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Speaker 1: Too Much Information is a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Too Much Information, the show

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Speaker 1: that brings you the secret history and little known facts

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Speaker 1: about your favorite music, movies, tv shows, and more. Allow

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Speaker 1: myself to introduce myself. My name's Jordan run Talk. Oh

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Speaker 1: you went there? How many of those are buried in here?

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Speaker 1: That was I think the only one? Really? Okay, all right, okay,

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Speaker 1: what's your name? My name is Jordan run Talk, and

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Speaker 1: I'm Alex Heigl. And today, if you couldn't tell, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about a huge personal favorite of Jordan's.

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Speaker 1: We are going to be talking about Austin Powers. I'm

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Speaker 1: not even gonna I'm not You're getting nothing from me

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Speaker 1: in terms of impressions today because you've tried to get me,

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Speaker 1: You've tried to pull me into it before, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not falling temptation to it today. Austin Powers turns twenty

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Speaker 1: five years old this month, and to this is this

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Speaker 1: is your writing. I'm throwing here under the bus here

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Speaker 1: if you'll allow me to share what I like to

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Speaker 1: call BuzzFeed math for a moment, this means that we

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Speaker 1: are almost equal to the gap between Austin Powers, being

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Speaker 1: Frozen in nine and Unfrozen just a few more years. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the distance from the movie is now the distance that

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Speaker 1: Jordan's why don't you just phil us it? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna become inarticulate with how much this franchise means

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Speaker 1: to me, and not because it was quoted at nauseum

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Speaker 1: on the playground. So I'm actually really glad you're not

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Speaker 1: going to be doing impressions. Um. Awesome Powers came out

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Speaker 1: when I was ten, and when I was ten, there

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Speaker 1: were three things that I loved above all else, The Beatles,

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Speaker 1: James Bond, and British comedy, especially Peter Sellers. So to me,

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Speaker 1: this was like someone took an F M R I

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Speaker 1: of my brain and just put it on the big

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Speaker 1: screen with jokes that I could understand. I love everything

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Speaker 1: about this. My mother was obsessed with Sean Connery. I

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Speaker 1: recently came across a love poem that she wrote to

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Speaker 1: as a teenager in nineteen sixty seven, So he was

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Speaker 1: a huge deal. Yeah, it was a huge deal in

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Speaker 1: our house. The Peter Sellers James Bond spoof Casino Royal

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Speaker 1: Powers came out, and that was the movie that basically

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Speaker 1: inspired Austin Powers. The Beatles are still my everything, and

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Speaker 1: there's lots of little nods to the Beatles in there,

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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, Austin Powers is a love note to

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Speaker 1: all of my favorite things. It's a perfectly done homage

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Speaker 1: to everything I hold near and dear, and I adore

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Speaker 1: it so much. I have no snark, I have no

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Speaker 1: I have nothing particularly insightful to say. I don't have

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Speaker 1: a hard take about this movie either. It's it's perfectly fine.

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Speaker 1: It's no I mean, I mean it's I have no

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Speaker 1: means something very different to me than it does for you.

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Speaker 1: Fine for me is an insult, right and just I

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Speaker 1: mean like, I can accept it for completely what it

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Speaker 1: is and how successful it was at the time, and

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Speaker 1: it's fine. I bear it no malice. Have you seen

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Speaker 1: it recently? Yeah? Oh yeah, we watched I don't think

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Speaker 1: we made it through Goldmember, but we watched the first

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Speaker 1: I have seen him recently. I also saw this movie

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Speaker 1: enough when I was a kid to my dad loves

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Speaker 1: this movie, so yeah, I've lived this movie. Do you

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Speaker 1: think it holds up after you saw it? Yeah, I'd

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Speaker 1: still very good. I just all of my gripes with

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Speaker 1: Mike Myers occurred after this movie, so I have to

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Speaker 1: get out of that. We're in a different time now.

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Speaker 1: Before Michael Myers was the whatever he is now, I'll

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Speaker 1: be diplomatic in consideration of you. All right, here's everything

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Speaker 1: you didn't know about Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery.

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Speaker 1: All right, So ground zero. Mike Myers was inspired to

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Speaker 1: create the character of Austin Powers while driving home from

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Speaker 1: hockey practice and also by intimate time with his wife.

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Speaker 1: You described this as the most Mike Myers esque origin

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Speaker 1: story could imagine. He was driving home from hockey practice

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Speaker 1: one night. They're only nineties because Canada and the song

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Speaker 1: you caded a psychedelic James Bond spoof. But Mike Myers

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Speaker 1: like Tom Jones and Sammy Davis Jr. And even Peter Sellers,

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Speaker 1: because of his father Eric. Both of Mike meyers parents

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Speaker 1: company in an obscure Italian thriller from Nive called The

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Speaker 1: Tenth Victim, which another Bond connection, stars Ursula Andrews. I've

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Speaker 1: This is an incredible movie and I cannot recommend it enough.

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Speaker 1: Uh it stars as you said, La Andrews, who was

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Speaker 1: Goldfinger that, um, do you expect me to talk? No?

424
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Speaker 1: Mr Bond, I expect you to die. Um, when he's

425
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Speaker 1: on the strapped on the gurney with the laser. Anyway.

426
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 1: Two years later Thunderball, the whole killing people around the table,

427
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Speaker 1: the henchman getting murdered. That is from Thunderball, they plot

428
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Speaker 1: about stealing nuclear arms and holding the world ransom, the

429
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Speaker 1: line about the swimming pool and sharks, the black jack game,

430
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Speaker 1: speak of Number two, the number two characters modeled on

431
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Speaker 1: Emilio Largo. And here's incredibly another incredibly specific reference Bond

432
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Speaker 1: fighting a hench person in drag. Although you know in

433
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Speaker 1: both of the as films, right, they don't reveal that

434
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: that person is in drag. Anyway, keep going, there's not

435
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Speaker 1: that we're just not even out of Bond yet, out

436
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: of the Bond weeds yet. Oh, this is my favorite

437
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: Bond movie. You Only Live Twice nineteen sixty seven. Uh,

438
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: the aforementioned Blowfeld connection, And there was one line from

439
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: you only live twice that has taken verbatim. For a

440
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: scene in Austin Powers, it's just a hot tub scene

441
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: with Bond and his Japanese counterpart, and his counterpart says,

442
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,959
Speaker 1: oh God, in Japan, men come first and women come second.

443
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Speaker 1: Make of that what you will. We're oh no, now

444
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Speaker 1: we're finally out of Connoy Bond on Her Majesty's Secret

445
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Speaker 1: Service nineteen nine. Isn't this the maligned Bond? You know,

446
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: if Connery had been in this Bond, it would have

447
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 1: been the best Bond movie. It's with George lason By,

448
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 1: who was only in this one. It's like probably the

449
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 1: most emotionally complex and dramatic until Casino Royal, the Daniel

450
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: Craig version and Oh six. It's a good one. And

451
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: that's where the crushed over soon with the Frilly calder

452
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: comes from. So it's exactly it's the exact suit. I'm

453
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Speaker 1: glad it's undercut by that. Um you went on a

454
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Speaker 1: rant about how emotional it was, and it's wearing a

455
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Speaker 1: clown suit. That's fine though diamonds are forever n one.

456
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: Connery is back for this one, so it's blow Feld

457
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Speaker 1: and the film is also set in Vegas like Austin

458
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Speaker 1: Powers um, befitting a film that was just cut and

459
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 1: pasted from a range of influences. Mike Myers only took

460
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Speaker 1: two weeks to write the first draft of the script,

461
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: probably because all he had do is write jokes in

462
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Speaker 1: in between plot details, wardrobe and dialogue from seventy other things.

463
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:44,400
Speaker 1: At his wife's suggestion, the script is written in. Mike

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00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: Myers shows it to his Ming Tea bandmates, Susannah Hoff's

465
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Speaker 1: husband who is j Roach, and Ja gave him ten

466
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Speaker 1: pages of notes back, which is far more than I

467
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Speaker 1: would accept um from you on anything. I justest and

468
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: Mike took it much better than I would have. He

469
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Speaker 1: appreciated it. He said everything Ja said made it better

470
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: and my ended up being a booster for him. He

471
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Speaker 1: was grateful to him for polishing the script, and he

472
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: wanted Jaded to a shot of directing the film, and

473
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Speaker 1: his only beral experience at this point had been co

474
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Speaker 1: directing comedy called Zoo Radio, which if you know anything

475
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: about that, you know there's no Wikipedia page for it,

476
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 1: which for me is my metric of wow, good lord.

477
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 1: But so you know, the on Powers production company New

478
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 1: Line already thought understandably thought a movie about a nineteen

479
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: sixties swinger packed with references to woefully unhip culture from

480
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Speaker 1: thirty years ago. They weren't going to give it to

481
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Speaker 1: a second time director and uh and head of New

482
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Speaker 1: Line at the time, who was it? Did you get

483
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Speaker 1: a name? Michael de Luca. He stood up in the

484
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Speaker 1: middle of the initial eating with almost called him Austin

485
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: with Mike and Jay and told Jay Roach, who are you?

486
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: We're not just going to hire Mike's buddy. And so

487
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,959
Speaker 1: he watches Jay's directing reel and is even less convinced,

488
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: calling it it was bizarre. It wasn't a good reel.

489
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: It was very low rent. But he came in and

490
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: spoke about the movie and looked us in the eye

491
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: and gave us his vision. And that is what got

492
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: him the job. And it's not all he got for

493
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: his efforts. He got a free a year free of

494
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: a o L just like everyone who ever went to

495
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: them all or had a mailing address in the nineties

496
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: and got one of those CDs. Sees those BB gun targets,

497
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: My dad like hoarded them for just that off chance

498
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: that we would need cases for stuff. Anyway, This launches

499
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: Jay's career. He does meet the parents dinner for schmucks

500
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: the campaign Trumbo bombshell. So Austin Powers not only gave

501
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: him a career, but as we mentioned, like anyone in

502
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Speaker 1: the world with a pulse, probably some dead people to

503
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: like that people vote. I'm sure dead people got a O. L. Millers.

504
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,479
Speaker 1: There are numerous examples of product placement in Austin Powers,

505
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Speaker 1: and one of them is a O L which is,

506
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Speaker 1: you know, his scene when he's trying to get online.

507
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: But j Roach would only accept that product placement if

508
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Speaker 1: they gave him a year of free internet hashtag and

509
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: so they're supposed to be a scene where Another cultural

510
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: very moment is a scene where Austin tries to show

511
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: he's cool by drinking a zima um. Anyone remembers Zema

512
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: this buzzfeedlist, I think like the Seltzer market came out,

513
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: like White Claw was like, here's an far Afield metaphor

514
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: for you. White Claw was sort of the Nirvana to

515
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: uh to the Zema and Mike's hard hair metal. Anyway,

516
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: when Zema's parent company Corps realized that that scene was

517
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: mocking them, they withdrew permission and Austin instead drinks a

518
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: tab soda, which is, as you mentioned, a better joke.

519
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: And having said all that, we'll be right back with

520
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: more too much information right after this. We mentioned earlier

521
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: that for New Line, the production company that ended up

522
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: making Austin Powers this was a huge risk. This was

523
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: not an obvious choice, and it's interesting that Mike Myers

524
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: chose to make this instead of a third Waynes World,

525
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: which definitely seemed like the safer bet um you know, Austin.

526
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: It comes after the huge success of the Waynes World phenomenon.

527
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: The first Waynes World grossed a hundred and eighty three

528
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: million dollars, making it the best performing film adapted from

529
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: an SNL skit. Ever, it's nearest competition as The Blues Brothers,

530
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Speaker 1: which grows sixty million less. Uh. The sequel, Wayne's World

531
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: two did less well at the box office, but well

532
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Speaker 1: enough to lead all concern to seriously consider our Wayne's

533
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Speaker 1: World three. Instead, Mike chose to finish up a stint

534
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: on SNL which ended in January, and flesh out his

535
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: swinging sixties spy character that would become Austin Powers. Um

536
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: just a quick kind of Wayne's World drama. Sidebar, the

537
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: production of Waynes World two was really was not a

538
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Speaker 1: fun time. Director Penelope Penelope spies you can peneally be

539
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: spirits the name out of your You better watch what

540
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: you say about her. I love her. She did The

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Speaker 1: Decline of Western Civilization, uh, which is like the first

542
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: one is about the punk scene, the second one was

543
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: about the hair metal scene. They're both gripping. And the

544
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: reason that she supposedly didn't work for a long time

545
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: in the nineties was she was like trying to she

546
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: was basically self financing and self directing. This the Third

547
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Speaker 1: Decline of Western Civilization, which is about like homeless street

548
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Speaker 1: punks in l A. And it is such a depressing

549
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Speaker 1: left turn to this series. I mean, they all kind

550
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: of have this intense pathos to them, like they really

551
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: get it, you know, these iconic figures, like these l

552
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: A punks and like these hair mettal guys, and then

553
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: they like she drills into like the core of sadness

554
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: at the They're incredible films. Anyway, I love her, and

555
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: she's like been open about taking the like mainstream comedy

556
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: garbage that she has directed. She's just like, I needed

557
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: money to finish my other stuff, which I just love

558
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: I love her anyway. Why did Mike Myers storm off

559
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: the set of Wayne's World Jordan's Well, okay, so Penelope's

560
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: Ferris was replaced on Wayne's World to supposedly at the

561
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Speaker 1: behest of Mike Myers, because they had been fighting on

562
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: the set of Wayne's World one uh. He reportedly stormed

563
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: off the set after there wasn't enough Margarine for his

564
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: bagel only butter. One of their big fights on Wayne's

565
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: World was the Bohemian Rhapsody scene because he's talked about

566
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Speaker 1: how many times she made them do that, and he

567
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: was like, I had a migraine and not in my

568
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: neck by the end of that day. So yeah, yeah,

569
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Speaker 1: they did not get along. I think there were also

570
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,719
Speaker 1: like arguments over the final cut of the film too,

571
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: so in the end there was no more Wayne's World movies,

572
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: which must have been a bummer for SNL creator Lauren Michaels,

573
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Speaker 1: who produced the movies and presumably got a pretty big

574
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: cut off the back end, and he must have been

575
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: doubly annoyed to learn that the project Mike Myhers was

576
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: doing instead featured a main character that basically made fun

577
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: of him. Dr Evil was a note perfect imitation of

578
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,479
Speaker 1: Lauren Mike's old boss, from his voice, to his physical

579
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: mannerisms to his fussy personality and Mike. Buyers tried to

580
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: downplay it a bit in the press for the movie,

581
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: saying that you know, there was more Donald Pleasants who

582
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: was the actor played blow Feld in Doctor Evil than

583
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: Lauren Michaels, But many SNL veterans have come forward, many

584
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: on the condition of a nominimity because they feared Lord

585
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: Michael's wrath, saying that this was obviously Lauren Michaels. One

586
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: of the ex cast members who wished to remain nameless,

587
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: told I think it was Entertainment Weekly. It's a perfect caricature,

588
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: his obsessing about minutia, the way he ends everything by

589
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: bringing his pinky up in two his fingernail. Uh. This

590
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: actor references the tantrum when Doctor Evil asks for sharks

591
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: with freaking lasers on their heads, but instead has to

592
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: settle for ill tempered sea bass. The actor says, I've

593
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: seen that conversation between Lauren and the set designer five

594
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: hundred times at ten thirty on Saturday night. UM, and

595
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: even one of Dr Evil's most famous lines, you know,

596
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: throw me a freaking bone here people supposedly came from

597
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: a script meeting between the writers back on SNL, and

598
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: it just Mike Myers just stuck with him for years.

599
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: That's so funny. I truly had no idea, um but

600
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: it's all it's all falling into place, the drama stemming

601
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: from Mike Myers Lord Michael's impression did not stop there. Obviously,

602
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: half of Wayne's world was Dana Carvey, immensely talented gentleman.

603
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: But he felt that Mike Myers was just ripping off

604
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: his impression of Lord Michael's. And this is it's a

605
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: strange point to make, because if you're mimicking someone, how

606
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: do you lay claim to that you're you're you're mimicking

607
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: something already exists. But for impressionists it gets a little

608
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: trickier because Dana Carvey says that when he started at SNL,

609
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: no one was imitating Lauren and he was the one

610
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: who cracked it. An Impressionists call it breaking the voice

611
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: or getting the hook. When you find that one line

612
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: that gives you, like the music of a person's voice,

613
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: it opens the It's the key that opens the door

614
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: to their cadence. It makes it so much easier for

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Speaker 1: anyone to do it. I mean, you've got you know,

616
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: the you know wow for Christopher walk In, and you know,

617
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: not many people know that from Michael Caine. I mean

618
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: all those like one lines, do the Godfather one. Now,

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Speaker 1: I can't do Godfather. Actually, I mean I can't do

620
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Speaker 1: any of these, but I really can't Father. Do you

621
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Speaker 1: have to do it? I can't say I can't get off.

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00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm keeping that alright. So no Godfather impression. That's no,

623
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Speaker 1: that's old man. That's just like just breathing sails, wheezing. Yeah,

624
00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do it. Oh boy. I Anyway,

625
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: Dana Carvey says he was at a script meeting when

626
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: lord meeting was you know, arranging the week's show, and

627
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: he moaned, I still have no first act. Okay, I

628
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: do it like Dr Evil. I still have no fucking

629
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: first act. There's two Midwestern damn it you tricked me?

630
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: Oh run talk was laurden Michael's technically? Uh and so anyway,

631
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 1: Danna Carvey feels like he got these hooks. He feels

632
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: like he cracked the impression, and uh, he thinks Mike

633
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Speaker 1: Myers ripped him off. And this also goes back to

634
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Speaker 1: Wayne's World. Um. He would say over the years since

635
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: that the pair were not a comedy duo. Um. Mike

636
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 1: just originally put him into the Wayne's World sketch purely

637
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: because Myers thought it would wind up on air if

638
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: he put Carvey, who was kind of one of the

639
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: shining lights of the show in it with him. It

640
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: was a mercenary move on his part. Then it kind

641
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: of took off and h the drama goes deeper. Jordan's Yeah.

642
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: Danna said that when they were working on the script

643
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: for the Waynes World movie, he was writing bits for

644
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: it that just weren't making it into the script, Like

645
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: he would write it and then get another version of

646
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: the draft back and all of the stuff that you

647
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 1: put in there wasn't there. And I guess three weeks

648
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: before the shoot was set to begin, he actually quit

649
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: the movie. He told us to Howard Stern a couple

650
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: of years ago, purely because the stuff wasn't making it

651
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 1: into the script and he felt like there wasn't anything

652
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: for him to do in it. So it sounds like

653
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: things were already a little tense between him and Mike

654
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: Meyer's you know, even before going into this whole Wayne's

655
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: World Adventure and then this impression biting thing went down

656
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: and there was kind of a cold war between Mike

657
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: and Dana Carvey for years. Yeah, Dana Carvey would release

658
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: a spy spoof of his own, which you may remember,

659
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 1: a little film called The Master of Disguise. It opened

660
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: in direct competition with gold Member in two thousand two,

661
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: and that did not go well. Uh It's hover always

662
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: hovers around the bottom of worst films of all time.

663
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: I feel like this is violence directed at me personally.

664
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 1: But the name of his Italian secret agent is Pistachio

665
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: disc easy. That makes me so angry. It's awful. But

666
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: thankfully they reached a detant a rap pushe mall in

667
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: large part because of money. Why else when they reunited

668
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: his Wayne and Garth to make the Uber Eats commercial

669
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: that referenced Wayne's World for the Super Bowl in one

670
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: So thank you too, Uber for bringing Mike Myers and

671
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: Dana Carvey back together. God, I hate that that. I

672
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: just said that. Lastly, even though Dana Carvey has said

673
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: that the dr Evil pinky thing comes from Lord Michael's

674
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: there's an alternate theory to that. There's an episode of

675
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: the Twilight Zone called The Number twelve Looks Just Like You,

676
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: which features a character in it that performs a very

677
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: similar gesture by the name of Dr Rex, an evil doctor.

678
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: So make of that what you will, don't you dare

679
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 1: do it? Mm hmmm, I'm about doing it. I didn't

680
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: do it. I don't favors do it on camera. Jordan

681
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: didn't do it on the call anyway, there could have

682
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: been a very different interpretation of that character on screen. Yeah,

683
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: it's really weird to me that Mike Myers initially didn't

684
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 1: want to play Dr Evil himself, which was really surprising

685
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: to me because Mike Myers is such a huge Peter

686
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: Sellers fan, and he talked a lot, you know, at

687
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: length about how the Pink Panther movies was such a

688
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: huge influence on him. And Peter Sellers was very famous

689
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: for playing multiple roles in the same movie. I mean,

690
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: most famously Standy Kubrick's Doctor Strange Love, but also in

691
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: The Mouse That Roared, The Prisoner of Zenda, and a

692
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: few others. And I always assumed that this was Mike's

693
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 1: tribute to Peter Sellers by playing a bunch of characters

694
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: in the same movie. It was kind of his way

695
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: of playing in the same arena as his hero. But

696
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: I guess he originally wanted Jim Carey to play Dr Evil,

697
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: which kind of rules, and you can kind of get

698
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: a taste for what he'd do what he would do

699
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: with Dr Evil in the Sonic Movies when he played

700
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: the bald villain Dr robot Nick. But Jim Carey was

701
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: already committed to Liar Liar, which was probably a smart

702
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: move in the short term because Liar I Are actually

703
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: did way better at the box office in Austin Powers,

704
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: which we'll get too later. Yeah, I can see I

705
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: can see Jim Carey in the middle of his like

706
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: world conquering phase coming out of the mid nineties, not

707
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: wanting to play second Banana. Oh totally. Yeah, alright, Well,

708
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: moving on more in alternate casting bits and Bob's uh yes,

709
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: there's one bit of alternate casting that makes absolutely no

710
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: sense to me. Apparently, Mike Myers one of the role

711
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: of Scott Evil, Dr Evil's long lost son to go

712
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: to Colin Quinn. Now, Colin Quinn would have been in

713
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: his late thirties or pushing forty, I think when this

714
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: is being made, and like he never looked young. So

715
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if the whole idea was that they

716
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: weren't even gonna try to make Scott look young, and

717
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: there was just gonna be this middle aged man acting

718
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: like an angsty teen and that was going to be

719
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: the comedy or what. But I have no idea. But

720
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,479
Speaker 1: thankfully Colin Quinn turned it down, and he explained why

721
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 1: in an interview with The A V Club. He said,

722
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: Mike Myers called me up and asked me to be

723
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: the son in Austin Powers. But I was writing a

724
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: screenplay at the time called Midnight Mass. You've probably never

725
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: heard of it because it was never produced. I've never

726
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: regretted anything except that I am actually very glad that

727
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: Colin Quinn didn't get the part, because I can't imagine

728
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: anyone doing a better job than Seth Green. At the

729
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: time he received the script, he was playing a character

730
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: named Bobby in the David Mammett play American Buffalo, which

731
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 1: is this deep, dark drama about greed and human fallibility

732
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: and burglary. And Seth took that gravitas and that darkness

733
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: into his and that seriousness into his role in Austin Powers.

734
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: And he later said, my head was in a spot

735
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 1: about actor preparation, and all of my thoughts in respect

736
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: to this character were to play it deeply sincere I

737
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 1: thought it would be funniest next to Mike's broad character.

738
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: If you look at me in the movie I'm in

739
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: a drama and it's so true. His sincerity and his

740
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: deadpan delivery make him, to me one of the funniest

741
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: characters in the movie. Yeah, he's great, and he's right too.

742
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: He's such an anchor and made all the mad cap

743
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: bull that's going on. Um. Another bit of alternate casting

744
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: aimed straight at my love for brassy Southern women. Reba

745
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: McIntyre was an early consideration for the character Fraul far Bissina,

746
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: and she is, of course revealed to be Scott Eviel's

747
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: mother in a scene that don't they use Let's get

748
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: it on for? That? Is this ground zero? For like

749
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: the punchline of I will never forgive them for doing that.

750
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: It can't be that, can't be ey wait whatever, So

751
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: this is funny here, this will interest you. Uh Fraul

752
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: far business sounds like a made up name. It is not.

753
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: It's based on the Yiddish word far Bisson, which means

754
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: sullen or crippled by bitterness, which is my Jewish rap name. Um.

755
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: So Mindy Sterling is that actress, and she, like a

756
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: lot of people, was a veteran of the Groundlings in

757
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: l a influential and launching pad comedy group. Yeah, she's

758
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: ridiculous in a good way. So I don't know. I

759
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: think Reba would have done well with this, Like it

760
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: would have been a completely different but you know, it's

761
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: the same kind of joke as the Colin Quinn thing.

762
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: It's like so counterintuitive and so far afield that. Yeah,

763
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think it would have worked. I

764
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: just I like to think Reba McIntyre could have pulled

765
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: it off. I love how much you love Reba McIntyre.

766
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: I didn't know this about you. Just love brassy Southern

767
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: women telling me to kiss their grits and like, you know,

768
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: holding a household in line and rolling their eyes at

769
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: their husband. I just love it. It's Dolly Dolly parton

770
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: Reba Magnolia's recently ah. Yeah. Also Rea Perlman, um, you know,

771
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: and you know how much I love Cheers. Perlman would

772
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: have killed this. Yeah. Um. She was also in talks

773
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: to play for al far Bisson, and she has also

774
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: regretted that ever since scheduling conflicts the greatest enemy of

775
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: fantasy casting. Yeah, and do we were into the weird

776
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: weeds on this one. Jordan's tell us about Mr Bigglesworth. Yes.

777
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: On the topic of Dr Evil's nearest and dearest, let's

778
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: discuss his beloved cat, Mr Bigglesworth, a shaggy Persian cat

779
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: who's rendered hairless and really quite terrifying as part of

780
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: the unfreezing process. And in reality he's played by a

781
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: sphinx cat by the name of Ted nu Gent. Uh

782
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: insert cat scratch fever joke here, Ah, he has I

783
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: hate Ted Nugent, as any right thinking person should, so

784
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: I it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. This

785
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,839
Speaker 1: cat had a double who went by the name mel

786
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: GiB Skin. That's much better. And this cat I love.

787
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: How much you love that? This is a hairless cat

788
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: named mel Gibskin. It's great. And these cats were trained

789
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: to remain calm in Mike Meyer's arms when he screams

790
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: as Dr Evil and he's bouncing around and you know,

791
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: sending one of his henchmen to his death. They were

792
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: heavily trained to remain you know, placid, and just stay

793
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: in Mike Meyer's arms for like forty five minutes an

794
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: hour at a time. And this movie led to a

795
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: spike and interest around these unusual cats. But Mr Bigglesworth's trainer,

796
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: a woman by the name of Lisa Wrestler, offered a

797
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: word of warning to The Orlando Sentinel in the sphinx

798
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: is not the ideal pet for everybody. It's not a

799
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: maintenance free animal. People assume that because it has no hair,

800
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: it doesn't require grooming. But sphinx cats need to be

801
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 1: bathed at least once a week. You have to clean

802
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: their ears and pause frequently because they have no hair

803
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: to filter out dirt. You have to keep a sphinx

804
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: in a warm environment because, as she says, think of

805
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: how you would feel if you were walking around your

806
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: house in your underwear. So the more you know, speaking

807
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: of hairless is um or the bald I should have

808
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 1: just said, uh. Mike Myers has a thing against latex

809
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: bald caps. He thinks they didn't look authentic, so he

810
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: shaved his head to play doctor Evil. Seth Green has

811
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: a memory of ce Mike Myers getting his head shaved

812
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: the morning of the first shoot day and thinking, Wow,

813
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: he's really committed to this part. This is gonna be

814
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: a great movie, and he's not wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

815
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: Because speaking of first shoot day, the first scene they

816
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: shot for this film was the therapy session with Carrie Fisher,

817
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: which has that iconic monologue. My dad got me a

818
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: poster from Spencer's Gifts that had that whole doctor Evil

819
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: monologue on it, and my mom confiscated it and would

820
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: not let me let him give it to me because

821
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: it had the penchant for buggery, shaved skirt, um, all that,

822
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: and yeah, Carrie Fisher man not many people. It was

823
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: memory hold for me until we watched it read like

824
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: last year. Um. But yeah, So Carrie Fisher's in the

825
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: SNL family peripher Elee, She's in the periphery because of

826
00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: Belushi and and others, and Meyers that he was loosely

827
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: acquainted with Carrie, which, as you mentioned, presumably through Lauren

828
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: and Paul Simon because she was engaged to Paul Simon

829
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: and Paul Simon's Lauren Michael's best friend, so there's probably

830
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: some connection there. So Meyer centator the script and she

831
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: wrote him a quote very lovely supportive letter saying how

832
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 1: much she loved the movie. She was so supportive during

833
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: the shoot. She just kept giving me a hug and

834
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: telling me, I just love this scene and how weird

835
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: the choices are. Carrie Fisher to give me a hug

836
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: and tell me she loves how weird my choices are. Yeah,

837
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: and she, you know she she was doing all of

838
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 1: her script doctoring at this stage. So that's that's praise

839
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: from Caesar. And so the father and son from the

840
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: beginning of that scene are the same father and son

841
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: from the bud Light commercial that I love you man,

842
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: and you're not getting my bud light Johnny, I'm not

843
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: doing impressions. You're gonna do impressions impressions at commercial, alright, fine,

844
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: because you know, you know if you don't. And while

845
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Speaker 1: we're while we're just running down weird and crazy as

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Speaker 1: we just continue our rollo dex of of the nineties,

847
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 1: the Soup Nazi folks, do you remember the Soup Nazi

848
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Speaker 1: U from Seinfeld? Do you remember the nineties? Do you

849
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: remember feeling hope? Um? The Soup Nazi has a cameo

850
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: in Austin Powers. Larry Thomas is the guy who played

851
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: that character he is in the Blackjack scene You have

852
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: twenty one, sir, I suggest you stay um and j

853
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: Roach and Mike Meyers offered him that just because of Seinfeld.

854
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: So speaking of small parts, no small actors, only small parts,

855
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: no small act I don't know what it is. Whatever, go.

856
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell has his first credited movie role in Austin Powers.

857
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: Not especially groundbreaking news here, but Will Ferrell play the

858
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: role of the henchman who won't die Mustafa not Mufasa

859
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: Mustafa um And this is his first credited movie role

860
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: that we did have an uncredited cameo. It's probably not

861
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: a cameo, probably just uncredited role as a newscaster in

862
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: the film Criminal Hearts. And while we're talking about henchman,

863
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: they get bumped off. I know you love the Halloween franchise.

864
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: I'll let you take this one. But there is a

865
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: Michael Myers Mike Myers connection here that I love so much.

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Speaker 1: Dun't dunt dunt entent. We fade that in h and

867
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Speaker 1: turn that into we do a mashup of that and

868
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: and sol dunt du dun't better better dunt danta. I'm

869
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: not going to do that, but you should or someone else.

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00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: Should someone do that and we'll get and send you

871
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: some I heeart money. Um, that is not a binding agreement, folks,

872
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: not legally binding anyway. Michael McDonald tremendous actor comedian in

873
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: his own right, frequently confused with Will Ferrell because they

874
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: were both tall, goony looking guys playing ridiculous against type

875
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: characters in sketch comedy shows from the nineties. He was

876
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: on Mad TV yeah, uh, and so he plays the

877
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: guy who's run over by Austin power uh extremely slowly.

878
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,720
Speaker 1: Which always struck me is that a fish called Wanda

879
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: bite has to has to be Yeah, you're right, and

880
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: so he is in Halloween Kills, which is uh divisive,

881
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: is part of Danny McBride and David Gordon Green's um

882
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: what people are calling hallow Green because it's uh that

883
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 1: modern trilogy. I don't know. He plays a character named

884
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 1: Little John who is murdered by Mike Myers spoilers. So,

885
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: as someone on Twitter pointed out, this makes Michael McDonald

886
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: the only person on screen to have been killed by

887
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: both Mike Myers and Michael Myers. Anyway, how have we

888
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: gone through this whole podcast without once mentioning Elizabeth Hurley

889
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: another crush for young alex Um. Folks, if you're keeping

890
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 1: track at home, please don't that's weird. Don't tell my wife, Uh,

891
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: Liz Hurley, Why don't you tell us a little bit

892
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: about Elizabeth Hurley Jordan's Yes, we have to talk about

893
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: Mike Myers co star and this film. Who isn't himself

894
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 1: the lovely and talented Elizabeth Hurley who plays Vanessa Kensington.

895
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 1: Her last name is a tribute not to the upscale

896
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: London neighborhood of Kensington, but to a Canadian sitcom called

897
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: King of Kensington, in which a teenage Mike Myers made

898
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: his acting debut in nineteen six, one of several nostalgic

899
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 1: nods to the Great White North that will find in

900
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: this episode Um. At this stage, when she was cast

901
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: in Austin Powers, Elizabeth Hurley was known chiefly in the

902
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: press for being Hugh Grant's girlfriend, and Hugh Grant was

903
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: very excited that she was going to act with Mike Myers.

904
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: In fact, she recalls him saying that Mike Myers was

905
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: one of the funniest comedians on the planet, and Hugh

906
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: Grant actually knew this firsthand. When Mike Myers was first

907
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 1: starting out in comedy. Just after high school. He moved

908
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: to the UK briefly and formed a comedy duo with

909
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: the fantastically named Neo Mularkey, who, as it happens, plays

910
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: the clerk who gives Austin back his Swedish maid uh

911
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: in larger Um, he's the you know, the the quartermaster

912
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: after Austin is on Frozen. So he as a bit

913
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,919
Speaker 1: part in this movie too. So Mike Myers and Neil

914
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,959
Speaker 1: Mularkey tour England as Malarkey and Myers, the comedy duo,

915
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: and they play a bill with a young Hugh Grant

916
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 1: acting in another troupe called The Jockeys of Norfolk. So

917
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: early on in both their careers Mike Myers and he

918
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: Grant shared a stage together or shared a bill. I

919
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: should say, I think that's very interesting. Um. So this

920
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: was really was Herly's first chance to show that she

921
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: could carry a lead role, and she had a tough

922
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: time making this movie for two reasons. One was that

923
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: she couldn't stop cracking up. If you watch the film,

924
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: you notice that she almost never makes eye contact with

925
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:40,439
Speaker 1: Mike Myers because she'd always break which is adorable and understandable.

926
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: The other reason was that she couldn't stop touching Mike Myers,

927
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: and he apparently hated it. She recalled in I'm ludicrously

928
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 1: tactile and Mike isn't at all. But because I was

929
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: so obsessed with Austin, I used to torment Mike by squeezing, stroking,

930
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: and petting him at every opportunity. When I see Mike now,

931
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: I still launch massive physical attacks on him, which sent

932
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: him fleeing for cover. That's that's interesting, um. Future Austin

933
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: Powers heroines have echoed this uh personality quirk of Mike Myers.

934
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: Heather Graham, his co lead in The Spy Who Shagged,

935
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: He said he was totally unflirtatious with me, the least

936
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Speaker 1: flirtatious person I've ever met, and in any romantic scene

937
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: we had, he couldn't wait to get off the set.

938
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: He was kind of like, let's make the best of this.

939
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: Very polite, he was so sweet. He was so in

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00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: love with his wife. Any other woman's probably chopped livered

941
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: to him. Yeah, I'm not going to be the guy

942
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: that's like. Getting touched by Elizabeth Hurlie was bad, but

943
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: also cartoon wolf eies jaw, slamming on the table, having

944
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: to roll the tongue back up, you know, hitting myself

945
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: on the head with a hammer, um, etcetera. Uh. And

946
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:03,280
Speaker 1: while we're diving further into the recesses of Mike Myers,

947
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: conscious or subconscious Peccadillo, great word Peccadilla's. He's super into

948
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: toy soldiers World War two is a major obsession. You

949
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: can see him probably getting out some of that Jones

950
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 1: in Inglorious Bastards where he does that. I think he's

951
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: doing basically a Peter Sellers. It seems like in that

952
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: he's the guy who briefs Michael Fastpender on this mission.

953
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: When he was profiled by Rolling Stone during the making

954
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: of the sequel to The First Awesome Powers, despite his

955
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: shagm me, he described opening a box of Scottish Infantry

956
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: eighth Army soldiers, separating them and carefully clipping the extra

957
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: elastic from each base before lining them up on the table.

958
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: This is part of his profile. This was in a

959
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: national magazine. He explained how he loves to paint them

960
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: and sometimes take polaroids of them. And you wrote, not

961
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: unlike Jeffrey Dahmer, which is a good joke I have

962
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: to get good, but he does joke about it. He's

963
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: has a Monica myself to awareness. At least he made

964
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: a joke about it in in the Profiles. Unless we paint

965
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: Michael Myers is more of a off putting weirdo than

966
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: is just back to Liz Hurley. Yes, the leather Cats

967
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: suit that Elizabeth Hurley's character Vanessa Kensington and her mother

968
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: Mrs Kensington where in the movie it's modeled after the

969
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: one that Diana Riggs character m appeal War in the

970
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 1: classic British spy series The Avengers that we touched on earlier.

971
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: Both Elizabeth Hurley and Mimi Rodgers, who played her mother,

972
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: kept their leather Cat suits as souvenirs from the production.

973
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: Mimi Rodgers has another connection to Austin Powers, although kind

974
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: of more of a tan gentle one in addition to

975
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: playing Liz Hurley's mom, which is kind of rude because

976
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: I think they're not too far apart an age um.

977
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: She was also married to Tom Cruise, who has a

978
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: cameo in the movie Inside a Movie version of Austin

979
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: Powers in the opening scene of gold Member of the

980
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: third installment in the franchise, and it's my understanding that

981
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: Mimi Rodgers was the one who introduced Tom Rus of Scientology, which,

982
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: in the interest of ensuring that my life doesn't become

983
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,760
Speaker 1: a living hell, I'll just say is great. Um. Seems

984
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: to have worked out really well for everybody. UM. But

985
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 1: the final scene of Austin Power is the first one

986
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,240
Speaker 1: when Austin and Vanessa walk around their honeymoon sweet naked

987
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: with their bodies strategically covered by breakfast foods and various items,

988
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: that was filmed that the Scientology Celebrity Center. According to

989
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: the Church of Scientology, the so called celebrity centers were

990
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: set up mostly to entice artists, politicians, leaders of industry,

991
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,720
Speaker 1: and sports figures to join the church, and the center

992
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles was I think the first to be

993
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: established in nine I have no idea why they filmed

994
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,760
Speaker 1: the scene there. Maybe it was through Mimi Rogers. Maybe

995
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: they were trying to entice Mike Myers and the rest

996
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: of the cast to join Scientology. No idea, But while

997
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: shooting this scene, Liz Hurley had tape applied to her

998
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: self and strategic places to just wade onset photographers from

999
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 1: taking photos and then selling these photos against her will

1000
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: to you know, people who buy that kind of thing. Um.

1001
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: Liz Reli has said that everybody knew each other so

1002
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: well at that point, so nobody was self conscious. And

1003
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: the scene took all day to shoot because everything had

1004
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: to sync up and be perfectly choreographed. Mike Byers remembers

1005
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: that it took a lot of rehearsing, but he got

1006
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: the easy job because his path was written in like

1007
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: a pattern on the rug, so he could just see

1008
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: where he was going. But Elizabeth Hurley was this is

1009
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: a quote from him, because I'm not totally sure what

1010
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: it means going off a reverse polarity screen camera left

1011
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: a camera right, so I guess she couldn't have her

1012
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,319
Speaker 1: path drawn on the ground, so she kind of had

1013
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: to just memorize everything and do it all backwards like

1014
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: a weird dance. That day of the choreograph basically, and

1015
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: it was one complete take, so they had to do

1016
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: this twenty five times, and director j Roach later said

1017
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 1: it was a hilarious scene, but it was actually really

1018
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,399
Speaker 1: stressful because we were starting to feel like we may

1019
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: never get it, and this scene caused some stress in

1020
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: a different way because it almost meant that Austin Power

1021
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: has got an R rating from the m p a A,

1022
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: the Motion Picture Association of America, who's in charge of

1023
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: rating films. Uh. In the Hollywood Reporters amazing oral history

1024
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 1: about Austin Powers, j Roach says the nudity blocking was

1025
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: something the m p a A wanted to be sure.

1026
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 1: We didn't go too far with the cheeky phallic references

1027
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: like Elizabeth biting the sausage and holding the melons up,

1028
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 1: but they were all pretty innocent body shaped jokes. The

1029
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: only thing they asked us to do in the final cut,

1030
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: which was kind of surprising to me, was that they

1031
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: thought there was too much butt cheek on Mike when

1032
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: he got thawed out, so I went for a slightly

1033
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: more profile version of that scene. Yeah, they I d

1034
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,919
Speaker 1: that the dick and balls shuttle gets a pass. God,

1035
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: the m p A is weird, um, but you know,

1036
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: given how sort of exacting and fussy we've made Mike

1037
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: Myers to sound, and by his own admission, he is.

1038
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: He said that this film was improvised. Obviously, the naked

1039
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: hotel room scene heavily rehearsed, but he put the figure

1040
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: at of improvised dialogue the scene the whole bag of

1041
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: down here with your name on it is improvised, the

1042
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: whole Fraul far bussin a bit with the Lucky Charms

1043
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: also off the cuff, um and oh man, I love

1044
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: Tar Mordel, but I forgot. Yeah, he plays the cowboy

1045
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: obviously next to Austin Powers when he's doing the who

1046
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: does Number two work for? And Tom Arnold's just riffing

1047
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: and the line courtesy flush specifically, Yeah, you said that

1048
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: that's stuff something that people in Iowa say as a

1049
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: courtesy flush. And and the best is that apparently he

1050
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: also improvised the oh my god, what did you eat?

1051
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: Kicker of that whole scene, which is amazing and as

1052
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 1: you mentioned, a sort of return to forum for Tom Arnold,

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Speaker 1: who has been also in another film where secret agents

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00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: bite and kill henchman in a public restroom while one

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00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: person is sitting on the toilet next to them. What

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00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: film was that, readers, callers, can we go to the lines?

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00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: True Lies co starring Jamie Lee Curtis along with arn Schwarzenegger.

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00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: There's another Halloween connection and another fish called Wanda connection. Um,

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00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: that's kind of a stretch. I shouldn't give myself that one,

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00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: but I'll give myself the We'll give it the Halloween one.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, what's your favorite, though? What's your favorite? I

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00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: think my favorite improvised line is when Austin and Vanessa

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00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: Kensington are driving through what's meant to be the English countryside, which,

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00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: as Austin notes, looks nothing like southern California, the joke being,

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Speaker 1: of course it is southern California because the production couldn't

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Speaker 1: afford to travel to England for b roll. Uh. It's

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Speaker 1: impossible to overstate just how cheaply this movie was made.

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00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: The sixteen point five million dollar budget is not a lot.

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00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: And this goes a long way and explaining the insane,

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Speaker 1: cameo filled movie within a movie of gold Member, which

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00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: has Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Danny DeVito, Britney Spears,

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Speaker 1: Michael Bay level explosions, all sorts of crazy stuff, and

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Speaker 1: I mean they definitely, you know, had earned it at

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Speaker 1: that point. Sixteen million is like micro budget. Practically, they

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01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: probably spend most of their money getting burke back rack.

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Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be

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01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: right back with more. Too much information in just a

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Speaker 1: moment um. You know, we're shying away from the problematic

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Speaker 1: aspects of this film, or at least not shying away

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01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: from them, but at least not calling so much attention

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01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: to them. But then there's the fembots, um, but they

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01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: are a reference to different times, so at least it

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01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: wasn't invented whole cloth. Um. There's a cult film from

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01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: nineteen called Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. It's a

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01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: parody Doctor Goldfoot obviously rip on gold Finger plots, absolutely

1086
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: insane if you haven't seen it. It's about this mad

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01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: scientist who builds robots that look like women who are

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01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: programmed to seduce and rob wealthy men. And you mentioned

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01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 1: the Tenth Victim being a huge influence on this film

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01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: before Ursula Andress character kills a character in that film

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01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: after stripping for them, and she murders them with machine

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01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 1: guns in her bra So that was an anti seadent.

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01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: I guess how does that even work? Whatever, we're not

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01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 1: talking about that. And lastly, in Monty Python, the women

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01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: at Castle Anthrax who which it's Michael Palin that they

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01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: think it's ahead. Yeah, Um, Mike Myers a big Monty nerd.

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01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 1: As we've established took some inspiration from these fatals. I

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01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: guess I always think of them fatals is being more

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01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: like film noirri. These are kind of what they call

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01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 1: them vamps or Yeah. And one of those kumbots is

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01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: played by Cindy Margolis, who is a certain segment of

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01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: this population may recognize her name. Uh. She claimed in

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01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: the early years of the Internet to be the most

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Speaker 1: downloaded woman online. All right, let's get into more of

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Speaker 1: the actual shooting on this and the toll it took

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01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: on people, physical, mental, emotional. Yes, the fembots they lurked

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Speaker 1: throughout Dr Evil's secret underground missile silo layer. In reality,

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01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: this is a backup power plant for Los Angeles which

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01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: is dormant and unused the majority of the time. But unfortunately,

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01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: when the Austin Power's production came the shoot, there had

1111
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:34,920
Speaker 1: been a brown out in l A that weekend and

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01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: everything was switched on and extremely loud, and Jay Roach

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01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: later said the decibel level was so high that everyone

1114
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: was required to wear sound blocking headphones and he directed

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01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: everybody by screaming at them and using gestures, and they

1116
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 1: would really just only take off the headphones when they

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01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: were actually shooting and he just he said, it was

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Speaker 1: an unbelievable nightmare. And this is also the location where

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Speaker 1: Austin does his twenty seven point turn in that car.

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Speaker 1: And Mike Myers later said that it was a really

1121
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: tricky scene because they were in this power facility where

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01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: everything was incredibly delicate, and he said that just before

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Speaker 1: they went to take the scene, they told him, by

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01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: the way, if this car actually hits a certain part

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01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: of this wall, it's going to cost us a hundred grand,

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01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,120
Speaker 1: so make sure to do it right. So the pressure

1127
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:19,920
Speaker 1: was on for him to nail those You know, it

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01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: looks like he's just screwed around, but it was actually

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01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: a very heavily choreographed sequence, as you know, like the

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01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:28,439
Speaker 1: fruit scene, like the naked fruit bit. Comedy is paint

1131
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: and here this will interest you. As Austin Powers and

1132
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 1: Vanessa Kensington escape from the underground facility, they run by

1133
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 1: Basquez Rocks, which is a state park which is a

1134
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: popular filming location for the original sixty Star Trek series.

1135
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: Is then where Shatter fronts the like lizard monster, you

1136
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 1: know what it might be anyway, back to Liz Hurley,

1137
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: as all things must, as all things drift, the arc

1138
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 1: of the universe bends towards Elizabeth Hurley. Yes, even though

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01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: this was a comedy, there were some scenes that were

1140
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: actually very dangerous to shoot. One that you might not

1141
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: expect was the romantic dinner scene on top of the

1142
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: double decker bus cruise in the Las Vegas Strip, where

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01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: Austin is arranged not only a candle at dinner, but

1144
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 1: they're being serenaded by real life swinger legend Burt backer

1145
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 1: Rack singing what the World Needs Now and Mike as

1146
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 1: Austin twirls Elizabeth Hurley as they danced on the top

1147
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: of this bus and for one take, he accidentally twirled

1148
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: her a little too hard and she just went careening

1149
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: towards the edge of the railing and nearly tumbled over

1150
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: the side before he grabbed her at the last second.

1151
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 1: And I mean, can you imagine falling to your death

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01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: as Burt back Rack played his hits, I mean, that's

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01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 1: pretty much how I want to go. See. That sounds

1154
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 1: like the worst possible thing for me, my personality. Um yeah,

1155
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what would I want? A mosh pitot

1156
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 1: bet Tom Waits, that's all too appropriate, that's all a

1157
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 1: little too on the nose. Um Yeah, and you mentioned

1158
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: that Mike's dad was a fan of so this is

1159
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 1: another thing about his dad issues. Um. I think that

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01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 1: was the last scene that they filmed, actually was just

1161
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: cruising up and down the street. And Jay Roach later

1162
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: said that the Las Vegas authorities gave permission to just

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01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: cruise the strip all night long, dance on a Burt

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Speaker 1: back Rack on the top deck of a double decker bus.

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Speaker 1: I mean to me, that's that does that That's an

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01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: all time boment right there. Yeah, and while we're talking

1167
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: about the music of Austin Powers, let's take a look

1168
01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: at it. You know, it's got this sort of nineties

1169
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: sixties throwback thing, which is was a big trend. The Cardigans,

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01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:39,560
Speaker 1: Edwyn Collins, who did who was an Orange Juice, The

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01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: Lightning Seeds, Divinyls, the Wonderments, who were Brian Wilson's backing

1172
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 1: band at one point. Um. And then of course the

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01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 1: theme song, which is probably the music that I remember,

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01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:53,920
Speaker 1: Burt Backrack and Soul Bossa Nova recorded by the great

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01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 1: Quincy Jones. The guy who plays the flute solo on

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01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:00,919
Speaker 1: that is Raissan Roland Kirk, who's this trum mendous jazz

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01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: musician who's blind and famous for doing these incredible heroic

1178
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: feats of um, like circular breathing. Like there's these really

1179
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,439
Speaker 1: wild clips of him on YouTube where he's playing two

1180
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: saxophones that he would work on. He worked on all

1181
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 1: of his own instruments, modified them so that he could

1182
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: play all this stuff one handed, and he just jams

1183
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: them both in his mouth and does these like incredible

1184
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 1: solos that take I mean, it's insane. It's like watching

1185
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 1: it's like it looks faked because he just plays these

1186
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: unnaturally long lines because he was this master of circular

1187
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: breathing kind of like well, now I'm not gonna say

1188
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: it was gonna say kind of like Kenny G playing

1189
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: like a saxophone note for eight hours, but actually much

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01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: more than Kenny G. Anyway, Uh, what why we can't

1191
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 1: say anything more about Quincy Jones's He says he wrote

1192
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: this in twenty minutes in nWo um, Yeah, it sounds

1193
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: like that. It's like three it's like three riffs just

1194
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: kind of stacked on top of each other. And so

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01:06:56,640 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 1: another another Canadian reference here, Mike Myers knew that as

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01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 1: the theme song to a Canadian game show called Definition

1197
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: that he grew up watching, so it's an in joke

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01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: for Canadians that he threw it in. And apparently he

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01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: and Quincy were tight because Quincy Jones hosted SNL and

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01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, sure, you can use this in

1201
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: your movie. Mike. Um, this is where we would throw

1202
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 1: in something about remember when Quincy Jones was doing those

1203
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:23,760
Speaker 1: all those interviews where he was like blowing up everybody

1204
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, like he knew who killed JFK and threw

1205
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: the Beatles under the bus and I think said like

1206
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 1: Bernard Purdy was playing all Ringos parts, and I forget

1207
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 1: if he said that or just Bernard pretty said that himself. Yeah, yeah,

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01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 1: that was interesting. That was fun. So we've talked about

1209
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: all the stuff that made it into the movie. Let's

1210
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:48,479
Speaker 1: start talking about what got cut out. One joke cut

1211
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: for the UK, in particular, is the bit where Dr

1212
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: Evil was positing his various schemes for holding the world ransom,

1213
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 1: and Robert Wagner's character Number two keeps pointing out why

1214
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 1: the won't work because you know, frozen for thirty years

1215
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: just like Captain America. Uh. One of Dr Eagle's plans

1216
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:11,560
Speaker 1: is to stage an affair to blackmail the British Royal family,

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01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: and number two says Prince Charles did have an affair,

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01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: he admitted it, and now they're divorced. And that was

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01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:19,559
Speaker 1: fine when the movie was released in May of nineties seven,

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01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: but it was released in the u K. A week

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01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: after Princess Diana had died, so they actually cut that

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01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: line on the grounds of good taste, which is very

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Speaker 1: sweet considering they probably could have put it in a

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01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 1: joke about Prince Andrew. Uh and and uh you know,

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01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 1: you all know um other scenes that got left on

1226
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: the cutting room floor. The international version of the film

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01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: does have these, the American cut doesn't because we can't

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Speaker 1: handle anything that goes over ninety four minutes. One of

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01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 1: them is an extended version of the fight sequence between

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01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: Austin and Random task to not one but two scenes

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01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 1: featuring Chris can Slater as a hypnotized Henchman. I shudder

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01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 1: to think what that would have been like, just like

1233
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: watching Jack Nicholson light doing it. Uh. Cryogenic Skaggs that

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01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:14,599
Speaker 1: involved the defrosting of Gary Coleman Evil Kinevil and Vanilla

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01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: Ice Evil kanevl might have been passed there so by

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01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 1: date as a reference by ninety seven, don't you think?

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01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:23,879
Speaker 1: Yea vanilla? Yeah, he's still fair game. Uh. And scenes

1238
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: where families of various slain henchmen are informed of their

1239
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: tragic and violent deaths. That sounds amazing, what I have

1240
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:36,599
Speaker 1: to say? It has to be on the special features somewhere.

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01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure those are available somewhere. I haven't looked them up. Actually,

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01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: that's a shocking oversight from you. Um. How dare you

1243
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:54,600
Speaker 1: come onto this my podcast unprepared? I'm sick of carrying

1244
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,679
Speaker 1: you up and down the court forty five minutes a night.

1245
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 1: All right. Jordan's que is into one of the darker

1246
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:05,799
Speaker 1: things about this film. Yes, Um, I was really excited

1247
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 1: to watch all of those bonus scenes, except for the

1248
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: extended Random Task fight. His scenes are a little hard

1249
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: for me to watch because the actor who played Random

1250
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:18,599
Speaker 1: Task is in prison where he killed his cell mate. Uh.

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01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: The actor who played Random Task is known professionally as

1252
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:25,479
Speaker 1: Joe Son, and he was South Korean mixed martial arts fighter,

1253
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:28,839
Speaker 1: and he also performs a singer and dancer at wrestling

1254
01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:33,679
Speaker 1: events in Japan. Side note, I love how in most

1255
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: Eastern fighting cultures all of these guys sing like Jackie

1256
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 1: Chan has singles out. Manny Pacquiao has songs out. I

1257
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yeah, it's like you train yourself to

1258
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: you train your body and then you train your soul

1259
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:54,519
Speaker 1: to sing. That's ridiculous. What is random task song sound like?

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Speaker 1: I haven't looked. I don't know if if they actually

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Speaker 1: were released as singles or not. I think just might

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Speaker 1: have been like his bit that he would do um

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Speaker 1: in between fights. I'm not sure. Okay, okay, sure, alright,

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Speaker 1: carry on. But of course he also acted and his

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Speaker 1: career took off, playing the lead villain in the film Viper,

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Speaker 1: as well as appearing in the Dolph Londren led action

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Speaker 1: film Joshua Tree. But obviously Awesome Powers was his big

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Speaker 1: breakout role and fame would be fleeting, and by two

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Speaker 1: thousand eight he had been convicted of felony vandalism and

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Speaker 1: placed on probation, which he repeatedly violated, and as a result,

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Speaker 1: Joe Son was given a harsher sentence and forced to

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Speaker 1: provide a DNA sample, And this is when things got

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Speaker 1: really weird. Joson's DNA sample linked into a cold case,

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Speaker 1: from the details of which are grotesque, in brutal and

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Speaker 1: I don't really care to get into it. Google it

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Speaker 1: if you must, but to give you a hint, the

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Speaker 1: many charges, which include torture on Christmas Eve, carried a

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Speaker 1: maximum sentence of two hundred and seventy five years to

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Speaker 1: life if convicted. Um. The freaky part of this all

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Speaker 1: is that the victim had a copy of Austin Powers

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Speaker 1: in their home, so presumably they watched their assailant in

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Speaker 1: this comedy, which anyway, moving on, please get us out

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Speaker 1: of this, get us out of this nightmare. Joe Son

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Speaker 1: was sent to prison in September for a minimum of

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Speaker 1: seven years, and within a month he had beaten his

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Speaker 1: cell mate to death in the prison yard and placed

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Speaker 1: in solitary confinement. He was sentenced in seventeen to an

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Speaker 1: additional twenty seven years minimum in prison, where I would

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Speaker 1: imagine he is likely to stay. Um, there's no graceful

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Speaker 1: way to make this transition. I feel like this is

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Speaker 1: one of the most common factoids with all the movies

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Speaker 1: we've done so far. Despite its status as a classic

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Speaker 1: that launched one of the most successful, or at least

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Speaker 1: one of the most hilarious franchises in cinema history, Austin

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Speaker 1: Powers was not a huge box office hit. Even the

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Speaker 1: premier A Groman's Chinese Theater was a bit of a

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Speaker 1: sat trombone. Seth Green recalls that nobody even bothered to

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Speaker 1: take his picture. He later said, it felt like it

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Speaker 1: just wasn't happening. Uh. It performed okay in US theaters.

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Speaker 1: It made fifty three point nine million from the initial

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Speaker 1: sixteen point five million budget, though it underperformed overseas, which

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Speaker 1: led it to be dubbed something of a flop, and

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01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 1: j Roach later said people didn't know what to make

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Speaker 1: of it. It's weird. This guy with an English accent,

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01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 1: harold over his body and bad teeth. It's like a

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Speaker 1: hallucination when you put it like that. Yeah. Sure, But

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Speaker 1: thanks in large part through its quotability, the movie really

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Speaker 1: scored through home video VHS and especially the early DVD

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Speaker 1: market because this was actually one of the first movies

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Speaker 1: that were released on DVD, and the vibrant color has

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Speaker 1: made it really well suited to this, you know, high bullies,

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Speaker 1: higher definition format, and the bonus scenes were sort of

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Speaker 1: a revelation to this is like, you know, one of

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Speaker 1: the first movies that had bonus scenes on the DVD release.

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Speaker 1: Uh so this helps. So the seeds for the sequels

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Speaker 1: by Who Shagged Me, which grossed a massive three hundred

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Speaker 1: and twelve million dollars worldwide, more than five times as

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Speaker 1: much as the first film, and altogether the franchise earned

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Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy six million dollars in theaters worldwide

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Speaker 1: the theaters alone, and this earned a lot of money

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Speaker 1: not only for Mike Myers, but also the actress Demi Moore,

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Speaker 1: who served as producer in all three films. Not many

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Speaker 1: people know that, and Austin Powers had an impact on

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Speaker 1: the Bond series. The mockery directed towards Doble O seven

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Speaker 1: reportedly caused Bond producers the Broccoli family and presumably others,

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Speaker 1: but they're like the main stewards of that to take

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Speaker 1: another look at the franchise and we get the gritty reboot.

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Speaker 1: You know. One of the archetypal gritty reboots, along with

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Speaker 1: like Batman Begins, that kind of started that as a

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Speaker 1: mockable term is their Casino Royale, which is itself different

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Speaker 1: from the Bond Spy parody Casino Royal starring Peter Sellers

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Speaker 1: that Austin Powers is partially based on. It's just like

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Speaker 1: I've gone cross Eyes. Yes exactly. Yes, we could get

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Speaker 1: into the whole weird kfuffle of why Casino Royale and

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Speaker 1: sixty seven was a parody and not the real movie.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's too yeah, Google if you're interested, but

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Speaker 1: it's not that chancing that way madness lies. Yeah. So,

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Speaker 1: but it took them five years to do that because

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01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: this comes out and what andros movies are in advance.

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01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: You know, Rosin probably had a bunch more run there

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01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 1: on his contract, and they were like, we gotta make

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01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:42,200
Speaker 1: it through all of these. The only way out is through.

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01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:47,320
Speaker 1: Daniel Craig himself put a very fine point on it.

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Speaker 1: He said, we had to destroy the myth because Mike

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Speaker 1: Myers us. I am a huge Mike Myers fan, so

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01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but he kind of us made

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01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: it impossible to do the gags. The truth of it is,

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01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 1: I always had this plan in my head that we

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01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:04,559
Speaker 1: got to make them and begin again and bring a

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Speaker 1: serious side back to Bond, which you did, David Craig,

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Speaker 1: is great. You mentioned that this turned into a six

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Speaker 1: figure million half a billion dollar franchise, which unsurprisingly led

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Speaker 1: to talk of other spinoffs. So after they made The

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Speaker 1: Spy Who Shagged Me and before they made gold Member,

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Speaker 1: which is like it's like Godfather three. We don't really

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Speaker 1: talk about Cold Member. HBO made a deal for a

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Speaker 1: thirteen episode Austin Powers cartoon series, which was never brought

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Speaker 1: to fruition, so naturally the question on everybody's lips, in

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Speaker 1: this era of reboots and requels and greedy reboots, will

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Speaker 1: there be a fourth Austin Powers. There have been several

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Speaker 1: reports over the past fifteen years that another installment is

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Speaker 1: in development, and as recently as well not recently six

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Speaker 1: years ago. J Roach said that although there's no movie

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Speaker 1: in the works currently, Mike Myers and I talked about

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Speaker 1: it every time we get together. I would say it's

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Speaker 1: in a latent phase right now, but someday if we

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Speaker 1: find the right idea. For sure, Mike gave me the

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Speaker 1: break of a lifetime in letting me direct the first film,

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Speaker 1: so I'm always good to go. But after Verne Troyer,

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Speaker 1: who played Mini Me, died, Roach has been less into it.

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Speaker 1: He told the Independent, to be honest, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how we do it without Verne. We always had, we

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01:17:24,240 --> 01:17:27,599
Speaker 1: always had ideas of revealing a whole life that would

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Speaker 1: have taken his character much further. I'm sorry to laugh

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01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:32,559
Speaker 1: at that, but the idea that the fourth Austin Powers

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Speaker 1: is held up because they wanted to do a mini

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Speaker 1: me back story and I didn't. I couldn't see any

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Speaker 1: other way out. We love to make this five million

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Speaker 1: dollar grossing film, but one of our tertiary characters can

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Speaker 1: no longer appear in it. To be insensitive, No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Verne's great in that, but it's just like it's it's like,

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Speaker 1: what was their b plan? Like a fat bastard Joker

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Speaker 1: style reimagining there come on, guys. So yeah, Myers reportedly

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Speaker 1: had a loose idea for a prequel that would explore

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Speaker 1: Austin and Dr Evil's battles in the sixties leading up

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Speaker 1: to the Freezing. Yeah, there's another gritty reboot, but with

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Speaker 1: each passing year it is starting to look less and

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01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: less likely. But you know, I guess you could reframe

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01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 1: that Uber eats commercials a kind of light at the

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01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 1: end of the tunnel if he if all the Shrek

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01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:25,840
Speaker 1: residuals have dried up, there's not another one of those

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Speaker 1: on the horizon, and Uber can pay him enough money

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01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:30,760
Speaker 1: to get into a commercial. We're probably going to get

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Speaker 1: them at Austin Powers reboot, I hope, so, I hope

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Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan does it. So I'd like to end this

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Speaker 1: episode with my favorite story concerning Austin Powers, one of

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01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: my favorite stories ever. In fact um, you know, as

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Speaker 1: we say at the top of the episode, the DNA

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Speaker 1: of this franchise can be traced to The Three Bees, Bond,

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Speaker 1: British comedy and The Beatles. Mike Myers performed with Monty

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01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:56,640
Speaker 1: Python and the Honors Sean Connery at various public functions

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Speaker 1: and thanks to Austin Powers, he got the ultimate accolade

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Speaker 1: from one of the Beatles. Uh. You know, as I said,

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01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 1: the Beatles was such a huge creative inspiration for Mike

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Speaker 1: Myers and what they meant to his family, who, like

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01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,759
Speaker 1: the Beatles, were from Liverpool. Liverpool was a pretty poor

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01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 1: rundown place until the Beatles made it cool and in

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01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 1: a sense it gave some dignity to the Meyers family

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Speaker 1: heritage and it meant a lot to Mike's whole family,

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Speaker 1: and He's appeared in numerous documentaries over the years talking

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Speaker 1: about how much the Beatles had meant to him and

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Speaker 1: his family and He specifically talks about the story about

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01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:30,720
Speaker 1: how he went to see A Hard Day's Night with

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01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: his older brothers and at the scene when the helicopter

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01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:35,800
Speaker 1: takes off at the end of the movie and the

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01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 1: Beatles fly away, he started to cry because he wanted

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Speaker 1: to keep hanging out with the Beatles, which I can

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01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 1: a thousand percent relate to. And George was always his

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01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:47,639
Speaker 1: favorite because he said that it looked like his dad

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01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 1: to him, and I always reminded him his dad. So

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Speaker 1: the day that George Harrison died in November of two

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Speaker 1: thousand one, it was obviously a dark day for all

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Speaker 1: Beatles fans. But on the same day, Mike Myers received

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Speaker 1: a letter from George, which by all accounts is the

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Speaker 1: last letter that George Harrison ever wrote, and it was

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Speaker 1: a fan letter about Austin Powers. And bizarrely, this all

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Speaker 1: seems like, you know, it really makes you question, uh fate.

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01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: He was on the set of gold Member filming the

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Speaker 1: intro to the movie within a movie bit with all

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Speaker 1: the mega stars, and it apparently wasn't going well and

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01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:25,800
Speaker 1: he had all these you know, big power players on

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01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:28,640
Speaker 1: the set and it was just really stressful. And then

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01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 1: he saw the news that Georgia died, and he started

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01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:32,639
Speaker 1: to cry and he thought to himself, oh my god,

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01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:34,680
Speaker 1: this is the worst day of my life. One of

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Speaker 1: my heroes has died, and my professional career is is

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01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:41,680
Speaker 1: about to tank today. And then moments later he was

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Speaker 1: handed this letter and it was from George and he

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01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 1: talks about having a doctor Evil doll. And I guess

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01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:48,880
Speaker 1: towards the end of his life, when he was too

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01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:51,880
Speaker 1: ill to speak in business meetings, he would pull the

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01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 1: pool string on this doctor Evil doll and have Doctor

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01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 1: Evil say, why must I be surrounded by freaking idiots?

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01:20:57,840 --> 01:21:02,719
Speaker 1: Which is amazing um. And I guess George Harrison heard

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01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,439
Speaker 1: the story of little Mike Myers crying at the end

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01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:07,759
Speaker 1: of a hard day's night when the Beatles flew away,

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01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 1: And at the end of this note he wrote, I'm

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01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: sorry I left you on the helicopter that day. I

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01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:15,839
Speaker 1: promise I won't do it again. To reiterate, Mike Myers

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01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 1: receives this letter the day George Harrison died, and that

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01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 1: is the kicker on the letter. H Well, that's yeah,

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01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 1: this episode going for the various gut and heart strings.

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01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 1: Good lord, Yeah, I'm now too choked up. To speak anymore,

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01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:38,719
Speaker 1: which is not how I expected to end an episode

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01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:40,960
Speaker 1: about one of the best comedy franchises of the last

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01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: twenty five years. But but here we are to quote

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Speaker 1: another Mike Myers creation. I'm getting for clemped talk amongst yourselves.

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01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:54,240
Speaker 1: Oh man, well, hi, well that was that was really

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01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:57,479
Speaker 1: special for me. I hope you. I hope you enjoyed that.

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Speaker 1: That was good for you too. Sorry to undercut all

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Speaker 1: of your touching moments with no I need that. Yeah,

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01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 1: uh Serbic Vineger. But yeah, I learned a lot. I

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01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: hope everyone else learned a lot. And I hope the

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Speaker 1: emotional wounds that we inflicted this episode will heal. I'm

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Speaker 1: Alex Hegel and I'm Jordan run Talk. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for listening to Too Much Information. We'll catch you next time.

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Speaker 1: Too Much Information was a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: The show's executive producers are Noel Brown and Jordan Runt Talk.

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Speaker 1: The supervising producer is Mike John's. The show was researched

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Speaker 1: and written and hosted by Jordan Runt Talk and Alex Heagel,

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Speaker 1: with original music by Seth apple Bomb and the Ghost

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Speaker 1: Funk Orchestra. If you like what you heard, Please subscribe

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