THE SUNDAY SERVICE - 03-15-2026 (VOD)

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1:27Welcome to the Sunday service. God is here. How y'all doing? Are you can call me Cory? That's what my friends call me. Okay. I'm God but friends call me Cory. Sometimes past the Cory. I shall all the shop. I have a great rabbi. Has returned. How you doing man? I'm doing branch. Boy catching those weak laughs with this man. That's why I'm sitting down. I thought you could break this man is resilient. Nothing else man. Nothing brings this man now. Look at this. I got to tell you boy. I don't know what that is. Yeah you keep telling me. I just got over you wouldn't have that. Yeah. I keep telling you along with the rest of the world. Oh my ass hurts. So hey man. Now you know how I feel. I don't catch any breaks on bread anywhere else. And why is the little little little man? I can not get what did I change over here on the audio

2:31that's making it come out. As you dig through those cords. I know that's spaghetti over here. Yeah man there's something going on where I had my levels just right now but some reason it sounds like it's just because I'm getting a lot of little feedback. Can you hear that? Well I can't hear now but sometimes I do hear it from your mic a little bit. Okay well I tried to let me cut my mic there we go there we go. How you doing everybody? Welcome to the Sunday service past the court coming over here. Julien him and Ning are the great rad by Shalom. How you doing Shalom? Shalom to you too sir. What is that just hello in Hebrew? Yeah hello goodbye. Hello really? Is it goodbye too? Yeah. I like that man. Do I have to put in the county? No. No I can just say Shalom. Yeah you can go Shalom and people will probably be like all right Shalom. Okay see I like that. That's what I like. I mean that's that that is I don't know what it is that is that is so unique to me. Yeah. Because that's it. You know I'm fascinated by foreign languages are different languages

3:37so you would like French a lot. Do they do a lot of that? Do they hold their arms? Oh no I want that flim. I don't want those cheap arms. No I don't have no rolls. I want to snite and mucus. He's like words and people got to say out their nose. Yeah yeah I get it. But you got to hack up a word not just say it. Shalom. Yeah man I've always been fascinated by that. Languages that have sounds more than just words. Yeah. You know you got some Americans saying I like that man. Yeah I can't do it but I like it. Yeah man. Clicks and hacks. That's what I like. Hey Shalom everybody how you doing? Welcome to the show. I bet it with messing around because we have only now about 43 minutes before the Oscars. Oh okay. And we're going to be doing that today. We're going to have our Oscar annual Oscar viewing party which is going to be over on double toasted.com night here. If some of you saw that earlier it was going to be a Patreon thing. That is not the case.

4:42I wouldn't do that to y'all. We have done this for everyone every year. Not going to start being greedy right now. Oh that's nice. No no I mean I look I'm miserly but not that miserly. All right just remember no spoilers in the chat. All right guys because you'll be ahead of us. Oh that's right. That's right. Yes that's right. You will. That's got that delay. So yeah so join us after this we'll start roughly around six o'clock central standard time. Probably a little late as usual but we'll see what happens and so for this time that we have we have something that is long overdue something that we people been asking for us to do. They been asking you. No they've been asking me and I finally I'm looking. Iron fist is coming okay. No that's for the next 12 hours stream. I can't wait. I'm going to even watch it. Really? Yeah don't do that to yourself. I listen. I'm a miserly loves company but damn man I do have a little bit of sympathy for people. Okay come in here with knuckles covered in pennies. I'll be like all right I'm ready I guess.

5:46Yeah my knuckles be covered in shit. I'm fisting myself. Oh what is this I hear over here is that another giggle. Yeah people we have a guest here in town. I too guest. Too guest. Well yeah the everybody knows this boy over here. We got a fresh window. So we got somebody you know I'm always inviting you guys to come to town. I've been better about responding to the people who have been trying to come to town and see a show and I want to welcome go Zachary Zachary take take this uh Mike right then say hi to the people. I love everyone. Yeah Zachary he was very nice he came in and sat out and we're running way behind because I'm gonna tell you man. I've been trying to watch all of the Oscar nominees. I watched one last night. What did you watch? I watched Frank it's time. I didn't know. You fucking Frankenstein. Yeah it was funky all right. He's Jewish too. Yeah I know he's got that stuff that's dying up in there. You were your cousin. You're stuck up Frankenstein. Yeah man I've

6:46been trying to watch all the Oscar movies. I saw most of them already. I had about three of them to catch up with. There's only one that I did not get to and I already kind of had my list made anyway. I want to really feel bad if that movie that I missed I see it later on I'm like oh my god I should have brought my list but I think I got a good list for what we're gonna be talking about today and I was behind because I was trying to finish up one movie that I did not see and I'll let you know what that is later but I finished it up a little while ago plus I was trying to give a way of grill. I have nothing else to add to that I was gonna make it. You have no no I want to just do the thing you want to say one for four to one in your mouth. Sorry I asked I brought that shit on myself. I brought that shit on my couch. You know yeah don't spit out your grill there. No don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I will not. You shut up don't encourage this

7:53over here. I can't get mad at you you gave me an out. Yeah. You stopped yourself for change. Thank you. You did. You did. Now that one is on me. Grilling yourself. I put my own foot of my own ass right there. Boy how good that feels. Let me see man we I think I have the wrong chat up because I don't see any people in here. I know people are coming in here. Let me see. Let me go ahead and pull that back out and yeah it was funny man because check my authority. It's just a scare to shut out of here. We got Alec Miracle in the house. It's a miracle to shit your face. Sorry I made you did. Yeah he was calm. He was reaching for us. It sells. He's like shit. God you never know around here. Always be prepared man. Always keep those butt cheeks clenched. Stay brave. Yeah. Yeah. We got oh my God man. Y'all are the most beautiful couple I've seen.

8:58Julian and Julian. Thank you. Yeah Martin in the middle right here. I like that I'm pitching his beard. I'm like grabbing on his beard man. Who made that G Colby? Oh look at this. Look at that. Look at that. Go for for beer drunk. Man see I was not mad at you. I just say man don't bring on don't bring don't bring unwanted attention to yourself but that's a funny picture. I'm not mad at you. At all. I have a sense of humor about that picture. I'm like I laugh at that picture. I'm like in fact I want to see that picture over and over again to remind me not to do what I did that day ever again to make that damn mule face. Oh man. Let me see here. Oh my God. Look who's down here. She's barking at me. Oh pixie. Here's the real Academy Award running right here. Pixie.

9:59How are you doing? The real star. How are you doing babe? Barking at me. Let me go get your throne. That's the best actress. Oh she's an actor. She's not acting at all. She's not that barking at me. She means that. How are you doing baby? What's going on? She's going to be part of the show here today too. All right let's sit your little ass down and see we have a hype train coming. Y'all better make this happen man because I don't have time to keep waiting on y'all. I mean watch I make that picture of Martin right now. Y'all know that man is mad about this picture. I don't know if that's from the the the picture the controversial picture out there. I think that's just his face. That's just his face. That's just a Martin face. And no NG Colby. I mean Koki probably has like a whole like you know like one of those rooms with just all the pictures. It's like which emotion do you want from Martin? I just imagine like it's the whole ranking. Well yeah and that and that picture of Martin that he said take that it is out though already. You thought I guarantee you won't see it again. I you know I'm on I understand Martin that picture never

11:03should have been out there but now it is you'll see it. Yeah I'll tell Martin I said man listen no offense but I wouldn't want that picture out there. I said you look crazy. I have nothing to say about that picture. No it's best not to know I can we listen we all we all take crazy pictures every now and then. Yeah seven years ago. Yeah we all take a flattery picture. Yeah we all take pictures sometimes and events that we pay to go to you pay to go to it. You did not pay for the right to do that shit. Now see that you go. You ready? Come get him. Get your boy. Hey man reddit kind of got me good. I'm gonna show you something that reddit did that actually have me laughing. Okay and I knew they were gonna do it. I caught myself in the middle of saying something describing something on one of the calling shows not our Q&A shows and I I even said in the middle of I said you're gonna take this and do something with it and I'd be there if they didn't but it is kind of funny and I'll just I'm not gonna give any context to it

12:03just just just look at it get a good laugh because I did back in the early 90s man in late 80s you could rent crack from blockbuster. You didn't know I did you back in the no I was around for blockbuster. I remember that. Did you ever rent crack from blockbuster? I was never old enough. There's always there tantalizing me in the show. Oh man you put some good days they never talk about those days of blockbuster. You could rent crack back in the early 90s man in late 80s. You could rent crack from blockbuster and when I was in college I never I was careful I was my crack man. I have my crack man. It was crack man. It was crack man. It was good. Yeah. My crack man. I brought about hey if I have about one that was a pipe. I would be smoking crack all night and I would never get anything done. That's so good of you. Listen to it. It sounds like

13:03just a straight sentence. Well you know man listen you know you know why you blame crack. I still tell you know they say you never get over it. It's still in your system. Crack it always comes back. Yeah crack is yeah crack is back. You heard it here first folks. Some people some people I read some in the comments. Somebody like I guess they weren't looking at the video because they were saying man I can't believe for a little while. I thought this was legit. So somebody thought I went to and rented crack from blockbuster. Of course he's always been janky. Yeah. Yeah. You know what was bad about that? The late fees on those rocks man. Yeah those rocks never come back. Yeah man. That's time still accumulating late fees for those of crack rocks man. That blockbuster. Thank God blockbuster closed down man. Yeah. I know so much money. Yeah they're gone but the crack rock for me.

14:04You owe over like shut up. You can't get out. If you can't get out and file you owe he bet he was actually doing math for a non-existent thing. You owe let me see. You owe that that does. How you doing man? Where you from? Buffalo. Buffalo. Come up to the mic. Move up to the mic a little bit. Came here to hang out with for the Academy of Warsha. Yeah. Nice to have you here man. So are you here for Southby? Yes. Nice very nice and how have you enjoyed Southby? Well first day was a little disappointing but second day was much better. What was disappointing? So first day because it was like all new to me. I had to like quickly grab my pass and I had to then like rush over to a session. What's going on? Oh yeah no you've never been to Southby right? It's crazy right? Yeah first time and so all the reservation people like packed in that one small like hotel area and it was like oh yeah yeah no man you have to actually

15:12be ready for craziness and lines and packed spaces because Southby Southwest is insane. Yeah like when I had done like I think like last year like when I had done orders to go to the Southby Southwest. I didn't know about the reservation. Okay. What hey can you do me a favor? Can you cut the fan? Oh okay either one of me. Yeah. Thank you. The great Alec Miracle everybody. Yeah well I mean so it what is done? Is it done today? Yeah. It's done by the 18th. By the 18th okay. All right. Well thank you for taking time out of your let me move that closer to you. Yeah don't be afraid to get close to it. Yeah put your mouth on it being. Yeah don't yeah man uh thank you for taking your time out of Southby to come by hang out with me. I was playing on seeing Bobo and Kirk's normal tonight but I was like you know what I'm going to be like. I want to see something as anything but normal. Yeah but you know yesterday I also tried to get into now this was kind of done with me

16:17and I was getting my hopes up. I was like I just thought um the Steven Spielberg. Oh they're showing it? No so he was here. Oh. He was at an event that he was doing and so we were I didn't have a reservation but they had like a walk-in line. I'm like okay I'll just you know stay in there and see what's going to happen. So they call us up like by like a few sections and then they would bring us and they would give us a ticket saying you're going to get. You know we promise you. That's a lie. That's a lie. That's a goddamn lie. That when they tell you you're guaranteed to get in that's I don't even know what they tell people that. I think it's just more so. So it was with Spielberg doing a like a uh was he doing like some seminars on the line? Yeah so he was doing a Q&A um about his from my career but he was also discussing about like disclosure day. Oh nice. But I I heard at one point during uh live stream or like an

17:18audio saying that um he was talking about like he kind of believes in aliens. Oh man look this is the man I told us. Yeah he believes in aliens. Yeah and uh George Lucas or like that. He might be an alien. You know the thing with this the man I told us after Jurassic Park came out that we will have dinosaurs in five years. So that was supposed to be back in 1999. We supposed to have an actual Jurassic Park. Yeah they're a little late with that. Yeah a little bit a little bit. Hey you know get those dinosaurs right. And by the way take your time in that park. We don't want those people to bust it out. Dinosaurs first or GTA 6 which one are we going to get? Dinosaurs. Um so I'm going to go ahead and tell you I was happening today because we got to jump right into this. Yeah it would have been a nice start about Spielberg but we got to go. Yes. Yes we got to jump into this. So y'all today we're doing the foolishness. No we do. I did not change that at all but you know what I'm going to change that now while it's up there. Yeah we did we did uh a makeup

18:20for what up son on Thursday had some fun with that and today what we're going to do is I'm going to go down there and change that scroll hold on let me copy and come right over here. That was so awesome having Oz in the studio. It was and and you got some great questions like that one clip of him talking about Red Dead that that's going to be on the internet forever. Oh yeah that was really awesome. Oh no that is that is that was great. Uh I mean I didn't even know about that. Yeah yeah let me see here. So we today we have our best of 2025. I know it's 2026 but we're doing this because of the Academy Awards. You know the Oscars out tonight having a watch party with you guys in a little bit. We'll probably want to be starting right at six but we'll be getting in there and we're going to be here until it's done. That's what we do every year and uh we're going to be talking about we did our worst of list now we're talking about our best of and I want to wait until the Oscars because I actually want to try to see as many of those Oscar films as I can

19:21or could and even though I'd seen most of them already I still didn't get to one uh and I can tell you which one that is I didn't get to see train dreams. I haven't seen that one either. Yeah and it's on Netflix but these are long movies you know so but everything else everything else I saw how many of those movies made my list of best of 2025. Yeah well say not the worst best of them we'll see you see what your crazy list is because it's not even that crazy you know it. Oh and man every one of his movies on this list movies nobody's seen. Crazy you're the last yes yes you gonna be saying what the hell is that every how do you how did you manage to find 10 movies that no one ever seen before I don't get it that's not it's not that no it's not that not that at all actually you would not have some overlap oh I'm sure yeah you don't even know my list yet no so I'm very curious yeah now we're gonna see what that is I'm very curious to tell y'all and another thing a couple things to tell you uh yeah I was giving away a grill today so I had to stop in from

20:22the movie I was watching and I put it up on uh because I went and bought a just a real cheap grill much to the disappointment of Martin Thomas who told me to go out he said man get a pellet grill so you can get that smoke and you know put the pellets in there and it comes with a timer and up and I was like okay all this sounds great I wouldn't look for a used pellet grill all of 400 500 600 dollars I like oh fuck them pellets man yeah don't talk to George Foreman yeah yeah so I went um Facebook marketplace and bought like a $90 used grill perfect for what I want to do I'm not trying to be fancy I just want to when I was grilling I would just smoke a lot of meat and just have it ready for the week that's all I'm a I'm a simple man I'm not some grill master like Martin is but I had an old grill that did not work and uh some people were coming by to look at it today I had a I have one one one family come by and they passed on it but they were very nice and I because I would tell people I said man this this don't work it's grill it's old it's rusted it's busted uh you might be able to like throw a match in there and run you know if you want to light

21:25it up but I'm just trying to get rid of it so a couple people came by one person came by and said oh yeah I'm just gonna get this thing anyway it's yeah because the old gas grill one guy said man I'm just gonna tear this thing apart but charcoal it it yeah why don't just not just go get a charcoal grill but I mean that works that's what I was gonna recommend you do if you want to get it yeah okay well this guy came and took it him and his daughter and they were very nice the family that came before though they were they man very nice people they came by and he looked at the grill but they stayed and talked for a little bit and they told me because it was three people it was a guy who was probably in his 60s he uh it was uh it was he was in the whole time he was holding his stomach he just kept holding his stomach and he never know he'd be talked to me yeah my other thing my sister well I was like man do you have to take a shit like an alien inside of the body and he just thing himself no it's shit man I thought man and he just went through his whole medical problems apparently the stomach cramps led to

22:29numbness in his arm no feeling his leg and it's something that has to do with a bone in the back of his neck and I and I said man you're about to fucking die man I said man I thought you got better things weren't about to this grill but his his uh his nephew uh was his big old dude he kept looking at me and he kept saying and keep my just met these people and he was like yeah cool I could see already man you good people you good you you you you all right you a good person man and I was like okay I was like hey man yeah you guys are awesome too and I was like I don't know why this guy keeps telling me I'm so nice like we just we can talk for five minutes but no I got to feel about you man you good people Cory well thank you and then he said yeah this my mama right here and then I'd start talking to his mother and his mother was like she's like oh first of all she start talking about the yard she's like oh my god this this this deck looks so wonderful oh this is just what I need this is amazing that's like it's just wood it looks like okay

23:34it's a nice deck no it is no it is it is but I said I'll give the number of the guy who made it and all this kind of stuff and I said yeah man get one sit outside you know that and I said anything I said uh I said you and your son and I don't know I don't know if you have a husband but you know it'd be nice good nights for y'all to sit out there and she's like nah my my man done passed on and she had she was also combing her hair the whole time my my man done he's passed on I'm like oh your husband's didn't he's no longer with us and she's like no and I'm not looking for nobody right now I know I don't want nobody no more and I'm good I was like oh he was just so he was one of a kind I mean you still love him you don't need nobody else and she like that's right I'm not looking for nothing else he was good enough for me now it's not okay well that is very understandable that's one of the most romantic things I've heard they all got in the car and I said listen sorry I had y'all drive here for the grill you didn't want but man look you know y'all as your son said y'all good people and I said y'all come back anytime you want man you know

24:39you want to come by when I'm grilling out here and sit on the deck and they love and then I get a message about 30 minutes later and I and I I think it was the son because it was under the uncle's name I think it was the son and he's like yeah I don't want to make it awkward but I think my mom will talk to you you mean the mom who just said that she don't want nobody because nobody can replace she's trying to get in for you you just already if I give you your number that's what you gotta do mom you gotta make seem like you're not interested you gotta won't you yeah I don't even know what this guy said you know he did say I kind of felt like that was something there because I was saying like say that's it listen I said because I was joking I'm like well look if you'll be get back out there I'll just take a look you beautiful woman now I'm just saying you know you know don't don't don't deny yourself too long and I guess he took that as I you know I got a heart on while talking so she so yeah man it was it was a very very sweet people man very nice

25:46very nice of them ask for Martin not being here today a little funny story about Martin so Martin told me a few days ago he's like yeah man I can't make it man and I mean you know South by you know I'm also working South by with my company and they and they just got me working so hard man I haven't been able to do anything I've just been working so hard so I so I can't come back I'm working so hard and I was like all right man listen that's cool we'll hold it down it's fine and and so I asked him I said well hey look man I thought there was a review that we could do turns out we couldn't I said man can you can you come by at least do this review for you know just for a short period of time we can get back to it and he's told me it's like I can come by between three and five and I was like well that's pretty specific but okay I thought they were keeping you so busy out then and then I thought about and I was like wait a minute I can't go but I was invited to a screening at seven o'clock that he was also invited to and I said three to five huh

26:49and he's like yeah and I said oh that's funny because they got that movie at seven you wouldn't happen to go into that movie would you maybe I'm like man I love what people are silent on the phone yeah yeah you know well it wasn't he wasn't a phone but that you could feel the silence between that text you can feel like holding that phone like these dots you are taking a long time and and and so I was like man I said listen just don't go enjoy the movie I said just I will we'll be all right just you know let's go have fun and and I got another pause long as pause on the phone and then he came back with thumbs up this episode is brought to you by athletic brewing company no matter how you do game day on the couch in the crowd or manning the snack table athletic brewing fits right in with a full lineup of non-alcoholic beer styles you can

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28:53because that one year it was one year we were watching and in the middle of he's got me said man he's like man ain't nothing going on with this yeah I mean listen this is not right if I leave because I ain't nothing happening with this anyway and they ain't nothing going to happen I was like sure go ahead man and the moment he left the room will Smith got up and oh yeah I hate that's the year that he notorious me said man ain't nothing going on with these Oscars and then Chris Rock got slapped by Will Smith and then he changed fate of the universe like I said the moment you leave now you know who's something's going to happen because you said that you look look things that's something I don't know the reason why you have the adventures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is because of Martin is very true Martin wrote a six page manifesto and a grand essays to get given you detailed reasons of why you will not have an Avengers movie

29:55you may be able to find it on the way back machine on the old spill dot com oh it is it's out there it's out there go find it it's amazing he goes bullet point by long as bullet point why you friends will never ever ever have an Avengers movie and I'd be goddamn if six months later they made the announcement for the Avengers movie and now we're on our fifth one yeah yeah maybe six yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they yeah it's almost like Marvel said all right we'll see about that Ken Faggy's like home up here yeah yeah yeah hold my six page yeah man uh so yeah anyway y'all uh so yeah I listen I wasn't I wasn't even mad at him for not being able to go or not wanting to go I know he was going to see that movie I was just laughing because I'm like man just tell me where to go yeah I'm not going what Martin's here for so many things Martin dedicates his time to this so much he was here for the 12 hour stream yeah whenever I need him to like switch days and do something he always does I'm not who am I going to get mad

30:55in for not coming in I'm like man I am not going to deny you the thing that you love which is South by Southwest you loving so much yeah he was he's here regularly all week basically yeah yeah and if I have to change up something the last minute you know if I'm running behind he's sitting here and he doesn't complain of at all you know so no I was not I wasn't irritated anything that he was not here man only thing I was irritated about like man just tell him if you want to if you want to go to South by man he got himself ready though last Sunday I remember he's like also might have a birthday in Houston I don't know I got a lot of excuses there were a lot of things going on after why he could not do did he actually say yeah he said that he might have to go to his aunt's birthday or something in Houston yeah yeah man so in other words it was like come on man you know we we we know he's trying to be nice about it though yeah just stop boys man we know you bullshit just go to South by man so yeah I wouldn't I would not deny him that at all man

32:00no you gonna go all right you guys are like a married couple well we are we are very much doing this for three yeah yeah yeah we are very much a married couple all right y'all we are going to jump into this I just got to tell y'all there are nine tickets left for my show a night of sit down comedy at the Broadway comedy club that's Friday April 17th 9 p.m. show you can get tickets by going to double toasted ny dot com or go to double toasted dot com and believe me you're gonna want to do that because as I said nine tickets are left and that's gonna sell out definitely so we'll hopefully see you soon all right we got a jump into this we got 15 minutes left we're gonna be running behind for the Oscars but that's fine so let's go ahead and do this and we'll try to get through this expeditiously all right folks I did not have a chance to do my top 25 on top 25 movies 15 minutes yes yes I added 15 more films because I couldn't make

33:05up my mind no I did not have a chance to do my top 10 movies of 2025 I wanted to wait and see what the Oscars were gonna say catch up on some of these movies and I'll come up on everything except one film but I am glad I waited because one of those movies that I did watch at the last minute actually did make it to my list oh cool yes it did and you're gonna do your top 10 also yeah so we don't have a lot of time let's go ahead and jump into it and we're gonna start out with the movie that I did watch at the last minute that did make my number 10 I'm gonna feed him. He was talking about what does it really really shit you talking about it

34:05all right all right no this is a Brazilian movie called The Secret Agent and listen this movie it is not the movie that the title suggests you're thinking of some Brazilian James Bond that's gonna be running around and doing secret agent stuff and that is not what this is actually this is about a college teacher who tries to hide from a dangerous person that he pissed off years ago and it's a it's a very very very very slow movie man but I'm a sucker for certain period pieces if they're filmed beautifully and this is 1977 oh it takes place kind of jumps back and forth slightly between the present time and it wraps up beautifully that way between the present time in the past but I really love the way this movie is directed I really love the the the the the the cinematography here it's just a beautiful looking film and I like I say I just love the direction they really do capture a 1970 style film making and that includes

35:05me in very very sparse on music I think the only music you hear in here is when somebody's playing a radio so diagetic oh yeah oh there's a you know there's maybe a song that's played that reflects the 70s but some great performances here too man some this has some of the most passionate acting that I've seen in in 2025 and Wagner Mora is becoming one of my favorites man I really like that guy a lot he's been around for a while and he's starting to show up a lot more and a lot more shows a lot more movies some of y'all might remember him from narco uh yeah narcos was also and narcos the guy yeah narcos he was also and recently he was he was in uh civil war oh you play one of the one of the photographers that was uh you're accompanying everybody and also he was the voice of death and pushing boots oh nice he's creating that yeah so I would not recommend this movie

36:06to a lot of people it barely made my top 10 because it moves so slow and it's two it's two hours and 40 minutes damn yeah and it moves very slow but as I said man if there's beneath that there's a really beautiful character piece it's you know this guy's hiding out with a bunch of other people the way they bond in his life the way he connects with somebody in the future take a little while to get all caught up and come together but again under some under the direction that actually amps up near the end and ends up being really tense near the end it's like it's a movie that I just keep thinking about it's a movie that appeals to me because I really love stylistic direction when it comes to period pieces and that is why I really did love this movie and I'm glad that I saw it because it almost was not going to be washed by me because I was out of the last minute and you don't see it there's a lot of shit that you miss yeah yeah there is but I caught that one and really did enjoy it now let me tell you something about my list here my list is a combination of things that yes they are Oscar worthy you know they're

37:12hiding films but my list is also about things that I just personally enjoyed what gave me some of the best moments at the theater and this one right here is one of my favorite experiences watching a movie at a movie theater we think I think I know is this uh found destination's boardlines man julian jesus quit yes yes yes yes yes I sat next to you when we saw it and we had such a good time yes I had so much fun with this movie just got to love the one you got I always knew this day would come yeah got it I don't think you got it I held him off for years he's a relentless son of a bitch won't stop to leave finishes the job death is coming for our family oh man this was really one of my favorite moments

38:23watching a movie at the theater and I get tired of watching movies at the theater man I really do because I see so many of them and it wears on you sometime but when you see something that really gives you a just a lot just loads of entertainment non-stop with and what really makes this a fun experience at the theater is that everybody's in on it everybody is on the same wave man everybody's on everybody's the same vibe we're all laughing at the same things went dissipating the movie in the desks at the same time in this film uh everybody's oon and on and laughing at the same time hard to have a really good time or had a really good time in 2025 sometimes it's being taken seriously resulting in some of the most original films that you see in 2025 awesome movies are just like this where they're just a lot of fun and everybody is in on it and this is also probably the most self-aware with humor of the series it's the most comedic and that yeah I was and I was laughing at this movie almost non-stop this was the hardest I've ever heard you laugh in a theater yeah by far I was laughing non-stop in this man while also

39:28feeling the tragedy of it so death is probably the biggest asshole in this movie out of the whole series because this is about a family that's what's called bloodlines and man they are nice the likable people they care about each other they did not deserve what was happening to them in this movie and also one of the other things is tragic about this is uh the bittersweet appearance by candy man yeah Tony Todd yeah there he is right there who was dying as they made this and he pretty much knew it and this movie was his goodbye to us so there was that moment there too whether you had this really glorious moment to get this man a farewell but also they did what made this formula work by amping it up and this has one of the best openings of any of these destined heart of what it's called final destination movies yeah this has one of the best openings it is bloody gory it's tense and it's hilarious that scene in the beginning where everybody's dying

40:35and if you know these movies you know why and that had one of the biggest laughs oh yeah and the whole audience applauded at the beginning of the movie yeah this really knew how to play with the audiences expectations in the best way possible and you could just you feel like the filmmakers are elbow and you're like look at this shit oh man they're very self aware of the comedy in this yeah I I love this man I read that that was one of the most enjoyable moments I've had not even for movie experience but just overall the 2025 I remember just having so much fun at that moment yeah that was my number 15 from last year nice all right let's get to my number 8 movie we write together for a quarter a century and the first show he writes with someone else it's gonna be the biggest hit he ever had am I bitter are we yes for over 20 years heart in his partner Richard Rogers creative string of hits I want 10 copies of that write me exactly such as my

41:36funny valentine the lady is a tramp and the blue moon your work is brilliant that's not the problem no no I'm not drinking with you Larry they should put my picture on that bottle the whiskey that made Lorenz heart unemployable you know there are movies which are good and Richie Lingletter is one of my favorite directors because I think he just you never know what he's gonna do with his next project he has such a versatile style with and taste and his filmography is all over the place and almost everyone is movies are great but this film this is actually elevated by the performances are in particular one performance and that is Ethan Hawke in this man Ethan Hawke he plays the lyricist Lorenz heart who's reflecting on his life as he interacts with different people in his life including his writing partners former writing partner Richard Rogers on the night that he premieres Oklahoma but man that the everybody is wonderful in this film you have the bartender that he talks to

42:42you have the girl that he's into in the guys gay he can't and he says but he's just looking for love in all these places and acceptance and it's a great it's a great character piece it's a play really because it all takes place at a bar Bobby kind of Ollie's grand as a bartender what's the what's the the girl's name mark yeah mark mark a quality man she's great as the girl that he's interested in and you know the way it plays out as a play transfer to film is done very well but Ethan Hawke is the one that dominates here his performance carries his film and sometimes it's a performance that the movie might be just fine but a single person can carry a film so well that it makes that movie one of the best movies at least I've seen in the year and that's all based on Ethan Hawke's performance in here and I didn't see this but he is almost unrecognizable he looks amazing yeah he they they they they make him look shorter than a lot of people in the movie of course his hair is one thing and man just like I said he just disappears into that role it's yeah

43:43it's it's it's a great film because of him and if you don't mind watching one actor carry pretty much what is a stage play on film this is worth watching right here oh my number seven best movie of 2025 this is a true story that happened in my town so this one Wednesday is like a normal day for the whole school but today was different every other class had all their kids but Mrs. Gandhi's room was totally empty and you know why because the night before at 2 17 in the morning every kid woke up got out of bed walked downstairs and into the dark creepy premise right there for the movie weapons I really enjoyed this film because we're talking about

44:46how horror some of the most original stuff we got 2025 and this is one of the most original films not just a horror movie but as a film in 2025 I like how mostly it's a horror movie that mostly plays out through drama it's all these different characters studies are character pieces split up into different chapters and the heart takes a back seat for a long time yeah the movie is willing to take chances and just like experiment in ways and like really do things that you don't expect from horror movies yeah yeah it's a really it's almost and most of it plays out like a dramatic thriller or dramatic procedural where you're trying to figure out the mystery of what happened to these kids and the horror creeps in slowly as we get more reveal but yeah I thought that this was one of the it's not only was one of the most original movies that I saw in 2025 but I think it's one of those movies that left the biggest impression of audiences after you left the theater for

45:46a few months everyone was talking about that crazy ending and it had some people split but hey you remembered it when you walked out and it stayed on your mind for a long time that movie followed you like these damn kids chase you down the street bring your ass in catch that bitch catch it get out of the ass if you haven't seen the movie man it's almost worth watching just for that ending but it's a great lead up to that ending everything how it comes together is a I think is pretty much a well woven story it's a it's a great screenplay before it even hits the you know the being a movie or being in front of the camera and yeah I just I just thought that this is something that it worked on so many levels since scary at some points kind of moving you love the drama in it with these people these people and somehow at the end it ended up being a comedy yeah how do you how do you do that it's quite the feet to pull off and also grounded characters that you can relate to in so many ways

46:53yes how do you have these characters that talk about all these things in their life some of them even play as out like a soap opera one dude got cussed out by his wife in the middle of the blicker store or something yeah this stuff this stuff plays out as a grounded character piece and then we end up see there's that grounded normal family yeah I like what the hell and here comes the movie yeah I love this movie man I really do and I like it the more I think about it is in one of the actors or one of the actresses is up on Oscar yep Academy Award dominated film yep that was her being chased by all of the fans that were the actors yeah there you go oh folks let's go to my number six best movie of 2025 let's send those disgusting demons back to the death where they belong yeah let's get battle ready

48:13I tell you I like this because first of all I'm an animation fan and I was waiting I was like all right when you get any of these damn cartoons yeah he's so funny as cartoon movies up in here yeah I mean I loved of course his style but man I just thought that this was a great combination of story music and fandom this could have been completely annoying but I just thought that the way they combine this current fandom of kpop mixing in with this this story about ancient demons and how they use pop music to actually take over the victims I thought that that was pretty clever man I thought that this was something that well understood how it left such a cultural impact I you know I'm not even a big I'm not a big kpop fan anything like that but I watched this and I had I I really did have such admiration for where they actually did the story and it took me places I didn't think that they would actually take the movie you know there's there's there's certain things

49:14there that kind of hardcore some real dark storytelling in here that I did not think that we're gonna do I thought it's gonna be just a fluffy little you know movie just to give to the fans out there and I thought and I thought they did I thought it was a very clever way of mixing a pop trend with a really good story man you know again just this ancient story about demons I you know very clever if you ask me and I understand why some people gonna be like what the hell why does on your list man because it's probably over something's over saturated people keep hearing about it I get it but I gotta be honest when I saw it I didn't know anything about this thing blowing off like it did a blown up like it did and when I watched it I was I just said wow I'm in a very entertained by this and I'm very impressed by this I had no idea that it would take off like it did afterwards I thought it was just an just an Netflix movie this has had a crazy cultural impact that now at this point like in the world people just associate this movie with K-pop she here in Australia there was this big K-pop concert yeah and people like what the fuck they didn't even play

50:16golden it wasn't a demon hunter concert yeah yeah they would kind of be a slick because they said K-pop concert featuring demon dances or something they would just stop and like that you know they would be a little slick but technically they didn't say K-pop demon hunter yeah so but yeah I get it people are sick of this I just thought it was a simple little Netflix movie and when I saw it I say why is this not in theaters why is it not bigger and then kaboom you know it blew up so yeah I liked it and I think it's like perfectly fine I don't love it like everybody else but I did think that too I was like this is really high quality to just throw on Netflix oh yeah yeah no I really had a good time with this so number four movie of 2025 smile boys you're on candid camera sorry that's five five yeah you gotta not think about the things out of your control think about your plan personally I can't stop thinking about all that winning

51:28cool I told you check it morning and that's your way people that is the long walk based on Stephen King's novella the same name and this was the most intense experience at least very up there with some of the most intense experiences I had in theater but the thing about this movie that really took me though by surprise and I read the book but I'm really I did not expect to translate so well to being this movie where it's about bonding more than anything so we see all these movies about these what what would you call them these challenges where all these especially like the hunger games and a battle yeah a battle yeah movies where all these kids are pitted they are pitted against each other to the death there's only one left standing you would think that this would be ruthless with all these kids just betraying each other and that's not what it's about man all these kids bonded one another on this walk to the death they all have everybody has to walk

52:28until there's only one left and if you get a warning so many times you get shot in the head and they keep doing that until the winners left and so as gruesome as his movie is as gores it can be sometimes and just as as depressing as it is I just really love the characters and how the characters just look they watched out for each other and you get some great performances with these characters man because of so you know they are the so they're so kind to each other surprising under these circumstances I forgot the no less to say the black kids yeah yeah he's that is one to look out for and also oh man uh you he's that what is this for Hoffman yeah he's the son of Phil Phillips in what Hoffman Cooper yeah that guy was great but man every one of these young people in this movie gives them incredible performance every one of them is somebody I say

53:28you should look out for and they just you know this is a movie that I understand why I did not do very well especially during these times of turmoil and violence I understand why people would not want to go see this just because of the nature of the film I can understand why this would be something that people never want to see again but if you can get through all of the dark stuff in here there is a very heartwarming story here based on how these characters treat each other and I really I was just and really impressed that this was able to be done as a movie and works so well all right so yeah the actors definitely carry this film I thought that all the performances were fantastic yeah all of them all right this is number four for real my number four movie at 2025 rise and shine that and I lash good morning there are no hands on the clock why because they're not needed what time is it off you know I don't I don't I don't

54:34remember that part all right let's just not nitpick over the passwords this is Bob Ferguson I was a part of the French 75 that is one battle after another and I know this is higher on some people's lists some people think that this is going to be a movie that's going to win the ultimate best picture academy award and I think this is a great film much of the commentary love the alternate realities story that they have you to to make that commentary great direction all around love the chaos in this film yeah you know a lot some of this plays out actually like a battle yeah in the streets and the music elevates it to this crazy level the consistency throughout it is really beautiful yeah yeah but what stands out the most of the performances uh Leonardo Caprio Tiana Taylor Sean Penn though this is the one and everybody talks about Sean Penn did an incredible job

55:34in a supporting role here he gave us probably the most quotable line of the year you're like black girls I love it so funny I love him in this movie yeah I'm like white man I'm doing this move I love him yeah and Sean Penn plays I don't know I forgot why he's a colonel uh a colonel even lockdown yeah lock buddy yeah yeah yeah and that jaw stays locked for them for them because they keep eating them black chicks yeah yeah man he does great in his movie talk about a villa that is both scary and funny at the same time yes yes I would almost say that if If he was not in this movie, if you didn't have that character in this film, I don't think people be talking about this movie as much. That's a good point. Yeah, I think that all the actors are amazing. All their characters stand out but none as much as him. Yeah, I think you talked about, no, I just said earlier an actor that elevates a movie,

56:34I don't think if you had this character and has somebody who could do such a great performance as he does, I think you still have a good movie, but I don't think you'd be talking about it as much as we are right now. You can also say that he has the best walk in last year and he looks like he's got a stick up his ass. That sticks days deep up that ass as he's walking through this movie, man. Oh, let me see here, let's go. And I don't know if I mentioned the Ethan Hawke, the title of the movie, I hope I did, is Blue Moon. I think I did, but yeah, that's the name of that movie with Ethan Hawke. Okay, so yeah, just in case anybody's wondering. All right, down to the top three. My number three movie of 2025 is... Backhand, backhand, forehand. How do you live? Well, I live with the conference if I believe myself, the money will follow. And what are you planning to do if this whole dream of yours doesn't work out? That doesn't even enter my consciousness. Maybe it should.

57:35Before he became an asshole to everybody in real life, Timothy Shilamay played Marty in this movie who is one of the many chaotic characters that came from the Safty Brothers, or in this case, a Safty brother, Josh Safty, because I love how the Safty Brothers' previous films, how tense they made me feel, and how I'm just fascinated by these unsavory and just really just awful characters. And I say awful, I'm gonna talk about awfully written, just they're bad people. Yeah, they're mean. Not only they mean, but they're selfish, and they're just stupid, they're driven by their own selfish goals that they make the dumbest decisions. And I've ever seen a character making a movie because there's one after another until it escalates. Yeah, and what I love about their style of making films is you get to see the ripple effect every time, every person whose life they just fuck up. They leave, but yeah, they just leave a trail of chaos and life ruin for people that they pass. You don't, is that? And fucking orange ping pong balls all over the streets.

58:35Yeah, man, you never want to run into a Safty brother character. They were ruined your life. And that is what's going on here with Marty. Every, you know, a few people like myself thought that this was gonna be like some heartwarming sports movie. No, this is just another character. If you've seen any Safty brothers movies, it's just a character that's driven by some goal. Some, some, just, some unobtainable goal. And they're doing it against time. And as they're rushing to achieve this goal, they're just, again, just crossing people's paths and just ruining their lives on the way, stepping on people, using people, taking advantage of people's navitae are just charming people. And Marty is no different, man. And Timothy Shilamay, regardless what people think about him right now, he is amazing in this film. He's a, and I know a lot of people don't want to watch these movies because they hate these characters, but that's the, the talent of the Safty brothers. It's in Josh Safty here is that, they great, they bring such great performances

59:36out of these awful people that you can't, stop watching. And what makes their movies feel extra special is all the casting feel so specific. Like besides the guy from Shark Tank in there, you got like very specific people of like the guy from that YouTube video with the voice, if you remember that, or like Penn and Teller shows up in this movie. Like it was, at least, or one of them does. Yeah, Penn, Penn Gillette shows up. Yeah, Penn Gillette shows up. You got Tyler the creator in here. But also, yeah, you just have all these people who are not actors, who are some of the best actors here, because they feel like real people. So yeah, I love a Safty brothers movie, or in this case, a Safty brother movie. So I really enjoyed this. And it's my number three movie of the year, not for everybody because you do have to hang with an unlikable person for two hours. But if you don't mind that, then I think you're in for a really fun ride, at least a chaotic, tumultuous ride with this person. And it's very tense too.

1:00:37I like that. My number two movie, something that is very underrated. Some people might call me on just for trying to be different, for putting this movie on my list. But I want to get this movie some love because I personally love this movie a lot. And I'm just sad that nobody saw it. Screen is here, and the shopping list is long. Time to make a lows run. Buy three bags, get three free. If stay green, one cubic foot garden soy. Plus, right now, members can earn four times the points on an eligible purchase. Start spring off strong with these deals and more. Our best lineup is here at Loads. Valentiy 325, while supplies last. Soil offer excludes a last-gen Hawaii loyalty program subject to terms and conditions. See Loads.com slash terms for details. Subject to change. Point booster subject to exclusions and more terms apply. One time, I'll only offer. Did they know? Iris, wake up. What are you doing?

1:01:38Shut her down already. What is she talking about? And I showed you too much already, man. I didn't know, but things I didn't know what trail I'm getting. The marketing for this movie, Companion. My number two movie was awful. I was fortunate enough to see this when I knew nothing about it. And it has a twist in there, which you just saw. But if you can block it out your mind, it really does make a difference. And just being not only just kind of taking surprise by this twist right here, but even before it got there, I really enjoyed this dark comedy of a film. And I think that it was a movie that, I'm not giving it credit for people not seeing it. I just meant much like a final destination. I just sat there and just had, and I didn't have the full experience. Nobody was in the theater. But man, just for that moment, I was sitting in a theater watching this movie. I was enjoying the full ride. And this does the full job that a movie is supposed to do. It has good characters. It's well shot.

1:02:39It's funny. It's entertaining, gripping the whole time. And at the end, it actually has a message, a feminist one, no less, that it doesn't beat you over the head with. Yes. Yes, for anybody that thinks because we often comment about how the feminist message in movies are too heavy, we just did that with a movie recently. Not against that at all. It's just, again, how it's presented. And you're right, Julian, the feminist message in here, very well done. It's clever. And they just throw it in there. And it's really a nice cherry on type to leave you away for a sci-fi movie. Yeah, companion. So please, if you haven't seen it, check it out. I've already kind of ruined it for you. They ruined it for you because the marketing is awful. Oh, yeah, tell people, it's the best episode of Black Mirror you haven't seen yet. It really is, man. It really is one long, amazing episode of Black Mirror. And I just, again, I have to be honest. I can either go for the movies that I think I should say should be on this list. I have to go with movies that really made me feel a certain way. And this was a personal movie for me. It's a movie that really personally was up there in the moment I saw it.

1:03:40For the rest of the year, I kept thinking about companion. Yeah, it made my top 10. I really liked it. Nice. Somebody said, never heard of this before. Then great, that's even better. Let me shut up and go watch it. Oh, some of you might know my number one movie of the year. Anybody want to take any guesses out there? I'm going to go look at the chat. Chat, what do you think? Number one movie of the year. What do you think is going to be? Avatar 3. Thank you so much, Avatar 3. You twins? No, we could. If that cat's with Black people, you two will meow. Meow, man. Yeah, I mean, this comes as no surprise to a lot of people. I really was blown away by sinners. And it is my number one movie of 2025. There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true. It can conjure spirits from the past and the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune.

1:04:41Will somebody take me? Folks, a lot of people want to say I chose this because they're Black. Or I chose this because I like horror or whatever, man. I chose this because it truly was one of the most ambitiously directed films and beautiful looking films of 2025. I mean, you talk about some craftsmanship to making a film. Ryan Kugler is a true visionary, man. This guy has just got a knack for it. And the way that he combined horror with some beautiful filmmaking with the drama. And the music. This is a dramatic horror movie that in the middle of it, there's a musical number to give you the history of Black music leading up to hip-hop and more contemporary sounds, man. This was something that I always, I said this was several movies out there, man.

1:05:44This probably shouldn't have worked as well as it did. And this is, I'm so glad to see horror be some of the best filmmaking in 2025. And this is the top one for me right here. Gorgeous film is 72 millimeter, man. See this in IMAX. And the performances in here, yeah, Michael, the B Jordan is great. Delroy Lindo really deserved his praise for this film, man. But as I said, man, this is as far as just a, it's really one of the most beautiful films is the way it looks that I've seen in 2025. I just, and I just love everything about it. I was trying to find one thing that I can complain about. And I did find a couple of things, but they were kind of nitpicks. I don't think it's that big of a nitpick. We kind of agreed on it that at the end, it kind of, it loses a little bit of steam when like, you know, the vampire action starts happening. Yeah. That's like, not saying that that's bad, but it's the weakest part of the film. I think that's fair to say. Yeah, yeah. But it hits such incredible highs.

1:06:45Yeah. But it's such a well-made film. I was like, I was told, I started on my list telling you about how I admire movie and it made the list because I just love the direction that much. And if I'm just going by direction alone as what is the best of the year, then this definitely hands down. Nothing gets close to the director in this movie. And it's cool when you hear Ryan Kuhler talk about this movie because it's like, wow, listen to this guy talk about all the fucking homework he did. He's like, you know, talk to Tarantino about how he does his blood, talk to these directors about how they do this. Christopher Nolan, consult me on the IMAX camera. Yeah, smart. Yeah, yeah. This is why that guy, he went and talked to the best out there. And it definitely shows. Yeah, Ryan Kuhler is almost a genius to me, man. And I think he has a perfect record if you really look at his hits, if you look at his critical success. And this is another winner right here. And I really just, yeah, I just, I love this movie, man. I think he's going to be like a very big influence in for upcoming like black actors or like black directors.

1:07:49Oh, he already is. He already is. But like, I think he will be remembered for such a long time, especially for this movie. His movie is already just about his filmography at this point. He could, he could stop making films today. Yeah. And people would say Ryan Kuhler left a lasting impact. You don't, you know what, if you want to retire right now, you earn that right. Because you made, you made, you made a filmography of better movies in some directors who made 50 movies throughout their whole lifetime. And yeah, they would say that he revolutionized black cinema. Yeah. And it wouldn't be even close to an exaggeration. Yeah. And that musical scene is definitely, I think, the biggest highlight to like take away from I was just blown away. Because I was, I didn't know what to expect with the movie because I'm not a huge like core fan. It's like zombie stuff. Yeah. Like I watched it. And I got to that scene. I was just like, I saw that scene in the, the, as I was watching, I was like, he's, either this is going to be amazing how this plays out or this is going, all of a sudden

1:08:51just crash. It's going to fall apart because this is out of nowhere. And I'm like, I can't believe what I'm seeing right now. And I thought at some point, I was like, yeah, this is where the movie is about to drop the ball. And no, no, I mean, it flowed right back into the story. And I was like, this man right here is a genius. So yeah, that is my number one movie. That is my list of 2025. I could do some. I could do some, some, some, what do you call it honorable mentions, but I'm going to jump to your list, Julian, because one of your movies on your list is an honorable mention for me. But that's it, everybody. Thank you for listening. Just in case it's on YouTube. I got to close it a certain way. Appreciate it. And moving on to yours. Yeah. We can just run through real quick. We've talked about a bunch of them already, but number 10 is companion. Okay. Yeah. Let me see here. We just got them talking about that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like I said, I love Black Mirror. I think that's one of the best TV shows of all time. And I think that what this movie achieves is just like another phenomenal episode.

1:09:56I can't recommend it enough. It, I love when sci-fi has a strong ending. And I don't love this movie as much as something like upgrade, but it reminded me of that where it left me thinking about the movie when it ended. You know what? Can we do something? Can we do it later? Yeah. Can we do this later? I was surprised. No, I didn't mean to stop you. No, no, no, no. Your words are going on already. Yeah. So we're getting to it. A lot of people are saying we got to get into it, folks. I got to change computers. So we're going to stop this right now, and we'll see you pretty soon in the Oscar stream. Just give us a little time. We'll see you in a few minutes. Thanks, everybody. Bye.