Get set to crack up as we take you on a tour of the hilarious yet underappreciated "Popstar: Never Stop, Never Stopping." Our affection for The Lonely Island goes way back, and it’s time to celebrate Andy Samberg and his crew’s masterpiece that didn’t get the love it deserved at the box office. We'll reminisce about their SNL antics, viral hits, and spill some little-known facts, like how they managed to film concert scenes at actual One Direction gigs. If you've ever had to stifle a laugh in public thanks to "Jizz in My Pants" or "I'm on a Boat," this episode will resonate with your funny bone.
Strap yourselves in for a musical mockumentary that hits every comedic note perfectly. From the laugh-inducing "Donkey Roll" to the spot-on satire of the music biz, our chat is a tribute to the film's humorous take on boy band phenomena and the ridiculousness of Andy Samberg's Connor. We’ll also highlight SNL’s current comedy keepers, "Please Don't Destroy," and debate whether "Popstar" could be the ultimate compatibility test for your partner's humor. The spotlight is on the Style Boyz' tumultuous relationship and the absurdly catchy music that The Lonely Island is known for, making this chapter a vibrant blend of SNL skit breakdowns and musical mockumentary magic.
Wrap up your headphones and prepare for laughter as we touch on the outlandish aspects of celebrity culture. Experience Connor's cringe-worthy yet hilarious marketing stunts gone wrong, his publicity-driven relationship, and the star-studded cameos, including Emma Stone’s delightful turn. Plus, don't miss the hysterical CMZ segment where Mike Birbiglia, Chelsea Peretti, and a slew of other comedians offer a satirical skewering of fame. We're here to share the comedic chaos from Connor's bee debacle to the endearing antics of Zippy the cameraman - this episode is a laugh track you won't want to miss!
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Get set to crack up as we take you on a tour of the hilarious yet underappreciated "Popstar: Never Stop, Never Stopping." Our affection for The Lonely Island goes way back, and it’s time to celebrate Andy Samberg and his crew’s masterpiece that didn’t get the love it deserved at the box office. We'll reminisce about their SNL antics, viral hits, and spill some little-known facts, like how they managed to film concert scenes at actual One Direction gigs. If you've ever had to stifle a laugh in public thanks to "Jizz in My Pants" or "I'm on a Boat," this episode will resonate with your funny bone.
Strap yourselves in for a musical mockumentary that hits every comedic note perfectly. From the laugh-inducing "Donkey Roll" to the spot-on satire of the music biz, our chat is a tribute to the film's humorous take on boy band phenomena and the ridiculousness of Andy Samberg's Connor. We’ll also highlight SNL’s current comedy keepers, "Please Don't Destroy," and debate whether "Popstar" could be the ultimate compatibility test for your partner's humor. The spotlight is on the Style Boyz' tumultuous relationship and the absurdly catchy music that The Lonely Island is known for, making this chapter a vibrant blend of SNL skit breakdowns and musical mockumentary magic.
Wrap up your headphones and prepare for laughter as we touch on the outlandish aspects of celebrity culture. Experience Connor's cringe-worthy yet hilarious marketing stunts gone wrong, his publicity-driven relationship, and the star-studded cameos, including Emma Stone’s delightful turn. Plus, don't miss the hysterical CMZ segment where Mike Birbiglia, Chelsea Peretti, and a slew of other comedians offer a satirical skewering of fame. We're here to share the comedic chaos from Connor's bee debacle to the endearing antics of Zippy the cameraman - this episode is a laugh track you won't want to miss!
We would love to hear from you! Send us an email and maybe it will be read on the podcast! werecommendmailbag@gmail.com
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason and ever since I was young I was dope. Hell yeah, Because this week we recommend Popstar. Never Stop, Never Stopping.
Speaker 2:Fuck yeah, man this is one of the funniest fucking movies I've ever seen.
Speaker 1:I sold you. I was like you have to watch this movie. It's so funny the way it just makes fun of I don't know every single rapper or I don't know pop star performer, whatever. I saw this in theaters and I was like it was me, natalie, and one of my friends back in Murfreesboro and I was like we have to see it. I love Lonely Island. They're the best we got. To go see this. They have a new movie. Went there, hardly anybody in the theater. I was like okay, this is like is like. You know, just the fourth day it was out, washington's like this is the funniest movie ever. It only made like 10 million dollars worldwide in its entire theatrical run. I'm like this is what's wrong with america and the world.
Speaker 2:They don't know what's funny, but we're here to tell you what's funny.
Speaker 1:Yes, this movie's funny. So obviously everybody knows Lonely Island from SNL. Right, Sure, your big SNL or Lonely Island guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well before I knew I saw him on SNL. It was the videos of their, you know, like stork patrol, yeah.
Speaker 1:Or sports guys Sports guys, I like sports, I don't care, who knows. Oh God, yeah, I used to watch those all the time, especially when I was in Motlow and I'd have a three-hour break between classes and I was like I didn't have money then, so I couldn't do anything. So I'd just be in the library, um, just looking up lonely island videos, snl videos, anything like that, and just like in the library, trying to be super quiet, it's like trying to like hold in my laughter. I just could not do it. What's some of your favorite, uh, lonely island skits?
Speaker 2:uh, dick in the box. Well, no, that's's Justin Timberlake. No, that's Long Island. Still, oh, he's still in it.
Speaker 1:It's Andy Samberg.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the jizz in my pants dick in the box.
Speaker 1:I'm on a boat, throw it on the ground.
Speaker 2:I don't think so. Throw it on the ground? Oh, maybe I have. I don't know, they're all so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Jizz in the Pants is great Like a Boss.
Speaker 2:Like a Boss, talk to corporate Shit on Debra's desk. Yes, it was amazing.
Speaker 1:Fuck a giant fish, blow my brains out. Yeah, they're pretty much. They destroy. And I don't know if you've, because most of the ones that you named were from their first album. I guess they have, including Popstar. They have four albums. You should listen to the other two Specifically, like Turtleneck and Chains. Diaper Money and Spring Break Anthem is good. It's essentially kind of like the song in this movie Not Gay, it's where it's like this, except instead it's the reverse. It's about two or three guys talking about going on spring break and having sex with women, doing drugs and getting married to each other it's it's hilarious, yeah, but so the film?
Speaker 1:hold on. Let me find my notes and then everything else from uh adam sand.
Speaker 2:Is it Andy Sandberg? Andy Sandberg Like his movies that he's been in so fucking funny.
Speaker 1:Have you seen Hot Rod? Yes, Dude Hot Rod is awesome when I was in the middle doing this movie, I was like I wonder what my double feature is going to be. And then I thought of Hot Rod and I was like why didn't I do Hot Rod? Yeah, hot, all right so funny Cool beans, beans, cool beans.
Speaker 1:So the movie stars Andy Samberg as Connor Jorma Takun I don't know how to say. His last name is Owen. You got Akiva Schaefer as Lawrence, sir Silverman as Paula, tim Meadows as Harry, my Rudolph as Deborah. What's the origins?
Speaker 2:Deborah.
Speaker 1:You got Joan Cusack as the cocaine addicted mother um, imogen Boots as Ashley, chris Redd as Hunter. I mean I could just keep going, cause every person in the world is in this quest love. Carrie Underwood, usher Nos.
Speaker 2:Michael.
Speaker 1:Bolton, michael Bolton, which just they love. They loved his Usher Noss. Michael Bolton, michael Bolton, which they love, they love just I don't know collaborating with Michael Bolton because they have the Pirates of the Caribbean song. You don't remember hearing that one? That was an SNL one. It's just where they just kind of talk. I don't know, michael Bolton just did a song with him.
Speaker 2:I'm totally blanking on it. That's amazing. I have to find it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's very simple.
Speaker 2:Whenever he popped up, I was like ah of course Michael Bolton's going to be in this at some point.
Speaker 1:So for some trivia. For this there's not a lot, so you know not won't be able to tell you a lot a lot, there's just none. I couldn't find any articles or anything.
Speaker 2:Rather a historical movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not super. It's only 2016,. So I don't know. There's usually facts about it, but I guess it just wasn't a hit. It came and went. I think now it's kind of a cult classic. I went on to look for facts and all it was was Reddit posts. Why the fuck did no one watch this movie? Why does no one talk about this movie? Well, we're here to talk about it, that's right, baby.
Speaker 1:So most of the shots of large crowds were actually from one direction concerts, apparently. Oh, wow, yeah. Well, that was terrible which I feel like is perfect, because this is about a boy band that broke up right um the producer. At the end, that kisses Lawrence.
Speaker 2:That's his actual wife.
Speaker 1:Oh, nice, oh, and I thought this was pretty funny. They're going to fuck yeah. In this movie, Seal says he's got his scars on his face from wolves.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, yes.
Speaker 1:In real life he got the scars from lupus, like the autoimmune disease. Oh shit, I thought he was in a fire, and the scientific name for wolves is canis lupus so maybe that's why they had seal in as a joke. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I fucking love seal um, let's see, I love that he was in this movie. I don't necessarily love him for any reason, though, I guess I mean he's got that one song, kiss from a rose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, damn, that song rules, gotta love Kiss from a Rose. Yeah, damn, that song rules, gotta love it yeah, it was in the Batman movie.
Speaker 2:That was sweet which one. It was in Batman, the one with Val Kilmer oh, batman Forever.
Speaker 1:yeah, forgot about that. Okay, so the movie is I think it's supposed to be loosely based on Justin Bieber. Nice, andy Samberg says it's not, but I'm like okay, it's not, but I'm like okay, the movie is never stop, never stopping, which based on the movie's Never Say Never. Connor for real has a turtle and Justin Bieber had a monkey, both run after someone, recording them in an aggressive manner. Also, there is an Anne Frank reference in the movie and Justin Bieber had controversy with Anne Frank by claiming he hoped she would be a believer. What, yeah? And then you have the trailer featuring him playing drums as an infant, very similar to a scene in Justin's movie where he's like young and playing the drums. They both have a bunch of tattoos.
Speaker 2:But he fucking kicked ass as a kid at drums who Connor? Yeah, I mean, he was just a little baby and just crushing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was jamming. Let's see, I think that might be it. Oh, even though that this movie makes fun of TMZ very hard. Tmz loves that they parried him. It's very funny and we totally get what you're saying. And then obviously you have the connor. Putting all his music inside of appliances is obviously a reference to youtube, like forcing everybody to have their first album on the ipad.
Speaker 2:God, that pissed me off so much. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1:Youtube gets all the crap with that. And then it's. It just seemed like apple was just kind of. No one remembers like, hey, it's apple's fault too. It's like you all still keep buying apple products, even though you're mad about that so, uh, surely they won't do it again with anything else what, um? What makes this movie funny to you Like? Why is it so funny?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I think it's just Andy Samberg. It's his face, isn't it? I feel like it's his face.
Speaker 1:He has such a funny face, it's like it's silly looking, it's kind of handsome and like they can sing, so it's like I don't know. It reminds me he seems like he would have been for the 2000s and early 2010s. He was our Adam Sandler kind of, I guess, just in terms of he does silly voices, he sings a little bit. He's very absurd humor for the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah but I would argue he's more funny. Yeah, and his music and stuff, dang bro, that's a hot take for the time, yeah, but I would argue he's more funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's music dang bro. I mean, I think that's a hot take. I think joe biden just called like an airstrike on us right now because he had added sadler. He's pissed no, no one makes fun of. No one said I can't do it, joe biden, just forget it.
Speaker 2:I mean I think stuff like lunch, lady, land and that's like the funniest, like all that stuff is. So funny it's, and.
Speaker 1:But you know, the thing with adam sandler is that all his friends are kind of um either just as funny or funnier, right, I mean?
Speaker 2:yeah, let's say so. He's got a lot of funny friends. What's?
Speaker 1:his name crit uh, oh my god, tommy boy, oh my god oh my god, oh yeah, the no I'm talking about the big guy, tommy Boy.
Speaker 2:Oh Well, yeah, Tommy Boy.
Speaker 1:What's his name? I don't know the big guy I'm talking about. Oh, my God, the main guy, chris Farley.
Speaker 2:Oh, I thought you were talking about Chris Farley, david Spade, david Spade.
Speaker 1:Yeah, also super Adam Sandler movies. Sometimes the best bits go to the side characters versus. I feel like sometimes Andy Sandberg has the best bits in his own movies. That's true, maybe. But then I also love the other two guys, jorma and Akiva. Like they're so funny in themselves, like Jorma's always playing like the small, like being picked on type guy, and Akiva's always the more of the rebellion in the movies. Like for Jorma and Hot Rod he's the little brother of Andy Samberg's character. Okay, yeah, it's so funny. I just like this movie. It's, I don't know, the songs are great, I don't know what it is about comedic rap, but I love it. I feel like sometimes mostly I just listen to comedic rap which I feel like I should try to start listening to, just actual music more no.
Speaker 1:I know they're absurd, it's very. It's kind of sketch comedy type humor which I don't know. I really like you got workaholics, all them and then you also have, like now on SNL, the please don't destroy, they're all come from, like the lonely Island crew.
Speaker 2:They're all inspired by them. I haven't seen SNL in so long. I need to get back into it.
Speaker 1:You should watch the Please Don't Destroy skits. You'll love them. They're so funny.
Speaker 2:I saw one the other night about the Kenan or maybe it's Kel the black guy, it's Kenan. It's Kenan Kenan Thompson, right when he was in an interview, and then behind the interviewer there's people dressed up exactly like Beavis and Butthead. That's the Ryan Gosling episode. That episode is so funny.
Speaker 1:Yes, everybody's just breaking because they look so stupid. They keep moving. They move Ryan Gosling, then they put Butthead which is the guy that looks like Butthead behind him, and then they're like all right, move them both out of the frame.
Speaker 2:And then they set them right next to each other.
Speaker 1:And then at that point, nobody can hold it together. That entire episode is great and Ryan Gosling just breaks, like every single one. No, but you really should go and just check out all the. Please, don't Destroy it Just for the recent stuff, because SNL is always the same, where it's like you got about two or three good skits and then I feel like I've said this on the Monty Python one. I'm just going to go with that. Maybe I don't know. So I want to know what was your favorite song from this.
Speaker 1:Oh God, maybe what was the you got Me Likey Dad, you got. What was the you got me likey dad, you got. I'm so humble, oh incredible thoughts.
Speaker 2:I'm so humble was really good. Then you got the man. They're all good. Fuck me, like you fucked bin Laden yes, the not gay one was hilarious yeah, oh man, my incredible thoughts though was just the most insane.
Speaker 1:I feel like my favorite loved it. Oh, karate guy, I'll freaking love. All right, I guess we should just hop right into the film.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, let's get it so good, it's too bad. I actually fell asleep during it, but she was like this is really funny.
Speaker 1:I was I just wanted, because I feel like half the time we do movies I'm like I don't know, I wonder if his wife will like this one. And then I was like there's gotta be. I'm I'm like I don't know, I wonder if his wife will like this one, and then I was like there's got to be. I'm sure she'll like this one, right, like it's funny, it's silly, it's kind of there's some gross humor in it. But I was like I feel like she'll get like I don't know.
Speaker 2:I thought this was a movie that you should watch, but she loves that guys too.
Speaker 1:oh, really okay good, okay, I was gonna say I was like I'm just, I'm never gonna meet your wife. She didn't like this movie. This is it. This is the line I draw, just kidding.
Speaker 1:So the film is kind of film like uh, it's like a monkey mockumentary type style, kind of like spinal tap. Essentially, yeah, that movie and there's another one, whatever. So the film starts with an introduction of the style boys, a popular boy brand from back in the day. It's made up of owen or kid contact that's played by jorma. You have a laurence dunn or kid brain played by akiva, and then you have connor for real, uh, or kid connor played by andy sandberg, obviously. Now all I want to do is say Adam Sandberg, yeah, my bad. They influenced people like Usher, nos, questlove and their song and dance, donkey Roll, was a huge hit. I love Donkey Roll, I love that part of the dance. However, over the years, conner became the face of the band, leading Owen and Lawrence to get sidelined. This plus Conner's ego and moronic behavior like his white boy jeans. Over the years, connor became the face of the band, leading Owen and Lawrence to get sidelined.
Speaker 1:This plus Connor's ego and moronic behavior like his white boy jeans as like embroidered on the back, exit only, and then on the front jizz factory, so good. It caused friction between Connor and Lawrence and the style boys eventually split up. Funny thing. So I guess when they split and have a fight on the stage I guess that happened to the Eagles, I guess back in the 80s.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was so funny, florida, they just tackled it.
Speaker 1:It was so great, and one of the songs that we see is Karate Guy, I'm a karate guy, I'm a karate guy, I'm in a cowboy hat.
Speaker 2:I'm in a cowboy hat. I'm in three cowboy hats.
Speaker 1:So good, I pulled up like all the work. Then we also. We saw the song Me Likey that, like when girls blow us kisses me likey that when your mama does our dishes me likey that, like when girls blows kisses me likey that when your mama does our dishes me likey. That it's essentially to say when your mom does dishes a lot during the song, it's funny, it's so great.
Speaker 1:and let's see what else is there any humble okay I was just gonna see if there's any other lines. I wanted to say I'm humble. Okay, I was just going to see if there's any other lines I wanted to say.
Speaker 2:I'll cut this part out your parents hate me because my car is so slick yeah, sick.
Speaker 1:Linda. So in the present we have Connor. He's gone solo as Connor for real, but Owen stuck around as the DJ while Lawrence moved to the countryside to become a farmer.
Speaker 2:I love how he's always getting shot by a bird. Yeah, it's so funny. I love the DJ. He's got all the equipment. They're like he just does it with an iPod.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's like the producers say in the background it's like, oh so, do you use all this for Connor? It's like the producers like say in the background it's like, oh so, do you use all this for connor? He's like, no, I just use this ipod. It's like, oh man, this thing's great 64 gigs. I have so many audio books on it. It was harry's third year. Yeah, it's just harry potter. Yeah, um. So we have connor's first solo album. Thriller also was the number one selling album. We see him on stage with adam levine's hologram performing his hit song.
Speaker 2:I'm so humble, it's so expensive, yeah some of the best line uh he has like seven holograms yeah holograms of his self hugging uh, I went up top, one humping the other, like you know, just dancing on him Like grinding on him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, by none. I am the most humblest Number one at the top Of the humble list. My apple crumb Is by far the most crumblist. But I act. I act like it tastes bad Out of humbleness. Oh man, that song I listen to. But I act like it tastes bad out of humbleness. Oh man, that song I listen to. That all the time.
Speaker 2:Do you have anything you're super humble about?
Speaker 1:Not like this.
Speaker 2:Not like this I think my ability is a Mario Kart. I'm pretty humble about that. Yeah, you're really good at it, I'm really bad at it.
Speaker 1:It's like you got one. I'm not your normal definition of a rock star. I don't complain when my private jet is subpar yeah, mom's old, but I'll ask if she's your sister. People say I'm charming, but I beg to differ and then I guess, in a way, being gracious is my weakness. People say I'm so unpretentious, we're a genius, it's so good it's so smart so we also meet Connor's publicist Paula, played by Sarah Silverman, and the manager I love.
Speaker 2:Sarah Silverman.
Speaker 1:She will always be like the sexiest comedian oh yeah, you know, I really do like Sarah Silverman. I've never watched any of her stand up. I need to. I feel like I've just never watched any of it. I don't know how I missed any of it, but I did yeah, I've seen a lot of her.
Speaker 2:I've seen more of her shows her shows and TV.
Speaker 1:Yeah, didn't she have the. She had a Comedy Central show funny she sniffed her own dog's butt yes, okay, it's all coming back now. That's all the words I needed to hear. Yeah, like so you could protect your neck from knives and then we probably have one of the and then we meet the manager, harry, played by one of the funniest people to ever exist yes, tim meadows, he's so funny, he's so funny, god, I love him.
Speaker 1:So, tim Meadows, who states that Connor has 32 people on his personal payroll, including a weed roller, a guy to punch him in the nuts to remind him where he came from, and a prospective manipulator who stands next to Connor to make him look taller. Manipulator who stands next to connor to make him look taller. But yeah, so he just essentially has a ton of people that essentially just tell him they're like a bunch of, yes, people he's got a bagpipe player yeah, and like there's the shot where he like pretends he throws the ball behind them and they're like oh, you did it, so who went in?
Speaker 1:yeah he just lies to him, and we also learned that Harry was in a band. Tony, tony, tony Tony. He says that he got kicked out because all the Tonys had an exclamation mark and he wanted a question mark behind his Nice. He regrets that decision. We also meet Connor's turtle, maximus, who has soggy bone syndrome. He was only supposed to live like six months and live like over 20 years. I meant to pause it to see what, because it pops up soggy bone syndrome.
Speaker 2:And I was like dang it, I should watch it, completely forgot.
Speaker 1:And then this is where we get, like we learned, owen just uses an iPod, connor is getting ready to release his second album, conquest, and it's kind of like that famous I think it was Soviet Union poster where you got the poster and then all the people behind. I was like dude come on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even the. It was supposed to be like the sickle and the hammer but, it was something kind of close.
Speaker 1:It was like. I think it was like CFR or something like that. We learned that he wrote every song and used over 100 producers for just 17 tracks so ridiculous. Then we get his first single off that album, Equal Rights, that features Pink and mostly features Connor, reminding listeners that he's not gay mainly by saying I'm not gay and utilizing straight things and we have like ringo star.
Speaker 1:At the end, whenever they show the whole song, he's like he's writing the song for gay marriage, like it's not allowed. It's allowed now. Let's see what some of the best so hard um what's like what's?
Speaker 2:I never really listened to justin bieber early fall and watch his videos, so I feel like I could have made more connections.
Speaker 1:Yeah I think I've done some research into justin bieber I think whenever they start going um to like the music videos there, that's where they kind of drift away from like the justin bieber aspects of it Okay. Yeah, okay, I can't, I can't, I don't know, I'm not going to say any of those. Those are too complicated. Okay, so we'll get back. So the first reviews are in and they're not kind. Pitchfork gave it a negative four out of ten. Pitchfork. Rolling Stones just gave it a negative four out of ten. Rolling.
Speaker 2:Stones just gave it the shit emoji. Yeah, I mean, he's like yeah, I can see what they're getting. It's like this must be wrong.
Speaker 1:This must have been like a misprint. And then he starts reading it. No, from what they're saying it seems about right.
Speaker 1:But then Conor does find a good review that calls it a triumph. But he's like, oh, what's this for? Oh, the good review that calls it a triumph, but it's like, oh, what's this for? Oh, the onion. So we'll say the reviews are mixed. There's there's just something about the line like how I think a lot of it comes to the editing of the movie, and I feel like with comedies, editing is what like really, because you gotta nail the timing yeah, it's all about timing, which is the, even in this movie.
Speaker 1:A few times he said, man, that timing was crazy, uh, but I feel like which just is something. In general, editors hold all the power of the movie right, so essentially they can make a bad director look good if they edit it correctly. They can make an unfunny person funny if they edit it correctly, or I don't feel like they're gonna have a long career if they don't do these things right.
Speaker 1:Yeah exactly I think it was. It was either leo leonardo dicaprio or I thought you were talking about the ninja turtle, no he also did say what I'm about to say.
Speaker 1:It was it was some actor that said it's like, honestly, like, uh, the person that I appreciate the most is the editor, because I do a lot of bad takes and they always are able to play the best take and make me look so much better than I feel, like I am type thing, and I was like, oh yeah, okay, all right. And then we're treated to a clip of connor's feature performance on a song from another pop star played by Emma Stone. It's one of my favorite songs off the album. I listen to it all the time.
Speaker 2:It's mostly made up of catchphrases that Lawrence wrote and Connor never gave him any credit for it Right? That's why he was mad at him.
Speaker 1:So let's see, we have to get some. You got the. It's Connor bitch Say word Da-da-da Connor bitch Say word Dilbert.
Speaker 1:Sorry dad, dinky nuts, squirrel jams, hats, balancing my checkbook, zerber in the sherbert Squark 100 gift baskets. You're now rocking with the Tesla boys. Sleepy Benjamin Franklin, watch me veg DJ Tanner Swanky pumps rocking with the Tesla boys. Sleepy Benjamin Franklin, watch Me Veg. Dj Tanner Swanky Pumps. Moped Music and then my favorite Costco Samples. Like a Motherfucker, that had to really resonate with you. You guys go to Costco every Thursday we do go to Costco.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's fun. We get to try all the samples. Sometimes people get angry when the line is long.
Speaker 1:Oh really, Everybody just goes.
Speaker 2:This is a bunch of people going there to eat for the day. I got knocked to like push the way I was not to the ground by a guy who's trying to get a hamburger.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, sample, yeah, like did they give you a whole hamburger? No there's a tiny little hammer Jeez, louise, I'm going there then full hamburger. I Think this, this whole song is just. It's hilarious Whenever you listen to it. You'll love it. If you listen to it in the car, even the parts, because they don't really show much of the Emma Stone songs, but she's essentially there's one where because she's constantly repeating herself, so it's like un poco picante and she'll say it like three times, like just a little bit spicy, and then she goes El Burro es grande, it's like that's a really big donkey.
Speaker 2:So you know she wants to be called Emily Stone now. Really, because her name is Emily, but she chose Emma when she started out because there was already another actress named Emily Stone. Really, it's too late.
Speaker 1:It's too late for her. I'm sure she's like much. I will never be able to call her Emily Stone. Her name is Emily. It will take so long to do that to get that right in my head. So then we cut to Lawrence. We see him on a farm. There's a lot of stuff popping up about how they like old covers of magazines with the style boys on it. While he's talking there's one that says I'm a nerd for ass.
Speaker 2:He's got them dressed up as a nerd. It's so funny.
Speaker 1:We see Lawrence he gets pooped on. We see his woodworking. He just this is a mask and it's just a hole with like a slit.
Speaker 2:It's not good at all. Yeah, it's very bad it's not fucking great.
Speaker 1:And then he's like talking about, it's like we were a tricycle, and what do you have if you take one wheel out of the tricycle? Oh, a bicycle. Don't use that, it's so funny. So this is like even if he's like, oh, you take one wheel away from that, what do you have? Oh wait, a unicycle.
Speaker 2:Never mind have you already gone through the part where he's always on social media, where he's like I just jacked it? Oh, no, that's a little later, that's a little later.
Speaker 1:I do have that in my notes so I'm real calm now. So in order to build up marketing for the album, connor signs with aqua spin to gain publicity, he and his honorage meet with aqua spin. Uh head deborah or deborah, to see that much of their products, like fridges, play connor's music. When used, owen pushes back a little bit but backs down. I love it.
Speaker 2:It's like because one guy's like never mind, I don't even know how to go around that, so just forget it, okay well, because, like, one person says the n-word and then she says it but she says it with a hard r. It's like, oh, you're gonna have the hard r there.
Speaker 1:Harry says, oh, so we're using the hard r okay, so funny stuff like that is just hilarious. It's definitely like a crap 80-yard line where it's like added after post oh, okay. I don't know about that when Tim Meadows says like oh, hard art, because it obviously doesn't sound like the rest of it and it's kind of they don't cut, to him saying it and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's kind of they don't cut to him saying it, and stuff like that Okay.
Speaker 1:So through this people, artists like A$AP, Rocky and RZA, they all are kind of supporting this. He's like, yeah, everybody does that. Hell yeah, Connor earlier is like look, if you don't sell out, people won't know. You had the chance to sell out.
Speaker 1:Connor. He holds a party with all the Aquaspin products which is attended by his airhead movie star girlfriend Ashley. Wednesday we get a little interview where there is like when I was growing up I always saw people on the pictures of magazine and there were couples. And the point of those magazines where you're like, oh, are they actually together or are they together for publicity? And I've always wanted to be one of those couples? Yes, and then we get of the publicity ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so they get to the thing where they're going to roll out the Aquaspin products and they ended up downloading all this stuff to all the Aquaspin appliances and it causes mass blackouts across the nation and it's pissing all of Connor's biggest fans off. It's like he should just die.
Speaker 2:So fucking great yeah when you open the fridge. That would scare me. That was pretty cool, though, yeah.
Speaker 1:Then he's like oh yeah, because we're during that scene with Oxman, you have it where he plays, I'm so humble. And then he opens the other one and it's like I'm not gay. And then she opens back the humble one and Connor's like yeah, I like the freezer one, that's my favorite, I don't like that other one.
Speaker 2:It's like it's your song. I think I can have it on my toaster.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I don't use it all the time, and that would just be a nice little way to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, every time it pops up, it just plays a song.
Speaker 2:No, when you push it down too, like while it's cooking, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:It cooks for the entire length of the song I'm Humble. And then we get our first CMZ segment. You have what is it? Mike Birbiglia, eric Andre, chelsea Peretti and Will Arnett, and they're essentially just being the worst people. They have giant drinks, and in the first one this is where they're just kind of making a fun of Connor for real, and then all of a sudden they all start laughing hysterically.
Speaker 2:And then you have Eric Andre.
Speaker 1:So good, love it. And then we learned that Conquest sells poorly in its first week. Only 65,000 copies in the week. Connor, because of this Connor's like, oh, shut off the camera, shut off the camera. So they set down the cameras and turn them off, but we still have the audio. And you got Connor kind of complaining about the album sales and then he's like oh, what's this bee, get away bee. And all of a sudden there's a bunch of bees and then he gets a flamethrower, burns them all and then a giant queen bee comes and they just, and then he's like did you get that?
Speaker 1:he's like he told us turn off the camera, oh fuck. And then we cut to Zippy, played by Bill H. And then he's like did you get that? He told us to turn off the camera, oh fuck. And then we cut to Zippy, played by Bill Hader. We learn that he is a roadie for them, but in his free time he flatlines for free, like in the movie Flatlines. This is fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 2:He just dies once or twice a week.
Speaker 1:Yep, that movie is wild. That's a movie we should just cover just because, like okay, and they remade it.
Speaker 2:It's like what?
Speaker 1:Why would we remake?
Speaker 2:the movie.
Speaker 1:Flatliners. What are we?
Speaker 2:doing, or like the OA, that show where they. Oh, I've never seen that they get these people that experience like returning from death oh really Cool and like then they get captured by a guy who just kills him every night and brings him back to life.
Speaker 1:Oh, and it's like torture.
Speaker 2:It's wild as shit, that's a really cool premise.
Speaker 1:I know people really love that show when it was on, when it was coming out and then they kind of canceled it kind of early.
Speaker 2:It was weird, but I liked it.
Speaker 1:Holy crap, I'm going to check that out. Hey, so we meet Connor's coke-addicted mom. We meet Tyrus Quach, connor's chef guy, played by Justin Timberlake. He loves watching Connor eat his delicious treats. He's got like a million ways of cutting carrots for him and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah so good this reminds me of the chef of Metalocalypse. Did you so good? This reminds me of the chef of Metalocalypse. Did you ever watch that cartoon?
Speaker 1:I did. I watched it like just like a couple of times.
Speaker 2:The most famous band in the world and you're the chef and all they ask for is like cheese doodles he's a master chef.
Speaker 1:You know, can I just have some cheese doodles?
Speaker 2:but he's so happy to do it for him because he loves him so much, so much.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So then we get the first night of the tour and we get the song Bin Laden, which talks about a girl that wants to get fucked like America fucked Bin.
Speaker 2:Laden.
Speaker 1:I'm holding a fugitive.
Speaker 2:Dead ass.
Speaker 1:I'm a smash. That song's great.
Speaker 2:I'm a smash.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have a whole music video for it and it's so good.
Speaker 2:When they pull on Stork Patrol and they pull up to the house. And they pull on Stork Patrol and they pull up to the house and like on the megaphone land and I come outside and marry one of us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have the SEAL Team 669 executing the hit. She said you finished me off, now throw my body in the ocean. I yelled. Geronimo then took some pictures for posted. The president called. He said congratulations, connor. I said, mr President, to what do I owe this honor? He said come give me the deets in the White House garden. I gots to know how you fucked her, like we fucked Bin Laden. Yeah, so good. And then we also get the Mona Lisa song where he's just talking about how mid the painting is yeah, that's fucking great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is, though. Yeah, it is just kind out how mid the painting is.
Speaker 1:It's fucking great, yeah, it is, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is just kind of just like a regular old painting.
Speaker 1:It's just the girl half smiling.
Speaker 2:Leo, I mean, he's like he did better stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:He had better ones.
Speaker 2:Dang, all the art nerds are coming after us now, that's my hot take. We're going to get so disliked now. Coming after us? Now, it's my hot take.
Speaker 1:We're going to get so disliked now, and then he asks the audience to make some noise and realizes that he can't sell out the arena anymore. He's like people in the front row make some noise.
Speaker 2:People on the side, One guy at the top.
Speaker 1:It's like upper deck, make some noise. One guy, what? Oh? And then we get the. And then Connor's super pissed off. He goes in the back and he's like Harry, what the hell? Then Harry says first of all, this is an 18,000 seat arena. Nobody sells this out. You sold 15,000 seats. That's really good, connor. No, it's not good. Hammerleg sold this place out last week, harry. Well, aquaspan agrees with you. They're all concerned about ticket sales. Connor, what? But it's an 18-seat place. Nobody sells it at. Harry, hammerleg did last week. Oh, so fun, just like completely flips it halfway through.
Speaker 2:Oh, they do that a lot.
Speaker 1:I know they do it like three or four times in it.
Speaker 2:It's like that one where Tim Eddow's like numbers don't matter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what are you talking about? Numbers matter, say something. Wait, numbers don't matter. Yes, they do. I think I put that one down too. And because of the lack of ticket sales, harry decides to pair him up with the rapper Hunter the Hungry, played by Chris Redd, who was an SNL alum. He was hilarious, I loved him, and they kind of talk because Harry's during the scene is like all right, well, we need an opening act and you aren't going to like it.
Speaker 2:He's like, are you?
Speaker 1:saying art, Art. But I love Hunter the Hunger. He's kind of like a Tyler the Creator. He's just essentially like a parody of him because he likes pranks. He seems kind of scary and crazy and I love that he scares all the Connor friends because when we meet him he's just kind of pumping up connor's ego and saying like how much?
Speaker 1:he loves him. It's like I want to be like you, but black, because I just feel like it's a good color, you know. It's like yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, um, and then like he just starts like ah, like to the friends, and then you have like the one black guy who's like laughing hysterically because he's so scared.
Speaker 1:So good, he's like I'm scared. I'm actually kind of scared. So Hunter's a big friend of Connor's, so the two start touring together. They're having fun together. At first, connor tells Owen that he has to wear an insanely large helmet because EDM is so popular, this insane giant helmet that has a light on it that you can like shoot into space and has this crazy, like monster, like boat, noise almost kind of like, but he's like why do we it's kind of cool.
Speaker 2:Why do you?
Speaker 1:need it. I don't know, it's just there. If we do, though, I love it.
Speaker 2:Every time I turn on the spotlight, there was like shining over the airplane yeah, the airplane, like you could see it from there. And then you got a crash.
Speaker 1:And then you have Hunter the Hungry. He says yo, that's a dope helmet. Looks like the tip of Optimus Prime's dick. Yeah, hell yeah. Connor's like that's so cool. Owen's like but why would I want to be the dick? So we get a little montage of the two selling out arenas. You got the two banditos. We get a little montage of the two selling out arenas. You got the two banditos. We're just two cute little kittens. We're just cute, cute little kittens. We see Hunter. He's pranking everybody. Essentially, hunter is just terrorizing everyone. Oh, man, like Ashton Kutcher. And then you have the great line. You just have Paula come up to Connor Did you take a shit in the Anne Frank house? Then he cuts to them Do not go in there. Slaps his pocket yeah, it's so good. And at a club, connor is noticing that Hunter is getting all the attention. Hunter gets a shout out by the DJ but doesn't notice Connor, for real.
Speaker 2:And Connor is pissed.
Speaker 1:So we cut to Lawrence who is mad at Connor for not giving him credit. In the catchphrase verse we see that he made a poppy out of wood. Then we also get that these are the things in my Jeep, which is kind of a parody, which Linkin Park shows up on that song. So I'm assuming it's kind of like a Linkin Park, like the full song on the album, Like Linkin Park comes in or he starts screaming these are the things in my jeep and I love you do it like the lincoln park song yeah, yeah um and then you have uh noz.
Speaker 1:He says I didn't relate to that song because I have different things in my jeep. Um and so on. Tour connor decides to try out a gimmick where he changes costumes on stage during his performance. He accidentally ends up nude with his penis stuck between his legs, but he didn't want everybody to think he has no dick.
Speaker 2:Because he had to stuff it, because of the artist.
Speaker 1:But yeah. So whenever we see him, he's got it super tucked and he's like should I untuck it or should I not untuck it? What a conundrum.
Speaker 2:They should have asked Rod Stewart.
Speaker 1:It, it, or should I not untuck?
Speaker 2:it. What a conundrum. They should have asked Rod Stewart. It's like I want you guys to know that I have a dick, but I also don't want to show you my dick. Yeah, no, when you're when he talks about his. Only women can do this. I've seen men do it and it was awesome.
Speaker 1:Rod.
Speaker 2:Stewart changes costumes so fast.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're talking about that. I was like, yeah, Buffalo Bill and Silence of the Lambs.
Speaker 2:Oh no, and then?
Speaker 1:Jay Muse from Clerks. So I'm on stage like a live performance man and he was able to do it like that fast, Like they pull it up and pull it right back down. He's changed.
Speaker 2:Oh fuck, no, not that. Oh okay. Okay, I didn't know. That's what you meant. Oh yeah, I don't know if they can do it that fast. That would be pretty insane. That would be insane.
Speaker 1:And so we're backstage and Hunter's just like whoa, where was your dick, dude? And Hunter starts saying it's like man, if I didn't do that, but I mean, whoever did that was probably the greatest prankster ever. Wait, that does sound like me, but it wasn't me. Yeah, but maybe it was.
Speaker 2:But it wasn't.
Speaker 1:You have a line where Connor's like man, I was up there for 10 seconds and you have Harry saying Connor, don't worry about it. You were up there for like 10 seconds, Connor. 10 seconds is an eternity, harry. It's a third of the way to Mars, harry, connor, we've talked about this 30 Seconds to Mars is the name of the band, not a fact.
Speaker 2:So good, oh man, oh man. When I did shrooms my first time, we listened to a 30 Seconds to Mars album.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I lost my goddamn mind. Did you go crazy whenever the cue came on? I don't know, it was scary. So then we cut. Connor is frequently being mocked by a paparazzi from CMZ. They're just essentially kind of going crazy about his wardrobe malfunction. You have Will Arnett just drinking everybody's drinks. He's also pulling out a new, pulls out one giant huge cup, pulls out a second, and then he has three taped together. The other ones all have giant cups. He starts sipping theirs. They're like Connor. Like connor for real, more like no dick for real they're still doing their like evil laugh yeah, oh man.
Speaker 1:so in order to change the word in the media, connor decides to propose to ashley, he stages an elaborate proposal with wolves and performs, and does a performance with them Still already wolves yeah. As Connor proposes, seal song causes the wolves to go nuts and start running loose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like can you get sealed yeah?
Speaker 1:Paul Scheer comes up, he's like, hey, can you tell him still to stop singing Harry's? Like nobody tells him to stop singing.
Speaker 1:And then Connor, while he's trying to propose, these wolves are going crazy. He looks at Paul Scheer. He's like hey, can you tell these wolves to quiet down? He's like no, I can't. And then all the wolves, they get loose and Connor and Ashley run to their limo while still tries to hold off the wolves, leading him to get mauled. Syl later and this is where we get the line he's like do you know how I got these scars? Because he's like I can take care of myself. This is how I got these scars. Like that's how you got the scars. And then so he like fights off one wolf and then he gets mauled by the other.
Speaker 1:And they're like he's dead, dead and it immediately cuts this uh magazine still suing connor for real um. Ashley breaks up with him and his fans are now even more pissed off um and everybody hates him yeah it's because, uh, what was it?
Speaker 1:she said oh yeah. Ashley said yeah, when I was a psychic told me in my past life I was a wolf and Connor remembers. It's like who would have forgotten that. And then Connor is able to get on to the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon brings out Owen out so the three can do the donkey roll, which upsets Connor because he thinks it makes him look like a has-been. I love it.
Speaker 2:I want to learn the donkey roll. I know I just like the move where they bend over.
Speaker 1:I want to learn the donkey roll. I know, I just like the move where they're like I'm going to do it at my daughter's wedding, yeah, yeah. Owen calls Lawrence to see if he will come to Connor's show. I love the whole scene. Lawrence is just holding a baby goat while another goat's at his feet and you just keep hearing the. And then Owen's like what's that noise? He's like what's that noise? He's like oh, that noise. That's my girlfriend. I'm having sex right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's awesome. Oh, by the way, Madeline's not getting married. I was just saying that when she does? Oh yeah, Well, I hope she's not.
Speaker 1:She's 13. That would be insane. That would be insane. Anyway, the future marriage, I guess.
Speaker 2:So Owen decides to try and bring Connor and Lawrence back together in a parent trap inspired scheme where they can reconcile and then we get a quick Vic loves the parent trap so much.
Speaker 1:Then we get a quick performance of the song Ibiza, where he went to Spain and realized, everybody said they say their S's with a T-H.
Speaker 2:So he just changes. The whole country had a speech impediment, so instead of just pronouncing it, you had to spell it like that on the screen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 2:Like they can't read either.
Speaker 1:And it's like he just starts saying. He starts saying I wrote a fog about it and then he starts saying like it for a bunch of different words and he's saying it for like things that didn't even originate like in Spain or anything.
Speaker 2:So it's just like what are we saying? And then the song is just a bunch of gibberish fiesta fiesta.
Speaker 1:So catchy song though, yeah, it's so good. And then Owen that's the stuff. Catchy song though, yeah, it's so good. And then Owen tells Connor Lawrence is there to talk to them. Connor immediately asks if he's trying to parent trap them. He's like what? No? Owen brings them both inside of a limo to talk, but neither of them want to speak to each other. They try to leave, but then Connor and the limo then gets bombarded by crazed fans that want Connor to sign their body parts. You got the girl with the butt first. I love Connor Presses the boobs against the thing, and then the next thing, he's like you don't like this. I love this. I slurped this down as like a guy's pushing his penis onto the window.
Speaker 1:And then Owen tries to say something about it, and then he rolls down the say something about it, and then he rolls down the window to sign it and he's like, oh my God.
Speaker 2:He signs it anyway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the girl comes out that's my boyfriend, that's his penis, can you sign it for me? He's like yeah, sure, he's like I'll just give you my John Hancock. I want to know if this has ever happened for real. And then he like hands and hussies his hand immediately, but then essentially it doesn't work. No-transcript. Paula tells Connor that the poppies denied his request to perform because he's always wanted to perform at the poppies. Connor is pissed because Hunter is not getting off the stage. So he just goes up on stage and Hunter tells him that it was me.
Speaker 2:I love how he's like he'll be off at any minute.
Speaker 1:He's like I'm going to be up here forever, I'm going to die on this stage. But yeah. So Hunter essentially tells him that he did the wardrobe math function and then just continues to take over the stage. And then owen, who wants to kind of calm everything down, like uh, his helmet messes up and starts blinding everybody while the noise is going on. Right, like so good, I want one of these helmets.
Speaker 1:So Connor, who's pissed off, tells Harry he wants Hunter off the tour. When Harry tells Connor he also signed Hunter, connor gives Harry an ultimatum of who to work with and he chooses Hunter. Connor wants to know who he can trust, so he makes pancakes with dog shit in them. His two fake friends say they love them, but owen says they are gross. He reveals his intentions. Owen gets pissed because he can't believe connor would think he is like his lackeys. Then owen leaves. He like cuts to the like one of the girls that's like, I guess, his social media, like manager or whatever, and she's just like eating him without even noticing and he's like ugh, does she not know so good?
Speaker 1:she loves it yeah so he becomes and then, like we cut the next scene, he cuts to when his turtle dies, maximus he becomes super obsessed he's like, he's completely gray and he can't leave because, like all the paparazzi is in his way. And then we go to the funeral, one of the saddest funerals ever. That was pretty sad, but it was so funny. And then he puts a little turtle on a boat in his pool, shoots it like pushes him off.
Speaker 2:What was the line he gives at the very beginning of it, though? He's like I walk through the valley, the rap, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:And then when he pushes him on this little like wood boat and then he takes out a Roman candle, and shoots it at it. And as soon as it catches on fire, everybody's like he had like a group of people who were all like and they all jump in the pool for a pool party and then he just cuts a corner. He's like just crying.
Speaker 2:That will always be funny when someone is having the worst time of their life and everybody's like.
Speaker 1:So we learned that connor is released from aqua spin contract and the tour is canceled. Connor decides to return to his mother's house and get away from the showbiz left lifestyle. We see him drinking. Yeah, he's constantly like seven shots immediately in the morning and then he becomes obsessed with whatever that horse thing is like it's detrage yeah something like that, yeah, yeah you're right, I think it's trishage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the horse dancing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if you do that, please leave us an email.
Speaker 2:we recommend mailbag at gmailcom we want to see your horse dance. Yes.
Speaker 1:And then we also learned that he loves painting. Now.
Speaker 2:And he paints horses. That's incredible.
Speaker 1:They're all horribly painted horses, but he does sell one for $11.50.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was great. It made him feel good, but his paintings were so fucking bad and hilarious, Hilarious. Have you seen the? There's something on TikTok they're making children's drawings real. Oh yeah, I've seen that have?
Speaker 1:you seen the one where they I think it's a TikTok trend where they have a wife and husband paint each other. So the wife paints the guy, and it's always pretty good, and then it the wife paints the guy, and it's always pretty good, and then it turns to like how the guy painted the girl, and it's always this monstrosity and it's like what the heck?
Speaker 2:it's like the Napoleon Dynamite yeah, exactly it's so funny.
Speaker 1:Next time I see one, I'm gonna send it to you. I have to send it to you, yes, please, yes, please, yes. Funny. Next time I see one, I'm going to send it to you. I have to send it to you. Yes, please, yes, please, yes. So Connor is later visited by Paula, who puts on a tape of Connor's 10th birthday party, where Owen and Lawrence gave him Maximus as a gift because he thought his mom gave him as a gift. That was very sweet, but it was his friends.
Speaker 1:So Paula brings him to a club where Owen is performing as the DJ and tries to sing, but he's completely toned in. Connor is immediately realizing did my last album suck? Did I mess everything up? It's really nice that I can say all this in this loud room.
Speaker 2:And he had to put on makeup to go out in public.
Speaker 1:He looked like Matthew Modine and then later Jace's single Sarah. Silverman's giving him so much shit about it. I know it's so good, and so he. In his ridiculous disguise, he approaches his friend and apologizes for his behavior. It's a sweet moment, but Owen is struggling with a conversation because of the way he looks. He's like I can't do this. You look like Jason Segel and he takes the glasses off and he looks identical to Jason Segel. He's doing the head movements and everything. It's perfect. Oh, sarah Marshall, I keep forgetting.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's weird. We got to do that movie soon. She says one thing she's like you look like Nazi propaganda.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, it's so good. So, connor and Owen, they travel to Lawrence's farm. After repeatedly trying to justify his stupidity, connor apologizes to Lawrence and gives him credit for writing his best stuff.
Speaker 2:It took him a long time to get there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's just like what do you want me to say? That you wrote it. It's like, all right, I was a little late. I was a little late, all right, I didn't show up at all, but I overslept by accident. It wasn't an accident, I completely did it on purpose. Okay, I wasn't there. You're right, you wrote this off. And before this, because Lawrence notices the real poppy isn't where his fake poppy was, he just throws it in a tree. He's like great, now I have to go get that. I have to go look for that later. So Lawrence forgives him and then reveals to his friends that he's been growing weed a lot of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you have the dope beat that comes on and they're just, they're smoking, they're getting the poppy out of it. We see all the different types of weed he has. It's a bunch of them, right in the middle is frog just, and it's just a bottle of and then they spend the afternoon hanging out and coming up with a song that they made back in the day called Sick Glinda.
Speaker 2:Definitely sounds like a song a bunch of 10 year olds would make, are you?
Speaker 1:avoiding me or are you dying? Yes, I hope you're dying. And so and this is a great scene because we get Lawrence kind of talking about how they came together and like how much he's like loves Connor now, and then like a bird poops and it falls down next to him. He's like hey, look at that. He immediately looks up and his poops in his mouth it's so funny.
Speaker 1:And then Owen's like I can tell Connor's really trying. I saw he's reading a book how to be a better friend which is really nice. But it's also nice that we know we a book how to Be a Better Friend, which is really nice but it's also nice that we know that he can read, which is a lot of weight lifted off our shoulders.
Speaker 2:It's very heartening.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then Connor gets a call from Paula saying he got a spot at the Pop Awards. It's like, yeah, hey. So the Pop Awards are calling and they said they have a spot open. Taylor Swift was arrested for murder yeah, oh that. So the Papa Awards are calling and they say they have a spot open.
Speaker 2:Taylor Swift was arrested for murder.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, that's so good. So Connor wants to turn it down, but Owen and Lawrence tell him not to, since it could be big for him. They want him to do his solo stuff but also still hang out for him. You know, like with him. He's like, yeah, we're like Method man from the Wu-Tang Clan. He had his solo stuff and he was still a part of Wu-Tang Clan. Then they say, another guy from Wu-Tang Clan, he's like, yeah, he did his solo stuff and he was a part of Wu-Tang.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then Connor says, oh man, everybody's just kind of from Wu-Tang Clan, we're like Wu-Tang Clan, but better, but better. No, not really no.
Speaker 2:And then they do another one.
Speaker 1:It's like yeah see, we're like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. We're all three Tom Petty and we're the Heartbreakers.
Speaker 2:But there were other members I'm.
Speaker 1:Tom Petty, you're Tom Petty, you're Tom Pet of the two, oh, I don't remember. And after that it's like and then owen's like yeah, tom petty, it's like no, we're all the heartbreakers like I've lost the metaphor, um, and then connor said it's like all right, I'll do it, but I'm not doing it alone, owen. Who are you gonna do it with you? Dummy, we're so high so they get guys head out for the poppies to join connor as the style again.
Speaker 2:I love how they turned the poppy award into a pipe that smoked out of it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I completely missed saying that yeah it's so good. So whenever they get there they see Hunter. He's filming a personal documentary, and apparently Snoop Dogg has a documentary too.
Speaker 2:There's three different documentaries. Yeah, because Hunter's confronting him. And then Hunter starts talking to a camera.
Speaker 1:And it's the wrong camera. And then he starts talking to another one and it's like no, that's not yours either. Whose is this? It's Snoop Dogg's. It's like what.
Speaker 2:It's a surprise, motherfucker.
Speaker 1:And then they're all getting jumbled up as they're trying to walk away.
Speaker 2:So good, I all getting jumbled up as they're trying to walk away.
Speaker 1:So good, I love the hangout with.
Speaker 1:Snoop Dogg yeah, he's so funny. He goes. Then Hunter the Hungry goes up on stage to present an award with Mariah Carey and just uses it as a chance to advertise for AquaSpin. Mariah and the fans get annoyed, leading Hunter to curse out everyone. He then goes to confront Harry and insults him, so Harry slaps the hell out of him in the face. It's so good. Then, like hunter, walks off and then, as tim or harry's walking to them, he's like I can't believe, I just did that yeah, he was like oh, you know, I just told him how to get some respect.
Speaker 2:He just totally glosses over the fact.
Speaker 1:But then we have harry and connor. They up and the style boys are all back together and they're going out to perform. One of the show's producers then approaches Connor and says his act has been cut from six minutes to three, meaning he has to choose between doing a solo performance or going on with Owen and Lawrence. Connor thinks hard for a moment, then makes up his mind. The producer is hilarious because he's like okay, he's just staring into the distance. He's really making a meal of this. Oh, he looks like he's coming to a decision. Oh, no, no, he's not. Okay, we could be here for a while.
Speaker 2:He knows what to do, yeah.
Speaker 1:He's got a plan. Connor goes up to perform it sounds like he's about to perform the Bin Laden song and then Owen and Lawrence join them on stage to perform their newest song, incredible Thoughts, with last-minute guest performer Michael Bolton. Usher also joins as a dancer to do the donkey roll, fulfilling a dream of his, and a guy in a fish costume playing a guitar, who turns out to be Connor Sheff, and the song is a hit and the fans love it.
Speaker 2:So good and they've got dancers coming out. Michael Bolton comes out with a piano, oh yeah, and the fans love it so good.
Speaker 1:They got dancers coming out. Yeah, michael Bolton comes out with a piano. Oh yeah, he put this together pretty fast and the song is so ridiculous. A snow white dove in the pitch black night. A raindrop falls from tremendous heights. A wave crashes off a cliff in Scotland. A child bites an apple, but the core is rotten. Tv is free, but what is the cost? We have GPS and yet we're still lost. A carrot in the desert, a camel in the garden, a man with giant ears begging your pardon. What if a garbage man was actually smart? A common misconception that we're tearing apart? I don't know. And to a dog, dog food is just food, and to a sock a mansion is just a big shoe. A milk dud sitting in acid rain, a house cat addicted to cocaine.
Speaker 2:That was the funniest part for me.
Speaker 1:No teeth, unlimited floss. These are just a few of my incredible thoughts.
Speaker 2:He's like yeah, they talked about how incredible thoughts could change the world.
Speaker 1:A ballerina waits for the bus, a number one dad trophy covered in rust. A nun dunked a basketball, living the impossible.
Speaker 2:That was cool. She gets the metal sign with her hands.
Speaker 1:A man breaks his leg inside a hospital. We just thought of that and it can change the world. So funny, it's so good and that's it Essentially. It's a happy ending. In the end Connor is happy and performing with his friends again. He even gets a new turtle and he names it Maximus II. Connor then gets mauled by a wolf. He's out of nowhere. But movie's not over because during the credits scene we see this. Cmz gang trying to mock Connor again, but they have nothing and then reflect on their sad and miserable lives they then decide to make fun of james franco leaving a denny's restaurant.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I gotta go back and watch that part because, they're like well, arnett's like I didn't even graduate high school. Eric andre, I didn't even graduate middle school. And then, uh, mike berbiblia, the guy that's sitting the desk, he's kind of dressed as like a surfer dude kind of he's like I just wanted to be a surfboard model, and that's the movie, one of the funniest movies in the past 10 years.
Speaker 2:I know I can't believe I never saw it. No one fucking saw it.
Speaker 1:Until now, and I'm here to make y'all watch it. This is why we have this fucking podcast, so you're forced to watch this crap if you're fans of us.
Speaker 2:It's great crap, but yeah it's perfect.
Speaker 1:Love it. Love these guys. They're so funny. I love when they show up randomly in movies. There's a movie called the Watch where it's got Ben Stiller, jonah Hill and a tall guy from Wedding Crashers totally forgetting his name. He's in Swingers Vince Vaughn there we go.
Speaker 1:I got there, guys, alright, so we're gonna cut to our categories the good, the bad, the ugly, the fun. This is where we talk about what we liked about the movie the good, what we didn't like, the bad, what we didn't. The bad, the ugly, the fun. This is where we talk about what we liked about the movie the good, what we didn't like, the bad, what we didn't think aged well the ugly and what we thought aged well the fun. For me, the good was the Lonely Island.
Speaker 2:They're just so good yeah, they're a great group.
Speaker 1:They're hilarious.
Speaker 2:They're very good at what they do. I can't wait to see, like another movie, the next movie that they do, I know.
Speaker 1:I hope they do another one soon. I hope they do more. Yeah, they have to Please, please.
Speaker 2:I mean they pretty much just do like Saturday Night Live now, right? No, they're not on it anymore. Have it out, right, I don't know, they're not on it anymore.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, neither of them are they all just kind of have? They do solo projects, they do together projects um gotcha, like I mean, andy Samberg was on the funniest movie that came out during quarantine, which was Palm Springs. I don't know if you saw no you didn't see Palm.
Speaker 2:Springs, it's on Hulu, that's so funny.
Speaker 1:it's pretty good, and for the bad I put the it's. The only complaint I had is that I think the first half is funnier than the second half to me, Just personally.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess I feel like a lot of comedies are like that though. When he's kind of changing like and trying to be a better person. Yeah, it's not as funny, it's not as ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it's just yeah, because most comedies are kind of hindered by the fact that they have to continue a plot.
Speaker 2:The character has to grow.
Speaker 1:Because a lot of I feel like a lot of comedy, especially from sketch comedians. They, you know, I feel like they write their movie in sketches. Right, you have the opening where it's just the style boys, then you have the Connor for reals opening, and then you have the corner for reals opening, and then you have the aqua spin skit, and then the hunter, the hungry skits, and then, as we go, like it's just like, oh, we're gonna have some serious moments that are also kind of funny and I don't know yeah, I think the the most, the funniest parts are like whenever they're more self-deprecating yeah, exactly as characters, yeah, even when they don't mean to be.
Speaker 1:Didn't really have anything for the ugly.
Speaker 2:I mean, Connor had some pretty interesting ideas yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the ugly I guess is the not gay song, equal rights song and the part about the trash collectors, not being smart, the sanitation workers? Oh man, and for the fine I put mockumentaries and sketch comedy. Hell yeah, All crushes love it. So we're going to go to our next category, which is double feature.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say super troopers, yeah, yeah, that's another group of like comedians I love yeah, they're really good.
Speaker 1:We need to do club dread. Yeah, club dread is amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, holy shit, the fucking fruit is having sex yeah, um, I picked hot rod.
Speaker 1:Rod, which is essentially like the first movie these guys did and it's so funny. It's so funny, I'm actually trying. I was thinking. I was like wait, which one do I like more? I gotta rewatch Hot Rod he's always beating the shit out of his dad or fighting yeah, he's always wanting to fight, and then you have the classic, because that was the first time that I think I saw. Why do I keep bringing up actors and then I immediately forget their?
Speaker 2:names.
Speaker 1:I do it all the time, but I don't know Bill Hader's in it. It's hilarious Crap. I'm totally blanking. Whatever, we'll just continue. So thanks for listening to our episode. That's the coverage of Popstar Never Stop, never Stopping. Join us next week when we cover Tremors. Hell yeah, tremors.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, hell yeah. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1:And it's also super dope. I don't know Creature work. It's just really good. It's so good.
Speaker 2:It's like everything's super practical.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got a. What's her name? Reba McIntyre's in it.
Speaker 2:Reba. Is it Reba?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's Reba, it's not Wynonna, I thought it was.
Speaker 2:Winona, I'm not sure. I feel like it's Reba. I think it's Reba.
Speaker 1:Probably, I'm just going to say it's. Reba, you say it's Winona and one of us will be right, so make sure you join us next week for that. It's such a classic movie. I love it. Kevin Bacon he crushes, and I would like to thank you for joining us this week. Grazie, want to leave us an email for something? Uh, just want to. I don't know questions, comments, whatever. Just send us an email at we recommend mailbag at gmailcom.
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