
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:42,880
No.
Come on, like come on, what are

483
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,280
you guys doing?
What 7.8?

484
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,320
What is this?
That I mean, I, I feel like if

485
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,320
you hit the 7.8 and above,
you're starting to get into

486
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,200
like, oh, this is probably going
to be a good movie 8 point O and

487
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,360
above is where you're hitting
OK, this is probably something

488
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,160
of a classic.
I think this should be in the

489
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:09,120
8.1 range 8.2.
Well, it's not, but it is in our

490
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,280
hearts, Brad, because it's the
most underrated film of season

491
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,440
#9 hey people, go watch Past
Lives, OK?

492
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,200
Just go do it.
Yeah, go give it a 10 out of 10.

493
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,840
No big deal.
Now it's time for us to give the

494
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,040
award for the most divisive
movie of the year.

495
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,360
Brad, this is the one where you
and I were the most disparate in

496
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,200
our scores.
This this might be a little bit

497
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,040
more of a challenge for you, but
you've been nailing them so far.

498
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:39,200
What are your guesses here?
I mean, I know that you were a

499
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,920
little higher on John Wick.
You were higher on How to train

500
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,840
your Dragon.
Now I'm going back to front.

501
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,280
We were a little bit off on
Inside Out and Ratatouille.

502
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,840
This is actually kind of a tough
one.

503
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,720
I'm going to guess Zodiac
because I know that I did not

504
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,720
like that nearly as much as you
did.

505
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,080
Once again, you have freaking
nailed it Brad.

506
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,080
It is Zodiac.
You went three for three.

507
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,120
That was really good, man.
Thanks man.

508
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,920
I I feel like recording all
three episodes in a day, we've

509
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,720
like gone through them all and
so it's a little more fresh in

510
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,480
my brain.
This is how I am like when I

511
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,560
show up to a recording.
I have like studied that movie

512
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,880
so many times that I'm like, I'm
ready to go, you know what I

513
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,440
mean?
So it's it's nice.

514
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,560
I feel like we are both well
seasoned now, Brad.

515
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,320
Yeah, we we are firing on all
cylinders.

516
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,920
I gave that movie a 9.5, you
gave it a 6.5.

517
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,680
We were a full 3 points apart
from each other.

518
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,960
For the record, that movie has a
7.7 on average on IMDb, so we

519
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,960
came out to an average of an 8
point O.

520
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,600
We were pretty well in line with
what IMDb thinks of that movie.

521
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,720
Yeah, yeah, between the two of
us.

522
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,280
So it was very low.
You were very high on it.

523
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,240
We're about average.
We evened each other out in the

524
00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:02,200
IMDb rankings.
Brad, before we get into the

525
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,920
round of four match up, I think
it's time for us to go ahead and

526
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,440
taste our whiskey for the day.
We've got one more of our old

527
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,000
Hammer lines to go and this is a
special 1.

528
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,720
Brad, can you intro this for us?
Yeah, Bob, today we are drinking

529
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,960
Hugh Hammer of the old Hammer
line.

530
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:24,520
It is a Hugh Hammer Straight
bourbon whiskey finished in rum

531
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,520
barrels.
I have these.

532
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,160
I'm sorry to interrupt you,
dude, hold on.

533
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,760
I have the best idea looking at
the label for this.

534
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,160
So this is not, as Brad said,
not old Hammer.

535
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:37,760
It's called Hugh Hammer.
And I really want to

536
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,120
mispronounce this as huge hammer
and then just pair it with four.

537
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,680
And then that should be just
continually like with no

538
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:47,760
explanation.
Just keep calling it huge Hammer

539
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:52,200
Whiskey.
Huge Hammer whiskey.

540
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,680
Tell me that's not my best idea
of all time.

541
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,920
Dude, it is, yes.
Whatever.

542
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:06,520
I don't know if there's like a
native spirit to the Icelandic

543
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,680
Nordic countries, but if you
ever finished a whiskey in that

544
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,280
you can call it Huge Hammer
Myolnar finish.

545
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,800
You're set dude.
We've we've just cracked the

546
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,680
code man.
We need to open a distillery.

547
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,400
All right, I'm sorry.
Please keep giving the

548
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:29,160
information on Huge Hammer here.
Huge Hammer is a 99% corn, 1%

549
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,760
malted barley aged for a minimum
of four to six years.

550
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,280
It comes in at 103 proof.
I am super pumped for this Bob.

551
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,320
So like we said, this is
finished in rum barrels.

552
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,600
I will say that on the label,
Brad, they don't go into a ton

553
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,320
of detail on what kind of rum
barrels it's finished in, which

554
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,480
leads me to believe it's
probably like a combination of

555
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,160
different kinds of rum barrels
for our purposes.

556
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,160
We have enough information to
drink the thing.

557
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,640
Why don't you go ahead and give
us your nosing notes here?

558
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,160
Yeah, Bob, this is a really
pleasant nose.

559
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,240
There is caramel, there's Maple
frosting.

560
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,360
It's got a nice vanilla vanilla
zest to it.

561
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,200
There is a decent amount of like
a corn pops vibe, like a really

562
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,000
sugary corn cereal that I like a
lot.

563
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,320
I'm going to give this an 8 out
of 10 on the nose.

564
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,920
You really are in a cereal kind
of mood today man.

565
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,320
You need to have like a late
night bowl of cereal after we

566
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,000
finish recording here.
Dude, we we literally just have

567
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Cheerios in the house.
We're not a big cereal family.

568
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:31,880
You know what?
We weren't either for a long

569
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,440
time.
And our children have finally

570
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,240
hit the age where they're like,
listen, you guys got to you got

571
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,480
to meet us in the middle here.
Give us at least some Like Life

572
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,520
cereal.
Or something like, did they like

573
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,200
sit you down on a Sunday night?
They're like, hey, we need to

574
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,840
have a family meeting.
Yeah, they wear the suits from

575
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,520
the Boss baby when they talk to
us, so it's yeah, it's kind of

576
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,440
crazy.
I could.

577
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,720
I could see your oldest being a
boss baby wearing a suit kind of

578
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,000
kid. 100% man, no.
So I'm getting a lot of like

579
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,520
dark fruits on this, but not so
much like plum as it is like a

580
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,400
like a fig or a date.
It's got that really, really

581
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,000
sweet kind of syrupy note to it
from the rum barrels.

582
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,040
I like this a lot.
If I'm being honest.

583
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,960
I don't know if I like the nose
on this quite as much as the

584
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:18,120
last one we had the old Hammer,
but rum finish is it's kind of

585
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,239
tricky to work with.
It's not quite as tricky as a

586
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,920
tequila finished bourbon, which
I I've never really had a great

587
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,760
one of those, But I feel like
you can kind of tip into some

588
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,800
weird spots with rum if you're
not careful.

589
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,600
And this one seems to be kind
of, I don't want to say dipping

590
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,080
its toe in the water, but it's
not going overboard and I

591
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,360
appreciate that.
I'm going to give it a 7 1/2 on

592
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,360
the nose, Brad.
I think for the palate it it

593
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:44,639
sticks in a lot of traditional
bourbon flavors.

594
00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:47,320
There's caramel, there's
vanilla, it's a little bit oaky

595
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,040
for me.
The Corn Pops sticks around.

596
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,600
It's got that sugary corn vibe
going on.

597
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,639
There is a little bit more
fruitiness here.

598
00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,720
Not as much as I'd like Bob I I
wish this had more rum influence

599
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:03,440
going on.
Like I don't really get that.

600
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:08,360
That sugar cane, coconut
tropical vibe.

601
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,160
I, I want it, I'm here for it.
It is really good though.

602
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,400
Like, I'll give it a 7 1/2 on
the palate, but man, if you give

603
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,960
me a little more fruitiness,
this is like an 8 1/2.

604
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,040
Yeah, I honestly, for me, what
it did, the rum finish doesn't

605
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,040
add like a layer of complexity
or another kind of sweetness.

606
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,240
It actually added not, I don't
want to call it sour notes, but

607
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,640
like some herbal and spice notes
that made this taste like a high

608
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,000
rye bourbon.
Now I'm pretty sure this is

609
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,600
distilled by MGP and this kind
of reminds me of like an Ezra

610
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,360
Brooks, like a really high proof
version of that that we've tried

611
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,520
from Luxe Row before.
It's interesting.

612
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,080
I think it's really good, but it
just lacks that like really deep

613
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,280
sweetness that I thought we were
going to get here.

614
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,440
So I once again I'm going to
give it a 7.5 on the pallet.

615
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,760
Yeah.
And on the finish, I, I think it

616
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,520
kind of comes back around.
It settles into its oakiness,

617
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,680
the corn is there, there's a lot
of caramel and it finally

618
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:10,560
settles into like almost like a
fig, plum, dark fruit kind of

619
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,200
vibe that I'm enjoying and I, I
wish was there on the palate

620
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,400
more.
I'll give it an 8 out of 10 on

621
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,080
the finish.
I think you're nailing these

622
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,400
notes today.
I I really don't think that

623
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,360
there's a lot going on here.
Fig, plum, those are really good

624
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,560
notes.
It's just like hints of fruit,

625
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,840
not a lot of like really bright
citrusy kind of notes or

626
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,040
anything that's a little bit
tart to kind of override that

627
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,880
rum flavor.
Once again, good.

628
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,840
I just think it misses greatness
a little bit here.

629
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,080
So I'm going to give it a 7.5
and I think that kind of

630
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,480
dictates exactly where I'm going
to go on the balance here.

631
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,640
This is a really solid whiskey.
I think it's probably better

632
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,520
balanced across the board then
like each of the individual

633
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,680
categories.
So I'll come up to an 8 out of

634
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,560
10 on the balance.
Yeah, I'm with you.

635
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:59,320
I, I think 8 out of 10 on the
balance, they're doing really

636
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,040
nice things here.
It just doesn't go quite far

637
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,360
enough.
You know, I, I don't know enough

638
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,360
about it, but I, I feel like
maybe a few more months in the

639
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,600
rum barrels might have done it a
little bit of good.

640
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:17,960
Now we are looking at spending
$65 on this bottle, which once

641
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:23,600
again I I don't think is an
outrageous ass for a finished

642
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:28,960
product.
It's also not a great value.

643
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,760
I like it's not out of this
world.

644
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,600
I don't think it's unfairly
priced.

645
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,880
I am going to sit at a 7 out of
10 though.

646
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,720
Yeah, I think I'll be in the
same spot as you, man.

647
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,240
This is definitely not the out
of this world value you get with

648
00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:45,640
the old Hammer cask strength,
but it's certainly not

649
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,200
exorbitant either.
It is a year older than the old

650
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,280
Hammer is and you get that rum
finish as well.

651
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,240
So I'll give it a 7 and that
takes me to a very respectable

652
00:37:55,360 --> 00:38:01,600
37.5 out of 50 on this one.
Bob, I am coming in at a 38.5

653
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,560
out of 50.
This is a really nice high corn

654
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,080
bourbon.
I I just wish it had a little

655
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,160
more of the rum influence.
But still, it's $65.

656
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,480
Like if you are living in
Indiana and you want to support

657
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:19,000
a local distillery that's giving
you some good juice like I

658
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,920
highly recommend this stuff.
Yeah, and I'm really glad that

659
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,240
it kind of shook out the way it
did.

660
00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:25,840
Brad, you know, after that first
episode where we weren't in love

661
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:30,840
with the West Fork, we did.
I was kind of worried about

662
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,080
where this was going to go.
But we had three whiskeys.

663
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,880
One of them is in our upper
echelons of scores.

664
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,760
One of them is in the recommend
like a a green light, but not

665
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,400
like a rave about it.
And then one of them was, hey,

666
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,520
this one's not for me.
And I think that gives a really

667
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,880
good picture of a brand that's
trying to expand its offerings

668
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,560
and doing interesting things
with them.

669
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,320
And honestly, like, it makes it
makes for a better drinking

670
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,520
experience because you and I
were able to identify very

671
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,000
clearly which one of the three
was our favorite here.

672
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:03,840
Absolutely.
I, I mean, I don't know, Bob, I

673
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,040
think you were higher on the
cast string.

674
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,480
I think I'm actually a little
higher on the rum finish.

675
00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:13,720
Oh interesting, the huge hammer
has done it for you.

676
00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:16,160
The.
Huge I I love me a huge hammer

677
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,560
Bob.
Man, it's the end of the season,

678
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,200
isn't it, Brad?
It really is deep.

679
00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:24,680
We are tired and we.
Need.

680
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,200
We need a, We need a month off.
All right, man, let's get back

681
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,840
into this bracket.
It's been long enough.

682
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,800
Thank you once again to West
Fork Whiskey.

683
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,960
All right, it's time for the
group of four.

684
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,120
Brad.
We have only four movies left to

685
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,920
go. 2 matchups here.
We're looking at, on the left

686
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:45,000
side of the bracket, Whiplash,
the number one seed, up against

687
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:50,440
Parasite, the number four seed.
And spoiler alert, all of the

688
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,400
top 4 seeds are our final four
films.

689
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,320
Brad.
They were not mine.

690
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,000
I had mad backs and everything
ever all at once.

691
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,960
So if anybody is complaining
that we had just an all top four

692
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,640
bracket, you can blame one, the
one and only Rob.

693
00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:12,760
Rob.
The one and only Robert book.

694
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,000
I will be daxing him later on
Twitter.

695
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Yeah, please do.
You can have his address, his

696
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,240
children's names, his social.
Send them.

697
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:23,160
Send them my student loan bills.
We should crowdfund that.

698
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:27,680
You know, dude, let's go.
I had three of the four in my

699
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,960
personal final four.
The only one I didn't was the

700
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,200
holdovers, which I had beating
Parasite.

701
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:38,400
So Brad, regardless of that,
where are we falling on Whiplash

702
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,880
V Parasite?
Oh, this is a tough one, dude.

703
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:46,000
I think my bracket was Mad Max
versus everything.

704
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,880
That was a super tough decision
for me.

705
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:54,080
This one isn't quite as much
like Whiplash was my #2 film.

706
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,840
I came into the season thinking
it would be my number one.

707
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,200
Like Parasite's incredible.
I was blown away by it.

708
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,240
It didn't win my most unexpected
award.

709
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,800
It would have if it was my first
time watching it for the season.

710
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,400
Like because I've watched it
before, like I knew what I was

711
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,800
getting.
I think I'm sticking with

712
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,320
whiplash here man.
I think I am too, Brad.

713
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,280
You know, I've been saying this
entire episode.

714
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,040
It almost sounds like I'm
crapping on Parasite, a movie

715
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,600
which I am very much in the
like.

716
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,080
This is an 8.5 to 9 out of 10
for me.

717
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,520
Range.
Whiplash is just a perfectly

718
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,360
made movie.
I really doubt that Damien

719
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,880
Chazelle will ever make a movie
as good as Whiplash again.

720
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,560
But you know, sometimes you're
Orson Welles and you can't help

721
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,640
it, but you make Citizen Kane
first, you know?

722
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:46,440
Yep, 100%.
Dude, it is just a perfect

723
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,600
movie.
It's an example of like Chazelle

724
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,240
had just a perfect idea for a
film.

725
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:57,000
He turned it into an Oscar
nominated masterpiece, Oscar

726
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,240
winning for JK Simmons.
That has made him millions of

727
00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:05,480
dollars as a filmmaker now.
So like, I can't feel bad for

728
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,440
the guy.
He nailed it with his first

729
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,960
film.
He's made some other very

730
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,680
interesting great movies like La
La Land and some that people

731
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,320
weren't so hot on like Babylon.
So we'll see where he goes.

732
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,240
He's still young.
I'm sure that he will get

733
00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:22,080
another movie into our modern
masterpiece.

734
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,600
Season 10 seasons from now.
For now, Whiplash is going on,

735
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,360
and that takes us to the right
side of the.

736
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:33,520
Bracket Now, as you said, Brad,
the other two movies in the the

737
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,200
Group of eight over here were
the ones you picked to move on.

738
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,160
You had Mad Max versus
Everything Everywhere All at

739
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,280
Once.
Those have both been eliminated,

740
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,960
leaving us with Oppenheimer
versus Past lives.

741
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,680
So this was a match up that I
had created in my bracket.

742
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,400
I already know where I'm going
here.

743
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,360
This is something that you're
kind of doing on the fly here

744
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,760
and following your heart.
I'd love to hear where you're

745
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:03,800
going with this one man.
Oppenheimer, I just.

746
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:09,440
Keep thinking about.
The beauty of the politics and

747
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:13,880
how you start with thinking that
Robert Downey Junior is a good

748
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:19,800
guy and by the end of the film
you realize how low minded and

749
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:24,160
like petty he is and it's.
Just such an.

750
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,200
Incredible transformation for
Robert Downey Junior.

751
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:32,000
Like, like he just nails that
descent throughout the movie.

752
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:38,520
And the way that they juxtapose
that by focusing Robert Downey

753
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,920
Junior's attention on the
conversation between Einstein

754
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:46,000
and Oppenheimer and how he
thinks that, you know, Appi was

755
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,520
turning him against whatever
Downey Junior's character's name

756
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:50,760
was.
Straws.

757
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,800
Yes, straws.
Strauss, He keeps correcting

758
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,120
them.
Too, Every time they suggested

759
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,360
it's like exactly German
pronunciation, he's like, no, no

760
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,560
straws.
Yeah, it yeah.

761
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:06,000
It's such a great little piece
to show how like petty he is

762
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:08,680
that you don't pick up until
like the second or third time

763
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,280
watching it.
Oh my gosh, dude.

764
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,240
And then like to know what
Einstein and Oppenheimer were

765
00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:19,600
actually talking about the fate
of the world and humanity and

766
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,720
all these high minded ideals.
I, I just, I freaking love

767
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:26,080
Oppenheimer, man.
It's so good.

768
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:28,600
Is that?
It is that.

769
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,480
Does that mean you're moving
Oppenheimer on here?

770
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:35,760
I think I'm going to move past
lives.

771
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,440
On yes.
Yes, Brad.

772
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,600
Yes, I I really like past.
Lives on.

773
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:47,360
It's a great movie listen and.
And here's the thing, if you put

774
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,560
past lives in Oppenheimer in the
best picture race, like we did

775
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:54,360
in the real world, I think even
I would vote for Oppenheimer as

776
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,720
best Picture based on what we're
trying to capture with an Oscar,

777
00:44:57,720 --> 00:44:59,160
right?
Like you have all these

778
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:03,640
categories that it dominates and
like, it represents so many

779
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,520
people working in Hollywood and
like the craftsmanship.

780
00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:11,040
But if you ask me to like,
submit a list to the sight and

781
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:14,640
sound pull of my ten favorite
movies ever, I'm fairly certain

782
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,800
Past Lives is on that list now.
Like Oppenheimer is a great

783
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,240
movie.
Past Lives is a transcendent

784
00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:23,440
movie to me.
And like, I have to move it on

785
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:28,000
here, which sets up to
completely tonally different

786
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:33,400
films for our championship.
We've got whiplash versus Past

787
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,520
lives.
I I was gonna say it's a.

788
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,720
Little bit of a whiplash from
one to the other.

789
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:40,720
Yeah, 11 might call it a.
Bit of whiplash, Brad.

790
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,240
So we've got a battle of Titans
here.

791
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:46,120
Whiplash versus past lives.
Before we get to that, Brad,

792
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:50,000
it's time for us to count down
our top five whiskeys of the

793
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:57,400
season.
All right, Brad, let's quickly

794
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,080
go through our top five whiskeys
of the season.

795
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,320
This is something that we do
every season in the last episode

796
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,640
because, you know, we're
spending a ton of time on movies

797
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,160
here.
We might as well talk about the

798
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,240
other half of our podcast.
Looking over our list here,

799
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:12,040
Brad.
It's like a Venn diagram with

800
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,400
the huge overlap.
Like there's really, it's just a

801
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,440
circle.
We almost have the exact same

802
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,920
top five here.
Yeah, it's.

803
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:24,160
It would have to be more of a
there's just a tiny little three

804
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,800
parts that aren't overlapped and
everything else is the same.

805
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,200
We we were singing in concert
this season.

806
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:34,280
Baba at the very least on the
whiskies now, as is the the.

807
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:37,640
Case most seasons, Brad, you
were a little bit higher in your

808
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:42,000
average scores per than I was
this season Let's see you came

809
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,960
out to a four.
I enjoy life, Bob, you do.

810
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,560
You came out to a 40. .68 on
average, like the average

811
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,960
whiskey we drank had hit that 40
mark for you?

812
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,320
That's nuts.
I I was thinking about whiskeys.

813
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,240
This year I felt like we drank a
lot of good whiskey this year.

814
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,880
I mean, I came out to a 30. 8
1/2 So I wasn't that much lower

815
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,800
than you, but I think the key
thing here, Brad, is that

816
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,800
probably 90% of the whiskeys we
drank this season we're provided

817
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,960
by our friend Zach Johnston as
old review samples that he had.

818
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:15,880
And you know, the guy just got
sent some incredible whiskeys.

819
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,760
So like the dollar value, the
rarity of all these whiskeys is

820
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,000
significantly higher than in
seasons past.

821
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,200
But I think what really helped
supplement that was even when we

822
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:29,080
snuck in like a newly released
whiskey, for the most part, they

823
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,720
were all bangers too.
We just like we we had really

824
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:33,120
good luck this year with our
whiskey.

825
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,800
Yeah, and I'm.
Very happy about that because I

826
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,760
like drinking good whiskey.
I I actually just the other

827
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,280
night was sitting down to play
some board games with friends

828
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,560
and pulled out some whiskeys.
Bob.

829
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:51,560
I don't know the last time I
just drank a straight up like

830
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,000
big brand release, like their
main thing.

831
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:59,240
I had just regular old Woodford
Reserve last night and it was

832
00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:00,560
delicious.
Good stuff man.

833
00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:03,880
I was very, I mean, obviously.
You know, we love double oaks.

834
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,960
We love all of their stuff.
It was fun to return to just

835
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,800
regular old Woodford Reserve.
Yeah, 100%, man.

836
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:11,240
All right.
Brad, let's start this

837
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:14,080
countdown.
And as I look at our individual

838
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,640
top fives, we actually have four
of them in common, which means

839
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,200
all four of them made it onto
our combined top five lists.

840
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,560
So I think let's just start the
countdown with like the number

841
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:29,280
4W on our combined top five
because it's one that we both

842
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,360
share and that is one that we
just had a few weeks ago.

843
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:37,480
Hardens Creek, Jacob's well now
we paired this with Godzilla -1

844
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,840
I did some stupid little like,
oh, it rises from the deep.

845
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,760
That was the thematic connection
here.

846
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,360
We tried two different Hardens
Creeks this season and the first

847
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:50,040
one way back at the beginning of
the season was the Colonel James

848
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,200
B Beam.
That was the two year release

849
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,920
and that was one of our lowest
ranked whiskey's of the season.

850
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,480
So I'm really happy that the
Jacob's Well was so highly

851
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:01,240
received by us because for me at
least, it really redeemed the

852
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:05,120
whole brand of Hardens Creek.
I mean I you gave it a.

853
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,400
Very low score of 32.
I gave it a 39 Bob.

854
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:14,920
So I I enjoyed the Colonel James
B Beam for what it is, a lower

855
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,640
proof, lower priced specialty
expression.

856
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,280
The Jacob's Well was incredible
though.

857
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:22,880
You know what I got?
I tried it.

858
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,800
A little ways.
Before you did and I was like

859
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,000
chomping at the bit for you to
try it.

860
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:32,080
I am pretty sure that that 30. 9
is actually a 29 and it's just a

861
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,720
typo.
I, I think we scored that one

862
00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:37,400
really, really low.
But in any case, we're not

863
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,480
talking about the lowest ranked
whiskeys of the season.

864
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,640
We're talking about the highest
ranked whiskeys of the season.

865
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,200
And I'm totally with you, man.
They they really redeemed

866
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:48,040
themselves with that Jacob's
Well, I would heartily recommend

867
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,480
that one and Brad, that takes us
to our number three of the

868
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,800
combined top five.
Why don't you go ahead and intro

869
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,280
this one?
Bob this.

870
00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:02,000
Was probably, I mean for me, I
think it's scored at my 4th.

871
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,680
I would say this is one of the
most memorable whiskeys of this

872
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:09,000
season.
For me, it was our Bushmills 30

873
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:14,880
year.
This stuff was like a plum bomb.

874
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:21,760
And it was incredibly delicious.
It is also one of the reasons

875
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,080
it's so memorable.
It's when our friend David

876
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,680
Thomas Tao introduced us to the
term crushability.

877
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:33,240
He certainly did.
This was crushable.

878
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,600
I liked both.
Of those Bushmills, as I recall,

879
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,040
I actually think I liked.
I can't remember which one I

880
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:41,360
liked better.
It must have been the 30 because

881
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,520
it's in my top five.
One of them had like an

882
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:48,040
overwhelming sense of like a a
finish to it and was too fruity

883
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:49,960
for me.
Let's call it the 29 because the

884
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:51,880
30 definitely made it into my
top five.

885
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:56,600
But it was crazy to me just how
much difference, you know, a 29

886
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,560
year old product that was in one
kind of barrel and a 30 year

887
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,120
product that was in another kind
of barrel had, you know, because

888
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,480
I don't know how long they were
finishing these or if any of

889
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,120
them were finished.
But I just remember from week to

890
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,720
week when we drank the 29 and
the 30 from Bushmills, I had

891
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:15,400
wildly different experiences.
Yeah, I I mean it.

892
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,440
Feels like with product that is
aged for that long, if they're

893
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,120
in a different barrel, it's kind
of like if you started 2 ships

894
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,680
from the same port and they
headed off.

895
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,160
Just like a few degrees
difference from each other.

896
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:33,680
Like the further out you go from
port, the vaster difference

897
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:35,400
you're going to have and where
they end up.

898
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,440
And that's what you see here in
the Bushmills 29 and 30, both

899
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:44,680
spectacular whiskies, great,
great expressions of Irish

900
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,320
whiskey.
But yeah, man, I I really

901
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,360
enjoyed that.
All right, our number 2

902
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,640
selection this.
Season and we will go back and

903
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,360
kind of mention the 5th place
finisher.

904
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,560
I'm not like just holding on to
that one, but our second place

905
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,680
one, at the time we drank it,
Brad was the highest rated

906
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,480
whiskey in the history of our
podcast and that was the Bo

907
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,240
Moore Masters selection, Aston
Martin.

908
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,600
Now, we paired this with Skyfall
for obvious reasons.

909
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:16,080
And Brad, I have never fallen in
love with a Scotch that I'd

910
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,000
never tried the brand Bo More
before.

911
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,400
I mean, obviously Bo More is a
very popular brand.

912
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,200
I just never had anything from
them.

913
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,080
And starting with that bottle, I
was like, oh, I am all in.

914
00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:30,200
I am in love with this thing.
It really knocked our socks off,

915
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,920
man.
Yeah, one of the better.

916
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,080
Scotches, one of the best
scotches we've ever had on the

917
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,680
podcast.
And as, as somebody who is

918
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:43,200
pretty obsessed with Scotch
nowadays, that Oh my gosh, dude,

919
00:52:43,240 --> 00:52:47,480
I, I really want a bottle of
that Beau Moore Aston Martin

920
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,960
now, dude, do you want to know
how much cache?

921
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,920
Our podcast has with these
brands now.

922
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,880
How much after we after?
We did a whole reel.

923
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,280
And everything saying like this
is the highest rated whiskey.

924
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,040
We did a whole bunch of promo
for it.

925
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:05,840
Our friend that has connections
in the industry made a

926
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,120
connection with the folks at
Beau Moore and said, hey, these

927
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,920
guys rated this the best whiskey
on the history of their podcast.

928
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,120
No response from Beau Moore.
Ghosted.

929
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,800
Thanks so much, Beau Moore.
Yep, Yep.

930
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,320
Really appreciate that one.
We are.

931
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:20,120
We're pretty.
Incredible, Bob.

932
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,160
You know what?
And that's why I'm.

933
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,160
Kind of happy that our number 1W
of the season actually usurped

934
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,360
the crown from Beau Moore.
And it's our friends at

935
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:33,520
Bardstown Bourbon Company with
their Cathedral Oak finish.

936
00:53:34,240 --> 00:53:36,000
I'm going to be so honest with
you, Brad.

937
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,200
I, I had kind of fallen in a rut
with Bardstown a little bit.

938
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,640
Not that any of them were bad,
but that they were all like

939
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:47,200
forties, 40 out of 50 for me,
like a really good, no brainer

940
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,640
recommendation.
And it was like I was getting

941
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:53,680
lulled into ignoring how good
their whiskey had become.

942
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,920
And then we tried this Cathedral
French Oak, and it's one of the

943
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:03,440
best Bourbons I have ever had.
Brad, It is absolutely.

944
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,760
Stunning.
Now, I, I will say we were under

945
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:11,840
the impression that it was $100
for a bottle of the 7:50 and I

946
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,840
have to correct us here, it is
$100.

947
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:20,720
It was $100 for a 375, which I
still think is a decent value if

948
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:22,960
you're thinking of it as a $200
bottle.

949
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,960
I Bob, I still think that that's
a decent value.

950
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,640
My score might have been a
little lower, if I'm being

951
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,760
honest.
It's still one of the best

952
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,520
whiskey's we've had in a while
and definitely the best whiskey

953
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,080
we've had out of Bardstown in a
while.

954
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:39,560
Yeah, and I you got to forgive.
Me for that oversight, but like,

955
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,920
I didn't actually see the sizing
listed with the price.

956
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,120
And I'm, you know, I'm not
accusing Bardstown of trying to

957
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:49,760
hide that fact, but it certainly
wasn't front and center.

958
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,640
And so yeah, we definitely
scored it as if it would be a

959
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,040
750.
Now, I think maybe my score goes

960
00:54:56,040 --> 00:55:00,520
down to like a 7 out of 10 or an
8 out of 10 on value because I

961
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:04,480
remember saying even if this was
the $160 that they typically

962
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,640
price things at, I'd still be at
like a nine out of 10 on this.

963
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,840
So, you know, perhaps the score
gets lowered by a couple points

964
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,080
and Beau Moore takes the crown
back again.

965
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,360
But I think it's worth noting
that this Bardstown Cathedral is

966
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:23,360
so good at a 375 size that we're
still arguing whether it would

967
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,400
be the number one whiskey of the
season for us.

968
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:31,040
Yeah, I mean, if you took my.
Scores sands value.

969
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:41,160
I would be at a 38.5 out of 40.
So like this is a daggone.

970
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,320
Good.
Whiskey that deserves at the

971
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,560
very least one of the top two or
three spots for this season.

972
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,280
100% Now our #5.
On the combined top five, and

973
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,800
now that I've spoiled #1 for you
folks, was the barrel Seagrass

974
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,360
toasted?
We really liked this whiskey.

975
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,760
I will say that when I first
popped it, I shared it with a

976
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,800
friend like immediately after
opening it and we were kind of

977
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,760
like muted on it.
We didn't really love it.

978
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,720
I let it kind of just sit for a
couple weeks on the shelf and I

979
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:09,720
don't know what happened, but it
really opened up so that when

980
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,840
when it came time for us to
review it, it really blew me

981
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:14,920
away.
But The funny thing about this

982
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,920
barrel seagrass Brad, is that it
really snuck into our combined

983
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,400
top five because neither of us
actually has it in our personal

984
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,240
top five when it comes to the
scores.

985
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:27,640
Yeah, I mean, I, I felt.
Like this was a really beautiful

986
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:31,440
whiskey that just wasn't quite
worth the $200.

987
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:34,200
I mean, I, I came to a 45 out of
50 on it.

988
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:38,080
I think it's a great, incredible
drinking experience.

989
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,800
It's just a little bit on the
overpriced side and then like,

990
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:43,840
that's fine.
Yeah, absolutely.

991
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,520
Now I did.
Have one of our B TAC lineups

992
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,200
this season that made my top
five.

993
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:51,480
It was the William LaRue Weller
from 2023.

994
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,160
Brad, you also had AB TAC in
your top five.

995
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:59,480
Yeah, I had the George.
T stag from 2023 It's pretty

996
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,680
funny though, that we're.
Far enough apart on each of

997
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:06,520
those two whiskeys that like, it
made my top five, and it was

998
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,880
nowhere near making your top
five and and vice versa.

999
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,640
And that's how the seagrass
snuck into that five spot here.

1000
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,760
Yeah, which makes me happy.
Anytime I see the word seagrass

1001
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,120
it just, you know, I feel warm
and fuzzy on the inside.

1002
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:21,200
All right, so one more time
with.

1003
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,080
The top five, Brad, I'm going to
read them off from 5:00 to 1:00

1004
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:28,080
and I want you to just give like
a, an immediate top of mind one

1005
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,920
to 10.
Get in your car and go buy this

1006
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:38,160
right now on each of these OK #5
Barrel Seagrass toasted 6.

1007
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:43,560
Harden's Creek.
Jacob's Well 8 1/2.

1008
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,880
There you go, Bushmills 30 year.
9 1/2.

1009
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,160
Beau Moore, Aston.
Martin, 10, and Bardstown.

1010
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,400
Cathedral.
Ten, Yeah.

1011
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,640
I think those two are the the.
Clear champions of this season?

1012
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:03,000
Yeah, absolutely for.
Me, I like, I don't know, I, I

1013
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:07,360
do think that the, the Bo more
partially just for its rarity,

1014
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,480
Like I, I think that I think
that's my winner for the season.

1015
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,560
Well, here's how we're shaking
out on this.

1016
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,880
Bardstown, thank you for
answering our calls and

1017
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,560
continuing to send us samples.
Bo more call us back.

1018
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,960
You know, that's, that's what
I'm saying here.

1019
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:23,760
Let us know how we can support
you guys.

1020
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,280
Yeah, we'd love to continue.
To try your product and to give

1021
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,760
it publicity.
So, Brad, that's our top five

1022
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,440
for the season.
What do you say we get into this

1023
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,040
championship matchup?
Let's get to it.

1024
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:39,840
All right, man.
What do you say we get back into

1025
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,640
this championship matchup?
Brad, I feel like I've been

1026
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,880
talking so much.
Why don't you do your best?

1027
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,760
What's the guy's name?
The let's get.

1028
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,720
I want you to queue up our I'm
not going to say that and you

1029
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,600
need.
To bleep that out because he is

1030
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,440
highly litigious about that
phrase.

1031
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,800
Oh well, there you go.
Have you have you not heard

1032
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,560
about this?
No, no.

1033
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,000
Oh.
Dude, he trademarked.

1034
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:11,360
That phrase and he has like a
small team of lawyers scouring

1035
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:15,440
the Internet, looking to
litigate as often as possible

1036
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:21,040
because he has a rightful claim
to it and he has made millions

1037
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:24,680
off of people using it.
And I'm talking like a church

1038
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,240
youth group holds like a local
fundraiser.

1039
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:28,920
Yeah.
And it you know, it's like, I

1040
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:33,560
don't know the the sumo like
American Gladiator, you got

1041
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,360
those big polls and they have
somebody say that phrase lawyers

1042
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:38,480
like 2 weeks later.
Wow.

1043
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,240
All right, it's bleeped.
It's.

1044
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,040
Done.
Let's let's go just intro the

1045
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,200
matchup for us fresh.
I just want to hear.

1046
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:52,640
Let's get to beep.
We are ready to.

1047
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:57,480
Bleep Bob, because this is a
matchup of Titans I like.

1048
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:02,240
This is one of the better final,
you know, 2 championships that

1049
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:04,440
we've had.
This is whiplash, baby.

1050
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:09,120
Like the king of the 90 minute
movie versus past lives.

1051
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:13,840
A quiet, introspective, get you
thinking about who you are as a

1052
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:18,720
human being kind of movie.
Whiplash, the king of the 90

1053
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:22,000
minute movie, is in fact an hour
and 47 minutes long.

1054
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:25,400
So, you know, it feels like 90
minutes, though.

1055
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,520
It feels like 90 minutes.
It's So what is that, 107

1056
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:31,320
minutes?
It's all right, Bob.

1057
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,200
It's close enough.
Past lives an hour and 46.

1058
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:37,800
Minutes.
So I mean, I'm just saying,

1059
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:40,440
Brad, this is now go ahead.
What's?

1060
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:41,720
The most bang for your buck,
Bob.

1061
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:46,120
The most bang for your buck is
whiplash. 100% dude.

1062
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,920
But sometimes you don't need.
Bang for your buck sometimes you

1063
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:53,560
need to invest your dollar.
You need to invest your tuppence

1064
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:57,640
wisely in the bank, safe and
sound, and that is what past

1065
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,520
lives does it pays dividends
man.

1066
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:03,280
You plant that seed and that
thing just keeps coming back

1067
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,360
time and time again.
That movie is like it's a

1068
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,920
beautiful film.
It's also a film that haunts

1069
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,040
you.
Like I think about that movie

1070
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:15,640
sometimes and it's just like,
damn, did she capture a feeling

1071
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:17,920
better than any movie I've ever
seen.

1072
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,080
And I think I have to go with my
heart here.

1073
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:25,680
Like I I know that whiplash is
like a perfectly calibrated

1074
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:31,840
machine and past lives is just
like watching a leaf like float

1075
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:34,240
on the breeze back and forth.
It's like the Forrest Gump

1076
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,520
feather and you're wondering
about destiny.

1077
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,360
Like it's it's just so good,
man.

1078
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:43,920
I'm I'm picking past lives here.
It's the American beauty.

1079
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,200
Trash bag.
It is floating.

1080
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:49,200
It's it's the shopping.
Bag against a brick wall, Brad.

1081
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,920
And it is beautiful.
I'm picking past lives and that

1082
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:57,680
is, I think fittingly setting up
a battle of Titans for the

1083
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:00,560
champion I am.
I am really hopeful.

1084
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:04,320
But I've, I, I didn't expect
past lives to get this far.

1085
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,560
So it would make sense that I
suffer A crushing defeat right

1086
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:10,120
now.
Brad at the height, right?

1087
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:14,280
Right at the.
Peak of the mountain will my.

1088
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,720
Sherpa push me off of the peak.
Here is the question.

1089
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:23,280
All I can see is.
The The Cola Mountain in Wreck

1090
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:26,880
it Ralph past lives.
Is just going to get.

1091
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:30,640
Shoved down in there as John C
Reilly.

1092
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,840
Recites.
The villains, whatever it is, it

1093
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:35,440
takes like a Mentos in there
with him.

1094
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:36,880
Yeah.
Yep, Yep.

1095
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:41,600
All right, whiplash will be.
As the number one seed heads in

1096
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:45,680
this coin flip of destiny past
lives as the number three seed

1097
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,680
is tails.
Brad for the whole kit and

1098
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,120
caboodle here.
Flip that coin.

1099
01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:57,960
Bob.
Bob.

1100
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:07,080
My friend, it is my duty to
inform you that past lives is

1101
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:10,560
going to live in your fiery
inferno for the rest of time.

1102
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:13,640
Because.
Whiplash is the.

1103
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:28,320
Victor of Season 9.
Whiplash has done it.

1104
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:30,320
It has pulled out.
I don't even want to say they

1105
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:35,760
come from behind Victory, but
it, it staved off a push from

1106
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:39,280
the Cinderella team here.
In past lives, You know, I've

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01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,840
never hated the movie Whiplash
more than I do right now.

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01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:46,320
But if I'm, if I'm being honest,
Brad, it's a worthy champion of

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01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:51,400
season #9 yeah, I, I mean, I, I.
Did not have it as my champion.

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01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:57,760
You forced out my number one
choice, probably my number two

1111
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,840
choice as well.
I, I think Mad Max versus

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01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,920
Whiplash, we might have been
stuck here for an hour, like

1113
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:07,880
with me just debating myself.
So maybe it's good that we saved

1114
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,280
ourselves from that because
those two feel very on par for

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01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,600
me.
I am, I'm very happy with this.

1116
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:18,120
I, I truly felt like Whiplash
was going to be my #1 going into

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01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,320
this.
It is the number one at the end

1118
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:25,000
of the season.
I feel vindicated, Jordan, good

1119
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:29,880
friend of show Jordan McCain for
all those years that I gave you

1120
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,160
crap about whiplash before I saw
it.

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01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:35,320
I'm sorry.
I should not have made fun of it

1122
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:38,920
and called JK Simmons JK Rowling
so many times.

1123
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:43,360
No, it is a great movie, man.
And it is no past lives in my

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01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,080
book, but it is a freaking great
movie.

1125
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:48,840
And I think I can safely say
looking especially at our final

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01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:52,200
four here, Brad Whiplash,
Parasite, Oppenheimer, past

1127
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:56,640
lives, they unequivocally answer
our question of is this a modern

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01:04:56,640 --> 01:05:00,040
masterpiece with a yes, there
are some others in this list of

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01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:05,440
32, but I feel very confident in
those four movies getting a a an

1130
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,320
all the way green light on that
question.

1131
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:09,680
Absolutely.
I mean I.

1132
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:15,080
Would even say our Elite Eight
other than maybe 1917?

1133
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:20,280
Yeah, like I would say all of
them are modern classics.

1134
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:22,160
I think so too, folks.
I.

1135
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:24,080
Hope that you have enjoyed this
season.

1136
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:27,360
I would love to hear if you have
downloaded your bracket at

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01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:30,920
filmwhiskey.com, what your
champion is.

1138
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,600
I'd love to hear what you think
of modern classics.

1139
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,720
Are there movies that we missed?
Remember, we have nine seasons

1140
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:39,520
of movies, including some from
the past 20 years that we've

1141
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:42,520
talked about before this season,
and that I think we would

1142
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,080
definitely qualify as modern
masterpieces.

1143
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:47,000
But I'd love to hear what you
think.

1144
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:50,320
You can find us on any of our
social media platforms to tell

1145
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:53,360
us all about it.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,

1146
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:58,520
Tiktok or YouTube at Film
Whiskey or if you want to join

1147
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,880
the conversation.
You can find a link to our

1148
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,240
discord at the end of every
single one of our show notes.

1149
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:07,640
We will gladly debate with you
what is the best film of season

1150
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,320
9.
We want to say thank you once.

1151
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:13,520
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1160
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,880
Father's Day is coming up.
I can't think of a better gift

1161
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:43,840
Brad for Father's Day than a
bottle of Blackwood.

1162
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:49,400
Absolutely, dude, it is.
A a great purchase that easily

1163
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:51,920
will sit on yourself for a long
time because you're not going to

1164
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,920
want to finish it like like it's
going to be that bottle that

1165
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:58,520
you're I want to drink it every
day, but I don't want to drink

1166
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,920
it every day because I want to
share it with the right people.

1167
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:06,120
It'll be like paralysis for you
because it's so good.

1168
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:07,840
We will be back at the beginning
of.

1169
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:11,600
July to kick off season #10 but
we've got some things planned in

1170
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:13,720
the interim.
We will release a couple bonus

1171
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:15,480
episodes.
I do think, Brad, we got to do

1172
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:20,520
the 21st century Pantheon now.
So be on the lookout as the feed

1173
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:22,480
is updated with a couple new
episodes.

1174
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:25,520
This is a fantastic time to go
back into the catalog.

1175
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:29,440
We've done what, 300 some odd
Movies Now we have over 100

1176
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,640
bonus episodes to pick from.
Catch yourself back up on film

1177
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:37,040
and whiskey as we gear up for
season #10 but just in case we

1178
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:39,640
don't see you until July, I'm
Bob Book.

1179
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:43,160
I'm Brad G.
And we'll see you next time.

1180
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:07,320
The.