Movie Mindset 33 - Casino feat. Felix
Added 2025-04-23 11:00:33 +0000 UTCWhen you love movies, you’ve got to watch them. There’s no other way…Movie Mindset Season 3 commences with our first ever single feature on the most referenced movie in Chapo Trap House history: Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Casino. Will and Hesse are joined by Felix to take a kaleidoscopic and dizzying dive into the inferno of American greed that is Las Vegas. Anchored by a triumvirate of all career great performances from Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci in FULL PSYCHO MODE, Casino is by equal turns hilarious and stomach turning and stands alone as Scorsese’s grandest and most generous examination of evil and the tragic flaws that doom us all.
Should you listen even if you haven’t seen this movie?
Why take a chance? At least that the way we feel about it.
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Max Fennig
2025-10-28 23:25:43 +0000 UTCI love everything about this movie except it being 3 hours long. I just don’t think I’m cut out for a movie over 2.5 hours. Man does this episode remind of so many gags in this movie, will is right when he says not a second is wasted
Strawberry Horse
2025-06-30 17:48:09 +0000 UTCI had a hankering for this for a while and it was great! The girlfriend hated it though lol
Joe Hillside
2025-05-31 06:12:55 +0000 UTCI think you gotta meet a triple Gemini in real life they’re the exact opposite of Sam Rothstein lmao
Hesse Deni
2025-05-29 02:42:35 +0000 UTCI watched Trainspotting with my mom when I was 12 because she had a crush of Ewan McGregor
Chapo Bath House
2025-05-14 17:24:24 +0000 UTC“Honestly I need to talk about this movie with somebody” in my family that film was Apocalypse now, I was probably 12 or 13
Jessie Cherbak
2025-05-10 14:04:18 +0000 UTCSo glad you guys finally did this episode!!
Corey Reynolds
2025-05-09 05:23:56 +0000 UTCS4E1 better be Inland Empire
Teriyaki sticks
2025-05-08 17:29:30 +0000 UTCAre we just going to brush over the fact that Sam Rothstein’s character is entirely explained by his ♊️☀️♊️🌙 ♊️⬆️
Galen
2025-05-01 18:12:17 +0000 UTCI always thought the desert scene was a great parallel for the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Girth Brooks
2025-04-30 17:44:04 +0000 UTCI haven't seen or really heard of this movie at all outside of little bits from the show, I was sole at the description of that assassination scene though so I'll come back to this episode after I see it
Dustin Nelson
2025-04-30 16:47:30 +0000 UTCWhen are y’all gonna do Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter”?
Patrick M.
2025-04-30 02:49:52 +0000 UTCGood stuff, I've seen Casino more times than I can count and it never gets old. This old doc is a great companion piece for it. I grew up in Vegas and remember when this originally aired. It has some great footage of when Lefty (Ace) went off on Harry Reid at the licensing hearing. Spilatro's (Nicky's) lawyer went on to become the Mayor and also played himself in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWtgb3lsYiw
RMC
2025-04-30 00:53:14 +0000 UTCGood stuff, I've seen Casino more times than I can count and it never gets old. This old doc is a great companion piece for it. I grew up in Vegas and remember when this originally aired. It has some great footage of when Lefty (Ace) went off on Harry Reid at the licensing hearing. Spilatro's (Nicky's) lawyer went on to become the Mayor and also played himself in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWtgb3lsYiw
Ryan Chism
2025-04-30 00:43:52 +0000 UTCPlaying stud roulette
Horse Badorties
2025-04-29 04:38:59 +0000 UTCThe cheapest nurse in America
Horse Badorties
2025-04-29 03:07:59 +0000 UTCTwice!
Ernest Ambrus
2025-04-28 11:39:01 +0000 UTCDisclaimer: of course it would be nice if Matt were on, but it's still a perfect episode. The Starship Troopers video on YouTube is what got me into Chapo, and this episode gives me the exact same feeling. Someone needs to make a video of this episode with scenes from the movie.
Tommy
2025-04-28 01:45:03 +0000 UTCPerfect episode
Tommy
2025-04-28 01:41:57 +0000 UTCI had never seen this before and it ruined my life thank you
Lizard
2025-04-27 23:20:19 +0000 UTCThe Middle class: this is all the explanation you need to understand why the "culture war" got exported to South America.
Khemith
2025-04-27 20:37:23 +0000 UTCI wish movie mindset was all year round but I understand that makes it sweeter when it happens
Lillie Connell
2025-04-27 13:39:04 +0000 UTCNo, will check in out. Going to Leave my recommendation for The Cooler here. William h Macy playa the titular cooler (casino hires him b/c he has contagious bad luck)
Degrassi Knoll
2025-04-27 13:13:30 +0000 UTCI was relistening to this and I realized you guys forgot to mention the incredible joke early on in the movie, wherein Pesci, while narrating says "Even back home years ago" and the words "back home years ago" flash on the screen. My favorite joke in the movie, and maybe in ANY movie.
Gordon Schmidt
2025-04-26 22:26:29 +0000 UTCHas anyone seen American Hustle? It’s David O. Russel doing a baggy & shapeless tribute to Casino.
Erik Weissengruber
2025-04-26 22:13:46 +0000 UTCcannot explain in words how much better this makes the already amazing experience of watching Casino. there was so many great observations I never even noticed. Felix’s point about Artie Piscano’s step brother telling him he can’t let the Kansas City bosses make a fool out of him was so good I’m literally in tears. and then when Joe Pesci breaks into the the old woman’s house dressed as a newsboy and shoots her in the head. and Will’s comment about james woods playing himself. and Hesse’s point about Di Niro loving the anarchy of the vegas when he can run a casino without a license and gets awards and country clubs dinners, but at the same time needing to have this like fascist control over every minute detail in his life. so good. I could listen to this a thousand times
Reece Coren
2025-04-26 14:45:52 +0000 UTCThe Apprentice was good.
altpub
2025-04-25 23:20:06 +0000 UTCspeaking of podcast canon movies--will you have the radio war nerds on to talk the evil dead for ghoulvie mindset?
Christopher Price
2025-04-25 23:12:14 +0000 UTC“In emails you refer to him as ‘Mo’ …”
I.P. Freely
2025-04-25 22:18:43 +0000 UTCGreat episode to the point I had to watch it again and just a testament to how amazing Scorsese is with little details, after Ace’s hyper OCD scene with the blueberry muffins, in the last wide shot you see a tray of the muffins and they are in fact wildly inconsistent. Half of them have way too much blueberries and some barely have any. Brilliant stuff. It’s Ace being super neurotic AND valid.
Robert Calcagno
2025-04-25 21:25:55 +0000 UTCRecently watched the act of killing, horrific movie which follows a gang of Indonesian guys who were part of the front lines of genocide. They absolutely love gangster flicks like this, made it part of the official state rhetoric how gangster is not a dirty word
Ksizzle
2025-04-25 19:12:05 +0000 UTCbeen waiting on this one for so long 🙏now I can listen to this every time I watch Casino :)
Reece Coren
2025-04-25 18:14:08 +0000 UTCCalling Hesse “Hessy” is one of the all-time Felix malapropisms
Peter Sullivan
2025-04-25 18:05:58 +0000 UTCMade? LET you watch 2 classics! 🥳
Degrassi Knoll
2025-04-25 15:07:43 +0000 UTCFelix 100% spot on with your dad showing you a fucked up movie at 12. He made me watch menace II society and pulp fiction lmaooooo
GnarlyRaeJetson
2025-04-25 12:16:10 +0000 UTCThis was such a delight to listen to! I could have easily listened to another hour or two. A few little things I caught on my Movie Mindset viewing of Casino that I never noticed/thought about before: 1) I've always loved the use of panning in the "Catching the Cheaters" scene to communicate how Ace uses lines of sight to figure out what's going on; however, I never noticed before how when they cut to a super wide shot where the guy with the telegraph strapped to his leg is surrounded by security personnel in anticipation of the cattle prod, they highlight him in golden light to distract you from how completely fucked he is. It's like they at once put you in the "eye in the sky" position but then also deprive you of it by also effectively giving you the cheater's blind spot. Just genius work from Scorsese 2) When Remo croaks at Andy Stone that whatever position Ace gets put in next *has* to be *quiet*, the soundtrack then immediately introduces us to "Aces High" with strains of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" 3) After Nicky terrorizes the banker Charlie Clark, Ace tells him he's lost control and Nicky retorts "I lost control? Look at you! You're fuckin walkin around like John Barrymore! A fuckin pink robe and a fuckin cigarette holder? *I* lost control?!" lol
Matthew
2025-04-25 11:26:46 +0000 UTCThe end of The Irishman is by far the most bleak because it will be the real end for many of us, shitting ourselves when all of our friends are dead and telling our life stories to a nurse who isn't listening and doesn't care because we're just a nuisance from a dead era that shits himself and makes her clean it up for $17 an hour.
DS
2025-04-25 08:55:40 +0000 UTCBanger of a episode. I've been to 2 movies with my father ever in my life in the theater and it was this one as a teenager and home alone. This will always be my Marty masterpiece. I recommend the Pileggi book highly also
Rahman Faridi
2025-04-25 06:07:30 +0000 UTCGangs of New York is the paradise to Casino's inferno
Jake Zydek
2025-04-25 05:05:46 +0000 UTCI’ve been watching this movie since 1997 when I bought it in VHS. It came on two tapes. I’ve seen this movie like 50 times. I think it’s possibly better than Goodfellas. I wish Scorsese had won his Best Director Oscar for this movie. This is only the 3rd time I’ve seen it in HD and it’s crazy the details I’ve never noticed before. The jewelry and costumes especially. On that note, how the fuck was this movie NOT nominated for a Costume Design Oscar??
Luke B
2025-04-25 04:06:31 +0000 UTCWasn’t he literally a boxer? (And also a shrewd politician)
Breakaway
2025-04-25 01:15:36 +0000 UTCIdk some fail uncle
Boxcar Neil
2025-04-24 23:49:54 +0000 UTCThis was the first R rated movie I ever saw in the theater. There was a period of time where I watched it every day when I got home from school and I could recite the entire script from memory. A true masterpiece.
ZeeBee
2025-04-24 22:40:36 +0000 UTCThis pilgrim needs Mann(hunter)
Anthony koz
2025-04-24 21:01:15 +0000 UTCI tried to watch this movie so I could relate to this episode but it's so fucking boring. I just don't get it.
drunk cig
2025-04-24 20:52:30 +0000 UTCThe point about fathers fighting the urge to watch fucked up action/crime movies with their kids is hilarious and way too real, the entire scene of Emil melting and then exploding against a van windshield in Robocop has been burned into my mind's eye since the age of 7.
TV's Gerry
2025-04-24 19:32:30 +0000 UTCThe las vegas of the levant
S.E. Nyarady
2025-04-24 19:25:53 +0000 UTCAbsolutely nothing better you could do as a father. Saw it at the same age with my dad and gonna do the same when my son is that age.
Matthew Dunn
2025-04-24 19:25:31 +0000 UTCBest friend in high school got me to watch Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, & Casino all in a row and Casino was maybe the most rotten and disgusting I've ever felt after watching a movie. My parents like later Scorcese but hate all these movies lol bc (in addition to being really nasty) in their critique there's not any character development; but to me that was clearly the point, and what makes all his movies so interesting is they're I think more interested in people as they actually are & their impediments, rather than necessitating development for sake of a cleaner narrative
S.E. Nyarady
2025-04-24 19:20:45 +0000 UTCIt is such an incredible movie - loved the point made that while the Tangiers was keeping that businessman there long enough to lose his money back, at the same time capitalism doing the same thing to these mobbed backed casinos.
Steve D
2025-04-24 18:44:19 +0000 UTC"Lester Diamond" probably the most perfect naming of a character ever.
Bryan Williams
2025-04-24 18:30:57 +0000 UTCYES The Irishman is a masterpiece. I often think of the scene towards the end, with Frank and the priest, where he can't even fake remorse or self-examination of any kind, and he's just muttering like "well, the fact that, you know, it's the sentiment, that counts for something, right?" His soul is too withered away to even pretend to ring the last-minute Jesus alarm bell. Contrast that with the scene in Silence, where Rodrigues finally steps on the icon even though it causes him exquisite spiritual pain - a complete inversion of the Frank/priest scene. One man can't even lie to himself that a spiritual breakthrough would be a smart idea (but he wants the kudos all the same? for some reason?), another man who avoids betraying his faith to an oppressor until he has no other choice. Frank survives everything, but defeated in every way; Rodrigues eventually passes on, secretly victorious. Anyway, just some things that go through my head sometimes.
Rohmer Simpson
2025-04-24 17:15:50 +0000 UTCThis was fantastic, what a great conversation. I love the disussion of Sharon Stone's performance, it's heartbreaking. That part near the end where she's begging the officers who stop her, saying "I was trying to get away," god it's so good. I re-watched this one for the first time in ten years and that Pesci end-point made me sick, like damn, that is sensitzing violence if I've ever seen it. The end point y'all talk about, that there is something so bleak about the idea of surviving this and having no consequences and learning nothing, that makes me think of The Irishman, which I know a lot of people don't like, but I think it's a masterpiece, even with all the de-aging weirdness (which I don't mind - it fits somehow). The end of that felt like an extension of this idea - what if you are a sociopath and you just end up living, outliving everyone, and the world is moving on, and there is nothing left of what you've done - even the one thing he seems to regret means nothing. They don't even remember Hoffa. In this character's limited ability to feel, he doesn't even get the consequence of people remembering the person he betrayed. Looking forward to the next one.
Letty
2025-04-24 16:15:30 +0000 UTCgodsend. movie mindset is more needed than news watching to me right now
Eon Gattignolo
2025-04-24 15:36:05 +0000 UTCWe never got to hear Pesci’s EP!
Scott Grabel
2025-04-24 14:03:17 +0000 UTCWait, Felix who?
Budget Hireling
2025-04-24 13:08:16 +0000 UTCFollowed by Videodrome
Tim O'
2025-04-24 13:06:52 +0000 UTCThe Sound of Music also has this feature. First tape ends with So Long, Farewell. Pop in the second tape and boom, Nazis.
Tim O'
2025-04-24 12:56:33 +0000 UTC“Theme de Camille” is from Godard’s CONTEMPT, another great movie about fucked-up relationships hitting a wall at full speed.
demonsweat
2025-04-24 12:22:51 +0000 UTCagree. this movie is part of my consciousness and hesse/chapo basically tell us why all of these scenes stuck in our heads. the rewatch and this pod were great. i deffo think don rickles improv'd everything now whereas before i just thought "this guy must manage every casino bc he is so natural at it".
wailing ken jennings
2025-04-24 10:35:22 +0000 UTCAce Rothstien is currently doing a podcast defending the state of Israel.
Veselekov
2025-04-24 09:56:21 +0000 UTCIt’s interesting to hear yall talk about a movie I’ve watched so many times and love. This was excellent.
Chris Hildreth
2025-04-24 06:44:35 +0000 UTCMy brother and I rented Natural Born Killers when he was like 10, we just had to call home to ask my dad on the video store's telephone.
Boaz Corey
2025-04-24 05:29:16 +0000 UTC$50 for the lap dance sounds pretty steep, but you throw in a lunch buffet? Now we’re talking.
Rohmer Simpson
2025-04-24 05:15:35 +0000 UTCRe: the modern mob, in Kansas City specifically – they hang out at The Cigar Box next to this strip club they also own ($50 lunch buffet + lapdance special), and when girls age out of Temptations, they get jobs at The Cigar Box https://shorturl.at/h8n40
Michael S. Judge
2025-04-24 04:24:15 +0000 UTCAs far back as I can remember, I always wanted a Scorsese Movie Mindset episode. (Well I guess we already got After Hours)
Eamon Short
2025-04-24 03:45:22 +0000 UTCMy favorite thing about Casino is it gives you the thesis in the first thirty minutes. When Nicky is describing the Teamster mook, he says “He thought they gave him all this fucking money ‘cuz he was so smart.” That describes every character in the movie, they think they’re where they are because they’re special, not just blind luck determining their fate.
Robert Bratley
2025-04-24 03:25:13 +0000 UTCA double vhs tape rental - a beautiful episode
Cameron Young
2025-04-24 02:22:03 +0000 UTCi just watched fredrick wiseman's the store last night. casino and this share a specific insight into the temple of the devil as hesse says
Joe
2025-04-24 00:00:28 +0000 UTCJoe Pesci for President, so he can give his “you only exist out here because of me” speech to Netanyahu.
Dee Rubes
2025-04-23 23:59:06 +0000 UTCI need a pair of De Niro’s boomer sunglasses 😎
I.P. Freely
2025-04-23 23:27:51 +0000 UTCI love Felix’s laugh. Sounds like Bart Simpson’s. The sound of wholesome mischief
I.P. Freely
2025-04-23 23:21:33 +0000 UTCHe seems genuinely happy and thriving recently. Must have met a brunette who is mean to him in the right way, which from what I gather is his type. (Also my type)
Justin
2025-04-23 23:10:25 +0000 UTCWonderful episode! Felix seems so pumped for the show.
Jim McKenna
2025-04-23 23:10:10 +0000 UTCI don’t think I’ve ever heard Felix sound this mirthful, it feels beautiful to hear him laugh this hard and get this excited
Justice Hainsworth
2025-04-23 22:23:29 +0000 UTChttps://www.patreon.com/posts/64987555?utm_campaign=postshare_fan
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2025-04-23 22:10:13 +0000 UTCI haven’t listened to this all the way through so maybe they mentioned this but I hope people know these characters are based on actual real people and some of the weird shit like counting “blueberries” in muffins are actually what these real people were like.
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2025-04-23 22:09:20 +0000 UTClove the story of Scorsese showing the movie, w/eyeball pop, to Spike Lee, and both of them just howling and cackling at that moment
Rohmer Simpson
2025-04-23 22:08:23 +0000 UTCwell done!
EXN
2025-04-23 21:41:51 +0000 UTCWatched it the other day in prep! Stoked!
Cody S
2025-04-23 21:22:16 +0000 UTCJust realized a weird connection between Ace's horse statue stuff and Pontius Pilate's horse in "Last Temptation." There's something there, none of my business though
Jack
2025-04-23 20:52:03 +0000 UTCNo Country or Fargo please.
Gary LaRocca
2025-04-23 20:36:01 +0000 UTCI can't believe you didn't mention the legend about the vise scene. One trick they do in Hollywood is sometimes they'll include a "sacrificial scene" in the cut they send to the MPAA. They know the content in this scene is too extreme, and they're confident the MPAA will cut it- they do this so that the board will be less likely to cut other scenes in the movie. Apparently, the vise scene was included for this purpose. For all the sex, drugs, and extreme violence in Casino, you can see why they would do this. However, every once in a while the MPAA will, for whatever reason, leave a "sacrificial scene" in the theatrical cut- and apparently the vise torture scene in Casino is one case of this happening. On another note, I recently saw Showgirls for the first time in the theater. Although Casino is obviously a much better film, it's interesting to compare the two, as they're both 90s Vegas epics from great filmmakers. I know a lot of people love Showgirls, and a lot of people hated it when it came out. I'm sort of in the middle- I thought it was pretty good, a 3 and a half star where Casino is an easy 5 stars. It was entertaining and I liked a lot about it, but it just left me cold in a way Casino never does.
Gordon Schmidt
2025-04-23 20:24:34 +0000 UTCEver since I saw Casino as a kid, I have wanted Ace Rothstein's suits. It's the greatest movie ever.
Jeffrey Epstein's Assassin
2025-04-23 19:51:22 +0000 UTCThe way Will puts it, a portrait of conversations somewhat detached from the story... riding a coke high... Casino is the spiritual grandfather of Baz Luhrmann movies.
Braden Maccke
2025-04-23 17:49:58 +0000 UTCI’m guilty of watching T2 with my son last year, when he was 7.. this is just good parenting
Anthony koz
2025-04-23 17:31:09 +0000 UTCThe one thing Titanic and Casino have in common is you know once you pop in that second VHS tape, shit is fucked
Jes Cross
2025-04-23 17:28:30 +0000 UTCI won $130 in Vegas on my first 🎰 and I'm positive it was because I watched Casino and listened to the Trueanon Mandalay Bay EP on the plane.
Swimaroo
2025-04-23 17:10:51 +0000 UTCI respect Felix for choosing to watch Casino over possibly having sex. Absolute fucking Autistic Chad move.
Andy Kraushaar
2025-04-23 17:10:49 +0000 UTCOne incredible detail that I only noticed when watching the 4K release: in the wide shot that ends the Ace/chef scene, if you look in the background you see a tray of blueberry muffins and sure enough, half of them have all the blueberries and the other half have none. Ace vindicated!
Rohmer Simpson
2025-04-23 17:06:51 +0000 UTCIn Sam’s mind if HE had met Ginger when she was 14 he would have groomed her into prostitution in a much classier way.
Sean Enright
2025-04-23 17:04:51 +0000 UTCGonna have to rewatch casino mainly for the joe bob cameo
Bilbro T. Baggins
2025-04-23 16:55:01 +0000 UTCYou know what film won the Oscars for costumes and production design that year? Restoration. What’s Restoration? No one knows. No one has ever seen it.
Rohmer Simpson
2025-04-23 16:46:44 +0000 UTCYes!
Margaret
2025-04-23 16:44:30 +0000 UTCI wasn't alive or don't remember it when it happened but at some point all the Italians in nevada just magically left, like the Lorax. Leaving all their cars and hotels and restaurants to peel and rust in the desert sun. Also Harry Reid was a genuine piece of desert trash. I always hated him but apparently he could scrap
justDave
2025-04-23 16:43:49 +0000 UTCJames Woods' most autobiographical work.
Evan Pitkin
2025-04-23 16:40:44 +0000 UTCI want an equal amount of rolled oats in each cookie. I don’t care how long it takes.
Paul F. Holzfäller
2025-04-23 16:34:12 +0000 UTCWas it a performance or just james woods being himself?
V
2025-04-23 16:33:02 +0000 UTCHe stabbed a guy with a pen in Casino too? I remember the one in Goodfellas but forgot about the one in Casino
V
2025-04-23 16:32:21 +0000 UTCJoe Pesci tuning people up in this movie is so satisfying to watch. Bashing Don Rickles with a phone, slapping the shit out of Sharon Stone, smacking around one of his hick henchman for mouthing off to De Niro’s character, stabbing that guy at the beginning of the film with a pen. I dunno maybe I’m a little too much of a sadist when it comes to this movie.
Paul F. Holzfäller
2025-04-23 16:28:51 +0000 UTCNot trying to be annoying but they literally put that list out for this season a few weeks ago…
Dec
2025-04-23 16:27:00 +0000 UTCOr when watching something so well made when it reaches those moments of artistic crescendo where everything starts rushing together (story built to that moment, music, editing, performance, dialogue) and you realize just how good it is and just how in command of their craft they are - I get a exhilarating rush of emotion that swells and when it peaks I often choke up or cry a little bit because it says "we (humans) are capable of this."
Mr. Freebus
2025-04-23 16:25:55 +0000 UTCWill's voice breaking when talking about the only form of love Ginger's ever known... 🥺 This is actually a trigger that makes ME get choked up -moments that encapsulate what art and music can do to effect us, change us, stay with us for years and years and that it's something human beings are even capable of in the first place.
Mr. Freebus
2025-04-23 16:19:15 +0000 UTCYeah with your dad with the remote at the ready and muting/fast forwarding through all the “bad” parts.
Paul F. Holzfäller
2025-04-23 16:14:51 +0000 UTCBRAV-FUCKING-O
SlowTrickle
2025-04-23 16:11:35 +0000 UTCJames Woods as Lester is one of the best scumbag performances of all time.
Nixper
2025-04-23 16:05:35 +0000 UTCBegging for a movie mindset to watch list to prepare for the future eps
Oscar Salmon
2025-04-23 16:02:13 +0000 UTC🗜️CHARLIE M!!!!🗜️ cream’s “Toad” during that scene is my fav Scorsese-Robbie song drop
Voodoo Glow Skulls
2025-04-23 15:49:48 +0000 UTCA tour de force of an episode
EnKaff
2025-04-23 15:49:19 +0000 UTCSaw this movie for the first time at the Esquire theater in Denver. RIP ESQUIRE THEATER.
shoulderbark
2025-04-23 15:41:04 +0000 UTCOnce again I am asking the Chapos to remember the 99% and cover a movie for the people: Shrek
Smooth Shrek
2025-04-23 15:23:44 +0000 UTCWant to put in a word for the Casino miniseries on the Ghost Stories for the End of the World pod, which really only uses the film as a jumping-off point to illustrate some of the real-life events and principal characters, eventually spreading a wider web of connections that touches the deep state's relationship with organized crime, Poppy Bush, Adnan Khashoggi, the BCCI, etc etc.
Rohmer Simpson
2025-04-23 15:09:52 +0000 UTC“What gun? It’s a fuckin’ gyro sandwich”
Steven Frick
2025-04-23 15:06:29 +0000 UTCI sure hope that’s her actual nickname and not Felix saying it wrong 😅
Kelley
2025-04-23 14:55:24 +0000 UTC"There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing."
Simon Maraya
2025-04-23 14:48:30 +0000 UTCGreat movie. Watched it over Easter weekend with my dad, def a movie he had playing on in the background when I was kid, quite a few scenes felt familiar. I owe my movie mindset to my dad, he let me watch Alien, The Thing, Terminator 2, probably way too young, lol. Also I swear DeNiro wears a suit in every color of the rainbow in this movie
Anomalie
2025-04-23 14:44:44 +0000 UTCHesse has evolved. Hessie is in control now
David Browm
2025-04-23 14:44:03 +0000 UTCSooooo good
Greg Forsyth
2025-04-23 14:35:19 +0000 UTCAlso watched Casino with my dad at way too young an age bc he needed someone to talk about it with
Michael
2025-04-23 14:11:21 +0000 UTCHesse's Die Hard story is the best dad story I've ever heard
atatrs251
2025-04-23 14:10:22 +0000 UTCMindsetting so hard rn
Meowzedong
2025-04-23 14:05:08 +0000 UTCOh fuck yeah
Pleasure Pete
2025-04-23 14:04:54 +0000 UTCWhat happens when the perfect podcast has been achieved? I hope sincerely that this doesn’t mean that Will, Felix and Hesse end up in a shallow grave.
John Harwood
2025-04-23 14:00:31 +0000 UTCEvery time Felix isn't speaking, the other hosts should ask "Where's Felix?"
Yarblockos
2025-04-23 14:00:29 +0000 UTCSwooning and gooning
Bert
2025-04-23 13:56:13 +0000 UTCI do love this movie's depiction of the Kansas City mafia, because it's absolutely still here, but it's mostly 80-year-old men who sit around a table all day at the bar/grill one of them owns, because you're allowed to smoke cigars inside (but not cigarettes)
Michael S. Judge
2025-04-23 13:41:52 +0000 UTCMy favorite show talking about my favorite movie
A person you vaguely know
2025-04-23 13:41:15 +0000 UTCLmao my dad did the exact "not till your older" with Deliverance and then I watched it with him when I was like 12 haha
Raymond Brown
2025-04-23 13:38:04 +0000 UTCY’all should do a james woods ep
JD
2025-04-23 13:29:49 +0000 UTCKiller JD! JD Killed someone!
ploob
2025-04-23 13:10:49 +0000 UTCThe interactions of the DeNiro and the Nevada politicians are like Scorsese's answer to Coppola in the beginning of GF 2 where the senator tells Michael that he doesn't like Italians coming out to his 'clean country with their oily hair dressed up in silk suits trying to pass themselves off as decent Americans'
Himbo Slice
2025-04-23 13:07:17 +0000 UTCWatch it
Mr Tu Damn Quoque
2025-04-23 12:59:09 +0000 UTC"Where you goin' jagoff" is a phrase that rattles through my head at least once a day
Mr Tu Damn Quoque
2025-04-23 12:58:21 +0000 UTChearing you folks talk about your experiences with your parents and movies.. man we all had the same childhood hahahah..
Erik Bourre
2025-04-23 12:56:29 +0000 UTCWait so should I watch it first or does it not matter? (I haven’t listened to a movie mindset yet)
Vivek Dandekar
2025-04-23 12:56:06 +0000 UTCFuckin hell yeah
The True Horror
2025-04-23 12:54:13 +0000 UTCThat's that kid that made that sick documentary about MMA with Jon Bois, he could really be going places
The True Horror
2025-04-23 12:53:53 +0000 UTCAnd they HATE it
V
2025-04-23 12:50:33 +0000 UTC"Eh, why take a chance" is America 1977-2025
Paul Adam
2025-04-23 12:45:04 +0000 UTCYou’re a fuckin loser
Voodoo Glow Skulls
2025-04-23 12:39:41 +0000 UTCFinally! I'm so excited for this one. Casino > Godfellas
Laura
2025-04-23 12:32:11 +0000 UTCFelix who?
Anthony koz
2025-04-23 12:26:02 +0000 UTCI’m dropping off if Hesse starts summarizing each scene and adds some shit like “yas queen”
Mac
2025-04-23 12:24:09 +0000 UTCTo this day I still describe several of my friends as degenerate gamblers who always lose
V
2025-04-23 12:23:17 +0000 UTCI remember scanning through mid series episodes of Sopranos trying to find what I remembered as the perfect mob hit ever depicted on screen and not being able to find it. Turns out it was Frank Culotta hitting Andy Stone in the carpark at the beginning of the House of the Rising Sun scene
Mr Tu Damn Quoque
2025-04-23 12:19:10 +0000 UTCJames woods for better or worse just plays himself, often best villains come from that honest place. .3.
Justin Racine
2025-04-23 12:16:35 +0000 UTCI’m listening to this while making a giant batch of blueberry granola cookies for the bakery I am employed by…I think about the equal amount of blueberries line every time
Here, Try This
2025-04-23 12:15:31 +0000 UTCCASINO is a movie about defective people who live in a fake place, and who torture and kill each other over shit that only matters in that fake place, and as such, it's probably America's Movie™
Michael S. Judge
2025-04-23 12:13:49 +0000 UTCmy favorite host Hessie
bruce
2025-04-23 12:11:33 +0000 UTCCorrect.
Jason Chapa
2025-04-23 12:01:24 +0000 UTCFinally
Jeremy Eisenberg
2025-04-23 11:21:48 +0000 UTCCasino is better than goodfellas and it’s not even close never been more hyped for an ep
EvilCorgi
2025-04-23 11:21:39 +0000 UTCI just realised now. Casino is LONGER than Goodfellas but feels a lot shorter.
Lord-Admiral of the Pyrenees
2025-04-23 11:20:48 +0000 UTCThe vice grip scene lives in my head forever. So brutal but so good.
The Wonderful Secret
2025-04-23 11:19:08 +0000 UTCThe kids question isn’t stupid because the guy has 8 kids. That really is out of the ordinary.
Lord-Admiral of the Pyrenees
2025-04-23 11:15:23 +0000 UTCIt’s the all new Will Menaker show
Lord-Admiral of the Pyrenees
2025-04-23 11:14:41 +0000 UTCIt's such a little thing but the way Marty shoots the car driving across the desert reflected in DeNiro's old man sunglasses is incredible
Flesh Colored Subaru
2025-04-23 11:11:02 +0000 UTCI just punched a hole through a sheet of drywall let’s fucking go
Nolan
2025-04-23 11:10:48 +0000 UTCMy trough runneth over 🐷
Matthew
2025-04-23 11:09:30 +0000 UTCFuck yeah
Mr Tu Damn Quoque
2025-04-23 11:08:43 +0000 UTCPutting my head in a vice to listen to this one (over the head earphones)
JD Nonce
2025-04-23 11:08:02 +0000 UTCFeaturing Felix? Who's this young go-getter? I'll have to tune in to find out
Russell Hall
2025-04-23 11:05:48 +0000 UTCLet’s goooooo
Brad Hall
2025-04-23 11:05:37 +0000 UTC
