Grosse Pointe Blank

Yeah.

That reminds me, there's a Dan Aykroyd line in Gross Point Blank when he talks about the little Filipino ladies, the stappers.

Yeah.

Deep cut.

like the one where he's the hitman, too.

Gross Point Blank.

I was going to say not blues.

Gross Point Blank.

He's got some cool stuff going over the years.

What about...

That DOJ rule faced a challenge in 2001 at the time of the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

An internet company called Entertainment Network sued for permission to film and live stream his executions.

They argue that the recording ban violated the First Amendment, but that request also was rejected, this time by a federal district judge in the Southern District of Indiana.

Now, what complicates your question a little bit is that Hassan's case wasn't brought by DOJ.

I'm recording this now on Wednesday morning, six days before the election ends, the midterm elections end.

Already millions of votes have been cast and tens of millions of more votes will be cast.

Now, usually if you listen to the podcast on a regular basis, When I talk about how I'm feeling about something, and this has been a feature of the last decade or so, I cite to that very, very important defining film, Gross Point Blank.

And there's the scene when the John Cusack character is talking to his therapist, Alan Arkin, who asks him the question, how are you feeling? And Cusack says, I feel uneasy, man.

A lot of laughs, a lot of fun across the board.

The moment you mentioned this, well, I mean, for whatever reason, but a movie quote popped into my head from Gross Point Blank when Joan Cusack is trying to convince her brother John Cusack in the film to go to his high school reunion.

She talks about going to hers, and she says, it's as if everybody's swelled.

Yes.

you swell and then folks go the other way.

Here's the scary thing, John, on that point.

Remember, Gross Point Blank came out in 1996.

It was the 10-year reunion of the class of 86.

Name a John Cusack movie.

Gross Point Blank.

Yes.

Name a John Goodman movie.

Jacob? I have not.

gross point blank is about an assassin played by john cusack who is having a midlife crisis and then gets invited back to his 10-year high school reunion where he would if he goes back he would have to confront the love of his life that he still dreams about on the regular who he stood up at prom because he was just too freaked out about life and went and joined the army And so it's like this assassin action comedy.

It starts out as, and then it kind of flips.

It's like a, it's a stealth rom-com.

What?

John Cusack, Grosse Point Blank.

[laughs] And then what? It's lot- lots of little levels-

Yeah

So good every time you watch it.

Gross point blank.

So good.

I mean, where do we start? John Cusack and Dan Aykroyd in one of his finer roles.

So we have three of the five.

We have The Big Chill.

We have the Blues Brothers, and we have Gross Point Blank.

So three of the five are in there.

this has been a lot of fun as always and uh nick why don't you tell them what we got coming up for the next episode

i think the next thing we have cooking is going to be if i'm not mistaken one of my all-time favorite movies gross point blank it is it's got

stay tuned for

that the best line i don't think i could love this movie anymore gary have you seen this movie