Austin Powers Trilogy Retrospect (with Geek To Me Radio's James Enstall!)

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[00:00:12] The team, the undersized member. Hey, that's not mine. And yet he still manages to score at will. Shall we shag now or shall we shag later? Is he the chosen one? Yeah, baby! Austin Powers, tomorrow at 8 on Spike. Only sailors use condoms, baby.

[00:00:31] Hello, Mr. Powers. Hello! Hello, Mr. Powers. I am Dr. Evil. How are you?

[00:01:31] I don't know. I don't know, but I happen to think that if you have an issue, here's a tissue. And I'll make you horny, baby. Randy! Oh, I must say that this is very naughty of me. Notty. Tonight, we lock and load our penis pumps. Wait, tonight we celebrate our sexual independence day. Is that better? No. No.

[00:01:57] But we got James Enstall from the Geek To Me Radio. He has interviewed everybody from podcaster James Gapsie to filmmaker Martin Campbell to John Cleese to voice actress Tara Strong to Burt Ward and Claudia Christian. Welcome. Hello, thanks for having me. You interviewed John Cleese? I did, yes, about a year ago. You lucky bastard. He was phenomenal. Yeah, but what have you really done?

[00:02:28] That's about the only thing I can really claim fame for everyone else is, you know, local poets and things. It's nothing really exciting. Hey, you know, radio is fun. Radio is very fun. I would have just asked him, so why did Pirates on Parade do so bad? I asked him about a couple of things. I really, stuff of his I grew up on, like how to annoy people. Yes, how to annoy people. Yeah. Best thing I've ever watched in my life.

[00:02:57] I used to have it on, I still have it on VHS somewhere. I have the tape somewhere, definitely. Definitely. We would just put it on. Sometimes we would actually put it on to annoy other people. Like, you don't find this funny? Go away. It's a good way to weed out the weak, show them that video. If they don't laugh, they're done. But you are geek AF, you know, so you claim fame to your name and you always have a fun just gallery of questions and projects for the celeb to jump on and promote.

[00:03:25] But so before we get into this, how did you get into radio and why did you embrace it? Cliff Notes, I went to a place here in St. Louis called Broadcast Center with the idea of getting a job in radio. And then I found out, oh, radio doesn't actually pay bills. So I kept my day job and just kind of did radio at a couple of local stations as a side hustle. And then one of them said, hey, you know what? You're kind of funny. Leave your mic on while we do this. And that led to me doing my own segment on his show, which spun into getting my own show. Nice.

[00:03:55] Nice. I love it. W-Y-N-O. Okay, no. Good morning, everybody. It's time for some wacky phone calls. I thought you were going to do your Casey Kasem impression. I'm Casey Kasem. And today I'd like to read you the story about the letter. It says, Dear Casey, we just lost a dear friend of the family. Well, you could say he was a... Wait, I got to go out... I have to read... I have to go into a song after a dead dog letter?

[00:04:25] Jesus God Almighty. Did you get Doug on the phone? You realize that was the voice of Shaggy, don't you? And Robin. Right. I always wanted them to see where it was Robin, Robin, Shaggy, and Alexander. The three of them talking to each other. It would be Casey Kasem talking to himself. I'm Casey Kasem, and I host this interview with three of my famous characters. Hi, I'm Casey Kasem. And now a request and dedication.

[00:04:53] Don't ask me about that song that's about sex. That's nasty. Dear Casey, it says, Dear Casey, I hate the world and I hate everyone in it. I wish everyone would die in a fiery ball of nuclear plane. I wish to get off this planet, but I know I'm not able to. Casey, could you please play Wind Beneath My Wings? Oh, my word. I'm Casey Kasem.

[00:05:21] And I have a special letter here from somebody. It says, Dear Casey, your kids are going to be out of the will. And I'm going to take everything you've got. Your wife, Jean. Now, could you please play Sky Rockets in Flight by the Starlight vocal bands? Dear Casey, could you please take out the garbage? Hey, how do you respond? Oh, God. You annoying bitch. I'm sitting on it. Yeah.

[00:05:50] Well, we're going to have plenty of dark off color stuff. So if you haven't listened to the theme song, you know of your discretion advised, especially with what we're talking about tonight. But it's great to have you on here, James, because I knew you were an avid comedy movie fan. I was like, I really was looking forward to this topic because this is just a kind of a rarity. Like, it is a comedy film franchise that really does bring a bunch of perfect crowds together. All the all your moron friends. Come on over. All your brightheaded guys who like another lot of sexual wit. Come on over.

[00:06:19] You know, and I'm sure my cousins saw this. They were more of the Ocean's Eleven Rush Hour Men in Tights kind of crowd. Like they liked all kinds of stuff from funny adventures to outrageous heist movies. And Austin Powers is kind of in that between that. Like if you weren't watching, you know, the Friday movies by New Line, you were probably watching one of the other hit franchises like this. Like I became a fan of virtually everybody associated with this franchise.

[00:06:45] Everybody from Seth Green to Heather Graham to Vern Troyer who plays Mini-Me. You know, it's like so many awesome people. And well, yeah, the thing has its roots. This whole franchise has its roots. And Mike Myers, when he was a kid, he would watch the Sean Connery Bond movies. But not only that, our man's Flint. Our man's Flint. And it was funny.

[00:07:12] It takes you multiple viewings to realize, oh my God, they just took a frame from that. That physical gag where he's choking out the, you know, henchman. You know, that's a James Cobra. It's also roots in Inspector Clouseau with Peter Schellers, the Pink Panther movies. Oh, absolutely. It's definitely Blake Edwards. Definitely the British wit. Yeah. The thing I kind of link it to also is the ITV shows when we were, when that were over here in England, over here in America, like there was a show called The Avengers with Patrick

[00:07:41] McMe and Diana Rigg. There was The Persuaders. That's kind of why it's kind of aged so well. Like they shoot it just like a 70s movie on film, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So it has that look of an older movie than it actually is. But his look. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll take it a step further. There's another ITV show that is directly, I think it comes up at least more than, more than a couple of times in the entire franchise.

[00:08:10] You know, the, his outfit, his robe, his, his pajamas, that sort of thing. That's lifted directly from the opening sequence of an ITV show called The Protectors. Oh, another Robert Vaughn. Yeah. Yeah. And not only that, the character, the way he dresses from another show that Peter Wingard was in, who played Klytus in Flash Gordon. Yes. There was a show that he was in, two of them actually.

[00:08:39] There was one called Department S, which was like a X-Files-ish kind of like. Oh, wow. You know, but there was, he played a character called Jason King, who was a real like kind of foppish kind of character. And then they spun him off into his own series called Jason King. I didn't remember it vaguely. It was by some of the same people who worked on The Saint kind of. It was, yeah, it was Monty Berman. And it was a lot of it had, you know, it was the same people, basically the same people

[00:09:08] did like, you know, The Protectors, The Defenders, you know, all those shows. Yeah. And what happened was, was that the character himself, Jason King, if you look at the way Peter Wingard looks in some of those pictures. Maybe some of the same set design kind of. No, no, the way the character looks. And then not only that, the glasses and everything. That's a nod to Harry Palmer, Michael Caine in like the Ipcris file.

[00:09:39] I'm glad you brought that up because like when I, when I saw him in this, in the third one and in Kingsman, I was like, he's playing Harry Palmer and everyone's like, where the fuck is that? I'm like. I would like to say I got a good paycheck. I'll go to dumb good paycheck. Chuck, I got to just go for the other supporting cast just for this. Just like even when it's really just like a simple gag scene, like I loved everybody in all these movies. Charles Napier is the commander in one scene. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:10:11] Masioko before Heroes is here. Nathan Lane. Tom Cruise and Bennett Paltrow play the fake Austin. Austin girl. Rebecca Remedgen. Tim Robbins is the president. Kristen Johnson from third run from the sun. And I'm just going to say when Mindy Sterling, unfortunately, leaves us, you know, as Frau Dr. Evil's assistant, I'm going to cry like a baby. That woman is so clever. And it's Frau Farbishner. Thank you. Frau Farbishner. Farbishner.

[00:10:38] And also you forgot Danny DeVito as a mini me. Yeah. Oh, I forgot. Yes. Can we can we not watch the third one anymore since Kevin Spacey's in it? Is this movie also canceled? No, but that's the other beauty of it. Like every every person I have seen this with, like even people who don't like James Bond now sexually derogatory. Those can be like they love these movies because just the the wit and gags are just so on point.

[00:11:06] Like I've never seen anyone walk out and say that's just fucking rude. Like everybody seems to really I mean, come on, you got Michael York as the guy named Basal Exposition. That's all. So I got to ask you, James, since you're the biggest fan of risque humor here, arguably. Who's got a better name? Oh, my gosh. Fuck me or a lot of vagina. I remember seeing the original Austin Powers because I'm very old.

[00:11:35] I saw it in the theaters and it was it was one of those moments that I when she said her name. I actually did a bit of a spit take with my sodium like came out of my mouth. I was laughing so hard. So I think that just because it got me so I wasn't expecting it was really good. I have to go with her. Of course, you also. So what is it? Swallow or spit? Yeah, Robin Swallows or Robin Spits. Oh, my God. I think Gwyneth Paltrow's character was Dixonormous, which I thought was very clever.

[00:12:04] There was another character named Conjingleitis or some shit like that. There was even Felicity Shagwell, obviously. But like, I mean. What was what was what was Beyonce's character? Cleopatra? Foxy Cleopatra. And so that was what was interesting, too. Like, I'm not a fan, but I thought she worked well here in this movie because she's totally playing out the whole Pam Greer kind of. Flexplication persona if she were a spy and Glenn Howard was funny.

[00:12:34] But a lot of people forget. Will Ferrell's in the first two as Mustafa. Yes, he is. The terrorist and such shit. And he he has one of the best death scenes in the very first. And it's so hysterical. And it goes on forever. It's brilliant. I think I'm all right. Yes. I know. I've seen you've not fallen. That's why I think it works so well, too. Like, it's just the action doesn't overblow the physical gags. Like, I love Michael McDonald as the one.

[00:13:04] No guard, you know, from that. Yes. He even got a stunt credit for that damn role. Think about it. But David Koshner and Jeff Garland. Mews Watson plays one of the KKK guys. You might know him from. Wait, wait, who's he playing? He plays one of the KKK guys. Wait, wait, what KKK? I don't remember the KKK. In part two, they're like, there's a brief scene where there's a Klansman. Oh, yeah. I forgot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And. Oh, shit. Yeah.

[00:13:33] I forgot that Mike Haggerty from Friends was also here as the peanut vendor. Yeah. And Mimi Rogers was really a lot of fun for Babylon 5 fans. You know, a lot of vagina was on there as Londo's love interest. But people also forget that the one guard gal who they engage with at the swingers club in the first movie, that's Patricia Tolman, you know, telepatholita. But I just thought it was so funny.

[00:14:02] You know, it's just a lot of B5 fans didn't realize that when they're first viewing. They're like, hey, Lita. I'm like, oh, she's done everything, guys. She's in the Night of the Living Dead remake. Come on. Yeah. This made me fall in love with Elizabeth Hurley. That is for sure. And they're not awkward to watch with anybody. That's the other funny thing, too. Like with all the gags, everyone's just like, it's fine. It's fine. I've never seen anyone walk out or go or cringe. Like, I don't want to watch this with my parents. Like it is on point. Like people love it. It's like a national.

[00:14:33] I went to time when it came out. I was I was living with a couple of guys and just a couple of guys. Just a couple of guys. But what happened was that I got on VHS because that's the cool thing at the time. And when I'm right, who loves the Pink Panther movie, said, I don't want to watch it. This is just too stupid. And I would just sit there cracking up at every joke because someone thought it was too dumb. Come on, man.

[00:15:03] Yeah. And he's a smart guy. And like I said, he loved Pink Panther movies. But but for him, this was just a bridge too far for me. It was just the perfect homage slash parody of the spy movie genre, especially from the 60s, 70s aspect of it. And that's and it hit all the right notes for me. Dr. Evil is my favorite James Bond villain. We'll return after these messages.

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[00:17:31] If you look at Dr. Evil changes his appearance. Yes. Because remember in the first movie, his eyes are different than the last movie? It's just, you know, he looks... Was that deliberate or were they just funning? I think they were deliberately doing that just to piss everybody off, you know. You know, because remember Blofeld was always somebody different in every movie? Oh, that's right, yeah. And I mean, they mainly took from The Only Love twice, but that is a good point. In other movies, you know, he was not played by Pleasance.

[00:17:56] But I did forget that, aside from being a Blofeld parody, the mannerisms and the way he was talking was Mike Myers stealing Dana Carvey's impression of their old boss, Lorne Michaels. Yeah. But I think that's also why it worked well. Like, you know, we all like Myers. We also know when an ego asshole he was behind the scene. Jay Roach was like the perfect one to just kind of come in. He's a rising comedy director.

[00:18:20] And just, you know, before he goes on to the Meet the Parents franchise and doing HBO political dramas, like this was his baby. And he somehow knew how to shoot this movie, you know, and balance all the different personas, let everyone get their screen time in. And I think that's what's great about it, too. It's an ensemble. Even though it's Myers' baby and he's playing free characters, you could easily watch it just for Mini-Me or just for Vanessa or just for, you know, Scott Evil. There's so many funny characters.

[00:18:49] But the thing I was thinking about the other day was, you got to realize Mike Myers was coming off of Wayne's World 1 and 2. Right. He had just done Saw I Married an Axe Murderer, which is a very underrated funny movie. Yeah, it's a funny movie. Fairly underrated, yeah. He does all these other movies that are fun but just get critically ignored and then this comes out. He did Saw I Married an Axe Murderer, I think that was 94? 93, I think. 93. 93.

[00:19:17] So he kind of takes a break for a little while because they did the second Wayne's World. Right. And then... It's a hit, but... It's a hit, but not as big. He ruptures some feathers behind the scenes. Yeah. And then what happens is, like, when he did Saw I Married an Axe Murderer, he played... Remember, he played the father and the son. So he... It shows you... It shows you he could do two characters, right? Absolutely. So then with this, he would do two characters,

[00:19:44] and then he would go on to do the second one where he'd play Fat Bastard. So then for the third one, he plays Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard, and Godmember. Yes, yes. Yes, Godmember. Yes. My member. And even... Schmook in a pancake. I feel like... Did you like a pancake in a schmuck? A crepe in a bung? A bung? Cigarette in a bung? Waffle in a joint?

[00:20:10] I mean, he pretty much brings anybody who was from, you know, Wayne's World onto this. You know, anyone who he knows on SNL, he's like, come on over. He's like... Yeah, Michael McDonald plays various people, and then, yeah, he has Rob Lowe, he has Haggerty, and he's like, come on over. Robert Wagner was the big surprise. It really was. I mean, and you're playing number two, and then you get Fred Savage's number three, and... But... More, more, more, more, more, more, more.

[00:20:37] Now, if I remember correctly, there was a deleted scene from the very first Austin Powers movie that also featured Rob Lowe. Yeah, he was playing a younger number two, I think. No, that was number two. I'm thinking about number one, because there was a deleted scene where it was like a bachelor party or something like that. Yeah, he was in some other deleted scene, but that might be the most important. But the thing... Yeah. So, how I got into this, there was this thing that was dope, which I still have no issue

[00:21:06] with, called DVD at the time. And my father and all my uncles would... Were the kings of just lending each other just funny stuff and recordings to each other. And he's like, my dad gets all these on DVD. He has an action figure that he never unwraps. He collects it of characters from the movie. And this was one of those, and it's like, even people who were like, oh, it's a risky franchise.

[00:21:33] It's just one of those, everybody would check it out. It's just like, this was on every channel back in the day. I still occasionally will see it on VH1 or one of the other channels. Like, you'll find it funny, James. It was still very funny, even when it was on ABC Family. They just would take out a few lines of dialogue. You just think they're at a club as opposed to, oh, that's a swinger club. Well, and the funny thing you mentioned, the action figures, I remember collecting those. And the one of Fat Bastard. Fat Bastard.

[00:22:02] They had it for general release called Fat Man because they couldn't put Bastard on the label. So, I had to go to Spencer's Gifts at a local mall to find Fat Bastard. Yeah, I remember that very, very well. Yes, because I had Dr. Evil and it had the little things. Why must I be surrounded, my freaking idiots? You know, and I would play that. I would play that incessantly at my job. People would go, Jay, can you please stop that? Why don't you like it?

[00:22:29] The thing I loved about Austin Powers, the first movie was, it's the beginning I loved. The opening credits. Oh, yes. Because there's a lot of things, but there's a scene he does where he's reading the newspaper. He pulls the newspaper down. He's wearing a fake OT. That's from A Hard Day's Night. Yeah, a lot of Beatles references. Yeah. But that... Myers did properly thank Sean Connery when he had his AFI special back in 2006.

[00:22:56] And I actually, most people thought that was kind of dumb. I'm like, I think that's cool. Like, he's acknowledging what he's parodying. He's like, without you, I don't have another famous franchise. You know? I saw an interview that Michael Myers gave. I think it was leading up to the second movie. And he mentioned he was at a party with Sean Connery. And they were kind of joking because Sean Connery had... I can't remember what movie was coming out of the time. I think I might have seen that. That was like a Howard Stern interview or something he did. It could have been. Yeah, something like that.

[00:23:24] And he said that, you know, we talked to each other. And Sean Connery said, great. I'll be in your movie if you'll be in mine. And they shook hands. He said, good luck with the film, old boy. I think I know what movie it was. It was probably... I'm thinking carefully. Either The League... That one... No, it wasn't The League of Extraordinary Young one. Yeah. Let me look it up. Sean Connery, Mike Myers' movie. 98. 98. 98 and 99.

[00:23:50] 98, Sean Connery was doing the one with Jenna Rowland and... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ryan Felipe. Playing by heart. Yeah, yeah. Well, but Myers isn't in that, so... No, no. I think Myers did a movie with him. I think it was just kind of one of those friendly things he says. Like, yeah, sure, I'll be in your movie if you're in mine. I don't think they ever actually end up doing a crossover. Yeah, that's just so weird. And, you know, this is years before he makes all this Shrek money, does the Glorious Bastards cameo.

[00:24:19] And, um, but... So, here's the ultimate question. Like, he plays all three of these characters to a T, and they edit it so well to where you don't even realize they're, you know, not filming it at the same time that he's in the room, you know, playing the other character. Did someone mention the room? Oh, hello, guys. Yeah. You could have had a Tommy Wiseau-type alter ego on there. Um, so, uh... Evil's absolutely my most favorite quotable of the free characters.

[00:24:49] Who is yours' favorite characters that he plays? I love Dr. Evil. I love Dr. Evil. And I loved Goldmember. What did you say to me, you little shit? Freaking laser beams attached to their heads. They're sharks. Can we have laser beams attached to their heads? No, no, Dolph. What about sharks? Can we have sharks? Sharks with laser beams. The thing I love about Dr. Evil is there are these parts where he's so candid, like where he's dancing to Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin.

[00:25:19] Yes. Well, and that's what I loved about the albums. The albums were the perfect tie-in. I mean, Looney Kravitz does the freaking music video, and that had heterogramming in it. And then, you know, that's the American Woman music video. But then they had some of the funny cover songs that, you know, it's just the acoustics and Dr. Evil singing over it. I'm like, see, that was a perfect, that was back when the album mattered as much as the box office movie it was part of. Yes.

[00:25:47] The part that got me the most was when they're having the group therapy. It's like, the details of my library are such a bunch of- And it's Carrie Fisher. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Because, you know, luge lessons, summers in Rangoon. At the age of 13, I was given my own scribe. At the age of 15, I had my scrotum ceremony stayed by a woman named Velma. You don't know how good it is to have a shorn scrotum.

[00:26:16] And I'm like, we're in the movie theater. Me and this girl are in the movie theater. This was a date. But, like, she was looking at it. And she was laughing because I was laughing so hard. Because the speech that he gives, you know, my father, my father was in a penchant for buggery, buggery. And he made outrageous statements like he went to the question mark. He went to the question mark. And he accused chestnuts of being lazy.

[00:26:44] No, but the thing that sets that up so perfectly is his line right before he goes into all that. The details of my life are actually quite inconsequential. It's like, okay, so how boring was it? And then he tells this whole story. He's like, no, the boy is trying to kill. I am trying to kill the boy. I am. He's quite astute. I really am trying to kill him. He's quite astute.

[00:27:12] That's why it was brilliant having them on Jerry Springer in the sequel. Like, that's why it's like, see. But it doesn't interrupt the movie, even if you're not a reality show guy. Like, it was just like, it was just the perfect. I mean, it's kind of like how The Sopranos is like the number one show doing all these awkward therapy sessions. They're doing it. And it's just leading to more gags and more gags. But like you say, it is so funny. Like, people who generally would cringe or be like, did I go to the right movie? Or is this okay?

[00:27:41] You know, it's like somehow these movies, just the minute you hear a single line uttered, like it lowers your defenses. It lowers your shields. And you just go along with it instead of, oh, fuck, this is funny. But I got to watch it when someone else is in here. You know, there's no, even just the utter humor. Like, it's just, if you don't get it right away, don't worry. Just watch it 20 more times and you'll find an Easter egg each time. Like, it's never a forbidden fruit or a taboo thing where you're like, oh, I got to, you

[00:28:11] know, sneak this into the house, you know. That's coming. We've gone through preparations A through G. Now we're going to through preparation H. H. H. H. H. H. We'll call it the Alan Parson Project. H. H. H. H. Operation Wang Chung, ass. My favorite, my favorite, he goes, he goes, H. I just want to, H. Zip it, zip it, zip it. Yes.

[00:28:38] You're the diet, you're the diet cook of evil. Get one calc, not even enough. You guys would love being in our house. So actually using a ch is a perfect command. You can train for our dogs. And so, yeah, all the time we, but we, we would do the ch, but we'd do it like evil. And every once in a while we'd do that. Scotty don't. Scotty don't. When a problem comes along, you must have picked.

[00:29:11] Oh, and I got to love when Scott is coming over here and evil's like, Oh, we just started, we'd do some family bonding time. I mean, if that's what you want to do with your life and all. No, dad, there's a cool titty movie on Skinamax now I want to watch. That's how you want to live your life, is it? He starts to hit the button. Yeah. And just the way. Look, I can be hip. I could do the Macarena.

[00:29:45] And then the way Farbacina just always comes in yelling. Just always yells his name and he comes in there like, what? I'm assuming you guys like me. I'm assuming you guys have seen Alan Tudyk's Con Men. Yes. Yes. I have. I think she got an Emmy for that. I think she won at least once. Maybe she might've gotten it twice. I know she was nominated both times. I know she won both of them. I didn't realize she was in that. But yeah, that wasn't a good show.

[00:30:15] It was amazing. But she is just so, she's one of those actors who is so brilliant in everything she does, but doesn't. But she gets snuck in with different roles that you don't recognize it. Yeah. Yeah. There's another one. I think it's Lynn Shea, I think that her name is. She is absolutely brilliant, too, in different roles. Yes. People only know her now as being a screen queen.

[00:30:44] It's like, guys, she's been here since the 70s. She's done all kinds of movies and shows. Yep. She was in, there's something about marrying, I think it was. Yes. But she was also in another movie, FDR American Badass. Oh, I forgot. Wait, wait, what's your name again? Lynn Shea. The one. Wait, who was she in something about marrying? Oh, trust me. You'll know when you know. The land lady. Oh, the Larry? Oh, shit. Oh, God. Yeah. All right.

[00:31:14] Okay. But that, no, I like that contrast, Tom. I do think she is kind of like Mindy, you know, is like, because, you know, you look at her, Chris, she's done everything. Rio 911 to, you know, my Carly. And you're just like, she is that kind of, she doesn't need to be a big level, you know, person who's known for the office or something. You know, it's just like, she's exactly where she wants to be. And she's in her 70s. And I'm always like, how does she do that?

[00:31:39] Like, she's done all these different chameleon, but always just wacky roles. You're just like, of course she's here. Well, it seems funny. The thing that got me the most was when they did the tribute to Sid and Marty Croft, they had someone come out dressed as witchy poo, right? And I'm thinking it's Billy Hayes. It wasn't. It was Mindy Sterling. She did the whole voice and everything down pat.

[00:32:04] Like, if you watch her during the TV Land Celebrate Sid and Marty Croft during the TV Land Awards. You can do great voices. Yeah. She did that. And then I saw her on, I think it was Ant Farm. She was the principal on Ant Farm on Disney, which I used to watch. I used to just watch it like, you know. So she was the principal on that show. She got sick. Yeah. She overcame like some breast cancer and some stuff.

[00:32:33] I've heard her talk on podcasts and she's always a hoot. Like, she's just on fire. She was part of the Groundlings from what I remember. Yeah. Much like it was. She was part of the ground. She got her training from there. Yeah. So, I mean, she was just one of these people you have to like watch and be like, oh, okay. Oh, okay. I know. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Okay. You know, so I get it. I get it with, I get how it is with her. She's like, and she's from Patterson, New Jersey. Oh, really? Yeah.

[00:33:03] From my neck of the woods. Yeah. Well, next time she's at a convention. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[00:33:33] I'll go get her cowboy. This one's for me. This one's for my homies. For me. Crystal. Oh. I still put Tiny Zeus Lester as one of my favorite fictional presidents because he played the president in the fifth element. Yes, he is. Loved him in that. But he can't hold a candle to President Camacho. Oh, from the.

[00:34:03] Idiocracy. Idiocracy. My judge movie. Yep. And Harrison Ford and Air Force One. Some of my top fictional presidents. Get on a plane. Martin Sheen and everything. Yeah. I got to say, Mimi Rogers is really badass in this. Like, she really worked well in the comedy in the first one, I think. And I think she, even though she was the straight person to him, like, it wasn't in a way where, like, it doesn't work for the comedy.

[00:34:31] Like, she's just, like, gives so many just, like, shit-eating grins. She's like, I can't believe you said that. You know? Like, I think, as I said, like, everything was just so polished. Like, I mean, we're talking about all the other, unfortunately obscure 60 shows that they're referencing. But, like, the art direction really went to town in every movie. And I think that's why it never really fell out of steam.

[00:34:55] Like, and then when you would see people do their variation on it, like, I'm looking at you, Pluto Nash. It just went awry because you're just like, okay, the gags aren't working. I'm not sure how much of it is the actor misbehaving versus the studio notes. But somehow they just left them alone. They came in on budget and they made millions and a million dollars. Yeah. And. One billion, kajillion, billion, billion.

[00:35:23] And it's funny you guys were mentioning the weapons. It's like, the weapons really are a character in and of themselves. You're like, you're going to do that for world domination? That's great. Welcome, Gil. Hello. I have one podcast or the other. Yeah. Sorry, you were going to say real fast, James. Oh, I don't think I was going to say anything. Oh, yeah. Other James. I'm sorry. Oh, okay. I don't worry about it.

[00:35:52] I thought you were James. James. James Bond. I self-identify as James. So what movie are you on yet? Oh, we're not really going for it. We're kind of jumping all over the place on why the franchise has been successful and the funniest weapon and villain scheme. JJ, out of all the crazy contraptions Dr. Yoh comes up with, which one do you think? Just like, is the icing on the cake?

[00:36:25] I'm trying to think. I mean, it's already, Mini-Me, I guess you could count as one of his weapons. Mini-Me was great because Mini-Me was just like. Because he has the middle finger of death. Yeah. Yeah. I think the one that got me the most was when he was trying to do. What was he going to do? I forgot the third one. The third one was. Oh, it's like he. They weren't having a mutiny, but it was like. What was his plan? It was really nutty. I think that was the one with the Preparation H one.

[00:36:55] Yeah. Yeah. That's the Preparation H was the. Yeah. Program. But the one I love is just. We will take hot magma. And he's just. Magma. Like that. And he's got the. He's got the radiation. Yeah. The tractor beam. The first one. No, the tractor. He's got the first. The first one with the radiation suit on. It's like the clear plastic one. And that's right from Dr. No. Yeah. That's right from Dr. No. And you're talking about that Preparation H. There's a scene where they're talking about.

[00:37:24] Calling Preparation H. Why don't you call it Operation Ass Cream? Well, no. Well, he goes. They were talking about Preparation H. He goes. On the whole. Preparation H feels good. It's good. And Scotty has a field day with it. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, I completely agree. He's so good on the moon. And then he says. We'll call this the Death Star. And he's like. What? Or the Alan Parsons Project. Yeah. The Alan Parsons Project.

[00:37:54] Oh, God. Oh, man. Oh, I can't remember. I kind of. There had to be a Pink Floyd reference in there somewhere, man. I kind of wanted to be like here right when you guys started because I wanted to say allow myself to introduce myself. It's fine. We made a penis bump joke and then we made a few other jokes. But it's all good. Did you guys know that Demi Moore was a co-producer on this? Yes. I didn't. I rewind the tape.

[00:38:24] I'm like, that can't be right. Yeah. Yeah. She was part owner of the now defunct moving pictures that produced her movies now and then. And if these walls could talk. And after they heard it, despite making millions with this trilogy, they they they followed chapter 11. But. I mean, it is funny. Yes. The Death Star. I mean, it wasn't just crazy 90s cartoons doing their spoof of Star Wars.

[00:38:52] It's like you got to have a James Bond spoof making fun of Star Wars. It's more like an R-Man, R-Man Flint or a Helm type of thing, actually. But yeah, you know, Matt Helm is definitely perfect. You know, it's like even though that's kind of campy already and kind of trashy, like it's the same kind of style that they're referencing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I.

[00:39:20] I have unfortunately never encountered anybody who was just like, ah, that was never funny. You know, I've encountered people who are like, oh, you know, Mike Myers overrated, you know, outside of his franchises. But I've never seen anyone like never laughed once at any of these movies. And like and I hope I never have to just just for stars. But. Yeah. I would like to complain about the Austin Powers movies. Oh, man. Did any of you watch Mike Myers new series on Netflix?

[00:39:49] I knew it's like a year and a half old now. The Pentavrit, which is a throwaway line that he uses from So I Married an Axe Murderer. Yeah, I heard. I had no idea. Yeah. What was this called again? The Pentavrit. Yeah. A group of wealthy people who control the entire world. And he does it as a throwaway line when he's playing his own dad. And so I married an axe. Where he talks about there's a group of the five wealthy people in the world.

[00:40:15] The Queen, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, the some the Gettys, the Rothschilds, the Pope, the Pope and Colonel Sanders before he went to T-Trop. So he does a whole Netflix series about the Pentavrit. He plays a reporter looking into them and checking, trying to check in. And there's there's a couple of Shrek references that are brilliant. And if you like the Mike Myers type of humor, my wife doesn't even like Mike Myers that much.

[00:40:44] And she thought it was actually pretty funny. And it's currently on Netflix. Wow. It should be because it just came out like a year and a half ago. I'd be disappointed if they got rid of it. Wow. Pentavrit. OK. I don't know how I have not heard of this. What the hell? Wow. And he's got some pretty decent players in it, too. Like some of the some of the people he brought in. Like, oh, my gosh. That's great. The Love Guru came out in 2008. Yeah. I don't know.

[00:41:14] Good to. Yeah. Yeah. Some people don't like it, but I got a kick out of it. It's all good. We all like infamous movies, dude. I was there. I saw freaking Master Disguise open and Waken. So what do I know? Oh, my God. Turtle, turtle. So now, did you guys know that Jim Carrey was going to play Dr. Evil originally? I had heard that, but I totally had spaced on it. Like because I don't. Is it established as fact? Because I can see Mike Myers pushing this movie, trying to play all these characters.

[00:41:44] Because he always cider interview for an article called Lost Roles of Jim Carrey. It doesn't say that he was ever like. Well, actually, it does say that, like, he was interested, but he had to turn it down because liar, liar was a big schedule conflict. But. It would have been cool, but it would have been so different, you know, and I think that's why we like it so much. It's, you know, Myers is again. We were talking earlier how like Eddie Murphy, after a while, he couldn't do the multiple characters act anymore.

[00:42:13] But like Myers was doing a good job of imitating what Eddie Murphy's shtick was for a while, which is I'm going to play multiple people in one skit. Yeah. Which makes a question of how many sad credits they get on four of all those. About four. Yeah. And I liked, you know, with Austin Powers, like starting with Austin Powers, you know, they did their own play on Pussy Galore. Yeah. It was a lot of vagina.

[00:42:43] A lot of vagina, yeah. Yeah. Time out New York critic Andrew Johnston, I think, states this very well for the original movie. The film's greatest asset is its gentle tone, rejecting the smug cynicism of naked gun style parodies. It never loses the earnest naive naivety of the psychedelic era. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, we saw this in the theaters and I remember the whole theater was laughing.

[00:43:11] I don't remember anyone, you know, I had a group of like, we probably had a group of like 15 people and we were all cracking up and we looked around as everyone else was laughing. So I don't think it was a movie that anyone didn't enjoy when it came out. Obviously it must've done well since it spawned two sequels. George's Conan was doing the score. I was nice to complain about the humor from the very first Austin Powers movie. When you think about, you think about the fact that, you know, he's playing, he's doing

[00:43:38] a kind of a spoof on like our man Flint in those movies from the sixties. So you got the older people coming in. Right. They have something to latch onto with that. And then the younger crowd with the bathroom humor they threw in. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. But it wasn't to the point of where you're like, good grief, can you come up with anything else? Like it was the right amount. Like it was, there's so many different kinds of humor instead of just one thing. And that's all we got to offer, you know? Yeah. Go ahead.

[00:44:07] I was going to say, I love that small little bit. It was in the second movie where he's like, he's behind the fountain. He starts peeing to, to make it look like the fountain's still going. And he just randomly picks up a piece of asparagus and starts eating it. And the guard, like starts sniffing the air. Little throwaway jokes like that were so funny. That's what was so great. Like just, he would so often be in the buff, but they would strategically just, the way where they would hide everything, which just brilliant is like, see, see what he did there when he's, yeah.

[00:44:37] And each movie tried to do those shadow gags. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Who's on first? Third base. Anyway, there's a line from the very first movie that had me cracking up because I got the reference. I don't know if anybody else did in the theater when I saw it in the theater. It was the, this is my happening, baby.

[00:45:07] And it freaks me out. Yeah. I heard that was from. That was from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Yeah. Written by one Roger Ebert. Yep. Even, and it's doing pretty well. Like we were joking earlier, it was like, cancel culture. Can't even cancel this movie. Even with Joe Son, look him up as the henchman random task. That's so funny. Oh yeah. I heard he was, he got a piece of work, but I mean, who would have known, you know, like

[00:45:35] a lot of those guys, unfortunately they're not very bright and do shady stuff. Who would have known back then? But, you know, he's only in one scene, but like Tom Arnold is the Texan. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. You show that shit. Who's boss. Oh man. I think that comes at a time. Oh no. It's like, that's right, buddy. You show that turd. Who's boss. That's what. Yeah. Christian Slater and Kelly Preston were in the deleted scenes, but apparently in the UK,

[00:46:04] the deleted scenes were incorporated in there. Huh? The thing I love about the Tom Arnold scene was that, you know, you wouldn't expect Tom Arnold to be in this movie, but I think at that time him and Roseanne had just broken up and you got to think like, you know, it's like Mike Meister said, you know, I like him, put him in there. Let's put him in there and, you know, give him a good scene to work with, you know? Yeah. Well, after coming off of a really piece of cinematic work called The Stupid. Yes.

[00:46:34] Oh man. Which brings to the question whether it was method acting or if it was just him playing a role. I think it was an allegory. I think it was an allegory on where his career was going at that point. But what do I know? Well, he just done True Lies. I think the year before was Schwartzman. Yeah. There you go. So there's a precursor to the spy comedy being financially viable. So there you go. Oh my God. And it was always funny just seeing how many people had worked on these movies, just like

[00:47:04] famous stunt people. All the fembots were famous models. And it's always just funny. I mean, and it was always annoying when I would see Daniel Craig just be so cynical being like, oh, this franchise fucked us. I'm like, James Bond never had to be serious. You know, you could have been cheeky just as these movies were. You could have been funny like Roger Moore, but no. I mean, even Paris Brosnan would have a one-liner.

[00:47:33] He was going all diehard with his era. So it's like grief, dude. Especially Die Another Day. That was a little, a bridge too far. It was too much, but everyone saw it probably with a double feature of Austin Bowers' free. So yeah. 2002 was a cool year. For all the shit that came out, it was a fun year. What year? 2002. Oh yeah.

[00:47:56] Well, the thing that gets to me is like, there's a little bit of a root in Casino Royale too. The 67 Casino Royale. Oh yeah. It definitely takes a few frames and moments from that original campy movie. I mean, probably just the fact with the amount of cameos and even the card games that are in that one particularly, they probably definitely saw it and said, let's do something with it.

[00:48:23] But I think the thing that always gets me the most is like, if you watch it, you know, he's a, Austin Powers is a character time out of, you know, out of place, out of time. He's not. That's what I loved about it too. There's time travel, but it's, it's irrelevant to the rest of the movie. It's just to get to the next wacky circumference. And I would see. No, it's not, it's not insignificant, but. Well, I don't mean that. But no, in the second movie, they make a reference.

[00:48:51] They can talk about the time travel and say, don't think too much about this. And then they, Michael York and Mike Myers will look and say, yes. That's what I mean. Like it's campy. And so I did once see an idiot try to take it apart. I'm like, did you not hear the gag? It doesn't matter. It's just for the wacky scenario. I would like to complain about the time travel element to the second. The truth about any time travel.

[00:49:18] The truth about any time travel in a movie is it can be taken apart. Correct. This is a comedy versus I have to see if the science adds up or. Telling a good movie with an imperfect twist versus a hackneyed script that nothing worked in it. You know, like this is a comedy. Like, it's just I mean, and as a result, that's why it was funnier, because then you saw the origin of some of the guys who died in movie one.

[00:49:46] So you're just like, OK, here they are. And Scott Evels is trying to become the real Dr. Evels is like, that's funny. Yes. Yes. That happens more in the third one. If you're going to a movie called The Spy Who Shagged Me to take apart the time travel elements, you're probably missing the entire point of the movie anyway. Yes. Right. And how funny that you can say that as many times as you wanted a PG-13 movie, but you can't say the F word more than twice. So shagadelic, baby, you know.

[00:50:15] And I've seen just about every cable channel do a marathon on these movies. Everyone from Spike TV to TBS, you know, it's just it was on all the time. And I could watch it as many times as I wanted. And I never got to the point where I was just like, OK, I've seen it to death. Like there it is. I think like everyone's already summed up here. It's just comfort.

[00:50:39] Well, and it's the right kind of over the top without being too much on certain days or just too dumb. It's like, no, it's this is what a spoof should be. And people like it because kind of like all these other cartoons and comedies, it's its own deal at the same time, too. Yeah. Yeah. It can stand on its own two feet instead of, oh, you know, you got to watch that movie to get this joke. Nope. I don't know. You don't have to see a single spy movie to get this.

[00:51:08] That's that's why I think it works so well. But exactly. You guys be in that. I think they've carried so many different types of spy movies and TV shows that if you don't get one joke, you're going to get another one anyway. Or at least, you know, it's such in the zeitgeist. Keep it rapidly coming. Cook him. Cook him. Cook him. Cook him. Yeah. Well, what I you know, what I liked is it captured that era of the 60s spy movie, which. Yes.

[00:51:37] That's what we're talking about, too, how it was shot. It never outdated itself because it looks like an older movie. I'll put it this way. If you grew up in the 70s and you remember Moonraker, this would be right up your alley. If I saw, like I said before, I saw Moonraker at the drive-in when I was a kid. Oh, my God. Oh, man. Oh, man. That's right. And back then I was like, I can't remember what year.

[00:52:06] Was it 80 that it came out? So I was probably. Because it was trying to steal that Star Wars money. Remember? So I was 12. Yeah. That's probably why it came out that way, because of the Star Wars. Yeah. And I just remember getting a big kick out of Jaws and his little blonde girlfriend and that. That's the other thing, too. Like, there's not really a Jaws-style henchman in these, but that's OK. Like, everybody. I think that's why it also it never became formulaic. And that's good for a comedy franchise.

[00:52:34] Like, it's just it's all about like everybody. Every villain is doing their own thing and breaking all the rules. It's never. We only answer to evil. Like, evil is just as surprised by his other people in his organization as they are by him. So I think that's just so funny, too. It's just instead of let's see who's spoiled and insecure. Is this always like they're just always just being snappy at each other. And that just leads to more. Well, he gets.

[00:53:03] Yeah, he gets so flustered trying to run his organization because things never go the way he wants it to. And it's so funny how they follow along with him, even though he always leaves them for dead. He's going away. Well, that was that was Will Ferrell's character. Right, right. But like, he's always first to go. Like, he is good at dodging bullets and everything. So we did name one of our orange smaller cats Biggles.

[00:53:34] After Biggles were once upon a time. So, you know, we did not shave it. You know, we weren't that we weren't that big a bastard. You didn't go looking for a hairless one, huh? A family friend gave it to us. And, you know, when emotions take over, stupid shit happens. Well, really, the only reason why you why you didn't get a hairless one was because you didn't have a cryogenic drinking tumor. That's true.

[00:54:03] That's some demolition man style technology there. I get that. It's a reference to James Bond. My man. What a Austin Powers loves to be in the freezer. Hello. He has to evacuation. Evacuation. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just the elevator scene and everything. And yeah, this is. Yeah. It's brilliant. I'll tell you, every morning. Yeah. I get up. I give myself.

[00:54:33] And it's taken me minutes and minutes and minutes. It's I'm always thinking of that Austin Powers scene. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the brilliance of the entire series. For me, at least it does have those highbrow moments. Those what those Easter eggs, those moments. Yes. Oh, I remember that from there. But it also has the gross humor, like mixing up the coffee with the with the stool sample. Yeah.

[00:55:03] It's a little nutty. This coffee tastes like shit. It's a bit nutty. They hit the right balance of both so that even if you didn't get the highbrow stuff, you didn't get the multiple references. It's pretty hard. You would get the more base humor and you'd still get a kick out of it. Yeah. You can bet some 10 year olds saw that and were just on the floor laughing. Oh, yeah.

[00:55:30] You got to be completely comedically dead to not get anything out of this in any capacity. The whole scene in season two in the second movie when he's naked and he's strutting through the hotel and the sight of him. He goes to the people. They're having their Jewish feast and they're about to slice into the into the meat. And it looks like they're giving him a brist. That's hysterically funny.

[00:55:57] And then that was kind of a fun gag they had in each each movie where, you know, they're doing the scenes where they're blocking the nudity with one shot or another. That's what we're talking about. It's just strategically placed. And you're like, oh, of course, she's behind two coconuts. That's that's. Yes, that's a nice rack. Yes. Oh, my God. And and never to a point where you're just like, like, really couldn't come up with anything better. It's like, yeah, that's that's well timed.

[00:56:25] And I can only imagine how it was rehearsed, how everybody got into that. And. I think that's cool that they never got too comfortable, you know, is like this launch of Seth Green to do more movies. And, you know, Elizabeth Hurley didn't want to be attached to this. It was like, that's OK. We'll get a new, you know. So they did have her at the beginning of it for. Right, right. Yeah. Because and but had we not seen that, we would have never known, you know, versus other movies

[00:56:53] where it's so obvious someone doesn't want to do the movie as they're exiting, you know, stage right. You know, it's like, yeah. She just didn't want to be pigeonholed into doing sequels. But that's OK. Like there was always a new face. Every movie. I like seeing Heather Graham and her character. What was it? Oh, Felicity Shagwell. Yep. I know they did a Foxy Cleopatra spinoff for a little while. I know they were trying to plan that. Really? Were they? Really? I think you're getting that mixed up with Holly Berry as Jinx and James Bond. No, no, no, no, no.

[00:57:23] They want. I think there was a rumor like they want to do a Foxy Cleopatra. Like would she have been the actress? Because I don't really think she's that great an actress. Right. That's what I'm saying. A more she's acting as a cowboy. I see what you did there. If you know, you know, kid. I get it. Hello, kid. Loud and clear. That's well played. Wait, what was that again? She's pretending to be a country music star, JJ.

[00:57:53] Oh, God. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's so funny how there's all these editorials complaining that she didn't win. And then even though she's on the record as saying this isn't a country album. I'm like, people take a hike or to quote Robocop. Bitches believe. So. Or is Charlie Craig will say, say what? Say what? Do not understand the rules that's coming out of my mouth.

[00:58:21] So, Gil, who's your favorite supporting person? Because like there's so many, you know, there's the psychiatrist. It'd be the Logan's Run guy, Basil. Well, it's Michael York. Yeah. Exposition. Michael York. Yeah. Because it's the perfect. It's the perfect name for his character. Right. Yeah. I'm surprised with Tom Cruise. They didn't do a aim at some of Mission Impossible or other spy shows. But it's OK. You see a bit of the shit eating humor kind of in the first Kingsman movie a bit with Colin Firth, I think.

[00:58:51] But. I mean, even Archer is kind of doing that. It's it's but it's more like South Park where it shits on everything. Yeah. Yeah. But. Yeah. I mean. I would be remiss if I didn't point out. At least in the first two movies, there was there were musical elements of it. I think it was also kind of touching on the third, but it was like it was so typically 60s slash 70s when they hear some music during the you see the star turning. And now.

[00:59:22] Mr. Burt Bacharach. Yeah. Mr. Burt Bacharach. Ellis Costello. He liked that. Ladies and gentlemen. Hello. He liked that. Yeah. That was that needed. That knocked it out of the park because it was so absurd in the middle of a movie to have that moment. And then. But it had to be so perfect for that time period, too.

[00:59:50] Well, you know, you're talking about of it. And you're talking about songs. There's some songs that Dr. Evil saying. Let's see. In three. He's saying. A hard not life. Daddy wasn't there song. Yeah. That was awesome. With the band. That was Ming T. Daddy. Would y'all love me. Yep. And Ming T has two well-known musicians in it. Matthew Sweet and what's her name? Susanna Haas.

[01:00:20] Yeah. And Jay Roach. What was that song he sang? It sounded like What If God Was One Of Us. But what was the song he sang? Yeah. He was singing that. Yeah. But he was parodying. And then he told him, I wrote that song. Do you like that? I wrote that song. Oh, because he's back in the past. Yes. And he did that parody of just the two of us with him and Mini-Me. Right. Yeah. So, yeah.

[01:00:50] I just liked a lot of, you know, even though it's like they're rehashing or redoing some things that they did in, like, other movies. Some of the things they carried through, like the shadow gags. Scotty Don't. Or was that? Or no, that was the shh. Shh thing that he did. And then Scotty Don't. Yeah. Oh, man.

[01:01:19] It was fun watching those things reoccur. How many people have you told to shut up doing that? Not me. I haven't done that. I haven't. We would do it with our dogs because you can use shh as a command. There was this one time I remember I was at this party and this kid was being really obnoxious. And I went. He just said, hey, what are you doing? Shhh. He says, but I was just shh. I kept going. Shhh.

[01:01:49] I was like, shh. There's going to get shh. Knock, knock. Who's there? Shhh. And I just said, no. No. And I started to do the whole bit. The whole bit where I got a bag of. Shhh. Here, I'm not afraid to use it. And the kid just got pissed off and walked out of the room. I bet. Words can kill, baby. Words can kill. Oh. And I've got to wonder how old Michael. Even Sam Jackson would be.

[01:02:18] Even Sam Jackson would be intimidated if you did that to him. Oh, I was just going to say, you know, in three, I liked them having Michael Caine as his father. Although you've got to wonder how old would he have been? And, you know, at that time when Austin Powers was around in the 60s. I was old enough to know better, but also old enough to still get a chat.

[01:02:46] What gets me is they use footage from another movie that he was in where it shows. Yep. I forgot which one it was. Was it a Harry Potter movie? I thought it was. There was a car exploding. Was this a car exploding scene? Yeah. I can't remember what movie that's from. IMDb, Goldmember. Usually it'll say what. But this one, Dr. Evil. That's where you're finding out that Dr. Evil and Austin Powers are brothers. Yeah.

[01:03:16] And apparently they went, you know, that's number three. Yeah. So you find out. Okay. So they went. They also went to spy school together. Yeah. That's right. Oh, man. Oh, man. I think that's the great thing about that was they don't. They. The thing that got me the most was like, if you watch it, there's almost a similar thing. Like, you and I are not. Well, aren't are very much alike. Mr. Powers. And it's just like.

[01:03:46] Yeah. Yeah. Well, it wasn't in two where he's like, I'm your father. He tries to play off that joke. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's even funnier how even more just crazy it gets. Like, Goldmember apparently curses in German as opposed to Netherlands Dutch. It's just nutty nutty. I wish I had that. I wish I had that one long diatribe that Dr. Evil has in the first movie where he describes himself. I wish I had that memorized. Oh, God.

[01:04:16] Did you know that in the TV edits for part three and when they're in Roboto's office? I see what they did there. The subtitles read, please eat some shit. But they're blocked by a tea kettle, which reads as shiitake mushrooms. Apparently in the TV version, it's please eat some dung. And then it changes to please eat some dungness crab. Yeah. It's not even getting wackier as opposed to, yeah, I didn't even try.

[01:04:45] There was apparently a Taco Bell logo on the food Frow brings in also and an Apple logo, but sometimes they lure it out on TV. So. Hmm. I was actually looking through my notes and my wife actually copied off the dialogue that I was talking about. Thank you. Okay. Go, go. Read it. Read it. You are very well. Where do I be?

[01:05:14] And I can't do the accent. I'm sorry, guys. I can't. But very well. Where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving lingerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize. He would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.

[01:05:37] Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane laments. My childhood was typical summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe.

[01:06:02] At the age of 14, a Zawastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum. It's breathtaking. I suggest you try it. And that's when Carrie Fisher says, you know what? We have to stop. Yep. Right. How awesome. I wonder if she wrote that line in dialogue. I was falling off my stairwell. I was in the theater. Oh, man. Okay. So I got your answer, JJ.

[01:06:31] So it's Hurry, Sundown. Dramatic film that they take the earlier Michael Caine footage from. All right. Okay. Totally different kind of movie. You're like, what? And because like you, I thought it was one of the Harry Palmer movies. You're like, nope. Oh, and you got to love the Godzilla statue. They move it. Think it's a real Godzilla. And two businessmen run screaming, saying, run, it's Godzilla. And another says, it looks like it's not due to international copyright. It is not. Yeah.

[01:07:01] But again, like we said before, like you don't have to get all these references for the joke to land. Like, it's just fun, fun, fun. And how he's dancing like Travolta and Saturday Night Fever. Just. Oh, man. I think. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, you go kill. No, I don't have anything. Well, I think you did. Oh, no, not really. Who's on first?

[01:07:27] Did you guys ever see the Mythbusters episode where they tested out the. To see if the ejector seat would even work. I don't think so. No, because I want my dreams crushed. Yeah, it was a comedy. I'm not. I mean, did you guys mention the problems he had with chairs yet? I talked about his penis bump. I talked about all kinds of things. I don't think I got to that one yet. It's true. It's true. Yeah. Chairs are kind of a thing.

[01:07:56] I mean, if he's not bumping his head, Austin is always getting to some issue. My favorite is the Joker says, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my submarine lair. It's long and hard and full of Sheeban. Then he notices nobody's going to say, no, nothing. Not even a titter. Tough show. I don't remember. I'm trying to find it. In 2002, 2003, dude, it was big. Like that final movie.

[01:08:24] Like I remember, I think it was like a T. Nick Choice Award show. I think Mike Myers won an award. I don't know if he got sly, but I remember that year. That was a crazy year. But yeah, anytime he's converting all these guys to come over and like, like be part of his evil planet, it's just always like, yeah, they think he's weird.

[01:08:49] But because he's got a ton of money, they're going to go along with whatever crazy thing he has, whatever shenanigans. I did recall in the first movie, he Austin killed about 110 people. I do remember that. Like there were a lot of people in that factory. My wife also copied off the Just the Two of Us song. Yep. Oh, God. We played it at the beginning of the show. It's a cool cover.

[01:09:19] Because like, again, like kind of like all his utter dancing and everything. Like he's just. Mike Myers is really going loose in that villain role. And I think that's what I love. I love nothing more than a villain who is just funny. Like I forget why you're evil again. He's like, no, he's got family issues. I think. I think when he does like. When he's doing a gold number and he's doing the whole smoke and a pancake thing. That really cracked me up.

[01:09:49] You know. Cigarette in a crate? Dr. Dr. You have the ultimate insurance policy. May I present you the very strange. Very. Toit. Oh, she. Oh, she. Faza. His what? His Faja, Dr. Evil. His Faja. What's his Faja? His Faja. You know. The Faja. You know, gold member. I don't speak freaky deaky Dutch. Okay. Poor boy. Faja. His dad.

[01:10:19] Dad is Faja. Oh, his dad. His father. Oh. I have a Dutch accent. Isn't that weird? Then. I was trying to think. Like, you know, when they were doing the movie connection, like they were making a movie about Austin Powers and they had. Yeah. Who was it? Who was it that played the gold member? It was John Travolta. Yeah. John Travolta. Yeah. Yep. And then you had Tom Cruise at the beginning. There was a Spielberg.

[01:10:49] Playing Austin Powers. And then. Now, was it. Was it. Yeah. A question here. Was it. Was it actually John Travolta or was it Nicholas Cage? Ah. Dr. Evil looked very tight. Yes. Tweet like a tiger. Yes. Yes. Yes. You know, I don't think that's something one dude says to another dude. Yeah. A little creepy. How about when he wanted to eat his skin? Yeah. Okay. This was a good. This was a good one.

[01:11:19] I'm putting him on very, very salty. Yes. Yes. Yes. That then goes in the skin box. I'm saving that. That then goes in the skin box. Oh, God. Oh, my God. Oh. Oh, my God. And then has anybody brought up Fat Bastard? Yes, we have. But not enough. So what's the best moment? Because there's plenty. Oh, my God. That shouldn't work. But it does. I don't know why it works.

[01:11:48] Other than just the delivery and just. I guess it's just the shamelessness of each character. It's. Any other movie or show you can. Well, it. Because the character is too perverted or too weird. And it's just like these work because there's never not a moment where the movie knows that it's. Absurd. You know, it's just like it's wacky. Go along. Yeah. Well, there's like the. The two times when Fat Bastard goes into a diatribe.

[01:12:18] You know, he's making these long speeches and then it ends with him having a little bitty fart. Did you just throw yourself? Maybe. I don't know. Where's your chitter? I got the turtle head poking out. Oh, my God. I got a strap on deck and choke a donkey. Oh, my word. The best thing. The best thing for me was. The scene with him and Heather Graham. Oh, God. Oh, my God. Oh.

[01:12:47] Oh, I was just going to say the scene with him and Heather Graham. Go ahead, Tom. Best thing for me, though, was the fat bastard as a sumo wrestler. I don't know what it is, but that. So appropriate. Cultural crossover event was one I didn't know I needed, but I knew at that moment that it had to happen. As he said in that moment. And then he tosses that. He realized. And then he tosses that guy. And then he realized.

[01:13:19] Who's on first? At this point that he realized that a fat Scottish man could be a sumo wrestler. Oh, I'm on the zone diet. Yeah. Carb's not the enemy. He's like, he's got all this loose skin hanging from him and everything at the end of the gold member. And I'll put it this way. Also, something else I just remembered. If they didn't get canceled for. For. For. Kevin Spacey. They. Sure.

[01:13:48] They sure as hell wouldn't have gotten canceled for the reference to Jared from Subway. Oh, God. I just remember that. Oh, I forgot. Kevin Spacey was playing Dr. Evil. No, I thought it was, you know, when Fat Bastard and Heather Graham were going at it in bed. Well, not going at it, but, you know, he's sitting there getting all greasy and stuff and sweaty and hairy. Yeah. He's got pimples on his back and shit.

[01:14:19] And she's got to insert the rectal probe. Ooh, frisky, are we? That was a good point, too. Like, it could have easily just been too much and grossed everyone out. And yet somehow, like, I don't know if it's just the way Myers delivers everything and tells everybody, like, again, he just shuts them down and says, relax. This is meant to be nutty, you know? It is.

[01:14:49] I have the Dr. Evil rapping from Gold Number. I don't know how to be. No crib on MTV. God only knows. Got many me in the GP. See how it goes. Evil's all that I see. You ask me my name? D to the Rizzo. E to the Vizzo. I to the Lizzo. I'm crazy, motherfucker. You all knew that. Austin Cloppen in the first act is all backwards. That's what's with that. So I'll make my prophecy from the dogs to many me. Give me an Escalade.

[01:15:18] Two-way bling bling on eBay. Domino, motherfucker. Does he actually say fucker? Yeah, actually, I think it says that. Wow. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. How'd they get away with that? He says, Gold Number. Yeah, yes, yes. This is the keeper. All right. You're not going to put that skin in your mouth, are you? You did. Okay. That's just gross. Yes. Very salty. Yes. Yes. That's just good.

[01:15:45] I would start, my ex-wife, I would start talking like Gold Member. If we were like somewhere, you know, you look very tight, very tight, like a tiger. And she's like, shut up. I'm like, you're very sexual tonight. Very sexual, very sensual. It's still something together. Oh, my God. And she's like, she's like cracking up. So here in St. Louis, we've got a Christmas festival that happens in St. Charles, Missouri, which is one of the, you know, just right across the bridge from where I live.

[01:16:13] And we do a Christmas festival every year. And I end up playing Krampus. And they wanted, they said they don't want it to be scary, even though I'm on these giant hoof stilts. They put me about seven feet tall, and I've got a huge horn coming out of my head. So I do, no one catches it, but I do the voice of Gold Member when people come into my room. And that's to Bisbee's promise. Nice. And no one's caught on yet. Yes, would you like to shit on my lap? Come here. Let me see you. Have you been good or bad, child?

[01:16:43] I have seen people do like Sean Connery memes, but do a play on the horse shit on my lap. There's definitely a good toilet. Yes, shit. Shit on a chair. Shit on a chair. Yes. Yes, you sit on a chair and then you sit on the couch. Well, you'd be like, come back to my mom and shit on my head. Take the rapist for 20. Sorry. I think the thing that cracked me up was when they were doing the whole, like, at least

[01:17:13] dad speak English. Speak English. Just, all right, my son. I could have had it while you was cracking Julie, my old China. I was about to make love to this pretty girl. Are you telling me a bunch of pork pies and a bag of trout? Because if you're, quite quickly, frankly, if you just have a J.R. Is it true you're just aroused? Why didn't you play yourself? What? Billy? No mates. What? Alone? Too right, indeed. Don't you remember the crimbo din we had with that Gretel Scots girl?

[01:17:40] Don't you remember the dinner where that's Gretel Scots girl? The little man who lived upstairs. She was embarrassed at what became a puppy and a lawyer and a lawyer who became a policeman in a truck. Complete gibberish. Like, tea kettle? Yeah, and then she shot on a turtle. And that's when they did the subtitles underneath.

[01:18:09] Yeah, those all question marks are on the bottom. Oh, man. Oh, Danny DeVito is... It's Benny Me Too. Yes, how appropriate. James, have you ever introduced these to your family members or... Other James. I had... Other James. My mom and my dad watched it one time.

[01:18:38] My mom was laughing hysterically. My father... Oh, so there you go. He got some of the jokes, but he didn't get it. You know, but my dad knew about our man Flint and the D. Martin stuff, so he was kind of like, you know, seeing it, know what he's talking about here. But my mom loved it because there's some jokes in there. She's just... She was just howling. My ex-wife, I saw all three with her. No, no. I said two with her. I saw Spuyo Shagney and... Everybody gets it, you know? Yeah. Guess, James, did...

[01:19:07] Have you shown this to any family? Yeah. My wife and I tried to watch them. I was like, you've got to see their... They're hilarious. And she suffered through the first one. We made it halfway through the second one. She goes, I just can't. It's too much toilet humor. I said, oh. Okay. Then I filed for divorce. No. No. My wife, as I re-watched them this last week, she sat through one and two, but she said three is not her favorite. She didn't want to watch that one, so...

[01:19:37] Not every gag lands. I could do without the Britney Spears part, but other than that, I think it's fun. I think the first one is the best, but I see others who argue the second one's their favorite. So, you know, whatever blows your boat, man. Like, they are just so agreeable. It's a good trilogy. It really is. Like, it's just... I can't think of any better comedy trilogy that works. I do wish they had done more with it, you know? Yeah, totally. There's...

[01:20:04] After a lot of years, they teased part four, and now at this rate, I'm like, nah, don't bother. Like, let the memories of these three movies live on. Like... Well, I don't know. With Michael Myers getting up there in years, he could do, like, a Sean Connery type of thing, like Sean Connery did with his last... Maybe. Bond role. I don't know. Like a never say never again type thing. Yeah. We're bringing you back out of retirement, Austin. We're a totally different adventure. Perfect.

[01:20:32] Which is also very similar to Casino Royale, the 67. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Luring David Niven back out. Yeah, I mean, if they did do another one with him coming out of retirement, they get a Rowan Atkinson, is that as well? That could be the never say never connection. That'd be the Johnny English universe. There you go. I see what you did there. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:20:57] I think the thing I've said about the movies is that at the end, when you think about the last one with Goldmember, that character is such a freaking wacky-ass character. I mean, they all are, but he definitely takes the cake. But you got to think, like, you know, like, like, like fat bastards, like, you know, the henchman of all henchmen. Like, you know, he's the one that he's got, he's got that tragic, like, he's a fat person,

[01:21:26] but, you know, he's got, when society tells you you've got to be thin in order to be laked. And he's like, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, like, like, it's like, Goldmember's like, you know, this, this, like, character of, like, I don't know what the fucking make of him, whatever scene he's in. And it's like, you hear that voice, you start laughing, because it's like, he's like, he's like, you look like a macho, you look like a macho man. Village people. Johan Wenderschmeyer.

[01:21:56] Yeah. What a name. Then he says, there would be bad news bears. Well, let's look at his alias. And there's many. There's Goldmember's, there's Crazy Dutch Bastard, there's Goldie Wang, and then there's son of a bitch pile of monkey nuts. Well, you know, and he's nothing like, I was gonna say, he's nothing like the, because the name Goldmember, they're just taking it off a gold finger. He's nothing like Goldfinger. Right.

[01:22:26] It's just, it's just part of the parody. Like, it doesn't have to land. I mean, I, and I think, I see a bit of Luther of the Hill people, that same kind of just randomness with a lot of these characters. And I think that's just it. Like, SNL was just the template for where Myers was gonna go as a comedian. And I think, compared to other people where you're like, I'm not sure, you know, if they

[01:22:50] sold out or had to rely on this, like, three just funny movies kind of just did it for them. That's what kept him relevant. A lot of part of the 90s. Well, I think it closed. Yeah. I think, I think the thing that got me is, like, it closed up on that, that, that, that era of like, you know, where it was like that five year run. And I think the weakest of the three is The Spy Who Shagged Me, because it just gets really wacky at some point.

[01:23:19] I mean, it's more of a Dr. Evil movie, movie than Austin Powers movie. And I think that's what I love about, that's what I love about it. But, you know, when they did the third one, we were like thinking, okay, how, how's this going? How's this going? Well, and that's just it. Like, they didn't go to any expectation. So you never knew what you were in for. And again, because all the characters are nutty, you can follow any of them around and you laugh. Like, I can't think of a moment where you're just not, you might, there might be moments

[01:23:48] where you're not laughing as hard, but you're, there's still moments where you're, you're just, you're having a wee of a time and you're just like, this is crazy silly. You know, just like. Well, you know, with, with three, they kind of did end it because at the end, Dr. Evil finds out he's Austin Powers brother. He becomes a good guy. Yeah. His son takes over. So it's like, no, you got to see Dr. Evil being evil. So that's probably why they ended it there. True. I mean, don't get me wrong.

[01:24:16] In a shitty alternate cinematic universe, Myron could have done like 20 of these and people would have been like, oh, it's not funny anymore. Stop it. You know? And I was trying to think, I've mentioned before, you know, like wishing that they had done a cartoon and stuff. And now I'm thinking on Netflix, there is a cartoon for Agent Elvis. Oh, yes. Oh my God. Yeah. It's like, and it just makes me think that, oh yeah, if they, if these people had done Austin Powers, they could have done a great job. I had heard of it.

[01:24:46] I can't remember if I saw it or not. It's amazing. And you'll, and the person who plays Elvis, Matthew McConaughey. All right. All right. And for a job, he did all right. All right. All right. I'm Dixie Normus. Hi, I'm Dixie Normus. I'm Dixie, Dixie Normus. I may be a small town FBI agent slash single mother, but I'm still tough and sexy. Well, Miss Normus, shall we shag now or shag later? Hey-o.

[01:25:17] Well, if with a name like Dixie Normus, I'd have to worry about her sexuality myself. Oh my God. I, in the early days of prank calls, you know, there were many celebrities that people used to do before they'll stop being a thing. And Dr. Evil was one of them. What did you say to me, you little shit? Yeah. Oh.

[01:25:47] I was just thinking about today. I was like, I was on the internet and I was thinking about like the movies that came out between like 90, 94 to like 2002. And there was this spot where I was watching this highlight from the Jerky Boys movie that came out. Oh my God. Remember that movie when that came out? Yeah. Coming soon. Talking about the Jerky Boys. Yeah. I was like one of five people who saw it. And I haven't seen it. Is it good, JJ?

[01:26:16] It's, let me put you this way. Anyway, it's, it's funny if you know the, the characters that they do. I've, I've, I've listened to their CDs. Yeah. Yeah. But they, but to put them in a movie was not the best idea in the world. Yeah. But there's, but there's parts they do when they're like, you know, they're like, they go to a, they're like at a burger place. Yes. Can my wife and I have a, my wife and I have a, my son wants a cheeseburger. I want a hamburger. My wife wants a chicken sandwich.

[01:26:46] I'll get a large lemonade and order a fries. All right. So that's two, two clam nipples. I caught him. He says, he's like, what the hell are you doing? He says, he's like, I'm sorry. What? My mother hit me this morning. My shoes and glasses. Let me talk to the man. Yeah. Tough guy. What do you want? Can we have an order? Yeah. I'll get you a fucking order. Just turn up the fucking window. I mean, it was just, it was just, it was so hit or miss with some of that, with those things. But the minute you saw them, the illusion was wrecked.

[01:27:15] That's the thing that killed it. You know, when they took the masks off and you were like, oh, that's them. You know? They're not anonymous people behind a phone. No. Yeah. The funny thing is Johnny Brennan does work on like, you know, the family guy and stuff like that. Oh my God. He's the voice of Mort Goodman, the, um, yeah. I was going to say that. The chief pharmacist. Yeah. You know? So, and I know that Seth MacFarlane, they always would think, you know, he was the voice

[01:27:43] also of Horace, the guy who owned the, the, the, the clam before they killed his character off. Oh my God. So yeah. So yeah. He, uh, he's married. Ali Kamal. I don't know what he does now. I don't know what he's doing. Oh yeah. That guy. I'm just kidding. My name is Ali Kamal. He punched my teeth. He ate my gums. I cannot blow bubbles on two popcorn. And, you know, and, uh, he touched me.

[01:28:11] The Jersey Boys movies at least had Alan Arkin in it though. So I'm not sure what he wants to do. That's the only good thing about it. Alan Arkin. And the scene where he gets hit, where he gets burned by the sugar. Ah, shit. Fuck. Just does that want. I'll never forget how Roger even hated that movie. I'm like, dude, don't, don't even know. There's so much worse stuff out there. Why don't you bring up his writing from beyond the Valley of the Dolls? That's basically how the defense we have for everything.

[01:28:40] I think it's, I think it's between North and the Jerky Boys, the movies he, no. Oh, and, uh, Buffalo 66. Where he thought it was just. I thought that was David Mamet. No, no, no, no. Buffalo 66 was, uh, was, uh, Vince, what was his name? Shit. He's the guy that started it, right? Um, yeah. Vincent Gallo. Yeah. Vincent Gallo. Yeah. And he did that movie, The Brown Bunny, too. Oh, my word. You had to bring that damn movie. Yeah. I remember, like, Buffalo 66.

[01:29:09] No, Ebert just fucking trashed him. Just trashed him in his work. And I was like. Before he went to war against Rob Schneider. But I can't blame him for that. You know. You know. Everyone's been at war with Rob Schneider at one point in real life. Even Rob Schneider's at war with Rob Schneider. Isn't it sad? You think, you think Rob Schneider, here he was, this guy who was on Saturday Night Live. And now he's, like, this ultra Republican. And I'm sitting there, and I'm like.

[01:29:34] His best role is playing as himself, getting roasted on Triumph Needs a Poop World Tour. What was that, Frank? I'm one of those people who enjoyed Deuce Bigelow, Male Gigolo. I actually enjoyed that movie. No, hey. Yeah. Whatever floats your boat, man. That at least had an ensemble, as opposed to just him carrying a movie and being stupid. So, I am surprised, though, speaking of Moonraker, that there wasn't a character named Holly Goodhead in any of these Austin Powers movies.

[01:30:04] Well, here's the goof. You know, in the first movie, Mike McDonald's character gets killed? Yes. Oh, the steamroller? There's a cutscene. Lois Childs is his wife who played Dr. Holly Goodhead. Oh, my word. For real? Yeah. That's right. Yeah. They had to get some Bond girl in there somewhere. That's the steamroller scene, right? Yep. Yep. Since you mentioned Moonraker, I don't know if you have seen, and I don't mean to take this down a tangent. Moonraker should be the porn parody.

[01:30:30] They've had a question mark now because they're saying that you all remember when Jaws comes out of the rubble and he shakes himself off and the girl there with the braids, right? Yeah. Did she or did she not have braces when she smiled at him? She did. She did. Everyone is saying online, no, she didn't. That was actually not a thing, and we're all misremembering. And I'm like, I've got the DVD. I've got the Blu-ray. She had it. Nope. They added that in for the new whatever anniversary thing is coming out.

[01:30:59] I'm like, I really don't think so. And there's people on the chat, well, I saw this in the cinema, and I remember that she didn't have braces. I am convinced that James Bond fanboys love to argue for the sake of arguing. Jaws? I remember braces. Yeah, so do I. And I remember his braces, but who knows? Maybe they're looking at TV edits that kill stuff for time. I don't know. Or maybe they got... That was so sweet that they bonded over that because they both had metal in their mouth. Oh, I see what you did there.

[01:31:29] Bonded. Yeah, and it also came up again near the end of a movie called Better Off Dead. I just gave my $2. Not just that. They very adequate. They had their ski pole sword fight. Like, the main head of the guy with the glasses. Finds a girl with... I can't think she had braids, but she definitely had braces.

[01:31:57] And she smiled, and he smiled, and they walked off into the sunset as it were together. That was Roy Rogers, asshole. Diehard reference. Hold on a minute. I'm looking at this right now with the... Or no, it's Gary Cooper. That's Gary Cooper. Oh, man. It's like, there is a thing you were saying. She might have braces or... Release the braces cut.

[01:32:23] It's possible that she could have been in scenes where she didn't have the braces in, but I remember seeing her with braces. Were they on her chest? Maybe that's what we were paying attention to. I don't know. Well, I know I was. At least you're honest. Showing. No. Oh, she's the example of the Mandela effect. Most people claim that they remember Dolly wearing braces on her teeth.

[01:32:52] That can be seen when she smiles at Jaws after meeting him. These braces are not to be seen in the film, or at least its current version. So they may have done one take where she has them and one take where she doesn't have them, and they just flipped it. And we're doing different cuts that we got. Yeah, that's possible. Especially if you're talking like they... They do different things for TV cut versus the movie cut. So you know what? The feeder cut. We need to go back in time and get the braces cut.

[01:33:22] Oh, there's got to be a brace cut somewhere. That's what I mean. We'll go back in time, power style. Just make this work. We'll go back to 1975, where I will bring Goldmember into the future, and you know what? No one can stop me. Not even Austin Powers. You'll surround it, Dr. Evil. Oh, shit. That's what I would love, too. Well, that's right. They did the whole Silence of the Lambs thing with him. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah.

[01:33:52] Half of the fucking thing. Oh, my fucking word. I love when he breaks out of prison. He said they start playing Eastbound and Down. Yeah. I got a smoky blow up. I got a smoky come up on my tail. A distinctive... Yeah. MasterCard. Oh, my God. Oh. Yeah.

[01:34:21] Oh, my God. I just... I can't believe... I miss those movies. I miss those movies so much. I mean, it's like... Did you go through and try to re-watch any of them this week, JJ? Or... I didn't get a chance because I had some stuff come up, but I was like trying to remember in the back of my memory, like, you know, the memory banks are still working now as we speak. But it was like, I have to watch them again just to go through them, like, you know, because I haven't time to watch anything.

[01:34:50] I just remember a lot of the stuff that happens. It's like, I got to watch them again just to get familiar with them again. I always do. I always have to do that. They never get old, though. No. Like, even if you haven't seen them in a decade, like, they're going to date well compared to other comedies. And the over-the-top stuff, it's kind of like how people get offended at other stuff, but

[01:35:15] then when it's in a different context, no one bleeds a single, you know, no one ruptures a single tear. You know, it's just like, it's just one of those, like, you have to just, like, really just be the biggest nitpicker on the face of the planet to find something really wrong with these movies. Like, to be like, that's not funny. It's just like, really? I tried to tell people about watching, and they were like, oh, no, this movie's way, way funnier.

[01:35:44] And I was like, no, it's not. It's not funny at all. I was there when the towers fell. It's not funny. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's always a matter of taste. I mean, it's a matter of taste. I know, but it is funny to know who, like, why they think a certain way. It's like, well, when's the last time you saw it? Okay, you saw it once. Once upon a time. Well, it's like, I've told a story before of where, like, my cousin Shane and I, and his

[01:36:13] sister, my other cousin, we all went to go see Dumb and Dumber in the theater. And Shane and I were on the floor laughing, watching this movie. And my cousin Shannon, she's like, I don't get it. Why? What's so funny? And I'm like, we can't explain it to you. But yet, you know, you would have a movie come out, like, you know, Friday. Yeah. Which, you know. Bye, Felicia.

[01:36:44] Yeah, I mean, there's funny parts in that. But, I mean, there were other, I don't remember other comedies coming out at that time, you know, like, that really hit it as big as Austin Powers. And then you got to think later. That could be it, too. Yeah. It's not on your head. To that point, I almost think the 90s, at least certainly in the early 90s, there was

[01:37:11] a big resurgence with the throwback to the 60s. You had movies like The Doors that kind of brought that up. You had Bellbottoms coming back. You had groups like D. Light who harkened back to that time frame. Yeah. So there was that entire movement in there. Funkadelic, baby.

[01:37:36] That would have definitely, if not inspired it, or it might have definitely would have been reflected in it from the writing standpoint of it and get shot. I think that's where a lot of that came from, was just that early to mid-90s sense of we want to relive the 60s. Neopsychedelia. We go through waves, man. Yeah.

[01:38:02] It was neopsychedelia, because I can remember going to college and when I got out of community, I went to the four years school. Hey, community. Yeah, I went to community school, college, and I was like... Jeff Winger, say hi. I was like in this little... Then the minute I got to college, I was noticing people like, wait, did I just step into a time warp or something like that? And that's what reminded me of. Everybody was dressing like the 60s again.

[01:38:29] And then we all graduated and some of us became Republicans. And some of us still don't have fun. But you know, ladies and gentlemen... No, I'm just... But... It was a different time, baby. It was a different time. I didn't dwell it. But it was like... It was like... I can't remember like, you know, just seeing people in like, you know, going to like New York and seeing, you know, seeing people dressed up in bell bottoms and like those like, you know, the hippy-diffy stuff. And I was like, this is cool. But it's like...

[01:38:59] As long as it wasn't your achy-brakey heart. No, that was... I can remember my stepmom buying me some jeans for school. And it was when bell bottoms had been out of style for like two or three years and they were bell bottoms. And I had to wear them to school. And I got made fun of big time. At least it wasn't a fat bottom. Or huskies. No, no. I'm gonna be fair though, Cam. Fat bottom girls, they do make the rock.

[01:39:28] That's what I was referencing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, man. I still got my greatest treasure. Still got my favorite treasure. Hey, big woman, you done made a big man out of me. Yeah. You'll make a man out of me. Yeah. Now you're all right. Come on. Now you're all right. Now you're all right. Thank you. I love it. I've got mortgages in homes. I've got stiffness in the bones. You know.

[01:39:58] Oh, God. You listen to that song. You're just like, oh, I get where he's coming from. That's actually my favorite Queen song. Yeah. That has become one of my favorite Queen songs. Like, if it comes to my top five. You know. That and Bicycle Race from that era. You know. Nice. That was from the Queen album. Jazz. Yeah. Oh, my God. You know. I was watching something.

[01:40:26] They said how Freddie Mercury changed styles like every couple years. And they said when they did jazz. The tour for jazz. He came out and he had like. A leather jacket on. Like the leather jacket on. The peak hat. Those sunglasses. And like the leather slash. They were like. I don't know. Like plastic. Not like. Like, you know. Like pleather trousers. And stuff like that. You know where he was getting that from? The guy. The guy.

[01:40:56] Glenn Hughes from the Village People. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Everybody imitates someone else. You know. Wait. Wait. Now, wait a minute here. Are you telling me. That there's a possibility. That Freddie Mercury. May have been a homosexual. I'm not saying there's a possibility. But it's. You know. I couldn't tell, man. I absolutely could not tell, man. That man was straight as they come. Speaking of MTV. I did like how this whole franchise.

[01:41:25] Did mention a shit ton of MTV. Without you having to have seen any of it. Like, it was just kind of. It's a pop culture savvy movie. And. I also would be amiss. Before we go. You guys do know how. The origin of Mini-Me, right? George Harrison. I haven't heard that one. So. I'll go ahead and tell it for you. So. New Line Cinema. You know. When they're in the process of making the first. Austin Powers in 97.

[01:41:55] Vern Troyer's. You know. Mini-Me. He's not used in the first movie. But he is in the sequels later. But. So. There's this. Dud. That New Line produced. Known as the Island of Dr. Morrell. Yeah. And. There was a. Featured dwarf actor who. Was a. For whatever reason. Marlon Brando had taken a liking to. And. Because he could get away with stuff. It gave that guy. A chance to grow an ego. And he would notoriously punch. PAs in the dick. And.

[01:42:25] Including a New Line executive. And. He got the inspirations. Like. Let's have. Dr. Evil. You know. Have a. Mini. You know. Clone of himself. Who. Oh my god. And so. It's one of those. It's not known everywhere. But you'll see it on some trivia sites. I think it was revealed in like the commentary tracks. Once upon a time. Somewhere along the way. I do remember hearing how. Marlon Brando was really into that. Little person. Yeah. This is like. You're with a. I'm an actual little guy.

[01:42:55] He was. He's a really good guy. So now. Now it makes me. He couldn't be yours. Now it makes me. Dr. Evil is Colonel Kurtz from Bob Gloves now. Or. I'm almost. Taking the other way. Dr. Moreau. From that. Like Dr. Moreau. Did you know. Bert Troyer played Napoleon. Yeah. What? In Jack of all trades. Oh. On the Bruce Campbell show. Yep. So the last thing I ever.

[01:43:25] The last thing I ever saw him in was a. Who's Line episode. Back in like 2016. And. He was doing stuff here and there. And that's just it. Like. It didn't matter if the. He was kind of what I call the Jason Mewes. Thing you know. Even though he's not. Playing Jay from the Kevin Smith movies anymore. Like. He doesn't have. It's kind of like Danny Trejo. You will see whatever crap he's in. And you would laugh that he was in it. And. I applaud anybody who can have that bigger career. And kind of be critic proof in a way.

[01:43:55] Like you're going to check out something he's in. Like it's just. Whatever he's in. It's. Curiosity kills the cat. You got to check it out. And so I think. That's how I would describe kind of his career. Most Austin Powers. When did he pass away? 2018. 2018. And what was the last thing he did? That's. That's what I was saying. Kind of just comedy bits. Here and there. Appearances. And I saw him on a. Who's line episode. And he did pretty good. Who's line. Yeah. And. Yeah. I. I.

[01:44:24] I can't believe how many people aren't. Alive anymore from this movie. But at the same time. Like it's not to the point where it just. Because their character is just so iconic. Infused in pop culture now. Like I don't. Whenever I see him. I don't feel sad. I'm just like. Like I'm appreciating the work you did. And that I'm still. I know it's quality. If I'm still quoting it years later. You know. Yeah. And they've immortalized themselves on film. So. Yeah. The thing I love is. Like George Harrison.

[01:44:53] Wrote a letter to Mike Myers. When they were filming Austin Powers. Gold member. And he says. He said he got the letter. The day that George Harrison died. And he said that. Yeah. He said that. Fucking real? Yeah. He says that. Just sitting here with my Dr. Evil doll. I just want you to know. I've been all over Europe. Looking for your mini doll. And he says that Harrison said. And he says. Dr. Evil is so freaking good. Any scouser dad will tell you. It's like.

[01:45:23] It's actually frigging. Instead of. Four fish and a finger. As in four fish and a finger pie. If you get my drift. He says. Thanks for the movie. So much fun. And. I think. That's the thing that I love about. Is like. You know. To have. You know. You know. Like to have that happen. When you know. You reach someone. And he said. He said a letter. Sorry I left you on the helicopter that day. I promise I won't do it again. Because. At the end of a hard day's night. Supposedly he said.

[01:45:54] When they. They did the hard day's night. When they leave. And the helicopters. Eight by ten says. Beatles on the door. And the helicopter takes off. That's what he loved about. With. A hard day's night. And Austin Powers. You know. With Mike Myers. He said it was the same sort of. Like party mood about it. You know. Wow. Yeah. Who was the singer that. Who was the singer that was.

[01:46:24] Supporting Monty Python. Oh. There's a bunch. There was. Neil Lyons. No. That was George Harrison too. He. Yeah. He funded. But Zeppelin I think. Also. Life of Broin. Yeah. No. No. Zeppelin. Pink Floyd. The guy. Chris Thomas. I think. Yeah. Floyd was one of them too. Yeah. They put money into Monty Python. And the Holy Grail. Okay. Yep. Brian had Harrison. The others. Okay. Life of Brian had Harrison. What George Harrison did was. If you ever hear the story.

[01:46:54] They. EMI pulled out. Because they were. They were being told. You know. Don't. This movie's going to be. You know. Terrible. It's not going to make any money. Or anything like that. Stop that. That's silly. Yeah. George Harrison. Basically said. Well I'll give you the money. He's like. Well. Why do you even just. Chico needed the money. I'll. Chico needed the money. Um. So what happens is that. He put. George Harrison put his house up. As collateral for the movie. That's it. And it. And it made more money than. Uh.

[01:47:24] What was expected. So. George Harrison said. It made more money since Jesus was a small boy. It wasn't a pound laugh. Because he's about to make. He was about to make the same records. I think. I. Go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say. You know. And they asked him. Why he. Did it. He says. Because I wanted to see it. Yeah. Yeah. That's what made him so cool. I love just the simplest. Just like. Reasons. Like. See. That works. Eric. I also. Eric.

[01:47:54] I also. It's the most expensive movie ticket. Anyone's ever paid for. Oh my God. I love Eric. Oh man. Oh gang. I feel like we have. Picked this apart. But. In a good way. You're very twinkly. Like a tiger. Like a tiger. These movies rock. Oh God. Yeah. These movies rule. They're agreeable.

[01:48:25] They're fun. They're not. They're fun. Yeah. Yeah. Funny guy. Oh man. What. What is Austin Powers streaming on right now? Oh. It's got to be on the Max app. Right. Let's see. Austin Powers. Not cast. I don't know about streaming. I always buy it. So. Yeah. I know you do. Let me check. Yeah. I'm holding the DVDs in my hand. Because I'm sure if this is going to be video or not. So I want to have them on hand and ready.

[01:48:55] That's fine. That's a man who. You can buy it on Prime. Okay. Prime? It's not on Max. Yeah. And. I'm not seeing it on Max or even. Wow. Now can anybody tell me where I can get Master of the Skies? No. Oh my God. Really? I'm going to see if it's on Tubi now. Yeah. That's what. That's what gets. That's where. That's where I'm going. It's on Tubi.

[01:49:26] Tubi has everything lately. That's what gets me about like Dana Carvey and Mike Myers. Like they did. They did Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2. Right? I mean. Think about it. Myers. Dana Carvey was supposed to be the one that was going to go like into the stratosphere. And what was Mike Myers going to do? And then all of a sudden. Mike Myers goes into the stratosphere. Dana Carvey. I know. I know him. And I think they have a podcast now together. Yes. I know. Yeah. One percent on tomatoes. Plutus. Jesus.

[01:49:55] And on a side note. In case you were wondering. Master of Skies is on Tubi. Yep. That's what I was saying earlier. It's on Tubi. I was looking at Austin Powers movies. Bandango at home. Apple TV. You know. One thing I didn't realize. I didn't think about comparing. Was Maxwell Smart. You know. Get smart. Yeah. Yeah. We compared it to everything. From Pluto Nash to Matt Helm. Yeah. There's definitely something similar to.

[01:50:24] We can get smart. And Mel Brooks in general. Oh. I think that's the thing. I think he compares Siegfried. Siegfried to Dr. Evil. You know. This is fast. You don't shush. I'll do. You know. So what's your favorite Dr. Evil laugh moment. Besides all of them. Well the one where. For me it's the one where. He's laughing. Everybody else starts laughing. And they keep laughing. And keep laughing. But the scene doesn't cut away.

[01:50:54] They're right. They're trying to keep up. That's Pooey Squad right there. Thighs down. Thighs down. And his naked gun. Yeah. Zucker Brothers moment. I. I think the one I love is. Well the speech that he gives to the therapy group. Because it's so. It's so wacky. But the one where he. Where he's. He's. He's. He's. He's. He's got the case. Mr. Biggles. Mr. Biggles. We're time for dinner. I like.

[01:51:26] Meow meow meow. And then. When he starts. When he starts dancing around to beyond the scene. Yes. I fucking lost it. Please deliver. Yeah. It's. Wow. Without a. It's like. He's doing like this. Wacky dancing. Like. I'm just watching in the movie theater. And I'm laughing hysterically. Because it's just like. Where the fuck are they thinking of this? You know. Yeah. How do you. Did J. Roach just say. Okay. We're going to play this song. You dance around. And then. How do you even.

[01:51:55] Come up with this? Yeah. Well. They're pulling it from somewhere. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. That. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Oh. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. I remember that TV commercial. It was definitely an 80s thing. All right.

[01:52:25] I'm just wondering who knows about it now. Well. I do. Because it's kind of like the Taco Bell Chihuahua. You know. Like. Hey. Yeah. Enough people know it. But who doesn't know it? Like. Who. We're getting so far away from like the where's the beef lady and all that stuff too. Yeah. No. No. What was the one. What was the one. Remember the truck wagon. Would appear. Yes. That was. That was Purina I think. Purina. Is it Purina? It's dog food. Is that the one where you're seeing the stagecoach.

[01:52:53] Or the stagecoach being dragged across the kitchen floor. Or running across the kitchen floor. Yeah. It was. It was. It was like the. It was the. It was the. It wasn't a stagecoach. It was like. It was like a chuck wagon. A chuck wagon. A chuck wagon. A chuck wagon goes across. So I always was like going. Well. Where's that chuck wagon go to? You know. Is the dog hallucinating? You know. Because the dog would be like. And you like. You know. Follow it. And like. You know. Family Guy. They do that in Family Guy.

[01:53:23] Where Brian chases it. And he wants to. He goes. Still can't get it. Yeah. I remember that actually. Yeah. It's still that gagging. Looks like you picked the wrong day to stop giving the dog LSD. Oh man. Oh my God. Fun. I'm glad I got to be a part of it. I was worried I was going to miss it. Oh. Don't worry about it man. Anything for you.

[01:53:50] I'm so jealous of you guys when I hear you guys talking and I'm not part of the conversation. I'm like. Don't worry about it man. You know. I mean. I saw some of those comic book things you were making Gil. Those. The one with Sub-Mariner. Yep. I like that. I didn't like the version they did in Black Panther 2 though. I don't know why. I just didn't seem. It didn't seem like me. You mean the. With him as an Aztec background. Yeah. Yeah. It didn't work for me either.

[01:54:20] Yeah. Yeah. It does until it doesn't. Until. Yeah. I'm Namor the Sub-Mariner. So you're like Aquaman right? Well yes. But I live in Atlanta. So does Aquaman. I said this theory. Namor lives on the west side of Atlantis. Aquaman lives on the east side. Yeah. Yeah. Namor lives in the suburbs.

[01:54:50] Aquaman lives near the trailer parks. Yeah. Oh man. Which explains why Amber Heard plays Mira. But you know ladies and gentlemen. Heyo. Oh boy. What do you got coming up? Mr. Install. Let's see. We've got. Still doing the show every Sunday night. It's a live radio show. But you can tune in. No. It's too much work on Sundays.

[01:55:20] I can't do that. And the religion thing. But no. We've got. So every Sunday night at 10 o'clock. Eastern. 7 p.m. Pacific. We broadcast live. And we just had the guy who was Michael Keaton's movement double in 1989 Batman. Oh God. Talk about that. And we had Philip Kennedy Johnson. You captured their stunt doubles. Yeah. So yeah. He was fantastic. Very cool to hear all his stories working with Michael Usland and Michael Keaton and Anton First. And then we're still doing a Comic Con here.

[01:55:50] We've decided St. Louis needs a Comic Con. So we're doing one ourselves. So Memorial Day weekend of 2025. We're doing Two Rivers Comic Con. We're bringing in Roy Thomas, Mark Bagley, Keith Williams, Phil Hester, Andy Parks. We've got the voice cast of the Justice League coming in. Susan Eisenberg. I'm taking no doubt. Wait, wait, wait. Go back. Go back. Wait, wait. Voice cast of the Justice League? Yes. So you're bringing in Phil Lamar, Carl Lomley. Susan Eisenberg.

[01:56:18] We're talking with Carl Lomley. He's not been officially announced, but we've talked to him because we've had him on. I also do a podcast with Susan Eisenberg called Justice League Revisited. Oh, wow. I would love to be part of that. Oh God, I'd love to be part of that. We can talk about Justice League. It's been almost a year now, but we watch each episode in its original order of air date. And then we have on either the writer, the director. We had the musicians who did all the music. We've had Glenn Murakami, who did the art for the first season.

[01:56:48] Phil Lamar. Every one of the cast has been on so far. The original set. Well, obviously, we lost Kevin, sadly. But we did a great Kevin tribute episode, too. So if you get the chance to go, it's called Justice League Revisited, wherever you get your podcasts from. So having done the radio show now for a while, I've gotten to be friends with the voice actors for this. So Phil's coming in. Susan's coming in. Maria Canals Barrera is coming in. And we're talking to George. And we're talking to Carl still. Yeah. So.

[01:57:17] And we've got Dan Reba and Alan Burnett coming in. Dan Reba did the art story boards and he directed several episodes. And Alan Burnett was the executive producer and writer on Batman Beyond and some of those animated series as well. That was a great show. So that was a great show, Batman Beyond. I'm sorry. Yeah. That was fantastic. I thought that was going to flop. And then I started watching it. And I was like, you know what? Because, you know, because remember, it was coming out. I think it was the same time as Justice League was on.

[01:57:47] So they kind of did that little crossover. Justice League is on. Yeah. Is it Terry Guinness, right? That plays. Terry Guinness, yeah. And he turns out to be, he turns out to be, I don't want to say anything to give anything away, I guess. He turned out to be, he turned out to be the sled. Yeah. He has a closer relationship. That's what you call a Citizen Kane reference. Yeah. He has a closer relationship to Bruce Wayne than I originally thought. I knew it.

[01:58:15] It always goes back to Orson Welles, who would have been a great joker. Except he would have been winded every time he laughed. Right. Right. Maybe better Clayface. We know. I don't know what that. Or what's that one that has the puppet on his hand? Oh, Ventralquist. Yeah. Ventralquist, yeah. What he was in real life, though, was probably the Riddler. Yeah. Riddler me this, Batman. Where do Beastburgers come from? Who likes to dribble?

[01:58:46] I knew you were going to spoof the blooper. I got to be in a fucking Transformers cartoon before I died. What the fuck? From the vineyards of Ernest Julio Gallo. Ah! French champagne! French champagne! California has this champagne as well. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. We do that again. What? What do you want me to do?

[01:59:18] Isn't the waiter supposed to say something? Does he have a line? Oh, my God. But, yeah. So, back to the... Yeah. So, if you want to mark your calendars for Memorial Day weekend 2025, we're doing that con in St. Charles. It's two... The number two, Rivers Comic Con. We've got a website up. You can go check out the guests we've already announced. Roll tide, baby. Roll tide. Guys, I just want you to know I met Kevin Conroy. He was fantastic. He was fantastic.

[01:59:48] He was a nice guy. I said something. I said, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have gotten into Batman again because, you know, the movies were still coming out. But, to me, his Batman is the ultimate Batman, you know? Yeah. I met him in 20... I think it was either 2014 or 2015 at a convention here in Des Moines. Yeah. Yeah, I had him on my show probably about four times, I want to say. But I got to interview him at Terrific Con.

[02:00:14] It was about three months before he died. None of us knew he was sick. And it was the last time I got to see him. And he still said, as we were leaving, he said, hey, I'll see you at the next one. Oh, God. It just breaks my heart to know that that was the last time I would ever see him. What year was that? 20... It was, what, 2022. Yeah. July of 2022. It was... What was it? What was it? It was... What killed him? It was cancer. Yeah.

[02:00:44] But I can remember, like, just hearing that and then, like, just going, oh, my God. My God, you know. He died? Who would have known, yeah. I just saw him, like, you know, like a year before. He looked great, you know. But I think it might have been... I think it was pancreatic or something. I don't know. Whatever it was, it was fast. Because I know I didn't get a lot of details. But I also didn't have more to ask. Intestinal cancer. Yeah. Okay. 66. 66. That's way...

[02:01:11] Jeff missed his birthday by a matter of weeks. Yeah. And then Mark Hamill had the saddest thing ever. I can't do it if he's not going to be there. Yeah. Oh, he wasn't going to be the Joker anymore. Yeah, I remember hearing about that. But they just did... They just did the Crisis on Infinite Earths cartoon. And he put the voice down for the cartoon with him and Mark Hamill. And I think that's the last time he plays Batman animated. Yeah, that'll be it.

[02:01:41] With this third part of Crisis on Infinite Earths. I don't know if you got the chance to read his story that he wrote for DC Pride 2022 called Becoming Batman. But he wrote this kind of... It's an anthology. It comes out every year. And it kind of focuses on the LGBTQ plus community in comics or the writers who are. That's nice. I like that. And he wrote this story about becoming Batman. How he was kind of... It was kind of a known secret that he was gay in Hollywood. But not a lot of people were nice to him about it.

[02:02:11] And how he informed... That kind of informed how he approached Batman. That's this beautiful story. He won posthumously the Eisner Award for that story. Oh, that's great. Absolutely fantastic. So Kevin Conroy is an Eisner Award winning writer as well. Yes. Oh, I thought... I gotta jump off. Do you guys need anything else from me or... We're gonna press the ejection chair for all of us here. Yeah. But thank you for being on, man. It's been a long time coming. And we're glad we could have some new blood. No, thanks for having me.

[02:02:41] This is great. Like I said, if you're gonna talk about one of my favorite film trilogies, I'm glad I got part of this. And remember... Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Thank you again. It was fantastic to talk to all of you. And I'll hopefully... We'll do it again soon. Yes. Well, let's know on some of the other upcoming chats. And... And remember... Austin Powers always wins.

[02:03:11] Or does evil? Who knows? Well, they both won in the end. They both won in the end. They're playing by the same dude. Thanks for being here, Dan. You won at the box office. Oh! A million dollars. Yeah. Follow us on the web on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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