'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly

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• 0:05Speaker 00

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• 0:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 0:12Speaker 00

  I'm Craig Horlbeck. I'm here with Danny Heifetz and Danny Kelly? He's got two first names?

• 0:19Speaker 01

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• 0:23Speaker 00

  Well, anyway, Talladega Nights, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is next.

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• 1:53Bill Simmons?

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• 2:15Speaker 00

  All right, guys, 2006, this movie came out August 4th, 20 years ago. Directed by Adam McKay, written by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell, produced by Judd Apatow, made a bunch of money. Everybody loved it. What a time to be alive. Goddamn, take me back.

• 2:32Speaker 01

  Seriously.

• 2:33Speaker 00

  America really did used to be built on hot, badass, nasty speed. You know what I mean? And we're not anymore.

• 2:39Speaker 01

  Eleanor knew what she was talking about.

• 2:41Speaker 00

  Eleanor knew what she was talking about. Um, I guess we can start here. When this movie came out, did you see it in theaters? How old are you? And where did it kind of fall in the Will Ferrell ranking at the time and now?

• 2:55Speaker 01

  I was 26, so I feel like I got to experience this the most because it was, I'm sorry, not 26, I was 24 in 2006, just had graduated college.

• 3:05Speaker 01

  And yeah, it was awesome. I feel like in that era, it was just every year or even like a couple of times a year, they were coming out with these, get your butt to the frickin' theaters and watch this because it's going to be the best thing you've ever seen type movies every year. I'd say this is like that, near, near the height of Will Ferrell's powers, maybe not at the absolute height.

• 3:25Speaker 00

  It was right there.

• 3:27Speaker 01

  But yes, I remember just being so excited to go to the theater, see these movies. It felt like every movie was simultaneously more ridiculous and had longer titles. Like the subtitles of these movies are always just crazy.

• 3:41Speaker 00

  The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

• 3:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:43Speaker 00

  Yeah, I think Step Brothers was going to have the title, something about the Catalina Wine Mixer was going to be in it.

• 3:48Speaker 01

  Oh, my God.

• 3:49Speaker 00

  And they decided to pull it.

• 3:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:50Speaker 00

  Well, the funny thing about these types of movies, I feel like, is you and I were like 12. Like, I didn't see this in theaters. I'm assuming you didn't either, or did you?

• 3:58Speaker 03

  I think I did see it in theaters, but I was not allowed to see Anchorman in theaters. So I saw this movie before Anchorman because I think there's a big difference between being nine and being 12 or 13 or whatever for a Will Ferrell movie. This is the defining comedy of my childhood.

• 4:10Speaker 00

  This is number one?

• 4:11Speaker 03

  This is the number one. I don't know if it's the best comedy made in the 21st century, but it's my favorite. And probably it's the one I've seen the most.

• 4:18Speaker 00

  Funny, it's, it's, I was shocked at how quotable it was going back and rewatching. And I've seen this movie 20, 30 times, I think. Because I didn't see this in a theater, but it was just a movie that was on all the time. It had the DVD and you can just throw it on whenever. Every scene in this movie is funny. Like, I think there are some comedies where it dips and there's like 20 minutes where it's like, oh, they're building the character, there's an arc coming, or there's the action scene at the end of the movie. Literally every scene of this movie is funny and has iconic quotes. It's pretty remarkable.

• 4:49Speaker 03

  The pace is unbelievable.

• 4:50Speaker 00

  Totally.

• 4:51Speaker 03

  In this movie, they literally just like, all right, you always talk about this, like, make movies shorter, but there's no filler, there's no backstory. They just are like, kid, weird dad, he's a NASCAR, he's a driver, and he has everything. And it just, it just absolutely rips. And then I was also amazed, how many of the funny stuff is like the first 50 minutes? And also the back nine is way funnier than I even remember.

• 5:12Speaker 00

  And that's like the hardest thing to do in a comedy. Usually the last third is the least funny. I don't really feel like this movie drops off a whole lot.

• 5:18Speaker 01

  Not like pancakes.

• 5:20Speaker 00

  It's not, what do you mean?

• 5:21Speaker 01

  Not like all exciting at first, but by the end you're fucking sick of them.

• 5:24Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 5:24Speaker 01

  I, I will note, like, so Heifetz, you said this is your favorite Will Ferrell movie?

• 5:28Speaker 03

  It is my favorite Will Ferrell movie.

• 5:29Speaker 01

  Would you say that for you, Craig?

• 5:32Speaker 00

  It's really hard.

• 5:33Speaker 03

  I know Anchorman and Step Brothers are probably more beloved and more quoted overall, but when I think of comedies, I think of Will Ferrell. But when I think of Will Ferrell, I think of Talladega Nights.

• 5:42Speaker 00

  Yeah, I think when this movie came out, I think it's grown more now. I don't know if people, when you ask them, name the best Will Ferrell comedy, I don't know how many people say Talladega Nights. I think they would say Anchorman.

• 5:54Speaker 01

  Maybe old school?

• 5:55Speaker 00

  Or maybe old school, even though he's, like, not the technical lead.

• 5:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 5:59Speaker 00

  But I would probably say it's Anchorman or Step Brothers. But I agree with you, this movie sticks with you. It's aged beautifully. Like, all of the jokes still play, the acting is great, the supporting cast is phenomenal.

• 6:10Speaker 01

  Oh, my God, yeah. Like, the awards that all of the supporting cast has won over the years is like crazy.

• 6:15Speaker 00

  When they pitched this movie, it's funny, there used to be a category on the Rewatchables, a flex category that's not there anymore, called, what is the five-word pitch of this movie? McKay and Ferrell actually did pitch this movie without a script on six words.

• 6:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 6:28Speaker 00

  The pitch was Will Ferrell as a NASCAR driver. And Sony was like, we're in.

• 6:32Speaker 01

  Sign up.

• 6:32Speaker 00

  Sold, cut the check. This, yeah, from, this is from Ferrell's agent. There was a great piece in The Ringer, written by Jake Kring's trifles, about an oral history of kind of like Will Ferrell as a sports movie icon and Talladega Nights. And from, from Will's agent, he said, there was no movie, there was no script, there was nothing, and Sony greenlit the movie. I don't know if anyone's ever done that in history.

• 6:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 6:55Speaker 00

  Is there like a, is there like a Ringer pod equivalent of that? It's like Chris Ryan smoking cigarettes, ranking movie bars. And you're like, fuck, I'm in.

• 7:06Speaker 00

  What pitch would it have to be?

• 7:09Speaker 00

  Let's talk about Ferrell and McKay, who kind of one of the all-time comedy duos.

• 7:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 7:15Speaker 00

  Who I think in my head made more movies together than I thought, but it's really only four?

• 7:20Speaker 03

  I also was surprised going back.

• 7:22Speaker 00

  I would've said eight or 10.

• 7:24Speaker 01

  So it's what, Anchorman?

• 7:26Speaker 00

  It's Anchorman one and two, so if you combine those, it's the Anchorman franchise, it's Talladega, Step Brothers, and the other guys. Those are the only movies that McKay directed, that Ferrell acted in. McKay also did the story for The Campaign and Get Hard, which starred Will Ferrell, which are two movies I have not seen, actually.

• 7:43Speaker 03

  I think I've seen Get Hard. I forgot The Campaign.

• 7:45Speaker 00

  Get Hard is Kevin Hart, and The Campaign is with Zach Galifianakis, right?

• 7:50Speaker 01

  Never seen The Campaign, actually, I don't think.

• 7:51Speaker 00

  It's like a political satire, but McKay didn't direct those. So it's really only four movies. It's Anchorman, Talladega, Step Brothers, and the other guys. And the two of them, you know, they were buddies, they were hired at SNL on the exact same day, they became great friends, they started Funny or Die, which, I don't know if you're, one of the first videos I remember seeing growing up was the Pearl video.

• 8:11Speaker 01

  The landlord?

• 8:11Speaker 00

  Little girl. Yeah, the landlord.

• 8:13Speaker 03

  She's so mean.

• 8:13Speaker 00

  Which was McKay's daughter.

• 8:15Speaker 01

  Right.

• 8:15Speaker 03

  Oh, really?

• 8:16Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 8:17Speaker 03

  Oh, my God.

• 8:17Speaker 00

  Which was like, one of the funniest, that was like the very beginning, like the primordial ooze of the internet videos.

• 8:22Speaker 03

  The Funny or Die one, I always remember, we always, is the Batman one, where Batman, it's sleepy time.

• 8:27Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah, Pete Holmes.

• 8:28Speaker 03

  And in order that would surprise you. Ass mouth badge.

• 8:31Speaker 00

  And they started Gary Sanchez, their production company.

• 8:35Speaker 00

  So, yeah, I don't know. They split up in the late 2010s, which is a lot of interesting history about why they split up. It's been written about that. It was basically McKay wrote and created Winning Time, the show about Jerry Buss, Lakers, and Farrell wanted to play Buss.

• 8:52Speaker 01

  Oh, right. I've heard about this.

• 8:53Speaker 00

  McKay didn't want Farrell and picked John C. Riley. Oh, shit. Yeah. Which is crazy. And McKay has spoken about this in interviews and is like, yeah, I didn't tell Will. I should have. And I kind of like fucked up the whole thing. And I get it. And I get why he's upset. And I get why he's upset. That's pretty crazy.

• 9:12Speaker 01

  Did they ever make up?

• 9:13Speaker 00

  Uh, I mean, I don't think they've really worked together. Again, maybe they've been like producers on things, but I don't really think so.

• 9:19Speaker 03

  Why would you not want Will Ferrell as Jerry Buss? He's basically Ron Burgundy, but just older and wealthier.

• 9:25Speaker 00

  Also, like if you, like so many more people would have watched that if Will Ferrell was playing Jerry Buss.

• 9:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 9:29Speaker 00

  You know?

• 9:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 9:31Speaker 00

  So, yeah, it never ends well. You know, you always, you have like a 10, 15 year stretch and then it's hard to keep these things going. In general, with comedy, I feel like we can talk about Will Ferrell now. I think he's the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century. Probably not a hot take. I think he's also the last great American comedy star, probably. Comedy movie star.

• 9:53Speaker 01

  I mean, that's kind of what I was saying before is like, if he's in a movie, I'm going to it. That's why they were able to sell this movie without, like, with no script or whatever.

• 10:00Speaker 00

  Yes, for basically like 10, 12 years, it was like, whatever Will Ferrell's doing, I'm in.

• 10:04Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 10:05Speaker 00

  Cause since, since he kind of entered a different part of his career, no one's really taken the mantle. It was like Melissa McCarthy in the 2010s, I think, had a couple of big movies. Obviously bridesmaids and like Spy and Heat.

• 10:20Speaker 03

  What about Seth Rogen?

• 10:21Speaker 00

  Yeah, I always felt like Seth Rogen himself was not the, like the Will Ferrell style draw. It was more about like the ensemble, the concept, like the Apatow gang was what brought you in. When I was like 14, it was like, I want to go see Will Ferrell. He can do any character. Rogen is not really doing characters like Will Ferrell.

• 10:40Speaker 03

  Shameless pandering to you hosting this episode. But Will Ferrell actually, to me, is like the Steph Curry of comedy in that he somehow has the highest three point percentage, even though he's also taking the most threes. Like, he just made a lot of movies. And you're right. And there's like a way of like, same way, actually, the Steph Curry misses, you kind of just forget about and you all did. Like, we literally forgot about The Campaign and Get Hard. All those kind of get like, like it doesn't get punished for it. But he, it's kind of like the way his style is just actually making jokes. Where it's just so many jokes that you end up with like gems, but that was kind of the style. It was just, he was just cranking out movies.

• 11:13Speaker 00

  I don't know who, like right now, you could say Tim Robinson's trying. I think he's really funny and I think he's kind of even trying to do the same character style of like the cocky idiot, the, the, the underqualified, overconfident guy.

• 11:27Speaker 01

  Right.

• 11:27Speaker 00

  You know? But I, his style is just more niche.

• 11:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:30Speaker 01

  He also just doesn't have the commanding presence. Do you think this is maybe just like too simple, but Will Ferrell is huge. He's like a big man. And also, I think he's, like, you can tell he played sports. The way he moved, like, he can pull off an athlete. He did so many sports movies. He can pull off an athlete. Even though he's obviously not super athletic anymore, he, he can move like it, like he's done it before kind of deal. And I don't know if anyone had sort of the actual physical gravitas that he had. Maybe Vince Vaughn,

• 12:00Speaker 01

  who is, I think, one of like, maybe one of his rivals in terms of like biggest comedy stars of that era. Ben Stiller was quite a bit smaller.

• 12:08Speaker 00

  But it's still had a physicality to him.

• 12:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:10Speaker 00

  I do think athleticism and like frame, body control is like one of the more underrated parts of being good at comedy.

• 12:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:18Speaker 00

  You go, like, you look at guys like Belushi and Candy and all these guys who you look at them and you're, you wouldn't think anything of them. But they're also, they're like secretly very athletic and coordinated dudes.

• 12:28Speaker 03

  Even the big guys have the, like, the Trent Williams athleticism where it's like, you wouldn't know what their shuttle time is.

• 12:32Speaker 00

  Great footwork. And it matters. Even Jim Carrey, like, they all know how to move their body because comedy is half physical.

• 12:38Speaker 01

  Dude, I was reading about, uh, Will Ferrell was like closely connected to USC during the Pete Carroll era.

• 12:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 12:43Speaker 01

  And he like went to one of their practices one time and put on, you know, like full, full like pads and hell and everything was like running routes. They're like, who the fuck is this guy? And then he took off his helmet. Oh, my God, it's Will Ferrell.

• 12:55Speaker 03

  That's the other thing about Will Ferrell is like the ubiquity is, it's almost hard to explain now how much he was always putting out a movie, but he was always doing weird stuff. Like he was in a usher at a Lakers game. He was doing stuff like that. I forgot till I read that Jake article in The Ringer that he did the, I want to play nine positions in a baseball game or 10, I guess technically.

• 13:13Speaker 01

  Oh, right.

• 13:14Speaker 03

  And then I was like, I forgot that he went to 10 different or five different teams to play and because he was like only going to do two positions, but he's always doing some kind of viral stunt.

• 13:22Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 13:22Speaker 03

  So he was just always around doing stuff.

• 13:24Speaker 00

  And it never feels forced with him. Like, it's all love of the game stuff. There's, you know, there's kind of like the Bill Murray lore. It's like, Bill Murray showed up at my dinner party and blah, blah, blah. Farrell's the same way, but it doesn't feel performative. He truly just does it because he thinks it's funny. He'll just show up and like do that. Yeah, the Lakers game where he dresses as a security guard. But he's like not trying to go viral. I feel like he just, he just loves jokes.

• 13:45Speaker 01

  Yeah. It's a good bit.

• 13:47Speaker 00

  Yeah. You talk about Will Ferrell playing sports, though. He might be the comedy sports star ever. I mean, he rattles off Kicking and Screaming, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory and Semi Pro in four years. And it's kind of like after Die Hard, when they just started ripping off Die Hards and it was like, Die Hard on a Boat, Under Siege. It was kind of like Will Ferrell plays, Will Ferrell plays sport.

• 14:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, totally.

• 14:11Speaker 00

  And you could just get away with that for five years?

• 14:12Speaker 01

  I mean, after, after they did NASCAR, which, you know, is, they were like trying to be careful not to be making fun of it, but NASCAR is very like, has a spot in in American culture. And, and then they're like, what, how can we top that? So we're going to do figure skating. Like, what, I mean, what would be like the next sport that you'd want to see him do that's even like more ridiculous than this?

• 14:32Speaker 00

  I was looking at his IMDB and his upcoming projects. It says, and this was part of the interview on the, on the Ringer piece, that they're kind of, they've like bounced around. They've basically gone through every sport and they're like, what would be the funniest?

• 14:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:43Speaker 00

  It says he has an upcoming esports comedy in the works.

• 14:46Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 14:47Speaker 00

  Where, but then the log line is like exactly what you think. It's like,

• 14:50Speaker 03

  Will Ferrell plays video games.

• 14:51Speaker 00

  It's like washed up, former athlete thinks he can get back into the game with esports. It's like every other story.

• 14:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:59Speaker 00

  But sure, I'm in. I mean,

• 15:00Speaker 01

  Well, he's doing golf right now.

• 15:01Speaker 00

  He's doing The Hawk.

• 15:02Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 15:03Speaker 00

  On Netflix. I do want to read, I just want to read Farrell's run from 01 to 2010. And, and just how unassailable and ridiculous it is and, and will probably never see this again in comedy. This is what he does. Some of these are supporting roles and some of these are lead, but, but still it's worth mentioning all of them. From 2001 to 2010, he goes Zoolander, Old School, Elf, Anchorman, Starsky and Hutch, Kicking and Screaming, Wedding Crashers, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, Semi Pro, Step Brothers and The Other Guys.

• 15:35Speaker 03

  All, all of those are actually incredible and still funny.

• 15:38Speaker 00

  I would say five of those are among the most iconic comedies ever made, at least for, at least for the 21st century or people in our generation.

• 15:45Speaker 03

  I think what's craziest about that list is the fifth funniest movie on that list is probably The Other Guys, which has some of the best jokes I've ever seen in any movie ever.

• 15:52Speaker 01

  Super underrated.

• 15:53Speaker 00

  It's, it has to be the most underrated Farrell movie. I don't know if people were just like getting sick of it by then, but that movie is, I just watched it the other week on a plane. It was amazing.

• 16:00Speaker 01

  He, and, and, and the movies that you mentioned that he is a minor character or sort of like a extended cameo, he is arguably the funniest person in that movie and some of those movies, like the move got to in Zoolander.

• 16:12Speaker 00

  You could toss in Austin Powers, too. He makes a brief.

• 16:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's the guy who's like,

• 16:16Speaker 00

  I'm badly burned.

• 16:17Speaker 01

  I'm very badly, I'm glad you're here. Hold on. I'm very badly burned.

• 16:21Speaker 00

  Very badly burned. Yeah, that's the thing is not only can he lead a movie and dominate it, he's the Dion Waiters every time he shows up for 10 minutes.

• 16:27Speaker 01

  Like Chaz, what's his name in Wedding Crashers? He's Chaz.

• 16:31Speaker 03

  Literally the most, best part of Wedding Crashers. He's the best part of Eastbound and Down.

• 16:36Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 16:36Speaker 03

  When he's just, he's basically just showed up and wanted to make Danny McBride laugh.

• 16:39Speaker 00

  Ashley Shafer?

• 16:39Speaker 01

  Let the boy watch.

• 16:41Speaker 03

  Let the boy, a welter in a bluish hue. I said, no, let the boy watch.

• 16:47Speaker 01

  Ashley Shafer. Also underrated, the names in all these movies, elite.

• 16:53Speaker 00

  I have it written down.

• 16:54Speaker 01

  They must have spent so much time.

• 16:55Speaker 00

  Farrell and McKay and the whole, they know how to name a fucking movie character, man. Like, all of these are just off the top of the head. You know it. Ricky Bobby, Ron Burgundy, Buddy the Elf, Frank the Tank, Chaz Michael Michaels, you have Daelen Brennan and Jackie Moon.

• 17:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:10Speaker 03

  I am glad you brought that up because there are so many times where I neither know, I just never know the character's name and I just call them by the actor's name.

• 17:17Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 17:18Speaker 03

  And they somehow have Will Ferrell be really famous, but we call him Ricky Bobby.

• 17:21Speaker 00

  It's something, whenever we do rewatchables and I'm watching like Bill, Chris and Sean, I'm always so impressed at how well they're able to remember the characters' names and they can speak about them as the characters. I'm always like, oh, yeah, when Gwyneth Paltrow does this.

• 17:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 17:33Speaker 00

  Um, but you don't have to do that with Will Ferrell movies.

• 17:35Speaker 01

  Frank the Tank?

• 17:36Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 17:36Speaker 01

  Frank Ricard?

• 17:39Speaker 00

  It's perfect.

• 17:40Speaker 03

  Blue, just everything.

• 17:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, my boy Blue.

• 17:43Speaker 03

  Also, they just almost make yellable names. Ricky!

• 17:46Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 17:47Speaker 01

  Brick.

• 17:47Speaker 03

  Brick? John C. Riley was supposed to be Brick.

• 17:51Speaker 01

  His name's Brick.

• 17:52Speaker 00

  You're stepping on, testing whatever. We'll get to that later. I, I do want to talk about though, this always happens with comedy. It's hard to sustain.

• 18:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:01Speaker 00

  It just is. After The Other Guys in 2010, here are the next movies he did, uh, from 2010 to basically 2020. So he does Step Brothers in 08, he does The Other Guys in 2010, and then he goes on The Office in 2011.

• 18:14Speaker 01

  Oh, right.

• 18:14Speaker 00

  Remember that?

• 18:15Speaker 01

  He replaced Steve Carell.

• 18:16Speaker 00

  He plays Angelo Vickers.

• 18:17Speaker 03

  Totally forgot about that.

• 18:19Speaker 00

  Which I, I loved The Office. I never loved seeing Will Ferrell though.

• 18:22Speaker 01

  I didn't really watch that era.

• 18:23Speaker 03

  I liked Robert California more than most people.

• 18:26Speaker 00

  I didn't like either, to be honest. It was a classic. It's like every time they do it, when like Charlie Sheen leaves two and a half minutes, like just end the show. But he, he does The Office in 2011. He was 44 years old. And then he does The Campaign, he does Anchorman 2, Get Hard, Daddy's Home, Zoolander 2, The House, Daddy's Home 2, and Holmes and Watson in 2018, which was officially, I remember when that came out and I was like, oh, wow, Farrell and Riley are back.

• 18:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:53Speaker 00

  It didn't work. And I remember thinking if they just didn't do British accents, the movie might have worked. I was like, my friend Chris's take and I was like.

• 18:59Speaker 03

  Did they do that the whole movie?

• 19:00Speaker 00

  It was a great take. I'm like, if they just didn't have the accents, it probably would have worked.

• 19:03Speaker 03

  The list, you reading that list reminds me, I just saw an interview with like 50 Cent the other day where they're like, are you making new music? And he's like, no.

• 19:11Speaker 03

  I got a lot of money. He's like, I'm not able to make rap anymore. He's like, what am I going to talk about? Doing the laundry and like filing my taxes?

• 19:17Speaker 00

  It's just hard to keep going. I think, you know, it was around his mid 40s when it started to taper off and really when he got into his 50s. The list is very short of comedy movie stars in their 50s still crushing it.

• 19:28Speaker 01

  So he was 38 when he filmed this. I looked it up because I was like, I can't, I can't actually figure out how old he was.

• 19:33Speaker 00

  He's kind of ageless.

• 19:34Speaker 01

  He plays like a 20, he plays like someone a little bit younger, I think in the movie, but he's always kind of doing that.

• 19:40Speaker 00

  I never, Farrell always just seems like 40 to me.

• 19:43Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 19:43Speaker 00

  No matter what movie he's in.

• 19:44Speaker 01

  Eternally 40.

• 19:45Speaker 03

  He does have the Bill Murray thing where Bill Murray looked at like.

• 19:47Speaker 01

  He looked old young.

• 19:48Speaker 03

  Forty five, 48 years old from 30 to 60.

• 19:51Speaker 00

  Yes. Well, also, I always liked that Farrell like never cared about taking his shirt off. He was never super in shape, didn't care, would always like poke fun at it. He's huge, hairy, super tall.

• 20:01Speaker 01

  He has that weird like crease in his belly.

• 20:04Speaker 00

  He just like doesn't give a shit.

• 20:05Speaker 01

  I don't know what, where that's coming from.

• 20:06Speaker 00

  Which is also a huge part of comedy is just leaning into it. Farrell's great just because I think he had the, it at least felt as though he was comfortable with other people being funny with him in movies. He didn't need to overpower every movie.

• 20:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:18Speaker 00

  He really surrounded himself with other people who were super funny, like him having like a counterpart. And most of the movies he did, whether it's like John C. Riley or, or, you know, like the crew in Anchorman. I kind of respect that. It's like you said, Steph. It's like Steph was okay with having Clay. And I think Will was fine with like being able to play off other people.

• 20:37Speaker 03

  Needs Clay. Like you need someone to actually reach that level to actually, I mean, I think he needs a John C. Riley.

• 20:42Speaker 00

  Totally.

• 20:43Speaker 01

  You can see it in all the bits too. Like Craig said, he's not trying to overpower everyone. He's like, built like as they're going through scenes, there's so many scenes in this movie where you can see them just on the verge of cracking up.

• 20:53Speaker 03

  Oh my God.

• 20:53Speaker 01

  Every time, like the, the knife in the leg scene. I mean, just.

• 20:57Speaker 03

  Get the knife out with the other knife. Cut around the meat.

• 21:01Speaker 01

  Cut around the meat.

• 21:03Speaker 00

  This movie really is.

• 21:03Speaker 03

  They're in a hospital and they're passing.

• 21:05Speaker 01

  Cut around the meat.

• 21:06Speaker 00

  There's like nobody, I don't know why there's no one helping.

• 21:09Speaker 03

  Cut around the meat.

• 21:10Speaker 01

  Don't you put that knife in your leg?

• 21:12Speaker 00

  Uh, it really is a no skips movie. Like every scene, I was, I was trying to find the weak link and I was like, I don't, I can't.

• 21:19Speaker 03

  I, I don't have one.

• 21:20Speaker 00

  I don't think there's a scene you can cut because like even if you could say, oh, maybe like, you know, the grandma teaching the kids how to, but I'm like, that's great. All the Gary Cole stuff is great.

• 21:30Speaker 01

  Are we doing weak link right now?

• 21:32Speaker 00

  No, no, I.

• 21:33Speaker 03

  Just to your point though about the, the fall off is I, ironically, Will Ferrell went on the shop with, it was LeBron and Maverick Carter and our coworker here, Rich Paul.

• 21:42Speaker 00

  Right.

• 21:42Speaker 03

  And they were talking.

• 21:44Speaker 00

  I consider Rich Paul and I.

• 21:44Speaker 01

  Colleagues.

• 21:45Speaker 03

  We're basically colleagues. Yeah. Yeah. Same level. And he literally just, it was like, Will Ferrell says, I don't make films. I make movies.

• 21:55Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 21:55Speaker 03

  He's like, films are nuanced and planned. And we kind of just show up and we're like, yeah, I want to rehearse. Nah, let's just go.

• 22:01Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 22:02Speaker 03

  And I think that over time you run out of ideas. And I think the perfect example of that is Anchorman two, which I think everyone wanted to be good. There's that stupid thing where they like, or in a lighthouse with a shark.

• 22:12Speaker 00

  The shark.

• 22:12Speaker 03

  And he's like pretending to be blind, but he can see. I'm like, that's just the Talladega paralyzed scene. And it's like, he just, he did 15 years of uninterrupted, incredible ideas. And then he kind of just did them again in the next movies.

• 22:25Speaker 00

  Yeah. I know. It's interesting. Like my, my brothers in law are in their twenties and, and one's 25, one's 28. And the 25 year old, his relationship to Will Ferrell is not as strong as I thought. Like there are movies I could pull up. I'm like, oh, have you seen Talladega Nights? And he's like, oh, maybe. I don't know. And it's just so shocking to me that, that, I don't know, we're just in such a weird place now. I don't know what it's been. I mean, here and there, there are good movies popped up, like Game Night's great. That was like 2018 and Booksmart's good. And I remember when Blockers came out at the end of the 2010s, I was like, oh.

• 22:56Speaker 01

  John Cena?

• 22:57Speaker 00

  Yeah. And I thought Blockers was okay, but we've been in such a weird spot and no one's been able to replace Will Ferrell. And I think it's made me appreciate him even more. And I think it's made this movie and this run age even better. Because there's just, you, it almost seems unfathomable now that there could be a star that could be doing this. Where every year they're in a new movie and all of America is going to see it.

• 23:20Speaker 03

  That's what I wanted to ask you about is who else could do this? Like is it Shane Gillis? Like could Shane Gillis do this again?

• 23:26Speaker 00

  I think it's Shane Gillis, although, I don't know. I, I think what Farrell was able to do is like, he can really play characters. I know he's kind of always doing the same thing. But Farrell's ability on SNL as a, as a somebody who can just like morph into anyone really works. I don't know if Gillis has that. Sometimes the stand-up becoming a huge movie star, it obviously works sometimes. But I don't know if I can see Gillis.

• 23:48Speaker 01

  Plays himself and everything.

• 23:49Speaker 00

  Yeah. I think, I think it would have to be him though. Uh, like even he's making a TV show right now on Netflix, Tires, which is really funny, but he's just basically being himself.

• 23:58Speaker 01

  Right.

• 23:58Speaker 00

  And I don't know if it's like Shane Gillis is a ping pong player. Shane Gillis is a cook.

• 24:03Speaker 03

  I kind of think people would go see that though. I kind of think it would work.

• 24:06Speaker 00

  Well, he's like the most famous comedian in the world and it would have to be him. I don't really know who else would be doing it. Like I said, Tim Robinson, I think is too niche. And outside of that, there's no crew. Like the Farrell McKay crew, Stiller and Owen Wilson and all them. And then you move to Apatow and Seth Rogen, which became like even more improv heavy. And it was just like stoner, stoners in a room improvising.

• 24:27Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 24:28Speaker 00

  And then after that, once we got to like, this is the end, whatever, it dissipated. No group has replaced them. And now we're just in no man's land.

• 24:36Speaker 01

  I do think the Tim Robinson parallel with Farrell though is, and maybe there's probably a bunch of examples of this, but in that era, in the 2000s, 2010s even, we communicate, like my friends and I communicated through movie quotes. Like we could do an entire conversation. It's just, just movie quotes from Will Ferrell. Like all different, like Anchorman was huge, you know, and I think like Tim Robinson is kind of similar to that. Like we, so many Tim Robinson quotes, the memes, he is really, really meme-able. And that's like become part of, you know, there's Zeitgeist or whatever. Like we just talk, I haven't even seen, I think like all of I Think You Should Leave. And I still quote scenes that I haven't seen.

• 25:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 25:13Speaker 00

  I gotta figure out how to make money on this. There's a new Marvel movie out that's supposed to be nuts. I totally agree.

• 25:19Speaker 03

  I, I, to that point, I actually think if you deleted all the Will Ferrell lines from my brain, I don't think I could have a conversation with my friends. I don't know how to communicate with other men without this, without Will Ferrell.

• 25:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:31Speaker 00

  It is weird now.

• 25:31Speaker 01

  Do we just become best friends?

• 25:33Speaker 00

  Like memes are becoming bigger than the source material, you know?

• 25:37Speaker 03

  Yeah. I, I have not seen that many episodes of I Think You Should Leave, and yet I know like 50 quotes.

• 25:42Speaker 00

  Yeah. The hot dog, the 55 burgers, 55, like all that stuff. You don't even have to have seen those, those episodes and you get it.

• 25:48Speaker 01

  I think you're here for the zip line.

• 25:49Speaker 00

  It's just so odd that that's where we are. It's, it's like, almost like now how they say how many followers you have is less relevant. It's just like how many views the video gets.

• 25:58Speaker 03

  Yes. It's like in TikTok. It's like, it doesn't even matter necessarily if you have a million followers or 10,000, but you're right. It's you can get the quotes in the cultural water without actually having digested it.

• 26:08Speaker 00

  Yes. Like I Think You Should Leave. I don't know how popular it is. I think it's relatively popular, maybe more cult following. And yet the memes are ginormous and everybody knows the memes, even though people may, didn't see the show.

• 26:18Speaker 01

  We're all trying to figure out who did this.

• 26:20Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 26:20Speaker 01

  You know, like the, the hot dog. I, I haven't even seen that scene.

• 26:24Speaker 00

  There you go.

• 26:24Speaker 03

  I don't think I've seen the zip line thing.

• 26:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:26Speaker 00

  Oh my God, the zip line.

• 26:27Speaker 03

  Well, I've seen, I've seen the 40 second clip. I haven't seen the full thing.

• 26:31Speaker 00

  Yeah. Ronnie, I think you're just here for the zip line. He's like, what?

• 26:36Speaker 00

  And then it's like the.

• 26:37Speaker 01

  Like mad at the guy.

• 26:38Speaker 00

  Guys like he broke it. He's like, shut up, Mike. Anyway, uh, this movie is John C. Riley, who, one of the best character actors ever.

• 26:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:47Speaker 00

  Can do drama, do comedy, has worked with like PTA and Martin Scorsese, and then just slipped in and became Will Ferrell's number two, kind of like Jeff Daniels with Jim Carrey.

• 26:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:57Speaker 00

  And honestly, it's kind of like Cal Nottington to Ricky Bobby in real life with Will Ferrell. He's the number two and he's happy to do it.

• 27:04Speaker 03

  Clearly the real life thing, like what you're saying about the winning time thing where John C. Riley gets to be Jerry Buss and Will Ferrell freaks out. That's literally the, well, if you win.

• 27:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 27:13Speaker 03

  How am I going?

• 27:14Speaker 00

  And he's like, yeah.

• 27:15Speaker 01

  You think Adam McKay like thought that through and was like, I want to try this in real life?

• 27:19Speaker 03

  They're magic man.

• 27:21Speaker 00

  Now you see him. Now you don't.

• 27:23Speaker 01

  Ah, damn it. It's actually awesome. Yeah.

• 27:25Speaker 00

  Yeah. And, and Riley got his shot. I mean, after Talladega, he gets, he gets Walk Hard, which I know you is a good movie for you.

• 27:32Speaker 01

  I think.

• 27:33Speaker 03

  Didn't that like?

• 27:33Speaker 01

  Walk Hard is hilarious.

• 27:35Speaker 03

  Didn't that kind of pause all those music movies being made for like 10 years, the way Austin Powers changed James Bond?

• 27:41Speaker 00

  I never, yeah, I never had a stronger relationship to Walk Hard. It didn't do very well. And I think it's why uh, John C. Riley didn't really get another like lead comedy role shot. I think that was it. And it didn't really work. And then they kind of like, he went back and did Step Brothers.

• 27:52Speaker 01

  Just a little bit too much full frontal penis in Walk Hard for people's taste, maybe. I don't know. Uh, I, I think it's a classic. I actually watched, re-watched it like a month ago and it's, still holds up in my opinion. I'm cutting back, I'm cutting half pretty bad.

• 28:07Speaker 00

  The weed scene's great.

• 28:08Speaker 03

  The weed scene is, you don't want any of this shit. Sounds expensive. It's the cheapest drug there is.

• 28:16Speaker 00

  Uh, the movie also has Sacha Baron Cohen, Jane Lynch, Gary Cole, Amy Adams. Um, Michael Clarke Duncan and Molly Shannon. Elite supporting cast. Again, no misses across the board. Chuck McBrayer, David Kechner. It's just like everyone and it's great. Um, the movie made $163 million on a $72 million budget. Not bad.

• 28:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:37Speaker 00

  But this was in the DVD era where it's like the budget, you can't, you can't look at the Wikipedia budget. That's probably half of what it actually did. It, it made like 90 million in DVD sales and then I'm sure a ton more beyond that. Um, it was the largest opening of Will Ferrell's career at the time. I think it still might be the most profitable Adam McKay movie. Um, no Roger Ebert review. But we will take a quick break and then we'll get into most rewatchable scene where there's like 15.

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  Today's most rewatchable scene is presented by Mazda. There's driving and then there's driving with peace of mind, knowing you're behind the wheel of Consumer Reports' safest new car brand, Mazda. But more on that later. All right, most rewatchable scene. You guys know the drill, right? I'll go through all the scenes and then you pick your favorite one at the end. Sometimes people don't know. Sometimes people are like, that's, that's mine. Hold it. And then we'll get to it at the end.

• 31:20Speaker 01

  All right, all right.

• 31:21Speaker 00

  All right. Opening title card, not a scene, but Eleanor Roosevelt quote fucking sets the tone.

• 31:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:28Speaker 00

  I know exactly what I'm getting into. Like, honestly, that's the quickest tone setter I've ever seen for a movie.

• 31:33Speaker 01

  Eleanor Roosevelt.

• 31:34Speaker 00

  The entire ethos of the movie with just a title card.

• 31:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:38Speaker 00

  Three little vignettes to start the movie. The birth in the car, the kid stealing the car in class or at the grocery store, and then Reese Bobby at career day is like these three tight little vignettes. You get, if you're not first, you're last. And then we get the Ricky as an adult, I don't know what to do with my hands. And then he starts winning montage. We get I piss excellence.

• 32:05Speaker 00

  Car handle real good.

• 32:08Speaker 01

  Just put it down.

• 32:10Speaker 01

  Like how the guy just like very gently like touches his hand.

• 32:13Speaker 00

  Just put it down. Car handle real nice. I just love. So good. That's just stuff that like you just, that stuff's not in the script. I just love that. You just probably say, car handle real nice. You get the Ricky Bobby's got two first names. I was trying to think of the owner, the Dennits.

• 32:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 32:33Speaker 00

  I want you to, what's the football comp there? What's the NFL owner comp with the owner of Den and then the son taking over?

• 32:40Speaker 03

  It's gotta be Jerry and Stephen Jones.

• 32:42Speaker 00

  Is it? Yeah, you might be right. But then who is Ricky Bobby to Stephen Jones?

• 32:49Speaker 00

  Who do you got?

• 32:49Speaker 01

  Good question.

• 32:51Speaker 03

  Romo's the layup, but I mean.

• 32:53Speaker 00

  Do we have, is there an Al Davis? Mark Davis?

• 32:58Speaker 01

  That's pretty good.

• 32:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, Microwave John Gruden. It's not bad.

• 33:03Speaker 00

  We have the dinner scene.

• 33:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 33:05Speaker 00

  Where we meet Walker and Texas Ranger.

• 33:08Speaker 01

  My beautiful sons.

• 33:09Speaker 03

  TR, as we call them.

• 33:13Speaker 00

  I don't know. There's a, supper's been ready for hours. I've been slaving over this for hours.

• 33:20Speaker 01

  Accent's perfect.

• 33:21Speaker 03

  Dear Lord, baby Jesus.

• 33:22Speaker 00

  Leslie Bibb is great.

• 33:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 33:24Speaker 00

  I love the way he's talking to you, Chip.

• 33:27Speaker 03

  You brought this on yourself, Chip?

• 33:29Speaker 00

  That's what happened. When I see Kai speak up to Hyphens, I'm like, I love the way he's talking to you, Hyphens.

• 33:34Speaker 03

  You brought the heat.

• 33:36Speaker 03

  She said, I have a lumpy butt. And then I said, fuck you. And she yelled at me and I pissed in my pants.

• 33:42Speaker 00

  I love that he pissed in his pants. There's so many, this scene is one of the more iconic moments of the movie, I would say.

• 33:47Speaker 01

  Praying to dear Lord, baby Jesus, eight pounds, six ounces.

• 33:51Speaker 00

  Newborn infant Jesus don't even know a word yet.

• 33:57Speaker 00

  I like to think of Jesus in a tuxedo t-shirt. Hey, Cal, why don't you shut the hell up? Yes, ma'am.

• 34:04Speaker 00

  That relationship's great. I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew. I'm coming at you like a spider monkey. It's, there's just a remarkable amount of quotes in this movie.

• 34:13Speaker 01

  I threw grandpa's war medals off the bridge.

• 34:16Speaker 00

  Sounds like a good day.

• 34:19Speaker 03

  Dude, you know the meme of like, I'll put it in the Louvre?

• 34:21Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 34:22Speaker 03

  Literally this scene made ape shit a thing.

• 34:25Speaker 00

  Oh, I'll go ape shit on your ass.

• 34:26Speaker 03

  I'll go ape shit on your ass. You know what happens a few years later? Jay-Z makes a song with Beyonce called Ape Shit. And then they film the music video in the fucking Louvre with the Mona Lisa.

• 34:37Speaker 00

  You think saying ape shit in this movie inspired Jay-Z?

• 34:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, think about, Watch the Throne literally starts by clipping Blades of Glory.

• 34:46Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 34:46Speaker 03

  One song, one song only. Like, no one knows what it means. It's provocative. That was, that's a Jay-Z Kanye song. And then starting with a Will Ferrell movie, and then two years later, they make a song called Ape Shit.

• 34:56Speaker 00

  Is that a half-ass internet research or is that just your opinion? Like, did you see that online? Strong theory.

• 35:01Speaker 03

  I do not think that Beyonce and Jay-Z make a song called Ape Shit without this movie.

• 35:05Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 35:05Speaker 03

  And they literally filmed, they shut down the Louvre at night to film there.

• 35:08Speaker 01

  Hyphens invented the piano key necktie.

• 35:10Speaker 03

  I did.

• 35:13Speaker 01

  I don't think that's true, but I like to think, I like to think it's true.

• 35:16Speaker 00

  He has really good half-ass theories.

• 35:18Speaker 03

  I'll ask Rich to ask Jay-Z and then maybe we can get an answer.

• 35:22Speaker 00

  Honestly, we might be closer to him than we think. You're right. Degrees of separation aren't that many. Mini scene, I love Ricky Bobby winning the race in reverse, which would just be like the biggest story of all time.

• 35:33Speaker 01

  Just flipping him off?

• 35:34Speaker 00

  Like, I don't know. That was just fucking cool.

• 35:37Speaker 01

  Do they go that fast backwards?

• 35:38Speaker 00

  I was wondering that.

• 35:39Speaker 03

  I don't want to step on the Vincent Chase.

• 35:41Speaker 01

  Can they go as fast backwards as they can go forwards?

• 35:43Speaker 03

  Definitely not. I don't want to step on the Vincent Chase. Are they good at the job? But all the other race car drivers in this movie suck.

• 35:48Speaker 00

  Oh, what are you gonna, really? We're gonna do that?

• 35:50Speaker 03

  I mean, imagine losing to a guy who's going backwards. I'm just saying.

• 35:54Speaker 01

  It says here ape shit was invented in the 1950s.

• 35:58Speaker 00

  But I think he's saying that it didn't.

• 35:59Speaker 03

  What the fuck? Did you Google it? What are you talking about?

• 36:01Speaker 01

  I did. I was curious.

• 36:02Speaker 00

  He's saying it inspired Jay-Z.

• 36:03Speaker 03

  You were alive. Did anyone use that term in the 90s?

• 36:06Speaker 01

  Oh, absolutely, yeah.

• 36:08Speaker 03

  I feel like it exploded after this movie. Like, I never heard it till this movie.

• 36:12Speaker 00

  This says no gas powered cars cannot drive as fast in reverse, although.

• 36:15Speaker 01

  They don't have as many, they only have one gear.

• 36:17Speaker 03

  What are you talking about?

• 36:18Speaker 00

  It says electric cars have the physical capability to do so.

• 36:20Speaker 01

  Oh, wow.

• 36:21Speaker 00

  So eat that. No fucking chance. Okay. I like that mini scene. Then we get the bar scene where we meet Jean Girard.

• 36:30Speaker 01

  Right.

• 36:30Speaker 00

  And I love when the music's playing and what's his name's like, turn that off. He's like, his brain's about to explode.

• 36:37Speaker 01

  Making him short circuit.

• 36:39Speaker 03

  Keep it on for profiling.

• 36:41Speaker 01

  Jazz.

• 36:44Speaker 00

  Jean, we meet Jean, he breaks Ricky's arm. We get the creps, really thin pancakes.

• 36:51Speaker 01

  Him drinking the beer sideways, what he's like.

• 36:53Speaker 03

  I'm gonna get a beer.

• 36:53Speaker 00

  You are disrespecting me.

• 36:55Speaker 03

  He's like, don't, don't do it, Ricky. These colors don't run.

• 36:59Speaker 00

  I had a whole mess of crepes this morning.

• 37:01Speaker 03

  A whole mess?

• 37:02Speaker 00

  That's another quote that we used to say. I had a whole mess of crepes this morning.

• 37:05Speaker 03

  Very thin pancake. This good compromise, fair compromise, no?

• 37:09Speaker 00

  He compromises immediately. I feel like Jean was reasonable in that scene, actually.

• 37:12Speaker 03

  Super reasonable.

• 37:13Speaker 01

  Tell he breaks his arm.

• 37:15Speaker 03

  He gave him a compromise, dude. Really.

• 37:17Speaker 01

  Compound fracture.

• 37:18Speaker 03

  I mean, he just, if he had just said really thin pancakes, it would have been fun.

• 37:22Speaker 00

  Then we have the montage of Jean winning. We have Ricky's crash.

• 37:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:26Speaker 00

  And then we have the hospital scene, which I feel like is the next kind of keystone scene of this movie where we have, I hope you both have sons. Handsome, beautiful.

• 37:39Speaker 01

  Articulate. Articulate.

• 37:43Speaker 00

  And they have their legs hanging away from them. Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby?

• 37:48Speaker 03

  No, he's like, come on. He's like, no, no, no, no. He needs to know.

• 37:53Speaker 01

  Beautiful articulate son.

• 37:56Speaker 03

  I how many times.

• 37:56Speaker 00

  Articulate is unbelievable. I can't believe he chose that word.

• 37:59Speaker 01

  Yeah. You know, it was improvised too.

• 38:01Speaker 03

  How many times have you, I feel like for me, it's 10,000 where it's like, don't you put that evil on me?

• 38:07Speaker 00

  Oh, my God. Yeah, it's one of the top five quotes from the movie, I would say.

• 38:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 38:11Speaker 00

  Even the the brief scene where he's in the wheelchair playing basketball and he's kicking people.

• 38:15Speaker 01

  I think. He gets up and takes the ball.

• 38:17Speaker 03

  The like random line that stays with you, like the first time you watch it, it's like, you know, all the, you know, first or last. But the line that I actually cackle every time, he's like, Cal's like psychosomatic. So you mean, he can start a fire with his thoughts?

• 38:34Speaker 00

  Doctor's like, no. It's just all in his head.

• 38:37Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 38:39Speaker 00

  Uh, you get the using the second knife to pry out the first knife.

• 38:43Speaker 03

  Cut around and around the meat.

• 38:44Speaker 00

  Which is maybe one of the funniest moments in the movie.

• 38:46Speaker 03

  The sound it makes when it goes to like the squish.

• 38:48Speaker 00

  Dude, when he, when he like bangs the second knife in with like a hammer, it's crazy.

• 38:53Speaker 03

  I think I had to watch that 70 times until I realized that they're in a hospital.

• 38:58Speaker 01

  It's really good.

• 38:59Speaker 00

  I'm paralyzed. You are not paralyzed.

• 39:02Speaker 03

  You are not paralyzed.

• 39:03Speaker 00

  Don't you stick that knife in your leg?

• 39:05Speaker 01

  Oh. Well, he does it. The noise it makes, it's like, like a squelch noise.

• 39:12Speaker 00

  Um, so then we have kind of Ricky's fall and then we have the wife swap scene or like the family swap scene.

• 39:17Speaker 01

  Oh, God.

• 39:18Speaker 00

  Which is, I imagine.

• 39:19Speaker 01

  He's like kissing his, like this, uh, Walker and Texas Ranger on the head as he comes there playing a game together.

• 39:24Speaker 00

  That's like me coming home week eight after Luther Burden is officially a flop and Liz is just with hyphens. And I'm like, what's going on? And she's like, sorry, Kristen Watson was a better pick.

• 39:32Speaker 03

  I was gone for three hours.

• 39:34Speaker 00

  Luther Burden was hurt for one game.

• 39:36Speaker 03

  Ricky, your marriage was a hollow shell.

• 39:39Speaker 00

  He's like, what? His whole house is like, they're playing Jenga. Everybody's got his arms around the kid.

• 39:46Speaker 03

  Dude, she's like, this marriage has been over a long time. He's like, no, I honestly did not know that.

• 39:50Speaker 01

  Did not know that.

• 39:51Speaker 00

  Did not know that. Uh.

• 39:53Speaker 03

  You wrecked my life.

• 39:54Speaker 00

  We get Magic Man. Now you see me. Now you don't. Um, mini scene that I love is when Cal calls Ricky at night.

• 40:03Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 40:03Speaker 00

  From Ricky's old house.

• 40:04Speaker 01

  So great.

• 40:05Speaker 00

  And he's like, when you have the stereo turned on and the TV, how do you handle the volume? And he's like, why do you need to listen to stereo and TV? Cause I like to party.

• 40:16Speaker 01

  He's like, obviously.

• 40:18Speaker 00

  Why am I talking to you, man?

• 40:19Speaker 03

  It's like a mantra.

• 40:21Speaker 01

  He's like, all right, I'll call you tomorrow.

• 40:22Speaker 00

  All right, man.

• 40:23Speaker 03

  I, I feel like, I think I never even noticed until like this time is that he's like, I think your house is haunted. He's like, it's not haunted. It's a new house.

• 40:30Speaker 01

  Get out.

• 40:32Speaker 03

  He's eating banana.

• 40:34Speaker 00

  That could have been like a whole part of the movie, honestly.

• 40:36Speaker 01

  Seriously. Probably was.

• 40:39Speaker 03

  That I do always watch these Appetow movies and I'm like, man, there actually is somehow three amazing.

• 40:44Speaker 01

  They have three hours of V roll that they just didn't.

• 40:46Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah. I mean, like, there was like Anchorman, they had enough for a second movie. All these movies, I feel like the first cuts are super long.

• 40:52Speaker 03

  Anchorman, I'm convinced that it was supposed to end with the bear smelling the menstruation, which they had like literally set up perfectly. But then the bear almost killed somebody and they were like, we're done.

• 41:02Speaker 00

  We can't do that anymore. That was jelly, the bear. Um, three more, Applebee's.

• 41:08Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 41:08Speaker 00

  Oh. And you get the kind of the first or last realization, which is, which is sad, which actually hits. When Reese is on the street and he's like, hell, Ricky, I was high when I said that. Hell, you'd be second, third, fourth.

• 41:20Speaker 01

  Even fifth.

• 41:20Speaker 00

  You'd be me fifth.

• 41:23Speaker 00

  It kind of hits.

• 41:24Speaker 01

  I like how the dad just gets itchy anytime it's like even close to harmony in the family.

• 41:29Speaker 03

  Ah, I gotta start a fight.

• 41:33Speaker 01

  I gotta start being mean to somebody.

• 41:34Speaker 00

  I know. That's how I feel like when my family's playing a board game and everything's going fine.

• 41:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, like this needs more anarchy.

• 41:40Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's just like, you know what? Fuck it. You guys are cheating. And then it's like, no, we're not. And then it's in a fight.

• 41:44Speaker 03

  He is, Reese is literally the most outlandish character I've ever seen, but then he just has that one line. He's like, I don't know what bone people have that makes them act right, but I wasn't born with it. I'm like, that actually was oddly cutting.

• 41:54Speaker 01

  That's a thing.

• 41:55Speaker 00

  Um, apologies. I missed a scene. One of the best, the other of like the Pantheon scenes is the cougar Reese Bobby getting Ricky back into it.

• 42:02Speaker 03

  Where'd you get a cougar?

• 42:03Speaker 01

  I trapped it.

• 42:05Speaker 00

  Real simple, son.

• 42:06Speaker 03

  Feed it to a pizza.

• 42:07Speaker 00

  Cops are coming. There's a kilo of Colombian bam bam under the car.

• 42:10Speaker 01

  What do you do?

• 42:11Speaker 00

  Time to be a man.

• 42:11Speaker 03

  Hairy on your pages or what?

• 42:13Speaker 00

  I love, real simple, son.

• 42:17Speaker 01

  Gary Cole is great.

• 42:18Speaker 00

  Uh, okay, we have that. We have the Amy Adams speech.

• 42:22Speaker 01

  Oh, God.

• 42:23Speaker 00

  Which I have to imagine would be Harrison Bucker's favorite speech a woman could ever give in a film. It includes, it includes the lines. I'll read it for you. Harrison Bucker, Harrison Bucker would love this. You need to rev your engine. You need to fire it up and you need to grab a hold of that line between speed and chaos. And you need to wrestle it to the ground like a demon cobra. And then when the fear rises up in your belly, you use it and you know that the fear is powerful because it's been there for billions of years. And it is good and you use it and you ride it. You ride it like a skeleton horse through the gates of hell. And then you win, Ricky, you win and you don't win for anyone else. You win for you. And you know why? Cause a man takes what he wants. He takes it all and you're a man, aren't you, Ricky? Aren't you?

• 43:00Speaker 03

  Ricky Bobby is not a thinker. He's a, you're a driver.

• 43:03Speaker 00

  Yeah. Buckers just torched watching that.

• 43:06Speaker 01

  Flex category, the Harrison Bucker award for.

• 43:09Speaker 00

  Speech that would, yeah.

• 43:10Speaker 01

  Speech that would make Harrison Bucker see it.

• 43:12Speaker 00

  Um, kind of an amazing moment. Amy Adams just comes out of nowhere. She, I didn't realize now that like she wasn't really famous when this movie came out.

• 43:21Speaker 01

  Is that right?

• 43:21Speaker 00

  No, cause I'm like, why is she in this movie? It's an incredibly small role. She did Catch Me If You Can. She was like the brief love interest three years before that. And then she did a movie called Junebug that she, that she rapped on when she booked Talladega Nights. So she, she ended up getting an Oscar nomination for Junebug, but she, that all happened while Talladega Nights was happening. So I'm not saying she wouldn't have taken the role had she been an Oscar nominated actress, but it was like right as Amy Adams was about to take off. Um.

• 43:51Speaker 03

  But you always joke about the glasses ponytail. It's funny to literally just see her glasses and a ponytail for the entire.

• 43:56Speaker 01

  Glasses off, lets her hair down.

• 43:58Speaker 00

  Uh, fantastic scene in the bar.

• 43:59Speaker 01

  Oh, amazing.

• 44:00Speaker 00

  We better get it on right now.

• 44:02Speaker 01

  Everybody turn around. Look away.

• 44:03Speaker 00

  Or we're making animal sounds. And then we have the final scene, the final race, the foot race, which I have to say, I got chills. When they start running on foot to the finish line, I legitimately get chills.

• 44:16Speaker 01

  You're just a sports fan. That's a, it is moving, stirs the soul.

• 44:21Speaker 00

  Uh, so what do you got? What's, what's most rewatchable? DK?

• 44:23Speaker 01

  Well, can we add more?

• 44:25Speaker 00

  Oh, sure.

• 44:26Speaker 01

  The commercials and commercial bloopers.

• 44:30Speaker 00

  Yeah. I have that for my goddolies, things I just enjoy.

• 44:33Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 44:33Speaker 00

  Butter my ass things I just enjoy. Fake ads in commercials. I mean, fake ads in, in movies are just, they always work for me.

• 44:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 44:41Speaker 03

  I literally have the same thing for that category. It always works. Just these like, nothing for Christmas like the Jackhawk 9000.

• 44:48Speaker 00

  The holidays.

• 44:49Speaker 01

  Jackhawk 9000.

• 44:50Speaker 00

  Holidays are just around the corner. What better gift to give a loved one than the Jackhawk 9000? Available at Walmart.

• 44:55Speaker 01

  The Jackhawk 9000.

• 44:56Speaker 03

  We're competitors on the racetrack, but we want to talk to you about something very serious. Packs of wild dogs controlling most of America's major cities.

• 45:04Speaker 01

  Controlling most of the major cities.

• 45:06Speaker 00

  If you don't chew Big Red, then fuck you. I, I have said that one million times in my life. And dude, I, and I know like it probably hasn't aged great. When he's doing the, the prune candy ad.

• 45:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, right.

• 45:17Speaker 00

  I, when I first, as a 13 year old, that fucking killed me.

• 45:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:21Speaker 03

  Dude, the Fig Newton, this sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love Fig Newtons.

• 45:26Speaker 01

  Bodies that look so good, you want, you're gonna want to talk to it.

• 45:31Speaker 01

  For McCready's funeral services. These bodies gonna look so good, you're gonna want to talk to it.

• 45:36Speaker 03

  98% of people will die at some point in their life.

• 45:40Speaker 00

  Did you guys watch the extended cut of the original?

• 45:42Speaker 01

  The original.

• 45:43Speaker 03

  The, well, so those.

• 45:44Speaker 00

  Cause I think some of the lines you're quoting are not in the original.

• 45:45Speaker 03

  The best bloopers, those are during the end credits.

• 45:48Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:48Speaker 03

  And the end credits, I, they're just kind of playing and they're cutting between.

• 45:52Speaker 01

  About snow, snow blindness and cats.

• 45:55Speaker 03

  Snow blindness and cats.

• 45:57Speaker 01

  Scares the living shit out of us.

• 46:00Speaker 03

  I would, I would love nothing more than to watch Will Ferrell do fake ads for like seven hours.

• 46:03Speaker 01

  100%. Um, I think the best scene, it's hard cause like you said, every scene is great. My favorite scene is probably the dinner, honestly. The dinner and grace. I want you to do this grace good.

• 46:17Speaker 03

  The dinner, the, yeah, the grace, the baby Jesus, the six pounds, seven ounces.

• 46:23Speaker 00

  Never known a word.

• 46:25Speaker 01

  He had a beard.

• 46:26Speaker 00

  He was a man.

• 46:27Speaker 03

  He had a beard.

• 46:28Speaker 00

  I feel like we do that all the time on the show.

• 46:30Speaker 01

  We say that probably once a week.

• 46:31Speaker 03

  I think.

• 46:32Speaker 00

  He was a man.

• 46:34Speaker 03

  He had a beard. I make the money. I pick the Jesus. Dude, I think this was the most-

• 46:40Speaker 00

  Twenty-one point six million dollars. Ow!

• 46:42Speaker 03

  Love that money!

• 46:45Speaker 03

  I think this was the most quoted scene of my childhood.

• 46:48Speaker 00

  I think that's right-

• 46:49Speaker 01

  It's gotta be up there.

• 46:50Speaker 03

  Cause you have, I'm gonna be on your ass like a spider monkey. I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew. Thank you, Lord, baby Jesus. Like, if you just kinda go down the line, like, the amount of quotes that I've just, are just stuck in my brain from this, I think it was the most quoted line until, I mean, I guess, maybe things later, but I don't think even my friends were even quoting Anchorman, or as much as this movie.

• 47:10Speaker 00

  It's a good call. It could be up there with, one of them, volume-wise, the most quotes of any scene in the 2000s.

• 47:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 47:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, quotes per minute.

• 47:19Speaker 00

  Quotes per minute, that still stick to this day. I love the way he's talking to you, Chip.

• 47:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 47:24Speaker 00

  The tuxedo t-shirt thing.

• 47:25Speaker 03

  Dude, that one is, he's like, "I picture Jesus in a tuxedo t-shirt, cause it's like formal, but I like the party." It's like Lynyrd Skynyrd-

• 47:34Speaker 01

  It's just Hammer Drop.

• 47:35Speaker 00

  And I'm just Hammer Drop.

• 47:36Speaker 03

  Big eagle wings.

• 47:37Speaker 00

  Kyle, why don't you just shut the hell up?

• 47:39Speaker 01

  Yes, ma'am.

• 47:40Speaker 03

  He's like, like a changeling, like a, you ever seen Manimal?

• 47:43Speaker 01

  Changeling. It is really good. I mean, this is like the perfect example of that era where they would do eighteen different takes of a line and just like see what stuck. So funny.

• 47:54Speaker 00

  Taco, Domino's, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell.

• 47:58Speaker 03

  I didn't even remember that he had sponsored The Grace.

• 48:02Speaker 01

  How powering.

• 48:03Speaker 03

  This great, we have, we're contractually obligated-

• 48:06Speaker 01

  To mention the upcoming flavor, I don't remember what the flavor was.

• 48:09Speaker 00

  Blue Power.

• 48:10Speaker 03

  Blueberry Mountain Mist.

• 48:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:12Speaker 00

  That's kind of a new level of sponsorship I didn't know was possible.

• 48:15Speaker 01

  At Grace.

• 48:15Speaker 00

  Is having to do sponsorships in the privacy of your own home to just your family?

• 48:19Speaker 01

  I mean, that's like guerrilla marketing right there.

• 48:21Speaker 00

  To spread the good word?

• 48:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:22Speaker 00

  So do you have the dinner, the dinner scene as well?

• 48:23Speaker 03

  I think it has to be the dinner, but I do wanna shout out the bar scene, because I think the bar scene is sneaky, actually unbelievable, and how also how funny it is, because the whole like, what did France ever give the world? It's like, "Democracy, existentialism, and le manage à toi."

• 48:38Speaker 01

  Those are some good things.

• 48:39Speaker 03

  But the other one is just the crepes, that "These colors don't run," he's like, "Actually, Ricky, I had mess crepes this morning," but also the, just the conversation into the bar where they're like, "Yeah, my grandmother, her birthday's coming up, I don't know what to get her, she's turning eighty-five, get her a coffin."

• 48:53Speaker 00

  I love that that scene's in the movie. Doesn't need to be there, it's great.

• 48:58Speaker 01

  That was my that guy, we'll get to that one.

• 48:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 49:00Speaker 03

  I think it, I think it has to be The Grace.

• 49:02Speaker 00

  I agree, it's dinner. Supper.

• 49:05Speaker 03

  Supper.

• 49:05Speaker 00

  Supper's ready.

• 49:06Speaker 03

  Slaving over this for hours.

• 49:08Speaker 00

  I've been slaving over this for hours! Uh, okay, today's most rewatchable scene was presented by Mazda, and the Mazda CX-50 Hybrid, which I literally drive myself, I drive that exact car.

• 49:19Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 49:19Speaker 00

  Uh, which comes standard with a suite of proactive safety features, so confidence isn't an upgrade, it's a given. Mazda, move and be moved. Consumer Reports does not endorse products or services, visit mazdausa.com to learn more.

• 49:32Speaker 03

  You actually do drive us in that car, actually, all the time.

• 49:35Speaker 01

  Smooth drive.

• 49:36Speaker 03

  Front seat, backseat, fantastic.

• 49:38Speaker 00

  It's a great car. Um, okay, I, new category, in the, in the spirit of Bill Simmons, I'm springing it on you without telling you. Um, what is the number one enduring line or joke from this movie? What has lasted culturally the longest? There's a kind of a category called like the 4chan, get most givable moment, but, but what do you think, I don't wanna do the gif, I wanna do just like, what is the quote, or moment, or joke, or anything that has culturally lasted the best?

• 50:05Speaker 01

  If you ain't first or last, maybe?

• 50:07Speaker 03

  It doesn't make me laugh anymore, but I think that is the quote that has lasted the longest.

• 50:13Speaker 00

  I would agree. I would say first or last, the hands thing? I don't just do it with my hands, I think there's like, I feel like everybody knows that.

• 50:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 50:20Speaker 00

  "Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby," but it's gotta be first, if you're not first or last is now just a part of the lexicon.

• 50:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:26Speaker 00

  People, everyone knows that quote, even if they don't know where it came from.

• 50:29Speaker 01

  Right.

• 50:29Speaker 00

  Like a, like a Tim Robinson meme, where it's like, "I haven't even watched the show." If you're not first or last, I'm almost like, man, that sounds like such a, like, a common quote, I can't believe this movie came up with that. Like, is that the first time that has been uttered, if you're not first or last?

• 50:43Speaker 03

  Was that like Marcus Aurelius?

• 50:44Speaker 01

  No, it was actually, no, it wasn't, this was one of my facts, it was actually a play off of Vince Lombardi.

• 50:49Speaker 00

  Really?

• 50:50Speaker 01

  Yeah. He basically said, I mean, in more proper English, I guess, if you're not first or last, it's like basically, the winning's the only thing that matters.

• 50:59Speaker 03

  Uh, hold on. And then Vince Lombardi said, "I'm a big hairy American winning machine, I wake up at the morning, I piss excellence."

• 51:05Speaker 01

  "I'm the best there ev- I'm the best there is." Piss excellence.

• 51:09Speaker 00

  Did you find that online, or did you just remember it?

• 51:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, no, I found that online, um, his famous quote was, "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." And I think that was kinda, it kind of turned into, if you're not first or last.

• 51:21Speaker 00

  Did McKay and Farrell talk about that, or is that something that you connected, the dots on yourself?

• 51:25Speaker 01

  No, I didn't, no, I think this was like on the, just random facts I found, I don't know.

• 51:30Speaker 00

  I agree, it's, it's if you ain't first or last. Uh, okay, what is the most 2006 thing about this movie?

• 51:36Speaker 01

  I had a great time putting this list together.

• 51:38Speaker 03

  It was, it was excellent.

• 51:39Speaker 00

  Uh, Hyphens, what do you got?

• 51:40Speaker 03

  Uh, there's a few, but I think you have to start with the Nextel patch.

• 51:44Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 51:45Speaker 03

  Like, dude, Nextel, I, I couldn't even remember what they did.

• 51:49Speaker 01

  Cell phones?

• 51:50Speaker 03

  Cell phones, but just, that is just such a specific era.

• 51:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 51:53Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 51:54Speaker 03

  The other one is just at the end, something I totally forgot about, is the son who takes over the team, is like really trying to get Halliburton to sponsor the car.

• 52:02Speaker 01

  Oh, that's why I put that down. Halliburton references. Halliburton was like, a reviled company in that era.

• 52:09Speaker 03

  It's like Dick Cheney's company during the Iraq war.

• 52:11Speaker 01

  Late-stage capitalism.

• 52:12Speaker 00

  Is it oil?

• 52:13Speaker 01

  It's like, it's like- It's like oil services.

• 52:15Speaker 03

  Oil product, like oil, like oil logistics ba- basically, I think they're doing rigs and stuff.

• 52:19Speaker 01

  He's like, "I'd love to get some of that stock."

• 52:21Speaker 03

  "I would love to get my hands on that stock," and the guy just kinda nods.

• 52:23Speaker 01

  That was like Adam Kay, just put that in.

• 52:26Speaker 00

  And then he went and made vice, ten years later. Um, what else you guys got?

• 52:29Speaker 01

  I got a couple here. Making the villain a gay French guy.

• 52:33Speaker 00

  I literally said, the butt of the joke being, "This guy's super gay and French."

• 52:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:38Speaker 00

  It's pretty 2006.

• 52:39Speaker 03

  That is very-

• 52:40Speaker 01

  Um, "These colors don't run" being a thing, something they say, that was like very much that era. Uh, the sideburns, soul patch combination.

• 52:50Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 52:51Speaker 01

  Several of my friends had that, like, it was a really big thing.

• 52:54Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 52:55Speaker 01

  Not li- not like outlandishly, people just did that, like really long sideburns.

• 52:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 53:00Speaker 01

  Where'd those go? We don't do that anymore.

• 53:02Speaker 00

  Rightfully so, I think those, I'm not sure, most things have come back, I don't know if the long sideburn will come back.

• 53:08Speaker 01

  Um, to play off of the Nextel thing, the mention of Circuit City, he's got more plugs in him than a Circuit City.

• 53:14Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 53:14Speaker 01

  Circuit City being a thing.

• 53:16Speaker 00

  When, when Carly says she wants to pull the plug on him?

• 53:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, she, he's like-

• 53:21Speaker 00

  Ma'am, he's just asleep.

• 53:22Speaker 01

  I've never heard him make noise like that, and he just yawns.

• 53:26Speaker 01

  Um, that's like looking up Yasmeen Bley's skirt.

• 53:29Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, that, that was very dated.

• 53:31Speaker 01

  Yasmeen Bley means something to people of my generation, my specific generation, yes.

• 53:36Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 53:37Speaker 03

  Bill is, if he's listening to this, is like, okay, finally someone-

• 53:39Speaker 01

  Yasmeen Bley was-

• 53:40Speaker 00

  Had no idea who that was.

• 53:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, super, super attractive.

• 53:42Speaker 03

  I mean, also, just, Jean Gerard getting, having lunch with Elvis Costello and Mos Def.

• 53:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, Mos Def ran 2006.

• 53:50Speaker 00

  And it was actually them, yeah.

• 53:51Speaker 03

  He's like, "Was that Elvis Costello and Mos Def?" He's like, "No." Uh, the other one is like, "Will you be my Katie Couric?"

• 53:59Speaker 01

  Oh, that, yeah.

• 54:00Speaker 03

  Come on.

• 54:01Speaker 00

  So what's your winner?

• 54:03Speaker 03

  I think it has to be Halliburton.

• 54:05Speaker 01

  No, I mean, that's like-

• 54:07Speaker 03

  The most 2006 thing?

• 54:08Speaker 01

  I think, I think it's the making the villain a gay French guy.

• 54:11Speaker 00

  I have Amy Adams being a tiny, small side character in a movie.

• 54:15Speaker 01

  That's kinda, yeah.

• 54:16Speaker 03

  Can I throw out one other one?

• 54:17Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 54:18Speaker 03

  I kinda think it's Sacha Baron Cohen, in a way. And I know that he had a career after that, but I feel like, you're like, "Oh my god, this is like Borat."

• 54:27Speaker 00

  Borat came out three months after this.

• 54:29Speaker 03

  Uh, yeah, we'll get to that, but I just kinda, I don't know, that, just, you know?

• 54:34Speaker 00

  What do you guys have? So the Floyd gun-dully buttered my ass and lollipops in my mouth award for something I just enjoy, I have the fake ads in commercials.

• 54:40Speaker 01

  That's great.

• 54:40Speaker 03

  I, I had fake ads in commercials, again, ninety-five percent of us will die at some point in our lives, "The darkness is creeping towards you, whether you want it or not." The other one I just had for things I just enjoy, one, the sound of race cars-

• 54:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:52Speaker 03

  Is unbelievable.

• 54:53Speaker 01

  Molly Shannon was on to something. We'll do that later.

• 54:56Speaker 03

  No, you just gotta do that.

• 54:56Speaker 01

  Let's wait.

• 54:57Speaker 00

  That's like your Wayne Jenkins.

• 54:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 54:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 54:59Speaker 03

  We're gonna let him just not-

• 55:01Speaker 01

  We're not doing it right now.

• 55:02Speaker 03

  The other one I wanna throw out is just getting into a muscle car through a window without opening the door.

• 55:06Speaker 00

  You like when people do that?

• 55:07Speaker 03

  Every time-

• 55:08Speaker 01

  Dude, Ricky Bobby's dad does that at one point later, and I'm like, "I'm pretty sure the door's open in this car."

• 55:13Speaker 03

  It does, it always is. And the last one is just champagne when race car drivers win.

• 55:18Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 55:18Speaker 03

  It's a great-

• 55:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, I like that. I thought about that.

• 55:22Speaker 00

  The only other thing I have is, uh, Rob Riggle and David Kettner just kind of being in every comedy, I just want them in every comedy. Give them four lines each, I love seeing them, they're a floor raiser, always great.

• 55:32Speaker 01

  Uh, I agree with that. Um, something I really enjoy, shifting gears in a car to music to aggressively pass someone, just feels primal somehow. I like, I love when they do that. You know, I'm not a huge, like, chase scene guy, but I'll watch people shifting gears to like, change speeds for two hours straight.

• 55:52Speaker 00

  Do you like the movie Baby Driver? There's a lot of that.

• 55:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 55:55Speaker 03

  It's like cell phones, kind of like, they had to almost invent ways for people to not have cell phones in a movie, there, when there's all like driverless electric cars, they're gonna have to invent reasons for people to use the stick shift still, cause I don't even know how to watch a scene with a car without a stick shift.

• 56:07Speaker 01

  I almost put shifting gears into the 2006 category, since, do you guys, do you guys know how to drive a stick?

• 56:12Speaker 03

  Absolutely not.

• 56:13Speaker 00

  Hell no.

• 56:14Speaker 03

  Hell no.

• 56:15Speaker 01

  No. Uh, well, I do. Um, let's see, oh, and, this is something that I've just noticed about a lot of movies, sports movies from that era and from other eras. I love the, using real-life sports announcers in the movies about the sports, and how they do voice-overs to kind of set the stage or, or whatever. Um, I just think that's really fun, I like that, and so in this movie, I didn't, I had kinda forgotten that they do that.

• 56:38Speaker 00

  And they use B-roll of like real NASCAR events, which I think always helps as well. Um, all right, what's aged the best? I got a couple, I think in general, the racing looks great, the way they filmed it-

• 56:50Speaker 01

  It's like big budget.

• 56:51Speaker 00

  Has completely held up, they filmed a lot of it in North Carolina. It just looks really authentic and really good, and the crashes look phenomenal. It's, it's just really high-end, you can tell that this is a comedy that they put a lot of work into on the production side, but it looks awesome. Um, I have Leslie Bibb, who we haven't really talked about a whole lot. Her performance stands out more to me now than it ever has.

• 57:10Speaker 01

  She was perfectly cast, no, you could not have replaced her with anybody.

• 57:13Speaker 00

  Yes. She's phenomenal in it, and then, yeah, like her performance as a trophy wife, just like, that whole-

• 57:19Speaker 01

  I don't work!

• 57:20Speaker 03

  I don't work.

• 57:22Speaker 00

  All of that, I just feel like has gotten sweeter over time.

• 57:25Speaker 03

  They said that, so apparently, cause NASCAR was very-

• 57:27Speaker 01

  That's good, baby, I like it. I love when she's like pep talking when they're talking shit. It's so good.

• 57:33Speaker 03

  With NASCAR, I guess, cause NASCAR was very involved in the making of this movie, and I guess the head of NASCAR basically was in the test screening, and no one would laugh until he laughed, like it was like, you know, like Stalin Rush or something, and then the, the, the wife thing, where he's like, "I'm a race, I'm a driver's wife, I don't work," and he busts out laughing, and then everyone else was like, "A lot of laugh."

• 57:50Speaker 01

  Apparently that was like a big sort of inside joke, inside like the NASCAR community, is like there's a lot of gold diggers.

• 57:56Speaker 00

  I mean, is that, I feel like across

• 57:57Speaker 01

  Probably a lot of sports, but yeah. A lot of gold diggers and a lot of crazy ass kids.

• 58:02Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 58:03Speaker 01

  Is what I heard, what I read.

• 58:04Speaker 00

  Walker in Texas Ranger?

• 58:05Speaker 01

  My beautiful sons, Walker.

• 58:07Speaker 00

  Um, what do you guys have? Hyphens?

• 58:10Speaker 03

  Uh, what's aged the best? I have Ricky trademarking, if you ain't first or last, and literally saying to the camera, if you ain't first or last, and also that is a trademark phrase, you are not allowed to use that. Like, watching that three weeks after Jaden Daniels said, you can't use my

• 58:23Speaker 01

  This is what I said too.

• 58:24Speaker 03

  Like, this is incredible.

• 58:25Speaker 01

  I was like, the very blatant, like, marketing and

• 58:28Speaker 00

  This movie's fucking great about marketing. They understand it.

• 58:31Speaker 01

  Applebee's commercial during a crash?

• 58:32Speaker 03

  That was the other one.

• 58:33Speaker 01

  Fucking great.

• 58:34Speaker 03

  The dude, literally the Apple

• 58:35Speaker 01

  It's like what Craig does. Yeah, like when someone's like in football, someone's writhing in pain.

• 58:39Speaker 00

  Cause their leg just snapped in half and it's like, two for one anetizers, quesadillas.

• 58:44Speaker 03

  I almost couldn't believe that that had happened, cause we've been joking about that. That was like four NFC championship games ago.

• 58:49Speaker 00

  And it's like, the new chicken finger crunch sandwich, nineteen ninety-nine.

• 58:53Speaker 01

  All right, we're back.

• 58:55Speaker 00

  Oh, my way! That's great.

• 58:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's so good. Um, the, the really PC track announcer somehow has, it's, uh, it's aged well, when he's like, ladies and gentlemen, that is a new track record as it stands now. Jean Gerard is sitting on the pole, which is a statement of fact and is no way a comment on the driver's sexual orientation.

• 59:15Speaker 00

  He also has a line that I missed, where he goes, he goes, the Wonder Bread, the Wonder Bread is toast. When he, when he, uh, crashes, I missed that.

• 59:22Speaker 01

  Oh, I never, I didn't even notice that one.

• 59:24Speaker 00

  Yeah, the Wonder Bread car is toast.

• 59:25Speaker 03

  The other one I had of what's aged the best is Rick saying, oh no, nobody can live forever, but I mean, with modern technology and advances in science, I think I can make it two forty-five, three hundred years old, no problem.

• 59:39Speaker 00

  Is the funniest number you've ever seen.

• 59:40Speaker 01

  Craig's saying he can go three for five from three at an NBA game.

• 59:43Speaker 00

  If I'm, if I'm in a corner, corner spot.

• 59:46Speaker 01

  Three for five?

• 59:46Speaker 00

  Planted, no one around me, easy money.

• 59:48Speaker 01

  Feet set.

• 59:49Speaker 03

  Famously how NBA games work. But I will say Brian Johnson's just trying to do this now.

• 59:53Speaker 00

  That's right. Well, now he's trying to dunk. He went from, I want to live forever to, I'd love to dunk.

• 59:57Speaker 01

  He's setting, he's taking the bar down a little bit.

• 1:00:01Speaker 00

  Well, I can't live to two hundred, so maybe I'll just try to have a forty-three inch vertical.

• 1:00:04Speaker 03

  He's realizing that if he doesn't get it in now, it's just not gonna happen.

• 1:00:07Speaker 00

  Um, you have any more?

• 1:00:11Speaker 01

  I had some ones that we already talked about, like the, the post-race interview thing was, I just think it's so good.

• 1:00:17Speaker 00

  Uh, Big Kahuna Burger Award, best use of food or drink. We could go crepes, we could go big red gum, we go dinner scene with, with all the takeout.

• 1:00:26Speaker 01

  Laughing Clown malt liquor. Uh, this is like one of those like sort of things they don't really like mention during the show, but he's got, his car is sponsored by Laughing Clown malt liquor. And then later his dad is drinking a can of laughing can.

• 1:00:40Speaker 00

  He's drinking that tall boy, that black can, the whole movie.

• 1:00:42Speaker 01

  That's, I think that's Laughing Clown malt liquor.

• 1:00:44Speaker 00

  Yeah, always with the tall can, the tall boy's so good.

• 1:00:47Speaker 03

  I wanted to do the dinner scene for this, but the truth is, they don't eat and you don't see any of the food, so I don't know if that's a violation of this category.

• 1:00:54Speaker 00

  Eh, it's fine.

• 1:00:54Speaker 01

  Does twenty kilos of Colombian bam bam work as?

• 1:00:57Speaker 00

  Oh, the Lucky Charms.

• 1:00:58Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 1:00:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:00:59Speaker 03

  The other, the only one I want to throw out.

• 1:01:01Speaker 01

  Don't snort these.

• 1:01:02Speaker 03

  The part that gets me is every time when he's like drinking the coffee during driving and he's like, you spilled my maciato.

• 1:01:08Speaker 00

  Maciato. I think it's the Lucky Charms, I think that's a good call.

• 1:01:12Speaker 01

  All right, cool.

• 1:01:13Speaker 00

  Uh, Great Shot Gordo Award, most cinematic shot. There's one crane shot that is pretty cool on top of the racetrack where the cars are going, and a crane literally swoops down over all the cars and goes into the, the driver's seat with Ricky. That I thought was really impressive.

• 1:01:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's good. I mean, I thought like the long crash where they're, they're tumbling in slow motion and you can like see there's a fire happening in like the engine block and it, as it's spinning and, and

• 1:01:37Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:01:37Speaker 01

  There's also an earlier one where he's like, oh, I'm flying through the air, this is not good.

• 1:01:42Speaker 03

  This is not good.

• 1:01:43Speaker 01

  Um, there's also just cinematography making me want to be at a NASCAR race. There's a scene at that, where they're kind of like introducing the race. And I think they're doing like the start of the flag and then they do like a flyby with like four fighter jets. I'm like, fuck, that might actually be really fun to go to one of these.

• 1:01:59Speaker 00

  Have you ever been to a NASCAR event?

• 1:02:00Speaker 01

  I haven't. Sitting on top of an RV in like the middle of the race on a little lawn chairs. I'm like, I'll try that. I'll do that.

• 1:02:08Speaker 03

  Uh, I have not been to a NASCAR event. I snuck into the Monaco Grand Prix.

• 1:02:13Speaker 01

  Oh, that's right.

• 1:02:13Speaker 03

  Last year, and I watched it and I

• 1:02:15Speaker 00

  Fucking James Bond.

• 1:02:16Speaker 03

  The only person in the world who made money on it, cause then I went to the Monte Carlo and I, I won twenty-five bucks and offset my twenty-two dollars on trains. And, uh,

• 1:02:24Speaker 00

  Playing what?

• 1:02:24Speaker 01

  You won twenty-five bucks?

• 1:02:26Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 1:02:27Speaker 03

  It was a great day. But the number one thing though is, those cars are so fucking loud.

• 1:02:32Speaker 00

  Twenty-five bucks, he's like, he's great.

• 1:02:34Speaker 03

  I made money on it, you know, don't ask how much, it was a dollar, it was a zero ninety.

• 1:02:38Speaker 01

  You broke even.

• 1:02:38Speaker 03

  But you walk out, the cars are so loud, like unbelievably loud. And everyone's like, yeah, they're so quiet now, but no, that's always the thing. The NASCAR, it is an experience. I mean, the biggest sporting event in America is the Indy five hundred.

• 1:02:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:02:50Speaker 03

  You have like over a hundred, you have, I think two hundred thousand people go to the Indy five hundred.

• 1:02:53Speaker 01

  It looks pretty fun.

• 1:02:55Speaker 00

  Chad Rockwell, Brock Lander's Award, best character name. I, I, I don't think we tried to get to it.

• 1:03:00Speaker 01

  Where do we even start with this?

• 1:03:01Speaker 00

  I think it's Ricky Bobby. I think we just, we keep it simple.

• 1:03:04Speaker 01

  More than Walker and Texas Ranger?

• 1:03:06Speaker 00

  Ricky Bobby is the most iconic.

• 1:03:08Speaker 01

  No, it's right, you're right.

• 1:03:09Speaker 00

  I mean, it's, it's

• 1:03:10Speaker 03

  Relative to, like, yeah, the Texas TR Ranger is a funny joke in the movie, but relative to, this is the name of a character of the star of the movie, of the star of the decade, and it's in the title. Where does Ricky Bobby rank among the best names of any characters ever had?

• 1:03:26Speaker 00

  Good question. Is it better, well, the, the real question is, is it a better name than Ron Burgundy?

• 1:03:31Speaker 01

  Yeah. Ricky Bobby. Have you ever met anyone with last name Bobby?

• 1:03:37Speaker 00

  You ever met anyone with last name Burgundy?

• 1:03:39Speaker 01

  Well, fair. I don't know.

• 1:03:42Speaker 00

  Ron Burgundy or Ricky Bobby?

• 1:03:45Speaker 01

  I'm going Ricky Bobby.

• 1:03:47Speaker 03

  I

• 1:03:47Speaker 00

  I'm Ron Burgundy, you stay classy, San Diego.

• 1:03:50Speaker 03

  Ron Burgundy, I just laugh because I think of him as Ron Burgundy, but Ricky Bobby is also just kind of funny in its own.

• 1:03:56Speaker 00

  Which name do you think is more famous?

• 1:03:59Speaker 03

  I think Ron Burg, I don't know. I think it's Ron Burgundy, yeah. I think it has to be.

• 1:04:03Speaker 01

  Which movie had, which one made more?

• 1:04:06Speaker 00

  They were similar. I think, I think Talladega made more.

• 1:04:09Speaker 03

  On this note, I wanted

• 1:04:10Speaker 00

  The same title thing you're talking about, Anchorman is not called Anchorman. Anchorman is the legend, Anchorman, colon, the legend of Ron Burgundy.

• 1:04:16Speaker 03

  I was gonna ask you about this.

• 1:04:17Speaker 00

  Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

• 1:04:18Speaker 03

  Do you think they had to call it Ballad because they had just done Legend of Ron Burgundy? And they're like, what's another legend-like name?

• 1:04:24Speaker 00

  That, honestly, that's a two thousand and six thing, is titling movies like this.

• 1:04:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:04:28Speaker 00

  What's like one word, colon, the blank of the blank. It's like Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, things like that.

• 1:04:36Speaker 00

  Wow, it's a good question though. It's kind of an unanswerable question, Ricky Bobby or Ron Burgundy? I don't know. We should put a poll up on Instagram, on the Rewatchable's Instagram, have people vote, I'm curious. Um, Kid Cudi Pursuit of Happiness Award, best needle drop. I have four that I loved. I have King of the Road to start the movie, which is wonderful, the opening scene when he's giving birth. Uh, Paint It Black in French.

• 1:04:59Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:05:00Speaker 00

  When Jean Gerard's taking off. Faithfully by Journey, when they're in the bar, Amy Adams and Will Ferrell, and they're, and they're about to get it on. And then at the very end, TNT, when they, when they initiate the slingshot and Cal Naughton is back in Ricky's side. I like Faithfully.

• 1:05:15Speaker 01

  That's interesting. I have two others.

• 1:05:16Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:05:17Speaker 01

  I mean, all those are great, first off. Uh, Audio Slave, Cochise, early in the, in the, I think it was like the, the first montage of him racing and like starting to get great at it or whatever.

• 1:05:30Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:05:31Speaker 01

  If you know that song, you recognize it, it's just like a kick ass, like riff. And then, I didn't know who this was by, but Saliva with Click Click Boom?

• 1:05:41Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:05:41Speaker 03

  Click, click, boom!

• 1:05:43Speaker 01

  And it's like, he's, that's like what he's like shifting.

• 1:05:45Speaker 03

  That's like a classic Need for Speed song. That would be on every soundtrack, every racing video game.

• 1:05:49Speaker 01

  Click, boom!

• 1:05:50Speaker 03

  I, I think my takeaway from that cat, this category though, this soundtrack was like shockingly good.

• 1:05:54Speaker 01

  What's the final song too, like We Belong to?

• 1:05:57Speaker 00

  We belong to

• 1:05:59Speaker 01

  We belong to each other. We belong. That song is like a, a choice.

• 1:06:06Speaker 03

  That one is, I did a Westworld pod.

• 1:06:08Speaker 00

  It's Benatar.

• 1:06:09Speaker 03

  I did a Westworld pod and I really wanted it to be the Paint It Black in French, but I actually think that song is the answer.

• 1:06:15Speaker 00

  What, the We Belong?

• 1:06:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, I kind of think that is the best needle drop of the movie. Cause you have to nail that song.

• 1:06:20Speaker 01

  Perfect choice.

• 1:06:20Speaker 00

  It is good.

• 1:06:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:06:21Speaker 03

  People like, like the ending of this movie and this song is pretty important to the ending.

• 1:06:25Speaker 00

  Uh, is there a better, a better title for this movie? Uh, so in the research, it says during development, NASCAR didn't like the name, they wanted to change it. It was gonna be, uh, High, Wide and Handsome?

• 1:06:36Speaker 03

  I was gonna ask you.

• 1:06:37Speaker 00

  It's a terrible name.

• 1:06:38Speaker 03

  Why was that, they don't even, that's not even a line in the movie.

• 1:06:41Speaker 00

  Maybe it would have been, or maybe it was a scene that got cut, I don't know, but

• 1:06:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:06:44Speaker 00

  That's not a good name. Talladega Nights is, I think, a fantastic.

• 1:06:47Speaker 01

  I think Talladega Nights is, you don't want to mess with that.

• 1:06:49Speaker 03

  Was that the name? Or, cause I think the kid who plays TR was saying that like, oh, all the chairs and everything on the set said.

• 1:06:55Speaker 01

  Stop saying TR.

• 1:06:56Speaker 03

  TR. Texas Ranger, sorry, it's his government name, Texas Ranger.

• 1:07:00Speaker 01

  I'm surprised Chuck Norris wasn't in this movie.

• 1:07:03Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:07:03Speaker 01

  Could they not get him?

• 1:07:04Speaker 03

  Just a dodgeball. I don't know.

• 1:07:05Speaker 00

  I know, how could they not get him?

• 1:07:06Speaker 03

  They had just done the fuck you Chuck Norris in Dodgeball, you can't just run back Chuck Norris.

• 1:07:10Speaker 01

  They did though, it was Texas Walker and Texas Ranger.

• 1:07:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, but you can't get him in the movie, he was just in a movie at the end of a movie. I think my question is, do you think that was like the project code name for the movie? Or they actually were gonna call it High, Wide and Handsome?

• 1:07:23Speaker 00

  It's, it says they were gonna call it that.

• 1:07:25Speaker 03

  The other thing they were gonna call it apparently was Red, White and Racing.

• 1:07:29Speaker 00

  It's not, it's not bad. I guess.

• 1:07:32Speaker 01

  I like Talladega Nights.

• 1:07:33Speaker 03

  I think Talladega Nights is

• 1:07:34Speaker 01

  Talladega Nights, I mean, this is maybe an obvious question, is it a play on Days of Thunder?

• 1:07:39Speaker 00

  Well, I, I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder. John C. Reilly in Days of Thunder.

• 1:07:45Speaker 01

  In Days of Thunder.

• 1:07:45Speaker 03

  Yes. Well, I feel like that was the big thing. I feel like that's the reason I might be stepping on a caddy.

• 1:07:51Speaker 00

  They're making it again, Days of Thunder two.

• 1:07:52Speaker 01

  Oh, he really?

• 1:07:53Speaker 00

  They, they just announced it.

• 1:07:54Speaker 03

  Oh, wow.

• 1:07:54Speaker 00

  Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway.

• 1:07:56Speaker 01

  Wow. Is he gonna be Dick Trickle?

• 1:07:59Speaker 00

  Huh?

• 1:08:00Speaker 01

  Isn't that his name in the movie?

• 1:08:02Speaker 00

  Tom Cruise?

• 1:08:03Speaker 01

  Wait, one of, one of his, one of the people in that movie.

• 1:08:06Speaker 00

  Let's, let's look it up live on air. Cole Trickle.

• 1:08:10Speaker 01

  Cole Trickle.

• 1:08:11Speaker 00

  Dick Trickle.

• 1:08:12Speaker 03

  There is a race car driver named Dick Trickle. He's not lying. There is a Dick Trickle.

• 1:08:16Speaker 01

  There's no connection. Okay. Dick Trickle.

• 1:08:20Speaker 00

  Your head was just in the gutter.

• 1:08:21Speaker 03

  Dick Trickle.

• 1:08:23Speaker 01

  That's an all time name.

• 1:08:24Speaker 00

  All right, DK.

• 1:08:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:08:26Speaker 00

  You have a flex category.

• 1:08:28Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I went with the I used to fuck guys like you in prison award for craziest quote.

• 1:08:34Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:08:35Speaker 01

  Also, I looked that up. That's from Roadhouse. It's fucking great.

• 1:08:39Speaker 00

  Dude, that is an insane line. It's so serious. He's like in his ear. I used to fuck guys like you in prison. Holy shit.

• 1:08:46Speaker 03

  It's actually insane. It's the craziest line in any movie.

• 1:08:50Speaker 00

  And then he rips that guy's throat out. Anyway, the eighties were the best.

• 1:08:54Speaker 01

  Craziest quote? I mean, this is a comedy, so there's gonna be a million funny quotes, but like to me, are we about to get it on? Because I'm about as hard as a diamond in an ice storm right now is something I say all the time. I'm about as hard as a diamond in an ice storm right now.

• 1:09:07Speaker 00

  You say that all the time?

• 1:09:08Speaker 01

  Yeah. I do.

• 1:09:10Speaker 00

  I love that her name is Susan.

• 1:09:11Speaker 01

  Susan. Suzie, you might be the weirdest little girl I've ever met.

• 1:09:17Speaker 00

  Carly and Susan. I could have used another scene.

• 1:09:20Speaker 01

  Stop staring at me. You're the weirdest.

• 1:09:21Speaker 03

  Weirdest little girl.

• 1:09:22Speaker 00

  I could have used another scene of Carly and Susan.

• 1:09:25Speaker 01

  Um, the other one that I thought was great was, uh, Gary Cole, the grandpa, talking to the kids. He goes, shut up, you pot liquor. I'll put you in a microwave.

• 1:09:33Speaker 00

  I'll put you in a microwave.

• 1:09:34Speaker 01

  Put you in a microwave.

• 1:09:36Speaker 00

  That was fucking great.

• 1:09:37Speaker 01

  Also, he had another great line late in the movie when he is introduced to Suzie for the first time, Susan, for the first time. And he's like, I'm, I'm his lady. We had sex. He's like, is that right? He's like, well, I wish I could have been there for that.

• 1:09:52Speaker 01

  I think Reese Bobby is maybe one of my favorite characters.

• 1:09:55Speaker 00

  Also, another great name, Reese Bobby. Reese Bobby. Um, all right. Butch's girlfriend award, weak link of the film. I don't typically like to do this, but I don't, I don't, I don't have anything. Do you?

• 1:10:06Speaker 01

  I think if it, if it was just like a quibble.

• 1:10:08Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:10:10Speaker 01

  Sacha Baron Cohen's accent is just like too much.

• 1:10:13Speaker 00

  Too French.

• 1:10:14Speaker 01

  Too, it's like, it takes him too long to say anything. I thought he did. I, I thought he had a chance to be funnier in this movie. If he could have just like talked a little more normally. It was like, it felt like he was, his whole mouth was numbed with Novocain. It took him forever to get it out, any word.

• 1:10:28Speaker 03

  You sounded like a dog with peanut butter on your mouth.

• 1:10:31Speaker 01

  I, I don't know. I just thought he could have been funnier, honestly. And so I thought his accent, like the way that it kind of limited what he could do.

• 1:10:37Speaker 00

  He goes like very deep into the character.

• 1:10:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:10:40Speaker 00

  More than he is trying to be like big and broadly funny.

• 1:10:42Speaker 03

  I am from formula, uh.

• 1:10:44Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:10:47Speaker 01

  I don't know. They're like, the, the scenes where they, they kind of get in tight talking with him and Ricky Bobby and he's like, I just love the way that Ricky Bobby is like so dismissive of. He's like, all right. He's like, and next there is war. And, and Ricky Bobby's just like, all right.

• 1:11:04Speaker 00

  When, when they're like nose to nose and they're just like, I play for keeps. I play for keeps.

• 1:11:10Speaker 00

  Okay. What's age of the worst? I have, th- this is like a half age of the worst, but there are a lot of cultural references that I have no idea what they're talking about.

• 1:11:19Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah?

• 1:11:20Speaker 00

  And I actually, it, it's tricky what's age the worst because I actually think comedy should be doing this. I think references in the moment are good for comedies. And I know you're trying to like play to the whole world now, so you don't want to do that as much, but I like it.

• 1:11:33Speaker 01

  What, what were the, what were some examples, you know?

• 1:11:36Speaker 00

  In two thousand and six, when Car- when Carly's like, if we, if we want a couple of wussies, we would have named him Dr. Quinn and Medicine Woman.

• 1:11:43Speaker 03

  I never.

• 1:11:43Speaker 00

  I have no idea what that, like that's a.

• 1:11:45Speaker 03

  Google that today.

• 1:11:46Speaker 00

  A show from the nineties about, it's about a, a, a female physician from Boston who moves to a rugged frontier town in the eighteen sixties. It's a funny joke, but like I have no idea what that is. Like Rue, Rue McClanahan from Golden Girls.

• 1:12:00Speaker 01

  Oh, come on. Classic.

• 1:12:02Speaker 03

  Guy.

• 1:12:03Speaker 01

  Classic.

• 1:12:03Speaker 00

  The movie Highlander is referenced. It won the.

• 1:12:06Speaker 01

  That can be only one.

• 1:12:07Speaker 03

  It was shit.

• 1:12:08Speaker 00

  It was shit.

• 1:12:11Speaker 00

  It won the Academy for, award. For what? Best movie ever? Well, like, like, again, these are, I, I like when movies do this, but Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer, people watch now, they probably don't know what that means. Yasmin Bleach's skirt.

• 1:12:24Speaker 01

  Love that.

• 1:12:25Speaker 00

  I had no idea what that meant. So it's like, it has literally aged the worst because I think a lot of people who watch it now have no idea what they're talking about. But I personally like when movies do that. I also watched the trailer for Highlander. Have you guys seen that movie?

• 1:12:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:12:37Speaker 03

  I have not.

• 1:12:38Speaker 00

  Looks really bad.

• 1:12:39Speaker 01

  It's like a, it's, it's a really bad, it's a really good bad movie.

• 1:12:43Speaker 00

  It's about an immortal Scottish swordsman who lives in modern New York City and has to fight another.

• 1:12:48Speaker 03

  That can be only one. I've seen that scene.

• 1:12:52Speaker 00

  I do love, I watched the Highlander movie. It was shit. That was DK about Transformers. I watched the Transformers movie. It was shit.

• 1:13:01Speaker 01

  Like smoking one of those long cigarettes.

• 1:13:03Speaker 03

  You literally say you watched Kingpin. You were like, I don't know.

• 1:13:06Speaker 00

  I love that they can, I love that they can communicate while driving. They can just hear each other.

• 1:13:10Speaker 01

  They're just talking to each other.

• 1:13:10Speaker 00

  It was shit.

• 1:13:12Speaker 03

  Screaming out the window.

• 1:13:13Speaker 00

  Um, the homophobic humor, obviously.

• 1:13:16Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:13:17Speaker 00

  Was two thousand and six and would never play now. Um, what else do you guys have? Anything?

• 1:13:22Speaker 01

  I had that, uh, you know, the scene where the grandmother takes in the two kids and they're out of control and she talks about, this is granny law. And granny law just involves hitting the kids. She like slaps them to straighten them out.

• 1:13:36Speaker 00

  Oh, interesting. You think the soft parents of twenty twenty six would not.

• 1:13:40Speaker 01

  Just saying it didn't age well. Hitting kids didn't age well.

• 1:13:43Speaker 00

  Those kids are little devils.

• 1:13:44Speaker 03

  Those kids, they literally sprayed water for their guys' face.

• 1:13:47Speaker 01

  So just so we're clear, you guys are defending hitting children.

• 1:13:50Speaker 00

  Look, everybody has their own, whatever you want to do. That's within reason. I don't know.

• 1:13:54Speaker 01

  Within reason. All right. I'm just saying it aged poorly.

• 1:13:57Speaker 00

  She gave him like one slap.

• 1:13:58Speaker 01

  I know. It was, this is a joke. Give me a break.

• 1:14:01Speaker 03

  Your joke is factually correct.

• 1:14:04Speaker 01

  Uh, Cal talking about how Carly was unconscious every time they've had sex.

• 1:14:08Speaker 00

  You, you know what?

• 1:14:09Speaker 01

  I don't know what that meant.

• 1:14:10Speaker 00

  I don't know why that was in there. Didn't need to be there. I don't think they needed to mention them having sex. That was very odd. I agree.

• 1:14:17Speaker 01

  That's all I got.

• 1:14:18Speaker 03

  I, I mean, the cougar's named Karen.

• 1:14:20Speaker 01

  I know. That aged well.

• 1:14:21Speaker 03

  That, that name has aged. Well, just that name, you know.

• 1:14:24Speaker 00

  Down Karen.

• 1:14:25Speaker 01

  Karen.

• 1:14:26Speaker 03

  Cougar just named Karen.

• 1:14:29Speaker 00

  Uh, is that all you got?

• 1:14:31Speaker 03

  I don't, yeah. No, I mean, I think you guys said it.

• 1:14:33Speaker 00

  All right. The Ruffalo Hannah Rubinek Partridge Award for overacting.

• 1:14:40Speaker 00

  It's a comedy.

• 1:14:41Speaker 01

  Comedy, yeah.

• 1:14:41Speaker 00

  Like Molly Shannon is like fucking going for it, but I would argue it works, but she is.

• 1:14:46Speaker 03

  What, what do you reference?

• 1:14:47Speaker 01

  She's one of the highlights of the movie.

• 1:14:48Speaker 03

  What, what are you talking, I, I don't remember what you're talking about. DK, can you remind us?

• 1:14:53Speaker 01

  Where did I have that? Cause I want to make sure. She, she was my Dion Waiters. She just fucking goes for it.

• 1:14:58Speaker 00

  You're getting ahead of the categories.

• 1:15:00Speaker 01

  Yeah. Well, that's, that's his fault.

• 1:15:02Speaker 00

  He wanted you to do the quote.

• 1:15:02Speaker 03

  Do the goddamn thing.

• 1:15:04Speaker 01

  I know. I was waiting, but I'll try. I'll say, hold on. Okay. So.

• 1:15:07Speaker 03

  The overacting award.

• 1:15:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:15:09Speaker 01

  She, uh, she's drunk in every scene.

• 1:15:11Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:15:12Speaker 01

  She's belittling her husband's career choice. He's like, this is my life. She's, she goes.

• 1:15:18Speaker 03

  Who cares?

• 1:15:18Speaker 01

  Who cares? He's like, I will, I will tell you the one thing about coming to these races, the vibrations of the cars. Woo! I just love, she's like shaking. Win those cars. Whiz-bah! I realize I've been saying it wrong. It's whiz-bah.

• 1:15:37Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 1:15:38Speaker 01

  Which is great. Feel the motor running up my legs.

• 1:15:43Speaker 00

  Larry Dennett's like looking around, hoping nobody is watching.

• 1:15:46Speaker 01

  I like the silverware clattering.

• 1:15:50Speaker 01

  Feel the motor.

• 1:15:51Speaker 00

  Uh, okay. Hi Fitz, you have a flex.

• 1:15:53Speaker 03

  So I realized that the flex categories, I, uh, copied and pasted your email wrong. And there's like thirty more that I realized.

• 1:15:59Speaker 00

  Good.

• 1:16:00Speaker 03

  So I'm, I was like, oh, I thought there were more of these. So can I, can I, can I crowd it? Can I pool now?

• 1:16:06Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 1:16:06Speaker 03

  Cause I was kind of like, why weren't there more of these?

• 1:16:08Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 1:16:09Speaker 03

  Uh, I just found this out.

• 1:16:11Speaker 00

  What did you have before that?

• 1:16:12Speaker 03

  Before I had, I was, I was like, well, I was gonna be like a race, like a racehorse name.

• 1:16:18Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:16:19Speaker 03

  But I also just only found the first seven and I saw that there were three more pages of flex categories. I like how there's, there's a whole smoking subcategories.

• 1:16:27Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah, sure. Of course.

• 1:16:28Speaker 03

  Smoking. Should we take this opportunity while Bill's not here to just go through these flex categories?

• 1:16:33Speaker 00

  There's like forty.

• 1:16:34Speaker 03

  I know. I realized that.

• 1:16:35Speaker 00

  No, we're not gonna go through forty categories.

• 1:16:38Speaker 03

  The.

• 1:16:39Speaker 00

  We could skip it.

• 1:16:40Speaker 03

  No, I don't want, no, I can't skip my flex category.

• 1:16:43Speaker 00

  I know. This is a disaster for you.

• 1:16:45Speaker 03

  No, I know it is.

• 1:16:48Speaker 01

  What are some of your favorites, Craig?

• 1:16:50Speaker 00

  Um, I, the, the Sean fantasy, uh, stealth movie homage that, that gives you a criteria orgasm. I don't even, this probably isn't referencing this, but there's a scene when Ricky Bobby signs a woman's chest.

• 1:17:03Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 1:17:03Speaker 00

  And it's exactly like Happy Gilmore when he signs the woman's chest.

• 1:17:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:17:07Speaker 00

  And I wonder if that is referencing that movie.

• 1:17:10Speaker 01

  That's a good one.

• 1:17:11Speaker 00

  Yeah. I think it says nothing.

• 1:17:13Speaker 01

  The Sean, the Sean.

• 1:17:14Speaker 03

  My bad.

• 1:17:14Speaker 01

  The Sean Penn, I brought my own pack award, excellence in on-screen smoking.

• 1:17:21Speaker 01

  That just makes me laugh as, as a scene. Did you, did you think that, did you think that Jean Girard was good at smoking the little petite long cigarette? I felt like he, I felt like he didn't do a great job.

• 1:17:31Speaker 00

  Five out of ten.

• 1:17:31Speaker 03

  It was a bad cigarette.

• 1:17:33Speaker 01

  So that would be the Tom Cruise, which end do I light award?

• 1:17:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:17:36Speaker 01

  For terrible on-screen smoking.

• 1:17:37Speaker 00

  That's right. There you go.

• 1:17:38Speaker 03

  I wanted to ask the question about what exactly the it's a book about metals award, award was.

• 1:17:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:17:43Speaker 03

  Which was, is that just like when you re-watch it, you're like, oh, they're setting something up. It's supposed to be a plot or it's rewarding or it's just a quote that's good later?

• 1:17:49Speaker 00

  It's, it's a, a quote that didn't stand out the first time you watched it, but upon the twentieth viewing, you're like, oh, that line's actually great.

• 1:17:56Speaker 03

  I want to give it to is psychosomatic.

• 1:17:58Speaker 00

  There you go.

• 1:17:59Speaker 03

  You can start a fire.

• 1:18:00Speaker 00

  With your thoughts.

• 1:18:01Speaker 03

  Thoughts.

• 1:18:02Speaker 00

  Great one. Uh, okay. Actually, let's take.

• 1:18:05Speaker 03

  Wait. The other one I have, the best name for a racehorse. We talked about Ricky Bobby, but you know, it has not come up in this episode yet.

• 1:18:12Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 1:18:14Speaker 03

  A little bit of shake?

• 1:18:16Speaker 01

  That's actually shocking.

• 1:18:17Speaker 03

  Anybody?

• 1:18:19Speaker 00

  Shake and bake is good.

• 1:18:20Speaker 01

  Is that a catchphrase or epilepsy?

• 1:18:22Speaker 03

  Shake and bake, shake and bake.

• 1:18:24Speaker 00

  What does that, what does that mean?

• 1:18:26Speaker 03

  What does it mean?

• 1:18:27Speaker 00

  Uh, great one.

• 1:18:29Speaker 03

  I kinda think a horse named Shake and Bake.

• 1:18:30Speaker 01

  How did we not say Shake and Bake?

• 1:18:31Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 1:18:32Speaker 00

  Or the magic man.

• 1:18:32Speaker 01

  That's fucking crazy.

• 1:18:34Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:18:34Speaker 01

  It's like, I'm going with El Diablo. What's that? Uh, it's like a fighting chicken or something.

• 1:18:40Speaker 00

  That's awesome.

• 1:18:43Speaker 01

  They love each other so much.

• 1:18:46Speaker 00

  Uh, all right, we'll take a break and then we'll be back with the hottest take.

• 1:18:50Bill Simmons?

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• 1:20:05Speaker 00

  The CR thinks Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford. Hottest take award. DK, you got one?

• 1:20:12Speaker 01

  I think we should start a NASCAR pod.

• 1:20:15Speaker 00

  The three of us?

• 1:20:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:20:16Speaker 00

  Really?

• 1:20:18Speaker 01

  Get into it. Start now.

• 1:20:20Speaker 00

  You just wanna feel the vibrations.

• 1:20:22Speaker 01

  I wanna go to a fucking race.

• 1:20:23Speaker 00

  You just wanna get drunk and watch NASCAR.

• 1:20:26Speaker 01

  Kinda.

• 1:20:26Speaker 00

  And vibrate in your chair.

• 1:20:27Speaker 01

  Laughing clown malt liquor.

• 1:20:29Speaker 03

  What's a laughing clown malt liquor?

• 1:20:30Speaker 00

  Wait, what is, why is this a hot take? You wanna start a NASCAR pod?

• 1:20:33Speaker 03

  You just wanna watch NASCAR.

• 1:20:34Speaker 01

  I'm like, maybe NASCAR.

• 1:20:35Speaker 03

  You can turn it on.

• 1:20:36Speaker 01

  The hot take, there is no hot take really, I guess. It's just that NASCAR is actually way better than I thought.

• 1:20:41Speaker 00

  Oh, interesting.

• 1:20:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:20:42Speaker 00

  Okay. You're gonna start getting into it? Have you ever watched a NASCAR race?

• 1:20:45Speaker 01

  I have actually watched NASCAR back in the day.

• 1:20:47Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:20:48Speaker 01

  It's kinda crazy to actually go like 500 miles. I, that's insane to me. But yeah, it is kinda fun to watch.

• 1:20:56Speaker 00

  All right. I have, it's tough to follow that.

• 1:21:00Speaker 03

  I wanna watch a NASCAR race.

• 1:21:03Speaker 03

  Uh, my hottest take, this is the funniest sports movie.

• 1:21:06Speaker 00

  Ever made?

• 1:21:07Speaker 03

  Yes. Like, period. I mean, if you wanna be like Caddyshack, sure, but 20% you can draw the line, but I think we all love Happy Gilmore, but I actually think if you show someone Happy Gilmore now and they're 40, it might not be that funny. This movie holds up. You didn't just have to be 11 years old to see this the first time. I think this is my favorite and the funniest sports movie.

• 1:21:25Speaker 00

  Waterboy, we have Kingpin, Longest Yard, Caddyshack. We have the other Will Ferrell movies, Blades of Glory, Kicking and Screaming, Semi-Pro.

• 1:21:35Speaker 01

  I think second is, it's locked in at second. I would not put it above Happy Gilmore.

• 1:21:42Speaker 00

  I think it's more universally loved than Happy Gilmore, and I think it's probably an easier, an easier sell to somebody. I think if I had to show Happy Gilmore or Talladega to somebody who hasn't seen either, I would be more confident that Talladega would hit.

• 1:21:54Speaker 03

  I think Adam Sandler is a lot like Jim Carrey in that whatever you saw before your brain was sealed at like 21 years old is forever. But after that, it's just hard to break in. And I, we were watching this, I was just like, this movie, every part about it is still incredible.

• 1:22:09Speaker 00

  Dodgeball, also there.

• 1:22:10Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:22:11Speaker 00

  Um, that's a good one. My hot take is that this movie has aged better than Anchorman.

• 1:22:16Speaker 00

  I think it has. I think the humor in Anchorman.

• 1:22:21Speaker 01

  It's like very that era.

• 1:22:22Speaker 00

  Is more esoteric, yeah, and more specific to that era than Talladega Nights, which I think plays way better now. And I think Anchorman is a much more famous movie. I think looking back on it is more beloved, but to be honest, I think if I go back and I watch Talladega versus Anchorman, I am, I like Anchorman because of my memories of watching it and the humor at the time and the jokes I would make as a 12-year-old. But I think Talladega right now is funnier than Anchorman right now, I think.

• 1:22:48Speaker 03

  I agree with that.

• 1:22:49Speaker 01

  I don't, but that's why it's a good take.

• 1:22:51Speaker 00

  Like, I, I think a lot of Anchorman is like, it's that like really kinda dry, Ron Burgundy improvised sarcasm.

• 1:22:58Speaker 03

  Real bits of Panther, like shit like that.

• 1:22:59Speaker 00

  Yes. 60% of the time, every time.

• 1:23:03Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:23:03Speaker 00

  Um, I don't know, I, I think this, this humor is bigger and more universal, and I think it holds better.

• 1:23:10Speaker 03

  I don't disagree. I always thought I was biased because I saw Talladega before Anchorman, and I just feel like my friends quote Anchorman or Talladega more, and so I was biased, but I, I do agree with that.

• 1:23:19Speaker 00

  I think there's a chance, if I show Anchorman to like a 20-year-old right now versus Talladega, I think there's a better chance that Anchorman falls flatter than Talladega.

• 1:23:27Speaker 01

  I kinda, I kinda see what you're saying.

• 1:23:28Speaker 00

  That's my hot take.

• 1:23:29Speaker 01

  Here's, here's a half-baked hot take that I just thought of while we were talking, and this might not even be close to right, but I'm gonna throw it out there. Do you, while watching this movie, did you ever get the impression, I kind of felt this a little bit, that it felt like it was too high budget? Like, sometimes I want my comedies to be a little bit.

• 1:23:46Speaker 00

  A little janky.

• 1:23:47Speaker 01

  Low budget and campy and use physical comedy more than special effects and explosions and races and things like that. I did kind of have the thought when I was watching, and I was like, this feels like too Hollywood.

• 1:23:59Speaker 00

  Too glossy.

• 1:23:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, this feels too big.

• 1:24:01Speaker 00

  Interesting.

• 1:24:01Speaker 01

  And I think sometimes comedies hit harder when they're low budget.

• 1:24:07Speaker 00

  When it feels like Friends making it in the backyard.

• 1:24:09Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:24:09Speaker 00

  Which like Happy Gilmore feels a little bit more ragtag.

• 1:24:13Speaker 01

  But there's, the, the only special effects in that is like the ball, like the long drives.

• 1:24:17Speaker 00

  I mean, it's also, it's like a movie about golf versus fucking NASCAR.

• 1:24:20Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:24:20Speaker 00

  So I think.

• 1:24:21Speaker 01

  This one had to be higher budget, I guess, but yes.

• 1:24:23Speaker 00

  Because if the racing looked really bad in this movie.

• 1:24:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:25Speaker 00

  I don't know if it works as well.

• 1:24:26Speaker 03

  It's good that they went to the places and filmed everything.

• 1:24:29Speaker 00

  Yeah, I agree.

• 1:24:30Speaker 01

  I agree with that. That was just a thought I had when I was watching, I was like, this feels very like Hollywood.

• 1:24:36Speaker 00

  I agree, I mean, it touches on something, I find that we over-rely on CGI to, to convey humor now. Like Blockers is a great example. It, it, it started to like, when they were doing things that weren't humanly possible or that clearly looked fake, where it was like, or I, I remember in, in Neighbors, was it Neighbors 2, when like Seth Rogen is sitting on the chair and the chair explodes and he hits the ceiling?

• 1:24:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:24:58Speaker 00

  And it looked so fake.

• 1:25:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:25:00Speaker 00

  And I'm almost like, I'd rather it be, I'd rather you just find a different joke that you can film practically than use CGI.

• 1:25:05Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:25:05Speaker 00

  To like, deliver something that feels hollow.

• 1:25:07Speaker 03

  I was saying this the other day, or on this trip, when we were in Los Angeles, I was saying, I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers.

• 1:25:18Speaker 00

  Those are, those are like miniatures that they filmed in real life versus just on a computer. I agree with you.

• 1:25:24Speaker 01

  I'm trying to think of if there's, if there's, I'm sure there are bad examples where I'm completely wrong on that take, but like for the most part, I feel like I like when comedies feel a little bit more just grounded in the dialogue and reality versus like the action.

• 1:25:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, I mean, honestly, you can extend that beyond comedy now.

• 1:25:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:25:42Speaker 00

  Everything feels like it's filmed inside of an Airbnb now, or like, it's super CGI'd and everything is touched up in the background, everything's like really bright. Nothing feels as lived in anymore. A lot of the streaming movies just like don't look real, and I think it's why I love movies and TV shows from the 90s and early 2000s, cause it's like.

• 1:25:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:25:59Speaker 00

  And I watch Superbad, I'm like, I feel like I'm there at a normal high school, and this looks like how it would look. And now if you filmed a high school movie.

• 1:26:06Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:06Speaker 00

  It would just like look too shiny and not real.

• 1:26:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:09Speaker 00

  So I do agree with you. Uh, casting what-ifs, couple good ones. For Cal Notton, it was not supposed to be John C. Riley, who, like, you mentioned this earlier, I did not know this, John C. Riley was the, originally supposed to be Brick Tamlin from Anchorman?

• 1:26:24Speaker 01

  Oh, was he?

• 1:26:24Speaker 00

  Yes, and he couldn't do it because of scheduling.

• 1:26:26Speaker 01

  He would've made a probably a funny Brick.

• 1:26:28Speaker 00

  I think he would, yeah, I mean.

• 1:26:29Speaker 03

  It's crazy to think Steve, it's weird to think of anyone other than Steve Carell doing it, but John C. Riley.

• 1:26:34Speaker 01

  What, what was the, what was the like internet character that John C. Riley played where he was the doctor, and he's like, for your health, and he was always drunk on wine and stuff? Do you know what I'm talking about?

• 1:26:44Speaker 00

  Oh, vaguely.

• 1:26:45Speaker 01

  There was like a whole series about it.

• 1:26:48Speaker 01

  I wanna say it was, I can't remember where, where it was based. Like a Tim and Eric, maybe?

• 1:26:52Speaker 00

  I think it was Tim and Eric.

• 1:26:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:53Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's a good call. But that, that blew my mind. I mean, I, I, you, I kind of can't, it can't not be Steve Carell now, in the Brick role, like you can't see.

• 1:27:00Speaker 03

  But even the funniest Brick lines are actually like, Brick killed the guy with the trident, Will Ferrell's saying that.

• 1:27:05Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:27:05Speaker 03

  You know what I mean? Like, other than I love lamp, like the actual funniest things about Brick are said about Brick.

• 1:27:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:27:12Speaker 00

  Up for the role of Cal Notton. Jack Black, Billy Crystal and Dennis Quaid?

• 1:27:17Speaker 01

  That feels weird to me.

• 1:27:18Speaker 00

  Dennis Quaid and Billy Crystal, I would like to say no to. Jack Black, I could see. Jack Black, I think would have been funny in it. I think he's too silly and big. John C. Reilly is really good at letting Will Ferrell be the winner. I mean, literally like what Cal Notton is good at doing, John C. Reilly is good at.

• 1:27:33Speaker 01

  Right, right. It's meta.

• 1:27:34Speaker 00

  Jack Black, I think would steal too much thunder.

• 1:27:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:27:37Speaker 03

  But, "You're my best friend. I love you." What? Nothing!

• 1:27:43Speaker 00

  But I, Jack Black, I get it. I understand why that was being considered.

• 1:27:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:27:46Speaker 00

  And then for Jean Gerard. Michael J. Fox, Seth Green and John Stamos.

• 1:27:52Speaker 01

  John Stamos?

• 1:27:53Speaker 00

  Yeah. 2006 John Stamos.

• 1:27:57Speaker 01

  Seth Green?

• 1:27:58Speaker 00

  Seth Green is a disaster. I don't know.

• 1:28:00Speaker 01

  That one would have worked, I don't think.

• 1:28:01Speaker 00

  Michael J. Fox also feels very weird. John Stamos, I could kinda see.

• 1:28:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, I can see that too. Yeah.

• 1:28:07Speaker 00

  The good-looking slicked-back hair, the French, you know, thing. I feel like that would play.

• 1:28:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:28:12Speaker 03

  I assume they knew Borat was happening when they decided to cast him in this?

• 1:28:15Speaker 00

  It's a good question. I don't know. Cause I don't know how long it took to film Borat. I mean, I imagine this took much longer to film than Borat. Borat came out three months after this movie.

• 1:28:22Speaker 01

  He was doing Borat bits for a long time before that.

• 1:28:25Speaker 03

  I was gonna say Borat had to have taken longer than this.

• 1:28:27Speaker 01

  He had a whole show.

• 1:28:29Speaker 00

  He had the Ali G show.

• 1:28:30Speaker 01

  The Ali G show, yeah. So he'd been doing the Borat thing for a while before the movie came out. So he, people knew about it.

• 1:28:35Speaker 00

  Yeah, but he was more of like a, like a, that show was popular in the UK more.

• 1:28:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, he was like, he was sort of like an up-and-coming comic at that point, right?

• 1:28:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:28:44Speaker 00

  David Caruso stuff of, I'm doing my own flex category. Which Bill never does, but I'm taking over. The David Caruso Stuff of Legends Award for the character who definitely should have been spun off into their own sequel. Reese Bobby could have a whole damn movie around him.

• 1:28:59Speaker 01

  Dude, the backstory with Reese Bobby where he's like mixed up with the Colombian cartel and doing what God knows what.

• 1:29:05Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:29:05Speaker 01

  Running, he's like running drugs over the border in a car or something?

• 1:29:09Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's drug-running, he's doing street racing, he's like knocking women up. I wanna know how many kids, does he have like 12 kids?

• 1:29:14Speaker 01

  Can we get it in like a real serious prestige TV style though, where it's not funny, it's just him doing serious shit?

• 1:29:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, like I would love that if he had like 12 children, I want him like going to each one and trying to ingratiate himself into their family. I love, I love when Ricky first goes to see him or when he delivers the pizza and Reese keeps ordering pizzas, so he delivers it and he goes, "Close the door. Close the door and come in. I got weed in here, cowboy."

• 1:29:38Speaker 03

  He punches him in the face, he's like, "Son, did this go well?" Dude, the first thing he says is, "How long's it been?" "Three, four months?" "Ten years."

• 1:29:47Speaker 00

  "Ten years!"

• 1:29:48Speaker 03

  "I gotta lay off the peyote."

• 1:29:50Speaker 01

  The peyote.

• 1:29:51Speaker 00

  "Come in here and close the door. I got weed in here, cowboy."

• 1:29:54Speaker 01

  At the end of the movie, he's like, "I'm starting to get a little itchy." "Starting to get a little itchy."

• 1:30:00Speaker 00

  The Applebee's waiter? He's so mean to her.

• 1:30:03Speaker 01

  I said, "No onions."

• 1:30:04Speaker 03

  I think you did that on purpose.

• 1:30:06Speaker 00

  Uh, okay, the Joey Pants Award, Best That Guy. This'll be interesting because typically I have differing opinions than the host of the show.

• 1:30:13Speaker 03

  That is my-

• 1:30:13Speaker 00

  About what is considered a that guy.

• 1:30:14Speaker 03

  True quibble with this podcast is just-

• 1:30:17Speaker 00

  I try to, I try to fight for it.

• 1:30:18Speaker 03

  The standard is insane of like knowing people's names.

• 1:30:20Speaker 00

  Ridiculously high bar.

• 1:30:22Speaker 03

  I kind of think for regular people who watch movies, the ultimate that guy is actually Gary Cole, where it's like, he's the guy in Veep and also he's Reese, Ricky Bobby's dad. And most people don't know his name Gary Cole. But I know that that somewhere Bill was just furious about that.

• 1:30:37Speaker 01

  What else is he in? He's in a bunch of stuff.

• 1:30:38Speaker 00

  Bunch of stuff.

• 1:30:39Speaker 01

  But if you want like- He was Lumberg in fucking Office Space.

• 1:30:43Speaker 00

  I think-

• 1:30:43Speaker 01

  Shit, Lumberg fucked her.

• 1:30:47Speaker 00

  I think beginner level, it's Gary Cole.

• 1:30:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:30:50Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:30:50Speaker 00

  I think if you wanna go expert level, to me, it's, it's Ted Manson as Chip.

• 1:30:55Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:30:55Speaker 00

  I do not know that guy's name, but every, if I see that guy, I go, "Oh, that guy from Talladega, grandpa from Talladega Nights."

• 1:31:01Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:31:02Speaker 00

  I don't think anyone knows his name.

• 1:31:04Speaker 03

  And then the middle level is the guy who's on the race crew that's also in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

• 1:31:10Speaker 00

  David Keckner? What are you talking about?

• 1:31:13Speaker 01

  He's the one that gets all squirrely when the jazz music comes on?

• 1:31:17Speaker 03

  No, not David Keckner, no.

• 1:31:18Speaker 01

  Well, I went with Ian Roberts, who is the get her, get her a coffin line.

• 1:31:21Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 1:31:22Speaker 01

  Which is like, just so random. He is, by the way, the literal doctor from Arrested Development.

• 1:31:28Speaker 00

  Oh, right!

• 1:31:30Speaker 01

  That guy!

• 1:31:31Speaker 03

  That is, that is a great call.

• 1:31:32Speaker 00

  He's gonna be all right. Ah, I hate this doctor!

• 1:31:36Speaker 03

  I killed this doctor!

• 1:31:38Speaker 01

  It looks like, it looks like he's dead.

• 1:31:39Speaker 03

  That is a great call.

• 1:31:40Speaker 00

  I'm sure Bill, Chris and Sean will be mad at the Gary Cole selection, but-

• 1:31:43Speaker 03

  Yes. Well, I'm saying, the other way-

• 1:31:44Speaker 00

  Like, I know he's Gary Cole, but I do think no one's like, "That guy? Oh, obviously Gary Cole."

• 1:31:49Speaker 03

  Jack McGray, who's, I think, you see, he's, um, and he's also in 30 Rock, but I'm like, do people know that guy's name?

• 1:31:55Speaker 00

  Kenneth from 30 Rock?

• 1:31:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly.

• 1:31:57Speaker 00

  I would argue that Larry Dennett, the guy who plays the son, that guy's a that guy.

• 1:32:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:32:01Speaker 00

  His name's Greg Gorman. I'm sure people would be like, "No, that, of course." To me, that's a that guy. Um, anyway, all right, this is the most important category of the show because this is a real like five-headed race. Dion Waiters Award. We have Molly Shannon. Who is in like two or three scenes, crushes every single one of them. She's always drunk.

• 1:32:21Speaker 01

  Tenderly touching the guy from Halliburton's face.

• 1:32:24Speaker 00

  I love-

• 1:32:25Speaker 01

  Gives him a kiss on the mouth.

• 1:32:26Speaker 00

  I love right before that, right before that, when she's like, "You won't let me see you naked" to her husband. And just under his breath, right before the executives walk in, he goes, "It's not a fear thing, it's a trust thing."

• 1:32:38Speaker 01

  It's so good.

• 1:32:39Speaker 00

  "You're afraid of letting me see you naked. It's not a fear thing, it's a trust thing." Um, I think Amy Adams definitely qualifies.

• 1:32:45Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:32:45Speaker 00

  Do not think she's in the movie that much and she has-

• 1:32:47Speaker 01

  The speeches.

• 1:32:47Speaker 00

  The speeches, iconic.

• 1:32:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:32:50Speaker 00

  Grandpa Chip?

• 1:32:52Speaker 00

  In the mix here.

• 1:32:53Speaker 01

  What was the line he said? I'd forgotten he made this line. It was like, "The mouse is fast, but the owl can see at night." And then he like laughs at him. I can't remember what the exact- "The field mouse is fast."

• 1:33:07Speaker 00

  I don't think Gary Cole qualifies.

• 1:33:10Speaker 03

  This was gonna be my question.

• 1:33:11Speaker 00

  I think Reese Bobby is in it too much.

• 1:33:13Speaker 03

  He's a, yeah. Here's my thing with him. I

• 1:33:17Speaker 03

  forgot until prepping for the show that he comes, like Reese, it's weird, he starts the game, which maybe is bad for the Dion Waiters Award.

• 1:33:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:33:25Speaker 03

  But he starts the game on a 12-0 run. The first 15 jokes of this movie are just Gary Cole. Literally, he does, I, I, maybe it's too much for Dion Waiters, but Gary Cole comes in and says, "Ten years, I gotta lay off the peyote." "No smoking here." He's like, "Don't worry darling, I'm a volunteer fireman." In front of the fifth, the five-year-olds. He's like, "I'm a semi-professional race car driver and an amateur tattoo artist." "Fastest who gets paid and the fastest who gets laid. And if you ain't first, you're last." That's the first four minutes of the movie. All of that is in the same scene and then he leaves for an hour.

• 1:33:59Speaker 00

  I also love that he's, every time he gets kicked out of places, he's always resisting.

• 1:34:02Speaker 03

  He's got like- We were so mates, Gary!

• 1:34:04Speaker 00

  "I'm a veteran. I'm a diabetic."

• 1:34:07Speaker 01

  He's just screaming everything. "I'm a veteran."

• 1:34:09Speaker 00

  "I'm a veteran." He's getting kicked out of the elementary school.

• 1:34:12Speaker 01

  And then he gets the car. He puts his two feet up in the doorjamb.

• 1:34:14Speaker 00

  He's always the two feet pinned against the door.

• 1:34:17Speaker 03

  Then he pulls away, he's like, "See you when you're grown up." But then he's gone for like a full hour.

• 1:34:22Speaker 00

  I think it's too much. I think he's too important of a character.

• 1:34:26Speaker 00

  Um, it's like, it's like in The Godfather. You know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters.

• 1:34:35Speaker 03

  If we're calling Reese the Godfather of Talladega Nights, then I'll, I'll take that.

• 1:34:37Speaker 00

  I'm just saying, runtime, you might be right, but I think he's just, he's too important of a role. So I would also give you Michael Clarke Duncan, rest in peace, who was awesome in this movie.

• 1:34:46Speaker 03

  Our sponsors will shit a chicken.

• 1:34:49Speaker 00

  That's great. And then really many one, I did not know this until doing the research. The original driver for Dennett Racing at the start of the movie, Terry Chauveau, is Adam McKay.

• 1:35:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. I was gonna bring that up. He's like, "Hold on, I gotta take a piss."

• 1:35:04Speaker 00

  I think he is so funny. I was gonna be like, "Who is this guy?"

• 1:35:07Speaker 01

  Hey guys!

• 1:35:08Speaker 00

  "It doesn't matter, Lucius, we're in last place. Relax. Jeez, I gotta take a wave. Get off my ass." That is so fucking funny.

• 1:35:16Speaker 01

  "These burgers are really good."

• 1:35:17Speaker 00

  He goes,

• 1:35:18Speaker 03

  "I'm gonna make a phone call."

• 1:35:19Speaker 00

  "Let me eat this, then I gotta make a phone call and then I'll be back." I mean, like, I gotta make a phone call during a race? I think he crushes it and is the definition of like one scene.

• 1:35:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:35:31Speaker 00

  But, what, do you think it's Molly Shannon?

• 1:35:33Speaker 01

  I think it's Molly Shannon.

• 1:35:34Speaker 03

  I think so.

• 1:35:35Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:35:35Speaker 01

  She's fucking great.

• 1:35:36Speaker 00

  I agree, Molly Shannon. All right, Recasting Couch Director of City.

• 1:35:41Speaker 00

  I don't, I don't have any, I would not recast the director, I would not recast any of the actors, I don't think, maybe small stuff, and then the city, it's like, this is mostly filmed in North Carolina, they're on actual racetracks, I, I don't, I don't have a ton here.

• 1:35:56Speaker 01

  Christopher Nolan apparently loves this movie.

• 1:35:58Speaker 00

  He does, he just said that.

• 1:35:59Speaker 01

  So, remake?

• 1:36:02Speaker 00

  That's interesting.

• 1:36:02Speaker 03

  Like a remake where you can't hear anything?

• 1:36:04Speaker 01

  Like reboot it into a very serio-, you know how the old Batman movies were like campy and whatever?

• 1:36:10Speaker 00

  He Dark Knights it.

• 1:36:10Speaker 01

  And then he Dark Knighted it, Dark Knight Talladega Nights.

• 1:36:13Speaker 00

  He should do Days of Thunder 2.

• 1:36:15Speaker 03

  Talladega Dark Knight.

• 1:36:16Speaker 01

  There we go, uh, I think that would be fun.

• 1:36:19Speaker 00

  Days of Thunder 2 directed by Christopher Nolan starring Tom Cruise, that would do well.

• 1:36:24Speaker 01

  Sign me up, uh, I don't, I'd agree, like, the cast is kind of perfect, I, I would like to see Tim Robinson do something like this, but that...

• 1:36:31Speaker 03

  The only person that I felt like could go-

• 1:36:33Speaker 01

  And Sam Richardson, he maybe be Cal.

• 1:36:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:36:36Speaker 03

  The only person that I was like watching this movie and was like, could they go toe to toe with Will Ferrell's, or it's like, I kind of was wondering if Danny McBride could try either role?

• 1:36:44Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:36:44Speaker 03

  But I don't really want to change anything.

• 1:36:45Speaker 01

  I feel like he was like so from that era though, that it doesn't, it's like too close.

• 1:36:49Speaker 00

  You could have swapped Danny McBride maybe for, for John C. Riley, but I don't-

• 1:36:53Speaker 03

  I don't, I don't need to change, I think that movie's kind of crushing it.

• 1:36:55Speaker 00

  Half-Assed Internet Research, we talked about a few things, shot in North Carolina mostly, they got a lot of real life tidbits from NASCAR drivers and commentators, some of which are in the movie, like Earnhardt's in the movie. Um, I mentioned that John C. Riley was in both Days of Thunder and this movie. Sony did not actually charge, Sony, the, the studio that made the movie, did not charge brands like Wonder Bread, Old Spice, or Perrier to feature their products in the movie.

• 1:37:19Speaker 03

  What?

• 1:37:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:37:20Speaker 03

  Okay, so that was gonna be my unanswerable question is how much did they pay? And you're telling me that they paid nothing?

• 1:37:25Speaker 00

  Didn't charge.

• 1:37:25Speaker 03

  What do you, how does that work?

• 1:37:27Speaker 00

  I, I actually don't know, and I, I wonder, I don't think that would be the case today.

• 1:37:30Speaker 03

  What do you mean that they just put, because here's, here's why that's funny to me.

• 1:37:33Speaker 00

  And, and-

• 1:37:34Speaker 03

  Wonder Bread's in every fucking scene in this movie, there are times where there are 12 logos at the same time and Wonder Bread, and they just got that for free?

• 1:37:40Speaker 00

  Yeah, and, and then the, and then the brands promoted it, apparently, which obviously I get, but, yeah.

• 1:37:46Speaker 03

  That's shocking.

• 1:37:47Speaker 00

  A special time.

• 1:37:48Speaker 01

  Uh, I don't know.

• 1:37:49Speaker 00

  Things were different in 06, I guess, I don't even know, like, it's not like it was 1974.

• 1:37:53Speaker 03

  Budweiser is just everywhere, and they're not paying a dollar for that.

• 1:37:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:37:58Speaker 03

  Alright, that shocks me, because, alright, so stepping on it, but on that, one of my probably unanswerable questions was, is this the most product placement ever in a movie?

• 1:38:07Speaker 00

  Um-

• 1:38:08Speaker 01

  Ooh, that's a good question.

• 1:38:09Speaker 00

  I mean, Na- NASCAR, part of NASCAR is branding.

• 1:38:12Speaker 01

  It's all sponsorships.

• 1:38:13Speaker 00

  It's all sponsorships.

• 1:38:14Speaker 01

  All the teams are sponsored.

• 1:38:15Speaker 00

  I think the answer's probably yes, I, you know, it's, it's hard to make those claims, I mean, there's the, there's the Wayne's World joke about all the sponsors.

• 1:38:21Speaker 01

  Constant.

• 1:38:22Speaker 00

  The Wayne's World joke is more, is, is, is kind of condensed to one scene, really.

• 1:38:25Speaker 03

  But the, this movie, it's ever-present, I'm just shocked that it was free, I guess they felt that they would have to like get, give up creative control for that much brand, but I just, I don't know, I just assumed.

• 1:38:34Speaker 00

  You guys have any other Half-Assed Internet Research?

• 1:38:36Speaker 01

  Um, the, Will Ferrell's dad played sax and keyboards with the Righteous Brothers for like 20 years, and his song is, he has a song that's in this movie.

• 1:38:47Speaker 00

  Very cool.

• 1:38:48Speaker 01

  Um, his name is Roy Lee Ferrell, which is a great name, kind of, kind of like a, feels like it's made up for this movie. Um, the other thing that I thought was funny is, uh, there was an ESPN article from 2016, Ryan McGee, and he talked about how Will Ferrell and all the guys from the movie got like a test drive on the track to start out, and they were going like 70 or something, like, not very fast relative to what these guys are doing. Um, and they were like terrified, and then when they did the scene where Will Ferrell's trying to come back, he's going like 26 miles an hour, he was like, that was like kind of an homage to that, like-

• 1:39:25Speaker 03

  He said that was like literally what happened.

• 1:39:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:39:28Speaker 00

  The cars with the other, the other cars went by.

• 1:39:30Speaker 03

  Were those the other cars?

• 1:39:31Speaker 00

  Who was that?

• 1:39:32Speaker 03

  Who was that? Uh, but no, apparently what happened, so they booked this place, I think, I forget if it was Talladega, or probably Charlotte Speedway, and it was like Richard Dent Training Academy? And they took him there, and they had it booked for three hours, and then John, and then Will Ferrell did a run for 60 seconds and came back and was silent and white as it goes, and do you know how hard it is to get Will Ferrell to say nothing? And then John C. Riley got in the car for 60 seconds and they came back and he said nothing, and they're like, we're gonna go, and they left. And Adam McKay is like, we have two hours and 53 minutes left here, and they like got to the car, and John C. Riley's like, we can't be pussies, like, we literally, during a race car movie, we have to drive a race car, and then they like begrudgingly went back, but they wanted to leave.

• 1:40:16Speaker 00

  NASCAR is a sport I would say I'm the least interested in participating in.

• 1:40:20Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 1:40:20Speaker 00

  I, I, if somebody was like, you wanna hop in a, in a fucking race car, I'd be like, I think I'm good, I don't wanna do that.

• 1:40:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:40:27Speaker 00

  Uh, any other-

• 1:40:28Speaker 01

  The other one that I thought was funny when I saw this was Gary Cole and Jane Lynch, who are Ricky Bobby's parents in the movies, in the movie, they are 11 and 7 years older than Will Ferrell in real life, which I love, also, this is super random, I just forgot to talk about it earlier, but the line where Jane Lynch is recounting his conception? And he's like, where, it was like in some Texas Roadhouse.

• 1:40:53Speaker 03

  Russler's Steakhouse.

• 1:40:55Speaker 01

  Russler's Steakhouse Ladies Room, she, he chose me, and then Will Ferrell, Will Ferrell goes, a ladies' room? I just thought that was such a good line.

• 1:41:03Speaker 00

  I love-

• 1:41:03Speaker 01

  A ladies' room?

• 1:41:05Speaker 00

  Uh, Jane Lynch, we didn't talk about her a lot, but she's awesome, and she's always good, I've always liked Jane Lynch.

• 1:41:09Speaker 03

  Fantastic in this movie, but even little things that you, let's talk about lines that you like forget, and then we were watching later, it's like the literal second scene, like the baby's born, and she said, I'm gonna go get some milk and cry. It's just like, I'll be right back. The other, uh, Half-Assed Internet Research is the gray scene, the dinner scene took a whole day? And there, apparently Will Ferrell's feeding lines to the kids, and multiple shots are ruined, and the, obviously the camera operator, I assume, is not always calling cut? The camera operator had to say cut, because he was laughing so hard.

• 1:41:39Speaker 01

  Like shaking?

• 1:41:40Speaker 03

  He was shaking the camera, because he couldn't contain himself.

• 1:41:42Speaker 00

  The kids are really good, it, they got really lucky, because you never know, with kid actors, both of them nail it.

• 1:41:47Speaker 01

  There's the, I love the McKay style, I know we kind of talked about this, but like where they're doing like, just like 10 cuts, 20 cuts, like right in a row, just like feeding them lines and stuff, there's a famous, uh, blooper reel from Anchorman where they're talking about, uh, Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are talking about what breast implants are made out of, and they're like just riffing and, and whatever, and then in the background, so they're like, yeah, it's apparently made from like cottage cheese or whatever, they say a few different things, and then he's like, you can see Paul Rudd's trying to think of something, in the background, you can just hear Adam McKay go, nickels.

• 1:42:23Speaker 01

  And then they like try and get through the scene by saying nickels, and it's just like, I'm like, that, being on the set with that group of people would have been like, like Michelangelo painting or whatever.

• 1:42:35Speaker 03

  That should be the hottest take, is they should, there should, fuck the Zack Snyder cut, there should be McKay cuts. Like, would you not want to watch like this, this seven hour cuts of all these movies should be released?

• 1:42:45Speaker 00

  That it's been 20 years later, yeah, I mean, another mini hot take is sometimes I like watching the bloopers just as much as I do movies.

• 1:42:50Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, if you're ever in a bad mood, just put on bloopers from Anchorman or whatever.

• 1:42:55Speaker 00

  Before, but like, there needs to be a Tubi channel that's just bloopers, I'd watch that.

• 1:42:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, 100%.

• 1:43:00Speaker 00

  The amount of times I'll just like Google The Office bloopers, or Always Sunny bloopers or something, it's amazing.

• 1:43:05Speaker 03

  The darkness is creeping toward you.

• 1:43:07Speaker 01

  Whether you know it or not, body so good, you're gonna wanna talk to it.

• 1:43:13Speaker 01

  Oh, God.

• 1:43:14Speaker 00

  There's just so many quotes, real simple, son.

• 1:43:18Speaker 03

  Also Colombian bam bam.

• 1:43:19Speaker 00

  There's a kilo of Colombian bam bam under the car, time to be a man, Apex Mountain. Uh, Will Ferrell? It's right around here.

• 1:43:31Speaker 03

  I feel like, yes, right?

• 1:43:33Speaker 01

  Well, I think Step Brothers.

• 1:43:35Speaker 00

  I, I think you could argue it could be Elf, was just after SNL, and Elf was massive?

• 1:43:40Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:43:41Speaker 00

  And then it was like, okay, Will Ferrell's now, but this movie was huge, Step Brothers was huge, it's like 04 to 08?

• 1:43:46Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:43:47Speaker 00

  It, it's, it's hard to say exactly whether it's like this Step Brothers or Elf.

• 1:43:51Speaker 01

  Do you think this movie's bigger than Step Brothers? Like from a, not, not necessarily like how much money it made, but just from a cultural, where it stands?

• 1:44:00Speaker 00

  I do.

• 1:44:01Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:44:02Speaker 00

  Um-

• 1:44:03Speaker 03

  Oh, interesting, I'm not sure.

• 1:44:04Speaker 00

  I think Talladega is bigger than Step Brothers culturally, but, but Elf, I think, is, is the biggest movie, he's-

• 1:44:10Speaker 01

  Like commercially?

• 1:44:11Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:44:11Speaker 03

  But coming off, I just, I don't know, I mean, this movie, I mean, I guess Elf made more money, I don't know, I, I, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to know exactly how Apex Mountain works, but I just feel like off this, the whole point is, Will Ferrell, again, they literally pitched this on six lines, on six words, Will Ferrell drives a NASCAR, is a NASCAR racer, isn't that like the premise of Apex Mountain?

• 1:44:32Speaker 01

  He had so much juice there, just like-

• 1:44:34Speaker 03

  Done, blank check, isn't that like the hypothetical question Bill always asks, and like, that's the literal story of this movie?

• 1:44:40Speaker 01

  That's pretty, that's pretty good.

• 1:44:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, but you could argue he could only do that because of what he did before, but yeah, like, you know what I mean?

• 1:44:47Speaker 03

  So this movie is, is because of his Apex Mountain, he gets this movie?

• 1:44:50Speaker 00

  Kind of.

• 1:44:52Speaker 03

  Fucking A, so goddamn it.

• 1:44:54Speaker 00

  Well, because this is coming off of Anchorman, and then he's like, like it's, he does Elf in Anchorman in back to back years.

• 1:45:01Speaker 03

  Didn't this make more money than Anchorman at the box office?

• 1:45:03Speaker 00

  It did.

• 1:45:04Speaker 03

  I also assumed that this had made a ton of money on the sponsors, and I guess that throws me off, is I assumed the box office was way under accounting, I assumed that there was like 50 million more dollars from Wonder Bread and Budweiser and, and all these other sponsors.

• 1:45:15Speaker 00

  It's hard to tell, he, he comes out of SNL, he does old school Elf in Anchorman? And so you could argue it's right then, but then I guess he does Talladega Nights and then two years later, he does Step Brothers. Maybe it is Talladega Nights. The point is the two year window is probably right here.

• 1:45:32Speaker 00

  John C. Riley? I would say yes, because I, I believe this movie greenlit him getting his own star role in a movie, which is Walk Hard. And he never really had that again. And although he's, he's had a great career, he's done amazing, good movies, Boogie Nights, he's been in a bunch of stuff. But doing this and then getting your own lead comedy role, I think it's gotta be now.

• 1:45:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:45:51Speaker 01

  I could see that.

• 1:45:53Speaker 00

  NASCAR movies? This came out the same year as Cars.

• 1:45:56Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:45:57Speaker 00

  You could argue 2006 was, was the apex for NASCAR.

• 1:46:00Speaker 01

  Oh, easily. I was just gonna say NASCAR.

• 1:46:03Speaker 00

  See, that I have less of a sense of.

• 1:46:04Speaker 03

  I don't think we're qualified to answer that, but I do think the NASCAR, the NASCAR movies is true.

• 1:46:08Speaker 01

  I think, I, I read that, I, I, this is like, who knows? I don't, and I'm not a close follower of NASCAR. I don't know where it is like right now, but I read that viewership peaked in 2006.

• 1:46:17Speaker 00

  Really?

• 1:46:18Speaker 01

  Of NASCAR. It was number two to the NFL. In terms of live watching at that time, number two to the NFL.

• 1:46:26Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 1:46:28Speaker 01

  And I don't think it's, I don't think that it's at that point anymore. And then we got F1 kinda coming in and stealing some of its thunder.

• 1:46:33Speaker 03

  The, it's, it's a lot like premierly coming in and people are gravitating toward that. But I, I do think NASCAR, and maybe NASCAR or the viewership, but NASCAR movies for sure. Cause the other reason, the other thing that stands out on a rewatch is how few drivers are in the movie. You have Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt Jr. for literally about five seconds, maybe 10.

• 1:46:52Speaker 01

  Like it was a meta moment, don't tell the other driver.

• 1:46:54Speaker 03

  But like that was, it was very real because their NASCAR was very, it was kind of a risk for them to allow this because they were very much like, are you making fun of us? Are we in on the joke? Are you laughing at us or with us? And it worked, but I feel like everyone was, all the drivers basically were like, we don't want to be part of this. We're afraid we'll be like making fun of the sport.

• 1:47:11Speaker 01

  Also, that might've been why they didn't have sponsors that paid is because I think a lot of the sponsors for the real cars were concerned.

• 1:47:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:47:18Speaker 01

  That it was going to be bad for their image or whatever.

• 1:47:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, I think back in the day, it felt like sports leagues were more open to letting their likeness be involved. Now I don't, you don't see it as much, but like, you know, you watch Ace Ventura, the Dolphins are like, sure.

• 1:47:33Speaker 01

  The NFL today would never.

• 1:47:34Speaker 00

  No.

• 1:47:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:47:35Speaker 00

  It, it, it doesn't happen as much now.

• 1:47:38Speaker 00

  Amy Adams, no. Sacha Baron Cohen?

• 1:47:41Speaker 03

  I mean, it has to be.

• 1:47:42Speaker 00

  Borat three months later, it's right now.

• 1:47:44Speaker 03

  Yeah. It's literally three months later for Borat.

• 1:47:47Speaker 00

  It's probably after Borat comes out, but this year for sure.

• 1:47:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, that, I mean, I mean Talladega and Borat in the same four month period is pretty crazy.

• 1:47:53Speaker 00

  It's crazy.

• 1:47:56Speaker 03

  So I was, I was gonna say Shake and Bake. Gotta be Apex Mountain for Shake and Bake.

• 1:48:00Speaker 01

  I thought about that. Are you talking about the product or the, well, I looked it up. Like apparently Shake and Bake it, it has exploded in the last like 10 years.

• 1:48:08Speaker 00

  Really?

• 1:48:09Speaker 03

  You're trying to tell me the Shake and Bake Apex Mountains is not?

• 1:48:11Speaker 01

  I wrote down Shake and Bake, but then I, I was trying to figure out like just sales by year and apparently it's just gone up a lot in the last like 10 years.

• 1:48:18Speaker 00

  No, it's, it's gotta be Talladega Nights.

• 1:48:21Speaker 01

  I'm, I'm open to that.

• 1:48:22Speaker 00

  It's one of the most iconic phrases of a really popular movie. It's not now.

• 1:48:26Speaker 01

  Have you ever eaten Shake and Bake?

• 1:48:29Speaker 00

  No.

• 1:48:29Speaker 01

  Chicken or whatever?

• 1:48:30Speaker 00

  I don't think so.

• 1:48:33Speaker 01

  What? I'm not like, I'm just saying, I looked it up.

• 1:48:35Speaker 03

  If you smell a nice crispy delicious mouth to this podcast, it's not your tail pops.

• 1:48:42Speaker 03

  Little bit of shake. I love it does the oven. And bake.

• 1:48:46Speaker 01

  Put it in the oven.

• 1:48:48Speaker 00

  Little bit of shake? And bake.

• 1:48:50Speaker 03

  And bake.

• 1:48:53Speaker 00

  Sideburns in movies? Yes or no?

• 1:48:56Speaker 03

  No, the Ameri, uh, has to be, uh, Gangs of New York, Billy the Butcher.

• 1:49:01Speaker 01

  He had that on. He, he was ready for that.

• 1:49:03Speaker 03

  That's the best sideburn of all time.

• 1:49:04Speaker 00

  Oh, four?

• 1:49:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was oh, four. Listen here, you meat headed shit sack. Don't give a fuck about your moral conundrum.

• 1:49:12Speaker 00

  I don't know.

• 1:49:12Speaker 01

  Wow, okay.

• 1:49:14Speaker 03

  Come on.

• 1:49:16Speaker 00

  I don't know, these sideburns, everyone's got sideburns in this movie.

• 1:49:19Speaker 03

  There is a lot of sideburns.

• 1:49:19Speaker 01

  It was a real, it was a real thing that was, people were doing. Sideburns were a thing.

• 1:49:25Speaker 00

  Jack McBrayer, I'm saying yes. This is the first year of 30 Rock. And he became Kenneth from 30 Rock. Two years later, he's in Forgetting Sir Marshall and 30 Rock's still going. You could argue it's then. Right around now.

• 1:49:38Speaker 00

  Gary Cole had a great run in Veep. He's done a lot. Hard to kinda pick what that would be. Jane Lynch did Glee.

• 1:49:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:49:48Speaker 01

  And role models? I don't know. I forget when that was.

• 1:49:51Speaker 00

  I'd probably say Glee for Jane Lynch.

• 1:49:52Speaker 03

  I think it has to be.

• 1:49:54Speaker 00

  You got any others?

• 1:49:56Speaker 03

  No, I just wanted to make sure Sasha, we just acknowledged how fucking big Sacha Baron Cohen was.

• 1:50:01Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 1:50:02Speaker 03

  In 2006.

• 1:50:02Speaker 00

  Yeah. Cruiser Hanks as Ricky Bobby?

• 1:50:07Speaker 03

  It's gotta be Tom Hanks. Tom Cruise did the NASCAR movie. It's gotta be Hanks.

• 1:50:10Speaker 00

  I agree. I don't, I just don't think it would be funny with Tom Cruise. I don't think Tom Cruise is the right fit. Hanks, I could actually see doing the southern.

• 1:50:18Speaker 01

  He has the accent.

• 1:50:19Speaker 00

  Over the top, like American race car driver thing.

• 1:50:23Speaker 01

  Like, like Forrest Gump adjacent.

• 1:50:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:50:27Speaker 01

  Yeah. Forrest Gump later in life becomes a NASCAR driver. Like he's driving the little fucking lawnmower, but actually he just wants to go fast.

• 1:50:34Speaker 00

  With that said, if Cruise did it, he would actually drive the car and you could probably get some insane shots of him like actually racing up like Dale Earnhardt. But it's gotta be Hanks, I think. Picking nits. Look, this is a comedy about a race car driver.

• 1:50:48Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 1:50:49Speaker 00

  Hard to get too specific here with, with, with, uh, quibbles. Well, the one, the only thing that I think about is like when Ricky is down on his luck and is out of NASCAR and he has no, doesn't, isn't he still incredibly rich? Where's all his money?

• 1:51:02Speaker 01

  Cal took it.

• 1:51:02Speaker 00

  Why does he have to go deliver pizza?

• 1:51:05Speaker 03

  They literally said the number 21.6 million dollars.

• 1:51:08Speaker 00

  This year, he made 21 million dollars that year.

• 1:51:11Speaker 01

  I think Carly was.

• 1:51:13Speaker 00

  She took all the money? It was all under her name? He has no money. Like, I love that.

• 1:51:17Speaker 01

  I think Cal and Carly embezzled all of his money.

• 1:51:19Speaker 00

  Stole all of his money.

• 1:51:20Speaker 01

  He took his house, took his wife and his money.

• 1:51:22Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:51:24Speaker 03

  You're ruining my life.

• 1:51:25Speaker 00

  I just love that he has, he has to go like live in his mom's basement and deliver pizza three months after being the most famous driver in the world. He has no money.

• 1:51:34Speaker 03

  Love that one.

• 1:51:35Speaker 00

  Couldn't do a commercial?

• 1:51:36Speaker 03

  Never thought of that.

• 1:51:37Speaker 01

  That's funny.

• 1:51:37Speaker 03

  The other, yeah, I'm not, I feel like you're not gonna overthink things like the cougar in the car. Those are bits.

• 1:51:42Speaker 01

  A cougar would kill you.

• 1:51:43Speaker 03

  It would probably kill you.

• 1:51:45Speaker 01

  There's also no cougars in North Carolina.

• 1:51:47Speaker 00

  Well, he, we don't know.

• 1:51:48Speaker 03

  He didn't say where he trapped it.

• 1:51:50Speaker 01

  He did, he, that's true. He did just say he trapped it.

• 1:51:52Speaker 03

  Been feeding it old pizza.

• 1:51:54Speaker 01

  Maybe he trapped it in a, somewhere else.

• 1:51:56Speaker 00

  I love when Ricky comes back home after his long days, like got mauled by a cougar.

• 1:52:01Speaker 03

  Ruined my shirt. Only nit I'll have that actually, as I watch it, I'm like, bothers me is the opening part with the owner, the dad. They're like, I love Ricky Bobby. And then they just transition, the son's running the team and they never actually acknowledged that the dad was gone.

• 1:52:18Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:52:18Speaker 03

  And they never just, like he's just running the team, but it's also, I don't think he's dead.

• 1:52:22Speaker 01

  I was like looking it up too. I was like, why?

• 1:52:23Speaker 00

  I assumed he dies.

• 1:52:24Speaker 03

  But apparently he doesn't.

• 1:52:26Speaker 01

  He's not dead?

• 1:52:26Speaker 00

  Like in the, in the lore of the movie?

• 1:52:28Speaker 03

  I don't know, but I don't think he dies.

• 1:52:30Speaker 01

  It was like probably one scene that they just took out and it just, it was, there was a continuity thing and it just, they just were like, it's fine.

• 1:52:36Speaker 00

  They needed like the, the rich spoiled son to take over. I just assumed that there was a scene they cut where he dies.

• 1:52:40Speaker 01

  I also thought it was kind of like a, this is a nitpick. It's like they, they, the reason Dennett Jr. Moves on from Ricky is because he refuses to win the points title. It's like.

• 1:52:50Speaker 00

  It's a huge nit.

• 1:52:51Speaker 01

  It's like, okay.

• 1:52:52Speaker 00

  It was the only other big one I had. I'm like Ricky's winning every race. He's mad. He like flipped a guy off and lost some points or whatever.

• 1:52:58Speaker 03

  Scotty Scheffler's the Grand Slam and he's like all not gonna win the FedEx title, but.

• 1:53:01Speaker 01

  Ricky's also a huge dick to him.

• 1:53:03Speaker 00

  Yeah, I, I do understand that a little bit, but it's like, okay.

• 1:53:05Speaker 03

  Well, the, on that, the only other thing with it is, this is not a nit, but it's just upon rewatching it a hundred times. I'm like, I kinda forget sometimes that the race, it's not really for anything. And Talladega doesn't have a ton to do with this movie other than just being the ending.

• 1:53:19Speaker 00

  And it's a good name.

• 1:53:19Speaker 03

  And it's a great name. And it's kind of like the, the joke in Seinfeld where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball. There has to be that. I'm like, Talladega, to my knowledge, in NASCAR doesn't necessarily be like the most important race.

• 1:53:32Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:53:32Speaker 03

  You know what I mean? It's, it's, and I don't think I ever thought about that. Like called Talladega Nights. And I'm like, it's kinda just the next race after he has a mental breakdown.

• 1:53:39Speaker 00

  It's more personal stakes than it is actual professional stakes.

• 1:53:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, there's zero.

• 1:53:43Speaker 00

  Yes. Uh, okay. Sequel, prequel, prestige, TV, all black cast are untouchable. This, this one a hundred percent could have been a sequel and I'm glad it's not, but they could have totally done it. They thought about it. McKay said they had an idea where Ricky Bobby goes to Europe to do Formula One.

• 1:53:57Speaker 01

  I was gonna say, that's the obvious thing, yeah.

• 1:53:59Speaker 00

  And it's like Ricky Bobby in Europe. That's funny, but.

• 1:54:02Speaker 03

  I think that still might happen solely because now they would get all the sponsors and they would get to pay, kinda like Happy Gilmore two, like all the people you could get involved, the drivers, Michael Jordan would probably do a NASCAR cameo or you get Formula One, like you, a lot of people, more brands would pay to be in that.

• 1:54:16Speaker 00

  Yeah. McKay and Farrell, I don't know if they would, they would do that together.

• 1:54:19Speaker 01

  That's true, yeah.

• 1:54:20Speaker 00

  Farrell hasn't done a ton of, uh, like true sequels.

• 1:54:23Speaker 03

  They did Anchorman two.

• 1:54:24Speaker 00

  Zoolander two happened.

• 1:54:26Speaker 01

  They both.

• 1:54:27Speaker 00

  Daddy's home too. I'm glad that Farrell and McKay have not really together ever made a sequel.

• 1:54:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:54:31Speaker 00

  Uh, other than Anchorman two. Because it just, it just, it never, it, it usually doesn't work. There are certain types of comedies, like, like the Austin Powers parody movies, spoofs, you can do more of, like Naked Guns. Like comedies about ex, like, you know, subverting expectation. You can't do it twice. When you know who Ricky Bobby is, it's just, it's not gonna be the same.

• 1:54:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:54:51Speaker 00

  So I would say Untouchable. Is this movie better with Wayne Jenkins, Fergie the Florist, Zane Lowe, Robert Evans, Dr. Charles Nichols, Ted Levine or somebody else?

• 1:54:58Speaker 03

  Goddamn Ricky!

• 1:55:01Speaker 03

  Working with Magic Man and El Diablo.

• 1:55:04Speaker 00

  I was just gonna throw in Tom Brady because I was like, I can't, what am I gonna do, Zane Lowe? I'm not gonna do Zane Lowe and disrespect CR like that, like you just did.

• 1:55:11Speaker 03

  I'm trying to, it's an homage. I know I'm not Chris Ryan, but I just, I wanted him to be with us here in spirit.

• 1:55:15Speaker 00

  No, it's good. Burnthall's aware of this show. He was, he was, he was asked about it and he knows that CR does. Which is incredible. I was just thinking, what if Tom Brady was doing the?

• 1:55:25Speaker 01

  Like play by play?

• 1:55:26Speaker 00

  Play by play. He's like, we got a lot of juice here for Team Dennett Racing, KB. We're watching some high level driving out there on the track today. Great stuff, KB.

• 1:55:36Speaker 03

  KB, well, it seems like he's going backward, KB. I love a competitor who, I love that he's just, he's never giving up, KB.

• 1:55:44Speaker 00

  He, he's not on fire, KB. He, he looks to be on fire, but he's not.

• 1:55:47Speaker 03

  It's all mental. It's in his head.

• 1:55:51Speaker 00

  Just one Oscar, who gets it? It's Will Ferrell.

• 1:55:55Speaker 03

  So, I admittedly, I'm not Chris Ryan with the impressions and I'm not Sean Fennessey with the Oscars, but I had to ask you a question.

• 1:56:01Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:56:02Speaker 03

  So this year, so this is August twenty, two thousand and six?

• 1:56:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, so it'll be oh seven.

• 1:56:05Speaker 03

  February oh seven Oscars.

• 1:56:06Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 1:56:08Speaker 03

  Was, Mark Wahlberg was nominated for The Departed.

• 1:56:11Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:56:11Speaker 03

  As a supporting actor at the Oscars. Is he actually better in The Departed than John C. Reilly is in Talladega Nights? I know comedy that doesn't happen.

• 1:56:18Speaker 00

  That's the, of course not. There's probably, you can pick three comedies every year where somebody is putting on an incredible performance. They don't, they rarely nominate comedies.

• 1:56:27Speaker 03

  I know there's like five spots and they should do more, but I just, also, I mean.

• 1:56:30Speaker 00

  But if you had to give an Oscar, you would give it to John C. Reilly on this movie, not Will Ferrell?

• 1:56:34Speaker 03

  Well, is the rule, give him an Oscar in this movie, or is the rule, you have to pull the Oscar from that year?

• 1:56:39Speaker 00

  No, you are the Academy and you can give an Oscar to whoever you want. It can be the script, it can be cinematography, it can be an actor.

• 1:56:45Speaker 03

  This, I mean, the lame answer is, the sound is actually shockingly good. The NASCAR, I know that's fucking lame, but.

• 1:56:51Speaker 00

  You're overthinking it. The sound, you're gonna give it to, the sound over Will Ferrell?

• 1:56:55Speaker 03

  Well, so you're saying I don't, I, I have to, because who won the best actor that year?

• 1:57:00Speaker 00

  It doesn't matter. Don't, don't, the Oscars, it's, it's, if you can give an, one Oscar to anyone in this movie, or anything.

• 1:57:06Speaker 03

  Will Ferrell. Okay. I thought you were asking me to pull the, like, the Oscar away from Forest Whitaker, the last king of Scotland. I'm like, okay.

• 1:57:13Speaker 00

  You think he deserved that?

• 1:57:14Speaker 03

  I actually, I mean, it, I mean, come on, man. It's a good, it's a good role.

• 1:57:18Speaker 00

  Probably unanswerable questions. So kinda what happens with Cal and Carly now?

• 1:57:22Speaker 01

  I know. I was wondering about that.

• 1:57:24Speaker 00

  Carly kinda slips away as this movie ends. They kind of just like don't, because like what's gonna happen? Does she, I'm assuming she would leave Cal for a different driver?

• 1:57:31Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:57:31Speaker 00

  Is that what happens?

• 1:57:32Speaker 01

  I imagine so. But Cal, Cal won.

• 1:57:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:57:35Speaker 01

  And he still has his sponsors in theory.

• 1:57:37Speaker 03

  That's a good question.

• 1:57:38Speaker 00

  But now Cal and Ricky are friends again.

• 1:57:39Speaker 03

  I think they just go back and they just kinda get over it.

• 1:57:41Speaker 01

  But Ricky's got a new girl. You know, they had sex.

• 1:57:44Speaker 00

  Ricky has Susan.

• 1:57:45Speaker 03

  Yeah. Did you now? I wish I was there for that.

• 1:57:48Speaker 01

  Been there for that. That's like an insight, that, that's like, I always say that shit with my friends. Ooh, I wish I'd have been there for that.

• 1:57:55Speaker 00

  Well, cause I feel like the whole movie, there's this subtle hint that like Cal kinda being into the two of them. Like, I feel like Cal, and he's like, I'll hold her hair.

• 1:58:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:58:03Speaker 00

  And when they're making out, he's kinda into it, you know?

• 1:58:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:58:06Speaker 00

  Um, so what, Carly's just?

• 1:58:09Speaker 01

  I like to think they stay together.

• 1:58:11Speaker 03

  I think they could be a throuple.

• 1:58:12Speaker 01

  I feel like Cal would want to stay together.

• 1:58:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, a hundred percent.

• 1:58:17Speaker 00

  Ricky, would Ricky allow Cal to date Carly?

• 1:58:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, cause he's sorry for, he felt bad for making him get second the whole time.

• 1:58:23Speaker 03

  This should have been my flex category, which is the Dennis Peck relationship test.

• 1:58:27Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:58:27Speaker 03

  But it really is, will Cal Naughton test this relationship? And no, I actually think they could be a throuple and be totally fine.

• 1:58:32Speaker 00

  What about Susan?

• 1:58:33Speaker 03

  Oh, fuck. A throuple. Uh, I feel like he should just be with, maybe they could just be, like, I think Cal stays with his wife and then Susan.

• 1:58:42Speaker 01

  They still live in the house. It's still haunted.

• 1:58:43Speaker 03

  It's all fine.

• 1:58:44Speaker 01

  That's, that's the spinoff I wanna see, by the way, the horror movie that's just about the haunted house.

• 1:58:49Speaker 03

  Get out!

• 1:58:50Speaker 00

  I think Carly's dating Dale Earnhardt in, in a month.

• 1:58:52Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, probably.

• 1:58:53Speaker 03

  Jeff Gordon.

• 1:58:54Speaker 00

  Um, all right. My next unanswerable is, is, does the slingshot actually work?

• 1:58:59Speaker 01

  I, I was gonna ask that too.

• 1:59:00Speaker 00

  Is that real?

• 1:59:01Speaker 03

  A hundred percent. This is the entire Tour de France. It's just.

• 1:59:04Speaker 01

  It's like you're just drafting off of them and then you go around.

• 1:59:06Speaker 00

  I don't understand how that makes sense.

• 1:59:08Speaker 03

  Well, this is how geese fly. It's like the guy, you're breaking up the air.

• 1:59:11Speaker 00

  Oh, it's how geese fly. Why didn't you just say that?

• 1:59:14Speaker 01

  Obviously.

• 1:59:14Speaker 00

  Everyone knows how geese fly.

• 1:59:15Speaker 03

  It's, but, in a V famously.

• 1:59:18Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:59:18Speaker 03

  But it's cause the, the most effort is the person, the, the crook of the V.

• 1:59:22Speaker 00

  I understand that the person in the front is taking the most wind.

• 1:59:24Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:59:24Speaker 00

  And that the person behind is not receiving any wind, but the second they go outside, don't, doesn't the wind just hit them immediately? Wouldn't that, I don't get it.

• 1:59:31Speaker 03

  There's a, I think there's a brief vacuum of air that happens for a set amount of time.

• 1:59:35Speaker 00

  Your velocity can keep up despite moving into the tunnel of wind.

• 1:59:39Speaker 03

  Famously, I'm a scientist, but think about a boat, think about water for a second, and your boat.

• 1:59:43Speaker 01

  We're really having him explain this to you.

• 1:59:44Speaker 03

  The disruption, and like, but that's happening in the air.

• 1:59:47Speaker 00

  Yeah, but you're, if you're behind, if you're in the wake, behind the boat, I get it. But the second you leave the wake and you're now just like everybody else, why does it shoot you so fast? And does this happen in NASCAR all the time?

• 1:59:59Speaker 01

  I don't know.

• 1:59:59Speaker 03

  I mean, this was happening in Need for Speed, so I assume, but.

• 2:00:02Speaker 01

  Let's ask someone who knows about physics, not Heifetz.

• 2:00:05Speaker 03

  I mean, Tour de France, this definitely happens. My question is, why don't they do this in horse racing? Why are there no teammate, team horses? Why can't horses work together?

• 2:00:12Speaker 00

  I mean, ma- maybe, you know, two running backs, one should just run behind the other.

• 2:00:17Speaker 01

  Oh, like a fullback?

• 2:00:18Speaker 03

  Fullback for the air.

• 2:00:19Speaker 00

  You know what I mean? Like, maybe, Deandre Swift should be behind Kyle Minnuggai.

• 2:00:22Speaker 01

  A tush push.

• 2:00:23Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:00:24Speaker 03

  That's good.

• 2:00:24Speaker 00

  Justice Hill behind Derrick Henry, slingshot, something like that. Um, what do you?

• 2:00:31Speaker 01

  I have the same question, Craig.

• 2:00:32Speaker 00

  Yeah. Slingshot, engage.

• 2:00:34Speaker 03

  My, uh, unanswerable questions. I have, how many people do you think have been conceived in a Rustler Steakhouse bathroom?

• 2:00:40Speaker 00

  Okay. Probably hundreds.

• 2:00:42Speaker 01

  Ladies' room?

• 2:00:43Speaker 03

  The ladies' room?

• 2:00:44Speaker 01

  He chose me.

• 2:00:46Speaker 03

  I asked you before, I do wonder if it's the most product placement ever in a movie.

• 2:00:50Speaker 00

  It's a good one.

• 2:00:50Speaker 03

  I wanna know where I can find the Cal spread for Playgirl magazine?

• 2:00:55Speaker 03

  He said he pulled his butt cheeks apart and I'm wondering.

• 2:00:57Speaker 01

  My concho.

• 2:00:58Speaker 03

  My concho.

• 2:00:59Speaker 00

  There's a world in which that's, that has been, that's a real thing that took place. Like, they filmed that just for fun, or that photo shoot exists.

• 2:01:05Speaker 01

  Oh, a hundred percent.

• 2:01:05Speaker 00

  I bet you, like, Adam McKay has that in his garage.

• 2:01:08Speaker 01

  Right.

• 2:01:09Speaker 03

  He's just, just files all these.

• 2:01:10Speaker 01

  The lost tapes.

• 2:01:11Speaker 03

  He's just got them everywhere.

• 2:01:12Speaker 01

  It's, it's called Boogie Nights.

• 2:01:14Speaker 03

  The other unanswerable question that I do think is important is like, do you think Ricky's right about the praying to baby Jesus thing?

• 2:01:20Speaker 03

  Like, Jesus, like, obviously baby.

• 2:01:21Speaker 01

  I think you can pray to whichever version of Jesus you want. I agree.

• 2:01:24Speaker 03

  It's kind of a good point.

• 2:01:25Speaker 00

  Yeah. It's very open of him, actually.

• 2:01:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:01:28Speaker 00

  He's like, your Jesus can be whatever you want it to be. This is my Jesus.

• 2:01:31Speaker 01

  Can't even, can't even think yet.

• 2:01:34Speaker 00

  Don't, don't even know a word, newborn baby Jesus. He was a man!

• 2:01:38Speaker 01

  I love how he's like, can you please heal my wife's father, Chip, who's, he has horrible, horrible leg. It smells terrible.

• 2:01:47Speaker 00

  The only thing you've ever done is make a hot daughter.

• 2:01:49Speaker 01

  The dogs are always bothering with it.

• 2:01:52Speaker 00

  Horrible leg.

• 2:01:53Speaker 01

  Horrible leg, the dogs are always bothering with it.

• 2:01:56Speaker 00

  Uh, uh, okay. Almost done here. The memorabilia you'd want most, I, I think it's gotta be the Wonder Bread hat.

• 2:02:04Speaker 03

  Hmm. See, I had that for like Halloween, so I kinda, it's like forty bucks, so I kinda want something like the car.

• 2:02:11Speaker 00

  This is memorabilia. You get the real one.

• 2:02:13Speaker 03

  The real one? Who else? Probably sweaty as hell, man. I don't know.

• 2:02:16Speaker 01

  I think I want Will Ferrell's Crystal Gale shirt.

• 2:02:19Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 2:02:20Speaker 03

  Uh, I kinda want the cougar.

• 2:02:22Speaker 01

  The cougar mannequin?

• 2:02:24Speaker 00

  Oh, like the, like the stuffed cougar?

• 2:02:26Speaker 03

  I want both. I want the real, I want the real cougar. Like, people got those.

• 2:02:29Speaker 00

  The real cougar is, first of all, it's probably dead.

• 2:02:31Speaker 03

  I think it's dead. That's too bad.

• 2:02:32Speaker 00

  That was twenty years ago.

• 2:02:33Speaker 03

  What do you think happened to the car? Where is that car now?

• 2:02:36Speaker 00

  It's probably in a back lot somewhere.

• 2:02:38Speaker 03

  I, that's what I want.

• 2:02:40Speaker 00

  You want the car?

• 2:02:40Speaker 03

  The old Sunset Gower, they had all these random cars from other movies parks, and I was like, man, no one's using those. I kinda want that car.

• 2:02:46Speaker 00

  I want game worn Wonder Bread suit and hat, and, and, and hat.

• 2:02:49Speaker 01

  I want game worn Reese Bobby's wardrobe. He has some great clothes.

• 2:02:54Speaker 00

  He does look good.

• 2:02:54Speaker 03

  You just want a six pack of the malt liquor.

• 2:02:56Speaker 01

  Hell, yeah.

• 2:02:56Speaker 00

  I love when the cougar, when it's clearly this, see what you're talking about with CGI, when it's clearly the stuffed cougar, it's even funnier.

• 2:03:03Speaker 01

  And they're like adding in like, like.

• 2:03:05Speaker 03

  It's following me, yeah.

• 2:03:06Speaker 01

  They're adding in like growls and stuff.

• 2:03:08Speaker 03

  It's following.

• 2:03:09Speaker 00

  It's following.

• 2:03:12Speaker 00

  Uh, Mr. Miyagi Award for, uh, Best and Worst Life Lesson. I think there are two life lessons that, that are in conflict. And we have to decide which one is the ultimate enduring lesson of this movie, which is, is it either, are you first, you're either first or last?

• 2:03:28Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:03:29Speaker 00

  Or is it you could be second, third, fourth, or fifth?

• 2:03:31Speaker 03

  It's the latter. That's the point of the movie is, Rick, it's, it's, you can be second, you can be third, you can be fourth.

• 2:03:36Speaker 00

  The point of the movie is, is you should be winning for yourself, not for anyone else. You, you should do it because you love it and it's for you.

• 2:03:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, I think that's the obvious lesson of the movie is, you can be second or third.

• 2:03:46Speaker 00

  First or last, or you could be second, third, fourth, or fifth. Which lesson would you go by?

• 2:03:51Speaker 01

  This, you could be second, third, fourth, or even, hell, even fifth.

• 2:03:54Speaker 00

  That's loser mentality.

• 2:03:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:03:56Speaker 03

  I kinda think it has to be the lesser of the movie's first or last.

• 2:03:59Speaker 00

  Greatness was built on first or last.

• 2:04:01Speaker 01

  Sure. Um, the other lesson that I thought was very poignant in this movie is, sometimes people don't change. Reese Bobby. I mean, he put out tickets for him every week, the entire, his whole life.

• 2:04:15Speaker 00

  Tickets, that's a real.

• 2:04:16Speaker 01

  Scalping of the tickets immediately after finally showing up is the best bit in any movie ever.

• 2:04:21Speaker 00

  Sixty bucks a pop?

• 2:04:23Speaker 03

  I was wondering if that much money is.

• 2:04:25Speaker 01

  Dude, it's so good.

• 2:04:26Speaker 00

  I imagine were fantastic.

• 2:04:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was amazing.

• 2:04:28Speaker 01

  I believe you got some tickets for me?

• 2:04:29Speaker 03

  But then he just watches from outside the fence.

• 2:04:31Speaker 01

  Who needs tickets?

• 2:04:32Speaker 00

  Reese Bobby has great, I always admired his like hitchhiker mechanics, the thumbs.

• 2:04:36Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 2:04:36Speaker 00

  He's really good at it.

• 2:04:38Speaker 01

  He's a natural, yeah.

• 2:04:40Speaker 00

  He is, man. Gary Cole.

• 2:04:41Speaker 03

  He's just like, fuck it.

• 2:04:42Speaker 00

  It looks really good, and he's doing the both ways thing.

• 2:04:45Speaker 03

  Oh, it's so good.

• 2:04:46Speaker 00

  It's great.

• 2:04:46Speaker 01

  The way he's like watching from up in the, behind the stands, behind the fence afterwards, and like shaking his, his can. It's always just about empty.

• 2:04:54Speaker 00

  He always has like backwash left. Hey dad, where are you going? Doesn't matter? You're like, ooh.

• 2:05:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, kinda like unexpectedly heavy that scene for a moment.

• 2:05:04Speaker 00

  It, it does hit. Um, best double feature choice? I'll go Blades of Glory.

• 2:05:10Speaker 03

  Really?

• 2:05:11Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:05:11Speaker 03

  I feel like it has to be Anchorman or Step Brothers.

• 2:05:13Speaker 00

  No, I, I want Will Ferrell playing sports.

• 2:05:15Speaker 01

  I know, that's, that, the Will Ferrell playing sports thing does make sense, um, with Blades of Glory.

• 2:05:20Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:05:20Speaker 03

  I want Ferrell and John C. Reilly again.

• 2:05:22Speaker 01

  I, I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega Nights, though, together.

• 2:05:26Speaker 00

  You do Anchorman?

• 2:05:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:05:27Speaker 03

  I think it's Anchorman.

• 2:05:28Speaker 01

  Also, Cars was released in the same year. That could be something. Could watch them together.

• 2:05:34Speaker 03

  The classic Cars or Talladega.

• 2:05:35Speaker 01

  Days of Thunder.

• 2:05:36Speaker 00

  Blades of Glory's underrated.

• 2:05:38Speaker 01

  Blades of Glory is funny.

• 2:05:39Speaker 00

  Movie's good.

• 2:05:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:05:40Speaker 00

  Uh, all right, last but not least, who won the movie?

• 2:05:44Speaker 00

  I think it's Farrell.

• 2:05:45Speaker 03

  I think it has to be Will Ferrell.

• 2:05:47Speaker 01

  Not Cal? Got to have sex with his friend's wife, consequence free, got his-

• 2:05:51Speaker 00

  Well, she was unconscious.

• 2:05:55Speaker 01

  Then he won at the end, he won the race, and he has all his sponsors? No, it's Farrell.

• 2:05:59Speaker 00

  Farrell wins the movie.

• 2:05:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:06:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:06:00Speaker 00

  Over McKay. I mean McKay and Farrell, if you could combine them, you would do that, but it's gotta be Farrell. He's like the biggest movie star in the world, basically.

• 2:06:09Speaker 03

  The finding comedy guy.

• 2:06:11Speaker 01

  Those were the days, man.

• 2:06:12Speaker 00

  Will it come back?

• 2:06:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:06:14Speaker 00

  I don't know. I don't really have high hopes.

• 2:06:18Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 2:06:19Speaker 00

  We need-

• 2:06:20Speaker 03

  Wah wah.

• 2:06:21Speaker 00

  We need a couple things. We need like an obsession style comedy hit, whereas like some movie made for five million bucks pops off-

• 2:06:27Speaker 03

  It'll happen.

• 2:06:28Speaker 00

  Or we need Shane Gillis and whoever to be like, screw it, we're doing a huge comedy.

• 2:06:34Speaker 03

  Porque no los dos.

• 2:06:35Speaker 00

  Yeah, they both need to happen.

• 2:06:38Speaker 03

  The Youtubers are just making movies, man. This is the beginning.

• 2:06:41Speaker 00

  Yeah. There was some report about Shane Gillis doing some big comedy in the next year or two.

• 2:06:46Speaker 01

  Oh, interesting.

• 2:06:47Speaker 00

  Yeah, I saw it in the Hollywood Reporter or something like that.

• 2:06:49Speaker 01

  Well, you said your favorite movie, your favorite comedy of the last like 10 or 15 years was, what was it, The Invite? No, what was it?

• 2:06:56Speaker 00

  Well, The Invite came out this year, which I thought was amazing movie, really funny.

• 2:06:59Speaker 01

  Seth Rogen?

• 2:06:59Speaker 00

  Yes, but that's like more of a, it's not like a big broad comedy.

• 2:07:02Speaker 01

  It's not an ensemble comedy.

• 2:07:03Speaker 00

  No. We need like Step Brothers again, things like that. This was fun, Danny Kelly.

• 2:07:09Speaker 03

  We'll be back on this show, I don't know.

• 2:07:11Speaker 00

  Yeah, we'll see if we'll be back. We'll be on the fantasy show, though. Listen to that. This is like, it's Labor Day, this episode is coming out, so it's the same day as the Take Purge on the fantasy football feed that we do, so check out the Take Purge, which is kind of all professional credibility is suspended for 60 minutes and we give takes that we've been holding on to all offseason, and then we'll be with you throughout the entire NFL season.

• 2:07:32Speaker 03

  Four shows a week.

• 2:07:33Speaker 00

  Four shows a week. Fantasy, the fantasy offseason is finally coming to an end.

• 2:07:37Speaker 03

  Wild.

• 2:07:38Speaker 00

  I know. You guys are headed back to your homes.

• 2:07:42Speaker 01

  Tad.

• 2:07:43Speaker 00

  Yeah. We spent a long time together, 11 days. This is the longest we've ever spent together, right?

• 2:07:47Speaker 01

  I think we did this last year.

• 2:07:48Speaker 03

  We did, I think we did 14 days.

• 2:07:50Speaker 01

  I think we did.

• 2:07:51Speaker 03

  You were home, we were traveling for two weeks.

• 2:07:53Speaker 00

  Is that right?

• 2:07:54Speaker 03

  You were gone the entire time.

• 2:07:55Speaker 00

  Interesting. Well, I've treated you to some nice dinners. I'll take you to the west side tonight.

• 2:08:00Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 2:08:02Speaker 00

  Hi Fitz, DK, thank you. We'll see you next week on the rewatch page.

• 2:08:05Speaker 01

  Alright, thanks.

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