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Uncut Gems Review, Jill Biden's Cabinet Role, and Childhood Halloween Costumes
Ever wondered what happens when Adam Sandler trades his comedic antics for high-stakes drama? Our latest episode takes you on an exhilarating journey through our unexpected movie night pick, "Uncut Gems." We start with a cheerful morning moment, reminiscing about our recent appearance on the Keith Malanek show, and then dive into the intense world of Sandler's stellar performance. From the chaotic atmosphere to the shocking ending, we break down the film's unique narrative and why it left us both recommending it despite the stress-inducing soundtrack. Grab your coffee and join us for an honest review that might just make your next movie night a thrilling one.
But that's not all! We also tackle the latest buzz in politics, dissecting Jill Biden's role in a recent cabinet meeting and the media's influence on public perception. Our conversation explores how selective coverage can shape opinions about political figures and policies, offering a fresh perspective on public sentiment. Finally, we take a heartwarming stroll down memory lane, sharing our favorite childhood Halloween costumes and the magic of homemade outfits. From pirates to classic monsters, we celebrate the creative spirit of Halloween and the joy of our trick-or-treating adventures. Tune in for a mix of movie insights, political discourse, and nostalgic fun!
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Hello, good morning, happy Saturday.
Speaker 2:Good morning one and all. Welcome Welcome to a beautiful day.
Speaker 1:With bonus content with the Gent.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Bonus content. I need to you know, yesterday my love was on the Keith Malanek show. What was it? What's his Friday afternoon show? At the mic At the mic. Yes and um. It was a great show. I wish everybody would have uh tuned into it.
Speaker 1:Um they can still go to YouTube.
Speaker 2:Still go? Yes, please go to it. You can go find it and like it and share it, and, and share it and smash that like button, whatever. How do you smash it? What are you doing smashing your phone? Come on, man, just hit the like button and share it and make sure you know that the gent sent you.
Speaker 2:I'm awful at promoting myself, me and my 112 followers three quarters of them are bots and I put some good stuff out there. I do, I put some good shit out there. Oops, did I say that? Yeah, okay, I'll put some good stuff out there. So if you are listening, share my stuff anyway. It wasn't supposed to be an endorsement for me, but that's what it turned into, all right.
Speaker 1:Anyway, all right. Well, what do we got going on? We're sitting in bed drinking coffee. What time is it About? 530 in the morning.
Speaker 2:It's almost six.
Speaker 1:Almost six. Yeah, I've been lollygagging. Get up, I know I went to bed pretty early I couldn't even finish watching Greg Gutfeld. Last night I had to lay down and go to sleep. Yes, you did, I was tired.
Speaker 2:I know I got there.
Speaker 1:But I tell you what. We watched a weird movie yesterday, you know, we decided to pick an SNL character Saturday.
Speaker 2:Night.
Speaker 1:Live person, not character person who you know is on that show, and then pick a movie. Well, the gent tasked me with picking the person.
Speaker 2:The person, not the movie, right.
Speaker 1:So I picked Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2:Which I was kind of surprised by, because I wasn't even thinking about Adam Sandler. I was going along the lines of Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd and Belushi and Andy Murphy, andy Murphy and all that stuff. But when she said Adam Sandler, I thought, wow, that's a great choice.
Speaker 1:Because he has a lot of movies.
Speaker 2:He has a ton of movies out there that I didn't even think about or know about or had heard about, and the gent was tasked.
Speaker 1:since I picked the person, the gent was tasked with picking the movie and I thought, for sure he'd pick Waterboy or something silly like that, you know. But he didn't, he surprised me.
Speaker 2:I am cultured, I have taste, I do.
Speaker 1:Well, you married me. So See, I told you.
Speaker 2:I have taste.
Speaker 1:Well, anyway, he came down to two choices One called Anger Management, which I'd never heard about. I've heard of an Anger Management movie, but it stars Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal Maybe that's named something else, but I'd never heard of the one with Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson and all that.
Speaker 2:That seemed a little bit sillier, a little bit more Adam Sandler-ish, but the other one was a quite serious movie called Uncut Gems.
Speaker 1:And I've heard about this. When it first came out, I heard about it and I heard great things.
Speaker 2:Very high. Yeah, Sandler got very high marks in the business for this serious role.
Speaker 1:So tell us about the synopsis first, what you read, what the movie was supposed to be about.
Speaker 2:It was about how he made deals that went wrong and that he had to try to go through writing. You know playing the game of balancing it out to win at the end.
Speaker 1:But uncut gems. You're thinking jewelry, diamonds, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know he was a businessman making deal. You know above board deals about selling diamonds and the intrigue of that.
Speaker 1:That's what I thought it was going to be about it was nothing like that.
Speaker 2:Nothing like that.
Speaker 1:Now we're not going to give away any spoiler alerts, but I will say it was strange. It was not what I expected. The music was awful. The background music in it was terrible and it was very chaotic and high-stressed.
Speaker 2:You had to pay attention to the whole thing.
Speaker 1:There were a couple of lull moments, like when they had the Passover dinner with the family, that kind of brought you back down and kind of settled you back in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it was also a big surprise. At the pattern You're like oh hell, look at that.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah, surprise. But a lot of talking over each other, yelling, a lot of action going on. And when I say action, I don't mean like car chases or anything like that, but a lot of activity going on around all the time.
Speaker 2:Like you know, he's on the phone with 12 people at one time, with six people yelling at him in one place and all.
Speaker 1:And you're trying to figure out who he's talking to, trying to follow what conversation.
Speaker 2:Who's he talking to? Oh, my God, you know. He's talking to her now. Now she's on the phone, but he's yelling here. Oh God, you know what that?
Speaker 1:type of thing, and his character was more of a little bit of a loser than I thought it was going to be. I say loser, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, he was, could have been a very well, he was very wealthy, but he was broke, if that makes any sense but I think the way he handled his business was terrible because of what he did, you know, which we're not going to give away no, we're not but I know I suggest watching it. Yeah, I would too. The ending is quite shocking. We'll just say that you will not be. You will be surprised by the ending.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's weird. It's really really really weird Because the movie, all throughout the movie, you're kind of getting ginned up, ginned up and then you're at this heightened level of like, oh my God, oh my God, I can't take it. Oh my God, oh my God. You're on the edge of your seat but at the same time you're like, oh my God, is this ever going to end? Is this?
Speaker 2:going to end. Yeah, really really Hurry up and end.
Speaker 1:What's going on next? It kept me engaged and I still can't figure out if I liked it or not.
Speaker 2:And then, of course, at the end of the movie, as the credits are playing, you're going what? What just happened? I always used to be on the end of radio shows before TV. The announcer would come on and he'd say you know, will Bob ever do this? Will Carol? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah? Will Bob and Sue finally get together and do this? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And what about Mary Lou, which is always the teaser trailer at the end of this thing? So at the end of this movie, I was kind of looking at it, thinking all these things, and all I could think about was and what about Mary Lou? Because there's so much that you don't know.
Speaker 1:It definitely leaves you with some unanswered like what happened to so-and-so? Well, what about this scenario? Well, what about that? What are they going? To do it leaves you with that kind of a thing? It was very bizarre, but I recommend you watching it. It was different. It was different.
Speaker 2:And the more and more I think about it, the more and more I think that a lot of these things may be actually tied up, more than we think they're tied up, but we just haven't processed the movie yet right still thinking about it so that's where I guess it's a good movie we looked at who wrote the screenplay and directed it and you I.
Speaker 1:These were people I'd never heard of. Yeah, and they've since broken up and they're since. They dissolved their brothers or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brother but that that was the I never heard of them but they dissolved their partnership. The movie was in 2019. They dissolved their partnership in 2024. But they didn't make a movie from 19 to 24. Right, yet they you know, whatever I think that may have been part of the movie too.
Speaker 1:I wonder why they didn't make it anymore.
Speaker 2:May have been betting on.
Speaker 1:And here's the thing it didn't look like it was a high-budget film either, because they had the same scenes.
Speaker 2:It was very small.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like big, huge locations or anything like that. It was, you know, walking down the street or in an office building or in a home.
Speaker 2:His apartment was the only thing that looked high-budget.
Speaker 1:Well, and I was like who decorated these apartments and these homes? They look terrible, they look like something out of Goodfellas. I bet we've been there.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, anyway go watch it, so it was a good movie. Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know about good, but it was different, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:Are you talking about it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Are you suggesting people go?
Speaker 1:watch it.
Speaker 2:It was probably a good movie. Yeah, it was fascinating.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if fascinating is the right word. I cannot think of a good word to describe this movie Weird.
Speaker 2:I think you're kidding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess On the edge of your seat, but, like I said, I don't know if it was in a good way or a bad way. Yeah, true.
Speaker 2:Kind of like politics this week.
Speaker 1:Well, we didn't turn it off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of like politics. Kind of like politics this week?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't even know what's happening in politics, you know.
Speaker 2:I really haven't. I'm paying attention. Do you remember anything about politics from last week?
Speaker 1:Just from the headline clips that I see played highlight reels on media.
Speaker 2:Like Kamala was interviewed by Oprah. Okay, move two weeks ago's politics to this week.
Speaker 1:It's the same crap. It's the same thing. It's the same crap. It's the same exact thing. However, however, I'm sorry, go ahead, no, go ahead. I was scrolling through Twitter yesterday and I saw Jill Biden in a meeting. I didn't know really what it was. I was just scrolling by and I thought, oh, it's probably a meme.
Speaker 1:You know, because everybody likes to laugh and at the memes and everything's a meme nowadays let's make fun and laugh and have a good time at the politician's expense, you know? Ha ha ha. So I thought it was a joke. I just kept scrolling. Well, come to find out apparently she's sitting in a cabinet meeting taking over crap from Joe Biden.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was kind of interesting when I heard that. And then they started showing the pictures and I was like, yeah, that's a meme AI. And then you know the next thing? I know they show her talking and reading in the meeting and I'm like where the hell's Joe? Seriously.
Speaker 1:He was there.
Speaker 2:I didn't even none of the pictures I showed even showed him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, later they showed a short snippet of him looking exhausted, saying he's going to now turn it over to jill for any kind of comments she has. And yeah, what in the world?
Speaker 2:why is she even in a cabinet meeting?
Speaker 1:well, because he can't do it well, I understand that she has to be there for his interpreter or whatever. You know, joe, this is what this means. And then he'll say something and she'll turn to the other people. Well, this is what he means, I guess.
Speaker 2:That's just scary. That's my guess, you know she's his caretaker. That's really what it is.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:That's scary, that's scary.
Speaker 1:Well, that's, that's, yeah, well, that's. You know that's what they voted for. And kamala, you know they're making fun of her sounding drunk or on pills or whatever. During her interviews that one interview where she was with the, I think, of the national association of black journalists she sounded like she had caught a cold. She, she did sound sick, but it was probably her cold medication mixed with the pills, mixed with the alcohol.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just don't know what to think of all of that. My brain goes freeze when I sit there and look at her. It's like, really, I, really I go on brain freeze and I want to be mad. But who are you going to get mad at? I want to yell and scream, but who are you? Going to yell and scream at. Of course, the biggest thing I think about is my God, people are falling for this. Yeah, People are actually falling for this.
Speaker 1:Well, like you always tell me, the people falling for this are watching Legacy Media, and Legacy Media is only showing the clips that they want them to see.
Speaker 2:I had a thought oh do tell, I want them to see.
Speaker 1:I had a thought.
Speaker 2:Oh, do tell If you could go out there and interview and get an honest interview of all of these left-wing liberal people, if you could actually get them to be honest. I don't know if you could do that, Good luck if you could do that. But if you could get them to be honest and you said, okay, if you had a choice between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, who would you vote for? They would all go. Oh, you don't come out like this. Why? Because we hate Trump, yeah, okay, no issues or anything.
Speaker 1:Just hate.
Speaker 2:Trump. Right, we hate trump. Yeah, okay, nothing, no issues or anything. Right right now, if you said, okay, you're gonna vote for this platform or this platform and you went through the whole platforms, which one are you going to vote for taking out? There's no, there's no name association person there's no kamala harris. There's no donald trump. You're voting for this platform or this platform.
Speaker 1:They're going to pick the Donald Trump one.
Speaker 2:They're going to pick the conservative platform. Yeah, so, in essence, if you took the people that voted for that platform and the platform only, what would happen?
Speaker 1:Trump would win.
Speaker 2:Would there be a huge landslide to the conservative side.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:You know. So that kind of, and if you went over to the other side, the conservative side did the same thing.
Speaker 1:I think it depends on how you word it too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wouldn't say conservative.
Speaker 1:A lot of. I mean how you word their actual policies, Because a lot of people, believe it or not, they want abortion, they want to kill babies.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, even if you went and you said, okay, you know the abortion issue is settled in the states and this is the way the constitution set up as democracy. You know it's just. This is the way it's set up. And, yes, you know you'll be able to get an abortion. You just can't do it in a particular state. You may have to travel to a state which you know you're going to have federal funding to travel and do the whole thing.
Speaker 2:So you know that's not going to, that's not a problem, that's not an issue. You know but. But you know that's not going to. That's not a problem, that's not an issue. You know. But you know, taking that out of play, you know which platform and I didn't say 100 percent conservative, but what 100 percent this platform, but what percentage of those people would actually be voting just for the fact that they don't like Trump? And that goes back to what you're saying. You know I knew several people and I still know a couple, that are staunchly, staunchly conservative of conservative values, older people that just don't like Trump and that's why they're not going to vote for him.
Speaker 1:Well, this is what I would want to ask them why do you hate Trump? Give me an answer.
Speaker 2:Why do you hate Trump? Give me an answer. Why do you hate Trump? This is what they say Because he grabs women's pussies.
Speaker 1:Can you give me an example of that? When did he do?
Speaker 2:this. It don't matter, I heard about it.
Speaker 1:You heard about it from where On the news and you believe everything the news tells you.
Speaker 2:It don't matter, all of them do it, they all do it, so kamala does it too. I ain't want to talk about it. I ain't voting for that, son of a bitch. That's the conversation, that's the car, and I and I and I remember making the comment so you hate trump more than you love your country oh yeah and they say, well, I guess, so wow, and you're like Well you can't convince those people otherwise, then Wow, but did you hear what I said? Yes, I did, and that's when I entered the conversation.
Speaker 1:That's what I said.
Speaker 2:With exactly what I said Wow yeah, just wow yeah.
Speaker 1:I just need examples of people talking about how is Donald Trump going to kill our republic, how is he going to destroy America? Give me a racist example that you say he's a racist. Give me an example. Can you point me to a story? Can you show it to me?
Speaker 2:He said he's going to be a dictator.
Speaker 1:Do you take everything people say seriously?
Speaker 2:Well, that's what I'd say. Well, did you hear him when he said that?
Speaker 1:Did you listen to the whole context? No, because you're listening to ABC, nbc and CBS.
Speaker 2:I remember that. Are you going to be a dictator? They said you're going to be a dictator on day one. He goes well, maybe the first day, but no, I'm not going to be a dictator. But they said you know?
Speaker 1:he said yes, he was on the blood bath, blood bath, blood bath yeah, he's gonna, there's gonna be a blood. Well, if we're gonna do that, then let's talk about kamala harris on the oprah show the other day, talking about you're gonna intrude my house, you're gonna get shot. Oh my god, kamala's gonna shoot people yeah, she's shooting people.
Speaker 2:She's she's gonna shoot people. She just said she owns a gun and she's shooting people. She's going to shoot people. She just said she owns a gun and she's going to shoot people.
Speaker 1:Let's play their game, oh well.
Speaker 2:On TV. That's the middle class neighborhood where Kamala was raised. Those are million dollar homes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no kidding, all right, we're going on 18 minutes.
Speaker 2:Party down.
Speaker 1:We need to come up with a question of the day. Okay, all right, we're going on 18 minutes. All right, party down. We need to come up with a question of the day. Okay, all right. Question of the day. When you were a kid and you participated in Halloween and I know you did come on what was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid? As a kid I'm not talking adult parties or anything like that when you were a child and you went out, when you went out trick-or-treating, what was your favorite costume as a kid? Mine was always a pirate or a gypsy, because we were we, you know self-made.
Speaker 2:I'm self-made our costumes by that, although I remember those plastic masks and stuff, you know well, when I was a kid I had the privilege of going to Disney World many, many, many, many, many times and I used to hang out at the magic shop they had and I bought a Frankenstein mask. It was a rubber mask that went over the entire party. It didn't fit right through, but it went over, went over the entire party. It didn't fit right through there, but it went over there. So I would get one of my dad's old jackets and some shoulder pads, put shoulder pads on, put the jacket on a T-shirt with shoulder pads and put my thing and I went as Frankenstein.
Speaker 1:That's awesome I was Frankenstein.
Speaker 2:I did that a couple of years. That was my favorite.
Speaker 1:Very good, all right, got to go.
Speaker 2:Have a great day.
