Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

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Hello everybody, this is Brandon Stables and I'm here to you with Goddinton to have

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the Loud and Quality Hair and a Record of Podcast. Welcome to the Polarize Podcast.
I am your host, like I said, the man with the most, the great brandini. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
We have a very fun and special episode for everybody. This is the Polarize Podcast.

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This is a podcast about polarizing movies, the sense of rotten tomato scores, sometimes critics
heated and audiences love it, or vice versa. Those are the movies that we talk about.
And today we're talking about Anchorman 2. The legend continues. The score for this movie is

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74% critics, 52% audience. Interesting. Let's get right into it. I'm not the only one that's
going to be talking. You better believe it. And okay. I was just thinking about the, you know,

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so many quotes and it's one that just came to mind. Who the hell is Julius Caesar? You know,
I don't know the NBA or don't follow the NBA. This whole podcast is going to go off the rails
if it hasn't already. I'm not the only host. I have my co-host. We also call him the forever
guest. I'd like to introduce now Mr. James Lindsay. Hello. Hello. I'm back as well. I'm a forever

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guest. I'm always here. I'm always featured performer. And let me tell you, one of the greatest
basketball players ever was named Julius. You don't see that name very often. Absolutely. Dr.
Foskin J, baby. Dr. Dock. Oh, and let me rewind just a little bit more as well. Brandon just

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came up with a new nickname for himself, the man with the most. Period. Period. The man with the most.
It's an elongus for us. The longest script of all time, Brandon Higgins. The host with the most.
The man with a thousand names. That is I. James, we're back. We're freaking back.

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Baby. We're freaking back. I'm excited about this episode, especially in comparison to our last episode.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. We needed a big time palette cleanser after last episode. You know,
I was way more turned on by this movie than the last movie. You're right. Hardest.

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70s. Thank you. Yes. Some posh fucking pricks that are sitting in their tower, making their
making sexual games for other people with a cruel intention. So thank you. No, thank you. P.
You know, that movie sucks ass. I bet the sequel. I think that has a sequel to it. It probably sucks
even more ass. I'm like this one. Yeah, this movie rocks ass. It takes that ass and just rocks

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that human. And rocks it. I mean, just to kick it off. I mean, if you got an ass like a North Star,
wise men are going to want to follow it. What was said before that, though, Brandon, who has the
first before we introduce our other. They should be. They should be other forever guests. Who is
who has the first line of this movie? We're starting there. God is the first person that speaks

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dialogue in this movie. It's Drake. It's for it's straight. It's for good. Yeah.
Oh, Lord. Well, I must say. Yeah, compared to the other problematic rapper, Kanye, in this movie,
I think I think Drake delivers the one line he has a little a little better. He does. Absolutely.

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Kanye's delivery is still to it. Yes. Yes. It's very much of like, hey, Kanye,
this is the line. And then he just says it and it's not has anything going on. It's just like,
all right, Connie, let's do another one. No, that why would I do another one? That one's perfect.
Why would I do? Yeah, no, that's perfect. I do everything perfect. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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This movie is really, really funny. I'm glad to be talking about this. We're going to introduce
our guests here in just a second. But before we do James again, I just want to touch base, do a little,
you know, hey, what? How's it going? Almost like, you know, I want to just say, like,
have you seen any chicken? Have you seen anything good? Is there anything? What are you watching?

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What I've been watching as I've actually speak, I mean, we're on a podcast, we love podcasts.
And one of one of my favorite favorites is that we relate with and talk about a lot is the Gourly
and Rest podcast. And so I was kind of going through some of the movies and watching some silly,
scary movies, very campy, old horror movies as getting to be almost a spooky season. And I'm

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starting a little early this year. I'm jumping up the bit. Yeah. So I did like Terror Train,
which is pretty fun. Very young Jamie Lee Curtis. Evil Toons is a very, like very bad,
very bad movie, but entertaining and fun and a campy, campy way, but also bad, bad, smutty movie.

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Yeah. And then some other like thriller, old school, like thrillers, like 10 to midnight
with Charles Bronson was the other one. I don't know. It's it was entertaining enough. And then
sleeping with the enemy with Julia Roberts, which was pretty good. And maybe we'll do on the podcast
at some point because I realized it was polarizing. And I was like, I have a pretty,

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right a pretty good time. It surprised me when I like went into the Ron tomatoes. I'm sure everyone
does this. This is the basis for podcasts. You get into Ron tomatoes and you're like,
that's not how I feel about it. And that surprised me. So that kind of surprised me
about that movie. I was like, Oh, I thought this might be like a classic of its time almost. It was
pretty entertaining at least. Oh, that's exciting. And I've been trying to read more letterbox reviews

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and do little blurb. So I've been been trying. Oh, yes. And hundreds of beavers is the one I would
recommend to anyone I've watched that one with in the past. Like you're so and I've been kind of on
like, like spreading it around like a new religion. Yeah. Like an evangelist for hundreds of beavers.
And just just look it up and check it out. I won't even say anything more because

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as it is one of those movies, the less you know the better. And once you're in it and
preferably probably with a group of people, it's a it's a blast, which I watched alone,
essentially. And it was a car was with me, my wife, but she was in and out.
And man, it was just a it was a blast. And the question to you, Brandon, I want to get our
guests on this question as well. Once once you finish up with your what's what kind of taste

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you feel in these days, Brandon, what's your what's your daytime like? Oh, this is what I would.
This is trend has been going on numerous days lately. What does that been for you? Oh, like,
I mean, when you, you know, what's a media, I was going to talk about a couple movies,
but I really just want to hunt her down on a movie, especially given that you just said you

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were an evangelist for hundreds of beavers. And I have been a hardcore evangelist for the
challengers. I've been telling everybody that will listen to me that go watch the challengers.
It is now available on Amazon Prime, and it is incredible. It is really such a wonderful movie.

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Absolutely. Yeah. If people haven't seen it, it's about tennis and about a
yeah, like a threes. What is that? A relationship? Yeah, like, and about relationships, but
it is just incredibly directed, incredibly acted. And I've now seen it twice in the last week and a

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half. I love it. I love it. I the second time watching it, there were certain things that it's
picking up on it. And the thing is, is that the movie and the piece of it visually and
storytelling wise and the music, like I said, is it it cranks. It moves. Yeah. You sit there.

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You sit down and it just kicks off and or serves itself, I guess. No, you didn't. And
yeah, I know. I'm so challenger. I just met her. I hardly knew her.
But yeah, that's been the one man. I know that you've seen it. We've talked about it. Yes.

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But I'm so happy you love it because I everything you said makes me excited to see you so excited,
makes me excited to watch it a second time in that pot or the soundtrack is something that we've
brought up over and over how fucking awesome that is. And the boys noise mix of it is just
oh, gets you like if you need something to like get you to do what you need to do that that

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soundtrack like gets it done in the same way that like, I don't know, social network is
contemplative and slow and everything can get you to focus in a different way.
I just love how broad they're able to fit within the score space of movies and everything,
those two guys. And yeah, there was one of those videos that came on on YouTube of them

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talking about their career and highly recommended. I'm sure it's on like Vanity Fair or some some
shit. Yeah, I mean, I mean, specifically, I mean, specifically something I pointed out to that like
has been a prevailing like visual like

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tool or what people use a slow mo a lot. And it was so wonderful to see slow mo paired with
driving techno music, because it really it weirdly speeds it up, you know, and doesn't make it seem
like the movie is crawling or coming to a standstill because you have to just watch watch

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the movie in slow motion. You know, something that I feel like Zack Snyder could take some
notes on is that, you know, it's not like we want movies to be longer necessarily. And it doesn't
really help a whole lot if you just are constantly slowing the movie down. And this slows it down
in such a way that is pairing it with the music is was just yeah, it's incredible. I highly

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recommend it to everybody. Fuck yeah, dude. Glowing endorsement and I would agree with
yeah, everything, everything about it. Love it. So excited for whatever that director does next.
Luca, me too. Let's get our guys in here. Let's get our boys. Let's get the
four piece much like this movie. Spoiler. Oh, we got us. We got to pick who's who.

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Oh, OK, let's go. We got to assign roles. OK, OK. Well, you carry on. You introduce these
fellas. Hey, introduce this podcast. You introduce these fellas. Them's the rules, my friend.
I'm the fellow producer. Consider that's your role. I know you got one hat, but let me just add

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another hat on a hat. Oh, you wear many. You wear many. I wear.
You know what I do and I'm excited to introduce these these fellas. You have heard them all.
You might have heard them already on this podcast. They are returning guests.
I mean, one of them is starting to really rack up a lot of abs on this one. I mean,

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I got to say, starting to become an all star on the polarized podcast and in the polarized kingdom.
Let me introduce them now. First, Nick Schulte is here. Hey. Hello. How are we doing today?
He just clamored up. He just clamored up. We were talking before. I'm sure people are going to hear

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the little undertones of Nick just commenting while we're talking. And then the second I
said, he just, uh, uh, I don't get it. I'm just here. I don't get fine.
That is indicative of almost every pod you've been on where he introduced you. This time you're not

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over here and I haven't forced you to smoke a bomb with it before. Yeah, I'm not out of my mind
high. So that's great. Yeah. But nonetheless, he's still a little nervous. Hey, Nick, welcome back.
Yeah. You're always nervous being on camera, but you look great. Can you describe what you're
wearing right now? Uh, I'm wearing, I'm wearing a red and blue and white. Yes. Wow. That's the

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thing that we asked about. Yeah. That is what we were. That is an answer to the question. That is
an answer to the question. Okay. But you know, doesn't let people know that it's a suit that
you're wearing oddly enough. That's why you gotta ask who brandy. You gotta ask who are you wearing?
It's just the sports. That's why they ask that. You know, it's not a suit. Oh,
a suit goes to suits wearing a suit wearing goes to my other colleague that you haven't introduced

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yet. It's, you see the kind of guys, you want to get the camera off off. Nick wants to shift it away
from him. I'm a little, I'm not wearing a suit. You could assume that these kinds of these are the
kind of guests that are going to wear a suit. It's just a matter of what color you, you would
assume that it's a suit. You just read white. Well, then I have a burgundy sports coat on

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and I have a nice metallic blue tie for my brother's wedding. Very good. You look great.
You look great. It was a big deal. I'm really hot. If you had to endorse one piece of art that
you've seen recently, Nick, before we move on to our next very well fashioned guess, what would

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it be? Movie or otherwise? Well, I guess actually the most recent is actually falls into the spooky,
the spooky season category too. Cause the most recent was the Alfred Hitchcock,
Alfred Hitchcock's, uh, psycho. Fuck yeah. And that actually got me into watching. I started
bass motel like immediately after the movie. Oh, cool. Okay. Okay. And you've never seen that before?

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No, I'd never watched it and I was going to watch just the first episode and see how I went. But
then I was the fifth episode by the time I turned it off. For psycho, I want to dig into this a
little bit because, uh, I, I obviously fell asleep while we watched it this, this time, but I've
seen it before. This is true. You have seen that movie before, right? Uh, I didn't see it, but

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probably like 15 years ago. So I forgot. I had forgotten everything about it. Tell us what you
think of that. Yeah. Um, I thought it was pretty good. It was, I enjoyed it a lot. I mean, there's the,
um, the one thing that stood out to me like the beginning of the movie after she decides to steal
the money. Sorry, spoilers. Um, it's a movie. That's a one thing people forget. After she,

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after she steals the money and the cop finds her sleeping in her car,
nothing about her is, uh, she, she doesn't want to make it seem like nothing's wrong or that she's
doing anything wrong. Everything she does seems like I'm doing something I shouldn't be doing
to everyone that she meets. Cause like what the first interaction after the police is when

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she stops at the used car lot and, uh, even the car salesman is like, Oh, I've never had the
customer try to speed along the process of buying or says something. Yeah. What he says, but they
say it twice. I reiterate. I never had the buyer pressure to pull one over. Yeah. There you go.

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Um, and so it was like, it was always very funny. It was funny to me that like,
this was, this was horror, but like that bothered me to the point where I was just like stuck on
it all the way up until the point where she more or less dies. Cause like she even kind of talks
about, kind of talks about it with Norma Bates where she's like, well, sometimes we fall into
our own traps and we got to pull ourselves out of it. Like she's telling, she's basically telling

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on herself to this random stranger that she's eating, uh, warm milk and a sandwich with
yeah, which the warm milk was also, yeah, he's a psychopath. Of course you should know that he's
drinking milk. Yeah. And which I enjoy that narrative so much where she blazes kind of a
hot trail that's very suspicious. It's kind of like what you're saying where there's going to be

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the second half of the movie where there are going to be people that are following that trail that
she sets up, which is like, there's a lot of these things that are, that are kind of be foreshadowed
later on that are kind of set up in the, at the beginning. And then that also makes it difficult
for Anthony Perkins to hide the trail as well. So seeing those two things kind of, yeah.
Which makes it kind of like, just so narratively also very weird how it plays out in the first

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half and second half. Well, and then like the other thing I thought was like the other thing I
thought was actually pretty cool was the way, uh, while she's driving and like kind of freaking out
there, they don't do cutaways to show like, uh, her boss and the girl that worked there or them
trying to figure out if she's coming to work or what happened. Like they, it's just voiceover of

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her while she's driving and like paying attention to, uh, the policeman behind her or just focused
on the road trying to drive through. It's just, it, it's just dialogue that is being had elsewhere,
but it only shows, it only shows her in the car. So as she's driving, these other things are
happening instead of like most movies now will do a cutaway where there's a whole another scene

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that does everything. There was no cutaway to that scene. It was just, it was just dialogue.
We went, oh, correct. And then eventually later, it's like the sister comes into play, you meet,
you see her as, uh, as the actress. And, um, I thought that was pretty interesting and neat.
It's, it is very interesting in my mind because like the, where, like it focuses on her face going

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through that kind of reconciliation and also to it, like weirdly adds an element of she's making
like this up in her head, right? Like this is, I wasn't sure until later, whether it was,
it was just her inner dialogue of the conversations being had with the people that were going to,
that were involved or if it was actually something that was happening. And then it's not until, uh,

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Arba Gast shows up and the Arba Gast and the sister show up in Fairvale, uh, that I realized,
okay, these were conversations that were actually happening. Um, or maybe they weren't,
but that's how, that's how I took it. I took it as once they were introduced as characters,
like, okay, cool. Cause the, I forget what the creepy old man that gave her the $40,000.

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I forget what his name is, but Nick, Nick. Now I'm in character.
No, they haven't sat answers. We just watched it two days ago. Hey, um, yeah,
it's, I'm thinking back on Brandon, challengers was phenomenal.

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Oh yeah. I'm, I'm, yeah, I'm glad you like psycho. I mean, something that's always happens for me,
and it seems like it happened, happened for you is you always think, uh, Alfred Hitchcock movies are
a particular way, but then when you watch them, you're like, Oh yeah, things are kind of like,

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not in the same order that you remember it or, uh, have these twists and turns that you forget
about because there's just so many of them through the movie. And it's, uh, I don't know. It's, it,
it makes them surprising. Yeah. They rewatch them. It makes them enjoyable when you rewatch them.
Oh, absolutely. All right. Okay. Introduce this fella. Introduce the fella. Let's go.

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fella. All right. Hashtag. Hashtag. I am excited to introduce our next guest.
You may have heard him on the Keanu episode. Uh, he is back in a really big way. Uh, Chip,
how's it going? Fantastic guys. I'm so excited to be here tonight. Brandon, James, thank you so

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much for having me back on here. Uh, for the viewers out there who can't see what colors are
you wearing? Just colors. Just colors. Who are you wearing? I'm only interested in colors.
What colors? Yeah. I'm actually donning my best Craig Ferguson. Uh, actually that's not even a
game. It was, it was Craig something. He was a TNT NBA producer. Oh, you're thinking of the late

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man or NBA sideline reporter. Oh, Craig. Sager. Sager. Craig. Sager. Yes. I'm donning my best
Craig Sager impression right now. I've got P man. Very dark navy blue. Cross stitch on it. A very

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light blue shirt underneath and then a tie with like very dark orange leaves on it.
Can I get a close up on that? Is that possible?
Oh, there are leaves. I can even tell that effort. Oh, that's in the recent. The reason why my, uh,

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my, uh, tie bars so high is because in the movie it's like very comical hell. I think
where they're tie bars. I mean, I noticed it with their mics or something. I have no idea. I don't
know why they did it. It's a 70s thing. I mean ties were shorter than 70s thing. Yeah. So like
you're all doing the double days. You're supposed to wear like weight on here and like the fourth

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button, but they were like way up here. And so that's where I'm going. And I can see it.
He carried the focus to the face. And yeah, I'm just going as high as I can. And it is like
multi-crossed, uh, patterns as I could be. And I'm happy to be here and I'm really excited about

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this evening tonight. And that's for, I'm going to leave you guys. Uh, I'm not going to dive into
like a big, uh, diagnosis of some other movie that you guys want to talk about. Let's
want to ask you about it. Well, we have to watch, we have to ask you the same question. We've,
we've delayed, delayed, delayed until we've introduced this fine fella. And now this fine

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fella is going to tell us what he's into. The most, the most recent movie that we watched. So,
uh, as you, as you guys know, as close to personal friends of mine, um, my lovely fiance has not been
a movie aficionado for a long time. That's okay. This is true. And the other evening we watched

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a garden state. Oh, I watched that again recently too. I gotta tell you, I mean, when garden
state came out, it was like the, the claw that dropped down from the sky and like ripped me up
into the heavens when it came about like, um, the music from that movie is so incredible. Oh my

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God. Yeah, it launched one of my favorite mates. It's watching it again. I'm 36 now and watching
it again. I gotta say the exact same thing. It was so great. I agree. I thought I was gonna
like it. It's so great. I hate, by the way, I liked it too. This, this is a very polarizing take.

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I hate Zach Braff. It's not my favorite actor. Not to Brandon, but good Lord. He is so good in
that movie. He's so incredibly well done. In fact, I would go as far to say that Natalie Portman
was not her best in that movie. I was most nervous about rewatching her performance in

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their moments, but overall not as bad as I thought. It's not terrible. Not terrible. And now she's
playing a very peculiar character. And I think she does a really good job at playing that peculiar
character. That's fine. But if you go back and watch it as, and forgive me, Brandon, because I
know you don't like this from a nostalgic take, you watch it. It hits all the fields. It hits all

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the right nerves inside your body. If you want that nostalgic, if you want that weird, I gotta go
back to my hometown, which I haven't seen in however many years. It rips. It rips. It literally
checks off every single box. Can I highlight the supporting cast? It won so many awards.

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We stand in supporting cast is great because Peter Starrsgard and then Parsons is in there for one
scene. It's there in his mind. Sorry to interrupt. Yeah, I was just that was the
supporting cast. And then like, what is it? Is it Method Man? Method Man. He's a weird hotel.

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Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Everybody see a pair of titties today?
Yeah. Raise your hand. Okay. That's what I thought. So can we all relax?
Yeah. Yeah. No, the movie is great. So that's and then also his father was the last one. Sorry,
Ian Holm. But yeah, sorry, Ian Holmes. I completely forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. Great movie.

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A great catch up on like the realities of life. There's a lot of movies that are kind of like
falling to that genre that I love. Elizabeth Town first and foremost is one that I love with the
Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Probably my favorite movie. I like the polarizing as well.

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You guys are going to shame me for me for that. But like same premise. Very close family member
dies. You got to go home to the very weird. Yeah, your home too. Big thing. Yes, it was fantastic.
And so we watched that the other night. Cameron Crew. And then prior to that, prior to that,

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we did what we tried to do Goldfinger. I mean, we did. And I did Goldfinger incredible, by the way,
best James Bond movie ever written. I think it's really good. That one's been my favorite for a
long time. It's either that or Casino Royale, but for different reasons. But yes, absolutely.

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Which one? Which Casino Royale? I mean,
the Daniella. Yeah, Martin Campbell.
We're going to stand up for the one. Thank you.
I'm out. I'm out. I'm dressed up like Craig Sager here. I'm not going to.
Oh, he's in. He's in. He's in his role right now. He's in character. He's in character. Yeah.

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I'm not going to. I'm not going to go to bat for the original Casino Royale. Because I know
it would be so. I can't say I've ever seen it, but Goldfinger. That was a movie I saw in the
movie theater, and that was a lot of fun with a with a big old packed crowd. That was that was
a blast. So much fun. Either way, I'll tell you guys a long story short or short story long,

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as I should say. Very happy to be here. Like our guys. Happy to have you guys.
And by this back here, and it was my idea that Nick and I got dressed up and
you look sharp. Let that be known. It was Chip's idea. You look written.
It was Chip's idea. Was that when you hear when I found out I was wearing a sports coat tonight?

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I wish I got this. I mean, you guys really came to play.
Yeah, I appreciate you. I appreciate you so much for coming on the pod.
I'm let's let's get into it then. Like I think maybe first do we want to talk about the first
one and what that man open in on Drake's face? No.

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Do you guys want to do that? Do you want to do a little anchorman one anchorman?
Yeah, just a little bit of that. Just talk about you want to drop a highlight film or do you just
want us to go for memory? What do you mean? Like just nah, we just go for memory. Just our history.
I mean, Brandon and I saw that saw Anchorman one together and it was just like the funniest thing

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I'd ever seen at that time. And I was like a 14 year old boy and that was the most perfect thing
to happen to me at that time where I was like, oh, so I can watch this 10 more times. Remember
all the lines and then that'll be my personality from then throughout high school. Great. Yeah,
it's like every sleepover get together. Like you want to watch Anchorman? Absolutely. Why would you

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want to watch Anchorman? It is. Yeah, I really like it. Hell yeah, let's do it again. Let's do it again.
I mean, yeah, I mean to set the yeah, for me at least with Anchorman, it is a seminal comedy in my
life and arguably define my personality for a large part of my young adulthood. It is really

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holds such a like, yeah, a precious place in my heart. And you know, yeah, endlessly quotable.
Yeah, I love it. It was such a funny movie.
And let's say quotable is you guys 100% right? You first saw it. So like Brandon, you said or James

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I think to make you the Edwards movie. We were in like the front left row seat. Dude, I swear, I
remember this this memory is very clear to me because like that boner scene was one of the
funniest things like I had. And like I just I did not expect that to happen. And that's the zoom out.

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Where's the pants? Return to the pants store and like the crowd was like just losing it man to
just to hear the whole the whole like the feel of the of the crowd on like and on the on the night
like that and everything like that was just something that we did a lot to to pass the time
and to make it was go see movies. So that was a good sign to see a packed house just fucking

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rolling over in stitches. And that was like, there was like, I feel like a good amount of
comedies like coming out around then to like, and there was that in the case sort of effect
that took hold and and Judd. Yeah, this movie kind of like, or the first movie really started,
I would say. Yeah, this is one of the first right. Yeah, that's the whole thing.

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I love when the
Oh, yeah, when the guy comes in, he's like, guys, the the studio is really looking into
diversity right now. They're like, what the hell's diversity? Old wooden ship.
That was something that like kind of bothered me about the I got the unrated DVD. And there were

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certain lines that hit different on the unrated DVD that they would say actual different lines
that weren't as funny. It was like, somehow it was like more crass or something, but it
was not unrated. There was like two to three minutes more bullshit stuff that just happened
to fit in there. But like, there was one of the one of bricks lines that like I had a big red

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candle or something. And I think it was what they switched that was something else to you. But it
was that was interesting how those unrated editions would come out around that time. And
even this one, I think has like a super cut that I didn't watch, but it has like,
I think up to like almost a half hour more, more shit. And there's also, I think, yeah,
I almost I did not watch that one because I saw that was on Paramount Plus. I went ahead and did

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that. But that was just like, it's interesting just to think as a kid, like a 14 year old
one getting a DVD and like, oh, I'm watching something that's not even beyond our rated.
Whoa. Like American parking about the unrated and uncut like, oh, okay, there's got to be way

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more in this. I remember that. So when I first moved out to San Diego, I got to give a shout out
to maybe some of the guys that might be watching tonight. So when I first moved out to San Diego,
it was really funny. I moved into this place. It was a nine bedroom house in PB.

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And we call it the Diamond Pleasure Den. And the Wi-Fi password was a whales vagina.
Because right. And he was like, yeah, he's San Diego. It's old German for a whales vagina.

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And we had we had all these foreign exchange students that would come live with us.
Some from Germany, ironically enough. And we would have to tell them like, what's the Wi-Fi?
And we'd be like, it's a whale vagina. And they'd be like, what does that even mean? Like

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that is something that he said. But it doesn't you see the movie?
No one's going to guess that, right? I mean, you can't. There's no way that you're going to
how could you? How could you? Yeah. How could you? But that was that was kind of like hard love
for this movie. So really, this is a very fraternity boy. Go see the movie,

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see a lot of quotes, make a lot of the quotes and kind of bring them up in normal conversation,
conversation kind of conversation. I'm blind.
We don't.

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This is another one like it kind of just fit right in with like dumb and dumber for me and
like a lot of Jim Carrey kind of stuff like leading up to this and a lot of like SNL movies in
general like SNL alums kind of doing their own thing and to see him as well at night at the
Roxbury was kind of a big deal. There's another movie that we discussed with Schulte.

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We did do that. We did do that one. But that's like I watched that movie a lot leading up to
Anchorman too. So to see him have his yeah have his own vehicle and everything that was just like
it was in theaters and I had the DVD and all that stuff. So cut to Anchorman too. What year
does this come out like 10? 10 years later or something like that? Yeah. And I feel like Zoolander

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2 was almost around this time too. There were like these kind of like post-dated sequels like that
were these old yeah like these older guys that are getting back into Anchorman and Zoolander.
But I must say like just just overall about the the reason that this movie should exist and I
you know the reason that it's polarizing too is there's a lot of people that's just like yeah why

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do you need to make another shameless cash traps sequel you might say is like for a lot of these.
But this one in its commentary on news I thought was great and very pointed and worthwhile to
exist when it gets into that like the the GUI center of of why this movie should exist is when

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they're all sitting around the boardroom and they're trying to figure out like how they can get the
best ratings and they say the line of like we can't give people the new the news that they
need we should give them the news that they want news it's like the opposite of fucking dark night
it's like you know what you know like we're gonna give them their carnal desire rather than like

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the things that they they probably do need that for you know like whatever a vigilante and uh
batman but like for a newscaster it's like in the whole 24 hour news cycle it's like when it hits
that steam and in in everything in the in the movie it just like makes perfect sense why the
movie should exist it goes into other areas that people disagree on as to whether they're worth it

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or funny or anything that right there I think is is worth it enough for me and I think they they
nailed down that pretty well um but were you I mean you guys must have been excited for an
in-command two sequel too and I know that Nick wasn't as well because when we watched I didn't
like this movie but then I did not watch this is pretty funny though isn't it

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yeah just sitting there just being like you know trying to like always compare it to the original
and it was so wonderful to watch this again where I too was like that when this came out of this
idea because all of you guys know that I'm pretty critical of this idea of the sequel the cash grab

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that kind of stuff just being completely unnecessary and it just really automatically turns me off from
like or makes it hard for me to approach it because of I'm like what right why does this
need to exist the first one was so funny we don't need a sequel and what have you but um I would
love to get into James which he just said because in comparison to the first one this has so much

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more to say and I think it's more interesting what it has to say too which it was just such a delight
as like the second you know the the second film of it because I feel like more often than not the
sequel or the second uh film of a franchise is less about the pointed commentary that the first

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one made and more about like let's just give the people what they want and just all the beats are
going to be essentially the same but they're just going to be different jokes and height
they definitely check boxes but overall it is in a is a different kind of movie for sure
right so even at the end of this one doesn't uh the the manager the the owner of the news cycle

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or whatever he wants he wants Ron to cut to a car chase because that's what boost ratings
are and that's when he was like no we're not doing that and he walks out on he walks out of
set and he's straight into yelling and I'm just like what was he saying I don't speak Australian
well I think I mean like if you want to get like really bad I hear like Ron Ron even says like

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I'm not going to do this because the reason why we're reporting the news is because we want to
report happening and we don't want the powers that are beat to tell us what to do
and we're gonna just tell the news as it is and we're gonna keep them in check and then he says

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hey I can't do this anymore I'm gonna leave here I'm gonna go to you know my son's recital
in and he does yeah but so like he addresses the idea of like you know I mean this might get
too far beyond the idea no please do because I'm gonna get into it as well because a lot of the

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love I have for this movie is in similarly to what you're talking about well this this might get
too far beyond the idea of the podcast and I apologize but like the what Ron gets into in this
movie is that the media has a ultimatum or like some idea that they have to represent something

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whatever it be well no it's not integrity no it's almost no it's no no no so what there's
what he's saying is that the the media has some responsibility to report whatever it is they're
told to report whether it may be a left wing or right wing or otherwise thing

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and again feel free to cut me off if this is a part no no I want to get into this yeah but he
he he died but but but in this movie he dives into it very shallowly but he he starts to talk about
it he says we're either going to talk about this that or the other and the reason why I don't want

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to do this anymore is because I don't want to report on this that or whatever else may be
be Ron in this movie is saying I realize this is pretty extreme here but he says I realize that

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whatever I say is going to go this way that way or otherwise and I don't want to be a part of it
anymore and I'm going to go see Walter's piano recital because I don't want to have to deal with
any of this anymore and I it's it's a very I don't know it's like a very uh it's not

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force-fat only because it was happening a lot of years ago yeah but it was happening 11 years ago
too I mean like this this guy was saying like it's ironic because he's an actor right no actors
oftentimes have whatever opinion they may have but like it's funny it to me it's it's funny that they

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will put that out and say absolutely that's what we think I think it's hilarious that
this movie presents a tale where like there's this guy that opens this Pandora's box to 24 hour news
cycle to a 24 hour news cycle and not in like a cap it wasn't done in a capitalistic and city

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a sort of way where things gradually like there and slowly grew into like oh we could we could
add another hour here we could add another hour here what if we just kept it going oh well why
don't we just close the loop and make it just never stop it's just like no there's these seminal
moments by Ron Burgundy so for him to just like watch a fucking car chase or for him to

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uh cut to like something that you can joke about in the first movie where it's like cute cat or I
guess that's the brand phantanathing but just like where media is is going is they they touch on to
you in the brand phantanathing but yeah rather than it's like a slow and serious process it's
just like these big moments of like realization and like a ha eureka moments within news media

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that is just like so funny to watch play out in that sort of way we're like wait a minute and
then you see the I think amazing audience react like these these uh just like they only have a
few lines but that guy in the bar that's like you know like you know this is like thank you America
and this is the news for America all that stuff and he's like like you know like America like

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fuck you if like this is awesome like to the mood to the news is fucking awesome like that that reaction
is just such like it's a it's a satire you know it's just being satirical about news news media
whatever whatever side it may be because that's just where everything has has gone to
and it's this pain in the ass box that you can't close and even if he walks away you can't stop

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what he already started and it's so funny to think that he is the the the core of it I don't know if
that's kind of what you're getting at but I think it's oh interesting that you know I can't stop it
it's already out of the box yeah it's already gone and also and the satire and the humor of it
and why I think like what this movie is saying is so much more interesting but also still is funny

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is this idea of okay so when he first comes on to the 24 hour news cycle he's all about like hey
America fucking rocks let's let's keep rocking and night story like America yeah and how we are the
best cuts to all these people like a guy has a knife in his head in the ER and he's like

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yeah because you know what's so interesting too and like this in my mind is a characteristic of
a really intelligent movie is that this is so funny today we see so much of this today where
whether you're republican or democrat like this idea of like America like America first

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now has has really been taken away I would say from all of us collectively because now it has such a
strong association with republicans but like all of us kind of get a little like you know what yeah
America does fucking rock and and and nonetheless and why I think it's also so funny and why Ron
Bergen why I'm in red white and blue right why oh yeah brother that's all that matters what are

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you wearing red wine blue blue why you got a problem with that yeah but yeah I don't need to but I
would say it again it yeah it's so funny to me that it like kind of what you were saying James
is that there's no sinister big plan with Ron he just wants to make people entertained yeah and

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what's entertaining he wants to report the news and make people unhappy right it's a long quality
with salon go out here his version of reporting the news is not about getting into in-depth politics
or you know doing exposés on hard-hitting subjects it's like the news can it can show you what's

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going on in the world and just like yeah it doesn't have to be serious it could be all of us like
puppies you know nipping at little American flags on a you know that's where that's what great satire
is it's like it's not only a commentary on the people that are making the news in this movie and
how it's successful it's a commentary on the people watching the news and 100 society in general like

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to to go a little yeah to step or step further whatever you know society man but it's like
that's just what makes it's so funny is because it is true and that it is
is foreshadowing things to come but then it also is like aggressively stuck in the 70s this movie
and like a lot of where is that like they are able to get away with things that they do because

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they're just like that's why that's so racist so like all of these things but my 70s anchor man outfit
yeah do you just need yeah I need that that stash or uh some sort of some sort of facial hair unless
you're champ kind whammy exactly what I exactly what I said to my sister I hung up on chip it's
like damn I have that thing all of this I wish I had my mustache I think that's where a lot of

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a lot of people run into issues with this movie is like how rampantly sexist and racist a lot of
the jokes are in in certain segments of the movie other moments it goes into whack whackaboo shark
down but there's certain elements that people are not on board to uh to having that sort of lens

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that mirror shown on which one are you but it's like it's all yeah it's just it's just like
fucking like these ignorant fucking 70s doofuses that are like made fun of as well like that whole
that whole way of thinking is is lampooned first and foremost in this movie of like how dumb these
guys are and how and how like how idiotic their their ways of thinking are and how destructive

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to the world and to themselves and everyone around them like everything that they do is
but they're just completely ignorant to it and I don't know I think it does well enough to
in a melbroke's way like set that as the baseline so they can do all the fucked up shit that they
do you know which ends up being funny because they're just dumb like and they're and like you
should laugh at them because they're idiots yeah yeah 70s yeah 70s dudes yeah yeah melbroke's

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a good comparison it is and like again the reason why I think it's successful as well about like
uh having all of those races and sexist things is because also too not only are they clearly idiots
but it's not like they're ill-intentioned it's not like they're out to get anybody there is he
there's also at times of willingness to learn like that's why that uh dinner scene is hilarious

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funny too is that he's trying to do what he thinks is appropriate for that situation it's not like
he's a he's it's weird not being like this he's trying to be polite in an horrible way but then
he's racist as well I can't remember what episode it was James but about like this idea of

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not like okay like you're you're acceptable racism
acceptable racism it came up on another movie because it's it's not like he's wanting to be mean
or to make fun of them he is just approaching this in a in a way of like I want to connect with you

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I want to be on your level but his worldview has been informed by a lot of racist shits and then
that's what he thinks is what that this is the world you guys have because this is the world
of you I have and what happens is they immediately call him out and that is not that is not in a
way that's like telling us how to feel and like oh good the movie told us how to feel that's how

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you should combat racism that's like that's not what it's doing the them calling them out is funny
that's what's funny about it and it's not like telling you how to how to feel as a human being
like you can have bad people he's and he's just a fucking stupid ass racist 70s dude that doesn't
know what he's doing and the the fact that they immediately like fucking call him out and the
whole scene is like cutting to them being extremely uncomfortable with how he is and it's like and

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it's essentially three strikes he's out like he does like three fucking stupid things and then
like they're making get the fuck out of here what are you what are you doing so yeah and it is in no
way sort of yeah trying to tell you how to think it's just it's just there to to be funny but I
yeah I think that's where we start to step into the the polarizing nature of it all I think those

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those scenes are just straight up offensive to some people that that aren't aren't on board with that
setup of the scene even so anything that happens within it isn't really gonna hit for hit for them
and isn't gonna go well yeah and it's like that it's a lot I mean that's a lot of the first
movie too is a lot of sexism all that all that shit and it's just I don't know you you think that

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that's in a way the movie is trying to make a call to okay here's the era that they were
very much feeling so the 70s and we're trying to live within the time to make a joke of it
but like make a point to talk about like the uncomfortable situations that might happen in

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that era it it is yeah it is very jokey obviously like like if you're watching it you realize like
what the fuck whoever say this shit but in some way that there might be
that conversation could possibly have happened somebody who's very blocked who somebody who's

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very blind might be like trying to relate to somebody in that way and and they might be just
making a joke of that yeah I mean the worst I'm blind new flash I'm blind I mean a worse movie in

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an in a clearly more cynical and racist movie would have not made the whole family very articulate
very intelligent because there were like those are normal people it's like it's not trying to
create caricatures out of that family as well it's just like here's just you know taking a like the

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foundation of one like he's the idiot he's the one that's in the wrong and lay everything on him
being the fucking very boring funny didn't it it felt very much like borat did not like
like when borat is sitting at the table and it's like you know like talking to the family in alabama

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he's like just playing down to them it kind of felt like that joke played over again a little bit
the difference would be is like the family was normal and you know borat makes a very clear like
showing really who's who's to say that that family in alabama wasn't normal right no you're

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right no you're right it's you know like you gotta do that yeah I think the color and they're
right they are you know like they might be whatever but like it's an uncomfortable dinner
situation it's the same who's coming to dinner yes over and over again it's an old it's an old

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joke from a movie that took place well along well before this and it was done really really well it
was exited incredibly I loved it that was perfect you know I thought will ferrell did an incredible
job of doing it and and the other various actors involved in the scene crushed it I think that

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they're like yeah they were all right the very how dare you was so legitimate it was so good
so good yeah and all the all those the stuff with the their boss as well was just something that was
just like they were being aggressively racist towards her of just saying black over and over

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again in her face but then like the baseline is like she's your fucking boss like she's your boss
and so I don't know she kicks his ass and then she just straight up kicks his ass
the button on that scene is he gets his ass kicked so hard that he reverts back to like the fifth
grade it's just like wheezing on the ground being like they saw my peepee

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Ron you sound like a balloon the air getting let out of the balloon
I know what you're going
no I was gonna say and then when they hook up eventually with like 20 minutes later
he goes into her office and he's like I don't know what happened I think I just got raped by our

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boss there might have been multiple people there I have no idea and obviously he loved it like it's
it's it's Ron like he's gonna love he's gonna love the physical touch he's he's gonna love everything
about it he's out he's ever a ladies man yeah yeah yeah so again that's enough maybe if we were if

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we had to assign roles that's a good one to do that at some point too to us yeah please we got to assign
uh that that would be hilarious anchor man roles
I mean the end they just anybody feels strongly about being Ron
I mean you introduced this some bitch so I don't know I was I was there dress better one year

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they're dressed better yeah it's Ron for Halloween one year and I spoke only in anchor man quotes
I don't feel strongly about uh being one character another but what I would like to
like talk about in this conversation can be brand new in us how great is the rise of Rick

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in this role like so like a lot more to do yeah a lot more love and trust us we can do that too
in this movie yeah that's like I mean his his role is incredible I mean they really made him out to
be a superstar and I think that a lot of that was like obviously everybody loves like the fun

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loving like oh it's brick everybody wants to love like the I'm not gonna say the words that I'm
thinking of but everybody loves he's like the comic relief movie he's crazy like but everyone's
at a level eight and then he just goes to 11 yeah yeah but but the reality is like okay everybody

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loved uh Steve Carell right and then it's time to grow was really the height of yeah movie star
what he was doing right I mean he he was the guy and
mine I think my favorite scene and the office going on right there's no
forgive me because I'm kind of like taking command of this conversation now but talking about brick

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brick my favorite part of the movie is when he walks up to talk to uh Kristen Wiig's character
and he's like trying to like fake his way up there like pretend like he's
you know just like going through like a normal thing and you're just like the rose all his books

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on the ground or whatever he's holding he's like taking the fake sip out of the uh uh coffee and
he chokes on it and then he walks up to her and talks to her and I I gotta tell you I mean like
that is like the height of the Steve Carell humor was doing that kind of stuff uh he's so good at

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it he is I would argue aside from Will Ferrell that Steve Carell is maybe the second best if not
like the one a actor in this movie because he's so good he's so good at portraying whatever it is
he's doing I mean I would love to get into the collection of all of them if we could start getting

(01:01:09):
into the plot at large to move through this because you know Bricks dead Brian's shooting
pictures of cats champs got a restaurant like I would just like to walk like we're bar
right there all at and everything the but the but the fact that like brick his thing is that he's
dead that's his attribute of that what that's what he's what has brick been up to oh he's dead

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like that's just I know that that is a that is a great start I think they take him to such a high
level in this movie that there are some moments where I'm like a little like oh okay worn out I
would agree that the the scenes between him and Kristen Wiig or something that like I don't know
that's electric like seeing them two together is fun just a great pairing especially when they're

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able to do this kind of like innocent sort of crazy people sort of crazy thing and then you
got Jude Diane Rayfiel who's got to be the the normal person in charge the normal person
you know because I know we meet Kristen Wiig and she's just staring at the phone and she

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looking at it bringing her to stop ringing and then bring us around that
but it's gonna stop um highly recommend that they're watching the blooper reel and their
moments together and their bloopers are very good and seeing them together it makes sense why they
would hit it off so well communically to go through it a little bit more is like all of their

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where their ad is really funny because it represents it's also a commentary to and
represents something that's going on at the time with champ the idea that he has a fried chicken
restaurant but the big thing is his whole thing about this us census is really funny to me

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what is he saying something to the effect of like the us census
part of the census get the fuck out of here i don't want to hit anything with you he's pretty
much alex jones yeah very much so oh my god right bat he grabs his bat and chases that guy out of
the the police because he says there's a band-aid and his french fries he's like you're part of the

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census so he's like get the fuck out of here oh he says uh i believe in two things chicken and
those senses is a way for the un to make your children gay oh buddy there it is there it is
that's really funny and those are like the things introduced and then like i don't know those
old checkboxes that they have to hit for like the old movie it's some of them i i don't know i'm

(01:03:58):
glad to see back where he just has like you had that one moment in the first movie where he has
this longing for ron and this movie just like it comes back every now and then where he's just like
i miss your presence they meet up with brian and then he ron hugs brian the champ gets in there
and gets another i just love that that's a part of his character too and then yeah phantana where

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where he's at i i think is just it's just funny i don't know it's like you don't have to overthink
it he goes to sex pander to taking pictures of kittens oh and the kitten picture is so hilarious
because he's pretending to be that photographer where he comes essentially at the end of the
photo shoot you kind of get like you're like it's just a cat photo shoot and then then he's

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extremely successful like he's the one that needs this at least like he's nothing i'd like
yeah it's fine if he never did this oh i there they have this back and forth about the i hate
monday's poster with the cat and champ is like does this stereotypical guide thing that we've all

(01:05:10):
done together where they're like uh they're looking at the poster of i hate monday's and ron's like
i hate monday's too it's so relatable and he talks about how relatable it is and then champ goes
i also hate tuesdays wednesdays and fursday's and then all of them are like
oh

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once they all start like laughing super hard i was just like oh man i gotta do the same thing
there's almost like a hallway line which this movie is filled with so many funny lines that are
also kind of thrown away is uh brian's talking about how he has a sauna that's right next to his
kitchen which people think is weird but then he also put wine in it because he thinks why it's
supposed to be kept more i'm just like it's it's good that's funny that's so funny how stupid they

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are i love it to death and um yeah the stuff with bregg we've already talked about it i love that
what's that actor's name uh r.i.p uh uh he's like uh fred willer yes fred willer which was great to
do well or it seems my son is uh on something called pcp and attacking people with a machete or

(01:06:26):
some crossbow or something like that kids will be kids he's in all those like uh like christ
christopher gas movies and stuff too he's a part of that crew he's also in i think you
should leave where that's getting raised to all the sounds on the organs and whatnot that's so silly

(01:06:48):
it's everybody like the the the naivety of these guys like let's let's hone in on like breccanere
you know like oh the psychologist dude ah yes that's okay off to the night this is like the most
naivety of the entire movie is like they they're like breccanere the psychologist

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he's the guy that comes in he's like the pseudo uh ron burgundy the step down right
the pseudo ron burgundy but the step dead the replacement for ron and that's the replacement
ron he's supposed to be like a slightly step down from how successful he is but they're like
the opposite i would argue is like ron is an idiot and this guy's a psychologist you know

(01:07:34):
he is funny that he tells him then ron is it tells ron that he's a psychologist you know ron has
to say to that is fuck you and tries to punch him yes that moment he's like you knew that was coming
everybody seems to be thinking i'm reading your mind you're just gonna read their minds right
everything's thinking read their minds like it goes on to all the characters all the characters are

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just like they're kind of wary of this guy you know even little walters like oh my god it's like
stop then you get he tries to punch him then you get all the way then you get to the fight scene
and gregoneer is like he's like mind power that is that is the big my mind about i knew from the
future i saw from the future that was the best payoff for me on this viewing that was like i

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about lost my mind when i saw that would make me so happy i like just started that's not look
past the fact that that is the ghost of stonewall jen jason uh walk into the fight scene but i think
those are my yeah i think the greg i'm so glad you brought up the greg kaneer thing because just
like that was a moment of deus ex mocking at where it just cut to him and he was just doing two i like

(01:08:47):
two fingers to his temples and just like controlling things with his mind powers and that the fact that
they were leading that up the whole way through it's so funny but that's such a trope battleaxe
from hitting's run in the face right from the history channel he's about to like suck his soul
out or something oh yeah so he's like pops it is like but it reminded me of uh judge rinhold and

(01:09:13):
santa claus also a psychiatrist stepdad or uh carry eulism liar liar oh yeah absolutely jerry
yeah it's the claus gonna kiss you that was the kind like those were companies at a time

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is like you have this like super funny guy just like helming and acting so like silly and and
such a such a character and then like everything kind of just falls around that anchor man you
know ace ventura yeah it's like i don't know just that that period of time of comedy is
it i don't know this this one was it starts it's kind of like a dying light a little bit at this
point of like the first one at least where it's like the first anchor man and then i remember

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we're seeing like yeah the adam sander movies and like mike myers movies after that was you
don't don't mess with the zoan which i wasn't crazy about when i first watched it but it's pretty
funny now it's funny love guru i remember seeing those movies at that time like oh this isn't
really a thing anymore these aren't really working you're kind of weird yeah they don't they
know they weren't really like they kind of gotten up their own their own butts a little bit but the

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joint apatow thing all jaded kept kept going and that that like sense of humor at least like carried
on um can i also yeah i'm sorry i was did a little side tangent but also another just funny part that
i was thinking was like there's these multiple moments where ron and it's just you watch this
movie three to five times these sorts of just like catch how funny it is it's just like there's

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multiple moments where ron bergman he's talking shit on james marzden and then like yeah and then
they'll be across the room they'll be on the other side of the room and then james marzden will
turn around to be like hey what the fuck did you say hey what did you say to me buddy what and
he'll like he'll hear every single word perfectly he's like i i just heard you talk like shit about

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me he's like oh no no i'm sorry i was just saying and then they have this and then they carry on the
car they don't come closer they just stay on the opposite side of the room yeah so when the very
first time they meet each other when uh ron in the cd new steam comes in they're like oh yeah that's

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jack lime over there he's selling so blah blah blah he's talking about it and then they do like the
pan from side to side and then yeah i'm like catch his eyes with him he's like hey oh what's
what's your deal yeah what are you whatever he says i don't know i don't know what your face

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what do you mean what do you mean what do you mean he's like i see you over there you stared at me
what's going on what's the big deal and ron's like oh no uh he was just introducing me to who
all was here blah blah blah and i'm just looking at you and i was like oh yeah i bet you were looking

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at me i don't like your face something in that face oh i really like that face don't make that
oh that makes me so happy that face that he makes it like this when he's like trying to make a
different one is so silly he's like you know that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's

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yeah the supporting cast of this movie is is excellent as well and there's a lot of cameos if
we want to get into cameos in the fight as we kind of want to get to get to round the fact that they
brought the fight scene into both is great i want i want to talk real quick about like this is close
to what we just talked about with the introduction to the whole gnn network is the leader the owner

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of the gnn network i really laughed hard where he comes up and he says i'm a self-made man
my dad gave me 300 million dollars and i turned it into 350 million this is so funny like this is
the shit that in politics we're talking about with donald trump right now it's a little

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remind me of succession yeah it's hilarious like that idea it was you know this is a joke in 2013
and they're making a joke about how the people in that uh that you know our leaders of those industries
and whatnot think they're self-made man yeah he gave me money and even before that we get a little

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too big because i have a million they they talk about because the i can't remember the actor's
name but the guy who like brings them into gnn may like tells them about the opportunity and then
ron immediately he's like i'm so glad that he beat that like lawsuit or whatever and so it's just
we understood that he's like such a 70s thing too yeah i'm running like once upon a time in

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hollywood and all that shit of like brad pittscare yeah oh everyone's got this weird past of like
yeah it's wasted and we're not really sure how he might have killed her but you know he's here
he's ready to work really glad he got acquitted of murder and it's just like a very small passing
by and they just move on from yeah you know and then obviously he's very fast then he gives them the money uh in advance for coming on

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and he just what does he say something about liviah newton john's hymen
we should really like barrel down on yeah though anything we've we've kind of like forgot to talk
about and i feel like something that we've missed is the the shark scene yeah we haven't nailed down

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on obdoby no and then and then it's something that really like i've felt polarized within myself over
watching this movie is something i did not care for the first time i watched this movie it was just
like what are we doing here like because it's it's that's why i hated the movie was it for the same
reason it where it's like it's too stupid it had no sense it just made no sense in the like in the

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in like the flow of the movie like because after he goes after he goes blind or he loses the news
that where he moves to the white house right yeah which is a terrible idea but i guess yeah
the whole thing about a white house it's helping ship see and he's blind yeah it's very funny
but i guess you can take this go ahead check i well i was just saying i have a hard take on this so

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like the whole the whole obby situation is like walter his son right sure yeah this this is again
a throwback to the first movie because brawn is such a huge fan of walter kronkite and he's named his
son walter after walter kronkite and we haven't brought that up at all and walter it's just like

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the star of the show let's face it yeah because i love a piano player oh my god the piano player
he played me to win the chair towers i'm done at the end the whole movie everything we want to see
is just what is walter going to do because he's incredible that actor is so great too he's he's
so great we gotta save him dad that's why they like save this right in the first place one of the

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first walter scenes too is he's leaving them because of what happened with uh uh christina
applegate going on to lead the uh news and then when he's leaving he like has that whole bit with
walter where he's like he's a man already he already has hair on his nose and he asked him

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it's like what do you want to be when you grow up and he's like i want to be an astronaut and a
cowboy and he's like you're gonna lower your expectations you're gonna be a a fried cook
and just basically holding a flashlight the main

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he has that moment where she's like you your father's a good man after saying that's tough
and then christina applegate's like i'm gonna leak you in that closet
so funny and there's like a couple moments to where ron brings like a lingerie to christina

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applegate to win her over which i laughed so loud again rewatching it after we had watched it where
he goes up to the door eats an apple off the tree throws it up and then tries to catch it
it just goes back to the top dude he's walking up the top one of my favorite moments one of my

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favorite like walter moments is when he's sitting at he's doing the uh his science fair in grecaneer
and said he's like hey buddy you know i know your dad's not gonna come here he's like i know this is
like a very terrorizing moment in your life but like do you want to sit here and go through one
of those moments and where we talk about it he looks at me goes oh god no he's pretty much ron

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son he's just like i don't fucking want to deal with any of that shit what are you talking about
absolutely man i don't want to talk about this let's move on yeah i think my biggest my biggest
problem with the shark scene is that i feel like they were trying to do um they were trying to do
like a baxter thing with it because like baxter has like had that whole storyline and the first one

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and the second one there was like no animal so they tried to create like an animal storyline
i guess there was a panda thing too it's a panda thing yeah yeah there you go but like it was just
yeah it was weird it's that was when i tuned out that was when i tuned out all that all that good
will and that's i'm out this is dumb and that steam that they built up that built up that i was

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talking about at the beginning about like that whole boardroom scene and all the news and everything
like they just do this they just pull the rug out from underneath them or put a cable underneath
them as he's ice skating however we don't want to look at it makes you mine that's such a convoluted
way of doing it but it's so funny he's just like ice skating and trips over a well-placed wire

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and then it yeah after doing a triple axle yeah but it just like it just puts the movie in a
completely different place than to this whole all the steam that it's built up and now that i'm
prepared for it it's something that just hits in such a great way where that was the gregg canir
thing with the the telepathy and then the my power the shark song i just lost it at the shark song

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like when they all stand at the shore hold hands and sing a song for doby is yeah i i do not have a
queue to if you want to throw it in play it throw it in uh in the chat somewhere then yeah we can
definitely do the the doby song um oh my god what was he at the oh man i'm turning there was there's
some other scene that i'm blanking on that that really really got me this time um oh yeah well

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there was i mean there was the garfield where they're just fucking reading garfield and they're
dying laughing as they are reading garfield at large or whatever it is just like is the same
thing or like the tuesday i don't like i also don't like monday tuesday wednesday thursday
where like they all start laughing like hysterically like that's energy just it just seeps through the

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screen to me where i just start laughing really hard too because it's so stupid and silly i mean i
feel like i'm gonna bring it up to you james when we hang out and stuff it's like that line of like
ron you're missing out on some really good garfields right now
just all of it so i'm gonna buy that book because it's so good as if that's a group activity as if

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you can sit there at a con with a comic book and everyone's reading each panel along you're like
no yeah no let's do this yeah uh okay so the other one that i just remember that like meeting level
but for comic books i don't know carfield i take my time uh reading reading speed is all the
same for everyone but the the other scene that like i don't need too much credit i lost it at was the

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do not smoke crack on live television do not no do not smoke crack apparently you can't smoke crack
on live television it's a hard cut to of like smoke in the in the studio and then they're all on the
ground and the police are taking the cops off and they just well i guess you can't smoke crack on live

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television and then a completely inconsequential scene to the movie i mean much like i don't know
do it you'd say the shark thing but it does come back later or it's like these little vignettes of
funny shit but the way that the shark thing comes back later is also a moment where i absolutely
lost it too which is kind of near the end and like this deus ex mocking a thing with backs are

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coming back to save the day yet again where he sends what is it the shark back into the
the nature realm or whatever like i banish they have doby
all right i'll get that i'll get that queued up and yeah anything else you guys want to

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that we forgot about please uh start well uh mention is the time the the doby stuff uh
plenary wash is also wildly interesting because of the fact that like uh christina apple gates
character doesn't want to tell him that he can see anymore is the whole like she's just going

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along with the bit yeah she's going along with a bit because she knows that if she's afraid that if
ron knew about this because he's in in her mind such a good place because now he's like spending a
lot of time with walter he's being a dad he's being a dad and all of that is like it works on
he doesn't tell him she doesn't tell him that he's not blind which is also hilarious so funny and

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i mean yeah there's a bunch of uh really funny lines about how the whole bit is ron is doing
like daily activities but he's like fucking himself up by like eating nails and like cooking
orange versus fudge and all that i drink half a bottle of hind's ketchup because i thought it was

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a classic merlot why would you not realize he was ketchup because i'm blind let me say it real
slow for you all right let's talk about like the quotes from the movie there's a couple scenes in
the movie which i loved uh that these guys like really like played back to uh there's a scene where

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i forget what they're talking about but uh paul ron goes uh a wise man once said so
and then they follow like 20 minutes later and said you know the saying nope

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you know like those those little quips like i love that about anchor man uh like they're talking
about like very like serious things within the movie some like life-changing thing is about to
happen like it i know the the you know the old saying nope came before uh that came right before

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the brick was about to get laid and they're giving them condoms in the like the condom drawer yes
because that's the black paint the black paint that's the other proxy yeah yeah yeah uh yeah but
it's funny to me though like they they say those things because like it's such a callback to like
the the first movie where nothingness like we're just gonna make up our own thing it's gonna be funny

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and it is it is it's so funny like a wise man once said so like how funny is that in the middle of
like a two hour movie you're just sitting there you're just like what the fuck why don't you
do that or like you go like you know chip might not be the smartest or the kindest or nicest or

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greatest guy in the bunch but he's a guy no you just end it you know just that's that's all you
might just be yeah it's great it's great you know like they they're these guys in this movie
even before this movie we're just the masters uh and going back to like their saturday night live

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days they are the masters of the like the stop in place comedy right so they'll tell something and
then just never fall and then that's it and it ends yes right it's like an anti-jail or something
yeah and they're so good at it that the way that they tell it you were like on the edge of your seat

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and you're waiting for the it is a punchlock and they just don't get it you don't get it
is you're still sitting there like holy shit that is the funniest thing i've ever fucking heard
because it's the way that they tell it right and like delivery is like great you look at a
uh kekner uh carol rudd uh correll you look at all four of these guys who are like the anchor man

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and then you look at all the exterior care gaps and then share they're all really good at too it's
almost like they all learn from the same school of comedy where they just a lot of them did
more than michael's in yeah it's great seeing like chris pernell man even him for like a scene
it's just i love that guy well and he has such a great scene too because him and uh willard

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right yeah they're just sitting there like such a good scene where they're having like joking
about that idea of how are they gonna do 24 hour news there's no way that they're going to be able
to do that where they talk about things that are interesting and haven't taken and then they're like
no i don't think so yeah that's not gonna work it's gonna be fine uh something that was an analog

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that i wanted to bring up we haven't talked about it's at the very beginning that's similar to the
first one that they're doing you know a rehash of is the uh when they're going on air doing the
mouth exercises and having that and the ones that are in this one are not mouth exercises at all
but they're just really funny things and i think the line of the tooth theory's exposed

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breasts made the child uncomfortable is for real the one i wrote down was andre the giant gave a
surprisingly nimble foot rub there's oh man there's there's somebody oh yeah i'll just i'll yeah i
run through some of my notes here i guess it'd be the time too before we watch this the song but

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he reads the the teleprompter when it's all caps that's kind of a callback to the question mark
thing or it's like he's just he does that that's the character from snl too where he just i can't
control the volume of my voice which got i don't know his best of snl got very popular after
anchorman too i remember that dvd was was uh something that was watched a lot by me uh

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children's and animals haki ron burgundy uh spoken by his actual his actual child is speaking that
line uh it's his little that hits his daughter right it's his yeah it's his daughter yeah
herl you're the quincy jones of cat photography

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quit yanking our penises
yeah we're ganking our anus our anus the evils of voodoo
he just he's he came back very terrified about he
and about the tears of voodoo because like ron burgundy tells him just like that's the

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one thing you should not fuck with is voodoo don't yeah don't fuck with voodoo
uh jack jack line may ask for other suggestions because he comes in wanting because he's been
kidding called jack lame because the band and then ron says how about this one you can call yourself
dick fuck everybody can i say like a different way like lame or something no you have to say it lame

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lame they have to say lame are you sure you're not a seven-year-old midget
child
so crazy so funny all right uh you guys got any final final moments before we watch uh

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the the dobe song no let's watch the dobe song i got one i just want to mention as a couple
sandiagans on this uh on this there is a lot of sandiagan love and it was awesome be like
you know the line from west man to his man when he shows up you made one big mistake you

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fucked with the sandiagans and they also give a little shout out to dorthy man too what's the
sandiago song do we know what it is like i have no idea i have to come up with that i can't make an
s and i can't make it in this and i do it with my hand at the same time yeah you need two people
yeah hang loose let's go a little bit hi mahala he calls it the greatest city in the history of the

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earth that's true yeah dude what the fuck he's fucking right yeah like i felt like the people in the
bar when the news program came on i was like he's fucking right which is also funny because the news
is like the one thing that you never have on at a bar oh yeah that's only in movies man i've never

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had that experience in my life where i'm like oh my god i'm watching this live news happening at the
bar and we're all a part of it like yeah it's that hasn't been a thing you get people like you get
people that come in and ask if like whenever presidential debate you know like are you guys
gonna be showing the debate the last fucking thing we want is a newsworthy be politic political
debates no those are the two things they're talking about it's all the most i remember

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veritably in 2016 and bartending during the middle of the election and people were like can you put
on like their results and all that i was like no i can't yeah i'm not offering me a lot of money
and i was like no no i i'm not gonna do that because this is a sports bar like yeah i want to know

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and just like you want to know what's gonna happen but like this is a sports bar like i i don't want
to set the precedent that you can come in here and just watch you know why the fucking i think
that's a very champ kind of thing to do you want to do really it is a very cheap sport's take precedent
get my hot whammy i get my whammy or two i think chippis jammie chippis jammie

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i think nick wanted to be brane fiantana i'll be i'll be bray and you can be uh ron brad brad
brad montana brad and burgundy i could be i could be bray and frontana i'll grow out my beard for
the next episode all right i'll i'll die by the next episode i'll be dead when we do the next

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thing we just we got to and james is just laying on the floor it's like that kind of shit it's like
no you you're alive you are you or like that sort of moment or it's like i don't even know how to
jack off i can't even find my penis it's like it's a part of you it is you it's you it's you ron
and those like arguments and conversations are like so stupid but i think they're hilarious and

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they're great but also i see why people would watch that be like this is a no way um you guys
ready for some some dobby oh yeah here we go he was meant to go i hear his tail splash oh is
everyone here the general tan no chipp are you here are you watching a dobby song
i am i was just looking for the deep waters he was meant to call home i hear his tail splashing

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he's actually swimming away is he looking back for us over his shoulder no sharks don't have
shoulders run oh he just swam away and is he's instantly looking for fish to eat he was my best friend
you swam with strength you loved with brave you touched when i first watched this movie i was like

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how is your expression this is where i was out and then third time watching i am so in 100% you find many treasure
love emotional and monetary little walters crying ugly crying walters outfit so

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so
the kid is so like pure in earnest it's like doesn't belong to this movie

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if i say i'll be there for you there's nothing on god's earth that will stop me i love you dad
let's get back up to the light so turning blind has changed how he speaks
yeah i hope you eat lots of fish and people dobby
i hope you eat lots of fish and people

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oh dobby that was it's a hell of a moment a hell of a movie this has been a hell of an episode
with some fine fellas oh my god i'd like to take a quick break before we do some reviews and final
thoughts if that sounds very good with you jance all right we'll be right back

(01:36:30):
yeah well i want to give a shout out to i want to give a shout out to brandon and james for hosting
us i know that nick and i think we're inviting thanks for inviting us into your living room
usually not the best voices but we like to have a good time so we're here and we're having a good
time i've got a great voice for radio or video i have a face for radio as well yes i'm here

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that's fair no this is great what did you say about radio because when we i we were all the
the three of us were hanging out i think was the night that we watched this i put on a pod
i put on polar eyes and then the whole time you're like is that what i sound like every

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couple of months you're like oh jeez that's what i sound like that is very true i did it i did it
no man i did hear my own voice who edits this podcast yeah it's it's rough but you you deal with it
not for you no for me not you you're good i'm just like to hear my own voice i get it yeah
uh yeah hearing your own voice is weird over time it's very it's very it's scary um it's

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sound bassier when i talk in my head well i don't like sharing my voice but i will
you know what i do like though so you guys put it on for me have you ever been on like a uh
like a teams meeting for work or something like that and like everybody's on camera and all that
you know what i really like i'd love like looking at the top corner where my picture is and just

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like looking at myself will be soaring at yourself yeah oh absolutely i think it's very nice
i don't know what so it's like i was like was was night at the rocks very the first one i did i think
so i think that was about it i remember i remember being downstairs like because brennan was upstairs
in his room and i was downstairs at the old house and i was like i was staring at my picture but i

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could tell you i could tell that i wasn't looking at the camera so then i would like look up to
stare at the camera but then i felt weird because i wasn't staring at anything so i'd stare back down
on my camera and i could go back and forth between the two trying to pay attention to your screens too
but then you know i know how to read the chat no one shares their notices so like what yeah
they don't know i don't know anyways now it's just now i got it i just stare at you guys the whole

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time and like i don't i don't look at myself very often although this one i had the tie so i kept
like paying attention to the tie because i didn't want it to be like all skew like okay you don't want
to see me straight and i'm like yeah my is my tie so good okay cool like i was fixing it from
underneath the jacket i had the jacket button and i was fixing the the part from like underneath the

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button there's just long enough to be there so i was grabbing it pulling it to where i wanted it
you got shorts with your with your suit and tie now yeah yeah you gotta get that get the shorts
involved and that's how you can do the little underhand jimmy that's what they call it oh my god
uh the underhand jimmy oh good jimmy that's how you got to fix that tie from is it this way or this

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way i don't know it's it's a very bottom on the tip what's the let's hear some critical reviews of
anchor man two the legend continues i love that it has a little uh colon it has a subtitle
um let's uh let's check out what some people have to say how about rickard corliss from time

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magazine he says wine connoisseurs would call this a new burgundy with an old bouquet wow
okay buddy that's what we come to for the critics that's what we come to for the critics is Peter
bradshaw from the guardian says it's by no means a masterpiece but it stays reasonably classy oh

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goodness nice they're coming out with their little little bits their quits uh what's uh
i like to do some obscure ones every every now and then salon.com andrew o'hair this is the kind
of movie where most people know what they want and they're pretty sure what they will get that being
more of the same please okay i mean yeah i know that's exactly what i wanted

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ty burton boston globes see it with a crowd laugh yourself silly and feel slightly ashamed in the
morning i don't know i don't know ty burr why you should be ashamed of what you like it's okay you
shouldn't have to be pleasers you should have just you should be ashamed you're ashamed that you laugh
because it's slightly racist and sexist yeah yeah yeah right wasn't ashamed i laughed my ass off

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every the second time i mean really the thing that he felt ashamed about is that he whipped his
balls on the theater yeah ty burr you gotta really gotta stop doing that and then telling people about
it in the yeah in the in the highlights peter travers a rolling stone what does that feel like
give it a three out of four rip whipping your balls out in the middle of anchor me oh it's like

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cold it's gotta feel good i don't know i'm sorry real this but like come on like you know like
we gotta get abs ass ty burr about that you wouldn't know i certainly wouldn't know let's get let's get
back to the subject in hand i'm sorry that struck me that hit me deep down in my loins i was like

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what do you mean brandon put your balls out in the morning good grief
peter travers rolling exactly charlie brown only charlie brown you know what that's gotta be like
oh yeah especially the famous charlie brown uh where he whips his balls out
oh you think linus has that blanket all right you all right let's continue all right folks

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peter travers rolling son when is a movie fall down funny even when some scenes fall flat on
their fat ones when it's anchor man too the legend continues lendard mottlin at a time when so many
comedies try to push the boundary lines of raunchiness as far as they can this one deals in
another much rarer commodity sheer silliness you're silly yes somehow on ron tomatoes it says

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that's a great one it says lendard moulton gave it a 2.1 out of two was was what he gave oh wow
what a score that sounds like good rating to me a very good yeah i'm on a scale of good or bad one
or two of them 2.1 it's a little bit of a obscure scale and then we'll do one from criss

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nashawate entertainment weekly of course the plot is pretty much beside the point in a film
like this one what we want are jokes that are as comforting and familiar as the laugh track on a
sitcom rerun in the unoriginal day yeah i'll put them in a body bag just like people want more of

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the same they're gonna get it okay i'm gonna charge a osconn new york times the sheer density of the
jokes guarantees a few laughs for every taste and the loose improvisational energy of the performers
keep things lively we're charged with that with that we'll move on to some negative reviews from
the audience from ellie haze those were positive reviews i know these are the critics for you

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folks they they uh can't give a quite glowing endorsement without a little bit of uh a little
bit of a jam uh now we get into the real uh i did not care for this vibe of the show uh that always
comes the audience did not care for this one i didn't i'll remind you of those scores too it was a
74 certified fresh by the critics certified fresh and a 52 per cent popcorn meter by the audience

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not so good and ellie haze gave it one star and just says why and then and that's a whole review
why the whole review is why uh and then m one star we are living in a fucking world where paul thomas
anderson denny villanue your ghost lanthimos west anderson david fincher gretta gurwig christopher

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nullan richard linklater wonkawai tarant malik noah bomback and park chanwook are not our oscar
winners but adam mckay is and let's not even mention the old masters this is when was this
when was this written 2020 so i'm sure some of those people have won oscars okay okay i was like

(01:45:15):
this was like there's some winter dinner i would think so yeah christopher nullan just won yeah okay
so someone's angry so this was uh this was when uh vice so he's about to get in to tear down vice
here because vice won and i'm pretty sure adam mckay won for that this is worse than vice yes it is
and i fell asleep while watching vice the thing exhausted me it it's so it is so unfunny and boring

(01:45:40):
the passing is awful because the writers only had three good jokes at the first 10 minutes i had to
watch a whole movie because of them that sucks ass there are no quiet moments to make the loud
ones stand out because everyone annoyingly yells his fucking lines like a five-year-old everything
about the movie is so bad and idiotic the writing is terrible the cinematography is bland the

(01:46:01):
performance sucked the jokes are all trash the stupid comedy like this should be clever but this
one is the most idiotic thing i have ever seen jim carrey maryon cotillard sasha barricot and
harrison ford lee mason why the fuck are you in this why is this a thing that person is such a
serious person they don't know how they know they can't be funny because they're very serious person

(01:46:26):
they really don't like adam mckay yeah i mean yeah yeah i it's just so funny to think that you're
comparing it to all of those movies like this is or those directors the same you know like this
isn't the same type of movie that a lot of those yeah it was never going to be anything like it was

(01:46:47):
a movie like west endersen's west endersen's like quirky funny but like serious with the story with
a storyline and this is not that i'm kind of concerned that that review happened seven years
after the movie came out like it's somebody you were still that angry or just like that upset it's

(01:47:08):
like yeah i could see going to bat for all those uh you know directors because they're so incredibly
talented what they do right but like at the time what's the competition right you can say like retic
erwig is like deserving of whatever if she doesn't have anything that's going to be nominated against

(01:47:35):
it you know that's just like a hater that's just literally a hater yeah he's a serious this movie
i hate it i can't believe it's the principle of the thing like there's so much that's outside of
the movie of like these other people should have won awards besides of this guy so even on first

(01:47:55):
walking into the theater if i were to see this movie i already hate it because i'm pissed off at
me yeah they had a mccavon yeah i mean i'm taking it out on this right goni depp or you know like uh
surprisingly i throw leo in there like i'm still angry i wasn't wondering it could have been a
wasp or winner to find out but they haven't been like it's that same argument it's like listen you

(01:48:19):
gotta understand what it's going up against within its category and otherwise like it's just it's like
beating a dead horse i get what they're saying about vice though it's not it's like not a movie
that's remembered by by any means but to take it out on anchor man too come on uh let's check out
with uh with brian lem i'm gonna call him lamei titled complete shit one star out of five from

(01:48:50):
brian lamei he goes on to say one time i took a shit and it was funnier than this movie if they
filmed a pile of shit for two hours you would get more enjoyment out of watching the real pile of
shit what's the difference between anchor man two and a pile of shit anchor man two doesn't doesn't
smell bad therein lies the rub the ruse if you will parentheses feral

(01:49:15):
the ruse if you have parentheses feral the box looks nice but inside it is a pile of shit
there should be a rating that looks like a pile of shit before the first star thanks for wasting
my time what it would be i could have been taking a shit the whole time and have been happier
i think your legs would be like numb when you stood up you'd fall face to the fucking wall

(01:49:39):
you don't want that that's like that's like the joke in this movie where it's like here at genean
we should standing up and then brand to go it's a mask
that's great uh yeah i'll do like one or two more from uh shaftsbury titled i immediately i

(01:50:01):
immediately regret this titled uh yeah brought that and it was one star is the title only 30 minutes
into this movie and i wished i'd rented it i hadn't rented it it was almost as if i watched
they watched the first movie and said well that joke works so let's try it again so if you don't
want to read spoilers don't read on from here there was a multi newsman fight baxter saved him

(01:50:23):
from an animal a flute solo he made stupid comments i could go on bricks yelling was flat
out annoying if i hadn't paid for it i would have turned it off hilarious but i hoped for some laughs
sadly there were a few avoid this turd uh and then yeah there's some other titles that make
anchorman jokes like 60 percent of the time you laugh zero percent of the time that kind of thing

(01:50:47):
so so there's some real anchorman fans that are coming out i saw other things they're all anchorman
one fans that were unhappy with how anchorman two came because it was very similar there was a lot
of that and then some of the other ones i read were like a mix it was interesting it was a mixture
of people that hated the first half or hated the second half it was funny i got like a mixture of
both were like the first half was pretty good but then the second half sucked or like oh i hated the

(01:51:10):
first half of this movie but then it kind of picked up a bit it was so weird like uh but it was just
yeah very much that sort of feeling of like people coming back from uh acclaimed comedy and and not
enjoying the the second go around kind of even even as much as we like it it is pretty late for
this comedy to come around and for people to uh care as much as they did but hey man we just

(01:51:35):
saw i just saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice so who knows what's possible and was it good i enjoyed it
it was it's pretty fun i think i like anchorman two more but if there was a comparison but uh i
won't know how i feel quite i mean i'm pretty much let's address that well let's uh let's wrap it up
first man too you want to talk about oh i like the i like the first one better it's gonna be one for

(01:51:58):
me yeah you guys you guys like this one better i i don't know i so i have a very uh politically
neutral take on this they're equally as funny so i i think that this movie might be a an objectively

(01:52:21):
funnier movie however a lot of this movie is set up on the premise of the first one existing
like right and i know that i know that like brandon you and i have talked about this like you hate
nostalgia right but the reality is like there's a lot of this movie that sets up on and it's not

(01:52:50):
even nostalgia it's just like it just happened before it sets up a lot of the jokes in this movie
i think this movie is incredible i think it's hilarious i think as a standalone movie it
it holds its own to like a knocked up or um uh super bad or otherwise you know other jada

(01:53:15):
patata movies but i don't think it is as funny as the first one but it's not missing by much
i mean and i think it's just like a clip like it but this movie is hysterical and if you watch it
by itself having never seen the first one you love it you love it i think you're just missing out

(01:53:41):
slightly by not seeing the first one i mean that's a pretty good i like that i like that take
it what would you give it out of 100 that's a hard question i agree i've thought about
this i've been thinking about this throughout the conversation tonight i think uh if i were to rate

(01:54:03):
this movie i'd probably give it like a 78 out of 100 excellent score skew skewing towards
it's funny i'd love it it's good i would watch it again um
and that's it i don't want to say anything about the movies i don't have anything

(01:54:25):
say about the movie but 78 70 out of 100 excellent how about you nick what any final
thoughts and uh if you had to give a score on the old rock i'm actually gonna yeah i'm actually
gonna give it a little bit higher of a score because of how much i disliked it the first time
and how much i liked it more how much i enjoyed it the second time so i'd probably go with like an
84 of 100 i'd give it yeah i give it a solid b uh because i yeah just because of how much

(01:54:53):
it changed my mind overall like why did you yeah i guess you liked it more than the first time
why is that the case uh well because like the first time the first time i watched it i think i
just like i think i'd rewatched anchor man the first one and then i'd gone to see it in theaters
as well i saw the second one in theaters and then like as soon as it got to as soon as it got to the

(01:55:18):
shark portion of it i was like okay nope this is it got it got too dumb for me and then
second time kind of knowing what you were going into made it a little exterior like all right
there's gonna be this dump part but even that dump part was funny when it knowing that it was gonna
be part of the fact i don't know just going through it the second time it was funnier because i knew

(01:55:40):
what was coming and i understood where where we were going it made that it made those scenes a lot
funnier because it was like all right now it's kind of like sometimes we go off the rails that's
kind of like how the movie felt the first time and then the second time it's like that's what's
supposed to happen so yeah an 80 and an 80 an 84 for me nice oh yeah i mean i don't mind picking

(01:56:05):
back piggy backing off of a next hole feeling towards it because i have a very similar one where
yeah i think i the first time i saw it uh there is a weird sort of hype and nostalgia that even
if you don't want to be a part of it i think subconsciously is gonna be a natural part of
like the hype of of watching anchorman 2 and you're not really sure what to expect and what that

(01:56:26):
could be but you're like the same way as like i have no idea what to want or expect out of gladiator
2 it's like i never wanted or necessarily needed it but i'm gonna go watch it and i'm open to being
it being good but if it's not okay too and i think when i saw it the first time i just kind of wrote
it off of kind of just like meh it's i almost you know the hype was too too high for me to expect

(01:56:47):
it to be any better than or on the same length as the yeah the same plane yeah as the first one and
then like it is just like grown so much for me over time and watching it over and over again
like a few times over again uh it has really aged well for me and and just as you said nick like
and that's just been how i feel about it is like those moments that caught catch you so off guard

(01:57:12):
and i wish i'd be more open-minded almost in a way where it's like i could be catching how funny
it is the first time because it has just gotten funnier funnier and funnier for me every single
time i watch this and the fact that i can yeah like expect it a little bit more helps a little bit
but i i don't know it's as far as like the first versus the second one i definitely like the first

(01:57:36):
one more and that would probably be in like the the 90s sort of range like yeah like probably a
solid like 90 or something and this one would be not too far off man i i'm i'm right there there
with you so i'll i'm gonna join nick on the 84 i feel like that that is really nice i i like the
84 sort of all the wave length so i'm i'm gonna join you there and uh highly recommend this movie i

(01:58:00):
think there's a there's a really sharp there's a really sharp quality to the laughs on this go around
where i about like went to full laugh attack mode a few times great great kineer part with
with the tele telepathy 100 percent and the the dobe song and everything whereas like when i
watched the first one for the first time it'd been like five or so years since i watched that one

(01:58:23):
within the past year i watched it again it's just like this is just like you know like the back of
my hand this sort of stuff and everything just goes down so smooth it always does and uh those
sort of like elements of this one are never gonna leave me and i'm always gonna be able to quote
those so it's hard to ever beat that where it's like almost a part of me uh but this one i am kind
of blown away how it continues to uh be funnier and funnier and it gives me feelings of like walk

(01:58:49):
hard or something where it's just it's just so silly and and so out there and an epic in a way
so like we're kind of epic but um i'd love to hear uh brandini's thoughts the the great brandini
brandini is presiding like here's that yeah i'm getting i'm getting harassed by my fiance right

(01:59:10):
now all right we'll wrap it up he's over there giving weeks yeah gentlemen it's been wonderful
talking to you guys about this because that's what this movie is about it's about you know quoting a
funny movie with your buddies and making each other laugh and it is apparent in this movie that these
guys are friends and all they're trying to do is make each other laugh and it's contagious

(01:59:31):
i also think that this uh does well to make the story more interesting than the first one which i
feel like is the way you should approach the second one do less of you know trying to strike
that balance because yeah i in in no way am i going to give this movie a higher score than the first

(01:59:55):
one solely from what has already been said is like there's a lot there's a fair amount in this
movie i don't want to say a lot because the point i'm trying to make is i do actually like the balance
that it strikes between uh paying homage to the first one but then also introducing a bunch of
new stuff to it and i think this movie does really well and upon like subsequent rewatches is so

(02:00:17):
fucking funny and in its own right a little staker uh i'm sorry i'm sorry it's okay
yeah it's your guess it it's so cool that this movie has gotten funnier upon revisiting it because

(02:00:43):
just like it is you guys like i was in the same boat of like as nick is clearly he said about
my hatred for nostalgia like it upon first viewing it was almost impossible for me not to be like
so closed off and and so and not receptive to this because why do we need this oh great it's

(02:01:08):
going to be the same jokes over and over again but as i've gone older and time has time in particular
has helped this movie where i'm not so close and i'm not so precious to the first one that i was
able to see this for what it was and there's so much more to this movie than just rehashing jokes

(02:01:30):
but it still does that so therefore i can't give it higher than the first one because that's just
it's just not yeah you just can't do that like you can't give this movie better than the one where a
lot you know there's a plenty of jokes in this one from the first one but man i really connected
and found it very funny a lot of the social commentary in this movie and it would it brought so

(02:01:53):
much more like depth or it brought so much more value to the table for me on upon a rewatch and
it's just obviously fucking hilarious so i'm going to give this an 80 is where i'm at because that's
where i'm at it's a b yeah definitely i like this movie a lot and it just i think this conversation

(02:02:20):
kind of started with uh or like at one point you'd mentioned garden say and that i feel like i had a
kind of a similar sort of experience with that one and i don't know if similar but just a sense of like
revisiting a thing and having it affect you in a different way because you're a different person
the thing hasn't changed but you're different now as as brandon said too it's like the only thing

(02:02:42):
that's changed is time anchor man too has been the same anchor man too it's been since it's existed
but it's just kind of yeah it's your your whole gotten better with age kind of more it
becomes more relevant to you right like it's like why it's better with age you know when you're 22
years old watching the movie versus when you're 32 years old watching the movie i mean it's

(02:03:05):
it's a no-brainer it's gonna affect you differently right but like that's so true i mean like the
first time watching this movie i remember thinking this was like the worst movie i've ever seen
we all kind of have a little map yeah that's a it's a mostly water for sure and watching it again
i was like oh my god like this makes so much more sense now i love it it fair yeah i mean just like

(02:03:29):
even like the the quirkiness of the movie it's just better it's like a fine wine it ages over time
and the fact that they can be so fucking out there with some of the stuff that they didn't i don't
know like you're really trying to prove yourself as a first movie i don't know the second movie is a
little bit of like software status of like fuck you like i don't do what i want do what i want a

(02:03:50):
little bit again guys like there are second sequels of movies that aren't good and don't age well
and in time you just go man the first one really still holds up but the second one doesn't and it's
just big it works over a unique unique situation where this has gotten better yeah not wrong yeah

(02:04:12):
yeah and it i yeah it's it's a weird heirloom of an heirloom of these kinds of movies and
for what for what it's worth like the fact that they're able to yeah capture that rhythm of the
24 hour new cycle and have a reason but then able to do something weird as as dobby i think is a

(02:04:33):
fine sinew for a stupid comedy there's a lot of just stupid moments that are so good i i love when
things are just are so dumb and then there's like a mixture of some of that to that social commentary
as well but this has been a true pledge as one might say you guys came out with a full attire

(02:04:56):
and i cannot appreciate that and that has never happened i'm so glad i'm so glad that worked out
perfectly so this is definitely a legendary episode and a classic in my opinion and and we should do
it again sometime perhaps a wet hot american summer or something of the sort another comedy as
nick has usually joined us for it and now chip as well with uh with kianne it's just i know it's

(02:05:20):
so cool to build our own lore within the podcast we have our we have our guys for for the funny
movies and to have a good time talking maybe a maybe a sima find somebody sima so what i don't
know if it's a polarizer i think everybody loves semi pro so loves what which one in my pro oh semi

(02:05:41):
pro yeah much i don't think it was very polarizing but it's not i never know you know it's not i think
it might just this was polarized in a this movie was polarized in a very different way than i thought
it was everybody thought it was bad yeah no one really cared for it that'll be a bonus i thought it
was i honestly thought the critics were going to be the ones that like tank to this in the audience

(02:06:04):
school that had the higher score but it was the first i did not expect this is certified fresh
critic critically reviewed certified fresh movie kind of weird it's always fun when it happens
they saw it before we did that's all they just understood the movie before those critics are
so smart i wish i was as smart as those date critics i'd like to announce our entry into

(02:06:26):
spooky season with our next movie it will be a rob zombie film a house of a thousand cups is
brain is already dead he's a thousand and one now oh brain is dead oh it's a thousand what
cups is oh no is that what is that cky song is that what it no a thousand one bitter beings or

(02:06:47):
whatever that's a good sign anyways let's let's read the synapsis of a thousand house of a thousand
corpses 96 quite better be 96 yeah why is it right yeah that song would belong in a movie like this

(02:07:08):
for a house of a thousand corpses here's the premise an empty fuel tank and a flat tire lead
two couples down a terror riddled road to a to the house of a thousand corpses house of a thousand
corpses is at its core a story of family a cast of twisted individuals who with each slashing
with throat or stabbed through the chest and body add bodies to their sick human menagerie

(02:07:33):
let the bodies in the floor directly by rob zombie starring sit hey bill mausoleigh sherry moon
zombie karen black chris hardwick points chris oh chris hardwits points uh you won the internet
rain wilson is in this movie uh i've never seen before i will i will be uh checking it out and

(02:08:00):
we'll have a hell of a time for for spooky season a emphasis on hell this has been polarized pod if
you want to watch us live on twitch.tv slash polarized pod do it rate review subscribe uh
anywhere you are listening to this send us a line at polarizethepod at gmail.com uh chip and nick you

(02:08:22):
guys are legends in the podcast you know how does it feel it's great i've always wanted to be i've
always wanted to be a legend on this and i hope guys the legend continues oh what an ending
happy to be here i'm happy to hang out with you guys always happy to hang out

(02:08:48):
i can't be that with you guys the legend i'd go anywhere in the world with you guys including
the middle of the desert you know like i would just do that we should do that sometime yeah that
would be great i would love that just like a really shitty house in the middle of the desert and hang
out watch eighties movies yeah in the middle of the morning that's great well you do that again

(02:09:15):
gentlemen hell yeah all right well we'll see you uh in the sahara in the bright when the sun
rises in the sahara we will be watching robocop see you next time love you all goodbye and good night
bye everybody the legend continues

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