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It's the bonus version, so it's about the, well, increasingly just about 80s and 90s movies, but The best podcast in which two white middle-aged men talk about 80s and 90s movies.
Not a very wide field, but we're the top of it.
There are maybe like five podcasts that do that, right?
So we're probably in the top 20% or so, you know?
Oh, I think of the five podcasts like that, we're probably top three, definitely.
Yeah, that was Daniel Harper you just heard.
Hi, Daniel!
I actually really enjoy you having a pre-existing thing you're gonna do, and then me interrupting right before you get to introducing me.
But that's probably not something you enjoy, and I should really be a better co-host, ultimately.
And I'm considering that as an option, because you do put up with me, you know?
Uh, quite, quite ably.
So anyway, uh, again, so I would like to just formally apologize for what I just did there, which I do on a regular basis.
I didn't realize that I did until I did it just then.
So, you know, Good, good.
There are, there are many paths to self-knowledge and it sounds like you're finally on one.
I'll just, I'll just continue to tactfully lead you towards the light.
It's fine.
Towards like basic acceptance of human norms.
Basically, that's what you were doing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Be a start.
Let's not aim too high too soon.
It's good to have goals, Daniel.
It's good to have goals in life.
So yeah, I've often said actually, Han Solo's arc across the entire trilogy is become slightly less of an asshole.
I think that's like three movies he just about squeaks in at the end.
Anyway.
Are you comparing me to Han Solo?
I'm comparing you to Han Solo, I'm comparing you to Harry Potter as well, who over the course of eight movies never manages it, so you're already doing better there.
But yeah, Harry Potter being a bit of a bespectacled nerd who goes to school and has all sorts of hijinks, so I feel like that's a segue to the subject of our current episode, which is, well, I mean, it's basically a description of you, I gather, but it's also a description of...
The ostensible lead character in 1985's Real Genius, which was a movie that you desperately wanted to talk to me about for some reason.
So why don't you, Daniel, explain yourself and your choices in life.
Well, you know, if you've seen this movie, then you know that This movie explains me to some giant degree because I would have seen this probably when I was like eight years old and I've seen it probably a hundred times since I was eight years old.
It was a very big part of my like childhood memories and I think that's something that like I've been kind of coming back to in terms of doing like, like picking movies for this is like things that like really influenced, you know, me or one of us or something that like influenced the culture.
But for me, like, you know, we were talking about like, you know, sort of movies that we could do for a for a bonus episode.
And I was like, well, I would just really like to sit and chat with you about this for an hour, you know, and, you know, rewatching it.
You know, I think I rewatched it a few years ago.
I mean, I've I haven't seen it a ton of times as an adult, but like every time I've rewatched it, I'm kind of like, this one kind of holds up.
There's a lot of, there's a lot of shit in it, but I feel like there's a, there's some really great stuff in it.
And I feel like it, it comments on the sort of 80s sex comedy and sort of like, it comments on the 80s in interesting ways.
And that's kind of where I, where I wanted to, what I thought was interesting about the film.
And I don't know, I feel like this, was this a first watch for you?
It was, yes.
I literally watched it for the first time this evening.
Finished watching it about maybe an hour before this very moment now.
So I guess what I really want to do is give me, tell me what you thought about it.
I thought it was rather sweet, actually.
I really knew very little about it, except what you'd told me in the past, because you've mentioned this movie to me.
In fact, I think you've been kind of low-key badgering me to talk to you on a podcast about this movie for years.
I think I suggested this as a possible shabcast way back in the day, yeah.
I believe you did, yeah.
And it was one of those ones where I went, oh right, okay, yeah, that's a good idea.
Never doing that.
Which is reasonable how you should have approached me back in those days, to be clear.
Oh, a sex comedy about the military-industrial complex?
No, not interested.
Yeah, congratulations.
Hey, look, you can say a lot of things about me, right?
But one thing you cannot say about me is that I'm a cultural snob.
