Hey server listeners, so Umberto and I recorded a really, really long episode and when I was editing it, I thought that's too long.

So I took the last hour out and made it into its own episode. So that's what this is. It's just Umberto and I talking about TV shows and movies.

So let me introduce the podcast. My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor and over there as Umberto with the job that he says every week. Let's get to the episode.

Let's end with something like which is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, which is just be looking at my IMDB ratings, my most recent ratings and just talking about what I've rated and what I've watched.

Oh, okay. Like you've done this before. Yeah. Um, you watch a lot of things. So usually about 90% of the things I'm like, I haven't heard of this.

Yeah. Well, some of this stuff you have. But so let's just go through it. This is. Uh, so I watched the movie air, which is about the Jordan one.

Yeah. I want to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a, it's a procedural. You know what we're right. What in there's your score. Oh, I gave it a seven. Okay. Good. Yeah. It's directed by Ben Affleck. Right.

Ben Affleck's in it. Matt Damon. Matt Damon's in it. Yeah. Jason Bateman. And it's, it's good. There's like, there's no Jordan, right? They don't really show. Yeah. An actor playing. Yeah. Well, they, they purposely only show the back of his head, which I think is good because it really adds to the mystique of,

because they really are, uh, having the premise of the story is that it's just before, it's just as Michael Jordan is being drafted in MBA. Right.

And he is talking with a bunch of companies about sponsorships. And the, at the time, Nike was not known for their basketball shoes. They were running, right?

It was running shoes, jogging shoes. So they were kind of a joke, uh, trying to answer. It was a big basketball shoe. It was Adidas and Converse.

Converse, right? Yeah. Adidas and Converse, right? And, and Converse was kind of the old school. Right. Adidas was for the cool kids.

So Reebok wasn't yet a thing. Oh, no, no. Reebok was secondary to Nike. Yeah. So air the movie. Um, the way it's marketed, it's more silly in the trailers than the movie is.

The other movie that I rewatched late at night was inception. Oh, I think I've seen it twice. I wonder if I've seen it.

So I'd like to see that again. Yeah. So I think it was my second watch. I've watched a lot of analyses on YouTube, but I don't think I've ever just sat down and rewatched it. It's 2010. So it's a long time ago.

Stop it, dude. Yeah. 13 years. Yeah. And holy crap. The, the thing that I, the reason why I wanted to rewatch it is I was watching another analysis video on YouTube. And it just sort of peaked my

interest. I'm like, Oh, you know what? I think I want to go back and watch that scene. So I got on a streaming service or wherever it was and started watching that scene.

It's like, Oh, fuck it. I'm just going to go back to it. And what it did for me was it reminded me how good Christopher Nolan was back then. Yeah.

Because he's his, in my book, his movies have definitely declined. I mean, well, like tenant. I like tenant. It's no inception. No inception, but I liked it.

Yeah. I wasn't. People hated it though. You're right that it's not. I think the smarter people liked it. It wasn't. I'm not. I mean, I can. The more I watch analyses of it, the more I appreciate it. But when I was watching, I'm like, I was just kind of bored, really.

Because like my brother and I watched that at my place. So I didn't even see it in the theater, which by the way, might have helped because I heard a lot of people in the theater couldn't hear the dialogue very well.

I couldn't hear the dialogue at home. I heard we heard it fine for whatever reason. So I never understood that one. And we liked it. But most people watched it at home, though, because it was during the pandemic. It was pre pre vaccine. That summer. It was when it was in the theater. But anyway, so I rewatched theception and re I gave it a 10 originally 13 years ago. And I gave it a 10 again. Yeah, it. Oh, it's so good. Well, because because of his more recent movies, I thought, did I just drink the cool?

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