Speaker 1: Get a Peter Helly here, Welcome to you Ain't seen
Speaker 1: nothing yet the Movie Podcast. We're our chat to a
Speaker 1: movie lover about a classic or beloved film they haven't
Speaker 1: quite got around to watching until now. And today's guests
Speaker 1: Funny Bugger, beer enthusiast Brettlake.
Speaker 2: All below.
Speaker 3: I want to stay here with you.
Speaker 2: Get the jobble my hat, snake shucked my hail.
Speaker 1: They couldn't have.
Speaker 4: A a right.
Speaker 5: So you ain't seen nothing new.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love this episode of Yasney with Brett Blake.
Speaker 1: Brett Blake has been tearing up the stages stand up
Speaker 1: stages around Australia for a few years now. He's a
Speaker 1: mulleted genius. He's got a mullet that it's a serious one.
Speaker 1: It's a very serious mullet and he's not mucking about.
Speaker 1: He would have seen him kill at the Melbourne International
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival Gala supporting his comedy festival shows over the years.
Speaker 1: He may have seen. He's a standup special Bergan genius
Speaker 1: available on Paramount Plus. He's got one out now which
Speaker 1: is going gangbusters. As we would say, thousands of thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands of people growing every day on YouTube go
Speaker 1: hard or Go Home. Check that out. It's very very funny.
Speaker 1: A couple of podcasts Flat Sticks with his good mate Nikappe.
Speaker 1: If you love motorcycling, Blakeie is very serious about motorcycling,
Speaker 1: and also another one with recent Yasney guest Brian Lewis,
Speaker 1: Very funny. Bron Lewis with work hates where they I
Speaker 1: think they're basically shit on their old bosses, their old jobs,
Speaker 1: talk to other comedians about the shitty jobs that we do.
Speaker 1: He actually it's a fascinating chat, this one because he
Speaker 1: actually works in the industry, both on stage and off stage.
Speaker 1: He works in the lighting department. He does various films
Speaker 1: and TV series and he still does and he loves it.
Speaker 1: For this episode, it feels different than most other episodes
Speaker 1: because he's such a straight shooter. There's no bullshit, you know,
Speaker 1: it's as seen on the packet. No other guest has
Speaker 1: spoken his own truth about various films and artists than
Speaker 1: Brett blake does on this episode. Blakie is straightforward, he's
Speaker 1: got no bullshit policy, and he's funny as fun He's
Speaker 1: probably there's a delightful bloke as well, and I'm stoked
Speaker 1: to be hanging with him today.
Speaker 6: Good day, guys. One name's Brett Blake. My three favorite
Speaker 6: films are Men of Honor.
Speaker 2: Shin down.
Speaker 5: We have every cook and shine boy in this camp
Speaker 5: thinking they'll be next to try a stunt like this.
Speaker 4: So you listen up.
Speaker 2: Don't bring him up till he stops building.
Speaker 1: You're dead now, sir, do.
Speaker 5: Kill he stops.
Speaker 2: Movie Chief terminated too. I need your clothes, your boots,
Speaker 2: and your motorcycle.
Speaker 1: You forgot to.
Speaker 2: Say please and John Wick Evening.
Speaker 7: John Evening, Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Noise complain, noise complain. Okay, what fuck you are working again?
Speaker 6: No, I'm just sorting some stuff out.
Speaker 1: Oh olive, you be there.
Speaker 6: On John, Jimmy, And up until this week, I had
Speaker 6: never seen the movie The Jerk.
Speaker 7: My story, Okay, it was never easy for me. I
Speaker 7: was born a poor black child. I remember the days
Speaker 7: sitting on the porch with my family, singing and dancing
Speaker 7: down in Mississippi.
Speaker 1: Yes, before there was Forrest Gump, there was Navin Johnson,
Speaker 1: a simple minded white man growing up in a Southern
Speaker 1: African American family, praying one day to fit in. But
Speaker 1: to do so, like Forest before him, he must go
Speaker 1: on a journey of self discovery where he discovers his
Speaker 1: special purpose love fame, fortune, and infamy. Nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: The Jerk is considered an American comedy classic and was
Speaker 1: the big screen debut of comedy megastar Steve Martin. The
Speaker 1: Jerk is a perfect combination of Martin's stand up and
Speaker 1: a glimpse into the career that lay ahead for him.
Speaker 1: Written by Steve Martin, directed by comedy heavyweight Carl Rainer,
Speaker 1: The Jerk is a place in many a comedy fans
Speaker 1: heart Brett Blake, did you grow up a poor black child?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I didn't. I could not relate to that story at all.
Speaker 1: You're like, why did I choose this movie?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean it was a very funny film.
Speaker 6: I did enjoy it, but I think, yeah, well, we
Speaker 6: would get into it later, but I feel like it
Speaker 6: might have been not of my era.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there's a big discussion to have about that,
Speaker 1: and we will get to it. Why hadn't, Well, why
Speaker 1: did you choose The Jerk? So I give you? I
Speaker 1: gave you a list like I do or guests of
Speaker 1: the show. Sometimes people know that exactly the movie, they
Speaker 1: haven't scene and that they be mean the seat for
Speaker 1: a long time. Others have to peruse the list and
Speaker 1: find one. How did you come to the jerk?
Speaker 6: I wanted something that would be fun to talk about,
Speaker 6: so I was like comedy, and on that list there
Speaker 6: was like so many black and white films.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not watching a black and line.
Speaker 6: As soon as I see that or any like when
Speaker 6: they put subtitles, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to fucking
Speaker 6: read a book. I don't want to sit down and
Speaker 6: relax anything black and whites out. And then they had
Speaker 6: like there was like two David Lynch films. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't want to lose three years of my life
Speaker 6: watching a fucking film. The David Lynch films confused the
Speaker 6: funk out of me. I went to film school. They're
Speaker 6: the worst films ever made. No one has ever watched
Speaker 6: the David Lynch film and gone, oh, I get it,
Speaker 6: let's move on. Therefore, like tay students who want to
Speaker 6: fucking root chicks and drum circles, I swear to God
Speaker 6: that is all.
Speaker 2: Is this a kid's podcast?
Speaker 1: I hope not. No.
Speaker 6: I can't stand David Lynch films, and they're annoying me.
Speaker 2: And there was there was a baz lermin one on there.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I didn't want.
Speaker 6: To have an epileptic fit that guy made. There's too
Speaker 6: many carts in a film. Could you watch Elvis?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one.
Speaker 6: Has finished that film. It was like, it's like seven.
Speaker 6: It's like someone strapped to go pro to a cat
Speaker 6: and just let it go. Worst director ever.
Speaker 1: Wow, Brett Blokes come out swinging.
Speaker 2: Man, name a good film is done?
Speaker 1: I would I would say Robo and Juliet was a
Speaker 1: for its time, combining the you know, the Tarantino kind
Speaker 1: of stuff with the great Bard was a good one.
Speaker 2: What do you think of Australia?
Speaker 1: Australia was not good. I actually tried to watch recently
Speaker 1: because they divided it up into episodes on Disney. Oh
Speaker 1: they cut it up yeah, six, so it's six or
Speaker 1: eight episodes. And even then I found it because I
Speaker 1: thought I should revisit it, and I found it. I
Speaker 1: really like baz Lerman. I'm more sympathetic to the filmmaker
Speaker 1: than perhaps you are.
Speaker 2: It's like, just pick a show and stay with it. Man.
Speaker 6: Elvis I tried three times. I love the story of Elvis.
Speaker 6: I want to watch it, but I'm like I tried
Speaker 6: on the movies. I walked out there, I watched it
Speaker 6: on a plane. I was like, I can't even cope
Speaker 6: with it on this small screen, like I've got ady
Speaker 6: HD and it was.
Speaker 2: Too much for me.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, it's like.
Speaker 6: Just just settle down. You must have thirty cameras rolling
Speaker 6: all the time.
Speaker 1: Listen. He has his own stamp where it's like this
Speaker 1: is a Baz Luman film and it's one. He's one
Speaker 1: of very few Australian filmmakers that I think has that
Speaker 1: kind of stamp. I think George Miller might be another one,
Speaker 1: but George Miller will still like do different kinds of films.
Speaker 1: That's it's one of those very few Australian filmmakers where
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people, he's an appointment
Speaker 1: to view. Like when he comes out with a film,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, I'm going to see that, where others,
Speaker 1: like even George military an extent, like you know, I
Speaker 1: love Mad Max and all that, but I didn't see
Speaker 1: the thousands of year longing that one between the last
Speaker 1: Mad Mexican in the new one.
Speaker 6: Do you want something else? I had about bas Lemon.
Speaker 6: I heard that because I work in the film industry.
Speaker 6: I'm a lighting technician by trade. Originally, that's my my
Speaker 6: little crust.
Speaker 1: Have you been fired off a Bas Lemon film?
Speaker 2: No, I haven't.
Speaker 6: I would never work on one. He would fucking do
Speaker 6: my heading. I don't think he's another ones I've.
Speaker 2: Done in bats. I don't think I heard that.
Speaker 6: He even like so save he's doing Australia, he'll gut
Speaker 6: his whole house and redecorate it with Australiana things. So
Speaker 6: he's constantly in that mind space of that, and I
Speaker 6: just fucking hate that ship. It's like, just roll the camera.
Speaker 6: You've got a little fucking storyboard.
Speaker 2: You don't need to be in.
Speaker 6: I just hate all that wank you know, just fucking
Speaker 6: hit record, can't you know?
Speaker 2: I just hate all that shit, that Hollywood bullshit. I'm
Speaker 2: an artist. Fuck off.
Speaker 1: But don't you think, like if the runs are on
Speaker 1: the board and he's achieved, but what leveless success? Like,
Speaker 1: Like if he's doing that and he cannot still get
Speaker 1: a film up, I'd be like, yeah, maybe give me.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying, give up because he's done, Like
Speaker 6: Australia sucked.
Speaker 2: Elva sucked. He did strictly bareroom though, didn't he I'll
Speaker 2: give him strictly borom.
Speaker 1: Ye, strictly bare room into Romeo Juliet.
Speaker 2: I couldn't stand that, just too much, Oh my lord.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then what was it Australia after that, he's
Speaker 1: sitting on thirtytri I'm missing one. I think Elvis was
Speaker 1: a hit. Was it was actually commercial? Hit?
Speaker 2: Commercial?
Speaker 1: Great Gatsby also been missing, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Great Gatsby, couldn't watch it.
Speaker 1: I would have in my list. I'd have Romeo.
Speaker 2: Juliet in your top two.
Speaker 1: I think Elva second, really third, Okay, try for you.
Speaker 1: That's me, that's me, bast blow and that's not my overall.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's not gonna say I'm on the wrong podcast. Overall.
Speaker 1: I've come in swinging, and my three favorite David Lynch
Speaker 1: films are.
Speaker 2: Man I tried.
Speaker 6: I got the when I went to because I started
Speaker 6: in film school and then I was like I wanted
Speaker 6: to out of high school, like I wanted to be
Speaker 6: creative and like people to think that.
Speaker 2: I was a film buff.
Speaker 6: So I bought all the David Lynch films and I
Speaker 6: try to fucking watch him.
Speaker 2: And this is like my holand Drive.
Speaker 6: There's like a dude Jack and his dick off in
Speaker 6: the fucking wardrobe or something. I'm like, this is too much.
Speaker 6: And then we had to write a thing about it,
Speaker 6: and I was like I had to go on the internet.
Speaker 2: I was like, I watched it three times. I don't
Speaker 2: know what's going on. They're like Blue Velvet. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: wrap it up, you know, I just couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 2: Has it No one has watched that film and gone, yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it. I was.
Speaker 1: I was listening to the I quite enjoyed a SmartLess
Speaker 1: podcast with Willatte, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, and they
Speaker 1: finally that brought up. Recently, they revisited Blue Velvet and
Speaker 1: they kind of got it. It was like, ah, weirdly
Speaker 1: say that because I just listened to it recently. They're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: this this feels differently. And now I'm watching when I'm older, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's a lot to rewatch.
Speaker 1: I've been meaning to go back and watch Blue Velvet
Speaker 1: again because I was a bit Yeah. The one that
Speaker 1: I kind of enjoyed the most might have been Lost Highway.
Speaker 2: I got through Lost Highway. I liked Lost Highwai.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had feel like a bit more of a
Speaker 1: structure to a pass. Yeah yeah. But yeah, Well, let's
Speaker 1: talk about your three favorite films. Well, I can remind
Speaker 1: people that you do actually love movies.
Speaker 2: I watched I watch a lot of films.
Speaker 1: And you've worked on sets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've worked on Aquaman.
Speaker 6: I was actually meant to work on gats but I
Speaker 6: forgot that, but I didn't get up there to Queensland
Speaker 6: in time. And then most stuff that's shot here I.
Speaker 2: Work on as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're in the beers, both on screen and off screen. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: but men of honor, the men of honor? Am I
Speaker 1: right to keep it gooding? Junior?
Speaker 2: Keep it gooding Junior? And Robert de Niro? Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: it's hard to.
Speaker 6: I couldn't just go these are my top three favorite
Speaker 6: films because I love so many films, so you want to,
Speaker 6: so I had to. I came up with a good
Speaker 6: reason for each of them, and that's what determined my
Speaker 6: top three because really, if I was going to say
Speaker 6: what my favorite film would be, it would be because
Speaker 6: I just laughed the whole way. Yeah, you know, Ice
Speaker 6: Puck into wood Nutsack.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious. I get it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 6: Confused by the end of it going through the fus
Speaker 6: David Lynch, what do the colors representing this fucking scene
Speaker 6: or whatever? But Men of Honor I watched with my
Speaker 6: pop and my pop was into Like my pop was
Speaker 6: in the Navy, so he loved anything Navy and I
Speaker 6: love watching movies with my pop.
Speaker 2: Would watch it together, So that's one.
Speaker 6: But also it was the first time I really saw
Speaker 6: someone who was like oppressed and then overcome it. And
Speaker 6: I'd love those narratives in film now as soon as
Speaker 6: someone like, you know, adversity overcome you know, like I
Speaker 6: love those two like Coach Carter, anything like that, I
Speaker 6: just get a stiffy for I love it. I'll cry
Speaker 6: at the end. It's just they're my favorite type of genres.
Speaker 6: When someone beats a person who's pushing them down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, and most films should be that
Speaker 1: to a degree. Yeah. And I just spent you're talking
Speaker 1: more so where they're like, they're not hiding that they're
Speaker 1: not there's like that this is this is a crowd
Speaker 1: pleasing that they are going to take the champon in
Speaker 1: the end, and win and yeah, so.
Speaker 2: So he was.
Speaker 6: He was, he wanted to be he was a first.
Speaker 6: And I believe it's based on a true story. I
Speaker 6: could be wrong. Don't quote me to that. If it
Speaker 6: says based on a true story, I'm like, it gets
Speaker 6: me every time. But he was he wanted to be
Speaker 6: the first African American diver. Basically, he was they wouldn't
Speaker 6: let black people into the Navy, and then he wanted
Speaker 6: to be a diver and they wouldn't do that, and
Speaker 6: he wanted to become.
Speaker 2: A master diver.
Speaker 6: And it's just I don't know, there's just he just
Speaker 6: keeps getting slapped down, but just keeps staying to what
Speaker 6: he wants to do and he overcomes it.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, fuck, this is a good film.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Once I saw it in the cinema, Yeah, and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I've never revisited actually, but no, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: good one. And this one has been mentioned quite a
Speaker 1: few times in three people's three films toom Out of
Speaker 1: two Judgment Days, he two, like, I remember seeing it
Speaker 1: in the cinema. I saw it before us or Terminator. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Weirdly enough, there was so much hype about this because
Speaker 1: Guns n' Roses. They were the biggest man in the
Speaker 1: world and they did it. You could be mine as
Speaker 1: a special track for it, and it delivered.
Speaker 6: Man that time as well, like when you watch something
Speaker 6: like of that era Liquid Metal man, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean, Like that's insane. Everything about the film is incredible,
Speaker 6: from like top to tail, like Arnie's story, Who's old mate?
Speaker 6: They directed again James Cameron. It's just a masterpiece and
Speaker 6: I just love it. It ticks all the boxes for me,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. It's got like a dirt
Speaker 6: bike scene. There's you know what I mean, They're jumping
Speaker 6: a truck. I'm like, fuck yeah, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: Like there's all these gun scenes.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. I'm just obsessed with it. I reckon.
Speaker 6: I watched it like three times a year, right, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's how much I love it. Me and Nick Kappa,
Speaker 6: another comic, we spent at least one afternoon a year
Speaker 6: watching T two again. We even contacted the guy who
Speaker 6: has the largest Terminator two collections, so he's got the
Speaker 6: full sized Arnie spent like five to ten thousand dollars
Speaker 6: building this thing. He's got the cop car, the replica
Speaker 6: cop car, and he's constantly intact with the main guy
Speaker 6: who did all the stunts for it as well.
Speaker 2: He's obsessed with Terminator too.
Speaker 1: Have you watched the Arnie series, the three part docco
Speaker 1: series which one flicks, it's just called Arnie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And he's another one who's like riding around in
Speaker 6: his bike for a lot of the scenes some of it, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I think so, it.
Speaker 1: Kind of goes through. The first is about his body
Speaker 1: building career yep. And then the second bit is about movies, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then the third one is about his political career.
Speaker 2: It's really probatuned out three. You might either funck about
Speaker 2: the polities.
Speaker 1: You might like one. I think one is really interesting.
Speaker 1: This is him from where he came from. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really fascinating. Interestingly about the three he does which I
Speaker 1: thought was quite good. He talks quite openly, reasonably openly,
Speaker 1: I would say, about because he had an affair with
Speaker 1: the nanny and he had a child with the nanny. Yes,
Speaker 1: And after watching Beckham, I'm not sure if he's all
Speaker 1: beck and they completely skip over. Really they're just going
Speaker 1: to say, you know, there's almost no comment, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And it was kept cutting to Victorious, like I
Speaker 6: can't believe he's away from home again. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: i'd be stressed out as well if he was banging everyone,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't know if he was being everyone.
Speaker 1: But there's a many rumors that he was an affair
Speaker 1: in Spain, and they that documentary really kind of like
Speaker 1: grazes over it where I kind of admired that Arnie
Speaker 1: kind of spoke to it a bit more at the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean his is all in the public where the
Speaker 1: Beckham one, I guess he's still rumors innuendo where he.
Speaker 2: Had a child with you one's visible, it's visible.
Speaker 6: Hey do you reckon this guy who's eight foot and
Speaker 6: the biggest human you ever seen is your son? Maybe
Speaker 6: it was that Blockbuster era, like it was man, Arnie
Speaker 6: was the guy you're like, fucking hell and James Cameron
Speaker 6: like when you have you watched the movies that made us?
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, such.
Speaker 2: A great series.
Speaker 6: And he's such a psycho like he's like if it's
Speaker 6: not there, Builder and even when it comes to like
Speaker 6: Avatar and stuff, those cameras don't exist. He made those
Speaker 6: cameras for the Titanic. He made the submarine. Yeah, shit
Speaker 6: like that, Like the one that he does about Aliens
Speaker 6: and they're like, oh, we got to do it's going
Speaker 6: to be animation. He's like, no, no, no, no, I
Speaker 6: want I want a real one. Yeah, and they're like,
Speaker 6: how the fuck are we going to do this.
Speaker 1: As much as he is known for the special effects,
Speaker 1: he still has a lot of visible, real effects. There's
Speaker 1: better ways of saying it. I forget the term, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so the actors are working with things. It's not just
Speaker 1: all green screen. There was obviously a special effects put
Speaker 1: into all of them, most of his movies, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of genuine effects.
Speaker 6: Even like with Avatar, like apparently took everyone to the
Speaker 6: Amazon Forest just to get him into the know like
Speaker 6: what it feels like because they're going to be so
Speaker 6: long in the green screen studio. Yeah, but he's another
Speaker 6: one who's like he works there because I've worked with
Speaker 6: some camera assistance that work with him. They're like, man,
Speaker 6: it's an eighteen hour day. It's the longest day you've
Speaker 6: ever done. You will make you buy a house at
Speaker 6: the end of the year. But he's going to ruin
Speaker 6: you because he knows more than everyone as well, like
Speaker 6: he's a super smart guy. He's not dumb. He knows
Speaker 6: everyone's job, everyone's department. So it was definitely Terminator to
Speaker 6: the helicopter scene that he's is he flowed he couldn't
Speaker 6: find anyone to fly the copter or something or right,
Speaker 6: or either he flew it or he was holding the camera. Yeah, right,
Speaker 6: something insane like no one would cover the insurance, so
Speaker 6: he just fucking does it.
Speaker 1: He backs his word and he backs his judgment. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. I believe. Also, the teachero was
Speaker 1: the original idea that he wanted to do for Terminator,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have the budget that stage of his career,
Speaker 1: so he when he got to make it, he's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what this is what the original vision was.
Speaker 1: And it's a great flip that you know he's a
Speaker 1: good guy now and you know he's on the good side.
Speaker 1: And Linda Hamilton has his transformation in it, which is amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's brilliant. And I watched it, well, we did it
Speaker 1: for this podcast and I but I watched it again
Speaker 1: outside of that, and it's just it's just great. It's
Speaker 1: it holds up really well. John Wick, is this like
Speaker 1: john Wick number one or just John Wick just all
Speaker 1: films based on is it one better than.
Speaker 2: It's just John Wick one? The first one? Number two is.
Speaker 1: Aw right again, I'd seen one.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's all you need to see one. It's the
Speaker 6: film I've watched the most out of any film I think,
Speaker 6: probably on par with Terminated too.
Speaker 2: But I reckon.
Speaker 6: I watch john Wick Moore as soon as I see it.
Speaker 6: If it's on a plane, I'm like, yep, two rum
Speaker 6: and cokes, let's go. Like I'm ready, Like I reckon.
Speaker 6: I've watched it like eighty times, and I don't get
Speaker 6: sick of it. It's like for films people like sometimes
Speaker 6: look for too much. It's simple enough for me. His
Speaker 6: wife died, he's upset, he gets a dog, some Russian
Speaker 6: dude kills a dog, and then he just goes and
Speaker 6: fucks people up for an hour. And I'm like, this
Speaker 6: is awesome, you know. And it's great when you finally go, oh,
Speaker 6: this villain's gonna get to him or whatever, and even
Speaker 6: the villain's scared of the main guy, and it just
Speaker 6: keeps getting deeper and deeper and deeper, and I'm sure
Speaker 6: it's like a probably a rip off or a mold
Speaker 6: of some Korean film or Japanese film. But even when
Speaker 6: he's getting to like the final stages of finding this guy,
Speaker 6: and there's a scene where he goes to the security,
Speaker 6: the head security dude who's like the biggest guy ever,
Speaker 6: and he's like he's begging not to kill, like takes
Speaker 6: his earpiece out, He's like, do whatever the fuck you want,
Speaker 6: you know, And then it had like a had a
Speaker 6: Mustang in it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, yes, yes, keep going.
Speaker 6: I love it all you know, guns car he killed
Speaker 6: the dog and then people respect him for just fucking
Speaker 6: people up.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I love it. I don't know why I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: It's a brilliant little device to the dog element of it,
Speaker 1: because it's like, once you kill a dog, the audience
Speaker 1: is like, you have permission to do whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: you want now.
Speaker 6: It's a perfect Like someone kills a person, you're like, mm,
Speaker 6: I mean he probably deserved it, But a puppy You're like, fuck,
Speaker 6: it just ruins you, you know what I mean, There's
Speaker 6: something about it. You're just like, nah, you can just
Speaker 6: do whatever you want now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Those films, john Wick has also kind of opened
Speaker 1: the door like even the Equalizer a lot bit of
Speaker 1: rave to me about Equalizer three being particularly good.
Speaker 2: It is good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And there was a film that Damien Callen then recommended
Speaker 1: to me on this podcast and I watched it which
Speaker 1: has kind of got john Wick vibes, is a finish
Speaker 1: movie called sisu Ah, and it is If you love
Speaker 1: john Wick Oak and you love this, it's just like
Speaker 1: it's finished Gold Prospector.
Speaker 6: I saw that on a plane about maybe six months ago.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really good. And the Nazis come, you know,
Speaker 1: and he just.
Speaker 2: They take gold. Yeah, and then he's trying to get
Speaker 2: them back, and.
Speaker 6: It's got that full There's nothing better in a scene
Speaker 6: where you're like, this guy's outnumbered, there's fifty people around him,
Speaker 6: and then they're still confident. You're like, oh, this is
Speaker 6: gonna get good, you know what I mean, and he's
Speaker 6: like he just instantly just destroys.
Speaker 2: All of them.
Speaker 1: You're trying to work it out, how's he going to
Speaker 1: get out of this situation? Because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: movies that you watch and you're gonna go, I know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get out. There's probably three different ways you
Speaker 1: can probably get out of the situation. Yeah, something's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But Sue's one of those movies where you're gonna go,
Speaker 1: I have no idea how he's gonna get out of this.
Speaker 1: Out of this.
Speaker 6: With the john Wicki're like, you can go, well, maybe
Speaker 6: he could hide behind that couch if they shoot him.
Speaker 6: The issue was that he was just in like a desert.
Speaker 6: It's like there's not even a tree, there's no like
Speaker 6: he doesn't he's got to shovel on him like nothing
Speaker 6: makes sense that. Yeah, I was once again that was
Speaker 6: like a can I get some more rum on her plane?
Speaker 6: I am horny for this film. But I feel like
Speaker 6: with the john Wick franchise, like it's kept going to
Speaker 6: like four and it's obviously everything's got to step up.
Speaker 6: It's like, you know, there was motorbikes that were crazy,
Speaker 6: then it was the horse scene he had like nun
Speaker 6: chucks and shit. But I'm like they kind of loses once.
Speaker 6: I think with franchises it never gets better. Besides Terminator
Speaker 6: bad example, it gets worse. And I think, yeah two
Speaker 6: was like had Ruby Rose in it, which.
Speaker 2: Is like what a wild call?
Speaker 6: Like I think you haven't seen too but she's playing
Speaker 6: a deaf mute, right, but she's deaf, but I don't think.
Speaker 6: I think originally she was meant to have dialogue, but
Speaker 6: they saw her act and they're like, let's make a
Speaker 6: character deaf or mute or whatever, because she's no good
Speaker 6: in that as well. I'm taking down so many Australians.
Speaker 2: But I'm not wrong, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, so you can't. I cannot confirm.
Speaker 6: She's a beautiful woman who's been thrust into the world
Speaker 6: of act. She's a DJ originally, and then she popped
Speaker 6: up in Oranges the New Black, which is whatever, and
Speaker 6: then she's in this big action film.
Speaker 2: It's like, just get anyone else.
Speaker 1: You know, she did the real moment and she those
Speaker 1: a couple of years. I'm not sure what journey she's
Speaker 1: on now.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's away from acting.
Speaker 6: It's like, I'm gonna have to cut out so much
Speaker 6: in this episode.
Speaker 1: I'm not cunning any of it, right because I don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck.
Speaker 2: My career is already ship, so it may as well
Speaker 2: get worse.
Speaker 1: It is not, it is not. It is up and about.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get into this movie.
Speaker 4: I brought you a twinkie I'm not hungry right now.
Speaker 4: Feeling different again, Huh.
Speaker 6: It's like I don't fit in.
Speaker 3: It's like I don't belong here.
Speaker 2: It's your birthday and it's time you knew.
Speaker 6: And even I'm not unnatural born child.
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 1: You were left on our doorstep, but we raised you
Speaker 1: like you were one of us.
Speaker 3: You mean, I'm gonna stay this color.
Speaker 4: Even, I'd love you if you were a color A
Speaker 4: Babels ass.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not a dry eye in the studio, Brett Blake.
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the Steve Martin comedy vehicle directed by
Speaker 1: Color Ran for nineteen seventy nine, The Jerk.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say yes and no, because it's you've got
Speaker 6: to We know, comedy doesn't age well, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean. It's one of those things that it's like
Speaker 6: it progresses so quickly. Yes, So if I then put
Speaker 6: myself into nineteen seventy nine, I could see how it
Speaker 6: would be absolutely fucking incredible, Yes, and would blow your mind.
Speaker 6: You like, I've never seen anything like this. This guy
Speaker 6: is an incredible actor, His body is amazing. Everything's funny
Speaker 6: about it. Yep, you know, I mean they do say
Speaker 6: the N word a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Yes, nineteen seventy nine, you can say it ninety seven. Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting when, like I don't know the history well
Speaker 1: enough to know how edgy was that at that time.
Speaker 1: Was it like oh fuck he said it, you know?
Speaker 1: Or was it like, yeah, people say that white people
Speaker 1: are still saying that, or they're saying it. When did
Speaker 1: it become I don't go there. Tarantino used it, you know,
Speaker 1: in his films, and he stands by kind of recently
Speaker 1: with you know, the hate plate. The line we played earlier,
Speaker 1: which is probably the most famous line for the movie,
Speaker 1: I was born in a small black child. And you're
Speaker 1: going to go, ah, okay, look, this is this is different.
Speaker 1: I'm watching it in twenty twenty four. I have seen
Speaker 1: the film before. When I watched it in the nineties,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go, ah, this is a different and and
Speaker 1: watching it.
Speaker 6: Now, Look, do you feel that element was necessary for
Speaker 6: the film though?
Speaker 1: Like's I just don't think of other films where they've
Speaker 1: placed a simple and kind of in a different kind of.
Speaker 6: Because he's meant to be family, he's meant to be
Speaker 6: like a bit of an idiot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be honest, more more so than any of
Speaker 1: the reference. I mean, we know now that you don't
Speaker 1: use the N word and all that, and you do
Speaker 1: have to trying to transport yourself back to nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: And I enjoyed the film as a whole, But the
Speaker 1: thing that kind of got me was the voice, like
Speaker 1: the symbol the voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, but then he didn't continue with the voice.
Speaker 1: No, And I think what it was was as his
Speaker 1: life experience became more and more, he became well to
Speaker 1: do and educated, and he was kind of like a
Speaker 1: sheltered child, so he kind of spoke, but what didn't
Speaker 1: make sense in the way.
Speaker 6: Then he comes back to it because he's back to
Speaker 6: being homeless. It exactly the start of the film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was sure if it was him trying
Speaker 1: like a drunken kind of thing or was it Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's thermosy. He didn't have any drink on him. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think we see him drinking. That was a
Speaker 1: strange choice, the voice being so.
Speaker 6: And drowned out, and you just like and you're like, okay,
Speaker 6: this is making a lot of time as well.
Speaker 1: I really found it hard. And when he moved on
Speaker 1: from that voice, I enjoyed it more, like much more.
Speaker 6: When I turned the film on yesterday, I watched it
Speaker 6: last night. I was like, if I hope he hasn't
Speaker 6: doesn't do this the whole time, otherwise I'm turning on
Speaker 6: David Lynch, you know what I mean, Like I was,
Speaker 6: and then you're like, okay, here we are.
Speaker 2: This is the thing. And then it's like then it's
Speaker 2: off and running, yes, you know, and then you go.
Speaker 6: Okay, And I was like, small black, Okay, okay, he's
Speaker 6: been adopted by a black family. What I did enjoy
Speaker 6: was there was a gag every minute, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean. He's not missing anything. He's always constantly funny
Speaker 6: or doing something silly or doing something with his body.
Speaker 6: And like Steve Martin may be more relevant to you,
Speaker 6: but he wasn't too much to me.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you where Steve Martin lives
Speaker 1: in your comedy world.
Speaker 6: So I knew of him and we saw some of
Speaker 6: his films, But when I grew up, it was like,
Speaker 6: now I can see where Jim Carrey come from. Jim
Speaker 6: Kerrey's like those style of actor you don't really see
Speaker 6: anymore as well, you know what I mean, A guy
Speaker 6: who's doing like slapstick and Acevantura and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: Those are crazy characters and to see someone act in
Speaker 6: that way for comedy, like it just shows how far
Speaker 6: or how much comedy has progressed, yep, as in like
Speaker 6: it's now about more dialogue driven and smaller things, you know,
Speaker 6: as opposed to just a zany character who's doing zany things.
Speaker 6: And with the jerk, even like every single thing was
Speaker 6: thought out. It's like, he can't just be on the
Speaker 6: road to this big city. He's got to be wearing
Speaker 6: an aviators, you know, like a plane thing or something.
Speaker 6: And you're like, okay, there's got to be something every
Speaker 6: two seconds.
Speaker 2: I've got my name in the phone book. That's a
Speaker 2: big deal.
Speaker 6: And then someone picks a name at random to kill
Speaker 6: a guy, and then that guy's.
Speaker 2: Through out there, and I was like, oh yeah again see.
Speaker 1: And with that one, I kind of thought as much
Speaker 1: as like, yeah, you have to give in to the
Speaker 1: silliness of the movie. And I have preached for a
Speaker 1: long time that silliness is underrated. Comedy should never get
Speaker 1: too serious. But I did watch that and I kind
Speaker 1: of thought, wonder if there was like if there was
Speaker 1: just a bit more of a threat, of a reason
Speaker 1: why this guy really wanted to kill the jerk. It
Speaker 1: would have been more fun than just picking his name
Speaker 1: out of it. It just felt too.
Speaker 6: It didn't feel like it was I mean, it might
Speaker 6: have been that you said it was a very famous
Speaker 6: director that did that, kin Ye was that one of
Speaker 6: his first films, Because it didn't feel like it was
Speaker 6: connected very well, even though the storyline is quite you know, simple,
Speaker 6: when you think about it, I don't feel like it was.
Speaker 2: Driven very well.
Speaker 1: I think it was basically set piece up to set piece.
Speaker 1: So this kind of thought and a lot of it
Speaker 1: was based on Steve Martin's comedy. So this is a
Speaker 1: really good reflection of I think what the kind of
Speaker 1: comedy Steve Martin was doing. Steve Martin's the kind of guy.
Speaker 1: One of his stand up book born Standing Up. He's
Speaker 1: one of the great stand up reads of all time
Speaker 1: as far as the artist stand up, and he's got
Speaker 1: different thoughts about it in a way than I do.
Speaker 1: One of the famous bits of advice is never waste
Speaker 1: your first word on stage, like come out on stage?
Speaker 1: Why would you even say, hey, hey, Adelaide, great to
Speaker 1: be here, which it's kind of thing I do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first sentence you say, everyone's waiting for that scent.
Speaker 1: Lot use it. It's a powerful moment. Now, I think
Speaker 1: that works really well for him, and I don't disagree
Speaker 1: with him, yep. But what I'm trying to do is
Speaker 1: I'm trying to create a vibe, like a fun vibe,
Speaker 1: more so than having to nail a line at second
Speaker 1: ten of the show, how do you out of interest?
Speaker 6: When I go on, I try and I think I
Speaker 6: maybe even stole this from Kitty Flanagin because Kitty must
Speaker 6: have told it to Kappa and she's like, you got
Speaker 6: to be in a good headspace, and I was like,
Speaker 6: oh fuck, yeah, that's so right. She's like, do whatever
Speaker 6: makes you happy just before that, so when you're going
Speaker 6: out there, like people can tell your mood's good already.
Speaker 6: But I always start with something that makes me laugh,
Speaker 6: and I always I start with the same line. I'm like,
Speaker 6: good day, Agen, And then because it does two things.
Speaker 6: It makes me laugh because I'm being ridiculous, but also
Speaker 6: it makes the audience kind of go, we know who
Speaker 6: he is straight away. He's our loud mouth dick head
Speaker 6: made from the club. And then you're fucking off and running.
Speaker 6: So but it also breaks the thing for me a
Speaker 6: bit as well, because I can be off, Mike can
Speaker 6: just give it a bit of ham and.
Speaker 2: It's like get a legends. It doesn't.
Speaker 6: It works everywhere, it doesn't Adelaide, I forget where I am.
Speaker 2: Half the fucking time. I'm like, good legend, I'm fucking
Speaker 2: off and running and I'm happy.
Speaker 6: But would you say, because I haven't watched heaps of
Speaker 6: Steve Martin stuff, would you say Steve Martin was a
Speaker 6: traditional stand up or he was.
Speaker 1: More I think he's got avant garde and he like
Speaker 1: he was basically a lot of prop stuff.
Speaker 2: Is like yeah getting up there and yeah.
Speaker 1: Left the center and yeah he had a parent on
Speaker 1: the shoulder kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember seeing stuff with that.
Speaker 1: So he was very theatrical and silly. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: different style of comic. Yeah, so this is like and
Speaker 1: really well written jokes where and more probably jokes as
Speaker 1: opposed to routines. Yeah, I'm not saying he didn't do routines,
Speaker 1: but like they're more about jokes. Then you're like a
Speaker 1: six to eight minute bit.
Speaker 6: I can see how as well, Like he's just like
Speaker 6: he's just present, like he's very physical, and yeah, like
Speaker 6: you said before, silly's underrated in comedy sometimes, but I
Speaker 6: still think there is a place for it. Those were
Speaker 6: the elements I enjoyed in the film. And he's obviously
Speaker 6: playing an idiot as well. Even the can scene when
Speaker 6: the guy's shooting him, Like it didn't really make sense
Speaker 6: what I was getting shot.
Speaker 2: But it's like this guy hates the.
Speaker 6: Cans, and you're like, yeah, just lean back, lose your
Speaker 6: ego and have a bit of fun in the moment,
Speaker 6: you know. And like the stupid thing, like he made
Speaker 6: his money from the fucking glasses glasses thing, which it
Speaker 6: kind of pissed me off because I was like, just
Speaker 6: it needs hooks at the back. Put him at the
Speaker 6: fucking back, you know what I mean. But it's meant
Speaker 6: to be silly once again, but it just ended up
Speaker 6: pissing me off.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I like parts of it.
Speaker 6: Some of it could have been a bit more structurally
Speaker 6: put together, I suppose, but I mean that was his
Speaker 6: first big film, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he makes dead Men don't wear a
Speaker 1: plaid and the Lonely Guy. The Lonely Guy really liked
Speaker 1: the first movie I saw him because he came via
Speaker 1: Saturday I'm not Alive, so he was SNL. He was
Speaker 1: SNL and famous Guest, wild and crazy guys. And then
Speaker 1: the first time I saw him was The Three Megos
Speaker 1: and I thought.
Speaker 2: I think that's the first time I saw him with Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: I love that movie. A lot of people my age,
Speaker 1: I think love that movie, and I only learned recently
Speaker 1: that it wasn't a success. First time I saw Martin
Speaker 1: short as well, and Steve Matin. I knew Chevy Chase
Speaker 1: through the Vacation films. I loved him in that. But
Speaker 1: I find Steve Martin fascinating because it can be a
Speaker 1: leading man and sometimes he often in comedy the leads
Speaker 1: an idiot, but you put even beer idiots around him.
Speaker 1: Steve Mutton has this kind of quality, I think, where
Speaker 1: he can be like a serious character like Father of
Speaker 1: the Bride's quite serious, but he's still funny. He still
Speaker 1: finds a way to be funny. Parenthood, great movie that
Speaker 1: with Karen James in this podcast. He's quite a serious,
Speaker 1: kind of stress kind of guy, but he's very funny.
Speaker 1: It's like he's one of those guys where not necessarily
Speaker 1: the jerk. He became this kind of fun guy when
Speaker 1: he was like a guy who always took himself a
Speaker 1: bit seriously, but the world just kept on heaping chaos
Speaker 1: onto him.
Speaker 2: And seeing how he would react and seeing, yeah.
Speaker 1: Seeing him under stress, and his breaking point was.
Speaker 6: That's kind of good in what He's a great comic,
Speaker 6: so he can do the leading guy. He can be silly,
Speaker 6: he can't do that, but also he can just underplay
Speaker 6: it and let it irritate him that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to see funny and that to see
Speaker 1: the kind of character he will play in Father of
Speaker 1: the Bride and Parenthood and then compare it to the
Speaker 1: jerk and then like even later on Dirty Rod Scoundrels
Speaker 1: is a really funny film him and Michael Kane, and
Speaker 1: he's allowed to be silly because you know they're acting
Speaker 1: to scam people. You know, in the South of France,
Speaker 1: they just found a vehicle that was like, you can
Speaker 1: be fully going to that mode if you want for this,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get you back for the next scene
Speaker 1: a bit more normal and it would.
Speaker 6: Be I reckon, he'd be like a nightmare to direct
Speaker 6: as well. I feel like with one of sometimes with actors,
Speaker 6: you got to go do what you want first, and
Speaker 6: then I'll come back with notes.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and it depends how much you wanted to
Speaker 1: scale it back. Yeah. And we see in this film
Speaker 1: he's the ukulele comes out, which he's actually really good
Speaker 1: uklean and blue grass player, Like he's actually really become
Speaker 1: quite world renowned. I believe I did. Like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of jokes in this.
Speaker 2: Gag per minute. I enjoyed the slapstick.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed the craziness of like the characters like that,
Speaker 6: even that lady who was when he became Patty always
Speaker 6: just rooting him. But then it came good because I
Speaker 6: was like where it broke the story and it kind
Speaker 6: of connected. He goes back to his parents and he's like, oh,
Speaker 6: I've just got another source of income coming in. Patty's
Speaker 6: given me. He said, She's promised me a blow job.
Speaker 6: And it's like, yes, there was a few good like
Speaker 6: one of those real big bangers in there every now
Speaker 6: and then yeah, and like the parents like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then there's like one brother going, I know what
Speaker 2: the fuck that is? You know?
Speaker 1: And when and when and when the love story kind
Speaker 1: of starts taking you know on we've ben at Pettis,
Speaker 1: who he was I think dating at the time, and
Speaker 1: they made another movie together. That kind of also gives
Speaker 1: it a bit more momentum and you lean in a
Speaker 1: bit more when that happens. As silly as everything is,
Speaker 1: it's still kind of go oh, this kind of works.
Speaker 1: And she's really good in this movie.
Speaker 2: I think she's good in it.
Speaker 6: And then the character switched because he becomes a millionaire,
Speaker 6: and that is that when he becomes the jerk because
Speaker 6: he's like more about himself and not giving back, like
Speaker 6: I Well, the name the jerk is still kind of
Speaker 6: confusing to me. Is I didn't seem really big. I
Speaker 6: think it was going to be an asshole through the
Speaker 6: whole thing.
Speaker 1: They really wanted to come up with a simple name
Speaker 1: that was short, and there's a film called The Idiot
Speaker 1: that was kind of taken, so they couldn't call him that.
Speaker 1: So the jerk, first of all, is a very American term,
Speaker 1: like it's probably been It probably arrived in Australia, I reckon,
Speaker 1: but fifteen years ago it felt like we knew what
Speaker 1: it meant and we knew the term, but very rarely
Speaker 1: until would I hear Australian's use the term jerk, because.
Speaker 6: Jerk to me is like an abrupt person who's fucking
Speaker 6: rude or some shit like that, a bit of an asshole,
Speaker 6: bit of you know, self selfish. And I was like,
Speaker 6: I was like, why is it? Is the jerk come later?
Speaker 6: And then he became a kind of bit of a
Speaker 6: jerk when he became loaded.
Speaker 2: I guess I.
Speaker 1: Wonder if the name has even shifted in the States
Speaker 1: or do the Americans who you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's their word, but they always had a different kind
Speaker 1: of meeting because I agree with you when I think jerk,
Speaker 1: I think self obsessed. You know all about them, But
Speaker 1: I've got a feeling for this movie, and maybe at
Speaker 1: that time in nineteen seventy nine, it kind of just
Speaker 1: meant an annoying person, yeah, you know, and they probably
Speaker 1: was a bigger umbrella to what it could mean as
Speaker 1: opposed to maybe what we think it means now, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, abrupt, self obsessed.
Speaker 6: Because for some reason, you know, when you just get
Speaker 6: caught on something like and we say it all the time,
Speaker 6: like no one cares about the show Nami Comedy Festival
Speaker 6: or whatever.
Speaker 2: Whole time was like, when is he going to be
Speaker 2: a joke? When is he going to be a joke?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like I was waiting for
Speaker 2: that moment you just never seemed to happen.
Speaker 1: The gags are great. Let's have another. Listened to a
Speaker 1: gag that comes pretty quickly when you watch the film.
Speaker 1: Rob Rainer, son of Carl Rainer, is the driver in this.
Speaker 1: He went under and directed many many great films.
Speaker 7: I'm hill taking How far are you going?
Speaker 2: Hey lord?
Speaker 7: How far are you going to the end of this fence?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: I'm David Jonathan. What's your name, sir?
Speaker 4: Here we are okay. Thanks for the company.
Speaker 3: If I can't.
Speaker 1: Repay it the day, I mean, what actually helps it work?
Speaker 1: It's always infectious when you see somebody so positive. He's kind,
Speaker 1: he's lovable. Yeah, you don't hate him, you know, But
Speaker 1: I think to go back once he stops doing the voice,
Speaker 1: like already you know, that's the start of his journey
Speaker 1: and the voice is kind of gone, like it really
Speaker 1: is in the opening and closing of that and then
Speaker 1: a little bit around the family.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to know what whether that was shot
Speaker 6: independently or was shot afterwards or like what was the
Speaker 6: actual timeline of that actually, was that done like three
Speaker 6: months before or that after, like they go, oh you
Speaker 6: need to call back to this, yeah, Or was it
Speaker 6: meant to be or was he meant to have been drunk?
Speaker 2: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: It feels like that it's got the book end, you
Speaker 1: know that the opening scene, that the final scene is
Speaker 1: even though like he's still playing, he's got a simple
Speaker 1: and voice going, but it still seems like a different voice. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it didn't match, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 6: it's it's it's it's confusing as to why it's fucking there.
Speaker 6: It's unnecessary, Yeah, but it is there and we can't
Speaker 6: change it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But I was like, this is going to be a
Speaker 6: fucking punish Yeah. And is he is he playing it
Speaker 6: down syndrome person?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: When I first started, I was like, is this what
Speaker 6: nineteen seventy nine comedy is?
Speaker 1: You are watching it? Going? He's really drumming up the
Speaker 1: mentally challenged.
Speaker 2: Portion Cory to use. I should have used that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a bit the same. I was a
Speaker 1: bit like I'm always wondering what my guess is, you know,
Speaker 1: making of the film, and I don't find out until
Speaker 1: we talk about we don't have that discussion because I
Speaker 1: want to find out how aud he finds out. But
Speaker 1: I was thinking he's going with this, and then I
Speaker 1: must say I was a bit kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: did you watch it last night? As well?
Speaker 6: It was two nights ago, right, because then I was like,
Speaker 6: I was really concerned about the film because in the
Speaker 6: first five minutes he's doing that voice and then all
Speaker 6: of a sudden he's in a black family. I'm like, oh, oh, no, yeah,
Speaker 6: which is going to be tough to talk about, which.
Speaker 1: Now when I've seen in it or I step back,
Speaker 1: it doesn't bother me. Even the line you know I
Speaker 1: was born a small black child, Like it's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And what I do like about what he does when
Speaker 1: he's with his adopted family, it's almost like being black
Speaker 1: for that character is aspirationales like, there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: that family. They're loving, funny.
Speaker 2: In fact, he wants he's so desperate to be a
Speaker 2: part of he wasn't.
Speaker 1: A part of that. It's not like he's trying to
Speaker 1: bust out because he's like this isn't like he does
Speaker 1: bust out when he realizes he hasn't quite fitting. He
Speaker 1: wants to anybody, he can't couits. He needs to kind
Speaker 1: of discover himself.
Speaker 6: But that first five minutes of before they cut to
Speaker 6: that family and you get to know him, You're like,
Speaker 6: this is going to be Is this going to be fucked?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Like I always talk on this podcast, when
Speaker 1: you watch a film and you're feeling safe hands really early. Yes,
Speaker 1: And it could be the opening shot. I remember Butcher
Speaker 1: cashing in the sun Dance Kid. It's a beautiful Cepia
Speaker 1: shot of a train, and I'm like, I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to love this film. I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be a great film and I'm going to love it.
Speaker 1: The jerk doesn't hold that. You feel like, even though
Speaker 1: Steve Martin and I'm know that Colraina is a comedy legend,
Speaker 1: and I know, well i've seen it before, I think
Speaker 1: only the once and many years ago. I know it's
Speaker 1: considered a comedy classic. But I go, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: about this, you know, I'm not sure. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: we're going to enjoy the next ninety minutes.
Speaker 6: When I started, I clicked the remote, going, thank fuck,
Speaker 6: it's only ninety minutes, you know, what I mean, But
Speaker 6: there was it had moments of it, but the overall
Speaker 6: I couldn't. I wouldn't say once again, ninety seventy nine whatever.
Speaker 6: To me, it's not a wouldn't be a classic. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I feel like it was dishoveled. I like parts of it.
Speaker 6: It didn't really make sense. But it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 6: But you know, some of it, you're just like, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of there's a lot of air gaps in it.
Speaker 6: But then again, comedies changed, so I've got to you've
Speaker 6: got to come out with two eyes.
Speaker 1: Well, if you go back and watch movies, you know,
Speaker 1: from the seventies and before then, it's amazing how fast
Speaker 1: movies have become, even your dramas.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, like the pacing. You may like, there's
Speaker 6: no air gaps, We're on to the next shot.
Speaker 1: We're bored.
Speaker 2: We're bored with like Tiktoker's Fried our Brains exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And I think it even predates Sticked Up.
Speaker 1: But even yeah, more so probably in the last you know,
Speaker 1: five years where you watch a film from the seventies
Speaker 1: and you're like, wow, this is like this is taking
Speaker 1: time to Steven start. Yeah, you know, and now, I
Speaker 1: think movies that you don't move it a.
Speaker 6: Was it two thousand and one Space Odyssey and then
Speaker 6: they had that does that You're like, oh, wrap it up,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, like just get in there,
Speaker 6: give me something, you know. But I suppose in the seventies,
Speaker 6: like it's also how you you'd be watching it in
Speaker 6: the movies. You wouldn't be watching it at home. So
Speaker 6: you're like, man, I'm in the like it's their coln.
Speaker 6: I'm having a good time. There's people around me. You
Speaker 6: kind of you could be sitting in the moment longer.
Speaker 1: You didn't have the access to entertainment. We are surrounded
Speaker 1: by content.
Speaker 6: Oh man, screens, It never fucking ends, whereas some people
Speaker 6: would go weeks without seeing a screen and then that
Speaker 6: was the only time. So you're kind of obliged to
Speaker 6: let things breathe and soak a bit more.
Speaker 1: We can watch a film knowing that we could probably
Speaker 1: go home and watch it again if you wanted to,
Speaker 1: or watch it in two weeks again. This is like no,
Speaker 1: if I want to watch it again, I'm buying another ticket,
Speaker 1: I'm coming back tomorrow, or I'm seeing the next session.
Speaker 1: I would love to experience go back and you know,
Speaker 1: and I was born in seventy five, so you probably
Speaker 1: started going to the movies around eighty two, eighty three
Speaker 1: ETS and Empire Strikes Back, and so those were like
Speaker 1: the you know, I remember seeing sitting in the cinema
Speaker 1: and it was it was a powerful experience. And I
Speaker 1: still go to movies and watch them and still have
Speaker 1: amazing experiences, but it's different. It's like it means something
Speaker 1: a bit different now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I still That's where I have a breath day
Speaker 6: every couple of months where I get super stoned and
Speaker 6: then I go to watch something at the cinema and
Speaker 6: it's my favorite day.
Speaker 2: Like I get I.
Speaker 6: Get the gold class, the seats recline, you know, you
Speaker 6: can us Yeah, and then just watch a film and
Speaker 6: you just like and no distractions. Sometimes I don't even
Speaker 6: bring my phone and then it just enables me to
Speaker 6: be in that moment and just absorb it.
Speaker 2: Or even if you like it or don't like it,
Speaker 2: you're you're in.
Speaker 6: And I feel watching film in the cinema with no
Speaker 6: one is you kind of more You're not like fuck,
Speaker 6: I'll put the washing on, hang on, I'll pause this,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean? And I feel you do
Speaker 6: a disjustice to the people who've spent so long creating it,
Speaker 6: because it does take time.
Speaker 2: It's a big process.
Speaker 6: It's not easy, and then we're like, oh, I'm quickly
Speaker 6: going to do a shit, I'll be back in five minutes,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're watching something you are engaged with, you
Speaker 1: find you're not reaching for your phone as much. I
Speaker 1: was looking at kind of facts about the film and
Speaker 1: different things.
Speaker 6: I was praying for an action film on there that
Speaker 6: I hadn't seen so but going through that list, I
Speaker 6: was like, Oh, there were so many good films that
Speaker 6: you sent through, and I was kind of hoping that
Speaker 6: I'd missed a big banger.
Speaker 2: You know, along the way.
Speaker 6: But I think I've seen like what we came through.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh God, there were so many good
Speaker 6: films on there, you know, Like I think you had
Speaker 6: the Shawshank Redempation, which I fucking love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which Todd Sampson has since watched. That should be
Speaker 1: off the list now. But you make a good point
Speaker 1: in that I probably should have more action films on there.
Speaker 1: What action films should be on that list that I
Speaker 1: give out.
Speaker 2: Anything with Steven segal.
Speaker 6: Man his films are like awful but the best because
Speaker 6: action in the nineties it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's in another world.
Speaker 6: It's not cartoony like what we have now is like
Speaker 6: our action film's kind of No one's made a real
Speaker 6: I mean, John Wick's good. I didn't like that one
Speaker 6: we just talked about before, about the gold Guy. But
Speaker 6: there's no more of those big they try and do
Speaker 6: it with Iron Man and the Marvel. It's like people
Speaker 6: are sick of these fucking How many times have I
Speaker 6: got to watch fucking The Avengers or whatever?
Speaker 2: They're boring? Like I rewatched Rambo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, First Blood or it's not Rambo, it's First Blood.
Speaker 6: What an incredible film, one guy against everything. There's nothing
Speaker 6: over the top, there's no explosions and things like that.
Speaker 6: It's simple, it's powerful, it's brilliant. It's got everything you
Speaker 6: need in that element like those type of films. I
Speaker 6: feel like that's why I think I maybe like John
Speaker 6: Wick so much, because I've grown up with The Terminator
Speaker 6: or Rambo or I think It's under Siege with Steven Sigar,
Speaker 6: like I love when it's one man on a mission
Speaker 6: against the world, and I feel like we've kind of
Speaker 6: with Blockbusters. Now, I feel like we've besides the John
Speaker 6: Wick franchise, we've kind of lost our way a bit.
Speaker 2: Everything's like, fucking.
Speaker 6: Oh, this guy's in a metal suit from which which
Speaker 6: multiverse or some shit. I'm like, I don't understand what
Speaker 6: the fuck's going on. There's a raccoon and a tree
Speaker 6: screaming at you. You're like, I don't know, it's too much.
Speaker 1: I hadn't made the connection. And I think it's valid
Speaker 1: that with Marvel films going, the whole multiversing and becoming
Speaker 1: increasingly complicated, and if you haven't seen that film, you
Speaker 1: may not get this. And the rise in your John
Speaker 1: Wicks and your Denzel Washington being the equalizer and Lean
Speaker 1: Neeson's got his own industry, you know, going it's like, yes,
Speaker 1: maybe some people just want that this is a simple story.
Speaker 1: It's got all of the action in that it's tense.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: It's like Liam Neeson is a perfect example of it
Speaker 6: at the moment because he's like I worked on Black
Speaker 6: Light with him, which is someone's like, this is the
Speaker 6: same as Taken.
Speaker 2: I was like, great, that's.
Speaker 6: All people want, you know what I mean, we don't
Speaker 6: we just need one guy, he's trying to rescue his daughter.
Speaker 2: He fucking people up along the way, blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: Yes, simple, not like, oh, you've got to get the
Speaker 6: ring that next gets you. And then this character was
Speaker 6: like isn't he from another film? And then he comes
Speaker 6: in and he's like, oh my god, my head hurts.
Speaker 2: You know, it's too much.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. One of the bits that tough to watch,
Speaker 1: even more so any of the other stuff that we've
Speaker 1: spoken about, was the attended forced kiss on the beach.
Speaker 2: Ah, yeah, where she's really.
Speaker 1: And I know, I know what they're going for at
Speaker 1: the time, but now when we kind of realized, you know,
Speaker 1: all mentioned be across consent and but it just was
Speaker 1: really hard hard to watch him really her really fighting
Speaker 1: him off and he really it went for like it
Speaker 1: went for a minutes.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, yeah, I think I grabbed a phone.
Speaker 2: I was like, this is fucking awkward. Yeah, what I mean, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's kind of.
Speaker 6: Weird that even saying that, it's kind of the way
Speaker 6: that also, I mean, we're getting into a fucking totally
Speaker 6: different thing.
Speaker 2: But that's okay. The way that behaviors.
Speaker 6: Were normal in film kind of like shapes the behavior
Speaker 6: of people around it as well. Like if you go
Speaker 6: back to watch it was called The Loser or whatever.
Speaker 6: I rewatched that film. It's got the guy from American
Speaker 6: Pie in it, and I don't know why it was
Speaker 6: just on Netflix.
Speaker 2: I was hungover.
Speaker 6: The whole thing is about guys essentially spiking chicks drinks
Speaker 6: and getting him drunk to root them, and I was like,
Speaker 6: this is not a good message to be to be
Speaker 6: out there, you know, and that kind of normalizes that
Speaker 6: behavior again. It's like there's such a like I don't know,
Speaker 6: it's so big to unpack, but you just like force
Speaker 6: you a pepula pew, the little sex pest fucking thing,
Speaker 6: like it's normal to harass someone.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I completely agree. And this is why,
Speaker 1: you know, people will say, oh, you can't say anything
Speaker 1: more in comedy. Comedy has to change, like comedy has
Speaker 1: to evolve with society. And I'm happy to play in
Speaker 1: the new boundaries and I quite like having some parameters
Speaker 1: kind of going it doesn't want this anymore. There might
Speaker 1: be some people sort of laugh at it, and you
Speaker 1: can play with it. It doesn't mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: won't take things to the edge a little bit and
Speaker 1: pull back and and it's a little dance that you know,
Speaker 1: you get to play now on stage and you can
Speaker 1: have a bit of a rice mile with something that
Speaker 1: you're hinting towards something that you know you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to kind of like joke about. But it's like, I'll
Speaker 1: give you a little bit about that what I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you know, and we understand that we don't
Speaker 1: joke about that stuff anymore or that's not fun or
Speaker 1: funny anymore. So Yeah, I feel like if comedy didn't evolve,
Speaker 1: we'd all still be making your mother in law's ugly
Speaker 1: kind of jokes.
Speaker 2: And they'd be boring, boring.
Speaker 1: It actually would be boring. I think what the people
Speaker 1: who want comedy not to change. I think if they
Speaker 1: if we gave them what they wanted, they'll pretty quickly
Speaker 1: kind of go, I'm a bit bored with this now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And the people will go, well, it's you know,
Speaker 6: you can't say anything anymore. It's like, what are the
Speaker 6: things you want to say? They're always awful, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean? And if I paid fifty bucks to
Speaker 6: go see Will Anderson and he's doing a joke when
Speaker 6: he's using an accent. I'd feel fun ripped off because
Speaker 6: that's easy. What we're trying to do is something a
Speaker 6: bit harder. Yeah, and you know what I mean, if
Speaker 6: you save that shit for the fucking shared or whatever.
Speaker 6: But like, comedy has changed and the boundaries have changed
Speaker 6: for the good. And if you have to rely on
Speaker 6: shitting on someone or someone who's lesser value than you
Speaker 6: and you've got to put them down for it to
Speaker 6: be funny, then you're not fucking funny.
Speaker 2: And that's what annoys them. Those people's because they have.
Speaker 6: Actually by admitting that, they're realizing they're not good at comedy.
Speaker 1: I think they get back to the film. I think
Speaker 1: we do have to sometimes put ourselves back, you know,
Speaker 1: and judge a film by what it was at the time. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I think they're good documents to kind of go,
Speaker 1: this is how far we've come now. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we don't. I'm a fan of canceling films
Speaker 1: and you're going to go, this is what life was,
Speaker 1: this is a slice of life and taste if I'm
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, Yes, and yeah we have moved on,
Speaker 1: and that's good, But.
Speaker 6: There were so many good moments in that film like
Speaker 6: there was Yeah, there's some weird moments in there, but
Speaker 6: like the clip you played before when he gets into
Speaker 6: the car and he drops them off the fan and
Speaker 6: then the mum's even missing him, like, oh, you know,
Speaker 6: I wonder what it is like and then they just
Speaker 6: look out the window and he's still there, like and
Speaker 6: that gets played throughout. You see that type of moments
Speaker 6: in filmed again. So without that, it wouldn't have shaped
Speaker 6: heaps of things we saw after that, And it's important
Speaker 6: for the comedy progression for that to be there.
Speaker 2: And then it keeps pushing the bar higher and higher
Speaker 2: and higher and higher, and you know, we've got we've
Speaker 2: dipped down a bit.
Speaker 6: I think in comedy, remember when they used to make
Speaker 6: things like American Pie or which is you know it
Speaker 6: is what it is. But they don't, like Van Wilder
Speaker 6: that they don't make those big comedy crazy things anymore.
Speaker 6: Like comedy on screen is like, oh, we'll get one
Speaker 6: of the Avengers to say, oh, Deadpool, it's got to.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be.
Speaker 6: There's always too many elements to it now, Like I
Speaker 6: think it should be more simplified, like an action film
Speaker 6: can be an action film. A comedy can be a comedy,
Speaker 6: but right now I feel like they're just cramming everything
Speaker 6: into fucking one thing, like let's make it funny an
Speaker 6: action film.
Speaker 2: It's just too much. I miss those.
Speaker 6: The Cable Guy was one of them, and I've got
Speaker 6: no one I loved love Cable Guys.
Speaker 2: I reckoned.
Speaker 6: I've watched that like eighty times as well, like it's insane,
Speaker 6: But I'm like that to me is what is great
Speaker 6: comedy on the screen, and that wouldn't existed without Steve
Speaker 6: Martin creating films like.
Speaker 1: This absolutely, because around this time he had flying high
Speaker 1: coming out called Aeroplane in the States, top secret coming
Speaker 1: I think was after this, But those Zucker brother films yep,
Speaker 1: Leslie Neilson comes later with the Maker Gun series. But
Speaker 1: there's elements of this of those films in this, and
Speaker 1: there's all elements of where Steve Martin's cree will go.
Speaker 1: Like Steve Martin's a you know, he's written beautiful novels
Speaker 1: and about you know, life in various places, and yeah,
Speaker 1: there's little elements of that, and there's a little bit
Speaker 1: here that I think is a nice little glimpse of
Speaker 1: Steve Martin. Maybe the latest Steve Martin Wheeze Cree will
Speaker 1: end up going you know.
Speaker 3: How you were playing that just now. I had the
Speaker 3: craziest fantasy that I could rise up, float right down
Speaker 3: the end of this coronet, right through here, through these valves,
Speaker 3: right along this tube, come right up against your lips,
Speaker 3: give you a kiss. I didn't want to get the
Speaker 3: spit on me.
Speaker 1: Now, that's a really beautifully written that could be in
Speaker 1: They could be in an old classic black and white movie,
Speaker 1: you know, Harpy Broga could have said that line, or
Speaker 1: it could be in a you know, like a Romaic film. Now,
Speaker 1: but he put he puts a joke at the end
Speaker 1: of it. But yeah, I think that's a nice little
Speaker 1: example of I think the Steve Martin where he was
Speaker 1: then in the Steve Martin. He would later become overall.
Speaker 6: Love the film, but yeah, it was definitely a time
Speaker 6: capsule of nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Will you check out some other Steve Marton films?
Speaker 6: Do you think I'm actually going to go back and
Speaker 6: because I remember that book and I think I got
Speaker 6: through a couple of pages of it, I've got to
Speaker 6: get it on audible so I can listen to it properly.
Speaker 6: But I and you talked about the Three Amigos. I
Speaker 6: remember that film, but I've got to go back and
Speaker 6: watch all his back catalog because I think he's like
Speaker 6: it's so important, like he's obviously a big piece of
Speaker 6: the comedy puzzle.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I'm missing that a bit, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I reckon Three Megos is a great one.
Speaker 1: The Man that Wear Plaid and the Lonely Guy are
Speaker 1: similar kind of vibes to this, and then Three Omegos
Speaker 1: felt for me like he was then moving on to
Speaker 1: the next phase, which I think you might enjoy. I
Speaker 1: think Parenthood's are great, genuinely a great film, great cast.
Speaker 1: Diane Weets is great, Rick moranis County Reeves early, John Wick, Yeah, Woaquine, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: Youngoque finish.
Speaker 2: I don't think i've seen this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a good one. It's silly enough, but
Speaker 1: it's also it's about being a parent and various relationships. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but also father and son stuff, and it's I think
Speaker 1: parent It's a great one. You'll enjoy that one. Always
Speaker 1: always great to catch up with you. Congratulations on your
Speaker 1: YouTube special Go Hard or Go home racking up the numbers.
Speaker 1: Very funny stuff.
Speaker 2: Mate, Yes, thank you very much for having me. I'm excited.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you can get a chance to watch the
Speaker 6: comedy special, I'll be over the moon.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: And this a quick couple of fast facts for this.
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup was a massive fan of this when often
Speaker 1: invites Steve Mattin over to play poker, just and this
Speaker 1: chat about the film. So you never know, you never
Speaker 1: know who sometimes who might become a fan. Like with comedy,
Speaker 1: I think as comedians we put stuff out there and go,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, nobody, nobody serious or like this. It's poor
Speaker 1: Thomas Anderson one of my favorite filmmakers. Yeah, Boogie Knights, Magnolia.
Speaker 1: Boogi Knights is great. B is like Good Fellas but
Speaker 1: in the porn industry. And but Paul Thomas Anderson, you know,
Speaker 1: you're kind of expecting them to have, you know, like
Speaker 1: serious kind of tastes. His favorite kind of act in
Speaker 1: his fair movies, Adam Sandler movies.
Speaker 2: See I love that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, Adam Sandler films are people off from
Speaker 6: Poo pooh as well, but they're incredible, Like I think
Speaker 6: they're masterpieces of comedy.
Speaker 1: He does what he does, he knows what he does well,
Speaker 1: and he does it constantly.
Speaker 6: Stay stay in your lane, you know, like people like
Speaker 6: Little Nicki. I was like, nah, I like Little Nicki
Speaker 6: as well. It's easy. I know what I'm getting. I
Speaker 6: want to see that fucking guy go. You can do it,
Speaker 6: and I love it. I love That's what I want.
Speaker 6: I want the same thing again and again. Stop fucking
Speaker 6: adding multiverses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it turns out millions and people around the world
Speaker 1: feel the same way. Bill Murray did a cameo in this,
Speaker 1: but it was cut out, and he went on He
Speaker 1: went on Today Night Live and reviewed a movie and said,
Speaker 1: the movie's a Dog's there's something or somebody missing in
Speaker 1: this film. I can't quite put my finger on it.
Speaker 1: Or I'm like, yeah, oh, tongue in cheek. But imagine
Speaker 1: he would have been little bit piss of if you
Speaker 1: just cut.
Speaker 6: Out, considering there was a lot of air gaps. I mean,
Speaker 6: how bad was his bit or it just maybe threw
Speaker 6: the bit off.
Speaker 1: It was the kind of movie that you can did
Speaker 1: it really affect the flow that much? Like maybe it
Speaker 1: wasn't as funny as they thought it was. In the
Speaker 1: editing room. There was a gas shortage whether making the films,
Speaker 1: so Steve Martin and director Karl Rayner would actually car
Speaker 1: pool on the way to set it and they reckon.
Speaker 1: They count with so many more jokes as a result
Speaker 1: of there being, you know, than car pooling than they
Speaker 1: maybe would have. It was a massive success, made over
Speaker 1: one hundred million in the box office, which those days
Speaker 1: was huge off a four million dollar budget, so it
Speaker 1: was a genuine smash. There was a sequel which I
Speaker 1: think Steve Martin produced, maybe he may have even written
Speaker 1: co written it. The Jerk too, wasn't The idea was
Speaker 1: that may go into a TV series, but that never happened.
Speaker 1: You probably would have an easy spot here is that
Speaker 1: Steve Martin plays two characters in the film. He plays,
Speaker 1: of course the Jerk, but he also plays the cat juggler,
Speaker 1: which is an easy and easy spot.
Speaker 2: I love the cat juggler bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is some weird albums. Even Karl Rayner directed it,
Speaker 1: and he plays himself. This is the launching of the
Speaker 1: class action where you you can say the full evolution
Speaker 1: of the JUG's voice, slide from where he started to
Speaker 1: where he gets to in this point.
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Speaker 1: with Before sun Set until then bucking
Speaker 3: Out, And so we leave old Pete save fansl and
Speaker 3: to our friends of the radio audience, we've been a
Speaker 3: pleasant good name.