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Josh Dietrich and Konlin Gappmayer discuss their media consumption, new and old. They discuss the good, the bad, and the impact it has on their lives
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The Firm
The Firm
The Companion, The Pitt
00:00 - The Companion
08:00 - The Pitt
31:36 - The Firm
Hey guys, it's onscreen offscreen back with another episode this week. Thanks for watching. We talk about movies, books, TV shows, all those kinds of things that we're watching and how they influence us. We're in the search of things that uplift us and make us wanna be a little bit better people. I'm gonna start with my topic this time, and it's the companion. It is a very, very strange movie. Um, basically this guy. You don't know if you don't watch the trailer. And I think this movie actually would be better if you didn't watch the trailer. the main girl is a AI companion, an AI robot companion who been purchased by the, the main guy character. she gets traded like slave, a compa, uh, servant, that kind of thing. And they're making a very heavy handed suggestion of. Feminism and being put down and all of those kinds of things. That's very, very heavy handed. And, um, there's another AI companion who is, who belongs to this gay guy, and they make a lot of the same suggestions with him that the gay guy is put down upon and just treated like a slave and all these kind of things. I think that they could have made all of these different points and had it be more, more powerful and more f more full. Instead, they kind of make shallow points and they shove it down your throat. And the interesting thing about sci-fi is when you have a talented enough writer that they can make a lot of these same points. Without shoving it down your throat, like Dex D. x Ana is a great and they make a lot of the same points about slavery and women getting put down upon, but it's written well enough that it's not shoved down your throat and it allows you to actually think, it allows you to actually to breathe. one is just like, this is what you need to think. We're telling you what to. We want you to think, think it. And it becomes more and more and more that way throughout the entire show. Making it so it's not very satisfying. Um, the horror aspect of it feels more like a horror comedy, but it's not a horror comedy that's really done very well. So you have people getting slashed up. You have like a girl, a guy's arm gets smashed in a door. Not that horrifying. The AI companion girl who is kind of, you're supposed to feel bad for her, but she's a robot and there's times where she's kind of a psychopath. So you don't really root for her either. She's not the final girl that you really wanna root for, and she's supposed to take place of that final girl in who, so you're just kinda left with a main character that you don't really root that much for, um, a big political talking point that's getting shoved down your throat a guy that is like cartoonishly, uh, stereotypically macho dude. Who is like the big, mean, bad guy who's putting down all these women, and macho is not the right word, patriotical, oppressive kind of dude. and at least you unsatisfied. I don't think this movie's very good. It's not really one I would ever recommend to people, it looked better than was. I would give it a. Four. not terrible, but it's not very good. Have you seen any trailers for this or anything?
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I never even heard of it.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Okay. Yeah. It's just a, the trailer gives a lot of way, it's a lot more interesting when you're watching the show and you think they're just starting out, they're going on a date. So they go up to this cabin and they're, they're playing games then all of a sudden weird things start happening. Then somebody tries to take advantage of our main girl. She's like, yeah, you're kind, you're, you're kind or made for use is kind of what he's basically saying. And she is, someone's trying to take advantage of her and she fights back and the this guy dies. She ends up slicing his throat coming in and she's covered with blood. It would be so much more interesting if you didn't know that she was a AI robot. It would be interesting, more interesting with the point that they're trying to make. It wouldn't feel. Quite as ridiculous. Um, and the surprise of, oh, when they wait, when they, when he turns her off and calls the police would be a lot more shocking and a lot more fulfilling. But instead, you're just left with, oh, she's, she's a robot they're making things about the fact that she's a robot. Okay. And he's asking her to go and make him a sandwich or whatever. Okay. We get, we get your point. Oh, now he's using the other gay guy's robot to go and hunt her down and convincing it. That's it. It's in love with him. Okay, cool. I guess it's just, I don't know, it, it was not, not my favorite show, and it's not one that I necessarily would tell people to watch.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:How does it rate on the, in the public eye compared to what you're rating it?
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Let me look right now. I don't know, probably higher. Uh, 6.9. It is rated. It's higher than I expected. Horror
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:So
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:never get rated that high.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:it is technically a horror movie then.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Yes.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:And what, where did you come across this? What led you to deciding to watch this?
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:watching, I think I was at the movie theater actually. Um, and it was, it was a trailer that played and I was like, that looks interesting. The, the, the trailer literally looks good. It looks like a dark comedy, looks like a, an interesting. Point of view. It has an interesting idea behind it. there's a lot of aspects that look really good. I just, I, I don't think it's very good.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Fair enough.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Like this review says it's like Black mirror, but bloody air and nastier. No Black Mirror has interesting ideas. Or they don't try to just shove it down your throat. They explore the ideas and. I'm all about ideas that I don't necessarily agree with. If they're explored really, really well, this one just in my opinion, doesn't do that.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Okay. Well. Sorry you watched that, but
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:me too. But I'm glad. Apparently I'm, I believe in the minority. most of the time horn movies end up in a. six five area. It's very, very rare for them to get above a seven on an IMDB. The fact that this is that close is crazy'cause no, it doesn't deserve it. Even as far as AI robot movies, I liked, uh, Megan. Way better than this. Way better than this.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Fair enough. I haven't seen Megan, so I can't speak to that, but I know there's a new one coming out.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:It looks so bad. It is one of the worst looking movies I have ever seen. It's looks so bad that I kinda wanna watch it'cause it looks that stupid, like
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Fair enough.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:let's go onto your topic. What do you got, man?
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Okay, so my topic is the pit. Uh, you recommended this saying it was very house like
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:That's how I
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:because I was speaking towards like, house is one of the only medical shows I couldn't really enjoy. Never really got into scrubs.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Either
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I hate, oh, what's the really popular long running one?
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:er,
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Er, no, there's another one.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:um, the one that every
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Grey's Anatomy.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:reason. Yes. It's
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I cannot stand that show. Um, so I was honestly very skeptical. Uh. Not really wanting, not really high on my list to watch, even though you called it like house. Um, house is just very kind of a unique show and I had my doubts from that
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Mm-hmm.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:scrolling through social media and I saw a scene from it and I kind of got to a point where I was like, you know, I don't really have anything else to watch right now.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Yeah.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:guess I'll turn this on. Why not? This show is fantastic and it's nothing like house.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Doesn't it have a same
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Nope.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:and tone of how, that's
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Nope. Not at all. Not at all. Nope.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Okay.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Uh, I think the later episodes aren't super great, honestly. Um, they do start to do things that isn't very. In, in, in the, uh, best interest of the show, I feel like, or as like what the show was supposed to be. Uh, I, so for those of you who dunno, it's a medical drama. It's centered around an emergency room.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Mm-hmm.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah, each episode is like 45 minutes long, but it represents one hour of a shift in the er, and we follow along with characters who are first time in the er. And you have a nice balance, right? So you have an intern kid, you have somebody who's a first year, second year, and a third year, and. You have residents, two senior residents and a main attending doctor for the shift. And along with the nurses and everything, I really had a lot of fun with the show as I was watching along. I would watch an episode and then I would watch, uh, Dr. Mike's analysis of it.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Oh, that's cool. I didn't know he did one.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah, so he, he just released his first episode seven, so he ha he doesn't have them for every episode. But I was finding it very interesting to see like an actual doctor's point of view on accuracy, things that would be happening. And you can tell if you watch those episodes at the very beginning of the show, Dr. Mikey's like, oh yeah, this is super accurate. Super appreciate this thing. I love that the doctors made this comment, like, listen to the nurses, they know more than you, you know, different aspects to that is all super great. And then they kind of do some other stuff and even Dr. Mike is like, yeah, that's great and all, but it's not really an ER setting kind of a thing because it's an emergency room. So they're really just trying to stabilize and figure things out and then have them, you know. Do the follow up later. Like there's an, there's like an episode where one of the characters is just trying to figure this out. She figures it out and then she's like, Hey, now we gotta talk about the follow up and you know what you should be doing over the next month. And he was like, yeah, that wouldn't happen anymore.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Okay.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:They would, you know, figure it out, move it along, bring the next person in.'cause the next person is likely bleeding from the head and needs attention right now. You know? So. He, he very frequently starts making that point more and more in his reviews of the show as the show goes along. And it's like, yeah. Uh, there was a lot of stuff in, um, from Dr. Mike's point of view that I found very interesting. Um, so for me it was, I thought the doctor was very out of line when talking to the daughter about the abortion. Because I was like, that's a family decision. You should not be pushing your point of view or desires to that family at all. That's way overstepping the boundaries. That was my perspective
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:that's
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:his perspective. He was like, it was so great that he brought the family together, made it, you know what a wonderful coaching,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Interesting.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:to me I was like, A doctor should not be pushing a opinion. To like that, that's between those people.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:If that's
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:is
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:too.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:to them. They should decide what they want to do. Um, so just, just crazy. And then, you know, some other things. But on the other side, you're following along, you gain so much appreciation for the healthcare workers. Um.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Especially that one kid who just like keeps having to change his scrubs over and over again.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah, like poor, poor kid. For me, it really hit home when talking about the abuse of healthcare workers, right? Like the head nurse gets punched out and she's like, why even worry about it,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Yep.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:nothing's gonna happen. And I'm like, that is disgusting. We are physically assaulting. People who save lives in a thankless job because we can't practice patience anymore as a society. That was appalling to me. And I think anybody who abuses anybody for any reason, but specifically those who are out trying to help, that is just despicable behavior. Um,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Agree.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:but like. On my own side. Uh, immediately following one of the episodes, I sent a text to my mom just saying like, Hey, I really appreciate you. I know I have not always expressed that as a child, but you're a great mom.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:I literally did the same thing with my mom
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah. So we're following along. There's no logical reason for this show to have so much depth and. All this kinds of stuff, like you're talking about literally a 15 hour shift, you're following along one hour at a time, right? You don't really get to know these characters, but like there's the birthing scene, there's, you know, all those things. There's the nurse who's like. Super wants to have a baby and she's so excited that she's finally pregnant and you're just rooting for her. And then she has the miscarriage and your heart just like absolutely breaks for the, for these people. And it's like, oh my gosh. Yeah. Um, fantastic show. I really hope we get more of this kind of show, if not like a season two of this show. The writing is fantastic. The way it's shot is fantastic. The characters are all really well done.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:They're all really well done and I appreciate how real they feel. You have that one girl who kind of thinks that she's hot shit and won't listen to anybody, but she feels that's a hard character to write. That's a hard thing to write and become likable and feel like it's realistic without hating that person. I don't hate, I don't hate her, like I, I believe her. I see her being in that setting. I see her being character, like she's really, really well written
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:She is, I still hate her.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:I don't hate her. I
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I hate her.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:her.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Oh no. I absolutely hate her. Uh,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:And you've got
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:but I also hate
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:oh
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:the, uh, the senior re resident, the guy who just treats her like crap all the time.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:he's the one that
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:And you're like, I hate them both. I think they're both in the wrong.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:also understand where he's coming from.'cause he is like dealing with all this crap all the time. And he is always being questioned. He is like, I've done this for, so just, just trust me. Just shut up and trust me and. I get like, that's really good writing and I like the, uh, the one nurse who's really good with people and how she's really good with people, but she also has other weaknesses. Like they did a good job of not making anybody feel Mary Sue. They all
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Oh, for sure. Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:they have their strengths and their weaknesses and they're, it's
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah. Yeah. Uh, my problem with him, and it's brought up in, like, in Dr. Mike's, he talks about those interactions and he's like, I think that's awful that he does that. Like he should be willing to listen and like my perspective is like they're both wrong because he should be able to, she should be able to bring up her. Thoughts and her process and challenge, and he should respectfully be able to say, I understand. Let's talk that through. This is why we're doing this thing.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Or
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:But instead,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:time to be able to do that, be like. I understand where you're coming from. We can talk later. We just don't have time right now. I'm sorry, we, we
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:yeah, treating people with respect. Absolutely. But she disrespectfully treats him and he disrespectfully treats her back and I'm like, they're both. Wrong in that situation. Like yes, they do feel like real people. There are absolutely real people like that. I'm not saying that they are very well written characters, I just hate them both. Uh, my problem with both of their characters is towards the end of the show, this is my knock against it, is they devolve as interesting characters who are clashing and become a character who was right and a character who was wrong. And neither, neither of them really learned a lesson about it.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Okay.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:They're like, oh, and he's a drug dealer. And she was right along
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Hmm.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:like, okay, so she didn't really learn any humility and neither did he.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:And so,
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I we really could have actually done something me meaningful with these characters, and we didn't. And to me the most disappointing part about that is actually the highlight of the show for me
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:okay.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:is the, the attending doctor. What a great example of great healthcare, standing up and fighting for your employees, treating them with respect, all this kinds of stuff, all while having the aspect of he's dealing with the loss of his mentor, like everybody says, like, oh, he doesn't care about his patients, um, satisfaction and. But like every time he's dealing with a patient, you're like, no, he's treating them so well. He's treating them so respectfully.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Even when it's being really hard for him, like he's, there's
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:where there's the animals on the wall and he keeps looking over to it. Then he gets back into the zone and he does what he has to do
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:he looks over at the animals and he gets back in the zone. And I loved how they kept, they, they literally, you could see on his face in the way that he acted somebody who has a job to do and is struggling.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:So
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:but still does the right thing anyway.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Yep.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:but like for me, the highlights are anytime he has to talk to any of the other doctors.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Okay.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Like I sent you the text that this was such a great example of holding somebody to a high bar and still treating them with respect without belittling them or attacking them personally.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Yeah,
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:And like, I'm a boss, I'm a manager. Watching this show made me want to be a better boss and a better manager. And
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:that's really cool.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:it gives a great example of how to do that. And he listens to everybody. He talks to them respectfully. He admits when he's wrong. He challenges their ideas. He lets them challenge his ideas. And then when the shit hits the fan and they're like impending emergency, he's still taking the time to be like, Hey, that kid over there is a possible suspect. You need to go talk to the mom. Right? What a high level of intelligence does somebody have to have to be dealing with all of these things. And he does it. And he never once takes his own crap out on anybody else except for the one time that he does. And when he does, he goes to that person and he's like, Hey, that was wrong of me to do it in that way, even though I was right. Like. Honestly, if I was trying to teach a management one-on-one class, I would be like, Hey everybody, watch this show
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:And do what he
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:and do what he's doing.'cause I have never seen anything exemplify that so well, and while we're talking about it, at the same time, we're getting characters who are making us love and appreciate our moms and our families and our friendship and healthcare workers in general and this, that, and the other. And they're dealing things with shootings and. You know, all of these very specific details and like, you know, one of the main plot lines of the show drug overdose, uh, on abortion and like the importance of what our legislation takes on that and all that kind of stuff. Like,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:a really angry guy who's just angry because he has to sit there.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:yeah. And like. Honestly, if my perspective is, if those people are in the waiting room, they probably don't actually need to be there in the first place. But like if you, if you can sit and wait for eight to 12 hours for something, you can probably schedule a, an appointment with your, your, your family practitioner. But like, that's, that's not for me to actually decide. Um, what a great show. What an absolute great, great show. This is going on my all time top 10 list. I absolutely love this show. Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Wow.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:'cause even, even my criticisms,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:that high for me. Wow.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:even my criticisms, it's not like I don't believe that that guy was a drug dealer. It's like, I really wish that they had not done that.'cause it feels like a little bit of a easy answer to this situation. Where I would've preferred him having to deal with the disrespectful student and her having to learn how to communicate respectfully to superiors,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:cool.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:right? Like that's my criticism of, of it. And the only part that I don't believe logically is the part where it's also him and he's talking to the special needs guy and he's just like, I just can't talk to him. And I was like, no, you're a senior doctor in an ER setting. You have seen so many people on the spectrum. There's no way you just can't do it, and is just so amazed that somebody else can, that to me was like, there's no way he would even, this guy would be able to talk to this guy and get through. Dealing with him and wouldn't be like, I don't even know what to do. I'm so dumb. Now. I think outside of the doctor setting, it's a very cool thing for people to look at and think in a different way because us as people who don't deal in the medical industries, probably don't deal with that kind of communication as often. So it's, it's a thing that's for the audience. I just, I find it hard to believe that a doctor. In this day and age, right? He's not some old worn down guy who's been, you know, doing things for a thousand years and is a little set in his ways. He's a fresh, young, 20 something doctor, right? Like the spectrum has been on the rise. We're all familiar with it. We all have family members and friends who are on the spectrum. There was no way. He just had no idea how to deal with any of it. Now there were some stuff that I didn't think about doing, like shutting the door and, and turning off the lights. Like everything she does is exceptional when dealing with that patient. I just don't buy how out of touch he would be.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:yeah, I agree.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:And like, that's, that's such a minor criticism. Criticism of it. Like the way that Devolves is also just a minor criticism of it. I don't know how re watchable this show is gonna be because of the pacing and because you already know everything now.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:That's the reason it wouldn't go on my top 10. I think the show is great. I really do. I'm glad you liked it as much as you did. I thought you would like it. But I don't really have a desire to rewatch it. It was a great watch for me. That's of it.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Right, like when we're talking about medical dramas, like how often do I rewatch House,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:I've
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:is on my top 10 list. I've rewatched it More than that, I, I love house. I don't know if this one's better. I don't know how much more re watchable it is. I can tell you at some point I will rewatch this show. Um, this is definitely the kind of show that I'd be like, oh, you haven't seen this. Let's watch this together.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Okay,
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:is the kind of show, it's not just like a, Hey, you should watch this. This is a kind of show that I would love to watch with people.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:cool.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Because it's just, it gives you so much appreciation for so much stuff
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:That's true.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:and it's so well read and it's so good. And even though I feel like the last few episodes aren't as great, it's still exceptional and like even the worst of it, I would say is like an easy eight out of 10'cause it's so good. This show's fantastic. If anybody has not seen the pit. Watch it. I highly recommend doing what I did where you watch an episode of the Pit Watch, Dr. Mike's review of that episode up until what he has so far. It gives you such a good insight and a different perspective on things and like some things that are gonna surprise you and some things that are not. And it's, it's just, it's so good,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:It's a
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:such a good show.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:It's a great show. I was going to give it for me. It's an eight I, it's an eight show, I'm also just even house. I really enjoy house, but I'm just not that into medical dramas. and those are, are easily the two best.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I think it depends on who you are. I think there's an argument to, for scrubs, like it's not my thing, but I can see a place where that is that and like. For whatever reason, a lot of people love Grey's Anatomy, right?
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:That show has
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:That's that.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:that I make fun of, constantly choose me, love me. It's the cringes scene of all, all, all TV shows of all time. And I make fun of it all the time. I guess I could see scrubs. I, I like sitcoms and stuff. It just. I watched one season of it and I don't understand why people like it that much. I don't find it funny. I just didn't
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I am right there with you. I totally agree it, but for me it's like I can see this is just not my thing, right? I'm a, I'm 100% with you. Medical dramas,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:not my thing.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:not re not usually my thing. I usually don't like them, but when they hit, they hit so hard. They're so good. For me, it's house and this one.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:I might, I don't really wanna rewatch house that much either, to be completely honest. I might like this one a little bit better than house, but it's close
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I think it depends.'cause early on house is good,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:it
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:middle house is not very good. Late house, mid to late house is very good. Late house is terrible.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:yeah.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:It goes through this like. Uh,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:one season, and the
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:we only have one season
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:of not
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:and it's
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:the two.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:absolutely, yeah, like the highs are pretty close. House just has lows because it's, it went on quite a bit longer.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Yeah. So you have time to be able to develop those lows and
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:through
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:And they're also, like I said, very different shows. I, I don't see house in this at all.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:I saw the tonality as being fairly similar.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I did not see that at all. There is no, no at all person. There's no, um, Wilson to bounce ideas off of. There's no other group of doctors where they're trying to find this zebra. Like the house is ultimately a puzzle show. This is not a puzzle show. It's very much er, it's a, they came in, find the horse fi, fix the horse well enough that they can move on to something else. And there's no real like mysteries or will they figure it out in time things.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:It's just this is is trying to be as realistic as possible while being in a TV show setting
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah. And they do a pretty good job with the accuracy.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Does the artful dodger count as a medical drama?
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yes,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Okay. I love that show. I love that show. That one would also get on my list easily.'cause I
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:it's, I wouldn't say it's like a traditional medical drama, but I would say it's a medical drama. That one is a lot more in line with House than I would say this one is.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:All right. Interesting.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Interesting. Okay, cool. Well guys, that is, hi. His review of the Pit, quite good review. Let's go to our last topic, and I actually have to change all of my notes for this one because I wrote these while I was watching it, and the first. of this show I do find extremely boring. it's the firm and I was bored outta my mind for the first quarter of this movie, and I was absolutely ready to write this off as being like a piece of crap. Boring, He's a cheating bastard, kind of a movie. the end of it, I think the story gets more complex. It gets a lot more interesting. Tom Cruise does a better job. Um. the mafia gang aspect of it. It was a cool gang with lawyer movie. I think the acting does better in the second half. The music is better, the cinematography is better. This movie gets better once you get past the first quarter of it. Um, and it ended up being really interesting. I liked that the wife, even though she's suffering, she doesn't like completely forgive him, but she's, it's also her husband and she loves him and. She decides to help him out even though he doesn't completely deserve it. I liked that aspect of the relationship. I liked the way that he tricks the cops and the, his clients and everybody who has all of these different impacts on him to be able to accomplish what he needed to accomplish. It felt very much like a James Bond type of a situation. All, every, all the enemies are against you. What clever way am I gonna get out of this problem? But it's all logical. It's, it's well written. It's good. I wish the first part of this movie was better the rest of it is pretty good. But the first part doesn't make, it makes me not even wanna rewatch the movie.'cause I didn't like the first part of this movie. What did you think?
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I disagree completely.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Really?
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I think this show's fantastic.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:That's what I think about the last part of the movie. I
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I think it's all fantastic.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:You
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah, the beginning point is a little slow. You're establishing these characters, you're getting to know them, and I feel like if you had seen this show when it had first come out, you would agree.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:okay.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I think the problem with this show is people have taken this same general plot and reapplied it and changed it and improved it, and you've seen those things. So you see the beginning part and being like, oh, this is so slow. I get it,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:That's
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:but you only get it'cause you've seen the stuff that is being ripped off from this.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:That's a
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:That's, that's just my theory on that. I obviously don't know that, but that's kind of how I felt. But at the, I was still very much appreciative of. Oh my gosh. We like, we have Tom Cruise as a family man and really trying to achieve everything. Even though she says it's not what she needs or wants, she never asked for it. He's really pushing to provide it anyway. Like what a human emotion, what a human desire, and we're figuring that out. I didn't like that he cheated.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Me either
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Like, I was like, this doesn't add. Even after it all ended, I was like, this really, this doesn't add up for me. I like, they could have had a fight about literally anything else, and I would've been a little bit more on board with it. But the fact that he goes for, from, I'm not gonna cheat to immediately cheating
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:stop.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:was dumb to me. I could not stand it. And even the payoff later with like, oh, it was a whole setup. I was like, duh. Uh, but that was my one negative mark on that. Is this the best Tom Cruise movie ever? No, it's not. Is this gonna be highly rewatched to me also? No, it's not. Like I said, we, we've iterated on this plot line. We've improved on it. Is it necessary in this day and age? I would say probably not. But it was a kind of like a refreshing change of pace for me. And Tom Cruise. Uh,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:He is different in this. He's a
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:yeah,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:bit different of a character, which is nice.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:I think a quite different character. Him playing the lawyer is even different than his lawyer and a few good men. Uh, I was very appreciative of his acting when he was doing his running action scene. Because he didn't feel like an action star, even though we all know him as that. He felt like a guy who was just trying to get out. And I was like, that makes sense. Yeah. Like
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:That's cool. I like
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:if this was mission impossible, he'd be jumping off of buildings and swinging between things and instead he's literally just like running for his life and is often outran. He just outthinks his. His chaser from time to time. I was very appreciative of that. I was like, holy crap. What a cool acting riding direction to take this. When you have Tom Cruise.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:famous for his running scenes.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Yeah. And his chase scenes and like action stuff and there's no real big stunts, like the stunt is he jumps out of a building into a giant pillow like.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Okay.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:Very, very cool. It all felt so human. Uh, the fact that he develops this plan and he's putting it all together, but it kind of falls apart just a little too early for him. I really liked that aspect to it. I thought this was a really, really good movie all the way through. I liked that they took the time in the beginning to establish what kind of person this, these people are, even though. They established it and kind of dragged that out a little too long. Um, I don't feel like it, it ruins it for me at all. Um, having him be established as like, this highly desirable lawyer was a big thing on the flip side. Right. I'm gonna criticize it now again. The fact that his wife is raising concerns and the fact that he wasn't concerned at all that the, this law firm in this poor city was willing to pay him twice as much as the next highest or 40% more would be like, okay, the fact that you didn't have questions about that,
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:It's weird.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:like you, you're, you're like a top 1% recruit from Harvard right now.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:You
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:You didn't have any concerns with this. You were just like, oh, they're gonna give me a Mercedes. How amazing. And then your wife, who you love and trust and establish that you love and trust goes up and tells you that like, Hey, that lady just says that they strongly encourage children. And she's like, how do they do that? And they're like, it just shows stability for the firm. The fact that somebody would say that would be like, well, if they're trying to. Put stability on the face of it. What is behind that mask?'cause what a, like, the fact that he didn't have any questions about that is the like, logical question I have with his character, but it's necessary for the plot. So it's forgivable at the same time.'cause Yeah. And then. At the end you have the FBI guy and he's like, is this really all you got for us? And he's like, shows off his math skills. And he's like, that's more than what you got the mobster for on tax evasion. So you should be grateful. I'm like. D are you missing the point here, Tom Cruise? Like do you think the point was to just get the lawyers or was he trying to take down the whole thing? I think he made it pretty freaking clear. He wanted to take down the whole thing. Um, small little nitpicks there for me like is I thought that this show was very enjoyable. For me, it's like a seven and a half out of 10 because I don't know about the re-watch ability of it for me, but I really enjoyed going through it and I, I loved watching it.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Cool. I, uh, I'm surprisingly at a seven and a half two, even though I'm way more down on the first quarter.'cause I, I love the ending of this movie. I thought the ending was great. Really, really enjoyed it. but that first quarter of the movie, I was not thrilled. Not throw that all this would be an easy eight, eight and a half for me if it wasn't for the fact that I think the first quarter is damns locked.
josh-dietrich_2_06-11-2025_135246:If that's fair. Like I said, I, I really enjoy it. I, I don't know about rewatch ability. For me, that's my only real concern with this one.
konlin-gappmayer_2_06-11-2025_175242:Fair enough. Fair enough. Alright guys, that is gonna be our episode. Thanks for. us. We appreciate you. If there's anything that you're watching you want us to watch, um, we will absolutely do that. We we're grateful. If you have any comments, want us to do anything, just let us know. We'll see you guys. Bye.
