Season Seven Bracket Challenge, Part 2 / Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye

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Today on the Film and Whiskey
Podcast, I will be drinking my

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sorrows away as every movie I
ever loved has been eliminated.

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And to accomplish that feat,
we're returning to Brad's all

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time favorite whiskey brand.
It's going to be a hell of a

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hell of an episode, boys.
This is the.

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Film and Whiskey Podcast.
Well, hey, everybody.

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Welcome into the Film and
Whiskey Podcast.

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I'm Bob Book.
I'm getting drunk.

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Yes, you are.
And your name for the time being

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is no, I'm not getting drunk,
Bob.

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I'm just sad.
I'm drunk on my tears, I think.

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What's your name, man?
Jeez, Bob, if people don't know

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who I am by now.
That's true.

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That's true.
Co host Jake Gyllenhaal.

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All right.
So Jake and I call call me Jake.

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Jake and I are finishing out
season seven of Film and Whiskey

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today because we are rounding
out our bracket challenge.

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Now if you have not listened to
part one of the bracket

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challenge, I guess honestly, I
mean like you did miss some

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stuff, but you're catching the
correct episode 'cause this is

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where we pick the winner, and
here in America we only care

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about winners.
We started with 32 movies from

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season seven that we put into a
Madness style bracket.

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We have eliminated, I don't know
how many of them now, Brad 24 of

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them.
We went through two rounds, the

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round of 32 and the round of 16.
We're down to the final eight

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films and by the end of today we
will crown the victor, the

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victor of the world.
And while we do it, Brad, I will

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be gazing longingly at this
little mini bottle that's

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sitting next to me right now
because after seven seasons, we

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have finally arrived.
Brad, we got a press release.

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We've been drinking B Tac for
years now, Bob.

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Yeah, we have our own B tac.
Well, wait, wait to not let me

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reveal what we're drinking.
I hate when you undercut me like

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this, Bob.
Any Any chance I get to

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undercut?
Not only you.

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But also Buffalo Trace, Well,
and also to just say like,

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what's the worst possible audio
that we can record?

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And Brad's like, I got it, Let
me not build to that.

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We're drinking B TAC people.
Hooray.

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We got a A Buffalo Trace press
release that said, hey, B Tac's

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coming out.
And as I do every year, I said,

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hey, give me some of that.
And this year they said sure.

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And they sent Brad and I each a
sample.

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And they said, is that how you
phrase it?

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Hey comma, space, space give me
some adapt.

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Give me that.
Yeah, I wonder why you've never

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gotten.
I know, right?

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Well, even now it's not like we
have the full lineup.

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They told us we can pick only
one to try, and we've only had a

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couple of them, Brad, but the
one that we've loved the most.

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And I think still to this day,
our highest regarded whiskey in

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film and whiskey history is the
Thomas H Handy Sazerac Rye.

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I believe the one we tried was
the 2019 vintage, so we're

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trying the 2023 version today,
Brad.

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Four years later, we're back.
Baby, we won't be drinking it

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just yet, but you know, just to
tease things.

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I'm very excited for this.
Yeah, I'm super excited too,

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man.
It's rye whiskey.

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It's barrel strength.
It is some of the most sought

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after whiskey in the world.
So I yes, I'm excited to drink

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this, Bob.
Well, before we get into that

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Brad, we need to return to our
bracket.

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Now, like I said, we left off
with this thing still containing

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8 films and we need to eliminate
seven of those movies from

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existence.
So for a refresher, our 8

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remaining films are Ron, City
Lights, Rope, 7 Samurai, The

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Best Years of Our Lives, Paths
of Glory, Sabrina, and

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Unforgiven.
One of the last comments we made

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last week, Brad, was that this
would not have been my final

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eight.
It definitely wouldn't have been

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your final eight.
I don't know that I can

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necessarily say this is the
correct final eight, but this is

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what we have, man.
And I think it's going to make

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for some really interesting
conversations, especially coming

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from your end, noted Hater.
Of at least two of these movies,

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Yeah, I have three of my final
eight still in the bracket.

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Let me see what I'm working with
on my bracket here Brad.

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Bob's Bob's going to be like oh
which what am I working 08 of

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eight?
I'm.

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So happy I have seven of eight
Brad.

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The only one that I did not get
to the Elite 8 here is Rashaman

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replaced with Ron.
That does make my soul a little

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happier.
That was my winner.

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And I think you know your winner
was was Ikiru.

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Yep, it sure was.
So we're both equally screwed.

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Ran right over it.
All right, man.

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Truck.
Let us dive in with the first

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match up in the round of eight.
Up here in the upper left

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quadrant, which I believe you
call the cruise bracket, we've

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got the number 16 Seed Ron up
against the number nine Seed

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City Lights.
Now this is the player haters

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ball here Brad.
This is your opportunity to

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shine and truly crap on both of
these movies, 'cause I know you

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don't like either of them that
much.

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Yeah, I I like City Lights well
enough.

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Ron was just fine that there
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overall the story was
convoluted.

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It was 40 minutes too long and
man, the colors were bright.

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How did they, How did he do
colors that vibrant?

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Magic.
Cinema.

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Magic.
Magic of cinema, Bradley.

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That's how.
Yeah, man, I there's parts of

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Ron that I really like.
The the few scenes that really

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stick in my head from that are
the kind of ridiculous, like

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fight scenes where they've
already taken everything except

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for like the upper room of the
castle and they just like pop in

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and out and shoot arrows up the
the, the place.

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And all of a sudden there's
blood spreading everywhere that

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really sticks in my brain.
And then all of the little

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formations of troops like just
running around in circles and

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every single troop has this
giant banner that's like just

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brilliantly coloured and
beautiful like that.

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All that stuff.
It feels like a little toy army

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running around and it's gorgeous
and yet ridiculous and very

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ridiculous.
City lights.

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City Lights.
What was that movie again?

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Wow.
Wow.

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City Lights is the movie in
which Charlie Chaplin is

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courting a blind girl, and in
order to pay for her operation,

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he befriends A drunken and
suicidal millionaire, gets

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himself into a bunch of
shenanigans.

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There's a great boxing set piece
in that movie.

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Oh dude, I forgot about the
boxing set piece.

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Yeah, City Lights moves on.
That boxing set piece was.

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So good.
Let it be known, Akira

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Kurosawa's Ron.
Not enough boxing.

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Not nearly enough.
Just had more pugilism, that

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movie would have won here.
Here's the thing, man.

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That is one of the funniest
scenes I've ever seen.

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Oh, it's so good.
It's like just brilliantly timed

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out.
It almost feels like a physical

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version, like a physical, comedy
version of who's on 1st, You

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know what I mean?
Like the way the way he plays

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rope, a dope with the referee
and his opponent and the way he

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keeps tricking him into thinking
something isn't what it actually

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is.
Like, it just feels like Abbott

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and Costello are doing that
boxing match.

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It's it's pitch perfect.
Fun fact, I just looked at my

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bracket, Brad.
Even though Rashaman was the

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number one seed in my list,
apparently I could not part with

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it because City Lights is
actually the champion of my

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bracket.
Wait, what?

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Yeah.
What?

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Yeah, Bob, what's wrong with
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I I put Rashaman above it, and
then when it came time to throw

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one into the fiery furnace, I
was like, I can't do it to my

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boy.
You know what the problem with

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Rashaman is?
Not enough boxing.

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All right, so City Lights is our
first entrant into the Final

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Four.
Here we're moving down into the

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lower left area of the bracket.
For our next match up, the

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number four Seed rope up against
the number 12 Seed 7 Samurai.

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Now this is a battle of films
that Bob Books really likes.

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Brad, you you like Rope more
than I remembered you liking it

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based on your rankings, but
still not as much as Dial M for

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Murder 7.
Samurai is a movie that.

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I I think you even forgot in the
last episode how highly you

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rated it, 'cause you were like,
you know, I think I did give it

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a 9 1/2 or something like that.
So yeah, I'm interested to hear

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like, which one comes away with
the victory in your mind here.

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I think 7 Samurai does.
I think that Rope is a really

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great movie that other people
have done similar work.

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I mean, honestly, I think about
high and low and and there's a

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level of similarity in the way
it plays out in the apartment

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and the nerves and the tension
where I'm like I I've seen rope

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before in in various ways.
I don't think I've seen

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something quite like 7 Samurai
and and I say that knowing that

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Seven Samurai inspired a million
spin offs and it's almost a

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trope in its own right.
But to see what Kurosawa did

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with Seven Samurai all the way
back in in what was it 5253

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like?
It's an incredible film.

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It's a great feat of film making
and it's better than Rashomon.

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So I I'm just going to try to
mention that as often as I can.

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And closer to being a boxing
movie just due to the presence

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of rope, right?
Yeah, Yeah, that.

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Yes, that.
That's true.

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I, I and I'm trying to think, I
feel like Toshiro Mifune would

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like he would totally be down to
get into a boxing match with

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anyone at any point 100%.
So yeah, no, I'll go with my boy

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Mifune and and move him on.
I did put rope moving on in my

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bracket.
I will say this though, I don't

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care which one moves on.
This was by far the hardest of

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the 8:00 to pick a victor for
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You know, I'm going to force a
coin flip here, I guess, but if

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rope loses, it's definitely
losing to a worthy adversary.

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So Brad, you do know that like,
I don't give a rip.

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Which one wins here?
Which means I'm going to win.

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That's true.
It's when you least care, and I

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most care that that things
matter.

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OK, so rope being the higher
ranked seed, it's going to be

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heads. 7.
Samurai is going to be tails.

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Brad, flip the coin of destiny
for a spot in the final four.

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Bob, That's a heads.
The street continues for me,

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man.
You have won 6, dare I say seven

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in a row.
The streak is a lie.

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What is turning into a
statistical improbability, my

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friend?
What is going to happen is I

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will win every single coin flip
until the very, the very last

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one which will be for the
championship and then I will

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lose.
Yes, that's what's going, but at

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that point you'll have won every
single one and so the two in the

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top, you know the the finals
you're going to be happy.

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I will have.
Stacked the deck too much at

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that point.
Somehow I'm not going to flip

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heads or tails.
It's going to be the the point

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OOO 3% where it lands on its
side.

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So, well, sorry Bob, they're
both in the Pirate Furnace now.

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So we have our first two entries
into the film and W4 here, City

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Lights and Rope Brad.
Before we move into the other

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half of our bracket, it's time
for us to give out our end of

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Season Film and Whiskey Awards,
better known as the Filmies.

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The Filmies.
The fact that we still haven't

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thought of a better title for
these is it's a perfect title.

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It's a perfect title, Bob.
It's not it apply any film

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related award could be called
the filmies.

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Like, there's nothing unique
about these at all.

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The film.
They're not the filmies, Bob.

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They're the film and whiskey
filmies.

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Got it, got it.
At the end of every season we do

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these film and whiskey awards.
Some of them are based on actual

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data and some of them are based
on what Brad ate for breakfast

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that morning.
The first three that we're going

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to get into are based on cold,
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This is always fun for me, this.
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Brad forgets that we do these
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catch him off guard with these
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What we're looking at is the
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when we rated it versus what the
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movie, and we call that from the
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So Brad, the first award we're
giving out today is probably the

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most negative award we give out,
and that is most overrated

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movie.
This is where we measure the

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disparity between our low score
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score.
So which movie would you peg as

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being most overrated this year?
Oh man, what's a movie that?

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Oh, The Shining.
That was confident that that

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that has to be.
I mean we we didn't give Shining

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like a crazy low score, but I I
feel like it has to be The

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Shining.
It is not The Shining, oh oh

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great dictator.
No.

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Oh, I want you to guess like all
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All right.
Is it notorious?

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It is Notorious, Brad.
Third time's the charm.

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We came out to a 6.75 on average
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Versus an 8.2 on IMDb.
That is a Top 250 movie.

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Notorious is a Top 250 movie.
It sure is.

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Man, what?
That's insane.

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Remember I told you Roger Ebert
called it one of the 10 greatest

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films ever made.
Yeah, Roger Ebert.

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What does he know?
Yeah, yeah.

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All right, so Hitchcock, come
collect your posthumous

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overrated award.
As we move into perhaps my

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favorite award, the complete
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The movie that Brad and I will
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versus the general public.
Brad, which do you think was the

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most underrated film this year?
Oh man, I feel like Paz A Glory

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might be up there.
I think we both gave that a 10

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or maybe maybe we average out to
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So I I would say Paz A Glory has
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Maybe Dial M for murder.
No, everybody likes Dial M for

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murder.
Dial.

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M was close.
Oh, really?

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OK.
I'm gonna tell you what it was,

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and then I'll tell you why This
is a hard one to predict.

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Brad, the winner is the best
years of our lives, OK?

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We gave that movie.
I expected that.

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Well, it's 'cause we gave that
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highly rated movie on IMDb.
Again, I think it's top 250.

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It has an 8.1 average.
And when you think in terms of

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like IMDb averages, 8.1 is
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highest rated movie of all time.
Yeah, so like when we give it

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A10, we've got a 1.9 point
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It's not as if like we gave a

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movie A10 that had a 6.2 on
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Yeah, no, I I think for me
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and higher on IMDb, I'm
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is probably got a chance of
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Except for Bohemian Rhapsody,
which I just I I will never

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understand how folks got so
bamboozled by that movie.

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Bob, can we can we make like a
blood pact to at least like 6 *

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a season Just rip into Bohemian
Rhapsody?

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It's it's so bad.
It's a horrendous like it is one

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of the fakest movies I've ever
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very big on sincere filmmaking
and performances and just things

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that feel authentically lived
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That is the least authentic
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Like, I would rather watch
General Hospital for like an

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authentic, meaningful, emotional
experience than Bohemian

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Rhapsody.
Boom.

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There it is.
And that is a perfect segue into

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our our third award of the day
here, the most divisive or do

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you say divisive or divisive?
Which kind of person are you?

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It depends on how Snooty I'm
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Yeah, I've never heard a non
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right?
You know what I mean?

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All right, so this is where Brad
and I have the biggest disparity

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in our scores.
It could be because Brad rated

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something higher than me or I
rated something higher than he

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did.
Which movie sticks out to you?

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Brad is the most likely
candidate for most divisive

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind final answer.

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That is the winner every season,
forever, eternally be the

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winner.
Oh man, it's got to be an Akira

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Rashman.
Yeah, Rashman.

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Is the easy choice here.
I gave it A10.

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I think it's one of the best
films ever made.

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Brad gave it a 6.5 for for a
full 35% difference here.

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Yeah, that's generous man.
I I almost gave it like a 5 1/2

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or a six.
That is crazy, dude.

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I I yeah, that's that's what I'm
going to force you to rewatch

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one of these days, Bob, I want
you to give me 3 metaphors on

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how crazy it is.
No.

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Because we have to fit three
more awards in here, Brad, we're

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moving into the segment of Brad
G awards.

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These are completely off the top
of Brad's head, which is the

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best way to do this.
And each season we give out an

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award starting with the most
unexpected.

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Now what this is, is, is based
on Brad's impression of the

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film, it could be something that
he was not looking forward to

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that caught him by surprise.
It could be something that he

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was looking forward to that even
then exceeded expectations.

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Brad, as you look at this
season's list of movies, what

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was the most unexpected man?
Bob, I I would say that Akiru

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would be in the running,
although you had kind of

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described the film to me before
and I was pretty intrigued.

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So you know, pretty intrigued
would say like yeah, hopefully

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that's an 8 out of 1010 out of
10 is a little bit of a jump.

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Dunkirk definitely took me by
surprise.

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I I had heard mixed things on
that as far as Nolan films go

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and I I ended up really, really
liking it.

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I think I'm going to go not
because my initial watch was the

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greatest thing ever.
I'm going to go with high and

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low.
I think how much that movie has

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captured me post watching is one
of the most unexpected things

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that's happened this season.
I love it when that happens.

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Like, you know, because I
always.

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I never want to get my hopes up
that you're going to change your

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opinion on something, and it's
not as if you had a low opinion

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of that movie.
But yeah, I I think I gave it an

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8 1/2.
Right.

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But it's just always great when
you watch a movie and then you

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just can't shake it afterwards
and it completely, it doesn't

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change your criticisms.
It doesn't mean it's a perfect

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movie or it doesn't have flaws,
but like, it just gets its hooks

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into you, Yeah.
Yeah, 100%.

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I mean, Fargo's still like that.
I I've watched it maybe once or

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maybe twice for sure once since
we watched it and even the after

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that.
I'm like man, Fargo just sticks

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in the brain, man.
It's like there's blood

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spattered on the side of.
My brain all right.

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So high and low is the most
unexpected.

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The flip side of that biggest
let down.

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Maybe a movie that you had seen
before and upon revisit just

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doesn't hold up.
Could be a movie that you really

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built up in your mind and it
lets you down in that way.

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Brad what is the biggest let
down of Season 7?

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Yeah, this one unfortunately is
a little easier.

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I think a top contender for this
award is definitely The Great

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Dictator.
I I was like so excited, 'cause

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this is a movie that I actually
had heard about and you know

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it's this great parody of Hitler
and and it's one of Chaplin's

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finest works and and I just
wasn't impressed.

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Like it was good.
There was some very funny

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moments.
The the moment of him dictating

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as Hitler to the to the typist
was brilliant and has been done

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over and over and is so funny.
I think though the biggest let

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down for me, and I'm placing
this solely at your feet, Bob,

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is rash, man.
I was so excited to get into the

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world of Akira Kurosawa and for
years now you had been telling

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me Rashaman, it's it's it's
accessible.

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It's a 90 minute movie.
You're going to love it, Brad.

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It's so, so good.
And then I sat there and I kept

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waiting for the so, so good part
to happen.

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And then the credits rolled and
it didn't happen, Bob.

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It didn't happen.
I didn't get my great moment.

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Well, I mean, there's not really
much I can say to that, Brad.

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I I understand that it's the
biggest let down for you.

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As I give you a gesture on
camera here that the folks can't

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see, so Brad's biggest let down
is Rashaman.

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Before we move back into the
bracket, do you have any other

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made-up awards you want to give
out this season?

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I 100% have a made-up award.
I feel like I always end up

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giving a a version of this
award, but you you kicked this

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off with the the boxing remarks.
I am curious which character,

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Not not the actor, but which
character could defeat Toshiro

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Mufune's character in Rashomon
in a boxing match And that could

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be Toshiro Mufune from high and
Low.

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Who knows?
Great.

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Great question.
Are you going to answer it for

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us?
No, I'm going to let you answer

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first.
When I got a look at the movies,

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man, boxing, I'll say this I
think that is it.

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George C Scott from Doctor
Strangelove.

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Is he the is he the crazy?
Like hard ass general?

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I think that that would be a
perfect film.

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Just a little short them, like
preparing for the fight for like

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10 minutes and then a boxing
match for another 10 minutes

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would be one of the funniest
films ever done.

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OK, I I have two movies in mind.
I have to ask a really horrible

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question.
I love really horrible

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questions.
Is is Homer from Best Years of

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Our Lives disqualified?
Because if not, I think he's

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really got a chance to win that
match that is so bad.

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I'm just Listen, man, you asked
the question, who would win?

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I'm just saying.
I mean, it's a boxing match, so

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they're still going to strap
boxing gloves on it.

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Oh, that's fair.
OK, well then my answer is Judah

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Ben Hur.
Let's go dude.

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My boy Charlton is going to mess
up to Shira buffooning.

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All right, so those are our
highly controversial film and

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whiskey awards for season seven.
Let's get back into this

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bracket, Brad.
All right, Well, Speaking of

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Homer and his boxing abilities,
we're moving into the upper

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right quadrant of our bracket.
Where we have the best years of

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our lives, our number two
overall seed facing off against

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paths of glory, the seven seed.
This is well, it might be the

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highest ranked match up of all
of these Brad in terms of like

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the seeding, but this might have
been the easiest pick for me in

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terms of what is moving forward.
That's interesting.

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I Here's the thing, Bob.
I didn't tell you this last

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time.
My finals match up was Kiru

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versus High and Low.
Wow, I was very big.

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So you you do like Kurosawa more
than more than you let on.

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Yeah.
And I told you before we started

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recording, Hey, Bob, I I think
you'd actually really like how

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my bracket shook out.
And you're like, no, Brad,

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you're a peasant.
That's true.

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Get that weak stuff out of here.
That's usually what I say.

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It's Bob's.
Bob's go to phrase, get that

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weak stuff out of here.
OK, so but high and low has been

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eliminated in in favor of Paths
of Glory.

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So what made this a challenging
match up with Best Years of our

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Lives?
Well, I I really love Best Years

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of our lives.
But as I considered it compared

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to Paths of Glory, there there's
enough similarity and themes

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that I it just took me.
It gave me an opportunity to

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really reflect on Paths of Glory
and man, oh man, I like that

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movie, Bob.
So that's what's moving on for

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you.
I I haven't thought about like

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I've thought about it.
I haven't decided yet.

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That's that's where I'm at.
So tell tell me about about best

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years of your lives.
I did move best years of our

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lives on and this is the thing I
gave the movie A10 Brad.

447
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,640
It's probably like my softest 10
of all time.

448
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,120
Like I it's it's a 10 based on
the effect it has on you.

449
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,160
I don't know if that makes
sense, but like, it is a hokey

450
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,720
movie.
It has cheesy moments.

451
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,720
It also has really earnest and
sincere and well earned moments

452
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,800
of emotion.
I just think that like I I can

453
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,800
understand someone watching that
movie and appreciating it but

454
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,400
not loving it.
But I still at the end of the

455
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,520
day, I just moved it on over
Paths of Glory, a movie that.

456
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,360
I used to be in my top 50 of all
time.

457
00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:27,280
That is kind of moved down, you
know, to be like a 9 1/2 out of

458
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,320
10 for me now.
But again, I don't know that you

459
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:31,720
can really make a wrong choice
here.

460
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,440
These are both really, really
great movies about war and the

461
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,920
effects it has on people.
Yeah.

462
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,680
And I think that's why I was
starting to more seriously

463
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,640
consider Paths of Glory.
I'm with you that that Best

464
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,360
Years of Our Lives is a soft 10,
and I think it's a deserved soft

465
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,880
10.
Like the It's an incredible,

466
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,800
incredible film.
But past the glory, the more I

467
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,920
compared the two, it really
snuck up on me.

468
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,920
I think I'm going to stick with
you, though.

469
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,800
I think that when you take into
consideration the fiery furnace,

470
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,280
the fiery abyss that we're about
to toss a movie into, I don't

471
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,000
think I could get rid of of Best
Years of Our Lives.

472
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,200
All right, so that ended up
being more painless than I

473
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,320
thought it would be.
Best Years of Our Lives is

474
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,760
moving into the film and W4
here, and joining it will be one

475
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,280
of the following two movies.
The three seed Sabrina versus

476
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,480
the six seed Unforgiven.
This is where my Unforgiven

477
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,640
thing comes out.
Brad, like you, you said it

478
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,640
would be the Dark Horse.
And as I looked at these two

479
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,720
movies, Sabrina, a movie that I
was very that might have been my

480
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,560
biggest pleasant surprise of the
season.

481
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,600
I never expected to call that
movie perfect coming into it.

482
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,600
And I I will say like
functionally, structurally it

483
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,000
just, it works perfectly.
It's like a When Harry Met Sally

484
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:59,440
almost kind of movie.
I think Unforgiven is the quote

485
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,600
UN quote greater movie.
Like there's just, it hits

486
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,840
another layer beneath what
Sabrina can reach.

487
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,360
And it has it.
It's just it's like an earworm

488
00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,120
when you hear a song that you
can't get out of your head.

489
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,680
It is.
It is my what movie were you

490
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,160
saying has stuck with you high
and low?

491
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,680
Like, it's gotten its hooks in
me and I can't get away from

492
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,080
Unforgiven.
And I had to move that into my

493
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:27,480
Final Four Bob.
I've I've been, you know,

494
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,960
putting up with your your love
for Unforgiven.

495
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,720
I'll be honest with you, man.
That's one of the movies that

496
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,000
has stuck with me the least this
year.

497
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,040
It it was a good movie.
I enjoyed it.

498
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,760
I don't think that it was the
revolutionary Western that was

499
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,240
advertised for me.
It was great.

500
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,400
It was interesting.
I liked the character arc that

501
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,080
that Clint Eastwood has.
I think that Morgan Freeman is

502
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,560
good, not great.
It feels like a pretty just, you

503
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,760
know, solid A minus Morgan
Freeman performance that he

504
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,360
always turns in.
OK.

505
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,240
Let me ask you this two
questions.

506
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,040
Do you think that Unforgiven was
the best of the Eastwood movies

507
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,880
that we watched this season,
Mystic.

508
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,280
Unforgiven.
And yeah, it was.

509
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,280
OK, related to that, do you
think the fact that every single

510
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,960
Clint Eastwood movie we watched
this season, including a rewatch

511
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:26,320
of $1,000,000 Baby having to do
with the same theme, may have

512
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,400
diluted the power of Unforgiven
a little bit?

513
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,400
You know what I mean?
Like they're they're all saying

514
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,680
the same thing.
I I think Unforgiven does it

515
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,320
better than any of them by a
lot.

516
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,360
But I I think $1,000,000 Baby is
close.

517
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:45,520
I I really like $1,000,000 Baby.
I I think that you are probably

518
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:50,360
correct that because they're
four such similar themed films.

519
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,200
Yeah, I mean, the impact might
have been diluted a little bit.

520
00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:00,320
Here's the thing, man.
The more I watch about the world

521
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,840
of cinema, the more I'm really
blown away by Clint Eastwood as

522
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,240
a director.
Like, you know how much, how

523
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:12,000
much balls it would take to put
your stamp of approval, your

524
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,840
name as director on a film where
you just kind of casually start

525
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:22,360
filming, tell your actors, yeah,
go whenever you want, and then

526
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,360
when they're done, you say, all
right, wrap it.

527
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,240
We're done.
Like that is the opposite of

528
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,440
auteur theory.
That's like full faith and trust

529
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,200
in the entire team.
Like, not just the actors.

530
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,640
Like you're trusting that your
cameramen got the the shots

531
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,440
exactly the way you wanted, that
the sound crew had everything

532
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,400
set up just right, that like
everything went right with this

533
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,960
thing.
And as we know, film productions

534
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:53,200
are a massive thing.
So I, I, I have grown in respect

535
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:58,160
for Clint Eastwood massively
over the course of this series

536
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,040
that we did on him.
And just, you know, we've

537
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,200
watched a decent amount of Clint
Eastwood at this point.

538
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,320
But, but I I'm going to move
Sabrina on.

539
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,560
Man, I love that movie.
I've loved that movie since I

540
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,800
was a kid.
I think that Audrey Hepburn is

541
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,760
incredible.
I mean, we've already had Audrey

542
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,480
Hepburn as a winner of a season
before she was in charade.

543
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,760
And I think for me, she just
continues to be one of my

544
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,160
favorite actresses of all time.
And on top of that, as you said,

545
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,120
Sabrina is a pitch perfect
romantic comedy.

546
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,800
That it it just, it hits all the
right buttons.

547
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,120
It's incredibly earnest and
sincere and funny.

548
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,320
And I yeah, I think, I think
everything about that movie

549
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,720
works.
All right, well, we are headed

550
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,360
for a coin flip here.
I will say even if Sabrina wins,

551
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,240
I will.
I will take a little bit of

552
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,960
credit and feel good about
myself That my incessant

553
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,080
badgering of you, that that
movie is perfect.

554
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,720
Did make you reconsider a little
bit because you were like, yeah,

555
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,120
it's a it's an 8, it's an 8 1/2
whatever you gave it.

556
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,840
But I'm glad that it's hanging
around in your mind still.

557
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,240
Yeah, Yeah.
And and like I said, it's

558
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,800
partially the nostalgia factor
mixed with the fact that, man, I

559
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,600
love that movie.
It it's an it's such an easy

560
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,560
movie to come back to over and
over again, you know what I

561
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,520
mean?
All right, Sabrina will be

562
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,920
heads.
Unforgiven will be tails.

563
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,480
Brad for a spot in the final
four.

564
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:38,560
Flip that coin, Bob.
That is a Heads.

565
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,760
The streak is broken.
The streak is broken, baby.

566
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:49,200
And so we have our final four
films, City Lights, Rope, The

567
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,840
Best Years of Our Lives, and
Sabrina.

568
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:57,320
With Sabrina, a film from 1954,
being the most recent movie

569
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,560
Season seven Final Four.
Man, not crazy.

570
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,080
Anybody listen to this season?
No, man.

571
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,960
All right, well, let's get some
listeners back because it's time

572
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,400
for us to drink some whiskey,
and we've got a very recent

573
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,640
whiskey to try.
Today, it's time for us to drink

574
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,040
some B Tac.
Brad, what do you say?

575
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:22,000
Let's get to it.
All right, so we are trying

576
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,000
Thomas H Handy Sazerac Rye, by
far my favorite entry in B TAC

577
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,280
from all the ones that I've
tried.

578
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,640
Brad, this is something that
I've been looking forward to

579
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,840
getting another year, another
version of for a long, long

580
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,000
time.
Yeah, I I remember drinking that

581
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:43,920
first version back in 2019 and
just being blown away by the

582
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,320
depth of flavor, the explosion
of of richness.

583
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,440
And yeah, I remember having very
fond memories of this whiskey,

584
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,640
and I'm excited to try it again.
So according to Buffalo Trace,

585
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,280
this Thomas H Handy Sazerac ride
was distilled in the spring of

586
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,000
2017.
It clocks in at 124.9.

587
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,720
Proof it came off the still at
130.

588
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,040
They've got a whole bunch of
stuff here.

589
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,960
No one cares about some of this.
If you really want to know the

590
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,639
warehouse and floor number,
Warehouse S 3rd and 4th floor.

591
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,320
It's six years and two months of
age at bottling.

592
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,120
They do not disclose the mash
bill.

593
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,320
Brad, I am not going to say any
more about this because what

594
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,840
really shines on B Tac products
is the tasting notes and it's

595
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,040
time for us to get into it.
I'm drinking it live.

596
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,760
You've tried it already.
Walk me through what you think,

597
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:38,719
man.
Yeah, this nose is powerful.

598
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,120
The the first thing I noticed
was a really nice sweetness to

599
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,320
it that I I just kind of felt
like was a simple syrup.

600
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,000
And as I moved on from the
simple syrup I it just has this

601
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,920
powerful rye nose.
There's a ton of cinnamon,

602
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,920
nutmeg, bits of dark chocolate.
There's a little bit of tobacco.

603
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:05,480
This is complex, deep there.
There's a lot going on here.

604
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:11,360
I think that it leans so heavily
into the spice arena that I'm a

605
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,160
little worried about the
complexity.

606
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,000
Maybe, but I'll give it an 8 1/2
out of 10.

607
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,480
Yeah, I'm kind of in the same
place, man.

608
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,760
Like this kind of smells like
every really good rye we've had

609
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,400
in the last two years.
Like it?

610
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,840
It smells like a a bourbonny, a
bourbon forward rye.

611
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,920
And there is, there's some dill,
there's some mint here.

612
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,960
I actually almost got like a
blast of like Vick's Vapo rub.

613
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,520
There was, It was so minty at
one point for me, but then it

614
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,400
tipped into the more dill side
of things.

615
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:44,160
It doesn't have the layers that
that 2019 release did.

616
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,120
And it seems, you know, it's
definitely not one note.

617
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,920
But I think from the moment we
popped that bottle of the first

618
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,440
one we tried, Brad, it was like,
oh, this is going to be a life

619
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,200
changing whiskey.
I'm not really getting that yet

620
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,280
and I don't want to Ding it on
that, but like, I need to drink

621
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,920
it to, to learn more.
Yeah.

622
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,000
And and when I got into the
pallet, man, I I'm going to let

623
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,480
you take a sip.
All I could think of was an

624
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:16,440
atomic fireball.
Like, wow, that does grow.

625
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:23,120
There was so much cinnamon on
this I I don't know if I have

626
00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:27,360
ever tasted a whiskey that is so
cinnamon.

627
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:32,360
Forward cinnamon is not my
favorite flavor in in in

628
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,680
candies.
I actually quite despise it.

629
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,320
It is.
It is very tasty here.

630
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,160
I think that my third and 4th
sip when things started to

631
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,560
settle down a little bit.
You still get a huge punch of

632
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:51,200
that cinnamon, but a lot of like
really nice rich vanilla

633
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:56,680
cheesecake caramel frosting
really started to come through

634
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,840
and the the complexity that I
was worried wasn't there, ended

635
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,280
up arriving.
It just took a little while to

636
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,920
get there because guys I'm going
to tell you what, I have had a

637
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,520
lot of barrel proof whiskey in
my life.

638
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:15,080
I don't know if any of them has
have punched me as hard as this

639
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:15,640
one.
Did.

640
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,760
Yeah.
Brad, this is an interesting

641
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,960
one.
I think that from the moment it

642
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,200
touches your tongue to the
moment it hits your mid palate.

643
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,960
It's actually softer than I
anticipated it being.

644
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:32,120
Like, it's it coats your tongue.
There's a lot of dust.

645
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:37,640
There's some kind of raw, not
raw rye grain, but like like you

646
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,400
get the dill, you get some
honey, it's really pleasant.

647
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,200
And then when you go to swallow,
it's like a detonation happens.

648
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,280
And I think if I could use one
word to describe the drinking

649
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,760
experience here, it would be
aftershocks, because you'd think

650
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,600
that the wave has spread across
your tongue.

651
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,960
And then it's like, Nope, here's
BA boom, BA boom.

652
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,280
There's two or three more that
continue to radiate out from the

653
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,200
center of my palate.
It's like this is barrel proof

654
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:09,240
as as barrel proof gets right.
Like it's it tastes hazmat.

655
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,080
Now I will say Brad, we we tried
real hazmat whiskeys when we

656
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,760
were in New York this year,
judging for the New York wine

657
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,560
and spirits competition.
This doesn't have the sort of

658
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,600
like it's leaving blisters on my
palate sensation.

659
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,520
But it's it tastes as if it has
that much alcohol in it.

660
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,840
I don't think it detracts from
it though, but it doesn't have

661
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,760
the viscosity that the the prior
one we tried did.

662
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,640
This is like, this is probably
the best rye I've had in the

663
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:42,480
last year or so, Brad.
I don't know that I would rank

664
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:47,160
this particular whiskey in like
my 10 best whiskeys I've tried

665
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,640
since we started the podcast.
Kind of a thing, No.

666
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,080
I I don't think I would either.
I gave this like an 8 1/2 on the

667
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,720
flavor.
I I think it's really, really

668
00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:02,680
good for me.
Where it it really shines is the

669
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,720
finish I get.
I gave it a 10 out of 10 on the

670
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:07,400
finish Bob.
Yeah, I'm with you man.

671
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:12,680
The the rye and the cinnamon.
Just bomb that hits your tongue,

672
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,880
really settles in nicely after
the palate, and you get a ton of

673
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:22,080
like black pepper leather.
Some of the vanilla really

674
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:27,720
sticks around for a long time.
I The finish here is what you

675
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:29,320
where you're getting your
money's worth.

676
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,680
Yeah, I totally agree.
And it gets like a a creaminess

677
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,160
to it that almost reminds me of
like a creme brulee on the

678
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,200
finish, something that I haven't
really gotten on a rye in a

679
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:40,760
long, long time.
I do.

680
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,560
I am kind of wonder like if this
was aged a little bit longer,

681
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,200
would that creaminess?
Carry over to more of the palate

682
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,680
instead of on the finish 'cause
this is reminding me a little

683
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,760
bit more of that Thomas H handy
we tried before.

684
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:54,960
Brad, this is still really,
really good.

685
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,640
I mean, you know, if I'm adding
up my scores like we're talking

686
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:02,600
eight and a half 910 like this
is, this is over a 40 out of 50

687
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,320
for sure.
And I think it would probably be

688
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,880
one of our two or three highest
rated whiskeys of the season if

689
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,600
we had it on a regular episode.
Huge stamp of approval, but

690
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,960
folks, come on, it's B.Tech.
Like we expect this from B.Tech.

691
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:15,840
Yes.
Yeah.

692
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,880
I I think that my score would
probably be just without the

693
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,440
value because we don't have to
get into value today, Bob.

694
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,840
If I was scoring this without
value, I'd probably be in the

695
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,520
3536 out of 40 range.
Oh, 100%.

696
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,000
Like it's it's it's a 90 or
above.

697
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,200
If we're just talking flavor,
yes, and I am.

698
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,000
I am here for it, man.
I want to say thank you to

699
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,840
Buffalo Trace for sending us
this sample.

700
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,160
It's really cool to revisit this
brand with you, Brad.

701
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,600
Yeah, it it really is,
especially considering how long

702
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:51,600
ago not just chronologically we
drank that but but in our

703
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:57,040
whiskey journey like that was a
really early example of what

704
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,600
whiskey could be for us.
And I think it's set the

705
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,080
standard for a really long time.
And so to come back, you know

706
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,880
slightly more experienced in in
our palates and in our

707
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,280
understanding of whiskey, I
think it's fun to give it a a

708
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,720
fair assessment.
For where we're at now and and

709
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:16,200
still come out to a place where
you're like, yeah, well, damn

710
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:20,640
it, B.Tech, you did it again.
All right, man, we are down to

711
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,800
our final Four movies.
It's time for us to keep

712
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,360
eliminating three of these from
existence.

713
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:31,800
What do you say?
Let's get to it all right.

714
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,200
On the left side of the bracket,
we're not beating around the

715
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,520
Bush anymore.
Brad, we've got 2 movies, City,

716
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,840
Lights and Rope.
If I'm being frank, I would

717
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,640
choose either of these movies
over both of the movies on the

718
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,800
right side of the bracket.
So this is hard for me.

719
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,160
It's hard in that, like, I don't
want to pick one to be the

720
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,640
winner here, but I will pick
whatever comes out of this side

721
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,120
of the bracket to win the
bracket.

722
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:57,960
Like, I'll just tell you right
now, City Lights won my bracket,

723
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,720
so I think I am gonna pick City
Lights here.

724
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,920
But Rope is like my beloved
movie way more than it is yours,

725
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,520
and so I'd be OK with Rope
winning here.

726
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:09,760
I'm gonna throw you a curveball,
Bob.

727
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:18,880
How about we Pit City Lights and
Best Years of Our Lives Against

728
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:24,240
Rope and Sabrina and we'll just
have a double winner?

729
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,120
No, because that's confusing.
I think that's something that

730
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,040
you and I do.
Next time we get together, we've

731
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,720
had a couple drinks and then we
like, make an alternate bracket.

732
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,520
But like, sure, the bracket is
the bracket.

733
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,360
Man, you can't.
This is a sacred thing.

734
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,000
We can't violate this.
I think that would actually be

735
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,000
interesting.
Instead of doing our our top 32,

736
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:50,080
we pair like the number one seed
with the number 32 seed as like

737
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,800
a a duo and see how far they
get.

738
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,200
When you have the bottom
dragging down the top, that's

739
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,000
fun.
That is fun.

740
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,160
But here we are and City Lights
is up against the road.

741
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,080
Bob, I'm just going to I I don't
have a dog in the fight here.

742
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,040
I'm going to pick whatever movie
you don't pick so that you don't

743
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,320
have to pick.
Cool.

744
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,720
The Coin of Destiny is going to
decide for you.

745
00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:15,160
How do you feel about that?
That sounds great.

746
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,440
So you're picking rope.
I picked City Lights.

747
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,040
City Lights is the #9 overall
seed.

748
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,440
Rope is the number four seed.
So we go by what you know.

749
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,840
Which one is heads and which one
is tails is based on which is

750
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,560
the higher ranked movie.
So rope will be heads.

751
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,440
City Lights will be tails.
This was a quick one, but we

752
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,160
need to establish our
championship here.

753
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,560
Brad, for a spot in the finals.
Flip that coin.

754
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:53,800
Bob, the higher seeded rope will
be moving on to the finals, so

755
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:58,160
officially both of our bracket
winners are now kicked out of

756
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,000
existence.
Brad.

757
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,600
That's all I wanted.
How do you feel about having

758
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,560
rope in the finals?
Weird.

759
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,600
I don't like it.
You don't like I?

760
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,000
Just don't.
I just don't think Rope is good

761
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:14,080
enough of a film to be in the
Film and Whiskey Bracket

762
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:18,680
Challenge finals.
Like when I when I compare it to

763
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:24,400
things like The Two Towers do
the right thing, like it just

764
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,480
doesn't.
I don't know.

765
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:27,880
I just don't think it matches
up.

766
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:32,200
I understand what you're saying,
actually, because City, I mean,

767
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,200
City Lights won my bracket.
But like, at least with City

768
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,680
Lights, even if I wasn't a huge
fan of that movie, I would

769
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,320
understand that there's like the
weight of history on its side

770
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,640
that, like, most people
recognize that it's a great

771
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:45,880
movie.
Yeah.

772
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,080
And I, I'll just say you had the
chance, Brad, to just put City

773
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,080
Lights there.
You wouldn't feel so weird about

774
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:55,280
it and you didn't do it.
No, no, I I I wanted the coin to

775
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,040
decide.
I mostly didn't want your

776
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:02,800
bracket winner to win.
And on top of that, I think that

777
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:07,640
you chose a poor batch of 32
because I I think that Season 7

778
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,800
might be our weakest entry into
the winner's circle.

779
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:16,520
It wouldn't have been if you had
allowed Rashaman and Unforgiven

780
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,040
to get to the finals, but that's
fine.

781
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:21,040
Yeah, if if you had allowed
Akiru to get through, we would

782
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:22,640
be in a great place right now.
Bob.

783
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,920
Here's the thing, man.
I I would put Akiru up against

784
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,360
almost any other movie that has
won A bracket.

785
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,720
I'm proud of you, man.
I'm glad you gave it a chance.

786
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,120
Thanks, dude.
All right, moving to the other

787
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,680
side of the bracket, we've got
the number two seed to the best

788
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,920
years of our lives up against
the number three seed, Sabrina.

789
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:47,520
A battle of Titans here.
I honestly think that I want to

790
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,080
put Sabrina in the finals at
this point.

791
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,280
Brad I I'm living for chaos at
this point.

792
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,920
An agent of chaos, Bob book I
would not.

793
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,520
Knowing you, as long as I've
known you, Bob, I would not peg

794
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,480
you as an agent of chaos.
I had unforgiven in the finals,

795
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,240
and I think that that is the
worthy movie on this side of the

796
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:06,680
bracket.
But looking at Best Years of Our

797
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,120
Lives and Sabrina, I think the
weight of history, quote UN

798
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,760
quote, would probably lean
slightly towards Best years of

799
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,120
Our Lives.
But that movie doesn't have the

800
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,000
weight of other city lights.
Like even, you know, even if

801
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:24,160
more people recognize it, it's
not like it's some, you know,

802
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,440
super popular old movie, right.
So, and that makes.

803
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,080
Me feel like I've never heard of
it, right?

804
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,400
And that makes me feel like I
can just put Sabrina in the

805
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,800
finals and it's like
functionally the same thing.

806
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:39,320
Yeah, yeah, Bob, I when when I
saw that high and low got

807
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:44,840
eliminated, Sabrina was my
second choice as this sides

808
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,000
winner.
So I yeah, I'm moving Sabrina on

809
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,720
too.
Man, I would never have pegged

810
00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:54,400
this to be our finals, folks,
but we've got rope going up

811
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:58,760
against Audrey Hepburn and
Sabrina, and that is the film

812
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,280
and Whiskey Season 7
championship battle, which we

813
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:06,120
will get to right after we break
down our top five whiskeys of

814
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,440
the season.
Brad, we can't get out of here

815
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,080
today without telling people
what the best whiskeys we tried

816
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,120
this season were, and I've got
the list right here.

817
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,880
And if you don't remember some
of the movies we've watched,

818
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,840
Brad, I can guarantee you you're
not going to remember some of

819
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:20,360
these.
Whiskeys.

820
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:26,720
Yeah, the man After.
After seven seasons of this, the

821
00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:32,000
whiskeys do start to all blend
together, if you don't mind me

822
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,280
using a pun.
I don't think we realized it at

823
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,880
the time, but the middle of this
season was a golden era of film

824
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:42,640
and whiskey because of the five
top five whiskeys we had here,

825
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,680
four of them were between weeks
11/14/16 and 18.

826
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,520
So we tried four of our five
best in a seven week span there

827
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,920
but.
Yeah, I was going to say we

828
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,600
drank some whiskey near the end
of the season, that I did not

829
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,840
like it all.
And I remember thinking to

830
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,400
myself, man, it's been a while
since we had a whiskey that I

831
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,720
was not like like at least 37
out of 50.

832
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,520
All right, well, starting with
the number 5 best whiskey of the

833
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,880
season, we have Rabbit Hole
Bourbon, also known as Rabbit

834
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,080
Hole Cave Hill.
Now last season, yeah, last

835
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,600
season we tried Rabbit Hole
Derringer or Derringer.

836
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,040
I still don't know how they like
to pronounce it and we were kind

837
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,360
of day manner about.
It it's it's kind of like day

838
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:31,040
man, day ringer, day ringer.
We we were not like crazy about

839
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:32,360
it.
And so when we got around to the

840
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,440
Black Label Cave Hill, we were
like all right, I hope this is

841
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,280
better.
I think that one is their four

842
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,360
grain recipe and it is really,
really good and it's pretty

843
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,280
affordable too.
Yeah.

844
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,560
And and that's the big thing We
have to take value into account

845
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:51,960
the fact that the The Cave Hill
is affordable and has it had a

846
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,760
nice complexity about it that I
remember.

847
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,080
And that's a good good start for
our top five.

848
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:01,240
Our number four on the season is
the most recent one we tried.

849
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:03,760
It's the Glenfiddich Fire and
Kane.

850
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:08,000
Now this was a limited release
that I think is only like 90 or

851
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,520
92 proof.
It's an easy sipper, but man, it

852
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:15,320
just was decadently sweet and I
had so much going on I wasn't

853
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,600
expecting it from Glenn Fiddick.
I really, really loved it and we

854
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,800
averaged out to a 42.25 out of
50.

855
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,920
Man, yeah, what a what a great
offering.

856
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,720
The the smokiness that just it's
almost like they smuggled it in,

857
00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:34,440
man, I I really like that stuff.
All right, #3 is the Tam do 10

858
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,680
year that we tried way back in
Week 11.

859
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,720
One of just a few Scotch
whiskies this season, Brad, that

860
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:43,400
really broke that 40 mark for
us.

861
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:48,120
Dude, that Tam do.
So I I have like a special area

862
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:52,080
of my house where I keep like my
top whiskies and there's like

863
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:56,560
maybe like 12 bottles on the
shelf that Tam Do immediately

864
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,440
went on to that shelf.
Man A, the bottle is gorgeous

865
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:06,760
and B, that stuff is delicious.
All right, coming in at #2 on

866
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,760
the season, Brad is Shivas Regal
Mizunara Cask.

867
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:15,040
This is back from week 16.
This is only the second time

868
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,400
we've had a Shivas Regal product
on the show after their regular

869
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,680
offering, which is like from
season. 1 Yes, which is like a

870
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:26,360
fine entry proof blended Scotch.
I was not expecting much from

871
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,320
this, Brad.
It's a 43 out of 50 from us.

872
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,680
Yeah dude, I was blown away
also.

873
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,160
Are Are we becoming whiskey
snobs, Bob?

874
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,680
Probably.
Two of our two of our top three

875
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,480
are Scotches.
I I don't know what our top

876
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,960
overall whiskey was, but if it's
a Scotch, we might not be very

877
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:49,560
approachable anymore.
The funny thing is, I bought all

878
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,840
four of our top 4 whiskeys in
the Ohio Liquor Bureau Bureau.

879
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,800
Last Call Section Bob, I would
like to formally lodge a

880
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:02,160
complaint on behalf of friends
of mine who are very angry with

881
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,120
you.
That you kept purchasing Last

882
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,200
Call Whiskeys because they
cannot find it.

883
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,480
Now they're like, Oh yeah,
you're talking about this

884
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,160
incredible Glenn, Fiddick, Fire
and Kane and I want it.

885
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,800
And then you're like, well, the
Village Score is hard to

886
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,240
determine because it was on the
last Call shelf.

887
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,920
Now you can buy it elsewhere,
you can have it shipped to your

888
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:23,640
house.
People, what?

889
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,680
What I think it's really boils
down to is stop making it so

890
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,760
that Brad and I have to buy the
cheapest possible whiskeys, you

891
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,240
know?
Give us some sponsorship money.

892
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:35,680
Sign up for the Patreon we'll
we'll buy the non last Call.

893
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,040
We'll buy first call whiskeys.
First, call whiskeys.

894
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,400
We're not quite there yet, Bob.
Are you ready, Brad, for the

895
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:48,000
best whiskey of Season 7?
I sure am, Robert coming from

896
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:52,080
week 18, coming not from
Scotland but from the nation of

897
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:53,720
India.
It is on.

898
00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:58,160
Root fusion dude.
I am so happy that that's our

899
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:02,600
top rated whiskey.
That stuff was mind blowing.

900
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,560
So good.
It's one of those ones that I

901
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,760
popped the cork like just to
pour a sample for you.

902
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:13,800
And the aroma of it, I was like,
oh, OK, noted.

903
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,520
Like I will, I will catalogue
that for the next year until we

904
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,880
actually drink this on air,
because this smells incredible

905
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:26,080
and it's one of the few that the
aroma lived up to the the taste,

906
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,680
that finish, man, it is like,
yeah, mind blowing is a great

907
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,680
word for it, yeah.
I if I remember correctly, is

908
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,760
that the only whiskey we've ever
had a true mango note on?

909
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:42,640
I believe so.
Yeah, just fruity and delicious

910
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:48,680
and like, Oh my gosh dude, I
wanted I There's very few that,

911
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,960
you know, people talk about,
like getting drunk on whiskey.

912
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,560
I do not like drinking that much
whiskey.

913
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:00,840
I could drink that much Amur
Fusion so good it could get you

914
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:02,520
trashed.
All right, that's what we're

915
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,160
going for here on film and
whiskey.

916
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:06,440
And Brad, now that we've
determined the best whiskey of

917
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,760
the season, it is time to
finally crown the champion of

918
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,240
season seven.
So why don't you get us back

919
00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:20,240
into our championship match up?
So here at the end of season 7.

920
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:26,120
The end of All Times Director
Season #2 finishing up, we

921
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:34,440
somehow came to the point where
we have Rope versus Sabrina 2

922
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:40,280
movies that if you asked me if
we if if DraftKings took notice

923
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:45,320
of our wee little podcast and
started to create odds on which

924
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,560
movies would be in the
championship match.

925
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:55,280
I would probably put both of
these films around like a A +

926
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,560
3000.
Oh yeah, +4000 like that.

927
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:02,360
You know, not bottom of the
barrel, but not very close to

928
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:03,480
the top.
Nope.

929
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:09,640
My goal with rope was like, if I
can get Brad to agree with me

930
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,200
that this is like a hidden gem
and the kind of movie that you

931
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,440
tell your friends about, that's
like, oh, you liked North by

932
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,280
Northwest.
You got to check out Rope.

933
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,200
I never in a million years would
have thought like, oh, and it

934
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,040
will also be in the Championship
of the Bracket at the end of the

935
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,480
year.
Yeah, I.

936
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:28,160
I am not.
I don't know how to feel about

937
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,160
it, man.
It's it's Hitchcock.

938
00:54:31,240 --> 00:54:34,080
I I think it's so hard for me
because I liked Dial M for

939
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,440
Murder so much.
I think that's what's really

940
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,640
throwing me off here.
You could just pretend that it's

941
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:45,920
dial in for murder if you want.
Yeah, but I I understand reality

942
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:49,320
and that this is not dial in for
murder.

943
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:53,280
It's style R for rope.
The last thing I will say about

944
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:57,080
this movie is that I watched it
in a movie theater with a crowd

945
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,560
of people, most of whom had
never seen it before.

946
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,360
You could tell just by their
reactions to it.

947
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,320
And I think I said on the
episode, it's really cool to

948
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,960
watch a movie this old in a
theater and have it work this

949
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,360
well.
Like, people were legitimately

950
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,520
gasping at moments of the movie
and and laughing at most of the

951
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,880
laugh lines.
And like there wasn't, you know,

952
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,040
like every now and then Farley
Granger's little drunken

953
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:21,800
outburst would cause someone to
laugh because they're really

954
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,960
over the top.
This movie worked like

955
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,280
gangbusters.
And then I went and saw a double

956
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,440
feature of Hitchcock movies the
following week, and North by

957
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,160
Northwest was one of them.
And it played to that crowd as

958
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,640
well as Rope played to the crowd
the week before.

959
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:39,760
So, like, I mean, I think I'm a
little bit spoiled in my

960
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,400
estimation of this movie now,
Brad, because I'm like, it would

961
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,480
have been really cool to have
you with me and to have your

962
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,120
first experience with Rope be in
a theater full of really

963
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,520
receptive people.
I don't know if that would have

964
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:53,640
changed your opinion overall,
but it's just I know the movie

965
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,000
still works and I think that's
part of why it it is still near

966
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,680
and dear to my heart.
Yeah.

967
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:00,680
And I think that's totally fair
it.

968
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,360
It is such a different
experience to watch a movie at

969
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:06,600
home versus watching it in the
theaters.

970
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,440
And like, at the end of the day,
man, if we were just filthy

971
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,520
rich, I would just go rent out
my local theater and watch all

972
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:17,320
32 of our movies in the theater,
invite all my friends, and I

973
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:18,840
think that would probably be the
way to go.

974
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:20,360
Bob, why?
Why aren't we doing that?

975
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,080
Yeah, it's because we have to
peruse the last call sections,

976
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:24,280
man.
No.

977
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,680
Yeah, we're patreon.com/film
Whiskey.

978
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,880
Let's come on guys.
We need a tier that's that's

979
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:35,000
just rent the theater tier $1000
a month.

980
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,680
Send it our.
Way oh man.

981
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,840
Dude, my local theater was like
150 bucks a month or 150 bucks

982
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,920
to rent out the theater.
Oh, we could totally do that.

983
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,080
Yeah, Patreon, my pig is
Sabrina.

984
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:51,520
I'm going to go rope.
Yeah, I think like we we got at

985
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,760
least end it on a on a coin flip
because we can't end it on you

986
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,240
just like shrugging.
That's like the worst ending to

987
00:56:57,240 --> 00:56:59,280
this season.
There has to be some.

988
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,680
Even if the drama is
manufactured, there has to be

989
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,360
some drama here.
You go ahead and manufacture Bob

990
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,240
while I flip this coin.
All right.

991
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,720
Sabrina's going to be heads
because that is the number three

992
00:57:09,720 --> 00:57:15,640
seed rope is tails.
Brad for the crown, Flip that

993
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:22,200
coin.
Robert Yes, Sir.

994
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:26,920
The winner of season seven of
the Film and Whiskey Podcast

995
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:31,840
Bracket Challenge is none other
than Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.

996
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,680
Yeah, we did it.
We did it, baby.

997
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:52,920
We started at the bottom.
Anything is possible, man.

998
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:57,920
How you feeling now?
Dude, I I mean, I'll say this.

999
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:02,240
I think it'll look nice to film
Bros Oh yeah, we will look like

1000
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:06,080
the most sophisticated.
Yeah, watchers of obscure films.

1001
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:12,960
Yeah, Hitchcock's #7 best film
is, like, going to just make so

1002
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:17,240
many people cream their pants.
Oh yeah, well, on that note and

1003
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:21,120
with that mental image, I would
like to segue us into saying we

1004
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,680
want to know what your final
four films were.

1005
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,120
So if you've been following
along, if you've downloaded a

1006
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,640
bracket, please let us see your
final film and W4 by using the

1007
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,880
hashtag film and W4.
We really want to see it on

1008
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,640
social media.
You guys have been doing a great

1009
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,640
job of it the last couple
seasons, so let us see where we

1010
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,600
got it wrong by showing us your
film and W4.

1011
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,320
Brad, what do you think is going
to be the audience favorite this

1012
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:48,960
year?
I mean prestige, obviously.

1013
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,520
That's true.
I forgot about the Nolan movies.

1014
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:55,640
That's a no brainer.
Man, that.

1015
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:59,160
Obviously, Obviously, what would
be the highest rated?

1016
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,800
I'll be honest with you, Bob, we
watched a lot of really old

1017
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,120
movies this season.
We sure did.

1018
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,040
I liked them for the most part,
yeah.

1019
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:11,920
I'll say this though.
I was looking at my director

1020
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,480
average rank.
Now that's, you know, when I

1021
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:21,920
when I rated MY1232 just by the
heart, none of the directors

1022
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,440
stood out from the others this
season.

1023
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:29,200
All of them were ranked in like
the 15 to 17 range.

1024
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:35,200
And last season there was like a
genuine disparity between like

1025
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,720
the top four or five directors
in the bottom.

1026
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,240
You know like 2 where like there
was a large range in the scores.

1027
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:48,240
And I I think for me this
season, I'll be honest with you

1028
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,200
Bob, it wasn't my favorite.
I don't.

1029
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:54,160
I I I'll say this, I don't know
if there was any like one or two

1030
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:59,040
movies other than Akiru that
like stood out to me as like,

1031
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:04,200
man, this was majestic cinema.
You know what the problem is

1032
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,400
with the season like this?
First of all, it was kind of

1033
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,760
designed to be a more of like a
completist season.

1034
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:13,040
Like, I wanted to make sure we
saw a a bunch of the IMDb top

1035
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:14,720
250 that we hadn't gotten around
to.

1036
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:19,640
I think that this season had
fewer lows than some last of the

1037
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,160
prior seasons, but it didn't
have as many highs either.

1038
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:25,920
It was kind of like a lot of
eights, A lot of 7 1/2's, a lot

1039
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,160
of 8 1/2's.
You say fewer lows, but we did

1040
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:34,960
watch Point Break Bob.
Well, hey folks, that does it

1041
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,800
for us for Season 7, but we're
not totally going away.

1042
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,840
Brad and I are taking a break in
the month of December.

1043
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,480
Season 8 kicks off at the very
beginning of January.

1044
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:46,520
We do have a few special
episodes planned in the interim

1045
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:50,040
where you'll hear our voices
like our patented Thanksgiving

1046
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,880
and Cruise Miss episodes.
Let's go.

1047
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,000
But over the next month, we're
actually turning over the

1048
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,240
podcast feed to our friend Zach
Johnston from Up Rocks.

1049
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,360
He has.
We've given him free reign,

1050
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:04,280
honestly, to go interview people
from all parts of America about

1051
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,520
their whiskey making process and
to pair the whiskeys and the

1052
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:10,600
interviews he's doing with these
distillers with a region

1053
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,560
specific movie.
So starting next week you're

1054
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:15,960
going to be hearing Zach
Johnston's Whiskey Tour of

1055
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:18,400
America on the film and Whiskey
feed.

1056
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:20,480
Brad, I cannot wait to listen
into this.

1057
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,560
I am like, I'm not Privy to any
of this.

1058
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,800
Like, just like you guys aren't.
So I'm going to be on the edge

1059
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,520
of my seat listening to to Zach,
just like everybody else.

1060
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,160
Yeah, just a just a little
preview.

1061
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:37,680
I've heard that he has chosen 4
NC 17 and erotic thrillers to

1062
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,680
review.
So in depth.

1063
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:43,680
Get ready, folks.
All right, that does it for

1064
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,160
season seven.
I'm Bob Book.

1065
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:49,080
I'm Brad G and we'll see you
next time.