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“This isn't heaven – this sucks!”
We're kicking off our sixth season with a special theme month – SKETCH-TEMBER, a month filled with films featuring some of our favorite sketch actors and characters! We're starting with SCTV and Bob & Doug McKenzie alongside discussions on the oeuvres of Wes Anderson and Bob Balaban, Stephen's first time visiting The Second City, and improv comedy!
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Introduction to The Disenfranchised Podcast
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I'll say good for you.
00:00:22
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Oh, hey, welcome to the disenfranchised podcast, eh? ah The podcast all about those franchises that won those films that fancy themselves full-fledged franchises for falling flat on their face, eh? After the first film, I'm your host, Stephen Foxworthy, and joining me as always is that my hoser brother here, Tucker.
00:00:40
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Hey, Tucker. Hello, Stephen. Oh, boy, you sound really ominous today, How's it going, dude? It's going all right. I'm going cut that out because I have a feeling that's going to get real old real quick. but No, you you you stopped at the perfect time. you You were right about to overstay. You're welcome.
00:01:02
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But you came up to the line and you were like, you know what? That's it. I'm a lot of things, Tucker, and one of those things... is somewhat self-aware. So I'm self-aware enough to know right when I'm, most of the time, right about when I'm going to get really annoying. And I try to stop at that point. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not.
00:01:25
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That's the thing about us annoying people. We have to get self-aware or die. Correct.
Milestone Reflections and Listener Support
00:01:31
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Correct. Because if you don't get that shit in check, you ain't going any friends.
00:01:35
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Correct. um But yes, Tucker, it is the the first episode of season six of the Disenfranchised podcast, starting our sixth year as a podcast. We started in September of 2020, and we are still somehow going strong. And in a few weeks here, we're going to come up on our 250th episode.
00:01:59
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episode wow We have done a lot of these things. And for some reason, people continue to listen to this very silly podcast. And I am eternally grateful to them always.
00:02:13
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i think if it dipped below like maybe 30...
00:02:17
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consecutive listeners not consecutive but you know like people who listen all the time i might we i must consider are hanging it up yeah there you go sure sure but yeah and i mean there are times when my schedule gets real busy and I'm like is this worth it and then i'm and then I sit down to like talk about a really silly movie and I'm like yeah it still is you gay I still love talking to my friends and you see my beautiful face Nah, something like that. No.
00:02:47
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but Okay. Well, I like looking at it. I know you do. youre You, like me, are one of those people who, if there's a mirrored surface nearby, you kind of have to like catch yourself from like looking at it all the time. We are the Californians, yes.
00:03:04
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Yes. i I have done that most of my life and it drove my ex-wife crazy. She's like, why are you looking at yourself? And I was like, because I want to see what my face is doing at any given time.
00:03:19
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You never know when you're going to need to look look a certain way on stage. And I need to know what my face looks like. Wow, you're doing the work, doing the research for the role. Trying, trying.
00:03:29
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Yeah, you never know what's going to come up. That's why I never throw away like old ties and things is because you never know when you're going to need just something very bizarre and specific.
Stephen's Costume Collection and Acting Preparedness
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So I've got a bunch of like ties from the 60s and 70s that belong to my late grandfather.
00:03:43
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And they are all clip-ons that come up to about halfway down my chest. So, yeah. Hey, that could be used for silliness, I feel like. That is what I'm saying. It's why I have them.
00:03:57
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It's why I have them. are And full of prop prop ties, prop ties. i you know, I also have old, old ah spectacles, old glasses that I could knock the lenses out of and get falsies in, in case I need to have like some period specs. I've got, I've got shit.
00:04:16
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I am loath to throw away things like that just in case I may need them at some point. So do you hear that casting directors? Steven comes with his own costume department. And I mean, it's extensive.
00:04:29
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Like I've heard of some people who like live out and live and work out in New York and are like, get get cast a lot on like um procedurals. If they get cast as a cop enough times, it's actually cheaper for them to just go out and buy a cop costume.
00:04:44
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That way they don't have to worry about like wardrobe, like trying to fit them. So Yeah. Did you see, have you watched Hacks, Steven? Have you watched the show Hacks? Not yet. Well, if I may, it's not a spoiler, but the main character is very rich.
00:04:59
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And ah she just has like a warehouse. That's essentially her closet. There you go. And I thought that was pretty rad. Sounds like something off of Arrested Development, honestly. Jean Smart.
00:05:11
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Jean Smart, ladies and gentlemen. from ah From Designing Women, your show. Yeah. You love that shot. It still holds up in small doses. Right on.
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No.
Introduction to Sketch-tember and 'Strange Brew'
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Tucker, to kick off our sixth season as a podcast, we, that is to say the brains behind this podcast, are kicking off a special theme month um to just for the okay just for the occasion. And it is a little sketch month we are calling...
00:05:44
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Or a little theme month we're calling. I just ruined it. I fucked it up. I fucked it up, Tucker. No, Steven, look, you were you it was you lost it before you even started there. Let's you try that again. I know you can do it.
00:05:55
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I can. You were stumbling on the first word, man. Come on. Oh, God. Take deep breath, and let's try it again, Steven. All right. I'm centering myself. Okay. Fuck me. All right. Take two.
00:06:08
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ah Tugger, to kick off our sixth season as a podcast, we, that is to say the brain trust behind the Disenfranchised podcast, have decided to kick things off with a theme month ah that we are lovingly calling Sketch Timber.
00:06:24
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um We are talking about movies that... um got their starts or were were born out of either the creative minds behind or the characters from some of our favorite sketch comedy shows. And so we are kicking off sketch timber with um one of, one of the better ones, I think maybe potentially 1983 is strange brew. Yeah.
00:06:53
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strange brew ah inspired by the characters Bob and Doug McKenzie from s SCTV. ah The film is written and directed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, those McKenzie brothers themselves.
00:07:07
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Also, Steve DeJarnat has a screen credit as well. ah The... Cast is Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis as Bob and Doug McKenzie.
00:07:18
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The great Max von Sydow. Lynn Griffin, Angus McGinnis. If you need a villain that works in a comedy or a serious movie, you either get Christopher Lee or Max von Sydow.
00:07:33
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Like, those are the guys. Or Christopher Walken these days. Yeah, he's kind of taken that mantle since those guys are, you know. Right. Yeah. Past. they They are no longer with us.
00:07:45
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Yeah. um the the another Another dearly departed, the late great Paul Dooley. We love him. yeah ah Brian McConaughey as well in there. And, of course, I did hear it because it sounds like their dad is Yosemite Sam. It's the great Mel Blanc.
00:08:05
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um as the voice of Bob and Doug's dad. And of course, lest I forget, Buddy the dog as Hosehead the dog. ah What a cast. What a picture.
00:08:16
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A truly frightening dog. Like that dog, yeah like even when it's sitting still and like not doing anything, just being a good boy, just i am so scared of that dog. it is He's a sweet boy, but yes something about it, just the way like he looks like um this animated, this dog in this animated Russian short that I saw once from like the 70s or the 80s.
00:08:42
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Russian animation is but is on its own relatively terrifying too. so Yes, yes. Joe and I watched it when we went to Pittsburgh after we went to the Evansville Cemetery, Evans City Cemetery, and the Monrovo Mall. We went back to the Airbnb, and I curated a short film festival.
00:09:01
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that Which sounds very much like a thing you would do. And we had a great time. And all the short films that we watched are on my list for what are we watching. So if we ever record that, what are we watching? The next one?
00:09:15
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We need to release the last one we recorded. No, that's that's collateral. I don't release that until I record the other one. It's collateral. like I mean, I'm over i'm in the 60s now in terms of like number of movies I've watched, and that's not including television books. Yes, I finished started and finished novels in the time since we've we've recorded our last What Are We Watching? and comics.
00:09:39
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I've got a lot of things on on the docket to discuss. So the sooner the better, frankly. Yeah. And I think that we could get through that. um ah Brett usually doesn't have much. He doesn't write stuff down usually. So um if we got like a good Friday or Saturday night or something where we could all like start at eight o'clock and just go as late as we needed to and then chop it up into how many pieces it needed to be.
00:10:06
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I'm into it is what I'm saying. i mean no i I'm into it. You usually are into it. I'm very into it, yes. yeah I'm into this movie too. Yeah. So let's get into that. So obviously we mentioned ah Bob and Doug McKenzie coming from the Canadian television show SCTV.
00:10:26
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um They ah were created, if I'm not mistaken, ah because the um the the Canadian like board like really pushed for, for all Canadian programs to have like Canadian culture, like some, some kind of Canadian cultural segment or something.
The Legacy of SCTV and Its Impact on Comedy
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Yeah. And so this was kind of their very pointed, um, like, malicious compliance to that um order. And it ended up becoming insanely popular.
00:11:04
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ah They even had an album, a comedy album called the great white North, which sold a million copies. Yeah. And so based on that, they're like, okay, why not do a movie? Yeah.
00:11:16
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And so the that's what we have here. Strange brew. Tucker, what is your exposure to um to SCTV? Let's start with SCTV. What's what's your familiarity level with that?
00:11:30
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Well, my feet familiarity level ah starts and ends with Rick Moranis as Michael McDonald. Oh, my God. Oh, you're rushing to the microphone. Yeah.
00:11:43
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Had you seen that before I recommended it to you or was I the one that I watch it almost daily now? It's so fucking funny. So it it it never gets old either. Like it's, it just, you could, I've watched it three or four times in a row before.
00:11:59
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There are some really, really good bits on SCTV. There's like the five neat guys, which I love the five neat guys. um There's also the, the gone, gone, gone, she's been gone so long, gone, gone, gone so long.
00:12:13
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And like the, just it's Rick Moranis, it's John Candy and it's Eugene Levy. And each one just gets progressively more awkward as they're singing.
00:12:24
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um The Canadian kids TV is another really good one. Like I, I'm familiar with a lot of SCTV bits and they are great. It it was basically Canada's answer to ah Saturday Night Live. and it Well, and it was Lauren Michaels produced it as well.
00:12:42
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Oh, that I did not know. That's wonderful. Yeah. They're kind of sister shows. um And my answer was a joke, Stephen. That wasn't my first exposure to s SCTV.
00:12:54
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Well, I have no idea no way of knowing that. Yeah. So, excuse me, I've been way into Rick Moranis since Ghostbusters, which I basically popped out of the womb and saw, um even though I was born two years before it came out.
00:13:11
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But I don't remember a time where I haven't seen hadn't seen Ghostbusters. Oh, yeah, I didn't see Ghostbusters till college. So Rick Moranis for me was always Wayne Zielinski from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Yes, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
00:13:23
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um I was never really a Spaceballs i Well, you're not a Mel Brooks guy. I like Spaceballs. Okay. I love Mel Brooks. I just don't understand. is We don't have the same sense of humor.
00:13:40
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Like, I think he's great. i do There are a few of his movies that I do like a bit. I kind of like Blazing Saddles. Blazing Saddles rules. Frankenstein is okay. and i think o you The masterpiece. i think i think the OG producers I think i think that i would like that one.
00:14:02
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More than any of his others. Yeah, I think he would. think it's it's kind of less like out there silly and more like grounded silly, it seems like. might also, grounded silly, you might also like his follow-up to that, the 12 Chairs, which I've not seen, but I've heard is very, is is again, a lot more grounded than some of his follow-up stuff.
00:14:22
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My Mel Brooks movie that I still like, that I'll still watch, generally not a fan, but I do love Robin Hood Men in Tights. See, and that's that's lesser Brooks for me.
00:14:33
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That and, like, Dracula Dead and Loving It and Life Stinks are kind of like D-tier Brooks for me. now now Well, anyway, I knew about Rick Moranis for a while.
00:14:49
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um and then when i started getting into sketch comedy and stuff when i was a teenager i'd watch a lot of monty python and kids in the hall uh mr show all that kind of shit and i though i never shows we may talk about later this month and straight up maybe
00:15:07
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We'll definitely talk about a few of those. um Right. No, I always liked that stuff, but s SCTV is kind of a blind spot. Like I'm familiar with a lot of people that came from SCTV and I'm familiar with the story behind the show.
00:15:25
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ah But I really haven't seen a lot of sketches like I was kind of I had kind of I still really love sketch comedy, but I had a big sketch comedy phase.
00:15:36
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And when that was happening, the Internet what isn't what it is now. And SCTV out of all that shit was the least like available to me. Makes sense.
00:15:47
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So I just never got around to it, really. i would like to visit... like If somebody could curate me a good YouTube playlist or something, that would be fantastic. I'm checking to see if SCTV is streaming anywhere, and it doesn't look like it is, at least not this country. It used to be. They used to have it on something. I don't remember what.
00:16:07
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Yeah, it doesn't look like it's any on this in this country any longer. I also think i think it's Dave Thomas... um as Richard Harris lip syncing MacArthur Park um is also really freaking funny.
00:16:21
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um There's a lot of there's a lot of great SCTV sketches and I've I've barely scratched the surface. Like I think Joel Flaherty's character Vampire Floyd who's like a like a late night like a Sven Gulli Sammy Terry kind of late night horror host is I think another really good like recurring character from that show that a lot of people really enjoy.
00:16:44
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And that, you know, ah you get ah people like Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Martin Short, all coming out of SCTV, which is phenomenal. Honestly, it's people that are still group people that are still at the top of the comedy game.
00:17:01
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Some of which are dead. But if they weren't, they'd probably still be on top of it, too. Like Marty Short. Marty Short's career is bigger than it's ever been. He just won his first Emmy.
00:17:12
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Not too long ago. Catherine O'Hara's on, I mean, Schitt's Creek. She won her her Emmy for Schitt's Creek. Michael McKeon. I fucking love that guy. um Yeah, from ah most recently in like getting big reviews in ah Better Call Saul. He's starring another sketch comedy alum, Bob Odenkirk. like Also in the news, Spinal Tap 2, The End Continues, dropping theaters September 12th.
00:17:39
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I'm so excited to see that. i i Look, I was apprehensive at first. was that Did I use that word right? You did. No, you did. okay you're You're good. yeah i was I was apprehensive at first, but seeing the trailer and the promotional material, like I'm not worried anymore. like I know it's going to be great.
00:17:57
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I really love those three guys. um They're the best. McCann, ah Christopher guest and um fucking Harry. Sure. Like you get those three guys together. And yeah, I'm less a fan of Rob Reiner.
00:18:13
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Honestly, um I could, I can take or leave Rob Reiner. Honey though, as Marty DeBerg though, he's my but veral yeah from what I saw from the first movie and what I've seen of the second one, he's still kind of, he understands that character.
00:18:29
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And I'm one of those guys who will go out and watch like the Spinal Tap ephemera. like There's the concert film that they did together. There's the yeah the follow-up that they did like for one of those... likes TV movie.
00:18:42
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One of those concert things that they Yeah, Bitch School. Bitch School was one of their singles they released in the 80s. Yes. Yes. yeah i remember there's the... um they In the video, it starts out with them in the office, and the guy's trying to explain to them that it's at an all-girls school. And they're like, well, wouldn't that make us look very short?
00:19:10
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he's like, no at all not a tall girls at all girls,
00:19:16
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i i fucking i I need to bust out Spinal Tap. I own Spinal Tap on DVD, yeah and i I need to bust that out. I don't remember if I have the Criterion DVD or not. I don't know that I do, but that's that's one of that's like on my list because that's out of been out of print for ages. If I find that, it's an auto buy.
00:19:35
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like i will automatically buy that if I see it out in the wild. i was I had a pretty unique experience my first time watching that movie because I bought it blind on VHS. And it was a special edition that had ah the Bitch School music video, the aforementioned Bitch School music video.
00:19:52
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Yes, I've seen the Bitch School music. I think a friend of mine in college owned the version with that on it. And it had a handful of deleted scenes from the movie. So first time watching this movie. And for some reason, most of the time in the VHS days, if there were any special features, um like, for example, on the Crow VHS, there was an interview with Brandon Lee.
00:20:11
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It was after the movie. But for some reason, on This is Spinal Tap, a special edition VHS, um All the special features came before, so I saw the deleted scenes and Bitch School before I ever saw the movie.
00:20:27
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First time I saw the movie, I saw all that shit first. i was like, okay, that's funny, but i don't really have context for that. Like... the yeah the The version that I have comes with a shit ton of special features. This is the one that was released, it looks like by Studio Canal.
00:20:44
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ah And it's got four different music videos. And I have to assume one of those is going be Bitch School. So plus like a shit ton of like an over like just a bunch of deleted over an hour of deleted scenes. Oh, wow. I got to get that because the handful they put at the beginning of the VHS were really good.
00:21:04
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There's the one where they're at the zoo and they're talking about how monkeys can talk, but they can't swear.
00:21:14
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i love i love the when they're talking about the different ways the drummers have died and they start talking about one of them choked on some vomit. Not his own vomit. We don't know who's vomit because you can't really dust for vomit. You can't dust for vomit.
00:21:28
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You can't dust for vomit is one of just the all-time great ad-libs in film history. It's so fucking good. i think that's why-
00:21:40
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I think all three of them are, and I think they all play off of each other so well that it would be really, really difficult to make something with the three of them as the the stars and it not be funny.
00:21:53
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like That's why i like Mighty Wind so much, because it is like a soft soft spinoff, almost, of Spinal Tap. I do believe that they used to open them for themselves. Correct.
00:22:04
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I was going to say, you know the history there is they used to open as the folksmen. They had the song Old Joe's Place. They actually performed it on SNL when i think both Guest and McKeon were cast members. Yes.
00:22:18
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And they would open as the folksmen and they would get booed offstage halfway through Old Joe's Place. So they would go offstage and change costumes and come back on as Spinal Tap. and it And to raucous applause. Like it's just – Absolutely. And I even saw like there's a concert that they did, i would say within the past 20 years, where those three actors just got together and played a bunch of songs from Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind and also Waiting for Guffman because Michael McKeon wrote a bunch of songs for that movie as well.
00:22:51
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And they just like, they they just like, it was just a night of them singing a bunch of their their's their hits from the various movies that they've made together. And it was so good.
00:23:03
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E. and
00:23:08
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O's.
00:23:10
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You know, Devo did something very, very similar. I know they're not really a comedy group, I guess, depending on how you look at what they're doing. Right. But um they used to open for themselves as Dove, which is just Devo with the E and the O switched.
00:23:25
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And dove Dove was an acoustic Christian folk band. Oh, my God. That's amazing. They would play folk versions of Devo songs, like dressed in like suits.
00:23:38
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And shit. So amazing. That's so incredible. I want to I want to know all about that. We can talk about that at a later time. ah we um Tucker, when did you get into now? I first discovered Second City, SCTV, all of that in this movie, coincidentally, all of this I discovered in college.
00:23:59
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um When it when did you kind of start with when did you first see Strange Brew? Well, I got into my sketch comedy phase ah in late middle school, early high school.
00:24:12
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And like I said, SCTV was always on my radar. Right. um I understood what it was, who came from there, etc., etc. But really, the only the only thing I had was this movie, to give me any kind of idea what what that was.
00:24:28
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And I saw this probably... I want to say I was probably a junior or a senior in high school when I first saw this because somebody brought it over to my house on a VHS and we watched it and then they forgot to get it when they left and then i never saw that person again.
00:24:46
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so i just yeah I just had a VHS. So I just had it. And it's it's such a cool movie to put on for people who haven't seen it because it's it's so absurd.
00:24:59
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like Even the beginning, like everything about it is... I don't know if it weren't coming from this unique comedic voice of Bob and Doug McKenzie and the context of their characters, none of this shit would work.
00:25:16
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Because it's just bonkers. It's just fucking bonkers. the way that i The way that I've heard it said is that the two of Dave Thomas decided that there needed to be a Bob and Doug McKenzie movie and that it needed to be.
00:25:31
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He wanted it to be very. ah He wanted it to be like Hamlet. And so they handed it off to Steve Dejarnet. 100% Hamlet. that this This and Lion King are absolutely Hamlet.
00:25:45
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Like to the – Mr. Elsinore's brother marries his wife. His wife's name is Gertrude. His name is Claude, short I'm sure for Claudius.
00:25:56
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Instead of Hamlet, we have Pamela. Like Elsinore. never considered this. Elsinore is the place in Denmark where – It takes place like Elsinore is the name of the beer company. It's Hamlet. It's fucking Hamlet.
00:26:09
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They're not even trying to hide it. It's so obvious, but I never put it together. It's so obvious. The Elsinore was like the it's changed. Elsinore was the klaxon call in my head.
00:26:22
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and I remember the movie vaguely because this is the only the second time I've seen this. I remember vaguely. yeah I remember vaguely the name Elsinore from from college. And I was like,
00:26:35
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is this Is this Hamlet? is like but Like Disney's The Lion King, is this just Hamlet? Yeah. And so as I was watching it, I'm like, fucking a this is 100% just Hamlet.
00:26:46
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Apparently the original draft of the script was very much Hamlet, like rigidly Hamlet. And they're like, you know what, just kind of like um loosen up on that a little bit. Rick Moran has kind of backed out of writing for a little while.
Improvisation in 'Strange Brew'
00:27:00
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And then like ah Dave Thomas, I think showed him what he was worked like, what Steve had done and what he had kind of started rewriting in the script.
00:27:09
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And they, they decided, you know what, this isn't going to work. Because these characters are so us that unless we're the ones writing it, it's not going to be in our, like we need to write it for our voices in order for this to make any kind sense.
00:27:27
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So they kind of rewrote it, but they spent most of their time on the first half hour of the movie, which is why the first half hour of the movie is so fucking weird. Like with the, ah like the mutants, space mutants of 2051 AD or whatever the movie is at the beginning of the film. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:45
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It's, it's just in there. Like if we'd had time to like do the rest of it, the rest of movie, they the movie would have been about that weird as well, which I mean, there are parts of the movie that are that weird.
00:27:57
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Like the, the stuff with a hose head, like turning into super ah Superman, like in the last act, yeah um like Doug or ah Bob drinking all of the, all the beer and like becoming just like completely inflated and then peeing out the fire on the,
00:28:15
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on the uh loony bin yeah good use of uh his his predicament there i don't look i don't look like him right now but i feel like him right now do you need to go pee i do have to go pee i'll put in a little thing here do need to like pause for the cause so we can both go pee and i can get another drink Yeah, but let's maybe where we were. What were we talking about? We were talking about how weird it was. how how weird the i I know exactly what I need to say next. I'll just keep that in my head. I'll be right back, Steven.
00:28:47
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I'm going to pause this, the recording. Okay. Five minutes later. Do you remember what I was going to say, but I have an unrelated thing to say first. So start the recording. It started. We're going.
00:28:58
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We're live. Steven. doing it live. Did I tell you? that You heard about this? You seen about this? ah Have you seen this? No, Jay, I haven't. Oh, what? did you You called me by I was actually referring to Jay Leno, who's the you know this, you hear about this, you've seen this. But yeah, go ahead. yeah the irony The irony is not lost on me, but yes, go ahead, please. I love everything i love everything about that. um So do you remember a couple episodes ago and we stopped to have a pee break like we just did then?
00:29:32
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and um i I kept my headphones on and the bathroom in this house is far away, so far away. And so as I walked, as I, as I walked over there, my headphones disconnected, then reconnected.
00:29:48
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And for some reason, Zencaster designated my headphone mic as my mic. And remember, you could hear me pee for a second. You remember that? I do very much remember that. Yes. as I hope it's seared.
00:30:01
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Remove the headphones. Let Tucker have his moment kind of moments. Yes. So can I tell you what I was recording with pot of the pitch?
00:30:13
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I had a. pe ring happens they were They were. Well, wait a minute. They're talking about something. And I was like, oh, they're going to go on for a while. and I don't have really much to say about this. So I'm going to pee. So I typed in the chat. I'm like, I'm going pee. you Just keep going. I'll be right back.
00:30:25
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And so. I completely forgot about the time where you heard me pee and I'm standing there peeing and I remembered it and I'm like, Oh shit. And so I just turned off my headphones, just turn them completely off. Like, right. That's the move.
00:30:41
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And so I, I finished up in the, in the, in the bathroom and I came back. And they were like, oh, you yeah the recording stopped. And I was like, ma i did turn off my headphones. like And I explained to them what happened to us previously. And I was like, y'all didn't hear me pee. did You weren't listening to me pee, were you You couldn't hear me pee, right?
00:31:01
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And luckily, it did not redirect the mic that time. That is very fortunate. I would have been embarrassed. So embarrassed. As well you should.
00:31:13
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Like, I have a lot of respect for
00:31:17
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Some people. And I don't want them to listen to me pee. I just recorded with two of those people yesterday, the 300th episode of the pod and the pendulum, which should, I believe.
00:31:30
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I believe is dropping ah this upcoming Monday as of the release of this episode. So um be on the lookout for that. That was a four hour recording. And damn it. We, we had, we had a blast. It was so much fun. basically, I basically carved out my entire day for that.
00:31:50
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night And it was like most of the hosting group from PNP plus a former ah co-host as well joined us. and And we had we had just the best time just talking about horror the best horror movies the last 25 years.
00:32:07
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That's cool. ah It was great. But if you've already listened to that and you're like, oh, I like this podcast, just go to the episode right before that where your boy is on talking about the remake.
00:32:20
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two Two before um the remake. Because this week, tomorrow as of the day we're recording this episode, but two days ago as of the release date, ah they released the the Dawn of the Dead 2004, the James Gunn's X Snyder film.
00:32:34
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Oh. They released that episode a couple of days ago, so which I was not on that episode. So I don't know how – I'm sure it's great though because Pod and Pendulum do good work. Love that podcast.
00:32:45
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Yeah, yeah. that Before I started hosting on – like as one of the hosting panel, i it was my favorite horror podcast. Like I was – I started as a fan. Yeah. on that podcast. And then I, Steven, got to come on my, I didn't be a cohost on my favorite podcast, just like you did. So just like me, just Steven, we came up the same way. We started from the bottom.
00:33:07
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Now we here. Now we're here. Here we are. Look at us. Here we are. Hundreds, literally look at us hundreds, single digit hundreds of people listen to us, Steven. Three figures of people listening to us.
00:33:23
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So, Tucker, we were prior to our our urination break ah discussing um the the weirdness of the script. And you had something to say, and I want to loop you back in on that.
00:33:36
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I do know what I was about to say in response to which what you had just said, Stephen. If you roll the tape back, you'll see that this is a a perfectly logical response to that point.
00:33:47
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um That being said, Stephen, I really appreciate um that the script, they give themselves time to improvise. like There are a lot of scripted moments in this, and the characters do what they do, um but there's also...
00:34:04
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they just give themselves opportunities to just kind of do whatever, like basically most of the beginning of this movie at the end. I thought the end credits was the most sincere. I really enjoyed that. Cause you could tell they're having a lot of fun.
00:34:18
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Oh yeah. Yeah. And I really enjoy it I enjoy the imprevisation improvisation in this film. And i I think in most films, I wouldn't appreciate the fact that it's it's so obvious when it's taking place.
00:34:31
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But in this one, I kind of do because it's like, oh, we're doing this this whole big deal thing. But then also maybe we can hang out and just kind of riff for a while and then go back to that. It works for this film in particular because Second City is born out of improvisation. Like Del Close kind of one of the godfathers of improvisation, improvisational comedy, and one of the like great minds behind – the second city. So like second city is a lot of the sketches and characters are born out of this kind of improvisational nature.
00:35:06
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And so I think it works well for the, and again, I am speaking as someone who did improv in college. In fact, the, I was the found a founding member of my college's improv comedy team and they're still going. In fact, I'm closer now like to them than it is because I'm never going have children. So that is my legacy.
00:35:30
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It 100% is my legacy. And I've told them that and they thought that was very funny. I feel like there should be a painting of you, like wherever they meet, you know, there there should, but a lot of other things meet there. So there's no way that's going to happen. Maybe a bench with a placard. It's like ah something. We, but the thing is we would have, we would have to donate money to the school in order to get any kind of shit like that. And and none of us want to do that.
00:35:58
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um But I, I really do. i would love to go back and see kind of one of their shows now because And I, you know, not be like, hey, you guys, because I'm i'm in my fucking 40s. Like, you guys know what I used to be a part of it. I started this thing. You're here because of me.
00:36:15
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Like, I don't want to do that. wrong stephen No, I don't want to do that. at the At the end of the performance, the rest of the audience leaves. You're sitting there alone. And suddenly from the stage, they notice you as you start a slow clap.
00:36:28
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You rise out of the darkness, Steven. And then, you know, you reveal yourself to them for what you are and who you are. And it's a big cinematic moment. i i I've loved improv comedy for a very long time. And so when um a couple of my friends just in my sophomore year of college said, hey, we're going to start an improv team, I jumped on that shit. And I was in that group all all the last three years of my college career.
00:36:57
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i was a founding member. i know all the inside jokes, all the lore. i don't know how much of that shit got passed down to the to the current cast, but um Man, i I would love to go back and see what they're doing now because I feel like I would have a really great time watching that.
00:37:15
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um But yeah, I love improv comedy. I actually got to go to Second City for the first time for my birthday.
Visit to Second City and Comedy's Influence
00:37:20
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oh how was that? It was fucking great. Like I had that's there are other Second Cities, but that's the Second City.
00:37:30
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The Chicago Second City is the second city. because Chicago is the second the second city. Yeah. And so I got to go and they were doing like it was it's an anniversary year for them. So they were kind of recounting like the legacy of Second City, but also in the same breath.
00:37:46
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They're like, we're not doing any of the sketches. Those you know those people from, but we're doing sketches that were written by those people and then sketches that we've written. And it was the touring company of. Second City that was performing it. So they're like the ones that like go around the country performing this shit.
00:38:02
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And it was, it was a blast. It was so much fun. And they're, they, they do have like the scripted sketches, but they also have the improvisational moments like where they'll call out like for suggestions from the audience.
00:38:15
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ah what At one point they asked like, what's the best gift you've ever been, you've ever gotten. And I yelled out Second City tickets. And one of the performers looked down at me and goes, Oh, that's so sweet.
00:38:26
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You had a moment, Steven. And it was your birthday. It it was like it was even technically the day after my birthday. my ah My partner's sister and her family and us went. Because her...
00:38:39
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um my partner's nephew and I have share a birthday. um We have the same birthday. So we, we all kind of went to any, he was his 13th birthday. So he's finally allowed to go to second city.
00:38:52
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So we all kind of went together and it was, it was so much fun. I had such a great time. If you're in Chicago, go see the second city. They are. And, and again, that the, the Canadian, like the Canadian branch of second city is how,
00:39:08
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and Like both Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas got their start, but like the second city, that's where Dan Aykroyd came out of that. john andy I think John Belushi as well. Both of Belushi's actually came out of the bill. Murray came out of the second city. Yeah.
00:39:24
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Like what we know as SNL started. Yes. Harold Ramis as well. Much of what we know as Second City or as Saturday Night Live came out of National Lampoon, which borrowed heavily from the Second City.
00:39:39
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So like like National Lampoon and Second City kind of merged to create what we know as Saturday Night Live. Gilda Radner was a Second City alum. like So much of what we know as SNL got pulled right out of it of Second City.
00:39:56
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And they still get people from there. ah Famously, Amy Poehler was... Well, no, she was Groundlings. Sorry. um No, she was Upright Citizens Brigade. She was a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade. There you go. That's what I'm thinking of.
00:40:10
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But, I mean, they're still getting people from... Tim Robinson came from second city. 80 Bryant came from second city. Like before the show started, my partner and I were kind of roaming the halls of second city, like looking at all the posters of the shows that had been presented previously and just kind of looking for names that we recognized. And not everybody was someone that we recognized, but like,
00:40:33
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ah Tim Balz from ah The Righteous Gemstones was a Second City guy. Like sam robin Sam Robinson, who is – or not – I got his name wrong.
00:40:45
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um but He's Tim Robinson's co-guy. Yes, in the Detroiters. Yes, in the Detroiters. Sam – what is it? Robin? No, Robert?
00:40:58
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Dang, I can't think of it either, Stephen. got to look it up. i'm I'm in the process. Good. i feel bad. I like that guy. He was in a future episode of this podcast, Werewolves Within. within Sam Richardson.
00:41:11
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It started with an R&M. He was also in... ah What was that Apple TV Plus show where it was like every episode... There was a murder and every episode was one character's... After Party. Yes.
00:41:23
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After Party. He was in that. Oh, so good. He's good in After Party. I love him in After like the main character in Party. He's apparently in Veep as well. I love the end of that show. Like, it's okay that there's no more episodes because I love that ending where everything is. Elijah Wood is there.
00:41:39
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Elijah Wood is Ben Schwartz. Yeah, it's it's so good. Like, that is – and that's another kind of improv-heavy show where they have – kind of a basic outline but you can tell like so many of those performers are really great improvisers and it it it the riffing is on unmatched unparalleled go watch after party that show fucking yeah it's so good ah Sam Richardson is so good in that. Sam Richardson is is is it one of my favorite kind of up and coming comedy guys, even though, again, calling him an up and coming comedy guy feels reductive because he's been doing this thing for decades.
00:42:22
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But like, he's not a well known name at this point. and I think he's getting there. He's certainly getting there. He's building his cachet for sure. um But yeah, like Tim Robinson of i Think You Should Leave fame got his was was in SNL and he got his start in Second City.
00:42:40
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That's actually where the two of them met and like started working together. they are friends. They are friends. They they like each other. um but But yeah, like Second City is kind of like a veritable who's who of comedy.
00:42:55
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And it's like every like half the important names that came out of comedy came from Second City. And that's that's no small feat. ah There's one in Toronto. There's one in Chicago. And I don't know if there are how many other like locations they have.
00:43:14
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I think this movie takes place in Toronto, doesn't it? There's one shot where I was like, oh, shit, I think that's Toronto. Toronto has become kind of like one of the great stand-ins for like any city ever.
00:43:26
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Like yeah the it it it acts as a stand-in for Indianapolis in the movie Eagle Eye. Yeah. which as I'm watching the movie Eagle, I'm like, fuck you. That's not Indianapolis.
00:43:38
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That's not, that nothing on 56th street. Looks like that. Not one inch of it. Looks like they're like, I watched Eagle. once like shortly after it came out on DVD. I think my roommate at the time and I rented it and I was like, fuck you. That's not, that's not Indianapolis. I was like, what's he going to, what's he going to go down and get on the subway next? What the fuck? Come on.
00:44:02
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ah Yeah, we don't have one of those here. fuck you. Um... um Yeah, no, that's 100%. But like Toronto, like it it, I would not be at all. so Because Toronto is kind of one of those great film cities. Like if you need a stand-in for a metropolitan area, like Vancouver and Toronto are your go-to places for like cheap.
00:44:27
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Apparently Atlanta is not it anymore. Like Atlanta is not the place. It was for a while, but I think they're kind of moving on. It had its Yeah, everything's shifting over to to London now, to England. Like, Elstree Studios, like, all all the the the... They've got, like, three major studios over in that over over across the pond there.
00:44:50
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But, yeah. Comes and goes. The business, that is. Correct. as As it stands, though, I would not be surprised if this movie was shot in Toronto. Whew.
00:45:06
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Just the skyline looks like Toronto. Yeah. Oh, yeah. hundred percent 100%. Apparently, the role of Brewmeister Smith was written for Max von Sydow.
00:45:18
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um And they were like, I don't think we can actually get him. So they ah called the studio head and say, hey, call him in Sweden and just tell him the story of the movie. Yeah.
00:45:29
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And like the head of the studio had recently made the movie Victory, which Von Sydow was in. And so he's like, um yeah, I'll do it. And apparently his son was a big fan of SCTV. And so that's how he got into this movie, which I find really fucking funny because Max Von Sydow in this movie is such – is –
00:45:55
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He's one of the few dramatic actors that can really pull off comedy.
Max von Sydow's Role in 'Strange Brew'
00:45:59
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Like this movie comes out 10 years after The Exorcist. I'm saying if he if he had the wants and the desire, he could have been um peak Leslie Nielsen.
00:46:12
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He's got the chops. He's got the chops. I really love it too when when actors do roles like for their kids and stuff they have no interest in. yeah i love that. I think that's really sweet. when when Like Bob Hoskins in Super Mario Brothers.
00:46:30
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Yeah, I just think that's really sweet. Bob Hoskins is like, I don't know what this shit is. And his kids are like, Mario is great. Do Mario. And he's like, OK, I'll do Mario. Tommy Lee Jones and Batman Forever. He's like, I don't know. My my kids wanted me to do it. mightus really big the great My favorite story of Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever is he gets the script. He reads it. He calls the producer who is a friend of his.
00:46:55
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And he goes, i don't get this. And he goes. okay like you read the role and he goes yeah he goes and and and you kind of know what's on the page he goes yeah he goes here's what i want you to do i want you to read it again and pretend that academy award winner tommy fucking lee jones is playing the role and he's like oh okay and so he reads it and they and that's the reason he does the film um that and because again and his kids love batman And but but of course, we all know he cannot sanction Jim Carrey's buffoonery.
00:47:29
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i mean, um I'm not mad at him. Like, I disagree with him, but I'm not mad. I got a lot of Tommy Lee Jones. I get it. Like my parents, and my parents could also not sanction Jim Carrey's buffoonery in the early 90s.
00:47:42
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Did you see Tommy Lee Jones climb that hill in that Jeep in coal miners daughter? boy no i didn't respect that i respect that it's like it's a very steep angle and he's just in this old you should see it it's really good sissy spacex it's the story of loretta live no i i want to see it and like it's on my list for sure i think i have two copie two dvd copies of it if you need to borrow one i i can i will accept that on your behalf um'll i'll throw I'll throw in for a double feature Urban Cowboy.
00:48:12
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but on Oh, I i do. Oh, no, I haven't seen Urban Cowboy. I've seen Midnight Cowboy is the one that I've seen. That's a very different film. Very, very. Yes. This I know. Very different.
00:48:25
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This I know. Everybody's talking at me. um One of two movies that ends with du Dustin Hoffman in the back of a bus just sitting dead-eyed while the person next to him is making eye contact.
00:48:39
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um The other one, of course, being The Graduate. The Graduate, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a great ending. While like a folk anthem starts playing over the film. I love it because that's that's a moment that that everybody has at some point.
00:48:56
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Yeah. Yeah. And I really like how much of a downer that is because it's so real. It's so real. Of course. Like that's what spoilers, spoilers for midnight cowboy, a movie that's been out for the better part of, honestly, I think it came out before I was alive. So the better part of four years, I was only the graduate. Yeah.
00:49:17
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Yeah, I mean, at the end of Midnight Cowboy, of course, he's dead-eyed because he's actually dead. Yeah, he's passed at that point. He's so fucking dead. Yeah. He's so good he's got, like, he's so good in that. Like, I think he's his character's got, like, fucking tuberculosis or something in that movie. Yes.
00:49:35
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It's so, and Jon Voight in that movie also, very fucking. Like John Voight is still like again. Yeah. John Voight. Now motherfuckers. Fuck that guy. But like John, John Voight and Midnight Cowboy.
00:49:49
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Fucking a ah Also in that movie, one of your guys, Bob Balaban in that movie, an early Bob Balaban performance in that movie. I always forget he's in it. I always forget. then I'm like, oh, how how can you forget Bob Balaban's in that movie? Bob Balaban is like the most memorable part of that movie. and Yo, Steven, was Bob Balaban in that in that new Wes Anderson movie? I don't think I saw him in that. Did you watch that yet?
00:50:13
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Oh, you don't you don't like Wes Anderson. I don't like Wes Anderson. I feel the same way about Wes Anderson that you feel about Mel Brooks. Yeah, no, I get it. I totally... i That is very fair. And with with Wes Anderson, it really... kind I think a lot has to do with how you get into it, too.
00:50:28
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Correct. Yeah, and what Wes Anderson, i for me... Wes Anderson is gateway cinephilia. Like when you, when you start becoming a cinephile, you have to get through Wes Anderson. You have to, he does so many things. I mean, there's nobody does it like him, whether it's good or bad, whether you like it or not, nobody does it exactly like that. And I don't think anybody correct.
00:50:50
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No, and that that is why what I feel like Wes Anderson is gateway center field. Like you get you get through Wes Anderson to get onto the Meteor stuff. Yeah. in my In my opinion. Again, not everyone is going to feel the same way about Wes Anderson that I do.
00:51:04
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And that's okay. like Here's the thing. I cannot deny Wes Anderson is very good at what he does. What he does is just not for me. Yeah, no, that's totally fair. I don't think Bob Balaban was in that Phoenician scheme, though.
00:51:18
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I do love that he's in some of his movies, though, because he's kind of the perfect. Like before he was in them, I can't believe I wasn't like, man, Bob Balaban would be good in one of these. i saw him in one, and I think the first one that he was in was maybe that I saw was maybe Moonrise Kingdom.
00:51:35
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And I do not like Moonrise Kingdom. But I really like Bob Balaban in that movie. Like when I saw that movie, I was like, oh, yeah, of course. Where's he been in all the other movies? Is this the first time we're seeing Bob Balaban Wes Anderson for real?
00:51:47
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Seems like such a perfect fit. Is he in Asteroid City as well? I've not seen Asteroid City yet. Yes, he is. He is in Asteroid City. He is not in Phoenician Scheme.
00:52:00
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Yeah, I knew it. I didn't see him. I was surprised I didn't see him. I was hoping see him. He's also in The French Dispatch as well. like He feels like the perfect kind of actor for Wes Anderson.
00:52:13
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Yes. the The funny thing for me is that Ralph Fiennes shows up in a in a Wes Anderson film. like He shows up in... Well, he's in a couple of them.
00:52:26
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He is, but the the first one is the the Grand Budapest Hotel. That's his movie, yeah. He's kind of the star of that movie. Right, he is the central point. But like you know everything that Anderson does is so... It's intricate. like He is kind of like twee David Fincher in a lot of ways. like Everything he does is very... like and And every actor is like a doll in his movies. like The actors are kind of just like...
00:52:55
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a part of the, the grant, a part of the image. They're not actually acting. They're just kind of there to stand in a certain way and be, and Ralph Fiennes got so fucking frustrated during grand Budapest. He's like, I'm a fucking actor. Like, give me some motivate, give me something to work with.
00:53:14
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And I just find that so funny. Um, Um, because like, was the same way. didn't get it either. Like, no, it's like, ah, they, they famously like did not talk to each other for most of the shoot on Royal Tenebos.
00:53:30
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Which I will say, Royal Tenenbaums might be the one Wes Anderson movie that I really get, like, they that really connects with me. Yeah. that's the one. I love Gene Hackman in that, and that kind of speaks to to both of their talents. Wes Anderson as a director and Gene Hackman as an actor.
00:53:47
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For them to not even be able to see I and I, but still, like, make exactly what they wanted to make. Correct. And it's perfect. That's both of those guys.
00:53:59
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Fantastic. Fantastic. 100%. 100%. That's the one Wes Anderson film I own. Like I have the Criterion edition of the deep Criterion DVD of Royal Tenenbaums.
00:54:10
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It's a good one. And it's so it's it's the first Wes Anderson I film I saw. It's the only one I've revisited. yeah and i've I've seen enough. I've not seen a lot of Wes Anderson, but I've seen enough to know that his thing is not my thing.
00:54:25
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um Which i I at some point I will probably force myself to watch Wes Anderson and I may come out the other side with a different perspective. But I've not seen a lot of Wes Anderson, but I've seen again enough to know that that's not what I'm going to the movies for.
00:54:41
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um like i've not seen bottle rocket yet you've recommended bottle rocket to me a number of times i've not seen rushmore yet you've recommended rushmore to me a number of times like i feel like mate like some of his early stuff before he like locks into that every frame of painting kind of before steve's yes yes that's the one i tapped out on was like life aquatic fucking no thank you There's some really fun stuff there, but as a whole for me, it doesn't really do anything for me either.
00:55:13
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I think Steven for you, his first three films are going to be for you. And after that, nah, I'm excited for you to see Bottle Rocket and Rushmore. And I'd love to almost kind of maybe do a theme month.
00:55:26
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I mean, because it's not like any of those movies are going to get sequels. But none of them were intended to either. And that's kind of the that's kind of the thing that disqualifies them is every film he makes is kind of a yeah know is crystallized. Then that's that's perfect. We can just put it on. We can put Rushmore and Bottle Rocket on the ever expanding straight up list and we'll get to him eventually.
00:55:49
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One of these days, perhaps. Maybe. And speaking of Bob Balaban, which we is how we got under the Wes Anderson train, um yeah one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie ever is between Bob Balaban and michael Michael Hitchcock in the aforementioned A Mighty Wind.
00:56:07
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when Bob Balaban is freaking out about everything on stage. And like, he's like, what about the light? And Michael Hitchcock just slaps him on his bald pate. And they cut immediately because everybody, like no one in no one in the crew could stop themselves. How could you? Because it was so unexpected. It was not scripted. It was completely improvised as most of the Christopher guest films are.
00:56:35
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The timing was perfect. Yeah. it Yeah, it's just kind of one of those perfect. And it was Michael Hitchcock just going, God, he's annoying and slapping him on his bald head. And it's it's a perfect moment. and that brings us back to improvisation, which brings us back to we fucking did it. range brew brew We did it.
00:56:55
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I'm so proud of us for rep kind um bringing in that full circle, you know.
00:57:01
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He just made the international symbol of the donut. um Fucking A. Like, I love – like, in again, I saw this movie once before I saw it in college. I was visiting a friend who was a big fan of this movie. I was staying over at his place. Like, I think it was when I was in a ministry group at – my Christian college and we were staying at one of the members houses and he's like, Oh, you guys haven't seen strange brew. We got to watch strange brew.
00:57:28
Speaker
And me who had never drank beer before, or if I had, it was like a sip from my uncle's Miller light, which was shit. Um, I, Yeah. So I was like, I don't understand like why these guys like beer so much. And now I'm like, Oh, I can't drink beer as much because of the beatus.
00:57:46
Speaker
So, um, I wish I could be drinking a beer right now as I'm watching this movie. Um, right. It's not fun, but, and then also again, the theater geek in me just loving the Hamlet parallels of this movie so much. Um, yeah.
00:58:03
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And like, there's, there's so much in this, like it's layers. My partner was trying to watch it with me. God bless her. i love her so much. um She was like, I, you know, the A's just started grading on me. She's like half the dialogue is a, the other, like half of that is hoser.
00:58:23
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Like it's just so much credit though. like They, to their credit though, they always pull back on it right when it's about to get really annoying. They really do.
00:58:34
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builds and builds and builds. I think partner will disagree, but yes. There's a rhythm to it, and it's really impressive to where they can keep it irritating, but not make it unbearable.
00:58:48
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Which I think is why they decided that they were the ones that really needed to write and direct movie. Like, I think in anybody else's hands, it would have it might have crossed that threshold or not been enough.
00:59:02
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But they find, really, the right balance... For the A's and the Hosers and the ah the the the like distinctly Canadian dialogue of this film.
00:59:15
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The knob. Can we just talk about the opening of this movie? Like the the opening scenes of this movie when they're with the the MGM logo and the lion belches.
00:59:28
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And then you hear them talking. He grabs that lion's tail for real, Stephen. He does. For real he grabs his tail. There's a real fucking lion and Dave Thomas really grabs that lion's tail and starts spinning it like a crack. Like a madman.
00:59:42
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Like a madman. Yes. Absolutely insane. Like, I don't know. Like, they must that lion must have been tranquilized because there's no I'm glad he's still alive. I'm so glad he's still alive.
00:59:53
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you still why He's still out there doing shit. tom I worry for him. Every time I see this movie, I worry for him every time he turns out. I'm like, this is going to be the time. Ballpark it for me, Tucker. How many times have you seen Strange Brew? Just ballpark it.
01:00:08
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Fuck. um I'm going to say less than 50, but more than 30. Okay. That's a lot. Well, I had a lot of people to show it to back in the day when I first got it.
01:00:23
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and this and This feels like ah like a contender for a straight up. Honestly, it kind of does. It could be a straight up. i I would probably do it if it weren't fit for main feed.
01:00:35
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I was going to say, it's ah i mean, it's 100% something we could absolutely cover. Because again, one of the criteria that we go off of for this, ah for the feed is like, are there established characters that are riffing off of, like, are is it is it based on an established IP? And if it is and it doesn't get a sequel, then we absolutely throw it on the list. And this is...
01:00:59
Speaker
this is established IP. It comes out of SCTV, which comes itself out of second city. Like it's it, that is established IP. yeah Yeah. So in, in it, in this movie, we'll get to the box office here. I'm sure relatively soon. Very short. yeah Yes.
01:01:14
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Yeah. Because we've, we've been here an hour and yeah,
01:01:20
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but like this movie did not have the box office to warrant a sequel. And Honestly, I don't know what Shakespearean play they would riff on for a sequel to this because they are essentially the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of this movie. Yes. This is in effect. The Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
01:01:39
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ah Like this is kind of, I would say more than Hamlet, this is Rosencrantz. This is a kind of ah a riff on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead because Bob and Doug are a hundred percent, the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of this movie. Or if you're more of a Disney fan, the Timon and Pumbaa of this movie.
01:01:59
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Yeah, absolutely. And you know, there was not a direct sequel to this film and there has not been another Bob and Doug ah theatrical film, but, The characters have carried on. I think the, so if I'm not mistaken, there was an animated series. And it's like one of the only things that Rick Moranis did between now and when he retired ah after his wife's death.
01:02:23
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He's very, very choosy about what he comes back to do, which I honestly, ah fucking admire about the man. Like he came back to reprise the role of dark helmet.
01:02:34
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He played the, ah basically he and, uh,
Rick Moranis's Career Choices
01:02:39
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dave thomas play moose versions of bob and doug in the brother bear uh both the original brother bear movie and the direct-to-video brother bear sequel and look rick moranis got in like at a good time because he's not in a lot of movies but he's in a lot of movies that made a lot of money and if he has residuals on any of those due to set Rick Moran it like, what a fucking career this man had. Like, again, not everything he was in was gold, but the man was in.
01:03:15
Speaker
Here's a thing I didn't know. He's in Streets of Fire. Yeah. The Walter Hill film Streets of Fire, the same year that he's in Ghostbusters, which is the year after this movie.
01:03:26
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um He's in one of my favorite Walter Hill movies, Brewster's Millions, in a very small role that I absolutely love. um He's in Little Shop of Horrors, one of my favorite movie musicals of time. um Probably number two right behind Bob Fosse's Cabaret.
01:03:44
Speaker
That might not be the best movie that he's in, but I think that's... That's peak Rick Moranis right there. yeah He's fired on all cylinders in that movie, dude. That is 1986. The year after that, he does Spaceballs.
01:03:58
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Two years after Spaceballs, he does Ghostbusters 2. The same year as Ghostbusters 2, he's in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. yeah Also, Parenthood, the same year. Like, 89 is a good year. for Like, 89 might be peak Rick Moranis. Like, I think...
01:04:14
Speaker
yeah Little shot might be his greatest performance because it really captures everything he does. Well, yeah like in terms of like, like exposure, 89 might be the best year. Cause you, you do have ghostbusters to honey. I shrunk the kids and parenthood in the same fucking year.
01:04:32
Speaker
And all of those moves did, ah did box. did very well, very well. And I love parenthood. I think Rick Branis in parenthood is probably my second favorite performance of his.
01:04:44
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Oh, right. I've not seen Parenthood. I i need to check that out. though it's It's an ensemble movie of ah just really fantastic performers. I was going to say, I know Steve Martin's in that. Keanu Reeves is in that. like it's It's a great cast.
01:04:59
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Yes. River Phoenix. Mary Steenburgen. Dion Weiss. Robards.
01:05:06
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Tom Hulse, Martha Plimpton. Yes. God. Dennis Dugan, Joaquin Phoenix. Fuck. I need to see this movie. It's on Netflix right now. I can't believe you haven't seen Baradun, dude. It's like, it's probably one of the best- family movies ever made because there's like some adult shit in this but you can watch this with your family which is I didn't see it in 1989 when it came out but I absolutely remember the poster of Steve Martin holding two kids by their ankles like I remember that poster it is a comedy but it's for its time it's very emotionally stimulating
01:05:45
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Like they it's very relatable, like it's a big family. So like each little offshoot of the family is, you know, this different archetype. So everybody kind of has somebody to latch on to. And it's just so well written. I think it's directed by Ron Howard, isn't it? I think it's one of my favorite Ron Howard movies.
01:06:04
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Yeah, i mean, I. ah wouldn't I wouldn't blame you if it was. um yeah it was yes the The year after that, it was a Ron Howard film. The year after that, you've got My Blue Heaven based on the same – like that and Goodfellas coming out the same year based on the same subject matter. Again, another pairing Moranis and Martin there.
01:06:26
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um You've got LA story in 91, honey, I blew up the kids in 92. The Flintstones, the first movie I saw in a drive in and is art or as Barney Rubble.
01:06:36
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He did. a right. I liked him Little Giants also in 94, a state, ah a rental staple in the Foxworthy household growing up. Okay. I'm glad you guys liked it.
01:06:48
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We did. He's in a movie with Tom Arnold. It kind of does. In 96, he's in Big Bully with Tom Arnold. Honey, we drunk ourselves in 97.
01:06:59
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And I think his wife dies right around that time because then the next thing he's in is he he's a voice in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys in 2001. Yeah.
01:07:11
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And then in 2003, that's when he starts his voice acting stint. um Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids in 2003. Brother Bear also in 2003. The sequel to Brother Bear in 2006. Like after that point. And then, of course, in 2007, what you were referring to, Bob and Doug McKenzie's anniversary.
01:07:34
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Yes. I have seen those animated shorts and they are a good time. And then, of course, the big return was in 2018. After not returning for any of the Ghostbusters movies, he comes back on the Goldbergs to play Dark Helmet.
01:07:53
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yeah And, of course, there is a Spaceballs 2 that is coming out, directing directed Josh Greenbaum. That's true. ah by josh greenbaum And ah he is slated to return as the yeah as his it in his role as the as Dark Helmet. Dark Helmet.
01:08:15
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Dark Helmet. I forgot the name. ah right look I've had a couple. We've been going in the movie, Steven. And I'm, I'm corrected. You want to know, but speaking of me, not liking that movie, I think a space balls is probably, if there even is a least favorite Mel Brooks film of mine that I've seen, it's probably space balls, but you know what?
01:08:39
Speaker
I will see space balls too. If Rick Moranis is there, I just will. i don't even care if I hate it. I just want to see my boy again. You know, you know who else is in it is our girl, Kiki Palmer.
01:08:51
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I do love her. I love her so much. I was just, I was literally singing her praise the other, like on the pod and pendulum 25 the other day, because I spoiler note made the list and I'm absolutely fucking in love with Kiki Palmer. Like she doesn't want it, but she could get it.
01:09:11
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no um I'll just say it. Her SNL episode was fantastic. And for me, it culminated in my favorite sketch of probably the last decade, which is the one that is famous amongst us disenfranchised boys.
01:09:26
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um And sometimes in the group chat. um But the ah at 10 to day. 10 to day. Yeah, you guys. She is in that sketch. More you and Brad than me, but yes.
01:09:39
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and Okay, Lurr. Lurr.
01:09:43
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ah Yeah, now what that one does. I apparently also ah Bill Pullman's son, Lewis Pullman, ah he of Thunderbolts fame is going to be in the film as well as a character called Starburst, which fucking hilarious.
01:10:01
Speaker
Josh Gad is apparently going to be in it. He is Bob. he And that's the the century. That's that's Bill Pullman's kid.
01:10:13
Speaker
really yes and you got it you got kurt russell's kid in there too as you know us agent correct you got a couple uh you got a couple nepo babies in that movie i i understand why people have negative thoughts towards nepo babies but also how cool is that is what i'm saying when they're actually talented it's really nice When they are actually talented and can do the work, it's really nice. When they're not, and it's it's really frustrating.
01:10:47
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And spoilers for um the next what are what the second next What Are We Watching? I just saw Thunderbolts for the first time couple days ago.
01:10:57
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and Okay. yeah it's on my list as well. I didn't know that was Bill Pullman's kid, but now I see
Analysis of 'Strange Brew' and Its Humor
01:11:03
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it. He's got yeah he's got that chin and like, fuck. He is his daddy's boy.
01:11:10
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Wow. it's It's all falling into the place. It's blowing my mind. Let's get to the numbers, Steven. don't know if I can handle much more. ah i First of all, i just i just just ah to to tap it out, i this movie is so much fun. It is an absolute blast.
01:11:26
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We've not talked a lot about it. We've kind of talked around it, but it's kind of one of those things. Yeah. yeah it's It's one of those, like, a this is a movie we like, so, like, there's not a lot of bad stuff to say. Like, what is there to talk about? We like it. It's fun.
01:11:41
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And it's a comedy, so, like... I don't want 50% of this to be just us like repeating jokes and doing impressions. Right. So, you know.
01:11:53
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Correct. you You know. um Yeah. Oh, I know. ah This movie opens August 19th, 1983. I've been alive for exactly a month when this movie comes out.
01:12:08
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ah Because my birthday is literally July 18th. So a month and a day i have been on this earth as a person. Now, Stephen, what's your living being? Now that you've told us your birthday, can you give us your so ah your mother's maiden name, please?
01:12:22
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Yes, 100%. Let me just go ahead and repeat that here on air. B***h.
01:12:30
Speaker
And there's there's that. um Tucker, i'm I'm praying that you bleeped that when I said that. um also will I will. now I'm here right now, and I can i can say that I will.
01:12:42
Speaker
Right. Let me also get my social while we're here. the
01:12:48
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Please do. And um your elementary school, your first grade teacher's name, your first pet, if you could. yeahp and and And just in case we forget to bleep any of that, ah let me just say here for the record.
01:13:00
Speaker
Oh, you fuck. You son of a fuck. Boy, I tell you what. That was a good one, Steven. Boy, you got me. I tell you what, you got me. You straight up got me. I respect you for I hate you and I respect for it.
01:13:16
Speaker
That's all I ask. ah This movie opens August 19th, 1983. ah it It doesn't even show up in the top 30. It actually doesn't show up in the top 30 until the following week.
01:13:31
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which is kind how... Well, this was always a rental, heavy rental. This was never going to be a huge theatrical thing, but like I'll bet the video rentals like more than made up for that.
01:13:42
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On a budget of $4 million, it gets a domestic box office of $7 million. So it almost doubles it, which again, yeah it probably breaks even in the grand scheme of things. It breaks even.
01:13:54
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And like i was saying, in those days, when video when ah video stores would buy these tapes, they would buy them for like $80 to $100 piece. Yes. Yeah. yes And so if they were renting them heavily, they would order more.
01:14:10
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And that's how movies made money off of rentals in those days. That's it. hundred And I feel like that, I feel like this movie probably made some money, but not in the
Orion Pictures and 80s Cult Classics
01:14:20
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right ways. Or maybe there's, I don't know if there was any desire to do a sequel or anything.
01:14:25
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Maybe it was always just kind of just going to be a ah silly little movie that made some money and people liked a cult classic made to be a cult classic. Maybe. Opening at number one this week, brand new at the box office, Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in an Orion Pictures film called Easy Money.
01:14:48
Speaker
And that's why Orion went bankrupt.
01:14:52
Speaker
Not Bill and Ted, not Robocop, none of that. It's this bullshit. They stuck around until 1990, because Orion, one of two movies that I think of when I see the Orion logo is Silence of the Lambs, which came out in 1990. The other one is a future episode of this podcast called Mac and Me.
01:15:12
Speaker
Yes, MGM owns them now, and they've been doing some Orion. They've been using the logo. They have. It's been coming back recently, which I really fucking appreciate. At number two, up from number three the week before, a little Tom Cruise, Leah Thompson action called Risky Business.
01:15:29
Speaker
Oh, yeah. i don't know Which across its three weeks in the box office has earned $20 million. dollars ah Coming up from number 13 to number three in its fifth week at the box office. Word of mouth, right?
01:15:43
Speaker
Right? Michael Keaton Terry Gar, Mr. Mom. That's like scream levels. That's like scream levels of word of mouth because scream tanked initially. And it wasn't until like three or four weeks later, they're about to pull it. And all of a sudden the word of mouth brought it back way the fuck up.
01:16:03
Speaker
That was insane. I've never seen anything like that before. Your boy, Zach Kregers movie, Weapons, is number one at the box office. Back
Humorous Banter on Movie Coverage
01:16:11
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up. Back up. ah which i was I was going to try to see it this weekend and I didn't get to. So I'm glad it's going to be sticking around. So hopefully next weekend I can get out to see it.
01:16:23
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At number four, ah the the kickoff of a franchise in four weeks, it's earned $36.4 million. dollars It's National Lampoon's Vacation.
01:16:35
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Oh, the OG. Okay. The OG, yeah. In fifth place, a Stephen King adaptation called Cujo. We did that for the podcast. Stephen, there's a there's an episode.
01:16:48
Speaker
We did an episode on this, um on Cujo. On Cujo? We did not. You son of a bitch. look I've never seen Cujo, so I know we've never done an episode on Cujo. No, we totally did.
01:17:01
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Oh, it was Christine. did not. But why did
Cult Movies and Future Podcast Ideas
01:17:03
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I watch Cujo then? Because you wanted to watch the Stephen King adaptation? I would never subject myself to that. it's a It's a good movie, but it upsets me because I love Sweet Doggies.
01:17:16
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Why would i Are you sure if there's not an episode? 100%. 100% positive. We've never covered Cujo. And number six, it's the number one movie of the year that I was born.
01:17:28
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ah In 13 weeks, it's earned $222.5 million. dollars It's a little film called Return of the Jedi. oh people love that movie.
01:17:40
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i was They talk about that movie in this movie. Little bit, yeah. They say that he saw Jedi 17 times when he's pretending to be Darth Vader's.
01:17:54
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um In seventh place, I feel like this might be a future episode of the podcast. It's called Your Colon Hunter from the Future, opening this week at $2.8 million. dollars I've never heard of this. I feel like this is a future episode of the podcast.
01:18:11
Speaker
Put it on the list, even. Another one that I feel might be a future episode of the podcast at number eight, Metal Storm, colon, The Destruction of Jared Sin. Oh, yeah, of course. million dollar here sin Familiar person we're all aware of.
01:18:29
Speaker
So much so that you would say the title of your movie and think that we're going to recognize it and give a fuck. Any movie that has kind of that colon subtitle feels destined for this podcast, honestly, unless it manages to eke out a sequel.
01:18:46
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ah in In ninth place, down from sixth the week before, a movie I love, also a movie starring a couple of sketch comedians from one of our favorite sketch comedy shows, a little movie called Trading Places.
01:19:01
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Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy. Oh, And the great Jamie Lee Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis, also Denim Elliott in that movie. Yes.
01:19:13
Speaker
And in 10th place, the biggest movie of the year, the biggest movie, the week I was born. It was number one, the week of my birth. It is
Rating 'Strange Brew' and Viewing 'The Room'
01:19:23
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a sequel.
01:19:24
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It is one of the early Sylvester Stallone directed films. It stars John Travolta. It is called Staying Alive. Yeah. Staying Alive. Staying Alive. Yes.
01:19:37
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I can't believe it. Here's the thing. I was discussing this with my mother recently because that's everything that she loves right there in one movie and she's never seen That's amazing. That she got Sylvester Stallone writing and directing.
01:19:49
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Come the fuck on. And then John Travolta's in that bitch dancing his dick off. Mom, yeah yeah how have you not seen this? This is this owns the corner lot of your alley, dude. What the fuck?
01:20:01
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And she's never seen it. She's never seen it. I'm going to something I rarely do. I'm going to go below the line because there's some great below the line shit here. excited This is just a great movie. A great week at the box office. In 11th place, you've got Flashdance.
01:20:14
Speaker
12th place, you've got future episode of the podcast War Games. 13, you've got Getting It On. 14, Curse of the Pink Panther. 15, Smokey and the Bandit 3. 16, Smokey and the Bandit?
01:20:28
Speaker
Smokey is the bandit. In 16, you've got Jaws 3. Yeah, Jaws 3. I said that already. In 17, you've got Octopussy. That's the Dennis Quaid one. that's the the that's the dennis quade one Yeah, with SeaWorld and the like yeah still image of a shark moving forward. like Did they really think that we were going to be okay with that? like They did. They really did. ah In 21st place, you've got future episode of this cro this podcast, Krull. Krull.
01:21:00
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This crowd passed um in in 23rd place. Porky's to colon the next day. that Yeah. 25. The man who wasn't there. Like just such a not fucking great week at the box office.
01:21:14
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But not the man who wasn't there with Billy Bob Thornton. Not the Coen Brothers movie. Correct. This is the one with Steve Guttenberg and Jeffrey Tambor. Very different. Yeah. Yes, directed by Bruce Malmuth. I honestly would kind of like to see it. Yeah, franchise special episode.
01:21:34
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There it is. The man who wasn't there. I have legitimately pulled up the, the, the box office are the, the numbers for your Hunter from the future and metal storm, the destruction of Jared sin so that I can see if those are worthy of being added. Are those even real movies? Somebody's messing with you, Steven.
01:21:52
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I feel like maybe somebody's playing a joke. going they You might be right. Matthew Lillard and his friends, Angelina Jolie and all them hacked into your shit. They're Steven. They're in. Okay. Okay.
01:22:06
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Hack the planet. Fucking Johnny Greenwood. Get out of my computer. um ah the The tomatometer score for Strange Brew is a 75% well-deserved.
01:22:19
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The critics' consensus, the lowbrow in intent and outcome, Strange Brew effectively mines laughs from its unique premise and likable stars. Hard agree.
Coffee Preferences and Caffeine Stories
01:22:29
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ah The meta score on this one is a straight up 50 right down the middle based on mixture average reviews from six critics.
01:22:37
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Tucker, would you care to guess what the letterbox score for strange brew is? The letterbox score is between 3.3 and Oh my God. You just got there. 3.3. It is really, I expected it to be higher. Like I was being cautious because I felt like it was going to be higher.
01:22:59
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Really? Wow. It is 3.3. It is one hundred percent of 3.3. Okay. Yeah. All right. so So out of the five stars that we could potentially give it Tucker, how many are you giving to Bob and Doug's only theatrical outing strange brew?
01:23:15
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This is a three and a half star movie for me because I really like it. It's infinitely rewatchable. And i don't know, its it's well done. Like everybody does what they're supposed to do and it's it's not always conventional, but for me it always works. It always, always works, even at um double speed, which I watched it.
01:23:40
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Yeah, because you know somehow didn't fucking watch it beforehand. No, it's because the holiday weekend, i was like, oh, tomorrow's Monday because I'm not working today. but it turns out today is Monday.
01:23:51
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So correct. Yeah. I watched it this morning. I literally woke up and watched this movie. I had my coffee in hand watching this movie. Oh, but that's nice. I've never watched it in the morning. Like while I'm getting my morning on having a coffee, it is, it is very nice. And I've, I've taken to, um, do you, do you know about coffee milk? Tucker? Are you familiar with this? You know about this? You heard about this? You seen this?
01:24:13
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i'm I'm familiar with both of those words separately. And for me, if someone said the words to me, coffee milk, I'd be like, oh, you mean coffee creamer? talking about like a creamer? No. But you're not. The official drink of Rhode Island, it's like, which again, from the coming from the New England, I would expect you to maybe know this. smallest state.
01:24:36
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The smallest group of people. It's famous from that. Got it. Okay, cool. Cool, cool, cool. It is. There's something called coffee syrup, and you can add that to milk, and it's like chocolate milk, but coffee.
01:24:48
Speaker
No. It is i delicious. I love it so much. You could froth it and make like a latte. I could see that. What I do is I literally just use that as the milk and sugar for my coffee is I will add that to the milk.
01:25:05
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I will drink most of the mug and then what is left in the mug at the bottom, i will pour the coffee over and that will be like my creamer for my coffee. And it is delicious.
01:25:16
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I have a new favorite um gas station coffee order, Stephen, as I've been in Shelbyville for the last three weeks. And every morning we go and we go and get a drink and sometimes I get a coffee.
01:25:28
Speaker
And what I do is I get the 24 ounce. I fill it half with their mocha. Half with hot chocolate. And then, you know, those little like creamer, a creamer tubs, but it's not creamer. It's shots of espresso.
01:25:43
Speaker
Correct. I put two of them bitches in there. Holy shit. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. And it's not like it's just enough caffeine to get me zinged, but not enough to make me feel like sick and crazy.
01:25:57
Speaker
You know, you're someone who doesn't need too much caffeine. I don't. going put that out there right now. I don't. I really don't. It really depends on what I'm doing. I like it when I'm at work because like the work I do is very physically demanding. So it kind of gives me a little more, little more motivation, little more pep in my step.
01:26:18
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As it were. Yeah. Yeah. um I will say that I initially gave this three stars. I'm bumping it up to three and a half as well ah because this movie yeah is really fucking fun and I haven't seen it in like 20 years, but I and my partner thinks it's annoying as hell, but I don't know that it'll be 20 years before I hit it again.
01:26:38
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That is all I'm saying. So, yeah,
Podcast Wrap-Up and Future Plans
01:26:40
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I will. I will bump this one up to three and a half as well. It is also the best movie I saw today because after this movie, um my partner was like, hey, you know what we should do? we should watch ah The Room.
01:26:53
Speaker
And so I saw Tommy Wiseau's The Room for the first time today. and And if that man did not learn for the first time, I've never seen it. I've actively avoided it up to this point. it's I feel sorry for you, Stephen, because you you probably didn't have a good time because like straight up, you've like it's everywhere. The memes and everything. like you You already have such an idea of it that And I'd already seen the movie, the disaster artist, which we watched right after. Yeah. Which is really good. I really like that movie. Actually. It's fine. It's, it's okay.
01:27:27
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Nathaniel is in it, Steven. You watch your notes. He is. And he's very good in it. um steve But not too many others are. um But what I will say for the room is if Tommy Wiseau did not learn English filmmaking, dialogue, um storytelling, um just like naturalistic acting and, and just like the basic tenants of lovemaking from the red shoe diaries. Then I don't know where he learned it with David Duchovny.
01:28:01
Speaker
and And Matt LeBlanc, yes. Yeah! That's the first thing I ever saw David Duchovny in. That's amazing. That's fucking incredible, is what that is. Hey, you get those free weekends of HBO, you know? like Correct.
01:28:18
Speaker
Or you you stay at a friend's house and they have it and after they go to bed you stay up and watch it. And see back then it was like it was a whole mystery behind it. Now it's just like you can just get on the computer and hey look there's the nastiest porn you could imagine.
01:28:32
Speaker
Which I'm not against. I'm just saying back then it was like it was a treasure you know like if you could get your hands on something and see that was the only porn available accessible at that point yes what the fuck yes that and horror movies and I didn't watch horror movies so yeah treasure Stephen Yes, you are not wrong.
01:28:57
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um
Social Media Promotion and Farewell
01:28:58
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Yeah. So there it is. That but is our episode on Strange Brew, the adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie colon Strange Brew. um And yeah, we fucking love we've talked about Dave Thomas on this podcast before. We fucking love Rick Moranis. He's the best. Yes.
01:29:15
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um And like, so and but we've got other sketch comedy alums to talk about over the course of the rest of this month. So ah join us next week.
01:29:27
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Yeah, it's a theme month. That's what that's about. So join us next month as we continue Sketch Timber. And it's going to be it's gonna be a good time. We're going to have a great time with this month. And then, of course, next month we'll do our Spooky-thon. So two theme months in a row again.
01:29:41
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Bada bing, bada boom. We love it when it happens. um But yeah, that is our episode. This has been the disenfranchised podcast. You can find us on ah Patreon and not Yeah. Patreon, patreon.com slash disenfranchised pod. Join the official conversation.
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01:30:27
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But patreon.com slash disenfranch pod. Shoot us an email at disenfranchpod at gmail.com. You can also follow us on Blue Sky, Letterboxd, and YouTube at disenfranchpod.com.
01:30:44
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I'm your host, Stephen Foxworthy. You can find me on Letterboxd and Blue Sky at Chewy Walrus. ah Do not find our absent co-host, Brett Wright. He's currently storming a brewery demanding free beer because there was apparently a mouse in the bottle.
01:31:00
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um Do not follow him. He doesn't want your patronage. ah But you know who does? My good buddy, Tucker. Tucker, where can we find you on the socials these days? Well, first of all, Steven, you forgot to mention Wells U. I did forget to mention Wells The other podcast that I'm on with friend of the show, Hope Style, where we talk about the life and work of Orson Welles.
01:31:22
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Maybe we record an episode this month or this week. I don't know. Because we're kind of coming right up on it. I haven't added it to the calendar yet because I haven't discussed it with her. But I've got mad research to do before that episode goes live.
01:31:36
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um That said, definitely check out Wells University. um just We were, I think, nine episodes in. the last The upcoming episode, I think it's dropping a week from tomorrow or a week from two days ago.
01:31:48
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a Friend of the show, past and future guest of this podcast, and Wells U, Samuel Dumas, is on that episode talking about ah hearts of age the Hearts of Age, the first Orson film a short that he filmed on a Sunday afternoon with a couple of buddies and in a 16 millimeter camera.
01:32:06
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Check that out. Also check out the episode of ah the pod and the pendulum that's dropping next Monday on the 300th episode of the pod and the pendulum.
01:32:17
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I am on that episode along with many, many of my austere co-hosts for that episode. We have a, it's it was such a great episode. It's so much, it was so much fun.
01:32:28
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I had an absolute blast. I hope you do too. ah Check that out wherever you get your podcast because it is, it is worth the three and a half hours that will take you to get through it for sure.
01:32:40
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Sorry, Tucker, where can we find you? So you can find me on Instagram and on YouTube at Ice909. That's I-C-E-N-I-N-E, the number zero and the number nine.
01:32:54
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Also, Tuck Mugs. Yes, Tuck Mugs is still on Instagram. ah We had a ah post last week, I think it was, that was a post, wasn't it, Steve? post I believe so. Yep. Your sister's mug.
01:33:07
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Yeah, so it's, you know, it's there's still stuff going on there. It's still a, you know, calm little center of the earth for social media. If you want to come chill and look at some mugs, tuck underscore mugs on Instagram.
01:33:22
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And that's is There it is. That's it. That's all she wrote for this episode. Join us next week as we continue sketch timber. Until then, i am your host, Stephen Foxworthy for the absent Brett, right? And the ever present Tucker until next time, take off your hosers.
01:33:37
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Yeah.