You know every once in a while

Hollywood makes a movie that justifies the whole sort of enterprise.

All the crazy money and soulless fame and exploitative sex and crashed cars and smeared

mascara and various other smeared things and nose jobs and boob jobs and penis augmentation procedures that were

billed as foot surgeries and prop rental places and chateaus marmont and wasted sushi

sitting by the pool and iowasca ceremonies where nothing was learned

an overpriced monkey adrenal glands and what Venice Beach used to be

and what it's become.

And Robert Evans's house that he lost and Jack Nicholson bought back for him,

and Marlon Brando's house that Nicholson bought and tore down.

And the neglected dogs of every aspiring comedian in Atwater Village whose

newly retired parents are about to cut them off and every car chase that somehow

finds its way into the LA River even though the LA River is not on the way to anywhere

and it isn't between any two places that anyone would ever chase a car from or two,

and especially not in the way you always see it where one driver seems to know where every pile of trash is and the other driver didn't even know there was a river in LA and most of all that particular way that production people have of making you feel that they could kill you with a hammer right there on the sidewalk in front of your own home and never be prosecuted for it just because they're getting paid to put Gaffer tape where Scott Beo's stunt double is supposed to stand, the whole

gyre of human misery turned suddenly and briefly to triumph with the production of a single film. I'm not saying Gladiator is that film because

this is just the intro. The whole point of this podcast is that we review it later.

Sometimes in these intros it's hard for me not to just say this movie is worse than acne

and I don't even remember what we said about it but I'm sure Adam loved it one eye patch or whatever.

I don't want to spoil the show it's's a good show! What I will say about Gladiator is that it makes you think leaving the theater that you're pretty much an expert on the Roman Empire now. And also, pretty good at hand-to-hand combat and maybe if you talked a little less people

would take you more seriously and from now on you're going to talk less and be more

intense and see how people like it.

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