HAPPY GILMORE 2 REVIEWS

Special guest star Dana Buckler, Film Critic from the podcast THE DANA BUCKLER SHOW joins hosts Jess and Ash as they critique the newest Adam Sandler sequel HAPPY GILMORE 2. Not only do they have an Indepth discussion about the movie, but they also talk about cult classics and rank them in the top 3 of ALL TIME listen as the 3 not only discuss their views on Happy Gilmore 2 but how they LOVE other movies that have moved history for YEARS

Episode Transcript

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You Jackass. Are you kidding me right now?
You just cost me to hold dude. Happy Gilmore.
Man, I wish my father was here to see this.
Jackass, Jackass, Jackass. Unfortunately, he's in the great
sizzler in the sky. You know what?

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I don't miss that dude at all. What?
Are you going to do Happy Boy? Unless you want to go to jail,
you can't hit me, Jackass. Oh my goodness.
Yeah, we can. You guys can.
Jackass, Jackass, Jackass. OK, we're just going to dive
right into the shallow end of the pool head first because

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today's episode is going to be exciting.
Joining me today is my lovely Cohost.
Ashley Robbins here. Hi, guys.
And joining the both of us is America's favorite movie critic,
Dana Butler from The Dana ButlerShow.
Hey ladies, thanks for having me.
This is a real pleasure. Big fan of the show.
Love what you guys are doing. Thank you for having me.

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I can notice you're a little nervous on the mic.
I am, I, I'm, I'm, I'm worried I'm going to start stuttering.
I just don't know if I'm be ableto get through this.
I'm so excited. If you do start to stutter, it's
OK. I'm a Porky Pig myself.
But anyway. So today, what we're going to
talk about is 29 years ago in 1996, the world was introduced
to what has become one of the most recognized comedy movies in

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history, Happy Gilmore, starringMr. Adam Sandler, and then just
released literally what, four days ago?
As of this recording, yes. OK.
Happy Gilmore 2 So what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk
about it and critique. It yeah, let's do that, yes.
OK, All right. So Ashley and I got to see it

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together. Yes, we did.
And we got to see it. Dana is a manager also at a
restaurant called Ivy on the Square in Ocala, FL.
A man of many hats. Many hats.
He's a real Jack off of all trades.
So he does this thing to where he shows a movie and a lot of
the times the movies are usuallyabout 20 years old.

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Yes, they're almost always movies that yeah, we've all seen
before or had a relationship with.
Never like, for me anyway, a brand new movie which was really
cool. Because really, I like to say
this because the good movies were then.
They were then. It's hard to find a really great
movie now. Yeah, it is.
He'll do that. He'll do.
We'll do a dinner popcorn. It is such a fun time too.
It is such a great time. And but you can only have so

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many people, so it's not like you sit in the whole theater.
It's more personal. Yeah, it's like an intimate
movie experience. I try to have an intimate
setting and I try to purposely make it a movie that you've seen
before so that you're, you know,you're really coming in with
your friends and you're having just a like a communal
experience. And I've been doing it for a
little over five years. And then the, the movie I'm

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doing tomorrow night will be my 300 and 30th dinner and movie
that I've hosted in just over 5 years.
So. What's the movie?
Tomorrow's going to be the 1983 classic Scarface, say.
Hello to my little friend. Oh, that's right.
Because my husband really wantedto go.
David wanted to go there. Yeah, OK, here I go.
Because we were supposed to be talking about bigger and we
will. Dana's going to be showing

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Scarface. So he was approached by this guy
who asked him that he's going toScarface.
Tell everybody what they he asked you.
Well, so a buddy of mine, his name is Barry.
He's, he's big, big in the thoroughbred industry.
He's been a horse trainer his whole life.
I'd say he's probably in his late 50s, early 60s, comes from
the Miami area. And he messaged me the other day
and said, I, I saw that you're doing Scarface for dinner and a

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movie, can I get 3 seats please?And I said, of course he goes,
hey, would you ever want to talkto the, the real guy the movie
is based off of? And I, and so I, this is through
text. So then I called him and I said,
well, Barry, I this is going to sound really ignorant on my
part. I didn't know this movie was
based off of anybody. From what I understood, Oliver
Stone went down to Miami, stayedalmost a year to research sort

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of the cocaine. Yeah.
The cocaine trade famously indulged a little too much and
and developed a pretty bad cocaine habit that lasted four
or five years for Stone. And then he wrote the script.
Oh. Wait, let me interrupt you.
So Oliver Stone got a cocaine addiction while he was.
Oh my gosh. OK.
So he wrote the script. So again, I assumed that, you

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know, some of the things that happened in this movie were
loosely based on maybe real events.
What I didn't know was that there was an actual individual
that this movie was based upon and this guy ended up going to
prison for a while. The.
Whole month I mean. That's like larger than life.
And now he's in the exotic animal business.
Get out of here. So, so he he was actually, he's

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briefly mentioned in the Tiger. King documentary, just briefly.
But he stayed out of it because everyone that's been on Tiger
King thinking so far is going toor is is in prison or is going
to prison. Yeah.
Yeah. So he just kind of stayed out of
it. But he said to me, he goes,
would you like me to put put himin touch with you and maybe he
would do your show? And I said, well, sure, he goes.

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And there might be some questions he can't answer.
I said I understand. But Barry kept saying because,
you know, he knew Pablo Escobar.And I'm like, OK, say no more.
Yeah. We'll try lightly, yeah.
So there was 1 scene that he wasable to verify.
Ashley, you've seen Scarface. Oh yes.
OK so the famous happens in the 1st 25 minutes of the movie The

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famous I. Just tell you this, I have not
seen Scarface. That's why is that I know.
Oh my gosh. OK.
Go, Dana tried to show it to. Her.
Oh my gosh, I will. Watch it, I want to.
I'll come to dinner in a movie tomorrow night.
The first time that Manuel and Tony are going to do the cocaine
deal with the Colombians in the hotel room and I'll try to keep
this purposely vague for for Jess who hasn't seen this that

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involves the chainsaw that is based on a real.
Event that. Happened to the guy, yeah.
OK, so chainsaw head. OK, And Can you imagine how
disgustingly graphic and yucky? I mean, probably.
The whole once you see the movie, you're going to kind of
understand, like the shock that I'm experiencing, that that's
actually really most of that happened based on a true person.

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So we'll I'll keep you up. Yeah, I would love to.
Listen, we're still in preliminary talks to try to get
this interview set up. Obviously, I would do it over
Zoom. I don't think I'd want to.
Yeah. Over here.
OK, so we were supposed to be talking about Happy Gilmore too.
We went into Scarface that not alittle bit odd, but not really
because I thought it was a good story.
What we're going to start with Ashley, because Dana, I know

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that you'll take it away. How did you feel about Happy
Gilmore too? You know, I really actually
liked it and in my mind I was picturing it to be just like a
continuation of the of the firstone, you know, like whatever.
But it really wasn't. It was.
It had some shock in there. Obviously the first little bit's
shocking. And then I liked it right off
the bat. Right off the bat, right then it
featured his children, which I thought was really sweet.

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And then real biological children.
Yes. And then all the cameos from,
you know, like celebrities like Eminem and that kind.
It's really I liked it. Travis, Kelsey.
Eminem. Bad Bunny.
Bad Bunny. Who wasn't in the movie?
Yeah, I mean. Haley Joel Osment was in the.
Movie. I mean everybody, everybody.
I mean, all of his friends over the past 30 years have all made

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cameos in the film. Yeah.
And I think I get the, I get maybe you would know about this
more, Dana, but I get the feeling that Adam Sandler did it
exactly the way he wanted to do it.
Well, yeah, yeah. Oh, absolutely.
When I get into it, I'll I'll tell you why that's.
Exactly what I love about me. Too.
I actually do. Here's what I thought about it.
I thought that for what it was, I, I went in there without this
high expectation because I didn't want to be disappointed

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and I always am disappointed in any new movie that I see and
lately. So I went in there and thought
whatever I would, I, I was in the mood to laugh too, so that's
good. So I went in there and right off
the get go, the shock factor, nospoiler alerts.
But then I just thought all the little things were so funny.

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I loved it. Steve Buscemi as the, you know,
the neighbor and the, it was just like, I mean, I, I watched
the first one in 1996. So you kind of think, well, you,
I was much more juvenile to follow, right.
And I was juvenile. So I just thought it was funny,
like when he fights Bob Barker or whatever.
So with the second one, I thought, oh, it's probably going
to be like, you know, so, so butI actually kind of really
enjoyed it more than I thought Iwould.
Yeah, more than I thought I would.

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It was a happy feeling. Yeah.
Happy Gilmore. Yeah.
All right, Dana, take it away. So I'll, I'll tell the two of
you that I thought the movie wasgoing to be terrible.
My expectations were in the basement, and I'll explain why.
See Adam Sandler after he gets fired from SNL because SNL kind
of famously cleaned house. 9495 got rid of Firely Spade, Mike

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Myers, Chris Rock. All the good ones, all the good
ones. They do that everyone, so they
call it sort of the SNL purge. Well, they'll get rid of all of
their really popular cast members and bring new ones now.
Of course, the new ones they brought in were like Will
Ferrell. They were great too.
Cherry Oteri, Place, people likethat.
So Sandler transitions into making feature films.
So Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore,the Waterboy, these are his

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1990s movies, and they're all very, very successful.
And they need to be successful because if he's making movies
that flop one after another, oneafter another, he's not going to
be able to make the movies anymore.
So he kind of is takes takes it very serious.
And every movie from The WeddingSinger to 51st dates, all are
moderately to very successful films.

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So in 2014, when Netflix is really beginning to show its
dominance in the streaming service, they sign him to AI
think at the time it was a A4 orpossibly 5 picture deal worth
$250 million, which basically says we're gonna give you $250
million. You got to produce 5 movies with
this money. Obviously we're going to pay you

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a salary on top of that, but that's going to be your
production deal. But what happens when all of a
sudden it doesn't matter if the box office is is successful, it
takes the pressure off and then you end up getting what I will
call pretty bad movies. His Netflix movies have not.
Been I don't even know of any ofthem.
Ridiculous 6 Oh yeah, all all ofthese movies, but.

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You know it's funny, I don't know about if you guys noticed
this, but since I've been on Netflix now that's like hit like
it's going up sure it's like popped up on my queue and I
never even had heard of it and never watched it.
I I know the hateful 8 but like I never watched the ridiculous 6
and it keeps popping up. Well, they're not.
They're not good. They're not good.
You. Don't like the ridiculous 6?
I guess you. Did they're No, they're they're
they're not good movies, No. And Hateful 8 is.

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Hateful 8 on. Me and he doesn't have to try.
He's under no pressure to succeed.
Yeah, you think about that like you think about the box office.
That's like a big it's. A huge deal.
Wait, we're not talking the Hateful 8.
No, we're talking. Tarantino.
No, we're talking a movie that that Sandler made called the
ridiculous. 6 okay I reject I pull I'm gonna pull back on my
opinion. I thought it was we're talking

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Quinn. I love the.
Hateful. It's amazing, absolutely amazing
film. So throughout 2014, in 2017,
Netflix extends the deal for another four more pictures,
another $275 million. In 2020, they extend the deal
again. So whatever, regardless if the
movies are good or not, people are watching them.

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And it's it's the Netflix algorithm is telling the higher
ups at Netflix. This.
Is working. Whatever is this is working now.
The movies are not great. There's a couple sprinkling in
there that, like the Hubie Halloween movie he did, was.
I did see that and. He made a movie a a a drama
where he played a basketball scout who ends up bringing a

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basketball player from Eastern Europe over to America to play
for the 76ers. Good little movie.
But overall, I think the consensus is the movies are
they're kind of garbage. So when they announced that that
he was going to do Happy Gilmore2 and it was going to be on
Netflix, I said, well, this is, this is going to be terrible.
This is going to be garbage. And so when I sat down to watch

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it the morning it came out, I will tell you that my first time
viewing, my reaction was that was all right, that was OK.
Then when I got to work and I was getting things ready for
that movie night, I, I started the film up again just to test
the speakers and make sure everything was working and I was
watching. I watched maybe the 1st 45
minutes of it and I was laughing.

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Isn't that funny? Because why do you think so?
Because because not, I've been kind of sort of grappling with
why I didn't have a great first reaction to it.
One I was watching it by myself.I was it by yourself at 3:00 in
the morning. No, no, It was like 8:00 in the
morning. OK, yeah, I was watching it by
myself, so there was no one for me to kind of bounce.
Bounce off of. And then I think I just
surrendered to what type of movie it was.

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And I realized that he put more work into this film than any of
his previous Netflix movies. And I Yeah.
And I just, I ended up having a great time.
Now, I've seen the film four Times Now.
And what I really enjoyed was when I was showing it for dinner
in a movie, I did it two nights in a row is you guys couldn't

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see me, but I'm in the in the side room, the Speakeasy.
I know when the jokes are coming.
And it was like fun to just sit there.
And. Watch the listen to the
reactions. And so I mean, is it better than
the original? No, it's a different movie.
It's it's a movie by a man who's58 years old, who's lived life

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and he. Looks great, don't you?
Think yeah, he actually does look great.
So again, is it is it Oscar contender?
Not at all, not at all. But for what it is, I thought it
was really, really funny and really entertaining.
And I think it's a big miss for Netflix.
I think Netflix could have put this in the theater for about

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two or three weeks, probably could have made $100 million.
Off of it too, I think people would have gone to watch.
It because this was the fastest any movie I've ever shown booked
up. Like as far as I I announced it
and then it was sold out. So let me let me ask you about
that because Jessica was kind ofbringing it up when we were out.
So you don't consider this a cult classic though?
Well, no time will tell. It's been out for four days.

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Well, no, because I because bouncing off of Happy Gilmore,
the first one, I believe that the Happy 1st.
I think that's what made it successful.
Classic. Yeah, maybe that's what made it.
Successful they couldn't wait there was there were people
showing having house parties putmonotone bin yeah yeah, they did
they were putting it on the big screen and fighting people over
so they did if it wasn't a cult classic, why would people be
doing. That I would I would slightly

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disagree with the terminology ofa cult classic because it was a
very successful movie when it came out.
OK, OK. And it wasn't like it was like
people didn't see it and then it.
Caught on later. Yeah, it kind of started to gain
traction. Like I'll give you an example of
of a true cult classic would be Austin Powers.
The first Austin Powers bombed at the box office, but later on,

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it caught, but kind of word of mouth started to spread and
everybody saw the movie. And then when the second movie
came out, the Spy Who Shagged Me, it made $400 million, right?
Yeah. So I I would I would slightly
disagree that I wouldn't label Happy Gilmore a cult classic.
I would just call it a classic comedy.
And in in a world where most comedies end up getting a

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sequel, the fact that this one didn't have one only sort of
built up the lore. The momentum and yeah, OK.
OK, here's what a cult classic is.
In case you do not know, a cult classic is a film, book or TV
show or other piece of media that develops an intensely
devoted fan base over time. Here are the key to finding

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characteristics. A devoted fan base.
The audience doesn't just like the work, they're passionate
about it, often to an obsessive degree.
Fans engage in repeated viewings, memorize dialogue, and
create communities around their shared love of the work.
Time development. A work can't become a cult
classic immediately upon release.

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It requires time to build this following, sometimes years or
even decades after initial reception.
Many cult classics were initially unsuccessful, received
poor reviews, or were overlooked.
Cult classics often break conventional rules or have
unsensual elements and mainstream audiences.
They might be weird, can't be orsubversive, or ahead of their

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time. Active fan participation.
Fans don't just watch passively.They quote lines, attend
screenings, create fan art, and sometimes dress like the
characters. I do.
Those kinds of things. Listen, is Happy Gilmore cult
classic? Hell yeah, There is the
definition of a cult classic. You're welcome.

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OK. OK, All right.
OK, so I just, I don't know if Idisagree or I don't disagree.
I think, OK, so maybe after hearing Dana, maybe and I can
apply my my father to this because my dad, he loves
comedies, but he does not like Adam Sandler.
So it won't matter what movie that he's in, he won't he won't
watch it. So I think maybe it's more of
like, are you a fan of Adam Sandler or maybe?
He's like Will Ferrell either though.

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Does he? Doesn't, but you know he loves
step brothers so I'll give them that.
You know what? I just want to touch on that.
I've never been the biggest fan of Adam Sandler comedies where
he acts like a, a baby. Well, like I, I don't I've never
liked Billy Madison. I've never a fan of the Water
Boy when he's playing a a a character that's somewhat
grounded in reality, A Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer,

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51st date. Big Daddy I.
Like Daddy, I've always enjoyed those movies.
Like like Little Nicky. Not a fan.
Mr. D, Mr. D Movie. I like that too.
Maybe. We're like Billy Madison.
Listen, me neither. And David loved it.
And I was like, this is so like,why?
Do you consider it wasn't even Jude up juvenile?
It was just. Childish.
Yes, it's a cult classic. Sorry, I would call Billy

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Madison a cult. Classic.
And that really that's his next project.
Maybe Waterboy? Do Billy Madison, too.
But here's the cast, and I want to say this of Happy Gilmore to
some of the characters that theybrought back.
But Julie Bowen, she looks late.First of all, she looks amazing.
I had to look up if that was still Julie Bowen because when

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she came on screen the first time I said, well, she's
beautiful and dare I say it looks better now than.
She did in the original. Happy Gilmore, Yeah.
And I'm not even jealous that you say that because she looked
amazing. Margaret Quali, She was not one
of the ones before, but she was one of the golfers in the
beginning of the movie. She actually played in the
Academy Award nominated movie. The substance was my favorite.

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Demi Moore, where she was naked most of the time.
But man, I thought she was. I thought she was great, which
did the dancing. I thought she was great in it.
But Bad Bunny, Sonny Sandler, which is Adam Sandler's
daughter. She's the youngest, youngest
daughter. But of course, Shooter.
Shooter Mcgavin. Yeah.
Christian McDonald. Yeah, I thought he was great.
Yeah, he was great too. He's.
Great in every movie. Well, he's the same kind of

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character in mostly in her movie, isn't?
He but that's that's a really they took a really fun sequel
trope. All right, this was kind of, I
will say Sandler's little tip ofthe hat to Terminator 2IN which
the villain of the first movie becomes a good guy in the second
film, and that's a that's a classic sequel trope.

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Yeah, you're right. OK, it's been 25 years since
I've done this, let's see what happens.
I'm scared, shooter Mcgavin, this is for you, and I'm not

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lying to you. That is smashed.
Smashed. And that went pretty well.
You're dead, shooter. So we've got Ben Stiller.
No introduction, Yeah. Oh my gosh, I loved his
character. Nice.

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Shut the hell up. Okay.
And then of course, cameo TravisKelsey, which, I'm gonna be
honest, I didn't realize that that was him when he was doing
the office thing. That's what she said.
Well, he of listen, we make no mistake about it, like a lot of
the cameos, these people can't act and it shows.
But whatever doesn't matter. Makes it funny.
But Travis, Travis Kelsey was actually convincing in that role

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when he was talking to the to bad Bunny about, you know, he
fires him. And I was just like, I was like,
Kelsey's got a career path football.
He could be an actor. How about all the golfers that
were in it? Yeah.
It's interesting. It's interesting you say that
because it needs to be noted that when they were making the
first Happy Gilmore, they had reached out to a lot of top PGA
golfers at the time. Nobody wanted to be in the
movie. Only Lee Trevino, who was on the

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PGA Tour at the time, agreed to be in the film.
And he's he's the guy who says Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
And but, but this time around, and I have said this and I'll
say it again, if you are a fan of Professional Golf and you
like follow the, the, the, the, the, you know, the series and
all that stuff you got to watch,you are going to be in hog.
Heavy. Yeah, you're going to love it.

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Everybody is. In it, yeah.
Especially those little like quips that they did, you know?
Like the like the like the wholeScotty Scheffler getting
arrested and him going not. Again, like the.
So Sadie Sandler, his other AdamSandler's other daughter.
I'm not going to go through all of these, but of course Eminem
was a pretty incredible cameo like.
Wow, Jackass. I love Eminem.

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I'm friends with Eminem, but I don't want to bother the man.
Well. I think everyone who's watched
Have a Good More 2 so far on Netflix is pretty happy that I'm
standing there. Decided to bother Marshall
Mathers and ask him to cameo in the sequel.
Everybody kept saying, man, Eminem would be so funny in this
part. And I was like, I don't want to
ruin this guy's timing, but. Uncorrupt the scripts record
that scene and needed somebody to play Donna Floyd's son, who's

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played in the original by Joe Flaherty, who passed away last
year. Happy Gilmore.
Man, I wish my father was here to see this.
Yeah, Jackass, Jackass, Jackass there he.
Is unfortunately he's in the great sizzler in the sky.
I started going, but it certainly would be funny if he
did it. And I think it was written to
have a recognizable face in the role, like it's prime real

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estate for a big cameo. All right, let me bug Marshall.
And it wasn't a cold call, really.
Adam and Eminem have worked together before.
Eminem had a slightly longer cameo in 2009.
Funny people. Everyone in this room is either
staring at us wanting to take a fucking picture.
Or e-mail that to me. That sit on the Dan Patrick Show

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last week. That movie wasn't the first time
that him and Eminem had traded words.
I remember the first time I met him, I was at Saturday Night
Live. I was, I wasn't on the show
anymore. And we were at the after party.
And then Marshall walked by our table and he, he looked at me
and I looked at him like, Oh yeah, that kids, that kids
pretty damn cool. And then he goes Bobby Boucher.

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Subby Adams character's name in The Waterboy, another sports
comedy hit that started in the 90s.
Something like that. I go, Oh yes, that's what's up,
Marshall. And then we became friendly
after that. Yeah, I was thinking he had a
pretty good handicap. We called Eminem to be and had
to get more to give. Him a call and say, dude, I know
it's a pain in the ass, but it'spretty funny.
You mind shooting out to us for a day?

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And then he's like, yeah, yeah, send me the stuff.
And then it goes like that. That's how it goes down.
I was shooting. Went down the one guy in dinner
in a movie, Dana, when we were there, the DJ guy that was in
your audience, he wouldn't shut up about Eminem.
He was like, OK, we get it. We get it, dude.
OK, So I'm going to sound stupidas usual.
John Daly. Yes.

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I don't understand that character.
Tell me about that. OK, so John Daly.
So John Daly is essentially who Adam Sandler based the character
of Happy Gilmore on. OK, so John Daly was a
professional golfer in the 80s and 90s, OK.
He did not fit the mold. He was always overweight, always

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had a beer. He smoked, he drank, he was
often drunk when he would play and.
Who? Which character was this in
Happy? Gilmore, This is the guy that
with the with the beer. Yeah, in the wheelchair.
OK, So to our listeners who haven't seen it yet.
So so. But he was famous for being the
the, the golfer that could drivethe ball further than anyone
else, like like significantly further.

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And that's why he was competitive in the PGA, because
par fours were really par threes, Par fives were really
par fours. And so he actually won a few
tournaments, but he famously just didn't give a fuck.
You know he didn't. He was.
He didn't. I love that like thumb his nose
up at. The he was he was interviewed
once after winning a match and they said, what are you going to
do? And he said, well, I'm going to
Hooters who's coming with me? You know, like he just not

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cared. So Happy Guild more loosely
based off of him to the fact that he's in the movie.
It's really cool. Yeah, no, I think so.
And then, of course, I want to say, how about this one, Haley
Joel Osmond? Yeah, which I recognized him,
right. Away.
Oh yeah, it's the eyes and. He's actually really funny, but
what was that movie we just watched?
He's also in that You. Asked me that and I can't

(24:44):
remember. We watched a movie not too long
ago. And you recognized him?
Yeah. And you said he's from the 6th
Sense? I said.
That's like, yeah, that's like the go to like.
Yes. I'm not trying to ever get
political, but if you have have it yet, you need to go on
YouTube and Google Haley Joe Osmond's impression of JD Vance.
I can see is it really good? It's got to be so it looks like

(25:04):
him. It's so funny.
OK, awesome. It's so funny.
And of course, Kevin Nealon. Oh yeah, and Nick Swordson from
Reno, 911. I love him.
The guy got on the roller skate.So funny.
He was it. And then one more, Kim Whitley,
she played Bessie. OK, so she was from that
television show a long time ago with Regina King 9 or 227.

(25:26):
I'm going to stop you there because I think, I don't think
Regina King was in 227. That's a show from the mid 80s.
I don't even know that show. Jackie Harry.
Jackie Harry, damn it all to hell, you're always right.
Dana Buckler. I'm sorry, but she was in
something else though. Kim Whitley.
You take the good, you take the best, you take them both, and
there you have. You know missus Garrett Blair.

(25:46):
She was in the. Joe Life.
Yeah. What character was she?
I can't remember her name, but she was in the facts of life.
So she was like a main character.
No, she was one of the girls. She was like Tooty.
She was Tooty. She was.
Tooty was Kim fields. Okay, okay.
Okay, so Kim Fields was tooty. Maybe it was a love.

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Boat she had a small role in. She was in an episode of Curb
Your Enthusiasm, the episode where Larry David picks up a
prostitute so he can ride in thecarpool lane and she ends up
giving the The Chronic to his dad.

(26:29):
OK, two things #1 Dana Buckler is not always right.
Guess what? I'm Not Always Wrong did play on
227. It wasn't late 80s, it was mid
80s to the early 1990s. But Regina King did play in 227
but Kim Whitley did not play in 227.

(26:52):
I'm OK with that. But here's another thing.
Ash and Dana are wrong again. Kim Whitley did not plan the
facts of life. It feels great to be right and
guess what? This is my show so I get to use
the mic to make corrections. Oh my God, and.
Actually, Larry says I need some.

(27:13):
Swagging because you don't know what the fuck swag is okay, so
we're. All, I think it's hard to say.
We are all a huge fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
I love that show. Yeah, I don't think there's one
episode that's not funny. I We sat through and.
Watched every season Ashley and her husband.
We're watching it now, yeah. Just the pubic.
Hair like I'm doing, a third I'mdoing. 1/3 I'm doing a third

(27:34):
rewatch of the entire season. Yeah, I love that.
Show. I love that it's not scripted.
No, they're so talent. Everyone on there is so
talented. I love Susie.
She cracks me up. Susie.
She's like one of my Italian ants.
She reminds me of her. Like she's so nice to Larry and
she's like Larry. What the fuck?
I like Cheryl. Sometimes, like when when, when
Larry when Larry was driving by Wanda, who's walking, walking

(27:55):
and he goes I'd know that tush anywhere and then Cheryl just
just eviscerates him. Is that what is that what it is
you like? Do you like looking at you look
at women's butts? I like Richard.
Lewis Oh, I like, I like Richard.
Lewis, OR. Rest in peace, yeah?
But I also. Like Susie?
Oh yeah. And then I just like Larry
David. I know.
I like his characters. Just so like when he's when he's

(28:16):
messing with the dentist about his cuff.
Ohh. I also like the.
The evil could evil. Ohh yeah.
Yeah. Bob Einstein.
Yeah, but what's Marty Funkhouser?
I love little. Little orphan Funkhouser.
Ohh my gosh is he's. So funny when they go to the
Palestinian. Chicken restaurant.
He's going to Yamaka. That.
Show was brilliant yeah it was Oh yeah OK shocker alert Dana

(28:37):
has a fit about it I don't like Seinfeld see but I'm so OK so I
I got. To ask you about that because
they go hand in hand those showsare both about nothing and
they're Jerry sounds like Larry David so so I want.
And I've been asking her for as long as we have another shot I.
Have said let. Me, pick three episodes and just

(28:57):
give an honest viewing of these three episodes, and if you don't
laugh out loud, I'll never ask you again.
Master of your domain. I was not saying I have never.
Laughed at one of Seinfeld episodes.
But there are some things that are so annoying.
You like You don't like Elaine. You.
Got you got to show her. The but I like her on curb.
Me too. The barbershop.
The Barber. One where where they where
they're they're sneaking. They don't like Enzo the Barber.

(29:20):
Like you'd appreciate that. I mean I the soup.
Nazi the soup the the two barbers every.
Time Edward Scissorhand comes on.
They're obsessed. They're watching, Yeah.
So when everyone says, what about?
Elaine what? What's funny about her?
They always say the same thing when she dances.
And with the thumbs. Yeah, I mean that was.
Funny, I mean, but. Kramer was Kramer was I love
Cosmo Kramer. In fact, at our salon, Ash, come

(29:42):
on. Oh, yeah, indeed.
Yeah, We have a, we have a, a customer that comes in scooting
through the front door like justlike Kramer, I like.
Kramer. I mean Jason Alexander.
'S parents on the show. I like Newman.
So I don't like whiners. We're gonna Let's win this.
Well, let's do that well. That's like the deal with.

(30:03):
What's the? Deal.
Yeah, it's. Like it's so just like, come on.
Not one time I've ever laughed at Jerry Seinfeld Stand up.
No, his comedy doesn't get OK. I I'm.
Still going to challenge you to let me show you three hand
picked episodes I haven't seen? The shirt, The blouse, the puppy
shirt, like Golden Girls. I like Dave Chappelle.
I like Chris Rock. That's the kind of stuff that

(30:25):
makes me roar. You tell her I just introduced
you to. The Chappelle Show about six
months ago Listen, that was my jam back in the.
Day well, I don't know where I. Was Here's what I'm older than
Clayton. Bigsby.
Clayton Bigsby, Ashley. Here's what I'm happy to.
Report that show is more than 20years old.
She had never seen one bit of it.
We watched probably 3 hours of it.
My God. And she was laughing.
She she was in shock. I'm like, no, this was the best

(30:46):
listen. It was a lot on TV.
Television. It was the Murphy's.
Brother, that was. Oh oh.
My God not seen the Rick James she had not seen.
The I'm Rick James bitch. Buddy, OK, so let's.
Move on, because I want to talk more about colt flicks.
So I'm going to challenge. We're all going to do a little
contest, not a contest, but we're going to start with Dana,
and I want you to tell us we're going to rank our favorite Colt

(31:09):
flicks one to three, like 321 or1/2.
Three. Well, let's do 321.
So Dana, your number ranked 3rd for you.
Dana, what is your favorite Coltflick?
I'm going to say my. Answer with the caveat that if I
had been given a little more time to prepare for this, I
think. I think, I think better.
I think my list would change. OK, me too.
But I will start #3 with Rad, anepisode, a movie that.

(31:32):
That Ashley Knight, if you. Want to check out the Dana
Buckler Show. Look, not a great movie.
OK, we had we had a great conversation about it.
But I and it's definitely a cultfilm and only make $2,000,000 in
the theater. But I do it for dinner and a
movie. The place packs out with a
certain crowd. People people who know that
movie, they know it and they love it.
Great time. So my number 3 is the BMX

(31:55):
classic from 1986. Rad.
That is ridiculous. That's a really good pick, all
right. What's your #3 So I, I feel the
same with Dana. Like I kind of went just off the
cuff because you kind of asked me just to do this on the on the
fly. So my #3 is a fish called Wanda.
I really enjoyed. That movie and I've showed it to
friends that just totally don't get it.

(32:15):
David liked it. Oh, I love it because he loves
Jamie Lee Curtis, right? But I loved that movie when I
loved it. That was great.
That's a movie Where it? Either works for you or you
don't get it at all. And, and obviously it was very,
really well received. I mean, we're we're talking
about Academy award-winning film.
People were nominated. I mean, Kevin Klein won an
Academy Award in it. I love that.

(32:37):
Movie so so yeah. Great.
Great pick. Yeah, but but ask the average
person today if they've seen A Fish Called Wanda.
It's probably not. And if they have.
Seen it people? Go crazy.
I hope so, but, and it's funny. Because every single time that I
talk to somebody about it, they say fish named Wanda.
But it's not. It's fish called Wanda that
looks good. Yeah, I think I made that
mistake. So my third is Heather's great

(33:03):
movie. That's a great movie, Winona
Ryder. Christian Slater, Christian.
Slater Who was that? Amanda the beautiful blind that
didn't live very long. She she's played in Can't Buy Me
Love Yeah I I know the actress. I.
Don't. Don't remember her name.
Yeah. She was.
Yeah, I think it's Amanda. But anyway, a lot of other
actors. That's a good movie.

(33:24):
That's a good movie. So.
That one. So Heathers.
Yeah, I, you know, I named my bees.
After that you did. How are your?
Bees. My bees are named the Heathers.
Oh, Ashley's got bees. Everyone so great Florida honey.
The girl that gave me my bees isnamed Heather, so I.
Named them the Heathers after her.
I have something. Special planned with that movie,
hopefully soon then I'll be ableto announce, but I can't.
Just very cool, OK. Well, on that note.

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Which I'm excited about. I know what you're talking
about. OK, Dana, what's your #2 my
number 2 came out in. 1989 and it stars Carrie Fisher, Tom
Hanks, Bruce Dern, Corey Feldman, And that is the burps.
Oh. My gosh, I love that movie so.
Much so that's considered a cult.
Is it really? Yeah, It wasn't very successful.
It was when it came out and I I think it's I love that movie.

(34:09):
It's one of those films. That when I turn it like, like,
I don't have cable anymore, but if I, you know, if I was
flipping channels, you stop no matter where it was at.
I knew exactly where we were in the movie.
Like, Oh my God. This is where they meet the
cloak. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like that. And that entire sequence is
worth the cost, the price of admission when they when they
finally meet the neighbors. Yes.
I Laurie Feldman's in. It and the hot Bruce Dern's hot

(34:29):
wife. That's always.
Gardening in her little bitty shorts and her little heels and
the neighbor art. He's the best.
He's the best. So, so I just think it's a great
movie. It's directed by Joe Dante, who
is a Spielberg disciple. Joe Dante directed, he directed
Gremlins and he's he's done a, he's done a few arachnophobia.
He's done a few, OK, few different movies, but I think

(34:49):
the film is also in Gremlins. Yep.
Yep, absolutely the. Comeback king here.
He is. He's the comeback king.
I'm gonna bring that to you here.
He comes, the comeback king. Here he comes.

(35:13):
I don't know if you do. That you got to.
Do the one where they have to start over?
Yeah, yes, Is there. Any other one?
All right, Ash, what's your number two favorite?
My #2I. Don't know the year this came
out, but it was either like 90s or early 2000s.
Dana, you can correct me on this.
The Boondock Saints. Boondock Saints, 1990.
Nine. OK, Dana, tear her apart.
I'm. Not going to say anything.

(35:33):
Do you hate that movie? I am I'll.
I'll listen. I'll here's here's here's my way
of answering that question today.
It's not for me. OK, Tell me, tell me.
Why you don't like it I. There's part of part of the
reason why I don't like it, it'snot fair to the movie itself, is
because the the man who made it,Troy Duffy, might be the worst

(35:55):
human being in Hollywood. OK, so I didn't.
Me not knowing that not because he like, I'm not talking.
Like any type of Me Too or he hasn't been cancelled or
anything like that. There's a phenomenal documentary
that came out in 2003 called Overnight and it's all about
Troy Duffy getting discovered byHarvey Weinstein.
Harvey Weinstein buying the script and giving away and.

(36:15):
It's all about. How Troy is gifted this
incredible opportunity and through his own self sabotage
the whole deal falls through Oh my gosh and when you.
Watch the movie. Under those I.
Didn't know that because I yeah,when I saw the movie in 90.
Nine. I thought it was fun.
Willem Dafoe's. Performance in that movie is
like beyond I'm not going to tell you part.

(36:37):
I love the. Boondocks.
But I will say. That I think it's a flimsy plot.
It is. It is.
It's. All of those things, terrible.
It's all of those things. I just like a cult film.
Exactly. But it's a.
It's it's 100% the definition ofa cult film.
I got enjoyment out of it, but I.
Have to ask you. What did you think of the
sequel? I didn't watch the sequel.
Oh, it's good. I liked it that too.
I did not watch it because I did.

(36:57):
Not want to read? No I didn't.
I would be very curious. I value your opinion when it
comes to this. I think you should watch it and
I think even a true Boondock Saints fan was gonna say it's
will say. This is not.
Good, I've heard that. So I.
Will say I've heard that but I never watched it.
It's Troy Duffy you have. Bad taste.
I mean, I I have a bad No, I think you just like what you
like. Like you like what you like if
you find pleasure in a movie. That I don't.

(37:19):
That's great for you. Like there's, I tell you,
there's I like Rad, right? We like rad people.
Think that's an awful movie and it.
Is in a way. The number the best thing I can
say about. The movie Rad is a Well, there's
only one. I like the name crew.
Yeah, it's a crew came from thatcrew.
Jones. Yep.
That's a great name. OK, well, I I like Boondock
Saints. I give you a thumbs up.

(37:40):
Ask you and you guys aren't going to like mine.
My my second in command is TexasChainsaw Massacre.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
From 1974. Directed by Toby Hooper.
Right. OK, so.
Me on this, do you know how did that not do well?
It did do well. It did do.
Well, it's considered a cult film.
It was a. It did really well.

(38:01):
It's a genre for sure, but like.I thought it did.
Well, it it did, really. Well, it's considered it's
considered a Brown, a ground breaking horror like it's.
So why is it considered a? Cult film because it has to do
kind of bad, but then the peoplehave to love it well.
It's hard to explain. It didn't do bad, that's the

(38:24):
problem, but they're, I mean, I think.
People that don't like horror movies are obviously not gonna
like that movie. Oh, because it's a true face.
Yeah, no, no, no, like. It's gruesome.
That is a very, very tough movieto watch.
So there is a dedicated fan basefor that movie.
Absolutely. And I do love horror films.
And Leatherface has never been found and and keep this in mind.

(38:44):
Keep this in mind when this movie came out.
OK, this is 1974. There's no home video.
All right? So if you want to see a movie,
you went to go see it in the theater.
And there was a buzz about this film.
So a lot of people went to see the movie.
So it was financially successful.
And then, strangely enough, 10 years, 11 years later, Canon

(39:04):
Films buys the rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and gets
Toby Hooper to come back and make The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2, which I don't know if you've ever seen that movie.
I've seen all of that that. Would be.
More of a cult classic than the original.
Well. McConaughey is actually.
In the fourth one, OK and McConaughey and Renee Zellweger

(39:25):
were in the movie together. Isn't that his first?
Movie. No.
He was in Dazed and. Confused.
That Dazed and Confused was his first movie.
That was before the Texas. Chainsaw Massacre one year
before. Wow.
Wow. He sure OK yeah.
Dazed and confused I I watched it for the first time about.
I love that movie too. That's you got.

(39:46):
You guys to talk about Dazed andConfused.
OK, so Dana, take me, let's moveon.
What is your #1 Colt Flick that's I didn't?
Even have to think about it. OK, 1985, Tim Burton's first
movie. OK, Pee Wee's big adventure, of
course of. Course it is I.
I find so much joy watching thatmovie.

(40:10):
I, I think it, it's, it's that rare film that a child is going
to love for a certain reason andan adult is going to laugh their
asses off for completely different reasons.
It is so well balanced in that regard that I find it funnier
now watching it as a 47 year oldman than I did when I was 8

(40:30):
years old when the movie came out.
You know what's funny? That you say that it's.
Almost, and this is not a cult classic, but it's almost like
Shrek. If you watch the original Shrek,
your kids like it because it's just cute.
But you get all the inside adulthumor as an adult.
So it's kind of like, OK, I likethis too.
And there's, I mean, there's. I've seen Pee Wee's Big
Adventure, I can't count how many times, but every time I
watch it, I pick up on another line, something that I missed,

(40:52):
and it just speaks to Phil Hartman and Paul Rubens wrote
that movie together, and Phil Hartman's humor is just laced
throughout that script. So that's mine.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure? I don't even know.
That my number 1 is a is a cult classic.
I think it was popular in the box office, but I have watched
it with a lot of other people that totally hated it, so I'm

(41:12):
going to go with it. It was Brad Pitt, Edward
Norton's Fight Club. Oh no, it's totally a.
Cult flick? I don't know, because it did
well, right? It did not do well.
I researched it, it's definitely.
It's in the top five, by the way, of Yeah, really it's.
Actually, the true. Definition of a cult classic.
Well, good. Because I love that movie, that
movie, even though I. Was 21 when that film came out

(41:34):
in 1999. That movie fame like and Mike's
we all went to go see it, but itit bombed at the really I'm
surprised. True definition of a.
Classic. Have you seen the movie?
You've seen that. Movie, yes.
Fight Club, Yes. In fact, I want everyone to know
that the number one cult film that's the favorite is The Rocky
Horror Picture Show, of course. And #2 is The Big Lebowski.

(41:55):
Oh yeah, that's right #3 is Spinal Tap OK?
Jamie Lee Curtis's husband, Christopher Guest.
OK, so. And by the way, that's why.
He has a very small role in A Few Good Men as as the doctor,
the doctor with the glasses, because Rob Reiner directed
Spinal Tap and directed A Few Good Men and they're good

(42:16):
buddies. All right, so excellent fight.
Club and that's why men love Fight Club.
I love that. OK, so of course I don't I
anyone who knows me is going to know that my favorite number 1
is OK, say. Beta.
It's on the wall. Staying alive, staying alive.
Jess, I'm going to tell you right now.
That is a fantastic pick becauseit was somewhat financially

(42:40):
successful because everybody went to see the sequel to
Saturday Night Fever the first weekend it came out and then
word of mouth spread and a lot of people did not like the film.
It's had a a a major re evaluation, re evaluation over
the years. But it's it's a film where
you've got the fanatics who lovethe movie and then everybody

(43:01):
else is like, this is not a goodmovie.
Yeah, that's you couldn't have asked for a better pick.
Good pick, Jess. I got a few more questions and
then. We're going to end.
Did you tell the listeners what's On the wall?
Yeah. Please do in the podcast.
Studio this. Podcast Studio.
Is the home of the Dana Buckler Show and it's also home of Cut
and Loose Chronicles podcast. So Dana Buckler's favorite movie
of all time is Jaws. So that poster, what's the

(43:25):
poster called in movie? A1 sheet, one sheet.
So that. Poster slash A1 sheet is on the
wall framed and then I have on the wall frame the one sheet,
John Travolta staying alive thatis autographed personally by Mr.
John Travolta that Dana knows personally.
And it was my Christmas present.Dana set up to where John got

(43:48):
the poster and when he took it out of the cardboard tube to
autograph it, he actually accidentally ripped the poster.
I love that. So he calls Dana and he says,
Dana, he said, I am so sorry. I, I, I ripped it.
I ripped the poster. And you can see in the poster.
Well, Dana says, well, John, do you have another one?
Because Dana had to order that one.

(44:09):
And he he said, I'll look and see.
But he didn't have another one. You can actually see where John
Travolta taped the poster himself.
That's under the glass. He should have wrote like oops.
John was here. My bad.
So that's amazing, OK. So guess what guys?
I love today's topic. I love that we talked about cult
films, but one last question I'mgonna ask Mr. Dana.

(44:32):
Do you feel that there are any movies out there that were both
mainstream and considered cult classics?
I got 1. Anchorman and Pulp Fiction.
Well, I. Ah shout out to I just watched.
Anchorman last night I. I would.

(44:54):
So my definition of of, of something like that would be
something that was wildly popular when it came out, but
it's just lost to the sands of time.
And I think Anchorman falls intothat court category more than
Pulp Fiction. I think Pulp Fiction is still
considered arguably Tarantino's best film, so I would I I I

(45:15):
would agree with the Anchorman, but I'm trying to think of like
other movies that were ReservoirDogs.
No, because that that was. That that's a cult classic that
only made 1,000,000 bucks when it came out.
Do you agree that a lot of Quentin Tarantino?
'S movies kind of maybe somewhatlinger into the cult classic.
I'll give an example of a cult classic.
OK, short circuit. Wildly popular.
That was such a cute movie. Wildly popular when it came.

(45:37):
Out. No one talks about that movie.
Nobody's mentioned that. Movie in 30 years, but that.
Was an incredibly successful film when it came out.
Yeah, that's an. Example.
I can give you an example. There other one Smokey and the
bandit second high Logan just watched that.
The other night you know it's the second highest grossing film
of. 1977 behind only Star Wars. If Star Wars hadn't come out,
Smokey and the Bandit would be the number one movie in 1977.

(46:00):
They're not trying to remake it.It's not really in the
zeitgeist, so that that would bea couple.
Anchorman, Anchorman. Is on.
That is on that list. OK, it's heading that direction.
Anchorman 2 is pretty flippin. Funny, I never watched the
second one I thought. We watched it together in the
movie. Theater.
Didn't we go to that? Yeah.
We you went with me to. Yes, I did.
Yes, I did. I like the first one much
better. I'm sorry.
Well, thanks guys for joining. Us and so Dana, let's talk about

(46:23):
how we can find your podcast. Sure.
My podcast is called the Dana. Buckler Show.
It's available on all podcast listening platforms.
Also available on YouTube and I'd love for you guys to check
the show out. Jess, you've done some guest
spots. Ashley's been on the show.
Looking forward to having Ashleyback.
So yeah, can't wait to hear whatyou're doing with the.
Scarface thing, that's really cool.
Yeah, that's I can't wait. Perfect, so and you can.

(46:43):
Always find Cut Loose Chronicleson Spotify, on Instagram, you
can find on any listening platform.
Thanks for listening guys, and we'll catch you at the box
office. Peace out.