Matt Bellany
Appearances
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‘Before Sunrise’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
She's like, here's why Josh Allen cheated for Runa Shakir. She's talking about salt.
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‘Before Sunrise’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Jump ahead 10, 20 years, okay? You're married. Well, your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have.
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‘Before Sunrise’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
You should have thrown to Shakir.
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‘Before Sunrise’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
One of the best theories I've ever heard in a movie. It's like, yeah, he's right. How many souls did we start out with?
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‘Before Sunrise’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Spags is blitzing. He's five wide out. Something's got to break.
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‘Before Sunrise’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Welcome to Verizon.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
That's the weirdest niche, dude. That is the guys where you're like, oh, that person. Jay Moore, Downey Jr., Stiller. Those really talented people who just didn't fit or something.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I care now. And it goes back deep. Myers would do Wayne for years before SNL. It would be part of his Second City stuff. You have this character named Wayne. Gets to SNL and he's like, all right, I want to do Wayne. He's this guy who likes heavy metal and is funny. And they're like, no, you got to have a wingman. You got to have somebody else.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
He tells the story that he said, all right, I picked Dana Carvey because he was the best person in the cast. But then I also hear he doesn't want him in the movie, even though he's in the sketch. And I've heard you guys talk about the Dr. Evil stuff, which is, Carvey has said it. I mean, I think he was on Howard Stern saying, it's not just the voice.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
When I would do Lorne Michaels, I would do the backwards pinky finger too, which is basically how Mike Myers ended up printing money. And in the lens of Dana Carvey going on to not have a huge movie career, it's rough, man. I mean, I don't like hearing about it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I love it. It bothers me to hear it, but then when I watch the movie, I instantly forget it. And you know how he must have been a really, really strong personality to have to deal with? Wayne's World is his first ever movie. He has never appeared in any movie scene of any kind. He's the lead in this movie, and he's still not happy to be there at all. Not like, wow, great, I get to make a movie.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Still causing that many problems, and that's how strong opinionated he was. Tough.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I have several thoughts on this for one of my flex categories today. Uh, okay.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Yeah. Save it. We can talk about that.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I watched this morning. It's the 1990 episode that Rob Lowe hosted. The opening monologue is very strange. He comes out and he hasn't made a movie in two years and he's hosting SNL. He has this videotaped scandal with these young women, and it was dicey as hell. And as he's going through the monologue, they have plants in the audience, and they're yelling at him, I have a daughter!
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And everyone kind of laughs nervously. And then Lovitz comes up and says, you know, Rob, I'll take it from here. It's a very odd monologue, but became a very good episode.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Really, really special movie to me. Saw it when I was 13 years old. Perfect age, perfect theater. First movie I ever went to with a girl. I put my arm around her for the whole movie. Laughed my ass off. And it's just a very special, very happy movie in which... Two fastball throwers just were throwing heat for 90 straight minutes and just giving you everything they got.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
You got mine in there. I mean, we missed it. Chia Pet is in there. Empire Carpeting. I know we're going to talk Needle Drop later, but Ugly Kid Joe was just amazing. And I hate everything about you. But when he's driving with Cassandra and he has the dashboard mounted Discman CD player who then he opens up and she says, wow, look at the CD player.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And then the song he puts on is a deep cut chili pepper song that is the B side to under the bridge. That is my answer. That's holy shit. That's good.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Did you have the one where you would put a cassette tape in and the cassette had wires that came out of it that went to the CD player? That one was nuts.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Initially, I was going to say 13 because of your entry to SNL, but I missed so many of the jokes. I think it's actually what Wayne's age is in this movie, which is a little debatable, but he's living with his parents and I think he's like 23. I think out on your own, but maybe you have a crappy job and you live to have bands and music on the weekend. What do you think?
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I, you can't say enough about the Bohemian Rhapsody scene. That was the takeaway from this movie for the masses. That's why it was a big hit. And I think it's really interesting because if you, you have some of it in the research, like Myers insisted that it was Bohemian Rhapsody. It was a queen song. It's old at that point. It's not a nineties song. Myers loves everything British.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And on the rewatch, Bill, I probably haven't watched Wayne's World in total in like maybe 10 years. I find myself laughing through every scene. It's every scene brings something and it just makes me happy.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And then allegedly there was pushback from Lorne Michaels who wanted it to be a welcome to the jungle. And Myers eventually won. And I think he won. I'll tell you why. I saw this movie at 13 years old. I had never heard Bohemian Rhapsody in my life. I didn't know what the hell that song was. I don't know, this Beelzebub and all that shit they're talking about and the headbanging was crazy to me.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And a kind of a cool thing, like when the Bohemian Rhapsody movie came out with Rami Malek, I, through the NFL, got to interview the four guys in the band, like Rami Malek and the three other dudes. Yeah. And I asked them, I said, so when did you guys first hear Queen's music? And these are pretty erudite, smart, like mostly British actors outside of Rami.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And I thought they'd be like, oh, you know, my vinyl collection of my father. Every single one in the band said Wayne's World, Wayne's World, Wayne's World. I all heard Rami Malek won an Oscar playing Freddie Mercury. And he first heard Freddie Mercury in the Murphmobile in Wayne's World. That is so cool. That's a big deal.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Yeah, exactly. And it made me think, like, if you could have picked a better song in 1992, and I was thinking, like, if they had dropped Smells Like Teen Spirit in that scene, would that have totally changed the movie? It came out in 91. They're probably shooting the movie in 91.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
It would have worked and been cool, but there was something timeless and nostalgic about Bohemian Rhapsody that just worked, and Myers was right.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I definitely smell a pork product of some kind. Officer Koharski.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And it's all a wide shot. They never even zoom in on Meatloaf's face. You're like, is that fucking Meatloaf you're trying to see on the VHS? And it is.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Are they any good? They suck. So it's not just a clever name.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
We would say that, and then we would say, at first it's constrictive, and then after a while it becomes a part of you, like the new pair of underpants. Yeah. What you just described is like the first 12 to 15 minutes of the movie, and it's absolutely perfect. There's fun camera play where Garth's like, oh, what's that over there? And then he fakes out the camera and runs away. It's all so fun.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Baby Majora. That stuff worked. We were all laughing at that stuff back then. It was awesome.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And then at the end, Garth just says, no, neither did I. I was just asking.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Yeah, when I was watching this, one of the times I laughed the hardest when my wife goes, what are you watching? Is at the very end when they go tight on Garth and he goes, here I come, girl. I'm coming to get you. And he's just like super sex machine with that stupid wig and glasses. And Carvey is so, so funny.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I couldn't help it. When that line came out for the next 20 years, anytime anyone was ordering Chinese food, someone would say, I'll have the cream of some young guy. You had to say it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
it's just those index cards. It's not just that he writes, he blows goats. He says, I have proof. And that line always kills me. I'm like, he has proof that he blows goats and just the stupid little stuff. Like we haven't talked much about not yet. I know we'll get there, but like he introduced him. He goes, here's our sponsor. Noah Vanderhoff. Nice name. Not.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And I laughed when I watched that last night.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Um, It's the most memorable scene. For me, the Makita's Into the Gas Works is the best stretch of this movie, and it's unbelievably good. I would go with that.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
They come up through Chicago and you can tell like that guy totally has it. He's talking about cities and I'm laughing.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And there's weird shit with that, where everybody had the VHS of Wayne's World. I think it was even one you could get at McDonald's if you ordered a value meal. And he would start that scene, and Wayne would play these three bizarre notes that sounded nothing like Stairway to Heaven.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Right. So the story is they couldn't or wouldn't pay Led Zeppelin to even play those three notes. So it doesn't sound anything like Stairway. The joke doesn't make sense, but we just went with it for years.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
if you watch it on amazon now just if you rent it for three bucks it's the notes from stairway to heaven and it totally makes sense and the joke is there we everyone even though it didn't make sense we would still all talk about no stairway it's the joke still lived without it making any sense at all i mean you could buy it for five bucks on amazon it was half price because i think it was because s and o week um yeah i have more what do you have for what stage the best
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
We talk about Tia Carrera's performance. Like I fucking love her in this movie. And the fact that they chose her and where she came from, like Tia Carrera was from Hawaii. She had done all these weird, stupid little shows that they did back there, like Airwolf or Love Boat, that type of stuff. Yeah. And was going to do Baywatch and did this movie.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And as far as I've read and understood, does all of the singing. That's actually her. It's not like Marty McFly with a fake voice singing Go Johnny Go. That's actually her singing. I love her in this movie. Love it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Very talented, obviously beautiful, but also cool with the comedy. I'm sure you appreciate her in Rising Sun with Connery and Snapes. That came a few years later, too.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
She's hanging in with that scene in the subtitles. That's like high comedy when it's they're going back and forth and they have to wait and the timing is there. And like Myers is just cooking. And I'm never like this girl's over her skis at all. I just think she does a really, really good job in the movie. And like I'm always I'm a lifetime fan of her just because she's Cassandra.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And also, I think she has a really critical role. And her casting in this role, Bill, keeps this from maybe being the whitest movie of all time. It's still probably in conversation. But if they cast somebody else who's not her, it's the whitest movie ever made from start to finish.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
The soundtrack, this musically, this movie drops at a really interesting time, Bill. It's the hair metal thing is just kind of dying and grunge is just showing up. And my take on the soundtrack is that singles is looked at as the grunge movie and it has total credibility and it's very, very cool.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
This is a much more fun, more watchable movie than Singles that has at least one foot in grunge. They play a Temple of the Dog song in this. It's called All Night Thing. They were there early, and it was cool. I like this movie much more than Singles. It's not as serious and maybe not quite as smart, I guess, but it has total credibility in hair metal and grunge.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Got this mega babe for elite singer. Yeah.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
If I remember it right – and it was really special because I think 12 and 13 is the time when you kind of really start to think SNL is cool, especially in the 90s. And Carvey was amazing and Hartman in that era. And I was like in seventh grade. And we would come to school the next day and quote like Lothar of the Hill People or Unfrozen Caveman. We just thought it was so cool. If I have it right –
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Great. First he screws me. Then he screws you. It's Dutch door action. I used to say that all the time.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Well, a Dutch door is one that is kind of cut in half in the middle, I think, and the top opens and then the bottom. But it almost sounds like an ad lib. I've never heard Dutch door action when it pertains to how you treat someone.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
which is Algonquin for the good land. One of the most interesting things about Milwaukee bill, it's the only major American city to have elected three socialist mayors. Cooper is great in that.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
That dynamic of that scene where they're just like, party! Oh my God, it's Alex Cooper! And he's like, well, Milwaukee's certainly had a share of visitors over the years. It's excellent. And by the way, another thing that just everybody does when you have the backstage pass and you just hold it out in front of you to show everyone, that became because of this movie. You did it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
That still hangs around to this day. You know what that line is like? It is like in Sideways. I'm not drinking any fucking Merlot. Right. And then for Merlot is dead for decades. Anytime you mention Delaware to someone of a certain age, you just say, hi, I'm in Delaware. It's permanent.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
It felt great. A random sports scene out of nowhere, and it gave us the chorus of, game on, car. I love that part. It's great. They don't need to have that. They could be sitting on bar stools just talking about Benjamin. They go out and play some sports. It's pleasing to the eye. And then you get Stacey driving by and crashing into the Trans Am or whatever, and that's a laugh out loud moment.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
They ran a trailer for Wayne's World, and it was an Addams Family spoof that I think ran in the theater before the Addams Family, which was a huge deal. And it was Wayne and Garth singing the Addams Family theme and kind of forgetting the lyrics. And they were making a Wayne's World movie. And I had never, listen, Blues Brothers was before my time as a kid at that point.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Yeah, we watched that sketch for four years and he kind of just drums on his legs a little bit, but then they put in this long drum solo and I guess he's really talented.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Probably best for me. I mean, I'm a fan of Claudia.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Oh, yeah. Well, she shows up in Love Actually. And so people actually know that movie really well. And so that's timeless. So I think they might know her.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
She, the crucial taunt set list. You have fire and you got ballroom blitz. And then she's got that one. That's got ain't got no reason for reaction.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
That's cool. And then it's like a, why are you gonna break my heart? Ooh, it's,
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
It's a cheesy ballad. I have their band comp. It's a little bit of Lita Ford, which is the touch of hole. And it's a pretty cool band. I like Crucial Taunt.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
That's pre-office. That's pre-Michael Scott. That's what she said. Will you hurry up? I'm getting tired of holding this. That's what she said. Crushed it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
That's this movie just hitting you with every fastball that possibly, it doesn't need to have that. 91, Terminator 2 comes out and the next year they get Robert Patrick to show up. Have you seen this boy? And everybody in the theater lost their fucking minds, brought the house down. It was really cool. I love that part.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
When he reaches for the water and throws it on his face, I like it. It makes me laugh. The gratuitous sex scene, I like that. What doesn't work? What do you got?
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I like the meta answer is when Wayne goes, camera one, camera two, camera one, camera two.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
So the idea that something I watched on Saturday Night Live would be in a movie theater was electrifying, especially since Wayne and Garth were just so funny. And I love the music with it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Those are great names. Garth Algar at the time would also remember that one of the largest entertainers in the world was Garth Brooks. And he, he, there was only two people I can think of ever named Garth and then Algar. Garth Algar is an awesome name.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I'm going to go with an old classic on the rewatches. I'm going to go with the racehorse fantasy team name, band name, because there's just so many of it. We mentioned Dutch door action. My buddy Aaron, whose Bar Mitzvah theme was Aaron's World in homage to Wayne's World, he named his fantasy team the Shitty Beatles.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
There's Psycho Hose Beast, but the best one by far for a horse, band name, or anything is Pralines and Dick. Yeah.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Once they're trying to get to Jackie Sharp, the record exec.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Mine is a little outside the box. My problem with this movie, how and why is Phil Hartman not in this movie? Why was there not a place for him with Carvey's love for him and his working with him in so many other movies? I have it two different parts. He could have been Glenn, which was the Ed O'Neill role, but Ed O'Neill was great in that.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And you have him as Officer Koharski and he's talking about body cavity searches and it's really funny.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Oh, the record. Mr. Big Frank Myers and he very close. If you want an unusual watch, Myers shows up in an award show after the horrible, horrible death of Hartman and his wife and gives a very unusual address on the stage. But the takeaway from it was that he was really close to him and his family and they loved working together. I don't know why Phil Hartman is not in Wayne's world.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Well, think about that, though. You said 1980. They're shooting this in 91. That show is already really, really old. It's like looking at right now doing a movie that's, I don't know, like a lost parody or something like that, or maybe Modern Family, which was bigger.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
But no one is like, hold on, Mike. I know you love Laverne and Shirley, but you're asking for a really extended produced bit of a show that ended 11 years ago. And he's like, yeah, I want it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Okay, I think Wayne's World 2 has some really funny shit in it. The kung fu scene is amazing, and the guy, the DJ is amazing. It has a massive fatal flaw, which Myers decided to commit the entire movie to Oliver Stone's The Doors and is the through line of the movie, which is a ridiculous choice where Jim Morrison is showing up. It's not Val Kilmer either. It's a very strange choice at the time.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
It's also the musical number. It's the village people, which I know it's iconic, but that's also really old. No kid right now ever, maybe your son or something, my son tries to turn on Wayne's World. It's hard enough to keep up with it. What the fuck is with this guy out in the desert with the leather pants and the sunglasses? The Doors was not that big of a movie.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
It's not like a Terminator homage. It's weird. And he married the whole movie to The Doors.
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That sounds like something that Christian Bale would go through or something. A committed actor. Dana Carvey. Wow. In heart.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Would we ever do one, Bill? And when I say we, anybody, would there ever be a Police Academy as rewatchable? Could you do it? I think we could do the first one. Police Academy 1, not Assignment Miami Beach?
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Bill, I got principles and I have priorities. I'm trying to put in some time to get comfortable with Jim Cotta. So I got to put that in front of Police Academy, dude. I got work to do.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Can we talk about what's aged the worst? Can we talk about not? Let's have a conversation about not.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Yeah. Swing was boners and we're not worthy. You bow down in front of people. Not was a, again, I keep saying it was a cultural phenomenon. It was everywhere. My wife is like six or seven years younger than me. I said, do you remember what not was? She said, I had a hat that said not on it with an exclamation point, like a baseball cap that I used to wear.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And it was, you would just, you would say like to your friend, like, oh man, I really liked those shoes. Those look good on you. And he'd say, thanks. You go not. And it was just like a sick burn and everyone did it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
You know, like he would do something like, you know, the full circle that it made is Borat. They do a bit with Borat where he goes to learn American comedy.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Remember that? And there's this like really nerdy comedy instructor who tries to teach him knot jokes and Borat just keeps messing it up and fucking with him. But it was being used as an example of the lamest possible American comedy.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Yes. As your very nice prostitute, not.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
No, we covered the sequel, The Doors. I'm good on that.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
They went to the Halloween store and got the costume in a bag for Agent with a cigar and a pinky ring and a pinstripe suit. Hi, I'm Jackie Sharp, and I must say, while you're very beautiful, it's tough. I don't know.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
All right. The category of the actor I can't believe did not become a bigger star. Let's talk about Dana Carvey. All right. Dana Carvey brought me into SNL when I was in about sixth grade. He was the star. He ran the show. It's all his biggest sketches. And I look back on it and I feel like the absolute ceiling for Dana Carvey with his talent and his audience reception was like a Steve Martin.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And I would have thought the basement would have been Tim Allen or maybe even like Kevin James, like who had big success in a lot of avenues. And it didn't work out for a couple of different reasons. Why do you think he didn't become a bigger commercial star?
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And I had this conversation this morning with Schrager at work, and he was like, you know, someone like Steve Martin was a genuinely really good actor when he needed to. He could cry. He could do the drama. He's like, I can't take Dana Carvey seriously. But then I said, like, 90% of the stuff that Farrell does is ridiculous farce comedy. Just for some reason, he never landed.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And then what happened is he makes a few Mrs. movies. The Dana Carvey show, which was incredibly pedigreed, doesn't work out because of the time slot and all that shit.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And then he finally gets his act together, and he's going to make his Austin Powers, and his Austin Powers is Master of Disguise, which was one of those movies that was not only bad, but became known for being bad, like G-League or something like that. That was it. I remember like Kevin and being in LA would just play a different clip every single morning, just make fun of it.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And then Dana Carvey. And like, that was pretty much it for that type of stuff.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Whenever he wants. Like, I think he could do standup and all that. And I love him and I root for him. I'm bringing this up because I would have liked to see him be able to do more stuff, you know?
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like that's like a stealth snl sketch but that was the kind of shit they had all the time unfrozen caveman lawyer all this like really really crazy weird stuff and they were just delivering every time and it's also early 90s were pre even rudimentary internet so to see the stuff on set like try to imagine being about 14 years old and watching snl on nbc and they you see the schmidt's gay commercial for a gay beer you couldn't fucking believe
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Yeah, he was news radio side, right? But not like that Tim Allen home improvement character. I know what you mean.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
And of course the take is, is that, you know, maybe Myers, when you're playing Austin powers, maybe you let Carvey be Dr. Evil and he does that thing. And then he's on that rocket with you. But Myers was probably like, no, I've already worked with Dana and I'm done. I'm doing this both by myself, but it was gone.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Well, I had a question for you. I had this in Unanswerable, is that what is the real equivalent of Wayne's World? Like, as it's happened in front of us, something that has been plucked from cable access and made into mainstream. Like, is it Hak'tu'a? Like, what is it? I don't even know.
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My hottest take is, I'm going to just go right from the hip on this one. I think Wayne's World is the most quotable movie of all time.
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That's my hot take on it. And I'll put it in context.
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Yeah, I think it's I think at the very least it's in the elite eight and it's with things like Lebowski, Anchorman, Airplane. I can't find a scene in this movie, any scene where there's not at least the line that people have said that you would know or that you incorporate in everyday life. I think it's like something like Jerry Maguire was another 90s luminary.
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They have like two or three things that broke through. Show me the money. Yeah. You complete me. Wayne's World has like 15 things. We've been mentioning them now for an hour. All the, excuse me, baking powder, like the countdown from five, four, three, you don't say two or one. Those are all things that infiltrate.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
We'll say Wayne's world five, four. They it's, it's iconic in that sense, the gun rack, the lawyer stuff where he's like, Ooh, yes. I'm not so sure about. Yes. Like that is bits that people still do to this day. And Wayne's world has like 20 of them. So there's a lot of quotable movies. I think it's the most quotable movie of all time from start to finish.
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I think every single year, I think Anchorman, I think every Christmas season, Christmas Vacation, there's tons of them. Lebowski and Anchorman are one of those movies that people quote that don't even realize they're quoting the movie. Like when you say a rug ties the room together, that's Lebowski and some people don't even know it. But they're all up there. Those are the greats.
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what you were watching and there was no way to see that on the internet you would talk to your friends the next day at lunch be like that was like a gay beer commercial and then the guys came out on their bikinis you could not fucking believe it and it was farley and sandler it was just like two all-timers it's a it's a it's a wonderful wonderful time and one of the best things that kicked out was wayne's world which is the best snl movie and by far the most successful snl movie
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
Here's the thing. People ask me all the time, like, oh, how do you choose what movies you're going to do? I know at some point, sometimes it happens like this. I'm going to get a text from Bill, and the text is going to say, it's time. And there's going to be a picture of the No Holds Barred poster, and I'm going to be so fucking ready, because I know him from No Holds Barred as well.
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He's the manager. He's Russell here, but Kurt Fuller, I know his name as well. Rip him.
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His name is Mike Haggerty. I got him. Mike Haggerty.
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He's also Rosie, the muscle for Bodhi in Point Break, who will gut you like a pig and try to get you in your shoes.
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Bill, this is a turgid that guy category because I also want to shout out Officer Koharski, who's Frederick Coffin, who's our guy O'Malley in Hard to Kill. Oh, that's a great one. O'Malley, this is an even better one. All right, so you know the guy who is like, your name is pronounced Algar, right? Party on, wait.
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He is the guy in Boogie Nights when Buck tries to get the loan and he's like, sir, you're a pornographer. Oh my God, you're right.
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Don Amendolia, that's the guy from Boogie Nights with Buck in the bank. I am an actor. That's him.
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O'Neal is really good. His first line in the movie is he looks at Camry and just goes, I never did a crazy thing in my life before that night. I think it's O'Neal. That's a great final four or final three.
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But O'Neal, who was also in the sketch, the Wayne's World sketch, as a driver's ed teacher from the guy's high school, I'm going to give it to him over even Farley and Cooper, and they're both great.
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I'm thinking sitcom mom, like Judith Light. You know, like that would really work. I know Suzanne Somers is the best one. I know Myers, because in So I Married an Axe Murderer, there's a Thighmaster bit. And so he would have been a fan of her. Somers would have been really good.
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Well, I got to think that it's just sitting right there. The schwing, right? And they must say schwing all the time, right?
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Who plays Russell? Peter North? I need to know the full cast.
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And are they just like, they're having sex and it's party time. Excellent.
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I'll be honest, Bill. Can I get the one with the sex? I'd like to check that one out.
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Bill, where do you have this in your all-time pacers? Is it more Reggie Miller or like Austin Crozier?
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Is it, is that actually sound? Cause he goes, uh, like that's just nonsense, right?
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Dana Carvey was so big at this point that he did a set with U2 as Garth, where he was on stage with them at the VMAs drumming. U2 was probably the biggest band. It was like Octoon Baby era. He was global at that point. So it's Dana Carvey's apex. The first movie, yes.
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it's not only his first hugely successful movie, it's really his last one too.
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Yeah, definitely. When you think when you, when you're like, I'm from Chicago, you meet someone from Aurora. You're like, all right, party time. Excellent. Yeah.
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They love it. They're really big fans.
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Bigger. So she's a very important part of the James Cameron movie. It's a massively successful James Cameron movie. She's doing the Samba with Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know, not playing. I think it's, I think it's True Lies. True Lies was big and she had a tough.
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Great instrumental in the American Revolution. One of the oldest states. But I think of them in front of the blue screen. I'm sorry, guys. Maybe Joe Flacco, though. He was Super Bowl MVP and he went to Delaware.
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Joe Biden was a nine-time senator, and he was the president of the United States.
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And we still think it's Wayne. I think it's Joe Flacco winning the Super Bowl MVP.
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Do you know, Bill, when I was in summer of 2000, I interned at an agency, and the agent I worked under was Rob Lowe's agent. I used to get to listen to his phone calls. Rob Lowe would call in, and you know what he was calling about? He was begging his agent that he wanted to be in the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes movie because he loved Planet of the Apes, and he was begging.
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He'll say, I'll do any part, and the response was, you can't be in it because you have blue eyes, and they're only casting actors with brown eyes, so you're not allowed to be in it. And my agent was like, that's the only time in your life that's going to work against you, those blue eyes. Isn't that crazy? He wanted in them.
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roblo one of the greats great podcast guests too i bet cruz or hanks this feels hanks to me um i think i have cruz as benjamin in like kind of a pre jerry mcguire sort of agent role but i think interesting i think if you're going to cast as one of the big two i think it's hanks as as wayne as i think so too yeah
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I think for Scorsese that Cassandra would have to turn into like Ginger from Casino, you know, like try to just be some sort of crazy off the hook. Also, Bill, I had one apex for you. I want to bounce off you.
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Rock bands and movies, like fake rock bands, like Crucial Taunt.
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Let me give you some. I have some. All right. So you have Spinal Tap. You have Wild Stallions from Bill & Ted. I don't really get to see them play. The School of Rock Kids. Steel Dragon with Mark Wahlberg. The Pinheads with Marty McFly. And then our guys Stillwater from Almost Famous.
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We saw Soundgarden play. They're a real band.
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Citizen Dick, though. I think it's Stillwater.
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Fever Dog. And Jason Lee really does the singing like Cassandra does. I think I have Stillwater as well in that movie.
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I got Lopez and I have Lopez. This is, she is early, early nineties. She's doing, she's doing the in living color. She's a dancer. Selena is going to hit a few years.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
No, I'm not going to even go Money Train. I'm going to go pre-Selena, very young, Jennifer Lopez. I have a feeling with who you're going to go with. I'm going to write it down. But I think it's J-Lo in the role of Cassandra.
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Oh, I thought you were going to say Connelly for sure.
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I got Philip Seymour Hoffman as Garth. I think he'd be fucking incredible.
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I think all in, one of the co-leads, and he's just like, Wayne, can I kiss you on the mouth? Wayne, you look at me sometimes. Do you like the Mercmobile?
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Yes. I think it's Scotty J as, as Garth. That's my call.
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Well, MTV, massive, very important to have music videos. I look at the year before this movie came out, Metallica does the Black Album with Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters and took shit. Why are you doing a ballad? Why are you making these videos? And that was looked at as a sellout.
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Um, I think that they're trying to character develop Garth a little bit. They have this running thing where Garth is a mad scientist, right? The electric thing, this thing. And at the end, he reprograms the satellites. I think they have that in there. It's a really weird scene. And it starts with Rob Lowe's great. He goes, you know, Garth, you and I have never really talked.
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And you're like, oh, shit, what's going on here? And you're just nervous the whole time. It's the strangest scene in the movie. You're all over it.
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Doesn't Wayne go there every week?
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That's why this category is here. That's a great one.
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This one didn't strike me until this viewing as an older man. These are some heavy metal guys, right? They're in their early 20s and they're going out with their friends. They're going in the car. They're blasting rock music. They're going to go see a band and they go and get coffee and donuts on a Friday night. What the fuck is that? They don't go to a bar. They don't get beers.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
They don't do shots. It doesn't make any sense that your pre-party to go out to see a rock concert would be to go have donuts at a donut shop with your friends as someone who's 20. It's ridiculous. I don't get it at all.
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I guess it's much more charming that they, that it's inferred that they don't show it. They're like, there's not a bong scene or there's enough stone or movies. This is not what they're going for, but they don't even, even when he's at the bar and he meets Cassandra, Wayne doesn't have a drink. Cassandra orders a club soda.
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It's I'm like, I found myself wondering, are they trying to go for some sort of PG rating or something? But it's PG 13. They can have booze in it. There's just, that's not really there.
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And there's that line that when they finally finished the highly produced open of the TV show and Wayne goes, party on, Garth. And Garth goes, I guess. And that was like, that's a reaction to someone who just sold out. You're like, nothing else matters. They're great song. And some people want to be like, I guess like that's the whole in, in one line, that's the idea of reacting to selling out.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
They just, you would never fire the host of a show after one segment in the middle of a live show. It doesn't make any sense at all. No. They didn't rehearse it once. They had no idea what they were doing. And in the middle of the, in the commercial break, they fire the host and he walks out. It's nonsense.
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‘Wayne’s World’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
I think that Wayne and his crew are so rock and roll and so motley that they need someone who zags. And I think Daniel Plainview should be part of their crew. Oh, let's hear it. And it's him and HW, and they do craft services, and they just put out steak and whiskey and goat's milk.
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And at one point, Garth goes to him and says, Mr. Plainview, when you're with a girl who just makes you want to hurl every time you see her, what do you do? And he says, I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. But if you spew and she bolts, it was never meant to be. That's Plainview as part of the crew.
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The writers, it's just so dense. Every line is awesome. Myers and the two writers.
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Every time he gets a little nervous, Wayne goes, Garth, your pills, your pills. He even says, take your Ritalin. It's not subtle. So they were a little ahead of the curve on that one. I think he's got all kinds of stuff like that. But I also think that he is, if you sat him down to take some sort of calculus test, that he would ace it.
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Well, it's interesting because in the sketch, they're in high school. That's established. They bring in one of their high school teachers. But then in the movie, they're definitely not in high school. They're not in college. Wayne talks about his career as hairnets and name tags. I think that they can drink and they can get in clubs.
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I think they're 23 or 24, just kind of adults with bad jobs, but no school whatsoever, no.
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No, we answered all mine. I'm good now.
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I want the suck cut. I want that machine. It sucks and it cuts. I want that thing. And I have to take my kids for haircuts all the time. And that barber like either always messes it up or I don't describe it properly. And my wife gets mad when I bring home the kid with a bad haircut. So I'll just do it with the suck cut and we'll save all the money like that.
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I'm dragging that gargantuan cranium around.
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No, give me Axe Murderer. Okay, good call. Normal Myers, 94.
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I think, I mean, the funny answer is Queen. And they recharted, even though from a song 15 years earlier. But, I mean, I think this is just Myers. He's awesome in it. I love him in it. He had sequels. He had many more movies to come. And it sounds like he won a lot of the wars about what he wanted in the movie, too.
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That's interesting. You say that I was, cause I was gonna ask you who are you team Garth or team, team Wayne? You got to pick one.
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They don't really make like the SNL movies. Is there like a sketch or a bit that you love that you would have loved to see into a movie that they haven't or could?
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That's the last one they've made, too. They haven't made one since.
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They did Stuart Saves His Family with Al Franken.
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In Meadows. Yeah. They were doing a lot.
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Just a little bit. I don't know. But Craig, they leave him to do the show and he says, I'm having a good time, not. And that kills. What are you talking about?
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So go then. So go. So go. So go then. That's what I'm saying to you, Craig.
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When they launched into a fucking Laverne and Shirley homage, I didn't even know that's what that was. What is this song and what is this bottle with a glove on it? You're totally in the dark, right?
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Not you didn't go to the Jelly Roll concert.
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No, I'm just trying to sell out in every way possible to be cool to the Craigs. Watch Good Morning Football, everybody. And you can catch me on the rewatchables on the Ringer podcast network.
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Honestly, dude, I'm flirting with Jim Cotta right now. There's a courting period going through it. And I'm about to have a couple weeks off. I might sneak in Jim Cotta.
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Well, it speaks to, I know like we have the Devil Wears Prada award, right? And it's like, did this movie set out what, it's the crazy thing. We watched this sketch for over three years and it's only in a basement and people come down, but you never leave the basement.
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And what they set out to achieve with this movie is let's see what their world looks like when they go up the stairs to the basement. They go up this, they start the movie with like the normal sketch. Like I've seen Wayne's World before. And then they go up the stairs and Wayne breaks the fourth wall immediately. And you're like, oh shit, this is cool. Like he's talking to the camera.
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And then five minutes into the movie, we're already at Bohemian Rhapsody and the thing's incredible. They do an amazing job of coming up the stairs.
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Well, it's Aerosmith. And it's the Madonna truth or dare spoof. Right. Where they're doing this big, heavily produced thing. And Wayne's like, I dare you to make out with me. And then it was like the biggest thing ever. So they did a little bit. But I didn't think this movie could be as good as it is. And I think it's still excellent. You were talking about how much you were laughing.
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There's some of the stuff now when you watch that you laugh at because it's genuinely funny. I find myself laughing that we used to laugh at this because it's so stupid. But I promise you at the time we laughed at it and it was cool.
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Yeah, listen. All the stuff when he talks about that they're making a movie. This is the Oscar clip. This is the gratuitous sex scene. Obviously, we're going to talk about the sponsorship scene, which is just iconic. You know what I find myself reminding of in a contemporary sense? I find myself thinking about Deadpool and these Ryan Reynolds movies in which
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He's constantly talking to camera, breaking fourth wall, talking about the movie itself. And Ryan Reynolds is a guy who grew up in Canada and I would guess probably idolized Mike Myers without knowing that. That's what kids are watching now. And there's a lot of Wayne's World in these massive Deadpool movies. Yeah. It just works, man. He talks to the camera and I get it.
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I feel like I'm hanging out with Wayne.
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it's they they do a really deeply produced Laverne and Shirley license the music that probably took them two weeks to shoot that thing it was so important and it's like it's so unbelievably dated for someone watching now and I just think that that was one thing that was tough for me is that now that I watch it at 13 there were so many ref I didn't know who Dick Van Patten was I didn't know Ravi Shankar and all that shit like I barely knew Laverne and Shirley Darren's
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Sergeant York, all that. I didn't know any of that stuff. It was still funny the way he was saying it, so I would laugh. But you probably got that stuff.
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Well, Hartman was the ultimate glue guy in that he would do some solo stuff, but he could tie it together with the cast. Meyer's stuff where he really shined was either him by himself, like Simon, or like Lothar mostly, or Wayne and Garth, but like a sketch comedy prodigy. The backstory for him is everyone tells their audition story. Mike Myers did not audition for SNL.
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He was doing a display at the Second City in Toronto. Martin Short saw him and called Lorne Michaels and said, you have to hire this guy. Did not audition, was hired. That's unheard of, no audition. And he came on in the middle of a season, mid-season replacement. And by the end of the season, he was already doing these characters and then became a star really fast.
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