We Hate Movies - S7: Families with Bad Taste, Irrational Fears of Yoda, and Dudes Who Love "Grown Ups 2"
Episode Date: March 12, 2017On this month's Mail Bag, the guys read letters from folks who have family with bad movie taste, irrational fears of Master Yoda, dated dudes who love Grown Ups 2, caught folks pleasuring themselves t...o other Sandler films, sexy-looking parents, and more! If you have questions for the gang, or want you weird stories read on the air, write in to the Mail Bag: weallhatemovies@gmail.com!Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This is a headgum podcast.
Welcome to WHMailbag, everybody.
I'm Andrew Jupin, alongside Stephen Sadek, Christopher Cabin, and Eric Sisko.
We are here to read your letters.
So Steve Sannack, start us off.
Deep Impact haunts my family.
Haunts!
Hey guys, big fan here.
Your podcast makes my trip to the gym and long distance is to class.
I'm going to film school, bearable.
Anyways, I've gone through most of your recent episodes,
and I find myself browsing through the archa...
Archive.
Archive.
Ooh, get some archives on that baked potato.
You know, is that Riverdale good with Archive?
People keep saying that show is actually good.
It's like the Archie comic, but they fuck.
Yeah, they get to fucking get into the Archives, dude.
That's when you take off Archie's pants.
All right.
I saw you had an episode on Deep Impact, and I immediately clicked on it.
It was like episode 18.
That was really low numbers.
Look at the episodes page on WHMpodcast.com.
There's a lot of stuff there.
People are like, oh, you should do this movie.
Like, I did it like four years ago, man.
I've been out of this game for years.
Exactly.
The show's been on the air for the better part of a decade.
Yeah.
A lot of soads.
I enjoyed the episode slightly more than others
because the film has been a plague to my family.
You see, my father adores it.
It's been one of his favorites.
So much so that he watched it every time it's on TV,
which unfortunately,
happens to be a lot.
That's a TNT fave.
I remember the first couple of times I saw with him.
I was around 11 or 12 at the time.
I was very confused.
But I didn't know it was truly awful and painfully boring until I grew older.
However, now that I moved out for college, it's my poor 14-year-old brother who is now going
to the terrible realization, except where I knew when to keep my mouth shut, he doesn't.
I'm looking forward to hearing about the screaming matches while Morgan Freeman delivers his
flurry of speeches. My question is to you guys, do you guys have any similar experiences with family
or friends loving a particularly bad movie? Ooh, that's from Monica. That is from, thanks.
I keep up the good work. Monica. I've got some relatives that enjoy spoof movies. Oh, no.
So that's kind of horrible. There's some okay ones, right? Like the naked gun. No, no, no. I'm talking
about like recent spoof movies. What?
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Cousins of mine, I feel like we would always go over their house and they would put on hot to trot.
Like it would be like, oh, my God.
They owned it.
They owned it on VHS.
You're here.
You came all the way out here.
Let's put on hot to trot.
You came all the way out here.
I mean, I got ants.
So, like, of course.
They love ants.
Yeah.
With a Z.
Well, like, I mean, the cliche, but they all do is love actually.
Oh, the move. Oh, is that right?
And then, but like, then there's like any Kate Hudson movie, they're like, you know, it's underrated.
But I feel like knowing you, you would fight them on that.
Like, you know what, Aunt Christy, this is shit.
I'm getting a little softer.
Good. That's a good thing. You got to let things go.
He's learned when to shut the fuck up.
Not all the time.
You know, all the time? But sometimes, I'm letting it go.
I let how to lose a guy in 10 days go, but this failure to launch shit is really bothering me.
I'm going to be honest with you and Christy.
And the meatloaf was a little dry.
Are these mashed potatoes from scratch or is it the powder?
Because it tastes like powder.
It's that buttered powder.
Remember that movie powder?
Yeah, yeah.
It was directed by a child molester.
I have never seen it.
Oh, really?
It sucks.
Oh, dude, check it out.
It sucks.
Totally sucks.
So I'm not going to check it out.
I don't really have a great answer for this one.
I'm grown up.
My brother loved all those.
like karate movies
and like best of the best
and stuff
and I'm like
yeah
because they're good
that's the right way
to do that
the Cisco Bros got along
movie was
all right
Chris Gavin
all right
Yoda's reign of terror
oh
hey WHM Bros
all right
okay
I guess
oh what up
oh man
don't you dare
keep going
hang up on it
you what up
after hearing
the last man
mailbag from the guy born in January
in 1994, I felt the need to write in.
My older brother was born Christmas Eve of 1994.
That'll ruin any holiday.
I was born in November, 1996, about two weeks after space change came out.
Oh, come on with the 90s birthday.
All right, you know what, listen, we were just saying the show's been on the air for seven years.
I mean, listen, we're old.
How old am I?
Eric just turned to dust and die.
Where's my meat?
Where is my meat?
I've been waiting for my meat to come in my whole life
and I haven't gotten my meat share.
I will say if you're listening to this
and you're born sometime in the late 90s
we're likely closer in age to Alex Jones
than to you, gentlelisten.
That's worth saying.
Catherine Baird with a millennial.
I'll pause to let you guys part for a second.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, look good.
When I was eight,
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith came out.
And while my brother and dad watched it,
I didn't because of Yoda.
I hadn't seen any Star Wars
at that point, so I didn't know that Yoda
was a cool Jedi master.
He's not. And the only images of him...
Wrong, wrong.
Incorrect. He's an okay Jedi.
Hang up on him.
And the only images of him I had seen
were from the ads circulating around
at the time. That small
wrinkled CGI abomination
was a laser stick of death
with a laser stick of death
chilled me to my very core
because he was also on every damn thing
at the grocery store
I was terrified to go shopping
with my mom terrified
well they really pimped that little guy
out for those prequoles
yeah much
yeah quite a lot
Yoda footage
I mean too this very day
yeah fuck Yoda honestly
I mean he's cool
he's so my fire strikes back
and that's it exactly
dies, and Jedi, he has a nice
little death scene.
You've 10, 900 years.
See, how good you look?
Oh, by the way,
sister you have, for some
reason.
I always imagine that Frank
Oz just like having a boiled egg on his
tongue trying to do that voice.
So, okay,
shopping with my mom.
Uh, it got to the point that for a solid month, I was scared of anything green, including grass, because it reminded me of that.
That's good that is.
This next line is amazing.
Because it reminded me of that monster.
I love Star Wars now, including Yoda, but I'll never forget that month of terror that CGI Yoda inflicted upon me.
Love the podcast, Elizabeth from Iowa City.
There you go.
Any benevolent creatures, everyone, anyone who is afraid of as a kid?
I remember my best friend in elementary school, terrified of the flying monkeys.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's just sheer nightmare fuel.
That'll do it.
Well, growing up, when my dad would come home, we'd watch the howdy-duty show together.
Oh, we did.
It's just going to be old joke there.
You know when Kong first appeared on the screen.
You know, when I was in that theater and I heard Al Jolson sing for the first time,
he said, you ain't heard nothing yet.
I was telling von Stroheim that, like.
When I first saw the, you know, the premiere of the Lumiere Brothers train.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So scary.
I was straight out of college at the time.
The college.
You know, when we saw the shadow plays.
around the tent in the frontier.
You know what I was shit scared of as a kid?
And it wasn't really a benevolent thing.
I guess it's supposed to be kind of scary.
It was Tim Curry and legend.
Oh, yeah.
But it was also,
it also scared me even more because I didn't know what it was from.
And for years it just plagued me.
I didn't know like I would pop something on
and all of a sudden that fucking devial beast would be there.
I didn't know where it was from either.
And I just remember I kind of thought.
I was like, that's pretty bad ass.
I was
Another thing you were supposed to be afraid of him
Towie Mandel and Little Monsters
I was supposed to be like I'm not scary
I'm like yes you are me get the fuck out of my house
That was bone chilling
That's a stay tuned I bet
But also another thing I was scared of
That you're also sort of meant to be scared of
Okay
The opening of ghost brothers
Ghostbusters
With the librarian ghosts
Oh yeah
Terrified
Ghost brothers
Those two twins that go to your house
And renovated
if there's ghosts there.
That would be a great fucking shot.
Absolutely.
Oh yeah, the ghost brothers,
they're twins and they're both kind of weird
in different ways.
But dude, man, you got all these old fixer
uppers and there's ghosts in
the wood, you know, all the old wood
here?
Oh, yeah, looks, you got a bunch of ghosts in that
shiplap there, hon.
I'm trying to think, like, I mean, I think
I can, like, all the ones are justifiable,
except I will say,
like, I was revolted,
to the point of fright
with Mac and me.
Oh, right.
Like, I was just like,
that thing is fucking gross to look at.
And I, oh, my God.
Yeah, I think talks
and, like, squirt sounds get made.
No, thank you.
All right, Eric, Cisca.
Mailbag, how do,
how do, no.
Mailbag, how a movie ruined
a potential relationship.
Uh-oh.
Hey, guys, love the show.
I podcast you at,
what's so funny?
Stephen, I said, uh-oh.
Oh, man.
It was cute.
You guys are like ghost brothers.
The ghost in that old toilet, hon.
Hey, hon, that ship lap is, I think that's a ghost ship lap.
From a ghost ship.
This wood is from a ghost ship.
This new back splash we have is haunted.
It's a good back splash, but it's kind of haunted.
Why don't you go ask Gabriel Byrne if we can get off this ghost ship?
We're going to put it in a new back splash with tiles from Alcatraz.
Oh, wait, do you not want it haunted?
Oh, we also put...
Yeah, there's brass fish
Just from the Titanic.
Wait, hold on.
You don't want a haunted house?
That was Al Capone's toilet.
Oh, man, Al Capone's toilet.
Look out below.
You know, we should probably get something on paper here
before we do anything else.
It looks like this goes at the syphilis shit.
All right, what happened?
I podcast you at work, and it really helps me get through the day.
I wanted to share a story of how a movie ruined a potential relationship.
Quick, not to, not to derail everything, but...
If you're listening to a podcast, do you say, I podcast you?
I never heard of that.
I was just going to let it go.
Steve, these are young people.
The young millennials.
We are now.
We're older millennials.
All the 90s.
I don't know how we got in there, but we're in there.
But the thing is, young people love us.
Uh-huh.
And they podcast us.
Okay, cool.
I'll podcast you too, lady.
Hey, ladies, do you want to go?
You want a podcast?
Oh, God, in heaven.
Oh, man.
You'll be a ghost soon.
You're going to be.
jail. All right.
Fat man.
Thrown in prison.
Did you say fat man
thrown in prison? Yeah, lascivious
fat man. Lecivius
in shackles.
Anyway, so this is about how a movie
ruined a potential relationship for me this
past summer. Right. I was new to the
dating scene after a three-year relationship.
I met a guy online who seemed really cool
and fun. After a lot of public
meetings and dates, I realized that I really liked
him. Nice. I want to stay the night. Oh, man. He asked me to come over to his house to watch a movie. I thought perfect. The lights will be low and the atmosphere would be intimate. Yep. Now we're talking. I do love the idea. It's true though. It's like nobody ever watches movies. You know what I mean? Like it's a con. No, it's a con. Except for that. Who was it that lady that wrote in? Maybe it was a dude. I don't remember. Oh, if you're watching X-Men? That's when everybody.
Everybody's watching every movie.
You better be watching that goddamn movie.
Can't wait to see how many times in theaters that person sees Logan.
A lot.
Here's my chance to make a move.
I showed up at his house and he cooked me dinner.
We snuggled up on the couch.
Without my asking opinion, he put on the movie Grownups 2.
Oh, no.
Come on, lady.
I thought maybe he had never heard of it or maybe he was just planning on not watching any of it.
Oh, wink.
That was my whink.
That was my wink.
She didn't say.
Yeah, but that, I mean, that's not a movie.
you can have...
You can't be like full and I.
Oh, no, but...
Ice water.
Yeah, it's like, oh, man,
I'm going to put my hand where?
Kevin James, my balls!
After about 15 minutes of him laughing hysteria.
Oh, fuck.
He turned to me and asked me if I'd ever seen this.
That's not sensual.
Definitely not.
No, this is terrifying.
See our episode on grown-ups too, by the other way.
Oh, yes.
Episodes page.
Dot H-TML?
Yeah, something like that.
Sure.
I said no.
proudly and he told me
he's seen it a bunch of times and it
was the funniest movie he's ever seen
said the man who's literally seen
one movie. I mean I'm curious though
lady like look around the apartment
was there any other clues?
There's a poster somewhere
you know what I guarantee there was a Pulp Fiction
poster somewhere there's a fitness
magazine somewhere
this guy likes fitness
he probably likes grown-ups
no no no there you got to look for stuff
like the water boy post
sure or um like i don't know what's what's an egregious type of pop figure is there a uh if you're if you're
if the man you're trying to sleep with has a picture of himself dressed like joe dirt on the
on the refrigerator from last Halloween you're probably not going to have sex with i probably
post with a picture for him like if you got a tattoo of something from the divergent series yeah probably
stay away from that i thought you're going to say it's a tattoo of operas
man.
Oh, God.
Bye,
bye.
All right.
Let's
continue here.
This is great.
I love this
letter because of the
following sentence.
Oh,
please.
I felt knots in my
stomach and started
to get light.
I told him
I wasn't feeling well
and quickly left.
Oh,
nice.
When I got home,
I thanked God
that happened
before I actually slept
with him.
I can't respect
anyone whose favorite
movie is an
Adam Sandler Flick after the year
2006, especially grown-ups
too. Absolutely. He contacted me a few
times and I finally lied and told him that my
ex and I got back together.
Nice. I don't know if he listens to the show,
but I hope he does and hears this and re-evaluates
his life. Yeah, figure it out, buddy.
I think we would have lost him
by now. Probably. We dare
make fun of the King Adam Sandler. After
Ground-Ups 2 episode, probably.
Wait, hang on a second. She says
Adam Sandler flick after the year
2006. What was so great about
2006.
No, no, it's...
Just like later, period.
I think she means
the latter days.
Like, like, if you say...
That was Click.
That was the year of Click.
Let's say you'd go out
with a fucking, like, gorgeous hunk, right?
And he's like, oh, I love Billy Madison.
I'm like, all right, okay.
Sure, right.
Oh, if I love Happy Gilmore.
All right.
Yeah.
The wedding singer, sure.
Yeah, I'll still sleep with you.
Mr. Deeds.
Exactly.
You're like, wait, what?
Hang on a second.
I might not want to hit it or quit it, you know?
Like, no.
Hard no, click.
Mr. Deeds, I feel it's like, you know,
you're thinking it over.
I mean, you got to see what else is going on there.
A hand-jibber, fine.
Yeah, exactly right.
Just to see what the course looks like.
I guess I dodged a bullet because if I had slept with him before that,
I don't think you're going to ever live with myself.
Thank you for everything you guys do, love you, Annie, from Philadelphia.
Oh, man, and when she was driving homes, you probably said to herself,
man, I am glad I did not sleep with that.
Bravo
By the way
Speaking of the wedding singer
God damn it
Fucking Alexis Arquette
Farrenan at the Oscar
Fucking Farinan knew it
I don't even know
The fucking slew of people
Farinid man
Oh this
This editor had a fucking vendetta
Miguel Ferrer
That's just unforgivable
I honestly think
It might be more prestigious
Now to be
Farinaed
Yeah
You might be
You might be
You're all the good people are
Yeah
You don't want to be some
What are we talking about
Miguel Ferre
He's George
Cousin. I'm sure George Clooney
left the ceremony.
Oh, really? He just spits on the ground.
Oh, man, that George and his pranks.
Come on.
All right, here we go. Next letter.
310 to yeesh.
Dear Andrew, Eric, Chris, and what is likely the
life model decoy of Stephen Sadek.
I drive commuter train.
Steve Real dolls on sale.
We still have all of them.
and the hair is real
I drive commuter trains across state borders
and I am a big fan of the show
your podcast has brought me
several hours of joy in my downtime
hopefully not when you're driving the train
I'm writing into the mailbag
about a particular incident that happens
on one of my routes
as we finished pulling into our last station
for the night I walked through the train
to make sure no one was still on board
since service has ended
I heard what couldn't be mistaken
for anything other than Adam Sandler's
cackling voice coming from one of the cars.
That's exactly right.
I assumed maybe someone had left their phone on the train.
I was gravely mistaken.
What I found was...
You're in a meeting.
You were in a meeting.
I'm trying to turn it out.
I thought I put it on the side.
Sorry, you know what?
I had to leave it on volume.
My father's in the hospital.
I'm going to leave the meeting this right.
I'm so sorry, but this.
Please tell the...
Japanese businessman translate for me
that this is the maiden
call of the native Sandler
On newlyweds
Whoopiddy do!
Man, that never got old.
Well, wait a second. What I found was indeed a phone
playing an Adam Sandler flick.
Billy Madison, if you're curious.
And the man who was holding the phone
had his pants down around his knees
and was going to town.
I honestly just almost did
a spit take. You know, sometimes it pays for
me to ignore the emails that come in until
I read them on the air.
I was startled and yelled at the man to put
his pants on and that he wasn't allowed to
do that on the train.
He was clearly drunk and
asked me what state this was. California,
I replied. California,
I'm supposed to be in Nevada.
He threw
his hands in the air
and stormed off yelling,
fucking Sandler.
To this day, I can't watch an Adam
Sandler film without thinking of some
guy's dick, but I guess I'm just
like everyone else I know.
Keep up the good work, AJ.
Wow.
That's amazing, dude.
Now, what was he jerking off to in Billy Madison?
Miss Veronica.
Whatever.
Voss, right?
Yeah.
She's one piece of ace.
Maybe he's a Bradley Whitford, dude.
I'm okay with that.
That's true.
He would great in that movie.
When he fell off that, that dude fell off that bench and we saw his balls and they were
weird.
I used to, and maybe I've told us on this.
You used to jerk off to Billy Madison
I used to jerk off to Billy Madison
Wait, I'm sorry, hang on a second
Veronica Vaughn
Veronica Vaughn
Veronica Voss, I believe, is a film
by Fasbender
Oh shit, cross-wire
Oh, that fox and his friend
Is one piece of a
The third film in the BRD trilogy
Anyway, I'm sorry, continue
I used to work at a gym
And I would close it down on Saturday nights
Uh-oh!
And this gym had a sauna
Uh-oh
Which is also known as, what, like a cum layer?
It's essentially a cum layer.
So, like, and it happened so often I got, I got good at it because, like, the idea is you have to.
Jerking it in there?
Well, no, you got to go around and tell everybody, like, because people will just keep working out.
They don't care about your time.
So, like, people on Trenton Mills, they'll have to like, excuse me, sir, we're, you know, closing down for the night.
And they're like, oh, I'm sorry, man.
Hey, man, it's 11.30 on a Friday, get a fucking life.
Thank you.
Exactly.
And he'd be like, oh, just give me five minutes ago.
Like, so that'll happen.
You got to close everything down.
But you always knew when it came to cleaning the bathroom, which was my job, you don't clean the sauna right away.
You really don't.
You just kind of, you start doing the, you're doing the roommate thing where you're coming home on a Friday night.
You don't know what's going on.
You're like, hey man, everything cool?
You turn the light on and off and you scream from the opposite and you don't open the saw in the door.
Jim's closing.
Before you enter the layer of the white room.
No, I don't.
Then you go back to the front of the gym.
and then you wait for one to two to three gentlemen to leave the sauna
and then that's the end of it.
Did you have to learn this the hard way?
No, it was just sort of, it was passed down.
Yeah, somebody learned it the hard way.
So they were fucking in there?
Something circle jerk.
Something's going on.
Who knows?
Maybe even that.
It didn't happen all that time.
It wasn't like a, it wasn't all the time.
It happened enough where I was a bit reticent to go into the sauna
after the after hours.
Did I ever tell a story about how I caught the guy in Brian Park jerking off?
Oh, possibly.
Yeah, the Brian Park reading room.
So, yeah, so this dude was like he was, let me, it was orange gym shorts.
Orange gym shorts.
I knew what I wore that there.
It's a good memory on you.
Could I borrow those, by the way?
Oh, yeah, dude.
There was a bunch of dudes caught in the mall where Cabin and I used to work at the movie theater caught in a big circle jerk in the bathroom.
Yes, yes, yes.
And what was great was the mall, it's no longer there, but it was indeed called the Latham Circle Mall.
They called it the Latham Circle Jerk.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It was right behind the arcade.
Yep.
That's where you want a bathroom in a mall.
All right, Steve Sadek.
Sleeping with my father.
Oh, okay.
Sure.
Dear We Hate Movies Gang, that's us.
Your episode on My Father the Hero reminded me of a terrible event that happened on my 20th birthday that I've tried so hard to forget.
for a bitter background
I'm currently 22 years old
well congratulations
so bitter
and have three younger brothers
my parents in their early 50s
and they love to tell us
how young they look
and how people don't believe
they have kids our age
in all honesty
my brothers and I agree
that they don't look 50
but we would never tell them
that for fear of inflating their egos
on my 20th birthday
my intent that's what a waste of a birthday
a 20th birthday is isn't it
yeah you're just like oh when is
fucking 21st already now the clock starts yep i'm not even i'm no longer a teenager so i don't get
i don't get that shit but now you're just fucking looking at your watch for a year exactly sucks
i mean more fake IDs um the campus secure uh and my my my entire family came up to celebrate
with me uh the campus security in my building was fairly lax for relative so only i had to wave
at the security guard after signing them in uh towards the end of the evening my mother wanted to
take pictures oh mom with the pictures yep um
But I realized she left her camera in the car.
Oh, Mom, with the picture, can we just go home?
It's only my 20th birthday, by the time.
Get me next year.
Nothing to see here.
Not graduating.
Exactly.
My dad volunteered to go out to the car and get it,
and I went with him since he would need to get back in the building.
After getting the camera, I signed myself in and was prepared to do my usual wave
when the security guard said the most awful thing.
Excuse me, miss.
she said, but you just can't let your boyfriend walk in here.
You need to sign him in.
Oh.
My dad immediately started laughing while my face heated up.
I started out, he's my dad.
To which the security guard replied, oh, I'm sorry.
He just looks so young.
This security guard's looking for it now.
Absolutely.
A little thirsty.
This made my...
That's what the kids said.
That is the kid's it.
This made my dad laugh harder, as he said,
see, these people don't think I look 50.
They want to get quenched.
Embarrassed, I didn't respond,
but simply begin mashing the elevator button.
Oh, man.
My dad continued laughing the entire way back to my room
and made me recount the entire tale to my entire family,
including my grandmother,
who was there to celebrate with us.
This is humiliating.
I was wondering if you guys had any related to stories.
Dating your mom is probably the equivalent for that awful conversation.
Thanks so much for all the laugh.
Keep up the good work sincerely not dating or sleeping with my father.
No.
No, no, no.
One time in college, a buddy of mine was being a jerk there.
He was a guest from out of town.
And, you know, we're walking around the campus.
And sure enough, some ladies walking by her.
and he asked to yell after she passes by.
Steve, is that the girl you like?
And I'm like, oh, man, I saw that girl for four years after that.
Oh, that's humiliated.
Yeah, it wasn't very fun.
No, I mean, I've never been...
One time, this is kind of not really related, but I was out somewhere with my mother.
Ooh, yeah.
I like that.
And I'm a very blonde man, but I had very long hair at the time.
I had like, like, you know, you know, like Ray didn't hair.
and some dude was like
excuse me ladies
and I turned around
and he looked horrified
yeah
that's about as close to
you're the ugliest woman I've ever seen
he started puking
I got nothing
yeah I really got nothing
my parents are both age appropriate
yeah and the good thing about having
divorced parents you don't even have to
deal with any possibility of them having sex
so sexuality is kind of removed from most of it.
Oh, that goes with married parents too.
Okay, good.
Bravo.
All right, Chris Cabin.
Is this the last one?
I think it might be.
It is.
Yep.
Oh, here we go.
Last one.
Last email, everybody.
All right.
Hang up on him.
Chuck and Buck.
The worst movie experience of a lifetime.
I hate this movie.
I'm not a fan of it.
I was at some point, though.
Fellas, let me get this out of the way.
Love your show.
Have been hooked for two years now.
Thank you.
Now the story.
All right.
I made the mistake of getting a liberal arts degree in film at Ohio University.
Don't worry.
The money is going to pour.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, man.
No struggles.
Oh, wait, that's P-O-O-R.
It's going to be a vacation in Hawaii every day.
Because you're homeless.
They brag about how good they're.
T-com and film telecommunications, I assume.
Oh, we're abbreviating telecommunications.
Someone's a college graduate.
And film programs are touting Matt Lauer as the ultimate success story.
I'll talk about a million to one shot, Doc.
But in practice, it was pretty much chicken me worthless as far as degrees go.
I think it was chicken Mick worthless.
Is that an Ohio expression?
I don't know.
I've never heard it.
Well, I'm from Cleveland that I've never heard.
Oh, yes, that's more of a Columbus experience.
Ararabaria!
Can I see it?
No.
Still, it did nurture my blossoming love for movies at the time.
Sure.
Ohio University is in the college town of Athens, Ohio,
in the Appalachian foothills.
Oh, my God.
Very beautiful, but small.
So imagine my surprise when they started trying to attract culture and arts by doing a week-long film festival.
All right.
Okay.
Okay.
I was stoked.
I immediately bought week-long passes.
The year was 2000.
Mm-hmm.
I think I saw a few good films during that week.
Well, he was probably wearing a striped sweater at some point.
Yeah, straight from the gap.
Yeah, you're going to have like some sort of spike pair.
Or a bowl cut.
A bowl cut.
They were kind of the holdovers.
Yeah.
Or, and some sort of.
like a really heavy metal necklace that you got to be wearing.
Guaranteed.
Shells are big.
I do actually believe this,
the film festival were Gladiator premiered.
Oh, really?
That's the one where Oliver Reed died.
He went to Athens, Georgia, and ate himself to death.
Ohio.
Ohio, sorry.
I intentionally didn't read about the lineup since I wanted to.
to leave any expectations at the door.
Well, needless to say, I was up on my
high horse and invited this girl
I really liked to join me on a movie date.
I didn't know her well, but
she was really beautiful and
liked Pearl Jam, which is all I needed at the time.
Yeah, at the time.
She said yes,
and we met at the downtown theater
to I. O'Mary, you know where this is going.
Oh, fuck. Oh, I just remember the title
of the email.
To see whatever was next up for the film
Festival. It was Chuck and fucking
Buck. Fucking was me.
The Mike White film. Yes.
I would confuse it with something
else. Yeah.
A dark
comedy, but I don't
remember laughing. Neither do I. Actually, Cabby,
did you and I see this in theater together?
No, I didn't see, I rented this.
I think when you rented it, maybe you and I
watched it? Possible. I don't know how else
I would have been suckered into seeing this movie.
if you haven't seen this movie
I'm guessing you have
is a little creepy sort of sad
and has some graphic sexual stuff in it
pretty risque for 2000
needless to say
the theater was nearly empty
me and my date
an older couple close to the front
and some college hippies
who parked it two rows behind us
fucking college hippies man
every goddamn time
maybe about
20 minutes in, I hear
the sound of a cup being filled up
with some sort of liquid. Please don't be pee.
I looked behind us and didn't see
anyone pouring anything. Oh, man.
And two dudes glaring
back at me.
Since the sound had
some force behind it, I knew
at the moment what was being filled up.
A paper cup with urine.
Now, you know what? This movie
sucks and there's no reason
to be so engrossed in
Chuck and Buck that you can't, you
Use the restroom.
What were you drawn to?
Enlighten me.
Yeah.
It's not like when I watched
the Force Awakens and had to piss her cup.
Yeah, you're not going to go back and like,
hey, what did I miss?
Absolutely nothing.
Like, it's just,
when we saw the,
oh God,
the counselor,
my fiance went to the bathroom
at the exact moment
when the guy was on a motorcycle.
It's a really slow movie.
It's a really slow.
There's a couple of decapitations.
She missed one of the decapitations
where it's a guy on a motorcycle,
like a wily coyote gag
drives right into piano
his head pops off
oh really did she miss the quickening too
she did because she comes back
and she's like what did it was like oh my god
something happened in the movie
all right cabin
the glare was daring me to say something
I didn't
I got back to my date and invited my
time for a romantic moment to put
a move on not in this movie
the smell of piss in the air
and didn't come
I was so fucking horny reading
your letter.
Thank you very much.
This is the good stuff.
I listen to you guys in my downtime,
which is after 5 p.m.
I have Fox News on.
I unmute.
I look at Shepard Smith with the closed captions
and I listen to your mailbag episodes.
And then I piss on the TV and it breaks
and I go, Steve, I need another one.
How's that racist legislation going, Steve?
Wrap it up.
I don't remember exactly when it all derailed,
but something around the time when Mike White's character started being more forthcoming about his creepiness.
I heard the hippies say, fuck this movie, and get up to leave.
Oh, no, I read ahead.
Then they accidentally kicked over a big gulp cup and peaking, cascading down by our feet.
Oh, this is the worst trend festival of all time.
Oh, God.
That is how I knew it was pee, by the way.
Also, pee from a dehydrated dick, pungent.
Oh, no.
My date didn't improve.
Did you switch seats?
You got to get up and move.
Just run out of the theater.
You're fine.
You're fine.
This is the reason to do it.
Oh, God, I read ahead again.
This is humiliating.
Right around the moment Mike says,
Chuck and Buck, suck, and fuck.
She says to me, I can't take this.
don't call me again.
Oh, mercy.
I would love to hear this woman's side of the story.
Oh, guaranteed.
Please have her write in.
And storms out.
I was left sitting nearly alone in the theater.
50% of the audience had left early.
My shoes had pee all over them.
Oh, come on, man.
And I blew my chances with a girl I liked,
all due to this shit show of a film.
From then on, I've been less forgiving about our
house films that have no real point but to lay one big shock i still love movies though and
while i never talked to the girl again i did land my dream girl a year later and we saw many
a bad movie together happily keep up the good work charles p s i absolutely love this influx of
alex jones and trump banter on the show i lived in austin for a bit and saw a j's dumbass a few
times. Oh, is he, is he from Austin?
Yeah, that's where they record
all that shit. In Austin?
He's in a lick ladder movie.
Yes, he is. He's in two link letter movies.
Yeah, waking life and
a scanner darkly.
Yeah. And
it's also the capital of Texas. Let's not
forget. Never forget.
He was always yelling at someone
random. My friend worked for
Prison Planet for a while as a production
assistant. I think they
paid him in Liberty dollars. And
tangy tangerine super drink
his employment didn't last long
oh man that is the worst
date I think we've ever read on the show
yeah it's disgusting
I'm surprised how much piss happens
in movie theaters actually because people don't want to get up man
but why would you not want to get all this money
for chuck and buck at a fucking film festival
you know it's a lost cause you're five minutes in
yeah you know what the deal is just get out just get out
leave
hang up on that movie. And that was one of those early
movie, like, digital movies
definitely early digital. Where they were like,
where, like, it looked like absolute
garbage. It looked like garbage at the
time you were watching it, absolutely. I can't tell you
how many of those movies I rented and just turned
off, and I was like, I'm doing anything else.
When you realize it's like early DV?
Yeah, and it's just... It's tough. It was a tough
time for filming. And it's just like, oh, we can make
a movie about anything, so let's make
a movie about nothing. Yeah,
I think, what's that done? Everyone's doing something.
We'll do nothing.
The end of it.
anniversary parties like that. That's another movie we were like, oh, Jesus, but at least that has some, like, charming people in it. This is all about jerking off and having these weird crushes on your friends. Remember Chuck and Buck? We used to suck and fuck. I remember thinking, like, why am I watching this movie? Also, it's not, there's nothing funny about that movie. No. But they did bill it as a dark comedy. Yes, and that's stupid. Yeah, so I guess that's W. W. H.M. Mailbag for that month, this month, the month of March.
The month of March, yeah.
Listener request, you wrote in.
We sent us these letters and we picked them.
Thanks.
So if you want your weird stories read on the air again or you know, you have a listener friend who, you know, is kind of timid.
Or if you are the woman in this story that we just, I need to hear from her.
We need to hear from her.
Listen, Charles, if you remember her name, if you may be or you turned out to be Facebook friends later on, drop her a note.
We got to hear her side of the story.
Be really creepy about this.
I feel like Charles's wife or girlfriend listens because he had to go out of his way to say he met his dream girl afterwards.
Wow, that's not going out of your way, man, when you're speaking the truth.
Speaking the truth.
She's lovely, Charles.
For more we hate movies, check out.
WHM Podcast.
No, I am too.
I just feel like he's like, oh, shit, she's, what are you doing in there?
Nothing.
And I met my dream, girl.
Oh, shit.
Until next time, I'm Andrew Jopin.
Stephen, say it.
Chris Gavin.
Alex Jones.
Take it easy.
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