Speaker 1: You a pete. Hell are you here?
Speaker 2: Welcome to you ain't seen nothing yet? The movie podcast
Speaker 2: where I chat to a movie lover about a classical
Speaker 2: love movie they haven't quite got around to watching until now.
Speaker 2: And today's guest comedian Dane Simpson, all below.
Speaker 3: I want to stay here with you.
Speaker 1: The jobber, my hat, snake shucked my hail.
Speaker 4: They couldn't happening right, So you ain't seen nothing yet.
Speaker 2: This is an episode I've been waiting to do for
Speaker 2: a little while now one because of the guests we
Speaker 2: have on Dane Simpson.
Speaker 1: I love this bloke.
Speaker 2: He's a much more around the Australian comedy scene with
Speaker 2: both audiences and comedians alike. First onto the scene ten
Speaker 2: years ago or so, I think did he win the
Speaker 2: Deadly Awards or Deadly Funny I should say, because he
Speaker 2: is exactly that. He is deadly funny, both just hanging
Speaker 2: out or watching him on stage. I did some gigs
Speaker 2: with him in Wogga Wogga, where he's from. He's basically
Speaker 2: the king of Wagga.
Speaker 1: There's a mural of him which is Dane took me
Speaker 1: by on the way to the airport, just quietly. We
Speaker 1: got a photo I'll post it. Actually it was a
Speaker 1: lot of funny.
Speaker 2: He's much loved up there, and so he should be
Speaker 2: because he's creating work for locals, for comedians and also
Speaker 2: bringing comedians from the cities into Wogga to perform, and
Speaker 2: if somebody like Dane's not doing that, then it may
Speaker 2: not happened.
Speaker 1: So he's a great man. For those who don't know Dane,
Speaker 1: where have you been?
Speaker 2: You would have seen him on various Melbourne International Comedy
Speaker 2: Festival galas. He did The Amazing Race, the first celebrity
Speaker 2: edition with his dad. Sadly they got knocked out in
Speaker 2: the first leg, but it wasn't in India, which was
Speaker 2: a bloody hot I've heard hellish reports about how hard
Speaker 2: that was compared to the series I did. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you would have seen him there. He would have seen
Speaker 2: him on have you been paying attention? On Get Kraken.
Speaker 2: He's kind of everywhere and he's funny, he's smart and
Speaker 2: we got chatting when we're in Wagga about what movies
Speaker 2: he hadn't seen, and he mentioned planes, trains and autobils.
Speaker 2: We've already done that, but then he mentioned National Lampion's vacation.
Speaker 2: I thought, oh, hang on, hang on, Oh, we need to.
Speaker 1: Get into this.
Speaker 2: Dane is, Like I said, it's funny, he's smart, he's vibrant,
Speaker 2: and I'm stoked to be hanging with him today.
Speaker 5: Goody, I'm Dave Simpson. My three favorite films are The
Speaker 5: Dark Knight and Why So Serious Shaw Shark Redemption, Get
Speaker 5: Busy Living, You get busy, diet and dread and wondering
Speaker 5: when you'd remember you left.
Speaker 3: Your helmet behind, Sir, A helmet can interfere with my
Speaker 3: psychic abilities.
Speaker 4: I think a bullet mightn't feel with the more.
Speaker 5: Up until last night, I have never seen National Lampoon's
Speaker 5: Vacation so weet.
Speaker 1: Oh yes all they wrote.
Speaker 2: Okay, It's nineteen eighty three and Chevy Chase's Clark w
Speaker 2: Griswold gets two days off a year, and he's hell
Speaker 2: bent on giving his family a dream of vacation, a
Speaker 2: pilgrimage of sorts to visit fun Park, a wally world
Speaker 2: where the star of their favorite TV show, Marty Moose,
Speaker 2: will be waiting for them. But things get off to
Speaker 2: a shaggy start when Clark takes his teenage son, Rusty
Speaker 2: Anthony Michael Hall to pick their new car up from
Speaker 2: a shady car salesman played hilariously by the great Eugene Levy.
Speaker 2: From there, the speed bumps and detours never really stop,
Speaker 2: as Clark's wife Allan, the fantastic Beverly DeAngelo, and daughter
Speaker 2: Audrey Dana Baron begin to lose patience and excitement for
Speaker 2: the Griswold's Grand American adventure. But Clark will be danned
Speaker 2: if he's not going to make this the best damn
Speaker 2: holiday ever, no matter how many people or pets get
Speaker 2: killed along the way. From a script by legend John
Speaker 2: Hughes directed by the equally legendary Harold Ramis, National Lampoon's
Speaker 2: Vacation is undoubtedly a classic, spawning a number of sequels
Speaker 2: and reboots of varying quality over the years. But no
Speaker 2: matter what you thought of Vegas Vacation or the end
Speaker 2: Ed Helms reboot or the weird Cousin Eddie thing, National
Speaker 2: Lampoon's Vacation remains the og and the goat for holiday
Speaker 2: road movies. Dane Simpson, have you ever eaten a sandwich?
Speaker 2: It's been pissed on?
Speaker 5: It's great, great scene in the movie. By the way,
Speaker 5: I reckon, I've eaten some horrible sandwiches in my day,
Speaker 5: Like you know that I've gotten that you put the
Speaker 5: beetroot on too early, you know, Oh yes sometimes, And
Speaker 5: I've made a honey sandwich for myself and taken it
Speaker 5: to school, which is beetrig esque. A mistake. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: almost like it makes its own little honeycomb and inside
Speaker 5: the bread during the up until lunch. Not a sandwich
Speaker 5: that's been pissed on.
Speaker 1: I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that we won't change that today. But thanks
Speaker 2: so much mate for joining me. I've been wanting to
Speaker 2: get you on for a long time. I was up
Speaker 2: in a wagga doing your great comedy gigs that you
Speaker 2: were running. You're doing a great job up there in Wagga,
Speaker 2: and Jesus, we had some fun we those gigs, and
Speaker 2: we got chatting and we decided that I found out
Speaker 2: that you had never seen National Lampion's Vacation, and my
Speaker 2: ears just pricked. This is a movie I've seen many
Speaker 2: many times. This is like, I don't think I saw
Speaker 2: it in the cinemas. I think it came to me
Speaker 2: on VHS. But I've seen it so many times.
Speaker 5: You go back and you watch it constantly.
Speaker 1: Oh, like I actually watched it just recently.
Speaker 2: Like it's one of those movies that we talked about
Speaker 2: a lot on this show where if it's on, you
Speaker 2: just sitting down and watching the rest of it, you know,
Speaker 2: or you know, I've seen it so many times, you've
Speaker 2: probably I probably don't even need to watch all of it.
Speaker 2: I'll watch for as long as I can, and or
Speaker 2: you know, I can't, I can't switch immediately, and I
Speaker 2: need to watch some of it at least, you know,
Speaker 2: it is a.
Speaker 5: Movie that almost has broken up into bits. What what
Speaker 5: are you What do you reckon about the sequels? Do
Speaker 5: you watch number one the most? Or do you reckon
Speaker 5: there was sequels?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, there's a whole bunch of them. This is
Speaker 2: certainly the best European vacation. I quite I quite like
Speaker 2: I've got a bit of a spot for that. Chris
Speaker 2: is a vacation I think goes all right. I think
Speaker 2: it's actually aged pretty good over time as far as, yeah,
Speaker 2: my enjoyment of it, and then Vegas vacation not great.
Speaker 1: And there's a few other ones. Cousin Eddie, which is lame.
Speaker 2: The ed Helm's Christine Applegate reboot they did was actually Okay,
Speaker 2: I thought they did a pretty good job. Ed Helms
Speaker 2: plays an older rusty who is taking his family on holiday,
Speaker 2: and which I think is a nice kind of angle
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: But what did you know before? I before?
Speaker 2: I don't want to know if you'd like even like
Speaker 2: the film just yet because I want to talk about
Speaker 2: your three favorite films. But what did you know of
Speaker 2: National Lampoon's Vacation.
Speaker 5: I knew that Chevy Chase was in it was that
Speaker 5: was it. That was the absolute maximum of me knowing
Speaker 5: anything about this movie. And I thought that it was
Speaker 5: a Christmas movie. So I didn't know that the sequel
Speaker 5: was a Christmas movie. I'm assuming it's part two.
Speaker 2: That's part three, It's part three, okay, so yeah, European
Speaker 2: Vacation is the next one, right, I just by what
Speaker 2: you I.
Speaker 5: Was literally going through my brat like beause I heard
Speaker 5: about it and then I was like, oh so this.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that there was a Vegas one. You
Speaker 5: hit me with the left field there, clever girl.
Speaker 2: Most people forget there's a Vegas one. I think I
Speaker 2: saw it once and night. I don't need to see
Speaker 2: it again. But yeah, this is there's a lot to
Speaker 2: talk about with vacation. I do want to get into it,
Speaker 2: but let's talk about your three favorite films, starting with
Speaker 2: the classic. It's come up quite a bit in this podcast,
Speaker 2: The Dark Knight. Why there's a Dark Knight resonate with
Speaker 2: you over say Batman Begins or Batman Forever.
Speaker 5: I loved Batman Begins when it came out. I thought
Speaker 5: it was like an awesome take on Batman. I'm a
Speaker 5: very I'm not a very big That's that's a lie.
Speaker 5: I'm a I'm a Batman fan. I the reason why
Speaker 5: is not because of the comics, but because of the
Speaker 5: Tim Burton movie that came out. And I was the
Speaker 5: right age at the right time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when it came out eighty nine.
Speaker 5: Eighty nine, yep, and I would have been roughly abound six,
Speaker 5: and it was like awesome. Everything about it was just
Speaker 5: so cool and yeah, you remember there's being just like insane.
Speaker 2: You walk down the street and everybody was wearing a
Speaker 2: Batman T shirt like it just was like every it
Speaker 2: was everywhere.
Speaker 5: It was everywhere, and it was just it was like
Speaker 5: it was cool to wear one, just the symbol on
Speaker 5: the front, like it was Yeah, and the Joker was
Speaker 5: like Jack Nicholson was just incredible with that. It was
Speaker 5: so I used to watch the Batman movies, like the
Speaker 5: ones from the seventies when I was a kid, or
Speaker 5: is it.
Speaker 2: The seventies, Yeah, and with what's his name, Adam West,
Speaker 2: Adam West, and I loved that.
Speaker 5: I loved I remember them. They were turning people to powder.
Speaker 5: I think they were dehydrating people from the from the
Speaker 5: un which is just so funny, and Batman having shark
Speaker 5: repellent in his belt and like that was real camp
Speaker 5: and real fun. And I was a right age bracket
Speaker 5: for that when that came out, and then when the
Speaker 5: new one came out, and I was I think I
Speaker 5: watched it. I would have been about eight, so probably
Speaker 5: a couple of years after it came out at the cinemas.
Speaker 5: I reckon, I watched it on the TV when it
Speaker 5: came out and it was just so cool. And then
Speaker 5: I got older, so I reckon, I've aged at the
Speaker 5: right time for these Batman's to come out. Yeah, as yeah,
Speaker 5: as the Dark Knight came out, well, as the Batman
Speaker 5: Begins came out, I was the right age because that
Speaker 5: was it's fairly growing up. It's a fairly serious movie.
Speaker 5: It takes itself very seriously. And by this stage I'd
Speaker 5: already gotten into a little bit of the Law of Batman,
Speaker 5: so the rajah Ghoul stuff like where he trained and
Speaker 5: learned how to fight, and just knowing a few more
Speaker 5: deeper of the characters because I got into it. And
Speaker 5: then yeah, and then that The Batman Begins came out.
Speaker 5: That was so cool and it was a cool take.
Speaker 5: But then the Dark Knight. I quote The Dark Knight
Speaker 5: often even in life, in comedy, which I find so
Speaker 5: stupidly funny, Like when when I'm talking to people about
Speaker 5: comedy and you know, you would know this classic rule
Speaker 5: of you could have like the killer of killer jokes ready,
Speaker 5: but if you just got a really big laugh, like leave,
Speaker 5: get off the stage. Yeah, like nothing, You've got this
Speaker 5: little bit of a joke. That's and you're like, nah,
Speaker 5: don't add that, dude, leave And I quote the Dark Knight.
Speaker 5: I'm like, you could die the hero or live long
Speaker 5: enough to become the villain.
Speaker 2: That's that is great because there's nothing there's nothing worse
Speaker 2: when you're waiting to come on, particularly maybe if you're
Speaker 2: headlining and there's there's somebody in the MC has gone out,
Speaker 2: and usually, you know, my advice to them usually is,
Speaker 2: you know, just get them comfortable, get a laugh or
Speaker 2: to it, and and bring me on. And I think
Speaker 2: most headliners kind of feel like that. Sometimes you hear
Speaker 2: the laugh making the applause, you think, okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: here we go, here we go. You got the applause.
Speaker 2: Nothing beats in the applause. Oh they got another one.
Speaker 1: Oh they can top that.
Speaker 5: Ok. I don't reckon, I could.
Speaker 1: They're waiting for the standing ovation before they bring you up.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's yeah. So it's it's so funny. There's there's
Speaker 5: so many of those little little quotes in the movie
Speaker 5: that just pop into my head whenever I sort of
Speaker 5: need to use like a reference, and it's just it's
Speaker 5: weird that I'm I'm constantly quoting Batman or if I'm
Speaker 5: quoting like the Joker something stupid. So it's it's fun. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I love it. It's fantastic movie. It's well put
Speaker 5: together and obviously.
Speaker 2: And he'th leedged obviously, Yeah, blew it away, And yeah,
Speaker 2: it was so cool. Let's talk about when that's obviously
Speaker 2: come up a few times, which is sure shank redemption.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's f's I put it down as and I'm
Speaker 5: sure I'm not alone in this greatest movie that's ever
Speaker 5: been made. It came out to like bad reception, never
Speaker 5: never got the love that it deserved, found love later on.
Speaker 5: I it's everything. It's got. Every Andy Duffrain is like
Speaker 5: one of the greatest characters, and they still played off
Speaker 5: as in like did he do it? Did he not?
Speaker 5: Like there's no there's no resolution in that. I think
Speaker 5: I find that the the coolness of the movie is
Speaker 5: that there's no absolutes. It's just what what what? However
Speaker 5: you interpret this? That's cool? Made of my again this
Speaker 5: I find this really funny. My my friend that I
Speaker 5: went to high school with his teacher wheeled in a
Speaker 5: TV every Joe with a VHS and it was Shawshank
Speaker 5: Redemption and was always playing movies and short Shank Redemption
Speaker 5: was something that he often chose to play. And I
Speaker 5: was like, you learn anything from that? Surely? Like you
Speaker 5: don't learn? And what's like I live around the corner
Speaker 5: from a from an art center and they've got a
Speaker 5: little sign that just says Lapidary Club, And I was like,
Speaker 5: I don't know what lapidary is. And my mate goes,
Speaker 5: that's rock shaping, and I'm like, how how did you
Speaker 5: know that? You'll like the dumbest guy I know? And
Speaker 5: he goes Shawshank Redemption. He asks for a little rock
Speaker 5: shaper and he goes, what do you want to you
Speaker 5: want to stick that in somebody's head? And he goes, NA,
Speaker 5: I need it for lapidary, Like you learn from the
Speaker 5: teacher that played movies all the time. That's so funny.
Speaker 5: And the reason why he played movies is because he
Speaker 5: was hung over like half the time.
Speaker 1: And but this guy still learned.
Speaker 5: That's the funniest thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what I think I try to think about why, why?
Speaker 2: What is it about shaw Shank that touches people? And
Speaker 2: I think it's quite It's quite a poetic film, you know,
Speaker 2: in a way like the narration from you know, the
Speaker 2: honey Tones of Morgan Freeman. A beautiful it's beautifully shot,
Speaker 2: and I think it's it's poetic enough, but not too much,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like it's got it's got some darkness. It's it's got
Speaker 1: darkness to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are scenes that are you know, basically where
Speaker 2: there's rape involved, and it's it gets pretty dark, it's
Speaker 2: suicide like it's it's a it's a dark film, but
Speaker 2: there is this poetry to it that is accessible I
Speaker 2: think for mainstream audiences, you know, like like people like
Speaker 2: your mate, like like just people who well it's not
Speaker 2: like lyrical. Well if somebody somebodys a movie is lyrical,
Speaker 2: I get I get nervous. It's going to be style
Speaker 2: over substance potentially, and it's going to be it's going
Speaker 2: to be beautiful and it's gonna you know, and I can,
Speaker 2: I can. I can love lyrical movies. But this is
Speaker 2: shaw Shaking, I think. Is it has the right amount
Speaker 2: of poetry and and and and meaning that people can
Speaker 2: hook into.
Speaker 5: I think I totally agree, And I think it's you
Speaker 5: know what it is that essence of justice. I feel like,
Speaker 5: is he works hard for it, but it comes to
Speaker 5: fruition eventually. And I love I love that. I love
Speaker 5: that he Yeah, there's there seems to be this this
Speaker 5: justice dealt in the movie. The people people get their comeuppins,
Speaker 5: and you're like cool, because there's a lot of times
Speaker 5: where people well a lot of these movies they dig
Speaker 5: holes and they're like, oh, the protagonist has got this
Speaker 5: going on and this going on, and this is how
Speaker 5: are they going to get out of it? And I
Speaker 5: feel like they cheat code a lot at the end
Speaker 5: and just go magic and you're like, no, that sucks.
Speaker 5: Whereas this guy he worked hard, he was he played
Speaker 5: that long game and it really paid off. And there's
Speaker 5: there's a twist in the movie that we don't there's
Speaker 5: not really a twist, but it is a twist. It's
Speaker 5: it's just really well done. I think it didn't even
Speaker 5: Stephen King say that like he loved the movie, which
Speaker 5: is like he wrote the book. You've got to create
Speaker 5: a good movie. If the guy who wrote the story
Speaker 5: goes that's a that's a good movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: You know, there's been plenty of examples of people, you know,
Speaker 2: writers not not enjoying the adaptations of their work.
Speaker 1: That's that's quite a long list.
Speaker 5: But especially Stephen King, like he because he didn't like
Speaker 5: the was it the myst like I think, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple that he hasn't stand by me.
Speaker 1: I think he had a bit of an issue with.
Speaker 5: I loved Have you seen it? Am I allowed to
Speaker 5: talk about there's a spoiler in this in the mist
Speaker 5: there's a it's the it's a movie theory, but I
Speaker 5: think it's really fun. Have you seen it, You've seen
Speaker 5: the Myss?
Speaker 1: I don't think I have.
Speaker 5: Actually, it's so the miss comes and there's it's there's
Speaker 5: speaky alien monsters and all this type of stuff. But
Speaker 5: the big sort of thing in the movie is how
Speaker 5: people react to it, like because it's that fear of
Speaker 5: the unknown. And they're in a supermarket and there's this
Speaker 5: lady and she almost gives that vibe of reallyous connotations
Speaker 5: and she's like, we have to sacrifice your child. The
Speaker 5: protagonist has got a son that he's just trying to
Speaker 5: look after and he's just trying to save his son,
Speaker 5: and it's in this supermarket and people are like trying
Speaker 5: to pull the son off him and give him to
Speaker 5: the to the beasts in the mist, and it's that's
Speaker 5: real crazy. That's a cool part of the movie. But
Speaker 5: the theory behind it is because and this is the spoiler,
Speaker 5: is at the end of the movie, they end up
Speaker 5: driving into the mist and they get caught up and
Speaker 5: they're like, well, there's nothing nothing else I can do,
Speaker 5: and so he's sacrificed, like he pulls out a gun
Speaker 5: and kills everybody. But once his son dies, the mist
Speaker 5: clears up and the army come through. And the twist
Speaker 5: is obviously that he killed everybody and all he had
Speaker 5: to do was wait thirty seconds and the army would
Speaker 5: have taken over.
Speaker 1: That's why I just just wait for the weather of
Speaker 1: the past, you know, the past overreact.
Speaker 5: You know. It's such a it's such a crazy film. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I suppose that's that's probably why Stephen King was angry
Speaker 5: about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Janks an absolute ripper, one that
Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily hold a place.
Speaker 1: In in my heart. And I'm not even sure i've
Speaker 1: seen his Dread?
Speaker 5: Is that? Is it?
Speaker 2: The recent the remake? Yeah, okay, tell us about your
Speaker 2: your love of dread, uh.
Speaker 5: Your love of dreads. But I love it. It's yeah,
Speaker 5: it's got Carl Urban in it as as a lead.
Speaker 5: It is. It's just it's one of my favorite films
Speaker 5: because it's directed so incredibly like it's such an incredible
Speaker 5: watch as a movie. It's got the vibe of like
Speaker 5: what they wanted to do in the eighties and nineties
Speaker 5: with action movies, but it's done cleanly with what they
Speaker 5: can do now. The whole one with Sylvester Stallone. It
Speaker 5: was weird, Like it's a weird movie, right. I loved
Speaker 5: it when I was a kid because I just loved
Speaker 5: all those action movies. It was really fun to watch.
Speaker 5: But this was an actual cool movie where it's got
Speaker 5: like these effects. They have a drug in the movie
Speaker 5: called slow Mo, and then when they do the drugs,
Speaker 5: it's the whole movie slows down into slow mo and
Speaker 5: gives you the You get to watch it from their
Speaker 5: point of view, okay, and that's a really cool idea
Speaker 5: for them to so, and then that gives us action
Speaker 5: sequences so much more like Kick. Yeah, another movie that
Speaker 5: didn't get a bit of love when it was at
Speaker 5: the cinemas, but later found its hone, which is a
Speaker 5: real shame because I was keen to watch a sequel
Speaker 5: on that. But I don't think that that will ever
Speaker 5: be because I just don't think people will see the
Speaker 5: money in it.
Speaker 4: You never know.
Speaker 2: I mean, things can, like saw Shank can find its
Speaker 2: the audience have a time, and I certainly Whenel recently
Speaker 2: just did Wolfman and we're chatting about the Thing, which
Speaker 2: you know was released about the same time as a
Speaker 2: later runner. Both were not hits, but have really have
Speaker 2: since become massive, you know, like but love you know,
Speaker 2: and as Lee said, it just proves that the only
Speaker 2: true critic is.
Speaker 1: Time, you know, and sometimes you do need that time and.
Speaker 2: Perspective and and sometimes about the world catching up to
Speaker 2: what the movie was about as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love the idea of this is such an
Speaker 5: eighties thing because since you haven't seen it, but dread comes.
Speaker 5: So's he's the law. He is the police officer, but
Speaker 5: he's also the judge and the executioner if need be.
Speaker 5: So when when they come in they do, they see them,
Speaker 5: and then they judge them on the spot, and then
Speaker 5: they that the population is so huge that they just
Speaker 5: need to take care of the law then and there
Speaker 5: get it done. And so then he will literally just
Speaker 5: just pull out his weapon and and instantly like take
Speaker 5: care of what needs to be taken care of once
Speaker 5: they've been judged. This building, So they get into a building,
Speaker 5: building goes into lockdown. The bad guy or bad girl
Speaker 5: should we say that in this particular movie, is at
Speaker 5: the top of the building and he has to make
Speaker 5: his way up the levels past different villains on the way.
Speaker 5: Some have different guards.
Speaker 1: It's just such a cool it's cool.
Speaker 5: It is sort of movie, but it's obviously filmed in
Speaker 5: the twenty ten's, I think, or even the two thousand,
Speaker 5: so it's such as it's relies on those old tropes,
Speaker 5: but it's a new take on it, and I just
Speaker 5: dig it. I think it's got a lot of nostalgia
Speaker 5: for a new movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I'll check that out. Dread is on Take
Speaker 1: it out. It's great, But let's talk about the movie
Speaker 1: we are here to talk about.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be in the car anymore. I
Speaker 3: want to go home.
Speaker 5: I don't want to go to Wali World Clark under
Speaker 5: the circumstances, I wouldn't mind if we just went home.
Speaker 3: In retrospect, it seems like a pretty bad idea driving out.
Speaker 3: It's been one disaster after another. Yeah, it's been a
Speaker 3: real drag Dad. Maybe we can try it some all
Speaker 3: the time. Why the world's overrated?
Speaker 6: Anyway?
Speaker 5: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten
Speaker 4: hours from the fucking fun park and you wanna bail out. Well,
Speaker 4: I'll tell you something.
Speaker 5: This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest.
Speaker 1: It's a quest for fun. I'm gonna have fun, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have fun.
Speaker 4: We're all gonna have so much fucking fun.
Speaker 7: When lead plastic surgery don't remove our goddamn s files,
Speaker 7: you'll be whistling symphony due to out of your assholes.
Speaker 4: I gotta be crazy. I'm gonna pilgrimage to.
Speaker 1: See a Moose, praise Marty Moose.
Speaker 3: Ohly, shit, Dad, you want to ask for something?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm excited when the comedian says that having not
Speaker 2: seen this movie, which is in my life, and I'm
Speaker 2: a bit older than you, Dane, so I understand why.
Speaker 2: Maybe you haven't seen it. But this was such a
Speaker 2: quotable movie with me and my friends. There's so many
Speaker 2: things we used to quote from this movie. I cannot
Speaker 2: wait to find out. What did you think? Did you
Speaker 2: enjoy from nineteen eighty three Beverly the Angelo, obviously Chevy Chase,
Speaker 2: Anthony Michael Hall, direct by Harold Ramis, written by John Hughes.
Speaker 2: Did you enjoy National Lampoon's Vacation?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I enjoyed it. It was a good movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I certainly.
Speaker 5: Don't see the iconicness of it, and maybe, yeah, it
Speaker 5: is a it's a weird do you know what I'm
Speaker 5: putting it down to. And this might come across as
Speaker 5: really rude, but I find it to be very appealing
Speaker 5: to old white dads. It's just it's just got that
Speaker 5: vibe to it where, like I reckon, a mom would
Speaker 5: watch it and go yeah and kids, and it's just
Speaker 5: it's it's set and like absolutely stars an old white
Speaker 5: dad who can just take his brain and put it
Speaker 5: straight into Chevy Chase's character Griswold and just go yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm like that, and you're like.
Speaker 2: Great, well, it's it's interesting because I mean, first of all,
Speaker 2: I love this movie when I was a teenage, Like
Speaker 2: when I was a teenager, so and all our friends
Speaker 2: watched it, and I have to say, my wife loves this,
Speaker 2: like like I know it's about like I kind of
Speaker 2: know what you're saying, because that's what the central character
Speaker 2: kind of is. But I think the main line into
Speaker 2: this movie is just like being on holidays with the
Speaker 2: family and if you've ever been in that situation where
Speaker 2: you're in the back of the backseat of the car. Originally,
Speaker 2: the movie You Know, was based on an article that
Speaker 2: John Hughes had written for The National lampoons, which is
Speaker 2: called Vacation fifty six forty six or fifty eight, and
Speaker 2: it was largely told through rusties the kid point of view,
Speaker 2: which kind of explains the the slight weirdness of the
Speaker 2: Ferrari girl played by Christy Brinkley. And we'll get to
Speaker 2: that soon. So that was maybe like a fourteen year
Speaker 2: old girl that like Russi's in the back seat, you know,
Speaker 2: with his parents in the front, and he's like looking
Speaker 2: looking over at his footing your girl, and they're kind
Speaker 2: of like and they're kind of, you know, flirting, and
Speaker 2: you know he's feeling weird about the whole thing, and
Speaker 2: that that is way more innocent and kind of I think.
Speaker 5: That would genuinely make way more sense, man, because the
Speaker 5: main character just basically cheating on his wife.
Speaker 1: Like it's so funny.
Speaker 2: Like when I was watching it as a kid, and
Speaker 2: for so many years watching it, you knew it's a
Speaker 2: bit weird and all that, but I just kind of went, oh, whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, Like watching it kind of more recently in
Speaker 2: recent years, you kind of go, it's such a big
Speaker 2: swing and risk to take to have this guy who
Speaker 2: you need to believe like and he's a he's a
Speaker 2: good dad. You know, he gets two days off a
Speaker 2: year and he wants this And that's the in for
Speaker 2: me as well, Like being a dad, you're going to
Speaker 2: go yeah, And this is as I get older and
Speaker 2: now I am a dad, they're going to go, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know what it's light to kind of go, I
Speaker 2: want this to be perfect, you know, and I want
Speaker 2: this am I to be honest. My wife would feel
Speaker 2: like that as well. Like I think that's even these
Speaker 2: days seen as a dad thing. I think my wife
Speaker 2: as a mum, wants everything to be as good as
Speaker 2: they can be for her kids.
Speaker 1: But it's a holiday, whether it's it's.
Speaker 2: Getting them ready for a school excursion, whatever it might be,
Speaker 2: you know, making sure they're prepared for sport, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the idea that he's a good dad. And
Speaker 2: then the hot girl comes along in the Ferrari. Sure,
Speaker 2: if you want to have that fantasy going, that's all fine.
Speaker 2: The fantasy, Yeah, we get it, you know whatever, But
Speaker 2: it's the follow through at the hotel later on.
Speaker 5: Go what Like I almost thought that this could this
Speaker 5: girl could not exist, Like for three quarters of the movie,
Speaker 5: I was like, maybe because everyone else is asleep, and
Speaker 5: then he's just he's in his own world and he
Speaker 5: just dreams of I wish I was like single or
Speaker 5: back in my day when I still got it, Like
Speaker 5: he's got these fantasies of him being like young again
Speaker 5: or still attractive. And I get that that's really funny,
Speaker 5: and that I thought that in the movie leading right
Speaker 5: up to him actually meeting her and her being real
Speaker 5: and being seen by other people, I was like, this
Speaker 5: is a cool I get where he's where this imagination
Speaker 5: is coming from. And then hopefully we find out that
Speaker 5: this is not real, because I don't want this guy
Speaker 5: to be a like he's a good dad, but he's
Speaker 5: got to cree it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a piece of you.
Speaker 5: And then that's where I thought it was going to go,
Speaker 5: and I was like, Oh, this is great. And then yeah,
Speaker 5: when she was real and they're they're in a pool
Speaker 5: together and I'm just like, oh, dude, And then he's
Speaker 5: explaining it to his life but he's just doing the
Speaker 5: whole but you get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and she kind of goes along with it
Speaker 2: because you know, and that's the level of the movie
Speaker 2: that we're dealing with. We're not dealing with a real
Speaker 2: examination of a marriage and desires and all that. But
Speaker 2: I think what you are proposing is the perfect fix
Speaker 2: for it. Like you can even have the scene where
Speaker 2: they're having a drink and he's lying about being, you know,
Speaker 2: the owner of the hotel, and then they can go
Speaker 2: into the pool, but as soon as you know, somebody
Speaker 2: comes out, she just disappears because she's a fantasy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I thought that that would be exactly what
Speaker 5: was going to happen, That everyone comes out, sees him
Speaker 5: naked in the pool, and then everyone goes, there's no girl,
Speaker 5: and then he sort of wonders whether there really was
Speaker 5: or whether whether she took off or And I thought
Speaker 5: that that's cool. I could, I could. That could be
Speaker 5: the the just side note, whether you take from what
Speaker 5: you want from it. But yeah, and then I was like,
Speaker 5: maybe it could still exist, like maybe that still exists
Speaker 5: in my brain. But then he talks to Rusty.
Speaker 1: And then was it Rusty Rusty yeah, Rusty, ye yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: He talks to Rusty and then Rusty is like, who's
Speaker 5: that girl? Or we've seen the girl in the pool,
Speaker 5: And then I'm like, ah, And then I thought maybe
Speaker 5: they did that because it's a good gag for a
Speaker 5: rusty to go do you reckon? Mumble buy It? That's
Speaker 5: a good joke.
Speaker 2: That's that seems really is really nicely performed. And you know,
Speaker 2: Anthony michaelhol what a great young child actor he is.
Speaker 2: He goes on and works with you know, John Hughes
Speaker 2: and Breakfast Club and sixteen Candles and Weird Science and yeah,
Speaker 2: he's so like beyond like some of.
Speaker 1: The little touches he gives is so good.
Speaker 2: I think he's one of the best performances from anybody
Speaker 2: that age that I've said.
Speaker 5: He's he's he goes on to do something with ghosts,
Speaker 5: doesn't he like it's a TV show?
Speaker 1: Is that the Recent? Is that the Recent? Ghosts? Seriously
Speaker 1: he's in that?
Speaker 5: Is he?
Speaker 8: Or?
Speaker 5: I think there's some kind of kind he does.
Speaker 1: He does pop up.
Speaker 2: He was in war Machine. Brad Pitt made a movie
Speaker 2: called war Machine years ago and that so he does.
Speaker 2: I mean for this generation, for a generation who you
Speaker 2: know was at the right age for a Breakfast Club
Speaker 2: and sixteen Candles. I mean, Anthony Michael Hall is a
Speaker 2: you know, he's a legend. The producers did want Christy
Speaker 2: Brinkley to be naked for that scene she refused good
Speaker 2: on her, And so what happened, Like I said, it
Speaker 2: was supposed to be kind of told from Rusty's point
Speaker 2: of view, and then when chevy Chase signs on, you know,
Speaker 2: he's a massive star coming out of Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 2: They're going to go, well, nothing's going to be funny
Speaker 2: than seeing it from you know, chevy Chase's point of view.
Speaker 1: So they changed they changes.
Speaker 2: Was supposed to be kind of a more innocent, you know,
Speaker 2: a girl in the back of a car and rusting
Speaker 2: back of his car to you know, a supermodel, and
Speaker 2: it gets it gets a little bit creepy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So what's really funny is my wife We're watching it,
Speaker 5: and my wife just goes is Christy Brinkley And I'm
Speaker 5: just like, I don't know who that is. She's she's
Speaker 5: a model, and I'm like, okay, crazy.
Speaker 2: So she's a model, and she married Billy Joel so
Speaker 2: that they were married. The song I'm much if you
Speaker 2: know the song Up Tang Girl, that's that was read
Speaker 2: about Christie Brinkley. Oh wow, yeah, she's a major. She's
Speaker 2: a major model. I'm not sure like this was like
Speaker 2: on her way up to becoming the star that she became,
Speaker 2: or exactly whereabouts how established he was when she made this.
Speaker 2: One other thing that we'll mention sometimes what happens in
Speaker 2: this podcast, and I always remind people our audience dying
Speaker 2: is I'm talking to somebody who has just seen this
Speaker 2: classic movie. So you just saw it last night. Sometimes
Speaker 2: what has happened over over the podcast is that as
Speaker 2: we're talking about it, you kind of go, ah, actually, okay,
Speaker 2: well yeah, maybe maybe I'll give it another go, or
Speaker 2: maybe I think a little bit I may not watch
Speaker 2: it again, but I feel a little bit differently that
Speaker 2: might happen. It might not before I try to kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, like seduce you into into enjoying this maybe
Speaker 2: even more that there's a point that Howard Raimer said
Speaker 2: that he was not not proud of, you know, in hindsight,
Speaker 2: and that's the when they take the wrong exit and
Speaker 2: going to the East Saint Louis and said it basically
Speaker 2: is all the worst stereotypes of African Americans. You know,
Speaker 2: they you know, they they get ripped off, they get
Speaker 2: the hub cap stole, and he said that's that's that's
Speaker 2: the scene that he regrets the most in the whole film.
Speaker 5: It's it does put a bad taste in your mouth
Speaker 5: watching it in today's like, yeah, I've gone back. I've
Speaker 5: watched Ninja Turtles, right, and I feel like they do
Speaker 5: a really good ghetto scene in that without using like
Speaker 5: stereotypes of using like Black America or anything. They actually
Speaker 5: use it's just kids. Yeah, it doesn't matter what race
Speaker 5: they are or anything. They show the delinquency can be
Speaker 5: anything and people. And I'm like, Ninja Turtles got it right?
Speaker 5: How crazy? That's like ninety three.
Speaker 1: The original Turtles are you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the original Ninja Turtles And it's so it's
Speaker 5: so cool to watch. And yeah, Casey Jones like just
Speaker 5: just in a park and that these and yeah, it's
Speaker 5: it's got there's no racial connotations whatsoever. It's just you
Speaker 5: feel gritty and that type of thing. And they're like, wow,
Speaker 5: this is what a cool movie to be so woke.
Speaker 5: It's weird.
Speaker 1: Well done, Ninja Turtles. There is a lot to like
Speaker 1: about this movie.
Speaker 2: And I mean from the get go, I give them
Speaker 2: the good mood as soon as I hear Holiday Road
Speaker 2: and the postcards and and the you know, the imagery
Speaker 2: is great. Written by Lindsay Buckingham remember of Flipper Mac
Speaker 2: and she really red holl A Road.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh this is okay, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: I'm not a big Chevy Shapes fan, so we're probably
Speaker 5: getting into the realm of like why I didn't watch it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: well I haven't seen it before. I'm not not a
Speaker 5: huge one. I love Chevy in Community. I think that's
Speaker 5: one of the best series in the series, and he
Speaker 5: is one of the greatest characters in that. Finding out
Speaker 5: a little bit more about him, like what he was
Speaker 5: like on set and stuff from people that are reminiscing
Speaker 5: about filming that, and you go, okay, he's a bit.
Speaker 1: Not a cool guy. Not a cool yes, troublesome.
Speaker 2: So he Christopher Columbus actually had a meeting with Chevy Chase,
Speaker 2: you know, the great Christopher Columbus, not the guy who
Speaker 2: found in America.
Speaker 5: Mistook Native American people for India.
Speaker 1: Yes, not that one. We won't put that on him.
Speaker 2: Chris comas the director, he had a meeting with Chevy Chase,
Speaker 2: so he was in line to direct Lampon's vacation it
Speaker 2: might have been Christmas vacation even and then he had
Speaker 2: such a horrible experience with him. He pulled out. He said,
Speaker 2: I can't, I can't work with this man. And John
Speaker 2: Hughes made it up to him and said, Okay, I apologize,
Speaker 2: I'll make it up to you. I've got another movie
Speaker 2: I want you to direct. That movie was Home Alone,
Speaker 2: like one of the massive, the biggest movie the year
Speaker 2: and still a classic. But the scene where they were
Speaker 2: like throwing you know, when they back out, very early
Speaker 2: scene after the he backs out of the home and
Speaker 2: the suitcases off four down. Yeah, they wanted him to
Speaker 2: shoot that, you know, quite a few times, and he
Speaker 2: got he got pissed off and started throwing suitcases around
Speaker 2: at the crew and everyone, and yeah, Howard Ramis had
Speaker 2: to take him aside and say, if you ever embarrassed
Speaker 2: me like that in front of the crew again, or
Speaker 2: taught to me like that in front of the crew again,
Speaker 2: you know, like just ripped through him and said apparently
Speaker 2: after that he actually he caught him on his behavior.
Speaker 1: He was he was pretty good.
Speaker 2: But the stories I've heard about yeah, Chevy Chase, he's
Speaker 2: not a particularly likable guy and he.
Speaker 5: The So we're watching that scene and my wife instantly goes,
Speaker 5: there's room in the back for the luggage, and I like, yeah,
Speaker 5: but the gag doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's easily explainable from a comedian.
Speaker 2: The gag doesn't work.
Speaker 5: It's such as it's full of gags. I felt like,
Speaker 5: you know, sometimes I watch movies and I feel like
Speaker 5: a comedian had something to do with the writing, because
Speaker 5: there's jokes. There's a joke and it doesn't have much
Speaker 5: to do with the movie. There's the crowbard a joking
Speaker 5: because someone's gone this bit is funny, let's put it
Speaker 5: in the movie. And I feel like there's a few
Speaker 5: of those in the movie. There's a there's a few bits.
Speaker 1: Well it's funny.
Speaker 2: Because they took this movie to the famous and powerful
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was a paramount at the time, and
Speaker 2: he rejected it because he said it's too episodic. And
Speaker 2: their reply was, yeah, it's a road movie. Like that's
Speaker 2: almost by definition what it is. You go from place
Speaker 2: to place to place to place. That's how Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: how road movies work. It's how travel works. Then they
Speaker 2: do it Warner Brothers. They got it straight away, and
Speaker 2: you know, it was a major hit. But I kind
Speaker 2: of would you know, and we're coming from different experiences,
Speaker 2: because I literally watched this in the eighties, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe not in like I said, the cinema, but on
Speaker 2: videotape and became like a massive thing that everyone around
Speaker 2: me just quoted. You know that, and three a Megos
Speaker 2: and a few other movies, and but nothing ever felt
Speaker 2: particularly a shoehorn. And I kind of like there's some
Speaker 2: sweet moments that are just effortlessly funny with that. Sometimes
Speaker 2: they hinge on on a gag, but sometimes they just
Speaker 2: it's a performance based Like Anthony Michael Hall, let's have
Speaker 2: a listen to him sharing a beer with his dad.
Speaker 7: You know, maybe she'd be a nicer person she had
Speaker 7: a family of her own, you know, instead of always
Speaker 7: having a.
Speaker 5: Glamor on someone else.
Speaker 4: You're a pretty bright little guy. Excuse me, man, it's okay.
Speaker 3: You know what I wanna do.
Speaker 7: When I was your age, my dad shared a beer
Speaker 7: with me, and I thought it was not the best
Speaker 7: thing in the world.
Speaker 5: Eh.
Speaker 4: When I was a boy, it's just about.
Speaker 7: Every summer we take a vacation, and you know, in
Speaker 7: eighteen years we never had fun. But now I have
Speaker 7: my own family, and well we're on our own vacation
Speaker 7: and you know something Russ what d We're gonna have fun?
Speaker 4: Uh, you gonna have fun.
Speaker 2: I love that for two reasons. One, it's funny that
Speaker 2: you know, this kid checked me. It also to be honest,
Speaker 2: like I allowed my you know, allowed invertcom as my
Speaker 2: my sixteen year old to like have a beer at Christmas,
Speaker 2: you know, like you know, with with with the family. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I gave him a corona and he like held
Speaker 2: that corona. It wasn't his fucking first corona.
Speaker 1: I can take the.
Speaker 2: Way he held it. And then he drunk it. And
Speaker 2: he drunk it like Rusty Griswold. Okay, okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I think you've shown something there to me.
Speaker 5: But it's not too good stuff at the back of
Speaker 5: the come. But I know what it's like.
Speaker 2: And this is when I you know, I love that
Speaker 2: movies keep growing and you go watch them at different
Speaker 2: ages and they mean different things, and and you know,
Speaker 2: I saw it from I found it was funny that
Speaker 2: Rusty kind of chug the beer, you know, when I
Speaker 2: watched it when I was younger. But now what I
Speaker 2: see is a father trying to bond with his child,
Speaker 2: and it can be awkward, like trying to actively bond
Speaker 2: with your child like it. You know, bonding with your
Speaker 2: child happens kind of naturally just through you know, guidance
Speaker 2: and being around each other and the love that you
Speaker 2: have and all that. But when you actively try to bond,
Speaker 2: you know, verbally, try to bond that we're going to
Speaker 2: have a conversation. Now it's awkward, like it's awk good.
Speaker 2: You don't really have those conversations elsewhere, you know, at
Speaker 2: that level where there's emotionally like you might you might
Speaker 2: try to connect with somebody, but you may not. The
Speaker 2: emotional connection is not necessarily there because you might go, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's a bloke at work and we should be you know,
Speaker 2: I'll reach out, Okay, we're not friends. Okay, I'll move
Speaker 2: under somebody else, you know, I just won't. I'll avoid
Speaker 2: him in the corralors or whatever it might be where
Speaker 2: this is like, this is my son and I'm trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, ask about the music they're listening to or
Speaker 2: whatever it might be, and it's there's a movie I
Speaker 2: watched recent and we did it on the podcast with
Speaker 2: Olivia Deeble called Eighth Grade. I'm not sure if you've
Speaker 2: seen that, but there's a scene that just blew me away.
Speaker 2: And I just I was watching it by myself a
Speaker 2: few months ago in the hotel room in Canberra, and
Speaker 2: I just bawled. It's like a father trying to like
Speaker 2: connect with his Chinese finally makes a connection and it's
Speaker 2: just like, ah, hero moment and and that's this Scene's
Speaker 2: not that, but it plays in that area where it's
Speaker 2: he it's Chevy Chase, Grant Clark, Griswold trying to connect
Speaker 2: with Rusty and put him in charge and like, you know,
Speaker 2: say you're you're in charge of you know, I'm going
Speaker 2: to go and find a mechanic and so you're in charge.
Speaker 2: And he's trying to have this qui little bonding moment
Speaker 2: before he heads off, and I just think it's I
Speaker 2: think it's really beautiful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's It has got some some pretty redeeming moments
Speaker 5: of Chevy's character, of Griswold being a dad, being a
Speaker 5: cool and genuinely exactly what you're saying. That core of
Speaker 5: the movie. I just want this to be perfect, and
Speaker 5: it's being the complete opposite is brilliant. It's such a
Speaker 5: good that's what makes the movie. That's just him trying
Speaker 5: way too hard, and then it just not not playing
Speaker 5: out the way that he wants it to. There's the
Speaker 5: scene when they do go into a bar and he's
Speaker 5: being a bit cheeky and letting his hair down and
Speaker 5: he's trying to be a bit of a smarter to
Speaker 5: the bartender, who's I think is trying to fix something
Speaker 5: under the sink, and he's like, come on, come on, idiot,
Speaker 5: giddy and give me a beer, and then he pulls
Speaker 5: out I think it's a fake barrel Shoka and I
Speaker 5: it's it's such a good scene, but then the closer
Speaker 5: of that, the killer gag is excuse me, kind of
Speaker 5: just trouble you for a drink? Plea is so funny,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, ah, that's a bit. That's a good bit.
Speaker 5: That is a that just seems like a really well
Speaker 5: written joke. Yeah, and I feel like someone, I feel
Speaker 5: like a comedian had something to do with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And there and there there are real jokes in there,
Speaker 2: and then they're just a little performance performances throughout this movie,
Speaker 2: not just by the Prince with the family, but you
Speaker 2: have like at the start, Eugene Levy, you know, people
Speaker 2: will know from Ship's Creek and you know, Waiting for
Speaker 2: Gunman and all those films.
Speaker 5: I call him the dad from an American Pie, the.
Speaker 2: Deaf American Pie. He's like, yeah, he's iconic and brilliant.
Speaker 2: I think the first time I ever saw him, and
Speaker 2: he's so good. Like I'm not sure if there's any
Speaker 2: gags in that scene, but I could watch that so
Speaker 2: many times.
Speaker 1: It's just like his reaction of like, I know what happened.
Speaker 1: It didn't come in?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah what he calls over the mechanic and says
Speaker 5: he's looking for he's light blue sports car. Yeah, hangers, No,
Speaker 5: I don't know it is, And that his face of
Speaker 5: him trying to really like car sales minute is so funny.
Speaker 5: What doesn't make sense, obviously, is why why does why
Speaker 5: do they do it trading with the car and then
Speaker 5: instantly crush it like that, if you rubbish.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get I'm going to give the same
Speaker 1: answer you gave your wife, because the joke works, The
Speaker 1: gag needs to work. I mean I.
Speaker 2: Did laugh at the idea like life was, you know,
Speaker 2: like I don't understand, like you know, oh man, and
Speaker 2: everyone's going to say this. Whatever age you get to,
Speaker 2: you're always going to say this. Our kids will say
Speaker 2: this when they're older. Life was simpler then and you
Speaker 2: could probably like, yeah, bring your car in. You know,
Speaker 2: it's all been arranged, traded in new car.
Speaker 1: There it is where you know now it's there's much
Speaker 1: more paperwork to be done, and everything feels a bit
Speaker 1: more complicated. But that said, that said, it was you know,
Speaker 1: it's done very quickly and obviously.
Speaker 2: To make the joke work. I mean the fact that
Speaker 2: they drive the car back out of the pancake is
Speaker 2: he's pretty.
Speaker 5: Hilarious, absolutely, and he goes to open the car door
Speaker 5: and it's like the gag. The gag is there purely
Speaker 5: I think to let you know, this is the humor
Speaker 5: to expect for this movie, absolutely, because it's the first
Speaker 5: big gag and you go, okay, this is the level
Speaker 5: of silly that we're and you can it's not. This
Speaker 5: is why I think Chevy pulls into a very weird
Speaker 5: category for me, because he's not quite is it Leslie Nielsen,
Speaker 5: he's not quite spoof ye silly weird comedy, and he's
Speaker 5: not that that jokingly silly, but in real base, in
Speaker 5: real life comedy, he's a mixture of in between. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but so there's a lot of real life elements but
Speaker 5: not spoof.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Americans do this time.
Speaker 2: This is not an uncommon kind of genre for Americans
Speaker 2: doing comedy, where in Australia we kind of, I don't know,
Speaker 2: sometimes we're trying to emulate what the Americans do with
Speaker 2: that style of comedy.
Speaker 1: That'sn't since in the work here.
Speaker 2: But there is that They're they're good at still being
Speaker 2: real but still having clear jokes. You know, yeah, they're
Speaker 2: you know, within that world and them still kind of working.
Speaker 2: And and I mean there are so many I mean
Speaker 2: I love thee the barbecue scene when they got a
Speaker 2: cousin Eddies Randy quaidh legend.
Speaker 5: More more, Randy Quaid more. That's that is an underutilized
Speaker 5: character in this movie. He is ridiculously funny. I loved
Speaker 5: every scene he was in, and almost every scene he's
Speaker 5: not in when he's in the vicinity is he's got
Speaker 5: a four print in it somehow. Yeah, and it's funny.
Speaker 5: He's he. I would have loved to have seen almost
Speaker 5: a Randy Quaid movie.
Speaker 1: Well, they did do it.
Speaker 2: They did do a cousin Eddy movie, which like years
Speaker 2: and years later, it didn't really work, but he is
Speaker 2: in Christmas vacation. I don't for a memory, he's in
Speaker 2: European vacation, but he's in Christmas vacation. But yeah, he
Speaker 2: was a bit of a like he almost stole the show.
Speaker 2: Like he's he's as quotable. But when he gives it,
Speaker 2: you know, but you can use a cold one, Clark,
Speaker 2: and you know he's already junked him with the beer
Speaker 2: and he cracks over in a can he gives the
Speaker 2: beers has been drinking out of It's so good.
Speaker 8: My wife, My wife looked at me and she goes, you,
Speaker 8: not a comment, dame, not a compliment, so insulting.
Speaker 1: It really is, it really is. But the whole this
Speaker 1: is this.
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm going to give you a little
Speaker 5: bit of light at the end of the tunnel on
Speaker 5: this line. So yeah, I enjoyed. I enjoyed the movie
Speaker 5: enough for it to be like it's a good movie.
Speaker 5: I didn't like absolutely love it, but I love I
Speaker 5: love John Candy, John Candy growing up, Uncle Buck, so
Speaker 5: many movies where he's just absolutely brilliant, And I've always
Speaker 5: loved John Candy movies. And it was cool to see
Speaker 5: John little appearance in this one. Yeah, and I always
Speaker 5: pause movies. I don't know if you do this, but
Speaker 5: we pause movies and we have a chat about our thoughts,
Speaker 5: not not particularly on the movie, but it could be.
Speaker 5: So we paused it. John Candy pops up and we're
Speaker 5: just like we going to this fifteen minute yan about
Speaker 5: how there's no big guys, big funny guys in movies anymore.
Speaker 5: That we went through a good phase there where there
Speaker 5: was you know, Don Belushi, John Candy, Jonah Hill in.
Speaker 1: Super Bad, Jonah Hill, Jack Black, I'll give.
Speaker 5: You Jack Black. Yeah, but it's of dried up, you know,
Speaker 5: like it's not and they all seem to lose weight
Speaker 5: and become more serious of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, bring them back.
Speaker 5: I say, probably I'm being biased in this because I.
Speaker 2: But no, I hear, don't trust me, I hear I
Speaker 2: And John Candy is I think so brilliant. And we
Speaker 2: discussed another film you hadn't seen, you haven't seen yet,
Speaker 2: which is Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And we didn't do
Speaker 2: it because Georgie Tourney did that on this podcast that
Speaker 2: we have covered, but it is in my top three films.
Speaker 2: And I think if you love John Candy, plans, trains
Speaker 2: and automobiles.
Speaker 1: Yep, he's gonna blow your mind.
Speaker 5: Like, here's the thing with that. I don't like Steve Martin,
Speaker 5: not don't like. I'm using too strong a words. So
Speaker 5: Steve Martin has never been like really funny to me.
Speaker 5: I've I've watched Murders in the Building recently and I
Speaker 5: absolutely love it, and that's like evoked some some good
Speaker 5: emotions to Steve Martin. Martin short has always been funny.
Speaker 5: Was he in the Mannequin? I think he was in that?
Speaker 1: That was that was McCartney.
Speaker 5: McCartney. Yeah, I always yeah, But I've loved I've loved
Speaker 5: a bunch short movies. But yeah, so Steve Martin, I
Speaker 5: will go back and watch planes, trains and automobiles because
Speaker 5: I like him now. But Chevy, I'm starting to warn
Speaker 5: to well, what what so.
Speaker 1: You're explain James and autobiles? Okay, watch that?
Speaker 2: Watch that that' see Steve Martin, John Candy combination and
Speaker 2: John Candy gives I think like it should look like
Speaker 2: one of Oscart. In my mind, comedy is underrated, as
Speaker 2: you know, but those two together are fucking dynamite. And
Speaker 2: and you're not really supposed to like Steve Martin's Carriagter
Speaker 2: for a while and you kind of eventually going to
Speaker 2: warm to him, and you know, and.
Speaker 1: It's it's beautiful. It's a beautiful movie.
Speaker 2: And it's one of those movies I'm glad to hear.
Speaker 2: I think I hear more people talking about as a
Speaker 2: classic in then over the last ten or so years.
Speaker 2: I shuddered the thing I heard recently that Will Smith
Speaker 2: is looking to remake planes, trains and automobiles, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: keep your fucking dirty hands off. You keep playing trains
Speaker 2: and hoornobiles out of your fucking mouth.
Speaker 5: But it is.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: But then you have to watch Three Amigos because Three
Speaker 2: Amigos is Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase.
Speaker 1: So that will be the test. You're not ready for
Speaker 1: it yet. I don't think you're not ready.
Speaker 5: So I think this is the light at the end
Speaker 5: of the tunnel. Is that I'm going to go and
Speaker 5: watch Fletch. Yep, because I made of mine said that
Speaker 5: that's good. I've been intrigued by Fletch before, like because
Speaker 5: it's it's a is he a p I something like this?
Speaker 5: And I've seen I think I've seen, Like I haven't
Speaker 5: seen any scenes or anything, but I think I've heard gads.
Speaker 5: I can't remember, but I think that this would be
Speaker 5: I think I've seen it in like the background of
Speaker 5: a lound room as I've sort of walked through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like I like Fletch.
Speaker 2: But it's interesting what you say about Chevy Chase, because
Speaker 2: outside of National Lampage Vacation, I'm not really sure what
Speaker 2: I do like him in. To be honest, like I
Speaker 2: think he's finding in community, but like when I when
Speaker 2: I came to him in through National Lampeage Vacation as
Speaker 2: Clark w Griswold, like, it's hard for me to kind
Speaker 2: of like shake that off and and to see him
Speaker 2: years later, when I've heard all the stories about him,
Speaker 2: and you know, and I had a friend who kind
Speaker 2: of worked with him and confirmed that, yeah, not a
Speaker 2: not a great guy. And so it's hard for me
Speaker 2: to even enjoy that as much. But I'm happy to
Speaker 2: keep vacation in its own bubble and kind of go.
Speaker 2: It meant a lot to me as a kid. It
Speaker 2: made me laugh. We worried, you know, reultimate or catch
Speaker 2: a beddy. Nothing but the best you know, that's a
Speaker 2: good saying.
Speaker 5: That's a funny the Hamburger Helper Hamburg. I didn't I've
Speaker 5: never heard of this before. But you can tell through
Speaker 5: context of that gag and how quickly they do it,
Speaker 5: you can just tell what what it is. I'm assuming
Speaker 5: it's seafood extender him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's and that's what I think Australians we've
Speaker 2: got used to doing, where I don't think Americans do
Speaker 2: that for movies that don't involve their culture.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 2: They My impression is they need to be spoon fed.
Speaker 2: Where Australians, because you know, most of the movies they
Speaker 2: watch are American, they get all the references. So when
Speaker 2: you know they get references out in their in their zeitgeist,
Speaker 2: they struggle. They need to be told exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: Where we just kind of work it out. We're gonna go, okay,
Speaker 2: that must be yeah, extended, you know what you said.
Speaker 2: But John Candy kind of came in late because they
Speaker 2: rewrote the ending. They rewrote the ending and he was
Speaker 2: paid a million dollars to do this. And the other
Speaker 2: reason this holds a special place in my heart. I
Speaker 2: remember my mum watching it and seeing John Candy up
Speaker 2: and down at roller coaster and then explaining how good
Speaker 2: the roller coaster was.
Speaker 1: At the end, she.
Speaker 2: Just I remember seeing her shoulders. I was thinking behind her,
Speaker 2: I think or across from her shoulders would have started shaking,
Speaker 2: and she just snorting and laughing so much. And that's
Speaker 2: as I wrote, like a yes, Samuel Johnson writes, these
Speaker 2: has these books where it's a collation of letters that
Speaker 2: people might write to their mums or their fathers, and
Speaker 2: I write to my mom about you know, like it
Speaker 2: was basically watching her watch John Candy on the roller
Speaker 2: coaster nationally MPG vacation was like, oh, I want to
Speaker 2: make people laugh.
Speaker 1: I want to make people laugh like that, you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, John Canny has a very special place in
Speaker 2: my heart, not just for this film, but for so yeah,
Speaker 2: playing trains.
Speaker 5: You know what's really funny in that Randy Quaid scene.
Speaker 5: I've already quoted that this morning. I've watched it last night,
Speaker 5: and this morning I took my little my little man,
Speaker 5: little Ari to swimming practice. Yep, and it's ten dollars,
Speaker 5: but you've got to pay cash. And I asked my wife,
Speaker 5: do you have any cash on you? As we're walking
Speaker 5: in and she goes, how much do you need? And
Speaker 5: I said fifty two thousand dollars. It's that's funny. That's
Speaker 5: a good scene. That is that is a silly gag.
Speaker 5: I can't stress John Candy. And I was going to say,
Speaker 5: Dennis Quaid, what are they? What's Randy and Dennis Quay They?
Speaker 1: I think I think they are related. Actually it's a
Speaker 1: good question.
Speaker 2: But Z every little joke's like you know, cousin Eddie's
Speaker 2: wife when she says, you know, Eddie says, when the
Speaker 2: bee becomes I can quit one of my night jobs.
Speaker 5: That's so funny. That's such a funny. That's a good line.
Speaker 5: One of my night jobs is a great line. And
Speaker 5: he's doing nothing, which is really funny. And yeah, there's
Speaker 5: just there's so much to it. There's there's how he
Speaker 5: sort of beats around the bush with asking for money
Speaker 5: and then is really insulting to him when he does
Speaker 5: asks for it. I just yeah, I constantly as the
Speaker 5: movie kept progressing, I'm like, he'll pop up again. There's
Speaker 5: no way this guy won't be in this movie again.
Speaker 5: And he just wasn't. Yeah, and I missed it.
Speaker 2: You have also emaging Coco, who is a bit of
Speaker 2: a comedy legend work with since Caesar, almost like a
Speaker 2: Betty White style like legend. In the States, she plays
Speaker 2: Aunt Edna, and her concern was that she thought the
Speaker 2: character was too mean and she wasn't sure if she
Speaker 2: could actually be that mean, and you know, and she
Speaker 2: did also like traveling in cars. But she's very she's
Speaker 2: very funny. I remember kind of hating her watching a bit,
Speaker 2: like hating the character and like kind of going, I
Speaker 2: would not want to be trapped in the car with
Speaker 2: this woman, and which is exactly how you're supposed to
Speaker 2: feel like. It's it's such a great it's a great performance.
Speaker 4: Real tomato Ketchupanny, Oh, nothing but the best.
Speaker 1: And Edna go for getting cold?
Speaker 5: Is that your Aunt edla.
Speaker 7: Ed After all these years, you're looking.
Speaker 3: So good.
Speaker 4: And nice to see you again. You remember, Clark, don't you?
Speaker 3: You were the ones that sent me the fruitcake for Christmas.
Speaker 3: It made me so sick. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: We thought you enjoyed fruitcake.
Speaker 3: You enjoy throwing up every five minutes, Claude Clark, I
Speaker 3: thought so well? Am I gonna eat? Or am I
Speaker 3: gonna starve to death? Catherine, did you.
Speaker 5: Tell Clark and Ellen the good news? Uh? No, I
Speaker 5: was just about to Catherine, what's the good news?
Speaker 3: You're driving me the Phoenix.
Speaker 5: She's amazing and that that you can tell that there's
Speaker 5: chemistry between all of the actors, how they all gel together.
Speaker 5: But it was cool seeing these people like comedians today,
Speaker 5: like seeing that that young boyster, the guy who plays Rusty.
Speaker 5: I seen him in some TV show and I remember,
Speaker 5: I can't remember what it's called ghost World or something
Speaker 5: like that. When I was growing up, he could see spirits.
Speaker 5: I remember that so as a teenager, and that came
Speaker 5: on like late at night at ten o'clock. The Daughter,
Speaker 5: Oh of Randy Quaid.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Jane Krakowski.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's from thirty Rock, thirty Rock, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Her film debut, Ally McBeal and thirty Rock Yeah. And
Speaker 2: The Sun the Sun Dale. He has a claim to
Speaker 2: fame that he delivers the first line ever in Cheers.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he walks into the bar at Cheers and delivers
Speaker 2: a line to the Sam Alone Ted dancing.
Speaker 9: It's yeah, you can just tell that that these people
Speaker 9: are like it's a it's a classic movie, but all
Speaker 9: of these people have gone on to do really cool
Speaker 9: things in that comedy space, which I like.
Speaker 5: But yeah, John Candy has got some just some great
Speaker 5: lines in it as well. Oh even when he just goes,
Speaker 5: that's a bb gun, that whole that whole acknowledgment of
Speaker 5: it being a bb gun, I just find myself laughing
Speaker 5: out loud. Yeah, and then he goes to get up
Speaker 5: and he just shoots him in the barm. Is just
Speaker 5: it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Well, the the power of this I think movie has
Speaker 2: is and that what drives Clark, and you know it
Speaker 2: keeps the family going is this promise of this utopia
Speaker 2: that is Wally World. You know, originally in the script
Speaker 2: it was Disneyland. They said that we are opened three
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five days a year. We are not
Speaker 2: shutting down for your movie.
Speaker 5: Sorry, folks, Park's closed.
Speaker 10: The moose out front should have told you, yes, we're
Speaker 10: here to see mister Roy Wallie.
Speaker 4: What's your name for Clark w Griswoll. What's just regarding
Speaker 4: mister Bristol.
Speaker 10: Ah, we're public relations or a summer inspection to a
Speaker 10: personal matter, Ah inspection.
Speaker 4: Oh nobody nobody notified this office of on there anything. Well,
Speaker 4: I'm notifying you. I'm afraid I'm gonna need a little more,
Speaker 4: not sir. Okay, dokie, how's it, Clark?
Speaker 3: If you lost your mind?
Speaker 4: Where did you get sporting? Good story? Honey? Now you
Speaker 4: listen to me, fantass. You do what I say and
Speaker 4: it won't be any problem.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, we just throw two four hundred and sixty
Speaker 10: miles just for a little Roy Walley entertainment.
Speaker 4: The moose says, your clothes. I say, you're open.
Speaker 3: We're not really violent people. This is our first gun.
Speaker 2: No, it isn't so they I think they should. They
Speaker 2: should have six flags when they're in the car park.
Speaker 2: You know, why do we puck so far away? Because
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, when the lot is full,
Speaker 2: we'll be the first ones out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's gotta be. That's gotta be an iconic line.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I I was.
Speaker 5: I was equal amounts angry and laughing at that scene
Speaker 5: because I felt like that's something my dad would do,
Speaker 5: and it's just so stupidly. It's like an idiot genius
Speaker 5: came up with this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: The charot, Yeah, the charots are fine kind of the
Speaker 2: other they're so happy, they're so happy, and then it's
Speaker 2: you know, and then it's you know, the moose informs
Speaker 2: and that it's closed. But originally, and they shot this originally,
Speaker 2: Wally's daughter was going to be the Ferrari girl, Christy Brinkley,
Speaker 2: and she was going to let them, let them off,
Speaker 2: and then they were going to go home, and they
Speaker 2: got onto the wrong flight and they realized whilst on
Speaker 2: the flight that they're on the wrong plane, and then
Speaker 2: I think then hijacks the plane. Was like, it's kind
Speaker 2: of like nuts. And then somebody, the producers or somebody said,
Speaker 2: you know, we need to finish the story at Wallyworld.
Speaker 2: It's been all about going to wally Wild. Let's finish
Speaker 2: the story at Wallywild. So they changed it. I think
Speaker 2: that's when they got John Candy in actually, and they
Speaker 2: they made it does the hijacking of you know, John
Speaker 2: Candy and the security people to enjoy the rides. The
Speaker 2: rider apparently they had to keep doing them. You know,
Speaker 2: Audrey was getting six, was taking you know, medication to help.
Speaker 1: Her get through it. They said, there's all the fear
Speaker 1: you see in their eyes is real fear.
Speaker 5: This is the thing is like, all right, no, we
Speaker 5: need to lose the plane scene, but we want to
Speaker 5: keep the hijacking needs to stay in. Well, we can
Speaker 5: just finish it it well, hijack hijacking. If there's no hijacking, it's.
Speaker 2: Eddie Bracken is also somebody else who is a bit
Speaker 2: of a legend from vaudeville days. He plays Roy Wally,
Speaker 2: obviously playing Walt Disney basically, but.
Speaker 1: He's so funny as well.
Speaker 2: Like the performance again again, like I'm trying to think
Speaker 2: there's any kind of gags as such, but it's just
Speaker 2: you know, like you know when collactes are a little
Speaker 2: bit haywire.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, you've got a lot of haywire. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just such a good nuanced performance in this
Speaker 1: what is, as you've mentioned, quite a broad comedy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I know him as like, I don't know
Speaker 5: his last I don't know his her name, but I'll
Speaker 5: just call him mister Toys from Home Alone too.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, again another John Hughes movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: There seems to be a lot of characters from the
Speaker 5: Home Alone series.
Speaker 2: And a lot a lot of these actors are also
Speaker 2: from Second City, so held ramis in Canada, So how
Speaker 2: ramis had this kind of connection with you know, John
Speaker 2: Candy and and and and Eugene Levy and and and
Speaker 2: Brian Doyle Murray, and you know, there's there's quite a
Speaker 2: few of them in there. Miriam Flynn, who's Eddie's wife,
Speaker 2: who mentioned before, she's Second City as well, So there's
Speaker 2: quite a few the scene that I have also, you know,
Speaker 2: gotta wrap up soon. But the dog and the on
Speaker 2: the freeway, Well.
Speaker 4: Officer, whatever it is I've done, I'm sure I can explain,
Speaker 4: explain that, you son of a bitch. Oh my god.
Speaker 6: You know what the penalty for animal cruelty is in
Speaker 6: this state?
Speaker 11: Oh, sir, I don't. Well, it's probably pretty stiff. Oh
Speaker 11: you can't think I do this on purpose, sir. I look,
Speaker 11: I tied him to the rear bumper when I was
Speaker 11: packing the car. It was very confusing. I must have forgot.
Speaker 11: I'm very sorry. I feel terrible.
Speaker 4: How do you think that little dog feels.
Speaker 6: Look, I told you I was sorry. It really was
Speaker 6: an accident. Yeah, I guess I can buy that, sir,
Speaker 6: But it is a shame I had a poach like
Speaker 6: this then when I was a kid. Poor little guy
Speaker 6: probably kept up with you for a mile or so, tough,
Speaker 6: little mud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was afraid you get pulled over. Clark. You've
Speaker 3: been exceeding the speed limit for thousands of miles. Dad
Speaker 3: wasn't speeding. The cop stopped us because Dad forgot that
Speaker 3: he was speeding, Rusty, No he wasn't.
Speaker 4: Mom, Russ, listen to your mother.
Speaker 1: I was speeding.
Speaker 4: I was driving like a maniac. We can all be
Speaker 4: grateful to this man for stopping us.
Speaker 6: You see, kids crazily, Sir, I'm going back to get
Speaker 6: the rest of the carcass off the road.
Speaker 4: Thank you, officir.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 2: I mean, this movie does a really good job of
Speaker 2: like going all the bad things that can happen. They
Speaker 2: get the wrong car at the start, you know, they
Speaker 2: get stuck with this you know old woman who's annoying
Speaker 2: and angry and potentially smelly. She ends up dying and
Speaker 2: that they killed a pet, you know, and or they
Speaker 2: kill a pet before and then then she dies. They
Speaker 2: crashed the car the money stole like that, and then
Speaker 2: they get to the end of Bollywood and it's closed.
Speaker 2: Like I always emphasized in this podcast, like great movies
Speaker 2: just keep on throwing obstacles that the main characters that
Speaker 2: the protagonist you know, and like both emotionally and and
Speaker 2: and physically, and there are emotional you know barriers here
Speaker 2: the kids that are getting over it. You know, there's
Speaker 2: there's being like a you know, class kind of cheated
Speaker 2: on on on al you know, if not physically emotionally
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I do think this movie does it really well.
Speaker 5: I love the there's lines in the movie that let
Speaker 5: you know the absolute level of stupidity or seriousness should
Speaker 5: I even say it's it's a bit of both of
Speaker 5: where we're at at the moment. Because the dog, the
Speaker 5: dog dying scene, they really they do a gag, but
Speaker 5: it lets you know that this is a really full
Speaker 5: on moment. Yeah, because I think the wife says something
Speaker 5: and he's like, oh, let me do it, and then
Speaker 5: she's just like, as long as you don't tie me
Speaker 5: to the car or what yes, and you go, whoa,
Speaker 5: that's really full on. But yeah, that that lets us know.
Speaker 5: And then when the mother dies, uh and they just
Speaker 5: leave her, the wife says it again. She says, well,
Speaker 5: I suppose you just led left his dead mum at
Speaker 5: his back door, yeah, in the rain, And you just go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: we have gotten really stupid here, and that line just
Speaker 5: lets me know we've really pushed some boundaries here, like
Speaker 5: this is really we're in some serious territory. And then
Speaker 5: for Wally World to be closed and that's the breaking
Speaker 5: point is really funny. That's you're like, also, the park
Speaker 5: is closed, You're like, dude, that's of all things, that's fine.
Speaker 5: But because that's the that's that straw, that's the absolute
Speaker 5: pinnacle of the movie, and that's what we've been building
Speaker 5: towards it. Really, it just makes sense and it's fun,
Speaker 5: and yeah, that's it's it's well written in that kind
Speaker 5: of context. I loved. I loved all of that, the
Speaker 5: stupidity and the build up and the craziness that's happening.
Speaker 5: And you're forgiven because again the gag needs to work
Speaker 5: so cool and Chevy is brilliant and as well when
Speaker 5: he gets lost in the desert and goes for a walk.
Speaker 5: But the Native American people like look after the family.
Speaker 5: That's really funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said, outside of vacation, actually, I do
Speaker 2: like Three Amgos. He's great in Three Amgos and I
Speaker 2: like Fletch, but I do love Three Amigos. I think
Speaker 2: it's got jokes all the way through it.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I kind of don't necessarily I love Steve Martin,
Speaker 2: I love I love John Candy Martin Short. I don't
Speaker 2: necessarily have that in built love for Chevy Chase, but
Speaker 2: I do particularly love him and I think it's a
Speaker 2: perfect role for him and I think he commits to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fun one, mate. We have to wrap
Speaker 1: this up. I love that we got you on. You
Speaker 1: are coming. You are touring around the country. Is that happening?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I heading to Adelaide Free. I've got my
Speaker 5: new show, did you read Dad? Obviously just becoming a
Speaker 5: new dad, which is crazy. I've got a little boy,
Speaker 5: his names Ari and he's eight months old. So Adelaid Fringe.
Speaker 5: I'll take that to Adelaid Fringe and too, Sydney Comedy
Speaker 5: first and then Melbourne Comedy Festival. I've got some guys
Speaker 5: coming from Wagga Wogga, which I'm really proud of him.
Speaker 5: All the locals heading over the Best of the Bush,
Speaker 5: the best of the Bush.
Speaker 2: And I really urge people to get along because it
Speaker 2: means a lot to these comedians that you've provided this
Speaker 2: forum and the festival has. So we did a gig
Speaker 2: at Woggle with you, a couple of gigs at one
Speaker 2: in Wagga Wogga. There's a whole bunch of comedians on
Speaker 2: the bill, and I remember when I was seen saw
Speaker 2: how many people on the bill, I was almost like,
Speaker 2: you probably just need you to you just get up
Speaker 2: to it. You know, maybe you have one support and
Speaker 2: then I'll get up. But like you see what it
Speaker 2: means because you know, you know, a comedian with a
Speaker 2: little the profile comes into town. You know, there's there's
Speaker 2: a crowd there and you see these comedians get up
Speaker 2: and to really kind of lap up, you know, and communities,
Speaker 2: you know, we are all better when there's a bigger crowd.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, So it was.
Speaker 1: It was such a joy to do.
Speaker 2: And I recommend and anciently making my way to see
Speaker 2: the Best of the Bush at the Melbourne.
Speaker 5: Yeah comfortable. And then I've got another show called Black
Speaker 5: Holes with Isaac Compton. So We're only doing two weeks
Speaker 5: with the Best of the Bush and then I'll do
Speaker 5: the other two weeks with Isaac mate at the Greek Center. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 5: always always doing gigs, Bro Gig Pig.
Speaker 1: We love it. We absolutely love it and I still
Speaker 1: we had. We also did a gig at ger Rodgery
Speaker 1: that was a crazy one. That was great, That was iconic.
Speaker 1: What a great pub, it's awesome.
Speaker 5: The Groddery Hotel, what a fantastic little venue. And everyone
Speaker 5: down there is just super into it. They're just beautiful people.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I love taking comics down there and just
Speaker 5: having a good time.
Speaker 1: We loved it.
Speaker 2: I still wear my hat proudly. Mate, I love you.
Speaker 2: Can't wait to see you in Melbourne and around the
Speaker 2: traps for some gigs. And Mate, thanks for joining us,
Speaker 2: and you ain't seen nothing yet.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me and my brother.
Speaker 2: Dane Simpson. Everybody the great day. The King of Waga
Speaker 2: Dane Simpson, I said to him after we finished it.
Speaker 2: You know, like when I started this podcast, I was
Speaker 2: kind of hoping that everyone loved the movie, you know,
Speaker 2: because then it will be easy to do. But what
Speaker 2: I've actually grown to enjoy as much, just as much,
Speaker 2: is when they're a bit oh not sure, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure about the movie, and that way we can chat
Speaker 2: of that, and as long as they come, I guess,
Speaker 2: come with a willingness to chat the reasons they didn't
Speaker 2: like the movie or or are still grappling with it.
Speaker 2: I think it makes it entertaining, So yeah, I enjoy
Speaker 2: I enjoyed that conversation with the Great Dane Simpson. Catchies
Speaker 2: comedy Fesseral Show, Didrey Dad at the Melburn International Comedy
Speaker 2: Festival and Best of the Bush. Excellent stuff next week
Speaker 2: on the show. Somebody who means a lot to me.
Speaker 2: She directed the only movie I've ever made, I Love
Speaker 2: You Too. It's the great Dana Reid, who has gone
Speaker 2: on the direct well many things in Australia but also internationally.
Speaker 2: She's been working Handmaid's Tail and Upload and working with
Speaker 2: some real heavy hitters from you know, Steve Carrall and
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Moss and absolutely killing it. And we're going to
Speaker 2: be discussing a movie from nineteen fifty eight. I'd heard
Speaker 2: of this one. I've been really keen to do. The
Speaker 2: Defiant Ones Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis basically chained together
Speaker 2: prison break movie. It's I watched it last night. I'm
Speaker 2: going to say I watched it last night and I
Speaker 2: cannot wait to talk to Dana about it. If you
Speaker 2: haven't seen The Defiant Ones, check it out before you
Speaker 2: listen to the podcast. It's amaz On check it out
Speaker 2: there and directed by Stanley Kramer. It's a it's an
Speaker 2: amazing movie. I can't speak highly enough of it. That's
Speaker 2: next week, and you ain't seen nothing yet until then.
Speaker 1: By an hour
Speaker 2: And so we leave old Pete save fan sult, and
Speaker 2: to our friends of the radio audience, we've been a
Speaker 2: pleasant good night.