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The Other Guys
Get ready to laugh out loud and gain a fresh perspective on buddy cop comedies as we explore the comedic brilliance of "The Other Guys." Ever wondered what happens when you pair Mark Wahlberg's unexpected comedic chops with Will Ferrell's signature humor? Join us as we reminisce about the film's iconic moments, from Michael Keaton's hilarious dual roles to the wild antics of Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson. You'll discover how this star-studded cast, including Steve Coogan and Rob Riggle, brilliantly satirizes corporate greed, offering more than just laughs but a clever social commentary that feels incredibly relevant today.
As we navigate through the comedic misadventures of Gamble and Hoyt, brace yourself for wooden guns, stolen Priuses, and a comedic twist on police work that keeps you on your toes. We discuss how "The Other Guys" manages to provide both laughs and a critique of societal issues, proving why it remains a must-watch for fans of clever humor and sharp satire.
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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, I'm a peacock. You gotta let me fly, yeah, because this week we recommend the Other Guys.
Speaker 2:The other guys. Have you ever come across a wild peacock at like a zoo? Yes, you know, sometimes they let them walk around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're kind of scary. Well, we used to have them all the time around, like people just had them around the country. Now you can't have them because there's too many houses and too many people.
Speaker 2:Too many peacocks.
Speaker 1:There's too many peacocks in this building. So the other guys, one of my favorite comedies, so good, you like it, you love it, I love it. I mean it's just there's so many kind of iconic parts Peacock, the, dwayne, the Rock and Samuel L Jackson. Aim for the bushes, aim for the bushes.
Speaker 2:The captain being at bed bath and constantly doing tlc references.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's the best desk pop. That's the wooden gun. Uh dirty, uh dirty, mike and the boys.
Speaker 2:Yes, dirty mike and the boys. I feel like that is this, this movie's greatest accomplishment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's. This is like a movie like some. For some reason I'd like watch at the beginning of the year a lot. I don't know. I guess I just like, hey, I want that pick me up. But also I want at the end to realize that greed is real and it comes in.
Speaker 2:Yes, christmas Everybody greedy wins Mostly. Yeah, I had never watched the post credit stuff before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, holy shit you never watched like the financial stuff about the bailouts.
Speaker 2:Yeah god damn, it was fun yeah, but also terrifying that's right. Have you seen the big short? That's his next movie, so you?
Speaker 1:should watch it. It's a great movie that makes you feel like shit oh nice it's so funny. I remember me and natalie watched that and then we we had to go to the store afterwards and we're like fuck everything, I hate everything.
Speaker 2:It hurts, it hurts, that's wonderful.
Speaker 1:Man, mark Wahlberg, right, Probably. If you just think about Mark Wahlberg, you think, oh, he's like the shorter actor that always plays a tough guy, usually like overly aggressive. No way, he's probably like a funny guy, like a little Matt Damon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but turns out the guy has some freaking comedy acting chops. Because I read that they were worried Mark Wahlberg was not going to be good at the improv, because a lot of Adam McKay movies are improv. Like, most of the dialogue is improv in his movies and they just keep rolling until they finally I think we got enough funny stuff and they're worried that Mark Wahlberg wouldn't be great at good at it. And turns out he was really good.
Speaker 2:Do you think it was because he was with Will Ferrell?
Speaker 1:I think that helps. I think, if you're with one of the funniest, so well, just like everybody in the movies. With one of the funniest, so well, just like everybody in the movies. Steve Coogan, hilarious Rob Riggle, whichever Wayne's brother that is, which one is it? Is it Damon? It's one of them. I don't know any of their names or their faces. Damon Wayans Jr. Yeah, yeah, they're just all so funny. Rob Riggle, like that's the he plays Martin, he's, he's the guy that hangs out with Damon Wayans in the movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's so good, he's always so good in everything, like in Step Brothers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's almost always like the funny asshole.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the funny yelling guy and he crushes it every time.
Speaker 2:His face is just like. He's got this snivelly sneer face that just like. Oh, I want to be mad at you, but you're adorable, I know you.
Speaker 1:I know you beat people up in your spare time but it's hilarious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can watch you beat people up.
Speaker 1:I think truthfully, the biggest laughs are Mark Warburg, mark Warburg get ready.
Speaker 2:It's a whole podcast of, or Mark.
Speaker 1:Warburg, mark Warburg, get ready. It's a whole podcast of me doing Mark Warburg Apparently Mark Warburg. And oh my gosh, am I just going to blink on everybody? Michael Keaton, michael Keaton.
Speaker 2:So funny.
Speaker 1:Quit shaking your dicks Pissing contest over. Is that the bad bathroom? Yes, it's like, yeah, there's a cell on this. Quit shaking your dicks pissing contest over. He's at the bed bath in beyond. It's like, yeah, there's a cell on this and there's an uptick on rapists oh wait, that's my other job, that's my other job.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, in the freaking um whisper fight at the funeral, everybody stop it right now. Oh, it's just banger after banger. This is, like some of the I don't know, it's probably my favorite. I don't know, I probably like this movie more than anchorman yeah, it might be because I've seen anchorman so many times, I don't find it funny anymore I totally forgot about the beginning, the opening scene of this movie.
Speaker 2:It's so wild. Everybody has machine guns. Yeah, for a quarter pound a week.
Speaker 1:And they use a bus to throw a car.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh. It's like you know what.
Speaker 1:We used to make things in this country.
Speaker 2:Thanks.
Speaker 1:It's all because of you greedy corporations that we don't get movies like this anymore. For real, though. For real, because you took Adam McKay from us. All he does is political comedies. Now, sure, because he did. Let's just go into Adam McKay a little bit. Let's check out his track record. Oh no, so he started directing some stuff in Saturday Night Live, and he did Anchorman and then Talladega Nights, and then he did a lot of the what was it? They're like Comedy Central things, funny or Die.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, Like the landlord stuff where, like the little kid With the beer can yeah, and like the little girl, so funny Step Brothers. He directed some. I think he produced Eastbound and Down, no shit. Then he did the other guys. That show was so good. Yeah, I know we watched it a couple years ago, anchorman 2, the Legend Continues. There was a lot. It's fun.
Speaker 2:It's too long, it's fun.
Speaker 1:The Big Short he executive produced Succession. Then short, he produced, started, he executive produced succession. Then he did vice, which is where people were like what are we doing here? I like vice. I thought it was funny. I think it's because this is where he starts getting a lot of oscar attention and people just even I don't know some people just turn like if they don't think like your movies get enough to be nominated for an oscar, that's when people are like his movies suck now and it's like dude, chill out. Vice was fine. We had worse has to win an oscar. We had worse oscar like nominees.
Speaker 1:I mean it doesn't matter whatever was gonna get nominated for in place of vice or don't look up was never gonna win anyways. So why are we so upset? Don't look up was pretty cool. I enjoyed it. I thought it was Like. I think it's probably like one of my least favorite of his films. But yeah, when I like all your movies, it's kind of easy. I actually think Anchorman might be my least favorite. Anchorman 2 might be my least favorite of his movies.
Speaker 2:And then Anchorman, and then.
Speaker 1:Well, no, I think Anchorman's probably like I don't know. I like the other guys better. I like Talladega Nights, better I mean they're funny.
Speaker 2:They're funny as hell. It's like when people used to get away with making movies like, um, just bad comedy movies that everyone just had to love yeah, everybody loves it.
Speaker 1:So you ever watch Meatballs. Yeah, horrible. I remember going back watching all these like great comedies like you hear, like adults talking about, and they always come on like comedy central and then you watch them. You're like this is problematic, was there? Was there comedy?
Speaker 2:in this movie. No, it's just boys wanting to look at naked girls.
Speaker 1:That's it I feel like a lot of comedies back in the day. I'd be like see that person. He did the tiniest little thing and isn't that funny? No, not really. But then throw Bill Murray in it and make him crack five jokes and it's like oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:Comedy gold yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1:Writes itself. It's the All right. So, speaking of Anchorman, right, there was a star in this movie that wanted to be in this film because how much she loved Anchorman. So apparently Eva Mendes is a super fan of Anchorman and loves Adam McKay. She's so plain, yeah, she's so plain. What a plain-looking girl. In an interview with the AFI, eva Mendes was asked what her favorite movie ever was. Instead of giving a typical answer like Citizen Kane or the Bicycle Thief, mendes said Anchorman. Apparently, she quotes it daily. So when she was offered the chance to work with Adam McKay on the Other Guy, she jumped at the opportunity. Mendes joked that for her, getting the chance to work with McKay was as exciting as most actors getting the chance to work with Martin Scorsese. All right, and that's great. You know what I wish they did Gave her more to do. Yeah, no, I mean, she crushes everything she's in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some of the best parts, especially the grandma stuff, I'm going to break your hip.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to break your hip. Yeah, I'm going to do you grandpa style. Please stop making me say these things. Yes, what a mom, though. So I guess this movie came to be just from, like, someone suggesting something. So Adam McKay has said that the other guys came out about essentially by accident. He had dinner with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg and realized the two actors shared impeccable chemistry that could carry a movie. He emailed producer Kevin Messick about pairing them up in a movie and gave a buddy cop movie as a flippant suggestion for what might work. Messick loved the idea and got McKay to work on a Farrell slash, wahlberg cop movie.
Speaker 2:Where do you think they had that dinner, like Dave and Buster's?
Speaker 1:Probably like a restaurant where you know it was $1,000 an entree, I don't know. Or Wahlbergers. I don't know If I was to be like, yeah, I want to to. I got to have a business meeting with Mark Wahlberg. I feel like you're just meeting me at this location. He shows up, it's a Wahlbergers. I'm like, yeah, you didn't think.
Speaker 2:You didn't think you're going to get away with it this time, did you? Well, you mean a Whataburger.
Speaker 1:No, wahlbergers.
Speaker 2:He has his own chain, he has his own restaurant.
Speaker 1:He has his own chain. He has his own restaurant, he has his own burger chain. Oh, you've never heard of Wahlberg? No, there was even like a. I think it only had Donnie Wahlberg in it, but there was a I think it was on E a reality show about Wahlbergers, or just about the Wahlbergs I don't know, that's fun.
Speaker 2:I mean you just show up and like be a server for a little while, or like a cook, so you know.
Speaker 1:Mark Wahlberg is like hey, how's it going? What do you want? Oh, you want a Wahlberger. All right, Say hello to your mother, for me Classic. Did you ever watch the SNL skit with Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Wahlberg? I don't know. Oh my gosh, you should.
Speaker 2:He's just at like a petting zoo and he just does that.
Speaker 1:Hey, so you're a chicken.
Speaker 2:I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Then he just sits there for a second while the chicken's, like Well, say hello to your mother. For me, he walks like a few steps. Oh, hey, goat, what you doing, goat? Well, say hello to your mother, for me it you doing. Coe Well say hello to your mother. For me it's funny Perfect reenactment. I did it too long.
Speaker 2:What other animals did he talk to? I don't know.
Speaker 1:He did like four animals and it was great every time. So apparently the script sparked a bidding war before it was even written. When Adam McKay and Will Ferrell first started pitching Talladega Nights, all they had was Will Ferrell as a NASCAR race driver. Oh, and it still sparked a bidding war among the studios. The pitch for the other guys was simply Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as mismatched cops, and that similarly sparked a bidding war between the studios. The perks of being an A-lister Wow, another one. Samuel L Jackson's role was originally written by the bald Michael Chiklis, and he's the baldest man you've ever seen.
Speaker 2:Whoa, he's from the Shield.
Speaker 1:Oh, the Shield, yeah that guy, I don't know when I look at that guy. I just feel like he should put some pants on his head.
Speaker 2:He was born bald. He was like you know what. I'm fine with this.
Speaker 1:And similar to my Prius, the Prius in the movie the STEM team put a racing engine in it. Wow yeah, so that it, would you know, be able to go fast.
Speaker 2:But don't they film all of these car stuff? They film it so slow.
Speaker 1:Not as much that technology has gotten to the point where they can kind of you know when it's coming with the trains coming at you. It's all like rings and stuff.
Speaker 1:It's gonna hit us yeah let's see, I think that might be it. Dirty Mike is played by the director, adam McKay. Oh wow, nice. And let's see, the tuna versus lion debate was improvised, so one of the most unusual but undeniably hysterical tangents that the other guys takes is a heated conversation between Alan and Terry about who would eat whom in an animal kingdom if Alan was a tuna and Terry was a lion. According to Will Ferrell, this whole debate was ad libbed during a long filming day. Ferrell said that most comedy directors would have cut the scene after the first couple of big laughs, but Adam McKay will keep it going to see where it goes, and in this case it paid off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm with Will Ferrell on this one. Yeah, 800 pound tuna, yeah they would definitely kill it.
Speaker 1:And all of his buddies, but I mean they could attempt to start eating it, but then they'd probably die of eating too much Either way.
Speaker 2:Oh, you mean the lion? Yeah, um, get a furball or a hairball, all right bro, let's hop into the plot, that's all I had.
Speaker 1:Let's aim for the bushes.
Speaker 2:Aim for the bushes.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, all right, man, let's hop into the plot, baby. The other guys.
Speaker 2:Two thousand and ten Right after the 2008 stock market crash.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which completely changed how Adam McKay makes movies. Have you seen Viso? You should watch it. I think you'd like it. I'm sure I would. It's funny and also, you know, you know it's about a bad guy, so all right, the other guys 2010, directed by adam mckay, starring will ferrell and mark walberg, I'm still gonna struggle. So officers pk highsmith, played by samuel jackson and chris danson, played by Dwayne Johnson, are the most badass cops that New York City has ever seen.
Speaker 2:Hey we're cops here. It's like if Rush Hour was real and I'm like hugely problematic.
Speaker 1:Do you think when cops go into being cops they're like damn it. I wish we could just cause mass destruction, because if I became a cop, that's what I would want to do.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm not a cop. There have been a few guys that I knew before they became police officers, who would just were so excited about being or being able to arrest people for anything no reason, yeah I was like you do not need to be an officer of the law. Yeah, bro, but you got so much power.
Speaker 1:So the movie opens, with them engaged in a high-speed chase, creating a bunch of destruction of every block that they cross. They drive through a bus, use the bus to throw a car at criminals in the bank. Whenever the car goes into the bus, did someone call 911? Holy shit, they do manage to capture the criminals at high speeds. However, the infraction they picked them up for is very minor charges, and they managed to do a lot of damage, like 12 million in damage for, like what'd they say, a quarter pound of weed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're held as heroes, though it goes for about $250. Well, it used to, it's probably more now yeah, hey worth it.
Speaker 1:They're off the show. I will say they did have machine guns and probably, honestly, probably, they deserved it?
Speaker 2:They probably eventually deserved it.
Speaker 1:They were going to shoot up something or rob something, I guess. So back at the station they're also greeted as heroes and treated like celebrities. There's several pairs of officers, including Martin and Fosse, that's Rob Riegel and Damian Weiss.
Speaker 1:Officer Bob God, who's just constantly making announcements about boring stuff and everybody just yells at him and nobody pays attention until yeah, and then you have the other guys Alan Gamblery hoitz, played by wilfred hallmark wolbert. They're admired by gamble a, by the numbers forensic accountant who is very straight laced and doesn't take any risk. Gamble's partner, terry holt hoitz, disagrees and he's grown tired of his desk job and wants to see some real hardcore action. Um Will Ferrell's humming, it's like stop humming that song, then he starts smiling, stop smiling, and then we get the huge lion monologue and tuna, and then, after he like bests him in the monologue, he just spills his coffee on him.
Speaker 2:That didn't go how you thought it was going to go, did it yeah?
Speaker 1:We learn, hoyt's had his gun taken away thanks to a past incident involving working security at game seven of the world series, where he shot derrick cheater, derrick theater yeah, you should have shot a rod.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Are you a baseball fan?
Speaker 1:no, yeah I would like to go to a mlb game. Yeah, I like going, I would go to the braves game. But yeah, I like going, I would go to a Braves game. But you know, I have like a life to live man. I can only give it to one sport, and that's football, because it's fun to watch.
Speaker 2:I'm only going if a star player gets shot. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:So everybody, because they're at like this gun counseling thing when they're detailing it For officers who have discharged their weapon and everybody and they're just like oh, fuck him how do they make you feel they call? Like a viagra with a face. Yeah, they call him the yankee clipper. Gamble also has earned an unflattering nickname around the office paper bitch it's kind of his fault yeah, cuz he has no problem doing everybody's paperwork.
Speaker 1:And to make matters worse, gamble is duped into a prank by fellow officers Martin and Fosse, firing his gun randomly in the air, doing a desk pop he just wants to be like everyone he's like really everybody does it oh yeah, I mean, I feel like at some point other people should be getting in trouble in this police off the police station. Well, I feel like at some point other people should be getting in trouble in this police station.
Speaker 2:Well, I feel like he would have noticed if it was a thing, he's probably been there for a while. It's like what have you been doing this guy's nose in his computer.
Speaker 1:He just never noticed. The captain takes Gamble's gun away and give him a wooden gun. Love it. I love the evolution of this gun.
Speaker 2:I know, I feel like they should have given him one of those wooden guns that has. They can shoot rubber bands at least. Yeah, you know, maybe get somebody in the eye. Yeah, we also learned the captain has a second job at Bed Bath Beyond because of his bisexual son Going to college, but I do love how he does it to support his son even though, but he seems like he really likes his bed bath.
Speaker 1:I think that's his favorite job he has. I think it's where he just loves that. It's like hey, it's not high stress, it's not murder, yeah, it's just bath mats, not everybody's an asshole. They're all like I don't know, steroid pumping cops.
Speaker 1:I guess, because that's how they all act so the next day Highsmith and Danson are called into the field. This case is them chasing suspects in a jewelry store robbery. Once again, they're chasing a suspect robbing a jewelry store, and up in a high rise. Yeah, whenever they get the call, so they get the call first, and then this is where you just have Mark Wahlberg going absolutely batshit. He gets so pissed he's like I'm a peacock, you gotta let me fly. We gotta go get this Will Ferrell's like okay, but the robber manages to escape using a zipline and to follow him they're planning to jump off a high rise into the bushes. Unfortunately, they miss because there are no bushes and hit the pavement instead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like they couldn't possibly call for help or backup or nothing.
Speaker 1:It's like there's cops all down there Like what do we do? So no one really knows why they decided to jump. They're given a hero's funeral by the city of New York Without their hottest officers. Hoyt wants him and Gamble to step up instead. Then we get to the funeral. It's so good. At the funeral, hoyt and Gamble nearly start a brawl with some of the other detectives. I was like you want to go, huh, you want to go yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll go.
Speaker 1:We're just pushing each other around and they start fighting. I was like, yeah, come on, it's a fight. Yeah, get him, get him. And then Michael Keaton goes up there. Everybody stop. It's just his face that he makes when he does it. It's so funny. He's got a hilarious face. God, I love Michael Keaton. He's probably top five actor for me. I always forget he's a top five actor for me until I watch him in a movie and I'm like, ah, I love this man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know you recognize him immediately. Yeah, you love it.
Speaker 1:Showdown. So Hoyt desperately wants a taste of action but unfortunately, as he's paired with Gamble, gamble's obsessed with a case involving faulty scaffolding being installed at a construction site. Somebody's gotta do it. It's like how did he even find this case? Did somebody call it in? Did he walk past the street and see it? Like what is this? But then they get a call about shots being fired and cocaine at the scene, which forces Gamble out of the office to take the case by putting a gun to his necks. They're walking out like he's got a gun to me. I'm in a police station and nobody cares that he's got a gun pointed at my head.
Speaker 2:I think that's just how it is. That's just how it is All the time.
Speaker 1:In the worst New York police station. Yes, I don't know what precinct this is, but it needs to be shut down, or this? Is michael keaton, just doesn't have the reins on him, like yeah and that's maybe that's what he can't like keep his officers in check but he can at bed bath and beyond.
Speaker 2:So that's why he likes it more. So much easier.
Speaker 1:Yeah um as they finally get some field work. Hoits discovers that gamble is even lamer than he originally thought because of his cheesy listening music.
Speaker 2:that is prius, I feel like I'm riding in a vagina, yeah.
Speaker 1:I have a Prius. They're great vehicles. The first taste of action ends incredibly poorly when Gamble floors the accelerator on his red Porsche Prius and crashes into the crime scene. America, he runs over the corpse.
Speaker 2:Oh wait.
Speaker 1:Did you scream, america, while?
Speaker 2:doing that. It's like I did. No, it's like no, no, I've never felt more alive, aroused.
Speaker 1:I think he says aroused, it's a little aroused. We are then introduced to billionaire investor David Ershon, played by Steve Coogan. One of the funniest people you never remember At the center, for they meet him at the Center for American Capitalism. What convention is this. Hey, let's talk about being rich and getting richer and screwing everybody else, yeah we don't know about these things. He has a quote Live for excess. It's the.
Speaker 2:American way, american way, baby, don't stop profiting, yeah.
Speaker 1:No matter how many people it hurts. Hey, should we up the prices on groceries? And nobody can stop us? Sure, why not? As in, I bought $130 worth of groceries and only bought like 15 items. Nice, that really fucking pisses me off.
Speaker 2:Damn it Biden. Did you get some crackers? Did you get some crackers? Did you get some soup?
Speaker 1:Yeah, A tomato. So Ershon is being pressured because he owes money to a woman and, like the whole company, essentially. To the Lendl Global. Lendl Global, that's it, man. I thought I put that in my notes, but I did not. He's being followed until he pays. He gets away, though, by tricking the people.
Speaker 2:Hoyts is still demeaning Gamble about everything he does because everything he does isn't manly enough. It's pretty bad, yeah A little bad for him.
Speaker 1:I know Gamble wants to go after Ershon. He convinces Hoyts by hitting him with a wooden gun. It's like I'll use this. He's like what are you going to do with that? And just like, hits him right in the nose Like oh so good, but it's solid man that would hurt. Yeah, it would. That thing looks heavy. They then meet Urshan at the convention. Gamble arrests Urshan but fails to read, so bummed out, he wanted a Miranda ride. So he always missed it.
Speaker 2:I love that, though he was like you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do can be used.
Speaker 1:Can be he's like use this flotation device he's like okay, yeah so while transporting Ershon back to the station, Gamble has an accident with some very suspicious people who then steal Gamble's Prius and kidnap Ershon back to the station. Gamble has an accident with some very suspicious people who then steal Gamble's Prius and kidnap Ershon.
Speaker 2:The female kidnapper makes eyes at Gamble and they steal their shoes.
Speaker 1:That is one of the funniest gags, yeah, the fact that hot girls love him for the shoes thing, because they're both equally funny in my opinion.
Speaker 2:The hot girl thing is what I was looking for.
Speaker 1:Especially the second time they're like they stole her shoes again. It's like why do they keep stealing her shoes?
Speaker 2:well, I mean, like growing up, that's what they used to tell us that kidnappers would do to children, to keep them from running away, keep them from running, ah, but as awful as that is, it's hilarious for what happens to adults. Well, if you don't think about it in that sense it's very funny when they get back, their feet are all bloody and shit what is it?
Speaker 1:Rob Riggle's like, where'd y'all come from? The Shire? Or it's like, or what did he call them? Hobbits or bilbo baggins or whatever, something like that. So Gamble and Hoyt decide that they need a fresh chart while wandering the streets of New York City Maybe we should call each other the Febreze Brothers because we are so fresh it's like do we need another fresh chart? Should we do one more? Last one, it's like I just keep thinking about hitting me right in the face. Back at the station they have a new case and that's to find out who kidnapped Ershan. They get called into the captain's office and we learn that Roger Weasley, the guy that was the main guy that was kidnapping and was supposed to follow the Australian guy Ershan yes, played by Steve Ray Stevenson, I believe, is his name. He played Punisher once. He's so tall. Punisher Wars on a very fun, wacky dude movie.
Speaker 1:Never even heard of that one, yeah it's bad but also amazing, so it's kind of got both things going for it. They get called into the captain's office and learn that Roger Weasley is one who stole their Prius and Ershon. They say that they thought Holtz, hoytz and Gamble were kidnapping.
Speaker 2:Because Ershon's like please don't let these men take me. Yeah, it's like what. You don't even see them stealing their shoes, they're just gone.
Speaker 1:They're just gone and they're saying like, oh, we didn't know your officers and we just thought you were kidnapping Urshan, and so that's why we did what we did. And then, after Roger Wesley leaves, they're like all right, they brought back your shoes. They also brought back your gun campbell, your guns. It's like they even actually put a nice stain on it like leekwood seed oil. Yeah, made it look beautiful, dude. It's like who?
Speaker 2:comes up with that shit like what's up?
Speaker 1:was it just like adam mckay? Just be like hey, it actually just like. Just afterthought on the day is like hey, let's actually put some stain on that. It'd be funny if they like stained it. Or it's like is that something you think of while writing the script?
Speaker 2:well, if there is a script. It's like maybe if the whoever's a like, if anybody's a woodworker and they're like man, we could spruce this up a little bit, yeah, let's actually just do it.
Speaker 1:And then kind of surprise, or like they just like threw it in there as like a surprise.
Speaker 2:You should think about writing him a thank you letter. Yeah, lynn Cedoy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, lynn Cedoy, yeah so Gamble invites Hoyt over to talk the case. He apologizes about his wife, who acts like a bitch and is a big old broad and likes a flaunt. He pre-apologizes for it. She's a big old broad and likes so funny. So it goes over to Gamble's house where he learns more about Gamble, including the fact that Gamble has a supermodel wife named.
Speaker 1:Sheila played by Eva Mendes she's also a well, disrespected doctor, and he like gets so mad, and he's like um, she's like oh, can you give me a kiss? And he's like no it's like okay, you look like a hobo, you look like a hobo. It's like go change. I already did mark walbert all the time, no she looks beautiful she looks pretty seriously. Who is she? Um, he can't believe how hot she is. Uh, um. Then they get a call that they learn who stole the Prius.
Speaker 2:And ruin the name Mike forever.
Speaker 1:Before they're leaving. As they're leaving, mark Wahlberg just keeps trying to hug Sheila and they're saying bye, because they're on the neck.
Speaker 2:Bye, sheila.
Speaker 1:Gamble Bye, terry, bye Sheila, terry bye, I don't think you heard me.
Speaker 2:Bye, sheila yeah.
Speaker 1:It just like keeps going. But Gamble then learns he stole the Prius and it turns out that it was stolen by some homeless people and they had an orgy In the back seat and a raccoon Took a shit in it.
Speaker 2:Well, no, a mama raccoon had babies in it. Had babies in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then they found like a condom and a dead rat.
Speaker 2:With a baby mouse.
Speaker 1:And they also found Gamble's lost iPhone. The group of homeless people is known as Dirty Mike and the Boys, and they left a note. Thanks for the F-Shack.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's so good, dirty Mike and the Boys yes, oh, it's so good. Dirty like a boy, yes, it's like what?
Speaker 1:why making a name for ourselves around town? I'm gonna make a name for myself yeah, there's other ways to do it but.
Speaker 2:I feel like he's hey, they're having their best life, they're successful man yeah.
Speaker 1:So Gamble and Hoyt then go to interview the next witness, who also happens to be former ex-girlfriend of Gamble's, another unbelievably attractive girl. However, she is married and Hoyt's manages to offend the woman by mispronouncing her name. It's. It's Christina, not Christina. You come into my house. You disrespect my wife.
Speaker 2:I love it. As soon as they open the door, she called mark walberg's.
Speaker 1:Like hey, I'm terry she's like oh, hey, telly, yeah, and she's super crazy and it's like her and her husband. Who this husband?
Speaker 2:I forgot the actor's name but it's always so funny he's really funny.
Speaker 1:He's so good at that awkward comedy awkward and it's just like you don't trust them. You immediately think that this guy's a piece of shit and I don't care what you say.
Speaker 2:I love that, though, whatever they had to go have a word in the kitchen. He's like laying on the couch I'm all covered in hair, but I'm not. I'm not completely shaved, and he's like y'all got the information.
Speaker 1:You got that phone, yet while christina's slamming them you pieces of shit. I love you, say it, you love me he like, pushes her away, grabs the iphone, runs out. You come back here and make love to my wife and then they're in the car talking about it.
Speaker 2:It's like hours after and they're like probably as far as they can be, 20 miles, and they're both coming. You think it's like hours after and they're like probably as far as they can be, yes, and they're both coming. You think it's just him?
Speaker 1:yeah, she's right behind in her dress, like high heels, running after him. Oh god, oh man. It's like at the beginning of this podcast. I'm like, oh, this scene, this scene.
Speaker 1:And then I completely forgot this is one of the funniest scenes in the movie there's so much good stuff, um, so Hoyt's really wants to know what Gamble's deal is with. I completely forgot. This is one of the funniest scenes in the movie. There's so much good stuff, so Hoyt really wants to know what Gamble's deal is with hot ladies. While sitting in the Prius, they listen to the voicemail from Ershon. Turns out he was actually kidnapped and needs to repay $34 billion, and they also get like his address from it. And then, like you said, kristina Finna, Also.
Speaker 1:Kristina kind of a crazy name, right, kristina. It's like, yeah, everybody would mispronounce that it's Kristina. So later that night we're at a local bar singing about their woes.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Like sailors, like old Scottish dirges.
Speaker 2:But they're singing about Harry Potter. Yeah, it's like no, it's got a lot of history, because that is something that happens in like Irish bars yeah, just get up and sing, sing their hearts out, sing their sea shanties yeah, I would love that. Yeah, but like this is a little different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, singing shanties yeah, I would love that, yeah, but like this is a little different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was good came back to fight his wife home with five british soldiers yeah, it was all consensual. It reminds me of the, the story of roy. I think it's roy rogers have you seen that movie?
Speaker 1:uh, no, lumines Neeson plays him right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's fucking, but not the same. It's not the same thing. She actually gets like brutally assaulted by British soldiers and she has a son and she comes back and she's like this happened. I had a son. He's like we'll call him William.
Speaker 1:Okay, william Rogers, he was totally cool about it. Yeah, like, oh, that's fine, shoot, it's the 1800s or whatever that's a badass movie. It's old, but it's is that where it's like a lot of sword fighting. Yeah, yeah, okay, there's a duel at the end. Yeah, alright, yeah, I've always heard it's a. I think he got like nominated. I think Liam Neeson got nominated for that movie, something like that. It's like one of his first really big, well-recognized roles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he had to hide. It's like he had to hide in the what's the thing from Star Wars where they hid. You think it smells bad on the outside? Yeah, but he had to hide inside of a dead cow to get away from British soldiers.
Speaker 1:Fuck, should we do this movie, figure out, if it's on anything, we'll have to do it. Yeah, hell, yeah. So Gamble and Hoyt's discovers that Ershon is up to something involving the state lottery and some suspicious activity. Hoyt then goes to meet his girlfriend, a dance instructor, who turns out he has some issues with.
Speaker 2:You shouldn't be in here at a strip club, shaking it for dollar bills.
Speaker 1:When he walks in, she's like, hey, get off of her. Unfortunately, though, Gamble awkwardly shows up and makes things worse than they were.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure he did make it worse. It was already pretty bad.
Speaker 1:There's a point at the end of the conversation you're just making things. You're not making things any better.
Speaker 2:You're kind of making it worse.
Speaker 1:Hoyt then proved that he can dance like her and isn't only into police business. Does a perfect ballet yeah, and it's like whoa. Ok, then he like storms off. The explanation is the best. Well, I think we all experienced our own ballet today, A ballet of feelings, all right.
Speaker 2:Go away. You're making, you're not making things any better.
Speaker 1:Then Gamble brings out how well Hoyt's dances. This is a quote. Gamble hey, I didn't know you could dance, Terry. We used to do those dance moves to make fun of the guys when we were kids, to show them how queer they were. Okay, Gamble, you learned to dance like that sarcastically. Hoyt's yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 1:It feels like something would be in Napoleon Dynamite it's so good and like there's something else towards the end that's like the same way. Oh, all right. The next day, driving into the city, Gamble and Hoyt have an incredibly awkward moment because Gamble gives him a gift it's an FBI mug. Female body inspector.
Speaker 2:He throws it out the window. He's an FBI mug Female body inspector.
Speaker 1:He's like do you not get it Like at first, you see, and it looks like an actual mug for FBI, you're like, well, hold on a second. Does that say female body inspector? That's my favorite, will Ferrell. It's like just the best when he's just like just playing dumb and like innocent, it's so good, that's outrageous, yeah. And then, uh, they get to another fight and gamble plays some of more of his favorite music the little river band.
Speaker 1:Is that what it is? Yeah, all right. Um, so they go to the next stop on their list, another accounting firm, which ends in the storefront. They're going to explode, and this is when we talked about last week, when man of Fire when he walks away from an explosion, I'm like hell.
Speaker 2:Yes, we need to do the other guys now. It would have been like a big shockwave.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love it because it got Gamble right after the explosion. I can't hear. I can't hear. There's blood blisters on my hands. Oh my God, how do you walk away in a movie without flinching when it explodes behind them? There's no way. I call bullshit on that. When they flew the Millennium Falcon outside the Death Star and it was followed by the explosion, that was bullshit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hell, yeah, it was Don't you dare badmouth Star. Wars. That was all accurate.
Speaker 1:Gamble. I just want to go somewhere to breastfeed right now they're all shouting because the eardrums are busted. Yeah, it's so good oh god, gamble is um, he's tired of explosions and the gunfights and wants to go back to his desk. Hoits, on the other hand, disagrees and tells Gamble that life is loud and has incidents like this.
Speaker 2:Like explosions?
Speaker 1:No, they don't Never had that happen, except during Fourth of July.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't want it.
Speaker 1:So Gamble then reveals about his passing college. He was essentially a glorified pimp. Yeah, he's like Hoyt's was essentially a glorified pimp. Yeah, he's like Hoyt's constantly. Yeah, a pimp. That's what pimps do.
Speaker 2:It's so funny how it came to be, how he was just trying to be like a good friend, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he turns into like the worst, a pimp. Apparently he made money working security for college's attractive women and was very well paid. It's like yeah, uh, and he attracted a huge group of women, yay, stable hose 14, yeah and earned the real nickname of gator gator. Um, he decided to leave that life behind after an incident where he went to the emergency room because he had poison ivy in his buttthole. Oh his rectum. Yeah, and met Sheila who he would later go on to marry and that's why he's straight-laced as he is.
Speaker 2:It's so funny, like their story of them meeting he's ass up crying inflamed Pimps don't cry Pimps, don't cry Woo so after that they go to meet Ershon back at his accounting firm.
Speaker 1:They confront Ershon about his penny pinching and they don't know what he's up to with the state lottery. But they definitely suspect that he's up to something. They just can't quite put their finger on it. Gamble is obsessed with the cucumber water because when they come in he's like here, get him some iceberg cucumber water. He's like this is really good water, it made me want it. It looks so like the glasses. Everything made it look appetizing Terry's like no we don't want your water.
Speaker 2:He's like oh, I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:Because Ershon offers them a bribe of courtside seats at the latest Knicks game. But they don't know it's a bribe. I love like you cut to him. It's got like Rosie Perez, tracy Morgan at the game, um. And when they're there they're like wait, this doesn't feel right. Hoyt's oh, he bribed us and we didn't even know it and then they get tickets to the Jersey Boys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, upstanty and.
Speaker 1:Aubrey the tickets to the musical Jersey Boys. They're there and they're like, yeah, even like Hoyt's is like super excited about it, like you guys are amazing. Gamble sits down Damn it, we fell for it again. And then they go in there again. They're like not again, not this time. And then they go in there again and they're like not again, not this time. And they go and he's like whatever Hoyts and Gamble learn that Ershon is trying to cover up some shady losses that he had to cover his tracks on some bad investments with everyone in the world and Hoyts comes up with that he's going to be bad cop and that Gamble is going to be good cop, but Gamble's going to be good
Speaker 2:cop but he doesn't let him finish the sentence.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so Hoyt goes and he starts being bad cop. And then Gamble comes in and just goes, waits. He starts throwing them everywhere, throwing all this stuff on the ground.
Speaker 2:Oh, God, yeah, I love that when Ershad in the beginning he's like I want to talk to you, you seem reasonable. Yeah, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 1:He's like no, he's just screaming, almost crying. So while at Ershon's office they're confronted by some incredibly shady people in the parking lot Watch out, colombian drug lords. It's like how do you know that? How?
Speaker 2:did you get?
Speaker 1:that from this Something I love about this Every time something's popping up, hoist is constantly assumes it's like a huge case for no reason, which this is. He's just not on the right track yet. He just doesn't realize. And something I love is that hoist is great at fighting even gamble's like man, do you ever think about where you'd be if you didn't shoot?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's incredible, like Kung Fu or whatever.
Speaker 1:And then Hoyts and Gamble are then kidnapped and are being transported on train in Gamble's Prius. This is where we're like. They stole our shoes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that fight scene was so cool. Yeah, it was great he jumps back and kicks Will Ferrell out of the way from the other motorcycle that's going to hit him.
Speaker 1:You're like shit, this guy's a badass. He really shouldn't have shot Jared Dieter. Yeah, he shouldn't have been caged down, jared Dieter. So back at the station, the captain's boss is grilling Hoyts and Gamble about their investigation into Ershon's construction, ershon's shady business practices. The captain has a change of heart and removes Gamble's wooden gun, but Practices. The captain has a change of heart and removes Gamble's wooden gun, but gives him a rape whistle as a replacement. Hell yeah, man, and I love that we actually see him use it in the movie. Yeah, did you ever have one, a rape whistle.
Speaker 2:Well, I've had whistles. What about a storm? Whistle.
Speaker 1:No, I just had like a normal whistle as a kid, but it could have been a rape whistle If I had it on me and that was happening, it would have become a rape. I may have would have tried it. I don't think anybody would have responded to a whistle. Yeah, here's the thing If I hear a whistle I'd be like, oh, somebody's kids got a whistle and it's just blowing.
Speaker 2:It's a referee on the loose.
Speaker 1:Oh no, the umpire from the World.
Speaker 2:Series.
Speaker 1:Game 7 is coming after Hoyts. So the captain then orders all the evidence they have on Ershon turned over to the SEC. Hoyts brings up the peacock thing again. Captain says peacocks can't fly, so I don't get the reference Gambles. Well, some they can kind of fly. Then the captain quotes TLC Don't go chasing waterfalls. Like did you just quote TLC? And he's like I have no idea what you're talking about?
Speaker 2:I don't understand the reference. I have zero idea what's going on here.
Speaker 1:They're like no one ever says that.
Speaker 2:It's like I don't know what you're talking about you never say those things unless you're referencing?
Speaker 1:TLC. It's like get out of my office. Later officer ball Bob tells them about the police pension fund and yells at him and hurts his feelings.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have no time for Bob. Poor guy, poor guy.
Speaker 1:But if they listened they would have been even closer, so much nonsense didn't have to happen. They're like pinch your phone, Where's it going? Oh wait, Ershon's in charge of that.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's what it's about. I feel like there would have been a meeting.
Speaker 1:And then we could have cut 20 minutes out of the movie.
Speaker 2:There's a meeting that they probably didn't get to go to.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Meanwhile, at Gamble's house, he tells Sheila that they have been kicked off the case. He explains he's been struggling to stay straight laced and Gator is coming back. You don't get it. There's dark. There's a darkness inside of me. It wants to get out, it wants to buy some shoes and it wants to. It wants to walk up to people and say hey, gator, don't play no shit. You hear, you feel me, gator. Never been about that, never, never been about playing no shit. That's what she starts out on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, when we met. You know when we met, you cried like you had your. Yeah, I saw you drugged out.
Speaker 1:Drugged out Pimp.
Speaker 2:Ass up in flames.
Speaker 1:Then I went to you and what'd I do? Fell in love. I sang to you pimps, don't cry, pimps don't cry, that's all you know. It is not a thing. And then she's like get out of here, get out of here. That's when she drops the news Like I'm pregnant. Whose baby is? That Gators bitches better be using jimmies. Oh God, he's right though Gators bitches better be using jimmies. Yeah, they better. They better, and then she kicks him out of the house. Dropped my phone. I was laughing too hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's. I feel like, yeah, good for her, you know. But no, I love like when, after the dinner, the in the earlier in the movie, when she was like every day, I tell him don't get hurt, and these will be waiting here for you, yeah my perky fur breasts and he's like you know they may not be big enough for them, but they are perky. They may not be the biggest he's ever seen. He's like no, they're not, they're not.
Speaker 1:Oh God. So later that night Gamble and Hoyt decided that they're both depressed about their troubles with their women and don't know what to do next. They're also confronted by Dirty Mike and the boys. Hey, you see that priest, we're going to have sex in that car. Like, are you Dirty Mike and the boys? Like?
Speaker 2:how do you know Run away? If only they would have had a raccoon with them. Yeah, and I love it.
Speaker 1:as they're running away, we're going to have sex in your car.
Speaker 2:We will have sex in your car again.
Speaker 1:And then after that they decide to go on a bender to end all benders.
Speaker 2:It's fucking rad, it was an epic night.
Speaker 1:I love this scene. It's so cool. Yeah, it is really cool.
Speaker 2:It's like the way it's shot, you know it's like like still pictures and it moves. But it's like panoramic still frames or something I meant to look up how they did it.
Speaker 1:It's cool, I'm not prepared.
Speaker 2:And then you got like look he's firing his gun in the air. At one point there's one point he's firing it to impress a girl while Hoyt's is beating somebody up.
Speaker 1:And then it cuts to Hoyt shooting the gun up in the air and then Gamble biting a priest and then Hoyt has his like police badge out like stopping everybody, while Gamble is peeing on the pool table. So funny. My favorite is biting the priest and the thing is the bartender's in like most of the shots, and every time he's just in there smiling at him.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. What a great night for a bartender.
Speaker 1:I know God we should start a bar Also, I love Black Eyed Peas.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's a badass song for this.
Speaker 1:I feel like time has passed enough to where we're all like no Black Eyed Peas is good, right yeah.
Speaker 2:I like the Black Eyed Peas.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be on the next level.
Speaker 2:That's a badass song, it is. It really is and some people are 2008 some people are 2001 whenever this scene came on, because I was watching this on my phone and, uh, my kids are all like on the couches, they're all watching their things. Like I couldn't use the tv at the time, so I was just I turned it up for this scene and everybody got up and started dancing. It was awesome, that's adorable, so hoisting gamble.
Speaker 1:Then go to turn over the evidence. The secretary is John Ralphio from Parks and Rec. Hell yeah, man. I wish he got to go for John Ralphio. It's Ben Shorts. I love Ben Shorts. The person they are turning their evidence into happens to be Ershon's lawyer, played by David from the Office, the Thunder Mifflflin like main boss or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I love how he was like don't worry, there's not going to be any kind of problem with this. I would recuse myself yeah.
Speaker 1:But it turns out he actually was going to be a good guy. He promises to seriously look at the evidence. So back at the station, woods is extremely angry about the fact that they just handed over all the evidence. He smashes his own computer. Are you a big man? Huh, I'm talking to you what Hoyt says. Gamble, do you wake up in the morning and say I'm putting on my big pole pants? Look, I'm wearing a belt. I'm a big, I got my big pants on and then like yeah, he goes full gator, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then it's like I feel like I'm working on partners with the Hulk. The Hulk You're always just so angry, so good, I completely fucked all that up by. It's all good Stuttering, so we forgive you. They don't. They're all unfollowing. They then get a call over the police banner about a possible jumper from a high rise. Gamble tells Hoyt that his previous experience about hostage negotiation he took an online class one semester.
Speaker 2:The University of Phoenix. Oh woof, I took a class from them too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, that's right, I still don't have a new job. That went nowhere. I mean it is though I aced it, you nailed it, but it ends poorly when Gamble gets on the PA and has extremely poor choice of words. That has the jumper. Jumping Jumper also happened to work for Arshon. It was the lawyer.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah happened to work for urshan. It was the lawyer.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, boom boom boom, they go to his office and it's all wrecked to shit. Yeah, um, and then like, as they're in, it's like, oh, there's definitely so like a struggle here. And then the captain comes in. He's like get out of here, you're off the case. Even more even because you're completely off the case, and they get demoted and then they also lost, they lost their friend, their friendship and they get demoted. And then they also lost. They lost their friend, their friendship in there.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they weren't partners anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're no longer allowed to be partners but it's. It's funny it's cause Terry loves being a traffic cop and he's like doing it so well, it's so good, it's so funny, even wins an award. Yeah, um so Ward, yeah. So we hear a monologue from the narrator played by Icy. Yeah, right, yeah, icy.
Speaker 2:Why Icy About what a man?
Speaker 1:has to do to pick himself up once he gets his ass kicked. We see Hoyt's being really good at being a traffic cop and he's like dancing while he's doing it and everything. And Gamble is still pursuing the case.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's actually becoming a real detective.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he's actually becoming a real detective, yeah because he's still obsessed about the conspiracy theory involving Ershon and the lottery Gamble, thinks that the jewelry heist that Danson and Highsmith were chasing was actually a distraction for an even bigger robbery taking place behind the scenes. A homie goes into the captain's office.
Speaker 2:Gator needs his gap, you punk-ass bitch and he just gives it to him.
Speaker 1:He just gives it to him because he's having a conversation with his kid on the phone Saying like I am proud of you.
Speaker 2:You can have the office. Fine, take your gun. That's what I do with my kids. Every time I ask for candy or something, yeah, you just give them a gun. Yeah, I do give them a gun. I don't have any candy, but I got lots of guns.
Speaker 1:So Gamble keeps investigating exactly what the thieves were doing when they took such a small amount of diamonds and escaped using a 20-story, military-grade zipline. Lindo Global set up the robbery so that they could break into their accountant firm and cook the books.
Speaker 2:I feel like you're only here for the zipline.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like, because it was like they only stole like $47,000 in diamonds and they're like there's millions of dollars of diamonds. Why wouldn't they steal more than just $47,000 in diamonds? And they're like there's millions of dollars of diamonds, why wouldn't they steal more than just $47,000? I'd take $40,000. $47,000. I'd take $4,000 right now. So Woodson and Gamble then reunite and decide that to get back on the boss's good graces, that they really need to go after Urshan.
Speaker 1:Like literally, it's the last thing you need to do yeah, because he told them twice not to go after him More than twice, like four times at this point, yeah, which is just like a play on you know cops that always get kicked off the case, or like you can't go. It's like how many times in this movie are you going to tell them they?
Speaker 2:can't do it if we fire them.
Speaker 1:So Gamble reveals that Ershon is covering his tracks by using two accounting firms and that he needs to be arrested for grand larceny. Hoyts tells Gamble that there's no longer, that he's no longer interested in the case and that he enjoys working traffic. Then Gamble then forces Hoyts at gunpoint that he needs his partner to be on his case Apartment pop, because they're like in his apartment and they turn up music and they're like whispering.
Speaker 2:It's like it might be bugged. It's like what are you talking about?
Speaker 1:I know, and then they go under the bed, yeah and he's like, first off, I miss you, I miss you, and then, hoits, I actually kind of miss you too.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I love it so sweet um so it's like the buddiest thing you could do. Yeah, I know a conversation under the bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you just kind of want to start like giggling a little bit. So Hoytzengem will then go to confront the captain while working at his alternate job at Bed Bath. Beyond, the captain is working with the second job to pay his son's obscene college tuition, and then to pay his son's obscene college tuition. And then we see him there. It's the captain. We got a big day out there, big one. We got a full moon. People are going to be amped. All right, let's see. Bathbats are in.
Speaker 1:Let's see what we got on tips All right Whoa, the new bathbats are in Excited chattering and the captain One more thing we got a serial rapist in crown hats.
Speaker 1:I, oh geez, I'm sorry that's for my other job. Ignore that, forget that. Well, don't, unless you live there walking parents. Yeah, oh god, use the buddy system. Yes, so they talk to the captain. The captain allows them to go, but they can't make any noise because he was just trying to keep him off because he knew that there was really big people that could, you know, hurt them if they kept suing the case the quietism house. He wants them to do it and to make them proud. He's like I want you to make me proud, I don't want no scrubs. They're like wait, you did it again. It's like that's TLC, it's like I really have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 1:Like I don't even know what TLC is. I don't get the joke, I don't get the reference. It's like you just all right, so be quiet out there. You got to creep Creep. It's like no one ever says creep creep like that unless they're quoting TLC. It's like, guys, I still have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:On the download so good. So Hoyt and Gamble formulate a plan to take down Arshon by confronting him at his construction company. At Arshon's company, he is having a meeting with his stockholders about the company's future. One of the investors happens to be fellow officer Bob. Poor fucking Bob. They braided earlier about the proxy vote. They wouldn't listen to it at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they braided earlier about the proxy vote they wouldn't listen to it at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they wouldn't listen. Hoyt says come to a revelation that they are targeting the police pension fund and not the lottery. Yeah, yeah, it turns out that Gamble was right with his theory that the jewelry heist that Danson and Highsmith were chasing was just a distraction for an even bigger robbery that was taking place behind the scenes involving Ershon. And then it essentially all goes wrong. A massive shootout ensues. They get in a car chase involving urshan and gamble the.
Speaker 2:The shootout in this office is incredible. Yeah, there's so many flying papers. Yeah, he throws up one stack of papers. I think it's just like I don't know. It's like the sky is raining it starts raining paper. Yeah, that's what happens when you shoot, when you throw paper up during a gunfight, and then you shoot it and just more paper happens and then, like Mark Wahlberg, is like sliding backward on the conference table for some reason shooting people. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:It's wild. So after the car chase, they then take Ershon to his very small apartment, urshan reveals that he uses for family and prostitutes Not at the same time.
Speaker 2:that'd be wrong. That would be wrong.
Speaker 1:I guess if you're quiet. So Urshan reveals that a money transfer is going to be involved and that the pension money involved goes directly to his account and then into offshore accounts. Gamble then goes to reconcile his differences with Sheila, while Hoyt goes to reconcile his differences with his girlfriend. Hoyt says he will be there for Sheila if something happens to them.
Speaker 2:That's so funny. It's like seriously.
Speaker 1:I will take care of her. All her needs and pleasures I will take care of. That's a good friend. Yeah Gamble then goes to his house and reconciles with sheila. He calls her and they decide to use sheila's grandma, why were they?
Speaker 2:doing that who was in the house people were staking out his house so they didn't to find him, oh, so he wouldn't get seen by the bad guys, and so sheila's grandma is going to relay information back and forth.
Speaker 1:It starts tame at first, but then they start having.
Speaker 2:No, it doesn't. It starts off with like as in.
Speaker 1:Like, the first four words are tame, and then they start having her say a lot of dirty stuff. She wants to unplug all the clocks and phones and have a three day sex marathon. I don't want to walk right for a week, please don't make me say these things, but she soldiers on. That's the mother-in-law you need, and then the grandma finally decides she's done. Then Sheila walks out, dresses Gam Gam and kisses her, and then they have sex.
Speaker 2:I'm about to break her hip. The walker.
Speaker 1:Takes off the wig. I'm about to take grandma style. Goddamn, that was great, it's great. So the next morning it's time for the bank transfer. Gamble, of course, has the proper soundtrack and his lame taste in easy listening. Music once again prevails. Gamble then shocks everyone with some high-speed driving in his prius, but it ends badly when they get into a horrific accident.
Speaker 2:He's like how'd you learn to do that grand theft auto? And then, when the bad guy sees him doing it, he's like, oh, he's been playing grand theft auto someone's been playing grand theft auto.
Speaker 1:Uh, but they survived the accident. Uh, thanks to gamble's jackknifing abilities, because he crashes the two yeah, he hits the back wheel meanwhile some of the officers are giving a lecture to some school kids about police work and deciding to bring one of the kids along.
Speaker 2:man, and the next time we see him gun, gun, gun because they handed out like guns and then next time we see him Gun gun gun.
Speaker 1:Come here, my gun Quick, Because they handed out like guns. And then next time we see them driving with a kid in the back.
Speaker 2:It's just like flying in the back no seatbelt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, during chase, suddenly a helicopter starts shooting at the Prius. They're like oh a helicopter.
Speaker 2:That's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they lose them. Then they're followed by a huge flock of police cars but manage to escape by hiding in a double-level parking lot. Ershon is then pursued by another group of shady people. The chase ends with them on a golf course driving range and they manage to destroy the helicopter by having the golfers hit the helicopter.
Speaker 2:Because they just hit anything that's out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, apparently, that's what you do Like when the golfers hit the helicopter Because they just hit anything that's out there. Yeah, apparently that's what you do, like when the golf cart goes out there, they hit the balls.
Speaker 2:That's what you do, you're supposed to hit them, I know, but the idea that they would say hit your balls on a?
Speaker 1:helicopter. He's like hey, I'm a cop, aim for the helicopter, but sadly it's the end for the Prius. Oh, it's the end for the Prius, prius RIP, one of the best cars in the biz the movie biz. So they managed to get Ershon to the transfer to stop it. But Roger Wesley makes it there to make sure the transfer goes through. They try to get the upper hand. But what Like? Yeah, because he's like Hoyt's is like two one and like dismantles everybody. And then Campbell's like how was I supposed to know what that's, what that meant?
Speaker 2:Ershon's like. I knew it even.
Speaker 1:I knew it even so, but they have Ershon. He's like, ha, you can't shoot him now. And then they just shoot all three of them. He's like I can still use him wounded, yeah, and shoots all three of them. He's like I can still use him wounded. And then he's about to force the transfer to go through, but the captain and the rest of the police force show up to save him. Yay, gamble. And then Gamble looks like the captain goes to Gamble and it looks like he's dying. It's like you're going to be okay, he passes out.
Speaker 2:He's dying.
Speaker 1:I'm just resting. It's so funny it you're going to be okay. He passes out. He's dying.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just resting, fine, it's so funny, it's just the face of Michael.
Speaker 1:Keaton makes whatever he thinks he's dying he's dying and the captain is proud of him. Oh, what a day Good thing, because he doesn't accept no scrubs. He does so, ershon is arrested and taken into custody. It's revealed that he is using his time in prison to make investments and further his shading accounting practices, because now he's using cigarettes. Hoist and Gamble are held as heroes for their ability to bring Ershon to justice. Thankfully, gamble's smartphone app was able to nail most of the criminals involved in the transfer, because fat face.
Speaker 2:What was the app in? It's always or not, it's always funny, but Arresteded the new season of Arrested Development that came out with a different director, the son. Face Blur, face Blur. I thought no, it was Face Block. Face Block yeah or something like that. Yeah, he started with a block, the instrument, yeah, and then it turned into something else, and then it ended up not being anything for her, her face back, Face back something like that. It was like the same app.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like either you'd see their face and then the app shows you the back of their head or the back of their head shows you the face.
Speaker 2:Whatever this one was is the opposite of the thing.
Speaker 1:It has to be a joke. So Hoyt manages to marry his girlfriend and wanted Sheila to be his best man, but she declines for very obvious reasons, and I love that. Gamble's not even a best man Still about it. So their next case, they find out, involves the biggest shady investment firm in the world, Goldman Sachs, God damn. And where Gamble once again manages to attract another hot woman Damn. And where Gamble once again manages to attract another hot woman While leaving. Hoyts very badly wants to know what Gamble's secret is. And Gamble reveals who he lost his virginity to, none other than supermodel Heather.
Speaker 2:Locklear.
Speaker 1:The film ends with a monologue from the narrator Ice-T about how every police department is the same. You have your star officers, you have your 9-to-5 officers and there's these guys.
Speaker 2:The other guys and then the peacock flying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and during the credits we're shown a slideshow presentation set to the tune of Cleet See low greens Pimps don't cry about billionaires, income inequality, stock swindlers and Bernie Madoff.
Speaker 2:And then there's all the people who got government funds, funds when the market crashed and got bailouts yep, and yeah, maybe this actually happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, it's like this, is this real?
Speaker 2:it would be so easy for all of this to happen. Yeah, and it goes into like the ceo. Uh salary versus like the lowest employee, it's like go. I like that illustration, it's like the chart the graph. The elevators like going way, way up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh god that made me so I know it's like it's always. It's it like fits and doesn't fit at the same time, because it's like, fuck dude, we were trying to have a fun movie here and then all of a sudden you're just going to hit us with this knowledge. Blast me with all these fucking rich people that have never nothing bad ever happened to them.
Speaker 2:And at the end of the movie, the, the lady who was in charge of Lindell global. She got off scot-free completely, Completely.
Speaker 1:Everything was a-okay because of a bell out, yeah, um. And then we get a in-credit scene where walberg tells a joke that doesn't land, but then we realize it's just a blooper oh yeah, that was the.
Speaker 2:The bloopers were kind of funny. Well, like when there's one right there in the chinese restaurant, he's like shin shin, like saying thank you. I didn't see the bloopers. Oh, maybe it saw it on something else, but I thought it was on this movie. Yeah, I mean it might be.
Speaker 1:I just I don't know. I own the movie. I don't know why I didn't watch the DVD and watch the bloopers. I'm going to do that after.
Speaker 2:But like Walker, Oliver cracks up when he's speaking Chinese.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, ted. So that's the end of the other guys. We're going to hit our first of two categories the good, the bad, the fine. The good, the bad, the ugly. The fine it's where we talk about the good of the film, something we like. The bad, something we didn't. The ugly Something that didn't age well. The fine Something that did age well.
Speaker 2:What do you got for the good? What do you got for the good, the good? I don't know these two actors together. It just worked really well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're hilarious. That's what mine is. Mine was Will and Mark and how much chemistry they had together and how they're both equally very funny. The whole cast honestly, even the side characters. They're both equally very funny. The whole cast honestly, even the side characters.
Speaker 2:They're all great there's so many great actors yeah just cameos and all kinds of stuff that were incredible.
Speaker 1:That's what I like about uh adam mckay's movies. They always have so many funny people in them even like when they get more serious, like towards his, like last three movies like it's filled with comedic performance, comedic actors doing like kind of being serious. But if you have a still find a way to make. If you have a comedic act actor, there's still, there's still be a way of it being kind of funny, you kind of just think it's funny, because you know who they are, yeah, and like I don't know.
Speaker 1:I feel like comedic actors are also really good actors and we just don't give them credit for it because they're always just in comedies and we don't respect comedies like we respect dramas and other things, sure, yeah, yeah. So what do you got the for?
Speaker 2:the bad bad that they introduced. Part of the partly good is that they introduced dirty mike and the boys, which I think is one of the most influential things that's ever been made. Yeah, but bad, because everyone named Mike now is called Dirty.
Speaker 1:Mike. I don't see how that's a bad thing. I don't either. If my name is Mike, please call me Dirty Mike.
Speaker 2:You got to change your name to Michael. Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks, yeah.
Speaker 1:Mine the bad it's classic, classic Jesse move. It's like an hour and 50 minutes long. Let's, let's bump it down to an hour. That's all I gotta say. No, really there's. I don't really have anything bad about the movie. I love this movie, so I don't have anything bad about it. The only thing I can come up with is you know, comedy should be around an hour 40.
Speaker 2:Well, I will say that maybe for the ugly as well, that asking my spouse to watch this with me she's like oh, mark walberg is so problematic right now and that sucks for sure, and like the way they talk about women sucks yeah but it's funny.
Speaker 1:It really is, and you know it's a joke it's also a little play off of cop movies and stuff yes a lot of this stuff is very and but I feel like that kind of makes it okay. Yeah, I mean, if it's kind of being, if it's being a parody you're parodying of course stuff like the classic you know, like with uh will ferrell's character and uh, I thought you were going to say Gandalf?
Speaker 2:No, I almost did. That's why I decided to say Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1:But like the whole, oh, the cop has like a wife that like he doesn't respect and love Right. And it's like super spoken, hot, yeah, and like every movie like the cops is like always got like a perfect wife and it's just like treat her with respect. It's like done to the most like obscene level here. Of course, for my ugly, I put way too many people like people's view on Adam McKay now because he keeps getting nominated for Oscars. People would love his movies probably if they weren't nominated for Oscars.
Speaker 1:So we should chill out. Yeah, but I do get. I do kind of wish you'd go back to like a movie like this where it's just like really silly and it's not like super about politics and money and corruption, even though it was all about money and corruption, but like in the funnest way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really like how he kind of turned the buddy cop drama like on its head. Yeah that's incredible. Yeah, it's great, so funny, so I love.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's kind it's so funny. That's what I love. That's kind of what my fun is Turning Adam McKay and his ability to take stories like that and just make them so funny he's such a good comedic director.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you expose all the bullshit, but you kind of add these two adorable funny actors and it just kind of makes it work. I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's fun, all right. So we're gonna hit our next category double feature. So we recommend a movie alongside this movie. What do you got?
Speaker 2:uh well, just like anytime I see a wands person, I think of major pain yes. Yes, chugga, chugga, cheep, cheep. A little engine that could yes.
Speaker 1:I can't feel my legs. You ain't got no legs I got to rewatch that. I wonder if it's so funny. It's got to be right.
Speaker 2:It certainly is hilarious, although it is different watching it after being in the military than before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, You're just like oh, I'd actually hate this guy, all those kids are doing push-ups, wrong yeah. Ugh, I hate kids doing wrong push-ups. I chose the film the Big Short, the next movie by Adam McKay. It's so good and heartbreaking and makes you hate life. And it's another movie filled with comedic actors, but the leads, or, like the main build actors, are Christian Bale, nice, steve Carell. Fuck Ryan Gosling. Hell yeah, man, brad Pitt.
Speaker 2:Dang, that's the top four. Stop my boner can only get so hard. Yeah, dude.
Speaker 1:Damn talk about some beautiful ass people. But in 2006 and 2007, a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is. What was that movie?
Speaker 2:with. That's got all this. Who's the leaving?
Speaker 1:No, he's Dr.
Speaker 2:Doolittle. It's an old movie with.
Speaker 1:I don't know who's in the original one.
Speaker 2:No, not the original one. The black comedian Eddie Murphy. He's like the stockbrokers get him, they switch him, and another rich guy Trading Places. Trading Places.
Speaker 1:God, that was such a good movie. That's Dan Aykroyd, right? Yes, dan Aykroyd. I've never seen it, but I know everybody in it in the plot. God damn, that took forever to get that out. Yeah, but you nailed it.
Speaker 2:So make sure to check out. That's a cool one too, Make sure to check out those two films.
Speaker 1:But, most importantly, come back here next week where you will hear us discussing Toy Story. Baby, we're just having fun. At the beginning of this year it's going to get raunchy. Yeah, with Toy Story. Oh, you've never heard a dirtier podcast about Toy Story than what you're going to hear next week. We're going to dive hard into what happens under Sid's bed with those toys?
Speaker 2:Those are some fucked up toys, man.
Speaker 1:I mean you got the one with, like the legs, the spider, with the baby head. I don't even want to know what goes under.
Speaker 2:I like it, I like it.
Speaker 1:I like this kid, so join us next week for that.
Speaker 2:He's probably like an engineer now.
Speaker 1:Time to relive our childhood with Toy Story. I relived my teenage years with the other guys time to live my childhood now. Um, so join us for that and uh go. If you want to send us some fan mail, you can click the link in the description at the top or go to the bottom of the description and then you can send us an email at. We recommend mail back at gmailcom. Uh, make sure you like and subscribe and follow and uh, you know, rate us and review us, tell us how good we are. Five stars only, please send us your blood, yes, and.
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