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170 - The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
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"Do you wanna die having never been to Europe? Or to you want to go to Europe and die having been to Europe?”
In honor of Argylle dropping in theaters this weekend (based on a novel by totally-not-J.K. Rowling), we're taking on another recent female-fronted spy comedy! The boys are pretty mixed on this one, so listen in as they discuss this film's highs and lows, the tropes of spy and action films, and their go-to karaoke songs!
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Transcript
00:00:20
Speaker
I'll say good for you
Welcome and Introduction
00:00:22
Speaker
That's Vidania, everybody, and welcome to the disenfranchised podcast, where that podcast all about those franchises have won those films and fancy themselves full fledged franchises before falling flat on their face after the first film. I am your host, Stephen Foxworthy, and joining me, as always, my bubic, Brett Wright. Hey, Brett. Hello, Stephen. How are we doing tonight, buddy? I'm back, bitch. Yeah, man. It's been a while. It's been this is your first main feed appearance in 2024. That is wild.
00:00:52
Speaker
Yeah. Happy New Year, Brett. Thanks. Appreciate it. We're glad to have you here. Of course, our patrons heard you on the Rage Carry 2 episode that dropped last week, but this is for non-patrons. This is the first time they've heard your voice this year, and I'm sure it's got to sound pretty good to them.
Hosts' Banter and Memories
00:01:09
Speaker
I would hope so. Please let me know in the comments and I will leave. No, do not. Do not tell them that in the comments.
00:01:18
Speaker
Feels like he's got his foot out the door half the time anyway. Don't you dare give him an excuse. No, Brad. No. Damn. Damn. The shade. The shade. Maybe I do, but the shade. No shade intended, dude. I just, again, we miss you. We didn't, like I told you on the, on the, what are we watching? We just recorded, man. We recorded an entire month on horror movies and you didn't show up for one of them. That's like a surefire way to get your butt in the, in the door, man. And you guys weren't here.
00:01:46
Speaker
You guys, one of these days there's going to be a moment where Brett and I are talking and he's going to be like, I wasn't training a partner, Tucker. I was training my replacement.
00:02:00
Speaker
He's going to Tommy Lee Jones me. He is a hundred percent. That's going to happen one day. And I just I weep. Does that make me zed? I don't want to be zed. Does that make me zed? Hey, but riptor and this riptor man, that's great. I love that for you. Yeah. The only suit you'll ever wear. The last suit you'll ever wear. That's what it is. You are no longer a part of the system. You are above the system like a lower energy riptor.
00:02:31
Speaker
I can do low energy, man. No problem. Yeah. Also joining us, the guy who did show up last month, the guy who smoked like so much meth before it's Tucker. Hey, Tucker. I would like to go on record by saying I have never smoked meth. Hi, Steven. Hi. How are you doing? I don't fuck with I don't fuck with chemicals, Steven. They're scary. No, that's what the dude likes, what the dude, the Uber driver said in the car. I know, but I have to clarify.
00:02:59
Speaker
You don't to our listeners. Look, everybody watches me. Everyone knows this is the Internet, Stephen. You can't you can't just say stuff like that willy nilly. Yeah, you have to cover all your bases. People will find those little. They'll get in there, dude. But yeah, I don't fuck with chemicals, man. It's like weed and mushrooms. It's really all I'll do. I guess if I didn't have adult responsibilities, I might do peyote. I can see that.
00:03:30
Speaker
I can see you I can see you doing ayahuasca and just getting lost in the wilderness for like a month. Yeah, that would be fun. But like, I mean, I never got a chance to do that. And I don't I don't really see me doing that now. Like I say, that I have adult responsibilities. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, really hot pepper and wander into the desert and talk to a coyote. Talk to a coyote. Guys, we found a coyote.
00:03:57
Speaker
When I worked at Frank's Nursery and Crafts, remember the Frank's Nursery and Crafts, the cherry tree? I do, yes, of course I do. That's the week before my 17th birthday. On my break, I went over to Lowe's and filled out my application. And as soon as I was 17, bam, in that Lowe's. But anyway, Frank's Nursery and Crafts, like the potted plants inside, they have cactuses and stuff. And we straight up, my friend Andy and I, we straight up found a peyote.
00:04:25
Speaker
And did you, did you take, take the peyote? No, because we were so excited about it. We told everybody. And so the manager came and took it away. Ah, see that's, that's your problem there. And now we didn't know what it was at first. Sure. And someone's like, that looks like a peyote, sir. Yeah. That's a fun story. That's a Chinese restaurant now. That company no longer exists. No, they don't at all.
00:04:54
Speaker
All their locations close the fuck down. The memories I have sitting in that, uh, that break room, eating a personal size, Donato's pizza, watching training videos. So I can smell it. I can feel it. The walls are yellow. I believe it. I kind of missed Donato's a little bit. I never ate Donato's, but now that you say Donato's, I kind of, I kind of want Donato's. Let me tell you, if you had, well, you obviously haven't, but Tucker, have you had Donato's recently?
00:05:24
Speaker
I think the last time I had it was not this most recent time that I was in Indy. Well, no, actually, the last time I had it was at the Monroeville Mall at the Red Robin there. Because as I've mentioned before, Red Robin, not at all their locations, but at locations nationwide, served in Otto's Pizza now. And when I was at the Monroeville Mall checking out all the Dawn of the Dead shit, I went to the Red Robin specifically.
00:05:52
Speaker
so I could get some Donatos. And that was when I filmed for the movie. So that would have been like April, April of last year's last time I had Donatos, but it was Red Robin's Donatos, but it tastes the same. It's good.
00:06:04
Speaker
Why does it suck now? Well, I mean, the last time I had it, which was like three or four years ago. Oh, yeah, I don't remember. And that might be a location specific thing, too, because those things could be wildly in quality, depending on where you're going. I mean, yeah, because it was on it was a Donato's on the east side. So maybe that has something to do with it. The one by the old Sam's Club. Yes, I believe so. OK, when you're almost to Joe's house.
00:06:32
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I used to hit the one in Greenwood over by the over off of I think Madison. That one's the one by comics university. That one's gone now. I know. But when I know that. Yeah, that's the one I used to get to. Yeah. The one I used to the one I used to go to all the time is right next to the blockbuster I worked at right down the road from my house. Yeah. Wow. What a difference. Yeah. So I ate that shit all the time and it was great. And I'm wondering maybe it was just a different location was not great.
00:07:02
Speaker
Yeah, but the sauce might as well just been pure red liquid sugar. It tastes. Mm hmm. That's how I feel about Papa John's, which is why I don't go. I don't fuck with Papa John's because they're sauce. It's all the sauce. I'm cool with Papa John's. Papa John's is OK. They're my least favorite chain, but I'll still fuck with them. Pizza is still my favorite. Favorite chain. Sure, sure. Favorite chain. You know, there's plenty of way better pizza than that, but my favorite chain. Yes.
00:07:30
Speaker
Right on. It's drilled into me as a child reading books. You read the book, you get the pizza. Hell yeah. I was always a noble Romans boy myself, but and remain as such. I've heard modern noble Romans is really good. I did go there. My parents took me there. I think last it was the same trip last April. They took me and.
00:07:55
Speaker
I got the thin crust and it was really good and they were disappointed because they said I was supposed to get the like the deep dish because that's what was really good there. The deep dish is what you usually get in Oberlin. I like the hand toss as well. The thin was pretty good. The breadsticks are great. I personally I like the location on the west side.
00:08:15
Speaker
off of 10th Street over by over by Ben Davis. That is like the flagship location, and it is really good. It's got like all the old school decor. It's got like the old like, you know, the old Pizza Hut weird lampshades, the glass ones. It's got those, but they're noble Romans. It's got like wood paneling all over everything. It's it's fucking great. They've still got arcade cabinets in the in the open area. They got a little area you can climb up and watch.
00:08:44
Speaker
the people make your pizza. Like it's it's legit. That's delightful. It was one of my favorite things about going to noble romance as a kid is you would you could wash and make your pizza. And that way you knew when your pizza was coming out of the oven. So you knew when it was time to run back to the table. And of course, I've talked about the noble romance pizza monster on a very special episode of dis and five tries once upon a time. So. Oh, yeah. Top five mascots. Top five food mascots. Yeah, fast food mascots. Yeah.
00:09:14
Speaker
But that's not why we're here today. Oh, let's keep talking about not this movie. In fact, clearly we are. Most of us are avoiding talking about this movie, but I want to talk about it. So because Argyle is dropping in theaters this week, the limo driver from Die Hard.
00:09:32
Speaker
No, there's a spy thriller about a about a spy, a woman who writes spy novels and meets a spy and becomes embroiled in spy stuff. I don't know. It's a very spy because apparently the book she's writing are actually real. And they're like, how do you know all this? And she's like, I don't know. I'm just a writer. And it's hijinks ensue.
00:09:52
Speaker
And no one knows who the writer is, but based on her first book, she gets a multi-million dollar movie deal. So everyone's assuming it's JK Rowling just writing under a pseudonym so that she can try to sell books after she pretty much canceled herself for her terrible views on shit. Anyway, we're not talking about our guile. Instead, we're talking about. Well, Brett, I gave you guys options and you chose this movie, which is what?
Film Discussion: 'The Spy Who Dumped Me'
00:10:18
Speaker
The spy who dumped me.
00:10:19
Speaker
2018's The Spy Who Dumped Me, written by Susannah Fogel and David Iserson, written by, directed by Fogel, and starring Tucker Shaw.
00:10:38
Speaker
I'm sorry, please go ahead. And starring Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Sam Hugin, Hugin, Hugin, I don't know how to pronounce it. It's Scottish. Justin Thoreau, Jillian Anderson, Hassan Minaj, Ivana Sakno, Fred Melamed, Jane Curtin, Paul Reiser, Lali Adafope. What a cast. Gentlemen, what a picture. Negative. No.
00:11:05
Speaker
Yeah, you guys are really negative on this one. I thought it was fine. You guys are just a bunch of haters. I just think you don't think women can be funny is what I think. That's got to be it. That's got to be it. Right now. Right now. Fuck you. How'd you know, Steven? You know, I am notoriously and famously sexist. I know. I know. That's why I bring it up. I mean, I hate Ghostbusters answer the call, so I clearly hate to know comedians. Me too. The worst.
00:11:32
Speaker
Yeah, no, but look, I was I was on board with you, Stephen, and thought it was just OK until the end happened and nothing made sense. And there was a giant plot holes everywhere. And I was done. I was I don't even I don't even know what happens in this movie because it was so boring. I was so disinterested, even though I tried to pay attention. I just could not stay with it, man. It was such a chore to get through that fucking movie.
00:11:59
Speaker
I paused it to go to the bathroom and saw there was an hour left and I was like, how is it possible that I've been sitting here watching this movie for four hours?
00:12:07
Speaker
And there's still an hour left. How is that possible? My biggest complaint is that it is like 20 to 30 minutes too long. Like it's a two hour movie. It's two hours too long. Hour 57 is the runtime. It needs to be like it needs to be a tight 90, maybe 95. 73. It's too it's too shaggy.
00:12:30
Speaker
I, but I, I liked it, man. I thought it was funny. I thought it was, I love the action set pieces. It kind of had like a man who knew too little meets Kingsman vibe going, which I kind of enjoyed. Like you guys are looking at me like I'm insane, but it's, it's absolutely there in the movie. I don't know what movie you guys were watching, but we haven't even watched the same movie. If this has anything like Kingsman in it, I know we didn't watch the same film. Yeah, we did. No, we didn't. Apparently not. Nope.
00:12:58
Speaker
Man, that action sequence in the cafe is straight out of Kingsman, man. It's straight up every spy movie action movie ever. Like Kingsman is a spy action movie. No, when you think of Kingsman, you think of cool gadgets and cool spy shit. There's not a single cool spy thing in this entire movie. No. All right, why don't you guys tell me why I'm wrong then?
00:13:29
Speaker
Well, I mean, it's important. It's important to mention that you're not wrong. No, you're not wrong. And we we just disagree with you. We had a negative experience with this movie. And I think I can speak for Brett when I say that we are very, very glad that this brings you joy. Like it like you being happy, Stephen, that makes me happy. Like look, but like you we've been doing this podcast together for quite a while now.
00:13:58
Speaker
You should have known how this was going to go. We don't begrudge you. We're glad this brings you joy. We're happy for you. Good job. We walked into the lion's den on this one and we're going to have some fun. Dude, I didn't pick this movie. You picked this movie, Brad. That is to say, I suggested it as something we should cover. You gave me two options and I chose one. It wasn't really.
00:14:20
Speaker
Yeah, I would have picked it too because like I wanted to see it. I just forgot about it. I would have picked it too. Yeah. And also like, yeah, I'd never seen it. Like how was I to know it was going to be shit? So like, I didn't. I thought Kate McKinnon said it was going to be great. It'll actually be pretty funny. You know what? I'm excited. And then I wasn't. So. So where, I guess, where did the movie lose you, Brad?
00:14:45
Speaker
Because I feel like it lost Tucker pretty much immediately. Because Tucker doesn't think there's anything redeeming about this movie. Where did it lose you? Well, thanks. It lost me near the end. It lost me
00:14:56
Speaker
Probably when you find out that the um, the gymnast assassin like didn't die by getting a grenade right to the face A pipe bomb to the face. Yeah pipe bomb to the face. Yeah Well, yeah, you mean cia doesn't really use pipe bombs. I mean it looked pretty it looked like a pipe bomb, but yeah fair enough I mean design, uh, but yeah, no, but that's that's where it lost me like it Well, that's where it started to lose me and then it just sort of
00:15:23
Speaker
Well, and I just read that as like a Bond villain thing, like those Bond villain, like Jaws. How many times did Jaws die and kept coming back, man? Like, that's just, that's just a thing with the spy movie. It's playing on the spy tropes, man. So that's, I think that's maybe you've hit the nail on the head in terms of where I'm at. This movie tries to pay homage and use tropes from spy movies and then just fucking falls flat on its face every time.
00:15:48
Speaker
Like I, I had high hopes from the opening scene and like, you know, the premise. I just, I mean, I don't want to get into the end right away so we can wait, but the end is where it really lost me. So just because none of it made sense. It was very poorly written. The director, I think was Gus Van Santing it, just counting the money.
00:16:18
Speaker
In the corner, I have better things to do, you know, and I'm busy. There's no performance in this film. That makes me feel or believe anything. This is the worst performance of everybody in this movie. Hmm.
00:16:41
Speaker
Yeah, it does feel very like the performances feel flat. Like there's nothing there. The only thing, the only thing. Let me tell you the only thing this movie I liked. And it's only because I have context for it. Mm hmm. Was the scene where Kate McKinnon got to like freak out over Gillian Anderson.
00:17:05
Speaker
Right. I mean, I'm sure we can all relate today. Yes. Yes. Well, and Kate McKinnon is on record as being like the biggest fan of her. That was like her childhood crush and stuff. Yeah. And so that scene like it wasn't a good scene, but to get to see them those two interact in that way, that was fun. Outside of that, garbage, all garbage, just a heaping, steaming pile of landfill garbage.
00:17:33
Speaker
Cause I feel like there's lots of missed opportunities in this movie for better storytelling. And yeah, I mean, I don't know how much we want to get into it right away. We're only 18 minutes in and we're just kind of- I mean, do we want to just go into the plot so we can get that out of the way and jump into it? If I get it this week, I'm going to be so mad because I, I'm going to struggle.
00:18:01
Speaker
When it's the d6 of destiny Brett rose snake eyes more than any other number, so I think you're fine No, you're under no let the let the d6 decide you see what what came back though Brett, right?
00:18:25
Speaker
Did you say? Yeah, no, you were talking about it on the most recent carry episode. I was. Yeah. We did. We flipped the coin of justice. If only it had three sides. If only. If only. If only. If only. All right. I mean, like, if you like, I'm more than happy to just do it because like I also haven't done it for a long time.
00:18:47
Speaker
I mean, if you want to do it, I will not begrudge you. If that is your desire, I will not begrudge you that, but I'm happy to let the D6 decide. I feel obligated. I feel compelled. I'm just going to take this one for the team.
00:19:02
Speaker
I will I will put 60 seconds on the clock and I will give you well first of all we're doing the plot in 60 seconds that's the part of the show where we recount the plot of the film we're getting ready to watch in or we're getting ready to talk about in 60 seconds or less in this case 2018's the spy who dumped me I will give the we usually either flip the coin of justice or roll the d6 of destiny but Brett has opted
00:19:27
Speaker
to take one on the chin for our sins. So I put 60 seconds on the clock. I'm gonna give the 30 and 10 second warnings as I always do. Brett, the time will start whenever you do. I guess one's going off the dome, so prepare yourselves. The power of poor filmmaking compels you.
00:19:52
Speaker
All right, so there's a spy who's being chased by a bunch of Russian other Russian spies and he barely escapes and then we Flip over to America where Mila Kunis character is having a birthday party with her best friend Kate McKinnon and we find out that she was dating the spy that we saw on the opening scene and then Shit happens. He shows up. He's been in hiding. He's trying to smuggle something and get this thing this trophy gets in a trophy
00:20:20
Speaker
to the right people so he dies apparently looks sure looks like he dies to me and she gives her the trophy so her and Kay McKinnon go on an adventure to Europe to try to get it to the right person the CIA gets involved
00:20:39
Speaker
Um, some of them are bad, some of them aren't. Uh, there's all like crime syndicate, maybe they're Russians that there's Chinese mafia talk at some point. It gets real confusing. Um, and then our new boyfriend isn't really dead for some reason. Um, and then everything's okay and they destroy the drive. And that is time. Yeah. I mean, look, man, look, there's so many questions. Like why is, why is, why is he alive? Why is alive?
00:21:08
Speaker
Why is a duty free? Why is a duty free store in the airport selling trophies? Who needs to get trophies tax free? Who's looking for that? Who's like, oh, man, I need to I'm on an international fight flight. Well, time to take advantage of no taxes. It's those trophies. It's my grandson's birthday. So I've got to get the best grandson trophy. From the duty free store. You buy liquor and cigarettes at the duty free store in the airport.
00:21:37
Speaker
Steven, what do you mean? I didn't see that coming. What the fuck? How could you see that coming? Two things. He was dead. It's Justin Thoreau and he's fourth build in the movie. So unless this is like a Steven Seagal executive decision situation, he's coming back. And two, he says the magic words that make you realize he's the secret bad guy of the entire movie.
00:22:00
Speaker
Don't trust anybody. Anytime someone says that within the first half hour of the movie, they're the bad guy. Every time. It is movie fucking law. It actually makes it worse. This goes right into my trope. Talking about how they're trying to use tropes that just fall flat. They do them very poorly. Yeah, if that's the case, that's so fucking poorly done.
00:22:26
Speaker
Because A, it doesn't make any sense. And B, like, how did he survive? Like, what happened? Like, he got, it looks like he got shot in the neck. Like, how do you fake that? No scar, no wound when he shows up later. So, like, was K. McKinnon's boyfriend who stuck into the apartment and was like the assassin to kill him, was he working with him? But he killed him, right? The other, like, when he shot back and killed him,
00:22:56
Speaker
after we got a beautiful look at his dick. We sure did, a couple of them. To quote Jim Carrey's murder, too many questions, too many questions, too many questions.
00:23:12
Speaker
Well, and again, I'm not thinking that hard about, and maybe that's just, I'm just able to turn my brain off and enjoy a silly comedy. You're talking to turn his brain off, guy. I'm on record to say that it's like to turn my brain off and not care and not think too hard. So if I am noticing this stuff, it's bad. But see, I have to be able to turn my brain off and be entertained.
00:23:37
Speaker
That's the hook. I was going to turn my brain off and enjoy something, but it was nothing entertaining, entertaining about this film for me. The worst part, the very worst part is how do you waste Kate McKinnon that badly? She plays the most generic, boring character. They just, her direction was just do some Kate McKinnon stuff.
00:24:05
Speaker
What would you give me from Kate McKinnon? You give her a character. She's a character actress. Well, at least she could be. All of her strongest stuff on SNL is all character shit. And I would have much rather seen a movie about the Whiskers are we cat lady than whatever the fuck this is. I thought in this movie, Kate McKinnon was this was she a little bit. She was trying so hard, trying so hard.
00:24:34
Speaker
I don't know. From the moment she was on the phone talking to her mom and sending her mom the dick pics that the guy in the bedroom had sent her the night before, I was on board with whatever she was bringing to the table because I just thought that was such a funny conceit.
00:24:51
Speaker
And then when parents ended up being like Jane Curtin and Paul Reiser, I was even more on board. I thought that was that was a bright spot of the film seeing them. That was they were great. They're hilarious. Only funny thing in the movie were those two characters and they show up like twice.
00:25:07
Speaker
Yeah, they do. But I mean, that was like the beginning of this movie shows promise, and then it just slowly nosedives over the course of the next two hours. I mean, I agree with you only insofar as I think this movie was really terribly paced. And again, very long, like there are these big stretches where nothing is really happening. And it's
00:25:30
Speaker
I mean, some of the jokes don't land. I will concede. Some of the jokes don't land. Some of them just kind of lay there and you're just like, what am I supposed to do with this? I don't understand what this is. Some of them go on way too long, like the circus scene. God, you could have cut almost all of that, like the Kate McKinnon trapeze shit. You could have probably cut all of that and I'd have been fine. That would have been like a fun little thing for the DVD you could have put on there.
00:25:58
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, not the Russian assassins. She got impaled by an anchor, but hers was great. And I half expected to see her at the end.
00:26:09
Speaker
using the fame from this to propel her acting career forward, but she decides to become a spy instead. Spies, spies, spies. So, I mean, and I guess, now that I think about it, the thing on the side of the assassin's face, is that supposed to be like a James Bond reference? I think it's supposed to cover the scars on her face. Like she's dressed as a borg from Star Trek. Why this whole like weird borg looking thing on the side of her face? Yeah, she was borg for sure. Because, what's Cirque du Soleil?
00:26:38
Speaker
Well, she has short hair, so she looks like the one gal that's really popular for being Borg. Seven of nine? Yeah. Let me tell you the biggest thing, especially about Kate McKinnon's character that I really was upset about and why I think that there's a lot of missed opportunities and why the writing is really especially so bad.
00:26:58
Speaker
Did either of you, let me pose this question to start with, did either of you think that potentially there could have been a twist at the end of this movie where Kate McKinnon's character was actually working for the other side or that she was planted there by somebody? No. No? No, I would have been, that would have made it worse, I think, for me. Yeah, that would have really disappointed me. Somehow. Oh, how? Well, and that's because that's the way the movie went, but like there were, didn't go. Like the movie went in a direction that disproved that eventually and so
00:27:28
Speaker
The current movie we had would have been made worse had that been the case. What I was saying is they could have done this movie better had they maybe played into this a little bit more because there's two things in particular that made me think this. They draw attention in the car ride to the airport. They draw it like there's a line where she says, yeah, like the Russian mob putting us together as friends, you know, that line, it's just like a throwaway line.
00:27:54
Speaker
And like, there's, it's played in a way that comes off as like, that's supposed to be an important line. Like, haha, they would, you know, the Russian mob putting us together as friends, like that doesn't make any sense. Haha. And then, uh, and then later when it's kind of a big deal. Okay. McKinnon's characters always wanted to act and as a very good actor, like it's kind of the central part of her character.
00:28:22
Speaker
And then she's like trained on the trampies. Like, I feel like I don't think it probably clearly wasn't intentional for any of that to connect together. But no, I see it now, though. No, I. Well, the the according to the director, she wanted to write. She wanted to make a movie where the female relationships were
00:28:48
Speaker
strong and consistent like there wasn't this like sniping backbiting there wasn't the mean girls thing the thing where there's got to be a huge misunderstanding halfway through and they break up and have to come together she didn't want any of that and so that's what the relationship between Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis is supposed to be is this very strong female friendship and that's why it remains the way that it does throughout the film uh and i think in that respect it's it's fairly successful like
00:29:17
Speaker
Because I, me personally, I didn't doubt that these two were friends the entire time. Like if anything solidified that for me, it was the the torture scene that really kind of because when like when they start telling the assassin various things about each other, like, oh, yeah, you did this and you did this and she did that, like that kind of
00:29:39
Speaker
really bonded them together in my mind now. I expected that to be close to the end of the movie because that felt like a really good climactic scene toward the end. And then we still have another half hour to go. Which is again, what I think is one of the major failings of the movie is just the how fucking long it is.
00:29:58
Speaker
But I thought that their relationship I thought was very well executed throughout. Personally, I I I could see from. The performances in this film, I could see Kate McKinnon and my lacunas being friends in real life. But. To me, they do not play off of each other very well. I don't think their chemistry was almost non existent.
00:30:27
Speaker
For me, then again, I don't think I hate to disparage anybody. I just don't think that my lacunas is a very good actor. Most like she has her moments, but generally, I don't think she's that good. And I didn't think she was that good in this movie, and I didn't think that they had very good chemistry either. Which when you're doing a movie about friends. That you got to believe they're friends.
00:30:58
Speaker
Sure. And I didn't believe, I didn't believe their relationship. I'm glad that worked for you, Steven. I just couldn't see it into like my thoughts on that. Like they didn't, they didn't feel like really close friends that had known each other a long time. So that didn't really help dissuade my theory until their parents showed up on camera as like cameos. I'm like, okay, well.
00:31:21
Speaker
That's all shenanigans. I was just all in my head. Right. But then, you know, we also see Drew's parents and they end up being Russian spies. So well, and that, you know, that threw me off a little bit, too. OK, it's possible. But especially that scene where they're sharing stuff about one another, I'm like, OK, yeah, that's not this isn't going to be a thing. But at that point, like you guys said, it would have made the movie worse, like at that point.
00:31:45
Speaker
that movie like it would have made the movie worse to all of a sudden out of nowhere. Pull a twist at the end. Oh, wait, they did that and it was also bad.
00:31:54
Speaker
I mean that's that's one twist. I think this movie doesn't need in this movie as you mentioned Brett does get very twisty toward the end in particular And there's there's a lot of like back and forth. There's a lot of trading trading hands that there's the whole the MacGuffin of the the the list or whatever whatever is on the
00:32:16
Speaker
flash drive that it takes us way too long to figure out what's on that. And we don't know who the like, at first, we think it's Hassan Minaj, and then we think it's somebody else. And then we, we find out that it's really been drew the whole time. Like, we, it goes back and forth as to who the big bad really is. And the film kind of can't make up its mind. And I feel like that's really sloppy.
00:32:42
Speaker
Like I wish again, that's another thing that we could have tightened that up. We could have cut a couple of those reveals out of this movie altogether. There's this nebulous evil counter intelligence agency called Highland. What they're constantly saying. Right. We don't know anything about them. They, we don't know, you know, anything, but like, but.
00:33:07
Speaker
who's working for them and who is it is supposed to be kind of like the thing in this movie. And right. And apparently half half of the intelligence services are working for Highlands as well as like half the people in every restaurant they go to. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if if anything, that felt like a like
00:33:28
Speaker
John Wick 2 scene. Everybody in this entire place is an assassin all of a sudden. Right. That guy's got a knife. These people have guns. She's shooting this guy. Because I was sure that Gillian Anderson's character was going to end up being bad, because when they finally opened the flash drive, it was like, oh, your American government created this. Right. So even though they had to.
00:33:55
Speaker
They had to keep reminding me that she wasn't a bad guy. Yeah, they're really time she every time she came on, I was like, oh, yeah, there's the oh, wait, no, she's not.
00:34:04
Speaker
And it feels like if you're if you're going to cast Gillian Anderson in a role like this, particularly where she's got her British accent on, you you expect her to either be a villain or like they have to have been planning franchise for this because she's she doesn't do anything in this movie. She's got to play a bigger role in the second one, right? Like that's usually why you get big names in a movie like this, particularly so far below the line.
00:34:29
Speaker
You know, Jane Curtin and Paul Reiser aren't big names anymore, but like, they're still recognizable. They are to me too, though, in my heart. And I love to sing. I love that that Jane Curtin and Kate McKinnon both got their starts on SNL and they played mother and daughter. I love the, you know, Paul Reiser's character trying to figure out how to turn the volume down on the TV and he's turning the color up.
00:34:51
Speaker
Like, just the shit like that, just the boomer, I don't know how to work technology humor was really hitting nice for me. And I, you know, I love the Kate McKinnon's whole relationship with her parents, sending her mom the Ukrainian guys dick pics and stuff. I thought that was hilarious.
00:35:12
Speaker
And, you know, her constant need to call her parents at every turn. And yeah, I just, I loved all of that. I thought that hit every time you could tell Kate McKinnon was just riffing like crazy. Um, sometimes that worked out really well. Other times, like the, the not quite mid credit scene where she's doing all the Japanese food puns, I was like, okay, this is, this is a little much. It feels like they just didn't want to cut any of those out of the movie.
00:35:38
Speaker
You know, when she's having that big reveal where she's like, everybody says I'm a little much. And I'm like, it's because you are. A lot like that. That that all that arc for a character also didn't feel like it had any weight to it like they wanted it to. Because like for she doesn't seem like the kind of person who would give a shit. Right. It's like the whole point of her character who fucking cares what anybody else thinks. Yeah.
00:36:04
Speaker
But that did remind me, talking about calling her parents all the time, that was another point where I was like, is she? Like they were doing like a Jar Jar Binks thing, I was thinking like, she's acting stupid. But like, they were supposed to be in hiding and not calling anybody or talking to anybody. And like, oh, she accidentally called her parents? Because that's what she always does, isn't she? Because she's so wacky! Yeah, like that seemed like, okay, she was trying to get somebody on their tail. But like, again,
00:36:30
Speaker
It's just the bad writing, rearing its head. Because we're talking to our parents all the time. It's not like a constant through line. There's large stretches of the film where that's not even a thing. Sure. So you kind of forget that it's a thing. Between that joke on the pier and the last time she talked about it is at least an hour, 45 minutes.
00:36:59
Speaker
Well, as long as this movie is, yeah. Again, this movie needs to be, again, 90, 95, somewhere in that range, not hour 57. That's too long. Too long a movie. Agreed.
00:37:15
Speaker
And I could feel it. And again, I enjoyed this movie. I had fun with this movie, but I was feeling the runtime toward the end. It's probably my biggest complaint about the movie, just how fucking long it is. And it needed to be tighter in the edit. They needed to tighten this thing up because, again, you got stuff that's not working. It just feels like they didn't want to get rid of anything and they needed to get rid of more things.
00:37:38
Speaker
Well, and it's it's funny, because like with a movie that's two hours long, you think you'd get some character development for anybody. Like everybody's just with the exception of Kate McKinnon's parents, everybody is just generic. So generic. This is the character that Kate McKinnon played is generic Kate McKinnon character. It's just
00:38:08
Speaker
the most general you can get. And it's really boring. And I hated it. Speaking of wasted performances, Hassan, what's his name? The Daily Show guy? What's his name? Hassan Minhaj. Hassan Minhaj. Yes, thank you. What a waste of having him in the movie.
00:38:29
Speaker
He I don't I did not believe his character. He could have not been in this movie. Well, no, he doesn't. I don't believe it. When he's like being mean and snarky, I'm like, that's just cringe, honestly, like him trying to do. Yeah, that is. I want to believe it because I love him. I think he's great. Like I'm a fan, but his character in this movie sucked and his entire character sucked in this movie like he straight up sucked in this movie.
00:38:56
Speaker
And I hate that pains me to say that about my boy, but his entire character is just that he went to Harvard. And like most people who went to Harvard just cannot go a full sentence without bringing it bringing it up. So it's crazy to think that something I probably would have thought was a cool idea in any other movie like this. Cutting his thumb off like.
00:39:21
Speaker
And then putting it into a lipstick container. That was great. Normally I would have thought that was a really cool idea, but it feels so out of place in this movie. It feels like it came from a different movie. Didn't we, didn't we just learn a couple of weeks ago, Steven, that once you die and your blood stops circulating that you don't have, you can't use your fingerprint the same way. Correct.
00:39:42
Speaker
is based on the war. That's all I could think about while that was happening. I was like, well, my friend Steven told me. Yeah. And I mean, look, that's all I can think about now, too. But movies are still going to use that to advance the plot. Hey, movie. You can't go back ever since I saw the Miss Busters episode about like shooting a gas tank doesn't blow it up immediately. That's all I can think about now. Like, yeah, whenever somebody shoots in a car and it just blows up, like
00:40:07
Speaker
I can't take it seriously. Yeah, there has to be some level of suspension of disbelief when you're going to see a movie. Otherwise, you're you're never going to have fun watching a movie ever. That was a clever idea. I quite liked it. Again, the line, if I had a thousand guesses, never would I have guessed thumb. Good line. Good delivery by Justin Thoreau.
00:40:30
Speaker
who also I think is kind of wasted in this movie. Like I get it, part of it is the role and you kind of need a guy that you know and recognize, but to make that person Justin Thoreau, a guy whose probably biggest screen credit is the creep in Mulholland Drive, maybe not the best guy to hire to give your main villain the gravitas you need to maybe have us trust him at the beginning of the movie.
00:41:01
Speaker
Well, see, I didn't I didn't I didn't buy him as a bad guy at the end either because he didn't act like like his lines were bad guy, but he didn't act like he was just acted like he did at the beginning of the movie. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing is like I was so confused at the end. Like, OK, is he telling the truth? Is he not? Have we been lost right there with you? Right there. Like, is this the twist they're going with? I think you're supposed to. I think. But I think, again, Mila Kunis's character has it figured out. We're supposed to keep guessing.
00:41:31
Speaker
character well but that's the thing though like we're in a twist like that we should know we should know like he did but his character dies and i'm still going was he the bad guy it wasn't clear yeah he was he was the bad guy all right you say so honestly i still don't know like
00:41:57
Speaker
So it the the impression that I got is he was working with the the the couple that were playing his parents and he set up this elaborate thing to get basically to to lay low long enough so that he could get Mila Kunis to deliver. So I think he faked his death and I think the Ukrainian guy was there to help him do that.
00:42:22
Speaker
But he needed Mila Kunis to get to Europe to get to deliver the chip to the person that need that was going to give it to him. But that got fucked up.
00:42:36
Speaker
Because she didn't she brought Kate McKinnon along and so that got fucked up and so he had to kind of eventually had to make himself known after all of his various attempts to work at it clandestinely failed and the fact that they were using like anytime he was talking to the
00:42:52
Speaker
They're the assassin girl every time he was talking to her. There was like a voice chip over it like a voice modulator I was like, okay Well, this is someone that we recognize in the movie and the first time we see him do that It's like maybe a half an hour in so I'm like, okay who have we met at this point that it could be? it's either got to be the mi6 guy Justin Theroux or Hassan Minhaj, it's one of those three and
00:43:14
Speaker
And so I think there's another instance where the runtime hurts this, because that only happened twice in the whole movie. And it was so far apart, I forgot that was a thing. Even though every time it happened, I'm going, OK, who is that? But by the time the twist happened, I totally forgot that was a thing.
00:43:31
Speaker
Yeah, the runtime, I think is this movies. I mean, the runtime is the real enemy, the real bad guy in this movie, honestly, because it just it's too fucking long. And again, I think it's I think I was entertained by this. You guys, I know we're not. I had a fun time. I liked watching this movie. I I enjoyed it. Is it the best movie I've ever seen? No. Is it one I'm going to watch repeatedly? Probably not. If it was on TV on like a Sunday afternoon, would I watch it? Maybe.
00:43:59
Speaker
Like this, this kind of feels like a, like a Sunday afternoon, like take a nap while you're watching it. Or like, you know, if you're hungover on a weekend and you're, you kind of need something you can put on and not really pay a lot of attention to, like this feels like the kind of movie you could do that to just watch it, wake up, watch the car chase scene, fall asleep, wake up, watch the circus scene, fall asleep. Like you don't really need to pay too much attention if you're not that invested. Um,
00:44:26
Speaker
But no, the runtime on this absolutely hamstrings this thing. And it just feels like a case of them not wanting to cut things out. It feels like no one was really able to kill their darlings in this one. Well, I can honestly say that if the pacing in this were better, if this were a much tighter movie, I might go as far as being indifferent to it.
00:44:57
Speaker
But the fact that it's just the perfect storm of shit and the pacing is the biggest part of that storm, it just it just kills the whole fucking thing for me, unfortunately. It looks like they had a lot of fun making it, too. Yeah.
00:45:12
Speaker
So like good fucking good for them, dude. Anytime you can have a good time and get paid. And they got to they got to film most of this in Budapest, which is they got to go to some rad spots like you don't see. I love that they're filming on location because that's something you almost never see big budget films do anymore. There's actually go somewhere and film on a location somewhere because it's easier to get all the lighting and shit that you want in a studio in front of a green screen. So we'll just do that.
00:45:40
Speaker
But just like Toronto, you know, fills in for just about every North American city, Vancouver. Yeah. Budapest fills in for every European city. So like everywhere they go, like Berlin, Vienna, it's all Budapest. Everywhere is Budapest. And then they did, I think, film like a little like some pickup stuff in Amsterdam. But pretty much everything else was Budapest.
00:46:06
Speaker
Steven, this is a family podcast, Anstra, Amstradarn. I think is what you meant to say. Let's keep it clean. But guys, keep it clean. No, we've got an explicit tag on this podcast and we've earned it. Oh, yeah. Keep for you to turn that on. Hey, I'm the fuck. Yeah. Gosh, fucking darn it, Brett. OK, my bad. Sorry, guys. Sorry.
00:46:34
Speaker
When I was younger and growing up as I did in a very conservative household, I was singing the song Constantinople by They Might Be Giants. My little cousin was in the room with me while I was singing it. She goes, that song had a swear in it. I was like, no, it didn't. She's like, yeah, they said the D word. I was like, no, honey, they were saying Amsterdam. That's the name of the place. It's not a swear. She's like, oh.
00:47:05
Speaker
She's on the line Yeah, that sort of oh means they didn't believe you. I don't care. It's fine I know the truth and eventually she learned the truth as well. Just you know, she was like five she figured it out Yeah, no, I just I just actively hate children. So I mean she's she's I was a kid I was like in I was like in middle school, but now she's like all grown up and married now has a family of her own She's good people. I miss her Yeah
00:47:34
Speaker
She doesn't listen to this podcast, though. You know who does listen to this podcast, you guys? We have we got it. Can we dip into the mailbag real quick, since there's no like real place that we normally do this? We normally do it at the end of the episode, but OK. I mean, it's pretty late. We're getting there. No, JK, JK, we can talk about this as long as you want.
00:48:03
Speaker
Steven, but don't let me forget to we'll do, I literally, I have it pulled up. It's okay. Good. I've got it in a tab on my computer. Sorry for spoilers. Sorry. Yeah. We actually got mail this week. Mailbags won't be lit. I'm just saying we, in that we have one. Yeah. Yeah. It never fails. Makes me want to wag my tail. What, what, what do you want to, what, what do you, what do you want to do when it comes, Brett?
00:48:31
Speaker
Shout me!
00:48:38
Speaker
Fantastic. And there it is, folks. He is available for children's parties, as is Tucker, actually.
Nostalgia and Personal Anecdotes
00:48:48
Speaker
So, Brett, I hate kids, right? Available for children's parties. I'm grateful, little yuppie larva. My partner and I have taken to calling them damn wiener kids. Anytime we see anyone, teenage or younger, they're just damn wiener kids.
00:49:07
Speaker
Cause they come from somebody's wiener. No, it's a line from the Simpsons. Typical. From one of the seasons you actually like. So I don't know why you're being a bitch about it. After that, I'm just quoting Ghostbusters. Fuck off. Let me be Annie Potts for like five seconds. Jesus. I will never let you be Annie Potts. Damn. How dare you stood where she stood.
00:49:37
Speaker
Whatever you guys said. You've you've not earned what Annie Potts has earned. Hey, guys, I approve of your want to be any pots. Thank you very much. I watched a lot of deciding women as a kid, so I'm no slouch when it comes to any pots. All right. No, we love it. And we are we are pro any pots podcasts and the any pots and ghost posters, too. Like there's a reason I love redheads. OK, so what Brett is saying is she could get it.
00:50:06
Speaker
What Brett's saying is, who are you going to call? That's what Brett's saying. What Brett is saying is, we got one! We're not going to leave. He is. Fucking A, you guys. Good old Annie Pox. We've reached the part of the show where we're just quoting Ghostbusters. Get up. I'm back. I'm back, bitches.
00:50:36
Speaker
Hey, but hey, you guys, you guys designing women fan, you like that shit? Delta Burke and I want some of that. I caught it every once in a while. Yeah, massage Taylor. I was going to say I'm a big Meshach Taylor fan. I think Meshach Taylor is awesome. Speaking of him, he was really great in Dave's World as well with Harry Anderson and Shadow Steven from Hollywood Squares. Meshach Taylor also in the mannequin films, the only character that comes back from mannequin to actually.
00:51:06
Speaker
Mm hmm. He's dead, actually. And it's really sad because I think he wasn't very old. And I really loved him. And it made me sad when he had died. Same. Dom, you should tell us was he was a phenomenal actor. I will pour some out for him later tonight. Yeah, yeah, designing women. Yeah, ma'am.
00:51:36
Speaker
Sorry, I really like that show. If you guys didn't grow up on it, then it probably doesn't hold up. So I don't know if I can recommend it to anyone. I did. I mean, I didn't really grow up with again, I watched it from time to time, but it wasn't like.
00:51:52
Speaker
appointment viewing at my house. And honestly, if it was, my parents would have probably made me go to bed before it was on because, again, very conservative upbringing. So it's a good like if you could do an hour block of that and mama's family. You I mean, you're just. You can make all the money because my parents were Carol Burnett fans. Mama's family was appointment viewing growing up. So me too. I still love me some mama's family.
00:52:22
Speaker
Both versions the carrot with Carol Burnett and without like they're both really great Yeah, fucking Vicky Lawrence dude, she's on instagram hit her up. Yeah, man. I like the night the lights went out in Georgia fucking 45 That's the version I sing in karaoke. Yeah, man. Why would you sing any other do other versions of that song exist? I don't want to know about them
00:52:46
Speaker
Well, Reba Reba did a cover of it. Reba is hard for me to do, though, so much so that if I do fancy, it's the Bobby Gentry version. Like I can't fuck with Reba. Is it like too high? Is it out of your register or? Yeah, she does. You know, those parts where she projects like really fast and really high. I can't I can't do those in a way that it stays consistent with the rest of what I'm doing. It's not something I can naturally do. Oh.
00:53:17
Speaker
Now that Vicki Lawrence version is great. My my go to karaoke is just a gigolo. The David Lee Roth version. Yeah, dude, dude, I can see that. Yeah, that's my go to. You know what? I told I told Jimmy when I was in Indy because we're both in Indy, you know, at Christmas because we're both from there. I told him that we needed to do karaoke and that I wanted to do a duet with him on Paradise by the dashboard light. Hell yeah.
00:53:46
Speaker
And then I even volunteered to be the lady. Mm hmm. Which is more my range anyway. But this motherfucker had never heard Paradise by the Dashboard. Like, how do you want to live to be? How do you live three decades? And never you've never heard Paradise by the Dashboard like like what?
00:54:11
Speaker
How does that escape? I don't know. How? That's such a cultural touchstone. You don't even have to seek it out. It's just there. It's in Josie and the fucking Pussycats. It is. Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night. I love that song.
00:54:33
Speaker
He really appreciated it, though. Like, I was like, yo, that baseball part, man. Mm hmm. He was like, yeah, it's pretty rad. Honestly, I love that whole album better to hell. One of my top five. Oh, yes. Amazing album. You are on record as being a huge meatloaf fan. I love meatloaf. I do. I do. I discovered the singer and the food dish. Correct. Yes. I know 100 percent. I discovered
00:55:01
Speaker
the depth of Meatloaf's oeuvre in college, and particularly his output with Jim Steinman, and there was no looking back. Like what else is there, honestly? Right, exactly. There is something about that level of theatricality and his reliance on ballads that just really struck a chord with college-age Steven. And it's resonated ever since. But no, if we ever do top five albums on Dis and Five Chised, that one will make an appearance, for sure.
00:55:29
Speaker
I actually got that locked away. So you'd have to give me like six months to figure that out. So if we're ever going to do that, give me a lot of notice. Start thinking about it as artists, like musical artists. I could do that easy, but albums start taking out. I know. I figured that'd be hard for you. I would say just start thinking about it now. And when you, when you get it, let me know and I'll put it on the schedule. Okay.
00:55:57
Speaker
Hey, if you guys want to hear us talk about our favorite albums of all time on the Patreon, drop an email to disenfranchpod at gmail.com and let us know. And if you want to see my entire record collection as I'm listening to it alphabetically, you can go to my Instagram because that's the thing I do. And 90 percent of my posts now on Instagram are just records I'm listening to. I like the one of you and your cat, though. That was a good one. I threw that. I was throwing people a bone there.
00:56:26
Speaker
I told my roommate, I was like, it's been a lot of records like nobody gives a fuck. And whenever I show my face, people are all up on it. So I was like, let me grab this dumbass cat, take a picture of me. And she was like, all right. And then we did that. And then so I want to I want to circle back to something that Brett said, because Brett said he's never done karaoke before. And I want to know, Brett, why have you never done karaoke?
00:56:53
Speaker
That is not my thing. I'm an introvert to my core. I would never ever in a million years stand up in front of somebody, even people I like. Not a performer. Not a performer. I would never be I would never and will never be if the secret if the circumstances were correct.
00:57:12
Speaker
Again, we have established you will never, but in this, you know, hypothetical situation, let's say you've had enough liquid courage, you trust all the people in the room. What song are you going to do for karaoke? What song would you most want to perform at karaoke or what song do you think you could perform best at karaoke?
00:57:34
Speaker
I've got your back here, Brett. I got you because I've thought about when you guys have talked about karaoke before. I've tried to figure out what it'd be and I can't. So here's what you do, Brett. Here's what you do. You do tequila.
00:57:49
Speaker
You know, I'm not going to do that. That's the job, though. That's the bullshit cop out karaoke. So that was did I tell you guys this at karaoke this summer here at the campground? I think you did. Yeah, some kid came up and he was like, my mom said, if I came up here and sing a song, she'd give me 20 bucks. And he did fucking tequila. And this kid just sat up there the whole time just scrolling through his phone. Tequila.
00:58:20
Speaker
It was brilliant. If you do it, you have to be funny. That's the thing. That's what you have to do. No, here's what you do. You go with Tucker and while you're waiting to sing the tequila part, Tucker will dance across the stage like Pee Wee Herman. I will. I'll put on the platforms and dance on my toes. Mm hmm. I know the move.
00:58:42
Speaker
Yeah, that he's doing it right now. Look, that's the whole thing. No, I'm right. I'm good. OK. Appreciate it. That's cool. Appreciate it. But will you come with us and listen to me and Stephen saying both separately and together? Sure. Yes, I would. I would sing the meatloaf part on Paradise by the Dashboard Light with you. Sweet. I'm into it. I'm way into it. Because I fucking love that song. You kidding me? Yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. What's what's your go-to karaoke song, Tucker?
00:59:10
Speaker
Across 110th Street. Oh, yes. Bobby Womack. I was going to say Bobby Womack, right? Yeah, that's that one's on my like, I've got this uber playlist of like just songs that I love. No rhyme or reason to it other than I like these songs and every one of them is one that I could go, oh, this is my jam at any given moment. And across 110th Street, 100% on that list.
00:59:34
Speaker
That one is my favorite one to perform. The one I perform the best and I always get the most compliments about is American Girl by Tom Petty because I do a really good Tom Petty impression to the point to where it's kind of funny, but like it's really, really good. So like it's also like really good, but sort of funny and how good it is. Like that's the one like the guy who's doing like the guy who's doing Trump on SNL now. Like it's really good, but it's funny how good it is.
01:00:04
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, that's my Tom Petty. The one I did most recently was one of my bucket list songs. My partner did karaoke at a local brewery and I did Santeria by Sublime. Oh, that was one that I always wanted to do. And I was amazed at the response. Everyone was seemed to really enjoy it. So everybody loves that fucking song, man. I got down and one guy was like, that was soulful, man. I was like, thank you.
01:00:33
Speaker
I also do a mean lovesick blues by Hank Williams. Hmm. I'm good with the yodel stuff. Yeah, that tracks. I can I can see that. You know what I think I'd tend to probably do is double went down to Georgia. Hell yes. I do uneasy rider. It's hard, though, because they do the F slur in that. And I I struggle to figure out what to say instead. And sometimes I'm really drunk and I forget next and we say it. Hmm. So.
01:01:01
Speaker
That's not good. But Devon went down to Georgia, Brett. Yes. Yes. People do that all the time and they fuck it up because they have no rhythm. Brett, I think you can do it. You can do it, man. You can do it.
01:01:13
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I'm just maybe I just have really good rhythm, but I don't know how you could fuck up that rhythm. Right fast. It's fast. And yeah, but you've heard it so many times. Yeah. Like it's one of those songs that you if you don't go up there and just like do a perfect imitation of the actual song, like what do you do it? Because like everybody knows that song so well. You got to have the drawl and the growl kind of all wrapped up in one thing. Yeah. Yeah, dude. My auntie's riders the shit, though, you guys.
01:01:43
Speaker
It is the shit right on. I believe you. Right on. Anyway, it's probably got me. Yeah, it's probably got me. Underrated, I thought. I also love the fact that Kate McKinnon's character was named Morgan Freeman. That was a fun little throwaway joke, I thought. And the her follow up, I'm like, yeah, I can get a table pretty much anywhere I want. Just that that fucking cracked me up again. I.
01:02:08
Speaker
I thought Kate McKinnon was a delight in this movie. It feels like it comes out of nowhere too late in the movie. I feel like you set that up. You set that up earlier in the movie. You could have milked that three or four more times. That's what it is. It feels like a joke that would have you would have been setting that up the whole movie. It's a callback joke. That scene would have been the payoff, but it feels like we just get the payoff that had no setup. Yeah. All good bits come full circle and none of these did.
01:02:36
Speaker
I feel like there are a lot of things conspiring against, but I feel like, again, the pacing in the runtime just fucking hamstring this movie, which is why I can't rate it any higher than I ended up doing. Again, I liked it. I had a fun time with it, but it's not like this is not the greatest comedy I've ever seen. I want more action comedies. I wanted to like this even more than I did because I want more movies like this.
01:03:02
Speaker
I want more action comedies. I want more movies that are not afraid to be funny and blow shit up. If a movie starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson is what passes for an action comedy these days, no thank you.
01:03:15
Speaker
I don't want that. He did do Be Cool, though, and he was funny in that, and there was action in that. I agree. But that was before he became The Rock as we know him. Like, that was before his whole, like, carefully crafted persona phase, when he wasn't afraid to play gay men or to play villains in films. Like, he wasn't afraid to play anyone but himself.
01:03:40
Speaker
I actually read and read an article this week where Dwayne Johnson said that he wants to he wants to be more of an actor now, which it would make sense that he would want to start a new chapter in his life, considering the hasn't been doing very well at the box office. I was going to say how actively his his last one kind of fizzled. Yeah. And hey, I don't care the reason I'm here for it.
01:04:07
Speaker
I think he had the, honestly, I think he has the potential. I think Be Cool is an indication of what he is capable of as a performer. He's just never really wanted to exercise it. He'd rather be a mogul. He'd rather carefully rather be a brand. That's the only time I believe he's not the rock. Yeah.
01:04:26
Speaker
Isn't be cool. It's the only time where I keep that for mind myself. This is Dwayne, the motherfucking Rock Johnson BTS. We could absolutely cover the cool, by the way, on on the franchise sometime. So we could talk about how Uma Thurman is just worthless unless she's in a Quentin Tarantino movie. I don't know if I want to say worthless, but he seems to know how to use her better than just about anyone else. I will say that.
01:04:56
Speaker
I have not seen her in anything that's not Kill Bill or Pulp Fiction that I thought that she even. Deserved to be auditioning for those roles. Fucking Gattaca, dude. She's she seems like a lovely person. But I'm just saying I don't I don't think she's very good actor. Fucking fucking Gattaca, dude. How dare you besmirch the good name of Batman and Robin? Get the fuck out of here. Sorry.
01:05:24
Speaker
Uh, she knew what movie she was in, but she still sucked in that movie. But but fucking Gattaca, dude. Oh, oh, oh, I'm about no Gattaca, dude. Now, I know Gattaca. Maybe you should give a fuck about Gattaca, though. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Straight up do, son. Maybe.
Film Reception and Listener Interaction
01:05:47
Speaker
Anyway, the spy who dumped me came out August 3rd, 2018. It opened at number three at the box office, earning a twelve point one million on its way to thirty three point six domestic, another forty five point four international for about a seventy nine million worldwide box office.
01:06:15
Speaker
So that's off of a 40 million dollar budget. So it made back its initial budget. But again, after. Advertising and marketing and everything else, it did not break even the way it should have. It opens at number three in the number one spot. The at the time, most recent entry in Tucker's favorite franchise mission colon impossible dash fallout.
01:06:45
Speaker
Steven's being silly. I am being silly. You were just talking about how you watched Dead Reckoning on what are we watching, though? So hey, man, they're all at least watchable. The first two are fantastic. The first one is like I think the second one might be one of my least favorite, but I think I think the I like it because it's the exact opposite of the first one. Yeah, exact opposite. And I love it.
01:07:09
Speaker
It's it's John Woo doing John Woo shit. And that's that. I wish it. I wish the series would have got on like that. You know, you get a like an auteur director to come in and put their stamp on the franchise. How rad would that be if we got consistently different movies like the first two are? They did that. They tried to do that. But the third tour they brought in was JJ Abrams.
01:07:33
Speaker
The fourth one was Brad Bird. And then after that, it was just the Macquarie show because he was the one show. He was the one who stuck by Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise rather when they were trying to get rid of Tom Cruise from that franchise. So that's why in second place opening this week also is Christopher Robin. What if Ewan McGregor was Christopher Robin? Hey, do you guys remember that movie where the things had changed and
01:08:01
Speaker
What was the movie? The Flash, right? And Eric Stoltz was in Back to the Future. Right. What if. What if we were just talking about somebody calls a watcher because what if Christopher Robin? No, the one before that Mission Impossible Fallout.
01:08:24
Speaker
What if in another timeline it's Tom Hanks that's in all the Mission Impossible movies? I mean, that's kind of hilarious. Like the Flash is somewhere else in the speed zone or whatever. And somebody's like, yeah, that new Tom Hanks Mission Impossible movie and he's like the fuck.
01:08:43
Speaker
The Flash 2. I just can't imagine Tom Banks in an action movie. That's really the funny part. And they'd bring up Tom Cruise and someone's like, well, you mean America's dad, Tom Cruise? Right? The Burbs, Tom Cruise. Right. Fucking catch me if you can, Tom Cruise. Like when they did The Last Action Hero with Schwarzenegger and Stallone. Yeah. Swaps in two. Yep. Yes. Let's do a previous episode on that movie.
01:09:09
Speaker
I love that idea. Anyway, Christopher Robin, Ewan McGregor is Christopher Robin. That movie is actually pretty good. Winnie the Pooh in that movie is just like Chef's Kiss. The jokes. Prime. Prime Winnie the Pooh. Prime Winnie the Pooh stuff. Prime Pooh. It's hilarious. It's very funny. I've not seen it, but I've heard good things. Just like Winnie the Pooh.
01:09:32
Speaker
Just like Winnie the Pooh. Third place. We've got, again, the spy who dumped me. The move that we discussed today. It's this movie. That's this movie in fourth place in its third weekend. Mamma mia colon. Here we go again. Oh, great. In fifth place. Equalizer two. I mean, look, this is August and August is either when the where the summer blockbusters are fizzling out or we're just dumping shit that we don't want to like give a proper release to the summer is the meal.
01:10:03
Speaker
And August is when you take a dump after you eat. There you go. Kind of like the end of the year and then January, February, kind of the dumping ground. If rounding out the top 10, you've got Hotel Transylvania three summer vacation in its fourth week, Ant-Man and the Wasp in its fifth week in seventh. Future episode of this podcast, The Darkest Mind opens at eight. What is that? The Darkest, it's a YA adaptation. Oh.
01:10:33
Speaker
Oh boy. In ninth place, speaking of Brad Bird, Incredibles 2. And at 10th place, Teen Titans go to the movies. To the movies. To the movies. I liked Tomorrowland. Oh, you're the one. You said Brad Bird. Sorry, yeah, I'm the one. It was heavy-handed, sure, but I thought it was really fantastic.
01:10:55
Speaker
The Tomatometer score for the Spy Who Dumped Me is 48%. The Spy Who Dumped Me critics consensus Spy Who Dumped Me isn't the funniest or most inventive spy comedy, but McKinnon remains as compulsively watchable as ever. The meta score is a 52 based on mixed or average reviews from 43 critics. And the letterbox score is...
01:11:23
Speaker
Where the fuck's the letterbox score for this movie? Oh, I was looking at the wrong screen. That is my fault. Letterbox score is a 2.8 Brett out of five stars. How are you rating 2018's the spy who dumped me? I gave it a half star because it's a movie that was made by people and it was, you know, filmed and all that. And then I gave it one star for Kate McKinnon. So one and a half. All right. Tucker, what about you?
01:11:51
Speaker
It gets one star for Jane Curtin. And fucking what's his nuts? Paul Reiser. Yeah, I almost said Steve Gutenberg. I mean, you could understand how I get him mixed up, though. They got the same hair. OK, but what if what if Paul Reiser and what if Paul Reiser was in the the the the the Police Academy movies and Steve Gutenberg was in that about you?
01:12:20
Speaker
Yes, the flash three. You guys, which one was in my two dads in this timeline? Was that the guy or was that Paul Reiser? Paul Reiser was in the current timeline. It's Paul Reiser with the girl from step by step. She's like a lawyer now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So one star comes and she was like, yeah, no, thanks. Yeah, one star because it's garbage.
01:12:46
Speaker
Where as I gave it, I gave it a two and a half. I liked it. It's a two point five for me. So that's fair. Sure. I love that for you, Steven. I do, too. It's great for all of us, really. And it's great for us. It's great for the economy. It's just all the way around. It's a good thing. The environment is healing because of this. Exactly. Let's let's bring it all together. Many people are saying a lot of people.
01:13:12
Speaker
Before we move into the socials, as Tucker teased earlier in the episode, we do have some mail from a listener. Do you want to read it, Tucker, or would you like me to do so? I have it pulled up here, but I had it pulled up first, so I think I get to read it. Unless you want to read it and then we can flip the coin of justice, unless Brett also wants to read it, then we could roll the die. No.
01:13:38
Speaker
Go ahead. I would just say omit the omit the the sender's last name. But yeah, go ahead. Well, I was I was going to say it really loud and spell it. But now that you say that. This comes from Nicole or Nicole. She says in the letter or or they I'm not sure of the pronouns here, but they say in the letter that my name is Nicole, but they sign it Nikki. Right. So.
01:14:09
Speaker
Uh, let us know in the comments or email us again, Nicole, which one you prefer. Um, they say, hello, my name is Nicole. Can you please, please, please, please. That's four, please. Very polite. Please, please, please. So nice to ask this way. Do 1998 urban legend for me for my birthday on May 18th. Uh, no.
01:14:38
Speaker
Unfortunately, though, it was hard. I like it. I'm going to be brusque. I will let Tucker explain why it's the it's the highlight of my week to get this fan mail. We got text. We got text from Tucker the minute you literally the moment you sent that to us, Nicole, like he was so excited to get email. It makes my heart very warm. But the fact the matter is this.
01:15:08
Speaker
Unfortunately, Urban Legend has two sequels. It does. Yeah. Final Cut and Bloody Mary. I could have sworn there was another one that was filmed simultaneously with Bloody Mary. Maybe they maybe they took the Urban Legend branding off of it because I swear they were filmed back to back like they were going to be released like Bloody Mary was direct to DVD. But Final Cut came out in the theaters. I saw it in the theater. I had a.
01:15:35
Speaker
It had, um, uh, what's his nuts? Whoa. Uh, Joey Lawrence and that. Yeah. It's it's only the three. Yeah. It's it's urban legend, final cut and bloody Mary. So, uh, unfortunately since, I mean, we, we like to play fast and loose with the format.
01:15:52
Speaker
But we kind of draw the line when there actually are sequels. And as much as I would love to pretend that the two urban legend sequels don't exist, they do, unfortunately. Right. And here's what I will say, Nicole, here's and I've not discussed this with my co-hosts at all, but here's here's what I'm willing to get a meeting. Sure. Here's what I'm willing to commit to. If you become a patron and are a patron in your birth month in May,
01:16:17
Speaker
then I will commit to scheduling an unenfranchised episode on Urban Legend Bloody Mary. I like that. That is the thing I will commit to, and we'll do it in May for your birthday.
01:16:30
Speaker
I don't know how I feel about that. If you give us money, we'll do it. I don't know how I feel about that. Here's the thing. Unfranchised is a patron-only show. That's the only reason I say it. We can't fit any urban legend stuff on the main feed. Not only that, but we have stuff scheduled, as Steven made very clear in the group chat. May is scheduled. May has been scheduled for at least a week.
01:16:59
Speaker
I don't know, man, I want to be more beholden to our audience. I agree. If I could suggest maybe emailing us again and giving us one of your favorite movies that is a failed franchise starter that has no sequels, but it can in some way be construed as
01:17:24
Speaker
There should have been. They wanted there to be, you know, we're like we're pretty lenient on that. If you can make the case for it, we will do it unless there are actual sequels. Here's one thing I will say, though, Nicole, if you are a fan of Jamie Blanks, I would recommend you check out our episode from the director of Urban Legend. Oh, word.
01:17:45
Speaker
Uh, that you check out our episode that we did last February on Valentine with our buddy, Mike's union from pod in the pendulum. That is also directed by Jamie blanks. That one didn't get a sequel. And we absolutely talked about that one on the main feed. If you've not checked out that episode yet, it's a good app. Mike is always in the light work. We were supposed to have him on next week. I hope I can get him. I know, dude, I saw that. And also I would recommend watching that movie, even though I hated it.
01:18:12
Speaker
It is an experience. There's some just wild shit that you have to see in that book. It's so dumb. It's so dumb. The kills are incredibly imaginative in the way that I imagine they would be in an urban legend. I've not actually seen any of the urban legends. You haven't seen urban legends? No. The urban legends.
01:18:34
Speaker
I mean, okay. The first Urban Legend is great. Oh, it's fantastic. It's really good. Fantastic. And the second one's okay. But Bloody Mary, the spiders, that's cool. But outside of that, it's just really bad. I'm just, I'm just, again, I'm trying to. I used to own it. I bought it for like $2 at Blockbuster.
01:18:57
Speaker
And I was going to say other that or you got the code from a buddy of yours that used to work at the video store, but yeah. So my suggestion, fellas, would have been we start a new main feed show. It's just about fan mail and we cover a movie that a fan wants us to cover. Well, I mean, we usually do that, but usually it falls within the format, though, like we've actually got a few of those coming up in the next couple of months. That's true.
01:19:26
Speaker
We've got one actually, we've got one coming up later this month and one coming up next month. So we've got literally two on the schedule. Nicole, let the record show that I tried. And that's why I think the best thing to do would to if, if you haven't joined the Patreon.
01:19:42
Speaker
And you think that's something you'd be interested in. If you like this show, like we do. So there's so much content on the particularly if you like when we go off the rails on this show, like if you like the tangent, like this was a tangent, heavy episode because we really could only fill 45 minutes of movie talk and we just kind of shot the ship for another 15, 20 minutes. Like if that's the kind of shit you'd like us to do, you should absolutely be a patron because that is
01:20:08
Speaker
That is pretty much all we do behind that paywall. Like, yeah, we we have topics and we talk about things, but we're also shooting. Like most recently, we shot the shit about the Rage Carry 2 for unenfranchised because that is that is one of Tucker's like seminal films that Brett and I were just kind of like, yeah, it's all right. But we still had a great conversation about it, guys. We did. We had fun. We had a fun talk. It was a good talk. And so if you and you know, I think do we still have the seven day trial, Steven?
01:20:37
Speaker
I think we do still have the seven day trial. Yeah. That's it. Check that out. Check that out. And if it's within your budget and it seems like something you'd like, it's just, I mean, for what you're paying, it's so.
01:20:49
Speaker
It's so little for what you get. And I hate that this has turned into an advertisement for the Patreon. I'm not a fan of this line that we're going down. No, no, no, no. I would say the other thing that would be good to do, like the Patreon, like I want people to join it because money, but also because we put a lot into that and there's a lot of really good stuff on that. And like, if I weren't on this show, I'm still a patron.
01:21:14
Speaker
You are like before I was on the show, I was a patron. You were one of our first patrons. It's so there's so much you hope for our first patrons. So like you could watch a list to a main feed episode, and you could listen to us two or three hours a day.
01:21:32
Speaker
for the rest of the week until you get to the next main feed episode and you'd still have so much content to burn through. Yeah. I mean, there are people who are working through our friend of the show. Patron Norvin was I was talking to him on Instagram the other week and he's like, yeah, I'm almost caught up. And it kind of bumming me out because I'm actually wait in real time for new episodes.
01:21:56
Speaker
Uh, now that, that being said, if for some reason you're not into the patron, Patreon stuff, like it's the seven day trial, so you can check it out for free. Um, if you're not into that or if you, you, you don't, you can't support us financially. Uh, I would recommend giving us another email and give us a movie that doesn't have any sequels.
01:22:16
Speaker
and we'll get to it. I'd say we could probably get to it maybe this year. Absolutely. We've got some space on the schedule this year. We definitely have some space on the schedule. We definitely have some space on the schedule. What I will tell you, I will say with regard to what does and does not constitute a failed franchise starter, we play pretty loose by those rules.
Community Engagement and Closing
01:22:38
Speaker
My rule has pretty much been if you can make a case for it,
01:22:42
Speaker
we'll probably do it. Unless there is a movie in a franchise that immediately follows it, we're probably not going to do it. Or we're probably going to do it unless there is that movie that follows it. We're pretty easy on that. And again, Urban Legend is just one where we're kind of tied because those sequels do exist. And the first one is a direct sequel.
01:23:07
Speaker
The first sequel is a direct sequel to the first one is what I'm trying to say. Right. Whereas the third one is just kind of has the name. Yeah, it's kind of it's it's it's something kind of will slap slap the urgent urban legend name on it and call it. It's like because I don't know, based on what I'm reading about the third one, it looks like it was just kind of one of those things that.
01:23:27
Speaker
Like they probably wrote the script for a different movie that had nothing to do with it. And they're like, Hey, kind of like the Rage Carry 2, let's make this an urban legend thing. Cause this is kind of an urban legend. So why not shoehorn it into this, this franchise? So yeah. But so anyway, thanks for the mail. And, and look, even though we, we cannot cover what you would like for us to cover. And when we feel real, real bad about that, we are definitely willing to work with you on it.
01:23:52
Speaker
Absolutely. Absolutely. We love getting mail from you guys. Let us know what you think. Just let us know if there's a failed franchise starter you would like to see us cover that we have not done so yet or just say hi. We like it made Tucker's whole week when Nicole sent us that email. So if you want to make Tucker's week, shoot us some emails. Disinfranchpod at gmail.com is the name of the email address. And now's the time.
01:24:19
Speaker
Now's the time because once people start emailing us all the time, we won't be able to put all of this attention.
01:24:27
Speaker
on each and every email. So if you really if you really want us to, you know, we've been talking about this for 10 minutes now, if you really want us to go deep on your email, like you got to get it in now, dude, before the crowd gets gets here. And also I will say if if you I mean, if we get to a point where we've got scads and scads of people emailing us, we might have to just do a mailbag episode into it. That might just be a thing we have to do. And I don't know that we put that on the main feeder behind the pay. Well, I don't know.
01:24:58
Speaker
I don't know. Band meeting. I vote for main feed, but not on a Thursday, but band meeting at some point. Okay. We can discuss. If it ever gets to be an issue, we can have that conversation. Right now, it's not that issue. No, it will be at some point. I hope so. I hope that is the case. I do.
01:25:19
Speaker
But anyway, shoot us an email, disenfranchpod at gmail.com. Join the Patreon, patreon.com slash disenfranchpod. Five bucks a month gets you access to days of content, like just so, so, so many podcasts that we recorded. You've got commentaries, unenfranchised, disenfranchised, Upsall Video Game Corner, Upsall Christianity Corner, weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? Like it's an embarrassment of riches, particularly if you like us being silly.
01:25:47
Speaker
So check that out, patreon.com slash disenfranch pod. We surely are. Hit us up on the social medias. We are on Blue Sky, Instagram, Letterboxd and Facebook and YouTube at disenfranch pod. Tucker, in particular, begs you to check out the YouTube channel, subscribe, like and share those videos with your friends. How are we doing on getting on the YouTube music?
01:26:15
Speaker
working on it. Right on. That's what you said last week. I'm sorry, Google podcast people. I really am working on it. Really? We hope to get that podcast or this this show to you quickly. And hopefully, I mean, I mean, if that's what you use, you probably haven't been getting this episode anyway. So sorry.
01:26:36
Speaker
Oh, no you haven't. It gets through on Google Podcasts. Well, not now because it doesn't exist, but until it ceased to exist, we were on Google Podcasts. That's what I'm saying. Like, you're not going to get this episode because it's not there anymore. The thing doesn't exist. Yeah, yeah.
01:26:54
Speaker
So anyway, and anyway, while you're on the Internet, swing on by wherever you do get your podcasts, be it Apple podcast, be it Google podcast. Well, not anymore. Be it Spotify. Leave us a nice five star rating and a review, please. And thank you. That goes a long way to helping us find more listeners like yourselves. I am your host, Steven Foxworthy. You can find me on Instagram, a letterbox and.
01:27:21
Speaker
I was a blue sky at Chewy Walrus. Brett, you're back. Where can people find you if they want to catch you when you're not on this podcast? I was the same old places that I'm not very active letterbox to Instagram and blue ski at sus underscore warlock. Just sus warlock on blue ski because they don't like underscores. They don't. I found that weird. And Tucker, what about you, sir? I'm on Instagram.
01:27:50
Speaker
and YouTube at ice 909 I C E in I N E the number zero and the number nine. As previously mentioned, I am doing an alphabetical listen through of all of my records that I've collected basically since I was a child. So that's happening on my Instagram. If you're interested in, in looking at the records I own.
01:28:21
Speaker
Not hearing them, but listen, do you attach any any music to those pictures? I hear that some people do, but I do not. Because that might be a good way to help people hear maybe one of your favorite tracks from that album. Might be a good way to check out the album up engagement a little bit. I don't care about engagement. It makes me happy to do it the way that I'm doing it. So that's how I'm going to do it.
01:28:44
Speaker
I appreciate that, Steven. I'm not meaning to like, like poo poo on what you're saying. It's just, I don't, I'm just doing it for myself. It's like my music that's on YouTube. Like, that's why I don't promote that shit, really. It's because it's just, I just do it to, to get it out of my system and have it there for preservation. If you want to listen to it, it's fucking rad. If you like it, that's even better. Fuck yeah. Bam. But, uh,
01:29:13
Speaker
It's all for me. It's all for me, Steven. All for you, Damien. I mean, Tucker. Hey, and then also I'm somewhere else. Oh, yeah, I'm TuckMugs also on Instagram. Tuck underscore mugs where we talk about mugs. Been a while since we had a mug out. Oh, we're going to have one. Excuse me. We're going to have one here really soon. Sorry, I got really it got a little squished there. We're going to we're going to talk about it real soon.
01:29:42
Speaker
We got another mug coming, dude. And I want Brett, could I get you do a guest mug and we could just have a picture of each of your big bills or whatever is the ones that you showcased on what are we watching this week? Sure, I could do that.
01:30:01
Speaker
OK, and tell me all like who they are and where you got them. And, you know, the former, you know, that shit when you get when you get a minute break, because I know you busy as fuck. So when you get a minute, no rush hang with us tonight, particularly this movie. Yeah, dude. Dude, yeah, dude. So, yeah. Tuck underscore mugs. Go there and just have a chill time on the Internet. Right on. And that's where you can find
01:30:29
Speaker
All of us. Tucker has more to say, apparently. I was just going to say that my roommate took a little a little trip to Vermont. It's going to be there for a few days. And she stopped at a diner on the way and she got me a diner mug. Oh, you guys, I'm so excited. She knows me so well. I would hope so. Look. At this.
01:30:57
Speaker
Hannah's. Oh, you can't. I'm sorry. I'll share it with you later. But it's just I think for the group chat, dude. And you know what? They just gave it to her. She was like, do you sell your mugs? Because most places like that do. Yeah. And they were like, no, but you can use a lot of diner mug in India. They were like, no, you can just straight up have it. No, that's nice. I like that. I like that. You got to normally you got to put in your purse, you know. Yeah. Well, they don't notice.
01:31:28
Speaker
That's nice. I like that a lot. Good for good for her. For them. For me, it's mine, man. Yeah. My mug, dude. Good. Good for good for the economy, quite frankly. It really is. I didn't have to go there. I didn't have to like put like smoke in the air and stuff for my car.
01:31:44
Speaker
You know, I drive a Subaru and it's got like this special. It's got two mufflers. And there's no special that it cuts out like 70 percent of my emissions. It's wild. It's from 2011. You believe that? It's like you're driving a Prius. Kind of, but it's not electric at all. It's just the exhaust system like really exhausts the fuck out of some shit. Yeah, it'd be exhausting and like double time. Like I say, I got two mufflers, dude. I got two mufflers.
01:32:14
Speaker
Speaking of exhausted, that's me. And probably you guys, after listening to this conversation, hey, that is, hey, this has been the disenfranchised podcast. This has been our episode on the spy who dumped me. Join us next week for a very special Valentine's episode, hopefully with our buddy, Mike Snooning, if I can get him scheduled. Until next time, well, I'm your host, Steven Foxworthy, from my co-host Brett Wright and Tucker. Until next time,
01:32:44
Speaker
That's Vidanya again, because I don't know what else to say.