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College / Steamboat Bill, Jr. with John Hodgman

Blank Check with Griffin & David

CHAPTER

The Nail in the Ground

I don't think that it would have... I don't think he would have loved it. He becomes heroic at the end of the movie bit in a way that doesn't feel like an unrealistic oh, suddenly he's become fucking Ethan Hunt. You're like, he just becomes kind of practical. None of it is out of nowhere. From the scene in which his father teaches him to run the boat and he messes up five times or whatever,. Because he's got that one lever, pays off because he uses that lever to run the ship properly later on. And so, again, it's built in. It's terrific. ...You can see this was a really good movie.

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