The Worst Idea Of All Time - Replay S01E38: Mea Culpa

Episode Date: March 22, 2024

Please enjoy this victory lap of Season One episodes as we celebrate 10 years of The Worst Idea of All Time. New episodes posting on our Substack.Original Description:Guy's back and more awake than ever. He didn't go to sleep for the whole movie this time! And he's bringing the Paddy Shwartz noise! Facts on where Paddy works out, where Paddy eats and more! Plus the age old question: Would you eat a placenta? The boys also fondly remember Sandler's hit comedy song 'Piece of Shit Car' and a bygone era of Napster and Limewire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well, I've found it. At least on public record, our discovery of Blaze Pizza. Paddy Schwartz, he gets a big old song, he gets a big old look in. Miley Cyrus not mentioned by name, but certainly to my ears, listening back to this episode, the main thing I'm thinking about is sort of the level of, I don't know if you could quite call it snooping, but investment I took in Patrick Schwarzenegger at this time.

So this was an exciting episode. I checked it back in on Blaze Pizza. They've got, I think, about 200,000 followers on Instagram. They recently did something called Pie Day, where they keep doing the mathematical symbol for pie on their pizza pies, I guess, and a lot of really bad pizza memes. I'd love to get back there. This is an upbeat episode, a positive episode.

We've got our work done in the morning, and I mentioned living, you know, I knew this was the case through a lot of the season, but I mentioned having mushrooms for breakfast that my friend and flatmate at the time, Maxie, made me, and man, we eat those mushrooms every morning. You know? Life can be a funny thing like that. It's just, this is nice. Down the line. Guys at work.

Doing their podcast. I get the sense I might have slept through a lot of the previous episode. Because this is a mere culpa. I mean, look, we talk about if Adam Sandler found the podcast or if we got successful, if he would lay claim to our success, which I think is still a valid question, whether he'd not like us. Well, I don't think we're disparaging towards the movie. I don't think we're disparaging towards the Sandman himself. Anyhow, I'm rambling.

Enjoy. That is good news, Guy. That is such good news. We have knocked off the film and it's not even midday. That's right. That's how you get things done, everybody. Efficient. Get up around nine o'clock.

All right. I hope that your flatmates cooked you some mushrooms, maybe, which is what was fortunate enough to happen to me this morning. Awesome. Was it Maxie? Yeah, yeah. What a dude. And then you roll around to Tim's house and you watch Grown Ups 2 between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Number 38. Number 38. Number 38. We're real proud of ourselves. I'm actually feeling pretty good right now. I'm feeling awesome. Well, like sad because I just watched the movie again. No, but I felt sad watching the movie,

but then when it was over And I looked at my phone It was only 11.50 something I was like Whoa There's a whole day ahead of us A whole big day It's going to be a

It's going to be a Rose tinted podcast If there's one thing That this podcast Has taught me Ironically it is To live every moment And love every day

Because every moment That I'm not watching Grown ups too Is like a gift I don't think that's ironic i think that message is hammered home by the movie relentlessly yeah but you want to look at a township town full of people who are living every moment and loving every day just really grabbing things by the scruff of the neck and doing whatever the fuck they want

whenever the fuck they want it's ironic about standing connecticut it's ironic it's ironic because it's a story so badly told and messages so ham-fistedly shoved down your throat, but they've accidentally tripped over a real good song at the end, which seems to like diss their own movie, but is actually legitimately a great life message, which is to love every moment and live every day and stop seeing Adam Sandler movies before your life goes away.

Actually, speaking of REO Speedwagon, for those of you who aren't as so well familiar with the podcast we've just finished watching Grown Ups 2 for the 38th time There's a hair on the microphone

I don't know why I had to pick it up but it was bugging me Sorry We've just watched the movie for the 38th time and the closing credit song is REO Speedwagon's

Live Every Moment and Live Every Moment and a while ago one of our listeners suggested that we listen to a live album by ario speedwagon oh yeah um oh yeah and i actually i've said i was gonna do it and i didn't do it and he was saying it's one of the best live like best live music albums if you're into that genre of music or even if you're not i guess i i like a bit of um like would you call it classic rock i don't know if you were into that genre of music, or even if you're not, I guess. I like a bit of, like, would you call it classic rock?

I don't know if you were with REO Speedwagon. It's a bit softer. But yeah, I listened to that live album. It was fucking dope. There you go. So shout out to REO Speedwagon. Yeah. Was it REO Speedwagon, the album that he recommended?

Yeah, it had to be, because we would have been talking about REO Speedwagon. That's weird. I thought it was... Yeah, no, that makes sense. It was a long about REO Speedwagon. That's weird. I thought it was. Yeah, no, that makes sense. It was a long time. It was like weeks and weeks ago. And I listened to it at the time and I remember it was dope.

Yeah. But unfortunately, I don't remember enough to even be 100% sure that it was REO Speedwagon I was listening to. Sounds like it really impacted you, bro. At any rate, Guy, so much to talk about in the episode this week on our 38th watching of Grown Ups 2, a movie which was described by Peter Dante, and I'm paraphrasing a little bit, as a movie where he and Shaq play cops in Adam Sandler's hometown and Adam Sandler comes back home and sees his friends

and they hang out together. They have a day together. That's more or less what he says. He's on point. Gotta love Peter Dante. I gotta say, there was a lot of mood changes and sort of gear shifts for me personally

during the movie today. Run me through emotional gamut uh that you experienced early on definitely feeling the absurdity some weeks you feel it some weeks you don't but definitely feeling the fact that i'm watching this movie again yeah that was very present in my mind which sort of i mean it it changes what you're watching you had a good point early on as well about once you've seen something this many times it changes like you're watching for takes like you're yeah you sort of see through the kind of facade of what they've put in front of you which is a fully produced movie and you start like seeing the matrix code yeah like you're sort of you imagine that you can see around the edges of the screen where there's all of the crew and stuff getting the job done.

That is a beautiful articulation of the feeling. It's like I feel like I can sense the lighting guy who's just had a shot and the boom operator who's holding that boom just above where we can see and Dennis Dugan just on his cell phone while the take is in progress. I'd say Dennis Dugan probably smashing cocaine, dressed up like George Michael in his trailer,

just watching it from a monitor, yelling instructions through a walkie-talkie. He's not George Michael. No, he's Billy Idol in this, but he's George Michael when he changes his costume every day. Love it. Dennis Dugan turns up on set every day. Dressed as a different 80s pop or rock musician

I would love to see Dennis Dugan as Cindy Lauper that would be wicked that would be good so you say Cindy Cindy Cindy Lauper so yeah I mean it was an interesting watch I suppose we had some interesting theories and conversations come up during the film

we both saw some stuff theories and conversations come up during the film i mean we both saw some stuff we hadn't seen before definitely um so there was a bunch of stuff that you seem to notice for the first time today which was i find i find it fascinating that either one of us can still find new ground i guess it's that sort of commentary on you know how you fall into patterns and like you watch it and i thought i heard a line is that for like the first two viewings and then never bothered to never bothered to listen closely enough to the line is correct myself so uh chris rock's son is kurt kurt mckenzie whose phone's going on mine oh it's rory oh i can't take that in the middle of the podcast can i or can i mean i wouldn't even

really bring it up who Who's Rory? Oh, dude, Rory's the man. What's his deal? He's a great guy. He better be pretty fucking cool to be calling up during the podcast. Well, he lives in Sydney, so it's always exciting when I get a call from him because he's either fucking drunk or super hungover, but either way, I get a good story out of it.

Rory sounds like he's got a drinking problem, man. He's all good. Rory's all good. He's a good man. Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah. So that particular one that you heard for the first time

was, yeah, Kurt. Never said once in the movie. That's Rock's first name. His son is getting a driving test, pulls up to the lights where it's red. The frat boys come and they say,

because they think he's one of their compatriots at the frat uh uh scully scully yeah yeah wait scully is that you scully is that you are you taking your driver's test drunk and then he says yeah i'm mc hammered but i thought he said i'm absolutely yeah man i'm absolutely hammered. 38 times before. Oh, and you didn't even hear it. I said it.

And you were like, what? I said it out loud. It's just because I genuinely, why would I bother listening to that in detail now? I would just think for one of the times in the 38 viewings, you would have just heard it somewhere. Yeah, you're probably right. And another one is the free back rub that you noticed.

Oh, yeah, yeah. So, because Leanne, played by... Deanne. Deanne, sorry, played by Mia Rudolph, forgets her wedding anniversary where Chris Rock buys her a necklace and puts it in her son's poo-infested nappy. It's not actually poo-infested.

But it could be, you know? Yeah, there's always a risk. You put something down, you put a necklace down, any underpants, there's a risk of some poo getting on the necklace. And no more riskier prospect is there than putting it in a toddler's underwear. It was a bold anniversary day strategy or anniversary gift. Like, I don't think I would if i don't know say

you splashed out 300 on that necklace it looks like a pretty nice necklace yeah man you're gonna go risk tainting that gift i guess what you're measuring up is whether or not the sort of sweetness if you pull it off yeah outweighs how disgusting and disappointing it would be if it goes wrong and the thing is is that kurt spun the roulette wheel and won. Like, that paid dividends for him. Yeah, that was a really, really sweet and touching sort of... He nailed it. And she was genuinely caught off guard. She was taking it back.

Yeah. It was a lovely moment, actually. I'm just thinking about right now, for people who haven't watched the movie at all, that we didn't really provide a lot of colouring for that situation, so that would have been really it's really confusing little tangent oh shit um before i go into the thing i was going to go into alice one of our listeners has said that she hasn't watched the movie but she's

listened to all the podcasts and i can't remember the post exactly but she wants to basically paint a picture of what she thinks the movie is oh yeah yeah, yeah. She wants to do it. She's going to draw out a timeline of the day, of the action of the film, which I'm really excited for. It's such a good idea. It's a really great idea. It's a great idea. So at some point,

Deanne's writing out, when she's on the phone to her mother, which is such a fucking odd, like what the fuck, man? I remember when we first figured out that that was her mum. And we were like, why? Why does it need to be her mum? Like, what the fuck man I remember when we first figured out That that was her mum And we were like Why? Why does it need to be her mum?

Like what the fuck is going on? It just You know it just adds texture To everyone's characters It made no sense It makes Chris Rock Probably a little more deplorable If anything For actively

Like holding out On giving his mother-in-law cable Oh yeah For no other reason Than his own amusement It is purely that He doesn't even need to be anywhere else. He's just sitting in his fucking van.

Yeah. I guess it's a pretty funny prank though. So Deanne... Maybe he teases her about it when she comes over for dinner. He's like, did you get that cable? And she's like, no. And he's like... Oops, sorry.

I don't know, just a thought. Chris Rock's wife is writing out a free back rub voucher to try and atone for her sins of forgetting the wedding anniversary. But the thing is, man, a free back rub is not a necklace. No, but it's a lovely thought. She's doing her best.

And I'm just impressed by the fact that the directors or writers or whoever was in charge, the art director, I guess, with the mise-en-scene in the movie, bothered to put that much detail into any, like, into... Because I haven't noticed that in the other story. And I was so satisfied that she was... that it tied in with another part of the mise-en-scene in the movie, bothered to put that much detail into any, like, into... Because I haven't noticed that in the other story, and I was so satisfied that she was,

that it tied in with another part of the movie. I always figure with those bits that it was a way bigger scene, and it just got cut down in editing. So it's probably not like, oh, and we'll have this for just a flash moment. Yeah, apparently, I read on IMDb this week that they shot over 500 hours of film for this movie. I wonder how that stacks up against other films.

It's a lot. 500 hours. But if everything has an average of how many takes? Five average? Because Adam Sandler does not do a lot of takes. I made that up. Everything I just said. Yeah, I completely made that up.

I can't go too deep on this one. I made it all up. 500 hours seems long and i don't think they shot it on film no no so i mean there's a lot there's a lot of reasons i thought i've put in enough red flags that you'd call bullshit right no no i didn't i went with you guy you've caught me in a vulnerable trusting mood took me down the garden path um so yeah What else is... Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz. Patrick Schwartz.

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it's Paddy Schwartz okay Patrick Schwarzenegger party time now we've both got one this week obviously it's been a big week for Paddy

both in the world of the film and I believe your one is yeah well he's what I've noticed is I follow Paddy

on Twitter and he's made some huge gains give Paddy's handle a shout out mate I'll just load it up here. All right, bro.

But I've started sort of taking a vested interest in his life. I'm like almost like a proud parent. I mean, obviously, dating Wiley Cyrus has increased his sort of cultural collateral. I feel like a proud parent in the sense that we sort of started a relationship with them before the greater public at large. Yeah. And it's sort of like watching your young boy grow up into a man right in front of your eyes. We feel like how Arnie must be feeling right now.

That's right. And the other thing about that which I like is – where are you? There you are. No, this is a fake account. He's got fake accounts. How many? What? He's got he accounts. How many? What?

He's got heaps. That's awesome. The other thing I like about it is he's made some huge gains at the gym this week. Big gains. Why do you go to the gym? You go for gains, folks. That's right. I'll just give a shout out to the gym.

It's on Venice. Him and the lads have actually all put on a pretty good amount of muscle this week. And the other one. Oh, here we go. Gold's Gym. Gold's gym on venice beach if you want to head down there do some some patty schwartz spotting and the other one i got to give a shout out to when you say spotting do you mean looking at him or like spotting him when he's doing the weights and shit just whatever works imagine that if you spotted him from afar on the

at gold's and then you came up you're like pat, Paddy, Timbo, should I spot you? He's like, yeah, jump in, fella. Yeah, I could use someone to spot me, however he talks. And I also want to give a big shout out to Blaze Pizza. I don't know if Patrick Schwarzenegger has invested money or whatever into this pizza firm or if they're just giving him a sweet Contra deal to do shout outs on Twitter, but he's all over this place. And looking at their Twitter page, can really see why. Blaze pizza

fresh dough, artisanal ingredients, inventive to classic, you decide. Blazing oven and dedicated pizza smith and 180 seconds equals fast fired perfection. 180 seconds? So do they like flash cook the pizza? They flash

they've got a blazing hot oven. 180 seconds is 3 minutes that is a quick that's a microwave oven no no it's a real oven yeah i know there's my time copy is there's no wrong way to play you've thrown a lot at me man blazes um a lot of shit going on big shout out to big shout out to patty so how does that connect to patty schwartz i just think that maybe he's got a lot of shit going on. Big shout out to Paddy. So how does that connect to Paddy Schwartz? I just think that maybe he's got stock in there. No, but like, I mean, you were talking about Paddy Schwartz. Has he been tweeting about it?

He keeps going to events or something at Blaze Pizza. Oh, really? All the events are catered by Blaze Pizza. He's just always bloody going on about Blaze Pizza. Well, we've left the first few breadcrumbs, folks. You follow the path. Let's dig out some IRS forms. Yeah, well, if there are any diehard Patrick Schwarzenegger fans in Los Angeles,

we're just sort of providing you, if you want to do some celeb spotting, maybe get a picture taken with them. We're just giving you some handy hints. You would have to say that Blaze Pizza is absolutely going after the stoner market, right? Blaze Pizza. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty out there it's like there's a ben and jerry's flavor and um in canada it's probably in america too called half

baked cool and it's like half it's like cookie dough flavored ice cream but okay you can totally see what they're trying to do when they put that in the in the ice cream aisle at the supermarket i would say so i would say they say on those on those tubs of cookies that you're not supposed to eat it. On what tubs? Cookie dough. Because in America, you just like eat cookie dough. Yeah, you can just buy cookie dough for eating.

You just eat it. But it says on the tub, don't eat this. You gotta cook it. Why is it? No, I'm pretty sure in America, you just buy rolls of cookie dough as cookie dough. Yeah, yeah.

Without like... No, no, you do. But I think it's one of those things where it's like they have to put on the packet you know don't eat it in this form you've got to cook it first that seems like a weird like particular rule to make when that you can pretty much the one thing with america and eating is just you don't need to tell anyone about now they've got i reckon it's a food safety thing maybe you've got to like there's some toxins in there yeah you've got to cook them off In your 180 second oven

I love eating cookies Flash cook some Ben and Jerry's half baked you know Anyway I've just combined three things and they don't work No not quite Because the Ben and Jerry's is ice cream What was your Paddy Schwartz party time Tim? My one was a lot tamer mate

My one was in the world of the film And my Paddy Schwartz was him uh when they're at the quarry and there's a shot where the dude with the really deep voice he goes the baddie white just called you crazy yeah so he's like guzzling a beer he's got his shirt off and paddy schwartz is just punching him in the stomach rolling punch rolling punch like a like a punching bag in a gym um but with love you you know, like a real friendly. But also kind of menacing to the townies. Yeah, kind of like eyes on you, fader.

And I like, I mean, I think Paddy Schwartz and Paddy Times compliment each other quite nicely this week because obviously in the real world, he does do some, maybe some glove work down the gym. Down at Gold's. Quick shout out to Gold's on Venice Beach.

Check it out. Shout out. Do you know what I loved. Quick shout out to Gold's on Venice Beach. Check it out. Shout out. Do you know what I love? When I'm on Venice Beach, guy, do you know what I love doing after I hit Gold's? What do you love? Grab a slice of Blaze pizza, bro. That's right.

They use fresh artisanal ingredients. Original to inventive. That's right. It's your choice. If you are in a hurry, do not worry. Do not fret. Do not let your pants get wet

because these pizzas are cooked at 180 seconds in our blazing hot oven. Damn, son. That's only three minutes. That's right. If you've got a three-minute lunch break from your workout at Gold's on Venice. Then start yelling your order as soon as you put the dumbbells down. Just yell out what you want as you're running to them and they'll get it in the oven and by the time you're there.

But don't eat it straight away because the cheese is hot and it will burn the roof of your mouth. And no one enjoys that. They'll stick with you for so many days. So now there's an... You just made me write down the note, Kevin James table. Kevin James table. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because in the movie, at the party scene, Kevin James... Because I don't know if you know this. I've been on IMDb this week and I know that's lost credibility because of what I did earlier. But that was an ad lib. So when he says, don't ever say the party's over

and he jumps up on the table and the table blows out, that was not meant to happen. That was... Bullshit. And he just ad libbed his way through and then he goes, that didn't happen. Bullshit. i'm just saying they were just rolling absolutely not bro it took a lot of film did you see how the table went down i don't know there was a planned explosion bro

there were planted explosives in the table no no tables don't they don't go down like that i haven't really watched that many tables you've seen that table go down 38 times dude Yeah I have Oh you mean like a normal table I don't know Well just think about the physics of a normal table If you saw a normal table go down It would naturally have like a point where it's

Like one of the legs would go first And then it would all fall to that direction first It would be asymmetrical It would be an asymmetrical fall. On an ordinary table, but maybe some tables have got weird... No, it wouldn't blow out in the perfect symmetrical four points at once.

It's just how the table was designed. It went down into its own... It's just how the table maker made the table. It went down into its own footprint, man. That doesn't happen with tables. It's not how they... Are you saying all this just to explain to me that you don't think it was an ad-lib?

It absolutely was not an ad-lib. It was planned. Yeah, you're probably right. You can see the squibs blowing out the table legs. I don't even know what that means. It's a little like a dust pocket you see when an explosive goes off. And you could see that on the table at the party scene.

I will show you next. I will show you in episode 39. You caught me in a lie, mate. You can't keep saying I read this on IMDb because I already know you're lying. I know you're lying right at the start of this. You really came in hammer and tongs on that little fib. Well, I didn't know why you made me write down keeping James stable. Now I'm disappointed you did. You used me. I didn't know why you made me write down keeping james stable now i'm disappointed

you did you used me i didn't use you hey um what else we got i wrote down um sandler goes to town on his free pass from tommy kevin art which is true because fuck adam sandler's character is such a dick like lenny fighter gets given this get out of free jail card Get out of jail free jail Well it's a free jail So you can I guess leave whenever you want The clues and the name It's not really a prison It's kind of misleading

It's oxymoronic It's like that guy who just bailed It's in New Zealand's maximum security prison And they were letting him out by three days a week And he just left and went to Chile That's fucking crazy but then he went to like the world's worst prison and i think he instantly regrets the decision he made yeah bad times bro real bad times um we're not usually a topical podcast no sorry it was so sandler gets in a fight with stone cold steve austin completely of his own making and really unnecessary like It was So Sandler gets in a fight With Stone Cold Steve Austin

Completely of his own making And really unnecessary Like they're grown men There's no need for it It's just how things go down In Stanton, Connecticut Is that you settle your beefs It's not

You settle your beefs With fisticuffs When you're Lenny Fader maybe Quite literally the whole town Is involved in a fight Moments after Yeah that's true actually That's a good point

That's a good point monty so uh the stuck old steve austin or tammy tommy cavanaugh goes just thwack me on the chin and i'll go down like a sack of potatoes so he's going to do a hollywood he's going to take the fall for him so he can look like the man in front of his son and the whole town yeah but it's like this it's about looking like a big man in front of his son. For Sandler, at his own personal embarrassment. And so fucking Sandler takes this free pass and just... Milks it. Milks it to the extreme.

Just is yelling in Stone Cold Steve Austin's face, chest beating. Just an absolute moron about it. Like, have a little fucking dignity, bro. This guy has reached out an olive branch to you and you've no but he's got it you've got it on fire he's got to sell it you know this is what this is what lenny fader i'm just in characters lenny fader right now this thing he's like okay stone cold's giving me a free pass but i gotta he's not calling him stone cold cavanaugh gave me a free pass but i gotta sell it i can't you know like i i can't i can't do it in character

but he can't let the fact that he's, he can't communicate the fact that he knows he's going to get away with anything to the crowd. I don't think that's his motivation there. I don't think it's that he's selling the moment. I think it's that he's being opportunistic and an arsehole. Do you think that when he was acting that scene, Adam Sandler thought about it as much as we just did

when we were talking to each other? There's no question that he did not. And where does that leave us? Well, I guess more contemplative about Adam Sandler's acting choices than he is himself. You know? But quite specific acting choices.

He probably thinks more about his general career direction and like the movies he chooses, not specific throwaway scenes. The bummer about all this is, Monty, and I'm talking broadly about the podcast in general now, is that Adam Sandler literally got tens of millions of dollars for the film and we have spent more time working with it.

Yeah. And we get no money. But we knew that from the outset. I had a funny thought recently where it was like, if, let's's say anything ever became of either of us or this podcast and then Adam Sandler surely one day

if we got big enough that someone put a question to Adam Sandler and was like what do you think about da da da and Adam Sandler could be like I made those guys yeah we'd be like but he doesn't he'd be like yeah I fucking made those guys they would be nothing like But he doesn't He'd be like Yeah I fucking made those guys

They would be nothing without me He's never like I haven't ever seen him like that In his interviews though He seems like a real nice guy Yeah In his interviews Cause he could claim that

With a lot of people Like Peter Dante He probably made him That's a big thing about him Peter Dante's my bitch He's always been a good guy He always gets his boys on the films Yeah man

And he doesn't gloat about it In interviews He's not like I own these guys We actually gets his boys on the films. Yeah, man. And he doesn't gloat about it in interviews. He's not like, I own these guys. We actually also, during the movie, we sang one of his songs together. Piece of shit car. We got a piece of shit car. A fucking pile of shit. It never gets me very far.

Oh, fuck your car. My car is a fucking piece of shit. All the brakes are fucking shut. It's a piece of shit car. My car is a fucking piece of shit. All the brakes are fucking shut. It's a piece of shit car. He does it way better. I can't remember the rest of the words. I remember listening to that. It's a real good song, man.

And it was a nice moment remembering. That was, do you know, for that song is a real moment in time for me because it was when I think LimeWire was real big or maybe even Napster. And I remember downloading it on Napster or like a OG P2P music pirating shit. Yeah, yeah. That was a real like-

The first ships, bruh. Counterstrike was big, you know. I remember it. It was the summer of 99. Counterstrike was big. You know, I remember it. It was the summer of 99. Counter-strike was big. Napster was on the internet and I was going to go on my first date with the prettiest girl in school. Erica Barbowski. That was your summer in 99.

Yeah, man. Barbowski really, yeah, really came into a run in that summer. Yeah. Really. As an 11 yearyear-old.

Now, there's one part of the podcast which we have failed to explore this week so far, Guy Montgomery. And we really should go exploring on the Steve Buscemi of Mystery Tour. Roll up. Roll up for the Mystery Tour. to us roll up roll up for the mystery tour

roll up roll up for the mystery tour real sing songy podcast it's ever since I bought these handheld mics man we've just been getting into a real karaoke vibe okay now

you were going to take the helm on this one because last week, I really picked up the slack, particularly on this segment where I posited that Steve Buscemi was a time traveler who kicked his own ass after seeing him fooling around

with his girlfriend. That's a pretty good theory. Unlikely thing is, Grown Ups 2 is a pretty vanilla sort of comedy. I don't know how it would have gone on the sci-fi in the first one. We've been thrown out. The first Grown Ups was a real,

like, intense sci-fi. A real banging sci-fi film. first one. We've been thrown out. The first Grown Ups was a real intense sci-fi. A real banging sci-fi film. And then the sequel's just like a standard family comedy. And the third one's going to be a western. Genuine western. I quite like that. Okay, so... So what has happened to Steve Buscemi?

We'll have to explain. We have to explain every week. The Steve Buscemi Mystery Tour is a part of the podcast where we try to guess what happened to him in the first movie, which is referenced in the second film, which caused him to have significant spinal... I think we've kind of established it's spinal injuries. He's got nerve damage or something.

40% feeling in my body. Yeah, and his hands have been in a cast, like in the touchdown position for a long time. Steve Buscemi was shopping. No, what was his name? Wiley. Wiley. Wiley was shopping at Kmart.

Of course. Quick shout out to Kmart. You know what I love to do when I've hit the gym at Gold's and I've got myself a little slice from Blaze? Head on over to Kmart to see all the bargains. Yeah, yeah. Maybe grab a rockstar energy drink on the way i wish all of these products that we're naming were actually paying us to name them

so good i'd feel like adam sandler um anyway yeah so he's going for a shop in kmart and he's looking around at the exercise equipment uh because he wants to get in shape he knows that you know his he feels like him and his wife, Sherry, are growing apart. Her name's not Sherry, whatever it is in the movie. And so he's sort of like, okay, I'm going to get in shape.

I'm going to, I'm going to, I want to, you know, I want to do something. I want to do something. I want to make something of myself. And he goes into the exercise area and he gets on like the treadmill and he does the treadmill for about 10 minutes.

They don't put all this in the film, obviously. And he sort of gets a pretty good sweat on and then he gets off the treadmill, he gets on like the treadmill and he does the treadmill for about 10 minutes they don't put all this in the film obviously uh and he sort of gets pretty good sweat on and then he gets off the treadmill gets on what's that weird one it's like with the handles and the feet it's what like a step oh like a thing like what lenny faded was using at kmart yeah um they're called like orbital walkers or some shit so it gets on one of those right and then adam sandler lenny faded just so happens to also be at that k-mart going for a walk uh just for whatever reason he loves it there we know that and he goes oh he sees wiley and he's like oh i'm gonna give old wiley a bit of a fright and he goes and wiley in exactly the same physical gag that adam sandler does in the second film sort of goes tumbling over the orbit

or whatever you want to call it and uh and and in doing so i mean it's a miracle adam sander didn't get injured in this grown-ups too well i've got a theory off the back of that so i'm just letting you well anyway yeah and so that's how that's how he got the injury adam sander gave him a fright when he was using the exercise gear it came up trying to win the love of his wife back and another reference to the relationship and another reference to the cycle of bullying, which is oft referenced but never quite understood in this film, it's this perpetuating thing where Kevin James did it to Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler had done it to Wiley. Yeah, you got it.

Now, here's my theory about that, if that's true, and I want to assume it is, at least for seven days until I see the film again. At least for another two until I see the film again um at least for another two minutes until this podcast ends does that make Lenny Fader like superhuman uh did you hear that cat yeah that cat there's no one listening could hear the cat which is why we shouldn't have referenced the cat next door had um kittens under someone's deck and uh the neighbor came around and said hey your cat's bloody had kittens under my deck and we're like it's not our cat it just hangs

out here oh man because i remember you guys were really nervous at this flat that it was going to have the kittens here two pregnant cats that just hang out here bro and i did not want them birthing inside the house yeah disgusting what's wrong with a cat birthing in your house i just figured there's probably a lot of fluids and i don't know it's not something i want to deal with placenta does a cat eat the eat its own placenta god i'm not sure dogs do it's good for their coat tom cruise ate suri cruises ate uh the placenta from the birth of suri did he yeah is that part of the scientology yeah i think so i think Is that part of the Scientology? Yeah, I think so.

I think it's part of the Tom Cruise beliefs. Shit, man. Could you do it? Eat the placenta? A little placenta polenta? I don't know. What if you fried it up with some other stuff? I wouldn't really want... Like, I might do it, but I don't see why.

Yeah. I don't want to do it. There was, I think, like, back in the day, and I'm talking, like, tribal times, there was a lot of beliefs in the day and i'm talking like tribal times there was a lot of beliefs that it gave you kind of power yeah i can see that it's fucking weird new life you know yeah but you shouldn't you can see like there's such a strong connection between that and new life i don't want to regenerate you i don't want to take this podcast to really blue place especially when we're just wrapping up but don't eat something that comes out of a vagina

you know that's not for eating i reckon it's not that is just not a good way to conclude the podcast it's not well we're not concluding it so let's put it back lenny fader superhuman possible because that um going over the exercise exercise machine that he does go over like yeah i'm not getting injured jumping off the cliff and not getting injured and also maybe that's why he thinks it's real funny when he kills nick in the school bus because he doesn't appreciate that other people aren't superhuman he doesn't understand mortality maybe his power is that he is both superhuman and he can make other people temporarily superhuman so he can execute really incredible um acts of violence against them anything's possible tim

imagine that it's like with superman right his power can extend to things that are within i think it's an inch of his body that's why when he grabs like lois lane or whatever and wraps the cape around her she's kind of like bulletproof a little bit in the old comics i haven't read close enough to superman if you're close enough to superman you kind of like bulletproof a little bit in the old comics i haven't read i haven't read superman if you're close enough to superman you kind of you get the and lenny fader is channeling superman lenny fader has a bit of that going on i just got one shining light to do before it's game over uh and it was just a bit of extra acting that really did well kevin james when he does his last burps night of the film when he finds out his son is brilliant on the piano,

a real prodigious pianist, he goes, my boy's a genius. And then he does a burp snart and he goes, your dad's also a genius and walks out of frame. And behind Kevin James are two extras who just do the best job of selling disgust. Just looking like this guy. Are they women?

Yeah, this guy is an animal like this this guy should not be fathering that child the way he behaves is offensive awesome and it was really well sold just a little shot there that's great kind of frame my shining light was when uh same scene actually the party scene which occupies about 40 of the film so that's no surprise peter dante in the skis on the roof oiled up and nothing but his underwear um riding 40% of the film, so that's no surprise. Peter Dante in the skis, on the roof, oiled up, in nothing but his underwear, riding on top of the roofs of the house. And when he's shooting his gun,

he's shooting down into the crowd when he kicks off. I like the reckless abandon with which he's approaching that little stunt. Peter Dante, policeman, just... It's pretty easy to just angle your wrists up so you're not firing into people nah fuck that though that's not how Peter Dante rolls

that's right okay well it's been a pleasure it's been great that's a really interesting one that one that we just did yeah thanks for being awake

for the movie this week as well Guy way to come to the party I knew after last week's effort I haven't listened back to the podcast you had some mea culpa-ing to do

yeah this episode is going to be called mea culpa and I back to the podcast. You had some mea culpa-ing to do. Yeah. This episode is going to be called mea culpa, and I want everyone to know it's not my mea culpa, it's yours. See you next week. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.