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# some things from action movies I would like to do in 2025
- URL: https://type-click-type.ghost.io/some-things-from-action-movies-i/
- Published: 2025-01-07T17:23:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-07T15:27:43.000Z
- Description: this list was easy to make. almost... too easy...
- Author: brian grubb
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1751901997835, #Import 2025-07-07 15:26

In no particular order:

— learn something from a chatty driver that proves to be useful later

— have someone ask me for help with a big project and then look them in the eye and tell them I’m retired

— end up doing this one last job anyway after they insist it has to be me because I’m the best who ever did it

— use the phrase “get me the schematics”

— get chewed out by a gruff superior for my loose-cannon shenanigans

— have the same gruff superior later admit that while my methods are unorthodox I still get results, dammit

— attend a secret auction in a mansion hosted by a mysterious woman with an unplaceable accent

— slip a cell phone into someone’s pocket when they’re not looking and then call the phone a few minutes later to tell them something that wasn’t safe to share in person

— end a phone call and then immediately snap my flip phone in half and then toss the two pieces into separate dumpsters

— snoop around a warehouse while funky music plays in the background

— tell a police officer that he needs to release me because there’s a larger plot afoot that he doesn’t see

— access a hidden room using a retina scanner

— unlock an incapacitated colleague’s phone in an emergency by using their Face ID

— think I have an adversary cornered only to have him escape using parkour

— know someone who goes by The Barracuda

— uncover a plot that takes down the fat cats in city hall

— have a sinister businessman reveal his plot to me in a long monologue delivered from a desk with a tank filled with exotic fish behind it

— wear an overcoat draped on top of my shoulders with my arms not in the sleeves like an evil tycoon

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3e/4a/3e4a2f1c-dbf0-4c8e-93a8-aaf656877d0a/content/images/2025/07/890b4d1e-5284-4f13-8022-53d7f0487ddb_2952x1361.png)

— crash a gala

— initiate ghost protocol

— find out if my van can drift around corners

— tell someone that even though our goals and methods appear to be at odds, we are not so different, actually

— do the thing from the Bourne movies where I end a phone call with someone by telling them they “look tired” and thus revealing that I’ve been nearby and watching them the whole time

— use binoculars more, just generally

— hide a valuable piece of information inside a book that has been hollowed out

— find a hidden compartment in a desk that contains nothing but an unmarked flash drive

— watch an airplane soar off into the sunset and smile knowingly in a way that implies I know who is on it and where they are going

These seem like a reasonable place to start.

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## STUFF I TYPED

— Vulture let me empty out my screencaps folder to hand out [some very silly TV awards](https://www.vulture.com/article/very-specific-tv-awards-2024.html?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— [wrote about news bloopers](https://type-click-type.ghost.io/the-five-spot-news-bloopers-will/), which I adore

## STUFF I CLICKED ON

— good interview [with Bill Lawrence about Shrinking](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-12-25/shrinking-bill-lawrence-apple-tv-plus-scrubs-ted-lasso-bad-monkey?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io), a show I enjoy

— fascinating story about the woman who controls the Bond franchise — Barbara Broccoli, great name — just being [a huge thorn in Amazon’s side](https://www.wsj.com/business/media/james-bond-movies-amazon-barbara-broccoli-0b04f0db?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io) as they try to turn it into content

— cackled the whole way through [Defector’s annual accounting of groin-related injuries](https://defector.com/what-horrible-things-did-we-do-to-our-penises-last-year-5?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— settle in for [a great long Adam Scott profile](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/adam-scott-profile?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— a really good blog about [the value of being bored](https://embedded.substack.com/p/you-might-just-have-to-be-bored)

— hard to explain how excited I am about the Abbott/Sunny crossover, which [Alan Sepinwall spoke to Quinta Brunson about](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/abbott-elementary-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-crossover-quinta-brunson-rob-mcelhenney-1235223310/?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— a dude from New York found [a whole-ass mastodon jaw](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/mastodon-jaw-found-new-york?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— the world’s most prominent flat-earther traveled to Antarctica and proceeded to [get wrecked by the sun](https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13116897/watch-flat-earther-admit-im-wrong/?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

—[$12 million jewelry heist](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/30/uk/london-jewelry-10-million-pounds-stolen-uk-intl-latam?utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=blueskyCNN&utm%5Fcontent=2024-12-30T23%3A34%3A30)

— look at [this picture](https://bsky.app/profile/joshrobbins.bsky.social/post/3lepolfgovs2a?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io) of Muggsy Bogues standing next to Gheorghe Muresan

— learned about [the fundamental attribution error](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%5Fattribution%5Ferror?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— [“Gosh-a-rooni!”](https://people.com/mary-steenburgen-thought-husband-ted-danson-was-slick-exclusive-8769258?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— a missing dog showed up at his owner’s house and [rang the doorbell](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/27/missing-florida-dog-doorbell?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— [this dog is cool, too](https://bc.ctvnews.ca/he-was-done-with-shopping-video-shows-dog-laying-on-horn-in-b-c-mall-parking-lot-1.7145582?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— [RIP to the real-life donkey](https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2025/01/03/perry-beloved-donkey-of-bol-park-dies-at-30/?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io) who inspired the cartoon donkey from Shrek

— [“Baby spider monkey wearing onesie in Rolls Royce finds permanent California home”](https://www.ksbw.com/article/rolls-royce-driver-dui-california-monkey-chp/63313206?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— [“World chess number one Magnus Carlsen quits tournament after refusing to change jeans”](https://news.sky.com/story/world-chess-number-one-magnus-carlsen-quits-tournament-after-refusing-to-change-jeans-13280876?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— [incredible work from Rodger Sherman](https://rodgersherman.substack.com/p/nfl-fair-catch-kick) on one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen in a football game

— [Cam Skattebo rules](https://www.theringer.com/2025/01/02/college-football/cam-skattebo-arizona-state-peach-bowl-college-football-playoff?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— [let’s buy the Breaking Bad house](https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/iconic-breaking-bad-house-up-for-sale-for-4m/?ref=type-click-type.ghost.io)

— I refuse to explain this but go birds

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3e/4a/3e4a2f1c-dbf0-4c8e-93a8-aaf656877d0a/content/images/2025/07/549b4808-579a-40a1-9707-3bf86dc301ae_1587x827.png)

Okay, that’s it for this week. Please share and subscribe and hire me to do one last job.