WEBVTT 00:00.192 --> 00:03.447 Over the line! Huh? I'm sorry, 00:03.495 --> 00:07.072 Smokey, you were over the line. That's a foul. Bullshit. Mark it 8, dude. 00:07.232 --> 00:11.081 Uh, excuse me. Mark it 0. Next frame. Bullshit, 00:11.161 --> 00:14.577 Walter. Mark it 8, dude. Smokey, this is not 'Nam. 00:14.689 --> 00:18.233 This is bowling. There are rules. Hey, Walter, come on. It's just— hey, man, 00:18.249 --> 00:21.809 it's Smokey. So his toe slipped over a little, you know? It's just a game, 00:21.922 --> 00:25.402 man. This is a league game. This determines who enters the next round robin. 00:25.450 --> 00:28.875 Am I wrong? Yeah, but I wasn't— Am I wrong? Yeah, but I wasn't over. 00:30.000 --> 00:33.702 Give me the marker, dude. I'm marking an 8. Smokey, my friend, 00:35.263 --> 00:38.757 you're entering a world of pain. Walter, man. You mark that 00:38.789 --> 00:40.451 frame an 8, you're entering a world of pain. 00:42.128 --> 00:46.153 I'm not— A world of pain. Look, dude, I'm— this 00:46.653 --> 00:49.996 is your partner. Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one 00:50.496 --> 00:53.076 around here who gives a shit about the rules? Walk at zero! 00:53.512 --> 00:56.759 They're calling the cops, man. Put the piece away. Walk at zero! 00:57.131 --> 01:00.296 Walter, put the piece away. Walter? You think I'm 01:00.796 --> 01:01.713 fucking around here? Walk at zero! 01:09.764 --> 01:13.323 All right, it's fucking zero. You happy, you crazy fuck? 01:16.405 --> 01:17.710 It's a league game, Smokey. 01:19.897 --> 01:22.444 It's 2 Dads 1 Movie. It's the podcast where 2 middle-aged dads sit around and 01:24.362 --> 01:28.454 Shoot the shit about the movies of the '80s and '90s. Here are your hosts, 01:28.551 --> 01:30.541 Steve Paulo and Nic Briana. 01:31.648 --> 01:34.842 Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of 2 Dads, 1 Movie. 01:34.939 --> 01:38.405 I'm Steve. And I'm Nic. And today we are talking about the 1998 01:38.469 --> 01:41.342 Coen Brothers classic, The Big Lebowski. 01:42.097 --> 01:44.921 This was my pick for us. And I, you know, I don't know, real quick, 01:44.970 --> 01:48.115 Nic, I mean, big Coen Brothers guy? Oh, for sure. I mean, yeah, 01:48.179 --> 01:51.389 who isn't, right? In a lot of ways, we already saw Raising Arizona for Cagevember 01:51.889 --> 01:55.578 last November. Love that movie. A lot of the best stuff that the Coens did 01:56.078 --> 01:57.889 really did come kind of a little later in the 2000s. I think O Brother, 01:57.905 --> 02:01.211 Where Art Thou? was like really spectacular. But so much of their work 02:01.711 --> 02:04.083 in the '90s was incredible. And I honestly think maybe in some ways The Big 02:04.099 --> 02:07.196 Lebowski is like the perfect Coen movie. Yeah. 02:07.276 --> 02:11.513 Because so little happens and yet there's— There's 02:12.013 --> 02:14.771 so much to talk about. There's so much in every scene, so incredible. I remember 02:15.271 --> 02:17.386 seeing this movie for the first time in college. I didn't see it in the 02:17.467 --> 02:20.114 theater, but I think I saw it like the second it hit like Blockbuster and 02:20.614 --> 02:23.740 stuff. And, you know, it was just, I thought it was like quirky and 02:24.240 --> 02:26.140 kind of funny. I'm like, I like John Goodman, I'll watch that. Jeff Bridges, 02:26.640 --> 02:29.300 I kind of didn't feel strongly about at the time. Like he was just this 02:29.800 --> 02:32.370 guy that was like in some movies sometimes. But like, I love John Goodman. 02:32.500 --> 02:36.160 The Coens were great. You know, I'd seen obviously like Raising Arizona at that point. 02:36.660 --> 02:39.020 And like, I think The Hudsucker Proxy was them, right? Or something. Yeah. I mean, 02:39.520 --> 02:42.660 there's a whole bunch of like crazy ones from earlier, you know? Anyway, this movie 02:43.160 --> 02:45.900 was awesome from back in the day. Like I remember loving it and I was 02:46.400 --> 02:49.806 really excited to watch it again. for the podcast because it's the 02:49.870 --> 02:52.419 perfect example of the, to me, the kind of thing where it's like, does, 02:52.755 --> 02:55.224 is this really as good as I thought it was? Was this like me being 02:55.256 --> 02:58.606 a teenage kid and really being into something? And then like you watch it and 02:59.106 --> 03:01.764 you go, uh, okay, maybe not so much. Like, is this the Boondock Saints or 03:02.264 --> 03:05.756 is this like truly— Right. Like a classic, right? So— Right. Really excited to 03:06.256 --> 03:08.529 talk about it with you today. Uh, what's your history with The Big Lebowski? 03:08.721 --> 03:11.927 Yeah, I think I probably caught it early college. Definitely, uh, didn't see it 03:12.427 --> 03:15.037 in the theaters, but this got around quickly. And once it was on video, 03:15.053 --> 03:18.211 definitely like, hey, you gotta see this, you gotta see this. Yeah. And then by 03:18.484 --> 03:21.948 junior year of college, You know, everyone was saying, the dude abides, 03:22.173 --> 03:25.526 and, this aggression will not stand, and all the million things that we'll get to 03:25.542 --> 03:29.216 throughout this. New shit has come to light. Yeah, it was great. It was really 03:29.232 --> 03:32.681 fun. And I feel like this came, like, during a stretch where there's a couple 03:33.181 --> 03:36.018 really great bowling movies with Kingpin a couple years before then, which is one of 03:36.518 --> 03:38.810 my favorites of all time. Very funny. I haven't mentioned it on the pod. 03:38.858 --> 03:42.115 I think it's a perfect place. I don't like to brag, but I think I 03:42.227 --> 03:46.527 am part of the bloodline of bowling royalty. Oh. So my 03:46.960 --> 03:50.889 great-grandfather, Archie Walsh, was a professional bowler 03:50.905 --> 03:54.400 in the New England area. Okay. They don't do regular 10-pin bowling there. They do 03:54.416 --> 03:58.071 candlepin bowling, which is very unfamiliar. It kind of only exists 03:58.119 --> 04:00.972 in New England. If you've seen the movie The Holdovers, that's the type of bowling 04:01.084 --> 04:04.098 that they're doing. So, the pins are more like cylindrical, 04:04.675 --> 04:08.138 and the ball is like the size of a grapefruit 04:08.638 --> 04:11.760 or a softball, right? Ah, okay. So, you have this lighter ball, and the difference 04:12.260 --> 04:16.169 is that you get 3 shots instead of 2. And also, your deadwood remains until 04:16.217 --> 04:19.535 your 3rd shot's done. So, you could, like, hit one that's on its side and 04:20.035 --> 04:23.562 send it spinning into the other pins. It's very hard, though. Like, to break 100 04:23.595 --> 04:26.324 in candlepin bowling, very tough. But my great-grandfather, 04:26.420 --> 04:29.855 Archie Walsh, known in some circles as, you know, one of 04:30.355 --> 04:33.435 the great early candlepin bowlers— he is in the Candlepin Bowling Hall of Fame. 04:33.644 --> 04:36.598 Wow! Which is definitely not a Canton, Ohio-sized building. 04:36.678 --> 04:40.274 It's more like a— it's more like an armoire in 04:40.306 --> 04:43.533 the corner of, like, a Holiday Inn somewhere. But hey, you know, he's there. 04:43.918 --> 04:47.080 So I do want to shout out that the bowling connection was not lost on 04:47.580 --> 04:49.424 me. I always loved bowling, had a lot of fun with it, and I love 04:49.456 --> 04:53.210 that element of this film. And, you know, it's something that we brought into 04:53.710 --> 04:56.540 our everyday lives all the time. Once you start going bowling with your friend, 04:56.790 --> 04:59.490 of course we're quoting this, you know, mark an 8, dude, no matter what you 04:59.990 --> 05:03.170 get. We're drinking White Russians. We're doing the whole thing. Over the line! Dude, 05:03.670 --> 05:07.130 for sure. So very, very, very strong history and familiarity with 05:07.630 --> 05:09.390 this movie. And I can't wait to talk about it. That's so cool. I have 05:09.890 --> 05:12.750 a little bit of bowling history, not nearly— and I'm not trying to compare here— 05:13.250 --> 05:16.450 not nearly as significant as yours. My father briefly 05:16.950 --> 05:19.150 went to school at what was at the time called CSU Hayward. I think it's 05:19.650 --> 05:21.210 CSU East Bay now. And he bowled. And I can't remember now if it was 05:21.710 --> 05:24.430 a family thing He was definitely in a league, but I can't remember if it 05:24.930 --> 05:27.060 was associated with the school or if it was just like a local league. 05:27.790 --> 05:30.980 But growing up, I always saw he had a couple bowling trophies on his shelf. 05:31.480 --> 05:34.330 He and his team would do rather well. There was one league season, however, 05:34.830 --> 05:36.810 where they did so poorly that he has a trophy, and I'm sure he still 05:37.310 --> 05:40.470 has it at his house, with the bowler on top of the trophy is 05:40.970 --> 05:44.370 bowling between his legs from behind. So he's like standing with his legs split and 05:44.870 --> 05:47.570 it was for last place. It was essentially, you might as well have bowled like 05:48.070 --> 05:51.610 this, I think is the thing. Your dad's not the godfather of the Antoine bowling 05:52.110 --> 05:55.433 mixtape? No, apparently not. Apparently not. Wrong shoes. 05:56.364 --> 06:00.364 Okay, let's jump into the facts on The Big Lebowski. The film The Big Lebowski 06:00.396 --> 06:04.203 was released on March 6th, 1998, with an R rating 06:04.267 --> 06:07.689 and a running time of 117 minutes. Directed by— and 06:08.189 --> 06:10.773 I have it here just as Joel Coen because that's how it is in the 06:11.014 --> 06:14.435 opening credits. Yeah. But I think technically they, they at this time 06:14.935 --> 06:18.579 were being credited as directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, written by Ethan Coen 06:18.627 --> 06:21.360 and Joel Coen. They decided that they would both be both, but they would switch 06:21.860 --> 06:25.140 the ordering of the names apparently. Right. The co-writers. You said that the rules dictate 06:25.640 --> 06:28.640 sometimes that there's only one director named officially. There can be, right. So I think 06:29.140 --> 06:30.840 there has been that in the past with the DGA. I don't know if that's 06:31.340 --> 06:34.060 still the case. The other thing, you know, as we've talked again about the and 06:34.560 --> 06:37.380 and the and, A-N-D and the ampersand, those kind of things. This was definitely a 06:37.880 --> 06:41.840 writing team. So Joel and Ethan working together on that. It stars Jeff Bridges, 06:42.340 --> 06:45.660 John Goodman, and Julianne Moore. Scores, Rotten Tomatoes, 79%, 06:46.160 --> 06:49.560 super healthy, solid score. I could see how the quirkiness of the film just didn't 06:50.060 --> 06:53.261 land with, you know, 1 out of 5, Critics like 06:53.761 --> 06:56.284 that kind of I could see that, especially on a single viewing. Yeah, exactly. 06:56.349 --> 07:00.458 And especially at the time, this is one of those movies that gained the 07:00.958 --> 07:03.415 popularity and some of its respect. I think like over time, 07:04.089 --> 07:07.287 displayed in part by its IMDb score of 8.1. We have 07:07.787 --> 07:11.962 not seen that many movies without over an eight. That is good for the 231st 07:12.268 --> 07:15.658 highest rated movie in all of IMDb. So there you go. 07:16.059 --> 07:19.177 We got a thumbs down from the putz Gene Siskel and a thumbs up from 07:19.193 --> 07:21.014 the homie Roger Ebert. Hell yeah, Rog! Only awards I could find of really any 07:21.514 --> 07:24.660 note. There were a few critics. associations and things, 07:25.160 --> 07:28.840 but it was added to the National Film Registry in 2014. And on a $15 07:29.340 --> 07:32.360 million budget, it earned $47 million at the box office. 07:32.860 --> 07:36.900 Modest, but definitely a success for 3.1 times what it cost. 07:37.400 --> 07:41.620 So this was made for what, $10 million less than Troop Beverly 07:42.120 --> 07:45.310 Hills? No, Troop Beverly Hills was $5 million, was it? 07:45.530 --> 07:48.440 No, no, no, no, that can't be right. Is that right? I thought it was, 07:48.940 --> 07:51.680 I thought it was around $15 or $12 or something. You're right, it was $8 07:52.180 --> 07:55.712 million. That's insane. Crazy. Oh my God. I was always thinking about— When we start 07:56.212 --> 07:59.854 adjusting these for budget, I mean, it's gonna be some wild scores. 08:00.031 --> 08:03.562 Pretty good, crazy stuff. Yeah, so that is The Big 08:04.062 --> 08:07.415 Lebowski. And all right, man, let's kick it off. This movie starts 08:07.915 --> 08:11.027 with one of the great sort of narrative voiceovers, you know, 08:11.043 --> 08:13.371 and it's a cold open. It's something we should point out right away. We just 08:13.871 --> 08:17.769 start off with just the image of a tumbling tumbleweed and 08:17.850 --> 08:21.301 the sort of dusky view of Los Angeles and 08:21.317 --> 08:24.470 the voiceover of the, Incomparable Sam Elliott. I think this 08:24.970 --> 08:27.750 is maybe the 3rd Sam Elliott movie that we've done. Yeah, Road House, 08:28.250 --> 08:31.170 Tombstone, here. He's got the exact same Tombstone mustache, if you notice, when he shows 08:31.670 --> 08:34.930 up later in the movie. But his voice starts off and he's basically telling us 08:35.430 --> 08:38.990 about the Dude and that the time and place, it was the 08:39.490 --> 08:43.110 early '90s. He says something like, right about the time we got into that 08:43.610 --> 08:46.890 thing with that guy, Saddam, or whatever he says. And it's 08:47.390 --> 08:50.770 just this sort of setting the scene of the Dude is a lazy man who 08:51.270 --> 08:52.790 just is a product of his time. We see him at Ralph's, which is their 08:53.290 --> 08:56.250 safe haven Safeway, basically. There's the grocery store, 08:56.750 --> 08:59.990 uh, checking the half-and-half. Yeah. And sipping it. 09:00.490 --> 09:03.270 And, um, beautiful grocery store shot. 09:03.770 --> 09:07.110 Like, aesthetically very good. It kind of has this blue filter where like the 09:07.610 --> 09:10.390 reds and the yellows are like extremely turned up, so it looks really cool to 09:10.890 --> 09:14.210 start out. Very high contrast. Grocery— like we talked about the difficulty with Clerks and 09:14.710 --> 09:17.310 stuff like that. You're filming in a big retail store, it's tough to make it 09:17.810 --> 09:20.450 look any good. Yeah. And I think the benefit here was the shot was from 09:20.950 --> 09:23.450 very low, and it's like that clean white tile that he's walking on, and then 09:23.950 --> 09:27.582 it's like the dairy aisle, so it's like There's something— the lighting. Yeah, it's softer 09:28.082 --> 09:30.142 or something. It works out great. I do love that he pays for his, 09:30.721 --> 09:33.249 you know, what is it, like a quart of half-and-half probably? Yeah, for it with 09:33.749 --> 09:36.463 a paper check for 67 cents, which you know is not gonna clear. Yeah, 09:36.545 --> 09:37.769 he's bouncing that check for sure. 09:40.589 --> 09:44.630 Yeah, so, you know, it starts off and it like kind of lulls you into 09:45.130 --> 09:48.269 like the slowness and the dudeness of the whole feeling 09:48.769 --> 09:52.409 that Sam Elliott's laying out. So you're very relaxed. when like the first action of 09:52.909 --> 09:55.711 the film happens, right? The, the dude gets home, 09:56.112 --> 09:59.543 and as he opens his door, he realizes, huh, 09:59.639 --> 10:02.268 there might be something. Like, he gets a sense, you know, that sense you get. 10:02.476 --> 10:05.955 Yeah, watch. And sure enough, there's a couple of guys, uh, 10:05.971 --> 10:08.632 there in his apartment. And, uh, one of them— we get the name Wu, 10:09.000 --> 10:10.940 uh, is the name of one guy. We don't hear the name of the blonde 10:11.440 --> 10:14.386 guy with the, with the short long hair, I don't think. But that guy grabs 10:14.886 --> 10:18.202 him and throws him into the toilet. Where's the money, Lebowski? Where's the fucking 10:18.234 --> 10:21.889 money, Lebowski? Like going on and on. And it's really funny because he's still 10:21.905 --> 10:25.730 holding half and half, so that has kind of spilled. So as he's getting 10:26.230 --> 10:30.350 like pushed, his face pushed into this like milky toilet water, and it's 10:30.850 --> 10:34.270 a very gross-looking toilet. Like, I mean, you'd imagine that this 10:34.770 --> 10:38.070 is not a guy who's, who's swiffing every day, you know? And he, he points 10:38.570 --> 10:40.610 that out to them as they're saying, you know, your wife owes money to Jackie 10:41.110 --> 10:43.490 Treehorn, you owe money to Jackie Treehorn. And he goes, my wife does? Like, 10:43.990 --> 10:46.350 the toilet seat's up. Does it look like a woman lives here? Like, what are 10:46.850 --> 10:50.210 you talking about? Uh, and so the 2 henchmen, uh, realize they've got the 10:50.710 --> 10:52.490 wrong guy. But before they leave, Woo pees all over the rug in the middle 10:52.990 --> 10:55.909 of the dude's living room, uh, and, and, 10:56.070 --> 10:59.532 you know, which is just not very nice. No, there's a great line 11:00.032 --> 11:02.273 too. They pull his bowling ball out of his bag. He goes, what the hell 11:02.773 --> 11:06.938 is this? He goes, obviously you're not a golfer. Yeah, it's just a great 11:06.970 --> 11:10.064 one. His responses to everything was, was really funny, uh, 11:10.513 --> 11:14.344 so calm and so matter-of-fact. If you're peeing on somebody's rug, I noticed 11:14.844 --> 11:18.368 that, that he just kind of peed in a lot in one spot. Would you 11:18.868 --> 11:22.103 try to spread it around, or would you try to just like saturate one area? 11:22.215 --> 11:24.587 I think I would go with the Woo method. I'd go for the saturation, 11:24.684 --> 11:27.570 really soak an area. make it very difficult to clean that spot. Because if you 11:28.070 --> 11:30.590 think about it, if you, if you have a rug with a little bit of 11:31.090 --> 11:32.870 pee on it, or a pee— excuse me, if you've got a rug with pee 11:33.370 --> 11:36.750 in one space or pee all over, in either case you can't get it out, 11:37.250 --> 11:39.850 you're not going to want that rug anymore, right? So make sure, make sure you 11:40.350 --> 11:42.710 really nail it. Make sure you soak it, soak it good, get it into the 11:43.210 --> 11:45.870 pad underneath if you can. Yeah, boy, then it's not going anywhere. Hey, if you 11:46.370 --> 11:50.150 have any more tips, uh, hit us up at rugpeers@2dads1movie. That's the number 2 11:50.650 --> 11:51.850 and the number 1. You know, the way I have the email set up, 11:52.350 --> 11:55.710 that'll actually deliver. Please try it, somebody. 11:56.902 --> 12:00.123 Uh, yeah, so we cut then to the bowling alley, the, the sort of 12:00.171 --> 12:03.761 home base bowling alley for the dude and his bowling team. Yeah. And is 12:03.777 --> 12:07.479 this where we're getting the— this Bob Dylan song? Like, the music selections 12:07.979 --> 12:11.454 throughout this film are so good. They're so good. They're so good. Yeah, I don't 12:11.470 --> 12:14.852 even know for sure all the songs that are in it, but like, yes, 12:14.916 --> 12:17.784 this starts off— I think this is the, uh, like, the woman in you, 12:17.961 --> 12:19.804 you see the man in me, whatever. I don't know the song, but like, 12:19.900 --> 12:22.063 I know it from this. That's really all I know it from. Yeah. So, 12:22.224 --> 12:25.878 and that's a great thing, is selecting songs that are, you know, even from really 12:25.894 --> 12:29.292 well-known artists that are some of their lesser-known songs. It's just they, 12:29.500 --> 12:32.819 they pick so well throughout this film, and it just, it adds so much to 12:33.319 --> 12:36.795 the mood. I would argue that the 2 kind of like best ways to, 12:36.955 --> 12:40.370 to score, you know, to pick popular music for a movie, I think, are either 12:40.963 --> 12:44.731 you go into a particular genre niche, you pick, you know, bands maybe 12:44.747 --> 12:47.488 well known in that genre, but you're going into a niche genre anyway, and then 12:47.988 --> 12:50.855 a bunch of like small stuff. Like, uh, I think about like, uh, soundtracks like, 12:51.063 --> 12:54.430 uh, uh, Garden State, where it's like, yeah, there's like Paul Simon's 12:54.930 --> 12:56.530 on that, or like whatever, but like, you know, so much of that stuff was 12:57.030 --> 13:00.153 like really kind of under-the-radar kind of indie pop and stuff, you know, at the 13:00.653 --> 13:03.615 time. Yeah. So going that direction, or like you said, like picking a super popular 13:03.744 --> 13:06.998 artist, but go with the deep-cut B-side. Like, give us 13:07.094 --> 13:10.460 something off the beaten path. And look, maybe this song was very popular 13:10.960 --> 13:13.923 when it was new, I'm assuming in the '60s or '70s, but like, I didn't 13:14.423 --> 13:16.872 know it except for Tobolowsky. And it shows up twice in the movie too, 13:16.904 --> 13:20.543 so it almost becomes a theme song. Right. It's like the Oh Yeah song 13:20.591 --> 13:23.589 in Ferris Bueller. It makes the rare double appearance of a song. 13:24.406 --> 13:28.478 But this bowling shot is wonderful. Yes. Like, all the slow-mo scenes of 13:28.494 --> 13:32.180 the different bowlers like taking their shots, doing their celebration. I especially 13:32.680 --> 13:36.280 love Liam, uh, Jesus's teammate, who does this kind of like belly wiggle 13:36.780 --> 13:40.560 side to side, 'cause it's so like small, but it's just like— 13:41.060 --> 13:43.380 I don't know, you just see the joy in these guys. Like, their world is 13:43.880 --> 13:47.480 so minuscule, but like within it, they're the fucking kings, you know? Love it. 13:47.980 --> 13:49.900 And now, you've been more of a bowler, I think, in your life, it sounds 13:50.400 --> 13:53.260 like, than I have. I have bowled, but it always— and I honestly have thrown 13:53.760 --> 13:55.360 my elbow out 3 or 4 times like doing it, so I don't do it 13:55.860 --> 13:58.290 a whole lot. Yeah, that's not good. No, it's not. But, uh, It always bothered 13:58.790 --> 14:01.250 me, a couple of the slow-mo shots. There's a point where the camera's sort of 14:01.750 --> 14:04.390 pulling back and we're seeing several bowlers in a row kind of, you know, 14:04.890 --> 14:07.530 throw their shot down the alley. Yeah. Or down the lane rather. And then a 14:08.030 --> 14:12.430 couple of them, the ball actually hits like the floor before the lane and 14:12.930 --> 14:15.970 then go. And it's like, is that normal? Is that like a foul? Like, 14:16.470 --> 14:18.340 what is the deal? Like, that doesn't look right. Yeah. For the non-educated, 14:19.270 --> 14:23.150 non-bowler here, I just didn't— every time I've watched this movie, I see 14:23.650 --> 14:25.730 that and I go, that person, it feels like that should be a foul. 14:26.230 --> 14:27.510 Like, I don't get it. That should be bad. Yeah, it seems like normally, 14:28.010 --> 14:31.250 well, at least I don't have good form. I don't take— 14:31.750 --> 14:34.360 I'm rebelling against my great-grandfather. I never want to be like him. 14:34.910 --> 14:37.890 But I always like the ball, it gets a little air before it hits the 14:38.390 --> 14:40.850 ground. Yeah, that's what I figured. Most 33-year-olds kind of toss it almost, 14:41.350 --> 14:44.990 right? Anyway, but yeah, so we meet Walter Sobchak 14:45.490 --> 14:48.490 and Donnie, whose last name I don't remember because we only hear it once, 14:48.990 --> 14:51.510 I think, at the very end of the movie. But this is the dudes' bowling 14:52.010 --> 14:56.590 team, and Walter is played by John Goodman, Donnie by Steve Buscemi. And Walter 14:56.622 --> 14:59.955 Sobchak is one of the single greatest characters, I think, 15:00.101 --> 15:03.482 ever in a movie in the '90s. Yeah. Like, I literally, 15:03.741 --> 15:06.952 I don't know if everybody does this, but I know for me, I have turned 15:07.371 --> 15:10.801 Sobchaking into a verb, which is to be wrong, 15:11.156 --> 15:13.662 to not be wrong, but to be an asshole. Yeah. Right? You're not wrong, 15:13.694 --> 15:17.117 you're just an asshole. That's Sobchaking. Yeah. So, you know, because that's such 15:17.213 --> 15:20.603 a standard theme here in the way the Dude and Walter interact with each 15:21.103 --> 15:24.253 other. But Walter's basically saying, you know, hey man, this rug, like, this really tied 15:24.753 --> 15:27.580 the room together, didn't it? This is not— this is a prized, you know, 15:27.644 --> 15:31.001 possession. And this interaction between Donnie and Walter, 15:31.434 --> 15:35.739 it goes on over through the whole movie. It's so beautiful. It's so perfectly 15:36.398 --> 15:39.803 descriptive of these 2 characters, where Donnie is just asking innocent questions, 15:39.931 --> 15:43.738 wanting to be involved, wanting to be included, and Walter could not be more 15:43.802 --> 15:46.709 pissed off. He hates it so much. At Donnie about this. It's really funny. 15:46.838 --> 15:49.600 Like, shut— Donnie, you're out of your element. Shut the fuck up, Donnie. Like, 15:49.729 --> 15:51.897 over and over again. I don't know how many times John Goodman says, shut the 15:52.397 --> 15:54.644 fuck up, Donnie, but it's gotta be 4 or 5 times at least. Yeah, 15:54.660 --> 15:57.902 in the movie, such a wonderful, like, interaction. And Donnie 15:57.919 --> 16:01.434 is just, like, so innocent and so clueless about, like, these questions, 16:01.466 --> 16:05.127 like, these details that he decides to focus on, you know, in this story. 16:06.186 --> 16:09.799 But it comes to that Walter is convincing the dude that, okay, well, 16:09.815 --> 16:12.688 this doesn't end here. Like, you, you are owed a rug. Yeah. 16:12.929 --> 16:15.947 And you should go get it from the guy that they, they thought you were, 16:15.995 --> 16:19.078 right? Right. They had the wrong Lebowski. You should go get it from the other 16:19.190 --> 16:22.190 Jeffrey Lebowski. Yeah, you should go do that. And, uh, you know, 16:22.206 --> 16:25.284 so, yeah, so dude agrees and he's like, that's, 16:25.364 --> 16:28.746 that's interesting, I should do that. Uh, he kept saying— this is, this is 16:29.246 --> 16:32.465 a funny joke because he keeps saying that, uh, that this Chinaman peed on 16:32.497 --> 16:35.751 his rug, right? So Walter, this very angry Vietnam vet, 16:35.864 --> 16:39.021 and he's going crazy, he's like, oh, by the way, dude, Chinaman is not 16:39.070 --> 16:42.596 the preferred nomenclature. Which is one of those things to his character 16:43.096 --> 16:46.652 where it's like he can't help but correct something, even if in Walter's soul 16:46.844 --> 16:50.390 he is a guy who would say Chinaman, right? Right. Yeah. But he just— he's 16:50.890 --> 16:54.546 so pedantic above everything else that like he has to— well, or just 16:55.046 --> 16:58.093 has to like be combative about everything they're talking about. There's something the Coens do 16:58.593 --> 17:02.346 in this movie that I think is wonderful, um, and something that I have 17:02.846 --> 17:04.978 been trying to do as I've started like writing screenplays and, and doing stuff, 17:04.994 --> 17:08.396 which has been a lot of fun. I've been trying to like really make interesting 17:08.445 --> 17:11.622 choices for all of the characters and give them backgrounds 17:11.815 --> 17:15.875 and, and sort of viewpoints that aren't just like 17:16.375 --> 17:17.666 you know, cookie cutter or normal, right? Which is a good thing. Yeah. Sometimes movies 17:17.682 --> 17:19.973 are plot-driven and it kind of doesn't matter as much who the characters are, 17:19.989 --> 17:23.242 but this is like a character-driven movie. Like, this movie doesn't work without these 17:23.274 --> 17:27.135 characters making the choices they're making. And what I find is that in particular, 17:27.263 --> 17:30.916 the Coens give such rich background life 17:31.044 --> 17:34.456 to every character in this movie, even the ones that are on screen for 5 17:34.472 --> 17:37.757 minutes tops, like Quintana and some of 17:38.257 --> 17:41.233 these other guys, you know? But like Walter in particular, you look at like who 17:41.281 --> 17:45.046 this guy is, right? So he's a Vietnam vet who owns a sort 17:45.546 --> 17:48.509 of like security equipment store. Yeah. Right? 17:48.829 --> 17:52.757 He's divorced from, you know, an ex-wife for 17:53.257 --> 17:56.861 whom he converted to Judaism. And he continues to, like, you know, 17:57.101 --> 18:00.355 observe Shabbos. And, like, you know, he's very ingrained. 18:00.435 --> 18:03.625 He quotes, you know, the founder of Israel or whatever, right? You know, all this 18:03.657 --> 18:07.456 stuff. And it's just all these really interesting choices that, like, didn't need to be 18:07.665 --> 18:11.400 that specific and didn't need to be there to let 18:11.512 --> 18:14.718 the plot continue, but they improve or they enhance, 18:15.039 --> 18:17.283 right, the character so much. One of my favorite things of all time, we'll get 18:17.783 --> 18:21.081 to later, but like, Larry's dad, not just being a guy, but being a famous 18:21.129 --> 18:24.688 TV writer in an iron lung, is like such a brilliant choice, 18:24.816 --> 18:27.893 you know, as writers. Totally. So anyway, but this is— we're starting to get some 18:27.941 --> 18:31.227 of this out of Walter, you know, yeah, and you're absolutely right, the sort of 18:31.291 --> 18:35.138 correcting the Dude on proper current vernacular and 18:35.218 --> 18:38.199 nomenclature, I think is just an example of that that's so perfect. 18:39.080 --> 18:42.174 But yeah, so the Dude does go seek out the other Jeffrey Lebowski, 18:42.190 --> 18:45.459 who happens to be this millionaire in a big mansion and whatever. 18:46.293 --> 18:50.092 and his assistant Brent, right? Brandt. Brandt. I was like, Brandt, played by 18:50.284 --> 18:53.730 the wonderful Philip Seymour Hoffman. I mean, the whole cast is just— They really 18:54.230 --> 18:57.561 nailed it on this film. Yeah, really wonderful. And, um, and Brandt is 18:57.737 --> 19:01.808 just the most hilarious kind of like rich 19:01.985 --> 19:05.367 guy suck-up kind of guy, like just this— he's a 19:05.867 --> 19:09.662 toady, you know, 100%. And his goal is to be a barrier between 19:09.999 --> 19:13.156 the actual Big Lebowski and anybody who's trying to get close to him. 19:13.220 --> 19:16.668 And he's so The way he's handling the dude when he gets there, as the 19:16.732 --> 19:19.281 dude's kind of looking at the pictures on the wall, and he doesn't let the 19:19.314 --> 19:22.729 dude have a single thought about any of the photos without hopping 19:22.745 --> 19:26.385 in and being like, oh, that's actually when Mr. Lebowski visited here and here. 19:26.433 --> 19:29.945 Yeah. And he's jumping in with all these details. And he clearly— 19:30.121 --> 19:33.505 it's all scripted or pre-written for him because there's points where he sort of 19:33.521 --> 19:36.615 stumbles over a word, and instead of just going on the way someone would if 19:37.115 --> 19:40.881 they were just talking to you, he retraces his steps a few words and repeats 19:41.381 --> 19:44.601 the sentence from the beginning. Like, that's the tour that he gives to people that 19:44.665 --> 19:48.032 enter that room. Which is like, yeah, says so many other things about both Brandt 19:48.113 --> 19:51.589 and Lebowski. Yeah, that he— that they have this, this process 19:52.089 --> 19:54.547 in place of like how he, how he's supposed to, you know, 19:54.579 --> 19:58.422 explain the, the Wall of Fame, uh, outside of Lebowski's office 19:58.922 --> 20:01.604 to visitors, right? It's an interesting thing as well. Um, but he does go in 20:01.653 --> 20:05.655 and see Lebowski, who of course is wheelchair-bound, uh, and he 20:06.155 --> 20:08.301 is not a nice guy. He's Quite quite a dick. 20:09.923 --> 20:12.510 The dude tries to tell him like, "Hey man, these guys came looking for you," 20:12.655 --> 20:15.627 and then they peed on my rug. And he keeps saying, "Yes, yes, you told 20:16.127 --> 20:19.065 Brandt on the phone. He told me so. Yes, yes, yes." And it's just like 20:19.098 --> 20:23.275 such a dick about it. And they get into the whole like you know sort 20:23.775 --> 20:26.893 of you know you're a bum. Like you know what I mean? Like like like 20:27.525 --> 20:31.346 don't you have a job? Like insulting him. Because Lebowski Lebowski was like 20:31.846 --> 20:35.425 a like a war veteran who had lost the use of his legs and Uh, 20:35.617 --> 20:38.967 and still, you know, despite that, managed to build this success. And who knows, 20:39.064 --> 20:41.628 like, how much he's full of shit, but this is what he's saying, right? 20:42.109 --> 20:46.293 Um, and, uh, yeah, he's really like— the 20:46.437 --> 20:49.820 dude is the most repulsive possible type of person to 20:50.320 --> 20:52.513 him, and now he has to sit across from this fucking guy because he has 20:52.529 --> 20:56.681 the same name as him. Yeah, I, I will say that the dude looks 20:56.777 --> 20:59.726 a lot like present-day Eddie Vedder. Oh yeah, in this movie, 20:59.758 --> 21:03.285 when we were watching, we're like, damn, that's what— that showed him at the World 21:03.785 --> 21:07.660 Cup. That's what he looks like, right? Really accurate. Yes. Um, But I 21:08.160 --> 21:11.960 do love the big Lebowski. Are you employed, sir? You know, asking all these things. 21:12.460 --> 21:14.680 Is this how you dress up to go look for a job on a Tuesday? 21:14.880 --> 21:18.390 And he's like, oh, what day is it? Mind if I do a J? 21:18.620 --> 21:21.900 All these things that he's— so, uh, it's a great clash of kind of 21:22.400 --> 21:25.000 cultures there. And so Lebowski basically shouts him out of the room, and the dude 21:25.500 --> 21:27.680 gets up and leaves. Okay, fuck it, whatever. And then Brandt is coming down the 21:28.180 --> 21:29.900 hallway, and it's really funny, it's one of those things where the door shuts and 21:30.400 --> 21:33.710 you can see— you can hear just how good the soundproofing is. Inside Lebowski's office, 21:34.210 --> 21:35.770 you almost can't hear him at all. So as Brandt's coming down, he goes, 21:36.270 --> 21:38.410 how was your meeting with Mr. Lebowski? He says, oh, went great. The old man 21:38.910 --> 21:42.610 said take any rug in the house. Yeah. So then they're heading out, 21:42.830 --> 21:45.510 and, and they have to head out past the pool, and it's like some other 21:46.010 --> 21:49.120 worker there, whatever, is carrying a rug. And Brandt and the dude are walking, 21:49.130 --> 21:51.850 and they walk up to Bunny, who is the big Lebowski's wife, played by Tara 21:52.350 --> 21:55.430 Reid, who I think was like— the actress, I think, was like 19 or something 21:55.930 --> 21:59.130 at this point. Big star at the time. I will say, uh, Tara Reid first 21:59.630 --> 22:03.330 celebrity girlfriend of Tom Brady once he became— really dated for 22:03.830 --> 22:06.870 like a year before he got with Bridget Moynahan. Oh, did not know that. 22:07.370 --> 22:10.950 Big news in New England in like 2001, 2002. This was pre-American Pie, 22:11.450 --> 22:12.910 so I don't even know what else she'd been in before this. I don't really 22:13.410 --> 22:16.470 think she was— yeah, that was kind of her breakout. In one of those ensemble, 22:16.630 --> 22:20.470 like I Know What You Did. Yeah, or those faculty or something. 22:20.970 --> 22:22.950 She was in one of those, I think. Yeah, something like that. But yeah, 22:23.450 --> 22:25.870 she's like one of the few didn't hold up cast members of this whole movie. 22:26.453 --> 22:29.796 Yeah, that's true. And she was never as good an actress as 22:29.908 --> 22:33.122 the majority of the people in this movie anyway. And then just made a lot 22:33.622 --> 22:37.070 of very unfortunate choices for herself over the next 15 years or so. 22:37.151 --> 22:40.270 And the rest is history. But when the 22:40.302 --> 22:43.502 dude walks up to her and meets her, you know, she's like painting her toenails 22:43.535 --> 22:46.924 green, which ends up being a very important detail, asks him to blow 22:46.957 --> 22:51.265 on them and then tells him, I'll suck your cock for $1,000. And Brandt, 22:51.894 --> 22:55.395 nervous chuckle, and goes, that's marvelous. Which is just one of my favorite lines. 22:55.637 --> 22:58.780 Brandt's uncomfortableness 22:59.280 --> 23:02.960 with anything not going according to plan is so funny. And then once 23:03.460 --> 23:06.920 again, Lebowski, an absolute assassin, saying, uh, let me just go 23:07.420 --> 23:10.920 find a cash machine. So good. As if you've got $1,000. 23:11.280 --> 23:14.640 It doesn't matter. It's really good. He should have written her a check. Yeah, 23:15.140 --> 23:18.320 right. But also notice, we should note, uh, at this point in the pool nearby 23:18.820 --> 23:21.960 is a guy who shows up numerous times, Yuri, right? She even said— or 23:22.460 --> 23:26.040 Uli. Uli, right? Oh, that's Uli. He doesn't care anything. He's a nihilist. That's right. 23:26.540 --> 23:29.380 And that's a character who gets referenced many, many times throughout the movie, and we 23:29.880 --> 23:33.200 see him later. But he's there, passed out, empty bottle of like Jack Daniel's 23:33.700 --> 23:36.020 or something next to him in the pool. Uh, just something to mention. He's floating 23:36.520 --> 23:40.260 very nihilistically. They really— they, they nailed that shot. That is true. It's really good. 23:40.760 --> 23:44.840 Um, so, so now we're back at the, uh, bowling alley. Yes. So Walter 23:45.340 --> 23:48.060 is there, and Walter shows up with a, with a little dog in a crate 23:48.560 --> 23:52.260 and tells this funny story about like, this is his ex's dog, and he's watching 23:52.760 --> 23:55.100 the dog because she's traveling or something like that. And he has the dog, 23:55.600 --> 23:58.720 and, uh, and the dog And the dude's like, well, why'd you bring it bowling? 23:59.220 --> 24:02.000 He's like, I didn't bring it bowling. He's like, I didn't rent it shoes. 24:02.200 --> 24:05.620 I didn't buy it a beer. It's not taking your turn, 24:06.120 --> 24:08.280 dude. But it's definitely not a Pomeranian. I don't know little dogs very well. 24:08.780 --> 24:12.080 That's not a Pomeranian, right? He keeps calling it a Pomeranian, but it's definitely not. 24:12.580 --> 24:15.560 Am I wrong? Yeah, I couldn't tell. Looks like a little terrier or something. 24:16.060 --> 24:19.160 Yeah, it does seem like— Pomeranian's hair seems to go like straight out, 24:19.660 --> 24:23.000 and a terrier would be lay more. But so, um— Which is funny, I think, 24:23.500 --> 24:26.160 then, that Walter doing all this for his ex-wife while she's on vacation with her 24:26.660 --> 24:30.240 new husband, I think, or honeymoon or whatever. Yeah. He doesn't even know what kind 24:30.740 --> 24:33.240 of dog it is. Right. He talks about how it has papers. You can't board 24:33.740 --> 24:36.780 a dog with papers. Yeah, fucking show dog with fucking papers. And he's all— and 24:37.280 --> 24:40.740 like, he's locked into this shit. And then, like, watching the other 24:41.240 --> 24:43.740 team bowl out of the corner of his eye. So in the middle of this, 24:44.240 --> 24:46.400 just shouts out, over the line! Oh my God. At one of the other bowlers. 24:46.740 --> 24:50.040 Smokey, I think his name is. Yep. And they argue. Smokey's like, 24:50.540 --> 24:53.260 I wasn't over the line. Walter's like, yes, you were. No, whatever. And he's like, 24:53.760 --> 24:55.540 mark it 0. And he's like, it's an 8, dude. Mark it 8. And they're 24:56.040 --> 24:59.739 going back and forth. At which point Walter decides, I'm gonna— he pulls a pistol 25:00.143 --> 25:02.888 out of his bowling bag and is like, 25:03.211 --> 25:07.096 Smokey, you are entering a world of pain. A world of pain. 25:07.241 --> 25:10.316 And he's like going off, and he basically pulls the gun, cocks it, points it 25:10.816 --> 25:14.229 at Smokey, you know, markets through all this stuff, and he screams about, this is 25:14.310 --> 25:16.925 not 'Nam! Am I the only one who gives a fuck about the rules? 25:17.023 --> 25:20.446 Yeah. Like, he just loses it. They finally market 25:20.946 --> 25:23.975 zero. He, like, does pop the clip out and, you know, kind of unloads the 25:24.475 --> 25:27.310 gun and puts it away. So it's like, okay, cool. But like, 25:27.810 --> 25:29.890 just— that's— I don't— and then I guess they continue bowling, or do they leave 25:30.390 --> 25:33.330 right away? Yeah, because like, they must have finished out the frame. I mean, 25:33.830 --> 25:37.230 if he cared so much about that individual score, and he just showed up. 25:37.730 --> 25:40.190 Yeah, but when they go to leave, you can see the cops behind them are 25:40.690 --> 25:43.130 arriving and running in, you know, and all this. It seems like they probably would 25:43.630 --> 25:47.090 have left right after that happened. Yeah, I guess. Um, yeah, so it's really funny. 25:47.590 --> 25:50.270 They're having this conversation, and Walt's just like, am I, am I wrong? Am I 25:50.770 --> 25:53.519 wrong? It's like, no, you're not wrong. You're just an asshole, as the cops are 25:54.019 --> 25:57.062 like rushing in looking for Walter behind them. Oh man. 25:57.687 --> 26:01.278 Uh, the Dude— we get a little scene of the Dude back in his apartment, 26:01.855 --> 26:05.478 and, um, he's, he's got a nice little bar set up there making 26:05.978 --> 26:09.052 himself, uh, White Russians all day. Were you ever a White Russian 26:09.084 --> 26:12.515 guy? Because of this movie, I definitely did adopt White Russians for a while in 26:13.015 --> 26:17.308 college. Yeah. I, I can't tell you— oh man, I mean, we must have subjected 26:17.324 --> 26:20.273 so many people to bad White Russian breath. 26:20.386 --> 26:24.160 Like in Vegas, you know, people are like smoking cigarettes and playing playing blackjack 26:24.660 --> 26:27.600 and eating, drinking White Russians, kind of eating too, 26:27.620 --> 26:31.340 White Russians all night. Yeah, so when we 26:31.840 --> 26:35.280 watched this movie for the podcast, my wife and I, she suggested, 26:35.780 --> 26:37.540 she's like, well, why don't we make a White Russian and see how it is? 26:38.040 --> 26:40.360 So we had a couple, not bad, but I don't know how you go all 26:40.860 --> 26:42.980 night with it. It's kind of like a Bloody Mary. It's like a one-and-done type 26:43.480 --> 26:45.700 drink to me. I agree with you. I think they can be nice. I think 26:46.200 --> 26:48.480 even when I was drinking White Russians, it would, yeah, it would be the first 26:48.980 --> 26:52.220 one, maybe 2 cocktails of an evening, and then I'd go on to something simpler 26:52.720 --> 26:55.370 like, you know, gin and tonic or just something that was just like, you know, 26:55.870 --> 26:58.690 more of a cocktail. Something see-through. Something translucent at least. Yeah, 26:59.190 --> 27:02.590 exactly. But, but yeah, no, I think I was a White Russian guy for 27:03.090 --> 27:04.590 a while, and then I was a whiskey sour guy for a while, and then 27:05.090 --> 27:07.790 a vodka Red Bull guy for a long time. That was— I had a stretch 27:08.290 --> 27:10.330 like too. I don't know how I lived through that. You know what, vodka Red 27:10.830 --> 27:14.790 Bull era directly correlates with my worst behavior, I think too. 27:15.270 --> 27:18.770 Yeah, yeah, I think that's probably pretty accurate. It was definitely pre-kids, I'll tell you 27:19.270 --> 27:22.870 that. Yeah, so we're at the dude's apartment. One funny thing 27:23.370 --> 27:24.250 is he's got a big poster of like Richard Nixon bowling. 27:26.740 --> 27:30.220 Um, and, uh, he does not seem like he'd be a Nixon fan, right? 27:30.720 --> 27:32.910 Like, the character seems like he's probably just— he wrote the Paul Huron statement. 27:35.080 --> 27:38.360 Yeah, sorry. Uh, but yeah, bowling fan. So yeah. 27:38.860 --> 27:41.200 And, uh, he gets a knock at his door as he, like, makes himself a 27:41.700 --> 27:44.940 cocktail, and it's, uh, it's, you know, his friend slash landlord 27:45.440 --> 27:48.940 saying, like, hey, hey, uh, you gonna come, uh, come, 27:49.440 --> 27:52.560 come to my performance? Basically, you're gonna come see me? I'm doing my dance quintet, 27:53.060 --> 27:55.940 my cycle, right? My cycle. And he's like, oh yeah, I'll be there, man. 27:56.440 --> 27:58.913 He's like, oh, by the way, tomorrow's already the 10th. You know, slide the rent 27:59.413 --> 28:02.983 under my door. So he has like this relationship with this landlord, and clearly he 28:03.483 --> 28:05.675 was a guy who was behind on rent, but this just hammers it home for 28:05.724 --> 28:09.361 us. Absolutely right. And then, uh, he gets a message. Basically it's from Brandt saying 28:09.409 --> 28:11.829 like, hey, please, you know, contact us as soon as you can. If you have— 28:12.329 --> 28:14.377 if you're worried that this is about the rug, it's not. Like, don't worry about 28:14.877 --> 28:16.941 that, that's perfectly fine. We just need to talk to you. So he ends up 28:17.441 --> 28:21.155 back at Lebowski's house. Brandt is, you know, head, head down walking, 28:21.267 --> 28:24.536 looking like he's in mourning or something, whatever. And you 28:25.036 --> 28:27.965 know, raising his arm, he's like, Mr. Lebowski is secluded in the west wing, 28:28.398 --> 28:31.571 and all this, which is just so dramatic. Um, and so he goes in, 28:31.603 --> 28:35.064 he talks to Lebowski, who's like sitting staring into the fireplace in 28:35.564 --> 28:37.676 an otherwise dark room. And this is when he goes like, mind if I do 28:37.692 --> 28:40.976 a J? Which is just like, yeah, the kind of worst and also funniest way 28:41.476 --> 28:44.486 to talk about smoking pot. Do a J? Like, I don't know. Uh, but it 28:44.726 --> 28:48.075 feels very child of the '60s. Like, it feels like very 28:48.091 --> 28:51.857 appropriate for like a boomer in this era. Totally. Uh, who was a hippie But 28:51.873 --> 28:55.239 yeah, and so we find out that Bunny has been kidnapped. Yeah. And, uh, 28:55.464 --> 28:58.734 they've got a ransom note and everything. Yeah. And, uh, and, you know, 28:59.632 --> 29:03.238 it seems like Lebowski's clearly not happy with 29:03.254 --> 29:07.791 Bunny's general behavior and that she's been involved with these pornographers 29:07.807 --> 29:11.093 and stuff. I'm not sure, like, how much of that he's disclosing at this point. 29:11.734 --> 29:15.004 Um, one thing he says is, uh, you know, asking Lebowski— 29:15.117 --> 29:18.483 or asking the Dude what makes a man, right? And, uh, 29:18.563 --> 29:21.481 and I have to take issue that the Dude says something like that and a 29:21.529 --> 29:24.860 pair of testicles. I will say that you can have any number of testicles and 29:25.360 --> 29:28.440 be a man. That's absolutely right. Don't you let anyone tell you differently. I never 29:28.940 --> 29:30.110 will. Okay, good. I never will. 29:30.900 --> 29:34.980 OneBallArmy@2Dads1Movie.com. 29:35.480 --> 29:38.740 So the ransom note— he's like received this faxed ransom note where 29:39.240 --> 29:43.920 it's like cutout letters, you know, and, you know, really like, 29:44.420 --> 29:48.480 we're gonna kill her, you know, $1 million, usual ransom stuff. And when 29:48.980 --> 29:52.518 the dude reads that, he's just like, bummer, man. Except that he's— except that he's 29:53.018 --> 29:56.909 just inhaled the J, so it's more like, it's a bummer, man. Excuse me? 29:56.990 --> 30:00.118 It's a bummer. Uh, 30:01.008 --> 30:04.084 so basically they say, we think that, you know, we want you to be 30:04.584 --> 30:07.127 the courier for this because we think this is maybe the same people who peed 30:07.627 --> 30:09.706 on your rug. And he goes, you think the rug pissers did this? Uh, 30:09.787 --> 30:13.044 he's like, well, we just don't know, dude, and you're in a unique position to 30:13.141 --> 30:16.678 confirm or disconfirm that, which I I don't think it's a word, 30:16.694 --> 30:20.065 but like regardless, confirm or disconfirm this information. 30:20.643 --> 30:23.806 Um, which again, like, you know, this all plays into what we eventually 30:23.854 --> 30:27.081 find out about the reality of the storyline, but it does seem weird. 30:27.145 --> 30:30.757 Why would they care, right? Like that it's the rug 30:31.257 --> 30:33.744 pissers in particular. Like you should try to just identify— I guess because the idea 30:34.244 --> 30:36.714 being is that if he— he doesn't like know who they are. It's not like 30:37.214 --> 30:39.282 he can identify them to the cops, or you know what I mean? It's just 30:39.782 --> 30:41.755 an interesting thing, and we later find out why, but like it's, it's funny that 30:42.255 --> 30:44.840 it doesn't call even sit right now. And they think he's enough of a doofus 30:45.340 --> 30:47.460 they can rope him in anyway. Right, they think he's gonna do whatever. Um, 30:47.960 --> 30:51.540 it's very Fletch in that way. Yes, yes, super Fletch for, for sure. Yeah, 30:52.040 --> 30:55.180 yeah. Um, so then we're, we're back at the bowling alley here, and then we 30:55.680 --> 30:59.080 get a great— and, and again, the song choice. When we're talking about things 30:59.580 --> 31:02.740 that make a good song choice, another thing is a cover of a very well-known 31:03.240 --> 31:07.100 song, especially if it's done in a unique way. Not, not Weezer doing Africa where 31:07.600 --> 31:10.980 it sounds precisely like the original, but like a— so this is the Spanish 31:11.120 --> 31:14.430 language version of Hotel California And it just— like, the guitar, 31:14.494 --> 31:18.075 it starts off so good, straight out of Desperado. And it's also so perfect 31:18.575 --> 31:20.709 when you later find out the dude mentions how much he hates the Eagles. 31:20.805 --> 31:24.193 Yes. For this to be sort of the theme song of Jesus Quintana. 31:24.274 --> 31:27.710 Yeah. And, and, you know, they're being enemies. It's just like, so— like, the, 31:27.791 --> 31:31.324 the level of detail that goes into the thought behind that choice, right, is so 31:31.404 --> 31:34.808 wonderful. Um, and his look, like, everything about— so this is 31:34.937 --> 31:38.422 John Turturro as Jesus, Jesus, uh, Quintana. 31:38.470 --> 31:41.906 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, um, he's got 31:42.406 --> 31:43.600 this, what, like leisure suit on? It's kind of— it's a jumpsuit. It's like a 31:44.100 --> 31:46.960 single— it looks like a onesie. It's like a purple jumpsuit with polyester in the 31:47.460 --> 31:51.200 middle. Yeah, kind of. It's just interesting. It, it shows him pulling up his 31:51.700 --> 31:54.260 socks and he has these like thin socks where you can see his leg. 31:54.760 --> 31:57.210 You would call them hose. Those aren't even socks, those are men's hose. 31:57.340 --> 32:00.880 Like, gross. I've had those before and they're awful. Oh, I feel 32:01.380 --> 32:04.320 so gross. I feel like a mail carrier from the '80s in there. Plus you're 32:04.820 --> 32:06.920 never putting your foot into a comfortable shoe if you're wearing those. You're always going 32:07.420 --> 32:10.724 into some Ruff rented patent leather bullshit tuxedo 32:11.224 --> 32:14.289 shoe, you know? 100%. And it's always because the shoe's too small, 32:14.353 --> 32:17.019 so you can't afford like sock girth in there. 32:17.292 --> 32:21.597 Yeah. Um, so the Jesus— this is another like the 32:21.629 --> 32:24.793 Coen Brothers brilliance, right? Like you said, how much actual 32:25.293 --> 32:28.599 screen time does he have? Like way less than 5 minutes. 3 minutes maybe between 32:28.631 --> 32:31.972 2 scenes. Yeah. And they made a fucking spin-off movie about this 32:32.084 --> 32:35.800 guy. Not that they should have, but they did. There was enough backstory even 32:36.300 --> 32:39.560 planted here, just Walter saying like he's a pervert and Dude kind 32:40.060 --> 32:41.900 of saying like, yeah, you know, the way that you would just call somebody a 32:42.400 --> 32:45.620 pervert, call somebody a bad name or whatever. He's like, no, man, he's, he's got 32:46.120 --> 32:49.760 a record, like convictions, like exposed himself to an 8-year-old, had to 32:50.260 --> 32:51.780 go— when he moved to Hollywood, he had to go around like tell everybody he's 32:52.280 --> 32:55.320 a pederast. Which, by the way, we got to bring that word back. Yeah, 32:55.820 --> 32:58.520 pederast. I think that's absolutely how we should be referring to all these fuckers doing 32:59.020 --> 33:01.260 all the things they're doing out in the world. It's a great word. The, 33:01.760 --> 33:05.509 the little flashback scene they had of just, uh, of just the 33:05.573 --> 33:09.216 Jesus, like, in his regular street clothes, like, meekly knocking 33:09.264 --> 33:13.613 on a neighbor's door, and this, like, real, like, biker wifebeater-looking 33:13.741 --> 33:16.854 guy answers the door. Yeah. Um, but Jesus, you know, 33:16.902 --> 33:20.561 is, like, basically in Walter's face. He's like, you know, I heard what 33:21.061 --> 33:23.418 you did. I heard this shit you did, like, pulling a gun on that. 33:23.530 --> 33:26.675 You ever do that to me, like, I'll take the gun out, I'll shove it 33:27.175 --> 33:29.665 up your ass and pull the fucking trigger until it goes off. Goes click. 33:29.810 --> 33:33.423 It's so good. And the look on Walter's face the whole time 33:33.520 --> 33:36.956 that Jesus is delivering these threats is just like dead, 33:37.069 --> 33:40.011 like stone-faced, like he could not care, unimpressed. Yeah, 33:40.302 --> 33:43.152 does not care. But that's when the dude, just after he says the click thing, 33:43.201 --> 33:45.484 dude goes, Jesus, you got it, man. 33:46.148 --> 33:49.929 Nobody fucks with the Jesus. And I do love Liam, 33:49.994 --> 33:53.950 his, uh, his sidekick, who I don't think has any lines, but he looks like 33:54.450 --> 33:57.580 kind of a miniaturized Andy Reid. Okay. Just like a, you know, 33:58.080 --> 34:02.100 dorky-looking Midwest mustache, flat-top guy. And an off-duty cop. 34:02.600 --> 34:06.830 I was about to say county sheriff. Yeah. Oh, sheriff's department for sure. 34:06.960 --> 34:10.360 Oh, it's so good. So as, as the Jesus walks away, 34:10.860 --> 34:14.780 you know, there's a little silence and Walter just says, 8-year-olds, dude. Yeah. But there— 34:15.280 --> 34:17.680 but I think it's either before or after the Quintana stuff, they're arguing about, 34:18.180 --> 34:21.640 uh, the situation with Bonnie and the kidnapping, whatever. And, and dude kind of 34:22.140 --> 34:25.640 offhandedly is like, you know, she probably kidnapped herself. Like, people do this stuff. 34:25.750 --> 34:28.414 and, you know, she's a young trophy wife and she doesn't get as much money 34:28.914 --> 34:31.736 as she wants to and all this stuff. Walter immediately takes that as like, 34:31.880 --> 34:36.117 that is what has happened. Yes. And you said it yourself, he is personally offended 34:36.617 --> 34:39.680 by this. That fucking strumpet, that fucking whore, 34:39.969 --> 34:43.452 like all this. And it's like, whoa, bro, like, yeah, you gotta slow down. 34:43.580 --> 34:47.111 This is— this is— we are positing a possibility. This is not 34:47.611 --> 34:50.032 like— no one has any proof. Like, it's just he goes wild about it, 34:50.096 --> 34:53.447 but he's— he— now Walter is convinced. Bunny kidnapped herself, 34:54.089 --> 34:57.503 and that this somehow affects him, which is not the 34:58.003 --> 35:01.767 part that ever really gets explained appropriately. Well, yeah, and so the dude has 35:01.799 --> 35:04.877 been offered like $20,000. That's right. To deliver 35:05.069 --> 35:08.420 this million-dollar ransom, you know, which he doesn't have yet. He's gonna get 35:08.452 --> 35:12.395 that from, from Lebowski. Yeah, but yeah, Walter, his gears 35:12.895 --> 35:15.553 are working, and he is losing his fucking mind about that detail. It is really 35:15.585 --> 35:19.400 funny that he spends the rest of this film just like fully 35:19.900 --> 35:24.100 convinced, like, she kidnapped herself based on this offhand comment that, like, the most 35:24.600 --> 35:28.160 offhand commenting guy that he probably knows made about it, you know? 35:28.660 --> 35:32.520 He's not serious about anything with her. Like, what are you doing? So now the 35:33.020 --> 35:34.519 next thing I think we see is we see the dude, he's like at home 35:35.019 --> 35:38.160 lying down on the rug that he took from Lebowski's house. 35:38.660 --> 35:41.960 Yes. He's got headphones on and the tape little label says, like, you know, 35:42.460 --> 35:45.940 I don't know, 1968 or something, like bowling championships or whatever it was. 35:46.440 --> 35:48.320 And it's just the sounds of pins. Yes. Like there's no talking, there's no— it's— 35:48.820 --> 35:52.150 this isn't like, uh, a cut from the radio with like commentary. It's just 35:52.650 --> 35:55.987 the sounds of balls rolling down lanes and pins knocking down, and he 35:56.487 --> 35:59.855 is in heaven. And later he's listening to his headphones. I think he's listening to 36:00.355 --> 36:03.210 like whale sounds or something like that. So in his headphones, he does not listen 36:03.710 --> 36:07.174 to music, just this like comfort sounds. A lot of atmospheric kind 36:07.674 --> 36:10.818 of stuff. But he opens his eyes. He's not asleep, he's just sort of enjoying 36:10.834 --> 36:13.033 the clip. But he opens his eyes and looks up and sees 3 people, 36:13.097 --> 36:16.243 a woman and 2 men. And one of the men punches him in the face 36:16.388 --> 36:19.662 and knocks him out. And we get this one of 2, I think, really significant 36:20.162 --> 36:24.639 sort of dream sequences. In this movie where he's like flying over 36:24.719 --> 36:28.027 LA, and then he— at some point I think he's, 36:28.412 --> 36:31.303 he's got the bowling ball shows up in his hand and then, you know, 36:31.319 --> 36:34.658 pulls him to the ground or whatever. Sinking. Yeah, yeah, because this is 36:34.691 --> 36:37.725 the shorter one. This is the shorter one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but you know, 36:37.757 --> 36:40.664 it's definitely— but the way that they show him, because they don't ever show him 36:40.712 --> 36:44.148 actually getting hit, they'll just kind of show the person about to hit 36:44.648 --> 36:48.195 him and then it cuts to like his There's like a sequence, like a bright 36:48.259 --> 36:50.974 burst of starlight or something, you know, kind of like a flash of a camera 36:51.474 --> 36:54.813 almost, and then we're in the dream sequence. It's good stuff. When he comes to, 36:54.909 --> 36:57.367 he's got a big bruise on his jaw and he's now laying on the wood 36:57.479 --> 37:01.720 floor. Yes. There's no more rug, and the phone is— his 37:01.752 --> 37:04.354 phone is ringing, right? Isn't that— or is it the phone that they give him? 37:04.402 --> 37:07.470 The phone already, right? Oh, that's what it was. This time was just the beepers. 37:07.518 --> 37:10.811 The beeper's going off. It's Brandt. He's got to go 37:10.908 --> 37:14.230 back to Back to the Lebowski's to figure out what's going on because now 37:14.278 --> 37:17.695 it's you know so here's the the phone will call you once big like satellite 37:18.195 --> 37:20.166 because this was the early ninety s right yeah movie came out in ninety eight 37:20.214 --> 37:23.551 but it's set in like ninety one ninety two right so probably ninety one so 37:23.904 --> 37:27.370 you've got this huge like box it looks like a it's like a Vietnam like 37:27.659 --> 37:30.739 communications phone that a guy has to wear on a backpack kind of thing radar 37:30.803 --> 37:34.076 had in MASH like it's that kind of whatever satellite 37:34.576 --> 37:37.558 phone basically and so here you go and here's the case with the million dollar 37:38.023 --> 37:40.593 orders, await their call, you know, do whatever they say. 37:41.380 --> 37:44.463 Her life is in your hands. And he goes, oh man, don't say— Mr. 37:44.511 --> 37:47.595 Lebowski asked me to repeat that. Her life is in your hands, dude. 37:47.964 --> 37:50.373 Her life is in your hands. Like, the way he says the third one, 37:51.031 --> 37:53.553 her life is in your hands. Like, this is so perfect. Yeah. 37:54.468 --> 37:57.407 Uh, and they tell him, you know, okay, show up alone. 37:57.455 --> 38:00.844 Alone. And, uh, and of course 38:00.972 --> 38:04.120 Walter shows up and he's like, all right, dude, let's go. 38:04.184 --> 38:07.967 Dude goes him. Because literally the store that Walter's staying in, for instance, says Sobchak 38:08.467 --> 38:11.877 Security on the thing. So it's his own store. Like, obviously the dude agreed 38:12.377 --> 38:15.803 to go pick Walter up for this. So the dude's already breaking the rules of 38:16.303 --> 38:19.681 the, of the engagement by picking Walter up. But when Walter gets in, he's got 38:19.729 --> 38:23.062 a like leather briefcase full of underwear, and then what, 38:23.254 --> 38:27.180 you know, I— My dirty undies, the whites. The whites. But, and then a gun 38:27.680 --> 38:30.257 wrapped up in like butcher paper or something, or blanket. I don't know what it 38:30.757 --> 38:34.615 is, but it's like wrapped And he pushes Dude over so that he'll start driving. 38:35.111 --> 38:37.611 And they basically wait for the call. They get the call, they get told to 38:38.111 --> 38:41.215 go to a particular bridge and, like, all this stuff, whatever. And, you know, 38:41.280 --> 38:44.724 Walter's convincing the Dude at the time, like, you said it yourself, she kidnapped 38:45.224 --> 38:48.826 herself. We're gonna just, you know, we're gonna throw out the ringer, we're gonna keep 38:49.326 --> 38:51.694 the million, and whatever. And he's like, are you fucking serious? Like, what if I'm 38:51.774 --> 38:54.353 wrong? What if I'm wrong? Yeah. 38:54.994 --> 38:58.150 And so this is fully Walter's plan. Like, we're taking this money here, 38:58.503 --> 39:01.693 and I've got the ringer with my undies in there. So as 39:01.725 --> 39:05.078 they're driving to the location, he gets the call. The dude gets a call, 39:05.415 --> 39:08.431 and he's like, "Yeah, yeah, we're we're on the way." Yeah, where do you want 39:08.463 --> 39:11.287 us? Where do you want us to go? Yeah, 39:11.351 --> 39:15.041 he's like, "Oh, me and the driver, man. You think I'm handling the 39:15.541 --> 39:19.020 money, talking on the phone, and driving?" I mean, quick thinking, quick thinking 39:19.036 --> 39:22.100 by the dude. That's a good point, man. That's a lot to ask one guy 39:22.600 --> 39:25.918 to do. But yeah, they they basically so they have to go to 39:25.967 --> 39:29.740 a bridge. And, uh, they call again as they approach the bridge, 39:30.240 --> 39:32.340 'cause like Walter's plan now is like, okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna, 39:32.840 --> 39:35.520 we're gonna, you know, give 'em the ringer, but then I'll grab one of 'em 39:36.020 --> 39:38.620 and beat it out of them about where they're keeping Bunny or whatever, right? 39:39.120 --> 39:41.740 So we'll bring her home. So even if she didn't kidnap herself, 39:41.930 --> 39:45.000 we're gonna get her and return her, which is all they wanted for their million 39:45.500 --> 39:48.120 bucks. Who cares who ended up with the million bucks? Exactly, which is, you know, 39:48.620 --> 39:50.600 I'm not gonna call it a good plan, but it at least has some logic 39:51.100 --> 39:53.580 to it potentially. You can follow it a little bit. But then they get another 39:54.080 --> 39:56.400 call, and the kidnappers, who have those thick German accents, we should mention, right? 39:57.683 --> 40:01.020 Say, you throw the money across the— when you get to the bridge, 40:01.116 --> 40:04.356 throw the money out and keep driving. That's it. That's the drop-off. 40:04.565 --> 40:07.709 And it's like, fucking Walter's like, no, no, that screws up the plan. Oh, 40:07.790 --> 40:10.100 well, you should call him back and let him know that it messes up your 40:10.600 --> 40:14.014 plan, Walter. You know? So dude is like, I'm just gonna throw the real money 40:14.110 --> 40:17.512 out 'cause fuck this. And Walter's like, no, no, 40:17.528 --> 40:21.330 no, we're gonna throw the ringer out. And so they throw— he 40:21.830 --> 40:25.597 throws the ringer and then dives out with the gun, basically. 40:26.014 --> 40:28.564 Yeah. He's like, I got an Uzi. I didn't come naked or whatever. And the 40:29.064 --> 40:32.299 gun— Which just starts firing on its own. Well, he hits the ground so hard. 40:32.892 --> 40:35.618 You know, I think people underestimate— or yeah, 40:35.698 --> 40:39.609 underestimate how fast they're going. If you're gonna try to exit a vehicle 40:39.625 --> 40:42.992 anything over about 5 miles an hour— I was gonna say, dude, yeah, 40:43.938 --> 40:47.320 if it's going 20, you think you can smoothly— no, you're gonna be in big 40:47.820 --> 40:51.120 trouble. That's a lot of pain. And you know, they weren't going slow, so whatever. 40:51.408 --> 40:55.339 So he tumbles out, the gun flies out, spins around, shoots the 40:55.420 --> 40:58.181 dude's car tire, causing him to crash, 40:58.390 --> 41:02.083 right? And, and just the whole thing's a nightmare. And then the guys have dirt 41:02.583 --> 41:05.487 bikes, the official vehicle of crime. The official vehicle of crime. And are driving off 41:05.696 --> 41:09.212 in the opposite direction with the ringer full of Walter's 41:09.712 --> 41:12.102 undies. And, and they're watching him, and the dude is trying to be like, 41:12.118 --> 41:16.133 hey, hey, wait, wait, you took the wrong suitcase. And then they're 41:16.633 --> 41:19.535 sitting there realizing like, well, these guys are gone. And then we get a Fuck 41:19.599 --> 41:22.355 it, dude. Let's go bowling. Let's go bowling. This is not the last time we'll 41:22.855 --> 41:26.552 hear that either. Often repeated, and again, would be used by my 41:27.052 --> 41:30.013 friends and I in college to mean anything. Anything at all. Fuck it, dude. 41:30.077 --> 41:33.586 It's just kind of like saying this place is dead anyway from swingers. It just 41:34.086 --> 41:37.271 means let's leave. That's all. This place is dead anyway. Let's go bowling. Oh, 41:37.287 --> 41:40.700 I mixed my metaphors. No. All right. So then we cut back to the bowling 41:41.200 --> 41:45.010 alley. Yes. Dude still got the sat phone with him. Hasn't turned it off. 41:45.267 --> 41:48.694 I notice. It just rings incessantly. While Walter 41:48.743 --> 41:52.578 is trying to bowl. 41:53.841 --> 41:57.304 They end up leaving the bowling alley and the 41:57.804 --> 42:00.226 car is gone. Mm-hmm. Now, apparently they parked it in a handicapped spot, which like, 42:00.307 --> 42:03.955 I'm assuming Walter drove 'cause he was driving earlier. That's terrible. 42:05.028 --> 42:08.179 I really have a problem with people misusing the disabled parking 42:08.679 --> 42:11.833 spaces. So I'm glad the car's gone. Unfortunately, it was actually stolen, which is like, 42:12.880 --> 42:16.860 That to me says more about the person who stole the car. 42:17.360 --> 42:19.780 You stole a car from a handicap spot. You didn't know that wasn't a handicapped 42:20.280 --> 42:22.760 person's car. Do you think if they did, if they were like, 42:23.260 --> 42:27.280 um, surveilling the handicap spot and waiting for a non-handicapped 42:27.780 --> 42:29.980 person to park there and then steal their car? That's actually a good point. 42:30.000 --> 42:32.980 They would see the car, see there's no tags, and go, well, this person parked 42:33.480 --> 42:36.340 illegally, maybe I'll steal this. Actually, that's a good point. Maybe they are citizen vigilantes. 42:36.840 --> 42:40.331 Uh, the Punisher. Maybe Frank Castle took the car. Uh, you know, 42:40.395 --> 42:43.912 like, uh, Jim Carrey in Me, Myself, and Irene. There's that scene where the guy 42:44.412 --> 42:47.430 like pulls in in the convertible and then hops out, but he was really going 42:47.462 --> 42:50.995 to pick up an old guy after he's like, you know, smashed the, 42:51.220 --> 42:54.753 the, uh, brake lights out of his car. Um, yeah, 42:54.914 --> 42:58.046 the car is gone. So yeah, fuck you if you're stealing a car, 42:58.062 --> 43:01.129 but especially if you're stealing a handicapped person's car. But a little less fuck you 43:01.629 --> 43:04.068 if you're stealing a car that is illegally parked in a handicapped space. Correct. 43:04.165 --> 43:07.134 A little less fuck you. Correct. But still, don't steal cars. Uh, okay, 43:07.535 --> 43:10.806 so then we get to, uh, I think he gets a 43:11.306 --> 43:14.190 phone call to meet Maude, right? I mean, that's sort of like where we're at. 43:14.495 --> 43:18.167 Yeah. And so as they go out and they realize that the car is stolen, 43:18.199 --> 43:21.535 like during this entire scene, his phone has been ringing off the 43:21.551 --> 43:24.774 hook, right? And, uh, I think one of the last things is Donnie's just like, 43:25.159 --> 43:28.992 phone's ringing, dude. Phone's ringing, dude. Did you know that? Fucking Donnie, 43:29.024 --> 43:32.840 I love it. Um, so he goes to report, 43:33.017 --> 43:36.320 uh, or he's reporting the car being stolen, right? The cops are at 43:36.820 --> 43:39.771 his place. Yep. And, and he's talking about what was in the car, but he 43:40.271 --> 43:43.058 can't really say this briefcase with a million bucks is in there. So he was 43:43.558 --> 43:47.510 just like, yeah, in my briefcase, uh, there was a cassette player and, 43:47.590 --> 43:51.059 uh, my Creedence tapes. And, uh, my briefcase— like, what was in 43:51.559 --> 43:54.431 the briefcase? Like, papers, business papers. What do you do? 43:54.721 --> 43:56.238 I'm unemployed. 43:57.917 --> 44:00.128 Oh, but that's right, while they're sitting there with— what, he's sitting there with the 44:00.628 --> 44:03.453 cops giving a statement, the phone rings, the answering machine picks up, and it's Ma. 44:04.260 --> 44:07.720 played by Julianne Moore, saying, you know, Mr. Lebowski, this is 44:08.220 --> 44:11.420 Maude Lebowski. Like, I took your rug. I'd like to speak with you. 44:11.920 --> 44:13.920 And then the cop goes— 'cause he mentioned too, like, oh, somebody took my rug 44:14.420 --> 44:17.300 too. And he's like, oh, hey, good news about the rug. He's like, no, 44:17.800 --> 44:21.680 that's a separate matter. Separate incident. Well, good news about the rug. So he's now 44:22.180 --> 44:25.700 been contacted by Maude, who we'll see in a moment is the person who 44:26.200 --> 44:29.180 we saw when he got punched out and the rug got stolen, right? 44:29.680 --> 44:32.560 That's who that was. And so he shows up at her place, which is like 44:33.060 --> 44:36.180 sort of a— like an art work-live loft kind of thing with like things, 44:36.276 --> 44:39.776 this crazy contraption set up where she's painting by 44:39.904 --> 44:43.339 being strapped to the ceiling and like pulled along a pulley system 44:43.839 --> 44:45.795 or something. Yeah. By 2 people who are helping her, I think the 2 guys 44:45.843 --> 44:49.054 that were with her before, as she just flings paint 44:49.554 --> 44:53.516 down onto a canvas that's on the floor while she is mostly 44:53.548 --> 44:56.309 nude. Yeah. Very interesting choice, but hey, 44:56.502 --> 45:02.682 artists do crazy stuff. I mean, and also people who inherit 45:03.182 --> 45:05.188 an amount of money that they never have to actually work or be judged by 45:05.688 --> 45:08.110 anybody their entire life, can just do whatever the fuck they want. That is also 45:08.159 --> 45:11.290 true. Um, so yeah, definitely one of those weird artists. And they did a good 45:11.790 --> 45:14.871 job of capturing her, uh, stuff. And all of her stuff was kind of, 45:15.144 --> 45:19.705 you know, very like Jackson Pollock-y with a little, you know, more like 45:19.866 --> 45:23.174 edge to it, right? Because there was like a sexual thing, little Georgia O'Keeffe going 45:23.674 --> 45:26.948 on. Yeah, definitely. Um, but her character is hilarious, and the way 45:27.448 --> 45:30.288 that she speaks is really funny because she has this accent for no fucking reason, 45:30.304 --> 45:33.850 right? Right, which is amazing because, because we learned, right, like she ostensibly— 45:34.350 --> 45:38.010 we can understand, like her mother married the big Lebowski, Jeffrey Lebowski, 45:38.510 --> 45:40.710 um, and all the money was her mother's. Like it came from like that side 45:41.210 --> 45:43.350 of the family or whatever. So she's obviously old money in that way. But it 45:43.850 --> 45:47.330 does seem like she probably grew up in or around Southern California. This is where, 45:47.830 --> 45:50.690 you know, because Lebowski himself has been such a pillar of the community for so 45:51.190 --> 45:53.510 long. Like they obviously have been there a long time. So the affectation and the— 45:54.010 --> 45:55.970 it really is kind of like— it's not like you grew up in some other 45:56.470 --> 45:59.970 country, picked up a little accent or a little affectation. She's doing it. It's a 46:00.470 --> 46:03.188 Hilaria Baldwin type thing. There you go. Um, yes. 46:03.589 --> 46:07.148 Yeah, so, so what she's explaining is like, you know, my father, 46:07.596 --> 46:10.818 uh, doesn't really have all this stuff. Like, 46:10.899 --> 46:13.816 we give him an allowance. Like, he runs the charity and stuff. 46:14.409 --> 46:17.968 And, um, and then this Bunny Lebowski, like, she's into some bad stuff. 46:18.016 --> 46:20.998 Like, I don't approve of who he's with, and this is what she's into. 46:21.062 --> 46:24.348 Like, she was into porn, and she shows, uh, the dude this video, 46:24.364 --> 46:27.730 right, which starred Bunny Lebowski and the other guy who we saw 46:28.230 --> 46:31.225 floating in the pool earlier, whose, uh, stage name in this is Carl Hungus, 46:31.257 --> 46:35.413 which is very good. Yes, good stage name. Uh, Humungus Hungus. Probably, maybe hashtag 46:35.913 --> 46:39.342 it. Didn't see it in this porn. It's called Log Jamming. That's right. 46:39.456 --> 46:41.615 And it's just the classic, like the cable guys, 46:42.314 --> 46:45.355 like he had to fix the cable, you know. And, 46:46.163 --> 46:49.544 and she's sitting there, Maude is commenting on it. She's like, the story 46:49.560 --> 46:53.166 is ludicrous. And then in the movie, 46:53.263 --> 46:56.432 like there's like a topless roommate that comes out. Oh, my friend came over to 46:56.932 --> 46:59.923 like whatever. And she goes, you can imagine what happens next. He goes, does he 47:00.423 --> 47:02.459 fix the cable? Um, 47:03.775 --> 47:07.466 but yeah, so, so, so she says she suspects 47:07.966 --> 47:11.815 that her father is embezzling money from the foundation, and that's where this million-dollar 47:12.315 --> 47:14.575 scheme came from. She's like, well, he's in on it, she's in on it, 47:14.783 --> 47:17.704 somebody's using this to steal this money, uh, from the foundation. 47:18.298 --> 47:21.187 And then she says before, uh, the dude leaves, like, 47:21.267 --> 47:24.460 okay, we gave you a nasty crack on the head, sorry about that. Oh, 47:24.541 --> 47:28.249 also, the reason you can't have the rug that you took specifically is that this 47:28.749 --> 47:31.205 was a gift to me from— or a gift from my mother. It has sentimental 47:31.705 --> 47:33.614 value. She bought it for her mother. It was a gift to her mother from 47:34.114 --> 47:37.325 her, and so there's a sentimental value. Um, so she's like, you know, we'll give 47:37.825 --> 47:39.782 you money, you could buy a rug if you need that. And she says, 47:40.056 --> 47:43.027 go see this doctor that I want you to see. He's a good man and 47:43.527 --> 47:47.316 thorough. Thorough. I love the way she says thorough. I have— I 47:47.846 --> 47:51.283 will still say that knowing no one around me understands what I'm saying, but if 47:51.783 --> 47:54.826 I use the word word thorough, whatever. I can't even say it the right way 47:55.326 --> 47:58.912 anymore. I will say it like that. Like, yeah, thorough. Sounds— it 47:59.412 --> 48:03.351 sounds more appropriate. So he gets driven home in a limo with— 48:03.784 --> 48:07.117 who is that? That's a comedian. Dom Herrera. That's right. Who I think I 48:07.229 --> 48:10.690 kept saying in a different episode when I was trying to refer to Dan Hedaya. 48:10.771 --> 48:14.136 I kept saying Dom Herrera. Oh yeah, in Commando. Yeah, 48:14.761 --> 48:17.805 ridiculous on my part. But this is Dom Herrera, not Dan Hedaya. 48:17.870 --> 48:20.946 Maya, uh, and they're just chatting or whatever. And, 48:21.090 --> 48:24.392 um, he's like drinking a White Russian in the back of the limo. Limo drives 48:24.892 --> 48:27.180 him home, and he says to me— he gets home, he goes, hey, who's your 48:27.680 --> 48:30.353 friend back there? And there's like a purple VW Bug or something. Yeah. It was 48:30.853 --> 48:32.901 like, he followed us all the way. And dude's like, oh, let me go check 48:33.401 --> 48:36.538 it out. So he goes out to look, but before he can go, another identically 48:36.570 --> 48:40.336 dressed limo driver, same cap, everything, grabs him and pulls him 48:40.836 --> 48:44.243 into another limo wherein there is the Big Lebowski and Grant, 48:44.550 --> 48:47.761 and they're, and they're talking about like what, you know, what happened, 48:47.793 --> 48:51.391 dude. Like, yeah. And as the dude is grabbed, he's holding his White Russian. 48:51.601 --> 48:54.971 So another great, uh, quote from the movie is he's being like kind of muscled 48:55.471 --> 48:57.920 into this limo, he's like, hey, careful, there's a beverage here, man. 48:59.403 --> 49:03.311 Classic. It's good stuff. Um, but he's never concerned about 49:03.811 --> 49:06.684 himself really. He's kind of concerned about just his stuff. Yeah, 49:06.925 --> 49:10.636 yeah. He likes his environment. Like, he's not like, don't hit me in the head. 49:10.700 --> 49:14.316 He's Don't mess up too much stuff going on, like, around here, you know? 49:14.412 --> 49:17.762 It's like, that's kind of what things are. So, you know, he says, 49:17.794 --> 49:21.401 nothing is fucked here, which is a great line. Yes. Um, and he kept— keeps 49:21.901 --> 49:24.126 saying, like, well, look, you're not— you guys are not privy to all the new 49:24.626 --> 49:28.903 shit. A lot of new shit has come to light, man. New information is involved 49:29.000 --> 49:31.420 here, and you guys, you don't know, uh, 49:32.206 --> 49:34.883 all the stuff. And it's like trying to explain it, and they're just like, 49:35.171 --> 49:39.021 she kidnapped herself, man. Did that ever occur to you? And Brandt 49:39.521 --> 49:43.033 has this look on his face the entire scene, just the funniest, 49:43.130 --> 49:46.966 like, frozen look. Again, this is freaking 49:47.466 --> 49:50.192 him the hell out. Like, he's not used to dealing with chaos. Like, every bit 49:50.692 --> 49:53.611 of Brandt's life is planned out, including the script he tells you when you show 49:53.627 --> 49:56.452 up to the house. Here's a question for you. Do you think Brandt— so, 49:56.532 --> 49:59.020 so I think, you know, the end result here, right, is that we can be 49:59.520 --> 50:02.840 pretty sure Maude has got the right idea about what actually was going down, 50:02.872 --> 50:05.988 that Lebowski was trying to, like, embezzle the money in order to run Okay, 50:06.393 --> 50:09.392 do you think Brandt is in on that, or is Brandt just following orders because 50:09.892 --> 50:12.001 he's being told what to do? Like, I, I can't quite put my finger on 50:12.501 --> 50:15.795 it, but yeah, because there's not— like, is there 50:16.295 --> 50:19.466 anything that indicates that Brandt is more clever than he's letting on? 50:19.740 --> 50:23.427 He seems pretty clueless and just like serve Lebowski at 50:23.927 --> 50:27.473 all costs, try to make him look good. Yeah, it's pro— he probably doesn't know 50:27.537 --> 50:31.099 there is something foul afoot. I feel like, I feel like Brandt's probably 50:31.599 --> 50:35.346 an innocent innocent involvee. Like, if he had designs on like stealing money, 50:35.378 --> 50:37.442 he probably would have figured out a way to do it on his own. 50:37.491 --> 50:40.989 Maybe. Yeah. Um, but so they tell him 50:40.990 --> 50:44.097 there, after the dude says, well, she kidnapped herself, you know, 50:44.162 --> 50:47.237 this isn't a big deal. And they're like, all right, give him the envelope. 50:47.285 --> 50:51.220 And they give him this envelope and he unwraps it and there is 50:51.659 --> 50:55.393 the toe with the same colored green paint that we 50:55.893 --> 50:58.060 saw Bunny painting her toenail earlier. Yeah. True. 50:58.290 --> 51:01.950 Uh, missing or artificial extremity? 51:02.400 --> 51:06.180 Like, we didn't quite get— we've always said limbs. Yeah, it doesn't quite match, 51:06.680 --> 51:09.920 but it's close though, man. It's, it's definitely close. Um, yeah, anyways, so then we 51:10.420 --> 51:13.399 cut to a diner. Walter and the dude are sitting at a diner together and 51:13.899 --> 51:16.520 they're talking about— basically dude telling him, see how wrong you were, Walter? Yeah. 51:17.020 --> 51:19.200 She did not kidnap herself. They cut off her fucking toe and sent it to 51:19.700 --> 51:20.960 him. And he goes, you want a toe? I can get you a toe by 51:21.460 --> 51:23.700 3 PM with nail polish. You don't want to know how, but I can do 51:24.200 --> 51:27.360 it. It's like Walter is just so dug in, you know? He's like, there's no 51:27.860 --> 51:30.820 way that I'm wrong about this, dude. Like, she kidnapped herself. Yeah. 51:31.320 --> 51:33.980 Um, and there's a waitress comes over and basically asks them to, like, keep it 51:34.480 --> 51:37.400 down. Like, this is a family restaurant. Could you keep it down? And one of 51:37.900 --> 51:41.620 my favorite Walter lines is, excuse me, ma'am, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected 51:42.120 --> 51:45.360 prior restraint, which is a First Amendment thing. But, like, yeah, it's just— I just 51:45.860 --> 51:49.360 love— I love that. Roundly rejected prior restraint. And then he said— and 51:49.860 --> 51:52.180 then the dude's, like, embarrassed by this. He's like, all right, I'm outta here. 51:52.680 --> 51:55.910 And Walter's like, I'm staying. I'm finishing my coffee. And like pounding the counter. 51:56.410 --> 51:58.430 And saying it out loud, just waiting for people to be looking at him, 51:58.930 --> 52:02.510 you know? But also losing interest in his own thing that he's dug his 52:03.010 --> 52:05.330 feet into. Yes. Oh, it becomes just a matter of principle. And here's the thing 52:05.830 --> 52:08.450 too, a guy who claims or seems to have a fairly good understanding of, 52:08.950 --> 52:12.130 you know, like the Constitution and freedom and like, you know, this stuff, it's like, 52:12.630 --> 52:15.410 bro, you know the First Amendment does not apply to like diner counter waitresses. 52:15.910 --> 52:17.770 Like they can ask you to shut the fuck up and get out no matter 52:18.270 --> 52:21.950 what. This is not the government. This is not Congress executing prior restraint 52:22.450 --> 52:26.210 on you. Like, Yeah, anyway, uh, so the dude is back 52:26.710 --> 52:29.870 home. Yes. Uh, and he's enjoying a nice bath in his tub. It's funny, 52:30.700 --> 52:34.690 whenever— almost every single time it shows him smoking a joint, he's smoking the tiniest 52:35.190 --> 52:38.190 little rope. He's never, like, got a fresh one, right? So he's got the little 52:38.690 --> 52:40.990 metal holder. Can I do a J? Can I do a J? That's where he's 52:41.490 --> 52:44.630 got a hole in. Yeah, yeah. Um, so he's enjoying in the 52:45.130 --> 52:48.030 tub and then kind of looks up at his front door and then sees— oh, 52:48.530 --> 52:51.150 before that. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Oh yeah, so the cops call basically and are 52:51.650 --> 52:52.750 like, hey, Mr. Lebowski, like, this is so-and-so from LAPD. We found your car. 52:55.103 --> 52:57.555 And he's just like, you know, you can come check it out, come get it 52:57.571 --> 53:00.568 here, or whatever. And he's just like, far out, man! Like, he's so happy. 53:01.017 --> 53:04.527 But then what gets his attention is the sound of the answering machine stopping 53:04.559 --> 53:07.444 because of a crashing noise. He looks over, 53:07.588 --> 53:10.553 and the 3 nihilists from, you know, the kidnappers, like, whatever, 53:10.650 --> 53:13.535 have come in and have destroyed his answering machine with a baseball bat. Yeah. 53:13.679 --> 53:17.317 Come walking into the bathroom with, like, a marmot or weasel or whatever the heck 53:17.365 --> 53:20.988 it is on a leash. And he 53:21.488 --> 53:25.560 looks down and goes, nice marmot. Again, no like 53:25.576 --> 53:29.575 no concern about what's happening to him, and and they throw 53:30.075 --> 53:32.755 it in the tub. So they're threatening, you know, we're gonna we're gonna cut your 53:32.771 --> 53:35.935 Johnson off, Bowski, and they throw the marmot in there. 53:36.063 --> 53:39.822 And the only there's I think there's two screams 53:39.838 --> 53:42.889 like how we did the best screams in Home Alone, right? Where he does a 53:42.905 --> 53:46.326 real like Marv with a tarantula on him type scream, 53:46.824 --> 53:50.791 and they both have to do with his dick being threatened. So he 53:50.839 --> 53:53.631 throws the marmot in the tub, and Bowski. Or the dude, 53:53.743 --> 53:57.509 like really lets it rip. And then a little later on, he drops 53:58.009 --> 54:01.082 a roach like in his lap, and he starts freaking out. And that's the only 54:01.114 --> 54:04.287 thing that gets him the whole movie. Oh man! So, 54:05.424 --> 54:08.709 so these guys, you know, and and they're telling him, 54:08.789 --> 54:12.202 you know, we believe in nothing, Lebowski. We are nihilists. I love that. 54:12.394 --> 54:15.791 I love the nihilist who has to be like, yeah, we believe in nothing. 54:16.336 --> 54:19.300 We come back tomorrow. We cut off your Johnson. So they're gonna come back tomorrow. 54:19.364 --> 54:22.930 They want the money, right? So he goes to pick up his car 54:23.430 --> 54:25.750 and, you know, it's all banged up and the cops tell him, yeah, they found 54:26.250 --> 54:29.870 it, you know, crashed into an embankment, like, or whatever. And so they're looking, 54:30.370 --> 54:32.070 he can't get into the front door. Yeah, you got to go around the side. 54:33.130 --> 54:36.190 No briefcase. Yeah, no briefcase. But hey, the stereo and the Creedence 54:36.690 --> 54:39.230 tapes are there, like, you know, and he has to go in the side and 54:39.730 --> 54:42.050 he's like, oh, what is that smell? He's like, oh yes, homeless person probably slept 54:42.550 --> 54:44.410 in it or used it as a toilet and moved on. Like, oh God, 54:44.910 --> 54:47.650 this guy couldn't be having a worse day. Uh, you got any leads? And this 54:48.150 --> 54:51.550 is— and the cop is like, leads? Oh yeah, we got— they got 54:52.050 --> 54:54.250 a bunch of leads down at the crime lab. They got 5 detectives working on 54:54.750 --> 54:58.030 this. They got us working in shifts. Such a dick. But also, 54:58.530 --> 55:01.470 like, like, I feel like a dick but also an appropriate answer. You really think 55:01.970 --> 55:05.170 they're gonna be, like, investigating? They found your car, bro. Like, that's the best you're 55:05.670 --> 55:07.310 gonna get. You shouldn't even have wished for that. Yeah, 55:07.810 --> 55:11.750 yeah. Oh my God. Um, so he's now 55:12.192 --> 55:15.300 Nothing is upsetting Walter more than the dude's 55:15.800 --> 55:20.059 explanation of these guys that come in, because he is furious that they're 55:20.559 --> 55:23.584 nihilists. Well, he first says that they're Nazis, and then Donnie goes, 55:23.728 --> 55:27.317 were they Nazis, dude? And he was like, well, look, they're threatening genital 55:27.654 --> 55:31.243 mutilation and violence. Like, what? Splitting hairs here. And he goes, they're not 55:31.743 --> 55:34.671 Nazis, Walter. They said they were nihilists. And yeah, that blows Walter away. 55:35.264 --> 55:38.997 Another great line, not something that I repeat because it's actually pretty terrible, 55:39.030 --> 55:42.814 but the great written line is, say what you will about the tenets of National 55:43.314 --> 55:46.777 Socialism, at least it's an ethos. Yeah, it's really funny 55:46.809 --> 55:50.643 by Walter. And again, him, him needing to be right 55:51.143 --> 55:53.772 at the expense of being an asshole. Oh my God, right? It's like, it's like 55:53.788 --> 55:56.916 people who would be like, well, you have to admit, I mean, Hitler was a 55:57.416 --> 55:59.756 great leader because look at all the number of people he— it's like, clearly, 55:59.804 --> 56:02.692 shut your fucking face. Seriously. Um, 56:03.350 --> 56:06.029 so, uh, so yeah, Walter's like one of those guys. 56:06.600 --> 56:10.370 And what does he say? 56:10.870 --> 56:13.750 Uh, he says, I don't need your sympathy, I need my fucking Johnson, 56:14.010 --> 56:17.790 man. And they're just like, well, let's just focus on the tournament, 56:18.290 --> 56:21.590 dude. And dude goes, fuck the tournament. And Walt's like, whoa, fuck the tournament? 56:22.550 --> 56:25.270 You're clearly not in the mood to get cheered up, dude. So we're gonna go— 56:25.770 --> 56:27.390 come on, Donnie, let's go bowling, let's go get a lane. Like, and he's just 56:27.890 --> 56:31.310 like super fucking like offended by fuck the tournament. Are you kidding me? 56:31.810 --> 56:36.280 Yeah. Um, so he goes now looking for— um, 56:36.714 --> 56:39.750 I love that when he orders a drink at the bar, he orders it as 56:39.798 --> 56:43.058 a Caucasian, which is another— I don't know if that originated in this film, 56:43.074 --> 56:46.013 but that's, that's a funny trait for the character to have. I think that definitely 56:46.110 --> 56:48.776 was a way that drink was referred to as well. Yeah, which is, you know, 56:48.792 --> 56:51.859 because the White Russian and taking you to the Caucasus Mountains are all out that 56:51.892 --> 56:55.650 way. So, but he orders the drink and then someone sidles 56:55.746 --> 56:58.509 up next to him there at the bar and it's the stranger. It's Sam Elliott. 56:58.573 --> 57:02.590 That's right. Talking to him about like, your style, dude. Dude, he orders a sarsaparilla. 57:03.090 --> 57:05.870 Yeah, he's like, you got any— you got good sarsaparilla? I got Sioux City. 57:06.370 --> 57:09.750 Mm, that's a good one. So fucking good. And he's— yeah, he's got the exact 57:10.250 --> 57:13.890 same mustaches in Tombstone. Like, he looks great. Like, um, yeah, 57:14.390 --> 57:17.270 he's wonderful there. So he gets to chat with him for a little bit and— 57:17.770 --> 57:21.090 take her easy. Yeah, take it easy, dude. Um, so, 57:21.590 --> 57:25.050 uh, so the dude is back now at Maude Lebowski's 57:25.550 --> 57:29.430 artist loft, uh, and again making himself, uh, a White Russian. I didn't look 57:29.930 --> 57:30.990 up exactly how many. I was trying to track. I had that he made himself 57:32.770 --> 57:35.741 himself 9 White Russians during this film, 57:35.918 --> 57:38.986 or had the bartender make for him. Yeah, yeah. Um, it would be good to 57:39.486 --> 57:42.455 go Russian for Russian with the dude. Oh no, bad. 57:42.503 --> 57:46.037 See when you puke. I was gonna say, but in some of these cases, 57:46.053 --> 57:49.346 he is making an extremely compromised White Russian. He's using the 57:49.846 --> 57:53.812 powdered milk. Yeah, powdered creamer. No, get out of here. I am only 57:53.908 --> 57:57.056 gonna consume that when I'm in the nuclear fallout shelter and not 57:57.556 --> 58:00.970 a second before. But the thing is, you're not going to have Kahlua after the 58:01.470 --> 58:04.570 nuclear war, man. That's the vodka, maybe the powder creamer, maybe, 58:05.070 --> 58:07.810 but you're not going to have the Kahlua. Yeah. 58:08.310 --> 58:12.230 Um, so let's see. Oh, so basically he, 58:12.730 --> 58:16.270 he tells Maude like, oh, the dude from the porn that you 58:16.770 --> 58:19.650 showed me was the one who showed up, you know, showed up at my house 58:20.150 --> 58:22.630 and threw him more money and like, yeah, all this stuff. And he's like, 58:23.130 --> 58:25.550 Uli? Like, that's like, she's good friends with him. That's her co-star. He was in 58:26.050 --> 58:29.518 this band Autobahn and like all this stuff. And there's this other guy there at 58:29.566 --> 58:33.027 Mods who's just like giggling all the time. Most infuriating guy to 58:33.527 --> 58:36.311 be there. He looks kind of like Vincent Price, but not really. Like, oh, 58:36.391 --> 58:39.531 what is— I forget his name. She's like, oh, he's the visual 58:39.579 --> 58:43.873 artist, whatever his name, as if the dude should know him. Like, so she's existing 58:43.921 --> 58:46.821 in this kind of like Andy Warhol style, like, uh, 58:47.301 --> 58:50.458 circle there. And, um, yeah, and I love 58:50.474 --> 58:54.495 that they give the backstory to this guy, that he had this like— that 58:54.995 --> 58:59.029 he was in this band called Autobot. Completely unnecessary, but just adds so much funny 58:59.061 --> 59:02.413 shit from Like, okay, what are you doing when you fail out of a German 59:02.913 --> 59:06.103 techno band in the mid-'80s? I guess you go do porno in the U.S. 59:06.199 --> 59:09.937 Like, there you go. There you go. It's interesting. 59:10.370 --> 59:14.364 But Mod wants to make sure, first of all, that that the 59:14.445 --> 59:17.733 dude goes and sees that doctor. She's like, you know, I gave you this doctor's 59:18.233 --> 59:20.076 info. You haven't seen him yet. Yeah. You gotta go see. I don't want to 59:20.576 --> 59:23.781 be responsible for like late onset symptoms or anything like that. Long term effects. 59:23.845 --> 59:26.059 Please do it. So he does. He goes to the doctor. 59:27.130 --> 59:29.700 Uh, and, you know, again, he's listening to headphones. It might actually be music this 59:30.200 --> 59:31.540 time. I can't remember if we can hear what's in his headphones or not while 59:32.040 --> 59:34.360 the doctor's over and asks him to drop his shorts or whatever. And he's like, 59:34.860 --> 59:36.820 no, no, no, no, no, he hit me right here, you know, pointing to his 59:37.320 --> 59:39.610 chin. Like, I understand, drop your shorts please. 59:39.680 --> 59:43.620 Yeah, it's a very thorough, very thorough examination. 59:44.120 --> 59:47.860 Um, okay, so now the dude is— he's leaving after this appointment, and I 59:48.360 --> 59:51.740 just love the way he's acting here. So he's playing his, uh, Looking Out 59:52.240 --> 59:55.497 My Back Door by Creedence Clearwater Revival. And the way he drums on the roof 59:55.997 --> 59:59.022 of the car, on the ceiling of the car, is so funny as he's lighting 59:59.038 --> 01:00:02.014 up his J and everything, kind of getting down to it. So he's grooving, 01:00:02.450 --> 01:00:05.472 but he drops the J into his lap and he starts fucking squealing, 01:00:05.488 --> 01:00:09.120 freaking out. And he's noticing the reason that he's distracted is he's looking 01:00:09.136 --> 01:00:12.801 in his rearview and he sees this VW Bug following him again. Yep, same bug 01:00:13.301 --> 01:00:16.890 as before. Again, drops the J in his lap, like starts squealing 01:00:16.938 --> 01:00:20.029 again. So I think those are the only 2 like big reactions we get have 01:00:20.061 --> 01:00:25.620 to do with his dick being threatened. Yep, exactly. Exactly. So yeah, he crashes, 01:00:26.120 --> 01:00:29.960 and when he crashes, he looks and he finds, like, kind of stuffed underneath one 01:00:30.460 --> 01:00:33.340 of the seats there— I think that's the driver's seat he was in— is this, 01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:36.720 like, piece of paper. And he looks, and the piece of paper is obviously social 01:00:37.220 --> 01:00:41.140 studies homework, and very badly graded, like, whoever's— but it says— it's 01:00:41.640 --> 01:00:43.180 got, like, what is it, Larry Summers, right? It's, like, got the name on it. 01:00:43.680 --> 01:00:47.620 Larry Sellers. Sellers, that's right. Thank you. Larry Sellers. And so that's a clue now 01:00:48.120 --> 01:00:51.210 as to where the car, you know, who might have taken the car, right? 01:00:51.710 --> 01:00:54.810 That kind of thing. Yep. So then we cut to the landlord's dance 01:00:55.310 --> 01:00:58.830 quintet. Quintet. Yeah. Donnie and the dude are watching 01:00:59.330 --> 01:01:02.270 and it begins and it's— it sounds like Rites of Spring or something like, 01:01:02.770 --> 01:01:04.970 you know, Stravinsky or somebody like that. And the guy's just dancing to this very 01:01:05.470 --> 01:01:09.030 like, you know, very thematic, dramatic sounding, 01:01:09.530 --> 01:01:12.170 you know, classical music. And it's terrible. And there's like 5 people there total. 01:01:12.670 --> 01:01:15.710 Yeah, community theater type thing. But the dude, despite his flaws, 01:01:16.210 --> 01:01:18.350 man of his word. He said he would show up to this thing even despite 01:01:18.850 --> 01:01:22.450 how chaotic his life became since agreeing to it. That's true. He's there. He's there 01:01:22.950 --> 01:01:26.150 with— he brought Donny with him. And then Walter shows up and basically did some 01:01:26.650 --> 01:01:29.610 research. Not really sure exactly how, 'cause it's not like the internet existed at the 01:01:30.110 --> 01:01:34.170 time, but he figured out that Larry Sellers, where he lives, that his dad 01:01:34.670 --> 01:01:37.630 was the writer of a show called— what did they call the show? Branded. 01:01:38.130 --> 01:01:41.570 Branded. So probably like Bonanza. That's always what I assumed. Yeah. But Branded, right? 01:01:42.070 --> 01:01:44.930 You know, wrote the bulk of the series, 150-something episodes, whatever. Bulk of the series, 01:01:45.430 --> 01:01:48.200 dude. Bulk of the series, dude. And so they're gonna go to the kid's home 01:01:48.700 --> 01:01:51.880 to like, you know, basically like interrogate him and figure 01:01:52.380 --> 01:01:54.580 out like where did the briefcase go, right? Right. Because that was the key. 01:01:55.080 --> 01:01:57.440 So once the car was found, right, there's no briefcase. So, uh, so they do 01:01:57.940 --> 01:02:00.720 that, they go, and this was the part where, yeah, like they didn't need to 01:02:01.220 --> 01:02:04.980 make this character, the father of this kid, such an interesting character. But they go 01:02:05.480 --> 01:02:07.700 in and like we already know he's this, he's this TV writer and like all 01:02:08.200 --> 01:02:11.420 this stuff. Yeah. They arrive, he's in an iron lung. And not like a 1992 01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:15.372 iron lung. I mean, this is like a steampunk custom 01:02:15.872 --> 01:02:18.857 build. Who's the guy? Uh, uh, Hughes. Like Howard Hughes would have been one of 01:02:19.357 --> 01:02:23.180 these things, dude. Totally. Absolutely. And, uh, and outside 01:02:23.196 --> 01:02:26.874 Larry Sellers' house, before they go in, they see this brand new looking red 01:02:26.971 --> 01:02:30.342 Corvette. So they're like, gorgeous, this kid stole our briefcase, took the money, 01:02:30.375 --> 01:02:32.881 bought himself this Corvette. Like, we're gonna go get our shit back. Dude's like, 01:02:32.897 --> 01:02:36.445 he already spent the money. He goes, nah, he's still got— he'd only be down 01:02:36.478 --> 01:02:37.524 about $40,000, $50,000. 01:02:39.878 --> 01:02:43.405 Um, yeah, and the way that Walter is still reacting, 01:02:43.421 --> 01:02:47.013 like, despite the fact that this guy's clearly incapacitated in an 01:02:47.513 --> 01:02:49.675 iron lung— I do also want to say to any of my, uh, relatives, 01:02:49.755 --> 01:02:53.250 anybody responsible for my care at some point, if I end up iron lung 01:02:53.363 --> 01:02:57.067 bound, please keep me in a back room. I, I don't want to be there 01:02:57.227 --> 01:03:00.161 when people first walk into the house. I don't want to, you know— Put my 01:03:00.177 --> 01:03:03.192 ass on the porch. Yes, I want to be a sign to everyone around. 01:03:03.528 --> 01:03:07.233 I'm not going anywhere, motherfuckers. Wheel me around in a wagon. Oh, just, 01:03:07.378 --> 01:03:10.897 um, keep me mobile. But Walter is still acting 01:03:11.009 --> 01:03:14.110 like he's meeting a celebrity, and he's so timid, 01:03:14.126 --> 01:03:17.645 and he's just like, uh, and a good day to you, sir, like yelling 01:03:17.677 --> 01:03:21.053 across there. And then he says— We're big fans. He says to 01:03:21.553 --> 01:03:24.653 the caretaker, he's like, um, does he still write? And, and she's 01:03:25.153 --> 01:03:28.053 like, oh no, he has health problems. 01:03:28.412 --> 01:03:29.912 Which again, goddamn it. 01:03:32.720 --> 01:03:35.720 Oh Jesus. So, so they call in the kid, right? Larry, 01:03:35.834 --> 01:03:39.380 come in. And they sit him down and, and And Walter's got— I love 01:03:39.880 --> 01:03:42.020 it too, because it's like, um, it looks like, oh, I would have this in 01:03:42.520 --> 01:03:45.439 an evidence bag, but it's just a Ziploc. Yeah, yeah. I love that it's a 01:03:45.939 --> 01:03:48.600 regular Ziploc with the homework. Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework, 01:03:49.100 --> 01:03:52.460 Larry? Larry, is this your homework? Is this your homework, Larry? Larry? Hey, 01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:55.240 Larry, is this your homework? And dude's like, we know it's his fucking homework, 01:03:55.740 --> 01:03:58.780 Walter. Like, where's the money? Yeah, where's the briefcase, kid? Like, what'd you do with 01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:01.980 it? It's like, dude, dude, please. Larry, is this your homework? 01:04:02.850 --> 01:04:05.820 And he— and Larry is just sitting there like dead. 01:04:06.257 --> 01:04:09.530 This is kind of like a hidden fear of mine, is encountering some, 01:04:09.626 --> 01:04:12.947 like, immovable 10-year-old at some point, you know, who just has more 01:04:13.011 --> 01:04:16.236 willpower than I am. Like, just like, oh, dude, they got the time. 01:04:16.300 --> 01:04:20.135 I don't want to do— they got all the time in the world. They ain't 01:04:20.635 --> 01:04:24.595 got to do shit. Um, and so Walter— and it's great that this kid is 01:04:24.643 --> 01:04:27.852 not reacting, and Walter's like, okay, okay, you want to be like that? Yep. 01:04:28.076 --> 01:04:31.141 All right, let's be like that. And he goes out front, he's like, you see 01:04:31.641 --> 01:04:34.128 what happened? You see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass. 01:04:34.433 --> 01:04:37.773 And I think that came up earlier in the movie, like he's repeating that somebody 01:04:37.870 --> 01:04:40.841 else had said that earlier. Oh, maybe, I don't know. Um, or maybe he didn't 01:04:41.341 --> 01:04:43.539 hear it, but I think somebody else said it. And when you watch this on 01:04:43.651 --> 01:04:46.751 TNT, this was a joke about me and my college friends. It would say, 01:04:47.104 --> 01:04:49.706 you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps. One of my 01:04:50.206 --> 01:04:53.384 favorite edits of all time. Find a stranger. I even wrote down find a stranger 01:04:53.884 --> 01:04:55.954 in the Alps. I want to make sure one of us mentioned it. It's so 01:04:56.454 --> 01:05:00.590 funny, uh, as an edit. Uh, yeah, so Walter smashes 01:05:01.090 --> 01:05:04.050 every bit of this car. He even reaches in to turn on the headlights so 01:05:04.550 --> 01:05:08.210 that they'll pop up so that he can break them. Smart. But then a neighbor, 01:05:08.710 --> 01:05:11.930 uh, somebody from next door to Larry, comes running out. This big guy with sort 01:05:12.430 --> 01:05:14.389 of an accent. He looks at— maybe he's like Middle Eastern or something. He's like, 01:05:14.889 --> 01:05:16.930 what are you doing? You're killing my car! I just bought this car last week, 01:05:17.430 --> 01:05:20.110 you motherfucker! I killed your car! He's like— and he goes over to the shitty 01:05:20.610 --> 01:05:23.610 car. Donnie's still sitting in it. Yeah, right. And he just busts in the windows 01:05:24.110 --> 01:05:27.510 and busts in the windshield. Shield and fully destroys it. And so then they're driving 01:05:28.010 --> 01:05:30.070 away. And actually, we forgot to mention real quick, yes, when, uh, when they were 01:05:30.570 --> 01:05:33.890 at the, the, the quintet, the dance quintet, Donnie asked, like, when they said where 01:05:34.390 --> 01:05:36.150 Larry lives, is that near the In-N-Out or whatever? He's like, no, the In-N-Out's on 01:05:36.650 --> 01:05:39.070 this. No, it's near the In-N-Out. Can we get In-N-Out Burger, guys? Can we get 01:05:39.570 --> 01:05:42.790 burgers there? They got good burgers there, Walter. Shut the fuck up, Donnie. But they're 01:05:43.290 --> 01:05:46.130 driving away with burgers and fries. Yeah. I don't know if you believe this or 01:05:46.630 --> 01:05:49.980 not, 100% not In-N-Out. This is not what In-N-Out— not present-day packaging, 01:05:50.310 --> 01:05:53.810 not even the packaging. The burgers themselves don't look anything like In-N-Out burgers to me. 01:05:54.310 --> 01:05:57.770 Like, yeah, like they were 100% not In-N-Out's This look. I feel 01:05:58.270 --> 01:06:01.370 like if you pick up an In-N-Out burger, it looks like an In-N-Out burger the 01:06:01.870 --> 01:06:04.590 way it doesn't look like McDonald's or Burger King or anything else. Yeah, this feels 01:06:05.090 --> 01:06:08.010 more like they got Big Kahuna Burger, some generic, you know, like that they just 01:06:08.510 --> 01:06:10.170 couldn't because they didn't want to do any kind of branding thing. But yeah, 01:06:10.670 --> 01:06:13.350 it's definitely not In-N-Out. Yeah, it would have been good to have some like actual, 01:06:13.850 --> 01:06:16.790 like the actual cup or something. They've had those red striped cups with the little, 01:06:17.290 --> 01:06:19.460 the little palm trees at the bottom. Those cups have been that way for ages. 01:06:19.570 --> 01:06:22.342 That makes sense. Yeah, they could have done that, but they didn't. That's Okay, 01:06:22.679 --> 01:06:26.754 just something I noticed as a Californian. Um, so now, now the dude is back 01:06:27.254 --> 01:06:29.883 at his place again. Yeah, okay, so we're done with this little act. The dude's 01:06:30.383 --> 01:06:33.557 back at his apartment and he's tired of people breaking into his apartment, so he 01:06:34.057 --> 01:06:37.407 is nailing a little piece of wood to the floor a couple 01:06:37.907 --> 01:06:40.824 feet away from the front door, uh, with the idea that I'm gonna nail this 01:06:40.937 --> 01:06:44.402 in and then I'll wedge a chair where the, the back of the chair 01:06:44.902 --> 01:06:47.771 is up under the doorknob, so whoever opens my door, you know, 01:06:48.733 --> 01:06:52.468 So of course he does this, and like the second he's done 01:06:52.484 --> 01:06:55.705 with it, the door handle turns and opens like the other way. 01:06:55.786 --> 01:06:59.536 The chair just falls, and these guys are here. External doors never 01:06:59.616 --> 01:07:02.886 open out into the world, but that's okay. It was funny. 01:07:03.303 --> 01:07:06.124 I don't remember though. I was thinking when watching this, there is a moment later 01:07:06.624 --> 01:07:09.410 in the movie where he opens his front door at a different time, and it 01:07:09.910 --> 01:07:12.231 does open out. But I couldn't— I wasn't sure if that happened every time. 01:07:12.279 --> 01:07:15.100 Like if you go back to when the landlord knocks on his door, I don't 01:07:15.600 --> 01:07:17.957 know which way it opens. then, to be honest with you, because I don't know 01:07:18.053 --> 01:07:22.051 if like the continuity stuck or not. But anyway, it's, uh, Woo and 01:07:22.164 --> 01:07:25.166 the blonde guy. Yes. Wearing each other's shirts from before. 01:07:25.761 --> 01:07:28.105 If you look at their first scene when they pee on the rug, they are 01:07:28.605 --> 01:07:30.819 now wearing the exact same shirts, just reversed. Oh, that's funny. Which is hilarious. 01:07:31.220 --> 01:07:34.688 They're both like sleeveless sort of things. Yeah. And they say basically, 01:07:34.753 --> 01:07:37.322 Jackie Treehorn wants to see you, time to come with us. 01:07:37.964 --> 01:07:41.432 And, uh, so they get taken out to, to, out to Jackie Treehorn's 01:07:41.932 --> 01:07:44.725 place, like in Malibu. Yeah. On the beach. And there's this Like, you know, 01:07:44.741 --> 01:07:48.018 scene of like this topless woman being tossed up in like a one 01:07:48.518 --> 01:07:50.878 of those blankets, like the things we used to bounce the balls around like in 01:07:50.894 --> 01:07:53.899 kindergarten. Yeah, the big blanket everybody would carry and getting tossed up into the air. 01:07:54.465 --> 01:07:57.766 Yeah, and there's this, uh, this music that starts playing a 01:07:58.266 --> 01:08:00.909 little bit. Yeah, when, when he's knocked out, this like, oh, 01:08:01.616 --> 01:08:04.396 it's really cool. Uh, 01:08:04.701 --> 01:08:08.590 sampled, uh, by, uh, rapper MC Paul Barman in the song 01:08:08.622 --> 01:08:12.150 How Hard Is That, which is a really, uh, great one, very to find, 01:08:12.650 --> 01:08:14.950 but you can find it on YouTube. So if I ever spot a sample, 01:08:15.450 --> 01:08:18.890 I gotta bring it up in this pod. Love it. Jackie Treehorn, played by one 01:08:19.390 --> 01:08:23.050 of our favorites, Brad Wesley from Road House. Ben Gazzara. Ben Gazzara. Love this guy. 01:08:23.550 --> 01:08:26.230 Love to hate him, really, more than anything. Yeah. But yeah, big, big Ben Gazzara 01:08:26.730 --> 01:08:29.810 fan. Very fun. And he introduces himself like, hello, dude, 01:08:30.310 --> 01:08:33.850 I'm Jackie Treehorn. Like, the way he introduces himself is funny. But they 01:08:34.350 --> 01:08:37.130 go into his place, and it's a beautiful, like, kind of 1970s— like, it's got 01:08:37.630 --> 01:08:41.190 the conversation pit look and everything. Awesome. Really very cool. Very mid-century modern style. 01:08:42.350 --> 01:08:44.990 Um, like kind of a house. I would love to live in this house. 01:08:45.040 --> 01:08:48.560 It's beautiful. Um, and they're talking for a while and basically Treehorn's like, 01:08:49.060 --> 01:08:52.520 where's my money, dude? Like, what's going on? You know? And he's— 01:08:53.020 --> 01:08:55.140 and, you know, dude is thinking Treehorn's on the up and up. You know, 01:08:55.640 --> 01:08:58.200 he, in his mind, Bunny owes him money. He's trying to get the money Bunny 01:08:58.700 --> 01:09:00.760 owes him. I think he even says about half a million or something like that. 01:09:00.780 --> 01:09:03.340 Yeah. And he's like, well, dude, like, here's the situation. You can get the money. 01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:06.620 The money is Larry Sellers, this kid in Pasadena or wherever the hell he is. 01:09:07.120 --> 01:09:09.310 Like, he's got it. Go get it. It's yours. Have Have fun, take care. 01:09:09.374 --> 01:09:11.653 Maybe I'll take a little finder's fee or whatever, you know, kind of thing. 01:09:11.765 --> 01:09:15.264 Yeah. And Treehorn is like, no. But then the phone 01:09:15.312 --> 01:09:18.104 rings and he goes and he answers the phone and you can see him like 01:09:18.698 --> 01:09:22.116 feverishly writing something down on a piece of paper. And he takes 01:09:22.132 --> 01:09:25.085 the top sheet that he wrote on with him and he goes, and dude's smart 01:09:25.585 --> 01:09:27.171 as hell, I would not have thought of this, right? Except now I've seen this 01:09:27.671 --> 01:09:30.300 movie, so I would. But jumps up and does like shade, you know, sort of 01:09:30.316 --> 01:09:33.831 shades the pencil along the paper to show what, where the 01:09:34.331 --> 01:09:37.231 indentation was. And the dude just drew like a not quite stick figure, but like 01:09:37.731 --> 01:09:40.245 a very crude drawing of a dude with an enormous cock and balls. Big hog. 01:09:40.598 --> 01:09:43.275 Giant hog. Hashtag giant hog. Um, 01:09:43.452 --> 01:09:46.802 this gag I think is like one of the funniest things in the movie. 01:09:46.995 --> 01:09:50.089 It's so well done. And this, like when you mentioned earlier how this is 01:09:50.121 --> 01:09:54.065 kind of like a, um, this is like an elevated Fletch almost 01:09:54.113 --> 01:09:57.255 in a lot of ways. That is a very Fletch-type scene. Yeah, 01:09:57.528 --> 01:10:01.680 for sure. Yeah, so I love that. So he realizes that and he kind 01:10:02.180 --> 01:10:04.486 of looks at the thing and discovers like, oh, he was just drawing a dick 01:10:04.614 --> 01:10:07.599 and he's drinking drinking this White Russian and is kind of like, 01:10:08.787 --> 01:10:11.612 like, whoa, you make a hell of a Caucasian. Like, whoa, what did you put 01:10:12.112 --> 01:10:14.743 in this thing? But it's clear that his drink has been drugged. Yes. And then 01:10:15.243 --> 01:10:18.516 we get another— the most extended kind of dream unconsciousness 01:10:19.016 --> 01:10:22.755 sequence of this movie. Yeah, it's the much longer one. It starts off 01:10:22.915 --> 01:10:26.222 actually with its own, like, title card. It says Jackie Treehorn Presents 01:10:26.303 --> 01:10:30.172 Gutterballs. And it's like he's in a bowling-themed, 01:10:30.220 --> 01:10:33.576 maybe porno— yeah, musical with Maude, who is 01:10:33.688 --> 01:10:36.959 herself dressed up like a, like, in a Viking sort of, you know, the way, 01:10:36.975 --> 01:10:40.676 the way Bugs Bunny dressed up as a girl Viking, right, in those old cartoons. 01:10:40.724 --> 01:10:44.442 That's exactly how Maude is dressed with the, the pigtails and the, the bustier and 01:10:44.942 --> 01:10:48.480 stuff like that. Uh, it's very funny. And they're playing this great, uh, this Kenny 01:10:48.496 --> 01:10:51.989 Rogers song that I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was 01:10:52.101 --> 01:10:55.450 in. Another great find, which I first heard from this movie, 01:10:55.482 --> 01:10:57.806 and it's like, ooh, this is a banger. 01:10:58.431 --> 01:11:02.345 Um, and, uh, yeah, there it's— I noticed a lot of stuff during this scene, 01:11:03.571 --> 01:11:07.589 it just like any dream, it's stuff that we've seen the dude see during, 01:11:07.702 --> 01:11:11.638 during the movie. So one thing is he goes up to the shoe counter 01:11:12.138 --> 01:11:15.327 at the bowling alley and Saddam Hussein hands him his bowling shoes. The floor in 01:11:15.343 --> 01:11:18.275 there is this checkered black and white floor, which is the same floor as the 01:11:18.340 --> 01:11:21.167 Big Lebowski's kind of like hallway area. 01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:24.737 And at a certain point, 01:11:24.819 --> 01:11:28.591 there's, there's guys who are kind of like chasing after him 01:11:28.623 --> 01:11:32.228 with scissors, right? The knives. And they have these big scissors. When he first 01:11:32.728 --> 01:11:36.074 got to Maude's, uh, studio, there was a painting on the wall of a giant 01:11:36.574 --> 01:11:38.781 pair of scissors that looked just like those scissors. I didn't notice that. Nice. 01:11:38.878 --> 01:11:42.322 Yeah, so she had this big, like, giant, uh, painting of scissors there. Were them 01:11:42.822 --> 01:11:46.200 being in the red sort of all-over onesie type outfit, including, 01:11:46.408 --> 01:11:49.404 including a hood, was that referenced elsewhere? I don't know. I, 01:11:49.596 --> 01:11:52.096 I want to go back and see what other things were, but there were a 01:11:52.596 --> 01:11:54.499 few things where I was like, oh shit, those scissors were the ones from there. 01:11:54.659 --> 01:11:58.298 Nice. Um, so yeah, this This is so goofy and so funny 01:11:58.588 --> 01:12:02.174 and just like such a, uh, I don't know, just a little break in the 01:12:02.674 --> 01:12:05.453 middle of the movie. It's almost like the let's go out to the lobby intermission 01:12:05.469 --> 01:12:08.914 thing, but insane. I do feel like it— I like that it's here. 01:12:09.107 --> 01:12:12.361 I think it's the proper fantastical, whimsical kind of part of this. 01:12:12.425 --> 01:12:15.816 But like, in all honesty, like, this dream sequence in particular, like, does not 01:12:16.316 --> 01:12:18.894 need to exist. Yeah, like, you know what I mean? But it's also like 2 01:12:18.942 --> 01:12:21.440 minutes. It's not that long. It feels a little bit long because it's so much 01:12:21.940 --> 01:12:25.317 longer than the other one, but it's It's just interesting. I do like the transition 01:12:25.817 --> 01:12:28.546 out of it where he's running from the nihilist with the huge scissors in the 01:12:29.046 --> 01:12:33.027 dream, and then kind of comes to running down PCH through 01:12:33.527 --> 01:12:36.721 Malibu. Yes. Right? With cars behind him and stuff, like super dangerous. 01:12:37.058 --> 01:12:40.929 And he gets picked up by the cops, and he gets taken to Malibu PD 01:12:41.429 --> 01:12:44.848 and is chatting with this police captain or whatever. And he's 01:12:45.348 --> 01:12:47.851 giving him a hard time and is like, you know, I can't— He's very Will 01:12:47.980 --> 01:12:50.967 Teasle from First Blood. Yeah, absolutely. Like, I don't want you in my town. 01:12:51.170 --> 01:12:54.170 My beach community. We don't need your type in our quiet beach community. 01:12:54.420 --> 01:12:57.460 Yeah, stay out of Malibu, Lebowski. But I love when he throws the coffee— like, 01:12:57.960 --> 01:13:01.600 dude says something snarky and the cop throws the coffee mug at his face 01:13:02.100 --> 01:13:04.380 and clocks him right in the head with the coffee mug. And I love— he 01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:08.700 goes, you fucking fascist! Like, his reaction's so good. 01:13:09.200 --> 01:13:12.940 So stay out of Malibu, Lebowski. They asked the dude, uh, for an 01:13:13.440 --> 01:13:16.260 ID and he pulls out and the only ID he has is like a physical 01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:20.640 Ralph's Club Card for the grocery store. We had a Ralph's, uh, in Santa Barbara. 01:13:21.140 --> 01:13:24.670 It's kind of like a Southern California Um, thing. And we were so excited 01:13:25.170 --> 01:13:28.810 when we saw Big Lebowski and we're like, oh dude, let's go get Ralph's 01:13:29.310 --> 01:13:31.350 cards. And we were so psyched, right? So we made a whole day of it 01:13:31.850 --> 01:13:34.290 and we went to Ralph's and we filled out the things and signed up for 01:13:34.790 --> 01:13:37.340 the cards. Like, dude, we're gonna have Ralph cards. This is gonna be so epic. 01:13:37.430 --> 01:13:40.150 And then there were those little shitty keychain tag cards. 01:13:40.490 --> 01:13:43.790 Yeah. I'm like, no, no, no, I want a Lebowski-style Ralph's card. What the fuck? 01:13:44.290 --> 01:13:46.970 With the imprinted name, like on a credit card. Yes. Like I need— yeah. 01:13:47.470 --> 01:13:50.150 'Cause I need someone to be able to do a Jackie Treehorn tracing of it. 01:13:50.847 --> 01:13:54.056 Uh, if they need to. Oh God, so big disappointment in my 01:13:54.556 --> 01:13:57.523 Lebowski life. Yeah, they only had the keychain thing. Um, 01:13:57.763 --> 01:14:00.860 but yeah, so this is kind of a very funny scene. Like, the whole gutterballs 01:14:00.973 --> 01:14:04.615 thing plus the Malibu sheriff are a little out of place relative to 01:14:04.663 --> 01:14:07.856 the whole rest of the movie. But it's cool. It gets very entertaining though. 01:14:07.937 --> 01:14:11.242 Absolutely. And it gets Dude into a taxi cab with a guy 01:14:11.742 --> 01:14:15.174 playing, uh, the Eagles. Yes. And he's asking him to stop, and the 01:14:15.674 --> 01:14:17.725 guy's like, fuck you, man. He's like, no, come on, man, I've had a tough 01:14:17.741 --> 01:14:21.715 day. Like, I'm really— I'm hungover and I hate the fucking Eagles, 01:14:21.747 --> 01:14:25.657 man. And the cab driver stops the car like on the highway, or, 01:14:25.673 --> 01:14:28.141 you know, whatever he is, and drags him out. It's like, get the fuck out 01:14:28.641 --> 01:14:32.131 of my cab. Like drives off. I, um, don't like the Eagles, 01:14:32.804 --> 01:14:36.489 and I started not liking the Eagles because of this movie. I think it gave 01:14:36.989 --> 01:14:39.854 us permission to not like the Eagles, right? And then it was like, I try— 01:14:40.354 --> 01:14:42.754 I thought to myself at some point in like a few years after this movie 01:14:43.254 --> 01:14:44.998 came out, I was like, I should maybe give the Eagles a chance just 'Cause 01:14:45.302 --> 01:14:47.850 what a dumb reason not to like them. Then I actually didn't like them. 01:14:48.171 --> 01:14:51.744 And then when the whole web series Yacht Rock came out and the Eagles were 01:14:52.593 --> 01:14:56.616 the bullies of like Steely Dan, and there was this whole subplot 01:14:57.116 --> 01:14:58.282 in that, I don't know if you ever watched the series, but it's brilliant. 01:14:58.923 --> 01:15:01.407 And like the Eagles are the bad guys. I'm like, okay, cool, I feel much 01:15:01.423 --> 01:15:04.500 better. Plus Don Henley's, it was like, it was a combination of Denis Leary making 01:15:04.532 --> 01:15:08.041 fun of Don Henley's ponytail. Yep. This thing saying, I hate the fucking 01:15:08.057 --> 01:15:12.210 Eagles. Yacht Rock making the Eagles the bullies. And the 01:15:12.710 --> 01:15:14.690 fact that I listen to their music and generally don't care for it. But like, 01:15:15.190 --> 01:15:17.410 it started off as so many other reasons not to like the Eagles. Yeah, 01:15:17.910 --> 01:15:20.890 that aren't particularly good reasons. Like, you shouldn't— you shouldn't like or not like an 01:15:21.390 --> 01:15:23.730 artist based on those things. But oh well, I feel like I landed in the 01:15:24.230 --> 01:15:26.550 right spot. I think you're good. And I kind of feel the same way. 01:15:27.050 --> 01:15:30.910 I don't— I don't really like the Eagles. I do like Joe Walsh. I like 01:15:31.410 --> 01:15:34.590 a lot of his Rocky Mountain Highs, Life of Illusion. Fucking— he's got a lot 01:15:35.090 --> 01:15:37.830 of bangers. And he's not really an original Eagles member. He was more like a 01:15:38.330 --> 01:15:40.934 soccer sub that came in the band like once they were already good. So I 01:15:41.434 --> 01:15:44.304 don't feel like that's like super connected. All I know is that Boys of Summer, 01:15:44.368 --> 01:15:47.081 pretty good. Boys of Summer? I'll give Henley that. Terrible song. 01:15:47.530 --> 01:15:50.788 Disagree. Don't like it. That's one of the least— my least favorite things about Don 01:15:51.288 --> 01:15:54.671 Henley are the Boys of Summer and his ponytail. He mentions too a brand and 01:15:55.171 --> 01:15:58.555 a model of specific sunglasses. He was doing it just to get free Ray-Bans. 01:15:59.374 --> 01:16:02.551 Good for him. Good for Don. But anyway, as he is now 01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:06.387 out on the street, yeah, getting kicked off, Bunny drives by with 01:16:06.772 --> 01:16:11.811 the top down of her convertible, leaving Las Vegas, blaring in her ear 01:16:12.311 --> 01:16:14.552 or Viva Las Vegas with Elvis blaring in her stereo. Only bad song in this 01:16:15.052 --> 01:16:18.416 movie. Yeah, but it fits because we're led to believe Bunny was in 01:16:18.480 --> 01:16:21.559 Vegas. So it's literally the song's purpose, right? Is Bunny went off to Vegas, 01:16:21.719 --> 01:16:25.327 didn't tell anybody. Yeah, uh, all of her toes attached. We are quite specifically shown 01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:28.663 all 10 toes painted green on the accelerator and 01:16:28.679 --> 01:16:31.453 stuff. So, uh, so she is fine and she is driven off, 01:16:31.934 --> 01:16:35.542 um, and Dude gets home and Maude is there. 01:16:35.943 --> 01:16:38.961 Yeah. And is basically just like, Like, let's, let's bang. 01:16:40.037 --> 01:16:43.474 I will say, uh, good of him to like show 01:16:43.490 --> 01:16:46.430 up to his landlord's dance sequence. Like, that's being a good guy. 01:16:47.104 --> 01:16:50.301 Landlord, we gotta do something about the fucking security 01:16:50.333 --> 01:16:53.690 too. So bad. Why is there a person in my apartment every time I come 01:16:53.706 --> 01:16:56.549 home? It really is very often. Yeah, people are just in. Does the lock not 01:16:56.677 --> 01:16:59.649 work? Like, what is going on? Maybe he, he even puts the keys in the 01:17:00.149 --> 01:17:03.327 lock one of the times. It's bad. Um, but yeah, so they, uh, they have 01:17:03.827 --> 01:17:07.391 sex, and after they're done, they're talking about 01:17:07.891 --> 01:17:10.020 Bunny and the money, and like, you know, he's talking more and more about the 01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:13.900 case, essentially. Yeah. In a sense, this movie is a crime movie, 01:17:14.400 --> 01:17:17.820 right? Totally, yeah. It's a detective story in a lot of ways. But she like 01:17:18.320 --> 01:17:22.160 tucks her knees up to her chest and like sort of wiggles around underneath the 01:17:22.660 --> 01:17:25.920 covers. And he goes, what are you doing? Is that like yoga or something? 01:17:26.420 --> 01:17:29.360 And she goes, no, it's to increase the chances of conception. And he like spits 01:17:29.860 --> 01:17:32.980 out his drink. He's like, let me tell you something about the dude here. 01:17:34.220 --> 01:17:37.288 I'm not— and she explains she doesn't want— she wants somebody who is basically 01:17:37.788 --> 01:17:40.480 a sperm donor, doesn't, you know, like wants nothing to do with the kid, 01:17:40.496 --> 01:17:43.817 has no interest or whatever. And he's like, oh, oh, okay, we're good then. 01:17:44.218 --> 01:17:47.555 It's funny how that whole family, like when the dude comes along, they're like, 01:17:47.635 --> 01:17:50.699 oh, we could use a guy like this for something. And then he gets put 01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:53.490 into play in all these different ways where it's like, why would you? You just 01:17:53.990 --> 01:17:56.811 have to look around a little to find a better sperm donor than that. 01:17:56.891 --> 01:18:00.373 Exactly. Um, but this is when she reveals to him that Jeffrey Lebowski, 01:18:00.405 --> 01:18:04.929 her father, has no money of his own. This is the full layout of 01:18:05.429 --> 01:18:05.440 Like he has no money of his own. All of it's the fund. It was 01:18:05.940 --> 01:18:08.870 all mother's. Now it's like in the foundation, and obviously I have the inheritance. 01:18:09.040 --> 01:18:11.980 He gets an allowance from the foundation to run it, basically like a salary. 01:18:12.480 --> 01:18:14.860 But he does not have money of his own. That house belonged to her mother. 01:18:14.920 --> 01:18:17.400 You know, she just doesn't care to. You know, she's fine with him living there. 01:18:17.900 --> 01:18:20.140 But it's like he has no money, and this is something that you know dude 01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:24.340 is like oh now he's starting to think Bunny didn't necessarily kidnap himself. Did the 01:18:24.840 --> 01:18:26.900 Big Lebowski have something to do with it? Right, right. It's sort of where he's 01:18:27.400 --> 01:18:30.780 at. He goes out from the apartment, and he sees 01:18:31.280 --> 01:18:34.940 the VW Bug again. There's the VW Bug again, and he catches. He sneaks 01:18:35.440 --> 01:18:38.640 up where the guy who's sitting in it like doesn't have time to drive away, 01:18:39.140 --> 01:18:42.820 so he quickly just picks up a newspaper and starts like aggressively 01:18:43.320 --> 01:18:47.300 reading it. The actor's John Polito, who's hilarious. 01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:50.540 He's so funny. Oh, so good. And he refers to him, he's like, I'm a 01:18:51.040 --> 01:18:54.190 Brother Seamus. Yeah, what, like an Irish, like an Irish priest or something? 01:18:54.860 --> 01:18:58.780 Like, yeah. So he thinks, so he's been, he's been hired to follow 01:18:59.280 --> 01:19:02.320 Bunny. Yes, by Bunny's parents, the Knudsons, 01:19:02.820 --> 01:19:06.118 right? Knudsons of Wisconsin or something. You know, she clearly ran away from home or 01:19:06.134 --> 01:19:09.632 left town to go on this adventure and marry the Big Lebowski 01:19:10.132 --> 01:19:13.194 and stuff. And, uh, and this guy's convinced that the Dude is also a private 01:19:13.694 --> 01:19:16.964 detective based on his movements and all that stuff, which is very kind of Dumb 01:19:17.464 --> 01:19:20.253 and Dumber-ish, you know, where they think that, oh, gas man, how does he know 01:19:20.753 --> 01:19:23.799 I have stomach problems? Um, so yeah, 01:19:23.863 --> 01:19:27.313 so that's— so now we have this guy in play who's like on behalf 01:19:27.813 --> 01:19:30.682 of Bunny's family looking. So we've got a lot of people converging here. Although I 01:19:31.182 --> 01:19:33.715 don't think he comes back. I think this is the only time we see him. 01:19:34.614 --> 01:19:37.953 But what we do see is at a diner, the 3 nihilists and a woman 01:19:38.050 --> 01:19:41.438 who looks very much like she belongs with them, very European, kind of whatever, 01:19:41.743 --> 01:19:45.388 they're all sitting around ordering pancakes and waffles and shit like that. Lingonberry pancakes. 01:19:45.452 --> 01:19:48.888 Lingonberry pancakes and all that stuff. And we cut, you know, the camera 01:19:49.388 --> 01:19:52.870 pans down to her foot and they've cut out her boot to make room for 01:19:54.187 --> 01:19:57.414 the packing around where they cut her toe off. She only has 4 01:19:57.914 --> 01:20:01.750 toes on one side. That's whose toe it was. 01:20:02.250 --> 01:20:05.530 That's whose toe they decided to pretend was Bunny's toe. Like, I don't 01:20:06.030 --> 01:20:08.560 think the plan was very good, but that was the plan apparently. 01:20:09.070 --> 01:20:12.810 For— and there are 4 of them, it seems like, right? So quarter— I mean, 01:20:13.310 --> 01:20:16.270 does she get more of a cut for losing the toe? Well, she gets more 01:20:16.770 --> 01:20:19.770 of a cut in one way at least. Um, yeah, it seems like it'd be 01:20:20.270 --> 01:20:22.210 a 4-way split. I don't know, because she didn't just— she doesn't do any of 01:20:22.710 --> 01:20:25.590 the other work. That's true. They're doing the ones— they're the muscle. Yeah, they're the 01:20:26.090 --> 01:20:28.130 muscle. They're trying to do the pickup and everything. So I could see it being 01:20:28.630 --> 01:20:31.570 a straight 4-way thing. Um, but yeah, she was figuring— I mean, you know, 01:20:32.070 --> 01:20:34.750 $250 grand for your baby pinky toe, you know, for your pinky toe on— you 01:20:35.250 --> 01:20:37.670 know, sure, I could see it. Some people lose stuff for free. That's true. 01:20:38.170 --> 01:20:41.790 Only half, but yes. Um, so yeah, so then, 01:20:42.290 --> 01:20:45.830 uh, so then it's, uh— okay, where are we after this? So Bunny's back. 01:20:46.330 --> 01:20:49.950 So Lebowski, uh, goes back— or the dude goes back 01:20:50.450 --> 01:20:54.090 to the Big Lebowski's house and sees that Bunny's car has been like 01:20:54.590 --> 01:20:57.950 crashed into the fountain at the main entrance there with that fucking song still 01:20:58.450 --> 01:21:01.870 blasting. Just ludicrous on some kind of single song loop or something. 01:21:02.370 --> 01:21:05.610 I, I've known people like that in life, and people have gone through 01:21:06.110 --> 01:21:08.990 these phases where I'll listen to the same song over and over for like, 01:21:09.490 --> 01:21:12.410 you know, 20 plays in a row. Maybe Bunny's one of those. I could see 01:21:12.910 --> 01:21:14.720 that. My problem is 1991, how do you do that with a cassette tape? 01:21:15.370 --> 01:21:18.890 Yeah, I mean, because like, CDs— No, '91 in 01:21:19.390 --> 01:21:22.690 a car? You're not in '91. We'll figure it 01:21:23.190 --> 01:21:26.690 out. Ridiculous. It's just a long song. That's how interminably long that 01:21:27.190 --> 01:21:31.220 song It never ends. You know what ruined that song was like the Super 01:21:31.720 --> 01:21:35.220 Bowl a couple years ago when the Chiefs won, and then like Travis Kelce grabbed 01:21:35.720 --> 01:21:39.040 the microphone instead of saying like, I'm going to Disneyland, and he sang like way 01:21:39.540 --> 01:21:43.200 too much of that song in his stupid annoying fucking voice. How do 01:21:43.700 --> 01:21:46.900 you really feel? Um, at Lebowski's house, they're like, okay, 01:21:47.400 --> 01:21:49.860 so Bunny's back. And Brandt is very much like, oh, thank you for your services. 01:21:50.360 --> 01:21:53.460 Like, looks like she came back, everything's fine, we're good. He's like, no, fuck this. 01:21:53.500 --> 01:21:56.940 Like, I want to talk to Lebowski, right? And this is when Walter— they're talking 01:21:57.440 --> 01:21:59.850 to him for at first, and Walter's like, Walter goes, let me tell you something 01:22:00.350 --> 01:22:03.870 else, dude. I've seen a lot of spinals. This guy's a faker. Yeah. He just— 01:22:04.370 --> 01:22:07.370 it's just, I've seen a lot of spinals. This is such a line. 01:22:07.870 --> 01:22:10.990 Oh my God. So he picks him up out of the wheelchair and is like, 01:22:11.490 --> 01:22:13.570 he's gonna walk, watch, dude. And he like lets him go. And of course he 01:22:14.070 --> 01:22:17.630 crumples to the floor 'cause he is paralyzed from the waist down. And he's 01:22:18.130 --> 01:22:20.550 just sitting there sobbing. And it's like, help me put him back in the chair, 01:22:20.570 --> 01:22:23.310 Walter. Jesus Christ. Like, so sad. 01:22:24.480 --> 01:22:27.640 So we're back at the bowling alley. Yep. And like every 01:22:28.140 --> 01:22:31.600 scene that it's shown so far of Donnie, like Donnie's throwing strikes 01:22:32.100 --> 01:22:35.300 every time they're back at the bowling alley. So this one he throws it and 01:22:35.800 --> 01:22:37.940 he leaves the pin up, so he gets 9. He just kind of like gets 01:22:38.440 --> 01:22:42.240 a little look like, what's up with that? That's off. 01:22:42.740 --> 01:22:45.620 And I think, are they up against Jesus and Liam at this point, or they're 01:22:46.120 --> 01:22:49.560 just talking about the upcoming— This is when Quintana moves the day because of 01:22:50.060 --> 01:22:52.740 Walter's Judaism conversion. That's right, because it was gonna be on Saturday, and so they 01:22:53.240 --> 01:22:55.841 got him to move it to Wednesday or whatever. And Quintana is like pissed about 01:22:56.341 --> 01:22:58.631 it and yelling at him about it, and they're just like, yeah, whatever. They go 01:22:59.131 --> 01:23:02.897 to leave, and that's when they see the nihilists. Oh, I think 01:23:02.977 --> 01:23:05.799 they set the car on fire. That's right. Yeah, they've set his car on fire, 01:23:05.847 --> 01:23:08.894 and it's like, we want some money, Lebowski. And it's like, dude, there was no 01:23:09.394 --> 01:23:11.540 money. There was never any money in the case. There was never any money. 01:23:11.604 --> 01:23:14.876 Like, we all got screwed by the Big Lebowski. There's no money. And the nihilist 01:23:15.376 --> 01:23:19.061 is like, but, but my girlfriend, she cut off her toe. We thought we 01:23:19.561 --> 01:23:22.638 were getting— she thought we were getting a million dollars. It's not fair. Fair, 01:23:23.104 --> 01:23:26.780 fair. And that's when Walter's like, let me tell you about fair. 01:23:26.860 --> 01:23:30.874 Like, oh my God. Yeah, so it's a good, good little fight sequence 01:23:31.374 --> 01:23:34.165 there. Oh, Walter ripping a guy's ear off with his mouth, biting it off, 01:23:34.229 --> 01:23:37.600 whatever, straight Tyson style. The psycho you want on your side. Oh, 01:23:37.616 --> 01:23:41.308 hell yeah, absolutely. Like, you don't want him near you anywhere leading up 01:23:41.324 --> 01:23:44.760 to a fight, but if the fight is already inevitable and he's gonna be on— 01:23:45.260 --> 01:23:47.874 he's gonna just, just like defend you or be on your side, yes please, 01:23:47.890 --> 01:23:51.292 bring it on. For sure. Sure. Um, so like during this fight, this, 01:23:51.420 --> 01:23:54.678 this commotion and stuff, it ends and then they see that Donnie 01:23:54.774 --> 01:23:58.240 is like collapsed. They're like, oh, Donnie, you know, you okay? Whatever. And they, 01:23:58.481 --> 01:24:01.626 they go over to Donnie and it kind of, uh, this shot 01:24:02.126 --> 01:24:05.044 is interesting because it fades to black, but the, um, 01:24:05.156 --> 01:24:08.189 the stars that are kind of on the side of the, uh, outside of the 01:24:08.689 --> 01:24:11.623 bowling alley are the last things that stay lit. So it like fades all the 01:24:12.123 --> 01:24:14.303 way out and you just see those stars and then, and then we're out. 01:24:14.431 --> 01:24:17.780 And we find out in the next scene that, you know, Donnie has died 01:24:18.280 --> 01:24:21.700 and they're talking to the, uh, the person at the mortuary or whatever, 01:24:22.200 --> 01:24:25.620 crematorium, about their options for his ashes and the receptacle and all 01:24:26.120 --> 01:24:29.400 that stuff. This is our most modestly priced receptacle. It's like, we're just gonna 01:24:29.900 --> 01:24:33.400 scatter the ashes, man. We're not gonna like pay you $180 or whatever for 01:24:33.900 --> 01:24:37.340 an urn, which I think is like a reasonable thing. I mean, they can usually 01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:39.460 give the— you— they can give it to you in a bag. Yeah, I've seen 01:24:39.960 --> 01:24:42.720 them do it. Yeah, like it is possible. But they decide to go to Ralph's. 01:24:43.220 --> 01:24:45.760 He says, Ralph's nearby? And they go and they get like a Folgers coffee can 01:24:45.983 --> 01:24:49.097 And obviously dump out the— or probably, I mean, hopefully they save the grounds. 01:24:49.145 --> 01:24:52.566 It's, you know, it's good coffee. Yeah, they gotta save the grounds. 01:24:52.985 --> 01:24:56.372 Uh, Walter does say, uh, just because we're bereaved doesn't make us saps. 01:24:56.468 --> 01:24:59.737 That's right, I enjoy that. 01:25:00.317 --> 01:25:04.053 Um, but it is like, you know, in these situations you're trying to handle somebody's— 01:25:04.182 --> 01:25:07.783 like, especially like they weren't officially responsible for Donnie, 01:25:07.960 --> 01:25:11.417 and then to find out like, oh, around every turn they're trying to charge 01:25:11.917 --> 01:25:14.467 you for this and that. Like, if you've ever had your pets, like, yes, 01:25:14.820 --> 01:25:17.902 put down, and then they charge you. Oh, you want the ashes? It's this. 01:25:17.966 --> 01:25:20.952 You want a box for the ashes? It's this. You want like a final paw 01:25:21.096 --> 01:25:24.387 print? And it's like, dude, I have no proof that those are actually my 01:25:24.467 --> 01:25:27.099 dog in there. You know what we did for a couple of our animals we 01:25:27.599 --> 01:25:29.539 had to put down? Uh, we would get them to just clip off some fur 01:25:29.764 --> 01:25:33.119 because they'll do that for free right before they put the— put them to sleep. 01:25:33.520 --> 01:25:36.361 Uh, they give us a little bag of fur, we go to Build-A-Bear, and you 01:25:36.861 --> 01:25:39.475 stuff like the little fur into the end of the little hand of the teddy 01:25:39.975 --> 01:25:43.023 bear and then do the rest of it. And now that teddy bear that animal. 01:25:43.087 --> 01:25:45.126 We've done that for a couple of our cats. Yeah, I used to do that 01:25:45.158 --> 01:25:48.883 with heroin. Oh, that's so much better. It's worth so much more 01:25:49.383 --> 01:25:53.187 money. But it's still— yeah, a little piece of them still around. They're still around. 01:25:53.444 --> 01:25:56.703 Yeah. Um, so, so yeah, they, they go and they're, uh, they're standing 01:25:56.735 --> 01:26:00.268 on the cliff giving like a little speech. Walter's giving a speech about Donny and 01:26:00.768 --> 01:26:03.238 mostly about Nam. Some of it's, some of it's good, you know. Donny was a 01:26:03.738 --> 01:26:07.895 good bowler, you know, and as a surfer, he explored the beaches of California Whatever, 01:26:07.975 --> 01:26:11.909 and then he completely derails it into talking about Nam 01:26:12.409 --> 01:26:17.112 and everything, naming like like whatever, Bong Tang, Hill 364, 01:26:17.144 --> 01:26:20.885 like Khe Sanh. But he goes to scatter 01:26:21.385 --> 01:26:24.707 the ashes, and of course blows right back in the dude's face. Wind blows off 01:26:25.076 --> 01:26:28.176 the water generally. If you're on the coast, anybody who's been on the coast knows 01:26:28.224 --> 01:26:31.596 the wind blows from the water onto the shore more often than 01:26:31.612 --> 01:26:34.679 not, and sure enough just blows all the the ashes. 01:26:35.090 --> 01:26:38.560 A little bit on himself, mostly in Dude's face and beard, which is 01:26:39.060 --> 01:26:41.540 really gross. I mean, there's a travesty with you, 01:26:42.040 --> 01:26:45.340 Walter. God, like— So we have, like, a little argument 01:26:45.840 --> 01:26:48.180 of, like, you know, what the fuck was that? You know, you're supposed to talk 01:26:48.680 --> 01:26:51.680 about Donny. It was all this stuff about Vietnam, right? And they start having this 01:26:52.180 --> 01:26:55.140 argument, and then we end up with a, fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling. 01:26:55.640 --> 01:26:59.040 Let's go bowling. And then we get another great song. It's a Townes Van Zandt 01:26:59.540 --> 01:27:03.360 song. I forget the name of it, but another fucking hammer on the soundtrack. 01:27:03.860 --> 01:27:04.980 And then our final scene now, we're at the bar at the bowling alley. 01:27:05.480 --> 01:27:08.942 Oh, yeah. Yes. Back with the stranger. The stranger. 01:27:09.087 --> 01:27:11.932 And, uh, and when the dude walks up to the bar, you know, the bartender 01:27:12.432 --> 01:27:15.100 says something about like, hey, sorry to hear about Donnie. And the dude is just 01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:18.928 so like, yeah, well, you know, like, what are you gonna 01:27:19.428 --> 01:27:22.612 do? Yeah. All right. Not much emotion behind it. That's as invested as 01:27:22.628 --> 01:27:25.824 he gets in anybody. Yeah. And, uh, and the stranger's there and, 01:27:25.840 --> 01:27:28.941 you know, he's, uh, the dude abides, 01:27:29.921 --> 01:27:33.151 taking it easy for all us sinners. I find comfort in that. 01:27:34.380 --> 01:27:38.960 So we get like a little closing, uh, little closing voiceover by the Sam Elliott 01:27:38.992 --> 01:27:42.887 character, and then that's it. That's it. That's the beauty that is The Big Lebowski. 01:27:43.625 --> 01:27:47.729 Fantastic. So much fun. Just, and again, like the characters are just so alive 01:27:48.229 --> 01:27:51.416 on the screen and there's so much backstory and detail that, that, 01:27:51.800 --> 01:27:54.349 and here's the thing, what you know, 'cause like you mentioned, they did the movie 01:27:54.365 --> 01:27:57.667 kind of about Jesus, you know, Jesus Quintana. You know that 01:27:58.167 --> 01:28:02.236 the Coens had even more, they know more about these characters that never showed up 01:28:02.653 --> 01:28:06.051 in the screenplay or on the screen because that's just the 01:28:06.067 --> 01:28:09.385 way they work. They make sure that they know these characters inside out clearly because 01:28:09.885 --> 01:28:12.962 the amount of things where we get these interesting details. It's like, that's nothing— 01:28:12.994 --> 01:28:15.724 that's a mistake. That's, you know, it's absolutely what they're trying to do. It's just 01:28:15.740 --> 01:28:19.725 really fantastic work. Um, you know, not that like praise from me matters 01:28:19.758 --> 01:28:22.815 to the Coens, but it's just really fucking good shit. Um, yeah, 01:28:22.831 --> 01:28:26.568 so, you know, for my take on this, like, this is a 01:28:26.793 --> 01:28:29.562 whimsical, creative, fantastical, 01:28:29.916 --> 01:28:33.297 funny movie with a little bit of a detective story thrown 01:28:33.797 --> 01:28:35.986 in to keep it kind of moving forward. That's sort of the only plot element 01:28:36.486 --> 01:28:40.476 of it. Yeah. is this sort of this kidnapping or lack thereof 01:28:40.976 --> 01:28:44.528 or this embezzlement, whatever it is. And the funny, you know, the number of parties 01:28:45.028 --> 01:28:48.460 trying to, you know, capitalize on it all at once. It's very interesting. 01:28:49.120 --> 01:28:52.568 And, you know, yeah, there's so little about this movie that I 01:28:52.584 --> 01:28:55.956 would want from it that I don't get. And I am a 01:28:56.456 --> 01:28:58.596 5 out of 5 on The Big Lebowski. I think this movie is wonderful. 01:28:58.934 --> 01:29:01.815 I had so much fun watching it again. I think it had been— Yeah. 01:29:01.932 --> 01:29:05.474 Uh, maybe 5, maybe 10 years since I watched it. It had been quite 01:29:05.974 --> 01:29:07.942 a while, but it was the kind of movie I've probably seen, you know, 01:29:08.183 --> 01:29:11.453 15, 20 times over the years. So much fun. Yeah, 01:29:11.549 --> 01:29:14.627 easy 5 for me. I'm a 5 on Big Lebowski. All right. Yeah. Uh, 01:29:14.899 --> 01:29:18.185 I thought, I mean, it's super fun to rewatch it again, and I've seen 01:29:18.685 --> 01:29:21.968 it a million times. Again, the cast, like, top to bottom, great. 01:29:22.192 --> 01:29:25.703 Yeah. The music, top to bottom, great. The way it looked, like, all these 01:29:25.815 --> 01:29:29.389 non— these things that don't have to do with the actual script and stuff. 01:29:29.470 --> 01:29:32.788 It's just like, well, you nailed all this to even begin with. Uh, 01:29:32.948 --> 01:29:35.721 one thing I wanted to bring up that I have read about over the years 01:29:35.978 --> 01:29:39.617 and, uh, wanted to get your thoughts on it is the idea that Donnie, 01:29:39.761 --> 01:29:43.736 the Steve Buscemi character, was like kind of a figment of Walter's imagination 01:29:43.833 --> 01:29:47.247 throughout the movie. Like a, uh— and I feel like the dude 01:29:47.519 --> 01:29:50.902 interacts with him directly a couple times. But one thing I 01:29:51.402 --> 01:29:54.477 thought of is all the bowling teams seem to be 2-man teams. 01:29:55.214 --> 01:29:58.837 No, 'cause there's— 'cause, well, yes and no, because there's a point where, like, 01:29:58.981 --> 01:30:01.836 Liam and Quintana talk to each other, are walking together a lot, just the two 01:30:01.884 --> 01:30:04.440 of them, but then there's a point where one of them bowls a strike, 01:30:04.777 --> 01:30:08.024 and there's another guy wearing a very similar shirt waving at them. 01:30:08.105 --> 01:30:10.904 So it does seem like it's 3, at least in a few cases. And the 01:30:10.968 --> 01:30:14.610 big reason that that doesn't work is then whose ashes get thrown all over 01:30:15.013 --> 01:30:18.397 Dude at the end of the movie? If Donny was a figment of Walter's imagination, 01:30:19.023 --> 01:30:22.453 like, cut us out. Right. I mean, the idea— so one of the deeper-cut things 01:30:22.485 --> 01:30:27.395 that I read is the idea is that Donny is maybe 01:30:27.895 --> 01:30:30.190 like one of Walter's nom buddies that's died like a long time ago. So it 01:30:30.690 --> 01:30:34.532 could be that when the Donny fake character character died, 01:30:34.660 --> 01:30:38.272 then Walter was actually able to spread these real ashes of his nom 01:30:38.288 --> 01:30:41.835 buddy Walter, or, uh, Donnie at the time. But this is— I mean, 01:30:42.445 --> 01:30:46.281 you have to be smoking much bigger joints than the Lebowski has access to, 01:30:46.297 --> 01:30:49.540 you know, the occasional acid flashback and all that to get 01:30:50.040 --> 01:30:53.055 that. But I just think it's interesting that it, it says a lot about this 01:30:53.119 --> 01:30:56.570 movie because people don't theorize about dogshit movies, you know? 01:30:57.068 --> 01:30:59.572 And the nature of the whimsical fantasy nature of it lends you to believe, 01:30:59.684 --> 01:31:02.850 yeah, maybe they were going for something weird like that. that, something Fight Club-y. 01:31:03.350 --> 01:31:06.830 And how much like, like bits of deep backstory they give you 01:31:07.330 --> 01:31:10.750 for minor characters in this would prompt people to kind of think 01:31:11.250 --> 01:31:14.330 more about like, ooh, like what, what else about these guys? You know, we think 01:31:14.830 --> 01:31:18.140 of zero of that about Donnie. We learn nothing. Yeah, which is really funny. 01:31:18.650 --> 01:31:21.590 Like everybody, or whatever he says, but like, but, and not even till the very 01:31:22.090 --> 01:31:25.510 end, right? Yeah, it's a good point. But yeah, that is, that is a, 01:31:26.010 --> 01:31:28.530 that's interesting because everybody else we do, and not, not for Brandt. We don't get 01:31:29.030 --> 01:31:31.895 any background. No, true. And then the theory I read about Brandt is that he 01:31:32.395 --> 01:31:35.620 is actually the Big Lebowski's son. Oh, not the 01:31:36.120 --> 01:31:39.666 dude's son. Yeah, yeah, son. Oh, that could be. Um, and it seems like he's 01:31:39.746 --> 01:31:42.219 acting that way a little bit, but then Maude would know him, 01:31:42.894 --> 01:31:45.559 right? Yeah, yeah, whatever. But I could see it. Yeah. 01:31:45.784 --> 01:31:49.364 But, uh, anyway, all this to say, this movie was fucking 01:31:49.461 --> 01:31:52.913 awesome. It was really fun to watch, uh, really enjoyable to like quote back, 01:31:52.929 --> 01:31:55.626 really fun to talk to you about. Um, 01:31:56.510 --> 01:31:59.875 Just like a couple tiny nitpicks that would keep it from being 01:32:00.051 --> 01:32:03.832 a 5, uh, that maybe made it a little long. But honestly, 01:32:03.897 --> 01:32:06.701 like, I'm glad all that stuff is there because we're talking about it, like the 01:32:07.201 --> 01:32:10.482 gutterball sequence, all that kind of shit. Um, but yeah, I mean, in the 01:32:10.546 --> 01:32:14.024 top— this is a top 3 bowling movie of all time alongside, 01:32:14.168 --> 01:32:18.126 uh, Kingpin and There Will Be Blood. Uh, oh yeah, 01:32:18.414 --> 01:32:21.891 bowling alley scene there. I drink your milkshake. 01:32:21.940 --> 01:32:24.392 I forgot that was in a fucking bowling alley. I'm like bowling and there will 01:32:24.424 --> 01:32:28.130 be blood. Like, oh yeah. Uh, but I love this. 01:32:28.258 --> 01:32:31.643 I love the Coen brothers. They nailed it. I loved Raising Arizona. I love this. 01:32:31.867 --> 01:32:35.428 Uh, Big Lebowski is a 4.5 out of 5 for me. Absolutely fantastic. 01:32:35.637 --> 01:32:38.861 Uh, if you haven't seen it, like, yeah, just get 01:32:38.925 --> 01:32:42.566 out there. It is, it is very much worth seeing. Absolutely. 9.5 out of 10 01:32:42.614 --> 01:32:46.239 is where we land then on The Big Lebowski. And Nic, you are picking our 01:32:46.739 --> 01:32:49.688 movie for next week. So what are we watching? Yeah, so next week I thought 01:32:50.188 --> 01:32:53.478 I'd, uh, mix it up because we've done some like lighter, like comedy type stuff. 01:32:53.542 --> 01:32:56.981 And then Lebowski's more just a, like, I don't know, what do we call it, 01:32:56.997 --> 01:33:00.435 like a mystery, or it's almost like a modern noir fantasy, like all 01:33:00.935 --> 01:33:04.034 this weird things combining it. So, uh, and we had in 01:33:04.131 --> 01:33:07.633 the past done a lot of like action sci-fi, and we're getting more now into 01:33:07.681 --> 01:33:11.248 the sci-fi with this selection. Uh, with this one, we are gonna 01:33:11.361 --> 01:33:14.398 go, uh, to the film year 1997, 01:33:14.574 --> 01:33:16.985 and we're gonna go to the actual year, what, 01:33:18.020 --> 01:33:21.590 It's actually more like 2250-something or 60, as it shows later. 01:33:21.730 --> 01:33:24.830 Okay, so, uh, 20— in the 2200s somewhere, 01:33:25.330 --> 01:33:28.330 uh, some year that's never actually gonna happen. And, uh, 01:33:28.830 --> 01:33:32.470 we're gonna hang out with Korben Dallas and, uh, the various threats to 01:33:32.970 --> 01:33:36.310 humanity as we experience and find out what the 01:33:36.810 --> 01:33:40.150 Fifth Element is. Nice. The Fifth Element, Luc Besson's, uh, 01:33:40.650 --> 01:33:43.750 1997 movie that he made. Fever dream. Yes. 01:33:44.250 --> 01:33:47.870 Yes, but very cool. Cool. I, I, Fifth Element, I have not seen 01:33:48.866 --> 01:33:52.771 in a while for sure, but like definitely, definitely always 01:33:52.803 --> 01:33:55.535 like occupies a part of my brain where it's like always there. And so, 01:33:55.599 --> 01:33:58.990 you know, like Lilu, Lilu, Dallas, Multipass, and like all that shit is just like 01:33:59.490 --> 01:34:01.802 stuck in your head, you know what I mean? So fantastic. Can't wait to watch 01:34:01.818 --> 01:34:04.774 The Fifth Element with you. Uh, that'll be a great one for next week. 01:34:05.337 --> 01:34:08.117 That's a wrap. So if you like what you hear, please consider heading over to 01:34:08.149 --> 01:34:13.002 Apple or Spotify and leaving us a 5-star review. It helps new folks 01:34:13.502 --> 01:34:15.189 find the show. Be sure to check out our website at twodads1movie.com. That's the number 01:34:15.689 --> 01:34:18.345 2 and the number 1. 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