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Episode Date: November 13, 2025

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though we're just testing it right now. So we haven't put anything on Instagram or any of that jazz. But welcome if you're here and you're not. But welcome. We love you. Anyway, yesterday we had started a conversation that got kind of cut off because of a technical issue about a very popular cult classic movie for anybody who grew up in the 80s and probably the 90s too, the never-ending story. Yes. With Falcour and a tray you, the story that never ends, if you will.

That's why they call the sphinx tits. Yes. All four of them. My little six-year-old eyes. And they're like, remember they're like frozen or something? They're icy. Well, no, they shoot out lasers. Well, they do shoot out lasers.

Oh, yeah, yeah. They were crystal. Yes, they were crystal and then they turned into gold and then they went, you literally, I don't know the eyeballs that shot, but I imagined the tits shot because that was a lot cooler for me. It got me a lot more jazzed up. It was the eyes. But I kind of remember the tits, too.

We all remember the tits. It's the Mandela effect on never-ending story about this. tits on the sphinx, on the, whatever those were, those Egyptian sculptures a mile in the sky. You must like solve the riddle that they put out there. I thought it was the fear killer. Like if you showed fear, yeah, then it got you. Okay, and he had to run through. That's right.

So, another words, and this is good, this is a good lesson in life for everybody, especially the young ones. If you show fear, the tits will come to life and destroy you. Don't show fear. Lasers will shoot out of the eyeballs. You have to be careful, kids. Be careful. Anyway, never-ending story. Great movie.

We got on to Goonies, too. So Chrissy and I thought we'd dedicate an episode to our favorite 80s and 90s movies. Critically it came, cold classics. Very excited. We shall start the debate, and the debate shall rage on for at least the next 40 minutes. All right. Okay, you ready? You go.

You tell me what, I mean, when you, there was this girl on TikTok the other day. I want to share this. This girl on TikTok, beautiful young girl. I'm going to guess she's a 25, 26 years old. And she's in her car, and she's making a TikTok about imagine being born in 1971 or 1972. Now, I'm not that old. And she goes, you're born in a generation of great music, great movies, no telephones,

no computers, you are no processed, highly processed foods quite yet. You are living in a time, like a golden era. And then there was a stitch, which means that another guy was commenting on hers, like going back and forth. And he said, you're right. I was born in that era. And you're absolutely right. And then the 80s, you're a teenager. And you're growing up in the hair and the fashion and the music.

I wasn't so much about the music in the 80s. But, okay. I was a teen in the 90s. I was a teen in the 90s. Yeah. But of course, you remember the 80s movies because that's what you were growing up on. Well, yeah, you wanted to be a big kid. You couldn't go out.

You know, you weren't going out with your friends. No. And so you were inside watching the TV. Yes. And it was okay to watch rated our movies because HBO would let you do that. And your parents didn't care. They largely left us to raise ourselves. Now I'm helicoptering everything. And because the world, I think, is a lot more, it's faster and more dangerous. I don't think my kids seeing hardcore porn at age two. You know what I'm saying? Right. So, but back then, it was just a squiggly tit on Cinemax in the middle of the night. But this girl was making a great point is that there really is kind of this golden era of 70s, 80s, 90s. And maybe I think after, I think after 2001, This is the different world. You know what I'm saying? But the movies back then seem to be so much better than they are today.

Twisters, too, is not a classic. Twisters with an S is not a classic. I debate anybody on this. Okay, go. What's your first? I'll buy to fix this terrible squeal in the microphone. Well, I mean, my first one that came to mind was Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of the greatest movies ever. made. John Hughes made that movie. Chicago-based, all the action takes place in Chicago. It is every kid's dream to skip, once you get it, certainly middle school, high school, to skip school and go on a great adventure. But likely if you ever skip school, well, now you can get arrested for like terrorism for skipping school. And your parents know, because they're tracking you. That's right. They're tracking you. Yeah. So, yeah, anyways, it is the dream. And that kind of takes me back to The Never Ending Story, too, and Goonies. It's almost like you put yourself as a kid into these situations.

And you're like, I would love to do that. It's what a great movie does. I want to go find treasure. Yes. Find a pirate ship's treasure like the Goonies do. Save their parents' house. I want to go look at Sphinx Tits. I want to go look at Sphinx Fits being a, you know, a library upstairs in an attic and

saw, you know, help save the world. Fly falcour around the sky. Exactly. Fly a dog dragon. Yes. Around. And then Paris Bueller, once again, you want to be that kid. This is the adult version. Would you like to give daddy a kid?

So that's how it is in their family. Every line is quotable. It is. So you're the sausage king of Chicago? Yes, yes. Ah, bad, bad, bad, better, betta. So wing, bada. Every line quotable in that movie, John Hughes is.

Roll our old bones in here. Go ahead and roll. Roll our old bones down in here. Show me that dead grandmother. Oh, man. You sounded like dirty hairy just then. With your bad back, you shouldn't be throwing anybody. He's quite a little dube.

Dweeb. Dweeb. It's the greatest movie. I have to agree with you. There's no dissenting on this one. If you've seen Ferris Bueller's Day off. And listen, I wear my Save Ferris shirt around. I've had it for about 25 years, that Save Ferris,

which we used to be the name of a book. band but i bought it because of course save ferris is what is all around the town plastered around the school plastered around all of chicago save ferris i heard he needs a new lung yeah ferris fakes that he's sick and that everybody's putting out donations for him to get better just the lengths he will go to to elude his parents the smoothness ferris bueller is the ultimate cool kid and but he seemed attainable not like you know the quarterback of the high school football football team. This guy was attainable. And everybody liked him. He was just one of those guys. No one could ever play that role. Like Matthew Broderick played it in that moment. And every other

casting is spot on. Jennifer Gray is his sister. And that was before dirty dancing. Charlie fucking Sheen. Come on. The, um, the dirt bag boyfriend that she meets at the police station. He is the dirt bag boyfriend. And rumor has it. And I think this might. might have been dispelled, but rumor has it. And I like to think the rumor is true, that Charlie Sheen stayed up for two and a half days to make himself look like he had stayed up for two and a half days. I believe that. And it's just from beginning to end. It's so good. The music. Yes. Yeah. The Sloan. Oh, Sloan. Oh, so every. Fast cars. Fast cars. Fast cars. Cameron's fast car. Yeah. This is the ultimate wet dream of any high schoolers to have an adventure like this. But if you've ever skipped school, you know the adventure usually is like hiding in someone's basement, smoking bad weed, right?

That's probably the extent of your adventure or maybe driving around for the entire TV. Let's think about what all they do. They leave. So they go to, well, they go to the restaurant where they act like the sausage king of Chicago. Abe Freud, Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago. Well, first of all, they take out Cameron. So it's the three of them, and I like that. It's like a three musketeers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Sloan, it's Cameron, it's Ferris. Uh-huh. They all get together. They take out Cameron's dead's. Beautiful. What is that? Like a...

A Lamborghini or something? I don't know what it is. Yeah. It's convertible, red. Yeah, somebody was driving that car around on Instagram the other day. Like the exact same, the replica of it, it's like, it's a $2 million car or something like that. Oh, sure. But they actually trashed one of those cars for the movie.

Got it in one shot. They actually trashed one of those cars. Because they have to put it out the window in the back. They do. You can't fake that one. You just got to throw it out the window. But so then they all go. They go to the restaurant.

They park downtown. They go to the restaurant. They go to the museum. They go to the baseball game. They go to the stock exchange. They go to the stock exchange. And then they end up at the parade. Uh-huh.

A real parade, by the way. They were not allowed to film at. And all the camera crew goes down there. And it starts getting a little hairy because everybody realizes that. that John Hughes is now filming a movie down at this parade. Well, the scene where he gets up and he sings. All of a sudden, they're like, where's Ferris? Where's Ferris?

And all of a sudden, he's on a float. He's on a float. And he comes out as the main guy singing. Singing the Beatles, shake it up, baby now. This is such a brilliant filmmaking. On their steps, doing a tandem dance. Those dances, those dances were choreographed. However, what's improvised is.

Matthew Broderick on that float. And this is so, this is like, this is just a universe. I'm just excited thinking about it. Kissing this movie. John Hughes had an epic run. He is one of the greatest directors of all times. Where is he? When is he ever going to direct another movie?

I don't know. I think he died. Did he? John Hughes died? I think so. Did he? You heard it here last. Yeah.

I thought John Hughes was still alive. Oh, no, I think you're right. He died in 2009. Just a short 18 years ago. It was a big tribute to him. Brian. What are you thinking? Anyway.

Where is he? Where is he going to do another goddamn movie? Well, he's up in the goddamn sky with that goddamn guy named God. All right. Okay. I'm sorry. I apologize to all the John Hughes fans out there. I wasn't up to date.

But all the great movies. He died too young now at doing it. Oh, for sure. Well, he stopped making movies. He just stopped making movies. And no one captured. teenage life like John Hughes did and that's why it connected on so many levels not only with teenagers but with people who are going to become teenagers like us and people who had been

teenagers like our parents because John Hughes nailed it he nailed the angst he nailed the verbiage he nailed the pop culture he nailed it in pink uh breakfast club home alone all these uh so many the uh what was that movie uh planes trains and automobiles Yeah, yeah, 16 candles. 16 candles. All of it. It's so fucking, he's so fucking good at what he does. And what is the common denominator in all of his movies?

Teenaging. Chicago. And Chicago. That's right. Chicago is the common denominator. He was lifelong lover and liver in Chicago. And he made Chicago essentially another actor in the movie. Another character.

And he did such a great job of it. One of my favorite scenes in any movie ever is not only the Riggly scene where they are at the baseball game with Ferris Bueller's Day Off. But when Ed, the principal, when Ed goes to the pizza joint and he thinks he sees Ferris and it's just a girl in Ferris's coat.

Is it the arcade? It's a pizza joint with an arcade. She turns around, she spits the coke on him. And he goes, your ass is mine. She turns around, spits the Coke. He's wiping it off. He's staring at the guy behind the counter.

There's a cub game on. And he goes, what's the score? The guy goes, zero, He goes, who's winning? And he goes, the Bears. So now for the entirety of my life, when everybody, anybody says, who's winning? I say, the Bears. The Bears.

All right, Chrissy. That's a big one. You had a big one. I will share with you that one of my favorite movies that might be considered in a similar ilk, but a different director and a different topic is the Blues Brothers. The Blues Brothers came out in 1980, and it is a, I don't think there's a movie that does a better job of mixing entertainment, comedy, and music in the 1980s than the Blues Brothers. Some of the greatest blues songs ever written. I mean, you have gotten some, it's a heavyweight list of musicians that make their way into that movie, but they do it organically. I mean, it's all ridiculous, right?

But it's in a way where you're enjoying yourself and it doesn't seem like Blues Brothers 2, 3, and 4 where they're just fitting famous musicians in to sing a lick. This had who? I mean, first of all, the Blues Brothers in and of themselves were a great band. They were a great band. Those two guys, Dan Aykroydon and John Belushi, put together one of the better blues ensembles of all time by putting real blues musicians behind them and singing classic blues. songs are their take on classic blues songs the it's another adventure movie you know uh Jake gets out of jail his brother Ellewood picks him up and they're on a mission from God they got to save the orphanage that raised them and every scene is a ballbustingly nutcracking funny fucking

scene done only the way that John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd could together it is a great team it is a fucking fantastic movie and I don't so he Here's a little thing you might not know about me. My grandmother is in the Blues Brothers. What? My grandmother is in the Blues Brothers because the mall that they destroyed at the beginning of that movie, when the Blues Brothers are getting chased by the cops and they drive into the mall and they're driving all around destroying the mall and there's all these police officers,

you know, police cars driving around the mall. That was a mall that was set to be demolished. It was for sale. It was going to be abandoned, essentially. Back before abandoned malls were a thing. Yeah, back, this was, they were on trend, on topic. This happened. They bought the mall, I think for a million bucks or something like that.

They bought it and they just went apeshit. Well, they needed people to fill the mall, to fill certain scenes in the movie. She was an extra. She was an extra. In one of the scenes where my grandma. And so I have always been tied to this movie in a way that feels like family because literally. Your family was in it. And you could barely see her.

I mean, you have to stop it at the right exact moment. You could see part of her. red hair sticking out. It's not that you can see her face. But this movie is one of the greatest movies of all times, my opinion. It might be familia. It might be something that's familiar with me. I've seen in a million times of my dad. I've seen it a million times of my family. I love this movie. Anytime it comes on, I have to watch the fucking Blues Brothers. Great movie. And I have the soundtrack. It is wonderful. Okay, you go. All right. Next up, I've got, I'm going to go with the Big Lobowski.

When did the Big Lobowski come out? It came out in the 90s. It did? Okay. Well, of course you have to put the Big Lobowski on there. Any Cohen Brothers movie. I will one up you, Chrissy. I will say, do you know what's better than the Big Lobowski?

What? Raising Arizona. Raising Arizona is better than the Big Lobosky. It's a great movie, but I don't know. The Big Lobowski. I argue. It came out in 98. Came out in 1998?

Mm-hmm. Okay. I love the Big Lobowski. I think this movie is brilliant. I mean, what a classic role for him. He's the dude. Like he wasn't even always, I mean, he was the original Tron. He was the original.

He was original Tron and Starman. Oh, that's right. Starman. He was Starman. That's a string of roles for his. Starman into Tron into the dude. He was in Tron. Yeah, he's in the new Tron too.

Yeah, the new one was okay. Which don't see, I guess. Anyway, listen, Big Lobowski. There's so many classic lines. from that. Of course there are. White Russians, drinking white Russians. I mean, oh, we've got, you know, um, God, John, John Candy, but why am I blanking on his friend? John Goodman. John Goodman. Yes. Steve Mushimmy. Again, and a lot of good movies. This is an infinitely quotable movie also. I mean, they have whole festivals dedicated to like

Big Lobowski and the dude and everybody dresses up like the dude. And even he's even showed, the dude has even showed up at these festivals sometimes dressed as the dude. And I don't know where the character stops and he begins, you know, he ends and the character begins. He's got a bathrobe on. He's smoking weed in the bathtub. Listen, man, shit has gotten like, you know, complicated. Watch the white Russian. It's so good. It's great. And then I don't know who that lady is who plays the lady who's flying around naked with paint all over her body. Hold on. Let's see. Hold on. Let's see. here because it is it's julian more no no no no julian more plays the uh the um the girlfriend okay she's it's not her okay it is who's the lady in leather philip semore hoffman's in it philip seymour

hawkins in it that's right god jeff britch is john don't fuck with the hezos terrah reed it's terra reed no terra reed is the young girl who's his boyfriend no i'm thinking of julia i'm thinking of the lady who's flying naked. Oh, yeah, that's Julianne Moore. Yeah, I'm thinking this is weird. Yeah, it's so weird fucking scene. It's weird. And then Kenny Rogers, of course, his song plays in that movie.

It's the first time I had ever heard this song. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. That is, okay, it's a great movie. But I still think Raising Arizona has to take the cake. for Cohen Brothers straight comedies. Okay. Because Raising Arizona is just so, it's also another, I know that Nicholas Cage's character is not as iconic as the dude.

I get that. No one's running around dressed up like, you know, a tie high from Raising Arizona. It's a great movie. It's a great movie. And it's got emotion. It's got heart. It's like you're rooting for the bad guy. There's an anti-hero.

I love Holly Hunt. Holly Hunter. Yes. Holly Hunter's great. Nick, it's about the last movie that Nicholas Cage made where he wasn't a fucking total cuck bag. I mean, and he was a cuckbag in this movie. But another movie where John Goodman shows up in that movie also. And just the stakes are high.

It's a fun, fast-paced, super fantastic movie. Not to take anything away from the Big Lobowski. But I just have to edge, it's my favorite Cohn Brothers movie. I just have to edge that out. Just a little, just a little scooch, Chrissy, just a scooch. I have to say that the original. is the best, the Raising Arizona, is a brilliant movie. I think that came out two, three years before the Big Lobowski, maybe.

But I think it was like, I do believe it won or was nominated for a couple of awards, but I don't think it won anything. I think you're right. But I think that set them off. But then if we really want to talk about Cohen Brothers movies, then let's not forget Fargo. Fargo. It was on my list. Let's not forget Fargo. It's on my list.

It's on my list. Fargo, while the Big Lobowski is a kind of a fun, ridiculous, non-sost. sequential weird movie with great character development in it, mainly the dude. And Raising Arizona is a plot-based caper where you have a lot of slapstick comedy, a lot of physical comedy and one-liners that do well. Fargo does such a great job of painting the desperation of a man who has done something wrong. Right. Right. But where the rest of us might just go, I really fucked up here. I should I should not fuck up while I'm fucking. up. I stole some shit. I'm going to have to pay the consequences. He keeps going. He keeps digging

himself a hole. It's a feeling that all of us can understand. When he, when the guy calls from the GM dealership, the financing, and he knows he's busted. And he says, if I don't get those VIN numbers by the end of the day, I'm going to have to call the authorities, right, or whatever he says. I'm going to call, you know, corporate, whatever. And he slams down the phone and he, you know, wrecks his desk. The desperation, you could, it's almost something you could, do. It's like, it's so palpable. And then the rest of the movie just gets worse and worse. It just gets worse and worse. It does to the point of a wood. Nothing gets better. Getting into a wood chipper. Yeah, if you go into a wood chipper. And Steve Bouchemi again, shows up and makes a brilliant turn in this movie, as does Svindgaard Oskiffin. I don't know what his name is, but that guy who played, I want the pancake.

I want pancake house. It's like, dude, do you want pancake house? But Steve Bushemi, screwing those hookers, screw the hooker scene in that movie. The hookers thing, I forgot about that. It's one of the better Cohen Brothers movies. The hookers are like, oh, yeah, give it to me. Oh, yeah, right there. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Feeling it now.

Oh, yeah. Give it to me. It's a great fucking movie. I want to watch all these movies right now. I know, me too. I want to watch all of them. They all make me feel some way. Absolutely.

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Free Range with Vaughn Miller, everywhere you get your podcast. All right, back talking about great movies from the 80s and 90s. These are not necessarily critically acclaimed movies. These are Chrissy and I's list of top 20. We'll probably get through about four of them at this current pace. But, okay, whatever. Let's keep on going. That's the way that it is.

Hey, at least we're sticking a topic. That I like, Chrissy. All right, okay, go. What's your next one? Silence of the lambs. this redefines a generation of thrillers I think in a lot of ways it is a scary movie

that is realistic and I think that's why it's so scary Not that anyone You know you'd ever put someone in a chain mail face And you know put him in the middle of an The weird thing about that is they put him in the middle of like that Hall like the you know what I'm saying Chained up in that, not chained up but in that cage

Oh yeah yeah yeah Remember Hannibal Lecter goes in the cage and is he in the middle of a museum or something? No it He's in that glass cage and they're transporting him. No, I'm saying when they transport him and they put him into the big, like, you know, cage in the middle of the room. And he's talking to Clarice and he's, you know, hands are some, give me the papers, Clarice. Yeah, he makes her figure it out. Yes.

There's so many elements to that whole movie. I mean, you're scary. It's psychologically scary because you could have been the person that was kidnapped that that guy, you know, then. It takes your skin. Yeah. And Fade you, put the lotion in the basket. Wild Bill. Yeah.

He puts the lotion in the basket. Shut up. It's so weird. It's all weird. The first time you see Silence of the Lambs, I saw it at the movie theater, it's almost a religious experience, but not in the way that you had hoped, right? It was, it's like a very, it was a very scary movie. Was. And it had you on the edge of your seat almost from the beginning.

There are no frills in this movie. It cuts out a lot. lot of the mustard, and I like that about the direction of the movie. I read the book, and I read the book before it, Red Dawn Rising or Red Dragon, something along those lines. A dragon, yeah. And there is a little bit of fluff in the book that The Silence of the Lambs is based on. But in the movie, they cut all of that out.

And they just really get to the action very quick. Jody Foster, there's nobody else who could play that. There's the storage unit. All of it. All of it. All of it. Yeah. The insects.

The insects, the butterflies, the mobs. into the, he's put into the throat. When she goes to, like, the middle of Indiana and finds his bedroom and she's got, like, weird. It's all just creepy. Everything about, the next scene is creepier than the next scene topped off by Anthony Hopkins, absolutely terrifying. Yeah. I mean, he was a big actor in his own before that, but I think that really catapulted him. Oh, there's no doubt.

Oh, no doubt. Oh, no doubt. Everybody's list. Yeah. I mean, Anthony Hopkins be just like, he went super global after he took that turn. I think he won the Academy Award for that. He must have won the Academy Award for that. He should have.

For sure. I don't know who he was against, but that movie is terrifying. It redefines a genre of thrillers. Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actor at a Leading Role? Hold on, let's see. Best actress for Jody Foster? I know she was nominated. Okay.

Outstanding performance. Okay, most recent winner was, okay. He didn't win? No, he won. He won, but she didn't. I don't think so. Let me see. I don't know.

I'm getting lost on that. I know. She should have. She should have won. What a great role. She does a great job of playing an FBI agent who's in way over her head, but she manages to pull it through. And that final scene where they have the night vision goggles on is just. Wait, wait.

She got best actress? She got best actress? Hold on. Here we. It won so many awards. Okay. Best picture. Best actor in a leading role.

Best actress in a leading role. Mm-hmm. Best directing. Best writing. And then it got some BAFTA Awards, Golden Globes, Writers Guild. All of it. Deserved all of it. Deserved every bit of it.

That was certainly a great movie. Now, I'm going to throw a movie in here that many people are probably going to go, what the fuck, Brian. But I'm going to throw it out there. Dances with Wolves. Oh, a great one. It is. It is. Kevin Gossar.

I mean, his best work. That was one of the ones, too, that I remember kind of being like it was a really long movie. It's like three and a half hours long. about that, but it's so good. So good. All three and a half hours is good. Beginning to end. And when you watch it and you can appreciate what's going on and the totality of what Kevin Costner is trying to do in that movie, because he also directed it, you can

understand that the three and a half hours is not wasted. It's not, there is a lot of dead space in that movie. There's a lot of places where there's no talking. There are long scenes that go on forever, like when he's trying to communicate with the wolf, like when he meets the wolf. scene must go on for five or six minutes. And it's just a wolf running back and forth, right? But it's it's crux to the story. And you have to understand the characters in order to be so involved in their perspective and their reasoning and their motivations. Kevin Costner

doesn't, knows that the U.S. government is in the wrong. But he only learns that as he gets to know the people. And you only, you can only essentially root for the people and root for Kevin Costner's cause if you understand the like the buildup to it and so all of that is needed it's first of all it's one of the best scores in any movie ever dances with wolves the score is like the music to the movie is beautiful it stands alone on its own and the movie itself it comes on usually about this time every year Thanksgiving I don't know why I guess they're Indians cowboys and Indians I don't know I haven't watched it in a while but I will watch it every time that it comes on because I just think it's a beautiful movie. I think it's a... It is. It's... I agree with you. And I think it does a great job

of, you know, when we were kids, when we were growing up, right? It was Cowboys and Indians. That's essentially how the world was painted, Cowboys and Indians. And Indians, Native Americans, Indians, people in our American history books, they were treated so disrespectfully. And while we, I had some teachers that tried to teach us, like, that this wasn't exactly how. things all went down. That's hard to explain to a seven and an eight year old. So there's a through line. There's a narrative. And then when I watched that movie, I remember, and I was very young and my mom took me to see it. I do remember how long it was. But I also remember being very involved in the movie. But I remember feeling the unjust nature of what the American

government was doing to these people and how bloodthirsty they were, essentially. Now, of course, that's just one narrative and many, but I'm just cheering that I loved the movie. I thought it was great, and I thought Kevin Costner did a good job. I agree. Great job. Dance with the wolves. I loved it. Go.

Pulp fiction. Pulp fiction. I'll go one better, reservoir dogs. Ooh, yes. That was a little too violent for me at the time, probably looking back on it. And if I watched it again now, it seemed like nothing. But at the time, it was a little too violent for me. Reservoir dogs?

Yeah. Yeah, it was. It's pretty bloody. But Quentin Tarantino would go on. But that's the way he is. I mean, that was the least violent of his movies when you think about it. Pulp Fiction doesn't have a ton of violence. That was John Travolta's big comeback.

He was kind of a pretty boy sitcom actor who did Greece. And everybody knew him as a dancer, singer, fluffy actor. Saturday Live, Greece. He also did Welcome Back Carter. Well, hey, Mr. Katta. Hey, Mr. Katta. I hated that show. I hated that show.

And I don't know why. Something about the beginning of Welcome Back Cotter. You know, Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Back. That whole music, the music, the scene, and then that classroom that was so dark and dingy and Jersey, something about that show, it almost scared me. I don't know what it was. Maybe it was John Travolta. Maybe he was the one who scared me. But in any case, John DeVolta makes a comeback in this movie.

Yeah, he did do Urban Cowboy, too. That was a great one. He did every cowboy. But many years later. He's kind of gone away, but then Pulp Fiction really brought him back. And Uma Thurman, all of that. I mean, there's quite, I mean, the whole, it's such a fantastic movie, the briefcase. You don't know, you still don't know what's in the briefcase.

We can only assume, no, it's heroin. It's heroin. It's heroin. That's what it is. It's heroin. But there's a glow. I know, because it's the glow. Everyone wants to get high.

That's what it is. This movie about essentially heroin addicts. I mean, that's essentially at the end of the day what it is. And these weird criminals that we don't know what they do, we don't know why they do it, we don't know why they can call somebody and have a car cleaned up, we don't know why all that. Quentin Tarantino introduces us to a new type of movie, a pulp fiction, essentially, like the old pulp magazines that they had. You know, they're just kind of these detective, whatever, these weird, noir magazines that then came to real life in Pulp Fiction. It is, again, another non-sequential movie.

movie that happens in weird timing, weird pacing, but it is beautifully shot. Uma Thurman was born to play that role. Oh, born to play the role. I can't now think of anybody except for John Tervolta, who I would rather have playing that. And Samuel Jackson is menacingly scary in that movie. Scary. Yes.

Sam Jackson would make a name for himself in that movie. And the first 15 minutes of that movie tells you everything that you need to. to know about Sam Jackson's character. He is scary as shit. Loved Pulp Fiction, watched it a million times. Loved Reservoir Dogs, watched it a million times. I mean, I like all of Quentin Tarantino stuff. Quentin Tarantino, he's a great director.

Now, what's he going to do next for his final movie? He was going to do this, and now he's going to do that. He's changing his mind. He's changing his mind. Maybe Quentin's decided that it's not that easy to top. I haven't, you know, I've never seen once upon a time in Hollywood. Oh. Have you ever seen it with Brad Pitt?

Yeah. You didn't like it? It was okay. Everybody says it's like the perfect movie. What I don't understand? No, not to you? Okay. To me, it wasn't my favorite.

You can have an unpopular opinion. That's okay. All right. Okay. I am going to bring one more out. Dazed and Confused. Ooh. Dazed and Confused is a movie that any, any teenager smoking pot or thinking about smoking pot in the 90s saw.

It's a movie that met the moment. And here's what I meant, here's what I mean by that. Now it's cool for the young kids, like the teenagers, are wearing Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Allison Chain Shirts. They're going back to the 90s fashion and style. It's what's hip and trending. Every 20 or 25 years, these trends recycle themselves. They look at their parents and they go, yeah, that wasn't so bad. I like that.

That music was pretty good. Right. And the reason why is because you look, you know, when you're a kid and your parents are listening to their music, whatever it is, you go, And then you get to this point where you're like, ugh, fuck you, dad, that shit's crap. You can begin like a high school, college. And you go, oh, yeah, maybe it wasn't so bad. So in that moment, the 70s are becoming a thing. The fashion, the style, the trends, you go to a fish concert, a widespread concert.

You could go to a rave. You could go anywhere and see that the 70s music and fashion was influenced all throughout the culture in this kind of mid-90s. And then dazed and confused comes along and really cemented that in our. brains and says yeah it was pretty fucking cool back then and one of the greatest lines in any movie ever is wrong mr pickford altogether when he brings the keg of beer to the house before the parents leave they're having a house party kegab beer shows up like a delivery truck shows up with a keg of beer and the parent the dad opens the door and he's like mr pickford and the dad goes yes and he goes got a keg of beer for you got you got a sign right here and he goes

I didn't order a kegabir. And he goes, you didn't. And then the kid who had ordered the kegabir, his son is right behind him going like this. No, no, no, no. And the guy goes, oh, you know what? I think this is the wrong. Wrong Mr. Pickford altogether. So wrong Mr. Pickford altogether.

That is a great movie, dazed and confused. One that I could watch over and over again. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, go. Am I going up next? You'll go. You'll go one more and then we will take a break.

Everything that we've been talking about has now been dictated. Oh, good. Okay. Well, at least we got it written down. All right. I'm going to go with, I've got quite a few on here. I'm going to go with Austin Powers. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

Interesting. It started a whole new thing, too. It did. Mike Myers. I mean, it spawned, what, two more? Three more. Three total or whatever. I don't know.

Three total. I mean, the classic, one million dollars. It's got a lot of quotable lines. Yeah, it does. Mike Myers is a brilliant. comedian. And he had an epic run there with Wayne's World. I didn't enjoy it as much as a lot of my peers did. I did not think it was as funny as a lot of other people did. Something about it didn't sit like comically well with me, although I did find moments funny. And I did think overall it was a

pleasant movie to watch. I didn't find it like gut-bustingly hilarious. I wasn't laughing out loud like a lot of the people around me were. I thought, oh, okay, all right. That's kind of silly, but okay. But I do understand why you put it in there. I'm just going to say unpopular opinion, not in a list of my favorite movies of the movies or 90s. But, okay, all right, I would share with you that there are probably way more people that agree with you than disagree with you. So there you go. All right, why do we do this?

We're ending on Austin Powers for this segment. We'll be back. And then we'll maybe, maybe we got time for two or three more. Yeah, we do. We do. I've got some. I still need to pull out here. Okay.

Well, maybe we have. have to do a second episode, you know, hold your powder. Yeah. Maybe we'll be back for a second episode. There's so many. Too many. All right. We'll be back.

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Just having fun in here. All right, I'm going to... This is so much fun. I know we've done a lot of comedy movies, but I'm going to hit you with one since you hit me with one. Okay. This is spinal tap. Oh, of course.

Have you seen the new one? I haven't. I haven't either. Is it out yet? I think it's out. It is? I mean. It didn't make a lot of noise.

Well, it did leading up to it. Well, I mean, I saw them everywhere, like Good Morning America and all that other stuff. But I, it can't be out. I thought it was like Thanksgiving. Is it? This is, a spinal tap two. Spinal tap two continues. Spinal tap.

You think it's out? It was released the 12th, September 12th. It was? Yes. How have we not seen this? Well, I guess it didn't do. that well. Well, it's got a 66% rotten tomatoes, but I don't care. I've still got to see it. Of course. I'm going to see it. I think. Or do I just want to let the original live on?

I'm going to see it. But listen, I saw Bluett's Brothers too. Also, I can't ever wash that out of my eyes. But at the same time, I watched it because I love the original. I just wanted to see if there's anything to take away from that. And largely it's just the same movie with a bunch of new, dumb, you know, appearances by famous people. I don't understand why there needed to be a spinal tap too i can understand the premise of it but spinal tap in and of itself is as close to a perfect movie as you can get it is almost all improvised it is totally ridiculous it is it's set the tone for mockumentary filmmaking and television shows to come the there is no office without spinal tap there is no the office and christopher guests i mean that he kind of then set the tone and he did quite a few quite a few and he went on a run too best in shows Best in show is fantastic, waiting for Guffman.

I tried to put that in here, but it was in the, it was 2001. Oh, it was. I would have guessed it was like in the late 90s. But, okay, but this is Spinal Tap is the original. 84, I think, is when it came out. It is a cult classic and now just become a regular classic, because if you've seen Spinal Tap, then you know these guys and Rob Reiner, they were all improvising. Rob Reiner is brilliant in the movie, too. And he's the director who's directing, the director, the mock you make.

He is great. This movie is so fucking funny. This one goes to 11. This is another infinitely quotable movie that if you see it and you watch it a few times, every time that you watch it, something else pops out at you that is funny. You have to pay attention to the background players. You have to pay attention to every word that's being said. You have to pay attention to the things that aren't being said. Because sometimes the space in between is just as funny as what's going on. It is great. I just love this movie with all my heart, and I'll watch Spinal Tap too, if anything, just to put a little extra jingle, jangle, and Christopher Guest Pocket. I'm assuming that's why they did it, is because they paid them. They drove the money truck up to them and said,

do Spine. However, I didn't know the movie had been released, but man, did I see them everywhere for a minute. Yeah, I know, and I was kind of waiting. Good morning America, 60 minutes. So I could watch it, but then I don't even know where I can. Let me see. Hulu? Everything's on the Hulu. No, it's not even out. Apple TV. You have to pay for it all. But it seems to be discounted. That's just silly.

That's just silly. It seems to be discounted. Michael McKeon. This is just, oh, God, I love him. They're all great. God bless them. Harry Shear, Michael McKeon, Christopher, Fran Dresher.

She's great. Spank the glove of it. What was the name of the oven? Spank the wet glove or something? Oh, it was brilliant. Brilliant. Spank the wet glove. Oh, I love it.

I love everything. You can't have a free-form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd. It's just, I need to watch it again. There's so many. Oh, one time when I was in 33 penis, the same night that we got up and started playing. And I said, is this the sound check? And he said, no, this is just your show. You want to sound check it?

Go ahead, bud. That's on your time. Yeah, he got an hour. Yeah. I think I responded by saying, well, you can't have a free-form jazz exploration in front of a. festival crowd it's on tape somewhere i tried to i tried to calm the 12 people in the audience down with a little humor all right go ahead uh god well there's two here that i'm debating on which one i'm just going to say i'm both cape fear and shawshank redemption oh both great movies yes but i i think

shaw shank is probably the critical darling we did make we made the kids watch shaw shank yeah It's a good movie. It's a must see. It is a must see. Yeah. It's about the human spirit and connection and staying alive and staying hopeful in times of absolute desperation and how the little things matter, how just a little things matter. And so it's a great movie.

And Cape Fear is just a weird, fucking trippy. Oh, Juliet-Lewis. Lolita type movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Juliette Lewis as a teenage girl who gets seduced by. mass murderer played by Robert De Niro

That is a scary scary movie When I first saw That movie It is It's a scary movie Yeah there's not a bit of sunshine

In that movie It's not in the way It's shot Not in the actual Like Nothing Not in the script Nothing

It is dark and dreary From the beginning To the end And But it is a great movie I haven't seen Cape Fear

In so many years So many years But man When I first saw It again Another movie I saw in the movie theater

I did enjoy it. Come out. Come out wherever you are. Come out. Come out wherever you are. This is Robert De Niro's terrible southern accent. Counselor? Counselor. Counselor. God, isn't it? Nick Nolte. He's the dad. Yeah. Yeah. Nick Nelty. I can smell him from here. Where is Nick Nolte? Is he dead, too? No. Okay. Just checking. I don't want to make anybody alive that's dead or anybody dead. that's alive. Okay, I'll throw, I have so many. Me too. Well, of course, you know, this is late, late, late 90s. So we're right on the edge here. But office space is a great movie. I had it on there. Yeah. Office space is a great movie. It really is. So many, again, so many quotable lines. So many. I mean, although the flare, get your flare on. Jennifer Anderson is brilliant in that movie. Yeah. The boss, played by whoever the boss is played by. I'm going to go ahead and need you to come here.

Yeah, I'm going to need you to go ahead and do the TPS reporting. Did the TPS reports. Okay. Yeah. Made by Mike Judge. Is it Mike Judge? Yeah. Is it Mike Judge?

Mike Judge did it, the guy who did office space. I mean, Beavis and Butthead. Because a lot of this, you can almost hear the same characters in the movie. So it is just there's. I was released on my birthday. birthday. It was? Oh, there you go. Back in 99. That's a Mike Judge movie, right? It is Mike Judge, yes. So Mike Judge hadn't done a ton of movies, but he's really a master at the cartoons. You know what I saw the other day? Mike Judge did for a period of time on MTV, did a television show like stories from the road where he would take real musicians and tell their craziest stories from their time touring.

And it was a story about George Clinton and how bow, wow, wow, yippio, yippe, yippe, how that song came to came to be was essentially George Clinton super high on sniffing cocaine and smoking crack. I think I saw that. Yeah, but it's done in a cartoon. Like George Clinton's telling the story, but then they cartoonize it, the story.

And it is just so fucking crazy and funny. He's essentially been up for like 10 days in a row, smoking crack and snort and cocaine. Yeah, yeah. I saw that same thing. What was that? It's called like Stories from the Road, like I don't know, tales from the road or tales from the tour bus, I think is what it's called.

Yeah, and I often think of that movie, too, when I'm in traffic because you go and then you get over and then your lane stops and when you're just in flies. That's how it works every single fucking time, every single time. Yeah, that's why I pick a lane and I just stay with it. But then I'll see the other lane going for like six minutes just flying and I'll pull over and then it stops. And there is a well-known reason for them is because everybody else is thinking the exact same. thing. So everybody moves over and it just stops. It's crazy. But listen, the office space is a great movie made by Mike Judge, who I think is one of the better comedy writers of our time. He of course did King of the Hill, Beavis and Budhead, and on and on and on. And by the way, the King of the Hill

reboot, I wish it was much better than it actually is. I watched it. You were watching a couple episodes there. I watched. I got through like three. I started the fourth and I was like, man, am I just watching this? There's other things I could be watching. And I wanted it to be good so badly. I hate that. But it didn't show up on any television station, so that probably should have been the first indication about how good it was. It just went straight to Hulu or whatever. Okay. One more from each of us. Okay. All right. I'm going to put in a sentimental favorite, probably from a lot of people, and say, the Princess Bride. Oh, of course. God. The Princess Bride. Yeah. I mean, classic. A fairytale, love story. Again, so many

wizards and dragons and we were just talking about that because that's where billy crystal plays the nun yes he plays carol kane his wife marriage and the mallage is what brings us here today robin wright that was her first i mean and she's gone into become so good at so many different roles yeah not as sean penn's wife but other roles she's been really good at are they still married robin wright shon pen or whatever her name was robin wright pen uh Robin right is probably one of my first crushes yeah because she is so stunningly gorgeous in that movie but then just her like the personality of Robin in that movie is so gentle and beautiful and then whatever his name is he plays this chivalrous uh handsome devil that comes he's also

you know a good looker there's nothing wrong with him either i mean they're all yes yeah all of them are good looking except for Andre the giant yes and And Andre the Giant had to be like... It's another Rob Reiner. That's a Rob Reiner film? I did not know that. Andre the Giant had to be managed, like pain managed in that movie because he was in failing health when he filmed that movie. And he was having a lot of trouble doing some of the physical stuff they were asking him to do, like lift people above his head and all this stuff.

For Andre. Wesley. Wesley. Yeah. And that was Ivan Simon Carrey Ulls. Ivan Simon Carrey Gools. Euls. Did he ever do anything after that? I mean, I know he did. I saw him in something. Yeah, he was in Robin Hood. Oh, yeah, that's right. He was in Robin Hood, men in tights.

Yeah, and he was in the Saw series. Wow. He was? Yeah. Wow. From Princess Bride to the Saw series. He was in Hot Shots. Hot Shots was a good movie. Days of Thunder. Days of Thunder was a movie. Twister. He was in Twister. Well, the original, okay. I agree with the original. But did we really need to? Do we Do we need twisters with an ass? I say no. I say no.

The Princess Bride is just a brilliant movie, and it hits all the right notes, and it's well done, and it's well-crafted, and it's a gentle but fun story, and it's adventurous but playful at the same time. The stakes are not super high, so you can let the kids watch it. It's like, you know, I remember watching that over and over and over again when I was a kid, over and over and over. We had like a VHS copy of that or something. My parents.

That was one of the few movies. My parents would let us just put on repeat that Ferris Bielers Day Off, Blues Brothers, a couple of other ones. All right, last one, Chrissy. Well, I'm debating on these, too, but in honor of the holiday season that is upon us, I'm going with Scroogeed. Scroogeed. That's a great. Yes. Bill Murray.

Carol Kane again. Carol Kane. Wow. Yes. Fantastic. Good holiday movie. Great movie. One of the most under-recognized Christmas.

holiday movies. Bill Murray's great in this movie. He plays a tortured soul. He is a tortured soul. So when he plays a tortured soul, he does a really good job. It's their take on a Christmas story. Right? No, no, Christmas story. What's the past, the present, the future, the ghost. Christmas Carol. Christmas Carol. Yeah, Christmas Carol. Yeah. And he's a TV station owner and you, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can go watch it. It's really, really, really good. You know, I want to piggy front off that and say Groundhog Day was another fucking fantastic movie. I mean, it's one of my favorites. I have to watch it every Groundhog Day.

Yes. I want to piggy front off. Kelly and I loved that movie so much. We said we were going to go to Paxitani. It exists. It does exist. And there's Puxetani film. He exists, too.

Yeah, he does. But then when we actually looked into it, we were like, eh, it's Puxetani. Yeah. I mean, come on, Chrissy. You're really going to go to Paxitani? Is that really what you're going to do? We were going to do a pilgrimage. Okay, that sounds like fun.

And I will say, if we're going to throw out a holiday movie that deserves some street cred here. It's a Christmas story. Yes. Which is become probably the biggest, National Lampoon's Christmas vacation is another one. National Lampoon's vacation is another one. I mean, come out in the 70s, did it? No, it came out like in 1981 or something like that. The original Lampoon's vacation, I think 1981, because he drives that truckster, that family roadster. Yeah, I think station wagons are a distinctly late 70s, early 80s, 80s in general thing. All. all these great movies. Oh, unbelievable.

All right, what's your favorite? Right in, let us know. We'll do another one of these because I didn't even get through half my list. No, I know, me either. I'm going to go ahead and fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is another great move. Wouldn't that come out?

98? I don't know. Not on that. 2012. I don't know. It was in that 90s. It should have been in the 90s, yes. Okay.

All great movies. Venacio del Toro. The Doors. The Doors. The Doors is another great movie that came out in the 90s. Wow. I know we've got so many. We can go on and on forever. We should have narrowed it to one decade. We should have narrowed it to two years. We should have said 84 to 86. We should go through like two year periods because you know you look back on that time. It's just a it's a

golden era for filmmaking. It really is. And now twisters with an S. Yeah. At least we got wicked. At least we got Wicked to look forward to. Wicked Part 2. We'll see. I don't know. Wicked Part 2. We'll see. We'll see how it all goes down. Have you seen Wicked 1? I did say Wicked 1. Did you like a book? Oh, yeah, that's right. So I read the book, which is different. Yeah, it's like a lot of sex in the movie, huh? In the book. Yeah. No sex in the movie. Straight G rating there. They had to take it to Broadway. I actually just watched this whole thing about how they, it's on Peacock how they they did a whole thing

of the Wizard of Oz about how he did how he came up with that story then Wicked then how that went to Broadway Stephen Schwartz how he got it to yeah

great story and those people will never hurt for another dime in their life I mean that guy who wrote Wicked he was like a struggling hater yeah

okay he wrote children's stories before that but then this was one for adults yeah he wanted to write an offshoot of the Wizard of Oz It's good. All right, listen, in case you're not, you can stream us.

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