S11 EP60: Hour 3 - Hollywood Refuses to Recognize the Bad Guy
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I blame Matt, my friend Matt. |
| 0:03.5 | He texted me during commercial. |
| 0:06.3 | Well, okay, no, in fairness, it looks like he texted me 30 minutes ago. |
| 0:10.0 | And I just found it. |
| 0:10.9 | There's a new top gun trailer out. |
| 0:14.1 | I am distracted. |
| 0:16.0 | Okay, here's the most remarkable thing about the new top gun trailer. |
| 0:22.9 | Wait, Philip might be listening. |
| 0:25.4 | There was this movie before you were born, starred a guy named Tom Cruise, who's this |
| 0:31.0 | crazy Scientologist guy, and it was about an F-14 Tom Cut pilot who he had to fight the bad guys. |
| 0:39.3 | They were Russians. |
| 0:40.3 | And it was an awesome movie, one of the greatest movies of the 80s, Top Gun. |
| 0:46.3 | And now he's back. |
| 0:49.3 | They're making a sequel because Hollywood is out of ideas. |
| 0:53.3 | Hollywood is completely out of ideas. |
| 0:57.5 | And so they got to make sequels. And so Maverick is back in Top Gun 2. |
| 1:03.7 | He looks exactly the same. Somewhere in an attic. Somewhere in an attic, there is a painting of Tom Cruise that is aging horrifically. |
| 1:20.0 | Dory and Gray style. |
| 1:21.6 | There's got to be a painting of Tom Cruise somewhere where he looks like a 200-year-old man. |
| 1:36.3 | And Tom Cruise somewhere where he looks like a 200 year old man. And Tom Cruise does not look any different from the original. I don't know what those Scientologists do, but Zeno's been good to him. |
| 1:41.3 | It's just fascinating to me. |
| 1:43.3 | But also fascinating. Who are they going to have as the bad guy? You know, they're already |
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