#281 Crossing The Streams with The Boys (Bonus Ep78) – Great TV binge watching suggestions!

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Jeff Dwoskin 0:29

Hey, oh, it is I Jeff Dwoskin your host of classic conversations and your guide through this bonus episode of crossing the streams. What is crossing the streams? It's where we answer the universal question. What should I binge watch next? I just watched something and now I got to watch something else. Well, you've come to the right place. We have over 130 hours of binge watching suggestions on our YouTube channel. And right here right now we're going to be three segments from three of those live shows right into your ears. From Live episode 62 long shot from Live episode 83 Not okay. And from Live episode 85 The boys this episode is got it all. We're gonna kick things off with sowards Emilio is going to take us through long shot from Live episode 62 Take it away sale. So this is the long

Sal Demilio 1:29

shots. What was that other ones that other one a baseball movie to it. Now

Jeff Dwoskin 1:33

this one is about Charlize Theron falling in love with Seth Rogen. That is not what we're talking about. We're gonna talk about long shot, which is about tragedy and La

Sal Demilio 1:43

tragedy. I wanted to do something this week for baseball because pitchers and catchers were supposed to report today. But they're breaking my heart. I think they're about to start a baseball strike or something. But they didn't report so no baseball yet. But so this has a little bit of everything in it. It has a little bit of baseball, it's got murder, murder mystery. It's got love a basically it is a it's a very short watch. By the way, I didn't have a lot of time this week to watch Jeff and rod and some of these other guys will watch like 17 episodes of of something before our next show. I don't know how these guys do it. But this is a 40 minute documentary movie. And it's about a guy named one could tell and I hope I'm saying his name right. And he was arrested for a murder that he did not commit. And back in. I think it was 2015. He's basically stepping out of his house. And just basically like a SWAT team of officers and everybody just surrounding this guy get him on the ground and the rest of which, I mean, if it would scare the hell out of anybody. Right? He has no idea what he's getting arrested for. But there was a murder in his neighborhood or around his neighborhood in LA, of a 16 year old girl. When they did a sketch composite. He looked exactly like this guy. But it could have been anybody. I mean, he's Latino guy, and he had like short hair and a mustache and a goatee. And it's like, that could be millions of it. Right? That was the guys in LA. But apparently they thought he was the one they arrested him. He comes from a low income neighborhood. He has a girlfriend, he has a I believe a six or seven year old daughter. And this guy's getting wrongly accused. I mean, he's just not the killer, but again, doesn't really have any money. His girlfriend and all this is footage of documentary of them speaking and stuff. So it's pretty cool. There's no actors, and the girlfriend's talking and she's like, we just didn't even know what to do. So we remember seeing a commercial of a lawyer isn't that funny? Like it'd be like seeing a Bernstein commercial around here, Jeff or so. And even show the guys commercial rights. It's a cheesy lawyer, commercial, whatever, a good lawyer, but you know, they always have these cheesy commercials to kind of lure you in. And they just remember this guy and his commercial. So they called him up and he's like, I'll definitely represent you guys. So he starts out by basically saying, Okay, where were you that night? Right? That's one of the first thing he says is, you know, he's in jail. He's trying to think back to where he was. And he goes, Wait a minute, that was the night I went to the Dodger game. So the night of the murder, he goes to the Dodger game, he was not supposed to go to that game. His girlfriend had four tickets, he wasn't gonna go at the last second. He decides to go because they had an extra two tickets. So he took his daughter. So now he's got an alibi. But now there was 56,000 people at this game. A literally got the Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager involved and he says, Look, you guys can come in here, comb all the video. And they did that just hours and hours of videos just trying to trying to see where he was. He knew where he was sitting. And they just couldn't find anything. They found one, but when they when they zoomed it in. It just wasn't clear enough to say that it was definitely him. So here they are. They're just they're out of luck. Again, he's just he's in jail, and he's just freaking out right? All of a sudden The general manager of the Dodgers are the guy that is in this that was running the stadium. He says, You know what HBO was in here, I believe, right around that time filming an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David and Bob Weinstein, Bob Iger, we talked about him, right. And I think it was on that day. So they did some research. And lo and behold, that was the day they decided to film it. Like during a game, just take one section, get some camera guys in there and do the do the scene. So they didn't have to get actors and all that kind of stuff. Right? The episode was the one where Larry David is on the expressway, and he picks up a hooker in the carpool lane. I don't know it's like season seven, episode three or something like that. Anyway, so no, he takes her to a Dodger game that's the scene in the movie in the series. So they do this scene and the girl I forgot the name of the actress it's in a very funny, so they're they show footage of them doing this scene in the section where this guy one was actually sitting. Can you believe it? It's just again, long shot, right? So they're going through footage of that. And I swear to god, you guys, if you guys watch this, I literally like almost like I got goosebumps on the scene because they do a show a show. There's just minutes of them trying to find this footage of this guy in the stands. And finally, there it is. Larry David is walking up the aisle. They just finished like doing the scene. He raised his hand. Everybody in the in that little section kind of cheered for him. And lo and behold, here comes one and his daughter down the aisle in front of Larry David. Clear as day it's him, man. It was awesome. I swear to God I got I almost cried to just right there in that little scene when they showed that it was so cool. Especially holding his daughter's hand and stuff. So they got the footage. Well, they always had the day of the district attorney in this as well. And they're like, well, crime was committed at 1015. That footage of of one was at 915. He to the left definitely left the stadium and committed the murder, right. So he's strike three, right? But then they that's not to bore you guys with the whole thing. I'm probably doing what you guys said not to do and tell him the whole thing. But they found that he made a cell phone call to either his mother or his girlfriend from the stadium in the parking lot and like 1019 and that basically, in a nutshell saved saved his ass but but obviously the footage of the of the Dodgers game really, really saved them because they said if he never goes to that game, they probably never ever find out that he wasn't killer. You know, he talks about how the some of these guys get exonerated after 30 years in jail and stuff like that. So, you know, I've kind of told you the whole thing, but again, it's a 40 minute watch. I think you'll really enjoy it. And it's an amazing, amazing story, man. I really liked it.

Speaker 4 7:53

Yeah, that's amazing that it came down to something so random like that is crazy,

Unknown Speaker 7:56

isn't it?

Fredd Carroll 7:58

Well done. They filmed it very well. It's it is a quick watch. Yeah. And good. It's good. It is a little tear jerker, and it gives you a good feeling for change. At the end. What platform is that on?

Sal Demilio 8:12

That was on Netflix

Fredd Carroll 8:14

was Netflix. I don't know if it still is, but I'm unsure. I watched it a few. I guess it came out a few years. Yes,

Sal Demilio 8:20

it's 2017 it popped up and something for me to watch. So yeah, I really, really like it said it's easy watch. I really enjoyed it. Just amazing how, you know, they said that at the end, like everything that happened to him where there was so many things like he wasn't gonna go to the game and then he went to the game and that he wasn't going to sit in those seats and they were going to stand and they ended up going to the seats. And then Larry David was going to film that scene and another game and another time and he picked that game and he picked that section. Just crazy, man.

Fredd Carroll 8:51

I just can't believe you have Jewish lawyers in Michigan. I've never heard of

Jeff Dwoskin 8:57

tomato sauce jars, so

Sal Demilio 8:58

I'm gonna give them five tomato sauce jars.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:02

That's a big one. Yeah. One if you're

Sal Demilio 9:05

listening gratulations man

Jeff Dwoskin 9:11

All right, that was a long shot from Live episode 62 Thank goodness for extended seasons a Curb Your Enthusiasm. Hmm. All right, up next from Live episode 85. Friend of the show, Mike White from the projection booth podcast is going to take us through the boys. Take it away, Mike. All right, let's let's keep going. Because I promised I put a lot of pressure on Mike to bring the boys. And so I think let's talk about the boys on Amazon as an Amazon Prime original.

Mike White 9:46

So the boys was based on a comic series by Garth Ennis, who has worked in comics for gosh, decades now. used to work at 2000 ad they did Judge Dredd, he does dread stories 32 Punisher I can't remember. But I know he's worked in just a ton of stuff. But this is one of his things. And he did it for I think it was wildfire and imprinted DC. And he mostly if you don't know Garthen, as you might know him from preacher, which was adapted couple years ago, and I kind of lost interest in preacher I loved the comic book of preacher, but the movie Irizarry, the TV series was a little long in the tooth, it just didn't move very quickly at all, but the boys completely different stories. So the boys had set in a world where superheroes are real. And basically, they're dicks. And it's just this whole idea of wanting better numbers for media and just all about opportunities for press, all this kind of stuff. It is just, it feels very, very real. And there's all this corporate intrigue that's going on. Stuff to do with the government all this each season has been very fascinating, because each has had a really nice arc to it, it feels like each season could end where they wanted it to end, you know, like there doesn't have to be in next season. It feels pretty complete, though those overarching stories from season one now to season three have been very good, very well done as well. It really concerns kind of two factions. There's the boys who are this group of people that dislike superheroes immensely, and they basically want to kill superheroes are get them under control somehow. And then there's the superheroes themselves and they belong to a group, the main ones that we deal with called The Seven. And the main person from the seven is a guy named homeland or who is basically kind of Captain American Superman all rolled into one. And he is absolutely psychotic. And the guy that plays him, he does such an amazing job. He can just you can see the crazy behind his eyes when they do close ups of him. He is wonderful. It's so well done. So he's so great as this psychotic superhero who wants everything to go his way. He's basically the biggest spoiled child in the world. And then on the other side, you've got Huey, who's played by Dennis Quaid, and I can't remember if it was Meg Ryan was his mother and there is his mother, by Jack Quaid. And then Karl Urban over there as Billy butcher who, man I love his character. He's basically the vampire character from preacher but not a vampire. He's just swears all the time. cockney accent. Fantastic. But yeah, each season has just kind of looked at a different aspect, taking the story from one thing to another. The first season really deals with a Huey and his girlfriend who just gets destroyed by a guy who's basically the flash who just runs through her one day while she steps off of a curb and boom, just blood everywhere. This show is not for the faint of heart, blood, mucus, they specialize in ropey blood. I have a hearing this special effects person today talk about the different types of blood that they like to use on the show. So a lot of ropey blood there's a scene involving a whale. I can't remember if that season one or two that just it'll turn your stomach.

Jeff Dwoskin 13:24

We have a rule in our family because Robin loves the show to show watch it we have the rule in the families you cannot eat during the show. Oh no. Like a rule like where you can't eat. It's like you literally cannot eat. Oh, we have to be done. It's not like a watch while you eat dinner type movie.

Mike White 13:40

I made the mistake of putting on the first episode of the third season while we were having breakfast one day. That's a mistake. Yeah, especially the little guy termite what he does with his lovers penis. Wow. Yeah, it's really bad. Yeah, so it goes a lot of places in this last season. I really wanted to concentrate on talking about it just because it made so many clever political jabs. And it was one of those where if you're not really paying attention, you don't really necessarily have to pick up on them. He might just easily breeze by a lot of this stuff. But the one that really got me was there's the super fortress that the seven work in, and homeland is there and he's got his, his Aquaman guy the deep, who is basically just kowtow this guy to no end. All of these other superheroes are there. And they're serving all of these taco salads in the in the tortilla bowl kind of thing. And I was just like, are they going to do this? Are they going to do the the remark on Trump when it was Cinco Demayo and he's there in that picture with the big shit eating grin, and he talks about how Trump Tower has the best taco salads. Sure enough, yeah. Oh my gosh, the this building has the best tacos. So it's just all of these great little things that really point to the political divide and just, you know, basically the love for home lander is very divisive in one family and it really says a lot about like the Maga atmosphere, it is really, really well done. So you've got that. Plus it's a very compelling, gross and engaging story.

Jeff Dwoskin 15:28

I would say that this is made for exactly the two of you for people who love superheroes but even more importantly, are people who probably don't like superheroes. I think this is almost an anti superhero show. Right? So everything that you hate about Marvel and DC is exactly why you'll love the boys and throw in all this amazing Seth Rogen hilarity and the great right yeah it's brilliant writing grosses house don't get me wrong, but and political undertones as the best aspects are like sci fi it's not sci fi but like, you know where they can like Mike was saying pull in on on the different stories. But I'm telling you this is one of those shows to where every episode is crazier than the last? Yeah, yes, you will get addicted to this show. And it's one of those I where it's built like I feel like lately like when we talk about like severance and stuff now that I think they've taught people to Oh, you're gonna watch all eight episodes you know severance doesn't have that dopamine at the end of the episodes to me it's like seven episodes of book and then a good eighth episode. Boys is is pure the boys is season one, episode three, boom, season two. I mean, more stuff happens in one episode of the boys and a habit and the entire season of like, oh, taverns or something

Mike White 16:50

and you have no idea what's going to happen from scene to scene there are so many things are just like wow, I can't believe that just happened. characters dying things happening. Just it is no one is off the table as far as who can die who can suddenly gain superpowers any of this kind of stuff. You never know which way these episodes are gonna go.

Jeff Dwoskin 17:10

I can get I guarantee I put I'll put it on the table. Mike And Jeff's complete reputation. You guys would love this show. So how can I can't promise ally will love it. But how many seasons are there? Three,

Speaker 2 17:26

three seasons? So how many episodes into the first season? Do I need to go before I know whether this shows for me or

Mike White 17:33

not first? Yeah, first first episode. If you don't like the first episode, you're not gonna like it.

Unknown Speaker 17:39

Got it. All right. That's fair.

Doug Cohen 17:41

That's fair. Yeah. Because I get told by my son all the time that I need to watch Joker, the Joker or whatever. Because it's not really a superhero movie. You don't have to love superheroes. You'll love it. I'm like, is it about? Is it in the superhero universe? Is it about the Joker? Who is in superhero movies? Yeah, but now

Jeff Dwoskin 18:05

this is a little different. So like Mike was saying, like, every one of the superheroes that you know, Superman, Wonder Woman, Captain America, you know Aquaman there's all there. Which one? Captain Caveman? Yeah, yeah, there I have, of course Captain Caveman but like there's there's a version in the show. But it's like, it's like a made up version. Rip off of that character to make fun of the character. Like the Aquaman character is useless. Like hi it's only make fun of it. And he has like, I'll just say he has like sex with fish and stuff like that. I mean, it's like it's insane for me, I have it it's like it goes to the level where you're like

Mike White 18:50

yeah, this stuff with Timothy the octopus in this third season. Holy cow.

Jeff Dwoskin 18:55

Yeah, I mean there's we don't we don't get we've said too much. Jerry it's funny you guys are talking about the activists and that's exactly what Jared just wrote in the comments.

Unknown Speaker 19:03

Yeah

Jeff Dwoskin 19:10

All right, that was the boys. Gen V is now on I haven't seen that but I hear that it's good as well. I love the boys it's one of my favorite shows. All right, we got one more segment for you from Live episode 83 not okay with friend of the show. Fred. Carol. Take it away Fred. It's a big show. Let's talk about

Fredd Carroll 19:32

well, not okay, not okay. It's right there. So not okay. It's a title irony. Absolute title irony because this movie, in my opinion, as an expert of absolutely nothing is it's better than okay, here's what it is. It's when a misguided young woman who is desperate for friends and fame fakes a trip to Paris to update her social media presence. A terrifying incident takes place in the real world which becomes part of her imaginary A trip and offers everything she wants. So we got to start with with Zoe Deutsch. Okay, so Zoe dice. If you don't know who she is, her book bloodline consists of these two right here. So Howard Deutsch, who directed Pretty in Pink and some kind of wonderful, her mother is none other than the great Lorraine Baines McFly, the amazing actors. Yeah, the amazing actors who busted her own son Marty, made out with Howard and still made the world and world war three beside Patrick Swayze. You know, and these are all important things. And yes, she was.

Speaker 7 20:39

Already I thought that pretty in pink and it was a John Hughes

Fredd Carroll 20:44

it is John Hughes wrote it in but it didn't happen overnight did not you did not direct it, and direct it because he was busy directing something else at the time. So I did not know that she was an actress engaged to Dennis Quaid during the filming of some kind of wonderful and 11 years younger but way before to me too movement and canceled directors preying on their talent. Howard doit admittedly took the job, because he had a crush on her. So today, he'd be eliminated, but they're still married 35 years later. So let's digress a little not okay, as a ulu film. It's available now. And I'm known to over appreciate films that others find boring or less than, but this is, this is my time slot slot on the Dwoskin show here. Listen and obey. So I like Zoe. I like Zoe delight, not only because she's incredibly attractive, not only but also a decent comedic actress, most of you might know her as the blonde and zombie wan to Oh, that's okay. Yeah, she was good in that meeting time and stuff like that. She was great in that I do believe this film was worthy to watch one time, you know, it's not a something you're gonna go back to a million times. This isn't some classic that they created, but it's labeled as a dark comedy. It has real serious tones to it and emulates the world of influencers that we live in today. So I will now accept questions from the panel. I like

Jeff Dwoskin 22:15

she was also in the politician, which she was, I don't know if you saw that or not. Should I was with Ben Platt. Interesting, but I have no questions. I have no questions on on this movie.

Fredd Carroll 22:27

Don't you wish she was on the show? Sitting right there?

Unknown Speaker 22:31

How long is it like our typical?

Fredd Carroll 22:33

Yeah, typical, a very typical length and it has a very abrupt ending. I was actually I was watching it with my 20, almost 22 year old and all the sudden the movie just ends. And I liked that. I love open endings. I love endings that aren't what I assumed because it really was going down a road where you could be like, Okay, it's like every other movie. She's gonna apologize. She's gonna do this. She's gonna do that. And, and it just didn't end that way. It kind of ended like life ends or like in real life. You just lived to move on to another day type thing. So I enjoyed interesting and

Unknown Speaker 23:10

who's the who's the male lead in it?

Fredd Carroll 23:12

I don't know. I don't take the guys.

Speaker 7 23:15

So a picture of her again. She reminds me of a Rose Byrne doesn't shake.

Fredd Carroll 23:21

Yeah, little but I don't like rosemary. No little care. What's her name? The girl that just came out with definitely looks like her mother on the Green Man. Who's.

Speaker 7 23:33

Yeah, I just saw that too. I was not memorable. I tried to watch you get stalled out about 20 minutes in. Yeah, it's very, I just didn't care. Yeah.

Fredd Carroll 23:43

Nobody, no one else in this movie was recognizable to me as somebody besides Zoe Deutsch. I mean, it is a huge blue movie. I'm guessing their budget isn't that big for moviemaking. And

Jeff Dwoskin 23:56

until they start paying us for calling it you? What are you calling it? You, Lou?

Fredd Carroll 24:00

You will? Listen this is and before I go before I go, because I know all you Michigan people that are on here. I want to wish my hometown softball team tomorrow is playing Michigan in the World Series. Wow. So my hometown girls, they're 1212 and under,

Unknown Speaker 24:20

well, maybe they will have a hula hoop concert.

Fredd Carroll 24:22

It's you. i When you grow up between Boston and New York, you get screwed up with some accents every now and then. So it's you. What do you call it Hulu

Jeff Dwoskin 24:35

Hulu. All right. All right.

Howard Rosner 24:37

I'm looking at the other cast members in the well and Beth David's she's been at a bunch of stuff. Yeah, and then the only other one that I'm all the guy who played Dopinder in Deadpool is in the movie

Jeff Dwoskin 24:55

All right, that was not okay with Fred Carroll. How do you pronounce who write us at our home office and let us know. All right, well, you got not okay. The boys, long shot. You got your work cut out for you. I'm gonna let you go. Go hop on the couch, find your cozy spot, grab your own remote, cross your own streams, and we'll see you next time.

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