Lou Diamond Phillips on La Bamba, Working at What-a-Burger and His New Movie ‘Adverse’ + The Best Movie ‘Ending’ Songs + Movie Review: Tom and Jerry (HBO Max)

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. The title of the podcast says it all. All we do on this podcast is talk about movies, spoiler free movie reviews, movie topics. We also talk to directors and actors and on this episode a very special interview with an actor that I've looked up to since I was a kid, the one and only Lu Diamond Phillips. A lot to get to on this episode. So without any further ado, let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking au MTV with glasses. From the Nashville podcast Networking Movie Mi Movie Podcast. Lou Diamond Phillips is in a brand new movie called Adverse and really just an actor that I looked up to for a very long time for his roles in the La Bamba Stand and Deliver Young Guns. Because really, for one of the first times ever as a kid, I looked up at the screen and saw somebody who looked like me. So we'll get into that. And if you don't know about Loud Diamond Phillips. Well, where have we been all these years? So before we get into the interview, here's just a little highlight reel. Then I put together. I got the test ahead of time. I passed it out to everyone else. How did you get the test? Mail man? I strangled in his buddies, decomposing in my locker. Honestly, what's one with some of those ticks? Man? That's what I sink. It's got to be clean, Richie. Each take has to be identical, why so that we can at it later. Look, look, this is in Mexico? Who said it was? I lived there. I understand the tradition of the song. They're always changing the lyrics. Look, man, I've never even been to Mexico. My music is my music. Huh tell him kind enough. There's a bit of a ral snake on now with Ludammond Phillips. I gotta say, it's a pleasure to be talking to you. I feel like you're an actor. I've been looking up for a long time now. I've been around around my friend a lot of So. You grew up in Corpus Christie, Texas? Right, Yes? I did? Yeah? And did you actually work at water Burger. That was one of my first jobs. My very first job was as a cook's assistant on the Navy base. My dad was in the Navy. Uh, and UH got in the job and I was like sixteen there. But yeah, shortly there after I looked at water Burger for quite a while. I was like the crew chief and employee of the month and all that mean I I slipped some burgers. Man, I love water Burger. I grew up in Texas too, and I was wondering, like, if while you're working there, is it a thing that you tell your co workers that you wanted to be an actor? Was that like not in your plans at that time? Oh? No, no, no, no, no, no, it was. It was fairly well known throughout high school that you know, I wanted to become an actor. I mean I was doing high school theater. You know, in Texas we have the u y L, the University inter Scholastic League, and so I was part of the drama. But I was, you know, competing a lot and unfortunately winning awards and so a lot of positive reinforcement. Uh. I think everybody knew, but my aspirations for at that time. So you've been in movies since the eighties. I just wonder, at this point, does acting kind of comes second nature to you or this feel like a like a muscle that you have to flex. I mean, if you're chnology yourself, it's always a muscle you have to flex. You always have to work out. I mean, you know, uh, if if you start floating it in man, it shows you know, people can see if you're uninspired. And I try not to do roles that don't matter to me, you know what I mean. I I have to be excited about something anytime I'm going to do it. Um. The work is too hard otherwise, you know. Uh. And and even when I'm you know, doing something that would be as seemingly as uh, you know, familiar as there's the role I'm playing on Prodigal Sun, there's you know, there's there's new stuff to it all the time. I mean, the layers of you know, relationships and history and bag and it's it's it's always a blast and it's always fun. And the you know, the the other actors that you work with, man, they really inspire you to bring your best game all the time, you know. Um. And I also try to shrink it up. I mean, like this movie Adverse that I have out that is a little independent film you know that Thomas, you and Nichols put together. I said yes because well, first of all, Thomas is a friend and so was Seawan Atton was already a part of the cast. Uh you know, but then Mickey you are joined and you ban Miller, and so I let's do something a little different. Let's you know, let's ed you. Let's not get too comfortable with it. And uh, you know, it's always it's always fun to join a an ensemble like that where you know it's not about the money, it's not about the luxury, but it's about you know, independent film and an up and coming director like Brian Metcalfs and and you know, you keep it fresh for yourself. Yeah. And I want to talk about that movie. You play Dr Cruise in it, and you mentioned how it had to be something that you wanted to kind of still test yourself in. So when you get that script for that movie, what's your like creative process to kind of find your character in that? Like, do you have a career in the process to know like who you're going to be going into set from when you get the script to when you show up actually the film. Uh. Well, it's funny because it kind of came about because I was doing a lot of conventions, you know, before the pandemic hit, and uh I was running into Thomas a lot and you know, I had you known him, uh you know uh in and around Hollywood for a while and he said, Hey, I'm doing this uh independence film. You know you want to see the script, and so yeah, sure, you know, and like I said, Sean was already in Bundy and he was already attached and you know, and you look at the role and you know, can is there something that I can break through this is or something that you know I can uh illuminate you know if you will, you know, as part of the character. And at this point in my my life and career, there's a couple of reasons why I do something. You know, and I'm excited about the role. I'm excited about who I'm working with. And this this was both you know, um uh be the head of a certain age, you know, playing a role bit is you know, uh supportive or as authoritative you know that that tries to keep somebody on the on the straight and narrow. You know, I felt like you know, being a father you know as well, there there was a lot about this role that I could tap into, um, you know, just just what comes to me, you know naturally. Uh. Kind of the same thing with the Gila Royal on on prodible Son. You know, he's the boss, but he's very you know, fatherly towards not only his team, but you know Malcolm Bright who was the lead profiler. So there there's something about you know, my history, about the life that I've lived that that lends itself to, you know, to to bringing some some experience to the role without having to you know, hit it over the head. It's just part of who you are now. So you know that that that speaks to me in most of the things that I've done recently. And I was recently talking to Michael Pinion and we were talking about some of the actors who inspired us because I'm Mexican American and he is as well. And what two of the actors he named were Edward James almost in you And I'm sure you kind of get that a lot now, like people who are like, oh it was kind of seeing you on screen for the first time. I was like, Hey, there's somebody who actually kind of looks like me for the first time. But you know, it's it's interesting, man, because you know, you just kind of you do what you do and you're following your own path, and then eventually you start going, wow, I guess I am carrying a flag here. I guess I am representative of you know, people who need to be represented. UM. And one of the first times I remember experiencing that was I spoke at n y U, you know, at the film school here in New York and a young Platonican actress, you know, I said, you know about standing Deliver, that she finally looked up and saw people that looked like her on screen, and that's why she decided to pursue acting, you know. Uh. And it's and it's interesting when I looked back a lot of the guys that were inspirational to me in the seventies, you know, with the swarthy guys, you know, uh, de Niro and Puccino and Austin. It's like, okay, not every but he has to be Robert Redford. You know, maybe I can actually you know, have a have a career at this UM. And then I wrote a film, you know, in the early nineties called that fish or actually played Filipino American and suit A Tack was my leading lady and I got to have dinner with her father greatly text at a certain point and he said, uh, you know who you remind me of my old friend Tony. I thought he was great that I was kind of on his path man, that I was kind of carrying the porch if he started. Uh, that is, you know, representing so many different communities, you know, not just what I am, you know, blood wise, but you know, the Latino community, in the Native American community, and just you know, I mean I've played in you what I've played Asian, you know, like in the team on Broadway, and and that's what it's about. It is representing each of these communities with you know, vitiguity and with respect. And that's really become kind of a you know, a touchstone of my career. And your breakout role was La Bamba, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. And I think because it's not only the story of Rich Valens, but ultimately it's like the story about brothers, which I think why it still resonates now. But I feel like it's hard to find any kind of footage of Richie Valens. And the way his kind of memory lives on is because of your portrayal in that movie. Like, at what point did you realize that you weren't just taking on another role when you were doing that? Um. From the second I read the scripts, you know, I mean, I I got cast out of Dallas, Texas. Uh and um, you know, I had no idea why this Hollywood film company was doing this national you know, talent search. It was. It was ridiculous. I I really could not believe that I even had the opportunity to audition for this UM. And I read the script and I just want to I knew it was the chance of a lifetime UM. And even my acting coach said, you're never going to get this role, but hopefully you're gonna do a great job, and they'll give you something smaller, you know, like the drummer or something you know. Um. Uh. And so it was it was really lighting in a bottle when I got the role. And and then you know, working with Louis Valdez and becoming close with the family, which was you know, I did growing into the deep end of the pool. You know, I I met Bob Morales at at this at the screen test, you know, on the on the on on the Warner Brothers lot. I mean it was it was crazy. So I knew. I knew it was a big deal from the beginning. Uh and and uh, you know even even beyond that, So I I felt, you know, very fortunate. Uh. And it's funny because you're right. I mean there there literally is only a two I think film clips of Ritchie, one uh from American Bandstand and one from a movie called Jo Johnny Go where he seems to come on Let's Go. So you know, there wasn't a whole lot to hang my head on. Performance wise, I really relied, you know, on the family to kind of throwing the blanks for me. What is that like talking to the real life Bob when you're going to play his brother? Like, did he start to like see his brother in you? Like, how does that relationship work? Uh? You know, I mean there were they were so kind to me from the beginning. I mean literally uh uh said later you know, the when you laid eyes on me and then saw the audition, he goes he knew that I was going to get the job, which was really sweet, But you know Connie and Irma, I mean all of the siblings, a little Mario who was only a baby at the time. Uh, and his mom. You know Connie, she was around. So they were there every single day. And uh. It would always be like, well would Richie do this, or what would Richie do in this situation? You know, they were able to tell me these things. And it wasn't just about Richie the rock star, was about Richie the human being, you know, the seventeen year old kid. Uh and and so uh that you know that was really uh. I think was flashed out the character and and helped him, you know, be be more than just you know, an idage if you will. I wonder now, if you're ever out in public and you hear the song Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny, do you immediately have like flashbacks to filming that movie always man, always, and what I always go to because it's what was what I was playing over the in the film is at that hillside? Made mean, so I run up that in my twelve times. Man. By the time I was over, I thought I was going to drop dead. I mean, my my legs were on fire. I don't know what he was looking for when we ran up that hill so many times. Man, after that movie came out, where people just yelling Richie at you all the time in public? Uh they still they still did you get to keep anything cool from the movie. I still have the green guitar, but it's in it's in California right now in my house there. I'm in New York City where I'm filming Prodigal Son. And when the pandemic hit, you know, the ruck got kind of pulled off from under it, so I was not not able to go home. Uh, and so we uh my family, uh Vane and my thirteen year old thought, I've been looking here in New York City for you know, for a year and a half. I mean, uh, you know, but it is what it is. But yeah, I kept the green guitar. And what was the technique you learned? Because you didn't learn to play guitar for the movie, you just kind of learned like the fingering style. Is that what it was? Yeah? I know, I learned. I still don't play the guitar. I had to learn all of the singing just for uh, you know, just for the for the film. Uh. And it was stupid me. I didn't. I didn't pick it up. I should have picked up that, but I didn't move on other things. So the following year in Standing Deliver comes out, and that movie has just such a large cast. I wonder, like, when you're filming that, how hard is it to kind of wrangle everybody in to do a scene. Not difficult, man, I mean it's like we've got a pretty massive ensemble cash for Prodigal Son as well, um uh, and for the movie Adverse that I just did. It was literally just one day of shooting all my scenes with Thomas and Nichols, So that becomes easy. I mean, that's that's it's. It's not like you know, putting together a hey, an amateur show in the Umcole's barn. Uh There there's an entire army of people who are doing scheduling and doing uh uh wrangling of the actors and whatnot. So it's as a professional year there when you're supposed to be there and you know, you do what's what what's required to do that day. I wonder when you're doing that movie, the line that always sticks out to me is your line when you're like I strangled him in his body is decomposing in my locker, Like, how hard is that to say with a straight face with everybody there? No, you look forward to it, manan, But that's what's again, that's just part of the acting. I mean, it's uh, you know there there there were lines in Longmire, and there were lines uh continue to be in lines in Prodigal So and especially when I'm working the kick a kinda uh where you know, you get tickled, you just get you know and think, goodness, there's always take two if you if you cracked up, you know. But uh, yeah, that particular line I knew was going to go down in history. Was that a genuine reaction in the movie, Like the laughter seems just so genuine after that. Yeah, it was. It was you know, I mean, the entire and you know, the entirecast you know, got into it. So especially Foal was so wonderful, wonderful guy. Uh So, Yeah, I mean I think quite often the uh, the warmth and the chemistry and the happiness that you see on screen is the real deal. You know, it's hard to hard to manufacture that. Well, really appreciate the time everybody go check out the new movie. At first check out Lou and prodigal son, And it's been really great getting to talk to you. I just want to really let you know, like how much your work is kind of affected my life, and you know, just being able to see somebody like looks different and kind of represents the story from me the flat bro. You know you got to represent that, right, Yeah, I appreciate that. And uh, I'll send you a nice water Burger care package wherever you are right now. I mean, I what's your favorite thing to get from there? Do you get sick? Did you get sick of that food while you're working there? No, not at all. I mean, man, you you know you because an employee you got, you know, you got the employee uh, employee meals and you know they kind of had like Google coupons that you would turn in. But yeah, man, I think I eat water Burger every day. It was it was fanta and not only that, I got to make it myself, so you know, I mean it's just like I wanted it. We'll appreciate the time. I'll talk to you later. Thanks, Mike, have a good one, all right. So that was super cool getting to talk to lou Diamond. Philip one of my favorite movies is easily lah blahmah. I talked about it all the time, and if you haven't seen it by this point, I highly encourage you to go check it out. It's about three bucks to rent on Amazon. Eventually it'll come back on Netflix, but you have to rent it right now. And the other thing I loved about watching this movie as a kid is that expose me to music I would not have been otherwise, Like at the time, I was super written, just punk rock stuff, but it was hearing Richie Valens music that really turned me onto just having this affinity for this era of music. And now it kind of lives forever in this movie. So you'll get to learn more about the songs that Richie Valens put out, and you'll go back and want to listen to Donna or his first song, come On, Let's Go, Come On, Let's Go. And then if you're like me, you'll probably get into some Buddy Holly two. And he actually does this song in the movie Ryan Wait. And that's probably why this is my favorite Buddy Holly song. It is because I learned from Llama. But during that interview, we referenced a song that plays at the end of LaBamba it's by Santo and Johnny and it's called Sleepwalk and it happens during a very famous scene in the movie. It's the ending scene, the scene where Richie Vallens and his brother Bob are running up the hill and you learn about his death and it just happened. And this is kind of the scene that cuts away too. And I've never heard a song encapsulate the entire emotion of a movie the way this song does, to where it's the only thing I can associate it with. And then the famous scene occurs when the song cuts out and you just hear his brother Bob just yell, Richie just ritchy, and it gets me every single time, and it makes me emotional. But what I wanted to talk about here were just the greatest movie ending songs of all times. So the songs that come on towards the very end, the very last scene of the movie and just leave a lasting impression to make it just that much more powerful, because that's what music is. It has the ability to make a decent movie great and really kind of invoke that emotion YouTube really bring a movie home. If a movie has a great ending song, that is what I look for, Like I in my head. Sometimes will drive around listening to music thinking about if I was in a movie, what song I would like to be, you know, played right now? And I have like a whole list of soundtrack songs to my life, but it all din fits this description of what song you want playing in the credits to your the end of your life. So I've come up with a list of the top five movie ending song at least according to me. Also have some honorable mentions. But let's start first with number five and hear me out on this one, but it's flow right up featuring Keshia right around, see if you can name the movie right around, right around when you go down, When you Go Down. So that is from the movie The Hangover in two thousand and nine. And what I loved about what this song meant to the movie was this is when you learn everything that happened that they just alluded to in the movie. It's when at the very end of the movie they find the digital camera with all the pictures they took from the night they can't remember, and then the credits role this song is playing and you figure out and learn everything they did. One of the funniest gags ever in a movie. And why I think this song is so great because I think we're gonna look back on this movie and realize how funny this movie was when it came out, but also how much it represents that time came out in two thousand nine. But I feel it really kind of describes what the twenty tens would come to be and the sound of music specifically. I think right now, I'm in my head, I'm kind of defining what the twenty tens were, and this is exactly what I think about now when I think of the twenty tens. So for all those reasons, I think it's a great movie ending song. Putting it that one at number five, at number four, I'm gonna put another emotional one on here. See if you can name the movie we got to talk about theirs on and we got everything I would do, you extending the promise, and now you probly be bored day without you, my friend, and I'll tell you all about it when a sale. That is whis Khalifa featuring Charlie Poos see you again, and that is from Fast and the Furious Six. So you'll remember this scene because when they filmed this movie, Paul Walker was no longer living. He had passed away, and the scenes he's in it's all CG guide and they took past footage and digitally put it in over his brother and then that's how he's in the movie. So in this scene, it's been Diesel and him driving side by side, and you just get that glimpse of Paul Walker's face looking at him, and you can, if you really pay attention, you can tell how digital it looks. But like, what a story to a movie like that made me want to go see that when it came out, and it's a piece of movie history that's just kind of are in a way, really how how all that happened and really just kind of sad. But I think this song is a perfect way to kind of take all those emotions and put it into one scene. So I put that one in number five. At number three, I'm going with a song by the Pixies called Where's My Mind? See if you can name the movie, we can see it all. One of the best movie scenes ever, even if it wasn't just the ending, but it is from the movie Flight Club, and it's when the whole world that they have created this movie just comes crashing down, the perfect song, the perfect situation, and just an overall chaotic movie. It doesn't get any better than this, but it will get slightly better because that's only at number three. But you get what I'm saying. At number two, I would say probably more iconic than my number one. And if even if you've never seen this movie, you probably know the song and know the scene. But see if you can name it. It's called Don't You Forget About Me? By the simple minds, I'm sure you can guess it Don't Don't and that is from No Nun There then the Breakfast Club and the Swan. Just it's a no brainer why it makes the list because you associate this song with that movie. It's really the only song I can name from this band and just that ending scene have been walking across the football field putting his hand and fist in the air and the classic eighties freeze frame. That is why it comes in at number two. Now, before we get to number one, here are some honorable mentions. Had to throw in a couple of Marvel movies in there, and the ending of Iron Man when he reveals to everybody is Iron Man, and then of course the song Iron Man plays along those same lines in the Marvel universe. Is the ending of Guardians of the Galaxy with baby group dancing to this song. And then if you want to go way back with the Graduate and the sound of Silence by Simon and garf uncle. If you don't remember this scene, that's when they run off run onto the bus, completely ecstatical when they just did of you know, breaking off the wedding, running away with each other. And then once this song hits, it just kind of sets in what they have done, and that feeling of oh no, I made a huge mistake kind of sets in and this song matches it perfectly. And then my other honorable mention would be from the movie Pulp Fiction. That's the Lively ones with surf writer. Really this movie has just the great soundtrack all around, but this would be the ending song from one of the best scenes ever probably an all of quintin Tint Tarantino's movies. Yea. And then at number one, the movie with the best ending song ever. Well, guys, I mentioned it earlier at something and Johnny Sleepwalk. You already knew that was gonna be number one? Would you expect any less? I just did an entire interview with lou Diamond Phillips because of this movie. Of course, it's my number one. All right, there we go. Let's get into a movie review today. We're talking about Tom and Jerry, the brand new adaptation of a cartoon you may or may not remember. I want to get into that before I talk about the movie. I will do a spoiler free review. Always keep them spoiler free on the podcast. Here's just a little bit of the trailer for picture of this Mouse is tweeted up to inst the book face or Tiki talk, we would be wounded. No, sir, that's not going to happen that route. In this toast, I will not let this hotel be ruined by a cat in the mouth, least once. I think I might have just pulled this off, all right. So, I think it's just kind of a new trend we're seeing in movies, and not completely new, but I think what's been kind of the norm lately. It's just to remake a bunch of movies that we're all familiar with now, but it's twenty years later and we want to revisit these stories we know and love, and movie studio see this is kind of an easy win, like, oh, you remember this, We're gonna love it when we make it again. It's like serving leftovers. But I think also what they're kind of trying to grasp onto now is banking on our nostalgia, and nostalgia is such a powerful thing when it comes to movies, TVs, and music, so there's a lot to work with their If you were a fan of something as a kid, twenty years later, as you're an adult, you're gonna be like, oh, I remember that from when I was a kid, And I talked about a lot of things on this podcast that still hold a close place to my heart because I remember when they were a kid. So I think that's kind of the case with Tom and Jerry now, Tom and Jerry, or even before my time. I was born in n and when I was a kid, I knew of Tom and Jerry. But it wasn't like they were brand new cartoons to me. It was kind of a classic cartoon even to me that I would watch old episodes of. And the thing I love about Tom and Jerry is it's classic cartoon violence. There's nothing wrong with classic cartoon violence. We don't really have that anymore. All of the Looney Tunes got their axes taken away. You can't blow up Wiley Coyote, can't blow up himself anymore. I think that was all kind of stripped away when they, you know, made the Looney Tunes on HBO Max, so that's all gone. On the other side of that, a kid will watch a Marvel movie and see people fighting and there's bloodshed and there's people dying in those movies. So I just think it's weird that we take it out of cartoons where it's so super like. I mean, I wouldn't watch a cartoon and want to go smash somebody's head with an anvil. That's just not That's not what I picked up from watching these cartoons as a kid, And that's what I love about Tom and Jerry. It was like the original classic cartoon violence, literally Game of Cat and Mouse. So I think going into this movie, I kind of thought of that a little bit. But also I just remember watching the cartoon, like the classic really kind of violent, like straight up Jerry hitting Tom with like something and making his head prior open. I would even always quote the classic like Tom yelling yeah, like that's funny. So I was excited to see that play out in this movie. So what this movie did was bring Tom and Jerry to life as cartoons. So it's kind of an old homage to those classic movies that used to be humans in a movie but animated characters. We saw it first in Who Frame Rudder Rabbit, Like that was the first time they kind of use this technology. So I think this is a nice throwback to that. In the class, you have Chloe Grace Moretts, you have Colin Joe's, you have Michael Benja, you have Ken Jong. So it's a pretty funny cast. And the thing about this movie, it's just the fun movie. It's a nostalgic trip. There's nothing deep or complicated here. What I kind of found is I'm getting a little bit old for kids movies now, hear me out. I know I am an almost thirty year old man, but I can't appreciate a good kids movie. And up to about oh, I'd say when the pandemic started, I would have no shame in going to a kid's movie alone. I would take it in as how I have to watch every movie, Like how enjoyable is it for me? Could I recommend it to other people that I know? Will probably take their kids, because I think over the years, kids movies have evolved to the point to where kids really enjoy them, but there's also stuff in there for adults. Do I think that's the case with Tom and Jerry after watching it, No, I don't think it's the case, because this is just a straight up kids movie. Like I said, nothing overly complicated. Everything is exactly what you kind of expect. It's fun. The only thing I was kind of wanting a little bit more was kind of the classic look of the cartoons. They look a little more c g I than I was expecting, but I guess you gotta update it. So kids watching this are like, why does this look super old? So I get that part of it. I even found myself yelling at the TV screen for a little bit. God was that into it? So so I would say definitely if you have younger kids, probably tending under maybe even younger than that, that can just enjoy like funny cartoons doing dumb things on screen. But overall I had to grade it as being an adult and knowing that this movie was not made for me, but it was still enjoyable for me to watch, So I would give it three out of five Slaps to the Head and it's available to watch free if you have a subscription to HBO Max and it's also in theater. So there you go, Tom and Jerry. All right, let's get into some movie news now. I'm joined by my co host and fiance Kelsey. How are you doing today? Big movie news. We have the announcement of the new Spider Man movie. I like how they teased this movie. They all kind of came out and gave like the fake movie titles to begin with, because Tom Holland is kind of known for spoiling Avengers movies and he spoiled the title of the Spider Man movie in the past, so they kind of made a joke about it. But it is called Spider Man No Way Home, and it's coming out in December seventeen, and I'm pretty excited. I think overall, the Spider Man movies are my favorite Marvel movies as a collection. Like from the very beginning, I think Spider Man has been my favorite Marvel character, and I think they really have just kind of found what Spider Man is now and what makes him great. The cast is amazing, so I'm really excited for this one. Crazy thing about it, though, is it's fully on going to come out in movie theaters. That's kind of exciting, isn't it. I'm hesitant to get excited, hesitant because we're seeing other stuff just already getting delayed a little bit more. But I feel like this is when it's really good to come in full force. They haven't officially delayed like Black Widow or anything yet. It'll probably come soon. I'm just assuming, but this one just straight up saying coming out in theater, So I hope it comes out when it says it does. I'm excited for this one. Also in movie news, Mission Impossible, A Quiet Place Too, and some other Paramount movies will come directly. Well, they're gonna come out in theaters, and then forty five days later they're coming out on Paramount Plus. So I think that's kind of like not what we want. I think you want same day like HBO Max is doing. I think they're kind of copying out of that whole kind of structure of like, Okay, we'll put it out in theaters and then forty five days later we'll come on a streaming service. That's not really gonna make me want to sign up for Paramount Plus, and we were just talking about before this that I'm thinking about getting it next week because one they're getting the SpongeBob movie, which I want to see, and you're rolling your eyds and me, but I want to see that movie, and I kind of want to see what they're gonna offer. And I know these new movies won't be there immediately, but I think there's some kind of area there for them to work with. And also they have Nickelodeon, and I must I love the old nineties cartoons, so I think there's nowhere else for me to watch those right now than this. And it's only five bucks a month, so just what we need another five bucks. I think I'll give it a run and test it out and I'll report back here if it's worth it. I don't. I don't really know what they're gonna have, Like I was looking up, like exactly what they're gonna have, and aside from what they've been promoting on those commercials they ran during the Super Bowl, not a whole lot of what new content they're gonna have. So we'll see if it's worth the five bucks with ads. Yeah, it always kind of sucks, didn't it. You got. I don't like those services where you pay a certain amount and they're still mercials. None of the services we have right now have commercials because we pay for Hulu with no commercials. But why does that even a thing like it? It feels like cable, like you're already paying for it. I don't want to stream a show and have commercials inside of it. I will say it's worth the extra seven dollars a month to not get commercials. I agree it's worth it, but I don't think you should have to pay more. I think that's the whole benefit of having a streaming services. You don't pay for commercials. You know how five dollars a month is pretty cheap. That's probably how they recoup the costs. It's commercials it issue. But you know how I annoyed I get when there's an ad on a YouTube commercial you get, I yell at the TV. You're yelling now, I'm like, it ruins the YouTube watching experience. To watch a thirty second ad for a minute video ridiculous. You're very passionate about this right now. I dislike ads that you can't skip when I'm just trying to watch a video, trying to watch some cat play with a roll of yarn or something, and I have to watch and think about liberty insurance. Okay, Well, if you're trying to watch videos of kittens playing with the r and you probably deserved to have to watch a liberty Okay. And finally, in movie news, I saw Daniel Caluya from Get Out. He came out and said that he was not invited to the premiere of the movie back when it came out. I thought that was interesting that he is the main star of that movie, and while he was filming that movie, he was also shooting Black Panther, but he knew that that was coming out there was gonna be a premiere, so he actually cleared his schedule to be invited to that premiere, but he was never invited. He said, like the invite never came, and he was like, okay, I guess I'll just stay home. And somebody texted him afterwards like about the premiere. I just thought that was weird because you kind of feel like when you're the star of a movie, you don't know it's going to be a hit. Yeah, but you're like, all right, at least I'm a part of it. And to not get invited to something like that, would you feel awful? I feel very sad. That's really sad, Like when you were a kid and you would hear someone talking about their birthday party and then you didn't get an invite. And I get it if you're like not the main person in the movie, if your side character, but you're the main character in the movie and Jordan Peele can't give you an invite. I thought that was pretty messed up. That's pretty crappy. I just imagine I would feel awful, and then I wouldn't want to promote the movie after it comes out, because you're like, they didn't even invite me to the premiere. Why am I going to go out of my way to promote this movie. But again, I think that movie was grateful for him. It really put him into the level he is now and then need to go to the premiere. He went on to do Black Panther. He's been a lot of great things now. So I just think that Jordan Peele will look back. He hasn't commented on it yet, but like realized we probably messed up and not inviting him. I don't know if it was like a strategic thing. Why didn't invite him, But that seems pretty messed up. Yeah, you don't have to think that wasn't just like a small oversight. You think it was like a failed email, like, oh, we didn't invite him, Like, I just feel like there was something a reason there why he didn't get invited. I don't know. I don't know if Yeah, like it feels like when we invited to a birthday party, which I wasn't invited to many birthday parties as a kid. I don't think I can name one birthday party that wasn't family that I was invited to. Can you for myself? Yeah, yeah, so you were cooler than me. Growing up was like being popular and having friends it wasn't popular. I awkwardly like tagged along to somebody's birthday party in high school and definitely wasn't invited. That was a very uncomfortable experience. The person opened the door and for sure wondered why I was there, and oh that is awkward. See, the thing with me is I was always hanging out with people who were older than me. Like I hung out a lot with my cousins who are older and my brother who was older, and I would just kind of tag along and be the young kid hanging out with older kids a lot of the time, and I guess by association, I was like not cool but accepted. They're like, oh, that's just somebody's younger brother, younger cousin. So I would have kind of have a in there, and it would be weird to be in those situations. And somebody from my actual classes there too, and I'm like, just hear this loser here by because I know somebody who's related to somebody who put on a party. But that's my kind of Yeah, that's how I was growing up. Never really went to parties aside from hanging out with my cousins and my brother. I mean, I think I stopped going to birthday parties like after like nine, so I stopped being cool after the elementary school. Well maybe we'll be cool someday. Probably I just want to grow up to be cool someday. But anyway, that is the episode for this a week, and as always, we got to give our listeners shout out of the Week. To get one of these, all you have to do is simple, just tweet me, send me a d M on Instagram, or you can email me. Movie Mike d at gmail dot com and I got a really nice email from Tanya, who Sometimes I open up the email and there's always just one that makes my day. They put in a lot of thought to like write out like how long they've been listening or just what they know me from, and I read them all. So if you send me an email, know that I go through all those and check them out and I reply to them even if I don't read them here on the podcast. But this one came to us from Tanya. She said, Mike, I wanted to thank you for being so much fun to listen to on your podcast. I've been listening to the podcast since day one. I love that. First of all, like day one, I'll admit when I first started this podcast wasn't that great. I am not really an outgoing person, and the only place that I can really like talk and quote unquote perform is behind a microphone. Like whether it was when I was doing stand up comedy, when I had a podcast, back when nobody listened to podcasts, or now doing this podcast, and even when I started this it was kind of weird too. Go back in debt to that creative role, to where I was doing all the talking to where people who know me from the Bobby Bones Show they hear me very rarely and it's usually very quick, and here I am doing forty five minute episodes. So appreciate anybody who listened from day one and listen to that first episode and it was like, this is something I still want to listen to you. She went on to say, I listened to the Bobby Bones Show hashtag b Team four things with Amy Brown and the Bobby cast, so naturally I had to come support you here. Plus it was a bonus to actually get to hear you instead of you telling the studio something and then relaying it or having a brief moment on the air. And just really appreciated that. And yeah, that is kind of my role on the Bobby Bones Show, Like I am in there, A lot of the stuff I do is behind the scenes, and if something happens during the show, I usually like shout something out, I'll fact check something. So that's kind of my role on the air and I like it, Like I don't really in that setting. Want to be a person on the air, and I love to be able to do kind of things that I know about which our movies and do it in this kind of format, So I think I love that I've been able to kind of express it here and that you guys listening have been into it. So appreciate all the day ones out there. Appreciate you Tanya for sending this email. And that is our episode for today. Anything else you want to say, Kelsey, I don't think of anything that's great. What should we watch this weekend? New episode of One Division? One Division? I love One Division. We've watched it from the very beginning, and I think maybe the first two episodes, I didn't know if I was going to love it because I loved Vision as a character in the Marvel movies, and Wanda really kind of became like my secondary like really great character, and I love how different it is and how this series is actually going to tie it back into the Marvel universe in the movies, which they've never done before, Like all the other Marvel movie TV show adaptations have had kind of like and they allude to what happened to the Avengers, but this will be the only time ever that the TV show will go back into the movies. So that'll be fun to watch. If you're not watching One Division, it's probably because you have too many things to watch. But another great TV show recommendation and it will tie back into movie So that's how it works. All right. Well that's the episode. Thanks everybody for hanging out. We'll talk to you again next Monday. Hope you enjoyed the interview with lou Diamond phillips Um. If you don't mind, go tag him on Twitter saying that you liked him on the episode. Maybe you'll see a bunch of those and be like, hey, I just did some random interview. I think people actually like it, So go tag him on Twitter. He is at Lou d phillips on Twitter. Just tell him you listen to him on Movie Mix Movie Podcast and maybe he'll come back and do another episode. Also, before we go, it's now what one year anniversary since the first time you're on this podcast, so and now you're like my go to co host and because I'm the one really available and we lived together. So thank you for being on the podcast. Thank you for being the co host, and thank you for bringing a new breath of fresh air to the podcast. Keep doing more episodes. All right, We'll talk to you guys next week here on the podcast, and until then, later Thady