Jul 18, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
Reed and Micheal begin their journey into the works for Jon Favreau with his screenwriting and feature acting debut, "Swingers". Synopsis: A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up…
Reed SmithHost
Michael NorthHost
thought the overall performance I guess, in a nutshell, in a nutshell, thought the movie was okay.
Otherwise, it was a solid commentary on the struggling artist trying to make it in show business while, you know, trying not to let past life, holding on to people from their personal life, if you will, as they transition and move and, you know, progress, you know, as they'd like to.
Show business kind of, you know, feels like its own culture and sphere altogether apart from, you know, I guess every regular everyday life.
In that case, you're probably, you know, you're still living like everybody else.
That's sort of like my overall take, but otherwise, I'm sure there's a lot of details and, uh, aspects of the movie we could explore that I'm sure fascinate you.
Well, Michael, I did gotta say, I think I puzzled over what you think, and I think you did get a big point of this concept that I didn't even touch on, that a big part of this plot line of this movie is Jon Favreau's character, Mikey, dealing with the struggles with still not being completely over his breakup with his girlfriend from New York as he's living in Los Angeles now with Michelle and, uh, us really seeing his development to be able to move past it and to, uh, uh, see, uh, what can happen with the, uh, has her gram, uh, the, uh, girl the the woman that hezer graham plays who he seems to show a promise in the relationship with when he dances with her uh very well at that club even though we did partly take the get those dancing lessons from in fact uh being with his kind of now ex-girlfriend, Michelle.
So it is kind of like a good example of a movie that shows a little bit what you can still learn from your relationship with your ex-girlfriend before transitioning into another one.
And in some ways, Michael, I am finding the movie to be, as I'm talking about it, pretty similar to her in some ways, but in some level, I don't know if it does really feel like Jon Favreau's character, Mikey, really kind of learned things from his different relationships in ways Joaquin Phoenix's character may not really have fully.
I mean, there's still like Some levels maybe learned to do certain things better that made his relationship with the robot character that Scarlett Johansson played better than it all might be, but there is kind of like all a... real like question if he really did learn the things he could to help navigate his life and handle his life better in the way that in Swingers they made it very clear while we're not completely sure what happens to in the relationship of Mikey and Heather Graham character he seems to have his life better put together than Vince Vaughn's character Trey really in that pretty What demonstrated in that pretty well-played scene at the end of the movie, and I don't know if you want to go over that scene and look at the similarities and differences between Jon Favreau's Mike and Vince Vaughn's Trey character.
thought the overall performance I guess, in a nutshell, in a nutshell, thought the movie was okay.
Otherwise, it was a solid commentary on the struggling artist trying to make it in show business while, you know, trying not to let past life, holding on to people from their personal life, if you will, as they transition and move and, you know, progress, you know, as they'd like to.
Show business kind of, you know, feels like its own culture and sphere altogether apart from, you know, I guess every regular everyday life.
In that case, you're probably, you know, you're still living like everybody else.
That's sort of like my overall take, but otherwise, I'm sure there's a lot of details and, uh, aspects of the movie we could explore that I'm sure fascinate you.
Well, Michael, I did gotta say, I think I puzzled over what you think, and I think you did get a big point of this concept that I didn't even touch on, that a big part of this plot line of this movie is Jon Favreau's character, Mikey, dealing with the struggles with still not being completely over his breakup with his girlfriend from New York as he's living in Los Angeles now with Michelle and, uh, us really seeing his development to be able to move past it and to, uh, uh, see, uh, what can happen with the, uh, has her gram, uh, the, uh, girl the the woman that hezer graham plays who he seems to show a promise in the relationship with when he dances with her uh very well at that club even though we did partly take the get those dancing lessons from in fact uh being with his kind of now ex-girlfriend, Michelle.
So it is kind of like a good example of a movie that shows a little bit what you can still learn from your relationship with your ex-girlfriend before transitioning into another one.
And in some ways, Michael, I am finding the movie to be, as I'm talking about it, pretty similar to her in some ways, but in some level, I don't know if it does really feel like Jon Favreau's character, Mikey, really kind of learned things from his different relationships in ways Joaquin Phoenix's character may not really have fully.
I mean, there's still like Some levels maybe learned to do certain things better that made his relationship with the robot character that Scarlett Johansson played better than it all might be, but there is kind of like all a... real like question if he really did learn the things he could to help navigate his life and handle his life better in the way that in Swingers they made it very clear while we're not completely sure what happens to in the relationship of Mikey and Heather Graham character he seems to have his life better put together than Vince Vaughn's character Trey really in that pretty What demonstrated in that pretty well-played scene at the end of the movie, and I don't know if you want to go over that scene and look at the similarities and differences between Jon Favreau's Mike and Vince Vaughn's Trey character.
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