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You can find Kyle Brandt every once in a while on the Ringer Podcast network. He's now belongs to NFL ESPN ESPN ESPNFL Network. ESPNFL Network. Hopped over there.
He's popping up all over the place. Still on Good Morning Football. He's been coming on this podcast five years. Six years.
Five years. Six years since we did Teen Wolf. I think it was in the COVID year. That was the first one.
Honestly. A little late on Arnold movies for us. And we're going to text him Bill and we're like, we kind of miss Arnold, kind of miss hang with Arnold. We've gone since the Running Man.
That a long time ago. Long time ago. We're back. I'll be back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kindergarten Cop is next. Kindergart cop. 1990. I was in college.
Where were you in 1990? Fifth grade. Saw the theater. Oh, you're kind of the audience for Kindergarten Cop.
Big time. Yeah, big time. Loved it. Fired up by it.
Thought it was the kids were hilarious. Thought the action was awesome. This is an important movie for me. Big time.
You, you like? Did you see the theater in college? Saw it on a date. I think it's one of those rare.
Adults can go to the movie, college kids can go to the movie. Parents can take their kids or kids can just sneak in and go. And I think 1990, this movie, now I don't know what it is in 2026. I just think it's a horrible version of itself.
Back then, you could end a kid's movie with an active shooter who set a fire and is now trying to kidnap a kid. And we're fine. Nobody judges it. We just go.
We're scared for the kid. We figured Arnold's gonna save the day. This movie feels very distinct. 1990.
Let's not overthink this. Let's just give Arnold, a job being a kindergarten teacher. And let's go. So much of the fun in watching it now is just saying, holy shit, how is this in the movie?
It's, there's, there's 12 of those things and it's like you're enjoying Arnold and where are the kids and all that. But then you're also like, what is with all this child abuse and then heavy handed divorce lectures and then like some weird thing with sexual identity. Like everything is in this movie. And it always cracks me up that like if you brought your kids to this movie, oh great, Arnold's going to kid stuff.
I can't wait. Bring the kids kindergarten. This would be awesome. And you sit down like your 8 year old or maybe your actual kindergartner.
Like in the first three minutes of the movie, there's an execution style murder and then a woman is handcuffed with dead body. And moments after that a man slaps a woman across the face. And you're like, what is this? We should have got a Home Alone.
Again, it's nuts. And there's 50 things like that in this movie. It's hilarious. Yeah, it's like, Is this an NC17?
No, no, it's probably, it was PG back then. I. This movie exists in this weird part of time for culture where like my generation, we grew up and we had those, you know, we had the kid shows, but we also had like ABC after school specials and we had those warning TV movies that like CBS would do. It'd be like a Diary of a Hitchhiker.
And it would be like a hitchhiker gets brutally murdered in the beginning of the hitchhiker. And basically the lesson was, don't be a hitchhiker. Don't trust your uncle to take pictures of you. It was a lot of lessons.
And then as we headed into the late 80s, early 90s, we flipped and there's this hybrid era because Home Alone's in this too. Some of the sports movies that like a little Big League sandlot, these movies where it's like they're kids movies but they're crossing lines in a way that I'm not sure we would do now. And then by the time we get to the 2000s, all of a sudden we're like, hey, this should just be kids movies. And we're really careful and they do the Bad News Bears remake and they have to like check every box of it and they take basically all, all the sauce out of it.
And just now this movie has John CEN in it or the Rock and it's really safe. And it's like a really, really easy pg. And every kid is carefully cast. None of the kids make sense together.
And I just think that's how we do it. But the early 90s, they didn't give a fuck. They just didn't care. And I'm kind of here for it.
I'm totally here for it. I assure you. If you're listening, you're watching, you've not seen this movie a long time. Shit's gonna make your head spin when you watch it.
And I think this movie is a flex. You already mentioned it once, of the PG13 rating, that you can push that shit really far and still knock it under the R. Like just brutal shootings, drug deaths, like kids looking up girls, skirts. I was like, I would spit my drink out when I saw that.
And they put that in the trailer for this movie. I went back and watched it in 1990. It was desensitized. I was fifth grade.
I'm 10 years old watching this movie. There was no part of my parents in the lobby who were like, wow, that was a mistake. They were balls with me. They thought it was awesome.
Totally different sensibility. The kid is getting the child abuse. Kid is getting bullied by the class. And then it turns out he's being abused.
Never really resolved. No idea how it worked out for him. This kid has had one of the most traumatic kindergartens you could possibly have, ending with a fire in a school shooting. And it's like, did he come out of this okay?
We'll never know. He's just kind of. Did he make any friends? Probably not.
This movie hinges around Arnold. I wrote down to me like, it's like Wemby. It's like a one on one. You go and you're like, I've never seen this before.
Or you go see Ohtani and he pitches eight innings and hits a 31 home run. You're like, I've just never seen this before. I don't even know how to explain Arnold all these years later, because we've done a couple of these movies, it takes outlets for him with Terminator in 84. And he's bouncing around the action stratosphere there for a little bit.
But in the late 80s, when he mixes, like, I could be in comedy. I could be in Twins now. Now I can be in Total Recall. Watch this.
I'm gonna be in Kindergarten Cop. I'm gonna be in Terminator 2 again. He was basically these two people. Everything he says in this movie is hilarious.
Everyone and maybe 80% of the time I don't think it's intentional, but I think he knows we think it's funny and doesn't take it personally and is playing along with the gag. But it's also not intentional on his part. I don't even know the line that he zags. I don't even know how he does it.
I totally get what you're saying. You and I as people who love Arnold, spend most of his movies, a lot of them openly laughing at him, but we still love it. And it's different though, that we do the same thing for Seagal. And Seagal were like, is like a clown.
Arnold is. I totally respect him. I don't look him like Seagal at all. Not to mention the bodybuilder, the self made thing, the immigrant, all that like that stuff is very cool.
But I watch most of his movies and like, I think he's Arnold's kind of the joke, but I just love him so much. I just get over it. And he's kind of okay being the joke because ultimately the joke's on everybody else because he's making like 15 to 20 million a year making movies at this point. He's hugely famous.
I saw this in the theater and during the. It's not a tuma. It's not a tuma at all. There it is, just huge laughter in the theater.
And I don't even know like. So I haven't Writeman directly. We'll talk about the legendary run he had. He had to know what he had here the same way like Bill Parcels knew what he had with Lawrence Taylor.
It's like this guy's a one of one freak. How do I just put him in situations where he's just attacking the quarterback with one on one blocking? I've been ripening this whole movie. It's like, how can I just have.
First of all, how can I have Arnold just saying lines? Arnold has more lines in this movie than I think any other movie's ever done. How do I have variation in the words? So instead of tumor, I know it's gonna be funnier when he says tuma.
I think Arnold knows it's funny, but maybe deep down he thinks we're just laughing at the delivery and not just how stupid he sounds. I don't know how they did it. And I think he could become self aware with this stuff. And eventually he became self.
Aware. But I think in 1990 he wasn't 100% self aware yet. So it's a little bit of a Heat check. Because right now in Schwarzenegger they do twins and it works.
Yeah, he doesn't have a giant machine gun and stuff like, holy shit, maybe we can do this. Now he's gonna get a deeper heat check with Junior and he's gonna miss. But this one hits again and I think you're onto something. Like, I was watching this movie and I was finding myself.
Who is this for, really? Because if you're there for the Arnold ass kicking, the kid stuff might be annoying. If you're there for the kid stuff, the Arnold asking might be too much. And my answer is it's just for Die Hard Arnold.
Heads like that, you show up no matter what he does. Because if you don't love Arnold Schwarzeneg, I mean love this movie could be too much for you. I also think. I agree.
I think it's the most dialogue he's ever had. Dude. He's carrying five different genres. We have a buddy cop movie, a romantic movie, action kids.
And he's really, really doing well. I also think it's like, I think it's the most quotable movie that he's ever done ever. Like, every single thing he says is a gif. It's a soundboard button.
It's just like, I'm going to some questions I want to ask him immediately. It's all those things. I'm a copy of Idiot. It's so fun to say and listen to.
And it's because he's just shouting out pearls every single scene. We've never seen him do that before. Well, we also had Total Recall six months earlier. Yeah.
So we are now on like an Arnold addiction cycle where every six months we need to go to a movie theater just to see him be Arnold. And he's carrying this basically from 1987, basically through True Lies. This is a pretty great eight year run. So I found the Premiere magazine where they wrote basically a page about this movie.
There's some gems in there. Oh, great. I love this. He said Arnold said this was a high concept.
He's been touting for a long time. This is a quote. For 10 years, I've been telling writers, producers, directors and studio executives that I would love to do a film where a kid or children are a very important part. Something like John Voight did in this boxing movie, the Champ.
You change always when you're around children. Steve Arnold in these meetings, one of the biggest stars in the world. And they're like, what do you want to do next? He's like, I'd like to do Something with children.
Can it be in a kids movie? Like I can't now. We're still doing cocaine in the late 80s and I'm sure people like that. Yeah, that's a great Arnold.
We'll put you in a first grade classroom. But one of the kids talk about penises. Yeah. So they just let it go and unleash it.
And it worked. Not did this movie make a ton of money and people love this movie. Like I told a bunch of people and they go really? Like, what's next?
Rewatchables. Oh, it's gonna be kindergarten. People are like, I love that movie. They love that movie.
And everybody loves saying it's not a tumor. If you mention Kindergarten Cop to someone, they will and must say tumor. Like Arnold took possession of the word tumor, which is a horrible, horrible word. When you hear that word, you think of Arnold.
I used to think of him when I watch Amani Tumor. And I'd say, it's not a tumor. He took over that word. Question for you.
I have it's not a tumor. I think it's his second most famous line in his entire career. I got. I'll be back.
Ask me first. And I think it's not a tumor is more famous than get to the Choppa, which is really well known from Predator. I think it's all the way up there. This throwaway line is with this kid.
But it's fun to say and everybody will say if you mention this movie. I think you're right. I think it took a second life when Amani Tumor actually showed up on the Giants, which was what, mid-90s? And I'm 99% sure Berman, who was doing the nicknames and the nicknames were funny back then.
We didn't have the Internet. We didn't know any better. Like if you go back, some of them are pretty forced. Yeah.
Jeff Brown, Picker, Bagwell, Eric Sleeping with the Enemy. I gotta say I really enjoyed the way back when. But when he was doing Amani it's not a Tumor. It was the best one of all the ones because so.
So it's not a tumor. Lived on through like tumor's entire career, basically. But for my understanding is is that Boomer to this day will have a nickname for everyone he encounters at espn. Did you ever get a nickname for Boomer?
No, he didn't like me for a while and then no, I think I don't know what happened, but maybe I made a joke about him in column or something. But we hashed it out at the 2013 SPS had a great hang with. It was the year I think John Hamm hosted that after party at a hotel and. And the boomer and I really put in the time, like 15, 20 minutes and I just like kissed his ass.
And it was genuine. I was like, things were going awesome for mid time IDSP and I went up to him, I'm like, look man, things are going great for me. I feel so indebted to you. You built this place.
Like people like me are just trying to keep it going, but you're the guy like. And everybody felt that way and he loved it. Yeah, yeah. But I think, you know, as people get older over the years, sometimes you can take shit.
Berman was outside is incredibly important. So anyway, it's not a tumor for him. It was one of the. Sleeping with the anime was still the best one though.
Excellent one by my favorite. Yeah, I think that was the best one. Anyway, Arnold could be in any movie. So they're doing this movie basically variations of it for the last, I'd say 15 years and it would have the rock for John Cena, Jason Statham, Vin Diesel.
Yeah, it's just a really hard one to pull off. And I gotta be honest, I think he's the only one that did it. He's the only one that nailed it. And I have to give it, I have to give credit.
Like a lot of times those movies lose you because the kids are annoying. The kids are cute in this. Let's call it what it is. They were really funny kids.
And in 1990 we had these kids and we had Kevin McAllister who were ruling the world. And it was really, really big back then. Arnold interact with them. Seems authentic.
I like it and I like the way they use the kids. It's funny. I laugh at the. I still laugh at the kids.
The dumb kids are like, my dad can't wear hats. And I'm sitting there now in my 40s, just laughing, enjoying it. This last one is a timeless movie. You know, it's like running on Netflix right now.
It's 36 years old and it's a movie that now you'd have I don't know how many generations of kids in the age of like, hey, we should watch this this week. There's not a lot of these that you could watch. I mean I always showed these to my kids way too early. So my kids are probably like know 5 or 6 when they watch us.
Yeah, but it was perfect because it was. It's a little dangerous. It's funny. Arnold's Funny.
Some of the kids stuff is funny. It just. It works. Can we go back to 1990 though, please?
Let's go. So this, this movie ends. Let's see. 10th in 1990, some of the bangers from that year.
Home Alone is number one. Ghost Dancing with Wolves, Pretty Women, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is fifth. Hunt for Red October. Heard that's a good movie.
Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, Kindergarten Cop, Back to the Future 3, Presumed Innocent, Days of Thunder are a top 13. And what do all those movies have in common? Fucking huge stars almost across the board. If Harrison Ford, Costner, Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Culkin becomes a huge star.
Schwarzenegger's in two. Bruce Willis, Warren Beatty, Michael J. Fox, Cruz. Like, we just.
We knew what we were doing in 1995, dude. A bonkers year. The craziest thing about that year is the Home Alone piece where Home Alone was the number one movie in America for 12 weeks. 12 straight weeks.
Kingdom Cop drops in week eight. And Arnold, coming off Total Recall, they don't even make the McAllister's blink. They rattle off another month. And here's the best part.
The movie that finally took the number one spot from Home Alone, we've already mentioned it. A little movie called Sleeping with the Enemy took the number one spot. Kevin McAllister, how good is that? Julia in Danger.
So Arnold goes Predator. Running man in 87, red heat in 88 turns down die Hard, which seems like it's a mistake in retrospect. Twins, red heat, 1990 recall and kindergarten cop. 91.
Terminator 2 and 90 is the year he takes the belt from Slice Alone. For real. It's. He.
He co owns it from 87 on. They're basically like co champs. Like when boxing. Whether it's like the WBC champ, they're both champs by 90, he has the belt.
Sly's unraveled, he's doing Stop by Mama Shoot. And Oscar. Oscar. He's doing Rocky 5 like he.
It just feels like it's over. Until Challenger, which we've not. Challenger Cliffhanger, which we've already done. That was his attempt to just climb.
Literally, no pun intended. Back in the conversation. Because Arnold is just killing everybody. But he was the biggest guy we had.
And I don't know if there's been another run like this. No, listen to step on Apex. Like, I think this is Arnold Apex. You did the Wendy comparison to me.
This is the MJ87,88 season where he won MVP and Defensive Player of the year to give us the Paul Verhoeven, super crazy violent sci fi, Total Recall which is awesome. And then this silly nonsense up in the Pacific Northwest with these kids in the same year is so different. And by the way, the best movie ever makes is coming next in T2. I think this is died of Arnold everything.
He's also deeply entrenched in the George H.W. bush White House at this point. Like he has an official position that he's in government. All that is coming.
He's running the world. I think he's with. He's with Mary Schreiber at this point too. Yeah, that's all happening.
I read that had a little less. It says tangent. Okay. So we didn't know how good we had it.
Celebrity list like I almost wish I could. I enjoyed it more in the moment. I'm melancholy already. What do you got?
We just figured like Arnold. Oh, there'll be more of these. Arnold will be back in some other form. They're just not.
The closest we really got to was I think Vin Diesel in the Fast and Furious movies and it's just not. You can't compare it. But I was thinking future celebrities. I wish I had appreciated more in the moment.
Arnold is one Michael Jordan the whole run. Although I do think when he went away to play baseball we did appreciate it and really did think about it. Tiger's a great one because when it abruptly ended it was like oh man, that sucked. That was a really good 12 year run.
80s Eddie Murphy, Mike and the Mad Dog was like this for me. Always knowing that they were on in New York. Anytime you're there, suddenly they were gone. Dan and Keith on SportsCenter late 90s WWE the Attitude.
Eric felt like it was gonna go on forever. Didn't Randy Moss. Part of me felt like he was just going through his 45 just being able to straight down the. Down the sideline.
Serena Williams just feeling like she was the mountain evernote climb in women's tennis. And then I gotta say there was a Michael Jackson run there in the 80s where it was like wow, holy mackerel. The person ever lived. Definitely anyone else you would put on like for you just like.
I wish I'd appreciate a little more in retrospect. Yeah, I might go to crmonths. I was there and it was a beautiful month but I wish I could have dug in further. It was beautiful though.
I really enjoyed it. CRM Arnold Tiger. Yeah, I got you. I think you guys came up a little short and should have the balls to do this Hikario pod in Juarez lives.
But maybe. Maybe the recent car. You were part of CRM, though. Spectacular.
Definitely. The cast of this movie. Penelope Miller, that's the love interest. Small run for her here in the 90s, I think.
Carlitos and a couple others. Pamela Reed as the buddy cop. Sure. Really nice performance by her in this, I thought.
She's excellent. She's a very good actress. Yeah. Linda Hunt, who was, I think, started out near Living Dangerously.
She's the principal. She's the little lady who has a couple good scenes. Richard Tyson is the bad guy. Let's go.
When you want to do this? Now or later? You want to do some crisp talk? Because I'm here for Chris.
Let's go. What's going on here? Is this just like. This is the NFL salary cap, where we had to spend a lot of money on Mahomes, and we're just going to keep our fingers crossed with the left tackle and hope he doesn't get annihilated.
The playoffs, too. You really could. What happened here? What happened is a lot of silk clothing, a ponytail and a brood.
And he somehow got this part. And by the way, like, I'm not here to shit on Chris. I love Chris. I think he's really funny.
I think he's a good villain. I don't think he's gonna win an Oscar, but he almost reminds me of Jimmy from Roadhouse. Like, he's just kind of this brooding guy who has a physicality to him. I like Chris.
I think Chris is fantastic. That's the thing. He's a character from a Roadhouse, Van Damme kind of a movie. This is actually kind of an elevated movie with good actors.
And I don't know how they figured out that, but I don't know what's going on with him in general. The relationship with the mother is just bizarre. I don't really know what's going on there. The other one, Catherine Artist in this, too, is like the MILF mom.
What is that? Who's attracted. Why? Why?
Why is she in that for that? Wrong actress, wrong vibe. It just flips the movie into this crazy direction. It doesn't pay off.
I don't know what they're doing with that either. And her scene is unf. She comes in and it's like, I'm really worried that my son is playing with dolls. And Arnold goes, no, he's using them to look up girl skirts.
And she goes, that's a relief. And I'm like, what the fuck? I thought it might have been something else. Thank God.
He's only looking at kindergarten's skirt. He's so weird. Future sex offender. She read that she has a raging bull.
And I'm like, I like this. I'll sign up for this one. I like to be this crazy. Well, Ivan Reitman directs from 79 to 93.
He rips off Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Legal Eagles Twins, Ghostbusters 2, Kindergarten Cop, and Dave. The best movie of all time. I realized that about two months ago. Dave's the best movie.
I loved it. I think I could be the best movie of all time. Just comic touch. His movies always move.
He has a knack for working with major, major stars and putting them in an awesome light over and over again. People are really good in his movies where you're just like, I love that guy in that movie. And 15 years. I mean, he made a shitload of money and then gave us Jason Redman, who had a really good career, too, who's in this movie.
Yeah. And he had the right men thoughts before we move on, I think it's really cool that when they go to Dominic's bedroom at the end of the scene, if you look closely, there's some Ghostbusters pillows on Dominic's bed, which I think is just awesome. Hey, listen, Ghostbusters, one of the most important movies last 50 years. Every single person in it.
If you weren't there for that sensation, this was light years ahead of Kindergarten Copies we love, but one of the most important movies ever made. 26 million for this one, they spent. They made 202, finished 10th, crushed it all the way around. 111 minutes plus 21 on the horrible back scale.
We don't have Craig for this podcast, but he's going to come on at the end of this review. He'd never seen it, really, so we'll find out what he thought. We do know what Rodrigo thought. Three stars.
That's great. Take it. The film is made up, quote, of two parts that shouldn't fit, but somehow they do. Making a slick entertainment out of the Improbable, the Impossible, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
That was Raj. Three stars. I'm surprised. I would have thought three stars, but it's more than two parts.
There's six different parts. There's so much on Arnold's shoulders in this. And we laugh at his accent. And Zach and stuff holds the camera for every single scene.
And I'm going to get to this later. Like, is this maybe some of the best acting he's ever done in his career? Like, there's stuff I really believe that he's feeling. I don't usually say that about him.
I actually think it's the best he's ever been in a movie. It's crazy for using all his parts. And what's interesting, they make the decision near the end where he basically loses the shootout. Like somebody has to save his ass.
He's gonna get killed by some psycho grandmother. But he gets shot by two different characters and. And it's kind of cool that it makes him vulnerable. Right.
He's not like a superhero. I just don't know if Stallone and Van Damme and pick anybody from that era. Like, no, no. This guy seems weak because he's.
Let's remember Seagal will let himself get punched by anyone in any movie. Even like a 300 pound bouncer. Arnold here is saved by a diminutive woman. Like that's a pretty cool decision to me.
I don't know if that was happening back then. Yeah, it was. The old Wayne Baldwin always used to talk about this, how stars have to be stars in the movie. They don't want to look weak.
And he was using the example of Warren Beatty. Didn't want to be in Misery because of the crippling scene. Yeah, because the guy's crippled. He's a loser from that point on.
He's like, I can't. I can't play that part. I'm not going to be a loser. And Arnold, like he has this movie he shot by two different people.
He's a kindergarten teacher with a limp. But he's like, I'm fine. I'm good. This is a good movie.
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What do you got the plane scene into the driving puke montage with. With Arnold and Pamela Reed. Unless you want to go with any of the stuff in the very beginning. The violent stuff.
When Arnold's got the beard and the sunglasses. I don't know if you're into. I like the beard and sunglasses. I like Arnold in the drug den with a shotgun, just shooting everything.
It feels a lot like Terminator 1. When Arnold goes into death noir, the club. It's almost like a note for note. I really, really like that part.
Arnold's kicking ass. This. The beard is preposterous. The hair is terrible.
And that's part of the laughing at Arnold that we talked about. So I'm here for that, for sure. I was gonna do this later. Let's do it now.
Okay. Patched on beard. Yeah, terrible. Real beard.
Is it possible he's just one of those? He grew a real beard and it just looks fake when he grows a beard? Because we know those people too, the guys who grow beards, and it doesn't seem like a real beard. I think that they did not have a real beard.
We've seen. We saw Arnold with heavy struff and Predator. We've seen the beard in the Running man briefly, and he looks fucking awesome. He looks like a brawny man.
This is like this woolly, woolly patch on, miscolored thing. He looks horrible, but we like it. I thought it was fake, but I wasn't. You also could have sold me like he dyed it or did something weird between that.
The sunglasses. I don't know what's going on. It's like a parody of some of these other movies. So plain scene in the driving puke montage, we get Arnold threatening the kid by breaking the pencil.
We get Angela Bassett as the flight attendant out of the clouds with one line well before she became the queen. And we get Arnold repeatedly just watching his partner puke and being confused by it. Like he's never seen a human being struggle physically with anything before his. Okay, Arnold's first day of school.
We kick things off with one of the kids going, boys have a penis and girls have a vagina. Killer line. Brought the house down the theater. Penelope Miller tells him, kindergarten's like the ocean.
You don't want to turn your back on it. Good line comes back, it's fucking chaos. Leading to Arnold gone. Shut up, shut up, shut up.
So sounds so fun. So fun. And then he has to get the ferret. A lot of ferret in this.
The ferret with no name. I mean, listen, is this Apex Mountain for ferrets? So I had that written down as a strong. Yes.
Ferrets had a moment of about a year and a half before people realized they were just Overgrown rats. Enough fun hanging out with kind of stinky. And then I had it. The big Lebowski.
There's a nice marmot. There's a ferret. And then. Is that Richard Georg or something different?
Was he a ferret? Guy who had gerbils? I can't distinguish my marmots. Arnold plays who's your daddy?
And what does he do? This has. It's not a tomb. It's not a tomb at all.
This has confessions from the kids, including, my daddy's a gynecologist. Fantastic. I don't think they're playing who's your Daddy now in 2026. I'm guessing that got vetoed by the school principal, especially.
What does he do? That's not your business. We're not doing any of that. One of the reasons this is such a good scene is we just get to hang out with all these different kids.
There's like 10 kids. It's like, all right, cool. I'm actually. It's not just like this anonymous classroom.
It's like I'm learning. It feels like what they would now put in as outtakes during the closing credits. Here's the strange stuff we recorded, but it's actually in the movie. I actually think one of the faults is that they should have more of that.
Like, the kids are on fire. The kids are cooking. Especially the girl at the end who has to go to the bathroom and can't do the overalls. Like, that stuff is all.
All gold. I wish I could have done more. I agree. And I think if I had notes that they had sent me the script and I could have waited on some stuff, I probably would have cut down on crisp a little bit.
I would have had Arnold trying to get the kids ready for a play or something. Like, play it up more where he has to, like, run rehearsal. No, you'd came in too soon and do that whole thing. We could have done that with the Gettysburg address.
And you're onto something, dude. My favorite word that Arnold Schwarzenegger says. He says like 12 times as come on, come on. He's a firebreak.
Come on. And that's what he says in front of come on, Kyung. Yeah. He hits that one so hard, and every time he says, come on, I laugh.
I want to run around with him. I have another idea for this that I have a later part of the podcast. The milk nap scene I really like. Just like, very tender scene.
But just seeing kids drink milk, I don't think they do that anymore. Probably not. Arnold reads a book and we have the nightmare doze off. That scene's kid.
Arnold almost kills Pamela, reads fiance. And she goes right from, I think, having sex to just diving into a plate of pasta unexplained. Where was the pasta? Where was the pasta in bed?
Pasta next to her. Like, what happens there? It's a lot with that character in the eating. It's like four jokes too many.
I get it. She's 14. Yeah, it might be 14. That thing is beaten to a pulp.
And the fact that she just was having sex with fiance is not eating, like an apple or something. A plate of pasta with a fork. It's not realistic. What's that guy's name?
Barry. Barry's a chef. Arnold beats up Zach's dad, child abuser. And then the principal, instead of saying like, you're suspended for two weeks, is like, how did it feel to punch him?
I loved it. This was great. Most 1990 stretch of the movie, teachers punching a parent. Can you imagine the screenwriter at the computer typing out the line, you hit the kid, I hit you.
He's fuck yes. Miller time. That is gold. Let's go, baby.
He gooseneck that thing right out of his office. And by the principal, the principal seems to know that that father was the child beater. Right. It's just.
That's just the thing that people know that he's beating up this kid. And afterwards he's like, yeah, it was awesome. I punched him again in front of the school, the teachers, everything. And you could have punched it again.
I'm just trying to think of somebody pitching that at a movie they're writing in 2026. Yeah. And the kind of notes they would get from the studio. So, yeah, the child abuse, that plot.
So, yeah, we're gonna have to maybe take that out. Do we need to actually show the bruising on the child's neck? Yeah, we think it's key. That's intense.
In the research, Arnold was really passionate about touching a couple real life stories, including the abuse of children, and kind of push them to, like, we have to have this in the movie. This is an important topic. And that's why I think that's the Arnold difference. I don't think the actual stars are like, how big is my trailer?
How cool do I look when I punch the guy? And Arnold's like, we really need to focus on the damages of divorce in the American household. Like, and that's the shit that he wanted. He's a genius, man.
Two more of the fair little heart tug speech about Arnold from Linda Hut the principal little gets a little touchy in the throat watching. I don't know what kind of police officer you are, but you are a very good teacher. I was like my cry at kid during College. Holy shit, Mr.
Gilly, Paul is in the room right now. And then we get the big fire, shootout ending. Stranger, stranger. And that's what we did back then.
We say stranger danger and don't get candy from kids. And they just learn that from the other cop before he comes the hallway. So this guy Chris shows up at the school, has an interview with the principal. For some reason, even though it seems like it's a public school, he could just join the school.
Sees this kid and he's like, all right, what's my plan? Could wait like eight hours, maybe take home. Nah, do this now. Should I.
Should I set a huge fire to the kids library, burn thousands of books and cause mass panic. And that's what I'm gonna do. And my mom's gonna wait in the car with a gun. And then when the kids scurry in the hallway and the sprinklers go off, I'll just kind of run in there and grab them amongst the 200 kids and I'll go upstairs.
Yeah, go upstairs where there's no escape. Get up there. What could go wrong? It's a fire.
There's water everywhere. Last 10 minutes of the movie of reposters. It's really a bad plane. The plane is trying to land and then it's just dragging sparks all over the Runway.