Speaker 1: Lukat, it's all my films to be Patick. Hello and
Speaker 1: welcome to Films to be Buried With. My name is
Speaker 1: Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian, an actor, a writer, a director,
Speaker 1: a chip Pan fryer, and I love film. As Rockwell
Speaker 1: Kent once said, in quietness, the soul expands. And yet
Speaker 1: when we screen silent movies, we wat music over every
Speaker 1: single second of it. It bobbles the mind. That's a
Speaker 1: fucking fair point there, Rockwell Kent. Nice one. Every week
Speaker 1: I invite a special guest over. I tell them they've died,
Speaker 1: then I get them to discuss their life through the
Speaker 1: films that meant the most of them. Previous guests include
Speaker 1: Barry Jenkins, Bobcat, Goldswaite, Kevin Smith and even Cred Lamboles.
Speaker 1: But this week it's the brilliant comedian and podcaster mister
Speaker 1: Jimmy Pardo. Huge announcement coming up, I will be doing
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Speaker 1: the Lash Break Goals Team, where you're getting next to
Speaker 1: twenty minutes of chat with Jimmy. We go deep, we
Speaker 1: talk about beginnings and endings. He tells me a secret.
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Speaker 1: one and two are available now on Apple TV Plus.
Speaker 1: You can watch the whole show in one go, and
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Speaker 1: the UK and other places. Get amongst them. Right enough
Speaker 1: with the Admin, Let's do the show. So Jimmy Pardo.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Pardo is a comedian who is also known as
Speaker 1: being one of the first podcasters ever. He's a true
Speaker 1: pioneer in the game. His podcast and Not Funny It's
Speaker 1: still going massively strong. He also happens to be producer
Speaker 1: of this show, Buddy Piece's Favorite Man. So Buddy lost
Speaker 1: his ship. When we managed to book Jimmy. We recorded
Speaker 1: this on Zoom. He was a true delight and I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna love it. So that is it for now.
Speaker 1: I hope you will, and I very much hope you
Speaker 1: enjoy episode one hundred and seventy seven of Films to
Speaker 1: be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be
Speaker 1: Buried With. It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am
Speaker 1: joined today by an actor, a writer, a producer, a podcaster,
Speaker 1: a comedian, show guy, a competition guy, a hero, a legend,
Speaker 1: and for the record, Buddy Piece the producer of this show,
Speaker 1: his favorite comedian, and he has never been more excited
Speaker 1: about me having a guest started in my life. Please,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. It's the brilliant It is Jimmy
Speaker 1: bad I. Oh, hello, thank you for that. That was
Speaker 1: very kind. I should I should point out, just because
Speaker 1: I maybe reaching some folks that don't know me. My
Speaker 1: acting resume is very very small and my writing is
Speaker 1: even smaller, so you have very neat hand drits. Again,
Speaker 1: that is why. But oh, thank you, thank you for
Speaker 1: complimenting me on that. I worked very hard. According to you,
Speaker 1: you're in dream Girls. You're in the film Dreamcast. Here's
Speaker 1: the truth, please. I was cast in dream Girls. Okay,
Speaker 1: I went to the set. I was I was on
Speaker 1: hold for two weeks and so they paid me for
Speaker 1: two weeks. And I went in every day for two weeks.
Speaker 1: So you're just waiting for two weeks. I just was waiting.
Speaker 1: But they paid me for two weeks. And um, I
Speaker 1: had to cancel some road giggs of comic so, which
Speaker 1: was fine. I'm getting paid. I'm sitting home and I
Speaker 1: literally was like two miles from the studio from the stage,
Speaker 1: and I was cast to play the owner of the Oh,
Speaker 1: the Crystal Ballroom. The Crystal Ballroom is proud to present
Speaker 1: the Dreams. That was my line, very good, very lovely delivery.
Speaker 1: And I rehearsed that line one million times. And uh
Speaker 1: so my call time was at four am. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I get there at four am and they said, hey,
Speaker 1: you're first up. Let's get you into makeup. They rushed
Speaker 1: me into makeup. I get into wardrobe, I'm I'm, I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go. It's freezing outside, you know, it's now.
Speaker 1: It's now. It's four forty five in the morning. And
Speaker 1: they say, hey, it turns out the lighting guys set
Speaker 1: the wrong things up. We're gonna do this other scene
Speaker 1: first and then we'll get to you. I'm like, okay, great,
Speaker 1: they go shoot me more than an hour or so,
Speaker 1: all right, great, fine. It turns out they shot the big,
Speaker 1: huge dance, like some big crazy dance number, you know,
Speaker 1: Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson and Rose I forget, I can't
Speaker 1: think of I'm panicked. And it went on, Brett, I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. It went on until ten o'clock at night,
Speaker 1: and I was saw him there all day long, and
Speaker 1: I got to say, guys, I'm only two miles away.
Speaker 1: Let me go home. Let me let me just go home.
Speaker 1: You call me, say get over here. I'll literally be here.
Speaker 1: And we can't do that. We can't do that. So
Speaker 1: at about ten o'clock at night, they say, hey, we're
Speaker 1: finally ready for you. By the way, they think they
Speaker 1: did it just in the middle of a break. They
Speaker 1: took it. Beyonce said I need a break. They said,
Speaker 1: all right, you know what, let's shoot this guy while
Speaker 1: she's on this break. Yeah. They bring me in. I do.
Speaker 1: I'm not good. I do two takes. They go, thank you,
Speaker 1: very much, so I literally was they used me for
Speaker 1: three minutes, three minutes, and then I found out the
Speaker 1: day before the premiere they cut my scene, so I'm
Speaker 1: not in it, but they still I still get credit,
Speaker 1: I still get residuals. I still get residuals. I get residuals,
Speaker 1: which were great for a while, and now of course
Speaker 1: they're pennies. How I have talks about this before, but
Speaker 1: I'm I say this seriously, this is not a gike.
Speaker 1: I think it is incredibly hard to have one line.
Speaker 1: I think it is much harder to have one line
Speaker 1: than it is to have three big scenes because you've
Speaker 1: got so much pressure on that one fucking line. You've
Speaker 1: got your fucking panicking. You will say. The likelihood is
Speaker 1: if you've got one line, there's other people having lines
Speaker 1: around you, so you just really need to nail that
Speaker 1: one line and not make a thing of it. But
Speaker 1: oh you're doing is thinking about your one fucking line.
Speaker 1: One line. Is people should get oscars for delivering one line. Well,
Speaker 1: because it's much harder. I want again to your point.
Speaker 1: I was panicked about it. And by the way, we
Speaker 1: only did two takes because the first one I kind
Speaker 1: of stumbled over the one of the words because the
Speaker 1: adrenaline got me. Yeah, you know, after being there for
Speaker 1: fourteen hours doing nothing, the adrenaline got me to saying
Speaker 1: that line a million times. Yeah, and so it's like
Speaker 1: it was time and you know, Bill Kannon, the director
Speaker 1: points it, says you know, he didn't say actually, just pointed,
Speaker 1: and I said Ladies of Doublin and then dreams like
Speaker 1: just and then he goes, let's do it again. He goes,
Speaker 1: I love the energy, but let's go the words, right,
Speaker 1: but yeah, of course great, And then I don't want
Speaker 1: more time to get out. But it was you would think,
Speaker 1: I mean, to your point in the in the intro,
Speaker 1: I'm to use your word a presenter. I've hosted many
Speaker 1: a game show, many a talk show, and this was
Speaker 1: just being an MC at a nightclub. And even that
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm very good this right, So it's stressful. Nightmare.
Speaker 1: It's a night Yeah, well listen, you got your residios.
Speaker 1: I did, and I'm proud of you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: That's so hard. Yeah, god, I think it's a nightmare.
Speaker 1: One line is good luck to you, good luck to
Speaker 1: all the one liners out there. I have nothing but
Speaker 1: loving respects, because that is hard. Now. Jimmy Parto, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned in the intro, the producer of this show,
Speaker 1: who has always been very good to me, I would
Speaker 1: say from day one, he said, when can we get
Speaker 1: Jimmy Parto? He's so obsessed with you, He's obsessed you.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about it. If unless I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: you tell me you were like a pioneering podcasting right,
Speaker 1: you were one of the one of the outlets. You
Speaker 1: started it right when you invented you invented the podcast
Speaker 1: podcasting and the internet. Um, two thousand and six, we
Speaker 1: started our podcast and it was The Truth For the
Speaker 1: first year, maybe two years, it was me, Ricky Gervais
Speaker 1: and the Onion and we would rotate the number one
Speaker 1: spot on Apple and so like that's how early. And
Speaker 1: I was And now I don't even know if I'm
Speaker 1: on the chart because all these famous people if it
Speaker 1: started podcasts and you know, try to compete with Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan and his nonsense. Um, but it Yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: doing it that long where it was literally me and
Speaker 1: Gervais and uh. We had Stephen Merchants on my show
Speaker 1: once and we talked about those days where it was
Speaker 1: literally it was podcasting was the wild West, and now
Speaker 1: you know, people signed contracts and stuff to do them
Speaker 1: and it's it's bananas. Yeah. And do you do it
Speaker 1: every week? Have you done it every week since then? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean we don't. We take obviously some holiday off
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, when my son was born, we
Speaker 1: took a you know, took some time off. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we do. Uh we do two shows a week, and
Speaker 1: during the pandemic we did three shows a week. No way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think you would go mad without it? Uh?
Speaker 1: Now I would, Yeah, you know, it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I started, I was I was a guy in between gigs,
Speaker 1: you know, I had I was you know, uh you know,
Speaker 1: probably waiting for some pilot or something to be picked
Speaker 1: up or whatever. And this this guy, Matt bell Nap,
Speaker 1: who was now my co host for fifteen years. He
Speaker 1: was just a fan of mine and he came to
Speaker 1: me and said, uh, hey, you know, I was only
Speaker 1: a live talk show with the UCB Theater. And he
Speaker 1: came and he and he came in. He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: what if we turned that talk show into a podcast?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: I know Ricky Gervaiz's show, but I don't really know
Speaker 1: what that means. And uh, He's like, we'll just we'll
Speaker 1: just record it. We'll just so we sat down to
Speaker 1: my dining room table and we started it. And then
Speaker 1: it still was weird, like I felt like I was
Speaker 1: doing cable access television, like who what am I pretending
Speaker 1: to do? Radio? What am I doing? And then uh,
Speaker 1: it exploded and here we are. So I'm grateful. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm very very lucky I have a fan base and
Speaker 1: and I can't be more grateful. It must be, I
Speaker 1: would imagine, particularly when you've been going for so long
Speaker 1: and so regularly, your fans must be you've been in
Speaker 1: their heads ye twice a week for years like that
Speaker 1: is so kind of intimate. I imagine everyone thinks you're
Speaker 1: their dad or their brother or there. You know it is.
Speaker 1: I jokingly say that I'm their hero, and yeah, that way,
Speaker 1: that's what I meant. Yeah, but yeah, but it is
Speaker 1: weird to your point, like I In fact, I was
Speaker 1: just talking about this with my wife today about how
Speaker 1: our audience has kind of grown with us, and that
Speaker 1: like they're moving along with us. So they've been a
Speaker 1: lot of these people have been with us for fifteen years. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so wild. And and and do you have you
Speaker 1: had experiences where people like will say something to you
Speaker 1: about your wife and you'll be like, well, oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I must have talked about that. Yeah. But by the way,
Speaker 1: they could do that that day and I won't remember
Speaker 1: what they were talking about it. They'll make it. They'll
Speaker 1: call back to something that that they just heard them like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. They go, you just said it, like,
Speaker 1: all right, say a lot of things. I'm gonna keep talking.
Speaker 1: That's amazing man. And they all your guests you have,
Speaker 1: do you just like I think if I may for me,
Speaker 1: people keep saying why why do you still do the podcast?
Speaker 1: And I go, well, actually, it's sort of a privilege
Speaker 1: to have a long conversation with anyone because you don't
Speaker 1: really in life, you know what I mean. Like the
Speaker 1: sort of conversations you have in a podcast one to
Speaker 1: one you don't have, they don't really happen. It always
Speaker 1: feels pretty special to have. I'm always very great fun.
Speaker 1: You gave me an hour of your life, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like it's not fucking I'm the other
Speaker 1: way where they're lucky to be spending an hour with me.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel when they come and do my show. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, my shows a little
Speaker 1: more of hanging out of the green room of a
Speaker 1: comedy club, and so it's, you know, we don't get deep,
Speaker 1: which is what I love about your show. By the way.
Speaker 1: I love that you truly take an interest in your guests,
Speaker 1: not that I don't, but it's like you're asking real
Speaker 1: questions as opposed to me just kind of set people
Speaker 1: up for a joke or whatever. But I do enjoy
Speaker 1: you know, I enjoy it. And you know, we started
Speaker 1: by just booking dudes I thought were funny, just funny friends.
Speaker 1: And then it's got more popular, you know, obviously, then
Speaker 1: you expand to your you know, John Hams and Cornan
Speaker 1: O'Brien's and you know, some musicians will come on from
Speaker 1: you know, Sticks or Argos, Spewagon or Chicago, and it's
Speaker 1: been cool. I've been, you know, I've had my hero
Speaker 1: is Richard Lewis, and so I had him on one week.
Speaker 1: I had Paul Raiser on, who was another one of
Speaker 1: my hero start when I started comedy and had a
Speaker 1: guy with Richard Lewis, I was he. Oh, it was
Speaker 1: everything you wanted it to be. You know, it was
Speaker 1: like he you know, he shipped all over me in
Speaker 1: that Richard Lewis neurotic way. And we now text each
Speaker 1: other every now and then, which, you know, me as
Speaker 1: a young open micro I think that I would be
Speaker 1: texting with Richard Lewis. Are you kidding me? You know? So?
Speaker 1: So it's brought that kind of joy to me. Um
Speaker 1: and uh again, I'm very lucky to have it, very
Speaker 1: very grateful. Jimmy part I, yes, oh shit, I've forgotten
Speaker 1: to tell you something. Fuck, oh shit, Jimmy. Yes, No,
Speaker 1: I should have. I should have told you. Maybe Boddy
Speaker 1: should have told you when he emailed you. I should have.
Speaker 1: I feel like an idiot. I should have gone No,
Speaker 1: I should have. I should have said it. I'll just
Speaker 1: say it. I don't know how you're gonna take it.
Speaker 1: I'll just say it. Well, okay, so here we go.
Speaker 1: You've died. You're dead, dead and dead. You're the one
Speaker 1: they sent to give this news to me. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I forgot. I got distracted by you got cool stories
Speaker 1: and stuff. I was like, oh, and then I was
Speaker 1: like fuck, yeah, UM, so sorry, I guess I'm curious
Speaker 1: as to why you why white guys that I met
Speaker 1: very recently. Why why not a family member, because we're
Speaker 1: family members who listened to your podcast. Good Safe and
Speaker 1: I'm just here announce all right, why did you? How
Speaker 1: did you die? I have Uh it was, um, I
Speaker 1: forget the fur. There's a phrase for this that uh
Speaker 1: uh when I guess I manifested. It is what happened
Speaker 1: now that I know I'm dead. I had a great
Speaker 1: fear when I was on the planet Earth. Uh, that
Speaker 1: I would be framed for a crime and go to prison.
Speaker 1: That is that was truly was my greatest fear in
Speaker 1: the world. Um, because I will never I'm such a
Speaker 1: straight lace dude, I will I never did anything wrong.
Speaker 1: And um, I'm trying to stay in the tense of
Speaker 1: that I'm dead. I'm talking about the past. Um. And
Speaker 1: so I then went to prison if it eventually happened,
Speaker 1: I was framed and went to prison and I got
Speaker 1: shived in the yard? Is that an American bum? Uh? Stabbed?
Speaker 1: I got stabbed? Oh stabbed in outside? And uh ship
Speaker 1: is not a British thing, no, she and the tip
Speaker 1: shit is I thought in the yard man like in
Speaker 1: the back. Yes, I got the shipped in the yard. No,
Speaker 1: but it will be now. Don't think I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: call my my ass in the yard from here on out. Uh. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's I went back. I got shifted in the yard.
Speaker 1: I got yeah, okay, I got so drunk. I fell
Speaker 1: in my yard. Um yard is like a in prison.
Speaker 1: It's where they go outside. It's the godsend. You got
Speaker 1: shifted in the god you guys use garden. I forgot, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: you got right. Two questions. Firstly, what were you framed for?
Speaker 1: What was I was? I appreciate you asking. I was
Speaker 1: framed for stealing some art. Um, I'm not a big
Speaker 1: art guy. I don't know why they and I I
Speaker 1: said in court, this isn't me. You guys are framing
Speaker 1: the wrong guy. I said, I couldn't. I couldn't name
Speaker 1: h the cassi And they went that's when that's an artist,
Speaker 1: went and then I, oh shit, they've seen my hand.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well anybody could do that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like I mentioned van go damn it, I
Speaker 1: did it again, um it Uh They've I got framed
Speaker 1: for that. Some some local businessman set me up, and uh,
Speaker 1: who is the legal businessman? I got put away for
Speaker 1: ten years and then I last six yeah, ten years,
Speaker 1: six years in shift in the bomb outside in the garden.
Speaker 1: But why who shift you? Why? I believe it was
Speaker 1: it was it was an order from the outside. I
Speaker 1: believe the guy that actually stole the yard wanted to
Speaker 1: silence me and um and then said, you know, we
Speaker 1: gotta take we gotta take her a part of Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: wait till his pants are down to the garden, and
Speaker 1: then shove a knife right up right up his yard.
Speaker 1: Because you spent those last six years just went around
Speaker 1: the prison guard this local businessman, and everyone's gone, yeah,
Speaker 1: this local businessman. He sounds like Trump, Yeah exactly. And
Speaker 1: they knew what I was talking about. They they'll running
Speaker 1: come across this local business man. Is there anyone like
Speaker 1: a business? Thank you for understanding it. Um. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know, ten years does seem like a way
Speaker 1: too long of any have a sentence for what I did.
Speaker 1: But I think you started at pocaste right now here.
Speaker 1: He's quite popular. He is a popular artist from what
Speaker 1: since I've learned. I've read about him a lot in
Speaker 1: the prison library. I read a lot about the art
Speaker 1: that I've claimed to have stolen um, but it still
Speaker 1: seems like a long time, ten years. It does, it
Speaker 1: does to me. But I also am not an art guy.
Speaker 1: I couldn't name a money Damn if I if I
Speaker 1: showed you, if I showed you art, could you name them?
Speaker 1: Because I could not? No, I could, I could name
Speaker 1: I can't can't pronounce it, but I could name Van Gogh.
Speaker 1: Uh is that starry night? If I saw starry starry night?
Speaker 1: I think that starry starry night from this song? Uh?
Speaker 1: And that, by the way, that would be the only
Speaker 1: way I know it too, is from the song no
Speaker 1: question about it? Yeah. Um, do you worry about death,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Potter? You know I here's the truth. I never
Speaker 1: did until my son was born. When I used to say,
Speaker 1: I want to live to be eighty and then I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm done. I I you know what happens after eighty,
Speaker 1: and so take me at eighty. I'm fine. And the
Speaker 1: second my son was born, it's like, no, I want
Speaker 1: to be two hundred years old. I want to see
Speaker 1: him live life and do everything. And you know, I
Speaker 1: want to see you by grant. I want to see
Speaker 1: my grandkids, and so I worry about it, maybe every
Speaker 1: second I'm awake. But yeah, that makes that makes more
Speaker 1: sense to me. Yeah, yeah, hell, Oh it's your son now,
Speaker 1: man asked. He is fourteen and uh, he is a
Speaker 1: huge fan of yours. He uh he loves the program.
Speaker 1: Oh lights lights, say him. Yeah he is. Uh, he
Speaker 1: very much loves the program. Well, that's very kind, and
Speaker 1: and say thank you to him for coming into the
Speaker 1: world and making you think about death every second if
Speaker 1: you're working about He's also very funny. By the way,
Speaker 1: my son, my son will be a comedian. There's no
Speaker 1: question in my mind. Dude, I'm trying to talk him
Speaker 1: into anything else, anything else. Please, I'm begging you because
Speaker 1: he's also look bad. You're gonna make me look bad.
Speaker 1: You become a comedian. People see him. I'm a bad dad.
Speaker 1: Come on, it's day. He's gonna talk about mebe on
Speaker 1: stage and it's going to be uh. That said, I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be good, so he'll be able to
Speaker 1: carry me when I'm eighty three years old. Would you
Speaker 1: ever like in your fantasy life, like do gigs together?
Speaker 1: Five a son gigs? Would you like that idea? Or
Speaker 1: would you do see us being the Trumps? Um, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see that. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened for you? Could he happened for you? That's
Speaker 1: it seems very full right, And I love it. I
Speaker 1: did try to. I did try. You know. His school
Speaker 1: wanted me to uh, And I did it. They wanted me.
Speaker 1: I hosted the talent show for their middle school, the
Speaker 1: uh and you know, uh, anybody could have done it,
Speaker 1: but I did it. And I tried to convince my
Speaker 1: son to co host it with me, and his response
Speaker 1: was dead, I don't want to overshadow the other kids.
Speaker 1: So uh. He was very thoughtful and that he felt
Speaker 1: going up there all night long would be unfair to
Speaker 1: the kids and only had three minutes. So I was
Speaker 1: just taking he doesn't call you the other kids don't know? No,
Speaker 1: he does not. He wasn't. He was certainly not worried
Speaker 1: about overshadowing me. Yeah, I would love if that was
Speaker 1: my nickname. What do you think happens when you die?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. You know, my mom
Speaker 1: passed away. Boy, we're going out four years now, twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, and sorry. Just today a song came out.
Speaker 1: I was I was taking a walk and a song
Speaker 1: came on the iPod and it reminded me of my
Speaker 1: mom and I literally, out loud to nobody, just walking
Speaker 1: by myself, was just I said, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for my great childhood, thank you for things you did.
Speaker 1: I don't think I told you enough while you were
Speaker 1: with us. And so do I think she can hear that?
Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't know. But what if you can? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, what if? What if what we see in
Speaker 1: movies or here is real? And she was able to
Speaker 1: hear that, and and and it worked. At the same time,
Speaker 1: I probably just looked like a nut walking down the
Speaker 1: street talking to myself. So I don't know, Brett, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Listen, I really like that, And I think
Speaker 1: about that stuff a lot. The fact that you were
Speaker 1: like compelled to say that to me, I go, well,
Speaker 1: that's there's a bit of magic there, Like you're not insane,
Speaker 1: I don't think so for you to say that, you're
Speaker 1: not saying it for a laugh, you know what I mean? Like, right,
Speaker 1: there's something that brought that out of you. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'd like it and just to build up what you
Speaker 1: said and without patting myself on the back. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: doing it for anybody, you know what I mean. Not.
Speaker 1: It wasn't performative. It was like just I felt the
Speaker 1: need to say it, and you know, it felt it
Speaker 1: felt good, It felt like yeah, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, felt like I connected with her for just
Speaker 1: that couple of minutes. I really really like that. Well,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Patty, Yes, there's a heaven. Oh there is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is. Actually, it's great. It's filled with your favorite things.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite thing? Oh, my god, I bet the
Speaker 1: end of the other than my wife and son, I
Speaker 1: would say comedy. I mean that's it's filled with its
Speaker 1: water world comedy. The seats are made of old Richard
Speaker 1: Pryor albums, the wolves are made of Steve Martin figurines,
Speaker 1: and the toilets are made out of mics, which is
Speaker 1: what it sounds odd, but actually quite comfortable. Anyway. In
Speaker 1: this heaven, everyone's so excited to see you. They're huge fans,
Speaker 1: and they want to talk to you about your life.
Speaker 1: But they want to talk to you about your life
Speaker 1: through film. All right, do you like films? I go
Speaker 1: to the movie. I love the experience. I love even
Speaker 1: though these movies now they released at the same time
Speaker 1: streaming now that we can after the pandemic or back
Speaker 1: when I was back on Earth, there was a pandemic
Speaker 1: back in the day. I oh, it was awful. We
Speaker 1: were locked down for a while. UM, I still go
Speaker 1: to I would still go to the movies. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love the experience of going there, getting the popcorn,
Speaker 1: getting the drink, sitting in my seat. I love it.
Speaker 1: What's the drink you get? I get a Coke zero.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm addicted to coke zero and uh and the
Speaker 1: medium popcorn which is always too much, but I eat
Speaker 1: it all and Uh, I love it. The first thing
Speaker 1: they went to nine in Heaven is what's the first
Speaker 1: film you remember seeing, Jimmy Pott. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing this has been said a million times on
Speaker 1: your program. Uh. The first movie I remember in this
Speaker 1: contradicts my point of going to the movies. Uh was
Speaker 1: The Wizard of Oz. Where I grew up in the
Speaker 1: I grew up the South side of Chicago, and we
Speaker 1: were not rich. We were very In fact, we were poor,
Speaker 1: and so we we had a very small, maybe thirteen
Speaker 1: inch black and white TV. And the Wizard of Oz
Speaker 1: was of course magical and in color. So we would
Speaker 1: go across the street to our friend, the Miller's house
Speaker 1: to watch the Wizard of Oz. It was a and
Speaker 1: it was a big event. It was like a big deal,
Speaker 1: the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is on.
Speaker 1: Let's bring the kids over to watch it so we
Speaker 1: could see it in color, all right. You didn't know
Speaker 1: there was a kind of sex exactly. So it was
Speaker 1: you know, just magical, just unbelievable, and uh do I
Speaker 1: do I love the movie? I don't know if I
Speaker 1: if I love it. I like the Wizard of Oz,
Speaker 1: but as a kid, I just love the experience of,
Speaker 1: you know, again going over to the neighbor's house and
Speaker 1: watching it on a bigger TV and in color, and
Speaker 1: just you know, hoping one day to have a color television.
Speaker 1: How many of you were the kids? How many siblings
Speaker 1: do you have? Just my brother, myself, and then my
Speaker 1: mom and dad, So it would have been the four
Speaker 1: of us over there, and they were just uh, I
Speaker 1: think there were four people as well. Is he you
Speaker 1: remember a younger He is two years younger than me
Speaker 1: he lives in Chicago. Okay, I like that very much.
Speaker 1: Do you remember thinking, uh, so you didn't think I
Speaker 1: want to I want to do that. I want to
Speaker 1: be I want to be something to do with that.
Speaker 1: You just thought I want to kind of tea me
Speaker 1: that was a very materialistic. Yeah. I think I think
Speaker 1: if we were to ask my parents, I was probably performing.
Speaker 1: I know. I certainly was like when I would watch
Speaker 1: Batman and Robin, I would go to school and do
Speaker 1: little shows before class, you know, being Batman and Robin
Speaker 1: with my brother. I would force my brother to be
Speaker 1: Robin if we would do little skits for the class too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say nobody's enjoyment. Like, I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: wanted it to be happening. Um, So I think it was.
Speaker 1: I probably was like I want to do that one day,
Speaker 1: and uh and I love musicals, so I probably was
Speaker 1: like I want to do specifically that. Yeah. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I don't have the talents to be in musicals. But hey, hey,
Speaker 1: hey hey, no none negative Seth took. But they say
Speaker 1: you got the Tali, Well, it's not negative, it's fact
Speaker 1: that you got a Tali kid. You gotta know the
Speaker 1: way I don't have the singing ability. I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: ituzz what's the what's the film that scared you the mice?
Speaker 1: Do you lot mean scam? You know what I do?
Speaker 1: And this that question panics me because I I literally
Speaker 1: freeze up because I love so many scary movies that
Speaker 1: I have a tough time pin pointy one and so
Speaker 1: I think at the but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: there were two. There was a mini series called Salem's Lots.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a two night event
Speaker 1: with Lance Kerwin and David soul and back. I don't know,
Speaker 1: a seventy late seventies, and that's I remember that scared
Speaker 1: the hell out of me. But more recently was my
Speaker 1: wife and I were given a she was my girlfriend
Speaker 1: at the time. We're given a VHS tape and somebody said, hey,
Speaker 1: watch this movie. You're You're never gonna believe this movie
Speaker 1: and it was the Blair Witch Project, before there was
Speaker 1: any hype, before anybody was talking about it, and we
Speaker 1: sat on my couch and it's scared the I mean it, look,
Speaker 1: it's scared the fff out of me. It was like,
Speaker 1: are you sure is this real? What the fuck am
Speaker 1: I watching like it was, yeah, it's it's so and
Speaker 1: then you know, and then my mom, and my mom
Speaker 1: was the one that got me in a horror film.
Speaker 1: She she loves horror movies, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: actually went back to Chicago. I said, you gotta see
Speaker 1: this movie. And watching it a second time, he's not
Speaker 1: scary in anyway, shape or form. You know it's not real.
Speaker 1: You know, it's fak. She had heard that it was
Speaker 1: not real, that it was just a movie, so she
Speaker 1: wasn't as scared. She just kind of enjoyed it. But wait,
Speaker 1: scared the hell out of me. I have never heard
Speaker 1: of everyone who's ever been on this. I've never heard
Speaker 1: someone say that their mom was really into horror and
Speaker 1: got him into it really like that. It's so fascinating.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to ask you about it, but
Speaker 1: I've never heard it before. I wanted to tell me more.
Speaker 1: Do you know why your mom loves loved I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know that she I remember her and my aunt
Speaker 1: waiting in line three hours to see The Exorcist, and uh, anyway,
Speaker 1: I guess it was freezing outside they had to wait
Speaker 1: in line. I want to say she made Peter pants
Speaker 1: when because once she was able to be inside, like
Speaker 1: she got scared in Peter Pants, I think, um, but
Speaker 1: she was always into him. And then she she took
Speaker 1: me to see Halloween, the movie Halloween. Yeah, what was that?
Speaker 1: Seventy eight? Is that Halloween or seventy seven? So what
Speaker 1: was I you know, probably ten or eleven? Uh no, Jim,
Speaker 1: you know how old you are, your loving health at
Speaker 1: that time, but maybe too soon to see that movie.
Speaker 1: So it but I still think it's one of the
Speaker 1: greatest horror movies of all time. Uh So we would
Speaker 1: that would be our running thing. We would see We
Speaker 1: would see horror movies all the time, my mom and
Speaker 1: I we would uh great, And would you like howld
Speaker 1: each other? Like? Was it like? Would you hold hands?
Speaker 1: Would you be scared? Was it you was separate? People?
Speaker 1: Just no, it's not Harold. In Maud we was me
Speaker 1: and my mom. We're heading Come on, that's normal, come on,
Speaker 1: normal stuff. Uh yes, I don't know. Again, I don't
Speaker 1: know what you guys do over there in the UK.
Speaker 1: It's not normal the UK. We did not make but
Speaker 1: going fair enough, I don't I'm learning. Um No, we
Speaker 1: would probably sit there and I would probably uh, just
Speaker 1: close up and watch the movie and then we would
Speaker 1: talk about it. Non. My mom also loved she loved
Speaker 1: uh and this is something that my son has uh
Speaker 1: adopted as well. Love to talk about the movie afterwards,
Speaker 1: like at length. And I would be like my mom,
Speaker 1: my mom, we were talking about it, and we'd be
Speaker 1: seven minutes and I'm like, we've covered everything, but how
Speaker 1: are we still talking about this? And she would want
Speaker 1: to just keep talking about it, talking about it, my son,
Speaker 1: I guess I. In fact, I just told him two
Speaker 1: days ago, boy, you and your grandmother you would just
Speaker 1: love going to the movies together because she she too
Speaker 1: enjoyed over discussing the movie after we had seen it.
Speaker 1: I know you that's FU cool. What is the film
Speaker 1: that mights you cry? That might are you a cry dude?
Speaker 1: I cried? You know, I'm that I'm the guy that cries.
Speaker 1: The commercials I'll see ah, you know a dad giving
Speaker 1: his kid a Christmas gift and I just sobbed like
Speaker 1: a jackass. Um. There's there's two that come to mind,
Speaker 1: and one was a movie called In Country with Bruce Willis.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw that. It's about a
Speaker 1: guy that comes Home from Vietnam and yeah, it's an
Speaker 1: okay movie. It's okay. And but Roger Ebert's review said
Speaker 1: he had never he had never cried. I'm paraphrasing. Maybe
Speaker 1: he didn't say these exact words, but he's like, I wasn't.
Speaker 1: Maybe he said I wasn't prepared to cry as much
Speaker 1: as I did, but I or I'd never cried like this.
Speaker 1: So I went to the movie and prepared to sob
Speaker 1: because Roger Ebert told me I would. And I'm not
Speaker 1: crying at all. I'm watching the movie going, what the
Speaker 1: what's he talking about? This is it's and and the
Speaker 1: movie's just okay, it's it's it's good, it's not great,
Speaker 1: and I'm not crying. And then there's a scene where
Speaker 1: they go to the wall in Washington, the Vietnam War
Speaker 1: Memorial well whatever. I don't know exactly what it's called,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what the hell happened, But all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it goes from well, I'm not crying,
Speaker 1: what's it all? Gone? Just sobbing like I've never sobbed
Speaker 1: in a movie. Like it was unbelievable how much this
Speaker 1: moved me so much. So years later, I'm in a
Speaker 1: hotel on the road as a comic and in Country
Speaker 1: comes on and it's literally three quarters of the way
Speaker 1: through it. I was like, hey, you know, I'll watch
Speaker 1: this while. I watched this while I'm getting ready for
Speaker 1: the show. And so I'm getting dressed and I'm watching it,
Speaker 1: and then that fucking scene comes on and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I'm pounding on the bed because I'm sobbing
Speaker 1: so much again, like this scene just gets me, and
Speaker 1: now I gotta go to comedy and I'm drained because
Speaker 1: I just sobbed like an idiot. So that is one
Speaker 1: where I cried like crazy, and then the other one
Speaker 1: was Goodwill Hunting. The second time I saw it, I
Speaker 1: was on a plane. I was a spokesman for a
Speaker 1: shopping mall in Oregon for about five years, and so
Speaker 1: we were shooting some commercials in Hawaii, and so the
Speaker 1: people from the mall are on the plane, the advertising
Speaker 1: companies on the plane were on the plane, and there
Speaker 1: was I no longer can sit in the seats. In fact,
Speaker 1: I would panic if I did. But I was in
Speaker 1: the middle of five seats. You know how the bigger
Speaker 1: jets have the five seats in the across in the middle.
Speaker 1: I was in the middle seat, and it was back
Speaker 1: when you didn't have a screen in front of you
Speaker 1: on a seat. It was the big screen. And so
Speaker 1: they're showing good Will Hunting and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is gonna to watch this.
Speaker 1: You cried at the movie theater. You really want to
Speaker 1: make a scene here? And then I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna cry. You've already seen the movie. You
Speaker 1: know what happens. And all of a sudden, the end
Speaker 1: of Goodwill Hunting calms and I'm making I'm not kidding,
Speaker 1: I'm making a scene on the plane. That's how much
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying to hide. Um, you know, I'm putting
Speaker 1: my jacket on my head. It was so those are
Speaker 1: the two that come to minded that. But I'll cry
Speaker 1: it every I cried it, brave, I cried everything. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're any human. What's the film that people
Speaker 1: don't really like? It's not critically acclaimed, but you love it.
Speaker 1: I'm conditioningly, Ah, I am gonna get hate mail for this.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I I very much enjoy Sergeant
Speaker 1: Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band The Peter Frampton Beg's movie.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I haven't seen this. I don't know why
Speaker 1: you're gonna get tell me why you're gonna get hey Man.
Speaker 1: Because it's horrible. It's absolutely horrible, because I deserve it
Speaker 1: exactly because they're not wrong. Um it. Yeah, here's the
Speaker 1: I know this is blad I'm I like the Beatles.
Speaker 1: I'm not bananas for the Beatles. I'm huge into you know,
Speaker 1: if I pan the camera you would see I have
Speaker 1: a gazillion albums. I loved music. I wash in the
Speaker 1: music business before I was a comedian, worked for MC Records.
Speaker 1: I'm crazy for music. I've been to thousands of concerts.
Speaker 1: I'm just not a Beatles guy. I'm not a Beatles guy.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, you give me the Beg's and
Speaker 1: Peter Frampton who with the Beatles, and I love it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to under time way hey Man's coming from.
Speaker 1: It's coming. There's no question it's coming. Uh. In the movie.
Speaker 1: The movie is atrocious. It's absolutely atrocious, but I think
Speaker 1: it brings me back to my childhood and I have
Speaker 1: great memories of going with friends. Uh. There was a
Speaker 1: thing back when I was a kid that when soda
Speaker 1: was in um in glass bottles and you'd have the
Speaker 1: metal pop top. Uh. If you brought six of them,
Speaker 1: you got to see the movie for free. So we
Speaker 1: would go. We saw. I must have seen Sergeant Pepper
Speaker 1: that summer twelve times, you know, and I'm never paying
Speaker 1: for it, just bringing these bottle caps. So I kind
Speaker 1: of have a memory, you know, great memories of it.
Speaker 1: And and then my son became obsessed with it for
Speaker 1: a little while too, uh, and he loved it. And
Speaker 1: then now if I say, hey, do you want to
Speaker 1: have to Sargeans Pepper, He's like, no way, man, So
Speaker 1: he at least has grown past it. I have not.
Speaker 1: That thing is getting beating up at school, no way, exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the kids are at too. I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'm embarrassed my son on a regular basis. On
Speaker 1: the other end of this, guy, O, what is a
Speaker 1: film that you used to love? You loved it a lot,
Speaker 1: but then you've watched it recently and you've gone out. No,
Speaker 1: I don't lie, they said anymore. For whatever reason that
Speaker 1: might be. There's two of them, and they both and
Speaker 1: they both bumm me the hell out that I don't uh,
Speaker 1: one is Lost in America, the Albert Books movie. Oh
Speaker 1: really doesn't know? Well, yeah, we watched it over lockdown,
Speaker 1: and I remember quoting the movie. And I'm not a
Speaker 1: big movie quarter guy. I can't. I'm not great with that.
Speaker 1: And I would And by the way, I've been misquoting
Speaker 1: it for thirty years. Um uh. By the way, my favorite,
Speaker 1: my most famous misquote is from Titanic. Um I I
Speaker 1: went to, I would I would have gone into this,
Speaker 1: this very grave I'm in now. I would have said
Speaker 1: that that Billy Zane said around the drinks here am
Speaker 1: I good man? He never says it, not once, doesn't
Speaker 1: even come quach sang. It never is a drink. Uh,
Speaker 1: never even orders the drink exactly if I can complain
Speaker 1: of dehydration the whole time. It starts to sucking on
Speaker 1: some of the ice when it falls off the iceberg.
Speaker 1: That's how much you watch it. It needs a drink.
Speaker 1: So I misquoted Lost. But I loved Lost in America.
Speaker 1: I thought it was the greatest movie that. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was amazing, and then we watched it because
Speaker 1: and it was one of those that my wife and
Speaker 1: I both were like to my son Oliver we gotta
Speaker 1: watch Lost in America. You know, you're finally old enough
Speaker 1: you can get it. You're gonna you're gonna love it.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there watching it, going, there's no way
Speaker 1: he's liking this. This is it doesn't hold up. And
Speaker 1: then I'm looking over at my wife and she has
Speaker 1: a look on her face like what the hell happened?
Speaker 1: This doesn't hold up? And then it was over and
Speaker 1: Oliver's like, really, that's the movie and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it just and it and it kills me because Albert
Speaker 1: Rooks is a genius, one of my heroes. But what
Speaker 1: was the line you said that was wrong? But you've
Speaker 1: been saying that is it's something about the nest egg nest.
Speaker 1: You can't you don't even say it, don't you you
Speaker 1: don't even don't even don't you can't say nest, You
Speaker 1: can't say hey, you don't even say it. And I
Speaker 1: don't think he says any of that. I think it
Speaker 1: just it's funny. You should you say in something because
Speaker 1: that's good. Uh, well, listen, I will do that and
Speaker 1: then I'll ask her a skit and then give sort
Speaker 1: of pseudo credit to Albert Brooks. Yeah, summer is it?
Speaker 1: Give him you your penny residuals from the dream guys
Speaker 1: more than happy to do it. And I still cash
Speaker 1: those checks, by the way, because if I don't, I
Speaker 1: think some accountant's gonna panic, like, why I can't balance
Speaker 1: my sheet? That guy won't check? Won't cash this three
Speaker 1: cent check? H The other one was My Bodyguard? Did
Speaker 1: you ever see My Bodyguard? Very very big? Is that
Speaker 1: we were Billy Christ No, no, no, it's uh Chris
Speaker 1: make peace and Adam Baldwin nineteen nineteen eighty. I think
Speaker 1: kiddies being bullied gets a big guy's Flamerand yeah, Ruth
Speaker 1: Gordon's in it. Martin Mall. I saw that movie and
Speaker 1: was like, I love it, and I loved it forever
Speaker 1: and I think I still love it. But the truth
Speaker 1: is it's it's not It's not what I thought it was.
Speaker 1: So those those are the two that come to mind.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this in the Riots from
Speaker 1: I think we talked about that film. It's the message
Speaker 1: of my Bodyguard, punch him in the knives and he'll
Speaker 1: leave you alone. Is that? That's it? And and what
Speaker 1: we were discussing in the right room is has that
Speaker 1: ever worked in the history of people being bullied. You tell,
Speaker 1: I don't know I've ever had the balls to punch anybody,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, you know what, my fear would
Speaker 1: always have been in And I think about this whenever
Speaker 1: you see a fight on the on the school yard,
Speaker 1: or if I was in if I was ever head
Speaker 1: been winning one is, you might win that fight, but
Speaker 1: that guy's not gonna go No, he beat me, it's over.
Speaker 1: He's gonna you gotta look over your shoulder for the
Speaker 1: rest of the time you're at school because he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's gonna retaliate. Yeah, that's in those films. It's always
Speaker 1: the bully who gets hit. Guys like ah sort of
Speaker 1: cries and runs away and that's the end of it.
Speaker 1: And you're like that did it, And you're like, did
Speaker 1: he I don't know. I don't think you did. I
Speaker 1: think that guy can cut back and shi yah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna shive the yard. She's gonna shive you Ryan, you yard.
Speaker 1: Damn right, you just started a war. Right. Good answers.
Speaker 1: What is the film that means the mice to you,
Speaker 1: Jimmy pot But not necessarily the film itself is any good?
Speaker 1: But because the experience you had around seeing the film
Speaker 1: will always make it special to you. Um. There was
Speaker 1: a made for TV movie in the seventies called Brian Song.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever saw that. It was
Speaker 1: about the football player from the Bears, Gael Sayers tell me,
Speaker 1: but James Kahn played his best friend, Brian Piccolo, and
Speaker 1: it's a true story about this football player who died
Speaker 1: but their friendship was so magical. And then he gives
Speaker 1: the speech at the end about how he was a
Speaker 1: great player and the reason that I'm not a big
Speaker 1: football guy. In fact, I don't for that. I mean
Speaker 1: American football. Thank you, I appreciate it. Not a huge
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge American football I grew up in
Speaker 1: Chicago where the Chicago Bears were like everything, and I
Speaker 1: just didn't care. Not that I rebelled, but I think
Speaker 1: it was my own private You know, you're all into
Speaker 1: that and I'm not. So aren't I cool? Nobody? Um,
Speaker 1: But this movie, the reason that it means a lot
Speaker 1: is because it was the first time I can remember
Speaker 1: my dad crying. And you know, when you see your dad,
Speaker 1: who you know, who you see? I think, is this
Speaker 1: just this strong? Not my son sees me cry every day,
Speaker 1: and so you know, this illusion is gone. But my
Speaker 1: dad never did. He never cried. He was and to me,
Speaker 1: he was still like this big mountain of a man.
Speaker 1: And and and so we're watching this movie and I
Speaker 1: remember getting choked up and crying and not wanting to
Speaker 1: cry because I thought I would embarrass myself in front
Speaker 1: of my dad, Like you can't cry. You know, you
Speaker 1: can cry in front of your mom, and you can't
Speaker 1: cry in front of your dad. At least that was
Speaker 1: the mentality of a South Side Chicago kid growing up.
Speaker 1: And I remember the movie happening, the scene happening, and
Speaker 1: I'm crying and trying not to so I'm not embarrassed.
Speaker 1: And I look over because I hear my dad trying
Speaker 1: to stifle and he's crying, and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay to cry, it's okay to have
Speaker 1: this emotion. So for that and I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a good movie or not. I can't remember, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't seen it in forty years or whatever,
Speaker 1: but that was that's I do. I remember, that's the
Speaker 1: first time I really cried in a movie. And It
Speaker 1: was the time that I remember thinking, oh, my dad's
Speaker 1: a person. Yeah did he see you see him crying? Boy?
Speaker 1: That's a good at me. You don't you're looking at me.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I don't know if we ever
Speaker 1: talked about it. I don't know if it was discussed.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing knowing that again the South Side Chicago, Pardo Way,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it was ever discussed. Fasting?
Speaker 1: Is he still? Is he still with us? He is
Speaker 1: seventy eight years old? And uh, still great? He went
Speaker 1: golfing yesterday. He's doing great. And can you ask him
Speaker 1: and then get back to me if he saw you
Speaker 1: see him crying? Here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna say, hey, Dad,
Speaker 1: remember when we watch Brian's song and we when we
Speaker 1: both cried. He's gonna go Uh, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: remember seeing the movie, and I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. I never cried. I never cried. What shut
Speaker 1: you fucking dat you mouth? Yeah? My dad in the mob?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I will be Bret. I promise you, I
Speaker 1: will ask you. I appreciate it, but I guarantee he's
Speaker 1: not gonna remember Okay, okay, I appreciate you trying here.
Speaker 1: What is the film that you must relate to? You
Speaker 1: know what I already mentioned, It's My Bodyguard. I think
Speaker 1: because I grew up. You know, I'm not the tallest
Speaker 1: guy now. I'm five foot four and a half. I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a short man. So in grade school I
Speaker 1: was a really short kid. I was a I was
Speaker 1: the guy in my Bodyguard. I truly was the kid
Speaker 1: in my Bodyguard. I was Chris make Peace. I kind
Speaker 1: of even looked like Chris make Peace when I was
Speaker 1: that age. I had the big seventies hair that was
Speaker 1: way too long and unkept, and I would get bullied
Speaker 1: a lot because I was short, and it was you know,
Speaker 1: it's as we as I'm an adult now I understand bullying.
Speaker 1: It's the kid who's not being treated well at home
Speaker 1: and he needs to lash out and and pick on
Speaker 1: somebody smaller than him. And I just happened to be
Speaker 1: smaller than everybody, and so I got picked on a lot. Uh,
Speaker 1: grade school, high school, all of it. But I would
Speaker 1: always get out of it by my line. My big
Speaker 1: line was always, um, why do you want to do this?
Speaker 1: You know you can beat me up. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna prove if you do it? And they always go yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: like it somehow worked. That's like like it always got
Speaker 1: really close to me, you get my ass kicked, and
Speaker 1: it never really happened. Thank thank god, because I don't
Speaker 1: know what I would have done if I ever got
Speaker 1: really hit. That's the fucking answer. That's the answer we
Speaker 1: were looking for. That's really brilliant. Oh well, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: I look, a tall guy couldn't have given you that answer.
Speaker 1: That's the answer. You look, a tall guy couldn't have
Speaker 1: done it, these two guys. So I think it's it's
Speaker 1: a combo though, Brett my Bodyguard, the Chris make Priece roll.
Speaker 1: And then also the movie Breaking Away. Did you ever
Speaker 1: see Breaking Away? Yes, the bicycle movie based on a
Speaker 1: shutting Bloomington, Indiana. Yes, I have seen it. Is that
Speaker 1: you on a bike, that's me on the bike. It's
Speaker 1: it's I. I related so much to that character. Kind
Speaker 1: of again, kind of the outside, not the outside of
Speaker 1: a kind of the you know, a nerd before or
Speaker 1: nerd was cool, you know, kind of didn't fit in,
Speaker 1: didn't know how to, you know, wanted to be in musicals.
Speaker 1: But I grew up. I'm in Chicago, so you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be into sports, so not really, you know. So
Speaker 1: you know, I got a bike from my eighth grade
Speaker 1: graduation because of that movie, uh, you know, a Japanese
Speaker 1: racing bike, because I thought I was then gonna be
Speaker 1: a Japanese or a you know, a champion cyclist like
Speaker 1: this Dave Stoler. In the movie, they were just graduating
Speaker 1: high school and trying to figure out how to be adults.
Speaker 1: I was graduating eighth grade when that movie came out
Speaker 1: and trying to relate to what am I gonna do
Speaker 1: because we were moving to a new town and so
Speaker 1: I So those are the two movies I very much
Speaker 1: relate to. That's a really good What is the sexiest
Speaker 1: film you've ever seen? Jimmy Poda, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the sexiest. Um, well, but but that is the question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand, I know my assignment. Um here's here's what
Speaker 1: I'll say. This is the first time I remember getting
Speaker 1: stimulated in a movie theater. Okay, and it was the
Speaker 1: movie Dressed to Kill with Angie Dickinson and Michael Caine. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: And the first scene is it. It turns out not
Speaker 1: to be Angie Dickinson, but it's a body double in
Speaker 1: the shower, and it's full nude. It's full it's full on.
Speaker 1: And I remember and by the way, I was there
Speaker 1: with my dad and his second wife, and I remember
Speaker 1: being again embarrassed in front of my dad for another reason,
Speaker 1: like I'm with my dad, I'm not supposed to be
Speaker 1: seeing this, and and get and literally literally getting, you know,
Speaker 1: probably got e wrecked. You know. It just really was
Speaker 1: like holy for what's happening here. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with that. Please call you when you call your dad
Speaker 1: to ask if be so you see him crying, can
Speaker 1: you always ask him if you buy that skip face
Speaker 1: dressed a kid? I you know, here's what he may
Speaker 1: remember that one. For this reason, my mom and stepdad
Speaker 1: had we were staying with my dad for the weekend
Speaker 1: because they were obviously forced if my dad had a
Speaker 1: second wife, and so we would occasionally, like I think
Speaker 1: every other weekend, we would then stay with him. So
Speaker 1: I think we went to see it on a Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and my mom and stepdad went to see it on
Speaker 1: a on Friday night. So we went to see it,
Speaker 1: and we came home and the phone is ringing, and
Speaker 1: it's my mom about to tell my dad, Jim, don't
Speaker 1: take the kids to see at Resticill. There's weird nudity
Speaker 1: at the front of the movie. So my dad's name
Speaker 1: was Jim. She wasn't talking to me, um, so it
Speaker 1: was so he may remember it for that reason. And yeah,
Speaker 1: but that one. And then I have to Olivia Newton
Speaker 1: John in Greece when she shows up at the end
Speaker 1: in those hot pants and then then the bigger hair
Speaker 1: and the outfit. Uh con and you know I was
Speaker 1: I was the right age for that. I'm really sorry.
Speaker 1: I think I missed a part of your story. Did
Speaker 1: your mom say don't take him to see the film
Speaker 1: after you've already seen the film? Yes, okay, right, it
Speaker 1: wasn't that. Your dad went, yeah, let's say it wasn't. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're divorced through you. I'm taking about it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't bad twice, okay, No, And I think my
Speaker 1: dad was. I think he was genuinely embarrassed that because
Speaker 1: I mean, it's full it's full frontal nudity. It is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the real deal. Uh, except it's not her.
Speaker 1: What is there's a subcategory to this question. Yes, troubling bonus, worrying?
Speaker 1: Why dones? What's the film you found a rousing? You
Speaker 1: weren't sure you should? I listen, my erections have respect
Speaker 1: for movies. They know when not to happen. So I
Speaker 1: think I know. I don't think it's ever happened. Honest
Speaker 1: to God, I think that I think my my, my
Speaker 1: boners know their place, and uh they don't. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not watching anything next to your dad? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. By the way, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it happened last week, but I can't. You know what.
Speaker 1: I believe you. There are people that avoid this question
Speaker 1: that I don't. But I believe you. Your your bonus
Speaker 1: have respect, and you have respect for your bone, and
Speaker 1: for that I am grateful. They know when to show up,
Speaker 1: they know when it's proper. Yeah. Out of curiosity, And
Speaker 1: I apologize, I haven't asked yours on any of these.
Speaker 1: You mustn't, it's not I apologize. I don't know how
Speaker 1: heaven works, but I thank you for giving me the rules. Uh?
Speaker 1: Can I ask on this one though? Just because I
Speaker 1: literally don't know if it's ever happened to me? What what?
Speaker 1: What movie is it for you that it happened for you? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll never answer that. This is I would never do
Speaker 1: this podcast, but I'll give you a yeah, I would
Speaker 1: never do this. This impossible. I don't want anyone agrees
Speaker 1: to do it. It's absolutely impossible. What you gott fucking say?
Speaker 1: One film for everything? Ridiculous. It's fun, ridicous concept. Disagree
Speaker 1: with you. It's a great concept and it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I'll give you an example of one. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, there's the simple answers of the Little Mermaid,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. People who's getting who? Who? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not saying I did it. Sounds like
Speaker 1: you're saying you did it. Sounds like you're saying I
Speaker 1: said I have not. I'm sad, I'm not I did again.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing it as this was the one that I
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that The Little Mammaid is fair season
Speaker 1: lovely looking, mammaide, good luck, all right, very fair fair. Uh,
Speaker 1: what objectively, objectively is the greatest film of all time
Speaker 1: might not be your favorite, but it's the pinnacle of cinema.
Speaker 1: You know what I love Rocky. I think Rocky is flawless.
Speaker 1: I love everything about Rocky. I think it deserves more
Speaker 1: praise than it gets. I think so Stolone's turned into
Speaker 1: a punchline. So I think it the movie unfairly is
Speaker 1: maligned in retrospect. But I think it's that. But I
Speaker 1: will say this, and I had never seen this movie
Speaker 1: ever into that I'm about to speak of until I
Speaker 1: was married to my wife and her favorite movie is
Speaker 1: Singing in the Rain, and I had never seen it,
Speaker 1: and she brought me to see it, and I walked
Speaker 1: out going. However, I never seen this movie. I love
Speaker 1: musicals and I love dance scenes. So I may want
Speaker 1: to say Singing in the Rain. I may want to
Speaker 1: say that, Timmy pat Day, you have just completed the
Speaker 1: podcast that is entirely the correct answer. Is that true?
Speaker 1: You just said the fucking secret the correct answer really
Speaker 1: the greatest film of all time? Yeah, singing in the Rain. Well,
Speaker 1: I will tell you if you and I talked about
Speaker 1: this ten years ago, I would have said Rocky and
Speaker 1: uh or the godfathered me the go everybody says the Godfather.
Speaker 1: It's easy to say. Sugar's list, I think is up there,
Speaker 1: but Singing in the Rain ticks all the boxes. It
Speaker 1: does everything, it does everything. It's fucking brilliant. It's brilliant.
Speaker 1: Is that now? Is that your favorite? Not all of
Speaker 1: ask questions. I think it's one of you I have,
Speaker 1: I will, I will say that. I think Seeing the
Speaker 1: Rain is one of the greatest films of whole time.
Speaker 1: And it holds up in every way. And it's fucking funny.
Speaker 1: It's amazing for no how funny it is. And it's joyful,
Speaker 1: and it's got a good story, and it's fucking amazingly made,
Speaker 1: and it's fluless, it's pretty. And you see gene Kelly,
Speaker 1: I mean the two Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly dancing.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean I could watch that most
Speaker 1: as supposes on a loop. I could watch that for
Speaker 1: forty eight hours straight. It's fucking funny, ill. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I eat them love it. Good Man, good Man twenty
Speaker 1: thousand points, Well, thank you very much. I didn't know
Speaker 1: points are on the line, but I'll take them with
Speaker 1: They weren't until you've got started getting the questions right,
Speaker 1: never more excited. What is the what is the film
Speaker 1: you could or have what's the most over and over again.
Speaker 1: When I was a young boy, it was Airplane. I
Speaker 1: think I saw the movie Airplane eight million times. Um nice,
Speaker 1: and I still I watched with my son recently, and
Speaker 1: not every joke holds up, of course, but it's still great. Uh.
Speaker 1: But the one that I watched minimum And by the way,
Speaker 1: I guarantee nobody's ever said this, and if they did,
Speaker 1: I'll be amazed. Woodstock the movie, the documentary, really it is.
Speaker 1: I watch it. In fact, this is weird. This is
Speaker 1: another one that goes back to my mom in a way.
Speaker 1: We they used to run it on New Year's Eve
Speaker 1: in Chicago on TV every year. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but they would and late at night, like after like
Speaker 1: starting at midnight, so you'd celebrate we you know, as
Speaker 1: a kid, would celebrate that, and then you're wired from
Speaker 1: celebrating New Year's Eve and then here comes this three
Speaker 1: hour documentary. And so I would stay up with my
Speaker 1: mom and we would watch Woodstock the documentary, and I
Speaker 1: think so I still watch it. Probably once a year.
Speaker 1: I watched that documentary and I don't think I would
Speaker 1: have enjoyed Woodstock. I don't think I would have liked going.
Speaker 1: I'm a guy that doesn't like mud. I don't like filth,
Speaker 1: I don't like I don't get high, I don't live
Speaker 1: that lifestyle. But I there's something about the movie and
Speaker 1: the idea and maybe the nineteen sixty nine that time
Speaker 1: that I think I just kind of like the concept
Speaker 1: of it. So I watched that that. Oh I like,
Speaker 1: if I walk out right now, my wife and son
Speaker 1: would ever say, Hey, you know what we never watched
Speaker 1: which doctor? Want to watch it? Yes, let's do it
Speaker 1: like I'm in Yeah, really good. Never had never come
Speaker 1: up on the side, Uh what is we don't like
Speaker 1: it to be negative? Timmy Poto, I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: don't love being negative. But well, we're here, we'll do
Speaker 1: it quickly. Okay. It was what's the worst film you've
Speaker 1: ever seen? Jimmy pot and I, uh, well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if this one's the worst. But the only movie
Speaker 1: I ever walked out of was Vegas Vacation. I walked
Speaker 1: out of Vegas Vacation, which bombed the hell out of
Speaker 1: me because I loved the previous you know, Three Christmas
Speaker 1: European and the original Vacation. But I think the worst
Speaker 1: movie I ever seen, I was, in fact, Jimmy car
Speaker 1: kind of who made reference to this when he was
Speaker 1: on with you about how when you're on the road
Speaker 1: is a comic and you have to kill time during
Speaker 1: the day so you'll, you know, you'll see whatever movies playing. Um.
Speaker 1: I was in Lake Tahoe where they have a total
Speaker 1: of one movie at least at the time, they had
Speaker 1: a total of one movie theater, and they were playing
Speaker 1: Pirates the car mean two Dead Men's Chest. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: the only reason I didn't walk out was I had
Speaker 1: nothing else to do. Like it was the oh, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was like, if I leave here, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: and be bored in my hotel room. So I'll wait
Speaker 1: this out. I hated every second of it. So I
Speaker 1: think that's my answer. Did you like the first one?
Speaker 1: I did, look the first one, so I kind of
Speaker 1: was excited for the second. One's fucking great. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: fast one's fucking great. Yeah. He gets very complicated and
Speaker 1: he becomes a clown. I think I think Johnny Depp,
Speaker 1: it's I always joke around with my son, that son.
Speaker 1: You've never believed this, but Johnny Depp was once one
Speaker 1: of the greatest actors in Hollywood, like he you know,
Speaker 1: Donnie Brasco, are you kidding me? He's fullest in that movie?
Speaker 1: And uh yeah it so that bummed me out. So
Speaker 1: and then I, I'm sure I went up on stage
Speaker 1: and talked about it for way too long to nobody's enjoyment.
Speaker 1: Did you talk when you when you were in that
Speaker 1: hoightel room watching h in Country and then yourself to
Speaker 1: death and then you went on stage? Did you talk
Speaker 1: about that when you went on stage? I would imagine, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Bred you've never seen me do stand up.
Speaker 1: I don't have much of an act, so I will
Speaker 1: just kind of talk about whatever's going on and hope
Speaker 1: to god I find the funny and that they also
Speaker 1: agree that it's funny. That's that's what happened that up.
Speaker 1: What is the film you're in company? You're very funny.
Speaker 1: What's the film that made you laugh the most? Jimmy
Speaker 1: pot the one that comes to mind, I will say last,
Speaker 1: obviously Airplane. I laughed the hardest airplane for years. Uh uh,
Speaker 1: this is spinal tap. You know. Those are probably the
Speaker 1: two real answers that that I've laughed the hardest over time.
Speaker 1: But when I went to see and this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: I went to see the Corey Hayne Corey Feldman movie
Speaker 1: Licensed to Drive. I've fucking seen that, yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: not a good movie. But there is a scene where
Speaker 1: there's a drunk guy driving singing along to some Frank
Speaker 1: Sinatra song and he's just swerving and he's hitting things
Speaker 1: and and and and it is oblivious to it because
Speaker 1: he's drunk and he's just singing and he's going crazy
Speaker 1: with the Sinatra And I remember thinking it was the
Speaker 1: funniest thing. Like I couldn't stop laughing at the scene,
Speaker 1: and I literally brought this is no joke, I yelled
Speaker 1: at at one point he's about to hit something on
Speaker 1: the screen and I go, oh no, like I yelled
Speaker 1: out in the middle of the movie theater, enjoy like
Speaker 1: with with with it, just thrilled that it was happening.
Speaker 1: So is that the hardest That might be the hardest
Speaker 1: I laughed in a movie. But I don't. I can't
Speaker 1: say License to Drive it's the funniest for you, know
Speaker 1: what I mean? I love that. That's the that is
Speaker 1: the answer one. I want that and I respect you
Speaker 1: for it. Great, You've been wonderful. You ain't put a
Speaker 1: foot wrong. You actually scored eight billion two thousand and three,
Speaker 1: which is pretty good, thank you. However, when you were
Speaker 1: framed for stealing a work of art, I believe it
Speaker 1: was Ory Storry Night by Vincent Bach because it was
Speaker 1: the only painting. What got you in trouble in court
Speaker 1: is it was the only painting you could name, and
Speaker 1: that was the painting that had been stolen. Just ship luck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was stolen. And you were like, no, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that because of the song, and you started
Speaker 1: singing the song and that they said you, what is
Speaker 1: that you singing? And you went, I told you haven't
Speaker 1: got a good voice. And I was in the jury,
Speaker 1: and I would believe it yourself. You got frame for it.
Speaker 1: It was actually a local businessman, as as you kept
Speaker 1: telling people in this prison. Six years in that prison,
Speaker 1: you had a lovely time, surprising that you got on
Speaker 1: with everyone. People were a bit like, you're obsessed with
Speaker 1: banging on about this local businessman. Anyway, word got out
Speaker 1: to the local businessman. He was the only businessman in
Speaker 1: town who was local, and he's like, I got down
Speaker 1: and so he had someone else framed, got them in prison.
Speaker 1: They made a ship. He said, next time he's in
Speaker 1: the garden, stick that ship up his yard and you
Speaker 1: got shipped around the yard. Yeah. I was doing a
Speaker 1: prison visit with a coffin, you know what I'm like,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, where's do be part? I'd love to
Speaker 1: catch up with him and seeing him in six years
Speaker 1: since he got put away. And I'm walking around the
Speaker 1: garden just admiring the flowers and the taypii that's been
Speaker 1: done by the inmates, and there you are, dead in
Speaker 1: a bush with a ship sticking out of your yard.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh man, this poor guy. So I
Speaker 1: have to get a hold of you. But you've been
Speaker 1: eating by rodents as well, so yeah, it's not the
Speaker 1: most tygenic prison. Your body's a mess. I'm like, do
Speaker 1: what I can. I chop you up, stuff you and
Speaker 1: I'll put you in the coffin. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's like a bump in this coffin. What is it?
Speaker 1: And I lift up your body and they're at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the coffin is the DVD for Breaking Away?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, that's what that's what he'd want.
Speaker 1: That's what he would have wanted. So I just stuff
Speaker 1: you in the coffin, put the lid on, I send
Speaker 1: you off to the other side. And on the other side,
Speaker 1: it's movie night every night. And when it's your movie night,
Speaker 1: you're showing everyone breaking away, right, yeah, damn right, Jimmy part.
Speaker 1: What delight you? Uh? Thank you? What would you tell people?
Speaker 1: What would you like people to look out for to,
Speaker 1: what to listen to? Well, you know we talked about it.
Speaker 1: My podcast, Never Not Funny is uh nothing but joy.
Speaker 1: It's it's uh, well, I mean less unless I'm being
Speaker 1: cranky that day, but it's, uh, that's fun. I also
Speaker 1: have a web series called Jimmy's Records and Tapes, which
Speaker 1: is on YouTube at YouTube dot com slash Never Not Funny.
Speaker 1: There's links on Never Not Funny dot com or Jimmy
Speaker 1: part of the comp to all these things. And that
Speaker 1: is me talking about music and just uh kind of
Speaker 1: just riffing off the top of my head about my
Speaker 1: top five favorite songs of a certain genre yacht rock
Speaker 1: or songs that are so bad you'll love them, and
Speaker 1: so that I do that for fun because of my
Speaker 1: love of music. But the podcast is really good. Where
Speaker 1: to find me if you enjoy my nonsense that's very good.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Parday, good luck to you. Thank you for your
Speaker 1: time and you've been really thank you. Thanks for having
Speaker 1: me having Lovely Death. I was easy. Good day, bye bye.
Speaker 1: So was episode one hundred and seventy seven. Head over
Speaker 1: to patreon dot com Forward slashback Goldstein for the extra
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Speaker 1: the film that means the most to you and why
Speaker 1: it's a lovely thing to do, lovely thing to read.
Speaker 1: We're all lovely people. Thank you so much to Jimmy
Speaker 1: for doing the show so late at night, Thanks to Scrubs,
Speaker 1: Pip and the distract some Pieces Network. Thanks to Buddy
Speaker 1: Peace for producing it, Thanks to a Gus posting it.
Speaker 1: Thanks Adam Richardson for the graphics and least Aladdin for
Speaker 1: the photography. Come and join me next week for another
Speaker 1: incredible guest. But in the meantime, have a lovely week
Speaker 1: and please, now more than ever, be excellent to each other.
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