Episode 32 The 420 Episode feat. Up In Smoke and Half Baked

The 420-friendly bros, Dave & Christopher review 2 marijuana-based comedy classics; "Up In Smoke" from 1978 starring Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong and directed by Lou Adler and "Half Baked" from 1998 starring Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz, Harland Williams, and Jim Breuer and directed by Tamra Davis (**with a cameo by Tommy Chong as Squirrel Master!)

"Earache My Eye" © writers: Thomas Chong, Richard Marin and Gaye Delorme; performed by Alice Bowie

"If You Were Here" © writers: Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, and Joe Leeway performed by J.Christopher Thomas

"Ride Captain Ride "© writers: Mike Pinera, Frank "Skip" Konte  performed by Blues Image

Transcript

Up In Smoke

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Hello and welcome to Let's Go Get Some Ice Cream. The weekly film review podcast hosted by me, Dave, and my co-host Christopher. We worked together for several years at a small town movie theater, and ever since I've shared a lot of movies that have seen thousands over the years. We provide unique perspectives on some love of the movies that everybody's seen, and some you might have. But sure. If you're looking for a good movie or two to ensure that you've come to the right place, let's get started.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

First of all, we're doing an episode um Oh, yeah, 420. Kind of yeah, 420 episode, which kind of uh happened accidentally. Neither of us are really big partakers. I never have at all. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:43

But hey, to whoever whoever out there who does, good for you.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Yeah, no problem.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

We don't begrudge you.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

I haven't in like like sound effects. Computer show yeah. My uh memory is gone, so maybe I've done more than I thought. Right. No, it's years been years, decades or actually. So um yeah, so we thought we'd do like a 420 um centered episode, and we are gonna do the first movie we're gonna do is Up and Smoke. That was my choice. Um Up and Smoke is the first movie from Cheechin Chong. Um, I believe they had like maybe five or six of their career.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

Right. I think they did one more before that that was their sixth one, the last one they did recently.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Oh, that that's you're not talking about that documentary one or whatever. No, I think they uh they did an actual scripted movie, okay. Yeah, I know they did um a documentary on them reconciling with each other after all those years, which is kind of funny when you think about it. It's like these two stoners who were like so mellow, but yet they had this really bitter feud for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

I think the irony, the biggest irony is that Cheech Moran, in the beginning of their comedic act and all that, had never partook in pot. Oh, yeah. He didn't actually until after they had kind of like you said, broke up and then he started partaking later in life. But he himself admitted he goes, he wasn't a pothead. Wow. He is I mean, he does now recreationally, but so that's real acting.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

You should get an award for that.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

Yeah, he did. He was just acting like that.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Where's this Oscar?

SPEAKER_02 2:22

But like I was telling you just before we started this, I had heard their skits, and I'll say it. It was on eight-track. I didn't, you know, I know there's cassette, there's albums, but I actually heard it on an actual eight-track. Yeah. So a lot of like we were just saying a minute ago before the show, a lot of the stuff in the movies derived from their skit. Yeah. But someone in Hollywood came out and said, Hey. Lou Adler. Said hey. The producer, yeah. And the director, too. Mm-hmm. Said, Hey, you know what? Let's make a movie center around that. Yeah. It's funny you said that because I was just checking stats, and the they budgeted the movie for two million, and that's huge for a couple guys who were just comedians. I mean Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

And 1978, that's a lot of money.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Right. But the kicker is How much do they make? It grossed$104 million. That's obscene money, but even I mean, two million, I mean, that's kind of like clerks, those kind of independent films. I mean, I know they were more scale, but still, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

Put it in perspective, that's huge. Yeah, that's that's mind-boggling um profit. It's kind of surprising they didn't um, I guess uh that they didn't capitalize on it as much as I probably thought. If if a movie makes that much more than its budget, you would think Hollywood would come rushing and saying, Oh, let's get you in a 10-picture deal, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_02 3:41

They didn't really I mean they made movies, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

They made movies, but it wasn't like you know, like you would think, you know. There'd be some money behind them. Like the next movies looked basically the same. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same budget. Or they probably came with some excuse like, oh, well, that was a fluke, so we're still not gonna give you any money. Something happened, but they didn't they didn't take off the way I thought they probably should have.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

I'm guessing because that's still a taboo thing, it was illegal back then. That's why. I mean, you don't want to condone it technically, but you do because you just made a ton of green off of it.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Yeah, but but money's always been in the production. So right.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

I know what you're getting at.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Yeah. So that that never stops anybody from their morals. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

Hollywood, are you kidding?

SPEAKER_00 4:19

Uh that's what I was saying. So, oh, we can't take this money because this marijuana's illegal, that's not a thing. Oh, yeah. It must have been something else. Must have been like maybe Adler wanted more money or something.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

Maybe even they wanted more money, and they're like, uh no. But I mean, who doesn't? You just made the studio.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

Right. You know, I agree with you. You nickeled and dime dust, we made this huge hit, and now we need to renegotiate like any normal person would do. Right. And they probably were like, uh, well, we need to see more first of something. Yeah. In all fairness, they the if that's what happened, the studios are probably right, because the next movies after that were not so great. Was it Nice Dreams? Uh The Corsican Brothers at some point. That was terrible.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

I mean, it had one funny scene in it, but yeah, over a day.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Yeah, it was like, oh no, these guys, they don't have they had one or two good movies in them, and that's that's about it. But they're very funny. So Yeah. It is what it is. Okay, so anyway, let me skip the synopsis here. Um is a Buddy Stoner comedy film directed by Lou Adler in his directorial debut and starring Cheech Marin or Marin? Marin? Marin Marin, I've heard it pronounced. Cheech Marin.

SPEAKER_02 5:32

Marin.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Tommy Chong, Tom Scarrot. It's kind of funny. Oh God. Uh don't look at his Stacey. Don't look at his birthmark. Casey Keach. Yeah, uh, yeah. Don't look at it. Smoke? What's a smoke? Uh that's gotta be one of his first roles because he went on to be more of an actor. Tom Scarrot. Scarrot. Yeah, I not like fancy fancy, but I mean he won mysterious roles after this. What?

SPEAKER_02 5:56

Right after this, he went into Alien.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

He was in Dallas. Anyway, uh Chief Chinchong had been a counterculture comedy team for about 10 years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film. Most of the film was shot in LA, including scenes set in Tijuana. Uh while scenes set on the Mexican border were actually filmed at the border in Yuma, Arizona. Uh well, negatively received upon its release, Up and Smoke grossed over 104 million of them thangs. Them things. Wow. It's credited with establishing the Stoner film genre, which is like that's I didn't think about that. I guess it is.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

There's not it's not a big genre, but I mean I mean, I guess like we were saying, not to cut you off. No. But there's hints of movies that but this is a full-blown on Marijuana. You're right. Yes. I mean this dude, where's my car? Is that right?

SPEAKER_00 6:45

They were were they stoners? They were just stupid.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Oh, were they? But they seem like they were stoners. But yeah, this was just an out and out actual stone. Carolyn Kumar, that's definitely one of them, at least was. And those were later, but yeah, you're you're right.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

This is the But I mean, as far as establishing the genre of the they are the first, I know, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

Give them credit for that.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

Yeah, I didn't think about that. Um considered a cult classic. In 2024, the film was selected for preservation of the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. That's funny. I think it's that's fair. I mean, I don't know, I mean I think it's it did I mean, even if it just established that genre of film, which is not again not a big film, not a big genre, and not super important or anything in the course of film history, still it's I mean you don't see things that are um what's the word truly innovative. Right. True that like I'm starting something, I'm making something out of nothing, and then you guys are gonna see it and want to emulate it. That you don't see that too often.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

But to touch back on what you were saying, because we look at the influence they had, right? Because look at uh Ice Cube and Friday, right? That whole movie. I mean, that's a that's a whole nother we could do another podcast on that. But that is true.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

There is no Friday without this, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:01

Right. So it's uh so yeah, that's put into you know what was that you just said about the Congress or the Library of Congress, yeah. Right. That's saying something. And I mean, yeah, uh again, I don't care what people do and they're part, you know, their time, that's cool. But it's just the fact that this started it.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Yeah. It's amazing. But United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Right. Just a couple years back, actually. Well, I'll read the um a little bit of the plot here from Wikipedia, but I'm not gonna read this whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Um Chong's character plays a guy named Man. I don't remember. I know, it's weird Anthony. Anthony Man's donor. An unemployed marijuana-spoking drummer who's told by his dad. That that whole first scene is just hilarious. Because I don't know, I didn't look it up how old Tommy Chong was at this point. He looks like he's gotta be 30-ish.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Yeah, if not close to 40.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

But yet he's living at home with his dad. Was it guys or Martin or something? Yeah. Anyway, his dad's like giving him shit about going and getting a job, picking strawberries or bananas or something. Right, son.

SPEAKER_11 9:07

Your mother and me would like for you to cozy up to the Fingelstein boy.

SPEAKER_10 9:11

He's uh he's a bright kid, and uh he's going to military school and remember he was an Eagle Scout and uh Will you shut up We're not gonna have a family roll and a retop.

SPEAKER_09 9:25

We put up with a hell of a lot this way build your goddamn muscles, huh? You know, you can build your muscles picking strawberries like Mexican Maybe I can get you a job with United Fruit.

SPEAKER_08 9:45

I got everybody with United Fruit. Get you started.

SPEAKER_10 9:49

Start with strawberries, you might work your way up to these goddamn bananas!

SPEAKER_08 10:08

I think he's the antichrist. And I wanna talk to you.

SPEAKER_10 10:13

Now listen, don't walk away from me when I'm talking to you. You get a goddamn job before sundown, or we're shipping you off to military school with a goddamn Fingelstein shit, kid. Son of a bitch!

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Anyway, he's told to either get a job by sundown or be sent off to military school. That's not even military school. He's like 30 something.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

He's actually to answer your question, he was about 39 when he made the film.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Go to military school. He's 39. Right. But he's supposed to be playing he's supposed to be like a teenager or something or a young 28. Right. College, I guess. That's so funny. Yeah, he looks at nine. Uh anyway, um, so he's kicked out of the house, basically, where he leaves, takes his drums with him. It's important at important plot point, and there aren't very many plot points, I can tell you that. Uh he's picked up while hitchhiking by uh stoner Pedro the Pacas, who's uh Cheech Marin's character. Well, the way he picks him up because he fools him.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

He's uh he has fake, fake breasts.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

Well, he's trying to hit well uh Chee Marin's character is trying to pick up those two chicks in his low rider.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

Yeah. Let me let me just say uh sorry to cut you off. No, no, you're so I should have said at the beginning this movie is the most politically incorrect movie that I think we will ever review. I can't think of any that are that are uh more product a product of their time than this. Than this, yeah. There's a lot of stuff in here that's not that would not fly. That actually would not fly today. Uh yeah, so it's still funny. I'm sorry to interrupt you.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

You're good.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

No, that's that's that's he's trying to pick up the two girls, and I mean girls pretty much. They look really young. They were younger, too.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

I mean, I uh I would say they were maybe 18.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Let's say 18, 19 or 10. I want to say legal age, but he's still probably 40.

SPEAKER_02 12:14

It's close to age of Tommy Chong, right.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

Yeah, can't do that nowadays.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

Oh no. You slap down your honor.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

Yeah. But anyway, yeah, he's trying to pick up these two girls, they turn them down, and then he sees uh man with his uh huge fake breast and uh goes to pick him up, and that's how the Chichonchong they meet, basically. Right. Um, and like I said, uh man has his drums with him. It come turns it comes out in conversation that um uh Pedro is a singer in a band. Right. And they don't have a drummer, so things work out nicely, yeah. Okay, so anyway, um in their first meeting, um Pedro he tries to get he tries to get him high, tries to get man high, and he has a little wheedly little joint or whatever. And then man one-ups him with that giant, I don't know, like a football or whatever. Yeah, he's like, holy crap. I remember that's from my childhood, that's like that joint was like God, when we were that was more in a black high school, it was like, ah, that's so funny. Look at the size of that joint. It's it's so ridiculous, so immature and ridiculous, but it's just at the time it was hilarious. Right. But it's this giant joint, like the size of almost a small football.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

And uh they smoke it, and of course they get super high, and that's pretty much one of the first scenes that sets the tone for the movie from there. Oh, yeah, from there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 13:40

What kind of joint is this, man?

SPEAKER_06 13:42

Oh, it's a heavy duty joint, man.

SPEAKER_07 13:44

It looks like a toothpick, man.

SPEAKER_06 13:46

No, it's not a toothpick, man.

SPEAKER_07 13:48

Hey, it is a toothpick, man.

SPEAKER_06 13:51

Oh man, it's just a toothpick. I must have got it in the other pocket, man. Hold on, man. I got the bullshit right here, man. Oh, that's my dick. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, there you go, man. Let that sucker up, man. Go through the moon. Hey, man, you wanna get out and walk, man? Hey, you wanna get high, man? That's how they do they got wooden balls, man.

SPEAKER_07 14:24

I got a joint here, man. I've been saving for a special occasion. Well, hey, I hope the drums don't mess up your upholstery, man.

SPEAKER_06 14:33

Nah, I'm in a band too, man. Oh, are you? Yeah, I'm a lease here, man. Ah, that's it. Yeah, we play everything from like Santana to El Chicano, man. You know, like everything. Hey, I'm just a little machine, and I don't work for nobody but you. I'm just a little machine, and I don't work for nobody but you. And then I say wacamole machines. Wacamoli match you.

SPEAKER_05 15:09

Is that a joint man?

SPEAKER_06 15:14

Like a quarter pounder, man. Let's leave. Heavy girl with that shit, man. Is it heavy stuff, man? Will it blow me away? I've been smoking since I was born, man. I can smoke anything, man. You know, like I smoke that Michael Khan, man, I could go gold, man. I even smoke that tight stick, you know. Tide stick? You know that stuff is tied to a stick, you know. I could probably smoke this whole joint, man, and still walk away, man. Wouldn't be no problem at all, man.

SPEAKER_07 15:57

Joke it out, man. Gonna grab you by the boo-boo, don't we? What? Mostly Maui Wowie, man. Yeah. But it's got some Labrador in it. What's Labrador? It's dog shit. What? Yeah, my dog ate my stash, man. Had it on the table and the little motherfucker ate it, man. Yeah. So I had to follow him around a little baggie for three days before I got it back. Really blew the dog's mind. You mean we're smoking dog shit, man?

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Um Pedro starts to freak out because you get paranoid from marijuana, right? And um, man gives him some pills. Oh yeah. Yeah, and so again, can't do that now. Turns out to be acid and LSD or something, and then it's like seven of our goes off the rails. Right. Hey man, you just took the most acid of anyone I've ever seen. Uh uh, you know, again, I'm not gonna try to describe this stuff because it's way more funny to see it. Right. But um that first scene of them in the car, both of them being high, and then all of a sudden you throw the police in, the police pull up on them, and it's just comedy gold. Really. I mean, it's a great scene. Anyway, uh the rest of the plot is so from there, um they try to get more marijuana. They're just that's all they do. They just want to smoke more. Yeah, even though they have that huge joint, they still want more. Right. So they go to uh Pedro's cousin Strawberry, played by Tom Scarry. The Vietnam War veteran. God. Uh he has a birthmark on his face. Don't look at it. Don't look at it. What do I mean? Don't stare at it. Hey, what are you looking at? Uh uh. Just thinking about it makes me laugh. Oh my god. They're going up to Strawberry's house and Pedro says, hey man, don't look at his birthmark. And he goes, Hey, man, I'm not gonna look at his birthmark, man. You know, I'm not gonna look at it, and then next thing you know, he sees Tom Scary's character and he just stares at him for the whole five minutes. Tom Scary gets freaked out. What are you looking at? Nothing. No, I wasn't looking at his birthmark, man.

unknown 18:23

He freaks out.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

He freaks out. Oh my god. That's all right. Anyway, uh Tom Scary doesn't like uh man. He they get off on the wrong foot, obviously. Right. He takes uh Pedro to go get some um marijuana, and in the meantime, uh his house gets raided with man still in it. Well, because Stacy Keach is there are part of the room. That's when we meet Stacy Keach.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

Right, and he has that dang the zipper on the side of the van. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

It's he has a like a laundry van or something. Something. And on the side of the van there's a pair of pants and the zipper they can open. It's an actual zipper. Right. And you can open it. It's a peephole. Right. It's like they are the worst cops ever. Oh, man. Just thinking about that. It's funny. But there's like Stacey Keats and three other dudes. I can't think of their names offhand right now, but they they all basically ride in the same car. It's just hilarious. Uh Stacy Keats is there. It's kind of like the three students, but there's four of them. Right. Stacy Keats' Moe and he kind of slaps them around. Anyway, um, so they they get raided. The house gets raided, then what happens?

SPEAKER_02 19:24

They um Well before they get raided, Strawberry notices, oh, there's a any because he takes he's on a bike, right? And he has that little sidecar. And then uh Pedro's in the sidecar now, and he he jumps out, they're raiding my house.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

And he Yeah. Well, he's still on that whatever, that Vietnam trip or whatever. If you need air support, call it in. He jumps off he jumps off the motorcycle with with Pedro's still in it on the sidecar. Pedro crashes, and then he tries to get he tries to rescue man from getting arrested. Caught up in the raid. Mann has locked himself out of the house, so he's you know kind of you know, yeah, backed himself into being free somehow. Um they end up escaping, but then they go to the next place, and then the immigration gets called.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

Yeah, La Migra.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

La migra, yeah. Um they get deported. Yeah, then they get deported, and he goes, Oh, it's no problem. You don't worry about the immigration. You're fine as long as you have you don't have you have a green card. And he doesn't they don't have green cards, but they get deported. Um once they get in Tijuana, um Pedro tries to find a way home. He uh what he he calls his uncle or something like that and says, Pick up this upholstery from me or something like that. Well they get the address wrong, so they yeah, they get the they get the number wrong by one. It's just so happens there's two upholstery shops right next to each other. One's 1811, some street, and other one's 1817. He's like, they're eating burritos or whatever, and he gets like burrito all over the the address that's written down. A napkin, right. Is that a one or seven? No, let's go to this one. And then they go to the wrong one. They're actually a front for a weed operation where they're making a van out of weed. Well, because Stacy Keats is not to I'm just interjecting that.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Yeah, he shows his crew how oh, they're gonna bring in, oh, they're gonna smuggle in through the TV. No, the TV is That's right. That's right. And he shows them the background of it, and that's where we see this. We catch up and they are making literally fiber weed, that's what it is.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

He's given showing a little documentary on fiberweed. So it's like the spray that you can uh plastic or something.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

It hardens and it comes uh because they take the actual and they put it in a chemical form of a liquid form, and that's when they get the fiberweed, like you're saying.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Nowadays we'd call it 3D printing or something like that. But same but it's out of out of weed. Right. Yeah. So uh they make a van out of weed. Unbeknownst to the two. Another high school classic. We just thought that was the funniest thing ever. It was like a van out of weed, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

Well, they don't even know that it is. They just take the van 'cause that's they think that's his uncle's shop.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Oh, I gotta take you know. Yeah. Well, whatever. Take this van, okay, cool, whatever. No questions, just do it. Yeah. As long as they have some weed themselves. Right. And along the way, I'm telling you these basic plot points, and again, it's it's a very loose plot. But there's all these little um excuse me, little I don't want to say one-linage, but little skits, little jokes. Right. You can tell are from their skit. They're actual skits. They throw them in here and there. So there's a scene where they eat the burritos and uh Pedro gets uh diarrhea, whatever. Oh, I gotta go. Let's dig together. Sting together. I hope that's a fart. Oh squeeze your cheeks. The stupid stuff like that. This is hilarious. That has nothing to do with anything. But it just throw it in there, yeah. It's just funny. Right.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Yeah. It has nothing to do with anything. And um, I mean, unfortunately, we can all relate to Pedro where we've had that, oh crap, oh crap, you know.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

Stay together, stay together.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Oh God. Yeah, and it's weird. And it's like he goes to the st he finally finds the bathroom, and there's a guy in the stall who's all tied up with the toilet paper in his mouth.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Yeah, it's like, what is happening? Oh, okay, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

It's nuts. So anyway, okay, so they're in the van. Now they gotta take the van back to LA. Right. They get back in the van. Uh S Sodenko is now on their trail. That's another side thing.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

That's the Stacy Keats character.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

Stacy Keach and his uh three merry men. But what's funny about that dynamic, that part of comedy, and I've said this before, is like when someone who's stupid thinks they're smart, that is hilarious. So that's Stacy Keach's character. He's incompetent as all get out, but yet he's got these three underlings, and he thinks they're the problem, you know, and they're kind of all like incompetent. They're all fucking. Yeah, but that's the funny part about it.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

He just thinks because he's more regimented that he's the smartest guy in the whole block.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Right. Right. I love the scene like shoot the tires out, and Harry shoots he shoots his own car's tire out. That's classic. And then he yells at him, God damn it, Harry. And then next thing you know, my other favorite scene I have to say, is like they're they're all in the same police car, and and Stacy Keats is in the front and the other three are all in the back. They're all in trouble. Oh he's been yelling at all of them. It's just funny. Over the course of the movie, you see which ones are in the doghouse. Right. I think it's three in the front at one point, and then the one guy in the back. Harry, right. Oh my god. That just cracks me. And that again has nothing to do with the plot. It's just But it it's it's just funny. It's just funny shit. It just adds to it.

SPEAKER_02 24:21

It kind of has, I guess, a vague attachment to the plot, but it's just Well, they all want her uh what's the name, Sidenko's adjuration, right? They want him to be accepted. Right. And this shows, oh, okay, here okay, sorry, Sergeant.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

But they're so stupid. Yeah, and he says like the marijuana is gonna be worth like nine billion dollars. Come on, bro.

SPEAKER_02 24:41

I mean, that's over exaggeration. But in perspective.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

Well, four billion?

SPEAKER_02 24:48

No. Nine billion. I mean, I'm sure because that was one of the biggest industries back then, illegally. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

I mean, I agree with you, that's a bit overstatement, but nine billion for like a single van of uh I mean, it's not even well, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 25:03

I was gonna say it's not even made out of weed, but then it even it exhausts exudes the uh the Yeah, it burns the yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

It burns the quarter panel, whatever, which gets people high around it. Especially that one cop. Oh, yeah, the dog. Okay. Oh god. Yeah, so anyway, uh, so they're taking the van back across the border. Um there's a scene where Stadenko gets on their trail because he's hadn't had a clue before that, and now he's on their tail. So he's following them into um back into the into the States, and then on the way, they're Stadenko's just about to catch them, but then they see the two hike hitchhiking ladies. Right. And they pull like this crazy U-turn or whatever, right? Or and then they and then Stadenko can't follow him, and he go ends up straight, it's a highway, so it's right. He has to go down whatever several miles. Anyway, they get they get lost.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

And this adds the plot too, because those two one is says there's gonna be some battle of the bands and at the Roxy, right?

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Yeah, they're going back to LA and there's gonna be a battle of the bands at the Roxy, yeah. Yeah, like you said Zane Gray and Wally, something or other? Yeah. Anyway, um, these two women tell them there's gonna be this battle of the bands and the Roxy, so they say, now we're gonna do that. Now you you're a drummer, I'm a singer. Yeah, this comes into the play with yeah, we'll do this battle of the bands. And that's a whole other, you know, that you know, crusade into LA is a whole other, you know, offshoot of all these other side, you know, jokes or whatever. Um, you know, they go to the police station and and they have like this woman who works with them or whatever, who's kind of like she gives them stuff out of the evidence room.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

Oh yeah. She's a cop, right? Yeah. I was gonna say real quick, the Battle of the Bands is actually for punk music.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Also, that you know, it's for my god, that's that's the whole nother that scene is hard to hard to sit through, but that was the 70s.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

That was in 78. That's probably the heyday kind of of punk music.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Beginning, right.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

Yeah, so um, anyways, yeah, so they have these adventures, whatever, they end up making it to the Roxy. They have their um, they call it the rock fight or whatever. Right. Battle of the band. Even in the parking lot, there's other, you know, there's you know, the whole thing about the sex noises and the vans. So uh it's insane. But anyway, they go to the rock the the battle of the bands, they participate, and there you have it.

SPEAKER_02 27:30

And I mean, even the song they play is crazy. Era ache my eye. And then what's the name comes out in a tutu? Uh Pedro.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Pedro, yeah. Oh, they're called Alice Bowie, that's right. Alice Bowie is the name of their band. Wow. Yeah, so like you said, it's a punk, it's a contest for punk bands, and Chief is basically like, come on, man, we can do that. We call you to do is be a punk. And so he kind of goes around, sees what other bands are doing, and says, Okay, I'm gonna call it an Audible, and we're gonna write a song on the spot, and it's just, you know, it's a good thing. Tell me how to live. So it's pretty I mean, for what it was. Yeah, that they actually have the best song. Although you can tell it's produced and all that. That's okay, but still. Because the other band, there's like they show three bands or something, and they're live, and it's like, ooh. Oh man, that's awful.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

I'm sure you've seen enough of those in your real life.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

Not that bad. That I don't know how because at the end they were credited, and I can't remember what the names or the bands were. Right, it was almost like, oh, we're crediting these bands because they're gonna do something or whatever, and it's like, no.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

They might have purposely played bad just to fit.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

No, maybe it didn't seem like it. The one woman where it's like the guy who's like, he's playing drums, he's kind of like sideways, and the woman's just dancing in front of him. I know what the hell is that? Oh, what is this? And there's one band that literally makes a mistake and they stop the song. Oh, yeah. And they're kind of looking at each other and then just changes scenes. And then Alex Bowie comes out, they got their horn section and it's all like nice sound and everything. It's like, oh wow. Wow. Yeah. So anyway, that's uh that's the movie.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

Oh, but it's uh like I said, I had never seen it as my first time.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

And like I told you, I bought movies because I thought now that I don't work, I'm retired, I would you know, watch them and that was catch up. Right. Yeah. Cause I mean, I was telling you I remember when I was younger, we were at the drive-in. Yeah. Yes, those things do ex still exist here and there. But I had to go to the bathroom, and there's there was usually around some theaters, like uh drive-ins had like six screens, and at the time we lived in the Bay Area, so as I was walking, you'd look at the other screen to see what was playing. And coincidentally, this was playing.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

They used to have like a big sixplex drive-in that we would go because it was cheaper, but that was fun. But I just remember looking, you'd stop and Yeah. And there was no sound, right? No, you could I mean, unless people had it so Right.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

I mean, like if you're standing outside looking at the screen, you can't hear it.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

Yeah, because they usually have the speaker inside the window and all that. But yeah, but you could still see it.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Right, right, right, right. But yeah. Yeah, that's cool. I mean, it this movie brought back some good memories. I mean again, I'm gonna say again, this movie is very politically incorrect. I personally don't mind that. Me either. Um so yeah, I had I had fun watching it. It's fun. It's a good movie. Oh, um, what are the ratings here? I I know it's like had like a 45 on Rotten Tomatoes, something like that. Shows how much they know. I told you. Yeah, they give it a 45%.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

And it's based from 20 critics only, so what does that tell you? Yeah. Again, like I said, it's very subject to it.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

Hebrew gave it a half star.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

Yeah, what does he know? He's but I mean, it's all subjective, you know. But I think it's hilarious. What'd they say? Adler lets the film degenerate into a mixture of fitful slapstick and toilet humor. That's what your boy said there. Yeah. Gene Siskel gave the film ha half of one star. That was Gene Siskel. So I mean they both did? That was what it says here, Gene Siskel. So that might have been Siskel that I mean, that quoted the the the humor, toilet humor. I guess that wasn't his thing. Oh well.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

His loss.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

I can see that. I mean, to be fair, I mean I don't know. I mean, it's it this is not everybody's cup of tea. I'm not saying that at all. Right, right. I don't know. I'm not saying that it's you know, it to me it's funny. I didn't I didn't take that seriously back then, I don't take it seriously now.

SPEAKER_02 33:00

Exactly. So I guess that's our whole point, is that that's just some things are just watch, laugh, don't get too caught up, don't try to make it more than it is. Right. That's all we're saying. I mean, like I said, it's subjective because some people are gonna live it, some people aren't.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

And like you said, if you don't, don't watch it. So, yeah, so that's all I have for this one.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

That's really all I just like I said, it was a fun movie. Revisiting, it brought back memories. It's fun to go down memory lane once in a while, and that's what's nice about this show and kind of going through these movies. You have to relive and like, oh yeah, it takes you back.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

Yeah.

Half Baked

SPEAKER_02 33:35

Yeah, that's all I have to say.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

Cool.

unknown 33:37

All right.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

Hey, sorry to interrupt, but if you're enjoying reviews, please take a second to like, rate, and subscribe to our podcast. We'd really appreciate it. And now back to the reviews.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Next one I picked, Half Baked. Half baked. I had and again, another one I hadn't seen, and I thought I bought it because You didn't see this one either?

SPEAKER_00 34:03

No. This so this week was the first time you saw both these movies.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Well, I mean, I saw Half Baked because before we decided we were gonna do this 420 thing. I had watched it previously with Mystery Man.

SPEAKER_00 34:12

But I but no, I hadn't So not this week technically, but I'm my point is you're just needing it now this month. Okay, yeah. Yeah, because it's been out for a while, right?

SPEAKER_02 34:21

It's 1998. Yeah. I know, 28 years, Chris.

SPEAKER_00 34:24

You haven't seen every movie? I don't understand.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

I know what are you waiting on? Well, I did now. Yeah. I am catching up. I'll just read this real quick. Halfbake is a 1998 American stoner comedy film starring Dave Chappelle, Jim Brewer, Harlan Williams, and Guillermo Diaz. The film was directed by Tamara Davis, co-written by Chappelle and Neil Brennan and produced by Robert Simmons. Halfbake was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on January 16th, 1998. It received negative reviews and it grew 17.5 million off a$8 million budget. I mean, it doubled its money, so that's not really a loss. I mean, it's not really and comp in comparison now that we just did the Up and Smoke, think about it. That's what four times the budget? Yeah. It's interesting to see that. I mean, I it doubled its money, but I guess that even then in Hollywood, that's considered uh I didn't because it should have done more. And I'm guessing since we were just speaking on that, I wonder if obviously Chappelle was influenced by Up and Smoke. I'd have to read more about it. Oh, I'm sure, yeah. You know, I know Friday for 20 years later. Right. Friday came out early 90s, so this was part of that. Um, this is really the plot is four lifelong stoners and friends, Thurgood, Scarface, Brian, and Kenny live together in New York City. Thurgood Thurgood is a Jenner at a medical lab, orders some weed from Samson, the famous local dealer, and the four smoke it. I mean, that's really the crux of it. They're really stoners. Dave Chappelle, Thur Thurgood, and the the crux of the story also is when they get high, they decide they get the you get the munchies, right? So they send their boy Harlan Williams, Kenny, to go get their food, and they're all listing these outrageous things. He goes, Anything else?

SPEAKER_01 36:13

Get some sour cream and onion chips with some dip, man, some beef jerky, some peanut butter, get some Hagen Doss ice cream bars, a whole lot of hot makes you chocolate. Gotta have chocolate, man. Some popcorn, bread popcorn, graham crackers. Graham crackers with the marshmallows, little marshmallows, and little chocolate bars. We'll make some s'mores, man. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Bush is celery, grape jelly, uh cafe crunch with blue crunch berries, peaches. We need two big pizzas, man. Everything on them with water, a whole lot of water, and that's it.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

Oh, I forgot to interject that we see them as they're young and how they get they've been friends forever.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

That's right. When they were kids, yeah. That's kind of cute too.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

Right. And then as they get older, I mean I gotta remember because Jim Brewer character, did he even work really? Because the other three do. They're a good CJ.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

He's just like a hippie, just wears that same like shirt, the tight day shirt all the time.

SPEAKER_02 37:20

And I'll say this.

SPEAKER_00 37:22

Oh no, he works at the record store. Oh, that's right. He does. They all work. I mean seven dollars for a used Kenny Loggins record. Oh, it's sign. Uh give me four dollars.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

I mean, they're all just regular guys who live in this I don't know, it's a apartment in New York City.

SPEAKER_00 37:42

Yeah, right. It probably would take four guys to pay for that.

SPEAKER_02 37:45

Oh, yeah, easily. I mean, Chappelle and Harlan Williams are the ones that obviously make the most of the money because Scarface or Gimmel Diaz works at a fast food place.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

That's a classic scene, too.

SPEAKER_02 37:56

It's just it's interesting to see them. But anyway, skipping ahead or skipping all over the place. Kenny goes to buy the food and he's out there, and uh all of a sudden a cop comes up and he gets arrested.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

Uh um, what do you call it? A horse? Oh yeah, he's riding a horse. And he gave the horse.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Didn't he give the horse wheat or something like that?

SPEAKER_00 38:17

He he ate all the groceries. They all that shit that uh Brian told him to buy, all that food, he had two bags, oh, that's right, and two, three pizzas underneath. He gave it all to the horse. That's right. That's right. Popcorn and shit. And then a pizza and the horse died. The horse just farts and then and fli falls over dead.

SPEAKER_02 38:35

Officer down! Officer down You murdered a cop. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 38:43

Um yeah, so he gets thrown in jail, and now he's you know, because he's I guess what I mean is now he's a cop killer. Right. He killed a horse. It's not a person. But they think a person.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

That the public thinks, oh, he actually killed a right. He's a cop killer? Wow. So he gets thrown the book at him and he's trying to get out because he's never done time. Right. Can he's like he's gonna get Yeah, you know, the Yeah. They're waiting for him.

SPEAKER_00 39:05

Yeah. He's a kindergarten teacher, so yeah. Nerdy kindergarten teacher. So he's and his friends are forced to raise his bail. I forget what it was. It was like a million bucks. Yeah. I guess that would be right for cop killer. Right. So they have to raise a hundred thousand dollars and they're all like have broke shitty jobs.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

They're all there, they get their money, and I think Jim Brewer's like, I got like change or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

And yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:29

And then somehow Thurgood gets in. Well, he's at a he's a janitor, and one of the scientists, hey, go down there and get this weed, right? Just have them sign out, and he's like, and then he comes up like ding.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

Yeah. They're doing experiments for the Food and Drug Administration.

SPEAKER_02 39:43

Right.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

And then he says, Yeah, go down there and pick up some weed for me, and it's like the super pure.

SPEAKER_02 39:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00 39:48

Supposedly, I always heard that when I was growing up. The military has this all per pure strains of every drug you can imagine. Oh, if you could just break in, you know, blah, blah, blah. And that kind of urban legend thing. And they might do it, I don't know. I know, right? But in this case, yeah, the guy just hands him this pure strain of marijuana, like a pound, like half a pound or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 40:06

Yeah, and he's like, okay, and then he takes it, and then he realizes that's when he gets the idea we can sell this.

SPEAKER_00 40:11

We'll be we'll be deep. Yeah, we'll sell this, we can raise the money for uh was it Kenny? Kenny's Bale. Right.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

Yeah. And along the way, he meets, ironically enough, and funny enough, a girl named Mary Jane. Mary Jane. The lovely, beautiful looking Rachel Drew. Yeah. Oh my. That's two movies, right? That we've learned.

SPEAKER_00 40:30

Mm-hmm. CB4 in this. Oh my God, she is she he does meet her, and I just want to say, just to interject, this was I guess Chappelle had written a draft of this movie without her. With no um female. I think this is more of a studio note, like you need a yeah. And I guess all things considered, didn't it doesn't detract. I mean, I don't mind the story. It's not nearly necessary, but I can see either way, right. Yeah. It doesn't hurt, but I don't know that it helps all that much either.

SPEAKER_02 41:01

Right.

SPEAKER_00 41:02

Because the premise of that the love story is like he's a big smoker and she's anti-weed, which is not a thing. It just seems like like of um it seems kind of like made up. Kind of for I mean, not kind of a good word, yeah. It is forced. My grandmother died of lung cancer. Like, who says that? And like as I was thinking, like, when her dialogue's not that great when they're meeting her for the first time. They meet her. I guess that was my point. Was the premise of her being in the movie is that she's trying to get Thurgood to get off of drugs. Right. And I feel like they have maybe three scenes in the whole movie.

SPEAKER_03 41:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:36

So it's kind of like you could have just left that out and not there is a funny scene though with them, which is true, right?

SPEAKER_02 41:42

The date? The the dollar amount and how that's funny. Now that's funny.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

That is good. That's what I was saying.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

I could see that being in the movie where he actually goes on a date. That could be it.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

Right.

SPEAKER_02 41:53

That would be enough, right? And he's like, oh no, I ain't going out, you know.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

Yeah, but it yeah. But not having the woman be a part of the cast or necessarily. It could have been like just an adventure he had or whatever. Right.

SPEAKER_02 42:04

And he was like, Oh, I'll never go out. That's too much money.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

And to be fair, that when they meet her, that there there is some funny lines, but not from her necessarily, from the dudes like trying to fuck it up. Everyone's like, Yeah, man, we want to burn one. He says, Meet Mary Jane. Yeah, yeah, we want to burn her for work, man. No, this is Mary Jane. Right. That's funny. Yeah. But that again. And they're giving him shit, like, you know.

SPEAKER_02 42:27

That was good for that. It wasn't like in the hole. But it would be good.

unknown 42:30

Right.

SPEAKER_00 42:31

That's like that shit is really funny.

SPEAKER_02 42:33

That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

That's juvenile, and that's yeah, that's that's what your dudes would do. Right. At least that that age, yeah. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

So they're still caught up. Mary Jane comes in, but they're still trying to raise us money. Right. Now Thurgood has gotten away to go down there and sign the thing, get the pot. Right. And then they in the course of the di the uh plot, they decide to go and really rate it one night because they're like, oh, it won't be. Why do they do that? Because they they needed Well, because now um Samson steps in and says, You need to give me twenty three a week.

SPEAKER_00 43:09

You're stepping in my territory. That's what would happen, right? You probably wouldn't even get that far before someone would be.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

Because they go to parties and they're passing, they do those little baggies and they're Yeah, their card, Mr.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

Nice Guy.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

Don't they make it edible too? Isn't that what they do?

SPEAKER_00 43:21

Oh, I they might have, but it's funny. They go to the party, right? They're handing them out and then they go back out to leave and everyone's like floating. Yeah. This guy is like, God damn, this weed is good. The scientific weed or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 43:34

Man, it's it's hilarious. The movie, like I said, first time watching it.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:39

There's some really funny scenes. Jim Brewer, he has that face. Even today, as an he still has that Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:46

I was like, did he was he really a stoner? Is that just his face?

SPEAKER_00 43:50

Well, it's funny. There he he told a story about um we came from SNL or whatever. Right, I remember. And I guess one of the weeks they had Jack Nicholson was the guest. Oh yeah. And Jack Nicholson Was giving him shit because he thought, like, are you hot? Like, he's like, is this guy hot? Is he okay? Like, right. Jack Nilson legitimately thought, like he has that face. Yeah, like partying a little bit too much, buddy. And he's like, he's like, what? This is my face. It's like that's how I look. He's like, okay, sure, yeah. Right. And he kind of was like, you know, you need to like lighten up, buddy. Right. SNL does have a you know reputation of having drug addictions.

SPEAKER_02 44:23

Oh yeah, I've heard that's another podcast for the future. Yeah, I just looking at Jim Brewer and he always had that face. That's fine.

SPEAKER_00 44:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:29

It's funny you bring that up because it's like, so I'm not the only one.

SPEAKER_00 44:32

Yeah. Even Nicholson thought he was high for real, and he's like, whoa, what am I what am I walking into here?

SPEAKER_02 44:37

But yeah, Samson basically extorts money out of them.

SPEAKER_00 44:40

Then they devise a plan to get Kenny out. Well, they have to get more money coming because Samson's extorting them. Right. So now and then Yeah, so they have to try to even up the that's when they decide to try to rob the the lab. The facility, yeah. Right. And so we'll leave the rest of that, you know.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

I don't want to spoil the ending, but it's a hilarious movie. I think it stands up even now. Yeah. I mean, like we said, there's Up and Smoke, which we just reviewed a little earlier. These two are really funny movies. It's fun.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

Yeah. I mean And they're both well, this one's got more of a plot than Up and Smoke. But they both follow that same kind of like on the course of following the plot, they take these little detours, these little comedy detours. There's the we're not we didn't talk about the types of smokers. Yeah, Jon Stewart and uh Janine Garofalo.

SPEAKER_02 45:25

Oh yeah, the little cameo.

SPEAKER_00 45:27

Yeah, so that's kind of a nice little detour. Those are fun. Uh what's the the rapper that uh the rapper that Chappelle plays? Oh uh Sir Smoke a lot? Yeah, sir, smoke a lot. Oh, that's right. Right.

SPEAKER_04 45:39

Oh, what's up, nigga? Come on in, mate. Come on, weed, mate. Nice, baby. Get on, feed me the dog you scared. Hey, sir smoke a lot. What can I get you today, smoke a lot? Love weed. Um, let me get a pound of your sweetest chiba.

unknown 45:58

Damn.

SPEAKER_04 45:59

Something told me to bring a lot of weed, man. Pound of my sweetest chiba. Don't get no better than that. Sman through the bag, baby. That's gonna be 9,600 bucks, bro. See what I got here. Come on, man, hang out for a minute and smoke with me. I got weed, got my bong out. Come on, son. For you, man. I get I'll stay for a minute, but but then I gotta be gotta be going. I understand. Smoke a lot opened up to me like I was Barbara Walters. It's ridiculous. He told me about his lawyer. He had sex with my mama.

unknown 46:41

Why?

SPEAKER_04 46:41

His spirituality. If you let it hell! His bad back. His love life. I'm in for this, man. Get away from me, man. I mean, talk about a guy with problems. Tough break. I can't take it too far. No wonder he smoked a pound a week. Somebody won. So now we had a famous clientele and miss your f. And guess what else? Call me next week. About weed. About weed.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

So all these little funny detours that make that that really make the movie that that worthwhile, with, you know, worth watching.

SPEAKER_02 47:16

Well, even when Guillermo Diaz Scarface at the fuck you. Fuck you. Yeah. I like you. You're cool, I'm out. I mean, because who wouldn't have done that back in those days when you were young, right?

SPEAKER_00 47:28

But that's funny. It's true because we would have done something like that. You're standing there at the window and the guy's like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not here, B. No, right? Why are you trying to talk down to me, B? That's Neil Brennan, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 47:41

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

My guy that was on the mic. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. All aside, you know.

SPEAKER_02 47:48

And I, like I said, I hadn't seen either one of their books.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

Oh, the dog. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:53

They're just fun movies. If you want to smoke while you're watching it, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 47:57

That's right. That's right. And you know what's funny is that um I was watching Half Baked, and I was watching it on Amazon. It turns out Thank you. I was watching, we did Fast Times at Ridgemont High last week, and I got that because it was some kind of AMC deal. Like get AMC for seven days for free. And yeah, seven days free free trial. So I I signed up for that, and of course I canceled it right away because AMC sucks. But I watched Fast Times, and then within that same period, um Half Baked was on AMC too. So I watched that for free a couple times.

SPEAKER_02 48:34

Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 48:34

But anyway, I was watching it one day and it went off. I think I fell asleep because I am an old man. I fall asleep a lot. Um It's okay. I can relate. I'm up in the middle of the night for what it's worth or whatever. But um yeah, I woke up and um Smoky the Bandit was on. Oh, classic. So great. It's like half baked, and now I wake up and smoke you the bandit. Another classic.

SPEAKER_02 48:57

I'm gonna cut in here and say that for Up in Smoke, you can watch it on AMC Plus and Pluto TV. Okay. I don't see Amazon. I'm sure it is on Amazon, you may have to pay for it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:09

I'm just saying those are when I went to Amazon, it led me to the AMC one. So I don't know if they have where you can get it without AMC or I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 49:17

Maybe not. Because I'm looking it up and it just shows AMC Plus and then Pluto TV. Pluto TV, at least I mean, you can watch it for free. I feel like they have commercials though. A lot of commercials, but that's okay. Yeah. It's just you can still watch the movie. I don't like commercials. I don't either. That's why that's why I own both movies. But yeah, I'm not I digress. But those are the places you can you said you watched Half Baked was on and Amazon too.

SPEAKER_00 49:43

And Up and Smoke is an AMC.

SPEAKER_02 49:45

Yeah, so those are your avenues to watch.

SPEAKER_00 49:48

So I didn't have to pay for either of them. I own them both. And they're just put away in storage. What people to get the to own their movies because I I tell you, every every day that goes by, it's gonna, you know, the streaming thing is failing a little bit more.

SPEAKER_02 50:05

Right. And this goes back to you were you sent me an article real quick that physical media is making a comeback. Yeah, I told you I think because people are just tired of it's it's cable now times 10 with all these apps that you have to have to get this movie, that movie. Where in the beginning it was nice because it was all uh kind of exclusive to certain now, it's so spread out your cable bill, if and now it's your app bill, is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

Right. And and now also is um the the hook was you give this you have this free tier or whatever or cheap tier and you have ads. Right. Then there's a s slightly more expensive tier and there's no ads. Right. But now the expensive tier is like, well, we're gonna throw in a few more ads. Right. Now there's a super tier. It's like, what? You know, and then you don't have the movies you'd like sometimes and you can't find them.

SPEAKER_02 50:52

Well, it goes to what they said, not to cut you off, but not everything is on the internet like everyone thinks. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 50:57

It's not. Or it's censored or shortened or whatever. Yeah, you don't know. But I also sent you the thing about the Kindle thing where they're like, okay, all those Kindles that we that you paid us all this nice money for, they're all useless now. Thanks. Thanks for your money. See you later. Yeah. All those books you have, yeah, you get you need to buy them again or whatever if you want to get a new Kindle. Oh, and by the way, that Kindle's gonna go out of, you know, it's gonna break down in a little bit because we're not gonna fix it. So we're not gonna support it. Good luck with all that.

SPEAKER_02 51:24

And that's that goes back to what we say. I'm not saying you have to own every movie, but it is nice to think about it. Yeah, that's what we're saying. Basically, physical media saves you a lot of headache instead of having to you can like I said, I have as you can see here, Mr. Thomas, I have a bunch of these cases. But I mean I do, I have several of them because they're my library.

SPEAKER_00 51:45

Yeah, I love being able to go in there and it's it's interesting because like if I were to rent to own a TV, you would say I'm a fucking idiot. But yeah, because you pay more in rental fees than the thing is worth in the end. Sure. But if I do that for streaming movies that I like, for instance, never watch, I pay these people twenty bucks a month, month after month, six to seven different companies for things I don't watch. Right. That's smart somehow.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

Right. No, it's that's well noted. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:15

Uh as opposed to like I want that movie, I buy it, it's maybe what, two, three bucks for a GD, and now I own it, I can watch it whenever I want, and I'm done. No more paying nothing.

SPEAKER_02 52:24

Right. And I think I think especially these younger kids are realizing, I mean, they're all on budgets and everything, and they're like, you know, why not just I can just buy it, like you said, a couple bucks. Right. I mean and I'm done.

SPEAKER_00 52:36

I can watch it whenever and commentary, special features. Right. You know, outtakes.

SPEAKER_02 52:43

I think that just really adds the enjoyment. You actually get to, you know, instead of click and then what if they that service goes out? What if there's something happens, right?

SPEAKER_00 52:52

Yeah.

unknown 52:53

Oh crap.

SPEAKER_02 52:54

Oh well. Yeah. That's our take on yes, own f own physical media.

SPEAKER_00 52:59

Yeah, let's bring it back.

SPEAKER_02 53:00

Yes, I concur.

SPEAKER_00 53:02

All right. Well, that's all I got.

SPEAKER_02 53:04

That's all I have. It was a these were fun movies. Again, we hope you enjoy them.

SPEAKER_00 53:08

Yeah, so next week, smoking the bandit. That's cool. I'll figure some out.

SPEAKER_02 53:12

We'll that's one pick, kids, is smoking the bandit. I'll let you know next week. Stay tuned.

SPEAKER_00 53:17

I keep wanting to get back to serious movies, but I just keep pulling me back in. Just when I thought I was out. The laughter pulls me back in. All right, that's it. All right, we're out.

SPEAKER_05 53:32

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. You're cool, and fuck you, I'm out.

SPEAKER_02 53:43

That's a wrap for today's movie reviews. Thanks for listening. And remember, if you like what you've heard, make sure you like, subscribe, and rate our show to me. Let's go get some ice cream.