The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable number 241 april twenty [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► years to play ball [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to be [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► uncomfortable i'm your host Jason L it [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► is time for another episode of old movie [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► club or muvico full movie clips where we [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► watch an old movie and then or two or [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► three or five and then we talk about [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► them and to celebrate baseball's opening [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► week we have picked to baseball movies [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► so let me introduce my panelists David [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► lure hello hello Monty Ashley thanks for [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► being here [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► hello Erica and sign batter up I know [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► how much you love somebody who loves [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► baseball [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► I what I am just excited to be here when [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► we're talking about a movie that was [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► made in my preferred area of moviemaking [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► so I'm threat that's true that's true [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► well said Steve let's uh who voices the [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► old movie club theme song hello hello [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► play ball Jason voices is the term you [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► use and here as always the man who picks [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► the old movies on old movie club the old [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► man who picks the old movies on old [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► movie club it's phillip michael oh thank [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► you i feel like i never left [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► indeed so what do you what do you have [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► for us to explain yourself so so as you [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► mentioned it's it's baseball season at [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► some point soon when Morgan this is [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► about it is the opening week will yes [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► yeah baseball season is about to start [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► or just started depending on when you [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► are listening or started a long time ago [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► if you listen to this late [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► some teams are probably playing in japan [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► for some reason right now would be so it [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► got me thinking hey there's been a lot [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► of movies made about baseball over the [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► years some of them not so good some of [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► them okay [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► some of them I I kind of enjoy and and I [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► i picked a couple tonight 1a 1a [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► controversial pick under the under the [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► definition of old movie which we can get [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► to later but the other a a bit of a [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► classic in terms of in terms of when it [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► was made and the approach that the [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► filmmaker took with we're going to look [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► at pride of the Yankees from the [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► controversial pick under the definition [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► of movie [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► Wow [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► I get into that later 1942 his pride of [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► the yankees and 1976 'as the bad news [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► bearers let's start off with pride of [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► the Yankees might have made age before [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► beauty [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► I have lots of us about that 152 and [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► wrote some things down [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► well let me I i will quickly go through [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► the plot since basically it is the [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► biopic of lou gehrig uh perhaps the [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► greatest first baseman to ever ever play [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► the the grand game uh and as I think [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► Jason pointed out in in [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► hit it Twitter tonight it is the the [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► life of lou gehrig in real time because [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► i don't remember the movie being this [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► slow i don't remember but it it goes on [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► for a little shade over 2 hours and and [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► it feels like two hours [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► I didn't think so oh well you'll get a [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► chance to to rebut are cruel arguments [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► later [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► um yeah let me quickly just go through [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► the plot because they there's not a lot [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► of twists and turns here Lou Gehrig's [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► born Lou Gehrig's born luke air grows a [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► playing baseball lou gehrig goes to [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► Columbia he's really good at sports [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► he signs with the Yankees the Yankees [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► are a really good baseball team and [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► largely because of lou gherig has a [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► little bit of a friendly rivalry with [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► Babe Ruth please himself in the movie [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► lou gehrig meets a nice girl the the [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► lovely Teresa Wright one of my favorite [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► actresses lou gehrig wins many many many [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► awards he has a newspaper man who is his [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► best friend and you never leaves his [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► side and which when i'm sure we will [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► talk about good old Walter Brennan who [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► plays said newspaper man but then Lou [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► Gehrig gets gets sick you might have [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► heard of it Lou Gehrig's disease what [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► are the odds and he on yuh the movie [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► ends with him [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► spoiler alert the other guys at the end [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► now he doesn't have the walks he walks [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► off the set once often actually really [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► the maybe you haven't if you haven't [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► seen Lou Gehrig the the pride of the [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► Yankees you you've probably seen the [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► ending [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► yes because when this gets shown a lot [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► and for good reason it's the best part [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► of the movie is the most i think the [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► most emotionally resonant part but I'm [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► sure we'll get to that later one of the [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► reasons a I let me back up for a second [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► that this is a genre of movie that was [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► very popular in the nineteen thirties [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► nineteen forties and little bit into the [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► nineteen fifties that the baseball hero [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► biopic and generally speaking they're [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► not great movies they're kinda all cut [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► from the same cloth where it's the way [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► work hard and eat your vegetables Jimmy [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► and you can grow up to be like me one of [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► the ones that really stands out for me [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► as just an example of how mediocre and [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► middling these are is a movie called the [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► winning team which stars on a fellow by [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► the name of Ronald Reagan who went on to [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► other things [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► yeah never heard of anyone to act with a [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► chimp yes but enough about George Bush [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► is great and accuracy was a president [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► but he plays Peter Alexander in this [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► movie who was a bit notorious drunkard [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► and that that aspect of its touched on [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► briefly as i recall it's been years [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► since I've seen this picture but not in [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► not in to the extent that Peter [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► Alexander actually was a very a very [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► severe alcoholic and instead it's ronald [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► reagan and doris day and it's keep [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► trying and Peter Alexander you'll get [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► there soon and it-it-it it's not a very [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► good movie there are a bunch of others [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► that we could mention that are not very [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► good movies pride of the Yankees i think [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► is ok um and I think it's largely okay [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► based on the performances of Gary Cooper [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► and and Teresa right which is why I [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► kinda picked it i think it's a good [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► example of the best you can kind of hope [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► for in a [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► no a pre nineteen fifties baseball movie [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► where this will certainly be the most [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► earnest movie we ever picture for old [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► movie club there is no winks or nods to [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► the audience no hints at the darkness [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► that lurks in every man's heart that [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► this is just a straightforward [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► old-fashioned let's put on a show [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► and-and-and make the people leave with [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► the maybe a tear in their eye but also a [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► song in their heart about about what a [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► great guy who Gehrig was and it's [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► enjoyable you would've been more [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► enjoyable if it were better paste i [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► think but don't feel the word you're [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► looking for is hagiography this is an [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► elevation to godhood of the great Lou [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► Gehrig yes awesome [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► he was in all of the weight in every [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► aspect of life you know I think a lot of [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► the reason for that can be explained by [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► the fact that this was 1942 you just [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► mind as you read the oh he died later I [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► year previously here a year before [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► you're in a month in fact one of the [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► baseball players that you know but the [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► the live baseball players that they [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► pulled in to be actors in this film was [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► still active at the time right bill [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► Dickey right bill Dickey yeah also a [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► Hall of Fame baseball player but but [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► yeah but the fact that it's 1942 and if [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► you read the opening scroll it reads [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► like hey young soldiers off to war die [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► with dignity like lou gehrig yes indeed [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► the one of the rare films that is that [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► is that begins with a crawl written by a [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► writer just not connected with the the [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► story in any way [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► Damon Runyon was a sports writer and a [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► big big baseball cock and up that that [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► is the most mundane damon runyon thing [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► ever written he he's the author whose [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► stories returned into guys and dolls of [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► basically and and he you know it yet [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► there's a streak of cynicism and his [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► work that is not evident that crawl at [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► their own the movie people in this world [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► cynicism does not even exist [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► no oh no well yes it does in the form of [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► the evil of the evil reporter who is [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► your friend actually throttles at one [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► point another who is apparently a [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► stand-in for Ford Frick who became the [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► Commissioner of baseball [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► that's another story what so altogether [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► uh a confession i also picked this movie [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► because it features two characters who [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► were just I think monstrous and I really [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► wanted to be honest this this with this [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► one was for you Steve I'm gonna [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► disappoint you i think phil the Walter [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► Brennan character who is based on a real [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► sports writer named friendly but and is [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► a composite here but it's mostly [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► friendly it was very good friends with [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► lou gehrig and in this movie has I said [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► never leaves Lou Gehrig's I lou gehrig [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► is on the beach canoodling with his wife [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► i have had Walter Brennan pops into the [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► picture hey you how you doing here comes [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► better but it's do yeah can you imagine [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► a baseball player today going to the [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► doctor to get his results and [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► voluntarily bringing a reporter into the [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► room and keep it out of the papers ok [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► yes i will the reporter doing the whole [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► we're gonna we're gonna cover this up [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► no one's gonna find out the truth here [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► and but yes so there's the Walter [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► Brennan character and then the other [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► great monster of history that is [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► featured in this movie is mama Garrick [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► oh yeah man yeah she was the only way to [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► put any drama into the movie before the [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► end so they just made her the worst [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► person in the world [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► yeah I i have a phrase in so we're sort [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► of hopping around here i want my notes [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► about about mrs. Gehrig what she has a [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► great line where there is that series of [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► scenes where she goes shopping with mrs. [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► Geary which is not a thing you want to [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► do and no improvement with mrs. Geary [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► and at one point as they're putting up [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► the wallpaper that she's just bought [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► separately from what everybody else [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► expressed as the wallpaper that they [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► wanted in her son and his new wife's [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► bedroom she says oh this is much better [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► this is more practical wallpaper that me [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► laugh out more practical wallpaper [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► pattern [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► ok and what you don't want that MC [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► Escher wallpaper or that all paper that [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► get put in non-euclidean angles and [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► drives men bad it's simple but the issue [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► wallpaper you might actually walk out [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► the window or try to [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► door to get a breeze or even among Derek [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► is up [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► yes she'sshe's problematic she is the [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► key is the silent villain of this movie [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► and men in many aspects you know they [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► try and make a heel out of the out of [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► the snide cynical reporter who's babe [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► ruth's best buddy and who mocks lou [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► gehrig every turn until of course lou [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► gehrig is is is is sick and old but [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► there's a Seltzer fight at one point [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► there in their series of there is a [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► Seltzer fight yes but it if you ask me I [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► i really think mama Gehrig is this movie [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► is true monster I can't get mad at the [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► bad reporter because if you had your [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► choice to follow lou gehrig around and [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► get every story he feed you or follow [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► babe ruth around and get every story he [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► feeds you [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► you're gonna get a lot more material out [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► of paper and Alicia roof stuff is [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► unprintable well you can do that thing [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► about how we 815 hotdogs between its [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► dripping [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► that's right based on the evidence of [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► this movie Lou Gehrig never did anything [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► well he went to come on a lot of awards [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► and we played baseball [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► yeah he was a great baseball player but [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► you don't get the scoop to do to find [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► that out any beat up a guy in this [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► fraternity there was that [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► yeah I died by flying across the day [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► controversy and he was the apparently [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► the oldest freshman at Columbia you here [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► so get okay you just brought up several [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► things that i want to talk about one of [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► them is is that the challenge of a [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► portraying a life that is fine [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► yes again I like that they're so the [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► relationship is his marriage is nice and [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► they have a good thing they never let [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► the honeymoon and right they say that at [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► one point and at one point in my notes I [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► say lou and his wife sure do have fun [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► they wrestle with flowers and stuff and [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► what is that wacky rose throwing fight [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► seem forced oh man right it comes off [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► like that snowball fight in Groundhog [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► Day too many it's a challenge i mean [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► again you don't have to have I mean most [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► most marriages do not have movie level [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► drama but they don't try to make movies [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► out of those marriages and the this one [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► there's a movie and they're just every [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► time we see them it's like Oh [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► they're nice it's fine that that's why [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► mama gary i think is such a monster is [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► because they gotta do something to [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► complicate their their domestic life and [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► it is the monstrous mother-in-law Lucas [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► I didn't actually like i didn't i didn't [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► actually I love to Risa right but I [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► didn't like that character very much at [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► all at the beginning because you that [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► you can go through your hood [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► not that I mean that's just big deal but [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► Lou Gehrig is this he's just kind of a [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► big sweet dumb dope and she at every [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► turn is making fun of him and teasing [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► him in kind of a not very nice way at [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► the beginning she kind of gets over it a [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► little bit but I don't know it seems [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► like she does and then later she does it [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► to Walter Brennan two tries to make him [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► think that that lose cheating on her as [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► well you can make sure that your [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► president she gets her kicks from some [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► bad some twisted start but again I don't [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► like this girl you know that dude was [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► hanging around your house and your and [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► your beach trips all the time you [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► probably would do something similar just [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► he should know better than to think ill [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► of st. Loup india soon as you know what [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► moving he's in for pizza so i would so I [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► think that's a problem I think there's a [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► challenge you just that Lou Gehrig is a [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► nice fellow and has a head has a good [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► marriage and his his downfall is not [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► because this doesn't follow drama arc it [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► follows life our kids his his downfall [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► is that he gets a terrible disease and [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► dies [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► yeah the general structure of the movies [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► weird for me because for most of the [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► movie nothing bad happens to lose yeah [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► he's born he's a great baseball player [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► gets to go to college [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► gets to be on the Yankees wins a whole [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► bunch of championships with a bunch of [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► many titles because he is the best first [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► baseman to ever play the game has a [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► great marriage so you're thinking [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► nothing bad ever happens to this guy [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► then the worst possible thing happens to [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► this guy and movies over [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► I i think if you were going to remake [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► this movie the subject matter of the lou [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► gehrig story is his indie and and that's [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► why I think that the ending of the movie [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► is probably what works best for me [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► although I I i find Teresa Wright [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► charming in this movie so that I didn't [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► have quite the problem with their their [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► relationship that you guys are having [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► but obviously the last 15 minutes of the [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► movie is is what should have been your [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► move [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► yes and the real the real problem with [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► that is is the ratio because this is a [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► two-hour eight-minute movie [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► yep and 15 minutes of that is sad [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► Lou Gehrig is dying and the rest of it [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► is all stuff happens to lou gehrig but [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► nothing bad ever happens to leave here [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► it's the human drama part of it too [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► because what when he gets diagnosed [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► there there is that scene which yeah [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► it's hokey but it hints at the true [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► human story here which is you is it [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► three strikes doc that I never argue [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► with an umpire that and and don't tell [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► my wife she must know and she's like I [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► knew it the moment I came in and she [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► cries and all that's good but then we go [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► we switch from that to the the day of [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► the fair well which is again it [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► basically in real time it has all the [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► drama of a pregame ceremony at a [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► baseball game which is this a nun [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► I you are you saying that you weren't [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► impressed with the postmaster-general [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► doesn't want to see me the radio and the [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► radio announcer describing what's [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► happening like it's a horse race and now [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► the Postmaster General is gonna be [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► shaking his hand now we moved away that [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► I mean his speech is good but but but in [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► the gap there is what this movie or or [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► at least if you were telling the story [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► today how you would tell it which is it [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► is this human tragedy of this person who [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► is the best at has had a good life and [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► is the best at what he does and now has [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► gotten this terrible disease and it [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► struck down in this physical prime [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► exactly yeah and yeah it's just sort of [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► like I got a bad break a and then and [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► then he falls off of a chair and is [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► suddenly a terrible player and and then [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► he says I quit and gives us gives a [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► heart-rending speech and walks out and [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► that's the end of the movie and you're [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► missing you know I think I there's only [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► the hint of the human drama that [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► happened behind the scenes which I [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► understand for a movie that was made [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► 1942 was made right after his death it's [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► just now looking at you think you missed [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► you missed the most important part or [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► you or if you didn't miss it you only [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► showed us a glimmer of it at the very [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► end of two hours but even at the time [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► you think you can assume that people [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► know how good Lou Gehrig is right you [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► don't need to spend that hour of the [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► movie showing his baseball career [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► well there's also the the idea that you [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► know if if we're making this now for [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► making aloo Gary [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► now we're not having to cooperate with [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► what if anyone who knew him yes [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► and where is back then it's all you know [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► all the can't do what I watch like that [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► if you happy what Eleanor Garrett was [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► very involved in any in signing off on [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► this movie and it yet i mean the the [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► doctor scene is pretty much the opposite [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► of what really happened you know they [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► they sort of made it Rosie for him [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► because his wife didn't want him to be [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► depressed for four years and so it's [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► like well you know you might need a cane [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► for 10 to 15 years and you know it's [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► going to be okay you know you'll fight [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► it and and his final speech is yeah it's [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► mostly paraphrasing and using the same [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► things but in real life he ended with [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► you know I feel like the luckiest man in [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► baseball you know but you know I have a [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► lot left to live for [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► yeah which you couldn't really into it [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► you know at that point you can't do that [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► in the movie because well we know [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► yeah i think i would have been more [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► poignant actually if they had kept that [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► line and that was what am i if I have a [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► criticism of of of of how they truncated [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► that speech that would be at that's [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► because that's the that's the the the [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► dagger as it were [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► yeah now about managers coming out of [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► the dugout and it looks like he's going [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► to be making a pitching change going for [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► the left-hander while we wait let me [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► tell you about one of our sponsors it's [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► slack slack as a messaging platform for [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► teams work i really love slack we use it [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► all the time for all my little podcast [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► buddies and it gives us a place to [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► collaborate in a single location all of [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► us can talk there we can share files it [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► is a lifeline for me it puts all of all [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► of our disjointed communication tools [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► the emails that were sending instant [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► messaging Twitter direct messages public [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► tweet skype all this stuff in all kind [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► of a coalescence into slack and slack [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► becomes the place where we have all of [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► our conversations it's built around [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► search for the ground up [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► this is so great every discussion every [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► decision every document is archived and [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► searching for it is easy i have used to [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► so many times now to say what what was [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► that thing that my curly told me three [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► weeks ago and I can search for it and [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► find it in seconds and slack is [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► integrated with all [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► sorts of other web services it is not [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► out there on an island by itself it [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► works with Google Drive Google Hangouts [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► dropbox Trello get hub stripe mailchimp [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► and many more plus their own API if you [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► want to build your own integrations more [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► than half a million people and more than [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► 60,000 teams are using slap every day [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► including people such as me but also you [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► know the New York Times ebay adobe air [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► B&B and the icecube neutrino in [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► observatory at the south pole so it when [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► they say that it's on all the continents [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► they are not kidding it is in Antarctica [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► to they're all using slack slack mission [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► to make people's working life simpler [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► more pleasant and more productive and [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► boy it's working for me it worked for [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► you to this slack dot-com / smell create [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► a new team you can do that for free and [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► when you decide to upgrade to a paid [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► plan to get a hundred dollars in credit [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► by going to slack calm / smell [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► thank you so much too slack for [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► sponsoring the uncomfortable [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► looks like the pictures warmed up let's [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► get back to the game I would like to [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► make a specific criticism of this movie [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► which is that it does not need a musical [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► interlude in the middle [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► yeah she does it was made in the 1940s [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► ya know but I i deferred Erica here [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► Erica is quite correct i had had a [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► stopping and explain this to Stephen [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► little movies using what is going on [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► what are they doing and I was like honey [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► you see this is 1942 it was just [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► expected every film had this and this [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► was at the point where the woman hadn't [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► started singing it was just dancing and [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► I was like you know I said you know [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► usually it's somebody singing a song in [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► a club like this while the main [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► characters are sitting at a table [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► watching but you know in some cases the [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► dance with band and then somebody [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► started singing and I was like see see [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► that's entertainment [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► that's the hit song from pride of the [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► Yankees I like it when the film noir [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► suddenly has some hot jazz but here [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► especially for a two-hour movie seemed [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► kind of irrelevant [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► well as a blank even has a musical [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► number but come on his flaws in Yolanda [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► there is nothing irrelevant about veloz [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► and Yolanda or not a noble and his as [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► you know based on the fact that they are [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► in the first set of title cards [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► yes strongly they were a pretty big deal [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► in 1942 that was a good get crushes [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► that was that was about bizarre scene [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► but I was and I was just like how well [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► you know it isn't i'm already that you [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► wanted to [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► yeah it's the variety show portion of [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► the program and the previous scene we [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► learned though is another musical note [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► in a previously when they're at the [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► carnival in Chicago it turns out that [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► all the Calliope xin Chicago just play [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► that toddlin town over and over and over [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► again to tell you that you're in chicago [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► entire night I think modern-day movies [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► would be better if they had a mandatory [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► musical number interested in there for [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► no reason like imitation game there'd be [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► a little song and dance [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► well that that's some movies do the [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► tobey maguire spider-man has the [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► inexplicable macy gray musical member in [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► the middle of it before the Green Goblin [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► kill some people wonder why is that in [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► it there's that rave scene in one of [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► those matrix sequels [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah I did really enjoy every [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► step seen that babe ruth was in i might [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► think babe ruth is really great at [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► playing babe ruth I enjoy the most [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► really very well captain method acting [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► he seemed to like being on screen he [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► does not come off very well in this [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► movie though everything about it but [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► little bit it's interesting you know if [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► he shows up in the children's hospital [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► room scene where you know Little Billy [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► is is crippled and you know he's [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► promising him a home run and you know [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► all the scenes with Babe Ruth is him oh [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► and here's another picture get another [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► picture Kid and then he said I'll get [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► you home runs and walks out and and it's [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► amazing to me that he agreed to do that [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► the kid knows to get a better offer [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► immediately by the way it's a yes about [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► hitting 240 babes that one gets good who [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► comes in next me ask for three [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► I don't think it is best to ruin the [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► Yankees chance he did he did because he [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► turned the entire thing into a home run [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► hitting contest because as this movie [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► portrays baseball is nothing but a bunch [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► of people trying to hit home runs [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► well as you know from watching any [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► baseball movie taking an intentional [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► walk is the height of stupidity and got [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► a swing at those balls kids [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► yeah the radio announcers like he can't [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► get the second home run for that kid [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► it's the World Series the entire season [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► has led up to this and the radio [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► announcer is saying Gehrig I don't know [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► this could be a failure he's only hit [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► one home run in this world series game [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► Kenny hit a second home run for that kid [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► you see Jason back then they didn't [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► understand the importance of on base [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► to jest indeed what is that if i may [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► interrupt with some baseball nerdery [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► baseball-reference dot-com is the worst [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► thing that ever existed for movies like [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► this because you can go look up the box [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► why didn't you got that too and there is [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► a game where Lou Gehrig hit two home [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► runs against the cookie Bruce didn't hit [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► home but I everybody get one at all any [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► lost that World Series no no they want [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► that one I think [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► no I think that's the one they lost in [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► seven games oh I thought this was the [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► the 20-city the now I think this was the [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► one that was when I'm 20-hour we're [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► going to leave that's it this otherwise [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► delightful film is now ruined the guys [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► in 1942 would prefer that you call them [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► Wallops good point good point [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► I you know I may have I may be confusing [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► my dates i think this was one that they [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► actually won but a regard we gotta st [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► what says obviously this is the thing [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► that totally destroys pride of the [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► yankees and renders it one of the worst [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► movies in history [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► call me ASAP but Little Billy smiling in [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► his hospital bed with tears dripping [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► dripping down his face totally works on [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► home [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► I don't know when he shows up later [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► shape you it's me Billy see I didn't [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► like I didn't like Little Billy because [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► he looks like a tiny freaky-looking [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► steve buscemi I just couldn't get past [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► that freaky-looking steve buscemi really [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► I i will i will point out on the Babe [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► Ruth story starring William Bendix pulls [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► a similar trick where baby visits a kid [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► in the hospital and says hitting a home [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► run baby and babe of course just the [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► call shot right again yeah i think so i [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► can't remember if it's that exact home [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► run but hits the homerun for the kid and [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► then years later when babe ruth is dying [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► of cancer [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► the kid turns out to be as oncologist oh [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► wow [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► at the end of the movement of the [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► transfer and theirs and theirs are light [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► and there's a choir of children outside [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► singing take me out to the ballgame like [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► a team and that that by the way is you [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► got off light with pride of the Yankees [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► security there's so much space me out to [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► the ballgame in this movie two minutes [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► in my mic I i'm tired of take me as a [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► moment when it continues to follow a bit [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► with Billy though it doesn't work for me [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► because gary is so I bulgaria Cooper I [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► guess it's just so awkward in that scene [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► the end and that highlight something [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► that's that's kind of my one of my [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► bigger problems with this movie [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► together which is that they portray lou [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► gehrig as really really socially inept I [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► mean it's almost excruciating yeah it's [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► it's almost like he has Asperger's or [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► something the way yeah it's I think that [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► sort of gary cooper young remember from [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► another I you love ya an earlier movie [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► that we liked him a lot but he's a stiff [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► he has a stiff guy and I like his [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► performance in this movie i I'm I'm [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► willing to overlook the fact that when [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► he's young and in his prime Gary [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► Cooper's the exact wrong person to play [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► it but he does a really good job with [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► the older lou gehrig I really think he [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► acts very well in the scene where he [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► realizes that his body isn't responding [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► anymore and he manages to get a look of [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► panic across his face that I I just [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► think it's so very natural and and how [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► someone of his physicality would react [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► in that situation right body morning he [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► just bodies training in the locker room [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► and they always just kind of absolutely [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► terrified afterwards even though [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► everybody is playing it off like they [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► didn't see it that's a great scene [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► yes but it's to your point I will [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► concede the fact that whatever he is [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► forced to act with a human being is not [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► choice right it it is like well [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► lose-lose got a bit of the tub specialty [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► usual on solution especially when he's [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► acting with his his mother the scene [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► where she's just yelling at him because [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► he has lied to her about going to [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► Harvard Harvard yeah he's just he's got [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► this weirdly detached grin on his face [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► that may be very uncomfortable if he [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► were to take her seriously she's [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► screaming i wish i had died because he [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► isn't an engineer and Lady you are a [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► horrible horrible but really really one [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► of history's worst monster I didn't [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► stress that enough but I was totally [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► unaware that being in a frat was a [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► stepping stone on the road to [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► engineering every single engineer i have [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► ever known has done it completely wrong [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► well don't be so here the things you [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► didn't know about fraternities back in [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► New garrix time right and this goes this [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► piece of the age problem in this movie [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► which is a they show that fraternity and [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► I think why are there those the the [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► champions of industry [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► maybe these men in suits in the in the [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► fraternity house because they all look [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► like they're 30 at least at least Gary [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► Cooper is 41 playing be kid it hit the [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► plate some 120 years his junior yeah [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► yeah the girl that he meets is Myra [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► sheet that actresses is in her early [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► twenties at least but so many of those [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► frat boys there are frat boys in the [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► background who are young looking but [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► then the main ones all seem like they're [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► 40 i think to make Gary Cooper well they [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► yeah they do that throughout the movie [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► because all the Yankees have receding [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► hairlines yeah everybody's just way [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► older than that they should be but it's [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► weird because babe ruth is playing [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► himself 20 years earlier yeah mhm yeah [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► it wasn't that fat then so that is that [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► is that is weird [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► um maybe I i do like they have the guy [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► who is the exemplar of classes and was [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► like well you could let him in but don't [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► expect me to call him brother which is [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► sort of like that is Dax lets his heart [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► yeah that's as hardscrabble upbringing [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► that he's not respected as a son of the [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► the lady who is the the cook and also is [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► the son of a son of immigrants and he's [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► distracting to me because he looks like [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► one-third of andy richter but it is nice [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► to see him get his comeuppance she does [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► enjoy seeing him tackled he doesn't [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► there's a ramen and then he tells off [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► the Yankee Scouts who comes to look for [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► it was just so mad at that point I just [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► wanna go through the door through the [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► window [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► I I know I know Phil we talked about how [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► baseball reference's the worst thing [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► ever because you immediately if you're [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► in baseball there like like you and me [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► you look up the world series they played [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► against the cardinals in there there [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► were two and one of many one of the [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► middle austin yeah i did that did this [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► happen and they hit the home runs and [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► that's totally not true i had a few [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► other moments like that like uh when he [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► want wally pip pip has a terrible [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► blinking problem that have to take him [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► out because you're seeing double from [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► when he got hit my head the other day [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► and Gehrig is inserted at that point and [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► then has hit in the head by a ball in [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► the same game this is like weeks or [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► months of time that has been compressed [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► lou gehrig was on the Yankees for a [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► couple years before you or at least for [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► a year before he took wally pip spot in [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► the middle of the season so that's not [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► really an displayed sporadic [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► I need and it wasn't his first at-bat in [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► this is like Gary get in there is like [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► Oh me okay [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► like he's never played before and I [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► think throughout the movie they seem to [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► misunderstand the idea that Lou Gehrig [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► for the consecutive games record did not [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► have to play every inning [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► yeah and when they take him out it's [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► like oh my god it's an amazing moment [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► Lou Gehrig's coming out this is the end [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► of the streets like know he could come [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► out at any point it's the next day when [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► he doesn't play that it's the end of the [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► streak [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► it's very strange that was weird and I [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► also thought it was weird for as much as [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► this movie praises lou gehrig I felt [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► they could have made a bigger deal about [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► how he was incredibly good at baseball [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► yeah that's true because i didn't get [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► that impression he was the best first [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► baseman in the history of the game ever [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► yeah nobody who knows i know nothing [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► about baseball I mean I know so much [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► nothing about baseball that up until [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► like a year and a half ago I thought the [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► Dodgers were still in Brooklyn because [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► my only experience with them they're [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► from movies from the forties let me tell [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► you about this thing called the [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► designated hitter role Erica and said [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► dude hello your biology he is not only [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► the best first baseman ever probably by [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► most accounts but certainly top 20 and [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► maybe top 15 best players of all time [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► yeah yeah they didn't show that they [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► just showed him hitting the ball [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► everyone because it because in this [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► movie it's a home run hitting contest [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► but they're not well that the elephant [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► in the room here is that Gary Cooper for [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► being strapping individual was not a [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► very athletic individual and he was [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► right-handed and left-handed which lou [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► gehrig was and so showing him actually [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► trying to perform the sport of baseball [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► who was not a good thing that said he is [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► not this is not the worst betrayal of an [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► e an actor trying to portray an athlete [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► and in certainly a baseball movie that [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► honor goes to tony Perkins in the movie [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► fear strikers Alex out where he plays [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► jimmy piersall and it and it's actually [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► a pretty good movie for its time about [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► mental illness jimmy piersall had spent [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► actually time and uh what was in those [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► days known as an asylum because he he [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► just cracked under pressure but the [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► scenes where a tony Perkins is forced [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► do athletic endeavors you sit there [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► watching party went mad if he's been [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► running like that it's just such a weird [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► way for this this movie to be plotted [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► for a baseball movie you expect you know [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► when the the whole tanglefoot he trips [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► on the bats kind of thing happens you're [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► going to be paid off with a scene of him [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► hitting like a gigantic home run and [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► everybody shares wow maybe we were wrong [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► about this chump and that just never [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► happens you know he's a chump basically [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► and suddenly and all these awards this [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► by the way this movie is montage happy [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► no it is somebody from the eighties I [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► love I was like hey but i just don't [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► understand best investing and monetize [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► ever i think is the scene where at about [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► an hour and 40 minutes in we get the [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► scrapbook scene where it goes my [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► community get off at some point in this [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► film to CBU things that have transpired [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► I I that moment where I thought why is [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► she why she was why are we spending so [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► much time the scrapbook and then I [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► realized that then at the end of that [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► scene she starts looking the pages and [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► we move forward in time because that's [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► how you learn miller huggins is dying [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► yeah we're gonna we're gonna move to his [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► did to lose death now so we're done with [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► this the rest of this stuff suffice to [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► say he had a great career one of the [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► best ever and now we'll move on to the [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► end [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► suffice it to say we sure as hell are [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► going to show it to you nope i had left [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► earlier there's a montage that I enjoy [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► because of the technique involved [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► because it's showing that he played [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► baseball which again probably wait what [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► I think my favorite my favorite of all [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► of the montages I mean it's a once again [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► talking about movies movies from the [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► forties you get a lot of the sort of [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► montages of of headlines or you know the [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► the light up names outside of bars if [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► somebody's going on a bender that sort [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► of thing [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► and here i like the fact that they [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► didn't repeat themselves any of the [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► times they did it so the first time you [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► get headlines the second time you get a [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► bunch of flags the third time you get a [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► lot of jerseys and then at the end it's [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► a scrapbook so i have to give props to [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► the movie for for thinking up new ways [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► to do it every time I enjoy the jersey [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► montage that the way the journey jersey [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► montage work was Stadium jersey of of of [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► other team crowd shot railroad tracks [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► like that because it's cool to see the [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► old stadiums dont't on [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► that's playing in the back yeah its head [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► and of course if it hadn't been so long [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► they wouldn't have had to think of so [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► many different ways to do montages but [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► that one man's life where you instantly [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► structure this like a regular sports [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► movie because until the very end at no [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► point is he an underdog [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► that's right now it's true he's on the [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► 1927 Yankees in the nineteen [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► thirty-eight years what do you do with [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► that I feel like they could have taken [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► the wally pip story and made that a [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► little bit more where he's like learning [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► from pip and he's he's you know [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► pinch-hitting and he's going to you know [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► get back to the minors and coming back [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► up and trying to learn and then he has [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► his moment but instead it's like Wally [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► PIPP he comes to the team's you should [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► watch Wally PIPP and then wally pip [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► blinks a lot and says I gotta come out [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► and said it couldn't let go about and [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► you accept all about pip because that [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► Wally PIPP thing is that it i mean [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► that's a legendary story that the guy is [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► the first baseman for the Yankees four [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► years and then he one day because he's [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► got this problem because I got hit mad [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► he sits down he never gets his job back [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► because Lou Gehrig takes because he's [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► that good but but that drama is kind of [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► missing here other than I mean literally [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► is just Gary get in there and the rest [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► is history [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► so what I'm hearing Jason is that you're [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► proposing a wide sargasso sea only told [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► from the perspective of what we have [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► little garrix not so good about it how [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► did Wally PIPP feel about this because i [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► only you get your job back we don't stop [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► being injured [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► yeah a yeah I think he made a bit of a [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► meal of it on the on the rubber chicken [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► circuit Nolan stories about oh yeah I [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► had the most expensive headache ever [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► don't be like me you know fans whatever [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► you do don't admit you have a concussion [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► kids know what are we not gonna talk [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► about Walter Brennan is I really think [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► we'll begin to search results are all [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► Phil's Walter Brennan quarter i love [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► that scene on the beach which also i was [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► amused by their their use of floating [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► devices to demarcate the difference [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► between the sand it was in the studio [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► and the rear projection although the [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► best removing all i have to say this is [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► the when the motorcycle stop the car [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► yeah because i can't believe it is [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► literally the baby wheeled motorcycles [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► out next to the car with it and then [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► they just turn off the projector [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► actually coast to a stop but at no point [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► is there anymore [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► movement or suggestion that anything is [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► Israel they're betting on the beach [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► I liked the Walther present miss you [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► said pops out and he's like hey [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► everybody what are we doing today [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► take a little bit of a third wheel there [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► and they're like no nothing we're just [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► having a great time being married [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► because our marriage is great and Erica [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► mentioned a scene where where Teresa [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► Wright tricks Walter Brennan to think [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► that that lou gherig has betrayed her [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► and is having an affair when really he's [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► just playing baseball with the [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► neighborhood kids but all the rage that [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► slicker some runs Walter Brennan face [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► it's it's it's actually disturbing we [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► can live several minutes and watching [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► him build up to his justice by lou [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► gehrig all people why I'm gonna go get [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► them and I'm going to punch that guy [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► he's clearly a person who is frightened [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► of silence because that guy does not [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► like five seconds go by without starting [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► up another sentence [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► oh yeah it doesn't seem like the press [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► box must have been exhausting oh yes [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► it's between him and uh uh the the other [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► guy is a mystery machine looky area [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► Madison we can well be pretty mia is how [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► he talked but he probably shut up about [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► that after like one season of Lou [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► playing Robert Lee yeah but they kept [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► they kept going on and kept going to [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► keep that bit because you have to have [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► drama you had to have something but also [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► floors me about this movie is that it [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► was a co-written by Herman mankiewicz [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► yeah dude who but a year earlier was [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► co-creating that a little student film [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► called Citizen Kane yeah whatever [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► happened to that guy looks nice know [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► somebody got a career idea never been a [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► lateral move [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► I don't I don't think this is I don't [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► think this is a bad movie I think I'll [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► just know it's not a bad movie uur it's [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► of its time it has a whitewash of a a [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► figure who has a a few dramatic elements [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► in his life that aren't i think [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► particularly well told because instead [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► it wants to be a standard forties kind [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► of romance biopic so you spend a lot of [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► time with things that are a lot i think [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► less interesting in terms of hulu gary [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► was as a person and a lot more time with [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► you know or instead of the time with the [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► stuff that really made him unique and it [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► is of its time i mean it is [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► speaking Italian I felt it was other [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► than that it would tell the little bit [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► long it felt completely inoffensive to [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► me but it also didn't ever jump out it's [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► you know it's a romance with that [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► happens to be about the baseball player [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► you kind of point out that the reason [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► that i enjoyed I I also don't think that [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► this is a super great movie or anything [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► and i had definitely had some problems [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► with it but it's very very much of its [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► time and like I said this is my favorite [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► era of moviemaking so just watching a [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► film with sort of these these rhythms [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► and beets and just this style made me [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► feel very comfortable and while Stephen [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► was getting more and more bored actually [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► was building his lego baseball stadium [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► off appropriately because he couldn't be [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► bothered didn't watch two hours and [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► eight minutes of it i thought--like it [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► goes down easy it is a little bit long [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► but its its pleasant in what it does [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► especially if you get into the rhythms [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► of this kind of a this kind of error on [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► this kind of weather for two hours and [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► eight minutes past surprisingly quickly [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► until I said thought about it and [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► realize nothing happened in that time [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► yeah I don't know it's it's it's closin [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► and you know I mean I grew up in the [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► Yankees house so you know whenever it [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► showed up on TV but I like there was a [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► legit my well-knit I'm innocent I I'm [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► you know I have nothing to do with this [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► I was absorbed into Yankee stage he was [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► a hostage you put it that way and see my [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► father would watch it my step-brother [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► would watch it they can quote it [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► verbatim i mean i've seen it you know [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► this is actually the first time I've [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► ever seen it without commercials so it [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► was actually short and well you know it [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► and it always reminded me you know the [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► more watched and watched movies from the [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► period it always reminds me of night and [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► day which is the the biopic of cole [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► porter who similarly you know he just [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► sort of fell into everything and had [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► success and was great songwriter and all [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► that and then a horse fell on him and [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► broke his legs and that kind of threw [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► off the rest of his life and so he had [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► one tragic thing but of course the movie [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► doesn't tell anything about his life [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► really it doesn't tell anything remotely [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► true but it's got a lot of musical [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► numbers and it's great and it's the same [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► kind of you know he's such a great guy [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► but did it have village and Yolanda [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► doing oddly enough they did a baseball [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► sequence in the middle of that [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► you know it's kind of it's less a movie [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► and more just a giant moving pedestal [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► but yea standing up on ya i think i [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► would have liked this movie more with a [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► worse actor because if you're going to [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► make it more about how great Lou Gehrig [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► is and you make Gary Cooper do it [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► there's not a lot I mean he is that is [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► Gary Cooper easiest yeah I trying to [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► think you would cast if you're making a [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► 1942 I'm saying make it interesting [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► let's throw Cary Grant in there and see [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► what happens rapidly plays that [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► character ssa make it interesting as the [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► suave lose at least he'll have some sort [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► of inner life which I never thought this [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► lou gehrig ever did [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► mm and it's it's like that Joe Montana [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► SNL sketch work he has no subtext [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► everything he thinks he says yeah yeah [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► you know there's one other thing that we [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► should say uh Steven maybe do homework [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► for this he sent me an article about the [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► myth that they reversed every scene [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► think Gary Cooper was playing [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► left-handed and which is totally not the [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► case there are absolute lie couple of [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► scenes that way this this article was [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► insanely long and very much scarily [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► welcome to the baseball nerds [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► yeah wow I didn't know how creepy you [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► guys were same as the old nurse [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► yeah I I wasn't even gonna bring that up [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► Erica because it is hit it to fall so [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► much did you know that I'm ready right [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► okay i read some of that article so I [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► feel I seems larger portion [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► yep i am john there's an article [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► explaining what day each external shot [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► was done in which stadium at the very [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► stadiums yeah yeah [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► oh there I mean a lot of it was shot at [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► Wrigley Field in California [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► understanding in for all the different [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► fields [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► go figure right but they had they had [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► some nice shots of up stands and yes [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► interesting aspect and it probably had [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► just enough of a scoreboard that [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► somebody was able to go to retro sheet [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► figure out all the details [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► yeah this was between innings six and [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► seven of them [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► so to sum up III think this is it's a [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► very good example of a picture that you [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► would make in the nineteen forties that [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► I forget who said it that goes down easy [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► yeah it's not met yeah it's not gonna [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► a trouble you too much you're not going [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► to be terribly bored though you will [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► look back and say my god this is two [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► hours and again i think the the closing [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► scene pax pax a bit of a punch so it's [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► it's a for what it is it's a it's a [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► pretty enjoyable flick we and that's [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► what you walk out of the you know in [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► theory you walk out of the theater with [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► is that last punch again you know what [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► more do you need [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► so apparently the studio was totally [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► wondering that last shot [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► they won't do a thing where he walks and [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► hugs Teresa right and instead of the [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► current shot is just him walking into [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► the shadows and didn't respond to [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► comments for someone shouts play ball in [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► the background it's a terrific seen that [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► it's up to you to know that he died a [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► couple years later and didn't just walk [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► around on a crutch for 15 years right [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► you're set yeah they already expected us [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► to know that he was a great baseball [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► player without showing us so why don't [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► you assume that too [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► yeah I like although I i actually [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► thought that the the movie was going to [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► end on the previous shot because there's [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► also a really nice shot where he wants [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► from from the mic and he walks toward [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► the dugout and the camera just stays [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► there and waller and smaller and starts [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► to disappear and I was thinking to [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► myself wow that would actually be a [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► great last shot that he just walked into [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► the dugout is gone in the and and then [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► instead they kinda like oh they cut and [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► then you see what it is which is that [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► shadowy hallway and he disappears [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► completely into the shadows and they say [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► place actually almost the same shot [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► yeah yeah the dissidents I had the same [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► same sort of experience i was very [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► disappointed when they cut from that [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► shot from from him walking into the [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► dugout side like always a great ending [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► and then they did it again i said okay [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► well it's really a great ending yeah [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► yeah to do it twice [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► directed by sam would who directed the [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► Night at the Opera I'm previous [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► selection forget old movie closing so [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► many old movies now it's amazing [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► yeah Ford movie by got a few notes i [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► gotta bleed off as is my wat i have to [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► have to call out in a very early scene [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► where yung Lu is a is playing in the [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► sandlot he there's go ahead the allow it [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► yes the the younger boys the other boys [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► I think they what they require them to [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► pay [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► in baseball card and paste in baseball [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► cards just to play and you know he sets [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► up in the batter's box and I think [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► there's a single pitch and he swings and [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► then roughly half a second later about [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► 10 feet behind him the a ball is clearly [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► shot out of some sort of cannons and [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► disappears into the middle distance yeah [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► was that you know you would think you [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► could get a kid to actually hit a ball [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► it's something you would think in the [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► making of this film but yeah speaking of [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► that scene where you get a ball and [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► broke a window that's it that's okay [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► because Sandlot baseball is played [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► nearer offices story and I thought it [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► was weird that actory yeah I thought I [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► thought it was weird that men columbia [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► athletic director's office also had a [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► windows are you saying that they don't [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► field [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► well that's how they can tell they're [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► good prospect i read some bit of trivia [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► there that said that that was that was [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► one of the bit of apocryphal things [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► about this problem is that is not in [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► fact hovering a few feet over the [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► baseball time a little bit of artistic [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► license there there's a line that that i [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► have to mention because it feels [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► strangely low for this otherwise dramas [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► film it's what we have to do kill you to [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► get you out of the lineup yeah yeah I [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► was wondering how that stayed in the [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► script yeah I have that I have that line [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► written down with like 10 ! that really [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► wow for didn't write you want that after [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► its cold you know another thing that I [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► found quite disturbing was when they [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► refer to Eleanor's father mr. Twitchell [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► as the hot dog king is when everybody [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► knows that Roman is the hot dog king of [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► chicago sausage king of Chicago i'll [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► have you know well sausages hot it's a [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► subtle but very important is it so very [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► much difference [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► welcome to sauce attract anything had [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► two kings have negotiated for [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► generations to have to separate their [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► their empires last thing i want to [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► mention is the the goodbye speech which [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► is generally pretty awesome throughout [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► the entirety of it there's this really [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► grainy process shot of babe ruth's face [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► yeah bottom like cut eventually but he's [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► there for a long time [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► I'm behind a microphone just it's [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► terrifying and he's a scary guy [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► yeah I like Babe Ruth throughout this [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► movie but that part is weird I i do like [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► Moby I just you know that guy was a he [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► was a character and it comes through [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► that he's a character even though it's [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► you know old babies playing in paper if [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► you had some swell hats babe but this [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► one is top yeah uh-huh that's the last [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► withdrawal being a hat okay i'm watching [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► an awful lot of movies from the thirties [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► and forties and I've never seen anybody [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► eat a straw hat before is that a thing [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► that's to show that they're just big [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► kids that's the sort of thing actual [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► fraternities would do when they weren't [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► sitting on flagpoles okay then you're [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► saying terrible things about the poor [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► yeah practice also known as the same [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► kind of boobs is Gary yes that baseball [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► fans are the same kind of boobs carry em [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► that's all [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► yeah I don't think the final speeches [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► nearly as echo is everyone acts I think [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► they may be thinking of the actual [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► reaction of the actual pieces before the [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► Super echoing the actual speech has lots [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► of that whoever whoever did this sound [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► design for this new there needed to be [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► stadium echo but wanted to be audible so [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► yes but there are places where it's not [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► when they show crowd shots [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► surely all you hear is the echo and you [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► can actually hear what he's saying in [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► those parts which I found kind of us [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► really unimportant parts and i like that [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► the the the cop in Chicago welcomes [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► himself into the mansion so that I love [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► that scene that is such a 1940 see we [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► can witness the parish proposal he just [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► brings you don't need me anymore [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► yeah this movie is not paying a great [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► picture of police work know how you're a [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► baseball player [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► come on boys the law don't apply to you [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► Lou every police car is driving Lou Gary [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► to the stadium [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► it was a simpler more innocent time it [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► was it was rocks are above the law [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► that's really the moral of this tale [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► yeah cops were more corrupted we like it [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► that way and i love the in the the [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► panoply of nuanced accents that make up [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► this film the Irish cop at the beginning [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► is pretty good super super areas [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► yes i would also like to point out that [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► that pop gherig has a lovely cameo in [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► Casablanca 00 i enjoyed pop carry a lot [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► yeah i'll pop characters yeah he stayed [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► out of this horrible wipes way [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► yeah good work up gary is good and he [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► does his best to explain that two young [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► one point maybe she makes a complete [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► hash of it [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► mog eric is terrible but pop Gehrig's [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► okay is it right now and i spent a lot [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► of this film kind of disappointed [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► because I I think you first mentioned [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► this character when we were talking [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► about Nick vu [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► yes and and so I was expecting this an [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► accent that would just you know shatter [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► my eardrums with its awfulness and the [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► the accent isn't really the point you [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► know I guess it's really more the [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► character yeah yeah I should have I [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► should have been more straightforward [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► yeah that's alright that's my fault i'm [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► not going to get no ceremony Yankee [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► Stadium thats future oh some Yahoo seems [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► to have gotten loose on the field and is [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► running around naked [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► well securities going out to capture him [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► in the meantime let me tell you about [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► one of our sponsors incomparable is [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► brought to you by our good friends at [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► mail route imagine a world without spam [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► or viruses or bounced email clogging [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► your inbox opening your email seen only [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► the legitimate email that you want and [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► need to receive mail route can do that [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► for you everyday it does that for me [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► here's how it works malware is a [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► powerful service lives in the cloud you [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► don't have to install any hardware or [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► software you don't have to maintain [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► anything all that happens mail route [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► servers you point your domains email [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► addresses your MX record to mail route [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► servers mail route takes in all the male [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► that's coming in from the big bad [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► internet sorts through it finds the bad [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► stuff leaves it behind and passes on to [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► your server only valid messages so as a [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► desktop user you will love that your [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► inbox is cleared there's a simple web [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► interface in order to do things like see [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► what males being filtered set your [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► filtering levels and even 1-click [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► whitelist and deliver messages that were [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► filtered an error which doesn't happen a [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► lot a lot but occasionally it happens [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► super-easy email administrators an IT [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► professionals are the ones who really [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► love mail route there's an API for easy [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► account management their support for all [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► of the usual things that you'd expect [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► ldap Active Directory TLS male bagging [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► that's a good one [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► outbound relay everything you'd want [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► from the people handling your mail with [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► bottom line is what mail route does is [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► it gets between you and the big bad [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► internet that's trying to send you [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► terrible terrible mail you don't see it [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► your server doesn't see it [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► everybody stays protected you can start [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► a risk-free trial without even putting [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► on a credit card so there's no reason [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► not to sign up you need to change your [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► MX record so you need somebody who knows [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► what that is if you don't know what that [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► you need to find a friend who can help [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► you and then your mailbox and hardware [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► completely protected all happens in the [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► cloud with the intelligence of mail [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► route there's no reason not to try it [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► now my pals who listen to be [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► uncomfortable you have a special deal [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► ten percent off for a lifetime of your [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► account mail route if you visit mail [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► route dotnet / Snell now that's mail [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► route net / smell thank you to mail [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► route for sponsoring incomparable and [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► their frog marching that guy off the [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► field [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► so back to the action well let's move [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► ahead 35 years yes let's go ahead to a [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► film about is a diametrically Posey and [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► Derek story as one can be and still be a [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► movie how do i I don't think the the [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► word scabrous can be used and how to [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► describe motion pictures quite the way [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► it would describe the bad news bears [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► which is a I just think a delightful [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► commentary about sport and childhood and [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► how adults ruined everything [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► my yep yeah and it I everytime i watch [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► this movie I think off the bad news [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► bears this is this is gonna be okay and [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► then i watch Messick my god this is a [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► great picture it is it really is [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► considered maybe one of my top 5 this is [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► the time I watch it I everything about [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► this movie is so fantastic from the [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► screenplay to the direction the acting [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► it is it is so good anyhow I should [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► probably summarize the movie as quickly [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► as possible [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► there's a very competitive little league [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► team in southern a little league in [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► Southern California a do-gooder city [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► councilman Sue's so that everyone can [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► participate in and all the cast offs are [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► thrown into this one [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► team which is managed by Morris [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► Buttermaker who is played by what Walter [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► Matthau out and the only reason he's [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► apparently doing the gig is because he's [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► being paid handsomely to do it [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► he's a washed-up minor league baseball [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► player he's a high-functioning alcoholic [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► although high-functioning might be give [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► our duel too much too much credit [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► yeah yeah whatever introduced to him [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► when he pulls into the Little League [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► parking lot at dawn reaches into the [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► cooler in his backseat cracks of [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► budweiser drains off the top couple of [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► ounces and pours in some jacket and I [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► want to back up there because i think [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► that is one of the greatest opening [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► shots in the history of the most [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► beautiful you got this beautiful shot of [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► a little league team practicing on the [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► field and it is just this slice of [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► Americana and they're doing drills and [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► such a this junker car pulls him and [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► it's walter matthau with his hangdog [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► expression and he porks about the [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► budweiser that is his grab from the [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► cooler in the back seat of his card but [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► even in the nineteen seventies violating [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► all sorts of a big container grabs for [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► the bottle of Jim Beam the the Bourbon [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► you choose when you really hard [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► particular about bourbon or is it into [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► his that risk is now empty can of [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► budweiser grant is all [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► yeah that's flavor country no that's a [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► great shot because then sets up the [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► entire approach of this movie and we [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► kind of know everything we need to know [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► about Buttermaker at that point I don't [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► think we do yet because we still have at [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► this point we've only seen him drink one [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► brand of beer [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► yeah he the best that he's always [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► drinking something different like he [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► just wanders historic grabs whatever is [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► closed when he got rainier flips [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► whatever let's go i'm just drinking beer [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► well the obvious explanation for that is [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► he bought whatever was on so yeah I've [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► literally has he clearly has a favorite [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► brand because there are three places [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► where we see Budweiser [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► yeah but throughout the film he's [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► drinking budweiser Mickey's big mouth [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► miller high life let's yep there's a [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► there's a scene where he actually puts [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► the beer back before drinking it we [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► don't get to see what brand that is then [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► he's on Pabst Blue Ribbon Budweiser [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► again more Budweiser and then in the [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► championship game he's drinking coors [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► though in the bottom half of the 60 [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► transitions to lucky lager [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► and there's actually a point where he's [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► drinking a lucky in a bottle on the [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► bench but then he stands up moments [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► later and it's turned into a course in [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► the kinda and even in the team photo at [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► the very end he as a beer it's just it's [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► it's fantastic and anything is if you've [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► ever dealt with alcoholic and [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► particularly a poor outcome you you've [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► seen that there's there may be a [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► favorite brand there but it's very [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► rarely in rotation because the the ANP [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► only has one beer on sale right [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► everytime i watch bad news bears i am [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► surprised because in my head because of [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► the first time I saw it it's about kids [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► playing baseball [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► yeah right and then I watch it I go [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► alright this is about water bath out [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► right well I'm i saw this movie so many [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► times as a kid on TV and so it came off [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► to me as just a it's a funny baseball [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► movie for kids [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► yeah oh it is so not for kids because [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► the end this thing is that they they [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► trimmed it down the edited for [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► television and they took out pretty much [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► everything that was you [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► objection intellectuals have so much [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► stuff that I never noticed back then [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► that the fact that they it completely [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► I completely missed the fact that they [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► only have a team because some a-hole [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► politicians sued yeah in the first place [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► he doesn't care enough to manage his [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► sons team he paid or even talk to the [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► games until until the very end of the [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► area no one shows up at the games i [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► think there's a chance [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► all of these kids are orphans I never [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► understood why Tatum O'Neal calls him [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► boilermaker throughout the film and that [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► of course makes more sense now out of [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► the one of the funny things is that [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► everyone calls him by the wrong name [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► using butter waterworks all-butter crud [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► x 10.5 well the Tanners got a thing [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► a boilermaker as you say and there's [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► this like a bunch of other x squared [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► people just totally calling the wrong [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► name no no one gets out to our forests [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► butter [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► perhaps most important that the fact [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► that the team moms and the coaches are [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► so absolutely awful completely [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► completely went over my head back that [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► and and how much they clearly hate the [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► intrusion of butter maker and this [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► politician on their little baseball [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► fiefdom yeah and that that all rings so [TS]