Episode 44. Godfather Saga Month: The Godfather: Part II (...Part I)

In the famous words of Don Dre Corleone, you broke my heart, Goodman. Or more specifically, Paramount+ broke Goodman's (and the internet's) heart. In this episode, art imitates life because Fully Operational becomes a tragedy, an opera... a saga.

In Part I of our, now, 2-part episode of The Godfather: Part II, we start off with everything you know and love about Fully Operational:

• A sufficient dose of witty banter
• The announcement of our one listener
• Unveiling what Goodman watched this week
  • Jumper - the Doug Liman directed movie about teleporting humans (Hayden Christensen and Jamie Bell) and the bad government-type guys (Samuel L. Jackson) chasing after them, plus Rachel Bilson & Diane Lane
  • Action Jackson - a quintessential 80s movie mashup with half the cast of Die Hard and half the cast of Predator, starring the incomparable Carl Weathers, who every kid in the 80s wanted to grow up to become (and still do)
  • Bad Trip - hands down some of the funniest scenes in a movie, ever. Thank you, Eric Andre, Lil Rey Howery and Tiffany Haddish
• Unveiling what Dre watched this week
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence - a WWII movie by Nagisa Oshima starring David Bowie and Tim Conti, available on Criterion
  • Phoenix - a Holocaust survivor tale, also on Criterion
  • Beverly Hills Cop - still so good, even on Dre's 8 millionth viewing, starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Martin Brest
  • Gomorroh - an interesting, solid flick that wants to be the Italian City of God

But when it was time to discuss the second movie in The Godfather saga, we ended up with Global Podcast Host Thermonuclear War.

So, if you're game. Give it a listen. And we guarantee that by the end of this episode, you'll ask yourself... is there ever going to be another episode of Fully Operational? 

...will Dre & Goodman hire their own hitmen to take out each other like Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin? 

...and how much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? 

But we can't disclose any more family business. 

SONG CREDITS:
Theme music: "70s Funk" by Frank Cogliano
Closing music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert