Bob Odenkirk’s Small-Town Action Mystery "NORMAL" Put To The Test!

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Normal opens with a simple promise: a quiet town, a steady lawman, and a plan to leave everything exactly as he found it. Then the movie gleefully breaks that promise with corrupt locals, hidden money, and violence that is so over-the-top it starts to feel like a dark joke you cannot unsee. We dig into why Bob Odenkirk keeps working as a late-career action lead, and whether Normal is a smart genre cocktail or just another excuse to watch him power-walk through danger.

We get spoiler-heavy as we debate the best parts and the biggest faceplants: Henry Winkler’s unforgettable scenes, the town’s “something is off” energy, the bank and vault chaos, and the plot mechanics that seem like they are setting up a payoff before swerving away. We also unpack the moment that drives us the most insane, the champagne cork sequence, and why that kind of randomness can drain tension even when the gore is technically “fun.” If you enjoy movie reviews that mix genuine praise with picky storytelling critique, you’ll feel right at home.

Then we zoom out into the bigger question: why are we, as a culture, so hooked on middle-aged damaged action heroes and small-town corruption mysteries right now? We connect Normal to Nobody, John Wick, Better Call Saul, and the broader trend of finally letting older actors be the main event. We end by pitching how we would fix the third act, how we would make the town even weirder, and what Normal, Minnesota merch we would actually wear. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves action-thrillers, and leave a review with your take: did Normal stick the landing for you?

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Is Normal Actually Any Good

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Is normal a clever genre cocktail or just Bob Odenkirk stress walking through another big pile of bullets? The second one.

SPEAKER_04 0:10

The second one. I agree the most with the second one.

SPEAKER_02 0:14

Oh the second one. I'm Gen Z. Second one.

SPEAKER_03 0:18

It's not Toy Story 2, so I don't give a damn. That's not true. It's not.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

You can't play both sides of this. You can't, you can't defend this movie and not come to the rescue of your Gen Z brother because you're also Gen Z. I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

It's better than Toy Story 2. No. Yes. Hell no. Yes. Heck no.

SPEAKER_02 0:42

Yes. I would say no because it it doesn't take it all the way home. I'm sorry. It just doesn't take it. Toy Story 2 does.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

I would say it's a little bit more than a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

No, it doesn't. Talking about Toy Story 2.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

God.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

I'm going to end this. My answer is I think it's actually somewhere in the middle. And I don't think Bob Ownkirk walking through bullets is necessarily a negative. So I think it's somewhere in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

I want to know why he decided all of a sudden at this age to start making action films.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

I have a hot dog.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

Because he's great.

SPEAKER_03 1:13

As better calls.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Shut as great as Saul Goodman.

SPEAKER_03 1:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

He wanted to get on the violent side of that. I mean, he was Tarantin behind a desk.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

And it's a well-made movie, so I'm just wondering. So is the nobody franchise.

SPEAKER_03 1:27

Oh, is the nobody franchise? Love it.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

Normal is quite different from nobody, though. Yes. I just wonder how much of Bob Odenkirk is in it and how much is a stunt double. Because he is on, what is he, pushing 60 something? 60, 70, 6 added. Yeah, probably. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

But how old is, let's just, let's just look real quick.

SPEAKER_02 1:49

How old is Bob Odenkirk? Take a guess. 62. 58. 63.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

He was born in 1962. So how old is he?

SPEAKER_02 2:00

63. Oh, dang. Right? It doesn't say it on there?

SPEAKER_00 2:05

No, it just says his.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

Oh, we need to use a calculator. 64. 64. 64. Oh, my bad. One off. I still won. Nope. No, you didn't. Yeah, 64.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

I didn't get it. He'll be 64 in October. Okay. He'll be 64 in October.

Meet The Hosts And The Premise

SPEAKER_02 2:20

We've got a lot to talk about because we cannot just sit here and talk about Toy Story 2. We're talking about the movie Normal starring Bob Odenkirk. And we've got to get off the Toy Story thing, guys. Okay. Think of another movie to compare it to. Did you start with the Toy Story 2 thing or was that him? That was Jackson. Oh, come on, Josh. I'm Josh.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

I'm Rachel.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

I'm Calvin. I'm Jackson. And this is Relatively Terrible. I love you, but you're all terrible. Welcome back to the Relatively Terrible Podcast. We are the uploads of Fun Family, and we are questioning culture with humor and just enough dysfunction to feel normal. I feel lots of dysfunction. Wait, normal? We're talking about normal the movie. Oh. Right away, we're gonna start off. What I want you guys to do is give me a sales pitch for normal in one sentence and bonus points if you can make it sound like a tourism slogan. Gen Z, do you know what a tourism slogan is?

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 3:21

You're trying to get someone to come where you are. Come as you are. As you were.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

To visit. To visit a location. To visit a location is a way better way.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

Good job, Rachel. Way better way to say that.

SPEAKER_03 3:37

Jackson, go ahead. I'm not gonna make it sound touristy. That's okay. You don't have to. It's just bonus points. Okay, fine. Bob Odenkirk's having a midlife crisis, and there's no better way to combat depression than becoming an action movie star.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Hmm.

SPEAKER_03 3:52

Galvin?

SPEAKER_04 3:55

This, of course, wasn't normal. Oh! Yeah, yours is better. Wow. Yours is better. Rachel? Raise them up.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Happy days. But make it bloody and a crime ring.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

I was gonna say if Better Call Saul and Happy Days added the Sopranos.

SPEAKER_04 4:20

No, John Wick had a threesome with John Red. John Rick. John Wick. Stop.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Who is John Rick? If Better Call Saul, Happy Days, and John Wick had a threesome, this would be their baby, and it would be anything but normal.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Yep. Very good.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

It would be dysfunctional. Just to let everyone know who's watching, there will be spoilers for the movie Normal, starring Bob Odenkirk. So if you

What Worked And What Failed

SPEAKER_02 4:45

want to go see that movie and then come back and watch this, please do. If you want spoilers that might help you decide to go see it, then you can continue watching. What worked, what annoyed you, and what made no sense about the movie Normal. Jackson, go.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

Henry Winkler was amazing. I loved him. I've never heard the Fawn say the F-word before. And when he says it, he sounds like he's joking. So anytime he was trying to be serious, I was laughing. Because that was perfect. Uh I wanted to see more of the Fawns.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Um not enough.

SPEAKER_03 5:25

Not enough Henry Winkler look, though. His when they blew him up. That was crazy. Amazing. That was really good. That was it. That was my favorite part of the whole movie. When he just shoots the bomb, it just blows Henry Winkler up. Out of nowhere. And he's like, oops, that's not where I meant to shoot. Shoot that at. And what annoyed me was the open-endedness of the couple on the snow plow. They just kind of left, and I thought, oh, this is all gonna reconnect at the end, and it didn't. And I said, Oh, that's disappointing.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Calvin.

SPEAKER_04 6:03

What worked for me was the whole switch up thing at the bank where the other sheriff started shooting him and the whole thing with the Yucosa. I thought that was pretty cool. That was my highlight of the movie with them. Uh what annoyed me was uh the whole thing with the C4. And the gold in the bank. So the C4 in the vault worked when he first told them about it, but when the Yucosa show up at the bank, they shouldn't have showed it because it wouldn't have mattered because they after that they end up killing each other any like anyway. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

How did the Yucosa not see the C4 in the ball?

SPEAKER_04 6:48

Let me pick up this one piece of gold. Oh yeah, we good.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:51

Oh yeah, we good. Good deal.

unknown 6:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:54

Come on. What made no sense was the whole thing with the champagne cork. How the bartender popped it off and then hit one of the guns that was loaded and it shot one of the guys from the Yucosa clan. That was so stupid. Oh, it did? Oh, yeah. See, that was so stupid because then it proves my point. Why did they show the C4 in the vault? Because it would have mattered. They were gonna fight anyway. Yeah. So the C4 was good when uh Bob Odenkirk told him about it. Like if you kill me, the C4 is gonna go off. But after that, should have taken it out. Because the one the dude didn't utilize it. Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah, one piece of gold, not good.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

They showed it when the Yokoza walked in the room like it was going to be relevant and then it wasn't relevant.

SPEAKER_03 7:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:48

Well, and then there was a piece of gold missing, remember? From the one couple that took it. I thought that's what was gonna set them off because even just one of those bricks of gold has got to be worth God knows how much.

SPEAKER_02 8:01

You're not allowed to talk after you take your turn because you're then at it, you're taking away my stuff.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Okay. Um what worked for me was I thought the story was good, I thought the pacing was good, love Bob Ownkirk, loved Henry Winkler. And yeah, it was the fight scenes were bloody and kind of just ridiculous. And there were a number of things where we were all just like, oh, like us on the edge of our seats. Yeah, the the violence was, I mean, it probably sounds really messed up to say the violence was fun, but um, it was like it was a good time. Um what annoyed me is the point that Calvin made, uh, where you know, when the Yucosa come, the it looks like it's going well. And then accidentally a champagne cork fires a loaded gun and just happens to blow somebody's head off. That was real, that was kind of annoying. I really thought it would have been much more interesting if they had planned an attack against the Yucosa, or even if this accident had been more believable, not just so random. Um, that kind of annoyed me. And then what confused me was part of the ending. Um it ends, Bob Odenkirk leaves, he's talking to his, you know, leaving another message for his wife. And I need to go back and re-watch what he's listen to what he's saying because they cut to the now sheriff of normal driving through town and they show him make eye contact with a new guy who looks pretty intimidating. So it's almost like they have a new Yakuza now that they're working with or something. I was I was confused about what happened to normal at the end. Um, I wanted I wanted that fleshed out a little bit more.

Tone Highlights And Ending Confusion

SPEAKER_02 10:03

What worked for me, I loved the tone. The whole color palette of the movie was great. I love the small town where you don't know what's going on. When you're gonna make this one-off kind of movie like this, it's perfect. Loved like the characters throughout the town. Once they go that shit crazy, the yarn lady. Oh, awesome. You knew as soon as you saw a police scanner in her yarn store, and Bob Odenkirk asked her about it, you know she's gonna be part of the problem. And she and she was the whole town, is just spoiler alert. The whole town is part of the problem. There, no one said it, but they're you know, they're holding money for this big Japanese organization, yes, it's Japanese. Japanese called the Yukoza, I think so.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

Right?

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Yes, well, and that was one one detail I want to put. That is the best opening song I have ever heard in a movie ever. They used a Japanese version of Paranoid by Black Sabbath, and it worked so perfectly.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

That's all I want to say.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

It's great attention to detail. What annoyed me about this movie was the third act, it didn't wrap up well. You Jackson, like he said, the the snowplow people that were out of towners and kind of caused this whole crap storm, just left. Took a piece of gold and left. And that really annoyed me because when that Yakuza guy went into that vault, and he would have known that one piece of gold was missing and all hell would have broke loose. That's when they could have used their C4 plan. Yep, and they could have blown him up right there. One thing that didn't really make sense to me is the ending. When you see them in normal again, he's driving in the car, he sees this guy who looks like he could be Japanese, but you don't know if they split up the money, you don't know if there's someone new from Japan helping out. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like if you took down the Yucosa at such a high level like they did, I don't think any the Calvary's coming to help them out. I don't think anyone knew they were there, and I think they could have taken that money and dispersed it.

Dumb Hills And Action Star Debates

SPEAKER_02 12:22

I want you guys to defend one ridiculous take about the normal movie starting with Jackson.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

Normal is different from nobody. It's not a remake of nobody. It was much different, especially if you've seen the nobody movies. There was a lot more it was a lot more of a mystery in the beginning, but then it went even more ridiculous than nobody. If well, do you agree?

SPEAKER_02 12:49

Because it felt a lot more gory. It's well, it's a completely different story, too. It's not just throwing an old man into a gunfight, which is what we talked about at the beginning. It's not that at all. Completely different story. Um, and but I think that is a a dumb hill to die on because I think a lot of people are gonna be saying that it is the same.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

I think they're cousins.

SPEAKER_03 13:15

Well, they're definitely similar. They're both active.

SPEAKER_02 13:17

That's offensive.

SPEAKER_00 13:19

I think they're cousins. I think nobody in uh normal are cousins.

SPEAKER_04 13:23

Okay, Calvin, what's your dumb hill? Henry Winkler was not that great in this movie. Dude, I defend. I thought it was fine. I just thought he was gonna be a bigger character, but then they killed it off like that, and I was like, oh, okay. So he's you know what?

SPEAKER_03 13:42

I like your reasoning. I would have liked to have seen his character more. I know, I get it. You guys made an argument, you're not gonna see Henry Winkler, you know, getting in there fighting or whatever, but they should have explained his character more in depth with this corrupt town. I would have liked to have seen that. And he was hilarious in the few moments that he was.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

I mean, they probably wanted him for name recognition. They wanted to blow him up, and they wanted to hear the Fon say the F-word.

SPEAKER_04 14:07

See, and I also thought he wasn't that funny in this movie. I oh I thought the movie wasn't that funny at all. So you have two dumb hills? Because it was funny. I didn't, oh no, I didn't laugh once. I didn't laugh once. Calvin's wrong. Yes, you're very wrong.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

Rachel, what's your dumb hill?

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Um I'm I'm debating on changing my mind.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

Uh oh. Oh. Well, say it. She was gonna say it's the same as nobody, weren't you?

SPEAKER_00 14:36

No, no, I wasn't. No, I was I I I think my dumb hill is that I I'm I'm a fan of Bob Odenkirk uh kicking ass. Like I it's hot. I I don't know. Like, he's 64 and he's doing all these, like, it's pretty ridiculous, but I don't know. I I like it.

SPEAKER_04 14:56

You gotta live up to that.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

I like it. And I and I really liked his character. And the fact that his name is Ulysses is relevant. Um I think that's my biggest complaint about the movie is that a lot of things were somewhat surface level, and I wish the movie had had another, it was only an hour and a half. It could have had another 15 or 20 minutes and dove a little bit deeper into a couple of the characters, but I liked it.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

My dumb hill is I think Bob Odenkirk's character, Ulysses, I can't think he was the sheriff, he should have been the last man standing. Everyone else should have been dead.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

Yes. Agreed. Agreed. That's I was gonna get into this later, but I was thinking the snowplow people were gonna come back, the C4 was gonna explode, and they were all gonna kill not only the, you know, the clan, but they were also going to kill the whole town. Yeah. And I thought that was what was gonna do.

SPEAKER_02 15:59

Just want to clear up there's no clan members in this. He meant clan as a group. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

Yeah, as a group. Oh gosh. Well, when you say clan, so I know, that was my bad.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

And there was a lot of white people and one black cop, so I just want to clear that up a lot.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

There was in the beginning of the movie, you know, he said his goal was to leave the town the same way he found it. So you you knew very early on that that wasn't gonna happen. But I really thought it was going to be just him standing. I wish it would have been that the whole town like blown to smithereens. And so again, that's also where I was confused because at the ending you have the one cop left who's the sheriff, but he's driving through town and there's people walking around and stuff, and it's like, didn't most of these people die in the fight? I mean, where are all these other people coming from?

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Um you've got a you've got a town of what was it? I think he said 1800.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:54

So people that died were like the people that were they knew about it.

SPEAKER_03 17:00

So they had anyone else who wasn't a part of it, they got killed.

SPEAKER_04 17:03

It was basically everybody. Shop owners all mean. Shop owners. Well, how did the bartender not though? Did you notice that? No, he knew. No, he was part of it.

SPEAKER_02 17:12

He just decided not to fight. Talking about the soda jerk guy who was the at the restaurant?

SPEAKER_04 17:17

No, the guy who popped off the champagne. Oh no, he knew. Oh, he knew.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Oh, yeah. But I've I've got an even dumber hill that I'm gonna die on. I was gonna say You're gonna do a double hill? Yes, I'm gonna go double hill. Double hill. I was gonna save this for the end, but Bob Odenkirk is a better action star than Keanu Reeves. Nope. No, no. Yes. That is a dumb hill. Wow. Glad you said that. I'd rather watch Bob Odenkirk fighting. John Wick was so much better.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Bob Odenkirk is a better actor. Kann Reeves is a better action star. Yes. Just saying. I don't care. I like watching Bob Odenkirk fight.

SPEAKER_03 17:59

I think you like him more as an actor, but I'll let you have your hill. I don't care. It was fun. The action scenes were more. Again, they were more fun in normal and in nobody than in John Wick, because they're my personal opinion.

SPEAKER_02 18:12

The violence in in normal is extreme, but they do it in such a way where it is kind of comical, which is crazy.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

I want it to be comical.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

When it gets serious, I'm just kind of like Well, then it becomes a horror movie because it's so gory. It has to be horror. It's not just a rare.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Yeah, I think I I said it to you the other day that, you know, in some ways, I think uh Normal was even more bloody than Kill Bill.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

A little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

But Kill Bill, the vibe is completely different. Kill Bill is dark. Yeah. Um, this was not dark. Normal was not dark.

SPEAKER_03 18:49

I hate it when movies like that take themselves seriously because they all, to Calvin's point, they all do kind of follow the same trope. There's gonna be a bad guy, there's one guy who's gonna fight him, and he's gonna win. At least with Bob Odenkirk's movies, with the nobody franchise and now you got normal, it's comical and it's funny. Yeah. I'd rather watch that. That's why I haven't gotten to watch the other John Wick movies, because I really have no interest, to be quite honest. First one, very good. Nothing against Keanu Reeves, but I just have no interest.

Why These Tropes Keep Winning

SPEAKER_03 19:26

At least Bob Odenkirk, I know I'm gonna I'm gonna get a laugh.

SPEAKER_02 19:29

Why as a society are we so into middle-aged damaged action hero guys and quaint towns that hide something stories right now? Why is that? Oh. Because it's really Other than your mom finding Bob Odenkirk hot, which makes my skin crawl. Better than hold on, better than Adam Driver.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

No, well, come on.

SPEAKER_04 19:48

Oh, yeah, much better than Adam Driver.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Just answer the question.

SPEAKER_04 19:52

I'm Adam Driver.

SPEAKER_02 19:53

I'm in Star Wars and now I'm dead. I know you're gonna be missing with missing me when he's hanging over you with his loose skin and old balls, gross.

SPEAKER_03 20:04

Okay. I'll I'll answer that question. That's easy because it's relatable for people. You got a bunch of these middle-aged dads.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

How is it relatable for you?

SPEAKER_03 20:13

Well, it's not relatable for me, but it's relatable for all those middle-aged dads out there who are like, I'm depressed, I'm lonely, my family doesn't love me. And now you got Bob Odenkirk in a movie kicking ass, and they're like, Yes! Someone's representing us.

SPEAKER_04 20:28

I was gonna say, because Hollywood is repetitive right now.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

Well, that's also true. Um then they would have just said nobody three. They're probably gonna do nobody three.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

I don't I don't think this is a new phenomenon, actually. I again, I know I don't watch many movies, but I read plenty of books that center on here's a small town in the middle of nowhere, and guess what? There's something weird going on. That's a very common trope. That's nothing new. You can take that all the way. I mean, you can go back hundreds of years and find stories written about small towns with weird stuff going on. Um, but I think people are always gonna connect to that because yes, it is much more relatable. Most of us have never been to New York City, most of us have never been to Paris, we don't give a shit about what's going on there. But small town, that normal Minnesota could be anywhere. Like that is that is much more relatable. And I think we're drawn to these late middle-aged heroes because Hollywood is so youth obsessed. I'm tired of seeing Timothy Chalamet. I'm tired of seeing these young guys who Jacob Ballordi. I'm tired, I'm tired of all of them. I don't care.

SPEAKER_03 21:47

The new dude who's playing He Man.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

You know, Bob Owenkirk is a good actor. Like at the end of the day, he's a good actor. Um, and so I think there's just something a little more, again, related. And entertaining about watching somebody who's 60 in these in these like ridiculous fight scenes as opposed to some dude who's 20.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

I'm glad you said that because we've talked about breaking bad a lot here, and I think that's a key component of breaking bad. You got Mike, you got the 70-year-old dude who's just going around kicking ass.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

No one can beat him. And no one could beat him. Except for Walter. I think specifically with the Nobody franchise and normal and Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, the world, um, more specifically, who's the right uh Vince Gilligan has discovered an incredible actor in Bob Odenkirk. And we have not had him on the screen other than in comedies for a long time. And now somebody was like, we need to get him in more movies. Well, let's do this action movie kind of thing, and it's worked out and it's evolved. And while normal didn't have a third act, it was still a very entertaining movie. I think that's why we're so obsessed specifically with Bob Odenkirk because he is such a great actor. He's also doing Broadway plays, he's doing more stuff, he's so good. He's also daddy. Yeah, a little bit, not really. Better call us always daddy. I think he's just a great actor, and I think we discover that he was a great actor in the second half of his life, and I think we're just people are willing to write for him. They're willing to say, hey, Bob Odenkirk, what can we do? Oh, let's do this. This will be funny and it'll be cool.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

And I think he's just the evidence that we didn't need, but unfortunately, I think Hollywood needs to show that, like, if you can act with your when you're 20, how much better are you gonna be when you're 60?

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

You know, we gotta stop writing off people. We need your generation to stop looking at people who are 40 and assuming they're at death's door. This is Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

We don't do that. Yes, you do!

SPEAKER_00 24:05

This is not true.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

This is a societal problem that we're not gonna fix right now, but it's so true.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

But it it is. So I'm sure Bob Ownkirk was talented when he was young, and he's only gotten better as he's gotten older.

SPEAKER_03 24:18

I just want to say, old people love me. Old people. Yes, they do.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

No, they don't. You think when you want people to get communion in church, and you're wearing your vest with Ozzy Osborne on the back, support that guy!

SPEAKER_03 24:33

That guy right there. I wish that was my grandson. No, I'm sorry. I Ozzie's not in the back. I wear my snake one.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

Oh, you wear your snake ones for like, Satan, get behind me.

unknown 24:45

I'm not.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

How do you know old people like you?

SPEAKER_02 24:47

Why'd you even say that? Because you were like, oh, yeah, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

Hollywood is obsessed with youth and is writing off older.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

I don't mean you guys look at me like I have one foot in the grave.

unknown 25:01

No, you're not.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

I mean, yeah, God was like, no, we're not.

SPEAKER_02 25:04

Almost 50.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

It was like I'm not almost 50!

SPEAKER_04 25:08

You're close.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

No, I'm not! He's still on the I'm six years away from 50. What are you talking about? Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

He's the same distance from 50 that you are from 20.

SPEAKER_04 25:25

Oh, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

Like, think about that.

SPEAKER_02 25:28

No, I think I think old people do like our children because they are kind and respectful, despite what people think about them online. Yeah. Alright.

Fix The Ending Or Sell The Merch

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Would you guys fix the mystery? Make the town weirder, or cash in with fake merch from normal Minnesota. Jackson. I'm gonna fix it. Alright, go let me hear this.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

The final act, I think we all agree, that's when it went downhill. Yes. When the Yukoza come and see that all to go to the vault to see their money, and they notice one brick of gold is missing. That's when the snow plow should have came in, and that's when uh the people on the snow plow should have come to save the day to help Bob Oat and Kirk Ulysses uh to take down both the town and the Yucosa. Okay. That's how it should have ended, and those two people could have redeemed themselves by both dying in the end.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

Ooh. Nice.

SPEAKER_03 26:29

And it would have just been him, last man standing, and it would have ended with him getting a phone call in his pocket, and it was his wife. And it's just him calling his wife with fire behind him. That's how it should have ended for me. Okay. That's my personal opinion. Okay, Calvin, fix it, make it weird or cash in.

SPEAKER_04 26:50

Oh, I'm fixing it for sure. Let me hear what you would do. I think they should have taken the shut up.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

And Ouija from Toy Story! Stop!

SPEAKER_04 27:00

No, Jackson. I think what they should have fixed was I think they should have taken the Yucosa to a fake vault that was filled with C4, and when they opened the door, kick them in there, blow them up, and then the town gets to keep the money, and that's how it ends. Okay. They should have just killed them off. The whole thing with the champagne bottle.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

That was terrible, but they would they did not have time to do your plan. Yeah, they didn't. Yeah, probably not. So it would have had to like there had to have been part of the story that would have been a little different. Yeah. But yeah. Okay, I I like that though. That's a good idea. Rach?

SPEAKER_00 27:38

I I want to fix it as well, but I'll I'll I'll say make it weirder. I think it would have been, you could have really gone crazy with this. Um, and I think you could have more put Bob Odenkirk in the mix of this and corrupted him.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Um, and then maybe he could have played maybe more of a long game where eventually he did take out the town and kept the money. I don't know. There were definitely some funny, weird elements in this, and I think you could go another direction with it.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

You know, I'm cashing in and making some merch because nobody knows how to make merch anymore. Normal Minnesota and everything that happened here, you could make a shirt for each of the shops. Yes. And you can make them specific to the movie, like the lady, like the yarn lady, and you can make one that said, like, I lost my head in normal, I lost my finger in normal, I lost my eye in normal. I mean, it's just right there. Uh, I love the Yucosa or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

Like needle neck or something like you can't nail eye. Nailed it in Minnesota normal Minnesota.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

Or just or just feet and a burn mark that says, hey.

SPEAKER_00 29:04

Yes. Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

I mean, yeah, there's all kinds of merch you can see.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

I would wear I would if you put that in a t-shirt, I would totally wear all of those.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

Better call Ulysses. Oh, this needs to be a

Ratings And Final One-Liners

SPEAKER_02 29:17

thing. Okay, now we're gonna rate normal, the movie, on the relatively terrible rating scale, which goes relatively great, good, fine, questionable, exhausting, or terrible.

SPEAKER_03 29:32

Jackson? It was relatively good. This had potential to be great if they would have ended it properly, but they didn't. Now, the mystery element I enjoyed more than nobody. This story had potential to be better than nobody, but the ending just didn't hit. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_04 29:52

Relatively fine. I mean, I knew what to expect. Uh crazy gore and blood, explosions, an okay story, and yeah, the ending wasn't great. Rachel.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

I think this was good. I 100% agree with all of Jackson's comments. This had potential to be great.

SPEAKER_02 30:12

I'm gonna have to say for me it was relatively fine because it was entertaining. I liked the first half of the movie, it just did not land, and that just kind of took it to fine for me. I think Calvin and Mice fine are a lot different. I thought he would have said even lower than that, but it could have been a great movie. They could have fixed a couple of things, it could have been a great movie. So, now, guys, let's leave the internet with one final line for the movie Normal starring Bob Odenkirk Jackson.

SPEAKER_03 30:45

If you want a goofier John Wick, Bob Odenkirk is your boy. Better call Saul Ghost Turbo.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

I oh, yeah, that yeah. You're proud of that, aren't you?

SPEAKER_04 30:59

Let me cook.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

Let me cook. You're lucky you have a supportive brother. I liked it. I get it. All I think when I hear turbo is the snails.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

Yes. When bless your heart becomes a movie. Becomes an act, a violent action movie.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

Okay. Because when people say bless bless your heart doesn't mean bless your heart. It's usually kind of almost like a swear word.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

And it's something like sweet old ladies say in the South. Bless your heart. Exactly. But really, what they mean is F you. Like it's not, it's never intended. Yeah, no, it's if they say that to you, it's never meant as a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 31:39

Oh okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

That's what I mean because of the way the town is. It's like that's what I'm saying. That's what all those people would say. Bless your heart. It's just a cover for what's really going on underneath.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

Here's my one line for the internet. Normal is anything but normal. And it will satisfy your urge to watch a lot of people in a small town get murdered in interesting ways. Yep. So if you have that urge, you might want to seek help, but also you could watch this movie and it might scratch that itch.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:15

Hey,

What Was Good This Week

SPEAKER_02 32:16

yo. Alright, so before we head out, what was good this week? What was not so terrible? Done with testing.

SPEAKER_04 32:23

Yes, thank God. Oh, Toy Story 5 toys started getting announced today. Kill me. What? Why are you guys making that face?

SPEAKER_00 32:34

I mean, you're not, are you gonna buy them like before you see the movie?

SPEAKER_04 32:38

No.

SPEAKER_00 32:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 32:39

No. Good. Okay. But when the movie comes out, and if I like it, I'm not gonna say anything because I'm just gonna get shit on.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

No, no, no. I think it's fine.

SPEAKER_04 32:47

I'm gonna get crapped on. Oh my god, Calvin.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

Listen, if you see the movie and you like it, I support you. What I'm I'm glad to see you mature out of is before the movie comes out. You buy every single toy they come out with. And you rant, like, oh, it's so good, it's so good. And then you see it and you're like, it's so good, it's so good. And then like three months later, it's like that movie's dead to me.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

So you like Black Adam so much that for Christmas, I got you a Black Adam and Superman old school comic book.

SPEAKER_04 33:25

Where's that at now, Kyle? I have no idea.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

You could probably sell it for a couple hundred dollars. Really? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

But if you see the movie and you like it, fine. Fine. I will support you.

SPEAKER_04 33:45

It's gonna be better than four. I can tell you that. It's gonna be worse than a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

I think it has potential to be better than four. I don't think it has potential to be better than the original trilogy.

SPEAKER_04 33:54

Exactly. It's gonna be worse than two. Two is good.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

I I think one thing that was good this week is we're now a week closer to seeing Bill Murray live. I'm kinda hard just thinking about that. And that is relatively terrible.