Luke Schmidt

Majority of my personality was formed by The Office. Most things I say, I can usually trace back to an episode in The Office. Even sayings that I thought were my own. They have either been said by Michael, Jim, or Dwight. So if you hate the office, you would hate me. If you’ve ever asked yourself what would Michael do, what would Jim do, or what would Dwight do, Luke would probably do it too. When I stop watching The Office, it’s going to be the start of me forming my own personality. It’s like if I only used a bidet every time I went to the bathroom and then suddenly stopped using it one day. I wouldn’t know how to act being in a bathroom without a bidet and I probably wouldn’t know how to wipe myself properly. If I suddenly stopped watching The Office, I wouldn’t know how to act being in a life without The Office. I don’t think I could ever go cold turkey from The Office, I’d probably have to ween off it. Who knows, I might just decide to never develop my own personality and just watch The Office for the rest of my life. Being a combo of Michael, Jim, Dwight, and a sliver of Luke doesn't sound that bad. If I haven’t made it obvious, I love this show. I love it so much that I let it form most of my personality.

A man falls in love with his AI system. This movie is based on the future and in this future people can fall in love with their AI systems. The AI system isn’t a physical entity, just a voice. So a guy that is going through a tough divorce ends up falling in love with his AI system, that happens to have the voice of Scarlett Johansson. I don’t know how they do it, but somehow they’re able to make it super romantic. The main character walks around with an ear piece and goes to places alone while he’s talking to his AI system. I guess it’s so romantic because there is nothing superficial about it, just artificial. He purely falls in love with the personality of the AI system. It’s like when your girlfriend asks you, “would you still love me if I had no hair” or your boyfriend asks you, “would you still love me if I was 5ft tall”. Imagine asking your partner, “would you still love me if I was literally just a voice in your head”. The main character proves that he would love just a voice/personality. I think it helps that he loved the voice of Scarlett Johansson. I’d imagine that if the AI system had the same personality, but the voice of Shrek, the main character probably wouldn’t be getting any butterflies. I think that would be the ultimate test of love, can he love purely a personality with the voice of Shrek. Who knows maybe there will be a sequel.

I didn’t know I could laugh like that. This show showed me something inside me that I had never heard before. As the years go by, I tend to surprise myself less and less. I found I have become very predictable to myself. It’s truly sad because I love to surprise people. I’ve found myself behind many doors, under many beds, and in the back seats of many cars, just to surprise my girlfriend. It might not be a fun surprise for her, but it’s always fun for me. Maybe I love to surprise my girlfriend because I’m unable to surprise myself. My lack of ability to surprise myself has resulted in me scaring the s*** out of my girlfriend. Unfortunately, I surprised her too many times and she sat down with me to let me know I can’t surprise her anymore. After that conversation I thought I was going to have a life with no surprise. It wasn’t until I turned Big Mouth on did I realize the element of surprise was still in my life. This show made me laugh in a way I didn’t know was possible. Thank you Big Mouth for giving me that surprise that I so badly crave for in my life.

This show is informatively funny, which in my opinion is the best way to be informed. Hasan Minhaj has a gift. He can bring up some real s*** and somehow make me laugh. If I was ever on my death bed, but didn’t know it, I would want Hasan to inform me that I was in fact on my death bed. He would probably be like, “Hey Luke, you’re on your death bed...you should probably switch beds”. Then I would be like, “Hasan, it doesn’t work like that silly, haha”. That way my last breath could be a laugh. He’d probably have a better joke than that, he makes every situation funny. His show is like the news for me, except I actually trust what he says and I’m never surprised when I see someone watching his show. I don’t get how people still watch the news on cable television with commercials. That seems so barbaric to me. I can’t remember the last time I saw a commercial. Anyways, this is a great show.

He wanted to runaway. I get it, sometimes I want to runaway too. The difference between me and him is that he ran away and I didn’t. That was actually one of many differences between me and the main character. We’re actually not similar at all, but I tried to relate to him as much as I could. The one thing I was able to find where I felt the most related to him, was wanting to runaway. If I ran away, I would want to runaway into the wild too, but not the literal “wild”. Like I would want to go somewhere wild like Burning Man or South Dakota. I heard Burning Man is wild, but for some reason, South Dakota sounds wild to me too. Like if I ever went to South Dakota, could I just say I’m in Dakota. Or do South and North Dakotians dislike each other to the point that I need to specify which Dakota I’m in. Like I bet the people most North of California are a whole lot different than the people most South of California. That’s a whole lot of miles for people to change. I wonder if North Dakotians are a lot different than South Dakotians. I’d imagine they’re not that different. They will always have that Dakota that bonds them. Maybe one day there will just be one big Dakota instead of two little ones. Anyways, this is a great movie and if I ever find myself at Burning Man or in South Dakota, I’ll have this movie to thank.

All time favorite Adam Sandler movie. First movie I remember crying to. When Adam cry, I cry. I feel like I was able to go through all the emotions with him. If I got offered a remote to fast forward the bad times in my life, that would be tough to pass up on. There have been so many moments in my life I’ve wanted to fast forward, like every dentist appointment I’ve had. Nothing against my dentist, I just don’t like being judged. That’s all they do there, judge my teeth. I know all that really matters is if I accept my teeth, which I totally do. It’s just hard sometimes to block out the noise of all the teeth haters out there. My dentist has never hated on my teeth, but I’m just waiting for the day he does. Hopefully I’ll be strong enough that day. All I’m trying to say is I relate to Adam wanting a remote to fast forward parts of his life. At the end, he realized every moment is precious, even the bad ones. So might as well be present in every moment and that means at the dentist office too. It’s difficult to be present in every moment, I feel like I’m constantly distracting myself from the moment I’m in. Maybe not with a remote that fast forwards time, but TikTok sure does feel like a device that helps fast forward time. I always underestimate time when I’m watching TikToks. I need to start meditating or something. Learn how to be in the moment and all zen and stuff.

My sister is watching this show for the first time. From time to time I’ll watch a few episodes with her. It’s so much tougher watching it the second time. The first time I got to see Walter gradually break bad. I always had hope that he would stop breaking bad, which sounds so naive now. The show isn’t called “stop breaking bad”. The second time watching it, there is no hope left, Walter is going to keep breaking bad and there was nothing I could do about it. If only they made a sequel show called “breaking good”. It starts off with Walter being the baddest he was in breaking bad and every episode he starts to get a little less bad, until he has completely broken good. Like episode one of breaking good, he kills a bunch of people. Episode two, he doesn’t kill that much people. Episode three, he thinks about not killing anymore. Episode four, he literally doesn’t kill any people. Episode five, he’s just a meth maker that doesn’t kill people. Episode six, he stops making meth. Episode seven, he gets a normal job, but not as a chemistry teacher because it’s too triggering. Episode eight, he starts going to therapy. Episode nine, he starts working for charities. Episode ten, he creates his own charity called Help Stop Meth Making Chemistry Teachers (HSMMCT). That’s all of season one right there. The last season he would be in the Peace Corps or something. That show would leave people uplifted and inspired. Like it doesn’t matter how bad you get, you can always start breaking good. Broken bones heal, a broken mind can too.

Everybody needs a Wilson. Everyone needs that sound board that will just listen. The best advice is sometimes no advice at all. Wilson wasn’t trying to play hero and fix the situation, Wilson was playing supporter by just listening. I found my Wilson and it’s the inside of my car. I’ve had a lot of tough conversations in there and not once has the inside of my car tried to fix anything, it just listens to my babble. I’ve tried to talk to my dogs, but sometimes I feel like they don’t listen or even care. I don’t blame them, they probably have other stuff on their mind, like when am I going to shut up. I never feel like that with the inside of my car though. Whenever I’m talking to the inside of my car inside my car, I feel so present with it. Like it somehow understands what I’m going through, but at the same time it doesn’t need any words to portray that to me. Anyways, Tom Hanks was incredible in this movie and won awards from it. I feel like Wilson should have won some awards too. I don’t think Tom would have been as great without Wilson. Everybody needs their Wilson, I’m glad I found the inside of my car.

I was expecting to laugh, I wasn’t expecting to cry. Sometimes I would cry because of how hard I was laughing, that didn’t surprise me. Ricky Gervais is a funny guy, I’m probably not the first to cry laugh from his comedy. I wouldn’t even be shocked if he’s made people cry, pee, laugh. He funny enough for people to lose their ability to control their bodily fluids. So when I was dripping from my face and laughing, it was no shock. When I started to leak from my eyes and wasn’t laughing, that surprised me. Sure, it doesn’t take a lot for me to cry. It also helps that I’m a pretty cryer, so when I get on a roll, I’m in no rush to stop. This show is so touching that I think it would even make non-cryers cry. If you’re an ugly cryer, I’d suggest watching this by yourself.

I want to learn how to dance like that. I always thought that I was a decent dancer, but these guys take dancing to the next level. This dance won them their 6th NBA championship. I don’t care how many dance lessons you take, 99.9% of people still won’t learn how to dance like that. These guys were such good dancers that they felt they were the best of all time. They may have been the best at dancing to the music for their time, but the music is always changing. It doesn’t make sense to compare dancers if they’re not dancing to the same music. Someone dancing to classical music is going to dance a whole lot different than someone dancing to hip-hop. You might not like the music being played, that’s okay. The music isn’t going to stop playing though. If it continues to play, there will always be dancers.