How Did This Get Made? - Airborne LIVE! w/ Scott Aukerman, Kumail Nanjiani, & Danielle Schneider (Classic)
Episode Date: July 7, 2026We 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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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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...
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
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,
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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,
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
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
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
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,
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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,
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.
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,
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
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.
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?
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...
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?
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?
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
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.
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.
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...
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,
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Paul, where are you going?
Paul!
Paul!
Paul!
We need info!
Paul.
All right.
Let's go to the audience here.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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,
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All the hard people who worked on, the crew,
everybody.
Obviously, we had an opinion about this movie,
but there are people out there that had a different opinion.
It is now time for second opinions.
Second opinion, second opinion, second opinion, second opinion, second opinion, second opinion,
second opinion, second opinion, second opinions, second opinions, second opinions, second opinions, second opinions,
Second opinions
Second opinions
Second opinions
Second opinions
Second opinions
Uh huh
Amazing
Give it up
What's your name?
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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...
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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,
Leanna Waldron, everybody here at Largo,
everybody here at Earwolf.
Thank you all for coming.
Good night.
