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Hot Rod
Andy Samberg leads this absurdist comedy masterpiece as the earnestly delusional Rod, with The Lonely Island's signature brand of humor permeating every frame. The film's brilliance lies in its sincere commitment to ridiculous premises, from Rod's soul-searching "Footloose" dance in the woods (that ends with a catastrophic tumble down a mountainside) to the iconic "Cool Beans" exchange that evolves from awkward to transcendent.
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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. And I'm Jesse, I'm Jason, ancestors protect me. May they protect you, because this week we recommend Hot Rod Hell, yeah. So first I immediately want to ask this question who is your favorite character and why is it Richardson?
Speaker 2:He's got the moves. I love him.
Speaker 1:God, this movie rules bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is really great. It's really difficult trying to watch this with someone who doesn't find this humor Type of. Thing funny, yeah, funny that sucks. Why.
Speaker 1:Why? How could you not find this funny?
Speaker 2:Because it's just about boys being ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Denise is in there but andy sandberg is so like goofy and charming, though he is he's such a little boy in this, even though he's like 24 years old so what would be your power animal? Oh, mine would definitely probably be a house cat. Oh, I'm thinking that, thinking walrus, that would be nice. Ooh, a walrus, I could see.
Speaker 2:Fucking powerful, you got big walrus energy.
Speaker 1:Big walrus teeth, I don't know what would be my spirit, my soul, animal Probably like a squirrel or something Slugging penguin like Fight Club. Yeah, so yeah, but who seriously is your favorite character in that movie? There's a lot of great ones.
Speaker 2:I really like the older guy from the radio AM radio.
Speaker 1:Oh, chris Vernell, yeah, he's so funny and everything.
Speaker 2:And Amy Adams' boyfriend. He's one of my favorite comedic actors. Yeah, will Arnett, will Arnett, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, let me, yeah will arnett will arnett, babe, babe, let me get some, let me get some dong bags so, like his the the line babe was all ad-libbed.
Speaker 1:When he's just like screaming babe, all ad-libbed, even the cool beans, like they're just supposed to be, like cool beans, cool beans. And then they lonely island the shit out of it, because, of course, this is, uh, this is their first movie. Like you got akiva shaker, denny mc, this is their first movie. Like you got Akiva Shaper. Is this Danny McBride's first movie too? Ooh, I don't know. That's a no, no, cause he was David Gordon Green who did like the new Halloween movies and stuff. They did a movie called George Washington. It's a Criterion collection. I need to buy it. Nice, yeah, danny McBride, though right, buy it nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um danny mcbride though right, jesus christ brother, that was the guy. It's the guy. I could never remember his name, but now I'm like I've studied it.
Speaker 2:I'm like it's danny mcbride. It's danny mcbride it's a lot different in this one yeah, he doesn't any other one.
Speaker 1:He's younger but also almost looks older because his hair is shaved, but he's been drinking green tea all day. Gotta love Bill Hader as Dave. It's so good. Apparently, bill Hader, all the mannerisms and the way he's talking and stuff were all done because of the way he had a friend growing up that acted just like this.
Speaker 2:It's awesome.
Speaker 1:He's like hells. Yeah, why did you call yourself Voltron? Because it's badass, and I love Kevin. He's so good when he's in his room and, like I guess he's supposed to be like I don't know eight, he's in his room doing karaoke to stuffed animals. It's so funny. Ian McShane, classic actor, elah Fisher she's Amy Adams' doppelganger, oh nice. Yeah, she's great. She's funny, makes a rod poop. God, amy Adams is adorable.
Speaker 2:Agree, agree. Orva Adams is adorable, mm-hmm. Agree, agree.
Speaker 1:Or Amy Adams. Right, I said Ava Amy Adams. Yeah, she was like one of the best actresses for a while and then like kept not doing good movies and it's like Amy come back to us. And Sissy Spacek, carrie herself as the mother. Oh nice, she's the only like straight-laced character in the whole movie, but it works. That's a good thing. Let's see what else did I have for. So this movie has 39% Rotten Tomatoes Accurate or not accurate.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's. I usually don't give Rotten Tomatoes that much credit, because this is definitely mid-80s percentage type of score.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't either. I was just like when I was looking up notes I was like this movie's only 39%, that's BS. Dude. Like how do you just watch this and be like not funny?
Speaker 2:My wife probably left a million bad reviews to offset all the good ones, so I can see why. Oh is that what it is? It's just too silly. Her wives are around the world. They're like don't let your husband watch this.
Speaker 1:Well, my wife loves the movie and that's why I'm married. That'd be a wild thing. Um, I don't know. It's like what is it she doesn't like? Just too too childish. Yes, yeah, but did she not?
Speaker 2:I like slapstick. I really care for slapstick, humor, slapstick, oh gosh. Well, when it comes to people falling down, that's a completely different story.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean like you didn't start the movie and then him going up the ramp and immediately crash and there's no laugh at all.
Speaker 2:Well, she wasn't really paying attention. She was just sitting next to me watching her own thing, did she make?
Speaker 1:it to the point where they're walking down the street and then an angry mom before it breaks out I don't know if you don't laugh at that. I don't know what's wrong with you? Their faces are all turning around like what the fuck? They're all singing. Is that good um? Is it too goofy or just right?
Speaker 2:uh, it's. It's on the verge of being too goofy really sometimes, yeah, but I think it's pretty fucking funny.
Speaker 1:I think, like if you compare it to, I don't know, even like Wayne's World or Awesome Powers. It's like not even as goofy as them.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's that over the top. I do like how they have a fascination with stuntmen, because if you look at all the movies, danny McBride is in almost all of them, not Pineapple Express, but like and Righteous Gemstones too. His son is a badass stuntman.
Speaker 1:Have you ever watched a Danny McBride movie and there not been fireworks somewhere?
Speaker 2:Or explosions.
Speaker 1:Because I don't think he's. This is one of the two movies that I know that he is in control of pyrotechnics this and Tropic.
Speaker 2:Thunder it just. Anytime I see him in a movie, it just reminds me of being a kid and like blowing shit up with fireworks. Bonnie Hills yeah, and all your friends are just sitting around going awesome, he just has it.
Speaker 1:Like he has that. Oh, it's my like next door friend that I grew up with. That just like man. He really liked exploding things. He was really blunt and kind of rude all the time but he's so fun to be around, interesting person. Yeah, I had a friend like that. So our guy, roger Ebert, gave this movie some thumbs up baby. Roger Ebert gave this movie some thumbs up baby. So just remember whenever, if your wife says how stupid the movie is, it's like the great Roger Ebert who is the master of reviews.
Speaker 2:Got it right? No, what you have to do is say listen, let me explain this why this is funny to you and words that you will understand.
Speaker 1:Hey, as a man, let me explain why this is funny to your female ears. But roger ebert gave this a three out of four, which, because he only does four stars up to four stars. So, uh, that's like, that's pretty good. Uh, above average, dude, it's just like me. Take that that Rotten Tomatoes. So the movie is funny because it is sincere. It likes Rod. It doesn't portray him as a maniacal goofball, but as an ambitious kid who really thinks every single time that he will succeed. In creating this aurora of sincerity, hot Rod benefits from SpaceX's performance. She plays the mom absolutely straight, without inflection, as if she was not in a comedy. That's the only right choice. Supporting characters are needed to reinforce Rod, not compete with him. Yeah, so yeah, read that to your wife. They're very supportive friends. They're very supportive. They're great friends. Never had any like supportive friends.
Speaker 1:Growing up, I always felt like I was the supportive friend yeah, I was always the one too, but maybe that's probably how everybody feels. Everybody feels like they're the supportive friend. Yeah, that's a good point, because nobody gets enough attention. Yeah, roger, way to get it right. Buddy, if he likes it, everybody should like it. And so you know, lonely Island did this film. You got Akiva directing, you have Jorma, he's Kevin and then Andy Samberg. Do you have a favorite Lonely Island skit?
Speaker 2:Um, I don't really know, I can't really pin one down, but I do love their shit, like maybe have you ever seen?
Speaker 1:Throw it On the Ground. Throw it On the Ground, that is very good.
Speaker 2:Take that cell phone and throw it on the ground. That is very good. Take that cell phone and throw it on the ground Cell phone rings.
Speaker 1:She says it's my dad. This is not my dad, it's a cell phone.
Speaker 2:So good, I always loved. I jizzed in my pants. That was my first.
Speaker 1:That was like the first big one where people were like whoa, they do good movies. Well, I guess the first big one is Lazy Sunday. I don't think it was, it's the Chronicles. What of Narnia? You've never seen that? Oh no, I think I have seen it, I just don't remember it. It's got Chris Fernell in it. That's cool. Well, we're going to have to watch it then, after this I will show you all the good ones.
Speaker 1:I like the one about the pirates of the caribbean. Yeah, they did that at um. They did like a medley at uh the snl 50 concert. That they did, it was great. They did like all their big songs. Lady gaga helped them with uh dick in a box it was great nice yeah, so we'll do some behind the scene facts.
Speaker 1:Dun, dun, dun dun Don't know why I did that. So Will Ferrell was originally slated to play Rod. I wonder if he was supposed to be like a 20 year old that would have been just fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the title role in Hot Rod was originally written for Will Ferrell and he was even cast in the role. However, he had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts with other projects. After Will Ferrell dropped out, the role was offered to Andy Samberg, who was beginning to journey to becoming one of the 21st century's most recognizable comedy stars, and Ferrell became executive producer. So, bill Hader, he had to put extensions in his hair.
Speaker 1:It's not a wig, it's extensions wow, because he always kind of had like medium hair. It looks ridiculous. Yeah, it looks great. It's definitely why he wears a visor or a hat the whole time. Probably the original script was written by South Park's Pam Brady. She was like she like an animator. No, she was just a writer. She wrote the original script. She worked as a writer for South Park during its earliest seasons and also has a writing credit alongside Trey Parker and Matt Stone on South Park, bigger, longer and Uncut and Team America World Police Fuck, yeah. However, after Hot Rod was offered to the Lonely Island, they completely rewrote the script to suit their uniquely wacky comedy style. Good, I want to know what this movie was before I know. Was it a little more serious?
Speaker 2:No, not possible. It's possible right.
Speaker 1:And they shot this. They shot this between seasons of SNL because you know they're all three were on SNL. Jorm and Akiva were writers at the time and they all come from YouTube, so they all kind of got on at the same time together. That's cool. Yeah, all of Andy Sandberg's stunt doubles had to wear prosthetic noses Because.
Speaker 2:Andy Samberg's got a honker on him.
Speaker 1:Because it's like his most distinguishing physical features. Yeah, so Samberg's longtime friends and Lonely Island cohorts, Akiva Schaefer, who directed the movie Androma, played a prank on Samberg by requesting prosthetic noses that were bigger than Samberg's to make him feel insecure.
Speaker 2:Don't have the biggest nose in the room anymore.
Speaker 1:Such a good bit. It's fucking hilarious. But yeah, like I said earlier, bill Haters based his character off one of his friends named Eric. The scene in which Dave is tripping and asked Rod to drive him to the hospital was based on real incidents. Involved Eric In real life. Eric was the Dave and Hader was the Rod. That's incredible, that's so good. And I guess Bill Hader and Danny McBride they watched America's Next Top Model on the set all the time, like between shoots.
Speaker 1:And they all just kind of hung out and Andy Samberg performed some of his own stunts Like the real easy ones. Yeah, he required a couple of stunt doubles for Hot Rod, but he performed as many of his own stunts as the studio would allow him to do, including the pool jump.
Speaker 2:Not the falling down the mountain. No, definitely not him or any of the athletic things he used to do, including the pool jump. Not the falling down the mountain, no.
Speaker 1:Definitely not him or any of the athletic things he used to do Footloosing and that I love a good footloose dance sequence.
Speaker 2:Parody. It's great. You always imagine walking up on somebody doing that in the forest, just to be like that would be awesome. Wow, this guy did mushrooms or something, and then he gets really angry when you try to join in. He's like no, this is my thing.
Speaker 1:It's like no, I want to fight. You want to fight? Dance, let's go. Have you ever just danced out of anger? No, can't say I have. I usually just sit and stew and then make some stew and sit in it. So, bro, anything else you want to talk about before we get into it?
Speaker 1:No, I don't think so All right, let's go Hot rod baby, it's time to get hot on this rod. I don't fucking care, I don't think Snakes rolling his eyes over here. So film starts with a man named Rod putting on a kid like stuntman outfit and mustache. You know, I really related to him a little bit for the mustache. Now I can grow up pretty easy, but mustaches are hard to grow.
Speaker 2:Especially to be that fancy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hate it, like it just it just just stops right at, like the. But mustaches are hard to grow, especially to be that fancy. Yeah, I hate like it just.
Speaker 2:It just just stops right at, like the right on the edge of my lips yeah, what do you even do to make it so fancy? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I want to know how do you the fuck, do you trim a mustache?
Speaker 2:every time I do it, I just mess it up and have to shave yeah exactly same pisses me off.
Speaker 1:Pisses me off. So if you know how to trim mustaches, go to the link in the description and click on it and let us know. So we see he's about to jump a van. He asks his half-brother, kevin, if he reinforced the takeoff ramp. He says no, they didn't have time. Time for what? What do you mean? What type of like? What timetable are we at here? Then he prepares himself Soul of an eagle. Then he goes, the ramp immediately falls apart and he crashes hard Like oh God, it was so painful to watch. Have you ever wanted to be a stuntman?
Speaker 2:No, never had the desire. I mean I always. I did my own stunts growing up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me too. But I got injured a lot I felt like after I because I trained to become a professional wrestler a little bit and I learned how to fall and take bumps and stuff and I was like, huh, if I don't become a filmmaker, maybe I should try to become a stuntman. And I was like jumped out of a window. But then you watch stuntmen and they're just like falling face first on the ground. It's like nah Setting themselves on fire. I think I'm good, I would do that. That'd be cool.
Speaker 2:You just put jelly on you Like watching the Righteous Gemstones like his son was such a fucking badass Like when he's driving the monster truck yeah, it was so cool and he can just drive, so well I forgot about his son Do all stuntmen learn to drive that. Well, yeah, that's incredible, right? Jim's son baby.
Speaker 1:This Sunday, so excited, Hell yeah. Also, we got to point out the silly pedal like moped bike that he has and he thinks he's going to jump anything.
Speaker 1:Ring, ring Especially when we get to the pool. This is not going to work. So so now we're into the intro danger on the track by europe. Most of the songs are by europe. In this movie we see him doing tiny, uh little stunts. He's being followed by kids. He gives, like these kids, a flyer for a stunt show where he's gonna be jumping a pool and then, like he thinks he's so cool and he's like doing donuts on the way out, but he's completely standing off the bike and just driving in circles.
Speaker 2:He's got some showmanship.
Speaker 1:I love when it gets to the end and he has the actual dirt bike and you cut to like Dave Bill Hader's character.
Speaker 2:He's like he's going in circles, he's going in circles.
Speaker 1:It's so good. So then we see some of his friends, because Rod is alongside Kevin and their friend Rico, who are hanging out at a burger shack guessing jelly bean flavors he gets 100 straight. That's impressive. Dude Jelly beans taste like nothing half the time. I used to do the same thing with candies. Just hanging out with your friends, like eating jelly beans, guessing flavors, what's the highest you got to?
Speaker 2:Guessing flavors. Yeah Well, I guess every flavor in a pack of Skittles one time. That was pretty good, even though there's really not that many flavors.
Speaker 1:One they also all it's like five. They're all the same flavor. Yeah, I didn't say I was good at it. They all have the same flavor. No, they don't. There's lemon cherry grape green apple, but don't they all taste the same? No, they're just sugar with red on it. Who even are you? I don't know, maybe I'm thinking of something else.
Speaker 2:M&M's definitely have the same flavor.
Speaker 1:All Skittles taste the same, I'll settle this once and for all. Okay, I don't want to talk about it. All right, so let's continue. They are joined by their friend Dave, aka Voltron. It's like Voltron. Why'd you do Voltron? Because it's badass, hells. Yeah, it is. They sit down, rico, find some fireworks. If they go to the side set them off.
Speaker 2:Find some fireworks in the men's room. They go down Rico. Find some fast fireworks, like if they go to the side of the bed room, do you?
Speaker 1:they go. It's like do you get ready to be dazzled? And fireworks do nothing. It's like how old are these guys? Are they in high school? I don't know. Is it just like summer break in high school?
Speaker 2:no, definitely no, I think they're not in high school anymore.
Speaker 1:They gotta be adults.
Speaker 2:Right, they're adults but they still hang out at the high school to pass out flyers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is fun. I'm so excited to get to.
Speaker 2:Richardson.
Speaker 1:So Rod and Kevin they head home. Rod runs through the door and locks Kevin out. I was like it's so funny. Every tiny little bit is good in this movie. Oh so then we see Rod preparing for an epic fight. Kevin asks why Rod and his stepdad keep fighting each other. Rod tells him, since he he's a stepson, he has to earn his stepdad's respect. And then Rod goes ancestors protect me. May they protect you. So good Respect.
Speaker 2:And then Rod goes. Ancestors protect me.
Speaker 1:May they protect you. So good, everything's falling off my lap right now. So he goes to the basement where Frank is working out. Rod immediately gets taken down. Never seek up on a man who's been in a chemical fire.
Speaker 2:He's just like legs, sweeping him and kicking his ass so hard.
Speaker 1:Did you ever fight a grown man before?
Speaker 2:Oh no, not really. Well, I mean like Play, fight, at least Wrestle. It's like hand-to-hand combat training. But we weren't like, because you have to get like certifications to do different types of of hand to hand stuff training, yeah, and so when you start off, you can only do it from your knees, like you have to. You have to be on your knees wrestling with just your arms. I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to. Both parties are on their knees.
Speaker 1:It's not like I don't want to tell you this man, but maybe you have some repressed memories, maybe that you're misremembering. Well, that's cool. So that was like a military school training. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. So you start on your knees and then, like, once you graduate, they have like a graduation like ceremony.
Speaker 1:Whenever it's like you now may stand Like during the ceremony, like you're sitting down but then, whenever you have to go up and get your diploma, you have to walk on your knees and once you get that diploma, they're like you may stand, and then they start trying to stab you with knives and then you get punched by a woman. Yeah, hell, yeah, she. What is this? My fantasy?
Speaker 2:No, there was a guy that I knew who. He was highly certified in it and he would always help with the training and it was awful. His favorite part was when he got to fight the women, because they're.
Speaker 1:I'd love to know where he's at in life. I know.
Speaker 2:It's awful. He's like there's so much weaker, easier to punch. I'm like what? Wow, but they're using gloves and protective equipment. Yeah Right, so it's.
Speaker 1:Well, I will say Still.
Speaker 2:It's so fucked.
Speaker 1:You're getting enjoyment out of it when you're you know, like when you're a kid and like you have a big brother, it's like when you wrestle it's always gotta be super fun to like throw you around, right? So, like you know, as I was getting older and like getting in like junior high and high school, all my like little cousins were small and we kind of wrestle and he'd be like just like holding them up in the air. It's like, oh my God. So I could see that if he's like getting his ass kicked by a bunch of dudes and he's like, oh, thank God, I can just finally win something, yeah because he wasn't, or if I don't know where this guy lives, but if there seems to be a bunch of murder of women, contact.
Speaker 2:Jason and we'll link in our description. I wonder if, when he was a kid, he's like I can't wait to join the army so I can hit a woman, so I can beat up women.
Speaker 1:They give them like a single tier, they give them a secret mission in, like Iraq or whatever it's like. Here's what you do. You will only fight women.
Speaker 2:Like a Manchurian candidate. But just for fighting women Jesus fucking Christ, let's get out of this rabbit hole we've done for ourselves.
Speaker 1:Hey, you brought the friend up.
Speaker 2:Sorry, that was one of my favorite bits ever.
Speaker 1:So they begin to fight with their Odesian fighting sticks. Frank beats the shit out of Rod. Rod tries his ultimate punch, though, ultimate punch Punches with two hands and kicks once. And then Frank, like, makes fun of his mustache he's like a real man grows a mustache I have a hormone disorder and then, like after he loses, rod says one day I'll punch you right in the face and then you'll respect me. So good, it's like he's just never been able to punch him in the face. Yeah. And then Frank tells him to take out the trash. So he goes outside, takes the trash can out and then walks off screen and then runs with a trash bag, flips over to put it in the trash. So good.
Speaker 1:So then his neighbor Denise comes out. We have real Spider-Man 1 vibes here Mary Jane and Peter Parker. He's nervous around her. He invites her to a pole jump and he's like the dog barks she has to go inside. And then he's like you look pretty and he's like the dog barks, she has to go inside. And then he's like you look pretty and he's like what, you look shitty. Good night, denise. Good.
Speaker 2:Nice cover so fucking funny.
Speaker 1:We should have done that. We should have done that as the opening. So later he's looking at a picture of two men. His dad was an anonymous stuntman and wants to be like him. I love the picture as a circle around it it has an arrow pointing. It's saying dad, it's like, just in case you forgot, oh God. And then Kevin comes in. This is the lie, right, yeah? Yeah. It ends up being a lie. Then Kevin comes in to ask him a question.
Speaker 2:Get out. Caught him in an emotional moment. His fucking face.
Speaker 1:He has one of the best faces in comedy. It's so like big and weird, yeah. And then also love. When he's laying on the bed he like pops his like you know, he like bends his feet, so like his feet are like in the air. He's got like little slippers on him, Like little kid slippers so funny. It's like are we sure they're not 14 year olds? I don't know. So then we meet oh, we are at the pool jump. For some reason, Kevin's not there. I love it, because Rod's like, oh, Kevin's not here. It's like, yeah, well, he's supposed to be here, he's our team manager. Rico's like, well, Just stands there and stares at him and walks off, Didn't even cry. Oh, I got to watch some of those movies. Then we meet Richardson, who won't get out of the pool because he wants to join the team, and then he's like you won't even add anything to it. So he decides to show his talents and he just thrusts a lot. That's his talent he dances by thrusting. If your wife watched this and didn't laugh, it's divorce time.
Speaker 2:I think this is exactly why she doesn't laugh. But why?
Speaker 1:I don't know what's like her favorite comedy.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I want to say Some sort of like educated British movie.
Speaker 2:No, I mean, we watch a lot of ladies stand-up comedians that are very funny. I just have trouble remembering their names. I know she likes Bill Burr.
Speaker 1:What like movies. Is she a big bridesmaid?
Speaker 2:I mean she liked it. I don't really know, I know she loves mean girls.
Speaker 1:Oh well, hell yeah, everybody loves mean girls. Okay, okay, I just wanted to be like what's the range of like comedies she likes? Okay, I'm just gonna have to ask her.
Speaker 2:We don't watch a lot of comedies together. I should do that movies.
Speaker 1:There's nothing better than just laughing, which I hope you're doing well we have such different like humor, though, but when it comes to movies and when it's like a series.
Speaker 2:It's a lot easier. You can get into it. She liked the Office.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we loved the Office and Parks and Rec. I would consider that hella silly. So Denise shows up, rico, oh yeah, denise shows up. He's like Denise At this time a kid's walking by Rico. He pushes him in the pool. We see Rod is ready to jump. He prepares himself Totem Spirit Fox and then, like you know, to himself, like please, god, don't let me embarrass myself in front of Denise. So he attempts to jump and makes it barely halfway across the pool. He essentially goes and straight down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's funny to me that they love doing stunts and they never thought about, like, the physics of it. Yeah, because it takes a lot of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, never thought that maybe a pedal bike is not the way to go. You know. Have you ever ridden one of those A pedal? Yeah, you know, because it's like a little moped thing had pedals on it.
Speaker 2:It's like is that just like? It's like an electric motorcycle, Electric bicycle, I guess so Bicycle with a little motor on it.
Speaker 1:Wish I had one as a kid. I would be doing stuff like this if I had one as a kid. Let's fucking jump this so he gets home. He's defeated. Kevin didn't show because they found out Frank needs a heart transplant, but he's talking to his mom. Frank's sick since when?
Speaker 2:since 21 years ago she's had heart disease this whole time.
Speaker 1:Ron gets mad because he can't kick Frank's ass if he's dead. I hate you so much I want to smash your face in too late. I'm already dead um.
Speaker 2:We learned the transplant will cost fifty thousand dollars oh, I was gonna say, like, what's the going rate for a heart these?
Speaker 1:days and like I guess the insurance won't cover it because, um, it's like too high risk and it's like so that's still happening in 2024.
Speaker 2:It's like 20 years later we're still dealing with that the price seems like it would be like 10 times this yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, maybe this is like easy, like 2004, money, you know, before the collapse of the economy.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know it was we were still struggling because of the war I don't know.
Speaker 1:So Rod says he will get them better, and then he will beat him to death. And angry Rod goes to his quiet place where he footlooses in the woods he's doing like flips and shit.
Speaker 1:He's like really good and he's like wait you should be a gymnast not a stunt man but then we see why he's not, because he trips over a log and then falls for five minutes of the movie. It's like the one with Almost Heroes with Chris Farley yeah. That one too. Or Black Sheep I think he does that in that too. Oh man God, that was the best Falls are the best they are. You think they're not going to be funny anymore, and then they continue to fall and it continues to be funny.
Speaker 2:And then, when it stops being funny, you just look up animals that fall down. And it's still funny, and then, by the time you look, back up, you see him falling, and then you're laughing. I'm back in. I'm back in baby.
Speaker 1:And then it turns out he lands where a giant billboard says one big jump, and so he gets an idea.
Speaker 2:It's a sign.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw a sign. Guys, what? It's an actual sign. So then we cut to Rico, high-fiving the shit out of Dave and Kevin.
Speaker 2:He's like that's how you do it. Do what? How many times can you high-five both of us in a minute?
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 2:Jesus.
Speaker 1:Christ, holy shit. If we ever did a video podcast, that would have been our opening. Or maybe we should have done it for the podcast. That'd be even funnier, just like that's how you do it. Then it for the podcast. That'd be even funnier, just like that's how you do it. Then it's unsexual Cheeks clapping yeah, so Rod. So Rod tells him his idea to save Frank. He's going to raise the money to save Frank by jumping 15 buses and he's talking about he's going to have to. First they're going to have to raise money to set up the stunt and then the stunt's going to raise them money. Dave, just randomly, in the middle of this conversation, tries to sneak off and he's like where are you going? I forgot, I have to go to work.
Speaker 1:So then it cuts to them all at work while they're explaining the plan. And as he's explaining the plan, it cuts to like because, like the whole time, kevin's writing it down, dave's listening, and so is riko. And then it cuts to them outside and there's this, like a homeless man just talking about like wow, we're gonna have to get some trash put it in this buggy. And then rod comes up like guys, what are y'all doing? They're like oh, we were just coming up with the plan, holy shit, oh man so good, so good this podcast is gonna be a lot better.
Speaker 1:So we cut to Denise playing with her dog and then she keeps getting hit by like a reflection. And then it cuts to like we see Rod who's like, oh shit, she's coming. Then he grabs a hammer and starts banging on some engine. He's like oh sorry, didn't see you there. He tells her about the jump and ask her to join the team and she's like yeah, I'd love to join the team. She's like. He's like whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't just join the team, you have to go through initiation. Has no idea what the initiation is, so he just dumps his slushy on her shoe. What the hell? All right, you're in. Damn, I wish all initiations were that easy. Oh golly, dude, the run of just like comedy in this movie right here.
Speaker 1:It's, it's amazing, it's non-stop, it's so funny and it's it's also one of the movies that like it's a great movie and this is the type of comedies I really love is whenever like you're watching it and you laugh right then when you get with a friend and you start talking about it, and then you're just yeah, and then you can't stop.
Speaker 1:But also it's just like shit. No, that was insane. So then it's like next time you watch it, you're gonna just like, you're gonna have like the memory of like us two talking about it and laughing about it, and then it's just like oh, this movie's so amazing.
Speaker 1:Because that's what this movie is for me, because me and my buddy Richard growing up this is where I first watched it with him, and it was so in our wheelhouse. So, like usually when I watch it, it's like that's what I kind of think of. That's awesome, yeah. So if you're listening to this, richard which I know sometimes you listen what up? So we cut to Rico, dave and Kevin. Rico is telling Dave about his dream.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of grumpy today, dude. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I was having those dreams again. You know how? It's just me in a castle and I gotta fight like a thousand wizards and the only way to beat them is to punch them as hard as I can in their faces. Then when I'm done, all their little wizard wives come out and wanted me to have sex with him, which is kind of weird. Yeah, that's the weird part. Uh, I love those little bits when it's just like rico or dave and kevin just like saying some off-the-wall, dumb shit and it's so. It's just, they're funny, they're funny. So then rod and denise show up, tells them she's on the team, so they introduce themselves. My name's rod. I like to party. They all love the party, dave what's your name?
Speaker 2:it's like i's Rod. I like to party. They all love to party.
Speaker 1:It's like Dave, what's your name? It's like I'm Dave, I like to party. It's like no, that's not it. It's like oh, I'm Dave. I'm Summit Rico. It's like I'm Rico, and I definitely like to party too. It's like oh, that one's probably accurate. And then like Kevin's, like I'm Rod, I like to party.
Speaker 2:They've never spoken to a girl before.
Speaker 1:No, there's like they might be the dumbest people on the planet and Rod's the smartest one out of all of them, which is maybe Kevin. I just think he has like the brain of a 700. Are they loyal, though?
Speaker 2:They are.
Speaker 1:Hey, it doesn't matter how smart your friends are, just find some loyal ones, all right, so training begins. He's going to start by toughening his lungs up. He tells him like, hold me under the pool, no matter how much I fight, don't pull me up till 40 seconds.
Speaker 2:He's going to ring the bell, yeah he's going to ring the bell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's going to ring the bell. They all start doing it. Denise is like what the fuck? And then all of a sudden, dave's sister comes out and is like would you like some juice? Yeah, just bring it out, you don't have to ask this son. So then they like he's getting ready to go under, he's a soul of a bottlenose dolphin. And then they push him. So they push him under. And then they push I can't do dolphin notes so they push them under. And then the sister comes out and they're all completely distracted by the sister.
Speaker 1:The bell breaks like Rico's, just like don't bring me that cherry shit it gives me. It gives me like diarrhea or something. And then so they hold him under the water and he almost immediately panics and drowns because they're distracted by the sister. Denise gives him mouth to mouth and spits all over her. Then Kevin comes in and is like did it look like we were making out? It was like a little bit. She's like I'm gonna go wipe the vomit off my face.
Speaker 2:So good, golly oh man so good, golly, oh man.
Speaker 1:So, and then we're off to the next training session.
Speaker 1:It's like then he's, he's gonna do speed management g-force so he's on like one of those, like banana boards or like whatever they're like on road skates boards. Street luge, street luge, something like that. Yeah, he's gonna go downhill. His safe word is Luge skate sports. Yeah, like a street luge, street luge, something like that. Yeah, he's going to go downhill. His safe word is whiskey. Sorry, rod, what was that? Whiskey, kevin? Don't you mean whiskey Rod? What, kevin? You're saying it. Weird. Rod Saying what's weird, kevin? All of it Weird because you have an H Rod pronouncing the H Kevin, all of it. We're pronouncing the H Rod. Where do you get off, kevin? I don't get why you're saying it that way, rod, why I'm saying what way, kevin? Forget it, rod, I will.
Speaker 2:I will forget. It Was this before the Saturday Outlier, like when Stewie did it On.
Speaker 1:Family Guy. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's just like such a classic. Even I do it like, sometimes randomly. It's all from this movie.
Speaker 1:So he goes downhill very fast Immediately, starts saying Whiskey, whiskey, and then he crashes into an RV. Everybody like comes up to him, are you okay, are you okay? Man comes out super pissed about to beat everybody off. Rico, I'm freaking pumped. I've been drinking green tea all goddamn day. Then he's beating up the man. God, I go to church every goddamn Sunday. You gonna bring the demons out of me. Like hits him with a cone. Everybody's like whoa, he's hitting him with a street cone. And then like beats him up and he's like oh no, not the trash. Dumps trash on him and then picks up his hat this is my hat now. This is my hat. Have you ever tried? Immediate moment. I love danny mcbride for the rest of my life he just keeps throwing the trash so good.
Speaker 2:Have you ever tried to do that on a skateboard like go down a big steep hill? That was way too big and steep no, I was never good at skate.
Speaker 1:Well, I was alright at skateboarding once I learned it, but I could do an ollie.
Speaker 2:That was as good as my skills got, and I could turn which turning was hard, I could never do an ollie, but I did one night. I was feeling highly, overly courageous, I would say, after drinking.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I got on a skateboard and went down this big steep hill in Nashville yeah. And I hurt myself a lot and the skateboard I was riding on. I fell and it launched up in the air and broke the window of my car. Oh my God, dude, some Final Destination, shit, I just happened to fall right next to my car and the skateboard went smash through the driver's side window.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think of like the Final Destination situation of that it's like okay, you're going downhill, it gets windy because death is. In all of a sudden it like blows a branch, puts a stick in the road, you flip you land and like you roll into front of your car, the skateboard goes through your car window and then, like puts it into drive somehow and just runs you over and it knocks, it takes off the parking brake and it just slowly rolls and crushes me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like crushes your head. One thing to know Rod in this movie is definitely not meant to die by death yet, because this man cannot be killed.
Speaker 2:This man goes through some stuff.
Speaker 1:So they have a dance party outside a convenience store.
Speaker 2:I love Kevin's little dance. I would come here every day to this place to just watch these people dance.
Speaker 1:This is definitely an ode to clerks.
Speaker 2:I feel like this whole dance cause this is like what Jay and Silent Bob do all the time we see Rod and Denise.
Speaker 1:They're talking. He's gonna ask her out, but all of a sudden the boyfriend Jonathan comes up, played by Will. Arnett turns out. He's a douche.
Speaker 2:He's a giant douche but it's so funny he gets onto Will Arnett Turns out he's a douche. He's a giant douche, yeah, and but it's so funny he's.
Speaker 1:He gets onto every stereotype of a douchey boyfriend and I love it so much Will Arnett Like he's appreciated now, but it took way too long for people to truly appreciate him.
Speaker 1:I feel like Smartless is what really did it for him. Really, because everybody loves the podcast Marlis, I don't really like it that much. Really. Did you watch the documentary on HBO Of that podcast? Yeah, they did like a live tour. You should watch it, just because it's so fun to see Jason Bateman and Will Arnett and the guy I'm blinking on like together, just like their daily interactions. You're like wow.
Speaker 2:That seems fun.
Speaker 1:You guys are so much like the characters you portray.
Speaker 2:Maybe I just need to give it another try, because I've only listened to like two episodes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I will say I liked the documentary more than I liked their podcasts. But also, hey, one celebrity said podcasts, because leave it for us, you bitches.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry You'll be in a movie. Leave some scraps for the rest of us Also talking to you, Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1:I don't like this either. We'd probably have so many more listeners if there wasn't for Smartless and Joe Rogan. It's all his fault.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So then Denise was like well, what were you going to ask me? And he's like so who?
Speaker 1:would win in a fight grilled cheese or a taco? She's like grilled cheese. Well, she's like is that really what you going to ask me? And he's like uh, so who would win in a fight? Grilled cheese or a taco? She's like grilled cheese.
Speaker 2:Well, she's like is that really what she wanted to ask me? It's like mm-hmm, yep, double down. It's brain. It's like double down, double down.
Speaker 1:And then she says grilled cheese. But if it's prison rules I'd take a taco. It's like well, the game. Later, rod is working out. He's upset about Jonathan. They have dinner with the family. Frank finally feels good enough to come downstairs and have dinner with them. They ask him to promise not to fight. Rod's like what are you talking about? Kevin might fight him. Kevin's like I promise not to fight. He's like fine, I won't fight. Frankie immediately makes rod lose his temper, makes him so upset he like walks through the kitchen. He's like hi you. He's like I hope you have fun being married to satan slams. Oh wait, that's not. That's not. That's not this time. Yeah, that's not the same. Um, so then we cut to Rod sneaking around in padding and he's like hiding behind trees and walks out, gets ran over by like an RV van.
Speaker 1:Then him and Denise are out at an outdoor restaurant thing. I don't know what you call those things. It's where they're eating at the beginning. It's like a hut, like a hamburger hut or something, yeah it's like a food stand hamburger hut or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like a like a food stand, something that like don't exist anymore like.
Speaker 1:Sonic, I mean, they kind of have that. Yeah, that's true, but they're like, smaller, and I feel like the food probably tastes better at this place not Sonic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sonic's been disappointing.
Speaker 1:It's like $10 for a hamburger.
Speaker 2:Come at me.
Speaker 1:Sonic, so yeah, he's sonic. Um, so yeah, uh, he asked about jonathan um and like she's just saying all these things about him. He's like, oh, he's so mature, he's cool, he's got a job in the city. He's like, right, right, totally, you should break up. Then dave comes to. Dave comes and sits down the bathroom here is nice no fireworks in this one.
Speaker 2:Like what are you talking?
Speaker 1:about like, and then it just like cuts and is like what's in the bathroom, is it? Because, like, there's just always like some sort of like explosive left in there? The bathroom here is nuts. It's just like. Bill Hader is maybe the funniest person on the planet, right? He's really fucking funny, god, I just like I love listening. If you do listen to Smart List, listen to the Bill Hader episode. Okay, any podcast, if it's like an interview podcast or anything. If Bill Hader is a guest, listen to it. He's hilarious. He's just so good with like I love watching his like impersonations on talk shows and stuff. They're so good. So Rod is in love with Denise. Obviously you got the song I Just Died in your Arms at Night playing and out of jealousy he asks the cashier at the restaurant out and she declines, but he tells everybody she said yes, and makes a double date with Denise.
Speaker 1:It's like why, why? So he just?
Speaker 2:could look like he got stood up whenever they go on the date.
Speaker 1:It seems like he was actually thinking that somebody was going to show or he was just hoping Jonathan wouldn't show, as well, he just wants her to be jealous.
Speaker 2:I think that's it.
Speaker 1:So at the date his girl doesn't show Jonathan, he just wants her to be jealous. That's the whole point. I think that's it. So at the date his girl doesn't show, jonathan continues to be a douche in the ultimate way. Jonathan talks to a friend Because he sees one of his friends across the lane. They're like whoa what, up he goes and talks before he does Like you two, don't go falling in love while I'm away. It's like damn, it's gonna be smart. And so they're alone. And then ross says hey, denise, have I ever shown you a picture of my dead dad, denise? No, oh, we've got to see it. He's super dead. We learned his dad used to work with evil kenevil. He died because the handlebar, uh, and like he would do the stunts before evil kenevil would try them out, and then decided to go off on his own so he could get all the glory. And then it turns out, when he went to do this super jump, his tire exploded and the handlebars went straight through his face and there's blood everywhere and it exploded in his head.
Speaker 1:He died instantly the next day. Good, good bit. So now we're to the next day. They're gonna raise the money. Um, you got, it's like a montage, essentially. You got them putting up flower flyers, a birthday fire, party fire stunt. That goes horribly. Um barrel, he's stuck in a barrel underwater. Um, it goes horribly because they don't. They lose the keys. So rico's gotta shoot the barrel open in front of all these kids. And then, of course, at the end Dave's like oh, I found the key. He wears some padding and they have a dryer. Hit him off a crane. And then we see Frank was painting something and he was like, while he's showing him the money, he says it's a painting of him getting humped by a horse. And he's saying I'm an idiot. He's teaching Denise to drive his little like motorbike thing. You got kids hitting him with a bat.
Speaker 1:Denise being really good at driving the motorcycle Way better than Rod. And then kids hitting him even more with bats, and then kevin joins it. Is it like an even weaker hit than the kids? There's definitely some undertones of kevin hating rod a little bit. He's like you know what. This is my one chance to hit him, because he's always so fucking mean to me he would have done the same thing yeah for sure.
Speaker 1:Oh damn, I'm getting exhausted now. So at an employee employee retreat, rico blows up rod and drives away, because he's like standing on this giant platform, he's like giving the speech. And then, like rico's like, do you say, explode it now? He's like, no, not now, because I guess he's supposed to jump from the explosion, but instead he just explodes him.
Speaker 1:But he just so like calmly sets it down, turns around, walks his way like, drives off as fast as he, and then you have the guy that set up the retreat. He's like you are the worst stuntman I've ever seen in my life and I'm like he just blew up in front of you and survived. That's a pretty damn good stuntman.
Speaker 2:Or lucky at least.
Speaker 1:But the whole time, like he says you're a terrible stuntman. He's like what, you're a terrible stuntman, what You're a terrible stuntman, I'm just kidding, it was just really mean. So Denise and Rod, they do some Tai Chi. He asked Denise if she knows a move that would make a man crap his pants and not know why. She says the move exists, but he's not ready, so he why does she know?
Speaker 2:I don't know he's doing Tai Chi.
Speaker 1:I guess he just knows it he pressures her and she does the move on him and he craps himself. He's like I gotta go I so there's no reason. You know what? I would love to learn the move, but it didn't work.
Speaker 1:It's going to drive off. We were in the middle of the woods, we know there's like a creepy guy out there fishing somewhere. So later he walks in on his brother working on something, and it's it's, it's him working on editing like a stunt video. But then he's like he like closes it down. And so then like, and he comes in, he's like no, show me what you're working with. And he pops up. It's like two dogs humping. He's like, oh, that was something else, it's for mom, not for me.
Speaker 2:They get stuck together sometimes, oh God.
Speaker 1:My face hurts and I'm crying. It's like, was he jerking off the dog, something? I don't know. He's going to be a furry when he grows up. He's got furry vibes, yeah, so it's a video of Rod doing stunts. He loves it and says they should show it to help raise money. So they start handing out flyers and you can see the theater putting up one night only stuntman show. So they hand out flyers. Richardson gets the help, starts flinging them at people.
Speaker 2:He essentially throws them at people and then like wastes.
Speaker 1:Hundreds of flyers and then it starts dancing and I love it because it'll cut to the others just handing out flyers and like in the small corner of the background he's having them just fucking going baby Thrust thing. And then I love it because it also it's kind of a montage thing. And then like we cut to Kevin editing on his computer but for some reason when Richardson shows up it's already edited and he's like who the fuck is doing this? Is he here, did?
Speaker 2:he do this.
Speaker 1:So it's like I can only assume he snuck into Kevin's room, edited him in the video doing this Richardson, the best, baby, the best. So he starts, rod talks to sleeping Frank and he tells him how well they're doing and then it's like oh, we're going to do so well, I'm going to give you that heart. Frank starts laughing in his sleep and he's like just wake up, frank, I know you're awake. He calls him a pussy in his sleep and that he sucks. He's know you're awake. He calls him a pussy in his sleep and that he sucks. He's like, um, he's like I know you're pretending. He opens his eyes and then so he gets up, he runs. He runs through the kitchen, slams the door um, it's like. He's like um, he says something to the wife or the mom and he's like it's like I hope you love him when I murder him. Slams the door, the glass breaks. He says I am genuinely sorry, but he has like the nicest mom. So I'm sure she just probably fixed it easily.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. I love how hard his dad is on him. It's so insane. Got to earn that respect.
Speaker 1:It's the only way.
Speaker 2:You had a stepdad right.
Speaker 1:Is this how it was?
Speaker 2:earn that respect you had a stepdad right is this how it was, or did you have a stepdad, like later? No, I had a stepdad. Did you fight him? He was problematic.
Speaker 1:He used to beat up my older brother oh damn well, what you didn't know, it was out of respect. He was trying to get the older brother to learn respect that worked that worked, that worked so well.
Speaker 2:He's in prison teaching other people respect well, let's get back to laughter.
Speaker 1:Damn, I took a turn.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I asked a question, just being honest, I I never had a stepfather, but uh, I did often fight uncles nice as a child, because I was into wrestling, almost broke somebody's neck my uncles are so huge I never thought about it yeah, well, it is like I was like a little kid right and I remember trying to uh I think I was like trying to do a ddt on one of my uncles and I was on the counter and they didn't nobody knew I was on the counter. I just like jumped off, grabbed his head and tried to like do it and he, like he seriously hurt his neck and I do remember like the kind of the like wrestling him, but I don't remember ever hurting him or anything. So I probably got the shit beat up. Just beat those memories right out of you. It's like I've definitely probably got spanked.
Speaker 2:I don't remember getting spanked.
Speaker 1:But I definitely know I had to get yelled at and my dad had a great dad yell, oh no, it scared it. It was like scared the shit out of me.
Speaker 2:Well that's.
Speaker 1:He had a powerful like yelling at your voice. I've got one of those two that I. That comes out only when I get angry Like Snake knows all about it. But it's like. This is why I couldn't be like a dad, because, like I yell at Snake and I'm like Snake, and then I'm like heh Coward.
Speaker 1:Just because I kind of like laugh or I'm always just like that was so silly, how mad I just got. But that's just kind of how I am Usually when I get mad like five seconds later I'm like that was so stupid of me being so mad. Snake knows all about your right hook too. Yeah, I gave him a DDT earlier this morning.
Speaker 2:I gave him a torture rack like Lex Luthor did.
Speaker 1:Oh, so that's what this thing is? Yeah, no, that's something for me and Natalie, it's not, it's a. What do they call this? Back stretcher, back stretcher. That's fucking true, incline back thingy, yeah, whatever, I don't know. Anyway, so it's movie night. Movie starts and people immediately start laughing Because it's hilarious, because it's's just. But the thing is, like some of the stunts he shows, I'm like yo, like he'd be a great stuntman for a movie. Yeah, like whenever, like they really laugh at him, whenever the opening scene thing, I'm like dude, that's impressive.
Speaker 2:As fuck when he just rides up on the ramp yeah, stupid donuts he should have just leaned into it.
Speaker 1:But like him being on fire, like I won't see anybody in that room do that. That's not easy. Yeah, that's a dope stunt.
Speaker 2:I think they're just laughing. They're already laughing. Yeah, just seeing him also on fire. What's his face?
Speaker 1:that's how intense he is while doing it. So Rod, super embarrassed, goes up to the projector room, rips off the projector and throws it out the window.
Speaker 1:Those are cheap Instead of just being like shut it up, I'm plugging, it Overreacts. So and then him and Kevin fights like what'd you do this, kevin? You trying to embarrass me? Kevin's like no. And so they kind of fight and the cops show up. He's like whoa, whoa, whoa. And then it turns out the projector went into the projectionist's car and he has to give them all the money he earned, like a total of almost $5,000. They're $1 short of their $5,000 goal. He had to give it all up.
Speaker 1:So he goes home and his mom talks to him. She tells him that his father wasn't actually a stuntman, he was a cashier in a tire shop and that Evel Knievel was just taking pictures with everybody. And we learn he died choking on a pie. I didn't put it in my notes, but a little later he's signing autographs for kids. He's like they're like, thank you. He's like you're welcome, don't let your daddy pie. And then Rod says he's no longer a stuntman. He goes into his room and starts ripping off all the stuntman stuff and sadly, he rips up his mustache. No Damn, I actually shed a mustache.
Speaker 1:Like I shed a mustache here for him. Nice For that mustache, so sad.
Speaker 2:I hate my mustache. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:It always sticks out in the front yeah, like, and you can just like, if you look mandibles, like, if you look down at your nose, you just see like three or four of them and it's like fuck off hairs, yeah then, oh, when it starts to curl around your lip, and then you go to, you go to trim it and then it's like you accidentally did one side a little too high, so you go to the other side and you did it higher than the other side, and it's like what the fuck is happening?
Speaker 2:Now I just have to shave it. Pencil thin yeah.
Speaker 1:Do some uh, um, what's a John Waters mustache? So the next day he's acting, all grown up, doing some grocery shopping. I don't know if you saw his grocery cart is nothing but liquor and liquids.
Speaker 2:I think he's just at a liquor store at that point. To be honest, that was the first thing I bought when I got my own apartment Really my first apartment. I don't remember I had a case of Rolling Rock.
Speaker 1:I don't even remember the first alcohol I ever bought. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I had no food, no condiments, even it's like oh, what'd you eat last night?
Speaker 1:A bottle of liquor. So his friends show up trying to make him change his mind. It's rico, dave and denise. Uh, they're like come on, man, you can do it. Like, keep trying, you'll be able to get it. And then he's like no, I'll never do it again, you guys should just go on and do your own thing. And then, like dave starts crying. And then, like rico is also crying, starts to cry. It's like I don't even cry, you're to cry. He's like I don't even cry, you're making me cry. It's like, yeah, it says who am I supposed to build ramps for? And then, dave, he's like he, rico walks off.
Speaker 1:Dave's like ugly crying and then he like kind of just stops and like it's kind of like half smiles and then just like walks off. So weird. Denise tells him she joined the team because he was doing what he wanted to do and everybody grew up to get boring Rod. You don't get it, do you, denise? I used to be legit. In fact I was too legit. I was too legit to quit. But now I'm not legit, I'm unlegit, and for that reason I must quit Logic.
Speaker 1:I love it. You can ask my wife. Wife, I'd love to do the. Too legit to quit that he does maybe when you renew your vows.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're like natalie you are too legit to quit oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then denise like so I cannot. Yeah, denise says you don't mean that. Rod's like yeah, I do, stay sweet, that's a peace sign.
Speaker 2:And then, as he walks away, he gets hit by a car because he's a stunt man he can't get away from the stunts even when he doesn't want to, because that is a lot like final destination so that night he gets a call from Dave. So good he asks if he can take him to the hospital.
Speaker 1:He's so nice and calm.
Speaker 1:Hey yeah, oh man, how are you doing? I'm good? It's like, oh yeah, it'd be super cool if you just like take me to the hospital. So he goes over and Dave is just sitting on like a suitcase. He's like I'm going to be in this hospital for a while and it's still like we haven't seen what's in his face yet and like the shadows covering it. And then he gets in. He's like, oh hey, what's up, rod? And there's just a piece of metal sticking out, like right at the side of his eye. So good, he tells the story about what was he doing. Yeah, it's like so a guy gave him some acid. And he's like, hey, I have this acid but I can't do it. Played by the director Akiva from Lonely Island. And he's like, oh fine, I'll do it.
Speaker 2:Somebody's got to do it. He did it and he was walking and he was skateboarding.
Speaker 1:He was high as fuck and he was freaking out, so he went to go do some grinding.
Speaker 2:That's what it was he?
Speaker 1:That's what it was. He was grinding some metal on acid and it shot into the side of his eye. That's incredible. So, yeah, they take him to the hospital. Dave gives him this inspiring speech about him not being a stuntman anymore, and then he walks off and he's about to walk to a trash can because he's like hospital, they're like no. And then he walks into the hospital, and, and then he just immediately lays down.
Speaker 1:I'm ready, I'm here to be hospitalized. So when he gets back home, kevin is doing karaoke for stuffed animals. Then Rod comes in and apologizes and they're like so we cool, cool beans, cool beans, cool. So we cool, cool beans, cool Beans, cool, cool Beans, beans, beans Cool, cool beans, cool beans. That's such a Lonely Island shit, though. Yes, so Lonely Island. So Kevin tells them that he posted his stunt videos online and it's been downloaded like over 100,000 times, and the local radio station called and they want to sponsor the jump. We're back, baby.
Speaker 2:I love it whenever the other news, like the big news station, is like we were going to cover this it goes to this small local AM radio station.
Speaker 1:It's like damn too bad that the news station couldn't do. It made a lot more money than 50,000, um, but I love that. It's like oh yeah, we I posted this video and it was downloaded a bunch. I was like I bet that's what fucking happened to them. The lonely island crew there's like whoa, like this is a lot of downloads, so I like to think that was probably added in I didn't.
Speaker 2:I didn't see their youtube stuff until much later, after they were already on. You, gotta watch.
Speaker 1:Uh, we like sports, yeah, I've seen sports and we don't care.
Speaker 1:Stork patrol uh, what's the one where it's like uh, it's like them like hooking up with women and it's like, done like the, we like sports one? I don't know, I'll have to look it up. Um, so we see the big jump being set up. We meet. What's his name? Like Patch Snack, it was something where it sounds like a food snack or something. It's Chris Parnell. He is the other half of Lazy Sunday. He's great. He's one of the funniest people that you just don't realize is that funny. He loves AM radio and thinks this jump will make him popular again.
Speaker 2:I love it when he talks about AM radio.
Speaker 1:I bet you loves it and it's like damn FM radio and TV has ruined everything. I can show you by this tattoo I have.
Speaker 2:It's got the classic like.
Speaker 1:Calvin like peeing on an FM radio and a TV and it's like split into two streams. He's like I like to think that he just had sex that night and there was a bit of residue that made a stream. As you can see, there's AM radio a little higher on a flying carpet. And you wonder why my wife hates this movie. Yeah, I have no idea I'm so like going through the plot, trying to figure out oh, this is probably the, this is probably the part she'd hate this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's definitely boys, boys only movie. In some ways, my wife, your wife's, exceptional, yeah, how do you?
Speaker 1:like that. You hear that babe. Hey, jason, stop hitting on my wife through a podcast, bro.
Speaker 2:She doesn't listen, unless you make her so no, she listens, I'm just kidding. My wife doesn't. She thinks I'm stupid.
Speaker 1:The battle of the wives, let's make them fight. Yeah, so he tells Rod he spent the station's last $15,000 on this and it has to go well. And then he starts laughing. He starts weird laughing and towards the end of the laugh he starts like jumping around and then it cuts away.
Speaker 2:It's almost like he could see the future. It's so good.
Speaker 1:So Rod calls Denise and Jonathan answers. He tells Jonathan to tell Denise about the jump, but he and he tells him like get a piece of paper and he like pretends to and he's like just waving his hand in the air. And Rod's like are you actually writing this down? Are you doing this thing where you just wave your hand in the air? Jonathan's like boy, you have an imagination. Of course I'll tell her so good way too good.
Speaker 2:Um so um, yeah, he's not gonna tell denise, because denise comes out and he's like wrong number and then the music gets like do you think ron would have made it a lot further if he had competent people working with him?
Speaker 1:he'd probably be a halfway decent stuntman, had one professional, if his manager wasn't someone that dresses like a seven-year-old and he's supposed to be like 18. So when Rod gets home, emts are there. One of the EMTs say like I give Frank a week, I give that old man a week. The other one's like that's very insensitive. Rod sits with Frank. He tells him to hold on for the jump. Frank tells him he's been hard on him because Rod is going to have to be the man around the house when he's gone. Seems sweet, but then he says he won't respect him until he beats him in a fight. He's like I'm going to fucking kill you, punch his corpse. Just like all the jokes with Frank and Rod of just like I'm going to save your life so I can kill you. It's clever, it's so funny, like it seems dumb, but I'm just like shit, that stuff's good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's good you have to live so I can prove myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have to live so I can prove myself by killing you.
Speaker 2:I just imagine him like what if he did die? And then he's just jumps into the coffin, starts throwing haymakers on him like ground pounding him.
Speaker 1:I would love, like if they just like did this movie but he did die. Like, just do it again.
Speaker 2:But body slams the corpse. It's just a montage of him beating the corpse, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's the next day. He's doing Tai Chi and a man's watching him and ends up oiling him up randomly. We see everybody getting ready fate is bringing the stunt together and making it happen and then he then walks the street and the whole team joins, and then all of a sudden, a bunch of people start joining them and they're like wait, what the fuck is happening? And then they all start singing. It's like, uh, you're the voice, is the song?
Speaker 1:um you have people literally stopped in the street like staring off camera, just like singing like this beautiful melody, um, and then like uh, it suddenly all turns into a giant mob of looters. And then, all of a sudden, there's bagpipes in the street. You got people flipping cars though Molotov cocktails in them.
Speaker 2:Someone steals a woman's wheelchair.
Speaker 1:And then I love that, like Rod, like they like run away. It's like what was that? Was that because of us? Did we go in the Rico's? Like I can't believe it. You know, it was such a positive thing and then someone's always got to end up ruining it, as he got a TV that he stole during the living. Danny, make a fucking bride. I need to. I need to rewatch. I can't wait for Rochester Jimson.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's the.
Speaker 1:Sunday account Hell yeah, man, it's like alongside, I think it's like right before White Lotus.
Speaker 2:I hope they're not both out at the same time Is it season three.
Speaker 1:White Lotus, season three yeah, walter Goggins, isn't it? Yeah, it's a double dose of Goggins. Yeah, nice Baby.
Speaker 2:Billy's Bible Bunkers Baby.
Speaker 1:Billy's Bible, baby Billy's Bible, bunkers, uncle Baby Billy, so good, one of the best characters ever, babe.
Speaker 2:I know he's so good.
Speaker 1:And he's so good in White Lotus too. It's just a completely different type of character. So Rod's parents watch on TV, but we learned they can only listen on AM radio. We have Rod signing autographs. He asks about Denise and she's not there. Though Denise and Jonathan are driving, and while he's driving he runs over a raccoon. He's like did you see that? She's like what the fuck is wrong with you?
Speaker 2:He's like I'm going to have to call my friend and tell him about it.
Speaker 1:He's going to love it. And then Denise he goes in to get some waters. Denise turns on the AM radio and hears about the jump and she's like, oh, we got to go. And like Jonathan's super rude and says, like you're embarrassing yourself by hanging out with them. So she decides to end up with leave. She just gets in a random person's car. Will Arnett's like babe, wait, babe, babe. So good, one of the funniest things Will Arnett's ever done. Just that little scene there. So while prepping for the jump, his friends give him a legit stuntman soup and an actual dirt bag. And we learn Rico rigged the jump with explosives.
Speaker 1:It's like oh, it's all going to actually work and, like you know, you're expecting everything to work. Yeah, it's going to actually work. You're expecting everything to work. It's going to be great. Little spoiler alert Not a single stunt in this movie has worked so far. We'll see what happens a little later. It's jump time. You've got this awesome band.
Speaker 1:Rod comes out looking badass and is really good on the dirt bike. He's a little like whoa, it's a little fast. He's a little bit more impressive. It's a little fast, it's a little bit more impressive. And then he's like doing donuts. Dave's like. He's doing circles. He gives a speech and then he ends it with who wants to see me do a big ass stunt? Frank, I'm going to get you better. You old sack of shit. It's so good. He is about to jump and readies himself as Denise shows up. He's unsure of the jump. She gives him confidence and kisses him. Yay, the first kiss does not go well because she like opens her mouth as wide as possible and he's like whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, you're all like bleh.
Speaker 1:So they do it again for real though, kiss, and it's sweet and we're all happy and everything's gonna work out. So you just go with it. Yeah, first time, but I love it cause, like Dave's, like oh gross he's kissing his sister he's like that's not his sister, he's like whoa.
Speaker 2:That shatters my entire universe that's a fucking oh, that's so good. Hasn't he known him his whole?
Speaker 1:life basically, yeah, see, they just grew up on the same street they spend all their time together All their time. It's like do you think it would come up? You know? So jump time for real. Now he is at the ramp and calls on all the animals An eagle, fox, ball-nosed dolphin, octopus, house cat. Hey, house cats are important. They're nimble, they are nimble, they cannot get hurt when falling and they love knocking shit down. Hell, yeah, my cat's pretty good at not knocking shit down. They really don't. They walk around everything on tables.
Speaker 2:Sabrina, that's her favorite thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sucks, though I will say John Ralphio, one of our cats that's missing an eye, don't be suspicious, don't get me suspicious. That's pretty much what he does when he gets on my wife's side Little nightstand and constantly knocks over her water. Does he wear an eye patch? No, because how cool would that be? That would be great. It's actually. It's terrible because my dog Snake, right next to me, which y'all may have heard bark a couple times in that episode I called him Snake for Snake Plissken, who wears an eye patch. He has both eyes. Ironically, he acts more like John Ralphio the character.
Speaker 1:And my other cat definitely acts. You know it's a cat, so he's a little bit cooler than a dog and has only one eye. So it'd be way better if we named that cat Snake and then this dog.
Speaker 2:John Ralphio. I thought you named him Snake because of the video game character Snake. No no, because he's sneaky. But.
Speaker 1:Metal Gear Solid is.
Speaker 2:Snake.
Speaker 1:Yes, metal Gear Solid. He is named after Nick Poliskin. Because what's his name? Kojima is loved Western movies and stuff. Isn't that special, okay, well, I'll just get back to it, that's very interesting, so he's getting ready to jump. The donations are coming in. They get to like $3,400 or $3,500, and they only need $15,000 more.
Speaker 2:They're all just waiting to see how this jump goes.
Speaker 1:I guess they're just going to give this old man a heart. I mean, come on, if you're already donating, just donate. So Rod's going to jump this junk. He goes for the jump and looks to be making it and gives a thumbs up and it's like all slow motion Thumbs up all his friends, then it like zooms out and while he thumbs up he like let go of the bike completely and it flies away from him and he crash lands really hard and he slides across the pavement.
Speaker 2:Looked amazing, looked great, it's like they definitely like, spent most of their budget on that scene. I think I love a good slide, especially like in a zombie movie, where you get thrown out of a car. Yeah, slide across the pavement, leaving a giant trail of blood, yeah.
Speaker 1:I do love. I do love slides. Slides are super slick, Like a face slide. Yeah, so his crew run to his side. But then Dave's like oh man, I bet he's having like an outer body experience. Turns out he is. He's watching a grilled cheese and taco fight.
Speaker 1:At the top of his life. Yeah, grilled cheese is winning. And then it kind of cuts him like being resuscitated in the taco. Then it cuts to the taco, beating the shit out of the grilled cheese in the chair. Prison rules, no. And then he wakes up. And when he wakes up he's like oh, hoobastink, like who the fuck comes up with like. Hoobastink at the end, god damn.
Speaker 2:So I think I shamefully saw Hoobastink yeah In concert on that show Bro.
Speaker 1:like Hoobastink has like a couple of dope songs. I have no shame in liking shitty 90 bands.
Speaker 2:They were just like there at the concert I was at and I was like what am I doing here?
Speaker 1:People are like they're not even supposed to play. Who was saying to shows up? Sometimes so he's wanting to stand up. They're all like I'm pretty sure you have internal bleeding and all your bones are broken.
Speaker 1:He's like life is pain. The crowd's cheering him, trying to get him to stand. The crowd's cheering him trying to get him to stand. The donations start coming back in. He finally is able to get up and standing. They're walking, they let go of him and it reached $50,000. Everybody cheers, Even Ebenezer Scrooge is there cheering Cooked goose for everybody. And then it's our second movie in a row that blacks out and cuts to six months later. Just like Final Destination, this movie is final destination if death sucked at his job, if death just couldn't get this one guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this one guy, this is unkillable for, like the rest, the rest of time, as long as rod lives, it's like damn. Nobody's died in years. It's like death is just so preoccupied with Rod. He's got other stuff going on. Rod's house is just on fire, he's sleeping, he's like, and all of a sudden it just starts raining. Rod's death's like God damn it. So yeah, six months later, rod is gearing up for a fight. He even almost has an actual mustache. Kevin tells him Frank's heart is even stronger. He's like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:I can do it, that's a quick recovery, it seems like Six months.
Speaker 1:Yeah, For a heart transplant.
Speaker 2:That's pretty major. Yeah, I feel like he'd be longer.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I would think that even though you got a new heart, you still aren't supposed to get excited.
Speaker 2:He just becomes a doctor so he can help him heal faster, so he can kick his ass again that would be a great little deleted scene.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the deleted scene is the six months between the jump and this, that's a good idea. That's a good idea for a sequel though, so Frank surprises him, and they fight.
Speaker 2:I'm doing this because I love you.
Speaker 1:Frank throws a throwing star at him. I love the escalation of these fights. The battle is pretty evenly matched. Yeah, this go around. He's grown a lot. He's able to do his ultimate punch actually, and I love it because they break through the house outside where they're having a cookout Everybody's seen in the movie at this point is there.
Speaker 1:They're all just like holy shit, this is awesome, would be awesome. Except, like Chris Farnell's character, he's like should we stop this? Like, oh no, they do this, just a little spat. And so Rod, yeah. So then they break through their neighbor's fence and Rod has him and he's got his arm behind his back and he's like do you give, call me a man. He's like you're a man. Say it again. Turns around you're a man, you're a man. And then he does the.
Speaker 2:Make him poop his pants punch yeah, and he does it and he's like yeah, he's like you gotta be kidding me freeze frame end.
Speaker 1:You gotta be kidding me Freeze frame, end of movie, except there's end credits.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I did not watch the end credits.
Speaker 1:The credits come through and then you just see it's like this beautiful shot of him in a field with his little moped bike thing and he just bows to it. A happy ending, and that's the end. That's beautiful, that's gorgeous.
Speaker 2:He is still yet to land a stunt.
Speaker 1:Flanders start and that's Hot Rod baby. We're going to cut to our categories the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. That's where we discuss the good of the film Something we like the bad, something we didn't like. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. What's the good bud?
Speaker 2:Nothing. I hated this movie so much.
Speaker 1:I don't know it was. I'd say the best part of it was just all these, uh, these, comedians that's what I put the actors and comedians yeah, they're just kicking so much ass yeah, they, they're just like they're all young so they're all just like doing like something, like it's like one of their first movies for all of them and they're just all just crushing. They just it's like everything they thought of was their younger kids.
Speaker 2:They brought it for here like you can imagine them having bottle rocket fights before it takes. Yeah, exactly, bottle rocket fights, bro.
Speaker 1:I used to have firework fights. I do not understand. We did it at like fourth of july cookouts with like yeah, all the kids would fight with fireworks and like the parents are just grilling out and getting drunk.
Speaker 2:They're just like this is fine, yeah.
Speaker 1:This is fun. Guess what I would never do as a kid, as an adult with a kid Throw fireworks. Let them touch a fucking firework, yeah.
Speaker 2:After almost blowing my fingers off many times. Yeah, dude, almost blowing my fingers off many times. Yeah, dude, we would. Just, we would get like 50 yards apart, we'd have our bottle rockets and our lighters or light sticks and we just lob them into the air and try to get them to shoot down in their direction and hit them that way yeah, or like set them on the ground and have a rocket straight toward them. We never actually hit each other. Yeah, I don't know how we never got damaged I do remember.
Speaker 1:it's like, it's like one of the few memories of a firework fight and I had a bottle rocket just pop like right next to my ear. I remember I could not hear for like an hour or two out of the ear.
Speaker 2:That sucks.
Speaker 1:I was like Mom, mom, they're like just sit down.
Speaker 2:Why are you even out there?
Speaker 1:You're too young to play this. I'm like that's not the appropriate response. The response is we stopped the whole firework fight because this is insane that anybody's doing it.
Speaker 2:Well, we had rules, though, like Roman candles were not allowed because they were just like too accurate and they're balls of fire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they continue to burn after they hit you, that's true, I just remember being like at that party and just like there's smoke everywhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Kids running, kids running running. I was like this is fucking war. God dang. Burgers taste like even smoke. Steven spielberg should be fucking directing this shit.
Speaker 2:I would be badass yeah man.
Speaker 1:Um so, uh, mine was the actors and uh also, just a great idea for a movie. Some man who bad at stunts yes, great idea. Usually anything. If it's a professional sport or something and everybody in it's bad at it, it's always prime for comedy.
Speaker 2:It doesn't work that way with like a job like accounting, though, oh, I would say yeah, yeah, yeah, it's actually, you're an accountant, it's actually funnier if everybody's really good at accounting and they're all just nerds.
Speaker 1:Like in Parson Rex when Adam Scott's character, like all of them think he's so funny, so good. So I'm just going to go ahead and tell you like I don't find anything bad about this movie. I think it's solid. It's you laugh from the start to the end.
Speaker 2:You know what. One of the guys I liked the least was the Richardson guy, the guy that just danced sometimes Because I don't know it was, just it really didn't Didn't find it funny, didn't find it. It was pretty funny. But, like I don't know, there's a couple times when he's handing out flyers when he almost forgets that he's supposed to stop and dance and I was like huh, so weird. But I also used to get in a lot of trouble with women for vulgar thrusting a lot. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe I just never don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Hey guess what, bro? For multiple reasons in that discussion, you're off the podcast. Um yeah, I was just kidding at the beginning when I said, like, who's your favorite character, and why is it Richardson? I find it like I don't know. I think it's funny. It was pretty funny.
Speaker 2:It wasn't as funny.
Speaker 1:It's the flyer shit that got me. Every time he just like he grabs the flyers, just throws them at people and it's like he like pitches them like a baseball yeah. That old lady's face so good. So what do you got for the ugly? Something in age will.
Speaker 2:The. I still have some of those army t-shirts that Frank was wearing and that I need to get rid of them.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie, like I I've, like, you know, like the, the, like dark green or like greenish Brown, like something like army people would wear under their like, I guess, gear or whatever. Like I had one I don't remember where I got it, but like it was so itchy and uncomfortable but it was my favorite shirt, cause like once you got over the initial initial, like itch and like discomfort of it is this like it was warm, it was great yeah, they're durable shirts. It looked good on me.
Speaker 2:I was like damn that's what all the soldiers do I join the army now.
Speaker 1:Like this looks good on jesse. I love wearing this. I was like ah, which tour did you get off of? Like I'll tell you the tour you're gonna get. Never said that once in my life.
Speaker 2:Worst part about those shirts, though, is the gray ones. Are the ones you wear for PT, right? They just show sweat so easily.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's because they need to see how miserable you are Sweaty and gross. They want to make sure that they're getting all the joy out of you. Yeah, that's true For the ugly. For me, I said where the hell are all the comedies like?
Speaker 2:this there's not many Lonely Island. There's only one Lonely Island troupe.
Speaker 1:It's just like I put like where are the comedy movies? It's all TV.
Speaker 1:Like comedy is only on TV now you get like maybe one or two a year that like actually like resonate and like make it into the ether, where, like, people are like, oh, I've heard about this comedy, it's so good, it's like otherwise it's just like. Oh, that classic comedy director that also now does like like funny movies, but they're more serious, you know like, um, uh, stepbrother's director I'm blanking on his name he ended up doing like don't, don't look up, and stuff like that. It's like like where'd we go? Where do I?
Speaker 2:go. Maybe we're just waiting on another crew, like an all star crew of Saturday Night Live, to come around.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just like movie quality funny people. Every comedy now has to be like super sincere, like by the end and whatever. Like by the end, just like oh well, you're also supposed to like love these characters so much that we're going to try to make you cry at the end.
Speaker 2:It's like no, just fucking jump off stuff and fall all the time.
Speaker 1:Like did everybody just lose that part of their like funny bone where it's just like no, this is too silly. It's like everybody lighten up a little bit. You got to laugh at this stuff. You're gonna keep looking at the news and want to blow your brains out, but anyways, um, the fine for me is a goofy off the wall comedies, obviously because it sucks that we don't have enough of them I just I love the idea of stunts people being in like stuntman and because there's a I mean, there was.
Speaker 2:What was that movie that just came out like the rom-com about the stuntman?
Speaker 1:oh, the fall guy, the fall guy like. A very funny movie.
Speaker 2:I haven't even seen it yet, but it's such a fun concept.
Speaker 1:You should watch it. It's on Peacock. Yeah, your wife would love it too. I bet she doesn't like rom-coms either. It's not really a rom-com. It's just kind of like an action comedy with some romance in it. It's not like overly romantic. Your wife doesn't like rom-coms.
Speaker 2:No, not really. She likes more of like psychological thrillers.
Speaker 1:I can't say the word thriller. I'm not going to lie. Those are probably my favorite movies too, which is why I'm probably going to do one on our two-year anniversary, or I thought about redoing the thing, yeah, just because you were sick during it. It's kind of low energy. It's like one of my favorite movies ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love the movies on that, and then I was also low energy, Probably put Dakota, maybe even Natalie, but we'll see. Maybe we'll do two movies that week for the fun. So that is that category. Now we're going to do double feature. Where it's we recommend a movie alongside this movie. Did you got anything?
Speaker 2:my guy. Oh, I was thinking I've never seen Tropic Thunder all the way through, so maybe you haven't.
Speaker 1:I've seen parts of it. Oh my God, I don't think I own it.
Speaker 2:But I'd let you borrow it if.
Speaker 1:I did it's got to be that's like one of the funniest movies ever made. Yeah, you know, actually talking about like how I'm like I wish there were like more movies like a hot rod and like Tropic Thunder, movies like that.
Speaker 2:It's just all the same characters.
Speaker 1:I feel like the last like, truly like, funny, goofy comedy we got was actually Popstar, the movie that has Andy Samberg and all that I'm like. After thinking about that, I'm like when was the last time a movie like that has been in theaters? Andy Samberg is a fucking killer. He's great. Speaking of Andy Samberg, the movie I recommend is Palm Springs. I don't think I've seen that one. Oh, you haven't. It's so funny. It's like Groundhog's Day, but very funny. So it's like Niles and Sarah find themselves stuck in a time loop and living the same day over and over again. They are drawn to each other, but certain revelations threaten their budding romance. It's so good it came out, I think 2020, like mid-pandemic. So it was like and that year I remember when I saw it and it was like over halfway through the year, I was like, wow, so far, this is my runner up for best picture. It's so good. It's got Andy Samberg, of course, and Kristen Milito I don't know, she's in the Penguin, she's in that. Jk Simmons is in it, Peter Gallagher Come on man.
Speaker 2:You know, what else I would like to look into sometimes talking about on here would be something from the Broken Lizard. Is it Broken Lizard? Yeah, club Dread, we're going to do that. Well, yeah, club Dread is really super troopers. Super troopers also Super silly, but Club Dread is fucking hilarious. Yeah Pee in the loop.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe after we can do one of those, after the next movie we're going to do, because we're going to change things up a little bit. We've been doing horror movies, we've been doing comedies, so now we're going to do Well, it's essentially a horror movie, but we haven't talked about monsters in a while. So we're going to talk about a damn monster I love a good monster Because we are going to do we're going to do the Monster Mash, because we're going to do a movie directed by Bong Joon-ho called the Host.
Speaker 2:It's a damn monster movie and it's all about polluting our waters and shit, and there's a really gross picture of a worm crawling out of someone's nose on the cover. Nope, nope, different movie, different movie.
Speaker 1:It's also in a foreign language.
Speaker 2:You're supposed to back me up.
Speaker 1:I hope you got the right movie. Say, a monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches. It's great. I loved it. It's got one of like the best. Like monster reveals, like just the initial chaos when the monster comes out and like everybody's like what the fuck? It's badass. Can't wait to watch this. It's so great. It's in Korean, but hell yeah.
Speaker 1:What are the subtitles? Korean, but hell yeah, subtitles gonna be super fun. Dubbed it's us. I think you can watch it both ways, but yeah, so make sure I love watching it both ways, baby.
Speaker 1:So anyways. So make sure you join us next week for that. It's time to god damn land this fucking plane, baby. So yeah, join us next week for that if you leave us some fan mail and give us some reviews, baby, fan mail you can just click on the description, the link in the description, or go to the very bottom, where we have our email.
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