In this episode, the brother and sister duo of the sit down and discuss the new movie "The Odyssey" directed by Todd Phillips and starring Matt Damon. They discuss the casting of Matt Damon as Odysseus, the story behind the movie, and the history of the book.
00:01:40.660Now, you know, for me, when you look at the story, when you look at the story, the acting, everything that was going on, we came home and we had a lot of discussions with it.
00:01:50.040I had a very good conversation with Tom's daughter, Brooke,
00:01:53.960who knew everything about the story of Homer.
00:01:56.380And, you know, by the way, do you know when this was written?
00:01:59.140Do you know the exact timeline when this was written?
00:06:54.460in terms of fighting for your identity or your Hollywood
00:06:56.500career, well you know it's always been a battle
00:06:58.680I mean, you know, Hollywood is not the most accepting place, even though we Latin people are 30 to 40 percent of the box office and a third of streamers.
00:07:07.880We're still not represented. We're the most underrepresented, aggressively underrepresented group in America.
00:07:13.180So that's been my odyssey to try to bring some parody.
00:07:17.920And this is what bothers me. This is coming from a guy that I've known, Pat, has been acting since the 80s.
00:07:23.200Over 100 movies, TV projects, made millions. How much did you say he made, Pat?
00:07:27.140two and a half million dollars it's not that he wants more problems opportunities for latinos
00:07:31.480he's constantly selling other latinos on the idea that the system stacked against them even though
00:07:36.920his life proves the opposite okay he reminds me of the obamas everything's racist everything is
00:07:41.380this you're the president hey michelle your husband was president twice okay and then look
00:07:46.300around marcelo hernandez selena gomez danny trejo sofia vergaro sama hayek penelope cruz
00:07:52.380rosen sanchez jennifer lopez benicio del toro i could keep going indy garcia eva longorio how
00:07:58.340up under represent i don't get it pat it's it's america is full of successful latinos comedians
00:08:04.800musicians everything stop teaching this victimhood mentality john okay you're doing it everybody else
00:08:11.160can do it i just think it's ridiculous tom it pisses me off and if you're gonna be a victim
00:08:15.340and you're gonna start quoting history for the love of god get it right he goes off and says i
00:08:20.820believe the quote was oh and they took 500 tons of gold that funded the renaissance hey words talk
00:08:27.980numbers scream here's the number for you 1410 that was the start of the renaissance yeah 100
00:08:33.300tons of gold 100 million tons of gold that was the estimate the 100 000 tons of gold is the
00:08:40.020estimate that was taken from the incas and the mayans in 1697 yeah so it's just like 300 years
00:08:46.760later so it's like oh they took this and they funded it queen isabella didn't send them in
00:08:52.040there until 1600 it's like like 1550 1530 i think it was 1532 the queen's proclamation pat here's
00:08:59.000your ships here's your guys we think there's some gold there's some stuff out there go get it and
00:09:03.600then you come back all in uh 15 1697 so it's like if you're gonna tell the story and relate it to
00:09:11.040history get your facts straight dude before you go into this victim stuff he's all victim but you
00:09:16.380know what stands out even more that something like not not that many people were talking about
00:09:19.740we talked about it this is one of the most famous greek stories ever told and there's not one major
00:09:26.060greek actor in any major role in the entire like if you guys think about pat that's the most bizarre
00:09:31.000if you're going to talk about a greek epic how do you not include at least one prominent greek
00:09:35.820anybody pat anything put one greek person in there you had every other race in there i take
00:09:41.660two fast sides of it side number one it was an amazing movie amazing effects and everything that
00:09:46.520goes with it and that's the same way that guess what dark knight when we saw christopher nolan
00:09:51.540in the first batman movie he did we said wait this is dark he's got character things on batman
00:09:56.660batman is very dark holding the villain over remember yeah of course the villain
00:10:02.020and then has like this moral this moral decision does he drop the guy or not that's not batman
00:10:09.720batman's good well that was that was christopher nolan making an outstanding film of batman
00:10:15.580based on batman if you wanted a biopic of the of of basically exactly what homer was talking about
00:10:24.180wait for hbo to do like 20 episodes and do a historical biopic what score you give the movie
00:10:29.360i give it an eight you give it an eight i remember when we walked out i i'm i'm going 7.75 all right
00:10:36.400I said seven, seven and a half is what I gave it.
00:10:38.380So only one Greek actor appears to be in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.