Episode 40

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15th Feb 2023

Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man (2016) stars Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe, and it's Daniels Kwan and Scheinert's first feature film. We are in complete disagreement about this movie. It's gonna be fun!

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Swiss Army Man

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[00:50:47] Frank Roll: Blockbuster Hollywood and the independent video store

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[00:51:00] Scott Moran: Does this hold up? And just, what the hell is a good movie? Anyway, I'm Frank Roll. I'm Scott Moran and we are the

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[00:51:16] Scott Moran: Did you watch the fucking last of us? No. Jesus Christ. You're not gonna watch it. I'm gonna watch it. I bet you a hundred dollars. You're not gonna watch

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[00:51:27] Scott Moran: Yeah. Not gonna

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[00:51:32] Scott Moran: one. It's the most popular show on television.

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[00:51:35] Frank Roll: you know what happened

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[00:51:40] Frank Roll: I know what happened with me not watching anything.

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[00:51:47] Frank Roll: was not alone. No wait.

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[00:51:53] Frank Roll: So that's what happened. I didn't have like time when she went to sleep. I gamed it, but that's exactly what happened yesterday. I'm lost in time, man. I don't know when, what's going on, but you know, not only do I watch a lot of movies and TV shows, but I game it, you know, we both game it.

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[00:52:12] Scott Moran: Like I always watch TV and I always read a little bit. Mm-hmm. , but sometimes I read a lot and then sometimes I play video games nonstop. Well, as much

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[00:52:29] Frank Roll: Was

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[00:52:32] Frank Roll: I don't have a PlayStation. . .

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[00:52:44] Frank Roll: yes. I've talked about it before. I got it. Found out that the Xbox Series X is not backwards compatible. They. And that the one also may have had a problem.

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[00:53:06] Scott Moran: Well, I watched the last of us. . Oh. And, uh, I also, I watched that nineties show.

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[00:53:12] Scott Moran: It was good, dude.

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[00:53:31] Frank Roll: terrible, dude. So I think that's what I was a seventies show kid like that came out eighth grade our freshman year, something like that for sure.

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[00:53:46] Scott Moran: it turns out the special sauce is red and kitty. They're what made the show good because 50% of the show is about red and kitty. They're always the.

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[00:53:55] Frank Roll: in that eighties show? No, I don't even re I, I don't remember. No.

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[00:54:12] Scott Moran: There's gonna be a bunch of video game movies that fucking suck because this is killing and it's because that video game had a story, an excellent story. Most video games do not God, a war show. It's gonna be terrible. . It's a fucking story.

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[00:54:33] Scott Moran: Fallout TV show. Not gonna be good. Uh, Goggins is in it, actually, so maybe it will be good. I like that guy. He's got big, crazy teeth. Uh,

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[00:54:46] Scott Moran: exactly the same. There's a little bit more about how everything goes down.

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[00:55:02] Frank Roll: Uh, I've seen those comparisons online.

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[00:55:11] Scott Moran: Mm-hmm. . And I understand why they did that. It was to change a world mechanic that wouldn't work in a tv. Hmm. I fucking love it. It's one of my favorite stories ever. I'm gonna

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[00:55:23] Scott Moran: Yeah, you never will. . And then Violent Night was my other, my, the only like movie I watched, which was weird to watch, not at Christmas, cuz it was more of a Christmas movie than, uh, an action movie I felt.

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[00:55:38] Scott Moran: in this dude. It is diehard the little girl. The dad from Family Matters . She's on the walkie-talkie with Santa Claus and he just like is dropping out presents. He gets stuck in the thing. Bruce Wills is like trying to push his toes into the carpet after that flight.

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[00:56:17] Frank Roll: I mean, basically any movie Special Forces in the Snow Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton, sorry. A

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[00:56:32] Frank Roll: I, I grew up with those.

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[00:56:38] Scott Moran: Was my first. What was

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[00:56:42] Scott Moran: Kill? I remember Licensed to Drive with The

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[00:56:48] Scott Moran: I know her name was Mercedes. Cuz they make that joke like that they fit a Mercedes inside the trunk.

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[00:56:58] Frank Roll: Timothy Dalton, the Living Daylights. Oh my God. Those were the good ones though. Those were on H. He H H E B, . Those were on

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[00:57:11] Frank Roll: Ah, no, no, that one that remake Reme.

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[00:57:21] Scott Moran: I honestly don't even remember it. John tra Volz is making some fucking crap. He was good in that OG show, though. The one on

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[00:57:40] Frank Roll: Oh, if looks could kill. Speaking of nineties movies that I watched on H B O and Skin imax, um, Richard Greco. If looks kill 1991, it always reminded me of James Bond. I think there was character very similar to Q. They were on like a European vacation and he got mistaken for a spy. I do remember that I do something about a scorpion.

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[00:58:05] Scott Moran: I'd like to bring up one more thing. Hmm. Avatar has been dominated for a best picture. Mm. But James Cameron hasn't been nominated for shit. . Is that a formality?

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[00:58:29] Frank Roll: one . You're Are you like just saying? Just saying. Just

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[00:58:34] Frank Roll: Okay. Just saying. I did see a TikTok.

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[00:58:52] Frank Roll: So let's go out and buy all their shit. And he

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[00:58:56] Frank Roll: too. Yeah. And so he starts going through all the different merchandise that's come out for Avatar

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[00:59:05] Frank Roll: loved about it was he started making a comparison.

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[00:59:20] Frank Roll: I was like, holy fuck, this guy's getting to

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[00:59:25] Frank Roll: Ah, bummer. Today was the first day I saw anything that he did and I was like, oh my God, you are just words in my mouth. Um, he was loading me up, man. I was like, this is just what I needed.

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[00:59:43] Scott Moran: It did make a lot of money, but. Not getting best director, motherfucker , but you know Who is the fucking Daniels? The Daniels, yeah. They don't like being called the Daniels. They just wanna be Daniels. You know, I

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[01:00:03] Scott Moran: it's hard, it's hard for me because you wanna

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[01:00:06] Frank Roll: You wanna say though, before a lot of things, the Twitter,

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[01:00:12] Frank Roll: it was

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[01:00:30] Scott Moran: I've been working on it for like six months. It's not sticking.

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[01:00:37] Scott Moran: I think I have to be more overt about it and be like, just say this to Kelly. He'll drive her crazy.

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[01:00:48] Frank Roll: Oh man. Sorry. I'm looking at the cast of If Looks could

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[01:01:04] Frank Roll: awards. I know, like I said, on boycotting award shows.

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[01:01:16] Scott Moran: that's, I also think that if, uh, Steven Spielberg loses everything to that movie, I think he'd do it real graciously cuz he'd be like, I still made this.

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[01:01:29] Frank Roll: Paul Dono. I had to look at the older stuff from when he was a kid and I was like, little Miss Sunshine. That's the one where I first noticed his face. Same. He's got one of those

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[01:01:41] Frank Roll: quite like the face from, uh, killing of a sacred deer kid who's coming up in a lot of shit.

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[01:02:01] Frank Roll: Hey, why don't you tell us a little bit about the movie?

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[01:02:19] Frank Roll: Am I about to take a shit on your dinner plate? I was not feeling this movie.

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[01:02:24] Scott Moran: No. I love this movie. Oh no. I love it.

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[01:02:37] Scott Moran: serious. Cause you're, you're just looking at, you're, you're grn while you say that and so I dunno if you're

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[01:02:42] Frank Roll: I know. Cuz I knew that you were gonna feel this way. I almost gave you a heads up, but I wanted your reaction to be genuine. , you're just so stunned. I am. You're

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[01:02:53] Frank Roll: No, not my, no, this one. Well, I'll get into more of my feeling. And then I also wanna make a disclaimer,

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[01:03:28] Scott Moran: Swiss army Man is either about friendship, love, lying to yourself for all those things at once. , but in the end, I'm not really sure it matters. And I think that's definitely the point. As the directors said when they pitched the movie to the cast, the first fart makes you laugh and the last fart makes you cry,

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[01:03:49] Frank Roll: one. Swiss Army man was written and directed by the now Oscar nominated Daniels, Daniel Kwana, Daniel Scheiner and Stars Paul Donno as Hank Daniel Radcliffe is Manny and Mary Elizabeth Winsted is Sarah Daniel Radcliffe has repeatedly stated that this is his favorite film he's ever made and that he would gladly participate in any film that Daniels made without so much as reading the script.

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[01:04:24] Frank Roll: So that's weird that that was him.

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[01:04:28] Frank Roll: scene. Yeah, that's the guy that I focused. That's okay. Cool. Swiss Army man was filmed in 22 days, primarily at Sequoia Park in Eureka, California and Half Moon Bay, California on a budget of 3 million, grossing just over 5 million worldwide.

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[01:04:45] Scott Moran: same. and a lot of people walked out of it about five minutes into the movie. Did they? Apparently.

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[01:04:56] Scott Moran: oh, you wanna hear something weird, skirt.

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[01:05:12] Frank Roll: No, I really was. I was looking forward to it. I couldn't fucking wait to watch it because you know how many times I'd looked at it and I was like, oh, what the fuck?

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[01:05:39] Frank Roll: I feel like it's not a true representation of even how they feel about the movie. People just want you to listen to their podcast. They want you to fucking, they want that click bait. They want you to fucking click on it with the fucking semi obs. , you know, title on the

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[01:05:54] Scott Moran: Yeah. And put them on here to cause problems. So could

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[01:06:12] Frank Roll: Okay.

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[01:06:22] Frank Roll: out there. See, I just, I wanted to clear the air in case somehow this little part ever came back to like, Hey, didn't you rag on that fucking guy for saying, and it's like, there's a difference.

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[01:06:32] Scott Moran: here. Was it when you were mad about that guy? Brian Lowry. C n . .

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[01:06:45] Scott Moran: get it. It's not a 50 50 rated movie, though. It is a hard seven. Yeah. What?

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[01:06:53] Frank Roll: Higher than that. On Rod. The people spoke. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, I grazed that. That was different. Uh,

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[01:07:01] Frank Roll: Oh, I heard. There we go. I got one. Yeah. So this. I think there's a line

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[01:07:09] Frank Roll: line between quality. Mm. Ah, okay. Here I should have. I've been, I've been mentally prepping in my head, but I didn't have something pre-planned, like exactly what to say.

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[01:07:20] Scott Moran: so I know.

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[01:07:23] Scott Moran: Oh, what is the, what is the steps of the line? Like that's what I'm saying is like, I know, I know what I'm just, when the line is crossed,

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[01:07:32] Scott Moran: around right now. No, you have a fucking. I don't believe you.

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[01:07:56] Scott Moran: sheltered, defined, full circle.

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[01:08:02] Frank Roll: there's a point, and I mean, there is a, I'm not saying there's not a point. That's what I'm saying. This gets gray, this gets gray. But I'm, I'm gonna try and I'm gonna try and stick to my line

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[01:08:16] Scott Moran: Obviously this

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[01:08:29] Frank Roll: Um, it missed the mark with me.

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[01:08:33] Frank Roll: fascinated by that. It completely fucking missed the mark with me. I was not tired when I watched this movie. Towards the end, I dozed off three times. It took me three different times to get through the last 23 minutes, and then after the movie, I was wide awake.

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[01:09:02] Frank Roll: for her to be in it, in flashes, and then at the end,

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[01:09:07] Frank Roll: Is it really? Mm-hmm. .

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[01:09:23] Frank Roll: my shit. But absurd crossing the line and not getting worked out is fine. Just this. At what point does somebody tell somebody, don't make this.

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[01:09:40] Frank Roll: and sticks. It's little things like that. Let's talk about the play scenes. Just things get a little too elaborate for me at times for how chaotic

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[01:09:47] Scott Moran: I really like that because when you get to the end of the movie mm-hmm. , and you realize we haven't come as far as we thought we had. Oh, the clues were always there. Mm. Because at times, like, I was like, shouldn't you guys be. Like you

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[01:10:06] Scott Moran: It was, I knew what was, and they didn't re, they didn't reveal it slowly. I don't think Daniels had consciously made the decision to show nothing real in the flashbacks, Uhhuh, . And then they were like, you know what? He needs to be on the bus. and so they put him sitting on the bus. Mm-hmm. and seeing her, they put a real moment in there, so, but it was originally gonna be way more madness than this.

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[01:10:29] Frank Roll: think parts of it were cute. Any other time, uh, I called it a De Compass .

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[01:10:37] Frank Roll: Compass

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[01:10:42] Scott Moran: amazing that, and there are lines in this movie that just Daniel Radcliffe's performance as a dead person blew me the fuck away. I thought it was great. Kind of kind

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[01:11:02] Frank Roll: No, that's, there were little things that I did like it was good. And I, like I said, I could see where they were going. Just as Hank, when I

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[01:11:10] Frank Roll: inside note.

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[01:11:23] Scott Moran: want specifics about like what, what it was that upset you about it. You, or not upset you, but you know what I mean? Like what put you off to it and what point did you start to feel like that?

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[01:11:37] Frank Roll: Really the jet ski dude, that was, it's, that's the cover of the movie. It's too much . It's just like, wow. Okay, cool. So in my mind, not like, that's like not spectacular in its own right. It's spectacular. , you know what I, especially when he gets comfy, like pulls down the pants. And it's like bare ass and it's like, oh p, you know, nitrous.

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[01:12:19] Scott Moran: Tossed

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[01:12:20] Scott Moran: around Weekend at Bernie. Yeah. Also, they've never seen Weekend at Bernie's. Really? Neither of them. No. Have seen that movie when they made this. Shut the fuck up. They said it in an interview. I watched a bunch of interviews for this and, uh, like the making of the movie and stuff like that.

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[01:12:41] Frank Roll: It's their approach. And like what you showed me about everything everywhere, all at. Fuck.

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[01:12:59] Scott Moran: Mm-hmm. , no matter what, I watched a clip of Avatar the other day on something. It looks like shit. The first one. Oh yeah. It looks terrible. I always watch it. You keep things fresh in your mind so they don't go bad like they do when a lot of times when I revisit stuff with like visual effects from late nineties, early two thousands, I'm horrified that I thought this looked good.

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[01:13:21] Frank Roll: Yeah. No, and that reminds, I did watch something else this week that I didn't talk about because I had that thought. I was like, it, it does, I know though, when things aren't as crisp, you know, when it doesn't age

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[01:13:38] Scott Moran: They're gonna look like, like a John Carpenter movie. The Lightning may look a little bad now, and I'm

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[01:13:49] Scott Moran: I wanna be friends with that. I don't know. I especially like that he's like, this is my favorite movie I've ever made.

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[01:13:56] Frank Roll: movie. Well, so, and it's hard for me to like, discuss my angle when I'm gonna be like, well this wasn't practical. Cuz if you say like, well this wasn't practical in this movie. You're like, what the fuck was, you know what I

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[01:14:09] Scott Moran: Like

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[01:14:18] Scott Moran: real people. Yeah. And there's a lot heavy duty. I can make problems with

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[01:14:29] Frank Roll: Oh, for sure. Hank Hank's character had daddy issues you could feel

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[01:14:36] Frank Roll: you sound like your father. Exactly. So it's like, okay, they're showing you this, they want you to see this. It's out there. Blunt statement. But then, you know, like I said, and it's hard to put it in a practical sense cuz this movie is anything but practical.

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[01:14:54] Scott Moran: time to be out there. Well, I mean, if you're looking for realism, this is a move out of man who uses a dead body as a, I know

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[01:15:08] Frank Roll: I'm just like a, how did that

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[01:15:15] Scott Moran: and he is a crazy guy. He's nuts. He's talking to a fucking dead body. I am touched by the fact that I still cared about their relationship despite. Knowing that it wasn't real, I couldn't make the connection. Well, I think the core of, uh, this movie was them talking about farts. This movie was a one long fart, Joe, that touched me.

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[01:15:45] Frank Roll: no, I mean, the initial bubbling, the first bubble where he's listening on the chest and it moves. I'm like, what? This, okay, this is fucking weird. Like that's fine. An ass propelled. Daniel Radcliffe

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[01:16:00] Frank Roll: me, great in theory, but then just like, you know, I need a

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[01:16:03] Scott Moran: Was it because you can't break a chain with a hood ornament? Is that what was the gap here with this movie? Not

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[01:16:15] Scott Moran: absurd. It's, yes, it's absurdism at its height. , which I would guess so far as to say is my religion.

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[01:16:34] Scott Moran: I think I cared about Manny a lot more than I cared about Hank. I would also like to point out that his Hank, his name is Hank Thompson, which is Tom Hank's backwards basically

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[01:16:51] Frank Roll: Oh yeah. Like, oh, when he is carrying him on his back, and he's like, which way? And he's like, oh. And then he changes the directions. Yeah. And it's like, oh yeah, that's his dick in his back.

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[01:17:03] Scott Moran: A straight man. You know, I think Fight Club is super ho erotic when they're in the bathtub, when one of them's taking a bath and the other one's like sitting next to the bathtub. Yeah. I mean, Chuck P. , there's gonna be some homoerotic shit in there. The manliest fucking writer there is . But I think that, so the fart conversation, mm-hmm.

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[01:17:43] Scott Moran: Mm-hmm. and his mom, because she's dying. She's like, well, if you masturbate enough, maybe we'll be the same age. Pass away. It's little things like that that fucking hit me in the guts, man. But where's the substance? Well, I think that I can, you can, I don't, I don't, I don't understand what you mean by that.

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[01:18:06] Frank Roll: There was not a lot of, there was, there wasn't a s there wasn't one direction It, it bounced. It bounced so much. Like what's

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[01:18:22] Scott Moran: All of the points of the story are there. All of the character journey is there. It just doesn't end happy and it does end happy. Manny goes back out into the ocean and everyone sees it and ha, there's the reaction. So maybe it was real the whole time and you're left with that little bit of something else.

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[01:18:56] Scott Moran: I mean, that's what we're led to believe. But then at the same time, , I'm interested in that, like the story of a man that's that broken or that lonely, because it's obviously like he has shit with his parents and he's in a great deal of denial about how fucked up he actually is. And so that's where I found substance in the story.

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[01:19:15] Frank Roll: is an indie movie. I mean, it's like an art piece without being an art piece. ,

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[01:19:25] Frank Roll: best substance. I know that's, you couldn't even call it an, you couldn't even call it an art piece.

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[01:19:29] Scott Moran: Close. I don't understand what you're saying though. You're saying you can call it an art piece, but that's to say that there's no story to this, and I think that there's a great deal of story, and it's about the friendship between a man and a dead. , but what's the point? I mean, I mean, does everything have to say something or can it just be fun?

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[01:19:47] Frank Roll: but I mean, but fun is, I don't know. You can come up with the most clever things that you want, the most absurd things you want, and you can throw 'em in a scramble and it'll be good. But like, did you need to make that

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[01:20:05] Scott Moran: Oh, human cloning. Why the fuck not, dude, let's do it. But even let's make some flipper babies even. .

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[01:20:19] Scott Moran: these issues. Well, that's a good way to put that, is that dual is a movie that takes place.

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[01:20:45] Scott Moran: And I promise you that we do. Yeah. But I mean, we're all one step away from stand outside some girl's house in the woods. See, building little busts.

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[01:21:05] Scott Moran: your throw dreams.

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[01:21:07] Frank Roll: dreams, but no, I mean, in my mind could have gone without it.

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[01:21:18] Frank Roll: is the most distaste that I've had for a movie since Witches in the Woods.

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[01:21:34] Scott Moran: So if you're gonna compare those two, it is safe to say that because you couldn't explain what happened. Well, I think that's a little

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[01:21:45] Scott Moran: Because I don't think this was a bunch of random shit, is what I'm saying. I thought every detail of the movie pulled into stuff. Also, I love this fucking soundtrack and I love that there were so many Jurassic Park references and ET references,

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[01:22:04] Frank Roll: Oh, there were, there were a bunch of little things. I, I didn't even get all those. ,

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[01:22:22] Scott Moran: Mm-hmm. came out early eighties. It was a Disney production. It was about a guy who goes and lives with wolves, and it almost feels like a nature documentary, but it's a movie. Mm-hmm. , there's just almost no talking. Mm-hmm. , it was a good movie. He eats a lot of.

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[01:22:39] Scott Moran: She gets Clan of the Cave Bear. No, no. different

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[01:22:48] Scott Moran: weird. It offended me. What offended you about it? I'm gonna keep poking you cuz we're here to talk about it.

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[01:23:05] Frank Roll: I'm nobody. Daniels, you just made a great movie. This one I just, everybody's gotta start somewhere. .

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[01:23:30] Scott Moran: Mm-hmm. , because he farts in the middle of. Everything, him trying to drag the dead body away mm-hmm. and uh, he says, but maybe everyone's a little bit ugly and maybe we're all just ugly dying sacks of shit. Maybe all it'll take is one person to just be okay with that, and the whole world will be dancing and singing and farting, and everyone will feel a little bit less alone.

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[01:24:14] Frank Roll: bad life decisions and some people get to this very low point, and it's cool to explore the possibilities of of that mind.

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[01:24:42] Scott Moran: And all day I've

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[01:24:46] Scott Moran: my life. And don't me wrong, it's okay that it didn't fucking resonate with you. Yeah,

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[01:24:57] Scott Moran: This movie is brilliant and you should watch it if you haven't seen it.

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[01:25:05] Frank Roll: I know I can be the bad guy in this, and I just, I, I don't know. If I had two phones, I'd put that number out there. I'd love to call and talk about it. I don't know.

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[01:25:17] Scott Moran: There's so many. What's their fucking movie? Yeah. Nobody is like a grand over

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[01:25:24] Scott Moran: Well, I did. Yeah. . .

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[01:25:30] Frank Roll: Like, you know, if you're listening and you have seen this and you're like, oh, he doesn't get, like, I get the movie, believe me, I get what they said. I get what's going on there. I just have this like, it's, it, it makes me feel sick. Why did this have to be a thing?

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[01:25:48] Frank Roll: not, doesn't bother me whatsoever.

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[01:26:06] Scott Moran: You didn't realize that you signed up for a fart joke? No. Like a, a two hour long fart joke. You know,

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[01:26:13] Frank Roll: Just the, that was, that was like my sign, five minutes in, and I think I'd made my decision before I even got into it. I don't know. It was just hard. It was hard to watch for me.

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[01:26:41] Scott Moran: No, it's strange. Mm-hmm. .

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[01:27:03] Frank Roll: I mean, it's just What

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[01:27:14] Frank Roll: you hear mine? Mine's bubbling too cuz I just chugged this Frappuccino.

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[01:27:21] Scott Moran: We're all decomposing . We're all gonna fart or should our pants when we die. .

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[01:27:33] Frank Roll: Um, there are so many things.

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[01:27:43] Frank Roll: depth, the transparency about the relationship with Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Don't even know her character's name. What was it? Sarah? Sarah. I watched a lot of shit.

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[01:28:11] Frank Roll: It's that the randomness was shallow. That can be fun. It can be fun, but I think it was . And you know when you've got boner jokes and fart jokes and in God, when he was the water fountain, . I mean, personally, it triggered an OCD thing. I'm like, what's

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[01:28:36] Scott Moran: I didn't find it gross at all. I felt I'm, I'm not just by as deep as it was buttholes feet, I'm for all of it.

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[01:28:44] Scott Moran: deep. I don't want things to be overtly deep.

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[01:28:58] Frank Roll: You gotta go full throttle or fucking, you fall short. But I just, and I keep wanting to do this with my hand, just

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[01:29:16] Frank Roll: way too pasty. . I just thought of for comp. Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your Black Panther mating.

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[01:29:40] Scott Moran: impress. This really tickled my pickle. I, I liked it and that's fine. I'm fans of these guys. I'll watch anything they do.

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[01:30:02] Frank Roll: It is. It's. , you know, it's about the soul, like I'm saying. I get it.

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[01:30:13] Scott Moran: and none of this shit was real, that that would be okay with me. Like I get Joe Pants wanting to go back into the Matrix a little bit because I don't want to eat porridge on the Nebuchadnezzar. Mm-hmm . And if you find meaning in your imaginary dead body friend that you drink water from his mouth, I'm for that too.

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[01:30:36] Scott Moran: stuck of the matrix part. Yeah. Cause , I mean, that was just like, I'm not, well, we didn't know Zion existed at that point. Joe did. Well, there's always a character that, but never denies the reality. Mm-hmm. . Well, that's, I mean, look at the fucking world today.

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[01:31:02] Frank Roll: no names, but I mean, yeah. We live in a world where a guy got elected who lied about everything and he's still

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[01:31:11] Frank Roll: did, and that is so fucked.

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[01:31:13] Scott Moran: lied about every thing I, Biden Biden. Boring as shit. . Yeah,

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[01:31:33] Scott Moran: the tanks.

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[01:31:51] Scott Moran: I know right after me. right

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[01:31:56] Scott Moran: Because I'm still a human. So selfish. Yeah. But I have a great distaste for the human race in

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[01:32:08] Scott Moran: I think we're gonna lose. We deserve whatever the fuck.

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[01:32:13] Frank Roll: That's why recently I went back and watched, don't look up.

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[01:32:31] Scott Moran: When they find out that a comet is headed for earth. You've told me about this before. Oh, he investigates is suicides. Mm-hmm. , and he finds one that he thinks is a murder and everybody keeps telling him to stop doing it. I love shit like that. I like when people. When characters and things find meaning in weird shit.

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[01:32:52] Frank Roll: Was the murder a coverup? Because the world really wasn't gonna end. Uh,

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[01:33:11] Scott Moran: Well, the come is headed. Hm. And that's something that really like, I was like, yeah, did they build

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[01:33:22] Scott Moran: TVs,

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[01:33:32] Scott Moran: machine. Yeah. But the end times are gonna come and the Amish ain't gonna know it's fucking coming. and I thought that was really interesting.

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[01:33:43] Scott Moran: Morris Code.

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[01:33:56] Frank Roll: Well, maybe it's because I still, I want to talk about Riley Stearns.

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[01:34:03] Frank Roll: I wanna watch.

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[01:34:10] Scott Moran: You should watch Kate. Her Netflix action

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[01:34:16] Scott Moran: I really will. She's killer and I think she picks good things. I

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[01:34:26] Frank Roll: So I'm like, oh fuck, I missed it. I wanted to Water letter. Kenny, I wanted to pick up letter Kenny. Again, that's where I'm at. I need a little bit of comedy or something. I'm done. .

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[01:34:45] Frank Roll: about it.

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[01:34:50] Scott Moran: a focus group to be able to tell you why you didn't like this movie?

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[01:34:58] Scott Moran: need.

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[01:35:09] Frank Roll: If you do that, parasite's gonna keep winning. The, the best

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[01:35:13] Frank Roll: it was great. It's great, but it wasn't Best picture. I

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[01:35:17] Scott Moran: Best Picture, the best movie that year was 1917. I know people who fucking hate that movie.

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[01:35:26] Scott Moran: on 1917. I like Sam. I still think that Parasite was a fantastic movie. I thought it was a great story. Uh, funny.

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[01:35:40] Frank Roll: I didn't

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[01:35:47] Frank Roll: That sounds familiar.

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[01:35:57] Scott Moran: Same guy in every movie. Yeah. . I fucking really love

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[01:36:04] Scott Moran: Not that one. I know what you mean. Actually. He did do

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[01:36:12] Scott Moran: Oh, the hammer scene. So much better. Dude, when I first heard

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[01:36:21] Frank Roll: How is this here in Cedar Park?

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[01:36:28] Frank Roll: Oh

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[01:36:33] Frank Roll: too. Yeah. No, this one lost me. This one lost me, and I don't think it should. I don't think it should be on anyone's top tier.

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[01:36:43] Frank Roll: burn it down, dude.

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[01:36:54] Frank Roll: Daniel. Everything everywhere. All at once was an amazing movie.

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[01:37:01] Frank Roll: Body movie. Hey, remember in Idiocracy when like best picture was just the guy's

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[01:37:07] Frank Roll: So this is like the butt movie in Idiocracy. That's okay

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[01:37:11] Scott Moran: It's sometimes you watch the butt movie.

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[01:37:14] Scott Moran: the bottom. Oh, what? We haven't found the bottom at all. You think this movie was worse than Witches in the Woods? Almost.

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[01:37:28] Scott Moran: on board. Witches in the Woods wasn't Daniel Radcliffe's favorite movie to ever make?

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[01:37:34] Frank Roll: That's what I'm saying. He just needed out

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[01:37:51] Scott Moran: No, honestly, that's my, my one gripe about. Other than that, it's a, it's a great way. I've

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[01:37:58] Scott Moran: There's a voiceover. Doesn't, it's not necessary. We get it. It's happening on

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[01:38:07] Frank Roll: I've talked to people about the movie. I've never heard about a voiceover, but that's,

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[01:38:24] Frank Roll: the thing, tomorrow is gonna be a shit day at work.

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[01:38:47] Frank Roll: I think it's parenthood. Really? Nah. Something

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[01:38:56] Frank Roll: Uh, yeah. Nah man. I mean, like I said, I talk shit about it, but that's my opinion.

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[01:39:06] Frank Roll: I know I just, somebody did bring up recently the.

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[01:39:12] Frank Roll: are crap. Well, I know they made me feel bad about the Brian Lowry thing too, because he wasn't even the worst one. Well, you should

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[01:39:22] Scott Moran: I'm

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[01:39:38] Frank Roll: I. Oh my God, I can't say that twice.

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[01:39:44] Frank Roll: about two different topics. I'm like a movie, fine, but I'm not gonna talk about that chick who fucking critiqued a fucking movie that I don't even remember her name or what movie it was, but I was like, holy shit.

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[01:39:58] Scott Moran: writing or blind for? Yeah. She was like, she tried to fit her idea. Yeah. What she perceived the movie early on as being, and then what it ended up being. She was like, I'm gonna stick with my

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[01:40:17] Frank Roll: That's all I

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[01:40:24] Frank Roll: there for you, Dennis. If they did it right, I would've been down for it.

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[01:40:34] Frank Roll: right now I'm fucking Luke Wilson in the theater.

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[01:40:39] Scott Moran: That makes me happy.

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[01:40:52] Frank Roll: I've actually just started farting the last probably like three or four years. Are we still going? Yeah, we're still going. Oh fuck. I thought we ended it when you were like, that makes me happy.

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[01:41:01] Scott Moran: We prob I probably will. But ,

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About the Podcast

The Last Video Store Clerks
With Frank and Scott
The Last Video Store Clerks try to figure out what a good movie even is in the age of streaming. Are there still Cult Classics with no shelf to put them on? Something is missing. Former video store clerks Frank Roll and Scott Moran aim to find it. Or at least, comedy and a silver lining. What is a good movie anyway?

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Scott Moran

Former video store clerk, current sci-fi horror writer. Our copywriter, podcast editor, audio engineer, and resident bad good movie expert.