Tom and Tim talk a lot about KINGS, starting with King Richard at the local medieval faire, and moving throughout the eons to include the previous King of Morocco and then Charles I, Elizabeth II, Saddam Hussein and more. Finishing with a bunch from Al Pacino’s autobiography, including seeing / meeting Brando early in his career, and then Pacino’s several performances of Richard III.
Enjoy!
Timestamps for ye that scrub.
1:00 intro
1:30 King Richard’s Faire, King Richard buying a cookie
6:40 A******s who ruin King Richard’s world
8:20 Human systems and King Richard making this world mostly great
8:45 Belief in our leader
9:30 Tom seeing the King of Morocco
13:00 Tim on the beheading of Charles I
15:00 Tim on the Orkney bus on the subject of the Queen’s trinkets
18:00 The deaths of presidents etc
19:20 Sadam Hussein’s spider hole
22:00 Napoleon banished
23:00 Cults and Trump
26:00 Dr. Who
27:15 Al Pacino’s autobiography
29:00 Wandering New York, reciting Shakespeare
30:00 Al “wants to go home” to before he was famous
31:15: The Godfather, And Brando giving a pep talk, while eating saucy chicken in the hospital bed
33:45 Nothing happens to Michael Corleone until
35:00 Tom on Walter Murch and the editing and inclusion of the elevated subway
36:40 Marlon Brando hated acting
37:20 Frank Serpico
38:50 Tom hating Scarface memorabilia
39:30 Drug runners and little empires
40:40 Tim only seeing the end of Scarface multiple times on fast forward because it was at the beginning before another movie on a VHS tape
43:00 Scarface’s death, an opera, etc
44:45 Anti-movies that wind up as pro-movies
47:00 It’s cool to be powerful
48:20 The forces in the Godfather represented in The Wire
49:40 A car accident in Pittsburgh, the fridges all empty and the food thrown away
54:30 Tim’s Reading Corner. Tim reads from Al Pacino’s autobiography about playing King Richard III and “Looking for Richard”
