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The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

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Is that from the soundtrack? Yeah. Yeah. Really?

Yeah. And who's in it? Who's on the soundtrack? I have seen one.

Well, let me start by describing what I've seen, which is things you people will believe. Blade Runner, Total Recall, Belljow. Screamers, Impossible, Minority Report, paycheck, Scanner Darkly, Next, Screamers the Hunting, Radio Free, Albumooth, and now the Adjustment Bureau. Put on your nice hats, everyone.

It's Adjustment Time. It's good adjusted. Let's get adjusted. The Adjustment Bureau, good name for a chiropractic.

I was thinking this saved the chiropractic firm, necessarily. But the whole time I watched this, I was like, it sounds like chiropractors. Sounds like a group of chiropractors. That's the thing that make you lay on.

The Bureau. Yeah. The Bureau. Anyway, it's this dick me, of course.

Dan and Rob, we're detailing the filmic adaptations of one PKD, Phil K. Dick, an insane person, an insane person, a misogynist, but a guy who often said things like, what if robots were to? Ah. Yes, and isn't that right.

But now, later in his life, he also said things like, what if the government was manipulating every single thing you ever did? Yes. And what if the government was also seraphim, the highest order of angles? Yeah.

We could almost do Dogma for this movie. I don't want to do that. But this anti-dogma crusader on, it's very troubling. I just don't think that's a good movie.

That can't be right. Rickman. I know. Rickman's good.

I don't know. Rickman's a fucking pro. Dude, is that's my name? Rickman.

Working with Rickman. He's fucking shit. I throw just the dumbest fucking shit at him, and he fucking spin it to fucking solid fucking gold. I haven't, besides like, clerks, the original, and then like, I watched the new clerks.

I haven't seen his new movie, the 420 movie or whatever. But I don't even know about that. I just came out this year. Apparently, it's actually very sweet.

It's about a group of kids that are trying to just hang out and go to the movies. And it's just sort of like a kind of coming-of-age kid-centric movie, like teenager movie or whatever. It's supposed to be good, whatever. But the older Kevin Smith movies that I liked, you know what I think I still like chasing Amy.

But even though it's aged, maybe not as great as. Were we talking about this? How that's like, it's kind of the point of the movie is that the guys are shithead. Yeah, I mean, right.

The guy is a shithead. What's his name? If I can aff like his friend, I want to say Banksy, but it's wrong. Banky, I think it is.

Banky. That's funny. And he's an artist himself. Yeah.

Isn't he? Isn't he? Yeah, like a comic book. Yeah, the comic book.

The comic book guy. Go ahead, you get to say it. They're comic book men? They are comic book men.

They are. I do like that movie, even though it's like, somebody doesn't age well or whatever. But I do remember it being like, you know, he came out almost in like, like, 96 or 97. I would have been around 13 or 14 years older, so when I saw it.

And seeing like a different sort of, you know, leading a sheltered suburban lifestyle, not knowing anything about like LGBT community or people or whatever like that, seeing that movie, I was like, oh, that's like, that's like interesting. Oh, that's interesting. Well, kind of, yeah. Like, just sort of like exposing me to like things that I wasn't familiar with or whatever, right?

Right. I think it's a bit positive. Definitely. Also one of my favorite actresses.

Oh, Joey Lornams? No, Annette Poddle. LAUGHTER I do think that's like a good introduction to it, especially. Like, I mean, the movie is about, like, the main characters are adult adolescents.

Yeah, and like 90s adolescents, which is like very like gay people are weird and like, it's gross and all that kind of stuff. But yeah, that's like the point of the movie. Yeah, I would say I haven't seen that since like middle school. But I do, I feel like the other comedies that I liked, I'm like, I don't know if I want to go back and rewatch them or just leave my.

I bet, I bet Dogma holds that. Well, maybe I'll, I've been wrong before, but I feel pretty good about this one. And I've said that before. Put all my chips on dog.

No one bad zero, right? Right? Right? LAUGHTER Hey, I mean, speaking of Dogma.

But eventually, look, we'll get to Smith me. Yeah, we'll get there. All right. I dread today, but we will get to Smith me.

Hey, I mean, this, right, some sort of angel, group of angels controlling people's nestings, whatever. Also, stars Matt Damon, who was Loki in Dogma. OK, it's feeling like the Adjustment Bureau has sort of planned for us to watch Dogma this Friday. That was in that little notebook.

They're more skins. Yeah, yeah, they opened it up and it's just the poster. It's not a funky map. Yeah, it's moving invented air tags, you ever think about that?

Basically invented air tags. I do think about it all the time. And even to the point where they're like, it doesn't work on the water because there's no cell signal out there. Right.

So we're getting a lot of interference from the rain. Explain that. Gotta go. Ducks into a door that opens to Yankee Stadium, the bullpen.

What if there was a day game that day? You gotta check the schedule first. You really gotta check the schedule before you dip any Yankees Stadium. The Adjustment Bureau, 2011.

Directed by. Or are you up to it in two-fifths? 2011, I've been like 28 years old. Depression, full swing.

Cool. Good. Good. Good.

Yes. Not doing anything about it just yet. We're building character. And we're learning our limits.

This is good, yes. I think I watched this one. I think I watched this one. It came out.

Seems like something I would have like got as a Netflix disc rental, you know? Yeah. Yeah. High concept.

It seems high concept. It's not really. No, I would say. Yeah.

Excuse me. Oh, God. I'm dying. Hold on.

Here's a high concept. You. You clearly, token, you can't stop coughing about it. Hey, quick token up before the recorder.

Could you stop token on Mike, please? Everyone can, it's picking up the bubbling. I won't do that anymore. Dude.

That better be a Romeo Ihueliette, Sigurillo. It is. Oh, you're not supposed to inhale. Now you're going to sound like that forever.

Now you're going to sound like RFK Jr. until the day you die. I think I'm going to get on worse. Because I'm indollered to listen to.

You can't drink, Bree's son. You can't have your lunch bowl. You can only have raw liver. The Kennedy's.

What a family. What a family. This is the terminus of the Kennedy family, right? It doesn't like I'm sure there are other live ones, right?

Shorts and Ager. Is it Kennedy? Yeah, right. Shorts and Ager is a Kennedy.

Still, maybe. Maybe not. I think they're divorced. None of my business.

Exactly. I guess that kind of makes... Is Chris Pratt a part of the Kennedy family? Must be, right?

Who's he married to? Shorts and Ager's daughter. Oh. Yeah, he's Kennedy and Jason.

Yeah, like, is it Maurice Reifr? Is that her? Is that his ex-wife? That sounds right.

Yes. Yeah, it's her daughter married to... She's a Kennedy. Wild.

This is like how half the population of Asia can trace their genetics back to... Genghis Khan or something? Genghis Khan, yeah. Yeah.

Except if Genghis Khan were very ill, very infirm. Yeah, if Genghis Khan bloodline was cursed. Right. You're cursed to die horribly or just live horribly.

Or like, cursed to not be able to help yourself. Yeah, not again. Cursed to get in your own way. Anyway.

Hey, speaking of what you're imagining, Justin, the team that has to work on the Kennedy family. Oh, yes. The Steel Team 6 of the adjustment bureau. That actually seems like maybe sort of like a clerical oversight.

Is there just one family sort of like falling into wood shippers and stuff? Yeah, the notebook. They're just every day. It's just something new.

They're like, fuck, we got a fucking change. He drove off the bridge. Oh my God. When Anthony Mackie's character is like a man, the kind of tired I am.

Can't fix that with vacation. Yeah. Yeah. We don't find out why he's so tired, but it seems like it must be.

He was working the Kennedy file for too long. You can only work it for so long before you have to pass it on. That's like legally they can't fire you, so they have to make you wait. Put them on the Kennedy family.

They're on the Kennedy's. You're sick. You're a sick man for doing that to him. That's him pointing at a kid.

You're sick man. You're sick. All he's talking about. Never better.

I'm in the big physical conditions. Watch me do all these squats and jeans. Okay. The adjustment period is a 2011 film directed by Greg Nulfi, you a big Nulfi guy?

No, he'd Nulfi had. I'm more of a Nick Nulfi kind of guy myself. Yeah. Another guy with the fuck up voice.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What are you talking about?

I wonder what it would be like if you're Nick Nulfi. Oh God. I'm an RFG junior. I don't want to do that.

That pancakes together. Kennedy Bachelors Europe. What do you want? Yeah.

I'm saying Nick Nulfi. Correct Nulfi. This is his first George. George Nulfi.

George Nulfi. This is his first movie, directorial debut, which means he had to, what was he a producer or something beforehand? He was a bit of a producer as a screenwriter and he's, would you believe it? He's written at this point, he'd written multiple Matt Damon films.

This Jacks films. Fields. Spill sequels. I did see it was the born ultimatum was one of his.

That's one of them. And oceans count them 12. Oceans by the dozen. I think 12 is the one that people don't like as much, but.

Well, that tracks with whatever what I watched for our podcast. Those born movies are good though. Never seen it alone. I think they're good.

That's what people say. People like it. They like the wakes up knowing Kung Fu. Yeah, he does.

Yeah. The first thing he does, he just remember him being on like a sleeping on a bench like At an age, I don't know who I am. I'm sleeping on a bench. Some French police with night six, they hassle and they're like trying to get him on his way.

He just kicks their asses. And I'm all about that. Yeah. You're all about kicking French police.

Yeah, in the in the tush. That's what it sounds like. It's very silly. So this is George Nulfi guy.

Screenwriter, bit of a producer guy. I think this movie is just like it just looks like a movie period. Like it doesn't look like there's nothing visually featureless. Nothing like interesting about it or anything like that.

So, you know, they're going for a lo-fi sci-fi kind of thing, right? With the men in hats. It's just like that's the, which I like in general, I'm not against the lo-fi sci-fi. But yeah, there's nothing visually interesting about this movie.

Right. It's tough because it's like, it's such a, again, like such an abstract idea. Like these are the guys who control the fate of the world or whatever. How do you represent that on screen?

Molesky notebook. That sucks. Yeah. It's very boring.

It's an inscrutable Molesky notebook. Like the stuff happening in there, you just sort of like, you just see it glow red and they're like an inflection. Yeah. And then that's all you get.

Yeah. You don't really, yeah, you don't get like the whole like mechanics and how it all works. Like the adjustment bureau, which can be okay for a movie. Like, and we talk about like how we don't like movies when they over explain stuff.

There are such a thing as under explaining something. Yeah. There's a, what I call the sweet spot of knowing just something. Yeah, just enough.

Yeah. Which they try and do. Like when Anthony Mackie, I think it's Mackie. Or maybe it's what's a John Slattery.

John Slattery. Roger Sterling. Who, when he's explaining everything and one of them, they're like, yeah, we like dip in and out of, you know, messing with everyone, basically, like directing everyone. Yeah.

And like, they stopped in 2010 for like 50 years or something. Like they stopped in 1910. Yeah. And they're like, and what did you guys do?

World War II? Yeah. The worst. Yeah.

You guys. A bunch of wars. You know, oh, no, no, no, they stopped in. They stopped in with the Roman Empire.

Like we got you guys to the Roman Empire. And then we backed it. We backed off because we're like, you probably got it from here. And then, and then they were like the Dark Ages, the Holocaust, etc.

That sort of thing. I like any of these movies where it's like there's some sort of a higher power or whatever that's controlling everything and they're like, we've been here the whole time, just for you. We've been helping humanity or whatever. And you've had your slip ups, but we've been here all the time or whatever, right?

My most low. Go is the like your self with this nonsense. I'm not, I'm not anti-humanity. No, I won't go that far.

But the sort of like, well, like do I get into my, yeah, I'm saying this, I'm wearing the first reformed vest as we speak. Yeah. But yeah, barbed wire and everything. Yeah.

Right. Mentally, I'm wearing the first reformist. I'm not anti-humanity, but I am the God, the just like maudlin fucking like, you know, for all our shit, we're doing okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. No, we're doing it so bad. No, there's, oh my God, if you've ever driven by like an industrial cattle farm, you know, we're not doing okay, the smell.

Right. I just feel like, yeah, it's, it's all hell. It's all hell. And that, and like what these movies that are like, you know, they always conveniently dip out right around like when history gets, you know, takes a turn when like the, when we get a Holocaust or a 9-11.

Right. And it's also, it's also like we got you guys to the Roman Empire. Like that wasn't good either. That's a lot of stuff happened for that.

Yeah. That sucked. Yeah. Aqua Docs gave everyone lead poisoning.

You guys did that? You gave everyone lead poisoning? That was you. Also, isn't the Roman Empire?

Don't they kill Christ? Jesus Christ. That's the Roman Empire, right? Or are Roman Empire the Romans?

It's, yeah, it's the Roman. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I'm not really. That's none of my business. All right. It's before my time.

It's before my time. I'm more of a, I'm more about knowing about, I don't know, Desert Storm. Yeah. Don't ask me about Desert Storm.

Not because I don't know. I just don't want to talk about it right now. It's just a very delicate subject for me. It's a real can of worms.

All right. Just don't get me started as what I'm saying. Yeah. So yeah, the premise of this movie is that Senator David Norris, please.

Probably by Matt Damon. Or you want to talk about who's in it first? Yeah, I mean, yeah. It's two things.

Hand and glove. Matt Damon, David Norris, Senator. Up and coming. A young buck.

People really like this guy. He's charismatic. He's young. He's got a big old round moon face.

He's got a perfectly round face. People love that. Oh, I'm thinking of David Morse. Oh.

Easy mistake to make. Sorry. Yeah, this David Norris guy. I'm like him.

I'm like, Morse has my vote. Yeah, Morse has my vote. Down with Norris, up with Morse. Yeah, David Norris.

Well, this is where we came out in 2011, right? And right around then we were all this country was. We had a bit of what I call Obama. Yeah, we were feeling real good about ourselves.

We were like, well, hope, right? Hope change. That's good. It's going to last forever.

Huh? Air of good vibes. Yeah. He's talking smooth.

He's a smooth talker. And that's surely good things will follow. Yeah. And we've been good ever since.

Yeah, nothing bad has happened since then, right? Yes. So David, I guess what we're saying is David Norris is white Obama. Yeah, I mean, he's white Obama.

He comes in. He's like, he's kind of white Obama, politically or whatever. Like this guy, David Norris, in his personal life, like the story of him getting into a bar room brawl the night of his, the night he's elected or whatever. Yeah.

I mean, that's all just like sort of dumb stuff. It's dumb. He also like, yeah, he gets in bar room brawls. He works at a hedge fund as soon as his campaign ends.

Even though he was still a congressman, maybe I guess he's not a congressman. Yeah, maybe he's well, this movie also takes place over the course of like seven years or something. That's true. That's true.

We're on angel time. Yeah, we're on angel time here. So David's in it. He's David Norris.

Emily Blunt as sort of a manic, pixie dream girl type love interest named Ellis. She's a ballet dancer. She's an artist. You understand?

She's a ballet dancer, but she should have been a, should have been a quip machine. Is that a job? If that's a job, that should be her job. That should be her job.

She's got a line for everything. She's funny. She is. These two together, they just like, they can't stop talking.

Could you imagine being on that bus? You got to listen to these two? Shut up. I can't.

I like that Matt Damon, you know, congressperson now working on a hedge fund rides the bus. He rides the ball because he's from Red Hope. Of course. He's a he stops and talks to his constituents.

He's a man of the people. Come on. Hey, Norris, I voted for you. Thanks.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you. That's terrific.

Okay. All right. You take care. You take care of David.

You take care of Mr. Norris. You too. Okay.

Great movie. Who else we got in this? Michael Kelly. Mike Kelly.

I like this guy. I love him. I think he has such a sweetie pie face. He seems like such a nice man.

He does. Which is a dumb, rubbish response to seeing him first. You're just like, oh, I like him. I like his face.

The shape of his face. The symmetry of it. I trust him. I trust him with my life.

Hey, Ralph's, take care of me. Yeah, I remember seeing this guy. He plays like a, like a tough guy, like a heavy in the dawn of the dead remake. But he's also like kind of fun and funny in it.

Really like that role for him. And then ever since then he's kind of played guys like this adjustment bureau, like, you know, guy wears a tie. He talks about files and such. It's nice work if you can get it.

He's also in 70 to episodes of a little show called house calls. I'll do declare. Take great pin on to walk to fans, past my house cards. unless you create a small ghost in the movie.

It took me hours to construct this house of calls. I love you. I'm doing frank about this house of calls. Sometimes in politics you've got to choke a dog to death.

You've got to break a few dog nicks, as they say, so to speak. What's funny about that is that's incredibly true to life. Republican senators are always killing dogs. Are they?

Oh my god. Yeah. I guess they are already. Oh, right.

The Cali's of calls. Oh, wait. Yeah. I guess they are.

I'm gonna kill. That shot another dog. Good work, son. Then there's that lady who like either is appointed to a second here in the Trump administration who was like, I got a puppy, but it wouldn't stop barking.

So I had to put it down. So I shot in the head. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You're acting like this is weird. It's normal. I also did it to a baby goat that wouldn't stop bleeding.

Bleeding. Bleeding. That. I mean, that is, I feel like just the disconnect between like just normal people and like, not just politicians and whatever, but anybody in like a high society sort of situation is just like the insanity of that of being like, what?

I shot the dog in the head because it wouldn't stop barking. It got in my way. So I shot it. What's the problem?

What is the problem? And this person went on the news and like was like during the election, like was promoting, she was promoting her book and it's in the book. That's how people found out about it. And it's in the book.

Consecrated to text. Yes. And everybody's like, that's psychotic. And she was like, no, it's not.

I do it all the time. What is the liberal elites? You coastal elites just don't understand how normal it is to shoot puppies for making for being unruly. Right.

Also, what do you think of my new coat made of puppies? You guys understand this was not a normal puppy. It was barking and nipping at our heels and rolling over and wagging its tail. Something had to be done.

I could not let this stand. I think we're all better off for it. Anyway, so Emily Blunt, please. Elise.

Michael Kelly plays Charlie, who is David Norris's friend and he's like campaign manager. Right. Friend slash campaign manager slash hedge fund executive. Yeah.

Yeah. Right. He runs the company. John Stewart as himself.

John. Man, I, this is just such a weird, maybe that's like the only merit this movie really has is that like it's a weird time capsule of a certain point when like politically everybody was sort of like Obama's president and like across media at least everybody was just so hot on him, except obviously except for right wing, whatever. But like in general, Barack Hussein. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. It's just like like the whole daily show of it all. Like we spend a lot of time. Right.

Show in this movie. Yes. Somebody I know just wrote an article. God, I wish I could remember who published it so I could recommend it.

But he just wrote like a long sort of detailed history of the daily show and it's like trajectory. And like he talks about this period where it goes from being like a, you know, we make fun of everybody sort of approach to like we have everybody on the show and have quote unquote serious political discussions where we sort of like legitimize, you know, right wing freaks and all that other stuff. And this is that era where that's happening where John Stewart is just like basically host, he's doing like a live, what would you call like a Charlie Rose or something. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Who else we got here? Anthony Mackie plays Harry Mitchell, one of the Adjustment Bureau, one of the men in hats.

He's he's a he's the case worker assigned to David Norris. I feel like this thing, the man in the men in hats is a thing, right? Like outside of Bill Taitik, lore or whatever. Like it wasn't that movie, Hearts in Atlantis, the yeah, wasn't that a man?

Yes, it was. Absolutely. It was. Should we rewatch that for?

No, we should not. Next idea. If we're revisiting King movies, that's not going to be one. Pretty low on the list.

Give me Tommy Nagar's 10 times out of 10 before you meet. So Anthony Mackie's boss is played by John Slattery. So Anthony Mackie's character is Harry Mitchell. John Slattery's character is just Richardson's.

Famously the name of the guy who won't get out of the pool in Hong Kong. It's a quippy and a tool Richardson. And he says, there is no tool in this pool. Perfect movie.

But John Slattery viewers will probably know either from Mad Men as Roger Sterling or from 30 Rock as libertarian congressmen, congress candidates Steve Austin, who dresses like a baby at the end. It's very funny. He's always doing the John Slattery thing, which is what you want to guess when you hire him. But he's doing that where he's just standing up straight, posture.

All right. Well, let me sit you down and tell you how it is. I'll tell you how it is. I've got a license.

If you ever have about this all, don't die. It doesn't have a license anymore. About it all. And that's kind of like it for the cast.

It's like them. Oh, wait, no. Who am I forgetting? Someone British who plays the...

Terrence Stamp plays Thompson, who's their superior. Terrence Stamp, Zod from the Superman movies. That's right. So I know him.

The way he's brought in like, oh my God. They got Stan. They got Stan. They got Stan.

Because he's just British. I think that's it. He's British. I think that's it.

I just like other people. But that's the main cast, right? I like the guy that is engaged to Emily Blunt, whoever that fucking cock is. Yeah.

His name's Adrian. I think the character's name is Adrian. But I don't think he says... Maybe he has one line like, hey, where's Emily Blunt?

Adrian, he's credited as Adrian Toussaint, Elise's fiance. Yeah. Yeah. Very funny character.

That guy gets such a short dress. He's just out quick. So what happened with you in Elise? Well, you know the congressman who fights everyone?

He told her that he was being chased by men in hats so that they had to get married. Yeah. And she went with that. Yeah.

Okay. Well, I guess you're better off, man. Yeah. Sounds like a whole thing.

So this movie, Dan, this movie about adjustment bureaus. Well, just the one. I suppose. Yeah.

I mean, the opening of this movie, it's just like sort of a montage of David Norris crushing it out on the campaign trail. We see him meet all the heavy hitters of politics. I'm talking about Jesse Jackson. Yeah.

I'm talking about... Again, Michael Bloomberg. Yep. My God.

Terrible. Yeah. Having a... It's bad enough just like, because this is like in a montage.

So sometimes we see him just like shaking hands with people and then he moves on. We do occasionally have to hear him hear people speak and one of them is Michael Bloomberg. And if you've ever heard Michael Bloomberg speak, you're just like, oh my God, stop. Get this to put him in a movie is psychotic.

And it happens to be like, I like this guy. This is a good guy. David Norris is the future of the party. Oh.

Everything, like the campaign is going very well. It seems it's one of those montages like halfway through a movie where he's crushing and he's just like, ah, it's taking the polls. Things have turned around and we're taking it to the streets, that kind of thing. And then the night, you know, a bit of a October surprise as it were.

The New York... His whole butt. They got a picture of his whole butt. It was a picture of him mooning someone and the New York Post publishes it and it just tanks his numbers.

What a time, Dan. I know. What a time. I know.

You know, I do imagine your butt was enough to get you disqualified from politics. Oh, what did he do? He just showed somebody as asshole? Okay.

Someone saw his high knee. Someone saw his high knee. Okay. Yeah.

Well, that just makes me like him more. How about that? To the American people. I am sorry.

I'm very sorry. Show up my shoulders. Showed him my show my whole ass looks like two eggs and a hanky my Fermi a frickin bone here. Well, sorry.

I just watched awesome powers. Yeah So all this whole again, that's why this movie feels so like time capsule like I wonder if I mean I'd be interested to go back and watch other political films maybe Around this time and just see like whatever what they have to say about politics and what what the public is really clamoring for What do you guys like? Oh, no, I Do kind of wonder though like was this is Is this just like a sanitized we're not actually interested in getting into because you got to make him likable right like I don't I feel like by 2011 standards even people wouldn't be like he's oh he should moon somebody in college who gives a shit You think no right like you think nobody would carry in 2011 I I kind of feel like yeah cuz he's your main character and you're just meeting him So the scandal can't be like you know, he he like yeah, it can't be like killed a sexy drowned a sex worker Yeah, he can't be anything. Let's say Kennedy F Seems he found a dead bear and he dumped it In central park as a right not disqualifying except for the fact that it's very weird.

Yeah, let's go to central park It's an old vaudeville bit. It's classic classic classic or shared comedic language as a culture Anyway, so yeah, October surprise moons out moons out over Manhattan and uh, David Norris his election night the results pour in and he's losing. Yep, he's losing loses. He's a loser He's a goddamn loser.

So he goes to the band. Yeah, he's working on his practices concessions each and and First he walks and he goes anybody in here. No answer perfect perfect perfect. Perfect.

Perfect. Mind you there at the Waldorf There's no place he can just go like steal a minute to forget it. You know what? It's fades fate.

This is big in the notebook. Goddamn it Well, that's not that movie. I'm talking about Mackey's notebook Um So he's practicing his little speech then there's like a clank and who walks out of the bathroom the men's room stall but Vava what Emily Blunt? Looking radiant Emily Blunt looking.

I mean, she's just she's gorgeous. What are we telling her? She's like and again, this is like the era of you know, we're in like a we just went through like a Chris Over saturation. Yes with the prats and everything.

This was the Zoe Deschanel era Where like you if you looked if you had dark hair and blue eyes you were like good to go. Yeah Zoe Deschanel Emily Blunt Roseburn roseburn. That's a good one. Um, there are more there are more of this type this we are man.

Yeah, they we are legion Oh my god fucking Oh man, I just I follow like um, I don't even know if I follow it. It doesn't matter We deserve an asteroid to the fucking dome is right right to the nose The some instagram account whether I follow or not it gets recommended to me a lot. Um, it's just like old s&l clips and stuff And there's one from like probably this year and it was Joseph Gordon Levitt in a hit record. Joe.

Uh-huh You may know him from you know from hitting record wearing a like a dress shirt with the you know the sleeves cuffed up to the forearms Tie best yep looking like absolute shit and just more self-assured than anybody's ever been of course dark time dark time Uh katie perry another one. Oh, she's one for sure But it's sort of sort of outside the paradigm of all this but definitely as that you know She's like she's got the look yes in a major way. Uh, she's uh, she's really crazy too herself. Yeah In a fun way.

Did you see that uh, there's some interview she went on like you know the podcast call. I think it's call me daddy Call her daddy. Um She was on that recently and uh You know they just it's just the show just seems like one of those shows. It's just like manufacturers clips Right like it's just yeah to get whatever.

Yeah, it's a bar stool Yeah, yeah And uh katie perry is on there and she's like oh my god if like if you if you're my boyfriend and you do all the dishes I'm gonna suck your dick and and you know everybody was like, yeah, katie perry Oh my god She's like a real person. No, but she's like a real person though. She's like a real person though Poison be she's like a real poison. Oh, she's just like me for real.

Uh-huh down on the body Okay, when when you go and do the zydeco album soccer a blue katie perry Oh, yeah, she don't like me or real poison Oh, she she wanted them relatable queens. You'll see Goodness Uh, she makes her gumbo one crawl dad at a time. Just like just like you owe me You know heal So Emily what wait hold on I got one more discussion please if you know yeah, I do and if you say no, no, there's not much to this movie I want the digression If you say you haven't heard of it, I won't unpack it because I do think it's a whole thing Have you seen the clip of the wicked ladies getting interviewed? By someone from I believe it's out magazine I've seen interviews with them and they're both crazy and constantly on the verge of crying which is yes amazing.

Yeah, I mean I don't know what's going on What has just taken place before the clip Is what they're in this state, but yes, they both seem I don't know like yes out of control Hey, okay. Have you seen the one? I guess I'm telling you that the interviewer says something like um So there's been a trend lately online of people taking the lyrics to define gravity and really holding space with that And do you know her name the one who's not Ariana Grande who plays the green witch? I don't you el faba Is that her name?

Her name? Her name? It's a play on el frank bomb is sort of nod to the man Okay, I don't know her name, but that actress is like she's like so yeah The interviewer says people are taking the lyrics of defined gravity and like and really holding space with that and she goes oh my god I didn't know that that's happening So this thing that means absolutely nothing and she's like oh my god, that's that's exactly what I wanted And as this is happening Ariana Grande like reaches over to like hold her hand but just grabs one of her fingers to do it And she's just like on the verge of tears She's just like that's exactly what I wanted and the interviewer is like and she's like and this is like a trend and the interviewer is like I've seen it um couple posts, but I'm in queer media. So So probably yeah, it's one of the most sublime.

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