From "Casablanca" Classics to Political Chess: A Morning Podcast Chat

Ever wondered what makes "Casablanca" a timeless classic worth an 'A' rating? Join us as we kick-start our morning discussing the movie's captivating romance and suspense, while appreciating its subtle storytelling that stands in stark contrast to today's cinematic excesses. We ponder over Ingrid Bergman's beauty and the depiction of women on screen, both then and now. As Humphrey Bogart fans, we're set for a movie marathon and can't wait to share our thoughts on what's next: "The Maltese Falcon." Along the way, we sneak in some tidbits about our personal lives, including new adventures with little Cameron and a nostalgic trip down memory lane to a snowless ski outing.

Shifting gears, we tackle recent political tensions, scrutinizing cabinet picks and the unexpected maneuvers involving Matt Gaetz and Bondi from Florida. With political parties seemingly in a game of chess, we express our frustrations at the slow pace of change and even toy with the idea of forming a new "Firebrand" party to shake things up. To cap it all off, we indulge in a light-hearted chat about what graces our nightstands—from nostalgic clock radios to a trusty book or two—revealing the personal items that bring us comfort as the day comes to an end.

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Casablanca Movie Review and Weather Discussion

Speaker 1 0:00

Hello , good morning , happy Saturday .

Speaker 2 0:03

What a grand day . Good morning , what an honor .

Speaker 1 0:05

Alright , where do you want to start ?

Speaker 2 0:07

Casablanca .

Speaker 1 0:09

Casablanca . Is it Casablanca or Casablanca ?

Speaker 2 0:11

You say potato , I say potato . Casablanca is what I'd say .

Speaker 1 0:15

Alright , we watched a movie last night . Now it's my second time watching it . However , it seemed like the first time .

Speaker 2 0:20

It was my first time ever watching Casablanca .

Speaker 1 0:25

Give me your synopsis , your thoughts , give me your review .

Speaker 2 0:31

I thought that it was a classic movie . I would give it not an A+ , but a definite A because it had romance , suspense , mystery , intrigue . The amazing thing was there was no cussing , no nudity , not much violence . There was a shooting , but it was very downplayed . Two shootings , but no blood , no blood , very downplayed . Two shootings , but no blood , no blood , very downplayed . And it was interesting and intriguing from the minute you started to the very end .

Speaker 1 1:16

Why wouldn't you give it an A plus ?

Speaker 2 1:19

Because it didn't have a lot of good special effects .

Speaker 1 1:25

It's an old movie .

Speaker 2 1:26

But I give it a solid , solid A .

Speaker 1 1:29

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman .

Speaker 2 1:35

It was great . I enjoyed it . I looked forward to it . It was all I thought it'd be , plus more . So , yes , I enjoyed it thoroughly .

Speaker 1 1:46

All right .

Speaker 2 1:47

Ingrid Bergman . I didn't realize how much of a beauty she was . She's just absolutely gorgeous . Did you notice her features and her skin ? And all just seemed like it was perfect .

Speaker 1 2:00

Well , it was in black and white so it was hard for me to tell , but she looked average to me , Okay . I mean , yeah , she was in black and white , so it was hard for me to tell , but she looked average to me Okay . I mean , yeah , she was pretty .

Speaker 2 2:09

I thought she was . You know , you think back to . You think now of the way women are portrayed and then you go back and you look at the way she was portrayed . She was much more attractive than the way they portray women today , or the styles and all that stuff .

Speaker 1 2:30

Same , that's with everybody . I think Same could be said about men too . Okay , I mean you know , so what you're saying is We've all become fat and bald and no , that's not how the people on the movies are portrayed .

Speaker 2 2:47

Oh okay , you know , that's what I'm talking about , that era I would rather live in . And then , of course , we've got the next , because we're going to watch . You know how we usually watch movies of genres or eras or people or whatever .

Speaker 1 3:05

Themes and stuff .

Speaker 2 3:06

yes , so we're on right now watching Humphrey Bogart movies , and the first one we watched , of course , was Castle Black . The next one is the Maltese Falcon , so that's going to be interesting .

Speaker 1 3:19

Who stars in it and what's it about ?

Speaker 2 3:21

Well , now that I'm reading it , it may be that we go to High Sierra first , but written by , that's lovely , also starring Mary Astor Gladys , george , peter , lurie , ward Bond . I'm not sure exactly what it's about , but we'll have to figure it out . It's a crime scene . It's a crime about a jewel-encrusted statue . It should be good .

Speaker 1 3:58

There's another movie out in more recent time . Isn't it called Maltese Falcon 2 ?

Speaker 2 4:07

Or I'm thinking of something else , I'm thinking snowman and the falcon or something like that , I don't know . It's a more , it's a recent in our time . I think that's a burt reynolds , jerry lee lewis movie no , there's no , it's about spies or something yeah , I don't know , I have to look better , but well , yeah , but that's . That's . The next one we're going to see is the maltese falcons sounds great , it should be great . You know absolutely what else is happening in your world nothing , nothing .

Speaker 1 4:31

We get the camera yeah , we got camera today that's a highlight got some new toys and got some activities for him to do got that felt christmas tree , we put up activities I love , I love that Activities , activities for the two .

Speaker 2 4:46

You know what I was noticing ? Of course , it's that time of year when the weather changes and the weather's changing , of course , and we had our first little cold snap and people are thinking , oh my god , you know , it's already almost December and we're just now having our first cold snap . Oh my God , it's got to be global warming , all that crap . You know , I see that there's a lot of snow up in the northeast and the northwest are getting a lot of rain and right now in the south we've been in a drought , but I think this time last year we were getting inundated with rain , but I think this time last year we were getting inundated with rain and I just got .

Speaker 2 5:25

I always sit there and think about the weather and how they you know it's gone from global warming to global freezing , to how they've changed all the phrases and all . And I keep thinking back to a story , and this is a true story . This happened to us when I was a kid . You know , I'm not a big snow skier , I'm from the south , but we had a big trip planned to some , some friends of my family that we're going to take several of us kids in a group out to go skiing out in colorado one year . So we planned to go colorado and it was going to be big . Oh , we were looking so much forward to it . Well , come to find out that they had no snow in Colorado that year . Absolutely , how can ?

Speaker 2 6:11

you have no snow in Colorado in the skiing season I'm not kidding you there was no snow . So they changed it over and we were going to go to Vermont to go skiing and about three weeks before I mean they had snow they had snow by gosh . About three weeks before it started warming up and it started raining and all the snow in Vermont melted . We couldn't change our plans to go back to Colorado . So my friend's family had a grandmother who lived on a lake in Orlando . So we drove the car and towed a boat and went water skiing on the lake in Orlando and I thought to myself where were the global weather ?

Speaker 2 7:04

freaks then that were yelling and screaming Cause you know that's a very vast change in weather . No snow in Colorado , but you know since then they've had record snowfalls in Colorado . So you know that just makes me go think all this global warming stuff is just well , why do they even ? I know , I just makes me go think all this global warming stuff is just well . Why do they even it's a grift ? I know it's a grift , but it just . Why do people even buy into it ?

Speaker 1 7:29

Because they're stupid . Well , there you have it . I have all the answers today . Yes , you do , absolutely , it's a grift and they're stupid .

Speaker 2 7:37

It's a grift , and they're stupid .

Speaker 1 7:38

I mean , what else can you say ? There's no other explanation you really can't .

Speaker 2 7:42

It just makes me , oh , it just infuriates me . What ?

Speaker 1 7:47

is the what's that old saying ? The most obvious answer is the most obvious answer , or what is that ? You know what I'm saying ? There's a name for it . I forget what you call it .

Speaker 2 7:56

I don't know it's not very obvious what you're saying oh , you know what I mean but we'll move on , okay ?

Speaker 1 8:03

well , moving on then I mean , did you want to talk about more about the weather ?

Speaker 2 8:07

no , I just , you know , saw the , the rain that they're having out in northern california . And you know the thing , god bless you people in northern california . Uh , you know , you're probably gonna , uh , because you didn't do you know , and you're probably going to because you didn't do you know and it was against the law to you know , do cut brush , brush cutting and all that stuff , and now you probably had fires that have decimated the all the structure of the forest , and now you're going to get rain and mudslides because you didn't want to do property management . And I just , god bless those people who , you know , suffer from the ineptitude of the california governance . That was my thinking of the whole thing , really all right god bless you people .

Speaker 1 8:56

Well , do you want to talk about some of , uh , president's picks ? I mean , I I'll be honest . I'll disclose you right up front I've not been paying much attention to his latest picks because they're like blah , whatever . I did read a recent article , though , saying that oh , the democrats are having hissy fits over his latest picks . I have not seen any of that . Again , I've not been paying attention , but I think these cabinets are so like low level nobody really cares . I've not seen any kind of outrage . I think the only outrage I saw was his surgeon general pick , where she is definitely pro COVID vaccine , and the only outrage is from the people on the right , which absolutely should be outraged about that pick .

Political Commentary and Podcast Farewell

Speaker 1 9:39

What do you think ?

Speaker 2 9:45

outraged about that pick . What do you think ? Yeah , yeah , I think that's one of those ones that's going to come down to internal talks and you know , we probably won't see anything come from any of that . I don't think , I don't know . I don't know , I'm not . My brain was all focused on the attorney general one . Oh , yeah .

Speaker 2 10:05

Yeah , we'll see . That's a , that's yours . What you're talking about is going to be a push pull . You know you're going to have Kennedy pushing one way and Nashua pulling the other way and there's going to be some conflict there . But I , you know , know , I don't know how much power either one of them is really gonna have over the other , and I don't know if they're . You know , I'm not so familiar with it to know if what they're both doing overlaps with each other , right , so I don't know , but it is does seem like a conflict of interest .

Speaker 1 10:39

Yeah , when you look at it that way , yeah , I guess I was just trying to mainly focus on the article that I read , talking about the Democrats are having come apart meltdowns over the latest cabinet picks . Yeah , no , they're not . I haven't seen anything like that and nobody even knows who these people are . So , whatever , I think it's funny that they're trying to say that and they're really not .

Speaker 2 11:01

I think , the most , the funniest one , and I said this before I heard it on the news . I've done that several times in the past couple of weeks where I've brought up hey , you know , this happened and this is not that I'm any smarter , but I've just gotten lucky . And this is , you know , not that I'm any smarter , but I've just gotten lucky . But I said when they picked what's his name as Secretary of State , not Secretary of State , attorney General .

Speaker 1 11:27

Matt Gaetz .

Speaker 2 11:27

When they picked Matt Gaetz , I said that's not right . I don't know about that pick and I thought it was a deflection . I thought it was one of those things that we've talked about where we want to move the line a mile . So we're going to say and we're going to put , we're going to say we want this line and it's six miles away , and then , you know , they yell and scream and we say okay , okay , and we pull it back to the two mile mark and they go okay , that's cool , and we got our miles . We only wanted a mile and we actually got two miles .

Speaker 1 12:04

Yeah , yeah .

Speaker 2 12:05

And they , and they think they won Right , okay , Right . So when he picked Gates , gates , I thought , eh , this isn't , you know , it's a ploy .

Speaker 1 12:15

And then it's a liberal play from the liberal playbook from themselves . Yes exactly .

Speaker 2 12:21

And then you said to me well , who do you think he's going to pick ? And I said I think it's going to be Bondi from Florida , and sure enough and sure enough bam it was . And if you go look at her qualifications for that position versus his , she's much more qualified . Oh , I'm sure she is much more qualified , but is she ?

Speaker 1 12:42

going to have the effing backbone to stand up and go in there and clean house ?

Speaker 2 12:46

Probably not , I think she will , I think so .

Speaker 1 12:51

I just wanted something . I wanted a shake up . I wanted a shake up . The people have voted , they have let their voice be heard and now they're like oh no , well , have you watched what she did ? And ask people who don't like Matt Gaetz , I like him .

Speaker 2 13:08

Have you watched what she did in Florida ? She did a lot of what's going to happen , what you're asking for , so I really think that that was a strategic plan by them .

Speaker 1 13:22

And you know they're talking about this , matt Gaetz and his kerfuffles , or whatever you want to call it with . You know , if people looked into it they would realize that there's probably nothing to it . But you know , if you're going to do that , then you've got to do the same thing with Pete Hegseth .

Speaker 2 13:41

Yeah , I don't even look at the kerfuffles , as you call them . I just look at what is going to happen with the actual job and the performance of that job .

Speaker 1 13:52

I think the old guard is also still mad at Matt for ousting Kevin McCarthy . Probably so he needed to go Probably so . What's wrong with being a firebrand ? Probably so . Who ? Knows , but these people , the old conservatives I don't even call them conservatives the old Republicans . They lose their minds over the change . They don't want change . They say they do , but they don't . No , that is very true . They want to , the pearl clutching .

Speaker 2 14:22

And I'm not even going to get into the spending part of it , where all these senators or congressmen are saying , yes , we have to look into spending and I'm like , well , you better look at yourself , you better look at your office and you better look at yourself . You better look at your office and you better look at the waste that's in your office . If you're really concerned about it , let's cut the waste from your office as well . Well , you see , you know .

Speaker 1 14:48

And we want change , but we're going to have to do it slow and incremental .

Speaker 2 14:54

Right , we need to work with , we need to give the Democrats what ? They want , so we can get what we want . And we're going to have to do a study on that part of it to see if it's feasible . So we'll have to hire some people .

Speaker 1 15:05

We'll have hearings and we'll ask questions , but we're not going to do anything . No , absolutely not . F that .

Speaker 2 15:11

By God , I'm sick of it . Right on For the people .

Speaker 1 15:16

Firebrand . That should be our next Firebrand . That's going to be our next party form . Call it Firebrand . That's what we're going to do .

Speaker 2 15:23

Anyway , you have some news coming up , don't you ? I do ? What's that ? What's ?

Speaker 1 15:27

my news ? I don't know . So yes , we look . It's December 8th will be five years of us and me doing this podcast , and I think it's time to wrap it up .

Speaker 2 15:41

Five years is a long time . Five years is a good run . We've had a good run .

Speaker 1 15:44

Now you and I will do our final episode together on December 8th . December the 8th , yes , that'll be the final episode of Carol Remarks .

Speaker 2 15:51

That's like two weeks away , folks .

Speaker 1 15:53

Yes , but we're not going completely away . I have started a new podcast , a new project that's more focused on a particular topic and it will hopefully be a little bit more polished and instead of a daily podcast it will be a weekly podcast . We'll see how long that lasts , but you know it's something different .

Speaker 2 16:17

And , of course , I can be found on Twitter .

Speaker 1 16:20

I'm trying to talk the gent into starting his own podcast .

Speaker 2 16:24

So if you do see me on Twitter , subscribe and smash that like button . What the hell does smash that like button mean ?

Speaker 1 16:32

All right , I don't know , you push it . I know I hate that too .

Speaker 2 16:35

It's like melty cheese . Key row 36 .

Speaker 1 16:39

Okay , well , we need to move on to the question of the day . Okay , question of the day . Do you want to ask it or do you want me to ask it ? You ask it , all right . Question of the day . What is currently on your nightstand right now ? Now want to answer you I'll answer .

Speaker 2 16:52

All right , go

Nightstand Nostalgia

Speaker 2 16:53

answer . Yes , I've got an old-fashioned clock , radio , a lamp . I've got a big and I'm gonna say it a big ass thing full of change . I have a book , a gun and some soap and you have water and water , yes , but I , but I have a gun .

Speaker 1 17:15

Yes .

Speaker 2 17:20

That's for all the criminals that are going to break in through our windows and that's what I have on my white stand , and I love the old-fashioned clock radio .

Speaker 1 17:25

Yeah , I do too . I don't think anybody has any of those anymore .

Speaker 2 17:27

No , but you know what I can roll over in the middle of the night and look at it and see what time it is .

Speaker 1 17:31

By God , like that's important .

Speaker 2 17:33

I don't have to fumble around , for my it is . You can look over there and go . Oh , thank God , I got two hours more sleep , or ?

Speaker 1 17:44

you can look over there and go .

Speaker 2 17:45

Son of a bitch , I got five more minutes Instead of fumbling around for your phone and having to push the button you know , sometimes anyway , All right , there you go .

Speaker 1 17:53

Y'all have a good one . What's on yours ? Oh , you know I don't have a typical nightstand . I'm next to the dresser .

Speaker 2 17:59

That's right .

Speaker 1 18:00

So you know , I got a lamp and my medicine and books and stuff .

Speaker 2 18:06

I got a lamp too . You said lamp . Oh , okay , that's it .

Speaker 1 18:10

All right , got to go .

Speaker 2 18:11

Have a great day .