Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Saga Overview

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[00:00:55] The one that gets me is that when we talk about radio, I kind of remember Hitchhikers Guide being played over here on radio. I don't know if it was public radio. It might have been public radio who did it. Yeah, maybe. I'm thinking it's public radio. So, okay. Let's see. Now, that reminds me, when I was doing radio, I worked with a buddy of mine. He kind of got me into it. We did live bands in the studio, and I bought them my own thing.

[00:01:21] But he brought the Hitchhikers Guide book in, and I read the first couple paragraphs on the air. Yeah, so you're right. The interesting thing about that was it started as a radio play first before it played. Okay, yeah. It was a single book, okay. Yeah. All I know of it, other than that, is the movie, which I liked a lot. The 2005? You never saw the 81 series?

[00:01:49] No. I tried to find it. I think I just didn't have time to get to it. The 81 series is on Amazon. I know that. It's on Hitchhikers. Yeah. And on Fandango, because that's what I bought it off. Hey. But that's kind of the beauty of it. Like, I couldn't get into the books right away. It was just kind of very dry for me. But, like, I did watch the 81 miniseries when it hit DVD in the late 2000s.

[00:02:17] And we were overjoyed by just how nutty it was. Yeah. How there was even special features that featured some off-color bloopers. And then, yeah. It wasn't long after that the movie came out. And without Phil, like, sometimes one of us will just be in cracking wise-ass remarks to each other. And without Phil, someone will say, you know, the origin of the life, the universe, and everything. 42. 42. Then they had to know what the question was. Yeah.

[00:02:46] And that's the beauty of that whole punchline. It makes everything make sense. It's just that that's just how absurd it is. And looking, I did have some fun trivia on Douglas Adams. And I had no idea he acted and wrote for Monty Python. Yeah, he did. He was in that fourth season. Him and Graham Chapman wrote a lot of stuff together because Cleese was gone by then. So Doug Adams came in.

[00:03:12] And I think he did the one sketch, the light entertainment, or he did some of that. And he apparently in 94, he was in a Mount Kilimanjaro trip. And he helped out with a British charity called Save the Rhino International. Yeah. And he actually dressed as a rhino for that charity and helped raise approximately 100,000 in UK bucks.

[00:03:39] And he was a supporter of the Dayan Fossey Gorilla Fund. And that's the irony with the trivia I was looking up about. It wasn't just dolphins and mice he respected. So when I saw 42 or heard 42 in the movie, I'm thinking, OK, are they saying the cigarette life is when they integrated baseball? That's Jackie Robinson's number. That's the first thing I thought of, you know. They just picked 42. I don't.

[00:04:09] Can somebody explain what 42 meant? Or maybe that is. Well, at the end, they had to give him the question. They come up with the question. And it was just something like, what is six times nine or something like that? Oh, that's right. Yeah. I always took it as kind of a pie. 3.14. It just goes on and on and on. It's just. No. I'm on the opposite side of it. But I got into the books before I even saw anything.

[00:04:37] And I'll tell you, from a perspective of a teenage boy looking at, reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, having that background and having Matthew Python, loving science fiction. And this, the Hitchhiker's Guide was gold. It was. It. It. It set the standard. Yes. Yeah, it did. And.

[00:05:04] It set a pretty high standard that everything else I wanted to read to Douglas Adams had to at least script the bottom of Hitchhiker's Guide. They really haven't done anything with the other books, though, have they? Well, they kind of condensed all the books for the TV show. Because I can remember.

[00:05:25] I do remember reading something about a storyline he had going on that part of it ended up like the ending of the TV series had like something from another book in it, I think. Yeah. Were there two? On a prehistoric earth. Were there two TV series or just the one six? There was just one. Six half hour episodes. Okay. Yeah. Because I thought I saw something in 58 episodes. It must have been a mistake. Yeah. Maybe it's a documentary or podcast talking about Douglas Adams. Yeah.

[00:05:54] That could be. There's so much. I know when I bought the series on Fandango, it's like they had like 20 or 30 other extra feature things. Oh, maybe that's what it was. Of course, if we're going to do a mini series of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you have to stop at 42. Just ask George R.R. Martin. Oh, wait. Can't even complete that far. I was blown away by the cast of the movie, though. I mean, good grief. Alan Rickman is the voice of the robot. Yeah.

[00:06:24] And that was a very ironic choice because he's nothing like, you know, that's the last person. Marvin. But see, I think what I dug about the robot is the robot is a total Eeyore. See, I thought you guys would get that when I quoted it. I mean. I got it. If you want us to. I mean. Well, the thing that gets me the most is like that cast was great because they had Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent. That was the first thing I ever saw him in. Yeah. Who played? Who played?

[00:06:54] Mostaff was the other sidekick. Mostaff was. Yasmin Bey. Yeah. I was confused by that because I said, yeah. Same thing. That also was probably the first thing I saw him in. I heard of him. I had mildly heard part of his music. I did like Sam Rockwell as Zafod Bieber. I keep forgetting. Yeah. Yeah. And he's doing a W thing, isn't he? Yeah. He's doing a W. Yeah. Okay. That wasn't. And also, is he British? No. American AF.

[00:07:24] So he's the Terry Gilliam of this. Warwick. Oh, that's right. Warwick Davis was the body of Marvin. Well, you're forgetting what her name was in it too. She's English. Zoe. Zoe, yeah. Zoe did. Zoe did. No, no. She's American. Well, I meant American. That's what I meant. Okay. Well, Stephen Fry was the narrator. Simon Jones and a bunch of other guys. Kelly McDonnell was the reporter. Bill Nye shows up. Yeah. He was the voice of deep thought. John Malkovich.

[00:07:53] I also remembered from it as one of the. John Malkovich was what? He was. Humakaville. Yeah. Humakaville. Humakaville. Yeah. Hey. He was doing a. I'm sorry. Yeah. I thought he was doing a little Tim Curry and Rocky Horror Pitcher show when he. I kind of got that. Just that flamboyant. Yeah. Yeah. And then when he rips his head off and all that, you know. And Warwick Davis was the robot. Was. Right. And Alan Rickman voiced him. Yeah.

[00:08:23] So. I think the thing I love about that. That thing is Marvin. The paranoid interest. He's like. Oh, well. And he's. I suppose I can. Right. Like I'm saying, he's the. He's the Eeyore of the show. He's just very. Self detrimental. Very cynical. Life. Don't talk to me about life. Don't talk to me about life. And I. That was the same year that.

[00:08:50] They named an asteroid after Adams called the two, five, nine, two, four Douglas Adams. OK. Well. The thing that gets me the most is like when they did the TV show and they show. Stardew Borrow Fast showing like where the planets are made and stuff like that. They didn't have a lot in the way of special. Like then when they showed it in the movie, it was just like amazing to look at. You know. Yeah. It was a fun ride. The locations were well used. I wanted to go on that ride with them. Yeah. That was cool. Yeah.

[00:09:19] You can actually see workers out there working on the desert or the forest. Yeah. Did they ever come out with a theme park ride in some country or. Oh, no, no, no. I don't think. Be too ambitious. Too much of a movie. It would have freaked out a lot of people. You know, go down and see like planets being. Why are dolphins flying? Yeah. So long. Oh, no. I don't think so. It's because they can't take a train. Ba-dum-bum. Ba-dum-dum. Oh, a thought occurred to me halfway through the movie.

[00:09:45] I said, this movie is like if all the strangest creatures you see in Star Wars ran the galaxy. I kind of took it as a bit of that in Fifth Element. But like it's also. Yeah. I mean, it does kind of go beyond even that in Doctor Who by just using a tumor to just kind of introduce some deep thought and then balance it with even more just nutty stuff in between. There's so many gags to for anyone to be bored by it. How many?

[00:10:15] And don't forget that Douglas Adams also wrote a number of episodes of Doctor Who. Oh, that's right. So there you go. Including one of his. Go ahead, Tom. Sorry. Including one that was never aired, but they aired parts of it for. The audio. No, not the audio, but the episode The Five Doctors. The episode shot off. Okay. Wow. That's really cool. I did. I did forget that that was on his resume.

[00:10:43] How many people here are familiar with Red Dwarf? Me. Me. I'm a snakehead. You heard about it. Yeah. Okay. Because I'm curious. There's a scene where they're in the ship and they're arguing with the computer. You know, and the computer's talking back to them and stuff. Earlier season? No, I'm talking about the movie even. And in the TV show there was too. But it made me think of the first episode of Red Dwarf where Rimmer, or is it Rimmer?

[00:11:15] I think I know. No, Rimmer's the hologram. Yeah. The other one. Lister. Lister. Lister is arguing with a toaster. Yeah. And that came out in 88. I love that, dude. That they must have gotten inspiration for that from, you know, Hitchhiker's Guide. Oh, they had to have. I mean, even just the robot himself. I mean, I know the creator said he was inspired by it. He wanted to do a funny version of Star Trek.

[00:11:44] But given how you've mentioned all kinds of utter references like Alien and Blade Runner, I'm sure they were eating up any kind of sci-fi and just saying, what's a wacky version of that that we can do? Well, you got, at the beginning, you got Mark Freeman's house to make way for a freeway. And then Earth blown up to make way for something, too. And here, go back and freeway. You know, I thought of is Marvin Martian and Bugs Bunny.

[00:12:12] I got to blow up your planet because it's in the world. Yeah. Just that quote. I got to think that was a reference, you know. It was that kind of cartoonish kind of thing. It's kind of standing in for what would be something horrific in real life. Like, you know, we got to blow apart a street, a few, five blocks of a street to make way for a new stadium we're building and paying off the people to vacate. It was.

[00:12:40] But yeah, when you're doing it in sci-fi, we're putting away the sorrow and anger and listening to just all this other nutty stuff. It's like, see, that. You just want to see what happens next. Yeah. Well, they were throwing in irony as well. I mean, absolutely. With the highway, with them throwing down his house for the freeway or highway or whatever it was. And they destroyed the Earth for the same reason. Absolutely. Roger Rabbit did that, too, with the freeway coming through. Roger Rabbit, yeah?

[00:13:10] Later. Later, but it wasn't later. And when you have all these armies that are going after them and everything, even though there's gunfights, it's not about buddy comedy and everything. It's more about, it's like, see, these are the evil corporations. These are the other goons. And we're using humor to, again, just move on to the next scene. It never loses a sense of the camp. But it's still thought-provoking, too. I think that's why it's retained itself.

[00:13:38] Well, and it was a slam at bureaucracy as well. That goes back to Adams himself. Like, he struggled as a writer. After Monty Python, he apparently moved back in with his mother. And preeminent period, he worked as a hospital porter, a barn builder, a chicken shed cleaner. Can you imagine that? And even got employed as a bodyguard by a Qatari family. I also just thought of Joni Mitchell. They'd pay Paradise and put up a parking lot.

[00:14:09] Which is based on urban renewal in L.A. It's an actual, I think it was a Paradise Club. It's an actual, or something close to that. Dana Gould, I keep getting back to Dana. He talked about that on one of his shows. The one thing I loved about that is when the Vogons show up and they're like, what, you didn't get any idea about the plans. They were given to you two years ago. This needs to be more. You know, they blow the earth the fuck up. Right. They told Freeman about that his house. The same thing.

[00:14:39] We posted that we were going to do that. You know, it parallels that. Yeah. But the thing I love is in the thing, he's like, you got to drink up, to get on the Vogon spaceship because they're going to jump on it. They have to drink a lot of water, a lot of beer, and grab like a shitload of crisps or peanuts. Right. Because they're going to lose salt. They're going to lose salt in space. And I'm like thinking to myself, okay, this does kind of make sense.

[00:15:08] But, you know, it doesn't, you know, it's like, it's like, it's like, okay, drink up, drink up. Okay. Here, here's a 50, here's a 50 pound. 50 pound note. Yeah. Buy everybody else a round of the drink. The earth's going to end today. Wow. He's right. Yeah. At the very beginning. Right. He goes, he goes to. He thinks he's joking, but no. Oh, I think. Well, he goes to get him from. 12 minutes too. We had a time limit. He goes to get him from the house and he's like, workers of earth. I bring good tidings of peanuts and beer.

[00:15:40] But as you guys have all hit on, see, like, I think everybody should check these, this kind of British humor out. You know, it's not just, you got to have lived in the UK or anything. It's more just like you say, just societal. It's talking about as many bigger as well as minor things. So if again, and it's, you got to really just be mute deaf to just not get any of the humor, you know?

[00:16:08] Well, I mean, it's not, if you bring complex, it appeals to, I was going to say it appeals to a certain type of person. You get, you know, you bring a British humor over here to America and some guys just, it's too subtle for them. Or they'll just be like, it's not fast. It was like, you can see the rudest comedian do a slow bill joke just so he can curse, but you're not going to listen to this thought provoking commentary.

[00:16:35] That's also a very amusing, but I don't know. So there is an actual hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. It's like a laptop that Martin Freeman looks at. It's basically predicted Google. It predicted Google. Apparently Elon Musk was a fan and put in a, on his car dashboard, the don't panic. Yeah. Big, bright red letters. Don't panic. On his Tesla. Yeah. Thanos too.

[00:17:04] Wiping out half the, you know. Yeah. Thanos. Oh my God. And he's got the sidekick announcing everybody what's going to happen. You've been chosen to be part of this, you know, it's a little hitchhiker's guide. Oh my God. Apparently Douglas Adams, he gave a great quote about procrastination while riding in a hotel room with his editor. And it was, I love deadlines. He did. See, it took you a moment.

[00:17:35] He did another book after hitchhiker's guide called Dirk, Dirk Gently and the. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I just found out reading the thing today that he had something to do with that character. Wow. Who did? Dirk Gently. It's been a, it's been a, it was a TV show on not too long ago. Yeah. I remember that. And there were like two books. The kid from Lord of the Rings was in it. Elijah. Yeah. I saw the book. Elijah Wood. I didn't know how long it was on. Apparently two years. Yeah.

[00:18:03] And beyond the, the first book of the hitchhiker's guide, there, there were like three others and I read them all. And as I read them, I got more and more disappointed because it wasn't quite what I was looking for. It wasn't quite hitting those standards. It had moments, but by the time, so long the thanks for all the fish came out, it was like, he, he, it almost seemed like Adams had a case of sequelitis. Yeah.

[00:18:33] Oh, well, you got Max Landis to thank for that. Oh. I was reading the summaries and then one of those books to find out that, uh, uh, the, I can't, uh, what trillion. Um, she like does something with, um, dense, uh, DNA or something and creates a daughter. Yeah. Okay. And her name was, what was it? Random Dent. But it was longer than that. It had stuff in between it too. Oh, okay.

[00:19:03] So they want to get married. No, I don't think they did. They don't? Yeah. I only read the summary, so I'm not a hundred percent sure, but yeah. How married do you want to be? Well, she picked up his last name. I just assumed. So early on, I'm watching that character qualts. He's pretty much Jabba the Hutt. Yeah. He looks like him and acts like him. And yeah. The big green slimy guy. Yeah.

[00:19:33] I got to admit, they look better than they did in the TV series. The movie did. Yeah. They did a good job. Even though they still looked ugly as hell. Impressive production. Oh man. And by the way, you just can't hold your breath in space. It doesn't work like that. Yeah. It's too busy compressing your everything in your lungs. It's really, it's just a show. You should really just relax. Yeah. Yeah. Hey-o. Hey-o. I thought the same thing. Okay. This is a science fiction movie. Don't let it go.

[00:20:01] Do you think Mystery Science Theater was loosely inspired by some of it? I know they, their main inspiration was Lost in Space and all kinds of things. Yeah. Because original premises, he's stranded up there. Yeah. I can see that. All good. Comfortable. And scientists sent him up there. They're controlling the ship. And yeah. It's kind of, yeah. I can see that. Also, the whole holding the breath in space thing. That's been a trope in more than one movie. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:20:29] Worst case, worst example ever is Superman 4. Superman. He's flying around with Mariel Hemingway on the moon without a, she doesn't have a, she just. Oh, God. No, it's Nuclear Man. Nuclear Man's flying her around. Yeah. Nuclear Man. It all comes back to freaking Nuclear Man. If it's not another bad Superman villain, it's Nuclear Man. Now, that is one movie that needs to be riffed. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[00:20:58] Especially when he gets to like the UN meeting and you're just like, what on earth are they even talking about? Why are they even... And I've said it before, that whole repair the Great Wall of China vision that Superman has, you know. Oh, my God. That just drove me insane. They wrote Gene Hackman again. And apparently the comic book, yeah, had fixed a lot of plot holes, but you're just like, why did they never film those scenes? Oh, that's right. Cheap budget. Yeah. Canon films.

[00:21:26] I've got the Superman 2 with the... They explain how he gets his powers back when Brando shows up again. Because they did shoot those first two movies simultaneously, I guess. Thank you, Richard Donner. Yeah, it's a bonus. Give me... Take your powers back. Well, I think it's the director's... On my daughter's wedding. The day of my daughter's wedding. Yeah. Well, in this case, it was the sons. I don't know why.

[00:21:54] The way you said that kind of reminded me of the one hope during the Princess Bride. Marriage. Marriage. At least he didn't say, give me the butter. Oh, my word. Deep cut. Wow. Wow. Marlon Brando wrecks everything. Oh, Jesus. I don't know where to go from there. I hope you did. You know what movie I'm referring to? You win the internet.

[00:22:22] That green guy in Hitchhikers kind of looked like Brando a little. Okay. At the beginning of the movie. Oh, so there you go. I haven't seen the movie, but Belushi uses that line in early SNL. Dueling Brando is him and Peter Boyle. And that's one of his lines. Give me the butter. That's a reference to the last tango in Paris. So need I say more? I know. He's on my case about that horse thing. I can't believe this is not butter.

[00:22:52] Oh, my God. Release the Brando cut. There was enough time, Michael. Oh, there you go. Yeah. A re-gun of the godfather. He just brings out a Superman re-gun or something. I don't know. Oh, his death scene is so haunting, though, with the orange in his mouth. There's always oranges associated with death in The Godfather. I can't wait to discuss that. Yeah.

[00:23:22] Well, there's a spoof movie called Mafia. Oh, yes. No, I'm wrong. I'm thinking of God Thumb, actually. The God Thumb. Yeah, where he's messing with oranges in his mouth and stuff. Oh, there you go. Oh, Belushi does a skit on SNL. Or first season of SNL does it, too. The oranges thing. Fun. They do have a lot of fruit in this show, kind of, at times. It's like just sort of food.

[00:23:52] But I think what I like about it is when they're eating or whatever, they're still observing, having very pleasant, mindful chats. And you don't feel like they're just, they're only having it because they're super smart. They're also just sharing. It's weird. Like, I think why people like it is they say all the, they work in jokes and then they work in the exposition on plot dump.

[00:24:16] And then they still leave you some food for thought that you, the viewer, are watching, are going to think to yourself while you're watching. And I, I kudos to anyone who can multitask that diligently, you know, and it's not easy to do in a comedic setting. You know, most of the time people are impatient. They're like, tell me the next, you know, punchline. You know, I usually hate vomit scenes in movies or TV. But I like to want to hear, they use yarn. Yeah. That was cool. That was neat.

[00:24:45] And then when he becomes human, yeah, because of the improbability drive. Yep. Normality, yeah. So the episode of normality is pretty much infinite possibilities. Yeah. Yeah. I like Douglas Adams or Freud, as they said on Lucifer. And why did they, I mean, why did the improbability drive have to come up with a whale and a potted plant? Or a trout. Yeah. Because British humor. Yeah.

[00:25:15] Oh, I didn't. Hey, I'm falling to the earth. The whole world with the death of the whale. Yeah. And then the plot was thinking, not this again or something like that. Man. Oh. I love the church scene with Malkovich and they all go, achoo, and he says, bless you. The whole congregation goes, achoo, and he goes, bless you. That was clever. Yes.

[00:25:43] Also, it's kind of biblical reference. A new heaven and a new earth is in the Bible. And that's, they kind of do that in the new earth in the movie. And this, this escaped my notice. I didn't notice it was Stephen Fry doing the narrator voice. That was earlier. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But he, it's just like you, you notice the voice, but he, he, he has a lot of atypical stuff he's doing when he's featured compared to all the different documentaries and comedy

[00:26:12] specials he's done. So, I mean, it was just good casting. They went for atypical people instead of just who is the hot, who's hot shit right now. You know? Yeah. Yeah. They played away from that. They just got somebody ordinary. That's the great thing. Because if they wanted to, they could have just gotten what, who, people who were already being hints over there, like, you know, Hugh Glory, Rowan Atkinson, like, no, we're going to get all kinds of people who are good to work with. They got comedic timing and let's get some international people in here. Let's.

[00:26:41] Forgive me if, if you've already said this, but the, the voice of the computer that, you know, the one that created the earth. Yep. Helen Mirren. Helen Mirren. What's her name again? In the movie? Oh, it's, it's like, good somebody. It's. I threw my notes away. I threw my notes away too. Just a minute. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. To a poor, for a poor. Deep Thought. Deep Thought. Yeah.

[00:27:10] That should have been an easy one. Yeah. She was a Saturday Night Live skit. Because isn't there something about Deep Thought in Saturday Night Live? Oh, they did? Okay. That's cool. Deep Thoughts by Jack Haney. Not. Yeah. Jack Haney. Not in recent. Oh. Not in recent seasons, there isn't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is that where they picked up? Is that, that, was that a reference to SNL or no? No, it wasn't. That was, it started on, it started on Mike Nesmith's elephant parts. Okay.

[00:27:39] And then it went over to, and then it just kind of stayed there because the guy who wrote it was the same guy who wrote for Mike Nesmith's television parts, Ed Handy. But today it was like. We got the monkeys to think. All right. Cool. Do they still, they still kind of run short films on SNL? I mean, it started with Albert Brooks, then you got Gary Weiss, then Deep Thoughts later. Yeah. And I remember that, I did read that the cast in the first season hated Albert Brooks taking

[00:28:08] so much time from the show. None of them will top Mr. Bill. Oh, that's right. Mr. Bill shows up. That's right. Oh, no! Well, there goes Spot in the middle of traffic. What's he going to do? Hey, Spot, come back, Spot. Uh-oh. Oh, my God. Spot got ran over. That was the precursor. That was pretty much the precursor to TV Funhouse. Yeah.

[00:28:38] Oh, the ambiguously gay duel. Oh, yeah. Stuff like that. Yeah. And of course, all the commercial parodies. Had to, man. We had crazy commercials. We still do. Look at any of your local commercials. You'll see the craziest local car dealership ads. And you're like, how did this make it to air? When did this trend start of repeating the commercial, one commercial later, too? That's been happening a lot. Oh, yeah. Just lazy, lazy.

[00:29:08] It's like you couldn't find any other block. It was like... Right. Or maybe they just paid extra for it to be aired more than once. There you go. If you didn't get it the first time, if you watched it muted, we're back. Let's boycott the companies that do that. Boycott, yep. You're killing the one in Washington. Yeah, yeah. Boycott, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. That's a person caught. Thank you very much. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah. Boycott. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

[00:29:37] Your girlfriend has entered the studio. Sorry, guys. I know you're always doing different voices, but I'm sorry. It sounds like a family guy. I have a golden age of radio or golden age of comedy elements. Back in the radio days, they were complaining about... During the show, they were complaining about commercials. It's advertisers. Too much advertising. Too much advertising. Yeah. You know, way back... I'm mad as hell. I'm not going to do it anymore. If you're feeling kind of ducky... Ducky?

[00:30:08] Ducky, Ducky, Ducky, Bugs Bunny. Fail. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We don't need you this week. Oh, come on, Jack. That's from the Jack Benny Mouse one. Because who was... Don Williams comes on. He starts doing a commercial. He's like... He was the announcer. He's like... He's going... He's like... He says, oh, come on, Jack. I never get to have any fun. You know? I think I mentioned this before. W.C. Fields radio show.

[00:30:37] Him and Edgar Bergen. Mm-hmm. W.C. Fields. Oh, God. It was sponsored by Camel Cigarettes. And then Fields came up with the Chester Nephew. So he could... Yeah. Chesterfield Cigarette. Subtly, you know, but not so subtly. My grandmother... He didn't like the sponsor or something, you know, or just... He was messing with the sponsors. That's clever. I don't know. My grandmother telling me, oh, we used to listen to Edgar Bergen... You know, Trent McCarthy and Edgar Bergen all the time.

[00:31:07] My father would be like, yeah, it's just a guy talking into the microphone. It's not really... He didn't really have the dummy on his lap, you know? You can't tell. How do you tell him? No, his lips aren't moving. Yeah. Oh, he was the worst ventriloquist I've ever seen in my life. There have been some good ones. Who's the one that did Saw Wright? Yeah. Oh, Senor Wentz. Senor Wentz. That was his name. Otto and George was great.

[00:31:36] I loved Otto and George. Were you in Otto? Oh, God. It was just so funny to watch. Because it was an X-rated puppet act, ventriloquist act, right? So, you know, he would just... It was like George would be... Otto would be like, So, George, what do you think about so-and-so? I hate it, you know? Oh, you can't say that. What? I hate the cunt, you know? Oh, my God. I got...

[00:32:03] You guys got to listen to him when he would be on Opie and Anthony because it was just like... He would just... He'd bring the puppet in and the puppet... The puppet was like an extension of his character. A puppet has a mind of its own, remember James? Yeah, yeah. Hey, what's it be? The question I have is, with all these dummies running around, how many of them actually like ham? Now, there's a deep cut for you. How hammy do you want to be?

[00:32:34] Hamfisted. What was that Mystery Science Theater movie called? Devil Doll. Oh, Devil Doll. Devil freaking Doll. That's a good one. Well, they're all good, but... I remember... I still think... I still think... Who's on first? Albert Brooks doing his... And they're still going at the same time. And he'd drop it to the floor and yeah.

[00:33:00] I still think the best one was Albert Brooks doing his ventriloquist act. And he's like... He's like... And now I'll drink this glass of water and... And, you know, my puppet, Herve, will sing The Girl from the View... And he's drinking it and he's just singing... Long and ten... The girl from the view... You know who else did a... The worst... And still the best ventriloquist act? Norm MacDonald.

[00:33:31] Oh, yes. Man, I know the one. Yeah, he had a... He had a lot going. Yeah, he had a little act going. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the guy was... I was doing all the straight work and... This guy was just a horrible racist. I heard him do it on a... Kind of go into it on a Dennis Miller show. And I was... God, I was just cracking up. Because it's intentionally bad.

[00:34:01] But that's what makes it awesome. Wait a minute. Who was he talking about with that? Norm MacDonald. Norm MacDonald. You know... Norm MacDonald was talking about what, though? Yeah, the guy who did the thing. Yeah. Oh, yes. And I said cracklor. I liked him in My Name is Earl when he was being Burt Reynolds' character's son. Oh, God. Oh, my God. That's not my name. Terry Ferguson. Terry Ferguson. Yeah.

[00:34:32] Well, Albert would show up with a speak and spell toy, too. And hit the letters to make sentences, too. Like, on tonight's show. So, A. C. You know. He just hit a letter on the thing and would make an answer to Johnny Carson's questions or something. That was clever. Kind of the same thing. Kind of like Mel Blank and Jack Benny. John... Mel Blank would dress up like a Mexican character. Like a man with a big hat.

[00:35:02] Excuse me. Are you waiting for something? C. Yeah. C. Are you waiting for the bus? B. And what is your name? Bye. Yeah. Yeah. I probably stole it from that. Oh, no, no. This... Yeah. Brooks went, like, one step forward with that. Right. But the Jack Benny Mel Blank thing is hilarious. My father and I used to do that when we were younger. Because if I was having a bad day, he says, are you waiting for the bus? C.

[00:35:34] And your sister's name, what? Jack Benny goes, oh, I'm afraid to ask this one. And your sister's name, what's her name? C. C. C. C. C. C. C. There's a great Rob Reiner documentary about Albert Brooks. It's on... I think it's on crime. We've only been talking about it. His dad died at the Friars Club. Right. During his act. Parker Carcass. That was my father's...

[00:36:04] That was Albert Brooks' father. Parker Carcass. He goes, the fragments from the moon. And he was on stage and he was doing an act. And he... It was a roast. It was a roast for somebody. And he died. He literally died of laughter. Right. Now, wait a minute. There's a doctor in the house and they thought he was telling a joke. Right. And they were like, no. He literally keeled over and died. You know? And the act was called Park Your Carcass? Yeah. Park Your Carcass, yeah. Kind of apropos. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:36:33] Well, that was the joke. Park Your Carcass. Yes, Park Your Carcass. That was his... His character's name, Park Your Carcass. You know? So, you know, sit your ass down and park your carcass. Who played LSD in... Dick Shawn. Dick Shawn. He died on stage as well. Yep. I thought it was a bit. Yeah. Is Dick Shawn the one that was in Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Yeah. So, Doctor! I'm coming, Mama.

[00:37:03] I'm coming. Yep. That guy. Is that the one where the phone keeps ringing and he's dancing with the girl in the bikini? He's dancing with... What's her name? Barry. What was her name? That's a really funny scene. She was stoned during that scene. I could tell, yeah. You know? I got that. I got to watch that again. That's classic. That whole movie. Anyway. Go ahead. Go ahead. No. No. Go ahead. Anything?

[00:37:31] Got anything more to say about Hitchhiker's Guide? What? So, I have seen a lot of video games kind of have Easter eggs that are clearly references to it, but I think I see some fanfare for it still on different video games. Yeah. Absolutely. Cartoons. Well, it had its own little Easter egg in the movie because there's one part where... There's two parts. One of them is the original guy who played...

[00:38:01] Played Arthur Dent. Arthur Dent. Yeah. Arthur Dent is the bartender in the pub. Oh. And then... The original robot? Then the original robot appears in one of the sketches. So, there's one part where he comes by the new... He gives the look of like, wait, that's me. That's me. You know? Like, that's the joke in there. You know? Yeah. It's in some sort of like waiting... There's all these aliens and stuff in a waiting line and the old robot from the TV series is in that line.

[00:38:31] Yeah. Yeah. Wow. What show was this? This was... The movie. The movie. Yeah. Well, I'll have to look for that next time I watch it. Well, it's kind of like in Raiders, you see 3PO and... Oh, yeah. And then Arthur Dent. It's down the wall, yeah. The guy who played Arthur Dent, he was a holographic image of a head and he was talking and I think it was when they landed on the one planet and the planet attacked him. Yeah.

[00:39:00] There's a little Wizard of Oz in there, too, with the giant head, you know? Hey, you, lion! Yeah. That's the... I think that was Arthur Dent. The guy who played Arthur Dent before. I think that was him. Oh, okay. So, yeah. Yeah. That's always fun with like TV series. Like The Flash would bring back characters from the CBS series and use them on the new show and stuff like that. Nice. Well, they even brought back the guy who played the... Pay tribute to the roots.

[00:39:28] Pay tribute to the roots of the Cyril, sure. Yeah. Or the movie. Hell yeah. Roll tide. So, Tom, what would you think if they ever tried to make any of those other books into movies? I would think it'd be so convoluted and... Too much? Yeah. You'd have to...

[00:39:55] The only way I think you could even realistically do it would be... And do the whole series would be do it as a cartoon. Okay. That would be the best way to do it. Just have... I wonder if they should like... Draw it all around it, you know? I wonder if they should update to the daughter, that random... Random Dent girl and like tell stories with her or something. Or Tom, is it some stuff just works better as a book? Yeah.

[00:40:25] A lot of it... A lot of the stuff that works better as a book and just some of the things that they can do with a written word that they really can't translate into a visual medium yet. And I hope they never do. There's some things just... We hope. Yeah. There are some things from the books that I prefer to keep them that way. Yeah. Yeah. And I think...

[00:40:53] I always had an issue with MTV because I loved music and the video would restrict it to the director's vision of the song. Where if you hear it yourself, you get your own... You know... And Stephen King on writing talks about that. Don't over-explain things because the reader can picture the... Fill it in. Yep. Well... And that's... I always see... That's better writing. You got to edit that, you know? So... I always see there's this... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm done. I'm done. I'm sorry.

[00:41:23] There's this thing I've always said like Douglas Adams and then there's Terry Pratchett Discworld. And that's kind of... They're kind of like in that same area of like, you know, making something so comical. But, you know, doing it like in such a way like it's like it's playing with... You know, like you're playing with science fiction, you know? And that's the other thing about Hitchhackers' Guide is that you're playing with the idea of science fiction.

[00:41:48] You know, the scene where, you know, the sperm whale is falling down to the ground, you know? And it's having the thoughts go through its head, you know? It's like... Yeah. Metaphysical moment. Metaphysical moments. I need a moment, man. Yeah. It's like... It's like... That's what makes it so funny, you know? It's like the sperm whale is falling down. So having these metaphysical moments, you know? What am I doing? And then bang, it hits the ground. Or I love the fact when the Hitchhackers' Guide to the Galaxy, you know, Vogon poetry has

[00:42:18] made people like, you know, their eyes explode and their ears like, you know... And it was the third worst in the galaxy. So they were the third worst. They were the third worst. Yeah. And I think that's the thing I love about it. It's like... Let's just explain to you what Vogon poetry is. And it's, you know... And they had the Pan Galactic... Gargoyle Blaster. Which is a drink. Yeah. We have tried to make... My friends and I tried to make one time when we were younger. Mm-hmm. And we could never...

[00:42:47] We were trying to think, you know... It was... What was the description of it again? Oh, I don't remember. I don't know, man. I did my research, but not that reason. No, no. We were trying to figure out how to make it. We made it one time. It was like... It's like the one time we tried making it, all the saliva from our mouths dried out. Oh. Because we mixed all this stuff together and it was just like... It was just like all the saliva from our mouths dried out.

[00:43:16] And we were like... Okay. It'd be... I imagine it would be like, you know... When you're at the roller skating rink and you like put all these different pops in your drink. Yeah. So you did the same thing with alcohol. Yeah. Same thing with alcohol. And then we put a... As a garnish, we put a... What was it? A sweet tart in there. To hit like, you know... Give it that little bit of... And also it was like... It was like we drank it. We all drink it. And we're like... Oh. This is good. And also we're like...

[00:43:46] Anybody... Anybody's mouth feel dry? You know? We'd like go to the store down the street and buy like two gallons of water. Well, you know, they hear things like... I hear, you know, beer dehydrates you. So alcohol dehydrates you as well. So if you got all these mixtures in, I can imagine it did it like super quick. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. I'm just kidding. Oh. You know. We were just trying to figure out how to make it. We're just like... Should we put this in? Yeah. Put the vodka in.

[00:44:13] And put a little bit of that in. Yeah. That'll work. You know, the Goldschlager... Well, you know, we're just trying to figure out like, you know, how much to make it, you know, get us, you know, get us drunk. But not to the point of like being stupid, but being like, you know, very like, you know, like our brains would open up to like, you know, the universe or something like that. And then we're just sitting there. We're just like... We're just like... And their own mouths are pretty dry. So this sucks. Yeah. So maybe you guys needed to tray some peyote or something. Yeah. I think we need to do that.

[00:44:42] I think we need to get some peyote, magic mushrooms or something. Oh, baby. Yeah. Yeah. So Trillian comes up with a... It gets a hold of that gun that... I wish I had a Trillian. What was that gun called again? It was something weird. But it makes... It doesn't work on women. It makes people see the point of view of the person. The point of view for the women. But it doesn't work on women because they already have it together, I guess. It makes the victim see things. Yeah.

[00:45:12] Because he pointed at her and she goes, I'm already a woman. Yeah. There you go. That's kind of Kevin Smithy. Yeah. I like that. But... Also, the end of the movie, everybody comes back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's the same people that were there before. So it's kind of like the end of Endgame when Stark snaps his fingers and...

[00:45:41] It all goes back to Endgame. It ends with Earth being recreated. I need to get a buzzer in here and we'll just buzz each other each time we make a reference. Yeah. And then Arthur Dent's like... He asks Arthur Dent if he thinks he... You know, if there was anything new he wanted to add to it. And he says, yeah, not me. Like, he's not gonna... Not me. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Or if it means anything else. And he says, yes, not me. Not me. Yeah. And that to me is one of the things that kind of made...

[00:46:11] I was afraid of what that would do in the movie because in the book, Earth stays destroyed. Yeah. Well, don't they... Oh, you're talking book. I'm sorry. They didn't want to do Beneath the Planet of the Apes. There we go. There's another reference. Between the Planet of the Dents. And I'm trying to remember the TV show ends with them like on a primitive Earth. Or something. The TV show ends with...

[00:46:38] So he says, not me, but does he stay with Earth? I can't remember how... No, he goes with them because they're gonna go to the restaurant at the end of the universe. Oh, that's right. But he... So he abandons Trillium. And one of the books is actually called... Is it called... Oh, no, no. But then they read... Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Yeah. There was... Then there was... Life, the universe, and everything. Life, the universe, and everything. Hitch it. So long and thanks for all the fish and the restaurant at the end of the universe. And it was, yeah, the five books... It was five books in a trilogy.

[00:47:08] Yeah. Yeah. Wait, is it four or five? They had five books from what I read. And it was supposed to be a trilogy. Okay, so it's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, right? Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Yeah. Life, the universe, and everything. Life, the universe, and everything. So long and thanks for all the fish. So long and thanks for all the fish. Yeah. I feel like we're missing something. Yeah, the fifth book. Oh. Oh.

[00:47:37] Oh, it comes back to the fifth book. No. It's four. Well, I read it somewhere. I could have swore. Unless there was a fifth book. Yep, there was a fifth. It's called Mostly Harmless. There we go. Tom's going to correct us. Mostly Harmless, yeah. Yeah, Mostly Harmless. That's like... But isn't that like the one that's like after... Like, I think they published it after he died or something like that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With like leftovers he had for a script or for a variety. Mostly Harmless sounds like a Me Too defender.

[00:48:07] That sounds almost like a Monty Python script. Mostly Harmless. That's the best part of the book was when they were updating the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about Earth. And they called it Harmless. And Arthur did took offense at that. It's like... Then Ford Prefect came in and said, okay, we'll make a revision. Then he added the word Mostly. Mostly, yeah.

[00:48:37] Mostly. Mostly Harmless. Yeah. See, that's... That's just awesome. Because it's like... You want to work in doubt. It's like mostly. Oh, hey, whoa. Mostly. Yeah. I love the thing about the universe. Well, the one thing you have to realize about the universe is it's so big. I mean, it's so big. In fact, no one can... Nobody really knows how big it is. And it's like... It's like you just hear that. You just start... You start giggling because it's supposed to be in this dictionary. And they're like... You know...

[00:49:07] How big is it? Oh, it's big. It's very big. I mean... Yeah. They can't even figure out how big it is. You know... I was going to write that down. But I'm like... Oh, there's too many words in this. Yeah. That reminded me of a ninth grade math class when the math teacher says... I don't know what the biggest number... The highest number is. I said... I didn't say it. But you idiot. All you got to do is add one to it. You never... I don't know, man. I don't know, man.

[00:49:34] The number is just add one or multiply by two or something. It's going to get bigger. No, man. The highest number is... In four... I just knew you were going to talk to everybody. Forty-two. No. The highest number is infinity and beyond. No, it's not, man. It's 42. I got you. Oh, man. That's the life... That's the answer to life in the universe. 42. What does that mean? Let's just take it. It's a baseball reference. Leave it alone.

[00:50:05] Leave it alone. Can I get... It's got to be... It's got to be tied in somehow. Well, that's when they segregated baseball. The Black women get along together. Oh, man. It all comes back to sports. But see, this is why I was really looking forward to it. Because I was just like... And I apologize for getting so emotional during the Mr. Rogers episode. Because it was just a big reminder of... You're not going to get that pure amount of...

[00:50:35] Dedicated educational shows anytime soon. And that's kind of where I was with this. I'm like, see... This is a gentle show. But it's also just... Again, just very well thought out. Like, it's not... Ha-ha. You got to see that movie to get the reference. Or... You got to be a mathematician to get all these... You know, science and... You know... It's how it's planned out, in my opinion. Planned out. Yes. Using the book as reference. Yeah. Instead of... Oh, you know... You got to talk about this and that. And it's just like... Nah. Yeah.

[00:51:06] There's... The best kind of humor... I'll say it... I've said it once. I'll say it again. When you have diverse humor. There's something for everybody. Yeah. It's like, what are they going to do next? You know... Then the fly swatters show up and... Swapping in the face when they're on the... Yeah. I don't remember. Was that in the book, Mike? Or Tom? I don't believe so. I think he took a lot of liberties with... In the movie. Yeah. So...

[00:51:33] And that's kind of where I'm saying... It's okay to take some liberties, but... If you're taking the story itself... And using it as an... Inspired by... Yeah. And then you do something completely off-filter... There you go. Then you're playing with fire. Yeah. If you... Assuming it's not already lit. Uh... Cam, do you know... How well this movie did in theaters? Let's look. Oh, let's look.

[00:52:02] Because I'm guessing it didn't do great. I mean, it might have done okay. I think the reviews were good. It was no Red Zone Cuba, but still. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! 46 to 60 million budget. It wasn't space mute me either. Oh, my God. Let's sink. It made 104.5 million, so... Okay.

[00:52:31] I guess that's a success, assuming they didn't spend too much on marketing. I mean... Well, then you got, you know, video rights and streaming. It was by Point of Vista, yeah, and Touchstone, so it was one of those... video sales streaming yeah it it was also one of those i just paid four bucks to rent it you know when it when it came out my my uncle who always likes something kind of light and fun recommended to us so we went out to blockbuster having already seen the show and we were just like yeah this is

[00:53:00] very easy going yeah i just i i saw it and i liked it okay but i i i knew watching this is there's nobody that's in my family that's gonna like this yeah you know that's the same thing too is when you see something that is objectively like very well done and everything but you're like i can only talk about this with like people online if i bring this up to someone they're just not

[00:53:23] going to be patient or yeah it doesn't have anyone they know so yeah people my brother and sister all saw the jim carrey andy coffin movie i can't remember the name of it man on the moon man on the moon yep love that and they they i'm getting my hair cut by my sister and she says yeah this is a mike movie

[00:53:42] you know mike would like this you know in that respect it reminds me a lot of a movie that i absolutely love that i can't i don't know many people who would enjoy that's seeking a friend for the end of the world i love that movie we've talked about seeking a friend for the end of the world i love it oh that's with um alphas steve carell steve carell steve carell nightly all kinds of other

[00:54:11] comedians and everything i love when william peterson just shows up and then gets like randomly dies and it's like oh my god i don't know i have fun in these small movies people don't know like there's an early kevin caster movie called fandango which i'd love for years yes i love that great great little movie it's a little preposterous but it's just fun it's a it's the kind of college movie where they're going off yeah become grown-ups and they're going off to find dom it just gets lost

[00:54:37] in a shuffle there's some great shots of like when they're in the cemetery and they're talking about vietnam and you see all of a sudden they're on the battlefields of vietnam with the fireworks and yeah i'm just there's a great little there's a great cut where um he kevin caster's thinking about the girl and then he you they cut back to the he's they cut back to him and it looks like he's crying

[00:55:01] but he's laughing just and there's this whole story that the girl was kevin caster's first and then his friend is actually gonna marry her right you guys know it's like the back of your head that's awesome so i think it's just a great little it's a great little movie i think it's a spielberg associated thing i think so or cast in but it was just one of those movies it kind of got lost in the shuffle

[00:55:23] under uh uh breaking away i think but yeah give me two jelly dogs and a coke that's from the movie at the sonic or whatever it was first and second fallopians the bible anyway i love i love the part where he makes he does like the whole stone soup thing

[00:55:48] with the wedding yeah this is everybody to make like yeah yeah yeah good yeah good reference yeah but yeah like like it just it was just really yeah it was it was a student film titled proof and then when the guy who made it it was a period of greek life his alma mater of baylor university he didn't want to portray the baylor in bad bad lights so he used the university of texas

[00:56:14] okay and steven spielberg did help saw the movie saw the film and funded it and it was a it's a good movie you know i mean kevin costner was in it jenna sam rohmarks um they wind up camping out on the center the teenage girls that before they go off to the cemetery and they light off the fireworks the teenage girls one of the girls was very familiar to me but i can't think of her name

[00:56:39] she was the was she hot deborah it was the god deborah it was the god deborah it was the god and uh daly yeah that's yeah no that's okay you're right yeah jj got it but yeah they wind up sleeping camping out at the set of giant yeah yeah giant yeah oh my god one of these little neat little touches i love there's one of my favorite lines in there it says what can anybody say

[00:57:04] good about the state of texas and goes yeah but then one guy goes the one guy goes i like the way it's shaped which is really yeah it is cool yeah i'm not knocking texas cam don't worry you my brother's down there right now by the way he's plenty of us my brother's down here dallas right now there's affordable stuff here but we can't say we like everything the state does it's all good

[00:57:28] my wife's uh father lived in texas and i we visited him a couple times and that guy had guns everywhere oh my god he had a he had his armchair he had a he had like an armchair where you can open up the arms and there's gun he can get guns out of the out of his armchair and every room had at least two or three guns in it so you know and and he liked to point he liked to get it out and wave

[00:57:55] it around i'm sitting there just trying to avoid his where he's pointing it at he's like don't fucking point it at me so oswald kills jfk and it's like you know i'm sorry no one's gonna know oswald kills jfk oh no one's gonna shoot i mean they're in texas

[00:58:18] i'll take credit yeah i'll kill that mofo for free there's two movies that were really good that were set like in the south you know texas fandango from what i remember there's another movie called twister not the tornado movie no no not not the not the the one that's not that movie yeah yeah movie that's not that movie that sounds like that movie but it seriously is not that movie

[00:58:46] well there's another movie called twister beside i know about twisters it's a different movie yeah twister i'm guessing any older twister you can do no no no that's the bar on for best till dawn 1989 film yeah it was susie amos christian glover harry dean stanton and dylan mcdermott it was in

[00:59:14] wichita kansas oh my god yeah it's a comedy drama yeah not the tornado movie no no no no no there's a tornado on the cover and it doesn't involve tornadoes okay uh tim robbins is in it oh my god all right i love the premise in uh the uh hitchhiker's guide that the mice run the world too oh yeah having killed 10 mice in the garage well you know what's funny is that the who's the

[00:59:42] real mouse now yeah at the end of that movie they kill them he he squashes the mice and they look like those little girls that were in uh oh that's right you know what they were asking the computer at the beginning of the movie yeah it kind of wraps around and goes yeah circles around sometimes nice anyway oh fun stuff zoe deschan this chanel has great eyes too is it man her eyes yeah eyes are

[01:00:11] really expressive they've got big eyes but they're not not freaky looking i'm a bigger fan of her older sister emily but hey she's one of those she can sing and do comedy it's just one of those where you're just like yeah she's one of those i had to keep the art separate from the artist like did you ever check out the show that what was it new girl yeah new girl yeah i watched some of it it was it was one of those where it's like okay so talented comedic actress uh apparently very difficult behind the scenes but i think this was before the ego got a little

[01:00:43] aren't women always a pain on the set though oh my god wow i wonder how much of that is just people don't like to work with women she's apparently very over the top but she's not as bad as other actors and actresses who we've seen where we're like oh my god someone is gonna trip you if they see you next time um uh yeah i mean this was around the same time i

[01:01:04] saw her in other stuff like tin man the sci-fi channel oz themed uh miniseries no yeah she her star was pretty much growing at this rate where she was been in some other movies like man did she play dorothy yep yep okay james has seen it nice oh you're talking about that sci-fi channel thing you you mentioned that um yes yeah what was it called again tin man oz you know no i i was a

[01:01:32] different thing all together yeah i was gonna say oz when you said oz i was thinking of that yeah i yeah no don't tempt me no now he'll be out here yeah another example a wizard of oz reference in a tv show i have an idea we do a tin man and then oz cross over there it'll be awful i'm gonna use something other than a brain what does the tin man get arrested and then he ends up

[01:02:01] in prison an arresting performance yes a rusting performance a rusting performance oh there you go if he's in the showers he's gonna rust or he needs a little oil to take somebody from behind i guess i don't know oh my god it's a great item how did we get here i don't know but i love it and wizard of

[01:02:22] oz uh oil can and then scarecrows oil can what oil it's in the movie that's true oh man so is marvin the most cynical robot or is that bender on futurama or what but uh bender's a more angry robot bender's a more pissed off robot than anybody else i think it's so wild because they're robots you know

[01:02:48] yeah no no i'm gonna throw i'm gonna i have to say it most cynical the most dark robot i think i've ever seen jeff peterson what about you i see not many people have seen the late late show with frank kirkusen oh my god it took me a moment what about yule brenner oh god yeah

[01:03:16] not crow t robot i mean crow t robot says uh you know i want to decide who lives and who dies so i mean i don't know but yes we'll play yes shick bergenson he takes too much joy out of writing earth versus soup bro you took earth versus soup and added jivey 70s characters yes

[01:03:48] oh my god now now mike about the dashiki what size do you take again don't think i'm soul brother oh my god i have that i'm gonna whip off this dashiki and rock your world about the dvd i'm gonna rock your world yeah i got that and i got the tom servo yep yes you did yes you did

[01:04:14] but i didn't get a hold of the crow but i do have crow and tom servo as pop i have my crow and servo puppets but it's gonna take a minute to get them out i guess they've got the big puppets they've had frank and trace uh action figures too but what i i i thought i've seen those so let me look up dr probably cost an arm and a leg

[01:04:41] that's johnny torso yeah or sonny torso he's huge i'm huge uh he's long johnny torso he's long and try me extra long i'm not seeing them they must have been collector pins too i got a lot of mystery science theaters so they must be customs i guess i'm not seeing it i'm seeing yeah yeah i'm thinking

[01:05:11] they were cut you know i think there might have been a joke somewhere somebody might have made something up like it was i think someone made their own figures and posted it on facebook i remember seeing something like that yeah i think that's where i saw it i did used to see someone who made their own custom legos oh yeah those were always fun i'm like how do you even get those parts to get make create this character customize oh legos used to be the shit i didn't

[01:05:41] i'm doing occasional funko pops in fact i just saw one i've got a house so you and my sister i saw evil ash evil ash not ash williams evil ash for the funko pops and i and i've got to get that one because i've got like this whole section of my room has got like all you you know all ash figures and stuff does he have just the demented eyes or does he let out the f-bomb

[01:06:05] what does he do um hey snow globe with satellite love yeah kickstarter reward last time you lucky duck um 13 what do you make of the spaceships that are in hitchhiker's guide because it's just kind of like they're just fun they're not well the volga the volga ships just looks like a big giant bulldozer

[01:06:30] like well in the it looked bigger than in the tv series actually yeah in the in the movies it was just a bunch of a bunch of ships surrounding the earth yeah sometimes a bulldozer is just a bulldozer i wanted to say it first shoot i can't make a piece with the bill dozer

[01:06:56] bill does wow that's what you introduce that that's what you do in the senate no that's what you do if you're in arlen texas oh oh i'm only a bill i'm just a bill here on capital

[01:07:25] bring it back to bob dylan how about that always goes back to bob dylan the those uh um they're on disney plus the uh are they schoolhouse rock schoolhouse rock stuff is on yeah i looked some of those up i don't know if they're there now but a couple years ago i watched them too i have hope for the human race now no i lost all hope for the human race because schoolhouse rock was on then one day mary lou retton came on

[01:07:55] it was all over i wanted to watch schoolhouse rock but no mary lou retton mary lou retton took over the world someone had to be the athlete i'll put that ash figure over in the in the messenger everything is better with my cats check out the snow globe do you want to build a snow globe

[01:08:25] there we go i went there i freaking went there nope yeah i got it out on the messenger nice no one can see it in the voice message well i've got people people for people playing along at home it is very nice oh i'm using two different ipads here so it is nice oh baby it's nice i'm wasp

[01:08:55] i don't know where we've gone i think i don't know where we are it brings i think we're in uh get some we're in a wormhole so get the it's a normality button see if we're going to talk about wormholes you got to be we're going to be over here for a little while we're going to be over here for a little while we're going to talk about a little bit of the galaxy we're going to go over here talk a little bit about star wars maybe go over here and talk a little bit about about uh space mutiny maybe bring your ball at the end to the expo nildegress tyson

[01:09:25] mottos everything else i mean what would a mirror there's been an engine imbalance during warp speed and now we are hitting a wormhole i i feel like we're in a there's now there's a reference nobody will get in a wormhole no the engine imbalance mr science theater did they have a bobo go out to take a dump and then he dragged them into the roman times through yeah yes he does i don't want to see what you're doing over

[01:09:53] this log giver can you not watch please um yeah did he go first and they chased him through and then yeah by the time he got there he was yeah uh so yeah i don't know the movie you're referencing james but anyway all right star trek the motion picture when they're in the wormhole oh yeah that's what you were saying well they do then they're leaving earth they go to warp warp

[01:10:17] factor they go all the way to nine i think no no they go to warp factor and warp factor eight and then what happens is they're just about there and all of a sudden there's a wormhole that's caused and that's when everybody starts talking and they start going time to impact 13 seconds yeah that's when you're getting that blur effect on the image yeah mr check off standby oh that's right oh

[01:10:46] belay that phaser order oh okay yeah i remember that now yeah well so you were all either way we're on the right track i was wondering what a mere universe of hitchhiker's guy would look like they'd all have beards just that they don't have van dykes i just watched lower decks tonight and that involved an alternate universe of course it's required to have an alternate universe in each one but um

[01:11:15] i think they would be using their signs for evil trace and frank in the uh in the theater and yeah last of the wild horses i haven't i haven't watched it yet but they did a show this week on the christmas shorts yeah yeah i haven't seen it but yeah way to date me

[01:11:39] yeah i heard i heard i remember last of the wild horses i'm like trying to keep up with it at one point and i'm like i'm like all right this isn't the best one but it's a funny one and it's helps that it's different people in the theater this time and there was a very depressing uh old yeller movie they also had on it was actually last hill hills yeah yeah he did actually

[01:12:09] was a pretty good plot i kind of got into the movie more than normal on that one there was a decent plot it was a good kids movie it was dark but well then they also had uh castle fu manchu where oh my word and it's the longest stitching up of a person ever and it's just so funny how they're all losing their lunch they're like oh oh god oh

[01:12:38] it's doctor's guide rules oh really yep oh riff tracks okay yeah i'm just saying re-watching all the riff tracks i bought and when i get done with that i'm gonna buy some more the one they did for mystery science theater and then they did another one okay but here's the thing that cracks me up uh the guy who wrote the fu manchu movie the fu manchu stories was the same guy who did the million eyes of sumaru roamer yeah tax roamer yeah

[01:13:09] so who he's who we blame if sandy frank isn't available well and there's another riff tracks by the same i i'm thinking the same guy like the girl from real yeah that's the sequel to that's the sequel to the million eyes of sumaru okay yeah it does have the same actress in it yeah is that the one with that weird slimy creature on the ground in the market or is there a different that's every mystery science theater yeah that's true um

[01:13:36] it was ktma they used it and then yeah used the riff tracks okay did you know any of the actors in the hitchhikers guide show before they were on that or was that kind of a third moment in the sun uh uh the uh the only one i recognized was the guy who was in the swimming pool or in the little pool or bathtub or whatever it was where he's like in the tub the whole time in the series is what i'm thinking of

[01:14:04] simon jones played arthur then and he was in a show called he was in a show graham chapman did called up in the trees or something like that okay which is graham chapman's which was graham chapman's lone show after python and if i if i what i read was it sounded like Adams wrote the part of arthur dent with that guy in mind

[01:14:32] yeah because like i said they did the radio show first he had experience with them uh what about david dixon who plays ford and you had sondra dickinson no no i don't know him she was trillion but no aside from that i i didn't recognize any of the actors except for the guy towards the end wouldn't they come i don't know i'm not just kidding um he was the captain of a ship who was always in the tub or in the

[01:15:01] pool or whatever it was he never got out of it never get out of it man and then when he cried when they crash landed on the planet he was still in that tub any chance ford perfect is a reference to ford fairline oh actually from the book he was trying to find a human name okay and and that's what he landed on but he misspelled perfect okay how do you spell it

[01:15:35] prefect okay and prefect is the head of the school when you're an english school like a prefect yeah yeah so i think that's the joke that's an actual yeah it is a word oh you think this is a joke james you think this is a joke anyway well do I make you laugh? am I some kind of clown to you? wise guy do I amuse you?

[01:16:03] it became a gangster show that's the way you tell a story do I amuse you? do I make you laugh? am I some kind of clown to you? what a wonderful story Mark no that's a totally different person I wish I was dual passy man so I think we beasted it I think we we shot our rocket ship into the sky and now it's got to come back to earth

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