Inglorious Brothers
Musings and ruminations with Justin and Matt Harper on pop culture, music, movies and TV, gaming, comedy, politics, and whatever else might be swimming around in the zeitgeist.
Inglorious Brothers
Junk Drawer: Original Recipe S2E13
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Today on the show we’re inaugurating a new recurring episode format: the Junk Drawer. It’s our way of clearing out the many random topic ideas and interesting tidbits that we’ve collected in recent weeks and months that haven’t fit into anything we’ve already discussed and don’t quite warrant a full show topic on their own.
Around the World in 1900 Colorized
Eiffel Tower Construction in Color
Exploring the Eiffel Tower - 3D Animation
How Long Can the Eiffel Tower Survive?
Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel
Follow us on Instagram
Subscribe to our other podcast, Beyond the Slipstream (it's about pro cycling, just fyi...)
It's the pop culture show with Cult Classic Swagger. This is Inglorious Brothers. I'm Matt Harper, and together with my brother Justin, we dive into the deep end of the zeitgeist each week to bring you cool talk and hot takes. No genres too specific, no topic too broad, and no rabbit hole too deep as we open our minds and enjoy each other's company. So good? Then let's ride. Hello and welcome to Inglorious Brothers. I'm Matt and I'm here with my brother Justin. And on today's show, we're gonna root around in the junk drawer for an assortment of absolutely random topics that have been on our minds of late, but didn't quite constitute an entire show segment or fit into anything else we've been discussing. So without further ado, Justin, kick us off.
SPEAKER_02Um I've I've brought the show up before, but it it just ended its third season, and uh it did it is like it's one of the best shows on TV, and and I I just I can't say enough good things about it. Shrinking on Apple TV Plus. Um this is a a Jason Siegel uh Brett Goldstein uh write writing project about a man who lost his wife uh in a um drunk or uh I can't remember if it's drunk driving or if it's uh you know drug driving, but uh you know, it's a tragic car accident and is now nav he's a therapist. He is a you know a therapist and it's about him navigating the the time after. He's got a teenage daughter, uh his uh business partner um is Harrison Ford, who's also a therapist, and there's uh you know, there's an another therapist character as well. But this show has so much heart, so funny, like there's so much going on with it that I just it it's you know, appointment television for my wife and I, we j it just makes you feel good. It has that same feel to me of like um of Ted Lasso, where like you kind of like it feels so good, and you you like you kind of like why why does this why does this feel so good? But it's also it's also so centered around mental health, and I think mental health is so important. And it's just it's it's just one of the best shows on TV, man. Jason Siegel is funny as hell. Harrison Ford in comedy is also very, very good. Um he plays a you know, uh uh he has Parkinson's in the show, at least in the second and third seasons. Great guest stars, great writing. I mean, I cannot say enough about the show. It is one of my absolute favorites in the last you know five or ten years, and and I would definitely make an argument that's one of the best shows on television right now.
SPEAKER_00Brett Goldstein is in all seasons.
SPEAKER_02No. He shows up, I think, in the second season, and he's like partially in the third. So he he's been writing since the beginning. Him and Jason Siegel wrote it. Um but he he actually his character is the guy that was on the other side of the accident that killed his wife.
SPEAKER_00It's interesting, man. You said it's it's like a good one to watch with your wife.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, yes. Yeah, oh yeah. It's it's so good. I'm telling you, it is hysterical. I mean, absolutely gut busting funny, and it's but it's also got this like extremely heartfelt center and really, really good ensemble cast. It's just it's so fucking good that so then so then what is it about Brett Goldstein?
SPEAKER_00Because he's the through line between Ted Lasso and this show.
SPEAKER_02I mean, he's pretty damn funny, that's for sure. And he's a great writer, and nobody really knew about him before, you know, before Ted Lasso showed up.
SPEAKER_00Did you watch his uh stand-up special last year?
SPEAKER_02It's very good.
SPEAKER_00See, I didn't I I was having a hard time connecting with it. I don't know. Maybe I should circle back on that one as well.
SPEAKER_02I mean, yeah, again, it's you gotta it's not the straight on type of and you know, I don't think that he's a you know, I don't think he's a stand-up comedian, dude. Like, I don't like he is um an actor. Yeah, he's an actor. He's an actor and a writer. But you know, he can tell a great story, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm I'm moving it to the higher on my list. Who knows if I'll ever start watching it?
SPEAKER_02I'm telling you, it's really, really good, dude. It's it's absolutely should be in the you need to watch it, especially before it gets I I find that like certain shows get to a point where there's so many episodes that I'm not gonna watch it because I just don't want to devote that much time. You're still in like you're still in the uh you know like 30 episodes area, so you know, get to it before there's four or five seasons. It gets daunting.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I mean, I I would love to watch it with the wife, but it's just like we do not ever sit around and watch TV. Ever. The only time me and my wife are ever really watching TV is like on the odd night that like after dinner we decide to go downstairs and get on the couch, you know, and hang out with the kids. You can watch it with the kids, dude. It's not or yeah, maybe I'll stick it on next time it's like yeah, that situation. I'll give it a shot. Um cool.
SPEAKER_02Very wholesome, dude. Very wholesome.
SPEAKER_00I like wholesome. Um, I have been wanting to talk about my first topic for several weeks now, ever since it came onto my radar. I'm very curious to see whether you have heard of this or not. Angine de poitrine. Does that mean anything to you? It means absolutely nothing to me. Angine de Poitrine. All right. Angine the Poitrine is a Quebec uh experimental art rock band that did a performance on KEXP radio. You have probably watched performances on KEXP radio. I think they are a uh public radio station someplace in the Midwest or something. I don't know where they're from. Um, but they have a really strong like like I liken KEXP radio performances to like the tiny desk stuff. You know what I mean? Like, like sooner or later you're just gonna come upon a tiny, a tiny desk concert of somebody and watch it. You know, I've watched dozens of those things of ones.
SPEAKER_02Somebody freestyling on Sway's show. Does that ever pop up in your I don't know what that is now? Oh my god, on Shade on the Sirius XM, dude. So Sway, like the old the old MTV uh like hip-hop guy has a a show on on I think it's 45 Shade on um on XM and he has like all kind of crazy people like pop in and just do off the off the dome piece ciphers uh on his show.
SPEAKER_00You gotta send me some of that. I don't know what that is. Oh yeah. Okay. Well KEXP.
SPEAKER_02I got a couple of really good ones. Little Dickies is out of control.
SPEAKER_00KEXP is like one of those one of those ones that pops up in my feed a lot, like when I'm just like searching for live performances of people. Um, so this group, Angine de Poitrine, did a performance on KEXP and it like caught the internet on fire a couple of weeks ago. It is an absolutely bizarre uh uh group. Um it's two guys. Uh the music they play is really, really cool. Like, like really cool. Um they it's the one guy plays drums, the other guy plays guitar. Uh, and the first thing about them is the look. They are wearing insane costumes. You cannot see who these guys are. Um, and here, I'm gonna put a link in the notes right now for you at the very top of my notes. Hold on, throw this in here real quick for you. Just look at that link uh with the volume off, just so you can see what it is that I'm talking about. Um this band has just got an absolutely wild look. Oh my god. Hokka dotty costumes, paper, paper mache uh uh hats. They've got these big like proboscis noses. They do this, like they don't talk, they do this weird like performance thing where they like make triangles with their hands, um, and there's like triangles throughout their their like costumery and like their set decoration. Everything is like mad polka dots, all black and white with like gold accents. The guitarist has like he's got like paint on his hands and feet, he's he's barefooted and he's got paint on his hands and feet, and he's his hands and feet are painted the black and white polka dot motif that's like on the restaurant.
SPEAKER_02I was looking at it, I was like, how does this guy playing in gloves? And it's not, it's because his hands are painted.
SPEAKER_00Thank you for putting it. It's completely wild, like absolutely wild. Um, and you see him and you're like, This is ridiculous, but then you hear the music and it's like they're so badass. Like the music that they play, and the guy is playing, he's playing a double neck guitar that one neck is a bass and one neck is a guitar. Um he's using a looper pedal, and then the drummer is playing along with these like loops that this guy is creating. So he's like looping bass riffs, and then um he's looping bass riffs, and then he's playing guitar parts over it with the drummer like playing along, and like they are incredible musicians. The drummer is incredible, and the guitarist is incredible. When you look at some of the stuff that the guy is playing, um, and then look at his work on like the foot pedal board and all the like looping and everything that he's doing, they're incredible. Like you can listen to their whole, I think they have like a five-song like EP or something, and it is rad. That this music is super rad. And when you look at that that what it's coming out of, these just bizarro world costume guys, the whole thing is completely intriguing. I will follow this, I will follow this band to the ends of the earth just because I'm so fascinated and the music is so cool. So um, I will put all kind of links in the uh show notes for you on this one. Angine depoitrine.
SPEAKER_02That is wild, dude.
SPEAKER_00That is wild. Yeah, go down that rabbit hole for sure. Listen to their whole watch that whole performance for sure. Okay. And there's there's some other live stuff out there. Just spend some time with that band. Uh they're really cool.
SPEAKER_02Will do. Will do.
SPEAKER_00What you got up next?
SPEAKER_02Um, so it uh in in so here's a perfect example of a show that you've probably um let go too far the to to really get into it because it'd be a giant commitment. Um but the boys returned this week, or maybe it was last week. Um or you know, the week before, I mean. Uh so The Boys is is like based on a on a comic book called The Boys, and it's it's uh this guy named Kripke that that does it, but it is a it's like a it's like the anti-superhero superhero t show TV show, which essentially the concept is is that you know in our world we have figured out how to make and manufacture superheroes, and the company that figured it out is like the biggest company on the planet. They are like, you know, Disney or you know, but much more maniacal. And so they have like cornered the market on superhero dumb, and it's at the same time just like very, you know, very action-packed, but it's disgusting. It is, it just shows the the very vile nature of fame and what happens when you give people powers. And the the beautiful thing about it is it's not like every one of them becomes Captain America. Like it, it it every time they give it to somebody, you don't know what you're gonna get. Like, so you might have, you know, a guy like the main one of the main characters, Homelander, who is like a super, you know, it's like Superman type with laser vision and flies and super strength. But then, you know, for every one of those, there's a guy that got a giant dick. All right, like a comically long, rope-long, you know, phallic penis that he can use to strangle people. Or um there's one, you know, there's like a guy with super speed, but then there's also uh a guy that is like a worm and can tunnel underground by eating and shitting dirt. So it's like it's like you get this, you get this juxtaposition of, you know, not just good versus evil, but like, you know, mundane versus disgusting, all kind of wrapped into one. And the writing on it is is really, really good. Uh, it's headed up by Carl Urban, you know, Aomer from The Lord of the Rings, and he is, and it's you know, it's just it's vulgar, it's disgusting. Um, mom, you would hate it. Do not watch it. Uh, but it's it's on Prime and it's just it's it's just so well done. My wife and not it's another show my wife and I really love. Um, my wife likes it even more than I do, but it's really good writing, but it's also at the same time like extremely disgusting. And what's funny about this season so far is they're trying to like lampoon like the culture right now in America, and like it's the culture in America is so bad that like some of the things that they're doing don't even really they don't even like fall under lampooning. You know what I mean? Like things are going so nuts on a on a regular basis that like it it's it's almost like they're mirroring what's really going on when they were trying to lampoon it, and you know, within a few months, you know, it's gone from well, this is crazy and would never happen in real life to oh god, it happened in real life already. So it's got this like really weird mirror with what's going on right now. But it's a it it is uh really, really, really good.
SPEAKER_00Have you talked about that show at all? I don't know.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if I have or not. Maybe maybe when it was on the season before, so maybe a year ago when we first you know started you know talking or doing the podcast. I don't know. I don't know if that one's ever come up. It's it's it is it's the one of the most unique things that you will ever watch. Like it like the if you if you watch the first episode and you're not like completely like, wait a minute, what the fu like it has so many moments of you going, oh my god, that's disgusting, or oh my god, did that just happen? You know, it's it's a you know, a lot of dicks, I can tell you that. You will see a lot just so many. It's very disgusting in a lot of ways, but like in a good way. Like, you know what I mean? It's gross, but it's like it's gross for the s you know, because it's it's trying to to elicit a response from you, and and you know, it it wants it to be gross so that it juxtaposes those the the good things worth the bad things, so you really get a balance of everything, it's really crazy.
SPEAKER_00Another one for the list. Um, my next one. Uh are you a fan of Anderson Pac?
SPEAKER_02Uh I mean he not like highly. I mean, he's popped up on my radar a number of times. Um great drummer, I can tell you that. The guy can play the shit out of the skins.
SPEAKER_00Um, yeah, well, that's not the only thing he can do. Um, as I recently learned. So um I I've heard the dude interviewed on podcasts and have listened to a couple of his records and stuff. Like, I would definitely consider myself a fan, but by no means like a super fan or anything. However, I caught a live performance um uh of his on YouTube, total like stumbled upon kind of situation. Um, I think it was him like up in up in uh Seattle or something like that. It was a really, really well produced uh bit of concert footage. Um I could be totally wrong about Seattle thing. Uh I will certainly link to it in our show notes. Um he is an absolute like triple threat performer. He could quadruple threat. Um, and if you watch this this concert, you you will see what I'm talking about. First of all, it's it's very inventive, just the staging and everything. Um, and he, you know, ostensibly is like you know, a rapper, a hip-hop guy, but there's a lot more going on in this show than like a guy guy rapping over beats. Um, first of all, like you said, he he's a great drummer. He routinely throughout the show uh is playing drums, but not on every song. Some songs he's he's just the rapper, some songs he's on the drum set and he's singing, like he can do it all. Um, he's also got a whole like stage show with like dancers, his band is doing choreographed moves. He jumps into it with the dancer sometime and is like doing complicated dance moves with them, and then like, but he's rapping at the same like this man is an incredible performer that I did not realize. He would be 100% at the top of my list of like live performances that I would like to see. He's number one right now. Like, if I get the chance, I am gonna see uh Anderson Pac because like you watch this this show and you'll be blown away. And the music is great. Um, and he's just dynamic and electric and uh a phenomenal, a phenomenal guy.
SPEAKER_02So he's got a he's got a crossover into the uh into the video game world too. When GTA did probably GTA 5 did their or GTA online, I should say, did their probably biggest um like DLC drop or like um added content drop of the last you know whatever 13 years that that game's been out, 12 years that that online version of that game's been out. They they did a a um a uh DLC with Dr. Dre, where Dr. Dre is at the center of the uh of the of the it's called the contract, and you essentially are are out doing some dirty work for for Dr. Dre, but at the very end of it, you end up at Dr. Dre's recording studio, and after you take out all of the thugs that have taken over the the recording studio, you get a little private recording session with Anderson Pac and Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iveem are all like in the room with your with your character.
SPEAKER_00That's rad. Yeah. Yeah, Anderson Pac, check out the link. It's like a little over an hour long. It's fantastic. It's really good. This I I like I like those kind of performers that can like do it all, like a Bruno Mars type. You know, the guy's like James Brown level dancer, but he can also like sit back there, play the drums, and like sing perfectly, you know, very impressive. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So um one of so this guy I know uh his name is Corey Haider. He is um I met him through work. Uh he used to work at the dealership that I work at, and this guy has like you know, 250 or 300,000 followers on Instagram. Um he makes these videos where well what he does now. Is he's a contractor, he goes in and cleans out bank houses that have like houses that have been foreclosed for the bank. So like the bank hires him to go in and and clean out these just disgusting shitholes, and that is his job. Well during while he does that, every once in a while when he comes across some crazy things, he records it. And this dude, first off, this guy is funny, the mo one of the most naturally funny dudes that I've ever met in my entire life. I've met him, you know, probably 10 times at this point over the last couple of years. And the first time I met him, you know, he was he was in the desk office at at the Honda store. And I watched this guy for 10 minutes just do you know a hot 10-minute set in front of you know these 10 people. And literally, there isn't a dry eye in the house. We are dying on we are all laughing our asses off. This guy just is purely funny, just off the cuff. Uh huh. Just anything about dude, anything. It does not matter. The guy will have you in stitches in minutes. Like it does, he is just he is naturally funny. He tells great stories, but I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_00And you said he has a hundred thousand followers on Instagram?
SPEAKER_02He has like three hundred thousand, like two hundred and seventy-five thousand. Well, the the video that made him the famous is this egg tray thing. Did you just go into this house? Huh? No, but I can't. Here, I'll send it to you right now. Um he goes through the he's going through this house and there's like literally deviled egg trays like everywhere. Like in in a like when I say everywhere, when I say everywhere, it's like I can't even I can't even describe it. Like it's it's that many of them. Hold on, I'm gonna send this to you right now. Uh I think is it this one? I gotta figure out which one it is. But anyway, yeah, it's this one here. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna text you this right this second. Copy link. So he goes to this house and there's all these crazy doubled egg trays. Well, this video gets millions and millions of views and you know, garners and followers because of you know what's going on. So he does a lot of these things. Well, anyway, the whole point to why I bring this up is this week he was on Matt and Shane's secret podcast, so Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis's podcast. And I mean, this guy completely stole the show. Like, absolutely with just had everybody in stitches there is like you know, uh just the comments were crazy. And I wanted to shout out Corey Hyder, Corey, Corey Mega Hyder. Um you know, he did a couple of podcasts, he went to Austin, they flew him out. He like this guy's so funny that they flew him out first class to Austin, put him up in these, you know, put him up on this podcast. He was on another one uh while he was down there. And you know, I I just hope that I mean this guy he is the sweetest uh dude you will ever meet. He is so sweet and funny and like humble and I hope beyond hope for the best for this guy. I hope he blows up because he is absolutely uh hysterical, and I just I want the best for him. So go out his his Instagram is uh Corey Mega Hyder or Hyder sorry his it's hider corey on Instagram, it's blue collar corey on YouTube, and I can't remember what it is on Facebook, but go follow him and make sure you make sure you put all the links into the show notes, please. I will, I will, but this dude is trust me, he needs no help.
SPEAKER_00He needs no help. I know, but we want to we want our people to be able to like.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, right now he's sorry, he's got 266,000 followers on on uh Instagram.
SPEAKER_00I'm watching this video you sent, and it's absolutely insane. I I'm I don't know what to make of this.
SPEAKER_02Like it's well dude, and you're and you're not even are you he you're not hearing it, right? You're just what you're just watching it, dude. It's the hearing of it that's so funny, man. When you hear this guy, like he is just hysterical. But yeah, next time you're in the bathroom and you're just doom scrolling, pull this guy's page up and just watch a bunch of his videos because they're they're short and they are terribly funny. So, but yes, Matt and Shane Secret Podcast uh this week, Corey Mega Hyder. He has this one joke that just you know, they're like going back and forth about things you don't want to talk, like things you shouldn't talk about or things you don't want to bring up, and he goes, he goes, he goes, yeah, he's like, he's like, if I had a nickel for every time I was molested, I'd have one nickel and I'd never talk about it. Oh so funny. All right. Uh what do you got? Or do you want to or or should we take a break and then and then come back? What do you think?
SPEAKER_00Uh I can do another one. I have another uh music-related um recommendation. I may have mentioned this a couple weeks ago when we were doing like the Lennon docs. Um, but if you are a Chili Peppers fan, you gotta check out this new documentary that just dropped called The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Colin Our Brother Hillel. Um and I will tie that in with a uh a video that just came across my my desk uh in the past week, um, which is the Chili Peppers performing at Chad Smith's kids school.
SPEAKER_02They were like Did you see that?
SPEAKER_00Did you see that it was like field day or something like that or something? They had no no, it was hot it was Halloween, I think. And they were, yeah, they were it was like the Halloween Day parade or whatever, and like they they had all the kids haul into the into the auditorium for for something, and there's like a band set up on stage, they're all in costume, and uh it's the red hot chili peppers. Um and they played that what was what's the name of that song they played? Yeah, can't stop. Um, yeah, that was good. But there's a doc out now, and it's all about um the original guitarist where that red hot chili peppers, Hillel Slovak, who um died of a drug overdose. And uh there's just a ton of great footage, and it's just like well done, and it's really cool to see the red hot chili peppers at their inception because they were they were kind of always exactly who they are, and yet like they're just so so raw. And like I completely forgot about how like George Clinton was like just their buddy, and like totally produced a record with them and hung out with them for months and did did tours with them and stuff. I mean, it's it's just absolutely wild. So uh really good for that.
SPEAKER_02On air production meeting, another thing another topic we should do is is Rick Rubin produced albums.
SPEAKER_00Wow, that's a that's a that's a giant, giant list.
SPEAKER_02I know, but or well, I mean we each pick out one or two of our favorites. The um because didn't he do he did blood sugar sex and magic blood sugar sex magic, right? Isn't that Rick Rubin?
SPEAKER_00Wouldn't be surprised. I don't know, I don't have his thing memorized, but I know he's done like a hundred of the biggest albums in the past 30, 40 years or whatever. Um, yeah, just Rick Rubin in general, the career of Rick Rubin would make a delightful subject. Um, so uh yeah, and if you want, I can I can shoehorn in one more music recommendation, then we could take a break. Sure. Um, that is a power pop indie rock band uh called Rat Boys. They are from someplace in the Midwest. They were recommended on a podcast. Uh yeah, they're from Chicago. Um, and they just dropped a new album, came out in February, um, called Singing to an Empty Chair. I'll link, link, link. Um, if you're into some just like incredibly well-written, like indie power pop, uh indie folk, indie rock, so good. I was just relentlessly humming one of these songs by this band. Uh, I think it was like the second track on the record called uh what was that song called? Know you then. Um could not get it out of my head and just wanted to listen to it over and over and over again for the next four days after I first heard it. Um, check them out. Good stuff. Had me, I I find that like a lot of these, there's so many bands that come out now, and you just can't help but like do that thing in your head where it's like they sound like this band crossed with that band. And you know, it's it was the same thing with this. I was just getting so many vibes of like other bands, uh, but in a good way. I don't know. I I really enjoyed it. Female lead singer, and just like really, really female lead singer, man. Really well well crafted pop songs. So um, yeah, that's Rat Boy, uh, Rat Boy, Rat Boys, Rat Boy, um, rat boys. So uh I'll recommend that for you again. Look for the link. Um, let's hold it there. And when we come back, we'll talk about some more random stuff. How's that? Sounds good to me. All right, stay with us. Please check out our other show, Beyond the Slipstream, a weekly podcast about pro cycling, procycling, and oh, did I mention pro cycling or kind of obsessed? Search and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube, or click the link in the show notes. All right, we're back, and uh Justin, I believe you're up on this junk drawer episode of Inglorious Bastards. Give me something sweet.
SPEAKER_02Um, so after talking, we talked about Shia LaBeouf a couple of uh what two weeks ago. Yeah. And so I was like, I was like cruising through something, and I ended up stopping on the greatest game ever played, all right, which is this golf movie, this like kind of, you know, Disney produced, I think it's Disney produced like golf movie about uh a caddy that ends up like playing in the and this honestly it may I didn't do any research, it may be a true story or based on a true story or something, but it's a caddy that ends up like being in the US Open or something. But what what stuck in my you know brain about it was not the Shia LaBuffa of it all, not the golf of it all, it was it was none of that. It was it was Elias Koteis. Do you know who do you know who Elias Coteis is?
SPEAKER_00Like off the was Elias Cotteus playing his disapproving father?
SPEAKER_02Yes, 100% playing his disapproving father. And I th I I was like I know who Elias Coteis is.
SPEAKER_00So I'm like He was in the wire. He was he was he was like the Greek he was like the Greek enforcer in the wire.
SPEAKER_02Is he?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he was like the guy wasn't he the enforcer, like like the the the Greek guys, the the like the head Greek guys, like like enforcer guy. I think so.
SPEAKER_02I don't think that was him. I don't think so. I well anyway, but he's he was I mean he's been in a million things. He was in traffic, he was in, you know, the sopranos, he was in, you know, dancing at the blue iguana, he was at the thin the thin red line, apt people. I mean, he's been in Gattaca, I mean, a million things. You've seen him a million times.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, for sure. I know who he is, anyways.
SPEAKER_02But what's what I found crazy was like I was thinking, I'm looking, I'm watching him do you know in this performance, and he's so goddamn good. And it's like, how has this guy never been given a role that would be juicy enough to win a big award? And I look, he's never like he's never been nominated, never had like a big award, but dude, that guy's a really good actor. Like a really, really good actor. And it's it's funny to me how like you can be an actor that's worked every year for the last 40 years and be very, very good, but also like not really, you know, not get a quality, not necessarily a quality, I shouldn't say that. A role that you could really dive into that would be, you know, Oscar worthy. And it's like it's crazy how Hollywood has these actors that are like that, but he does such a great job, dude. Like he is so believable in like as like the overbearing, like, you know, don't chase your dreams, son. He was like, like, like um Danny Aiello in the in the bike movie, all right. Um, where he was like, he's like, you know, like you know, shitting all over the kid. I mean, it's the exact same character, honestly. You know, go to work, don't, you know, don't don't don't chase your dreams, just just work. You gotta put food on the table. And but he did such a damn good job, man. So I just want to shout out Elias Koteis, man. Here's a guy that that sees what you're doing, bro. And I I I implore you do it even more.
SPEAKER_00I think I think Elias Coteas is probably doing just fine. Um, I sent you a text with a picture of who I thought he was, which is Paul Ben Victor. And if you look at a couple of these pictures, you can be like, oh yeah, these guys look like these guys look like twin brothers.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER_00That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_02Um I was like, I didn't think that was him. Is that him?
SPEAKER_00What which what was the oh the greatest game ever played? This the story of Francis Weime. Uh haven't yeah, I haven't seen that one.
SPEAKER_02Um it's pretty honestly, it's pretty good. For like a golf movie, it's pretty good. Um I want to it's no legend of Bagger Vance, but it's pretty pretty darn good.
SPEAKER_00Bagger Vance.
SPEAKER_02Um Matt Damon is in that movie, you realize, right?
SPEAKER_00I know, I know, it's crazy. Uh I I'm gonna finish out with just one last topic. So, an ongoing through line uh on this podcast, of course, is AI. It's an ongoing through through line of life. Um and as as creepy and scary as a lot of things having to do with AI are, um, there's also just like some really, really cool stuff happening with AI. I know that I uh shouted out um several several weeks or months ago like that one channel that was just doing like these AI recreations of like a a night, a night at the Copa Cabana in 1950, you know, in 1956, and it's walking through showing all these, you know, famous people, you know, at the same age that they were at that time, et cetera, et cetera. So I love all that kind of stuff. Bring it on, give me more. Um, so I've got a a bunch of um sort of uh his historical uh slash architectural stuff to recommend. Um, first of all, uh the first video I'll link is um a video called Around the World in 1900 colorized. And that's not even really AI technology, it's more just colorization technology. But the the way better with AI Yeah, the way and the way they're put together. Um it's just like it's it's essentially just you're you're just watching a a montage uh of photographs from 1900, um in it, you know, set set to like a video montage, but they've been so perfectly like not only colorized, but made to look like they are taken with a camera of today, you know what I mean? It's like that level of quality, but you're looking at pictures from 1900 and it is awesome. And I can just like put that on in the background and just have that scrolling, and it's just just so amazing to look at, you know what I mean? You really look like you feel like you've stepped back in time that you're like looking through a window into the past, and it's really wild. So that'll be the first link. Um, around the world in 1900 color eyes, but then the rest of them have to do with uh Paris and the Eiffel Tower. So um the first one is uh the construction of the Eiffel Tower in color, and this thing is basically just this loving, lovingly rendered video uh that shows like the entire construction of the Eiffel Tower and how it was done in every single stage along the way. Um it just it's just building before your eyes, and it's it's stunning to watch if you're into architecture, building, design, any of that kind of stuff. Um, it's just like so, so, so well rendered. So as I'm watching that, I was like, you know, I I really wish that I could find a a video of like what it looks like now, but from like every possible angle. Like, like is there a is there a video out there of somebody walking through like every square? Like if you got it, if you got an all access pass to the Eiffel Tower, or if you had like free run of the Eiffel Tower, and you can go anywhere, not just where the Taurus can go, but you know, any place on there, what would that be like? And I did find a video. Uh, it was a TikTok video. Um, it's the I the Eiffel Tower uh explore all three floors in 3D animation. And so if you're into something like that, you gotta check that one out because you'll literally be able to get a look at like almost every square inch of that building. And then the last one on the Eiffel Tower that I found was how long can it survive? And this is uh this is a a piece about um how the rust on the Eiffel Tower is spreading and it posits the idea that this thing cannot last forever, and it also gets into the politics of like trying to make it last forever because they keep painting it and painting it and painting it and painting it, but without figuring out a way to start like removing old metal and replacing it with new metal, it's it's just not gonna last forever. You're not gonna be able to keep propping it up with more coats of paint. The metal is breaking down from within.
SPEAKER_02That's the uh the the the ship of thesis, or right in the or theseus. That's like that's like one of those like old philosophy things that's like um you know, the the ship is the same ship, is it the same ship? The same ship if you if you replace everything, is it still the same ship?
SPEAKER_00Right. It's just that and that's the same like sort of like question about like how like all of the cells of the human body regenerate, you know, on on this some kind of scale. I mean, I know some regenerate faster than others, but like at some point your your body, what is you, is made up of a completely different set of matter than than you what you were made up with of 25 years ago or whatever. So um, yeah, similar kind of concept there. So that's the third one. And then the final video that I'll I'll link to uh this one is more about Paris, and it's the a Paris 3D time lapse. It starts all the way at like negative 300 BC or whatever, and goes all the way to 2025. And you're just sort of seeing an AI rendered sort of aerial shot of Paris. And the first thing you see is a river coming cutting through some green land with nothing on it but trees. And from there, it just keeps going and going and going, and it kind of zooms out and zooms in and zooms out and zooms in so you can see different parts as they were like becoming prominent. And it's just an absolutely fascinating thing to watch. Uh, again, another one of those where you can, you know, if you're doing something else, you can kind of throw it on uh on your second screen. You don't even really need the sound up or anything like that. Um I even I think I watched it like at two times speed, and it was just as just as fulfilling for what I was looking for. So um a 3D time lapse. AI continues to amaze and delight, uh, even in spite of it being so earth-shakingly scary uh in a lot of ways, but um enjoy it while you still can. That's all I got for this week. What do you what what what do you want to finish it up with?
SPEAKER_02Um so I'll just I'll throw out two things that are on on Disney Plus and then one that's on HBO. I'm just gonna kind of like bing bang boom them. Uh so Daredevil Born Again has come back to Disney Plus. This is its second season since its reboot from the Netflix series. Um, one of the better, in my opinion, comic book television shows has been the arc of Daredevil. Um, there's three seasons, or I think three seasons from the Netflix show and then two seasons. Now, in this in this reboot, you know, they call it Born Again. Um, it's really well done. Vincent D'Anafrio plays the Kingpin, and he's so fucking good, it's just not even funny. Um, really, really good show. It's very well done, man. Like, it's the Daredevil. If you're into comic books, it's the Daredevil you want. Um, it's the Daredevil that you need. So I do recommend that.
SPEAKER_00Another one So it's Dar Daredevil Born Again?
SPEAKER_02Yes, Daredevil Born Again. But start with the original. Really, it's the the first season of Daredevil has one of the best like um tracking shots of a fight that I've ever seen. It's this hallway, it's this fight in this hallway. It's unbelievable. It's all one take. It's amazing.
SPEAKER_00I can remember you recommending that show to me like years ago, long before we were ever even podcasting.
SPEAKER_02Yep, it's very good. Um, another one that came out you know on Disney Plus is a Star Wars. Um I've one of the things you know, I'm a big Star Wars nerd as well as all the other things I'm a big nerd about, but um I really, really like the Star Wars animation, um, specifically like the Clone Wars and which was a long-running tell you know, seven season television, you know, show, and then um they have subsequently did Rebels and The Bad Batch, all of which I I love, but they have just come out with another one that kind of fits just post-Clone Wars about Darth Maul, um, called Maul Shadow Lord, and it's so well done and so well written. It's just you know, it's it's amazing how good the medium of animation has become, and there's so many different things from you know Rick and Morty to you know the the raunchier side of like the you know family guy to the anime stuff to you know so many different things. But um Dave Falone is the guy that heads that he's the new head uh the new head of like the Star Wars division. He like Kathleen Kennedy is now gone, and he's been like the creative director for a lot of years, so now he's at the head of it, and so it it only means good things because he's a super fan. Um, it only means good things for the Star Wars franchise. So um Maul Shadow Lord, big recommendation, and then um the last thing that I have is The Pit on HBO is now finished for its second season. Um I I can't recommend the show enough. It is very, very good. It is a medical drama, unlike any medical drama that you've probably ever seen. It's very, very real and very visceral. Um, acting is great in it, but it has the best cliffhangers from episode to episode of anything that I've ever seen. I can't tell you how many times I've watched an episode of that show and it goes, you know, to the credit, you know, the credits pop up, and I'm just like, oh no, like don't stop there. And it's it's so they do such a good job of that. And uh so I can't recommend that one enough, man. The pit on HRO is very, very good. Um it's again, it'll be a show that gets away from you because it's like 15 episodes you know per season. And it's one of those like shows like 24 that where it's like hour by hour. So like you like it's like you're doing this hour from you know 9 a.m. to 10, 10 a.m. 10 a.m. to eleven a. And so it goes through 15 hours of time. It's set in Pittsburgh, um, which also doesn't hurt because you know that's kind of where I live. Yeah. Good stuff. But that's it, man. That's all the uh all the news that's fit to print.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's been uh an enjoyable one for sure. I'm glad we have uh gotten a chance to get into all of that stuff, because uh I've been wanting to talk about a lot of that for a while, and now I can cross it off my list and start filling up my junk drawer again, because we'll probably do this as a recurring segment, I would imagine, uh, moving forward, although um we'd like to come up with a better name. Um but all in due time. Lovely pot lovely potting with you today. Uh thanks for listening, folks, and uh we hope you'll join us again next time here on Inglorious Brothers. Inglorious Brothers is a Harporama production and a part of the Harparama family of podcasts. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Please like, subscribe, and follow, leave a five-star review, and most importantly, tell all your friends about us. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time, and uh, oh yeah, uh Riva Derchy.