Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 25, 2024


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is a man of many talents, but his love for movies and TV is something most people don't know much about. In this episode, you'll get to know him a little better and find out what he's watching on a plane.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.200 Well, Merry Christmas.
00:00:07.340 Many of you that may be listening right now,
00:00:08.980 you might be traveling to go see family right now.
00:00:11.700 And we thought we would pause from politics on this Christmas.
00:00:16.380 And first off, just say Merry Christmas.
00:00:18.960 But also to talk about something completely different.
00:00:22.520 And that is, Senator, people that don't know you well,
00:00:26.300 I'm going to give them a little bit of a clue.
00:00:28.980 You absolutely love movies.
00:00:33.540 And you put together a list of your favorite movies
00:00:36.500 and also series and shows that you watch.
00:00:39.940 And if you've ever wondered what Senator Cruz is watching
00:00:42.260 when he's flying all the time,
00:00:43.700 here's a really good list we're going to be giving you on this Christmas.
00:00:47.180 Well, let me just echo that.
00:00:48.680 Merry Christmas.
00:00:49.320 I hope you're having a wonderful and blessed day.
00:00:51.760 I hope Santa came down the chimney and your kids are overjoyed
00:00:56.020 and you're spending time maybe with some hot cocoa,
00:00:58.820 we often do Christmas by the tree where I'll be in my bathrobe,
00:01:02.800 we'll all be in our pajamas, the kids will be opening presents.
00:01:06.060 We all actually have cups of hot cocoa.
00:01:09.080 And it's a beautiful time.
00:01:10.380 And it's a beautiful time to reflect not just on the love your family has for each other,
00:01:14.920 but the love God has for us and the salvation he sent for us.
00:01:18.380 Now, I don't know about you,
00:01:19.340 but over holidays what my family has always done is we go to movies.
00:01:23.080 We go to movies over Thanksgiving break.
00:01:24.780 We go to movies over Christmas break.
00:01:26.620 I love movies as a kid.
00:01:28.500 Both my parents love movies.
00:01:29.920 I would go to movies with my mom and dad when I was a little kid.
00:01:32.900 I still go to movies with them now.
00:01:34.480 By the way, you're a movie theater guy, just so people know this.
00:01:37.280 Oh, I like the real theaters.
00:01:38.720 I like the big screen.
00:01:39.900 I like popcorn and gummy bears and the experience of being there.
00:01:45.000 And by the way, I'm also rabid about staying until the very end,
00:01:49.860 until the last moment of the credits play.
00:01:51.640 I will not get up and leave.
00:01:53.540 There's a sense of completeness of appreciating the entirety of the movie.
00:01:58.640 And so what we decided we'd do today is put together just a compilation of movies that I love,
00:02:05.620 that I recommend to you.
00:02:07.260 And hopefully as you're taking some time with your family,
00:02:09.820 maybe you'll go watch one of them and laugh or cry,
00:02:12.460 and it'll touch you and you'll enjoy it.
00:02:14.760 And I think art and storytelling are beautiful, beautiful things.
00:02:18.240 So with that being said, here are the big shows and the big movies on Senator Cruz's list.
00:02:24.360 Merry Christmas.
00:02:26.100 I get asked all the time from many of you guys that are watching or listening right now,
00:02:31.280 what is Ted Cruz like behind the scenes?
00:02:34.640 So we thought we'd have a little fun.
00:02:36.460 I'm going to ask him some questions.
00:02:38.160 And you're even going to find out what his favorite movies are.
00:02:41.020 Senator, we're going to have a little fun.
00:02:43.020 I get asked all the time when I'm all over the country.
00:02:45.980 It happened this last week in New York.
00:02:47.800 So what is Ted Cruz really like behind the scenes?
00:02:51.100 And I say, I actually, if people got to see the side of you that I know,
00:02:55.140 you're actually really fun to be around.
00:02:57.180 You're also a huge movie buff as well.
00:03:00.840 And so I'm going to ask some fun questions just to kind of let people know behind the curtain who you really are.
00:03:07.760 So let's start with this.
00:03:08.920 What is the last thing you watched on a plane?
00:03:13.080 What is the last thing I watched on a plane was Outer Banks, which is a series.
00:03:20.140 It's a teeny bopper series.
00:03:21.660 And it's phenomenal.
00:03:22.400 I am in the middle of season three.
00:03:24.200 And there's a reason I'm watching a teeny bopper series, which is my youngest daughter, Catherine, loves Outer Banks.
00:03:30.020 She's at camp right now.
00:03:31.340 Yep.
00:03:31.540 And when I dropped her off at camp, she said, Dad, I want you to watch Outer Banks.
00:03:36.380 And I want you to write to me in letters and tell me what you think as the season's progressing.
00:03:42.540 And so I've been regularly.
00:03:44.060 I write to her about every couple of days.
00:03:45.600 And I tell her, OK, here's where I am.
00:03:47.740 I'm at this point.
00:03:48.760 I'm at this point.
00:03:49.640 This character just died.
00:03:50.580 Who's your favorite character?
00:03:51.780 JB.
00:03:52.360 Yeah, mine too.
00:03:53.280 No doubt about it.
00:03:54.240 So she asked me that.
00:03:55.280 I'm a little troubled. 0.95
00:03:56.100 Her favorite character is JJ, who is kind of a, look, I guess if you're a 13-year-old girl, he's, you know, he's always doing the dumbest thing imaginable.
00:04:05.480 But he's kind of a, I like John B.
00:04:07.760 John B is a good character.
00:04:09.000 It's such a fun show.
00:04:10.080 So when you were growing up, what was it that you were watching?
00:04:13.540 High school, college?
00:04:14.920 By the way, spoiler alert.
00:04:16.420 I apologize if you haven't seen it.
00:04:18.180 I'm going to give a spoiler alert right now.
00:04:19.540 So just fast forward through this if you don't want a spoiler alert.
00:04:22.860 But in season two, when Ward is blown up, I knew Ward was not blown up.
00:04:28.380 And so I wrote her.
00:04:29.180 I said, yeah, Ward just died.
00:04:30.880 I'm very confident he's alive.
00:04:32.520 And I remembered they keep scuba gear in the boat.
00:04:35.160 He got in the scuba gear.
00:04:36.420 And then like seven episodes later.
00:04:37.180 It's like Encyclopedia Brown books.
00:04:38.800 Remember those?
00:04:39.400 There you go.
00:04:40.220 You've got to figure it out.
00:04:40.920 And you're like, they've got to keep the series going.
00:04:43.180 So I felt pretty good that I was at least a step ahead of the Teenie Bopper series.
00:04:47.240 I like that.
00:04:48.080 So what were you watching in high school?
00:04:50.100 Like, what were your favorite shows?
00:04:51.660 What was your favorite movie growing up?
00:04:53.460 So look, I love movies.
00:04:55.300 My parents loved movies.
00:04:56.800 Like, we would, you know, this is what we do.
00:05:00.000 So every holiday, every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, my family would go out and watch movies.
00:05:04.280 Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
00:05:05.560 Of course it is.
00:05:06.180 Okay, good.
00:05:06.620 Absolutely, yes.
00:05:07.580 There's only one right answer.
00:05:09.000 Okay, good.
00:05:09.360 Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie.
00:05:11.200 But we would go out and do movies when I was a kid.
00:05:14.720 When I was like eight, nine years old, my dad would drop me off at the theater all Saturday.
00:05:19.820 And I'd watch like five movies.
00:05:21.600 I'd go from one theater to the next to the next and just watch everything there.
00:05:25.180 It's, we all love movies.
00:05:26.860 So what I've done today for this show is I've put together a list of 25 movies.
00:05:33.080 Now, this is not exclusive.
00:05:34.780 This is not the only 25 movies I like.
00:05:37.380 And I don't even know that it's my 25 favorite, but it's 25 awesome movies, which if you haven't watched, I recommend you watch.
00:05:44.740 You will enjoy them.
00:05:45.680 You will laugh.
00:05:46.360 You will be moved.
00:05:47.520 You will get good things from them.
00:05:48.940 So let's go through the 25.
00:05:50.460 Well, I got to ask one more question for you at 25.
00:05:52.100 What movie have you watched the most in your life over and over again?
00:05:56.000 Well, that actually happens to be number one on the list.
00:05:58.160 I knew it.
00:05:58.580 I like this.
00:05:59.280 So my favorite movie of all time is The Princess Bride.
00:06:02.480 Really?
00:06:02.980 I love The Princess Bride.
00:06:04.760 Why?
00:06:05.460 I think every character in it is exquisite.
00:06:08.880 Every line from every character is fantastic.
00:06:12.480 I'll tell you, in college, we used to play a game called Drinking Princess Bride.
00:06:17.800 And so the way you play Drinking Princess Bride is you sit down with a bunch of college kids.
00:06:21.700 You put the movie on and you try to say each line immediately before it's said.
00:06:27.920 If you get it right, you point at somebody they have to drink.
00:06:31.800 If you screw it up even slightly, you drink.
00:06:35.840 And if two or more people say the same line at the same time, everybody drinks.
00:06:40.640 So when you get to the as you wishes.
00:06:41.560 So this is why you were so sober in college.
00:06:43.440 Now I understand it.
00:06:44.180 Look, when you get to the as you wishes, everyone can get them so they're all socials.
00:06:48.720 And it is a fun game.
00:06:49.960 And my problem is I know just about every line from the movie, but I'll screw them up slightly.
00:06:54.560 So I end up kind of getting myself because I try an awful lot of them.
00:06:58.520 But it is an exquisite movie.
00:07:00.280 I've probably watched The Princess Bride, I don't know, a couple hundred times.
00:07:03.620 No way.
00:07:04.260 Yeah.
00:07:04.660 It is fantastic.
00:07:05.840 So that's number one on your list.
00:07:07.340 Far and away.
00:07:09.180 Number two on my list is The Godfather Saga.
00:07:11.920 Couldn't agree with you more.
00:07:12.920 One of the best series ever made, period.
00:07:15.520 And I'm not going to break it down between one, two, and three.
00:07:18.780 I even like three, which is a bit of a heretical idea.
00:07:22.220 I think three stands on its own as its own movie the least.
00:07:26.680 That three only makes sense in conjunction with one and two.
00:07:30.840 Which is when you're in the club.
00:07:32.300 I kind of like that.
00:07:33.300 Like you can't fake it and go see number three and think, oh, that was incredible.
00:07:38.120 You have to be in it.
00:07:39.180 And look, I quote all of them all the time, you know, from three, every time I get out,
00:07:44.180 they keep pulling me back in.
00:07:46.500 I will say it was a little depressing with my team where I turned, you know, Senate staffers
00:07:52.600 are all children.
00:07:54.960 You know, your average.
00:07:55.840 We should put that on a t-shirt.
00:07:57.180 Your average Senate staffer is like 23, 24, 25.
00:08:01.660 So things like Godfather quotes, they just don't get.
00:08:05.340 And so I said something.
00:08:08.720 I said, you know, this is the business we have chosen.
00:08:11.380 And like everyone looked at me confused.
00:08:13.880 And I said, okay, I had like six staffers there.
00:08:15.940 I said, all right, do any of you have any idea what I'm saying?
00:08:18.960 They're all like, no, no, no.
00:08:20.420 I said, okay, this is Godfather II.
00:08:23.780 And this is a conversation between Hyman Roth, who is clearly modeled after Meyer Lansky,
00:08:30.800 Hyman Roth and Michael Corleone, and they're down in Miami.
00:08:35.300 And Hyman Roth goes, Michael, I had a friend.
00:08:39.620 I had a friend since childhood.
00:08:42.100 Mo Green was his name.
00:08:44.340 And one day somebody put a bullet in his eye.
00:08:49.620 I did not ask who was responsible.
00:08:54.380 I did not seek retribution.
00:08:58.080 I said, this is the business we have chosen.
00:09:05.620 None of them had any idea what I was talking about.
00:09:07.960 Team building night in the Senate.
00:09:09.220 You should totally bring them in one, two, and three.
00:09:11.860 Just nine hours.
00:09:12.800 We're going to sit down.
00:09:13.440 This is what you're going to do.
00:09:14.800 That's team building 101.
00:09:16.700 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday.
00:09:18.760 There you go.
00:09:19.400 All right.
00:09:19.760 Favorite line from any of the Godfathers.
00:09:21.720 The best one.
00:09:23.080 Mine's a cannoli.
00:09:24.320 Leave the gun. 0.94
00:09:25.420 Take the cannoli.
00:09:26.140 Yeah.
00:09:26.620 No brainer.
00:09:27.280 Number three on your list.
00:09:29.060 Scarface.
00:09:29.860 Really?
00:09:30.580 Oh, I love me some Scarface.
00:09:32.120 Why?
00:09:33.060 Notice Pacino has two spots in my top three.
00:09:36.760 I've seen a theme here.
00:09:37.220 I like Pacino.
00:09:38.140 Okay, I love crime movies.
00:09:39.720 And look, Scarface, Tony Montana.
00:09:42.460 He's Cuban.
00:09:42.980 I'm Cuban.
00:09:44.900 It's, you know, it is larger than life.
00:09:47.780 I can quote a lot of lines from it.
00:09:49.820 To be honest, I'm not going to because they're pretty off color. 1.00
00:09:52.820 And I'm going to avoid putting out on the podcast some of the language from it.
00:09:57.560 But it is...
00:10:00.160 So crime genre is your thing.
00:10:02.860 And I like Pacino.
00:10:04.160 Yeah, he's amazing.
00:10:04.940 So my favorite TV show is Criminal Minds.
00:10:07.460 I love Criminal Minds.
00:10:09.180 I'm actually shocked by that one because if there was only one box that I could take with me my whole life,
00:10:14.500 like if I was stuck on a desert island, it'd be West Wing.
00:10:17.380 West Wing is fabulous.
00:10:18.460 I've watched every episode of West Wing.
00:10:19.940 I've watched every episode of Criminal Minds.
00:10:21.540 But Criminal Minds is, I just find it fascinating.
00:10:24.040 Heidi hates it, by the way. 1.00
00:10:24.960 When Criminal Minds is on, she's like, turn that garbage off because, you know, you've got evil, vicious murderers. 1.00
00:10:30.000 I'm like, no, no, they're the bad guys, though. 0.99
00:10:31.540 It's all about stopping them.
00:10:32.880 But she just doesn't like that in the house. 0.98
00:10:34.720 All right.
00:10:35.940 Number four.
00:10:37.520 Fletch.
00:10:38.560 Never seen it.
00:10:39.340 You've never seen Fletch.
00:10:40.920 Never in my life.
00:10:41.720 Okay, Ben, go home tonight.
00:10:42.860 What's it about?
00:10:43.480 And watch Fletch.
00:10:44.640 It may be the funniest movie ever made.
00:10:47.180 Really?
00:10:48.400 Chevy Chase plays Erwin Fletcher, an undercover investigative reporter.
00:10:53.620 It is absolutely hysterical.
00:10:55.340 I love Chevy Chase.
00:10:57.340 It's Chevy Chase's best movie.
00:10:59.320 Much better than Lampoon's Vacation.
00:11:02.940 Much better than, and he's done a ton.
00:11:04.720 I love Chevy Chase.
00:11:06.260 But Fletch is head and shoulders above them all.
00:11:09.620 You know Grant, who heads up my security detail.
00:11:11.780 Grant and I quote Fletch lines back and forth at each other every week.
00:11:17.780 Really?
00:11:18.340 Put it on the list.
00:11:19.020 It is go and watch the movie.
00:11:20.160 I've never seen it.
00:11:20.840 It is spectacular.
00:11:22.600 All right, Fletch, I'm on it.
00:11:23.840 All right, number five.
00:11:25.500 Amazing Grace.
00:11:27.400 Also never seen it?
00:11:28.600 A lot of people have not seen it, but it is a very good.
00:11:31.620 It is the true story of William Wilberforce.
00:11:34.440 Now, William Wilberforce was a member of parliament in the United Kingdom who led the effort to abolish
00:11:40.680 the slave trade.
00:11:42.120 Very cool.
00:11:43.140 Is it a true story?
00:11:43.960 It's a true story.
00:11:44.560 Okay.
00:11:45.180 And Wilberforce, so when he started as a young MP, the slave trade was the United Kingdom's
00:11:54.240 single greatest source of revenue.
00:11:56.480 It was their business.
00:11:57.940 And he begins as this young MP arguing, we must end the slave trade.
00:12:02.660 It is wrong.
00:12:03.300 It is immoral.
00:12:04.460 And everyone laughs at him.
00:12:06.080 And it would be like if you were in Texas standing up saying, we should ban oil and gas.
00:12:11.140 Yeah.
00:12:11.220 I mean, it was that absurd of an idea back then.
00:12:14.840 And he spends 50 years battling for it.
00:12:17.960 And the movie ends with him successfully championing and passing the legislation abolishing the slave
00:12:24.760 trade and shutting down their most lucrative business because it was evil.
00:12:28.940 And by the way, the title, Amazing Grace, do you know where it comes from?
00:12:34.800 What?
00:12:35.580 So the person who wrote the hymn, Amazing Grace, was a friar who had been the former captain
00:12:44.800 of a slave ship.
00:12:47.700 Really?
00:12:48.220 He was the captain of a slave ship.
00:12:50.400 And think of the words of the song Amazing Grace.
00:12:53.060 Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.
00:12:58.460 I once was lost, but now am found.
00:13:01.060 Was blind, but now I see.
00:13:03.680 And imagine the person writing that.
00:13:06.940 In that context.
00:13:08.280 Was the captain of a slave ship.
00:13:09.900 Presumably he had murdered people.
00:13:11.660 He had beaten people. 0.88
00:13:13.400 He had whipped people.
00:13:14.680 He, I mean, you think of the evil entailed in being the captain of a slave ship.
00:13:20.320 And then the amazing grace that God offered redemption, even in the face of the horrific
00:13:28.400 evil, it puts a whole different character.
00:13:32.200 The book is by Eric Metaxas, who's a fantastic author, Christian author, does great biographies.
00:13:38.040 I highly recommend Amazing Grace.
00:13:40.880 Number six, Unforgiven.
00:13:43.180 Never seen it.
00:13:44.260 Oh, Unforgiven is fiction.
00:13:45.960 This is why it makes me laugh when we get to do shows like this, because I mean, I will
00:13:50.460 go watch these now.
00:13:51.740 Okay, so Unforgiven, best Western ever made.
00:13:54.940 Won the Academy Award for best picture.
00:13:56.760 Clint Eastwood is in it.
00:13:58.460 I could do an age joke here.
00:14:00.440 Was it in black and white?
00:14:01.720 No, no, no, no.
00:14:02.600 It was actually late Eastwood.
00:14:04.440 You were actually out of diapers when it came out.
00:14:06.700 Okay, gotcha.
00:14:08.520 Morgan Freeman is in it.
00:14:10.020 Gene Hackman is in it.
00:14:11.080 Gene Hackman is spectacular.
00:14:12.520 What's interesting about Unforgiven that is so powerful is it turns all of the stereotypes
00:14:20.460 of the Western on its head.
00:14:22.440 So, for example, Clint Eastwood plays this outlaw who had turned over a good leaf and
00:14:31.080 was good and then was going back, gets hired. 0.94
00:14:34.040 What happens is a woman who is a prostitute is badly cut up by a drunk cowboy and they 0.98
00:14:42.280 put out a reward to kill the cowboy who cut her up and Clint Eastwood, as this retired 0.96
00:14:49.560 outlaw, needs the money and so is coming to collect the reward and Morgan Freeman, his 0.97
00:14:54.860 partner, comes with him.
00:14:55.760 But there's a point where Clint Eastwood, you know, there's a young kid who wants to
00:15:00.480 be a gunslinger and he's like practicing on shooting fast and like Clint Eastwood says,
00:15:05.600 well, you know, for me, this is about as fast as I can draw my gun, point it, aim at it, pull
00:15:16.160 the trigger and hit what I'm aiming at.
00:15:17.700 And he said in most firefights, people are scared out of their mind and they're just
00:15:23.460 terrified and whoever can kind of calmly engage is who wins.
00:15:28.060 And there's there scenes where like everyone's like, oh, crap, and they shoot their foot and
00:15:31.460 they drop their gun and they're like freaking out.
00:15:33.720 And he kind of and he would just get drunk and just sort of systematically bang.
00:15:38.220 And it it really did invert many of the the conventional wisdom of being a fast draw
00:15:45.620 and everything else.
00:15:46.460 And Gene Hackman's character is hysterical.
00:15:49.720 It is.
00:15:50.240 He's the sheriff who initially you think might be the hero, but he very quickly becomes an
00:15:56.040 antihero.
00:15:57.840 So excellent movie.
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00:16:29.480 Number eight, Team America.
00:16:33.540 I've actually seen it.
00:16:35.060 Hilarious.
00:16:35.600 And I'm going a little edgy.
00:16:36.880 So Team America, Team America, World Police.
00:16:39.820 It's a puppet movie.
00:16:41.360 I remember when it came out, everybody was in shock, but I was dying laughing.
00:16:44.620 So Heidi doesn't like movies very much. 0.88
00:16:46.660 I took Heidi to see it.
00:16:47.860 She almost fell to the floor laughing. 0.98
00:16:50.140 So she y'all clicked on that.
00:16:51.520 It is screamingly funny.
00:16:52.960 Now, it makes fun of both sides.
00:16:55.220 It makes fun of Republicans, Democrats.
00:16:57.820 It's the guys who do South Park who did it.
00:17:00.380 It is puppets.
00:17:03.340 They are truly equal opportunity offenders.
00:17:05.720 It is.
00:17:06.160 Now, I'm going to give a warning.
00:17:08.300 Every third word is a profanity.
00:17:10.460 If you're offended by profanity, skip this suggestion.
00:17:14.040 I will say when we were fairly newlyweds, we went on vacation with Heidi's parents down
00:17:19.280 at Lake Powell, which is fabulous, and we brought it with us, and we sort of, like Heidi and
00:17:25.360 I remember, this is really, really funny, and I think we didn't quite remember that
00:17:29.260 every third word is a profanity, and I'm sitting there with Heidi's parents as we're
00:17:33.620 listening to the blinkity, blink, blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.
00:17:37.140 We didn't finish the movie.
00:17:38.500 Like 10 minutes into it, we just turned it off.
00:17:40.120 Heidi, I can't believe you brought this in front of your parents, right?
00:17:42.800 Yeah.
00:17:43.680 It was, but it's still funny as all get it.
00:17:46.460 All right.
00:17:47.680 Next movie, Patton.
00:17:48.840 Yep.
00:17:49.540 Amazing.
00:17:50.840 Amazing movie.
00:17:51.800 I've watched Patton probably five, six times in my life.
00:17:54.760 All right.
00:17:55.000 Do you know what I did before every Supreme Court argument I ever did?
00:17:58.140 Well, I can figure it out now.
00:17:59.520 You watched Patton.
00:18:00.320 Not the whole thing.
00:18:01.440 Just which scene?
00:18:02.340 The opening speech.
00:18:03.120 Okay, yeah.
00:18:03.620 Just the opening speech.
00:18:04.940 George C. Scott in front of the gigantic flag standing up and saying,
00:18:09.920 Men, the objective is not to give your life for your country. 1.00
00:18:14.180 The objective is to make that other poor son of a bitch give his life for his country. 1.00
00:18:20.200 I mean- 1.00
00:18:20.300 I can dig that.
00:18:21.040 I can dig that.
00:18:21.900 It is-
00:18:23.280 Sound advice.
00:18:24.480 If you can watch that speech and not be inspired, you're dead.
00:18:27.960 Yeah.
00:18:28.460 Like it is-
00:18:29.480 See, those are my weakness movies.
00:18:31.080 I love true stories.
00:18:32.860 I love good versus evil movies.
00:18:35.580 I absolutely love sports movies as well.
00:18:37.460 But there's always usually a big speech in those.
00:18:39.280 By the way, a buddy of mine collects historical military equipment and clothing and uniforms,
00:18:45.200 and he has Patton's dog tags.
00:18:47.520 No way.
00:18:48.400 And I actually have worn Patton's dog tags.
00:18:51.300 They have rested on my bare chest, and I literally felt like I was ready to pull out
00:18:56.240 a pistol and start shooting in an airplane.
00:18:57.940 Like it made you think about that that actually rested right above the heart of Patton.
00:19:04.300 That's incredible.
00:19:04.980 Pretty wild.
00:19:05.520 That's a good thing to own.
00:19:06.560 All right.
00:19:07.160 Next movie, The Sting.
00:19:09.520 Classic.
00:19:10.040 Have you seen The Sting?
00:19:10.580 No.
00:19:11.040 You've never seen The Sting?
00:19:11.980 I don't even know what it's about.
00:19:13.720 Oh.
00:19:15.160 Oh, Benjamin.
00:19:16.140 Benjamin.
00:19:16.620 Benjamin.
00:19:17.040 The Sting.
00:19:17.780 All-time classic.
00:19:19.060 Robert Redford.
00:19:19.820 Paul Newman. 0.93
00:19:20.580 They're con men.
00:19:22.260 It is- 0.83
00:19:22.940 This is where I could really mess with me.
00:19:24.620 Wait.
00:19:24.920 Newman does something outside of like Salsa?
00:19:27.080 It is hysterical.
00:19:29.620 It is beautifully done.
00:19:31.080 Go and watch-
00:19:31.720 And what's it about?
00:19:32.660 It's about con men.
00:19:33.940 Okay.
00:19:34.180 And it's worth watching.
00:19:37.120 I've probably watched it a hundred times.
00:19:38.820 No way.
00:19:39.200 It's such a good movie.
00:19:40.820 All right.
00:19:41.720 Next movie, Awakenings.
00:19:43.700 Yes.
00:19:44.500 I've seen that.
00:19:45.480 Once.
00:19:45.880 Only once.
00:19:46.400 So Awakenings is fabulous.
00:19:48.220 Robert De Niro.
00:19:49.460 You're a De Niro fan.
00:19:50.600 I like De Niro a lot.
00:19:52.120 Not a fan of his politics, but a big fan of his acting.
00:19:54.320 He's a great actor.
00:19:55.760 Although as much, De Niro got all the acclaim, but I actually thought Robin Williams stole
00:19:59.900 the show.
00:20:00.960 Well, I love Robin Williams, so this is right up my alley.
00:20:03.540 Robin Williams is one of my all-time favorite actors ever.
00:20:07.500 I mean, he's an incredible comedic actor.
00:20:09.900 So you're going to laugh.
00:20:10.780 I was asked the question if you could have dinner with like any five people who would
00:20:14.040 be at your table, living or alive or dead.
00:20:16.820 I had Robin Williams for years in my list because I think he's just one of the most brilliant
00:20:21.240 actors and genuinely funny human beings.
00:20:23.420 So when Robin Williams passed, I genuinely cried and I wrote a long statement about Robin
00:20:29.220 Williams on Facebook that I put up and it just, I hammered it out on my iPad because
00:20:33.620 he, he is so funny.
00:20:35.920 His standup.
00:20:36.860 If you've ever watched his standup routine on golf, the one on golf is again, profane
00:20:43.280 language warning, but as funny as anything that has ever been said, like screamingly
00:20:48.360 funny.
00:20:49.920 Awakenings, the portrayal he gives.
00:20:51.780 I actually like Robin Williams even better in dramatic performances than comedy.
00:20:55.800 And he's one of the funniest human beings ever alive.
00:21:00.240 So Awakenings.
00:21:01.320 Put it on the list.
00:21:01.920 Yes.
00:21:02.220 Fabulous.
00:21:02.900 All right.
00:21:03.860 The next two I view together, Braveheart and Gladiator.
00:21:09.360 Both amazing.
00:21:10.600 No brainers.
00:21:12.020 Incredible.
00:21:14.000 No Gibson, Russell Crowe, right?
00:21:15.820 Yes.
00:21:16.200 Back to back.
00:21:17.000 How can you get that wrong?
00:21:18.060 And both standing and fighting and, and fighting against oppression and they're epic, epic movies.
00:21:28.140 Again, if you're not inspired by them, you're dead.
00:21:30.860 Yeah.
00:21:30.980 Um, I will say Mike Lee, there's an app where you couldn't, can put yourself, you speaking
00:21:40.200 into an audio clip.
00:21:43.260 And he and I used to send things back and forth.
00:21:45.620 And, you know, at the end when, when, uh, Mel Gibson is being executed, he screams freedom.
00:21:51.360 So Mike would send me videos of him screaming, to Mel Gibson's voice, freedom.
00:21:59.200 It was pretty powerful.
00:22:01.640 Uh, all right.
00:22:02.300 Next.
00:22:03.500 Beverly Hills Cop.
00:22:05.240 Hands down, one of the funniest movies ever.
00:22:08.140 Just screamingly funny.
00:22:10.120 Eddie Murphy.
00:22:10.460 So you're going to laugh.
00:22:11.260 I consider that a Christmas movie because it's like days off.
00:22:13.960 I want to watch the classic.
00:22:15.640 I watch that.
00:22:16.500 It is every moment of it.
00:22:18.080 Eddie Murphy remains one of my favorite actors of all times.
00:22:21.780 I love.
00:22:21.980 He's got a new one coming out, uh, a sequel coming out on, uh, Amazon.
00:22:26.240 I think it's on Amazon prime.
00:22:27.700 Did you see that recently?
00:22:28.960 I just saw it this last week.
00:22:30.140 I don't know which one it was, but they were teasing.
00:22:31.780 Yes.
00:22:31.940 They're doing a Beverly Hills Cop two.
00:22:34.340 Okay.
00:22:34.620 Is that what it is?
00:22:35.300 Or three.
00:22:35.800 Yeah.
00:22:36.280 But look, the original Beverly Hills Cop is screamingly funny.
00:22:40.380 And, and I actually have three Eddie Murphy movies in a row.
00:22:43.080 Cause I love Eddie Murphy.
00:22:44.960 Beverly Hills Cop.
00:22:46.800 Trading places.
00:22:47.680 Yes.
00:22:48.320 And coming to America. 0.78
00:22:49.340 So coming to America was one of the first movies.
00:22:51.660 It was like really edgy that I remember like in my adolescence seeing hilarious.
00:22:56.820 Again, screamingly funny.
00:22:58.800 And Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall, and they play multiple characters and all of the different,
00:23:02.780 you know, in the barbershop, when you have Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall going back and
00:23:06.480 forth, I mean, it's amazing.
00:23:08.700 And you know what?
00:23:09.220 They probably wouldn't let you make that movie today.
00:23:11.140 No, they would not.
00:23:11.880 No way.
00:23:12.340 It gets racially edgy in a way that like now, you know, the woke world.
00:23:16.840 No, no, no.
00:23:17.200 You can't laugh about that.
00:23:17.940 Cancer culture would be all over that. 0.91
00:23:18.540 No, no, no, no, no.
00:23:19.080 You can't, you can't, you can't have any of that humor.
00:23:21.280 By the way, you want funny humor.
00:23:24.000 Go back to young Eddie Murphy on SNL when he was like 19 years old.
00:23:29.620 Brilliant and edgy.
00:23:30.320 And just edgy, comedic, like brilliance.
00:23:34.480 I love, he's by far my favorite character ever on SNL was young Eddie Murphy because
00:23:40.400 it was just so funny.
00:23:42.180 I like it.
00:23:43.060 Mine's Farley, by the way.
00:23:44.640 Look, he was, he was great and he put his hole into it.
00:23:48.460 Yeah.
00:23:49.400 I mean, I also love. 0.59
00:23:51.440 Fat man in a little jacket.
00:23:52.860 It's unbelievable. 0.98
00:23:53.560 That man down by the river.
00:23:54.840 I mean, but I also love like comedy when there's people falling over and he could do that part.
00:24:00.200 His physical comedy was really strong.
00:24:01.580 His physical comedy was incredible.
00:24:02.480 Yep.
00:24:03.080 All right.
00:24:03.500 Next on the list, Wall Street.
00:24:05.800 Yep.
00:24:06.420 Just all time Gordon Gekko.
00:24:08.760 Oh, yeah.
00:24:09.040 One of the great all time classics.
00:24:11.360 By the way, a line that I quote frequently.
00:24:14.140 Gordon Gekko is, is in the locker room getting cleaned up after playing, playing, uh, racquetball.
00:24:20.360 And he turns to Charlie Sheen and he goes, I'm on the board of the Bronx Zoo.
00:24:27.400 Cost me a million bucks.
00:24:29.280 That's the thing about wasps. 0.98
00:24:30.900 Love animals.
00:24:32.480 Hate people.
00:24:34.160 There's some insight there.
00:24:35.840 There is some insight there for sure.
00:24:37.960 Hidden Figures.
00:24:39.380 Yes.
00:24:40.220 Wonderful movie.
00:24:42.340 Incredible movie about the African-American female mathematicians who were foundational
00:24:48.480 to America going to the moon.
00:24:51.200 And, and for me, there, there are two kind of personal reasons why that movie is significant
00:24:55.840 to me.
00:24:56.720 One, it's got to be because of Houston.
00:24:58.500 Well, when we went to see the movie, I took my mother to the movie. 0.90
00:25:01.920 I took Heidi to the movie.
00:25:02.840 I took both my daughters to the movie.
00:25:05.060 And it was interesting.
00:25:06.280 My girls, it was the first time they'd seen a movie that had segregation.
00:25:09.940 Yeah.
00:25:10.380 The bathroom is the most, one of the most iconic scenes in that whole movie.
00:25:13.280 And it led to, I had a long conversation with both of them and they were like, well, why
00:25:17.420 would people have done that?
00:25:18.560 And to talk about segregation and civil rights and just sort of walk through the history of
00:25:23.180 it, it prompted really good conversations with my girls.
00:25:27.280 But secondly, so my mom, my mom graduated from Rice in 1956 and she had a math degree and
00:25:36.840 she went to work as a computer programmer at Shell.
00:25:39.720 Well, she subsequently went to work at the Smithsonian.
00:25:44.220 And you remember the movie Hidden Figures begins with Sputnik being launched and sort of
00:25:48.580 the space race being beginning.
00:25:50.980 One of my mother's first assignments at the Smithsonian was to help compute the orbits 0.97
00:25:56.240 of Sputnik.
00:25:58.260 And so in front of the girls, I asked my mom, I said, mom, you were doing this.
00:26:02.920 And in fact, you were doing it 10 years earlier.
00:26:04.640 You were doing it in the 50s.
00:26:06.480 Hidden Figures is set in the 60s.
00:26:07.920 And I said, how accurate is it?
00:26:10.360 And my mother thought it was very accurate, that it did a really good job of conveying
00:26:14.920 what it was like to be a woman in space and science and a technical environment.
00:26:22.060 And I commented to her, I said, OK, one of the strange things to a more modern ear is that
00:26:32.140 they referred to the women there as computers. 1.00
00:26:34.320 And we think of a computer as a piece of metal.
00:26:37.620 But they were actually called computers because they were actually doing the math.
00:26:41.100 And my mother started laughing at me.
00:26:43.100 And she said her first job title was computer.
00:26:47.000 And when she started at Shell, she had a business card that said Eleanor Darragh computer.
00:26:52.360 No way.
00:26:52.960 And so in response to that, I introduced legislation to rename the street in front of NASA headquarters
00:27:01.980 Hidden Figures Way.
00:27:03.600 And this is actually a really cool story.
00:27:05.340 I introduced that legislation.
00:27:07.820 Before it could pass, and we would have gotten it passed, but a D.C.
00:27:11.860 city councilman saw that legislation and said, you know what, that's a great idea.
00:27:15.660 And the D.C. city councilman introduced it in the D.C. city council.
00:27:19.800 The guy's a Democrat.
00:27:20.720 Yeah.
00:27:21.120 And he got it passed.
00:27:22.180 So the D.C. city council passes it.
00:27:24.320 That's cool.
00:27:25.060 So I went to the street sign dedication.
00:27:27.340 And that is the street sign there.
00:27:28.820 And I was there.
00:27:29.460 I spoke at the dedication.
00:27:30.140 And where is it?
00:27:31.100 It is the headquarters of NASA in D.C.
00:27:33.820 OK, cool.
00:27:34.520 And so NASA, the address of NASA is One Hidden Figures Way.
00:27:38.240 That's awesome.
00:27:38.780 So I spoke at the dedication.
00:27:40.240 The D.C. city councilman spoke.
00:27:41.600 And he's a Democrat.
00:27:42.320 I'm a Republican.
00:27:43.460 And I told the story of my mom, which was really cool to get to tell.
00:27:47.620 And I said, look, at some level, you might say, listen, the street sign's not that big
00:27:51.740 a deal.
00:27:52.700 That one is.
00:27:53.320 But at another level, you know, 50 years from now, 100 years from now, some little
00:27:58.160 girl, some little boy is going to come visit NASA.
00:28:01.020 And they're going to look up and see the street sign.
00:28:02.820 And they're going to say, hey, what does that mean?
00:28:05.140 Yeah.
00:28:05.400 And they're going to hear the story of the pioneering African-American women who were
00:28:11.420 the mathematicians that got us to the moon.
00:28:13.800 And so it's where movies and stories are powerful.
00:28:17.740 Did any of the characters of the movie, did any of them get to come to that?
00:28:21.340 That they did.
00:28:21.860 They had passed by the time we did that.
00:28:23.580 So now.
00:28:24.480 All right.
00:28:24.820 We just got a few more.
00:28:26.860 Schindler's List.
00:28:28.440 One of the hardest movies to watch.
00:28:30.860 Yes.
00:28:31.600 The other one is that I can.
00:28:33.200 And I've only watched it one time because I just can't bring myself to watch it again
00:28:36.260 is Lone Survivor.
00:28:38.420 Those two movies to me are must sees.
00:28:41.740 But I just I don't know if it's because I've become a dad and having kids now and watching
00:28:46.440 the kids.
00:28:47.020 I just can't watch them like I used to.
00:28:49.120 So, as you know, a couple of weeks ago, I was at Normandy for the 80th anniversary of
00:28:54.200 D-Day.
00:28:54.820 And wildly enough, I got to meet Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, which was really cool.
00:28:58.940 And I had pretty extended conversations with both of them.
00:29:02.820 And they've done.
00:29:03.400 Look, their politics are both left of center, but they've done an amazing job really honoring
00:29:08.160 and telling the stories of the greatest generation, whether Saving Private Ryan, whether Band of
00:29:14.200 Brothers, whether the Pacific.
00:29:16.340 And so we're talking about that.
00:29:17.680 And I was talking with Spielberg about Schindler's List and just, you know, talking with the
00:29:26.660 heroes, the World War II heroes who almost all say, well, I could have done more.
00:29:31.000 I could have done more.
00:29:32.280 And the real heroes are under those crosses behind us.
00:29:35.840 And I was telling Spielberg, I said, hearing them say that reminds me of the end of Schindler's
00:29:41.980 List where Oscar Schindler is like, I could have done more.
00:29:45.940 And he looks down at his gold watch and he said, this watch, this watch could have saved
00:29:49.740 three more people.
00:29:51.180 Three more people are dead because I kept my watch.
00:29:55.220 And you think about the heroism of his rescuing Jews from the Nazis and the incredible courage,
00:30:00.480 but at the same time, the like, why didn't I do even more?
00:30:03.940 And then that, that to me is the most beautiful moment of that movie is the, the, the, the
00:30:08.500 sort of.
00:30:09.720 Did I do enough?
00:30:10.840 Yeah.
00:30:12.880 Okay.
00:30:13.240 I'm going to take a detour, a detour to the world of musicals.
00:30:18.640 So I like musicals.
00:30:20.280 Do you like Broadway?
00:30:21.460 I do.
00:30:21.920 I love Broadway.
00:30:23.020 Absolutely.
00:30:23.660 So like you, if you go to New York, you would put it on your list to go see a show.
00:30:27.180 I love Broadway and I'm going to have four musicals on here.
00:30:30.080 I'm ready.
00:30:30.460 So number one is, is my father's favorite movie of all time, which is My Fair Lady.
00:30:36.380 Okay.
00:30:36.860 And My Fair Lady is fantastic. 0.98
00:30:39.060 I've seen it because of my mom, my sister multiple times.
00:30:42.240 Why?
00:30:42.500 I've never the English.
00:30:43.360 I've never watched it outside of the...
00:30:44.720 Teach the children how to speak.
00:30:48.140 Norwegians learn Norwegians.
00:30:49.560 The Greeks are taught they're Greek.
00:30:51.860 See, this is why I said this show would be entertaining because I would have never thought
00:30:55.920 you were musical.
00:30:56.520 Oh, it is spectacular.
00:30:58.300 Favorite Broadway show you've ever been to.
00:30:59.920 I'm going to get to that.
00:31:00.640 Okay, go ahead.
00:31:01.060 I'm going to get to that.
00:31:02.180 So the second one there is Oliver.
00:31:04.280 Yep.
00:31:05.480 Great.
00:31:06.600 Oliver is spectacular.
00:31:08.120 So look, I was, in high school, I was president of the drama club.
00:31:11.840 I have way too many one-liners, but I'll leave that for another show.
00:31:14.500 Keep going.
00:31:15.080 You were captain of the tennis team.
00:31:16.700 I was president of the drama club.
00:31:17.840 Okay, I get that.
00:31:18.800 There's a reason why you would have stuck me in the locker if we had known each other.
00:31:22.300 Yes, yes, that would have gotten you a smackdown for sure. 0.99
00:31:25.580 But, so look, I, all politicians are frustrated actors.
00:31:30.340 It's just part of the, it isn't...
00:31:33.200 Did you act in high school?
00:31:34.040 Oh, yes, a lot.
00:31:35.180 What were you in?
00:31:36.060 So I did...
00:31:37.200 Do we have eight tracks of this?
00:31:38.860 Or what was it?
00:31:39.780 Beta cam?
00:31:41.220 They may be somewhere.
00:31:42.800 Okay.
00:31:43.640 So let's see.
00:31:44.460 I've done Sound of Music twice.
00:31:46.400 What did you play?
00:31:46.980 So I played, the first time I played Rolf.
00:31:49.740 Yeah.
00:31:51.020 You know, and I warbled out, you are 16 going on 17.
00:31:55.000 No way.
00:31:56.280 And then the second time I played Max.
00:31:58.080 Yep.
00:32:00.800 I also, so I did Oliver, and Oliver's a fabulous show.
00:32:05.180 It's a classic, yeah.
00:32:05.880 So Oliver was my senior year, and the head of the music department told me, hey, we're doing Oliver next year.
00:32:10.940 And he said, you know, I'd love to have you play Fagin, if you can sing it.
00:32:15.820 And my curse, look, I am a terrible singer.
00:32:19.100 I cannot carry a tune to save my...
00:32:21.600 You and me both.
00:32:21.740 In a bucket.
00:32:22.540 Yeah.
00:32:22.700 Like, I wish I could.
00:32:24.640 Yes.
00:32:24.780 I have singing envy.
00:32:25.400 You were not given that, neither was I.
00:32:27.820 And so I actually went, and for like six months I took voice lessons to try to get, be able to sing.
00:32:34.440 Fagin is such a fabulous role.
00:32:35.500 Did you get any better in the six months?
00:32:37.420 A little bit.
00:32:38.520 Yeah.
00:32:38.740 And so what happened, and the nice thing about Fagin is Fagin's songs are more spoken than sang.
00:32:52.560 So, for example, the song reviewing the situation.
00:32:55.140 A man's got a heart, hasn't he?
00:33:00.160 Joking apart, hasn't he?
00:33:03.920 And though I'd be the first to admit that I wasn't a saint, I'm finding it hard to be really as bad.
00:33:10.960 So you're going to see your dad next time.
00:33:11.940 I'm going to say those six months is worth it now, right?
00:33:13.820 And I'm reviewing the situation.
00:33:19.120 Can a fellow be a villain all his life?
00:33:22.400 All the trials.
00:33:23.640 I know.
00:33:24.080 I'm not worried about you after you retire.
00:33:25.960 I know what you're going to do.
00:33:26.620 Better settle down and get myself a wife. 1.00
00:33:30.000 And, uh.
00:33:31.380 You remember it.
00:33:32.160 Life will cook and sew for you and come for you and go for you and go for you and nag at you. 1.00
00:33:37.200 The finger she will wag at you. 1.00
00:33:39.020 How many tickets they sell for this is what I really want to know.
00:33:41.980 So, I prepared.
00:33:45.480 That song was one.
00:33:46.680 Now, it's mostly spoken.
00:33:47.920 It's not really.
00:33:48.940 So, I could do it marginally competently after six months practicing.
00:33:53.960 I did that at the tryout.
00:33:55.800 And what did he say?
00:33:56.580 And then afterwards, the music director said, hey, Ted, stick around.
00:33:59.780 And he went to the piano and he said, sing this.
00:34:01.940 And he went, da-da-da-da.
00:34:03.040 And I went, da-da-da-da-da.
00:34:04.480 And he did it like three times.
00:34:06.360 And he goes, okay. 0.99
00:34:07.640 I'm like, damn it. 0.99
00:34:08.460 Not happening. 0.99
00:34:09.180 So, I was cast as Bill Sykes.
00:34:10.900 It's the second male lead with no singing.
00:34:13.820 Yeah.
00:34:14.400 It's a fun role.
00:34:15.300 You're the villain.
00:34:15.980 You get to beat up Oliver Twist.
00:34:18.360 But I wanted to play Fagin.
00:34:20.280 You gave it your all.
00:34:21.360 I wanted to play that role badly.
00:34:24.120 And I did not get it.
00:34:26.040 All right.
00:34:26.560 Two more musicals.
00:34:31.080 Hamilton, which is utterly exquisite.
00:34:34.120 I've seen it multiple times.
00:34:35.840 It is brilliant.
00:34:37.660 It is beautiful.
00:34:38.560 It is powerful.
00:34:38.900 It is powerful.
00:34:40.280 My girls know the songs. 1.00
00:34:41.820 There are few things that make me happier than when my daughters are singing songs from Hamilton.
00:34:46.660 I mean, there was a period where they were obsessed with it.
00:34:49.140 You and I were talking about this the other day.
00:34:50.380 My dad, I took him to New York for the first time ever for his 70th birthday.
00:34:53.520 And you said, did you go see his show?
00:34:55.520 And I was like, do you want to see Hamilton?
00:34:57.060 He's like, I'd rather go to the Yankees game.
00:34:58.660 And then the next night, I was like, would you just say, I'd rather have a nice meal?
00:35:01.880 I tried hard.
00:35:02.900 I tried to get him to Hamilton.
00:35:04.220 It just wasn't on the list.
00:35:05.460 And then my favorite music of all time is Les Mis.
00:35:08.360 Really?
00:35:08.780 And I love Les Mis.
00:35:10.380 Do you get choked up?
00:35:11.740 Be honest.
00:35:12.780 Because I'm a sucker for those things. 0.58
00:35:14.560 I get the lump in the throat.
00:35:15.640 I get completely choked up.
00:35:16.100 Yeah.
00:35:16.300 All right.
00:35:16.480 So what song gets you choked up?
00:35:17.960 Oh, the one, the most famous.
00:35:19.660 I'm terrible with it.
00:35:20.420 It's the one that Anne Hathaway does that's so good.
00:35:23.860 Oh, and she won the Academy Award for it.
00:35:26.640 Yes.
00:35:26.660 Every time it gets me.
00:35:27.660 So that is beautiful.
00:35:28.900 I'll tell you, the two that get me choked up are number one when John Valjean is saying,
00:35:35.740 let him live.
00:35:36.780 Yep. 0.99
00:35:37.540 And he's looking down and he says, you know, if I die, let me die. 0.94
00:35:44.080 Yeah. 0.98
00:35:45.260 Let him live.
00:35:46.320 Yeah.
00:35:46.420 And it's a prayer to God to let him live.
00:35:49.400 Every time.
00:35:50.360 I have tears every time.
00:35:51.740 And the other one that gets me is the song Empty Chairs and Empty Tables at the end when
00:35:58.880 everyone has died.
00:35:59.900 And I will confess at the end of the presidential campaign in 2016, as I walked through the empty
00:36:04.860 campaign office and I saw the empty chairs and empty tables, I heard the refrains of that
00:36:11.100 song.
00:36:14.860 So Les Mis is exquisite.
00:36:17.680 All right.
00:36:17.880 By the way, when I was, all right, so 1993, I was just finished my first year of law school
00:36:24.560 and I had a job in New York.
00:36:25.840 I was working in a law firm in New York for the summer.
00:36:29.500 And I decided to fly my mom to New York for the weekend.
00:36:33.940 And so it's 1993.
00:36:35.420 So I actually FedExed a plane ticket.
00:36:37.400 And this is back when a plane ticket was a piece of cardboard.
00:36:39.700 Yeah.
00:36:40.360 I FedExed a plane ticket to her with nothing else.
00:36:43.340 It was literally, she opened the FedEx package and just a plane ticket to New York fell out.
00:36:47.080 And she called me and she's like, Ted, I assume this is you.
00:36:48.960 I said, yeah.
00:36:49.600 I had no note, no nothing, just a plane ticket and the FedEx thing.
00:36:52.340 Get on the plane.
00:36:52.920 I'll see you soon, mom.
00:36:53.800 So I flew her to New York and we went out to dinner at Boulay, which at the time was the
00:36:57.980 nicest restaurant in New York, was fabulous.
00:37:00.740 And then I took her one night to see Camelot, which was really fun.
00:37:04.060 Yep.
00:37:04.580 And then the next night to see Les Mis.
00:37:06.340 And did she love it?
00:37:07.260 She loved it.
00:37:07.860 And it, I.
00:37:09.120 That's one of those ironed memories for us in life.
00:37:11.620 Yeah.
00:37:11.800 No, no, that, that was just very cool to go do that.
00:37:15.460 All right.
00:37:16.520 So we have a total of three more.
00:37:19.800 I'm going to say The Magnificent Seven.
00:37:22.000 Incredible.
00:37:22.600 Watched it 10 times.
00:37:23.620 The original one.
00:37:24.260 Yes.
00:37:24.600 With my dad.
00:37:25.340 All right.
00:37:25.680 All right.
00:37:25.900 That's like in my dad's, like, I grew up on John Wayne and war movies.
00:37:30.140 Yeah.
00:37:30.160 Like Magnificent Seven.
00:37:31.500 And that was like, I remember watching.
00:37:33.040 Other than Unforgiven, Magnificent Seven is the greatest Western that's actually originally
00:37:36.720 at a Western.
00:37:37.300 Unforgiven was sort of a modern remake format, but Magnificent Seven is exquisite with, you
00:37:42.860 know, Ewell Brenner and Charles Bronson and James Coburn.
00:37:48.140 Oh, when Mom was out of town, that was one of the movies we watched.
00:37:50.580 Oh, it was so good.
00:37:52.160 It's a fabulous movie.
00:37:54.460 And then I'm going to end with two.
00:37:57.200 Quentin Tarantino.
00:37:58.720 Is it The Inglorious Bastards?
00:38:00.320 Is that where we're going with this?
00:38:01.380 So I'm going to start with Pulp Fiction.
00:38:02.820 Okay.
00:38:03.280 Which is fantastic.
00:38:04.500 And then the last one is Inglorious Bastards.
00:38:06.140 Yep.
00:38:06.720 And I feel bad that I left Reservoir Dogs off because Reservoir Dogs is exquisite too.
00:38:11.220 But the other ones are above, yeah.
00:38:12.600 But if you made me pick two, I go with Pulp Fiction and Inglorious.
00:38:16.160 Inglorious Bastards is a spectacular movie.
00:38:17.780 Spectacular movie.
00:38:18.780 So that's 25 movies, which if you've got some down time, download them, watch them.
00:38:25.360 You will enjoy them.
00:38:26.340 You will laugh.
00:38:27.160 You will be moved.
00:38:28.120 You will be...
00:38:28.960 And send your critiques on Twitter.
00:38:30.520 Yes.
00:38:30.680 We'll take them.
00:38:31.100 And let me ask you one other question.
00:38:33.500 If you could only take one movie and one TV series to a desert island with you, what would you pick?
00:38:39.060 Only one movie and only one TV series.
00:38:41.660 That's all you got to watch.
00:38:43.200 The Princess Bride and Criminal Minds. 1.00
00:38:44.880 There you go.
00:38:45.740 That's it.
00:38:46.300 Yeah.
00:38:46.680 I like it.
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