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Voyage. Welcome to watch this tonight. I'm your host, Dan Bettimore.

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I'm a produced writer of film and
television and now a podcast producer. And

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despite having every streaming service, I
never know what to watch. So anytime

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I watch something good, I talk
about it on the show. This way,

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you'll never have the same problem I
do. I watched this tonight.

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There's always something good to watch.
Let's get started today. In the show,

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we are talking about buck Kiss,
the new Peacock series starring Pete Dudes

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and Edie Falco and Joe Pesci.
So this is actually a change in programming.

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I was supposed to have my interview
with a really cool guest. This

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is why I don't tell you because
I want to make sure it actually happens.

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We had to reschedule at the last
minute. So it looks like that's

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still going to happen. When it
happens, I will shout it from the

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rooftops. So we'll just keep that
in the back burner. But I was

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able to pivot to bubb Kiss.
Peacock was actually the only streaming service that

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I did not have, but now
I do have it. Because my wife

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wanted to watch Real Housewives on there. So now we have Peacock. It's

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a very Judd Apatow esque show,
which is probably not a surprise if you've

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seen The King of Satin Island with
Pete Davidson. Obviously a lot of this

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will feel familiar if you've seen Pete
Davidson stand up The X Factor, though,

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this whole thing is Joe Peshi.
Joe Peschi is the reason to watch

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the show around Joe Peshi. There's
similar ideas and themes that we've seen in

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Pete Davidson's stuff where it's autobiographical.
He's trying to process the death of his

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father, who everybody tells him as
a hero, but it sounds like it

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was basically just a regular guy and
it was, you know, a flawed,

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normal person, and he's trying to
sort of compute that in his head.

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I feel like I remember it in
stand up one of his dad's and

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telling him like about his dad doing
cocaine, and and in the second episode

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of bubb Kiss. So this is
I'm talking about the first and second episode.

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There's something I'm going to say here
that's, you know, a spoiler,

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like you could totally it won't spoil
it for you. In the second

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episode, we have Bobby Kindivali,
who plays Pete's uncle, and Pete is

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trying to pee in the bathroom and
because he doesn't have his dad, there's

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nobody to like tell him the right
way to do it, and Bobby helps

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him and then he does quickly does
a little cocaine and clearly Pete, David

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said, who's a little kid at
the time, it's like a flashback sees

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him doing it, and Bobby got
all He's like, do as I say,

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not as I do. And then
there they go for a car ride.

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He's singing Creed passionately in the car
and it's it's just a really funny

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character. But the notion in general
of you know, his dad died a

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hero. Everyone tells him your dad, Oh, he was the best,

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and after his death they talk about
him as if it was this saintly leave

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it to beaver kind of character,
and clearly he is not, nor was

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his friends, the people in his
orbit. So you know, it's a

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it is a powerful thing to explore. Obviously, Pete has explored it in

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his stand up and his Jed Apatow
film, so there's a sense of familiarity

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to this that we're just kind of
like exploring it in a different way or

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more detail again, familiar themes from
his stand up, in his movies,

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sexual humor, his relationship with his
mom. And then you got Pesci right,

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and it's like, what is Peshi
even doing in the show? First

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of all, when was the last
time we've seen Peshi? So I'm gonna

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look it up real quick, because
I don't I feel like we haven't seen

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Joe Pesci forever. Let's see.
So Joe Pesci obviously was in The Irishman

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in twenty nineteen. Prior to that, he did a voice role in some

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sort of weird obscure animated film,
presumably just for money. And then really,

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you got to go back to Love
Ranch in twenty ten, which is

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a movie that I don't think many
people saw. So if you really want

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to talk about, what's the movie
that he was in that at least some

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people saw, you got to go
all the way back to The Good Shepherd

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in two thousand and six, which
he's barely in. So it's like,

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if you want to go back to
a movie that he's in a lot and

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a lot of people saw, you
basically got to go back to ninety eight

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to leave the weapon. Four point
being we haven't seen Joe Pesci a lot,

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right, We've basically seen him in
The Irishman, and then before that

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pretty much nobody really saw him until
you go back to ninety eight, So

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seeing him is a rarity. It's
sort of a rare treat. And the

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role that he's playing in this,
it's so interesting how the meta element of

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it, right, because he's Pete
Davidson's grandfather and he tells Pete Davidson the

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pilot episode again not a spoiler,
it's the essential idea of his character that

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he's dying and he wants to spend
some time with Pete Davidson before he dies.

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In real life. Let's see how
old is Joe Phi. Joe Pesci

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is eighty years old in real life. We were not going to get you

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know, this may be the last
role that Joe Pesci plays that we see,

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or it maybe one of the last, but you know, time is

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running out with us getting to see
Joe Peschi and it's almost like we are

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getting to spend time with Joe Peschi
before he dies. Like that's the emotional

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weight that we bring to it in
terms of cinematic baggage, right, And

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I have to say again, it
reminds me so much of Harrison Ford and

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shrinking. Joe Pesci's eighty and he
is the coolest guy in the room the

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whole show, no matter where he
is. There's a part where someone tries

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to take a picture with Pete Davidson
and Joe. She tells the guy to

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fuck off, and it's very satisfying. He's still intimidating, he's still cool.

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He's also very charming. He can
be vulnerable, he can kind of

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do it all again, very much
like Harrison Ford to drinking, Like,

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these guys still have it, they
still have that thing that made them so

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special and so memorable. And Joe
Pesci's a really, really, really good

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actor. I think that it can
be. We sort of took him for

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granted. I think that people took
it as, oh, well, he's

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he has a certain stick that he's
always doing, and that's not true if

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you look at the breadth of his
work. He's done a lot of different

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kinds of characters. You know,
most recently The Irishman, where he plays

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very different than he plays and you
know, Good Fellows were Casino and in

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this he's so charming, he's so
likable. It's just so fun to be

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around him. I'm just glad he
did it, because again, it's like,

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that's the reason to watch the show
is to see Peschi and to just

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hang out with Peshi. Like Peshi
is our cinematic grandfather, and we're hanging

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out with him before God forbid,
he dies. And I would say the

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other thing about the show, and
this reminds me a lot of you know,

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what Apple was doing with sort of
ted Lasso esque stuff. The part

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about Pete Davidson that I think is
underrated and not really talked about that much,

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and I would argue also explains his
success with women, which is something

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that's a big conversational topic right is
he's very emotionally open. He's very he's

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sensitive, he is empathetic, and
he's very honest in a way that is

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very Jed Appto esque, makes him
appealing, makes him relatable. He's very

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honest about himself in ways that I
think, again make him very easy to

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empathize with. So this is a
show where it's like, in between dick

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jokes, there's a lot of human
emotional stuff going on that I think is

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effective. There's a part in the
second episode where we've seen Pete and Bobby

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kind Of Alley when Pete was a
kid. Now we see Pete as an

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adult with Bobby kind of Alley,
and it's clear that Bobby kind Of Valley

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is just as much of a mess
as he was back then as he is

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now. At Pete gives him this
speech where he's like, look, you

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know, you always think you're going
to have your life figured out in a

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couple of years. When when you're
eighteen, you think when you're twenty one

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you'll have it figured out. When
you're twenty five, you think when you're

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thirty you'll have it figured out,
And then you get to that age and

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you still haven't figured out. But
that's okay. You don't have to feel

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bad about that. And he's sort
of it's very emotionally mature of him,

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and I think, again, that's
that's the part of him that I think

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that you know, he kind of
doesn't get a fair shake on, and

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it's the part that makes the show
kind of warm and appealing. It's also

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very personal. At the end of
the second episode, you see real photos

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of him as a little kid dancing
at this wedding that we've seen an actor

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playing him do in the episode,
so it's there's a little bit of a

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family album sense to it, which
is consistent with a lot of Pieze stuff.

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So I would say overall the show
is good. That is familiar,

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it feels kind of safe, and
I think that the X factor the reason

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to watch it is Peshi. You
know, it's a it's a fun kind

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of comfort food watch. But the
thing that makes it really I think important

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is Peshi because there's a real chance
this will be the last thing that most

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people see Pshi in and he's still
awesome. He's still fantastic in it,

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so it's a real pleasure to see
him. I would say he's kind of

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my exhibit A for why I watch
the show. But overall, I liked

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it. I'll probably watch more of
it, and I think it's it's worth

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checking out if you have Peacock.
That is a show for a day.

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