Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Lieutenant
Speaker 1: Frank dreb trend from the Police Squad, of the Files
Speaker 1: of Naked Gun from the Files of Police Squad that
Speaker 1: always accused me. Yeah, I'm Jack. That over there is Miles.
Speaker 2: Oj was funny, that's right, just by It's true.
Speaker 1: I don't know, he's had a lot of moments. He's
Speaker 1: hilarious all around.
Speaker 2: Oh man. Yeah, the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess we can talk about that obviously.
Speaker 1: We have Super Tuesday updates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get to those. We'll get to those.
Speaker 2: We'll get to the Nomember. Take your time, take your
Speaker 2: time November.
Speaker 1: That's right. But whenever the Naked Gun remake is coming out,
Speaker 1: please you couldn't get here fast enough.
Speaker 2: No, no, So.
Speaker 1: It's been announced Liam Neeson will be playing Frank Greben,
Speaker 1: the Liam Leslie Nielsen role. Well, I just realized in
Speaker 1: that moment how similar their names are and how it
Speaker 1: almost feels like, yeah, they just associated them.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's like it started
Speaker 2: as a rumor a couple of years ago and now
Speaker 2: we're getting more details. It's Liam Neeson locked in. It's
Speaker 2: a Kiva Schaeffer from The Lonely Island. I think writing
Speaker 2: and directing. Seth McFarlane is producing. I you know, I
Speaker 2: think I think it could be good. Liam Neeson is
Speaker 2: good at dead pan comedy, but like but but like
Speaker 2: Frank or you know, Leslie, Nielsen wasn't exactly doing full
Speaker 2: on dead pan kind of shit. It was still a
Speaker 2: little zany at the time.
Speaker 1: So it was pretty straight faced though, like I feel it, like,
Speaker 1: and his pedigree up to the point where he started
Speaker 1: starring in those movies or the TV show was just
Speaker 1: that he was a straight faced person. Obviously an airplane
Speaker 1: and stuff, but like he was the reason they used
Speaker 1: him was because he was just like a straightforward yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm I'm I love those Naked Gun movies
Speaker 2: so much that there's part of me can't be like
Speaker 2: this is gonna be bad, because I really I would
Speaker 2: want to see this be good.
Speaker 1: Right, But will see, I mean, we'll see. But I
Speaker 1: guess the question I have is like, does this sensibility
Speaker 1: of comedy still make sense? Like the first Naked Guns
Speaker 1: seem pretty timeless to me, but it'll it'll be interesting
Speaker 1: because they haven't made something successfully with that sort of slapstick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: surrealist sensibility in a long time, So I'm curious. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what they would have looked like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he I mean, look, he's he's apparently the Chippendales
Speaker 2: movie that he did Rescue Rangers that people were like,
Speaker 2: oh shit, was funny. And dude, he did eleven episodes
Speaker 2: of I Think You Should Leave, So yeah, there's going
Speaker 2: to be a little bit of that if you're like obs,
Speaker 2: you know, so we will see. But yeah, over three seasons, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: We shall see. Liam Neeson, like the main comedic work
Speaker 1: we've seen from him is the Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Life Too Short?
Speaker 2: Yeah, seeing the improvisational comedy.
Speaker 1: Comedy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so google that. Yeah, google Liam Neeson improvisational comedy
Speaker 2: if if you want to taste of what his comedic
Speaker 2: chops might be like.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, about came twent.
Speaker 1: And it's time to pour one out for Nikki Haley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she gone, she gone.
Speaker 2: I mean, she didn't get swept, so there's that she
Speaker 2: wont Hey there you stronghold shut out Ethan Allen in
Speaker 2: the Green Mountains. But yeah, and also Dean Phillips I
Speaker 2: think is also he finally he's like, yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: y'all time to time to fuck right off into the
Speaker 2: sunset too.
Speaker 1: That's been my time. They've been giving me the light
Speaker 1: for the past seven months.
Speaker 2: But Nikki, you know, you did your darndest to unseat
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, and you tried so hard and you got
Speaker 2: so far. But in the end it doesn't even matter
Speaker 2: because you did fuck all to actually differentiate yourself because
Speaker 2: you tried to be Maga and not Maga at the
Speaker 2: same time, which is an impossible intellectual feat. And yeah,
Speaker 2: this is what happens. Wait, but you did. You did
Speaker 2: siphon a decent amount of voters away from Trump, but
Speaker 2: obviously not enough to change the momentum of the Maga machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah that thing is still rolling on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Trump about one than five hundred forty one votes
Speaker 1: one thousand, one million, five hundred and forty one thousand votes.
Speaker 1: Haley got seven hundred and sixty three thousand votes, So
Speaker 1: it's not insignificant.
Speaker 2: But how many of those people stick to their you know,
Speaker 2: guns in November and be like, I'm actually gonna vote
Speaker 2: third part n I don't I don't think so I
Speaker 2: don't think so. And I can't see how many Republicans
Speaker 2: would vote for Joe Biden, but we we shall see.
Speaker 2: But yeah, she did refuse to endorse Donald Trump, so
Speaker 2: there's that, and said that he's gonna have to earn
Speaker 2: her supporters vote. But again, I think this just ends
Speaker 2: with her on like TV or some revolving door job
Speaker 2: where she just makes a ton of money. Hey, so
Speaker 2: you built a brand. You definitely built a brand.
Speaker 1: Nikki Haley. You built a brand. What I'm on day,
Speaker 1: I'm joining the private equity industry? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Shit? Then also got shit Kirsten Cinema. She's officially also
Speaker 2: fucking right off into the Arizona sunset. What started as
Speaker 2: a Democrat and turned into some yirdo obstructionist independent has
Speaker 2: finally called time on her Senate career. And look, let's
Speaker 2: be real, like she was her and Joe Mansion did
Speaker 2: a lot to fuck around with the Senate agenda the
Speaker 2: beginning of the Biden administration. She did. She did do
Speaker 2: some good work on gun control. We have to give
Speaker 2: her that. I was working on closing like the boyfriend
Speaker 2: loophole where that said, like, you know, if someone who's
Speaker 2: like a domestic abuser could keep their guns if they
Speaker 2: weren't married to their partner, so there was work done there.
Speaker 2: But again, she took a dump on minimum wage hikes
Speaker 2: and you know, carried interest loopholes for millionaires. You know,
Speaker 2: she just watered down the Inflation Reduction Act. We were
Speaker 2: all there for it. So she's off, and that means
Speaker 2: now it won't be a three horse race for the
Speaker 2: Senate seat in Arizona. It'll just be Reuben Diego and
Speaker 2: Carrie Lake. And I believe, I don't. I think carry
Speaker 2: Lake is is. I don't. She says she's the governor
Speaker 2: of Arizona and.
Speaker 1: That election was so in from right, so why are
Speaker 1: we even having the reality difference on that one?
Speaker 2: But hey, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's why the incumbent, Kristen Cinema couldn't couldn't even get
Speaker 1: enough to like be in the final race.
Speaker 2: I think she knew just because dude, she became so unlikable,
Speaker 2: you know, and they're like she didn't have money and
Speaker 2: no one was really fucking with her. Like speech, she's like,
Speaker 2: you know, like I just need to get out of here,
Speaker 2: like it's so like toxic, Like I just kind of
Speaker 2: like can't do this, and it was like a very I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what's going on with you guys.
Speaker 2: You changed, Yeah, exactly, get the fuck out.
Speaker 1: When are the ones who are fucked up?
Speaker 2: Another thing that may be a little bit so also
Speaker 2: North Carolina, they're they're candidate for governor on the Republican
Speaker 2: side is homophobic, holocaust andire but he is black and
Speaker 2: Donald Trump said you're Martin Luther King times too, because yes,
Speaker 2: Martin Luther King, famous holocausin Ier. So there's that going on.
Speaker 2: There was also Adam Schiff in his pursuit of die
Speaker 2: Fi's Senate seat, getting a lot of criticism because he
Speaker 2: basically elevated former Dodger Steve Garvey as the like, you know,
Speaker 2: Republican candidate to crowd out like Barbara Lee and Katie Porter.
Speaker 2: So he could just have like an easy run at
Speaker 2: a Republican Yeah. The downside to that is you're gonna
Speaker 2: you're gonna motivate all these Republicans to come vote down ballot.
Speaker 2: Also with him on there in the Senate race, which
Speaker 2: means that could put the House majority at risk for
Speaker 2: I mean, potentially they're rather damp in the chances of
Speaker 2: the Democrats taking back the House because if Republicans overperform
Speaker 2: in like California, that could sway things in a wrong way.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people are like, nice, cynical, fucking tactic, loser.
Speaker 1: It was like millions he was running. It was like
Speaker 1: an open election, and then the time to vote, getters would.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a jungle primary in California. Yeah, top two,
Speaker 2: no matter what, so it could be two Democrats whatever.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so he was like, no, no, no, let
Speaker 2: me pay a ton of money to get Steve Garve.
Speaker 2: You like had a vapor wear campaign.
Speaker 1: So Steve Harvey's a Republican former Dodger pitcher, is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, cool. No first baseman, first base basement.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, one of one of the greats, one
Speaker 1: of the grade. You are wearing your Dodgers hat, and.
Speaker 2: I am just to big Garbs. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That that is pretty crazy. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back, We're back. All right. New York City almost
Speaker 1: fully a mill militarized police state at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is wild, the governor saying, putting out over
Speaker 2: a thousand state troopers, transit workers and members of the
Speaker 2: New York National Guard will be patrolling the city's subway
Speaker 2: system to check bags and shit like that and shake
Speaker 2: people down. The Apparently this is just part of a
Speaker 2: five point plan to quote increase safety and writer confidence
Speaker 2: in the subway system, which has fallen victim to high
Speaker 2: profile crimes in recent months. And I think this is
Speaker 2: like after the conductor's neck was slashed in Brooklyn and
Speaker 2: they're saying like, if it were not for a doctor
Speaker 2: being on that train, the person may have lost their life.
Speaker 2: So yes, I guess as the crime may be increasing,
Speaker 2: we all know that the more police and militarized police
Speaker 2: is not the solution. Wait what Yeah, you just need
Speaker 2: good guy with night Yeah you get okay, you know
Speaker 2: it's better than one bad guy in the knife forty
Speaker 2: five soldiers with guns right shaking people down, knife bag
Speaker 2: as just a chef. But then exactly through and it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm going, I'm just on my on my
Speaker 2: way to my shift over his ship, chef, just a chef, man,
Speaker 2: leave me alone, and then he cuts you with a
Speaker 2: credit card like in the glimmer Man. But yeah, this
Speaker 2: is from what from just some of the stuff I've read,
Speaker 2: it sounds like maybe social services is probably a better
Speaker 2: thing to pour into. And we're talking about like crime
Speaker 2: and things like that.
Speaker 1: Oh social peoples. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is just yeah, many people are obviously rightly
Speaker 2: horrified by this, because what an escalation when you now
Speaker 2: have like National Guard right and being like bag checks.
Speaker 2: So that's uh, yeah, it's a slippery slope. Oh we'll
Speaker 2: see if that if that policy reverse at all. But
Speaker 2: apparently this is part of a five point plan, man,
Speaker 2: which is basically it all five I mean, just scare
Speaker 2: the fuck out of everybody. Yeah, and maybe they'll do
Speaker 2: less crime. I don't know if I don't know what
Speaker 2: the research does on that.
Speaker 1: Fortunately New York doesn't have a history of like, you know,
Speaker 1: doing street level crime initiatives that harm people's civil rights.
Speaker 2: They all go, they all go, well, yeah, they usually
Speaker 2: go pretty well, we can we can usually trust them
Speaker 2: ypd Oh yeah yeah, I love a soldier, love a
Speaker 2: soldier being dispatched to do things in our in our
Speaker 2: cities too, stop crime. But yeah, hey, that's that's where
Speaker 2: we're at right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, pharma may be taking some else big farmer yeah, farm.
Speaker 2: Big farm. So they've been basically trying to like because
Speaker 2: of the Inflation Reduction Act, like and saying they're like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: like pharmaceutical makers have to come to the able to
Speaker 2: renegotiate prices. They've been on a fucking legal campaign to
Speaker 2: try and have like these negotiations be ruled as unconstitutional,
Speaker 2: and they faced another out now when they're like, nah, dude,
Speaker 2: we're not We're not buying that. So because of that,
Speaker 2: they have come to the table. Apparently, according to Xavier Vesera,
Speaker 2: Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had
Speaker 2: received first counter offers from pharmaceutical makers for all ten
Speaker 2: of the drugs that are up for price negotiation. So
Speaker 2: we will see where that goes. But apparently they're like
Speaker 2: the fact that they're losing in their effort to not
Speaker 2: negotiate is I guess slowly bringing them to the negotiating table.
Speaker 2: So that is that is news that can be seen
Speaker 2: as positive.
Speaker 1: It feels all feels very Unamerican. Miles, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't like it. Yeah, these corporations are not getting a
Speaker 1: fair shake. Corporationist, I know, and they're losing. Kirsten Cinema
Speaker 1: two champion of the million in billionaires. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess this is just something you're gonna have. You're just
Speaker 1: gonna have to charge normal prices rather than making billions
Speaker 1: and billions of dollars. Yeah, because yeah, that's yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a thing that deserves billions and billions of dollars in
Speaker 1: profit rather than just being like, I think we should
Speaker 1: be making drugs that help people for the good of
Speaker 1: human but whatever, I'm sorry, I'm like, I want some
Speaker 1: hippie shit.
Speaker 2: Dude, I lost my mind.
Speaker 1: Bro from again on American We're gonna have you looked
Speaker 1: into by the House on American.
Speaker 2: Activities Committee or whatever? What was that?
Speaker 1: What was a House on American Activities Committee? Was that communists?
Speaker 1: Was that like the Red Scare?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah? Un American Activities Committee was yes, from nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty eight, yeah, until I forget where the sixties or
Speaker 2: something that?
Speaker 1: All right, And finally we got some new hairy styles.
Speaker 1: Fanfit just dropped got a trailer for a new coom
Speaker 1: starring Anne Hathaway. It's called The Idea of You, which
Speaker 1: is basically like notting Hill, but with Anne Hathaway as
Speaker 1: Hugh Grant and a thinley veiled Harry Styles surrogate instead
Speaker 1: of Julia Roberts. So it's like, what if ordinary everyday
Speaker 1: schlub fucked famous person, but the ordinary everyday schlub is
Speaker 1: Anne Hathway.
Speaker 2: Hathway, Yeah, oh, because Julia Roberts is the celebrity in
Speaker 2: notting Hill and regular Grant is.
Speaker 1: Just a befuddled dufiss and then he Noting Hill, and
Speaker 1: then Julia Roberts accidentally fox him and is like whoa
Speaker 1: actually whoa kind of into you?
Speaker 2: What a pleasant accident? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I actually really liked notting Hill when I saw it.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it since.
Speaker 2: I was like, but I feel like that's like one
Speaker 2: of those rom comms people always say they love.
Speaker 1: Still Yeah, anyways, Anne Hathaway plays a who takes her
Speaker 1: teenager to see a one direction style band and it
Speaker 1: ends up hooking up with the lead singer. This is
Speaker 1: like this premise. I'm like, yeah, no, absolutely this movie.
Speaker 1: It's one of those premises where I'm like, how does
Speaker 1: this movie not exist yet?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I guess I tried it with Ewen Wilson recently. Oh
Speaker 1: Nelson and.
Speaker 2: Jylo marry me, marry me, say yes, dude. That shit
Speaker 2: was so painful.
Speaker 1: You saw it?
Speaker 2: I remember, Yeah, I watched it. I'm surprised I haven't
Speaker 2: watched that j Loo art House film yet. I can't
Speaker 2: bring myself to do it after reading like this Vanity
Speaker 2: Fair piece about how all of her friends are like,
Speaker 2: don't make it, Jennifer, are.
Speaker 1: You talking about the Dunkin Donuts commercial with Ben Affleck?
Speaker 1: Is that the j Loo art House film that you're
Speaker 1: talking about? No, dude, were you there when we talked
Speaker 1: about it?
Speaker 2: How She's like, it looks like a gigantic Gucci ad,
Speaker 2: but no, it's like about like in her like love life,
Speaker 2: and it's like this like like fucking what's his face?
Speaker 2: Neil de grasse Tyson is in it, like sad Guru,
Speaker 2: the YouTube fucking spiritual guy. There's a bunch of weird
Speaker 2: ass cameos in it. It's not yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2: Many people are talking about it, so don't think it
Speaker 2: had quite the effect. But she's like, I have to
Speaker 2: do this for me. This is an expression of my
Speaker 2: experience in an artistic way. And you're like, dude, you
Speaker 2: have too much money and too many people. But apparently,
Speaker 2: I guess not enough people telling you no, because it
Speaker 2: sounded like a lot of her people around her are like,
Speaker 2: you probably shouldn't do this, probably shouldn't do this, don't
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 1: Did she direct it? Is that like the idea?
Speaker 2: I mean she wrote it for sure, like it's all
Speaker 2: entirely from her mind.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I kind of have to see this now,
Speaker 1: you no, Like it's incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty wild, Like I mean, I don't think
Speaker 2: people are like fully tearing it down. It's just like
Speaker 2: one of those things people aren't talking about at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So this movie with Anne Hathaway kind of
Speaker 1: has like gone away a little bit, like hasn't been
Speaker 1: in stuff for a little while and now is returning
Speaker 1: playing a mother of a teenage daughter.
Speaker 2: Whoa.
Speaker 1: But it's based on a book that was rumored to
Speaker 1: have originated as Harry Styles fanfic. So somebody like wrote
Speaker 1: a book that was like and then I go to
Speaker 1: a Harry Styles concert and.
Speaker 2: Just like.
Speaker 1: Wow, Harry Styles sees me in the crowd, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's on from that point forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's funny because like all the one direction fans
Speaker 2: are just like analyzing it like forensically, and they're like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, these are all nods to one d yep, yep,
Speaker 2: sure it all here at the look at the tattoos,
Speaker 2: look at the the looks that they're doing the costumes.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I appreciate that the Harry Styles fans like
Speaker 1: turned it into a bestseller, which just like shows support
Speaker 1: amongst them. You know, they're rather than being like this
Speaker 1: is exploiting Harry and like our fandom, they're like, nah,
Speaker 1: we all want to fuck him and like, thank you
Speaker 1: for doing this book where we get to live out
Speaker 1: the fantasy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So because what Anne Hathaway, she's forty one? Okay,
Speaker 2: so now that Hollywood has deemed her mother now.
Speaker 1: Mother Yeah, and not in the fun way, but maybe
Speaker 1: maybe in the fun way. I've I've he heard on
Speaker 1: a film podcast that I listened to blank Check they
Speaker 1: were saying that they have like one of one of
Speaker 1: them is a film critic and has got to like
Speaker 1: screen an upcoming Anne Hathway picture that they're like, that's
Speaker 1: Dan Hathaway is going to have a big twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So all right, watching first?
Speaker 2: Do you they.
Speaker 1: Didn't get Harry Styles to play Harry Styles in this
Speaker 1: would have been the thing that would have made this
Speaker 1: a massive hit.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine he's like trying to have a serious career,
Speaker 2: and it's like, fuck it, dude, let me just let
Speaker 2: me just kind of change the creative momentum mirror and
Speaker 2: just do a very like tongue in cheek like yeah
Speaker 2: to me, Harry Styles as Harry Styles.
Speaker 1: I mean, Hayes Campbell if that's a fuck boy name
Speaker 1: for sure, Hayes Campbell, Hayes Campbell, fus, you gotta watch
Speaker 1: out for that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, watch out, dude, He'll fucking take your mom.
Speaker 1: And halfway watch out, guard your moms. Hayes Campbell's coming
Speaker 1: to town playing three nights at SOFI has sold out.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck, good luck to the fanfic. I hope
Speaker 2: it renders many fans happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but uh, fifty Shades of Gray started
Speaker 1: as fanfic as a Twilight fanfic.
Speaker 2: So oh oh someone to be tied up by Edward
Speaker 2: or some shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, like somebody was writing the thing about Twilight.
Speaker 1: That's it's very approachable. You read that ship and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I could certainly write this because yeah, there's some wild,
Speaker 1: wild passages in that. But and so somebody wrote a
Speaker 1: like steamier more uh, sexually explicit uh, Twilight, and then
Speaker 1: it was so popular that they just like changed the
Speaker 1: characters names and it became fifty shades. Well, so there
Speaker 1: you go. Fanfic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, zeit gang, please write the fans. Ship Jack and
Speaker 2: I together about two podcast co hosts who fall in
Speaker 2: love and leave their families to go on their Their
Speaker 2: one thing they realized you want to do is sail
Speaker 2: around the world.
Speaker 1: Yes, man, just on the four and a half hours
Speaker 1: please four and a half hour long film.
Speaker 2: Lots of just three hours.
Speaker 1: Create on U. I want to be played by Chris
Speaker 1: Hemsworth or like you know, someone similarly built.
Speaker 2: I would play by Lil Yachty Emsworth, Yeah, Emsworth YACHTI
Speaker 2: also named Miles I found out, so I think it
Speaker 2: will Yeah, and also named after a boat, which is
Speaker 2: where takes place when the boat is a rockin'. Just
Speaker 2: just look the other way, folks. Two podcasters doing them
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Those are some of the things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole
Speaker 1: lass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy.
Speaker 2: Get it to time.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you all tomorrow by