Season 1 Finale: The Utlimate Everymen (Kurt Russell & Patrick Swayze)

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Hello.

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Hello.

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I'm Katie and welcome to the

season one finale of RetroMate.

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Today, we wrap up our celebration

of Kurt Russell and Patrick Swayze,

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the ultimate everyman of cinema.

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Get ready for one last look

at their iconic careers.

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I think I'm going to start by sharing

a few recent listener messages.

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The first one is a review actually.

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So hint, hint, everyone.

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Give me a review, please.

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This is an apple review.

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The title is great host

five stars by charger 91.

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Katie is a very kind and warm personality

who does a great job hosting her show.

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She does her homework for all of the

movies she reviews and brings great

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insight along with her opinions.

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I have not listened to an episode in

which I disagree with what she has to

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say about the films and look forward to

checking out more episodes in the future.

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Her guests are insightful.

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For the most part, and the atmosphere

of the show is like having a

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good conversation with a friend.

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I recommend giving her a listen.

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Thank you.

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Charger 91 then on pod chaser.

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I think I've mentioned before, but and

there's a link on my captivate site too,

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which is retro made dot captivate dot.

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F.

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M.

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If you want an easy link to pod

chaser, if you, are not an Apple user.

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This one is from Stephanie and it's

regarding the mean season via podchaser

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made me want to watch this movie.

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Scott and Katie have a fun

discussion and it was educational.

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I didn't know what mean season meant.

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I didn't either.

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Also at the beginning of each episode of

retro made is our childhood on a podcast.

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Love hearing the music

news and shows of the time.

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Thank you, Stephanie.

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Oh, Stephanie also gave one about

Grandview USA and Three's Company.

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My favorite part of this

was Three's Company.

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Loved it.

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Yes, Terry was my favorite too.

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I had said that Terry was

my favorite blonde roommate.

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She says, now I'll have

to see this movie too.

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Hadn't heard of it before.

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And then here's one from Megan and

is just a general, not specific

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to any episode on Podchaser.

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I'm fairly new to podcasts

and love this one.

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All of the nostalgic trips down memory

lane from the good old days are fantastic.

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And many I've totally forgotten about

until Retromade rewinds and reminds me.

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Yeah.

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Music, TV shows, people, places,

happenings of the time, fashions,

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toys, and of course movies of the

time, I particularly have enjoyed the

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theme of season one, Patrick Swayze

and Kurt Russell, our every men, Katie

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does an excellent job preparing and

providing all of the helpful info

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and has some awesome guests as well.

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Thank you.

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And I have a listener email, and

this is in reference, it's kind of a

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general email, but also focuses some

tidbits that I had requested feedback

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for from the fatherhood episode.

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This 1 is from so Richardson

from backlog cinema.

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He says, dear Katie, how's it?

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I hope that you've had a fruitful year.

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I'd like to congratulate you on

having your successful very long

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season of Swayze and Russell.

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It has been a long season hasn't it?

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They won't all be this long.

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It's just that Kurt Russell and Patrick

Swayze had a lot of movies from the

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80s and 90s that we had to cover.

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And I'll get into those numbers here

in a bit, but back to Zoe's email.

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He says, I still like how you touch on the

big things that happen in entertainment

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on the week of the movie's release.

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In the latest episode, you talked

about Jodeci and while you recognize

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their impact, you weren't familiar

with their cover of Lately.

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Yes, Lately is a cover

of a Stevie Wonder song.

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I actually couldn't remember

it as I was listening to you.

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I had to stop the playback of the episode

so that I could listen to the song.

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This is quite embarrassing

as I'm a big Jodeci fan.

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I think I have all of their albums,

so I should have remembered the song.

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While listening to all the memories

came flooding back, the version

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that hit number one was their

live recording on one of those MTV

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unplugged shows, and they nailed it.

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You could almost tell that it's a

Stevie Wonder song as you listen to it.

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As for Onyx, the rap group

definitely has more hits than slam.

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I had Maybe assumed that

it was a one hit wonder.

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So thank you.

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Thank you.

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So but for me, that's the one

and only that really matters.

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I don't follow them that much.

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The only other song that I

know that they did after some

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research was a throw your guns.

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It's all I have.

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I just wanted to chime in

with my 2 cents and encourage

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you to keep up the good work.

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Best wishes.

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So thank you.

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So, and right back at you.

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All right.

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Well, I was glad to share

some listener feedback.

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I would like some more if you

guys want to send me an email

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RetroMadePodcast at gmail.

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com.

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Always need those reviews and those

ratings comments on YouTube, et cetera.

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Keep it coming.

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Okay, so in this retrospective

of season 1 I'm in marketing,

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so I'm very numbers oriented.

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So let's take a look there 1st.

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There were 40 movies.

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So that's why the season was so long.

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It's almost an even split.

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Kurt had 22 and Patrick had 18, but I

will say that Patrick had North and South,

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which was a multi season mini series.

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It was like multiple movies in one.

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So I would say it's pretty even.

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Between the amount of content from

the eighties and nineties of our

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two every men, I was lucky to be

joined by 34 different guest hosts.

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So, all of you guest hosts out

there, I hope you're listening.

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I want to thank you personally.

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And hopefully you'll be

back to join me on season 2.

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We had two handsome hunks that we covered.

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And I dubbed them the ultimate Everman.

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I hope you guys agree.

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It kind of sounds like a lot of

you do, but even if you don't,

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I'd like to hear from you.

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They're very similar in age, too.

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Does anybody know who's older?

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And by how much?

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Yes, Kurt is older, but

only by about a year.

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Kurt was born March 17th,

: 1951

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And Patrick was born August

th,: 1952

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Now, a long running gag of our first

season was, Trying to get my guests

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to agree with me that I thought they

looked alike because I very much

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think that they look a lot alike.

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And I would say the long story

short in terms of the consensus

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is that it was a mixed bag.

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Some people did, some people

didn't, some people very much

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did, some people very much didn't.

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Ultimately, I think I was able

to twist some arms into kind of

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seeing it after I pointed it out.

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It's kind of one of those things,

like when you buy a car, you

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don't, you only notice that car.

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If you buy it, things like that anyway,

just to recap, some of the movies

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that we covered , I did not cover

the season in a chronological order.

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It sort of turned out to

be maybe a little bit.

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Front loaded with the more popular

films, and we ended the season

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with some of the lesser films, and

that was likely due to guest picks.

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So, by the end of the season, all the good

ones, so to speak had been picked, but.

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We start with Kurt Russell covering

the 80s and 90s movies of his career

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in 1980 with Used Cars, and then

going up to: 1998

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So, Used Cars.

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Then we have The Fox and the Hound,

where he voiced Copper, and that

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was released in 1981, the same

exact day as Escape from New York.

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Then we have The Thing.

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And then Silkwood, Swing Shift, The Mean

Season, The Best of Times, Big Trouble

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in Little China was 86, Overboard 87,

Tequila Sunrise, Winter People, Tango

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and Cash, that's 89, now Backdraft as we

s in: 1991

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Captain Ron, Tombstone, Stargate, and in

96, we get the sequel of Escape from New

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York with Escape from LA, then Executive

Decision, Breakdown, and Soldier.

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Very similar to Trajectory

with Patrick Swayze.

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I did cheat a little bit.

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I started the season or his 1st

film role was actually in: 1979

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that's just because it was his very

1st theatrical performance ever.

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So that was Skatetown USA in 1979

and then Uncommon Valor in: 1983

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Then The Outsiders, Red Dawn, Grandview,

USA, North and South, the 1st season

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was in 1985, Youngblood, Dirty Dancing

in 87, they both had spectacular

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movies in 87, Roadhouse in 89, both had

spectacular movies in 89, then Next of

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Kin, Ghost starting the decade of the 90s.

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That was 1990 and then Point Break

in 91 City of Joy, Fatherhood, Tall

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Tale, Three Wishes, Two Wong Fu, Thanks

for Everything, Julie Newmar, that

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was 95, ending in 98 with Black Dog.

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So they both had their

last movie of that decade.

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Where they at least

were top build in: 1998

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So neither of them had

a big movie in: 1999

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Interesting.

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You guys tell me what your

favorite Kurt movie is.

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Tell me what your

favorite Patrick movie is.

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From the 80s and 90s.

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That was, that's the

criteria for this season.

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You could probably tell from

the episodes, but my favorite

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Kurt Russell movie is Overboard.

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Followed very closely by

Big Trouble in Little China.

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Patrick Swayze.

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Dirty effing dancing and

I had several guests.

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I feel like that didn't seem

into it or hadn't seen it.

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And I, I just cannot say

it's not just for girls.

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Like there's beautiful women.

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It's so it's a hot, hot, hot, hot.

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Movie the music is epic dirty

dancing y'all need to rewatch it

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or watch it if you haven't and then

followed very closely by Roadhouse

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Very clearly.

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I hated Stargate.

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That's my least favorite Kurt Russell

movie of this season did not like it at

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all There wasn't a movie of Patrick's that

I didn't like at all So it's kind of hard

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to pick which one was my least favorite

so to speak Oh Rambo's joining me Usually,

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you guys, I have the dogs kenneled

while I record, but I didn't this time.

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So that's who's back there.

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He's, he's that's that

tail wagging behind me.

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That's Rambo.

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So, okay.

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My least favorite movie for Patrick

was kind of hard to pick one, but

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ultimately I went with Grand Theft USA.

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It was just weird.

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I didn't love it.

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It was my least favorite.

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Now People Magazine started their

Sexiest Man Alive in: 1985

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never represented, which it's kind of a

travesty in my opinion, but Patrick was.

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Anybody have any guesses which

year people honored Patrick?

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Patrick got our people's

sexiest man alive in: 1991

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There's several reasons why I

wanted to put these two together in

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addition to them both being super

handsome, them being every men,

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them reminding me of each other.

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They have a lot of connections actually.

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So I want to.

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Talk through that with you, I will say

there's even more after doing the season.

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I recognized even more connections.

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So they're both pilots.

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Both of them had pilots license.

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There is a fox and the hound connection.

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So the original 1981 Kurt voiced

copper and then there was a 2nd 1.

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I forget which year sometime later, but

Patrick voiced a character in the 2nd 1.

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Cash was his name.

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Isn't that interesting?

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Kurt also played a character named

Cash but Cash was the leader of a

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band called the Sing and Strays.

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So there's a fox and a hound connection.

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Speaking of Tango and Cash, we

talked about this in the episode but

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Patrick was actually originally cast

as Gabriel Cash in Tango and Cash.

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That Kurt ultimately took but he

did Roadhouse instead, and I'm not

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mad at that, that's, that's awesome,

Roadhouse is a, is a better movie,

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even though Tango and Cash is Awesome.

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Kurt Russell was considered for Patrick's

role as Jack Charles in Fatherhood, as

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well as the role Truman in Next of Kin.

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They both had athletic

aspirations, but injuries turned

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them towards acting full time.

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So I'm, I mean, I don't want them to

have injuries, but we got them as actors.

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So I guess that worked out for us.

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Kurt Russell did pursue

baseball very seriously.

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He even played in the minor

leagues before an injury

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ended his sports aspirations.

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And then he fully committed to acting.

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Similarly, Patrick Swayze

initially trained as a.

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Dancer attending Harkness ballet and

Joffrey ballet schools, but transitioned

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into acting after injuries, curtailed

his dance and gymnastics career

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that he talks about in his book,

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Patrick Swayze and Lisa Naomi

wrote the time of my life.

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That's the book I just showed.

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So if you guys haven't read it,

this is another reminder for you.

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They both played truckers.

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So again, I know we talked about it,

but truckers were hot in the 80s.

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According to cinema, black dog

and big trouble in little China.

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They were both in Westerns tombstone.

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Do you guys remember the

Western that Patrick's in?

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So tombstone for Kurt, which

one was Patrick and anyone,

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anyone, anyone tall tail.

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They both dressed in drag.

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To Wong Fu for Patrick and

anybody remember Kurt dressed

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in drag and Tango and Cash.

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They both played cops, Patrick in Next

of Kin and Kurt in Tequila Sunrise.

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Although I will say, I think

Kurt played cops in several

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movies, especially later too.

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They both played military soldiers,

Uncommon Valor for Patrick and Stargate

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escape from New York and escape from L.

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A.

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and then Kurt also played

a cop in tango and cash.

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So, yeah, Kurt has played a lot of

cops as well as military people.

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So they both played cops.

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They both played military soldiers.

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They both played characters

named Jack in a lot of movies.

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Of movies, I know that's a

common name, but I mean, come

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on can you guys think of them?

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So, Kurt Russell, which

movies did he play Jack?

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You know what Jack Burton

always says in a time like this.

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Then we have Colonel Jack O'Neill.

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So that's from Stargate, right?

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Colonel Jack O'Neill.

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Now, Patrick played Jack Charles.

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Black Dog.

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He played Jack, a character named Jack, in

the movie Three Wishes, and then Jack, oh,

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I'm sorry, Jack Charles was Fatherhood.

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It's too many Jacks and

Jack Cruz in Black Dog.

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Forgive me.

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There's just too many Jacks to go around.

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Did you guys know that

Patrick had a nickname?

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People close to him didn't

call him Pat or Patrick.

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Anybody know what he went by ? His

dad was also known by this name.

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Anyone?

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If you read his book, you'd know.

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Buddy.

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People close to Patrick called him Buddy,

and his dad was known as Big Buddy.

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So from a young age, Patrick was

affectionately called Buddy by

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his family and close friends.

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The nickname stuck with him

throughout his life, even as

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he rose to fame in Hollywood.

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Those who were close to him

continued to call him that.

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It reflects the down to earth

approachable nature that Swayze was

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known for both on and off screen.

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His Texas roots and warm personality

made him beloved, not just by fans,

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but also by colleagues, family,

and friends who cherished the

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nickname as a term of endearment.

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So rest in peace, buddy.

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We miss you.

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They both got several

awards, both good and bad.

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Let's, let's see here.

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Where do we start?

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Where do we start?

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I will also talk about a handful

of other standout movies that I

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didn't cover because they weren't.

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Either in the 80s or 90s, or it

wasn't like a big theatrical release.

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So that was kind of the

criteria for this season.

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Let's start with Kurt Russell.

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He was a 1979 nominee for a primetime

Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a

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Limited Series or special for playing.

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Elvis Presley.

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I think that was a TV movie.

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Then he was the 2015 winner,

Hollywood Film Award for Ensemble

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of the Year in The Hateful Eight.

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I don't think this exists anymore,

but I, I love these old ones, sort of

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like the TV land awards, but there's

the AARP Movies for Grownups Award.

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He was a 2004.

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Nominee best breakaway

performance for: 2002

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blue now, a little more on this.

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This has a 6.

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6 IMDb rating.

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I had not seen this movie before.

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I will say listener of the show.

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Adrian from Sweden.

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This comes highly recommended by Adrian.

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He was disappointed

that I didn't cover it.

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So Adrian, this is just for you.

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I hadn't seen it before, but

because in addition to you shouting

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its praises it was the nominee

for best breakaway performance.

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: 00:18:20

I did watch it for the first

time and I really was surprised.

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: 00:18:23

Because it's a very different

type of role for Kurt.

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He's a dirty cop.

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: 00:18:28

Here we are with yet another

Kurt role where he plays a cop.

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He's not a very likable person.

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: 00:18:35

It takes place.

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: 00:18:36

This is really interesting in LA in the

early nineties with a backdrop of the

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not guilty verdict of the Rodney King

assailants and the subsequent riots.

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: 00:18:49

So that's the setting that this movie is.

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Taking place in I really

took note of the soundtrack.

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I am a big, like nineties hip hop person.

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So it has a fantastic soundtrack,

including EZE, TLC and Wu Tang.

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Incredible cast.

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So Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson.

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It was directed by Ron Shelton.

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: 00:19:14

Who we talked about because he directed

he directs a lot of sports movies.

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And he did best of times and 2

other actors that were also rappers.

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: 00:19:22

So it was really fun to see corrupt

has a pretty big part in this.

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: 00:19:26

And then there's another person I was

like, oh, my God, is that Master P?

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: 00:19:29

It sure shit was Master P.

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: 00:19:31

And then his son in the movie.

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Is.

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I was like, God, who is that kid?

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: 00:19:39

I mean, it really looked like what

Kurt would look like as a kid.

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: 00:19:43

And I was like, I wonder if that kids

related to Kurt in some way, because he

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looked just like how you would imagine a

young Kurt Russell so much so that when

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I looked him up, he is Kurt's nephew.

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: 00:19:54

We did talk about Kurt's

actual son playing the earlier

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version of himself in soldier.

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: 00:20:00

This is dark blue and his nephew.

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: 00:20:03

He plays his son in the

movie, so that's super cool.

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: 00:20:07

Then Kurt was also nominated for that

movies for grownups award in: 2005

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: 00:20:13

for best actor for the movie miracle.

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: 00:20:16

Critics choice, super awards, 2024

winner for best actor in a science

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: 00:20:21

fiction or fantasy series or a limited

series made for TV movie, blah, blah,

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: 00:20:25

blah, blah, monarch legacy of monsters.

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: 00:20:27

And that also got a Saturn award nominee.

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: 00:20:30

This is so not my type of

thing, so I've not seen it.

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: 00:20:33

I will just have to take their word for

it, but I'm sure Kurt was wonderful in it.

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: 00:20:38

He got some not so great award noms also.

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: 00:20:43

So there's Razzie's And I actually just

recorded a Razzie episode with friend

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of the show, the 80s and 90s uncensored.

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So I'll be sharing that on my social

soon when that episode comes out.

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: 00:20:54

So there was a 2004 stinker bad movie

award nomination for Kurt for best.

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: 00:21:01

Or I'm sorry for worst

fake accent for Miracle.

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: 00:21:06

He has a Minnesotan.

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: 00:21:09

Yeah, I think Minnesotan accent

for playing the coach in Miracle.

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: 00:21:13

More on that a little bit later.

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: 00:21:15

I, I don't think that was

warranted, but they did.

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He was nominated in 1990 for a Razzie

for worst supporting actress, because he

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was dressed in drag and tango and cash.

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: 00:21:26

We covered that at the

time of that episode.

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And then

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this one is, I find a little interesting.

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2002 Razzie nominee for

worst screen couple.

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: 00:21:39

And now I haven't seen

this movie in a long time.

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: 00:21:42

It's 3, 000 miles to Graceland.

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: 00:21:44

Now this is worst screen couple

and there's two versions of it.

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With either Kevin Costner or Courtney Cox.

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: 00:21:51

Somebody might have to explain that to me.

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: 00:21:54

Was he a couple with both

of them in this movie?

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: 00:21:56

I'm confused either way,

the Rossi's didn't love it.

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: 00:22:00

A few standout movies that we didn't cover

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: 00:22:04

according to IMDb, and that was my

criteria for picking some standout movies

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: 00:22:08

that we didn't cover 2007s Grindhouse.

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: 00:22:13

So, which is kind of a weird, a weird

concept, Tarantino is like a double

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: 00:22:18

feature and the second movie is the

one that Kurt's in and it's death

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: 00:22:23

proof where he plays stuntman Mike 7.

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: 00:22:27

5 IMDb.

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: 00:22:29

I actually didn't realize what the

deal was, so I watched both movies

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: 00:22:32

of grindhouse and either way.

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: 00:22:36

I gotta say, I was honestly

shocked by the high rating 7.

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: 00:22:39

5 is extremely high on IMDB.

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: 00:22:43

So for Stuntman Mike,

I think Kurt was good.

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: 00:22:45

I did very much enjoy Kurt as Stuntman

Mike, but the dialogue for the girls

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: 00:22:50

in the I, I just couldn't get past it

was so overly done and like, overly

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: 00:22:56

Tarantino just massively unrealistic

for how people actually speak that.

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: 00:23:03

It took me out of it.

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: 00:23:04

And I, I was just thinking, oh,

this is just like Tarantino in his

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: 00:23:07

brain thinking a certain thing.

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: 00:23:09

But again, Kurt was good, but

the movie average at best.

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: 00:23:12

In my opinion, I have

no idea why I got a 7.

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: 00:23:15

5.

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: 00:23:16

And I'm not like a Tarantino basher,

there are some of his films I really,

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: 00:23:19

really like, but this not one of them.

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: 00:23:22

And then 2004 is Miracle

where he played Herb Brooks.

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: 00:23:27

This got a 7.

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: 00:23:28

5 also on IMDb.

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: 00:23:29

And I do think that's worth it.

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: 00:23:33

We do not get to see Kurt's natural

luscious signature locks in this

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: 00:23:38

because he's wearing a wig to

portray coach or Brooks in this.

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: 00:23:44

So it's that very.

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: 00:23:46

Classic late seventies, early

eighties, men's hairstyle.

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: 00:23:50

My dad totally had it.

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: 00:23:52

In fact, he still does just

a shorter version of it.

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: 00:23:54

There were some fun accents.

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: 00:23:56

So he got kind of shat on by , the

stinker awards for his accent.

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: 00:24:02

But I, I don't know.

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: 00:24:03

I kind of liked it, but I get

a kick out of accents, so I'm

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: 00:24:06

probably got the best judge, but

lots of fun accents in this movie.

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: 00:24:10

We get Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota.

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: 00:24:13

Like, that area of the country,

we get a lot of that accent.

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: 00:24:16

We get a lot of Massachusetts

accent because that's essentially

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: 00:24:19

most of the players were either

in the Minnesota, Wisconsin, North

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: 00:24:22

Dakota area, or Massachusetts.

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: 00:24:25

I will say, since I broke my wrist being

pushed down on an ice skating rink.

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: 00:24:30

I had a little PTSD watching the ice rink.

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: 00:24:32

Gotta say, I don't, I don't, I

think I'll be forever changed now

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: 00:24:35

watching hockey or ice skating or

whatnot, but I did very much enjoy

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: 00:24:41

rewatching this and it is beautiful.

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: 00:24:43

I think it's worth the 7.

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: 00:24:44

5 IMDb.

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: 00:24:46

Okay, so are there some awards and

or some other standout movies that

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: 00:24:51

we didn't cover for Patrick Swayze?

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: 00:24:54

Sure.

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: 00:24:55

Three , Golden Globe nominations for

best performance by an actor in a

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: 00:25:01

motion picture, comedy, or musical.

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: 00:25:05

Dirty Dancing, Ghost, which also got

a Saturn Award nomination, and to Wong

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: 00:25:11

Fu, thanks for everything, Julie Newmar.

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: 00:25:13

You guys, this really is a good movie.

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: 00:25:14

I mean, if you haven't seen it,

it's, it's, It really is good.

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: 00:25:19

You got to watch it.

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: 00:25:20

You got to re watch that movie if

you haven't seen it in a while.

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: 00:25:23

The guys are just, they're great.

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: 00:25:24

Phenomenal, especially my Patrick he got

a: 1992

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: 00:25:30

most desirable male in point break, duh.

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: 00:25:34

And then 1989 BMI.

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: 00:25:37

Did you guys know what that is?

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: 00:25:38

I didn't.

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: 00:25:38

It's broadcast music, Inc.

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: 00:25:42

They have awards and he won.

461

: 00:25:44

For this song, she's like

the wind from dirty dancing.

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: 00:25:48

We've talked about this throughout

the whole season because he

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: 00:25:51

shopped that shit around.

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: 00:25:52

And finally it got made for dirty dancing.

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: 00:25:54

And then he won a BMI for it.

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: 00:25:58

He also got nominated for a Razzie

for worst actor in two movies.

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: 00:26:04

The same year, actually.

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: 00:26:06

Both movies came out in 89

next of kin and roadhouse.

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: 00:26:11

I mean, W.

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: 00:26:12

T.

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: 00:26:13

F.

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: 00:26:15

What?

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: 00:26:16

No, absolutely not.

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: 00:26:18

Absolutely not.

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: 00:26:19

Again.

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: 00:26:19

You'll have to be on the lookout for

that Razzie episode that I did with

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: 00:26:23

with another 80s and 90s podcast.

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: 00:26:26

We talk about how it's bullshit.

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: 00:26:28

Okay.

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: 00:26:29

I also wanted to call out

the SNL Chippendales audition

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: 00:26:32

sketch with Chris Farley.

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: 00:26:34

This was aired on SNL October 27th, 1990.

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: 00:26:38

It is epic.

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: 00:26:39

It goes down in history.

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: 00:26:40

It's remembered as one of the

show's most iconic sketches.

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: 00:26:44

Look it up.

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: 00:26:45

You're welcome.

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: 00:26:46

It was the first actually SNL sketch

to feature Farley in a starring role.

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: 00:26:52

I didn't know that.

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: 00:26:53

And he, this was only his fourth.

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: 00:26:56

As a cast member, so he was very new.

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: 00:26:59

And this was like, he just

like hit it out of the park.

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: 00:27:02

According to Farley's agent, Doug

Robinson, a video of the chip and

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: 00:27:06

Dale sketch was what led to him

being signed by the talent agency.

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: 00:27:10

C.

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: 00:27:10

A.

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: 00:27:13

Then.

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: 00:27:14

I keep hearing about 2001's Donnie Darko.

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: 00:27:19

I'd not seen it before, but

everybody keeps referencing it.

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: 00:27:23

So Jake Gyllenhaal is in

that with Patrick Swayze.

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: 00:27:25

And then Jake Gyllenhaal went on to

play Dalton in a Roadhouse remake.

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: 00:27:30

So it has an eight on IMDb.

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: 00:27:36

That is extremely high.

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: 00:27:40

So I watched it.

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: 00:27:40

Now Patrick is not, I think he's

maybe like the fourth or the fifth.

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: 00:27:46

Credit, so he's not like the main

character Jake Gyllenhaal is, but he's,

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: 00:27:51

he's a secondary character in this.

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: 00:27:53

It's very strange.

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: 00:27:54

It's a weird movie.

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: 00:27:56

It has a cult following.

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: 00:27:57

and I don't get it.

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: 00:27:59

I think maybe I just really don't

get this, this eight IMDB rating.

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: 00:28:04

I was bored.

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: 00:28:07

Perhaps if I saw it back then, you

know, back at the, you know, at, at

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: 00:28:11

the age I was then maybe at, and,

or if I saw it multiple times or

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: 00:28:16

something, maybe I'd feel different.

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: 00:28:19

But I, I'm absolutely shocked.

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: 00:28:22

That it has an eight on IMDB.

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: 00:28:24

I was bored.

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: 00:28:24

I just, I, I don't know.

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: 00:28:27

Maybe I'm really dumb, but it

was not a good movie like at all.

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: 00:28:31

Tell me I'm wrong.

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: 00:28:32

Tell me I'm right.

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: 00:28:33

Tell me either way.

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: 00:28:34

Let me know what you guys think then.

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: 00:28:38

I wish I could have seen it.

527

: 00:28:41

There's high praise for

Patrick's last role.

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: 00:28:43

So he was in a 2009 TV series

called The Beast, where he plays

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: 00:28:47

Charles Baker, a veteran, FBI agent.

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: 00:28:50

It has a 7.7

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: 00:28:52

on IMDB.

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: 00:28:54

It's very, very well received

by critics all praising Swayze's

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: 00:28:59

performance, but it got low Nielsen

ratings because people know it's good.

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: 00:29:05

And it was canceled.

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: 00:29:06

And then , Patrick Swayze.

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: 00:29:07

Passed away September 14, 2009.

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: 00:29:10

He was only 57.

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: 00:29:14

God, that's young

from , pancreatic cancer.

539

: 00:29:17

So I think I looked for the beast,

I was going to try and check it

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: 00:29:20

out and I can't remember it wasn't

easily available to watch if I

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: 00:29:25

recall, but I will update you guys.

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: 00:29:28

If ever I get my hands on

and I'm able to see it.

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: 00:29:31

I will try, so those are , some

awards, both good and bad.

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: 00:29:36

As well as some other movies that

were rated very highly on IMDb that

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: 00:29:40

we did not cover on this season.

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: 00:29:44

Retro Junkies, that is a wrap

for this season of Retro Made.

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: 00:29:48

We have explored the incredible

filmographies of Kurt Russell

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: 00:29:52

and Patrick Swayze, our everymen.

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: 00:29:55

Diving deep into the roles and the stories

that made them icons of the silver screen.

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: 00:29:59

From heart pounding action to heart

felt drama, these two legends showed

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: 00:30:04

us what it means to be versatile.

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: 00:30:07

Charismatic and unforgettable.

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: 00:30:09

Yes.

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: 00:30:10

Our everyman.

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: 00:30:12

Thank you for joining me on this

cinematic journey through their remarkable

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: 00:30:16

careers and stay tuned for exciting

details about season two, where we'll

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: 00:30:21

dive into the world of John Hughes.

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: 00:30:24

And I'm going to be introducing some

brand new time capsule segments.

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: 00:30:28

So don't go anywhere.

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: 00:30:30

And to all of the podcast

listeners out there.

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: 00:30:32

And YouTube viewers, I cannot thank

you enough for your support and

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: 00:30:36

coming along for the ride with me.

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: 00:30:38

Your enthusiasm and love for

these classic movies keeps the

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: 00:30:41

nostalgia alive and thriving.

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: 00:30:43

If you enjoyed this season, I would

really, really, really appreciate it.

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: 00:30:46

If you could spread the word, share the

podcast with friends, post about it,

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: 00:30:51

help keep this retro conversation going.

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: 00:30:54

And of course, if you do have a

moment, please leave a review.

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: 00:30:57

It's not just for , my ego reviews are a

huge help in growing the show and helping

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: 00:31:01

more retro film fans find the show.

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: 00:31:05

And, there's ways to contact me.

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: 00:31:07

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback,

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: 00:31:10

You can reach me at any time

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: 00:31:18

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: 00:31:27

it's the last link usually, or

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And it's at the bottom

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It's a small way to help keep

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