In this Friday episode, John Rush and Andy Pate discuss the intriguing events of the past week, showcasing revelations that had political figures squirming. Tulsi Gabbard emerges as a key topic, with her relentless pursuit of accountability making waves. The conversation shifts from political maneuverings to reflections on justice system intricacies and broader implications for former top officials. It’s a ride through thoughts and ideas that blend humor with insightful critique. Join us as we dissect the dynamics of power and ethics in today’s political arena, with Tulsi Gabbard’s game-changing moves in the spotlight. We also venture into lighter
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Gee, Ray, what do you want to do tonight?
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I’m done.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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All right, welcome. Happy Friday, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, and Andy, it’s Friday. It is Friday, sir. We’ll take it, right? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. As always. As always.
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I’m sorry. There are weeks when I’m more ready for the weekend than others. This is one of them. Although, hey, it’s been a fun week with all the revelations, as they say. So it’s been a lot of fun watching Democrats squirm.
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Can’t argue that one. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Positively.
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Do you think there will be any… I do. I don’t think there will be many, certainly not Obama. But I do think the CIA director, Brennan, is in serious, serious trouble. He looks like a slam dunk. The other ones look like possibles. Obama looks impossible to me.
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Yeah, that one. He has immunity. As you know, yeah, between that and, you know, as you know, they try to, you know, that’ll be a blame game on, you know, well, I didn’t know and I didn’t do that and I never said that and they did this on their own.
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Everybody’s going to take the fall for the big guy.
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Correct.
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All right. But I don’t think there is anybody who can take the fall for a couple of these guys. So I think they’re in real trouble.
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Well, we’ll talk more about that, of course, on Tuesday. But I don’t know, Andy. That’s one of those where I’ve honestly not – I haven’t really given it a lot of thought. I don’t know, to be honest with you.
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I’ll say this. I think there are people who are saying, well, we’ve already seen a lot of this information before. Yes. We haven’t seen all of it, though. There were some new revelations. But here’s the biggest thing. The nature of the person bringing the charges, I think Tulsi Gabbard – Has no heart. Okay? Sorry, but this is, as I was saying online, she’s the closest thing to human AI, as you’re going to see. This person doesn’t… She’s like Joe Friday.
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Just the facts. Yeah. The facts, ma’am. Just the facts. Right.
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And exactly, when you looked at Bill Barr and John Durham… And who was Trump’s first attorney general? I forget his name. He was from Alabama, I believe.
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Sessions. Jeff Sessions, right. Who was spineless. Right. Sorry, but he was.
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Well, here’s the reason they were spineless, though. They all wanted respect. They craved respect. from the intelligentsia, from the intel community, from the legal community. They all cared about how they were seen. And you could tell it, man. They wanted to be seen as professional, respectable, never making outlandish statements, even if they were totally true. Right.
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Good point.
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Tulsi Gabbard reads off the most incriminating things you’ve ever heard, like it’s a month and, you know, progress report for a company. She doesn’t care.
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No, she doesn’t.
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I’m telling you, this girl has ice water in her veins. This is the reason why I do believe this is going to go a ways. This is going to go a ways. I do believe that Brennan is very possibly going to see a jail cell.
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I hope you are correct. Let’s see what John says. John, go ahead, sir.
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Well, I don’t think Brennan will see a jail cell for this one reason. Because if it looks like he’s going to get convicted, he’s going to rat on everybody. He’d be worse than Sammy the Bull Gravano. He’s going to squeal like Henry Hill did.
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Do you think he will?
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I think Brennan will because he’s a weasel. Oh, he is. So he’s not going to go to jail if he could throw Clapper and Susan Rice and McDowell. And what’s the powers and all that? He can throw them all them under the bus to get out of going to jail. He’d do it in a minute.
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Yeah, but I mean, Clapper can at least say, look, I did say in my initial reports, we have nothing here. OK, we have nothing here. There is no Russian collusion narrative to peddle. And he made it very clear in his initial reports. We don’t have anything. It was Barack Obama said not good enough. In other words, we’ve I have the criminal I want. Find the crime. And then Brennan, of course, ran with it. And Brennan really crossed a lot of lines at the CIA.
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Oh, I think there’s a I think that more of them were in on it because. Oh, yeah. Clapper told the party line as soon as they said, Russian collusion, they’ve caused Hillary. He told that party line, went on all the Sunday morning talk shows, said the same thing as Brennan. So if it was really that he didn’t have anything to do with it, he would have went the other way. Oh, he totally. No, I’m not going to do that.
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Oh, no, no, no. I totally agree. He then got in the trenches and fought the battle alongside them and lied his tail off. Don’t get me wrong. But he can at least claim at the beginning, I said no. And from there, I was only taking orders. It’s the old German officer’s, you know, answer. And at least he has that. Brennan has nothing. Brennan was nothing but a hardcore activist from day one in this thing. And he was a loyal soldier for Obama from the start. Obama has immunity. He’s not going to be touched.
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Yeah. I talked to John at the beginning of the week. Obama needs to have the Nixon treatment done to him. Ostracized, saying this guy did so much bad stuff. We aren’t going to he needs to just go disappear to the backwoods of Maui or Hawaii or wherever he lives and just not become, you know, kind of like Nixon did. Nixon left office. You didn’t hear from him again for 15 years.
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Well, here’s what I want you to think about for that, and then I’m sure we’ll have to go to break. Remember when everybody was playing patty cake and nice with each other, nobody wanted to be too mean in the Democrat debates leading up to the 2020 election, I believe it was. And Tulsi Gabbard then tore apart what would eventually become our vice president, Kamala, and tore her apart with a stone cold heart. Didn’t care. Tulsi Gabbard is going to take the legacy of Barack Obama and burn it to the ground.
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I don’t believe I believe that’s her goal. Yeah. And I don’t know what her motivation is, but the way the Democrats went after her. in 2020 and pretty much just, she wants payback. Well, that’s my opinion.
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I agree. That didn’t help. That made it worse. But then again, with somebody like Tulsi, she’s a machine. She almost doesn’t need motivation, but they certainly gave her more. I agree. What do you think, John?
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Hey guys, I know it’s Monday. It’s Friday. We don’t usually don’t go there, but you guys have a good weekend.
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No, John, you do the same. I appreciate it very much. And, um, Yes, she would do it no matter what, to your point, Tulsi Gabbard, on the same token. I agree with John. Oh, they added. Whether she wants to admit it or not, just deep down in her psyche, given the fact that this party that I devoted the majority of my life to did nothing but turn on me and turn me into a bad person over and over and over again in their eyes, yeah, I have payback.
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I agree 100%. She’s smiling, John, just off camera.
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Yeah, she would never admit that openly. Right. And again, the way this works, folks, even if she’s not ever going to admit she’s done that, it’s still in the, you know, psychologically speaking, trust me, that’s in the back of her mind. Has to be.
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Oh, yeah. Look, look, I say she’s like A.I.,
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She’s still a person. Oh, yeah, and she’s got feelings and so on, and we all would. If you had been treated that badly by somebody that you had dedicated yourself to for that long, keep in mind, she wasn’t just any politician. She did a lot of things for them on the public eye, and she didn’t just sit back and sort of let things roll by, Andy. She did a lot for them.
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She was on Bernie’s team.
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Absolutely.
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Okay, last thing, and then we’ll go to break. Would you agree, though, that she does not have the same weakness, the real desire, the lust to be respected by the intelligentsia that those three guys have? I think part of that is because… She doesn’t have their weakness.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for a movie?
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Absolutely.
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All right, John. Well, for the second time in three weeks, a superhero movie tries to restart a franchise. That’s pretty unusual, right? I’ve never seen twice in three weeks seeing faltering, really, faltering franchises get a reboot. Well, here we go. The DCU had Superman, and now it’s Marvel’s turn with the Fantastic Four First Steps.
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Famous around the world, please welcome the Fantastic Four. Mr. Fantastic. woman human torch i love you johnny and the thing hey what time is it say the thing that’s not really something i say it’s clobbering time that’s just in the cartoon never late for sunday dinner let’s see hey what time is it it’s dinner time get inside
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I herald his beginning. I herald your end. I herald… Galactus. What is that?
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Get us out of here, men! Hold on!
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Are we safe? I don’t know. The clock is ticking. We are going to find a solution. We are going to make it right. You don’t want to just crush him. I’ll hide that. The four of us will face the danger. We will protect you.
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Family. It’s about connecting to something bigger than yourself. We’ll face it together. As a family.
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All right, John, Fantastic Four, what do you think?
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I told you before we even started today, the previews look great.
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Yeah, they do. Okay, for those who don’t know the characters, let me sum it up. The Fantastic Four are four people who get hit with radioactive meteor shower on a space mission, and now they have powers. All right, the first one, Reed Richards, also known as Mr. Fantastic. He’s played by Pedro Pascal. He’s a brilliant but awkward scientist who now has an elastic body. Sue Storm, also known as the Invisible Woman, played by Vanessa Kirby. She’s Reed’s beautiful wife, and she can be invisible or project force fields. Exactly like Violet in The Incredibles. Remember her? I mean, the exact same powers. Ben Grimm, also known as The Thing. He’s played by Ibn Mas Bakrak, and he’s Reed’s best friend. And the accident gave him rock for skin and super strength. And finally, we have Johnny Storm, also known as the Human Torch, played by Joseph Quinn. He’s Sue’s younger brother. And he turns into fire, can shoot fire, and can fly when on fire. You got all that? All right. I think a lot of people know the characters. Well, like Superman, this story picks up with the group already being known as superheroes. Now, by the way, they’re on an alternate Earth. And they kind of have to tell us that right at the beginning because otherwise you have all kinds of timeline problems. And so Marvel comes out and tells you right now that they’re on Earth number and then they give you a number. Earth is visited. Oh, no, no. Let me take it. I’m going to take it back. Let me take it back. First, there’s a twist. Sue is pregnant. This is big news. But then bigger news arrives. Earth is visited by the Silver Surfer. And this one is a female Silver Surfer, unlike the earlier films. By the way, that’s also true to the comics. There were two. after a while there was an initial silver server but there was a female one and they do use that one so a lot of people were thinking oh this goes from away from the comics actually it doesn’t you know me i’m into the comics and she’s a herald for galactus now galactus is huge and has been cursed with a hunger to eat entire planets he has to he hungers he does this with his great ship that tears planets apart feeding him so he can survive Well, the Surfer lets Earth know to make the most of your time. It’s over. Be with your loved ones. He’s coming. So the Fantastic Four, they decide we’re going to go to negotiate with Galactus. And we’re going to hopefully battle him if we have to, but we hope to just negotiate with him. Whatever it takes. That’s what we’re going to do. And everyone is very excited because their heroes are going off into space to do this. But what can they do? Can the Earth’s people be restored? I mean, can they possibly be saved? See, Galactus, he offers an impossible deal. And I’m not giving away anything because this is actually being said in every single review. He asked for their child. OK, because they’re pregnant and their child apparently is very special. And Galactus says, give me your kid and I’ll spare the Earth. And they’re like, you know, we’re not going to do that. And obviously mom is definitely, she’s a real mama bear. That ain’t happening. So what are they going to do? And by the way, how are Earth’s people going to respond when they hear that all you got to do is give up a baby and we are all saved? So that’s a real problem. Can anyone be saved by the Fantastic Four? And that’s the story. What do you think? Not bad. All right. What works in the Fantastic Four first steps? Well, the cast. They have good chemistry. They do. Pascal, he provides a good read. He’s awkward. He’s detached. Kirby, she gives Sue a real mom’s fury, which you want. Moss Backrack, he’s a very soft-spoken, soft-hearted Ben. More so than normal. And that was actually kind of neat. I liked it. And, of course, Quinn, he’s a funny Johnny. Johnny’s always the funny cut up in the movies. And he is here, too. Now, here’s the big thing. The retro futuristic 60s. It’s like watching the Jetsons. It really is. It is very cool. Not a little cool. It is very cool. And they have great special effects, especially when they are flying in space. Yeah. But what they do with the Fantasticar and all this stuff, the retrofit with all the modern special effects and CGI is a lot of fun to watch. Galactus is the showstopper, of course. He’s so huge and impressive. He is the great Fantastic Four villain from the cartoons, the greatest one. There’s a surprising pro-life moment. No, this is really… This caught me off guard. Where Sue goes partially invisible to show the unborn child to her husband. Okay, I was really surprised the ultra-lefties making this film allowed that. Whoa. So you’re showing that this is alive before born in the womb.
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Right.
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You do realize what you’re showing here. That’s…
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Goes against everything you’ve ever said.
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Yeah.
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And believe in.
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This is a really good ultrasound. I mean, okay. I mean, this is a more serious Marvel film, but it has a few funny moments, a very funny moment near the end, which… It’s just very funny. I’ll leave it at that. What doesn’t work in the Fantastic Four first steps? All right. Well, the script is fine. It’s fine. But it’s not electric like Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, or The Avengers. None of these movies. This doesn’t have that lightning fast repartee that we’ve grown to expect. That’s just a lot of fun. That bang, bang, bang moves the movie along. This doesn’t have that. Here’s a real problem. You know how you have buildups to the battles? They really build up to the battles. And so you have these long, dramatic buildups to the battles, and you’re just like, okay, could have cut that a minute ago. Could you please get into it? The timing’s just off in that way. Now, here’s a real, I think, one of the two biggest problems of the movies. First of all, there’s too little humor.
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Okay.
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They have Herbie the Robot, who works for them. Who’s the character from, by the way, the cartoons? They could have had so much more fun with Herbie. They have very little fun interplay between Johnny and Ben, just a little bit, but not like you expect. They could have had a lot more fun with those two. And by the way, Johnny… while he had some funny moments, is not nearly as comedic as he is in the cartoons, as he is in the cartoon TV shows, as he is in the previous movies. Not nearly as funny. And the reason this really is a problem is that they had a lot of opportunities. I mean, at one point he makes a very funny comment about, you know, shooting at the hot woman, and it’s just very funny. And he has a couple others, but honestly, throughout the movie, you’re just kind of like, where’s the gags? All right. Now, there were some reviewers who really like this. A lot of reviewers really like this. They said Marvel has gotten too jokey. We needed something more serious. We like that kind of element to it. I didn’t. I thought that this was a perfect movie, especially with the retro 60s futuristic thing. It was a perfect movie to have fun. with all the gags. This is a movie where you want that kind of Ant-Man feel to it. You want that, and I think they could have, and you got the actors who can pull it off, and they didn’t, and that was a mistake. Here’s a problem. There are some moments that you’re just like, uh-uh, no, I don’t think that would happen. Well, the biggest is this. At one point, Sue Storm does something, I won’t say what, far too powerful for her, an insane demonstration of power for the invisible woman, Which goes way beyond anything in the cartoons, cartoon movies, prior movies anywhere. It just made no sense. It didn’t fit. And you’re just wondering. And my wife and I are looking at each other like, no, what? No, come on. And it just I’m sorry. That kind of implausibility kind of kills it and reminds you, oh, yeah, you’re just watching a movie here because it was like, no way. Yeah, I’m all for girl power. Okay, you know, throw the fist up in the air, but come on. It was too much. And that’s about it. Outside of that, I didn’t really have problems with this movie. Now, I know a lot of people are asking, is it woke, is it woke? And the big reason they’re asking is because of Pedro Pascal, who is quite possibly, even more than De Niro, the most hateful, vicious, angry, rage-filled, nonstop, can’t shut up, ultra-leftist in Hollywood. And I mean just rage at Trump and at this. And he’ll insert the stuff during interviews where it has no place at all. And so everybody was thinking, okay, this is going to be woke, woke, woke. Right? No. This movie is not woke.
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Interesting.
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Yeah, I didn’t see any trans stuff or anything like that. I mean, you got a pro-life moment. You got family values. You got really good people. You got the 60s feel to it all. Honestly, I didn’t see anything in this movie that really struck me in that way whatsoever.
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Wow.
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I was not offended by anything in this movie. I think there were a couple moments where maybe somebody could take offense, but you’re kind of reaching, if you do, in my opinion. I think this is a movie you just go to and have some fun. Okay, Rotten Tomatoes gave this movie 87%. Okay, John, I’ve got to ask you something. It’s a fantastic four. How many stars should I give it? Four. Four! I’m giving it four stars. Do I think this is a great movie? No. There’s not been a great movie this year. Okay, and I’m just going to say that there have been a number of four-star movies. This one, F1. This is F4, which is kind of funny, and then F1. And… Novocaine. There have been a number of very good movies that have come out this year. I gave Superman four stars. But if, like, The Green Book… or Ford v. Ferrari, or any of these movies came out, they would easily be number one this year so far. Got it. This is another movie, which is a very good movie, a lot of fun, worth seeing, but we haven’t had a great movie yet in 25. Okay. Political three, it said nothing. Thank you. More religious, I’m giving it a four.
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Okay.
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I thought it had good morals. I thought it had a good message about family. And I loved what they probably didn’t intend on doing, which was the pro-life moment. That was pretty cool. And boy, they dragged it out a moment there too. They made a real point of this. Very good. This is a human being inside the womb. So I’m giving you four stars. Do I recommend going to Fantastic Four First Steps? Yes, I do. Do I think that this is going to be a good restart for Marvel like Superman I felt was a good solid restart for DCU? Yes, it is. It looks to me like DCU and Marvel. Both took off the shackles of wokeism and made movies. And both of them took a retro feel and had fun again. Way to go, Marvel. Go to Fantastic Four First Steps.
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You’re listening to Rush to Reason. And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John Rush. Are you ready for another movie?
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Something tells me it won’t be as good.
SPEAKER 09 :
Probably not, John. They never are. I hate to give away the punchline here, but probably not. Okay. John, we’ve seen a lot of horror films lately because they’re cheap. Yep. All right. But it’s been a while since found footage horror has come out. Remember the Blair Witch Project? Remember that? I never saw that. Blair Witch Project? Oh, you didn’t see that?
SPEAKER 03 :
I remember it, but I never saw it.
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I’m going to tell you right now, it was worth seeing. It was very well made. I was very impressed. I went to it on opening night. Loved it. Well, we got that again. Now it’s called The House Uneaten.
SPEAKER 18 :
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another spooky AF production.
SPEAKER 10 :
We’ve got to learn how to use these cameras if we’re going to be filming the next few nights.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know how to work a camera. No promises. Let’s check out this creepy ass house. I’m gonna be honest, I don’t feel good about this. Something’s happening in this house and we need to figure out what it is. This is used by the ghost to communicate with us. Selina?
SPEAKER 08 :
We could actually catch something, for real.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, John, what do you think? Sounds scary. It is. Well, there you go. Okay, this is a movie about three people making a movie as ghost hunters. Now, real-life YouTubers Chris Collins and Selina Myers basically star as themselves. Chris is a very attractive redhead, which becomes important, while Selina is a heavyset brunette. Together, they go to a spooky house. Well, they go to a lot of spooky houses and places, giving some history and supposedly communicating with the dead. They’re also gross and edgy for their young audience. Well, House on Eden is a what-if film, basically saying, what if this happened on one of our trips? So along with videographer Jay, who’s played by Jason Christopher Mayer, and in real life, he’s a videographer. It’s really funny. So this is very real, all right? They head off on another excursion, but this time Chris surprises the other two with a detour. It seems there’s a house no one has investigated deep in the woods. Selina and Jay are upset, since they like to be prepared, not surprised, but they go along. There’s a lengthy search in the forest, where the three find a ritual site. Not good. Finally, they locate the house. It’s big, ornate, old, and surprisingly, John, dust-free.
SPEAKER 03 :
Whoa.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
That never happens.
SPEAKER 09 :
But no one has been there. So there’s no dust, but no one has been there.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s weird.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, not a good sign. Maybe you have evil maids somewhere.
SPEAKER 03 :
Maybe.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know. Well, Chris and Selena, they set up their equipment. There is this electronic voice box through which the dead can communicate. All right? Okay. Gosh, I wanted to say something about that being used in the Biden White House, but I’m not going to. There are sensors with lights that go off when the dead or the living cross their site. So you can see this light going off, that light going off, the dead are passing over it. Selena has always been a strong vessel, right? That’s the heavyset lady. She’s always been a strong vessel for having the dead speak through her. So she speaks while Chris asks questions.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
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Along the way, Chris is having bouts of sickness while becoming increasingly irritable. She mistreats Jay repeatedly and even Selena. She’s starting to turn on them. This house is clearly affecting her. Well, eventually it becomes clear these three aren’t alone, John. They’re not alone. There is a presence here and it is active. Spookiness gives way to encounters, giving way to actual danger. Can they survive the house on Eden? Okay. That’s the story. What do you think? Sounds scary. Yeah. I mean, obviously, once again, this is like Blair Witch. Right. They talk, they give a little history. They talk about, you heard in the preview there, somebody, a woman disappeared 60 years ago there. They talk about another spirit saying that it is Lilith. And Lilith, of course, is known as the queen of the dead. So it’s kind of interesting what they are experiencing. Well, the found footage, well, I’m sorry, what works in House on Eden? The found footage style brings realism. I’ve always loved this. I like found footage. It feels so real. The characters are real. You only see part of the screen, a little bit of the screen. You see their feet as they’re walking along, just holding the camera as they walk along. This gives you max effects on minimum dollars. All right. So you get maximum scariness on minimal dollars because whatever special effects they do put in seem very real. There’s some excellent darker, grainy footage, especially in a scene that’s quite dark with a bathtub. That’s all I’ll say. There’s a dark scene with a bathtub. It’s very grainy, very scary, and the footage makes it work well. There’s another excellent screenshot, and it’s of this fire ceremony in the distance, only using about a quarter of the screen. So the rest of the screen is dark. And it’s just up there in a quarter of the top left of the screen. And that works very, very well, just showing it’s at a distance. All right, what else works in House on Eden? Oh, no. Nothing. And that’s unfortunate, because I think they could have made a really good movie here. In fact, I think they could have made a terrific movie. They did not. What doesn’t work in House on Eden? Well… John, oh, man, a lot of times you will have these new filmmakers and some of them have been actors and now they want to be behind the camera. Right. Or you have YouTubers like this or you have people who do shock videos and or artists or musicians and they want to make a movie. All right. As is often the case for new filmmakers, the biggest problem is usually the editing or lack thereof. They don’t know what to leave in and take out. They don’t know why. They get too immersed in the project and they don’t understand what is feeling really long, what is feeling rushed. They don’t know how to do it. And that’s a huge problem. That is a massive problem in this movie. I’ll tell you why in a moment. We also have characters trying to be funny when they aren’t. The script is terrible. And these two girls are trying to be funny with each other and do these gross little things, you know, that young women, you know, being gross together can do. It’s just not funny. It’s not hitting. The film spends forever getting to the point. Here’s the problem. The wandering in the forest is endless, pointless, and boring. They’re trying to redo Blair Witch with this. It is not working. Blair Witch was beautifully directed to where it was heightening the tension throughout.
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Boom, boom.
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just scaling it up in this quiet, terrifying way. They’re falling short here. They’re not doing it. It’s boring. The drive getting there is an attempt to show the three personalities, but Pretty Chris is the only interesting one at that point. It’s an epic fail. The effects are laughably low budget. I mean, look, I get it, guys. You’re doing it on a low budget, and you can do horror, really good horror on a low budget because so much of it is just camera tricks. You pull out a couple… uh, frames and suddenly somebody who is 10 feet from you is right in your face. Right. Right. And you can do things like that. Um, this is laughably low budget. I mean, come on doors moving on their own. Really? Would you have a string? Uh, I don’t know. Uh, lights going on and off. The timing is good, but it’s like trying to care about a remote garage door opener. All right. I mean, we’re living in a new century. Now these kinds of things are not impressive. They’re not scary.
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Um,
SPEAKER 09 :
I’ll just say it, John. This might be the longest. It’s only 78 minutes. It might be the longest 78 minutes of my life. All the action, I’m not kidding, appears in the last 15 minutes of the movie. Wow. Yeah. Wow. I mean, virtually all the action. Very, very little. And really, the action gets really condensed in the last 10. So, wow. This is why I hate home movies. I mean, seriously. To all my friends out there… I hate to tell you, no one wants to see your home movies. You have no talent. Don’t make them. All right. Sorry. You’re probably not. People aren’t going to enjoy it. This is like a bad home movie coming over to your house. and I apologize right now to anybody who’s actually really good at home movies.
SPEAKER 01 :
Most aren’t.
SPEAKER 09 :
Some people are, but they didn’t make The House on Eden, John. The House on Eden is not a good home movie. This is boring. This took longer to build up. Remember how long it took to make the baggage thing at DIA? This took longer, okay? And it’s only a little over an hour long. It took forever doing nothing. And you’re saying, please do something. Right. And please do something a little more impressive than some lights flashing to try to bring humor. They couldn’t do it. And also, if you’re going to have these young, supposedly funny people say funnier things, you’re not very funny. All right? Get some better writing. Get a writer. All right? Get somebody to help you out with this thing instead of just taking your big old YouTuber ego to the screen and saying, I got this. No, you don’t. They fail. House UnEden. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 10%. Wow. Yes. I’m going to go right there at 10%. Quality, half star. OK, if it wasn’t for Y2K last year, which I keep going back to, this might now be the worst movie I have seen in the last three or four years. This was awful. Political three. They didn’t say anything more religious. One. And they do put in some nudity, really gross stuff. Right. You know, which is just. Totally shoved in that you don’t need at all. And I don’t know. I was just like, why are you putting this in here just to make it more real? I don’t know. This is awful. I didn’t want to see that. I can’t unsee that. Right. And it was just terrible. This is an awful movie. Obviously, do I recommend going to House on Eden, folks? When you’re at the theater, I don’t recommend going to any of the movies that are in the two auditoriums to the left or right of House on Eden. Make sure you stay far enough away. It’s that bad. This is a bad movie. This is a really bad movie. This is awful. Go to Fantastic Four Final First Steps. Have some fun.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes. And in light of Andy and John from Cheyenne in the very first segment talking about Clapper, I have something I’m going to play for you. Okay. Are you ready?
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This is the city.
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Smokey L.A. What? Smoggy L.A.
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Los Angeles, California. Some people rob for pleasure. Some rob because it’s there. You never know. My name’s Friday. I’m a cop. I was working the day watch on a robbery when I got a call from the Acme School Bell Company. There’d been a robbery. There’s been a robbery? Yes, sir. What was it? How’s that? What was stolen, sir? I run a school bell company. Never had any trouble before. Can’t understand it. Just make bells. Never had any trouble. Sir? Hmm? What… What was stolen? My clappers. Your clappers? Yeah, you know those things inside a bell that makes them clang? The clangers. That’s right, we call them clappers in the business. A clapper caper.
SPEAKER 1 :
What’s that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Nothing, sir. Now, can I have the facts? What kind of clappers were stolen on this caper? They were copper clappers. And where were they kept? In the closet.
SPEAKER 1 :
Uh-huh.
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Do you have any ideas who might have taken the copper clappers from the closet? Well, there’s one I fired a man. He swore he’d get even. What was his name? Claude Cooper. You think he… That’s right. I think Claude Cooper copped my copper clappers. Kept in the closet. You know where this Claude Cooper is from? Yeah. Cleveland. That figures. That figures. What makes it worse, they were clean. Clean copper clappers. That’s right. Why do you think Cleveland’s Claude Cooper would cop your clean copper clappers kept in your closet? Only one reason. What’s that? He’s a kleptomaniac. Who first discovered the copper clappers were copped? My cleaning woman, Clara Clifford. That figures. Now let me see if I got the facts straight here. Cleaning woman Clara Clifford discovered your clean copper clappers kept in a closet were copped by Claude Cooper, the kleptomaniac from Cleveland. Now is that about it? One other thing. What’s that? If I ever catch kleptomaniac Claude Cooper from Cleveland who caught my clean copper clappers from kept in the closet, yes, I’ll clobber him.
SPEAKER 03 :
And of course, that’s Johnny Carson. Yeah. I love Johnny Carson. In honor of Mr. Clapper.
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Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 09 :
By the way, Johnny Carson is from an era where… Well, no, but seriously, John, we are right now in an era… Where people who are not doing it the way he did are getting laid off and fired.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
And we only saw the first one. We’re going to see more. And once again, I don’t even want to go down the political, you know, it’s Friday. I don’t want to talk too much politics. We did earlier. But I just want to say this, folks, you got to look at what the audience wants, not what you want to say.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that’s funny right there. That’s funny. For anybody, that’s funny. I don’t care what age group you are. That’s funny.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Period. It’s silly and funny. It’s funny. All right. Question of the day from yesterday. Can you name the three things that the movie E.T., Tootsie, and Rain Man all have in common? They’ve never had a remake, a sequel, or a prequel. All right. So there you go. That’s the answer to yesterday’s impossible question. Today, a new study revealed that more than half of adults are dealing with FOSY. F-O-S-Y. What is FOSY? Charlie, do you have any idea what that is? F-O-S-Y? I wouldn’t have guessed this, so I have no idea. I’ll answer this for you on Monday, by the way. All right, we’ll come right back here. We’ve got a couple of minutes left here when we come back. Okay, well, before I do that, though, Andy, next hour, summer movies, any criteria, doesn’t matter. Walk us through that.
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Oh, yeah, this is going to be pretty loose. All right.
SPEAKER 03 :
In other words, it doesn’t have to have, like, summer in the title, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
No. By the way, just so you know, I’m a bit of a hypochondriac, so now I’m going to be worrying the entire week if I have Fosie. Okay, the entire weekend, I’m going to be worried about this, so you might want to tell me at break. But the big thing is just that it’s usually just warm weather. A lot of times these are movies where it’s just implied that it’s kind of a summery.
SPEAKER 03 :
It doesn’t say summer or anything like that.
SPEAKER 09 :
It could just be really hot.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think you pretty much could tell that it’s probably summer by the movie, but it doesn’t, you know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, because if you’re talking about movies where they make it clear it’s summer while it’s summer vacation, it’s summer break, you’ve got a very short list.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, absolutely. Okay. So we’ll let you expand that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, we’re going to get very wide latitude here.
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, we are back. Got a minute or two left here of this first hour. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. If you can only listen to the things that we do in between, you know, the show.
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And a little story of a cat.
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It’s absolutely hilarious. Okay, so I hope my son is listening. Movies released in summer or set in summer, either or, doesn’t matter.
SPEAKER 09 :
Anything that just feels summery.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
How’s that? Summery movies. Again, folks, now where we’ll— Not movies that summarize other things. I don’t mean that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, we’re not talking about that, and we’re not talking like spring break movies and things like that because you typically know those aren’t summer. Those are spring break, and it’s a different deal. So we’re not talking that. We’re talking movies that you can just tell are set in summer or about summer or camping or whatever the case may be. You get the drift, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. What if it’s on a desert planet like Luke Skywalker’s home planet? I don’t think that qualifies. It’s always summer.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, but we have one minute left. There’s no snow there. Back to the Fantastic Four. You said something that I’m still kind of wrapping my brain around. The alternate Earth, you said.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, there are many Earths. They number in the thousands.
SPEAKER 03 :
In the movie?
SPEAKER 09 :
In the Marvel Universe.
SPEAKER 03 :
In the Marvel World, right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, in the Marvel Universe. I mean, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Deadpool, Wolverine, remember? They had all the Deadpools that came out of the woodwork.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t remember all that. I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, this is the big thing, and the reason that they’ve had to do this is because Marvel was messing up its timelines. This is really, in my opinion, why they started creating all the alternate universes, so that they could explain why we have so many Spider-Men, why we have so many of this, so many of that. Oh, okay. You know, honestly, it’s lazy writing, but…
SPEAKER 03 :
Now you’re making more sense.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, but this Fantastic Four, they are going to be in the new Avengers movie. Okay?
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
And perhaps even leading it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. All right. Sorry, just a question. I didn’t want to interrupt during the review, but I was kind of like, okay, what are you talking about here? Yeah. I’m not a groupie when it comes to all that, so I’m not as familiar with all that stuff as some of you are.
SPEAKER 09 :
There are actually several of me. We visit from many universes.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, summer movies coming up next. Don’t go anywhere. This is Andy and John. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you. I’m a rich guy.
