On the Line w/ Ike Barinholtz (HDTGM Matinee)
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It's the in sync movie that no one asked for and no one wanted to see.
We saw on the line, so you know what that means.
Perhaps we'll find the answer to the question: How did this get made?
Hello, people of Earth, and welcome to How Did This Get Made?
I am joined as always, by June and Jason.
Hello to you both.
Hi, Paul.
What's going on?
Jason is, of course, not in studio right now.
You're in New York, and so that equates for the.
That's why I sound weird, guys.
Yeah,
you're in a toaster.
We are joined today by a very funny.
In my toaster, you mean a Cylon?
Yeah, man.
Frack.
Oh, what the frack?
Frack.
What's up, Frack?
Frank you.
We are joined by the very funny Ike Barenholtz, who you might have seen on Mad TV or Eastbound and Down this season.
He played the Russian pitcher.
Welcome, Ike.
Hey, now, thank you for having me.
Oh, we're very excited.
Now, this is a movie that, Ike, you recommended to us.
Right.
Well, we were talking about it.
You're like, God, it's tough to find movies that we, you know, because we know people who make movies now.
We don't want to offend anyone.
I go, I think I know a movie that no one is involved with.
Yeah.
And this is this movie, this movie on the line, just to give you an idea.
Yeah.
It was released in 2001.
Yeah.
It was an instinct movie with Joey Fatone and Lance Bass.
And
man, it's kind of a romantic comedy, right?
I mean, I'd say besides 9-11, it's the worst thing to happen in 2001.
Oh, this was released in 2001.
This was, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, wow.
Okay, that changed us next.
Yeah, I've heard a lot of people say that this movie is why they attacked us on 9-11.
Well, I heard that they were just trying to get the planes over here just to see it.
Yeah.
Lance Bass is huge in Saudi Arabia.
It's huge.
Lance Bass, okay, so he plays a guy who, according to this movie, this is where I'm most confused.
He's a guy who is dating, but he just clams up when he finds the right girl.
Is that like, so like every one of these characters is not really black and white.
It's kind of all shades of gray.
Yeah, very nebulous.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's no clear choices on anyone.
Like, I mean,
I gotta say, I always feel bad for like the writer.
I always imagine when the writer finds out who their lead's gonna be.
You know, the producer's like, so we got the lead.
It's a primo romantic comedy actor.
Like Ben Stellar.
Oh, wow, this is great.
No, no, no.
It's not Ben Steller.
It's more of a song and dance man.
Oh, great.
This is real.
So now, do you think they added in the music stuff?
Like, they had a version of the script that was just for your run-of-the-mill, like, regular romantic comedy actor.
And then they were like, okay, we have Lance Bass, we have Joy Fatone.
Yes, yes.
As a matter of fact, the original script was rated R, and they had to knock it back for the in-sync audience.
That's right.
Okay.
So they basically wanted something about Mary.
Yes.
So they wanted, right.
But can I say something?
This movie, even if it was R, I don't even understand where the R is coming in.
Because basically the whole, there's no stakes in this movie.
He meets Emmanuel Shirky.
Well, I call her Entourage.
I call her Ease Girlfriend from Entourage.
And by the way, if you ever do a TV version of the show, we need to do like six hours on Entourage.
Just break down six different versions.
Season by season.
Yes, okay, sorry.
I guess forever on the finales.
I'd have to do that.
Yeah.
That'd be amazing, a special version.
Yeah, I'm an expert on entourage.
Like, I know everything about it.
I'm obsessed.
But basically, the whole movie is he meets a girl in the subway, and then he's just trying to find her for the rest of the movie.
I mean, there's like no.
Well, it is a very confusing premise because the movie starts off in a flashback.
Right.
Seven years ago.
And you find out that basically everything that is important to this movie happened seven years ago.
Seven years ago.
I love that.
I said a couple of times.
They're singing spend doctors, like InSyncs making fun of spend doctors.
Yeah.
How dare you?
I need,
I honestly, I genuinely need for somebody in our audience to find out how many times Two Princes has been played in a movie.
I took the over-under at 18.
Oh, no.
I'm going like 30s.
Yeah.
This is a dumb question, but is InSync just comprised of...
I don't know anything about boy bands.
Is that just Joey Fatone?
No.
No, didn't you watch the credits?
Yeah, the credits have been.
Timberlake was in InSync.
Yeah.
Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick, and JC Shazay.
Who is not in the movie?
Not in the movie.
Clearly, they're a bone of contention.
Yeah.
So do you think they first went, because by the way, not to jump ahead to the, but the end credits is over a sketch that Justin Timberlake, and who is that other guy?
Chris Kirkpatrick.
And there's more life and energy
sketch.
And it's terrible.
And it's...
It's also very awkward that Timberlake is playing a gay man to Lance who has since come out of the closet.
It's very uncomfortable.
It's a very over-the-top gay performance by
JT.
But I like Chris Kirkpatrick's kind of a German guy.
I thought he was great.
He was good.
I really did.
Best actor in the movie, besides Patrick.
So you're saying that you would rather have seen a two-minute, what that two-minute sketch was at the end.
You would rather have seen a 90.
Yes.
Well, I feel like they probably tried to get In Sync to play all of the boys in the movie.
And Timberlake's like, no fucking way out to play.
Well, see, that's what I was curious about.
Like, did it first, did the main part, Lance Bass's part, first go out to
without a doubt, without a doubt?
No, without a doubt.
You don't think so?
I think Timberlake was supposed to play the, like, what's the skinny hip-hop guy?
And I think Chris Kirkpatrick was supposed to play the smart guy.
Yes.
So where does that leave JC Shazé in all this?
Al Green.
That's why he wasn't invited to the movie.
Al Green.
You know, it's funny, like, we were talking about it, and I've seen this movie a bunch back in the day.
And, you know, a couple days ago, I was like, I should watch this again.
And I couldn't find it on Netflix or Amazon Instant.
Amoeba didn't have it.
Barnes ⁇ Noble didn't have it.
But the whole movie is posted on YouTube.
And I think that's the way this movie is supposed to be seen.
Yes, in five chapters.
eight chapters.
And the great thing is, it was uploaded by a poster named Lance Bass Fanpage, and
it says, posted with the express permission of Lance Bass.
Clearly, they were like at a premiere or something and saw Lance Bass.
We're like, hey, Lance, I love you.
Can I post this on YouTube?
It's like, yeah, whatever.
I don't know.
Can I post this whole movie that Lance Bass does not own?
He does not own a movie that is made by whatever company it was made by.
All right, so.
Yeah, the premise is pretty confusing, though.
So he's this guy who I guess has trouble.
He does date and seems to have a pretty active love life.
Yeah, he's not a loser.
He's not a loser.
He's not a loser.
In fact, he steals a girl in high school, which we find out later from another.
That was kind of, but that wasn't really.
He didn't steal it.
She just kind of
asked him.
And it was from that guy's point of view, it looks like he was a dick because he gives him that smarmy.
Okay, but it does seem like he dates people.
Oh, he's a cool guy.
He's out and about.
He's out and about.
He's out and about.
Well, they also set him up as a loser in work where he's like in the he's like in the mail room with Jerry Stiller.
Yes, and and by the way, they lay so much pipe in the beginning of this movie like all these things like hey you ever gonna tell me what that baseball means?
Right, right.
Hey, you're ever gonna get involved in that.
Hey, Reebok is a really up our ass on this account.
It's like how did Reebok get involved?
By the way, most product placement ever in a movie McDonald's French fries.
McDonald's French fries flats like Mac and me fucking like so blatant.
There's a Pepsi in the shop.
The kid is literally holding it out like holding the McDonald's thing out.
It's like it's out.
you can't, no one would hold it like that.
By the way, I found that scene very disturbing.
That kid is about seven years old and says he's telling Lance Bass and his sidekicks.
How to fuck chicks.
Yeah, how to fuck chicks.
And then he takes his friend rise and walks over to an older, a woman in her
mid-30s.
Yeah, in her mid-30s, offers her fries and then gives them a look like, right?
Well, in the R-rated version, she blows him.
That's what I'm saying.
That's why they cut it.
That's why it kind of gets laid.
Also, that kid starts off the thing that I really want to just call our attention to, which is the sound effects for head turns, blanks, and anything at all.
What the fuck?
It's like this movie was scored by a fucking DJ Morning Man Tulsa.
I think what happened is that they saw
crickets at one point.
Somebody tells a joke that doesn't land.
There's crickets.
There are crickets.
Joey has fart noises.
Joey Faton has 11 fart sounds.
Oh, every time he moves.
There's a fart sound.
There's triple ticks, like whoa, whoa, whoa.
A couple of record scratches.
A couple of those.
When Joey Fatone turns his head at one time and goes, wicka, wicka, wicka.
Actually, no, Joey Faton actually makes that noise.
Also, there's that song that keeps playing intermittently that's like, yeah, baby, hey, baby.
I actually have a clip of that song.
Just so you can hear, this underscores the movie
barely creaks in at
an hour and 20 minutes.
And this movie plays under, I would say, an hour and 15.
Here you go.
That went pretty well.
Gibbons.
All right, so there you go.
That is just
a taste, a taste of the music that, and that plays all the time.
Loudly.
Yeah, yeah.
I couldn't hear the dialogue.
It was just a matter of time.
Terrible sound mixing.
Terrible sound mixing.
I mean, I'm trying to think of like worse leading men for a movie.
Like, who's worse?
Like, Paul Gasol?
But see,
but.
See, here's a weird thing about the movie, too, though, because in the beginning, that's seven years ago flashback, he's the lead singer of this band.
Yes, the Spin Doctor's band.
Yes.
The Spin Doctor's band.
And we find out later on that music means a whole lot to him.
Oh, it's huge.
That's why he works for Reebok.
He works for Reebok.
Well, so much so that when he's on the subway, he will start singing along and getting embarrassed.
Yeah, it's hard.
So not only does he start, he's listening to Al Green on his CD-Man or whatever it is, he gets so into the song that he stands up on a public subway and starts dancing kind of wildly.
Yeah, and then he gives that sheepish deer in the woods about to be murdered look like, sorry, everyone.
And of course, who could resist that?
But why isn't he in this band anymore?
Well, I think after, I think what maybe they were going for is that after he, because remember in the beginning, not only does he choke, he faints.
He fucking.
Oh, right.
He faints.
He thinks.
So maybe they had a meeting afterwards, and I think the band broke up.
And the only one that held on to the fucking dream was Fatone.
Fatone.
Can we talk about Fatone for a second?
Yeah.
It's good in a movie like this, if you got a lead like Lance Bass, who's not a pure comedy guy, you got to get a comedy guy like Joey Fatone.
Wasn't he?
He's UCB, right?
Yeah, Joey Fatone Monster Bonnie.
Well, no, I think, well, Joey Fatone was actually first member of Human Giant.
Right.
But he was a second city guy, I think.
He wasn't.
Was he second city?
I think he did second city and UCB and IO.
I gotta say, I thought for being a non-actor that Joey Fatone, this is controversial.
I thought he did a fine job.
I thought he did a fine I was going to say the same thing.
He actually seemed to be doing good.
Well, I mean, I think he tried his best, but at the end of the day,
I've been to fucking children's funerals that are funnier.
Sure, was it funny?
His material was not good.
His material was not good.
Yeah.
But yeah, I guess some of the fart noises were pretty good.
But you know what?
He was a relief from watching Lance Bass and
Ease girlfriend from Entourage because watching them was like watching the bore, like it was like being a producer on a reality show and just wading through the boring footage of a reality show going, how do we edit this?
The chemistry between them, it was like the chemistry between like a hubcap and a turkey sub.
It's like two
nothing.
There's nothing new.
Wait.
Wait, who's who in that scenario?
Because I want to know, because I want to know whether I was attracted to the turkey sub or the hubcap.
Definitely the turkey sub.
I mean, yeah.
Come on, man.
Come on.
Joy Fajon has for the record.
Can we talk about the scene between the turkey sub and her roommate?
Oh, my God.
I was obsessed with that scene.
So basically, E's girlfriend.
You just spent the weekend with your boyfriend of three years, who you haven't seen in a month.
Like, it is like,
the poor roommate has like 10 minutes of just solid exposition.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, the turkey sub just kind of wistfully looks out the window.
Well, like, by the way, she comes home, like, you know, so the turkey sub is visiting Chicago, and that's how they have this chance interaction yeah but she comes home which is a big reveal by the way yeah think he's gonna see her again on the line which no on the line on the subway line turkey sub doesn't even live in the same town but whoa it seems like this best friend is like the minute like she's like how's your boyfriend wasn't it great and she's like i met another guy and she's like great how is he isn't he awesome it's like
these friends yeah are switching on it like our true friend be like whoa whoa whoa you met another wait but you're in a relationship with a guy
what are you doing what's wrong with you you're acting like a a fucking turkey sub.
Jesus.
Yeah, that was a great scene.
Oh, my God.
Well,
a huge part of this movie for me hinges on a couple of things.
One, there appears to be no such thing as the internet.
No.
Yeah, well, 2001, right?
That did exist, right?
Or CDs.
You could totally, by the way, you could 100% post a Craigslist misconnection at this point.
You could try and internet look up this person.
Like, that that's possible, but it doesn't.
Yeah, no.
And that every single person only reads the newspaper, and the way they read it is by holding it
completely in front of their face.
And by the way, this like local story is front-page news every day on the Chicago newspaper.
Right.
I mean, meanwhile, like 15 people got shot to death on the west side.
They don't mention that.
And what was really weird is the first time it showed up in the paper, the picture they used of Lance Bass was his graduation photo from high school.
Why would they do that?
I assumed it was because the other guy was the reporter
who was spurned.
That was the only picture he could find.
By the way, I got to say,
it's one of the greatest introductions in cinema history where you see the antagonist and he's at his desk playing Game Boy again.
Oh, yeah.
2001.
Too late for Game Boy.
By the way, this movie, I think, takes place in the world where the Y2K happened.
That's why they don't have the internet.
That's why they have to drop him.
He's playing fucking Tetris, and for no reason, he just falls over.
Yeah, like it's my falls at him.
I love artificial, fucking, inorganic physical comedy.
It's amazing.
I can see them on set being like, we got to fucking pump the scene on that.
It's just flat.
I just fall down.
Like, what do you mean?
You want me to fall backwards?
Why would I fall backwards?
Just fucking do it.
I do want, all right, so when Lance Bass or when the Turkey sub and the hubcap get together, I do want to just play a clip so you can hear the chemistry.
And this is Lance talking about baseball, which I feel like he's never seen.
No, no, no, no.
So here, Diggily.
Google Boyden,
You're a Cubs fan.
Heck yeah, born and raised.
All right, all right.
Um,
so tell me, tell me your best and worst Cub moment.
Best whenever they win, of course.
Worst game five in the 84 playoffs.
Ground ball winter, Durham's legs.
That is the worst moment of my life.
I was so depressed.
I didn't even go to school the next day.
I cried.
Okay, most guys wouldn't have met that.
Yeah,
I don't know why I just told you that.
He's when he says, that was the worst moment of my life.
That's my favorite line of the whole movie.
So not passionate.
This guy does not care about baseball.
He doesn't even know what happened.
I cried.
Jesus.
And those two actors, neither of them have ever seen a baseball game.
They have no idea.
Cubs, that's football, right?
That's football.
And then
Lance, you know, asks her the question that every guy likes to ask a girl,
what's something that you only will tell a stranger?
Yeah.
Creepy.
To which she refers.
She says, I like making paper airplanes.
And one other thing, my dad's a pair of airplanes.
Shame.
Shame on her.
And my dad's a pilot.
That's why she likes making paper airplanes.
That's why.
Because her dad's a pilot.
That's true.
It would be great if she was like, I killed a man in a hit and run.
one time.
I just kept fucking driving.
That's the worst secret to tell.
What's a secret that you've never told a stranger?
I make paper airplanes.
The fuck is that?
And then after that, she walks him up to the subway platform and launches one of her paper planes from there and then says that this is her favorite spot to do it.
Her favorite spot.
She doesn't live in Chicago.
She doesn't live there.
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The relationship I was really curious about was between
Hubcap and and Jackie at work.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jackie is Hubcap's nemesis.
Yeah.
They're both working on the Reebok account, which is, again, if you're keeping track, we've talked about McDonald's,
Reebok, and also there's a mention of Pop Secret.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Are we to believe that Reebok, the company Reebok, is going to hire some tiny rinky-dink ad agency in Chicago to do all of their advertising?
Oh, yeah.
No sense.
And when they show their ads to them, they're just going to have like
magazine cutouts of girls' heads on
like little doll dresses.
Like, yeah, that's our ads.
That was their big, like, there, first of all, Dave Foley, who's in this movie, reveals, he goes, here is our vision of Reebok.
And it looks like the worst computer graphics is like, Reebok, the future.
It's so poorly done.
Like, it's so poorly done.
Also, he, fucking, Hubcap is supposed to, he's supposed to be good at his job, right?
You know?
So he says to her at one point, he goes, what about this?
And he holds up two cushballs and goes, Rebach.
Re-bach.
And she looks at him.
She's like, you're a moron.
And she's right.
That's the fucking worst pitch I've ever heard in my life.
Well, also, this guy, Lance Bass is in the mailroom in the beginning.
Yes.
And then
Turkey Sandwich says to him,
oh, did you work on that Pop Secret?
Yeah, Turkey, Turkey Sub.
Sorry.
It's a Turkey sub, not a sandwich.
Please.
You're right.
Sorry.
I apologize.
Turkey sub says, like, oh, did you work on Pop Secret?
He goes, oh, yeah, I wrote that jingle.
Wait, you're working a fucking mail trying to push a copier with Jerry Stiller.
What the fuck are you talking about?
You're working on it.
By the way, the copier metaphor, which runs throughout the whole movie, is one of the more baffling.
That's supposed to be like the oil and there will be blood.
You know what I mean?
It's a metaphor for everything.
Jesus.
Poor Jerry Stiller.
He had no idea.
He had no idea what he was doing in there.
Yeah, so this whole movie is basically, they give you a little bit, but then they take it away.
It's like, you know, it's like Lance, like then Joey Fatone, is he a good singer?
Is he not a good singer?
Well, all I'll say is in the first 17 minutes, he has three songs.
Yes.
That's tonnage.
Oh.
That's too much.
Oh.
A little bit when he does a full cover of Pour Some Sugar on Me, literally pouring sugar on himself.
And then
after fucking Turkey Hubcap tells him what happened, he gets on stage and busts a parody version of Every Rose Has Its Thorn about things.
What is he?
Weird Dale Yankovic?
Yeah, that just happened.
It just happened.
Well, also, Joey Fatone, Joey Fidone also has that interesting ability to be like, do one sonnet.
All right, guys, let's take a break.
I'm going to go hang out with my friends, chat with them for a bit, go back on stage, do another son.
Yeah.
He's just performing in a place where music is going to stop and start at any given moment.
It's the world's worst bar.
Oh, my God.
I love, too, about 24 minutes in, when he kind of figures out what he's going to do.
You know,
he's got to find her.
Oh, yeah, yeah, he's got to find her.
And they start playing the titular song on the line.
It's the worst moment in in cinema history.
It's the fucking most uncinematic, horrible, terrible scene in movie history.
I mean, this movie is the most uncinematic film at all.
Pacing is not a thing in here.
Yeah, I mean, montages are insane.
Oh, montages are really long, too.
And there's like, there's one, there's that scene where he walks through the hallway of that, um, of his ad firm, and all of like the secretaries are looking at him.
They play that scene about seven times.
And the one time, the one time he just drops his papers, and they all start laughing at him like all he did was drop a couple papers.
These women are harsh.
Yeah.
That's a harsh place.
Well also this whole working, his whole place of work is constantly dictated by what's on the cover of the Chicago Times.
Like he's looking for love.
Everyone's into him.
He's a jerk.
Oh, everyone hates him.
Like there, there's so much they really are feeding off of this article.
You would think these are the only people that would know him for him.
But they are just whatever the paper says they are into.
Thank you.
Oh my God.
And we haven't even talked about his friends, really.
Besides Joey Fatone, we have the the astute guy who's always reading the paper.
Right.
And then Super Seriously.
And Super Seehauser's friend.
Yes.
And then
his name is GQ.
He played a character called Eric.
His name in real life is.
His life is GQ?
GQ.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
He plays a version of that character in Drumline as well as a bunch of other movies.
If you look at GQ's IMDb page, it says, GQ, as he likes to be called, is a brilliant young actor, writer, and MC, A product of Shai Tilly.
He went to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and worked in the experimental theater wing.
It was there, along with some classmates, he conceived the idea for the bomb.
Oh, he was the bombody of errors.
That's the guy.
That's the guy.
Wait, he said he's from Shai Tilly?
Shy Tilly.
I mean Chicago?
Yeah, I guess.
So, Paul, I'm from Chicago.
I lived there 18 years.
I've never heard anyone say Chic Tilly.
Never once, ever.
It's never happened.
It's made up to herb.
Jesus.
Shai Tilly.
Wow.
Bombardier of Errors.
Wow.
He created that?
Yeah.
Jesus.
And the raptation of the Comedy of Errors.
Dude, I think he misspelled it, adaptation.
Nope, adraptation.
That's not a word.
Nope.
Hey, man, just chill out.
Just go to Shannon.
Just go back to Shannon.
Jesus Christ.
I didn't know.
I'm sorry.
Jeez.
Yeah, those friends are the worst.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and basically the friends decide they're going to, because all these girls are so in love now with Lance Bass because he's looking for his true love, all the guys are going to take out all of the girls and fuck them, which they then do.
That's a major flaw of the whole movie, though.
Hey, like, all right, so, like, these these girls call him to say, oh, I'm the girl from the subway, but yet he has to go out on dates with all of them?
It's like, no, that's not the girl.
That's not the girl.
Pick up the phone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or show up and be like, I'm not her.
Bye.
Yeah.
Or just cut on the phone and be like, yeah.
Oh, yeah, no, you're not her.
But you guys, the other major,
major flaw
is that these friends are concocting this whole plan.
Once the girls show up, they've seen Lance Bassett.
They've seen Hubcap's picture.
Yeah, on the cover of the paper every day.
They're going to show up and not go over to his friends.
Why would they?
And basically these guys
are just fucking girls, like literally four times a night.
That's what they allude to.
They didn't beat the script out enough, I think, was the biggest problem.
I love the scene with the three bros and four bros playing baseball.
Oh my god, barbecue baseball?
Barbecue baseball.
Lance Bassback.
Plants Bass throws a baseball.
It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
It's literally how I imagine Rue McClanahan would throw a baseball right before she passed.
Like, I mean, it's so soft.
And why would she pass right after that?
The throw.
Her baseball throw kills her.
Also, he is standing maybe four feet in front of Joy Fatone.
Like,
it's so bad.
Oh, my God.
And then they hit it, and then they hit it right where their friend has set out a beautiful table.
Like, Martin Bargain set it up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, what are you doing?
Surprised.
Like, what are you doing?
And they literally go, you're probably wondering why we asked you here to barbecue baseball.
He goes, well, I brought the meat.
Like,
by the way, the staging of this movie is so horrible, the blocking, that at this, during this scene, they're all standing in one line.
Yeah, one line facing camera.
Yeah, the director was done.
He's just like, four-shot, fucking stand there, let's go, keep moving.
And they looked like they were freezing.
Yeah, that was the coldest day.
That was like they're shot there, like a March 5th in Chicago.
It was like 32 degrees.
It's fucking tough.
I do want to just, because I'm obsessed with it, like these characters going back on what they've just established that they've done.
Constantly.
Which is Joey Fatoan is in love with this character called The Mick, played by Richie Sambora.
They went with Comedy Guy again, too.
Yeah.
You want to get a big comedy guy.
like Sambora.
Samba.
Just hitting it out of the park.
Fucking bringing it.
And so Sambora, he's like, I love the Mick.
I love the Mick.
And he watches the Mick on TRL.
He's like, oh, I hate this guy.
I hate this guy.
This guy's the worst.
It's like, wait, you just launched over the couch to watch your favorite guy.
And the guy says two words.
You're like, ah, this guy is, I hate him.
And then at the end, he comes back in and goes, I love this guy.
Do you think maybe he was just upset to see the Mick like an interview selling nice?
Was he selling out?
I don't think the Mick was selling out.
No, he was being the Mick.
That's what the Mick does.
The Mick talks about the Mick being the Mick.
Fuck me.
Wait, we haven't even talked about this.
Is before the friends concoct this plan.
GQ takes Hubcap to see Al Green in concert.
Oh, yeah.
You know, that five-minute Al Green scene really gives the film a nice sense of urgency.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
We're going to literally show Al Green singing for five minutes.
Yeah, it's crazy.
And show Al Green singing.
It is the worst lip sync of all time.
I can't describe it to you because it's so utterly bad.
It's like someone's playing a CD.
He's not even near the microphone.
It is so off.
He is so bad.
What's weird about this movie?
There are sounds added in, but then there are sounds taken away.
Like something very strange happened with this.
It's almost like the sound mixer was like holding them hostage.
He's like, oh, yeah, you got to pay me.
Otherwise, you're losing the fucking Al Green Track.
Hey, guys, you say your last couple of checks have bounced.
So I'm not really going to do this benefit.
Did you notice, though, that at certain points, the camera would be on an actor and they'd say something, and the word, one of the words they would say, would just be so obviously dubbed over by another word.
But not even bad words.
No, no, no, not like curse words.
I love bad ADR in a movie.
Yeah, it makes me happy.
And every time you see the back of a character's head in this movie, you hear like, hey, watch out, get out of the way.
Like, the worst fucking ADR.
And then they do it with their leads.
I don't get it.
But they do it with their leads.
It's like, you're going to get screwed.
And they'd be like, you're going to get in trouble.
Like, it's like, it's like, it's like, that's what they're doing.
It's like, like, I'm gonna kick your butt, and it's like, but clearly, it's that ass, like, but like, that's not really dictating the difference between an R-rated movie and a PG-13.
No, I bet it's still, I bet it was still for like teen tween girls.
I think it was still that, it was as, as sensitive as butt to ass, you know, for the
girls.
If we're talking about tween girls, are you going to talk about the scene with Al Green?
No, go ahead.
I was going to say, maybe the most offensive scene in the movie is the protagonist or the antagonist's girlfriend, who's actually my friend, Mandy.
She goes on a date with Joey Fatone, and he tells his friends what happened the next day.
Oh, yeah.
I would love her to come on and talk about this movie.
I mean, because, and her character, because it was so baffling.
I mean, she's having a hard time with.
He's a dick.
He's, you know, wrapped up in his work, and he's consumed with jealousy over a hubcap.
So much so that when she walks in from that date, she's severely injured.
Her neck fucking face is bandaged.
Yes.
Her face is bandaged.
Her leg is bandaged.
And she's wearing a leg break.
Clearly, she's been hit by a car or something.
Something terrible.
He doesn't even look up.
He does.
He doesn't look up for a while.
Then he does look up, continues to talk, looking at her, and doesn't notice.
Right.
And then at the end, he goes, What happened to you?
And then they get out of the scene.
Yeah.
And then Joy Fatone comes in the next morning and is like, No, no, no, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
He says, What happened to you?
And she smiles.
She smiles.
She smiles like she's like, I finally got fucked right.
Yeah, that's what I got out of it, too.
Like, she did some creepy shit with Joey Fatone.
Right, that's what was so interesting about her character.
So then Joey Fatone retells the story to his friends.
Right, and they're like, what happened?
And he basically tells her, he's like, I was doing my thing, which is like rocking out, I guess.
Yeah, rocking out in his bedroom.
Right.
His big move is to kick the amp.
That's it.
And he says that.
He goes, that's my big move.
Like, it's not like, there's no ambiguity there.
So, and his friends are like, uh-huh, uh-huh, what happened?
And then he fucking kicks her in the face.
Yeah, the amp, doesn't the amp, like, fly at her or something like that?
No, no, no, no, no.
He misses the amp.
He misses the amp.
He kicks her in the fucking face.
And she falls over and he goes, I broke her nose.
And they all go, oh, and he goes, and her ankle.
And then they start laughing.
And then he goes, guys, it's not funny.
Yeah.
And then they stop.
That scene where Joey Fatone, GQ, and the smart guy are eating cereal, eating frosted flakes.
Frosted flakes.
Big box of frosted flakes, prominent.
they are eating food so loudly there is such loud wet mouth sounds disgusting that there's overwhelming wetness of chewing i love that we're all the other frosted flakes
they brought up the level the sound racer brought up the level
and they're just talking about they're talking about like getting lazy
i couldn't believe it
um i do want to i do want to revisit the al green scene again because it was a misconnection because uh Turkey Sub was there and so is Hubcat, but they missed each other.
But they get
Hubcat gets kicked out because he doesn't have tickets.
There's a ticket.
Now, meanwhile, this Al Green concert is like in a formal dining space.
It's like a supper club.
Yeah.
How did he even get there and get a table?
He was in the city.
Front row, front row.
Front row.
Front row.
And by the way, like, why?
Why did they even so this is obviously they needed to get them in the same space together.
So the writer's fix to that was to have GQ say he had tickets to this thing and then get him to go, but he doesn't know Turkey Sub's going to be there.
No, no, no, no.
I guess GQ also likes Al Green.
He doesn't love Al Green Junior.
My God.
Young men love Al Green.
My dad, these guys.
Yes.
You could guess that they might be there because they talked about loving Al Green.
She said he's playing at that venue.
In a normal movie, if I'm Hubcap,
maybe that girl that I liked who said she loved Al Green and knew about that concert would be there.
Well, that's great, but then why would you have GQ be in the front row and then all of a sudden, yo, I forgot my tickets, yo.
Shy Tizzy.
What did you say?
At the supper club, yeah.
Nobody checks your ticket at the door.
You just walk in and sit down and start ordering drinks.
Is he eating?
He's eating.
Yeah, they're eating.
They're eating foods.
And then a security guard comes over for no reason.
By the way, why is Al Green doing dinner theater?
He was playing out.
He's not that big of stadiums and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the Reverend is playing out bigger.
Oh, the Reverend.
So now the friends, you know, they've fucked up.
They started dating all these girls, having sex with all of them.
And now they got a, you know, now Lance Bass has gotten some bad play, I guess, because
there were turn of events.
Turkey Sub finds out about this.
Well, Turkey Sub meets GQ.
Yes.
Yes, but even before that, I expected that the reveal of Turkey Sub finding out that this was all going on, because she's not in Chicago very much.
But she makes it back to Chicago a lot.
But then she's there, she's moving.
She says she wants to do field work.
And her boyfriend, Paul, says, ugh, enough with the fossil hobby.
And she says, it's not a hobby.
Take that.
First of all,
he looks like Tom Hanks at the end of Big when he turns back into a kid.
Like, he's a young kid working at businesses.
He's dying.
He's like, the market's.
He's like, don't sell, don't sell.
Right.
His cell phone makes...
Futures, cattle futures.
Yeah, but I figured, okay, so the way they're going to reveal her finding out that she's been sort of of detached from this whole thing and this crazy, like, Chicago's taken by storm with this story.
So, it's going to be really interesting how she finds out, no, she just walks over to a newspaper stand,
picks up a paper, and reads it.
Yeah, that's it.
Just real casual, like,
not excited, calls the number,
and that's it.
She just calls the number.
She doesn't exclaim.
She doesn't look surprised.
She's just like, huh, dials the phone, and GQ picks up and pretends to be Kevin.
And she's like, totally fine.
All right, let's meet up.
You know, before that, though, there's a great little scene where Lance Bass, sorry, Hubcap answers the phone at his house, and we assume that it's Tricky Sub.
He's like, hey, yeah,
I'll meet you.
I'll meet you.
So he goes to dinner, and you see him waiting in the diner by himself.
And then you see her walking to the diner and they do like fucking silence of the lambs where you don't know what's happening.
And then it's just, no, it's the crazy girl, you know, the fucking level four at Improv Olympic in Chicago, fucking got cast.
Doing the whole
cutter.
I feel like we have a cosmic connection.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that fucking bullshit.
bullshit.
My favorite part about that was at the end when Cosmic Connection and Hubcap, it goes wrong and she gets mad at him.
Yeah, she leaves.
She like storms out, but she first leaves money.
She takes money out of her purse and puts it on the table.
Well, she's a considerate Christian.
As best as I can tell, she has not eaten, ordered, or drank anything.
And Cosmic Connection also, isn't Cosmic Connection the same girl who goes, I don't need to take this.
I'm from Oregon.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What?
God, I didn't notice she left money.
I didn't notice she left money.
Maybe that's one of her quirks.
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So the guys try to help him back, help out Lance Bass, and they make a sign that says, Has anyone seen this girl?
And it's the most crude drawing.
Oh my god.
It is like a stick-figure head.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they're going around going, hey, have you seen this girl?
Yeah.
Have you seen this girl?
Yeah, and not only that.
Stick figure head.
Stick figure head, and they're screaming at people.
Yeah, yeah, they're harassing them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
These people can't do anything to help you.
No, I don't know what you're talking about.
Buckley alone.
Is GQ had her.
GQ had the girlfriend.
And he lets her get away.
I love to.
And sorry, not only does he let her get away, but when all the friends find out that he actually saw her, they say you have to tell Hubkep immediately.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He takes his
top.
He's in no rush.
He is in no rush.
It goes to another baseball game.
Right.
Which, by the way, of course, the Chicago Cubs are such whores.
You can shoot a fucking Bukaki film.
They're like, yeah, sure, great.
Absolutely.
When are you going to be here?
You know you're fucked when the best line and the best line reading in your film comes from Sammy Sosa.
Which I would love to play for you right now.
Basically, Sammy Sosa has
had this problem where he keeps on hitting foul balls into GQ's nuts.
That's never happened in the history of baseball.
Three times in one season?
Three times, and it looked like they were also, it looked like the foul ball, it didn't look like they were in an area where that foul ball would come right into his nuts.
And if that happened, he would be seriously in the middle of the day.
He'd be in confusion.
He'd be in the hospital.
Fucking be sad.
Let's listen to Sammy Sosa's line.
The first line, there are two other cubs I don't know the names of, and then the third one is Sammy Sosa.
Ooh, that's gotta hurt.
I can't believe he's hit that guy three times this season.
Daniel, that's the third time this season hit this guy.
Best performance in the movie.
I wonder if the line was, they were like, maybe people aren't going to understand Sammy, so maybe we need people
who don't speak with an accent to say the same line first.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just set it up, set the table a little bit.
Jesus.
It's impossible, by the way.
That's
completely impossible.
You can't hit someone in the nuts.
It's just, it's out of connection.
Yeah, no, no.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
And Nuts is a runner in this movie, too.
He goes, oh, he just got hit in the...
And somebody's like, would you like nuts in your Chinese food?
That's literally the next scene.
Just got hit in the, would you like nuts in your Chinese food?
I also got to see it again, but I feel like when he gets hit in the balls, there's a ball, yo,
or something like a woo.
I mean, there's a sheep sound effect at one point.
There is a sheep.
I heard that effect.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm sorry to go back to
the injured girl and Joey Fatone.
But where did we land on that?
So she really got something out of that experience.
Well, Joey Fatone also goes, she got rocked.
Okay, so are we to understand that after he hit her and she fell, she rolled back off that bed backwards, another fell on the ground.
No one has equilibrium in Chicago.
After that, they fucked after that.
After he broke her nose and her ankle.
And then she went to the hospital.
Then she went to the hospital.
Doctor says, what happened?
Broke my nose, broke my ankle.
When an hour ago, what were you doing in between?
Fucking, why didn't you come here right away?
By the way, Joey Fatone did not accompany her to the hospital.
I don't believe he did.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on, hold on, wait a minute.
How did she meet Joey Fatone?
Because she called the number.
Right, sorry, sorry.
forgot.
It was a lot of information, guys.
I'm sorry, forgot.
Oh, my job.
Jesus.
Okay.
Do you think that they were going to have, I mean, I won't cut to the end of the movie.
I mean, there's stuff, everybody sort of has a happy ending at the end.
Oh, yeah, everything works out.
Except for us.
But do you think that those characters ended up together?
Oh, yeah, they definitely did.
They have that thing.
Yeah, they have a little thing in the middle.
Remember, she comes in at the end because when the Mick is there and the Mick is saying, like, I want you to do my new recording.
Give me your jump.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And by the way, she's totally healed like a day or two.
And Brogan knows it's simple.
It's a real quick fix.
All right.
So the basically, the movie takes a really bold choice, which is the last 20 minutes could probably be condensed into five.
Yeah, two.
I was going to say, yeah, two.
It's like, it's so many music montages, so many sad faces.
Like, they're just
wading through at this point.
They're just like, we need to make this
100%.
Jerry Stiller has had a heart attack.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, which was surprising.
He actually had a heart attack because he found out he was doing this movie and he just fucking killed over.
I'm sorry.
Was I really stoned?
Or is there a scene where fucking Hubcap is breakdancing in the office by himself?
Yes, that's
wearing ladies' Reebok sneakers.
And not only that, but after Hubcap gets so into it that he's like, he's on the ground, he's breakdancing, then Jackie walks in.
Yeah, she finds him there, and then he
pretends to hide.
Yeah, he starts to see.
Yeah, he kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He kind of curls no ball a little bit.
Yeah, as as though, like, he was saying to her, just like, I'm not here.
Like,
I'm not here.
Like, this isn't happening.
But, guys, why is he putting on women's sneakers?
I did respect that.
He was trying to steal the product so he can come up with the killer jingle.
But meanwhile, they already came up with the jingle.
Yeah.
Like, in the beginning of the movie, it's like for girls on the move.
Reebok.
And then, like, he's constantly working on this ad campaign.
Like, what else?
No, no, no, no, we got it.
We got it.
We got it.
Yeah, let's talk about Reebok for a second because they originally don't really care about him and he's put on the team kind of by accident.
He's put on the team because he was in the paper and then Reebok.
Dave Foley first is like, get on the team.
I'm going to use him to my advantage.
Yeah, and then the newspaper was like, get on the team.
Then they saw the newspaper like, get on the team.
They don't want him on the team.
But why would they want him on the team because he's
posting this misconnection?
Like, I wasn't quite sure.
God, I don't know.
It's just, he's like a celebrity now.
So they want him.
He's a celebrity.
So they want him on his advertisement.
Did they know he was the guy?
Did they know the guy in the paper was the guy that was on their ad team?
Yes, yes.
Yes, Reebok does.
That's why when the paper turned against him, they were like, we want him off here.
We've changed our mind officially here.
Oh, wait a second.
Here's a big hole.
Reebok thought that it was Jackie's idea.
Oh, yes.
Because Jackie stole his idea.
She stole his idea.
Yeah.
All right, so we are nearing the end of this movie here.
Holy.
Yeah, we got to wrap this up.
This This is insane.
Jerry Stiller delivers a couple sports monologues.
How did you get that?
Because in the beginning of the movie, he goes, How did you get that baseball?
And he's like, I'm not going to tell you.
And then at the end.
Well, he had a life-changing experience.
He wants to get it all out before he's gone.
I mean, I get it.
It makes sense.
By the way, for a man who had a heart attack, he's totally fine.
He's almost in a nursing home.
Yeah, yeah.
He's like in a beautiful arboretum in a wheelchair.
They actually shot that scene on the King of Queens set.
They were like, listen, you're going to lose Stiller.
You got to go to him.
Shoot the scene there.
Go, go, go.
One of my favorite exchanges is at the end when all the buddy bros come back together at the bar.
And
one of the guys,
JQ says to him, you look good.
Lance Bass goes, I feel good.
And the smart guy goes, you look good.
My conversational improv.
Listen, it's been established.
Honestly, the writers and directors didn't trust that all the lines would be heard.
Again, there's something happening with the
sound guys on the set.
They just wanted to get all the lines a couple times.
So this movie was made for, you.
I want to take a guess how much this movie was made for?
I will say $12 million.
Yeah, I'm going to say like maybe $8.
Jason?
$20.
$20?
$16 million.
And it made a whopping 4.3.
Just keep the money.
$4.30.
That's a lot of
money that didn't go on the screen.
What would they get paid salary?
Or was it cash craft?
Yeah, it looks terrible.
There's no hair and makeup department.
Oh, no, no.
Turkey Sub doesn't have hair and makeup for the first quarter of the movie.
Yeah.
But Hubcap does.
Hubcap has a lot.
Oh, my gosh.
I love, too, when Sambora and him show up at the end.
It's like in heat when Shino and Janniro.
Finally, these two screen legends are sharing the screen.
I also loved in that scene, you know,
everybody's found someone by the end, and the smart guy at the bar, the smart guy at the bar, turns around, he's listening to the music.
We're having a happy ending.
and there's a girl holding
an art book.
An art book, an art book.
Who I guess we're supposed to understand is smart.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that they'll end up together.
I guess so.
By the way, the smart guy.
He's in a bar at night and holding it.
Holding an art book.
Like a coffee book.
It's a coffee book.
By the way, the smart guy.
If this is like a real movie, the smart guy would not want any part of the dating.
And he would be like, no, no, I want to find love realistically.
No, he's out there fucking girls just as much as all the other things.
Like, yeah, so
it's not like a big deal that he found love because because he even says, like, oh, last night was awesome.
Like, he's like, he's into it.
The weird thing, too, about their plan is, like, they seem to be meeting girls every 15 minutes.
Oh, yeah.
So, is it about fucking them?
Because they're meeting so, like, I don't know.
June, you just don't get what it is to be a guy.
I guess not.
I guess not.
In the R-rated version, they show them all fucking.
It's all
the way.
Like the scene in Wedding Crash is just me, girls on the bed.
Clearly, we did not like this movie, but there are people who really did.
And this is now time for a second opinion.
These are reviews culled from Amazon.com.
There's a couple of them this time because they were so great.
I had to pull more than usual.
This is a great one.
This is written by Carrie Guiltfeather, and this is written in 2001.
That's not a real name.
No one has that name.
This is written by Carrie Gilfeather.
A real feel-good movie when America needed it most.
Oh, how dare you?
Oh, wow.
Horrible.
Yeah, that's rough.
Then this is definitely a fake name.
Tyrese Darksaber says.
Darksaber?
Darksaber.
That got to be a better fake name.
Darksaber?
Darksaber.
What I love about that is, I feel like people,
even though these are positive reviews, nobody's willing to put themselves out there.
Roll!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
These are five star reviews.
He goes, this is a clean movie.
Of course, there might be some language, but it was totally void of any long petting scenes.
That's Teresa Darksaber.
Teresa Darksabers.
Isn't she on Game of Thrones?
Now there's another one.
These are written just by the blank names.
I was very impressed with Joey and Lance's performance.
There are better actors than these guys, but...
Just imagine this movie with other people and you'll be fine.
That's not my responsibility.
That's a slam.
That's a slam.
That's not a good review.
I'm going to give them a five-star review.
If you don't like these guys, just imagine better people doing it.
There are better actors, I'm not going to lie.
But if you imagine those better actors doing it, it's great.
It also says here,
it could have been better with 15 or 20 minutes chopped off.
It dragged down too long.
With 15 or 20 minutes, the movie's barely an hour.
15 minutes.
It could have been a good half-hour sitcom.
And this is my favorite one just because of the math of it.
This is from Melissa Melissa Wilkins.
For all the people who think it bombed, please keep in mind it was only in a thousand theaters.
And when compared to the big pictures that show in more than 90,000 theaters...
90,000 theaters.
They would have actually placed
fourth for first week numbers.
Not bad for a couple of boy band guys, huh?
Thanks, Lance, for the great wholesome movie that we are so lacking.
You don't have to be 14.
I'm 35.
Oh, Paul, let's stay in the light.
Let's stay in the light.
The heartbreaks.
90,000.
No, by the way, just so you know, no movie is released on 90,000.
There's not 90,000 screens ever.
There aren't 90,000 screens in America.
Yeah, in the worldwide, I don't even know there's 90,000.
Basically, in America, like the most is like 3,000,000.
I think it's 37.
So 90,000.
Yeah, if you put the, if it was released in 90,000,
there might be 90,000 TV screens.
Fucking movie screens.
So that is a significant thing.
I also love that at the very end when the Chicago Tribune.
I'm sorry, guys, it's the Chicago Daily Post.
Sorry, I was very happy.
We had a great artist.
Fire was the title for it.
The Chicago Daily Post reports on this happy ending and publishes on the front page the worst picture of Turkey Sub and Hupcat.
Oh, yes.
Oh, my God.
Oh, God.
Her eyes are closed.
They were running out of money at that point.
Like, just fucking whatever.
Just put two makeup stills together.
Fucking fuck it.
By the way, the end of this movie, the coverage on this event is like a space shuttle launch.
It's like, there are so many cameras.
Everyone's gathered around their TVs.
Everyone's watching.
Civilians on the L platform are like, I'm not going to work today.
Fuck my family.
I'm going to watch fucking Turkey Sub and fucking Hubcap shake hands.
And then, of course, like we said, just that great character-driven
little tag at the end with Timberlake.
Oh, Timberlake.
They actually was the best part of the movie.
They stopped the end of the movie.
It's almost they didn't even trust it to be in the end credits.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Al Green starts singing again.
Al Green comes up and he's singing.
They cut that off immediately and they go behind the scenes.
And it wasn't really behind the scenes.
I've never seen that before.
Yeah, and it was just JT, but you get why JT.
JT went on to a lot of bigger movies than this.
He has more charisma than every single person in that movie.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
He's a movie star.
Lance Bass, I guess,
he, what else did he do after this?
I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry.
Well, he's now one of the biggest actors in America, isn't he?
You're thinking of Ben Stiller, Jason.
Oh, my bad.
But like in Chuck and Larry, I think it was just like a literally one-off gay joke where Sandler's like, yeah, I love this Lance Bass.
He's a gay guy like me.
It wasn't a big part.
Well, Joy Fatone, I know, recently was on fucking like celebrity cook-off.
And he brought as much energy to that as he did this movie.
He looks like a guy who's like Joy Fatone.
I really do.
He seems like probably like the nicest guy in the world.
He tries really hard.
Well, he was also
in Jersey Shore Shark Attack.
Oh, that's right.
Man Cation,
Incubus, Karaoke Battle USA, The Kentucky Derby, Imagination Shows.
I genuinely hope you're looking these up and not reciting these for me.
Beethoven's Big Break, the dog movie, Beethoven.
So wait, that year, like two years ago, the Oscars, it was No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Jersey Shore Shark Attack.
Yeah, what were the other ones?
I think it was a dual year.
Wasn't Mancation on the Dead?
Man Cation might have been there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I forgot that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, my God.
So that is this movie.
Did we miss anything that anyone wants to chat about?
Oh, God.
It's strange that one of the big plot points is that they have this crazy connection because they can both recite every president in order.
Yeah, that's like a huge...
Part of their story, their love.
That they know the president.
That's a part of their love.
You still love Tears.
Tell me a secret you've never told me.
That is so fucking hard.
You've never told a stranger.
Teresa Stranger.
That's the
madness.
Still the best.
Oh, my God.
Guys, we have t-shirts.
They're awesome.
They're brand new.
They're crank 2 inspired.
Jason Oda made them for us, and they're amazing.
Our new guy, pulling our clips, Dave Steffi, thank you for pulling our clips for on the line.
Didn't mean to make you watch it.
Would you guys recommend people seeing this movie?
I think I would.
I think it's a fun movie.
I think it's a fun movie to watch.
Clearly, Tracy Lightsaber thinks it's good.
Teresa Darksaber thinks it's good family fun.
It's a movie to watch if you're an eight-year-old girl who's had some head trauma.
And if you have YouTube, you can watch it in easy installments.
Oh yeah, just go to Lance Bass fan page.
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There you go.
I'm not on Twitter, guys.
I'm not on Twitter.
I'm not on Twitter.
2012, man.
You got to get on there, bud.
And Jason, you have a big movie coming out this week, The Dictator.
Yes, yes, coming out.
Yes, everybody go next Wednesday, the 16th.
Please go and see the Dictator.
I can't wait.
It's going to be awesome.
All right.
Well, that is all.
Thank you, Ike, so much for being here.
Thank you.
You're awesome.
Love the show.
Love the podcast.
This is amazing.
You have to come back.
All right.
Thanks so much.
That's it.
Bye-bye.
Bye.
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