#287 Crossing The Streams is not Guaranteed (Bonus Ep80) – Great TV binge watching suggestions!

CTS Announcer 0:02

Looking for your next TV show or movie to binge? Well buckle up, grab the remote and settle into your couch for this special edition of crossing the streams. We're here to help you tune in and get the most out of those 50 monthly streaming channels you're currently paying for. So without any further ado, here's your host of crossing the streams. Jeff Dwoskin.

Jeff Dwoskin 0:31

Hey, oh, it is 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 be binge watching next? I just finished watching something. And now I got to watch something else. Well, you've come to the right place on our YouTube channel. We have over 130 hours of binge watching suggestions. But you're in luck, because I have hand picked three of those suggestions from three of our live shows. And I'm bringing them right here to you right now. From Live episode 72. Meat Eater from alive Episode 54, California Christmas two. That's right to and safety not guaranteed from Live episode 59. And that's where we're going to kick things off. Bob Phillips is going to take us through safety not guaranteed a delightful movie that he loved. Take it away, Bob, interested to hear about this. This movie. I

Bob Phillips 1:34

love this movie. I love this movie. It's a 10 year old movie, I thought I was gonna hate it. And it's based on the absolute finished premises and actual thing that happened. I think it was the late 90s there was a there was an ad placed in like the Seattle Times or whatever it is. And it was a joke and it said this I'm reading the ad wanted someone to go back in time with me, this is not a joke, you will get paid after we get back must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before safety non guaranteed. Okay, so that was a real thing. And this whole movie was written and based on that now, when I read the describe kept, I kept passing this up over time because I kept seeing Audrey Plaza and she just kind of rubs me the wrong way. Mark Duplass is the writer and director this turns out to be an absolute genius. There was something about him that rubbed me the wrong way. The whole thing because I could never get to the description. I couldn't I couldn't read the whole thing. It just just kind of turned me off. I kept thinking it was some indie coming of age thing where Aubrey Plaza was going to be pregnant. She lives with her father in Seattle. She's a malcontent and an actual part of the movie. But as you read the description, like Yeah, so I never got through it. But then I just sit down, sit down, watch this thing. It is one of the most entertaining little movies I've ever seen. It's like a it's like cotton candy. It's there and it's gone. But it you remember it you remember you had it was it's so good. The idea that they could craft this whole movie out of this one little ad and make, you know, and make several subplots within them is it's just hysterical to me, Jake Johnson, who's he plays Jeff, who is like the editor at this. He's Aubrey Plaza, his boss at this Seattle magazine. And they see this ad. Okay, so they want to find out who wrote the ad. And what's this guy's story. So the two of them show up at this guy's house, fully intending to make an ass out of him for him writing this ad. And of course, it takes a turn where they think, okay, he's crazy. I wind up loving her to Jerry. I really did. I didn't like her before this, but I like it. They think he's crazy. And he keeps doing crazy things throughout the movie. And they end the movie hits you really early on with this, you have to decide early on whether you think this guy is an absolute nut, or he can actually time travel. And it gives you several different scenarios that will pull you one way or the other in whatever beliefs you're going to have about this. I'm not going to give anything away here. But I will say that there are several times maybe half a dozen times where you're leaning one way in the movie and then you have to go the other because they present you some new some goofy ass thing that just happened. Aubrey Plaza prevents be friends him with the you know, her motive is to just get a story about this coop that lives in the woods in Seattle and thinks he can time travel. But then she slowly starts to fall for him. And again, I'm not going to tell you if it's because she believes he can or doesn't care that he can't but the goofiness just keeps going where you know he's in a grocery store and he's talking to cans of pork and beans, you know, because there's a mic and I forget it was like there's a microphone in or something guys are following him okay, there's no guys following but oh my god. One scene there are guys following him. You don't know if they're actually following him. He just believes but It just keeps pushing you toward making the decision. Is he insane? Is he a lovable? You know, cook? Or can he really do this thing? So I guess I that's probably the thing I love most about the movie in a very subtle way in a very gentle way. It just kind of pushes you along. There's so much comedy in this Soma, subtle comedy that, you know, nothing, nothing really hits you over the head. There is a subplot in this where our replies his boss, Jeff wants to go, he wants to go to Seattle, because there's a long lost love of his there. And his story is that or that she lived there, he wants to like check up on her family or something like that, because she was killed in an accident where a car barreled through her living room killed her in her home, right? So you're kind of feeling you know, for him about that, then you find out she's not dead, he just wants to see what she's up to, they wind up sleeping together. I'm not going to tell you where it goes. But because he's told this story about how she had died, this guy with the Mark Duplass character, Kenneth Callaway, he hears about this, and instantly believes that in one of his time traveling episodes, he saved her life. And that's why she's alive. And so, again, you have to make the decision at that moment, and how you're going to view the movie. Is he making this stuff up in his head? Is he taking coincidence? And? Or did he really have an effect on this? So it just keeps going like that there's an inevitable chase scene with the people that are following him because he keeps stealing things from random labs and places around Seattle, things that don't make any sense. Don't I don't even want to say any more about this except to say go in with an open mind. And and let just let this little thing wash over you. Let a delightful hour and 40 minutes, whatever it is. And I'm not going to tell you how it ends. But I will say it's as predictable and as unpredictable as you will have it be for you. I like

Bryan Green 7:02

this kind of movie or television, the kind where much like in real life, whatever you are choosing to believe you can find reasons to believe that as a right way. Yeah, mom, the television shows is much it's similar in that way you have to you you interpret what you interpret and you believe what you believe is Michael really after this, you know, this widow? Or is this just a friendship that he's trying to make sure that he's protecting this woman. And I'd like these kinds of television shows and movies so much that you get to make now obviously, there's always a conclusion to the movie, by one way or the other, right or a television program or whatever. But I'd like when the directors or the actors of the writers, they give you an opportunity that there's some gray space there that they're not always just, you know, forcing you along the forced perspective. And I think that's a such a trope sometimes and it works out so horribly in

Bob Phillips 7:56

some time, and Duplass his hands and I couldn't ever I couldn't find exactly how to pronounce his name. I've only seen him in one of the things apparently and I don't watch the show. He plays chip black on Morning Show.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:08

Yeah, he's in the morning show he was in. He was also in the league. Yeah,

Speaker 1 8:13

okay. All right. Brother have written a lot of stuff right here.

Bob Phillips 8:16

Yes. The Duplass brothers very good

Howard Rosner 8:18

cast. It's 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Bob Phillips 8:21

Yeah, it is. I mean, you don't have I found it. A while ago, I just Googled a 10 most underrated movies, and it popped up in that.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:30

Well, thank you. There's two weeks in a row. Aaron. I love Aubrey Plaza.

Bob Phillips 8:35

I learned to laugh. She was yeah, she's

Howard Rosner 8:42

She's incredible. If you watch her on watch clips of her on talk shows. She's just a space hysterical, but hysterically. Especially. I've

Bob Phillips 8:51

seen her on talk show. She's like the female Charles Groden.

Speaker 2 8:54

Yes. Just put again, no

Bob Phillips 8:57

idea what to do with her.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:59

She's hilarious. All right, who doesn't love Audrey Plaza? I know right? That was safety not guaranteed. Thank you. Bob Phillips. Up next Saudi Melia we're starting the season. Rom Com Christmas it's all about Zelda Millia if you watch the show you know that's what it's about. Now had previously reviewed California Christmas and he's back with California Christmas too from Live episode 54 Take it away sale. And not too long ago a Sal did a California Christmas. We heard we heard there was a sequel coming. No and our excitement here at crossing the stream. So this is a sequel a California Christmas City Lights. So excited to hear smells.

Sal Demilio 9:50

Yes it is. I had my pajamas on. I was drinking some wine.

Howard Rosner 9:58

You know white wine spritzer.

Sal Demilio 10:01

And I watched the California Christmas City Lights if you remember I forgot the exact episode. But like Jeff said, I reviewed California Christmas the first one. And that episode is actually the most downloaded episode ever, of crossing the streams. Anyway, if you remember my first review, California

Jeff Dwoskin 10:22

Oh, good. Forget your first review. But why don't you recap it just?

Sal Demilio 10:24

Well, if you remember my first review real quick, this is the story of Kelly and Joseph. Callie. She runs a farm, like in Northern California, and Joseph is a city guy, LA City guy, and he goes up to and he meets Callie and he falls in love up there. And that was basically the first movie. So now you just see them kind of, in part one, you just see them kind of fall in love or whatever. But you don't see the relationship. Well now. Part two, Joseph and Kelly are kind of together now they're planning a wedding. And he's up there working on the farm. He left the big city of LA to go help her on this farm. Well, what happens is the father passes away. And now there's some big paperwork for the company that needs to be signed by Joseph. So he's got to take off for the city lights of La he brings her down there. They have the wedding planned up in Northern California because they own a dairy farm, a dairy farm and a in a wine vineyard. And so they're running that well. Now they gotta come back to the city. She goes with him. And all may have you know how it is planning the wedding. So now she meets like his old girlfriends because she comes down there, they start fighting over stuff like you know, of course he's going to sign the paperwork and she gets all mad because he didn't tell her about finding the paperwork to run the company wanted to go over it with he's supposed to go over with her first as they're getting married now. So she leaves the meeting she you know, one of those scenes where they're just not getting married. Now the wedding's off. You're like, Oh my god. So then she has a daughter too. So he has some relationship stuff with his daughter. Anyway, they end up she ends up realizing that you know he's doing this. Oh, and then what happens is long story short, I don't want to give too much away this great holiday classic

Jeff Dwoskin 12:24

it all away.

Sal Demilio 12:27

What happens is, well, basically, you can see that you can see the movie, they go, they leave the dairy farm to go back the dairy farm to sign this paperwork, and they get in a fight and everything. But then they kind of start to rekindle that. And then they work things out. She finds out that he wants to still do the company in LA, but he still wants to do the dairy farm and the vineyard. In the meantime, they've gotten some help on the dairy farm in the vineyard for one of the workers much they get a piece of the action. So they're let him invest in the dairy farm in the vineyard so that they can help run that. What's her name? Callie and Joseph can live down in LA. There's father's company and still kind of have both lives. And that's kind of how it ends. They have a big wedding at the end. And it's a beautiful outdoor wedding. Now these two are actually married. I said that in the first movie. This is a Lauren swynford and Josh Wickard a very good looking couple beautiful couple, you know, in the comedy businesses Bob knows we would say something that's a beautiful couple. I'd have sex with both of you say I got it. Oh, it's working on stream yard here. But anyway, Joe comes across hopefully it comes

Bob Phillips 13:44

across I left the dairy farm.

Sal Demilio 13:47

So anyway, they had this beautiful wedding. It's kind of it's kind of crazy to think about I was actually thinking about this like this is a real live couple who sold this movie to Netflix the first one now they Netflix gave him a second one. They did that they filmed they could have just filmed their actual wedding because it was a beautiful outdoor wedding. They could have just filmed that and God bless his couple they've made two Netflix movies are okay the first one I think was better than the second one that's just me but you know some people think rocky one was better than rocky two, you know, but God no, I can't compare this movie to Rocky. I apologize. Please.

Bob Phillips 14:24

Now that's sacrilege dying over here. All in all, we left a dairy farm

Sal Demilio 14:31

very good movie. It was not as good as the first movie, but it sounds like they Netflix said hey, come up with another one this year because that one was from 2020 The one that I reviewed last time. This is 2021 you know a Christmas City Lights. So maybe 2022 A California Christmas

Howard Rosner 14:50

fingers crossed, fingers crossed.

Sal Demilio 14:53

So anyway, I've done more for this movie franchise. Rarely have so Go Go see it if you got Netflix, definitely watch it. That's it 333

For the first one,

Bob Phillips 15:11

I want to stay this up my show partner Sal Sal is universally loved in the comedy world as quite literally the nicest guy. I mean, he's never as a crossword for anyone he never has any there's no meanness to him at all. Not like me I'm a I'm an asshole. And I just I mean the fact that these these you're right would you said you did more for these movies? Any publicity team they should be sending you residual checks on a daily basis

Unknown Speaker 15:45

to sell in order to I just

Bob Phillips 15:48

think it's indicative of the kind of person you are the guy I love who I love Christmas from I know and I just think it's great. It's innocent it's fun it's and

Jeff Dwoskin 15:57

deserves his own Christmas like California Christmas.

Howard Rosner 16:02

Let's write it love on Christmas was

Sal Demilio 16:09

just me getting a bagel at Speedway.

Unknown Speaker 16:15

Get a big hole

Unknown Speaker 16:18

because they're the only ones with cream cheese our

Jeff Dwoskin 16:23

cream cheese shortage is

Sal Demilio 16:28

still paying not to make something with cream cheese.

Jeff Dwoskin 16:30

Yeah, they're paying you not to make cheesecake for Thanksgiving. All right, well, California Christmas City Lights or California Christmas both on Netflix. Both probably will stream extra fast because you'll probably be the only one watching it. If tweeted Sal if you like it, give us a hashtag. I watched California Christmas at Jeff Dwoskin show how do you know it's Christmas time? Not the skipping of Thanksgiving but when South starts watching rom coms. Thank you, Sal. And up next from Live episode 72 friend of the show, Tim Segal is going to take us through meat eater. Take it away, Tim. Let's do meat eater though. Looks like a show about hunting. But take it away, Tim.

Tim Beisiegel 17:14

All right. So it is a show about hunting. And here's the odd thing. I'm not a hunter. I've never been a hunter, I have no interest in going out and hunting. I like to take meat from my buddies when they go hunting. But I'm not the one who wants to go out and do it. Now. The cool thing for me is I stumbled across this show, I think it was at the beginning of the pandemic and 2020 it was just one of those things where I'd kind of run the gamut of Netflix, and I wasn't sure what else to watch. And it was a Netflix suggest that you watch this because I had watched some of their documentary. So I was like, Sure, you know, whatever. So I threw it on. And I think it was about halfway through the first episode that I was watching. I'm like, this is actually really good. And the thing that's different about it to me is that number one, I'd never got the feeling that he was hunting for sport, which I'm very much against everything he hunts he eats. And he does it right in the show. So it's cool. He's he takes you out to all these different places. And they're not always like, you know, a lot of hunting shows they want to take you to these weird wild exotic places. He's taking you to like Wisconsin, Texas and California. And he had a couple episodes. And I mean, he's got some really cool locations, right and he's gone to done some hunting up in Alaska and northern Canada. He does a couple episodes in Hawaii, but he does hunting, he does fishing, you know, big game, small game, all these different things. And so the thing that I love about it is that again, it's never a trophy hunt, he goes and he takes care of the animal as he should in the field he field dresses it gets at home takes care of everything. At the end of the episode him and his buddies that he went out hunting with are all sitting around showing how they how they would make the food at their house they then they sit around and eat a meal together. And you know it's very much a show about camaraderie him and his buddies going hunting, trying out these new locations doing these different things, hunting animals that he's always wanted to try and you know, but the thing that I love about it is he tells you why he wants to hunt that animal what he respects about that that animal and what he's why he's doing the things he's doing. It's not just a stand up bang pow and on to the next the next animal you know there are some episodes where he makes mistakes and he doesn't get the hunt or nothing is done that episode because he screwed up or you know and he's very open and honest about it and I really liked that as well which also makes it kind of a fun show because it to me it's more realistic because I don't know a hunter that you know I grew up in in Western Michigan out in the out in the woods, right? So I live in a small country town. i A lot of my best friends are hunters. I don't know a hunter who goes out to the woods every single time and gets you know gets a kill gets a hunt completed. All right. So to me this is is very realistic. Now the other Question about this that's that I really like. The host of the shows name is Steve Rinella. He's from twin Lake Michigan, which is 25 minutes up the road from where I live, okay, he went to the same high school that a lot of my buddies went to. And so I don't know him personally, I have no connection to him. Nothing along those lines. But Steve Rinella. If you ever watching this, you want to come on pop culture addicts. I know a guy who loves to talk to him. Actually, he just seems like a really cool guy. Right? It seems like a guy that you'd like to sit down have a beer with, and have them tell you some cool hunting stories. And, and honestly, I just want to have cook for me, because some of the recipes that that he throws down are just really, really cool. But yeah, it's, I think it's got like 10 seasons, it's on Netflix. Very easy to find. And it's, it's 2530 minute episodes. They're they're quick hitters, right? It's in out, there are some episodes that span two, three episodes, you know, some stories, it's been two, three episodes. But yeah, it's just, it's just a lot of fun. And it's, you know, he's a conservationist, but at the same time, I never feel like he's preaching conservation, actually, the whole time. He's out there. But you can see that he has a respect for everything that he's doing.

Sal Demilio 21:05

I got a question for you, Tim. You said that. So they catch the animal. Let's say it's a deer for that particular. So. And then these four guys sit around the campfire, whatever, and they cook the deer how they would eat it at home? Is that what you said? So there's, like four different recipes going on? Like how, how we

Tim Beisiegel 21:24

sometimes sometimes Yeah, but it's okay. So in that instance, a lot of times what's happening is, is it depending on the location of where they're at, if they're out in the wild, I mean, they're just, they're just cooking like backstraps over the fire. Nothing fancy, right? But if it's if it's close to their home, or to his house, or wherever, they're wherever they're staying. Yeah, there'll be out there and they'll have this guy will be cooking on the stove, that guy might be cooking on a grill, they might have a couple things going at once. And they're trying a couple different recipes. Nothing I mean, it's not like it turns into a full blown cooking show at the end right but it seemed trying different things.

Sal Demilio 21:57

So when they don't catch something they just go to Buffalo Wild Wings for probably

Tim Beisiegel 22:03

the hit subway on the way home you know,

Jeff Dwoskin 22:04

I love Buffalo Wild Wings.

Tim Beisiegel 22:08

That's good place. Yeah. So it's just a really cool show. It's it's one of those things where I've, I think I've watched just about every episode of it. And now it's one of those things that I you know, I kind of watch as background noise. Because it's not something I have to pay attention because I've already seen it before. And I just enjoy the show. That's cool. Part of the reason why I picked it is because I felt it was something different that maybe hadn't been covered here before and maybe a different outlook or a different show than maybe had been covered. So

Jeff Dwoskin 22:39

all right, thank you, Tim. That was a great review. And like you said a little different than some of the other shows we cover here but that is always welcome something for everyone. Right you got a lot in front of you everyone you do I hate to keep you I don't want to be the one keeping you from safety not guaranteed California Christmas to you might as well watch California Christmas one also so you're not lost and meat eater, jump on that couch. Find your cozy spot, grab your own remote, cross your own streams, and I'll see you next time.

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