Free With Ads - Yesterday (2019)

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

This week we watched the 2019 romantic comedy Yesterday, about a guy who gets hit by a bus during Y2K and is the only person on Earth who remembers that the Beatles existed and steals all their songs. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Event Horizon. ----- On May 21st, go to the Ice House in Pasadena to see Matt Lieb do stand up. Tickets here!  Jordan will be at Oakland Comic Con on May 9th and 10th, at the Oakland Convention Center. You should read Predator: Bloodshed! Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's MaxFunDrive! Still want to get in on the action? Follow this link to support this show (and get in on our limited-time keychain sale to benefit the Center for Constitutional Rights): https://maximumfun.org/joinfreewithads Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's MaxFunDrive! Still want to get in on the action? Follow this link to support this show (and get in on our limited-time keychain sale to benefit the Center for Constitutional Rights): https://maximumfun.org/joinfreewithads

This is free with ads, the podcast that asked the question, why pay Disney plus 12 bucks a month to watch an eight-hour Beatles documentary where you basically watch Paul McCartney Wright Get Back in real time when you can go online for free and watch a Beatles-themed rom-com that might not have any insight into their creative process, but does feature Ed Sheeran acting. Yeah, acting. And he's about as good as you think he's going to be.

I'm Jordan Morris. I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is yesterday. a movie that supposes, what if the Beatles never existed, and what if people wanted to see Ed Shear and act? With us, as always, is the super producer, The Walrus. Matt Leav is a dead man. Miss him, miss him, hitting this with those obla de, obla drops.

The Beatles, the four Beatles. From Liverpool. They are from Liverpool. Sorry, that's from Walkard. Good movie. A great movie. I couldn't find a worthy clip for this one. No, no, that was a fine thing to play.

A fine thing to play at the time of the show. Any of the good clips from this movie are ones that are licensed by the Beatles. We'll be very careful about, you know, humming any Beatles tunes on this episode. Should we be sued by Michael Jackson's estate, I guess? I don't know. I thought he sold it back. I can't remember. I can't remember either.

Hey, before we talk about this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're going to get to know one of our hosts in a segment we, call Talk to Host. Talk to host. This is a new segment for us. Is it the laziest segment we've ever done? Oh yeah. No, we'll top it.

Yeah, we'll figure out some. Oh, we'll find a way to be more lazy. Before we get into the movie, we're going to just make some noises in a segment we call make some noise. Fart, fart, fart. Bluh. No, we call this one, take a nap. Take a nap.

No, this is interesting because I think Emily has had a an amazing experience that I think we all wanted to hear about. I'm like, well, I could try and back in with the thing that I saw online, but I think we all just genuinely want to hear about this. Okay. Because it was your birthday recently. Yes, it was. And you took a trip with your family, the Fleming's,

came in from beautiful Nashville to take you to the Madonna Inn. Is it San Luis Obispo? Yeah, I think so. San Simeon maybe might be the exact city it's in, but it's in that zone. that kind of on your way to San Francisco from L.A. zone. Yeah. And the Madonna Inn is a beautiful place.

It's pink. It's built in the 1950s. It's kitsy. It's a hotel motel with all these like heavily themed rooms. Yes. And it's gorgeous. Emily Corp. Oh, thank you, Jordan.

It's yeah, it's so fantastic. You simply have to see it. But I was surprised you had never been. I know. And I wanted to hear about your trip. Yeah. I've, God, it was a full. week with my family. We didn't fight at all. I can not believe it. I did my sister and I had a meeting where we were like, we are not fighting on this trip. We're just not going to do it. And then we didn't. I'm so proud of us. What, the meeting worked? Yeah. I think that they might. We're on a good mix of mood stabilizers at this point. So our relationship is flourishing. I love that. And but yeah, no, we, they flew into Burbank and stayed one night here before we drove. We went to smoke house. And,

in Burbank. Oh, yeah, that is, sure. It's very, like, on theme with the Madonna Inn because it's this old, kitschy, very, like, refined, but still a little bit tacky steakhouse. Yeah, and we sat at Gary Marshall's booth. Okay. Which was really fun.

And we had a great time, and then, you know, the next morning we started driving, we stopped in Santa Barbara, and it was like there was an Irish band playing on the street. We're like, what the fuck? This is like Disneyland for, But we got there I had outfits planned out

To dress up every night And we We had an absolute blast We did Steakhouse like one night Where you like do the whole thing We all had fans and wore pink Here's something I'm not proud of Okay

Okay so the night before we got there We went to the bar All got that pink cloud cocktail They've got They've got this creamy pink cloud cocktail It's really good What do you know what it's made of It's I think it's like strawberry

like I don't know what the hell of it. Whip cream or something. Yeah, it's a whipped creamy strawberry thing and it gets you get jacked up. You'll get fucked up on that. Hell yeah. But there was a bartender who was kind of grumpy and like wouldn't talk to us. Like Bryn would be like, what's that made out of? And he'd just look at us and walk away.

And I was like, damn. What an asshole. I know. I was a little mad. And don't worry, he's great. It's everything. Don't worry. He's dead now.

We killed him and buried him behind the nautical. themed room. Well, there was like some, you know, and then we went to the, they have a pool. The pool is crazy. You got to go up there. There's another bar up there. And I'm like, wow, you're a really nice bartender. We kind of had a grumpy one last night.

And we kind of talked about it. And then at the dinner, they brought us all this free cake. Oh. And like champagne. Because you said something. I know. And I felt so guilty. Or did they know it was your birthday?

No, it's because they go, we're sorry. We heard you had a difficult experience. And then I felt so guilty. that because we're not those people we don't we're not litigious we don't complain and my mom I was like now I feel like a bitch and my mom looked at me and she goes

well you are mom I love that I love that for her finally expressing herself what was the because the themes of the rooms each room is different there's like I think I stayed there once

during a friend's wedding and I think I had a horse race themed room wait did you have the one with the covered wagon without the cover on it Oh gosh, that rings a bell. There's also one with robotic little like a wind up toy type thing with horses. Oh, I didn't have that. Yeah, that one's really cool.

It's always sold out. What was your themed room? So Bryn and I got a room and then our mom and dad, my sister, Bryn, we spent a very long time selecting it because Bryn hated most of the rooms. She was like, that is too pink. I'm like, this place is pink, bitch. That's the whole thing. Like, yeah, and then that place, that room is yellow. And I'm like, they're all going to be light, but we found this one, Chateau something.

Okay. But it was pink, but not too pink. But we had our own beds. And it was so cool. We did a photo shoot together on a couch and everything. It was just an absolute blast. And you walk around there and it's like they have a garden. They have tennis courts also.

And they have pink balls. And I should have gotten a pink ball before I left. Oh, yeah. Fuck, I didn't bring. I have gifts for you guys. Better than blue ball. I got pink balls. But Brent and I snuck out the second night and went to a local bar.

And that bartender that we complained about walked in. As a customer? Yeah. Wow. Small world. And we were like, oh, fuck. And then I guess Bryn did the John Sina thing at him and he did it back. What's that?

Is that it? It's a thing where you like shake your hand in front of your face. Is that John Sita? What does it mean? I don't know. She's cooler than me. She just knows cool shit. I do she does.

And he like did it back to so I think we're chill. I don't think the guy got in a lot of trouble, but I did feel very guilty about that. But you recommend it. You recommend the Madonna? Yes. It's so cool. And if you're just in that area, at least go to the steakhouse and go for like dinner or something. Yeah, I think you can go and they have like a little coffee shop and a diner and it's all very like kitchy and a lot of antiques everywhere.

Yeah. There's a bar up at the pool so you can go to the pool bar if you want to hang out. And the view from the pool is. absolutely insane. But it is, it was built in the 1950s, and I guess there were Disney Imagineers involved in the construction of it. Yeah, it's very Disney for sure. And it's, it's a huge sweeping estate almost.

Like, and there's horses around and stuff. It's, it's great. We went to the Hearst Castle and visited and then we stayed in a like an Airbnb type thing on the beach. Uh, heck yeah. And it was great. Gorgeous. Oh, that sounds like so much fun.

Beautiful. It was really fun. Weekend. Yeah, it was perfect. I cried when everybody left. And they, I don't think that, I don't think they miss me very much. I'm sure they. It's like, here's the thing.

When you spend a whole week like traveling around and driving with your family, it's great. And then at the end, they're like, we need a break. That's true though. Yeah. But I had an amazing time. Well, yeah. Well, thank you for sharing that in the inaugural, the inaugural outing of our soon-to-be hit segment, Talk to Host. Sorry.

I feel like I didn't prepare anything very good. That was great. Well, that's what talk to... Listen, if there's one thing we know about Talk to Host this segment we've done once, it's that that's what it is. Oh, I got a Madonna in robe. Oh, beautiful.

That's because they have that carpet, and so I got that. Okay, check it out. Did that make that better? Yes, it did. It was a wonderful segment. Everyone loves it. People were going to be going to go,

why don't they do Talk to Host more? Cool. Well, yeah, let's talk about yesterday, shall we? Yeah. Before we talk about the movie, You guys like the Beatles? Sure. Who doesn't like the Beatles?

Who doesn't like it? I don't know if I do any more. Oh. A little preview with the rating, perhaps. I like the Beatles. In fact, I was in the advanced Beatles class at UC Santa Cruz. They had a Beatles class? Our college, very hippie-dippy.

Not only was there a Beatles class, but there was... An advanced one. There was a regular one and then an advanced one. Yeah, the advanced ones for the real Beatles heads. I was one of the real. Do you remember stuff from it? Not really, but like, I know a thing or two about the Beatles. Yep.

I know their names. I know when they were born. Oh. I know all the other guys who were the fifth Beatles, you know. Oh, I didn't know there were fifth Beatles. Well, there was like, you know, their original drummer, P. Beez or their original bassist slash photographer, Stu Sutcliffe, I believe. That's not real.

who played keys on Let It Be. Yeah. What's this? Oh, God. He also did the song, Billy Preston. There you go. He did nothing from nothing leaves. Nothing.

That was later. Yeah. And then, of course, you have their producer, George something. Mm-hmm. Listen, I forgot. This is almost like a talk to host. This is another law.

Our hit segment, talk to host. That kind of disorder remembers things about the Beatles. I, you know, I love them. Like I had my Beatles phase in high school. And I think that like before that, I think with because because our parents are their generation. Yeah.

I think our parents' generation can be annoying about the Beatles. Absolutely. And we're like, okay, you're talking about the Beatles a lot, our parents' generation. But then you're just like, oh, they fucking rule. They're great. And I don't know. There's something I like. And I think that's kind of the supposition of this movie is that they're just great.

It's a rare boomer W. Yeah, I know. Boomers, right about not a ton. But the Beatles in Motown, so they have some, you know, music stuff that's good. Yeah. But yeah, and I, you know, I was such a sucker for some of the stuff in this movie that I realized was bad, but I'm just like, I just love the Beatles. Yeah. And it was just fun to hear their music and to like be in a world where it's like, the Beatles are great, you know.

And it's just like, that's the theme of the movies, how great they are. Anyway. Yeah, this movie really works, I think, at least for some of the time, for people who really enjoy Beatles music. Yeah. And that's, I think, most people. I mean, it's like, you know, it's like who doesn't like the Beatles? But yeah, it's a, this movie, it's a weird one. I kind of had heard it.

And I'm like, I heard about it. Like, I had never seen it before. It's my first viewing. Anybody else seen it? No. This is my second time. Oh, okay. Did you see it in theaters?

I didn't see it in theaters. but I did the first time watch it for a podcast. Okay. Not my first review. I'm guessing that part of this movie's box office is people watching it for podcast. Yes. 100%. Yeah.

I am like, oh yeah, it's that kind of Premisey Beatles movie. I'm like, who made this movie directed by Danny Boyle? Wow. I like fucking love. Yeah, I know. Like Danny Boyle's got some of my old timers 28 days later. Yeah, yeah. Train spotting.

Trainspotting. I know. I'm like, okay. Well, that's good. Did he do Slumdog Millionaire? He won an Oscar for it. Yeah. So I'm like, hey, Danny Boyle, cool.

And then I looked and the lead is, I think I'm pronouncing this guy's name right, Hamish Patel from Station 11, which is like one of my favorite TV things of the past. I've never seen that. Oh, it's great. Station 11 fucking rules and he rules in it. Oh, cool. He's like the best part of this amazing show. Well, I don't know if he did his own singing for this movie, but his voice is pretty tremendous.

Yeah, his, yeah, I don't know about his singing. I did not look that up weirdly, but voice is good. Yeah, for sure. And then I'm like, okay, is this going to be great? Oh, written by Richard Love Actually Curtis. Oh, that's what happened. A movie that some love and I regard as as bad as the room.

Yep. A movie on par with the room. So I'm like, this is going to be a fucking ride. Yeah. And it's crazy. It's crazy. Because it is something that at first you're like premise-wise, I'm interested. And then it gets love actually.

And we'll get into that. Yeah, no kidding. Well, yeah, let's start out. Yeah. Our main guy, his name is Jack, and he is a struggling musician. He's doing little gigs all over town and working at British Costco. Was that what it was? I think, yeah.

Wholesalers. Yeah. Wholesalers. Okay, yeah, that's what it was called. I was like, this looks like a Home Depot and you're just Calling it wholesalers? You can get a bunch of liters of ale there. Yeah.

Yeah. You get batteries for your torch. I don't know. British Costco. You can get industrial-sized rolls of aluminum. Sure. Yes. Aluminium.

Yeah. And a variety pack of gentlemen's relish. Yeah. And lots of flavor with a u. Flavor. Yeah. So, you know, British Costco. That's a funny thing to riff on.

Yeah. Or maybe not. Maybe it's not. I'm sorry, I just kept thinking of teeth stuff and I hate that, that like kind of stereotype. Yeah. And I was just like, loose teeth. I didn't notice any bad teeth in this movie. Not in this movie.

Well, he does get a couple teeth knocked out. Oh, that's right. Oh, my God. So there you go. So he, you know, he's got a mean boss. Boss is real mean to him. A lot of people are just kind of mean in this movie. Yeah.

But he gets booked for a gig at the Latitude Festival. I don't know if this is real. I think it's supposed to be like Coachella or something. And he gets booked there by his manager who is like his friend from around town. Who I thought was his girlfriend from the beginning. Yes. Childhood friends. They're the will they won't.

They are childhood friends but have never pulled the trigger and done anything. But she believes in him since she saw him play an Oasis song at the high school talent show. She's like, this guy's a star. and she is like a teacher and his manager. So yeah, this is Ellie. And she is in the show Downton Abbey. She's also from Baby Driver. She's also from Baby Driver.

She is fantastic. Yeah, she's great. She's doing her best. Yeah, acting not the issue with this movie. No, no. Yeah. So yeah, she is at the Latitude Festival. And he's got a buddy there who's like a roadie for a big band.

This guy's just a stoner. Fuck up, dude. He's just the fucking stoner. He gets fired off. on stage. Can you believe this guy? Yep. But anyway, but he gets booked at this Latitude Festival. Nobody shows up.

It's a couple old people and some kids watching him. And on the way home, he says, he says to his manager girlfriend, lady, Ellie, he's like, this is where my story ends. And this is one of the screenwriting things I hate more than anything is when a character in a movie talks about their story. Or someone's like, or the bad guy's like, This is not your story. And I'm like, who, who, who?

And I know everybody thinks they're the main character of their life, I guess. We are. If you're not the main character of your own life, that's fuck. It's just where my story ends. It's like the, I, I, drives me up a fucking wall. No one says it out loud. And if you do say it out loud, you have some, you know, issues. It's sex in the city.

Yeah, but like, I've never been the lead in my own life. I've always firmly stated. a screech in my hot friend's lives. Yeah. You're the comedy relief. I'm the comedy relief for my hot friends. Matthew, this is where your story ends. You're not the, this is not a story about you.

Yeah. Then I do that. But I am a powerful young girl and this can be my story. This can be my story. Anyway, so fucking movies. I think it's important. for me, before we move on, because it's important for me to say, this premise, yeah, this movie premise, I've had this premise before.

Oh, yeah? And I just want to explain the premise that I and my friend Max from college had. It was very similar to this, except for it was what if John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in a really shitty band in the early 60s. And all they did was sing terrible songs about like how tall Wilts Chamberlain is and stuff. But no one cares about American basketball. And they hear this guy George Harrison and he comes out with all of these wonderful songs. And then they meet a mad scientist.

Oh, no. And the mad scientist has a time machine. And they go back in time and they steal all of George Harrison's songs. So it's kind of an inter-Beatles thing. And so they feel bad about it. They team up with George Harrison. but they keep every time he thinks he's written a song they write it first and then eventually he discovers their evil plan and then in 1980 he has john lennon assassinated so that was

whoa that was uh all that's an amazing movie that's not a movie that's a peacock mini sure totally can we call peacock now so this was an idea we had as a joke i got so so on the phone and when this movie came out i remember thinking i was like oh this is this sounds kind of similar to our idea i don't think it's like stolen or anything i think it's just like you know it's it's it's kind of an idea anyone could have it's what it's what a stoner would have in it well you know in in college uh but what they didn't do with it is it just as we're going on i'm just going to tell you how my idea would have been better okay then their idea let us know what happens at any yes that the you know relative point in your

story i will let you know okay uh so uh our dude jack he gets hit by bus on the way home because there's this kind of mass electrical event on on earth. All the lights go out for you know 17 seconds or something. It's Y2K. Yeah. Yeah they even kind of say that they call it Y2K. It's like oh this is like what we thought was going to happen for Y2K. It's okay. So he wakes up in the hospital two teeth gone. They make a lot of teeth jokes about him. Oh God. And that that was traumatic for me. So and then that's when he starts to realize that things are different, that this world is different.

To Ellie, he does a little line of like from when I'm 64. He's like, oh, well, you still need me. Will you still feed me when I'm 64? And she kind of doesn't know what he's talking about. But then he gets together with his friends who are all mean to him. Everybody's mean to him in this. They're making fun of the fact that he lost teeth. They're making fun of the fact that he almost died getting hit by a bus.

And that he gave up his dreams. Yes. And he's a failure. And they give him a guitar. Yes. And so he starts, he's like, oh, good guitar deserves a good song. He starts to play yesterday. And they've never heard it before because in this new reality, the Beatles have never

existed. And also a couple other things are different. Yeah. But mostly it's the Beatles thing. He kind of realizes what's going on. He's the only one that remembers. He does some Googling. Okay.

So this is probably mostly Danny Boyle. This movie sounds amazing. Yeah. The fucking sound, the, like, the music in this movie, but just the, like, the other sounds in this movie are so terrific. When he Google stuff in this, there's this theme that repeats that is really terrific. I don't, and with a lot of the, just the soundtrack of this movie, you hear little pieces of Beatles in it. Right. Like little, you know, threads or little, you know, stems.

I don't think I know the exact musical terminology. Yeah, stems is good. But that part of this is so fucking awesome. And yeah, this movie is just so fun to listen to. One of the repeating themes is the sort of crescendo in, Jesus, what's the last song from, from Sergeant Peppers? I read the news today, oh boy.

Don't, we can't sing the things on the podcast. I don't think we're good enough singers. I don't know. Matt sounded pretty fucking good right there. I did some pretty good. But from that song, you know, they play the big crescendo to it, The themes in it

musically are so fantastic that it is, it feels, it's kind of a shame. Yeah. So he's, and he Googles some stuff and some stuff is different. Some stuff is the same.

This is kind of a funny gag. He Googles if there's Oasis and there's not. Because there was no Beatles. What else was there? There's no cigarettes, which we find out later. There's no, so there's only Pepsi,

no Coke. And when we ask for Coke, people think he's asking for Coke. Which, I just don't, I'm not buying that. Yeah. That makes no sense.

It was a weird moment because I'm not sure what they were trying to say with that other than like part of me was going, wait, there's no Coke but there's Pepsi. Are you talking shit about the Rolling Stones? Are you talking like what are you trying to say with that? I wasn't, I wasn't sure. That's a good point, Matt. I don't know. That's kind of interesting. But at the same time, you know, there's no oasis either.

The Rolling Stones is not Pepsi. it's like grape fanta. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, boy. Shot fired. No, I love grape fanta. I'm just saying they're, that was pro grape fanta. Oh, totally.

But they're just like two totally different things. Of course, of course. But they're both awesome. It's just to put them compared to each other to me is, I don't know. It never quite made sense. Never made sense to me either. They're just Englishmen who, you know, they just came out to same time. And there's a group of them.

Yeah. They're part British invasion. They're kind of ripping on. You know, American, blah. What other British artists were popular when David Bowie is after? David Bowie. And David Bowie still exists in this world. So they suppose that David Bowie didn't need the Beatles to exist.

That's cool. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, like the kinks and stuff like that. Yeah, the birds. Yeah. The hoo. But yeah, it is kind of funny what's around and what's not. And they're not, they're not super interested in that in this movie.

And something that also is that I think is at once. charming and dumb is that like they never when these songs become hits just because he plays them they never supposed like was the song a hit because of just its innate genius or is it something about the recording or them as guys you know like yeah yeah did their performance make a difference this movie's like it didn't yeah it doesn't it's just the song itself is so brilliant yeah poor wringo did he write any of the songs for the beetles you wrote octopus's garden oh thank god Yellow Submarine, right? Yeah, yeah.

Well, he definitely sang yellowsum. Some of the goofier ones. Yeah. Okay, yeah. No road. Anyways, hey, Beatles guys, I know you're already in the mentions. Oh, no. I'm pissing people off.

Hey, if you're a Beatles guy in the mentions, just keep in mind, I took an advanced Beatles class and couldn't remember the last song on the greatest Beatles I've ever made. They will be in our mentions, whether we want them or not. They're here. It's just part of doing this episode. You guys, I've not really listened to a lot of, I mean, I've listened to the Beatles. Yeah, you have, yeah. I can sing the tune.

I know, well, can I tell you the real way I listened to the Beatles? Tell me. The I Am Sam soundtrack. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's a good soundtrack, though. That's a good soundtrack. I love that soundtrack and not the movie.

Well, yeah, because the movie's weird. But I mean, that soundtrack is killer. And Fiona Apple does one that's really good. Fiona Apple's cover of across the universe is better than the original. Yeah, I think so, too. There was one with Bob Dylan's son. Didn't Jacob Dylan do one? Jacob Dylan did a version.

I forget what he did. It's good. Listen to that soundtrack. I've just seen a face or some shit. Yeah, it's really good. So I've listened to that more than I've listened to the actual people. Wow. You listen to the I Am Sam covers album.

Yeah, I bought it from one of those soundtrack vending machines. They had at movie theaters back in the day. So yeah, so this is kind of him. He's kind of trying to piece together all these Beatles songs for memory. still lives with his parents who I love. His parents are great His dad is Sanjeev Buscar who was on Taskmaster.

Hell yeah. Oh my God. I was fucking Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the screen because someone from Taskmasters is on the TV again. Okay, Jordan, I know you want to be on Taskmaster you've mentioned this before. Yeah, yeah.

So that seems, because there's only been one, like what, one American on Taskmaster? There's now been a few So Camille Nangiani currently on it. Really? Jason Manzukas did it two seasons ago. That's the one I watched. Yeah, yeah.

So I think having an American on Taskmaster, the British panel show that is very good. I assume people know that already. You should watch it. It's great. But there's a different reality competition show that I think we could get on. All three of us, if we submitted,

have you watched The Traders? It's called Naked and Afraid. Have you watched The Traders? I have watched Traders. I did. That's one where I tried to watch it a couple times just because like Alan Cumming is so great and it didn't stick. But I loved the last season with funches.

Last season is great. And then there was another one. I don't know. But they're doing a not famous people season. Not famous you say. I'm listening. I'm speaking my leg. I bet that they'll have people that are like TikTok kind of, you know.

I could see us getting on there. On traders. If we tried. So I have the website where you can. could sign up. I think we should sign up. I hope I don't get to martyr. You said a non-famous version of traitors, but didn't the last season of traders

had Michael Rappaport in it? Got you. He was so fucking annoying. I know. What a dude. God, I know. It was, it was very good. The one before that, I can't.

There's another one that was right before that that was super good. So those two are good. I don't remember which ones they are. So he's. still living with his parents and he's going to play let it be for them for the first time. Great fucking scene. This scene fucking rules. It is so funny.

It's everyone in it is great. And I, you know, some, a preview. I, this section of the movie, I loved. Yeah. I was like, I was, the movie kind of falls apart at the end. Yeah. But like this part of the, I'm just, I love this. I'm like, I'm listening to Beatles music.

This is so fun. Look at all these great actors. and, you know, like, is there some bad writing? Sure, but I'm having so much fun. This scene where they, like, can't be bothered to sit for two minutes and listen to let it be is really fun. Well, also, I'm sure that all three of us have encountered something like that with our family. Oh, totally. Yes, yes. This is. Trying to explain something we're proud of. We're like, look at this. And they like, don't. They think they don't listen. Yeah. It's really, it's such a funny scene. It's so perfectly written that it, I wish I could say that it, like, bowed.

well for the rest of the film. It is crazy how things fall off pretty rapidly. Yeah, I would have rather this movie done a longer, like just more of him not getting across to people. Like the music not working instead of the being famous part. The famous stuff, I just didn't care. I just, I wanted it to be him even struggling with the Beatles music. The problem with this movie is that they couldn't make fun of the music.

This was, this I think was the big issue because. Oh, you're right. Because instead of pointing out the fact that a song, I'm sorry, like help or I want to hold your hand does not translate to 2017. It sure does not. In a world where it's like, I think Beyonce exists. Right. Are people listening to this skinny indie rock guy play, I Want to Hold Your Hand and freaking out? And this movie just kind of assumes like the Beatles were geniuses and the songs, you know, but yeah, they don't get into that at all.

No. Like if a guy, if someone wrote that song, like, it would be this like hipster power pop thing for like Gen X guys. Yeah, it would be this like, oh cute. They're doing like a kitchy throwback thing. I mean, back in the USSR plays multiple times in this movie. And that song does not work outside of the context. Neither does Eleanor Rigby. I mean, Eleanor Rigby is a good.

No, I disagree with you there. least favorite Beatles song. I love that song too, Matt. I mean, that's, listen, that song. It's like, what is this nursery rhyme? You know, Eleanor Rigby, there's no thong song if there's no Eleanor Rigby. I tell you know, it's the same, they use the same, that's a sample. But okay, but back in the USSR, it is very important for me to point out that, number one,

lyrically makes no fucking sense in this time. Yeah. Because there is no USSR. and it was very specifically a song kind of making fun of the beach boys. Right. It was, oh, the Ukraine girls really knock me out. That's them doing California.

I wish they all could be- You're going to have to believe all of this. No, I'm just saying that like the fact that people are screaming for these dated sounding songs is ridiculous. And if they had just allowed him to fail with shit like, I want to hold your hand or back in the USSR, then you could really soak in those moments where you hear the long and wine and road and you go, oh my God, that is a time right.

Well, there is like some remix type things, like towards the end when he's in his blue suit playing on a roof. He does do a pop punk version of help. Yeah. It's like a punk version of it. And I was like, this is cool. Yeah, I kind of like that too. But even in 2019, that doesn't make any, like, that's a kitsy weird thing for

hipsters, you know? Okay. Oh, and we're about to get to this. This is something, like, this is one of the more recent movies we've done on this show. 2019, there are some things about this movie that seem fucking ancient. And one of them is Ed Shearren being a character. I guess I know of him. And he exists without the Beatles.

He's famous, sure. I mean, I know that the songs play when you go on in Target. Oh, yeah. It's so funny that he was the big celebrity get for this. So Ed Shearin hears a like janky recording of his songs and like immediately goes over to, like, Jack goes to his house because that's how you find someone to open for you on tour. You go to their house.

His dad walking around. And so Ed Shearin just, like, needs this guy to come on tour with him. And Ed Shearin's acting, I would describe as pained. He looks about as comfortable as a kid who has to, like, read the Constitution in a school play. That's Ed Shearin just looking at his fucking feet the whole time, delivering nothing. Yeah, Ed Shearin and this is, uh, It's so strange.

What artists would you think maybe would, if they were going to do a real person? I mean, just like there's so many charismatic pop stars. Yeah. You know, like, yeah, like, I don't know, Lily Allen. Get Lily Allen to tell. Totally. Lily Allen would have been great. She's there.

Yeah. Is Ed Scher? Yeah, he is British. I think he would maybe get Sabrina Carpenter to do this now and she would kill it. She would kill it for sure. Or Billy Elish. Yeah, Billy, sure, yeah. She was around in 2019.

Yeah, but I think it had to be a British person. Yeah, that's true. Get Adele. She ain't doing shit. A Dell would crush this. Adele would have crushed this. Great. Yeah.

Yeah, she's not making any music. Ed Shearin was, I mean, it made sense as sort of like a someone he might open for, I guess. And I didn't mind him too much, but it was a little too much Shearin for my liking. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of Shearin in this. Well, remember when Shearin was in Game of Thrones? Oh, yeah. And he played a little song.

And it was like, now, I don't say the word cram. very much, but there it is. I thought it was okay. No, it's like he has modern face. Do you know what I mean? He does. You know who is perfect in Game of Thrones? Who?

Who? Who? Who? Musical cameo? Do you know? Yonzi? No. The lead singer of Sigurros?

No shit. Yeah. You know who also made a cameo? Who? Chris Stapleton, former lead singer of the steel drivers. Get the fuck out of here. On the soundtrack or in the show? In the show.

What? Wow. Okay. What does he play? He's just like, I think he's in a battle scene. I think he might be a dead body. Hell yeah. I think that might be it. But yeah, they got him apart.

So, okay, it's Ed Shearne takes him on the road with him. Ed Shearne is playing a stadium later, but their first show is just at this, like, it looks like a kind of big improv theater. It does. And they don't, that drove me up a wall. I'm like, just say, this is a fan club show. People want, this is a charity thing I'm doing. it's like why is Ed Sheeran playing this room for 40 people?

Yeah, it's like, yeah. And then a stadium later in the show. It kind of looked like an album release party or something. Just say something like that. They could have done that. Yes, exactly. This is for a contest winners. This is for a radio state.

You know, anyway, but whatever. I got too mad about things in this movie. You know what? I think this is a safe space. Thank you. So, yeah. So he, you know, automatically just becomes, you know, he like blows Ed Shearne out of the water.

They have a song. I'm glad you said. out of the water. He blows Ed Shearer. I mean, he see it all. That's a movie. See the dick. And then Ed Shearren challenges him backstage to a songwriting contest where they're both

supposed to go off and write a song. Then he, you know, quote unquote writes the long and winding road. Just a little annoying thing with that where he was like, okay, it's a songwriting contest. Don't use anything, you know, that you already have or whatnot. And it's like, how do you, how do you? How would you know? There's no way to know. There's no way to verify that this isn't something you just wrote on the spot.

Yeah, of course. But that puts Ed Shear and becomes like depressed after he hears him. That was funny. Oh my God. You're clearly Mozart and I'm Salieri. It was very funny. I'm like Ed Sherin, you're no salieri. I've heard salieri, my friend.

You think you're Salieri? He would have never written, I'm in love with the shape of poo. Yeah, for it sounds. Anyway. So his, but Ed Sheeran's manager, Kate McKinnon is there. Good to see Kate McKinnon. I don't love every line they've written for this character, but fun to see Kate McKinnon. Kind of scary in this.

I was like, it's one of those roles where she's so good at it that I'm like, is she scary in real life? Yeah, and she's playing a big, it's this thing where it just doesn't fit. She's a big sketch comedy character and everybody's being pretty naturalistic in this movie. and she's like very, very funny. And some of it is and some of it works tonight, but some of it you're just like, why is she being such a weird dick to him all the time? Yeah. People are just like mean to him.

Yeah. And that's a weird thing. I think when people want to write a comedy, but they're not funny, they just write someone being mean to someone. Yeah. 100%. So anyway.

So he's like, she's like, come to L.A., I'm going to make you famous. So he goes to, he goes to L.A. They put him. So it's so de cede. it and then they put him and just like he's at a shitty motel and i'm like okay and everyone in this is so rich are you spring for a hampton in for this guy yeah what are we doing this a lequinta a nice lequinta a nice courtyard by marriott yeah why you fucking shoving him in a red roof

yeah a red roof it's like this is like a place you go to like get jacked off by a sex marker it's like such a bad motel um god but they're like like planning for for jack to become famous in fact their strategy for him he's going to go on get this james cordon and then he's going to go on the tonight show another thing that makes this movie seem fucking ancient is that late night tv exists oh yeah and it's such a big part of launching this guy this maybe might have seemed out of touch at the time but i'm just not like oh this really doesn't make sense like yeah yeah it was was it was also weird because they also talk about the strategy of um just releasing a few of the

songs on the internet and then they're like and then we'll hit the late night shows and i was like now once you release them on the internet the late night shows become obsolete because if you're hoping for them to be viral or whatever i don't know what your plan is here yeah yeah this is like a this movie exists in a weird world where i'm like was this just 2019 or did they just kind of not get stuff It's strange Pre-pandemic America, man Also, if you're gonna do a British late night thing

Do Graham Norton show Do Graham Norton show. I know. I know what that's like a chat show But they do have musical guests And he's just so much more charming like Yeah, yeah Did you notice that they said After the four late night shows

And then they'll then We'll put you on Thursday night live Yeah, I guess I assume That was another like thing That was different after the sci-fi Why the fuck would it be on Thursday? Oh. It should have been Friday Night Live.

I didn't, you know what? Well, what if there's a Friday Night Lights? Could be, yeah, could be. It's too confusing. I didn't get that. I thought it was just like, they just wouldn't release, they wouldn't allow them to say it. We'll sue you if you put us in. We need to offline about the British Saturday Night Live sometime.

Yeah, I've watched a little bit of it. All right. Anyway, so, yeah, so he's, but he's like getting more and more famous. But he realizes there's some Beatles. songs he doesn't have. He just, like, can't remember them. He needs to, like, be in the place that they were written. And so he, like,

goes to Liverpool and kind of visits all of the, like, Beatles places. He goes to Abbey Road. He goes to Strawberry Fields. That's fun. Goes to Penny Lane. Goes to Penny Lane. I, I mean, there's just so many just, like, superficial

pleasures of this movie, and I liked that stuff a lot. I like seeing all those places. I just realized if there were no Beatles, the movie Almost Famous wouldn't exist. There you go. Because Penny Lane is the name of the character. That's right. Yeah.

Or her name would be Beast of Burden because the Rolling Stones would be the biggest band. So they go there and wouldn't you know it, his manager, girlfriend, lady, is waiting there for him at the hotel. So, you know, they just kind of before he left for L.A., they have to. have this very tortured moment where she's like, why did you put me in the friend column? And we kind of like forgot about her for a little bit, but she's like back for the... And I thought that it was just his girlfriend the whole time. I don't know why.

It just confused me. Yeah. I mean, they do like have great chemistry and they're very cute together. So yeah, so she goes to visit him in the hotel and they have this very like fun night together drinking. And she goes up to the hotel room and it's like, but I can't do it. I can't be a one night stand. Oh. And this is like...

Yeah, you can, girl. At this point... I promise you can. At this point in the movie, you are like, it's slowly happening where you're realizing, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no. This is what the movie's going to be about. Sure. They're not just going to have fun with this awesome premise.

They're just going to make it about like, man, you know what's... What's really important? You have to pick one thing, a relationship or something you love. Right. And you can't pick both. No one can have both You know what's the real Beatles The children you made along the way

It's heterosexual relationship It's so annoying Does he fuck anyone else in the movie That's the thing He like alludes to it He's like oh in like Russia Yeah he says he fuck this Russian Stout woman or something

Yeah yeah But yeah no It just becomes this story About these two people Who for some reason can't be together I know And there's never a great reason other than this is a rom-com and this is how it's set up right they just like they like each

other but they just won't be together for some reason it's very strange and when they finally like get down to it because you're wondering okay like what is the issue when she says i can't just be a one-night stand i'm like okay i understand that eventually uh he chases after her trying to you know because she leaves after they don't have sex and in the next morning he's chasing at her and they sit down at a cafe she's eating some crisps and he's like asking her like hey what can we do here

and she then makes it very clear which with an ultimatum in which he says she says you know you can either get on that bus or you can stay here and be with me and I'm like why the fuck with this woman who is in love with this guy put him in the position I know

I'm giving up I know and it's like a theoretical thing right it's like okay Do you choose love or do you choose the career? And I understand like theoretically, that's what they're, that's the question they're making us ask ourselves. But practically, if he's famous, he can fly around. Yeah.

If he's the world's biggest pop star, he can buy a plane ticket to an L.A. when he needs it. Or you can go live in L.A. Why are you making this about like, no, but if we're together, we have to be destitute? We can't, you can't be famous. You have to give up music. And it makes her seem insane. Yes.

Because it's also like, yeah, we must be where I am like elementary school teacher. As if you can't do that somewhere the fuck else. And it's like, okay, you can write this. You can write her saying, hey, I've thought about it and I don't want that life. I love it here. I love my kids. Wow, Jordan. You should write this movie.

I don't know. Listen. That's a very easy justification. But she never does. She's like, hey, because if she knows. what she wants and it's not that but she's just saying you can't be famous it's all about him yeah and it's like and it's because they haven't investigated her as a character at all well just at least walk to remember her and give her cancer give her some cancer where she's like i only have some much time left right

and like so this kind of thing or just make it so that the issue that they're dealing with is he has always been pining for her right and then he has to wonder do wait would you have a little loved me if I hadn't written these hit songs. We have never dated up until this point. Like, why make it where she's like, no, you have to stop doing music? You're successful and I don't like it. Wouldn't you be stoked? I don't care if it's hacky.

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So far away. So far away. Far away. So she's given him this weird ultimatum, but he goes back to L.A. But they decide. decide to have his record release at in England on the roof. So he's doing like a let it be. He's like,

I'm going to do it on the roof. And then of this hotel. The people, remember the people who know about the Beatles? Oh, they're coming. They're coming. Okay,

that's later. So yeah, he does this. We've mentioned he does kind of a punk version of help on the roof of this hotel that we learned via flashback was important to them somehow. I don't know. And she's, of course, in the audience because despite having broken up with him,

she follows him everywhere. and shows up to everything. With her new boyfriend. With her new boyfriend, Gavin, who helped him record a song in the first act. It wasn't interesting. He's just, it's like so, because you couldn't be with him, you went, oh, he's around. Right. Like you just kind of went, there's another guy around sometimes.

Here's man. Yeah, here's man. So they have this thing and then we kind of been getting these little hints that there are other people who remember the Beatles. They're kind of like showing up at stuff. and then this kind of like, you know, a Swiss guy or something and like an older British lady come backstage and they're like, we remember the Beatles, but thank you for doing these songs.

Yeah, the stakes were never high about the lion thing. Oh, my God. It is talk about just complete waste of time because at one point he has an anxiety dream where he's on Gordon and he says, Oh my God, I was so excited about that. There's two people here who claim that they have written this song all your songs.

Ladies and gentlemen, Paul McCarney and Ringo Starr. Holy shit. And one of them's barefoot. Yeah. And so, you know, you can tell he has anxiety.

There's these two people who are following him around. There's a girl who was playing Wonderwall at a concert. No, no, that was a flashback to himself. Oh. And that's a little bit of a plot hole

because Wonderwall was important to them getting together because she saw it and fell in love with him. But there's no Wonderwall because there was no Beatles. So what? Damn. So I guess in the world of this, he also wrote Wonderwall.

Sure. And it's very funny that he only writes Beatles songs. He can just go and write Oasis songs. Yeah. See, that's the other stupid thing. It's like, wait, there's no Oasis? Do that. That will sell way better.

Also, make cigarettes. Yeah. Make cigarettes. You're going to make a killing. Make Coke. You can make Coke. Yeah. Just say, what if Pepsi but a little better?

Just be the richest man that ever lived. But the stakes of it are so. it's so stupid because you're like okay are they gonna pay this off at any point they don't because the two people have been following them with the other two people in the entire world to know the Beatles they're not there to chastise him they're there

to thank him for keeping the music alive and I'm like okay if you're not doing anything with this then why make it anything at all yeah why are they following him around leaving clues instead I would just be like it was like Chekhov's gun that didn't do shit

It was like... That's the worst. Why have a gun? But yeah, the way I would have done it, other than the mad scientist with the time machine. Oh, yeah. Is I think that you just have him like when people say, how do you write these songs? Say, I don't. I got hit by a bus and you guys all forgot the Beatles.

Yeah. I would tell people that. And they'd be like, okay, well, he's a little nutty. But I mean, shit, these songs are really good and they don't exist anywhere. And, you know, like he doesn't have to lie. about it. He can just be like, no, guys, I'm in an alternate universe. I don't write these songs. At least it would make him interesting. It would be funny if he's telling everyone this. It would make for a more enjoyable character running around telling people, I got hit by a bus, and you guys forgot

a ways this existed. And also, in 2026, people don't care who wrote a song. Like, dozens of people write every song. And people being mad at him for not writing the songs is so weird. It's like in 2026, like, who cares? Oh, I don't know about that. I think about Billy Elish a little bit and how that's like... Oh, yeah. I guess I don't keep track. Are people on her for...

Well, her stuff is like in the beginning. It's her and her brother that are like a thing. But that music is so kind of peeled back and it's like got that ASMR thing to it. But it's part of the branding. Nobody else sounds like that. And it's like, I don't know if this is going to, people are going to look back and go, really? Like, but I do think that her being a creative, her and Lady Gaga. I think it's like that's always that is Taylor Swift right but all of that she doesn't write all her songs does she she does she does

All right so this all part of branding All artists branding themselves and part of sometimes part of the branding is that you are someone who actually does at least initially write your own songs But yeah in general people don't give a shit people are Cattle people are are pig pens yeah, they're just oinking and they just want the music slot that they love and that's fun It's fine. It's totally fine. Yeah. So, yeah. So one of the things they do for him is they give, they give him an address. And he drives out to this old, this old house by the sea.

And he meets old John Lennon. Do you know who that actor is? I don't. It's John Lennon. He really does look like him. So that little guy, he's definitely wearing prosthetics. Yeah. He has played Charles Manson in two things.

Oh, I didn't know that. Mind Hunter. Okay. And once upon a time. In Hollywood? Hollywood. Oh, funny. I love that.

And he's kind of a weird look at guy. Yeah. And he did this one and I'm like, he can just turn into any white guy. Any 60s guy. Any 60s guy. Yeah. I love that. That or Charles Manson and John Leonard are the same person and they time travel.

I mean. Oh, that's a peacock series. That's a peacock. I'm here to start a race war. We have to kill the piggy. Dennis Wilson. Listen to my. songs he thinks they're great. He thinks I'm going to be famous.

I'm going to drown Sharon Tate. No wait. No, he didn't drown her. Oh, you're thinking of Natalie Wood. I'm thinking of Natalie Wood. I was ready on the trigger with that true crime girl. My name is Robert Wagner. I'm Christopher Walkin. I might have actually participated as well. But no one cares because I did that fat boy slim video where I danced around. Everyone brought to his charming.

I have a strange delivery I have a strange vocal delivery The Fung Soul brother Well, took it out, no Oh fuck Anyway This shit with John Lennon got me This totally got me

It was great Yeah, I did like it I liked this part too Yeah I know, it was sweet It was like it didn't make You know And it's like what are they trying to say Is this guy poor

He has a giant house by the ocean Yeah And he paints and stuff That's the very Richard Curtis thing I think is like Look at these poor people but they have a giant house. Yeah.

I liked it. It was, see, he's doing his little drawings. That did more for me about the whole successes and everything, like whatever than she was doing about, you know,

you have to go with me now or then I can't be with you. I'm like, we could have just done this. Yeah. All right, so if I had written this. Yes.

Yeah, what happens in the mat? He shoots John Lennon. Wow. Whoa. Because he's like, you can't my secret can't get out. Yeah, yeah. Then he can finally absorb

all of. of his greatness. Right. What if he is father time and he created this, this universe so that he could be possibly alive. Alive to be a fisherman. So there's, okay, so he meets John Lennon and he goes to do his big

release concert. There's like so many big moments. It's like, what is the, I don't know, whatever. He goes to open for Ed Shearren again at a big stadium where Ed Shearne plays now instead of that one little room he played in. But he's decided he's going to confess. So he has his stoner roadie buddy turn the camera on Ellie and put her up in front of the... Because of course she's there.

Because she follows him everywhere. He has her put her on the Jumbotron and he like says, I love you and also confesses to stealing the songs. What the fuck? And then his buddy backstage pushes a button on an iPad and it releases all the songs onto the internet. For free. Which is how music is at now. That doesn't do anything. It's supposed to be this big fuck you to Kate McKinnon of like, we're going to, like, that's music now.

It's just out there. And then if people like you, they buy a t-shirt. Yeah, they can still pirate it. And you know what? There was literally no benefit to admitting it. There was no stakes. There was no reason for him to do it. Right, because it sounds insane.

Also, it's very selfish in a way. Yeah. So you just ruined the Beatles for everybody because you feel guilty. like your feelings matter more than just like this gift be i don't know also the war in this world there is no beetles so he's just like these four british ghosts wrote the song an old man who draws by the sea yeah in this timeline he does not make music who was nice to me i would love it if he had in that moment tried to explain to people and they all would have been like oh no he's having a nervous breakdown yes that's funny use that instead they just make everyone

kind of know who the Beatles are. And they're like, oh, how could you steal this from the Beatles? But he also, like the big reveal wasn't that he stole the songs. It's that this whole space time continuum exists.

Like he's telling people that, you know, splitting. Right. That there are now alternate realities. Like, that's a bigger, like,

sure than the deal than the Beatles. Right. Yeah. It's so, it's so dumb. They should have just played it for, oh, he's insane.

Let's let him have this or whatever. Sure. But anyway, so he kind of runs off with Ellie And then they like go back to her little house And you know decide they're gonna be in love but simple people I bet that sex is bad Oh no we're sexually incompatible Yeah we haven't done it yet

Because you can't communicate at all with mouth But he makes a comment of I'm just like Harry Potter When he defeated Voldemort and she's like who And then there's a thing with him playing Oblidi Oblodobledobaldobald for some kids. There is a alternate ending you can watch on YouTube

but I think it's much, much better. Is it that he wakes up from a coma? No, it's so he's, so they're driving back in her car and he's like, I want to play you a song and it's one of his songs. And again, that's something we don't fucking explore in this because he has songs

and he sings her this song and she likes it and then later in bed she makes that, he makes the Harry Potter, she makes the Harry Potter comment. She's like, you're like Harry Potter and he goes who. And then she looks at the camera and goes, never mind. What? Yeah. So just another thing that makes this movie seeing ancient.

Like, ha, ha, ha. We don't have to talk about J.K. Rowling. We can just make a Harry Potter joke. And now I'm like, fucking better if someone else wrote that. Yeah. Wouldn't it be crazy? Kids can still read it, be not to worry about that fucking monster. Yeah, exactly.

But yeah, yeah, if you watch this movie and want to see the original ending, it's much better. I think. I think the original ending is pretty good. It is crazy that neither of the endings you described are him leaving this parallel universe. Right. Which means he is stuck in a Beatles list universe, which means he has no choice but to be to continue being the Beatles. Right.

Because. But now he's ruined it. Like, no, he hasn't. He's crazy. Yeah. He says four British ghost wrote the songs. He can continue to just be like, yes, I know everything's some crazy, but here's all of the Beatles.

wrote it and recorded it all for you. But his friend pushed the button on the iPad and that released them. But there's more song. It's just, it's so stupid, bro. It's so stupid. So this movie kind of, you know,

reminds me of those movies like a kid in King Arthur's Court where like a kid goes back in time he's got a CD player and everybody goes, wow! Right. You're a wizard, like kind of thing. And you're talking about Black Knight.

Oh, that one, that's amazing. Black Knight Rules. Great movie. Yeah, there's, like, those, and of course, if I went back in time, I wouldn't know how to explain anything. I'd be like, this, there's a, this thing makes, oh no, it's dead. Oh, no. Like, we have them, we don't know how they work. I don't know how they work.

Oh, no, I know nothing. Yeah. How do I make Coke? Forgot how to learn to make Coke. I could invent that. Well, that's the movie, but you know we got to talk about the Hunk Watch. It's Hunk Watch. Any big thoughts on the hunks of this film?

I mean, our lead actor's voice. Yeah. I hope that's his voice. I'd be shocked if it was because it's an incredible voice. Yeah, there were some notes that I was like, no fucking way. Oh, he's crushing the Beatles the whole time. Yeah, that's his, that's probably my favorite part about this movie is how good he sounds singing the Beatles.

He's good at it. Yeah, and that's kind of part of the convincing thing of like, oh, well, why are they just like trying to make a start of this guy rather than just saying like write songs for ed shiren you know like yeah because he does well because they took a look at ed shiren and they went we got to do something something uh yeah i i i i like him a lot too and yeah he's he's so good in station 11 and uh yeah now i got to watch that i think i'll i'll i'll call him the hunk watch too matt any any thoughts on the hunks of this uh the the lady from doughton abbey oh yeah his manager slash future girlfriend she's also cinderella she was the live action cinderella yeah and again yeah

And they're both terrific in this. And they have great chemistry. Yeah, the acting is not the issue. Apparently, according to internet, yes, Himmish Patel did all his own singing for this. Oh, my God. Incredible. Jesus. Yeah.

Great boys. There's also some videos of him like at Abbey Road Studio playing some Beatles songs. So I wonder because he plays piano and he plays guitar in the movie. I don't know if he plays music, but he was a good piano player if that was him playing. But yeah, Jesus. How much talent can one person have? Quit it. He's not that good at piano.

All right. We've talked about the hunks. And now we've got to talk about the movie overall when we come back. Hey, we're back. It's free with ads. We're going to say what we thought of yesterday. First, we've got to talk a little bit about the Max Fun Drive. It happened.

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Pasturize my nuts. Raw fries. Racism. Race, that's right. Saying the R word for comedy. So here's kind of what happened with the Max Fund Drive. We have a prize pack we're giving away to one random Max Fund member.

It includes a dollar signed by Matt, a Buffalo Wild Wings gift card, a signed comic book, a signed poster, and... And one of my big-ass bra cups. We have not picked that winner yet. Yeah. So here's what we're doing. This episode set to drop on May 6th. We're going to pick that winner on May 8th. So you have a little bit more time to go to maximum fund.org slash join.

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Hey, let's go around the horn and talk about yesterday. Matt, as the guy who had seen this before, what did you think on repeat viewing? Oh, all right. So here's the thing. Upon rewatch, I spent the first 30 minutes of the movie going, you know what? I was too hard on this movie because I am fucking loving this movie.

And then it hits me with the rest of the movie, which is a two-hour movie. It's so fucking long. That means an hour and a half of this movie is awful and torturous and bad. It truly, there's just, there's so many problems with this movie that it's hard to enumerate them all, you know, at the end here. I think overall the biggest issue with it is is you have this premise that rules that I think is fun. that is for how simple it is it's something that I think anyone would enjoy it's a fantasy I think all of us have had especially if you've ever written any music the fantasy of man I wish no one knew

pink Floyd so I could write all pink Floyd songs and you know everyone's imagined themselves as the person who's like you know singing the song that they love use that premise and have some fun with it and they do for about 30 minutes for 30 minutes for 30 minutes they have some fun with it and then they abandon it for what is one of the most schlocky yeah completely incoherent love like arcs i've ever seen in a film i'm going to give this a two whoo okay because it is it honestly it should have been a time machine it should have been john lennon getting murdered by george harrison yes it would have been more fun and i think everyone would have just imagine the money they spent on the licensing exactly i think about that a lot so yeah

i'm giving it a two for a waste of licensing uh emily what do you think um boy i agree with a lot of what matt said um it is so fucking long it's pretty long it's insane how long this movie is and it makes me angry like i'm i just think the the balls like of making it this long but yeah it is a waste of licensing the is amazing. I thought he was really good. It's just a nothing salad at the end. There were no stakes to like make him like want to confess that he had lied. There's also no reality where it matters that he lied. And it's just like what is this?

I don't know. Also the romance thing, we didn't need it. They should have just been boyfriend, girlfriend from the beginning and he cheats on her or something. And then they get back together at the end. It's just the weirdest. choices. Every choice is weird and strange and random and I'm going to give it a two but I'm going to give

Matt's version of the movie a six. Oh yeah, that goes out good. Yeah, I think it sounds really good. Yeah. Better than six but go ahead. I know. Well, I think we could get it to a seven. We can get it, yeah. It's a couple rewrites. Yeah, interesting that we're doing this movie kind of close to when we did a Ramones movie.

Yeah. Because I think a lot of people did say that the Beatles were the Ramones of England. And a lot of people said that. A lot of people said many. Many said, oh, the Beatles. Oh, the Ramones of England. Wow, these guys are like, those guys are like almost as good as the Ramones.

Oh, my God. It's like the UK had corn. Yeah. And I think that rock and roll high school is kind of a like creaky movie that I love, just because I like love them so much and I love that music. And I think this is not that. I think that movie is a fucking blast. And I think this movie is a weird mess.

But I think the stuff about it I liked, I really liked. And I just kind of had fun being in England. And I kind of had fun listening to music. And I'm feeling maybe a little bit sentimental this month. So I, despite all the awful choices in the movie, I kind of had a nice time. So I'm going to give it a six. All right.

Hey, that's great. What do you give mine? I give yours a floating 11 because it's fucking perfect. Now I look like an asshole. No, no. Fine. I give it an eight because I believe in you. It's too late.

I don't believe you. Those are our thoughts about yesterday. Anybody got any plugs? Nope. May 21st, the Ice House. Please come to the Ice House. the link will be in the description. It's going to be a stand-up show.

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Very reasonably priced tickets. Come on by. have a fun time. If you've never done a con before, it would be a great first one. And yeah, if you're a fan, there's, there's so many cool things going on there. Okay. Tune in next week when our movie will be Event Horizon. Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network. Of artists-owned shows. Supported. Directly. By you.