1998's Rushmore

Dave, thanks for coming.

I appreciate it.

It was a little touch and go, as you can imagine, sitting here in a darkened room.

I mean, it's only 4 o'clock.

Get some bigger windows in here.

We got a little storm action happening here in the city.

You West Enders, you get it bad.

All the time with the flooding and the power outages.

It's shocking.

It's because not even the weather wants to go to the East End.

Touche.

That's right.

No human wants to, but also the weather is like, you know what, I'll take a piss.

I

know.

I've been in the Vanier area for five, six years now, and the power may have gone out maybe once briefly for an hour.

Knock on wood.

And then the looting and the murder and all that happened.

Oh, that's fine.

We're in a nice little area.

Sure, my car's been broken into a couple times, but I just lock it now.

Yeah, no problem.

Yeah, they don't put too much effort into it.

That's right.

Give it a try.

Yeah.

Now we're sitting here in the dark and I wonder, have you ever been in a situation where the power went out while you were at someplace? Like in most of my experience, I got a couple of stories and I'll tell you.

But I was thinking 90% of the time I've been in a power outage.

You're at home? I've been at home.

Yeah, you don't go out much.

That's true.

Because if power outage when you're someplace

else can be a freaky thing.

That's interesting.

One pops into my mind.

Tell me a story.

Bayshore Shopping Center.

Okay.

I was at work and the whole mall shut down.

Crazy, eh? And that is a little alarming because it's such a big thing and you're just not expecting it.

Yep.

Things race through your mind, especially in the political climate that we might have been in at the time, especially my mind.

Your mind, yeah.

Yeah.

It's a

special case.

Idiot.

Okay.

But that's interesting because in general, I would agree.

It seems you're at home probably because you shouldn't be out because it's storming maybe.

Could be, yeah.

I did go through an earthquake way back.

I'm not talking about an earthquake.

You know, we're not.

You're right.

And that's my bad.

And I don't know if the power went out or not.

So it doesn't even apply to this conversation.

But that's the only time I can think of.

Thank you for your participation.

Yeah.

I'm sure there's more, but clearly it's happened to you.

Yeah, as I'm talking or thinking about it, it happened at the airport, also very screwed up, kind of weird world, because you're just thinking we've got a lot of stuff to do.

Generators, I used to think you'd have a couple back and forth.

Yeah, they came back, but it wasn't quick.

And there was a little like, what do we do? We've got to do all this stuff, and we're not trained.

That's good.

To do it manually.

That's comforting.

People at the airport aren't trained.

Another time when I was in Vegas, the power went out.

and that was really weird it's a light show it's all it's all lights it's all lights and so that was really strange it was also very short-lived but most recently i was actually at a movie theater shocking

i know

and i was seeing eddington what

the hell is

that it's a movie with joaquin phoenix it's

very good but the last half hour ish the power just went

out the whole theater was this in the west end yeah there you go just down the road there's your answer Now, for me, in a movie theater, I've had occasions where the movie would stop.

Technical difficulties.

Exactly.

But the

power hadn't been an issue.

This was the power was off.

And we waited a few minutes.

And then we got told, exit the theater.

As we exited the theater, they were handing out complimentary passes.

There you go.

We're very sorry.

I got three of them.

Of course you did.

Why? Did you get three? Did you complain? No, that's it.

They were just handing them out.

So this is as I'm exiting the room, I walk down three flights of stairs to another gathering of people.

You've got to get more freebies, are you? I got three more freebies from the cluster of people at the center of this auditorium or of the entire theater.

discussion around where are we going? What are we doing? How long do we wait? We milled around for a little bit.

Eventually they said, we're done for the night.

We're canceling the nighttime screening.

So I then left and on my way out now, the main door, three more...

So we're at nine.

I got nine complimentary, including IMAX and large screen formats and 4DX, whatever is being- No restrictions apply.

No restrictions apply.

Wow.

Nine free movies for watching a movie.

I enjoyed it.

I was going to see anyway.

Now, are you going to waste one of those

nine on a movie that you've seen 80% of? Or are you going to be like, you know what? I'm fine.

I'm going to move on.

I did

wait to see Eddington when it got released on home streamings, if you will.

Three days later, probably.

But I

did use it for The Odyssey.

could you spare a pass or two maybe a little incentivization if that's a word it is not it gets you there okay done let's do it for real for