How Did This Get Made? - Airborne LIVE! w/ Scott Aukerman, Kumail Nanjiani, & Danielle Schneider (Classic)

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

We got an all-star crew to break down the 1993 comedy Airborne—a movie that doesn't know whether it's about rollerblading, surfing, hockey or Cincinnati. LIVE from Largo in LA, Scott Aukerman (Come...dy Bang! Bang!), Kumail Nanjiani (Eternals), and Danielle Schneider (Bitch Sesh), help Paul discuss Seth Green's clothing montage, seeing the romantic lead of a movie take a shit, impressing bullies by showing them a butt, if Devil's Backbone encompasses all of Cincinnati, and so much more. (Ep. #155 Originally Released 02/03/2017) • Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, FAQs, and more• Leave us a voicemail at speakpipe.com/hdtgm• Submit your Last Looks theme song here• Join our Discord at discord.gg/hdtgm• Buy merch at howdidthisgetmade.dashery.com/• Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of Trauma• Shop our new hat collection at podswag.com• Paul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheer• Paul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheer• Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer• Subscribe The Dark Web w/ Paul & Rob Huebel: youtube.com/@enterthedarkweb• Listen to Unspooled with Paul & Amy Nicholson: unspooledpodcast.com• Listen to The Deep Dive with June & Jessica St. Clair: thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcast• Instagram: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & @junediane• Twitter: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & msjunediane  • Jason is not on social media• Episode transcripts available at how-did-this-get-made.simplecast.com/episodesGet access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using the link: siriusxm.com/hdtgm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, you got your rollerblading movie and my movie about Cincinnati. Hey, you got my movie about Cincinnati and my rollerblading movie. Finally, two great movies that have come together. We saw Airborne, so you know what that means? Streaming! How did? Swastonagued Groove, Baby in his belly. Rock a Ron Stone vest while ripping Justin to Kelly.
Starting point is 00:00:29 Or maybe see a burlash show with Nick Crow. And take a boat with speed. hitting cruise control. J. Man, Big Paul in the beautiful June. Gonna take you from the goof all the way to the room. Brander games and street fire that helped to blow off steam. Just a sucker punch the odd life of Timothy Green. Shark needle, the bird demic, how we stand a lot.
Starting point is 00:00:48 They call it in the badass and he's on the line. Cranking 88 minutes because they cool as ice. Because a bad Jim, Barney looking kind and nice. Paul and June getting literal. Jason is getting laid. June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid. They're just a bunch of movies while they're making me. the grade. Here's a real question for you. How did this get made?
Starting point is 00:01:09 Hello, people of Earth. And hello, people of Largo. We are live here in Los Angeles to talk about one of the most important rollerblading films of our time. Before we go any further, I want to tell you that tonight is a How Did This Get Made All-Star Show, which means that our regular co-hosts, Jason Manzookas and June Diane Rayfield will not be here tonight, but instead, I know, I know, but instead they'll be replaced by how did this get made all stars. Hence the title, How Did This Get Made All Stars? These are all people you've heard on the show. They're coming back. And let's start with the introductions right here. You know our first guest co-host from her show, Bitch Sesh. She was on the episode, Gili, and she's written for Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Please welcome Danielle Shunee. Have a seat down there. Welcome, Danielle.
Starting point is 00:02:18 Thank you. Thank you for having me. So excited to have you because rollerblading is an important part of your life. Yes, always. I didn't know this was a rollerblading movie. I was confused because it was also a surfing movie. Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:32 And also a hockey movie. Yes. That is my core problem with this movie. So that was a trick the mind and I'm still navigating that today. We're gonna, we are going to talk all about that. Also, joining us tonight, our second guest goes, this man we have put through hell.
Starting point is 00:02:55 We have made him watch Shark Nato. One, Shark Nato, two, Shark Nato, three, and also Speed Two. He is the host of the awesome comedy bang bang show. Bang Bang Show on Earwelf. He has a brand new special coming up on Valentine's Day on Netflix called the Michael Bolton's Big Sexy
Starting point is 00:03:19 Valentine's Day special premieres February 7th. Please welcome Scott Ockerman. What's up, jerks? Welcome, Scott. I was trying to play entrance music. I would have liked that. We'll put it in the post. Very excited to have you back for your first non- sequel.
Starting point is 00:03:55 Oh my God, I was so happy until I saw the film. I can't believe this movie has missed me. Did you see this movie before? I had never even heard about it. I'd heard about the fact that diseases are transmitted this way. I thought it was going to be a movie adaptation of the great thing that you take before airplane travel. I thought it was about a dog who plays basketball. There's nothing in the rulebook.
Starting point is 00:04:20 Nothing in the rulebook. Our next guest co-host, you know him from, oh wow, only one episode. That's surprising to me. I thought he'd been on before this. He was in the Lepricon in the Hood episode. You can see him on Silicon Valley. He has a brand new movie premiering at Sundance called The Big Sick.
Starting point is 00:04:42 He's also in the upcoming movie Fist Fight. Please welcome Camille, Non-Jiani. Can I see? Can I say I also thought this was the dog basketball movie? Right? And it is the saddest I've been since the election. At what point did you figure out it wasn't? Did you keep expecting a dog to come in, dribbling a basketball?
Starting point is 00:05:20 Well, there is a dog in the first five minutes. Yes. And the kid calls it, hey, dog, dog. He calls it dog twice. Well, did you think that when the parents went away on their vacation that he would go away, the parents would go away, and the dog would be like, well, shit, I'll play basketball. I thought the movie was going to be, yeah, the parents leave,
Starting point is 00:05:40 the kids with the dog, and then they're like, we're short one on the basketball team. I want to, there's so much to talk about in this movie, but this one thing I think just stands out and it's visual, but it's, I always say that there are certain signs that you know you're watching a bad movie and one of them is the movie is under 90 minutes this comes in at like a nice
Starting point is 00:06:03 83 but it's not bad I don't know if it's bad I will tell you it is the longest 83 minutes oh you feel it I would argue that that's probably because there's no real plot like that's pushing it forward
Starting point is 00:06:17 it has the plot of maybe one saved by the bell episode I promise you it was like morning when I started and when I was done it was dark out It warped time and space. I would argue that it was, it's like hearing the plot of one Saved by the Bell episode as told by someone who doesn't remember the episode of Saved by the Bell.
Starting point is 00:06:40 So I think they're, I think they're surfer? No, no, no, no, no, no, they're rollerbladers. And hockey. And who the bad guy is is still up in the air for me. Multiple bad guys, multiple good guys, multiple sports. Girls who are featured hugely for the first 10 minutes and then go away! I wanted to see more of those girls.
Starting point is 00:07:02 But this is the thing that I always point to I love a good production logo that appears and you've never seen it before. And this production logo takes the cake. I'm going to narrate it as it goes forward. But check this out. It's like fire collides. The name appears.
Starting point is 00:07:20 Then all of a sudden an elf with a sword comes up. The sword goes gleaming and it's icon productions, but I just thought it was like a pretty, I don't know why, I don't know why the elf felt to me. Slightly like overkill. Yeah. Well, that's what the movie is because the movie is like four things at the same time and so is this logo.
Starting point is 00:07:44 The fire has nothing to do with the elf. Has nothing to do with the word icon. Yeah, it doesn't, it feels like... You know, as iconic as an elf on fire. We need people to understand that icon pictures can be anything. It can be L's with swords and fire. Yeah, and it has nothing to do with the film you're about to see. Nothing at all.
Starting point is 00:08:08 Well, they didn't make it thinking they would get to make one movie. They were like, this is the first one, but... This arguably, I think, is one of the most aggressive 90s movies I've ever seen. Yes, it was filled with... with just the guitar licks alone, were so like Beverly Hills 902. They literally said to the guy who did Beverly Hills 902,
Starting point is 00:08:33 they're like, we love you, we love your music, please score our movie. Point of order, I have to say the music is done by Stuart Copeland, drummer of the police. Yes, you are right. Oh, the other pretty big name associate,
Starting point is 00:08:46 this is directed by a guy who directed a ton of X-Files episodes, including the X-Files movie. Yes, he also directed the Elektra film. the sequel to Daredevil The electrifying film what? No but yeah but he is like a good Like he was I like Rob Bowman
Starting point is 00:09:03 Well he directed that He directed the First X-Files episode His First X-Files episode the same year this movie came out So I have to say this is directed well It's well directed. I think it's I do I know I agree like that's the thing about this movie
Starting point is 00:09:16 He had to direct four different movies He directed them all beautifully And get him under 90 minutes Yeah I would all yeah That's, and it looks, like, if, Yes. It looks expensive.
Starting point is 00:09:29 I think. It was. It feels. They did underwater shots. It was, it was, the budget. Budget was $2.6 million. And it made, let me guess. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:39 Did you say three point? I'll say, I'll say, I'll say 3.4. 2.8. Nah. It just came in. It made some money. It just. It made some money.
Starting point is 00:09:49 It came out. It made $4 on Amazon for me today. It was. I think it's funny that like First of all, it was hard to find this movie Yes, it was very hard to me. I couldn't find it using my Xbox I had to go to my computer
Starting point is 00:10:03 Oh really? Buy it and have it tell my Xbox Like he actually wants to see this movie That's the Xbox looking out for its players It's like, really? Yeah, Xbox was cock-blocking me from this movie Um, what I was, the beginning shots of the two guys
Starting point is 00:10:22 having the guy and his best friend, I thought the entire movie was going to be about them. Yes. Right? And their romance. Well, they have such a great final scene together where they're singing California girls. And then the lead goes,
Starting point is 00:10:36 ha, ha, ha, ha. I love that song. The thing is, you open a movie with these two dudes, like, beautifully rollerblading down the hills of, like, Santa Monica. By the way, Paul was imitating someone rollerblading. Yeah, just like...
Starting point is 00:10:50 And he kind of did this. Just arms out. You sort of look like one of the Supreme. a little bit. Team Rollerblade is in full effect. Team Rollerblade, by the way, did the stunt. Yeah, as you see it right... It is, you could tell when it was the actors
Starting point is 00:11:05 and when it was stunt people. Because the first jump that they do in the movie is so unimpressive. And then they're jumping over cars. And they keep a jump in where the guy falls down. Yeah, it's crazy. By the way, apparently the actor of the film was a real rollerblader,
Starting point is 00:11:23 and that's why he got the job because he took the director to all the cool rollerblader. blading spots in New York. And that's the deal. You can tell he's a rollerblader and not an actor. It was the least likable protagonist I've seen in a
Starting point is 00:11:38 movie in a very long time. With the most amount of teeth. He and the girl in the movie had all the teeth of all the world. They did take all the teeth in the 90s. To me it's like also he's a cool
Starting point is 00:11:54 California dude coming to Cincinnati, whatever. Again, Paul is doing like he's sort of waves at this point? Always finding the waves. But he has the most unappealing name.
Starting point is 00:12:05 His name's like Mitchell Goosen. And they tell you the name a bunch of times like they're super proud of it. There's going to be an iconic name. He's a real Mitchell Goossan type. Mitchell Goosen is not a cool name. I don't feel like,
Starting point is 00:12:23 oh, what did Mitchell Goosen say about this? When he meets the girl, they're meat cute when they're like, and he says his full name, it's like the vibe is so scary. It's like, what's he going to do to her? I feel like the reason why that scene was so uncomfortable was because it was clearly his audition scene because it's like a big monologue about like Gandhi.
Starting point is 00:12:49 I did the hands again. But like about Gandhi and not fighting for things. His eyes were like, I got this part. I got it all down. Like, he really stared at her in a group. He also, he has some long, like he does a big monologue when he's mind surfing. You remember that? When he puts, like, his surfboard on the bed and stands on it and, like, speaks a lot.
Starting point is 00:13:14 He aggressively brings his surfboard to Cincinnati. He calls it his stick. He says, I don't go anywhere without my stick. which would lead you to believe it's a surfing movie. Yes. I was impressed that they gave it to him on the tarmac. Me too.
Starting point is 00:13:31 I have never been handed anything on the tarmac. Well, it was pre-9-11, guys. Yeah. Yes. Simpler time. That is made clear throughout the movie. It's also in the opening, they're rollerblading to go surfing.
Starting point is 00:13:45 Yes. But they don't have their sticks with them. No. Do they keep the... The sticks at the beach? I think they checked the sticks in at the beach. The movie seems like it was the whole idea of it was, you know how when surfers they drive to go surfing?
Starting point is 00:14:03 What if they rollerblading? Well, I feel like it was like, you know, we're pitching this movie, so it would be what the kids do, you know, whatever. Rollerblading, surfing, hockey, whatever it is. And then we see him and then we go to Cincinnati, and then, you know, whatever. He gets in the rollerblading, surfing, competition, whatever. And they never decided what it was.
Starting point is 00:14:20 They were like, all of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'll do it all. They'll do it all. I thought it was going to be a hockey movie. Me too. When it locked into hockey, I was like, all right, we're in. Hockey movie, let's go.
Starting point is 00:14:30 Also, my problem with the hockey was that it didn't seem to be school-sanctioned hockey. No, who are the villains? Who are the other team? The prepees. We know that the prepees. But the hockey game, the first hockey game was in some rag, tag hockey room. And the second hockey game, the playoff was on the street. was on the street with those scary.
Starting point is 00:14:53 And with rollerblades. But that was my biggest problem. So you would think, if you're writing this movie, you go, all right, well, maybe the thing that he brings to the table is rollerblakes. Yes. But no, they're all fucking great rollerbladers too. Everyone in this town knows that a rollerblade really good and hockey. That's a very good point.
Starting point is 00:15:11 I hadn't thought of that. Yeah, I was like, that would be like what he's adding to the mix. He adds nothing to the mix. He adds nothing to the mix. He adds nothing to the mix. He has nothing to learn. in this movie, he shows up fully centered and talking about his fucking non-violence or whatever.
Starting point is 00:15:29 And then he ends the same way. He, and he, like... His whole struggle in the movies to not like get into a fight with someone. Which is odd because... And he doesn't. And to ride out six months. The stakes could not be lower.
Starting point is 00:15:49 And the end, the reason why he's hated by the bullies first of all is just because he's from California also as an insult they call him Pretty Boy I'm like that's not an insult Have you ever been called that in your life? I would love it! I would love it! Hey Pretty Boy, oh thank you.
Starting point is 00:16:08 Well, hello! Thank you so much! But then the reason why he gets really hated by the school is because they oddly draft him out of the crowd to play on their hockey team and then is mad when he sucks. He doesn't own goal.
Starting point is 00:16:26 He goals the wrong goal. But they called it. It wasn't like he goes, hey guys, I could play hockey, put me in. No. He's like in the stands not even really there to enjoy. He's not even enjoying it.
Starting point is 00:16:37 And they sort of want him to do it as a punishment to him. So why are they so mad? Yeah, they want to, yeah. They want to win, but they also want to embarrass this kid so they put him on their own team. It makes no. No sense.
Starting point is 00:16:52 Put him on the other team and score a goal against him. And also he did score a goal, even though it was for the wrong team, he did show prowess on the court. So why not use his abilities? His first hit. He went him in the right direction. Was solid. I know. I was like, why not, yeah, why not say, okay, we've got something here.
Starting point is 00:17:12 It's a very minor adjustment we need to make. A hundred and 80 degrees. Yeah. And by the way, I was a little bit confused, though, too, because it seems like you'd have to be a real moron to not understand how hockey works. Like, it's not like, what is this sport? Like, you know, it's like, I will say, though, that his team didn't, no one had the same shirt on. So he couldn't tell who was on his team.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Why did he wear different outfit? I guess they were rag tag. Okay. But yet they were, but yet there is a real scoreboard. But it's weird because it is also like they're playing, it seems like, outside of school, like not school sanctioned. And then later on, then they have a less school sanctioned, like rollerblading version of hockey. And yeah, and more people come to that than the school sanction one. And then I was just watching, like, imagining the whole game stopping down for a half hour while he got dressed.
Starting point is 00:18:16 Like, what were they doing? Yeah, how did he just show up? like, it just is like a hard cut to him in the outfit like, oh, this is comedy, but I just was thinking like that's like a half hour to get that on. Now, by the way, don't be mistaken. This movie,
Starting point is 00:18:30 hockey is not a major part of this movie. Yeah, we shouldn't even be bringing it up. No, sorry. You could argue that third act has nothing to do with hockey. The biggest challenge of the movie, hockey is not present at all. It is a movie that, to your point,
Starting point is 00:18:46 it does keep you guessing. It starts off, you're like, his parents are like, we're going to Australia. I was like, oh, great, it's a movie about an American kid who has to make it in Australia. And then they're like, no, we're leaving. I'm like, okay, great, it's an American kid who gets the house to himself in California.
Starting point is 00:19:03 They're like, no, you're going to Ohio. Okay, great, he goes to Ohio and then learns hockey. No, it's rollerblading. And, and, like, they make a big deal of getting a surfboard off the plane like it should be like his rollerblading skates
Starting point is 00:19:19 right like I mean should he says at one point like something I should have remembered yeah dipshit you're going to fucking Cincinnati and I will argue the movie is called airborne and I don't want to really call too much attention to it but airborneing doesn't really happen
Starting point is 00:19:35 until I would argue the last frames of the movie like yeah it's one airborne a solid third of this movie is a race at the end it really should be called earthbound or fuck this kid he sucks
Starting point is 00:19:52 I have a question on something I've never seen before in a movie where like the movie is from his point of view Yeah, POV, of course But in the first, like once he gets to Cincinnati You see a fantasy sequence From a character we've never seen's point of view Oh yeah Or where he's like shirtless and
Starting point is 00:20:12 Well no before that He's just sitting there and the bully looks at him and imagines throwing him through the window. That's right. And I thought that was real. And I was like, oh, shit, this movie just got amazing. This movie just got airborne. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:28 They threw him out of a fucking window. I was like, oh. But then it turns out to be a dream sequence from someone we have not met. It's also a testament to the movie that we've been talking about it for a half hour and half have not mentioned that Seth Green and Jack Black are right now.
Starting point is 00:20:43 Yeah. There is... Jack Black. working hard. You could see why Jack Black popped. I mean, from this movie. I don't think any of his lines were in the script. He couldn't have.
Starting point is 00:20:55 He's making shit up. It's great. I like a young Jack Black in this movie. I think, Seth Green is great in it too. I think, look, I feel like you watch those guys are like, these guys are fucking working. They were like, what can I do?
Starting point is 00:21:07 Like, give me, I'm trying. I'll be in the shot. Oh, yeah, you want me in the shot? I'll be in the shot. I'll improvise this too. I will say the other bully, Jack Black's friend was 35? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:22 He was an older man. Yeah. He's complaining about his hammer, was strange to see him surrounded by children. There are weird things that these kids say. I did... Oh yeah, I wrote down some stuff they're saying.
Starting point is 00:21:36 I have the... I have this basically, this is... At one point they have to like introduce themselves in speech class. Yes, this was... And there's one in particular that I I really want to talk of, but it may just be worth watching some of these speech class things. It's pretty great. My name is Snake.
Starting point is 00:21:55 I don't like speech. I never even signed up for it. And I ain't got no hobbies unless you call collecting knives and putting tattoos across the foreheads of guys I don't like hobbies. The first one certainly is a hobby. Yeah. Collecting eyes? And by the way, you would argue, is that the villain of the movie? No, it's just a stereotype.
Starting point is 00:22:14 Yeah. No. All of the villains have vaguely Hispanic names, including Jack Black. What's Jack Black's name? He's like, Javier or something? Or maybe I'm the racist. Uh-oh. Augie is his name.
Starting point is 00:22:31 No, but that's his nickname. Oh, okay. He introduces himself as like a Hispanic name. Oh, he has a long name. That's right. He has a long name. So she gives one of my favorite speeches. I'd like to say who she finds hot.
Starting point is 00:22:41 It's very timely. Oh, yeah. Here we go. This is my next one. Sorry, sorry. So coming out of snake. I love her. I want to be Al Pacino's love slave.
Starting point is 00:22:50 Yeah. Now, if you didn't hear that, because I rewind it when I watch it, I want to be Al Pacino's love slave. Al Pacino's what? Love slave. Which I guess he was a haughty of the 90s. I Googled. She just had seen scent of a woman.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Yeah, he had just done scent of a woman where he plays a blind man. A blind veteran of Vietnam. Yeah. Nobody watched that and was like he should be my sex master. I'm a 15-year-old girl, and I would really love to be boned out by Blind Al Pacino. Like, he's clearly, like, he's in his 50s at that point. Yeah, he has to be. I had to rewind, too, I was like, did she just say, old man Pacino as her love sleeve?
Starting point is 00:23:38 Al Pacino's love sleeve. Makes me think that maybe the script was sitting, like, on the back burner for a long time. Oh, but then why would it be about... Roller brating? It could have been roller skating. Yeah. It's so 90s. Everything is 90s.
Starting point is 00:23:53 We don't have to do Mitchell Goosen. I mean, I don't know. Maybe we do. All right, let's go into it. Yeah, why not? These are all pretty great, so here we go. Look at us. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:24:04 Mitchell Goosin, that's your service. I'm not from around here. What to tell? Well, I don't have any stories. You don't know what I want to be when I grow. Don't care. Just as long as I live near the beach. and don't have to wear a tie.
Starting point is 00:24:17 Then I'll be styling. Stalin? Is it having to wear a tie a big problem for a 15 year olds? By the way, he angers people like... He angers me. I get it. I fucking hate him. I get it.
Starting point is 00:24:33 I side with the bullies in this. When the guy goes, eh, I found myself I had already done that gesture. I was like, oh, he's doing it too. I guess we're supposed to hate Mitch. We are Cleveland in this movie. The audience is Cleveland. The way he like does his hair
Starting point is 00:24:51 when he like gets up there. One finger through the side of it. Oh man. He's wearing like a surrappy around a hoodie. But with like a Baja under it. The customer is like we really need people to know that he's a surfer. By the way also wouldn't you, again, he doesn't even bring anything to them.
Starting point is 00:25:14 Like you don't like at the end like, the bullies don't go like, oh, we should meditate or we should like... Or we should wear this kind of thing. Yeah, he doesn't give... He doesn't depart... He doesn't give them anything. It's not like...
Starting point is 00:25:24 Nobody learns anything in this movie. At one point I wrote down he says make waves, not war. He should have been shot. And by the way, you're not making waves when you're surfing. Yeah, you're not the moon. Good one, right?
Starting point is 00:25:43 I nailed him, bro. Also in this scene Everyone's being terrible to each other And the teacher just sits there The teacher needs to get control Of his classroom The teacher is younger than the 35 year old bullies And guess what people
Starting point is 00:25:58 The teacher is the writer of the movie Sometimes the world just makes sense Just like writing in this movie He just zap back and let his characters Just go off on a journey I also at one point he says He's getting into a fight with the bull and he says, I could give two left testicles about
Starting point is 00:26:20 and then something, and it was, are you like volunteering someone else's testicle along with yours? I want to talk about what Mitchell Goosen does at high school, which is a lot of shit that I would never do. Like, first of all, he takes his shit. Yes. I noticed that. He's taking a long time with that shit.
Starting point is 00:26:43 He takes out a magazine for that shit. he's not he's not like scrambling in there trying to get it done as quickly as possible running out that's what I was doing in high school also another thing he did I've never seen a lead a romantic lead of a high school movie take a shit and I was shocked shocked and walk around with like a sweaty gross ass to me I literally was like I'm no longer attracted to this child I would argue that the follow-up scene is worse because they they went to wet all the toilet paper part of their... So what did they do? They wet all the toilet paper, but wouldn't you rather
Starting point is 00:27:23 use wet toilet paper on your ass? Which is sort of like having a Japanese toilet in a way. 100%. Then just leaving the shit in your butthole? Wait. Yeah. It's the implication that he leaves the shit in his butthole? Yes, because he's walking around like this. Because of the shit
Starting point is 00:27:39 in his butt hole? Yes. Like he stuffs the shit back up in his butthole. I would argue, though. He didn't stuff the shit He scoops into the toilet puts it back in. If I can't wipe I got to save this for later. I have to do this later.
Starting point is 00:27:55 I would argue that even more disgusting than him taking a shit was him during the shower sequence, leaning against a dirty shower wall. He is full on shampooing. But who leans against the shower wall?
Starting point is 00:28:13 Of a public school bathroom in which no one else's showering, which made me believe that he just went in there for a shower break. It wasn't like the end of gym, because there's no one else there. It's like, private shower time, man. I literally, I was gagging with the thought of his back against a dirty wall. Like, it made me so sick I had to fast-marked. Were you gagging more there or when you saw this?
Starting point is 00:28:36 Because this actually upset me when Seth Green took a shower. And on his wall was just like, like, it was. looks like vomit, like a vomit. What is that? Well, thank you to April Halli, our amazing video researcher. We have been looking and looking at this and she
Starting point is 00:28:59 and she and I were emailing back and forth and she's like, I tried to figure it out, I zoomed in on it, and I went all back. And this morning she emailed me and she goes, I figured it out. Does anyone think they know what's on that wall? Oh, what is it? Well, no, not what is the product. Do you see something written in there?
Starting point is 00:29:15 That's what it. The name of the girl that he was on a blind This is okay so many issues first of all baseline creepy beyond that if you're in a movie
Starting point is 00:29:25 gonna don't use product that's the same color as the wall there should be contrast just use shaving cream that'll be white no we gotta get a green thing
Starting point is 00:29:36 green body fall I don't even know what that is it looks like it looked like to me like I don't know like a snot wall or something it's not like I had a totally different image I thought that this this family was
Starting point is 00:29:47 in trouble. And that this house was decrepit. And that grime and grease and no one is clear. I was worried. And I literally was like, this family's in trouble. My problem is who masturbates to a girl's name?
Starting point is 00:30:05 Like, oh, Gloria. That's what I was doing before I had access to porn. I would just write down the name of the girl. I would just write down Cindy Crawford and read while masturbating. Well, that scene is in front of, I think, my favorite scene of the whole movie,
Starting point is 00:30:24 which is the clothing montage scene. Oh, God. And, you know, all movies in the 90s had this thing where they tried on different outfits. But I feel like this may be the first time you saw a dude do. I don't feel like dudes did. I know it's a solid 25-minute long scene. I have each one of the outfits we can kind of, look at, you know, first one
Starting point is 00:30:50 obviously was, first one of my question was, he has all these outfits? Yes. There's a lot of styles that he has in his small... He's got a lot of looks. So he's got the motorcycle look. Clearly they were like, oh, Seth Green's a star, let's give him a showcase here. But can I say that
Starting point is 00:31:06 Goosman was just, he was thrilled. He was laughing. He loved it. He was laughing his asshole. He was tickled as I've never seen. This movie They like people laughing. I mean, when a joke gets told
Starting point is 00:31:21 the hockey rink, too, they're all like, it's like a pan of just laughers. Like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. He pulled down his pants. I've never seen people laugh that much at a pants pulled down. I once got a note on a script that said,
Starting point is 00:31:35 we don't need the people in the movie laughing. We need the audience laughing. And I don't think that these people took that note. That is a great note. They were trying to trick us. I'm trying to look at like... Why does he have all this stuff?
Starting point is 00:31:48 Yeah, it's a lot of, you know, he's just going through all the looks. It was very sex in the city, this whole sequence. This one, oh, this one. Okay, this one, though. I have a question about this whole montage. Are we suppose, is he trying to make Goosen laugh or are these to him viable options
Starting point is 00:32:08 because he's goofing around but also he's disappointed at some point that his friend is laughing at him? Well, it slightly seems like he's trying to make him hoarding with this one? It is an odd thing And I will go back to this I really like Seth Green in this movie
Starting point is 00:32:22 I really like Jack Bach in this movie But my issue with Seth Green's character is I don't know how he is weird He seems multibly weird Like it's not like oh he's blank It just seems like He is weird in many different Yes again this is the whole movie
Starting point is 00:32:38 It's like four sports He's five different Because when he's like he wouldn't be like Oh he's just the nerd No Just the thing he's not he's not Because that's a Megadeth banner there.
Starting point is 00:32:50 I wrote down some of the things in his room. It was like eraser head, kiss, then just random skulls, then jackal lanterns, and then Megadeth, and then ACD. It's all over the place. Yeah, I too was looking around his room
Starting point is 00:33:03 for clues as to who he was, and I couldn't make heads or tails. When he first shows up and he turns the light on it, it's all weird red, and we're supposed to be like, what a doo-ebozoid, but I was like, that room's awesome. I liked his room.
Starting point is 00:33:16 That's what I'm saying. I didn't understand. understand where he's supposed to be. And in this sequence where he's wearing the mesh top of the pants, I think this guy could be the guy, was it the butcher bill from Science of the Lambs, whatever that guy's name is? Buffalo Bill. Yeah, no, when you
Starting point is 00:33:29 first meet him, he's a fucking idiot, he's a monster. Like, he's dressed like an idiot. And that's the problem, though, with 90s movies is... I mean, you know, fucking live your bliss, whatever, but the movie's trying to tell us something.
Starting point is 00:33:45 But when you watch a 90s movie, that's the problem because he's supposed to be like an idiot in the 90s, but when you look at the 90s movies everyone's kind of dressed like idiots and you're like, oh, I don't know where the base is because the cool guy looks pretty... That guy's wearing a fucking poncho
Starting point is 00:34:01 over a hoodie and he's the cool one. And he's like this all the time. This is not a podcast bit. But he really is smiling the entire movie. You can't find a still frame where the kid's not smiling. Well, he says, like he also like, oh well, all right. He didn't
Starting point is 00:34:17 stop smiling till he saw the box office receipts. Anyway. Kumael. Come on, Kumao. I'm so sorry, you can edit that. I mean, this is a mean podcast, but that's too far. I know this is the name of the podcast, but I was watching it truly like, how did this get made? I was like, how did this get made?
Starting point is 00:34:38 I feel like it was. I feel like this is what it was. Someone found out that there was a tax break in Cincinnati, and they're like, if you can write a script in four days, we can shoot this. And you can be in it. Yeah, and he's like, what? You can be the teacher. By the way, there is a lot of Cincinnati love for this movie.
Starting point is 00:35:03 There was this an article written about it for the 20-year anniversary. What? They celebrated the 20-year anniversary of this movie. Well, it must have been 2013 because this movie's from 93. Yeah, so it's 2013. they wrote a big, there was a big thing about 20 year anniversary, rollerblading. When you say a big thing.
Starting point is 00:35:22 Like they shut down all of Cincinnati to kind of... All of Cincinnati. All of it. All four shops. Listen, the movie sucks. Let's not take shots at Cincinnati. No. No shots of Cincinnati. No. I... I don't know. I believe that Cincinnati is very proud of this film. Is that... I have no... I have no
Starting point is 00:35:42 facts to back that up. But I believe they're very, very... proud. That's so sad. When they do Oh, that was the one thing too. When he is, when he shows up, well, there's so many things. When you first see him rollerblading
Starting point is 00:35:58 around Cincinnati and he pulls out those rollerblades, he creates a creed-esque kind of flash mob of everyone on roller skates. Like everyone has been secretly like having these roller skates and be like, oh, wow, this guy brought out his blades.
Starting point is 00:36:14 I guess everyone, like whatever event. He's been there by the the way, for three months at this point. Yeah. He should, he obviously knows where all of these rollerbladers are and he's never gone to visit them or said, hey, by the way, I have a pair at home, you know, I should get those ship to me or whatever. He goes right to them.
Starting point is 00:36:29 He knows exactly where they are. They have skate parks there. And he didn't seem to be, was he that much better than anybody else? At one point, someone says, man, he's fast. That's the only... The thing I was most impressed with is that he kept on running downstairs. Well, yeah. I was like, I never have seen rollerbladers.
Starting point is 00:36:46 like traverse staircases. I didn't know that was a part of rollerblading. Emily was there for like 10 minutes while I was watching it and she was like she got genuinely sad because she was like some stunt person risked his life for this movie. She was like that bums
Starting point is 00:37:02 me out. Because that is tough. Yeah, that was he, but that was pretty amazing in the film. Just effortlessly and they did a lot of stair work. A lot of like clunk, cuck, cuck, cagg, cagg, c. It was, it was, he seemed to be sort of a pied piper of wheels
Starting point is 00:37:20 during that scene where like anyone he attracts wheels to him people on wheels you know like any sort of like there were kids sort of following as like his happiness cars suddenly came by him and I think part of the thing like that you like
Starting point is 00:37:36 pizza rollers one of the things that you like Rocky and Creed lip rollers those painting brushes that are circular for whatever reason. That helps you get paint quicker. In Rocky and Creed, they run every day,
Starting point is 00:37:54 and then you would imagine, like, oh, after like three or four months of running every day, the town, kind of like, oh, wow, they fucking run. I'm going to run every day. And then the group gets bigger and bigger and bigger. This is like the first day,
Starting point is 00:38:04 really, within the first hour he puts on the blades. Everyone's immediately attacked at him. Like they've been waiting for years for someone with rollerblades to show up. Even though it's a town where the rollerblading scene is quite active. It is vibrant.
Starting point is 00:38:20 So he's not doing anything that not everyone else is doing. Which brings me to my point that even the hockey team has a rollerblading league that they are great in. They're great in it. And then he comes,
Starting point is 00:38:34 and he's just like a little bit better than them. Is he? He's not. No. He jumps over a couple things, I feel like. They all do. Don't defend this movie, Paul. My favorite part, though, of that rollerblading hockey scene was when he is being chased by the preps. Like, conveniently, there's, like, a bunch of plywood
Starting point is 00:38:53 like over, like a swampy area. Yeah. So, like, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, and, like, slide out. You know the location scout scouted it when it was warm and dry. They showed up to the day. It was muddy. How the fuck are we going to film this scene? Go get me five boards.
Starting point is 00:39:10 Just random plywood. And it was, like, it's an above shot. So you're just looking. down at just like weird plywood planks that like clearly provide the most convenient escape path. But yet the other people are like, ah, shit, he's on the plywood board. I can't get him. Who is the bad guy?
Starting point is 00:39:30 I think it's, in the end, it's the prep who was a little bit date rapy at some point. Oh yeah, he grabs the girl. He does that weird thing I've never seen where he's like, come here, let's dance. And forces a woman to dance. Last dance of Mary Jane type of... It's like you're in like a Denny's. Yeah. By the way...
Starting point is 00:39:50 So, how is a sudden the movie got real creepy? That restaurant, she says, hey, I know a really great restaurant. Good food, lots of people? Lots of people? Like, I've never heard that be a criteria for a good restaurant. Like, okay, yeah, the Yelp reviews... Yeah, how proud it is it? Yeah, how many people are at this restaurant?
Starting point is 00:40:14 Don't take me to one of those empty restaurants. I want to socialize them, potentially bump into my brother and ex-boyfriend. And then they sit down and she looks around and goes, see what I tell you. They haven't eaten yet. She's merely talking about the number of people. But did you see, they did have a Cincinnati delicacy, strawberry jelly and peanut butter on a burger. Is that a Cincinnati thing?
Starting point is 00:40:41 That is a Cincinnati treat that was originated. at this restaurant. I think it's, oh no, that's strawberry. Please, sir. I beg of you, please stop. Extortos. Could you just delete it so that that doesn't happen? Well, it just popped up with Seth Green in the shower
Starting point is 00:41:00 with the goo on the wall. Oh, man. But I would argue that... Oh, it has I'm too sexy in it. Oh. The one recognizable song. There are no recognizable hits other than I'm too sexy.
Starting point is 00:41:14 it to pop. But they have like a good, like, I wrote down a lyric of one of the songs when they're having their romance, like, I'm going to pick you up in my personal limousine. Personal limousine. He's a limo driver.
Starting point is 00:41:30 Who's sharing limos out there? I have to say in the 90s, like that was a dream. Ooh, he'll have his personal limousine. Personal, not the public one, not the shared limousine. And then the other line in that song was my love is goody love. There's a lot of weird...
Starting point is 00:41:48 It's not bad. It's not bad. A running joke in it is also that he calls people bra and they think he's calling them underwear. Oh, yeah. It's very similar to bro. Put it together. He's ahead of his time. I would argue, by the way, too,
Starting point is 00:42:05 if we're talking about who the hero of the movie is, it might be Snake. Because Snake... Yeah. ...is the best rollerblader. We know that. Snake has no problem in Devil's backbone. Which, by the moment.
Starting point is 00:42:17 Why doesn't he list that in his hobbies? Rollerblading is a pretty big one. Yeah, he never takes out that knife, and I've never seen him tattoo anyone. And it seems very social. No, he's, yeah, they... By the way, devil's backbone is not like... Like, you think, oh, that's the back of a mountain.
Starting point is 00:42:35 It's all of Cincinnati. The streets. The entirety of the city limits is devil's backbone. It makes no sense. And they say about the race, the only rules are there are no rules. And I was, so then how do you know who's won?
Starting point is 00:42:53 Well, she follows that up immediately by saying first three o'clock cross the finish line, win. But then, but here is my... A rule. Yes. Arguably, a rule. A very important one. I also felt that it was just so confusing
Starting point is 00:43:09 as to like how they know exactly where to go. Yeah. But it's devil's backbone. Well, Mitchell Goetland's never even heard about it, No, no, but they've never brought up Devil's Backbone before. I've never heard it throughout the rest of the movie. There's no rollerblading races ever established. They rollerblade right past a stadium.
Starting point is 00:43:29 A stadium. That's part of Devil's Backbone. Oh, Devil's Backbone is from the top of a mountain to a port. Like, it really ends at a port. Right by the fucking water. And I also say, we're going to settle this thing once and for all. What thing? That they always beat them at hockey.
Starting point is 00:43:46 We're going to settle who's better at a port? hockey by having a rollerblade race. I want to gook. Yeah, go ahead. I would argue another rule of the race is once you fall down, you're kind of out because a lot of people are just like, boom, and they're like, out. Why? Just get back up. Like, you know, like, they just seem like they take themselves out
Starting point is 00:44:12 way too easily. Who, okay, just going to sound like bad? Who wins the race? Because I was watching and I thought I was engaged. Yeah. But then the race was over and I, I'd maybe I'm sure I drifted. Did the main good guy win? Well, Snake came in first.
Starting point is 00:44:29 Snake wins. It was a shock. It was one of three. It's two teams. Yes. First team to have three people across. Do you know how they have like team races? Team races.
Starting point is 00:44:40 That aren't like relay races. Sure. You're not handing off a baton. Everyone's just running, but certain people are on one team. Yes. This is a 15-minute race. Is it? That none of the.
Starting point is 00:44:54 actors are there for. No. At one point, Jack Black kind of pretends he's on skates and they're shooting him from waist up and he kind of goes like this and then it cuts to the rear view and he's like six foot two and 175 pounds. This is, just so you can refresh your memory for the great action, this is the highlight reel of the race. They're in a building. Yeah. For some reason. A parking garage and a high level of a parking garage.
Starting point is 00:45:23 Yeah. How is the high that? A little bugging garage, part of Devil's Macbeth. And then he only gets airborne by jumping off a building, mind you. Like, it would have been cooler if he did a jump. Yeah, like off a half pipe or something. Oh, you're airborne. And he kills one of them right there. He murders a kid.
Starting point is 00:45:48 And I'd argue that no one even saw him go airborne. I know I'm obsessed with the airborneness of it. There are no eyewitnesses to him being airborne. No, no one was. like, oh shit, do you see him go airport? That part of the movie is sort of like him telling the story afterwards. Like, yeah, I jumped off a parking garage like three stories. Oh, sure you did.
Starting point is 00:46:05 No one sees. Which makes me believe that the makers or the people who advertise this movie had no idea what it was about because here are some of the taglines. And it's the most taglines ever for a movie. Because I feel like again, like the movie. More sports ever for a movie. Here it goes, the world's only rock and rollerblade movie. I would.
Starting point is 00:46:26 I have a lot of problems with that. No one plays music. The biggest song in it is I'm Too Sexy. Which is not rock and roll. Not rock and roll. Here's the other one. Mitchell just became the most popular guy on earth. Dach, dot, dot, dot once he took to the sky.
Starting point is 00:46:44 He doesn't take to the sky. He does not become popular once he jumps over that car. It would have been Mitchell became the most popular guy on earth after he gave a wedgey to somebody in a hockey. a game. Yes. That sounds like what is the tagline again? Read it? Mitchell became the most popular guy on Earth
Starting point is 00:47:04 dot, dot, dot once he took to the sky. That sounds like it's a movie where the kid becomes an astronaut. That is truly what I am sure. And a nerdy kid. A nerdy kid. A nerdy kid. Like it goes to space camp. He's a nerd even amongst those nerds. Right. But then he's the one
Starting point is 00:47:22 who takes the rocket up. He becomes popular. Right. The promise of starring you and me. Yeah. What do you say? I'm the super nerdy kid. And I'm the bully. You're the preppy kid.
Starting point is 00:47:34 Because the premise of this movie is that the coolest kid in California moves to Ohio and it becomes the coolest kid in Ohio. Well, get ready. There's four more log lines. To air isn't human. It's necessary. Whoa! Two air is inhuman? No, no.
Starting point is 00:47:59 Oh, okay. And is air, A-I-R? Like, A-I-R? Two-air isn't human. It's necessary. It's necessary that he jumps over that car. But like you said, he doesn't all, he doesn't air because it wasn't necessary. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:20 Okay, here's another one. Tough stuff. There are two kinds of people, those who have. get airborne, dot, dot, dot, and those who don't. He is part of the former. I also have to say if they had called this movie something different, they should have called this movie something different. It could have just been called land and sea.
Starting point is 00:48:44 Because there is, it's surfing turf. Servant turf is. Servant turf, like, yes. There's no air. Because I feel like they got really, like, they put themselves in a corner with the airborne of it. And so there's only one moment
Starting point is 00:49:01 where he gets airborne and they're really hanging the whole movie on fucking airborne. And by the way, it feels like the writer almost forgot. Oh shit, I called this movie airborne. He jumps off a building. Oh, good. I got it in on the last page. Because he surfs water.
Starting point is 00:49:17 He rollerblades, ground. The one thing he doesn't take to is the air. That's the only, like, What about fire? Here we go. Well, that's the logo. That's true. Here is another one that's kind of great.
Starting point is 00:49:32 Heroes aren't made. They air? They're airborne. So, meaning born of air? That one isn't, yeah. And then the final one is... Give us the first half and we'll try and guess it. This one is, okay.
Starting point is 00:49:54 Mitchell's life was a California dream. Dot, dot, dot. Cincinnati Nightmare? No, it's a Cincinnati nightmare. I assume it's going to be something about being airborne. Oh, right. Let's find it. What is it?
Starting point is 00:50:08 Mitchell's life was a California dream. Dot, dot, dot. That melted into thin airborne? Like that. Very good. Super solid. Thank you. I'm going to.
Starting point is 00:50:22 Any other guesses? I'll tell you you'll be disappointed. Mitchell's life was a California dream, dot, dot, dot. Until he woke up in Cincinnati. What? He didn't just wake up in Cincinnati. He got on a plane. He was sent there.
Starting point is 00:50:47 Presumably he did wake up in Cincinnati. Yes, but he didn't like, it wasn't like he's in California dreaming, and then he goes to see when he wakes up, he's in Cincinnati. Well, we didn't see the plane sequence, so maybe he was sleeping on the plane. But he gets off a plane. But maybe he woke up up sleeping on the plane. By the way, just to note the... That's not a big part.
Starting point is 00:51:05 Honestly, though, I felt like that that was the most accurate of all of them. That was the only time he was airborne was when he was on the plane. His surfboard was airborne. He was airborne. Yeah. The stick is airborne. He's airborne. We're going to come to the audience here in a second.
Starting point is 00:51:24 I just want to say one other thing. So this movie has a story by credit. So someone pitched this idea. By the way, this movie was originally not called airborne. No. You know. Does whoever wrote the story? And then it was written, and then this guy also gets credit for story.
Starting point is 00:51:41 That's his only credit. That's Mr. Colley. But the guy who just came up with the story, now is Mel Gibson's main producer. I have so many questions. Wait, did he produce Haxar Ridge? I don't know about that. I should check that out. Did he produce Braveheart?
Starting point is 00:51:58 Paul, where are you going? Paul! Paul! Paul! We need info! Paul. All right. Let's go to the audience here.
Starting point is 00:52:04 All right, sir, I'm going to go to you right now. Sir, come over here. Obviously, we've talked about surf and turf as being the perfect title. Is there another title that you can come up with for this film? Or is there a better character name for Mitchell Goossum? I know, I'm putting you on the spot. Cincinnati snowboarding doesn't exist. All right, Cincinnati snowboarding, I'll say dot, dot, dot doesn't exist.
Starting point is 00:52:28 Honestly, the last we've heard. Yeah, longer title than we would normally have. Why doesn't he do snowboarding? He's a snowboard. Yes. The only time you see snow is on the tarmac. And it disappears rather quickly. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:41 Okay. Talk to me about your question. What's your question? So he gets the rollerblades late, right? His mom or his parents send it to him. So his parents found his rollerblades, took it to Australia, and then mailed it to him. Okay. I think I know what happened here.
Starting point is 00:53:00 Oh, this dumb kid forgot his rollerblades. Roller blades. He paid a neighbor to break into his house, rummage through his stuff, sent, and then the neighbor accidentally sent the blades to Australia, where a kangaroo put them on, which all of that would make a better movie than this. I have a theory. The parents were never going to Australia. Oh, what are you doing over there?
Starting point is 00:53:26 Oh, Paul. Are you on rollerblades? I just bladed through this whole back. The parents were never going to. Like about the parents. Did anyone notice in that first parent scene how they were sitting uncomfortably close? Like they were about to fuck,
Starting point is 00:53:41 they had just fucked. He had two fingers in her. I don't know exactly what. Exactly. Those parents were creepy. Okay, your title or better character name and your question? My name for the movie, Life is a Wave.
Starting point is 00:53:57 Love it. Life is a wave? What do you mean? Like, he takes a wave. from California all the way wherever he goes. Sometimes it breaks for you, sometimes it breaks against you. Sometimes you get a sweet ride
Starting point is 00:54:11 sometimes you get fucking laid on your ass. Life's a wave, bro. Yeah. But you gotta ride it. Because if you don't ride it, you won't do it, bro. Life is a wave. And my question is
Starting point is 00:54:27 there is a serious lack of adult responsibility in this movie. There are very few adults. taking responsibility for any of these kids' actions. They were rollerblading through the streets for a long time. No cops stopped them. Where are the police? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:44 It's not like... It's not like Cincinnati has a ton of shit going on where they don't notice. This would be like evening news. And the only adult you kind of seen the movie is the teacher in the beginning. And he rode himself into it. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:54:59 And he lets the kids do whatever they want. They're like fighting in front of the kids. of the class and he's just like next person keep going. We need to get through these speeches. At one point Edie McClurg almost calls the cops on the lead guy because he's sleeping? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:15 And she's afraid he's dead. Oh yeah. By the way I have to say those are my two favorite characters in the entire movie. Edie McClurg from Ferris Bueller and then her husband who I feel like has been in everything but when I looked at his IMDB, nothing felt familiar
Starting point is 00:55:31 to me. They were hilarious and I also felt like they improvised everything She has like a legitimately great line when they're like driving first they pick him up from the airport and she's pointing out stuff and she goes there's the whole where the sausage factory used to be I was like this is going to be a good
Starting point is 00:55:47 movie I also like that they talk about hockey thank you very much for a question they talk about hockey and then they go like let's get let's uh you feeling frisky and he's like yeah I'll get out the twister and I don't know what it was that They were getting turned on or something.
Starting point is 00:56:05 Let me see you back here. All right. Yes, you back here. Your name of your movie, your character name, whatever you want, and your question. I'd say, Stalin? That's a good movie. Yeah, it's a good title.
Starting point is 00:56:16 Styling is way better. We've touched on it, but one of the most important plot points is that the boy is panced, and that Jack Black says, funny, and everyone has the biggest reaction to this pantsing ever. Well, I don't know if that was a question. So you just think that, like, so that moment, the reaction is larger than what it should have been.
Starting point is 00:56:40 Jack Black's reaction is insane. Insane. It's like he didn't know that men have butts. Well, it's as if, like, as if this baby, by the way. He's got to see his own butt. No, it's behind him. Of course not. And he's never been naked.
Starting point is 00:56:58 He's gone through his entire life, never seeing a butt. Wait a second. Guys, I just realized something. This is what Mitchell Gusson brings to Cincinnati. Pansing. He doesn't bring... Why not call this movie pantsed? They're like, it's so cold in Cincinnati.
Starting point is 00:57:14 No one's ever shown a butt before. Yeah, heroes are born. They're pants. In L.A., that's what you do. It's warm enough here to show off your ass and humiliate people, and so that's what he brings. And he was wearing... Yeah, that was an awkward. I feel uncomfortable watching scenes of young people.
Starting point is 00:57:31 Because you're trying to move your bow. her out of the way. Yeah. Then I wrestle with it. And the main kid is short listen to this movie a lot. A lot. Is anybody have a really great one that they feel like, oh, I got
Starting point is 00:57:46 to bring this one up here. All right. Your name. Sell it with confidence and we'll see. All right, here we go. Here we go. Okay, so the title would be not airborne. No, airborne. Sorry, not Airbus. You guys cheated. Shared your title. Yeah, not Airbutt.
Starting point is 00:58:01 So when he's in the hockey game, he gets knocked out. He's unconscious for like half a day. No one calls the ambulance. And then the guy gets, what's it called, chocolate stained blaine? He gets knocked over into the water, and he disappears, and no one seems to care either. So I'm just saying no one seems to care about other people. That is true. No one calls an ambulance, and they move him, too.
Starting point is 00:58:25 They move him to a second location, which is fairly dangerous as well. There is a disturbing lack of empathy in this movie. There are no parental figures when he wakes up. Yeah. He has a concussion. He has brain damage. Jason's not here, so I have to say what Jason would say. The movie officially ends when he gets knocked out at the hockey rink
Starting point is 00:58:50 and the rest of the thing is a Jacobs Ladder scenario. It's all a dream. It's all a fantasy. It's the only way it makes sense. He died in that first hockey game. How did you find this movie? I found this movie, as many people do, on Twitter and on... Working through Seth Green's entire catalog.
Starting point is 00:59:10 Yes. Can't Hardly Wait. You and I saw Can't Hardly Wait in the theater together. We sure did. I brought in half a chicken. What happened to the other half? What are you talking about? I can't eat an entire chicken in a movie.
Starting point is 00:59:24 This is one of the movies that was very highly recommended over the years. And I had been saving it for a while to... for a special occasion. No, my question's about the chicken. Happy to answer any and all. What? What? I was hungry.
Starting point is 00:59:41 It was in New York. And there was like a Boston market next to the theater. And I was like, I'm hungry. New York has the best Boston market. They really do. It's my favorite. Outside of Boston. No, I would say better than the Boston Boston market.
Starting point is 00:59:56 And so I was hungry and I needed more of a meal than a snack. And so I remember. You were like, let's get half a chicken. I did not eat a chicken in that movie. I had half a chicken. I have a clear memory of it. I respected the theater and the space and can't hardly wait.
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Starting point is 01:00:41 What's your name? Tim Give it up for Tim What an honor We always say to the audience Before the show If you want to make something up In the moment
Starting point is 01:00:53 Please do and that person did So that was great And great job to the audience For catching along These are five-star reviews Called from Amazon and boy, there are some good ones. Okay, here we go.
Starting point is 01:01:06 This is from Nurse Mommy, R.N. Oh. Is she an R.N? Is she like, Nurse Mommy right now. Nurse Mommy right now. And she writes, this was taped at my grade school, oh, so long ago.
Starting point is 01:01:26 And I got to be an extra in it. So it was a rental to reminisce, heart she didn't even buy it you're in this movie a rental to reminisce like I don't think you can be in the movie and have a you know an opinion
Starting point is 01:01:42 that's fair I think once you're in it you're in it fucking five stars she gave herself five stars I feel like she came up with the phrase a rental to reminisce and then backed into writing the review also
Starting point is 01:01:58 R and N are both in reminous She's big into R&N. And in rental. I will say a lot of these reviews were written recently. That's the thing that's actually most interesting about these reviews. This one's written in 2016 in June by Man of Wood. Great movie. Better than the crap they made today, five stars.
Starting point is 01:02:24 The crap that they made that day? What movie did they make that day? Maybe he meant better than the crap he made today. like the actual piece of shit that came out of his ass do not know you need to put the shit back in and then
Starting point is 01:02:45 this one is odd I'll read it and we can discuss why I think it's odd this is by Pamela S. Ryan written in 2014 she's putting a middle initial in there 2014 hot off the 20 year anniversary the title is perfect
Starting point is 01:03:02 and the And the review is simply this. Wonderful movie to take my adult son back in time. Her. I think that's the mom of the actor. Remember when you were in this? Adult son back in time. Hi son.
Starting point is 01:03:32 Can you get a babysitter? Come on over to the house. I want to take you back in time. Because if he, like say if he's even, if he's 20 now, That's an adult son. Then he was 10 when this movie came out. No, no, no, he was more than 20 years.
Starting point is 01:03:49 He would have not been born. Oh, right, right, okay, yeah. She makes a guy, like, in his 30s or 40s watch this movie. Pamela's Ryan is a monster. I really do think that that's the kid's mom. Because she gets to see her now adult son. Back in time. The beautiful child he once was.
Starting point is 01:04:14 I think you know what? I think you may be right. Buckle up people. This is a longie, but it's worth it. By Jordan Lawrence. Title, Who compares this movie to Harry Potter? No one. No one. I just want to start off by saying that I felt compelled to write a review about this movie after reading about some guy who thought this movie was awful and lacked substance and was not creative.
Starting point is 01:04:45 This person, who I can only imagine, plays Dungeons and Dragons, and has a collection of Beanie Babies, goes on to say, there are plenty of movies of this sort that are filled to the brim with creativity. The Harry Potter series in case and point. That was one sentence, by the way. Really? You're comparing this movie to Harry Potter? I'd like to know what planet this guy is coming from, considering the two movies are nothing alike,
Starting point is 01:05:10 not to mention the fact they were written in two different decades. First of all, let me say this. This movie is awesome. First of all. If you were around in the 90s, which apparently this guy was not, no wonder you don't think this movie was any good. You watch movies like Harry Potter, dude.
Starting point is 01:05:32 Who is he having an argument with? Some guy who collects bean babies. I grew up watching this movie. It's funny. It's entertaining. It's great to see guys like Seth Green and Jack Black before they were some buddies. Of course, it does. doesn't have the greatest plot in the world.
Starting point is 01:05:48 It was written for teenagers in the 90s. It was totally exciting to watch growing up and brings back great memories today. Even if he didn't watch this growing up, let your kids watch it. They'll love it. I personally love it because it reminds me the days
Starting point is 01:06:01 I used to race around my rollerblades. By the way, this 100% is a suicide note. I used to race around on my rollerblades, hang out on the beaches of California and engage in some good old-fashioned competition. I've been checking on Amazon for the last year to see when or if this movie would ever make it the DVD, and it finally has.
Starting point is 01:06:24 I would pay $30 for this movie if I had to. If you want to be reminded of simpler, better days, which you'll probably never see again. Oh boy. With good entertainment value, watch Airborne. If all you care about are special effects, casting spells, and nerdy kids flying around on food things. What does he have a good? Against Harry Potter. Go watch Harry Potter.
Starting point is 01:06:51 And leave the good stuff for those of us who are nostalgic and like entertainment. Five motherfucking stars. Wow. You could call, Harry Potter deserves the title, Airborne, More. They actually fly on brooms. They play Quidditch. That's an airborne sport. What if Harry Potter was called hockey?
Starting point is 01:07:31 They just swapped titles. I have to say that review turned me on Harry Potter. You see his point? I'm fucking done. Fuck that shit. Well, you'll all be pleased to know that Blake Harris has tracked down one of the lead actors of this film and will be conducting a very big interview with him coming up. So we'll get that on Slash film.
Starting point is 01:07:52 Can we say? We could, if I remember the name of it. guy. It's not Jack Black or Seth Green. Yeah. So it may be the lead bully. You probably could get Seth Green or Jack Black. I'm sure we could. They're both color names. But I feel like the better...
Starting point is 01:08:08 Is that all it takes to make it? You need a color name. Would you recommend our audience watching this movie? Sometimes we say you don't need to watch it. Sometimes we say, yeah, you should definitely watch it. I'll start off and say, yeah, I think you should definitely watch this movie. I think you're insane.
Starting point is 01:08:26 Not for like, not like I'm saying like, this is the moonlight. I cannot think of a single reason for people to watch this. There are so many movies in the world. Knowing that I pushed watching Moonlight off to watch this, made me feel bad. Did you watch Moonlight? Not yet, because I watched this. What if you died right now?
Starting point is 01:08:48 Maybe I'd be a little bit happier than I saw Surf and Turf before I went. Wow. They're very similar in many ways. there are two guys hanging out by the ocean there are it's kind of vaguely homoerotic yeah moonlight is vaguely homoerotic I'm talking about
Starting point is 01:09:09 airborne yeah it is I guess when he rubs no spoilers it's sort of it's like hey there's something going on with those guys I don't know if I'm reading too much into this movie but
Starting point is 01:09:25 when he rubs his face fingers in the sand. I feel like something happened. Scott, yay or nay? I think it's well directed. I mean, the shots are really, really good. Sure.
Starting point is 01:09:38 So you're watching for the directing. If you're a fan of film... Yeah. The director is a good director. The director's a good director. The actors, not to a man, certainly, are good actors.
Starting point is 01:09:55 No, don't watch this. All right. Danielle? I'm going to say, Watch it. Nice. I'm going to say you have to really get... The two people who saw Can't Hardly Wait are highly recommending this movie.
Starting point is 01:10:07 In the theater. Bring half a chicken. Settling. Make a day of it. Get some chicken. Tune out during the dream sequence. Lie back. Yeah, going to a food coma during the dream sequence.
Starting point is 01:10:21 Lie back, watch a child sort of like a... Rubbed soap all over his body. Yes. No, I felt like, I feel like an order. In order to understand the movie, in order to, like, see how disparate the four different movies inside the movie are, in order to really get that, I think you should watch it. And I also feel like, what the fuck are you doing? Yeah, watch it.
Starting point is 01:10:44 What else you do you do? It is a good point. It's like you leave the movie, and it's like you've watched four movies. Yeah, Moonlight, you probably get to watch one. Yeah, like, Moonlight was, like, one movie, right? Moonlight's only one movie. Yeah. Although it's kind of three movies.
Starting point is 01:10:57 It actually, it actually is kind of three. It's kind of like three movies. It's kind of three movies. So it's one less movie than this one. Let's talk about what we want to talk about. Danielle, what do you want to plug? What do I want to plug? Bitch Sesh.
Starting point is 01:11:13 Yes. Thank you. We have a podcast. We're also doing a show Wednesday the 25th at Largo and then also just listen to Bich Sesh on your podcast. Great. Thanks. Scott, what do you got?
Starting point is 01:11:26 I co-directed with Akiva Schaffer of the Lonely Island. a variety special for Netflix called Michael Bolton's Big Sexy Valentine's Day special. And that's February 7th? February 7th it comes out and it has Maya Rudolph and Sarah Silverman and Fred Armisen and Will Forte and Andy Samberg
Starting point is 01:11:45 and Eric Andre and a bunch of great people and it's very funny. I can't wait. That sounds awesome. Kamala, you at this point to our listeners have been to Sundance, you've been back with your movie there. How was it? I...
Starting point is 01:12:03 I just got very nervous. No, what do we have? Silicon Valley, you can watch it on iTunes or HBO Go, and it comes out, the new season comes out in April, and then, yeah, the movie, The Big Sick, it'll come out at some point, so look for that.
Starting point is 01:12:25 Awesome. I love it. At the point of people listening to this, you've sold it for $20 million at this point. Oh, no. What are you doing? The last movie that sold for that much was Birth of a Nation. Yep.
Starting point is 01:12:40 What's going to come out about you? Huh? What did you do? I'll tell you. So far. I don't want to do it. I don't want to riff on this. That could be the thing that turns this into a birth of a nation situation.
Starting point is 01:12:55 Yeah. Pass. Well, a big thank you to April Hally, who pulls all of our clips here. and then puts them all together each week. She has a great show called Movie Bishes on YouTube. July Diaz up in the booth. Nate Kiley does all of her research. Marissa Zites, who pulls us all together,
Starting point is 01:13:13 Leanna Waldron, everybody here at Largo, everybody here at Earwolf. Thank you all for coming. Good night.

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