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Speaker 3:
[01:37] The Rewatchables is brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. You can find us on Netflix, as well as on Spotify, and on a whole bunch of different places. You can find Kyle Brandt every once in a while on The Ringer Podcast Network. He's now belongs to NFLSPN, ESPFL.

Speaker 4:
[01:54] ESPNFL Network.

Speaker 3:
[01:55] ESPNFL Network. Hopped over there. He's popping up all over the place still on Good Morning Football. He's been coming on this podcast, five years, six years?

Speaker 4:
[02:06] Five years, six years since we did Teen Wolf. I think it was in the COVID year. That was my first one.

Speaker 3:
[02:10] Honestly, a little light on Arnold Movies for us.

Speaker 4:
[02:14] We were texting Bill and we're like, we miss Arnold, miss hanging with Arnold. I don't think we've done it since The Running Man. That was a long time ago.

Speaker 3:
[02:20] Long time ago. We're back. I'll be back. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kindergarten Cop is next. Kindergarten Cop, 1990. I was in college, where were you in 1990?

Speaker 4:
[02:47] Fifth grade, saw it in the theater.

Speaker 3:
[02:49] Oh, you're kind of the audience for Kindergarten Cop.

Speaker 4:
[02:51] Big time, big time. Loved it, fired up by it, thought it was, the kids were hilarious, thought the action was awesome. This is an important movie for me, big time. You, you like it, did you see it in the theater in college?

Speaker 3:
[03:03] Saw it on a date. I think it's one of those rare, adults can go to the movie, college kids can go to the movie, parents can take their kids, or kids can just sneak in and go. And I think 1990, this movie now, I don't know what it is in 2026. I just think it's a horrible version of it. So back then, you could end a kids movie with an active shooter who set a fire and is now trying to kidnap a kid. And we're fine. Nobody judges it. We just go, we're scared for the kid. We figured Arnold's gonna save the day. This movie feels very distinct. 1990, let's not overthink this. Let's just give Arnold a job being a kindergarten teacher and let's go.

Speaker 4:
[03:43] So much of the fun in watching it now is just seeing, holy shit, how is this in the movie? There's 12 of those things. And it's like, you're enjoying Arnold and whatever the kids and all that, but then you're also like, what is with all this child abuse and then heavy handed divorce lectures and then like some weird thing with sexual identity? Like everything is in this movie. And it always cracks me up that like, if you brought your kids to this movie, oh great, Arnold's going to the kid stuff. I can't wait, bring the kids. Kindergarten, it's going to be awesome. And you sit down like you're eight year old or maybe you're actual kindergartner. Like in the first three minutes of the movie, there is an execution style murder and then a woman is handcuffed to a dead body. And moments after that, a man slaps a woman across the face and you're like, what is this? We should have gone home alone again. It's nuts. And there's 50 things like that in this movie.

Speaker 3:
[04:38] It's hilarious. Is this an NC 17? No, no, it's probably was PG back then. This movie exists in this weird part of time for culture, where like my generation, we grew up and we had those, we had the kid shows, but we also had like the ABC after school specials. And we had those warning TV movies that like CBS would do.

Speaker 4:
[04:58] After school, yeah, sure.

Speaker 3:
[04:59] It would be like a diary of a hitchhiker. And it would be like some hitchhiker gets brutally murdered in the beginning in the hitchhiker. And basically the lesson was don't be a hitchhiker. Don't trust your uncle to take pictures of you. It was a lot of lessons. And then as we headed into the late 80s, early 90s, we flipped and there's this hybrid era, because Home Alone is in this too. Some of those sports movies that like The Little Big League, Sandlot, these movies where it's like they're kids movies, but they're crossing lines in a way that I'm not sure we would do now. And then by the time we get to the 2000s, all of a sudden we're like, hey, these should just be kids movies. And we're really careful. And they do the Bad News Bears remake. And they have to like check every box of it. And they take basically all the sauce out of it. And just now this movie has John Cena in it. Or The Rock. And it's really safe. And it's like a really, really easy PG. And every kid is carefully cast. None of the kids make sense together. And I just think that's how we do it. But the early 90s, they didn't give a fuck. They just didn't care. And I'm kind of here for it.

Speaker 4:
[06:05] I'm totally here for it. I assure you, if you're listening or watching, you've not seen this movie in a long time, shit's gonna make your head spin when you watch it. And I think this movie is a flex. You already mentioned it once, of the PG-13 rating, that you can push that shit really far and still not get under the R. Like just brutal shootings, drug deaths, like kids looking up girls' skirts. I was like, shit, man. I almost spit my drink out when I saw that. And they put that in the trailer for this movie. I went back and watched it in 1990. It was desensitized. I was fifth grade. I'm 10 years old watching this movie. There was no part of my parents in the lobby who were like, wow, that was a mistake. They were busting balls with me. They thought it was awesome. Totally different sensibility.

Speaker 3:
[06:49] The kid is getting, the child abuse kid is getting bullied by the class. And then it turns out he's being abused. Never really resolved. No idea how it worked out for him. This kid has had one of the most traumatic kindergartens you could possibly have, ending with a fire and a school shooting. And it's like, did he come out of this okay? We'll never know. He's just kind of there. Did he make any friends? Probably not. This movie hinges around Arnold. I wrote down, to me, like, it's like Wembee. It's like a one-on-one. You go and you're like, I've never seen this before. Or you go see Otani and he pitches eight innings and hits a three-run homer and you're like, I've just never seen this before. I didn't even know how to explain Arnold all these years later because we've done a couple of these movies. It takes off for him with Terminator and 84. And he's bouncing around the action stratosphere there for a little bit. But in the late 80s, when he mixes, like, I can be in a comedy, I can be in Twins. No, now I can be in Total Recall. Watch this. I'm going to be in Kindergarten Cop. I'm going to be in Terminator 2 again. He was basically these two people. Everything he says in this movie is hilarious.

Speaker 4:
[08:01] Everyone.

Speaker 3:
[08:02] And maybe 80% of the time, I don't think it's intentional. But I think he knows we think it's funny and doesn't take it personally and is playing along with the gag, but it's also not intentional on his part. I don't even know the line that he zags. I don't even know how he does it.

Speaker 4:
[08:23] I totally get what you're saying. You and I, as people who love Arnold, spend most of his movies, a lot of them, openly laughing at him. But we still love him. Dude, it's different though. We do the same thing for Seagal. Seagal is like a clown. Arnold, I totally respect him. I don't look at him like Seagal at all, not to mention the bodybuilder, the self-made thing, the immigrant, all that. That stuff is very cool. But I watch most of his movies and I think Arnold's the joke, but I just love him so much. I just get over it.

Speaker 3:
[08:56] And he's kind of okay being the joke because ultimately the joke's on everybody else because he's making like 15 to 20 million a year making movies at this point. He's hugely famous. I saw this in the theater and during the, it's not a tumor. It's not a tumor at all.

Speaker 4:
[09:13] There it is.

Speaker 3:
[09:15] Just huge laughter in the theater. And I don't even know, like they, so Ivan Reitman directs this. He will talk about the legendary run he had. He had to know what he had here. The same way like Bill Parcells knew what he had with Lawrence Taylor. It's like this guy's a one of one freak. How do I just put him in situations where he's just attacking the quarterback with one on one blocking? Ivan Reitman, this whole movie is like, how can I just have, first of all, how can I have Arnold just saying lines? Arnold says more lines in this movie than I think in any other movies he's ever done. How do I have variation in the words? So instead of tumor, I know it's going to be funnier when he says tumor. I think Arnold knows it's funny but maybe deep down he thinks we're just laughing at the delivery and not just how stupid he sounds. I don't know how they did it. And I think you can become self aware with this stuff. And eventually he became self aware, but I think in 1990 he wasn't 100% self aware yet.

Speaker 4:
[10:10] So it's a little bit of a heat check because Reitman and Schwarzenegger, they do twins and it works. And he doesn't have a giant machine gun and stuff like, holy shit, maybe we can do this. Now he's gonna get a deeper heat check with Junior and he's gonna miss, but this one hits again. And I think you're on to something like, I was watching this movie and I was finding myself, who is this for really? Because if you're there for the Arnold ass kicking, the kid stuff might be annoying. If you're there for the kid stuff, the Arnold ass kicking might be too much. And my answer is, it's just for diehard Arnold heads. That you show up no matter what he does, because if you don't love Arnold Schwarzenegger, I mean love, this movie could be too much for you. I also think, I agree with you, it's the most dialogue he's ever had. Dude, he's carrying five different genres. We have a buddy cop movie, a romantic movie, action, kids, and he's really, really doing well. I also think it's like, I think it's his most quotable movie that he has ever done, ever. Like every single thing he says is a GIF, it's a soundboard button, it's just like, I'm gonna ask you some questions, I want them answered immediately. It's all of those things, I'm gonna cop you with it. It's so fun to say and listen to, it's cause he's just shouting out pearls every single scene, we've never seen him do that before.

Speaker 3:
[11:26] Well, we also had total recall six months earlier.

Speaker 4:
[11:29] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[11:30] So we are now on like an Arnold addiction cycle, where every six months we need to go to a movie theater and just see him be Arnold. And he's carrying this basically from 1987, basically through True Lies. This is a pretty great eight year run. So I found the Premier Magazine where they wrote basically a page about this movie. There are some gems in there.

Speaker 4:
[11:52] Oh great, I love this.

Speaker 3:
[11:53] He said, Arnold said, this was a high concept he's been touting for a long time. This is a quote. For 10 years, I've been telling writers, producers, directors and studio executives that I would love to do a film where a kid or children are a very important part. Something like John Voight did in this boxing movie, The Champ. You change always when you're around children. See, if Arnold did these meetings, one of the biggest stars in the world and they're like, what do you want to do next? He's like, I'd like to do something with children. Can I be in a kids movie? Like, I can't. Now, we're still doing cocaine in the late 80s, and I'm sure people are like that. Yeah, that sounds great, Arnold. We'll put you in a first grade classroom.

Speaker 4:
[12:37] I have one of the kids talk about penises, yeah.

Speaker 3:
[12:40] So they just let him go to an unleashed trip and it worked. Not only did this movie make a ton of money, but people love this movie. Like, I told a bunch of people anecdotally, like, what's next for The Rewatchables? Oh, it's going to be Kindergarten Cop. People are like, I love that movie.

Speaker 4:
[12:54] They love that movie and everybody loves saying it's not a tumor. If you mention Kindergarten Cop to someone, they will and must say tumor. Like, Arnold took possession of the word tumor, which is a horrible, horrible word. When you hear that word, you think of Arnold. I used to think of him when I would watch Amani Tumor and I would say it's not a tumor. He took over that word. Question for you, I have It's Not a Tumor. I think it's his second most famous line in his entire career. I'll be back number one.

Speaker 3:
[13:25] I'll be back as me first.

Speaker 4:
[13:27] And I think It's Not a Tumor is more famous than Get to the Chapa, which is really well known from Predator. I think it's all the way up there, this throwaway line he has with this kid. But it's fun to say and everybody will say it if you mention this movie.

Speaker 3:
[13:40] I think you're right. I think it took a second life when Imani Tumor actually showed up on The Giants, which was what mid 90s. And I'm 99% sure Berman, who was doing the nicknames and the nicknames were funny back then. We didn't have the Internet. We didn't know any better. Like if you go back, some of them are pretty forced.

Speaker 4:
[14:01] Yeah, Jeff Brown Paper Bagwell, Eric Sleeping With The Enemy.

Speaker 3:
[14:04] I got to say, I really enjoyed the way back when, but when he was doing the Imani, it's not a tumor. It was the best one of all the ones. Because so so it's not a tumor lived on through like tumors, entire career basically.

Speaker 4:
[14:18] But from my understanding is, is that Boomer to this day will have an nickname for everyone he encounters at ESPN. Did you ever get a nickname from Boomer?

Speaker 3:
[14:27] No, we he didn't like me for a while. No, I think I don't know what happened. But maybe I made a joke about him in a column or something. But we hashed it out at the 2013 ESPYs had a great hang with, it was the year I think John Ham hosted that after party at a hotel. Boomer and I really put in the time like 15, 20 minutes, and I just like kissed his ass and it was genuine. I was like, look, did you initiate or did he? I did, I initiated and things were going awesome for me at the time at ESPY. I went up to him and I'm like, look man, things are going great for me. I feel so indebted to you. You built this place, like people like me are just trying to keep it going, but you're the guy. I really felt that way and he loved it.

Speaker 4:
[15:15] I did too.

Speaker 3:
[15:16] Yeah. But I think as people get older over the years, sometimes you could take shit. Berman was outsized incredibly important. So anyway, it's not a tumor for him, it was one of the... Sleeping with the Enemy was still the best one though.

Speaker 4:
[15:31] An excellent one, probably my favorite all the time.

Speaker 3:
[15:33] Yeah, I think that was the best one. Anyway, Arnold could be in any movie. So they're doing this movie, basically variations of it for the last, I would say 15 years, and it would have The Rock or John Cena.

Speaker 4:
[15:46] Vin Diesel.

Speaker 3:
[15:47] Jason Statham. Vin Diesel.

Speaker 4:
[15:50] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[15:51] It's just a really hard one to pull off and I gotta be honest. I think he's the only one that did it.

Speaker 4:
[15:57] He's the only one that nailed it and I have to give credit. Like a lot of times those movies lose you because the kids are annoying. The kids are cute in this. Let's call it what it is.

Speaker 3:
[16:07] They really are.

Speaker 4:
[16:07] They're really funny kids. And in 1990, we had these kids and we had Kevin McAllister who were ruling the world and it was really, really big back then. Arnold's interaction with them seems authentic. I like it and I like the way they use the kids and it's funny. I still laugh at the kids, the dumb kids are like, my dad can't wear hats. And I'm sitting there now in my 40s just laughing and enjoying it.

Speaker 3:
[16:28] This also is a timeless movie. It's like running on Netflix right now. It's 36 years old. And it's a movie that now you'd have, I don't know how many generations of kids in the age of like, hey, we should watch this. This will be a good one. There's not a lot of these that you could watch. I mean, I always showed these to my kids way too early. So my kids are probably like five or six when they watch this. But it was perfect because it's a little dangerous. It's funny. Arnold's funny. Some of the kid stuff is funny. It just, it works. Can we go back to 1990, though?

Speaker 4:
[17:01] Please, let's go.

Speaker 3:
[17:02] So this movie ends, let's see, 10th in 1990. Some of the bangers from that year, Home Alone is number one, Ghost, Dancing with Wolves, Pretty Woman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is fifth.

Speaker 4:
[17:17] A, love it.

Speaker 3:
[17:18] Hunt for Red October, heard that's a good movie. Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, Kindergarten Cop, Back to the Future 3, Presumed Innocent, Days of Thunder are top 13. And what do all those movies have in common? Fucking huge stars, almost across the board. If Harrison Ford, Costner, Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Culkin becomes a huge star, Schwarzenegger's in two, Bruce Willis, Warren Beatty, Michael J. Fox, Cruz, like, we just, we knew what we were doing in 1990, Kyle.

Speaker 4:
[17:51] Dude, a bonkers year. The craziest thing about that year is the Home Alone piece where Home Alone was the number one movie in America for 12 weeks, 12 straight weeks. Kindergarten Cop drops in week eight.

Speaker 3:
[18:05] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[18:05] And Arnold coming off total recall, they don't even make the Macalisters blink. They rattle off another month. And here's the best part, the movie that finally took the number one spot from Home Alone, we've already mentioned it. A little movie you know called Sleeping with the Enemy. It took the number one spot, knocked out Kevin Macalister. How good is that?

Speaker 3:
[18:21] Julia in Danger. So Arnold goes, Predator Running Man in 87, Red Heat in 88, Turns Down Die Hard, which seems like it's a mistake in retrospect. Twins, 1990, Recall and Kindergarten Cop, 91, Terminator 2. And 90 is the year he takes the belt from Sly Stallone for real. He co-owns it from 87 on. They're basically like co-champs. Like when boxing where there's like the WBC champ, the WBA champ. They're both champs. By 90, he has the belt. Sly's unraveled. He's doing Stop My Mom, I'll Shoot and Oscar. He's doing Rocky V. It just feels like it's over until Challenger, which we've, not Challenger, Cliffhanger. I don't know why I say Challenger. Cliffhanger, which we've already done. That was his attempt to just climb literally, no pun intended, back in the conversation because Arnold is just killing everybody. But he was the biggest star we had. And I don't know if there's been another run like this.

Speaker 4:
[19:28] No, and listen, to step on Apex, I think this is Arnold's Apex. You did the Wemby comparison. To me, this is the MJ 87-88 season where he won MVP and Defensive Player of the Year to give us the Paul Verhoeven's super crazy violent sci-fi total recall, which was awesome. And then this silly nonsense up in the Pacific Northwest with these kids in the same year is so different. And by the way, the best movie he ever makes is coming next in T2. I think this is the height of Arnold. By the way, he's also deeply entrenched in the George HW. Bush White House at this point. I think he has an official position, he's in government, all of that is coming. He's running the world.

Speaker 3:
[20:07] I think he's with Maria Shriver at this point too.

Speaker 4:
[20:11] Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 3:
[20:12] It's all happening. I wrote that I had a little list, this is a tangent.

Speaker 4:
[20:17] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[20:19] And so we didn't know how good we had it, celebrity list. Like I almost wish I could, I enjoyed it more in the moment.

Speaker 4:
[20:25] I'm melancholy already, what do you got?

Speaker 3:
[20:26] Well you just figure like Arnold, there'll be more of these. Arnold will be back in some other form. And it's just not the closest we really got to was, I think Vin Diesel and the Fast and Furious movies. And it's just not, you can't compare it. But I was thinking, just celebrities, I wish I had appreciated more in the moment. Arnold is one, Michael Jordan, the whole run. Although I do think when he went away to play baseball, we did appreciate it and really did think about it. Tiger is a great one. Because when it abruptly ended, it was like, oh man, that sucked. That was a really good 12 year run. 80s Eddie Murphy. Mike and the Mad Dog was like this for me, always knowing that they were on in New York. Anytime you're there, suddenly they were gone. Dan and Keith on Sports Center. Late 90s WWE, the Attitude Era, just felt like it was going to go on forever, it didn't. Randy Moss, part of me felt like he would just go until he was 45, just being able to run the straight down the sideline. Serena Williams, just feeling like she was the mountain everyone had to climb in women's tennis. Then I got to say, there was a Michael Jackson run there in the 80s where it was like, wow, holy mackerel.

Speaker 4:
[21:37] Best entertainer of all time, most talented person ever lived, definitely.

Speaker 3:
[21:40] Anyone else you would put on? Like for you, just like I wish I had appreciated a little more in retrospect?

Speaker 4:
[21:46] Yeah, my mind goes to CR Month. I was there and it was a beautiful month, but I wish I could have dug in further. It was beautiful though. I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 3:
[21:55] So CR Month, Arnold, Tiger, yeah, I got you.

Speaker 4:
[21:58] I think you guys came up a little short and should have had the balls to do the Sicario pod in Juarez live, but maybe at the Reesicario.

Speaker 3:
[22:06] You were part of CR Month though. It was like you get to put on your Wikipedia.

Speaker 4:
[22:09] It was spectacular. Definitely.

Speaker 3:
[22:11] Mike Iannaguita, the cast of this movie. Penelope Miller, that's the love interest. Small run for her here in the 90s. I think Carlitos and a couple others. Pamela Reed as the buddy cop.

Speaker 4:
[22:29] Sure.

Speaker 3:
[22:30] Really nice performance by her in this. I thought she's excellent.

Speaker 4:
[22:33] She's a very good actress.

Speaker 3:
[22:34] Yeah. Linda Hunt, who was, I think, started out near Living Dangerously. She's the principal. She's the little lady who has a couple of good scenes. Richard Tyson is the bad guy.

Speaker 4:
[22:47] Let's go.

Speaker 3:
[22:49] When do you want to do this? Now or later?

Speaker 4:
[22:51] You want to do some crisp talk? Because I'm here for crisp. Let's go.

Speaker 3:
[22:55] What's going on here? Is this just like, this is the NFL salary cap where we had to spend a lot of money on my homes and we're just going to keep our fingers crossed with the left tackle and hope he doesn't get annihilated in the playoffs?

Speaker 4:
[23:11] You might say the same for the Patriots too. I don't know.

Speaker 3:
[23:13] You really could. What happened here?

Speaker 4:
[23:18] What happened is a lot of silk clothing, a ponytail and a brood and he somehow got this part. And by the way, I'm not here to shit on Crisp. I love Crisp. I think he's really funny. I think he's a good villain. I don't think he's going to win an Oscar, but he almost reminds me of Jimmy from Roadhouse. He's just kind of this brooding guy who has a physicality to him. I like Crisp. I think Crisp is fantastic.

Speaker 3:
[23:42] That's the thing. He's a character from a Roadhouse, Van Damme kind of a movie, but this is actually kind of an elevated movie with good actors. And I don't know how they figured out that bad. I don't know what's going on with him in general. The relationship with the mother is just bizarre. I don't really know what's going on there either. The other one, Cathy Moriarty is in this too, is like the MILF mom who's attracted.

Speaker 4:
[24:08] Why? Why? Why is she in that role?

Speaker 3:
[24:10] Wrong actress, wrong vibe. It just flips the movie into this crazy direction. It doesn't pay off. I don't know what they're doing with that either.

Speaker 4:
[24:19] And her scene is unfathomable. She comes in and it's like, I'm really worried that my son is playing with dolls. And Arnold goes, no, she's using them to look up girls' skirts. And she goes, oh, that's a relief. And I'm like, what the fuck? She's like, I thought it might have been something else. Thank God he's only looking at kindergartner skirts.

Speaker 3:
[24:38] Thank God he's just a future sex offender.

Speaker 4:
[24:41] She read that and she's like, yeah, I was in Raging Bull, no problem. But like, I like this, I'll sign up for this role. I'd like to be in this.

Speaker 3:
[24:46] Crazy. Well, I've been writing in directs from 1979 to 1993. He rips off Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Legal Eagles, Twins, Ghostbusters 2, Kindergarten Cop and Dave, the best movie of all time. I realized that about two months ago. Dave's the best movie of all time.

Speaker 4:
[25:01] I love Dave.

Speaker 3:
[25:02] I think it might be the best movie of all time. Just comic touch. His movies always move. He has a knack for working with major, major stars and putting them in an awesome light. Over and over again, people are really good in his movies where you're just like, I love that guy in that movie and 15 years, I mean, he made a shitload of money and then gave us Jason Reitman who's had a really good career too. Who's randomly in this movie.

Speaker 4:
[25:27] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[25:28] Any Ivan Reitman thoughts before we move on?

Speaker 4:
[25:30] I think it's really cool that when they go to Dominic's bedroom at the end of the scene, if you look closely, there's some Ghostbusters pillows on Dominic's bed which I think is just awesome. Listen, Ghostbusters is one of the most important movies the last 50 years. Every single person in it, if you weren't there for that sensation, this was light years ahead of Kindergarten Cop which we love but one of the most important movies ever made I think.

Speaker 3:
[25:53] Twenty-six million for this one they spent. They made 202, finished 10th, crushed it all the way around, 111 minutes plus 21 on the Horlbeck scale. We don't have Craig for this podcast but he's going to come on at the end with his review. He'd never seen it.

Speaker 4:
[26:10] Really?

Speaker 3:
[26:11] So we'll find out what he thought. We do know what Roger Ebert thought, three stars.

Speaker 4:
[26:16] That's great. Take it.

Speaker 3:
[26:18] The film is made up, quote, of two parts that shouldn't fit. But somehow they do, making a slick entertainment out of the improbable, the impossible, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. That was Roger. Three stars. I was surprised. I would have thought two and a half for him.

Speaker 4:
[26:32] Three stars is great but it's more than two parts. There's six different parts. There's so much on Arnold's shoulders in this and we laugh at his accent, his acting and stuff. Holds the camera for every single scene and honestly, I'm going to get to this later. Is this maybe some of the best acting he's ever done in his career? There's stuff I really believe that he's feeling and I don't usually say that about him.

Speaker 3:
[26:52] I actually think it's the best he's ever been in a movie.

Speaker 4:
[26:55] It's great.

Speaker 3:
[26:55] For using all his parts. What's interesting, they make the decision near the end where he basically loses the shootout. Somebody has to save his ass. He's going to get killed by some psycho grandmother but he gets shot by two different characters and he's cool with it. It makes him vulnerable. He's not like a superhero. I just don't know if Stallone and Van Damme and pick anybody from that era. Like, no, no, this guy seems weak because he didn't win.

Speaker 4:
[27:22] That's insightful. Let's remember, Seagal won't let himself get punched by anyone in any movie, even like a 300 pound bouncer. Arnold here is saved by a diminutive woman. Like, that's a pretty cool decision to make. I don't know if that was happening back then.

Speaker 3:
[27:35] Yeah, it was the old... William Goldman always used to talk about this, how stars have to be stars in the movie. They don't want to look weak. And he was using the example of Warren Beatty didn't want to be in misery because of the crippling scene.

Speaker 4:
[27:47] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[27:48] Because the guy's crippled, he's a loser from that point on. He's like, I can't play that part. I'm not going to be a loser. And Arnold, like, he ends this movie. He's shot by two different people. He's a kindergarten teacher with a limp, but he's like, I'm fine. I'm good. This is a good movie. We're going to take a break, and then we got to go through watchables. The categories are really fun for this movie. This episode is brought to you by McDonald's. Right now at McDonald's, you can get great deals all day with McValue. That's right. Jumpstart your day with the under $3 menu featuring a sausage McMuffin for just $1.50, or grab the perfect lunch with the McDouble for just $2.50. Honestly, nothing pairs with a movie marathon like a McDouble in hand. Gotta love the McDoubles. Get even more value with McValue only at McDonald's. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba. Limited time only. Prices and participation may vary. Prices may be higher for delivery.

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Speaker 3:
[29:16] Most rewatchable scene, I'll offer you a couple.

Speaker 4:
[29:21] What do you got?

Speaker 3:
[29:22] The plane scene into the driving puke montage.

Speaker 4:
[29:26] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[29:27] With Arnold and Pamela Reed, unless you want to go with any of the stuff in the very beginning, the violent stuff when Arnold's got the beard and the sunglasses. I don't know if you're into that part.

Speaker 4:
[29:36] I like the beard and sunglasses. I like Arnold in the drug den with a shotgun just shooting everything. It feels a lot like Terminator 1 when Arnold goes into Technoire, the club. It's almost like a note for note. I really, really like that part. Arnold's kicking ass, the beard is preposterous, the hair is terrible, and that's part of the laughing at Arnold that we talked about. I'm here for that for sure.

Speaker 3:
[29:58] I was going to do this later. Let's do it now.

Speaker 4:
[30:01] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[30:01] Patched on beard?

Speaker 4:
[30:03] Yeah, terrible.

Speaker 3:
[30:04] Real beard? Is it possible he's just one of those, he grew a real beard and it just looks fake when he grows a beard? Because we know those people too. The guys who grow beards and it doesn't seem like a real beard.

Speaker 4:
[30:18] I think that they did not have a real beard. We saw Arnold with heavy struff and predator. We see him with a beard and a running man briefly, and he looks fucking awesome. He looks like the brawny man. This is like this wooly, wooly, patch on, miscolored thing. It looks horrible, but we like it.

Speaker 3:
[30:35] I thought it was fake, but I wasn't. You also could have sold me like he died it or did something weird. Between that and the sunglasses, I don't know what's going on. It's like a parody of some of his other movies. So, plain scene in the Driving Puke montage, we get Arnold threatening the kid by breaking the pencil. We get Angela Bassett as the flight attendant.

Speaker 4:
[30:52] Out of the clouds with one line.

Speaker 3:
[30:54] Well before she became the queen.

Speaker 4:
[30:58] Crazy.

Speaker 3:
[30:58] We get Arnold repeatedly just watching his partner puke and being confused by it. Like he's never seen a human being struggle physically with anything before his. Okay, Arnold's first day of school. We kick things off with one of the kids going, boys have a penis and girls have a vagina. Killer line. Brought the house down in the theater. Penelope Miller tells him, kindergarten is like the ocean. You don't want to turn your back on it. Good line. Comes back. It's fucking chaos leading to Arnold going, shut up, shut up, shut up.

Speaker 4:
[31:37] Sounds so fun. So fun.

Speaker 3:
[31:38] And then he has to get the ferret. A lot of ferret in this.

Speaker 4:
[31:43] The ferret with no name. I mean, listen, is this Apex Mountain for ferrets?

Speaker 3:
[31:49] So I had that rid down as a strong yes. Ferrets had a moment of about a year and a half before people realized they were just overgrown rats and not fun to hang out with and kind of stinky.

Speaker 4:
[32:00] And then I had it as the big Lebowski, there's a nice marmot, there's a ferret, and then is that the Richard Gere one or is that something different? I don't know. I don't know. Was he a ferret guy or was that gerbils? I can't distinguish my marmots.

Speaker 3:
[32:19] But aren't a place who's your daddy?

Speaker 4:
[32:22] And what does he do?

Speaker 3:
[32:24] This has the it's not a tomb, it's not a tomb at all. This has confessions from the kids, including my daddy as a gynecologist.

Speaker 4:
[32:31] Fantastic.

Speaker 3:
[32:32] I don't think that they're playing who's your daddy now in 2026. I'm guessing that got vetoed by the school principal.

Speaker 4:
[32:38] Especially what does he do? That's none of your business. We're not doing any of that.

Speaker 3:
[32:42] One of the reasons this is such a good scene is we just get to hang out with all these different kids. There's like 10 kids and it's like, all right, cool. I'm actually, it's not just like this anonymous classroom. I feel like I'm learning about this.

Speaker 4:
[32:53] It feels like what they would now put in as outtakes during the closing credits. Here's this cute stuff we recorded, but it's actually in the movie. I actually think one of the faults is I think they should have done more of that. The kids are on fire. The kids are cooking, especially the girl at the end who has to go to the bathroom and can't do the overalls. That stuff is all gold. I wish they would have done more.

Speaker 3:
[33:10] I agree and I think if I had notes, if they had sent me the script and I could have weighed in on some stuff, I probably would have cut down on Crisp a little bit. I would have had Arnold trying to get the kids ready for a play or something, like play it up more where he has to like run a rehearsal. No, you came in too soon and do that whole thing.

Speaker 4:
[33:31] We could have done that with the Gettysburg Address. And you're onto something. Dude, my favorite word that Arnold Schwarzenegger says, he says like 12 times in this movie, he goes, come on, come on. It was a fire drill, come on. And that's what he says in Predator, come on, kill me, I'm here. He hits that one so hard and every time he says, come on, I laugh and I want to run around with him.

Speaker 3:
[33:52] I have another idea for this that I have in the later part of the pod. The milk nap scene I really like. Just like very tender scene. But just seeing kids drink milk. I don't know, do they do that anymore? Probably not. No. Arnold reads a book and we have the nightmare doze off. That scene's good. Arnold almost kills Pamela Reed's fiance. And she goes right from, I think, having sex to just diving into a plate of pasta unexplained. Where was the pasta?

Speaker 4:
[34:18] Bering pasta in bed naked.

Speaker 3:
[34:20] Was the pasta next to her? What happens there?

Speaker 4:
[34:24] It's a lot with that character in The Eating. It's like four jokes too many. I get it. She likes food.

Speaker 3:
[34:29] Four. 14.

Speaker 4:
[34:30] Yeah, it might be 14 jokes. That thing gets beaten to a pulp. And the fact that she just was having sex with her fiance is not eating like an apple or something. A plate of pasta with a fork. It's just not realistic.

Speaker 3:
[34:41] What was the guy's name? Barry? Barry's a chef. Arnold beats up Zack's dad, the child abuser. And then the principal, instead of saying you're suspended for two weeks, is like, how did it feel to punch him?

Speaker 4:
[34:56] I loved it.

Speaker 3:
[34:57] This was great. Most 1990 stretch of the movie. Teachers punching a parent.

Speaker 4:
[35:03] Can you imagine the screenwriter at the computer typing out the line, you hit the kid, I hit you. He was like, fuck yes, it's Miller time. That is gold. Let's go, baby. He goosenecked that thing right out of his office. And by the principal, the principal seems to know that that father was a child beater. Right. It's just the thing that people know that he's beating up this kid. And afterwards she's like, yeah, that was awesome how you punched him. Again, in front of the school, the teacher is everything. And you could have punched him again. What do we got?

Speaker 3:
[35:41] I'm just trying to think of somebody pitching that in a movie they're writing in 2026.

Speaker 4:
[35:47] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[35:47] And the kind of notes they would get from the studio. So yeah, the child abuse, that plot. So yeah, we're going to have to maybe take that out.

Speaker 4:
[36:01] Do we need to actually show the bruising on the child's neck? Yeah, we think it's key. I mean, that's intense.

Speaker 3:
[36:07] In the research, Arnold was really passionate about touching a couple of real life stories, including the abuse of children and kind of push them to like, we have to have this in the movie. This is an important topic. And that's why it's in there.

Speaker 4:
[36:25] See, that's the Arnold difference. Yeah. I don't think the action stars are like, how big is my trailer? How cool do I look when I punch the guy? And Arnold's like, we really need to focus on the damages of divorce in the American household. And that's the shit that he wanted. He's a genius, man.

Speaker 3:
[36:40] Two more. The fair, little heart tugs speech about Arnold from Linda Hunt, the principal. It gets a little touchy in the throat watching.

Speaker 4:
[36:54] I don't know what kind of police officer you are, but you are a very good teacher. I was like, am I crying, a kindergarten cop? Holy shit, Mr. Kimball.

Speaker 3:
[37:01] He's just appalled in the room right now, getting a little thirsty. And then we get the big fire shootout ending. Stranger, stranger.

Speaker 4:
[37:12] And that's what we did back then. We'd say stranger danger and don't pick up candy from kids. And they just learned that from the other cop before he comes in the hallway.

Speaker 3:
[37:18] So this guy, Chris, shows up at the school, has an interview with the principal for some reason, even though it seems like it's a public school, he can just join the school. Sees this kid and he's like, all right, what's my plan? Could wait like eight hours, maybe tail him home.

Speaker 4:
[37:36] Nah, let's do this now.

Speaker 3:
[37:37] Should I set a huge fire to the kids' library?

Speaker 4:
[37:42] Yes, I love it.

Speaker 3:
[37:42] Burn thousands of books and cause mass panic and that's what I'm gonna do. And my mom's gonna wait in the car with a gun.

Speaker 4:
[37:50] And then when the kids scurry into the hallway and the sprinklers go off, I'll just kind of run in there and grab them amongst the 200 kids and then I'll just go upstairs.

Speaker 3:
[37:58] I'll go upstairs where there's no escape. Get up there. What could go wrong? It's a fire. There's water everywhere.

Speaker 4:
[38:05] The last 10 minutes of the movie are preposterous.

Speaker 3:
[38:07] It's really a bad plan.

Speaker 4:
[38:09] The plane is trying to land and it's just dragging sparks all over the runway, but you're here for it.

Speaker 3:
[38:15] What is the most rewatchable scene for you? It's not a tumor?

Speaker 4:
[38:20] I think it's Arnold's opening speech. I'm Mr. Kimball. I want them answered immediately. And then the tumor and all that's the questions about what my dad does.

Speaker 3:
[38:29] Yeah, Arnold's first day just could have basically been its own movie where he's finally like, I have a ferret in my car, I'm gonna go get the ferret. That's his last move. The ferret has no name. Said this ferret has never named the ferret. It's just his by pet ferret. It's not like this is-

Speaker 4:
[38:45] Doesn't make any sense. First thing kids would do is they name the pet.

Speaker 3:
[38:48] Yeah, this is Benny. I have that as well. What's the most 1990 thing about this movie other than giving those little cartons of milk to each kid?

Speaker 4:
[38:57] Each with a straw.

Speaker 3:
[38:58] Whole milk. Yeah, whole milk.

Speaker 4:
[39:00] That was when they would run those commercials when it said like, milk, it does a body good. And the kid who's getting bullied drinks milk and then he turns into 6 foot 10. Milk was everywhere back then.

Speaker 3:
[39:08] I think that's the winner.

Speaker 4:
[39:11] I got a one seed.

Speaker 3:
[39:12] All right, what do you got?

Speaker 4:
[39:13] All right. The opening scene of the movie is shot in a great American shopping mall. And that's not enough. Specifically, Chris in silk clothes, a ponytail and smoking a cigarette is walking through the mall. And what does he pass behind him? A Brookstone store. Oh, wow. That is the shit. Brookstone that is funded almost exclusively by divorced dads who would pay $2,500 for a massage chair in 1990 dollars. And you go in there just fuck around and try stuff when you went there with your friends. Brookstone and they're like blood-cripped battle with the sharper image. That was so 1990 and Chris walking past it with a SIG. Amazing.

Speaker 3:
[39:53] Incredible. Great job by you. I think that beats milk. I think that beats Arnold's pet ferret. I think it beats the cars. The cars are very 1990 in this movie, including like one of those old Cabriolet.

Speaker 4:
[40:05] She got a Geo Tracker. I looked that shit up, a red Geo Tracker. It's awesome.

Speaker 3:
[40:10] And then every single moment, second everything with Richard Tyson in this movie, just feels like it could only have happened in 1990. 1991, no. 89, no. 90, yes. That's it. It's the only year he could have been in this. The Floyd Gondoli, Butter in My Ass and Lollipops in My Mouth Award for something I just enjoy. No surprise, but for me, it's Arnold just delivering, not the Arnold Lions, like the home run money shot lines that they know are going to crush, but him just saying normal basic things. I'm the potty pooper. So good. He uses the dolls to look up to girl's skirts. I coach basketball at an old girl's school in Rhode Island. There is no bathroom. Back to the carpet. If he does it again, I press charges.

Speaker 4:
[41:07] I like that one.

Speaker 3:
[41:07] Just any line is perfect with him. And it was really fun to write those out as Arnold, like Arnold English versus actual English. But yeah, it's just, I'm always going to enjoy it for the rest of my life hearing him just say normal lines.

Speaker 4:
[41:20] Did you have any thoughts, Bill, on what kind of system John Kimball ran when he was coaching basketball? Was it like a spread system? Was it a zone defense?

Speaker 3:
[41:28] Like a patino, like press trap?

Speaker 4:
[41:31] All up and down the court, full court press, slapping the floor man to man.

Speaker 3:
[41:35] When did he ever even hold a basketball?

Speaker 4:
[41:38] I can't think of a time.

Speaker 3:
[41:39] He says in this movie, he says he grew up in Austria.

Speaker 4:
[41:43] Well, that was my answer. I enjoy and I respect in Arnold Movies when they take the care to address why the fuck this guy talks like this. And sometimes they don't do it. They're like, screw it, jingle all the way. He lives in the suburbs, married to Rita Wilson, no reason at all for his voice or his physique. This one, they're like, well, he grew up in Austria and that's why he talks. I appreciate that. Sometimes they just ignore that shit, but I love that they do it here.

Speaker 3:
[42:10] It would be like, yeah, they'll have movies where he's just like Don Smith.

Speaker 4:
[42:14] Yeah, no big deal. And he says, California. He's like, why is Mr. Smith talked that way? And why does he look like he does 275 for reps on the incline press? What the fuck is with Mr. Smith?

Speaker 3:
[42:26] What's age the best? I'll start us off with the story of Oregon. It just seems like the best place on earth. I have no idea if it is. However they filmed this, it just seems like the happiest, nicest place you could ever raise a kid, except for unless Chris shows up and sets fire to your school library, sets off a massive shooting.

Speaker 4:
[42:49] Terrorizes the patrons of the local toy store too. I remember when we did the Rudy pod and we were just like, this is just an infomercial for the Notre Dame campus. Every person wants to apply to Notre Dame. It's so beautiful. This is the story in the heels of several years earlier where the Goonies was, and it's on the beach and there's pirate ships. Historia was a beautiful place back then. Never been, but it looks great in movies.

Speaker 3:
[43:11] I have Jason Reitman as the boy that Kimball catches kissing somebody when there's the fire, and Jason Reitman is the little kid that runs out, or like he's like a 13-year-old. Arnold's beard we mentioned. Child abuse plots in the 80s and 90s as a plot device, as we were just starting to figure out that child abuse might be bad. I would say that's age the best because now I think we have a better handle on that, that it's bad.

Speaker 4:
[43:36] Yeah, I think we have a zero tolerance policy now.

Speaker 3:
[43:38] 1990, maybe not. Maybe it's like, hey, you could look at it from both sides. 2026, we're anti.

Speaker 4:
[43:45] When they would say coming up on a very special episode of Growing Pains. It would be like Mike Siever tries drugs or the Different Strokes article or episode where the guy who run the bike store is trying to get with Arnold. They would do those things all the time and that's how we learned about this stuff.

Speaker 3:
[44:00] Different Strokes did two of them because there's another one. Now, Gordon Jump as the pedophile bike shop guy who really took some liberties with Dudley. We still don't really know what happened and we don't want to talk about it, but something bad probably happened and Arnold foiled it. There was another one with somebody who locked Arnold in a room and was trying to get it on with Dana Plato who's like 12. That was like the lot, like Different Strokes went back to the world multiple times. And then Family Ties was the other one that had no problem crossing the line with anything.

Speaker 4:
[44:35] This is how hard we're about to nerd out. I can think of a third Different Strokes episode in which the son from over the top, the annoying kid from the military school, he's in it and I think he's selling drugs to Arnold and his best friend. It's like they did them like once a month they were doing a very special episode. Those were the normal episodes.

Speaker 3:
[44:54] Facts of Life did it too. This is what we grew up with. This is why at Kindergarten Cop we hit this point where everybody's like it.

Speaker 4:
[44:59] No big deal, fine.

Speaker 3:
[45:01] Any what's aged the best for you?

Speaker 4:
[45:03] Yeah, I have two. Great poster. And you know what I miss Bill, you'll totally get this. I miss when it was one name over the poster and just the last name, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, not Sylvester, not Arnold. And this is kind of cool because I saw the poster for Project Hail Mary. Yeah, look at that. Look at that. They don't even need to say Arnold. But I just saw the poster for Project Hail Mary and it just says Gosling. There's no Ryan. I was like, that is such a status symbol that they don't put in the other actors, they don't even put in your fucking first name, just the last name and I feel like it's kind of throwback. Very cool.

Speaker 3:
[45:43] It's a great point. There was some stuff in the 80s that we were just doing better. Another was Sports Illustrated covers.

Speaker 4:
[45:49] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3:
[45:49] They would just have the one picture with as tight of a headline as possible in the Sports Illustrated and especially in the late 70s, 80s, it got to the point you couldn't wait to see what the cover was. And then they started cluttering it with all these other things on it. But the best covers they ever had were just a picture with a small headline. Sometimes we don't even have a headline. Same thing with the posters. I just think we started overthinking the posters. That's the kind of poster. Put your star, last name, we're ready to go. What's your other what's age the best?

Speaker 4:
[46:20] Ponytailed villains. I have my handful of my favorites and Crisp is way up there. I got Ben Kingsley in Sneakers, which we did. I got a man who's been knighted who has a ponytail. My guy Julian Sands in the movie Warlock goes with a heavy ponytail. Sam Jackson and Jackie Brown is braided. Then one that's near and dear to you, I think you have to have Terry Silver on the list from Karate Kid III, and then again in Cobra Kai, and then I got Crisp with thick side parted ponytail. It's really, really cool. I miss they don't do that anymore.

Speaker 3:
[46:57] It's a great point. Did you have a friend who occasionally went ponytail, and it would completely change his personality?

Speaker 4:
[47:05] I had a friend who went rat tail, which was much different. And that was like shaved short and just an isolated ponytail. Did you have a ponytail or were you a ponytail guy?

Speaker 3:
[47:14] No, my hair goes up, not down.

Speaker 4:
[47:16] Oh, yeah, same.

Speaker 3:
[47:17] No, we had in my bar restaurant days, my roommate actually, Richard, aka Ricky, who was the guy who got us the illegal cable box that allowed me to watch four straight years of illegal pay-per-view movies. He had long hair and sometimes he could go ponytail with it. And it was a complete game changer. Like he would just immediately look like he was one of the villains in an early 90s movie. And then when he didn't have it, it was like normal. And then the ponytail would swing it and he became kind of like a little dangerous looking. I was always jealous of him. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, what's up with this guy? Great Shot Gordor Award for most cinematic shot. The nightmare scene is good. It's a good zag. Cause you just think he fell asleep with the kid and then all of a sudden, crisp. Denethe's Benihana Award scene still in location. Obviously Astoria.

Speaker 4:
[48:06] Yeah. That's awesome.

Speaker 3:
[48:07] Big Kahuna Burger Award. Best use of food and drinks. It's got to be the milk.

Speaker 4:
[48:11] It's a hundred percent the milk. And how about the, it's not easy to create sexual tension with a beverage like milk and she straight up wipes it off his lip as there's 20 sleeping kids there. I mean, they're halfway to third base at that point. Penelope is so horny in this movie. I like it. She's way into Mr. Kimball and God bless her.

Speaker 3:
[48:31] Turns out she likes big guys.

Speaker 4:
[48:33] Oh yeah.

Speaker 3:
[48:34] We have a special one, the Steven Seagal Shitting on Himself Award for most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot.

Speaker 4:
[48:41] I always try to use this category. I'm so glad you have it. What is it?

Speaker 3:
[48:44] Oh, it's a pleasure to put this on. So I have, this is from the Premier article and they asked the kids what they think of Arnold. And Arnold claims kids love when they can teach a grown up. So of course they all started doing no no do it this way. And then Premier asked what did the kids think of Arnold? According to Meta, a six year old girl, Arnold is strange as a teacher but I like him. Says Jim Jim, another five year old with a giggle, he picks his nose. I saw him pick his nose lots of times. I saw him eat like a pig once. Not unless Jim Jim wants to grow up like Schwarzenegger if only because he can lift everyone up. This is just in the Premier magazine, so in the movie, Arnold picks his nose? That's your anecdote?

Speaker 4:
[49:34] Yeah, I can see that. Giant nose.

Speaker 3:
[49:36] And then Arnold had some tidbits. He said he took his role seriously as the leader on the set and the teacher. I always gave them kind of the tough talk because they believed it 100%. A kid would be crying because she fell on her knees. I would say, why are you crying? Because my knee hurts. I'd say, but this sounds like a little girl. Real tough people don't cry. Really? Yeah, they don't cry. They fall on their knees. They look at it. Maybe tears come to their eyes, but then they swallow and say, to hell with it. So what? And the kid looks at me and says, it's a good idea. Whenever they're tuned into you and you can get a message through them, you can move on with, you can move in with something. So Arnold's basically, he's like, I really taught these kids had to be tougher on the set. I think he took real pride in it and he sounds like a psycho. Like there's no way now people are like, hey, the star of your movie, uprated my daughter because she fell and hurt her knee and told her to be tough and shake it off. I'm calling HR. But no, 1990, we were fine.

Speaker 4:
[50:40] They wanted him to do it. I think Arnold was very intense about fitness and wellness and diet and all that stuff. There's that scene where he's got the kids doing the sit ups and you could tell, maybe those kids are getting a little tired, Arnold. They're like six years old. They can't really bang out 100 crunches and he was still coaching them to do it. I love it.

Speaker 3:
[50:56] Yeah, kids at this point, it's a miracle if they're potty trained and not having meltdowns. Arnold's like, hey, I need you to do 100 sit ups. He really was making them work out on the set, like trying to get out and keep everybody exercise. All right, you have a flex category. What do you got?

Speaker 4:
[51:11] Well, I'm a little disappointed. I thought there might be a porn parody where Kimball sleeps with all the horny single moms. But I looked, there is no Kindergarten Cop.

Speaker 3:
[51:21] I sadly looked as well. Yeah, there was one of my, I don't know if we're both on a watch list now because Googling Kindergarten Cop porn parody probably immediately puts you on a watch list. But I did look as well.

Speaker 4:
[51:34] It's fine. In my next window over my next tab, I have is Chris's ponytail real? I'm searching all kinds of weird shit for this. No, I went with the the BAM out of bio award for where the hell did these 83 points come from. I understand that Ivan Reitman had worked with Arnold and I'm sure he had the highest hopes for how Arnold's acting might be in this big project. But when he's sitting there at that dinner scene in that fancy restaurant and Arnold is just throwing those eyes over at Penelope and there's real actual chemistry and you feel like Arnold's in love with her, Reitman had to be like, cut Arnold, holy shit. That was great. We're moving on, let's go. And he had to be, that had to exceed his greatest expectations and that's real acting Arnold's doing.

Speaker 3:
[52:16] That's a good call.

Speaker 4:
[52:19] I'm proud of him.

Speaker 3:
[52:20] Should we cover another thing? No, no.

Speaker 4:
[52:22] No, don't, everybody crazy? Did you see what he just did? No way.

Speaker 3:
[52:27] The Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film.

Speaker 4:
[52:30] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[52:32] The mother son relationship with Crisp and his mother in this movie is abjectly bonkers. To the point where are we sure they were mother and son? Are we sure she wasn't like a sugar mama and they were pretending to be mother and son, but it was just like some rich lady that he was having sex with? Because no mother and son interact like this ever. In real life, in movies, there's like sexual attention with him. He keeps kissing her. It's fucking weird. And I don't really fully understand what they're trying to do here.

Speaker 4:
[53:08] Tell you what, young people out there, ladies, guys, whatever, if you meet someone, if you meet a man and they address their mother as mother, run. That is not a good thing. No one should be saying, mother, don't do that. I have one of my best friends from high school. We always joke about this movie with the two of them. He thinks that Chris is still on the tit. He thinks that he's actually nursing still, and that there should be a scene with that. It's heavily edible, it's so weird, and I think that they may sleep naked and cuddle each other.

Speaker 3:
[53:45] It's so strange, man. It's like Game of Thrones when the 13-year-old was nursing.

Speaker 4:
[53:48] Yes. What does that guy say? A kid who sits up from the nipple with the milk running, except this guy is 30.

Speaker 3:
[53:56] That's amazing. I would believe that. I would believe any version of however you wanted to describe the relationship between these two people, but it's not mother and son. I don't know what's happening.

Speaker 4:
[54:08] Let me drop one more on this. Because I had this in What's Age the Worst. She goes to the local pharmacy. What's Age the Worst? Rectal thermometers. That was really a thing back in the day where you would come home and be like, Mom, I don't feel so good. She'd be like, grab your ankles and spread your cheeks and put it right up your ass. 98.6. If you went into CBS Today, do they still have rectal thermometers? Are those still a thing? No way, right?

Speaker 3:
[54:34] We really wish we had Craig here, especially to answer weird questions like this.

Speaker 4:
[54:38] So Craig, imagine you felt like you might have had a fever and you go to your mom, and she takes your temperature, but not like under your tongue. It would go in your butt and then it would lube it, and I don't think it was even that strange. I think a lot of people did it.

Speaker 3:
[54:51] I know nobody who did this.

Speaker 4:
[54:53] You never had it?

Speaker 3:
[54:55] I don't think so. So my interpretation of that was rectal thermometer was to insinuate how evil this person was, because it's like she won't just take your temperature. She's gonna really take your temperature.

Speaker 4:
[55:07] And she did it to Chris, though, Chris, when he was growing up. And I'm sure that at that pharmacy, there were many conventional thermometers available, including the digital kind by 1990. No, you can't get a true reading of the temp unless you go rectal, and you have to buy lube. How disgustingly sadistic is a rectal thermometer? Just feel your kid's forehead and move on.

Speaker 3:
[55:29] I'm glad we talked about this.

Speaker 4:
[55:30] Definitely, gotta hit it.

Speaker 3:
[55:33] Did you hit the same weak link?

Speaker 4:
[55:36] My weak link is, Pamela Reed is a very good actress. I got enough of that character. I don't need all of the eating and the puking. I think there's a lot of it, and it's not my favorite part of the movie.

Speaker 3:
[55:47] Yeah. What stage is the worst? The big ending with an active shooter or a cynist in an elementary school?

Speaker 4:
[55:54] Yes.

Speaker 3:
[55:55] Just bizarre decision. I love it. Playing Who's Your Daddy, having a pet ferret. There was a standalone sequel called Kindergarten Cop II in 2016 starring Dolph Lundgren that I guess we're just not going to talk about.

Speaker 4:
[56:09] Bill Bellamy. I watched the trailer yesterday and it was a terrible use of 60 Seconds, bad.

Speaker 3:
[56:15] Rectal thermometer wins, but what else do you have?

Speaker 4:
[56:17] I have rectal thermometer written down. I could have picked 50 different things. How about this? How about climbing the rope in gym class? That's not a thing anymore. You would climb 30 some feet, touch the ceiling of a gymnasium and they would have a two inch pad down on the floor in case you fell. Right. It's a fucking preposterous thing to have. That's not it. My kids don't climb the rope in gym class. They had kindergarten is doing in this movie.

Speaker 3:
[56:45] Another one which you mentioned earlier was the little kid looking up little girl's skirts for comedy sake.

Speaker 4:
[56:51] Come on.

Speaker 3:
[56:52] Plus the whole explanation of the mom being relieved that maybe he's not going to wear skirts. Everything about that probably age the worst. Trying to think what else. Just them staying in the same hotel room, I don't know if that's a nitpick or what's the worst, but just get two rooms here in the middle of nowhere in Oregon. You could probably get side by side with the doors that open and close. They're like roommates.

Speaker 4:
[57:18] Why? I'm not really sure. They sleep in the same room. They had no problem having the plane ticket. I don't think there's that tight of a budget, but it is a little weird. It just makes it so that he can walk in with the fiancé scene and the pasta, which is a very weird scene.

Speaker 3:
[57:31] Any other what's the worst?

Speaker 4:
[57:33] No, we've covered all of mine.

Speaker 3:
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Speaker 4:
[58:45] I would go Crisp. I like Crisp. I think he's weird and scary. And he has that scene in the interrogation room. He's just like, my old lady left me because of the money. Yours left because she couldn't stand the sight of you. And he's talking shit to Schwarzenegger and it works. But it's just like the ponytail does so much of the heavy lifting and the wardrobe. I'm here for it. I like it. I have him at like a six, five on the Gruber scale. He doesn't get as much to work with, but I like him. You want the mom?

Speaker 3:
[59:12] I'm at a four for both of them.

Speaker 4:
[59:17] I expected to show up to this pod and you'd be like, I just want to talk about Chris for 90 minutes.

Speaker 3:
[59:22] He never did it for me. Well, there's also baggage with him because he's in 3 o'clock. Richard Tyson is in 3 o'clock high, which he was good in. But then is in Two Moon Junction with Sherrilyn Fenn, which was one of the pre-Skin of Max, like early nudie cable movies that was on. And it was just really weird to then just see him in this movie two years later, when you're just thinking of him over and over again having slow motion sex with Sherrilyn Fenn and now he's Chris.

Speaker 4:
[59:50] It was the first movie I ever saw him in, thinking of him having slow motion sex with his mom. So maybe that's the reason.

Speaker 3:
[59:59] My issue with him, you like him more than I do.

Speaker 4:
[60:03] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[60:04] Our guy, Brad Wesley from Roadhouse. Yeah. Who every scene he's in, he's equally like Lowsome and I think he's supposed to serve the same purpose as Chris. But every scene he's in is hilarious. Everything he does is hilarious. The people around him are hilarious. And it's just like he kind of plays it perfectly. I still don't understand what Crisp is doing in this movie. Exactly. Is he evil? Like I guess he's evil because he steals the race car set from that poor guy who was just trying to bring it to his kid. That's like, and then he shoots somebody once, but it's, and all of a sudden he's burning a library. I just don't know what to make of Crisp.

Speaker 4:
[60:43] And then in his final scene with Dominic, he goes for the Academy Award when he's just pulling him in like this, and I think you're my son. He's really going for it. Whereas, as your point, Brad Wesley, goddamn JCPenney is coming because of me.

Speaker 3:
[60:54] Right.

Speaker 4:
[60:55] That's a line right there.

Speaker 3:
[60:56] I want him to actually probably be more evil. I think he's in kind of no man's land from an evil standpoint. They need like four more evil things.

Speaker 4:
[61:02] I read something that they thought that he wasn't evil enough and that they were actually sympathizing with him, test audiences, and so they added some nasty shit and probably including the totally gratuitous thing where he beats up some man who wants to race cars.

Speaker 3:
[61:15] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ruffalo Hanna, Ruben Aperture, Joe Veracting Award. We just did it. Richard Tyson.

Speaker 4:
[61:23] He's going for it.

Speaker 3:
[61:24] Dominic!

Speaker 4:
[61:26] He's doing Streetcar Named Desire. He is going for it in the monologue. He's trying to win the Academy Award. I don't know if it's going to happen, but I like Crisp, though.

Speaker 3:
[61:34] Special category.

Speaker 4:
[61:36] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[61:36] The Ed Norton Reverse Dunk Award. Did this movie need a random sports scene?

Speaker 4:
[61:40] What do you got?

Speaker 3:
[61:40] This goes back to the earlier thing we were talking about. Do we need one or two more scenes with Arnold and the kids? Like a recess, like a game of tag or a little dodgeball maybe? Arnold playing dodgeball. I'm just not turning the channel for three minutes.

Speaker 4:
[61:56] Not a chance.

Speaker 3:
[61:57] Y'all, I hit you.

Speaker 4:
[62:01] Come on. Come on. Boom. And they would have beat Billy Madison to it, who did dodgeball a few handful of years later. That would be great. You could talk me to some kickball. Any sort of recess activity with Arnold grunting in a big shirt.

Speaker 3:
[62:14] Arnold ordering people around. Like maybe Child Abuse Kid is the hero of the dodgeball game. Falls, makes the catch, falls on his disturbingly bruised back.

Speaker 4:
[62:24] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[62:26] I don't know. I just would have liked something.

Speaker 4:
[62:29] All right.

Speaker 3:
[62:29] The CR thinks Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford. How does Take Award? What do you got?

Speaker 4:
[62:35] Bill, I'm team crisp in this movie. I sympathize with Chris. I'll tell you why.

Speaker 3:
[62:41] I'm stunned by this. I thought we'd be making fun of him way more.

Speaker 4:
[62:44] No. This character just wants to be with his son. You can't just take a child and run across the country. Fathers have rights. What is this alleged criminal past he has? He's not in prison. It sounds to me like Kimball is obsessed with him, is a loser. Remember, Kimball won't go and get his own son, who he's estranged from.

Speaker 3:
[63:04] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[63:05] Crisp just wants his son. So he executes some junkie who's trying to extort him for money. Not a chance. I think Crisp is actually the sympathetic figure here. And I think that Arnold is this sort of predatory teacher and the mom is bipolar. And Crisp is like, I got to get my kiddo out of there, just me. And as soon as they get to town, he buys them a toy. The mom buys medicine. They're looking out for the child. And I'm team Crisp in this. And I think it's like a Johnny Lawrence Karate Kid thing where we need to look at this way differently.

Speaker 3:
[63:33] So it's like over the top, Stallone's the hero trying to reunite with his kid. No different here with Crisp.

Speaker 4:
[63:41] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[63:42] This is a divorce movie, like over the top.

Speaker 4:
[63:44] Listen, Arnold, when they took Alyssa Milano from you in Commando, you took a guy's head off with a saw blade to get her back. Like, you understand, Crisp just wants his son. And I think that belongs in court and we can settle it.

Speaker 3:
[63:55] Arnold doesn't understand in this movie because he abandoned his child. He didn't even know where that kid is.

Speaker 4:
[64:00] Why is he okay with that?

Speaker 3:
[64:02] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[64:02] My son, Alex, I used to read him this book. Why the fuck are you in a story with these kids? Go find your son, man, like Crisp would do, the real hero of this movie. That's the hot take.

Speaker 3:
[64:11] It's a great one. Really impressive.

Speaker 4:
[64:13] What do you got?

Speaker 3:
[64:14] Mine is, this movie spawned so many bad ripoff versions of it with famous actors trying to pull off Kindergarten Cop. It's almost better, I would sacrifice this movie and have it have never happened, to save ourselves from the 40 terrible movies that came out after this. It's a little like a Dr. Oppenheimer thing. Like, is it, if Dr. Oppenheimer just gets wiped out, are we saved from nuclear war? Does nuclear war happen anyway? Kindergarten Cop, if we just wipe it out, are we safe 40 terrible movies that you and I have both watched with our kids and have just hated ourselves as we sat there wondering what happened?

Speaker 4:
[64:56] See, this is why you're you, because you'll have nuclear war and we get to avoid the movie called The Tooth Fairy. It's apples for apples. I agree. You know what Arnold proves too? He is so talented and so charismatic. It's hard to talk to children. I'm talking about you, me. If you go to a friend's house and they have a seven-year-old and they walk in, you'll be like, hey, buddy, and you either do that dumb kid voice where you talk really high or it's hard to talk to kids that you don't know very well. He does it in this movie beautifully. It's not that easy.

Speaker 3:
[65:30] Can I give a tip to the listeners just in case they don't know how to do this? Because I feel like I'm great with kids and dogs. Kids and dogs are really my wheelhouse.

Speaker 4:
[65:37] Sure.

Speaker 3:
[65:40] Just talk to them like a normal human being. Don't raise your voice. Don't treat them like they've had some sort of head injury. Just try to interact with them and make eye contact with them. And guess what? They'll probably have a conversation back with you. This isn't hard, but it's one of those things you don't realize until you have kids and you watch how people talk to your kids. And you're like, why is this person talking to my five-year-old daughter? Like she should be wearing a helmet. Like what's happening right now? My daughter can have a conversation with you. Like she's not an idiot. Go talk to her.

Speaker 4:
[66:12] Anyway, when the kid walks in, you go, hey, bud. And you're like, dial it down.

Speaker 3:
[66:17] Heard you like the Lakers. Do you like Luka?

Speaker 4:
[66:25] I would give the same advice also for talking to seniors. Like they've seen some shit. You can just talk to them normally. They'll be fine.

Speaker 3:
[66:30] Yeah. Yeah. Get it on with them. Just say anything. They're ready to go. Bring up politics.

Speaker 4:
[66:36] Hey champs, give me your best punch.

Speaker 3:
[66:39] Bring up politics. They're ready to roll right away.

Speaker 4:
[66:41] Oh hell yeah.

Speaker 3:
[66:41] What do you think about this Iran situation? They've got opinions.

Speaker 4:
[66:44] Let's talk immigration.

Speaker 3:
[66:45] Yeah, they're ready. Casting what ifs. Bill Murray and Patrick Swayze were considered for the lead role before Arnold. Bill Murray, no way. I can't see him interacting with kids.

Speaker 4:
[66:56] No way. That's not where my interest is. Let's get to the second one.

Speaker 3:
[67:00] Swayze could have done this. I think it would have been a really interesting movie for him a year and a half after Roadhouse. Swayze had the unintentional comedy at least a little bit. I would still maybe lean more toward a Keanu Reeves late 90s situation if I was going to go out of the box with Axel Harris. Hardball. Yeah, like a hardball. But I think we were in the right hands with Arnold there.

Speaker 4:
[67:25] Yeah, there's this crazy part where Crisp breaks into the school and tells Mr. Kimball that he used to fuck teachers like him in prison. And he was like, it didn't test well with audiences. Swayze did it. He already has that scene in Roadhouse where he's like, it is my way or the highway, you're the bounce. That's him talking to the kids. That would work. And then he rips Crisp's throwout.

Speaker 3:
[67:47] Well, could we have merged those two movies together? Could Kindergarten Cop have just been gotten? Yeah, he's like the cooler. Sam Elliott shows up halfway through. So I don't understand. This is in the research and it seemed real. But Ivan Reitman did consider Danny DeVito and decided the height thing was going to be too weird. I can't imagine why Danny DeVito would be Kindergarten Cop. It's a completely different movie. I'm also not against it because he's smaller, he can relate more with the kids, but it just seems bizarre to me. I don't know.

Speaker 4:
[68:20] Well, I just don't buy him as a police officer. It's got to be something else. It's funny that he's the same size as the kids. It's the opposite joke, but obviously they made the right choice.

Speaker 3:
[68:30] Catherine O'Hara was considered for the lead female role.

Speaker 4:
[68:33] Love that.

Speaker 3:
[68:33] Was busy with Home Alone. Couldn't do it. Sandra Bullock was considered for the role of Joyce, who I think was the child abuse mom.

Speaker 4:
[68:43] That's young, man.

Speaker 3:
[68:44] And failed to impress Ivan Reitman. Didn't get it. Elijah Wood also did not get the part.

Speaker 4:
[68:52] Elijah Wood can't get in the classroom? He's great.

Speaker 3:
[68:54] Three years later, he's in the Good Son. Christian Slater was considered for Crisp because Ivan Reitman liked him and Heather's. And Slater turned it down. Did pump up the volume.

Speaker 4:
[69:06] Great choice. That's fine.

Speaker 3:
[69:08] Yeah. Played Hard Harry. I don't know if this is true, but Audrey Hepburn was offered the role of Eleanor Crisp, but turned it down because she loves children. Very strange. No idea if that's true.

Speaker 4:
[69:20] Audrey Hepburn buying the rectal thermometer?

Speaker 3:
[69:22] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[69:22] I think that's a little beneath her.

Speaker 3:
[69:24] Yeah. Best that guy award. So the guy driving the armored truck in the beginning of Heat, who is also with LA. Confidential.

Speaker 4:
[69:31] Let's go.

Speaker 3:
[69:32] The first guy Arnold Punches in this movie. Whatever that guy's name is, he wins again.

Speaker 4:
[69:37] You're referring to the legendary Thomas Rosales Jr. who slaps a woman in the first few minutes of a PG-13 movie and is in everything. And he is the driver. We're being held up on the radio. That guy's a legend.

Speaker 3:
[69:51] See that shit coming out of their ears, slick.

Speaker 4:
[69:54] I can't, but I would be remiss not to shout out Stephen Park, aka the legend Mike Yanagita, is in Kindergarten Cop. And if you don't know this, he's in one scene. He's looking over the dead body of the OD'd girlfriend and it's totally straight and there's no Yanagita at all. But I was out of the couch, off the couch, on the couch, Tom Cruise style when Yanagita showed up. I rewound it.

Speaker 3:
[70:19] That was Gus Johnson doing Yanagita. It might have been your highlight on Rewatchables, 30 episodes. Dionne Waiter is a word, probably one of the kids. I think I might be partial to the girl who just seemed like she was in a different movie.

Speaker 4:
[70:36] The one with the overalls that she can't get off and has to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 3:
[70:39] Yeah, and then later she's kind of like battling Arnold and there's just something really funny about that kid. I don't feel like any of that stuff was scripted. I think they probably brought her in and were like, wow, this girl's a wild card. Just keep the cameras rolling. She'll do something weird.

Speaker 4:
[70:54] It's that girl who is excellent or it's penis vagina, which he says fudgina. The kid who plays penis vagina kid was the year prior in Pet Sematary as Gage, like the devil baby from the cemetery, and he was like three years old, like slashing Achilles. That kid worked. I think he still works.

Speaker 3:
[71:11] The kid who played Dominic, it was actually two twins, the cousins twins. I think this was the highlight for them. Recasting Couch Director, City, I have a lot of thoughts here. Well, I have three. Do you have one before I do mine? I do. Okay.

Speaker 4:
[71:24] Yeah. Sitting right there, James Cameron. What are we doing? Let's do this thing. Let's get Jamie Lee as the other teacher. It's already Arnold protecting a kid as he's going to do a couple of years later. Let's up the production value and the violence. Although James Cameron would probably see it and be like, yeah, but what if the students were really tall and blue and had tails and some dumb shit like that? But at the time, Cameron was in his prime, I would have liked to see him more with Arnold. What do you got?

Speaker 3:
[71:48] Arnold's one of the three biggest stars in the world at this point.

Speaker 4:
[71:51] Definitely.

Speaker 3:
[71:52] Ivan Reitman, I think, is one of the four most proven directors at this point for big budget movies that you know you're going to make the money back. I don't know why the cast isn't bigger and more ambitious. I'd like to offer you Julie Roberts as the teacher on the run. Why not?

Speaker 4:
[72:09] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[72:11] I'd like to offer you Nick Cage in the Chris part. Nice point in his career.

Speaker 4:
[72:17] That's fantastic.

Speaker 3:
[72:19] I'd like to offer you Faye Dunaway or Shirley MacLean as the mom. Let's go Oscar winners. Ellen Burstyn, come on down. Let's get somebody who's actually like been in the Oscar conversation. But this is the big egregious one. If I could change anything, it would be this. Kathleen Turner, can you come in for two scenes to play the?

Speaker 4:
[72:37] Moriarty.

Speaker 3:
[72:38] The Cathy Moriarty part? Just come in and can you throw 99 for two scenes? Just hit the corners. Just do your thing.

Speaker 4:
[72:46] What about Kimball's partner? Could you do Meg Ryan there or is she needs to be the female lead?

Speaker 3:
[72:52] I don't think it can be somebody you feel like Arnold is going to try to fuck during the movie.

Speaker 4:
[72:56] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:
[72:57] So you're really like right on the line. You have to be, she has to kind of feel like she might blow him if you put two glasses of wine in her as that kind of vibe, but he's going to stay away because she's flirty with him. A couple of times, yeah.

Speaker 4:
[73:11] She kisses him on the lips at the end of the movie. Yeah. What is that?

Speaker 3:
[73:14] A little sweet on him.

Speaker 4:
[73:15] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[73:16] So normally Craig has a flex category here, but he's not with us. So I'm going to do a special category in his honor. The Rick Schicchetti Guard Meat Award for most memorable death by a security guard or other bystander who the movie treats as inconsequential, but who probably had a spouse and kids who love him. Poor guy goes to the local toy store to get a race car set for the kid. Miss Christmas? Didn't really understand that part. I was late on Christmas. I got to make it up to him. Whatever was going on. I don't know how you're late on Christmas. We don't...

Speaker 4:
[73:49] Did he say late on Christmas?

Speaker 3:
[73:50] He said, I missed Christmas. It was something about...

Speaker 4:
[73:52] It's like spring, bro...

Speaker 3:
[73:53] .making up for Christmas. Yeah. Buys this race car set, won't get bribed for it, really committed to it. And then I guess just gets murdered on the side of the road.

Speaker 4:
[74:05] He gets knocked out. He gets slammed into the door. He's out, out cold, right there on the sidewalk.

Speaker 3:
[74:11] Maybe worse. He might be... I've watched a lot of The Pit the last couple of weeks. He might be on the tube. Sure. He might be... The family is trying to decide whether to take him off the ventilator or not. All he's trying to do is just buy a race car set for his kid. So I think he wins that.

Speaker 4:
[74:27] And the guy who's refusing to sell it is polite. He's not an asshole to him and he's honestly trying to make... Maybe he didn't have much money around Christmas time and now he scraped it together and his kids always want this. And our boy Chris just knees to the balls, head to the door and it's it.

Speaker 3:
[74:40] Really tough. Half-ass Center Research, they actually filmed all this at Astoria, at the John Jacob Astor Elementary School.

Speaker 4:
[74:51] Sure.

Speaker 3:
[74:52] Great tidbit here. Arnold insisted on a private studio for daily workouts. They basically built him a gym. I love, I always love hearing this. Days of Thunder, I think, was the best one when Simpson and Bruckheimer built the three-story. They basically built an Equinox. They spent like $2 billion. Yeah. Stephen Root is in five scenes that are cut out of the movie for some reason, I guess, for time.

Speaker 4:
[75:17] Oh, he's awesome.

Speaker 3:
[75:18] Yeah, I don't know. I know nothing other than that anecdote.

Speaker 4:
[75:22] My stapler.

Speaker 3:
[75:23] April Fool's 2012 is a prank. The Criterion Collection said they were releasing this as a Blu-ray disc and everybody is like, what's going on? Now it is on 4K Blu-ray and Sean Fantasy probably owns it.

Speaker 4:
[75:38] Definitely.

Speaker 3:
[75:39] You mentioned the Goonies earlier.

Speaker 4:
[75:41] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[75:42] Somewhere around 1.6 miles away from the school, the house.

Speaker 4:
[75:46] Oh, cool. Goondocks. Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[75:49] Then I like this. Ivan Reitman invented the five Reitman rules of filmmaking for the kids.

Speaker 4:
[75:54] Did you see this? Yeah. No, no, no.

Speaker 3:
[75:56] Here are the five rules. Listen, act natural, know your character, don't look in the camera and be disciplined. I think don't look in the camera is probably the big one. I'm sure half of these kids probably just look at it.

Speaker 4:
[76:09] Everyone wants to look in the camera, even adults.

Speaker 3:
[76:12] Apex Bound. Arnold, yes. We said that.

Speaker 4:
[76:14] We got it. That's it.

Speaker 3:
[76:16] Richard Tyson. I still think it's Two Moon Junction. I felt like he was going to be a big star after that. Penelope Miller. I don't know.

Speaker 4:
[76:23] Let me tell you something about her. Let's give her a credit. She has a very cool factoid about her that she, in a very small period of time, was in movies with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Marlon Brando. All three godfathers. That's pretty badass. She holds her own and Arnold Schwarzenegger, of course.

Speaker 3:
[76:41] Yes. I forgot to do her little run.

Speaker 4:
[76:45] She's perfectly lovely, very good actress, still in the game. She does her thing in this movie.

Speaker 3:
[76:50] Her IMDb, the known for, a fun game, to see what IMDb decides to for. Carlitos Way, Kindergarten Cop, the artist, and the freshman. With Brando. Those are the four they went for. Apex Mountain, hybrid action, kids movies? I think yes.

Speaker 4:
[77:10] Yeah, because we get so many kids sports movies, like Mighty Ducks and stuff like that, but not with shooting and killing and shotgunning people. That's pretty rare.

Speaker 3:
[77:16] This is it. Ivan Reitman, probably Ghostbusters.

Speaker 4:
[77:21] Have to be.

Speaker 3:
[77:22] Astoria, yes. Undercover Cop movies, no. Tumors, I think yes. Tuma.

Speaker 4:
[77:30] I mean, yeah, Imani Tumor did beat the 18-0 Patriots.

Speaker 3:
[77:33] Tumors in a fun way, yes.

Speaker 4:
[77:35] Fun tumors. Honestly, if someone told you they sat you down and they're like, god, I have some really bad news, like they discovered a tumor, there's a sick voice in your head that would say, it's not a tumor. It's not a tumor. That's how we're programmed at this point.

Speaker 3:
[77:46] Not a tumor.

Speaker 4:
[77:47] Sorry, those are the rules.

Speaker 3:
[77:48] And then I'm going to add this. I didn't have this in my initial notes, but you nailed it. Brookstone.

Speaker 4:
[77:54] Oh, fuck yeah.

Speaker 3:
[77:54] Because Brookstone has When Harry Met Sally the year before with Siru with the fringe on top in front of Ira. Yes. But it has a whole, I think that's Brookstone. Is it Sharper Image or Brookstone in that?

Speaker 4:
[78:07] I don't remember.

Speaker 3:
[78:07] I thought it was Brookstone.

Speaker 4:
[78:08] Those feel like the same stores to me.

Speaker 3:
[78:10] I feel like Julia Libman is going to crash into the taping right now. Be like, it's fucking Sharper Image, you dumbass. But yeah, Brookstone, it's right around here. We all, I was in college back then. You would walk into the Brookstone, you weren't buying anything.

Speaker 4:
[78:23] Never. You couldn't.

Speaker 3:
[78:24] Walk around 45 minutes. Everything was like $180 or $60 or $90. The person would always come over and say, can you help you? No, you can't. Then you would be holding a jelly hand crunch to make your grip better.

Speaker 4:
[78:41] You could do the grip and they would have those things where if you pull one marble to the right, it sets off the back and forth chain reaction of the marble.

Speaker 3:
[78:49] Try some headphones on. Whoa, these headphones are great.

Speaker 4:
[78:52] There was a thing of nails where if you put your hand in the nail tray, it would make the shape of your hand. It's like for douchebags to have in their office. We think that they're 1990s Don Draper. That's the specialty there.

Speaker 3:
[79:03] The chairs were really the key. If you could sit in the massage chair for five minutes without going to yell that, it was a big win. Cruz or Hanks? This is clearly Cruz. There's no question. You think it's Hanks?

Speaker 4:
[79:16] No, no, no. I can see Hanks with the kids. I want it to be Cruz for 50 different reasons.

Speaker 3:
[79:22] It's a homerun for Cruz because Cruz never did a movie like this. Honestly, other than Jerry Maguire, I don't remember him interacting with kids in any movie.

Speaker 4:
[79:32] Because I feel like he's in the full Jerry Maguire desperation mode. He's at the end of his rope. And it's like, teaching you kids is an up at dawn, pride swallowing siege. It's that Cruz. Plus then we get to pretend, we get to see him try to connect with Penelope romantically. And that's always good support.

Speaker 3:
[79:50] No, you left out first day of Kindergarten Cruz. Him losing his mind.

Speaker 4:
[79:55] When he sits on the piano. You guys are driving me crazy.

Speaker 3:
[79:59] Shut up, shut up.

Speaker 4:
[80:01] Although I want Cruz's crisp too. I'm still here for that in Frank TJ. Mackie mode. I could do that as well.

Speaker 3:
[80:06] Oh, I like that. Scorsese or Spielberg? Clearly Spielberg. Those were too easy.

Speaker 4:
[80:11] The Scorsese would just, there'd be so many drugs. And I'm not talking about on crisp. I'm talking like Kimball would be strung out because his parents are on or his family's not around or he wants to get revenge. Lot of drugs. Probably a period of good.

Speaker 3:
[80:23] What's your favorite picking nip from this movie?

Speaker 4:
[80:29] I have the fact that, here's the thing. Crisp and Kimball should fight at the end. Instead of the gunshots and instead of the bloody killing, have a fight. If the ferret comes out and maybe Dominic gets away and then Crisp is like, so I've always wanted to do this, Kimball, let's go. You and me. And they have a big brawl in the shower room. That's like standard operating procedure for these movies.

Speaker 3:
[80:52] Before anyone else gets there, yeah.

Speaker 4:
[80:53] Yeah, they should fight.

Speaker 3:
[80:55] You think Reitman thought maybe it just wouldn't be realistic for Arnold to lose or be in danger in a shower fight?

Speaker 4:
[81:03] Well, there's the classic hack for that. You let Arnold take a bullet first. So he's weakened.

Speaker 3:
[81:09] Great point. Yeah, so, it's a tough one because I'm trying to think, I was talking about Chuck Norris movies. Chuck Norris died a couple weeks ago. I never got his Just Do and Rewatchables.

Speaker 4:
[81:20] I know.

Speaker 3:
[81:21] I don't know what the right movie, he doesn't, the most rewatchable movie for me that he made was Silent Rage, but I think-

Speaker 4:
[81:28] I love Silent Rage.

Speaker 3:
[81:29] Oh, you like Silent Rage? It's not a big list. People that like it.

Speaker 4:
[81:34] You know who turned me on to Silent Rage? I'm not making this up. Aaron Rodgers. Interviewed him years ago and he made a joke about Silent Rage, was like, that's a cool reference. And I didn't know it very well. Went and watched it, hilarious movie, great villain. And I became a fan since then. It was like five or six years ago, he loves it. But Delta Force is probably the one, right?

Speaker 3:
[81:51] Well, Chuck, so I think I had, my favorites are Missing in Action 2, Code of Silence, the Chicago movie he made, which is like a really good Chicago movie and every Chicago actor is in it, like all of them. Every 80s Chicago actor, I don't know if you've seen it.

Speaker 4:
[82:08] I haven't, I don't know that movie.

Speaker 3:
[82:10] You're a Chicago guy. You gotta cue that one up. I demand that you watch that. It's a Pluto 2B special. Loan Wolf McQuaid, Mission Action 2 and Silent Range. And in three of those movies, Chuck was at least, Chuck couldn't act. God bless Chuck. I enjoyed Chuck. I've seen all his movies. He couldn't act.

Speaker 4:
[82:29] Not an actor.

Speaker 3:
[82:30] But he knew there had to be a showdown scene at the end. Yeah. And Missing in Action 2, which is not really not a good movie, but it's better than Mission Action 1. It all leads to this evil, sadistic Vietnam guy who's just torturing all the POWs. He's just the worst. You just want Chuck to kick his ass all movie. And then finally they end up in this cabin, like on stilts. It's like the second floor. They climb up and they're in there. And it's just like, all right, it's fucking Hagler-Hernst time. Let's go.

Speaker 4:
[83:01] Here we go. Ring the bell.

Speaker 3:
[83:02] And they fight in this thing. And it's incredible.

Speaker 4:
[83:05] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[83:06] So you're saying Schwarzenegger versus Chris.

Speaker 4:
[83:09] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[83:10] Like let's go Chuck Norris style. Let's really like go three, four minutes here. They probably didn't want to do that in a kid's movie, would be my guess.

Speaker 4:
[83:19] Well, and the alternative was the bloody shootout. I just, I like the main event. We've sat here for two hours. Now let's see these guys fight. There's potential of them crashing into the shower and the pipe breaks, and there's water. It could have been really cinematic. I like it.

Speaker 3:
[83:33] I had a couple of nits including, to pick including. Why did we have to do this undercover sting operation in Astoria? Like why not just have the FBI tail crisp? I assume John Kimball is like reasonably valuable as a police officer. He's got a cool beard and sunglasses. He's foiling drug operations and they're like, we think he might end up going to Astoria. We need two cops to go undercover. Don't really tell anyone what we're up to. And this is the plot of the movie, I guess. I still don't understand it. I don't know why they had to go.

Speaker 4:
[84:11] Why don't also, if you did have to go, maybe just take 48 hours and let Phoebe clear up the stomach flu and then she goes in as the teacher. You have crisp is incarcerated. There's not that much of a rush.

Speaker 3:
[84:23] Right, true.

Speaker 4:
[84:23] But she gets this like, oh, my stomach. And so he goes in, just take it easy. Take some Metamucil and then go teach the school.

Speaker 3:
[84:30] Yeah, wait till Wednesday. Well, I had her, too. What kind of food poisoning did she, like, was this the first COVID case? This was...

Speaker 4:
[84:39] Could have been.

Speaker 3:
[84:40] 30 years before COVID?

Speaker 4:
[84:41] It was COVID-4.

Speaker 3:
[84:42] Yeah, it was a prototype of the original COVID. She's out for a week and a half. This was like fantasy and Sundance in 2020. I don't understand why they get two hotel rooms. I don't understand what happened to Arnold's old family.

Speaker 4:
[84:58] It's so strange. They tried to give him something to work with, this subtext about why he's hurting and why he's gravitating towards Dominic. He's like, yeah, they just moved on. I never see them. Why don't you have joint custody of them? What are you doing? I think the real answer is that should be that Crisp did something to mess up Arnold's family, and that's why he's obsessed with Crisp, like they do in Face Off.

Speaker 3:
[85:18] That makes way too much sense. Or my wife thought she was getting a work visa and couldn't get one, and she took the kids back to Austria. At least come up with some reason that's not like, yeah, I have a kid, I don't know where...

Speaker 4:
[85:32] No idea, don't talk to him.

Speaker 3:
[85:33] How about a long distance call? Could we do that for like a minute?

Speaker 4:
[85:37] It kind of makes Kimball look like kind of a piece of shit. Like why are you so epithetic about your son? Why are you so obsessed with Dominic? You have your own kid. What is this?

Speaker 3:
[85:45] Here's my big one.

Speaker 4:
[85:46] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[85:48] It's my nitpick. It's also the Vincent Chase Award for Are We Sure that the character was actually good at their job.

Speaker 4:
[85:54] Right.

Speaker 3:
[85:54] The ending. Arnold, fire drill, loses Dominic immediately. You have one job. Just keep Dominic there. You have one job. Just grab him by the back. He's walking with you. Where you go, he goes. Loses him in 10 seconds. Doesn't shoot the bad guy. Blows that one. Gets shot by two different characters. Get shot by the entire Chris family and then has to be saved by his partner and miraculously wakes up. Just an abomination of a job.

Speaker 4:
[86:26] Terrible. His partner with a baseball bat who's not even armed. When that fire line went off, dude, just grab Dominic. The other kids from this mission could die in the fire. Get Dominic out of here. Dominic, Dominic! It just grabs him like nothing.

Speaker 3:
[86:41] They know the guy's out, that the witness is dead. Like they're waiting for something. Sequel, prequel, prestige, TV, all black cast are untouchable. I can't say I wouldn't watch the first episode of a prestige remake.

Speaker 4:
[86:56] A remake?

Speaker 3:
[86:57] Yeah, I'd probably test drive it.

Speaker 4:
[87:01] You go Alan Richson, who's Reacher, as John Kimball in the Schwarzenegger role. And then as Crisp, you have some badass actor, Paul Mezcal or Barry Kiyogen or one of those like sweet actors, like it could work.

Speaker 3:
[87:16] I'm gonna zag on you.

Speaker 4:
[87:17] Where are you going?

Speaker 3:
[87:18] Can I offer you a little Travis Kelcey?

Speaker 4:
[87:22] Good, we need some more of this, the Kelceys. We gotta get that name out there. Maybe Jason can play Crisp and Travis can play Kimball.

Speaker 3:
[87:30] Something of an athlete, could I offer you Marshawn Lynch?

Speaker 4:
[87:35] You're always selling Marshawn. I'm good with Marshawn. He lives on planet Marshawn. We tried to sell Marshawn for the fireball role in Running Man, I'm good.

Speaker 3:
[87:42] Okay. Let's try to think of some athlete. Aaron Rodgers as Crisp?

Speaker 4:
[87:48] No, he hasn't decided he's playing for the Steelers yet. We don't know what his future is.

Speaker 3:
[87:52] Is this movie better with Wayne Jenkins, Fergie the Florist, Ryan Ruko, Gus Johnson, Zane Lowe or somebody else?

Speaker 4:
[88:01] I don't know if you saw this, but at the very end when they're having the face-off, there's a quick shot in the locker room and there's an announcer's table. Gus is there and he's got an announcer and he's got his microphone, and he just lets it rip and it sounds like this. Dominic Chris, young fella. His old man's got a gun to his head in the shower room. Ferret comes out of the sweater. Mr. Kimbo blows away Chris. I love you, Gus. I love you, brother.

Speaker 3:
[88:39] That always kills you. Every time you do that, it kills your throat.

Speaker 4:
[88:42] Every time it takes you six months off my life.

Speaker 3:
[88:44] Like two weeks. Great to have Gus back. Just want to ask her who gets it. I don't know. The score?

Speaker 4:
[88:52] I think the hair and makeup people who do Kimbo's beard and Chris' ponytail.

Speaker 3:
[88:56] That's great.

Speaker 4:
[88:56] That's the people.

Speaker 3:
[88:58] Probably an answer for questions.

Speaker 4:
[89:00] I got a great one.

Speaker 3:
[89:01] Let's hear it.

Speaker 4:
[89:01] Okay. You're going to love this. Moriarty comes in and she's talking about her son, who she is worried is playing with dolls.

Speaker 3:
[89:11] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[89:13] The child's name, Bill, is Sylvester. This is in the middle of the Stallone-Swarzenegger feud. When they're going at each other and taking shots.

Speaker 3:
[89:23] Wow.

Speaker 4:
[89:23] Do you not think that Arnold's somewhere in a trailer is like, the one who plays with dolls, let's call him Sylvester. Is that not a veiled shot? He's a girly man, Sylvester. I don't think that's a coincidence.

Speaker 3:
[89:36] That's amazing.

Speaker 4:
[89:37] I mean, come on. Sylvester, that's not a normal name.

Speaker 3:
[89:41] I think you're right. I want to know Dominic, whether that was aimed at anybody too.

Speaker 6:
[89:48] Maybe we call him Sly.

Speaker 4:
[89:50] Sly is the boy's son. His name's Sly. That's too much, Arnold. Let's stick with Sylvester.

Speaker 3:
[89:55] I have, was Pamela Reed the poor man's Laurie Metcalf or vice versa?

Speaker 4:
[90:01] Both are great.

Speaker 3:
[90:03] You could have switched them in every role in the 90s. I think Laurie Metcalf easily just could have been the partner in this.

Speaker 4:
[90:08] She's excellent.

Speaker 3:
[90:09] I think Laurie Metcalf's in Internal Affairs the same year that Pamela Reed's in this movie. You could just switch them.

Speaker 4:
[90:15] Yeah. Both just like cool, good hangs, you can have a beer with, sexy in their own way, good actors.

Speaker 3:
[90:22] They can play cops and get shot.

Speaker 4:
[90:23] Yes.

Speaker 3:
[90:25] The old kindergarten teacher who John Kimball takes her job.

Speaker 4:
[90:30] Talk about it. What happened to her? She had tenure. Where did she go?

Speaker 3:
[90:34] Gone for four weeks. They just tell her to take a hike. Comes back. Everything's fine. We fixed the school library. Maybe everybody donates some books. She finally has her job back. She finally has the kids. She's not as cool as John Kimball. She doesn't have a ferret. She didn't foil a crime. Probably trying to work her way back. You know, a little Ray Hanley on the Giant style. How do you follow a legend? Of course. Just as it's getting good, here comes John Kimball, shows up again with a cane. Kids go nuts. That's it. She's just working at the hardware store the next day. It's done. Teaching, no more teaching for you.

Speaker 4:
[91:08] And donks on her with Arnold repurposing his own line by saying, I'm back. And everyone goes crazy. Fuck you, lady. Yeah. The teacher's like, I'm trying to teach some simple two plus three math. Get out of here, Kimball. You're not even a real teacher. That is strange.

Speaker 3:
[91:25] Just some lady who lived in Astoria, probably put three kids through the school system, kept her kindergarten job. She'd been there 28 years. Arnold just overnight takes it.

Speaker 4:
[91:35] Beloved teacher, her life goal to educate young people. And Arnold, with his lats and traps, comes in. They like him better because he has a stupid ferret.

Speaker 3:
[91:44] Last one for me. Is this a better movie if Arnold dies? He got shot by the lady. He's just dead. He doesn't make it. And we have like an emotion. We almost go, it's like hardball when G-Baby dies. It's a fucking swerve. We don't know. Oh my God, G-Baby is dead. They just killed John Kimball. It's a wrap. He's done.

Speaker 4:
[92:08] So play this out. Do we get a funeral scene and the children are all black?

Speaker 3:
[92:13] The most emotional funeral scene. Just tears everywhere. This movie, this is now like the saddest movie of the 1990s. John Kimball, his legacy lives on. We're going to name the John Kimball Library after him. The burned books. There's the statue. It's a collage of burned books in John Kimball's honor. The bathroom. There's some sort of statue of him.

Speaker 4:
[92:36] Sure.

Speaker 3:
[92:36] Like, yeah. Is it a bad movie?

Speaker 4:
[92:38] Dominic takes care of the ferret. Don't worry about it. We'll do that.

Speaker 3:
[92:41] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[92:41] There's a scene like in the end when Tony Stark dies and all the Avengers show up in their suits and it's very somber. And then they just roll credits and that's it. I don't know how that would test, especially with the sobbing kids at the funeral.

Speaker 3:
[92:52] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[92:53] But I like where you're going. It's a huge zag.

Speaker 3:
[92:56] And it's, we get the boys to men.

Speaker 4:
[93:00] At the end of the road.

Speaker 3:
[93:01] Yeah, we get the end of the road. It's right around the same time.

Speaker 4:
[93:05] How about Chris lives too? And he gets away with Dominic. Like, let's do that. And he raises him with his mother.

Speaker 3:
[93:11] Kimball's dead. Pamela Reed stays to take over the class. And her fiance becomes like the Historia lead chef. And they kind of carry his legacy. I don't know.

Speaker 4:
[93:23] Yeah, Dominic's mom hangs herself. Like, we could do that. That might work.

Speaker 3:
[93:27] Secret Handshake Club memorabilia for the thing you would want from this movie. For me, it's something, Historia elementary hat, t-shirt. Something from that school. But I couldn't really think of one. What'd you have?

Speaker 4:
[93:44] I just want a full head to toe outfit of Crisp. And I want to go to a Halloween party. And imagine the one person who would get, are you fucking Crisp? And I'd be like, yeah, man, I'm Crisp. Look at the ponytail. They would be like, that is, can I take a picture with you? That is the coolest thing. You're Crisp. Yeah, I'm Crisp. Anybody can take a picture. I'm Crisp. That's what I want.

Speaker 3:
[94:03] So you'd need like the big David Byrne suit, ponytail wig and a bad tan. And you're ready to roll.

Speaker 4:
[94:11] He looks like the Night at the Roxbury guys, if they had like Paul Revere's ponytail. That's my look.

Speaker 3:
[94:19] Best double feature choice. I have total recall. Let's just show peak of the powers, and then we'll go to the next one. What do you got?

Speaker 4:
[94:29] Your answer is better. I had Home Alone. They were running the world. It was all about kids then. It's Arnold. It's everybody. But total recall. This is the same actor screaming about, give these people air!

Speaker 3:
[94:39] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[94:40] And then he's dating in the same year. That's a great choice.

Speaker 3:
[94:43] He also makes the same face in each movie when it is the eye bulging.

Speaker 5:
[94:46] Ah!

Speaker 3:
[94:48] Come on!

Speaker 4:
[94:51] You think this is the real quit? It is. That's great.

Speaker 3:
[94:54] Coach Finstock, Mr. Miyagi Award for Best, Worst Life Lesson. Kindergarten teachers still matter.

Speaker 4:
[95:02] Look at you. Look at old Simbo getting soft. That's thoughtful.

Speaker 3:
[95:05] They still matter. They can still make a huge difference in lives.

Speaker 4:
[95:09] They do. I had, you're married, you're allowed to dress like slobs. I like that the moms say that because it's definitely true. And the athleisure revolution has enabled all of us married people to just dress like pigs half the time.

Speaker 6:
[95:22] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[95:22] And that's probably one of the only benefits from COVID. It's like, you know what?

Speaker 4:
[95:25] Pretty awesome.

Speaker 3:
[95:26] These pants feel great.

Speaker 6:
[95:27] I'm not going to apologize.

Speaker 3:
[95:28] I go out publicly.

Speaker 4:
[95:29] These $200 Lululemon's awesome. I'll just wear them all day.

Speaker 3:
[95:33] Who won the movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Speaker 4:
[95:35] Arnold Schwarzenegger, twice in one year, dude.

Speaker 3:
[95:38] Craig's not here, but we are splicing a special part of the pod. He's just going to pop in with a little 90 second. Here's my review of Kindergarten Cop, throwing it to him right now.

Speaker 6:
[95:49] Okay. Kindergarten Cop. I watched with my wife, Liz. I would say easy watch. Liz and I shared a lot of eye rolls with one another after Arnold's cheesy lines. But by the end of the movie, you're sold on the whole thing and you come away feeling good. Arnold Man is just, it's like watching Arnold in this is like watching like Bill Lambier in the 90s or Roy Hibbert in the early 2010s, where it's just like perfect for the era. No chance this works now at all. 90s movies just have a charming obliviousness to them. And that's why they work. And that's why Arnold works in this. I guess it's The Rock Today or something like that, or like Ryan Reynolds, but there is an aspect of this where Arnold is earnestly trying. And I don't know when his career pivoted from people realizing that it's just funny to watch him say funny lines, and maybe it was this one. But that obliviousness of the 90s is why those movies are so great, and we're too self-aware now for I think that to work again. I appreciate that they spent all the money on casting Arnold and didn't have much else. Which brings me to Richard Tyson, who, my first question was, who the hell is this man and what is going on? What's going on here? An unexplored relationship with his mother in this film that we could probably dig into a little bit more. I think he's eligible to replace Judd Elson for the actor that's just doing in his own movie award. I will have to give it to the hair and makeup department though, because the Greasy Ponytail was just an absolute perfect choice. They knocked that out of the park. His look, I have no notes. 10 out of 10 on the look. So great job by everybody there. My favorite line from this movie is probably when Arnold meets Pam Reed and they get partnered together. And there's just one line of exposition where she goes, so where are you from? And he goes, Austria. And there's just no followup and they keep moving after that. So I really enjoyed that. I still don't really understand why Richard Tyson needed his son so badly and was willing to like blow up a school for it. But that's not what this movie is about. It's about watching Arnold say tumor with a bunch of kindergartners and in that respect, it succeeds. So I'm sure you guys are going to make fun of me coming back here and you're going to pretend that I said something insane. But sure, I'm in.

Speaker 3:
[98:18] Thanks, Craig. That was great.

Speaker 4:
[98:20] Craig, on fire.

Speaker 3:
[98:22] Can't believe you hated the movie that much.

Speaker 4:
[98:24] Can you believe he mentioned the runtime? I mean, incredible stuff. Great job, Craig.

Speaker 3:
[98:29] All right. Kindergarten Cop. So I don't know what's next for us. We're a little light on Van Damme. I feel like we addressed Arnold.

Speaker 4:
[98:40] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[98:40] There's a Seagal movie we haven't done yet that you don't like.

Speaker 4:
[98:45] There's one that we haven't done that we both like though, and it stars Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock. That's not been done. So there's some meat on that bone. The Van Damme thing is going to be tough. We have to go into Lionheart and kickboxer territory. That might be tough. But I'm open for business anytime you are, dude.

Speaker 3:
[99:03] The Seagal, the Undeadly Ground, I've been circling a little bit.

Speaker 4:
[99:07] I know, yeah.

Speaker 3:
[99:08] I don't know from a comedy standpoint.

Speaker 4:
[99:12] I've been looking at that and I'm looking at Mark for Death when he fights the Jamaican voodoo gangs in Screwface.

Speaker 3:
[99:18] That's sitting there for us as well.

Speaker 4:
[99:20] There's a lot of apples to be picked on the tree before we get to Screwface.

Speaker 3:
[99:24] There's also some mid-90s Nick Cage that we could run back.

Speaker 4:
[99:28] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[99:29] There's Point Break, which we did the first year of the show.

Speaker 4:
[99:32] I've been pushing for RePoint.

Speaker 3:
[99:34] RePoint is sitting there.

Speaker 4:
[99:36] It's an unrecognizable podcast compared to what it is now. It's just very, very old.

Speaker 3:
[99:39] A lot of football stuff, everything else. All right, Kyle Brandt, any plugs you want to do before we head out of here?

Speaker 4:
[99:47] No, not yet. Just listen to the Rewatchables podcast, watch Good Morning Football, and I get it all the time, Bill. People come up and, Bill, Kyle, Kyle, what's up, man? Hey, how are you doing?

Speaker 6:
[99:55] Love you on Rewatchables.

Speaker 4:
[99:57] I love. No, you don't. You love Cobra. That's why you love man Rewatchables. That's what you love. It's so fun, man. Always.

Speaker 3:
[100:03] All right. Thank you. Great to see you. Thanks to Eduardo and Gahao as well. We will see you next week. Ironically, you're going to miss it. I think Ghostbusters is happening next week.

Speaker 4:
[100:14] Oh, it's great. I'll be there listening. I can't wait.

Speaker 3:
[100:16] I think it's time. We're due. We're headed toward. Netflix is a joke month. We wanted to bang out like some sort of fun. I think I'm not positive, but I think it's happening.

Speaker 4:
[100:26] Okay. You got the lineup ready? Like you got the dream team.

Speaker 3:
[100:28] You can be going to be studying it, watching it. Yeah. I think we have the right cast of people.

Speaker 6:
[100:33] I can't wait.

Speaker 4:
[100:33] But anyway, I'll be there as I always have.

Speaker 3:
[100:35] Kyle Brandt, Great Sea.