Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

A great comedy doesn’t just have jokes, it has conviction. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery goes all-in on its swingy, colorful James Bond parody and somehow turns the dumbest premises into the cleanest punchlines. We rewatched it with note-taking brains turned on and came away even more impressed by how tightly the gags are built, how hard the movie commits to tone, and how Mike Myers makes Austin and Dr. Evil feel like two completely different comedic engines.

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Welcome And The Movie Pick

SPEAKER_01 0:00

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. Name? Austin Danger Powers. Sex? Yes, please. Guys, this week we recommend Austin Powers, the international man of mystery. This is these the the trilogy of movies are my favorite comedies. They just are. I I mean there was a point where me and Natalie watched them every year, all three of them back to back. There's so funny. I love Mike Myers. I love this character. I love what it makes fun of. Because I also watched a lot of 007 back in the day when I was a child. And I just I just think Mike Myers is one of the funniest people, and he wrote one of the funniest movies ever.

SPEAKER_03 1:06

Yeah, this movie made me incredibly happy to watch again.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

They're warm blankets, man. As much as a movie like Long Legs is a warm blanket for me, so is Austin Powers.

SPEAKER_03 1:16

Wow. That's your blanket is very kind of rough on one side and smooth on the other.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

You know, I just kind of I just love movies that just go all the way for it for a tone and a vibe.

Why The Trilogy Feels Comforting

SPEAKER_01 1:28

Um lots of choreography. I mean, do you think like out of like comedic trilogies, this is the best one? That's pretty damn good. Right? I mean, like when you think of comedic trilogies or something, there's really not a lot. I mean, you know, most of the time, just even by the time you get to the second movie, it's already bad. Like, I mean, hangover, some fucking hell they got three movies after only having one good movie. Getting drunk one night and forgetting everything. Yeah, I mean kind of like was a big deal. Yeah, it's just like we're just gonna really do it again in different locations. And then you have, you know, like Anchorman, the first movie, everybody loves it. The second movie, they're like, So we just did it again. And that was like mainly the problem is that it just redoes the redoes the bits, which so does the Austin Powers chilly. But I think what what makes it different is his character acting is so good. And like they always add in extra characters that are that he plays that are super funny, like because the second one has Fat Bastard. And then something that I think he really nailed is who he got for the female characters in each movie. Because uh Elizabeth Hurley, beautiful, she's great in this movie. Heather Graham, amazing. Uh, especially when that movie came out, because I always had a Heather Graham crush. And I was just like, this is my favorite one. And then, you know, Beyonce, she's not the best actor in it, but she has some good parts and she's pretty funny. Yeah, she's all right. She wasn't like, you know, that was I think like her first movie she did. She got she became a better actress later in movies, but you know, for comedy and just being a singer, it's tough to do. I feel like comedy is a good way to start your acting career. Sometimes I think it's harder. It's like to make people laugh is some of the hardest thing.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

For sure. But uh if you're already like, yeah, if you're already a made superstar, hilarious person. Showing up in a comedy movie is kind of a big deal, low entry point for like you don't want to try to do drama right off the bat. And like there's so many good bits in Goldmember.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

I love gold. Put this in my skin. And like the like I I know nothing about the Dutch, but there's a part in the movie where Michael King says, fuck the Dutch. So anytime I hear something like watching TV and they say something about the Dutch, I'm all like, fuck the Dutch.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

I know, but I was like, if you're Dutch, obviously I'm right. But I think that's a common thing. Like I was listening to the Beef and Dairy podcast, which is a comedy podcast that I I enjoy. But they were talking about the Dutch language, and they're like, you're like, that is a language you cannot learn. Yeah. You have to be born into it. You have to be born into it. It's the only way to learn.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

You gotta be bane.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Born into it, molded by it.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

Um, and plus uh gold member has one of my favorite jokes of the entire time, and it's just where randomly Dr. Evil is acting like a trucker, is like, woo, doggy. Yeah, uh, it's like something, something, something you pile of truck, uh, or it's like you pile of monkey nuts or something. It's just it's so funny. It's terrible because I can't remember quotes, but yeah, it's like anytime I try to think of like does is any any film sequel as good as any of the sequels in awesome powers, and they're usually not. No, I don't think so. Off the top of my head, at least.

SPEAKER_03 4:40

Well, to but to be fair, I don't think the other awesome powers sequels are equal, but I think they're all funny.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

My favorite is the second one. Yeah, it's always been is always been.

SPEAKER_03 4:52

Is that when they they introduced Minnie Me? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, get in my belly, yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Like this one, I think is um this one's not as crammed with jokes as the other two are. Which is crazy. But it is crammed with jokes. Yeah, and but that second one in terms of like how many jokes hit versus Is it like the JPS, the jokes per second? Yeah, I mean, I feel like it nails it. No, it's it's also just I've I watched the second one more as a child than I did the first for one and three. So it might just be my personal opinion on it. So sure, that's I mean, that's fine. But I mean, there's almost like I mean, maybe the best joke of the whole trilogy is the penis pump. I mean, it's one of the smartest and funniest jokes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

There's certain jokes that if you I I guess I don't know who decides which joke to just keep carrying on for a long period. Like the pee joke where he's peeing. Yeah, and you just carry it on and over. Over and over. Like, how does it get funnier the longer it goes on?

Why Comedy Sequels Usually Fail

SPEAKER_03 5:54

I know.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

And it's just such a shame that Mike Myers made Love Googler and just destroyed his career.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

I felt like I felt too ashamed to watch Love Goo.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

It does have a one good uh the best joke in it is that um I think whenever he like says bye to people, he goes, Murhisha Targate, which is the actors from Law and Order. But because he's being like, you know, uh but he's fake is he supposed to be faking it the whole time? No, he's an actual guru. Oh it's it just doesn't work. All right. Um when was the first time you saw the first Austin Powers?

SPEAKER_03 6:30

I think I saw it in um maybe I I don't know. I it was either in theaters or blockbuster. Did it immediately click? Yeah, of course it did. It did with everybody. Because even if I didn't see it right away, as soon as people start quoting it and it's so funny, you have to go see it immediately. You have to.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

And this was this was unlike Anchorman, and it's this movie's unlike Anchorman for me, where even though I've heard people quote it a bunch, and I've seen it a bunch, seen it more than Anchorman, it's still funny. Even when doing maybe the least funny thing, taking notes and trying to dissect a movie while doing it. And it's very hard to do comedies that way because I'm like, I should be laughing, but I'm having to do this. Um You're trying to write down why it's funny, but you don't know. Yeah, well, it's just like also like, oh shit, though I have to go back and retype that quote in. Or it's like, let me go to quotes in IMDB and just find it, which is what I end up doing. Because they have every quote, they essentially have the script in the quote section.

SPEAKER_03 7:33

I will say, I did have to watch this movie in shame. Um, because I know I can't I can't watch this movie in front of my life. Why?

SPEAKER_01 7:42

She not like it.

SPEAKER_03 7:44

No. Really? I don't I don't know if any women like this movie. My wife. She does your wife. Everybody likes this movie.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

I that's weird.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

Well, I mean, a lot of women don't look because it's just like another it's like Anchorman. Uh it was, I think, quoted to oblivion. That that if you didn't see it before it was started being quoted, like you kind of felt like it was really dumb.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Well, she should have saw it before it was quoted. Yeah, I don't think that's on her at that point.

SPEAKER_03 8:11

I think if you start, if your baseline is like men are dumb, you're gonna have a worse time. Has she ever seen it at all?

SPEAKER_01 8:18

Uh maybe, probably. I think everyone has seen it. Okay. That's wild. I've never met anybody that didn't like Austin Powers. That's insane. There's a lot of people, a lot of fish in the sea, Jesse. That's true. It's like most people are like, yeah, it's funny. Well, it's like, and I could see it from like, well, no, not really. Because you know, it is like a man being a misogynist. Yes. But like, you know, he learns from it.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

Yeah, but it also made me feel seen as a very haired chest man. Yeah, well, at least you don't have his hair.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

He is like hair as long as the hair on your head.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

And I love the hair joke because it's kind of like in Joe Dirt, how he can't grow hair on top on the sides of his head to have a wig. And like because he was born without a scalp. Yeah. But like I feel like it's the same way with Austin Powers. Like, that's the only way he's his chest hair grows.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

It's like if he loses his hair on his head, he always has plenty he could put on the top of the phone. That's kind of like an upside-down penis in a way.

Do We Want A Fourth Movie

SPEAKER_01 9:17

Um, so there's there's always been talk about a fourth film. Always, and apparently he's still working on it. Do you want a fourth? I don't know. He's kind of now that he's older, I kind of totally want a fourth. Maybe. Just just one more, and then obviously he'll have a son, and I can only hope that it's played by Ryan Gossman. Because that would be hilarious. It would be a good success. And then like the whole it could be a great joke where it's like Dr. Evil like looks over the city. Yeah. I mean, like, hopefully he wouldn't ruin it by just making it the dumbest movie ever. But like I could just see like a scene where like Chris Pratt, you know, when uh when like Austin Powers and Ryan Gosling comes in, and Ryan Gosling is his son, and then Dr. Evil looks over at Scott, who by the end of Goldmember, he's like balding.

SPEAKER_03 10:08

Oh yeah, he's probably got a grandkid.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

And then but then he can just be like Dr. Evil can just be like, really? You couldn't be more like him. I wonder why I went country. Yeah, I wonder what Dr. Evil would be like with a grandchild. Yeah. Well, and he'd probably have like a whole and would Dr. Evil probably actually have another son because Dr. Evil turns good in Golden Ember, if you remember.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

Because he's ducky.

SPEAKER_03 10:34

Do you think Mr. Bigglesworth would have a grandchild by this point? No, he's dead.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Do you want to know the cat's name in real life? Uh which one? The the the hairless cat. The hairless one. Yeah. His name is Ted Nude Gent. That's awesome. Nude. Um so this is this is a tough question because I don't even think I know the answer. Okay, I'm ready. Austin Powers or Dr. Evil. I kind of like Dr. Evil.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

I kind of like Dr. Evil better, too.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

He's so cute.

SPEAKER_03 11:09

But he's so bad with puns. Yeah. Like Austin Powers is pretty good with puns. He's got all the dad jokes. Yeah. He's rules at doing dad jokes. But like Dr. Evil, I didn't go to evil medical school to be called Mr.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

And like he can't get his chair to work right. I mean, a lot of the best bits in all the movies are with Dr. Evil.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

The sh stuff, the therapy. He's funnier for sure. I think he's funnier. And it's just the way he talks. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

Everybody loves Austin, but like Dr. Evil's just funnier. Yeah. Just because like the way he is and the people he's around. Yeah, frown. Do not find anything funny.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Fantastic. The lucky charms bit. The evil laugh stuff. We gotta get into it.

Mike Myers Origins And Casting What-Ifs

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Alright, we're gonna hit up some facts. Um, there's a lot about like how he created the character. So Mike Myers has revealed in the interviews that Austin Power's character was created based on a couple of instances involving his family. His father loved watching British comedies with actors like Peter Sellers and Sir Alec Guinness. Um, so Myers always wanted to play an English character in a comedy. Myers because he's from Canada. Uh Myers also said that one night after coming home from hockey practice, he's because he's from Canada, he started flirting flirting with his wife in an English accent. His wife laughed and told him to write the down the routine so he could do it again. Writing the routine down led to this script. Nice. It's great. Um, another fun thing, Mike Myers originally wanted Jim Carrey to play Dr. Evil, but Carrie eventually passed due to scheduling conflicts with Liar Liar. Myers then took the iconic role himself. Thank God. Oh, I'll do it. It's like I don't have the best comedian, I'll do it. It's like I like Jim Carrey, but it would have been too much.

SPEAKER_03 13:05

I don't know, but I do like what they made. I do like Dr. Evil. I don't, I don't, I don't think I'd like Dr. Carry. It would have been like a Dr. Robotnik. Yeah, which I haven't seen, but he's the best part of those movies.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

Jim Carrey always, especially at this time, always overdoes it so much. And it works for his films, right? But the contrast between Austin Powers, who, yeah, Mike Myers is overdoing it, you know, but it's not like you know, and that'd been too I feel like that would have been what makes Dr. Evil is that funny is that he has people that kind of are like that around him.

SPEAKER_03 13:45

But his sick offense.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Yeah. And it just it it'd almost be too much, I feel like. Yeah, maybe ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 13:51

Yeah, because he really needs to be the star of the show.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Yeah. And also, you know, I just didn't I you know, I watched, of course, the second Ace Ventura, and I have seen Liar, I haven't watched his movies all that much, and the older I get, the more I sometimes find his movies not as funny. Sure. Um, so though I I need to go back and rewatch Ace Ventura 2 because I love that one as a child. That was the one I watched the most with him.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

No, I watched the first Ace Ventura the most. Yeah Oh god, I used to have that movie memorized.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

I don't like I don't think I watched that until I was like in high school versus Ace Ventura 2, which I watched a billion times. I'm like, wait, this movie's about the Miami Dolphins mostly. It's like immediately starts off with a weird blowjob. It's like, man, comedies in the 90s really loved weird blowjobs between ghostbusters.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

As a kid, I had no idea what was happening. It's like that crazy. Yeah. Oh, but like, you know, I had a conversation with a dolphin the other day.

SPEAKER_04 14:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:55

Yeah, we got along really well. We just click.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

So Joe's son, that's the actor who played random task. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 15:07

Do you mean odd job?

SPEAKER_01 15:08

There is, yeah. There is nothing funnier than just letting someone say something, a joke, and then it's not responding at all. It's like the best, which happens a lot in Australia Powers.

SPEAKER_03 15:19

You know what I always thought was really funny? It's like whenever you're about to um your like say your buddy says, Hey, pull my car around back. And you're like, okay, throw me the keys, and you reach up your hand to catch the keys, and then you just drop it and let the keys fly over your head.

SPEAKER_06 15:33

Yeah. It's really funny.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

In the moment that would in the moment that would actually be really funny. It works. Sounds like something I would do. One of my favorite bits that I like to do is to um keep going on with something. Like if I make a joke, if I make a joke and it doesn't hit, then I just start out. I start explaining the joke to the point where, and then like I'll finish explaining the joke and then restart explaining it but in a slightly different way. And then just like do not stop talking until someone says, Well, you stop.

SPEAKER_03 16:14

You need to have children because they hate that, but you will love it. Because I do that all the time with my kids.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Well, I don't I just my wife has to take the brunt of it. Yeah, they usually do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

That is their cross the bear. All right. Let's get back in soon.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

I'll tell more of our bits later.

The Random Task Story Turns Dark

SPEAKER_01 16:35

So, uh, ready to hear something uh kind of uh bad. Yep. Joe Sun, the actor who played Random Task, is serving a lifetime prison sentence for the torture of a 19-year-old woman in 1990. Holy fuck. He went uncaptured until twenty eight when a DNA match linked him to the crime. According to the victim, she unknowingly had a copy of the movie in her home till her attacker's identity was revealed. In 2017, he was sentenced to an additional 27 years for murdering his cellmate. He is now facing a maximum sentence of 275 years to life.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

God damn.

SPEAKER_02 17:10

Who throws a shoe? Honestly, you fought like a woman.

SPEAKER_03 17:16

Threw a prodded shoe at him, just pierced them.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Random tabs.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

That is fucked up.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

The names in this fucking movie are so vagina. A lot of vagina. Um, Ted the Sphinx cat already said this. Uh his name was Ted Nugent.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

What about the uh the furry cat? Oh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

I don't care anything about that. But the cat that played Mr. Biggles Bigglesworth was so fond of Mike Myers and often delayed filming by sleeping in his lap. Oh. I know. That's the most adorable film. Yeah. Snafu ever. It's just like, sorry, we can't do the scene. A cat's purring on my sleeping. It's like a Yeah. No. I love that. Like he goes in and it's like, cause um in 007, uh camera, is it Doc uh Sean Conner? Wait. No, the bad guy. I'm blanking on his name. I have it in my notes somewhere. Um, I think his name is uh Blowfeld. Yeah. Uh that's he's the ball guy. It's the one that Dr. Evil is, essentially, in the 007.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

Which double?

SPEAKER_01 18:13

I think he's in um You Only Live Twice, maybe Dr. I haven't seen all of them. I think he might be in Doctor's No as well. Um, but that's who he's making fun of. Uh but the cat, he has a cat in the movies, and he's very furry. So that's what's so funny that he goes in the cryodronical freezer and loses all the hair because it's like it's a good bit making fun of 007.

SPEAKER_03 18:33

That's really good. You know, as a kid watching these movies, I always thought it was the leader of Cobra from uh G.I. Joe. Yeah. Because he also had a no, no, no, no, that wasn't him. I was thinking of the villain from Inspector Gadget. He had a cat and you never saw his face. I think that also was kind of a bit frunkable, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

I don't know. Um, but yeah. So um Mike Meyer's wife suggested he dance in the movie during the credits since he dances around the house uh constantly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

Um that's gotta be annoying.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

And I guess in his underwear a lot too or in something.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Uh that's actually kind of fun.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

This has become a continuing trademark of the franchise and also powered Spider Shagmie, he dances naked.

Bond Parody Details And Zima Bit

SPEAKER_01 19:19

So uh more about Dolo7 stuff. So Doctor's Evil's present appearance, bald head, graysuit, scar over his eye, cat on his lap, is based on Bond's arch nemesis, Ernest Starvo Blofield, portrayed by Donald Pleasance in He Only Lived Twice. He voice and mannerisms are based on longtime Saturday Night Live executive producer Lauren Michaels. What? Yeah, that that's one that like is well known usually. It's like he just kind of is making fun of Lauren. Ironically, Pleasants was the star of Halloween series films where his arch nemesis was Michael Myers. Um, part of the influence for the film can be seen in early sketch Mike Myers did for Saturday Night Live, in which several James Bond nemeses complain about his vulnerability and how much easier it would be to kill him. Um, let's see, what else I got? In the Las Vegas bar scene where Austin flashes a peace sign and is laughed at, Mike Myers originally wanted Austin to be drinking a Zima to show Powers desperately trying to be cool and failing. In the movie, he's drinking it tap cola instead. Coors, the owner of Zima, were keen on the idea until they realized that they were being mocked and quickly pulled out. Oh man. Something Austin Powers doesn't do.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

Oh man. Uh Zima is the thing you drink when you don't know how alcohol tastes. They brought it back.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

I actually didn't think it tasted as bad as I thought it would.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

As a you know, when I this was the first beer like I really ever had. Not I know it wasn't the first I ever had, but like it's the first one I actually bought with my own money. Yeah. Using another person who was of age.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

I think it is kind of a great introductory beer. Kind of like Angry Orchards, the L's or the ciders. Yeah. Those are kind of great introductory alcohol drinks as well.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

Yeah, I had friends that that was their first drink as well.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Yeah. So Daniel Craig, the six actor to play James Bond, went on record to say that Austin Powers messed up the James Bond film franchise. The producers feared people would not be able to take James Bond seriously after Austin Powers mocked the campy nature of the series. This led to the darker and grittier Casino Royale reboot. So not only are we happy that we have Austin Powers, but we also have one of the best 007 movies ever, Casino Royale, because of Austin Powers. That's an insane train of thought. Isn't it wild? But it's true. Have you seen Casino Royale?

SPEAKER_03 21:38

Yeah, that's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

It's like one of the best movies ever made. Oh, it's like, how did how did they make a fucking poker scene so exciting? I love how they just keep making they keep making James Bond cooler and cooler all the time. It's all great. I'm so curious what the next bond will be, just because it's like, do they go back to being kind of silly or do they stay a little grit? Kind of wouldn't mind like a couple like a little sillier ones, you know? Well, like with Pierce Sprosman. I feel like he might have been the silliest James Bond. After doing Dante's Peak, uh, you know, big into Pierce Sprosman then and went back and watched his first James Bond. I was like, whoa.

unknown 22:20

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Golden eye? This is way too long. It was too long. It's too long. It is all over the goddamn place.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

There is so many points, me and my wife were like, what the fuck is going on? I mean, like, I don't know. Maybe it was like the mix of like wine and delta eight that I was like, maybe. Should I watch a sober next thing?

SPEAKER_03 22:39

No, I think you're right though. Because but when you're in the theater watching it, you don't think about that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Yeah. That's I remember loving it as a kid. Yeah. So don't get me wrong. Like, but it was just like, wasn't working that night.

SPEAKER_03 22:53

I don't know. Yeah, you start to really once you start thinking about it, it's just asking questions, it falls apart. Like a house.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

It's not even like all the silly stuff. It was just how all over the place like the scenes were. I was like, what is this? Why is this happening? And then like and then you kind of figure out the Arctic. Video game? Great though. Great music too in the video game.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

There's a guy that on that I watch on TikTok that only plays Goldeneye, and he just plays through the whole thing over and over and over. And he goes, he's so good at it. It makes you really think about how bad it was at video games back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

I was never good at it, but it was always me and my friend playing it, and we were also both bad at it, so it's fun.

Mike Myers Reputation And Set Pressure

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Um, so time to let you know a little bit about Mike Myers. Um Penelope Sears said in an interview that Mike Myers was a nightmare to work with when she directed him in Wayne's World, and that she hated that bastard for years. But when she saw him in Austin Power, she was so impressed, she thought, I forgive you, Mike. You can be moody, you can be a jerk, and you can be things that others of us can't be, because you are profoundly talented, and I forgive you. Austin Power or Mike Myers is known to be difficult to work with.

SPEAKER_05 24:10

That's what I've heard. Because and you know I hate one of my favorite some of my favorite actors are assholes, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:22

Never meet your heroes. But sometimes I think because you know, because he's a comedian, I think he takes more flack for it versus all these other actors that get to kind of be assholes all the time and nobody really cares. Yeah, because he makes you feel happiness. Like you remember when Christian should be happy. Yeah, when Christian Bill had that I think it was on this set of Terminator Salvation, there's this this big someone released audio of him just like fucking laying into somebody. And you know, I like when I heard it, I was like, man, he seems like a fucking dick. But there was always so many people that came out and said, Oh no, the person that messed up like they they are the ones that should be feel bad. And like he was right in saying what he did. But I'm like, well, why does Christian Bell get the pass to be an asshole versus like people like Mike Myers and things like that? Like, well, I guess because people think Christian Bell is like one of our best actors that we have in the world, and I'm like, that seems unfair.

SPEAKER_03 25:18

Yeah, I think that once you reach that level of professionalism, you expect everyone else in the world to be at that level of professionalism. And when they're not, uh, you feel like you have the right to be a dick. Yeah. But like if you're and I that sucks.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Yeah, and you're also young doing all this. I'm sure oh, I don't know, he could be in his thirties. It I really can't tell.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

Well, like, I yeah, I don't know. I I feel like maybe they're just impatient and they don't feel like they have time to waste on people who aren't trying at like they don't feel like they're at their level, not not giving them a pass for being a dick.

SPEAKER_04 25:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:56

But like I'm trying to understand why they would be a dick. Yeah, you know, to make a good to make a good piece of art.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

Yeah. And especially since for someone like Mike Myers, especially around the time of Wayne's world, like he's coming off SNL. He's gotta like he's gotta make something good to get his name out. And you know, if the movie fails and it's not funny, everybody's gonna be like, well, this is Mike Myers' fault. You know, this is his character and he didn't make it funny. So I'm sure there's a lot of pressure and he wants it to be very specific to what he wants. And if he thinks he's a comedic genius, he's gonna be like, You guys gotta do it the way I am. Sadly, he is. So then you're not gonna be.

SPEAKER_03 26:36

When everyone tells you you're a comedic genius growing up, you're gonna expect that.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Yeah. Um, but yeah, that I I was just I put that, I shouldn't put that at the end, I should put that at the beginning so we can kind of move past all this story talking about.

SPEAKER_03 26:47

Like, I you know, that's just something I've always thought of. Like, do you really need to give these people a really hard time? Yes. Yes, always give them a hard time because I feel like that's the way they thrive to make these these things that are great. Yeah, they thrive on the pressure.

SPEAKER_04 27:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:10

I think. Yeah, I think so. So, yes, give them a hard time. Make their lives as difficult as possible. Make them yell at you. Make them yell at you and record it. Make them feel like shit, and then they'll make really good art.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

And plus, I mean, like, yeah, and if the movies sucked, then it'd be like, yeah, like they'd be like, dude, you're a dick, and you're and you're not funny. Yeah, be like people at our work, you know, like when they're dicks to you, and it's just like we fucking put cheese in plastic. All right. Yeah, they have no right to do any of that stuff. Let's not act like we have to be upset at people and an asshole all the time.

SPEAKER_03 27:46

Yeah, these are those are two, these are two totally different uh fields, I think, that you can be a dick in.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Yeah.

Listener Mail And How To Reach Us

SPEAKER_01 27:55

So now that we have gone through the facts and we've through the questions always asked, Jason, at the beginning, now it is time to get into the plot.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

But first, I want you to think Do you feel randy, baby? Yes, that's the question.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Because I think that is kind of the point of the movie. Do you feel randy?

SPEAKER_03 28:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

Um, but if you have anything you want to say, there's really no point of this movie except to be funny. Um, but if you have anything you want to say to us, you can go to our description. There's a link at the top if you're on like Spotify and stuff that you can click. Um, if not, you can go to the very bottom where we have our email. We recommend mailbag at gmail.com and you can send us some fan mail and stuff and whatever you want to talk about Austin Powers with us with. So, Jason, let's get into the I mean, I'm just gonna say it, 1997 masterpiece uh called Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. Nice.

Plot Setup Austin Vs Dr Evil

SPEAKER_01 28:50

So in 1967, somewhere outside of Las Vegas, Dr. Evil and Mr. Bigglesworth has his underground lair. Dr. Evil had assembled the world's big boy.

SPEAKER_06 29:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Dr. Evil had assembled the world's top assassins to kill Austin Powers, but they all failed. Dr. Evil eliminates all of them except Mustafa, played by Will Farrell and Frau Barbizna. Bizon.

SPEAKER_03 29:14

Will Farrell as Mustafa? Fucking hilarious. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

When they throw him down in the pit. I know, and he comes back for the second one to do the same bit. So funny, so ridiculous and great. And then I love it. They got the great line. Why am I surrounded by friggin' idiots? Um, and then we cut to fantastic music, music and dance opening. Oh, behave.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

Yes. I love the choreography. It's so good. The music is is amazing. Everyone's waving British flags. Yeah, it's like it's so British and move to fucking London.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

All the Dr. Evils in America.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

Does anyone in America know what London even is? Like this is our picture of London, I think.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

And that's some of my favorite stuff about watching um, you know, a lot of like these British shows that I've been watching. I'm like, wow, you know, we have it wrong about they're so pissed. We have it wrong and we have it right about England. And so my like my favorite part of SNL UK is when it kind of gets to the um I'm breaking where they do the news section, right? It's kind of kind of here uh, you know, in SNL, they always do like the part where they do the the news weekend update. Um they do it in the UK too, and it's just kind of fun to see how the you know, because how they view America and then like when they kind of cut down like you know, Donald Trump too, and like their own prime minister. It's it's like all right, so it's kind of cool to see what their perspective of of us is in America. Because you know, we as being Americans and we all have like our ideas of what people are like in London and England and stuff like that, and it's just like I feel like it's wild.

SPEAKER_03 30:56

There would be a lot more Wallace and Gromit in their their in the SNL. Is there?

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Is there a lot more? I will say this a lot of skits end with dancing. I was like, man, British people love to end skits dancing. Um, so yeah, um, you have uh while the dancing, you got him taking pictures, dancing in the streets, women chasing him, and then he like comes back around the corner with a marching band and it's just lovely. And then he like jumps in a car with uh uh uh Miss Kensington. So British spy Austin Powers is a style icon of the 1960s, but with really bad teeth. Austin Austin is popular with the ladies who go mad at it with his charm. Miss Kensington is Austin's sidekick, who he asks why she doesn't model for him, and it's because of her husband. OB Hey, yeah, baby. Um, then Basil Exposition pops up on his car TV. Um, he's Austin's colleague at the agency who helps him with intelligence and planning his missions. Basil informs Austin that Dr. Evil plans to be at his nightclub that night. Basil Exposition is such a fantastic fucking name.

SPEAKER_03 32:09

This is my mother, Mrs. Exposition.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

It's so smart and clever, dude. I can't I can't say it enough. It's just such a good bit. So Austin's cheeky. Yeah. Austin attempts to assassinate his nemesis, Dr. Evil, in his own nightclub.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

I've got an idea. It punches the guy.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

Yeah. The electric psychedelic pussycat swingers club. It's a name of the club. So good.

SPEAKER_03 32:36

Um while trying to patterns in the clothes are just so terrible.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

I will say you I actually love it. I know it's I think 60s London looks amazing.

SPEAKER_01 32:46

Oh, it looks like if that is how it actually looks in any way. This is definitely a uh uh But based on I don't know, based on like the pictures of like you know seeing the Beatles like in nightclubs and stuff, I'm like, yeah, some of the nightclubs look like this. I don't know, only to be there. I mean, I think it's better than the shit that we do now. We make everything look as boring and gray as possible now. I mean, like, you know, the classic things like look what they did to our McDonald's when we were kids, it was all colorful and fun, and now it's just like we are modernist buildings. Talk to our AI drive-thru now.

SPEAKER_03 33:23

Give us your money.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

We are slowly taking joy out of the world. Taking joy out of food. Yeah, McDonald's. They are they're their french fries, don't taste as good as they used to. Oh, that's what the fuck happened. So while trying to figure out how to get to Dr. Evil, Austin punches a woman who turns out to be a man. It's a man, man. It's funny because it is a woman. He punches her. He she gets up completely a man. So good. So Dr. Evil and his cat escapes by launching himself in a space rocket.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

Space egg.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

The space rocket is disguised as a Bob's big boy statue.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

It's like a suppository that goes into the big boy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

And he cryogenically freezing himself until the time when uh free love no longer reigned and greed and corruption rolled again.

SPEAKER_03 34:18

Yay, the 90s.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

Yeah. And powers volunteers to be put into cryostasis to be revived when Dr. Evil returned.

SPEAKER_03 34:26

And all of his frozen party. Yeah. And then there's like Gary Coleman, Vanilla Eyes. Do you think when they saw this movie, they were like, What the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 34:36

How long how long was I in there? I love that. Yeah, something you kind of forget after like going like a little bit without watching it, how they tried to hide Dr. Evil's face for like the beginning of the movie until they reveal it a little bit later. I was like, Oh, yeah, I forgot that was probably like a hilarious bit, not knowing that Austin Powers himself is or Mike Myers is playing Dr. Evil. I bet that was really funny to see for the person.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

But yeah, I bet the yeah, that's a good point. They were trying to trailer's probably ruined it, but maybe.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

So it is 30 years later in 1997, Dr. Evil's big boys arrived in outer space.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

Uh Ron Howard's brother. I never saw it coming.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

Yeah. Ron Howard's brother and a general see it and are off to England, where they had many people like Gary Coleman, Vanilla Ice, and Austin Powers Frozen. It's just like, why those two?

SPEAKER_03 35:30

What is the backstory between the people and because they just kind of disappeared from the public view?

SPEAKER_01 35:37

Well, I mean, I get why Gary Oldman did. And I mean, or not Gary Oldman, Gary Coleman. It's like I'm sure his life was tough being like a 30-year-old child.

SPEAKER_03 35:47

And then he was a security guard. People wanting to like pick him up all the time. Dude. Yeah. How can any tough life? Yeah. And Vanilla Ice, I get. Like his was kind of obvious. I mean, the bit is his last name is Ice. We have to freeze. And he did disappear after his music career ended after he tried to do a love song. Like somebody paid him like two million dollars to do a love song, and it fucking ruined his career. Yeah. He didn't come back until he made a metal band.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

Yeah. And then well, he also uh made a terrible movie called Cool as Ice. Oh. Yeah. That sounds horrible. Everything he tried to do after Ice Ice Baby, which also was essentially ripping off uh under pressure.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

Oh, we had a friend from work tell me or suggest to me that we uh do that movie. Yeah. And I was like, Yeah, I know who you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Never heard of it. Yeah. I listen to a bad podcast about it. It sounds fucking hilarious.

Thawing Out And 90s Culture Shock

SPEAKER_01 36:45

So they thaw Austin out during the warm liquid goo phase. They cleanse him. He looks like such a door. I know. So they cleanse him, they dry him with six blow dryers, let him pee for a really long time. Evacuation begins. Everything's a joke, and I love it. He then learns about all that he missed while uh while frozen. Austin is shocked to find that the cold war is over and now the West is working with Russia, represented by General Borc Borchevsky. Finally, those capitalist pigs, huh? We won!

SPEAKER_03 37:22

Oh no. We won.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

Oh yay, capitalism. Such a good bit. Also, the guy that plays General Borchevsky, uh Elijah Baskins, um, is the guy is the landlord for Peter Parker in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man. No shit. All right. Just I was like, oh shit, that's the Spider-Man guy. Cool. He's the shitty landlord.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

Um He's trying to get Aunt May out of her apartment. Fuck you, man.

SPEAKER_01 37:53

So he learns that Dr. Evil and that he will be working with Miss Kingsington's daughter, Vanessa, played by Elizabeth Hurley, who's great. He then out loud talks about how hot she is because he has no inner monologue. Um Vanessa Kensington. Mr. Powers, my job is to acclimatise you to the 90s. You know, a lot's changed since 1967. Austin Powers. No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound. So the only people that use condoms are sailors. Like, no, they're not using condoms, going port to port, the dirty buggers. They should be. They should be. Uh butchered that.

SPEAKER_03 38:51

Oh, just like even though they're doing the same thing he's doing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Awesome Powers really relies on the movies, really rely on him saying something fullheartedly and being completely wrong about it. Yeah. So many times in this movie that he does and it works every time.

SPEAKER_03 39:09

Yeah. I mean, how else would you think a person unfrozen for 30 years would act? And like, because Dr. Evil does the same shit.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

Yeah. And this movie's so smart. All of them are really by just having so much teleportation or time traveling to where it's like it's always a funny bit. So Austin Powers, Austin Danger Powers is giving his things.

SPEAKER_03 39:33

Danger is my middle name.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

He has a blue velvet suit, silver medallion. What do I give for a blue velvet suit? Some boots, Bert Backrat albums, a Swedish penis pump, a receipt for a penis pump. A book. A warranty for penis pump. A book, Swedish made penis pump. This sort of thing is my bag, baby.

SPEAKER_02 39:58

All the while he's just saying, I promise, it's not mine.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

I don't need it.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

What is this? I obviously don't need it.

SPEAKER_01 40:07

And then like he's gonna go walk away and he's like, Do you want this? And he takes it too.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

So good.

SPEAKER_03 40:16

One of the best gags ever.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

I know it really is. Um, and after using the penis pump, many people probably did gag. Hey yo! Oh no. Do you I you ever used one?

SPEAKER_03 40:30

I never. Um, no. Do you know how it works? Nope. Me neither. I can't imagine it's good for you.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

I just feel like you're just blowing up your penis pumps.

SPEAKER_03 40:38

Because you're you're stretching it. The whole I mean, I think the whole idea is to get more blood to the member.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:44

But like, how does that do anything?

SPEAKER_01 40:48

If you know how penis pumps work, please send in some fan mail. Actually, Mark, are you out there? Do you know in the YouTube comments? Let us know how penis pumps works.

SPEAKER_03 40:58

Send the pictures to Jesse particularly.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

The email. Um, yeah, so uh Vanessa tells him to stop calling her baby and to call her Vanessa, and he's like, Yeah, baby, I mean Vanessa. So Dr. Evil returns with new plans for wall domination, but first he kills Mustafa for making his cat lose his hair in Kyroge Chamber, and he takes a long time to die. Help me! I'm actually not dying, and I'm very badly injured. Uh it's like just sending a guard. Oh, hey, could you please help me? I'm very badly injured.

SPEAKER_02 41:32

Oh, you shot me in the arm! Why would you shoot me in the arm? Shoots again.

SPEAKER_03 41:40

That's so fucking good. That's Monty Python stuff, man. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 41:45

Yeah, it really is. So Dr. Ever discovers his henchman, number two, um, has transformed his evil empire into VirtuCon, a multi-million, multi-billion dollar enterprise. VirtuCon moved from chemical or moved from chemicals into telecommunications and now owns cable networks in 30 states and a steel mill in Cleveland and a factory in Chicago that makes miniature models of factories.

SPEAKER_05 42:13

It's so fucking good. It's so good.

SPEAKER_03 42:19

That's oh, it is it is so good. Oh, God. That's what makes me like that's the kind of British shit that I love.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

It's just like it's so random it works immediately. Uh we also uh see some of the other we see Patty O'Brien who leaves charms at his crime gene, Lucky Charms. They're always after me, Lucky Charms. Everybody's they always kind of start snickering, and he's like, Why does everybody laugh at me when I say that? It's like, oh, because there used to be a commercial.

SPEAKER_00 42:49

Because of the series. The serial scene.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

So good. Um, and random task who throws shoes. They are Dr. Evil's henchmen.

SPEAKER_03 43:00

See, yeah, I never knew about most of the Bond villains until I played Goldeneye, and then you unlock like the secret characters. You ever seen Jaws? Yeah. The guy with the teeth. Big metal jaw. I never saw that movie. Um, there's so many Bond movies.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

I mainly only know of the guy who throws hats, jaws, uh um Blofell, and then of course the new ones from uh the new movies. Yeah. Maybe the other thing. Well, and then also the Goldeneye uh girl who just like gets off on killing people.

SPEAKER_03 43:34

Yeah, she chokes them with her legs so in thick, thick thighs, orgasms while doing it. It's like, okay. Kill me, baby. Kill me, mommy.

SPEAKER_01 43:44

Hell yeah. So, although already wealthy, Dr. Evo proposes several plans to threaten the world for more money, but finds each of them have happened naturally during his absence.

Ransom Demands And Project Vulcan

SPEAKER_01 43:56

Stuff like threatening the royal family of Britain to expose the affair. Prince Charles.

SPEAKER_03 44:01

Creating a hole in the ozone layer.

SPEAKER_01 44:04

Doctor, right. People right. People have to tell me these things, okay? I've been frozen for 30 years, okay? Throw me a frickin' bone. I'm the boss. Need the info. Or things like punching a hole in the ozane layer, using layers and increasing skin cancer rates over the world. Unless the world pays him a hefty ransom. He ultimately falls back on his plan to steal nuclear weapons and holds the world hostage for one million dollars.

SPEAKER_03 44:33

Which is not a lot of money.

SPEAKER_01 44:34

And there was like, uh yeah, that's uh the world times have changed. It's not a world quite a minute. So he increases his demand to a hundred billion dollars when he learns that the value of the dollar has fallen due to inflation. Even VirtuCon makes over nine billion every year.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

And even a hundred billion now, like that's I feel like the most evil people now would probably want like a trillion. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. Multiple trillions.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Ugh, it's just so funny. It's just it it just it's so perfect that it's like, yeah, the main villain in this is a rich billionaire that just wants more money, so he's gonna do more evil things. The money doesn't matter. He just wants to be evil. Yeah, yeah. That's his whole deal. I mean, he's a doctor of evil. So on a psychedelic plane, uh Powers quickly finds his free love uh credo of the 1960s to be out of touch with the 1990s and is unable to turn Vanessa onto his charms, like trying to seduce her on a rotating bed.

SPEAKER_03 45:37

With those green pants, get out of here.

SPEAKER_01 45:41

Vanessa, let me ask you a question. Do I make you horny, baby?

SPEAKER_03 45:45

Do I make you right there?

SPEAKER_01 45:47

Vanessa is disgusted by Austin's overt attempts to get her into bed and declares that she will never have sex with him.

SPEAKER_03 45:53

This may have worked for my mother, but not for me.

SPEAKER_01 45:56

And I love it because they're on the bed and she's and like the plane starts shaking and he starts, oh God, I fell. I fell over. Oh, keep falling over. And then she's like, I'll never have sex with you again. And then like he's just on the bed doing poses and she turns and smiles. Um, and then we'll see a little later that Austin Powers is uh not disciplined, much unlike Vanessa, who is disciplined, pulls out his penis palm when he goes to the hotel.

SPEAKER_02 46:22

How did this get here? This is a joke, honestly.

SPEAKER_03 46:25

But I love how they start doing the uh naked in the background gags with the things in front of them immediately.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

And if you actually want to watch a movie that's not trying to be funny, that does the same bit, it's called Beowulf. What? The the animated one? Yeah, the animated one that Robert Zemegis did. Yeah, because um they're like naked through like the whole movie, and there's constantly stuff in the way of the penis. Oh, I didn't realize that. And I remember being in high school and they're and we read Beowulf and the movie came out, and then like I went to go see it, and they're like, Did anybody go see Beowulf? And I was like, I did. And they're like, What do you think? I was like, Well, I just didn't understand why they did the Austin Powers bit the whole movie. They're like, What do you mean? I was like, Well, they're naked the whole time, but they constantly hilariously had stuff perfectly in front of like their bodies. And then people were like, So you wanted to see them naked the whole time? I was like, No, just don't make them naked.

SPEAKER_03 47:14

Yeah, I want to see Angelina Jolie naked.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

It's just like this is a very serious movie, and you made it very goofy, and it's already kind of looked bad. So I was like, this is not working.

SPEAKER_03 47:23

But that was totally Angelina Jolie as the monster, right? At the end.

SPEAKER_01 47:27

Yeah, she's the mom.

SPEAKER_03 47:28

Okay, yeah, that's what I thought. I always there was a thought in my mind that maybe it wasn't her they were trying to depict, but like, yeah, it was definitely her. Give me Dragon Mommy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:40

So we learned that Frau has used a sample of Dr. Evil's semen to artificially create his son, Scott Evil. Now a millennial teenager.

SPEAKER_03 47:48

Scott Evil.

SPEAKER_01 47:49

Scott represents his father's absence uh and resists his attempt to get closer to him, despite Dr. Evil's attempt to get closer to him through therapy. Come on. I'm cool. I'm with it. Scott, come on, give me a hug. Look, I'm cool, I'm hip.

SPEAKER_03 48:05

Whoa. What is he even doing? He's doing the Macarena. It's not the Macarena. That's what he's doing, though. Oh, is what he's trying to do.

SPEAKER_01 48:16

Whoa. One of my favorite things in all of Austin Towers. So good. Um, it's like a love that Scott just runs away.

SPEAKER_02 48:24

No, get away from me. Stop it. I don't I don't love you. I hate you.

Vegas Bits Bathroom Fights And UN Call

SPEAKER_01 48:29

So um later, Austin and Vanessa pose as a married couple in a Las Vegas hotel. Nessa says that a lot of VirtuQuan executives are staying there, and VirtuCon is suspected to be connected to Dr. Evil. Austin meets number two and his Italian secretary, but first they're walking down like in the lobby of the hotel casino, and he's like, Hey, hey, how are you? Oh, wine. Okay, hey, there you are. He's like, hey, who are you? It's like, I don't know, but there you are. Um, yeah, so Dr. Evil meets number two and his Italian secretary secretary, a lot of vagina. Excuse me, what's your name? A lot of vagina. Uh they play back stretch. They play blackjack. Number two has 21.

SPEAKER_03 49:10

Do you think as an international man of mystery, he would have even back in the 60s, he would have learned to play blackjack. I feel like that game's been around for a minute.

SPEAKER_01 49:20

He just he's all about swagger. He doesn't care if he wins. Yeah. Because um, like I think what um number two has like 17 and he says, hit me. Or he has like two.

SPEAKER_03 49:32

Or he has like this laser eye, like, yeah, and he can see what's underneath it.

SPEAKER_01 49:35

And he's like, hit me. And he's like, the dealer's like, no, I like you have you have 17. You're doing okay. He's like, I like to live dangerously. I also like to live dangerously. And then like they deal out cards for Austin. He has five total, and he's like, I'll stay. He's like, Black Jack's like, I suggest you hit. And he's like, I also like to live dangerously. All right, well, you lose. His 21 beats your five. He's like, I've never been good at poker. So, and then um number two says, uh, oh, and then um he goes, so he introduces himself. Allow myself to introduce myself. Number two says he's gotta go to the bathroom. Austin follows. Um, Patty attempts to kill Austin in the bathroom.

SPEAKER_03 50:20

He says he's gotta go to the little boys' room, which is really weird.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

But like first he walks in, there's a blind man. It's like, hey, you didn't happen to see nothing at all. And then you have Tom Arnold um who walks in. He's like, Hey, crazy get up. And he's like, Oh yeah, I'm from the England. And he's like, Oh, I'm so sorry. And then, so yeah, he goes into the bathroom, Patty comes out um and tries to uh kill him with his lucky tar. Yeah, and then he puts him in the tool, he's like, Show who does number two work for Tom Arnold.

SPEAKER_03 50:53

You show that turd who's boss, just bite your bottom lip and give it a go.

SPEAKER_01 50:57

Yeah, then it's like it's starting to sound disgusting. He's like, Hey, how about a courtesy flush in there? And then he comes out what did you eat? I mean, just good fucking bits, baby. So good. Woo! That was probably one of the most quoted things I had did when I was a kid. It was like, you show that turd who's boss, stuff like that. That was what did you eat? Me and Richard Garfall. I think we need to bring it back. Yeah, it's so good. Um, so later we see Dr. Evil has cured the nuclear warhead. He calls the United Nations and tells them if they want to get back, um, they have to pay one million dollars. I mean, one billion dollars. UN representation representative. So, Mr. Evil, Dr. Evil, it's Dr. Evil. I didn't spend six years in evil medical school to be called Mr. Thank you very much. Uh the UN tells them he does not negotiate with terrorists. He tells the henchmen that they will be one billion dollars richer and they awkwardly all evil laugh. And it's such a good bit because it's like anytime in movies they do an evil laugh. Like, what do they do once they're done evil laughing?

SPEAKER_03 52:05

Just like, huh, that was they kind of just cut away. That was good. Yeah, they wait until there's no more laughing. Yeah, they're like they're kind of waiting for someone else to say something funny, but like nobody does.

SPEAKER_06 52:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:18

I kind of imagine that's what it's like being around Kim Jung Kim Jun Kim Jun Jun Il. Ew, il whatever that guy is. Yeah. I feel like that's like his deal.

SPEAKER_01 52:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:30

I would totally just kind of have to keep laughing.

SPEAKER_01 52:32

As soon as he starts laughing, everybody has to start laughing.

SPEAKER_03 52:34

Yeah, and then you stop. As soon as he stops. Exactly. When do you stop?

SPEAKER_01 52:38

As soon as he stops, you have to immediately stop.

SPEAKER_03 52:40

If you laugh too hard, he gets sent to forever jail. Just forever jail, yeah. And so does your family. Yeah. And your grandfamily.

SPEAKER_01 52:48

You know there, I guess there is actually a place where you're allowed to like visit North Korea without being murdered. No way. I'm not sure. I I'm actually gonna solve something about it. So no one lives in. The tunnel thing you can do or something.

SPEAKER_03 53:06

A dark tunnel.

SPEAKER_01 53:08

I'm assuming it's some sort of tourist thing that they allow just to have more extra money.

SPEAKER_03 53:12

Let's go. No. Let's go start a GoFundMe to send We Recommend to North Korea.

SPEAKER_01 53:17

Yeah, do it. Don't so Vanessa calls her mother in London, who tells her that Austin is very, a very caring man, and that in the 1960s, every man wanted to be him. And every one woman wanted to be with him. All this while Austin is walking around naked while standing in front of objects like sausage, magnifying glass, champagne. I mean, the magnifying glass always gets me, but the sausage is the best one. So fucking good. And this movie always comes so close to showing everybody's everybody's naughty bits, and it's funny. So while spying on random tasks, he calls Vanessa beautiful and they go out for a night on the town where Bert Baccharat serenades them. A double deck bust, that is cool. And then Vanessa starts to fall in love with him because he's so funny. He's so them walking around and is obviously green skinned. They're like, yeah, that. And the bit of Bert Baccarat coming out is so good after setting it up earlier. Playing the piano. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man. Having a date. I feel like he rejuvenized his career because of Austin Bowers. Yeah, maybe. I had no idea who he was until this movie. I didn't know of him as a kid as a kid, you know? So what the world means. So later at the hotel, after some twister, Vanessa comes onto him while drunk, but Austin refuses because he doesn't want to take advantage of her and he reminisces about how great her mom was.

SPEAKER_03 54:40

Oh, that's the perfect way to go lady in the bed.

SPEAKER_01 54:43

But I mean, it's it's very much like an aw that he know he didn't take advantage of her, and he seems like because you at this point you'd be like, he'd totally do it. But he's a sweet guy. It's the biggest thing where you're just like, oh, he is sweet. He's a horny old sweet person because of the time. Also, we get the st stairs and elevator bit. Yeah. It's always great. How many have you done this? Yeah, of course. Of course. Everybody's done this. And it's also like one of the funnier bits in uh the office. Where shit. He'd like, hey, look, I can get you need anything from the warehouse, goes down there and gets it, and then they turn the joke on him. It's like, I need coffee, and he has like crawl to the Was this the first time you've seen this bit?

SPEAKER_03 55:20

Like, I remember thinking about it.

SPEAKER_01 55:21

I know I've seen this bit in this movie mainly.

SPEAKER_03 55:23

In this movie, yeah. It's probably the first what do you think you have? The office. That's it. Before that.

SPEAKER_01 55:31

Oh, not off the top of my head. Like that's the first one.

SPEAKER_03 55:33

I probably saw somebody do this bit. No, I feel like this is the first time I ever even thought about it.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

I may have seen someone do like a stairs bit, but the elevator bit is something different. Okay. There's also another thing where it's like, it's like that's you in a nutshell. Help! I'm in a nutshell.

SPEAKER_02 55:49

What type of nut has this shell?

SPEAKER_01 55:53

So Austin logs on to AOL to talk to Basil X.

Lotta Vagina Fembots And Vulcan Reveal

SPEAKER_01 55:59

Yes. Who says he has to go to a lot of vagina's house to spy, and then powers later breaks into her penthouse suit suite for reconnaissance and fornicates with a lot of vagina. He discovers plans for Dr. Evil's Project Vulcan, which aims to drill a nuclear warhead into the Earth's molten core and trigger volcanic eruptions worldwide.

SPEAKER_06 56:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:20

Vagina finds Austin's real identity through his ID card, which she finds after he removes his clothes and gets in a hot tub and farts. And she eventually washes Austin.

SPEAKER_03 56:29

That was such a funny guy. She's like, How dare you break wind in front of me or before me? He's like, Oh, I didn't realize it was your turn.

SPEAKER_01 56:36

Yeah, and it's like often in uh my country, men come first and women come second. Or maybe never at all. Um, and then you also have like the first um shadow bit really in Austin Powers, because which becomes a huge bit in the next two, where someone stands behind. Yes. Um, and then also um the uh leg kicking while getting kissed. Like, oh yeah, that's that's a spot. So um Dr. Evil, learning that powers is back and on his trail, creates a series of seductive uh identical female robots called Fembuts that will lure Powers with their charm before killing him. Dr. Evil by caliber, I already because like I love women of them caliber. And by caliber, of course, I refer to both the size of their gun barrels and the high quality of their characters. Two meanings caliber, it's a homonym. Forget it. That's just that that's like shit I do with that's like the shit I do with Natalie when it's like my joke didn't work and I just kind of keep going on with it.

SPEAKER_03 57:44

That is the best until you have to keep going until someone says stop or like they physically touch you and say stop.

SPEAKER_01 57:51

Yeah, and it's so funny. It's like re-watching this and like taking notes. I'm like, shit, this is where I've gotten everything. It's where I got every funny bit. I'm gonna be.

SPEAKER_03 58:01

Did you look at Natalie and say, You're welcome? No, I did this in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 58:05

She was at home. That's probably smart. Which makes sense, like, because you know, she'll call me like her favorite comedian, and I'm like, well, Austin Power is one of your favorite funny movies, so it makes sense, you know. So at British makeshift headquarters, we have the classic Bond gadget scene where he thinks dentistry products are gadgets, but uh Vanessa's like, no, it's for your teeth. Exposition Exposition comes in explaining that they have to break into VirtueCon. Austin and Ves Vanessa are gonna disguise themselves as tourists. Austin then beats Exposition's mother up because he thinks she's a man, baby. She does look very manly. She looks like she's gonna beat up. Oh my god. Um, and Vanessa is very suspect on how Austin got the plans for vagina. So it's gonna be a long one.

Scott Evil Therapy And Relationship Rules

SPEAKER_01 58:54

Dr. Evil and Scott go to therapy with Carrie Fisher. Scott says he wants to be a vet, but not an evil vet or evil petting zoo vet. Dr. Evil says that he is really trying to kill him. It's like Scott says, I think he's trying to kill me. The therapist, it can feel like that sometimes. Like, no, I am. Dr. Evil explains his beginnings, Dr. Evil. Well, very well. Where do I begin? My father was a relentless, self-improving owner from Belgium with a low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with whipped feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.

SPEAKER_03 59:40

Like chestnuts of being lazy.

SPEAKER_01 59:42

Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possessed.

SPEAKER_06 59:48

Real genius.

SPEAKER_01 59:49

The in and the insane lament. My childhood was typical summers and rangoon luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make metal helmets.

SPEAKER_03 59:58

Meat helmets.

SPEAKER_01 59:59

Meat helmets, yeah. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my verse scribe. At the age of 14, a Zorosterian named Velma rid deliciously shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like the shorn scrotum. It's pretty tasting. I suggest you try it. The rest of the therapy group is baffled and disturbed by Dr. Evil's therapist. You know, we have to stop.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:28

Wouldn't you hear the word the words shorn scrotum? Does that mean they cut off his scrotum? Or they just shaved his scrotum?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:37

I assume is shorn? Yeah, I assumed it's shaved.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:44

Vanessa talks to Austin and asks if he was up to something with vagina, and Austin proudly tells her that, yeah, we shagged, baby. Um said, No, I'm not a sailor. This is what a sailor bit is.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:59

They go from port to port. Those assholes.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:03

Vanessa says if they're gonna be together, he is gonna have to change with the times. Vanessa welcomes him to the 90s where he will be very lonely.

VirtuCon Break-In And Escape Gags

SPEAKER_01 1:01:10

Then he does a whole like sad Austin goes out in town where he feels lonely. He marks off all the names of the people he knew that are dead now. He tries to play a CD on a record player, pumps up a shoe into explode, and watches some news that of what he missed. Vanessa comes in and is like, you know, I kind of forget sometimes that you've missed all this.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:29

Yeah, it's like that scene from the fifth element.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:32

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:33

The same big bada boom. Big bada boom. So they go to Virtuquon dressed as the love guru and sexy cowgirl. Yay! They beat up some henchmen to steal their clothes. Um, they are immediately found out. And I love that they go in. The henchmen are like completely crazy sizes, and they go in, they come out, and everything fits perfectly. It's a great bit. Um, they steal a random steamroller where they run over um Michael McDonald. He had so much time to move out, and then when they ran over him, they stopped. Yeah, I know, it immediately stopped. And it's also a room full of steamrollers. I will say this. That was one of my favorite music of all time. It was the funniest fucking shit. And also, it's the guy that plays Stuart in Mad TV, which only makes it fucking funny. I know, I love that shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:26

Love him.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:29

Stuart! So they think they are clear but are immediately knocked out by random tasks. So after Dr. Evil makes his demands to the world, he reveals that even after receiving the money, he will still proceed with Project Vulcan. Uh good bit where he sits down in the chair and like just rolls back and he's kind of scooped up. He then places power and Vanessa in a death trap where that they easily escape from. Dr. Evil is uh uh from Dr. Evil is upset that they were not able to get frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their friggin' heads and instead have to have mutated ill-tempted, ill-tempered sea bass. Um, Scott doesn't understand why he doesn't just kill them instead and that they can do it together. And then this is where Scott starts doing like he starts trying to talk, and then he's like, shh. I just started from here. It's like that's one of the best bits. Oh my god. Knock knock. Who's there? Shh. Scott. But shh, Dr. Evil, let me tell you a little story about a man named Shh. Shh. Even before you start, that was a preemptive shh. Now I've been the whole bag of shh with your name on it. It's it's the funniest movie ever. It's one of the funniest movies ever. Now trapped on a slow-moving platform, Vanessa comes up with the idea to use Foss. She pulls out the flaw, she's like, I get it, I bag too. Austin uses toothpaste to blind a man. Austin then lets the sea bass eat the henchman's head off. Austin. Now, not the not the time to lose one's head, Vanessa. No. Austin, that's not a way to get ahead in life, Vanessa knows. Austin, it's a shame he hasn't wasn't more headstrong, Vanessa.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:13

Stop it, please.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:15

Austin, he'll never be the head of a major corporation. Okay, that'll do. Just stop. So it's so good. So they escape. Power instructs her to get help, and he tells her he feels very bad about the Italian bird, then he's willing to be a woman, a one-woman man that um is like that's groovy, baby. Uh he then is at a dead end where he tries to turn around on a tiny cart.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:42

Also, such a good bit. It's like, how many bits? Here's the crazy thing, Jason. You think that that is a funny bit? It was like either last amazing race or two amazing races ago. What? They did this.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:02

What are you saying?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:03

A young, really like chaotic, dumb, like brother and sister group literally did this exact bit because we were watching it and they they pull into this dead end, right? And it's this narrow alley, and they go in, they're like, shit, how are we gonna get out of here? And instead of reversing and driving backwards, they literally back and forth and they do it, they're able to get out like a 20-point turn. No, no, Jason. I'm meaning it is so similar to what they did here. That it was like, I cannot believe that they probably spent an hour constantly moving back and forth in their car. It isn't I didn't think people actually did this, and then I saw it happen on TV. That's the beauty, it's the beauty of film. So good. Um, so yeah, Dr. Evo is preparing uh the Vulcan uh Vulcan, and he's in a ridiculous rubber suit, covers his entire body, goes to put up, he goes to put up his pinky, and like the whole suit comes. Up and it's like push it down and put a spinky up. He can't do it. Um, and then Austin meets the Finbot. Austin.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:09

They look like from Mars Attack.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:11

Yeah, they really do. It's very similar, yeah. Austin, who um is now under the control of Finbots because of whatever pheromones they release, has only one thing he can do. Strip in front of them to destroy them. Yeah, and then and do it in his timely Union Jack onions. Using his mojo. And I love whenever he's like under the control, he's trying to like snap out of it. He's like, Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day. Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day. Because she's old, right? Yeah. So um, and then yeah, so he essentially has to do a little dance. It's hilarious. He lights up a bunch of cigarettes, throws it in there thing. He's they explode exploding.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:46

So much they explode.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:47

It's such a good fit. And then um, so yeah, uh, then Vanessa, they walk in, and some of the men, Austin Power said, Wait, Vanessa, I can explain. You see, I was looking for Dr. Evil when the fin box came out, and smoke started coming out of their jump jumblies. So I started to work my mojo to counter their mojo. We got cross-mojoination, and their heads started exploding. It's like, and then she's like, I understand. And then they kind of go, and then like one of the men just keep looking at Austin Powers get. So Dr. Evil is about to launch the probe, but Austin and Vanessa arrive just in the nick of time to stop it. Austin goes to Dr. Evil, who's gonna be singing the Meow Mix song, looking for Mr. Bigglesworth. Mr. Bigglesworth, Meow Mix, Meow Mix. That's just that's just the funniest shit ever, right there. It's so good. Laughed out loud when I spell it. Seen this movie a billion times. So Dr. Evil tries to say that all the things he loved in the 60s are now evil. Austin tells him that they were still fighting again uh they're still fighting against evil squares like him. But Johnny walks in with a Vanessa at gunpoli. Scott walks in and Austin says he will kill him, and Dr. Evil tells him, just do it. And Scott runs away. I hate you, I hate you. I wish I was never artificially created in a lap. Dr. Evil, Scott, that hurts daddy when you say that, honestly. So good. Uh, just I don't know, man. Doctor, just the way he talks is Dr. Evil is so funny. It's so good. It's just kill him. Oh, Scott, that hurts my feelings. Then number two appears, betrays Dr. Evil because he's mad that Dr. Evil has ruined his company that he built. He's told me to, and offers to make a deal with Dr. Evil's cry awesome powers.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:37

I love it when he starts crying.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:38

It's so good. Uh, but Dr. Evil apparently kills number two and makes his escape back to his rocket, setting off the bases self-destruct system. Vanexa knocks out a lot of Vachina's unconscious and is unconscious and escapes with powers as their lair explodes. And it's like a like 1960s like film of a nuclear explosion, essentially. It's amazing. Uh so yeah. Sucks that it's coming to an end, but it is so powers and Vanessa are later married, where both Vanessa and Austin are naked or doing the naked bit. You got pineapples, spice rack, boo painting, gift, milk. The milk wing kills me. The balloon.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:20

That's boring. It's like right out of her boobs.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:25

Uh, but during their honeymoon, they are attacked by a random task with a shoe. Who throws a shoe? Honestly, you fight like a woman. Powers sedubes the assassin with his penis pump and the couple adorns to the balcony. Noticing a rather bright star, Powers pulls out a telescope to discover that is in fact Dr. Eagle's cryogenic chamber in which he vows revenge. And then uh during the credits, we get like the photographs of Vanessa at the end. God, can we stop laughing now? Yeah, we gotta end this. I got so hungry in the middle of that.

Why The Comedy Still Lands

SPEAKER_01 1:09:57

So uh the point of the movie is to make a smart, funny, spooky movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:02

But I think one of the things that I love about British movies or like British humor is they take mundane like tasks and experiences and just totally run away with them. Yeah, and just make them hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:17

It's so good. I mean, just like because like the Dr. Evil with his pinky nexus finger uh mouth, hilarious, right? But putting him in that ridiculous suit and then making them do it, and the suit pops up, it's one of the funniest things ever. And this movie does a great job with like a con comedy of threes. Yeah. The penis pump at the beginning. He pulls it out whenever he unpacks his thing, luggage, and then he uses it with it, right? And then Dr. Evil in his chair bit, he does it three times, and he kind of his bits are like in threes, and it's just Mike Myers, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:50

Uh is a mathematical comedy genius.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:54

To just go ahead and go into like the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. The good for me was Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley. So attractive in this movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:02

She is really great. Um yeah, I mean, like the good, I think it's just the British aspect. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:13

It's so funny because I was I I said British invasion. It's like like that we're kind of doing a British invasion thing. I'm like, half the like the it's Canadian. Yeah, he's Canadian, but like for sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:27

But yeah, I think they're trying to meld like British comedy into like a spoof kind of thing of 007, which is so good.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:36

They just put so many different like ideas in one pot and it just all worked. It's great. Um, for the bad I got nothing. I think it's a perfect. I really do. I don't I like there's I mean it's a it's a silly spoof, so like I don't know, it's not I never have any issues with it really, unless it just wasn't funny. And it's completely funny.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:57

I never really felt and like as far as ugly, like I never I mean, there's a lot of ugly shit like that comes with traveling through time from one age to another, but like Yeah, this is it's the bit.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:08

It's the bit of nothing, you dummies.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:12

But I feel like they kind of reconciled all of it. Yeah, you know, yeah, the misogyny, everything.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:17

Yeah, and they made it a lesson for the main character, yeah, right? Even though, like, you know, he's he still boned in his. Yeah, he's still it's like I mean, the He's still boned two generations. He's misogynistic because he has to be because James Bond was misogynistic.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:33

The most misogynistic. It's insane.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:36

So for the fine, I put uh Mike Myers, of course, in parodies. Love him.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:40

Yeah, man. Parodies are the shit, unless they're bad parodies. Yeah. Which sucks. Yeah. But I feel like these movies do a really great job because they add in things like choreography, great music. Um just they just they find these bits that have been done from the beginning of comedy, and they just hammer on them, and they hammer and they hammer and they hammer.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:06

And we really don't get comedies with characters like this anymore. Yeah. You know, it's like, I mean, honestly, he kind of killed it with Love Guru. Now everybody is just like an immature version of a real human being. Or it's just like situational comedies for like teenagers in these situations. Like you think about Super Bad and um Book Smart and just other comedies where it's like most comedies now are it's just people in their everyday lives, and there might be a really ridiculous, like an obnoxious person, and that's where the bits come from. But like our days of like drop dead Fred. Uh they're missing that the character.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:42

Yeah. The really distinguished like characterization of someone who is like this, like the all in on Yeah, and they have like silly jobs.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:54

Even like Fletch, he's like a a private eye, and it's like that's how he gets into the situations, or you know, just any of those movies like Chevy Chase, Martin Short, and Steve, like Steve Martin, his character is mentally insane, you know, and it's but for like now it's just like real people in real situations, and there's just humor around it, and the jokes are built in. It's funny because it's sad. Yeah. Um, and I'm completely blanking. I'm trying to think of the Martin Short film, Clifford. Have you ever seen Clifford, not the big red dog one, but where Martin Short is playing a child.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:30

No, I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:31

And he's just like, you so you just see this Martin, a tiny Martin Short character. Um, while I'm blanking on his name, one of my favorite comedian actors in it, who's just getting berated by this adult because Clifford is an insane child. We're gonna do that for this podcast, don't we? It's amazing. You're gonna be like, this is a bad movie, but it's so funny and kind of not bad. Yeah, I can't wait to see a bad movie. Yeah, all

Double Feature Recommendations

SPEAKER_01 1:14:54

right. So we're gonna do our double feature real quick. Um, it's where we recommend a movie to go alongside this movie. It's pretty well, I'll let you do yours first just in case I um need to change mine.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:05

No, I have one. It is a little documentary, kind of like mockumentary series.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:12

Oh, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:12

That is currently on Apple. Oh yeah. It is called Creature Comforts. Oh it is a British stop animation comedy documentary about animals. Oh my god. Oh my god. And it is incredible. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:27

Oh my god. Oh my god, I gotta watch that. You had me at British.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:34

No, but it's so good. That sounds amazing, Jason.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:38

That's on Apple.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:39

Creature Comforts currently is on Apple, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:43

Hell yeah. Well, I was gonna say Wayne's World, but I actually decided to change mine. It's called So I Married an Axe Murderer. Oh nice. That's his first one. And I haven't seen that one either. Oh, it's so good. It has the same actor that's in Clifford that I'm just gonna have to look up. Martin Schwart. No. Oh God, what is his name?

SPEAKER_05 1:16:01

He's also in um uh uh uh Midnight Run. Um God, what is his fucking name?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:14

Charles Groden. Oh shit. One of the funniest people ever. Nice. Um, but yeah, he's also in it and he has a great little scene. And uh it's just kind of uh a great first film for Mike Myers. Um so yeah, watch those definitely check out that Apple one. And if you've never seen Son Married and Axe Murder, it's great.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:31

It's also on Prime.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:32

Oh, cool.

Next Week Pick And Final CTAs

SPEAKER_01 1:16:34

Um, so yeah, that uh concludes this week's episode of Austin Powers, and we're not done with the Brits, baby. We're still coming at you because we're gonna do a movie, honestly, I've been wanting to do for a while. Um and it's Sean of the Dead. Yeah, it's you've got red on you. I think it's probably my second or third favorite zombie movie. So good. It's a huge chop off from there. Um, yeah, one of the one of the funniest, and honestly, has a great fucking two really great emotional parts in it that really work. And I can't wait to watch them. And we already did Hot Fuzz, uh, which is great. So if you haven't checked that out, go back and check that out. That's me, my wife, and Dakota on that one. And we eventually do at World's End, which people say is not that great. Um, and you guys are completely wrong if you say that. Because it is on par with the other two, I feel like. I haven't seen that world's end. Yeah, it's uh yeah. We'll we'll do it next year then. Um yeah, so join us next week for that. And thank you guys for listening. Please leave us fan mail, link in the description, email at the bottom. We recommend mailbag at gmail.com. Um, and it so yeah, you say stuff, we say it on the podcast.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:53

That's how it works.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:55

Some podcasts charge people to do that. Oh um, and um yeah, join us for that. Uh what am I? I'm uh follow us, like us, subscribe us, review us, reviewing us is probably the most helpful thing you can do in the world. So do that, please. And uh I'd like to thank Joey Prosser for intro and outro. You can follow him on X at Mr. Joey Prosser, and uh I've been Jesse Danger Powers.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:27

Until we make you horny, baby! Yeah