Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

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What happens when the most celebrated news anchor in San Diego faces his greatest challenge yet – sharing the spotlight with a woman? Will Ferrell's legendary comedy about a 1970s news team confronting changing gender dynamics continues to spark laughter and debate nearly two decades after its release.

Our conversation explores the magic behind Anchorman's success – the remarkable ensemble cast and Adam McKay's improvisational directing style. We discuss how the movie's quotability became both its greatest strength and potential weakness, with fans endlessly repeating lines like "I'm in a glass case of emotion!" and "60% of the time, it works every time." Does Anchorman still hold up as a comedy classic, or has familiarity diminished its impact?

This episode celebrates a particular golden age of comedy filmmaking from the early 2000s that gave us classics like Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, and Superbad. Join us for a nostalgic dive into one of Will Ferrell's greatest creations and discover why, despite being quoted to death, Anchorman remains a comedy that can still make us laugh when we revisit it. Stay classy, podcast listeners!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason, we got to talk about something.
What's going on?
People have been beating downmy door.
Wow, the streets are on fire.
The president had to put copsin the streets of Washington DC
because people have been goingcrazy.
That was you.
That was my fault.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
That was because of you.
It's amazing.
What did you do?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
People have been yelling.
They've been emailing me.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I have death threats everywhere I just in emailing me
I have death threat, threatseverywhere.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I just in the sky.
They're writing it in the skyhello.
After I thought, mainly becauseof myself and two other people
in this world, I thought Ishould get rid of the hello.
It turns out it's the reasonpeople get up every morning.
It's me saying hello, so youcan't make everyone happy.
You know, I, I just like we're.
We're not going to just saywelcome.
Apparently, that's for plebs,and all my personality is built

(00:52):
in my hello, amazing.
So I guess you know hello,that's a powerful word Actually.
No, we're going to.
It's going to be like a bighello All right, or as weird as
I think I sound when I edit andsay hello, all right.
And the podcast will start inthree hellos, two hellos, one

(01:14):
hello, hello.
And welcome to the we Recommendpodcast, a movie podcast, where
every week we recommend a moviefor you to watch and then come
back here and listen to usdiscuss.
I'm Jesse and I'm Jason.
They've done studies.
You know, 60% of the time itworks every time, because this
week we recommend Anchorman, theLegend of Ron Burgundy.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, I've been stuck in this glass box for so long.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's actually probably like my favorite part
of the movie, that scene, justhim crying.
Will Ferrell, his little beadyass eyes.
I love him.
Love him with a giant beard.
It's like hair, or I guess hedoesn't.
I love when at the end he hasthe giant beard.
I'm like man, it makes youreyes smaller somehow.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
But so my eyes are pretty.
He has the giant beard.
I'm like man.
It makes your eyes smallersomehow, but so my eyes are
pretty small too.
Maybe I should shave.
Yeah, yeah, you do, you have,I've got protruding brows.
I've got like the Neanderthalbrow.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, you know, you and Will Ferrell kind of have
like similar face roll features.
I can't tell.
If you were a man I would punchyou.
A lot of like the funnieststuff is also at the beginning.
How now, brown cow, I lovescotch Scotch, scotch scotch.
So before we keep justconstantly rambling on about

(02:34):
every quote, no-transcript, thiswas probably considered like
one of the funniest movies ever.
Yeah, and it was justconstantly quoted by everybody
constantly.
It's one of the most quotablemovies you'll ever find, and
there's even one point wherethere was people I'm just like.

(02:56):
I don't even want to hang outwith these people.
They won't shut up aboutAnchorman.
Here's the thing.
I love Anchorman, but it hasbeen quoted to death.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
So do you think this movie still holds up?
Or does this still make youlaugh?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Not as much anymore, I think as much as I hate to
admit, I think we've matured.
That fucking sucks, or?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
maybe it's because it has been beaten to death.
I think well.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I've probably watched this movie.
I mean, we got to be.
It's not even in the teens,it's got to be in the 20s.
I mean people.
It was just always on when Iwas growing up, like this and
Talladega Nights.
I could all the time watching.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
When I was in the army, everybody quoted this
movie constantly.
And when you're stuck in atruck full of guys that only
quote this movie, you start tohate it.
It's science.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, it's people just should have shut up about
it a little bit.
I think we'd still find I mean.
I still find it funny, like I'mwatching it and I'm complete
enjoyment.
It was just I watched it beforeI took notes and then I watched
it when I took notes and Ilaughed a little bit more when I
took notes.
But when I first watched it itwas just me and Natalie were
killing time before we had to gopick up our car and I was just

(04:10):
like I haven't really laughedyet, there's just been.
It was honestly I found laughsin like the small parts between,
like the what used to give mebig laughs, which then makes me
think like absolutely great.
But it's just like I've seen itso much and I've done it so
much and like here's the thingwe're gonna do, this podcast and

(04:30):
even though we're starting offa little negative towards how we
feel about it, now we're gonnastart doing the quotes and we're
just gonna be laughing thisentire podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
It does give you good feelings.
Yeah, it's like I think it's aperfect comedy uh and finding
out more about the movie is isalso good Cause you know, like
the Mexican restaurant they goto yes, it's called we spit, so
good, oh, I think um.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
I mean, will Ferrell was at his peak during this.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
I mean he had old school elf.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Talladega nights anchorman, I mean just those
alone, didf.
Yeah, talladega NightsAnchorman, I mean just those
alone.
Did you read about?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
what the first script of the movie was, what the
movie was about.
Yes, isn't that incredible,yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So we'll go ahead and hop into some of the facts.
So co-writer and director AdamMcKay has said that in the first
draft of the script the storywas about a plane load of news
anchors who crashed in themountains and discovered that
the plane which they collidedwas carrying monkeys and martial
arts equipment, leading to abattle between cannibalistic
newsmen and star-throwingmonkeys.
I'd watch that too.
I would watch it, but thank Godwe didn't get that right.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, I guess so It'd probably been too much yeah,
maybe Like the fight scene justconstantly.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
And it's Because Adam McKay never made a movie kind
of like that.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
His movies were ridiculous, but he did Talladega
Nights, the other guys and thenhe went into more political
comedy and things like that andhe was doing the Funny or Die
website with Will Ferrell.
It helped him create that.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Dude, the little kid landlord.
Yes, she's holding a beer, it'sthe funny it's like are you
drunk right now?
You can't even stand up.
That was some of the funnieststuff growing up.
I miss all those videos Likewhen we were young.
It's like Charlie the Charliethe unicorn or whatever.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, my kids are just discovering Charlie the
unicorn.
What.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Wait, it's a bridge.
I don't even remember what the?
Punchline is it's a bridge.
Did you?
Did you watch the video whereit's like the guy's like on lsd
or something in a closet andit's just like a video of a
lizard and he's just kind ofdoing quotes from that, like the
guy was doing when they wererecording him, like on lsd or
whatever.
Oh wow.

(06:39):
And it's like mr walkway, mrwalk up and down me.
Mr balloon hands, whose chairis that?
Not my chair, not my problem.
I think I may have seen that.
Yeah, it's like Mr Walkway.
Mr Walk up and down me.
Mr Balloon Hands, whose chairis that?
Not my chair, not my problem.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I may have seen that.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, it's me and my wife Love that video.
We caught it any time that wethink about it.
If we see balloons, we're likeMr Balloon Hands.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I used to.
There was a website calledAlbino Black Sheep that I used
to look at all the time and ithad um, the the end of the how
the earth, how the earth ends,or something how the world, how
the world ends and it's likehere's the earth, you know, like
it's just silly shit.
Yeah, I love that like so goodmillennial comedy that we had

(07:20):
for a while there like I miss it.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
um, this movie Anchorman is just loaded with
some of the funniest people, andit's honestly a shame that
there's so many funny people init, because not all the funny
people get to say their funnystuff.
Amy Poehler at one point was inthis movie and they cut her out
completely.
Wow, katherine Hahn, she's theone that gives Veronica
Cornerstone the idea to use theteleprompter.

(07:46):
yeah, she's like one of thefunniest actresses ever, and she
has almost zero lines in thismovie and it I was like, oh fuck
, I always forget like katherinehahn's in this, and then you
just kind of see her in thebackground.
She just like laughs and stuffand makes faces, but then
doesn't really get to doanything it's a shame for a
movie that's about empoweringwomen.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
there's not a lot of women.
That's the joke of it.
Stop it, I'm actually.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'll actually say another little fun fact about it
.
So how they came up with theidea of this movie, let's see.
So the idea for the film cameafter Will Ferrell watched a
lifetime documentary on ananchor woman from the 1970s, so
it was titled Intimate Portraitof Jessica Savage.
The biography followed thejournalist's road to becoming

(08:30):
one of the first women networknews anchors quoted from Will
Ferrell, I think.
Here there were all theseinterviews with anchorman of the
day who were talking about howupset they had been that a woman
had come into the work withthem.
We were laughing, will Ferrellsays.
We were laughing so hard thatthese guys with perfect ties
admitting that they werecompletely freaked out by a
woman coming into the newsoffice.

(08:51):
So it is about her, but it'smainly about how Bears they've
endangered the whole office.
It's just the way he says itbecause he's like crying the
whole time.
I heard that bears can smellthe woman's period.
They can smell the menstruation.
So, steve Carell, I mean I feellike this made him.

(09:13):
Have you ever?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
met a news anchor before.
I've met people that went andbecame news anchors, so I
haven't really met any, but Iremember driving through
Nashville on the way to Memphisand I saw these two at the time
for News Channel 5 in Tennessee.
It was like.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Oh wow, you got to meet one of them.
I didn't meet them.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
They were in the car next to me, in a News Channel 5
car, and their hair wasimmaculate.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
They had makeup done, they were ready for camera and
I looked at them and then bothof them looked at me the the one
of them was driving.
It's like invasion of the body,stashers yeah, they both looked
at me and gave me the liketwinkling smiles and like, like,
watch the road man we're alwaysperfect.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
they like put point like their finger down you and
like wink and like you see alittle like they're smiling, you
got a little twinkle in theirteeth, that's exactly.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
They were perfect.
Everything was in place.
That's wild, it was incredible.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, there has to be , you have to be like there
really is a lot of acting.
I feel like in being an anchorright, I mean, you can't bring
anything into your day thatyou've gone through.
You have to go and you have tobe perfect and pristine.
You have to be on, you have tolive the life of Ron Burgundy.
You can't Like.
I've never seen a news anchor.
They may look a little tired,but I've never seen them act

(10:32):
tired on the news.
It's wild.
They have to completely shutoff everything and just be like.
That's why I guess, have youever read a teleprompter?
No, no, I got two at schoolwhen I was at MTSU, as probably
most people who listen to thispodcast would not be surprised

(10:56):
about the fact that I wasn'tgood at it because I'm bad at
reading.
Like with my notes.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's pretty obvious that I should never have a news
anchor, and I wasn't.
I could have been.
I could have been one of thosethat you see now.
They're just making fun of themfor messing up.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Oh those are the best , especially the weatherman yes,
like anytime, like I'm goingthrough instagram reels.
When I see it I'm like nataliehas to see this, natalie has to
see this.
And then I'll get like Nataliehas to see this, natalie has to
see this, and then I'll get likefive in a row, I'm like she has
to see all these, all right.
So the voiceover narration forthe film's opening title
sequence was provided by BillCurtis, who you've probably

(11:34):
heard before.
He was a longtime televisionnews anchor during the 1970s for
both CBS Early Morning News,diane Sawyer and WBBM News in
Chicago Diane Sawyer and WBBMNews in Chicago so you might
recognize his voice from hishosting various TV documentary
programs, including AmericanJustice, cold Case Files Come on
, you've got to watch Cold CaseFiles Investigative reports and
biography Many more individualprojects.

(11:56):
Curtis also appeared in hisuncredited role in 1997 episode
of Saturday Night Live duringthe tenure of Will Ferrell on
the show.
That's like ha ha, that's howthey met.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
And Will Ferrell graduated with a degree in
journalism.
Yeah, really, that's cool.
I did not know that.
And he played the flute sincehe was in elementary school.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Elementary school, he did not play the flute in the
movie, though.
No, I have an aqua love, so thefirst draft of the screenplay
actually had different actorsplaying some roles, so Champ was
actually supposed to be John CReilly.
Yeah, he turned down the roleto be in the Aviator and John C
Reilly says he regrets thatdecision.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
The Aviator was okay, but nobody talks about it.
Britt.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Tamlin was supposed to be Chris Parnell, who's
actually uh, I can't rememberhis name in this, but he's the
poop mouth guy.
Poop mouth, that's also one ofmy favorite parts.
Brian Fantano was supposed tobe Ben Stiller.
Yes, that would have alsoworked, but I'm glad it's Paul
Rudd.
Yeah, he's kind of I like PaulRudd.
He's kind of maybe my favoritepart, pretty good.
Ed Harkin was supposed to be EdHarris.

(13:02):
I don't know if you rememberhim.
Oh, really, have you ever seenthe Abyss?
Yeah, yeah, he's the main in.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Abyss.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, he's a great actor, garth.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I knew you would have hated this movie.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Garth, who was Actually.
That's who played.
That's who Chris Parnell played.
He played Garth, that's right,that's his name.
Oh yeah, he's supposed to beDan Aykroyd.
Oh shit, no, no.
And then Frank Vichard, who is,uh, uh, luke Luke, uh, you fuck
.
Wilson.
Luke Wilson, one of the best,funniest American actors that we

(13:37):
don't talk about enough.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Supposed to be Alec Baldwin wow, I think those,
those are people.
That are it.
It's a different movie, tooserious.
Yeah, it is a wildly differentmovie.
Much drier humor, I think.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, Especially Aykroyd and Baldwin.
Yeah, Like I mean Ed Harkinplaying.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, baldwin might've been okay, he's pretty
silly.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, and I just I just there's.
There's something about, I mean, ed Harris playing Ed Harkin
would be weird, like FredWillards is too good at
everything he has to be in thismovie.
But yeah, so the film had beenpitched to DreamWorks almost 20
times before.
Following the cess of oldschool and Elf, dreamworks had

(14:20):
little faith in the film,doubting Will Ferrell and Adam
McKay could pull off an entirefilm based on news anchors.
The film grossed $84 milliondomestically and McKay had so
much extra footage she was ableto make a second film out of it.
I'm so glad they made a secondone.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
I wish they just came out with a second film with
just the footage that theydidn't use, so they would do
like they would just spend 20minutes just saying lines.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, it's all improv .

Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's all improv.
It's crazy, it's awesome, it'slike I always feel like it's
improv movies.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sometimes improv is bad, so like I could see how
they would put it in.
Did you ever see Will Ferrellon the Conan O'Brien's late
night show?
I'm pretty sure I have, but hewas talking about putting pee
pee in a shot glass.
He's like some kids asked himfor.
He's like some kids asked me tobuy them beer, but I gave him a

(15:11):
shot of peepee.
It was so weird.
Oh, it was cancel welfare ohcancel.
Oh, I don't think he deservesto be canceled for that.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
I just hey those kids shouldn't, kids shouldn't have
been asking for beer.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
They got what they got.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
I mean, did they drink it?

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I mean, no, I mean it was just the improv, kind of a
joke thing.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh my bad.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's why I was just saying that improv is sometimes
, most of the time, it'sprobably bad.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, I'm sure that because I think they it'd be
like a two minute scene andthey'd spend 20 minutes just
doing like 20 different takes.
Yeah, it's like I think theysaid they did like six takes for
every single line, almost justto add in jokes.
Um, I'm gonna finish out thefacts with probably my favorite
one.
So, during an october 2019 avclub interview with tim robbins,

(16:00):
he mentioned that he agreed totake the small roles in high
fidelity and Anchorman, eventhough he knew he'd be paid very
little for them, because theypromised to make him a custom
wig for each of the roles, both,which he got to keep after
filming ended.
Robbins said that he still ownsboth wigs as of 2019.
He often uses them forHalloween costumes.

(16:20):
How are you just like?
I got so much free time that Ijust need some wigs, so I'm
gonna do these small movies.
If I had wigs, I'd wear them.
That's true.
I have a garth wig from wayne'sworld, it's terrible, it's
great, it looks terrible I looktoo pretty.
He looks terrible with it.
It wasn't even actually.

(16:43):
I don't even think it's theactual Garth wig.
I think I just had to find awig or something like that.
But yeah, man, I think we shouldjust hop right into the plot of
the movie.
But first we're going to askthe audience what's the point of
this movie.
I think it's just the laugh,but let's find out at the end.
All right, let's hop in toAnchorman baby.

(17:10):
So in the mid 1970s, ronBurgundy, played by Will Ferrell
, is the is the famous andsexual sexual successful
anchorman from San Diego, kvwnTV, channel 4, evening News.
And then we just get like thiswhole big, like kind of montage
of him before the cameras roll.
Hey, everyone, come see howgood I look.
And I think one of my favoriteones is when he's just kind of

(17:32):
talking.
He's like are we about ready?
And they're like ron, you're on.
It's like we're on, I don'tbelieve you.
Oh, it's so funny.
These are.
I got a lot of like my laughsfrom just this beginning part um
.
And then of course, the funnyone.
It's like, it's like man, Ilook terrible.
He's like talking to the girl.
It's like if you were a man I'dpunch you right in the mouth.

(17:54):
So terrible.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
It reminds me a lot of the anchorman from the
simpsons uh, because he wasalways doing oh, yeah, he was
like where's my cheese?
Danish, and he'd get all pissedoff about it.
And then, as soon as thecameras would start rolling,
he'd be good to go.
It's like the kind of the.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
I mean they probably got a lot of their, some of
their jokes from the Simpsons.
I mean they all, I'm assuming,grew up watching the Simpsons.
The Simpsons predictedeverything, they predicted
everything.
So we so we see, worksalongside his friends on the
news team, fashion oriented leadfield reporter Brian Fantana
perfect name sportscasterchampion, champ kind whammy, and

(18:35):
a legally mentally challengedchief meteorologist, brick
Tamlin.
Ron does the show and everyonearound the team really loves it.
Ron signs off with stay classy,san Diego.
The team is notified by theirboss, ed Harkin, that their
station has maintained thelong-held status of the highest
rated news program in San Diego,leading to them to throw a wild

(18:58):
party.
That's great.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
It's like what was the waiting?
Was that the show about thewaiters?
Would they have a party everySaturday?
I feel like that's these guys.
I would like the movie.
Are you thinking?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
what was it After party?
Are you talking about the onewith the movie where it's got
Ron Reynolds in it, I think?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Like where they just work in like almost like an
Applebee's yes, yes, yes, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
where they do it and they'reputting their balls on
everything.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, and then like they spit in that one lady's
food Gross.
I can't watch that.
Maybe that's the restaurantthey went to yeah, but yeah, and
then like, please have yourattention.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I've been handed an urgent and horrifying news story
.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I need all of you to stop what you're doing and
listen.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Cannonball so good.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
I want to work somewhere like that.
I just want to be able to holdeverybody's attention like that
and everybody love every stupidthing I do.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well, they're all also wasted.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
That is true.
I feel like I'm not too farfrom that.
From my close friends, you know, I feel like I can make them
laugh at almost anything, but Ijust want to be able to stand up
at work and be like, hey guys,look at me.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
I never wanted to be that person.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
I hate attention.
Actually, that sounds miserable.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Everyone would talk to me and I'd be like stop
talking to me.
You'd sleep slowly into thepool so you don't splash anyone.
It's like no one see me.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's just like go around just around the pool.
So we get little snip bits fromBrian, champ and Brick.
That's where we kind of getlike the classic Adam McKay
thing that he does in all hislater movies, where they talk
directly to the camera.
It's great we learn.
Brian is the stylish kind ofladies' man of the group.

(20:47):
His penis is named the Octagon,his testes is James Westall and
Dr Kenneth Noisewater.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Why the?

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Octagon?
I don't know, because you'vegot to step into the Octagon
here with him, I'm assuming Dothey even have Octagon fighting
back in the day.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I don't think so.
I don't know.
Is it like MMA a thing backthen?
Is that shape even invented yet?

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I don't think, well, I mean, I guess stop sign.
Then we see Champ.
Champ is all about having fun.
He wants to go see the worldand take his pants off.
And he wants to go see theworld and take his pants off and
he's got a catchphrase Whammy.
That's annoying.
He's great, so annoying thatactor.
He is David Koestner.

(21:31):
He's in like the Office andeverything like that, but when
he comes in he's very much thesame every time.
But he's so good at it and it'sgreat.
And then we get to see SteveCarell as Brick Tamlin.
He's a very nice guy, seemslike.
He's the best person out of allof them, except he's just
mentally challenged, just sodumb.

(21:52):
Dumb and handsome.
Especially, he's just puttingmayo in a toaster.
So stupid.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I used mayo once to make grilled cheeses.
Everyone hated it.
I just picked the first recipeI found online.
Don't do that, I would alsohate you for that.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
It tasted pretty good .
I hate mayo.
My heart loved it.
Your heart loved it.
Your family did not.
So what it is about SteveCarell that when I see his face
I love him?
Maybe because he kind of lookslike a child and like now that
he's like grown up and you knowit's kind of grayish, I'm like I
mean you don't have it anymorehe's still hilarious, I mean, in

(22:35):
the office.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
He's just always the nicest person, just kind of dumb
, always dumb and nice.
He's kind of mean too.
Yeah, he can be on accident.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, well, the show is so good at like making him an
asshole constantly, kind of,but then you feel bad for him
anytime he gets himself in areally dumb situation.
Yeah, and I think it worksbecause he's really dumb but
he's also good at his job andit's very like how, how, I guess

(23:05):
, when you're having so much funat your office or you're trying
to ignore your boss as much aspossible, you actually work.
I don't know, maybe I don'tknow what the point of the
office is.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
That'll be our next episode.
That's not what we're talkingabout.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
So then Ron sees an attractive blonde woman and
immediately tries to hit on her.
After an awkward failed pickupattempt, the woman leaves.
You have an absolutelybreathtaking hiney.
Christina Applegate yeah, she'sso pretty.
She's great in this.
I don't know how to put this,but I'm kind of a big deal.
That was a big one in highschool.

(23:37):
People love that one.
I have many leather-bound booksand my apartment smells of rich
mahogany.
Hell yeah man, I wish mine did.
All right, let's restart.
I'm just going to put thisbluntly.
I want to be on you.
This is a podcast where Jessereads quotes no no, it's a how.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
I mean.
How would you?

Speaker 1 (24:00):
feel If a man used all those lines on, say, if I
used all these, I would belaughing.
I'd be like you know what?
I'll give you a shot.
If you're gonna be this funny,I'll give you a shot.
You're right, I'd give me.
But then it'd be like do youhave any other like
personalities, like are you?
No, are you normal human beingin any other way?
No, but then, seeing how muchhe loves his dog, I'll be like

(24:22):
aw.
Because Ron goes home and hisdog, baxter, tells him he is
lonely.
He's like you're so lonely, ron, and then he starts barking
again.
He's like you know, I don'tspeak Spanish.
And then Baxter tells Ron hepooped in the fridge and he ate
all the food.
And then he tells him let's goto bed.
And they put on matching PJs.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
I love it.
I love it so much.
I love watching those dogs thatwill not go to bed unless they
have their PJs on.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, you seen many of those.
Is that how your dog is On theinternet?
Your dog's a very like, lookslike a very drama's the thing.
You're just supposed to notsuccumb to their, their whines,
and you just be like you don'tget what you want.
No, but you have to.

(25:09):
Yeah, well, I've learned.
I'm not the biggest dog shetransforms me into a thirst trap
.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
That's why I don't bring her around.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh gotcha, it's like girls are just like oh my God,
that big man's holding a tinydog.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, it's more like oh dog and I'm like, hey, me too
.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
I'm here.
I'm also here.
Hey eyes are up here.
Hashtag me too, y'all.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Oh no.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Jason.
Jason is more than just his dog.
Found me too.
All right, so the next day, edinforms the team that he has
been forced by the network tohire Veronica Corningstone, a
female news reporter fromAsheville, north Carolina, and
the same woman Ron had tried topick up the night before.
How embarrassing.
We also learned that there's apanda that's going to give birth
over the summer.

(26:03):
I love that they're just like.
This is horseshit.
Anchorman, it's Anchorman.
Yeah, the team yell about it.
It's science.
To Ed, it's Anchorman, not lady.
I don't know what we're yellingabout.
Loud noises.
I read somewhere that theperiods attract bears.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
American smells of menstruation.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
And then you got Chip just being like I tell you what
about her?
She's got a nice full moon backthere and then she walks in.
That is what he is so good at,Such an asshole.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Over the top massages he's so good at that.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
So the team goes for some ice cream, but run into
Channel 9 news, the evening news.
They are number two in theranking.
They are mad that Channel 4 isalways on top and they're on
their turf, apparently.
News anchors story yeah, um,and I love the line from champ I

(27:11):
will smash your face into a carwindshield and then take your
mother, dorothy mantooth out fora nice seafood dinner and never
call her again dorothy mantoothis a saint.
Vince Vaughn.
Ladies and gentlemen, he'swearing one of the greatest
comedic actors.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
He's the one wearing the yellow jacket.
Yeah, he's like the main.
That's from West side story.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, oh, but seriously, and like Ron's like
hey, let's leave the mothers outof this.
And I love like everybody on uh, ron, I love everybody on Ron's
team has a witty thing.
It's like even Brick.
Oh yeah, did you get your soupfrom the toilet store?

Speaker 2 (27:52):
And then, after they all leave, and they win the
battle, the battle.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Oh, holy shit the battle Dorothy or Wes Mantooth
is like with his crew around,y'all couldn't say anything, not
one thing.
Even the guy that can barelytalk said something.
There's just something aboutVince Vaughn where, because of
how he talks, it's so funny tome.
Even if it's not a funny movie,I'm like Vince Vaughn is the
funniest man on the planet yeah,like wedding singer whenever

(28:15):
he's got the painting that theboy made him.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
yeah, it's like it's mine and I'm keeping it yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
He's just.
I've just always loved him,even like always.
So we see Veronica is upsetbecause her first story is about
a cat fashion show.
I'll go to that the new, andthis is where we also oh no, we
haven't got to where we see SethRogen yet.
So the news team attempts toseduce Veronica, even though Ron
doesn't want them to.
They use various inept,arrogant and sexist methods, all
of which backfire.

(28:47):
Brian decides to break out hisrarest clone, Sex Panther.
I love the chamber like thesecret chamber he keeps in.
They've done studies.
You know 60% of the time itworks every time, every time.
Ron, I don percent of the timeit works every time, ron.
I don't think that makes anysense.
Um, and then everyone's soangry, champ, like punches.

(29:07):
She punches him in the ballsand then whenever, yeah, brian,
he tries to do it, everyone juststarts throwing up.
You get a cameo from juddapatow's like that smells like
shit, it's smells like Bigfoot'sdick.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
It smells like a turd wrapped in or a dirty diaper
wrapped in bird hair orsomething.
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, everybody runs away.
Brick tries to invite her to apants party.
Yeah, she's like are you tryingto invite me to a party in your
pants?
He's like yeah, she's like will.
She's like will you go?
It's like no, Then he invitesthe guy there.
Then he runs off and trips onsomething.
So good, you see, it's wild.
Because I wasn't doing thenotes, I wasn't really laughing

(29:49):
at any of this, but here.
I'm like this is the funniestshit ever.
It's the perfect movie to talkabout.
It's wild.
So Ron ends up asking her out.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
It's an epidemic.
Yeah, ron ends up asking herout.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
It's an epidemic.
Yeah, Ron ends up asking herout under the guise of helping
out a new co-worker after hisworkout bit didn't work, which
she accepts even though he has amassive erection.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Don't act like you're not impressed 100, 1001, 1002,
1003.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Mr Burgundy, helen said that you needed to see me.
Oh, miss Corningstone, I wasn'texpecting company Just doing my
workout tuesdays, arms and back.
Well, you asked me to come by,sir.
Oh, did I?
Yes, oh, it's a deep burn.
Oh, it's so deep I can barelyfit my arm right because I did
so many.
Did you hear?
I was counting?
I was at a thousand, do you?

(30:34):
Do you think?

Speaker 2 (30:35):
these pickup lines would ever work in real life,
like if you find the rightperson.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Probably, I think the first person that did it.
It worked, yeah, and then theysaid it, and then, and then it
just spread across the world.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
And then women, like all girlfriends and wives, saw
the movie and they hated it.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, they're like that's how I got trapped in this
relationship.
I thought he actually did athousand no, no, they'd never
believe that no, but then thelike or it just like.
Actually, someone was justworking out and they were at
1,000 and the girl's just like Iwant him to curl me.
That's how I got Natalie.
She was like curl me, jesse,and I was like okay, and then I

(31:13):
dropped her and we laughed andit was fine, just kidding, your
muscles are all roped.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah.
Like my tiny arms can't do it,you got the little weights yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
I used to be strong.
Oh, me too, not anymore, Idon't know.
We were all there once I sitand I work in a factory where I
don't lift anything anymore.
Yeah, we do walk a lot, though.
Blah, blah, blah.
So Brian is at the zoo with thepanda King.
Yeah, he just doesn't know thename, so he says the racist
thing.
I'm with that.

(31:45):
The panda enclosure with aching king so stupid we learn.
Ron will read anything off theteleprompter as well, because
it's like stay classy.
San Diego, San Diego.
I'm Ron Burgundy and he kind ofmakes his classic George Bush
impersonation face.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I don't know if you remember he is the best George
Bush impersonation.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Strategery, strategery he was.
He's honestly out of all.
Well, I don't know the new guyon SNL.
I can't remember his name, buthe's so good at Donald Trump.
Finally, when they got AlecBaldwin out of there, who did a
terrible Trump impersonation.
They brought someone thatactually is a cast member on the
show and it's nice to see themactually use them when they have

(32:30):
good impressions and he haslike the perfect Trump Nice,
which is probably the bestpresident impersonation they
have ever had on SNL.
Will Ferrell's is really goodand there was a I can't remember
the guy that used to do GeorgeBush.
He died, mark.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Hamill the Hammond.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, it's like something Hammond.
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, and, if you know, leaveus some fan mail.
So, during their date, rontakes her to see the city
skylines and woos Veronica byplaying jazz flute in his
friend's Tino's, played by FredArmisen Club.
Ron Burgundy, discovered by theGermans in 1904, they named it
San Diego, which of course inGerman means a whale's vagina.

(33:11):
Veronica, there's no way that'scorrect, ron Burgundy.
I'm sorry, I was just trying toimpress you.
I don't know what it means.
I'll be honest, I don't thinkanyone knows what it means
anymore.
Scholars maintain think anyoneknows what it means anymore.
Scholars maintain thetranslation as was lost hundreds
of years ago.
Veronica, I think it means sandiego, which san diego is
actually um saint james inspanish.

(33:33):
Diego was james.
I looked it up while watchingthe movie.
That is wild, unless google aiwas wrong no, ai can never be
wrong.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
It very well could be .
Thank you, lord AI yeah, forall your help.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
But yeah, that line alone was in my life forever.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
I love how he's always flute ready to go.
Yeah, it's just, I can't, Ishouldn't, and he just pulled it
out of its sleep.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
And the flute after you watch it.
Once it becomes the perfect peebreak, Though actually, when I
watched it this time, I was likethis is actually very funny.
That's what made Victoria fallin love yeah that was it.
It was true love ever sincethen.
And then Veronica goes againsther policy of not dating
coworkers and sleeps with Ron asthey go to Pleasure Town.

(34:19):
Do me on that rainbow.
Oh, wonderful Look at thatrainbow, do me on it.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
She's so funny we should probably not talk about
this.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, it's like.
It's like oh, ron Burgundy, youwere amazing, he comes out.
You see his coffee mug first.
You also were.
It's like don't, let's not talkabout this to anyone.
Well, when in Rome, it's likethat's not how you use it,
because she said it earlier andhe didn't know what it meant.
So the next day, despiteagreeing with Veronica to keep

(34:51):
their relationship discreet, rontells the entire newsroom that
he and Veronica are in a sexualrelationship.
I had sex with Veronica'sMorning Stone.
Did I say that out loud.
Yeah, you yelled it.
And later he announces on air.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
We are currently dating and she is quite a
handful in the bedroom.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
This is mortifying.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Uh-oh, I might be in trouble for that way.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Brick.
Brian and Champ ask what doesbeing in love feel like?
Tell us, bro.
So he sings Afternoon Delight.
But also this is they're kindof saying what they love.
And then he gets the brick Ilove the carpet, I love lamp.
He's like do you actually lovethe lamp or are you just seeing
a lamp?
And then he kind of starts tocry I love lamp.

(35:34):
It's the funniest thing.
Steve Carell is so funny.
It's the funniest thing.
Steve Carell is so funny.
Yes, like him.
Just deciding to add the littlecry is so good.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I love Lamp.
He doesn't know when he shouldbe emotional.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
It's just, oh man, thank God Steve Carell became a
thing.
I could watch anything with him.
So Ron smooths everything overwith Veronica by apologizing and
saying that he loves her.
His new team wants him to cometo a pancake breakfast, but he
is saying he has to jog withVeronica, which apparently
jogging is you just kind ofstart running and then you just

(36:14):
don't stop Yogging, or jogging?

Speaker 2 (36:17):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Champ has a breakdown because he misses him.
He misses him, his laugh, hisscent, and he wants to get an
apartment with him.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Brian, how about you stop talking for a?

Speaker 1 (36:29):
while I feel like that should be something we're
allowed to just say to peoplewhen they're talking too much.
It's like how about you juststop talking for a while and not
be taken as an offense?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Just be like stop talking, let me help you out for
a second.
Yeah, shut up.
Pull you out of this hole,you've dug yourself into this
tailspin, you've started to gointo.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
I feel like my wife wants to say that to me a lot.
I wish more people would saythat to me, yeah.
Or sometimes like I'll just beconstantly going on with a bit.
And now he's like you're stilldoing this.
It's like, yeah, I can't stopuntil you stop me.
It's like it's not going tostop being funny to me until
someone tells me it's no longerfunny.
So the next day, when Ron is onhis way to the station, he

(37:12):
throws a burrito out of his carwindow, accidentally hitting
Jack Black in the head, causinghim to crash in a fit of rage.
The biker retaliates by punting.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Ron's dogs Baxter off a bridge.
Surely a biker wouldn't do thatyou don't get out.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
You just keep driving as fast as you can, because
that biker might kill you.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
But he's Ron Burgundy .

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Everyone loves him.
That is true.
Everybody loves him, except forthis guy.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
He must not have been from San Diego.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
No, he little role.
Great Love him kicking the dog.
I love in the bloopers at theend where he tries to kick it
and it doesn't go.
It doesn't go off the bridge.
It's so good, boy, this burritois so good.
Too bad it's feeling funny.
There was a Hogan movie.

(38:01):
Let me look it up real quickand there haven't been many.
Hogan movie where in thebackground someone throws a dog.
Yeah, yeah.
So in the movie, mr Nanny asHulk.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Hogan rides along the beach.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Just before he wipes his mustache, a man in the
background throws a dog into thewater.
It's not supposed to be in themovie there's just you have to
look that up.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
He's just assassinating a dog.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, holy fuck so but he just, and the Hulk didn't
save it and like nobody knew itwas happening, happening in the
background.
I don't think they even knew itwhen they were editing it.
It's just in the background.
You see a guy pick up a dog andthrow it in the water.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Oh, maybe it was just swimming.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Maybe that was like a cut off of a point break.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
But throwing sandwiches has become a national
crime.
Now has it A federal crime?
Ah, that's right, becausesomeone threw a sandwich at an
ICE agent and then ran away.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
I just hope that guy, I hope he got his counseling
and that he's okay now.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
The guy who got hit by the sandwich.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah, I know how Do you think he went back and ate
the sandwich?
It was still wrapped up.
If someone threw a sandwich atme, my mouth would, my jaw would
like dislocate, so I could justThanks.
It's my favorite food Tuna,fish and meatballs.
Oh, never mind, don't give methat sandwich.
With French dressing.
So a distressed and introvertRon calls Brian from a payphone

(39:33):
and tells him what happened.
He's soft.
Oh man Kicked my dog off mybridge.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
I'll tell you what this foot and it kicked him.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Will Ferrell's so good at scream crying.
It's like the funniest part ofthe entire movie.
I'm in a glass case of emotion.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Brian's like I didn't understand that last part, when
he's just screaming.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Seriously.
Will Ferrell's face is so funnywhen he does that.
But since Ron is now late,brian frantically tells him to
come to the station beforeVeronica is about to take his
place.
Veronica, I'm good at threethings Fighting, screwing and
reading the news.
I've already done one today.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
It's like which one are you going to do Screwing?
He like slaps Ed and thenpushes Garth and it's like he
didn't even say anything.
It's so good.
She's badass.
Yeah, Christina Abagate crushesman, Despite Ron's efforts to
arrive on time.
Veronica goes on air andcrushes it, even though Brian

(40:40):
and Champ are trying to distracther.
Brian just pulls off his pantsand wiggling in his tighty
whities he just got Champ justdoing I don't know, squeezing
motions.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Does he have the oranges?

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, yeah, oh, so good.
And after Ron arrives, he hasan argument with Veronica about
the situation and they break up.
Why can't you be proud of me asa peer and a gentleman lover?

Speaker 2 (41:05):
He shows up at seven for the six o'clock news.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
He's like I'm ready, I'm ready, let's go.
Why are we all standing around?
It looks like shit, yeah.
So the next day Veronica ismade co-anchor, much to the
entire Noom team's disgust.
The co-anchors soon becomefierce rivals and argue with
each other over both on and offthe air.
They're finding they'refighting Well.

(41:27):
So we see the opening and youknow they're doing their classic
like walk for the news intro.
And as Veronica is walking likeRon kind of pushes her a little
bit and they do that thing.
Where they're looking down,they're all going to look up at
the camera.
And every time Veronica does itthey try to distract her and
they're not looking.
And then, as soon as she's notlooking, they all look so good,

(41:49):
um.
And then like after they go offthe air um well, they fight over
the send-off at first, whereit's like stay classy, san diego
, and I can't even remember whatshe says.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Thanks for stopping by, they're stopping by and they
keep going back and forth yeah,and then it.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Then it goes off.
You have a dirty horse mouth.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Jazz flute is for little fairy.
While the credits are rolling,they can't hear them.
Yeah, oh man.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Then Rob and Champ keep trying to prank call her,
but they are bad at it.
And then Ron has the announcerreader name as Tits McGee, ron
Burgundy at Tits McGee.
It's like Tits McGee, ronBurgundy at Tits McGee.
It's like Tits McGee was sicktoday.
So I'm Vanessa VeronicaCorningstone and Ron's I'm Tits
I'm.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Ron.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Burgundy, oh God.
And then I love the prank crawl.
It's like this is your doctor,you're pregnant.
And then the one where it'slike, hey, yeah, we want you to
do the national news.
So, yeah, there's a van outside.
It's like they're gonna haveher kidnapped the whole time.

(42:53):
She's like looking at them andthey're like see them through
the window.
And they're like, oh, she'seasiest.
And they start laughing likethey didn't see it.
Childish, it's a perfect.
There's nothing funnier thangrown men acting childish.
That's what Alien Earth isdoing.
Actually, it's great.
So one day, while feeling downon themselves, the new team
decides to buy new suits.

(43:14):
However, on the way to the suitshop, brick, who was leading
the way, gets them lost in ashady part of town.
They're like didn't you know ashortcut?
He's like I don't know, I don'tknow where we're going.
So they are then confronted byWes Mantooth and the evening

(43:34):
news team.
Tired of their rudeness andpetty anger, ron challenges them
to a fight.
I love when Wes Mantooth kindof starts getting a few good
punchlines on them.
You see Brick over there,laughing alongside the wrong
team.
They're like Brick, get overhere All armed with crude
weapons.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Brick has a hand grenade, Just yelling holding
out.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
The two teams are about to fight.
When they are joined by Channel2 News team with lead anchor
Frank Vichard, you're about tobe in dead place.
The public news team and theirlead anchor, played by Tim
Robbins no commercials, no mercy.
And Spanish language news withlead anchor Artro Mendez, the

(44:18):
sewers will run red withburgundy's blood.
So good.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
The battle is one of the best scenes.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, because they have like a full-on melee.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Brick killed a guy.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Yeah, Brick kills someone with a trident.
There's like horses, peoplethrow nets on them.
Frank Vitcher gets his arm cutoff.
He's like oh, come on, it's sogreat.
People are getting pulled byhorses.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Oh my god and then they run away because the cops.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
The cops are like el policio dude.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
The first time you watch that, it's the funniest
thing it's kind of like seeingMonty Python for the first time
as a kid, you know.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I think that's what's so good actually about this
movie is how nostalgic nostalgicit is.
When I'm watching it.
I literally remember the firsttime me and Richard watched it
together.
We're together and we're justlaughing so much on his couch.
It brings joy to me Even if I'mnot laughing while watching it.
It's a warm blanket.
It's a warm blanket movie whenthey return to the studio to

(45:24):
discuss how.
You know that escalated quickly.
Ron's like Brick, brick's likeI killed a guy.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
You're probably wanted for murder.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Yeah, I was like you should probably lay low for a
while.
And then Ron says it's time toput an end to Veronica being a
co-anchor.
Ron gets into another heatedargument with Veronicaonica
because ron is watching hislocal emmy speech.
They then get into a physicalfight after she insults his hair
, increasing tensions even more.
They're like he says somethingabout.
It's like yeah, girls shouldn'teven be on news anchor, it's

(45:55):
science.
Uh, why don't you go back toyour home on whore island?
Okay, let's go.
Then when he says the hair, hegets so mad, throws her over a
table.
She throws a typewriter at hishead and then pepper sprays him.
Then he goes to pepper sprayher, but it's the wrong way.
Always funny, and then Knightsof Columbus.

(46:17):
That hurts.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Who was the character that would always it was Ace
Ventura.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
He who was the character that would always?
It was Ace Ventura.
He always had the binaca thathad to spray in his mouth, but
it always goes sideways, Alwaysgoing the wrong way.
Yeah, Classic bit, Always good.
Then Ed Harkin comes and breaksit up and, while in a
restaurant celebratingVeronica's success, one of
Veronica's co-workers, CatherineHahn, tells her that Ron will
read anything that is written ona teleprompter.
It's a big secret, yeah.
Later, Veronica sneaks into thestation and changes the words

(46:46):
in Ron's teleprompter the nextday.
Instead of Ron saying hissignature you stay classy, San
Diego.
Ron ends the broadcast sayinggo fuck yourself, San Diego.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
And then he's like, oh, it's a good one, everyone is
so speechless.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
There's like an angry mob gathers outside immediately
like ed's.
Like it's like, ron, you'refired.
He's like ha ha, ha, funny.
It's like no, seriously, you'refired.
It's like did you not even knowwhat you said?
And then you play and it's likeoh, thor's right or odin's,
raven um.
And then garth comes in superhurt and sobbing.
You were my hero, ron.
Why'd you have to say that?
You come out, stink like that,you poop, you poop mouth with

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your poop off your mouth.
Ron Garth, if I would give yousome money out of my wallet,
would that erase the pain now.
When I first watched it, thatwas my favorite bit the poop
mouth, the poop mouth, shit.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Chris Farnell is so Farnell is so funny, he's so
good, he's so good, he's reallygood in Brooklyn Nine what is it
called?
No, that's not that's not ChrisFarnell, he's.
Oh wait, no he's.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
It's a.
It's a different guy.
I can't it's like I can'tremember his name.
I fucking love that show and Ican't remember his name Chris
Farnell.
He's in Hot Rod.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like the radio guy.
Yeah, he's just like once onlydo.
God, those guys look so muchalike.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Yeah.
So Veronica sees that she hasgone too far and attempts to
apologize, but Ron angrilydismisses her while being led
through a mob by securityyelling at that she had reduced
him to rubble.
Ron is unemployed, friendless,hated by the city and is a drunk
.
In this time Veronica hasbecome very famous, but is hated

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by her male co-workers.
By sabotaging Ron, ed toldChamp, brick and Brian not to
talk to Ron or he will fire them.
If they do.
It's like so sad, or Champ is.
And then it cuts to.
Three months later, when it'sannounced that Ling Wong, the
panda, is about to give birth,all San Diego news teams head to
the zoo to cover it.

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In an attempt to sabotage her,the public news anchor pushes
Veronica into Kodiak.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Bear enclosure when Ed cannot find Veronica.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
He calls the bar where Ron spends most of his
time and the bartender is DannyTrejo, and reluctantly asks him
to return.
And I love that at the bar, um,like danny trejo's, like you
gotta stop crying so much, orwhatever.
Then, like ron says his wholespeech and then danny trejo
gives him great advice.
He's like I can't understand aword you're saying sorry, don't

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speak that language Classic Ronthen runs into the bathroom.
He's like I'll be there,Completely comes out in a second
Perfect Poses conch.
It's like to assemble a team.
The camera just pans over.
It's like what We've been herethe whole time you've been here.

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This is embarrassing.
And then we see Baxter come outof the water.
It's like I'm coming, ron, withthe Aquaman, yeah.
And then so Ron runs to the zoo.
Ron jumps into the bear pen tosave Veronica Instead of telling
a zookeeper, yeah, right, andhe's like he jumps down.
I regret this immediately, witheveryone else at the zoo

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watching.
He immediately regrets hisactions.
The Channel 4 News team thenjumps in to help Ron.
Brick rides the bears and oneof the bears takes Frank's other
arm.
He's like this is gettinggoddamn ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
So good and just as the leader of bears is about to
rip Ron and Veronica apart.
The leader of bears, the bearking.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Baxter shows up and convinces the bear to let them
live by mentioning that he's afriend of the bear's cousin
Katoa Joe, whom he met in thewild.
Ron is happy and gets weirdwith Baxter.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
So it's like Baxter's been swimming for three months.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Yep, he's just been out there.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Living in the wild befriending the animal kingdom.
So good.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Like where is his story?
I know I wonder how many likeedited scenes like they cut out
of Baxter just friending thisbear.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
I hope all of them Getting lots of strange.
I hope there's a whole extramovie about it.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Yeah, and then, like Veronica and Ron are like kind
of making up up, oh, we loveeach other.
And then he gets back, so he'slike I love you so much, I'm
gonna lick you, I'm gonna lickyou.
Veronica's like this is thismight be an actual issue and
she's like it's like I knowthere's a million men out there
I should be with instead of you,but I'm 72%.
Sure that I should be with you.

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That's a good percentage.
That's a D, yeah, yeah.
And so, um, that's d, yeah, uh.
What?
Um, yeah.
So ron.
He's climbing out of the bearenclosure.
Then west man tooth comes andgrabs the lighter.
He says you know what?
I've hated you all my life, butI respect you.
And kisses him on the forehead.
And then he reveals like today,redemption is spelled R-O-N.

(51:43):
Then Ron is allowed to do thenew story on the panda, but he
lets Veronica Corningstone joinhim.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
He's learned something Aw.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Then, after Ron and Veronica reconcile, it is shown
that in the years to come, brianhas become the host of a Fox
reality show named IntercourseIsland.
I mean, we have Love Island,it's practically all anything is
.
Who wants to watch?

Speaker 2 (52:07):
young people have sex constantly.
I can't watch.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
I can't watch that stuff brick is george w bush top
political advisor, and don'tworry if you're wondering if
adam mckay will make plenty ofthings about the bush era.
Uh, make plenty of movies aboutit, he will.
Most of his movies are about it.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
That's incredible I love adam m movies are about it.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
That's incredible.
I love Adam McKay.
Champ is a commenter for theNFL before he was fired for
sexually harassing TerryBradshaw, and Ron and Veronica
are co-anchors for somethingthat seems like it's world
center news.
World news center.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
It's like CNN essentially Is that what the
second movie is about?
Honestly, I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
That movie is so forgettable it's wild.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Yeah, I think they're in New York together.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Yeah, and yeah, world News or something they're
taking over after the narratorof the movie retires and is
shown to be sometime later asRon and Veronica show wearing
80s fashion.
Hell yeah, that is Anchorman.
What was the point of Anchorman?

(53:07):
That diversity and Equity andinclusion Inclusion is all a
good thing and it's really notthat big of a deal and we should
all let it happen.
Nah, I think that's what it'sabout.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
That's what it should be about.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Seems like probably what Adam McKay is like.
Well, I mean, I don't know,they just saw something funny on
TV and they're like let's justdo a movie about it.
And no, I think it's.
I think the point of the movieis that there's just funny
people in the world.
I don't know, it's just a funnymovie.
That's the point.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Make you laugh, make you get a dog, save you from
bears, yeah that's the point.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Bears and dogs will always be best friends.
Yes, don't try that, but dogsare good at scaring bears away.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
I've seen plenty of videos of that, isn't that?

Speaker 1 (53:51):
insane.
Well, it's because it's justsomething they don't see.
They're like oh shit, what isthis tiny thing?
Is this thing dangerousactually?

Speaker 2 (53:57):
I feel like if my tiny little dog went after a
bear, she would just.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
I've seen videos of like chihuahuas, like scaring
off bears that's incredible.
It's just because they're loudand they're quick and they're
like whoa, why is this thing allof a sudden coming after me?
But usually it's the bears thatare just kind of just like
lumbering around not reallylooking for a fight and they're
like I bears is like.
I don't want to mess with theselittle things, right snakes.

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They bite bears all the time.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
They kill them yeah, it's got fish heads to eat
snakes.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
They're killing all the bears.
No, we're sending ice after thesnakes they're eating the cats.
They're eating the dogs.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Man, we're terrible at Trump oh yeah, we're the
worst Trump impersonators everwell, now that we've halted this
podcast, let's continue to ournext category, let's take our
foot off the brake.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
It's the good, the bad, the ugly fine.
It's where we discuss the goodof the movie, the bad of the
movie, the ugly, which issomething that didn't age well.
The fine, something that didage well.
The good Will Ferrell andCrewman yeah, I think so.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I think Will Ferrell is my good.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Pharrell, rudd and Farrell just I mean they're like
the three funniest people onthe planet the trifecta, I mean
they all.
Like no one dislikes Paul Rudd.
I mean he's been in our liveslike since I was born, yeah, and
he's always been funny andluckily he got even more popular
slowly as I was getting olderand his wild it's like.

(55:19):
I feel like he got superpopular in his 40s.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
And it's like I feel like he got super popular in his
40s and it's like I don't thinkhe's ever aged since the bad my
put the bad is not enough.
Katherine Hahn, that is.
She is wasted talent.
She is one of the funniestpeople ever.
Not enough women in general.
I think maybe there's like twoor three.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Yeah, it's kind of the point of the movie.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
They're always like the smartest people around yeah,
the movie.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
I think that's like really what the movie is going
for.
I could see maybe they probablyhad to cut the movie down a
little bit and like maybe cutsome of that out, which of
course they would.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
But well, the last thing you want is to see an
intelligent woman, yeah, on thescreen.
Because I mean ultimately, eventhough it says like the legend,
of Ron Burgundy than all men.
It's not really about how hechanged to become a better
person.
It's more about she changed himyeah because he really is still

(56:08):
kind of the same person.
He just is in love, yeah um.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
So for the ugly I put it's almost too quotable,
that's definitely a dub.
The downfall because, because,like, the quotes are so funny,
it is kind of the reason thatafter you watch it a thousand
times like I have it's likethese are the lines of the movie
.
I know them very well,everybody knows them.
It's still like a masterpieceof a comedy.

(56:34):
Like, don't get me wrong, butif I'm finding something that
was the ugly, it was just likethere's this one guy in high
school just would not stopfucking quoting this movie.
Everybody knew him as the guythat would not stop quoting.
Yeah, anchorman, I think it's adisease.
Yeah, it's like I wasn't evenfriends with this guy, but he
was friends in my friends groupand I was like, are you just
gonna?
Is this is like his bit, likethis, is it?

Speaker 2 (56:57):
he just quotes Anchorman all the time yeah,
like there was a guy I've servedwith, it was he was either
quoting anchorman or stepbrothers.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Yeah, well, exclusively which one do you
like, more, anchorman or stepbrothers?
I don't know.
They both probably.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
I don't know, they're just two totally different um
movies, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Let's hurry.
All right, let's finish this.
I have a game I want to play,okay, all right.
So the fine.
To me it's improv comedy.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
They're always a bit like especially the 2000s era.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Improv comedy like Knocked Up Super Bad Talladega
Nights, step Brothers, I mean,was Tropic Thunder in the 2000s.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Was it 2010s Sure?

Speaker 1 (57:39):
We'll throw Tropic Thunder in it.
Seriously, god, the worst thingthat has happened on this
planet, and I mean out of everysingle possible bad thing that
has ever happened on the historyof the world, the worst thing
that has happened is that wehave let comedies die and it's a
travesty.
Like the 2000s and 90s had someof the funniest stuff Like what

(58:02):
did we do wrong?

Speaker 2 (58:03):
I think we just got older, we, because now there's
skibby toilet.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Everybody lost their.
Everybody's like I'm going tohave a funny podcast, or I'm
going to make TikToks and reelsthat are funny.
It's like, no, we've messed up.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Change with the times , jesse, we've messed up.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
It's just different.
All right, you mess duh.
Alright, you wanna play a game?
Yeah, let's do it.
Okay, here we go.
Anchorman or Talladega Nights.
Anchorman, okay, um damn dude,I love Talladega Nights.
I don't know how to answer that.
I'm gonna say Talladega Nightsbecause I'm cool, okay, alright,
anchorman Stepbrothers,stepbrothers, yeah, stepbrothers

(58:41):
.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Same Anchorman, superbad Anch stepbrothers, yeah
, stepbrothers, same anchormansuper bad, anchorman super bad
anchorman knocked up.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
God, I'm gonna go anchorman, I'm gonna go
anchorman.
Yeah, all right, anchorman.
Tropic thunder tropic thunder.
I say tropic thunder as well.
Problem is tropic thunder istoo long, it is pretty long.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
It drags on and I'm only saying, like some of his
parts, it just drags on, andI've only seen it once, jack
Black is like some of his parts.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
It just drags a little bit too much.
All right Anchorman, let's sayHappy Gilmore, Happy Gilmore
yeah, I watched them back toback and Happy Gilmore it's also
I didn Anchorman, even thoughI've watched Happy Gilmore a lot
, but Happy Gilmore is kind of aperfect film.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
It's amazing, it's wild.
I've started watching thesecond one but I haven't
finished it.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
I actually thoroughly enjoyed it.
I think once it gets to, Iforgot even the name of what the
fancy new golf thing thatthey're going to do, like the
extreme golf that they're doing.
I can't remember the name ofwhat they're doing.
He's still like golfing withthose people.

(59:49):
It's uh oh yeah, that's reallygood when it gets later in the
film and it's like it builds upto like the third act.
It doesn't, it doesn't really.
Oh, man is wild.
There's some stuff withshooting for gavin and it's.
Everything works except for,like the main point of the movie
movie.
And it's also like verysentimental.
The movie is very sentimental,which is kind of great.
Yeah, it's like all his kidsare in the movie.

(01:00:10):
It's wild, okay.
Well, now we're gonna do ourlast category double feature.
We all win, baby, becausethey're all good movies.
I know, like we said, somemovies are better than the other
, but they're all funny movies,so there is no winning or losing
.
So we're going to hit ourdouble feature and mine's going
to be pretty easy TalladegaNights baby.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
No, mine is going to be a 40 year old version Hell
yeah, it's like what do boobsfeel?

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
like Bags of.
Don't worry, guys, all thosecomedies that we've done, we're
gonna do soon.
Uh, probably I don't knowprobably around the later half
of this year.
I'm ready because we're aboutto go on vacation.
My favorite thing aboutvacation is when we come back we
always watch like our favoritebeach.
Yeah, we always watch ourfavorite comedies like after you

(01:00:57):
scrub all the sand out of yourasshole yeah hell.
Yeah, that's my favorite partabout the beach.
Unlike Anakin, I like when thesand gets everywhere, oh no, but
yeah, I mean we always like weusually pick.
It's usually kind of thesimilar ones, like we always one
of them's super bad, obviously.
Hangover, that one's greatAfter coming back from vacation,

(01:01:20):
because you know the long drive.
You just want to laugh and havefun Because you kind of bummed
your back from vacation For sure, forgetting Sarah Marshall From
my vacation.
Yeah, no, forgetting SarahMarshall is like a perfect after
that one is so good Aftervacation.
One Pineapple Express Gosh.
This is the end.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Oh yeah, I love comedies.
They're all gone.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
I love that in pineapple express the um the
song that he plays while he'sgetting high in his car.
Yeah, oh, I love that song takeme to electric avenue.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
No, the, uh, the other one, um, I fly like paper
get high.
Oh yeah, mia yeah love thatsong is great and it's just.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
There's something about sethogen and James Franco.
They're just, they're loverbrothers, you know, and I love
it.
All right, my double feature isTalladega Nights.
Baby, I think I already didthat part.
Yeah, we did it.
Oh, we already did this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
Mine was 40-year-old Virgins.
Yeah, sorry, we got a rantthere.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Cool and that's Anchorman Um.
Cool and that's, that'sAnchorman man.
I just want to talk aboutcomedies.
I know Um make sure you join usnext week.
We're going to do a littleforeign classic masterpiece.
It stars Jackie Chan.
Ooh, what is he?

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
going to say?
Is he going to say ooh, is hegoing to do like Rush?

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Hour.
Is he going to do other likeLegend of Drunken Monkey?
No, we're doing Police Story,baby.
It is a perfect action comedyin every way.
I remember watching it alone atlike 12 am in the morning after
getting off work, just beinglike, wow, I've never seen this,
because I got the doublefeature from Criterion of Police

(01:03:00):
Story one and two.
I haven't even seen the secondone yet, but when I watched it I
was like this is amazing.
Jackie Chan is a brilliantcomedic fighter.
He's awesome.
Have you seen Drunken, theLegend of the Drunken Monkey?

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
No I haven't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
You just need to watch all his like comedy kung
fu movies.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
I mean, I've seen Rush Hours.
I was like him and Chris Tucker.
Oh yeah, Good team.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
Yeah, that first rush hour is kind of perfect.
It's wild.
But yeah, join us next week forPolice Story.
It's on HBO Max, baby, it's anhour and 29 minutes, so it's a
quick little watch it is.
It does have subtitles, but youknow what?
Learn to read Now's the time.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Something I've been doing on this podcast is
horribly wrong.
I can't believe I'm going tohave to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Join us next week for that and get ready.
We're getting close to thatHalloween season, baby, I can
feel it creeping up.
Wow, wow, wow wow, because whenI get back from vacation, we
watch comedies when we get backand then we switch over to
horror movies, because Septemberand October is Halloween every
day.
Woo, yeah.
So thank you for listening.

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