JP Brammer
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The body was body. He does not skip protein. Shit, and we should learn. I know. But I will say his eyes were distracting to me. There's this one shot where I was like, okay, enough, where we catch him in the light, and it's very blue-eye Hannah Montana meme of like- Very staring down the barrel of the camera. It was really scary. And I was like, okay, can we cut away from this? It was too intense.
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But I agree with you. I thought it was good. I didn't feel blown away by his performance. And I was excited to see him in a new role outside of what he maybe normally does. I don't know if he's ever done... He's never done action, right?
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Well, I don't know if they're still dating, but they were like all these photos of them doing what? A complicated handhold. And if true, let me say this, heads, remember what that means. Hey, give me your finger so I can hold it the way Ariana holds Cynthia's. Let go. Hated that. Hated that whole experience.
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But yeah, they are or were dating and watching this movie made me be like, oh, that's why that little freak Doja Cat is with it. But I thought their performances were fine. I think it's really hard to like, I don't want to compare the movies too much, but Walking Phoenix is so fucking good. in the original Gladiator as a very similar character trope.
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He does a lot of warm-up for TV shows. He's doing one right now for Tracy Morgan's new show, Crutch, Paramount+. Look at that plug. Yeah. Paramount Plus, cough up the cash if you need. And when I tell you Hunter walked into that studio, I've never seen her so happy to see someone. Like, she doesn't smile like that to me. And she lit up the room to be like, Lois! No, I did.
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So it feels really hard to like know that performance and follow it up with these two twins, even though I had like a lot of fun with them. And like the younger one who's also in White Lotus.
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I think I was more taken with him than I was, what's his name, Joseph Quinn. Yeah, totally. I think the White Lotus boy was better.
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Is there a white boy that was taking it for you in the film? Because I haven't answered none of those.
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I'm sorry. Oh, erasing people left and right. Oh, my God.
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Put your fist down. Okay, what white boy was doing it for you since I know you have an answer? The white boy that was doing it for me was the master of ceremonies played by Matt Lucas. The music guy? The guy from Bridesmaids? What? I mean, I'm not talking about his role in Bridesmaids. He was fun in this. When he was like, woo! Okay, shut up. I love a cunty little, assumingly gay.
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But Gladiator 2 didn't just come out, of course. Wicked came out as well. And the numbers are, drumroll, exactly what we thought. Yeah. Who would have thought it would be different? I don't know. People thought it would be more of like a Barbenheimer moment.
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And what was the most recent interview with Out.com?
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I don't know if you saw. And I'm working in queer media, so. I'm doing that right now.
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Ran over her little trench coat, buttoned all the way to the top. It was crazy.
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Oklahoma heads. Oh, my God. Okay, I hated that. Oklahoma hoes. Oklahoma hoes. Love that. Okay, quick question for you. Of course. Are you a lover or a hater?
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So you kind of answered my second question, which was are you a lover or a hater of Twitter?
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Because it was like hieroglyphics for a minute.
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I'm just trying to make sure I'm all alone. It sounds like Dobby the house elf. It's really crazy.
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No, I loved it. No, Andrew was having too good of a time. Like I've never seen you enjoy life so much than around my father. I was giggling and cackling. My troubled, problematic, doing his best father. What did he say that was problematic?
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Totally. I mean, we have such a tethered relationship, a fraught relationship, actually, to social media. And, you know, I felt that a lot in this essay. So we resonated really easily and really quickly with what you were writing. What was the general response to your essay so far?
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Okay, I will say to his point, there was someone in the front that had like sunglasses on and that were pretty thick and dark and then a stick, like a walking stick. And my dad was like, I think this guy is faking blind. And is announcing it to the, I'm like, dad, you can't accuse people of faking blind. So he was faking blind, by the way.
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And it's Betty Blanco. And like, no, they're too busy dealing with that plight to be...
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How much do you think you blame or would you blame Jack Dorsey for selling Twitter to the world's worst billionaire?
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If someone offered me $44 billion, I would do more for less. Right, right.
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Except it was almost diabolical when he called. A man wanted to sing, and that's always a red flag. But a man specifically with a tattooed head. His whole head was tattooed. And he sang an original. And my dad started making fun of him and his tattooed head. And I was like, we're in Queens. Nigga, you might be from Philly, but you got to be careful because he was bucking up to my father.
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I think just the serotonin rush of a news event happening and opening Twitter first. And like knowing that you're going to get a good old laugh there. Like trusting the space to give you exactly what you need, which is not more information, just fucking jokes.
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And also Hunter, Club Chalamet. Have you ever seen them in the same room? Think about it. I would like to see it. It's giving the substance. It's giving the substance. I don't know. Think about that actually. Interesting, interesting.
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Yeah. Not no, I guess. Okay. Wait, I have a quick question for you. Yes. Mary Fuck Kill.
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Like I'm holding my purse a little tighter when I'm going on threads.
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He treats me right. He does. He's very nice.
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In my humble and correct opinion, Thanksgiving is the worst holiday. It's only one day. It's expensive. It's overhyped. It's more expensive to travel during Thanksgiving than it is for Christmas. Don't know why. The genocide of it all. But yet, here we are every year. Hunter's looking at me sideways. I don't give a fuck.
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That was because I was sacked by my hot teacher in high school.
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I was too busy being a lover to focus on history.
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So I'm just going to circle back. Yeah, yeah. A real bitch circles back on a problematic statement from their parents.
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Were you paid by King Princess, the heiress to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade looking ass? And wait, actually, I have to say something. I don't know why, Hunter, but you give me the energy of someone who doesn't know how to fully clean a plate. You just know how to put it in the dishwasher.
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I rinse plates in a way that is concerning to the environment. Greta Thunberg is like, Hunter, stop. You run too much water on it.
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I don't know. I had to get it off my chest. I had to say that.
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Oh, you're like, what, do you want to play Monopoly? You want to sit here for hours? Yeah.
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And spend money? We were like, whose line is it anyway?
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Capitalist Christmas has an iron grip on my attention. And it's because you can't buy anything on Thanksgiving.
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Kwanzaa. So that's just me. That's just how I roll. Actually, my family and I, we celebrated Kwanzaa literally for like two years. And my mom was like, that's enough. Peyton Dick's originals. No more fucking bracelets. No more fucking little, like, what are those beads you put on the thing and then iron? Oh, Aristor. Bitch, I'm not even. No, like, Kwanzaa got canceled quick in my house.
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It was actually like comedic gold for her to say that. It was crazy. Because everyone was like, oh, now we legally have to side with him because that's insane.
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But Thanksgiving just always felt like this weird interim to, sorry, Christmas. Like, and also just like a random holiday. People just want to turn off and love pilgrims.
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I wasn't paying attention. I was too distracted by my hot reverend. Reverend?
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What? Who's the person that leads the church? It doesn't matter. Look at your cards. I don't like Thanksgiving, but I do like new... I like traditions. Traditions feel good to me in all senses. And I have a new family tradition where my mom and brother come visit me in New York. And it's... I start crying. It's mostly fun. No, but it's actually really, really nice.
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My mom's bringing Dodger her dog this year. And I'm like, I do set time limits. I set days for them to be out of my house. I said, I don't care where you go, but you got to get the fuck up out of here. I need one day of peace. And I let them both stay with me. It's a tall order. Your house is kind of like on the market. Like your house is kind of open for business. Everyone stays at your house.
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I know. I need to start closing doors or I need to start charging people. This is actually fucking crazy. I'm like, I just paid for all the groceries and you guys are staying here and also they're like requesting like extra things for me to grab. I'm like, okay.
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That's what we did last year too. My brother makes mac and cheese. My mom makes like Cornish hens greens. I'll do the, I'm making this weird like cranberry tart thing that I think is going to be terrible. And then twice baked potatoes.
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I almost asked you to cook and then I didn't even need you to cook.
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Nah, you're just naming things you like, not things you cook. Oh my God. All right, well, I'm going to try your fucking mac and cheese and we'll report back here. Well, that's it for this week. As usual, we are two online so you don't have to be.
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Pretty good. This is pretty good. I would tune into that. And I just have one thing to say.
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It's rotten, but it also falls close to the tree. It falls close to the tree. And that's tea.
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We did our civic duty this weekend and we saw Gladiator 2 starring Pedro Pascal, Paul Mezcal, and yeah, say it with me. Denzel Washington. I'm like already smiling so big. No, I feel shy. I feel like he's watching. No.
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I didn't like it as much as Gladiator 1, which I surprisingly liked. I had only watched it because we had talked about the trailer a few, like I would have never been called to press play on that. But I... Honestly, I was a little bit underwhelmed by the movie as a whole. I'm glad you did too. Yeah, and I'll get into why in a moment.
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But I was kicking my feet, giggling, blushing every time Denzel was on screen. Oh, totally. So many good line deliveries. So many good... I think, you know, Paul impressed me as well, but I didn't feel myself sold on his performance in the way that I maybe thought that I would. I think I just... Maybe I'm too tethered to him in like...
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an indie sad boy way that like seeing him like this didn't feel, and knowing Russell Crowe's performance and loving it so much, I didn't feel like I was sold.
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Yeah. Okay. So Paul Mezcal plays, what is his name? Who knows? Whatever.
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Yeah, yeah. Big thighs. Low waist on a lot of his togas. And I didn't love that. But he is, we find out, the son of Maximus, who is Russell Crowe, his love child, with the princess lady, who's now married to Pedro Pascal's character, who's basically like Rome's hero. Like he's won all these wars for them, for the two evil twins that run Rome right now. Like, Rome is giving colonizer boots.
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Colonizer down. They're like, who else should we take? Persia? I don't know. It's a Tuesday. Did you take world history? Like, he seems so shocked by that. I was like, oh my god, Rome was kind of, like, doing bad things. Hunter's like, well, yes. So then Paul, he gets conquered. He, you know, becomes kind of a slave turned gladiator. Classic same setup as the original movie.
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And once vengeance on Pedro Pascal, who was the one who conquered his African, Charlie's Africa, conquered his African village home.
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Like whoever you want to kill, I'll let you kill them. Yeah. I mean, he followed through on that promise until, of course, Paul, spoiler. Oh, we should have done spoiler earlier. But you know what? Pause here and then fast forward a little bit if you haven't seen it. But then he has a moment to basically kill Pedro Pascal. But this is after him realizing, like, he's his stepfather, I guess.
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I thought the sharks were completely unnecessary. It was a little too, we went too far CGI for me. I think we could have reeled it in a little bit more.
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heard but I think that we lingered too much two things that were big for me I think we had too much fighting in a way and I love them boys brawl like I think that's great but I something that really upset me and I love in a movie like this is building relationship dynamics between other gladiators like I wanted more development of like internal relationships between because there's nothing more satisfying in a fight scene where you think oh no he's gonna lose and then someone comes in and like his friend is like oh they finally made it like they finally see each other it's like yeah it's like remember
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Based on the book. Oh, 12 days or something like that.
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When I tell you my first reaction after watching Gladiator 2 was, like, Denzel put on that dress, he put on those rings, and he went fucking crazy.
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No, literally like it's like that one movie that Robert Pattinson did where he just never practiced the accent and just came on set the very first day of filming and did whatever.
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No, it's like the church one with the Spider-Man boy. But it's very, he just makes up an accent. It's not Southern at all. Delusions! You know that one? Anyway, I feel like Denzel truly was like, I'm gonna just do whatever and you're gonna lean with a rock with it. He's like, turn the camera on and put it right here and I'll meet you there.
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We have to talk about, there are so many line deliveries I want to talk about, but this one I want us to start with because it relates to something that I think we were robbed of. When he said, they were like, yeah, the lore is... her husband didn't like women and he responds, nor me some days or something like that, insinuating that he was a bi king.
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And then we found out that we were robbed of a gay kiss between Denzel and do you know who the other person was supposed to be?
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Wow. I just needed something a little bit. Because this was his fruitiest role. Yeah, this is Denzel's gayest work yet. I've got to stop. Someone's going to get mad at me. But you know what I mean? Those wrists were working overtime. When he was beating Paul Meskel's ass with the robe still on, he was in a full dress, beat down.
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For those listening in, and if you want to hear more about my relationship with my dad, please tune into the Tell Me About Your Father podcast. I just did a long-winded interview there about him. Oh, my gosh. Did he, like, phone in? Absolutely not. Oh, my gosh. It was more therapy than it was, like, an interview. But anyway, I did take Hunter to my – my dad is a stand-up comedian.
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He's like, get to packing. Yeah, get the fuck up out of here. Yeah, I don't know where you got to go, but you got to get the fuck up out of here. And he says it like that with that tone of a black dad. I was like, oh. I loved it. Yeah. Just go see Gladiator 2 just for Denzel's performance alone. But we can talk about the white boys. Oh, you know I'm always down. Sorry, sue me.
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What are you going to do? Chargers have been filed.
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Yeah, but I changed it to Twinks instead of four people.