Thrifty Love, Dry Dating Trends, And This Street Smart Movie

Whether your love language is beer, chicken skins, or something a bit more traditional, we're here to humorously navigate the ever-evolving world of modern romance.

Rounding out our rollick through relationships, we dissect the film "Street Smart," where sex, power, and journalistic intrigue collide.

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Ever wondered if your love life could benefit from a little less booze and a little more financial savvy? Join Johnny Spoiler and Jordan Savage as we tackle the sobering trend of dry dating. We're not just talking about skipping the cocktails to save a few bucks; we're getting into the meaty questions about whether this newfound sobriety is paving the way for safer and more genuine connections. I'll even confess to my own wallet woes, sparking a comical contemplation of whether my bank account is nudging me towards an alcohol-free love life.

But it's not all budget banter on Binge-Watchers. We're dishing on the latest relationship shake-ups that are defying traditional norms. Think threesomes, same-sex curiosities, and the concept of 'wanderlove' that's got singles casting their romantic nets across the globe. And because we love a dose of nostalgia, we pay tribute to a legend as we dissect Christopher Reeve's legacy and his poignant documentary "Super and/or Man." So, whether your love language is beer, chicken skins, or something a bit more traditional, we're here to humorously navigate the ever-evolving world of modern romance.

Rounding out our rollick through relationships, we dissect the film "Street Smart," where sex, power, and journalistic intrigue collide. We debate the compelling dynamics between the characters, gasp through the twists, and muse on the portrayal of pimps with a charm that's as manipulative as it is magnetic. And because no episode of Binge-Watchers is complete without a curveball, I throw in my aspirations to become the world's first sommelier of Thunderbird wine and chicken skins. Don't knock it till you've tried it, right? So, pop in those headphones and let us whisk you away on a wild ride through love, laughs, and life's peculiar pairings.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

You've stumbled into some kind of show. Maybe you lost a bet and you're like, oh no, I got to listen to a podcast. When who one should I listen to? And you happen to stumble into beat watchers podcast, yours truly. Johnny's spoiler.

Speaker 1: 0:13

I love to spoil movies. Mostly the ones I actually enjoy Do. It is always by the savage scream queen herself, who just got acknowledged as the savage scream queen by podcast delivery all over them channels and their reviews. So I guess it's legit. You've been legitimized. A news outlet recognizes your savageness, jordan. Savage, I love it. No, it's legit, it's for real, let's see. So we have a movie, tonight's movie. We're leaving, like the throwback movies, to bad romances. Tonight's movie kind of fits in because the Superman actor is behaving badly in this movie, mm-hmm. But I wanted to back the train up a little bit. As we roll into romance month, yuck, hoodies, gross, all that stuff, shared bodily fluids, emotions running high Proudly. Is there a trend in dry dating which sounds awful to me? But this is basically. You know, people going on intentionally sober dates, hmm, going out of their way to stay sober on the dates. I Get it. You're trying to stay safe out there. I'm not trying to take any chances, any accidental babies or you know, happens morning after pill guilt and all that other stuff.

Speaker 1: 1:39

But you know what I think about some sobriety. I think that sobriety is for quitters.

Speaker 2: 1:46

Too good you know what I've done dry January. I've been a quitter for the last three weeks and I've seen your socials.

Speaker 1: 1:53

I've seen your socials and I've been grinding my teeth about like I need to pull this girl side and have a serious discussion. What are you doing?

Speaker 2: 2:01

Here is my thought, though it is so Less expensive to die out when you don't. Oh, we were amazed. We went and had this fantastic Italian dinner date the other day and the bill was only like 60 bucks and it was like, oh my god, this is incredible, which is?

Speaker 1: 2:18

actually you're like oh man, 60 bucks, that's outrageous. Actually, that's like the fast-food bill you get a couple of combos, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2: 2:27

It's already On a Saturday morning at 7, 30 in the morning, 65 when you're all hungover. So maybe people are doing it to be cheap dates. I was thinking dry dating is where you go like a month without dating, which sounds.

Speaker 1: 2:44

I was like, maybe I'm only sober when I'm broke, and I've been broke for like two and a half months. As you know, we've discussed it behind the scenes. However, I would be liquid right now if I lost. You know, if I was liquid, I'd be a total lush. You know my what's, my what's. What do they call that your love? What do they call that your love mechanism? What do they call that thing your love language? Oh, love language with Johnny. What's your love language? It's called a fucking beer bar.

Speaker 1: 3:18

Give me a looge my shots down the frozen statue my love language is crispy chicken skins, so oh yeah, which is hilarious.

Speaker 1: 3:28

Yeah, just take out stock and KFC, there you go. So like, well, what you don't know is we met at a KFC, or oh, open casting this is a weird term. They're taking the casting term and turning into a dating term. This is basically trying to date against typecasting. What is typecasting? It's a freaking I Don't know a TV term where it's basically like you get boxed in as a character. They're like ah, jordan, you're just, you're like a movie critic, so you're gonna play the movie critic.

Speaker 1: 4:01

You're like no, I want to play the barbarian or something or you know like, oh, you're like You're in the lifetime movie, but you're just the best friend. You're never the lead. You're like cuz you've had a You've you've been side-kicking it, so we just think you're the best sidekick.

Speaker 1: 4:17

You shine, get out of the limelight, just go back to you know stage right or whatever. Yeah, um, something like that. So, but in dating terms it sounds like a good idea, like if you were not meeting expectations and your dream person is like adding up To be a monster and you're like this is not working out, this Frankenstein. You know, when I click the app and I put in all the things I want and the people that I'm getting are just atrocious. And yeah, maybe you go to a short king or short queen or something in between and Outsize jeans and the shoe sizes don't fit, but they, you know, have to shop at the outlet stores anyway. Love it. And the last thing is people were tired of being locked down so they're wandering around. They're traveling to other cities to date, or other states, maybe some other countries, I don't know. That seems like a a Lot to do to leave the country to date, but I guess it happens Wanderlove wander love.

Speaker 1: 5:18

That's a new term for me and then I was like what's the Google trendy? You know what's this, the search engine trend for? Like, what are couples doing? Well, as you know folks, they're just being boring as usual, drinking, not freaking like spending all their money at Taco Bell apparently it's the same old things. For that it's like oh, they're considering a threesome, they're considering bringing in younger partners. Some of them, it says the ones that have been married for a long time, are considering same-sex arrangements while also being married.

Speaker 2: 5:54

Interesting.

Speaker 1: 5:54

That's less than nine percent, that's less than 19%, so I don't know how that's gonna come down. That's, like you know, seems like a very specific group of people that they always end up being politicians, you know. You know, I mean totally, we got the video dude From the yacht club and you weren't there with your wife, but right, anyway, it's all the same old story.

Speaker 1: 6:19

Imagination here run wild. But we're not here to talk about yacht clubs, secret videos. Uh, we're gonna talk about home video headlines. What's going on? Warner Brothers has probably scooped up the Christopher Reeve Sundance documentary, super and or man, which I guess is gonna be about like a I don't know. They're saying this is a it's killer which purchased its Sundance, premiered at Sundance this year and it's actually documentary about Christopher Reeve transition from like his horse riding accident to like what is his life afterwards? Obviously, he portrayed Superman, and and then what did it mean? After he was, he's like Like completely paralyzed. Yeah, he was in a special chair. They had to develop special equipment for him, special Ways to exercise this. He's like, yeah, 99.9 percent or or whatever, like full Paraplegic or something. Well, I don't know exactly what the terms are, but quad quadriplegic, yeah, but then he continued to.

Speaker 1: 7:16

You know, he actually continued to Be an actor. He was in TV shows and movies. They even did a remake of a Hitchcock movie, rare window, where he played the you know the main dude in that, and he was still like an outspoken person in the industry.

Speaker 2: 7:31

So let's go. Let's go, christopher Reeves. I love that but it's crazy.

Speaker 1: 7:36

We could live in a world where they like could break Superman. You know what I mean. Like broke a spine or something. What else is going on? Oh, wwe raw is gonna be on Netflix, are you? I never actually asked you if you even liked. Wwe at all, or WWE, or before, when it was WWF and WCW.

Speaker 2: 7:59

See, I remember, like the days of WWF, like I think that I must have been like on the cusp of, like it was on Television, and I would like definitely come across it while my brother was watching. You know, and I know some of the the popular ones.

Speaker 1: 8:15

WW, but it's boys TV. It's a boy, so proper I feel like I could get in.

Speaker 2: 8:19

I've watched some documentaries too of where I'm like They've got fascinating stories.

Speaker 1: 8:24

Oh man, vice TV, vice media. Dark side of the ring hell of a documentary series.

Speaker 2: 8:29

Yeah, so I'd watch it. You know why not?

Speaker 1: 8:35

Michael Keaton and Mia Kunis. They're gonna be in a comedy called Good Rich, which actually sounds like a spiritual sequel to mr Mom, but he's playing an old dad with super young kids, hmm, and then, uh, I but I mean how it sounds like mr Mom is basically mr Mom. He's a dad that loses a job and the mom goes to work in a corporate setting and it's crushing it work what, why? He's trying to figure out how to raise his kids at home and this one seems like an old dad is not prepared to deal with the kids because the younger wife Is the one usually dealing with the kids and now he's got to deal with it. That's why it's like, you know, it's like a mr Mom too, if you will. Sounds entertaining, I mean.

Speaker 2: 9:15

I think so too, and unlike for me, in my opinion, like an unlikely, you know, like TV Couple in a sense. I'm gonna talk a little bit about that later today, but uh, what I feel like. I'd love that just pairing.

Speaker 1: 9:30

Oh, they're not a couple. She's not the young wife no he's actually playing the adult daughter.

Speaker 2: 9:34

Mia Kunis is gonna play the daughter, but I in a sense of like to like, not necessarily a couple, as in like an engaged couple or a couple dating each other, but like just being paired up or like You're saying like this seems like an odd chemistry pairing Right and Michael Keaton in the same movie, when you see a horse of a friend, like a rabbit or something.

Speaker 2: 9:55

You know like do you know what I'm talking about? What was the term that I used earlier? But that's like I feel like they'll be really fun to watch on screen. So yeah, I like it.

Speaker 1: 10:06

Um, I Will say this. The scenario is pretty likely. There's a lot of old dads, especially in like Beverly Hills, like the one percenters, you know, the ones that have like have these business-sized enterprises, but then, like you know, I'm 70 but my wife is 30.

Speaker 2: 10:27

Like you know, their wife, young wife, gets pregnant and they're like yeah, 82, and it's like two year old, like you know another scenario with the young club wild. Yeah, yeah, yuck club is active today.

Speaker 1: 10:39

Okay, yeah, it has its own. Only fans now. Yacht club, only fans.

Speaker 2: 10:43

Hmm.

Speaker 1: 10:44

Believe. It Must suck to be the guy that has to clean the yachts, though.

Speaker 2: 10:50

There's a lot of guys.

Speaker 1: 10:53

Who knows what's going on? Of course, I do.

Speaker 2: 10:55

I've watched so much of what was it below deck. Let's go.

Speaker 1: 10:58

Yeah below deck. They're like yeah, those poor bastards, what go down below deck stays below deck unless it's televised Unless it's on TV tonight's movie. Desperate journalist concocts a story about a murderous pimp that makes him the toast of the town, but his lies too close to the truth of a very real, very dangerous criminal. Christopher Reeve and Morgan Freeman star in Street smart and. And now let's see if Jordan can live up to her reputation and drop some savage stats on us.

Speaker 2: 11:32

Some Savage, that street spart, I don't know something along the line too many s's lots of s's.

Speaker 2: 11:44

So Christopher Reeve had this script in possession for a really really long time Before he greed agreed to make it. He had read a few pages of the script and felt that it wasn't for him through it and essentially a pile where it was gonna live in the graveyard of all these other scripts that he wasn't gonna pick up. But a few weeks later he decided to pick it up and try it again and instantly liked this script and then made this his next Project. This material is very next project so that the canyon group they actually agreed to finance this film as a pet project not the canyon Canon.

Speaker 1: 12:25

Like a flak cannon that you fire out of a. Like a cannonball out of a cannon.

Speaker 2: 12:30

Slur might be slurred. My words here late. I just wanted to.

Speaker 1: 12:34

I just wanted to back it up for a second. Make sure we addressed it correctly, because Movie boys are gonna freak out, because the group is well known for all these Cheesy popular B movies from the 80s and 90s.

Speaker 2: 12:45

Well, what do you know?

Speaker 1: 12:47

And the canyon group. They make movies about wicker chairs and wooden furniture. So just want to differentiate the two, the two organizations the cannon group.

Speaker 2: 12:56

You got it, but of course it was on the condition that he did at least one more Superman film which they had recently acquired the rights to. So this ended up.

Speaker 1: 13:10

Wait a minute. Okay, so he's agreed to do Street smart. Is that how we get to Superman? For, oh, the notorious Superman sequel hilarious, wow, dang. What a deal. I think this might be a hit, but, by the way, you have to produce the next Superman that I'm gonna be in. Oh, and then, if anybody knows what happened to that movie, it was a disaster.

Speaker 2: 13:35

So Well, and this one wasn't necessarily a hit either. It was Like widely liked by audiences and critics, but it didn't do entirely well.

Speaker 1: 13:47

So I mean I Understandably, because you know why I wanted to watch this. I was like I just start explaining why we picked the movies. We picked because, like, I wanted a Christopher Reed movie that wasn't Superman, oh my god, there's only a handful, so she's already seen like somewhere in time.

Speaker 1: 14:04

And there's only one other one where he plays an actor who Another playwright wants to steal his play that he's written, so he's gonna consider murder murdering him. But I just thought like I don't want to watch him play an actor with another actor trying to kill him. I wanted to Watch him in like a series movie.

Speaker 2: 14:21

Well, yeah, and this was it. You know this was pretty serious, so Not a serious song that I forgot to play. Crack open a cold box of wine or pour something cold on ice, because it's the binge watches podcast.

Speaker 1: 14:49

Let me ask you this if you play your theme song halfway through the show, does it count as an opening theme song?

Speaker 2: 14:56

It doesn't my opinion. I mean anytime I get to see the TV on fire with a bowling ball.

Speaker 1: 15:01

Still only seen it like twice or three times yeah for the folks that are watching instead of listening, you get an extra treat.

Speaker 2: 15:07

It is a little treat. Yeah, one of the locations that was used Was the old Seville theater. It's a rundown section of St Catherine Street in old Montreal Forum. By that time the theater had closed for quite some time and they redressed it as an adult movie theater and it's perfect, especially for this movie.

Speaker 1: 15:34

So they use this little broken down theater side street in Montreal as 42nd Street in New York, Essentially yeah. Yeah, it looks like CD New York. It's like what he's in it.

Speaker 2: 15:46

Well, and it kind of became a lot of contention in the relationship with Chris Furry because they were trying to cut a lot of cost corners to like create the film and so Just brooding, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:08

He's not doing so. He's like not acting so well that we think that he really feels guilty about writing a fake news story. It's actually really because he's frustrated with the production.

Speaker 2: 16:17

With the production. Yeah, it was like all the way from where they're filming on location to like non union workers to create the film. So there was a lot of contention during the creation of this, but the theater actually became a Like historical Monument and they're not allowed to tear it down, so that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1: 16:40

I think that's a little black on the side of the billion says Street smart, filmed here, I hope so I Hope so.

Speaker 2: 16:51

And then Morgan Freeman was nominated for this movie. Yeah, best supporting actor, despite having appeared in the electric company 1971.

Speaker 1: 17:02

But Freeman that's a huge leap. The electric company is a children's show, and then he goes and plays this.

Speaker 2: 17:09

I'm him yeah dang dang dude. And. But he even goes as far to consider fast black his character's name to be his breakthrough role. So, and he says that it's his favorite Oscar nomination performance, so I Wonder what, see. I would wonder when that quote came out, though, like I'm sure long yeah, who knows if that was a long time ago. But I mean, you know, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1: 17:34

I mean, I can't see even saying after Shawshank redemption, you know. So maybe it plays red.

Speaker 2: 17:42

Yeah, that would be Curious to find out. But that's it.

Speaker 1: 17:46

Savage stats for Street, smart Wrapped up and we'll be right back after these messages with our favorite bits from Street smart. Let's see what's going on. Love honey has a 50% off sale. You can get our love honey affiliate code in the podcast notes. They have Valentine's Day promotions going on and let's see they have gifts for her, gifts for him, gifts to share and gifts to wear. So grab our love honey affiliate code and see what all the naughty gifts they have available on their website.

Speaker 1: 18:20

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Speaker 1: 18:55

It's like energy drinks we're here, Skins. But yeah, now we're sponsored by KFC's, but specifically their new combo, which is just the skins. We know, like I don't know if they've ever done that at the store. Have a store ever just sold like, hey, we got a chicken skin combo.

Speaker 2: 19:15

Yeah, that would be so good. I would love that, just like as a side, instead of like you know, actually, you know how, like all the food trucks are like novelties.

Speaker 1: 19:25

Could you imagine if there's a food truck just the skins and it's just fried chicken skin?

Speaker 2: 19:31

You get fried chicken skins. You could get like. You know what is Like potato like. Have you ever had like the potato skins?

Speaker 1: 19:41

Wait, we also just really yeah, but it would have to be thin like the chicken skin, right? So what'd be like a wedge or no, because they call potato skins, but they're really like Baked potatoes with a bunch of stuff dumped in there I'm talking about like a day to skin. You're talking about. It be like a thin yes. Rectangle of like. Here's the potatoes, good.

Speaker 2: 19:58

Yeah, I worked at this restaurant that would like, obviously, skin. Everything on this truck is the skin. It'd be so good and then you just make them like delicious, just like you would do, like a baked potato, but potato skins.

Speaker 1: 20:12

Speaking of, yeah, yeah, yeah our next, our next brand franchise? We've just skin. I'd say, speaking of skins, there's some flesh in this movie that gets peddled, and these are our favorite bits from Street smart what do you got Jordan Savage.

Speaker 2: 20:30

Hmm, I love punchy. I mean, she's just such a character. She's Definitely one of my favorites.

Speaker 1: 20:39

Oh crap, I turned my phone into silent mode or airplane mode, so I can't look it up. I was gonna look up that I forgot to write down.

Speaker 2: 20:44

Kathy Baker is her name.

Speaker 1: 20:46

Oh, kathy Baker. Yeah, so for me it was a choice between, hmm, trying to wake up Mimi Rogers at home for ordinary boring couple sex or hooking up with Kathy Baker punchy on the streets for a Weird fantasy, like, first of all, like she doesn't do herself any service when she talks about what, and there's a scene where it's a sexual fantasy, but it's about a, a crippled Russian actually. Yeah, yeah so, yeah, so she punchy tells the story about how she had to service and seduce a man whose friends bottom the date and he couldn't. He was like in a wheelchair, like he was like partially paralyzed.

Speaker 2: 21:27

I could, I could help you, tell it.

Speaker 1: 21:30

But she's using that story to turn on. So you just wonder what's the real power dynamic if he's into that. But he doesn't want to hook up with Mimi Rogers. But I'm just saying my choice between the two is that what I actually gone for me, me Rogers, who's just at home, you know, wondering if her reporter boyfriend's ever gonna show up right and not be messing around with go ahead, russian story well, I just liked that story.

Speaker 2: 22:00

you know he's like trying to be a Journalist, he's trying to be investigative and and learn more from her. You know he also sort of has a crush on her, so he's like how the danger into this?

Speaker 1: 22:11

you know it was the first time he's an Ivy League or he sits at a typewriter all day. He's clearly never experienced anything like this. None of them have. Because they then invite the pimp to a party later, you know where there's kind of like the freak show, you know what I mean. Like they want to put the pimp on display at their little caviar and Sushi party. You know what I mean? The editor of the magazine that he's writing the story.

Speaker 2: 22:32

But my favorite part too, was like when punchy and when he goes in fast black goes into the party, she like, he's like, oh, this is so and so, and she goes. Yeah, I know him. And he's like well, how do you know him?

Speaker 1: 22:46

It's like oh, yeah, like yeah, yeah, the party is filled with like seven of her customers.

Speaker 2: 22:52

Because she knows all of the men at the party. I thought that was hilarious. And, going back to what I had mentioned earlier of like unusual couples right, you always see the videos of like a duck and I don't know, like a frickin Eagle becoming friends or something you know, I really thought that Jonathan Fisher, the reporter played by Christopher Reeve, and then Morgan Freeman, who plays fast black.

Speaker 1: 23:18

I or Leo. His name is really names like Leo.

Speaker 2: 23:21

Yeah, and I just, but I was like I thought that the movie was gonna be the story of like, how they become. Oh, you're like, buddy, buddy.

Speaker 1: 23:29

You thought you were like a buddy top adventure.

Speaker 2: 23:31

Oh, this is gonna be great, like you were gonna challenge the system together. And I just was like, oh, this was not the movie that I thought that this was gonna be. So that, ultimately, was my favorite bit, because I was like Took a complete 180 I won't spoil it in case you are and I just was like so floored by how the end of this movie is which is.

Speaker 1: 24:03

I'm on the fence about this because the only the spoiler Also is like the most shocking element of the movie. If I say it, it's like the effort, effort to watch the movie is kind of ruined. So it's like teaser. Yeah, it's out of spoiler range because it actually affects the plot, right?

Speaker 1: 24:22

Um, so that is what I said but I will say I think that they freaking stabbed the girlfriend, which I also thought was like outrageous, like no Threaten the reporter, they're like he sent his little goon to cut up his girlfriend at the, at the freaking farmers market. Yeah, I was like flowers, like look it. I was like, okay, all right, the movie took a turn. Is everything you're right? Before that was kind of like on the surface, yes, nobody really had street smarts, but we weren't really seeing the streets. It wasn't really grimy, it was almost like Almost like cw, like cookie cutter, like Plot points, like is it really gonna be that much of that much street? But no, like they like person shank Mimi Rogers, the girlfriend, unsuspecting fiance at the farmers market with her yuppie friend and then, and the way it's done, a like comes by really fast and then she doesn't even at first realize that she's been stabbed.

Speaker 2: 25:17

Yeah, he pretends to run into her like by accident.

Speaker 1: 25:20

Yeah, you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Well, you're looking at the apples or whatever. Um, but the fact that he took it there, I was like okay, all right. Well, in punchy's character too.

Speaker 1: 25:30

I was like I didn't want anything bad to happen to her because she's so likable, you know, and Well, and here's the danger of the movie just like, well, here's where they actually did a really good job. So the pimp brings you in with charisma, interesting stories, um, he seems to be getting along with all those people, taking care of all those people, and then, like he has sudden bursts of violence and control which is like, oh, that's exactly how they say the playbook goes. You know what I mean. They're charismatic, you know, they make you feel comfortable and then, wham, you get punished, so, yeah. So when he like, uh, punish her outside of the outside the diner yeah, because, yeah, he locates up with a barbecue place, right, yeah. So when he smacks punchy.

Speaker 2: 26:10

I think they're like after the party they're getting some food, like a food truck or something, and he just like hits her right in the face. Yeah, so it starts the fall part, like okay, we're not gonna, even though, like our guards been super lowered.

Speaker 1: 26:23

So the movie did these, these parts kind of right. It lowered your guard for the pimp's attitude and then and then it takes to the streets yes and did not disappoint, in my opinion. So I just like Christopher Reeve and I didn't realize like the size of the dude either until I watched this movie. So massive he's, so tall. I mean there's a titillating tub scene and I'm like, oh, he has really giant feet. This guy's a massive dude.

Speaker 2: 26:54

I didn't notice his feet.

Speaker 1: 26:54

I was like he's trying to fit into this tiny tub.

Speaker 1: 26:58

I mean I was like someone's like under the giant, decided to take a bath, you know, and then gets a phone call from the magazine, Although I don't like. I don't like some of the stereotypes that I don't like. I'm talking about the pimps and the prostitutes. I was proud of Morgan Freeman in the beginning where he stuck up for one of his ladies at all. Say that, yeah, but it's like I don't. You know, I don't care. I mean the reporter clearly comes from a pretty clean, cut background. Did okay for himself, went to a good school I think they mentioned he went to Harvard a couple of times, yep. And then, like he has a good apartment, seems to be doing okay, works for like the most popular magazine in the city or whatever. He's trying to get bigger profiles in the magazine but then like the fact that he does then cheat on his girlfriend. Yeah, I mean, I was like, but you already know that his morality can be tested.

Speaker 2: 27:54

Because he yeah, because he lies in the first place.

Speaker 1: 27:59

He's a novel out of a mad thing. It's supposed to be the truth from the streets.

Speaker 2: 28:04

Well, yeah, he, well, he makes up a story and it just so happens to be coincidence that the you know fast black character is being prosecuted for a crime, right, and it sort of meets the description, and so it's like his. Yeah, you know, jonathan, the character, his morality can already be kind of questioned, so doesn't seem that slippery of a slope to me All.

Speaker 1: 28:26

Right Now let's question how you rate the movie. First of all, we go binge now, binge later, binge never. If you binge something now, you got to move to the top of your movie list. Forget what's on Netflix, go watch Street Smart, which we found a to be actually, or you can binge later, put it on the list but you don't. There's no rushing out, it's not that exciting. Or binge never, which somehow Jordan convinced me a few weeks ago that it doesn't actually exist. Because why? You remember?

Speaker 2: 28:52

why Never say binge never, because it might make somebody actually walk.

Speaker 1: 28:59

It might do that happens the opposite effect Right, or it might make somebody watch it.

Speaker 2: 29:03

Something that haunts you forever.

Speaker 1: 29:05

Like some of these, some not even like in a bad way, oh you're saying the movie lives with you.

Speaker 2: 29:09

That's like it lives with you, like one of the like some. One of the movies that I did binge never for last year ended up being one of the movies that I thought about the most. So never say binge never.

Speaker 1: 29:22

Okay.

Speaker 2: 29:22

But I write, I write this one a binge. Now I was so surprised I was like, oh, this is going to be a wonderful story of how the Pimp and the journalist become friends. And then I was like, oh, this is not that movie and so I liked that. It like didn't it wasn't. I sometimes don't like movies that are just so predictable, and this was not predictable for me and so I was interested. I honestly he you know Jonathan gets some street Marts smarts, street smarts by the end of it, and so it was awesome and it's got an excellent cast. So binge now for me.

Speaker 1: 30:09

Okay, I like I feel guilty about liking the movie. I feel guilty about being interested in the movie because it's exploitation, right, they're both fulfilling stereotypes and like, I'm like, does this make me super white to want to watch this movie and go along with it? Does it make me a champion of stereotypes? I don't know. You know what I mean. I just know I just like Morgan Freeman and I just like Christopher Reeves. You know what I mean? I just, I just want more Christopher Reeve movies. So yeah, so it's a binge now, because he only has a handful of moves and so you have to find them and it's kind of like Pokemon guy catch them all, got to watch them all. That's how it goes. So yeah, so binge now, street smart and, as you mentioned, it's iconic for Morgan Freeman.

Speaker 1: 31:01

So yeah you know, um oh, fan service. So Nikki oh not to be confused with the previous Nikki, that is like one of our collaborators Nick oh asked us to review a Royal Wait. What is it called? Rumble something, hold on.

Speaker 2: 31:28

Don't make myself look bad.

Speaker 1: 31:29

I know this movie, I've seen it. Oh, ready to rumble, okay, so in in, like the year 2000, ready to rumble comes out. It's a wrestling movie. It celebrates wrestling and wrestling fans. I think it like illustrates how it really is sports entertainment. And because of the comedy I guess one could assume that it's making fun of wrestling fans and wrestlers Not really doing that. It's Scott Conn, which is James Conn's son, and then David Arquette.

Speaker 1: 31:59

And after this movie David Arquette becomes a real freaking wrestler and there's actually a documentary called David Arquette can't be killed or something like that, or can't die. And it's about his struggles to be taken seriously as a wrestler because, again, like he goes to what might have been WWF or WCW at the time, but then he goes to like some wrestling events and he wins a belt, and so the established wrestlers are like well, this guy has no credit with us here. So why, you know, why are we giving them? It could tie into the movie promotion, you know what I mean. So he wants to like win their respect as a real wrestler, and it has been a wrestler for like 20 years now. Yeah, he like got into it during the movie and then stayed with it.

Speaker 1: 32:41

Dimey Dahl's page, who's like a career wrestler, has pretty good things to say about David Arquette and the wrestling world and the movie is pretty entertaining and they make funny characters. Oliver Platt plays like a next time Jim Duggan slash Randy Savage slash Jerry the King Lawler makes a little bit of a kind of like a, an amalgamation, right like, of like four or five real wrestlers to make a character of like a famous wrestler wrestler within the world of the movie. And Again, it's like now that we're 20 years or so from the year 2000 we should be going back and be like, oh, let's get some of those movies out and watch some of them and this should be on your list If you're a comedy fan anyway and you want to see like what's going on with comedy at that time. It feels very like the year 2000. That movie, did you ever see it? Probably my brother was a wrestling fan, although I could, one could argue that a girl who likes to eat chicken skins is the perfect date to take to our wrestling events.

Speaker 2: 33:46

You know, I would totally go to one, absolutely yeah.

Speaker 1: 33:52

Let's see when are we now. Okay, that was fan service. Oh, did you staff picks? Did you watch anything else you want to recommend to the audience that isn't street smart or the movie of the week.

Speaker 2: 34:07

We're watching too much true crime. It's too much nuts out there. It's like I don't know. I could spend all day talking about.

Speaker 1: 34:18

That'd be really like the next thing, that it'd be like too much murder premieres next week on that.

Speaker 2: 34:24

Literally murder, murder, murder. Yeah, that's what it feels like my life right now. There's just been so much that's going on like currently, in current events. It's just like sparking all of these, you know, documentaries and Other things that it's just like just I'm consuming a lot of content.

Speaker 1: 34:40

It's just not necessarily movie related, so, um, so I watched this other movie, quicksilver, which is about a Wall Street banker that loses all his parents money On a bad trade. It's Kevin Bacon. Then he becomes a bicycle messenger and then Lawrence fishburn is one of the other bicycle messengers and he gets run off the road by a drug dealer. And then so the movie is but he, but he went. The Kevin Bacon characters witnessed it Happen. So the drug dealer spends the rest of the movie trying to chase him down.

Speaker 1: 35:09

And then there's also like a dirty dancing scene, like where he's dancing on his bicycle with his Dancer girlfriend. So they and I'm like which one came out first? Like Did they add the bicycle dancing scene because of the popularity of dirty dancing and they had to make sure they had a dancing scene in this movie too? I'm not sure because I didn't look up which one came first. But, um, I was on the offense again, like I almost put Quicksilver in for the week movie the week instead of Street Smart, because I wasn't sure how you were gonna react to Street Smart. You know, you know I mean so, but I'm glad you liked it anyway.

Speaker 1: 35:45

Yeah, so yeah, for sure man come back next week and we'll have like more, more podcasts, more podcast and more Romantic ideals that have nothing to do with dry dating, but maybe more chicken skins and more energy drinks probably.

Speaker 2: 36:04

Most likely so crackles.

Speaker 1: 36:14

Ever have Thunderbird, which is like a seven dollar wine. No, but I love seven dollar wine. That sounds amazing. It's also the only grapes that taste like battery acids.

Speaker 2: 36:24

And I'm not sure if you've ever heard of Thunderbird. I think I've heard of a wine that's like a seven dollar wine.

Speaker 1: 36:27

That sounds amazing. It's also the only grapes that taste like battery acid. But I was just thinking like if I had to pair your chicken skin to something on a date.

Speaker 2: 36:39

I'd be like, oh, thunderbird Interesting. Yeah, I feel like.

Speaker 1: 36:45

I could go for a wine and chicken skin pairing right now. It sounds amazing. Okay, I mean, oh, my god, call an airy release.

Speaker 2: 36:56

Yes, I need to like chicken skin. Go get my Somalia Certification, just so I can make chicken skin pairing.

Speaker 1: 37:04

So yeah, you just visit like these chicken restaurants across the country and like get pair their skins to different wines yes, yeah. You can pre-order now.