Chris Cooper is in the back pocket of BIG ANTI-DAD (Episode 14)

You KNOW we are back at it again with these new Derns!

This week Max and Nic revved up with a litany of discussion covering topics from Anxiety to Dominos thrift and every possible thing in-between. If you love a meandering episode with stories on stories this is THE ONE for you.

After this himming and hawing Max led us into our BIG DERN, 'October Sky', the 1999 cinema classic of a bad dad (Chris Cooper) in a company coal town who things his son is a WILD DREAMER for wanting to be a literal rocket scientist. Needless to say Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) seceded with the help of his eternally Myrtle Beach bound mother and immaculately hairdooed teacher, our fantastic Miss Dern! Who died as soon as Homer tasted his first big success. Weather you for sure watched this in middle school like Nic, or admired the hot dad ass grabbing action as a wee like Max, this is a perennial favorite - go watch it.

Between the ol' Derns this week Nic has been digging into his dramatic past - reading classic plays! The broken home tales of 'Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf' and 'A Long Days Journey Into Night' - as well as viewing 'The Player', the aforementioned Robert Altman mega-film that he absolutely drooled over. Max on the other hand had an indulging film week taking in the new HBO joint 'Bad Education', a Hugh Jackman led 2019 true tale of embezzlement that took place very near to Max's own stomping grounds. He also saw the fantastic Lauren Lapkis in 'The Wrong Missy', this years Happy Maddison/Netflix project of love gone awry. Damn cellphones!

Nic gave us a little little Dern with 'Happy Endings' a 1983 TV film that absolutely impossible to find. We will take the L on this one. To be honest the songwriter putting off his career to care for his siblings amongst the tragedy of his parents death seems passable.

In the end we laughed, we talked, we had a damn good time despite being 87 miles apart. If you have gotten this far into the episode/description please consider rating and reviewing our show - as well as sharing it among you friends. It is really the least you can do.

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