The Menu – MOVIE – Episode 47

The Buddies really consumed their latest movie, The Menu, starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicholas Hoult. The Buddies discussed their love for Cheeseburgers, Lumière from Beauty and the Beast, and prostitutes/call girls. They break bread (not actual real bread just like the movie) with recurring (second time) guest Magic (@nicoitaliano13). Want to hear a couple of buddies that consider dinosaur chicken nuggets to be a delicacy discuss highfalutin food? Well, you’ve come to the right place.

Intro: (0:00-3:56)
Stock Up/Down (3:57-26:24)
Love/Hate (26:25-38:13) 
Studio Notes/Rewrite/Review (38:14-46:22)
Conclusion (46:23-49:20)

Next Book: THE ROSE CODE by KATE QUINN
Next Movie: THE SANDLOT

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here with our executive chef Keith and
our stage for the week magic what’s up
buddies hey
Keith are you familiar with the uh the
terms of the kitchen I was using the
term sous chef a lot uh recently when I
was over at a boys weekend I was like
I’m the sous chef and I was just asking
people what they needed and I was doing
the job is that correct or is that
incorrect yeah I think that’s that’s
correct were you in charge of anything
in particular oh I handled the meat
there is a name for that [ __ ] in air is
the fish shark
Grill Chef is the grill art and Grill
art Garden I don’t know Gardener or
something like that whatever they’re the
king or queen of all things grilled
there you go magic is our stage which is
the person that does it for free so wait
this isn’t a paid spot
all right well here at the Buddy book
club we’re getting down some box office
bangers and this week we’re just asking
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guys the menu it’s basically a story of
what would happen if d-man lost interest
in cooking right this is basically what
you would do you should start killing
people that checks out yeah yeah if I
lost interest in cooking I’d probably go
post all at work so yeah the guests here
because so this is an interesting movie
in that we’re kind of in one spot the
whole time there’s no real scenery
change outside of them walking around
the grounds and the focus is just on all
these different groups so I’m not gonna
like explain who all the guests are
because I assume if you’re here you’ve
seen the movie but who out of these
guests Keith would you least want to go
to dinner with that’s a good question
you put me on my heels there a bit glad
to know you’re wearing heels but
I’d say the mom she had one line on his
mom the person that was just drinking in
the corner hammered I need a little bit
more from my I guess she I think she
said like one line and I laughed out
loud I forget what it was it was like
she was like that a boy but she was like
blacked out it was when they made him
cook and he goes oh what a handsome boy
maybe I want to hear that that was that
was hilarious yeah she was my most with
Monica yeah because she just wanted to
you know we’d get bottle after bottle we
just hang out yeah yeah magic yeah what
about you who who would you least want
to go to dinner with out of this group I
mean it’s Gotta Be the old awful right
they were just miserable the entire time
but at least they ate in silence I feel
like so you don’t really have to worry
about too much because for me it would
be Tyler the foodie guy because he’d
just be explaining everything to me and
like how they did it and I don’t really
care too much it’s kind of like the
person that’s explaining a magic trick
as it’s happening I don’t mind knowing
how stuff worked like how do they get a
foam in there you know if someone’s
explaining to me oh okay cool but the
attitude he has with it where it’s like
oh I have to eat it and how I have to do
this and have to do that I just like
shut up if you’re going to like a
steakhouse or like you’re going to get a
burger I agree but if you’re going to
this place I feel like you need someone
that knows what they’re talking about
otherwise you’re not here you’re gonna
be like ah that was okay but if they’re
like this is how long they took to
prepare it and all this stuff that makes
it interesting his version for you is
kind of like when you go to the Sistine
Chapel you need the target yeah to point
the [ __ ] out to you otherwise is just
like that’s a mosaic and they’re like oh
no this Mosaic was made by this person
at that time
I’d also be okay with John Leguizamo if
if I had to go to dinner with these
people he’s washed up actor good for him
you referenced him by the way a couple
episodes ago like he was in the WASP or
something the pest the pest yeah I guess
that’s why we went to the menu we just
had John Leguizamo in the brain
all right well let’s get up to the
category stock up stock down Keith stock
up what do you got stock up
cheeseburgers oh that’s mine too all
right on the same page that cheeseburger
looked amazing I was so hungry after
once I got done with the movie but yeah
cheeseburgers bring joy to people and
really what you we learned from this and
the symbolism of really this whole movie
is that you want to save lives you eat
cheeseburgers and I know d-man you’ll
turn your nose up and be like oh no like
you can’t just have a basic burger and
you gotta order this this and this like
when we went to that one restaurant and
I asked what the filet mignon remember
and you’re like you laughed at me
because it was a seafood place no listen
you should you should have a [ __ ]
down the middle fastball type uh like
side menu that everyone can order at any
time I know it’s called the kids menu
but that’s okay you should have those
things but if you don’t want to die and
you want to live they should have that
on the menu I’m getting out I have no
problem cheeseburgers stock up for me
too I mean I have no problem don’t pose
me as this pretentious food person okay
we can’t both be like the anti a
establishment guy you’re the they’re the
pretentious one in this I’m just like if
we go to a seafood restaurant don’t get
the filet and in general if you’re gonna
go to a steakhouse don’t get the filet
and you can cook a filet at home that’s
going to taste almost as good anywhere
else it’s filet you can’t [ __ ] that up
so I disagree get some dry aged rib eye
or yeah get get something get a
porterhouse that has a little fillet on
it but also has the sirloin you know get
get a mix that’s fair but the
cheeseburger itself big fan of I
appreciate how it’s like none of this
highfalutin [ __ ] when I want a
cheeseburger I want a basic delicious I
want cheese
I want ketchup so as long as they say
ketchup’s fine then I’m cool with them
uh Magic what did you have for stock up
I have Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast
okay you know it’s kind of like a
totally opposite situation where in this
movie they’re they’re going expecting
like a great night great dinner with
their famous host chef and then I’ll
just end up dying
versus like Belle is a prisoner doesn’t
want to be there and then Lumiere puts
on this fantastic Dinner Show music and
then like sings her off to sleep talk
about a 180 from both directions yeah
100 some candle comes up to you and he’s
like we’re gonna have a great dinner
you’re like your candle you don’t even
have opposable thumbs like what are you
possibly gonna do for me and instead you
have a delicious dinner with like you
said music and dancing and like actual
food yeah there was real food there
although they did have the brown stuff
right heroin no no the gray stuff oh the
gray stuff yeah I don’t know if I trust
the gray stuff I wonder what that gray
stuff is now I have to think about it
maybe some sort of like Pate or
something like that since my first stock
up with cheeseburgers which was stolen
by Keith I’m gonna go with prostitution
oh oh okay yeah world’s oldest
profession naturally so normally at
least when I think about prostitution
I’m thinking some back alleys John’s
pulling up in a car scantily clad women
of ill repute but Anya Taylor Joy here
Margot if you will she’s getting paid to
go to a nice restaurant and she doesn’t
have to touch any dogs
so
I mean even the old guy which is like
super creepy and weird I think she said
he just wanted her to jerk him off no
not even oh he jerked off and she said
he was a good person yeah yeah great
yeah get top dollar for that sure line
them up I’ll send my address if there’s
this stuff’s going on I’ll I’ll whisper
sweet nothing’s in your ear no problem
so yeah it’s a pretty good gig I mean
obviously she was supposed to die so
like that’s why he hired her because he
just wanted to hire a prostitute to
bring so Tyler not a good not a good
look on you
and also pretty [ __ ] crazy that he
was gonna bring his girlfriend that
broke up with him I wonder if that was
even true one of my questions was what
did his girlfriend do that was so bad
like that was never answered right
they’re like well we’re gonna bring your
girlfriend and have her killed what was
her yeah well presumably if she is in a
relationship with this total douchebag
then she might have similar interests
like they’re the people that go into
restaurants looking to speak to the
manager they’re the people that go to an
Outback Steakhouse and say their steak
wasn’t perfect I’ll defend Tyler here
Tyler was is was more of a fanboy than
he was a a Critic he wasn’t he wasn’t a
Karen he was a I’m obsessed with cooking
and everything that that goes with it
like he was a huge huge fan yeah he was
I agree with you I don’t think he was he
wasn’t trying to create yeah he wasn’t
trying to critique he was just I mean he
would have loved if the guy put a boiled
shoe in front of him he would be like oh
this is hilarious like what a great take
oh yeah right fine dining so yeah I’m
with you there but but he’s the guy
who’s in his armchair yelling at the TV
when the quarterback’s playing a lot of
Tom Brady fans in my life and Tom would
have some bad games and they’d be like
oh no it was because of this it was
because of that it was a thumbs up a bad
game like move on close the yearbook
there wait so why is that bad I don’t
really get it yeah you just don’t want
that guy around he’s bothersome he’s
annoying okay no one should like
anything that much simple as that
you don’t think that he wanted to break
up with his old girlfriend and instead
of having to break up with her he’ll
just like just come with me to this
dinner that I’ve known all about and
we’ll just end it that way yeah talk
about a coward’s way out it’s like I
don’t want to break up with her it’s
like well we could just die together
that’d be fine
like no ghost on the text or just leave
it’s like no you come to this thing and
then we’ll die together there you go but
I’m gonna hang myself before you die
yeah well I think that that was
improvised the actor improvised it
okay did you have another stock up stock
up quantity over quality typically it’s
the other way around but and for me
specifically you know when I when I love
a food or art form I’m usually not
making tally marks or counting up how
many times I’ve partaken in that sort of
experience I’m not doing a running count
of how many times I’ve watched hitch
which is hundreds of times or my pizza
Sunday intake or how many times I’ve
listened to Tool albums but apparently
like the rich couple you guys pointed
out their crime was they don’t remember
how many times they’ve dined at this
fancy restaurant and he was like you
don’t even know the number it’s like so
like what does that matter no their
their crime is that they didn’t
appreciate it it’s an expensive
restaurant it costs 12 1300 bucks or
whatever it is ahead yeah but if you can
do it and you enjoy the experience what
is it why is that a crime
I didn’t think that was a point they
didn’t enjoy it because they didn’t even
know what they ate let’s put it this way
someone that flat flies first class all
the time right that’s a really expensive
ticket and they’re like oh how many
times have you flown first class they’re
like I don’t know like 10 15 times so
you don’t even know like you don’t
deserve to fly like it’s like what like
what flying sucks regularly like why
would I not want to do the best flying
experience it’s the same thing with
these guys people why is that a crime to
be like I don’t remember exactly how
many times I’ve enjoyed this place well
as someone who has flown First Class A
couple times and that’s just because
here we go just because my mom worked
for the airline so I got upgrades or
whatnot I understand the take because
there were other people who are
obviously like business people or people
that fly first class all the time and
it’d be like Boston to Amsterdam or
something like that so an overnight
flight they get on the plane they get in
their first class they get their blanket
they kind of say whatever to the
stewardess and they go right to sleep
and this is crazy this is a first class
experience what are you doing going to
sleep they come over would you like wine
or beer sir I’m like how about a little
of both they’re like that sounds great
you know and then they serve it up to
you you’re watching a movie they give
you wine and cheese plate you get a nice
dinner then they come over for ice cream
sundaes and I’m like can I have a side
car of a second Sunday with this one
they’re like of course because I point
over the guy who’s been sleeping the
whole time like because this guy’s not
eating [ __ ] so it doesn’t matter it’s
all it’s all in the house do whatever
you want I was like I’m gonna poop in my
seat I’m so excited and this guy’s
that’s what you do when you’re excited
yeah of course it’s like a hot towel for
your [ __ ] sir
and the other people are just you know
not appreciating it the reason why the
chef is so disillusioned is because all
the normal people that would appreciate
it get priced out and so it’s only these
rich [ __ ] who want to go there to say
they’ve gone it’s like oh yeah I’ve
eaten at that restaurant a bunch of
times and they don’t want to go to
actually enjoy the experience you know
it’d be like being a magician to a bunch
of blind people it’s just losing all of
its Joy
all right that’s fair I mean either way
though he should have been like what’s
your favorite meal Ben if they’re like I
don’t know then yeah you’re just taking
this for granted he’s he asked them he
said name one dish one dish you’ve been
here yeah he said one dish I take it
back 12 times like give me one day she’s
like well I had a hot dish I could cross
the table from me but she just spoke
sweet nothings into my ears I’ve
masturbated
yeah
magic did you video stock UPS 3D
printing I think it might have been
technically laser printing yeah it was
probably some sort of like laser etching
but between like my recent experience at
the dentist when they took a mold of my
tooth 3D printed it and an hour later I
had a new tooth I was like what the hell
and then now this criminally indicting
evidence on a tortilla
what is this it’s a tortilla
deliciosa yeah that’s a good one those
tortillas I I enjoyed I enjoyed that
immensely actually I thought that was
that was a fun scene I also thought it
was funny it was like people was
committing massive white collar crime
and this other person’s cheating on his
wife and this guy took pictures of the
food it’s like oh my God the worst thing
ever it’s like hey what that’s
comparison John Leguizamo made a movie
that the chef didn’t like on his day off
good he’s like I had one day off and
that movie sucked
no I’m gonna kill every
kill every what’s it called wasp the
past the past I’m Gonna Keep on naming
bugs that are not the right movie yeah
he watched the past and he didn’t like
it because it had 12 on Rotten Tomatoes
I mean I get the idea John leguizamo’s
character is stealing from the public in
a way because he’s making people kind of
pay money to go to a movie that he’s
just mailing it in and he’s also taking
that role away from someone else who
might do a better job of it but at the
same time whenever you went to so you
see the movie or you rented the movie or
you watched on cable TV whatever the
case is you could have turned it off at
any time and watched something else no
one was holding your head to the fire
that’s kind of on you Chef kind of on
you stock down what do you got stuck
down and uh this might be a little hot
take here that’s okay it’s a kitchen it
gets hot in there man yeah oh yeah start
down the treatment of mentally impaired
pardon me I thought we as a society have
come a long way here and you guys
already mentioned him but Tyler’s
character there’s something wrong with
him everyone when things start to go
down all the characters are acting how
normal people would act they’re like
holy [ __ ] I’m in a ridiculous situation
they’re freaking out
what is Tyler doing he’s like monitoring
his food he’s like oh this food is
pretty good like well people are getting
shot in the face and drowned he has no
reaction at all this is not a normal
human being this is someone that is some
sort of mental impairment he’s
absolutely addicted to everything about
cooking every single thing he revolves
around that he hired a prostitute he
doesn’t give a [ __ ] about any sort of
sex stuff all he cares about there’s no
empathy for anyone all he cares about is
the food I think he has some sort of
mental impairment and what’s eventually
happening is the chef just doesn’t like
people that have that so he’s going to
have to kill them which gets me to my
hot take point also is that I think this
is Schindler’s List too oh the guy from
Schindler’s List he made it out he runs
his kitchen Like A Nazi and he’s not
trying to kill off people that he
doesn’t like this is his new in
concentration camp the common dad of
Hawthorne yeah do you guys not think
that Nicholas uh hold the Tyler
character was a little there’s something
off with him like he wasn’t there’s
something off with him like there’s
something off with a cereal are like you
know that’s not someone that necessarily
should be helped it’s put put them down
the only reason he’s a bad guy in the
audience is eyes is because they asked
him you didn’t bring to your girlfriend
we were like you brought this other
person so had they not asked him that
he’d just be like an innocent kid that
was super over enthusiastic he’s like a
five-year-old he’s like super over
enthusiastic about just cooking and then
they’re just gonna kill him because he’s
like too into it like that’s it right
like I will say I do share a level of
animosity to people that love there’s so
much cooking media out there so much
it’s insane and to the people that just
Watch Chopped all day or watch all these
food stuffs but can’t properly boil an
egg or something like that I just I
don’t really understand it maybe I’m
just a dick too but I mean well that’s
for sure well it’d be the same thing as
like someone being like Oh you really
like baseball then get on the mountain
and throw 90 mile fastballs like oh you
can’t do it you suck it’s like no
there’s an art form like people are good
at stuff and people are bad at it like
what do you want to not be a fan of it
now no and and I I don’t know it’s a
good point I felt bad for him when like
everyone was laughing at him when he was
trying to I’m like what oh does this
proof yeah oh he can’t do something he
loves to it like to watch things he
enjoys food and now you’re making fun of
him for I felt bad he was a little
five-year-old kid that’s his brain was
like a five-year-old development brain
that’s what it was right you know you
saw Patrick Mahomes on a beach and
you’re like hey I’m a big fan will you
sign my football and he’s like only if
you can throw it to me from 40 yards
away
that was not a tight spiral no exactly
he’s like go hang yourself you piece of
over there what do you think
I I get it but I also think the part
like where he doesn’t react to any of
this stuff is just because he knows
what’s happening yeah that’s why he
doesn’t run away unless you’ve like are
used to people just shooting themselves
in the face every weekend you wouldn’t
be a little bit perturbed by that even
if you knew it was gonna happen wouldn’t
you still be like oh [ __ ] this is this
is real yeah I could see both sides but
I think the fact that he knew kind of
explained at least I thought that’s what
they were trying to explain why he like
didn’t want to go play hide and seek or
whatnot it’s just like what’s the point
I’m dying anyway which is actually a big
mistake by him because he didn’t know
that if he hid the longest he was
actually going to get a whole nother
course he [ __ ] that one up because he
could have had that escoffier egg
imagine what he ever stuck down I don’t
know the correct word for this but
basically kovid being a hoax truthers
reason being this is now the second
movie I have seen that has referenced
covid as having existed and I just
thought that that was interesting what
was the first one Glass Onion oh right
right right yeah oh God that movie
sucked
I think that’s how that’s how we started
wanting to do the movie ones because you
just wanted to watch that movie and talk
magic I think I did can’t really
remember it one of those just like it
was entertaining for a couple hours but
also too like this this movie was
basically kind of like a covet setting
right like it was just like they were in
their little bubble and there wasn’t a
lot of like locations or anything it was
kind of all within one confined space
the tables were like socially distanced
and stuff like that too the tables were
like their own little ecosystem of on
comfortabilityness and then I just made
that word up stuck down for me is just
fine dining in general I mean it’s the
same reason I don’t like golf four to
five hours to finish something
there’s nothing that I want to do for
four to five hours really maybe spike
ball but outside of that I just don’t
have any interest and there’s a chance
you could die golf from a stray Drive
fine dining from a murderous Chef so why
would you want to participate in that
have you guys eaten at a fine dining
restaurant or any multi-course situation
I went to a Michelin star in Mexico okay
it was pretty nice uh in Cancun so it
was like not real Mexico yeah it was it
was a multi-course sit-down situation
yeah no that was fun it was like
probably an hour and a half two hours it
was fun I wouldn’t do it every weekend
but it was like oh this I’ve never
experienced anything like this and then
I could say I ate weird stuff which now
Dylan can’t make fun of me for it so you
know or I can make fun of you for eating
it because you now only ate it so that
you could say you could eat it not
enjoying it
I’m gonna mute that part I’m like that’s
getting deleted out what do we think
about the no bread would would you get
butt hurt about no bread yeah that was
ridiculous yeah I feel like that’s like
the first kind of like oh this is like a
real [ __ ] you know what’s going on here
I would have left right then and there
oh there’s no bread I’m out Bread’s for
peasants and you all are not peasants so
you don’t get bread yeah I was like oh
that was like a nice way to say that but
wait no I wasn’t [ __ ] bread see I
think I would have been with Tyler on
this one I would have just enjoyed
eating the uh the toppings which
supposedly the actor they filmed it the
whole day you know the scene whatever
the whole day and the whole time he has
to continue doing the scene where he’s
like tasting them so he said he had so
much oil like in his mouth he just had
that like his mouth was all coated with
oil from just eating oil all day I was
like that’s [ __ ] disgusting so good
good for you on that stock up Holt good
for you Keith did you did you have
another uh stock down there last one the
movie downsizing stock down again and
again I will sell this Stephen
it’s my least favorite movie I think but
originally this was supposed to be
directed by the guy that did downsizing
oh which would have made this movie
awful he would have just shoved the
whole class stuff down your throat it
would have been rudderless movie would
have been [ __ ] awful about social
commentary instead we had a fun story a
good story that still had the social
commentary in there but it was actually
good also Hong Chao who was in it I once
I saw her I was like oh this movie’s
gonna suck and but she was great she was
she was in downsizing also but she was
great in this so appreciated that I
liked during downsizing honestly I did
oh God she could have been good I don’t
remember I just hated that movie so much
so no comments no I sat down something
it wasn’t it wasn’t good you know I’m
with you you just don’t have to keep
beating up on it I feel I feel bad for
uh for all the people Matt Damon as a
star started cast it wasn’t like a
um did you see the Matt Damon Great Wall
of China movie no that’s worse
oh I mean yeah but I could have told you
that downsizing is the preview for it
was like oh this is a funny comedy about
like the idea of this I’m like this is
great where we did the the trailer for
that should be given multi-million like
that that guy was the best trailer
producer of all time because that movie
was so [ __ ] bad magic what else uh
what else to stock down what do you got
I got nothing uh okay these kind of go
together Foodies and yelpers I just
don’t I don’t like the idea of
people that call themselves Foodies I
don’t like when someone refers to me as
a foodie I like food I would not
consider myself a foodie I’ve been out
to eat like six times in the last two
years so I feel like Foodies uh go to
eat and critique and go on Yelp and put
big reviews like their James Beard or
something like that it’s just no no
thanks and in relation to that is wine
weirdos I don’t like wine weirdos I
loved when the guy was pouring the wine
and he said it had a faint sense of
longing and regret and people are like
oh yeah nice I can really taste the
longing uh I I hate that stuff like oh
it takes black currants and raspberries
I buy boxed wine okay and I don’t think
I’m better than anyone because I buy
boxed wine I just don’t understand
anytime there’s ever been a double blind
wine tasting all the professionals get
it wrong they need to look at the label
to tell you if it’s good or not so I
just don’t trust that stuff
my last and final and most important
stock down this may cause Havoc here but
s’mores yikes Chef calls him the most
offensive assault on the human palette
ever contrived and I honestly agree I
don’t like s’mores overrated sorry magic
for having you on this is this is tough
to listen to I thought he said that was
most offensive but things like until you
add fire and then I was like wait so he
likes them when you melt the marshmallow
yeah I think the core the corollary is
with all the people that all the people
are the offensive assault on the human
palette ever and once you add fire to
them it’s going to be a cleansing thing
and I also agree that if you were just
to have the pieces of a s’more combined
without the fire it’s obviously not good
I’m not you know breaking any headlines
with that but I’m fine with just a
marshmallow and a stick that does it for
me all right nice game of chubby bunny
it it never breaks right people never do
that they never do the marshmallow
appropriately they either burn it or
they don’t melt it enough and the
chocolate is never melted it’s just like
hard chocolate attack on uh Magic’s
website yeah it really it seems like
that was the best I was like that’s one
of the best things for the night before
that was [ __ ] awesome sure for a
little wedding get together I get it oh
little wedding here we go now he’s
really he really does a wedding that is
similar to downsizing the movie just a
little but you didn’t like the reading
we had you do either I loved my reading
did you I remember you improvising some
of it and going off script yeah well
that’s what I do you know I go to the
script I am a professional here all
right I have to I have to put a little
of my own Flair into it just like just
like left Chef Slovak I didn’t burn
everyone alive though
so yeah if you say you guys like s’mores
that’s cool that’s cool with me you know
what when you guys come here in June
I’ll have some marshmallows and graham
crackers and you can cook them in the
fire all you want
Keith what’d you love about the menu I
love wise I was tense the whole time I
didn’t really know what’s going to
happen I had zero phone looks I I think
wow yeah I don’t remember ever looking
at my phone zero phone looks I’m gonna
miss something if I look away right now
every single thing’s a subtle hint to
what’s actually gonna happen I was
locked in which is all you can ask from
a movie what was your favorite part of
it I wish I almost didn’t see the
previews because some movies when you go
into we have no idea what it’s about
this one you kind of knew there was a
horror element to it I mean obviously
like the whole island is ominous when
they got there but when the guy goes to
like give the speech and then shoots
himself that scene was would have been
so much better if I didn’t I was kind of
like thinking like something bad is
gonna happen here once I start rolling
the plastic out you know so I kind of
saw that coming but if it didn’t I think
that would have been one of the best
like turns yeah like shocks yeah I wish
it was just like oh you’re watching a
cooking movie and it’s you know it
becomes a thriller and I’ll be like okay
and then all of a sudden the guy shoots
himself I’d be like holy [ __ ] you know
but yeah I still liked it even if I knew
it you know I’m with you there too I
like the Coast Guard third one myself
just because that I actually didn’t see
coming I thought they were just gonna
kill the guy like the chef was gonna
figure out a way to kill him or
something like that
but everyone just you know him using the
little lighter gun or whatever bang I
thought that was going to be a bong I
was convinced
they all get high all of a sudden it’s
half half baked too Dave Chappelle walks
in which part did you like the most
magic best thing I liked about this
movie was the humor in general
especially like because I watched it
again a second time I thought it was
much more enjoyable a second time
focusing on the humor and not like
what’s gonna happen What like Keith is
saying what’s this and that what does
this mean for the future and
specifically the Somalia was a [ __ ]
riot yeah he was he really was the best
I feel like he like got less French as
the thing wore along with instance of
longing and regret and then by the end
he was just like full American and just
like his laughter when they hung that
guy by the wings he’s like oh my god
look
yeah he was he was good and yeah the the
humor was underrated in it because it is
dark comedy black comedy whatever you
want to call it I I enjoyed that I
enjoyed that as well one of the things I
loved was the chef’s mentality when he
starts the meal and it’s something that
I feel like is important and none of us
do I’m I do it all the time as well but
when he says don’t eat taste be mindful
most of us just go places and cook for
ourselves and we just eat I mean I
almost every night make dinner we sit in
front of the TV and watch Jeopardy as we
eat and we we’re just watching Jeopardy
we’re just consuming calories and
watching Jeopardy we’re not like
appreciating the the food we eat so I
like that mentality I wish I could do
that but I’m gonna stick to watching
Jeopardy and just eating but I like the
idea magic what you love about the menu
a lot of the stuff were just like fun
and funny like Elsa too I think it was
Elsa was she like the host yeah yep the
way that she switched so quickly between
being like can I get some bread no oh
okay well here let me get your jacket
just like over the top such a
well-mannered host and then just being
like you’re not gonna get anything you
deserve okay and when she takes them
into the Smoke House and she’s
explaining everything oh what happens if
we eat it after 153 days which you know
it’s almost like
a question that doesn’t need answering
kind of thing the guy’s just trying to
be funny and she comes up with this
elaborate like well you’ll die from
bacterial ingestion and she just does it
straight though Oh I thought that was I
thought that was straight I was like oh
that was what’s the the chekhov’s gun go
on is that the you know the thing that’s
like you say it you got to come back
later
um I think that’s what they made the
burger for her out of oh so you’d say so
you think that she dies yeah anyways
that’s my theory I saw that there I was
like oh I like that it’s like why would
they need to go into that bacteria thing
about eating old beef if it wasn’t gonna
be relevant ah yeah the only problem is
that this doesn’t make any sense for how
it would work like you could age it
didn’t make a lot yeah so you could age
it for as long as you want to age it but
yeah it’s interesting I did see that
that was like a theory is that she just
dies anyways from tainted beef yeah
gives that like weird look while she’s
eating on the boat like it’s like the
end of inception and then just like
screen out huh I wonder okay Keith what
else did you love there’s a lot of like
intense and scary parts that were didn’t
necessarily warrant it like the yes chef
anytime they said that I was like holy
loved it yeah the claps yeah so I like
that have you guys watched the um the
bear bear have you guys watched that big
fan yeah it’s pretty good yeah I mean
they do that there too a lot which I I
love too when you’re trained in the uh
Brigade system it’s probably one of
those things that’s hard to hard to get
away from but at the same time it makes
sense you know you need to know that
people are hearing you I loved just the
little details in it there’s so many
little things here and there we were
talking about the end of the scene with
like Anya Taylor Joy when she’s eating
the Burger on the boat and she’s wiping
her mouth like using the menu as a
napkin which you know probably has a lot
of symbolism in there just she’s having
a classic burger and wiping her mouth
with this pretentious menu and
additionally when they have Tyler cook
he like burns his hand on the pan when
he’s trying to do it yet
compare that to chef at the end when
he’s about to light everyone on fire he
just grabs a coal from the grill without
even flinching he just grabs it that’s
just to show all the effort all the
hours he’s put into his craft that his
hands just she doesn’t feel [ __ ] anymore
because he’s been burned so many damn
times it doesn’t even affect him where
Tyler just touches like a warm pan it’s
like ow yeah I don’t like laughing at
that type of thing but you know that’s
just me you know when someone’s disabled
I don’t usually laugh at that but that’s
it’s not disabled
tell me what he is he’s a psycho he’s
just a egomaniac psychopath that’s what
he is how is he ego man he anything he’s
like no ego he’s literally bows down to
the chef the whole time no because he’s
only well whatever his only concern is
that the chef likes it he doesn’t care
about anything else he snaps at his date
he’s shushing people he’s like when she
goes to eat her oysters pushing her hand
away so we can take a picture he’s just
he’s a prick if you’re gonna spend 12.50
on a on a food experience you could you
can do whatever you want you can enjoy
it yeah well she can also do whatever
she wants and if she wants to grab the
oyster the old couple didn’t enjoy it
enough and he’d enjoyed it too much like
come on what are we doing here’s the
Goldilocks zone we need I don’t know
what that means it’s oh like too hot too
cold okay fair enough magic what else do
you love I like how they look at the
text overlay for each course
and then that got sequentially more
humorous as it went on as the mess bone
marrow this that like R.I.P Jeremy and
then by the time you get to the end it
was like some more is this this list
staff guests well do you guys watch
Chef’s Table negative no you’re such a
foodie
that all comes from chef’s table like
that camera work and the way they show
the dishes and with the writing on them
is directly from Chef’s Table who is
made by David Gelb and they had him on
this movie as like a secondary director
and he shot all of those food styling
scenes last thing for me was just that
Tyler knew everyone was gonna die I just
liked when that became clear because
similar to what you said Keith once we
we went into this movie kind of knowing
what was going to happen to some degree
and
I don’t care much about symbolisms and
themes as we’ve talked about before but
all that stuff was pretty
straightforward in this which for some
reason critics had some issues with like
oh it’s tried and true like just go back
hating on the rich and pretentious
people’s like yeah okay I didn’t mind it
but tied everything together when Tyler
was like yeah I knew everyone’s gonna
die because that explains one why he
didn’t seem to care when all that other
it made his character a dick because he
brought
his date which otherwise Keith you know
maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy maybe he
was just had some issues yeah so thank
you Keith would you hate I kind of went
through most of mine or the only thing
other than that was I like the Catherine
character she was the one that stabs the
chef for like over sexual harassment the
only issue I had with that though is
this movie’s full of symbolism
and she didn’t stab him in the dick
why’d she stab him in a thigh you know
what I mean like that is the symbolism
right there I think she’s stabbed him in
the thigh because that’s where he
stabbed his dad right that was that
right like his his dad was mistreating
his mom yeah I think that yeah all right
well I guess they’re all symbolism damn
it well I thought I was like holy [ __ ]
she stabbed him with a dick that’s
hilarious and then I was like oh sorry
come on what are we doing here also it’d
be harder to establish them in the dick
like maybe it’s a maybe it’s
particularly a warm out and it’s hanging
a different way you know maybe
that’s good
all right nice totally
uh Magic would you hate I think we
touched on this a little bit but I
didn’t particularly care for
the backstory of why the movie star was
there and his assistant is just like
like you’re saying because he saw a
movie he didn’t like on his day off I
think he was saying he like ruined art I
think is what he was getting at right
like oh you’re not an artist yeah I
think that’s the idea is what I said
earlier of the idea that he’s just
mainly like has the opportunity but is
just mailing it all in doesn’t care
anymore
and forcing people to go see these
shitty movies even though he’s not
really but is it like an anti-marvel
stance secretly maybe yeah maybe it was
an anti-mad Damon stance for taking the
money for downsizing
we’re getting on the same page here boys
here we go it’s like Matt Damon you’re
such a good actor why are you doing this
Great Wall movie where there’s aliens in
it it doesn’t make any sense he’s like
they paid me 10 million dollars kid I
haven’t seen it it is they’re not aliens
they’re like creatures odd it was so bad
it was like a get so stoned that you
don’t know your own name and watch it
and it might be enjoyable I don’t know
the only thing I really hated was just
the idea of taking pictures of food at a
restaurant I I don’t understand it I
never understood it when people do that
maybe if you’re like gonna try to
recreate something the whole social
media idea of needing to take a picture
of something you ate at a restaurant and
then post it to social media it just
doesn’t make any sense maybe it’s my
fault for consuming social media but I
went on
and there was someone there like Heather
and a friend who like had their
anniversary at Elena which is oliana
whatever it is the Chicago restaurant
that’s super famous
and there was 30 photos of every single
dish and then if you eat out at a
restaurant there’s people just like
taking pictures of everything I don’t
know It’s just tough I’ve been watching
a lot of old movies recently and or
older not old but pre-cell phone and
it’s so enjoyable that they don’t have
to build That Into The Narrative of if
something’s happening everyone pulls
their phone out it’s just like no that
didn’t exist so it’s just a simpler
thing
to each their office on but [ __ ] they
should die yeah totally
thank you
all right so some studio notes Mark Mila
directed he’d worked on succession and
Shameless but most importantly he
directed Ali G’s into house I don’t know
if you guys saw that saw that movie but
yeah that’s maybe where it gets his
comedy filming from the movie made 80
million on a 30 million dollar budget
and it also is on HBO so it’s hard to
really gather how much actual money it
made because some of that subscriber
base is probably enjoying that they get
content like this so yeah I mean tripled
up uh just in uh people going to see it
so that’s not bad normally we talk about
what’s the difference between the book
and the movie but this doesn’t have a
book uh so let’s get into recast rewrite
and review it’s got 88 on Rotten
Tomatoes with a 76 audience score Emma
Stone was supposed to play the annual
Taylor Joy character but she had to back
up to the scheduling conflicts what do
we think Emma Stone would be better or
worse or the same I think should be very
similar yeah yeah I thought it was fine
I mean I’m I’m cool with either of them
MS stone for me is I think she’s a
really good comedic actor I don’t know
how she would have done it I thought
Andrew Taylor Joy was great yeah I think
she’s kind of like not like the innocent
little good girl that you’re cheering
for I’m sure she has
to remember versus like
on a Taylor Joy like her stuff in peaky
blinders and stuff it’s like she’s got a
little Edge to her she did such a good
job the relationship between her and
Ralph finds on in the movie Just the way
they’re banter back and forth I thought
was really well done that I wouldn’t
want anyone else to do it she was the
only one that kind of like stood up to
him was like [ __ ] you like you know he’s
like oh just just eat it she’s like I’ll
eat what I want to eat thank you I can’t
interview with um Anna Taylor joy and
she sounds like she’s faking a British
accent like her American accent sounds
regular and I’m like okay I’m like what
are you doing fake it at British accent
here because you see it sounds so much
weirder on her than like her normal
voice does well I guess her American
Voice does if you consider the three
main characters as fines her and Holt
yeah but they were all doing American
accents and I thought they were great it
was very well done very well done movie
Bob
our guy said uh bad pretentious art that
thinks it’s critiquing bad pretentious
art told exclusively through the medium
of food metaphors yay I just thought
this was such a meta review because Bob
doesn’t make movies he’s just a guy on
YouTube that reviews movies it’s like
he’s doing the same thing to the movie
that the food people were doing to the
food you know yeah it almost like it’s
getting too meta for me because you
could just take this one out and just
say Bob is doing bad pretentions today
on bad pretentious thing on bad
pretensity you can just keep going it’s
like looking into a kaleidoscope here
also he gave it this guy I mean I don’t
even know we don’t care but he gave it a
3 out of ten and
it just seems like that’s that’s just
too low like the movie wasn’t bad right
I liked it but I could understand how
someone didn’t like it but not right it
was like three times better than
downsizing
but Bob also gave an 8 out of 10 to
cocaine bear so now I have to go see no
I’m excited I have the exact same
similar review as that mine was Nick
Johnston from vanillae violin boss it’s
a Boston blog but he said
like the appetizers I’m gonna butcher
this but I like the appetizers entrees
and apparels so lovingly filmed here the
menu is a fetish object styled as an
indulgent antidote to unearned
pretension one my one meant to be
appreciated not to be enjoyed I don’t
know what that means it’s the most
pretentious thing I’ve ever read but
also pretension which I thought is a
word means pretentious is a different
word did you know what to talk about no
I didn’t I was like who’s this [ __ ]
pretension’s a different word which I
don’t it’s just a word salad but then I
went into the same thing you did I
looked up I’m like oh this guy must like
like the most artsy [ __ ] best movies
ever he gave [ __ ] fresh ratings to
Ant-Man 3 and oh Magic Mike three so he
literally he’s like oh [ __ ] these are
original movies these the third
variations of this dumb [ __ ] again and
again those are better like God damn it
anyways honestly I like almost every
movie I watch even downsizing I did
didn’t like it but you know it’s like
fine it was fine whatever whatever
Ant-Man 2 may be one of the worst person
I’ve ever seen it made zero sense what’s
up I heard three’s worse than it so
that’s amazing yeah it’s like The Hobbit
too just terrible I didn’t fully
understand this section but I will say I
read a review that that said each of the
characters was meant to represent one of
the deadly sins oh oh
would you like me to go through them
yeah quickly I would kind of like that
quickly sloth laziness Chef’s mob okay
Envy the food critic
yeah Pride Finance Bros
lust old man
great movie star gluttony
Tyler Tyler yep wrath the chef I thought
the pride and greed would be switched
between the finance Bros and the movie
star
I feel like you could yeah but yeah no I
like it I agree yeah that’s good yeah
actually wait yeah greed should
definitely be the finance Bros because
pride is John leguizamo’s character for
sure because because he’s like says he
knows the chef he’s like oh yeah I know
the chef I know the chef I know the chef
and it’s like wait he doesn’t know the
chef he’s like no I’m just lying so that
people thought I’d like stuff you know
so yeah I’d swap those two but that’s
interesting I had hadn’t heard that and
I wonder if there’s anything to it I
let’s interview the director let’s get
him on
anything that you guys would recast or
rewrite about this one
recast I think they were all good been
there
yeah yeah I mean even the like um the
critics side piece there the guy I
thought he was so good care yes man he
played the Yes man so perfectly in his
little chicken coop scene I would have
made Tyler’s character worse in terms of
like what you had mentioned like he’s
like an overbearing Karen who’s like no
no I know better than you I like the
more obnoxious character I thought he
was like I felt bad for when he died
where you don’t want that yeah maybe
like on the boat when there she goes to
grab the oyster and he just kind of like
moves her hand away to take the picture
instead he like slaps her hand or
something like that like it’s a little
uncomfortably physical he wasn’t also
Rich he was like I saved up all my money
for this it’s hard to dislike that guy
not really a recast but I think a
casting decision they made that worked
for the better apparently Daniel
Radcliffe was supposed to play the movie
star originally really but I feel like
that would have just taken away from the
whole movie because it would have been
just like oh here’s Harry and Voldemort
again yeah exactly no 100 that’s a good
point the only thing I really would have
changed was I would have liked if the
Coast Guard guy was blatantly one of the
Sous chefs or maybe like the fisherman
or something just a really Hammer home
the idea that these people don’t care
about anyone really in the service
industry or people that are serving them
it’s all about them and he was just so
obviously in the kitchen the whole time
and yet he comes in in his coast guard
uniform and they’re like oh look Coast
Guard guy that was to show that the
military aka the Nazis were on his side
still shenley’s list too like we talked
about that was just simple you missed
the symbolism there apparently but
that’s what I did it
thank you
so what do you what do you give it Keith
I don’t know if we’re allowed to do
quarter stars but I gave it 3.25 buddies
oh Stars I thought it was close to that
3.5 it was so gripping but and Magic
said he watched it again I was like oh
that’s probably why I wouldn’t watch
again very soon at least maybe it should
be higher but I really liked it the 3.5
is Elite I wasn’t ready to get the elite
status it was it was a great movie
though I would say
magic out of four buddies AKA Stars oh
geez okay I did mine out of five I gotta
read read yeah so recal recalibur all
right on so on my first watch then out
of four stars I would give it a 2.9 okay
and then on the second watch I would
give it a 3.3 oh okay all right okay wow
and I think you might disagree with me
that it got better on the second watch
but I liked it more oh I liked it the
first time but the second time I feel
like you can really less like on the
edge of your seat like what’s happening
what’s happening here and enjoy it more
for like the Dynamics of the thing
especially the relationship between
Tyler and Margot of like Eco the whole
movie the first time thinking they’re
like boyfriend and girlfriend or like
she’s his new girlfriend but then when
you find out that he just hired her like
some of their dialogue in the beginning
it’s like you can’t talk to me like that
well I paid for it so yes I can
um and for her it’s like
I also think there’s good background
scenes as they’re talking in the dining
room you’re less interested in exactly
what’s happening because you’ve already
seen it once that you can pay attention
to everything else that’s happening and
they just did a good job of making the
whole scene Lively I did not like it as
much the second time watching it I did
watch it again but it take a ton away it
was just all those fun shocking moments
weren’t there I did enjoy the the
comedic aspects and the sceneries and
whatnot but it didn’t really get me as
much the second time I give it three
buddies which is a very good score in my
book I would recommend it to anyone all
right well magic thanks for joining us
always a good time first two time and
Buddy oh yeah all right so I’ve done a
book I’ve done a movie like what are you
guys gonna do next like what’s the next
medium yeah that’s a great question
album reviews Tool albums we go through
all the tool out there four to four
buddies every time baby
all right Keith Good Times uh we’re
coming up next I think we got the rose
code the book
and then we’re gonna do a movie I think
the sand lot we’re gonna keep it going
but I wanna I’m trying to gear us
towards some childhood favorite so hey
you folks in Casper Wyoming speak up let
Keith know that childhood favorites are
better than Blockbusters sounds like
it’s all on the menu
with that bye now