BONUS The Friday Show - ¡Two Amigos!

Episode 733868 • Released January 31, 2025 • Speakers detected

00:00:00Marc:All right, let's see here.

00:00:01Marc:I got honey all over my fucking hands.

00:00:05Marc:like a fucking bee yeah where's jason statham when i need him clean this mess up dude while you're in the middle of saving the world take this honey from me motherfucker i wonder if did do you think the beekeeper ever gets a cold or is he always okay because he's got all that honey i mean that guy probably never has ever had a cold he just like beats that into submission but jason statham we mean not even just the beekeeper yeah

00:00:31Guest:Yes, Jason Statham is just impervious to any sort of like COVID, flu, anything.

00:00:38Guest:He's just like, I heard you're trying to attack my white blood cells.

00:00:41Guest:Not today.

00:00:58Marc:Hey, Chris.

00:00:59Marc:Hey, buddy.

00:01:01Marc:I'm saying that to you for the hundredth time.

00:01:04Marc:How about that shit?

00:01:05Marc:This is the 100th Friday show we've done.

00:01:08Marc:I'm kind of lying, though, because there were a couple, I think, where you weren't there.

00:01:13Marc:And I like did like I tossed to some old clips and that, but I still count that as a Friday show.

00:01:18Marc:Yeah, for sure.

00:01:19Marc:But so, yes, this is this is it.

00:01:21Marc:You know, it's funny.

00:01:22Marc:I remember I very clearly remember when WTF got to 100 shows.

00:01:27Marc:I remember saying to Mark, hey, dude, 100 doing 100 of something is a big deal.

00:01:33Marc:You should be happy with yourself about that.

00:01:35Marc:So the same thing goes here.

00:01:36Marc:Congrats on doing 100 of these.

00:01:38Marc:Thank you for thank you for being a part of it.

00:01:40Guest:Thank you for putting up with me, honestly.

00:01:43Guest:I honestly never think of myself as part of the show.

00:01:48Guest:I'm just sort of like the audience surrogate.

00:01:50Guest:I'm just bringing up funny things that Mark and you have talked about.

00:01:55Guest:So anytime you have a Q&A, I just assume they're all for you on this show.

00:02:02Guest:So on the occurrences where you have actually asked me a question, I have actually been caught off guard because I just have not

00:02:10Marc:expecting anyone to ask me a question so uh yeah it this is amazing that's a funny thing because i would say if you like literally literally this is not like me just like you know trying to fluff you up here or whatever if you ask me of the hundred episodes of these that we have done what is the most memorable thing we've been doing this now you know we've had guests on or whatever and we've been talking about a lot of things we do a lot of fun stuff that we like to do like to talk about

00:02:35Marc:But if you ask me, hey, you know, that thing you do on the Fridays with Chris, is there one thing I should go listen to from it?

00:02:42Marc:My mind automatically goes to you telling your story about the Park Slope Food Co-op.

00:02:49Marc:So like you can pretend all you want, buddy.

00:02:51Marc:You can act like you're just this like, I'm just this guy on the side.

00:02:55Guest:I'm like, no, you did the best thing on the show in 100 episodes, two plus years.

00:03:01Guest:That's great.

00:03:02Guest:That is really great.

00:03:03Guest:Oh, man, what an asshole.

00:03:05Guest:I can't believe I got kicked out of a store.

00:03:09Marc:I like that you still think that you're the asshole in that story.

00:03:13Marc:That's crazy.

00:03:14Guest:Dude, I get it that the Park Slope Co-op is like...

00:03:21Guest:insane, but, like, it still takes a special asshole to actually be kicked out of a store for life.

00:03:28Marc:Oh, man.

00:03:29Marc:One of these days, though, we're gonna have to really do, like, the pathology of you and the word asshole and what you think it actually means.

00:03:37Marc:Like...

00:03:38Marc:I have a feeling you just don't know what an asshole is.

00:03:41Marc:Like you probably never, you're like, you think it's something totally different than it is.

00:03:45Marc:Cause you keep calling yourself one and it's not true.

00:03:48Marc:And like, but then you're like, no, but seriously, I did this.

00:03:51Marc:I'm like, yes, still not an asshole.

00:03:54Guest:You know, I have been like taking like stock of like, well, you know, things I do that are asshole-ish and things I don't.

00:04:01Guest:Like when I go to Costco, I always, always return the cart to the cart holder thing.

00:04:09Guest:Like never once do I ever leave it there.

00:04:12Guest:So like, I'm like, okay, maybe I'm not such an asshole actually.

00:04:15Marc:No, you're a normal person.

00:04:16Guest:Right.

00:04:17Guest:But then, but then I meet like my wife's friend's like new boyfriend and

00:04:23Guest:And I just can't fucking stand the guy.

00:04:27Guest:Like my wife and I get in the car to go home.

00:04:30Guest:And she's like, what'd you think of him?

00:04:32Guest:It's like, not, not that guy's not great.

00:04:34Guest:And she's like, okay.

00:04:35Marc:So this, this all, this all is of a piece because you've said this before about like, you're an asshole for like not tolerating Trump or family members or whatever.

00:04:44Marc:It's like,

00:04:45Marc:None of that is asshole.

00:04:47Marc:That is all like very, very reasonable.

00:04:50Marc:Like you're, you're dragging yourself down from some false idea of like, that you have to be okay with every human being alive.

00:04:59Marc:That's just not true.

00:05:00Guest:Well, can I tell you, when I told my wife this and I gave my reasons why, she was like, I don't know, maybe you are kind of an asshole.

00:05:08Guest:Like, that's weird to say that.

00:05:11Guest:But I will say, after further thought from my wife, she's like, you know what?

00:05:17Guest:those things you didn't like about that guy.

00:05:19Guest:I get it.

00:05:19Guest:And I'm like, you see, I, I, I am an asshole, but I am a very, you know, differentiating asshole.

00:05:26Marc:Yeah.

00:05:27Marc:I still, I go back to what I said in the first place.

00:05:29Marc:You don't know what an asshole is.

00:05:31Marc:You think being an accurate judge of character is somehow an asshole.

00:05:35Marc:That is crazy, but it is, it is that you want to take stock of things.

00:05:39Marc:You want to go do some work on something.

00:05:41Marc:There's the thing, the thing that you feel you're in such a subordinate position that you can't,

00:05:47Marc:accurately describe a person who sucks without reflecting poorly on you.

00:05:52Marc:There you go.

00:05:54Marc:There's your, like, I get, you want the code for better help.

00:05:57Marc:You want, we have a, we have a, we have a percentage off on that one.

00:06:01Guest:Great.

00:06:01Guest:Yeah.

00:06:02Guest:What's that code?

00:06:06Yeah.

00:06:06Guest:Wait, is your code like WTF15?

00:06:10Marc:Yeah, I think it's just WTF.

00:06:12Marc:Oh, that's amazing.

00:06:14Marc:Yeah, what the fuck?

00:06:15Marc:That's what you should say when you get on a therapy call.

00:06:19Guest:I know an asshole when I see one, all right?

00:06:21Guest:That's all I got to say.

00:06:22Marc:Well, someone who I do not think considers either of us assholes is our fan, Ryan, who wrote in to congratulate us on 100 episodes.

00:06:33Marc:And he said some very nice words about what the show means to him and why.

00:06:36Marc:So I appreciate that, Ryan.

00:06:37Marc:But Ryan also did bring up...

00:06:40Marc:Something I said on last week's show, and he wanted to chime in with what he said are film franchises that are better than Mad Max, because I said that the five movies of Mad Max are pound for pound the best film series ever made because you don't have a movie of the five that's less than Mad Max.

00:07:01Marc:Great.

00:07:02Marc:There's like Furiosa to me is the least of the five.

00:07:06Marc:And that's a great movie.

00:07:07Marc:So like that's very hard to have five great movies or great to masterpiece movies.

00:07:13Marc:It'd be very hard to have three of those.

00:07:15Marc:And, you know, I don't know.

00:07:17Marc:Maybe I didn't explain the premise of that idea well enough because he mentioned a couple that are just immediately disqualified, like Die Hard.

00:07:24Marc:No fucking way.

00:07:26Marc:There's those two terrible movies in that series.

00:07:29Marc:So like, yes, Die Hard's great.

00:07:31Marc:And Die Hard 2's okay.

00:07:33Marc:But I could understand somebody thinking it's great.

00:07:36Marc:And Die Hard with a Vengeance, I love.

00:07:37Marc:I think it's great.

00:07:38Marc:So those are three movies that qualify.

00:07:41Marc:But the series is five.

00:07:42Marc:And two of them stink.

00:07:44Marc:So it can't be one of the great ones.

00:07:45Marc:He said the same about Alien.

00:07:47Marc:There's some terrible Alien movies.

00:07:49Marc:Fast and the Furious.

00:07:50Marc:There's fucking ten of them.

00:07:52Marc:And like, you're not going to tell me.

00:07:54Marc:Four of them a bad.

00:07:54Marc:Yeah, right.

00:07:55Marc:Exactly.

00:07:56Marc:So, so maybe he's just saying like, if you just took it in like the ones in those series that are good, then sure.

00:08:04Marc:But you could say then the same thing with star Wars or any of the, like, yeah, the first three star Wars movies are awesome.

00:08:10Marc:That's great.

00:08:11Marc:But like there's other ones, right?

00:08:13Marc:But yeah,

00:08:14Marc:I will say, Ryan brings up two things that kind of need to be discussed, right?

00:08:22Marc:One of them is basically an eligibility question, right?

00:08:25Marc:In that he says Blade Runner.

00:08:28Marc:That's two movies.

00:08:30Marc:So does it count as a movie series if you're just talking about two movies?

00:08:36Marc:I would be inclined to say no.

00:08:37Marc:Nah.

00:08:39Guest:Yeah.

00:08:40Guest:I'd say no as well.

00:08:41Guest:Like that's too little.

00:08:42Right.

00:08:43Marc:Yeah, it's also, it's like, it's not even that one was a movie planned to have a second movie.

00:08:49Marc:It's like a thing and then a thing like almost revisit.

00:08:52Marc:It's like how Rocky and Creed are connected, right?

00:08:55Marc:It's like, we're going to revisit the world of this with a new framework.

00:09:00Marc:All right, so that was my thinking about Blade Runner.

00:09:02Marc:But then he said something that did, immediately I was ready to dismiss it because I had dismissed it already, right?

00:09:08Marc:I had dismissed in my mind in general

00:09:11Marc:all superhero film franchises because there's just duds among them.

00:09:16Marc:Like if you think about them in the totality of like Marvel movies, obviously there's bad Marvel movies, DC movies, there's bad ones, but then even just drill it down to like Spider-Man, right?

00:09:26Marc:Well, Spider-Man three, that stinks, right?

00:09:29Marc:Superman, Superman four stinks.

00:09:31Marc:You wouldn't say so, but I think the world would, but yeah,

00:09:36Marc:Ryan said something here that I think is, it requires some consideration.

00:09:43Marc:He said the Chris Nolan Batman trilogy.

00:09:48Marc:And I, like my brain immediately was like, no, there's bad Batman movies, but not those three.

00:09:54Marc:Right.

00:09:54Marc:And then those three are have no relation to the other world of Batman movies.

00:10:01Marc:Right.

00:10:01Marc:So I do think he found one.

00:10:03Marc:I think that that is an equal or greater than film franchise, if you consider it its own franchise.

00:10:09Marc:And I gave it some thought.

00:10:10Marc:I don't know what you think, but I think he's right.

00:10:13Marc:I think that's a film franchise.

00:10:15Marc:The Dark Knight franchise.

00:10:17Guest:Yeah, that is pound for pound one of the best franchises out there.

00:10:21Guest:Like I rewatched those movies all the damn time.

00:10:24Guest:And I just want to go back to, man, you are one convincing motherfucker.

00:10:30Guest:Because when I'm like Thunderdome, that movie is like Return of the Jedi.

00:10:34Guest:You're like, wasn't Return of the Jedi great?

00:10:37Guest:And I'm like, yeah, I guess.

00:10:39Guest:And like, you're convincing me.

00:10:42Guest:You convinced me last week that that movie is great.

00:10:46Guest:And it's not that great.

00:10:47Guest:Like, I'm sorry.

00:10:48Guest:It is not a great time.

00:10:51Guest:I appreciate it.

00:10:52Marc:you're trying to stand with your convictions but i i mean i i just watched it and it was great so like i mean like you can you can argue that that's all that's fine but like i'm gonna tell you like that's a better movie than furiosa it's better it is it is a better version of the mad max world like it is there's everything in it is original feeling

00:11:14Marc:There's, you know, like like I said, you can watch it with your kids.

00:11:17Marc:That's a great twist on the Mad Max thing.

00:11:21Marc:But like, hey, you don't like it.

00:11:22Marc:You don't have to like it.

00:11:23Marc:But like I will I will go to the mat on that.

00:11:26Marc:That's that to me is a better movie than Furiosa.

00:11:30Guest:Well, for me, I think the Mission Impossible movie franchise is up there with the Mad Max franchise.

00:11:39Marc:Well, but okay, I would say you're right if, only if Tom Cruise had not been in the first three movies.

00:11:50Marc:If the first three movies were like something else and not Ethan Hunt, and then the Ethan Hunt ones start with Ghost Protocol, those are all awesome and definitely a great movie franchise.

00:12:06Marc:But...

00:12:07Marc:You got to count those first three.

00:12:09Marc:They're still part of the franchise.

00:12:11Guest:Sure.

00:12:11Guest:And I do.

00:12:12Guest:And Brian De Palma's Mission Impossible.

00:12:14Guest:Awesome.

00:12:14Guest:That's the good one of the three.

00:12:16Guest:Yeah.

00:12:16Guest:Well, the second one is terrible.

00:12:19Guest:Well, it is, but it's also of a time, right?

00:12:22Guest:It's the John Woo, like time, the face off, you know, like sort of Mission Impossible, like of that time, that movie was, you know, par for the course.

00:12:35Right.

00:12:35Marc:But you're saying it was of that time, but if I watched all seven of those movies right now, you're telling me that one would be good?

00:12:44Marc:I would think it was good?

00:12:45Marc:It would be as good as Thunderdome, which I don't think... No, not even close.

00:12:51Marc:There's not five minutes of Mission Impossible 2 that measures up to any five minutes of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

00:12:59Guest:Not even close!

00:13:01Guest:Well, I mean, there is no Wheel of Fortune talking about what the blaster should do with Mad Max.

00:13:07Guest:Spin the wheel, make the deal.

00:13:08Guest:Yeah.

00:13:09Marc:Which they turned into a wrestling pay-per-view in WCW, by the way.

00:13:13Guest:Did they really?

00:13:14Guest:Oh, yeah.

00:13:15Marc:Yeah.

00:13:15Marc:Halloween Havoc 1992.

00:13:17Marc:They had to spin the wheel, make the deal match.

00:13:19Guest:Oh, that's great.

00:13:20Guest:By the way, that whole movie has like wrestling-coated like wardrobes all over it.

00:13:29Guest:Like, you know, Tina Turner is like Sensational Sherry.

00:13:33Guest:The Blasters, like Demolition.

00:13:36Guest:There's a lot of wrestling garb in that movie.

00:13:39Marc:Yeah.

00:13:39Marc:Oh, yeah.

00:13:39Marc:Well, I mean, it's also like it's a cage fight, steel cage match.

00:13:45Guest:Right, right.

00:13:47Guest:A steel dome with bungee cords.

00:13:50Guest:But yes, yeah.

00:13:51Guest:Well, I'm just saying Mission Impossible is for me up there on the great movie collection.

00:13:58Guest:It's not quite the Dark Knight trilogy, but it is right alongside with Mad Max.

00:14:04Marc:That third movie is no good either.

00:14:05Marc:It gets a pass from a lot of people because Phil Seymour Hoffman is so good in it.

00:14:10Marc:But the movie stinks.

00:14:12Guest:Yeah, but he goes a long way.

00:14:14Guest:Doesn't make a bad movie good.

00:14:16Guest:Yeah.

00:14:16Guest:I think there's a scene where Felicity has to catch a gun and shoot the bad guy.

00:14:24Guest:That was really fun.

00:14:26Marc:Yeah, I'm just saying if you have to if you have to apologize for a movie in a series, then it doesn't count.

00:14:34Marc:It just doesn't count.

00:14:36Guest:Fair.

00:14:36Marc:OK.

00:14:38Marc:But Ryan, thank you for doing that.

00:14:39Marc:The Ryan very possibly, you know, we get a bunch of Ryan's writing it to us.

00:14:42Marc:This could also very possibly be the Ryan.

00:14:45Marc:who wrote to us initially suggesting the Quentin Tarantino films as something we could cover, which we did all last year.

00:14:54Marc:And it was a great part of, you know, kind of to me, what kind of kept me going on Fridays here, like in a kind of jacked up way.

00:15:02Marc:Like, yeah, hey, we're going to every month we're going to watch another Tarantino movie.

00:15:05Marc:And it's funny, like, I don't have anything to really kind of wrap my hands around with that.

00:15:10Marc:I guess like the Mad Max thing was the closest.

00:15:13Marc:But but I miss it.

00:15:14Marc:I miss having it.

00:15:15Marc:Maybe like I don't know, maybe we'd like just need another Tarantino movie so that we can get to work on that.

00:15:21Guest:Yeah, I need a distraction from everything.

00:15:26Guest:But apparently we're going to have to wait a bit for Quentin Tarantino's next movie because apparently he's going to be writing a play instead of writing his next movie.

00:15:35Guest:Oh, really?

00:15:35Guest:Yeah, yeah.

00:15:36Guest:I didn't see this.

00:15:37Guest:Yeah, he talked to his buddy Elvis Mitchell for part of the Sundance Film Festival.

00:15:43Guest:And he's like, hey, I'm writing a play.

00:15:47Guest:It's probably going to be the next thing I end up doing.

00:15:49Guest:And if it's a fiasco, I probably won't turn it into a movie.

00:15:54Guest:But if it's a smash hit, it might be my last movie.

00:15:58Marc:Oh, but this is actually good news because it will never be a play.

00:16:02Marc:It will just become a movie.

00:16:04Guest:Why?

00:16:04Guest:What makes you say that?

00:16:05Marc:That's what everything he's done has ever been.

00:16:07Marc:He tried to make Hateful Eight a play.

00:16:09Marc:It was a movie.

00:16:10Marc:You know, it's like he will make this a movie.

00:16:13Marc:Whatever it is, it's a movie.

00:16:14Guest:Well, you know, this last graph of this article from Variety was interesting to me.

00:16:21Guest:He says, I'm in no hurry to actually jump into production.

00:16:24Guest:I've been doing this for 30 years.

00:16:28Guest:Next month, my son turns five and I have a two and a half year old daughter.

00:16:33Guest:The idea of jumping on a voyage when they're too young to understand it is not enticing to me.

00:16:39Guest:I want to do whatever movie I end up doing when my son is at least six.

00:16:44Guest:That way he'll know what's going on and he'll be there and it will be a memory for the rest of his life.

00:16:52Guest:Isn't that nice for his son?

00:16:54Guest:Can I just ask you, what about his two and a half year old daughter?

00:16:57Marc:Just listen to me.

00:16:59Marc:This guy...

00:17:00Marc:Guy is just terrified of making this movie terrified because of the dumb rules that he set up in his own brain.

00:17:08Marc:So now he's got rules on top of the rules to make, you know, new rules having to do with children, which in probably in his brain, he thinks makes it unimpeachable, right?

00:17:19Marc:Well, you can't say anything about this is doing it for his kid or whatever.

00:17:22Marc:But as you identified, it's stupid.

00:17:24Marc:Yeah.

00:17:25Marc:And all this guy's doing is trying to delay the inevitable that he's going to make a movie and then have to deal with the fact that he still wants to make movies after that movie.

00:17:34Marc:But he's boxed himself into this idea that it's going to be his last.

00:17:38Marc:This is so dumb, guy.

00:17:40Marc:I just don't know who can shake this guy from his strange hypnosis around this.

00:17:50Marc:Martin Scorsese?

00:17:51Marc:Somebody who maybe could have his ear that's like, dude, I'm 80.

00:17:55Marc:I keep making these things.

00:17:56Marc:George fucking Miller.

00:17:57Marc:Go talk to Quentin Tarantino, somebody, and tell this guy, this is stupid.

00:18:03Marc:Just make movies until you're done.

00:18:05Marc:It doesn't have to be 10.

00:18:07Marc:Right.

00:18:08Marc:He's in a he's in a Thunderdome of his own making, unfortunately.

00:18:11Guest:He is.

00:18:12Guest:But unfortunately, he is both master and blaster.

00:18:15Guest:Yes.

00:18:17Guest:And also, can I just say, as you know, I don't have kids, but you have kids.

00:18:21Guest:Right.

00:18:22Guest:And it's pretty cool to have a teenage kid.

00:18:25Guest:And like, wouldn't it be cool to like, I don't know, have them be part of a movie set and see what's going on.

00:18:32Guest:Like, oh, look, my dad's making this movie.

00:18:34Guest:There's storyboards.

00:18:34Guest:There's characters.

00:18:35Guest:hammer shots and everything, more than like a six-year-old would be wowed by craft services.

00:18:41Guest:You know what I mean?

00:18:42Guest:Like, it's cool to have, you know, to do the thing that you're amazing at for your children when they can actually understand it.

00:18:51Guest:Not when they're six years old, but when they're like kids like Owen's age, you know?

00:18:55Marc:Well, I got an idea.

00:18:57Marc:You do the movie when they're older and then maybe they want to work on the movie or maybe they want to make their own movie on the basis of having been on yours.

00:19:04Marc:It's so like, it's such bullshit.

00:19:07Marc:Like, it's so funny because like, I hadn't heard this at all.

00:19:10Marc:I never, you're telling it to me for the first time.

00:19:12Marc:And as I'm hearing it, like I'm picturing myself being in the audience and being like, that's a big fucking lie.

00:19:20Yeah.

00:19:20Marc:Like, what are you talking about with your kids?

00:19:24Marc:That is cowardly.

00:19:26Guest:Yeah, just just an insane thought.

00:19:28Guest:And like, can you just make movies?

00:19:31Guest:Yeah, enjoy.

00:19:32Guest:Like, I understand if you're not like solidified on a story and a premise.

00:19:36Guest:But dude, if you got a story in the chamber, just like make a movie.

00:19:41Guest:You seem to love making movies.

00:19:43Guest:Make a damn movie.

00:19:44Marc:You know, speaking of making movies, I should bring this up because I skipped over it last week.

00:19:49Marc:I forgot to mention it, but it has been stuck in my head that since Bill Burr's episode with Mark, he told a story that I thought would make a tremendous like short film and possibly from that short film, like expand it to something else or

00:20:08Marc:But the idea of like the high strung guy, the guy who's trying to like change his life and, you know, be a better man and figuring that the way to do that was through psychedelic mushrooms and telling that story about how he how he was tripping on them.

00:20:24Marc:And like the very first thing that happens was he gets a message about Bob Saget dying.

00:20:29Marc:And so then he has to go out on his like walk through the desert or wherever and like deal with that, but also deal with the trip he's on.

00:20:37Marc:I was sitting there listening to this while I was editing.

00:20:39Marc:It was late at night.

00:20:40Marc:My family was asleep.

00:20:42Marc:And I laughed so hard.

00:20:44Marc:I literally like laughed and then slammed my hand over my mouth because I realized I was laughing out loud with my headphones on when he talked about how...

00:20:53Marc:he thought there was a man in the distance like saying something to him and it was the guy who was like the the owner of the house that he was staying in and he's like he was like the distance of from me to you right now

00:21:11Marc:but because i was tripping so hard i thought he was like yelling to me from the distance he's like and i cannot imagine what i must have looked like to him like you've seen that in movies i know it's kind of like a trope but that idea of like you showing from the point of view of the person who thinks they're totally with it and then the point of view of the people watching them and the person is like slurring and just like

00:21:38Marc:like the wolf of wall street yeah exactly that's that's it the wolf of wall street the quaaludes stuff like that was all i could picture was like like the camera shot of him and there's like a guy up on a hill like yelling and then it turns around and the guy's like standing like one foot away from his face like bill can you hear me

00:22:00Marc:but then the story has like a poignant end that he's like the next day he's like to his wife was like, was there a little guy in the distance?

00:22:09Marc:And she's like, no, but then he's like, what about that text message?

00:22:15Marc:Was that fake too?

00:22:16Marc:And she's like, no, you know, like there's, there's a, there's a little thing there that I was like, Oh man, I just want to watch this now.

00:22:26Guest:He's incredible.

00:22:28Yeah.

00:22:28Marc:There was also something, there was something on this week's show with Noah Wiley that... Love that episode.

00:22:35Marc:Yeah, it was really good.

00:22:36Marc:It was like one of those ones where I was like, how'd they get all this in?

00:22:39Marc:Like I didn't do a ton of editing to that one.

00:22:41Marc:It was like about the length that it was when I got it.

00:22:45Marc:And, you know, maybe I cut like three minutes out of it total.

00:22:48Marc:So it was like this really tight conversation.

00:22:50Marc:And I don't know if there was a... I don't think there was a time limit on it or whatever.

00:22:54Marc:Just kind of one of those things that wound up being...

00:22:57Marc:the perfect amount of time or whatever.

00:23:00Marc:And there was a thing in there at this kind of like a reverse producer cut where I can like explain why I left it in that.

00:23:10Marc:It was like literally something I was about to cut.

00:23:13Marc:And it was when they were talking about the fires.

00:23:17Marc:Yeah.

00:23:17Marc:they're saying something about like the one fire up on the hill or whatnot.

00:23:21Marc:Yeah.

00:23:21Marc:And Mark was like, yeah.

00:23:22Marc:And then this fire just blew up.

00:23:24Marc:He's like, I watched it go up, you know?

00:23:26Marc:And no, well that was arson.

00:23:28Guest:Yeah.

00:23:28Marc:Right.

00:23:29Marc:And so as soon as he does that, I like put a marker down.

00:23:31Marc:Cause I'm going to wind up cutting this.

00:23:33Marc:Like, I'm like, okay, we're not, we're not in the business of doing this.

00:23:37Guest:And Mark was really good.

00:23:38Marc:Mark literally says like, I don't know what we're doing here.

00:23:40Marc:Speculating on this.

00:23:41Marc:Like we're not news guys, you know?

00:23:44Marc:And I was like, you know what?

00:23:46Marc:I'm going to leave this in.

00:23:47Marc:because it's actually how this stuff should be handled when you're like which nobody does like you're you're you know the one of the great problems we have in this world right now is people are like oh i know this thing to be true and it's like why do you know that it's like i heard some guy on a podcast talk about it and it's like oh who you mean the like you know ufc guy on human growth hormone who fucking you know eats a ribeye steak every night like that's the guy who's your who's your authority on this like

00:24:17Marc:And like, but those guys present themselves like an authority on it.

00:24:21Marc:Oh, I heard.

00:24:21Marc:Well, this is the way this is.

00:24:23Marc:Right.

00:24:23Marc:And I was like, you know what?

00:24:24Marc:I'm gonna leave this in to show that you can speculate on shit in a conversation that happens.

00:24:31Marc:You and I probably do it to each other.

00:24:33Marc:And anyone listening to this has probably done it plenty of times.

00:24:37Marc:But like...

00:24:38Marc:you're not communicating to the world, which is the platform that we have.

00:24:41Marc:Anybody in the world can listen to this, that like, I know this to be true.

00:24:45Marc:And so instead of me cutting it out, I can present it that way because Mark had the wherewithal to be like, Hey, I don't know what I'm talking about here.

00:24:53Marc:And you know, we're not news people.

00:24:55Marc:So we probably shouldn't even be doing this.

00:24:57Guest:Right.

00:24:57Guest:And it was very much like his Air America radio brain guy kind of kicked in, you know?

00:25:02Guest:Like he was like, he kind of like, he wouldn't be able to like let that moment go without saying that.

00:25:09Guest:I loved that.

00:25:10Marc:Yeah.

00:25:11Guest:I also loved like them talking about like collecting shit.

00:25:14Guest:And like, I love that you included like just talking about what was in the room and that fucking hammer.

00:25:19Guest:And I love that Mark just doesn't have a story for that hammer.

00:25:23Guest:Just like, yeah, it's just a hammer, you know?

00:25:25Marc:You know what, though?

00:25:26Marc:I think that whole thing was rooted in the fact that he really would like to throw so much stuff in his house away.

00:25:34Marc:So as soon as Noah Wiley was like, oh, everything has a story.

00:25:37Marc:He's like, no, it doesn't.

00:25:40Marc:I can't pretend that these all have stories.

00:25:43Marc:I have to just throw things away.

00:25:44Guest:I love that when he was telling his story about his shirts going to Goodwill, I feel like Noah Wiles would be like, ah, that's too bad.

00:25:52Guest:You should have kept on to those.

00:25:53Guest:I really felt like he was like, ah, you should have kept them.

00:25:55Marc:How come you didn't call me?

00:25:56Marc:I would have taken those.

00:25:58Right.

00:25:58Marc:but like do you collect anything is there or do you have like do you know like like no nothing no never have i i've never i've never i mean like i think i'm like a completist with things like if i uh you know you know more about like things i consume right like if i were to start watching a director's movies i want to watch all of them or whatever like that but i'm not a collector of anything are you

00:26:23Guest:Yeah, I mean, when I was a kid, I would collect stamps and comics, but I got rid of most of those.

00:26:30Guest:I still to this day collect, it's so stupid, but I collect rocks from my travels.

00:26:38Guest:I have a little bin from Egypt.

00:26:40Guest:That makes sense.

00:26:41Guest:But I have this bin of rocks from like, oh, look, this rock is from China, from the Great Wall.

00:26:47Guest:And this one is from, you know, Iceland and stuff.

00:26:50Guest:But I don't label them.

00:26:52Guest:So I just kind of have to remember what they are.

00:26:54Guest:And one of these days I should just label them or just make up whichever one is from where.

00:27:01Marc:You're like Danny DeVito in Throw Mama from the Train with his coin collection.

00:27:05Guest:What does he do?

00:27:06Guest:What's that?

00:27:07Marc:Well, he, he says, you want to see my coin collection and, and, and Billy Crystal thinks it's like, you know, people who have coin collections, it's like, cause you have like a Buffalo nickel or whatever.

00:27:15Marc:And no, his are just random pieces of change, but they're, it's very sweet.

00:27:20Marc:Cause he's like, this was what my dad, this was a penny of change that my dad gave me when we went on the Ferris wheel.

00:27:27Marc:And this was a nickel that I got when I was allowed to go buy us ice cream together, whatever, like,

00:27:32Marc:You know, same with your rocks.

00:27:34Marc:You just have to look at them and you're like, oh, look, Italy.

00:27:37Guest:That's right.

00:27:38Guest:That's right.

00:27:38Guest:So I have a box of rocks and that's, you know, I collect that.

00:27:42Guest:I collect DVDs, I guess.

00:27:45Guest:Not for like, you know, just to collect them all like a Pokemon, but because I just want to watch those movies.

00:27:51Marc:yeah i mean like i guess i used to do that but i haven't in a very long time i don't buy dvds or blu-rays anymore uh you know when i was a kid i i think that was probably the closest to having collections was if i was into like a line of toys as a little kid i did want all of them even like the junky ones like you know if like if i was like getting teenage mutant ninja turtle toys i wanted to eventually have the whole set right so that like i could be like look i i've got them on display just like they are on the back of the

00:28:21Marc:But that's really it.

00:28:24Marc:That's the only thing I could think of.

00:28:25Marc:And there's no real like analogous thing for that when you're an adult, other than if you're one of those adults that still buys toys, which is like a big thing now, like the action figure market is directly, you know, for for grownups or like those Funko pop things, which I don't understand.

00:28:39Guest:I wish, I don't even wish I understood.

00:28:43Guest:I just, I know that those are a thing and I'm happy for those people that do that, but it's just not for me, you know?

00:28:49Guest:It's, but I am aware of them as well.

00:28:52Guest:Yeah.

00:28:53Guest:I also love that he read Immemorium.

00:28:55Guest:That's so cool that this script went around to Noel Wiley's daughter.

00:29:03Marc:Oh, that was a little awkward.

00:29:04Marc:That is like, oh yeah, my daughter read for that.

00:29:06Guest:Guess he didn't get that part.

00:29:08No.

00:29:09Guest:don't worry we replaced her with so great she's an oscar nominated person oh your daughter yeah yeah she had no shot so fucking awkward but funny it was great still you know uh man a third third generation what's a los angeles native called an angelito is that what los angelino yeah sure

00:29:33Guest:I thought that was important to Mark to see that people stay even though the fires happen.

00:29:39Guest:That was important.

00:29:40Guest:I also loved your bonus episode talking to him about how he's doing and the fucking Don Johnson show.

00:29:50Guest:Yeah.

00:29:50Guest:I love that he's just explaining this Don Johnson show to you.

00:29:56Marc:Yeah, it had a real feel, I thought, of, like, you know, to open that episode where he's just in the middle of this talking about it.

00:30:03Marc:It's a real, like, so I says to Mabel, I says, like, just like...

00:30:07Marc:yeah but i did think like i was really enjoying that it it does like it you're you're not left in the dark about what he's saying like it like at first you're like what the fuck is he talking about but it's pretty clear like within 90 seconds like oh it's this show dr odyssey and don johnson is on it even if you like never heard of it before

00:30:28Guest:Right.

00:30:29Guest:By the way, I know of Dr. Odyssey only because I know that there's like a theory about it.

00:30:36Guest:Like there's like this overarching like fan theory that it's all a fever dream from this guy who has COVID.

00:30:44Guest:Like this guy was in a coma during COVID and he's still in that coma.

00:30:50Guest:And everything that happens on the boat is actually fake.

00:30:53Marc:Wow, this guy's fever dream has tremendous three-act structure over and over and over again.

00:31:00Guest:It's amazing, yeah.

00:31:02Marc:It's 20 times in a night.

00:31:06Marc:With commercial breaks?

00:31:07Guest:Very elaborate.

00:31:11Guest:Oh, man.

00:31:13Guest:But yeah, really enjoyed you guys talking.

00:31:15Guest:Always do.

00:31:15Guest:I want you guys just to hear you guys talk.

00:31:20Guest:It's a real treat.

00:31:21Marc:Oh, well, we have one on Monday as well that we just did spontaneously because sometimes we do that when a guest leaves the garage and we figure like, okay...

00:31:33Marc:You know, it was in this case.

00:31:34Marc:It was like he was like, oh, that was great.

00:31:36Marc:And, you know, that's the time when he would just usually give me a call on the phone and we would talk about it.

00:31:41Marc:And so I was like, well, why don't we just hop on the mics?

00:31:43Marc:Who's still in there?

00:31:45Marc:So we got on and talked about Ariana Grande, who had just left the garage.

00:31:50Guest:No kidding.

00:31:50Guest:Yeah.

00:31:51Guest:OK.

00:31:51Guest:Now that's going to happen on Tuesday, I'm guessing.

00:31:53Guest:Tuesday.

00:31:53Guest:Sorry.

00:31:54Guest:Right.

00:31:54Guest:Yes.

00:31:55Guest:That's great.

00:31:55Guest:I love that Ariana Grande is it was it was in the garage.

00:31:59Marc:That's it's really weird, though, because like I don't think I had any real until we started doing research for it.

00:32:05Marc:I don't think I had any real idea of the massive global scope of Ariana Grande.

00:32:11Marc:Like I didn't realize like that's one of the biggest stars in the world.

00:32:14Guest:I mean, I knew she's a musician.

00:32:16Guest:I did not know she was an actress.

00:32:17Guest:Actually, no, that's not true.

00:32:18Guest:I think she's a Disney kid, right?

00:32:20Marc:And Nickelodeon.

00:32:21Marc:But yeah, she started out as that.

00:32:24Marc:But she's like legit one of the biggest selling artists of all time, like 190 million units moved.

00:32:31Marc:She's worth a billion plus dollars.

00:32:34Guest:And Pete Davidson used to date her.

00:32:37Marc:They were engaged.

00:32:38Marc:Yeah.

00:32:39Marc:That's unbelievable.

00:32:40Guest:Do they, do they talk about that at all in the episode?

00:32:43Marc:I think so.

00:32:44Marc:I think Mark at least brought it up as like, I knew of you first through like knowing Pete.

00:32:50Guest:Oh, wow.

00:32:50Marc:Oh, wow.

00:32:52Marc:Crazy.

00:32:52Marc:Here's a fun little story though.

00:32:54Marc:What?

00:32:54Marc:It's not fun because it involves 9-11.

00:32:57Marc:So it's really, there's nothing fun about it.

00:33:00Guest:Gonna wait for that punchline.

00:33:01Yeah.

00:33:03Marc:We're doing a little project here in my house.

00:33:05Marc:My wife, Dawn, is converting a lot of VHS to digital just so we can throw VHS tapes out.

00:33:13Marc:And, you know, it's like going through like stuff that was just like recorded, you know, and, you know, like blank tapes.

00:33:19Marc:You don't even know what's on them.

00:33:20Marc:So you're just kind of playing them.

00:33:22Marc:One of the tapes had the recording of the...

00:33:27Marc:9-11 memorial service from 2002.

00:33:30Marc:So the one year anniversary.

00:33:34Marc:Yeah.

00:33:34Marc:And, you know, we're just kind of have a plan there.

00:33:37Marc:Fast forward and I see if there's anything else on the tape that we want to save to digital and fast forward and through it.

00:33:43Marc:And yeah,

00:33:46Marc:there's this little kid in a yellow shirt, like grabbing at a flower.

00:33:49Marc:And he's like, you know, talking to his sister.

00:33:52Marc:And yet Dawn's like, is that Pete Davidson?

00:33:55Marc:No shit.

00:33:56Marc:And you know, sure enough, we look at him, it looks like him.

00:33:59Marc:And then we checked out all the details, like how old would Pete Davidson be at this time and this and that.

00:34:05Marc:And it was like, like,

00:34:07Marc:99.999% sure that this little kid who showed up on TV was Pete Davidson, whose dad was one of the firefighters who died in 9-11.

00:34:17Marc:And my wife, Dawn, who has never cared about Pete Davidson ever,

00:34:22Marc:ever in fact he's what is one of those things where when it's come up around you know the conversation of pete davidson dating all these you know famous models and beautiful actresses and that like i i've always heard it coming from like her other people my family pete davidson what do people see in that oh that's so weird you know i always heard her say like i don't even get why he's on snl he never does anything like

00:34:50Marc:Like I've heard it many times.

00:34:53Marc:Okay.

00:34:53Marc:She saw that clip.

00:34:55Marc:She's sending it around to people.

00:34:57Marc:She's telling everybody, she's like, Oh, and it is this little Pete Davidson.

00:35:01Marc:He's so cute.

00:35:02Marc:And I'm like, there it is right there.

00:35:04Marc:That's why he's with all these.

00:35:06Guest:That's why it all happens.

00:35:07Guest:Yep.

00:35:08Guest:Yep.

00:35:09Guest:Right.

00:35:09Guest:I mean, he's also 6'3".

00:35:11Guest:You know, that also helps.

00:35:13Guest:And also funny.

00:35:14Marc:But I don't know, if you watch those, there's this great set of four docs that they put on Peacock about the 50th anniversary of SNL.

00:35:23Marc:And I'd say they're great because they're not, it's not like the story of SNL.

00:35:27Marc:It's stupid to do that.

00:35:28Marc:It's been done a million times.

00:35:30Marc:Right.

00:35:30Marc:And now it's 50 years.

00:35:31Marc:So what do you need to retread a lot of old ground?

00:35:34Marc:Instead, it's kind of four individual things that they take a deep look at.

00:35:40Marc:The first one is just all about auditions.

00:35:43Marc:Yeah.

00:35:43Marc:That's the one I saw.

00:35:44Marc:I only watched that one.

00:35:45Marc:Well, Pete on that is even, he's like, what am I doing on this?

00:35:49Guest:I'm like, I'm like awkward.

00:35:52Marc:I can't, I don't know how to have sex.

00:35:54Marc:I don't know.

00:35:56Guest:He has a good bit about that.

00:35:59Guest:That's great.

00:36:00Marc:Yeah.

00:36:00Marc:Well, also, I love that he's like watching that now in modern day.

00:36:04Marc:And he's like, guys, I have no idea how I got on this show.

00:36:08Guest:Yes.

00:36:09Guest:Yeah.

00:36:10Guest:One hundred percent.

00:36:10Guest:And also, by the way, they're all watching their audition tapes and they're all cringing.

00:36:15Guest:And that's literally me every week listening back to these hundred episodes of the Friday show.

00:36:22Guest:I am just like, oh, my God, what is happening?

00:36:26Yeah.

00:36:26Marc:Well, I think there's a good point to transition here in the fact that SNL came up a lot for me this week.

00:36:33Marc:I've been watching this thing on Peacock, but then I decided to sit down and watch a movie with my son, Owen.

00:36:41Marc:As you know, if you've been listening, we've been doing this from time to time where I let Owen...

00:36:45Marc:do a little movie review here that might help parents of kids his age or younger, maybe even a little older to understand, like, what's a good thing from your life, from your childhood, from from days past that you could show a kid today and they might enjoy it.

00:37:01Marc:So we sat down and watch something and it has very strong SNL connection right now.

00:37:06Marc:Here was my conversation with Owen about the movie we watched.

00:37:17Marc:Hello, Owen.

00:37:18Marc:Hello.

00:37:19Marc:So it's been a little while and we really hadn't watched any movies since the last time that you and I talked on here.

00:37:26Marc:But the other day we watched something and it was not yet Forrest Gump.

00:37:30Marc:That was the last thing you said you wanted to watch.

00:37:32Marc:But have you changed your mind about that or are you just kind of not ready yet?

00:37:36Guest:I might watch it.

00:37:37Guest:I might not.

00:37:38Marc:Okay.

00:37:38Marc:All right.

00:37:38Marc:Well, there's no pressure on you.

00:37:40Marc:And there wasn't any pressure on you to watch this.

00:37:42Marc:In fact, this was something that I don't even think you intended to watch.

00:37:45Marc:I just said, no, look, we're going to watch this.

00:37:47Marc:And do you think that we made the right call?

00:37:50Marc:Are you glad we watched it?

00:37:51Guest:Yeah.

00:37:52Marc:Okay.

00:37:52Marc:What was it?

00:37:53Marc:You want to tell everybody?

00:37:54Guest:It was The Three Amigos.

00:37:55Marc:Three Amigos.

00:37:56Marc:Yes.

00:37:56Marc:This is a 1986 comedy starring, do you remember who's in it?

00:38:01Guest:Yeah.

00:38:02Guest:Martin Short and the two other guys.

00:38:06Marc:two other guys you don't remember their names no i i'm blanking on both of their names i don't know why what do you know any of them from were they together in any other movies or is this the only one sure no they've been together in other things in fact martin short and one of the other guys you know is something that he's in they're in together right now oh yeah that that hulu show yeah so what's the other guy's name do you remember now steve martin steve martin there you go and and do you know him from anything else you ever see him in anything else

00:38:31Guest:um yeah i think i remember him from uh some stuff the muppet show okay yes the muppet show and the muppet movie yeah right uh little shop of horrors we saw that yeah very briefly well not kind of he's got a full song and a character but it's a smaller role yeah yeah not very briefly there's that the other guy's in that very briefly and he's a he's a famous person little shop of horrors but he's in it very briefly who uh

00:38:58Marc:bill bill what's it bill murray yeah yeah yeah bill murray is in a the the part that was originally played by jack nicholson right um and and martin short what do you know him from

00:39:09Marc:What do I know him from?

00:39:13Marc:He is the voice of the cat in the hat on the cartoon show.

00:39:17Guest:Oh, the cartoon?

00:39:19Guest:He knows a lot about that?

00:39:20Guest:Or the live action cat in the hat?

00:39:21Marc:No, the cartoon.

00:39:22Marc:The live action is Mike Myers, you know, from Wayne's World.

00:39:25Marc:Oh, and Shrek.

00:39:27Marc:And Shrek.

00:39:27Marc:Right, exactly.

00:39:28Marc:uh okay the canada knows a lot about that that's all right and then i don't know if you remember this but when we went to disney world martin short did the presentation of oh canada or whatever that's called the the film about canada oh that was him yeah he's canadian oh yeah okay so now we have left out the third guy do you remember who the third guy is i i know i forget his name chevy chase oh yeah what do you know about him

00:39:56Guest:You said he was from the Vacation movies.

00:40:01Guest:That's right, yeah.

00:40:02Marc:So I don't think you've seen Chevy Chase in anything.

00:40:04Marc:But yes, he was from the Vacation movies.

00:40:06Marc:And all of these guys had some type of connection to Saturday Night Live.

00:40:12Marc:Chevy Chase was on the very first season when it started in 1975.

00:40:15Marc:Steve Martin, he was like a very regular host of Saturday Night Live.

00:40:21Marc:And Martin Short, he was on the 1984 season.

00:40:25Marc:So they all have their fingers in SNL at some point.

00:40:30Marc:Martin Short also was on a very funny sketch comedy show from Canada called SCTV.

00:40:35Marc:Do you know what came from there?

00:40:37Marc:What?

00:40:38Marc:Bob and Doug McKenzie.

00:40:40Marc:Oh, yeah.

00:40:41Marc:You know that very well, right?

00:40:43Guest:Yeah.

00:40:43Marc:Why do you know Bob and Doug McKenzie?

00:40:45Guest:You showed me that movie and that record.

00:40:49Marc:Yeah, we listen to the record a lot, The Great White North, yeah.

00:40:51Marc:We play the Christmas song every year.

00:40:53Guest:Yeah, I remember the movie Strange Brew, as that was called.

00:40:56Guest:That's it, yeah, Strange Brew.

00:40:58Guest:I remember that name that that seems like an underrated movie.

00:41:02Guest:I agree with you.

00:41:03Marc:It is underrated.

00:41:07Marc:So, yes, these are these all of these guys have a connection to SNL.

00:41:11Marc:And do you remember what the other Saturday Night Live connection on this movie is?

00:41:14Marc:No.

00:41:15Marc:It's written by the guy who created SNL, and he produced it, Lorne Michaels.

00:41:20Guest:Oh, yeah, and you said that he, who was it that met him?

00:41:26Marc:Oh, my friend from work from when I worked at MSNBC, yeah.

00:41:31Marc:Well, we all worked in the same building, right?

00:41:33Marc:So SNL and MSNBC are in the same building.

00:41:37Marc:We're just a couple floors separated from each other.

00:41:39Marc:And you'd see people from SNL all the time in the elevator, in the commissary, things like that.

00:41:46Marc:So, yes, one time my friend saw Lorne Michaels.

00:41:49Marc:They were both leaving at the same time.

00:41:51Marc:They were leaving the office at the same time.

00:41:53Marc:And, you know, it's like you're walking out of the office alongside someone else in the building, you know,

00:42:00Marc:It's not like he had an entourage or security or anything.

00:42:04Marc:It was just a guy leaving work.

00:42:06Marc:So he was just standing there, and my friend said to him, oh, hey, Mr. Michaels, I just wanted to let you know I just showed my son Three Amigos, and he loved it.

00:42:18Marc:It's his new favorite movie.

00:42:20Marc:And Lauren Michaels said to him, oh, how old is your son?

00:42:23Marc:And he said, he's 12.

00:42:25Marc:And Lauren said, that's about right.

00:42:27Marc:So you are 13.

00:42:29Guest:Yeah, he said that.

00:42:30Guest:And I didn't notice that many inappropriate jokes in the movie, except for the mail plane.

00:42:36Marc:The mail plane?

00:42:36Marc:How do you know it's a mail plane?

00:42:38Marc:because it has small balls but now i don't know that that means it's inappropriate he's saying if it's for 12 year olds or what i think what he's talking about is it's good for children and those who are possessed with the spirit of childlike innocence i think so that's my uh assessment of the three amigos what did you think of it while you're watching well you were right when you when we finished watching it you were like this is like a kid's movie and i was like

00:43:04Guest:yeah you're right it's it's pg so most kids movies are either g or pg and that's that's pg so that's it's did you enjoy it i loved it i like the music well the guy who did the music is from the kids movie does the music for most pixar movies that is right that is who is it

00:43:24Guest:Randy Newman?

00:43:25Marc:Yes.

00:43:26Marc:So, of course, you've been listening to Randy Newman music since you were a little kid.

00:43:29Marc:You've got a friend in me and all that stuff.

00:43:32Marc:Randy Newman, however, at this time, you know, it's the mid-80s.

00:43:34Marc:He's had a very long career before this as a singer, songwriter, and he was considered a very funny...

00:43:42Marc:The word would be satirical songwriter.

00:43:45Marc:He wrote good satires.

00:43:47Marc:He wrote very good songs that had a point to them, an edge to them.

00:43:52Marc:And he was a guy who was in tight with this group of other funny people.

00:43:56Marc:So yeah, he knew how to be funny.

00:43:57Marc:He's been on WTF before.

00:43:59Marc:Mark is a great admirer of Randy Newman.

00:44:02Marc:So we had Randy Newman on.

00:44:04Guest:Yeah, but here's something I was going to say.

00:44:06Guest:Since you see his name in the opening credits, that's cool.

00:44:10Guest:You see everybody's name in the opening credits.

00:44:11Guest:It's a very, very simple opening credits and ending credits.

00:44:15Guest:And it reminds me, the opening credits and how the scenes switch, the changing of the movie makes it seem like a 50s movie.

00:44:25Marc:Yeah, that's true.

00:44:26Marc:I do feel like they rooted this movie in a kind of old style of filmmaking, probably like modeled after a lot of Westerns.

00:44:33Marc:I mean, like think about, okay, there's that scene where they're sitting around a campfire singing.

00:44:38Marc:What did you notice about that?

00:44:39Guest:Makes it seem like a kid's movie.

00:44:41Marc:But also, what did you notice like about the background?

00:44:44Guest:It's not a real, it's painted.

00:44:46Guest:Yeah, it's a painting.

00:44:47Guest:It reminded me of the background of Thomas the Tank Engine.

00:44:51Yeah.

00:44:51Marc:Yeah, it kind of looks like that.

00:44:53Guest:I thought they were in a studio like the Dagobah system in Star Wars is like a studio, but it's just like a swamp.

00:45:01Guest:They turn the studio into a swamp.

00:45:02Marc:Yeah, it's not different than that.

00:45:04Marc:It's just explicitly a painting.

00:45:06Marc:They didn't try to make it look realistic.

00:45:08Marc:And I don't think those animals were real either, were they?

00:45:11Marc:Yeah.

00:45:11Marc:I would guess that the owl was real.

00:45:14Marc:And there were a couple of things that came up on like a coyote and stuff, right?

00:45:18Marc:But the turtle definitely looked like a puppet.

00:45:22Marc:And they had animation on the horse's mouths, right?

00:45:24Marc:When the horses started going, that was not real horses.

00:45:30Marc:So why don't you try, to the best of your ability, to explain what the movie is to somebody, pretend there's somebody who's never even heard of it before.

00:45:38Marc:Tell them, what is Three Amigos?

00:45:41Guest:So there are these three guys that are from the USA, and they're actors who are in just these, like, gaucho movies.

00:45:52Marc:Oh, yeah, very good.

00:45:53Marc:And what's the time frame of this?

00:45:54Guest:Not even the 20s.

00:45:55Guest:It's like 1915 or something.

00:45:57Marc:Yeah, because the movies are what?

00:45:59Guest:The movies are silent films.

00:46:02Guest:Silent, yeah, exactly.

00:46:03Guest:And these people, meanwhile, in Mexico, are under attack by just this evil...

00:46:10Guest:whatever you want to call them like an evil guy with a mustache most evil guys yeah they tend to have mustaches and they like worship the three amigos or the the three got the their their names are uh lucky day um dusty bottoms and what was it ned needle ned needleman close ned niederlander

00:46:34Marc:I guess that's the joke like all the guys have like pretty like names that like a child would come up with and then this guy just has a complicated name yeah it's it was in order to get to that point at the end where the German guy knew who he was because it's a German name so it would make sense that he was like a hero to the German kids

00:46:51Marc:Oh, yeah.

00:46:53Guest:Yeah.

00:46:53Marc:You know, Niederlander, though, is a famous theater in New York.

00:46:57Marc:There's the Niederlander Theater.

00:46:59Marc:And I think that's probably why they named him after that.

00:47:02Marc:It's to show that, like, he has roots in old showbiz.

00:47:06Guest:Yeah.

00:47:07Guest:So then they send these three guys a telegram.

00:47:12Guest:It's like...

00:47:13Marc:like a very like cheap telegram because like they uh they have to like the guy the guy writing the telegram has to like change it up a bit so that because they didn't have a lot of money right so they had to really conserve their words and they saw the movie of the three amigos and thought these are real these are heroes right

00:47:30Guest:Yeah.

00:47:31Guest:And so the three guys in the USA get the telegram and they're like, oh, we're going to Mexico to meet this actor.

00:47:40Guest:But why do they have to go to Mexico?

00:47:42Guest:Because they got fired.

00:47:43Marc:Right.

00:47:43Marc:That's the thing.

00:47:44Marc:They're fired from for being just seems like they were just being jerks to the studio boss.

00:47:50Marc:who you recognized his voice right away, right?

00:47:52Guest:They got fired by Fat Tony from The Simpsons.

00:47:54Marc:That's right.

00:47:54Marc:Joe Mantegna, who is the voice of Fat Tony.

00:47:57Marc:I said, oh, and listen to this voice.

00:47:58Marc:As soon as he started talking, you were like, it's Fat Tony.

00:48:02Guest:And then the other two guys were also guest stars in The Simpsons, frequent guest stars in The Simpsons.

00:48:07Marc:Yes.

00:48:07Marc:Do you remember who they are?

00:48:09Guest:Yeah.

00:48:09Guest:Well, the characters that you'll remember from The Simpsons... You may remember me by... Artie Ziff and Troy McClure.

00:48:18Guest:Yes.

00:48:18Guest:Yeah, you may remember me.

00:48:20Guest:And the actors were...

00:48:23Guest:John Lovitz and Phil Hartman yeah that's right okay so they go to Mexico and they think that they're performing for this performing with this actor but he turns out it turns out they find out he's trying to kill everybody but so it's funny they're just they're like doing their their show in front of this guy and they're like oh I like these guys they're funny how about you just kill one of them that's what the bad guy says yeah do you remember the bad guy's name is

00:48:50Marc:El Guapo.

00:48:51Marc:That's right.

00:48:52Marc:Guapo basically means handsome.

00:48:54Marc:So like he would be like, he's like the good looking man.

00:48:58Marc:That's his name.

00:48:59Guest:And he's not good looking.

00:49:00Marc:No, he's very not.

00:49:01Marc:That's like what a dictator would name himself.

00:49:05Guest:Yeah, so then they feel kind of bad, the three amigos, because they leave, but this evil guy just destroys the whole village, and he takes that woman with him, the woman who sent them to the village, sent the three amigos to the village.

00:49:28Guest:Right.

00:49:28Guest:So then the three amigos have to...

00:49:31Guest:uh save the day basically yeah they have to get up their nerve to actually do a real thing and not just pretend and they do it and then it's just like it's just like their silent film they they end up saving the day and they they give them the money and they say the our was it it's our prizes victory is done what did they say

00:49:51Marc:Yeah, they basically refused the money because they say the real reward is all the freedom they gave everybody, right?

00:49:58Marc:Yeah.

00:49:59Marc:Which is what happened in the movie, and now they're doing it for real.

00:50:03Marc:Well, so it sounds like you had a good handle on it.

00:50:05Marc:Was there anything in it that you'd say was particularly good?

00:50:09Marc:If someone was saying to you, okay, you explained the movie to me, but I don't know if it's any good, what would you say are the virtues of the movie?

00:50:18Marc:You had already said you liked the songs.

00:50:20Guest:Yeah.

00:50:20Guest:I liked the plot too.

00:50:21Guest:I liked the characters and yeah.

00:50:25Marc:You already mentioned that this is rated PG.

00:50:27Marc:You said it had this feel of like a children's film.

00:50:30Marc:And, uh, would you say that, that this is, that there's anything parents should like be aware of with this?

00:50:36Marc:Is it, or is it like good for most kids?

00:50:38Marc:Um, there's just mild language.

00:50:40Marc:Mild language.

00:50:41Marc:Okay.

00:50:41Marc:But otherwise you give it like kind of a full pass.

00:50:44Marc:Yeah.

00:50:45Marc:What do you think people thought of this movie when it came out?

00:50:48Guest:I noticed it had a lot of rotten tomatoes on the, uh, on the screen.

00:50:53Guest:Yeah.

00:50:53Marc:Yeah.

00:50:54Marc:It was hated.

00:50:55Marc:Like it was, well, by critics anyway, it was a, it was a movie that nobody liked, uh,

00:51:00Marc:It didn't do particularly well in the movie theaters, but I think a lot of people watched it at home on video and then on cable.

00:51:08Marc:And it has a very strong nostalgia feel for a lot of people, particularly like people my age that remember watching this when they were your age and thinking it was great.

00:51:19Marc:Just like Lorne Michaels said, 12 years old, bam, you're right in the target zone.

00:51:24Guest:But you could be younger to watch it as well.

00:51:26Marc:I think you're right.

00:51:27Marc:Well, I definitely watched it when I was younger than 12.

00:51:30Marc:And I always loved when I was little, my favorite part was when they get to the village and they're meeting the townspeople and the little kid goes up to Chevy Chase and he says, can I have your watch when you are dead?

00:51:47Marc:And he does get the watch.

00:51:49Marc:Yeah, he does give it to him.

00:51:50Marc:That is a nice little moment at the end.

00:51:53Marc:So that's what I would say.

00:51:55Marc:I was surprised watching it again.

00:51:56Marc:I remember the movie.

00:51:57Marc:I remember it was funny.

00:51:58Marc:I remember thinking, hey, people who didn't like this movie, they didn't know what they were talking about.

00:52:03Marc:I was surprised watching it this time at how sweet it is.

00:52:07Marc:It's a sweet movie.

00:52:08Marc:It's definitely Steve Martin's

00:52:11Marc:Like, I think a lot of people probably thought at the time, oh, this is an SNL movie.

00:52:18Marc:This is going to be crazy.

00:52:19Marc:It's going to be like Animal House or one of those nutso movies.

00:52:23Marc:And I think it was probably surprising to them that it played so sweet.

00:52:29Marc:But what we know about Steve Martin is that he's kind of a softie for that stuff.

00:52:33Marc:He made the movie Roxanne not so long after this, maybe two years after this.

00:52:38Marc:And that's also a very sweet movie.

00:52:40Marc:And I think he has that gear to him more than the other guys.

00:52:45Marc:I will say Chevy Chase kind of feels like he's barely in this movie.

00:52:49Guest:You showed me the trailer for this movie a few years ago.

00:52:53Guest:And I remember certain things.

00:52:54Guest:They stuck with me.

00:52:56Guest:But I don't know why I didn't want to watch it back then.

00:52:58Guest:Maybe I just thought it was boring.

00:53:00Guest:What were the things that stuck with you when you saw them in the trailer?

00:53:03Guest:The line, do you have anything besides Mexican food?

00:53:05Guest:Yeah.

00:53:05Guest:and um them getting shoved out of the studio in pajamas or whatever yeah yeah when they make them take their their uh amigos costumes away yeah what else uh the the very end just them running off into the sunset on the horses yeah

00:53:27Marc:Well, good.

00:53:27Marc:I'm glad the three amigos lasted with you.

00:53:29Marc:If we ever, basically everyone who's been involved in this movie on a major creative level, Martin Short, Chevy Chase, Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman, they've all been on the show except for Steve Martin.

00:53:43Marc:He's the only one who's never been on the show.

00:53:45Marc:So if Steve Martin's ever on the show, I'll make sure we get him the message that still to this day in 2025, three amigos is still working on 13 year old boys.

00:53:56Yeah.

00:53:56Guest:And and it's it's still good, even though people didn't like it.

00:54:02Marc:Yeah, it had it has a new life.

00:54:05Marc:I do like this idea that, you know, you are kind of establishing your comedy bona fides here.

00:54:10Marc:You're really getting a handle on what you think is funny.

00:54:13Marc:I think that's important.

00:54:14Marc:I mean, obviously, you've had a lot of things that are comedies in your life for a long time.

00:54:18Marc:You've been watching The Simpsons forever.

00:54:20Marc:You like regular show.

00:54:21Marc:You like SpongeBob, right?

00:54:24Marc:Those are very specific types of comedy.

00:54:27Guest:Regular shows and The Simpsons are probably funnier than SpongeBob.

00:54:31Guest:So I think I'll still watch those, but SpongeBob, I don't watch that often anymore.

00:54:35Marc:Still, I think it's foundational to your sense of humor.

00:54:38Marc:I think you have built a lot of your sense of humor based on SpongeBob.

00:54:42Guest:Yeah, maybe probably more so The Simpsons and now regular show.

00:54:48Marc:All right.

00:54:49Marc:Well, we can try to arrange things around that type of humor and that stuff.

00:54:54Marc:But this is all good for you to identify.

00:54:56Marc:Good to identify this point in your life and maybe gives other people some help that they hear what a kid your age and your mentality is into.

00:55:05Marc:All right.

00:55:06Marc:Well, this has been your movie review segment for kids and parents.

00:55:11Marc:So thank you very much for joining us again this time, Owen.

00:55:14Marc:All right.

00:55:15Guest:See you all soon.

00:55:20Guest:So, yeah, there you go.

00:55:21Guest:Two thumbs up for Three Amigos.

00:55:23Guest:Yeah, we got to get Owen a sign off.

00:55:26Guest:Like, Marquez Boomer lives.

00:55:27Guest:Roger Ebert had, like, until then.

00:55:30Guest:We'll see you at the movies.

00:55:31Guest:We got to get Owen a catchphrase.

00:55:33Marc:I guess.

00:55:34Marc:Well, my feeling with this guy is, like, he's good to do everything himself.

00:55:38Marc:Oh, yeah.

00:55:39Marc:The minute I start telling him to do something, that's bad news.

00:55:42Marc:Oh, yeah.

00:55:43Guest:I mean, I can feel that when you were telling us that, oh, well, you know, SpongeBob was a really important part.

00:55:53Guest:And he's like, it was okay.

00:55:55Guest:Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:57Guest:Hang on.

00:55:57Marc:You're talking to a guy who graduated from SpongeBob here.

00:56:01Yeah.

00:56:01Marc:right like don't put don't put me in that box yeah by the way he's like his whole life was spongebob for a very long period of time oh man uh first of all love that owen loves uh only murders in the building he does not love only murders in the building at all he will not watch it why not in fact if you noticed he wouldn't even call it by its name he said that hulu show

00:56:27Guest:just like, just contempt.

00:56:30Guest:He's like, Oh yeah, that shit.

00:56:31Marc:No, that would, that would fall into a category for him where he thinks it's too inappropriate.

00:56:36Marc:It's too many F words, too much, too much inappropriate jokes.

00:56:39Marc:Like he does not agree that that's something kids should watch.

00:56:43Guest:gotcha okay all right i mean um i'm kind of happy uh he doesn't know chevy chase from anything else uh that that was fascinating to me i tried to think about it too i was like was is there anything you'd know him from and i mean he's probably seen him on the cover of like the christmas vacation you know thumbnail or whatever but i i don't think he's ever seen him in anything like funny farm like that was a movie i grew up with he would not have seen that

00:57:09Guest:No, but I really, I have to check out Strange Brew as well as Three Amigos.

00:57:15Guest:I've never seen Strange Brew.

00:57:16Marc:Oh, Strange Brew is great.

00:57:18Marc:Although I do think it's really like almost, you know, a requirement that you already have the Bob and Doug McKenzie characters in your head.

00:57:28Marc:It would be like if you watched the Beavis and Butthead movie without ever having seen anything of Beavis and Butthead, right?

00:57:35Guest:It's like, it does help to know what the hell this is all about.

00:57:39Guest:Gotcha.

00:57:39Guest:Yeah.

00:57:39Guest:You know, when you say that, I was, so I was going to recommend that Owen watch next Galaxy Quest because it's basically three amigos in space.

00:57:48Marc:We have seen that.

00:57:49Marc:Yeah.

00:57:49Guest:Oh, he has seen that.

00:57:50Guest:Okay.

00:57:51Guest:But, but I was going to say he probably doesn't know Star Trek and like not understand like that whole premise.

00:57:56Marc:He got it enough.

00:57:57Marc:Like, yeah, he doesn't watch Star Trek, but he knows enough about it.

00:58:01Marc:Yeah.

00:58:01Marc:Okay.

00:58:02Marc:And we watched that several years ago.

00:58:03Marc:He liked that.

00:58:04Marc:I think he likes generally movies like that better now because he understands the humor better.

00:58:10Guest:Yeah.

00:58:11Guest:Yeah.

00:58:11Guest:Also...

00:58:12Guest:I love that Owen is doing what I thought would be extinct.

00:58:17Guest:And that is like his version of reading the back of a VHS or DVD box.

00:58:23Guest:Like he's like, oh yeah, there's a lot of rotten tomatoes on the screen.

00:58:28Marc:Yeah, he loves credits.

00:58:29Marc:He makes sure that when the movie is over, we do not stop it before the credits.

00:58:34Marc:He always wants to sit and watch the credits.

00:58:36Marc:Yeah.

00:58:36Marc:No kidding.

00:58:37Guest:You'll love Marvel movies.

00:58:39Guest:That's great.

00:58:41Guest:Just eight minutes of credits for you to watch.

00:58:44Marc:But I was thinking about it.

00:58:45Marc:When was your first encounter with like Saturday Night Live?

00:58:49Marc:Was it through movies or did you watch the show itself?

00:58:53Guest:I never watched the show itself.

00:58:56Guest:I would, you know, see... I had a friend who had a VHS tape of the best of like...

00:59:04Guest:um who was it it was chris farley there was also a best of um uh chevy chase i want to say and eddie murphy so i watched it that way so i wasn't watching week to week until like maybe like 1991 i started watching it and like that happened to be like my favorite cast

00:59:26Marc:Well, that's what that's what we were talking about.

00:59:28Marc:That story that I told with Owen, where, you know, a coworker of mine said to Lauren Michaels, his son really liked three amigos.

00:59:35Marc:And he said 12 was the perfect age for that.

00:59:38Marc:Lauren also said to Mark that people's favorite cast is the cast from when they were in high school.

00:59:46Marc:Yep.

00:59:47Marc:And.

00:59:47Marc:Amy Poehler on that SNL audition special said the same thing.

00:59:53Marc:And I don't know if it's like just something all these people have come to on their own or if that's like a Lorne bit of wisdom that they all have absorbed and now like pass along.

01:00:02Marc:But like, yeah, that must be it.

01:00:04Marc:It's just like when you are developed at that right moment where you can key into this stuff, that becomes your cast.

01:00:11Marc:And in a lot of ways, it becomes a central part of the foundation of your sense of humor.

01:00:17Guest:Well, it was that yours as well?

01:00:19Marc:Well, I had a different experience with the show.

01:00:21Marc:I remember my parents watching it and I would I would ask them what was on it the night before.

01:00:29Marc:I think because like I would hear about like Gumby and Mr. Bill and, you know.

01:00:34Marc:I knew Eddie Murphy was.

01:00:36Marc:And so I was, was like, and this was like before we even had a VCR.

01:00:40Marc:So I would just be like, what was like, you know, you would also catch on to like your parents thinking certain things were funny, you know?

01:00:47Marc:And so you'd hear them talking about like, you look marvelous or whatever.

01:00:51Marc:And you're like, well, that sounds like something I should know.

01:00:53Marc:And then every now and then you'd see like Billy Crystal, I remember was on a Pepsi commercial where he was saying it to the Pepsi can, you look marvelous.

01:01:01Guest:Yeah.

01:01:01Guest:Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:01:02Marc:And so you'd start to, you know, kind of have knowledge of these things that way.

01:01:07Marc:But I never watched the show.

01:01:09Marc:Like, it was on too late.

01:01:11Marc:I never sat up and watched it.

01:01:13Marc:What happened was the 15th anniversary...

01:01:18Marc:which uh what came on i think it was like the end of 1989 so you know they weren't quite at 15 years yet but it was approaching and so they did a 15th anniversary special that was on in prime time and i remember watching that that had all the clips of all the classic bits and i was like oh you know take me to this please can i take me to your reader and

01:01:40Marc:Cause this is all my jam.

01:01:42Marc:Like I am way into this.

01:01:44Marc:And it was right around the same time too, that I remember getting the Eddie Murphy best of.

01:01:48Marc:So then I saw all of those sketches, which I had only seen little clips of on that 15th anniversary special.

01:01:54Marc:And so, yes, probably just like you're saying, by the time I was watching it regularly was like that 91, 92 era cast, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller.

01:02:06Marc:Yes.

01:02:06Marc:Dennis Miller was doing the news, all of that.

01:02:09Marc:Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn.

01:02:10Marc:Those were the people I remember watching week to week.

01:02:14Marc:But like I had the framework of what SNL was already in my head from just like backfilling it in those previous 15 years.

01:02:21Guest:Yeah.

01:02:22Guest:And I, I grew into a Saturday Night Live, you know, sort of, you know, nut when it was on E. I don't know if you remember like E cable.

01:02:33Guest:They would run like marathons where you can just watch a random episode of SNL.

01:02:38Guest:Like, like, and it was awesome.

01:02:40Guest:It was like on before Howard Stern would be on.

01:02:43Guest:Like it was, it was a great time to be a kid.

01:02:46Marc:There was there was, you know, there was a best of that they used to put on Nick at Night that was like the best ofs from like the 70s shows.

01:02:54Marc:So I remember going back and catching up on all of those.

01:02:57Marc:And and then, of course, Comedy Central started to run, you know, the reruns and and they would run them in hour long chunks.

01:03:05Marc:So you, you would, you know, you would get episodes and there'd be parts cut out of them.

01:03:10Marc:So there were certain ones where I then remembered like not seeing sketches that I had heard about because they were now gone from that episode.

01:03:18Guest:Oh, funny.

01:03:19Guest:And why were they cut?

01:03:20Marc:It was just to get it into an hour, you know, so they would take out the ones that were lesser.

01:03:25Guest:Yeah.

01:03:25Guest:Gotcha.

01:03:26Guest:Yeah, yeah.

01:03:26Guest:Makes sense, man.

01:03:28Guest:It's kind of amazing that you like I figured your parents would like keep you up and like let you watch the show.

01:03:36Guest:But but yeah, it's surprising that you weren't watching SNL on a week to week basis until you were like my age.

01:03:43Guest:Well, they weren't negligent parents.

01:03:45Guest:No, but they're cool parents, you know.

01:03:47Marc:It's not cool to let your kids stay up to one o'clock when you have to get them to church the next morning.

01:03:54Guest:Did you ever try to go to SNL?

01:03:56Marc:No, I've never tried.

01:03:57Marc:I've never even attempted.

01:03:59Guest:Oh, man, every year I try.

01:04:01Guest:Every August, you can write in or email now to SNL from August 1st to August 31st to try to put yourself in a lottery to be a member of the audience.

01:04:15Marc:It is very cool watching that special where they're talking about the auditions and you can see them in the space.

01:04:24Marc:And a lot of them are talking about how important the actual space is to them and what it means just even being under the risers or whatnot.

01:04:34Marc:And that I have done.

01:04:36Marc:When I worked in that building, the commissary is right near the...

01:04:42Marc:Studio 8H.

01:04:43Marc:So there would just be times where I would go get food and then walk down the hallway.

01:04:49Marc:And if no one was there, there was no one on set or no one doing anything.

01:04:54Marc:Like, let's say it was like a Tuesday or something, Monday or Tuesday.

01:04:57Marc:Um, they didn't have like a guard there or anything.

01:05:00Marc:I would go down the hall and go to the, there, there was like a balcony, a glass, you know, glass facing balcony that was overlooking this, the, the stage, you know, that I'm sure that people, you know, uh, sit and watch the show from there.

01:05:17Marc:Mm-hmm.

01:05:17Marc:And I would just go walk there with like, you know, whatever the apple I just bought from the commissary and just stand there and look at it and be like, man, a lot of shit went down here.

01:05:26Marc:This is crazy.

01:05:28Guest:That's so fucking cool that you were able to do that.

01:05:31Guest:Yeah.

01:05:31Guest:That's awesome.

01:05:32Marc:I love doing that in that building.

01:05:33Marc:That's a great building for that.

01:05:34Marc:Like, you know, you just walk in, I would walk in that building every day and just like look up at the, the, the paintings on the ceiling and stuff and be like, man, this is where like TV was invented.

01:05:47Marc:In this building, like the history of it and everything.

01:05:51Marc:And I remember Conan saying something similar about it.

01:05:55Marc:And I do think in a lot of ways, it was probably part of like Conan's downfall with the whole late night thing was that he was so reverent to the history of all that stuff.

01:06:05Marc:Um, but there's so much cool stuff in 30 rock that like you could just, if you are in that building, you just stumble upon it at any time.

01:06:13Marc:There's this, there's this thing called the Muppet closet.

01:06:16Marc:And it's just this section of, uh, they now put it like with there, there's like a velvet curtain around it because it's part of like the, the tour when people are touring the building and the pages will take the Kenneth, the page type people will take them by this thing.

01:06:31Marc:It, it is an old, uh,

01:06:33Marc:it's a, it's the remnants of an old storage closet.

01:06:36Marc:And that has these exposed pipes and Jim Henson and Frank Oz.

01:06:42Marc:And I think one other guy, maybe Jerry Jewell were waiting in the, in the dressing room to go on the Jack Parr show.

01:06:51Marc:And,

01:06:51Marc:And they painted these pipes and put fur on them and eyeballs.

01:06:57Marc:They're like Muppet shit in suitcases or whatever.

01:07:02Marc:And gussied up these pipes just because they thought he'd be funny.

01:07:05Marc:And they're still there.

01:07:07Marc:They're like, it's now behind Plexiglas.

01:07:10Marc:You can't screw with it or anything.

01:07:12Marc:But it's right there in the building, that Muppet closet.

01:07:15Guest:oh i want to see that so what do i have to do a tour to see that i can't just like i do think it's on the tour yeah yeah like that probably is a studio like 30 rock tour that where they show it i've never done one of those tours i'm i kind of want to do that it's like i kind of want to do touristy stuff like that just because i don't know i want to be in the room where it happened you know like i want to see that shit exactly

01:07:39Marc:Yeah, at one time, all of Comcast threw a party in Studio 8H.

01:07:46Marc:And so I have pictures of Dawn and I on the monologue stage.

01:07:51Marc:That's a great feeling.

01:07:53Guest:That's awesome.

01:07:55Guest:I'm so happy for you guys.

01:07:56Guest:That's very cool.

01:07:57Guest:I am not going to binge these documentaries.

01:08:00Guest:I kind of want to savor them.

01:08:02Marc:Yeah, I've only watched two of the four.

01:08:04Marc:The second one was just about the cowbell sketch.

01:08:08Marc:Like a whole documentary about the cowbell sketch.

01:08:11Guest:I can't wait to watch that.

01:08:12Guest:What a genius, genius thing.

01:08:15Guest:Like just a documentary about one sketch.

01:08:18Guest:Like, hell yeah, that's great.

01:08:20Marc:Well, if any of you out there have thoughts about SNL, which is now in its 50th season...

01:08:26Marc:And good or bad.

01:08:27Marc:I mean, I think there's plenty of reasons to like think that that it's overstated in terms of having some kind of grasp on the culture and a weather vane of what is and isn't at the vanguard of humor.

01:08:43Marc:I think there's plenty of debate about that.

01:08:44Marc:But I also am interested in people's experience with it as a thing that kind of shapes people's sense of humor as they get older.

01:08:51Marc:So if you have anything to say about that, click on the link in the comment section.

01:08:55Marc:Of course, there's

01:08:56Marc:tons of SNL related content on WTF in the catalog.

01:09:01Marc:And if you want a place to start, there's the bonus Lauren stories episode that we put up just a few months ago.

01:09:07Marc:It still should be pretty prominent in your feed there.

01:09:10Marc:And next week it will be our 101st episode.

01:09:13Marc:I don't have any special plans for that one.

01:09:16Guest:Well, I do.

01:09:18Guest:So get ready, folks.

01:09:19Guest:Say hello to Mr. Firehose.

01:09:23Marc:You asshole.

01:09:24Marc:Oh, see?

01:09:24Marc:You're right.

01:09:25Marc:You are.

01:09:27Marc:All right.

01:09:27Marc:Well, until then, this has been the 100th episode of The Friday Show.

01:09:32Marc:And until next time, I'm Brendan, and that's Chris.

01:09:35Marc:Peace.