HH 9 Half Baked / Marijuana Affects the Memory (Guest: Ben Burris)

Double holiday! Double Rainbow! "Half Baked" (1998 d. Tamra Davis) Starring: Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz, and Jim Breuer. (Dial Tone)

**All episodes contain explicit language**
Artwork - Ben McFadden
Review Review Intro/Outro Theme - Jamie Henwood
"What Are We Watching" & "Whatcha been up to?" Themes - Matthew Fosket
"Fun Facts" Theme - Chris Olds/Paul Root
Lead-Ins Edited/Conceptualized by - Ben McFadden
Produced by - Ben McFadden & Paul Root
Concept - Paul Root

Transcript

Cocaine. Cocaine? You weren't Cocaine. You guys did that and I think I said Hey, everyone. It's Paul from The Edit.

We're dipshits. We really don't know what we're doing. We have no engineer. We do our best. The audio for this episode is appropriately fucking wild.

Enjoy this unplanned holiday helping for Easter four twenty. We hope you can stand the rain. And now to the program. What well, we're sober. Yeah.

On 04/20. And burritos The resurrection. Bruce the Oh, burrito. Bruce hey, everybody. This is the review review four twenty episode, and Bruce Burrito is is back with us.

Hi. It's so good to have you. I wanna say that Bruce Burrito was the selector of this film, and we're doing this sober intro because when Well, on 04/20, Burris is Burris, why don't you explain your your pitch? Oh, was it, like, in November, December? I was trying to think of new other things that we can do.

I'm like, what other holidays? And I was like, 04:20 would be fun. What movie should we would we watch for 04:20? And then I thought half baked. And and then that and then the rest is history.

And how and how did you wanna do Oh, we're gonna get really fucking stoned. We're gonna get super ripped in a minute. Watch the movie. They're gonna get super ripped. And then we're gonna come back and talk about the movie after we then get really stoned.

Dear dear listener, I want to warn you. This Ben does not partake in weed very much. So this could be interesting. This could be garbage. Oh.

Oh. Someone just fell on Ben McFadden. You're high. Okay. You're high in my episode.

Okay. The dark man episode, I was pretty high. You're a little high. But either way, like, that was the whole idea of this episode. And we batted around different ideas with four twenty and Easter being the same day.

Yeah. And I can't wait to talk about part of the reason why we're like, we gotta go with that thing. Yeah. Yeah. And some of those other options, which won't ever be come up.

We're we're good ones, and we'll have to do them eventually. Well, we should, leave you, listener. This is gonna be a different kind of episode. We're gonna go watch the movie, get ready. We're gonna go get Yeah.

Hi. Movie watch. We got some pizzas. We got all of the things. We got some beers.

We got some chips. Oh, no. We got some gummies. What did I sign up for? Her stomachs are gonna feel great.

Oh, no. See you soon. Yeah. Okay. Utah.

Give me two. I am okay. Alright. I'm okay. You're fine.

This doesn't read on podcast though. You're perfect. Yeah, you're good. Why don't you take one of your why don't you take one of your dummies? You could if you want to see your life.

Hey, we're back. Would you like to explain the final sex of this? Yeah, this is a movie podcast. If you're not familiar, you're coming you're having your time. This is not a normal episode.

To a decision. But Yeah. Should've done that earlier. But, normally, we, will have a guest. That guest will bring us a movie, something they feel passionately about.

Oh okay. Well one way or the other passionately. That you can talk about for a long time. Yeah. Which you have gotten some assistance for that.

Snacks Oh, yes. And other vitamins, vitamin t, vitamin h, vitamin c, all the necessary vitamins. I see what you're doing there. And we come in with a ranking out of five and then we talk. We give you some facts.

We give you our opinions. And at the end, we see if our ranking out of five has changed. In this selection for this episode, the selection for this episode is a movie called Half Baked from 1998. And this is our four twenty episode, so hooray happy holiday. Yeah.

It's also Easter. If Happy resurrection. Yeah it's it's also like the pagan holiday for, Is it the equinox? That's around the equinox, right? That's yeah.

What's it called? And then solstice. It's not a solstice. Bro, yeah. Trivernal equinox?

I think well, it depends on the equinox, but there's a pagan holiday name for the holiday itself, but I can't remember what it is. I cannot text right now. Yeah. I would. I would like to.

But this selection was Burris' selection for four twenty Easter, where I kinda pushed Robocop. I kinda pushed a couple other movies. Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko because Weird Bunny that probably lays colorful eggs, which is like that's scary. Zombies are scary, so we didn't we didn't want to get stoned and and be scared.

Also, dear listener, we sound weird, it's because we're all on one mic. And we're all yeah. And there's only one cup, and we're all a little high. But we couldn't figure out the two mics. Yeah.

We're we're done. Insert knit David Park, Matthew Foskett, Melinda Hensley, someone help us. But I was trying to figure it out my break. Yeah. Yeah.

Marijuana affects the memory. Memory. Dial tone. So first, what you been up to? I've been making puppets for a a show that's, called the, you know, the, the time machine.

What was that? I don't know. I just, you know, it's I heard this, you know, this friend, and he's doing this thing, and I'm doing Sounds interesting. Them and yeah. It's it's cool.

Fucking Chippendale over here. Alright. You know, the puppets are fun. Do you wanna tell me about the, where they can see these puppets and what the show is? You're asking a lot of me right now.

Yeah. It's cool. It's gonna be at the Halloween Fringe. And then the dates are on the back of this, postcard. So, That's not helpful for these people.

Just write us a message. Said you like a postcard. Why don't you just And we'll mail you a postcard. Just read the dates. So no.

This is this is fun. June 8, June sixteenth, June nineteenth, June '20 third, and June 28. Those do have varying times. You can learn more through, go to the Instagram. Thank you.

The time machine underscore 2025. And remember, tickets are pay what you can. Yeah. These gentlemen really believe fully in that and making sure that you are able to see really great quality theater within that realm. Come check it out.

Pay what you can tickets. The time machine. First, that's exciting. He showed me some of the puppets and models and shit, and it looks fucking fantastic. Yeah.

Thank you. Yeah. We're we're working Beautiful work as always. I feel really weird right now. Anonymous.

We'll keep it anonymous. Yeah. Pride. That's what I've been up to too is working. Yeah.

This adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. Yeah, awesome. I haven't read that in forever.

I used to have a complete H. G. Wells series hardback. I maybe it's maybe one of my parents still has it but I learned a lot about him recently. No doubt.

He was a socialist and he was a free thinker and he was the first person to ever coin the term atomic bomb before there ever was such a thing. Science fiction becomes science fact. Well I think we might be living that. That. Let's be serious.

Let's be serious people. Okay. Yeah. I agree with you. Do you wanna talk to me serious?

Signal chat? Is that how we should be serious? I didn't ask to be added. I was just added. I got added.

You guys, I don't even I got added to the signal chat about it. I get emails from signal with the chats. I don't even have the app. I don't even know how you added me. If you hear farting, it's because Burris is sitting in the fart chair.

I have the fart chair. It wasn't me. The bar The ball The ball Paul Blard? Blart? Yeah.

Chair. Paul doesn't fart, Paul blarts. And when Paul blarts, he blarts. You know it. In case you didn't know.

Well I guess what have I been up to then? Since you wanna you kind of mentioned the time tag? I'm tagging along on Burris's puppet coattails. Alright. Well as we just watched a movie with some things with animals where the level of care or concern was not the best.

Yeah. But I've just been Sand who's guested on this podcast many times. She gets her her nails clipped often ish. She's brush it brush it brush it every day. Dental treats, toothbrushings like once a week.

That's good. And she's a little Burmese, a little Beller baby. Yeah. And so she's an inside cat. And I know there are working cats in the world that are mousers, that are on farms and things like that.

But sand is an inside cat. Yeah. And I'm serious about this. I mean, they saved our ass from the fucking plague, man. Cats are right.

I just love cats. Yeah. So Yeah. I just so much of my life is caring for this adopted child of mine. Yeah.

And so I just want and I mean she'll sit for a treat. It's gotta be there has to be a treat. I think these listeners all know both your and I's love for her. Yeah That's probably accurate. And I'm allergic to cats.

Sam's Burmese though, so maybe you wouldn't have Nah. No? Really? Is it the dandruff? I think so.

Yeah. Yeah. But I have a I got a good cocktail of allergy meds that I can take and She doesn't produce dander. Oh, dander, not dandruff. Well, no, no, but I think like dandruff, dandruff, whatever.

So it's like saliva too, right? Yeah. Sometimes, but she's a very short hair cat, like not hairless, but my understanding is they're nearly hypoallergenic, if not hypoallergenic. Do you feel it? She's a lovely lady.

Do you feel it when you come here still? I feel it right now. You feel it when you come? I touch something and then I rub my face. I, like, scratched my nose and had, like, the itchiness that I was What's crazy is, like, Rudy hasn't been downstairs since I know.

And I haven't had it for a while. Like, it just happened today. I was like, and there must have been When's the last time you vacuumed, you fucking slob? This place looks like the apartment from Half Baked. Oh.

It's not bad though. Terrible. No. It's nice. It's very clean.

I mean, I do have a guy on the couch. Actually, he's been floating there for a few hours. It's actually just a pile of clothes. I was It's just a pile of clothes there. Yeah.

I don't know. But if you burst through it like a car. No. Wait. It's built by LaCroix, you guys.

Oh, no. Careful. It's gonna stain. Careful. It's gonna help me pick up a stain.

Yeah. Exactly right. Exactly right. I'm just gonna get a towel real quick. I think you probably should.

Keep talking. I think we probably will. Burris. Oh. Yeah.

What is it that you've been watching? I haven't been watching a lot of, I guess, like, The Studio. Okay. Yeah. I guess, yeah.

I'm I'm watching theater TV since weekly things. Yeah. You like the studio? Yeah. Okay.

You know when you ask, like, a question and then you try to think of the answer and then everything else escapes, so you can't think of any shows now. You know what I mean? Deep thoughts with Ben. No. Do you know?

Studio's great. Studio's great. Studio's great. A big fan. We've all seen it.

We all enjoy it. Burris is about to sneeze. He's doing a hook. Is the hook for a sneeze or for a thot? This is great.

I'm not gonna cry. Right? He's doing a hook finger. I'm sorry. Or enough.

The the residency? The, a residence on Netflix. Yes. Yes. Oh, no.

I don't know. I'm liking that show. I haven't seen it. I just don't know anything. Oh.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, there you go. Did you talk about that? What are you watching?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking Schwami. What'd you call me?

Schwammie? Like the Schwammie. The Schwamm from SportsCenter. Verse, you you've been on the show more than anybody. Right?

He's like our de facto, like, producer slash creative consultant slash co host. You got all the sections of this show and you didn't come prepared to talk about anything else that you were watching. He usually has like five or six things, so this was very pleasant for me actually, so thanks. Well, this episode originally was gonna go with we're doing it differently. So then I was like, okay.

So I didn't like Turning it on its head. Damn it. Falling in strips. But then we we changed it on the day. So what's the one thing you just thought of?

The pit. Oh, the Noah Wylie thing? I'm getting rid of the clouds right now. So I'm Migo, Migo? How does this work?

Migo. Migo? Great car, great subject, great Hair? Thank you. Yeah.

I've been watching some bad movies. Shut up. On purpose? Make it real. Or, make it real.

Yes. Going into them knowing that they were probably bad. Yeah. And So you had not seen either of these? Three I'm gonna talk about three briefly.

Actually, yeah. I had not seen any of them. I finally I just watched that. They were more background movies. Mhmm.

Yep. I get it. So, like, for streaming movies? Yes. Mhmm.

Okay. Well, they're on streaming now. But Got it. I watched Venom The Last Dance. Mhmm.

Well, but yeah. That went theatrical for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

But streaming now. But not good. Not good. Mhmm. Not good.

I watched, Kraven the Hunter. Mhmm. Wow. Went hard in the Sony. Did.

Not good. Sorny. Very strange. Magnet box? And I didn't mind that one, but it was like, for what I knew it was going into it, it was like, oh.

It's bonkers to me. They took a villain from Spider Man who's famous for being a big game trophy hunter Mhmm. And turned him into a poachy like, animal loving poacher vigilante killer who's been very strange. They do. They they take supposed to be like the Punisher, like an antihero kinda interest state?

That's what Sonya is. They're they're taking villains and giving them hero movies. Like who? Venom is Venom is an antihero. Morbius?

Venom starts as a villain, becomes antihero. Morbius is part of Midnight Sons. He's also antihero. Madame Web is a hero who teams up with Spider Man. This is the only one that's actually He has cool glasses in the car.

Like ever is never, actually an anti hero. Okay. He's always a villain. Okay. So that I don't know.

I didn't know that. I found it bonkers. And also the guy who plays Rhino is maybe one of the worst actors I've ever Oh, no. Oh, no. He's just making wild choices.

And I just wanna mention, I I mean it was ridiculous but that's kinda why I was like, I I expected that going into because like, okay, this is gonna be like Venom. So I think the most egregiously bad movie I watched recently though is The Electric State. Oh, yeah. Pratt and the Millie Bobby Brown. Stranger Things.

Yeah. Russo's, Netflix. Yeah. Do you wanna know It was a huge budget. There was, like, Red One.

Right? 330,000,000. No shit. For streaming. Yeah.

No theatrical release on it. I'm starting to think no. No theatrical. Woo hoo. I'm starting to think Netflix is laundering money.

Like, what is this? Like, it's a money making scheme. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know what I watched it. I was like, what am I what it's it's like You write that off. Everything in it is is a version of something that's come before it. Right. Like, it's like there's and it's in the nineties, but not really for any reason.

Mhmm. Oh. And, like, there the the the leader of the robots is mister Peanut, voiced by Woody, Harrelson. Woody Harrelson. But like there's no reason why it's Mr.

Peanut. Like it's just kind of arbitrary. It's very odd. It's recognized IP. Because the whole thing is Yeah.

I wonder if it's an IP thing. Like, well, we got the IP. It felt like Ready Player One. But then Bobo? Like Timu?

Yeah. But then also trying to, like, capture part of t two, you know, like Millie Bobby Brown is kinda like a like a Eddie Fu what's his name? Furlong Furlong. John Connor. I it just The story was, like, it was, like, half of an idea and then the rest of the budget was just put on to, like, making it look yeah.

Looking at making it look really cool, like visuals. But even visuals were kinda boring? Yeah. But, like, yeah. Like, the yeah.

It's I don't the wasteland. I don't know where the money went. Rendering all those fucking robots. And now everyone's excited that Russo brothers have come back to the MCU. You know what?

I was saying one day someone's gonna write a very interesting paper to talk about the cliff that both the MCU and the Russo's fell off after Endgame. The quantity went way up and the quality went down. Like, they got the TV shows and I remember seeing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and being like, oh, there's some shit that I don't I've seen all the I've I've seen all the movies. Yeah. And there was like, what did I miss?

And people were telling me, oh if you watch this show and I'm like, no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no. I can't do that. Anyway, Electric State, mind boggling. I'm gonna mention two things I've watched recently. One, you were talking about robots and rendering and I watched the extended Superman trailer and I get the Superman era they're they must be looking at based on the dog and the in the extended trailer, the going to the Fortress Of Solitude and the snarky robots Yeah.

And stuff like that. But I'm like, man, I think have I aged out of this or am I just like boring? Am I just like an asshole? Is this just what appeals to me about superhero stuff anymore? Because I wanted to so I'm like I don't think I'm an asshole.

Well they betrayed you two times. But but it's one of those yeah I think I'm a little bit turned off by it, which I I love that character. Yeah. So, man, so many things to love about it. But I just don't know how to feel about this movie or why why am I not connecting with this?

And it's not like there's something wrong with me or anything like that, but I'm wondering what's the thing that's not exciting me about this? It's like I like the cast. I'm excited because I don't feel, at least from my reading of DC from when I was, like, in college Mhmm. I've never really felt like I've seen that Superman ever on screen. Okay.

So new creative interpretation or look? Yeah. I mean, not even it's it's more like every interpretation that's been on screen has been, like a very specific visionaries like Richard Donner's Superman is not the Superman from the comics. It's more Yeah. It's more the Superman from the old t the old TV show.

Like George Reeves and all those things. Yeah and then Zack Snyder's Superman is definitely like a Zack Snyder's take Right. From Superman. And so, like, I'm not like, I enjoy that I like that movie creators can do that with, like, different adaptations of superheroes. I think that's interesting.

Like, Chris Nolan's Batman is different from movies Batman blah blah blah. In terms of like Justice League Unlimited, which I used to watch in the comics season Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii kinda looks like and I could be totally wrong, it's just a trailer, but it looks like those comics that I used to read. And it could be, like, pretty light, which is one of the things that I think I want. I I it's like I fucking love Blade. Like I love really dark superhero stuff.

Yeah. But maybe this is something, just something a little bit, something different, something of lately different. Yeah. Maybe. And I also saw the luckiest man in America, me and special agent k from the MIBs.

Went and saw Advanced screening? No. It's out at several AMCs. Went to an AMC. Okay.

Seemed to have come out just recently though, a couple days ago. Gotcha. And I just I really enjoyed it. It's like three and a half patterns. I thought the movie was well acted, it's well costumed, it's well written, and it's like a really fucking satisfyingly paced, like, ninety five minute movie.

Okay. And the stakes are good, the performances are good, you really the score is great. The score really, like, puts you in the mood of the time period Mhmm. In a really, really nice way. It's got a look to it or something about it that's I can't fully explain that feels like Late Night with the Devil, but it's only like seven or eight production companies and I think Late Night with the Devil is like 42.

Oh yeah, maybe not. So I don't know, but the look of it, it's nice. It's got a nice polish. I really enjoyed it and I just don't know much about that story. And right up front, I'm okay with historical inaccuracies for drama in movies.

Yeah. Totally. And a guy having his guts ripped out and dropping a hanky and yelling freedom is one thing. Not super cool with, but it's like maybe this guy had this conversation with a daughter on her birthday or maybe he didn't. That I can that's palatable more palatable for me.

The melodrama doesn't always. And this didn't feel like melodramatic for the sake of being melodramatic or anything. It was solid, solid movie. Okay. Enjoyed by all.

And apparently the dude behind his favorite movie of all time, I think. Just the loudest fucking human being on the face of the planet laughing at everything, which maybe helped. Was he at that play we were at last night? Might have been. Yeah.

That's funny. Well we should move on to the movie we all watched together. I think it's the first time we've done that. Let's do it. Archaeology is the search for fact.

First time we've ever watched the movie so far. Ever, maybe. Yeah. No. We watched John's TV.

No. We've gone to the movie theater. And we've gone to a movie theater. I know. I was I'm almost like We watched a movie called Half Baked.

It's a Robert Simmons productions and universal release. It's rated r. It's from 1998. It is one hour and twenty eight minutes. Are you sure?

Are you sure? Budget was $8,000,000. Depressingly adjusted, that would be $15,600,000 today. Today. Opening weekend was 01/19/1998.

Dumping ground release, January and September Yeah. Infamously. It got $7,722,000 that weekend. That's $14,000,000 adjusted. Final gross in North America was 17,400,000.0.

That's 34,000,000 adjusted. Same gross worldwide. Other releases that weekend, Fallen with Denzel Washington, Hard Rain with Christian Slater, Star Kid, and a movie called Live Flesh. That's an early automotive movie starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. Oh, nice.

Weekend top five was Titanic. Never heard of it. Good Will Hunting, Fallen, As Good As It Gets, and Hard Rain. Other films from 1998, Armageddon. Oh, so you're telling me you're gonna send up a bunch of guys who drill because the astronauts can't figure out how to drill?

Yeah. You're gonna yeah. They don't know nothing about drilling. Right? Oh, okay.

Mhmm. We'll just train these guys who drill. They'll go. Lethal weapon four with Jet Li. That move he does in that movie, does anybody know what I'm talking about?

Where he does like an upside down story? It's been a minute since I've seen it. A bug's life and ants. Yes. Yep.

A perfect murder, Blade. Yes. Halloween h two o and US Marshalls. Mhmm. I didn't kill this franchise.

Yes, you did. I did not. No. US Marshalls killed this franchise. Letterboxed average is 3.2.

Follow us. At run b m c. That's at run, b e e m c. At paul acts badly and At been done before. Peter Travers from Rolling Stone gave this a negative review.

Rotten Tomatoes gave this a 28%. It did get 81% popcorn. Metacritic got a 16. Seven point one user. After all that, major award wins and nominations, not applicable.

That actually, not even the Razzies. Oh, wow. Didn't have the time. Sorry. Just didn't have the time.

I got people to talk about. Talking about me. Director of this movie is Tamara Davis, made Billy Madison. He called the shit poop. That's all your final opinion.

Conditioner is better. Stop staring at me, swan. A Conversation with Basquiat. Oh, and Crossroads, 02/2002. Not the Ralph Macchio, Steve, Iowa.

The Britney Spears one. You got it. You got it. And Zoe Saldana, I believe. Oh, yeah.

Mhmm. Oscar winner. Writers, Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle killed him softly, HBO show. Another writer, Neil Brennan, the the female brain and totally awesome from TV.

Director of photography, Steven Bernstein, not to be confused with Jeffrey Goldstein, who's in our Leonard Bernstein. Or Leonard Bernstein. Oh. First, our signal chat. Thanks.

Monster o three, Little Man, and White Chicks. Everyone's favorite. Your favorite movie. Right? Absolutely.

Yeah. Music Alf. Yo. Yo, Willie. That's how Alf sounds?

Yeah. Yo. Yo. I just watched Project Alf starting Martin Sheen. Yes.

Oh. I was thinking of the alien that eats cats. Yeah. Everybody there. Yo.

I can't do any other word by yo. Yo. But I like to watch you keep trying. Yo. He did music for The Simpsons.

Yo. Yeah, baby. Producer Robert Simmons, Bad Moms, Hustlers, and Ira Sherman, Strange Days, and Taxi from o four. Dave Chappelle plays Thurgood, Sir Smokes a Lot, Robin Hood Men in Tights, A Star is Born from 2018, You Got Meo, Guillermo Guillermo Diaz from he he is Scarface, High School High, Freeway, The Terminal, Jim Brewer plays Brian, zookeeper, Dick Dick in Titan AE, Hartland Williams plays Kenny, Dumb and Dumber, Down Periscope, Rocketman. Rachel True plays Mary Jane, The Craft, Groove, Half Baked, Totally High.

What? What is the fuck? There's a c there's a sequel to this. We'll talk about this in a moment. Okay.

Clarence Williams the third, RIP, plays Samson, Deep Cover, The Butler, Tales from the Hood. And The Mod Squad. Laura Silverman plays Jan, Midnight, Sex Store, Bright Day, Camera Time. Are those all porns? I don't know.

I don't know. Tune in. You might Tommy Chong plays Squirrel You should be able to watch talk about a little bit of porno. You should be able to watch you should be able to watch that. Tommy Chong, it's like, I'm feeding my egg to other eggs, plays squirrel master.

Up in smoke, nice dreams, still smoking, next movie. Still smoking, next movie. So many. RD Reid, r a p, is a scientist, buzz scientist, Capote, Lars and the Real Girl, Don It says damn. From Zack Snyder.

Very particular. The best Snyder movie, I think. I could not argue that at all from what I've seen. Although I will say something that's maybe slightly unpopular. I don't know.

I like Man of Steel. I don't dislike pretty good. It's again going back to the same. There's it's it's not It has its film making. It's not it's just not the super it's it's like a a completely different version of Superman that appeals to other peep some people.

It's just not my thing that happened. What about the, Brandon Routh? No. Because because it's just the costume. Sequel of the Christmas movie.

Yeah. Yeah. And his brain is in the eye. Hits him in the eye. That's pretty dope.

Yeah. But they showed it in the trailer. Yeah. Stop it. Stop it with the insanity, Burris.

Let's have some fun. Oh, boy. Okay. Fun facts. Fun facts, everybody.

It's fun fact time. Yo. Burris has been Uh-oh. Melting over here. Okay.

Fun facts. A sequel to this film was released in 2024, Totally Hive. Rachel True returns as Mary Jane, Harlem Williams as the voice of a joint, who includes the the likes of, David Kuckner and Frankie Muniz. Oh, shit. Shit.

It's fucking weird. Like, straight to DVD? Oh, yes. Or streaming or whatever or What year were you? VOD.

2024. Oh. Recent. Recent. Why would you do that without without Dave Chappelle or Jim Brewer?

Or Neil Brennan? Yeah. Weird. Like, it's a money grab. There must be this is a cult classic at this point.

Yes? Probably. Okay. I wonder if some company was, like, like, about to lose rights to this film or something. That's a good point.

We have the opportunity to make a sequel. Tracy looks in. We might be the, We're gonna lose this, so we should just Yeah. Warren Warren Beatty with Dick Tracy is insane. Saying.

Mhmm. Yes. We're also what was the it's not his documentary. It's deal of time. Yeah.

Is that your Like arena of time? When they flow? They made a FX was losing the rights, so they made a, a movie for TV movie that they released at 4AM starring Billy Zane. It's a true story. Yeah.

I believe it. Billy Zane. Yeah. It was I think it's Billy's back. I think it's Wheel of Time.

I'll look it up. I believe it. I % believe believe you. Like the Amazon show. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's that. This film continue alright.

This film includes a a glut of cameos and uncredited appearance such as, John Stewart, Bob Saget, Steven Wright, Janeane Garofalo, Snoop Dogg, Steven Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, and, Willie Nelson, and, co writer Neil Brennan and others. The period between the script being bought to the release of the film was only seven months. Wow. And an incredibly fast time frame for a major studio film. That's that's interesting.

During his appearance on Inside the Actor's Studio, Dave Chappelle there's a Dave Chappelle episode of Inside the Actor's Studio? Yep. Amazing. Revealed that he was unhappy with the final film and claimed that the script he cowrote was much funnier and that the final result was a weed movie for kids. Mm-mm.

Mm-mm. Dave Chappelle asked Harrison Ford cameo in the film and, he he The famous stoner, Harrison Ford. Yeah. Get the fuck out. Get the fuck out.

That's not how the force works. Get off my plane. It is very uncommon for a horse to have diabetes. Thank you. That's a fun fact.

But not Funnest fact at all. It does occur. So So you wait. One in a million. So you're saying there's a chance.

So What was all that one in a million talk? Bruce, what's the log line of hall faked? Hall fake. Hall. I hate this part.

Especially right now. Everybody does. But you but you should know it. Oh, god. Burris has been handed a weed vaporizer.

It's probably not a good idea, Evan. Oh, he's ripping. He's ripping on wheels, dawg. He's ripping and ticking AM and everything. He's hoping it'll go mute.

Don't this is an audio podcast. I know. That's why I'm working. We need you. Otherwise, you're gonna be the puppet.

Yo. That's what happens to him in jail. It's so apropos for this fucking movie. I'm gonna move them. The Brits just got it.

Brits just got it. Oh, no. Go ahead. I'm gonna get in there. Yeah.

I'm thinking. I'm thinking. There's no right answer, bud. And don't worry. We have we have all the time in the world.

Oh, good. Fuck. What was his name? Third Thurgood? No.

What was it? Yeah. Thurgood. Okay. Thurgood must make his, Sophie's Choice between Mary Jane or Mary Jane, while also having to raise money to get his close friend out of jail for cop horse murder.

I wanna say I think that's really good because it sums up all of the stakes of the movie. Yeah. Because that's all of it. Yeah. Yeah.

You wanna hear the real log line? Nice work. Thank you. That was really good. He punched the numbers like a fucking mathematician over here.

Yeah. The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail. That's one of the two little clumps of stakes. Right. Yeah.

Mhmm. It's not the full stakes. Bruce, you you beat them. Oh. They're hand shaking.

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This is unserious. We'll be back. Unserious people. Seriously pause this? Oh, gosh.

You did it. No. You didn't. No. You pressed the yep.

Mhmm. You're doing it. You're doing it. He's doing it. So pause button has, like, those two lines?

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We're back. Yo, Willie. We've got our marijuana vaporizer. We're gonna play cinephile. Cinephile, Burris's brain is ready for this.

You wish. Alright, Burris. You know how to play this game. People at home, Cinephile is a game that has an actor's name and a movie on it. Burris will name the actor that he receives and the movie that's on the card.

That's his freebie. And then we go around the horn naming a movie that actor was in until one of us fails. Does that make sense to you? Yes. It does.

No. Not that one. Goddamn it. Don't slow him down. There's there's there's He's already so slow.

You know what? Paul has to literally get out of here. K. It's Christian Bale. What's the movie?

American Psycho. Great. It's me. Batman Begins. The Dark Knight.

Dark Knight Rises. Empire of the Sun. Newsies. Damn you. Now my mind is The card toss.

Burris, your first experience with the film Half Baked. I mean, probably in, what came out? '97, '90 '8? '90 '8. So it's probably '98.

And I that may have been the last time I'd seen it. Maybe I think high school was probably the last time I had seen it. And how would you have rated it? Back then, I probably would have given it four no. Can I ask you a question?

I think I liked it, so I would have given it, like, a good review. Are you taking questions? Yes, please. Did you were you did you partake of marijuana in high school? No.

Okay. That makes a difference. I'm cure I'm curious. Yeah. Yeah.

But you but you enjoyed the movie? Yeah. And when was the last time you watched this movie until we just watched it right now? Probably in high school. Okay.

Maybe maybe freshman year of college? Who knows? So you've seen it once or twice? Probably say a little bit more than that. I don't know.

Okay. Yeah. Can you remember between 1998 and 02/2004? Like Do you remember it? Handful of times maybe.

Yeah. And you just watched this movie again with us. And, what is your rating? Give it, cool. Awesome.

We've got the so many little technical, like, things with this. It's everything has to be challenging. Yeah. Rating. Presently, I think I give it, like, and I gotta think about the right, two and a half killers.

Two and a half killers. He doesn't kill anymore. Killer kill. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Flying killers or just killers? Me, you. Me, you.

Me, you. Me. Can't wait. I watched this movie at my friend Andrew Ross's house in high school. At the Ross's?

At the Ross's. Yeah. Woah. Okay. Andrew had a handful of movies that he had on repeat and this was one of those movies.

Was Andrew a stoner? Andrew was a stoner. Mhmm. Yeah. I I His papa was a Rolling Stone?

Or I don't think he ever met his father. So Oh. Thanks for I'll cut that out. Sorry. No.

I don't I'm just kidding. Goddamn it. Too high for this shit. No. Yeah.

No. He never met his father. Sorry. I'm kidding. We're done.

We're done with that joke. So I That joke is over. I thought it was okay. I mean, I remember there's bits from this movie that I'll always remember, and it feels like very, like, the stoner quotable movie of the of that time. Yes.

Like, going into high school, like, every stoner would be like, you see is there a guy in the bush? Does he have a gun? I don't know. I don't know. You know, there was always this movie quotes from all these stoners, and I did not partake in the Mary Jane in high school.

I seen them. Oh. I didn't seen them. I probably would have given it a three and a half. I watched it in college sometimes, you know.

I remember watching college when I did start smoking weed and I yeah. Just rewatched this with you two fine gentlemen sitting on my couch. And I think I give this two and a half twin towers. What? No.

I mean, another building did kind of fall down, so there's, you know, there's two pieces. So, yeah, you know, two and a half I guess two and a half towers. Two and a half square towers. I'm just gonna go with that. Mhmm.

Well, considering it all could have been a government conspiracy, He'll tell you. The person I talked about this earlier. So two and a half Twin Towers. Twin Towers. Okay.

I Which I guess is Right. I was like, I was trying to do the math. Yeah. 10% of a million? It's impossible.

But I'm but I'm not at five towers. I'm at two and a half. So I'm two and a half towers. Okay. I I watched this movie on the couch rental that I borrowed from Arthur across the street.

Arthur? Arthur, my buddy Arthur. An adork? Nope. Oh.

Oh. But yes. But Oh. No. But Did did he meet his father?

He doesn't have a but. Sure did. I met his dad. Oh. Lovely people.

Borrowed it from Andrew Rodriguez across the street. Another Andrew. There's a Nope. I said Andrew. Arthur.

Fuck. Yeah. Arthur Mhmm. Watched it and I was like, what the fuck? Laughed all the way through it.

Didn't understand a lot of it. Caught a lot of it in my last two viewings in the last twenty four hours of this film as I was like, what are we doing? And I have now watched this movie twice last night and today because we all watched it together. But this was the movie that opened me up to smoking weed. Woah.

Oh. I was seeing This is your gateway movie. This is your coming out and your To a decision. This is what got me into the fine China. Oh, like cocaine?

Cocaine. Cocaine. That's that's cocaine. That's the heroin. The blue.

Yeah. That's the heroin. That's That's heroin. Yeah. Yeah.

Yes. Are you telling us you're not like, you're addicted to all these drugs? Yes. Are you asking for help? No.

Is that why you I'm addicted to marijuana. I seen them. So So You ever smoked dick for Smoke dick. You ever smoked pole for marijuana? Marijuana?

This is the worst episode we've ever known. Clearly. This is flames. It's terrible. But I rated this was like a four early on for me.

I love this movie. I saw it a handful of times. I smoked weed with kids, other delinquent kids from the neighborhood. This was the gateway movie for me as was said. Yeah.

And I have not seen this movie since the first probably eight or nine times that I watched it in the first four or five years of its existence. Uh-huh. But it was like a four. Mhmm. Until, like, the last time that I watched it, it was, like, this isn't, like, as funny.

And part of it, I think, was it was, like, now there are things like Pineapple Express that have arrived and and things that are, like, weed movies but with stakes Yeah. Suspense. Yeah. And I crave it. I need it.

Yeah. And it's not that Up and Smoke or other like stoner comedies or movies don't have stakes. It's just this movie is alert. It's pretty it's a silly movie. It's unserious.

This is a silly alarm. It's full of unserious people. Yeah. There's one serious person in this movie, but he's also a cop. And that's also something to be concerned about.

So I wanna make sure that everyone's listening and that we're sounding the alarm. Yeah. Sound that alarm, Paul. Thank you. I wanted to make sure everybody heard it.

But I will I put it at, like, a three and a half. Watching this last night and today, I'm waffling between two ratings. Okay. Am I at two and a half? Mhmm.

Or am I at a two with a heart? But that's Is this a movie I'm gonna watch again that I would recommend to people? Or is this a movie that I've probably had my last hit and the roach is about to hit the garbage can? Yeah. Like, it's not bad, but there's no more of it to consume.

I've gotten all I can get out of it. Yeah. I feel you. So that's kinda where I'm at. I I I can't that's that's what's on the line.

I think I don't I hate to ruin the suspense. I could go higher or lower for sure. But Can I ask both of you real quick before we start the movie what your favorite stoner comedy is? I think I stated I love Pineapple Express. I love a lot of the Cheech and Chong movies.

Mhmm. There's so many things that fall within it. I know, like, Danny McBride movie, like, Your Highness and things things like that. But I think Pineapple Express. Burris?

Oh, I've asked him a question. Yeah. Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob. My question for you is is is Big Lebowski a stoner comedy? Yo.

Yeah. I yes. Okay. So that's obviously mine. I guess I'd have to say that if I'm going with the lower brow or something that doesn't feel Yeah.

Big Lebowski has an art house feel. It has a high end feel. It's a beautiful sheen. There's a soft spot for me for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back even though that movie is ridiculous. Yeah.

But it hits a lot of good sounds. I feel you. Yeah. I see you. Oh I feel seen.

No. I do see you. You're right next to me. You're not on Zoom. You're next to me in person.

As per your own. As always. Burris, do you have one? Burris is not real. He is not real.

I mean, I'm singing all the movies that you guys have said. I was like, but I feel like I'm forgetting one. I feel like there's one more, and that's what I'm I was just trying to find it. We just watched Blazing Saddles and agreed that is maybe a stoner comedy. So it's, like, it's kinda hard to pick one.

Wrote a blazing song. I don't know which one is pretty great. And I always love Cheap Chung. I watched that. Yeah.

Yeah. My mom showed me those when I was a kid. Nice Dreams, I think, was my first one. I don't know. Chi Chi Chung movie.

We should let's just fucking start the movie. Let's start the fucking movie. Yo. It's Paul from the edit. Oh my god.

I almost forgot. Can you imagine why I would forget? Two and a half abba zabba's because abba zaba, you're my only friend. Back to the program. And now, our feature presentation.

Okay. Just a kid bunch of kids hanging out. Yeah. It's the eighties. They're outside the store with old James.

Wait. Old James wasn't there. That's maybe the funniest joke in the movie. It's not my favorite one, but it it starts off strong. Yeah.

I like that. And the the store where everything where it's like, you don't get high the first time. Ben, you made it clear, you don't think you were high the first time. I first smoked weed in Monterey, California on the beach, after I graduated from high school. Yeah.

And I hit a bong. Woah. Billy bong? And I didn't, Thornton? No thorns.

No Thornton. Okay. I Just a Billy. Didn't feel I remember not really feeling stoned. Mhmm.

And I got pulled over. I got I was driving with my friend, guest of this podcast, Matthew Scott Barrow, as well as our friend, Joseph Mallet, and I got pulled over. And I got off with a warning, but I Wow. I remember I wasn't even really paranoid. Like, I wasn't high.

That would be a Super Troopers moment for me though. Another great comment. Oh, Super Troopers moment. Where I'd be That's a good one. Eating every candy bars.

I would be freaking the fuck out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was definitely high the first time that I smoked.

Yeah. Absolutely high. Yeah. It's different for everyone, I guess. Thought a lady in a pink dress that I saw, like, walking in the street, I was like, that is an undercover cop.

That motherfucker is not real. You know, like, I think when I think of, like, my first experiences in certain like mushrooms. The first time I picked mushrooms and went to the grocery store, that remind me of this opening. Sure. Okay.

That makes more sense to me. I agree more with that. Because you don't hallucinate on wheat. No. The Johnny Abba Zappa bar, I was like, that's never happened to me.

But I have also said Abba Zappa, you're my only friend, a million times in my life. The quotability Ben was talking about, Burris the second in here, like, third in here. Fourth thing, really? Sure. Two and a half, five?

Two and a half towers. Twin towers. God bless it all. I I like that his job is as a janitor. And this is one thing that I have come to realize doing this podcast.

The voice over is totally innocuous. It doesn't bother me. Well, like I said, I think it's I know I could be totally wrong, but maybe because it it just feels kinda Goodfellas inspired. I never thought of it that way. And that really actually struck that struck a chord with me a little.

Yeah. But maybe just because they're both about, like, going into crime business and so there's like this, like, looking at it from like a like a, I don't know, a future perspective talking about it. One is like ever since I remember I wanted to be a gangster. And the other one is like, ever since I remember, I wanted to be a stoner. I have been a stoner.

Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's true. Yeah. Him being the janitor at Frankincense and Burr Yeah.

Like a bison's face. Which is only a couple letters away from burrito. Mhmm. Is that is that is that something? Are we on to something here?

Are you on to something here? Break up the yarn. Should we go? Is COVID nineteen a weapon? Was it a buy?

I think it might have been brought to you by the birds. So we meet all the guys. It's Scarface and Brian and Kenny, and they all have these basic jobs. And we go through how to get weed at that time in the world, which was through bodegas and learning about weed culture. I like that at the end of this voice over that Thurgood says, I don't do drugs though.

Like, there are heroin people, there are these people, there are these people. I just smoke weed. That seems to be the resonating thing in this movie is like Yeah. Weed is not that serious. Chill out.

You know, and I think, like, this is '98, we said. Yeah. Yeah. This is They said. Two years before I started high school.

But, like, this was definitely, like, a time when weed was looked upon in this way of, like, you know Well, it's terrifying. Yeah. And it's just there was that whole culture subculture that occurred because of that, like, this, like, counterculture, and it's so mainstream now. A %. You can't throw a rock without finding a place on the West Coast to get weed very easily.

Or just being like meeting someone's dad who just like smokes The cool was the 40 year old dad Yeah. Who has it. Burris, did you ever have like I mentioned my guy. I had a Clint for years who was like my the delivery guy in this movie. Clint Howard?

Clint Howard. Ron Howard's brother, Clint Howard. Actor and Ice Cream Man. Or was it Willam Dafoe? And Jack and Snowman.

It wasn't Willam Dafoe. It was not that's a well recognized actor. He could've been wearing a mask. You could easily tell he was yet? He again, really easy to tell who that is.

That's clearly a weird, loved actor. Yeah. He's he's pretty good. Steve Master, mate? See me?

Whatever. Well, I don't remember what he said. It was scammy. I hope it's not it's not the scammy. He says something at the end of that episode of the studio, and I don't remember.

He's he pronounces his own name, and I don't remember. But the plumber the delivery guy saying, hey, I'm the plumber. I heard something about some empty pipes. And he starts going over the the strains and the hydroponics and stuff. Did anybody ever have this person in their life when they were smoking weed?

Did you have Just in law. A regular dealer? Oh, I had a plumber in law jamming. Oh, fucking me. I had a dealer, a friend, I think, used to live with this guy.

His name is Dan. And, yeah, he he was the guy I I also knew did you ever buy from, there were a handful of people at our school that dealt. I didn't really have to buy ever because I always had a roommate just coincidentally that sold weed and so they just smoke it home and just, like, pass it around. Lovely. This is a true story.

I lived with a guy named Kron. Who, Wow. Yeah. Right? You know what I'm talking about?

Tall, awkward. Oh, yeah. But he he no one really liked him. And, like, to a little bit of our credit, like, he was kind of annoying. And also He was a little socially awkward.

And also to his credit, probably should've been You sucked. Probably should've been a little nicer. You sucked. But, you know, we did our best. We did our best.

We really did until he went out of town and he had a whole jar of weed. And he was like, you guys can, pinch some off if you want while I'm gone. And we were like, oh, thanks. And me and my other roommate were pinching off, like, every day to the point where I came back to the jar before Sean came and it was like, almost empty. I was like, uh-oh.

I think we may I think we might have I think we might have taken too much. To a decision. You were pulling more and more out of the pouch as someone was generously allowing you to have some weed. Yeah. You got overzealous.

But they have their first smoke sesh after they get the weed. The hospital weed? It's just a regular weed maybe. I think no. He gets It's the mouth.

It's the regular weed. Oh, first is the regular weed. First is just like regular ass Samson weed from the delivery guy and they get the munchies. And Kenny goes and gets all this shit and fungus. Do you remember everything?

Do you remember everything? We got a lot of it. Graham's. Graham's. Peanut butter and jelly technically.

Peanut butter, yeah jelly. Beef jerky. Pizza. Sour cream and onion chips. We got those.

Yeah. We got the pizza. We didn't get the beef jerky. We didn't get Funyuns. Marshmallows, chocolate.

We got chocolate. Ice cream sandwiches, we have an ice cream. We have mochi. We should have some mochis. Yeah.

We should. Yeah. Got a lot of it. We didn't get funions. They did not have funions at the store, so But Burris We tried our best.

This is when he meets a horse, of course. He eats a horse and he feeds the horse all of its food and the horse dies. All the munchies. Yeah. He was trying to be nice.

There was a time We were talking about this. There was a time where, like, animals dying was played for laughs? It's weird. This is actually it's weird to me because I I have this moment in this movie where as an adult I'm watching this and I'm like, stop feeding that animal that food, you crazy idiot stoner. Idiot.

Yeah. And then my favorite moment of the movie where Kenny says, hey, girl. You hungry? And the woman walking by is like, fuck you. And I die at that line.

It is fucking her delivery, the timing of all of it, it's fucking great. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but, again, like, this is kinda like I guess this is of those movies, but, like, the plot has just progressed through dumb people. There again, there are no stakes.

Everything's super vibrant. Nothing ever goes, like, dark. Nothing's ever complex. You're never really worried about anybody because the the main concerns we're supposed to have are just they're gonna end up with Mary Jane, which, like, I don't really care because he doesn't seem to care that much despite Yeah. What's written.

And Interesting, first meeting and Right. Getting to her her giving him and the other three strangers a ride home or the other one. Right. I think the thing that I really unfortunately, I think that this doesn't this movie doesn't work for me is because it just feels like it's really just played to that niche audience of this time of that stoner culture. It like, every like, Jim Brewer's character feels just, like, very cliche stoner.

Mhmm. And everybody's doing their job. Like, all the performances to me are, like, fairly solid. They all fit in their roles. They're playing, yeah, stereotypes.

Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm just saying Guillermo Diaz, I really love. I just think it's because because it's just playing to that.

Yeah. It didn't feel like it needed to have any stakes. Nothing is three-dimensional. Everything's not even one dimensional. Because it knew it was gonna work with this group.

Yeah. But it's not that's the thing is, like, we're saying this and it's not untrue, but it's also not untrue to say that it's not bad. I will I I I think it's out. It's just doesn't aged well. I would rather revisit a lot of the things we've mentioned Yeah.

Than revisit this again, I think. That's and again, that's that's what's on the line for me. That's the stakes. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Mhmm. There are things that, again, they do make me laugh where the scientist credited as the scientist turns around and he goes, janitor, run the set this you don't normally do this. Run the seren for me. And he's like, sure thing, scientist.

And hands him the mop. And he's like, you just fucking mop all this shit up. See you later. That's very funny to me. But the idea that he works at this pharmaceutical company and they're using weed in essentially FDA testing is what they break down.

Yeah. And he's awarded with some of it. Did you guys know that Coca Cola, through their Coca Leaves, still to get the flavor for Coca Cola, they produce $4,000,000,000 worth of cocaine for The United States pharmaceutical industry every year. They're a massive supplier of cocaine for pills. I have to actually mention real quick because Paul's famous.

Oh my god. I also am watching the The Food That Built America. Mhmm. And there's a whole episode on soda. Oh, yeah.

Actually, this is a documentary series and, they talk about Coke and talk about how cocaine was prescribed. And do you know the two first sodas ever made in America that weren't, like, soda jerks? No. Root beer? Root beer, originally called Root Tea.

Oh. But they changed the name Sassparilla? Beer because they needed they were trying to appeal to men. Okay. And at that time, there was nowhere to go that wasn't a bar to hang out.

So they created, like, these soda fountains. But root beer was the first that was, like, sold, to make at home. Like, this is a powdered version, and you would add your own. Interesting. And then the other one, Doctor Pepper.

Once was a man named Twenty three delicious flavors. It's just it's just you put root beer in Coke and it tastes like that. It is just brown and water. Anyway, cocaine. Yes.

Cocaine. But the they wanna resist smoking because Kenny's in jail and Thurgood's got this new weed. And he's lying to her. Yeah. And he's lied to Mary Jane about he doesn't smoke weed because she's not into that at all.

And they don't wanna smoke out of Billy Bong Thornton though, so they have to use Wesley pipes. I'm still kicking. Which is pretty funny. I must be on Broadway. And the trip that they have like smoking this weed.

Yeah. They fly they fly high in the sky. I love that when the guy on the couch takes a tiny hit. Yeah. One cough, Steven Wright falls asleep.

Was it him or was it a pile of clothes? Sometimes it was him. It is a pile of clothes. Yeah. Not even a pile.

It's a it's jeans and a shirt that have, like, some clothes tucked into them. Yeah. It's like stuff like missing gaps, like, in the midsection. It was, like, divided. Yeah.

It was like your Halloween costume, but not good at all. Because your Halloween costume was fucking great as you were was it a coat stuffed with coats or what? No. I was I was three trench coats in a in a human suit. So good.

Again Yeah. Should've been doing this. Should've been doing this. Should've been doing this. Just saying if we could get you in the time machine, you could've made a much better stuffed thing to go on the couch.

Then You mean the time machine playing at Hollywood Fringe this summer? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe you'll see some quality props, some quality puppets in that as well that we're lacking in this film. But the the film falls into this like phobic vibe Mhmm.

Several times. Yeah. And that's part of where He was in jail. I mean, and this is the time where it was like, I don't know about you but you guys, but the f word was thrown around left and right in my schools. The f is Oh, yeah.

Absolutely. And then, like, there was, like, gay panic. It was like Yeah. If someone yeah. It was what a weird time.

Well, and this is a rated r movie. It should be mostly reserved for people who should be able to interpret the idea that I think it's like the thing that's tough is, like, it comes off as phobic. We were talking about this where it's like, oh, this guy's terrified that this is absolutely the way it's gonna go. He's terrified of it, whatever. And he doesn't have a reason to be afraid of this for quite some time after he's in jail, but he's just freaked out about it.

And Mhmm. They need to raise money to get him out of jail. And their plan is which is not a terrible plan. This is bail. Right?

Is this bail money? They need a hundred grand, which is impossible, to get him out of jail. 10%. For bail, though. Right?

Yeah. Okay. So he's still gonna get arraigned and still Yeah. He's still gonna have to go through the process. Out of jail.

% he has to go through the process. But hey, man. You know, in terms of getting that weed Just saying There's signage. Ending in the movie. Like, it's just like success.

We got So we never see him, like, get a lawyer or figure out when his court date is. None of it. He's just in jail. He's just in jail. He doesn't get a court appointed lawyer, nothing.

But to know their happy ending is correct. And also jail is different than prison, which is a lot of people realize. Like jail you should only be in jail while you're being arraigned. Yeah. Going to nothing about the process makes any sense in this movie whatsoever.

And it's just funny to me in terms of the scheme, which is not a terrible scheme. He's getting free weed. There are drawers filled with these forms. There's a massive room filled with weed, like, slow down, which he can't stay slow. But when Brian says, they're scientists, man.

There's gotta be forms lying around, man. I mean, they are scientists. And Dave Chappelle's like, what the fuck are you talking about? But he's right. It's so good.

There are moments. Yeah. There are moments. Sure. Again, your point is valid that the stakes are just when they rot, they just figure out they have to rob the place to steal the weed because they're running out of weed.

Just like Samson tells them we learn we meet Samson. Right? Yeah. Who's like the More than like halfway through movie and you're like, probably just meet me Yeah. Because they're impacting on his business and he, like, threatens them.

Well, it's weird because the the nasty Nate squirrel master thing comes up before Samson. And it's like just flip those things in terms of the timing. Like, make Samson come in way earlier than when you have him come in. Because, like, we mister nice guy shoulda the timing and the decision making of that is just really odd because mister nice guy happens after the nasty Nate thing, and the Mary Jane date happens after we still have not met Samson Right. Through all this stuff.

The $8 date, by the way It's pretty funny. They're walking at, like, an eleven minute mile pace, which is pretty fast for a walk. Uh-huh. And when she says, Bruce, how does she say it? A hwat dog.

Oh, yeah. Hwat dog. The one thing. The one New York accent she chooses to One thing. What dog?

What dog? Which What dog? Ben, you did mention is good size. Maybe it was the, the first thing they shot and they're like, we can't be shoot that, but let's just cut the Yeah. We don't have the budget.

Yeah. Cut cut the accent. Yeah. Just tell her no more accent. And they swear over a banana split that he doesn't smoke and he lies, like, triples down on the lie Oh, yeah.

To sleep with her and falls for her. Yeah. As a result, like, oh, weird. They had sex. And he was like, oh my god.

I love you. Strange. As it when he throws the joint at the end and she's like the joint yells, you'll be back. It's like, yeah, dude. Come on.

I feel like this is also a time where it was like, now if you met someone and they're like, I can't be with you. You smoke weed. People would be like, what? The fuck does that mean? Like, do you have a problem with weed?

Why can't like, why what's the issue? And if it was like, oh, I I used to smoke weed a lot and I quit, so I can't be with anyone. I'd be like, oh, totally. But they're just like, oh, it's weed. I can't have it.

I'd be like, you're the devil. Fuck you. Yeah. No. I don't think so.

While they get like drunk or something? Like, what what Yeah. Who are you to judge? Yeah. What are we talking about?

But definitely of the era for someone to be Yeah. You can't be a weed smoker. When we go through kind of like an era of smokers or smoker stages with like John Stewart and Willie Nelson Yeah. And Snoop Dogg. And we do this consistently through the movie.

Like meet different types of smokers. The son and father. Yeah. The struggling artist, Janine Garofalo. All these these people.

And I'm in a train station train station warehouse. And we meet, Sir Smokealot, who is also Dave Chappelle. Mhmm. And in this sequence, like, I get, again, two of the most quotable lines in the movie. Scarface yelling, fuck you, I'm out.

And throwing a burger at a dude's face. Yeah. And doctor says I need a bachotomy, which I still say to this day because my back is made of paper mache in dreams. And this is around the time I asked you guys, if you recall, where this lands before the Where yeah. Chappelle Show going.

Yeah. Because to me, this feels like a series of Chappelle Show sketches strung together. Oh, another good point. Okay. And the Chappelle Show is great.

And so it's It kind of Chappelle Show, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. It's kinda like he was he was kinda like testing. He was testing the waters on on Yeah.

To a degree. Like, I mean, it proves, in my opinion, the sketches are mostly pretty funny. It's like you watch SNL and you're like, if one or two sketches are good, this was because a lot of it's entertaining regardless. But if there are one or two really good sketches, we're good. Yeah.

And Half Baked is about the length a little longer than an SNL episode. And there are fairly consistent laughs through the sketches. And to your point of them being in the apartment, it feels like a, b, c. Like, it feels like a sketch building out. Like, we go and see what's happening in other people's lives or what have you and come back to Yeah.

It feels sitcom y, sketchy. Yeah. Yeah. And, like, again, if you're building sketches, you don't have to necessarily put, like, really serious stakes in them because they're not about that. No.

Not at all. About the comedy, the joke. Right? And so I think, yeah, it's tough. I The movie though is completely unserious.

It it it all feels very harmless. I I don't know if this is hurtful to people necessarily, but I can imagine it could be and has been or what have you. But for the most part, it's it's on the low end of that, like, late nineties, like, phobia stuff. It was more of a, like, an eye roll thing. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. I felt the same way. That that where you're just like, it's this again.

Because it's just like that's such a That's a good way, but I'm gonna say Barissa's nodding. You agree? Yes. Sorry. I'm not I just want you to expound.

We'll we'll we'll start making a video about that. If people aren't clear, we're talking about the in prison, they're he's afraid of being Stabbed. Being stabbed by another man. Yeah. Squirrelmaster's gonna be the first one to stab if it's anybody.

It won't be nasty nates. That's a great jungle of love. And that's kind of the big stakes that they're always talking about. Like, we gotta get him out of here. Nasty Nate's pretty stinks.

Protect his butt or whatever. Yeah. It's just it's it's a little It falls really flat. Yeah. Yeah.

Killer the dog is the thing that I'm like, oh, okay. This is something new. Like, this weird dog thing, and it starts flying, and Jerry Garcia in a pouch and, like, all the things they're spending money on. It's like dumb stoner shit. Yeah.

And they bring back more cameos, like, more smoker types. And that's how that's their a to b with the sketches going Yes, sir. We're gonna escalate is, like, okay, here's Samson. Which, like, if you watch drug dealer movies like New Jack City or Dead Presidents or or Sugar Hill or these types of things, like, you're like, oh, it makes sense that there's another dealer who's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah.

But it also is like, what the fuck is happening? Also, low stakes. Scarface gets caught Yeah. And it's just like Yeah. There's no And Samson just laughs at him.

Clarence Williams the third is a gem. A gem. I think though, like, this weird genre, like, sharp turn to Bond villain with female guards in this It's weird. Movie that's felt kind of semi based in reality, not really anything too outlandish. Other than people, like, flying with their eye.

Right? Yeah. Put that around that context. But in this, introducing this villain that, again, feels like a Bond ripoff. Slightly different world.

What? It's like Austin Powers y. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, what is what is this again?

What have you been watching? And all of his weapons are categorized and because, like, the crossbow is eight fourteen. Yeah. Is that supposed to be a joke? I was lost on that.

Is it a bond thing? Is it a reference to something? I it it falls flat for me. I don't know. I don't understand it.

I was like, does he have 813 other weapons? I Yeah. Right. At least. Are they all?

But one's a crossbow. One's a fucking crossbow. Are they all different types of crossbows? So does that have a panic? I I don't know.

When he does the Jamaican thing though, it is kind of funny to me when Chappelle's like, I don't know why I'm lying. I don't know why I'm wearing this hat. Like, I'm sorry. Yeah. Like, that kinda gets me.

And right after this, when he goes to deal to Mary Jane, where he doesn't understand what's going on. He's so stupid. He doesn't understand he's going to Mary Jane, that she's gonna catch him. And he goes to rehab, which is essentially, like, in a big carnival tent that's more like AA. Not yeah.

It wasn't an AA. It just says rehab. But we Bob Saget showing up. It's great. It's fantastic.

I used to suck dick for Coke. RIP. You ever suck some dick for Coke. Marijuana? I miss Bob Saget.

Boo. This man. Yeah. Bob Saget was great. Stories from my friends next door, they never told.

He was always willing to tell me. He would tell me He would tell me I would be a star tonight. I would let the camera roll for the red, the white, and the blue. The funny things you do, you're full of unserious people and I'm very upset about it. Sorry.

What are you, Bob Saget? The red, white, and blue is full of unserious people. Is everybody okay? I'm I'm lost. I lost my First, first because the apartment is wrecked.

Just like this podcast. And they killed this dog. Completely derailed and they kill another animal. I can Not only that, but accidentally, like, steps on him. Yeah.

He, like, kicks him. As he's like, they killed killer bee. And I I actually like that Guillermo Diaz in, like, he has some great physical comedic stuff in this movie especially. In that moment, there's a level of, like, I'm about to fucking lose it that feels, like, a little bit more than this movie. Mhmm.

Does that make sense? Like, that's the only thing that makes makes it, like, palatable moving forward Yeah. Is that it he very sincerely seems very upset. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, again, like And Brian's theory. We now have a movie About killer. Yes. I know. It's ridiculous.

But I just feel like, you know, I don't know. I don't know why it's John Wick that comes to my mind, but it's like an entire movie based around what someone would do if they killed their dog. Yeah. Which mostly turns out in like shadow boxing and high kicking nothing rather than John Wick style action. Yeah.

But Sampson calls and is like, come meet me and says, shut up, bitch. Do Dave Chappelle hilariously. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they have to and they have to go steal.

Do we did they already get arrested? So they have the meeting and they the guy comes up with the plan for the robbery. Well, yeah. They have to the place is closed. They have to, pay him $20,000 a week or they're dead.

Yeah. So now they're making a plan to rob Deschanel's work and steal all the money. A great plan. Oh, yeah. Just just Walk right in.

The only one who tried to even remotely take that seriously was Guillermo Diaz painting his face like he was in the movie, take that seriously was Guillermo Diaz painting his face like he was in the movie Dead Presidents. Yeah. Thurgood walks in in his fucking uniform. His work uniform, his name tag on. It's And we were commenting on this right before the security guards that they cut to start commenting on it.

And then, I mean, they're just like, look at these idiots. What what are they doing? Weed vault when they're just fucking going insane, like, throwing everything. Like, the the director had to be, like, just act as absolutely insane as you can, as as happy as you can about finding this. The plot being moved forward through dumb people.

Right? Yeah. That's just it's like dumb and dumber kind of it. But that's Yeah. That's like very purposeful.

Dirty work or But even dumb and dumber has stakes. The stakes of yeah. The whole the money briefcase, husband, like, yeah. It's it's Dumb and Dumber a stoner comedy. No one's really getting high, but But they're dumb.

Yeah. It's just a dumb comedy. Yeah. Yeah. But the cops send them to break down Sampson because he is the head of the snake.

Yes. They have to go and they they have to get him on Well, we never said it was their idea. What? Yeah. Oh, the miming?

We didn't talk about the cops catching them. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Right?

Okay. Well, yeah. They they exit and then they get thrown by cops. So Yeah. But then, there's there's a mop in the alleyway, so Daisha probably grabs a mop, starts mopping because he's in his uniform, and then Guillermo does does some mops.

That's a big thing. And Jim Brewer does a dark man. Does dark man falls in, another universal movie. They could use that's why dark man could appear. Special appearance by the film.

Take the fucking elephant. Take the fucking elephant. Take the fucking elephant. Take the fucking fucking elephant. Let's do some improvisational comedy.

As an actor, you need stuff to draw on. And I drew So the drug slang too thing where it's like, fine China, candy makes you dandy, because the cops need specific that's the thing is the movie is so damn quotable. Yeah. But the fight also is, like, mostly burst. Like, you're laughing, like, where it's just kind of an idle role.

They play well, they play the, Batman TV. Right. I think they're not good. It's already, like, supposed to be that. And, like, they've got, like, the blam.

Yeah. We've gone. We've gone. Yeah. It's it's just goes kind of into a cartoon world.

It becomes too much of the tonal part of it goes way too ungrounded. And the movie never changes the way it looks in terms of lighting, in terms of tone. Yeah. It's always the same. And remember how we talked about in mystery men how the like the climax wasn't really like climactic and never felt like they were like really in danger.

Right. I think my favorite part actually is when Clarence Williams says, yes Cuban bee. And he's like possessed. Maybe that's my favorite line. I don't know.

They call me Cuban Pete. Yeah. The mask jumps out and there's a little it's wild. Oh man. Is that something?

Is that I mean, he's got a green face. Is that a stone? Is that a stone? Is that a stone? It's not grounded terribly.

It's kinda dumb. Yeah. Cherry Garcia, why didn't the mask ever become Gerry Garcia? Other question, what's your favorite Ben and Jerry's? Is it Cherry Garcia?

Or are you more of a chunky monkey guy? American cone? I know mine. I I don't I I was allergic to dairy for most of my life and then so I never had I don't have a favorite ice cream. I'm gonna vary I like them a lot, but I like flavors.

I just can't tell you what name of you're still going to Ben and Jerry's. Oh. If you're a fan of earthy flavor in ice cream, Ben and Jerry's Pistachio Pistachio is something special to me. Okay. Not Cherry Garcia, like Jerry Garcia that's No.

Related to Barry Garcia? Who's Andy Garcia's brother? Drive your thinking Captain Finneasy, man. That That's a funny joke. It is a funny joke.

That was a joke that I forgot about coming into this movie. I think ultimately when I think of a movie that I wanna watch again. Yeah. The cops when the cops finally show up and they're stoned and very unserious, like, the only serious person in this entire movie is the cop that goes, get on your knees and put your hands behind your head. And everything else is just Was it Johnny Utah?

I'm an FBI agent. I'm still kicking Utah. I must go to Broadway. The cops finally show up. Kenny gets out.

And I they do say, like, we copped up a deal for Kenny as part of getting Samson. Yeah. So Kenny gets out. It's all done with. And then we have this one of several stolen shots in New York.

They took a, like, a three second shot on the on the Brooklyn Bridge, and that's it. And then they have this Yeah. And then we're yeah. And then it has this great credit song. It's a UB forty song called I Get Lifted couch of ashes and rises.

And, so that that's our Easter moment. Yeah. And the CG ash gets pushed perfectly back into the bag. The regeneration of Jerry Garcia. Mhmm.

Yeah. Yeah. He went away for a little while, moved to Boulder. Hang back. Happy Easter, everybody.

Thank you. Happy Easter. We hope you're having a good time as we did. We're gonna re rate this film. We brought back the rating.

It's been the segment has been resurrected. Okay. Ben Burris. I think I'm sticking at two and a half. Okay.

Yeah. I don't know. I don't I don't think I really ever need to watch this movie again. Yeah. And I don't know if I'd even recommend this movie.

Oh, so you're maybe closer to a two. I think I'm going to two Twin Towers. Oh, shit. One two more one more than there is now because there's one now. There's the Freedom Tower 1?

Yeah. One of one. Is that what it's called? I think it's called Freedom Tower. I don't know.

Okay. But you're at two. I I am at two. Yeah. I I just think that it wear it out.

It's it's worn out its welcome for me. It had its place, and I'm happy I saw it when I did. And I'm happy some of these jokes live on in my head. But I probably won't I agree with that. Let this go.

I mean, like, I give it a two and f for, like, the fondness of, like, you know, the memories of it and Yeah. Gotten, like, the the quotable moments too. Wasn't a waste of time, but wouldn't revisit. Yeah. Okay.

I I think so. I am technically not the guest. I cannot take a quarter measure. There's no such thing as a two and a half with a broken heart or a two with a broken heart. I would love to give this a 2.25.

I think just because so many of the quotes, more than anything, have stuck with me and will continue to stick with me. Like, they killed Killer Bee. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're cool.

Fuck you. I'm out. And, yes, Cuban Bee and things like that. And I again, it treads a line, but it feels pretty innocuous. It feels pretty harmless.

Eye roll was such a great Yeah. Term. Yeah. So I'm gonna give it a two and a half, but I will not revisit it with a a reverence like a lot of the other movies that we've mentioned here. Mhmm.

Yeah. I did like it though. Like, if somebody were like, should I watch Half Baked? I'd be like, sure. It it feels longer than the eighty eight minutes.

But if you have a hundred and 10 to, like, pause, go to the bathroom, take a phone call, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm.

There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Not bad. Two and a half won't go back. Two and a half won't go back, and a two won't go back. But, like, not a waste of time, but, like, not Yeah.

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