What makes romantic comedies the ultimate comfort movies? Buckle up as Bart and I embark on a rollercoaster ride through the delightful world of rom-coms, dissecting the magic of Anne Hathaway's newest flick and reminiscing over classic gems from Sandra Bullock and Meg Ryan. We swap guilty pleasures and hotly debate whether these films are the perfect way to unwind or just a delightful escape from reality. With a mix of laughter and nostalgia, we share our top picks and recommendations for all the romantics out there.
But our episode doesn’t stop at love and laughter! We dive into an exhilarating sci-fi series that turns the laws of physics on their head, explore the comedic genius of Shane Gillis' new show "Tires," and break down the jaw-dropping performances of the Mavericks in the NBA finals. Plus, we dream up the ultimate comedy show at ACL Live and give a sneak peek into an exciting end-of-summer fitness event. Join us for a whirlwind of humor, entertainment, and sports talk that promises to keep you hooked from start to finish!
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What makes romantic comedies the ultimate comfort movies? Buckle up as Bart and I embark on a rollercoaster ride through the delightful world of rom-coms, dissecting the magic of Anne Hathaway's newest flick and reminiscing over classic gems from Sandra Bullock and Meg Ryan. We swap guilty pleasures and hotly debate whether these films are the perfect way to unwind or just a delightful escape from reality. With a mix of laughter and nostalgia, we share our top picks and recommendations for all the romantics out there.
But our episode doesn’t stop at love and laughter! We dive into an exhilarating sci-fi series that turns the laws of physics on their head, explore the comedic genius of Shane Gillis' new show "Tires," and break down the jaw-dropping performances of the Mavericks in the NBA finals. Plus, we dream up the ultimate comedy show at ACL Live and give a sneak peek into an exciting end-of-summer fitness event. Join us for a whirlwind of humor, entertainment, and sports talk that promises to keep you hooked from start to finish!
Follow Mitch @ http://instagram.com/go_for_mitch
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Welcome to DadBots and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch and this is Bart. Thanks so much for listening. We have a special another like spin the bottle episode today, so it's a special episode for us to talk about just current events, fun stuff, stupid stuff, and hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2:So we're going to do things a little bit differently. We don't want to squirrel, off course, too far, so we're going to give ourselves a two minute set of timer, for two minutes each for the topic, so we've got five different topics today, two minutes each.
Speaker 1:So this is going to be a short 20 to 25 minute episode, and maybe I'll leave a few minutes of silence for you guys to discuss it amongst yourselves too, but probably not. So let's spin the bottle and figure out what our first topic is Bart. All right, let's do it.
Speaker 2:It first topic spinning and boom. Oh, this is what you love.
Speaker 1:The topic is rom-com.
Speaker 2:So like you know, it's rom-coms are funny because people have such a visceral reaction. I watch rom-coms without my wife much more particular about if we're gonna watch a rom-com it's gotta be good there's gotta be a really I don't I want b yes movie, rom-com, hallmark and my wife asked me this recently.
Speaker 2:She said I was like what, why are you watching these horrible movies? I said, look, I don't have to think too much, I can turn it off at any moment. I I'm not like missing out. I, if I never came back to it, I'd be okay with it.
Speaker 1:What's the most recent rom-com you've watched? I mean?
Speaker 2:When I just saw there was one with Anne Hathaway where she's like a 40 year old who ends up like kind of falling for a guy in a boy band.
Speaker 1:Oh, I've heard about this. Is it good, it's not bad. Is it really a rom-com? Yeah, yeah, gross, good, it's not bad, it's really a rom-com? Yeah, yeah, gross, totally gross, dude, you know. And then she like ends up.
Speaker 2:It like goes like viral that she's like she's 40 and she's dating a 24 year old. It goes viral and then they everybody, of course, like social media starts shitting all over her oh my goodness horrible human being how she's got a teenage daughter who, like, freaks out anyway.
Speaker 1:But if it was the opposite, everybody would be cheering on the guy well, you imagine, it's kind of like demi more and and ashton kutcher, which we knew would never last, but it was kind of cool right to me, right.
Speaker 2:So so the quest, I guess the conversation on that is just like rom-coms are they useful I would say yes for passing time, because sometimes I just want to turn my brain off and really not do anything that requires any of my full attention. So there's kind of a sleep malaise to the whole thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of how I look at crappy action movies. Perfect, I love it. Dude, you still have 15 seconds left, all right. All right, I'm going to start mine over, I'm not going to recommend any rom-coms though Really not Okay recommend any rom-coms, though definitely really not okay so there's one. I liked it was called upgraded. It's on netflix. Oh okay, I'll write that down.
Speaker 2:It's a little bit more euro european I like that. There's an art dealer type thing going on cool.
Speaker 1:It's slightly sophisticated rom-com of all time. Then I got you have one sleeps in seattle. I was hoping you were gonna say hope floats meg ryan stole my heart. I love Meg Ryan.
Speaker 2:And whenever she was doing every rom-com, I remember she was like she's just like back to back to back to back.
Speaker 1:You got mail, You've got mail. Dude Meg Ryan. I'm still a Meg Ryan fan.
Speaker 2:I love her. Yeah, she had some tragic work done.
Speaker 1:No, is that what happened to her?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I no, is that what? Yeah, you know, I think it's just so hard when you're. I think she smokes cigarettes too, I think, maybe, but anyway, okay, um, I would love to meet her.
Speaker 1:Give me some rom-com, oh yeah I got a minute 15 now, uh. So I love rom-coms as well. Um, I don't watch them probably as readily as you. I'm more of the b, b level action star guy.
Speaker 2:I like those very violent, like jean-claude van damme no, not like that, but like but that, but that kind of vibe, yeah, yeah, like everybody's on cocaine.
Speaker 1:But like everybody's like cocaine, yeah, like kick fighter, like down and out, like gridded out, bad guys win but they're still good guys at the end, like weird stuff like that. Um so the rom-com I so I love Sandra Bullock just kind of always have. So anything she was in you know like While you Were Sleeping one of my favorite rom-coms of all time. That was a great one. And then Hope Floats, of course.
Speaker 2:Never seen it so good. Dude, you're missing out Two Hope Floats references, harry.
Speaker 1:Connick Jr, sandra Bullock I mean it's just awesome. I'm more of a rom-com series guy, okay, so I like uh, friends, that's more wrong.
Speaker 2:Okay yeah, like we're like a TV series. It's rom-com.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, it just kind of lasts I enjoy a TV show, a TV series that works really, really well and I think ultimately um, my time is up, but that's what I like. I like six, eight episode series of rom-coms. I'm not necessarily in it for an hour and a half. Okay, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 2:Good one, though we're not here to judge.
Speaker 1:No, no, no judgment. And hey, listener, if you're a rom-commer. Is that what you call yourself?
Speaker 2:I don't know you know, I just don't want you to be, you know don't want you to feel own it, just own it. You know it's all good Own it Spinning All right and winning Caitlin.
Speaker 1:Clark, caitlin Clark, let's go.
Speaker 1:All right, let's start the two-minute timer. Okay, so I love Caitlin Clark. I love watching her at Iowa. I love that she's hugely popular. I love that she's made me interested in the WNBA. Like I've actually tuned in to the Fever. It's just a terrible team. Just to see how many points she scored. Like she's shooting these threes. But man, she's getting a lot of hate. Man, I don't understand it. She's like helping everybody. Everybody's going to make more money because she's in the league. So I don't understand it. And they got this three on three league coming out. Yeah, that's gonna be for the offseason. Everybody's gonna make more money, everybody's gonna be happy. So I don't under. I don't understand the hate she's getting, but I I think she's awesome. Maybe she's getting, maybe it's like the 10. Just don't like her because she's that good and the rest of people are all positive. I don't know, but it seems like they like it. What do you think? I mean, I, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2:It's not a debate, I'm going to talk about it for two minutes. I wanted to make sure you had to get all the time. I agree with you in the sense that, like I think she's great for the league, I think she's very interesting. I check in on highlights. I want to find out how she's doing. I love the fact that you know. Of course, when you are the first draft pick, you usually go to the worst team.
Speaker 2:I mean when Jordan was drafted by the Bulls, they were terrible. When LeBron was drafted by the Cavs, they were terrible. Right, so you get to see these moments of greatness even in their first season, but you're obviously not going to make the playoffs or be even contenders, so you have to kind of prolong. I mean Wemba Nyama this year. I mean incredible. The guy was defensive player, first team, all defensive first team.
Speaker 1:Was he really? First time ever, a rookie made all defensive and he got Rookie of the Year Right. Rookie of the Year, of course.
Speaker 2:But his team was garbage. They had 18 wins this year, so it's really more about like you start to see this talent blossom. And so Caitlin's having that same type of effect. Yeah, and social media is always going to magnify the haters, and so you can get a lot of that. But I think the other piece of it is you mentioned it she is bringing so many eyeballs. They played the LA Sparks or whatever, and they sold out the Staples Center.
Speaker 1:What they sold out the Staples Center. That's wild.
Speaker 2:The other interesting and this is what I always feel like social media, and just media in general, uses people and storylines. There's this whole other thing about that. Like social media is using her to show how different it is to be a nba player versus a wmba and like, oh, like, she only makes you know six figures. And women, yama is going to make, oh, she only makes six figures and Wiminyama's going to make nine figures and she only.
Speaker 2:And it's like All the people are doing are just trying to create a narrative of the whole gender inequality around sports or around pay, and the perspective is not there. The idea is like If you go to 1983 or 84, whenever Jordan was drafted, everybody in the league was making a lot less. Yeah, there's a lot of cocaine happening in the.
Speaker 2:NBA, a lot of drugs, not well attended games. Games weren't even on live on TV, except for, like Sundays with Brent Musburger, so it's like the whole league was such. And then, once Jordan came to the league and all of a sudden, eyeballs right Because you had Bird you had.
Speaker 2:Magic and now you had this phenomenon. I remember trying to watch the music video for Walk of Life by Dire Straits, because in the music video Jordan does the cradle dunk and there was no ESPN, you couldn't watch it, so you like, you tried to in this. This was the phenomenon that Jordan was and I think Caitlin Clark times up. You know, and again, it remains to be seen if she ends up being a transcendent basketball player that you know. It's like Diana Taurasi or one of those like you know vets.
Speaker 2:But, right now there's so many eyeballs on the WNBA. You gotta love it.
Speaker 1:She's got to change her little whiny face, though Sometimes it gets a little crazy.
Speaker 2:Just saying All right, let's spend some time.
Speaker 1:Your time was up, you went over. I did go, you went over. It took some of my time. Uh, we just talked about the WNBA, can we go to? Let Took some of my time. We just talked about the WNBA.
Speaker 2:Can we go to this one? Yes, all right, we're going to talk Netflix series.
Speaker 1:All right. What's your series right now that you're watching? All right.
Speaker 2:So I watched it already. When I get into a series and I really give something my attention and it catches me, I literally become antisocial.
Speaker 2:I can't sleep, I don't want to hang out with you. I become antisocial. I can't sleep, I don't want to hang out with you. I just want to, like watch the series until it's over and then I'll get back to life.
Speaker 2:And so the three body problem is the kind of recent sci-fi juggernaut of and it was, it's a, it's actually a Chinese author, it was written, it's kind of like the Harry Potter of China, and so it was written 15, 20 years ago and there have been people trying to make this into a series or a movie for a while and it's based you know, I don't want to go into the plot, but it's just so fascinating Three-Body Province, about this kind of like alien society from a three-body galaxy like where there are three suns, that kind of circle, and because of the chaos, there's three suns, that kind of circle, and because of the like, because of the chaos of having three suns floating around each other, like it basically creates havoc on the world that they live in so they need to go find somewhere else to take over, and so they're aliens.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they haven't come, yet they're on their way and we know they're coming. And we know they're coming because they communicate with us and and there's all this crazy stuff and there's all these scientists, like physicists, that know there's something going wrong because the first thing the aliens did was kind of mess up our physics. So, like particle accelerators don't work the same way anymore, and like people are like literally committing suicide because, like, what used to be truth is no longer truth.
Speaker 1:And there's all these weird like it's just okay, I'll watch it. It's really I'm a little hesitant to. I didn't really understand it. It's bonkers, I think I'm also afraid to watch it and get obsessed with it Like I did, like Peaky blinders and like you get in it and then, like when you try to like live real life, you're surprised that you can't muscle your way through everything or say the F-bomb every other word right, or live just a terrible life.
Speaker 2:I think it's six or seven, maybe eight episodes. They're going to do it for season two because it's so well received. Yeah, like internationally, all over the world. Yeah, and it takes place in Europe instead of like America or China.
Speaker 1:Which is probably better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they really tried to make it internationally friendly.
Speaker 1:I like friendly.
Speaker 2:So anyway, yeah, a lot of america aliens taking over. So I've been watching. Uh, tires been there, hilarious dude.
Speaker 1:It was like for me. I knew it was going to be good because I watched shane's uh the tires yeah, I had one episode on youtube for forever and so I knew it was going to be hilarious, because I love shane gillis. But, like, the whole cast is hilarious and it's just diabolical and it's the coolest thing ever and just makes me go. I'm thankful that Shane Gillis is the same guy on stage as a standup comment on TV and in person.
Speaker 2:And you met him in person?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's exactly the same guy Just super nice, super gracious guy, really, really humble, but also, like he, is just so talented yeah so flipping time, so thankful we've gotten to see it. I'm glad they made this series. They're gonna make a season two.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I say listen, watch it, watch it without kids around no, yeah, no kids so the ruku has this thing, because I have a ruku where I can attach my headphones to it, so my wife is when mrs Royer is charting patients and stuff in the other room I can listen and watch TV, so doesn't bother, right. So I knew that with the kids too. But it's a little too obvious when I'm like, have my headphones in and the kids are like dad, yeah, it's dinner, because I can't just sit and break, break up.
Speaker 1:I have to watch the whole thing, like you with rom-coms, right, I have to watch the whole thing through.
Speaker 2:So yeah, tires is my jam right now. Yeah, no, when it came out.
Speaker 1:You watched it. I had it like set on.
Speaker 2:I watched it the same day yeah, the day it came out, and I remember seeing someone that says you won't be able to watch one, you'll just be. Somebody said I guarantee you binge it. I saw it on social and I watched the first one and I'm like I, yeah, I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1:This is like 22 minute episodes so like, yeah, you'll fly through it in like an hour and a half. I love the formatting of how they, how youtube, has kind of changed tv in a good way, so I love it. Yeah, it's good, man. Well, let's, let's, uh, let's, keep it spinning. Yeah, what's next? You got two more topics two more topics?
Speaker 2:all right, let's do. Uh, all right, quick matchup nba finals oh yeah, here we are I'll just go first here, so you know it's been fun, especially being a texan here, to watch the mavericks.
Speaker 2:I know kind of like come out of the west and just, you know, I mean every, it seemed like every. Um. You know just level, like you know the first, the first round of the playoffs, you know like, oh, the nuggets are unstoppable. They beat the lakers and if the lakers had played anybody else they would have just plowed them over and it was. And then all of a sudden the nuggets get knocked out by this, the, the timberwolves and everyone's like oh, the timberwolves are going all the way, they're unstoppable.
Speaker 2:And then, all of a sudden, the Mavericks just take them down and it's not even like. I mean, it was a five-game series, but you know, it wasn't even close.
Speaker 1:No, it really wasn't. You could tell they gave up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was this game, this Timberwood once they got down 20, they were like, yeah, it's over Two great players on the Mavericks with Don Chichin and Kyrie, and then you've got Jalen Brown and Tatum Right, jason Tatum.
Speaker 1:And Porzingis. They have a pretty talented team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean if Porzingis is back and he's able to play the way he was, it's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 1:It's amazing that they've won so dominantly without him, though, because there were a lot of questions about.
Speaker 2:that way they had the easiest entrance into the finals like every team, that's the east right. Yeah, and every team they played had massive injuries yeah you know playing the the pacers pacers look great the pacers they should have won that first game. That would have changed.
Speaker 1:And then, of course, haliburton goes out with a hamstring pull and it's over, like well, I think what's cool about the Pacers because I grew up in Indiana is they haven't been good since Reggie Miller was there and there were times when they were like it was Michael and all those guys.
Speaker 1:It was a great time to watch basketball. I think for the first time in a long time we're there again when it's like basketball is fun to watch and there's some amazing stars and amazing talents. I hope the mavs just crush the. I love, I love that team. I love brad stevens yeah, because he came from butler, which is also an indiana school. Sorry, the timer goes off. Uh, we're getting really excited. I took too much of your time.
Speaker 1:We'll start no, no, let's keep rolling, but that, but that that's celtics team, because brad stevens used to be a butler coach when they went to the final four.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so ind.
Speaker 1:So Indiana guy, I'm all for it. What he's built is like watching. Uh, what? Um? The guy at the Cubs who was at Boston, theo, um, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Whatever his name is, I want to say it's that it's that legacy Cause he, you know, he stepped away from being the coach to be the, basically the GM or the president of basketball operations, which is always a cool thing. It's like most times, coaches get fired and they bring another one in and you can see this with the Lakers just cycling through coaches. But Brad's like I'm probably better a little bit higher up in this organization and let's bring another guy in here.
Speaker 1:He's crushing it.
Speaker 2:man, I love it and that's the cool thing about you know play. You know teams like the warriors and the, the bull or the sorry, the boston celtics and and a few other teams I mean you could put in the miami heat too and yeah, oh yeah, a couple others that are just like you know, from the top down, they just don't panic, they don't freak out.
Speaker 2:I mean last year, basically, the Mavericks tanked the last few games, didn't make the playoffs. It was like they kind of knew this is not our year. And instead of panicking and be like what happened the Kyrie thing didn't work out, like blah, blah, blah and everyone's like freaking out over the narratives, they just say hey, it's not our year. You know, let's get healthy, let's pick up a couple of pieces.
Speaker 1:Yeah, why would you do a first-round loss?
Speaker 2:They got lively in the draft.
Speaker 1:Huge pickup. That was a huge win, right.
Speaker 2:So who do you think is going to win? I mean, you know it's hard because it's so easy right now, with all the hype around Luka and Kyrie, to say the Mavericks.
Speaker 1:But it's always a question of matchups. I think Celtics and Six is what might happen.
Speaker 2:I feel like this is the Celtics' year. They've been so close for so long.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:I like those guys and I think the Mavericks are only going to be better next year coming back and you know it'll be interesting. But I mean, the West is a juggernaut in and of itself. I mean to think about like the Lakers and the Golden State Warriors were like eighth and tenth and barely making the playoffs, and you know, the Warriors didn't even make. I mean that just tells you, like you know, and LeBron and Curry had, you know, very healthy years. It's not like they're out injured, so it's like so anyway, there's just so much competition right now in the NBA and I just think the two teams coming into this finals are the best of the best.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's cool because the matchup is going to be pretty good and they're all healthy for the most part.
Speaker 2:I mean Porzingis is going to be back.
Speaker 1:They're all getting like eight days rest too. So they're all going to show up game one, which is cool. With some heat It'll be good, yeah, so I think whoever wins the first game is probably going to win the series, because it really is going to be that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think it's always that thing of like every Are you not going to give a predictor, do you not? Know I'm going to say Mavs in seven.
Speaker 1:Mavs in seven. This is game seven dude.
Speaker 2:That would be awesome. I'm going to say Mavs in seven, because I don't know how you can bet against Luca right now. Yeah, it's pretty tough.
Speaker 1:He's unguardable right now.
Speaker 2:He's just unguardable and he just wants everyone around, like everyone on the team, to just like they are the worst player on the planet. He is just his bravado is, you know, is just some next level.
Speaker 1:I love it, I love it I think it's really cool. Yeah, that's awesome. That was a good question. I don't know what the next one is. It's a wild card. Do you have a topic that you want to do, because I don't have an idea.
Speaker 2:All right, so let's do this. We All right, so let's do this.
Speaker 1:We're going to take your phone, okay. Okay, go to Instagram. All right, I'm there.
Speaker 2:All right Scroll one, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 1:One, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 2:And let it stop. All right, what are we looking at here? Acl.
Speaker 1:Live Ellen's Last Stand-Up Show.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Brett Young Live in Concert. Aaron Tassin, I got it. This is terrible, alright.
Speaker 2:Hey, what if you could have any comedian do a a show at ACL Live downtown Austin and you're sitting front row? Yeah, and it's one night only and you got your family, your crew. You get to invite like 20 people like you.
Speaker 1:Just can I produce it too? Absolutely, I would love to produce another show at acl. Um, that's a good question stand up comic I mean, I love shane. I would absolutely love to produce a show for him.
Speaker 2:But I'd have to reach out to his people and be like, hey, because you have the acl live connections yeah, I mean he's at arenas now like he's too big, like he got too big too fast it'll be hard to capture him I mean he did the heb center, but yeah, I mean he's five, eight thousand here.
Speaker 1:Here's the problem. I mean he's garnering probably two, three hundred thousand dollars a show okay just being paid to go. Yeah, so until live nation gets busted up, it's going to be impossible for a guy like me to do anything like that.
Speaker 1:Or if they're on the tail end of their careers, right. So I've been able to do some cool country shows, because you get those guys that aren't tied into Live Nation. But Live Nation owns 99% of everything Venues, production you can't do anything without them squashing you and so, until they're gone, like I couldn't do anything with them. Acl yeah, there's great connections, but even they got bought out by the Ryman. I mean, they're owned by the grand old Opry.
Speaker 2:Like they're, they got all bought up.
Speaker 1:So it's tough to do, it's tough to produce events in this, in this city, in this, in this country anymore. Yeah, but if I was going to pick one, I'd probably say seinfeld okay, legend, yeah sure, my whole family it's jerry seinfeld's a legend. Am I a big fan of his, his stuff? No, if I was really gonna go crazy, I'd say the redneck comedy tour, just go like all in yeah ron white, jeff foxworthy. Those guys guys, how about you?
Speaker 2:Daniel Tosh.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, I didn't even think of that he might be a way in I could probably produce some of his stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think he's one of those guys who wants to kind of be a little outside of the. You know he does the occasional show at Vegas and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:but he's definitely not on like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of. You know, if you look at like at the end of his podcast, he'll show, like you know, tour dates. But they're real scattered. They're just anyway I saw him at the ACL Live. My wife and I went and saw him and he was, I mean.
Speaker 1:He's dynamite. We saw him in Phoenix 10 years ago. Yeah, like when he was pretty hot, there was about 4 there so funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen Brian Regan live. He's awesome. Yeah, I'd love Jim Gaffigan would be a good one too. Yeah, man, there's just so many great.
Speaker 1:It's such a great time to love stand-up comedy. Dave Chappelle Dave Chappelle would be a good one, yeah, but that's just a legendary one. I I think that's a tough one because there's a lot of good ones. If I was gonna go current people that I want around would probably Shane, yeah, but if I was gonna to go current people that I want around would probably be Shane, yeah, but if I was going to go legendary, I'd probably go back to Seinfeld, just because, like that would impress my dad.
Speaker 1:You know that would impress my dad, so I'd be happy with that. But that's a good question, good one.
Speaker 2:All right, let's wrap it up here. Hey, by the way, just be on the lookout. We're coming up with a little fitness event end of summer, late August, early September, depending on kind of with school starting on all that kind of stuff, Uh. But so, anyway, we're going to invite our listeners out. To those who are local here in Austin uh, come out, do a workout with us celebrate the uh, you know, the fitness and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because we'll be wrapping up our summer challenge personally, where I'll be lifting, you'll be running more and uh, and ultimately we want to come together and celebrate together at the end of the summer, so look forward to having you guys there. Thanks for listening. Make sure you like, subscribe, comment wherever you're at. We love that you're listening. We'll see you next Thursday.