The Best TV Week of the Year, ‘Task’ Episode 3, and ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Trailer Underwhelms

24:06I'm saying it to me to temper my expectations and to get ready for some bumps in the road. I just want to point out that there has also been another filmmaker that I love, Martin Scorsese, and it's been like, what's Martin Scorsese doing after Killers of the Flower Moon? When is this... He's going to make another movie. Is he going to make a Frank Sinatra movie? Is he going to make a Jesus movie? Is he going to make... There was a full-on, full-court press announcement that he was making a Hawaii gangster movie a month ago. With The Rock and Emily Blunt. And it was like, this is happening. This is Martin Scorsese's, it's like casino in Hawaii.

24:43Luau Casino. Yes. And it was like, go, go, go. And now Dwayne Johnson is probably going to get nominated for... Smashing Machine. Yeah, for an Oscar. And it was like, it's like, this is rolling downhill. This is happening. And then last week, kind of quiet is kept. It was like Martin Scorsese has found his next movie. It's a thriller with Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio. Right. Right. Everybody was like Leonardo DiCaprio has this goatee and all this, all these one battle after another promo stuff. He's must be getting ready to play Neil like they're doing it.

25:13Andy Greenwald:Goatees notoriously take a long time to grow. For me, it's like all of COVID. I couldn't even get there. And no one cared. No one was like cool mustache. And it was your fault because cameras don't pick up nuance, but you could have seen it and you could have been like, dude, you look good and you didn't do it. You do look good, but I didn't know what you were doing. I didn't know what was going on. I just expected more from you, you know? Wow. I did not think that's where our conversation about Heat 2 would go, but it is a personal subject for you. So bring your own Heat. I'm trying to temper my expectations and protect myself from being hurt because lots of stuff happens in this crazy town called Hollywood.

25:51And, you know, the way that things get announced is often not actually in sync with where they are in development or where they are in shooting. Often you'll see, like, Rosemary DeWitt has joined this cast and it's like Rosemary DeWitt shot her part

26:05Andy Greenwald:oh that's like nobody wants this season to add Seth Rogen to cast that wrapped months ago so I think that really what we're talking about here is just like fingers crossed I note with interest that he has the goatee I note with interest that they have now pretty much if it's Driver somehow as Pacino are they going to do the thing where they like film him in the reverse Hagrid, where he's just half the size he actually is. It's literally like, honey, I shrunk Adam Driver. Instead of an Apple box, they dig a small Apple box level of inches below. And then I don't know what's going on with the possibility of the Chris sequel element of Heat 2.

26:54So there's two timelines.

26:55Andy Greenwald:For the normies, the book picks up two storylines. There's a prequel part about Neil, In Chicago. In Chicago. With Vincent. With Vincent. Not like with him, like in a cohabitation. Circling each other like birds, you know? Absolutely. Birds. Classic birds. Classic bird thing. Remember the scene where birds go to a diner together? And everyone's like, finally these birds are sharing a table. Do you want to put it in my mouth? Yeah. That's exactly what they say. And then there's a sequel element that is Chris after the events of Heat. That's Vel Kilmer. Yeah. Going, I believe, to the triple frontier area and working security for a triad.

27:30Andy Greenwald:Two questions. One, this is, I mean, Austin Butler was born to do that part, right? Like just that that's. Yes. Two, at this point, when you go to quote the triple frontier area, is it like going to the four corners in the U.S. where there's just like little shops advertising your chance? Welcome to the triple frontier. Do you do a little narco terrorism while you're here? Or do you want to like, everyone's going there these days. Oh God. When are they going to make the triple frontier shared universe? When are they going to make triple frontier two, Six Frontiers or something. Fourth Frontier.

28:02Or like Night of the Soldado and have like the Brolin character from Sicario. Oh, it's all one thing? Like all the guys together. I will say for true man men, we are also tracking with interest Joseph Kaczynski and Dan Gilroy's Miami Vice reboot. We are all interested in this. And the dream casting of that being Austin Butler and Aaron Pierre. And... Do we want that? I don't know. I don't know either. I don't... Joseph Kaczynski... frankly, doesn't really miss. It may not be Hamlet, but it's going to look fucking cool.

28:36Andy Greenwald:And you get a Gilroy on the script at this point. I'm Gilroy agnostic. All respect to Tony. Could be John, could be Rose. I don't care. Get me a Gilroy on it. I'm very excited about that. Do you have anything in your life that you feel like is your heat too? The thing you can't wait for? For it to happen? When you grow a beard again? I have been tracking trades. Like, I think one day it could happen, but you never know when it's going to pop off or pop out. What if I did, like, the turkey hair transplant, but it was just for a mustache?

29:14That's it. That's it. The Wayne Rooney, but it's just for a cool mustache. I just have, like, Tom Selleck, Magnum PI mustache.

29:24Andy Greenwald:I think it would be amazing. We would all support you. I think that just from the one thing I will say for sure from having worked in and around this town is that movies are absolute chaos and no movies are happening until the second they hit roll. Yeah. Hit roll. It's classic movie talk. Hit roll, guys. We got the actor. No, but like the deals coming together, like everything is seat of your pants until you're suddenly there and things have fallen apart at the 11th hour and things have come together at the 11th and a half hour. So I wouldn't worry so much about Scorsese saying he's doing this, that it's somehow going to preclude DiCaprio doing something else.

30:02Andy Greenwald:I'm sure you're right. He could shave. He could go quick trip to Istanbul, have a new face, beard put on. The only thing with Marty and Michael, both men getting up there in years. Oh, you're worried about the clock. Time is of the essence. This is, you know what though? There's one thing we've learned recently. This absolutely is a country for old men. It's true. It's good news for us. That title was not. We got a long runway still to play with. It's going to be great. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about task. This episode is brought to you by Boris Head. What if we told you the taste of deep fried turkey is now available at your local deli?

30:37Well, Boris Head just did that. Bursting with flavor, perfectly seasoned with that indulgent taste that usually means planning your whole day around it. Presenting the Fryer's Turkey Breast only from Boris Head. A backyard tradition now available behind the counter. Visit your local deli today. Discover the craftsmanship behind every bite. Boris had committed to craft since 1905. All right. We are back. Task episode three. Nobody's stronger than forgiveness. Written by Brad Inglesby, directed by Sally Richardson Whitfield, who has become, who's the guy who did Tim Van Patten, who was always like the HBO in-house, like nailed band of brothers and Deadwood.

31:19Andy Greenwald:And Mylod was like that a little bit too. Yeah, Mylod. She's worked on Winning Time, Gilded Age, EPs on both those shows, I believe and it does a great job with this episode first major major set piece I think it's fair to say uh well I guess the robbery in the first episode um but she did there were some beautiful touches that really split the difference between like aesthetic show-offy director stuff and storytelling like there was a moment when we meet what's his name Freddy for the first time yep um and we meet him going through like the war in the kitchen and then we follow him in a The EDU thing, yeah.

31:53Andy Greenwald:It's a beautiful shot that was not calling attention to itself, but really, really drew us further into the story. It's these little details that add up. I loved it. I want to start by saying, well, first of all, I thought this was a great episode. This was a great episode. I want to highlight two scenes to start with. First, we kind of skipped over her when we first were talking about the show, but Tussauds and Bedou's performance in the interrogation of Shelley and her anecdote, her monologue about her own experience with domestic violence and even watching this show, you're just kind of like, oh, it's interesting because, you know, Brandis tells her, go in there and get close to her.

32:30And has no idea, you know, I imagine that this is what she's going to do, that she's going to open up to make herself vulnerable. But I thought her performance was really powerful in that. And I got to talk to you about what is my favorite scene of the year. Yes, sure. Which is Lizzie and Grosso at the State Trooper Bar. Bruce Springsteen into mother love bone please drop a pin in this fucking bar for me djcr on the decks so i can go and i would like to just you you i'm gonna give you a statement you say whether you agree or disagree all right allison oliver yes here we go is to drunk philly girl acting what daniel day

33:08Andy Greenwald:lewis is to abraham and lincoln i think that's i think that's setting the bar too low it's an understatement i think she is to philly drunk girl acting what daniel day lewis is to acting like there is a moment there are plenty of moments in this episode that I want to call out that I want to celebrate including the beautiful filming of my high school hangout the Lanark Diner but there is a moment when what's the dialogue when Lizzie says she says like DJ not getting any ass in Nova or whatever and he's just like well it's kind of true these days and he looks away and her face lights up yeah and i was like just this is an emmy moment this is like everything in that smile in her eyes that is an actor who is vibrating with on the frequency of art and yingling in a way that speaks to my soul there's also the second the point at the conversation when he i think when he kind of what she thinks is that he noticed that she is an outcast among her fellow fellow trooper and he's like yeah i forgot i have to do something after like three yinglings and shots he's he's hiding it well he's doing well he's handling his booze well and her reaction is but i just bought a new pack did you i was like was that like sing to me in your voice america that is the point on love is blind when i kneel that is the point where it's just like what do you want from me and i'll give it um i can't tell you what happened when chloe dancer came on in the bar i just i i seriously don't know if i have ever been in a bar where chloe dancer came on but it's so it's so beautiful to have like the piano part as like she's going through this like experience of trying to keep up her sort of exterior even though her life is spinning out of control and she's just had this giant fuck up at work just an awesome scene um and it's really what i think inglesby does best is it's not necessarily the crime i've seen some people comment like this mystery is kind of unraveled already like it's it's about like the people who are caught up in it i i want to talk about one of brad can we call him we can call him brad one of his superpowers as a writer if you want to keep it mr inglesby if you want to write for the new york times i i think he has particular set of skills as a writer that are that are very impressive and one of them i think we'll spend more time on which is just his sense of scaffolding and architecture and and how he builds a season and how he pays off tension while moving the story forward in ways that are very very subtle and very very artful But you mentioned it already, so I think we should focus first on something that he does that is particularly exceptional, which is something that in the wrong hands is one of the worst and least rewarding crutches of a mid-writer.

36:04Andy Greenwald:The hero ball ISO play where a character introduces him or herself with a self-definitional monologue that has to at once completely draw the attention of everyone actually in the room. Freddie or Aaliyah. Freddie or Aaliyah. There's two of them in this episode, and there's been a series of them. He is God-tier at this, at writing these monologues and casting them so that they actually feel lived in and less like a ball stopper being like, thank you for visiting me. I'm here to say something that I would have said anyway into my mirror, but it's convenient that you happen to be here. Elvis Nolasco is the actor who plays Freddie, and that also is just a master class in...

36:49Andy Greenwald:controlling heat while cooking. We got a lot of emails about whether or not he pronounced Lancaster right. He did not. Do you want to go into how it is properly enunciated? No, because here's the thing. We are so deep in the weeds now that if we get it slightly wrong, or if we say it in a way that it's not said in Newtown Square or Upper Darby, no, we're doomed. You know what I mean? Forget about how they say it in Broomall. Do you feel like we're throwing a no-hitter and we can't possibly afford? We cannot. Two guys who often need to Google what day it is. Or how many episodes there are in the season.

37:21Andy Greenwald:In the middle of the show. Yeah, okay. But I thought that the words that Brad Inglesby gives him in this scene are compelling. They're captivating. They're a little bit fucked. They're funny. But it's communicating something. It's giving a full life to someone who I imagine will see this character again. But we might not. Like in the same way that Ray, who, do you have the actor who plays Ray? Yes, it is Peter Patrikos, who is also a junkie on Dope Thief, but has done, is like a working, lifelong character actor. And I don't know. He's astonishing. Like. He's so good. just the fact that they were like he refs men's rec league basketball and have him in his like his stripes and his footlocker outfit is just so perfect and like just you know everything about him and his wife Shelly that he's a piece of shit that she's scared of him that he's supposed to be on the straight and narrow that his two kids are drugged out on video games and that he has been waiting for somebody to come to his door and be like do you want to get in on some action from the second he got home from prison and that he is desperate.

38:35Andy Greenwald:So let's, I mean, let's talk about the art that's happening like in the subtle ways of this show. I feel like, and I feel like this has been recently with Alien 2, I'm turning into like Paul Goldberger, architecture critic when we talk about TV, but we are, there's so many shows right now and we're so many new shows starting off. And so I'm starting to pay more attention and I think appreciate more the scaffolding of the blueprint that's clearly done ahead of time as to where this is going. And with a show like this, he's doing a very, very impressive job not moving the ball forward every episode.

39:09Andy Greenwald:So Cliff is now blown. The Dark Hearts path towards Robbie, as well as the task force path towards Robbie, is very, very clear and likely short. Like, I don't think we can keep those plates in the air for all of the four episodes remaining in the show. And I don't think they're afraid of that. what's impressive to me is that in addition to moving things forward at a relatively healthy clip so we do not feel like we're being stalled in order to, you know, show off or indulge things, he's doing something that in lesser hands can feel like the red herring of the week. So usually in murder mystery shows, ones that we love and ones that we nitpick, the way that they become eight episode series instead of movies is each week introduces a new likely suspect and it clears that suspect.

39:58Andy Greenwald:so that there's something to investigate, some stakes for the next episode before finally revealing the ultimate person. This is a crime show without any mystery, really, about who did the crimes. Yeah, and now we have to wonder who's the rat on the task force, but it's kind of, you could do some process of elimination. And we should get to that. What this episode did is introduce Ray and Shelley, give them, like you said, a full illustration of inner lives, of conflict, of past, of history, and that's the story of the episode. That gives us the action sequence. Their story doesn't really matter past this episode.

40:32Andy Greenwald:But that does the job of the red herring of the week in a way that feels so distracting and engaging that you don't notice any kind of water being treaded. You touched on something really interesting, which is that the conception that we had of this show, that it was a cat and mouse thriller of a cop and a criminal driven by some of the same things, could very well be over next week. like if the pace continues at this clip, like there is a, what is the second half of this show about? And I wanted to bring up an email that we got a couple of weeks ago from someone named Tom. And I thought this was fascinating.

41:11Tom Brandis. Got it. No, but I didn't know where to fit it in and I wasn't really sure what he was getting into. I'll just read the email from Tom. I enjoyed watching the first episode of Task and listening to your podcast about it. There's a note in the show that I thought you might want to get into. In the scene where Brandis' old friend visits him, the priest friend who visits him, the friend mentions having sent Brandis an article by Richard Rohr. Brandis, who is drunk, responds by mocking Rohr's theology of the universal Christ, pounding the table, asking, is Christ in this table? And then standing up, rattling off the name of other Catholic theologians who he doesn't want to hear about anymore because he has all the info he needs on his Phillies cup, which is full of booze.

41:53I was surprised to hear Richard Rohr mentioned he is known among, he's well known among people, but not very famous. I know about him because my father-in-law got interested in Rohr's second half of life framework. And we talked about it for a while. I suspect that the person who made this show has a deep interest in this topic of second half of life and perhaps other ideas in the Franciscan contemplative practice. Kyle, you're going to clip this part, right? Yeah, this is the good stuff. So I looked into this a little bit.

42:22Andy Greenwald:I mean, clip it for Instagram. I think Chris reading emails should be on all of our socials. I looked into this a little bit. Richard Rohr is probably best known for a book called Falling Upward. And this is an excerpt from Falling Upward. There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. The first task is to build a strong container or identity. The second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. What? Are you talking about Philly's cups? The first task we take for granted is the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well.

43:00The second task, I'm told, is more encountered than sought. Few arrive at it with much pre-planning purpose or passion. We all try to do what seems like the task that life first hands us, establishing an identity, a home, relationships, friends, community, security, and building a proper platform for our only life. but it takes us much longer to discuss, to discover the task within the task. As I like to call it, what are we really doing when we are doing what we are doing?

43:28Andy Greenwald:And to be clear, you said what are, not woulder. Woulder. It's not about woulder eyes. I wonder what the second half this season is going to be about. First of all, that's fascinating. Yeah, I feel like Pablo Torre right now. I'm like, let's get Richard Rohr in here. I love what it does to the title of the show I love what it says about look, all of the really, really kind of exciting and provocative ideas in that email, also in the theology makes sense to me in the sense that this is a deep show we are responding to it because it is very entertaining and there's peach rings with tahin on them, sprinkled throughout in ways that are delicious and surprising and broadly speaking, this week is the episode where I completely stopped clock watching.

44:19Andy Greenwald:Not just that the episodes are long, but like where are we going with the storyline? This is the week, in the parlance of our time, this is the week Task became a TV show to me in the best possible way. All of that is true. The truly great shows that engage us either as viewers or on the podcast have that secondary task, if you will, of probing deeper. Yeah. and being worthy of that level of conversation or insight. And so that you can watch it on the first pass and be like, that was really wild or Tom sure seems to be suffering. I hope they get the kid back. Second time, you could, whether people still write or read essays anymore, write an essay about the Phillies Cup and filling it up and what that means for this man who has been so emptied out by the choices he made in life.

45:04And I think you have to take a second when you see something as honestly gorgeous as Maeve showing Sam how to swim. Very beautiful. Which looks like a baptism. which is obviously this moment in nature away from the chaos of, you know, lefties tap room and drug dens and everything else. And wonder why a moment like that is in there and why it's shot where it's shot and shot so beautifully and so tenderly. And, you know, start to consider like some of the obvious religious overtones when look at the title of the episode, you know, like, so what are we going with this? This is something that I think will start to get revealed over the next episode or two.

45:44Andy Greenwald:We'll get a chance to talk to him about this, but Brad went to Villanova. He did. You know, in a way, we started our partnership at Villanova. Within spitting distance. Not on the basketball team, but we went to the diner. Yeah. Not the Lanark diner that night. I think the idea... Did you see that Temple played Oklahoma the other week? And they got destroyed. But... In football? Yeah. Oklahoma's band couldn't come for some reason I think weather and so St. Joe's just let we're like you can use our band that's nice I thought that was uncalled for on St. Joe's part you think they shouldn't have done it yeah it's big five rules you know well they did it also because it's big five and they were like we are on the team we are on the team of the team playing temple yeah it's like enemy of my enemy you know so you don't I don't I don't condone it I think that's first of all you're playing all the sides against each other because you're like I love temple I went to temple but then also like you're a Phil Martelli disciple.

46:38I went to St. Joe's basketball camp.

46:40Andy Greenwald:So where does your allegiance lie? Okay, pick a side. Is there no way to just be a center? There's no nuance anymore in this country. The idea of looking at things as vessels that exist as one concept or one space and how they're filled, I think is relevant to in both Brad's understanding of the region that he is documenting and the way that it is shot. Because one thing, we talked about this briefly when we talked about the pilot. I think the one thing that might be surprising to people who have not spent time in the suburbs of Philadelphia and its surrounding counties is how rural it can be, how beautiful, how green.

47:22Andy Greenwald:And I was thinking about that observation again last night when Cliff and Robbie go to visit Ray. And the establishing shot, it looks like Mayberry. it is absolutely beautiful the houses with stately porches and wood columns and beams and the mountain just behind it this is a vision of America you know in the best way possible and even when you walk into the house when he lets them in or Shelley steps aside and lets them in like house has good bones you know what I mean like I'm not trying to do I'm not trying to do a hundred thousand dollar listing here but I'm like you know it's similar to where Robbie and Maeve live and they have chickens and there's a different way into this world where you're like, this is a place that people would retire to.

48:11Andy Greenwald:Like, this is fine. Owning a home, having outdoors, like, isn't that what it's supposed to be? But what is the content of this beautiful green vessel these days? It's fentanyl and rage and impotence and sadness, which is not really a good recipe. We got to meet Margarita LaVeva's character, Aaron, a little bit. You called it. Well, I mean. You don't call the bat phone for Margarita unless you're going to do something with her, you know? Yeah, but look, you just read this text. I think that they were just fainting too much with Shane, you know? Yes, although again, that ties into the observation I want to make about how some of the more practical structural stuff is just done artfully.

48:54Andy Greenwald:Where last week when we were talking about episode two, I was like, maybe Shane is the mole because he's acting sketchy. Yeah. he's not but him acting sketchy is intentional and put in front of us so we have that reaction and then that perry and the dark hearts have that reaction so it's not wasted space it's not a red herring that is going to be the next thing that gets dealt with and probably probably not well for shame well and then on the flip side of that you've got what will probably be a i've not watched episode four but will probably be a mole on right like on yeah on uh on brandis's part it doesn't look great for Grasinova just because he came out so strong in the first episode with a lot of Wikipedia intel about the Dark Hearts I do not think it is Aaliyah so the zag would be Lizzie right but are they leaning too hard on the Lizzie's a mess kind of thing I think that I don't know how to do odds and I don't understand what FanDuel does but I would say that Grasso would be the...

49:58He's the betting favorite, yes. What else in the episode did you want to hit?

50:03Andy Greenwald:Don't you think he's also the favorite because of A, how likable he is being? Sure. I feel like it's an intentional misdirect. But B, he walked into lefties like you walking into lefties, you know what I mean? Like you're like... The two of them walking into lefties was kind of... It was kind of like Norm. It was kind of like us walking in there. Or like one of the two is a little bit like, okay, okay. We all know I don't belong here and I don't want to be here. And Grasso's like talking shit. Yeah. It's a meeting that Big Balls Society at Lefty's or something. Grasanova. He's going to break your heart?

50:38I mean, I'm sure there's nuance to it. I don't think it's just going to be like, you big rat. I'm sure he'll be like.

50:46Andy Greenwald:Look, Robbie's brother fell into the arms of the Dark Hearts. I mean, hearts is in their name. The arms of Margarita LaVeva. It didn't fall, you know. So she's worth it for you. That's your, that's your, you're like, generally, you abhor drug running. If you want me to push uncut fentanyl across county lines. You gotta make it worth your while. No, I just mean, I think that the connections between the group of the people that we have met probably go much deeper than we know. Did you have any, as someone who spent time there and went to college there, did you have any insight into the role Boston and the Ecuadorians might be playing just...

51:24Andy Greenwald:Can't comment. Oh, really? Still sealed. Yeah. Statute of Limitations hasn't run out? No. What was the name of the place that we used to get breakfast in Back Bay? Charlie's? Yeah, it's still there. A lot of Ecuadorian. I took Sean there when we were in Boston for a show, yeah. Did you? Was there still the framed photo of Tim Dog? You know what? I didn't see it. I wonder if he's been cancelled. I think about it all the time. Cancel culture came from Tim Dog. It said, fuck Compton, right? That was his song. I don't know if he said it on the paint and the picture. He did. Way to go to for Charlie's for keeping it blue.

51:57I don't have anything else really other than... Yeah, we get it all.

52:04Andy Greenwald:I don't think... I feel like Cliff... I mean, if we were going to do numbers on the McBain Live Forever speech, I feel like Cliff's not... Yeah, I know. Cliff's not doing great. Yeah. Cliff's a little worried, he's a little upset. And too many people know his name now. And his home. Yes.

52:24Andy Greenwald:I thought that like again just understanding the nuance of the story there's so many moving pieces there's so many characters but there's also just you know the balancing act between between the larger the bigger shoes dropping in terms of who's doing what to whom and how it's going to play out and then why you preload an episode like this with a little bit more of Robbie and Maeve which was touched on at the end of last episode. And not only are both Amelia Jones and Tom Pelfrey amazing in the scene and I, the two of them in their real accents talking to each other which I saw on the HBO Max Instagram account is really wild.

53:07Andy Greenwald:Yeah. Pelfrey was at the Eagles game. Must have been agony for him. But Ruffalo was wearing birds. He's wearing like a Dawkins jersey. He was like fully, can we welcome him? I think so. He seems like a great guy. I feel like he's, he knows, he's rolling with the winners right now. No, just in the Robbie scene, what he says in that scene about, you know, Jason shook my hand with the same hand he used to beat your father's brains out. And like, there's got to be a reason for all of this. And he needs to make, you know, it's a religious almost purpose out of this. It can't just be that this is something that happened to us.

53:44Andy Greenwald:It's a showcase scene for the actor. It's a breakout scene for the emotional inner life of the character. but it also is just a smartly placed hedge against the kind of nitpicking conversation that can spring up in a show like this. Like he knows they're on borrowed time and yet he is still very much living under his name in his house with his children. Yeah, I also like the fact that he's hanging on to this. Like I need a million dollars for like my family and to get out of, it's like, this isn't a Bruce Springsteen song, man. Like you're not going in. It's a mother love bone song. Exactly. And those end up a lot different.

54:17We can wrap there.

54:18Andy Greenwald:did you recognize the Lanark Diner in that scene? so I was thrilled I have to say for a moment I thought I have been pretty nerdy about the locations so the first two the first episode I think I spent too much time trying to like create and then found out the Enquirer was just making a map of the locations so I don't need to be like how far would it be to get from like from this place in Chester to this place but were you trying to treat it like collateral? As people come out of stuff, I try to see if they're a sign, and then I saw it was Lanark. So that diner, it's like four minutes from the house I grew up in.

54:56Andy Greenwald:That was where we went after high school, like all the time. Not to roll with dicks and black coffee. The world's strangest. Breakfast of champions. That is, of all the things that I've said out loud on this show that everyone was like, that's not normal, bro. That is the one I will stand by. Okay. That is a classic teenage order. I inherited that order. I wasn't like, let me look at this whole menu. no snapper soup for me today. I want that and that. That's what the older kids got. And I was like, I want to be like them. I'm not going to be smoking those cigarettes and running numbers like CR downtown.

55:26Andy Greenwald:I just give me some fried cheese and I'm good. I briefly thought that they had only done the exteriors there and shot the interior somewhere else because they dressed the shit out of it. They put in like very moody window shades and stuff. So it did not look the way it looked in my time in the interior or in Silver Linings Playbook, which I also filmed there. That's right. let's wrap there that was exciting I was thrilled for you thanks to Kaya thanks to Kaya thanks to John thanks to our listeners thanks to our email writers and thanks to our incredibly intelligent theologians my theologian email writer saving our show we'll be back on Thursday for the finale of Alien Earth yeah and the first two episodes of The Lowdown and say hi to Ethan and Sterling for me I will brother

56:16Thank you.