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May 22, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Don't You (Forget About Me)
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Today we're going to have some fun.
James and I are going to talk about movies.
It's the summer blockbuster season.
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One of the scariest movies of my young childhood was Planet of the Apes because it was so realistic, but it was so...
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And if you ever saw the last scene of The Planet of the Apes where Charlton Heston is riding up, remember Charlton Heston was in these movies, he rode up and he saw the Statue of Liberty broke and torn and he told them, because remember he came back from the future kind of thing and saw what had happened, and it was just that he had warned them that this Earth was going to be destroyed.
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And so today, James and I are gonna talk about our favorite movies and top sort of 10, if you would, movies you wanna see or shouldn't see.
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James?
I've entered the chat.
We've entered.
We're here.
All is good.
And, um, well, as I led up the entertainment here, it is, um, Movies that we believe everybody ought to see.
I think that's probably the best way to frame it.
Movies that everybody ought to see.
Because there is a difference between your favorite movies and movies you gotta see.
Yeah, and we'll probably have a little bit of both.
For sure.
Absolutely.
Because you'll have bias.
You don't have a choice.
Oh, I agree.
It is...
As we go forward, again, and we're also, I think, you made an interesting comment the other day, and I thought about this.
It also depends, during this conversation on Friday's Finest was, what, when you grew up, affects a lot of this as well.
Absolutely.
It will affect mine, to be clear.
Oh, yeah.
Well, and again, so let's set the table here for the, you know, As you get older and have kids and stuff like that, I mean, if you went to the 90s with me, my favorite movies would have probably had to have been Aladdin with Robin Williams.
It would have been The Lion King and all of those, because all I watched were the kids.
I mean, so I didn't get to go see a lot of those.
Now, for the 70s, of course, you had Rockies.
You had Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
You had one of the scariest movies of all, The Exorcist, the original.
Of course.
And into the 80s, of course, you had the classics.
You had Breakfast Club.
You had Top Gun.
You had Indiana Jones.
Then you had those John Hughes flicks.
Okay, let's just dig in right here.
I'm getting a little excited.
I feel like you're getting a little too excited.
James, are you a John Hughes guy?
So you're a big John Hughes guy, is what you're saying?
Yeah, and this one shows my age.
This one gets me.
So when the first of his movies popped off, which would have been...
You know what?
I don't want to get this wrong, because I don't know the order of these movies.
But which one was the first one that comes to mind when you think of John Hughes?
Ferris Bueller.
Okay.
First of all, that should be on the list for everyone.
It should be on the list for every person ever.
Mainly because I think cell phones may have ruined this, but it's still possible for every high school kid to get away with this in some way, shape, or form.
Yep.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
It was not.
Ferris Bueller was actually settled in.
I looked this up, because this is the great part about having podcasts, because you can look this up.
Correct.
And again, I have to say, 16 Candles was his first.
Okay, so I was going to say 16...
Okay, I was going to bring up 16 Candles, because I'm not a...
I don't love that movie.
But also...
It was a...
The donger.
I didn't grow up in the 80s.
And I think that has something to do with it, where, like, Ferris Bueller doesn't have that part of it.
Like, Breakfast Club, there's still cliques, as far as I know.
I could be wrong.
But when I was in high school, there were still cliques.
And people who didn't talk to me, like, that'll be real forever.
Sixteen Candles is a little, I think, very...
Not that any of those movies aren't 80s.
They are very clearly 80s.
Yeah.
But jean jackets wrapped around the waist.
But in the sense of Ferris Bueller, that movie will always be timeless because it's something we can all relate to.
It's like, how do I get out of going to school today?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That's all I wanted to do.
I literally spent most of my time trying to figure out how I didn't have to go to school.
Yeah.
Well, my interesting thing for me on Ferris Bueller, and I didn't realize this is good for me to go back and see, because here's the order.
I mean, I've got these lists in order, okay?
It was 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, which to me, 84, it came out in 84, right out of 85. That's the year I graduated high school.
I mean, this one deeply identifies with me.
Sure.
But Weird Science is...
Has to be!
And again, for me, it's one of those, are you kidding me?
It is the funniest freaking movie.
And that one's just absurd.
It is hilarious.
And it was Anthony Michael Hall.
By the way, to see where Anthony Michael Hall has come through all of these and then where he's at today is pretty amazing.
By the way, in remembering, Sixteen Candles was, and this may become a John Hughes fest here, was an autobiographical experience, semi-autobiography.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, and there's a book out, and I thought I had it close by on Hughes, and it's a story of all of the movies and how they sort of put together the bigger movies.
Of course, The Breakfast Club.
Here's an interesting fact about The Breakfast Club, and we all talk about stereotypes and cliques, and we have a little movie room that we have.
We watch our movies downstairs, and I have one of my...
Movie posters in that room is The Breakfast Club.
And the speech, you know, which actually is a part of it, is, you know, David Boye's song at the start.
But it was shot in eight weeks.
Eight weeks.
Eight weeks.
With most of the filming taking place in a high school gymnasium.
Weird Science, of course, is great.
You got Ferris Bueller, but then we switch gears a little bit.
And this one is one, and like I said, James, this is what I love about movies.
We're gonna turn this into a John Hughes deal, okay?
And we can save some of the other movies, and we'll throw some in where they fit, okay?
Because listen to this one.
After Ferris Bueller, Comes planes, trains, and automobiles.
His run from 84 to 1992 should be studied.
Maybe longer.
Oh, amazing!
I mean, first of all, Planes to Trains will always be one of my favorites.
It's one of my favorites because it has two of the greatest comedians in the history of film ever together, which is insane.
And I don't know if you got a chance to see any of that Steve Martin doc on, I think it was Hulu, I can't remember, maybe Prime?
Yeah.
I don't remember where it is.
But the point is, he talks about how John Candy affected him, and he starts crying, and I started crying.
And I was like, don't get me upset.
That movie is one of the greatest movies you'll ever watch.
It's a holiday movie.
It could not be a holiday movie.
It doesn't matter.
It is one of the best movies you'll ever watch.
Yeah, it is.
It's just...
Planes Trains is...
You know how we talk about Christmas movies and holiday movies?
Yeah.
That's it for me.
That's on the list, always.
It's Thanksgiving, but the part that got me, after I watched it through the first time, is...
You know, you sit there and you watch the two of them, and for somebody now who travels all the time in my life, especially the last 10, 15 years of my life, I now relate to that story so much in being able to travel.
And you see people, and again, from life, it told such a true story that there are people in life, you know, sort of that underlying thing, James, of you don't know Don't be quick to judge people how they act because you don't know what they're going through.
Absolutely.
And it makes me think, you know, it's not like that, you know, the stories of somebody on a train who didn't get up and they're crying or they did something and, you know, they don't know what's going on and you find out that they just lost their husband, they just lost their wife, you know.
And for Candy in that, I mean, the range of his acting, And Steve Martin, too.
I mean, both of them.
Just truly.
It's one of the funniest lines you ever want to hear in a movie.
But that part where Steve Martin realizes, you know, when he goes there and at that sort of end of the movie, he realizes, wait, wait, this story's not adding up.
Yeah.
And that, it kills me every time.
Yeah, no, you cry.
You can't help, or at least you get shaken up.
Yeah.
But that's like what all of these, I mean, in the end, all these films kind of do that to you in some way, shape, or form at some point.
Like, I think the reality of the, I know this is way too in-depth on John Hughes' films right now, but the reality of these films is that I think today people get mad because maybe there's not a lot of substance in some of the silly films you watch.
Every one of these has a silly component to it, but at the same time, it's a very real conversation that they're having, a very real plot point.
For Breakfast Club, for example, right?
Yep.
I don't know where you were in your high school career and where anyone is, but there is always a clear line between people in high school, especially in the 80s.
My parents said that.
My mom said 70s.
Even when I was younger in the 2000s, I graduated in 11, so 07 to 11. There was very clear cliques, but in that room, you guys might get together, and you really might get together, but you may never talk to each other after that again, because that's the way society kind of forces you when you're in high school.
Luckily, when you get out of high school, you learn that that stuff is very surface-level and pointless, but when you're in it, it's real.
But it's still a cause, James.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah and that's what gets me about the breakfast stuff.
I always wish and you know they always said and it wasn't his movie um but uh you know there was always this talk about doing a uh a sequel you know 10 years later or whatever five years later uh uh to that um but it was um it wasn't Hughes that wrote it,
everybody sort of thought that the St. Elmo's Fire was the, and here's another movie that you should watch, but St. Elmo's Fire was the sequel to Breakfast Club.
Okay, I can see that.
The Brat Pack, you know, Emilio Estevez was in it and so was Judd Nelson.
Yeah, but he also added Rob Lowe and his- Yeah, but he had three of the four were in that movie, three of the five were in that thing, but it didn't feel right.
You know, for me, and now you've been out 12 years, God bless you, 13 years.
I've been out of high school this year.
God, I hadn't really thought about this.
It's 40 years for me this year.
Doug, buddy.
40 years.
40 years I've been out of high school.
So yeah, because that's right, my dad graduated in 80, so yeah.
I graduated in 84. He's 30, he's 45 years old.
Yeah, I graduated in 84. You forget that it's only the first 18 years of your life, though.
That's very important.
Oh yeah, yeah.
I mean, it is.
You're a child, you're an idiot, you're a moron, and you're barely a human being at that point.
But it is amazing, you know, kind of think about that.
And then, and the reason I sort of say that is, is I remember, I still remember vividly My graduation.
I can still remember going.
We had it at the Georgia Mountain Center, which was a place here.
My mom had everybody, and my dad had family in, and it was always, why couldn't you get more tickets and why didn't you wait?
And it was just, you know, all this.
I really wanted the night to be over it many ways.
But it was just like, you know, you did it.
And I can still remember people That I had spent, and even you in this, you know, short time, you can understand it as well.
There were people I spent every day of my life with, you know, pretty much, for four to 12 years, depending on, or six to 12, because I went, my high school was seven to 12. Yeah, we were 9 to 12. Okay.
Yeah, so I had 7 through 12. We didn't have a middle school concept.
They just made middle school up to separate kids from getting beat up.
They did.
I mean, let's be honest.
So I had at least five years.
Yeah, five, six years.
But I had some for 12. You know, some that I had been with since first grade.
And, you know, you think about it, you know, you always hear, oh, let's keep in touch, you put in the yearbook, and here's the thing that just blows me away every time I think about it.
And I make mention of it, especially when I talk to seniors at graduation, people that I, There are people that I would speak with at least, if not every day during that timeframe, every other day, or at least sometime during the week, that I have not said a word to in 40 years.
40 years.
Think about that.
That is fascinating.
So let me ask you a question.
Wow, this is taking a turn.
Do you have friends from high school still that you talk to?
Yes.
Are those like very close, very like almost family at this point, right?
Do I have people that I... Yes, and I do.
I have two in particular that we were friends from almost first, second grade, okay?
Yeah, I have that as well.
And we went through college together, actually.
Oh, wow.
That's awesome.
Okay, well, you didn't go to art school like an Indian school.
Well, we don't talk every day.
One now lives in South Carolina.
One still lives across the lake from me.
One's a dentist.
And you'll always chat.
You guys could not talk for a year and nothing would happen.
You'd come right back and be like, right?
So I have been one of the fortunate people in my life.
Which is why a lot of these movies hit pretty hard, I think.
I could be wrong about that.
But like, I have friends since I was, I have four friends since I was five.
And I have five more friends since I was around 13. That I'm still friends with today and we talk to like family, like every single day.
We're on the phone.
They're all having kids now.
So, like, it is crazy.
And then you have these, like, time capsule movies where you can trap it and you can feel it one more time.
It's weird.
And when you get older, you're like, oh, man, I can't believe we were like that.
But it is what it is.
You were a child.
Your brain was just like, I need this to happen for me.
You believed it at the time, too.
You were like, yeah, that's going to happen to me.
We're all going to grow up and go off on our separate ways and be happy.
And maybe you did.
Maybe you didn't.
But, like...
But, like, it's funny.
Like, that is such a major...
Like, those movies are a major part of your life.
So you have the 80s.
Mine are a little different because, obviously, mine was the 90s.
I don't know if I have too many like that.
But, yeah, I just...
I think that stuff, like, it really, like, just holds it in a bottle for you so you can watch it.
Think about it.
Here's something for you to think about.
You've been out now, what, 13 years?
Yep.
Yeah, something like that.
13 years come June.
11, yeah.
Yeah, um...
There are people in your class that are no longer living.
Yeah, that's one of the hard ones.
Yeah, I have, you know, car wreck, you know, the tragic kind of thing.
But I mean, for me, 40 years, I know there are some that are gone.
But again, when you think about movies like this, and one of the things I hope for the listeners on the podcast today are just catching a glimpse of, hope this takes you back and makes you number one.
The older you get, the more you want to...
I'm learning some hard lessons.
And the hard lessons are, is I may be...
I'll turn 58 this summer in August.
But I don't feel 58. I don't know what it's supposed to feel like, but I don't feel 58. I still listen to the same music I did when I was in 20s and 30s.
I still have the same quirks.
But you can't go...
There's some things you just can't recapture, and there's some things you can't start again.
And I think the longer you get and the older you get, that's when these movies...
I mean, I remember watching...
One of Lisa's favorite 80s movies is she believes everybody has to watch is Top Gun.
And, you know, again, not a John Hughes movie, but it was, you know, Top Gun.
But you can sort of see the 80s, you know, you sort of sense that vibe.
When that movie came out, just to put this in perspective, when that movie came out, I was 20 years old.
Oh, man, I'm surprised you didn't hop into a plane immediately.
Well, you know, I was- Well, you kind of.
I mean, in some way, shape, or form, you kind of made it there, right?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you have it.
There's like lawyers and everything else.
But when you look at the stuff that they grow up, you know, if you had, you know, here's the question.
And because The John Hughes movies made you think of, especially a lot of, you know, Home Alone.
I mean, he went on to have Home Alone.
He went and had, you know, and had other movies.
It was massive hits kind of stuff.
But when you look at the, if you go back to those first ones, if you go back to The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science, you know, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, even Planes Trains, you know, He sort of turned, you know, after that grouping of...
There was also some movies that he didn't really work on, but they were movies that he dealt with.
And it was in that same genre, if you would.
Yeah, he probably wrote a lot of them.
Yeah, it was there.
So it was, you know, you look at it, but what he dealt with was that, you know, sort of coming of age, however you want to put it, you know, look.
But it was, it also made you think, you know, what, where were we in life kind of thing.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And what happens after that?
I mean, because, you know, there's a lot of movies that, you know, he was a part of.
I mean, like Mr. Mom, if you remember, you know, that was a movie that, you know, he was a part of.
He was a part of European Vacation.
He was a part of Pretty in Pink, which is another classic movie, Pretty in Pink.
Another one, yep.
It had John Cryer in it.
That is hilarious to me is to watch.
John Cryer is ducky and pretty in pink.
And then now to see him in how he's sort of grown up to always still sort of be that sort of odd duck, if you would.
Yeah, that nerdy dude.
Two and a half men, was it?
What was it?
Two and a half men?
The what now?
The two and a half men show?
Yeah, the two and a half men.
Another one that he had something to do with was a movie called Some Kind of Wonderful.
And if you've not watched some kind of wonderful, it's that sort of guy from the wrong side of the street, likes the girl from the other side of the street, they get in the fight, you got, you know, all this kind of stuff.
And then he sort of switched and he sort of traded some of that to go, you know, home alone, Dennis Menace, maybe he's out, you know, this miracle on 34th, there's others.
But those stories, you really wonder at times, what would What would the Breakfast Club look like?
What would Pretty in Pink look like?
What would some kind of wonderful look like three to five years down the road?
You know, if you go back to the Breakfast Club and you take the Breakfast Club and you look at it and you say, okay, what was, you know, Judd's character, you know, is the devil.
I mean, what's he be doing?
He may own three garages and makes a million dollars a year.
And Emilio Estevez did something, went on drugs.
You know, it's just, you know, you wonder about it because you see all of us in high school I can remember some of the folks in high school that we didn't, I didn't, you know, associate run with, who are now extremely successful in what they do.
And I saw some of the guys who were going to be the, you know, they were the king of the walk in the high school, and they never grew up out of high school.
Yeah.
Now, I know a couple people like that in my life.
I mean, some of us, Take a little longer to get there, I think.
But some people just don't do it.
No.
They just won't do it.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
And you can hope.
And there are some people in my life, like, straight up in my life that scare me to death.
Because I think about, like...
Buddy, you're not in high school.
You're not 18. I know we had fun and we got to do whatever we wanted back then, but there are consequences now.
There's nothing to do.
You've got to have a job.
You can't be living with your folks.
And I'm not, listen, I'm not judging anyone for how long you live with your parents at this point because things cost a lot of money.
It's crazy.
What I'm saying is like, I think there's a part of like, I think you could say this about everyone in the breakfast club.
In some way, shape, or form, they would have all tried to strike out on their own.
That doesn't happen as often or as early as you'd hope now.
That's for sure.
Well, remember, they were Gen Zers.
I mean, they're Gen Xers.
They're Gen Xers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're Xers.
That's my folks.
I mean, we didn't, you know, this concept of, you know, the way, and it's not a criticism of both.
It's just an honest assessment of life.
What today kids look at and they see in The Breakfast Club, they don't recognize anymore as much because you have so much of the helicopter parent, you have so much of the different parenting issues that go on here in different ways.
And don't forget kids who are allowed to be kids.
I know that's a crazy thing to say out loud because I'm not that old yet, but...
Social media does not allow kids to be kids anymore.
They see, you know, if you saw, alright, let's use, I'll use this for example.
When I was in high school, if I saw somebody famous doing something, which would have been hard to see outside of MTV or the movie or maybe when YouTube was first coming up and even then it was barely coming up.
If we saw something cool, we would either try it at the park if it was a sport, or we would dress like them.
That's how those things happen, but now these kids are flushed into doing full adult lives at 15 because that's what famous people are doing.
They're showing their everyday life.
We all know social media has benefits, but the benefits do not outweigh the craziness of it.
And it feels like I saw a kid dressed as a full adult.
I came home, this was probably like three years ago, or right before I left for Texas.
And I saw a kid dressed as a full adult.
He must have had what looked like $400 worth of clothes on.
Yeah.
And I was like, you are four foot four.
There is no way.
And he's with his friends.
And all I was thinking was like, is it terrible parenting?
Did that kid beg his mom for that stuff?
Did I beg my mom for that kind of stuff?
And I look like a weird adult at that age?
I don't know.
We all tried to dress like construction workers for some reason when we lived in the We had Carhartts and Timberlands.
There you go.
But I'm just saying, it's a weird situation.
I haven't seen a movie outside of maybe Booksmart was pretty good, but there's not a lot of movies now that have that same 80s coming of age vibe because they tried to make it as realistic as possible while also giving you some fun.
And I think...
Some of these coming-of-age movies are kind of depressing.
Like, they're good, but they're just depressing lately.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, the wounds today, though, and let's try to, you know, as your fellow New Jerseyan, Bruce Springsteen, Glory Days, you know, sort of lays out, you know, the song, you call it Glory Days, but think about movies of coming-of-age now, okay?
I mean, you...
In Breakfast Club, one of the more poignant scenes and That came up was when the Anthony Michael Hall character was talking about that he was going to kill himself because he got a B or he got to help, whatever it was going to be.
And they were all, the way that the camera panned around, I mean, they did an amazing job with that.
But it was that such, I mean, that was such a, wow.
I mean, that's like, you think about it and, you know, how your parents, you know, that sort of, now you go into coming of age stuff and you get the, what was the one, And it just left me.
I only watched like two episodes of it because I couldn't take the rest of it.
It was on Netflix or one a couple of years ago.
You know what it was about?
Yeah, about kids.
Not Stranger Things.
No, no, no.
This was hard.
I can't think of it.
I'm trying to think of a show coming of age that I watched.
They had the girl on it.
Sweeney, I think, was in it.
Oh, Euphoria.
Euphoria.
Oh, no.
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
We went from Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, to Euphoria.
That show is...
I've talked to kids that are that age, or supposed to be that age.
Those people are all adults.
But I've met people that are like, that's not, I don't know what high school they're going to, but it's not ours.
Because, yeah, it's a dramatization of some of the stuff going on in high school.
Whereas, like, the ones you're talking about, that stuff was just happening in high school.
Most of the movies I watched kids, that whatever was happening in high school, they just, that was real.
It's kind of real.
And they wanted it to be, and like I said, now they go for the oh my god factor.
Yeah, the whole show is like a designer drug.
Yeah.
It's just ecstasy.
Yeah, it's amazing.
And then they had, you know, there's just been so many of those young adult, coming of age, kind of, you know, not just high school, but early 20s, in which it's all sex, drugs.
I mean, Yeah, I mean, like, we know that's part of it, but it doesn't have to be the entire thing.
Yeah, but that's the way it's shown these days.
Yeah, they make it like every kid, trust me, every kid was not having that much fun in high school, I assure you.
No, no, no, I agree.
Did any of them get grounded?
Where are your parents?
You know what my mom used to do?
She used to let my friends play outside my giant bay window, so I had to watch them play in my yard.
When I was in trouble.
That doesn't happen.
They're like, oh yeah, you can go back out and do crack.
It's fine.
Don't worry about it.
That's literally euphoria.
They're like, oh, are you doing coke?
That's fine.
Go ahead and do that again.
Yeah.
Well, and seeing for like my generation, you know, the Gen X generation, I mean, they can't even name us.
They just put in Jet X. We don't even know who you are.
Yeah, you're not a thing.
I mean, we...
The scary part would be is what in the world would have happened if we actually had cameras like we had today in our time?
It would be...
You know what?
This is good.
There's a video of Ashton Kutcher talking about...
Now, he's talking about being famous, so it's a little different, but it's not that much different than when we were kids as far as just getting away with stuff.
But he used to go to a club.
And this was right before paparazzi took off, TMZ. You would go to a club.
Everybody would go.
You would go in.
You would do whatever you wanted in there.
No one would say anything.
No one would leave and talk about it later.
It happened there, and then you left.
Then they would come out.
Maybe the paparazzi was there, whatever.
Then TMZ showed up.
Then camera phones.
I mean, then the toss-away phones.
I mean cameras.
The disposable cameras.
Then cell phones.
Then everything was over, right?
If my parents got a hold of footage of anything I did between the ages of 12 and 20, I would be arrested and in jail and separated.
My parents would emancipate me.
I'm just saying that's very real.
Thank God they didn't exist back then.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, look, movies and TV used to be special in a sense.
They're not anymore.
Because for me, to get to come in and watch TV, that was either it was at nighttime or there was a Saturday morning cartoon.
Because rest time, about 100 yards from where I'm sitting, I mean, I was out in those woods.
We were jumping.
We were making ramps.
We were burning stuff.
That's exactly what we were doing for our little man.
Because we couldn't come inside.
My mom said, go outside.
We'll call you at lunch.
And that was only if we needed lunch.
You know, we'd go down the road.
We went to the lake.
We went everywhere.
I mean, again, but these kind of movies, and I think bringing this back to movies, and hopefully, like I said, maybe if you're out there and watching DougCollinsPodcast.com, hit the email button.
Tell us what's your favorite.
I mean, we hit on Hughes today.
We're going to have to come back and pick up other movies that you're going to have to...
Yeah, we will, because there's a list of movies on here that I made that I am regretting making as of today, because...
We found all these movies out, but they make us think, they make us grow.
Some of the best movies reflect real life in a way that makes you think or a way that makes you react.
But doesn't give you the end answer.
I think that's the best part of the breakfast club.
When they all walked in, don't you forget about me.
You know, he's walking across the football field after school.
And, you know, he's walking out, he's leading back, see you next Saturday.
You know, he's walking across.
And, you know, they get in the car and, you know, it's just like, I've been in those situations.
And it's just like that.
But it leaves it You know, we said earlier in the podcast, wouldn't it have been interesting if they'd have made a real what would happen?
I'm glad they didn't.
Oh, for sure.
No, that would have pissed everybody.
Make it clear.
Yeah.
Now, it's up to anybody who wants to thank it.
Molly Ringwald and Judd, they got together and had kids.
You know, who knows?
Well, I'll tell you what.
If there are two coming-of-age movies, since we're talking about it real quick, and then we can hop on them.
There are two that are really important and near and dear to my heart, and it's only because I think this is part, I don't know how you feel, but I always wanted to live in the 70s and the 80s or 60s and 70s, that free, do whatever you want, go into the woods, come back, if you come back.
But I kind of had that, but it was still the 2000s, so everybody was worried about people grabbing you.
Anyway, point is, There are two movies.
I'm sure you've heard of it.
Almost Famous.
One of the best movies you'll ever watch in your lifetime.
And Days and Confused.
And if you don't know Days and Confused, I hate you and I don't want to talk to you.
However, those two movies shaped everything for me.
I was like, yeah, I'm just going to go find a rock band and I'm going to go travel with them forever.
Matthew McConaughey.
Yeah, I mean, that literally launched his career, and all he did was say, be a lot cooler if you did.
That's it.
That's all he had to say and change the world forever.
Be a lot cooler if you did.
Yeah.
Again, it says, but they make an impression.
So, look, folks, we're getting ready for summers.
You know, May's coming in.
We're going to have a lot of politics coming to the end of the year.
But we're going to have a lot of these over the next few weeks just to get you ready for summer.
We'll kick in.
We'll keep you involved in politics and everything that's going on as we go forward.
But for James, Chip, Chip will be joining us on some of these.
We've got Matt Whitaker.
Absolutely.
We've got a lot of folks in the next little bit coming up.
But this is a day for you just to take time off, think about some movies, and maybe go home tonight and instead of, you know, Going up somewhere, and if you got kids at the house, bring them all together, because there's one thing that still haunts me as I've gotten older.
And I saw this, James, it pretty well fits the movies that we've talked about, and how they make an impression.
One of these days, back in the past, especially if you're an adult, and like I said, I actually happen to live in kind of the same neighborhood I grew up in.
Sure.
Same here.
I can still remember looking out As I leave my house and still see the same front yards that I played in.
And I saw this on social media the other day and it made an impression on me.
And it said, one day you and your friends went out to play and it was the last time you ever did it and nobody realized.
Why would you haunt me with that for the rest of my life?
But think about it.
You know, everybody's saying, oh, this is going to be great, but it's the last time.
You just don't know.
It just makes you live life.
It says just go out and live it.
Tell people you love them.
Do what you need to because, you know, we're not promised another day.
We're only promised what we've got right this second.
So with that, folks, I appreciate James.
Appreciate y'all being here.
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