Teddy KGB

It's really funny.

Teddy KGB.

So he...

He actually just told some Russian lady, the dialect coach, to say stuff in Russian, and he just imitated the way she said it in her mannerisms.

It has never come through.

Yeah.

And one of the big things that people talk about in the Reddit chats and everything is Teddy KGB's final hand in the movie.

Everybody wants to know what he had.

But that also can breed in complacency in thinking about are there things that are actually concentrations of risk? This is like...

Um, it's a concept in poker and it's a concept in insurance called risk of ruin and risk of ruin is the concept where like, uh, if you were to make one decision that thing were to go wrong, would you be a rapidly put out of the game? So like I always go to like, if you remember the movie rounders, that opening scene where he's playing against Teddy KGB, um, Matt Damon's playing a movie with a poker thriller with John Malkovich.

And so John Malkovich is the big

poker.

A

little Teddy KGB.

But the Great Flock itself disappeared beyond the horizon.

It has not been seen since 1349 at the height of the Black Plague.

So how do you know that you have a good Russian character? In an already...

fascinating movie with two fascinating characters like the movie rounders right to use a poker term i'm gonna raise you teddy kgb

oh

yeah from the movie rounders john malkovich yeah teddy kgb like the whole time he's on screen he's only on screen for maybe like 15 minutes you're just engaged he's so good in that role he's like i'm still up from the last time i stick it in you

I have not seen Rounders in a long time.

It's one of those movies I need to revisit because I asked the camera the last time I watched it, but I do remember John Malkovich.

I was definitely a fan of that film, and I have not seen it in a long, long time, maybe 20 years.

Maybe the best poker movie.

You know, would we be – I sound

like Teddy KGB.

Check, check, check, check.

Paid that man his

He is so psyched that he's about to work with this phenomenal actor.

And he said, they start the scene and you get the Teddy KGB voice.

And Matt Damon's like, what the fuck just happened? And the director says, cut.

And Malkovich looks at him and goes, that's my secret.

Yeah.

Yeah, they have to make it obvious or else it's like the problem at the end of Rounders where like Teddy KGB had to have a tell and it has to be big enough that the audience picks up on it.

but subtle enough that it can seem like it was missed by everyone in the room.

The Oreo thing is really fucking obvious.

that?

This is excellent, right? What does Matt Damon do to Teddy KGB and rounders? He doesn't sit there on the telly, lets him know, gets in his head, makes it even worse.

Well, he had a clock.

He had a 24-hour clock because he had to get that thing done by the morning.