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#244 - Michelle Trachtenberg | In Memoriam
What a gut punch this last week has been. The world lost Michelle Trachtenberg and the boys do their best to remember her properly… and then take a Buffy Buzzfeed Quiz.
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00:00:00 Brandon
You seem peppy and I feel like I'm dying.
00:00:03 Andrew
I think I'm I want to have like a triple shot of espresso at like 6:00.
00:00:10 Brandon
That's a good.
00:00:11 Brandon
Like the last two or three times we've recorded, I've come from having a Gibraltar at trivia.
00:00:19 Brandon
Been like wired now I'm like.
00:00:23 Andrew
Yeah, Gavin, it makes.
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Gulf Shores.
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Except for the straight part hail.
00:00:27 Brandon
Hello.
00:00:29 Andrew
Are you intending to be on blur or do?
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Care. Does it matter?
00:00:32 Brandon
OK. Do you need me to unplug my background switch?
00:00:34 Andrew
I don't care.
00:00:36 Andrew
I need to see the mess that is Europe.
00:00:38 Andrew
It's not that bad.
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Huh.
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Yeah. So then after that, we'll be doing some form of some project at some point in time.
00:02:03 Brandon
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So stay tuned.
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Tuned.
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I'm gonna be doing a series of tutorials on how to apply eyeliner in the political arena as.
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As with JD Vance, a new spokesperson for Maybelline.
00:02:21 Andrew
Sorry.
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I'm just riffing. JD Vance is an A hole.
00:02:29 Brandon
Patriots not up anymore.
00:02:31 Andrew
My favorite thing about JD Vance is like how many times he's been recorded talking about how much of A POS he thinks Donald Trump is.
00:02:38 Brandon
Mm.
00:02:40 Andrew
Turns out he's the POS moving on.
00:02:45 Andrew
Uh.
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What's new with you?
00:02:50 Brandon
Not.
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Just discovering that I.
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Patreon doesn't seem to.
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We unpublished your page due to inactivity, OK.
00:03:03 Andrew
Thanks everyone.
00:03:05 Andrew
Well, Brandon.
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The tuberculosis or the consumption if you will.
00:03:10 Andrew
Is it you're 1 of?
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Mm.
00:03:11 Andrew
Wait, what state is that happening in all the Republican states?
00:03:14 Brandon
Death.
00:03:17 Brandon
Yeah.
00:03:19 Brandon
Some kids, measles came by and gave me chlamydia.
00:03:23 Andrew
I still have the hantavirus like Gene Hackman's wife.
00:03:26 Brandon
Yes, apparently she had it and he had Alzheimer's and.
00:03:27 Andrew
What?
00:03:32 Brandon
They just died.
00:03:34 Andrew
Trantavirus Jesus.
00:03:36 Andrew
Mm.
00:03:39 Andrew
Yeah. So that happened. What else?
00:03:41 Brandon
Alright, our Patreon is back online.
00:03:41 Andrew
What else?
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Hey, sign up for one of our support levels.
00:03:47 Brandon
Means.
00:03:49 Andrew
Is Patreon a?
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A thing?
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Well for you podcast.
00:03:51 Andrew
I mean, yeah.
00:03:55 Andrew
I would subscribe to something for a.
00:03:57 Andrew
I sent it for a Patreon once, so I have an exclusive guide on how to start a certain type of aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
00:04:02 Andrew
Yes.
00:04:04 Brandon
Interesting.
00:04:08 Andrew
It.
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Was a cold and dark start up tutorial which is like the inside of my heart.
00:04:14 Andrew
Let's.
00:04:15 Andrew
So you have the tuberculosis.
00:04:18 Brandon
It does feel like I I do have consumption so.
00:04:21 Andrew
You have every single 1920s disease.
00:04:23 Andrew
Quote Jeremy Clarkson.
00:04:27 Brandon
Like we are, we are at trivia last night and they have the door open and it's like I can feel both the cold in my lungs, the smoke in my throat from like the BBQ outside and the smoke from the cigarette smoke goes outside.
00:04:41 Andrew
You sound.
00:04:42 Andrew
You have bronchitis secondary to whatever viral illness you.
00:04:46 Andrew
Had or have.
00:04:47 Brandon
Yes, most likely.
00:04:48 Brandon
I'm dining with bronchitis.
00:04:51 Brandon
Umm.
00:04:52 Andrew
Oh, that's not funny.
00:04:55 Andrew
Let's see what else. What?
00:04:56 Andrew
Oh, American foreign policy has been turned on its head. That's fun.
00:05:00 Brandon
But we walked it back.
00:05:01 Brandon
Day 2.
00:05:02 Andrew
He walked it back and then we walked it forward.
00:05:05 Andrew
Like we're doing a little line dance.
00:05:05 Brandon
Never gonna lose it as you.
00:05:07 Brandon
Out every food.
00:05:08 Brandon
Take it to junk.
00:05:11 Andrew
Yeah. So that that's the thing that happened.
00:05:13 Andrew
Mm H.
00:05:13 Andrew
We'll see where that goes.
00:05:17 Andrew
The world is.
00:05:17 Brandon
The attack and died.
00:05:18 Andrew
Gene Hackman died after the Max.
00:05:21 Brandon
As well as his wife.
00:05:23 Brandon
Betsy Arakawa.
00:05:26 Andrew
Gene hackman. He was in movies.
00:05:28 Brandon
The French Connection.
00:05:30 Andrew
Enemy of the state.
00:05:32 Brandon
Superman, the four, the quest for peace.
00:05:35 Andrew
Superman.
00:05:37 Andrew
The wiki feet years.
00:05:39 Brandon
Superman 'cause he.
00:05:41 Brandon
Lex luthor. He played the original movie version of Lex Luther.
00:05:43 Andrew
Oh, wicked. Wicked.
00:05:47 Brandon
French Connection. This is the.
00:05:50 Andrew
Yeah, let's see what else.
00:05:52 Brandon
Oh man, he was in Bonnie and Clyde, features beside the venture.
00:05:55 Andrew
OK, Hoosiers.
00:05:59 Andrew
That one.
00:06:00 Brandon
The original Picido Venture enemy estate with Will Smith or.
00:06:03 Andrew
Yeah, I mean, the state that movie slaps.
00:06:06 Brandon
Get Shorty.
00:06:08 Brandon
Wow, really?
00:06:08 Andrew
Oh, Speaking of slaps, did you listen to the did you watch the Oscars?
00:06:12 Brandon
Hmm.
00:06:14 Andrew
Yeah, they happened.
00:06:15 Andrew
I guess Conan was pretty good.
00:06:16 Brandon
4 tandemons moon.
00:06:18 Andrew
Conan O'Brien AK Jimmy Kimmel was pretty good.
00:06:22 Brandon
How dare you compare me to Jerry? Come on.
00:06:23 Andrew
He.
00:06:23 Andrew
Made.
00:06:25 Andrew
He well, he made that joke. He said something about like if they didn't.
00:06:29 Andrew
It.
00:06:29 Andrew
Make sure that everyone knows his name is Jimmy Kimmel.
00:06:29 Brandon
Goodnight shinko.
00:06:31 Brandon
That time.
00:06:33 Andrew
He made a joke about.
00:06:36 Andrew
Oh boy.
00:06:36 Andrew
Forgot his name already. Kendrick Lamar calling.
00:06:39 Andrew
Hmm.
00:06:40 Andrew
Drake a pedophile.
00:06:41 Andrew
Mm.
00:06:42 Andrew
And then people are like, that's racially motivated 'cause. You didn't make a joke about white pedophiles first of.
00:06:47 Andrew
Like, is that the standard we're holding ourselves to you? Second of all, he's like, remember that pedophile joke I made about the movie conclave and the Catholic Church?
00:06:56 Andrew
Yeah, thanks, Conan.
00:06:58 Andrew
Anyway, I don't have any pedophile jokes on the Oscars, frankly, but.
00:06:59 Andrew
3.
00:07:02 Brandon
Hail in the birdcage.
00:07:04 Brandon
Pac-Man.
00:07:05 Andrew
Oh, I had that, that Eugene Levy and.
00:07:07 Brandon
Darren Williams.
00:07:11 Andrew
The other one.
00:07:12 Brandon
Eugene Love using that Nathan Lane.
00:07:14 Brandon
Williams.
00:07:15 Andrew
I'm thinking of a different movie.
00:07:17 Brandon
The birdcage, where it's like.
00:07:19 Andrew
I'm thinking of a different movie.
00:07:21 Andrew
Movie. Am I thinking of?
00:07:24 Brandon
A mighty wind.
00:07:25 Andrew
Aren't you best in?
00:07:26 Andrew
Why am I getting those two conflated?
00:07:26 Brandon
Thus in shell.
00:07:28 Andrew
Don't know why.
00:07:29 Brandon
The bird cage is about a drag, a gay drag club owner.
00:07:36 Andrew
OK.
00:07:37 Brandon
Yeah, played by either Elaine or Robin Williams or.
00:07:40 Andrew
Oh, did you know so?
00:07:40 Brandon
Gay couple.
00:07:43 Andrew
I.
00:07:43 Andrew
Saw OK.
00:07:44 Andrew
I'm gonna look this up to make sure I'm not gonna Fact Check myself.
00:07:48 Brandon
His sons getting married to Gene Hackman and Diane West Weiss.
00:07:55 Brandon
Daughter and they're like Ultra Conservative Republicans, and then they're gay couple.
00:07:59 Brandon
So those are in laws.
00:08:02 Andrew
I was gonna say apparently they they're trying to cancel a bunch of pictures from U.S. history, and they're taking away a picture of the Enola Gay because it.
00:08:09 Andrew
The word gay on it.
00:08:12 Andrew
But they're like trying to eliminate pictures of people of color in the military. And like all the stuff in the National Archives.
00:08:12 Andrew
That's.
00:08:18 Brandon
That's not.
00:08:20 Andrew
Is going on out there.
00:08:22 Brandon
Is the coach in our replacements and 2000 replacements with Keanu Reeves.
00:08:30 Andrew
This.
00:08:31 Andrew
It's good times.
00:08:32 Brandon
He was the bad guy in ants.
00:08:35 Andrew
The bad guy in ants, the bad guy for a good movie.
00:08:39 Brandon
Or general general.
00:08:41 Brandon
I don't know if he was a good guy or bad guy.
00:08:43 Andrew
The.
00:08:44 Andrew
As in your lower jaw.
00:08:46 Brandon
Yeah, because they're.
00:08:47 Brandon
Because they have the animals.
00:08:48 Andrew
Oh, this is this intro is all over the place. Just so you know.
00:08:52 Brandon
Well, so you can go in directions and I keep toughing it back to Gen. action.
00:08:57 Andrew
Gene Hackman, the person who is in a lot, but I I don't.
00:09:01 Andrew
Haven't really watched any of his stuff.
00:09:03 Brandon
I recommend 2000s of the replacements.
00:09:06 Brandon
It's a comedy.
00:09:07 Brandon
It's a comedy football movie.
00:09:09 Brandon
Keanu Reeves there are like replacements for the team, but football team after.
00:09:17 Brandon
The NFL goes on strike.
00:09:17 Andrew
I watched the jail version of that with.
00:09:22 Andrew
Yes.
00:09:22 Andrew
David spade.
00:09:26 Brandon
Did you get fired in jail at one point or later?
00:09:28 Brandon
Is in it from.
00:09:31 Brandon
Evolution.
00:09:32 Andrew
I'm referring to the no.
00:09:34 Andrew
Adam.
00:09:35 Andrew
Sorry, the 2005 longest yard.
00:09:36 Brandon
Adam Sandler was the black man, you know version.
00:09:39 Andrew
No, wait. A what?
00:09:41 Brandon
Evolution. He's in the replacements.
00:09:43 Andrew
No, that's Orlando Jones.
00:09:46 Andrew
I'm talking about the longest yard.
00:09:48 Brandon
John favors in it.
00:09:53 Brandon
The longest yard wasn't a comedy, was it?
00:09:55 Andrew
That is Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nellie, William Fichtner, David Patrick Kelly, Tracy Morgan, Cloris Leachman and Burt Reynolds.
00:09:59 Brandon
What?
00:10:04 Brandon
Turn Ferguson fire in.
00:10:05 Andrew
It's actually a fun movie.
00:10:07 Andrew
A fun movie.
00:10:08 Andrew
Adam Sandler as well. Not doing the voice.
00:10:11 Andrew
Not doing the voice.
00:10:15 Andrew
Shibboy doobity.
00:10:17 Andrew
Chalamet.
00:10:21 Brandon
Don't say it three times. In some of them.
00:10:25 Brandon
Hazon love, isn't it?
00:10:31 Brandon
Reese evens anyway.
00:10:36 Andrew
Yeah, Speaking of dead people.
00:10:40 Andrew
Speaking of dead people, yeah, so.
00:10:45 Andrew
It's just going on and on as we get older, more and more people are passing away and it's usually not surprising when they're a little bit older, but when they're a bit younger, it can be shocking and tragic, even more so.
00:10:55 Brandon
Do you?
00:11:00 Andrew
And so we'd like to say, I don't know. Sorry that was.
00:11:02 Andrew
Thought you were.
00:11:03 Andrew
To pick that up. So we'd like to say.
00:11:03 Brandon
I was going to, but that would be fun.
00:11:05 Brandon
Know.
00:11:05 Brandon
You just go.
00:11:06 Andrew
RIP to the Max to Michelle Trachtenberg, who was.
00:11:09 Brandon
Rachel Max.
00:11:12 Andrew
You know, part of my childhood in the form of being in the.
00:11:15 Andrew
Buffy the Vampire Slayer where she received a lot of hate for being the most annoying character.
00:11:17 Andrew
No.
00:11:21 Andrew
She wins, yeah.
00:11:21 Andrew
That's testament to her acting skill.
00:11:25 Brandon
And during that 'cause she was done, slashed the key in season 5 of Buffy, which I think was 2001.
00:11:28 Andrew
Stop listening.
00:11:36 Andrew
I don't know that, but it's like, you know, someone's a good actor when you can't stand them in a show, like, for example, we may have talked about this for Ed Helms in the office.
00:11:36 Brandon
Anyway.
00:11:42 Andrew
Mm.
00:11:45 Brandon
Yes.
00:11:45 Andrew
Exceptional actor cannot stand his character.
00:11:49 Andrew
I.
00:11:50 Brandon
Fair, fair point.
00:11:53 Brandon
Let's see.
00:11:54 Brandon
Yes, 2.
00:11:55 Brandon
She started in 2000 season 5 through 7.
00:11:58 Andrew
Five through 72000, OK.
00:12:00 Brandon
So but one of her first roles was on Clarissa explains. Actually, her first documentary television role was on law and order.
00:12:13 Brandon
For the episode, God bless the child, uncredited, but she was.
00:12:16 Brandon
Clarissa explains it all in 1983 for the episode of Babysitting, where Melissa Joan Hart's Clarissa has to is babysitting this bratty girl.
00:12:19 Andrew
OK.
00:12:28 Andrew
Scott typecast there.
00:12:28 Brandon
But yeah, well, she can't type cast as a know it all bratty. Girl, which got her the role of Nona Nona F Mecklenburg on the adventures of Peter.
00:12:41 Andrew
Michael just.
00:12:44 Brandon
Yeah, Pete and Pete.
00:12:48 Brandon
Her dad was played by Iggy Pop.
00:12:52 Brandon
But yeah, so she she was alongside studios.
00:12:55 Andrew
Yeah, we've watched a here at the name of 90S headquarters and she was in that.
00:12:59 Andrew
We did.
00:12:59 Brandon
We did.
00:13:01 Andrew
But she wanted us.
00:13:01 Andrew
There you go. There's a tie in.
00:13:04 Brandon
Oh yeah, apparently she was herself on an episode of Blues Clues and reading Rainbow, and guys like us.
00:13:12 Brandon
This must have been for when she was hearing the spy, 1986, OH, 1989. She was in the live action Spectre gadget with.
00:13:20 Brandon
This Matthew Broderick, which we I think we went over before.
00:13:26 Andrew
Agree by the way, erasing all all references to reading Rainbow 'cause, it contains the word rainbow is a black man on it.
00:13:33 Andrew
No, I'm like yes.
00:13:35 Andrew
It was on public television.
00:13:38 Brandon
Two out of four she tried to.
00:13:42 Brandon
Break out into the film industry with ER, shrimp.
00:13:46 Brandon
I mean, she was Harry the spy, but like, this is the reinvention she was like, I remember.
00:13:48 Andrew
AM.
00:13:54 Brandon
Like this era of Hollywood is a little gross because it's, like, barely legal teenage girls being sexualized. And it's like the that's.
00:14:03 Andrew
Because that's who's running Hollywood back.
00:14:05 Andrew
Now they're more interested in like eating infants or something.
00:14:11 Brandon
But I remember the trailer. It like she they're at a nude beach and she's like, oh, I'm gonna take my top off and go running.
00:14:18 Brandon
Then they like show her from the backside, taking a top off and running. It's like.
00:14:24 Brandon
Well, that's why that's the only reason anyone watched.
00:14:25 Andrew
Yep.
00:14:27 Brandon
Movie euro trip.
00:14:29 Andrew
Yeah, yeah.
00:14:30 Brandon
Which has. I'm going to assume a rotten tomato score of.
00:14:38 Brandon
45.
00:14:38 Brandon
Of 100 no 47%.
00:14:39 Andrew
And never.
00:14:40 Andrew
And never was actually a review of hocus Pocus 2.
00:14:43 Andrew
Yes, umm.
00:14:46 Andrew
Where she appears topless. No, I'm kidding.
00:14:49 Brandon
Oh, apparently it was a sequel to Road Trip. What?
00:14:54 Andrew
Do not know that it makes sense though.
00:14:57 Andrew
Then they had.
00:14:57 Andrew
A Middle East trip after that.
00:15:00 Andrew
No.
00:15:01 Andrew
Let's see those 2004.
00:15:03 Brandon
Yeah.
00:15:05 Andrew
Who could forget?
00:15:06 Brandon
2005.
00:15:07 Andrew
No, I have a 2006.
00:15:10 Brandon
OK, 2005's ice Princess? I never saw this movie, but a lot of girls are aging a little bit younger. Have been like, Oh my God, they're so attracted to.
00:15:19 Brandon
Was my ice Princess with.
00:15:22 Brandon
I can control and hidden Pantieri and Joan Cusack.
00:15:27 Brandon
2006 black Christmas.
00:15:28 Andrew
And who could forget that 2006 episode of House MD, where she appeared as a teenage girl who had her heart transplanted 6 months earlier and goes into anaphylactic shock in her clean room after her boyfriend almost kisses her?
00:15:32 Andrew
Past.
00:15:47 Brandon
Melinda barbach.
00:15:49 Andrew
She plays the like over protected child who's trying to rebel against her mom.
00:15:54 Andrew
Of thing.
00:15:56 Brandon
In the episode safe.
00:15:58 Andrew
Show me episodes safe. Yep.
00:15:58 Andrew
Interesting.
00:16:00 Brandon
2006 she also made an appearance on law and order criminal intent as a completely different character from her previous law and order show.
00:16:09 Andrew
Warren Wyderer criminal.
00:16:11 Brandon
Also 2006.
00:16:14 Brandon
If anyone watched Robo early robot chicken with a gummy bear scene where it's a gummy bear hopping through the woods and it's like, oh, I'm so happy 'cause, I'm a gummy bear.
00:16:22 Brandon
Bear and accidentally steps on a bear trap and then just loves how this shrill St.
00:16:30 Brandon
That was her as well as other various voices.
00:16:34 Andrew
I mean, you know, there's no.
00:16:36 Andrew
No shame.
00:16:36 Andrew
Being a character actor, right?
00:16:39 Brandon
Right, I got her roles on Gossip Girl as Georgina Sparks for 28 episodes, as well as the reboot she came back for a few episodes.
00:16:48 Brandon
A main role on ATV series called Mercy.
00:16:51 Brandon
Was in weeds for five episodes.
00:16:53 Andrew
Mercy.
00:16:55 Andrew
She also began, probably due to her illness. I shouldn't not try to be mean, but she did begin to resemble Elizabeth Olsen, and she got older, in my opinion.
00:17:05 Andrew
Elizabeth Olsen Elizabeth Smart. No, it's wrong person.
00:17:08 Brandon
You're thinking of the of the Olsen twins, not Elizabeth Olsen, cause Olsen's also has a fuller face.
00:17:13 Andrew
No, a little bit.
00:17:16 Andrew
Yeah. I mean a little bit.
00:17:17 Brandon
You you're you're thinking of like Mary Kate and Ashley during the sheep fashion years.
00:17:18
I I.
00:17:22 Andrew
She looks like an Olsen somehow.
00:17:24 Andrew
Little bit.
00:17:24 Andrew
Well, she looks.
00:17:25 Brandon
I think she looks like.
00:17:26 Brandon
She specifically looks like Mary Kate.
00:17:29 Brandon
Like when she was, they were real thin.
00:17:33 Andrew
OK.
00:17:33 Brandon
And that's most likely the health related.
00:17:36 Andrew
Yeah, that's the health related thing for the others.
00:17:38 Andrew
Was like the cocaine years, but.
00:17:39 Andrew
Her it was a health crisis of some kind.
00:17:41 Brandon
Allegedly.
00:17:44 Andrew
Allegedly, everything we say on this show is allegedly, but you can be president and say anything you want without the word allegedly in front of it.
00:17:44 Andrew
Yeah. Yes.
00:17:50 Brandon
This album.
00:17:53 Brandon
Well, apparently there was a 2023 Harriet the spy on Apple TV, Plus a series.
00:17:58 Andrew
Yeah.
00:17:59 Brandon
She's a voice in it.
00:18:03
Alright.
00:18:03 Brandon
Yeah. And then I just saw as I was collecting.
00:18:09 Brandon
Some memorials for her that.
00:18:13 Brandon
She wrote a script that was rejected by Hollywood, but her current or her boyfriend.
00:18:22 Brandon
I guess current boyfriend, boyfriend at the time of death and producer friends are trying to get it.
00:18:31 Brandon
Made into a movie 'cause. It's well, well written.
00:18:32 Andrew
Also, she she was by the left speaking the Oscars left out of the Oscars in memoriam package. But.
00:18:38 Brandon
I heard that.
00:18:39 Brandon
That this had.
00:18:40 Brandon
Yeah, like I think it's year, year end, right.
00:18:44 Andrew
I believe that's probably true.
00:18:47 Brandon
So hopefully they correct that next year and she's in that one, along with Gene Hackman.
00:18:52 Brandon
Was Gene Hackman in this one is the question.
00:18:57 Andrew
I don't know. I don't think so.
00:18:58 Brandon
I didn't watch it so.
00:19:01 Andrew
I didn't watch them.
00:19:02 Andrew
I just watched part of it.
00:19:03 Andrew
Yeah.
00:19:04 Brandon
So let's see.
00:19:09 Brandon
Some Danny Tamborelli, who played younger Pete on the adventures of Pete and Pete, shared a photo of him and Michelle trapped bird together and said.
00:19:20 Brandon
You're called growing up alongside her and making people laugh together and.
00:19:25 Brandon
More importantly, we learned to make each other laugh and pull pranks on everyone.
00:19:28 Brandon
We're doing improv, and it was still called playing for 10 to get laughs.
00:19:33 Brandon
She was a bright light, a firecracker and caring person who spent a lot of time and effort advocating for people who needed a louder voice.
00:19:40 Brandon
Was someone to look up to in this business and to the general world at large.
00:19:44 Brandon
She'll be missed. All my love and sympathy and compassion to Lana, Irene and the rest of her family and friends.
00:19:49 Brandon
You know, like just all the outpouring for her.
00:19:53 Brandon
It really makes her seem like she was like a down to Earth.
00:19:58 Brandon
Person.
00:19:58 Andrew
Yeah, remind.
00:20:01 Brandon
Rosie O'Donnell.
00:20:05 Brandon
Who? Some?
00:20:09 Brandon
Starred alongside her in her spy.
00:20:14 Brandon
Where did the fair go?
00:20:15 Andrew
She she instead of doing like a 21 gun salute, there was a 21 Kush slingshot salute at the OK.
00:20:21 Brandon
Yes.
00:20:24 Brandon
Because Roger Donald does his thing on her talk show, she would do the Kushal slingshot. For those of you who don't know, it's funny. If I explained you were jokes.
00:20:35 Andrew
I see.
00:20:37 Brandon
But yes.
00:20:40 Brandon
She she said she found it heartbreaking.
00:20:43 Brandon
Love it very.
00:20:44 Brandon
She struggled last for years and she could have helped.
00:20:47 Brandon
I thought there was a better quote there.
00:20:51 Brandon
What else?
00:20:53 Brandon
Buffy costars Sir Michelle gillery.
00:20:56 Andrew
We're.
00:20:58 Andrew
No, I'm.
00:20:59 Andrew
It's like, of course, they're all gonna be.
00:21:01 Andrew
Hopefully supportive and.
00:21:03 Brandon
I did.
00:21:04 Brandon
I did see uh Sarah Michelle Gellar's um in some mental health crisis right now because of of her passing, which?
00:21:14 Andrew
Hmm.
00:21:17 Brandon
Probably not a great sign for the Buffy reboot that they were just called out two weeks ago. Not.
00:21:22 Andrew
No, no, no, no.
00:21:24 Andrew
That's getting the Republicans put mental health in such a priority in this country, so that'll be nice at least.
00:21:27 Andrew
Let's.
00:21:30 Brandon
See service shop going around.
00:21:32 Brandon
Michelle, listen to me.
00:21:34 Brandon
I love.
00:21:35 Brandon
I will always love you.
00:21:37 Brandon
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.
00:21:39 Brandon
I will be.
00:21:39 Brandon
I will live for you.
00:21:41 Brandon
And then she also added three broken hearts and a key emoji.
00:21:47 Brandon
James marsters.
00:21:50 Brandon
Said my heart.
00:21:50 Brandon
Heavy today that he's played spike.
00:21:52 Brandon
We have a.
00:21:53 Brandon
We have lost a beautiful soul.
00:21:55 Brandon
Michelle was fiercely intelligent, howlingly funny and a very talented person.
00:21:59 Brandon
She died much too young and leaves behind the scores of people who.
00:22:03 Brandon
And loved her.
00:22:05 Brandon
David Roy Ennis.
00:22:07 Brandon
So very sad, horrible news. RIP and prayers to her family.
00:22:13 Brandon
Yeah. Allison Hannigan, I am deeply saddened by the news of Michelle's passing. She brought a loving energy to the set of Buffy. My thoughts are with Michelle's family and friends.
00:22:26 Brandon
And yeah, Amber Benson, who played Terra in the Caulfield. Claire Cramer.
00:22:33 Brandon
J August Richards, who never actually acted with her but was gotten on Angel.
00:22:40 Brandon
Let's see, Ange.
00:22:43 Andrew
Too soon?
00:22:44 Andrew
Too soon?
00:22:45 Brandon
Every roast Hamlin, Chris McArthur.
00:22:50 Andrew
Well, that's a funny. Weird what?
00:22:54 Andrew
I guess that's a funny weird connection.
00:22:56 Andrew
What's that?
00:22:56 Andrew
It says Amber Tamlin was in house for the later years, then act together. But.
00:23:02 Brandon
Yeah.
00:23:04 Andrew
Hmm.
00:23:04 Brandon
So Amber Tamblyn was.
00:23:08 Brandon
I think a contemporary of Michelle.
00:23:12 Brandon
They were, I think, the the Buffy.
00:23:12 Andrew
Robably true.
00:23:15 Brandon
They were like the same age and like she was like the bad influence girl on on dawn in Season 7.
00:23:25 Brandon
Yeah.
00:23:29 Brandon
So yeah.
00:23:32 Brandon
The anything else on the shelf there? Michelle trachtenberg.
00:23:35 Andrew
I mean, I I didn't know. I knew her best from Buffy, honestly.
00:23:41 Brandon
In that episode house.
00:23:42 Andrew
There's that one episode of house, but you know it's sad.
00:23:46 Andrew
I mean, sad when anyone dies, but especially when someone that no one has anything bad to say about and is entirely too young for that.
00:23:54 Andrew
We can, you know, all we can do is keep living.
00:23:58 Andrew
Right.
00:23:59 Brandon
As Sarah Michelle Gellar said, yeah.
00:24:03 Brandon
Yeah, you know Michelle Trachtenberg like.
00:24:07 Brandon
She.
00:24:08 Brandon
She was.
00:24:08 Brandon
She was like the kid that you wanna be friends with on the ventures. Pete and Pete like.
00:24:09 Andrew
Hey.
00:24:15 Brandon
Harriet the spy.
00:24:18 Andrew
Yeah.
00:24:20 Brandon
She seemed like she was cool, and apparently she was so.
00:24:27 Brandon
Nice.
00:24:27 Andrew
I already ripped the Max from the.
00:24:29 Andrew
90s crew.
00:24:30 Brandon
Yeah, pull one out.
00:24:33 Andrew
All.
00:24:33 Andrew
Well, now let's go to our mid episode break.
00:24:38 Andrew
And this time, I'm not going to say questionable things between this part.
00:24:38
YouTube.
00:24:42 Andrew
And the.
00:24:43 Andrew
Now back to the show part.
00:24:45 Brandon
Yes, it occurs to me that I didn't edit that out last week.
00:24:50 Brandon
All right.
00:24:51 Andrew
Anyway, and now back to the show.
00:24:55 Brandon
So instead of doing that whole thing half, half, half, half.
00:25:00 Brandon
As well, let's just do a BuzzFeed quiz.
00:25:02 Andrew
Yeah, I kind of brought the mood down there.
00:25:04 Andrew
Got to do it occasionally.
00:25:06 Brandon
Yeah. Yeah. And I don't think, I don't think we've gone through season 4 episode without doing a BuzzFeed quiz yet. So.
00:25:13 Andrew
But now it's our thing.
00:25:14 Andrew
Yes.
00:25:15 Andrew
What the last episode was just all BuzzFeed quizzes.
00:25:18 Brandon
Oh yeah, maybe not these Uptown BuzzFeed.
00:25:18 Andrew
That sounds terrible.
00:25:21 Andrew
What if we make a namely 90s BuzzFeed quiz and then go through it?
00:25:26 Brandon
Yes.
00:25:28 Brandon
That might actually be something that we can do.
00:25:31 Andrew
Anyway, so we're doing a BuzzFeed quiz called everyone has a Buffy the Vampire Slayer character that matches their personality.
00:25:39 Andrew
One is.
00:25:40 Andrew
By Evelina Zaragoza Medina.
00:25:43 Andrew
Posted in 2021.
00:25:45 Brandon
And if we have done this one in the past five years, let us know.
00:25:49 Andrew
We haven't.
00:25:50 Andrew
We.
00:25:50 Brandon
You sure we didn't?
00:25:51 Andrew
There's no way we might have.
00:25:52 Brandon
I swear we did one last year.
00:25:54 Brandon
Think we did.
00:25:55 Brandon
But like, are you more?
00:25:58 Brandon
Spike or Angel but.
00:25:59 Andrew
OK, OK.
00:26:01 Brandon
I don't remember.
00:26:03 Andrew
Well, here we.
00:26:03 Andrew
So do you want to start?
00:26:04 Brandon
Sure, it starts with a question of what type of.
00:26:08 Brandon
Are were you?
00:26:11 Brandon
A loader.
00:26:11 Brandon
A class clown? The athlete.
00:26:13 Brandon
Teacher's Pet, a theater kid or an overachiever?
00:26:17 Andrew
Boy, that was none of these things.
00:26:23 Andrew
Hmm.
00:26:24 Andrew
I can be excused being a teacher's pet.
00:26:27 Brandon
Yeah, I guess so.
00:26:31 Brandon
I guess I could be accused of being an overachiever, like I wasn't straight as, but I was in most of the AP classes and.
00:26:39 Andrew
But you will really be wrapped over the knuckles by a nun if you drop below A/B.
00:26:42 Andrew
Yeah, of course.
00:26:43 Andrew
You know that's overachieving.
00:26:44 Brandon
Yeah. You know, they take the hot poker out of the fire and give you a.
00:26:48 Brandon
Hello.
00:26:48 Andrew
Give a little branding. OK. Wow, that got dark quick. When are you most productive? Morning, afternoon or night?
00:26:57 Brandon
Truthfully, for me, I'm most productive at night.
00:27:00 Brandon
Have a night owl.
00:27:01 Andrew
I am a morning owl.
00:27:03 Andrew
Of.
00:27:04 Andrew
I'm in no time of day person to be clear.
00:27:08 Brandon
So gotcha.
00:27:09 Andrew
But I chose morning.
00:27:11 Brandon
Pick the best.
00:27:12 Brandon
To go on a date, a museum, the mall, a cemetery.
00:27:16 Andrew
A cementary footer.
00:27:18 Brandon
I.
00:27:18 Brandon
I swear we've done this before.
00:27:19 Andrew
A cementary, which is where you get concrete.
00:27:24 Brandon
I didn't even notice that a dance club, the movies or a restaurant.
00:27:29 Andrew
Ah, OK.
00:27:33 Andrew
Well, I'm a self identified fat person, so typically a restaurant.
00:27:36 Andrew
But I feel like when you're in school, like the movies is where is like, where you're trying to go.
00:27:42 Andrew
Gonna go with the movies and not the quarry. Where you're gonna get your cement.
00:27:47 Brandon
For the best place to go on a date.
00:27:52 Brandon
I mean, I like the restaurant, but the mall like it's like.
00:27:54 Andrew
Yeah, the mom.
00:27:56 Brandon
No.
00:27:57 Andrew
I just saw an ad by the way, while we're doing this for like a fancy feast thing, it looked like a flan and they had, like, jeans dripping down the top of it.
00:28:06 Andrew
Some.
00:28:07 Andrew
Pretty cat came in and ate it. That was weird.
00:28:10 Andrew
Anyway.
00:28:12 Brandon
Feel like you have targeted ads there.
00:28:13 Andrew
So what accessory would you never leave the house without my coat?
00:28:18 Andrew
A hair tie, a bag to carry all my stuff.
00:28:21 Andrew
My phone, a water bottle or a snack.
00:28:25 Brandon
It's a weird definitions of accessories.
00:28:30 Brandon
Oh sweet.
00:28:30 Andrew
So.
00:28:33 Brandon
So I technically.
00:28:37 Brandon
I guess I did not leave the house without my phone, but I think I I always have a bag.
00:28:43 Brandon
I have a bag.
00:28:45 Brandon
For whatever activity I'm doing, but to carry all my stuff.
00:28:48 Andrew
Right. Why don't do activities? And I feel weird without my phone, so I'll say my phone.
00:28:54 Brandon
Which of these would be the most helpful ally?
00:28:57 Brandon
Which of these would be the?
00:28:58 Brandon
Helpful ally of ampere.
00:29:01 Brandon
A werewolf or a zombie?
00:29:04 Andrew
I mean.
00:29:05 Andrew
Hands down, this vampire for me.
00:29:07 Andrew
I mean.
00:29:08 Andrew
Because they can appear as a normal person, at least at night.
00:29:11 Andrew
Yeah.
00:29:12 Andrew
And still have retain their.
00:29:14 Andrew
But not be obvious.
00:29:17 Brandon
And also like a werewolf is only a werewolf like.
00:29:21 Brandon
3-1 to three days out of the month.
00:29:24 Brandon
A zombie will most likely try to eat you.
00:29:28 Andrew
When you're going to.
00:29:29 Andrew
A ringer for your fast pitch.
00:29:31 Brandon
Great.
00:29:31 Andrew
This is a.
00:29:32 Andrew
Right.
00:29:34 Brandon
Because I also do vampire.
00:29:35 Andrew
Sure. Have you seen the baseball scene in Twilight?
00:29:39 Andrew
Yes.
00:29:40 Andrew
That's what I'm referring to.
00:29:41 Brandon
I I see three of the five twilight movies.
00:29:43 Andrew
Stupidest thing ever.
00:29:45 Andrew
Anyway, yes, you can choose the same thing.
00:29:48 Andrew
Which one of these?
00:29:50 Andrew
Which of these books are you most interesting in reading?
00:29:53 Andrew
It does say.
00:29:54 Andrew
Which of these books are you most interesting in reading?
00:29:58 Brandon
I'm so glad I didn't invite this one.
00:29:58 Andrew
Pride and prejudice, The Hobbit, 1984. The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights or War and peace.
00:30:08 Brandon
So I did actually read the Wizard of Oz in 3rd grade.
00:30:12 Brandon
So that's off the list.
00:30:16 Brandon
You know, I I hear the Lord of the Rings books are are good.
00:30:21 Brandon
So I would be interested in reading.
00:30:25 Andrew
I've not read this and I feel like now is the time to read it.
00:30:28 Andrew
1984 little dystopian little little crazy anyway.
00:30:29 Brandon
Mm hmm.
00:30:33 Brandon
Which of these fictional weapons is the most useful force hammer? King Arthur's sword? Hermione Granger's wand? The one ring?
00:30:42 Brandon
Luke Skywalker's lightsaber or Wolverine's claws?
00:30:48 Andrew
I mean, it's it's probably Thor's hammer, but that implies that Thor is present or that other person who's somehow able to use his hammer for reasons unexplained to me.
00:31:01 Brandon
I mean, if you're worthy of the.
00:31:05 Andrew
We're.
00:31:05 Brandon
See one with his hammer.
00:31:05 Andrew
Getting some kind of a douche, but yeah, I'll go through this hammer.
00:31:09 Brandon
I mean, most useful lightsaber.
00:31:12 Andrew
OK, OK.
00:31:14 Andrew
Yeah, you can sliced vegetables with it.
00:31:18 Andrew
Do you usually make a good first impression?
00:31:20 Andrew
Yes, no or sometimes.
00:31:28 Brandon
We go sometimes.
00:31:30 Andrew
Yeah, I was.
00:31:30 Andrew
Going to talk to you about that actually.
00:31:34 Andrew
I would.
00:31:34 Andrew
With yes, I think I presented good first impression. Once he gets to know me, it's evident that I'm an awful person.
00:31:40 Andrew
I'm just kidding.
00:31:40 Andrew
Say yes.
00:31:41 Brandon
Alright, finally, pick one song to be your personal anthem. Toxic.
00:31:47 Brandon
By Britney Spears Blvd. Of broken dreams by Green Day, 15 by Tallul Swift pider by Hestina Hailey.
00:32:00 Brandon
Juiced by Lizzo?
00:32:02 Andrew
Would you like Lizzo?
00:32:04 Brandon
Or sweet child of mine by guns and roses.
00:32:10 Brandon
These are weird choices.
00:32:10 Andrew
But Rizzo's emphasis?
00:32:16 Andrew
Let's see.
00:32:17 Andrew
Green Day people are like now that Green Day was inducted into the.
00:32:20 Andrew
And.
00:32:20 Andrew
Hall of Fame. I feel like that's appropriate like.
00:32:23 Brandon
They were wrong.
00:32:24 Andrew
Rock'n'roll has.
00:32:26 Andrew
It's not just the Eagles now.
00:32:28 Brandon
Yeah, we, they, they induct other people into rock and roll Hall of Fame that aren't rock musicians.
00:32:35 Andrew
Yeah. Well, I never really admitted to liking Green Day.
00:32:37 Andrew
I did like that song in school back when we were in, like, high school.
00:32:40 Andrew
So yeah.
00:32:42 Brandon
It's very downer for an anthem, though.
00:32:48 Andrew
My heart would you choose?
00:32:49 Brandon
I guess I'll do sweet child of mine as if we were playing Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.
00:32:56 Brandon
Alright, no.
00:32:57 Brandon
I was walking into the jungle, but still.
00:32:59 Andrew
I come to the Django.
00:33:00 Brandon
Oh my good gosh.
00:33:04 Andrew
Well, you go first.
00:33:06 Brandon
Let's let's guess what we got based off of what.
00:33:08 Andrew
OK.
00:33:12 Andrew
Use.
00:33:14 Andrew
Xander for.
00:33:16 Brandon
Really.
00:33:19 Brandon
Uh, OK.
00:33:20 Brandon
You're wrong.
00:33:20 Andrew
And who do you think I was?
00:33:23 Brandon
Let's see you.
00:33:24 Brandon
The movies you said morning and you said teacher's.
00:33:30 Brandon
So I'm going to assume you got and you said Green Day, so you got.
00:33:38 Brandon
Ounces.
00:33:38 Andrew
Ted all.
00:33:40 Andrew
Right you go first.
00:33:41 Andrew
You get.
00:33:41 Brandon
OK, I got Giles.
00:33:43 Andrew
Giles, not J Giles but Giles J Giles fan.
00:33:46 Brandon
Yes, and I'm assuming it's because because of the sweet child of mine was my pick for the music.
00:33:52 Andrew
Thank you.
00:33:54 Brandon
You're extremely sensible and rational, which might make you feel like you're the only adult in the room.
00:33:59 Brandon
Yeah, but under that mild mannered.
00:34:02 Brandon
Is a really big.
00:34:03 Brandon
The people who get to know you are also lucky to hear your witty 1 liners.
00:34:06 Brandon
True of which you usually mutter under your breath.
00:34:10 Brandon
Also true.
00:34:12 Andrew
Well, I feel this is meant to be.
00:34:16 Andrew
I was selected to be dawn.
00:34:19 Brandon
No way.
00:34:20 Andrew
Yeah, you are literally the sweetest person in the world and have a smile and lights up a room.
00:34:20 Brandon
Awesome.
00:34:22 Brandon
Donnie.
00:34:25 Andrew
That's not to say you're not also strong incapable parenthesis.
00:34:30 Andrew
May even be a little stubborn close parenthesis.
00:34:33 Andrew
But you approach everything with an innate sense of kindness.
00:34:38 Brandon
Wow, how is?
00:34:39 Brandon
So spot on and yours that.
00:34:41 Andrew
I mean, I have elements of dawn.
00:34:44 Brandon
No, that's that's fair the.
00:34:47 Brandon
The gift that mines during it's Giles like looking up and it's raining.
00:34:51 Brandon
Like God, everything every day here is the same.
00:34:52 Andrew
Now this is.
00:34:55 Andrew
This is not a joke.
00:34:57 Andrew
Huh. Uh.
00:34:57 Andrew
Not trying to be mean.
00:34:59 Andrew
My gift wouldn't load.
00:35:04 Andrew
That is kind of depressing.
00:35:07 Brandon
Yeah, ripped the Max.
00:35:09 Brandon
Go to the next Donny.
00:35:11 Andrew
To the Max.
00:35:16 Andrew
Well.
00:35:19 Brandon
Let us know if you thought that was a adequate memorial for Michelle Trachtenberg.
00:35:24 Andrew
Yeah, I mean, we've gone downhill.
00:35:26 Andrew
Do.
00:35:27 Andrew
Plane crashes dead people like this is.
00:35:29 Andrew
Mm.
00:35:30 Andrew
This is rough.
00:35:31 Brandon
Season 4, baby.
00:35:34 Andrew
Yeah.
00:35:34 Brandon
As we slowly March towards the death of our podcast.
00:35:37 Andrew
Yeah, we're just doing in memoriam of the podcast at the last episode anyway. Yeah.
00:35:45 Brandon
Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, bummer. Michelle Tracer was 39.
00:35:51 Brandon
So we only have four more years.
00:35:56 Brandon
Dark too.
00:35:56 Andrew
Dark. Too dark.
00:35:57 Andrew
Four more years.
00:35:59 Andrew
Four more years.
00:36:02 Brandon
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00:36:06 Brandon
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00:36:08 Brandon
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00:36:14 Brandon
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00:36:17 Andrew
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00:36:21 Brandon
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00:36:24 Brandon
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00:36:34
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00:36:34 Brandon
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00:36:36 Brandon
Next time.
00:36:52 Andrew
To be my memorial next with all that weight loss, the 9 lbs.
00:36:56 Brandon
Die from tuberculosis. You're looking good.