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#4364 The Laureate Of Letterboxd
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

#4364 The Laureate Of Letterboxd

from TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

December 23, 2024 | 00:32:41 | Leisure, Comedy

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Nick Jarin joins Luke and Andrew to introduce his list of movies to play in the background at your holiday party. They also debate -- old school AM radio-style -- the best time for a server to take your plate at a restaurant.
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00:00:01 - 00:00:14 | Speaker 6:

Wow! What's this? This is the North Pole. No, it's not. Yes, it is. No, it's not. Yes, it is. No, it isn't. Yes, it is. No, it isn't. Yes, it is.

00:00:14 - 00:00:16 | Unknown:

No, it's not. Where's the snow?

00:00:16 - 00:00:37 | Speaker 5:

Why are you smiling like that? I just like to smile. Smiling's my favorite. Make work your favorite. That's your favorite, okay? Okay. Work is your new favorite. Fine. It's time for an announcement. Okay. Okay, people, tomorrow morning, 10 a.m., Santa's coming to town. Santa! Oh, my God! Santa here? I know him.

00:00:38 - 00:00:39 | Speaker 4:

I know him.

00:00:39 - 00:01:06 | Speaker 2:

TV, TM! I don't know what it is, but as soon as you bring some carbs or some bread into the room, especially if they, like, hot out the oven and buttery, I just turn into a monster. You have never seen somebody f**k up a piece of garlic bread until you've seen me f**k up a piece of garlic bread. You will lose any bit of respect you ever have for me.

00:01:06 - 00:01:18 | Speaker 1:

Hey, you either get it or you don't. And I don't. But I am so excited to be a part of it. I feel a real need to express something, but I don't know what it is I want to express. Or how to express it.

00:01:19 - 00:01:22 | Speaker 6:

Poop, booty, scoop, scoop. Poop, poop.

00:01:24 - 00:02:05 | Speaker 3:

Well, all right. hello good morning and welcome everyone to a monday edition of tbtl the show it just might be too beautiful to live my name is luke burbank i'm your host coming to you from the the festively adorned madrona hill studio perched high above the mighty columbia right over there my dear friend and the longest running cobro of the show mr andrew walsh was that some uh Ron Funchess? No, talking about the garlic bread? Yeah, that had a distinct sound of a Funchess to me, but not Ron Funchess. I hear the similarity in voices. Not even Devin Funchess, the former NFL receiver?

00:02:06 - 00:02:09 | Speaker 4:

No, it was. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, it was Devin Funchess, the NFL receiver. Oh, okay.

00:02:10 - 00:02:11 | Speaker 3:

I knew it was someone in that neighborhood.

00:02:11 - 00:02:28 | Speaker 4:

Let me give credit where credit is due. That was from a TikTok-y sent to me by our friend, Phyllis P. Fletch Fletcher. and it looks like the name of the comedian there is Ty Hopkins. Don't know if he's an actual professional comedian, but he made me laugh, so he's a comedian in my heart.

00:02:29 - 00:02:58 | Speaker 3:

I've never felt more seen by an audio intro, because I will just do absolutely unholy things to some garlic bread if you leave me alone. I was like one of those kids in the, you know, like delaying gratification kind of experiments. Like, if you wait, you can have two garlic breads. Yeah. They'd be putting the garlic bread down and I would have half of whoever was administering the test, half of their hand would be down to my throat because I was hoovering up the garlic bread.

00:02:58 - 00:03:11 | Speaker 4:

One of my favorite expressions that I learned from Genevieve is like, and I think it is a situation like you're at a restaurant or something. And if somebody goes to take your plate away too quickly, she says, hey, you'll draw back a stump.

00:03:12 - 00:03:42 | Speaker 3:

Exactly. i would just i would i understand that the servers of america and the the other folks you know i don't think do we use the term bus boy anymore the people that are helping also sort of clear the plates and do a lot of the other stuff i don't know when this got started as an idea that there's nothing more horrifying to the american restaurant consumer than observing a plate that once had food on it and now has less food on it. Ooh, I think we're on opposite

00:03:42 - 00:03:46 | Speaker 4:

side. We found it. We're on opposite ends of this debate.

00:03:46 - 00:04:41 | Speaker 3:

It took 4,000 some number of shows. Here's my point. Particularly because of the way that my girlfriend, the pace at which my girlfriend consumes food, which is slow. She's part of the slow food movement in that she's way too slow at eating her food. I'm part of the fast food movement in that I eat mostly fast food. And there will be stuff on her plate that if she's now officially like after a certain amount of time i'm like okay now it's reasonable that i would be allowed to have some of this whatever it is i'm eyeing but if they're coming around trying to clear the plates for me it's like we leave i could have the plates there we could leave we could settle the bill and leave and the plates could be on the table and i wouldn't find that to be offensive in any way i'd much rather have access to the food leave-ins than to have to like make a lame joke like i'm I'm still kind of poking at it or whatever I have to do to turn away one one server after another who wants to collect the plate.

00:04:41 - 00:04:59 | Speaker 4:

Well, once it's actually totally cleared, like totally empty and there's no question, you definitely want it. I want to take it away. It was a huge thing growing up. This is a this is something I inherited from Bob Walsh. Just like the idea of having to sit there and look at dirty cholesterol. What's that?

00:05:00 - 00:05:08 | Speaker 3:

Yeah, well, no, I definitely inherited that as well. Of course, he's got 30 years on me, and I swear to God, he's way more healthy than me these days.

00:05:08 - 00:05:12 | Speaker 2:

He is a dapper Dan, I have to say.

00:05:12 - 00:05:36 | Speaker 3:

Yeah, he's very fit. I hope by the time I'm 80, I will also maybe get my fitness on. We're just waiting for the proper timing there. Never too late. But, yeah, he hated the idea of sitting there. Look, I'm not going to sit here and look at a dirty plate. So I have inherited that as well, the idea of, like, when it's done, get it out of there. But I do hate the term, are you still working on that? Like, it's not a job. I'm not working on it.

00:05:37 - 00:05:47 | Speaker 2:

How would – are you still enjoying it? I bet you don't like that either. That I wouldn't have a problem with. That feels really patronizing to me. Are we still enjoying this? Are we still enjoying this?

00:05:47 - 00:05:55 | Speaker 3:

Are we still all really enjoying this? Right. I think, like, hey, can I take – would you like me to take your plate? I think that's fine. I don't think we need any euphemisms there.

00:05:56 - 00:06:32 | Speaker 2:

I want to say that I definitely agree with you. If the plate is absolutely cleared, it's spotless, then there's no need for it to be there anymore, and I don't have any problem with someone grabbing it. There is a kind of a mid-range, though, where there's still food on the plate, and I don't understand why it is that they would be so quick to want to get that out of my presence, because I'm probably still going to be eating that, because I have impulse control issues. Andrew, would you believe it if I told you none of this is what we're here to talk about on this Monday edition of the program?

00:06:32 - 00:07:26 | Speaker 3:

In fact, I was going to tell you, you know how I know we're funny? Astute listeners might be able to hear a third person laughing at our hilarious interaction as we do this, because I probably routed my board incorrectly. But we do have a guest waiting on the line who's patiently listening seven minutes in as we are continuing our hot talk debate. Reminds him of the old days, Andrew it certainly does sitting by watching me ruin a show by talking into a microphone we have on the line Luke we are giving the people what they want that's the one thing that TBTL has promised to do going forward into the new year we've had this guest on before in the past and the last time he joined us he was the bell of the ball we got so much good feedback from from listeners and famous listeners saying bring this guy back on the show we're doing that today Ladies and gentlemen, Nick Jarin joining us from Texas, Houston, I believe. How are you doing, my friend?

00:07:26 - 00:07:29 | Speaker 1:

Dallas, Texas, but thank you very much. I always do that.

00:07:29 - 00:07:31 | Speaker 3:

Also, sorry for laughing on mic.

00:07:31 - 00:07:32 | Speaker 1:

I assumed I was muted.

00:07:33 - 00:07:40 | Speaker 3:

I tried muting you, but then I still heard you laughing, and honestly, it made me feel good, so I just let it roll. Well, never mind. I take back the apologies.

00:07:40 - 00:08:09 | Speaker 2:

This is the most confident I've ever felt at the beginning of the show, Nick, and we have you to think. I think, Andrew, I'm not trying to throw you under any buses or embarrass you in front of my old friend, Nick Jarin, who I believe you are also familiar with. More my friend, I would say. I agree to disagree. Nick, pick right now. I just think Dallas and Houston are so, I mean, they are in the state of Texas, but my goodness, are those different places in my mind.

00:08:09 - 00:08:11 | Speaker 3:

I got a friend who lives in each. I have a friend who lives in each.

00:08:11 - 00:08:16 | Speaker 2:

that's why john i always have to remember in houston and winters in dallas i have i have

00:08:16 - 00:08:32 | Speaker 3:

many friends who are from the lone star state and one lives in one and one lives in the yeah i do john lives in houston nick lives in dallas i always always get it confused i didn't even have to specify but i chose to and i specified incorrectly all right no no judgment now

00:08:32 - 00:08:49 | Speaker 2:

well yeah a little i'm just you know i was more i personally was more drawn to the rap music of houston of the third coast as they call it and i couldn't tell you much about i'm sure dallas has a pretty decent hip-hop scene too though what's the scene they're like jaron it's a very underrated

00:08:49 - 00:08:53 | Speaker 1:

one i would say that their biggest claim to fame is that the dougie was invented here

00:08:53 - 00:09:35 | Speaker 2:

yeah will you wondering if someone would teach me how to do that okay now the fact that you laughed at that nick makes actually takes away some of the shine of the earlier jokes of ours that you were laughing hey dougie jokes here play that's not how now we know you're just high takes out some of the fun um so it is it's later in houston so it's by it's absolutely acceptable that you would have begun your uh relaxation period of your day it's 420 somewhere that's right um you uh let's see you were on the show the last time that i was out of town and what can you guys remind me of of the conversation that unfolded because i know that it was a big hit as you mentioned andrew with the listeners yeah to the degree that it made me feel

00:09:35 - 00:10:31 | Speaker 3:

a little bit kind of left out it was it was a big hit and it was tons of fun it was totally nick's idea nick you've been obsessed recently in the past year or so with a social media site called letterboxd right and it's fully based on people's love of movies nothing more nothing less there's no swiping left swiping right hooking up posting photos is Let's check. just about movies right it's just about movies you you rate them you can make lists of them you can review them you can follow other people and see their ratings and reviews one of my favorite things is to really get into the uh the nitty-gritty of the data on there and find out which directors and even cinematographers i've rated the highest my highest cinematographer would be greg frazier by the way i fully expect him to win another oscar soon uh can you remind me of a greg frazier film both of the dunes and the uh the matt reeves yeah the matt reeves batman

00:10:31 - 00:10:38 | Speaker 1:

also that's greg frazier that dude i mean what a film what a couple of films then and the

00:10:38 - 00:10:44 | Speaker 3:

cinematography is probably the highlight he's on a tear also the new roger deacons another thing

00:10:44 - 00:10:50 | Speaker 1:

you can do on letterboxd is defend your epic film that nobody else likes if you're francis ford

00:10:50 - 00:10:57 | Speaker 3:

right also true yeah or if you're martin scorsese you can just go around rating your own movies too

00:10:57 - 00:11:10 | Speaker 2:

love it what was his movie not metropolis that's a famous old movie uh megalopolis megalopolis yeah did you end up seeing that nick no i did not okay so his really his own self-review on

00:11:10 - 00:11:34 | Speaker 3:

litterbox didn't win you over no i that was also just like so i'm i'm a cinephile who i like to say that my knowledge is deep but not as broad as other people's so the stuff that i like i really like but there is there is some canon stuff that i still haven't made time for so megalopolis was one where i was like oh go watch this uh octogenarians self-funded terribly reviewed

00:11:34 - 00:11:47 | Speaker 1:

three-hour epic pass yeah on the other hand you're not a completist in that way like you don't feel you don't like you don't owe it to the idea of cinema to have viewed everything no matter how

00:11:47 - 00:12:29 | Speaker 3:

kind of poorly received it is not even to not even to cinema but i think that one of the things that's been fun about letterboxd for me is to build my own personal film canon these are the things that matter to me and trying to like picking out the different stats and stuff and doing some data analysis after putting it into letterboxd what are the things that i care about in film what are the performances that speak to me as a as a lover of cinema and going to the theater what types of movies do i gravitate towards you know it's a lot of stuff with world building which the megalopolis world building looks lackluster and kind of like a lincoln park video so in the end it doesn't even matter nick it doesn't push me one step

00:12:29 - 00:12:48 | Speaker 2:

closer to the edge you know i'm about to break yes and when you dig into the data do you find that mostly you're attracted to movies with heroes like travis bickle and the joker and just real incel vibes that's kind of what i get from you yeah you're like wow really gravitating towards

00:12:48 - 00:12:59 | Speaker 3:

all these types of movies um it's really funny it's a it becomes like stuff with stuff with heroes in them or stuff with music is a lot of it like a lot of sci-fi oh yeah so last time you

00:12:59 - 00:13:36 | Speaker 2:

were on we were talking about one of the lists you come up with these interesting ways of grouping movies together on Letterboxd, and you came up with a really interesting, I thought, sort of framework, which was movies to have on at a bar on mute, just like great background movies while you're sitting there, half paying attention, talking to your friends, glancing up every now and then and saying, oh, I love this scene. And so we went over our, I think you had a top 10 list. I had a top 10 list. I think that show was four hours long. Today, you're back. We have a different list, and it's just your list today. And what is it? this is the top five movies to play in the background at your holiday party nice volume

00:13:36 - 00:13:47 | Speaker 3:

on volume optional i would say volume optional i picked most of them thinking that it would work either way but work just as well on mute okay i'm interested a lot of physical comedy okay

00:13:47 - 00:14:03 | Speaker 1:

and and are they i mean i guess we'll find out when we get through the list are they themselves specifically holiday movies or are they just movies that would work fine in the context of like a holiday party is going on and it's in the background oh that's a great question because one

00:14:03 - 00:14:20 | Speaker 3:

of my last cuts was a movie that always feels like a holiday movie to me because it's about family and and relatives visiting and all the awkward dynamics that are exposed when you have a visiting relative in your house uncle buck um but it's technically not a christmas movie

00:14:20 - 00:14:41 | Speaker 1:

it's incredible culturally it feels it's christmas coded right because it's cold he's wearing that hat with the ears it seemed it's a it's it's a that's a john hughes film correct it is 1989 well almost all john hughes films are culturally christmas movies yeah i think or or thanksgiving

00:14:41 - 00:14:46 | Speaker 2:

in trains planes and automobiles like it feels like that's a cousin there too right yeah yeah

00:14:46 - 00:14:51 | Speaker 3:

that was a late cut for me too it wasn't quite christmasy enough although holiday travel definitely

00:14:51 - 00:15:00 | Speaker 1:

put it on the long list yeah yeah i i would i just watched uncle buck which is kind of strange i was staying in an airbnb and i was too

00:15:00 - 00:15:50 | Speaker 2:

lazy to log any of my real like information into you know how now these days if you stay in an Airbnb and even some hotels they've all cut the cord and it's like do I want to like raw dog this Roku right now with my actual like my Netflix account and all this and do I want to sit there like you know entering in all of the info or do I want to just see what is what this TV will let me watch for free through some bizarre whatever's loaded into the thing and somehow it was uncle buck and i was just this is not a very interesting insight this would never make it on letterboxd but i was just struck by how young john candy is in the movie oh yeah i mean john candy never got to be that old sadly but god he's like like he's like a kid in uncle buck and i remember seeing the movie and thinking well there's an old man menacing these children and it's like he's probably

00:15:50 - 00:16:00 | Speaker 1:

like 32 or something man he he went from being like a 20 something to being a 40 something yeah if you want to see him look really young have you ever seen volunteers with him and tom hanks

00:16:00 - 00:16:06 | Speaker 2:

a long time ago i should revisit that um because uh yeah that's where they're in the peace corps

00:16:06 - 00:16:16 | Speaker 1:

or something yeah they're in like i don't remember if they got to call it actually the peace corps but basically the peace corps he plays tom tuttle from tacoma washington yeah he goes to wazoo

00:16:16 - 00:16:22 | Speaker 2:

and it's he's so young in it oh he does seem like he would have been a coug honestly

00:16:22 - 00:16:43 | Speaker 4:

culturally coded as a cougar um by the way i wanted to say luke only because it is uh just two days before christmas um i will not be naming the show raw dogging the roku although i know that i know what you were going for there you you wanted me to bite but uh but i refuse i'm setting

00:16:43 - 00:16:51 | Speaker 2:

you up for later that's basically i'm committing to the run game early so that when i really need when i really need to play action pass and i need you to bite on it i will be successful later on

00:16:51 - 00:17:29 | Speaker 4:

now nick you put together this list and i think we might even especially as as we continue to discuss this and we're going to try to keep the shows a little bit tighter during these holiday weeks um we probably won't get through your full list today so maybe we'll have you back on tomorrow's show if you're available uh to get through it before we start on your official list though uh two things first of all i i will want to know if you had any kind of runners up or or uh outside looking in as as they say on the levitard show before we get to that though i it's my understanding that you'd like to make an apology and it's my understanding because i told you before the show that you owe our listeners an apology and that's why it's my understanding

00:17:29 - 00:17:51 | Speaker 1:

i you know what when i said this at the time we were talking about the goonies i knew that steven spielberg was heavily involved i mistakenly said that he directed it he has a story credit on it and he was also an executive producer that movie is also speaking of things being coded a certain way a very spielbergian coded yeah i would absolutely believe who did direct it richard

00:17:51 - 00:18:02 | Speaker 2:

donner that's right richard direction yeah dick donner noted animal activist he and his wife were instrumental in the whole story of Keiko the Killer Will.

00:18:03 - 00:18:05 | Speaker 1:

Well, now I'll definitely remember it. He made Free Willy

00:18:05 - 00:18:11 | Speaker 2:

as an attempt to kind of get people thinking about the plights of Orca.

00:18:11 - 00:18:17 | Speaker 4:

Didn't he make Superman 48 Hours? Superman 2 to get people to think about the plight of Superman?

00:18:18 - 00:18:23 | Speaker 2:

The plight of people who are incarcerated people in America who are escaping by way of hot air balloons.

00:18:24 - 00:18:32 | Speaker 3:

To raise awareness of people who are trapped in a two-dimensional plane floating spinning through space i believe yes

00:18:32 - 00:18:38 | Speaker 2:

which is a problem is certainly a scenario that i could see being how my days are ended yeah

00:18:38 - 00:18:53 | Speaker 4:

i have money on it in fact yeah all right all right nick well without further ado why don't you so you you narrowed your list of these holiday film or these i should say films to have on in the background of your holiday parties you've come up with a top five list but what were some of them

00:18:53 - 00:19:23 | Speaker 1:

that didn't quite make the list absolutely and the goal of this list is you know nobody's really watching it but it's on in the corner or on in the tv while maybe you're playing music or there's loud conversation around so nobody's seriously sitting down and watching this thing anyway but it's a thing that you can have a conversation about every once in a while you look at it you see a scene that you love you laugh you quote it the conversation flows you know everybody's sipping eggnog or punch or whatever and the uh the party goes on so some of my in the most literal sense

00:19:23 - 00:19:42 | Speaker 2:

a moving picture right yes exactly i know that's what they are but what i mean is it's it's like something that's almost like a piece of art that's hanging on the wall that you can comment on but it's ever changing and much better than your vacation slideshow well you didn't you haven't seen my vacation slideshow i went to secrets yeah somebody yeah exactly i guess you've never

00:19:42 - 00:20:20 | Speaker 1:

been to yakima washington my apologies to yakima in advance i don't want to get more emails about this um so some of the the teams on the bubble if you will the movies on the long list i already mentioned uncle buck was one of them a callback to last episode i also had batman returns on there oh good one great technically a christmas movie technically a christmas movie i also had last year one of my favorite uh movies from last year and i think just an instant classic and something that i'm going to re-watch this year but not necessarily something i want on in the background the holdovers yes yes of course what a great call

00:20:20 - 00:20:24 | Speaker 2:

yes it is too it's sort of too engrossing though probably for this list was that why

00:20:24 - 00:20:46 | Speaker 1:

it kind of it didn't make yes yeah you know because you don't want to ruin the party by putting something on that like maybe half the people have seen and then you end up sitting down you're like actually let's let's turn the volume up on this thing I want to hear what Paul Giamatti's saying in this scene and then everybody's doing that instead of sipping eggnog and punch and chatting about their year let's turn the volume up I want to be deeply saddened for about 15 minutes

00:20:46 - 00:21:27 | Speaker 3:

I love that movie and I think I've told you both this that I saw that movie in what I believe to be the absolute perfect scenario Vives and I went to see that the day after Thanksgiving we had some running around to do in Seattle ended up like grabbing lunch at a little like counter and then walking to a matinee of seeing that at like 4 PM in the, is it the majestic Luke, the, the Ballard theater, majestic Bay. It was such a great, like the day after Thanksgiving to kick off the holiday season. I love that movie, but it is, it is not one that is quick to bring joy. It is, it brings introspection and, um, and possibly a little teaspoon of depression.

00:21:27 - 00:21:34 | Speaker 1:

yeah i i saw that one in a theater by myself last year and i left desperately needing a hug

00:21:34 - 00:22:07 | Speaker 2:

so probably not the not the party vibe we're looking for you saw that by yourself right after being diagnosed with body odor that smells like fish doesn't he have a like as if giamatti as we like to say on the show i could really use a win here is something that paul giamatti has never said in a movie but should have i think andrew conjured this yes but like you throw the like particularly like malodorous body thing that he kind of can't help for i mean just cut the guy a friggin break in a major walleye right doesn't he have a i was gonna say the bit

00:22:07 - 00:22:22 | Speaker 1:

where they keep on changing the fake contact lens from eye to eye i was watching a thing i was like budget body hasn't always looked like this right this is there's something there's something off and then halfway through i realized they were switching eyes they were i was like what is

00:22:22 - 00:22:44 | Speaker 2:

happening i read about that later i was not observant enough to follow it that's why again i'm not allowed on letterboxd but um that was yeah that that's alexander payne right yes yeah that guy i uh i'm uh yeah i don't think that i don't think i can't think of an alexander payne movie that hasn't been my favorite movie of the year in which it was released yeah sideways i

00:22:44 - 00:22:51 | Speaker 1:

mean the descendants was a little bit i kind of couldn't quite figure out what it was doing i

00:22:51 - 00:23:07 | Speaker 2:

still enjoyed it i i watched the descendants of the way that i watch most paul thomas anderson films and and and and some other tours where i never know what's happening but i'm just glad i'm there watching it i'm just happy to be here yeah basically i finally saw nebraska after like

00:23:07 - 00:23:16 | Speaker 3:

literally a decade of people saying this is your kind of movie like it's literally shot in black and white like this is your kind of movie it took me a decade to see it and i finally watched it and

00:23:16 - 00:23:19 | Speaker 2:

You have the physicality of Bruce Dern.

00:23:19 - 00:23:20 | Unknown:

Yeah, right.

00:23:21 - 00:23:56 | Speaker 3:

I have the organ function of a Bruce Dern type. But I watched it on a plane. I absolutely loved it, and it reminded me, and Nick, we'll have you back for this list another time, but you had tossed out the idea of doing movies that are perfect to watch on airplanes, and I watched that on an airplane, and even though it's a small screen so you don't get the vast landscapes and everything, but it's i think i'm drawn to sad bastard movies on airplanes and that is kind of a sad bastard movie so um okay so that what are those all of your kind of olis or your oh no let me uh let me

00:23:56 - 00:24:11 | Speaker 1:

hit you with two more an obvious one that i cut just because it was kind of obvious and people marathon it anyway uh 1989's national lampoon's christmas vacation okay sure yeah didn't make the top five it's just outside it's just outside yeah great film a great holiday film but i'm with you

00:24:11 - 00:24:53 | Speaker 2:

it's a little, it's a little on the nose. It's like showing, well, actually, I don't know. I don't want to besmirch your list, but it's because if I name anything here and then it's on the list that I've, I've committed the terrible hosting protocol. I have my defenses ready. If you know, it's fine. No, I love that movie. And in fact, you know, I got to that movie really late. That was like a movie that I never watched growing up because my parents thought anything national lampoons was very fresh, but, uh, but my, uh, my ex-wife grew up watching it. And one time we were you know doing something for the holidays and she put it on and i was totally locked in and now i've watched it every single year but again it's the kind of movie that's so popular people may have already watched it that season which would make it a little bit superfluous at the

00:24:53 - 00:25:29 | Speaker 1:

party exactly and it's one of those ones it's so a part of the culture that like i grew up with my parents Thank you.

00:25:00 - 00:25:06 | Speaker 3:

calling the over-the-top houses with a ton of lights the Griswolds, and I didn't even know what that meant until I was like 15 and finally saw the movie.

00:25:07 - 00:25:14 | Speaker 2:

You know, I think this is maybe a good way as you get closer to actually unveiling like, you know, slot number five on your list.

00:25:14 - 00:25:17 | Speaker 1:

Which will be just in time for tomorrow's episode. Exactly, as we're talking five minutes in here.

00:25:17 - 00:26:23 | Speaker 2:

This is actually very, very well-timed. This is a good table setting, because I want to talk about this list. You've established literally what we're talking about here, but I wonder if our vibes would be different, Because I think of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation or even Elf, and maybe that'll appear on your list or not, or these other sort of like kind of like slapsticky comedies. And like if I were throwing a party, which I guess that's kind of a joke in and of itself, but I probably wouldn't put those on in the background. Like I'm such a sucker for like kind of mood and I'd want something that is like less sort of like herky jerky, for lack of a better word, and like kind of broad and slapsticky. I would be going for like probably black and white movies where people are sipping. I mean, I just am going to put on the apartment. Let's admit it. It's just a terribly sad movie that takes place in Chris around Christmas time with a Jack lemon and Shirley MacLaine. I love that movie so much. It wouldn't be what most people scamper to, uh, during the holidays, I assume. But anyway, yeah. So were you looking for a certain vibe in all of these movies, Nick, or is it kind of addressing a lot of needs?

00:26:23 - 00:26:42 | Speaker 3:

i think i was being a bit of a generalist for most of it and my main thing was if you can look at the screen every once in a while and have something to say about what's going on or maybe a chuckle about it then the movie's a win yes but does that also mean that the that the plot needs

00:26:42 - 00:27:01 | Speaker 1:

to be generally upbeat does this rule out like overly sad movies you said um batman returns and And I'm kind of like, that's a bit of a blind spot. Who's Batman in that one? That's Michael Keaton. Oh, my goodness. Oh, that's Michael Keaton. That's the second one in the series. I didn't know it was officially called Batman Returns.

00:27:01 - 00:27:29 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, and it has Catwoman, and it has Danny DeVito as the penguin. But it does have a lot of sort of like Christmas imagery. I believe there's a big tree lighting scene, I believe, in the city. There is, and there's a lot of snow throughout the entire thing. Yeah. Yeah, no problems in Gotham City. yeah exactly there's this guy one face who's just like pretty much a straightforward just a normal guy kind of a straight shooter honestly what you see is what you get with one face

00:27:29 - 00:27:40 | Speaker 1:

alright failed it's like a far side far side cartoon like failed batman ideas there's just like a list like papers on the ground one face is one of the things written on there

00:27:40 - 00:27:42 | Speaker 3:

that's right the answer

00:27:42 - 00:27:56 | Speaker 2:

well what do you want to do here guys we are about a half hour into this should we maybe like is that the table setting that we want to do getting people like hyped for tomorrow's coming up tomorrow official top five we've got to sweep that quarter hour

00:27:56 - 00:28:01 | Speaker 1:

and i'm talking to two people who know exactly what that means and exactly how to do that and

00:28:01 - 00:28:05 | Speaker 2:

their names are ron and don oh no you're talking about me and nick okay gotcha yeah but we are

00:28:05 - 00:28:13 | Speaker 1:

going to give them all four tomorrow uh and by that i mean all five or as many as we get to We'll put these five on the floor. Yes, that's right.

00:28:15 - 00:28:18 | Speaker 3:

Thank you for being a 10.

00:28:19 - 00:28:25 | Speaker 1:

You know, the greatest holiday gift that we could receive, Andrew, is the gift of money.

00:28:26 - 00:28:29 | Speaker 2:

It's true. That is the reason for the season.

00:28:30 - 00:28:52 | Speaker 1:

Yes. I think we don't talk enough about how important money is this time of year. I don't. Family? Eh. kith and kin but cold hard cash that's what we really need to keep this thing going and we're getting it from our donors folks like rick manson of seattle washington thank you rick

00:28:52 - 00:28:58 | Speaker 2:

rick later on in the week by the way i'm gonna have a list of my top five favorite monies

00:28:58 - 00:29:02 | Speaker 1:

your top five favorite amounts of money to receive

00:29:02 - 00:29:07 | Speaker 2:

That's exactly what I played on doing. That would be incredible.

00:29:08 - 00:29:29 | Speaker 1:

We also want to thank Summer Martinez, who is in Puyallup, Washington. Thank you, Summer. I hope you got to do the Puyallup last summer. I bet you. I'm guessing Summer did. I mean, I assume everyone in Puyallup is legally obligated to do the Puyallup. You were around the Northwest enough, Nick. Do you remember when it was the Puyallup Fair?

00:29:30 - 00:29:35 | Speaker 3:

I do. I remember. I actually, I was working at Cairo radio the year they transitioned to the

00:29:35 - 00:29:39 | Speaker 2:

state fair. Oh man. That's probably an E segment for all the shows that day.

00:29:39 - 00:29:51 | Speaker 1:

Oh yeah. Can that be our next, uh, I know we are, we're, we're, we're making lists faster with Nick faster than we can actually clear them. But top five things we remember about Cairo radio.

00:29:52 - 00:29:55 | Speaker 3:

Oh, we could, yeah. It'll be hard to trim it down to top five.

00:29:55 - 00:30:47 | Speaker 1:

I love that we all share that experience though. You get very kind of, Thank you. A unique moment of Seattle media time. You know who remembers it closely and fondly? I don't know, actually, if it's fondly, but she certainly remembers it as Catherine Palacios of Houston, Texas, Andrew. Houston, that's exactly where Nick lives. That's who you were thinking of. That is exactly. Mixing up Nick and Catherine Palacios. That's right, once again. Thanks, Catherine. Also, thanks to Todd Thorsgaard of... There is nowhere Todd Thorsgaard is allowed to live that isn't St. Paul, Minnesota. Oh, yes. Very Nordic, huh? I feel like Todd's people came in a Viking ship, and it was the only Viking ship that when it hit the eastern coast of the United States, it just kept going through the earth. It's like plowing a V until it stopped in Minnesota.

00:30:47 - 00:30:53 | Speaker 2:

They all got off. That is right. Eric the Viking Stromstead was there, our former engineer, greeting them.

00:30:54 - 00:31:15 | Speaker 1:

Unfortunately, the Thorsgaards and Stromsteads are blood foes now. Yeah, yeah. So only one can survive. And thankfully, it's Todd, because he's the one donating. Eric, what have you done for us lately? Don't see him on the list. Thanks also to Sally Jenkins of Redmond, Washington. Thanks, Sally. And then Kirk Eldred is in Woodinville, not far from Redmond.

00:31:15 - 00:31:18 | Speaker 2:

Wow, yeah. Kirk and Sally could kick it. Sure, absolutely.

00:31:18 - 00:31:41 | Speaker 1:

They might be listening to this episode together right now. Like, not in a weird way. Not in a furtive way, but just in a, like, you know, they live near each other, and they like TBTL, and they like lists. that's right thank you so much to all of our donors we uh we couldn't do uh tbtl without you so we also couldn't do tbtl without nick jarron nick thank you for um for uh hanging out with us today and for carrying over to tomorrow's show because i really am excited to hear about these

00:31:41 - 00:31:55 | Speaker 2:

uh these movie ideas absolutely happy to be here and happy to be part of an episode that was completely a tease that's right you like really really have to be here tomorrow like let's make It's not clear right now. We'll see. We'll get out on a limb. I don't know.

00:31:56 - 00:31:57 | Speaker 1:

A thing can happen.

00:31:57 - 00:32:04 | Speaker 2:

Protect Jarin at all costs. Don't leave your apartment today. We cannot risk you getting injured or arrested or anything.

00:32:04 - 00:32:17 | Speaker 1:

We do not need you reaching any final destination. That's right. By the way, if one of the final destination movies is on your list, that would be a real pull. Get people thinking around the holidays of just how lucky they are to be alive.

00:32:17 - 00:32:21 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, right. Stay away from the garbage disposal today, Jarin, as well. Yeah, drive safe.

00:32:22 - 00:32:33 | Speaker 1:

Yeah. All right, we will be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for all of you. In the meantime, have a great Monday. Take care of yourselves. Happy holidays. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

00:32:38 - 00:32:39 | Speaker 2:

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