Back to episode — Episode 2849 CWSA 05/24/25
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is back online. And if not, you know, maybe it gets pushed to the next day, but that's the current thinking. Well, if you happen to hate the New York Knicks, that would be a basketball team, you've had a good week. I know most of you are not into basketball, but I just have to tell you about how the Indiana Pacers beat the Knicks because it's not even a sports story. It's like the biggest coincid…
← Previous segment →Now, since it was a three-point shot, the Pacers are like, "Yes, yes, we won because we were only down by two and we just made a three-point shot." And then they look at the video and the guy who shot it, his foot was just on the line, which makes it a two-point shot. So first the Knicks totally won, then the Pacers totally won and then it was a tie and had to go to overtime where the Pacers won. So if you were a Knicks fan, it was a terrible week and I guess they lost another tight one.
All right, I'm going to give you a movie recommendation or movie review, I guess. So I don't know where it is except on Amazon Prime Video, but it's called The Fountain of Youth. It's brand new, and it features John Krasinski and Natalie Portman, I think, as his sister, and they play these Indiana Jones kind of characters.
Now, here's what's great about this movie. Apparently, I'm just guessing, my guess is that the director had some kind of deal with the production studio that they could make the movie any way he wanted to. And he made it old-fashionedy and you don't notice it at first. You just think you're watching a movie. But at some point you realize, hey, there was nobody tied to a chair. Hey, there was no gratuitous sex scene or those terrible scenes where somebody's showing their love to somebody else and you're like, I get it, I get it. You know, all the things that you hate in a movie. It just simply didn't have them. It was like a wisecracking action movie.
So the wisecracking was great because John Krasinski is great at wisecracking and the characters were great. But then
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you notice it did have one thing that I don't like in a movie, which is somebody who's underwater for too long. I fast forward through all underwater scenes. But then you realize, wait a minute, there's nothing woke about this movie. The cast is not diverse. There's no overweight Black woman who is the key feature. It's just good-looking people. And the two female leads were both attractive. And t…
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