The Worst Idea Of All Time - Getting Rob’ed

Episode Date: June 25, 2026

It’s time to take a rocket into the Sandler-system and visit one of Planet Rob’s moons. Specifically Daddy Daughter Trip. This is a 2022 ‘comedy’ written by Rob’s friend Jamie Lissow and Rob’s (now) ex-wife Patricia, directed by Rob and starring Rob and Rob’s daughter. Somewhat bafflingly, John Clesse is in this movie, as is Michael Bublé. This film is described (by Rob) as a love letter to Arizona, so we’ll leave it to film critic Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic to sum it up: 1.5 stars "Too often the jokes don't land. Neither does the physical comedy. The story doesn't really hold. It's clear that Schneider and his daughter love each other, and this film is a way to express that. But it's a lot to ask of the rest of us to watch it."This episode is in VIDEO and ad-free at twioat.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim here, if you want to see me in the flesh and you're in New Zealand or Australia, good news. I'm coming to Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington for the comedy festivals. Please buy some tickets now at timbat.co.n.z. Surprise. Yeah. Not only a wee back. Rob Schneider's also returned. Well, he's never really gone anywhere.

And I actually was thinking earlier today about how you. I don't know what year it was. Two years ago, went to a Rob Schneider gig in Auckland by yourself to report back. Yeah, man. Yeah, I did. And tried to get it transcribed by AI, which told you...

It was too offensive to summarise. I recorded the entire show on my phone just for that purpose, that I wanted to run it through a large language model and see what it thought of the show. Yeah. And it refused to interface with the comedy of Rob Schneider.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to a crossover project of two projects of ours. Overlooked and undercooked and the worst idea of all time I'm Guy Montgomery This is Tim Bat Hello And this is Rob Schneider at his peak

In Daddy Daughter Trip It's a self-realised production Not unlike ours Yeah You know Oh okay I like this In many ways I consider myself a bit of a Rob Schneider of podcasting

Yeah That's right I mean, this is a movie that was principal production commenced and concluded in 2021. Tidy. Yeah, it was a very efficient process. It is written. Now, hold on. Sorry, before we go too far along.

Is that like in the middle of COVID? I think it certainly, I mean, in New Zealand, I think we had a different interpretation of how long COVID was to say Arizona, USA. I think, so this was, this was billed. In some of the reading materials, I was sort of familiarizing myself with. So this is a Rob Schneider film written by his wife, who sadly has filed for divorce after 16 years, Patricia. R-R-P-E- to the marriage. Jamie Lithgow, who... Lithgow, L-O-L-O-L-O-S-O-O-W.

What's his name? L-I-S-S-O-W. You'd know him is Rob Schneider's second banana in the series, Real Rob. They wrote this film together. It's directed by Rob Schneider. it's led by Rob Schneider and on debut his daughter Miranda Schneider and also featuring his other daughter spoiler alert Al King he's got three daughters one of them was left out

Al King does have a cameo as a final here to not be the daughter in this film I wouldn't be surprised if she was you know somewhere along the way featured as one of the oh I see okay students or it's not spotlighted we just watched the movie yeah and what did you can we just start with initial like an emotion snapshot of what you thought about it. I read some of the press materials

and this was Billers Rob Schneider's love letter to Arizona and also to his daughter which I think is more plausible and evident I would describe this podcast as our love letter to Rob Schneider I thought it was I thought it was sort of

satisfyingly bizarre. Yeah. It was right in our uvra, I think. Yeah, yeah. It's a real oddity, this movie. Knowing it's a one hitter is quite a relaxing. Like, with you, it's quite a relaxing way to watch a movie. Like, things that would otherwise strike fear into my heart,

I could just watch and be like, oh, crazy, crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not going to have to antagonize every frame of this particular scene. 50 more times. This first came across our desk, I'd say, probably in 2022, once news was out that it had happened. Well, because, because, here we go, this was billed and marketed heavily as a Rob Schneider, John Cleese movie. Yeah.

Which is pretty big news. Well, two Titans of Industry sharing a screenette. This is sort of, for comedy fans, this is heat. This is De Niro and Picino. I mean, it probably is worth talking about because not, you know, John Cleese is famous if you do comedy. But I suspect people in our generation otherwise might not be. that hot on him. It's more of our parents' generation that sort of are aware of what a superstar he is. Well, he was still, you know, as we were growing up, he was still on the tail end of, like,

prodigious and fantastic output. And then since then it's been a steady slide into sort of frustrated irrelevance. It was sort of the, well, he is, the most famous figure from Monty Python, which was an absolute comedy juggernaut in the 70s. 70s, that's right. But he also created Foldy Towers, one of regarded as the greatest sitcom of all time or one of. A fish called Wanda, I think, which was an Academy Award winning feature film. His, you know, and then obviously he's now, I think he appears on GB News, you know, with various different opinions. The G is for grievance. Yes. And the B is for based. And so, yeah, I guess it was like

intriguing to see that John, like an intriguing observation of his slide to see him collaborating in a movie with Rob Schneider. sort of an incredible testament to like the power of Rob Schneider's talons and that he managed to hook them into someone as successful or well previously successful. Yeah, yeah. It's an interesting sociocultural whirlwind that the MAGA political movement has created where you sort of get these fading stars of different industries meeting at the pit

at the bottom of the pit together. I mean, I feel like Cleese exists outside of MAGA. Yeah. He's more of like he's a pure, in my mind. interpretation. People will know more. He's like a pure unpolitical correctness crusader without any necessarily strong political alliance. Right. Okay. It just like you, it just pisses me off that you

can't say anything anymore. And Rob Schneider has a similar sentiment, but exists very like intensely on the political end of that spectrum. And was probably still coming out from his pure mega cocoon. Yes. Like I think his opinions and his sort of public persona have taken a much more intense dive and slide since principal photography took place. I would agree with that. What we're dealing with in this movie, Daddy Daughter Trip, which is a movie that I just

want to say Daddy Daughter Road Trip. Daddy Daughter Trip is just so like, it's for everything in this movie is just a bit wrong, including the title of it. It was speculated while watching it that this movie, first of all, may have used AI for some of the animated sequences, but second of all, probably represented a turning point in AI's confidence in relation to its ability to produce like, you know, art that might be interpreted as made by humans or, like, just a cohesive story that could present itself as a feature film.

There's a lot of aspects of this allegedly man-made movie which strike me as early AI generated work. It's 90-ish minutes. This movie is about Rob Schneider being a dad. Would you describe him as down on his luck? a wannabe inventor. He's certainly down on it. Just that AI note,

I feel like the subheading should be like the looking glass. This represents the pure looking glass between human-made art and AI art. Yeah. This is before and after. Whether or not AI was involved, that's what this is to me.

He is certainly down on it. It's like, he's a fucking loser. Well, yeah, he is a loser. But what's interesting about this movie is it's Rob Schneider, who is an actor and comedian and has always been, like, part of the Hollywood system from an incredibly young age. He was on Saturday Night Live in his early 20s and, like, had this stratospheric comedy film career

briefly. He's like, no one has made more out of the amount of talent they have, I would say, through Hollywood than Rob Schneider. And I know that he didn't write it necessarily, but his wife and his friend did. And it just, the whole thing to me screams of, like, what rich people think, poor people are like in America. it's like a real sort of uncanny valley I don't know

look at what the working class is up to these days yeah I think part like I agree but I also think that is a very clever like production rapper for how to make a movie that they want to feel rich very cheaply

like it's a Tudan sort of style move where it's like if we make the lead character poor the movie can look like shit. We can make this thing for $6,000. Exactly. It looks like it was shot on an iPhone. Like everything's a bit off.

The colours are all fucking weird. Everything's too brightly lit. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely everything is a bit off in the 2021 feature film led by Rob Schneider, which is married to Jackie Sandler, finally giving her first fucking bite at the apple of a full-length feature film. And like a, you know, co-starring role.

Yeah. And like, you know, it's, it's, it's, Certainly on the outskirts of the sandlerverse. But, you know, this doesn't exist without Adam Sandler. It's not quite considered a planet anymore. But it is an orbiting body around the sandless sun. And people know about it. They've talked about it before.

It's constantly under speculation and sort of a relabelling process. Yeah. So there was a lot, yeah, like what you say, there's something a bit off about it. There's a lot of it. Their house looks like parts of it were filmed genuinely in IKEA. like walking through an IKEA and just setting up the tripods in front of different settings so that they can capture a different room in a house perhaps or an entirely different house. Even like the camera moves are unexpected because it's a few scenes where they're moving the camera

and you're like it's not a steady cam necessarily or it's not an expensive steady cam. It's not a dolly that they're on. Someone's moving a camera kind of smoothly but not smoothly enough and it's just on a jaunty angle. It's a, I can't remember. Which is kind of a big deal when you're making it. a feature. I can't remember the name of the feature on iPhone, but it's something like it shores up the frame, you know, auto shake, like shake protection or something. Yeah, yeah, that's the name of the technical feature you're looking for. You've got them in the

Gopros, guys. You should have shot this on Gopros. They've got like Horizon Level lock, and then you're sorted. It's all good, but they couldn't do it for this. So we open with Schneider as a dad who is running around as a delivery drive-on. He's not even a dad yet. He's just, he's Larry Boubley. He's a gig worker. Yeah, he's in the gig economy He delivers fast food He delivers groceries Humans

Yeah And the yeah That's where he's a taxi driver The first gag This is you know This is a big moment For any feature film That is sold as a comedy

Because this lets you know That you're in a safe bear of hands And that there's sort of a lot Of this type of humour To look forward to And the first gag is he is Driving Someone's sushi order

To their house And when he gets there He slamming the brakes on too hard and the sushi slams into the front window and you're not going to believe it but he takes the sort of busted up sushi to the front door and he knocks on the door and as I said to you while we're watching it it's a real testament to Rob Schneider's star power the caliber of collaborators he rings in all the way throughout the film because an actor shows up who you've never seen before or never see again to play the role of disgruntled customer and it is one of the

the weakest gag ideas and executions you could hope to enjoy. It's like a deleted scene from a mid-2000s Rob Schneider movie which is basically my sushi's busted up and he goes, oh yeah it is but now you know what you're getting

and he picks up some avocado and the guy goes, you touched my sushi and he goes, yeah. And then we're in. We're in. We're in the pool with both feet. And what ensues is

watching Adam Sandler navigate life as a working class American dad. Adam Sandler. Sorry. You, Rob Schneider. I wish. There would be, yeah, there is a movie in here.

Like if it was in Sandler's hands. Yes. There is a movie in here. I think, you know what? I think a better version of this movie makes it a significantly worse movie. Yeah. In Adam Sandler's hands, this is another one on the factory line of his low effort outputs. Instead, what we get, which is kind of interesting, is like a really high effort output from Rob Schneider.

Yes. It's like incredible. to see sort of the market equilibrium on what it looks like when Adam Sandler's phoning it in. You're totally right. It's also the level at which Rob Schneider operates when he's putting literally his own money and family into the production process.

There is something, from an artistic point of view, something infinitely more interesting about seeing a six-year-old spend all day on a painting than a 32-year-old who's taking some art classes bust something out in 30 months. This is a child's painting. It's because he's worked really hard on. Yeah.

You don't. And he's grown up around painters. That's the magic of it. It's much like the young person in painting, you don't necessarily know what you're going to get. It's imbued him with confidence, but not skills by osmosis. And any time that it lands on something, it is an exciting treat. Like you don't expect a lot from it. But sometimes you'll see a flourish of something and you're like, there is an artist in there.

Yeah. So he's, okay, so we get introduced to the family. we get introduced to the mum and his daughter. The other establishing piece of information is he does all these gigs and then he shows up to pick up his daughter from a school. It's established as a school because, I would say, four children come out of the front doors. I just described it in real time as the most sparsely populated montage

ever seen on film. It's right up there with the sort of sushi scene. It lets you know where it sort of pitches to you where you can see your expectations. It lets you know we couldn't really afford to make this movie. Which is set pieces with anywhere between four and eight extras. And so he shows up. He's pushed the car up. He's laid again.

He's run out of gas. Real deadbeat kind of behavior. Like really, really banging the deadbeat drum. She's sad. The teacher who's used to this, who's waiting with his daughter, who's introduced his mirror, is like, disappointed. No, he says let's call your mom. Because she knows this guy sucks.

That's right. In such a way that I felt like perhaps the parents were not together. Yeah, same. Because the way she's like, let's call your mom. It's like, well, these guys aren't a unified front. So let's deal with the responsible person. Everything in this movie presents as like they, she should have left him long ago. Well, this is a question I have and I don't want to, well, one of a better thing.

Yeah, or like, even victim blame. But Jackie Sandler's character is portrayed as like intelligent. Yes. And kind of understands the laws of reality and like finance, you know, and budgeting and things like that. And there's a certain, like, you know, Rob Schneider's character is portrayed as like, um, having genuine sort of difficulties in facing the data. The man who's just been hitting the head with a steel pot. Yeah, exactly. Hard.

Yeah. Like, yeah, he's portrayed as heavily concussed, which they sort of really ramp up later on. Yeah. But it's like, well, I mean, if you look at their mental faculty, sure. You have to wonder, well, who is responsible for making a decision on, like, Like, who has the agency and genuine ability to withdraw themselves and their child from this relationship? Yeah. And who literally is going to keep repeating the exact same thing for, you know, like, there's a certain amount.

Because I'm like, there's no way they should be married. But also that does, that decision has to come from Jackie Sandler's character. Yeah. When you've only got three brain cells to rub together, every day is Groundhog Day. Because you've got an inability to create a new day with the limited resources you have. He's so weird. Because like pretty good premise that he wants to be an inventor And he's created a couple things that make it into the movie

Like a he's retrofitted a fan This isn't even that, you know, interesting He put a fan on a spoon to call down your soup I will say to blowing on it But the fan blows too hard My first laugh of the movie was the introduction of the fact That this was his invention They're sitting down to dinner

He says it's a spoon with a fan on it So that your suit calls down fast Even to describe it now, I like it for how obvious it is. I like that I know exactly what I'm about to eat. You know, it's like dining in the dark and the first thing is like, oh, that's a familiar taste. Right. I know what I'm dealing with here. And so, Jackie Sandler has used the pretend stove in the IKEA kitchen to heat up a pretend chicken pot pie.

Yes. And they sit down and he explains the setup of the spoon. And then, you know, she goes to take it and it blows. right back into her face. And it's not the actual execution, of course, isn't as funny as imagining

all the different things they could get very keyed up get this right or wrong. Waiting for the slapstick moment. But that's the level, like there's a few different, there's a glove that's meant to be able

to pick things up and put them down in the house. Yeah. It's like he fed, rejected 21st century Dick Van Dyke and Chitty Chitty, Chitty Bang,

experiment like inventions. So this is all very much in the top three. This is in the backdrop of, a lot of things are in the, the backdrop of what's going on. And they keep changing what is in the foreground of this movie.

Like I think I described it to you as they, it happens about five times in the movie, which is again about 90 minutes long in total. They decide to change what the movie is actually going to be about. Can I also say, and tell me if you disagree, 90 minutes that kind of breezed by. Yeah. Yeah, there was enough going on. Yep, there was. There was no, like, very unexpected and interesting.

There was no cohesion to the story that was being told necessarily. Not at all. But they at least kept introducing enough new ingredients. It's true. I'll give it that. I'll absolutely give it that. It was a pretty breezy watch. So what this movie...

Put that on your poster, Rob. A breezy 90 minutes. Guy Montgomery of Guy Montefellingby. He is trying to take Mira on a spring... Spring break's approaching. Money's really tight. Mera is a very... She's obsessed with drawing.

And they go, well, we're worried about how much she loves drawing. And, you know, Rob Schneider, the concussed inventors, like, you've got to follow your dreams. Yeah. And Jackie's saying, understandably, is like, you have to learn the basics of math at some point. You're eight. So, and she's very excited for spring break. School's about we finished for the year. And she goes, what are we doing?

And they go, we just don't have the money. And then she's like, you promised we would. And then Rob Schneider says, I lied to your face. Which actually, probably one of the funnier bits of the entire room. Yeah, all of Rob Schneider's, like, whenever, aside from the slapstick, like, he is concussed. He is concussed and maimed. So we all about Rob Schneider, but he kind of knows what we want, which is what Rob Schneider in agony. He's concussed or maimed, I'd say Edwards are five times in this movie.

But all of the actual, like, line reads that he offers, which are genuinely close to funny. Yeah. It's him being mean to children. 100%. Because he really sparkles when he shares the screen with someone 52 years younger than him, who he can clearly outwit. He loves shitting on kit. There is a glint at the eye that's not present at any other part of his performance in the film where he's on screen shitting on a child. Absolutely.

And this is one of those moments. So he says, I lied to your face. And he says, but next year we're going to have an amazing show, which again, pretty funny bit. So then she gets incredibly sad, understandably. They then get evicted. Sorry, I am missing some stuff. So then what happens? Well, you're missing.

Like, Jackie Sandler says you've got to take a job working at the supermarket, bagging groceries and he sort of obviously doesn't want to do that he poohs it and then she reminds him I work at the supermarket and he goes yeah but you're up at the front

you're the cashier baby people love you also it ignores the fact that he is currently working three jobs and albeit not well you've got to assume at least some of that money is trickling into the family account

like it's you know so the issue is not that he needs more jobs that he needs to perform a job successfully just like but just one of the ongoing problems is I guess if you're this is a thing if you're around Adam

Sandlin you see the way he knocks up a movie you're like I can do that yeah I can just make it up as we go along and look Adam Sandler he's figured out how to do that he doesn't do it at a necessarily high level but he does it in a way which at least like there's I don't know what there is to it but you trust him in a way he's so magnetic that you're willing to suspend like or to forgive or not forgive but I think you're overthinking of there is an IQ Delta between these two comedy Titans, which I think is evident with the products.

Yeah, 100%. So anyway, he's like, well, I have to make money somehow. And he goes down to the supermarket at interview for the job. And then another, sort of, I'd say, probably fifth on the call sheet is Jackie Sandler's friend who also works at the supermarket, who I described as like Drew Barrymore's cousin in terms of what she offers in terms of,

and what she's angling for and range. Yeah. And while that's happening, We get a cameo. Well, I shouldn't say cameo because at this point it could be anything. But we see... We get introduced too. Before we get to this as well, sorry, another couple of sides.

Number one, at one point you said Rob Schneider is doing it unlike anyone else. Like, he does not look like a single other person. Everyone else in the movie is like kind of people that you might see at the mall, walking around in the street in any, you know, largely populated city. The look that Rob Schneider has in this film... It's a wig he's wearing. is it? Yeah, his hair's not that loom.

Then why is his forehead so fucking big? Because they spend all the makeup money on the wig, Tim. But get a little bit more wig in the front. Get a little bit more wig in the front. I reckon that's his hair. No, the four... It's not his hair, is it? Because no one's got hair like that.

We've seen his hair in like, his hair is thinner and grayer. I don't want to like, you know, whatever. It doesn't matter. There's a couple problems happening. One is Rob Schneider. He's an impish character, so him aging is a bit confronted. but he's 62. Yeah.

And the problem is they've got very cheap lighting in this film. So whenever you can see it's been shot a natural light. Say the single problem is. It's actually okay. Like they get away with it. But whenever we've got an interior shot or nighttime, you can see they've used very bad, not diffused hard lighting. And he looks bad.

Nothing will rattle your teenage bones to the fucking ground, like seeing a 62-year-old Rob Schneider, dressed in children's clothing in front of a fog light literally the worst he's ever looked and he looks like as you say no one looks

no one no one looks or dresses like this you've got to assume you had quite a lot of agency over the wardrobe decisions I don't know who he's trying to trick but John Cleese arrives

in the background of frame while he's not wanting to apply for this job and is wearing an even worse work It's crazy the hairpiece they've put on on John Cleese And he is having an exchange with someone, as you say, the world's stupidest grift for the world stupidest man. He says, uh, he said, sorry, one fellow says to John Cleese, he says, no, I simply must give you some money back. Here, take $300 for all this money you've given me.

John Cleese says, no, no, I couldn't possibly. I simply enjoy giving money away too much. I couldn't possibly take it. He says, no, no, I insist. Please take $300. He says, well, I feel very awkward about it, but very well, I'll take the $300. this is really caught the eye and ear of Rob Schneider's going, you know what? I could do with a little bit of that money.

He rushes outside to meet John Cleese in a bed, because he's sort of making way to get into his car, stops him dead and says, what do you do? And he says, oh, not a lot. What does he say? I'm a self-made man or I'm from money or something. Yeah, I like to make people, like make people with ideas more money. Yeah. And he says, Rob Schneider lights up because he's an event.

He's got so many ideas. So he says I've got this hula poop idea where it's a hula hoop that you lift in front of you, which creates a curtain for you to shit When you're camping. Tim obviously glazed over the hula poop pun But if you're going to watch the movie, I hope you enjoy it because it's going to get a lot of run.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't give it what it deserved. Or at least what the movie is. I think you did a grand job with it. And so then John Clee says this is a tremendous idea that's going to make you rich. While wearing the invention, art department, respectfully phoned it in on this one. Fucking did they what?

It's like not even, some of the inventions he's supposedly trying out at home are quite high tech. They're failing. The robotic arm is a very advanced piece of machinery. There's an element of scientific and aesthetic precision that has gone into this. The hula poop, which is another one of his big ideas, is like two hula hoops and a shower curtain,

not even rigged onto it properly or sealed up at the end. With elastic bands. Yeah, with two blue elastic bands. Like, you know, in like 1930s, iTunes where they depict a person down in their like as wearing a barrel. It's that. But with a plastic shower curtain instead. And John Cleese

is wearing it. He goes, this is fantastic. Finally, we had some money to get a pay. The first thing you're going to need is a patent. He goes, what's a patent? He goes, we need some money to get it to the US patent of us in Washington. And Rob Schneider's like, okay, he's just been told they have $600 in their shared account.

Which, the reason he knows that is because it's only half the amount of money they need to make rent that month. Rob Schneider marches over to the ATM, pulls out $600, puts a fat wad of cash in John Cleese's hand, who drops the hurler poop, jumps into a convertible with the guy he was grifting with in the department store, and they drive off while he laughs. And the whole time I'm like, so it's a vengeance movie. So we're going to get to see Rob Schneider strike vengeance upon John Cleese.

And I now am about to spend 80 minutes of my life waiting for a 2021 version of John Cleese to reappear in a movie. and Tim, with the certainty in dead eyes of a man who has had to disappoint children by telling them that what they want to happen isn't going to happen, consistently tells me, I'm sorry, Guy, that's all we're getting of John. I'm constantly looking for moments in which John Cleese could reappear. Yeah, this movie's about a lot of things. And to Tim and Guy for 85% of its runtime, it was about when's John Cleese coming back? We are, when does he pop back up? That's right.

We get introduced to lots of new characters and, ideas and concepts and potential endings and games that we're going to be playing. We are Millhouse watching Itchy Scratchy and Poochee asking when are we going to get to the fireworks factory? Also, I've just had a flashback where Rob Schneider got his wardrobe and spoke. He went into the one woman with a shopping card at Target with a picture of Steve Buscemi dressed as a teenager and said, I want to look like this for 90 minutes. So then they're evicted. and this is part of the thing

and now I would like us to sort of for the in the acceptance of time being a limited resource and the sanity of our audience also being a finite thing. We want us a speed run daddy daughter trip? I think that look we need not go to the micro as much as we have so far with the rest of it but what happens

henceforth is we're presented with a movie that at one point I said this is an incredibly sad movie that the score musically refuses to admit to because it's a presentation of a there's a lot of like elements of the downfall of the American Empire

that are really on show here I think completely accidentally but it's it's actually like a really deep movie culturally in terms of what's going on there's moments that really jut out to me like this is a man caught in the machinery of the end

of capitalism like America, the American Empire's final run cannot fucking rub two dimes together to save himself constantly like picking up another gig job at one point he's one of those painted statue men busking in a town square and makes seven cents I think No, seven dimes What's a dime?

70 cents? Yeah, yeah and he was disappointed because two of them sounded like quarters. A genuine laugh loan for Tim. That was a comedy high watermark for the movie for me. So and then, and we've got like, this long-suffering wife we've got this kid who's also sort of like suffering

simply for the reason of her parents don't have enough money and that's something she's getting bullied for at school that she's not going to have the spring break experience that everyone else is. So then this desperate idiot keeps lying and making things up which make his situation just worse and worse because he can't sort of deal with the fact that there may be consequences

outside of the 30 minutes that will precede him. Because he doesn't have the mental faculties. That's right. To be able to foresee outcomes. Or to understand, yeah, like anything. I just have to, there's a few points, as you were saying that, like, which emphasizes the end of the machinery, you know, serving the people, which is like, and again drawing a parallel between Adam Sandler

making this or any movie and Rob Schneider doing this, which is like at the start of the movie. So we will skip the granular detail once we establish, he's got no money, he keeps promising his daughter the trip. And eventually he says, we're going to go on a spring, like we're going on a spring break, daddy daughter trip, we're going to do all the things that you want to do. What she wants to do is stolen from her classmates.

And they list like four. Be Arizona, the Butterfly Creek and Zipline. They are all actual like family holiday destinations in Arizona. So this is like in the same way that 45 minutes of grown-ups to a set in a Kmart, which we assume Kmart would have paid a significant amount of money into the production. for Adam Sandler. Yeah, the Arizona Tourism Board. Rob Schneider is at the other end of that contra deal in which he's like,

if I name your business four times, can we please film in them for free? Yeah, that is literally what takes place, is they introduce like four tourist places in Arizona, the love letter to Arizona. By the way, in the interview I just read with him on like luxury, real tour, whatever the fucking website that agreed to come press for this movie is. He said, yeah, my family and I moved to Arizona two years ago, and we wanted to make a movie about how much.

much the community means to us. Jesus Christ. But so, yeah, I mean. So a couple of examples of him trying to will into existence this promise that he's unable to create. He first off goes into a car wash and is trying to fake it as being like a thrill ride. Yeah, yeah. And it's not working while he's inside the car being like, oh, we're in the spaghetti

monster door. It's so scary. And the daughter I understand he was like, this is bullshit, man. This is nothing. So he gets out of the... the car and is almost maimed by the machinery in service of trying to generate some sort of excitement for his daughter. It's actually really funny and might I say really well done.

He gets out and jumps on the front one screen and the door's like, this is scary. And he goes to a drive-in movie with her at night time, which feels incredibly unsafe. A lot of sort of, you know, never do well. vagrants are like hanging between where they're watching the movie from and the drive-in cinema is a group of unhoused Arizona people who are like of course purely played for comedy but again serve like as a temper a support in your case study that this is like a this is America yeah and so they're because they can't pay to actually participate in the cultural activity of going to the drive and he doesn't have the money for that despite the fact that he's working

70 hours a week what he in fact has done is gone on the outskirts so they're sort of watching people watch a movie, which itself is kind of an interesting sociological kind of commentary on things. But the thing that in that part of the movie that did it for me is I was like, they've got these shots of them in the exterior of the car. It's like, stargazing. You're in the desert. It's Arizona. It's actually got this quite picturesque, you know, barren beauty to it.

It's a big sky. But it wouldn't fucking occur to him to have a connective moment with his child in nature because you don't pay for that. So it wouldn't even enter his head. That's like an activity you can do with your child because someone hasn't charged you $6.50 for a ticket to do it. Literally the only way out of the lying holiday that he's kidnapped his daughter to take. Jackie Sandler's character, again, this sort of like intelligent yet hapless person who keeps calling up to be like, what are you doing?

And she keeps being like, oh, you know, she can hear homeless people through the phone. He also has not given any indication of when they're, be back or what they're doing. And she keeps going like, oh, I don't like this, but be safe. It's like, you have agency. Do literally anything to stop the severely concussed man driving a daughter around Arizona with zero dollars and zero cent. So the solution to both like Rob Schneider's problem in the lie and also the movie's

relationship to capitalism is they sneak into a hotel. Yes. They poses pizza delivery people. And they get dressed and in their togs and they go through. they try to steal a swim from the pool. And while they're doing that, Rob Schneider meets an incredibly wealthy presenting a couple who are luxury travel vloggers.

And they go to hotels. And it's sort of like a modern grift, I guess. They go to hotels to get the fancy treatment and they offer reviews of them. Yeah. It's a legitimate profession. Not something I do, but some people do it. They're gorgeous.

They've got a kid, importantly, around the same age is Mirror. He looks like a young Marlon Brando because of how they've started. the young man's here. And I don't know if it's a direction note or just his natural performance, but he plays all of his scenes as an eight-year-old kid with another eight-year-old kid as a 42-year-old man. It's crazy.

I would invite you to watch this movie if it doesn't cost you anything. There's just a couple flashes of an expression this kid is able to pull off at such a young age. It's like, how did you know to do that with your face? Because that's a 38-year-old giving me that. But you're little. He is little. So I don't know how he's doing that.

So they come along, long story short. They don't like him. Yeah, that's right. There's a funny thing. They really don't like him. And the boy is not happy holidaying with them. He's gauche. They are sort of elegant.

They are also from Spain and Mexico, respectively. There's some, I would even say, not so light racism thrown into the mix. Yeah, yeah. Rob Schneider sort of lobs up one of his fantastic political hand grenades that he's known for in a stand-up comedy where he says, I get it, unpronounceable last name,

weird accent, you're foreign. You're foreign. With an accusatory tone and I believe an index finger out. That's right. Can I also say,

if you're interested in checking out some of Rob stand-up, have you looked at it Netflix, he's got a special called Asian mama, Mexican kids.

What's it about? Hard to say. It's about how immigrants are destroying America. And in some ways, that's... So we've already changed what the movie's about twice. Thought it was a vengeance film? No, no.

But now it's actually going to be about the daughter and dad relationship. Now I've introduced this pair. And they hit him with their car accidentally. They back over him. And now we're like, oh, okay, now this is what the movie's about. And so now we've had our third change. And for a long time, this is. So now what we have is a movie where these two people,

who the travel bloggers are very scared that they're going to get sued by Rob Schneider lose their work permits to be able to be in America and so there's sort of this dangled sort of Democles that Schneider now has over them

where at any point in time he can sue them into professional oblivion and he manages to palet this into the actual holiday for his daughter which is now what the movie is about for about 40 minutes that's right so and if you're interested

in what is a about to occur in the movie. You don't need to worry they label it very clearly because one of the luxury travel vloggers lists all of the locations that were mentioned earlier by the school child about where they're going to go in Arizona. And so we then watch as Schneider and daughter kind of like kidnapped themselves onto this sort of family road trip. And the only reason that it sort of gets over the line, aside from the sort of Damocles of being sued, is that the kids get along. Yes. The kids get along great. Yeah, they do.

they've sparked up a real connection in the swimming pool. But of course, none of this in terms of a story in any way is interesting because we are not rooting for or against any of the characters. We're literally just watching people in Arizona. But I'll tell you what is a delicious enticement for the audience, and that is the film figuring out new ways to mutilate Rob Schneider's body. 100%. So you're wondering why am I continuing to watch this movie?

well one thing Rob Schneider recognizes a few times over this movie is that if he like physically harms or degrades himself with enough commitment

to people are we like it we do this like a walrus another fish please that last one was delicious people will laugh and so it becomes a game of you know

what sort of high in luxury ways are they going to figure out to damage Rob Schneider so he gets struck by the car that's pretty exciting he also gets How does he get it in the head? It's with it.

They're doing karaoke, I think, and somehow they slide a sort of a ceramic vase. Oh, that's right. It just sort of whips one into his head. Yeah. At one point they're in a restaurant, they find out that they got the cover of conday nest and there's a bottle of champagne

that the woman savers open and it's doing soap. And I can't lie. It made me laugh then. It's making me laugh now. Slice is Rob Schneider. his thumb clean off. It lands in a fellow diner's bowl of soup who is completely oblivious.

Everyone's kind of playing it straight and then he goes over and removes the thumb. It's not exactly well executed, but it's still upsetting. Yeah, it's upsetting. He gets it and dunks his own severed thumb into like a finger bowl where you would wash your hands that the one's in a glass of water. Sorry? Oh, yeah. And also, this is, I've since discovered, this is a genuine fine dining. and grill somewhere in Arizona.

So this is another free location. If you're understood in how they got all these nice places, because this is the other thing that you'll notice is before the spawncon, the movie looks cheap. The locations sell that this is not an expensive movie to make. And all of a sudden, when we get to the luxury resort

and they sneak in his pizza people, it's like, well, the movie's really wearing its budget now. Yeah. And for good reason. They didn't pay for this. Or like, what is? Here's my question. Yeah.

What is everyone's relationship to Rob Schneider? Not the character. What are the other actors relationship to Rob Schneider? What are the location's relationship to Rob Schneider? How excited are they that Rob Schneider is filming in their venue for a day? Are they telling people about it at home? I think they're thrilled. I think they're thrilled.

Everyone's thrilled? I really do think everyone in Arizona who runs a small to medium enterprise relying on tourism dollars is excited to be in a Rob Schneider movie. Absolutely. There is one specific person I would like to throw at you who we have. haven't mentioned yet who's in the film that I'd be interested to tease out what's going on there and that is the appearance out of nowhere of Jim Jeffries. Yeah it is crazy because like quite famous Australian comedian Jim Jeffries. Yeah like probably top of the tree in terms of Australian exports as far as stand-up goes um described his need to perform at the

Rear Comedy Festival as because he is a free speech machine. Very good. And then later we went on to describe reasons why one might not perform in Saudi Arabia, namely the murder of journalists and got blacklisted from the venue for bringing it up on a podcast. Anyway, out of nowhere, Jim Jeffries, whose star shines much brighter and further in the sky than Rob Schneider's at this point appears in the movie, begging the question,

what did Rob Schneider and Jim Jeffries do together? That means Rob Schneider can make him do this. Yeah, it's feeling a little Epstein flavored in terms of some leverage. For no reason, doesn't exactly light the screen up, but doesn't phone it in. It's fine. It's an impression of Jim Jeffreys acting as a security guard who has a few lines, which were probably ad-lib. Or, like, you know, he would have had a script and then he would have said, I'm going to say it like this. It's quite fine.

So another scene just popped into my head, because it lasts a really long time where Rob Schneider keeps giving blood. So you can only give blood once and you get $40 in this movie's version of Arizona when you do. and so he keeps putting on a different moustache and a different hat and going back to give more and more blood. What are you looking for? I'm looking for my phone. Oh, clock? No, no, no.

This was featured as a piece of, um, there was a goof or a piece of trivia on the IMDB for this movie. Oh. It's like an actual litigation about how often you're allowed to give blood. Oh, okay. I look forward to hearing that. Well, I sort of put the car before the horse there. We deal with both the, you know,

hilarious scene of seeing Rob Schneider in a different outfit come again and again and again to give blood increasingly woozy after each deposit and then the aftermath of him going through a supermarket which again is one of these gigs I thought he was doing his shopping he's shopping on behalf of someone for one of these apps and he just keeps falling over

because he's got no blood in his potty anymore that's right and then he goes to deliver the groceries it honestly adds nothing and it's sort of always unfair to single out components of this which add nothing to the story when there is no story to add to but it is sort of like incongruous with what they're trying to

to do it at the time. It's like, why are you doing this? Because the laugh's obviously not big enough. It's sort of, yeah, it's, I mean, but before that, and it's also because comedically, we've had three bites of the same apple, and they've all been funny. Him doing the blood stuff, again, there are actual laughs coming out of us. It kind of worked. I would say, strip of the cultural context in which you and I are watching this movie, I don't know how often people are going to laugh. But if you're Tim and Guy, I'd almost say it's over, I'd almost say it's double digits. Shared laughs. Could be.

There's a moment where Rob Schneider crushes a water bottle into his mouth as he's walking out of the blood deposit place because he's got such low blood pressure who's completely dehydrated. And I think you laughed at that. You were like, that's genuine. He does physical comedy big and proper and committed.

Yeah. And you were like, that's funny. And then we immediately cut to a supermarket where he does the same gag again with a big bottle of orange juice. And it was like the movie heard guy out loud and went, oh, you fucking like this? I'll give you another one.

Yeah, yeah. You're going to like it even more when it's bigger and exactly the same right afterwards. Exactly. So they're now on holiday. The kids are getting on. Rob Schneider's thumb gets sliced off. He gets severely concussed by a ceramic vase in a hotel room.

Are there other? Yeah, I feel like there's others where he gets hit in the head some more. It's already left my purvey. Yeah, the thumb is such a big one. It's already passed through. But anyway. So then we get to a bit. Should we get into the aeroplane rendezvous with the CEO of Condi Nastar?

Who, what I love about this, Condonest is a huge media conglomerant. Yeah. Rob, in the Schneiderverse. I just have to say, like, the reason that they're talking to this person of Condo Nast and sort of a sub, like, the, clearly on the tin, or within the realm of the film, stated goal of the film that Rob Schneider says to his daughter at the start, is like, you've got to follow your dreams.

the entire central premise that we're meant to buy into is that you've got to follow your dreams and the one thing that binds the families together these mismatched couples as they're travelling through Arizona is the kids are getting on and this 42 year old, 8 year old boy has taken a shining to mirror's drawings and basically you got something kid

to the point that the entire family think that the kid has something. Keep talking, I need to text my wife. Of course and so they make it all the way they set up somehow through their luxury vlogging I guess in being on the cover of Condo Nass magazine on the last day before they're flying out they set up a meeting between Mera

and Rob Schneider's concussed character and the CEO of Condo Nass who is portrayed like in Rob Schneider's vision of the liberal media of America this really tickled me the crystallisation of who's really pulling the fucking strings in this cuck

woke media that we all have to live through is literally a 45-year-old pink-haired woman with Warby Parker glasses who's sitting in her layer jet. Megan Rappano's aunt is like running the media basically. It's crazy. Yeah. I mean, speaking of cartoonish.

Yeah. The girl's trying to be a cartoonist. This woman is a fucking cartoon character. But in a consistent and sort of pointless recurring story item, the Rob Schneider never remembers perpetual in his car. So they missed the meeting Yeah Slash you can't afford it

Yeah But you've got to understand There's going to be a consequence to that That's the other thing It's just like Well my car's out of petrol I guess I'll keep driving it And we'll just see what happens

And then what happens is the car's out of gas man Because you didn't put any gas in the car And it's empty Because you can't put gas in the car Because you can't afford to live In this country Refuses Yeah exactly

Like But there's a Now we're really getting to where the rubber meets the road, there is an impossibility to the reality of modern American working life that this movie puts forward. You can't put gas in your car.

But what are you going to do? Because you have to put gas in your car, but you can't. But what can you do? Because you don't have any money. But you can't go anywhere or do anything without gas in your car. So what are you going to do?

So you just have to keep driving as if there is gas in the car or there somehow will be gas in the car, the car. Well, that is like... And then every now and then life will rightfully deliver you the news that I'm so sorry to tell you this.

The car's out of gas. But it literally doesn't matter how many times Larry Boubley is told that like this isn't working. His like his willful ignorance to circumstance is sort of the...

Like it's the entire engine of this movie. It's like his unwillingness to a... engage with what is clearly consistently happening in front of him is literally what propels it forward. And that's again what he makes his daughter. By the way, there are several animated sequences in which Rob Schneider tells short stories peppered through this movie.

I don't, I feel like it must be AI generated because I just, everything else is so cheap that I can't imagine they would have paid to get the animation done. it's in the style of sort of 1940s it's like the cup head games if you're familiar with those which were very big about 10 years ago it's that it's that sort of old timey

and they've even put like film grain over it to really sell the fact that it's old I reckon it's AI gent yeah I mean those interstitials are it wouldn't be a shock but basically run out of petrol they try to run a mile

in less than five minutes I told them it's not going to happen and guess what I was right Even in your fucking made-up world, Rob Schneider. They don't get there. Check out lady says that plane's left. Oh, yeah. So just a little bit about that.

So now we've had this movie that's changed what the movie's about quite a few times. But for a long time now, for the longest time, it's been about Rob Schneider trying to deliver an impossible holiday to his daughter. And he's done it. Yeah, he's succeeded. So now he's actually done it. So now we're like, oh, what a beautiful resolution of the thing the movie was telling us the movie was about. But now the movie is another trick up at sleeve. It's going to change what the movie is about.

again. That's right. And we're about an hour in now. Well, we're even further along. So the thing you've got to know about this changes, it really matters. Because this is now what we have to resolve for the movie to conclude. Yeah, you're right. There is a desk. There was. That's the fucking, there was an emotional impact that it had on me where this final movie was like, you can't do this again because now I'm trapped here with you until you figure out how to walk out of this room. There's like a fucking escape room. That's right. Scenario. This is like being in a Clues,

you've laid too many clues like being in an escape room designed by Rob Schneider which is like you don't know if anything means anything one of the most impossible sounding puzzles I can imagine in the world

So then what the movie is about because they've missed Mira's opportunity to pitch her cartoons which are fine to the CEO of Condé NAS and so she's gone

and she's heartbroken about this fact Because this very recently dangled opportunity in front of her has become her entire existence. There's another emotional motivation for that, which is at some point when Jackie Sound like congratulates her husband on successfully kidnapping their daughter in such a way that she has learned to enjoy herself. Yes. He says, you know, he's had a, we haven't seen it. A lot of the stuff that happens in this movie, by the way, we don't see. But he says, I've had a, I'm going to take that job back in groceries.

You know, I've got to do it. And his daughter overhears that. And it's disgusting. by her invented dad's refusal to pursue his dream and to throw on the towel. And so the shared disappointment of, A, knowing that her dad is a quitter, and B, they're missing the opportunity

to pitch her cartoons, which is something that she didn't know she wanted until the day before. It means that she's so disappointed. Like, she's ruined. She's wrought in a way that is beyond anything with, like, any of the emotional range has not been called.

Like, she's a pretty resilient kid. Yeah. She will go along with virtually anything. She loves her dad. She does. But she'll also sustain. She saw his thumb get chopped off. Yeah.

She was a bit upset, but she bounced back right away. That's right. What this movie is really about is that Rob Schneider loves this daughter. Yeah. That's right. And so then we need to figure out how we're going to sort of tie this up. I can't even really remember. At pace.

Exactly. I can tell you, basically, they're really disappointed. Rob and his daughter comes home and Jackie Sandler's like, you know. Boo, you've upset our daughter. She's heartbroken. She rips up the magazine. The daughter does. The daughter does.

The picture does. And the parents. And a signal of like, I'm tearing up my dreams just like my father did. Her parents sell her tape it together. They somehow submit it as her school report on her spring break. She gets an A plus from the teacher. He's like, this is really good. Yeah.

And then a limo arrives to pick her up. Which is confusing because this is the influencer family who the movie has told us and the first time we see them, hey, they're rich. And then gone punchline, they're not rich, they're sort of grifter influences. But now it's going, forget about that. They're actually rich. They've got a limo now. And they show up and they have published, apparently with Condo Nass, they've published.

That's why I couldn't remember it because it doesn't make any fucking sense. Yeah. Also because the book only exists in the ripped up version. She submitted as a school project and they show up and they're like, we found your book, we love it, it's published. Yeah. And then she becomes a hugely successful author to the point that the kids, and it's all about what she did in the holidays. And she did all the shit she was going to say she did to the kids.

So she wasn't a liar. Yeah. One of the kids said she couldn't afford to go canoeing. Guess what? They could. You don't have the money to go canoeing. She shows up to a book signing, which is set in another famous Arizona location, which is that book store.

I can't remember its name. Sure. Changing Hands Books or something. there's a cue the longest sort of featured extra like there's a cue that requires the camera to move at pace through the line she's signing books both parents

flanking her on either side Jackie Sandler on one Rob Schneider on the other Patricia Schneider and Jamie Litho Lissau presumably the seeds of an affair have been sewn and are beginning to blossom

in a back room while they're actually making the movie and which is a side note that is entirely mine and constructed by the way does in no way relevant to what I'm saying. Basically, they show up and they go, great news. We love the book.

And Condon Ness, want to do another one. Here's the contract. Both parents are so overcome with joy that she just signs the contract. Naira signs it with the vivid she's been using to write her autograph. Meanwhile, Rob Schneider gets a FaceTime from Michael Booble. Oh, yeah. So he kept telling people, he's kept telling people throughout this movie that his name is Larry Boubley, like Michael Bublae.

And we keep hearing one. Michael Buebla song over and over again and then we get a FaceTime call Yeah which to be fair You could he could have got

from Cameo I feel like he might have Because it's literally Michael Bouglay on camera saying like specific sentences in a way that you could cut around Yeah it's Bouglay on the phone So it's like you know

In the movie they've shot a cell phone And on that cell phone is Bubele It's not a single cut to Bouglay in situ No, he's never full screen. There's never the room behind Bouvlet. Exactly. So you've got this very tight shot of Bouglae's face delivering someone. And it was it that the dialogue's quite weird and choppy.

So it did feel a bit cameo-flavored to me. By the way, you can't do that. You're not allowed. You can't order a cameo from someone and then build a feature film around it and then put it in the movie. You can if not enough people have seen it. And frankly, we don't have time to address Michael Bubele's cameo, which came as something of a relief to me

because the Boubley surname thing is basically one of the most insistently repeated gags in the movie. But then Rob Schneider tells us I kept telling you guys he's my cousin and it is the first time he's ever said that in the movie. We've just spent 90 minutes with him

spread across multiple weeks he is constantly referring to the fact that his surname Boubley is pronounced like Michael Boubley while never following it up with the fact that they are in any way blood-related but forget about that for a second wouldn't you because John Glease is back and he's got a check for $25,000

because fucking psych it wasn't a grift it was real and he Taiwan absolutely love the hulape and South Korea yeah 25,000 check delivered turns on his heel walks fucking square back out of there

roll credits congratulations you've just experienced daddy daughter trip this movie got a cinema release its premiere was at a mall in Arizona. I don't know what it did after that

but in 2023 media desk published an article saying guess what it's now it on DVD and digital

congratulations Rob you fucking did it you single-handedly help transport people back from streamers to physical media

DVD in 2003 feels impossible to me that's like that's like a punk band releasing

cassette tapes like it's actually subversive and how anachronistic it is that is

fucking cool Yeah. I mean, shout out. Pick a rating system. How many severed thumbs out of four potential severed thumbs do you give this? Man, it's difficult because I'm not speaking for you, the person who might hypothetically watch this movie based on my recommendation. There's 10 fingers and thumbs. How many severed digits? Four. Four severed digits from me. And that's like me having kind of enjoyed it. I just have to be realistic with, you know, if I give it eight, it misrepresents my relationship to reality. I agree with you and I would also put a circle around

four severed fingers with an asterisk saying if this movie, if there's an ability to change the soundtrack for this movie and put like Kronos Quartet in there who did the score for Requiem for a Dream

this reads as a very different quite incredible work of sociopolitical commentary and art about where things are at. in the United States of America 2003. Upon releasing this movie, Rob Schneider's gone on

to a sort of comedy and political influence career in which he tells everyone that America is, what, all good and gone to the dogs, I suppose, is the company line. Absolutely. This movie is an example of both of those statements.

So dust off that DVD player, get your orders in for... The TV is no longer willing for us to discuss. Or HDMI for. No longer willing for us to discuss Daddy Daughter Trip. Well, honestly, I've been wanting to get to that for a while and it was a treat to watch it in your company. Yeah, this was nice.

And I guess to pick apart and enjoy. We can look forward to a little bit more digging over some Rob Schneider media. I suppose we can explore, there's different portals you can go down based on watching this. It opens, it asks a lot of questions, it opens a lot of doors. and we will be knocking on windows, climbing up ladders, and pursuing other entrances. Thank you for joining us.

Thank you. Good night. Good evening.