Austin Powers

Clay and Evan recap the Austin Powers films. Joanna talks about the benefits of putting American Girl Dolls in the oven. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

I do love the um American, like the entrance, the entrance of um Felicity Shagwal with American Woman. Like that's such a good scene.

SPEAKER_03 0:08

Just keeping it PG as like a 12-year-old adolescent boy. Like that scene moved me. Not sexually.

SPEAKER_02 0:19

But like, no, that scene, how you said it made it seem like it was emotionally a move.

SPEAKER_03 0:25

No, it was just like, don't look at me when you're when you say it that way.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Look away. I like this one thing, so I made it my whole thing. Now no one wants to talk to me at parties. Please listen to my spiel, because I made it my whole deal. I made it my whole personality. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Welcome back to my whole personality. This episode is part two of last week's episode. It's still with my friends Clay and Evan. Uh last week's episode we talked about my topic, which was Animorphs. And on this episode, we're talking about their topic, which is Austin Powers. So you don't really need to have listened to the Animorphs episode, but I think you should. You don't need to listen to it, but you will notice a sound effect that is used throughout this episode. And that's kind of a pickup from last episode. So if you're wondering where that sound comes from, you might even be thinking, wow, that's kind of a disrespectful sound cue to drop in at certain points of this episode. Just know that that is a pickup joke from the last episode. But I hope you all enjoyed this episode, and I'll see y'all next week. Okay, so we're gonna move into your all's topic, which um I didn't know which direction you all were gonna go when you picked the topic, because it could be so many things. But y'all chose Austin Powers.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Did you have any pre-con like what did anything pop into your head that you thought maybe?

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Well, I thought for sure you were gonna pitch me something pretty off-color at first as a joke. But then I don't know, because I know that we talked a lot about ones at dinner. Like, what's that guy you guys like? Bob Seeger. I thought I was I was I was like, it's either gonna be something like really obscure and like sp or specific. Um so that was up there for me.

SPEAKER_04 2:24

That that tracks.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

What were the other ones you all were playing with? Because I know golf was one. I'm so glad. Yeah, you didn't like that idea. I didn't like that at all.

SPEAKER_03 2:31

Why why didn't you like that idea?

SPEAKER_01 2:33

Um, I don't know. I don't know. It just didn't seem like there was gonna be anything. Well, also, every time I talk to you all, you're like, we're going on a golfing trip. We hate golf.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

Evan's still deep kind of in golf a little bit. I've I've taken a little time away, but there was like a few years that recently where we were golfing quite a bit.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

I think we were talking about just even tennis with Clay and you guys, since you've done it, and it could be like And that's you're deep in your tennis era right now.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

Oh, deeply, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:59

But it could have been like golf tennis, lifetime sports, is that what they call? Yeah, yeah, lifetime sports. Lifetime sports shuffleboard, add that in. Exactly. So that was kind of the thought, I think. But which is a little bit more relevant to something that we're we're doing.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

Well, do you all think that anamorphs is relevant to my recent life? Sounds like a little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:19

Sounds like you're deep in the Reddit threads.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

I know. Well, that's the problem with this, especially with this podcast. Like I started it because I've noticed that I get really deep into random Reddit threads, but now that I'm like doing this and thinking about more things, I'm getting so many Reddit push notifications that are kind of scary, you know?

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

That's uh like dismembered American girl dolls in a freezer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

Wait, what?

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Because that's how you clean them, I think. Or something you to pop if they have a dent in their head, I think you either boil them or put them in the oven, and then you do something else. And so some people have like put their body parts in the freezer to like fix them somehow.

SPEAKER_02 3:59

You recently went to the American Girl.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

I did, all sorts.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

Is that gonna be a topic on an upcoming episode?

SPEAKER_01 4:05

It absolutely could. It was really strange. Yeah, it was really strange. I think um, I can't remember who I told about this, but and you went you went solo, right?

SPEAKER_02 4:13

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

I did. Um, first of all, I thought you had to pay to get in. You can go in for free, which is cool. But um I was just like reading some of the backs of the books because they had like historic dolls that you could look at, and one of the backs of the books I was reading it, I was like, this is actually so fucked up for a kid to read. It was um a story about I forget the name, so I'm just gonna say like Samantha, whatever. And um it's the the book was about how Samantha had a scary adventure because she was out on a boat and she was on a lake and a storm came in and it swept her away and was really scary because this was on the same lake that her parents drowned.

SPEAKER_02 4:51

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

And I was like, that's in a kid's book.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

What a rich backstory. Like they they really built this. I didn't even know there were books. There's books. There's so many books, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

But it was like it was like it was basically it was worded like, and get this, it's where her parents drowned, exclamation point. Yik!

SPEAKER_02 5:06

Like, fun fact.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

So, how do you all do you want to start by recapping anything, or do you want to say like what it means to you?

SPEAKER_03 5:14

I mean, I think for me, I just my first memories of Austin Powers are when I was in like fourth or fifth grade, because I think the first one came out in 1997, and I remember it was like it was like very taboo, it was very like not for kids, it was you know dirty, you know, had some smut. So I think that, you know, with our our age group, you know, young kids, that made it like we wanted to watch it more.

SPEAKER_04 5:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:41

So I don't know. I think I started watching it in a lot in like seventh and eighth grade. And I think it was more so when like number two, the movie came came out. Um character number two, yeah, exactly. Thank you for clarifying. Yeah, so uh so no, and I think from there, I just a young, you know, the the brand of humor and the poo-poo pee pee of it all just like really resonated with me as a uh, you know, 12-year-old boy and also still a 12-year-old man, yeah. Maybe yeah, maybe that's an indictment of uh me, but uh so yeah, no, it's still it shaped.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

I was like re-watching the second one, or and then I guess maybe more so the third one, but like it my personality in middle school was awesome. Like, I feel like that was like what me and my friends would say to each other, and like the way that we would talk and all those quotes. And I was like, I basically like took this and turned it into my personality, but it's also I think informed so much of my humor since then.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

I mean, for better, right? Not worse.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

Well, I hope so. I certainly, yeah. In Wisconsin, they don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Doesn't play in Wisconsin, but what about you? I mean, I probably was pretty drawn into obviously Mike Myers' subtle, nuanced character work that he's doing throughout the films. I mean, obviously that's uh you know, a good way in, but yeah, I just feel like it's like we would always quote it. It just like kind of got it, they're like earworms that get in your head, and then like something random happens, and then all of a sudden it just like feels quotable.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

So I I was interested to see, like, because I almost forget like there's so many things that I say that are just so you know fundamentally a part of like how I talk and what I say, where I almost forget that I was like, Oh, that's actually an Austin Powers quote. Yeah. So when I rewatched the three of them, I was just like, it was fun to be like, oh yeah, that's something I still say like all the time. So um Do you have any examples? Uh I mean, are we gonna get into them now?

SPEAKER_01 7:44

Well, do you wanna first of all? Okay, so we'll talk about the movies, three movies. Okay. I don't have any oh wait, I do have just some quick do you I just have some quick facts about them, and then do you all want to recap them?

SPEAKER_03 7:53

No, yeah, you can go go into facts.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Okay, first of all, the way they they even started was Mike Myers heard a song on the radio by Bert Baccarac, and like he was driving and he was like, he he made the joke, like, where are all the swingers? And like he turned to his wife and he was like, Do I make you horny or something like that? And she was like, pull over, write that down, make a movie.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

That that is interesting though, because I was watched, I mean, little, I was watching one of them recently, and um clearly, you know, whatever we were in fourth grade also drew me in as obviously as any fourth grade boy. I was really I liked the Burt Backerak and Elvis Costello cameos that came in.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

I was like, oh people think that Dr. Evil is based on Lorne Michaels. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_02 8:34

I thought that was confirmed. I thought that's true.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

I thought he said that. I didn't know that, but there was beef between Dana Carvey and Mike Myers because Dana Carvey said that Mike stole his Lauren impression and then like mapped it slash used it for Dr. Evil.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

Yeah, I think it's commonly said that it was like a Mike Myers impression of Lauren Michaels, and then comes out that you know other people or Dana Carvey said that though that was actually his originally that Mike kind of like took. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

I think that I watched an interview and I he was basically like Dana Carvey was like, I kind of let it go, whatever. But it makes sense because whenever I hear people, like especially people who are on SNL when they talk about Lauren Michaels and they do their Mike their Lauren Michaels voice, I'm always like, that sounds like Dr. Evil. That's so weird. And I like didn't know that that that is him.

SPEAKER_04 9:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

It took my it took uh it took Mike Myers seven hours to get into his fat bastard suit. That's all I got.

SPEAKER_02 9:29

That's it.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

And I ended it there. Yeah, yeah. I like you know, I know what Fat Bastard looks like, you know, I've seen the movies, but like re-watching it recently, like through this, the lens of myself now, I was like repulsed. I was like, that is so vile, that's so disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

That scene when I had the second one on, and that scene where he's in bed or whatever, eating. Allie like came to the room. She's like, this is absolutely repulsive.

SPEAKER_01 10:00

It is the swings they took were huge and problematic, but yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

I was like, do I look like that? I was like, I need to I need to tighten it up a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

You want to take me through the movies? Yeah, because I actually haven't seen the first one in years.

SPEAKER_03 10:24

Uh no, the first movie uh was set in 1967, and Austin Powers is Britain's top secret agent, and Dr. Evil couldn't beat him in that time, so he cryogenically freezes himself and he goes to the future 30 years to 1997. So Austin Powers, or I guess he's just frozen in his like little spaceship thing or whatever. So Austin cryogenically freezes himself so he can you know fight Dr. Evil in the future. So yeah, obviously, Dr. Evil is you know his main nemesis, um, alongside um number two, who's kind of his right hand man, uh Frau Farbissena, who is apparently the head of security.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

I was like looking at her over.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

I like her quite a bit.

SPEAKER_03 11:13

Yeah, I like I was like, I I think she gets like slept on a little bit because like some of the other characters, especially like Mike Myers' characters, are kind of over the top. Yeah, but she's really good. Yeah, so Frau. Um, and then obviously you have Random Task, Mr. Bigglesworth, Scott. So yeah, the the evil corporation, uh Virticom is uh the legit face of Dr. Evil's evil empire. Uh number two kind of runs it, especially when Dr. Evil is frozen for 30 years. Um, the evil plan in the first one was the use of the Vulcan, which is the world's most powerful subterranean drill, and it can penetrate Earth's crust, delivering a 50 kiloton nuclear warhead deep into the liquid hot core of the planet. Upon detonation, every volcano on Earth will erupt unless the ransom is paid. In the first one, Austin Power's love interest is Ms. Kensington, Vanessa Kensington, who is the daughter of Mrs. Kensington, who in 1967 was kind of his love interest. So kept in the family, and the daughter was the love interest uh in this one. VirtuCon, they do like tours every hour or something. So they acted like tourists, they went to headquarters, and then they were able to infiltrate. Um, so they're able to get in, and then you know, they get captured, and they have to get through the ill-tempered sea bass with lasers on their head. And then Mike Myers has to get what did he originally want?

SPEAKER_02 12:47

Sharks with laser beams on their head, but the best they could do is get ill-tempered sea bass. Or no, he says sea bass, and then he's like, Are they ill-tempered? Yeah, and he's like, Yes, very much so. Like, well, that's a start.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

So funny. Uh, and then he gets past the Finbots to foil the plan. So Dr. Evil then activates the self-destruct of the lair and escape escapes on a rocket.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

He loves the self-destruct.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

Every movie. So then Austin Powers and um yeah, Kit Mrs. Kensington, Miss Kensington, they leave, they get out, they're married three years later, and then Dr. Evil vows revenge. So that's high-level number one. So and then we can quickly go through International Man of Mystery.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery.

SPEAKER_03 13:32

Yes. Uh, number two, it's it opens with uh the honeymoon, which is the spy who shagged me, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:39

Yes, it is. Thank you. All right.

SPEAKER_03 13:41

So Austin Powers finds out that uh Vanessa Kensington was actually a Fimbot the whole time. So yeah, in this one, they introduce um Felicity Shagwell, Heather Graham, that's the new love interest, Fat Bastard, and Minnie Me are kind of new henchmen. So Dr. Evil thinks that the reason why Austin Powers always defeats him is because he has mojo. For audio listeners, the quotes were performed, so he develops a time machine, so he goes back to the 60s so he can steal Austin Powers' mojo and then therefore, you know, be able to overcome him. So the plan in this one is to put a giant laser on the moon, and when the appropriate lunar alignment happens, it'll destroy Washington, D.C. Uh the laser was invented by noted Cambridge physicist Dr. Parsons. So the plan was called the Alan Parsons Project.

SPEAKER_01 14:38

Now, you're not gonna be surprised, but I didn't get this joke. I mean, but I that one's fair. I knew that like it was because like I'm familiar with like the game that they play, so I knew it was probably something. But do you all know what what Alan Parsons Project is?

SPEAKER_03 14:52

Yeah. Okay, well, to quote Scott Evil, it's a progressive rock band.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

So did you understand it when he flat out explained it to you then?

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Yeah, but I still have never heard anybody say those words together.

SPEAKER_03 15:06

The Alan Parsons Project. Oh, okay. Yeah. So Austin Powers and Felicity Shagwell, they travel to the moon, and um, with another version of Austin Powers from 10 minutes from now, they once again foil Dr. Evil's plans, and he realizes after all that he never lost his mojo.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

It's kind of a beautiful story, very beautiful, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:29

Yeah, so okay, so that's high level two. Alright, so three, this is when they introduce the new love interest, Foxy Cleopatra, which Beyonce knows, Queen Bee. And I think at the time, and I mean it makes sense, I guess. Like I didn't think much of it, but like watching it recently, I'm like, it is bizarre to see Beyonce in this movie.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

It is so off-brand for who she is now.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

Um, so then they also introduce um Austin Powers' father, Nigel Powers, which is played by Sir Michael Cain, which is pretty cool as well.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

Drew's favorite actor, Michael Cain.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

Facts? Fact check.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

Um, yeah. Yeah. Oh, turns out it's true.

SPEAKER_03 16:14

And then the the new villain in the third one is, you know, gold member. So, and he is a gold-obsessed Dutchman who lost his genitalia in an unfortunate smelting accident.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

That's one of my favorite sentences.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

It's great.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Yeah, I like that they say that.

SPEAKER_03 16:30

Um, so I don't know. High level, this movie I think gives more backstory on like the family dynamic of like Austin and his dad, his dad not being there, also like going back to college, and it shows like Doctor Evil, Basil expedition, exposition, um, Austin Powers like back in college.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

I liked that that they were together in college. That was funny.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

Oh, I forgot about that whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 16:52

It gives like some backstory, and even like before that, like when they were babies, it kind of gives all the backstory, very like Star Wars-esque, I feel like. But anyway, so the plan in this one is they Doctor Evil goes back to 1997 to partner with Goldmember because Goldmember had developed a tractor beam that was able to pull a gold meteor toward towards Earth. And and Dr. Evil had previously been unsuccessful in creating his own tractor beam, you know, and that was versions A through G. So this was yeah, this was this was the A H rendition. So the name of the plan was Preparation H.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

And I did get that joke.

SPEAKER_03 17:38

You did get that joke. Yeah. Wait, what's the joke?

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Well, now I'm all people.

SPEAKER_02 17:45

Okay, okay. The evil plot you just described, I have zero recollect. Like, I actually don't either. That was their plan.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

I have no so yeah, essentially they're pull like that's the whole evil plot, is like they're gonna pull the meteor toward Earth to end Earth or whatever, unless they get the ransom. Um but what ends up happening, spoiler alert for anyone that's planning on watching it for the first time after this, is uh it's and this is very much like I don't know, maybe Star Trek or Star Wars as well, where it's like you find out that Austin Powers and Doctor Evil were brothers, separated at birth from a failed assassination attempt of his dad, and then that's kind of how they're split. So then at the end they kind of become they team up, but goldmember's still like, Well, I still want to kind of go forward with the plan, and then they have to stop Goldmember.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

Much like the woman who wrote Animorphs, her husband.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

It's all everything comes to Animorphs. Man, there's a lot of crossover between these. So, anyway, that that's just high-level the the plot of one, two, and three.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

So we can it's very you keep referencing Star Wars. The second one, I was noticing there's so many Star Wars references for a move or for yeah, a movie that you or parody of like kind of a James Bond.

SPEAKER_03 19:02

So I think the first one and In Throughout are definitely James Bond, the second one, very much Star Wars, but even in the third one, I noticed like when he goes and visits Doctor Evil in jail, that was like very much like Silence of the Lambs. Oh you know, like where he was so I feel like it's almost like scary movie or whatever where they're just like pulling in sort of like random, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

So what is your what's your favorite movie in the in the in the series?

SPEAKER_02 19:34

Um I think I think mine's probably two, because I mean the introduction to Minnie Me is like you know pretty pretty big in a franchise, yeah. Um you know, some other good characters in there. Yeah, I mean it's like very we talk about it sometimes because we're always talking Austin Powers, we're always talking shop. I feel like two is just kind of one, but like some of the roles are kind of reverse. Like in the first one, Austin is kind of like this uh, you know, he's like a spy and he doesn't like he's anything to get the job done, and then there's that storyline with like Felicity Shagwell in the second one where it's like kind of the same thing, or like you know, it's even some of the characters are kind of like copies of the first one a little bit when they introduce them, so yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

You did bring that to my attention, like it's like every joke, it's the same, but they just reverse them. It's just the essentially the opposite, or or or they just yeah, redo a joke. Right. In the second one, yeah, the second from the first. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

I I initially I think the second one's my favorite too, because um I don't know, I feel like that was just so I think that was like the first one I like really latched onto. But then when I rewatched the third one, I think the third one is the one that like I thought I loved the most as a kid, mostly because like gold member was so important to me.

SPEAKER_03 21:01

Um don't say that out loud.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

I feel like I would quote that so much, but I think this for me, I think the second one is the best.

SPEAKER_03 21:10

So I think from the first to the second, it's like there's a little bit of character development there, so they're more like set in you know what works for them, and also the budget is just bigger, you know. The first one the budget was like 16 million, like this one it like doubles. It's just there's more money, it's like better quality, better sets, like everything's better, and then like the characters are better, the jokes are better. I just feel like they had figured it out by two.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Do you know the budget for three? Did you look that up? Yeah, because it has to be create, there are so many people in there, right?

SPEAKER_03 21:44

So the f the budget for the first one, allegedly per Chad GPT is uh sixteen and a half million to eighteen million.

SPEAKER_04 21:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

Um the sec the budget for the second one is thirty-three million. And then the budget for the last one. Oh, I guess I didn't write it down. I think it's like, and don't quote me on this, or quote me on this. It's fact. You're being recorded, so I I I want to say it was like 80 million.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 22:13

So they like doubled it every time.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

They have Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltro, Danny DeVito, Kevin Spacey, Quincy Jones.

SPEAKER_03 22:21

The second one that came up, I was like, who is that? Me too, I Googled it. I was like, fuck.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

I thought it was John Travolta.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

Well, then he then he comes later. He's gold member later. But that was like the premiere, right? When they were doing the premiere of the movie and then it ends. Yeah. So there is there's just a lot of big cameos. But that's the thing. I feel like the second one is like the truest best version of the movie, where like the first one, it's like they're figuring it out. The third one is just like pure like absurdity. Like they're just leaning into like everything they've ever done. It's like a ton of cameos. It's like now you're hearing a lot of the jokes again for the third time. It's just it's extremely stupid. And that one I think is like the one that was like received the best, like you know.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

The poorest. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

The third one?

SPEAKER_01 23:08

The third one does have a couple of my favorite moments. Like, I again I already said Goldmember was really important to me. Like, I really liked him. Um, but then the third one, my favorite quote is you know what my favorite Helen Hunt movie is? Twister!

SPEAKER_04 23:24

That one's good. Was that a Fat Bastard quote? Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

I think and then um, because I've sung this song before, and I feel like people have been like, what is that from? Um, but on top of spogget.

SPEAKER_03 23:38

I did that. Was funny, and when I was like, shadow, uh, appreciate a spaghetti reference always. True. Yeah. You're a big fat bastard fan. I think I realize that you like we're so connected to Fab Bastard.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

I know, because I'm looking, and um, a lot of my favorite quotes from him can't do an accent. First things first, where's your shitter? I've got a crap on deck that could choke a donkey.

SPEAKER_03 23:56

That one's really funny, and I was thinking about this when I was watching and kind of taking notes. I'm like, I don't want to say half of like the quotes that are like it's like I still say it's like so incriminating. It's like first things first, where's the shitter?

SPEAKER_02 24:10

I'm like, yeah, I don't say that anymore. Yeah, I'm trying to think of ones that are like somewhat like we would just pull.

SPEAKER_03 24:19

I want some like I was trying to look at some like really niche ones that like you almost wouldn't know were Austin Powers. Um one I say is uh you kiss your mother with that mouth. Like I I always will still say that randomly. Um the well Dr. Evil, like, well shit. Just like you know, if like something happens. Um oh uh gold member, that's a keeper. I like a good one.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

That one's hard because like I do have a really dry skin.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

That's why you connect so much with gold members. Did you have a gold member skin box?

SPEAKER_01 24:52

I have a skin box and you look under your chairs.

SPEAKER_03 24:55

We're gonna take one home with us. Oh uh salty. This one I don't say, but I think it's hilarious. It's when like they're in this like in the locker room of like the sumo wrestlers, and Fab Assad comes out and he's like, hey, diaper lady. He's my diaper. I've heard you say that a few times last week.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

Yeah, machine gun jublys. I thought I missed those, man.

SPEAKER_03 25:20

I love that you put that one. That one is so funny.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Yeah, so funny.

SPEAKER_03 25:24

Machine gun jubilis.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Any doctor, how about no, Scott? I can't do any.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

Well, you just don't get it, do you, Scott?

unknown 25:32

Don't get it.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

That's an often quoted one.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

I know, I was gonna say, I feel like I hear you all do that a lot.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

You just don't get it.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

I one of um well, I'll get to but one of my favorite like characters is Scott when he's turning evil. Yeah, and then he does that laugh that's like really scary.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Well, that in number two, or the second one, not the character number two, spy who shag me, um, they have that whole like Jerry Springer, like, oh, you got that right?

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Well, I wrote down talk to evil fights a clansman on Jerry Springer.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

Yeah, and it was like my what was the topic? It was like my dad is evil and wants to take over the world, and it had like, yeah. I feel like I don't know how this applies, but I feel like we've said like when he's like the model or the photo shoot scene in the second one where he's talking about being a lemmer and he's like, You have sharp teeth capable of biting, and he's like having them like run and like do all that stuff. That's pretty funny. That one's good.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

I really didn't like him dreaming drinking the poop.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

A bit nutty. So a bit nutty. That's that's pretty funny. I feel like I heard you all say that.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

It's a bit nutty. I feel like the physicality of him, I think that's informed a lot of my humor. Like when the legs, when he's like kicking somebody and it's just like awesome.

SPEAKER_03 26:45

Why is he here? What I was trying to think, like, why is is that like uh why is he so flexible like that? Like, where did that come from?

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Wait, do you actually think those are his legs?

SPEAKER_03 26:55

No, under no circumstances, no, but I'm just saying, like, like, why was that like a character trait that they built in?

SPEAKER_01 27:04

I don't know, but I love it.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

When he's like doing like the rollerblading and then he like just one and does the other. Yeah, he's like hips, like everyone's like, how is he doing that?

SPEAKER_01 27:14

That is my humor, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

That's the third, that's goal member, right?

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Yeah, I forgot some other quotes and I like look at my sexy bonding.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

Oh you are like a huge fat bastard. You love fat bastard. Uh soil myself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:31

I you I only say soil.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

That's all I say. So I was like, oh, that's actually. Was that one of the ones that you were like, oh, I forgot that was that Austin Powers was the like where you got that from? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

What's your what who are your favorite like evil characters slash like henchmen that they have? Or I guess any I could be like a side character. Well, I'd ask you, but I already know it's but it I actually didn't pick Fat Bastard.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

Wow, yeah, I picked Frau.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

Frau's good.

SPEAKER_01 27:59

I want to play her, like I want to play a character like that in a show.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

I think Frau's really funny, and that's what I was like, yeah, you know, after I watched him again. Because it's like everyone else is essentially just Mike Myers doing some over-the-top bit. Obviously, you have number two, you know, and he's he's fine, he's more of like the straight man, but Frau is just like silly. I like when he goes back in time and then number two is um Rob Lowe.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

I like the um character, like the relationship between Dr. Evil and Minnie Me. I think that's funny. So like the Minnie Me character is funny. I agree.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

Um the whole time I was watching it, I was like, I wonder how he felt about this.

SPEAKER_03 28:41

I was saying the same thing. Yeah, because they literally just like treat him like a cat or something with like the water bottle. If he's doing anything, they'll just and he does he has like no lines. Right.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

I did really like this. It was one of my favorite things, and I was like, this probably influenced me for the rest of my life. When he gets on Minnie Me's shoulders in the trench coat, that is my humor, and then they're like walking around.

SPEAKER_03 29:04

One of us is gonna have to get on the other shoulders, and it's like cut to the next scene, and Austin's on top.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

This is so funny. Um let me see if I have anything else. Oh, you guys, I do love Fat Bass Fred. I it's a baby.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

The whole baby bit was his baby back ribs cover, Chili's baby back ribs.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Oh, do you think the 60s were really like that? I don't think they were really like like how colorful and crazy it was when they went back in time. Like you think people it was like so like over the top, like groovy.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

I mean, I wasn't there, right? Right, but I mean I think it's like that, I think that was like the time a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

It's like the inside of a limited two.

SPEAKER_03 29:45

I know, it's crazy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

I think the third one was supposed to be like was originally like three and a half hours, and they had to cut a lot out.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Three and a half for real?

SPEAKER_01 29:55

You guys don't ask me follow-up questions. Where did that come from?

SPEAKER_03 30:01

I was gonna say that's what I love, is like they're all just a tight 90. Like it's so easy to get through them.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Well, that seems yeah, that seems like a real big pivot to be like the first two are an hour and a half, and then we're gonna make this epic three and a half hour gold member in the third one.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

But I read somewhere that there was like um the I I can't find it. I read somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

It's actually four hours of content. Joe's like, you know what?

SPEAKER_02 30:27

I think I actually dreamed this last night now that I think about it. I don't think okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

Well, is there anything else that y'all want to say about Austin Powers or Animorphs?

SPEAKER_03 30:42

So I was just gonna say, like, high level. Another thing I noticed like when I was like watching this is like okay, tight 90s, great. Right, love that. They're just like easy watches, and I think like aesthetically, they're very fun to watch. Like to your point, like the colors, the outfits, the costumes, like really good. I like the little cut scenes that they do. Yeah, and then also too Oh yeah, those cutscenes, I meant to mention that. Like, I forgot about those, but that's fun.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

Yeah, I like those. I like those as like a way of telling jokes in a show.

SPEAKER_03 31:13

Yeah, and then also too, like the music is fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

It's fantastic. I mean, Burbagron. Seriously, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

Elvis Costello and then like soundtrack too was good. Well, so Beautiful Stranger by Madonna, I think was like I forgot how much I loved that song. I think that was like made for the movie or like was released with the movie. Oh and it won an Emmy or a Grammy, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

It did, yeah. So like for Austin Powers?

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Yeah, well, yes, yes. I think it comes up as an Austin Powers award.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

But no, I mean like American Woman, Lenny Kravitz, the originals in it, and then like I think over the end credits, it's like the Lenny Kravitz cover of American Woman, yeah, which was big.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Uh But My Generation, The Who, A Shining Star, Earth Wind and Fire, Secret Agent Man, which was good. Yeah, Let's Get It On, Marvin Gay.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

I do love the um American, like the entrance, the entrance of um Felicity Shagwell with American Woman. Like that's such a good scene.

SPEAKER_03 32:14

Just keeping it PG as like a 12-year-old adolescent boy. Like, that scene moved me. Not sexually.

unknown 32:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:25

But like, no, that scene made it seem like it's uh quite emotionally a move. No, it was just Joe's like, don't look at me when you're sad when you say it that way.

SPEAKER_01 32:34

Look away.

SPEAKER_03 32:35

It's like the car ride. It's exactly like the car ride. Um, but no, and then I'm a believer, like the smash mouth cover, which he also I think they use in Shrek, right? The smash mouth. What?

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Who wrote I'm a believer first?

SPEAKER_03 32:50

It is somebody else, and they covered it later. Okay. Yeah. But Evan recognizes the smash mouth as the official version.

SPEAKER_01 32:56

Are we gonna do another episode on Shrek?

SPEAKER_03 32:59

I mean, we can just roll right into it.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

Rolling into it.

SPEAKER_03 33:03

Yeah, another three hours?

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Uh I know I need to rewatch all of them for that.

SPEAKER_03 33:06

But no, all 20 of them at this point. I just think like 90 minutes, tight 90s great, visuals are great, the music is great, and then obviously stupid silly humor. It just that is like super quotable, it just makes them like one of those movies that you can just throw on whenever, and like you'll remember, reference, and quote forever.

SPEAKER_02 33:27

So I feel like they don't make a lot of movies like that anymore either, just like straight up like comedies, and especially like ones like that. Just like dumb Anaconda, and that are like 90 minutes long, too. That is just like you know, good, quick, fun watch.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

Did y'all ever watch Anaconda?

SPEAKER_02 33:42

The original?

SPEAKER_03 33:43

No, the one that just came out, right?

SPEAKER_01 33:45

It's like really important that to me that y'all watch it. It's so funny. I mean I liked it your poison. Jack Black, right?

SPEAKER_02 33:51

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I got it. I the original I liked, the I did too, the action one.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

But I think that I think, oh god. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

What?

SPEAKER_01 34:00

You know how much I like Tropic Thunder. It felt like this was like that. Like it's I think you're gonna love it. It's very funny.

SPEAKER_04 34:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

Okay, well, anything else that you all want to say about anything else you want to say about it?

SPEAKER_03 34:12

So no, I think I'm good. Okay, yeah, I don't know. I think we covered it. Yeah, no, thanks for having us on.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

Thank you so much for coming on. I hope it wasn't painful. Um, and you'll have to come back on. We can talk struck, we can talk Bob Seeger, lobsters, lobsters.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

Um which I know a lot about. Yeah, mostly just from you ranting and raving about lobsters. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

All those rallies he makes you go to.

unknown 34:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:35

Appreciate it. Thank you. So far, you've had a lot of very funny, charismatic people on. So respect that you've decided to try something different and pivot and have me and Evan on and see what maybe you know doesn't work.

SPEAKER_01 34:48

You're my first straight man on.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

I was gonna think about that.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

And boy, did you talk about birds of war for a long time?

SPEAKER_03 34:55

We talked about veterans, we talked about Joe Rogan, Golden Birdfax, uh just talking about dinosaurs.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

Listen, you're the one who won't stop talking about Jurassic Park rebirth or whatever it is. Yeah, Jurassic Park, fat bastard. Yeah, uh Tropic Thunder. Joe's coming at us, and she's yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

Yeah, I'm problematic as well. Um, okay, well, thanks you guys. Yeah, thanks.

SPEAKER_03 35:18

Thanks for helping us. It was fun. Appreciate you.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

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