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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 07/24/23
"People are really getting engaged in the culture wars with movies. I went to a movie, by the way, over the weekend, saw Mission Impossible last night. Was I right? Oh, wow. Isn't it just the greatest? That really wasn't two hours and 45 minutes long. No, it flew. It felt like a half hour. Yep, yep. But people are upset about the Barbie movie, because evidently Barbie's a feminist. People are upset about the new Snow White movie, because Snow White is Hispanic. We've got to pick the hill we want to die on. I don't want to start a Monday by infuriating people by saying we've got bigger fish to fry than Barbie, but we do have bigger fish to fry than Barbie. However, the culture is reflecting sort of a radical left -leaning ideology, where Americans are saying enough is enough is enough. That's why sound of freedom right now. AMC movie theaters, which is where I almost always go, there were accusations that AMC, the chain, was purposefully sabotaging sound of freedom by the air conditioning systems not working and digital. Mark, I've got reports of that all over the country. What do theaters want more than anything else? They want to make money. No theater wants a bunch of hacked off consumers in the lobby saying it's 85 in the theater. I tend to agree, but on the other hand, would you really find it crazy that they're trying to stifle a movie that is perceived as conservative? It isn't a conservative movie. Anti -child trafficking. Thank you. And it's well done. Well, so anyway, last night the CEO of AMC, because they're in a heap of trouble, they are on the verge of bankruptcy apparently. And I remember the movie theater, the guy that runs the chain based out of Dallas, once was, he gave us some assistance with our fallen officer fund years ago. And I forget the guy's name. Is it Leroy? The guy, is it Cinemark? Is Cinemark in Dallas? I don't know. I think the Cinemark movie theater chain is based in Dallas and the guy that runs it is there. And a great guy had a meeting with him and he's a real pro -America, good, good Texan. Is it Sean Gamble? They are based in Plano. Sean Gamble of Cinemark. Does that sound ring about? Well, and that's not who I met with. The guy was - How about Leroy Mitchell? Leroy Mitchell. That's who I met with. And he's a great guy. And Cinemark, but the biggie is AMC. Well, last night, the CEO of AMC sent out a tweet that said, we're in dire straits here. COVID, now the stupid strike. It really threatens to, and so they're going to have to sell more stock. And I don't know that whole world very well, a short sale, whatever they call it, and they're going to start to get more. They have to dilute really the stock value in order to stay afloat. In any event, the AMC chairman and president in sending out this notification called on the top movies of the year that are doing so well for them. And he mentioned Sound to Freedom. There you go. So that kind of validates what you're saying. Hey, they want to make money. They want butts in the seats. And apparently they have them because over the weekend, you're ready, Barbie and Unbelievable, 155 million, Oppenheimer, 80 million. In number three, Sound to Freedom. And listen, Mission Impossible has been out for a couple of weeks now. Sound to Freedom made more than Mission Impossible this weekend just gone by. 20 versus 19 million. How much? 20 million? 20 versus 19. And it just continues to rock. It's well past 100 million. It's crazy. And it's not just a movie, it's a cause, which has brought some disparagement. Because at the end of the movie, if you go to the end of the credits, there's Jim Caviezel saying, this is vital. Please go and bring somebody, pay it forward, pay so that maybe some people can see it who can't afford to see it, which I'm all about. And so the detractors and haters have said, well, a lot of people are just buying 47 tickets and maybe those are empty seats. A, I don't know. B, I doubt it. And C, I don't care because it shows a willingness to support the film as a commodity and it deserves to be supported. The radical leftists are so dumb, they think we can't figure out that the only reason you're pushing back against a child sex trafficking movie is because you don't like the actor. You don't like Jim Caviezel and you don't like Tim Ballard because these guys are hardcore conservatives. Incidentally, have you played the clip of Jason Aldean at his concert over the set? No, I know that he tweeted ahead and said, listen, people can criticize music, but this goes too far. It's baseless. It's dangerous. I'm writing a star telegram column about this specifically. I'm going to have to plug this in. What did he have to say? He said between songs, he said, it's been a long week and I've seen a lot of stuff. He says, I've seen a lot of stuff suggested on this, suggesting on that. As the large audience cheered loudly, Aldean said, what I am is a proud American. I love our country and I want to see it restored to what it once was before this bull blank started happening to us. I love my country. I love my family and I'll do anything to protect that. The crowd then exploded into an uproar of chants, yelling USA, USA. And who didn't know this was coming? First big record for him in 2005, Hicktown, a flyover country. The guys had all kinds of records that speak to bucolic America. So Sheryl Crow says, Hey, I'm from a small town. This is neither small town nor American. Well, Sheryl Crow's roots are in Kennett, Missouri, in the beautiful Missouri boot heel. Let's go there. Let's talk to the locals and see how many of those folks agree with Jason Aldean or how many think agree with her that he's promoting violence. And then this kills me. Jason Isbell, who's so good, such a brilliant performer and songwriter. Hey, hey, Jason Aldean, I got a challenge for you. Write a song by yourself because he didn't write a small town. Like a lot of other people, he sings songs largely written by others. So here's Jason Isbell mocking him. You want to be an artist? Be an artist. Write your own song. I'll wait. Well, maybe let's wait for Jason Isbell to realize there are some other people who largely perform the work done by others. Does he want to bag on Linda Ronstadt next? Maybe he'd like to go after those pretenders names. What are their names again? Oh, yes, Sinatra and Elvis. What a weird, baseless, sloppy attack. This is a total win. God bless Jason Aldean and God bless that wonderful, wonderful record. Try that in a small town. These folks are revealing who they truly are. They don't like the idea of people being able to protect themselves. They don't like the idea of somebody saying we take care of one another. And we got guns and we know how to use them. So that's what they don't like. And to you and me and to most normal Americans, that's a message that resonates. That's America. Sorry, we ain't the UK. We're not France. We are a Second Amendment believing country, but the left, the Sheryl Crowes, the Isbells, I guess those folks just hate that message. Meanwhile, we're looking closer to closer to 2024 to see who's going to get us out of the mess, who can get us out from Washington, DC. This Harris, I don't know if you saw this, Harris -Harvard poll came out. The Harvard -Harris poll, typically pretty reliable. It was released Friday. If the 2024 Republican presidential primary were held today, of course Trump would pretty substantially, 45 to 40%. Now there's 16 % undecided. I'm back and forth on whether Trump should appear in a couple of weeks at the first debate. I think he should. I've been saying it doesn't make any sense for him. You know why he needs to be there? Tell me your reason. I'll give you mine. Good. Let me start. If you believe any of this data, his likability factor is just below that of radio talk show hosts and used car salesmen. He's way down there, right there with Biden. Biden and Trump both have an unlikeability factor, but here's the bottom line. To normal people, Trump's likable. To normal people who aren't poisoned by their Trump hatred and their Trump derangement syndrome, when you see him in a setting like that, you do like him. And I think it's important he's going to have to get that number back up. He's going to start having to win over independence. And one way to do it is to have a solid performance of the debates. Now you go. You're 1000 % correct. Let's begin with the fact that Trump is right when he says, why do I even have to show up? Why should I be taking a tax from Asa Hutchinson and, you know, people who have 2 % of the polls. I don't even need to be there. Let everybody sort it out. And then somebody come after me. He's right about that. However, you are completely correct. There is a benefit to being there, to reminding people how great he can be in that venue, to maybe duke it out a little bit with DeSantis, see how that goes, see how other people engage him, the way they address him and engage him may simply solidify his front runner status. And finally, this is sort of in harmony with what you've said, any opportunity to be on a TV stage with millions of people watching and be likable, be skilled, be quick, be sharp is nothing but a good thing. It's all good. It's all really, really good. You know, I, you mentioned the funeral for Stu Epperson and there were a lot of movers and shakers, Stu Epperson, of course, the co -founder of the Salem Media Group, who passed away this week in Winston -Salem. And I went to the funeral on Friday and many thanks to Carl Jackson for filling in and doing a great job. And there were a lot of key broadcasters there and a lot of big time Republican operatives. I'm not going to mention any names, but I had a chance to talk to people in the green room and sort of, you know, as we were meeting the family and expressing our condolences. And it was a gathering of a lot of people who loved this man's magnificent life and what a life he led.
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"jason isbell" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Also her shoes throughout the movie, if you notice, they're often colorful and not very practical, you know, she's got their pumps or something, but they're stylish. And I just love that choice to tell us, this is a woman who even before she met Ali, even before she walked into that bar, was ready to blossom. This was a woman who had not succumbed to her loneliness. And for me, that kind of just made if you had any sort of qualms about, come on, this isn't believable. I was like, well, that costume design choice made up believable for me. I think that's a good observation. And you're right for me that aspect may also play in a little bit to that fairytale like quality. Because I think inevitably any viewer watching this is going to go through that exact same thought process you just said. You're going to say, okay, is this really going to lead to this and then to this and the fact that the movie keeps going? And it does go as far as it does. That's that rebellion. That's that rebellion against life. And the frailties of the people around them and the oppression of the people around them that they inflict on this couple. I love how incisive it is and it shows how when things start to shift in terms of how others react to them, how that affects their relationship. And when she goes back to work and now the coworkers that were ignoring her before have changed and are talking to her like she's their friend again, well, what's driving that though? What's driving that is, well, there's a new coworker. And she's foreign too. She's foreign. She's from Yugoslavia. I think it is. And there's that heartbreaking part to it where they even say out loud, should we include her? Should we include her in this activity? Yeah, she can hear them. And they decide they decide not to. Emmy doesn't say anything, but by not saying anything. Right. And now I'm of course thinking about Germany and in the Holocaust. I don't know whether or not fassbender intended that as a metaphor or not. But the fact that she doesn't say anything, it's a sin of omission. She doesn't push back even as she's been the one who's been oppressed up until this point, but now someone's there to take her place. And that face on that woman that pleading smile at them that fassbender holds on and then he holds on her as she turns that smile into a frown as she realizes that it's not going to be reciprocated. And then you also see the shift in their relationship in terms of her becoming the boss kind of master oppressor herself that everyone suggests derisively that she should be anyway that this is what older German women do. They take in these younger foreign men and they're just a play thing. This isn't really about love. It's just about their own loneliness. A mirrored shot, Josh that's really key for me as well. In this part of the film, is when she has those friends come over. Oh, very strange scene. And she reduces him to her property. She turns him into an object where they literally feel his muscles. Yeah. They react to how young and virile he is, and they feel his muscles. Later in the film, when he is now seeking some solace and comfort in another woman, a woman who he had some flings with before and she's a recurring character in the film. I don't think it's again an accident or unintentional that he showcases Ali standing in that living room and taking his shirt off and her coming up and feeling his arms and his chest. Almost the same as the women in Emmys living room, except of course it's completely different. Now, now the feeling of his arms and the feeling of his chest is something that he's seeking and that he actually needs for comfort. He's looking for something different than what he was getting there. Well, it also connects to the earlier scene. I think it's the first morning possibly he stays over or maybe it's early in their relationship at any rate. And she opens the bathroom door to tell him something while he's showering and pauses. And says, just something, you are beautiful, I think, something like that. And at that point, it's a sweet moment. You feel like between them. And it's a recognition, I think, which is bold of, yeah, this is a physical relationship. Like we're not going to downplay that either. We're going to be bold enough to go there. That moment registered to me as sweet, and then the bizarre one with her friends is completely different. So it's another one of those gear shifts that the movie gives you. Ali fear eats the soul is available on the criterion channel and other VOD platforms. Next up in the site and sound top 100 marathon, we have Andre, tarkovsky's mirror for the complete marathon lineup, visit film spotting .NET slash marathons, Josh, that's our show. If you'd like to connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, or letterbox, you can find Adam at film spotting, and I'm at Larsen on film. 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"jason isbell" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Magical film. There is also this hope. There's this determinism. There's this drive. You want this couple to continue to be happy and despite everything I just expressed, you almost feel like they might be able to overcome it. Yeah, I want to get back to that the note about whether or not they're oblivious because I think that's very interesting, but just quickly on the CERC element for me, as I said, the plot similarities to all that heaven allows not on my mind at the time. But the thing that did come to mind once I saw that reference was the interiors and the way they're not as bold as so many of cirque's interiors in terms of color. But they're very composed and almost staged theatrical in a way that I also associate with cirques work and we touched on that. When we were talking about imitation of life, especially in some of those later domestic scenes where the house got fancier and more elaborate and so did the furniture and the interiors became more of a presence. Even though this is not as wealthy of a setting, I think you can see that even in the scene where Emmy is on those stairs, the stairwell with her coworkers where she's been cleaning and they take their lunch just the placement of the railings and the use of the wall and even in her apartment, which was very modest. The use of doorway frames and the a little bit more muted colors of her walls. That's where I definitely saw beyond the potentially melodramatic narrative elements a combination with or a reference to cirque, but really I was so baffled in a good way by this film. As I mentioned earlier, my first fast binder had no idea in terms of tone or filmmaking style of what I was getting into. And so you are grasping for those references. I do when I'm a strong vision, a filmmaker with a strong vision, you kind of want to find your resting points to wrap your mind around it. And I will admit, this has been one of the most destabilizing experiences in that way for me. I do not know what to make of fast vendor after watching this film once. And certainly allow that this could be in that masterpiece category. My mind just needs some more time with it to think about it a little bit more. That ephraim cats entry mentioned go dire. I could see that the way he is also deconstructing what a movie like this might look like. Like this is a different way that a melodrama could be presented, in fact, it's presented in a way that almost in some instances wants to keep us at such a distance that we won't have that emotional engagement. And so it was a back and forth experience for me. I found it also to be incredibly dry, other filmmakers that came to mind who would have been influenced by fast spender, Sweden's Roy Anderson, we've talked about some of his films. And honestly, Wes Anderson, here, in the U.S., the way their movies can be comically dry to an extent that puts off a lot of people. I'm thinking of the folks who say there's no emotion in a Wes Anderson movie. And I experience the exact opposite, but I could understand that having now seen fear eats the soul because I could see someone saying to me this is a deeply emotional movie that I wept at and I did not have that experience even though I see the potential there. And for me, I didn't have that experience because of some of these formal choices. The way so many of these scenes Adam felt like almost rehearsals on a stage for a production, not that they weren't finished, but there was something about them that wasn't quite ready for theatrical presentation on a screen, yet that's clearly what he wanted. And we can talk about this in terms of the performances too. You know, I do think that Mira as Emmy brings some naturalistic elements to her performance that is very different than what. Here's another filmmaker who came to mind. Would watch from his performers who are very reserved and rigid and that is what I think we get from el hedi Ben Salem as Ali. I think he's very detached in his performance, which brings me all the way back to your comment about the obliviousness. I started to think if that was intentional because Emmy goes through this emotional, deeply emotional experience, and we see that on her face and in the performance, Ali goes through the same and more of the experience being the person who's being more directly oppressed, but he holds it within. And I almost thought if that was because he knew from the start. He was not oblivious. He knew what was coming, yet made a choice to pursue that happiness anyway, whereas I would say she was oblivious to how bad it could get. She knew it would be looked down upon. But she was more oblivious and I wonder if that's echoed a little bit in his performance. That's why he's detached. He's kind of hardening himself for what is to come. Will you mention Ali and the fact that that's probably a reference to just how others would refer to him? That's the name they'd use. They don't care what his regulatory way. The fact that he refers to himself that way in the third person often in the film, which is where we get the title from. It suggests a certain resignation a certain powerlessness that he has accepted. How many times does he say something like that's the way it is? That's just the way it is. He doesn't question those things. The fact that their relationship, they're simply talking to each other and being together starts to at least chip away at that a little bit and he's willing to take some actions to try to combat that powerlessness and that resignation. That is what, for me, gives the movie really some emotional heft, even if it's not there in the performance. You're right. He's someone who is more beaten down. And weary and you're not sure he ever can completely overcome it, but maybe somehow this relationship will do it. And the formal choices are what made me react so strongly emotionally to it. This isn't my first fastbender. I will note. Now it's been a hundred years, but back in film school, I remember watching and writing about Veronica vos, which is about an actress in Germany, a once great actress, and that film very much is playing with Hollywood conventions and subverting some of classical Hollywood sinema's tropes the same way, godard's films do. I've seen Germany in autumn, which is a movie that I don't know that you can really even call it a documentary, though it has elements of nonfiction to it, very experimental, fast binder as himself is a character in the film, which is why I knew watching some of these scenes, some guy seems so familiar to me and I couldn't place it that I eventually did. Fast benders, the jerk son in law. I think I'd seen enough photos of him that I picked him out right away. Yeah. And yeah, what a little bitter weaselly performance. Oh man. So good in that way. Yeah, you're right. But this film isn't as flashy, certainly, or is burnished as a cirque film. But the visual choices are really what linger with me and you talked about how composed the shots are. And there is a lot of deep focus in these interior shots, the colors often are really vivid, especially in that club where they meet and when they dance, but it's choices like they're often being in these frames. You have obstructed shots. You have characters that are just slightly in the frame or a table or something that's in the frame with this couple in the distance. And it evokes this sense that the world is always watching and they always are often in this movie. They're oppressing their encroaching. They can't quite have this space. Just to themselves. And what really struck me is the use of Tableau shots here, where characters literally freeze in some moments. This is the Roy Anderson thing. The for me. You're right.
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"jason isbell" Discussed on Filmspotting
"A guess where murder mystery one comes in on Kyle cliches list? Not knowing Kyle's taste, but seeing that email and getting a hint that I do think he appreciates, you know, he's not just this Adam Sandler's only good when he's working with Paul Thomas Anderson or the safdie brothers. Is not number one. I do remember that as I am, like I appreciate it early Sandler, Billy Madison, happy Gilmore. That's good stuff. So I'm going to say Kyle. What's that? One, two, Billy Madison happy Gilmore. Oh, well, okay, that's right. So for Kyle, I'm going to say murder mystery is the first one. Essentially. I'm going to say Kyle has it in the top third of his rankings. Yeah, not quite. He's actually got it exactly in the bottom. If my math is correct, murder mystery one. 41st out of 64, just ahead of murder mystery too. It's also just ahead of number 43, Paul blart, mall cop. Well, now I'm less excited about murder mystery too. And I also, do you think, and I say this again? As a longtime Sandler fan, do you think Kyle serious? I spent a lot of time thinking about that. Because it certainly started out as one of those emails. We get from time to time taking us to task appropriately for something. And then as I saw, he put in the work the ranking and all the work I don't know. I mean, he did say godspeed and please allow yourselves to understand the beauty, humanity and joy of the Sandler cinematic universe only rivaled by the likes of fellini Scorsese godar and tarkovsky. So you tell me if Kyle serious or not. Either way. We'll never know. Kyle. Will you appreciate the feedback? For complete madness details, go to film spotting madness dot com or film spotting .NET slash madness, the tenth anniversary of madness will return in some form in 2024. So stay tuned for announcements about the subject of that tourney and it's accompanying short list of titles again film spotting madness dot com. Thank you everyone for playing. He's a guy. Best dinosaur? Yeah? Feel like Jordan's version of don't say cadence is even normal. Less than our right. Reasons you. Ish. Yeah? It should feel doesn't it count. A lot of the cognitive. We get back into our Sight & Sound top 100 blind spots marathon with that clip. In early scene, between brigitta Mira's Emmy and el Hadi Ben Salem's Ali in Rainer Werner fassbender's Ali fear eats the soul. Fassbender's film came in at number 52 on the 2022 Sight & Sound list. It tied with chantel Ackerman's news from home and was right between Jane campions, the piano there at 50 and then 5 films tied at 54. Those included Billy Wilder's the apartment, Buster Keaton's Sherlock junior and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Fear eats the soul was the only fossil film to make the sight and soundless, but the director has long been a marathon candidate of ours, foss bender died in 82 at the young age of 37 but in a short career he made over 40 feature films along with shorts, TV programs, and stage plays. Fear eats the soul comes somewhere in the middle of that imposing filmography. The film debuted in Germany in early 1974 before playing that year's Cannes Film Festival and making it to the U.S. later that year. Coincidentally, the film is a remake of Douglas sirk's 1955 melodrama all that heaven allows. CERC was the subject of our previous marathon conversation Adam. We reviewed imitation of life, just a couple of weeks ago. Now where all that heaven allows feature Jane Wyman's wealthy widow scandalizing her suburban community when she falls for Rock Hudson's young bohemian arborist, fassbender, takes that central may December romance and moves it to working class Munich. And it does center on the middle aged widow Emmy, a cleaning woman who becomes romantically involved with Ali, a much younger Moroccan immigrant who goes by Ali just because that's what all the Germans are going to call him anyway. Their early happiness is soon challenged by coworkers, neighbors, and family, including Emmys grown children, all who disapprove of the relationship. Now, Adam in relation to that CERC reference, we've mentioned a couple of times how, especially for marathon, movies and filmmakers, we like to check out ephraim Katz's the film encyclopedia and get a little background. And so after watching fear eats the soul, I did that for fast spender and imagine my surprise when I did see this. Some critics have compared his work with that of France's Jean-Luc Godard, while others have also detected the influence of the American cinema of the 50s and particularly the films of Douglas cirque. I'm gonna admit, didn't immediately jump out to me while watching fear eats the soul atom. But once I read that, I started to think about it and thought, okay, I can totally see what's happening here. How did the cirque influence work for you? Well, in all that heaven allows, it's only class that divides them. That's part of its elegance. And it's potency. Fastbender amplifies. All of the oppressive forces that conspire against this couple without compromising either. We have now a character who's black, she's white. He's a foreigner, as you said, and that comes with its own host of mistreatments. It's set in Germany. We're not too far removed from Hitler and the Nazis. Hitler's invoked a couple of times. A couple times. The attempted genocide of the other. And we've got Ali here as another. And it's also set in Munich right after the Munich Olympics massacre, that tragedy in 1972, which is also referenced, and that, of course, just heightened distrust in hatred for Arabs in Germany at the time. So you've got all of these elements swirling against these characters. And I love how we have Emmy and Ali somehow still just rushing into it and saying, we're happy and our happiness is all that should matter. And they seem almost oblivious at times. To the reaction that their relationship is having on other people. Until they can no longer be oblivious to it, until that confrontation is right there in their face. And I think in that way, and certainly later in the film, this becomes even more apparent, the movie takes on an almost fairytale like quality. Despite being so entrenched in 1970s Munich and seeming to reflect the politics and the attitudes of the culture at the time, you have this element where the characters return from a vacation to Stein Z and it's exactly the catalyst for change in perception that she told him that Emmy told him it would be. Watch, we'll go on vacation and we'll come back. And you don't really believe her because why would change? Why would these attitudes change? And it's almost as if phosphate or has the universe say, be careful what you wish for. Actually, yes, things could change, but these forces are too big and too oppressive and even if they change somehow around you, you're going to change. There's a sense of pessimism and some doom around these characters, and yet there's also somehow. And I think this is really the magic of the film.
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"jason isbell" Discussed on Filmspotting
"Do have a third place contest as well. And it's those two final four runners up. Kubrick's doctor strangelove, going up against wilder's, the apartment, Josh, this one is so close. That we're gonna call it live on air. I'm going to hit refresh. Last time. And we're going to see, we've got this from Josh Newbie, who says, Kubrick is winning this whole competition, so I'll give it to the apartment. For me, heart and sincerity will always win out over a cervix satire, no matter how brilliant. Man, I'm with Josh. I would go the same way. So I'm pulling for a last minute win here for the apartment. What do we got? I am hitting refresh and the winner is by 8 votes. 8 votes. The apartment. Yes. I love it. Takes down Kubrick's Doctor Strange. That shocks me, actually. That really surprises me. Yeah. I think Josh wasn't alone in maybe wanting to go with the film that made them feel a little warmer, but also not wanting to crown here for third place, another Kubrick film. Yeah, maybe this is where my theory that I employed too early in my predictions that people look at a filmmaker who has multiple titles and knocks one of those out because they don't want them to move on. I think maybe that only really applies for people when it gets down to this final four or so. And they see that name repeated. And in this case, two Kubrick seemed like one too many. Still, we can't suggest Kubrick didn't almost take this. And when both first and third place, 50.34 percent of the vote is how it came out. Crazy. The apartment very, very close. Before we go, we do need to wrap up our madness bracket contest. Itself almost as much of a foregone conclusion as 2001 coming out on top since week two of the tourney. One individual has led the 700 listeners who submitted brackets and that individual happens to be the founding father AKA The Godfather of film spotting madness. Listener, Mike merrigan, in Dover, New Hampshire. He won it all, Josh. He just grabbed this thing from the start, did not let go, no one could knock him off what a run, pretty impressive. It is. And here's the best part. His prize. He gets to take part in our internal bracket contest, just like he already gets you every year. Yes, he's already beating all of us at that. So I don't know. Maybe he gets to submit two brackets. I will have to think about this. He clearly doesn't need the help, but no, that's not true, Mike. You want it all. And there was no inside job on this. You really did the individual work on your own. And it paid off, and yes, we will give you a film spotting prize pack. We also had a film spotting family only bracket contest, about a 150 of our family members took part in that. The winner of that contest, another very, very long time listener. How about Hollywood's own Bret Merriman? Hey, Brett was in the lead and then he fell back at one point, right? Yeah, I think so. Okay, so it was like, you know what the bulls games, those donut races. They put on the screen. Brett was that way up front. Fell back. And then you just saw him come from behind and take it. Congratulations, Brett. He now has the opportunity to join us for a future bonus episode. If you don't know, he can he can just suggest a title that we have to talk about, but he's got the option to come on. He's been on the show before. I think he talked to us about heat, many years ago, joined us for a few minutes to talk about that. He's not new to, I don't know. Coming on film spotting, Josh. I forgot about this prize. I mean, I've hung out with Brett at meetups and afterwards, even. This is too much power for him to wield. Maybe so. Finally, our internal bracket contest that is me, you, producer Sam, Mike, and last year's bracket winner, Brett Fisher in Portland, Oregon. Mike, of course, won this contest as well, but winning is irrelevant here. There is only a loser of this bracket contest. Brett finished second behind Mike. I spent much of the tourney in last place, but ended up finishing third. Look at you. Sam, in fourth. And Josh just behind Sam in 5th and last place. That's how it played out. Now, you sure you weren't giving me like half points for each of my correct predictions, because I've heard that's a strategy you sometimes employ. Hey, Sam did the scoring, so take it up with him. Okay, then I believe it. I trust it. And I will, as punishment, watch Adam Sandler's murder mystery two, I don't know when? I mean, I think in the past, we technically have the whole year. We have the whole year. But I did look up knowing where this was headed. I did look up the running time, it appears to be a sweet 90 minutes, something around there, I've got a few plane rides in my future. So I might try to get it to it sooner rather than later. And report back, which I know you can't wait for. I can't wait. And I actually think you're a big two birds with one stone guy. I think you should swap in murder mystery too. At ebert interrupt us. Frame by frame analysis. Now you've seen as a previous loser of this contest. You've seen murder mystery one. Just based on that, do you think it holds the cinematic excellence to go under that sort of scrutiny multiple days of observation and close analysis? Well, I don't necessarily think it does, but we did get a very impassioned email from one Kyle cliche in kitchener Ontario. I saw that who said the Sandler slander say that ten times fast needs to stop and he provided his flawless ranking of all 64 Adam Sandler movies. Do you have
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"Illusion because they really are doing something that's so profound. Keeps hand on guns you can't trust anyone. I was so sure what I needed was more trying to shoot out the sun. Days when we raised with all the pain such damage done the hymn comparison tracks with what I've heard when others talk about his music. I think it's also some of the other things we were talking about the anesthesia and the vulnerability being right there and just it seems it seems like especially when he references past addiction and so forth is just kind of living how to live in brokenness and again being honest and vulnerable about that too in his music. Running with our eyes closed is currently on HBO Max. I hope people will seek it out. Next week for us, Josh, I read you the riot act for spending above our credit limit at your boulder, Colorado film spotting meetup last time. How are things looking this time? Well, I think we should have about ten, 11 folks so far have said they're going to be there. So hopefully a few more will join the real problem is Debbie's going to be there. You know, she's flying out towards the end of the conference and I don't know what that's going to do to the tab. So we'll see. I always love it when you start a sentence with the real problem is my wife coming. Problem for you. I mean, it's great for me. The bill might be an issue. Also next week, one of those shows where we consider a notable actor and their career. The subject is Joaquin Phoenix. He, of course, is the star of the new Ari aster film bow is afraid that comes to theaters on the 21st. He's appeared in many, many good films, and given many, many good performances. He was also in Joker. Joker, which will be spoiler alert on my top 5 list, and just as Joker remains on my top ten films of that year list, so I do like my Joker. Well, a movie that was among my top ten films of its year, a movie and performance I like considerably more than Joker. Spike jonze's her turns ten this year and I don't know if you've noticed artificial intelligence seems to be having a bit of a moment. I don't know that either of us are equipped to talk about that moment, but we're going to try to put her in some kind of perspective ten years later next week. Well, this is where we, I know we've joked about this and referenced it, but this is where we actually use chat GPT. I know. To at least write the setup, I know I already told you. It had to be done. If not the whole review, I mean, I think you and I could sit this one out and we just let chat GPT take this one over. It's fitting. It's not, you know, we're not dodging anything here. I think it makes perfect sense. Yeah, I'm with you. Speaking of Esther's bow is afraid. He is the subject of our first post madness film spotting poll. We are asking, what is your favorite Ari Astor film? He's only made two. It's a 50 50 choice, though of course this being a patented deeply flawed film spotting poll question we've tried to complicate it. You can either choose 2018 hereditary or 20 19s Midsommar. We are also giving the aster critics out there. I'm raising my hand, Josh. You make policy. We're giving you the option. Not a fan. Yeah, this is just for you. I mean, I know there are some people who are conflicted about his films, but most people are excited about Ari aster's work. So this is a little out for Adam. For me, it's still a pretty easy, even though I've liked both films. It's a pretty easy choice here. It's hereditary. Midsommar. I mean, I'm just still trying to wrap my mind around that one. Maybe a revisit would bump it ahead of hereditary, but yeah, for me, it's hereditary. Do you have one you like the least? Can you reverse engineer this? Or are you just going straight out not a fan? I am, of course, voting not a fan, but I voted in Sam's Twitter version of this question, which did not include the not a fan option. I will say that I had to pick one because I wanted to see the results more than anything, but I had to make a choice. And I made my choice, and I said, hereditary, because I at least find that film overall, not quite as grueling to sit through, as I do, Midsommar, which now that I think about it might be a little ironic. It's certainly sleeker. It's shorter, but I don't know that it's actually less oppressive than a film like Midsommar, which at least has some real moments of dark humor and that Swedish countryside Josh is gorgeous. I feel like you get outside a little more in midsize. A little bit more. It at least has that going for me. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan, so of course I am extra curious to see what my reaction is going to be to bow is afraid. That is if I don't somehow come down with a cough before that episode. I mean, we're looking at the end of the month after this Joaquin Phoenix preamble, the prologue, if you will, and we're going to talk about Bo is afraid and tarkovsky's mirror. I just. I'm not sure. Josh, I may be coming down with something. I might have to put Michael Phillips on standby, noted. You can vote now in our poll and leave a comment at film spotting .NET. We will share the results in a couple of weeks. Noted cone brothers fans that we are, we did want to mention the passing of character actor Michael Lerner. He was 82 years old. Best known and Oscar nominated for his turn as studio head Jack lipnick in the Coen brothers Barton Fink. Barring a preference. We're gonna put you to work in a wrestling picture. Wallace fury. I say this because they tell me you know the poetry of the streets. So that would rule out Westin's pirate pictures, screwball, Bible Roman. Look, I'm not one of those guys that thinks poetic. It's got to be fruity. But to get her on it, aren't we? I mean, I'm from New York myself. Well, Minsk, if you want to go all the way back. Which we won't if you don't mind, and I am asking. I mean, I can, I can hear him right now from those sequences in Barton Fink, and it makes me think, you know, we should have done in honor of learner and maybe we'll get to this. I don't think we've ever done like a Coen brothers scene stealers top 5. Because he would almost every one of their movies has somebody, right? Who's like learner in Barton thing? Just comes in for a scene or two, absolutely kills. We just talked about the big lebowski and it would have to be John Turturro there. Even though I don't think we referenced his Jesus, his bowler, we did. In our review, did we? Okay, good, 'cause he deserves it. He'd be a scene stealer, for example, but yeah, learner absolutely is one of those in Barton Fink. Learners got credits going back to the late 60s. He was also in the cones serious man. I do remember him very fondly as Arnold rothstein and John sales 8 men out. The guy who fixed or financed the fixing of the White Sox versus reds World Series, he's mayor ebert in 1990 8s Godzilla that character name not an accident. He was also an X-Men days of Future Past and he's big fat Bernie Gale in the 1998 hidden gem safe man. You know that Sam provided these notes because that movie truly is for him a hidden gem. And it is a good movie. It's a fun film Sam Rockwell Steve zahn Mark Ruffalo, Peter Diggs, and Paul Giamatti. I mean, how about that? Including Michael Lerner, RIP to a really great character actor. Well, on the next picture show, our sister podcast Adam, they haven't gotten to your how to blow up a pipeline pairing with one of those titles yet.
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"So when are we coming on? We're coming on for our final season, Sunday, April 16th. I'm very sad. I'm very sad about that too, but also excited. The final season, streaming April 16th on HBO max. What's the show called? Barry. That's right. I won't be satisfied unless this album is an accurate representation of where I am as a person. I know how he gets what he makes records, whether or not he sees it at the time or not. Most people don't go to work with their wife. That's from the new Doc, Jason isbell, running with our eyes closed, which came to HBO Max last weekend, as well as a singer songwriter with a devoted following Adam. I know, I think I know three people, I would count in that following, not to suggest, I know, is very popular. But two of them are pastors, and then there's you. So I don't know if you can explain that to me. I don't know that I can explain it to you, but I do have a word in my notes that I plan to drop on you at some point that may circle back to this, Josh, and maybe it will all make sense. Okay, I'm intrigued. Running with our eyes closed is directed by Sam Jones, who also made 2002s I am trying to break your heart. That's about the beloved Chicago band wilco. That film captured wilco at a pivotal moment, not just in their professional career, but also as a functioning unit, this new Doc is about the making of Isabel's 2020 album reunions. That was a collaboration with his band the 400 unit and also as you heard in that clip. With Israel's wife, the musician Amanda shires. Adam, you catch most of these music docs when they're out. So this is your area. Where would you place this one? They all seem to be generally worth your time. You come away, having learned something, appreciated something about the artist, more often than not. But there are, as we know, some great, great all time music docs. So where would you kind of place this one? Yeah, I will be honest. I can't give you a great answer to that question because I haven't spent any time thinking about my Pantheon, if you will, of music documentaries. I know that I have seen a fair amount in recent years, you know, Netflix and other groups are cranking these things out. And they feel a little perfunctory. They feel like a book review. They feel like, hey, I guess that's what I'm asking. Yeah, is this one more than that? Or would you put it in that so much? It's so much more than that. Okay. This is one of the really good ones, if not one of the all time great ones. I've watched it twice already. And a big chunk of it, of course, is the subject. And that's not to say you have to be a fan of visibles music in order to enjoy the film. I'll provide some more on that here in a second, but it really comes down to the fact that Jason is a documentarians dream. Isabel may be the only artist alive, who you believe wholeheartedly when he says, as he does here, he has no interest in controlling his image. And this film is intimate and honest and soul searching in all the ways a portrait of visible in his artistic process could only be. It's what we absolutely expect of this artist. And it's not just about the recording process or about his writing and recording process. It's not even just about marriage, which is maybe what the movie is more fundamentally about. It's even more about marriage and the process of marriage than it is about the process of making music. But it has these deep roots in topics that are really hard to explore and talk about. And there's a word that comes up over and over again in this movie. And I don't think it's by accident. And that word is control. You think about isbel and relation to that word. Being in control of your marriage of your music, of your addiction, in the case of visible. Your choices, and then this album comes out during COVID. He's already recording it in 2019. It's all pre COVID and he's making what he thinks is the most important album of his life. Can't wait to share it with people. Can't wait to go on the road and share it with people and COVID hits, well what made us all feel collectively less in control than COVID. And I think Sam Jones here who did make that wilko Doc, which is another one of the great ones. I think he really gracefully explores this idea of control and how you deal with not being in control throughout the entire thing. I said that it's a film I hope people will seek out whether they already like his music or maybe they don't like his music, maybe they've never even heard it. I hope they seek it out because it's this honest portrait and it's a movie that goes to some really painful places and it explores something really honest and authentic. I don't think we get enough of that, especially in these types of documentaries. And at 98 minutes, it's lean, but as I'm suggesting, it packs a real emotional punch just like is bull's best songs, which might be three minutes to four minutes, but they really do hit you. And here's the word that I'll throw out that I was referencing earlier. For you, Josh movies may in fact be prayers, but I think Jason is bull songs are hymns. And if you're watching this film and coming to it with no sense of his songwriting or relationship to it, I think if you watch him play and talk about songs like cover me up and maybe it's time, which was used in A Star Is Born. I don't know how you couldn't watch them and think these, these are timeless. They have a timelessness to them that makes them feel like you can revisit them and reinterpret them for all time. And people already have with the song like cover me up. It's a song that is constantly being covered. That's because it's a great song, but I also think at its core, it's what it elicits from people. It's the reaction it gets from people. And there's a certain simplicity, I don't want to suggest he isn't a great musician or that the songwriting isn't complex. But there is to these songs in particular, something like cover me up, maybe it's time. There's a sense of simplicity about them that's maybe a little bit of an
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"Future activists, future eco terrorists. And no matter how supportive you are of the cause, are you okay with that? We've thrown out a bunch of movies and titles some by gold haber, some you thought of, you know, the two things I thought of watching it. One, I thought a little bit of Spike Lee's inside man. Because obviously that's also a crime movie, a heist movie. But it's one of those films where you're sure these are the bad guys. They're bank robbers who are also taking innocent people hostage. Except damn Clive Owens character is really cool. And wait, maybe they aren't actually the bad guys, maybe they're really trying to expose something that's truly nefarious. And wicked. So you start to start to catch on to that within man and there's a similar dynamic at play here, even if again, I don't think the movies are overall very similar in their style or their approach to the material. But I really was thinking a lot about the anarchist cookbook, which I think is by design the 1971 book by William Powell that was incredibly controversial. And the movie that came out about it in its legacy in 2016, the documentary American anarchist by Charlie Siskel, that I talked about a little bit on the show. I interviewed Cisco about that book. It really wants to wrestle with that book. And where the writer of it is now looking back 50 years, almost 50 years on material that he put together that truly was the how to book, Josh, it really was an instruction manual on how to make and manufacture explosive devices. And other types of weapons and how to make illicit drugs, including LSD. And as you can imagine, it upset a lot of people and caused a lot of moral hand wringing as it should. Again, this movie isn't quite going down that path, despite its title. But I think one of the things the movie really does want to leave you thinking about is how much do you use a viewer regardless of how you feel about the cause itself, how much do you as a viewer want or need to see these characters get some kind of punishment? On what level are you are you also rooting for that as much as you're rooting for them to pull off what they're trying to pull off because you need the movie to balance out the provocation. You need there to be some ambivalence. You need to understand that the movie isn't just saying unequivocally. We all should be employing these kind of tactics. Yeah, if you're asking, is this movie dangerous or potentially dangerous? I think that's what you're circling around. It's what I'm circling around. Yeah, I think for me, and maybe I need naive on this point. I don't feel like it is because, again, I think it's on the other end of things. It's just communicating or showing stuff that's been happening, or people are thinking about in other arenas. I don't know that we're in an age where a major release film. And this isn't major release. I don't know how wide it's going. You know, it's maybe like a mid tier release. Is going to be provocative in that way. I think those things are happening on the Internet. I think they're happening in different venues. What I do think something like how to blow up a pipeline can be is galvanizing. And I think I use that word earlier. And I think particularly for younger moviegoers who will feel affirmed in how personally important this issue is. And this is something that I think is the greatest strength of the movie, that I'm realizing, you know, being late 40s, I understand climate crisis and environmental damage, even though I am hugely sympathetic to the concerns of this movie. And the politics, if more conflicted about the practices, right? But as someone at my age, I experience it way differently than like our kids do, Adam, right? When they and their peers talk about this, this is like something that is immediately catastrophic because intensely personal. And intensely personal because when they see those projections about scientists say this is going to happen by whatever 2030, 2050, they can picture that, right? And I think this movie recognizes that distress and is galvanizing in a way where someone could come out of it and be affirmed in their distress and moved to do something about it. If not exactly this, to do something. And I think in that way, how to blow up a pipeline can have a real effect on moviegoers. And I think that's distinct from it being dangerous or showing people how to do this exact thing. Does that distinction make sense? It does make sense. And I think that's all very rational and reasonable and well articulated, but I'm sorry, you're incorrect. Fox News said it is dangerous and that it's left us Hollywood propaganda. So we will, we will close the case and move on. Thanks for proving my point. How to blow up a pipeline is currently playing in limited release. If you see it and agree or disagree with us, you can email us feedback at film spotting .NET. Smoothie king asks, what's that sound? That's
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"Are really just very wounded, very angry people. As you said, they've suffered personal trauma. And so they're really looking for an outlet for that frustration. Something or some entity to take that pain out on to get revenge, essentially. And so I think that undercuts the story a bit, but it's also a case when you say you mostly bought it. I mostly bought it too. And again, I mostly bought it because of the performances. But in the moment, I really bought it, and it's only as I reflect on those scenes that they all feel maybe a little bit too neat. And it's a little flimsy. It is also, as we've said, a few times, a procedural, and that suggests a certain detachment. There's a chronicling of action of steps taken. But also wrapped in a heist thriller package, especially with the editing and the score, and that does give it a slicker, more entertaining Sheen. There is no doubt that as you're watching this, you find yourself rooting for inherently rooting for this plan to come off. No matter what you feel about what they're actually trying to do in the way they're going about it. And as slick as it is, I'll of course say it's not actually reservoir dogs. It's not trying to be Ocean's Eleven. I think you get that through the use of non stars and the focus on the how to aspect. It all suggests an authenticity, a sort of illusion of truth. That then for me, Josh was hard to reconcile with scenes and parts of the script that felt totally phony. There's a recruitment scene in a bookstore. That I found totally absurd. There are a few law enforcement scenes that I don't think are particularly effective down to one FBI officer who is wearing a blazer and talking in a way that made me feel like I was watching a high school production of Law & Order. Yeah, that comes out. That comes from a different movie. It feels like exactly what it feels like. It punctuates the bubble that the filmmakers have created. This intense, despite because it's taking place in the present time, right? The flashbacks we understand, these are flashbacks you can open the world, but otherwise we're in this tightly controlled world, a space even in this area in Texas. And when we get to those law enforcement scenes, it kind of like opens the door a little bit too much. I agree with you. And exactly as we've been saying, the pain of those flashbacks and the intensity of those flashbacks is another perhaps phony aspect of the movie for me again upon reflection because it's amped up for maximum impact. It has to be. We're not going to stay in this flashback space very long. We have to keep it moving. We have to get back to what is essentially the heist tier. You said it as well. The use of I'll call them minor cliffhangers. There's two of them that are there to raise the stakes and make us feel as if, oh my God, did that just happen? What are we going to come back to? And then it only actually reduces the stakes because it feels like a bit of a crutch. After two of them, it feels like it might be a bit of a crutch by the filmmakers to use that to employ that technique. And the last thing I'll say about it in terms of where I started to feel that bubble as you put it being pierced, the nature of this plan and some of the things that come to light, that too feels very rushed and maybe a little bit too neat and contrived once you really start trying to unpack it. So I was really torn watching this film. Getting swept up in it because the craft is so strong and effective. And it's only when I was really thinking about it and dwelling on it, Josh, I started to see some of those elements that made me question whether my experience with it was, in fact, the right one. Yeah, it's a delicate thing with any sort of heist type movie where you want to be surprised and you want to be held in suspense, but you don't want to be manipulated, maybe. And I don't know that I ever felt really manipulated watching how to blow up a pipeline, but I think it's maybe closer to that end of the spectrum than the surprise that you don't see at all that came out of nowhere and you appreciate being surprised by it and you appreciate the suspense you were held within. I'm assuming and I think you might have referenced it and we won't get into it, but you're putting the twist into this category that you kind of thought in retrospect because at the time I was like, oh, this is pretty clever and it's again kind of taking us in a little different direction as the flashbacks did earlier and offering something new, but yeah, maybe in retrospect, I might say it kind of falls in the category or the things you're talking about. That is, I didn't want to use the word twist necessarily because people may be thinking about it when they watch it. But there is certainly a revelation that, well, not changing the entire scope of the film and everything we saw that preceded it. It nevertheless adds a new wrinkle that I don't think the movie handles in a very careful way. Or believable way. We'll go back to my question here from the beginning that I don't really expect you to answer because I can't answer it. The one that I think you have to at least consider when you walk out of this film, which is, is this movie going to inspire
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"Well, in case, and comparison to the viewing experience is like, I remember being deeply unsettled about the story of night moves and what to even think about how to respond to climate crisis coming out of that film. Whereas coming out of how to blow up a pipeline, I did not feel as unsettled. I don't feel like I know exactly how we should respond to these things or even how I feel about the choices these characters make. I don't mean that at all. I just mean like, I feel like, okay, I got what that movie wanted to say. How it wants us to feel. Coming out of it. So I felt much more subtle. But I do agree with you that, you know, this structure, it grabs you intensely, and then what gold haber does that is really smart, I think, is just as we start to get or at least I started to get a little, you know, you could see a lot of tension is kind of being wrong by is this thing on the screen going to blow up in the guy's face or the woman's face or whoever it might be. We get that a number of times and I started to feel like, okay, we need something new here. The movie gives us something new. And it starts to give us those flashbacks. And it starts to give us what you were talking about, Adam, is, yes, when we meet them, they're decisive, they're committed, they're all in. But we want to know why, right? And the movie withholds that, just long enough, and then starts to do the individual flashbacks to show us why. How did they get to this point? Now, you could also say, and I did feel this a little bit that, as each individual person had, as they should, a unique story, it felt a little bit like checking boxes, like, well, here's an environmental crisis for this character. Here's how this character was affected. And I believe all of those individual stories and that real people are suffering in that way. I just mean a narrative construction to bring them all together as a team. You know, felt a little movie ish, but again, the performances across the board make that work because they are each so deeply lived in and richly presented and the anger that is the unifying force, right? That's what brings this group together is that they have all come to a point of extreme anger. And need to do something because they feel impotent in the face of having suffered traumatically because of the climate crisis and environmental damage. And so I did appreciate how the performance is kind of made that conceit work and you could see the acting coming to meet the screenplay structure. Meanwhile, maintaining the suspense all throughout, it's also very smart about giving us a background story and then throwing us back in the preparations. And a wrinkle or a challenge coming up. And that was a nice balance for me. Again, as I was getting a little tired of the, is this going to blow up or not? It got much more complicated and the personal stories became intertwined in ways. And the one performance, I mean, we could shout out all of them. I do think they're all strong. I really liked Forrest goodluck. I think he's the standout. If you have to choose a standout as this teen, he's coming from a reservation in South Dakota, in his case, the oil fields have just taken over up there and we get glimpses, you know, you get the sense of a lack of jobs. For him and the people who live there, people are coming from out of state to work. And he has good luck just has this numb nihilism to him. He is like so beyond angry. It's almost like he can't feel anymore and all he can. All he wants to do is proceed with this project. I think he's the one who says, right, when they ask, what are the chances we're going to die or something like that? And he just says, I don't care. That's the point he's gotten to. But good luck delivers lines like that in a way that it doesn't feel like bravado at all. You really believe that that character is at that point. Yeah, that he has nothing to lose. And a lot of these characters don't. I agree the performances are key here. I mentioned the contradictions and you are getting at some of them for me. This is a film that wants to provoke that I think really does want to excite its audience and get them to want to take action. But it also very clearly doesn't want to incite actual destruction or do anything dangerous. Okay, I appreciate that. I'm glad the filmmakers are responsible in that case. But that's the tension that is sort of at the core of this film is it's so procedural and it's so matter of fact that you almost feel like there's this illusion that you're watching actually how to blow up a pipeline. The movie really isn't giving you that. You start to glom onto the fact that it's not an instruction manual in that way. It's also a movie though that has these characters fighting for the future of humanity. But almost all
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"Got it. The battle of Algiers. Holy shit. Man, he's just a lot of the big ones, huh? You maybe did an awful job coming up with the titles, but now that you know them, you can't quibble with gold havers, formidable list of inspirations. But what about his movie? Does how to blow up a pipeline? Effectively harness those influences or diverge from them in radical enough ways that you can easily imagine a young filmmaker of the future, logging it among his or her greatest influences. If so, what might this future filmmaker be wise to steal from it? Of course, the more incendiary set of questions is whether how to blow up a pipeline is effective and radical enough that you can easily imagine a future eco terrorist, a term the film's characters embrace, logging it among his or her greatest influences. And if so, what do you think they're likely to steal from it? Yeah, I mean, one of the scary things about the movie in a way is that it implies all that stuff's out there. Like someone interested in doing this is not going to watch this movie for instruction, right? It's already available in other places online and so forth. Can I quibble? With his citations, I mean, his claims. No, I don't think you can because again, he's not, he's not comparing his movie to those titles. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear, he's just saying these movies influence me. Okay, okay, sure, but man, those are the influences of those are massive, massive titles that you can see what he drew inspiration from specifically to each of those cases. Yeah, I guess. I suppose that's correct. Did I get three of the 5? How many did I get? I'm just curious about my score. I'm giving you zero. Well, that seems incorrect. But I know how I know how you do the scoring in the Josh versus Adam book, so you got actually that sounds perfectly correct. And you got half a point for reservoir dogs, and you got half a point after hints for Ocean's Eleven, so we're divided. We're dividing the points. Great. Okay, where are we now? That was a lot. Would a future filmmaker, I guess all this setup makes me want to know, it places, I think that's why I'm reacting this way. It kind of places how to blow up a pipeline on fairly hallowed ground or in a hallowed space and I know it's been very well received and I did enjoy the film. We'll get into the details. I think it's a good movie. But is this one of your favorite of the year so far? Are you seeing it similarly in terms of what it accomplishes, what its influence might be. I don't see it. No, I'm trying to provoke you with a setup the same way this movie is trying to provoke us with its setup. Yeah, I see it more as a movie of its moment in interesting ways and one where I understand how it is galvanizing the audiences it has galvanized. And I think it's very clever in some of the ways it does that. Some of the things you touched on there, and yes, are drawn from those movies that have influenced it in ways I can see, I don't know if it's going to have the sort of lasting power that the question suggests or some of those, not all of those titles, but some of those other titles would also suggest it might have. I think this is an intriguing, well done film that to me is a little closed off. Because of its choice to maybe be more at its end a political film than a complicated, ambiguous, maybe the way I could best make my point is to name here I'll name one film. The one movie I wrote down in my notes and it was Kelly reichardt's night moves. And yes, maybe because riker is on our minds with your interview recently and showing up being a really strong film that I think we've all appreciated. So that was a movie for me that just brought a lot of artistically ambitious ambivalence to it that and maybe this isn't fair, you know. That I didn't find in how to blow up a pipeline. Maybe I shouldn't have been looking for it. The title as you point out tells us exactly what we're going to get. And that's what we see. And I do think goldhaber finds ways in that narrative structure to complicate things interestingly and make the stories of this ensemble cast. More compelling and more personal. So I appreciated all of that about the movie, but there was still by its end, you know, it's a little bit more of a manifesto, which is fine as a manifesto as a work of art you're going to wrestle with in ways that I like to wrestle with films that has the lasting influence of some of those other films. Battle of Algiers, particularly, I didn't see in this movie. Yeah. We have touched on this before with these intros. We're trying to come up with clever ways to say, did you like the movie? And I want to know if you liked the movie so much, Josh, that you might even consider it to be a film that could one day have the stature of those films. As they were, direct influences on it. Probably not fair to goldhaber or anyone associated with this film because those are some pretty amazing titles. Your night moves comparison is one I had in mind as well. And I haven't seen night moves since we reviewed it here on the show. I did not have a chance. I'll admit to go back and look at my notes. But I also think that if I was coming to the defense of how to blow up a pipeline against night moves, I would say, well, naturally, I think it's more of a thoughtful movie than this, which, as you say, is more directly a manifesto because it is to use your word ambivalent. It wants to show night moves wants to show the potential consequences of vigilantism of eco terrorism, no matter how righteously motivated, but that's kind of what we expect a movie to do. And it kind of ceases to be provocative because by the end, it puts the world back in order for us. It says, you can do this stuff, but here are those consequences. In pipeline, more or less refuses to put the world back in order, which is what good political propaganda should do. So on one hand, I can certainly defend the movie for its provocation. And yet, I'll tell you, I am filled with as many contradictions in reaction to this movie as the movie itself is filled with. There is an undeniable propulsive energy to pipeline. And it starts with that procedural aspect. We're not watching characters come to an epiphany and make a decision to act. And it all builds up to that. No, they've decided to act when we meet them. And the movie starts with this plan being put into motion. The question is how you feel about its rousing presentation upon reflection. And the more I think about how to blow up a pipeline, the less good I feel about it. But I also think that discomfort is part of what, as I was alluding to, part of what gold haber wants us to feel. Yeah, this will be my last comment about night moves. It's just that I seem to have a very different experience with it than you did, you know, I didn't feel like that movie put the world back together at all. And like I said, it's been a while.
Filmspotting
"jason isbell" Discussed on Filmspotting
"This is a documentary about the 80s tennis great from director Alice gibney. That's on Apple TV plus. I do want to see the Boris Becker Doc, but I want to see another streaming dock even more big Jason isbell fan and a new film directed by Sam Jones who did the very good wilco Doc. I am trying to break your heart. He has chronicled the making of Jason isbell's recent album, the documentary is called running with our eyes closed that is new on HBO Max. You can see air. Mild recommendation from both of us. You can see. I've gone three stars on here. I think I'm going three stars. I'm definitely going three stars on paint. Are you two and a half to two and a half? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, we're going, we're going N a on the Super Mario Brothers movie. Is that what we're doing? I have not seen it. I'm not going to go. I mean, I don't have anything against it, you know? I mean, I actually, I didn't have anything against Dungeons and Dragons and people a lot of people like that a lot. People seem to relate to it. Life is interfere sometimes. All of my kids and I have kids ranging in ages from junior high up to college. They can not wait for Super Mario Brothers. I'm not sure if they're all watching it unironically, but they all really want to go and think I'm a snob and terrible at my job. Nice. They might be right about one or both of them. This is why we are limited. That's why we have children. In limited release, the new one from the Ardennes Tory and is out. That's playing at the music box. Also how to blow up a pipeline, which we will talk about next week on the show along with that next film in our Sight & Sound top 100 marathon Rainer Werner fassbender's Ali fear eats the soul. Film spotting is produced by golden Joe dessau and Sam Van Halen without Sam and golden Joe.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"jason isbell" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Make an album for a couple years. And then he makes tunnel of love. Which was the most fascinating album in my opinion that he's ever made because it's so personal and it's about like him falling in love with Julian Phillips and then the breaking up and then him reconciling it and it wasn't the album people are expecting to make after born in the USA, right? It's like what's next with this huge segment. It's like, no, here's actually this fucked up album about this relationship I had with the celebrity that didn't work out the way I thought. I love that he did that. And I felt like he stayed authentic to that. The whole wave, even though now he's in his 70s, he's still selling out, but he never lost that authenticity, which is why I think people love him so much. Right. And he made intentional choices along the way, you know, Nebraska was very clearly an intentional choice to say, here's what I am. I'm a songwriter with a guitar, you know, and I'm writing about a certain type of American experience. And then, you know, Tom Jodie went back to that. And every so often he would say, this is where I came from. I'm still there. Some part of me is still there. And if you're going to play bigger shit, like you have to expand, you know? You have to get a bunch of trucks and more people on the crew. You can't keep playing bars forever. If you're selling millions of records, you can't play in a tavern, you know, you have to everything has to get bigger to serve the work and to serve the audience. But the one thing that does not have to get bigger is that song, you know, the song and the story can stay because it was already huge, you know, if you were writing it right when you were 19 or 20, it was already opening itself up enough to where it could feel any space in any room. And you don't have to make the song broad and vague. You just have to make the lights bigger. And
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"jason isbell" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Head to your local McDonald's and give them a crispy, a try today. All right, we're taping this. It is a week before our latest music box installment. Running with our eyes closed. Premieres on April 7th on HBO. It stars this guy, Jason isbell, who we've kind of been circling each other for a while, grantland wrote a piece about you. I'm going to say it was 2014 range right as you were having that first renaissance you had and you had a very nice tweet after this shutdown grantland, which I really appreciate it. But I got to say until we started really closing in on this documentary and seeing how the director Sam Jones intertwined like your life, your career, your ups and downs with the actual music, I just thought it was incredible. What was it like to watch a documentary about you using your music to tell your story? I mean, it's such a hard thing to pull off. Just what was the experience like the first time you saw a cut? You know, it was strange because the first time I watched it a couple of years ago, it was close to what it wound up being, but it was, you know, to basically approve it, but also it's like you have to walk this fine line because approval in this situation sort of means a different thing. It's like, can I tolerate this being on screen? Because it's somebody else's work. It's really Sam's Sam's work. So if I was watching it and I had made it, it would be a very different experience. But I had to lower my expectations of my own image enough to say, all right, does this serve the purpose that it is intended to serve? And is it any good? And it is, I think, you know, it's hard to somewhere about three albums ago, I got to this point with music or I could listen to a record as though I had not been involved in making it. I don't know what happened. I don't know what switch flipped, but I can ride around in my car and listen to a record. And forget for a minute that I made the record. And thereby decide if it's any good or not. But I can't do that. I can't do that with this. This is still like full on, I am looking at myself and my wife and my kid in my life and so it was tough, you know? It was a challenge for me to figure out, okay, am I okay with this? And then does that matter? Does it matter if I'm okay with it or not? Because if I take out all the stuff that doesn't make me look cool, it's not going to be much of a documentary. Yeah, and that was one of the reasons we got involved with this late. It was already there was a cut that was fairly close to what ends up being at HBO and I'm really dubious of these documentaries that are the musician is really involved or the musician has some sort of final saying. We've stared away from that with the series. And in this case, you had to say, but you also really wanted it to be authentic. And you didn't use your say, which was what was appealing to me, where you were like, you know what? This is a warts and all Doc. And I'm good let's say. Yeah, I mean, you know, it was kind of like, I felt like, well, I have some sort of veto power, but at the end of the day, I didn't
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"jason isbell" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"About masters storylines. 2023. Nate, what's your number one storyline heading into the masters? Well, I think I'd have more cogent thoughts if I wasn't burping up P F Chang's right now. But for me, there's really two. The first and the one that you're gonna hear a lot of the gossiping about is live verse PGA. We got 18 guys from Liv, who are here coming back, really have not played much golf, and one of the worries that we have about Tiger is when he doesn't play a lot of golf, the putter gets cold. He's not his best. Are these guys going to be able to compete at the highest level possible? That's the first. The second one I'm actually more interested in is that we have these elevated events this winter. The first time ever the PGA Tour spent a lot of money on high end events were just the best players and all the best players played together. And so what we got for the first part of the season was this filtering mechanism to understand who's playing the best right now. And if we came into the first event in capoo in January, thinking there might be 15 to 20 guys who are the man. We come into the masters thinking there are exactly three. And it's Scottie scheffler. It's Rory McIlroy. And it's John rom. And this week we're going to find out each of those guys has reason to win this tournament. Scotty's defending, Rory's trying to build Grand Slam, John rom is not one major since the U.S. open in 2021. So this week for me, the most interesting storyline is which of those guys is going to step up and finally get it done. House, that was going to be my number one storyline. In basketball, at least for the MVP race, we had the big three of jokic and embiid and Giannis, not to mention all the other great players we have, but it's been kind of this season's belong to those three guys in some way. And in golf, we kind of have a big three all of a sudden. Is there anybody who's lingering on the outside, like if those guys are in the dining room table for three, but there's one more place setting. Is it cam Smith? Who is it? Well, it would have been cam Smith through calendar year 2022 because he won the British open. He moved over to live, he competed to live events and then he went to Australia and won an event in at the end of November early December. Now not enormously impressive, strength of field in that event. But, you know, he won the players championship in March and the open championship, the British open in July, and then won another tournament in the latter part of the year. So cam Smith would have been there, could be there now. So you were sending cam's invite. Well, I haven't watched them play in golf. He missed the cut, he's only played in two sounded like an invite. Two recessions that had a cut in calendar year 23. Precision precision? Precision. My fingers used to work. So who else? If that cam Smith then who? Max homa is the homie? The homie homa is released like sitting right there in that ever since he no showed Nathan's house for dinner. He's been on a tear. The statistics say that max has massively underperformed in majors. But he comes into this playing unequivocally like a top 5 player in the world. He's got as many wins since the start of the 2021 season. Is anybody on tour? He is an absolute killer, but he knows that he's got a performance majors. And the thing. 30 four to one on FanDuel. The thing that we fall in love with about maximum is the fragility of his mind and the way that he's battled through to actually turn it into a strength. That sounds like Chang. He's got the LA, he's got the LA U.S. open this year in his hometown, but in his mind he knows this is the next hurdle for his career. So it's a big, big week for max. Chang, what's your favorite storyline on the masters other than you eating 17 pimento sandwiches tomorrow? With chicken. Somehow in it. Chicken egg. I don't follow golf nearly as much as these guys. And actually, not even a comparison. You guys know so much. But as a casual fan from a perspective like fat, for me, it's always about Tiger, has always been about Tiger. Every year is about Tiger. Even when he's not playing well, this is even from his words, probably one of the velocity, as he said, he doesn't know how many he has left. If by chance the hope is he plays well, that's all you can ask for, right? For me, if he plays really well, that makes the masters infinitely better. So you want to root for that. Everything's better when he plays better. If it sucks, if he is not playing well, that's a bummer. That was the most casual take I think I've heard in a while. I like that though, because I agreed with you because as another casual majors fan, it always, he still has it. Like house Tiger doing is still the question. I should mention
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"jason isbell" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
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"jason isbell" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Unbelievable. I love the choice. Yeah, the live thing so supposedly they were some protesters today. So I don't know in that around the area against the live tour. Down at Trump's arraignment or some people protest in that they were even allowed to play, I guess. That was the word in the street. There's some very nice harmony happening at the moment between Liv and the PGA Tour players. Although there's some lines drawn, like it's clear that Brooks and DJ are still buddies with the Rory's of the world. And it's very clear that Phil is somewhere in between. And on the far, far right is Patrick Reed, who nobody likes. That's true, just describing like the last 15 years on tour anyway. What's the difference? Patrick Reed's the one thing everyone can agree on. Yeah, no matter what side we're deliberately wore this hat. I'm terrified she's going to win this week. I bet on him to win this. He finished third last week in this tourney, his game has been good. He went mono imano with Rory in the desert earlier in the year and just lost. He's a legit threat. So does he fit the, he looks pretty good? I want to go last couple of weeks into the tournament. This is why I want to go because I know that at least 50% of these live guys took the check and got super fat. So I'm on fat patrol tomorrow. Yeah, so tomorrow. Yeah, interesting. I love it. I am on that guy looks like he's been ruined by the idea of bringing either his family, his wife, his kids. His black sheep brother, I'm on that patrol tomorrow. Because last year, who was the guy we hit Russell Henley? And his wife seemed pissed off. And it was not a fun part three experience. Did my family and we came back and we bet the under. So I'm on that. I'm body language doctor tomorrow. What are you going to be house? Bloody Mary doctor. No, we're on Xander. Last year we saw Xander putting in the twilight, which told us he was struggling. We just want to see. Oh, that's right, the Twilight putter. So you're in Twilight putter. We will be in a combination of both the driving range and the putting green just to see where guys are, what level of comfort they're showing. Speak to your body language because we've already given the good friends at FanDuel, a whole suite of potential plays and God bless them. The ringer specials page is beautiful. And they have a whole bunch of combinations. My favorite one already, Jason Day, top 20 plus there will be a hole in one. That's a great bet. That's very fun. Jump in on that. Let's take a break and then we'll go through some of those bets and some other things we're going to predict for the week. Golf's first major, a tradition, unlike any other. Now you can bet on who you think will win it. Augusta on FanDuel right now,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"jason isbell" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"This motherfucker could play the game. He was hitting 290 yard drives on the reg. Speaking of Chang's wife, we have to give a shout out to grace because it's her birthday today and she came to the August. No way. Happy birthday. She knew how much event. This is a great marriage by anyone. That's the sign of an awesome marriage. That's a ballerina. And if you ask me, what, I'm most excited about why I'm here? Less about the golf floor about the eating. Yes. So house is gonna lie here, but he's like, no, no, when we're talking about who we get for a fourth and has this like, let's get changed. Are you telling on me? And Nathan's like, yeah, yeah, we'll get Chang, Chang will be a great member of the foursome. And there's this pause in the text thread, and you can see house typing. And then finally was like, plus that like 1 o'clock in the morning, you can make us something. I'm blushing right now. I do have Catholic guilt. We're programmed into us, BS. I literally did because the one challenge from last year, the single biggest thing was like, we're back from the parties. We're starving. We order dominoes. We try to bribe Domino's even. Yeah, we do. We have to wait. It was such a long wait. You don't have to wait. You feel two boys for us, 'cause this is old school male bonding. We were together for three straight days. We run out of things to talk about for the most part. We needed a fourth, so you fill that void. And we can talk. Now we can split off and I'll talk about each other. And then on top of it, who knows what might happen at one in the morning after a couple of cocktails when we have to be in the golf course at like 8 in the morning the next day. I've already scoped out the pantry. We have emergency rations set. We're good. Do we? Yeah? 'cause I'm looking at Eminem's tostitos and bananas. We got some pasta. Oh. Wow. When I am I can make that happen. And I think I'm gonna break into the locked closet. Yes. I'm sure my closet. Other stuff. Yeah. Are you ready to go to the whitest sporting event that God created tomorrow? This is all I'm ever good at is golf and fly fishing. I've been born for this moment. I was born for this, yeah. All right, so what are we looking forward to? I have to get a pimento cheese sandwich because it's like a buck 50. You know, people, can we just have to talk about the food? The pimento part of it, like a lot of people say it's too rich, you can't have a whole sandwich of it, chef. It's like a buck 50. Beers are like two bucks tops. You can eat extremely well on $10. Really, all day. Chicken biscuits in the morning, unbelievable. Amazing. I would skip on the ham and cheese sandwiches and you're just, you're doing pimento and chicken biscuits, basically all day. Not egg salad. You know what's pretty good. It's pretty good. I'm definitely gonna have all of it regardless, but I'm focusing on pimento and what I did last time I was here. I stacked. I stacked the sandwiches together. Yeah, so this is a triple decker. Yes. So this is the hack. This is what I wanted to do. Let's talk food hacks. Because we did a little bit when we were here back with your dad. Was that 2018? Two 1018. I think my dad furious that we came back. He didn't even know. My wife told him last week there on the phone. He said, yeah, and then bill's going to he's like, what? Oh, he didn't get the invite to this year. No, he thinks Chang got his invite. So now he's out there. That's what I told my whole feud with Chang and my dad, the chain didn't know man. But when we're here in 2018, we bought two of every sandwich as we left the golf course and we brought it back to the house and we were trying to do various hacks. The hack that I liked the best was the chicken sandwich with meto cheese. Yes. Because that, you know what I don't even have to let you I mean, I know you're going to do that. You're savant. You knew that. It makes perfect sense. The barbecue with the egg salad is pretty good. Wonderful. But this guy, this guy is a genius at eating. Well, when I figured out today is the peach ice cream is back. After being. So that's going to be, I don't think you want to combo that with the egg salad. But on its own, the peach ice cream sandwiches. Can I just add egg salads, fucking disgusting? No. That's Bill Simmons take. Disregard it completely. Come on. Easiest way to go wrong in a variety of ways for diarrhea or whatever else you want to name. Oh, so many ways eggs out. National bud. They're quality control. Did you guys know why everything's packaged green food wise? Why? Because of the cameras. In case it's on the ground, it matches in with the scenery. That's how detailed everything is here. Can you do your thing about the precision of Augusta and why you love it as a, you know? A decent chef. So in 2019, we filmed something. I think you can see it online somewhere, but I spent basically like 5 days here behind the scenes. And I was observing. It's very similar to me when you go to one of the very best restaurants in the world. It's almost less about the food, which is clearly why you're there. It's about the precision, the organization, the teamwork, the execution, and I don't say this lightly. I think Augusta national, especially this tournament, is the best organized company thing in the world. It's amazing. Everything is unbelievable here. It really is. Can you guys disagree with that? Well, one thing is they everyone get rid of their phones, which we talked about last year, but it's just ingenious. Yeah, I mean, they have your full attention. That's the whole point. The point is to have your eyeballs on what's happening out in front of the goal. Don't get hit by a ball. Experience it, right? You don't need to document it for your own friends and family. Take it in, and then if you want to talk to everybody about it, you can do so. I do think, you know, the scale of it to pick up on Chang's point. The only thing I can think of speaking of the food world that might rival it is Jose Andres the world health kitchen, where they drop in and make a 100,000 meals for people in catastrophic situations. But otherwise, this masters now what he has a bad experience here unless you get kicked out because you were too unruh. Nathan had like 700 sarcastic concert jokes. He was going to make it. I'm just thinking, I'm going to wear green because much like the food trash when I pass out in my on the ground. I'm going to blend in. We have to figure out what color is in the special area that we're going to be in. I mean, are we going to do flex? Should I flex right now? I don't want to flex. We're going to be in a special area. We want to make sure we hold. Yeah, we wanted for the listeners. One of the wrinkles we want to add was the possibility of maybe going behind the scenes and seeing what the Clubhouse is like. Maybe. Which is maybe. But it's possible. And there's a pyramid hierarchy of the masters. And the last level is when you're an actual member, you got the jacket on, and you get to walk around in this role is as a member. Yeah, and no, but we don't know what it's like in there. Is the question? We don't. Is it like what? Heaven is like? Is it going to be disappointing? But I just pictured food and wood drinks. That sounds right, and very few women. If we don't make it in, we think we honor. I mean, you know, we keep it real on the bill some as podcasts. I would just like these mysteries. This would be my only invite. I'm not even going to get the advice. Oh, everybody come on, oh, we can only let three in. There's just some real mystery because I've never seen photos from inside there, really, other than when gymnastics. And if we get in, we get in and if we don't, I think the percentage chance of us not getting in is higher than us getting it. Okay. What golf subplots are you looking forward to, Chiang? Who do you want to see the most in person? Other than the obvious. I just want
World Cafe
‘The Metallica Blacklist’ Is an Enormous Tribute to an Enormously Influential Album
"Thirty years ago. In nineteen ninety-one the california heavy metal band metallica released its fifth studio album. The record was simply called metallica but earned the nickname the black album. Thanks to its mostly black. Cover to songs on. The black album. Represented a shift from metallica. They were more accessible melodic than the epic heavy metal shredders. The band was known for and music. Fans aided up the black album debuted at number one on the billboard. Two hundred the records. I single enter. Sandman reached number sixteen on the hot one. Hundred singles chart and over. The last thirty years has become an anthem. Used pump up crowds at sporting events in stadiums. All over the world now. A collection of songs called the metallica blacklist celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of metallica's black album it features stevie bridges my morning jacket kamasi washington and fifty other artists covering tracks from the black album.
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Remembering John Prine
"For more than fifty years ago John wrote songs that were sad and funny and overall just human songs about regular work in life songs about quiet ordinary days rolling by the songs that were incredibly profound he wrote songs you could grab your guitar and sing along with songs about simple honest truths songs you could use a sort of a road map to life songs that use the language that you spoke with your friends at the bar and songs that you could spend three or four weeks parsing and trying to figure out John died on Tuesday at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville he died from complications of COPD nineteen he was seventy three years old that road map to live John sang about so often he was singing to one person in particular take a listen to this I want to say this is when whenever I've read naming this sounds like advice S. as in I'm talking to myself and you know I was trying to convince myself for that at the time that time don't get wrapped up in your anger you know because people don't realize it but there you can be your own best friend your own best your own worst enemy yeah it's hard to say if you don't know yourself for for some reason you're the hardest person to get up for your case you know it's it's how it's difficult to forgive yourself but within three years of these that's kind of where I was staying there and it works for me is that I'm say this John Prine and Mariposa folk festival in a really Ontario over his seventy three years John's songwriting genius caught the attention of pretty much the biggest names in music Bob Dylan called him a midwestern mind trips to the nth degree who writes beautiful songs Kris Kristofferson hated him after he discovered him because his songs were so good and so easy Bonnie Raitt famously did a cover of his song angel from Montgomery which launched her career John this paper trail for tons of younger folk and country singers people like Jason Isbell and Margo price and Kacey Musgrave if you ever saw John do a live show he tell these hilarious stories and then sing the most devastating songs which is the combination that you really need in twenty eighteen John released his album tree of forgiveness at that time it was first new record in thirteen years and now well I guess it's in honor of John Prine I want to revisit this really special interview I did with him around the time that album came out I got to talk about a line of his that I repeat myself at least once a week even now as we go through this whole thing here's my conversation with the late John Prine when I get to heaven MACA guides in thank you for more blessings than one man can stand then I'm gonna get a guitar and started writing little band check in do swell down any day after live grand and then I'm going to give it back and is that this is there is god is my witness the judge John you can you