Hola, Sneakers! This week Ian and Dave are joined by one of our most popular guests, Dave’s cousin Jason!
This week Ian, Dave and Jason get off to a low-key start; have guest relations; do some border business; suffer tummy troubles; get all legally diddly-widdly-bop; return to the moving blues; buy appliances; listen to Dave’s Christmas stories; get all-star podcast ideas; re-explain Meatballs 3 for Jason’s benefit; don’t watch movies for girls; bring out the good old Book of Wit; vamp to Sonny and Cher; and, finally, discuss Bob Olsen’s Top 10 list of movies featuring:
- The Wild Bunch
- The Godfather
- Red River
- Outlaw Josie Wales
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Field of Dreams
- My Cousin Vinny
- My Favourite Year
- The Road Warrior
- Shadow of the Vampire
Thanks for listening.
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I’d just like to jump on the bandwagon of an adult pulling a knife on you over condiment trivia is not acceptable and is not a safe environment. If there’s any doubt in your mind that he WASN’T joking, which it sounds like there’s plenty, then it’s still an awful environment even if he was joking because that’s not a joke you make if the person on the other side isn’t 100% sure you know it’s a joke. Again to show how gross that “joke” is, I can’t imagine you making the same “joke” to your wife or daughters in 1000 years, and if you did, it would seem extremely gross and disturbing. Like “haha, if you disagree with me, I’m going to stab you to death, haha,” while getting a knife out is not a joke.
It’s also a really gross message for your daughter that in that house, if someone disagrees with you, your life is threatened and nobody else in the room questions that. Imagine if your daughter dated someone like that.
Lastly, one thing I think Ian missed, and I am in no way saying this excuses anything, while at the same time, imagine living with that 24/7. Your parents are literally living on a knife’s edge with him around. If he pulls out a knife over trivia, imagine how stressful and impossible it is to have a conversation about anything that actually matters.
I’m just a stranger on the Internet, but I care about you and your family. LISTEN TO IAN AND DON’T GO BACK.
Thank you, Pierce. You’re not a stranger. You once sent me shoes!
I have to be realistic in my reactions to the madness of my parents’ house. I avoid going as much as possible, but every once in a while I have to bow to convention.
No one is obligated to go somewhere they face abuse, even if it’s family. In this case your life was threatened in front of your daughter. You shouldn’t go back, what you should do (and I’m saying it here because other people have gone through similar things and I’m advising them as much as you) is call the police and open a file on your brother. So that if something happens in the future, you’ll have a record of it. Family abuse is very rarely reported but it’s one of the most dangerous kinds and often ends in tragedy. Again, any family obligation you feel has been taken away by the threat to your life and your real obligation is not to expose yourself, your wife and daughters to that dangerous environment. I love you and I want you to be safe.
“You’ve never seen..?!” For me, that’s Top Gun and The Goonies.
I’ve never seen the first Godfather movie top-to-bottom either, but I feel as if I have because of all the parodies and references to it in pop culture. I’m not into movies about the mafia but if The Untouchables counts, that would be my favourite.
If you open it up to other organized crime groups, then I’d say A History of Violence (which maybe Dave should watch to show what lengths a family man might have to go to in the defense of his loved ones.)
I enjoyed about 2/3rds of A History of Violence before its comic book origins showed.
Got a holiday family story. It was Christmas, 5 or 6 years ago, my family guests finished the appetizer and we had just put the prime rib and sides out for the main course. All of a sudden, my wife was stricken, nearly losing conciseness. Fearing she was have a heart attack, I called 911 and my daughter gave her an aspirin and comforted her until the medics arrived. My family never looked up from their plates. The paramedics arrived, dragging in all their gear and stretcher and tended to her. Still, they kept eating. She was secured on the stretcher as they were about to take her to the ambulance when an EMT finally commented to me, “They’re still eating?” All I heard from the dining room was the clinking of knives and forks growing more frantic as I’m sure they knew their time was almost up. I finally broke it to them that we’re going to follow the ambulance to the hospital and you need to leave. I asked, “Didn’t you see what was happening?” The only response was, evidently after they saw her slumped over in her chair, “We thought she was praying”. Happy ending, she was fine, spent one night in the hospital. When my daughter and I got home, they must had eaten with such fury, there was barely anything for us to eat. Family.
Thanks for featuring my movie list. So, run time for Josie Wales too long? A mere 2:15 vs. 3:07 for Episode 370; but it was a tight 3:07.
Yeah, Josie may have been a long and sometimes rambling journey, but that played into the story with Josie expressing annoyance with each sidetrack and new character that appeared. Each of those instances helped build his character. His exhaustion was never more evident than in the brilliantly acted finally, the encounter between Josie and Fletcher (great character actor John Vernon). One of my favorite scenes in any movie.
To answer one question you had, yes I did read and greatly enjoyed “Shoeless Joe”, the basis for Field of Dreams.
Thanks again for the show, really enjoy it. And I’m also liking the Listening Party, featuring Mary. You guys keep talking and I’ll keep listening.
Thanks for the story, Bob. Family is an obligation; friends are a joy! If you can have both as I feel I do with my girls – it’s a double joy!
Love “The Wild Bunch.” “Godfather” and “My Favorite Year” too for that matter.
“Ride the High Country” from 1962 is another Peckinpah worth a watch.
Ride the High Country! Yes! Another great film with some nice sunset acting from my boy Joel McCrae.
Couldn’t make it all the way through “The Holly and the Ivy” on its Turner broadcast, even with a mild distraction of a jigsaw puzzle. It began interestingly enough, with some banter among two ladies trying to share the same train compartment, but having to adjust for one’s first class vs second class carriage, setting the stage for a class division between them. Then it comes to Ralph Richardson’s house and becomes a completely set stage. Lots of quiet talk, quiet outrage, quiet disappointment, restrained dismay, revelation of atheism as The Holiday service approaches, and an overarching impression that father has been more interested in his career than his own family. He prefers the abstract assistance over the concrete concern, seems mildly surprised that his family has all these stressors. Ultimately, Michael Gregory chucks it all to go to America, changes his name to Marcus Brody and becomes dean of students for Marshall college in Connecticut, only to be sobered up and perpetually frustrated by one of his professors, Henry Walton Jones, Jr. At least that’s what I remembered. The egg nog that evening was fantastic.
Well, I’m sorry I put you through that ordeal and you started hallucinating, Jim. Thanks for trying though!
Maybe I’m lucky that licensing restrictions made it unavailable in Canada. Another plus for Canada – universal healthcare and no dull British sitting room dramas!
Carol Channing passed away yesterday. I’m worried we might have reminded Death about her. https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/685485317/carol-channing-in-memoriam-playlist
Wow, I just heard on the radio that Carol Channing passed a away this morning.
Then I get in my car to listen to the second half of SD- just to find you guys asking about her….
Great show as always- and yes Dave – and the knife incident was little more than weird! ( at least you didn’t say it was “interesting”!)