Episode 85 - Tell it Right - Saturday Night

THE PODCAST THAT NEVER QUITS

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Jared's gets his own cosplay section on TellitRight.com (He earned it!)

Daytime Court Shows are sooo fake!

LinkedIn is the #1 social media app that is made for ass kissers

Nick Cage doing shitty Japanese commercial as well as more B-Hole B-roll to cut down debit.

Main topic: Saturday Night
Directed by Jason Reitman 
a look into the 90 minutes leading to the first episode of Saturday Night Live.

Transcript

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Mike
Welcome to Tell it Right Podcast. It is episode 85. Welcome, everybody. How the fuck are you doing, Jared?

00:00:26:06 - 00:00:27:11
Jared
I'm fucking doing.

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Mike
You doing?

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Jared
I'm doing.

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Mike
Well. Wow, that's fucking awesome. Because you want to know something.

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Jared
What's that?

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Mike
We're the podcast that never fucking quits, baby.

00:00:40:21 - 00:00:41:23
Jared
Let me say this before.

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Mike
Yeah, no, that's our. That's our theme.

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Jared
That's our motto.

00:00:45:22 - 00:01:07:04
Mike
That's our motto. Yeah. I mean, we don't quit. That's how we're going to sell ourselves to people. Like, when they're like, Oh, yeah, you got a podcast? How many episodes? Yeah. Be like, Oh, right now we got five. We just don't quit. We have 85 with very low viewership, but we don't quit. We don't fucking quit.

00:01:08:21 - 00:01:12:16
Jared
So we don't we don't know when to quit that too.

00:01:13:22 - 00:01:34:09
Mike
But yeah, dude, what a fucking week, man. It's finally gotten cold. Mm. We're getting closer to Halloween. Yeah, it's coming up. And that's going to be our next podcast here. We're going to be talking about all Halloween videos on that next one. Mm hmm. But before we get this day started, everybody, thank you again for your support. Make sure you're checking out WWE.

00:01:34:13 - 00:01:55:21
Mike
Tell it right. Podcast dot com. Check out our our blogs. Check out our merch. That's also where our announcements will be if we have announcements. But yeah, check out the merch page. We got good shit up there and we'd love it if you purchased it for yourself. We think you look great in it, so there's all that to look forward to.

00:01:55:21 - 00:02:05:03
Mike
But yeah. Anything you got to add here, Jared, how's the 3D printing common as the as the builds as your goal?

00:02:06:19 - 00:02:35:20
Jared
A lot. Piece by piece. Coming together. Mm hmm. But, you know, some things are sometimes they just don't work out. Like, I made a big sword, and I want it to be like you know, a big sword. So, yeah, I didn't want it to be a chair, but I wanted it to be wide. So it looks, you know, the part, you know, like a CONAN the Barbarian.

00:02:35:20 - 00:03:01:18
Jared
So I was like, I'm going to make this thing like four inches wide, like the blade, so size everything up. And I went off the blade and then I realized that after I started printing the blade, that I'll look fine, but then realized that the bottom half were like the hand guard and, and the actual handle was, was ginormous and yeah.

00:03:02:02 - 00:03:17:03
Jared
So it ended up being like five feet tall. Oh, God. But, you know, there's hits and misses. I mean, it's still going to look cool, but it's not something that I'm gonna, like, carry around with me in a Comic-Con.

00:03:17:18 - 00:03:29:03
Mike
You know what? Actually we'll post that on WW that tell it right podcast dot com on the merch page. Jared We'll talk about pricing, but yeah, that's going to be up there. If you guys want that.

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Jared
You want to buy a big.

00:03:30:00 - 00:03:45:14
Mike
If you guys need a five foot boat, I think we're going to have to put the if it's a five foot story, we're going to have to do something about shipping route. People are going to have to come to the together on that one. I don't know. We're going to need a freight truck to get that freight.

00:03:45:14 - 00:03:51:20
Jared
It's sort of he doesn't wear a ton or anything but you know, you get an oversize package costs.

00:03:52:08 - 00:03:53:00
Mike
Oh, yeah.

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Jared
It's like shipping a weed whacker, Bucky added.

00:03:57:02 - 00:04:00:13
Mike
Actually called string trimmers. But I'm not a believer in and I.

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Jared
I don't believe it. I don't believe it really. Yeah. Shit.

00:04:06:14 - 00:04:14:07
Mike
Fuck that. I believe it. That buy it. Wow, that's great. Jared.

00:04:14:13 - 00:04:14:21
Jared
Yeah.

00:04:15:22 - 00:04:36:08
Mike
Hopefully. Hopefully we'll start seeing some more of your 3D prints here. We'll be sharing those. Well, yeah, yeah, we should. We'll start sharing that stuff on Tell It Right podcast here in the coming future. So it'd be a good spot so that, that give Jared his own spot. Jared Yeah.

00:04:36:14 - 00:04:38:22
Jared
Play yeah. Because play corner.

00:04:39:15 - 00:04:58:17
Mike
Yeah, exactly. Is definitely something we can add up there. But yeah, let's get this show started. Jared Fucking we got some Tic Tacs. They were just going to jump right into today. Mm hmm. These are. These are some good ones. I got three, three good ones here.

00:04:58:21 - 00:04:59:08
Jared
Let's see it.

00:04:59:18 - 00:05:17:02
Mike
So I'm going to start with this first one. I know it says part four, but I don't think you really need to see the other parts. This is fucking ridiculous. So this is going to be one of those like, you know, those daytime judge shows, you know, where people go and sue each other for money's. But it's not even a real court.

00:05:17:02 - 00:05:29:10
Mike
It's just they call that banana court or something like that. Yeah, I just lost my camera. Good thing we didn't really get anywhere. He see me? Jared, my still here? Yeah. Okay.

00:05:29:11 - 00:05:31:11
Jared
Yeah. You're looking under you.

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Mike
Yeah, I know. The camera went out. I don't know. It's. We're done with that camera. So it's not going to be HD Mike tonight. It's going to be shitty standard Mike.

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Jared
Whatever.

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Mike
Shitty standard Mike at your service. But yeah, so it's just one of those daytime court shows that are just bullshit. So, but I thought this was fucking hilarious.

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Jared
Because it's fake as fuck, let's say.

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Tik Tok
Look what he did to me, Your Honor. Yes, ma'am. I can't take my eyes off him. He did this to me. It's his. I did not intentionally do anything to you. He. I did what you asked me to do part. He's the star. He's on this phone for over 26 years. Mr. King, you are still unwilling to take responsibility for this.

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Tik Tok
Look at her head, Your Honor. You did this to me, Your Honor. My right. Just a second. May I speak, Your Honor, you know this is your fault, and you caused me to look like I didn't do this on purpose. I went to help pay for him. You do my correct, Your Honor. Your Honor. And this is what I come in.

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Tik Tok
Your Honor. Can I speak, please? Yes, you may. I want to know why. Oh, I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you the bottom line of it. As the time one of my shampoo stylist went up to Ms.. Jackson that was on her phone and she said, It's time to rent your house. I'm on the phone.

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Tik Tok
I'll be with you in just a minute. Okay. She stood there for a couple of seconds, looked at me, no attention, and she went to her again and said, Ms.. Jackson's now so she wouldn't get off the phone. I walk over to her. Yeah, right. And she said, Let's send it now. She goes, puts her hand in my face.

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Tik Tok
You're into I don't know, ma'am. I went to the bank and I don't even go to the bathroom. So she runs to the back room. I went to the bathroom. Ms.. Jackson behind me. Tell me what's going on. I mean, if you're interfering with the process, it makes it very hard to find in your favor. He never mentioned anything about washing anything out it if he was.

00:07:25:13 - 00:07:46:21
Mike
So anyways, they don't come to a judgment at the end of this. But so just so everybody knows where you were just listen to was again one of those daytime court shows. This chick has like a melted head. She has no hair on top and she's got like some gashes and then like little strands of hair, like a mullet almost, but not like a formal.

00:07:46:21 - 00:08:13:17
Mike
It it's clearly like a bald cap. Yeah. I mean, like, into, like it looks like for what? Apparently her hair got burned off or something from when she was at a stylist getting like shampooed or her hair bleached or something. Or did you know, Blake, you look at her head, it looks too smooth to be damaged. You know, it would be irritated.

00:08:13:17 - 00:08:27:23
Mike
It would be red all over the place. They got those gashes in there. It looks pretty fucking, you know, at first you kind of like, oh, what the fuck happened? But then like, yeah, you really focus on this and it's, it's a fucking bald cap.

00:08:27:23 - 00:08:30:02
Jared
Well, this is the first thing, though.

00:08:30:19 - 00:08:36:14
Mike
Well, right. That's what I was going to get into. I think that what you're about to say. Yeah.

00:08:36:14 - 00:08:42:12
Jared
So by the time this would have actually got the court, her hair would have been growing back.

00:08:43:04 - 00:08:44:13
Mike
Oh, probably. You.

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Jared
You would not argue. It's not like this happened yesterday. And you get to go to court the next day over an issue and you're still bloody and everything on your head. Now, I'm sorry. You know how long it takes for anything to even get into a courtroom, even on a TV courtroom.

00:09:01:19 - 00:09:02:08
Mike
But you know.

00:09:02:09 - 00:09:03:00
Jared
It. You know.

00:09:03:00 - 00:09:07:04
Mike
What? These TV parties are. All right. That's what I thought. Oh.

00:09:07:16 - 00:09:08:01
Jared
Shit.

00:09:08:05 - 00:09:20:02
Mike
No, no, no. It really is. I thought you I thought that's what you're going to get at what these are. They're just purely entertain it. They're not people that are actually trying to settle their fucking claims.

00:09:20:16 - 00:09:22:18
Jared
Maybe there is 100% fake.

00:09:23:12 - 00:09:46:06
Mike
Right? Yeah, it is 100%. They're sorry. I can't think of the comedian's name. He was great. He used to do these things where you go on like Twitter and he'd make a fake account or Facebook of like some corporation, and then he would just like be like the rudest person representing them and then, like, people would from that company would be like, we don't know who you are or something.

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Mike
Or he'd pretend to be like he'd pretend to be journalists trying to get a story and like somebody who's like in the spotlight for like sexual harassment or something. And they're like, we have no comment to that, you know, stuff like that.

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Jared
Yeah.

00:10:01:18 - 00:10:28:11
Mike
But he, he and his friends, when they were, you know, just getting into the acting comedian business, that's what they would do. They would go on this show, these shows, and they come up with these fake claims, and then they'd split the cash and whatnot. Whoever won. Yeah, they either way, it was a win win for them. It was just like, all right, we go on and then they're going to pay up to like $10,000 or some shit like that or five grand or whatever.

00:10:28:11 - 00:10:29:01
Mike
We'll split it.

00:10:29:19 - 00:10:30:09
Jared
So yeah.

00:10:30:20 - 00:10:48:09
Mike
No, I see. I think it's funny. I really want to see a statistic of how many people actually think this is real. Like it? Like like Springer too. Like they have to be actors. It's just like, yeah, I know humans are animals, but.

00:10:50:05 - 00:11:05:20
Jared
Yeah, but think of the people that are watching this. I mean, this is daytime TV. Yeah, it's I mean, it's just a bunch of old people and. Yeah. And stay at home people. So like, you're talking old people.

00:11:05:20 - 00:11:08:10
Mike
Like the king and Queen of England. They're stay at home people.

00:11:09:00 - 00:11:20:01
Jared
Yeah. Yeah. When you think of all the people, though, I mean, think of how easily they get tricked. I mean, people scam them all the time, like, so what's different? Fucking just scaring people.

00:11:20:01 - 00:11:26:06
Mike
Fucking Indians love doing that. Not the Native Americans. The Indian audience with that.

00:11:27:16 - 00:11:29:18
Jared
Yeah.

00:11:29:18 - 00:11:53:00
Mike
All right. So this next one I'm going to show, I think this is great comedy right here, but it's about LinkedIn and what it would be if it was if LinkedIn was live action. Okay, so let's get into it. So we've got a bunch of all I'm opposite. So we've got a bunch of guys sitting around a table out of a restaurant or a bar.

00:11:53:00 - 00:11:55:23
Mike
They're all drinking beer, all right. And so this guy is about the time.

00:11:57:08 - 00:11:59:18
Jared
I'm excited to announce I finish my beer.

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Tik Tok
Congratulations. Thumbs up. Keep up the good work I'm embarking on a new chapter. I will be following the boys around the field. I endorse this for fantastic. Looking forward to partnering again for another. That's big new valuable insights things are coming beers and grab a beer and excited to connect it is with great pride that after 30 years with my wife Olivia, are we embarking on a fresh new adventure hashtag driving change.

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Tik Tok
I'm confident you'll thrive in a free man. You can collaborate with my wife. I'm excited to announce a new role with Olivia. Well, I am also backing Giorgio. Is this. I do not endorse one year old, ask me to announce a monumental milestone. That's why he works. I've just. Fantastic. That's the point. You get. You were lucky.

00:12:56:20 - 00:13:06:10
Tik Tok
He got a job, he got a divorce. And I'm pretty sure that I shot his parents to. We cut them off. I endorse this.

00:13:06:10 - 00:13:30:09
Mike
That's exactly what LinkedIn in real life would be like. That's how ridiculous that fucking platform is. That's all I. But would you agree, though? I mean, like every time you check on LinkedIn, like it's the fakest fucking thing ever. All these people sharing this stuff in these stupid shit, like, oh I and like they're saying like I endorse this or like I'm very political.

00:13:30:16 - 00:13:50:22
Mike
Yeah, I'm proud to pronounce that our company is doing that. It's like it's a different world. I don't know what it is. It's like if I'm a real person, I see right through that shit and it's like, I don't want to anything to do with you. I don't really think that's cool. I'm it doesn't really make me think like you're the greatest company ever or you're part of the greatest company ever.

00:13:51:13 - 00:14:29:06
Mike
But like, yeah, I don't know, it's just, it's LinkedIn is so fake and it's so I guess it's not dumb because people get jobs through it, but like, it's just like the idea it was literally Facebook for the professional world. Yeah. And then then they don't add the I mean, arguably, you could say it's Facebook from when it started, you know, because Facebook started adding all the features, the games and all that stupid other shit, you know, and like this is just like, there's like an etiquette to LinkedIn.

00:14:29:07 - 00:14:49:12
Mike
It's like, you know, like, what if I got on LinkedIn and I was just like, you know, just like some of the shit we say, like, what if I'm out there saying Kurt being the greens, you know, like doing LinkedIn would just like cancel my account or something. You're like, No, you don't play like that. That's not that's not what we do here.

00:14:49:12 - 00:14:50:05
Mike
We're LinkedIn.

00:14:50:15 - 00:15:08:13
Jared
I think it's just a platform for people to kiss each other's ass. I tried to get a job at that job because they think this if you clap enough for the same business that they're going to be like, This guy likes us on LinkedIn, I think we should hire him. It is the.

00:15:08:13 - 00:15:36:14
Mike
Biggest thing ever, honestly. It, it really is. I, I just like, you know, they're telling us in college, like, you know, this thing might be the future. So I got into it, I was like, All right, you know, I made an account and I'll be honest, I haven't really updated that accounts since college 2012, you know what I mean?

00:15:36:22 - 00:16:08:05
Mike
So over like ten years, I like I'm pretty sure the picture of me on there is the same. So it's just, it's a weird, creepy picture of me looking like a Norman Bates and then yeah, I mean, like, I update the work experience, but like, like, I'll do it like eight months after being at a job. I'll be like, Oh yeah, I guess I could go update the LinkedIn, the show, all the past people that I work with, what I'm doing now, you know, like that's, that's another thing.

00:16:08:05 - 00:16:13:16
Mike
I feel like it's another thing to like show people like you've moved on from them, you know?

00:16:13:20 - 00:16:14:05
Jared
Yeah.

00:16:14:11 - 00:16:30:06
Mike
But I don't know about your success. Like, I think people have this psychology of that, but I think then on the other side, like people like honestly still don't care. It's like, oh, cool, you're, you're doing better. You couldn't cut it here still, but you're doing better somewhere else.

00:16:30:16 - 00:16:34:18
Jared
Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

00:16:34:18 - 00:16:54:04
Mike
So, yeah, no, I. Yeah, I think that was pretty accurate. Luckily they weren't New Zealand guys because I swear to God I would have fucking lost you there. Thank God they were Australians. Jesus Christ, they were fucking New Zealand. Yeah, I know. I like. I'm glad that this all worked out for us here today.

00:16:55:00 - 00:16:55:10
Jared
So.

00:16:56:09 - 00:17:22:14
Mike
All right, next one. So next one's going to be interesting. This one is going to be a Nicolas Cage commercial. You now this was never aired in the US and I think this is funny, right? Well, I think this is funny because they talked about this in the show Entourage. So Vinnie Chase needed money. I mean, he was kind of between movies and he wasn't getting too much work.

00:17:22:14 - 00:17:40:12
Mike
I think this is like third season or something like that. So he had to go do a fucking like energy drink commercial and he's like, No, I don't do commercials. I'm a fucking movie star. And they're like, Dude, Vinnie, we promise you'll never see this in the U.S. This is going to be overseas and they're going to love it over there.

00:17:40:12 - 00:17:54:17
Mike
And so, yeah, ends up doing it. And that's literally what this is. This is Nicolas Cage just getting a quick payday. He probably filmed it here in the States and it got aired in in Tokyo, Japan.

00:17:56:20 - 00:17:59:07
Tik Tok 
Is to have your autograph. All right.

00:17:59:21 - 00:18:25:08
Tik Tok
So you're twins now. Where is Chaplin's trip? He's been to Kawasaki.

00:18:25:08 - 00:18:27:23
Mike
All right. So we figure that.

00:18:29:10 - 00:18:39:09
Jared
That was just the weirdest thing. I mean, it's should suspect with him that it's the weirdest thing. But yeah, that was just stupid. Like, like, what was it for?

00:18:40:04 - 00:18:58:21
Mike
S.O. Some Cinco, Pete, Nico. Yeah, we'll have to look this up here. Cinco, Japanese Company and one of three major pachinko machine. It's a machine manufacturer.

00:18:58:21 - 00:18:59:18
Jared
What's that?

00:19:01:08 - 00:19:01:16
Mike
What.

00:19:02:17 - 00:19:04:08
Jared
What does that have to do with them? Anything.

00:19:04:23 - 00:19:10:03
Mike
They probably they're probably advertising in Japan.

00:19:10:03 - 00:19:15:14
Jared
Yeah, but the commercial had nothing to do with what that pachinko machine is.

00:19:16:18 - 00:19:17:04
Mike
I mean.

00:19:17:12 - 00:19:20:23
Jared
It's like, all right, it's like a gambling machine.

00:19:21:22 - 00:19:24:07
Mike
Yeah. Well, all right, let's watch it again. Hold on.

00:19:25:21 - 00:19:32:15
Tik Tok
We have your autograph. All right. So you're twins? No. Whereas triplets.

00:19:33:22 - 00:19:39:09
Mike
All right. Triplets. So if it's a gaming machine jackpot. Right? We have.

00:19:40:03 - 00:19:47:23
Tik Tok
Let's tease.

00:19:47:23 - 00:20:20:09
Mike
So you just won the jackpot sequence, and you're seeing everything in threes, so I agree. I agree with you. Like it's made no sense. But we also don't know what Cinco is it? We just learned what all this was just now. Right? So I would imagine in Japan they got this right. Like they know what Cinco is. And like since they know what that is, they know it's related to gaming machines.

00:20:20:09 - 00:20:43:23
Mike
And so, I mean, like, yeah, as an American, you watch this. It's like a really weird commercial because it's like Nicolas Cage literally did every awkward, fucking weird thing that he's done in every like throughout all of his movies, just all mashed up into this one commercial. Like, literally he took one thing from every movie he did and did it all in like a fucking split second right there.

00:20:43:23 - 00:21:11:23
Mike
But like, yeah, it was after we watched that again once I saw the, like the weight lady's head start lining up like. Mm. Like a what do you call a slot machine. And then also you start seeing these people's in threes, they're holding watermelons and you know, all that kind of shit. So no, I mean as us as Americans to see this for the first time like we just did.

00:21:12:08 - 00:21:25:23
Mike
Yeah, we should be completely fucking lost. We definitely needed to do this research just now. But I. I guess that's what it is. That's what it is. Fucking Nicolas.

00:21:25:23 - 00:21:26:18
Jared
Cage.

00:21:27:12 - 00:21:31:23
Mike
Is supporting gambling in Japan. So.

00:21:32:22 - 00:21:34:10
Jared
But like the movie.

00:21:34:18 - 00:21:56:11
Mike
It was weird in like literally like the corny things he was doing, like the bridge and all that shit. Like, I was just like, why? But like, yeah, do you. That's when you think about it. Like, it's just weird, like how us in America like that weird shit. Like, does it really make us laugh? Makes some people laugh.

00:21:56:11 - 00:22:24:16
Mike
Maybe you need more image. Not even immature people. I don't know. Like it feels like that's like a really, like high, right? Not dry humor, but. Oh, clean. A really clean, humorous thing to do. But it's like I feel like people got off on that in like the forties or the thirties, you know, sort of thirties, forties, era.

00:22:24:16 - 00:22:35:23
Mike
And then like our culture, what we think of as comedy and stuff has really changed from that weird kind of baby stuff, you know what I mean?

00:22:36:07 - 00:22:36:17
Jared
Yeah.

00:22:37:06 - 00:23:00:04
Mike
Like other cultures still, like, because they're like behind us, you know? So there's still like, finding it interesting and it's just like, it's just weird that, like, humans across the world aren't on the same. Not that like any humans are on the same page. Like societies and cultures are just way fucking different. It's crazy, right? Like, well.

00:23:00:23 - 00:23:29:15
Jared
Look, what's what I think of when you say that. Think of this or think of like if you're, you know, doomscrolling, yeah, tick tock or whatever and all of a sudden it comes up to like a, like either a Chinese or Japanese like tick tock thing or like a Russian one. Yeah. Where it's like some girl, you know, Oh, I'm going to go for this guy because he holds the door open for me or something like that.

00:23:29:15 - 00:23:54:02
Jared
Like the way that the culture is like, it's hard to explain what I'm getting at, but it'll be like, let's say there's like a Russian chick with her boyfriend and they're walking together and this and that and like they come to a puddle and the guy, like, there's no speaking in it, but the guy is just like, you know, and like some other dude walks up and like, puts his jacket down on the puddle that she walks over it and then leaves with that guy.

00:23:54:12 - 00:24:23:14
Jared
You know, like, that type of shit is just like, I'll watch and I'll be like, What the fuck does this have to do with anything? And then you realize that it's a completely different country and they're like moral standards and different shit like that just is completely different. Like, yeah, if I did that, like, if, if, if I was walking down the street, you know, with a woman and then like some dude put his jacket down for her to walk across a puddle, and then she left me for him.

00:24:24:09 - 00:24:29:15
Jared
Like, they're both getting punched, but.

00:24:29:15 - 00:24:48:04
Mike
Jesus Christ, dude, I guess it's a good point. So, yeah, dude, that's what people do for money, man. So they'll do at least tic tac rand. Or can tic tac. All right.

00:24:48:10 - 00:25:12:13
Jared
Well, it's I mean, that's funny, though, because I mean, you see Nic Cage doing that. And yeah, like I've always thought of that, too, like what you just said, where you'll be sitting there and you'll like see a commercial pop up and be like, is this person advertising that? Oh yeah. Have to do with anything. Like the guy from the boys, Anthony Star, right?

00:25:13:15 - 00:25:14:14
Jared
Is Homelander.

00:25:14:21 - 00:25:15:07
Mike
Mm hmm.

00:25:15:17 - 00:25:29:13
Jared
I've seen him on a bunch of, like, gaming, like phone gaming commercials, and then I've seen the dude from community that you. Joel, the main guy, Joel.

00:25:29:20 - 00:25:30:10
Mike
Joel McHale.

00:25:31:03 - 00:25:32:17
Jared
Yeah, he's been on some of them.

00:25:33:02 - 00:25:35:06
Mike
I haven't seen that actually. It's interesting.

00:25:35:06 - 00:25:53:02
Jared
Yeah. Look it up. There's Joel McHale. But it's like you'll see, like a really high end actor, though. Like, I mean, beyond perfume commercials, because for some reason that's like not above them to do a like a cologne or perfume, like, you know, Johnny Depp doing that.

00:25:53:02 - 00:25:53:12
Mike
Yeah.

00:25:53:18 - 00:26:11:05
Jared
You know, actually, like high end A-list actors doing those. But I mean, you'll see something from like Pringles or, you know, it's like, man, are you really that hard up for work right now? Like you're advertising like Frito-Lay shirts or, you know, like a monster or something like that.

00:26:11:20 - 00:26:15:06
Mike
Oh, yeah. Slevin who? A the MGM.

00:26:15:06 - 00:26:24:03
Jared
Yeah. God. But yet Nic Cage, I mean, he's been hard up for money for a long time now.

00:26:24:16 - 00:26:35:13
Mike
Is he heart up for money. I don't think he's heard of for money. I think he just. All right so I'll take get back to well, if we get back to megalopolis right.

00:26:36:09 - 00:26:38:06
Jared
It was the first reading you ever, right?

00:26:38:06 - 00:27:02:21
Mike
It was a pretty bad movie. I mean, it's all right, but it's pretty bad. And yeah, it's really coming out. It's like I think they just made $10 million and it's been out for like three weeks now. Yeah, you're like, nationwide. I don't know. No, no, not nationwide. Globally, it may time glow. Yeah. And like the movie probably cost it.

00:27:02:21 - 00:27:32:02
Mike
I got to look, I mean, I don't really care right now, but I know like there's not a profit there. A not a big profit, but yeah, I mean, like, his uncle kind of like, had a weird side to this movie. Like, they have a weird art side to him. Like, you know, yes, they produce like Francis Ford Coppola produced some very good movies, but this was definitely his like worse, you know?

00:27:32:02 - 00:27:56:07
Mike
I mean, I was trying to be hopeful with it and kind of compare it to like some of the weird things that were done in Dracula. But at the same time, like, Dracula was just, was way better. But like Nicolas Cage, for instance, he was an A-list actor. I mean, he did a lot of the A-list movies. But then I thought I read an article that his real passion is for like independent type movies.

00:27:56:07 - 00:28:32:12
Mike
So, like, he he doesn't really, I guess, like in his eyes, it's just like he's all about the art and he just wants to do the art. But like, you know what? I don't know. I haven't really I feel like we may have talked about that he had financial issues, but I can't remember if he really actually did or if it was just like he actually just loves art films and he doesn't really care about mainstream Hollywood and will do what he likes or what he thinks is worth it, even if it's going to be bad, you know, I don't know.

00:28:32:17 - 00:28:33:18
Mike
I mean, it's rare.

00:28:33:20 - 00:28:47:14
Jared
Yeah. Okay. They are the direct to video, so Nic Nic Cage took on many low budget direct to video movies in recent years to help pay off his debts.

00:28:47:15 - 00:28:49:08
Mike
Okay. So maybe he wasn't paying.

00:28:49:18 - 00:29:06:19
Jared
Nine and $2,009 that he owes the IRS $14 million and millions more to other creditors, hopefully $20,000 a month to keep his mother out of a mental, mental institution.

00:29:06:19 - 00:29:20:08
Mike
Well, if he was doing it to keep his mother out of a mental institution, that's more forum. You know what I mean? Like, at least it's not him like being like a cokehead or, you know, turning into Britney Spears and, like, shaved head and 20.

00:29:20:08 - 00:29:22:03
Jared
Thousand dollars a month.

00:29:23:13 - 00:29:26:09
Mike
Yeah, maybe he was going a little over-the-top for his mother there.

00:29:26:12 - 00:29:30:22
Jared
Plus, he had millions in debt to other creditors. So, I mean, that means he was.

00:29:32:04 - 00:29:53:03
Mike
You know, in it. That's starting to hit me right now, actually, since I brought up the entourage before I'm starting to realize that maybe a lot of the stories of entourage are I'm not saying Entourage is about Nicolas Cage, because the truth of the matter is Entourage, everybody used to think it was just about Mark Wahlberg because he produced it.

00:29:53:22 - 00:30:10:02
Mike
It's about everybody in Hollywood. It's all just jammed into what's his face. Vincent Chase. And Vincent Chase is the representation of every fucking Hollywood actor from God knows. Yeah. What they.

00:30:10:02 - 00:30:10:16
Jared
Took. Yeah.

00:30:10:20 - 00:30:33:14
Mike
But like, yeah, there's passwords. Wahlberg There's parts where it's fucking Johnny Depp. There's parts where we're not. I'm thinking it's Nicolas Cage, you know? And I'm thinking in that commercial that we just talked about might have happened right at the same time. And they they're like, Oh, do you let's write a story about this, you know? And then that's what came out in season three or two or whatever.

00:30:34:15 - 00:30:57:19
Jared
So yeah, I mean, it says you're into the 210, so 2010 to 2020. He starred in 29 Direct, direct to video movies, starred in 46 movies, sometimes filming up to four a year.

00:30:59:12 - 00:31:02:08
Mike
That's that's pretty cool, though. I mean, that's hard.

00:31:02:14 - 00:31:03:15
Jared
That's a lot of work.

00:31:03:19 - 00:31:33:10
Mike
Yeah, you're right. You know, I mean, like, it really just like, you know, we see some of these actors and, you know, they don't work that hard, you know, like I, I what's his face? Leo? Leo DiCaprio. Like, he gets the big movies. They pay him the big money. I mean, like, does he really have to do anything like Nicolas Cage shows the world that, like, there's still hardworking actors out there, you know?

00:31:33:20 - 00:31:58:13
Mike
Yeah, he's shown that he wasn't A-list actor. And I guess now that I just learned he's fucked up, but he continues to do it and he continues to boss, they're doing it. I mean, we probably haven't seen a good majority like do. We could probably spend a whole month of podcasts talking about his movies, why we.

00:31:58:13 - 00:32:04:13
Jared
Should have a Nicolas Cage movie review once a month.

00:32:04:17 - 00:32:08:00
Mike
Yeah, we should. There's, there's like there's a ton of them.

00:32:08:15 - 00:32:09:14
Jared
Have a segment.

00:32:09:22 - 00:32:29:12
Mike
And I would throw a huge party once we get to the last one, like, you know what I mean? Like I would like if you fuckers share this, you get a huge community and you guys send a dollar to Patron that I don't have set up yet. We could have a huge fucking party. Nice. Nicolas Cage. Yeah.

00:32:29:21 - 00:32:31:21
Jared
Just like a Nicolas Cage party.

00:32:32:05 - 00:32:56:11
Mike
Get like a bunch of. What do you call it? Who's that fucking artist that had, like, you know, that show, like, one face, but, like, it'd be like a cop, like, four copies of it in, like, they'd just be different colors. What was that artist? His name was like in the sixties? Fucking what? What's his face sucked him off.

00:32:56:16 - 00:33:06:01
Jared
Lou Reed for the Campbell Soup guy. Yeah, like. All right.

00:33:06:12 - 00:33:25:17
Mike
Let's let's ask Google who did Lou Reed suck? Who did Lou Reed hang out with that was an artist. Yeah, cause, like, they're so, like, into, like, Andy Warhol.

00:33:25:17 - 00:33:28:00
Jared
That's who doesn't at the moment.

00:33:28:02 - 00:33:33:00
Mike
Yeah. We're just gonna get a bunch of Warhol pictures of fucking Nicolas.

00:33:33:00 - 00:33:33:15
Jared
Cage.

00:33:34:08 - 00:33:39:05
Mike
And have this huge party happy. So awesome. But wasn't there.

00:33:39:05 - 00:33:48:14
Jared
Reddit? This is a Reddit post of the 97 Nick Cage movies ranked dude.

00:33:48:19 - 00:34:06:11
Mike
That's like two years. No, seriously, if we just decided to make this podcast just from now on, a review of like of a Nick Cage movie every week that is two years of podcasting right there.

00:34:06:11 - 00:34:07:10
Jared
I think it's ready.

00:34:07:14 - 00:34:32:12
Mike
To get to the end. It is two years because it's about 52 episodes. If we actually do this every week, we have a summer break. So we don't do this 52 times a year. But if we did and we did Nicolas Cage, that would be at least two into three years, just covering Nicolas Cage. That's what we should have did from the start.

00:34:32:15 - 00:34:41:01
Mike
We should have just been a fucking Nicolas Cage fucking podcast at third. Tell it right. Nic Cage But hey, you.

00:34:41:01 - 00:34:44:10
Jared
Said you're thinking, what do you think the number one is?

00:34:44:20 - 00:34:46:14
Mike
Nic Cage Movie?

00:34:46:14 - 00:34:47:03
Jared
Yes.

00:34:47:14 - 00:34:48:05
Mike
Oh, he's wonderful.

00:34:48:11 - 00:34:48:13
Jared
Of.

00:34:48:13 - 00:34:49:13
Mike
Course. No.

00:34:50:09 - 00:34:51:09
Jared
That's pretty high. Yeah.

00:34:51:14 - 00:34:56:07
Mike
Kind of error is one but Face-Off I feel like has has.

00:34:58:05 - 00:34:59:11
Jared
The at least.

00:34:59:20 - 00:35:00:08
Mike
Yeah.

00:35:01:04 - 00:35:03:01
Jared
Face off as number one here.

00:35:03:01 - 00:35:10:10
Mike
It's got to be two right. No don't tell me it's stuff fucking. Oh now you're going to tell me it's the motorcycle movie.

00:35:10:11 - 00:35:13:18
Jared
No, no, it's, it's pig. Pig.

00:35:15:06 - 00:35:17:10
Mike
Yeah, I'll have to see that one.

00:35:18:03 - 00:35:20:11
Jared
That's on Hulu so you can see that one.

00:35:20:14 - 00:35:24:15
Mike
Okay. This you say you saw a Nic Cage movie recently.

00:35:25:07 - 00:35:35:13
Jared
I did. In Like it. It was off. So here's the what was it called? What was it called? Long, long legs.

00:35:35:21 - 00:35:38:05
Mike
Long legs. Okay.

00:35:38:05 - 00:35:50:14
Jared
So the movie, if I could sum it up, it's it's a reworked version of Silence of the Lambs. Like that's what they were going for.

00:35:50:16 - 00:35:52:21
Mike
Is it a comedy movie now.

00:35:53:05 - 00:36:00:17
Jared
Huh? Guys? But here's the thing. Like, this is what bothers me. So it came out July of this year.

00:36:01:01 - 00:36:01:14
Mike
Yeah.

00:36:03:14 - 00:36:20:00
Jared
And people were like, Oh, this is the best horror movie of the year. It's so scary. And this and that and blah, blah, blah. There's not another one. There's nothing scary about this movie. It was just dumb. Like, if you think this is a scary movie, you're you're not smart.

00:36:20:10 - 00:36:27:01
Mike
I'm scared of Mickey or Mark. Yeah. Monroe. Here she looks fucking psycho.

00:36:28:01 - 00:36:54:18
Jared
She wasn't bad, but, I mean, the scariest part of this is that so Nick Cage's part in this movie is not really it. So think of think of Silence of the Lambs. Buffalo Bill. Yeah, and Silence of the Lambs. There's that in the movie. A whole bunch right here is right. And then at the very end is in there.

00:36:55:00 - 00:37:24:16
Jared
This is exactly what it was, because Nic Cage was the killer. There's no they they lay that out from the get go, like there's no nothing. You know, I'm not revealing anything. And he's here and they're in the movie. And then at the end, he's more prevalent as they're catching him and shit. But he's so he's this, like, super pale white guy.

00:37:25:12 - 00:37:30:04
Jared
Yeah. He's got, like, prosthetic facial things on him.

00:37:30:04 - 00:37:37:15
Mike
He's trying to find pictures of him in this movie. Like, I just see this Makita Monroe here.

00:37:37:15 - 00:37:43:03
Jared
Watch, like, look up Nick Cage long legs. Like it's gotten more photos.

00:37:43:10 - 00:38:09:17
Mike
These are videos. Let's go photos. There's 143. There should definitely be one of them. Don't show me red carpet should either looks like the movie is about is like it's like this Makita person got the she's getting like who the fuck is Nicolas Cage what the fuck? This chick is hot. This does not look like the scene, lady.

00:38:10:23 - 00:38:16:19
Mike
Maybe I just don't know who these actors are. Yeah, I'm not sure.

00:38:18:00 - 00:38:21:13
Jared
I'm going to share this with you guys. Look.

00:38:22:21 - 00:38:25:20
Mike
Yeah. Let's see what you got.

00:38:25:20 - 00:38:26:10
Jared
Which one? It.

00:38:27:17 - 00:38:32:10
Mike
It's the arrow up with the box around it that.

00:38:32:17 - 00:38:37:00
Jared
Oh, there he is. It's, it's just look like.

00:38:37:02 - 00:38:40:19
Mike
He doesn't even look like he looks like something I've just recently seen here.

00:38:41:14 - 00:38:46:00
Jared
And I know he's just got like, I don't know this is, you know, what he looks like in the whole movie.

00:38:46:00 - 00:38:47:17
Mike
Oh, my God, I'm going to find this actor.

00:38:47:20 - 00:38:50:21
Jared
It looks like Rocky Denis from Elephant Man.

00:38:51:06 - 00:39:25:23
Mike
Yeah, he does kind of look like that. Oh, line. There's this British actor. When they put hair on him, that's exactly what he looks like. He's normally bald. I think he's actually like this cancer patient, to be honest. He just keeps going through cancer and stuff. But he's like this comedian. I'm trying to find him. I don't know his name off the top of my head, trying to think what other movies he was in.

00:39:25:23 - 00:39:37:07
Mike
He played in this movie a futile and stupid gesture and yet anyways, it's not important. But anyways go on with.

00:39:37:16 - 00:40:10:06
Jared
So yeah. Yeah. Oh I me a so anyway so the movie is, you know, an FBI agent that's somewhat clairvoyant. Yeah. That she can kind of see things happening or, you know, kind of he goes after this ends up, you know, coming back to, you know, it was somebody close and her family was part of this like, killing ring.

00:40:10:18 - 00:40:40:21
Jared
But he was the the Nick Cage's person was like the head of it. And he's building these dolls and shit. And nothing is cohesive. It's not scary at all. It could have been actually really good. The cinematography wasn't bad. It was like spooky type cinematography, but it tried to follow the lines Too much of Silence of the Lambs, and it just never pulled it off.

00:40:42:16 - 00:41:10:07
Jared
And it was just really a bad movie. Like, there's nothing else I can say about that. So yeah, what pissed me off the most is that they went and said that this is like the scariest movie and this and that and it's like they're giving it like 85% of rotten tomatoes and like, if you look at the audience or it's like, not that good.

00:41:11:18 - 00:41:35:10
Jared
Yeah. Like that's one thing that I've been noticing a lot lately, especially with like scoring that the critics scores and the fan scores are usually way different. And no matter what, I feel like they're the exact opposite of what they are like. The audience scores will be really good and you go and see the movie and it's actually good.

00:41:35:10 - 00:42:00:11
Jared
It's a if, it's the if, it's the what do you call it? The critics scores are high and the audience scores are low. And it sucks. If both scores are low, then then it really sucks. But you know, like you're megalopolis movie. Yeah, I like I wanted I actually want to see it to see how terrible it is.

00:42:00:19 - 00:42:12:04
Jared
But somebody saved it for saving. Yeah. Somebody described that movie as, like, a never ending perfume commercial.

00:42:13:09 - 00:42:14:19
Mike
Right? It was.

00:42:14:19 - 00:42:15:06
Jared
Just.

00:42:18:00 - 00:42:38:14
Mike
It was too mad they were trying to make it magical. Like, that's that's like what I could get out of it. It was like, they're trying to make it like this. I don't know, dude. I it it felt like you're watching a play like that. Like it felt like you're watching a Shakespearean play. You know? Yeah, but just in a live action movie.

00:42:39:09 - 00:43:10:13
Mike
And the guy that I was talking about that would look like Nicolas Cage here. I'm going to pull him up here real quick if it will fucking let me, uh. Sorry. There you go. It's Matt. Lucas. Yeah, here he is. Cher. Bitch. Sorry. I don't know why the computer is taking over to do something fucking ever so simple.

00:43:10:13 - 00:43:39:09
Mike
Anyways, his name's Matt Lucas. This bald British guy. Comedian, writer, actor, ugly teeth. Because I'm looking at a picture of him right now. Yeah, I'm trying to think he played. He plays in all kinds of stuff. He's more like a bureau person, realistically, but this guy looks so sickly. All right, I think we got it. Yeah. Here we go.

00:43:39:20 - 00:43:44:05
Mike
This guy right here, you see this? This looks like Nicolas Cage.

00:43:44:09 - 00:43:46:04
Jared
Oh, yeah. Way. Yeah.

00:43:46:14 - 00:43:54:07
Mike
If you put a if you put that white hair on him, that would be the same character that you were showing earlier here.

00:43:55:03 - 00:44:19:11
Jared
He was the roommate of the lady and now I can't think of the bridesmaids. Ever seen the movie Bridesmaids with a Christian or Kristen Stewart? No, not Kristen Stewart. The chick from Saturday Night Live.

00:44:19:11 - 00:44:37:04
Mike
There's a lot of chicks from Saturday Night Live bridesmaids. Kristen See, that's what sucks about not watching these gay rom coms. I know who she played. Yeah. Kristen Wiig. Melissa McCarthy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:44:37:05 - 00:44:40:16
Jared
Kristen Wiig. And that in that movie was.

00:44:41:05 - 00:44:41:23
Mike
The fuck in.

00:44:42:14 - 00:44:45:12
Jared
And her roommate was that Matt Lucas guy.

00:44:46:06 - 00:44:55:18
Mike
Oh and then they play that Ellie Kemper girl. I can't stand her. Yeah, she played in this show called Campus or now that's sunk.

00:44:57:19 - 00:44:58:00
Jared
Some.

00:44:58:05 - 00:45:33:09
Mike
Guys that's a cartoon is a cartoon with a chick even Stevens. I forgot the name of the show. It's called Unbreakable Kimmy. Hell, right here. I'm breakable. Kimmy Schmidt came out in 2020, so during COVID, I ended up watching a little bit of this because COVID nothing going on like we had nothing. So I'm watching this about some fucking girl that was kidnaped, lives on a convent and was told there nuclear war and has been living in a bomb shelter.

00:45:33:15 - 00:45:56:02
Mike
It's pretty much blast from the past with yeah, yeah. That's really what it is. It's just. But it's like a six psycho Mormon guy that threw a bunch of these chicks and they're all wearing Mormon clothes. And then finally the FBI raids it, and, like, they're so, like, what? The world's not destroyed it, you know, just like blast from the past.

00:45:56:07 - 00:45:56:16
Jared
Yeah.

00:45:57:00 - 00:46:07:00
Mike
Yeah. So. So, all right, so where do you get this out of the ABF scale? What do you get by this long legs?

00:46:08:20 - 00:46:48:04
Jared
I mean, watch it, but don't pay for it. I mean, some people might like it. I just, you know, it's being our knowledge, background of movies and, you know, writing. And again, we've discussed this before. It's kind of a blessing and a curse. Sometimes I can not just enjoy a movie because I look at it from a different standpoint and say, This is just fucking terrible writing, it's sloppy, it's put together bad, but I think the problem nowadays is that people watch tiktoks and shit and their attention span isn't as good as it used to be.

00:46:48:04 - 00:47:20:12
Jared
So sometimes movies just move really fucking fast and it doesn't. The cohesion isn't there, but and maybe they're just trying to get people to, you know, Oh, imagine this is happening or I don't know. But there is that storytelling is bad. Is, is what I'm getting at it. The writing is just not good. This could have been a really good movie, but for them to say it was a scary or the best horror movie of the year, that's just bullshit.

00:47:21:04 - 00:47:23:00
Jared
I think that's what pissed me off the most about it.

00:47:23:23 - 00:47:24:16
Mike
I gotcha.

00:47:25:02 - 00:47:34:09
Jared
So yeah, I'll give it a B, watch it. Make your own assumption. It doesn't really, you know, it doesn't get terrible scores, but it's just I.

00:47:35:01 - 00:47:56:07
Mike
It always remember our scores, you know, even if we give something and I always watch it, you know what I mean? Always watch it. Maybe are not seeing something you might see, you know, but what we like to do is just bringing this shit up lets you know it exists, you know, that's why we do it. We do it for.

00:47:57:07 - 00:47:57:23
Mike
We do it for that.

00:47:57:23 - 00:47:59:03
Jared
Maybe save you some time.

00:47:59:21 - 00:48:02:19
Mike
Yeah, maybe someday. Well, you know, it's too. It's like, don't.

00:48:03:03 - 00:48:04:07
Jared
Don't watch it. Make love.

00:48:05:03 - 00:48:21:11
Mike
Oh, well, no, no. I mean, you can watch it, I guess, like you know, the thing is about it, like, sometimes people do get really hyped up in a movie and I think sometimes it is good for someone to be like, Hey, listen, don't get so hyped up in it. Just watch it, you know, and come to your own conclusion at the end.

00:48:23:09 - 00:48:47:13
Mike
But like, yeah, I mean, but obviously we want to tell you, you know, what we think is good, what we think is bad and whatnot. And we would love to hear your opinions too. So, you know, make sure you check out WWE at Tell It Right podcast dot com. There are some comments and you know tell us you're at the movies you like to we would love to watch those just check them out and then if we fucking hate them, will rip them apart.

00:48:47:13 - 00:49:08:07
Mike
If we love them, well, praise them, you know. Yeah. But if you want to talk about good movie here, there was last weekend I went and saw the movie Saturday Night directed by Jason Reitman. So son of Ivan. Ghostbusters, my friend.

00:49:08:18 - 00:49:09:21
Jared
Ghostbusters. All right.

00:49:10:07 - 00:49:37:06
Mike
But Saturday Night Live or Saturday Night is about Saturday Night Live, the show that has been on for the past 50 years, which in recent times has been getting a lot of a lot of bad rap, saying that it's not good anymore, you know, all that kind of shit. But let me tell you a little story here. So Saturday and Saturday night, again, is about the first night ever of Saturday Night Live.

00:49:37:06 - 00:49:57:23
Mike
It's the 90 minutes that leads up to it. And the reason why I was so interested in this movie is because actually just mentioned it a few moments ago. But that movie, a futile and stupid gesture in that movie, is about Doug Kenney, who started National Lampoon's magazine in National Lampoon's Magazine, evolved into doing movies, radio and theater.

00:49:58:13 - 00:50:32:23
Mike
But movies was one of the biggest ones. And obviously we had what we fucking have Animal House, Caddyshack, Van Wilder, so many other ones, you know. But yeah, like so. But what was interesting about that is a lot of the people who went on to Saturday Night Live started at National Lampoon's. And another thing too is National Lampoon's actually got the offer to do the Saturday Night Live show.

00:50:32:23 - 00:50:52:20
Mike
So they reached out basically like, Hey, we were looking to do something new. We'd like to have you, you know, we'd like you guys to put together a show that would be on Saturday night that would, you know, reach out to the younger crowds. And we'd be like this entertainment show, like a variety show. We love your comedy sort of thing, you know, let's do it.

00:50:53:12 - 00:51:15:14
Mike
But they turned it down. And then Lorne Michaels, who currently or I think he retired recently, but Lorne Michaels, who is the creator of Saturday Night Live, he was reached out and then he ended up doing it. And then he took all the National Lampoon guys because they wanted to do something more with their lives, because the problem with Doug Kenney was he was a fucking Coke addict.

00:51:16:03 - 00:51:38:22
Mike
So and he also ran away for a year while he left his partner to run the company. So like, he was a very unstable person and very genius with comedy. But just the drugs destroyed that, you know what I mean? Like, man, if Doug Kenney never died of drugs, we probably have some good, you know, fucking comedy shit going on.

00:51:39:05 - 00:51:58:23
Mike
I mean, he was a genius. Anyway, so Doug Kenney gets passed over, and then they give it to this guy. Oh, what's his name? Lorne Michaels. And now it starts the actual movie that we're going to talk about here today. They didn't talk about anything about Doug Kenney in this movie. So it is the 90 minutes leading up to Saturday Night Live.

00:51:58:23 - 00:52:25:21
Mike
And I thought it was a great movie because it kind of starts off there in front of Radio City. And Michael Wolfhard, that actor, he's playing some intern, is trying to get people to come to this show tonight that's playing live, you know, so you don't really know what's going on yet. But then all of a sudden, this shaggy hair guy comes out and that's Lorne Michaels, and he's just aimlessly looking around.

00:52:26:07 - 00:52:49:17
Mike
And finally he sees this car pull up and he yells out into Indiana and he goes up, gets it, pulls out, and he fucking knock. HOFFMAN And that's kind of where the movie starts. They go up into the building, you go up the elevator and then bam, they open it. You're on Studio eight, eight, and like, everybody is chaotic, everybody's running around.

00:52:49:17 - 00:53:13:21
Mike
So it was like really cool to kind of see that like this new show. Everybody's kind of scrambling around, getting ready for it and what was what ended up becoming interesting is you start finding out that this is not a well-organized show, this is a clusterfuck. Nobody has a fucking clue if this show is going to go on tonight.

00:53:14:17 - 00:53:42:16
Mike
They just know they have 90 minutes until it's 1130. And like there are no scripts. No scripts were approved yet. At this point, sets are still being built and they don't even know or even though they don't have scripts approved, they have no idea what skits they're going to actually play. And they got millions of them and they're like, they're realizing they can't do this in the timeslot that they have.

00:53:43:05 - 00:54:06:13
Mike
And so really, the whole movie is kind of like everybody asking Lorne Michaels, what's going on? What are we doing in like Lorne Michaels? Just trying to get through all this, trying to make everybody happy, give them answers. But at the same time, you have people like Chevy Chase and John Belushi who fucking hate each other, which I never knew this.

00:54:06:13 - 00:54:37:20
Mike
Yeah, they fucking hate each other. Fighting in and getting pissed off at like the littlest things and stuff. And it was just like a good look at to see, like, how TV works because, like, what this all was about. All right. Is that NBC was at war with Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson knew he fucking he ran NBC like everybody loves his comedy.

00:54:38:04 - 00:54:59:10
Mike
He made them so much money. And he's like, I can do whatever the fuck I want. You can't put me in my place. You can't do shit to me because if you lose me, you lose your fucking network, you know? So NBC was pretty determined to say, fuck you, you know? And so their plan was, was to spot to produce the show.

00:55:00:10 - 00:55:28:23
Mike
They weren't actually really interested in it being successful or even making it on air, but they were really what NBC was hoping for was that 5 minutes to like live that Johnny would and say, all right, I'll do what you want. And then what they would do is they would cancel the show and they would flip on his fucking show because that's what they did back then.

00:55:29:02 - 00:55:52:21
Mike
So before Saturday Night Live, every Saturday at 1130, Johnny Carson's reruns would play. So they were prepared to say, Fuck, Saturday night, we're going to flip on Carson. And that was the other thing, too. Lorne Michaels couldn't really explain what his show was about. He didn't really know. And then at the end, he fucking he tells the producer, like, this is what it is.

00:55:52:21 - 00:55:53:09
Mike
This is.

00:55:53:12 - 00:55:53:20
Jared
Yeah.

00:55:54:04 - 00:56:16:11
Mike
This is Saturday night in New York. This is kids, you know, you know, going out, having a good time like all this shit and then like and like the guy's like, prove it, prove it. William Dafoe plays this exact and he's like, Prove it, prove it. And Lorne Michaels was just like, he didn't know what to do. He didn't know how to prove it.

00:56:16:11 - 00:56:38:14
Mike
And there's still, like, 10 minutes left to go and fucking Andy Kaufman throws this record player out and does that fucking thing that he did in the first episode. Like everybody, it just caught everybody's attention. They just saw stop, and they're like, what? And then like then? Then they're like, It was proven, right. They're like, This shit's fine.

00:56:39:02 - 00:57:10:23
Mike
And then they did it. They got the go ahead like last second. They're like, Are we going live? And he goes, William, two falls like, go live. And they flip it on and first scene with, I keep getting the guy's name wrong. It's Michael O'Donohue. Yeah, Michael O'Donoghue and John Belushi. And Michael O'Donoghue plays this guy that's like a speech therapist for John Belushi, who's playing like this foreign guy, and he has a fucking heart attack at stage and falls over.

00:57:10:23 - 00:57:39:01
Mike
And then John Belushi doesn't know what to do. And he falls over and then Chevy Chase runs out and introduces the show. But overall, man, I mean, the actors were really good. I mean, I don't know any of them, but they I like I really like so in their futile and stupid gesture, Joel McHale played Chevy Chase. And now when I look back, it's kind of weird.

00:57:39:01 - 00:58:08:12
Mike
But like when I was seeing this guy, I'm like, I wish they did. Joel McHale But then when I really think about it all, this guy, Corey Michael Smith, he played a great Chevy Chase. He really did. That would play John Belushi like, I don't know these guys. Dylan O'Brien played Dan Aykroyd. Like some of these people I think are in SNL, but I don't think everybody is.

00:58:08:12 - 00:58:17:02
Mike
Yeah, but I. Yeah, no, I mean, do you know that actor that played in the Americans, Matthew Rice.

00:58:18:19 - 00:58:20:16
Jared
And that offhand.

00:58:20:20 - 00:58:42:14
Mike
Okay, he he's like this British guy or something like that or Irish I, I forget. So he played in the Americans. He played that Russian spy, the main character in that he's played in some other movies like he played in that stupid. I what's that guy's face you remember that that chef movie I was telling you about with.

00:58:43:03 - 00:59:06:19
Mike
Yeah why can't I think of his name? I always brain fart Bradley Cooper. Yeah. Bradley Cooper. Yeah. He played like the rival chef in that movie. And it's weird because he looks like, what's his face? I haven't written down a lot. Um, James. James McAvoy. It's got, like, a similar, like, complexion to James McAvoy, who played in X-Men Is it?

00:59:06:20 - 00:59:36:18
Mike
Xavier Yeah, but it's like he's like the D version of James McAvoy because like, I heard it James McAvoy way before I've heard of Matthew Rice. I just got to put it out there. But yeah, but Matthew Wright's like, I was so impressed on his George Carlin impression. He played George Carlin, and I was like, he sounded exactly like George Carlin, and he practically fucking looked like him to.

00:59:36:18 - 01:00:04:03
Mike
It was amazing. And I just. I couldn't believe it. But this was a great movie. No, no, this is totally worth it. Worth going to the movies to see it. And I one of the other cool thing about this is I randomly went to go see this and it was on that tober 11th Saturday Night Live aired October 11th, 1975.

01:00:04:03 - 01:00:07:01
Jared
Although it wasn't released October 11 as a movie.

01:00:07:16 - 01:00:29:05
Mike
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It said it says I thought it was released a week earlier, but I guess not. I guess it was released that day. And I like once I found that out, I'm like, we're in the theater. And it says that I look at my wife, I'm like, What? No way. But I, yeah, that was a pretty cool thing.

01:00:29:12 - 01:00:53:00
Mike
50 years later, I actually see this movie come out. That was that was pretty cool. But I liked it. I liked it. I thought it was like very interesting to know that like when these TV shows come out, like the networks have plans, like if you're not going to perform, they're ready to fucking switch over to something else.

01:00:53:16 - 01:01:23:20
Mike
And yeah, but yeah, it, it was a good movie to kind of see that passed because I think a lot of people look at Saturday Night Live and they do see it as a well-oiled machine. And I think people saw it like that back then and to see that like there was so much chaos and so much disagreement and you know, people just not on the same page.

01:01:24:13 - 01:01:48:01
Mike
It was really cool to see that at the end they came back together. Like that was another cool thing. Like, you know, these people started realizing like, we don't have much time for these skits and you know, it's going to be impossible to do. Costume changes. They started getting clever. They found out ways to fuckin rip off their first outfit and then pop into another outfit.

01:01:48:12 - 01:02:15:14
Mike
You know what I mean? Yeah. So they could do that jumping off stage real quick and stuff like that. But I watched the original SNL episode one. It's on Peacock and like, I honestly like the way it was set up there. And when I watch it, you know, there was they did it right. I mean, not that there was a lot of time, but like so basically first skit and then the first skit ends.

01:02:15:16 - 01:02:34:20
Mike
George Carlin comes out. George Carlin does a set for like 5 minutes. During that time, they're getting dressed and, you know, in change for the next scene and next scene comes and then they do it. And then basically they go back to George Carlin, who then, you know, announces a musician. They come back to another scene and like they kept doing that.

01:02:35:07 - 01:03:02:15
Mike
So like, yeah, watching the movie and then watching that, like, wow, they really pulled that off, you know? And like, yeah, when you watch their night live now, like if you ever wondered about the costume changes now granted Saturday Night Live nowadays they do record during the week in that you know, there's a lot of things that are put into a production and that couldn't be done on a Saturday night so.

01:03:02:21 - 01:03:03:04
Jared
Yeah.

01:03:04:14 - 01:03:28:21
Mike
But yeah but no I mean, like I might still like their graphics back in the day and like how they did effects. Like I know how to do effects with the, the programs you know I use for PowerPoint and there's still many more that I don't know how to use, but it's like this whole effect, like, you know, I'm talking like watching the actual Saturday Night Live with an actual Dan Aykroyd.

01:03:28:21 - 01:03:54:22
Mike
And there is the skit with Dan Aykroyd comes home from work and it's like something about, well, what if you were to lose your dad or your husband just like that, you know? And then all of a sudden he's sitting on the couch and he just dissolves right there. And like in my mind, you have to have a green screen and you have to record just the couch by itself with nobody on there.

01:03:55:14 - 01:04:19:11
Mike
And then you got to record another scene with him on the couch again, but behind a green screen. But they did this on a Saturday night. So obviously they had these you know, these effects within their computers or whatever them their equipment that they use. So it wasn't just like a small computer that like has like a list of fucking effects on there.

01:04:19:11 - 01:04:42:09
Mike
It was like a computer that had just buttons dedicated to effects and you had hit them at the right. But then I'm like, maybe they had, maybe they did use a second camera. And that's how, you know, accuracy disappeared on that scene. But like, I was still like blown away. Like, how do you do that? Like, how do you do that on a live show?

01:04:43:00 - 01:05:14:01
Mike
Like, that is so easy. Like on a recorded session. IT Yeah. So I definitely recommend this movie guys. I mean for sure it should still be in theaters. If not, it'll be. It'll be streamed soon. You better believe it. Yeah, I'm going to give this in a sense, since I've come up with the new rating system, I believe this is probably the first a out there.

01:05:14:05 - 01:05:27:01
Mike
So, I mean, biopics are usually good. I mean, I'm trying to think of all the ones I've seen. I want to see La Bamba again with Neil. Ah, Lou Lou Diamond Phillips.

01:05:27:01 - 01:05:27:23
Jared
Lou Diamond Phillips.

01:05:28:04 - 01:06:04:23
Mike
Yeah. Have him playing I with Frank Zappa. Who, who played the Obama. It was I can't think of these names right now. La la Bamba, Ritchie Valens. Dude, I'm losing in my age here. Yeah. Ritchie Valens fucking. He was afraid of flying airplanes and died in a fucking airplane. Worst way ever. That sucks. And then his brother, like, invented that Woody Woodpecker or some shit.

01:06:05:20 - 01:06:24:12
Mike
No, he did it. They're just like, in that movie. I just remember Woody the Woodpecker. He found them, and then he just. He started drawing it, the brother. And he was, like, obsessed with drawing Woody the Woodpecker. I remember one time he was drawing Woody the Woodpecker. He's, like, freaking out on Ritchie. Like, Hey, man, you can't fucking do that shit.

01:06:24:12 - 01:06:32:07
Mike
What the fuck? You know, it's going like, nuts on him, like Johnny Cash is fucking biopic was pretty Joaquin Phenix.

01:06:33:14 - 01:06:34:03
Jared
Yeah, I.

01:06:34:03 - 01:06:55:19
Mike
Fucking like that one. But yeah, check out Saturday night. It's all in good hands. I mean, Jason Reitman, his father was a it was a master. Thank God he's not in armor because, like, that doesn't work. Like your dad's armor. And then you get in the business and then someone gets shot in the fucking chest. Like that never works out for anybody.

01:06:56:06 - 01:07:28:23
Mike
But like, when your dad's, like, a fucking director and directly, like, really good movies, and then you're you're coming back and you're like, I'm going to direct a movie that my dad would have loved to have done. I forget if Ivan Reitman in Saturday Night Live, too. He could have been. I just know he I think Ivan actually, Ivan was part of National Lampoon's for a bit too interesting enough because they made the Caddyshack or did he jump on with.

01:07:30:05 - 01:07:51:04
Mike
I think he jumped on actually as early as Animal House. So it's just it's cool how that stuff's all connected. So this was definitely a movie for me that I was like, I want to see this because I still want to fill in some gaps from the the Doug Kenny stuff that I learned.

01:07:51:04 - 01:07:52:22
Jared
So yeah.

01:07:54:02 - 01:08:00:19
Mike
Yeah. I mean, that's our I think that's our show tonight. I think we did it it was episode.

01:08:02:00 - 01:08:02:07
Jared
Yeah.

01:08:02:21 - 01:08:27:08
Mike
We did. Yeah. That was, uh, that was episode 85. Everybody, thank you for joining. Make sure you check out WW dot tell it right podcast dot com and yeah we'll catch you for 85 It's going to be Halloween baby. We're going to talk about those Halloween movies those creepy. The spooky creepy is creepy, spooky.

01:08:27:17 - 01:08:30:10
Jared
Spooky, scary. One ladies will not be part of that.

01:08:30:19 - 01:08:41:09
Mike
No, no, no, no. But but yeah. Well, thank you ever. Thank you, everybody. We appreciate it. And we'll see you again. Face.

01:08:41:21 - 01:08:45:10
Jared
I.