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One Fine Day
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An all-time underrated Rom Com from two of the greats: George "ER" Clooney and Michelle "Catwoman" Pfeiffer. This movie is beautifully written and directed and hits extra hard if you've got young kids, because those little a-holes will really jam up your free time. 😂
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Transcript
00:00:47
Jeff
George
Introduction and George Clinton Appreciation
00:00:48
Jeff
Clinton is a dreamboat.
00:00:50
JT Spangler
He's great, man. Opens December 20th. That makes sense. um One Fine Day, Movie Life Crisis, 1996, Season 6, Episode 4. four
Song Covers and Licensing Confusion
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Jeff
It's weird that they went with the ah like the original version. the who Who does that song? The Chiffons? No. that
00:01:10
JT Spangler
i don't know.
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JT Spangler
The Ronettes.
00:01:13
Jeff
Yeah, something like that.
00:01:13
JT Spangler
There's a million of them.
00:01:14
Jeff
Chiffons, I think. They should have gone with the Natalie Merchant. That's such a good version.
00:01:19
JT Spangler
Well, I was surprised because I was thinking, I was like, oh, I bet they got Natalie Merchant to do a cover because they couldn't license the real song. And so they just like commissioned a cover. And then the real song hit later. And I was like, well, what the hell? Why'd they even do that?
00:01:32
JT Spangler
mean, I like it.
00:01:32
Jeff
Yeah.
00:01:33
JT Spangler
It was good, but...
00:01:34
Jeff
Yeah, it was fantastic.
Carole King and James Taylor's Musical Legacy
00:01:35
Jeff
That's freaking, that's Carole King though. She's, I just saw James on, what was it on? Colbert? And he was talking about, oh yeah, I was recording ah Mudslide Slim and Carole King was recording down the way and she had already showed me You've Got a Friend. And I just decided we just decided to cut it.
00:01:56
Jeff
And I just wanted to let her know. And I went and told her and she was like, oh, that's great. He's like, of course, I'm going to record it. It's the best song ever written by a human. And he was talking about how Carole King and Jerry Goff and how they just write stone cold jams.
00:02:05
JT Spangler
yeah yeah dude what's i mean i so i think was that the one that james was talking about his colbert asked him his favorite songs that he's ever written because he said he said mean old man and mill worker i was like hell yeah james get get into the deep cuts dude those would be on my list
00:02:10
Jeff
And that's one of them, man. They killed it.
00:02:20
Jeff
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:27
Jeff
Yeah, dude, when he said, yeah, it's a song I wrote for a musical. I was like, Mel Walker. And Jake was like, how'd you know it was going to be that one? i was like, cuz that song.
00:02:37
JT Spangler
Maybe the only song you ever wrote for a musical, but that shit is my jam.
00:02:40
Jeff
That's great. It's a great song.
Analysis of 'One Fine Day' - Fashion and Pacing
00:02:43
Jeff
Yeah.
00:02:43
JT Spangler
Yeah, One Fine Day, George Clooney, Michelle Pfeiffer, they wear gray, they wear trench coats.
00:02:48
Jeff
Yeah. fiiffer yeah
00:02:50
JT Spangler
It all happens in one fine day.
00:02:52
Jeff
You got to do it um in the trench coats and you got to do it in gray so you can't tell what time of the you know decade what decade it is. I mean, the cell phones give it away and the fax machines, but like...
00:03:08
JT Spangler
Well, that's what's great about this movie is that, first of all, it's just awesome. But second of all, the director was like, was he was real big about it. Yeah, we filmed everything in such a way that you couldn't really, like all the clothes they wore were timeless and it was all shot in such a way as that it could be it could happen at any time and throughout human history.
00:03:26
JT Spangler
and And me and you are 16 or 17 when this comes out and we're like, hey, we have a question. They have cell phones. Everyone's going to know exactly what year this came out.
00:03:36
Jeff
And the type of cell phones they have, you can tell. When when somebody has to go, hello?
00:03:38
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, I got the...
00:03:42
JT Spangler
Yeah, they got the Motorola flip phones where the antenna retracts.
00:03:43
Jeff
who
00:03:45
JT Spangler
Everybody who was alive when we were alive could put this movie within two or three years. I'm like, that's a great idea, but your movie plot hinges on Motorola flip phones.
00:03:49
Jeff
Yeah.
00:03:53
JT Spangler
So there's a little problem, slight problem.
00:03:54
Jeff
Um, yeah, we're going to be a little late. Um, I do.
00:03:59
JT Spangler
It's going to be small delay. going to be a little late. Okay.
00:04:03
Jeff
I want to stay up. Um, I, uh, yeah, dude, you can tell when it was, but I still like it a whole lot. So it doesn't matter when it is.
00:04:13
JT Spangler
ah I can tell how much I liked it because I did not want to watch it because everything is horrible and I have 9 million balls in the air. And get your balls out of my face.
00:04:23
Jeff
You're an arrogant ball juggler, baby. Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:26
JT Spangler
And and it's 108 minutes. And at the end of it, I was like, that movie's great. I wouldn't cut anything. It's an hour and 55 delightful minutes or whatever it ended up being.
00:04:33
Jeff
yeah
00:04:37
Jeff
I don't really like though when people are like, oh yeah, this is a star vehicle to really just push George Clooney out there and get Michelle Pfeiffer. They have good chemistry, but this is really just to push his career. I'm like, yeah, great.
00:04:50
Jeff
Push more careers forward that are like this. This is fantastic.
00:04:53
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, I'm okay with that.
00:04:53
Jeff
It's a, so yeah.
00:04:54
JT Spangler
You want to make a star vehicle for Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney to be charming together? I like
Realistic Portrayal of Parenting in Movies
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JT Spangler
that. Plus, this is movie this is a well-written, dude, because the last time I saw this was at least 10 years ago, so I did not have kids at that point, and my kid is not too dissimilar in ages from the kids in this movie, and the whole time I was thinking, whoever wrote this knew exactly what it was like to have a kid that age, because they are nailing it.
00:04:59
Jeff
Yeah.
00:05:02
Jeff
Yeah.
00:05:07
Jeff
yeah
00:05:10
Jeff
Yeah.
00:05:17
Jeff
Yeah. When that little girl, when he's holding her face under the table talking about the, you really love them kitties, don't you? And she's like, uh-huh.
00:05:23
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:05:24
Jeff
I was like, oh my God. hate These is the kids that are worse. Yeah.
00:05:29
JT Spangler
Dude, I have that in my scenes because he's like, if you don't put down the kitten, I'm going to lose my job to have to live in a cardboard box. And then because she's six, he immediately realizes that's not going to do anything for her at all.
00:05:37
Jeff
Yeah.
00:05:41
JT Spangler
He has to get her a freaking cat so that she'll leave the store so he doesn't lose his job.
00:05:41
Jeff
Yeah, she doesn't care. Right. Right.
00:05:46
JT Spangler
And I was like, yep, that's what having kids is like.
00:05:47
Jeff
Oh, man.
00:05:49
JT Spangler
They don't care at all. Like I do, I was literally was just having this conversation with my four-year-old yesterday. He's like, Papa, can you play with me right now? I wass like buddy, I can just a minute, but I got a, I got a few things I got to finish up my computer. And he's like, but why? i was like, well, because I'm like, dude, your Legos and like this dinner and this electricity and this heat, all of that stuff costs money.
00:06:07
JT Spangler
And the way that I get money is by working. And so if I don't, if I don't, if I don't work, we'll be outside, like naked trying to catch our own food.
00:06:08
Jeff
It's good. to My job.
00:06:14
JT Spangler
So I got to, he's like,
00:06:16
Jeff
that was the Was that the wrong answer? That sounds fun, Dad.
00:06:19
JT Spangler
yeah, he was like, but why though?
00:06:20
Jeff
who but
00:06:23
JT Spangler
Like, thanks for knocking out this light bill, Dad. Make it real easy to read with all this light.
00:06:27
Jeff
What's Dad get? The big piece of chicken.
00:06:29
JT Spangler
a big piece of chicken.
00:06:31
Jeff
ah Reminds me of Nick DiPaolo.
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JT Spangler
ah Yeah.
00:06:34
Jeff
He's like, they're always shitting on Dads in the commercials. It's like, oh, it's such an
New York Pre-9/11 Movies and 'One Fine Day' Success
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Jeff
easy computer. Even Dad can do it. Oh, you mean the guy who bought you the fucking thing? Yeah.
00:06:42
JT Spangler
yes
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Jeff
ah
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JT Spangler
Oh, man.
00:06:47
Jeff
What a jerk. um
00:06:48
JT Spangler
Dude. Yeah.
00:06:49
Jeff
Dude, this is great. This is a great pre 9-11 New York movie, too.
00:06:54
JT Spangler
Yeah, absolutely.
00:06:55
Jeff
It's it.
00:06:55
JT Spangler
Well, give us the synopsis.
00:06:56
Jeff
It makes me like New York to overwork single parents accidentally co-parent for a day and then fall in love while running through ninety s New York.
00:07:05
JT Spangler
Yeah, at least a decade or so before there was a co-parent existed. Side note, of on the list of everything that is horrible is water.
00:07:10
Jeff
Right.
00:07:15
JT Spangler
I hate water. I'm out of Sprite zeros. I would rather light myself on fire than drink bottled water.
00:07:20
Jeff
Well, I'm looking at you hold the bottle and it's such a tiny bottle.
00:07:26
JT Spangler
So it's like Shaquille holding the 40. That's not racist. He's just giant. Dude, what am I? Steve Doerr drinking water? I would rather give myself bowel surgery with a stick than drink bottle water. I hate it here, and but this is where my computer is.
00:07:38
Jeff
um
00:07:39
JT Spangler
um So yeah.
00:07:40
Jeff
Yeah, you need to you need to get some flavor packets or something, man.
00:07:44
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, I put that on my to-do pile. um I couldn't find the the budget for this movie, but it grossed almost $100 million. dollars It came out December 20th. If you look at it on the year, it's like this dead last, but it had 10 days to earn.
00:07:56
JT Spangler
But if you look at it, like total earnings of movies released in 96, it ends up being the thirty number 35 on the year. Landon right between Romeo plus Juliet and The Mirror had two faces.
00:08:06
Jeff
Nice. Ooh, I remember Romeo plus Juliet. um
00:08:09
JT Spangler
That soundtrack was great.
00:08:10
Jeff
Yeah, it was. um I didn't see the budget, so I did some digging, and the one that I came across was $32 million for the movie with ah budgeting for...
00:08:23
Jeff
ah what's it called commercials and stuff that was up to 40 million.
00:08:25
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:08:28
JT Spangler
Nice.
00:08:28
Jeff
So they used 8 million just on commercials to.
00:08:31
JT Spangler
Honestly, man, that feels like a pretty successful rom-com because there's not, I mean, it's a lot of outdoor location shoots. I'm sure it was expensive, but there's only like four people in this movie and two of them are six-year-olds.
00:08:37
Jeff
Yeah.
00:08:39
Jeff
Yeah. There's not.
00:08:40
JT Spangler
don't have to pay them all that much.
00:08:43
Jeff
Is that how that works? You can really get their fingers in there and really clean out those bullet holes.
00:08:46
JT Spangler
Not
00:08:49
JT Spangler
and not if you ask Macaulay Culkin, because he was like, yeah, my parents were robbing me blind.
00:08:49
Jeff
Um,
00:08:53
JT Spangler
And I was like, I don't feel like acting there. Like, well, you're going anyway.
00:08:55
Jeff
Yeah. I did also want to mention that the reason that it didn't do gangbusters at the box office, it said it opened the same weekend as Beavis and Butthead do America.
00:09:09
Jeff
um And I think that probably hindered it because there's probably a lot of crossover on Beavis and Butthead do America and one fine day, right?
00:09:15
JT Spangler
Yeah. I probably a lot of couples were like, we should go see a movie this weekend. And then they're like, oh, Beavis and Butter does America. Sweet. Done deal.
00:09:25
Jeff
It's so romantic. oh a um Dude, Golden Globe nominations for both Pfeiffer and Clooney. But they they didn't win. The song for the first time.
00:09:39
Jeff
um It got nominated for a Golden Globe, a Grammy and an Academy Award.
Michelle Pfeiffer's Film Choices and Career Reflection
00:09:44
Jeff
That's a Kenny Loggins jam. um
00:09:46
JT Spangler
Nice.
00:09:47
Jeff
And I use the term jam very loosely. It's not that good. I went and listened to it. and I don't even remember it being in the movie. Honestly, the only... I remember hearing boy from New York city. I remember hearing, uh, glory of love with Kebmo.
00:10:01
Jeff
And I remember the Natalie merchant version of one fine day, but dude, i don't remember any of the other songs.
00:10:02
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:10:08
Jeff
Have I told you lately? i don't remember them playing that. When was that? The have I do.
00:10:13
JT Spangler
I think that I think the Have I Told You Lately was when at the very end when she was like standing there looking out the window at the fake rain.
00:10:14
Jeff
And it's all drunk. Van Morrison.
00:10:21
Jeff
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're right.
00:10:23
JT Spangler
And what a difference a day made. I like that i like that song, Tony Bennett. ah
00:10:28
Jeff
um
00:10:28
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:10:29
Jeff
That's not the best version, but yeah.
00:10:30
JT Spangler
No, it's not.
00:10:33
Jeff
um So yeah, didn't didnt didn't win a lot of stuff.
00:10:34
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, really a really good soundtrack. Dude, Golden Globe nominations, completely well-earned. They were both really good in this.
00:10:40
JT Spangler
And it's the whole movie is kind of like, these two are charming. Let's put them in scenes together.
00:10:40
Jeff
Yeah.
00:10:45
Jeff
And dude, what's not like, both of them are really good actors. Like they were really, really good actors.
00:10:50
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:10:52
Jeff
And I know this sounds stupid from a movie, like a rom-com, but I was, because I've seen this a thousand times and I'm watching it while I'm taking notes. I'm actually looking at their faces when they're not talking.
00:11:05
Jeff
And they were doing, they were like doing the acting thing and they were really good at it.
00:11:06
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:11:08
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:11:10
Jeff
I could see why they're in movies. They're really good at what they do.
00:11:14
JT Spangler
Yeah, I think you call that part the reacting.
00:11:16
Jeff
Yeah, but I'm, yeah, really, really good.
00:11:17
JT Spangler
But yeah, they're very good. I was trying to think, when's the last time we did a movie with miss Michelle Pfeiffer?
00:11:26
Jeff
Batman Returns?
00:11:26
JT Spangler
Was it Batman Returns?
00:11:28
Jeff
I think so.
00:11:28
JT Spangler
like But surely surely she did movies and we just didn't. I'm trying to look at her.
00:11:32
Jeff
Did we skip, what's the one where she learns to breakdance with the students? What's that one?
00:11:37
JT Spangler
Yeah, we did skip that one.
00:11:40
Jeff
In that one she's in?
00:11:41
JT Spangler
Yeah, God, what's the, ah
00:11:45
JT Spangler
why can't I think of the name of that one?
00:11:49
JT Spangler
We didn't do, we didn't, Dangerous Minds.
00:11:49
Jeff
ah Dangerous Minds? Dangerous Minds.
00:11:51
JT Spangler
I was gonna say, I just kept wanting to say Gangster's Paradise, Gangster's Paradise movie.
00:11:56
Jeff
ah gets it That gets it
1996 Movies and Podcast Selection Process
00:11:58
Jeff
there. um I mean, I like i like Michelle Pfeiffer, but i'm not I'm not sad we skipped over that one.
00:12:01
JT Spangler
Yeah, we we missed that one.
00:12:08
Jeff
Dangerous Minds.
00:12:08
JT Spangler
and that would have been That would have been fine to do that. like that's That's such a cliche that we would have had lot of fun with it. I'm not upset about that. Somebody came in Discord this week and was like, dude, you guys are going to have some hard choices for 96.
00:12:19
JT Spangler
I was like, yeah, tell me about it. We've got like 45 movies we want to do, and we've got 26 episodes. There are to be some cuts.
00:12:24
Jeff
yeah
00:12:25
JT Spangler
If you want to do the goofy movie, you're probably not going to do Dangerous Minds.
00:12:30
Jeff
That's a choice to that we made. That is a choice.
00:12:34
JT Spangler
That was a no-brainer. Neither of us needed any time to think about that.
00:12:37
Jeff
Oh, do I want to read reflect on how I how I have to deal with my teaching every single day?
00:12:39
JT Spangler
Do you want to talk about Michelle Pfeiffer or do you want to talk about Tevin Campbell?
00:12:46
JT Spangler
That's true. and if there's a If there's a movie where there's teachers, you're like, it's great. I get Vietnam flashbacks while i'm watching this movie.
00:12:53
Jeff
It's weird, though. That's where I learned how to tie my do rag before I go into class each day.
00:12:58
JT Spangler
Yeah, they just wrap the Shakespeare to of the kids and then know everyone will connect and they'll all get A's and they'll all go to college.
00:13:04
Jeff
Ah, double D.
00:13:07
JT Spangler
No sequels, no spinoffs. I have no recollection of seeing this for the first time.
00:13:11
Jeff
I remember buying this at the 550 bin because Biggin was with me.
00:13:16
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:13:16
Jeff
He had bags full. I can remember him not wanting a buggy and carrying a two liter of Dr. Pepper in his hand and three bags of chips. And he was holding them like this. And I stopped at the 550 bin and I was like, I don't know, dude, let's see if we can find something good.
00:13:31
Jeff
And he had seen this in the theater with nanny, with his nanny. And he was like, we, you need to get that.
00:13:35
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:13:36
Jeff
I'm telling you, you're going like it. And we ended up, I mean, it sounds pretty weird that we went and bought snacks and then Netflix and chilled back at my back at my parents house.
00:13:45
JT Spangler
this It was a different time, the 1900s or the early 2000s.
00:13:46
Jeff
But yeah, but yeah.
00:13:52
Jeff
Oh, man. But yeah, i I remember buying it and then watching it at my parents house.
00:13:56
JT Spangler
Listen, what happens between a man and another man inside the privacy of their own raincoat is nobody's business.
00:13:58
Jeff
you know
00:14:03
Jeff
And I say, look here, utah um So, yeah, that's where I got it.
00:14:07
JT Spangler
That is amazing.
00:14:08
Jeff
Yeah, that's where I saw it. um How'd you rate it? Because this is my jam.
00:14:15
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, I was ah there was, there were some parts of it from like a writing standpoint that I didn't like because the the main thing that I don't like is the whole thing is built around the cliche that like the single mom is like, I got it locked down.
00:14:21
Jeff
Yeah.
00:14:29
JT Spangler
And the single dad is like, what time is it? Let's party. Where's your school? Like I, like those are all stereotypes that I, as a like dad who pays attention to shit, can't stand.
00:14:35
Jeff
Yeah.
00:14:40
Jeff
Um, it was very, what time start?
00:14:42
JT Spangler
But,
00:14:44
Jeff
i'm Probably nine. Everything starts around nine. And the whole time i was like, he doesn't know when his kids school starts.
00:14:46
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah, dude. He's carrying his kid through the streets of New York City, and he's like, where's your school? And she's like, I don't know. He's like, what time does it start? I don't know. and he's like, all right, it's probably nine.
00:14:55
Jeff
Uh, yeah.
00:14:55
JT Spangler
Everything's nine. i was like, this dude is a horrible dad. Like, he doesn't have a bed for her at his house. He's just got a fucking scaffold in the living room and ah an open fireplace.
00:15:04
Jeff
sexualary
00:15:05
JT Spangler
yeah
00:15:06
Jeff
ah yeah um
00:15:07
JT Spangler
So that
Praise for 'One Fine Day' - Script and Acting
00:15:08
JT Spangler
shit drives me crazy. But for the 90s, you couldn't have written it any other way.
00:15:11
Jeff
But that's because he he only had the scaffolding because he has a plumbing problem, remember?
00:15:15
JT Spangler
Right. Right.
00:15:17
Jeff
He's got old bills to pay. He's up to his ears in student debt.
00:15:23
JT Spangler
But he had a he had a second bedroom in that apartment. It was filled with boxes. So he's got a bedroom where he keeps the boxes that aren't important enough to unpack. And then his kid sleeps on the freaking couch in the room where the scaffolding is.
00:15:36
Jeff
What do you say we move those boxes out and we big a but make one for Bob here? And then we can put a bed in there for you.
00:15:42
JT Spangler
Let's get a couple of boxing of donuts. Yeah, dude. So that, I don't like that.
00:15:46
Jeff
Two boxing.
00:15:47
JT Spangler
I don't like those stereotypes. They have not gone away. They're still making sitcoms with that exact same framework, but it drives me crazy.
00:15:50
Jeff
Yeah.
00:15:54
JT Spangler
But
00:15:55
Jeff
ah Guys brush their teeth like this and girls brush their teeth like this. um Yeah.
00:16:01
JT Spangler
yes, i don't like i don't like ah stereotypes um or the Dutch.
00:16:05
Jeff
Right.
00:16:08
JT Spangler
But anyway,
00:16:10
Jeff
Well, then I'm going to start my own. going to start my own moon place with blackjack and hookers.
00:16:12
JT Spangler
But no.
00:16:15
JT Spangler
And hookers. Actually, forget the blackjack. but ah But this movie's great. The soundtrack is great. Their back and forth is great.
00:16:22
Jeff
Yeah.
00:16:22
JT Spangler
The kids are really good. And like especially like as someone who was a kid this age, I kept going, like they're nailing it. All this parenting is exactly how this shit would go. The kids don't want to do it, but you've got work anyway.
00:16:31
Jeff
Yeah.
00:16:32
JT Spangler
He freaking squeezes a juice box on her when she's going to an important meeting. like She loses it and yells at him, and then he starts to feel bad, and then she feels bad because he's just a kid.
00:16:35
Jeff
Yeah.
00:16:39
JT Spangler
He can't help it. All of that shit was...
00:16:40
Jeff
Yeah.
00:16:42
JT Spangler
And even though I was grumpy and didn't want to do it, and it was longer than I would like, at the end of it, i was like, that movie's awesome. I really like it.
00:16:48
Jeff
Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:49
JT Spangler
So I gave it a 9 out of 10. Yeah.
00:16:51
Jeff
Nice! That's awesome. the I have the same problem that you have where I don't like how it's so stereotypical and she's just like, I'm never going to let another man get the door for me or any of that. Like, I get that. I get what they're trying to do, but they didn't have to hit us over the head with it so hard.
00:17:12
Jeff
um
00:17:13
JT Spangler
A real superwoman. Can't open her door, won't shut her mouth. Excuse me? Are you talking about me? The first lady.
00:17:18
Jeff
First lady.
00:17:18
JT Spangler
we're thinking about doing a piece on her.
00:17:21
Jeff
You're with a lady, you dog. God, I fucking love that guy. um So ah the only other problem I had is stupid. Sammy Parker was so like, I get that the little girl like what wandered off and that sucks.
00:17:32
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:17:38
Jeff
And she loves the kitty feed the kitty.
00:17:40
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:17:40
Jeff
um But she, but she at least was like, I'm just going to play with these Rorschach cards while my dad,
00:17:40
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:17:49
JT Spangler
Yeah, does his therapy session.
00:17:50
Jeff
talks about does therapy. And then with ah free, what's that guy?
00:17:53
JT Spangler
Talks about cookies and fish.
00:17:57
Jeff
ah Robert Klein. That's the, I can't stop my leg guy.
00:17:59
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:18:00
Jeff
um Anyway. So she was, I feel better than the other kid.
00:18:06
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:18:06
Jeff
He was like, running the freaking little rolling thing into the guy's shin. He was like knocking stuff over, unpacking the person, driving an RC car through the, through the lobby.
00:18:18
Jeff
Like all of that. I was like, somebody needs to beat this kid's ass. Like, I know they say you shouldn't hit your kids. And realized that, but you shouldn't hit some of your kids.
00:18:27
JT Spangler
You shouldn't some of your kids.
00:18:29
Jeff
um So, dude, the whole time I was just like, I think we can do better. i don't like that kid. And then I looked up what he looks like now, and I really don't like that kid. um yeah I gave it a nine and a half because that's the only thing I could find a find problem with. i Dude, I loved it.
00:18:45
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:18:45
Jeff
I'm going watch this a hundred more times before I die, probably.
00:18:50
JT Spangler
um this I would definitely watch this again like tomorrow. like if
00:18:54
Jeff
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
00:18:55
JT Spangler
If my wife was like, ah, you watched that? I have watched that with you. I'm like, let's freaking crank it up. I'm ready. like i I love this movie.
00:19:01
Jeff
Well, I came out of the room and I had just finished, like I had started it and then at school and then finished it at home. And when I came out, I was, I was like, what movie were you watching? I was like, one fine day. And she was like, hi, Jack.
00:19:15
Jeff
I was like, oh, you know that one? She's like, I love that movie. Yeah. Freaking everybody should. That's fantastic.
00:19:21
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:19:22
Jeff
It's fantastic. So nine and a half is what I gave it
00:19:25
JT Spangler
I mean, yeah, can't argue. Can't argue at all. let's do ah Let's do best three. What's your ah what's your first scene
00:19:33
Jeff
The first scene is the one that you were just talking about. They're in the cab together. They just missed the boat. They get in and he pulls his column out and he pulls his paper out and it's got his column because he's a works for a newspaper.
00:19:46
Jeff
And um she's like, you don't have to do that. i already have an opinion of you and and I of you like, OK, God. Um, and, uh, then he pulls out his phone and starts calling his editor, Lou, who's this big, huge old guy.
00:20:03
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:20:06
Jeff
uh, Charles Durning. did What movie did we do with him? Didn't we do one with him?
00:20:12
JT Spangler
We definitely did. i can't think of.
00:20:13
Jeff
I remember saying his name, but I just don't remember what movie it was. I want to say it was, uh, I, uh, uh, uh, uh
00:20:22
JT Spangler
Hudsucker proxy. Yeah, he was the warring Hudsucker.
00:20:25
Jeff
Yeah, I just...
00:20:26
JT Spangler
He was also in IQ.
00:20:29
Jeff
Wasn't he in... Everywhere I Turned, Tracy, Tracy. What's the freak? Dick Tracy.
00:20:35
JT Spangler
Dick Tracy that we did on Patreon?
00:20:35
Jeff
Couldn't think of his first name.
00:20:36
JT Spangler
Yeah, he's on he's on Dick Tracy, which we only did on Patreon.
00:20:39
Jeff
Yeah.
00:20:40
JT Spangler
But yes, so we've actually done three movies of his.
00:20:40
Jeff
Nice. Nice. I freaking love that dude. Well, he is definitely not um a hot chick that is wants to know what color panties he's wearing.
00:20:50
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:20:51
Jeff
So when he's talking to her, he's like, yeah, I was just yeah i just want to see what color panties you're wearing. And or dude, and he's just doing it to make Michelle Pfeiffer mad.
00:21:00
JT Spangler
Yeah. yeah
00:21:02
Jeff
And I loved it. It was fantastic. um And I like the split screen phone call thing when they do that.
00:21:06
JT Spangler
That.
00:21:10
JT Spangler
i like the spritz I like the split screen phone call. I also really like the direction in this movie. Like there's that one part where they're arguing about the Peter plan peter Pan complex and the camera is stationary and each of the actors come in and out to like insult the other one and leave again.
00:21:18
Jeff
Oh, and they stay. Yeah.
00:21:22
JT Spangler
I was like, this is good direction. I like this.
00:21:24
Jeff
Yeah. Yeah, it's really good.
00:21:27
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, that's a great one.
00:21:27
Jeff
Yes.
00:21:28
JT Spangler
They set it up where it's like, he's a dad, his kid gets dumped on him, he has no idea what the hell she's up to. And then Michelle Pfeiffer's this super organized single mom who's also, her ex is also an idiot, and so she's like taking care everything. She's got a freaking Mary Poppins bag that's got snacks and changes of clothes and superhero costumes.
00:21:47
JT Spangler
And like, they both can't stand each other for reasons that don't really make a ton of sense.
00:21:52
Jeff
Well, it all stems from him just not being all together this morning. he Remember, he she goes all the way to their house and it makes them miss the thing and then...
00:22:02
JT Spangler
Right, but the thing that gets skipped over that he didn't say that he easily, if if I'm in that situation and and Michelle Pfeiffer's mad at me because I didn't, yeah I'm incompetent, I didn't call her, i didn't i'd be like, dude, this isn't my time with my daughter.
00:22:13
Jeff
Right.
00:22:15
JT Spangler
My ex showed up on my doorstep and said, I'm on my way to my honeymoon. Take her or I have to cancel the flights. Like, this is not on me.
00:22:22
Jeff
Yeah.
00:22:23
JT Spangler
Like, you're mad at men, that's your thing, but like, this is my ex's fault.
00:22:23
Jeff
um
00:22:27
JT Spangler
I'm just trying to do what I can here.
00:22:28
Jeff
They, she has, ah he drums for Bruce Springsteen and she's never going like men.
00:22:33
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:22:36
Jeff
That's not George Clooney from here on out. So yeah.
00:22:39
JT Spangler
Yeah. I'm with him. I like George Clooney way better than Eddie, the real dad.
00:22:44
Jeff
Sounds like a cool guy. Yeah.
00:22:48
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, my ah my first scene is is a little it's a little bit of a cheat because it's technically more than one scene, but I just think the open of this movie is fantastic.
00:22:58
Jeff
Is it the when they're painting the windows or after that?
00:23:01
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude. that Well, they're panning the windows. You're getting the Natalie Merchant, like very low-key ballady, one fine day. But then I'm talking about like both of them separately starting their morning. Like he's starting his morning with his ex coming in to drop off his daughter.
00:23:13
JT Spangler
It's like, hey, my tickets are non-refundable.
00:23:13
Jeff
Yeah.
00:23:16
JT Spangler
The sitter canceled. I'm on my way to my honeymoon.
00:23:18
Jeff
Yeah.
00:23:18
JT Spangler
Please take her. And he's like, nah, I'm good. And then she like she starts like ripping him. And he's like, you know, when you're ah when there's an attempted manipulation, i would go with maybe compliments instead of insults.
00:23:27
Jeff
Yeah, I would have gone with flattery. Yeah.
00:23:30
JT Spangler
And then he's walking her to school and he's like, where's your school? And she's like, I don't know. And he's like, does that whole like that's the So that's like the first five minutes of this movie.
00:23:35
Jeff
Yeah.
00:23:37
JT Spangler
But I was just thinking, even though it's more than five one scene, I was like, dude, this movie starts so well.
00:23:37
Jeff
Yeah.
00:23:43
Jeff
yeah ah The...
00:23:44
JT Spangler
We've done four episodes in from 1996 and three of them I've said, this movie starts incredibly well.
00:23:50
Jeff
Yeah, dude. i Stupid Sammy Parker not going to bed and wanting a sip of water and then having a nightmare. I did. I will put a pillow over that kid's face.
00:24:01
Jeff
I don't we don't play that. Come sleep in our bed type thing. So.
00:24:06
JT Spangler
Dude, we don't we don't either. my like If we stay in a hotel room and my kid gets to sleep in the bed with us, he's having the most fun ever. He's like, we should do this again.
00:24:14
Jeff
Yeah.
00:24:14
JT Spangler
We're like, yeah, call me in like 10 years. like we You have your bed, we have our bed.
00:24:16
Jeff
Yeah. I don't, yeah, I don't want that at all.
00:24:20
JT Spangler
I don't need a small sweaty person kicking me all night and then asking me for shit.
00:24:20
Jeff
um
00:24:23
JT Spangler
and I'm not. That's not the experience I'm looking for.
00:24:25
Jeff
Rolling over and smacking you in the face like he does in the movie.
00:24:27
JT Spangler
yeah
00:24:28
Jeff
um Yeah, absolutely.
00:24:31
JT Spangler
But yeah, this this definitely hit different having a kid, especially one in that age range. It's like, oh, God. Because I know plenty of people like that. There's like, yeah, yeah, the kids just sleep with us. They're eight now. they're Like, how's that go? It's like, I haven't slept in 10 years.
00:24:42
JT Spangler
Yeah, of course you haven't.
00:24:42
Jeff
Yeah, that's good horrible. Horrible. um Also, the whole thing where he's like, i'm really I'm really excited about tomorrow. I can't wait to go in big boats.
00:24:54
Jeff
I like big boats. And he's supposed to be falling asleep. It's like midnight and he just asked for water.
00:24:56
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:58
Jeff
God, that's just...
00:25:01
JT Spangler
But that's part of it too, man, because my kid, like he's definitely at the age where he will do any stall tactic he thinks he can to keep me in his room.
00:25:01
Jeff
Frick, it's... Yeah.
00:25:07
Jeff
Yeah.
00:25:08
JT Spangler
It's like, all right, buddy, I'll see you later. I love you. Wait, hang on. I need some water. All right, home let's get some water. here All right, here's your water. He's like, I want it to be cold. Well, all right, hang on. I get some, hold on. I get some ice. get some ice. I'm bringing it back to him. He's like, hey, can you, hang on. Can you turn on my red box? I want to hear my Ninja Turtle stories. Okay, I got that.
00:25:27
JT Spangler
like what like Where's my blanket? I'm like, i look, dude, I got to It's bedtime.
00:25:30
Jeff
Hey, did i leave a penny over there? going to swing by late night.
00:25:36
JT Spangler
Maybe I'll swing by late night. Check that out.
00:25:40
Jeff
Late night.
00:25:42
JT Spangler
ah But yeah, so I felt that deep, deep in my bones.
00:25:46
Jeff
So much. um
00:25:49
JT Spangler
my My second one is is what you were talking about earlier.
00:25:50
Jeff
what's What's your second one?
00:25:53
JT Spangler
he's at the He takes his daughter to his therapy session. She's like building a house of cards out of the worst shot things. And he's talking to his therapist using code and the frigging...
00:26:04
JT Spangler
denise
00:26:06
Jeff
I love that scene.
00:26:06
JT Spangler
Like they're they're carrying around the class fish. He's like, I just met this fish this morning, real piece of work, shoving her cookies in my face and dude, and
00:26:15
Jeff
He's like, i love the cookies. Hate thee. and the And he's like thinking. And the guy goes, cookie maker.
00:26:20
JT Spangler
Therapist like, cookie maker?
00:26:21
Jeff
Yes.
00:26:22
JT Spangler
He's yes. It's like, you know, and and and then the the cookie maker thinks that I, i just because I don't, um you know, wasn't as involved in the making of the cookies, that my specialty is the frosting.
00:26:33
JT Spangler
Yes, frosting.
00:26:34
Jeff
Frosting.
00:26:34
JT Spangler
I could do other stuff.
00:26:35
Jeff
Yes.
00:26:35
JT Spangler
and I happen to be very good at the frosting. and Dude, and the kid's like, can we get cookies, daddy? I'm hungry. Like, yeah.
00:26:40
Jeff
What about the cookies, daddy?
00:26:43
JT Spangler
i I love that.
00:26:44
Jeff
That's one of my quotes. What about the cookies?
00:26:46
JT Spangler
I love that. and then it And then it's he's like, yeah, he and then's she's shoving my fish shoving her fish in my face. He's like, fish? Why'd she have fish? He's like, no, fish.
00:26:55
Jeff
Fish with other fish?
00:26:57
JT Spangler
Fish, fish.
00:27:00
Jeff
ah
00:27:00
JT Spangler
I know that makes no sense to a listener who hasn't seen this movie recently, but take our word for it.
00:27:03
Jeff
Oh, man.
00:27:05
JT Spangler
It's very funny.
00:27:05
Jeff
That's because he's like, uh, I just, I'm in a real piece of work today. And I, and he's like, there are other fish in the sea. Yes. And this fish was the Fox. And he goes with the fish metaphor.
00:27:16
Jeff
And then he forgets that metaphor and has the actual class fish. And he's like, fish, fish, fish.
00:27:19
JT Spangler
Right.
00:27:22
Jeff
It's wonderful.
00:27:23
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:27:23
Jeff
Wonderful.
00:27:24
JT Spangler
might be a little too Might be a little too fast for you guys, but your kids are going to love it.
00:27:25
Jeff
Uh,
00:27:29
Jeff
um My second one is when he shows up with his daughter at work um and all of the girls, because it's George Clooney, I would say hijacked the same way.
00:27:35
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:27:39
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:27:42
Jeff
um
00:27:42
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:27:43
Jeff
But it's people like Amanda Peet and other. who What's her? ah Evelyn. Did you know? Did you see Evelyn? the blonde that was out front, the, the, uh, receptionist that like had all the, the calls.
00:27:52
JT Spangler
I didn't.
00:27:57
Jeff
Remember when the, the, the thing opens up, he's like, uh, Eliza, tell the frigging people to call me. I'm at a new number and the door just closes and he doesn't even say anything.
00:28:05
JT Spangler
Yes.
00:28:08
Jeff
Uh, that was, um, that was, what's her name?
00:28:08
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:28:11
Jeff
That was, uh, Evelyn. You're still missing the cutoff, man.
00:28:15
JT Spangler
I want you to work on that before next season.
00:28:16
Jeff
Uh,
00:28:17
JT Spangler
I completely missed. I remember that scene and I just, I guess I just missed that one shot that she was in.
00:28:22
Jeff
Yeah, Bitty Schramm is her name, Marla.
00:28:25
JT Spangler
Oh yeah, Biddy Schramm.
00:28:27
Jeff
um So the they show up there and he's carrying her and he's like, all right, so I just need to work on this and then we'll be done. And then the whole rest of the day is yours. We can do whatever you want.
00:28:38
Jeff
And she's like, why are all the girls talking to you like that? He's like, talking like what? What are you talking about? She's like, they're like, hi, Jack. And then the next person is like, hi, Jack.
00:28:49
Jeff
And she's like, see, that's what I'm talking about.
00:28:49
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:28:51
Jeff
um I freaking love that. Even the little girl knows that all the chicks are throwing shit at him.
00:28:57
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:28:57
Jeff
But it's George Clooney.
00:28:59
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude. did George, 34 year old George Clooney, even though he's like already got gray hair at 34, which makes me feel good. But in like, especially like Amanda Pete was like full on throwing herself at him. And I was like, I know we're trying to show that he's a good guy, but I think he should just maybe take her off for a drink. Cause that's Amanda Pete.
00:29:19
Jeff
Because it's Amanda P.
00:29:20
JT Spangler
She's, she's wicked hot. She's super funny. she's I like Amanda Pete.
00:29:25
Jeff
Oh man. There's people in this world that don't like Amanda Pete.
00:29:27
JT Spangler
Maybe just catch up with Michelle Pfeiffer tomorrow and just take her out for a drink tonight.
00:29:29
Jeff
Yeah.
00:29:31
JT Spangler
um That's a great one.
00:29:33
Jeff
I.
00:29:33
JT Spangler
Also, freaking sits, the daughter sits in the editor's office and is like petting the newspaper kitty, Lois Lane, who immediately eats the class fish, ah which ends up being like a plot point that has to be fixed later on, which I actually really like.
00:29:39
Jeff
Yeah.
00:29:42
Jeff
Yeah.
00:29:46
Jeff
Yeah. um yeah I like the fact that he names him names her Lois Lane too. That's great.
00:29:53
JT Spangler
My third scene, dude, I had a really hard time, man, because I'm not going to lie.
00:29:53
Jeff
Uh,
00:29:56
JT Spangler
Almost every scene in this movie I really like. like You pick anyone when Melanie griff melanie Michelle Pfeiffer goes to the model shop and the kid's like riding around in the thing.
00:29:59
Jeff
Yeah.
00:30:05
Jeff
Yeah.
00:30:06
JT Spangler
like I like that. When she's having drinks with the people and she's wearing freaking dinosaur shirt under her like professional architect clothes and they're doing the like fake Superman stuff outside the window, I like that.
00:30:16
Jeff
Yeah.
00:30:16
JT Spangler
Like when they miss the but the bus, when they miss the boat, I like that.
00:30:17
Jeff
um
00:30:19
JT Spangler
When they go to the soccer game, I like that. When they go have ice cream sundaes, I like that. The whole thing is awesome.
00:30:24
Jeff
I like when he turns to the the mom that pulls up with the little girl in the back of the Vespa. Looks like you missed the boat and he turns around smiles and Michelle Pfeiffer's like, this son of a bitch. Like you can just tell in her face. It's fantastic.
00:30:39
JT Spangler
Yeah. So my third one, I had hard time picking, but i ended up picking... when he decides to get a cat so that he can go to his press conference and not lose his job.
00:30:48
Jeff
Yeah, that do that with an actual daughter that hit pretty hard for me. I was just like, oh man, I know it.
00:30:54
JT Spangler
Because I was like, he, he I mean, that both, both of the characters, Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney, they're having really important career days.
00:30:56
Jeff
I don't want get.
00:31:03
JT Spangler
Like if they don't get shit right, they're going to get fired. And they're both just like, we got it.
00:31:06
Jeff
Right.
00:31:07
JT Spangler
we'll soll We'll do whatever we can just to make this like that. That's the, like the the drama, you know, that's the thing is driving it.
00:31:14
Jeff
Yeah.
00:31:14
JT Spangler
And he's like, I got to get to this press conference. You ran away. You're underneath some random woman's like counter playing with kiddies.
00:31:21
Jeff
Stupid kid.
00:31:22
JT Spangler
And and he's like he's like, come on, we got to go. like And she's like, no, daddy, no. And then he stops. He's like, you really like these kitties. yeah What's this one's name? This is Bob. This is whatever.
00:31:34
Jeff
And he took the time to actually.
00:31:36
JT Spangler
Yeah. Because first of all first of all, that's great parenting.
00:31:37
Jeff
That was great.
00:31:39
JT Spangler
Second of all, that's horrible parenting.
00:31:40
Jeff
yeah
00:31:42
JT Spangler
Because you can only get your kid a cat once. That only works once.
00:31:47
Jeff
Yeah. Yeah. You can only do that trick once.
00:31:50
JT Spangler
Third of all, that's not at all realistic because everyone knows that if you're stressed and you're late for something and you got to be there, you're not going to take the time to learn all the kiddies' names. You're going to grab your kid by the ankles and drag her out of there and run to the press conference so you don't get fired.
00:32:03
Jeff
Oh, man, that was the only problem with her. The other stupid Sammy Parker made it so much worse. i His thing was way worse. She was just making everybody hurt and freaking.
00:32:13
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:32:16
Jeff
he was killing me. I dude, that was a really good scene. My third scene is um she gives him all the warnings, shellfish, dander, all those allergies, what to do in emergencies.
00:32:27
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:30
Jeff
He ends up having to take them to the hospital, does all the things, shows up at three 15 in her, in the lobby of 30 rock where they're supposed to meet.
00:32:41
Jeff
And she's like, you know, I thought you weren't going to show up. If you going show up at all, you were going to be late or whatever, however she said it. And he's like, yeah, well, I'm not like every other man, you know. And she's like, yeah, well, I'm not like every other woman, you know. um And he's like, all right, well, before this gets into another exhaustive thing, got to go save my job.
00:33:04
Jeff
and And he goes, it sounds like he wants to say her name as he's walking off, but he doesn't. And he pauses.
00:33:11
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:33:11
Jeff
And she says, i know it's hard to remember with Celia and all the different like Evelyn and Celia and the things. And he walks over and he like just leans in with the George Clooney lean and he's like,
00:33:25
Jeff
I know your name, Mel. And was like, God, that's freaking, as the kids would say, that's some riz right there. He freaking killed it. That part of the movie, I was like, he's got it. He's just reeling her in like the end of Jaws. um and That's one of my favorite parts of the whole movie. It's like burned into my into my brain.
00:33:48
JT Spangler
But that's the great thing about this movie is it didn't have to be as good as it was to still have been enjoyable because like we had fun watching frigging Sandra Bullock and what's his name.
00:33:53
Jeff
Right.
00:33:57
JT Spangler
And while you were sleeping, just because they were two charming people being charming together. And that wasn't a great movie, but i'm like, this is fun.
00:34:02
Jeff
Right. Right.
00:34:03
JT Spangler
I like this.
00:34:04
Jeff
Yeah.
00:34:05
JT Spangler
Like this one took it up a notch because it's actually a good movie and the leads are really charming and they're like, they have great chemistry.
00:34:05
Jeff
But this is a good movie. Yeah. listen And yes. And the soundtracks Trinity bussing to also quote the kids.
00:34:12
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah, dude.
00:34:16
Jeff
All right. Let's do the let's do the quotes.
00:34:19
JT Spangler
Quotes.
00:34:20
Jeff
What's your first one?
00:34:20
JT Spangler
The first one i had was carrier monkey. Just because I say it all the time.
00:34:25
Jeff
Dude, me too. And I didn't put it on there. And i the whole time I was like, do I? Do I do that? Can you check and see if my amoxicillin has refills?
00:34:35
JT Spangler
Every year I get strep throat. Do you know a kid could give you strep throat even if they don't have strep throat? And dude, so like she's talking to her boss who's old and crotchety and everyone knows her boss hates kids. And her kid is obviously stupid. Sammy Parker is obviously with her.
00:34:51
JT Spangler
And she's like, stay out with the receptionist. Like, just, just do me a solid. And he's a six year old boy. So he doesn't give a shit. So he wanders into the meeting and he's like, mommy. And she's like, yeah, let's go find this boy's mommy. Hang on one second.
00:34:51
Jeff
Stupid Sammy Parker.
00:35:02
JT Spangler
And,
00:35:04
Jeff
That's a great idea. Let's go find your mommy.
00:35:05
JT Spangler
and And then our boss is like lecturing her about how, you know he's like, do you know what I see? When I look at him and she's like all smiling, she's like, what? And he's like, carrier monkey.
00:35:16
Jeff
I'm sorry, sir. Someone spilled the Haskell blueprints. Coffee all over the Haskell blueprints. Dude, God, stupid Sammy Parker probably would get him sick. That dude, he was killing me.
00:35:27
Jeff
um
00:35:27
JT Spangler
But also like, it dude, I've been very lucky because I just have one kid and he's got a great immune system, but he thinks nothing about sneezing right into your mouth. i can
00:35:37
Jeff
I need to tell you a secret right to the back of your throat.
00:35:41
JT Spangler
So it's it's completely accurate to call a kid under the age of 10 carrier monkey because they're all just freaking down on the ground eating cigarette butts and they want to come stick their fingers into into your mouth.
00:35:43
Jeff
Oh, God, is it? Yes.
00:35:51
JT Spangler
It's like, dude, that is exactly the experience.
00:35:52
Jeff
I hate I hate to tell you, but I have like nine kids missing out of each class because they're like licking doorknobs or something and everybody has the flu. So I don't think it gets any better when they get older. I think we're just smart enough to not put our hands on our face and touch, our put our fingers in our mouth rather. I think...
00:36:12
Jeff
God, everybody.
00:36:12
JT Spangler
Hopefully.
00:36:13
Jeff
yeah everybody's gross. My very first one is the one I keep saying. She and the little girl and the little boy are both, they both missed it. And their parents are discussing how they can fix the day.
00:36:26
Jeff
And they're talking on the, pretending to talk on the phone. And she goes, Maggie Taylor calling. I have an urgent message for stupid Sammy Parker. And dude, the pause that she says, i have an urgent message for and pause and then says stupid Sammy Parker.
00:36:43
Jeff
Frickin love it. I love it. It's so good. um So stupid Sammy Parker is my first quote.
00:36:52
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, also, so that the daughter is Mae Whitman.
00:36:57
Jeff
Yeah.
00:36:57
JT Spangler
she um She ends up playing Anne in Arrested Development, which is an amazing role.
00:36:57
Jeff
Yeah.
00:37:01
Jeff
Dude.
00:37:05
Jeff
Oh. I, dude. So the only other thing I remember her, Bye Bye Love, obviously. she was We talked about that. um
00:37:12
JT Spangler
Yep.
00:37:14
Jeff
Hope floats.
00:37:15
JT Spangler
Hope floats.
00:37:15
Jeff
When they bring her, when they pull her away from, what's his name? Who's the guy in that?
00:37:21
JT Spangler
Harry Connick Jr.
00:37:22
Jeff
Harry Connick. When they pull her away from Harry Connick Jr., she's screaming. Dude, that shit gets me bad. She's really good at that.
00:37:32
Jeff
I mean, I'm sure she's still acting and doing, i don't know, other stuff.
00:37:32
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:37:37
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, she definitely is.
00:37:37
Jeff
but But yeah, i did I totally remember from that. You should look up what stupid Sammy Parker looks like now. He's like just an old dude with a beard and it's weird and I don't like it at all. And it makes me angry that I'm so old.
00:37:56
Jeff
Because all I remember is that kid from all the things he was in. He was in like the the bonus Home Alone, like the three. um
00:38:04
JT Spangler
Yeah, yeah, Home Alone 3.
00:38:06
Jeff
He was in... um Oh, God, he's in something else that I saw him in. And I was like, oh, I remember that kid. I don't know. But the point is, is now...
00:38:16
JT Spangler
He's been in a bunch of stuff. He was in like Titan AE, he was in Bounce with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck. He was in Race to Space. like Nothing good, really, but he's done a bunch of stuff.
00:38:29
Jeff
um Good for him, stupid Sammy Parker.
00:38:31
JT Spangler
Good for him.
00:38:32
Jeff
ah No, that's that's the one I like, the stupid Sammy Parker.
00:38:32
JT Spangler
Yeah. Dude, that's great. so And that's what i mean about this being a really good script. There's a couple of really things. like We talked about the cat eating the fish.
00:38:43
JT Spangler
that's fricking so That's genius plotting. The kids playing on the phones and then just at the very last second just switching them and no one notices.
00:38:45
Jeff
Yeah.
00:38:50
Jeff
Yeah.
00:38:51
JT Spangler
I was like God, that's so genius.
00:38:51
Jeff
Yeah. yeah
00:38:53
JT Spangler
Because it's like, oh, we'll just set up the whole thing where they want to never talk again, but they have to. and How do we do that? They have each other's phones. Why do they get each other's phones? like The kids do it.
00:38:59
Jeff
And when that guy when the guy Lou is like, why are you were talking about panties? And she's like, all right, snap. the thumb She snaps it close and hangs up on him. That's great.
00:39:09
JT Spangler
I also like when they when they call each other for the first time. he's like He calls her, and ah he's like, this is Jack Taylor.
00:39:14
Jeff
Yeah.
00:39:16
Jeff
How'd you get this number?
00:39:17
JT Spangler
She's like, how'd you get this number? He's like, you're holding my phone. And she's like, this is so typical. He's how about we just skip the insults and let's just do messages. Like your mother can't babysit, ah but it's not because Sammy stuck the ring up her nose, his nose, whatever.
00:39:25
Jeff
man.
00:39:29
Jeff
hurt It's Rita. I freaking like that chick too.
00:39:35
JT Spangler
Yeah, she's great.
00:39:35
Jeff
She's Holland Taylor's been in a ton of stuff.
00:39:38
JT Spangler
Holland Taylor.
00:39:39
Jeff
Yeah. She's still around by the way.
00:39:43
JT Spangler
She's still around and she's also and in a long-term relationship with Sarah Paulson, which is really strange to me because they're like 30 years of age difference. But also they live in entirely separate apartments.
00:39:53
Jeff
Um,
00:39:57
JT Spangler
Like they don't just like, we got our own bedrooms. Like, no, no, I have my own apartment. And then she has her apartment. And i was like, man, this lesbian thing is sounding better and better.
00:40:05
Jeff
don't don't Don't tell my wife, but that sounds delightful.
00:40:10
Jeff
um I can't wait till we do her as Truman's mom.
00:40:16
JT Spangler
Oh, God.
00:40:17
Jeff
We're still going to be doing this in 1998, aren't we?
00:40:17
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yes, two years from now? Yeah, I got no other plans. The other quote that I had is the other one i already said, which is where George Clooney is ah is insulting Michelle Fiverr. real superwoman. Can't open her door, won't shut her mouth.
00:40:32
JT Spangler
And she's like, well i see are you talking about me? And he's the first lady. We're thinking about doing a piece on her. It's just such it's such a perfect, like, it's like a Don Rickles joke. It's just a perfect setup.
00:40:41
Jeff
Yeah, dude. And they cut back to the to the editor and he has got a mouthful of sandwiches dying laughing.
00:40:43
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:40:48
Jeff
I love it. I love it. um ah That right before that, when he's like, what color panties are you wearing? He's like, what? and He's like, pink?
00:40:58
Jeff
Pink, sure.
00:40:58
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:40:59
Jeff
Pink. Ah, that's great. um My next quote is, I had, what about the cookies? But I say that all the time when we've already said it. Another thing that I say a lot, and I think I knew where it was from, but I don't even know why I say it, because it's not a big...
00:41:21
Jeff
It's not a big line in the movie, but um she says, oh it's not your fault, baby. It's Maggie's daddy's fault. um And like,
00:41:33
Jeff
cattle say something and cc's like i'm sorry i didn't know and she's like it's not your fault like yeah it's maggie's daddy's fault and cc's always like who's what who's maggie what the hell are we talking about she everybody's confused uh because that is real it's not a throwaway line it's not a major line it is just in there and for some reason it's stuck in my head and i say it still
00:41:55
JT Spangler
i would I would not get the reference if you said that in front of me. That's how obscure that one is.
00:42:00
Jeff
yeah yeah for sure
00:42:01
JT Spangler
um Dude, i was I was thinking about two words. I'll do the one that I went with first and i'll give you my bonus one. ah but The one I went with is one that I knew was coming and I was waiting for and I was delighted with.
00:42:08
Jeff
Okay.
00:42:12
JT Spangler
And George Clooney's talking to his kid. He's like, Maggie, when you grow up and are incredibly beautiful and intelligent, possess a certain sweetness that's like a distant promise to the brave, to the worthy, could you please not beat to a pulp every miserable bastard that comes your way simply because you can?
00:42:27
JT Spangler
Could you not do that? And she just goes, okay, daddy.
00:42:29
Jeff
Okay, daddy. yeah
00:42:34
Jeff
It's great, too, because she's just like listening and she's like, OK, Daddy, whatever. It's great. um Dude, I didn't know which one you were going to go with.
00:42:44
Jeff
And I don't know why, but I thought you were going to go with LSD um because they have to leave them at the Ninth Street drop in center, which is like child care during the day.
00:42:53
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:56
Jeff
um And she gets a call. Michelle Pfeiffer gets a call and it's stupid Sammy Parker. And he's like, mommy. and She's like, what happened? I don't want to stay here anymore. And neither does Maggie.
00:43:07
Jeff
Sweetie, you're just going to have to. what What happened? Spider-Man kicked me and she retook Maggie's snack. She's like, let let me talk to the teacher. She's outside talking to the Hulk about not using the F word.
00:43:20
Jeff
Look, you're just going to have to be big and brave. And mom, what's LSD? LSD, sit right there. Do not move. I'll be somebody who pick you up in 10 minutes. ah Dude, i I loved it, dude. It's so funny. She's outside talking to the Hulk about not using the F word. I could do that.
00:43:41
Jeff
I had to pause it because I was laughing so hard. That's my favorite line.
00:43:44
JT Spangler
Dude, that one is great because my kid goes to like a Montessori-style outside daycare where the kids are just like, it's just Lord of the Flies.
00:43:45
Jeff
That back and forth.
00:43:53
JT Spangler
like there's adults there to make sure they don't die, but they don't get in the middle of shit at all.
00:43:55
Jeff
Right. Yeah.
00:43:56
JT Spangler
And so like there's one kid at this camp who's like probably about wolf's age, so four
00:43:57
Jeff
Yeah.
00:44:02
Jeff
Yeah.
00:44:02
JT Spangler
And like, he goes there two days a week and one day a week, he'll come home and tell us about something that this kid did. and And my wife and I are always like, baby, that's okay. Look, just if he's mean, you just don't play with him. And then like, Wolf leads around that fucking kid.
00:44:14
JT Spangler
Like there's, some so like this, so like leaving your kid with some other asshole kids and you'd be like, what the fuck is the matter with that kid? was like, it was so relatable to me, man. I loved it.
00:44:29
Jeff
Oh, man. That's so great. I can't...
00:44:31
JT Spangler
I was like, I would just, I mean, because he'll, just like, Wolf will leave the room. I'll be like, you shut this fucking kid up or I will shoot him and put a knife in his hand.
00:44:41
Jeff
Oh, God. Dude, i' I'm telling you, i really did have to pause it because he said She-Ra took Maggie's snack and I lost my shit, dude. that She-Ra is funny just that as a reference.
00:44:54
JT Spangler
yes Yeah, dude.
00:44:55
Jeff
And the fact that it was... The fact that it was the day where everybody had to dress like a superhero and he doesn't look like a superhero. He looks like a poo poo cry baby.
00:45:08
JT Spangler
That's what I'm saying, dude.
00:45:08
Jeff
ah
00:45:09
JT Spangler
this
00:45:09
Jeff
So good. So good.
00:45:10
JT Spangler
The writer of this movie, whose name I'm going to pull up, Michael Hoffman, nailed it.
00:45:16
Jeff
ah
00:45:16
JT Spangler
No, that's the director.
00:45:17
Jeff
That's, that's the director. Yeah.
00:45:19
JT Spangler
Terrell Seltzer and Ellen Simon. Shout out them.
00:45:21
Jeff
Yeah.
00:45:21
JT Spangler
they don't They don't even have Wikipedia pages, but they crushed it on this one.
00:45:26
Jeff
So good.
00:45:28
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:45:28
Jeff
So good. And the delivery doesn't doesn't hurt, by the way.
00:45:29
JT Spangler
And then the one... No, no. those Those kids could have they couldve gone and done big things. They were great. The other one that I wanted to put in there just for discussion purposes, I don't think it's a great quote, but like she's trying to go do drinks with her boss and the clients and whatever, and he's like, he's got to make the soccer game where he doesn't get a trophy for snowflakes.
00:45:39
Jeff
Yeah.
00:45:44
Jeff
Yeah. Right. Right. Right.
00:45:48
JT Spangler
And she's like, she's like we're going to make it to the soccer game. I promise you the most important thing in the world. and then he hits her with the six-year-old guilt trip. He's like, no, I'm not. Your job is. And I'm like, all right, dude. You got to pay for shit. Like,
00:46:01
Jeff
Yeah, they don't get that yet, do they?
00:46:03
JT Spangler
And this is very triggering to me because this exact conversation we've been having all week. So we just got back from 12 days of ice storm and a week of vacation. And so my son's like, can you play?
00:46:10
Jeff
Yeah.
00:46:12
JT Spangler
I'm like, dude, I got to. I have to work or we're going to be homeless. And like so does your mom. like I love you, but like I got to do some grown-up shit right now. I know it's not that much fun.
00:46:20
Jeff
Yeah.
00:46:20
JT Spangler
Believe me, it's not that much fun for me either.
00:46:23
Jeff
Right.
00:46:24
JT Spangler
But yeah, I'm like, I can't wait for him to be old enough to understand that I'm doing stuff that I don't want to do because that's what being an adult means.
00:46:25
Jeff
Ugh.
00:46:30
JT Spangler
So you have to do stuff that you don't want to do, even though you can act like a kid whenever you want.
00:46:31
Jeff
Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:35
Jeff
Nice callback. i um yeah, that's why I like it when the kids are like, I can't wait to grow up.
00:46:37
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:46:43
Jeff
I'm going to be able to like stay up late and not sleep and like eat cake for dinner and just do whatever. I would just sit on the couch and watch TV. I'm like, yeah, you're describing depression.
00:46:53
Jeff
You're definitely going to have that. It's what adults have.
00:46:56
JT Spangler
ah that does That does sound like college, but then after that, you can't. Like, dude.
00:47:01
Jeff
um Yeah, speaking of them not having a Wikipedia page, I don't recognize any of the other movies that these people have written. um one the ellen Ellen Simon?
00:47:11
JT Spangler
Well, give them to me. i don't even know them.
00:47:14
Jeff
what's that
00:47:15
JT Spangler
Let me hear them. I couldn't even look up the stuff they've done.
00:47:17
Jeff
ah ah Ellen Simon, she she did One Fine Day, and then she did Moonlight and Valentino, which is a play slash screenplay. And then she wrote one episode of 30-something.
00:47:28
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:47:28
Jeff
Isn't that a show that you guys like?
00:47:32
Jeff
And then the other guy, ah terrell Terrell Seltzer, The Rendezvous. I never heard of that movie. How I Got Into College. Yeah.
00:47:43
Jeff
I don't recognize either of those movies. And I don't even recognize the people in those movies. And I recognize a lot of really random people. um So, yeah, I don't think that they did too much after this.
00:47:57
JT Spangler
Yeah, that's, that's, this happened to us a couple of times. Like but I remember the, and like way back in frigging 92, four years ago, we did like my cousin Vinny and we're like, these writers haven't really done anything else.
00:48:06
Jeff
Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:09
JT Spangler
How is that possible?
00:48:09
Jeff
Yeah, that's crazy.
00:48:10
JT Spangler
Cause this movie is incredible.
00:48:12
Jeff
Yeah, it's crazy.
00:48:12
JT Spangler
Like, how do you do that one time and go like, I think I'm good.
00:48:15
JT Spangler
going to go back to working at the 7-Eleven.
00:48:15
Jeff
Yeah, I'm going to hang it up.
00:48:18
Jeff
um Yeah, dude, I don't get that. i don't get it.
00:48:21
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah, let's do characters. Clooney and Pfeiffer.
00:48:26
Jeff
Clooney and Pfeiffer and not stupid Sammy Parker.
00:48:26
JT Spangler
No brainers.
00:48:30
JT Spangler
ah like It ah it's sounded like you were mad about the characterization of this kid, but as it goes on on, it sounds like you're mad about his performance too.
00:48:37
Jeff
I just don't like that kid. He's gone down. I'm going to be there when he falls. No, ah dude, Michelle Pfeiffer.
00:48:47
Jeff
She's not quirky. She's just like a mom that's super exhausted.
00:48:51
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:48:52
Jeff
She's like the frazzled professional. I like it. um I feel like there was actual, I know that there was a lot of those stereotypes, but I felt like there was actually like, depth and vulnerability and like she kept calling her mom and her mom couldn't do it because it was spa day at elizabeth arden and she called her sister and she can't do it because she's got a she's the ceo of that household and it's a lot harder than you think she had to bend over from the waist to change the dvd can you believe that mom hardest job in the planet just don't talk to those cold miners over there because uh they'll disagree
00:49:09
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:49:19
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude. ah Listen.
00:49:25
JT Spangler
We...
00:49:29
JT Spangler
Yeah, drinking there freaking tiny bottle waters. Yeah.
00:49:33
Jeff
The one bottle of water?
00:49:33
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:49:35
Jeff
the type
00:49:37
JT Spangler
The, ah no, because her family subplot was awesome. you You didn't really need it, but I loved it.
00:49:41
Jeff
Yeah.
00:49:42
JT Spangler
Like, her sister is clearly some, like, Park Avenue rich chick. She's like, I can't. I'm spending the whole day getting ready for the party. she's like, your kids, you you, like, you have one kid with a nanny, and you have a cook, and, like, and you're, she's like yeah, I'm getting ready for this party.
00:49:52
Jeff
A nanny. Yeah, you have a
00:49:57
JT Spangler
She's like, I do have a job. I'm the CEO of this household.
00:50:00
Jeff
Yeah, she's like, I'm getting dressed for the party later.
00:50:03
JT Spangler
And, dude, and Michelle Pfeiffer, even though she's an architect, which I have hired architects, we paid them a lot of money, but she was, like, living in a janky one-bedroom apartment where her kid, like, had a blow-up mattress on the side of her bedroom.
00:50:04
Jeff
um
00:50:10
Jeff
Yeah.
00:50:15
Jeff
Yeah, but it's like a thousand million dollars to live in New York. So maybe she's.
00:50:19
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, but not in Diggity Six. It should have been way less. But...
00:50:22
Jeff
Yeah.
00:50:23
JT Spangler
But anyway, she's she's struggling, and her family's like clearly like rich a-holes.
00:50:24
Jeff
do it Yeah.
00:50:28
JT Spangler
And yeah, she was she was great.
00:50:28
Jeff
Yeah.
00:50:31
JT Spangler
I mean, like if you look at her movies, it's a lot of stuff that, like, yeah, Dangerous Liaisons, Baker Boys, Love Field, Age of Innocence, Wool.
00:50:36
Jeff
Batman Returns, Dangerous Liaisons, Age of Innocence.
00:50:41
JT Spangler
That's a bunch shit I don't care about.
00:50:41
Jeff
Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:43
JT Spangler
But when I do see a movie that I like that she's in, I'm like, yeah, Michelle Fiverr. She's always good. i like her.
00:50:48
Jeff
i So, you know how sometimes you're like, oh man, in rom-coms,
00:50:57
Jeff
the The chick is almost... ah The girl... The female lead is almost untouchable, it seems like. They always seem really like over the top, too far away.
00:51:09
Jeff
But this one, she felt relatable.
00:51:09
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:12
Jeff
Dude, I don't know. i I felt like she did a really good job. I liked her in all of this. Plus, she was the executive producer. She was very big part of this getting made.
00:51:24
JT Spangler
Well, i was going to say she was ah she was cast first because she was a EP.
00:51:24
Jeff
So...
00:51:28
JT Spangler
And so like I read that George Clooney's part would originally kind of didn't exist. She was just gonna she it was just a frazzled single mother like doing everything, and then she finds love in an unlikely way.
00:51:37
Jeff
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
00:51:40
JT Spangler
And then like they go, they finally, like the quote was like, we realized like we're being kind of sexist because there are plenty of like single dads that are kind of dealing with the same thing. And then they come up with this kind of side-by-side.
00:51:49
Jeff
Yeah.
00:51:52
JT Spangler
And i was like God, that's so good. I love that.
00:51:53
Jeff
Yeah. That killed it.
00:51:54
JT Spangler
But they wanted like, you know, freaking Kevin Costner and Tom Cruise.
00:51:55
Jeff
ah You know,
00:51:57
JT Spangler
and And then when those guys pass, it's like, let's just make him like a, like he's a single dad.
00:51:58
Jeff
well,
00:52:02
JT Spangler
And then they just meet and they do their thing.
00:52:04
Jeff
While you were just saying that, I just, for some reason, my mind was wandering and you were talking about how her family was super rich and I never thought about it that way. Because the daughter, I mean, the the sisters got a lot of money.
00:52:17
Jeff
And the mom is at Elizabeth Arden ah for a spa day.
00:52:20
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:52:20
Jeff
So she obviously has money. ah Michelle Pfeiffer doesn't seem, I mean, architects make pretty good money. Do you think maybe she's just like, okay, I'm going to date the musician to be different and be, she seems like she might be the rebel that dated the musician.
00:52:27
JT Spangler
That's saying.
00:52:40
Jeff
And now she's trying to do everything herself.
00:52:40
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah, she's a black sheep. And then she's also like the control freak. She's like, I don't need a man. It's like, we don't need a man. You could drive a car with your feet if you want to.
00:52:56
Jeff
Oh, man. ah Let's talk about George Clooney, Jack Taylor. You don't know Jack, Jack Taylor.
00:53:02
JT Spangler
Dude,
00:53:03
Jeff
He's got that lovely color in his skin, which you also couldn't tell from the picture in the paper.
00:53:07
JT Spangler
i'm looking I'm looking at the picture of him from the New York Film Festival in 2025, and he looks exactly like he looked in this movie. And he's 64 now, and he was 34 then, and that pisses me off.
00:53:22
Jeff
Um...
00:53:24
JT Spangler
But George Clooney is like parfait. You have me somebody say, you I don't like no parfait.
00:53:28
Jeff
Everybody likes parfait.
00:53:29
JT Spangler
Everybody likes parfait. Everybody likes George Clooney.
00:53:30
Jeff
Everybody. Yeah. um Rosemary Clooney's nephew. ah Dude, is he a Nepo baby? No.
00:53:41
JT Spangler
I don't know. Probably. Who cares?
00:53:43
Jeff
I don't. He had a commercial during the Super Bowl this year.
00:53:47
JT Spangler
Nice.
00:53:48
Jeff
DoorDash.
00:53:49
JT Spangler
I was driving. and was driving back from Louisiana.
00:53:50
Jeff
DoorDash is going to eat the fees.
00:53:51
JT Spangler
I didn't get to watch any of that.
00:53:52
Jeff
You know what you missed?
00:53:54
JT Spangler
A lot of punts.
00:53:54
Jeff
Nothing.
00:53:55
JT Spangler
That's what I heard.
00:53:56
Jeff
Nothing.
00:53:56
JT Spangler
lot of punting.
00:53:57
Jeff
Yeah, nothing. ah Dude, I like this. um It's ah I like George Clooney in this. I don't know if I like him more than Michelle Pfeiffer, though, but I definitely like him.
00:54:03
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:54:08
Jeff
And this I feel like this makes him.
00:54:08
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:54:12
Jeff
Remember, he wasn't he on yeah ER r before this?
00:54:15
JT Spangler
Yes, he was.
00:54:15
Jeff
I don't know. I don't have. Okay. So ER r was before this. This is ER is like 94 ish. I think um maybe before that.
00:54:22
JT Spangler
Yep.
00:54:25
Jeff
Anyway, the ah he's on TV and now he's like a movie star. You know what saying? This is, this is now he's George Clooney.
00:54:35
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:54:35
Jeff
with a little copyright. No, a tip trademark. George Clooney trademark.
00:54:39
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:54:40
Jeff
Like everybody is going to want him after this. He can carry a movie. Dude, I think he did a great job in this. I thought I want to be like George Clooney.
00:54:51
JT Spangler
He's fantastic. I think it's perfect casting, especially at this point in time, because he's like a well-known, like kind of, but he doesn't have kids, but he's like a well-known bachelor.
00:54:58
Jeff
Yeah.
00:54:58
JT Spangler
um And the role is like be charming. It's like, all right, easy work for George Clooney there.
00:55:03
Jeff
Done and done. Yeah.
00:55:05
JT Spangler
But I was trying, I mean, honestly, until he did the Oceans movies, I don't, I don't feel like he was like a full on movie star. Like he just did like some kind of like, okay, kind of middle the road stuff.
00:55:14
Jeff
Yeah. What about, um what's the one with the turns and everybody turns into the vampires? Dust till dawn. Was that before oceans?
00:55:22
JT Spangler
Dust till dawn.
00:55:24
Jeff
That was before oceans.
00:55:24
JT Spangler
Yeah, it was.
00:55:25
Jeff
Yeah.
00:55:26
JT Spangler
It was.
00:55:27
Jeff
I loved him in that.
00:55:28
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:55:28
Jeff
I loved him in that thing that I saw him in.
00:55:30
JT Spangler
And that thing that I saw him in.
00:55:31
Jeff
ah Dude, did you see the thing where it, you know, he really loves basketball, by the way.
00:55:36
JT Spangler
Yes.
00:55:37
Jeff
um And he was playing basketball with the crew on a downtime when somebody else was filming something else. And he took an elbow straight to the face and his whole eye swole up. So they just had to shoot everything with like him holding a kid in front of his face or like him turning away from the camera.
00:55:52
JT Spangler
Nice.
00:55:54
Jeff
um So that's, I like that. Cause. I also like playing basketball.
00:56:01
JT Spangler
Agreed. the Also, I just read this thing in his about George Clooney that I didn't know before that I think is kind of amazing. He dated Kelly Preston, ah who we're going to see later this year, and Jerry Maguire from 1987 to 1989. And he gave her a pot-bellied pig named Max.
00:56:19
JT Spangler
But when they broke up, he took the pig back and he kept it for 18 years.
00:56:24
Jeff
Good Lord. Pigs live that long? That's awesome.
00:56:28
JT Spangler
ah yeah I mean, I guess if you don't like bacon, they do. um But like until he got married, he would like joke that Max was the longest relationship he'd ever had. was like, I love that he gave his ex a pig and then kept the pig for 18 years. 2000. 2000.
00:56:41
Jeff
That's great. um When is Oh Brother Where Art Thou? I don't know where that falls in the list.
00:56:48
JT Spangler
two thousand
00:56:49
Jeff
Oh, snap.
00:56:49
JT Spangler
so i mean like So he's on ER from 94 to 99.
00:56:51
Jeff
I love that.
00:56:53
JT Spangler
he He does From Dusk Till Dawn in 96. That's this year. He does this movie this year. He does Out of Sight in 98. I like that movie, Jennifer Lopez.
00:56:59
Jeff
Yeah, that movie's cool. Yeah, yeah.
00:57:01
JT Spangler
He does Three Kings, which is so okay. And he does Oh Brother Where Art Thou.
00:57:03
Jeff
Oh, I remember that. Yeah, yeah.
00:57:04
JT Spangler
I do too.
00:57:05
Jeff
Marky Mark. you mark
00:57:07
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:57:08
Jeff
Oh, sweet.
00:57:09
JT Spangler
Yeah, Three Kings, I guess, I didn't like it as much as probably other people. I'm just looking at them like, oh, dude, that's
Discussion on 'Three Kings' and Actor Highlights
00:57:14
JT Spangler
David O. Russell, and it's got Mark Wahlberg and freaking Ice Cube. That probably was a good one. I just didn't like it that much.
00:57:18
Jeff
i think that I think that's the Spike Jonze joint. That's the one. that's um I think I remember liking that. They're talking about shooting the guy and they zoom in and then show his head exploding and the bullet going through and bullet time.
00:57:30
JT Spangler
It's, um Spike Jones is in it, but it's David O. Russell who writes and directs.
00:57:36
Jeff
I thought Spike, I feel like, God, I thought Spike Jonze had something to do with it, though.
00:57:42
JT Spangler
Well, he's in it, so he maybe might have worked with it, but David O. Russell wrote and directed that movie.
00:57:48
Jeff
I felt like I remember something about that with him. I don't know. Maybe he's a producer too and that's what I remember. I don't know. That's a long time ago.
00:57:55
JT Spangler
Yeah, what's, a who's your third character?
00:57:59
Jeff
ah Dude, I got to put Mae Whitman, Maggie Taylor.
00:58:03
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:58:03
Jeff
Like I can't. She's adorable. and
00:58:06
JT Spangler
I was going to put her in there, but I'm tired of us agreeing all the time. So I'm going pivot to Amanda Pete because she was also amazing in this.
00:58:12
Jeff
Yeah.
00:58:14
JT Spangler
And I don't know it
00:58:15
Jeff
She should have been in more of it.
00:58:16
JT Spangler
Well, sometimes you see somebody in a role, like in a movie that's pretty early on in their career and you go like, oh yeah, that person's going to be like, they're going to do, you could see like, they're going to do that. They they're jumping off the screen.
00:58:26
Jeff
Right.
00:58:27
JT Spangler
They're going to more shit.
00:58:29
Jeff
Yeah.
00:58:30
JT Spangler
And I felt like that for her, for this role. i was like, she's frigging, I want to, we could, they could go take the kids to the soccer game and I could, the camera could follow Amanda Peeta.
00:58:40
JT Spangler
I would go with her for the afternoon.
00:58:41
Jeff
Yeah.
00:58:41
JT Spangler
I'm interested in that character. She's awesome.
00:58:44
Jeff
I um hope we're still doing this for saving Silverman because what a jam.
00:58:52
JT Spangler
Oh man. But yeah, Mae Whitman was really good. She was of the two kids. She was one of them. Yeah.
00:58:59
Jeff
Yeah.
00:58:59
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:59:00
Jeff
She was just the less crappy to me. I know running off is terrifying and it ruined everybody's day, but not as much as stupid Sammy Parker.
00:59:06
JT Spangler
Yeah.
00:59:09
JT Spangler
Saving Silverman is 2001. I think we got a shot at that. And God freaking Jack Black and Steve Zahn, I'm um ah um' all about it.
00:59:13
Jeff
Oh, geez.
00:59:18
Jeff
I don't see anybody up here. Do you see anybody? No, let me check in the back of this. Closet. God bless. What a great movie.
00:59:28
JT Spangler
All right, writer-directors. We talked about the writers already. The director Michael Hoffman. i thought Again, I thought this was really well-directed. He also hasn't done a ton of...
00:59:35
Jeff
Yeah.
00:59:38
JT Spangler
I mean, he's directed 15 feature films from 82 to 2024. Pretty good, but like not a lot that you've heard of.
00:59:43
Jeff
Yeah, that's not bad.
00:59:47
JT Spangler
like Not a lot of like They were like really big.
00:59:49
Jeff
The weird thing is, is as I'm like hovering over some of them that I don't recognize, like game six, I don't know what that is, but it stars Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., like Catherine O'Hara.
00:59:56
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:00:00
Jeff
That might be something good.
01:00:00
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:00:02
Jeff
um Like Gambit, it's got Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman and it looks at Stanley Tucci and it looks like a James Bond cover.
01:00:09
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:00:11
Jeff
Like all of these sound awesome. I think I might have to check some of these things out from this guy.
01:00:17
JT Spangler
Yeah. i' um'm I'm with you. Like it's, I'm like, how do I not know about these movies? is' They're featuring people that I like with concepts that sound like they'd be kind of fun.
01:00:24
Jeff
Right, yeah. um He was also the director of Soap Dish. That's the one with Whoopi, isn't it?
01:00:32
JT Spangler
Nice.
01:00:32
Jeff
Isn't that Whoopi and Robert Downey Jr.? um I used to like that one way back in the gap. That's, dude, but that's like, that's like, yeah.
01:00:40
JT Spangler
ah Dude, that's got a lot of That's got Sally Field, Robert Downey Jr., Whoopi, Kevin Kline, Elizabeth Shue, Catherine Najimy, Terry Hatcher, Carrie Fisher. 91,
01:00:49
Jeff
Yeah, that's, dude, but that's like early isn't it? 91, yeah.
01:00:52
JT Spangler
yeah. Yeah, dude, this movie on Rotten Tomatoes has 53%, which is horrible.
01:00:53
Jeff
ninety one yeah
01:00:59
JT Spangler
just horrible I mean, I know it's no one fine day.
01:01:02
Jeff
What, One Fine Day does? Oh, geez.
01:01:06
JT Spangler
i mean, I know it's no Melania, but I thought it was pretty good.
01:01:08
Jeff
That is ah travesty.
01:01:11
JT Spangler
It's a Travis Shamrockery.
01:01:11
Jeff
um Travesty, shaman and margarine.
01:01:15
JT Spangler
I didn't have any other like trivia. Do you have any bonus good for this?
01:01:17
Jeff
Um, I, you know what I wanted to ask? And maybe, you know, this cause I never had a chance to look it up. Uh, he is talking to Rita.
01:01:25
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:01:25
Jeff
Um, and, uh, she's like, all right, so what's your number? And I'll call her at that number. And he's like, yeah, uh, my number is Pennsylvania 33 19.
01:01:31
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:01:34
Jeff
And she's like, Pennsylvania. You're so cute. Um, what, what is that?
01:01:42
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude, I have no, I have no, I mean, I'm just assuming that that was like once upon a time when there were fewer people.
01:01:42
Jeff
Is that,
01:01:53
JT Spangler
Like there's a Glenn Miller song that talks about like the Pennsylvania phone number. And apparently that's supposed to be a way that you would say like Pennsylvania, the state abbreviation was PE. e And so P is seven and E is three.
01:02:04
JT Spangler
So you'd be like, if you said Pennsylvania six, you'd go, well, dude, they say it on the numbers.
01:02:05
Jeff
God, you got to know this. You got to know what the things are.
01:02:10
JT Spangler
Yeah. but it would so it would be 736.
01:02:12
Jeff
no I'm saying like, you got to know that Pennsylvania is PE.
01:02:16
JT Spangler
Well, it's your phone number, I guess.
01:02:19
Jeff
I guess if somebody said. Right.
01:02:21
JT Spangler
i I mean, nobody did that. And obviously, like in Hammond, there was only two exchanges. There was 542 and 345, so it wouldn't really have mattered.
01:02:28
Jeff
Right.
01:02:29
JT Spangler
But I actually kind of like that because it's way easier to remember a letter and five numbers than it is to remember seven numbers.
01:02:35
Jeff
Right. um
01:02:37
JT Spangler
But yeah, I was kind of thrown by that a little bit. I looked at ah looked at it a little bit and I was like, dare where are they what are you calling from a walkie-talkie? I'm like, how did you catch a Niner in there?
01:02:44
Jeff
Uh, there's a couple of things that I think of when you tell me that one is I need to look that up. Cause that seems cool. And I want to figure out more about it. And second, um, Gary Gorman, the standup comedian talks about, he has a whole bit where he talks about coming up with those letters.
01:02:52
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:02:58
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:03:00
Jeff
And he was like, yeah, they got to come up with new abbreviations. This is, we're going done by lunch. It's no problem. Alabama AL next. What do you got? Alaska. Uh, did we do AL? Somebody check the minutes. Did we do AL yet? Uh,
01:03:13
Jeff
um He's like, you know what? Let's just go with AK. All right, that sounds good. What's next? Arkansas. All right, check and see if we did AK yet. didn anyway
James Newton Howard's Film Contributions
01:03:22
Jeff
So that's why I'm wondering, do I have to memorize?
01:03:22
JT Spangler
Dude,
01:03:25
JT Spangler
I love that bit, but that also reminds me of Brian Regan talking about when you have to read your like confirmation code to someone and it has letters and you have to have a a word that goes with the letter.
01:03:35
Jeff
Capital O, zero, lowercase l, one,
01:03:40
JT Spangler
because because i just because i just flew back from costa rica and our flight got delayed and we missed it so i had to like be on the phone with america and they're like just give us your confirmation number i was like yeah it's aagpp and she like reads it back to me wrong i was like shit we got it i got a for uh aaron p for pneumonia i'm like i don't know i yeah
01:03:58
Jeff
P is in pneumonia. is in pterodactyl. K is in Qaddafi. And Q is in Qaddafi.
01:04:07
JT Spangler
Good off. It's a horrible. Yeah. All right.
01:04:12
Jeff
Ah, criminy.
01:04:13
JT Spangler
Real quick, before we finish this up, James Newton Howard does the music. The music is very good.
01:04:16
Jeff
Yeah.
01:04:18
JT Spangler
He's freaking got a Grammy and Emmy nine Academy Award nominations. He's done stuff like freaking the fugitive and space jam and ah like Batman begins and Michael Clayton and hunger games.
01:04:25
Jeff
we I remember...
01:04:30
JT Spangler
And so anyway,
01:04:32
Jeff
I highlighted it in my thing. I think we he did Glen Gary. Glen Ross was the other movie we did with him.
01:04:37
JT Spangler
And he also did Pretty Woman, which we did on Patreon.
01:04:39
Jeff
Oh, nice.
01:04:40
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:04:40
Jeff
Nice.
01:04:42
JT Spangler
And Pretty Woman was the first Academy Award nomination for him.
01:04:42
Jeff
um
01:04:45
Jeff
Oh, nice.
01:04:45
JT Spangler
um But yeah, shout out James Newton Howard, who is doing work.
01:04:48
Jeff
Yeah.
City vs. Suburb Parenting Reflections
01:04:50
Jeff
um Worst scenes? I don't know.
01:04:53
JT Spangler
No worse, dude. I love this movie.
01:04:54
Jeff
Yeah, no worries.
01:04:55
JT Spangler
The only worse is hanging a whole movie on a concept that involves them using cell phones in every scene and then going like, no one will ever know when we shot this.
01:05:03
Jeff
Yeah. um What about worst effects? that
01:05:08
JT Spangler
the
01:05:08
Jeff
There's pretty bad rain in the beginning, but I'm not going to i'm not going to bring that up.
01:05:10
JT Spangler
I was going to say, and every time, because you always bitch about it, anytime there's rain, i'm like, Jeff's going hate that. I'm like, I could see, i could just, in my mind, see the grip up above with the hose, just pointing down.
01:05:15
Jeff
but ah
01:05:20
Jeff
You know who it was up there probably holding it?
01:05:21
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:05:22
Jeff
Stupid Sammy Parker. um Dude, they had freaking fax machines and old cell phones, the Motorola Tac phone.
01:05:31
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:05:32
Jeff
Dude, I don't know. but ah met
01:05:38
JT Spangler
Well, it's it's weird because, I mean, like, like I live in a pretty decent-sized city in Nashville, and you live in a small town, but it's but we both, like, live in houses, like, on streets where there's other houses.
01:05:38
Jeff
She kept actual physical messages.
01:05:46
Jeff
Yeah.
01:05:48
JT Spangler
it's So every time I see a movie where somebody has kids in New York, I just think, like, it'd be kind of cool to like, raise kids in a city and just be, like, taking it. Like, dude, like, they got in the cabs with the kids a bunch of times, and I was like, they have no car seats.
01:06:02
JT Spangler
They're just holding the kids.
01:06:02
Jeff
None. Yeah.
01:06:03
JT Spangler
And like, it's New York. No one gives a shit. And I'm like, I don't want to, like... and don't want to get into the car seat thing, but I just, just like, it'd be cool to have a kid in this big city like that.
01:06:09
Jeff
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:12
JT Spangler
That's an experience that i feel like would be very different than the kind of like family experience I'm having now.
01:06:12
Jeff
Yeah.
Movie Ratings and Recasting Fantasies
01:06:17
Jeff
It's weird that because I think Michelle Pfeiffer's character probably would have wanted car seats in the cab.
01:06:22
JT Spangler
Yeah. If they remade this, she'd be carrying two car seats in her Mary Poppins bag.
01:06:26
Jeff
Yeah, because you you don't don't take Central Park West. you You can't take left at this hour.
01:06:31
JT Spangler
Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:32
Jeff
Like she was very adamant about all those things.
01:06:34
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:06:36
JT Spangler
I didn't say park drive. I said through the park.
01:06:41
Jeff
Damn, McLean, I'm getting too old for this shit. Wait, no, that's two different movies. um
01:06:48
JT Spangler
Five questions.
01:06:48
Jeff
Yeah, I don't have any other. Yeah, I don't have any other bad. So.
01:06:51
JT Spangler
i have Five questions. Is it okay for kids?
01:06:54
Jeff
I mean, yeah, I say anybody could watch it, but I don't think anybody over eight is going to get a lot of the references or jokes or any of that. You know what i'm saying? Like Cece kind of enjoyed it, but she didn't, she didn't even watch the whole thing.
01:07:07
Jeff
So she didn't know what was going on. But when I laughed, she was like, I guess I'm supposed to find that funny. She's still learning what's funny. So I think adults would get this more and man, that ain't no joke about now it hits harder and different when you have a kid.
01:07:14
JT Spangler
yeah
01:07:22
JT Spangler
Yeah, it's ah it does seem like about like my kid who's four would have zero interest in this.
01:07:23
Jeff
So different.
01:07:27
JT Spangler
there's no
01:07:28
Jeff
Yeah.
01:07:29
JT Spangler
There's no fighting. There's no bad guys.
01:07:30
Jeff
Right. Yeah.
01:07:31
JT Spangler
there's There's no karate at all. He's not into that. There's no motorcycle racists.
01:07:34
Jeff
ah Special effects on TV. do You lot ain't cry about that.
01:07:39
JT Spangler
um But yeah, there's nothing bad about It's just it would be boring for kids who are younger than that.
01:07:41
Jeff
Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:43
JT Spangler
um
01:07:43
Jeff
Yeah. yeah
01:07:44
JT Spangler
Would this movie get made if it were pitched now? i Dude, I would hope so.
01:07:48
Jeff
Netflix, prime video, something like that. Right.
01:07:50
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:07:51
Jeff
Mid budget rom-com. I don't think you could do this in theaters. Nobody's going to the theater. See this. Right.
01:07:57
JT Spangler
No, dude, we forgot that it's Valentine's Day in two days. We're recording this on February 12th, and so we can't go anywhere for dinner. I was like, dude, let's just go to the movies. And we love to go to the movies. And was like, yeah, that's great. Just get us some tickets.
01:08:10
JT Spangler
And I look, and I was like, i don't even know. I haven't heard any of this shit. like i'm I'm like, i please, please help me help you. I want to give you money.
01:08:18
Jeff
I want to give you money.
01:08:18
JT Spangler
How do I do that?
01:08:19
Jeff
Stop playing crappy pap. Yeah.
01:08:21
JT Spangler
And I was like, all right, I'll just get us tickets to Crime 101. I do. And I'm like, I could just click play on this at my house right now. It's whatever. We'll go to the theater. It's Valentine's Day. It's fine.
01:08:29
Jeff
Yeah. Yeah.
01:08:31
JT Spangler
ah
01:08:31
Jeff
um
01:08:32
JT Spangler
Movie or TV show movie?
01:08:34
Jeff
It's gotta be movie.
01:08:35
JT Spangler
Let's do movie.
01:08:35
Jeff
Yeah.
01:08:36
JT Spangler
And can you still watch and enjoy this in 2026?
01:08:36
Jeff
Yeah.
01:08:38
JT Spangler
Oh, I
01:08:39
Jeff
Yeah. Did you re did you recast it at all?
01:08:44
JT Spangler
skipped right over that. I didn't.
Podcast Conclusion and Listener Appreciation
01:08:45
JT Spangler
Did you? What you find for this?
01:08:46
Jeff
So here is my thing. Right after I watched this, when I walked back out there, my people were watching Fall Guy with ah Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
01:08:53
JT Spangler
Nice. Yeah.
01:08:56
Jeff
That's who I want to recast it with.
01:08:58
JT Spangler
um those those
01:08:59
Jeff
Those two.
01:09:01
JT Spangler
Both of them are great. and like i I like Ryan Gosling a lot, but I don't think his he's as effortlessly charming as George Clooney.
01:09:10
Jeff
Really? There's going to be hate mail.
01:09:12
JT Spangler
No, no. he
01:09:13
Jeff
People are going to get upset.
01:09:15
JT Spangler
I'm not saying he's worse looking than George Clooney. I'm just saying I don't think he's as charming as George Clooney.
01:09:20
Jeff
I didn't say that y'all. and That was JT to say that.
01:09:23
JT Spangler
You can come for me. ah i will stand on that one.
01:09:27
Jeff
Fire off an angry missile.
01:09:31
JT Spangler
um
01:09:32
Jeff
um
01:09:32
JT Spangler
I do love those two, though. I'm trying to think of, may i there just aren't a lot of George Clooney's.
01:09:37
Jeff
Who is? Yeah, there's not. He's. They broke the mold when they made him. Yeah.
01:09:47
JT Spangler
I didn't see this streaming anywhere. You can rent it in all the usual places, but I didn't see it on any streaming service. It's one of those movies that like pops on and off of different streamers.
01:09:55
Jeff
Yeah, it rotates.
01:09:55
JT Spangler
And then right as you get ready to watch it, it goes to a different place and you go like, i don't want to sign up for that.
01:09:56
Jeff
It's well, it's 20th century Fox, so it'll pop up on Disney every once in a while, but not not very often.
01:10:04
JT Spangler
Yeah.
01:10:06
Jeff
um So can you watch and enjoy it? Yeah. You still say yes.
01:10:09
JT Spangler
Yeah, dude. Yes.
01:10:11
Jeff
Yeah, me too. What else?
01:10:12
JT Spangler
Thousand times yes.
01:10:14
Jeff
A thousand times.
01:10:14
JT Spangler
Uh, we don't ah We don't, because so it's been chaos, we have not picked our next movie yet, but we will be back in two weeks with whatever that ends up being.
01:10:26
Jeff
with whatever I love her and that thing that I saw her in.
01:10:30
JT Spangler
and Exactly.
01:10:31
Jeff
um
01:10:32
JT Spangler
All right, man.
01:10:33
Jeff
Yeah, set it off.
01:10:33
JT Spangler
Back in two weeks. Thank you guys for listening.
01:10:35
Jeff
All right.
01:10:36
JT Spangler
Bye, Candios.
01:10:36
Jeff
Bye. Good.