Stripes & In The Army Now

We’re enlisting to finally do something with our lives. First up, Bill Murray and a ragtag group of soldiers help prevent a world war in STRIPES. Then, Pauly Shore and Andy Dick lead a ragtag group of soldiers to get lost in the desert in IN THE ARMY NOW.

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Speaker 4 (00:54):
Does one of us rewatchas no one of us rewatched
a scene from Rebels, and all of us have seen
Phantom Menace enough times that we don't need to rewatch
it to discuss it intelligently.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
You know what the crazy thing is, now that I
stop and think about it, I think Darth Maul might
overall have more story time than any other character in Star.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
Wars because they dedicate a lot of time to him,
and like Clone Wars and.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
Clone Wars and Rebels dedicated a bunch of time to him. Yeah,
even more Vader though, yes, arguably Yeah, well.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
It depends if you're counting comics and you know the
former lore and all that stuff, right.

Speaker 6 (01:46):
No, it's just that Anakin was in all of Clone
Wars and then had what six movies he was in.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's probably right.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
He showed up in Rebels as well, and he's shown
up now and others Sernes good.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
It was just kind of wild because, arguably, of all
the characters in Star Wars, I think Anakin not is
Darth Vader, is one of the most unfucking interesting characters.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
But during races he goes woo be.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Let's not judge him entirely based on one scene.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Fucking yippie. Now I'm angry again.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'd have to watch Clone Wars more to properly debate
that anakid as an interesting character.

Speaker 6 (02:41):
I do find it interesting that when and Christiansen came
back for his recent stuff, he actually went and watched
a ship ton of Clone Wars and Rebels because he
felt that the guy that played Anakin there formed the
character more than he ever did, so he wanted to
like sort of absorbed that into his performance.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, if you look at pure screen time, he had
a lot more.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
Yeah, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, I mean I was gonna say, Plus, let's let's
admit it, Like, if we're talking about those prequel movies,
there is one half of jack shit of actual character
development for Anakin.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
He kills people.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, one of his random fucking outbursts moments of
his character that you're like, Yes, his random bursts of
anger that are arguably justified, those are the things that
make him go nuts and murder children.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
No, no, no, no, I think that's the the This is
a frustrating thing for me. The big misunderstanding of the
Force is that it's a gradual transition. The murdering of
the children happens the moment he kneels down in front
of Palpatine. It's once you become evil, the Force is
light or in you, and once you swear allegiance to

(04:02):
the dark side, then you're capable of murdering children, no problem.
So I think that's the big thing that bothers me
is people want there to be a gradual transition within
the Anakin character.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
No, they want there to be a justification.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
For there is no just that. The justification is he
swears allegiance to the Dark Sides once he becomes a Sith.
It's a magic thing.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
I know. Listen, you're arguing with the wrong person about that,
because I agree with you. I'm old force right, I'm
old rules of you fall. The problem is justifying the fall, well,
do not? They do not justify it?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well. He was a flawed character from the get go.
He was too old to start the training. From the
get go, he was, you know, feeling throughout the prequel
series like he was not appreciated for his strength and
his power, and the Dark Side praise on that. And

(05:06):
then they promised him that he could save his wife,
where the Jedi were telling him he shouldn't have a wife,
and that was enough. If he wasn't a weak character,
then he would not have fallen. But he did fall
because they made promises they couldn't keep. As Americans, you
guys should be totally capable of understanding that right now.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
I mean, isn't American? I did? The story doesn't make
any sense because it should have just started with Palpatine
going sither cool and Anykin going fuck Gabbro and then
we all die. Like that's the I mean, that's the
way politics works.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's sadly fair. But enough about American politics. Let's discuss
fun movies about the American military. You fucking pray putting
the ship on the list and then making you watch it.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yes, yes, Sam, I don't know why you're so man.
I had a good time.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Because you're like, let's have fun watching movies about the
people who are most likely going to kill me and
my child sometime in the next five years.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
No, listen, we can get into it. But I I
appreciate these movies for something they do that I feel
like is not done enough in film.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
All right, Doug tell us about Stripes Stripes.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Bill Murray is a cab driver. He doesn't really like
being a cab driver, so he quits, so his girlfriend
leaves him, so he fucking makes he joins the army
because you can just do that, I guess, I mean
you can. Yeah, he makes join with them.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
There they're recruitment offices everywhere.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
See see that's not normal in the rest of the world.
So some of us have trouble understanding that.

Speaker 6 (07:04):
On nine to eleven, when everything was going on, I
was like, oh shit, I have to like run out
to do something. Whatever I was going to was next
door to a recruitment office and there was a bunch
of dudes outside in uniform and they're like, hey, you
want to sign up for the army and I was like, Nope,
not fucking today, and he's like, come on, now's the

(07:26):
best time. And I was like, no way.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Your country's evil and gross. Anyways, so now they're in
the military. But for some reason, immediately upon getting to
the military, Bill Murray does not want to act like
he's in the military, so that leads to some conflict.
Random stuff is happening. D Fielding is there, John Candy
is there? Yeah, they are fucking. Judge Reinhold shows up

(07:56):
like a drug dealer.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
For some reason, I thought he is going to play
a bigger role.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, me too, and I thought everybody should have played. Meanwhile,
like randomly, our two leads are hooking up with these
female MPs, which becomes important because eventually they're all in
Italy for reasons. And then everybody except for the four
characters that we're supposed to care about, gets kidnapped by

(08:24):
Russians and they're being held in Czechoslovakia, so.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
Fucking and apparently John Flattery is a Russian for some reason.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
I'm not even gonna try to explain that one. So
now Bill Murray and Egan have to convince the girls
that they're banging to go in a military RV into
Czechoslovakia to retrieve their friends, and then.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
They do, and that's the National Heroes.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's the movie.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
I don't I'm assuming.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, yes, first time watching for me, and plot is
not this movie strong point, that's not what we should
be discussing at all.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Like reasons to get people to do stuff is definitely
not this this movie. They literally could just say, hey,
we need you guys to go to Italy why because
the script said so, and that would be about as
much of an explanation. It's anything else.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
In the movie that's I mean, that's what happened in Spaceball.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
So that Yeah. I think this is the first time
I've seen the movie all the way through. I think
I've seen the entire movie, but I've only ever watched
it like in different pieces like when you catch it
on TV and stuff. Oh yeah, So this is the first
time I've sat down and just watched it start to finish. No,
I'm assuming you've seen this before.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Uh, like a thousand times.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
This is known as one of Bill Murray's best early movies.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
So yeah, you're correct, it's I will say this so
I kind of mentioned during the last show that my
uncle this is one of his favorite movies, and my
dad liked it quite a bit too. He was always
a Bill Murray fan. Can you guys guess out of
all of the random quotes and all of the random

(10:20):
jokes and all of the funny, funny things that kind
of happened in this movie, And it's Bill Murray, so
he's constantly saying funny things. What do you think is
the joke that all of them would quote all the
fucking time is?

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Hang on, I'm just trying to think of the most
racist things said in the movie.

Speaker 7 (10:42):
It's definitely. It's definitely not that I can tell you.

Speaker 6 (10:47):
I think. No, his dad was actually pretty good about that.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yeah, see as he was so shockingly.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I does it involve the strip club with the mud wrestling?

Speaker 5 (10:56):
He would you would think? So it does not. I
don't know. Oh, Army training, sir, that's the one, over
and over and over and that to them, that was
the funny, one of the funniest fucking things ever. But
in a movie, and I'm like, yeah, okay, it's funny.

(11:17):
Is it that funny? Because I mean just and I
would hear them talk to other people who love this
movie and they all do it. They're all like, ah,
army training, and it's like, what, why is it so
funny to everyone?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
I feel like it was a simpler time back then,
and when something could grab a hold of the culturals,
I guys in a certain way, the joke became like
we all know this, so if I say it, you
know what I'm talking about, and that's enough. That's enough, right,
Because there was no Internet, there was no like finding

(11:52):
your niche of people, if that makes sense, you know.
I think guess horror fans a lot of us would
often references be fighting a shark back in the nineties
or the early two thousands, and if you found somebody
else who knew what the fuck you were talking about,
you got very excited. Right.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
It's very funny that that is still a regular conversation
that I have with people.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
But they put it in a fucking Microsoft commercial once,
so they kind of took it from us. But like
the point is, like, yeah, like I think this movie
existed at a time when people of a certain age
would just hey, we've all seen it, right, and therefore
it became this kind of phenomenon just because people were
excited that they'd all seen the same thing. Is that

(12:38):
is that weird to say.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
No, I understand, Wow, I'm.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
With you, just like I said, you guys have no
you guys have no idea how many times I heard
somebody randomly yell or training there over and over again.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
It's the same as like for forty years, people all
knew The Brady Bunch because there were three TV stations
and even when The Brady Bunch wasn't new, it re
ran all the time exactly, So everybody during a certain
time period has seen every episode of The Brady Bunch.

(13:16):
So it's the same thing. It's just like, yeah, there's
only so many movies and so many movies that played
on TV, so everybody gets it.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
And certain things that were kind of only certain things
that would grab a hold of all the different demographics,
If that makes sense. Yeah, So I guess, like Brian,
if it's the first time you've sat and watched this movie, Now,
what are your initial thoughts.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
It's funny. As we sort of said of Meatballs, Bill
Murray's probably like the best thing in this now Harold
raymis and John Canny are both in it, so that
means the stuff, the other stuff does come up a
little bit more than maybe it did like in Meatballs,
but without Bill Murry, like this would be a completely
forgettable movie. And as we said, the plot points.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Really easy because I feel like, I feel like John
Candy's fucking on point in this matter.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
He is, but he's actually not in it a whole lot.
Like you see him towards the beginning, and then there's
the mud wrestling and then like those are his sort
of big scenes.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
He falls through the door later because they do the
fat guy runs that it trick him into running at
a thing he'll knock over.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
So I mean he's kind of there, but he's not
like front and center for a lot of the a
lot of the stuff.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
I would say the same thing with Judge reyin Hold's character,
where you're like, oh, he's going to be the drug
dealer following these guys around, like that's funny, and then
it's like, yeah, that really doesn't really come up a lot.
And there's also a guy named Psycho, which isn't an
actor I recognize, but the character's name is Psycho, And
I kept waiting for that to play out in some way,

(14:54):
and it doesn't really other than the fact that they
do the typical eighties Joe like he gets mad if
you call him by his real name. He wants to
be called by his nickname. But I associate that joke
with Chainsaw from Summer School, not with so Like, I
think wherever you saw that joke first is where you
associate it and you're just like, everything else feels like

(15:16):
a rip off of that version of the joke that
you like.

Speaker 6 (15:21):
I do feel like this sort of set up the
template that they definitely used to maybe better effect in
stuff like Police Academy or even Summer School. I guess
would sort of be an example where it's like, yeah,
a group of misfits in this very serious thing that

(15:41):
have to yeah, rise to the occasion and kind of
seize the day or whatever. But I'm trying to think
of stuff maybe like Bad News Bears or something before this,
But I mean this is where it's like, this is
a job that these people are ill equipped to do
and now HYJINKSINCEU, but they somehow went over everybody and

(16:05):
everything by the end.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
No, I agree with that one hundred percent. This movie
is very influential. I mean, we're gonna talk about another
movie about a slacker who convinces his body to join
the military.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
Like you know what I mean, Like it might as
well just be a remake.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
It's it's pretty close and you know, like, okay, fine,
like but you do you do see a template coming forward.
And I was thinking very heavily about Police Academy when
I watched this movie, specifically about the fact that at
least it's the villain in this movie that peeping Tomson
girls and not the hero.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
Which that scene makes zero sense. He's in his office
looking out the window and with a telescope and literally
just has full view of the women's showers. So were
they just outside? There was no like Walls.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
You're asking a lot of questions for something that happened
in the eighties.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
I think I think Noah actually just gave us a
very in depth analysis of this film. This film was
made at a period of time when Saturday Night Live
was very popular. Skit television was very popular, and people
were not analyzing films in a way that they do today.

(17:19):
So it was about put like, what are some funny ideas, Okay, now,
put together a script that incorporates all these funny ideas,
and that's it. And unfortunately, I think the film suffers
from it when you watch it today, because you're like,
I wish there was a story, you know what I mean.
There's like, there's the two main characters are constantly hooking

(17:41):
up with these two female MP's and the end that
becomes like how they keep getting out of trouble, and
it's like, well, I wish somebody had written a scene
where they met and it somehow made sense that they
got along, you know what I mean, Like they built
a relationship between these couples so that it would make
sense when they break them out of jail and do
whatever else they do, you know, And you're like, or like,

(18:04):
how about a line of dialogue as to why when
they're in Italy those girls just also happen to be
in Europe, Like just just again a line of dialogue.
It doesn't have to be an in depth storyline, just
like they're.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Like part of the thing.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
But the girls are like in Germany while the men
are in Italy.

Speaker 7 (18:22):
And they still listen there because they're they're reservist in p.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
You know, that's that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Are the girls reservists?

Speaker 5 (18:33):
Is that to take from that? I'm just pointing out
that it makes even less sense.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
A wait, are the men reservests? I don't even know if? No?

Speaker 5 (18:44):
No, sorry that's the other O.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
What was like? What was that you said about it
being almost a remake Brian.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
Played by PJ. Sols and Sean Young By the way.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, Worth pointing out that like everyone in this movie
is somebody like it's the cast list is pretty impressive.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
Because even like the droll sergeant I remember, like I
know that actor. I cannot tell you his name if
you had a gun to my head, but I've seen
him and other stuff.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh yeah, everybody, everybody in.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
John Lerichet, which I wanted to point out before he
moved on, when he's looking through that telescope for some reason,
it just fucking killed me. When his superior walked in
and he didn't know it, and then he says something
and he literally just shoves the telescope through a pine
of glass. It's out the window It's like, what the fuck.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
That's how you cover up your sex crimes. She's throwing
instruments of your sex crimes out the window. Everyone knows that.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
Listen, we can all bicker and argue about physical comedy
from the eighties.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
Oh, I'm not bickering, are arguing. I'm not saying I
didn't enjoy the scene. Logistically does make a lot of sense.
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Next, where is he gonna get another telescope and art
at peeping tom Tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (20:07):
From the beginning, I did like fucking Bill Murray just
getting fucking tired of that rich lady shit and literally
just stops in the middle of the bridge a New
York bridge and it's just like, ah, I'm done, and
then just throws the keys off the bridge.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
The opening bit with Bill Murray as like the disgruntled
cab driver is amazing, Like I don't think anybody can
take anyth away from it. Like he's just like there's
that awkward moment where the people run out on him
and he's like he goes to chase him and he
just gives that like I do not give a fuck.
Look into the camera. He's like, ah shit, Like and

(20:42):
then some ladies like, help me with my bags, and he's.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Like, I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Like I you just tell from his performance, and he's like,
lifting these bags is not something I'm interested in doing.
It's it's very it's weird because it's like nineteen eighty
one or whatever, and you're like, this is a very
like nineties slacker attitude, which would not have been popular
in the eighties. It's like, it's very like.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
Why that's I don't think that's entirely true. People loved
people loved the slacker in the eighties. Here's the difference.
He's the he's kind of a lovable piece of shit,
which people very much liked in the eighties, versus like
the lovable lazy sack of shit, which is the nineties one,

(21:31):
in which he's not like lazy, he just hates doing
what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Oh, I don't know about that. I think he's a
little bit lazy, you.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
Think, because I mean he does like instantly, just as
opposed to the next movie we'll talk about. He actually
kind of goes, you know what, I kind of don't
have my shit together. Uh, maybe I should join the
army and maybe they can help get my shit together.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, but he's immediately lazy when he gets to the army.
That's just why I.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
It's said in dialogue that he sleeps till like noon
and then stays up all night listening to whatever record.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
They even point out that he watches movies all night,
and I'm like, yeah, again, that's very nineties because in
nineteen eighty one it was really hard to stay up
watching movies all night because your TV went to like
fuzz after like a certain time.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Are you saying that Bill Murray invented nineties culture? Maybe
it's like a combination of Bill Murray, Heroin and Kurt Cobain.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Honestly, I think you're onto something, and I'm not like joking.
I'm like that character who like gets up and quits
his job in the middle of the bridge and shit
is very much an influence on films like Clerks that
were very influential on nineties culture. I think it's one
hundred percent accurate to point out that Bill Murray created

(22:56):
nineties culture.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Somebody has a thesis.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Right, Yeah, But I grew up in the nineties, so
I'm not writing.

Speaker 7 (23:03):
Ship that's like work, man.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
I'm in my basement talking to people through headphones after
having three glasses a run. That's what I'm doing with
my night. But I mean, also I have ideas that
could be a thesis, man, you know, like if I
got around to it.

Speaker 6 (23:24):
This this discussion makes me want to watch PUST.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
I will watch pc I need.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
A yeah, Hey, I don't want to do this, man,
let's just give up.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Have we done? Have we done PCU and airheads for
the show.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
But I think that's what Comba is gonna be put
on the list.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
I was gonna say, that's a pretty good.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
And since I'm picking for next week, that may be
all right.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Can we get back to discussing whatever whatever it is
I do.

Speaker 6 (23:57):
I do like Bill Murray's I mean immediately, like on
the bus to the Army is just being in dickhead
the entire time. I'd be like, why did you sign
up for this? If you're this is the way you
were going to act?

Speaker 3 (24:14):
My whole thing, my complaint about this movie, and it's
the same thing we discussed like with Meatballs, is like
it's not that it's not funny to watch him do
the things, it's like none of this makes anything resembling
narrative sense at all, and it's like, I don't it
doesn't make sense to me that the character randomly picks

(24:36):
join up to the military to deal with the fact
that he's, you know, that his life sucks. And it
doesn't make sense to me that if you're going to
sign up for the military, you would hate being in
the military before you even get there.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
I have a counterpoint, and that counterpoint is knowing people
that are in the US military and the fact that
half of them joined up kind of not wanting to
join up for bad, stupid reasons.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
I mean, yeah, I guess.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Or we're tricked, or there's there's a lot of things
that happened in America with the military that.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Aren't there are great. Yeah that's why you guys are
nat seasoned now. But yeah, I mean, like I guess that.
I guess that makes sense in a way, But like,
I'm not thinking of it as a real world scenario.
I'm thinking of it as a narrative story. And as
a story, it doesn't make any fucking sense. And it's

(25:34):
just it's an and then story, not a because of story.
We've had this conversation before where it's just like it's
a bunch of scenes thrown together a bunch of scenes
that are individually pretty funny usually, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
Like it's and it is very episodic. Yeah, And I
was kind of surprised when they were like, we have
to even though our drill sergeant is hurt, we still
have to, you know, win graduation, which.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Makes none of that makes anything resembling sense at all.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
No, But I was like, oh, man, usually that's like
the end of that movie. And I checked the time,
and I'm like, we're only like halfway through.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, which that's the other question. Which version of this
movie did you guys watch?

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Whichever one I rented off Fandango?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
How long was it? I guess question. I couldn't tell
you because there's like I watched the extended version, which
is just over two hours, and that's too long for.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
This movie, so I'm killing I don't think the one
I watched was two hours.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
I think that the traditional version is like one forty
six or something.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
That seems right, so, and but I can cut up.
I could imagine that being, yeah, one forty six, it
was the version I watched. Yeah, I could imagine that
maybe maybe just stretching out a little too long, and
it's just like, all right, I get it.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
It just it. I don't know. I don't know what
was added and what was subtracted for that.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
I mean, I would assume every scene where Bill Murray
improad to eighty five jokes in stripes, they cut it
down to sixty and they just added in the rest
of them.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
I mean, that's reasonable. But I do think that just
the Saturday Night Live nature of the movie lends to
a shorter runtime. You know that shows an hour and
a half with commercials. For a reason, it's because that's
how long you can watch clips in a row that
are completely disconnected from one another. Because even like the

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like the mud wrestling scene, may we want to explain
how that happened, like like just all of a sudden
in the middle of this movie where they're all like
in the military. Now they're all just walking down a
street in New York and they go into like a
club that's air quotes world famous according to the dialogue,

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and then it's mud wrestling and people from the crowd
can just get up in mud wrestle the strippers. And
then this is the thing.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
I know for a fact that that was the thing.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
And then it gets raided. But why does it get
raided if it's like a club on a main street
that you're just walking.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
So because there's rules about what you can and cannot
do in a strip club and to those mud wrestling
events or physical essentially, dudes could mostly grope naked women,
which was actually illegal.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
But none of that happens in this movie.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
I know, but it was It would just have been
assumed that you were a pervert and knew that. Because
it was the eighties.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
I guess I was too young to be a pervert
when this movie came out, and therefore it made no
sense to me.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Listen, there was a weird laws I went. I went
to a strip club one time, and it was the
first time I was ever a strip club and saw
a fully nude woman instead of an almost entirely nude woman.
And I asked them about it, and I was like,
what's the difference, you know, because obviously something's different between

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this place and another place. And she goes, well, I'm
actually there's a law that you have to have one
piece of clothing still on. And I was like, but
you're naked, and she goes no, and she holds up
the thing and she's like technically I'm wearing a scarf
and she's like holding a tiny I was like really,
and she goes, Yep, if I put this down wall stripping,

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I could be arrested. And I was like, that is
the weirdest, dumbest shit I've ever heard in my entire life, the.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Weirdest one, I think when I don't know how we're
on strip clubs now, but I remember like being in
the Southern United States in multiple places, and you weren't
allowed to sell alcohol at a strip, so there was
like a liquor store next to the strip. Then you
could buy your beer.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
And then they would charge you a fee to hold
it for you and open it for you.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Is what they do. I don't know. I don't Yeah,
I've never actually gone into the place where you have
to buy your beer somewhere else in order to go
into the stroop.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah. So essentially, there is a thing that has existed
for a long time that's called a cargage fee, which
is where if you buy an expensive bottle of wine
and bring it into a fancy restaurant, yeah, they will
charge you to open that puddle of wine and serve
it to you because you're bringing in an outside thing.
So those skanky places did the same thing, but basically

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they said, go next door, pay for your beer, then
come back here and pay to bring your beer inside
because we don't sell beer, which is crazy.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
Yeah, there was a club in town that opened up
back in the day and it was they couldn't get
a liquor license for whatever shenanigans. But there was literally
a bar across and they would constantly tell people go
across the street, have some drinks, come back, and they
would let people eighteen are over come in since there

(31:09):
was no booze in them in the place. And uh,
you know, I'm lazy, as we've been discussing laziness, and
I'm not walking across the street to go to a
bar and then come back to the strip club. So
that was my one and only time being sober at
strip club and it was fucking terrible.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
Man. You know what's weird. I have a lot of
very funny.

Speaker 7 (31:33):
Stories that involve strip clubs.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
But most of the things that are funny about them
are bad things happening to me. I genuinely do not
like strip clubs, like they are not fun. At one time,
we saw that dude who looked like Gary Gygax getting
a suspicious massage from a dubiously older woman.

Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yes, yeah, is that good and sexy?

Speaker 3 (31:59):
No, how old does have to be to be considered
dubiously older. I'm just curious.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
She looked like she was probably in her fifties.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Yeah, I think that that you're being generous. I think that.
I I think if she wasn't sixty, she was a
short to half her birthday.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
Now, to be fair, she wasn't a stripper.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Yeah she was. She was the hand shub.

Speaker 6 (32:28):
She was. She was the lady at this club. You
could pay and she would give you a back massage
and also had lotion with her.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Yeah, she would give you a back massage with her oils,
which was a pump bottle of Jurgens. I have to
say she's the hand lady.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
I think. So we all sat there laughed at I
feel like we've discovered a cultural difference between your country
and minx. I've never witnessed a play where there's just
a girl walking around like just just offering back massages
and treats.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
You gotta understand, Doug. Previously in the night, we went
to a strip club. It's world famous because it was
on the very first season of Real the very first
episode of Real Sex on HBO. That was their big
claim to family fucking hell. And we went and turns
out the owner had died, which I knew about, and

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his daughter had taken it over. She was trying to
do some different things with it. So it wasn't strip
club night, it was DJ night. And so we walked in,
but they.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Had so much sadder, so much sadder by the way.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
Which they did not tell us that until after we
paid the cover. All of us paid the cover to
get in, and we all get inside and we're like,
what's going on? So there's no stripper. There's still women
there who are strippers, and you can buy a private
dance and go back to a private room. But we
were like, that's bullshit. And so as soon as we

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got there, I'm like, I got to take a piss.
So I went into the bathroom, came out, and some
of the other guys were standing around talking to one
of these ladies and he my friend Western. I was like, yeah,
she wants to talk to you, and I was like,
what's going on? And she looked at me, She's like, oh,
are you the bachelor. She's like I want to beat
that dick off, and then tried to grab my crotch,

(34:24):
to which I then did a matrix move and was
like no, no. And so then Noah came out of
the bathroom behind me, and I said, I'm not the bachelor.
He's the bachelor. And I see Noah look at me
and look around like what's going on, and then understand
and he's like, god damn it. But then the little

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lady was just like, y'all are playing too much, and
she just.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
Like left dodged that bullet exactly for once. For once,
it wasn't me getting a constant.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
So, yes, there is a cultural difference. For some reason,
women think, oh, I bet I can just give him
a hand job and he'll pay me like a hundred
bucks and we'll be good. No, I've never been the
one that has like mud wrestling.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
No, I like in the movie, that's what we were
trying to talk about.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
Yeah, so I don't think I've ever did see so
specifically mud wrestling. I was at one where they did
do essentially what that is, but in a babypool full
of lube, which was so much worse.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
I feel like that's modern, that's just the modernization of
the mud wrestling. Uh yeah, but here's here's the difference
before your Old School was released. That's my question.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
Yeah, mud like mud like plasters, you right, which kind
of is funny, and it covers up some of the
imperfections of the human form. I'll hear for the people
who hang out strip clubs and instead, if you're shiny
and covered in lube, it it exaggerates those same features,

(36:13):
We'll say. And so the gross prefer old men who
are in the tank covered in the shiny goo. Uh
you're basically watching like Walrus is fucking in grease. Essentially,
it is awful. It is everything bad I do.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
I don't think I want to talk about this anymore.

Speaker 6 (36:34):
Okay, well I have one more question, Doug.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Can it be about the movie instead of this? Uh?

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Sure, And by sure I mean no. So will you
go to like bachelor parties and stuff and go to
strip clubs? Do the strippers like bring the dudes up
on stage and like beat the shit out of them?

Speaker 3 (36:53):
And yeah, I mean not now because I'm an old man,
but yeah, when I went to bachelor twenties.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
Because I went to a friend of mine's and they
did that to him. And like wrote in sharpie on
his stomach and shit, and like drew arrows down to
his crotch and I'm just like, yeah, that doesn't seem
like fun, like gave him I'm telling sex stories and
then gave him a wedgie until his underwear like ripped

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and stuff. So when it was my turn for my
bachelor party, I told everybody, I'm like, look, let's not
do this. I don't want to do that. I'm gonna
be very mad if that happens, and I will literally
like the night will be over and I will just
go home.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Wait.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
So one time I organized a bachelor party for a
friend of mine who was sober.

Speaker 6 (37:43):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
And since he's sober, I'm like, like, I know, what's
your bachelor party, But technically you're at the designated driver
because nobody else is sober. Right, So, next thing you know,
he's on stage, sober, getting drawn on with the sharpiets
and stuff, and we all, for whatever reason, all of
our drunk gasses, thought it was hilarious to steal like

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pamphlets from the strip club and hide them in his car,
probably very poorly because we were all hammered. Right. The
next day, his wife just calls me or not quite
wife at the time, like fiance just laughing, and she's like,
what in the absolute fuck? Why are there all these
strip club pieces of paper all over my car? What

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is going on? And we're all I'm all, we're all
sitting there like, I'm like, x men, friends, like you
tell her you did it? Like it's and it's like
she's like what, like why is he a marker on him?
And I'm like, I don't know if I have a
good explanation for that.

Speaker 6 (38:47):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
We gave a guy sixty bucks and the next thing
you know, they were drawing on your fiance. I don't.
We didn't really following through with a lot. It's really funny.
And he's like like he's like, you could just tell
the whole drive home. He's like, what the fucking Jesus,
because can you imagine being sober in that scenario? I
can't even.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
My my buddy Juan Carlo his bachelor party. What are
the strippers carved her phone number into him?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Oh my god, that's insanity.

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Yeah, like it was and not like with a knife,
like but to the point of the next day, he
got up and walked into the room and we were
all like, you were like, well, you're getting married in
three days and that's not going away, so I hope

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your wife has a really good.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
On a pleasant note, we'll end our strip club stories
with this. At a bachelor party one time, I'm hammered. Right,
I'm walking through the stri and I trip over my
own two feet because I'm so drunk. On the way down,
I successfully set my drink down on someone's table, so
I hit the ground right. People come running over to
check on me. They lift me up, and I get
up and I just stand up and my drink is

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just sitting there, perfectly not spilled. And I picked it
up and I like cheers the people whose table it
was it started drinking. It just kept moved along my way,
and those people were so proud of me. They were
like cheering for me. Every time I walk by the
rest of the night, I think hoping I would do
it again. But that's a much more wholesome and fun
story to end this discussion on. Let's go back to

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our movie discussion. Please.

Speaker 6 (40:41):
Uh yeah, I don't know, does have anything uh I
want to talk about.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
I mean, like, here's the thing it's not.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
I know, we're complaining about how narratively insufficient it is.
It's fun. It's fun. It's pretty fun.

Speaker 6 (40:59):
Yeah, it's perfect.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
Like it's one of those movies that like, if it's
not you should watch it.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Yeah, it's It's of its era, and at that time
narrative structure was not important in comedy. I would prefer
to see something that had more structure to it and
that had a plot where there were jokes surrounding the
plot as opposed to just putting funny people in a
movie and hoping for the best. But that having been said,
the funny people they got are like Bill Murray and

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Harold Ramos and John Candy and Jude Ryan Hold, like
you know what I mean, Like they fucking nailed it
with casting. And then they're just like, do you guys
want to do some funny shit? And they just let
them do funny shit. So there you go.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
Yeah, all right, well no, why don't you tell us
about In the Army now?

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Okay? So In the Army now is the movie we
just talked about, but instead it's poly Shore, Andy Dick,
It's the Reserves and they go to uh what, Afghanistan,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Chada Yad, which feels desperately like they were trying to
find a country you couldn't upset pot correct is like
nobody will be mad about Chad, right, Like if we say,
any other country might get shot at for putting the
movie out, but not this one.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
Yeah, but but I mean literally, it's a it's extremely similar,
I would I would argue maybe the only difference is
is this is one of the ones where build in stripes.
They don't like, they aren't great soldiers, right, they suck
and they kind of like mister Magoo, their way to

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victory mostly is opposed to what happens in this movie
where arguably, like they get better. Does that make sense?
Like like legit over time, they actually.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
That narrative structure where they grow those characters and like
like the poly Shore character eventually becomes like squad leader
and has to learn to like give orders to the
other people, and the indidic character has to learn to
take the orders from him even though they're friends, and
thor Petty has to learn that poly Shore is attractive

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because that's a hard thing to learn because of how.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
It's objectively not true and you know, like how to
be fair. There is an arc where he is just
some schlebby do with long hair and horrible facial hair.
And then after basic training we see that he's actually
ripped and in shape now and has a decent haircut
in his shaped that's a good point. So it's the

(43:38):
equivalent of, well, he was wearing glasses and then he
took their glasses off.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Yeah yeah, it took glasses off, untied his ponytail kind
of thing. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. So you're right, all
my complaints are are invalid, and now this is a
perfect movie in the eyes of Bride.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
No, no, there's only one reason I like this movie,
which I'll tell you about. Okay, to the end, No,
go ahead, keep going.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
Oh yeah, I was gonna say. I actually, of of
all the what do we want to call the poly
shor cycle, that that brief period of time between in
Sino Man and I think this movie was kind of
the end of it, right, I think I think.

Speaker 6 (44:24):
You did jury duty after this.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Yeah, but I mean this was I mean it basically
goes in Sino Man and then his son in law
and then.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Well biodome is between them.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
But his biodome really count or is it? Do people
wish it hadn't happened. And then there's like.

Speaker 5 (44:46):
He is one of my favorite ones.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
All right, well, you're not part of normal society. We're
trying to we're trying to go through. We're trying to
go through the career that as society saw it. I
feel like this one and Jerry Dude are the ones
that made everyone go go fuck yourself, please stay away
from us.

Speaker 6 (45:07):
By the way, Biodome was after this one.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Really, it was after this two years after.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
That's just because you were thinking of it as a
Polyshor film and not as a Stephen Baldwin film, So
you have to factor in whose career arc it falls under.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
All right, Well, it's just weird because this one's Biodome
arguably is a much better made film. Just in general.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
All right, if anybody puts Biodome on the list, I'm
kicking in the nuts. I'm saying that right now.

Speaker 5 (45:44):
I don't know. Biodome has just got so many good
jokes in it that making a filter joke is really good.
I have a lovely sack of coconuts. It's pretty funny.

Speaker 7 (45:54):
But speaking of in the army, now, yeah, I was
gonna say so of all of Andy Dick's performances, in
which I will say that in general, Andy Dick is.

Speaker 6 (46:09):
Kind of a dick.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
Well, just insufferable. Is that fair?

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Is the word I was going to use if there
was a break in the conversation.

Speaker 7 (46:18):
Yeah, he is, he is. It's just awful.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
I don't He was an unlikable, real human being who
made an entire career out of pretending to be even
more unlikable.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
More unlikable, or the same amount of unlikable.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
I'm pretty sure more unlikable, because I've seen interviews with
him where I was like, man, he's a dick, but
he's not as much of a dick as he seems like.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Well, I don't watch interviews with him, so maybe I'm wrong,
But I think the number one thing that this movie
gets right is it scales down the Andy Dick performance.
Like this director, this director who we've praised in the past.
He's a director of Toy Soldiers, which we all loved,

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and he did a really good job of like Andy Dick,
Calm the fuck down, Calm the fuck down, Calm the
fucking Polly Shore, Calm the fuck down, Polish, Calm the
fuck down. David Allen Greer, you're all good man. You
can just get to be David Allen gre like you
be you Man, like Lori Petty, you be you. You

(47:25):
guys can exist at big.

Speaker 5 (47:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
And and I think I think they did a like
the director, given what he had to work with, deserves
a lot of credit for enhancing the right performances, letting
letting the people shine who if you let them go,
will shine, and raining in the people who needed to
be rained in. I mean, I don't I don't think

(47:51):
we're gonna keep a lot of praise on this film.
But I was like, I will say, like in the
when this movie, I went into this real expectations having
I think I saw it once when it was new.
I haven't seen it since. And when this movie opens
and I'm watching a shitty YouTube stream of it where
the volume cuts out a couple of times so that

(48:13):
they don't get caught on like the algorithms of like
getting blocked on YouTube, and it opens and they're they're
in their electronics store doing the like very nineties thing
of how they want to open their own electronics store.
So they're trying to save up, but they're slackers, so
they can't work hard for somebody else. Blah blah blah
blah blah.

Speaker 5 (48:33):
Right, I got worms. It's the name we're going to
open up.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
What was the surf shop that the Amelio est of
his and his brother we're going to open in the network.
So I remember the day of that. It was it
was stupid too. Anyways, we're off, But like the point
is they're they're the typical like nineties slacker wannabes, but
they they really rain those two in and those opening scenes,

(49:02):
I got like, way, my hope's way up from where
they started. Not up to high enough where I thought
I was going to enjoy the movie, but I'm like, okay,
all right, Like they they're pulling these guys in, They're
not just letting them go crazy at the screen. And
you know, some of that opening stuff, some of the
stuff where like like the Pauli Schor's character is like
about to get fired and somebody comes in and like

(49:24):
asks for his him by name because they want to
like make a sale, and he makes this big sale
and then it turns out it's his girlfriend. It's like
and you're like, that's that's funny ish, that's all right.
Live with that, you know, and like like, you know,
we're not going to discuss the fact that this fucking
loser is dating the Italian chick from summer school, and

(49:46):
somehow summer school keeps coming up. But it's like it's
like you know, like well, all right, like I can
go with that. That's fine, you know. And then the
fact that like to get them into the army is
like this thing where like these two idiots didn't know
the reserves exist, like and then they find out like, oh,
you can like get all the benefits of being in

(50:07):
the army, but you only have to go like one
weekend a month or whatever, and then they're like all
excited about that. Like I'm like, that's that's a good again,
where Stripes lacked a narrative plot, that's like, yeah, that's
a good way to get these guys into basic training.
And then once they get there, of course things are
going to go awry. But you know, like it was

(50:28):
all working for me at the beginning.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
I'm like, right, well, they even justify the whole we'll
do water purification for front of water. I mean, you
never have to worry about combat. And then later on
Lri Petty's like, yeah, women aren't allowed to volunteer for combat,
So I chose water purification because you're almost guaranteed to
be the first one sinning.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Like it's again though, like the idea that they're idiots
and that's how they got themselves into the situation is
pretty funny. Like I I respected this film more than
I respect expected to respect it. I wouldn't say I
enjoyed it more than I expected to enjoy it, but
at least I was like I think as I watched
Stripes in this back to back and I was like, like, okay,

(51:13):
Like my problems with Stripes were there was no narrative structure.
There was no like it was just a bunch of
funny shit happening. This movie has a narrative structure. It's
all flowing. I just wish there was some funny shit happening,
and there is, like there's a lot of it too
that I think is like we're really lacking context watching

(51:35):
this movie now, because when they shave Pauli Shore's head
and he loses that long hair, it's like that was
a whole thing in the mid nineties where you were
like like people who went through the grunge era were
finishing school and being forced to like look more professional
and so and you know, like bands were cutting their

(51:57):
hair and all that kind of stuff, and you were like,
I don't, like, I don't know how to appreciate that
now the way I did at the time, because I
haven't had hair in a decade.

Speaker 6 (52:08):
So, but like, well, he was he was known for
sort of his long hair too, because he had that long,
curly hair because I don't know if people remember he
was on MTV at first and then he didn't see
No Man, and then you know, it took off from there. Yeah,
so for him to like shave his head and then

(52:29):
he never like went back to his old hair. No,
but he's had it short and ever since.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
It was a whole thing where a lot of a
lot of the early to mid nineties cultural icons had
the big hair and then they were all losing it
at this point to kind of progress to the next
thing and whatever was cool going on, right, And I
think Paul Shore was trying with with the haircut and
the tone down performance. I feel like he was trying

(52:58):
to transition into something thing other than just the weasel.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
You know.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Then it turns out he didn't really have much else
to offer. Unfortunately for him. But yeah, not that, not that,
like not that having like four or five hit movies
in a row isn't enough, Like it's you know what
I mean, like take it and run.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
But we do get a cameo by Brendan Fraser.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
That obviously happened later in the film where I was
not paying attention. Yeah, it's after they I also watched
these this movie and the last view on my laptop,
so I'm.

Speaker 6 (53:34):
Like, yeah, it's pretty much the same cameo he had
and Son in Law where he just shows up, bites
the head off a frog like you did, and see
the man and then walks off. For some reason, he
did that for like two or three poly short movies
and then stop listen.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
Well, obviously because he was getting more and more famous
this time on this probably.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Well, I feel like to like Son in Law was
a real caultural moment and or Sorry and Sino Man
was a real cultural moment that all of these people
kind of were either famous coming into it and it
helped their career move forward or they got famous from it.

Speaker 6 (54:13):
Yeah. Five years after this, Brandon Fraser did the money.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Yeah, and then.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
Interestingly, enough is now if you look at pictures of them.
Polly Shore looks much healthier and better than Brendan's Frasier,
which is not what you would expect.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Except Brendan Fraser should turn being fat into winning an oscar.
So let's see Pauly Shore do that.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
He did make. He did make that really fucking good documentary,
which is pretty impressive, right.

Speaker 6 (54:47):
Which one remember he made a documentary.

Speaker 5 (54:49):
It was the one that was called poly Shore is Dead. Yeah,
And he went around interviewing people about and basically telling
that pau Sure had died and asking him to say
nice things about him. And half the time he was
the one doing the interview and none of them recognized him,
Like it's it's a whole it's wild. Basically he was taught.

(55:12):
You know, it's because it was after he had not
been famous for a while and he was kind of
just he kind of made a documentary about how silly
in a hollow Hollywood is you know what I mean,
using himself as a prop which is I don't know,
it's it's actually pretty good.

Speaker 6 (55:28):
I know that title. I didn't realize it was a
documentary until this very moment.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
Yeah, I haven't seen it. I knew it existed, But
to be honest, I think I knew because poly Shar
was making a movie called that that it just figured
it would be his fake attempt to revive his career.

Speaker 7 (55:46):
I mean, I think it was to a certain extent.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Yeah, but I mean if it had some other impact,
that's important sometimes.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
Anyways, Yeah, that's maybe. That's like I said, it's just
it's just surprisingly good. I also saw him do stand
up maybe four or five years ago, and it was
pretty good.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
All right.

Speaker 6 (56:03):
Yeah, Yeah, he grew up doing stand up, which I
was not aware of.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Yeah, his mom was like big in the standard community
in LA Like she's ran whatever club or something.

Speaker 6 (56:14):
The comedy store. Yeah, she purposely would not book him
at the comedy store so we could earn it on
his own. Fair enough, Yeah, don't do everything else. Like
the movie's fine. It's from the nineties.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Yeah, but it's not. Let's point out, it's not like
if you go back and you watch and Sino Man,
Now that's a pretty good movie. It's still pretty funny.
If you go back and watch this now it's a
poly Shor movie from the nineties. There's the difference.

Speaker 7 (56:48):
I would say, I don't know, Maybe I'm just maybe
the bar is so low or something.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
But I don't know.

Speaker 7 (56:52):
I just I didn't have a terrible time watching it.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
I I will say I found the first three quarters
of the movie to be a pleasant surprise considering how
low my standards were. The ending where it turns into
an action movie, I'm just like, nah, nah, Like it's like,
nothing has set us up to be in an action

(57:16):
movie ending. None of these actors are action movie actors
except for Lori Petty, I guess, but she's not doing
action movie stuff in this movie. I'm just like, yeah,
I'm not buying any of it. I don't want to
be involved in that. As much as I can complain
about the last movie having no narrative structure, I'm like,
you got to find a better way to resolve your

(57:37):
narrative structure this one in a more comedic way.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
I feel like one of the weirdest things about Lori
Petty is over and over again in movies for a
good chunk of time, they kept trying to do Lori
Petty is the love interest, which is just not, like,
not what you should do with Lori Petty, Like she
doesn't She is not a convincingly romantic character in any

(58:02):
fucking film she's in.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Yeah, they do things like they put her in this
where she's the non traditional female lead, right, Like she's
not She's not your typical.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
Like Bimbo, I'm not your typical girl. But there's a
bunch of other actresses who did that not your typical
girl better than her. Again, it's just purely using her
as a romantic lead. Ever, ever doesn't work. I mean,
and she's awesome. I love Lori Petty. I just think
that one thing is not in her skill set and

(58:34):
they kept trying to force it. H I think.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
I didn't have a problem with her as a romantic
lead in this film. I've had more of a problem
with Andy Dick as the jealous stalker type because the
idea that he was attracted to a woman was somehow
the fact the idea that he was attracted to a
human was somehow too far fetched for me to understand.

Speaker 6 (59:02):
He's the one that should have been attracted to the camel.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
Andy Dick is only hard for gay robots.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I'm honestly thinking more like poly Shore sits on the
stool that Andy Dick really likes, and Andy Dick gets
upset and tries to fight him about it, and nobody
else can tell that stool apart from the other stools,
but he's really into it. That's where I get with
Andy Dick. I don't have a lot of love for
Andy Dick. That wasn't meant as a compliment. In case

(59:30):
anyone was wondering whether I meant that it was a
good thing or a bad thing, I just yeah, again,
I think that the victory as it relatesd Andy Dick
is in scaling back his character. So when he was
doing the jealous thing, I was not loving it.

Speaker 6 (59:47):
I thought, I don't know, No, are you blowing in
the microphone?

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Yeah, he's blowing his stool, is what he's doing right now.
He's like, I forgot about my stool, and now he's
going down on it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
Obviously, is what's happening going down on the stool? They say.

Speaker 7 (01:00:10):
So.

Speaker 6 (01:00:10):
The only reason I really have fond memories of this
movie is because there used to be like a dollar
theater imperium and it was like right on the street
from where I live right now, but it doesn't exist anymore,
and it was a lot. It was active, like when
I was like thirteen to like twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Nice. It's a perfect time to have a dollar theater active.

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
To exactly, and I think tickets were like a dollar
twenty five or something, but we still just called it
the dollar theater. So when I was fifteen, me and
my girlfriend got dropped off to watch this movie and
then we walked across the street, went to the mall
for a while, and then she's like, well, my mom's
not gonna be back to pick us up for like
another like three hours, so we just walked back across
the street and watched in the army. Now again that

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we had just seen it, but we were fifteen, so
that means we just made out in the back round
the whole time.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
It's also a dollar.

Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
Exactly, and this was this was the movie. For some reason,
she decided, Okay, I'm just gonna move his hand up
and let him touch my boob. This was this was like, oh,
this is the first time I'm touching a boob. It
was during this movie.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
And that's how bad this movie is. This girl cycle, Oh,
this fucking guy finded me. So I have to pay
attention to Pauly Shorge.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
I'm just saying, could you could you imagine trying to
be romantic while Andy Dick is talking out loud.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
I don't think he said anything being romantic.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
This is so clear romantic, I meant getting a boner.

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
This is me trying not to cut my lips on
her braces. Is what was going on?

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Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
What is everybody watched this last episode? Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
You may be surprised to hear another.

Speaker 6 (01:02:26):
I'm not surprised. What'd you watch?

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Done? I really only watched one movie, which is I
finally got around to seeing Bring Her Back, Okay, which
is a lot of other people have been talking about recently.
It's from the directors have talked to me. Do you
guys remember that one?

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:02:44):
I enjoyed that one.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
Yeah. Bring Her Back is an equally well made film.
Joy might not be the right word. I don't know
if you guys enjoy watching children suffer or.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
Not a little bit, so I've heard it's kind of
a rough watch.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Yeah, So the plot is, so two children find there's
like it's a step brother stepsister situation, and they find
their dad dead and you see his penis a lot
even though he's dead, and I wish we didn't. And
then they're thrown into foster care and the foster mother

(01:03:23):
is clearly something evil and weird is going on. She's
got another kid living in the house that they didn't
know about, who's not really allowed out of his room,
who seems kind of feral, and we find out that
she recently lost a daughter to who drowned in her pool.
And the movie is called Bring Her Back. So what

(01:03:45):
do you think all the weird shit's about. It's probably
about trying to bring her back. It's not really, it
doesn't really it's not really a mystery, so I'm not
really spoiling anything. Like it's kind of like we see
clips throughout. There's these VHS tapes that are in the household,
and we see pieces of them played throughout the movie
that show the mom participating in some sort of ritual.

(01:04:09):
We don't know exactly what it is. But again, we
know she lost a daughter. We know the movie is
called Bring Her Back, so you can kind of guess,
and the fearal child just keeps getting more and more
fearal and weird. The movie is dark and weird and strange.

(01:04:29):
It explores topics of child abuse while still just being
a horror film. It definitely delves into the idea of
being like a kid and knowing something's wrong and not
knowing how to get help, which is pretty common to

(01:04:49):
explore in horror films. Overall, I would just say it
was just fucking creepy and weird, and there was definitely
moments and the body horror kicks in. There are moments
that made me squirm, And I say made me squirm
very specifically. I'm not saying we'll make you squirm. I'm

(01:05:10):
saying me, who watches all the crazy fucking shit that
I watch literally swirming in my seat while I watched
this movie, and that that's an accomplishment. Now, part of
that is I have particular when it comes to abuse children.
I have a particular issue with that. That is, it's

(01:05:31):
harder for me to watch that than it might be
for other people. But like a child chewing on a
knife to the point where it's I've heard, yeah, and
like I won't go into explicit detail on that, but
like the way it happens and how much of it
is shown on screen is just h I don't else

(01:05:56):
to describe it. And then like there are moments where
like the fearal child is trying to eat other characters,
and later we'll find out that eating other characters allows
him to take on characteristics of other characters, and it's like,
all right, that's upsetting, and I don't know what to
say about that.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
It feels like I feel like this should be warning
me away from this movie. And instead of going.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
No, and honestly, you're you're experiencing what I experienced listening
to other people review of the film, so I understand
where you're coming from. I was like, oh, yeah, I
will say there are some genuinely shocking moments in this
movie where you're just like, I don't know how they're
gonna get out of this situation. Oh, all right, I
guess that's how you get out of it. Like I

(01:06:44):
guess you run that character over with your car. I
guess that changes the plot quite a bit. Actually, you
know what I mean. There's moments like that in this movie.
The actual plot line, I don't know how. I don't
know how much detail that you get into, but it's like,
you know, she's trying to bring her daughter back. It
involves the evil ceremonies that have also involved trapping this

(01:07:05):
other child. I don't Yeah, I don't want to get
into exact details because it's spoilery and it's not really relevant.
The point is it's a very upsetting film, and as
you sit and watch it, you're just gonna want to
swirm in your seat and feel all weird about it.
And if you happen to go to the same screening,
I'll go. I went to maybe the film will stop

(01:07:26):
working while one of the main characters is having their
head held underwater, and you're gonna have a ten minute
break while you have to wait to find out if
that character dies or not, and then you have to
get up and leave and go to another theater and
sit down where they've queued it up and they turn
it back on and we find out whether that person
lives or dies. That was an awkward moment, but I

(01:07:51):
would highly recommend the film if you're comfortable with being
upset while you watch a film. It's not I recommend
the film in the way that I recommen and some
of the more gory disturbing shit we watched, and not
just even gory isn't the right word, but disturbing. A
lot of the ideas that are in the film are

(01:08:11):
worse than the actual gore. Like I think the gore
is we're prepared for that, if you're listening to this podcast,
you're prepared for that. But a lot of the ideas
they explore of like parental abuse and not just not
just physical abuse, but emotional abuse, I think is it's

(01:08:31):
very upsetting to watch. And the idea of these kids
that know something is going wrong are telling the authorities
and kind of getting the old like oh come on,
and you're just like that hits too close to home.
That's what would happen in these scenarios, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:08:49):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
I think they kind of nail it despite the fact
that these are like Australians, I think, I guess it's
a worldwide phenomena. And yeah, so I recommend if you
like unhappy things it is I guess what I would say,
Uh yeah, that would be all I watched though.

Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
Well, right when I watch numerous things, number one being
I watched the entirety of Iron Art. Okay, it's fine.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
I'm about halfway through.

Speaker 6 (01:09:27):
Yeah, it's decent enough. It's not like the best Marvel thing,
but it's not like overly terrible. It does do the
thing where at least they're like kind of up in
your face about it, where she's like, oh on, I'm
going to work with these people and then of course
they're going to turn on her at some point and

(01:09:48):
so then she'll have to fight against them. I mean,
it's kind of a lot of stuff in Marvel. This one.
At least she's like joining up with criminals. She's joining
up with criminals to do crime, so at the very
least like they're upfront about it. It's not like a
big surprise or anything. But yeah, overall it's fine. The

(01:10:13):
series introduces the Hood, which is an interesting character and
hasn't shown up yet, so it's been interesting. Like I
ended up going to do like a read up on
sort of what his origin was to compare it to
how they do it in this.

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
So yeah, it's kind of cool how they this version
of it is almost like a mashup kind of where
they took like a few of the different versions over
the years and just for like, let's just kind of
do all of them.

Speaker 6 (01:10:46):
Yeah. Well, I don't know, I have I enjoyed it.
It's fine. I would watch another season. I was disappointed
by anything.

Speaker 5 (01:10:56):
Really, I still don't know how they're gonna throw one
of the most anticipated antagonists into one of the most
least anticipated series.

Speaker 6 (01:11:09):
Yeah, so we can discuss that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Okay, Oh, okay, Noah hasn't seen it yet.

Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
I was gonna say, like, I'm about halfway halfway through because.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
I haven't seen any of it yet, Like, I'm not
excited for it. I will watch it, but I'm curious
now that I know Myphisto shows up how that works.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
Uh, do you sort of.

Speaker 5 (01:11:32):
Think about the character of the Hood.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
No, I don't know anything about the character of the Hood.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
So he's got a magical cloak that in one story
comes from a demon.

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
Okay, that makes as much sense as anything good.

Speaker 6 (01:11:45):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's I don't know, it's fine.
It's just one of those like, oh, this is where
we're doing it, and he doesn't show up till the
last episode, So not a lot happens. It's more like, oh,
that character's on the table now, but like, you know,

(01:12:05):
they'd really do anything with them in the series per se.
So yeah, okay, it's one of those. Yeah, but I
will say the couple of scenes that Sasha Barak Cohen
is in, he's real good, which makes me kind of excited.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
That doesn't really surprise me.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
Yeah, they so far. I got to the point where
they went to the ant or whatever, who's got the
mystical connections to all that kind of stuff, And I
did appreciate the fact that, you know whatever, they're doing
the reading and they're like, uh, this entity is extremely
evil and the daughter's like, yeah, he's probably getting possessed

(01:12:44):
or something, and she goes, no, she goes, this is
the one doesn't possess people. He just manipulates everyone, like
and it's like, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:12:56):
Yeah, I like it. He this is not super spoiler
or anything. He talks to multiple characters in the last episode,
and it's interesting if you really pay attention that he
tailors himself to who he's talking to, so you'll notice
like he's dressed differently, talking differently, the food he's eating

(01:13:19):
is different, and even like I watched a video and
they pointed out, like this thing with the food is
specifically done this way because this character is from here,
and then this character's from here, And I was like,
holy shit, Like it's so much detail that nobody's even
gonna notice, but the fact they did it is like nice.

(01:13:43):
So his stuff is really good. So I'm excited to
see him and other stuff. I don't know if they're
gonna like, well, we're not gonna do anything with them,
and then they'll show up in season two of Ironheart
or whatever. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:13:57):
I just there's been so or irritates me a little
bit that they could have did a fun thing where
because he's a shape changer and all that kind of stuff,
they could have had different actors like being him? Does
that make sense throughout other movies? And have you know
what's up with all these assholes? You keep showing up

(01:14:19):
and talking people into making these terrible mistakes. Yeah, and
then have you know whenever they finally reveal and be like, yeah,
it's him. He's been here the whole time, just fucking
with everybody, being a dick. That's what he does.

Speaker 6 (01:14:33):
There's still a chance.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
So can I ask you a bag question? Is what
is kind of the plot of Ironheart, since it's they
did her origin poorly already.

Speaker 6 (01:14:47):
So the very beginning of the series, she's an mi T,
which I thought, Hey, maybe we'll see uh ned or
Flash or something from Spider Man because they all got
accepted the I T at the end of the the
last movie, and we don't spend enough time for that
to happen. She sincely gets kicked out of MIT and

(01:15:11):
flow like essentially steals her armor even though she technically
it's not owned by the school, and then flies home
to Chicago, and then it's her sort of reconnecting with
people she grew up with and stuff, and we find
out there was a big tragedy from when she was younger,
probably right before she showed up in Blackman out There

(01:15:33):
and stuff. That kind of sets the tone for a
majority of the rest of the series. They do come
up with some interesting things, I guess dealing with trauma,
but I mean, everything's about trauma anymore. But she never
wants to talk about anything. And at some point someone
points out that you're so busy forgetting the bad stuff

(01:15:56):
that happened that you're forgetting all the good stuff that
happened to you. Kind of need that stuff in your
life to kind of keep you on the path you
want to be on, and you know, so it's a
lot of stuff like that, and then she wants to
build a new suit, so of course she falls in
with criminals to earn a lot of money very quickly.

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
I do love So this isn't a spoiler. It's in
the first episode, but there's a moment where she's in
the meeting where she's gotten in trouble at school, and
she gets this whole speech of that you know, I,
you know.

Speaker 7 (01:16:33):
I want to do this big thing and you guys
want to keep me small and blah blah blah blah blah, and.

Speaker 5 (01:16:37):
She does the look and the Dean like looks at
her and just goes, you know what, that is a
giant pile of bullshit and just lays it into her
over and it's like, nobody's ever done that, you fucking
you know, you ungrateful little shit basically, And I don't know,
I just appreciate it because for once it's not like, oh,
the character was you know, treated unjustly and now has

(01:17:00):
to you know, rise up. Instead, it's like, no, you're
you're being a piece of shit, like stop stop being
a piece of shit, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:17:08):
Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, I mean I enjoy it. It's
only six episodes, so it goes by pretty quick. I
watched three episodes a day over two days and was
hooked enough that there was a couple of times where
I'm like, well, let's stop here and I'll go to bed,
and then the end of the episode and I'm like, God,
damn it, all right, let's start the next one.

Speaker 5 (01:17:29):
Yeah, I can't do it. I've I've learned that, like
I've I've now got my shitty shows that I'm only
allowed to watch shitty shows after a certain time at
night because I have to be able to I have
to be able to walk away because I just if
it's a good show in that episode end. So I'm
gonna be like maybe one.

Speaker 6 (01:17:49):
More fucking Mephisto talking to you.

Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
Well, I'm trying to like avoid like the show poker Face.
I love the show poker Face, Yeah, because it's basically
what's what's actress's name?

Speaker 6 (01:18:01):
I always forget it, Natasha Leone.

Speaker 5 (01:18:03):
Yeah, Natasha Leone. It's basically Natasha Leone doing a Columbo impression.
That's what I've heard, Yeah, which is something about that.
I'm like, this is very funny that she's just doing it,
because she even does the well just one more thing.
She does it all the time, and you're like, ah, Colombo.

Speaker 6 (01:18:25):
And I've heard that the episodes are prut like there
is an overarching story, but each episode is kind of
its own thing.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
Yeah, yeah, it really is. I mean, here's the thing.
There isn't a whole lot about the show that is original, right,
all the ideas that they're playing off of or like
old shit. You know. Her whole thing is that she's
got a really really good bullshit detector. She can just

(01:18:54):
tell if people are lying. That's it. That's her fucking
special thing. And somehow she keeps crimes over and over
and over again just by knowing when people are lying,
which to be one hundred percent honest. If you have
a full proof ability to tell if somebody's lying, you're
going to be pretty good at solving mysteries, which I

(01:19:15):
also think sometimes takes a little bit of the wind
out of the sales, you know, because you're like, well,
if no one can ever lie, you just win. It's
the person that's lying that's the you know, it's pretty easy.

Speaker 6 (01:19:33):
Oh, also because it seemed fitting. On July fourth, they
started watching The Americans, which is the show takes place
in the eighties about Russian spies living in America. It's
sort of been on mind to watch the list for
a while, and I'm like, well, today seems like a
fitting day to start watching this. So I'm like three

(01:19:54):
episodes into it, and I'm enjoying it so far.

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
Some of those shows, I don't think I ever heard
a bad thing about it. I just also never bothered
to watch it.

Speaker 6 (01:20:04):
Oh sure, do you do?

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
You think you're enjoying it because it's from a simpler
time when other countries had to invade your country and
spy on you guys to make you guys do shitty stuff,
or now that you guys are just like committing holocausts publicly,
you just wish that there was a time when you
were the good.

Speaker 5 (01:20:24):
Guys, or do you guys? You guys remember when they
made that show Man in the High Castle. It was
basically an alternate history where America was completely fascist, you
guys remember?

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:20:35):
Yeah, I started watching that earlier this year and I
had to stop because I'm just like, I can't. I
can't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
Because because why because your window was open and you
couldn't keep the two plots apart. What was going on outside?

Speaker 6 (01:20:45):
What was going on? Pretty much?

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:20:50):
So yeah, yeah, I don't know, I'm enjoying it. It's
got Carrie Wrustle in it, so I, for the most
part enjoy her. So all right, So I brought this
documentary apup last week, which means I then had to
watch it because I was like, well, I'm going to
be to watch it. So I watched Electric Boogaloo The

(01:21:12):
Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films. It's just just like
two hours of people talking about how crazy Cannon was
and uh, spoiler alert, I've seen it before, but I
still enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
I mean that learning the history of Canon Films has
got to be fun and interesting. I don't know how
it can not be.

Speaker 6 (01:21:35):
Well, the fun funny thing is I completely forgot that
they didn't the two guys didn't create Cannon Films. They
bought it at some point.

Speaker 5 (01:21:44):
Oh yeah, the crazy guys.

Speaker 6 (01:21:45):
Yeah yeah. And then I forgot that they the whole
company was having financial problems of course, and then the
two guys turned on each other, and that's what really
like destroyed the whole thing. Oh really, yeah, I mean
that was the big part of it broken financially, But

(01:22:06):
they basically both blamed each other and then both went
informed of their own companies. And apparently they had both
been talking about because they made like Breaking the break
dancing movie, and it was kind of a hit, and
you know, these guys were like, the next the next
big thing is gonna be the the Lombarda movie. And

(01:22:29):
so they both when they split up, like they had
been working on the idea for Lombada movie. And when
they broke up into separate companies, they each made their
own La movie and they both came out on the
exact same day and basically both destroyed each other at
the box office.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
What a stupid fucking sentiment. I don't What I don't
appreciate about what you just said is the implication that
either of those movies was gonna be successful if they were.

Speaker 6 (01:22:56):
Oh no, I don't get there. But I'm just saying
they basically cannibalized each other. So there was like zero
box office for it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:04):
Yeah, but I mean zero plus zero is still zero.

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
That but I just thought it was funny. Yeah, it's uh,
it's a fun documentary because they talked to a lot
of people who worked at Cannon and they were like, yeah,
this place was fucking crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
Yeah, I mean, we're all shocked to find that out.

Speaker 6 (01:23:26):
Yeah, and uh, you know, Doug, they reiterated something that
you said surely wasn't the case, which is them creating
a poster, going to con selling the foreign movie rights,
and then using that money to actually make the movie.
When they got home.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
I was definitely worried that you were going to prove
me wrong by watching that documentary. When you told me
you were watching it, I was like, don't, come on, don't.

Speaker 6 (01:23:52):
It wasn't.

Speaker 5 (01:23:52):
It wasn't.

Speaker 6 (01:23:53):
Because of that, I was just in the mood to
watch it again. But they got to that part and
I was like, oh, yeah, they did do that, so
uh yeah, but it's just fun. They talked to Richard
Chamberlain about the King Solomon's Minds, the Alan Corterman movies,
and they just talked about how much of a bitch
Sharon Stone was on set the entire time. It's like,

(01:24:14):
this is great.

Speaker 5 (01:24:16):
I need that. The crazy thing is I was talking
to about this the other day, so I can't remember
what we were watching, but it was a cannon movie,
and she was mad at me, but I was like,
you know what the great thing is, so this steamy
pile of shit. I was like, the company that made
this movie made so many good movies, like legitimately good

(01:24:40):
movies for a very short period of time, and then
just went completely off the fucking rails. Yeah, that's it.
It's just so wild. I don't understand how you go
from fucking like I don't know, like blood Support and
shit that fucking break in two, Like how do you
get from point A to point B?

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
Like? I like, how though, that you're using blood Sport
as exist a good movie? Like I love blood Sport.
We've talked about blood Sport many a time. The idea
that it's a good movie in the traditional sense of
the term good is a bit questionable.

Speaker 5 (01:25:18):
Here's again. I will argue, to the ends of the
Earth a good movie if a lot of people watch
it and enjoy it and have fun, it is a
good movie. It does nothing else matters.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
Okay, Transformers To is a good movie. Michael Bay is
a genius. According to no one.

Speaker 5 (01:25:37):
You put the word genius in there. I would have
to argue it is a successful good movie. In the
eyes of those idiots who think it's a good movie,
I would.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
Argue it's a shitty movie and that the world is.

Speaker 6 (01:25:52):
Don't let Robot Heaven tear you guys apart.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
I'm still upset about Robot Heaven. I've been upset about
it for a long fucking time. I'm never gonna get
over it. That movie came out the same year as
fucking rob Zombies Halloween two, where there was like fucking
ghosts in that movie too, and I'm like, why are
there ghosts in both of these movies that should't have
fucking ghosts in them. I'm still, Oh my God, pissed

(01:26:19):
me out.

Speaker 6 (01:26:19):
Do you know what, he'll cheer you up?

Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:26:22):
So on Thursday, I had the day off work and
my girlfriend at like five thirty facetimes me and she's like,
oh me and h riss her daughter. We're gonna go
see et because it's playing in the theater in Gailsburg
and you can come if you want. It starts in

(01:26:43):
an hour and a half and it's a forty five
minute drive.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
And I was like, fuck, so, I don't even know
why you're.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
I jumped in the car and just drove to Gailsburg,
and then we went and saw et on the big screen.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
Yeah, I'd have been saying thank you for the advanced warning. Yeah,
I appreciate all of the at the time you gave
me here. Now I can put on Dan.

Speaker 6 (01:27:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
So I saw and does E T hold up? Is
it a good film?

Speaker 6 (01:27:13):
Or uh? I'll say, yeah, it's good.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
I Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:27:20):
The problem I had is the lady in front of
me who was on her like directly in front of me,
who was on her phone the entire time, and I'm
just like, why are you even here? I didn't, but
I was real annoyed and I couldn't move, So it
was like, son of a bitch. That's right, I was mad.

(01:27:45):
I should also mention the screening was free, which is great.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
That's excellent. It's extra good.

Speaker 6 (01:27:52):
Yeah, free summer movie that this theater was showing. All right, yep,
still good, still magical. I saw in the theater when
I was like four, scared to live and shoot out
of me then, so it was nice to uh revisit
it at the ripe old age of forty five.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
It's still scared, still a little scared.

Speaker 6 (01:28:16):
No, I just there's a lot of stuff because I
probably haven't watched it in twenty something years, probably, and
I think the last time I did watch it was
that shitty special edition version.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

Speaker 6 (01:28:28):
Yeah, they played like walkie talkies, oh sorry, instead of guns.
And luckily the one they showed was the theatrical version.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
But I don't think you can even find that updated
version anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:28:43):
Steven Spielberg's like that was a bad idea.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
I think it's probably something like on the collector's market
that would probably be people would be excited to have
because it's.

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
It was because because unlike Star Wars, it didn't fucking
delete all the old version of the movie and fuck everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (01:29:03):
Yeah, the last set I had had both the theatrical
and the special edition. But yeah, I don't know. I
just had a great time revisiting it in yeah, just
that eighties sort of family movie and then you're like, man,
this is fucking dark for a family movie. Yeah, And
then I was having a little bit of a little

(01:29:26):
bit of a hard time when watching Elliott get all
upset when Et dies and then it comes back to life,
but then he has to say goodbye to him again.
So having just lost one of my cats, it was
just like, oh man, this is kind of a rough,
rough segment to watch.

Speaker 5 (01:29:44):
Yeah, it's it's it's pretty cut wrenching. I still think
as far as children's movies that will destroy your soul,
Iron Giant still wins.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Probably, I don't know if that's something that they want
you ranking.

Speaker 5 (01:30:02):
I thought it fucked the end, Iron Giant fucking Even
today I've rewatched it and been like, he's Superman.

Speaker 6 (01:30:14):
Yeah, so yeah, I bawled at the end of the
movie as expected, and it was fun singing on the
big screen again forty one years after seeing it on
the big screen.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
Life, I've never seen at on the big screen, so.

Speaker 6 (01:30:29):
It's worth of watch you Still. I still get that
adrenaline adrenaline boost when the kids are riding their bikes
at the police and then all of a sudden they
go up in the sky and fly over, and I'm
just like, fuck, yeah, yeah, Telekenesis, oh yeah you should
if you'd enjoy it. The funny thing that happened is
at the very beginning when Elliott and Mike, his brother,

(01:30:52):
are arguing and Elliott gets pissed off and he's like, whatever,
peenus breath. All the adults in the audience kind of chuckled,
and then the lady in front of me that had
her kids sit next to her kid her kids like
what did you say? And she's like nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
I love watching eighties movies with the modern audience. I
love it.

Speaker 6 (01:31:16):
The same thing happened when later on, when in the
background you hear the mom and the older brother arguing
and she's like, no, you're not going as a terrorist
when you're talking about Halloween.

Speaker 5 (01:31:33):
It's funny because it would be even less appropriate today.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
What about when Elliott forcibly kisses that girl in his classroom?
Does anybody else get bothered by that? How it is now?
I'm just thinking a ship from e T. I haven't
seen it a while.

Speaker 6 (01:31:49):
I was having a good chuckle when Elliott was acting
drunk in the in the classroom. It's pretty good. Oh yeah,
so shocker et still holds up pretty well.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
That's it sucked.

Speaker 6 (01:32:07):
Yeah, I didn't know, Like I said, I hadn't seen
it number twenty years. So then the last thing I
saw is I remembered that supposedly Amazon Prime members could
go to an early screening of Superman Superman movie, Yeah,
And I was like, well, it's on podcast to day

(01:32:28):
when we usually record, but Doug, you weren't a hundred
percent sure if you're going to be able to record
or not. And so I messaged you guys, and I
was like, Hey, could we record on Wednesday? Because of this?
Doug said yes, And I'm like, well, it's good because
I bought a ticket and uh so yeah. So I
went and saw an early screening of Superman. The interesting

(01:32:48):
thing is the early screening was an IMAX. So I
went on when I bought my ticket, and you pick
your seat, of course, and and I always for IMAX
since the screen is so big. I always go to
the very top of the of the theater so I
can take the whole thing in. And so I ordered

(01:33:11):
a ticket in the last row. And this is the
row that also has like handicap seating, so there's some
like spaces in between sections of seats of people who
have wheelchairs and stuff they can sit with people. And
there was only like one or two tickets left, and
I'm like, oh, well, this one right here on an

(01:33:31):
end sort of like int like on the end, and
then there's a blank space where for wheelchairs, and then
there's a couple more seats and then so on. So
it's like we'll sit on this very end. That'll be
good stuff going by myself. So I bought a ticket,
here's the theater, give my popcorn, go to uh check
out my seat, and I get up there and someone
is sitting in my seat and I'm like, God, damn it,

(01:33:53):
I fucking hate this shit because even though it is like,
rightfully my seat, I hate having to have the conver
station of like, hey, what seat are you in and
then showing them that it's actually my seat and just
the whole back and it's fucking annoying because then if
you're like, well whatever and you go sit somewhere somewhere else,
then eventually someone else is gonna show up and you're
gonna have to move again.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
Yeah, so I fu if there's a signed seating, sit
in your fucking seat, what's the problem.

Speaker 6 (01:34:22):
So my seat number was P twenty, so I was
like all right, So I went up. There's a lady
sitting on the end there and I'm just like, what's
what's your seat number? And her and her boyfriend are
sitting there and they're like, oh, yeah, we got the
ones on the end, and I'm and she pulls down
like the armrest because it's got the seat number on

(01:34:42):
it and it was up and she's like, oh, this
is nineteen and I'm like what. She's like, yeah, there's nineteen,
So yeah says nineteen on the I'm like oh. So
then I look at the next group of seats and
that is seat sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
So you booked the empty space for the wheelchair ghosts.

Speaker 6 (01:35:01):
So I'm standing there going so there's literally not a
seat twenty. Like on the Fandango app where I had
to buy these tickets because you had to go to
Amazon and buy them through Fandango, it had a seat
in that spot and then had blank blank spaces for
the wheelchairs and then more seats, so that specific website

(01:35:24):
has a seat on there that does not exist. So
I was like fuck. So then I had to go
all the way down back up to the counter and
I'm just like showed them my phone had the seat number,
and I'm like, so this booked me for seat P twenty.
I got up there there literally is no seat P
twenty And the guy pulled out the screen and looked

(01:35:44):
at it for a second and he's like, weird, You're
you are on absolutely correct. I don't I don't understand,
and I'm like I don't either. I'm like, so, I mean,
I guess, like what do I do? Because it was
pretty full, and he's like, all right, well, and he
like they have the screen that can like flip towards me,

(01:36:06):
and he showed me like the empty seats and he's like, well,
I guess you can pick one that's not acted out
and like you can sit there. And I found one
that was like on the end, and I was like,
all right, I guess I'll do that. So I read
the number off and I'm like, all right, I guess
I'm gonna take that one. So I go back inside,
get up to get up to where the seat is

(01:36:30):
supposed to be, and there's like a four year old
kid sitting in it. So I'm like these fucking people
they like they like books two seats and then like
just you know, or like the kid will suit on
my lap, and then decided when they got there just
to put him in the empty seat. And I'm like,
I am not. I'm just not fucking dealing with this.
I'm not gonna argue with people, be like, move your

(01:36:50):
fucking kid out of the way. So I had to
like ah, fuck, and there's like these two seats, like
they were pretty far up. It was a little closer
I wanted to be. It turned out not to be
too bad. But I just sat there and I'm like,
if somebody comes in they're like, hey, I bought these seats,
I'm gonna be like, fuck you. I don't know what
to do. So I sat there. Luckily nobody came in,
but so I got to see an early screening of Superman. Noah,

(01:37:14):
I think you're gonna absolutely love it. I feel like
I kind of put a little blurb up on Facebook
that this movie feels like it was made for people
who've been reading Superman comics, probably since like the nineties
or maybe even like you know, through the eighties or whatever,
where it's a Superman that lives in a world of

(01:37:36):
other superheroes and sort of the technology of this world
is a little bit more advanced than reality and stuff,
and it's just like it's just you know, he lives
in this world. This is not the Superman from like
Man of Steel. This is way better than Man of
Steel because that was a piece of gage, right, but
this is not like an oggin.

Speaker 5 (01:37:55):
What I'm hearing is is the Superman movie.

Speaker 6 (01:37:59):
Yeah, but I'm saying, and it's not like the Christopher
Reeve Superman where you are seeing him as like the
only hero in this world and you see him from
beginning learn how to be Superman. Like there's some texts
at the beginning that's not overly obnoxious, but it kind
of sets the scene for where this movie takes place.

(01:38:21):
And apparently this takes place like three years after he
comes out of Superman, so there's like no origin stuff,
which I'm perfectly fine with. James Gunnis said, I think
we all know he gets put in a rocket since Earth.
We all know that. We don't need to rehash that again.
So we're just dealing with a Superman that's already established

(01:38:43):
and talks to other heroes, and other heroes know who
he is and stuff. So I feel like it plays
up to more of like the nineties sort of esthetic
of what Superman was, where there's a lot of sci
fi stuff in it, and he lives in a very
populated world where he's constantly deal with other heroes and
villains and stuff like that, which I was fine with.

(01:39:06):
It was kind of like, Okay, it's an interesting take.
I haven't seen before, because even a Man of Steel
has started from the very beginning and kind of went
from there. Some of the dialogue is a little corny
at times, and I feel like maybe it's a little
too full of exposition if we're not doing origin stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:39:27):
Yeah, that sounds like that. That scares me what you
just said.

Speaker 6 (01:39:33):
It's not like a ton of it. There's just a
couple of scenes where.

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
I'm just like classic DC though, we're gonna jump into
the universe fully established, are you. Well, we're gonna have
some scenes where we explain how we got here. And
it's like, but if you're already jumping into then why
not just do an origin? Well, we don't want to
do an origin, so you're gonna jump right in. Well, yeah,
but we have to explain how we got all right.

Speaker 6 (01:39:55):
There's not a ton of fun. There's only like maybe
one or two one or two pieces that I can
remember where it was just like, oh, that's that's that's
a very exposition heavy sentence. That is a little awkward.

Speaker 5 (01:40:08):
Well, you do have to explain Guy Gardner.

Speaker 6 (01:40:11):
Everyone. Those characters are funny and literally just brought in
for comic relief. They do get a couple of good
action scenes towards the end, but apparently.

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
I feel like it doesn't it feel like they are
one trying to set up Justice League International.

Speaker 6 (01:40:32):
They are because this this they call them. It's just
three of them. It's Guy Gardnerer's a Terrific and Hawk
Girl and they call themselves the Justice Gang. Guy Gardner
does and then everybody else goes Nope, that's not a
final name yet, and it is uh funded by Maxwell Lord,

(01:40:54):
but he only has a very one small scene that
you see on a TV towards the end where he's
like a reporter is asking a question as he's walking
to his car. Maxwell Lord, i will say, is played
by Sean Gunn. It's kind of funny, okay, but yeah,
and so they're kind of setting all that shut up.
But the actual Superman part of it, like the guy

(01:41:15):
is pretty decent. There's a couple of visual shots in
this where I'm was like, oh, yeah, that's a Superman
shot that looks awesome. Do you remember a couple of
years ago, like this picture went around of when Brendan
Fraser auditioned and he was wearing like a Superman suit
And they're like, the picture came out and I'm just

(01:41:37):
I was just like, holy shit, Like, he looks pretty
good in the Superman suit. I always thought he probably
would have been a pretty good choice. He would have
brought like because Brendan Fraser can kind of do this
serious scenes when he needs to, but then can also
bring a little bit of a sense of humor to
the character. And I feel like this guy naive arm.

(01:41:59):
This guy pulls off sort of that combination pretty well.
There is some funny moments just because it's James Gunn,
so of course there is. And this guy kind of
has like a charm to him that you're like, Okay,
he can get away with some of this funnier stuff,
but then also handles the super like the serious stuff
pretty well overall. Like I'm positive on it. I think

(01:42:25):
since where we didn't do an origin sort of like
how the Christopher Eve one was, you lose maybe a
little bit of the heart of it, even though they
try to kind of put some of that stuff in.
Because there's a lot of talk about being human and
people hating him because he's an alien that for some

(01:42:45):
reason feels relevant. I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
I don't know where that could possibly come from.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
It's because your country is currently committing a holocaust.

Speaker 5 (01:42:54):
Oh yeah, that's what it is.

Speaker 6 (01:42:58):
Yeah, you find out there's a secret prison where people
are privated a way too that people don't know where
it is.

Speaker 5 (01:43:08):
How crazy is that this movie was written and started
filming before a lot of them.

Speaker 6 (01:43:14):
Right, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
It's not crazy. What it is is people coming up
with the most cartoonishly evil things anyone could ever do,
and then your government conveniently doing those things. It's not
like the writers predicted that your government would do them.
I think they were trying to be over the top
when they wrote this stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:43:38):
Yeah. The interesting thing is when, like remember in Cabin
in the Woods when we see like the cubes and
all the people are in different cubes, and so that's
essentially the visual of what this thing looks like. And
it's interesting that some of them we find out like, oh,
that's one of Lex's ex girls friends. She wrote a

(01:44:01):
mean post about him after they broke up. So she's
in here. That guy's a blogger, he wrote a mean
blog about Lex Luthor. He's in here, And I'm just like, oh, weird,
it's weird. How relevant that seems?

Speaker 3 (01:44:15):
So?

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
Yeah, so there's some interesting stuff in him, but I
don't know. I was positive on it. I'm curious to
see what you guys think about it. I think, no,
it's really gonna link it.

Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
I think I'm going to go see it tomorrow night.

Speaker 6 (01:44:27):
I think, Doug, you could kind of fall either way.
I think you could be like, yeah, there's some cool stuff,
but I didn't like this. That's as it is, metamor Yes,
I will say, he only gets one two big action scenes.
His purpose is interesting when you see kind of why

(01:44:50):
he's originally brought in, the kind of what ends up
happening with him.

Speaker 5 (01:44:55):
Yay, So I'm excited. That's That's one of thosecharacters that
I was like, I don't understand how they love put
him on camera.

Speaker 6 (01:45:03):
The makeup looks great what.

Speaker 5 (01:45:06):
I've seen in the trailers. I was like, holy shit,
because I always figured if we saw him, it was
going to be a well, yeah it's him, but you
know we had to change this, this and this.

Speaker 6 (01:45:19):
Nope, this is like I said, this is very this
is very comic Bookie, which I find very interesting because
I feel like that's not the version of Superman we've
been getting in theatrical movies ever. So I'm interested to
see how the public views this version of it, because
I feel like it is very different than like, like

(01:45:40):
I said, like the Christopher Reeve version or the Man
of Steel version in any of the Zack Snyder movies
like Trure.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
I mean, I think I think I would slightly disagree
with that. I think that Christopher Reeves Superman is extremely
comic bookie. He's just very specifically silver rage comic book.

Speaker 6 (01:46:00):
Yeah, and that's why I say I feel like this
one was made for people who read it in the
nineties through you know, probably up through today. I haven't
read much Superman after all the nineties.

Speaker 5 (01:46:12):
Yeah, it gets once you get to like the New
fifty two kind of era. Yeah, it just gets screwy.
It's kind of like X Men, where everything got so
fucking complicated at some point that you're like, Jesus Christ,
how does anybody ever get into this now? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:46:31):
Yeah, I mean there's just like and it's been in
some of the later trailers, like Superman has robots at
the Fortress of Solitude and so kind of chat with and.

Speaker 5 (01:46:41):
Yeah what she does in the comic books.

Speaker 6 (01:46:43):
Yeah, which is what I'm saying, Like, it's a very
like technico logical, sort of sci fi sort of feel
to a lot of it. So, I mean, yeah, he's
got he's got robots that he literally calls them Superman robots,
which is a little awkward. That's very funny, but you know,

(01:47:05):
there's funny stuff. It's just it's interesting that there's like
established heroes in this in the version of this version
of Superman, so he's not like the only one, and
when a hero shows up, it's not people like, oh
what is this, it's just, oh, no, look, there's fucking
Guy Gardner showing up.

Speaker 5 (01:47:25):
I'm assuming do they do the joke of every time
Guy Gardner shows up, somebody goes, oh god, this guy's
a dick.

Speaker 6 (01:47:33):
No, Lois Lane does make fun of his haircut.

Speaker 5 (01:47:36):
Though, I wish they would have done the dick thing,
because that's the that's the best thing in the comic
books where everybody's like, yeah, no, listen, he's a hero,
he's helped out a lot. He's such an asshole.

Speaker 6 (01:47:50):
Hot take. Nathan Fillion's pretty good.

Speaker 5 (01:47:53):
Well, yeah, I do think it's funny making him Guy
Gardner when he was every Winds fan cast for hel
Jordan for a decade is genius. Yeah, because now he's
too old and out of shape to be hell Jordan.
But he can get Gardner.

Speaker 6 (01:48:13):
He could just he could just turn that snarkup though
and become get Gardner, which works right. Yeah, So yeah,
it's uh, you know, I think I said, even if
it doesn't have some of the heart that some of
the other movies have had, this movie is a lot
more fun than a lot of the last couple of
Superman movies have been.

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
That's a tough part across.

Speaker 6 (01:48:36):
I know anything, Zack Snyder, I would not call fun.
This one is like fun.

Speaker 3 (01:48:41):
More fun than a Man of Steel.

Speaker 6 (01:48:43):
How could you mean.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
You don't need to go to a therapist on your
way out of the theater.

Speaker 6 (01:48:54):
Yeah, there's two posts.

Speaker 5 (01:48:57):
Does he put what can only be described as a
thin sheene of ship water over the film to make
sure that there's no color or joy in it?

Speaker 6 (01:49:06):
He does not. This movie is very colorful.

Speaker 3 (01:49:09):
Jesus.

Speaker 5 (01:49:09):
The Snyder fans are going to be so mad.

Speaker 6 (01:49:12):
Oh they're already. Man, there in cell bullshit is already happening.

Speaker 5 (01:49:16):
I fucking hate those people.

Speaker 6 (01:49:18):
Magas Macas are also turning on it, like so woke,
infusing all this immigrant bullshit into this and I'm like, uh,
you ever read a Superman comic? You ever watched any
of the movies?

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
All this all this alien nonsense into this movie where
the characters and alien you.

Speaker 6 (01:49:38):
Always stood for hope and everything else. Why is why
is this going to be political? I mean I'm just
like political.

Speaker 5 (01:49:45):
Well, it's like ant you mean, like like positivity and
in supporting other people's rights and life, and that's that
that hope, that stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:49:58):
Yeah. Yeah, it's the same people that were like rage
against the Machine to stop being so political. It's like,
have you ever listened to a Rage against the Machine song?
All they've ever been. There are two post credit scenes,
neither one of them set anything up for future movies,
which is a nice change of pace. Just so if

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that matters to anybody.

Speaker 5 (01:50:23):
They don't or do they secretly they don't.

Speaker 6 (01:50:29):
But you know, I stuck around and watch them and
they're enjoyable. So yeah, so positive review for me if
you are looking forward to it, I am highly recommending it.
And weirdly, I think Fantastic Four might end up being
the darker movie of the two.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
I can see that.

Speaker 5 (01:50:50):
Yeah, So really, like I've got all my theories about
what's going to happen in this fantastic for a movie.
The one thing I can't quite square yet is like,
don't understand why half of the scenes thing is young
thing and half the scenes thing is old man thing. Yeah,

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so something there's something in this movie that's like not
I don't know, not being explicit. Does that make sense?
See how it goes better? It's extremely clever Disney trailer
fuckery to confuse.

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
You can't trust Disney's trailers. They like to have fun
with it, which I respect because I'm a sarcastic asshole,
so respect other sarcastic assholes. We're like, here's a trailer,
here's an example of what's in our movie. Did we
spend millions of dollars digitally altering things to make it

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look like it was gonna look different than the movie? Man?
Maybe we did, so I.

Speaker 6 (01:51:56):
Am I am very interested to hear you guys' review
a chance to see LANDA would probably enjoy it, Doug.

Speaker 3 (01:52:04):
That's good because he wants to go so yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:52:07):
Yeah, the stuff with Crypto is a lot of fun.
Sometimes maybe it gets a little too cartoonish, But.

Speaker 5 (01:52:17):
I just find it interesting that I've been told multiple
times that Crypto is actually a big part of the
lot of the movie.

Speaker 6 (01:52:26):
Yes, there is some motivation with Crypto being in the movie.
At the very end of the movie we find out
why Crypto is in the movie. That makes sense that
you'll see. Yeah, so it because they're making it out.
Are they making a super Pets movie? Uh No, I

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mean maybe, but that's not that's not part of it.

Speaker 5 (01:52:50):
I can't even remember what DC's version of that is.
I know the Marbles Pet Team, the Pet Avengers, the
Pet Avengers. I think it's Superpets in it. They do
a movie where the Rock does the voice of Crypto
containing Super Pets movie containing Throg, the greatest of all animals.

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He's thor and he's a frog.

Speaker 6 (01:53:16):
Lockjaw two.

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
Listen, John's dope, He's no Throg.

Speaker 1 (01:53:21):
Here's a brief glimpse of some of the truly fine
pictures we scheduled in the near cut.

Speaker 6 (01:53:26):
Right next week. I don't even know why we're doing
the segment. We pretty much revealed what the next week
this movie is gonna be. Uh we know it came
up with that we should do uh PCU and Airheads,
So guess what that's what we're.

Speaker 5 (01:53:39):
Doing, both of which I have on DVD.

Speaker 6 (01:53:44):
Both of which I recently just bought a combo pack
that has PCU Airheads and another movie that I don't
remember on it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:52):
Oh, what's the other movie?

Speaker 5 (01:53:54):
You know?

Speaker 7 (01:53:54):
It's funny. I think I might have Do we all
have the same combo pack?

Speaker 6 (01:54:01):
For some reason, I thought it was a triple pack.
It's actually just the double back, just the Airheads a PCU.
So it's gonna be great. I can just pull out
one DVD and they'll.

Speaker 3 (01:54:10):
Both like flip it over to get to the other movie.

Speaker 6 (01:54:13):
I don't know, maybe, I hope. So it's not a
snapcase if that helps. It's just a regular DVD case
that that's unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (01:54:23):
It should be like the cardboard case with.

Speaker 6 (01:54:25):
The let me see if I can grab it all?

Speaker 3 (01:54:30):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:54:33):
Uh now, it's it's a it's kind of like the
little DVD insert. So Airheads is its own standalone DVD.
But the PCU version is the one that has wide
screen on one side and full screen on the other.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
Oh, so you still get to flip it if you
want to flip it. Yeah, which which one are you
gonna watch? Are you gonna keep us in suspense for
next week?

Speaker 6 (01:54:57):
Please try to have as little full screen movies in
my collection as I can.

Speaker 5 (01:55:06):
I remember.

Speaker 7 (01:55:06):
The funny thing is I remember.

Speaker 5 (01:55:08):
An era whenever I actually did not like watching wide
screen movies.

Speaker 3 (01:55:13):
Well, because when you had a relatively small TV. Yes, yeah,
I mean quishing, yeah, like it was. It's not like,
it's not like when we were all watching on the
four x three televisions that they were sixty five inches wide.
They were like twenty two. You're like, I'm willing to
miss a bit of this picture in order to see
the whole screen filled up.

Speaker 5 (01:55:35):
I remember my parents bought console TV for the living room. Uh,
and everyone was giving my parents shit for spending so
much money and buying this massive, fucking TV. It was
seventeen inches.

Speaker 3 (01:55:52):
I remember a time when I had a DVD player
that had the zoom function, so if you bought if
your movie was a wide screen, you could zoom in
and get rid of them. And it was an even
worse version than just getting the full screen version, because
now it's just whatever was on screen zoomed in.

Speaker 6 (01:56:14):
I remember the first TV I had in my room
had to have been it was like one of those
little travel TVs, so it was maybe like six inches
I want to say. I had the antenna on it,
you know you pull it up and stuff, and it
was black and white, and I had on my nightstand
so I would like lay down and look at it.

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So I mean I was only like two inches away
from it. And my grandma felt so bad when she
saw me like watch a TV for like that Christmas,
her and her dad bought her and my dad bought
me like a twenty five inch like TV so I
could actually put it across the room and lay in
bed and watch it rather than having to have it
right up against my face.

Speaker 3 (01:56:57):
The first TV I think I had was like it
was twenty three inches I think, but it was literally
it was like the TV in my parents guest room.
And when we when I convinced them to let me
take over the guest room and turn my bedroom into
the guest room, I just didn't move the TV. I
just kept it and it was my TV.

Speaker 5 (01:57:19):
Although arguably they allowed this because none of them wanted
to move that heavy ass.

Speaker 3 (01:57:25):
Well, that's the funny thing is I moved that TV
multiple times. It was my TV until I graduated university
and got a job and I could afford it by
a TV. Then half grade to do a sweet, sweet
thirty six inch TV, which is still in that room
in my parents' basement. And again I go over and
look at it.

Speaker 6 (01:57:45):
Laugh.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
No, it's just whoever buys my parents' house when they
die is getting that TV. If they don't want it,
it's gonna be hidden in a closet somewhere. I'm not
carrying it back up those stairs. I carried it down
those stairs and to the one.

Speaker 6 (01:58:02):
Part of me does miss like console TVs though, Like
I have really good memories of just like laying on
the floor and like watching TV, and like my ex
wife didn't really have that, And sometimes there were days
I'm like, you know what, I'm just throwing my pillow
down on the floor. I'm gonna lay down on the
floor and watch TV. And it's not as good just because.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
Yeah, because the TV at eye level when you lay down.

Speaker 6 (01:58:29):
Yeah, yeah, it's actually up on like a TV stand now,
And I'm like, this is bullshit.

Speaker 5 (01:58:34):
Console TVs were I think the thing that I miss
is that they were furniture, you know what I mean,
Like they were they were like made to be.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
What's funny because the thing as soon as we switched
away from console TVs. The very next thing it developed
was furniture to put your TV on. And it's like,
but we had a perfect system where the TV was
the furniture. I don't know why you guys hid the message.

Speaker 6 (01:58:57):
And sometimes when that TV broke, you just bought a
new TV and stacked it on top of that TV.

Speaker 3 (01:59:03):
Because that's what are you gonna do? Buy a TV
and a TV stand. We're not rich.

Speaker 6 (01:59:07):
No people would come over and be like, oh, let's
watch TV. Do we turn this one on? It's like, no, No,
that one's broke. You turn the one on top on.

Speaker 3 (01:59:16):
I think everybody knew the one on top was the
working one. The hierarchy was more likely the TV worked,
there was a third TV on top of that TV.
You knew that was the working TV.

Speaker 5 (01:59:27):
You remember when everybody had the experience of going hook
up like a Nintendo or an Atari or something in
the back of the TV and going, what the fuck
are these?

Speaker 6 (01:59:40):
You have to buy the special like adapter that had
the prongs on it, the one underneath the screws.

Speaker 7 (01:59:45):
And the uh what's uhfu?

Speaker 6 (01:59:50):
Oh you mean that weird al movie? I love that movie.
M isn't that fun being old?

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:59:59):
Now I have a seven five inch TV that is
like the thinnest thing you can you can imagine, and
you said anything on top of it, it'll probably break
the TV.

Speaker 3 (02:00:09):
But you can't put things on top of TV's. That's
that's not a thing anywhere.

Speaker 6 (02:00:13):
No TV's go on the wall. Now we're almost even
though we're technically past it, we're technically we're heading towards
like back to the Future two times. Yeah, TV's go
on the wall and you can watch multiple channels at once.

Speaker 3 (02:00:27):
Finally, a fax machine in every room of the house.

Speaker 5 (02:00:36):
Sometimes I think the back to the future future is
the worst future, Like that's that's the one we don't
want to have.

Speaker 6 (02:00:42):
Happen, really worse than what we're living in now.

Speaker 5 (02:00:46):
I said, fictional fair, the real future is so much worse.

Speaker 3 (02:00:55):
Are you guys looking forward? We just discussed two Army
movies this week, right, But both those movies ended up
with the characters like staying in the military, So technically
Legacy Sequel twenty twenty seven, we could either see Bill
Murray or poly Shore like leading Hispanic people into a
gas chamber, just one at a time, just leading him

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in there, and like poly Shore is making jokes. I'm
a weezle. Now we're gonna cash you to death, isn't
it fun?

Speaker 5 (02:01:24):
I'm trying to decide which one of those is more depressing.
It's actually kind of hard to decide between me.

Speaker 3 (02:01:30):
I think it's the Bill Murray one, simply because he's
older and it's a reminder that people don't get to
retire anymore. On top of everything.

Speaker 6 (02:01:37):
Else, Dougie, you're gonna buy some alligator Alcatraz merch ah
fuck you gross, motherfuckers gross. I've been vomiting about it
since it came out.

Speaker 3 (02:01:52):
Disgusting excuse for a society you have down there.

Speaker 6 (02:01:55):
Oh great, I would love to come up and live
with you.

Speaker 3 (02:01:58):
I'm like literally like trying to think of things to
post on social media that will get me banned from
your country. Like that's a goal I have now.

Speaker 6 (02:02:08):
Fuck, I don't want to until I move up to Canada.

Speaker 3 (02:02:11):
It's funny because so like, literally earlier today, I was
swimming in the Saint Lawrence River, which separates our two countries,
and I was like staring across at whatever town it
was that's across the river from where I was swimming,
thinking like, man, those people used to be our friends,
like not that long ago, Like and I can see
a bridge where cars could drive across, but nobody was

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driving across because who would want to. And I'm like, man,
like those bridges used to be really full, but then
they just like decided to go crazy real like, ah,
it's so weird. Anyways, you guys are terrible, terrible as
a country as like I literally before we recorded, I

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was on social media and somebody had posted like a
thing saying, sorry, Canada, you just are better neighbors than this,
and then there was like an attachment with a news
article or whatever, and I was about to type, it's okay,
we understand it's not all of you, but I couldn't
type it's okay. I'm like, no, I just can't do that.

Speaker 5 (02:03:11):
It's not it's just not well, you don't want to
be dishonest.

Speaker 3 (02:03:14):
Exactly, that's exactly right. I'm like, it's not okay. You
guys are guys are Nazi Germany and everyone's pretending like
you're not.

Speaker 6 (02:03:24):
It's been six goddamn months, h Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3 (02:03:29):
I mean, no point, no point in counting at this
point because you're done with elections. So this is just
how you are now.

Speaker 5 (02:03:38):
He sends bitches, brought me down again? Why do we
always gott to do this At the end of the show,
I gotta go to bed and have nightmares?

Speaker 6 (02:03:45):
Right Well, sorry, everybody. Somehow it's still knows fault. We
don't know how it is.

Speaker 3 (02:03:55):
I'm confident it's not his fault. We can all agree
to that. All three of us agree to that, and show.

Speaker 5 (02:04:01):
Now I think it might be true. Did I did I?
Did I tussle Donald Trump's hair on late night television?

Speaker 6 (02:04:13):
Fuck you, Jimmy Fallon, jipp.

Speaker 1 (02:04:16):
Please remember to replace the speaker on.

Speaker 7 (02:04:18):
The post when you leave the theater.

Speaker 6 (02:04:29):
And now, folks, it's time to say good night.

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Speaker 5 (02:04:41):
Good Night,