Welcome to Adam Does Movies Live. It's Saturday night, and I'm feeling all right. I'm actually all over the place, of course. I got my haircut feeling a little nice.  We're going to be gone for an entire week at Universal Studios and Epcot, maybe one other Disney park. But as of now, we've got four days at Universal. Starting on tomorrow Sunday, we leave Monday. Monday through Thursday, we'll be all over Harry Potter. We'll be all over Jurassic Park. We're going to be there. So if you're in the neighborhood in Orlando, feel free to stop by and say hi, as you see me awkwardly walking around, yelling at my children, getting drunk off butterbeer. It's the dream, after all. Hope you guys are all having a good weekend. I've been trying to stay caught up with my real job. I've been trying to get some videos batched. It hasn't gone that well at all. But I do plan on doing a lot of footage at Universal since I did go last year. At the same time with my family, we had a blast. I didn't take a lot of footage there. This time around, it'll be different. I plan on doing some fun videos, having fun with the family. It's going to be a good time, I promise you. We're going to have fun with it. And since I really want to start this year off well, by the way, I apologize if I have slurs. If I do, let me know in the chat. I have my Invisalign in. Usually I take it out for these, but it's been out a lot today and I want to keep up with my teeth. Keep them straight, keep them secure. But I can take them out if it's annoying. I don't plan on talking much outside of this intro. What I plan on doing is writing. If you don't know at this point, I do have a movie script in the works. I am on page 82. E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, and I need to get to 90 for a 90-minute movie. I need eight more pages. I already have a beginning, middle, and end. I love the script, I'm very happy with it, and now I get to flesh it out. So because it's a new year and I want to start on the right foot, I want to make sure I get the script done. And then my next step is to build a pitch deck. And then from there is the easy part, which is of course getting it funded, make millions of dollars, become a huge success. That's all the easy stuff. I do want to say super chats are always appreciated. If you have a nostalgic video, you would like to super chat out, please do so. It's the life bud of my, it's the life bud. I can't even talk with these in. It's the life blood of the channel. And I'm sure that's going to be the same in 2024. So I would appreciate it. You say, hey, Adam, appreciate it, love you. This is my favorite video from you. People asking about movie trivia, there will be trivia again. I do have a YouTube video that actually highlights that entire live stream. And then I do an intro outro and that's going to go on the, like the main channel. It's not alive. And it's just a highlight basically of that entire thing. I had a blast with those people that joined me a couple of days back.  Probably won't have any live streams.  Okay, the topic tonight is I'm going to be in the corner on a tiny screen, just typing and working on mute. I will introduce a video because I'm doing 10 of them. I have my top 10 favorite videos of all time on my YouTube channel, both this one and the secondary. And here's going to be a shameless plug. All, I'd say almost all of these videos are private, what I'm showing them to you today. There are 300 exclusive videos, more than that on Patreon and YouTube join. If you're a YouTube join member, you get access to them at even the $1. There's playlists you can find that have my Adam Rantz, my car side reviews, all the cringe episodes, all the movie boss episodes, all the nerds and players episodes. There's tons of stuff, random one-off skits too. Definitely worth a dollar a month and absolutely helps support the channel. With that said, let's introduce the first video and I'm gonna get to work on my end. So I'm going to bring up, let me bring up, I got a whole bunch of, oh, I have to add this one because you can only have 10 videos at a time and I had to put that introduction on here. So let me get the one video that's not on here. This is an oldie. This is the oldest video on here, the most obscure one. And the reason I am adding this one to the playlist is because I lived in Arizona at the time. It was one of the first things I wrote outside of my stuff with my buddies back in Minnesota. And I had like two random guys in it that I kind of befriended out there and it turned out pretty good. I enjoy this, it's not amazing by any means, but it's a fun little sketch and I still look back on it fondly all these years later. So enjoy when I add it.  Okay, let me try it one more time. Let me add the video. It always goes swimmingly. It always goes swimmingly. As I was saying. Lego tech support, this is James speaking. I remember some major, major issues on a project that I'm working on right now. Sir, if I could just get your name, we can look that up for you right away. The name they're cheap is Venezuela. Jason, Venezuela. Okay, Mr. Venezuela, I see you recently purchased Extreme Makeover Edition Lego House with the Tide Pennington signature. Is that the current project you're having problems with today? That's correct. What exactly is the problem we're having today, champ? Well, I was working on the front window and I have a, let me guess, you're having a problem with the one by four by two arch frame and the gap between the one by one retaining blocks. Is that correct? Right. How'd you know that? Funnily enough, if funnily is even a word, we've had some problems with this set in the past. Lego's looking into the situation. Well, right now I have a situation. I'm pretty freaking tired there, Jimbo. I understand your frustration, sir, and believe me, I will stay on this line with you until we get the problem fixed. I am currently bringing up the building blocks manifest right now. Hey, look here, pal. I'm not some six-year-old kid, okay? I built 375 sets and 1,000 custom sets, all right? I built the Millennium Falcon. That's 5K piece large. I am well aware of the Millennium's content, sir, and I am sorry if I sounded like I was insulting you. I assure you I didn't mean any disrespect by my comment. I'm just here to help you and pick up the pieces, so to speak. Apparently, I'm missing one, one and a quarter block. That should pretty much solve the situation. Sir, no disrespect again, but I have seen the situation before, and it is not one, one-by-four block. It is three, one-by-four plates.  Yeah, of course you do. You should have three black ones in your set to use, though, and that will solve the problem. Hold on a second. Hey, Jimbo, listen, I don't have any thin ones in my set. Two geniuses over there really must have messed up again. You set my set without them. You shipped them out. I don't have the three pieces. I'm gonna help you. Not because I want to. Believe me, at this point I don't, but because it's the right thing to do. It's the Lego thing to do. So what now? What's the next step? Wow, no apology. Okay, I was kinda banking on one, but moving on. I'm going to be sending out a technician in your area right now to help you with your situation. Hopefully that will take care of the problem because guess what? Time's up here, nothing else I can do for you. Thanks.  And you just crossed the line. Consider this conversation over. Oh man, it was over when you picked up the call. Here's a crazy idea.  Block you. No, block you. God. Wow, that was fast. I guess that all's lost with you guys. Yeah, just happened to be in the area. We're gonna, uh, buy a little job when I got the call. So you've got my pieces then? Yes sir. Well, I need the three one by four black plates. These are green. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Those are specialty pieces. I was uninformed. Here you go, sir. Thanks. Let yourself out. You know, I've been with the company for 15 years. Congratulations. You know, I've seen my fair share of crazy. Are we done here? You are. Expect the full investigation into this matter.   My pleasure. What? It's James. I'm hanging up. Yeah, that's cool, man. That's fine, man. Just wanted to make sure everything was satisfactory and I wanted to ask you a quick question. Yeah, James, everything's outstanding. What do you want? Was it worth it? You're gonna get this set done now, Jason. Maybe take a picture of it posted on YouTube or in a blog about it. How great you are. Super lego all-star man. Think about this, Jason. Kid comes home, looks at that picture, says, hey, dad, let's build that house. Kid's gonna wanna build that house. You're not gonna know what to say to the kid because you had those three pieces the whole time. I knew it. The technician knew it, Jason. Everybody knows it. And now you gotta live with that lie. It's a deadly sin, my friend. It's a deadly sin. Wasn't worth it? Goodbye, Godspeed. That was Lego Tech Support. Real drama really kind of goes in a dark direction at the end with Jason Venezuela, questioning everything he's done in his life. I enjoy that video. It's so ridiculous. From the Tide Pennington Signature Series Lego House to just the fact that there's a technician in the area that stops by. He's got gloves and specialty pieces.  That was a fun one for me. Shot in Arizona. By the way, I shoot all the videos. If it's not me on camera, I'm the one filming almost every time. Drop the better help, Adoread. What should we go to next? In the number nine spot, let's do a quick one. Let's do a really fast one. This was a meme that was popular a couple of years ago. Like eight years ago now. It's been a long freaking time. It's like a two and a half minute video.  I'll just let it speak for itself. I'm 41 years old. I'm an adult. Some people dream of success while you're going to wake up and work hard at it. Nothing is impossible. Kill a man. So you have that rush inside that feeling of just satisfaction for taking someone else's life.  Just come true. Just do it. Take swimming lessons. That's something every person should know how to do. And if you think you know what you don't know, get them again. Do it. You might. Go out into the wild frontier. Find a horse. Break her.  That, that's, that's living. Don't just be on your high horse or chair. If your turn is turning over, stop giving up. Make a difference. Recycle. Don't let your dreams be dreams. Yesterday you said tomorrow. So just lose it. Just lose it. Go crazy. Hey, baby. For those wondering what Feud Nation was, that was one of my channel names at the time. It was the channels on YouTube went movie feuds, Feud Nation, Adam Does Movies, I think. And then there was the second channel, which was Adam Olinger, which is entirely private. All those videos are private for Patreon and YouTube joint members. Oh man, just do it. Yellow Kirby, how old was I in Arizona? When I made that Lego video? Oh my God, I don't know. I would have been in late 20s. I would have been like 28 or 27 because that was pre-YouTube. That was, I mean, that was pre me being on YouTube. Okay, let's do, let's see, which one should we go with? Let's do something a little longer so that I can get going on my script. This is a long one. That's what she said. Our favorite, our favorite friend is here. He's ready to go. Let's listen to what Khaleesi has to say. Avengers comes out next week. So it's a little safe to say I am super pumped for Endgame. What better way to show my excitement than to arbitrarily rank all 200 MCU films in no particular order? No one has ever done this ever. Number one, The Incredible Hulk.   I know what you're thinking. Khaleesi, this movie's not bad. In fact, I love it. I think it's great. I love it. I'd have a plate of it. Stack on it, save some for later. It's that good. Marcus Ruff has taken the character to such significant heights that Edward Norton, honestly, I don't think could. Number one, Iron Man Dose. That means doing Spanish. Why do I know that? It's good. It's just good. Whiplash on the racetrack, smacking those chains around, doing the whip smack. That's what I call it. It's like, it's like the new dab. It's like. Subscribe. We're also introduced to Black Widow for the first time.  I'm gonna marry her someday. Number one, Thor. The Dark World. More like Thor, the Snore World. Am I right? No, I'm wrong. That movie's perfect. It's got elves. It's got magic. It's got Natalie Portman playing her iconic character that has no personality again. Jane Foster, gonna marry her someday. Lest we forget Cat Dennings. She's witty. She's funny. She's perfect. She's Cat, her. And I'm gonna marry her someday. Number one, Venom. I know, not part of the MCU, but it's so good. Don't sleep on Venom. Seriously don't, he'd hurt you. See this film. Number one, Captain America. Christian Evans is Captain America. Oh, Captain, my captain. He's built like a tank and moves like a skank. Skank is a steady paced dance to ray game music. Characterized by rhythmically bending forward, raising the knees and extending the hands, palms downward.  Oh, such a nerd. I know things. Number one, but I just had it. I lost it somewhere. Oh, I know, it's Ant-Man. It's small, I can see him. Although sometimes he gets large too.  I wish mine could. This one's just fun. It features a Thomas engine. A giant Thomas toy for this soy boy makes the girls go coy. I've wrenched my scout leader at a weekend retreat. Number one, Thor. He's back at the number one spot. Thor was one of the original Avengers in these films. That's something you may not have known.  Thor, pronounced Thor in Latin, is a chiseled Adonis that can wield a hammer and control the power of lightning. So naturally, Chris Hemsworth, an actual God, was chosen to play this guy. I'm gonna marry him someday. As a bonus, we have some bird up there sniping from the Eagle's Nest. It's Hawkeye. What's a hawk doing in an Eagle's Nest?  Number one, oh no, I lost my pick again and not for the reasons you might think. It's because there's a ghost in this picture. See, different play on words. Ant-Man and the Wasp. Ant-Man and the Wasp is the type of easy breezy cover girl popcorn summer action flick I look for. And can I be frank with you? You can be Joseph. I'm super pumped that Disney decided to pass on Edgar Wright, visionary director behind movies like Scott Pilgrim and instead went with the generic director. It truly could have been something special. That scares me. Well, there's something strange in the neighborhood. Who are you gonna call? Hopefully someone to greenlight a sequel to the masterpiece that was the all-female ghost busters from a couple years back. I'm talking, of course, seriously about Dr. Strange. Some of the criticism out there is that Dr. Strange feels like a Me Too Iron Man with a very similar protagonist and a very similar plot wrapped in a different package. I don't know about them, but I happen to like a tight package. Number one, Spider-Man Homecoming. Finally, Marvel has done it. They have produced an amazing Spider-Man movie. That's already a movie. And not only did they produce a terrific first outing for this character for the third time, they also brought me myself to my first homecoming because no girl would go with me when I went to high school because of the micro penis. This Peter Parker reminds me of a line from Iron Man 1. Take away the suit, and what do you have left? In this case, a really smart high schooler that got pretty much no abilities from the Spider-Bite itself. Polarizing, controversial, subverts expectations. No, I'm not talking about The Last Jedi for once. That movie was my 9-11. It's popular to hate on Iron Man 3, but I'm firmly in his camp. Number one, Avengers.  If you hated Age of Ultron because it's too convoluted or has a lot of half-baked ideas, then you're part of the problem. Is this movie perfect? Of course. Does Joss Whedon know how to properly frame up a woman in a push-up raw? Absolutely, he does. Look, I'm a simple man. I see Chris Evans split a log in two with his bare hands. I'm a harder than a Metallica concert from the 80s. I know, not that that says a lot because of the fun-sized sneakers I'm packing between my legs. Number one, Civil War. Between this and Batman v Superman, there was a lot of really good movies that came out that year. They were both very well-incredibly made pieces of cinematic art, both of them equally the same. In fact, it'd be hard for me to choose between them, even if you had a gun pointed at my head. Batman, of course, holding the gun, and he would chew me regardless if I told the truth or not. The airport sequence alone that ended in zero stakes and had no consequences to any of the films moving forward, that's what I loved about movies. No stakes, no consequences. Just mindless action that leads to nothing. I love film. Number, Are We Almost Done? Avengers. This was a big one, folks. And no, I'm not talking about my... I think I said, wow, at least a dozen times during this picture. Loki was such a cool villain. Let's be honest, I stand him from day one and I'm an adult who used the term stand. And even though the last 45 minutes of that picture were essentially the last three Transformers movies, just substituting out-of-frame robots with superheroes, I still thought it was fresh and fun. In fact, I know right after that movie was done, I went home and cried for a full hour into a pillow because I was that excited and moved by the picture. That's what a stable person does. Number one, Guardians of the Galaxy. I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot. Number one, volume two, Guardians of the Galaxy. I am Groot. I've just met Sid and Matthew. I'm not gonna do that again. I'm not a complete hack.  I love my Star-Lord. I love my Gamora. I love Drax. I love Groot. He's baby now. He's baby Groot. Space Battles, a great soundtrack, a director who made countless jokes about pedophilia when he was younger. Awesome action scenes. What more can you ask for? Number one, Captain America, Winter Soldier. No one was expecting a sleek, sophisticated, spy thriller from a Captain America movie that they should have been. Christian Evansson takes off the shield one more time and then a subsequent amount of times after to give us a bang for our buck. Or like a bang for our bucky. Someone off-screen gave me that joke. I'm using it. My Black Widow's here too, which I love, which is great, which I love. I wanna date her. I'd like to wait night for a second if I could. The fact that Black Widow hasn't had her own film yet, her own standalone is borderline manslaughter or women's slaughter, if you must. Is that an extreme statement? I don't think so. Maybe a little ironic, consider only one of these ended in an actual widow because of the manslaughter. Number one, Thor Ragnarok. Wait, Khaleesi, how did the Thor movie get so high on this list when you were pretty down in the dumps on the previous ones? I would lie if I told you I didn't miss my Jane Foster. Her lack of personality and charisma and character development is something I can relate to. Ragnarok also gives us a lot of fun moments. The movie ooze is fun. Try liking fun sometimes, just try liking it.  Also, is it just me or does Chris Hemsworth somehow get hotter when he only has one eye? I mean, come on, what is with this dude? Could you imagine Khaleesi Grimes with the eyepatch on, like a pirate or something? Arr, I'm Khaleesi Grimes. I have a parrot on my shoulder, which I guess I'd be the parrot because I'm constantly parroting other people's thoughts and ideas on YouTube. Number one, Infinity War, yeah. Controversial pick, I know. I cry no less than 20 times during this epic cinematic journey of cinema, cinematic. We have almost the whole gang here. We have our T'Challa. We have our Christie Evans. We have our Spiderman. We have a Hulk. Kinda, Tilly hides like a little baby Hulk in the corner. He's like, meh, meh, meh, meh, Hulk, no smash. They should have baby Hulk, that'd be so fun. All I know is he better come out of his shell in Endgame. If he pouts in the corner again, I'm gonna be super pissed. Speaking of Endgame, I don't know if I'm more excited for that or Taylor Swift's new album to drop. Number one, I'm always ready for a war again. Black Panther. Strong Black League. This isn't just a big Hollywood movie. It's a movement.   Just played yourself. We already knew that. Thanks for catching up. People don't actually care what color your skin is as long as you have a well-written character and a great story. Plus, it gives people a perfect opportunity to grandstand and shame those that didn't like the film. It gives a racist. Number one, everybody knew it was coming, Captain Marvel. It was tough to decide between Captain Marvel or Black Panther. It was either be racist or sexist at the end of the day. Then I realized the harsh truth. I'm a white male, so I'm already close. Captain Marvel has a lot to say. There are intricate layers to this film that we have yet to unravel, yet to dissect. It will take many years and film studies to get to the bottom of it. Mainly because of the performance by Brie Larson. She puts everything into this role.  It's really the last Jedi of expressions. And she's more than just a strong female lead. She's a message of hope. She's a beacon of power. She's a her. Oh. Can she die? I don't know. What are her powers? I'm clear. What struggles does she overcome? Forget about this. Does she do her own stunts?  What else is there really to say about this? Other than, I love this movie! Number one, Avengers Endgame, the bold save. I may or may not have already seen Endgame. I may or may not have been given an early presser by Sir Rob Down Jay and been given a private screening from my own personal Jeep Cherokee looking out the window to his private bugalow upstate New York in the Hamptons, which is upstate New York. And I may or may not have loved every single thing about this movie! For all those hypothetical reasons, Endgame is my number one. And I will say a whole lot more on it when the rest of you sheeple. I mean, people get to see it. Thank you for watching. I hope you love my list and I can't wait to hear what you thought about the film.  We're just here to get paid.  It's a top list. No one's ever done them on the MCU movies. And it's gonna hold up really well, especially when Marvel releases like 13 movies a year. So, completely useless. Cringe Crew, sound out in the comments! And I'll MCU you next time.  Mainly because of the performance by Brie Larson. She puts everything into this role. Solid face, stone face, facial, less expression, face with no expression, removal of expression, a face that once had expression, but no longer does. A face that has eluded all. A face that has eluded expression. It's subverts expression. It's really the last Jedi of expressions. Fun fact, this video was shot, I think this was shot at my brother's work.  So everything was a disaster. And I'm pretty sure I just went into the hallway of my brother's insurance place and I just set up the green screen and stuff at night when it was after hours. It was the same place we filmed the movie boss videos. And yes, Bubba, I was plugging my computer in, okay? I wasn't trying to hide it. It happened, it was out there. All right, that's the cringe classic episode.  I was working on my script and something didn't save from the other night. So I lost a good chunk of dialogue I just worked on. I was kind of picking up where I just left off. So I really didn't accomplish anything yet.  All right, next video on here, which we go to. Let's do a actual review. This was a show called Car Side Reviews. I often found little ways to get creative with these things. Sometimes it was pretty basic, just me in the driver's seat and one or two camera angles that I would edit between and other times, you get something a little bit more out there like this one for the Revenant. Enjoy. A car broke down, stranded me in the middle of nowhere, some God-forsaken forest. On a plus side, I just got done seeing the Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio, a new flick. On a negative, I'm in the woods, no food, haven't eaten in what feels like minutes, if not tens of minutes. So I'm pretty hungry. My phone's dead, which of course would have been nice because then I could contact somebody via social networking sites like Twitter and let them know how much it sucks that I'm stranded and just at least update the fan base that things aren't great. I wish I had an Instagram account because it's a pretty looking place, but the good news is my cameras are all functioning and I did see a really good movie, so let's talk about it before I freeze to death. The Revenant or the Revenant, I can't remember what it's called. It's a terrible title. I don't think there's been a movie titled this bad since Ballistic X versus Sever or Shark Boy and Lavagirl, but regardless, the quality of the movie's there and that's all that really counts. I'm gonna die out here. It may be a blistery negative nine here in Minnesota, but I stay pretty warm just thinking about how great the performance was by Leonardo DiCaprio. This is a guy who's yet to win an Oscar as pretty much everybody knows by now and this is the role that he definitely is going for one.   They had issues on the film, so they had to move it to Canada, all sorts of crap. Bottom line is the last film that the director did, I can't remember his name, I'm not gonna bother looking it up. I can't look it up, my phone's dead. That's the shtick we're going with today and my phone's dead. But the last movie you did was Birdman, which won a bunch of awards, critically acclaimed. I thought it was all right. It was a little too artsy for me.  It's just art for the sake of art. This one though, holy hell, this was beautiful, all around. Like I said, DiCaprio nails it. As this guy named Glass, he's got a son who does a terrific job. There's that kid with the spaced eyes from Maze Runner. He's in it, he does fine. Tom Hardy, once again, transforming himself. He's different in every film, Bane, Mad Max, and here we are now. He plays an asshole, that's really all I'll say. This is a spoiler-free review.  Running at two and a half hours long, you'd think that it might get a little slow, it's a little long in the tooth, but this one holds up pretty well. This is one of the most intense movies I've ever seen. The Martian also came out this year. There's some parallels you can make by it's kind of the journey of one man trying to survive in the elements, but how they handle it, of course, is much different. The Martian is a much more family-friendly affair. It's all about science, it's all about working together. Whereas the Revenant is really one man's journey. To see how far he can push himself to stay alive for reasons I won't say.  Could you see like a rainbow or something at least? Just something to get his spirits up? That you don't really get much of that. It is a very heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching flick. He's in the wilderness, he's in the fray so anything can happen and really everything does happen to this guy, I feel real bad for him. Poor glass, you know, he never had a chance, really.  Let's just have it happen to him. And they did that like seven or eight times.  It's, it's, there's also a Star Wars Empire Strikes Back reference in there. It's pretty awesome scene. It's a pretty awesome scene. Oh, I gotta find some sustenance or something. I mean, I've been out here for at least 20 minutes now. I don't know how people did it back in the day. I just don't understand it. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I mean, I gotta get the review out somehow, find a way to upload it to YouTube. That's really all that matters right now. You know, it's good. What else do you want from me? What do you, what do you want me to say here? I mean, what do you want me to do? It's a, it's a good movie. See it if you haven't. Jesus.    That's ironic. I'm in the coldest seat in the house right now. All right. I don't have much else to say. It's a cinematic masterpiece. It's a tour de force. You know, the thing looks gorgeous. It's all practical effects. They shot using real daylight for the, however many days, 80 days, I think they shot for off and on for those nine months spread.  I felt like I was in the picture the whole time there wasn't a scene where I thought that's CGI, that's CGI. No, I'm, I'm all in. Everybody's in. You know, it's, it's gut wrenching. It's, it's violent. It's gory, but there's, there's some drama there. There's some emotion and it's, it's a beautiful movie. It's a beautiful film. One of the best of the year. I'm going to give this a 10 out of 10. Not begrudgingly. There's nothing wrong with the film.  I don't know. This isn't a movie for everybody, but it's a movie for the right people. You can take that to the bank and then ask someone to come pick me up out here in the woods because I'll be dead within the hour. Try this one more time. Okay, let's go home. I didn't think I was going to, I didn't think I was going to live to see another day, honestly. Yeah, so I said it's a 10 out of 10 film. One of the best of the year. I don't know if it's better than the Martian. It's so different than the Martian. It just depends on what kind of, what kind of movie you want to see, you know? But yeah, it really wowed me. And I mean, if I wasn't going to die out there, at least I had one more film to enjoy first. So yeah, that's something, you know? But, you know, I made it. I survived and now I'm home. So I'm going to, I'm going to let you go with that. I'm not sure. I saw the end of that. I forgot all about the little joke at the end. I'm not sure it landed. I should have done a different shot of that where it was really obvious that when I got into my car, I drove like 30 feet away from where I was at. There was no threat. I was right by my house. I don't think I framed that up very well or landed that little joke, but still a fun, creative, different movie review. I've done those from time to time. Very genus ranking for Revenant too. Wow, a 10 out of 10. I'm not sure I would say the same thing today, but, you know, time is ability to ruin everything. All right, let's do, what is, what do I want to go to? Let's do a classic Adam Rance. On occasion of traffic's really bad on my way home for work, I'll pull over at a Barnes & Noble or a coffee shop or someplace that has a good Wi-Fi connection and I can get some work done. On this particular instance, I pulled into a Caribou coffee. Now I think that's a Western franchise, so if you're not familiar, it's like Starbucks, but for people that like animals. I'm not really a coffee guy, so going into a Caribou coffee kind of limits my options a bit. They do have other things, but it's of course like 50% upcharged. I bought a Coke. It was $2.75. Thanks.   I don't know which is worse, honestly. I mean, if I'm drinking my own balls, no, that's worse. That's a lot worse. We haven't even hit the bumper yet of this rant and it's not even gonna be that long, so let me summarize by saying this.  I wanted to go into this fresh, but this happened last week and guess what? It's still sitting in here.  So I go to the counter. I got my laptop bag. I'm gonna go set up shop, but I figure I'm gonna be here for four hours. I'm gonna get more than a Coke.  I don't know why I did this.  And yes, yes, it is a black one. That's not racist. That's honest. So I go for a food and something catches my eye and my fancy. I glance over. No, I'm already lying. I don't want to do that. The counter was over here. I glance over and I see a shining banana bread. Just yelling my name. Pat them, pat them. That's not really yelling.  Eat me. And I love eating babies. I don't know. I love banana bread. I love everything it represents. The banana, the bread, the banana and the bread coming together in perfect harmony to give me a taste in my tummy unlike any other. So I see that. I look at the lady who's gonna take my order today and I can't remember her name for the life of me. I'm assuming it's like Jacuisia. I don't know.  So I look at Jacuisia and I say, I want that slice of banana bread. It looks good. It was pretty thick. You know, it was like this, it was a good size. It was a good hearty chunk. It's like, that's a good call. Dead south, the banana bread plate sets it down. I give her my $35 and change. Thank you.  I'm about to leave. And I realize there's no, there's no butter. So I turn back to Jacuisia and I say, I need to almost forgot the butter. She says, no, we don't have butter. I'm sorry, what?   That's not what pissed me off. The next part is she looks me dead in the eyes and says, you don't need butter. That thing is so moist. You are gonna wish you never even knew what butter was, buddy. I look down at the bread then up at her, then down at the bread then up at her, then down once more at the bread. And I'm thinking, it doesn't look moist at all. It looks like the opposite of moist, which would be dry. But I take it anyways and I say, thank you. I get to my table, I'm furious.  There was nothing on the table prior. So I just swept the air away. I sit down, I have my fork and I get my coke. I take off the cap, flick it across the room and I can open. I broke the seal with one hand because I'm a demigod. The cap hit some person in the eye. He fell down. I'm pretty sure he died. I take a swig. Some of this stuff is dramatic and did not happen. I will say that right now. You can piece together what you think is a lie. I cut into the bread. Now the first thing that hits me, that dawns upon me is that as I'm cutting this bread, I'm not getting a, it was like eating sand mixed with gravel, mixed with dust and then frappéed in with the balls that were still left over from earlier and then given to me to drink. This was like a $4 slice of banana bread.   Here's how this concluded in my head. I eat pretty much all of the banana bread because I'm not going to let that amount of money just fall to the wayside. I'm not Steve Jobs. Oh, he's dead. I'm not Heath Ledger.    Chris Farley, no. John Candy, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. This isn't working out at all. I slam the fork.  It then speeds back up and spins like 600 times and hits another guy. This same guy actually in the face that got hit earlier in the eye, he's dead again. I march over to the counter. There's a guy in front of me in line. He's like, yo, have the strawberry, Julius. I grabbed him, throw him. He slides across the ground, snaps his neck and dies into the wall.  She comes at me with a punch. I dodge, counter it. I throw an elbow. It knocks her jaw clear off her face.  She throws another punch. I dodge, bite down on it. Ah, and I pull the finger off and spit it onto the floor and then I kick it and it goes across the room and a kid slips on it and falls and dies too. I put so many people in the morgue today. It's not even funny, but it kind of is. She then tries to throw the headbutt at me and I grab it and I slam her neck and then pull it off.  So now she's in the trash with the unmoisted banana bread. But guess what? The blood from her and all the ooze and pus that comes from her decayed body falls into the banana bread and it morphs. Now the banana bread's moist.  And I slam her back down and I leave the shop. But what really happened was I was disappointed and I left. It's not quite as exciting of a story. Oh, is it done? It just kind of ends. All right. Okay. Banana bread. Yeah, that was a disaster. What a terrible day at the coffee shop. Let's do, we got one, two, three, four, five left. We're halfway gone. Let's go with, let's go with this one because this was like a variety show that I did exactly one episode of because it was too long to script everything and do all the other stuff. But it has like three different characters that I played in the past. So it's kind of cool. Let's do that. A terribly horrible looking shark. Quick, throw the kid at it. Use it as bait. It'll slow it down so you can make your escape. Hey, you know what Screaming is going to solve in this situation? Absolutely nothing. And there it is. Now you're dead because you didn't listen to me. Who else is mad hungry right now? Right? I'm Adam Olinger and today I'm going deep inside Jaws. You heard me. Let's start with the ranking of the four films. Jaws the revenge. This time it's personal.  Do sharks have feelings? I saw one once and I called it fat. It didn't seem to be bothered by my comments so no, I don't think they do. Which makes the premise of this film entirely stupid.  Maybe it was one of the shark pups or something. Regardless, the movie's terrible.  Also the shark roars like a lion now because why wouldn't it? And this kids is why you don't do a big budget film in nine months. Grab your red and blue glasses gang cause we're headed to SeaWorld in 3D. For like two scenes.  It's amazing. How does this look so bad compared to the original? Dennis Quaid, Leah Thompson and a camera shot from the perspective of a Jaws victim make it watchable but hardly a good movie. This is basically an hour and a half SeaWorld promo done in the worst way possible.  They put a baby great white shark in a small public pen. It died the same way Padme did in Revenge of the Sith from a broken heart. Perhaps sharks do have feelings after all. Certainly more than the humans do. Roy Scheider returns due to contract obligations to make one of the most pointless sequels of all time. It's a big step down with a large focus on teenage angst and like most sequels it basically retreads the first story again. Brody has PTSD short for post-traumatic shark disorder. Thank you. So the town once more doesn't believe him when he yells shark. Also doesn't help that he unloaded a full clip into a school of fish. Not gonna win you any brownie points with the locals. He once again saves the day by electrocuting the teethy foe. The killing blow line however doesn't quite match up to the originals epicness. Instantly quotable. I know I go around uttering the phrases from Jaws 2. Open wide. Say ya. This list is the easiest one I've ever had to put together on this show. And seen as this is the first episode, that statement means nothing. Jaws is a lightning in a bottle Spielberg classic. One that the director said should never have worked. Sea sickness, troubled shooting schedules, a malfunctioning shark, weather conflicts and more made this production a complete disaster. Yet this perfect storm ended up producing the perfect film.  And deep blue sea is also awesome. Let's do a bad movie pitch. Oh, Sheila, are we on the conference? Burp. Thanks, doll. Gentlemen, and in the rare instance, possibly lady, let's talk shark films. Really want to sink my teeth into another Jaws flick. Here's what I'm thinking. In the original concept for Jaws 4, Voodoo Witch Doctor gets pissed at the Brody family so she resurrects that king of the sea, has him go after him. This idea was kind of scrapped, put up on the table, you could find it in the novel, which nobody read. But I want to bring it back for another Jaws film. I think it's a great idea. I think it's gold. So far, we're tentatively calling this Jaws 5, Jaws Returns, but I have some few ideas and workshopping around some different classrooms locally. Jaws 5, Tokyo Drift. Jaws, Resurrection. Jaws, Insurrection. Jaws, Full Blown Erection. I'm cool with all these titles, honestly. I think they all really have legs, which is ironic because shark.  I'm talking trans-gen. I'm talking post-gen. I'm talking pre-gen. I'm talking regen. Every single kind you can possibly imagine. All the flavors of the rainbow, all the colors of the Skittles are gonna be in this thing.  This time at the hands of Zendaya, the beautiful musician turned actress.   Sheila, we all on right now. I'm not getting a lot of bites on that end. We have a picture though, right? Yeah, yeah, we have a picture. Maybe make it a trilogy.  I never played this. Is this something in NES, like the Nintendo? Nostalgia, cool beans. Wow, look at those graphics. This is like super old. That's fun.  And now I'm dropping bombs on jellyfish? I love this. There's a baby Jaws from Jaws 3D. Super awesome. This game is everything. Baby Jaws and mommy Jaws are tandem swimming together. That's super cute. I love that. I think it's great. I love that. I think it's great. I'm gonna need a bigger boat. Awesome sauce. Now I'm gunning right for Jaws. Oh, that's dark. That's grim stuff. I love this game. Nostalgia's great. Jaws is the 1975 classic that still lives in many people's hearts. Much like Jurassic Park, its sequels may share the name, but not the quality that came before. I'd love for this to be a more collaborative show down the road, so please follow me on Twitter and keep an eye on that community tab on YouTube to find out information about how you can be featured on another episode. The next one's gonna be focused on Don Bluth Films thanks to a Patreon supporter's suggestion. That's the show. Thanks for joining me as we go Deep Inside Movies together. Okay, that was Deep Inside Movies. I did maybe like seven or 10 episodes of it, but that was the only one that had a series of different sketches. But that was just too much work to do, so I stopped doing it. And when it doesn't get views, it's just a disaster. Okay. We got, let's go with, let's go with, let's go to the Oscars. From 2018, I think, or 2019. I can't remember which one. Our host? Khaleesi Grimes 82. Very naughty. We're doing it again. Oh, cool beans. All right. Wow, look at this. Thank you. What an amazing group of out of touch people we have here. Kevin Hart was gonna host, but unfortunately this conflicted with his I Hate Gays Festival.  It really does because Kevin was one of the last pure of heart individuals out there with no baggage to his name. And then the tweets came out. I, on the other hand, am pure. I am untouched. I am unsoiled because every morning I wake up is the first day of my life again. When my head hits the pillow at night, my past is erased faster than my rule 34 browser porn. Now I see why people go to confession. We should have a confess button on Twitter. Wouldn't that solve a lot of the world's problems? Wouldn't it really? I mean, we're gonna continue to judge people like we're better than them, but wouldn't that solve the problems and not just being a better individual to our neighbors? I think it would. I think it would. Yeah, let's clap for that. Let's clap for ourselves and our ideas. We have a terrific show tonight, but can I just point out something? As I graze along this theater, I'm seeing a lot of white faces, sure. Mostly white people, sure. But on occasion, a black pops out, and I think that's awesome. I think that's cool. I think that's great. I think that's cool. I love diversity! We've really overcome a lot of obstacles in the past haven't we? Truly, we are better people for it. Announcing our first award tonight is Brian Singer. Wait, no? Okay, I'm being told in my ear that he will not be hosting. I will be doing all of the awards because you are mostly garbage individuals. Our first award tonight is for best film editing. And the gnomes are. Gnomes is short for nominees. The lifetime original about the band Queen that somehow got a theatrical release.  We're on a roll, baby. Whoa. Something British. A movie I had no idea existed until this awards show. And the winner is, we all know, Bohemian Rhapsody. Yup, that's right. The movie that has more cuts than a teenage girl doing a makeup tutorial on YouTube. More cuts equal a better film. That's just math. That's just cinema. Next up, the nominees for best animated feature. They are. Thick. Castaway, but with dogs. I swear this movie came out like six years ago, but okay. Japan, the movie. Wrecker franchise.  And the winner is, I'm being told in my ear again, I can't actually say the winner out loud due to contract obligations with Disney. I don't want to lose my presser. So I'm just going to say what it rhymes with. Snyder Man into the Snyderverse, which also reminds me, release the Snyder Cut of Justice League already. We all want it. It's gonna be perfect. Tonight we are celebrating the best of the best from the amazing directors to the talented artists. And we come from a tapestry that's been woven from different walks of life. Whether you are a male or straight, white or rich, have a relative that's a famous person, or just love sexually harassing a young woman. The world watches on as we continue to set the example. Have we made a few missteps along the way? Sure. Are we willing to change?  Absolutely we are. And that's why tonight we have put together a little reel showcasing just a few of the beautiful women that are working in Hollywood today. You may know them as strong female leads. It's about time. Know what else I love? Music. I love the way that it can transport us to a different place in time entirely. Like last week, I completely forgot I was choking out a homeless man in the Arby's parking lot for looking at me cross. Hell, the only way I can achieve climax these days is by listening to Bad Liar by Selena Gomez. Yes, music truly is a wondrous thing. Let's talk about the nominees for the best original score this year. They are. Shallow from a movie that's been made like four times now. All the stars from Black Panther. All right, I'm gonna let myself finish, but I need to point out that Kendrick Lamar's other song, Pray For Me, is superior to that one. I'm not even gonna announce the other gnomes. Shallow's one, it's obvious.  Disney has crafted some of the most unforgettable moments put to the silver screen. Timeless works of art that both young and old alike can appreciate. Movies like The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and many more will never be replaced in our hearts. But they will on the big screen as Disney is going to be remaking all of them. And today I'm proud because the prompter tells me I am to announce a sneak peek trailer of the new live action, Aladdin. You really don't know who I am. Genie, wishes, land, none of that ringing a bell. God f***ing with the Oscar and the f***ing, what was that? I mean, that was great, wasn't it? I love that. If Robin Williams were alive today, he definitely wouldn't take his life a second time after seeing that trailer. The moment has finally arrived. The best picture category that is given to one perfect film each year. A movie that will be dissected, studied and talked about for years to come, appreciated by all walks of life. So let's find out who our next Casablanca or our next godfather is. The nominees are, and these are all really good movies. Strong Black Leads. The Last Jedi, a movie so nice, we nominated it twice, as in two award show years in a row. My boy Luke, dying alone on a f***ing rock like a little f*** after being old and weathered and depressed for 30 years is exactly how I wanted to watch my hero go out. I love what you did to my Luke. Netflix and Sleep, proving that even the most boring movie ever made has a shot at the title. Vice, Vice, Baby. This reminds me, we haven't even bashed on Trump yet this evening. I'll get there. Ashley Simpson's Saturday Night Live performance, the movie.  Black Panther, the 19th best superhero movie ever created. Who need a hero? Hero, you need a hero, look in the mirror, there go your hero, who on the front lines, ground zero, hero.  It was way better. That's the show. Thank you everyone for coming out this evening and Harvey Weinstein, if you're listening, you should have killed me when you had the chance. Now it's my turn. All right, thank you, thank you.  See? I got there. I got there. Nerd alert! I'm super pumped! Oh, good ol' Khaleesi. Roasting everyone, left, right and center. Those were good times. All right, that was the cringe Oscar, is just shot out of the cannon, destroying everyone. We have one, two, three left. This is my favorite movie review, to date. More of a rant than a review. It's just, I love this video, so let's watch it. $42. That's what the emoji movie cost me. That's what I'm out to purchase the tickets for my two children and myself, the snacks, the concessions. And it's not even being out the money that bothers me so much, as it is the pain and anguish my family had to endure. An eight-year-old child, a five-year-old, should never have to bear witness to something of this level, of terrible. And they've seen Norm of the North, so they already know life's not all sticker packs and charms blowpops.  Typically when I do one of these rants or a feud of a movie that's PG or G, something more family-friendly, I try not to swear, say inappropriate things. That's hard for me to do. I'm gonna tell you right now that's not gonna happen here.   Turn it off.    Not even 10 minutes into the film, I turn over to my daughter, Olivia, who's eight.  And she said, Dad, I've made a huge mistake. She's never even seen arrested development and that immediately triggered my mind. I'm like, this kid's amazing. But yes, she made a huge mistake because she's the big emoji fan.    She loves Shopkins, Hatchimals, all the other things kids are into. I don't judge.  I had my own versions of them.  So I did my fatherly duty. You better believe that joke's in the film. The poop says it. Played by Sir Patrick Stewart, who I think was held at gunpoint to do this role. He has no more than five sentences.  So, you know, whatever. He made a lot of money, I'm sure, for a very easy day's work. I'm not gonna knock him for that. I've never in my life watched a full movie from beginning to end in a zombified state with drool coming down my mouth, looking up at the screen. I'm not alive. I'm not dead. I'm just in some middle ground. Just not even digesting what I'm seeing.  It's the same plot I've seen 8,000 times told better. The animation still did. It doesn't look very good. It's not bad. I mean, clearly there's some talented animators here, but there's nothing creative at all.  There's even a glitched character. There's another character who's in disguise, who left her game, who it's revealed later, is gonna have a friendship.   And then there's concepts taken from Pixar's other movies.  It's such a waste of time and energy. And everything you watch is just mindless. It's numbing. It's what I imagine my wife thinks when we have sex. Typically I would run down some of the actors in the film, the characters they played, talked about their performances, but I don't care. I don't care enough to do that. T.J. Miller's in it as Gene, he's the main guy. Whatever. He's mad. His performance is mad. These are the kind of jokes that are in this film, by the way. Like whatever you think is the most superficial, top-level comments you can make, that's the joke. Oh, do you guys remember Spam Emails? Yeah? Okay, well there's a character named Spam and she's just annoying. Ha?  Who's this movie for? That's the question that constantly runs through my head, is what?  And the characters don't matter at all, because this movie's not about characters. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This movie is about product placement.  Oh, do you like Spotify, kids?  No, it doesn't matter, your parents do, and they probably use it, so let's put Spotify in there. Why? I don't know. I have no idea why they went in there.   It's done in like three minutes. The main character in this movie is Dropbox. The name is mentioned at least a dozen times. It's the final place they have to get to. And of course, Dropbox is perfect with the gigantic firewall that's super secure. They get by it and they're basically in this cloud city, heaven-ish sort of a place. Everything's great. Everything is awesome. Another movie that's far better than this, the Lego movie, World Within a World type of thing. It's just all been done to death.  Hold your balls, Adam. It can't all be bad, can it? There's gotta be some good in this. Well, you know what, John?  They brought their own dance to the world. The emoji pop, I think is what it's called. Let me show you how it goes. Wink! Cover your eyes. Eh!  It's a dance, I guess. They are really driving it home. They play it two or three times. They want you to have it at your Sadie Hawkins dance at your bar mitzvah, at your wedding, everywhere. Emoji pop. I have my own dance. It's better than this one. It's called Adam Jerks Off. You're free to use it. A lot of variations of masturbation techniques. Once again, mom, if you're ready to watch this, this is on you. Later rebranded. Take her. The snake bite. The pepper grinder. The lasso. The neck snap. The French onion soup. I don't know what that is. I don't know what that means. Fire starter. Patty cake. Rolling the dough.  You got the Adam Dick dance. Let's do it. I don't know what the message of the film was either. It seemed very post-apocalyptic with the students of a high school glued to their phones 24 seven. They can only communicate via emoticons.   And if it is, then game over. Let's just pack it all up. And for those of you that haven't had their fill yet of women empowerment roles that nobody asked for, pushing an agenda that nobody wants to hear, emoji has you covered there as well. With a princess who doesn't want to be a princess and is sick of the men holding her down, talking about back in the day how the women could only be one of two roles that was very misogynistic. It was very whatever other women's lib terms you want to use. It has no reason to exist in this film. It's insulting.  It's out of place. And it reminds me of once again my love making with my wife and how she probably feels about it. When Gene and his buddy Handjob, I think his name is high five, but I'm gonna call him Handjob, go to Candy Crush. My daughter turned to me and said, hey, this is from Wreck-It Ralph. I said, no, that's Sugar Rush. I thought, no, it's not, but I could see how you could think that since everything else has been directly ripped off from that film. The film is so boring and so unnecessary. I found myself contemplating deeper things underneath the surface here that the writers clearly had not thought about. For instance, Gene's family, The Mess. There's three of them. And they're all meh emoticons. So I thought, can other emoticons fuck? Or can you only bang the same brand? Like, could a meh bang a crying one? And would they make like a happy one or a depressed one? I don't know. The movie certainly doesn't clear that up for me and that's the kind of stuff I was into because we saw that there was a father and a son shit.    I would like to know. There's a point in this story where the characters go to Just Dance, which is an app I guess all high schoolers have on their phones, that's cool and hip. And there is a giant Christina Aguilera avatar. She's the only person that seems to be giving 100% in this movie and props to her because she does a fine job with the voice. She's sultry. I found myself attracted to that kind of simplistic looking avatar. At that point in the film though, I was just craving anything. I digress. She's kind of this glowing looking character stylized and the game eventually gets destroyed. Spoiler! The game is destroyed along with her and a hand job and the other two make it out alive. Jean and women's rights. So they go into the trash to get hand jobs safely out and in there they find the trolls from earlier and they make sure to show us Christina Aguilera's character who is now like human looking. She's not in her gamey style anymore. For some reason, going into the trash removes the graphics, I guess. But she actually looks better now. She looks more like a person. And I was like, oh, she's even hotter now, cool. Let's see what happens here. Oh, we're gonna go away from her. And then she doesn't get saved. Everybody else is deleted presumably with the phone except for hand job who gets out.  That's awesome. Thanks. This movie's awesome. This movie's really good. I've already spent more time on this movie than the writers did, so I'm gonna stop. I was gonna feud this with Bee Movie and then later I was gonna feud it with Angry Birds.  Maybe that's what I do. You wanna see a four-way feud? Anyway, thanks for listening to this rambling mess of a review and don't see this film. I also watched Atomic Blonde, which was fun. It was a good time. I'm gonna feud that with John Wick hopefully next week. So stay tuned for something good. And don't forget about that, Adam Dick dance. Thanks for watching. All right, we got two videos left. Two videos left. I have here, I have one here that I like from multiple aspects. I like the filming, I like the silly premise. It's just a good time. Enjoy the skit. I remember it like it was yesterday. Because it was. My buddy Derek had a bachelor party and typically when you think bachelor party, you think strip club, Vegas, something a little crazy, maybe a hooker dies. Maybe there's some drugs and alcohol. I don't know, but I was excited. You know, I was excited. And then I found out we were going to the boundary waters, a place that has no phone reception or any civilization at all. No reception meant no Pokemon go.  It's been 48 hours since I've played Pokemon go. Things have been very difficult out here. I've tried several times to gain type, some type of internet access or wireless anything. Nothing's working. I'm not counting my steps right now. I'm not hatching eggs. Saw a live squirtle today. It was a snapping turtle. It was intriguing. I wanted to catch it. I wanted to keep it, but I can't because it's real. I've been playing Pokemon go since two weeks ago here in 2016. And let me tell you some of the things I've seen are beyond mesmerizing. They're miracles of nature. They're miracles of life. And now we're out in the boundary waters and I can't play it. And I'm just like, what am I doing here, you know? What am I doing here? Yeah, spent a little bit of time fishing to get my mind off of Pokemon hunting for a magic carp. Right over there. I like to pretend that that Mewtwo, a voracious one came through here and tore up that log. Reality it was me. We've seen some animals, I guess, but they're not a Bulbasaur. They're not a Charmander. They're not a Pikachu. We've tried things we could do to pass the time and kind of recreate Pokemon go, but there is no Pokemon go without the app. It's disgusting. You know, I think it's been good for the guys, just unplug for the weekend, get away from everything, hacksaw things, chop things up, but you know what? I know it's wearing on people. It's getting tough. People are stir crazy. They want their Pokemon. There's nothing to look at down here.  It's like, that's not exciting. Be lying if I said I didn't want to put a lure out here right now in one of these campsites. Think I really tore something up, throwing out skipping rocks out on the water there earlier. I just fantasized I was throwing out polka balls the whole time. Made it a little easier. I wish Flareon was here right.  Haven't been playing Pokemon Go. I have no service out here. Apparently when you sign up to play a game which I consider part of my life now, the woods is the last place you want to go to catch Pokemon because I can't even play it. I can't even join this.  And what have I caught? Hypothermia, hunger, and the inability to play a game that I love. I'm seeing a lot of birds out here. Keep thinking Pidgey, Pidgeotto, but it's not the case. Bald Eagle. There's no Lapras out there, boys. Pikachu. Come on Brock, come on Misty. Let's catch Pokemon. Kill me. Kill me. We're going home. There might be a Gyarados or two in these parts. We'll see. If we had a reception out here, our eggs could incubate and we'd be. I know, if that's all we need, if we had reception, we should. I just throw some incense out and I'm in heaven. You know life's good again. I made it.  You know, I'll have those four days as a reflection of how terrible life can get without Pokemon Go. And I don't ever want to go back there again. I won't go back there again. Whoa, looks like a Zapdos went through here. Wow, awesome.  All right, I praised final one. I praised this series a million times over. I really could have picked almost any one of them from it or I could have played the whole thing in its entirety, but movie boss will always be something that I really enjoy going back and watching. They were a lot of fun with my bros. And here is just one episode. Sorry, Bubba, it is not the one with you, but this is probably my favorite. Warner Brothers sent here to murder me like they did the Justice League movie. I'm worried about you. Oh really, Mom? Thanks, I'm fine. Okay, I tried. Let me rephrase. I'm worried about this company. Couldn't care less about you. Well, didn't you hear? My last movie feud's netted a cool $10, so that should keep the lights on for at least another five minutes.  Often, at the same time. Gross. Listen, Tristan. Not my name. I just need to unravel this twisted Zack Snyder conspiracy. And then we'll get back to business as usual. Sure, for usual. This isn't healthy. Even if you find the whereabouts of the Zack Snyder director's cut of Justice League, then what? Like beautiful doves at a wedding ceremony. I release it to the public for a hefty fee. You're gonna hold the release of a fictitious movie hostage until some fans pay you ransom? Exacto Mundo. That's really messed up, man. Did you catch my demolition and reference there? I did, but can you stay focused on what I'm saying? This isn't healthy. You weren't sleeping. You got Terrence scouring the internet for crumbs of this movie edit that may not even exist.  Lord Zack Snyder has confirmed many times over its existence. I have video proof in my office. I'll show you. I'll show you all. I will not step one foot in that hellscape. Terrence told me that it looks like a scene straight out of seven. There's photos and internet articles printing out and plastered all over the walls. That's a bit of a stretch.  Look, if I don't find this cut of the film someone else is going to, and that's not a chance I'm willing to fake. Not the expression. Well, I'm expressing it because you know what? For a small second, I thought I had the cojones to edit the whole thing myself. Drop the opacity by like 90%, pop up the contrast, sprinkle in a little film grain, but without snack, Snyder's. Additional footage? This whole thing is a joss. A joss? Whedon, the directing hack that took over for Master Snyder. You had the first two Avengers movies, Firefly, Dollhouse, come on. Oh, you like those movies. I wasn't aware you were still eight years old. Hey, Sheila, could you be a doll? Run out, get over to McDonald's, pick up Tristan a Happy Meal? Because apparently he still enjoys trash. Still not my name. Sheila's not even here.  Is that bad? Pat, bad? Are you seriously asking me that right now? Sheila brought in her cat two days ago, took one step into your office and died. I'm assuming from the smell. Probably know it's still in there. We have a strict no pet policy here. This is a place of business. In case you didn't know, dipshit. This is a pet cemetery. There's two dead birds on your window ledge. Perhaps you're trying to air out the stench at some point? This conversation is interfering with my hunt. I'd have Terrence escort you out of the office, maybe even rough you up a little bit first if I didn't know he was still sleeping in my office next to the cat on the floor. ["The Cat on the Floor"] Often, at the same time. Look, if I don't find this cat. ["The Cat on the Floor"] It's like shitty in the eating. Uh, okay, Terrence slash Bubba. I got one more for you just as a bonus since I'm so close. I'm on the precipice of finishing this script. So I'll give you one, I'll give you one with you and it's actually your best one. Where is it? I just had it. Where is it? Now here it is. The intern is in the conference room. You know the drill? Let's give him the Stanley Rubik's test. Never works. It's like Stanley Kubrick. You get it. Seriously? It's done. Oh, you guys stopped doing that to me. Did you do it? Does he have the cue? Good. We're in the end game now. Sorry for what? You really think you should intern here? You're trash! You're nothing!   I don't know, Adam posted it as some intern opening on Twitter and I thought I'd check it out. It might be fun. Fun?   I don't even know you.  Okay guys, okay. I think he gets it. I think he gets it. Gets what? Is this some sort of joke? You're the joke! Easy big guy, easy tear bear. Listen, we're just doing a little bit of a shtick, poking some fun, but this is a business. And you know what?  In fact, last week I had to cut the throat of a turtle that I ran over with my car. Back tire didn't finish him off, so I had to cut the b***h. What was this whole Rubik's Cube thing, just like a prank or something? Do you even know what YouTube is? Bruh!  It's as easy as one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. I seriously doubt that anybody could have done what you just said in that time frame. Hmm, I guess I'm no one then. Wait, you can solve it in another two minutes? Haven't tried, but I'm 100% confident I can. How do you even know? The same way I know you're going home to an empty bed yet again tonight, Terrence. Wow, seriously, Adam? His fiancé died six months ago in a car crash. You knew this. Yeah, he probably did it on purpose to get out of the marriage. I don't think I want to intern here anymore. It was a prank, gotcha. You were right, we were joking ya. We were all in on it, everybody was in on it. I'll have Sheila get the paperwork bring it over for you to fill out. This is fun. Who likes dilly bars? Oh, we got some winners.  There you go in the freezer. We'll do this. See, as one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Yeah, those were fun. All right, that's all I got for you. My script is complete. I'm done. First draft, finally done. Gotta go through spelling check now and read it all through, make sure I got names all correct, make sure everything flows nicely and makes sense. But as of right now, this damn script is completed. So I can go to the next steps, which is making a pitch deck, getting some feedback from people. And yeah, what a night. What a way to kick off 2024. Go on vacation tomorrow. I do have some videos coming up. And then of course I'm gonna be taking lots of video while I'm there. What else was I gonna say? Oh, there's two videos up currently. There's a review for the beekeeper with Jason Statham and there's a review for Mean Girls 2024. It's January, okay? The movies aren't gonna be great. It's notoriously the dumping ground for bad films and that's kind of the takeaway from both of them. That's about it. I guess I don't have anything else. I will talk to you guys soon. Hope you guys have a great next week. Have a good Sunday tomorrow. It's almost Sunday right now. We went long, but that's just the way it works. Thanks for the support over the year and we will talk to you soon. Take care.


Abledon Arnair is sponsored in part by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering neighbors with disabilities to be at home in the community. Additional support for Abledon Arnair is sponsored in part by Washington County Mental Health Services, where hope and support come together. Welcome to this edition of Abledon Arnair, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the different people. I've always been your host, Lawrence Saylor. Arlene is up today. Thank you to our sponsors. With us on this informative edition is the North Central Vermont Recovery Center. Why don't you guys introduce yourselves? All right, so I'm Stephanie Capizin, I'm the Executive Director of North Central Vermont Recovery Center. And I'm Daniel Franklin, the Assistant Director. Okay, what are the missions and goals of the North Central Vermont Recovery Center? Well, in the big picture, the Recovery Center is, the mission is to help support and serve individuals and loved ones who are interested in recovery from addictions. We do that in many ways. How do you guys handle that? Some of the ways? Mm-hmm. We're open every day, 365 days a year, and it's a safe place. A person can come in and talk with people, either volunteers or recovery coaches. They can come in and use our computers, read, and just be in a safe space. There's social activities and different things going on there. We also have a lot of different meetings and programs. Maybe Daniel could speak to some of those. Yeah, so we host a variety of both 12-step and non-12-step groups. What is the 12-step program for those that don't know? Yeah, so it's, you know, there's a couple of different models. There's things that are based on the big book, so focused on higher power and the text, also text-written by the founders of AA, for example, Bill Wilson and other academics, but we have a variety of groups from narcotics anonymous, alcoholics anonymous, over-eaters anonymous, and families anonymous. Would you be, can you explain, okay, so you have alcoholics anonymous, narcotics anonymous, okay, how does that, how do those groups work together with your group? So technically, they're independent of the center that we host them, but they're based on a peer-run model, often with facilitators and readers and so forth. But maybe you can talk about the 12-steps. Explain what a peer-run model is. So it's really designed around a person who has time in recovery, a progressive model of leadership, so often it's someone with time under their belt in recovery, helping others who are newer in recovery or new to recovery to find their way through the steps. And then you want to add to that? And in just these 12-step groups, they rent the space from the recovery center and work within their own program. And right, they're also, so as an entire organization, we are peer-run, but 12-step meetings work together as a peer. They are individuals who are in recovery, working with other people in recovery, following these 12 steps that help people find their way. Speaking about being in recovery, there's your program, I know we're jumping around a little bit, does your program have staff that are in recovery? And why is that so important to have staff in recovery when you're counseling people in recovery? We think it's very, it's very important and crucial and powerful at recovery centers that a person walking in the door, either a first time looking for help with addictions or not their first time, but are coming in and talking to people that already have lived experience in the same situation or the same issues they're having. And that it's a very, it's a very different dynamic than going to a professional counselor, which I think all are very vital and important. Great. The opioid crisis is huge in Vermont. Okay. How is your organization combating or working to combat the opiate crisis and pills and pill taking, et cetera? Would you like to speak to that? Sure. Yeah. Really, everything that we do is designed to be a part of addressing the opioid epidemic. The problem is that the opioid epidemic has captured the public imagination and the media and the funding because of the immediacy and the deadliness of opioids, things like heroin and fentanyl, which is most often what people overdose on or prescription. Fentanyl is an illicit drug that's usually used for end of life care for cancer patients, but now over 90% of fentanyl comes from China or Mexico. It's become an illicit drug rather than one just used in medical facilities, but it's also cut with other adulterants. It's about 50 to 100 times more deadly than heroin itself. And then there's another analog called car fentanyl, which is many more times that. And also, I know this is an old drug, but a lot of pharmacies stopped people from going to the pharmacy and asking for oxycontin, you know, as, you know, if you're taking that, they're also using that as a, you know, like popping candy. So since you said the opioid crisis, how was your are you educating people more on those particular things and like certain drugs that have really harmful effects? How are you really widening or or nipping? As I say, nipping in the butt, you know, in the butt. So we have, we actually have an employee who's called a Pathways Guide, and she works specifically with the hubs and spokes that do medications, assistive treatment or work with people with opioid use disorders. So we have a whole person devoted purely to helping people with opioid use disorders. But in general, we do a lot of education with materials throughout the center. We have recovery coaching for people with opioid use disorders and just we have narcotics anonymous. So we have a lot of things that are built specifically to address that. The culture has shifted a lot around opioids, you know, with the laws that went into effect and on July 1st of 2017, it resulted in significant reduction in the prescribing of opioids within medical facilities. But it's, you know, for for many people, prescription opioids like Oxycontin, Oxycodone, Morphine and so forth are a way in which they're introduced to the opioids, which affect the brain in a very different way from other drugs and and alcohol and have tremendous addictive capacity. And so a lot of Vermont to start with really didn't have a lot of pill mills per se, like other states. What is the pill mill? There are places where doctors were prone to prescribe really exorbitant amounts of prescription opioids for minor things like toothaches and, you know, other injuries, minor injuries that really didn't necessitate that level of pain relief. So there are states where the pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma that created Oxycontin went in and incentivized them to prescribe more of these opioids. So often we hear the story of someone who had started out on prescription opioids and then either when their supply was cut off or sometime within their use of those prescription opioids moved over into heroin and other illicit drugs in order to to deal with their pain, physical or emotional. Because also when you mix alcohol with pills, it becomes a double double whammy or even a triple whammy sometimes clean needle programs. Another big problem. Well, you know, needles and heroin. Do you believe in the clean needle program in Vermont that's happening now? Why or why not? We're we believe in it, both as individuals and we've chosen to support it as an organization. We were the first Recovery Center to partner with Vermont Cares to provide a harm reduction, a mobile syringe exchange program, the harm reduction van that was funded by the Elton John Foundation. So we once a month they come and provide syringe exchange services and a whole bunch of other harm reduction services example, like wound care kits and condoms and lots of other self care products, fentanyl testing, fentanyl testing strips, which is going to become increasingly important in this state. We believe in it. So there's really two sides of this of the syringe exchange program. So there's there's organized, there's there's Vermont Cares, which has the mobile vans and then some stationary sites around the state, but really started grass roots working with individuals using injected drugs around the state and other drugs around the state. And then there's the safe recovery program and in Burlington. So there's really two kind of sides to this. There's one that people are concerned that the having these services available can sort of enable drug use or promote drug use.  Sure. So so they'll say like, you know, you give you give somebody who's injecting heroin and needle and they're just going to keep going. Well, that's really a misnomer in the sense that these things are going to go on either way. But using an unclean needle can lead to numerous hepatitis C and endocarditis are the two big ones. So I want you to think about this, like to be able to supply needles to someone to clean needles reduces these infectious diseases and including HIV, which we were down to about 15 new cases of HIV in the state of Vermont per year, which is pretty incredible. But I know they're dead. I know that there are drugs to try to yeah, combat HIV. But you know, how does that work into that? Right. So actually, the drugs for HIV, the really expensive cocktail goes along with hepatitis C and endocarditis. So those two, those two illnesses are often come from using unclean needles. What do you mean by that? Well, right now, like, it's a pretty significant regimen to be able to to treat HIV aid. So there's a number of drugs that are involved in in treating that they're much more effective than they've ever been, but have been disproportionately available to people who either had Medicaid or had a lot of money. Now our care system for that is much better than it's ever been certainly than it was in the 1980s when we really had the last injection heroin epidemic. But with hepatitis C and endocarditis, there were each run of those drugs to treat those diseases can come with a price tag of about $150,000. So when you look at the possibility of saving someone's life and of providing a clean needle for $2 versus $150,000 for a course of medication to treat those diseases, to me, that's a no brainer. Now, what is VT CARES? Yeah, since you mentioned, yeah, Vermont CARES is a it's an organization that works with that provides a lot of services. They have an office in St. Johnsbury and one in Burlington, their headquarters in Burlington, and they have this mobile van that was funded by the Elton John Foundation. And so they, again, several individuals were traveling around the state to places like Rutland and going into the hard communities to out of their own vehicles to meet with people with substance use disorders and to provide these types of peer to peer or one to one care to help try to save their lives when they knew, you know, there was a real trust issue of people who were going in the throes of addiction didn't want to work with medical professionals or legal professionals. They were afraid of of of the consequences. So they were path breaking in helping to reach vulnerable populations. Do you want to add anything to that about Vermont CARES? Yes. I think Daniel covered it and we it's it's an organization that we support and supports us. Yeah. Right. Do you have any specific programs within your organization that deals with birth defects and drugs? And are our babies born addicted? And like, is there a myth behind that door? Yeah, just talking about that. Yeah, there is. So and I think in general, this comes to the idea that there is a difference between dependence and addiction. So babies cannot be born addicted. They are not doomed to a life of addiction. But if it's through the mother takes drugs while pregnant, then what happens? Yeah, so they are able, they are dependent in the sense that they are born with with dependence, which can be treated right from the moment of their birth to not have it turn into withdrawal. So there is a chemical dependence. And so when they when they're born, the doctors will immediately act to counteract the withdrawal symptoms, which can be deadly. But they are not going, you know, they are not capable of engaging in drug seeking behavior to address those problems themselves. What Okay, so since you say that, what are some withdrawal symptoms? Or for those that don't know what what withdrawal is? For example, there was a movie based on Ray Charles's life with Jamie Foxx. And Ray Charles went into withdrawal, you know, the sweats, the certain that the high temperature or low temperature, the pacing, certain itching, that type of thing. So what? What is some withdrawal symptoms, based on what I've said? You describe them pretty well. And flu like symptoms.  And that's what we learned. And that's what actually you, you see a lot of the, a lot of the reasons that people addicted, who are addicted, continue to search and need to take more and more of their or need the substance, right, is about not getting dope sick, they get to a point where really it's about not having that thing happened to them more than anything else to get through their day, you know, and if they are working or they're, they might be parents, you know, taking care of children at home. They're this, this illness does not does not discriminate on who, you know, what people in terms of the media is going to that. How has the media portrayed drug addiction? Going way back in the 80s to now, how has the media on portrayed drug addiction? Do you think it's a good portrayal or bad portrayal? Or is it, you know, according to script? I think there's two ways the media has really fed, fed us on what people see or think of as addiction, or people who are they, you know, using terms like addict and alcoholic and junkie. And we had another one we were just talking about, but they label, they create an image when people think of those labels, and it has a lot to do with people who are in poverty, and that it's always linked to crime, and it's always linked to behaviors that, which is true in a lot of ways, but there are so that's just the tiniest proportion of the people that this it's not what people think of when they think of the words. You said that. And then the other though, what the media portrays is about what we were talking about earlier in so many shows and movies and commercials and stories, you know, the normalization of always having the drink in their hand and or this buds for you not to do with just Budweiser but like, you know, a frosty beer or a beer and a pretzel together at the ballpark. Not only that, you know, yes, you have commercials, but alcohol is just way expensive. For one for one beer, for example, at the ballpark with lots of ice, talk about seven bucks. That's not cloudy. Including the food.  They make more money on their alcohol. Absolutely. Yep. Yeah. I mean, Vermont, for example, the alcohol tax in the lodging tax is 910%.  Can you explain about that? I mean, it's that any any addiction and things like smoking, for example. Yes. I mean, if you think of the individual, the cost to the individual, you know, we, alcohol is ubiquitous in our culture. You watch the Super Bowl and it's 10 times more beer commercials than than anything else. It is all around us. It's acceptable. And alcohol is still our society's number one addiction. We it is saturated into our whole lives at our center and most of the centers in the state. We see a majority alcohol use disorder. In our case, about 75%. So as much as the opioid epidemic is taking all of the attention and gets the funding, it's alcohol that is a major force. And in terms of cost to our society, it cost last year about $600 billion, whereas opioids cost $191 billion. So we're talking about a vast difference in terms of the cost that alcohol has to our society versus any other drug. I mean, just a comment here. The Bible mentions alcohol, you know, I'm Jewish and it mentions certain celebratory situations where wine, you know, the four cups of Elijah, then you have Jesus turning water into wine, but that was a completely different thing. To illustrate a point. But you know, do you think alcohol, do you think people to get their fix? Do you think it goes way out of a proportion sometimes has like when people hit rock bottom? Is there how do you know when you to for your organization to step in in terms of when people hit rock bottom? Is there a certain point where you just step and say, hey, we need to help you? How does that work within your organization? Well, at our organization, people come to us because they have decided or determined or the law has decided that they're the law. What do you mean? Perhaps they're in they're in legal trouble, either, you know, getting driving under the influence of violations or other thing crimes or things that have happened that they come to realize are directly linked to their substance use or their alcohol use. So that might be one reason or a family member, a grandparent, child, mother, father comes in to talk about their family member that is being and their family being negatively effected by the use of drugs or alcohol. So people are usually coming to us because they've gotten to some point that they need to talk about it or look for help. So we don't really determine anyone's level of where they're where they're at and when they might need help. But we have lots of different and actually it would be great to come back a little bit to some of the different services and supports that we have at the Recovery Center, which other than it being a safe place to come in, which I talked a little bit about in the beginning. There also are and the 12 step meetings we talked a little bit about, but there are also other different types of meetings, some that are more conversational style. We have one called Refuge Recovery, which is twice a week and it's a Buddhist based addiction recovery program. You said Buddhist? Mm hmm. That includes meditation and reading and and converse and discussion. So we also have a number of health and wellness programs, which we've launched this past year, which include, let me see here, Reiki, AccuDetox, Yoga, Tapping, I'm not sure if I can think of some more. So those happen all throughout the month and they are also avenues that people find really useful in their recovery for alternative to all those things. Yes, alternative because we believe in dressing addressing the whole person. So we continue to create more and more holistic avenues for people that because I don't believe in any way that there's one way for anyone to to come into and sustain recovery because it is about your whole person and how you ended up there. So briefly, let's talk about what are some of the misconceptions around alcohol and drug addiction that besides, besides the media, what are some misconceptions? Any interest in speaking on that? You know, there is a lot of stigma around addiction that simply doesn't exist around certain other issues. And there's, you know, for a long time, addiction has been affiliated with choice and a lack of self control with crime with, with hopelessness with the with the sort of hijacking of the person that that person's never going to amount to anything or, or move beyond that, you know, there's the word junkie, which has come to describe mostly drug users as opposed to alcohol, you know, people who have substance alcohol use disorder talk speaks to the sense of worthlessness of discarding and marginalization and isolation. So there's, you know, there's a lot of stigma that result that that really is is based around a lot of myths. The reality is people in recovery have there are far more people in recovery than there are in the throes of addiction that even though we believe in the United States that there are about 23 million people with substance use disorders in the in the state of Vermont. Right now, 8,000 people are in treatment for opioid use disorder. We believe that there are about 20 to 30,000 people with substance use disorders in general. But all around us are people in recovery who are living their lives and doing amazing things. And there is a culture not only of redemption but of paying it forward. And that is just these pure based models that the recovery center are at the core of what recovery centers are, are all built around helping each other of lending a hand of pulling people from the depths of the worst moments of their lives, hitting rock bottom, hitting rock bottom. And some people's rock bottom is different than others for some people rock bottom is is getting a DUI. Some people it's it's losing everything, their friends, their family, their homes, their cars, their everything. You know, everyone's rock bottom looks different. It's it's the moment that someone realizes irretrievably that something has to change that they have to progress that they have to learn from their experiences and move forward, enter recovery, rebuild their lives and do amazing things and help others. And so every day we're we're inspired by the people that we get to work with who are showing what recovery is and what what's possible. Let's talk briefly about some of the history of your organization. So our organization back in well 2010, maybe even the end of 2009, a group of professionals came together that decided or came to the understanding that that there should be something in the Boyle County that helped and served and supported people with addictions trying to enter recovery. And so the state of Vermont came to agree with that and helped fund the beginning of what we now has have in the Boyle County as North Central Vermont Recovery Center. We have 12 recovery centers in Vermont right now. Are you guys working with CVH, the hospital? We work really with Copley Hospital. That's in our community. Other recovery centers work with the other big hospitals. Like I said, there are 12 of them in Vermont, which is pretty incredible. And they're connected with the hospital in their area. So we are really connected with Copley Hospital and and this recovery center, like the others, I'm sure started out with a maybe one staff member and a handful of volunteers and in the years since 2000 and fall of 2010 is when we opened and since then we have grown to having four staff members, maybe 15 recovery coaches, which we didn't talk about yet. And what's the recovery coach since? Recovery coaches are our trained people. They're also peers trained to work individually with individuals and family members. We have recovery coaches for family members. So they work individually with them helping the person see what would they like their life to look like? What are the barriers in the way and how can they work together on the different goals for their recovery? Now, what are your we only have a little bit of time left? What are some some of your future goals of your organization? Yeah, we want to talk about those. Sure. You know, as Stephanie mentioned, we believe in whole people and recovery is about a person's whole life, you know, whether they've been in our have been or will be incarcerated, whether they're coming out of, you know, another situation, treatment, for example, that's a episodic moment in their lives.  And so our goal is to provide is to be able to work with people in a lot of different facets of our lives. So we've focused a lot on groups and recovery coaching and social activities and so forth. Our goal is also to work on people's health. So we're adding health and wellness programs, including hopefully an exercise program. There's a group. The Phoenix has been occurring here in Berlin and is expanding to Hyde Park in in March, which is providing a group exercise activity for people to live a sober and healthy lifestyle, looking at nutrition, looking at financial wellness. So really helping people rebuild and build their lives across the board and all facets of their life. Well, I'd like to thank you for joining me on this edition. Thank you. Thank you. For more information, for more information on the North Central for My Recovery Center, where can they reach you? Well, you could reach us by calling our phone number, which is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Can you repeat that again? It's<PHONE_NUMBER>. But we really love to really love to lead people to our website, which is www.ncvrc.com. Can you repeat it one more time? Yeah, it's www.ncvrc.com, which is the acronym for North Central for My Recovery Center. And on there, you will find so many things about what we're doing, what we're about. You can see schedules of daily things going on, gosh, all the different programs and other resources. You can see information about our staff and our board, and it's really a great site. We're located on 275 Brooklyn Street in Morrisville. Brooklyn Street in Vermont. Yeah. Well, again, thank you for joining me on this edition of Abled in an Air. Well, this puts an end to this edition of Abled in an Air. I'm Lauren Seiler. Arlene is off today. Thank you to our sponsors. See you next time for another informative edition of Abled in an Air. See you next time. Abled in an Air is sponsored in part by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering neighbors with disabilities to be at home in the community. Additional support for Abled in an Air is sponsored in part by Washington County Mental Health Services, where hope and support come together.