All Fantasy Everything - Airheads (w/ Sean O'Connor, Sergio Serna and Devin Faraci)

Episode Date: September 15, 2016

In the inaugural episode, All Fantasy Everything takes on the careers of Steve Buscemi, Brendan Frasier and Adam Sandler - the stars of the movie Airheads. Host Ian Karmel is joined by comedian Sean O'Connor, television writer Sergio Serna and pop culture critic Devin Faraci. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. So you're not left out in the cold. When I say fantasy draft to the whole world, what I mean is we're doing like fantasy drafts, but about things that aren't sports. We're fantasy drafting sandwiches, hip hop albums, politicians, pretty much anything you can think of. If you're not familiar with fantasy drafting, here's how that works. We pick a topic, we determine a draft order, and then we proceed to put together our teams drafting one thing at a time. Once one of the things has been picked, that's it.

It's off the board. So if we're doing sandwiches and somebody picks French dip, then nobody else can pick French dip. After five or so rounds of all that, we let you, the listener, determine who had the best draft, and then we do it all again next week. That's it. That's the podcast. Along the way, people tell stories, explain why they pick certain things. It's been a lot of fun doing it. I think you're going to have

a lot of fun listening to it as well. Yeah, this week we get started with the idea that gave me the idea for this podcast in general. Today we are fantasy drafting the movie Airheads, that movie that starred Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi.

And when I say we're drafting Airheads, I don't mean like one of us just says, I take Airheads, and then the rest of us agree. I mean, we're drafting the further careers of the three stars of Airheads, Fraser, Buscemi, and Sandler. So you can take any movie, TV show, whatever it is that they've been in, uh, since, since the movie or even before the movie airheads. And we're putting together our list like that. After five rounds, each of the contestants will have a list of five movies. You determine which one of those is the best. And then we move on. Uh, so that's, that's

kind of it. That's kind of it. Uh, it was so much fun to record. I think you're going to love listening to it. Without further ado, oh, I should say who's joining me on this one. Because we're drafting from a list that includes the movies of Adam Sandler, I thought who better to have on the podcast than the biggest Adam Sandler fan I know, stand-up comedian, television writer, Sean O'Connor. Joining Sean and I is the comedian Sergio Serna. He's a television writer and a comedian, also very funny. Also so-so taste in a movie, so he's perfect for this.

And the expert we brought on for this episode from the website Birth Movies Death, pop culture critic Devin Faraci, who is fantastic and a lot of fun on the podcast. So there it is. I think that's all the housekeeping. Without further ado, here is the first episode. The Airheads episode of All Fantasy Everything. I'm your host, Ian Carmel. Today, this fantasy draft we're doing today was the original,

the one that gave me the idea to do this podcast at all. We are drafting the movie Airheads, which means we are drafting the careers of the three leads of the movie Airheads, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler, the Lone Rangers. Here with us today, we have an esteemed panel of drafters. We have a stand-up comedian, television writer, bon vivant, Sean O'Connor. Oh, hey. Yeah, now you talk. I didn't know if you were going to go right into the next guy.

No, no, no, no. Yeah, I'm Sean, and I like to have fun. And if I pick number one, ah, this draft is done. Hell yeah. And if I pick number one, ah, this draft is done. Hell yeah. Sean is a fellow writer for the Late Late Show with James Corden for the time being. Also wrote on a sports show with Norm MacDonald, Stone Quackers.

Oh, yeah. A bunch of canceled cartoons on FXX. They love doing that. They love having you write 12 episodes and then immediately canceling it. Yeah, they like air them once on Halloween night at 4 a.m. And the Lucas Brothers movie company has another canceled cartoon. That was a canceled cartoon, the Major Lazer canceled cartoon. Yes. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty great.

It's good to have a line. Also, New York Mets enthusiast. Big time. Big time. And where can people follow you on Twitter? At Sean O'Kans. At Sean O'Kans or at Jay Leto, the Joker. New York Mets enthusiast. Big time. Big time. And where can people follow you on Twitter? At Sean O'Cons or at Jay Leto the Joker.

So you're lifting the veil. People now know that you're the Joker. Yes, it's Nate Fernald and I. And occasionally Ian and sometimes Justin Chase. It started as a lot of us and then you and Nate are still doing it. We're still doing it. We're trying to get a book deal.

We're trying to write a book as Jared Leto as the Joker. Nothing will be more prescient than Jared Leto as the Joker in the three years it takes to make that book. Joining Sean and myself today is Devin Faraci. I'm saying that right, right? That's correct. Hell yeah, Devin Faraci. I'm saying that right, right? That's correct. Hell yeah, Devin Faraci. Creator and writer at Birth Movies Death. Movie critic.

Culture critic. Can I put that on your head? I guess Pop Culture Pundit. Pop Culture Pundit. That's what it is. It makes it sound important. It's so close. I talk about comic books and shit, so it's Pop Culture Pundit.

Pop Culture Pundit. Fantastic. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Where can people see what you're up to right now? My website, BerkMoviesDeath.com. I'm on Twitter at DevinCF. I never stop tweeting.

And you can listen to my podcast, The Canon, over on Earwolf. That's fantastic. So make sure you check out that podcast after listening to all of ours twice, and if there are any sponsors, frequenting them as often as you can. Devin, thank you for joining us. Also, this is our first four-banger. This is our first draft where we have four people.

The drafting field was so lush that we had to bring in a fourth. We have joining us Sergio Serna, comedy writer, currently a writer's assistant on The Late Late Show with James Corden, with Sean and I. Yeah, hey guys. Thanks for having me. What else? You've worked on some other television programs before. Yeah, and I've worked on a couple other shows. I worked on The Ben Show with Ben

Hoffman. More charisma, Sergio. I worked on Dion Cole's Black Box on TBS. What was the working title for that? We can cuss on you. Dion Cole's Black Box on TBS. Yeah. What was the working title for that? We can cuss on you. Dion Cole's Black Pussy.

It was because. Yeah, that's not true. I also, I mean, I've worked on a lot. I'm just a professional note taker. You're a comedy. Once you've contributed even one joke, you're a comedy writer. Sure, yeah. You just happen to be in the writer's assistant position

on this show. I am, yeah. Yeah. Where can people follow you on Twitter, on social media, and stuff like that to see what you're up to?

If they really wanted to follow me on Twitter, it would be Sergio C. Serna, S-E-R-N-A, at, what's my email? Fuck. At gmail.com.

If you want to shoot me an email, feel free. Sergio prefers, this whole Twitter thing is a little bit impersonal. So Sergio prefers to build a one-on-one relationship. I'm so used to just giving my email and not my Twitter handle. That's what just happens. If people want your credit card information, they can call the number app. Feel free to email me.

I'll get back to you. All right. Fantastic. So we are the people. We are the people drafting. I've never figured out a drafting order between four people before. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to think of a number in my head between 1 and 20. And whoever either gets it or is closest gets to determine the draft order.

They get to place themselves and then also the three others. So I've picked the number in my head. Sean, go first. 17. Okay. That's crazy. Sean, go first. 17. That's crazy. I was going to say 17. I really was. I don't know why. That came right to my head. That's so weird. I'll go with 18.

18? I feel it right there. I feel it right there. I'm going to go with 2. 2. Okay. I'm going to go with 13. And it was 13. So I get to pick the draft order. No, Sean, so you get to pick the draft order.

Sean O'Comedy. Okay. I want Devin picking first. Okay. Me second. Yeah. You third. Sergio fourth.

Sergio going fourth. Just to remind the listeners, the drafting style is serpentine. So if you get the first pick, that means the first round you also get the last pick of the second round. Sergio, that means you get two picks in a row. So get your ass ready. We are drafting the movie Airheads.

The creators are Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler and your boy, everyone's boy Brendan Fraser. Let's get to it right now. All right, Devin Faraci, you are now on the clock with the first pick in the All Fantasy Everything Airheads draft. This is an easy one for me. I got to go big right up front. I'm going to go with Punch Drunk Love. Punch Drunk Love. Give it to the Adam Sandler. I got to go big right up front. I'm going to go with Punch Drunk Love. Punch Drunk Love.

Give it to Adam Sandler. Give it to the Sandman. Who would have thought? Unless Sean was picking first, I wouldn't think anyone would go Sandler first. Well, here's the thing. I mean, I don't know how much I want to talk about my strategy up front and blow it for myself. But I feel like it's the only great Sandler movie, like the great, great, great Sandler movie. And Buscemi, who I'm deeply interested in, his bench is very deep.

He does have a very deep bench. I'm not feeling a lot of anxiety on the Buscemi. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Released in 2002. What do you love about this movie? Well, I really don't like Adam Sandler. I really don't. And I don't get Adam Sandler. I find him really

irritating. He's like nails on a chalkboard to me. I can't. Every piece of everything. From his earliest works up until now. From SNL on. Not even the albums. The albums I find grating. You can't. Sloppy Joe doesn't get

Sloppy Joe. That doesn't even get stuck in your head. I think about that once a day. I love't i love sloppy joe but not the song yeah i love the meat despite which actually you say you love sloppy joe's more than everyone else because you hate that song and still you love to love to eat it but uh so i hate i really don't like adam sandler and punch drunk love is the only movie where the premise is adam sandler is totally fucking insufferable yeah Yeah. And it's perfect. And Paul Thomas Anderson finds this thing, finds this pathetic thing inside of Adam Sandler that allows me to for like two hours like him because the insufferable, grating, irritating guy has this pain inside of him. Yeah.

And I can kind of get with that. I once heard a very funny story about Adam Sandler's takeaway from punch drunk love uh-oh so he made the movie he's telling his friends about it and they were like oh my god you're working with paul tom sanderson that's so cool that's great and uh adam was like yeah it's amazing uh they wrote a scene where we go to Hawaii and we filmed in Hawaii. Guys, we can do that. So what you saw after Bud Strunk Love, Adam Sandler's movies were all him going places. So there's 51st States and Hawaii.

Jack and Jill, they're going on a cruise. They rent out a cruise ship. And he just goes on family vacations. Blended, they go to Africa. Blended, they go to Africa. And he takes all his boys with him, too. That's right. Grownups was like a vacation. It was a vacation.

Yeah, in the Northeast, it was like – here's the thing. Norm MacDonald, who's not in Grownups but had a character in – he was there for three months filming Grownups. Just hanging outups and got cut out of the movie. Completely out of the movie! He was a character that every time there was a scene he was supposed to be a guy they knew from childhood and he would come up to them and be like, what are you guys talking

about? I'm late! And then he was like, oh I'm gonna get cut out of this movie. It was basically a free vacation on like Paramount or whoever's dime. Sony's dime. That's amazing.

That's what he took away from working with Paul Thomas Anderson is basically a free vacation ripoff. Yeah, you could just do that and then like, oh yeah. It's so interesting. Not to spoil further things in the draft. He's tried to go serious a few times and this – I mean this is definitely the time it's taken the best.

Why do you – I wonder why he got away from that. Well, he did the 9-11 movie, which was such a bad idea, like such a bad idea. And then what's crazy is he does funny people and he. And he has all those joke posters on his wall. And it seems like he's trying to just make those joke posters now. Absolutely. It's really bizarre. His Merman movie has to be coming soon. That's what he's taking away from funny people.

He's like, here's some great ideas for movies right here. Can I have this wall? All right. Fantastic. Well, Devin, you led off of the draft. First pick of the first round is Punch Drunk Love, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which means, Sean O'Connor, you have the second pick. Now, I know I have the two and seven picks.

So I'm going to reach, because I don't know if it will be there at seven, but I need to have it on my lineup. I am choosing Billy Madison. Billy Madison! I have to choose it okay because i am apparently the exact opposite of that i couldn't love the sandman more yeah billy madison is a movie i watched every day after school like i would get home from school it's like 10 or 11 and i will watch it every single day i hadn't watched it for like 12 years, and I watched it with a group of friends, and I still have that movie memorized. Yeah.

Oh, you're like, you can just say the line along with it every time. I can say the line along to the whole film. I love it. I think it's like an absurdist masterpiece. Like, there's so many weird things that happen in that that movie like when they break out into song yeah it's so many great characters i mean you got norm there you got chris farley there you got that guy who's only in this and the wedding singer uh oh my god and yeah bradley whitford bradley whitford is it flexing on people which i truly believe like i

mean shooter mcgavin happy gilmore is probably the better villain. But Bradley Whitford is a more realistic villain. He was pure. Yeah, he was. Pure shithead. Yeah, it was comedy for comedy's sake. And that's why I think Billy Madison is my favorite. This is, I mean, in honor of, I mean, Sandler going one-two in this draft, by the way, is pretty amazing. And in honor of, I mean, but Buscemi's in it too, right?

Buscemi is in Billy Madison. He is in it, yeah. It's a two-for. Wow, that's a two-for. Very briefly, right? He plays the sniper. He plays the sniper. That's incredible.

He winds up saving the day. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Since you picked Adam Sandler with your first pick, that was a perfect, can you tell the people about SandlerCon? Yeah, so me and a group of friends did this thing where it was really my friends, Aloy and Nicole. They organized a 36-hour film festival that was only Adam Sandler movies.

And it was like in chronological order. We skipped a few because like some are like they're not really an Adam Sandler movie. Like the 9-11 one. Yeah, you had to be punch drunk love to get in because that's good. Yeah. But you also had to be happy had to be punch drunk love to get in because that's good yeah but you also had to be happy madison because that's bad yeah so what we learned is that there's definitely a shift right at little nicky yeah where everything goes to shit like he kind of loses his charm because he does does have, like, some charm.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, during, like, Wedding Singer leading up to Little Nicky. Little Nicky was a fucking train wreck. It was such a weird movie. Little Nicky's probably not getting pitched. No, it's probably... We could go for maybe 10, 15 rounds and it probably wouldn't be pitched. I remember I went on a camping trip with my dad and my little sister. And, like, on a boat.

We went, like, boat camping. And we had, like little sister on a boat. We went boat camping. And we had a TV with a VCR built into it. And the only movie we brought was Little Nicky. So I ended up watching Little Nicky because we rented it. So I ended up watching Little Nicky like six times because I was right in that fuck camping age. You know, like 14. Of course. My whole life.

Yeah, your whole life. I'm still in the fuck camping phase too. I kind of like it now because of drugs and alcohol but like that's there's no way to do it without that uh but yeah little nicky terrible how many of the movies at sandler con did you sit so i i left to go to a birthday party went to sleep like a normal person and came back in the morning just in time for like what i truly believe is like this it's a tremendous so bad it's good run yeah that is his later years because like don't mess with zohan is like so fucking weird it's like one of the weirdest movies jack and jill is one of the weirdest movies i mean the plot of jack and jill

is adam sandler's an ad man and to save his job he has to get Al Pacino to agree to be in a Dunkin Donuts commercial for the Dunkachino that's the plot the sister thing is just because Al Pacino falls madly in love with his sister from afar and it's Adam Sandler playing his own sister

but in a fat suit it's so strange such a brave performance but then you got Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2 and Grown Ups is the worst movie like I saw Yoga Hosers last night and that I thought was one of the worst movies

but Grown Ups is like so bad but Grown Ups 2 is it's kind of like the Dada movement of film it genuinely doesn't make sense on any level is it's kind of like the Dada movement of film. It genuinely doesn't make sense on any level. It opens with a deer pissing in Adam Sandler's mouth. Wow.

And it ends with Chris Rock dressed as Prince, Adam Sandler dressed as Bruce Springsteen, all of them dressed as 80s icons karate fighting Taylorlor lautner what yeah it's so weird i feel like if you put that to like slow piano music and made it like a grainy black and white kind of thing and said it was from czechoslovakia people would be like oh my god this lost master work of film there's a podcast i don't i don't know the name of it, but they watch Grown Ups 2 every single week. Oh, it's the biggest mistake I've ever made. It's called like something like that. It went crazy. It's kind of – you know, the thing is like Grown Ups 2, I haven't seen it, but like this is where I'm starting to get respect for Adam Sandler, the level of not giving a shit that is involved.

And it's like when you see paparazzi pictures of him, he's always like in sweats and stuff. When you see David Letterman footage of him, he's in like sweats. Yeah. He's just no respect to anything. And on top of that, he's like the nicest guy in the entire world. Yeah, yeah. That's what he's here. He's like a really good guy.

And he puts all his friends on. I mean, he has friends who own houses just off of like showing up in his movies for a minute. Yeah, it's incredible. He never forgets where he came from. But I mean, like he truly doesn't care. But Billy Madison. My first fan. Billy Madison.

All right. So that's the first two picks. We've got Punch Drunk Love and Billy Madison. I am now on the clock by virtue of Sean's choices to where people go. So I am going to go. I'm going to go Stray for the first time from the Adam Sandler oeuf. And I'm going to go with Steve Buscemi movie. And I'm going to go with Reservoir Dogs.

Oh, that's a good pick. Yeah, I'm going to go with the Reservoir Dogs. It's good. It's good. He's good. I love him in it, too. He's been in a lot. Not to give anything away.

He's been in a lot of amazing movies. He's actually in Reservoir Dogs. He's like a substantial part of it. Mr. Pink. Why does he have to be Mr. Pink? It's just a fantastic movie. Obviously directed by Quentin Tarantino. I love...

I don't have anything really innovative to say about Reservoir Dogs. It's an amazing movie. No, it's an amazing movie that, I mean, we're the same age. it like came out and it was like kind of like risque that we were watching it yeah so it was like the first movies i ever saw that was just like non-stop killing and then also people talking in a very cool way yeah the reservoir dogs has always been like yeah that movie's fucking awesome it's perfect it's

crazy i mean like quentin tarantino but so you're going off on a real weird tangent here uh the when you're like younger there's those movies you like you really like i like south park a lot yeah because i love the diarrhea jokes and how like chaotic it was i love scarface you know because it was like violent today but now as a 31 year old man like i'm not that into Park anymore, and Scarface in a lot of ways seems ridiculous. But Quentin Tarantino movies were another one of those things where they seem rebellious and fun and like you were getting away with something. But I still love them. They've held up. Yeah.

No, there is – I mean I can't really speak on Quentin Tarantino. I've seen all of his movies. I really like him. I know, yeah. I feel like you would probably have a very interesting thing to say. I love Reznor. I love Tarantino. He's, I think, one of the great filmmakers of all time, more or less.

Yeah, I would say all time. Even his bad movies, and I think there's one bad movie, is still pretty good. It's pretty good, and they're all watchable. They're all super watchable. And they're so rewatchable. And what's really cool about it, too, is that it's so funny because when Reservoir Dogs came out and pulp fiction there was this sense of like oh this is what tarantino does yeah and over the years he's just like no like he's like i'm gonna do all this different shit and like now he's doing these weird revisionist historical movies that are so far away from where he started it's so cool

it's such a it's such a fun phase inglorious bastard people people i mean people talk shit about inglorious bastards because they they're like Hitler didn't get killed and that's a Jew that's like the best part I love that shit it's so great it's supposed to be that I love

I was sitting there with my dad who's the like the child of Holocaust survivors and he was fucking digging it you know what I mean

and I'm like if Ivan Carmel he was jerking off he was jerking off he had his penis out it was one of those living room theaters though that reclines

so I feel like it's allowed I feel like it's like the rules are more they're more lax in that situation yeah right they're like they brought they bring you like a moist towel or dry one if you want to make it moist and uh i i fucking love that shit and uh i mean you can see the connective tissue all the way back to reservoir ducks the cartoonish violence it's almost it really is almost cartoonish you know the stealer's wheel cut the guy's ear off, set him on fire thing. Never really made me cringe. It was fun, but it wasn't like torture porn movies where you're like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

He does that thing where the camera just drifts off. So as it's about to cut, the camera just drifts off. So it doesn't really – I think it really works that way. But the violence side, what I love about the violence in Reservoir Dogs is that it's extreme but it's also like sort of personal. So like Mr. Orange is like fucking dying very hard for a very long time. It's really great. You really feel it. I totally love that.

Yeah, it really is because when I watched that, I was like, I want to see every Tim Roth thing. Yeah, right? He's so great. every Tim Roth thing. Yeah, right? He's so great. And, but it, it was also,

Reservoir Dogs is so great because every character, with the exception of Mr. Pink, is, like, just comes off cool. Right. Like, they all, like, radiate coolness. Like, is it Mr. Blue

who's the old one? Yeah. Yeah. Even him, like, he's doing almost nothing. I'm like, that is, like, what you dream to be

when you're, like, 72. You're hanging out with a bunch of cool young guys. That's, like, that is like what you dream to be when you're like 72. You're hanging out with a bunch of cool young guys. That's like the real deal Harry Dean Stanton. Everybody wears skinny ties. They all look like,

the Reservoir Dogs cast now looks like they're all walking out of a wedding in Portland. Like everybody looks, everybody's wearing a skinny tie and they look very cool.

Bushimi? Yeah, go on. Sergio, please. Bushimi is like, his character is the only one that makes it out alive at the end of the movie too, right? Yeah, I think so. Right, Mr. Pink? Yeah. That's awesome.

Fuck yeah, Bushemi's a survivor, man. Bushemi too, I know he like, he's like now plays like a lot of bug-eyed weirdos. If you see pictures of him when he was like really young, like early 20s, kind of a good looking dude. Kind of like weird good-looking. Yeah, weird good-looking. Like the way black licorice – Like he was mysterious. Like he's in the shadows.

He probably had a – not to make it weird, but he probably had a really good body too because he was a firefighter. Yeah, he was a firefighter. Oh, really? Well, here's the crazy thing about Buscemi. He was a firefighter, and on 9-11, he left his Brooklyn home and joined his old ladder company. That's right. To go rescue people from the rubble of the trade center.

He's a hero. He's a real hero. Yeah, he really is. He doesn't talk about it. It's not a thing he brings up. You know what I mean? But he did that. He just felt compelled.

He just got up. He watched that shit happen on TV, got into the city and helped. That's amazing. And so far, I'm the only one who's picked one of his movies. So far, we have Adam Sandler helping all his boys buy them houses and shit. Steve Buscemi is out there fucking a 9-11.

This is like a really heroic draft. It's a very heroic draft. Just good dudes. Just real good dudes. I'm guessing no one's picking a person well we're about to find out

because with the fourth and final pick of the first round we have Sergio Serna now on the clock in the Airheads draft alright well I'm gonna get this baby

back on track I'm gonna sand man and I'm gonna take it I'm Happy Gilmore Happy Gilmore that Happy Gilmore. And I just love that movie.

I've loved it since I was a kid. Like, I'm a big hockey fan. Yes. And even though he spends a lot of time playing golf, he is a hockey player in that movie. And he's so funny. And I just, like, loved – I loved seeing a movie with hockey in it that wasn't, like, The Mighty Ducks, I guess. Yeah. So that was, like, something that got me really, like, excited to watch that movie.

And then I came for the hockey. You, I guess. Yeah. So that was something that got me really excited to watch that movie, and then I came for the hockey. You're really focusing on hockey. That was the rest of it. I don't even know if it's funny or whatever, but boy, this is... As a hockey fan. I'm just saying. It's got a hook. As the greatest hockey film since Slapshot, I would say.

Yeah, I agree. Exactly. There's some great hockey. He hits the puck so hard, he shatters the glass it's hilarious so if you only see in the first five minutes no uh but other than that like yeah like i got roped into it in that way and then um it's just so funny like that scene when he's talking to his girlfriend on the intercom is so funny to me and and the reveal the next morning i just i thought that scene was so funny i was like 10 years old and shooter mcgavin's a great shooter

mcgavin's amazing he's such a great villain he's such a piece of shit the weird piece of shit there's the weird ben stiller storyline about like the oh yeah with the grandma yeah yeah that's right it's so great really funny yeah but the air conditioner falls on the yeah the mr mr lady. Those movies are so quotable. They're like those Adam Sandler movies. Shaw, it was interesting what you said, the comedy for the sake of comedy. Who feels like the logical successor to that brand of comedy? I mean, it feels like maybe the Lonely Island dudes.

Yeah, I guess they're jokes first. Yeah. Yeah, I like Popstar a lot, but Popstar is like really joke forward. It's like less satirical and joke forward. Yeah. Yeah, I like Popstar a lot, but Popstar's like really joke forward. It's like less satirical and joke forward. Yeah. I'm trying to think, like,

because I just don't think we make... Yeah, Hot Rod is just... Hot Rod. Hot Rod. It's just a joke. Yeah, Hot Rod. Hot Rod is exact...

It even has like the same formula of the early Adam Sandler movies. Yeah. We need $10,000 for something yeah

let's go get it and then that joke it's just the tree you hang jokes off of like Christmas ornaments are we in like a down phase for comedy movies

it kind of feels like it right I mean I think this has been a shitty year for movies in general so it's hard to say but shit like

I was having this conversation I like Popstar I really like I like Popstar I love Popstar Popstar was very funny I think that was my favorite comedy this year and I feel like it's one to say. But shit, like, I was having this conversation. I like Popstar. I really like that. I like Popstar. I love Popstar. Popstar was very funny. I think that was my favorite comedy this year. And I feel like it's one that you're going to like, it's going to get funnier every single

time you watch it. Who is, who has the, like, who is the dominant comedic leading actor or actress though right now? Like, I mean, like, you're like a Will Ferrell or like an Eddie Murphy. Melissa McCarthy, probably. Yeah. Spy was fantastic. Spy was really good.

And, uh, yeah, I'm trying to think. Like, MacGruber, I think once every, it's kind of like a presidential election. I think once every four years, there's like a movie that comes out that probably shouldn't have been made that's nothing but jokes. Most of the best comedies seem like

they probably shouldn't have been made. Yeah, that's the thing. And MacGruber, to me me was like a perfect comedy there's mcgruber too yeah i ran into yorma tacone and i tacone tacone tacone and uh i because i was like is this really like this is the we hear rumors but like nobody fucking saw mcgruber so like is this and it's really happening and they have a script and it opens with mcgruber in prison uh so uh i'm really excited i mcgruber is like a perfect movie it really is it really is a perfect comedy who like it doesn't feel like i mean like adam divine they're trying to make happen

do we think that's gonna happen i he's a happen he's a nice guy i did his comedy central show he was great but like he is a nice guy but i feel like he always has to be too cool he's like one of those guys that when he loses he also wins yeah and i think that i think that's the thing that makes the early sandler movies work compared to what happens recently is in those first movies, he's a loser. He's like a 28-year-old who lives with his grandma or his dad and everything's going awfully for him. But in the later movies, he's married to Salma Hayek.

He was like a successful agent that moves back to his hometown in the only big house and all of his friends are idiots. He looks down on him. You can't take a pie in the face when you're looking down on people. Yeah, exactly. So I think that's why Melissa McCarthy's good is because she can be the butt of the joke.

In order to carry the thing, you kind of have to be a fool. And as you get too famous, Will have to be like a fool. Yeah. I mean... And as you get too... Like, Will Ferrell stopped being a fool. You know? Yeah.

Great. Kevin Hart's the biggest... Kevin Hart is... It is Kevin Hart. Very racist. Very racist of all of us. He doesn't really make our movies.

But it kind of fucking... It's Kevin Hart and like The Rock a little bit. You know what I mean? Yeah. The Rock is... The Rock is the ultimate movie star. The Rock is the ultimate movie star. I kind of fucking, it's Kevin Hart and like The Rock a little bit. You know what I mean? Yeah. The Rock is. Not that The Rock is.

The Rock is the ultimate movie star. The Rock is the ultimate movie star. I kind of want to see Kevin Hart's comedy, his comedy special movie, this concert movie. That he did in like Philadelphia, in the football stadium? Because it's intercut with like action scenes. Yeah. Is it really? Yeah, they showed, I saw like a 15 minute like reel of it and it's him, but it's also

like, you know, he's like driving a car real fast. And he's being funny while he's doing it. know he's like driving a car real fast he's being funny while he's doing yeah yeah driving a car real fast is a helicopter chasing him his things blowing up i don't know if it's just the intro to the movie or if this is cut throughout the movie but it was like high quality and if you look at the poster for the movie it's kevin hart looking out across a destroyed city yeah where a question mark has been burned into the into the ground it's a flaming question mark. Oh, my God. It's really crazy.

Do you think he also plays the villain? I bet he also plays the villain. He might. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gets into an argument. Or Romani Malco. And then they reprise their argument from 40-year-old Virgil. We're done with the first round already.

It flew by, ladies and gentlemen. Punch Drunk Love, Billy Madison, Reservoir Dogs And Happy Gilmore all off the board Brendan Fraser sitting Patiently in the waiting room Still Like every audition room in Hollywood Poor Brendan

Sergio you have the first shot at Brendan Fraser's Salvation You have the first shot at Brendan Fraser's salvation You have the first pick of the second round Brendan Fraser come on down I'm going with I'm taking it off the table The mummy The mummy's coming off the board

The mummy's the first pick What? I was ready to make fun of you When you said Encino man Look I'm getting nostalgic with it but you know it brought me all kinds of thrills and chills when I was a child so many thrills

so many thrills and chills at the time groundbreaking special effects you got Brendan Fraser it was horrible Brendan Fraser time he's like he's like he was like my indiana jones yeah it was it was like what if indiana jones had down syndrome rachel weiss you got a cool villain with the guy who's not billy zane you're sarcastically picked it. I am not.

No, I love it. I had heard you say when I was ranting about how much I hate Universal Studios, you're like, the mummy ride is pretty cool. It's not bad. It goes backwards. Made in 1999, as foretold in the Prince song. Budget, $80 million, which is a lot.

It made $415 million. I just want to say, when you think about the groundbreaking special effects that The Matrix and Star Wars Episode I were both released that same year,

and The Mummy looks like a Sega CD-ROM game. So I just want to say that. You never saw a face get in the sand. You never saw a face in the sand like you did in those movies.

When was the last time you watched The Mummy? A month ago. It's impossible. They don't even make that on DVD or on Netflix. They've disappeared it. I mean, everything connecting back to our man Dwayne The Rock Johnson who later started his career

off The Scorpion King. His career got a big boost to The Scorpion King. Also, more or less unwatchable. Yeah, also really. But for some reason it sort of launched him into another echelon of stardom. So if you're listening at home and you want to vote for Sergio, you can sort of loosely attribute The Rock's career to The Moment. There you go.

I thought you were going to address The Rock. If you're listening at home, The Rock. If you're listening at home. Hit me up at SergioCCernan.com. Sergio and I have been working on a baller's pilot. This is spec script. Somebody gets lost on a boat? Nice.

The mummy. I will say. If you pick the mummy return. I wanted to go The Mummy But I kind of think It's the superior movie The Empire Strikes Back of the series It is one of the few action movies Other than The Mummy Returns Available in this draft

Sandler and Buscemi Not making a ton of big budget popcorn thrillers Except for one notable one So that's so so that that's any more any more discussion on the mummy i think i said all of my opinion devin you're you're you're i would say at least in this room the foremost expert on on movies of all the movies ever made where would you put the mummy oh i would just like number wise it would be like let's just say we've made like 900 000 movies yeah um i'm gonna put it safely in the 750 000 range

i mean like you know it's like the bottom third but not like not like right at the bottom yeah but right below that is all the Steve Buscemi. All right. So number 700,000 on the all-time list. And number five in the All Fantasy Everything Airheads draft is The Mummy. Which means I have the next pick in the Airheads draft. And I've got to look at this just for one second. Oh, my God. All right. I've got to dip back into the bishami pool and i am now going to take con air nice yeah it was i wouldn't i wouldn't have taken it except

it was on cmt the other night which is country music television and that is a terrible eminently rewatchable movie it is a You can jump in at any point. John Cusack's in it wearing big khakis and sandals while fighting crime. I think it's the only time sandals have been worn in a movie while fighting crime, which I think catapults it up the list. It's just so rewatchable. And Steve Buscemi is so creepy,

but also one of the most redeemable characters in it because though he plays a child rapist in the movie, he doesn't rape the one child we see him with. That is the hero's journey. He's free at the end of the movie. He's in Vegas playing roulette. It's amazing. Again, not raping any children. He takes himself to a casino where you can't even have kids because he wants to get better.

Keeps the temptation away. He wants to get better. Yeah, it's good. I like Con Air because it's one of the rare movies that is constantly restating the premise. That's why you can jump in at any point where they're like, if you're just watching it and you see him playing with a bunch of guys in prison jumpsuits, you're like, what happened here? Five seconds later, there's a scene going like, we've got to get this prison plane. I think Con Air is really – there's a really important piece of film history happening here. This is a time when we thought that John Cusack might be like an action star.

Right. Like how weird was that that Hollywood decided that John Cusack might be an action star? It's so weird. When I was, I was talking about it at work the day after I saw it on TV and I had to, like, for a second in my head

be like, that was John Cusack, right? That is John Cusack, right? Yeah, it's like such a weird role for him. Yeah. He went on to be, like, to play,

not action here, but, like, action-y, almost, like, indie action. Well, like, Gross Point Blank. Yeah, Gross Point Blank. Gross Point Blank. But, like,

Con Air's action like it's exploding shit it's a Brockheimer movie Nicholas Cage thick in that movie you got Nick Cage, you got Cusack you got Buscemi, you got Dave Chappelle John Malkovich

it's a great cast Malkovich playing kind of a tough guy too Cyrus the Virus it's amazing it is funny that the baddest guy of them all cast. It's a star-studded cast. Malkovich playing kind of a tough guy too? Cyrus the Virus? Yeah, it is funny that the baddest guy of them all is John Malkovich. Hollywood Republican John Malkovich.

It's so weird. In the movie you kind of buy into it that like Cusack, Nicolas Cage and John Malkovich are fighting. But if you saw Cusack, Malkovich and John Malkovich are fighting. But if you saw Cusack, Malkovich, and Nicolas Cage fighting on the street, I feel like that would be one of the clumsiest fights of all time. Oh, yeah. A lot of wild swinging punches.

Some slapping. I bet there'd be some lights slapping. Oh, stop, stop, stop, stop. I know, I know. Cusack's tapping out early. Here's where I will differ, and this could just be me being really stupid right now but I buy Cusack as an action star mostly because

if you look at his whole career and say anything he's a kickboxer that is true that is a weird that is right so like instantly like you see him being a young kickboxer yeah theoretically he could become a cop or a hitman

yeah that is a good point I never think of him as a kickboxer in that movie no exactly it's like such a throw away what's the most interesting thing a kid could be and in High Fidelity he's an army ranger on leave I believe right he's a CIA

wet work specialist who's deep undercover to record store. He's been dispatched to kill Elliot Smith and make it look like an accident. All right, Con Air. Again, just, I mean, Steve Buscemi's in it and I love him in it. But Nicolas Cage with that hair. That hair. Cameron Poe.

Oh my God. I love that hair. That hair. Cameron Poe. Oh my god. I love that movie. But we'll move on from Con Air discussion right now and get to Sean O'Connor who has his second pick. The third pick of the second round. With my next pick I am going to be picking from

Steve Buscemi. And I am going to take The Big Lebowski. Perfect. It's a really great movie. I mean, what can I say about The Big Lebowski. Perfect. It's a really great movie. I mean, what can I say about The Big Lebowski that hasn't been written about countless times? Incessantly, yeah. Incessantly, or said by a bunch of people bowling ironically.

Right, absolutely. Or like quoted in their Tinder profile. That's how good the movie is that these people can't ruin it. Yeah. Like that's how good. That's true. Imagine a movie that's so good that these irritating people cannot ruin it. And they are trying so fucking hard.

So fucking hard. Let me get a white Russian man while I'm over here bowling in my – they have Lebowski Fest every year. They do. They have Lebowski Fest. Yeah. And like they celebrate like just extras in the bowling. Like that guy has to take off his job at FedEx.

John Turturro has had a brilliant storied career, but the thing people think of him probably most is as the Jesus. Speaking of child rapists. Speaking of child rapists. Back to back child rapists. Can we get a third? The mummy probably also had a lot of that. At least working somewhere on the movie there were child rapists for sure. Totoro is directing a movie about the Jesus right now.

Is he playing him as well? Okay, yeah. Playing the Jesus and it's about... It's a remake of a French sex farce about two thieves who meet a woman. Maybe they kidnap her, I'm not sure. And she's never had an orgasm. So they're competing to be the first person to give her an orgasm. So it's the Jesus in that story. And at some point he's probably exonerated from his child rape.

Well, that's the thing. I wonder is like... Because the child rape thing is never clearly decided if it's true or not. Yeah. It's kind of like... Innuendo. Yeah, it's chatter amongst friends who don't like him. Like how

at work we constantly are saying our co-workers are pedophiles. We're fine. We're fine. We like him. Speaking of like Lebowski Fest and stuff like that Devin you've you've written about

and I think gotten in some hot water on Twitter which is just a place full of hot water for talking about like fan fiction almost right

yeah talking about fandom and stuff like that yeah do you consider like Lebowski Fest a form of like fan fiction or like fandom gone

crazy it's weird i think lebowski fest is sort of like people who define their lives by how much they like bacon or pizza yeah and it's just like this is a thing that's you just because you don't have a personality doesn't mean that being that much into the big lebowski is going to actually gift you a personality yeah so that's what i feel like that is. Yeah, what I like about Big Lebowski is that the fan base doesn't understand the irony of the character. The dude is not who you aspire to be. The dude is kind of a punchline.

And everyone's like, that's how you look at it. That's the guy. That's the philosophy I like. I want a rug that ties the room together Just like he has It is I mean it's a beautiful movie too With those dream sequences and everything

It's both hilarious and beautiful It's such a great movie And it's a movie that I Watched when I was younger And I don't think I understood it I watched it when I was like 12 And then when I was in my 20s It was playing at midnight at the IFC I was like 21 and I went and I was like oh my god what was I thinking yeah

it's so perfect it's just so perfectly put together and even though it's really I mean it's it's a stupid movie I mean purposefully a stupid movie but it's like so smartly stupid only the Coen brothers can do that yeah I love it oh yeah burn after reading kind of a similar thing so dumb so, but so smart. So smart about it. You've gone high culture, low culture with your first two picks, Billy Madison and the Big Lebowski. That's me, baby. Devin Faraci

from Birth, Movies, Death, and from a special place in all of our hearts by this point in the podcast. You have your second pick, the final pick. I was considering going with the Brendan Fraser, but now I felt bad. I think there's a lot of empathy in this room i just like he's he has it tough these days so i felt like a lot but um i'm actually gonna go with fargo beautiful back-to-back because i just don't know that that's gonna last i don't like it yeah it wouldn't have

made it so deep yeah so far Fargo one of the great movies of all time and Buscemi is incredible in it I just love him in it and I can watch that movie anytime any day

yeah it's just amazing yeah I feel like he's gonna have the best one the two of you definitely have

the best list so far because Sergio and I have Con Air and the Mummy respectively just a reminder both of those went off the board before the big Lebowski the best list so far because Sergio and I have Con Air and The Mummy respectively on ours. Just a reminder, both of those went off the board

before The Big Lebowski and Fargo. I really feel like a couple of fucking idiots over here. Ethan and Joel Cohen are blowing their brains out. Fargo is an amazing movie

and of course has spawned now an amazing television show Frances McDormand just on fucking fire in that movie she's so good Steve Buscemi plays her partner in it

right? is that right? I haven't seen it in a while no he's one of the no he's one of the bad guys yeah yeah that's what I said that's exactly what he said

I heard that we all heard it Sergio geez it's fucking I heard the first time I saw Fargo and incidentally the only time I've seen Fargo, was just a beautiful night in college. We went out, just broke, but we saved all our money up and went out to a steakhouse. And then we got college drunk and sat around and watched Fargo. Oh, and we had been snowboarding earlier in the day.

Just a pleasant day. I had no idea you were such a cool dude. I'm a pretty cool guy. I suck now pretty hard, but back then I was snowboarding and eating steak. Real men's rights activist. Fargo deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant

and then placed in the Library of Congress. Right next to the mummy. Yeah, right next to the mummy. That Sergio snuck in there. And hid him a copy of Birth of the Nation. It's an amazing movie. Does anyone, I mean, it almost goes without saying. Does anyone else have anything to say about Fargo?

Everyone just brings it in that movie, like from top to bottom. Like everyone's so great. Busmi yes storm air um yeah but like you're saying like francis mcdormand it's just she's so incredible like i love that movie and uh i really wish i picked that because you definitely nice peter storm air pull off the top of the head he's great yeah i think he's great and everything who where does the i mean we just had top of the head. He's great. I think he's great in everything. I mean, we just had two of the Coen Brothers' finest works. Where are those Fargo and Big Lebowski? I mean, they're jousting for the top position of their

film catalog, right? It's so funny. You know what? The other day I was talking to somebody about somebody had said that the best Coen Brothers movie was True Grit, which is, I think, a really weird position. That is a weird opinion. But then we started talking about, like, well, what is the best Coen Brothers movie? And there's no answer.

There isn't. You can't. There's just no way. And from like minute to minute, your mind's going to change on which is the best. Yeah, because with Tarantino, you can easily,

you can say like, oh, it's Pulp Fiction, right? Because that's like the easy one to pick out. It's maybe the most iconic, but there isn't. All the Coen Brothers movies, they're all sitting

on the top shelf together. Yeah, it's crazy. I think I like how they can balance between genres and stuff right yeah i really i mean although the best one is probably miller's crossing i mean miller's crossing is really brilliant fargo is really up there uh yeah i mean i mean raising arizona is like raising arizona is unreal uh a serious man if you're uh if that's the one right now that's the uh that's the very jewish one that's the very is like one of the funniest comedies in the world. Raising Arizona is unreal. A Serious Man, if you're a, that's the one, right?

That's the very Jewish one. That's the very Jewish one, yeah. That came out at the same time as like A Single Man, which was the Tom Ford movie, and I always confuse them. That's great. If you grew up Jewish,

which I did, and maintain a Judaism, it's amazing. It's so funny, and like a lot of it hits home, and I've heard people who grew up like actually in that era, like it's like a fucking carbon copy i mean yeah even like a serious man

is amazing which people i think sleep on a little bit even movies like the man who wasn't there i think that is like a really weird one yeah is terrific like if you go back and re-watch that it is terrific well even like the the lady killers too which was like there which i think people would maybe point to i maybe have to i think think people would maybe point to as their worst movie. I think that's their worst movie. Yeah, that's their worst movie, but it's also an okay movie. Oh, Intolerable Cruelty. Oh, that's right.

That one's bad. That's hard to justify. That one is as bad as they can get, and it's still probably a movie you'd watch on an airplane. Yeah, I would definitely watch it on an airplane. It's still a movie that Brendan Fraser wishes he was in. God, we would kill watch on an airplane. It's still a movie that Brendan Fraser wishes he was in. God, we would kill. We would kill to be in that. Well, speaking of

Brendan Fraser, Devin, you have the first pick of the third round and the option of taking, wait, is that right? Yeah, that's right.

You have the first pick of the third round and the option to alleviate some of Brendan Fraser's I'm going to do it. I've been thinking about it a lot. some of the intolerable cruelty that's been demonstrated to him. I'm going to do it.

I've been thinking about it. I'm going to pick a movie that I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with or not. A movie called Gods and Monsters. Gods? Gods and Monsters. Our friend Ben has an impression of Sean Connery at the 1998

Golden Globe so then you are familiar okay I love that movie it's maybe the only really great performance

anybody ever got a Brenner Fraser a biopic right it's a biopic about James Whale the guy that directed Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein may be one of the greatest movies of all time and James Whale was a closeted gay man in Hollywood. And this is about his later life.

Ian McKellen plays him. And Brendan Fraser is like the pool boy that comes to live with him. And it's this tension and old Hollywood, new Hollywood, gay, straight,

like, you know, youth, age. It's really great. Bill Condon directed it, who's a really good filmmaker um i think this is a really wonderful movie and i want to get a good brendan fraser movie and that's really nice i think i feel like that's the only bottle of top shelf brendan fraser available i was thinking about school ties because great i really like school ties he doesn't

like jews so i that's very that's very recognizable for most Americans. Yeah, most Americans get that. You're going for the Trump demographic. For the cluck heads. I'm going to stick with Gods and Monsters. Gods and Monsters. I will say, that is upsetting because I was about to select Gods and Monsters. You were going to take it? Just to do Gods and Monsters.

It's a movie I have never seen i just read a wikipedia page about it like two years ago yeah i was like oh i want to see that it was released have you seen it yet no i haven't seen it either i think maybe it was released in 1998 also ian mckellen's in it it seems like lynn redgrave what a fucking name that is. Lynn Redgrave. Everyone say Lynn Redgrave. Not at the same time, just separately. Lynn Redgrave. Really lean into it. Get some velvet in your voice.

I can't do that. I have vocal fry. Yeah. Well, say it with vocal fry. Let's hear it. Lynn Redgrave. It's fun. It's fun.

Devin? Lynn Redgrave. Ooh, I like that. Sergio? Lynn Redgrave. Oh, okay like that. Sergio? Lynn Redgrave. Oh, okay. Are you doing an impression of me? You put a fun California spin on it.

Yeah. Lynn Redgrave. All right. Fantastic. Well, the Lynn Redgrave movie, Gods and Monsters, which also features Brendan Fraser, the first movie off the shelf in the third round was Sean O'Connor. Alright. Time to add to your collection of Billy Madison and The Big Lebowski.

It's going to seem controversial, but I have to go Mummy Returns. I'm just kidding. That would be a mistake. Yeah. That would be a mistake. But I will say, I'm definitely going to take with my third pick yeah

the wedding singer i think it is i mean like here's why it's my mom's favorite she loves the wedding singer and it's like as a kid i i i remember it was actually the first movie i was ever disappointed in yeah because like something happened when you're a kid you get so excited about this movie yeah like you go in it's like why i hated anchorman the first time i saw it because i was like this movie's gonna be amazing and it was like i didn't do what i thought it was going to do right but now i like anchorman but the wedding singer i went in thinking was going to do. Right. But now I like Anchorman. But The Wedding Singer, I went in thinking it was going to be Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison,

and now he's like a sweet guy. Right. Yeah. He's trying to cross over a little bit. It was a crossover film, and I didn't like it at first. But then my mom loved it, and she would watch it,

and I would be there, and I'm like, oh, this sucks. But then I started watching it, and I'm like, oh, this sucks. But then I started watching it. I'm like, oh, I really like the wedding scene. Yeah. It gets great performances out of Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi. Buscemi's in it, another double dipper.

Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore. John Lovitz. John Lovitz has a great villain in Glenn Guglio. I would love to hear him say Lynn Redgrave. Yeah. Lynn Redgrave! There it is!

They could stop it by John well your mom loved it she was probably a lady of that town in the 80s a little bit she was a prostitute constantly getting in and out of DeLoreans also what is Adam Sandler's friend's name

who has kind of a bigger role his friend who dresses like Michael Jackson. Oh, Alan Covert. Alan Covert. It was the first appearance of Alan Covert. Yeah. And it's a pretty, it's kind of a lot of Alan Covert. It is. He has one funny line in it where it's definitely just his lack of acting ability.

Yeah. But he says, they were coons. I really like that. The soundtrack's great. Yeah. it's a big movie for karaoke yeah gigantic movie for karaoke it also has like one of those i know it's set in 1985 but it's not really set in 1985 it's like one of those things where it's set in the 80s yeah yeah yeah yeah because like the time to make the donuts commercial came out in 1981 and they're still watching it to be like oh my god that's that played that did probably non-stop

as a new yorker that played non-stop the time to make donuts commercial oh so i will i will give them the pass oh yeah listen it's approved i'm a new yorker i was living i was living in new york in the 80s uh 100 percent nonstop. This is Long Island, right? Isn't that where it's set? Yeah, Long Island. Yeah, yeah. No, no. Upstate New Jersey.

Okay, yeah. It's New Jersey. It's set. This is actually interesting. It's set in the same town as Blended is set. Really? So is Blended a sequel to the wedding? Is there an Adam Sandler verse?

There is definitely an Adam Sandler verse. There's a lot of carryover, like, carryover now. And his band member, played by Alexis Arquette, is also in Blended as the same character.

A little older, obviously, but then she's the announcer for, like, the Little League game they go to. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. Blended is technically a sequel to is somebody writing adam sandler verse found fit like fan fiction are they like creating the connective tissue we at sandler con we've kind of started piecing this together there's like a lot of characters that come back like 50 first dates is attached to uh jack and j Really? Yeah. So those are set in the same universe. You know how Stephen King did the Dark Tower

and then all of his books are connected to it? Yeah. What is going to be Sandler's Dark Tower? Oh, yeah. I'll tell you what it wasn't. Pixels. Yeah. Fuck, The Wedding Saga.

That is a good movie. That kind of that's kind of the end of his peak it is you know yeah because then he went too sentimental with big daddy yeah like so you had got too saccharine yeah yeah uh good good ass pick you now have billy madison the big lebowski and the wedding singer uh sounds like my dvd it sounds like a blockbuster is going out of business of Billy Madison, The Big Lebowski, and The Wedding Singer. Sounds like my DVD collection. It sounds like a blockbuster is going out of business. It's now on me. It's time for my third pick,

the third pick of the third round. And I am going to go again with Steve Buscemi, but I'm going to make the first foray out of the world of movies and into the world of television. And I'm going to take The Sopranos, which he was on.

He played Tony Blondetto, a criminal released from prison who was part of the Soprano crime family, trying to get his life back together. Very bad at it. Very bad at it. And forced Tony to kill him eventually. Yeah, right. Exactly. Buscemi killed by Tony Soprano. It's just such a good show. bad at it and very bad at it forced tony to kill him yeah right exactly but shall we kill yeah

killed by tony's tony soprano but it's just such a good show i've never watched the soprano so i'm from new jersey yeah i grew up like uh with a lot of like like all the kids i went to school with i think their their dads were definitely connected. And when I was like 11, when all these movies started coming to us, I decided that I was like, I'm never going to watch these movies. And now it's... Now when you say these movies, why don't you be a little more specific for a second? These Italian pieces of shit. Why don't you be more specific about the exact movies that you haven't seen

I've never seen any of the Godfather movies I've never seen Goodfellas I've never seen The Sopranos these are all these are all pretty good

yeah pretty good worth checking out you kind of can't go wrong with watching those but you did as admitted earlier in the podcast

see 36 hours of Adam Sandler movies oh and I've also seen every direct to video-video American Pie movie. That's right. Yeah, but you know what? I mean, I guess that's a weird hole to have, but you didn't choose The Mummy. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, you have that hole, but you didn't choose The Mummy. You don't look that bad. But honestly, after this, I'm probably, I think eventually this year, I'm going to sit down and do it. The Sopranos is amazing. The Sopranos is great. And there's so many good I mean aside from Steve Buscemi

who we'll be honest is not like a pivotal character in the show but a really good one. So many amazing performers not just from Gandolfini but I mean like so many different people. It's so fucking good. Probably the birth of prestige television as we know it right now.

Yeah. So it launched, I mean, the thing where like some of the best art on film is now being made just for television. And it kind of started with The Sopranos. It also kickstarted Don't Start Believing into being like the song that's so overplayed now. Because you hadn't heard that for like 10 years. Right, right, right. Now it's as big as Living on a Prayer or bigger. I didn't mind. that's so overplayed now because you hadn't heard that for like 10 years. Right, right, right. Now it's as big as Living on a Prayer or bigger. I didn't mind.

It's like the cheese dick song. It's such a cheese dick song. It's such a fucking New Jersey-ass cheese dick song. It really is. Yeah. It truly is. Like, you know,

like a girl Tiffany is singing it in a bar. Getting a lot of the lyrics wrong. I fucking love this the Sopranos was so big at some point like Italian food restaurants would just have these nights

like on Sundays where it's like come on in and watch it and we'll give you Italian food they called marinara gravy which was the first time I'd ever heard well maybe Goodfellas

was the first time that's what we do we call it gravy yeah you guys call it gravy right the fuck is that about gravy is gravy isn't it no gravy that's for white people

gravy gravy it's different what do you guys call like Thanksgiving gravy The fuck is that about? Gravy is gravy, isn't it? No, gravy, that's for white people. Gravy is different. What do you guys call Thanksgiving gravy? I guess we just call it gravy, too. That's all gravy. We're not that bright. It's fine. I would call marinara sauce Lynn Red Gravy.

Lynn Red Gravy. Laser! Shout out to Pete Holmes. laser shout out to pete holmes and i'm just co-opting laser uh all right so i took the sopranos with my third pick uh sergio it's time to build on the empire that you've started putting together with the mummy pick i really i really don't want you guys to hate me after this. We'll not hate you. But I got to go with, from Steve Buscemi. Yeah. Armageddon.

Yes! Yes! Okay. I was worried for a second because I didn't. Okay. I love that. I love that movie. It's awful.

It's terrible. It's fucking great, though. There bizarre moments like uh the uh animal crackers scene and that is weird it's just so like i remember watching it when i had a killer arrowsmith song all right this is something that i've been too embarrassed to admit but my first cd i ever bought with my own money was the armageddon soundtrack and it was just so i could listen to that song even though it's already on the radio all the time. Mine was a jock. But you didn't want to miss a thing. I didn't want to miss a thing. You come in halfway through that song and you missed several things.

Exactly. That's a good – we'll go off on this tangent really quick. My first was jock jams that I bought with my own money. You were ready for this. Yeah. Yeah, I was too. I was fully ready for it. Sean?

Mine was Best of Queen. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. Dylan, do you remember? I'm old, so it was vinyl. Yeah. But mine was best of queen yeah that's a good one yeah yeah do you remember i'm old so it was vinyl uh but it was uh pink floyd the wall oh god you guys both have fucking cool ass armageddon soundtrack and jock jams we also have the worst list so far uh what do you think is the worst of the four uh so i? I think it is the Armageddon soundtrack. What other song was on it? It was like the CZ Top song.

It was the Aerosmith version of Sweet Emotion. Okay. Yeah, and then it was a bunch of like... Leaving on a Jet Plane? Yeah, that. One of those soundtracks where it's songs from and inspired by the motion picture. It isn't even in the movie.

It's just shit they put on there. As well as pieces of score from throughout the movie. It was just... I think Buscemi in Armageddon is amazing because he has the same problem that Ren has in Ren and Stimpy. They both have space madness. There's an episode of ren and

stimpy where he gets space madness it's great he also he's the best character in armageddon by far like i mean like his storyline's incredible like taking money out that's what i would do it's nice to see a scumbag you know what I mean like in a heroic movie yeah that was fucking that's a that's a Michael Bay Jerry Bruckheimer

yeah and a good cast too I mean you got Michael Clark Duncan and Bruce Willis rest in power Michael Clark Duncan um

Owen Wilson yeah right Owen Wilson Liv Tyler like Peake Liv Tyler Peake Liv Tyler

uh Billy Bob Thornton oh that's right yeah yeah it's great William Robert Thornton. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. William Robert Thornton. Yeah, yeah.

I like the premise of the movie. I like the idea that it's easier to train miners to be astronauts than astronauts to fucking run a drill. I like that premise. I really – they just stuck with it. It's probably a drill. You think an astronaut just couldn't run a drill? You just send them up there? It's like, here's a drill.

You're an astronaut. Figure it out. No, no. They don't have the grit. They don't have the manpower. Physicists. They're either fighter pilots or physicists. They could have just sent

fighter pilots up there. They probably would have been fine. Part of the, of course, asteroid movie wars of 1990, whatever, 1998.

Yeah, with Armageddon and Deep Impact. Deep Impact being like the realistic one. Right. Right, a little more grounded, which is what we want out of asteroid disaster movies. Armageddon's a fun fucking movie.

That's a very 90s movie, too. When was the last time you... Did you see it recently? I think the last time I watched it was about a year ago. Yeah. Yeah, it's easy to watch because you know how watched it was about a year ago. Yeah. It's easy to watch because you know how awful it is, but it's so much fun. I'm so excited as

the guy who's never seen Godfather and Goodfellas to not have the shittiest taste. I think that this is the first movie we've chosen so far that's on the Criterion collection. Oh yeah. Armageddon. Arm that's on the Criterion collection. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Armageddon. Armageddon is a Criterion movie. Is Lebowski and Fargo having a Criterion? No, they don't license it out. They make too much money. They just existed as Criterion movies anyway. Yeah, but this is officially the Criterion. Officially Criterion.

That's amazing. And The Rock. The Rock also is a Criterion. He's Michael Bay, innovative action movie director. I like the animal crackers scene going back to that. It's kind of – I mean like graham crackers were visually – initially invented as an anti-masturbatory device. And then here they are in the form of animal crackers, very sexualized. Very sexualized.

Very sexual. Like it looked like Affleck it was affleck right it was gonna put the animal cracker in her vagina yeah i think that was implied with the belly button yeah next up or he was fucking her belly button yeah could have been one of the other true he just wasn't that bright he didn't know not that bright didn't know maintains that level too although he's probably pretty smart but was very drunk on that episode of any given wednesday uh sergio so you just picked uh armageddon with the final pick of the third round you also have the first pick of the fourth round where are you going all right this might be cheating but i'm gonna go for it i'm going saturday night live

what the fuck wow wow i'm going with the american institution holy shit i want i so many great characters and uh people have come out of that uh show are you going to adam sandler or steve buscemi is possibly a guest i guess let's do it sandler i gotta go back to sandler yeah it didn't even occur to me to do that keep talking i'm trying to interrupt you i know i mean you got so many i mean obviously we all watched it growing up. You know, it's had its ups and downs, but it's remained the best sketch comedy show on Saturday nights. Yeah. I mean, Saturday Night Live is one of the funniest shows ever.

Still not as funny as you taking the mummy second. You now officially have Charles Rocket. That's true. Congratulations. Wait, who votes on who wins? The listeners? A blue ribbon panel. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The listeners. The listeners. So the Midwest is all for Sergio. Big time Sergio. Sergio is so down the middle. He's like, you like sand faces? Hockey? Sand faces? Animal crackers? hockey sand faces animal crackers every i'm an every man you aren't everybody you are every woman uh saturday night live fucking i mean what can what can even be said about it's almost too big to even to boil down to a discussion church lady uh bobby moynihan yeah church lady bobby Lady, Bobby Moynihan, Kitty Cat Astronaut. Church Lady, Bobby Moynihan. Yes.

The two most iconic characters. Church Lady and Bobby Moynihan. Kitty Cat Astronaut. Shout out to Bobby Moynihan. Who are your favorites? This is Adam Sandler. Who are some of your favorite Adam Sandler characters from Saturday Night Live? I mean, I love the Gap Girls.

Those girls are funny. They are for the hair. Are you playing a character? He's taking your Midwestern suggestion and running with it. Great. The Gap Girls. I loved Opera Man. Yes.

Anytime Adam would come on the Weekend Update and just play a little song. I liked Gilby. Do you remember the I liked Gilby. Do you remember the character of Gilby? He was like a concert reviewer. No, I don't remember that character. Every time he was reviewing a concert, Norm would be like, well, how was the Rolling Stones thing?

He was like, as soon as they hit the chord for You Can't Always Get What You Want, I was thrown out of Madison Square Garden and beat mercilessly. So every costume just got this shake kicked out of them.

That's funny. Since you picked Saturday Night Live via Adam Sandler, I'm now going to ask you to do your famous Adam Sandler impression for the listeners, if you wouldn't mind. Let's see if I can even do it. I have to remind you, this is not Adam Sandler in the studio. This is Sergio Serda.

The headphones came off. I can't stop going to the bathroom! I can't stop going to the bathroom! I can only say that one line. Do your own Wilson for Armageddon. There's something like having your first dog. Perfect. Two flawless impressions.

Do you want to give, what's the lady with the Stifler's mom? Jennifer Coolidge? Jennifer Coolidge. That's why we're. Oh, my God. So you got two impressions. You got two impressions. We're not going to tell you which two.

I'll take it. All right. Sergio striking oil with that Saturday Night Live. That is a good pick. We're now moving on to me. This is my fourth pick, the second pick of the fourth round. And I am going to draft the titular movie of this particular podcast. I'm taking

Airheads. I fucking love Airheads. Great movie. Is it a great movie? Thank you guys for saying that. Because I love it and I don't know if I have good taste in it. It's of that time of dude movies. Dude movies. Dude movies. Yeah. Wayne's World, Bill and Ted, Airheads. Yeah, just

like, just dude friends. You know what I mean? Sometimes there were girls involved, but it's not, it wasn't about that, it was about friendship. And Wayne's World, Bill and Ted, Airheads. Yeah, just like just dude friends. You know what I mean? Sometimes there were girls involved, but it wasn't about that. It was about friendship. And it's like dudes, not bros. Yeah. I want to make that distinction. Yes. Dudes, not bros. Yeah. What is the distinction? Because there is one. Nobody in Airheads is going to date rape anybody. Yeah.

That's the distinction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like dudes are kind of like losers, but all they want to do is have fun and get successful, which is actually a weird trait to give the dudes. There's a bunch of slacker dudes. There's slacker dudes, but like Wayne and Garth are like slackers, but they also want to make money with their own TV show. They're kind of driven.

Bill and Ted, they want to be in a band. Airheads, they want to be in a band. Yeah. But they shouldn't want anything. They're great. They were motivated. They weren't really slackers even though it was the slacker generation, right?

Yeah. Yeah, not one. I just love that movie. It's a fun... It was on Comedy Central, I feel like, every day. Every day. When we were growing up.

You know what I mean? Just like every day. I watched it so many times. I still one day aspire to squirt hot sauce onto a burrito with a water gun. And now it's almost like a historical document because of them breaking into a radio station when that was still a big deal. If that happened now, it might not be on the news. No, yeah. They're like, okay, yeah, Hugh now owned 98.7.

Yeah, yeah. Fine, have it. He also inherited all of our debt. Yeah. He had Michael Richards as, like, the John McClane character, which is super cool. That was great. Judd Nelson. Chris Farley was in it, playing that cop.

Oh, yeah. Really funny. Another little Chris Farley role. Brendan Fraser was cool in that movie. Yeah, he was. That was one of the was cool in that movie. Yeah, he was. That was one of the better long hair Fraser films. Yeah, yeah.

Maybe the best long hair Fraser film. I just loved it. It made me want to be in a rock band when I was a chubby little kid in Beaverton, Oregon. It was just fucking cool. Brendan Fraser banged Super Hot Girls and Adam Sandler wanted to.

But this is the girl who worked at the radio station They had that really weird flirtation Yeah they had that weird flirtation I just remember when they walk in And Adam Sandler covers his penis with his like bean Yeah yeah yeah It almost looked like a stocking cap Or almost like a

Do-rag Yeah it was almost like a knitted yarmulke I love the song in Airhead Their song Regenerate Like a do-rag. Yeah, it was almost like a knitted yarmulke. I love the song in Airhead. Their song, Regenerate. Yeah. It's a good song. They played it at the prison at the end of the movie.

It fucking kicks ass. Yeah. It's kind of actually cool. Airheads is a good movie. Airheads is a good-ass movie. And I buy those three as a band. Yeah. You know, one of them is good-looking. You know, Brendan Fraser.

He's the lead singer. Yeah. But Buscemi is like the one but shimmy looks like everyone from death clock uh yeah degenerated who i have the wikipedia up here right now the song played by the lone rangers in the film was originally uh by hardcore punk band reagan youth wow yeah that's i did not know that yeah shout out to re to Reagan Youth on the podcast here. Yeah, fucking I love Airheads. Happy I could pick it. Sean O'Connor. I didn't know it was up for grabs.

I'll tell you the truth. Yeah, yeah. I don't think I was going to pick it, but I didn't know it was up for grabs. It was up for grabs when I took it. With my next pick, which I believe is my fourth pick. It is your fourth pick. I am going to pick, from Steve Buscemi, Monsters, Inc.

Nice. Okay. I really like Monsters, Inc. I think it's a great Pixar movie. It's not in my top five, but I really like it. And I genuinely can't pick a Brendan Fraser film come on Dudley Do-Right

I really like it Buscemi gets like it's a voice acting role but still he gets to play a creep yeah which is great

Randall Boggs it's got my least favorite comedian of all time Billy Crystal you love Billy Crystal I love Billy Crystal I love John Goodman.

It's cute. It's fun. It's a great kids movie. Monsters, Inc., come aboard. Great James Coburn movie? I have to admit, I've never seen Monsters, Inc.

Really? Yeah, I don't know why. I have an animation hole in my resume. It's way better than Monsters University. Okay. Which seems opposite. You'd go to university and that would be the logical step up. It was a prequel. It's not a top five Pixar movie for you.

No. I think Pixar movies for me, I think I go Ratatouille. Bugs Life. One through five. Cars 2. I like Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, Up,

The Incredibles, and then I guess I would go Monsters. How many of those did you cry through? Just Up or a few of them? Toy Story 3. Oh, yeah. I mean, everyone has said it, but I truly believed they were going to die.

They're fucking savage. They just kill all your... Thanks for your money, kids. I love a good movie cry. I'll watch that first scene from up on an airplane yeah oh yeah that's the only time i cry at movies now is that airplanes i mean i don't even know if i like movies i'm watching on an airplane and i'm just bawling like i saw me earl and the dying girl i don't know if i liked that movie but i know i cried a lot i don't the first

time i experienced that phenomenon i was was watching The Man Without a Face and just bawling. I was probably like 11 years old on like an airplane, just like, why? I was on an airplane next to this really attractive woman, and I was watching Sing Street, and I started

crying at a scene in Sing Street, like out of nowhere, and then she had to go to the bathroom. And so I'm like, to of nowhere. And then she had to go to the bathroom. And so I'm, like, desperate. To this crying fat guy next to her. She was so turned on by his hands. I'm, like, trying to play it cool. Like, no, I'm not sitting on a plane crying to a movie right now. But you can't.

Like, that's the thing about crying on a plane. You can't do this. No, you're doing the two-handed thing. Where you're wiping both eyes. What you have to do is grab the barf bag pretend like you're barfing and then wipe your face like

that's the move yeah then the lady would have stayed yeah sidebar if any of these three people were in Sing Street

I would have picked Sing Street yeah alright fantastic so you picked Monsters Inc Devin

Devin Faraci. You have the final pick of the fourth round. I'm going to go back to – I'm going to keep it Bashemi. I'm going to go with Ghost World. Ghost World. Very nice. Ghost World. His character –

I forgot. His character in that movie is a character I identify with in a profound way. Yeah. As a guy who makes a living writing about all the shit that I like, my hobbies and stuff. Yeah. There's a scene where he says, I hate my interests. And I feel that same way.

I feel like the stuff that I'm into is like a curse as opposed to like a gift. Yeah. And I love that about that character. I've never seen that in a movie before. You got to see yourself reflected in the piece of art. That's nice. It's in such a profound way because he's a guy

that collects his old jazz records and stuff that he knows that nobody else in the world gives a shit about. Yeah. And he feels that it's a curse on him

and I love that. You never see that. He's great. I mean, Steve Buscemi is a dynamic actor. Certainly the most dynamic actor of these three. Yeah, I would say.

Yeah, yeah. To be somebody who can do Con Air Armageddon and then his character in Ghost World, yeah, it's so great. Yeah, I would say. Yeah, yeah. To be somebody who can do Con Air Armageddon and then his character in Ghost World, yeah, it's so great. Yeah, he's very versatile. Yeah.

And his son is super cool. His son was in a super cool punk band in New York when I lived there. Really? Yeah, he was like 14 years old but they would always play at Sound Fix

and they were like these 14-year-olds who were playing cool punk music and then one of I think their guitarist or their drummer looked exactly like

Steve Boucher do you think he tells me like oh my dad's a firefighter 9-11 hero no more questions but yeah Ghost World is so great such a great movie

yeah it's I mean it's like the last time it's not the last Brad Renfro film but it's like one of his last big roles, isn't it? One of his last big roles, yeah, I would say. And it's like peak Scarlett Johansson. Peak. Yeah, yeah.

Peak Scarlett Johansson and only Thora Birch. Yeah. Or not only but – yeah. Yeah. Well, it was so – that was like – was it after American Beauty? Yeah. American Beauty, she was – so here's my creepy story about American Beauty is that she was 16 in that movie. That's right.

And her parents had to sign off on her being topless. And since her parents were porn stars, they were pretty okay with it. They were like, let me sign that with my dick. Her dad's prehensile penis, which can grip a pen. That's how oh yeah because dora birch was like a big part of my childhood because she was like uh in what's it hocus pocus she she wasn't she was in now and then yeah which i love i think now and then is a movie that you could make now and it would be i love now and then yeah yeah but yeah

she was a big part of my childhood so american when american beauty came out i was like oh my god my crush naked and then i saw it i was like okay and then i saw ghost world and she was exactly like every single girl i was attracted that's the thing is sort of like i think there's probably like a wide swath of guys who are chasing after that one specific girl their whole life of course like as i was watching ghost world i was like enough scarlett johansson thorough birches speaking she yeah she is i mean she is like that's an iconic you know that's an iconic role

now and then probably a lot of the when they were little girls liked that movie and then when they got older got into Ghost World two very iconic movies oh her

in the Batgirl mask oh in the Batgirl she's wearing the Batgirl oh yeah good lord total I mean biggest nerd

Meltdown for a while the comic book shop here in Los Angeles was just like a church of Enid Coleslaw. It really was. Yeah. I had a friend who goes to Enid Coleslaw for Halloween a lot, and I was just like, I'll marry you right now.

You have to keep the mask on. Yeah, just keep the mask on, but let's get married. Fantastic pick, Devin. Ghost World, now we are on to the fifth round, and your final pick. Your final pick of the airheads draft this is hard i don't know because a couple of my picks have been taken out from underneath me yeah uh that's the game baby that's my i'm gonna try to do that as my catchphrase yeah that's the game that's the game baby kind of duke. Oh, fuck, you know what? That's the game, baby. I'm going to take a page from your book.

Fuck yeah. The Simpsons. Oh, shit. I just drafted The Simpsons. Oh, shit. You messed it up around. Wow. It happened.

Which particular, Steve Buscemi in The Simpsons? Sure. Adam Sandler's probably done it, too. It must have been Buscemi. Buscemi definitelymi in The Simpsons? Sure. Adam Sandler's probably done it too. It must have been Buscemi. Buscemi definitely is in The Simpsons. Because I don't think Brendan Fraser's done a voice for it. And I don't think Sandler has. Yeah.

But Buscemi's definitely. Yeah. Who's Buscemi in The Simpsons? I mean, it's fair game. He was in it. He's a character named Dwight. I literally have no idea. I'm just like, all my picks are gone, and I'm going through IMDb, and I was like, fuck,

we can do cultural institutions. Yeah, SNL really opened everything so fuck it yeah now snl looks like the shittiest thing he was in i i looked it up i looked it up on my laptop computer he was in an episode i don't want to know why the cage bird sings during the 19th season. 2007. Maybe not peak season. For the second time in the series, Marge helps a prison assailant. Marge meets Dwight. Second time in the series. God, that just sums up late periods. Oh, but written by our boy Dana Gould.

Oh, wow. This particular episode. So it was probably really funny. Yeah, he plays a guy named Dwight who attempts to rob a bank that he and Marge are in. And Marge promises she would visit him in prison if he turns himself in. And then she breaks her promise. So, yeah. Oh, wow.

Sounds like it has heart at the end. So this 2007 episode that you grab the tail of and you pull it out of the ground and there it is. There it is. The greatest television show of all time. That completes a very successful drive. Now I'm thinking, was he on Seinfeld ever? Right.

I'm going to do a 6th and 7th round pick right now. The news. I'm taking the Oscars, guys. So that gets me the Lord of the Rings. I'm on the waterfront. Pretty amazing pick. I mean, what's the point of even discussing The Simpsons?

If you've made it this far on this podcast, I'm assuming you're the type of person who also loves The Simpsons. Yeah, I mean, it's my favorite show of all time. Yeah, it's the fucking greatest. It's the most important thing to me in the whole world. The Simpsons. Yeah, I mean, it's my favorite show of all time. It's the most important thing to me in the whole world. The Simpsons and Seinfeld. It was picked right before I wouldn't have picked that because I never guessed it. So The Simpsons,

Devin, is your fifth pick. I'd just like to remind everyone that Sergio took the mummy second. Any other discussion on The Simpsons or on how Steve Buscemi – I would have assumed for some reason he would have been in it earlier. But maybe it's because he looks like a Simpsons character. Well, it is funny because he was so big in the 90s. Just was everywhere and so cool in the 90s. I didn't think that he would kind of play a Buscemi-esque character then.

Totally, right? But it took forever to get him in there, huh? He was too busy working probably until 2007. Look at his 1994. Yeah, let's pull it up right now. It's unreal, his 1994. Yeah, I was actually scrolling through his filmography on Wikipedia, and it took me forever to get to the year 2000.

He's done so many movies. All right, Stu Buscemi's 1994. He did, oh, wow. The Hudsucker Proxy. done so many movies all right steve buscemi's 1994 he did oh wow the hud sucker proxy he appeared in now we're giving stuff away but fucking at this point the adventures of pete and pete which he was in kind of heavy i think right or at least more than one episode uh floundering pulp fiction airheads somebody to love something called who do i gotta kill the search for one eye jimmy he was in so many movies so many movies 1994 and that's just one year out of the 90s like where he's and like two of them are like masterpieces i mean like it's like it's crazy what a good year wow that's amazing uh yeah fucking steve buscemi the god steve buscemi yeah i mean the bench is so

fucking deep on buscemi it really is he he might end up being one i mean of the of the 90 of our lifetime i mean one of the sneakily one of the most accomplished actors that's what you get for being like a character actor i guess right you get to work a lot that's the thing character actors get all the really cool opportunities they're in a lot of really great movies i mean like you get to be there i guess you know you get to create different kinds of characters you're not stuck playing the same dude again and again and again. Yeah. It's nice.

I mean, that's what, I mean, the sort of what like gave me the idea to do airheads as a, as a fantasy draft topic. I was thinking about it one day. I'm like, Brendan Fraser is clearly supposed to be the dude in this movie.

He's the person where all the studio executives were like, that's the guy. Yeah. That's going to be our fucking guy. He's the leading man. Yeah. And then the other two guys who played these weirdo little roles ended up having

some of the biggest careers in Hollywood history. Not that Steve Buscemi made a ton of money, but Adam Sandler certainly one of the biggest careers in comedy Hollywood history. I'm sure I wouldn't turn down

Steve Buscemi's bank account. I can't. Right. He's probably sneaky rich. He didn't make a ton of money, but I'm sure he's got. I'm sure he's doing it. Plus that firefighter pension.

That's exactly right. All right. The Simpsons coming off the board. Devin's fifth pick, fifth and final pick. Sean O'Connor, you are now up. And I am going to choose with my final pick. I think it's my game changer, guys. I am going to let Sergio off the hook.

Okay. He's no longer going to have the worst pick of this draft. Where are you going? Because with my final selection, I am choosing Encino Man. Wow! It is an awful film. It's so bad. And

it was also the introduction of Pauly Shore as a movie star. Yeah. So it's a harmful movie. It's actively harmful. You have him debuting, Brendan Fraser debuting, and it was like...

You got Rudy in it, Sean Astin's in it. Yeah, Sean Astin, right before we stopped seeing Sean Astin in movies. We traded Sean Astin for Pauly Shore as a nation, as a culture. But at the same time, it's a fun time dude movie. Big time dude movie. Big time dude movie.

Almost two dude. It spawned one of, like, if you think Sandler and Buscemi have been in movies a lot together, you don't know the half of how many movies Pauly Shore and Brendan Fraser have been in together. Because a little fun fact about Encino Man, every single Paulie Shore movie from Encino Man to about, I guess, Jury Duty,

Link, the character that Brendan Fraser plays, is in those movies. What? He's like in the background, or he's like on the news, but no matter what, Brendanan fraser filmed for at least two hours to be in those movies just as this like sort of running inside joke for all the true poly shoreheads yeah yeah it's just always links on a tv like link is like drinking

like a gallon of milk in the background and in the army now wow yeah so if anyone is is either too young to have seen and see no man or has too good a taste is uh it's a movie where these two men find a frozen caveman in their backyard they're too like high school outcasts yeah they asked their mom for a pool yeah so they could i think skateboard in it i think like sean astin wants to skateboard but paulie sure is like but, but the pool, honey. Yeah, the pool. So they make them dig the pool themselves. So they're in their backyard digging the pool, and then they stumble upon an iced caveman. You know what's funny?

When this movie came out, I was living back east. But now that I live in L.A., I find the idea of a frozen caveman in Encino to be a little hard to believe. That he would still be frozen. Isn to be a little hard to believe. That he would still be frozen. Isn't that a little hard to believe? That's the most unrealistic part of this. That's the only part that I can't. Encino. Encino, really?

Huh. And how could you tell the difference if there was a caveman amongst you? Maybe that's kind of the big joke of the movie. Fucking Encino Man. It's charming. It is charming. There's that Howie Mandel movie, Walk Like a Man. That one's bad.

Encino Man is okay. Encino Man, good. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, owned by Sergio. That's like right at the bottom of his list of characters. Well, Frozen Caveman Loy is good. I love it. I'll ride for Frozen Caveman Loy. Bobby Moynihan, Kitty Cat.

Bibby Moynihan. So, okay. Great pick. That wraps up your draft. I feel okay with it. You feel okay with it? I am now going. We're going to move me for my fifth pick.

I have decided at this point, based on Sean and Devin, your drafts, that I'm probably not going to win this one. So now I'm just going weird. Because it's brought me more joy, I think, than anything that's left on the list. So what I'm going to pick right now is from Brendan Fraser, and it's that short gif of him clapping really weird. I didn't know that was on the table. Oh, it's on the table, baby!

Do you have it? Can you show it to us right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me find it really quick. I want to see it right now, yeah. I don't know where it is. I don't care what award show it was. I believe it's the Golden Globes.

Okay, the Golden Globes. That's probably one of the few that he can get into. Yeah. And he was serving. He was serving. He was a seat filler. Oh, yeah. So Robert De Niro is making a joke behind the microphone.

Here it is. I'll just hand you the computer, Devin. And, you know, they cut to a few they cut to they cut to some luminaries in the crowd you get to see Marty's on there it's De Niro

De Niro cracks a joke and for some reason they cut to Brendan Fraser who claps and laughs perfect in a way like he's been who claps and laughs. Perfect. In a way. Perfect. In a way like he's been struck with a palsy in the middle of trying to clap.

Oh, which you probably, why Hollywood won't cast Brendan Fraser anymore. You've seen that video, right? I think you snuck up on me while I was watching that at work. I did. What did they determine? Was it just the mummy?

The clap actually did play into it, I think. They said that bizarre clap really turned a lot of people off. Wait, really? That's what the video says. It's probably bullshit. You know Vincent D'Onofrio's character in Men in Black where it's just a bug in his mouth? It looks like him trying to clap, like trying to blow, like he took that gimmick too far. Now he's at an award show.

Like, oh, no. I'm going to clap for Robert De Niro. It is. It's crazy. He claps and then his hands go off in one direction while his body goes in the other. It's like he has no control over his fingers. And then he starts pointing. Like he does this weird clap and then starts pointing at Robert De Niro.

Like the joke was just for Frasier, baby. You know what I mean? He's like, you fucking got me, Bobby. The tragedy of that is there's so many people in that room. And he could have just been doing that to himself. but the camera just happened to fucking cut it out. That is crazy. It was the one where the director was like, fucking, let's get it on Brandon Frazier because he has a work to do. Let's help him out.

And they couldn't have known he was going to do that. They couldn't have. They have to have a camera. Camera three, go. Perfectly on him. Yeah, camera three, go. Frazier making a complete ass of himself. Just laughing.

But also maybe having the best time of the Golden globes out of anyone who was there uh so brendan frazier living his best life is uh my fifth pick clapping at the golden globe it's a great pick so you know you got the simpsons on one side of the scale and brendan frazier clapping maybe four seconds on the other and i'm feeling i'm feeling good about my final pick sergio you have the final pick. I can't beat that. Of the final round of the draft. I'm just going to go with a movie that I'm pretty sure most of you don't know. It's Buscemi.

Yes. It's a movie called Ed and His Dead Mother. I know Ed and His Dead Mother. Ed and His Dead Mother. It's not a great movie. Yeah. But it was on HBO one time when I was eight years old. Yeah.

And it's the first time I saw a pair of breasts on TV. Yes. So I really have a special place in my heart for that film. Was it the dead mother's breasts? No. Oh, thank God. No, it's like the neighbor or something. It's a really weird movie.

So his mom dies, Buscemi's mom dies, and he brings her back to life, right? Isn't that the premise? I think so. And she's got these weird – she's still technically dead, so she's got bugs all over her. It's such a gross movie. Great title. I'm all about them titties. Yeah, you love them titties.

Fun fact, Sam Sorbo is in the movie. I don't know what her name was at the time, but since 1998, her last name is Sorbo because she married Kevin Sorbo. Was that – did you see her – I think that was her. Were those the first pair of boobs you saw? Was this – if I should – Hercules' wife's boobs? I think so.

Was born again Christian? Born again, yeah. I could be wrong. I don't know. Sergio saw Kevin Sorbo's wife's boobs. That's great. Yeah. And I was only eight years old.

I'm sure that the Lord will forgive you if you become born again like Kevin Sorbo's wife's boobs. That's great. And I was only eight years old. I'm sure that the Lord will forgive you if you become born again like Kevin Sorbo. Absolutely. Did she give you a Sorbo? You're like Sam Sorbo. The Trading Places was my first set of on-screen boobs. Terrific. JLC. JLC.

Jamie Lee Curtis. And then first in-theater boobs, Starship Troopers. I feel like you started off so strong that it's like downhill from treading. That's really a... They were great. It's the perfect pair.

Mine was Species. I went with my cousins to see Species. They were like 16 and I was like 8. And I... That movie did a number on me. Yeah. I walked out of Mortal Kombat I think at the age of eight, nine, or ten because

Goro was too scary. And you went in Suspicious. Yeah. There was some fucking in that movie. There was some hard fucking I think. Devin, do you remember your first movie boobs? It has to be my uncle snuck me in when I was

seven or eight or yeah, eight think, to see The Jerk. Oh, yeah. And then there's boobs in The Jerk. So that has to be my first because I would never seen an R-rated movie before that. What a beautiful moment. I feel like that's probably lost a little bit where now the internet is everywhere. I feel like boobs are just flying at you something right. Yeah, so boring.

I did look up that scene recently. Yeah. And it's like a side shot and it's like in the dark yeah like i'm pretty sure you're not even really meant to see them but that was gold back then yeah you'll find them yeah uh that's amazing when you saw it when you re-watched it did it give you a sore boner. You know. I hope so, man. I hope so for you

and for everyone here. So that concludes the All Fantasy Everything Airheads edition. Really quick, let's go over the lists again. Devin Farachi, you picked Punch Drunk Love

right out of the gate. And then Fargo. And then Gaunch. And Monsters. And then Ghost World and followed it up with. And Monsters. And then Ghost World. And following it up with a little television show called The Simpsons. Sean O'Connor, your first pick was Billy Madison. And then you went with the big Lebowski.

And then The Wedding Singer. And then Monsters, Inc. Our second Monsters? Our second Monsters movie. And then we capped it all off with Encino Man. I picked, with my first pick, Reservoir Dogs, and then went with Con Air, and then the television show The Sopranos, and then Airheads, and then a clip of Brendan Fraser clapping for my final pick.

Sergio Serna started things off with Happy Gilmore, and then you picked another movie, and then you went with Armageddon, Saturday Night Live, and then Ed and His Dead Mother, and the breasts therein. Sergio definitely has the weirdest. It's weird that Ian picked a clip of Brenda Fraser's

black belt and isn't the weirdest. Some of the movies that we left on the board, I mean, Funny People, Spanglish, Waterboy from Adam Sandler. God, what Boucher we did.

We kind of plucked the Bouchermi tree clean. He's in King of New York. He's in Pulp Fiction for like a second, isn't he? We left that on the tree. Could have been Pulp Fiction instead of... You know, I thought about it. If I'm weighing Bouchermi's

performance in Pulp Fiction against Brendan Fraser's performance in The Mummy, you have a clear winner there. Bouchermi's performance in Pulp Fiction against Brendan Fraser's performance in The Mummy. That's a good point. Buscemi's performance. Resounding Buscemi. So that's the draft. Guys, thank you so much for playing, for participating, for coming on the podcast.

Once again, you can check out Sean O'Connor at SeanOConns on Twitter. Devin Faraci is at DevinCF. Sergio Cerna at SergioCerna. SergioCerna. At Gmail.com. Gmail.com. What's your phone number?

Just email me. Send him a fun e-card. Just a fun little e-card. Sure. And get that conversation going. Sounds good. Gentlemen, thank you so much. Anything else you want to say?

Any names to drag through the mud before we go? Nope. No. I just want to say thank you for having me on. Thanks, man. Sounds good. Gentlemen, thank you so much. Anything else you want to say? Any names to drag through the mud before we go? Nope. No. I just want to say thank you for having me on. Thanks, man. Thank you. What a pleasure. It was so much fun.

And fuck Brendan Fraser. Fuck Brendan Fraser. Wherever you... Oh, really, one last thing before we go. He's waiting outside. What did that YouTube video determine? Why doesn't he have a career anymore? I didn't finish it because you snuck up on me.

Oh, that's right. That's my bad, everybody. Sorry about that. He made a couple bad decisions in the I think it was the early 2000s. Maybe, no, like 2010 around. That was like his downfall was

the Looney Tunes movie he did. Oh, that's right. Free Vengeance. He did another movie called Extraordinary Measures, I think, that bombed. I heard he's hard to work with. Oh, that might be it. Yeah, I heard he beat up D.C. Pearson. Yeah, that's just I heard he's hard to work with oh yeah I heard he beat up

DC Pearson yeah that's what I heard yeah fuck you yeah that's what I heard yeah coming for you DC's whole squad

is rolling like I can't even imagine anybody like being mean to DC yeah yeah so with our sixth pick we all

pick DC Pearson yeah uh thank thank thank you for participating and thank you for listening at home this has been all fantasy everything So with our sixth pick, we all picked D.C. Pearson. Thank you for participating, and thank you for listening at home. This has been All Fantasy Everything. That was a lot of fun. Thank you for listening to the inaugural episode of All Fantasy Everything. Thank you again to my guests Sean O'Connor, Devin Faraci, and Sergio Serna.

Shout out to our engineer, G. Thank you, G. And remember, to vote on who you thought had the best draft, go to at Ian Carmel on Twitter. There'll be a poll there for you to vote in. We're still figuring out the kinks of how exactly that's going to work, but I know this week, if you go to at Ian Carmel, there will be a poll there for you to vote on who had the best draft. We'll determine the winner. Whoever

it is that won will be given $145 million to do with as they please. So thank you for listening, and tune in again next Friday for an all-new episode of All Fantasy Everything. That was a HateGum Podcast.