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Imagine Black Swan if it was directed by Sylvester Stallone with music by Frank Stallone.

We saw Staying Alive, so you know what that means.

Now it's time for

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Hello, people of Earth, and hello, people of Los Angeles!

We are here tonight at Largo, our home in Los Angeles, with an amazing audience.

You just heard them.

And we have a very, very exciting show.

It's appropriate that we are doing this show in a theater because this is a show about theater.

About the art, the craft of dance.

And we are going to talk about this movie, but we're going to do things a little bit differently tonight as I introduce everybody.

Here we go.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my co-host for the evening.

Please welcome

Jason MansLucas

June Diane Revere.

This is the end of

special chest

Katie Tipper.

That was the dulcet tones of Frank Stallone.

I have seriously non-stop been listening to that song.

That song should be called non-stop.

It is relentless.

It is an amazing.

It's a beautiful song, and I'm so glad that you're going to be able to do it.

I'm going to play that when I have sex next.

I'm going be like hey give me just one second

I'm done

ladies

when I heard that song and like I had heard it like in things that were making fun of staying alive for so long that I was like who who wrote I thought is that a beachy song and then I realized no how much Frank Stallone's stink is all over this movie.

Seven songs of Frank Stallone.

Thank God.

Frank Stallone, if you do search him like I've been searching him, his album cover, he clearly couldn't decide.

I'm making that documentary searching for Frank Stallone, right?

He lives in a studio in West Hollywood.

But he couldn't make a decision.

He couldn't make a decision on his album cover to put on the leather jacket, so it's just over one side of his body.

It's a pretty great

album cover.

Welcome.

Oh, guys.

This was a dream.

I watched this whole movie just in awe.

I wanted to, I hated it, but I also wanted to live that life at the same time.

There was something disgusting about it, but it pulled you in 100%.

The movie makes no sense.

We should just get out.

It is.

But to open with a chorus line to me is just like it's a dream come true.

I'm going to say something.

I'm going to say something that is perhaps not controversial at all and has maybe been said a million times before, but I did not know because I have never seen this movie before.

This movie is Showgirls.

I was thinking about this movie too, and I also felt like

the reason why Stallone directed it

because I feel like he was also trying to make it like rocky too.

Like it felt like rocky.

Dance rocky.

Yeah, a dance rocky.

Yeah.

Dance rocky.

Very rarely.

I said, it also just failed on Broadway, I believe.

It did.

It closed very quickly.

I was like, very rarely do I know that I'm going to love a movie from the first, literally the first second.

And this movie...

You can't beat it.

I mean, here, this is just so you get a chance to see what the fuck.

I would honestly be okay with playing the whole movie.

If you were like, oh, let me just show you one second, and then we just watched the whole movie.

This is only 20 seconds, but you'll get a sense of how electric the opening is.

You're going to want it longer.

You will come at second seven.

Here we go.

I'm in love.

I'm in.

I'm 100% in.

And I'm done.

This is the opening of the movie.

Because it's how you want to see dance movies.

It's how you want to see a dance movie.

In tight close-ups.

Every step-up movie can suck a dick

because it does not start like that.

They also did the thing where there's an audition sequence and it lasts 10 seconds.

And the director's going to be like, we'll let you know tomorrow.

It's just like,

that's it.

Okay, goodbye.

Well, okay, so if we can, well, should we dive in?

Yeah.

Should we dive in?

Okay, because in that sequence, they choose the girls

right there.

Because they cut a lot of girls and they choose their girls.

And then the guys come out and John Travolta comes out and the director says, I'm going to need 24 hours.

Also, the director of this, just interesting to note, Kurt Wood Smith,

who clearly, I did a little bit of research, was just in Rambo with Stallone.

So I'm sure he was like, we'll get him in as the choreographer with no lines.

So I was confused from the beginning because I wasn't clear, even from this opening chorus line sequence, like what

his

problem as, or Achilles' heel as a dancer was.

Like, what was holding him back that he wanted himself?

But in a way, because was he,

he was going off on his own and improvising?

Improvising.

Wait, no, no, no.

Yes, that he was improvising.

He's playing.

I only have a couple more seconds left.

Wait, oh, no, wait,

his improvisation?

I thought he just couldn't catch the breaks.

I didn't get that even.

No,

people keep getting cut.

People keep getting cut.

It gets down to like the final few guys, and then he jumps off and does a couple of like doodly-doos on his own.

And the next time, doodly-does, I was a dancer.

And the next time, he's cut and he's like, oh, god damn it.

But he learns a very important lesson and does the exact same thing in the finale

and wins the movie.

can i say something about his character journey and i don't know if i can articulate this articulate this correctly so there's this new hot thing that he's into and then there's his girlfriend this poor woman this poor woman she is understanding this relationship to call her a girlfriend is being generous really generous she is the doormat that he is

Like booty calling when booty calling meant can I find a payphone and is the person literally home to answer a lamb?

He was literally fucking a girl, finishes fucking her, and then calls the other girls.

Like, hey, can I come over to you now?

Yeah, yeah.

So he gets, he keeps having arguments with both of the women, and it, it seems like it's a story about a character that's, you know, he wants something, but he's demanding it from two people, and he has to learn this lesson.

Like, that's what it seems like, but I don't know that Sylvester Stallone was in on that.

You know what I mean?

Like, it almost felt like if Sylvester Stallone were to give a log line of this movie, it would be like, oh, these two broads are giving him a hard time.

You know?

Right.

He just wants to dance, and these bitches be weighing him down.

Well, no, by the way, I think you're right because not to cut ahead, but the last line of the movie.

Oh, wait, yo, are you ready to do that?

No, I know that's far away.

I love that you all reacted.

Like, don't spoil it.

That last line of the movie is a treasure chest that needs to be opened.

But in terms of his journey, he's by himself at the end,

just simply strutting.

Yep.

So that is his journey.

It's not really about fixing any of his flaws.

No, it's about learning to tell everybody to fuck off and just do his own shit.

But, but, wait, wait, but the crazy thing is, is like, I do believe it was directed.

Stallone wrote this movie

as he writes every movie.

And apparently he wrote it.

and

is this the movie where they wanted to take his name off it?

No, that's the next movie.

But Stallone wrote this movie, but I feel like he wrote it from like his perspective: I like to fuck girls, and if they can't get behind me, fucking multiple girls.

This is literally what happens at the end of the movie.

He's in the final dance number.

He has ascended through the ranks to be the lead of, I don't know what this is on Broadway.

I don't know if this is a show that

is on Broadway.

I don't know if there's any Broadway shows.

I don't know.

I've never heard of Satan's Alley.

I don't know.

That's sort of nonsense.

This is like some sort of moog fantasy

jazz nightmare.

I don't know.

Was this ever a thing?

I mean, were there plays like this?

There was called Satan's Alley, right?

Yes.

But this was like a showgirl's show.

It looked like it was showgirls like this.

Dancing is just like sped-up voguing, Madonna voguing.

Yeah.

And by the way, the same dancing from the opening is in the end.

There's no, it's not like, oh, that show is different.

They're all the same show.

Yeah.

He ascended through the ranks.

He's already triumphed.

He shamed the dumb guy who danced like a robot.

He's the lead.

His mom is so proud.

But what he has to do in order to truly succeed is take the British girl who is his partner in the show, throw her in the garbage.

That happens.

It opens.

And throws her away.

Then you think, okay, he's choosing his girl.

He's choosing the fuck buddy.

And he's like, all right, babe, I love you.

I love you.

And she's like, we did it.

And he's like, yeah.

And he basically facepalms her down

and is like, I'm fucking out of here.

Kicks open the door.

And win.

I was looking at

Satan's alley to see if it would provide some insight.

Like if Satan's alley was going to be, if he was going to have a similar journey as a character in Satan's Alley.

Yep.

Well, he is a Christ-like figure.

Satan's alley?

Okay.

June thought it was a beautiful play.

I love.

I thought the book was great.

If you go back to the source material.

But see, the thing with Satan's Alley is that he starts off as, I think, a Christ-like figure.

And there are all these demons coming after him.

For sure, he's whipped.

He's in a Christ-like pose at one point.

And then Satan comes to get him.

Which is Fiona Hughes, right?

Yes.

Yes, the British woman.

From General Hospital.

And she...

But see, then he pushes her away.

And that was a move that he, you know, improvised himself.

But then at the end, they still end up together.

No,

he ends up...

No, he's now

in Satan's Alley.

I apologize.

I apologize.

Yes, at the end of Satan's Alley.

So this is a Satan's Alley kind of talk, right?

James, I do think, and I'm not trying to give Sylvester Stallone credit here, but I do think that if we look at Satan's alley as sort of a microcosm of what the whole movie was, which we should be, okay,

I think he ended up, you know, in hell with the devil and didn't learn anything.

He doesn't.

If he had anything, this is what I think.

Go ahead.

If he had learned anything, instead of reaching out to her, he would have pulled up Jackie to take that solo.

Great, and I love that.

But he is rising up out of hell and casts his hand down.

I'm listening.

I'm listening.

Casts his hand down and says, jump.

Christ offers his hand to the devil and says, follow me to heaven

and I will take you out of hell.

She is doubtful.

She's a doubting Thomas.

She jumps

and makes it in her arms.

He thrusts her over her head because Christ wants the devil to get to heaven before him.

Because Christ turns the other cheek.

He forgets about it, because he'll take the devil.

The biblical allegory here is very obvious.

By the way,

the audience seeing this very,

very modern dance show is all oldies.

There's nothing in that audience.

And they give him a rousing ovation, like a standing ovation.

My biggest question about Satan's Alley as a show is...

They do the first number and it seems to me that we see all the cast out on stage in that first number.

Then they all kind of take a break after that first number, and they're like, you, you, you did, you fucked up.

You go over here.

Like, what was going on on stage?

It wasn't the intermission yet.

The intermission is a later beat.

I just was confused about where the show, what was happening.

Well, that was

on stage in those scenes with a B story of Satan's Alley.

Which

Barbara K.

Oh, I wish Jackie was.

I loved Jackie.

I love Jackie.

Well, here's what's weird, too, about that production of Satan's Alley.

The director, when he casts him as, you know, Jesus Christ, says essentially, like, I need you to channel your anger and your fury and your emotions.

And then when he does,

he says, you just need to dance the dance.

Which I found confusing.

Good point.

Also, it seemed like the director was given this huge monologue at the end as though he was a character we knew at all.

You I didn't even know this person.

The only way I knew that director was that he dressed like Zod from Superman 2.

And that he might have just been a villain from another realm

coming here to fuck with New York City.

Before he attacked Superman, he's like, I'll direct the Broadway show.

Get in Metropolis's headspace.

And then I'm going to do a bigger thing.

Right now, I just need to regain some power.

And Jackie's haircut is a little bit like the lady in that movie as well.

Yes.

Zod's lady.

Short.

Yes, thank you.

Is that the blonde lady?

Who had a friend who died with her stepmom, and she said she was a real bitch.

Can I take us back to a moment?

Go ahead.

If I could take us back to a moment.

There's a moment in the beginning when John Travolta

has a lot of self-doubt, and he's looking to this poor girlfriend for like to feel better.

And he says, like, you know, I just, you gotta, I can't remember what he says, but he's feeling bad, and she's making him feel better.

And then she, he's like, don't you ever want to like do more, like push yourself harder?

And she says something along the lines of, you know how it's different for a female dancer.

We have half the life male dancers do.

And his response is just like, yeah, I guess that's true.

And he does not make her feel better.

It just goes back to making him feel better.

Okay, I agree because I did have a thought at one point, why aren't they auditioning to replace both of them?

Like, she's helping him practice to get the solo or to get the lead part.

Like, why is in

why they both go up there together?

I do also want to just talk about the bigger concept on all of this, because this character is a stalker at points.

He's a chauvinist always.

He's an adulterer, I guess.

I mean, or he's a cheater.

Like, he's everything bad, but he's definitely not the character from Saturday Night Fever, right?

We all agree to that, right?

Vaguely remember it.

Well, just the, well, you talked about the ending of the movie when he struts to the song from Saturday Night Fever, and it's like, oh yeah, this is supposed to be from that movie.

Yeah.

And that's it.

Well,

the two, like the kids remember.

Oh, he walks by the Odyssey because that's where he used to dance all the time.

But remember that at the end of Saturday Night Fever, they rape that girl in the car and someone jumps off a bridge.

Yes.

So like that kind of darkness and weirdness is still woven in here.

But like you like you did not leave Saturday Night Fever going, oh that man wants to be a modern dancer on Broadway.

No.

Like that was not agreeing.

Like it was just like, oh, he's a good dancer and it lets him him like get out of his like his life is troubled and girls are getting raped and friends are jumping off bridges and he can at least go to the club and live a little bit.

It wasn't like I will say this.

I was a solid 30 minutes into the movie before I realized this was the same character

from Saturday Night Fever.

Well he also has lost his accent and they make it like well now he's in Manhattan.

Manhattan is like over the bridge.

Like he says at one point he's like, it don't got apple pies like this in Manhattan.

It's like you walked here okay

can we talk about that from the other spot

can we talk about that because he's at home he goes home he has doubts he goes home he wants to see his ma and they're sitting there eating breakfast which is pie

and she's trying to push have another slice of pie and he's like i don't want another slice of pie have another slice of pie i don't want another slice of pie and it's this way and she's kind of pushing it on him and it's that weird scene that i feel like like a mom of an anorexic is trying to get the anorexic to eat a little bit more, and it's weird.

And then

he finally is like, I will have another piece of pie.

And he picks up the pie plate and brings it into frame.

And there's only one piece left.

Yes.

Which means they've eaten a whole pie

for breakfast.

That's how they do it in Brooklyn.

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I left the movie still not understanding

where she made her money.

Who?

Who?

Laura.

Laura.

Oh, you're right.

That was never answered.

She was just that limbo, though.

Yeah, Laura is Fiona Hughes from General Hospital, and General Hospital is wearing fur coats, being driven around in limousines.

Whose limbo is this?

Whose limbo is this?

Does anybody know whose limo this is?

And it's never answered.

Never answered.

There's the sugar daddy-looking guy.

Right.

Right.

Who he runs into that guy.

She's clearly been with the director.

But then at one point, the director, by the way, is all beard and leather jackets, really.

I have no problem with that.

No problem with that.

I was like, that's the part I maybe would have got.

But I did feel like then there's a somebody says a line that they think she has money.

She came from money or something.

She came from money.

So there are a couple of things posited, but I don't know.

And I agree, it's ridiculous because her modern dance

is.

But modern dance, you would make a lot of money in modern dance.

Twilight Tharp.

Yeah, I mean, you'd make

hundreds of thousands of dollars a week.

She's still alive.

She's still alive.

I gotta say, though, Paul, I don't know that they're doing modern dance.

Yeah, well, I don't know much about dance.

What are they doing?

It felt to me more like jazz.

Oh, jazz.

How much do you know about dance, man?

I don't know a ton about dance, but I think modern dance is like a little bit.

I think we do about gorillas, for example.

I think so.

I just thought it was more...

You keep on calling it modern, I think.

Okay, it's not modern.

I just don't think those head shakes are.

That seems like very jazzy.

Without getting too out of control, does this thing have a name?

Audience?

Contemporary dance.

Contemporary.

All right.

Contemporary dance.

Like, if you saw this now, would it be a valid art form?

Like, I think when, here's the thing, I think when people are like, all of the dance numbers, at least in the auditions, were like five, six, seven, eight, and then like a line of people would run up to the

state.

Like I think that running is like all, I think that's jazz though.

I don't think that's modern.

Okay.

Well, we'll clearly never know.

It felt to me, those are the scenes that I was like, this feels like a Vegas show to me.

This is what Vegas should, that's why I felt like it was showgirls, because all of

all of the show elements felt that kind of cheesy and Vegasy.

Nothing delighted me more than imagining Stallone approve all the costumes he was wearing.

Do you think that like Stallone and Bob Mackey sat down and he's like, not this, yes to this?

Yeah, yeah.

I would love to have seen that meeting.

Apparently, Stallone and Travolta worked for a year and a half on all the dancing.

Oh, wow.

A year and a half.

There was a lot of dancing.

Yeah.

I mean, it showed.

Can we talk about the scene in the movie early on where Travolta is, you know, he's dancing, he's teaching dance classes at like an Arthur Miller kind of dance school.

He's also like a waiter in a dance club.

Oh, and he turns down a three-way with two new wave girls.

Yes.

I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, guy.

When two new wave girls are like, we want to take you home tonight, you go home with the two new wave girls.

This was my favorite part.

they wanted so much to show how much he hated being a waiter and how much he wanted to be a dancer he was the angriest waiter ever there was a point a patron bumped into him he's like oh

and a woman said something like i like watching you walk and he basically was like you like crazy angry guy he's an angry guy walking is his thing

this there's

two movies running on walking running is this all right you're right you're right you're right

but look he didn't want to go home with those new wave girls because, as he said verbatim, I almost got brain damaged because you party too hard.

Please, come on.

But no, he wouldn't cheat.

That's what I think makes, like, in Stallone's mind, he's like, he's a good guy because he won't fuck these new wave girls.

They'll only fuck really good dancers.

Like, he only is a, when he cheats, he only cheats up.

Well, that's what was so weird about his relationship with Jackie.

At one point, I thought, because he forgets to call her, to meet her, I mean a million times in the movie.

Constantly.

A million times.

He treats her like human girls.

Yeah, well, so much so that at one point I thought, I think he is genuinely forgetting.

Like, I think that he's just like...

Like, it's not even like, oh, I got caught up and I, you know, I knew I did lost track of time.

I thought I was going to get to you.

Like, I think he's, like, not remembering all that she exists.

Like, that, like, to me, like, that was like, I thought that too.

Like, it took took me half the movie to realize that they were even boyfriend, girlfriend.

They're not.

They're not.

They are fuck buddies.

I thought they were like, Jason, she's like, and until he says, I love you in the middle of the movie, they are just like hooking up.

But he gets mad when she's looking at that.

Yeah, Frank.

She gets mad, and she gets mad.

She gets mad, but he's like fucking the British girl who, for a very brief period of time, I thought was

Niles's wife from Fraser.

Oh, Maris.

Perry Gilpin.

Is this Perry Gilpin?

No, is it Perry Gilpin?

Yeah, I think.

Yeah.

Jane Lee.

Oh, Jane Lee.

Sorry.

Perry Gilpin was Roz.

I love Roz.

Oh my god.

But then, but to your point, like, he literally just fucks that girl, the British girl, and then calls up the other one.

But then it's like, it's kind of like a booty call.

No, but he kind of is just making sure she's alone.

He's like, okay.

He's like, is anybody there next to you?

She says, no.

He goes, okay, good.

Goodbye.

Right.

There's a.

When he first meets the hot fancy lady, he looks to his girlfriend.

Sorry.

I requested that music follow everything.

I'm okay with that running under the whole

show.

I can hear you down on a loop.

To me, he's like a sociopath.

He's talking to his girlfriend, this poor woman, when he sees the fancy lady, and he immediately says to her, he's like, she with anyone?

And the girl is like, what?

And then.

And she says, I don't want to hear about this stuff.

Yeah.

And then he's like, I just think she's a great dancer.

Don't worry, you're good.

Yeah.

So horrible.

Like, to me, this mood, he's a monster.

Like, horrible.

Irredeemable on every level.

Irredeemable.

Like, his girlfriend helps him, helps him get the lead in this show.

And he, like you said, he fucking facepalms was like, get out.

Need to go out this by myself.

Tonight I'm celebrating with this guy.

Oh, and anytime, anytime another guy shows interest in her, he likes shits his pants.

Yeah.

Like when the guy from the band comes in, is with her, he's like, who's this?

He's a musician?

You're with a musician?

Are you kidding?

Like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

On the hierarchy, we're ranking dancers above musicians.

That's what I wrote.

I wrote that down.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I don't think that's how it works.

And then she goes, he's a rhythm guitarist.

Oh, that's the worst.

A rhythm guitarist is the worst.

That is not true.

That is not true.

The horn section is the worst.

Wait, now here's my question about

Frank Stallone's amazing role in this movie as the rhythm guitar, as the singer.

Okay.

There's so much.

I want to talk about a couple things.

Sorry, I'm going to jump around.

I didn't get what what Laura's job was.

So Laura was on Broadway, but also a singer?

Yeah.

No, you're speaking of Jackie.

Oh, sorry, Jackie.

So she was on Broadway wanting to be a dancer, but

she's in a show.

She's in a show, the show that

he goes to watch.

Right, but he's also like, I need to also.

Because I think, to Katie's point, she understands that a dancer's shelf life is very short.

So she's trying to get some.

She's trying to cultivate a fallback career.

Yeah, that's right.

Well, if this career, life as a dancer, doesn't work out, then I'll be a rock star.

Great, got it.

Awesome.

Very logical.

I gotta say, she's killing it at both.

Yeah.

It should be.

She is great in the movie.

I'm on board for it.

Well, do you want to see who also is in the movie?

I want to point this out to you.

She's wearing, though, like a corporate 80s outfit.

She's dressed like Hillary Clinton.

This is a little

of her singing.

Which every song in this movie is showed from beginning to end in real time.

If you took out the dancing, this movie would be about 17 minutes.

And

every single song that is sung in its entirety is so relevant to the events of the movie that it had to have been written that day

to make sense.

Like every song is so specific, there's no subtext.

It's just a textual analysis of the events of the movie.

That is why Frank Stallone is so good.

Here,

I am.

Only Frank Stallone can begin a movie with a song whose opening line is, This is the end.

I want to come back to this at the end, but I also want to

have two blow your mind cameos.

The first one, you can't see it at home, but you in the audience can see it.

Check out who's also in the band.

Oh, Richie Sambora.

Right over there on the left.

That is literally what you think about.

He asked her to come here during the middle of the song.

She leaves

the stage.

She leaves the stage mid-song.

Ladies to see you.

Ladies, learn a lesson from this movie.

She has no self-worth.

I know.

Travolta, who is not her exclusive boyfriend, is able to beckon her from the stage during a song she is singing.

She jumps down happily in order to have a conversation with him.

And it's not the end of the song.

It's clearly not the end.

Oh, no.

Can I just say

her low point to me is in the final performance, he tries to kiss the fancy woman and she punches him in the eye.

And how humiliating it is for the girlfriend.

And he walks offstage.

I swear to God, she goes, is your eye okay?

Like, ah!

That's why I feel like Stallone is writing this as him.

He's like, yeah, this is how women should be.

This is like, he's like, like, this is so clearly from his point of view.

Like, I just need some filler here.

What would you say?

What's weird too is in the context of the movie, like, what does the fancy lady Laura want?

Like, what does she want out of all this?

Satan's alleged.

Well,

she's like Gina Gershon in Short Girls.

She just is, she is the villain of the movie, I feel like.

Like, she has a very strange role.

She is the challenge to him.

I couldn't, their meeting of him bursting into her dressing room

and like antagonizing her.

And like she then becomes the thing he has to conquer or whatever and then it turns into you think it's gonna be a love story but then like it all falls and you find out that he's dating someone else

but here's what's weird about the movie and I'd say this for John Travolta too like everybody is constantly like shitting on people they want to be with and then inviting them to places after rehearsals or performances.

Like that to me was the entire movie.

We just fucked.

Get over it.

Come over to my house tonight.

We're going to have cocktails.

Okay.

There's a lot of like invitations and then people not showing up for those events.

There's a lot of mid-seam emotional reversals.

You know, like you're like

coming at it one way and then I'm gonna come at this a whole different way.

Because arguably you would you would argue if they kept the Tony Monero from Saturday Night Fever, he is dating a girl from Brooklyn who wants him to like work for her dad's like shop or something like that.

And she's like, give up your dream.

You'll never make it as a dancer.

And then he meets Fiona Hughes, and she's tough, but she's got it.

And she kind of drives him to become himself.

But technically, he just has a girl's like, yeah, go for your dreams.

And another one's like, fuck you, you're a piece of shit.

And he's like, I like that one.

I like the fuck you go piece of shit, girl.

He goes for the opposite girl.

It's also weird because you see him really like going for his dreams and he'll knock on any door, even the Times Square agent.

So good.

Times Square Agent.

But then he's so obsessed with this idea of like people doing him favors.

Like he doesn't want to get into any of the shows because someone put in a good word for him.

Which seems like, well, you know, use whatever connections you have.

Wait, did that ever become, I can't remember, did that become an issue?

Like, did he find out she put in a good word for him or anything?

Because it felt like it was like he did, like in the stairwell or something like that.

A lot happened in that stairwell.

I thought he found out.

This production team only had the stairwell for like a good month of this whole filming.

My favorite thing is the stairwell is there's like a big emotional scene and then the camera just rises up and just catches like the director at the top of the stairwell like watching the entire thing.

I heard it all.

That doesn't even really come into play.

It rises up and you see like 10 minutes of leather and then the beginnings of a beard.

Prop his trench coat.

Oh, speaking of coats, guys, do we like the homage to he takes out the old Saturday Night Fever jacket and he's like, this is old.

And then he puts it on like a Miami, and he makes it like a Miami Vice jacket.

And it's just like, oh, that's sad.

That other thing was so fun.

Yeah.

He wrecked the one thing that he was like Superman.

Again, to go back to Superman, because I also believe that

whose bedroom, oh,

whose bedroom looked like a Superman set?

Like when they like showed the bedroom, her bedroom, Fiona's bedroom.

Didn't it like, wasn't it all like silver and stuff like that?

Oh, no, that was

Rhinestone.

Sorry.

No, hers was silver, too.

There was something going on.

Yeah, there was like two willow trees on each side,

and just like a circle around this.

What were they talking about?

Like, Fiona in the whole movie?

Like, no, like, Fiona.

Because it's a legit question applied to the whole movie.

What were they talking talking about?

Because they literally, they literally, like, there's a montage of them just like walking through New York chatting.

Yep.

It's like these two people have nothing to say to each other.

They, in fact, have previously had only contempt for each other.

Although he did say to her, after kind of like all of his come on lines didn't work and she slammed the door in his face and he opened the door back up because he will not take no for an answer.

He says, the thing is,

I respect your dancing talent and I respect your womanhood.

What does that mean?

What does he mean when he says?

Womanhood.

What is that?

That she can have babies and she has different organs in him.

I mean, I don't know.

He's what he was trying to say is like, I respect you as a colleague, but I also respect you in a romantic way as well.

Yeah.

Like, I respect your skills and all that, but I want you to know I also respect what you're giving me just right here.

To me it feels like it's almost like I respect that you're weaker and trying your best and like I won't take advantage.

Right.

And you have a limited shelf life as a dancer.

I respect your talent.

I also respect your womanhood and how it lessens your talent.

Well see to me it would have made more sense if she had been like a by the book dancer.

like if she had been like someone who you know was obsessed with all the counts and all like the steps and he was coming in and being all loosey-goosey but was all passion and emotion.

I feel like that's what her being British was part of that.

Okay.

I feel like Stallon was like her being British everybody's gonna think she's uptight and fancy.

Yeah, that's what I mean.

Well, he literally doesn't even say that as a line.

He's like, oh, shit, her accent, it makes her so smart.

Like, you know, like, he's so blown away by that.

But it doesn't matter.

Nothing to Jackie.

I mean, mean you're right he does tell jackie like basically i'm in love with this other woman yes he cannot stop talking about her

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Can I show you guys just for a second my favorite scene in the movie?

This is when

Travolta finds out that he got it.

He got the part.

Here it is right here.

So he's living in a flop house.

Okay, we should set it up a tiny bit.

Yes.

He lives in a gentleman's hotel.

Yes.

So that is like a...

Where he beats his wife beaters in the shower, keeping them clean.

And all, it's like, it's populated by bums, basically.

He basically, yeah, lives in a flop house.

Meanwhile, he can walk home at any point.

He can live with his parents.

No problem.

Nope.

He's got to live in Manhattan.

Has two jobs.

And so he's pacing around in the common room where all the weirdos who also live there are sitting around.

He's waiting for the phone to ring.

This is just after the phone.

He's waiting for the phone to ring, and it finally does.

And this is him celebrating that he got the part.

Here we go.

Do you have the phone call itself?

I believe so.

Yes.

Okay, so I hear it.

I want you to really just pay attention to the pace of this phone call.

Also, I know it's tough to imagine, but he's literally holding a radio in his hand like a cell phone.

That's not a phone that he's on.

He's just really grooving out to music that close to his ear.

So here we go.

Yes, I got it.

You kidding me?

Wait a second.

That was just happening, just a little bit of it.

I just, if he, if he says, turn down the radio, what was it?

So he has a radio in his hand that's not operating as a phone or the overall radio?

His radio was the radio he

was being turned down.

His radio, which was playing Frank Stallone music, which was the same song that he saw the night before.

Like, there's no delineation.

Like,

Frank Stallone, I guess, is very bad.

The macro music for the scene, the soundtrack music for the scene is revealed in that phone call section to be diegetic to the scene itself.

Right?

I used that right, right?

Yeah, I think you did.

I don't even know if that was right or wrong.

So he's holding like a speaker?

What is he holding?

He's like holding a radio, like a

radio.

Okay.

I still don't understand.

But he says the other person on the other line has had no opportunity to say any words.

And he says, hello?

Yes, this is Tony Monero.

Hold on a second.

Turn it on the radio.

What?

I got it.

I can't believe it.

And then,

all at once.

and the other just talking about songs and and music purveying this is the thing that blew my mind

this is the

because it's so kind of big

okay the movie opens with that amazing frank stallone song And it looks like he is choreographing a dance to that song for a play that's not Satan's Alley.

The finale song of Satan's Alley is the same song from the beginning.

Like, you would think that they were auditioning for Satan's Alley, or that you would just say, like, let's do a different song.

Like, let's not bookend the movie with the same song.

It's two very different parts, right?

I mean, is that weird or not?

I would love to hear you talking about this with Sylvester Stallone during production.

Do you know what I mean?

You can't replay your brother's songs four times.

The song is good,

It's all moogarpeggios and a sweeping sound.

It's perfect.

Plus, it says this is the end.

So, this should be at the end too.

But I really feel like they should have kept that song for the end.

It would have had like an impact.

But to open and close with it in two dancing scenes that are unrelated to each other is weird.

That scene also, to me, is so like a glimpse of like the worst part.

It just it seems like to me it's like a story of like the average monster in Los Angeles.

Do you know what I mean?

Like I don't root for that person.

Like, I don't know.

No.

Him.

If I saw that, if I was sitting in that room and some guy was pacing because he was obsessed with like getting this moment of fame, like and just pacing and screaming.

I don't know.

I would just be like, this is a lunatic.

I wrote down.

I wrote down, is this guy sympathetic?

He's not.

Oh, no.

Oh, heavens, no.

Oh, heavens, no.

Even when he tries to go home and apologize to his mother and be like, I acted like an asshole.

I want to apologize.

She's like, fuck you.

She's basically like, fuck you.

Don't apologize.

Being a bastard is what got you out of this neighborhood.

And he goes, so you're telling me being a bastard is what's going to get me ahead?

She's like, yep.

And he's like, okay, no lessons to learn here.

I guess.

I just say it.

Behaving like a piece of shit is going to be my ammo.

Yep.

Or Or I think it would have even been sympathetic to see that he loved to dance.

Like, I never really felt like, I mean,

he says it.

Well, then there you go.

But I feel like.

No, but this is more of like a he wants fame.

Yeah, he wants.

Like, there's no

part of him that's just like, I'm in it for the art.

Like, he just wants the fame of it all.

The fame of being a Broadway dancer.

Because even when, because his contemporary dance.

Yeah.

contemporary dance.

Success isn't enough.

Like, he succeeds and gets in the show.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

That's cool.

But then he has to challenge the lead of the show to become the lead of the show.

That's not even enough.

He then has to throw away the female lead to improvise a solo, which gets a standing ovation.

Which, by the way, I still feel like, you know, just his trajectory as a dancer after this movie, I know he did a strut and everything, but I don't think he'll work again.

Like, he broke.

He didn't.

He's going to be clearly kicked out of a union.

A union will not let him.

He shoves his other lead across the stage and dances by himself.

That's crazy.

There's no reason for it because you would argue, like, okay,

like, when he first starts dancing with her, she doesn't trust him.

And then they show in the rehearsal footage that, the very long rehearsal footage, literally the last half hour is all dancing,

that she starts to come over to his side.

And then in the show, they seem to be working together as a team.

And at that point, he's like, get the fuck out of here.

It's not like she doesn't betray him on stage, besides

punching him after she kisses him.

No, she does.

No, no, I think the reason he chucks her is because in the middle of the show, she says, you don't have it.

Oh, right.

She says, you don't have it.

And I feel like the chucking her was his way of being like, I'll show you.

But if you think about it, I think correctly,

he is the villain of the movie.

Yes, so too

so who's whose movie is it

whose movie is it then is jackie the star jackie is yes jackie should be the protagonist so maybe like when he walks out the door at the end and announces that he has to strut she's finally free she yeah can move on with her life

in fact will probably kill herself

um just kidding she'll be in flash dance it's fine did you guys um what did you guys think of um uh of uh patrick swayze

boom in the movie

he was in the movie right here you can check him out patrick swayzey is a background dancer uh

who is dressed in a like a weird half shirt with white suspenders

he played the oompa lumpa

looking like a glistening Corey Feldman.

Here's what's weird about this movie is that there is is something so inherently sympathetic about a chorus line dancer.

Like what they're put through and having to learn.

I mean, there's also something so.

Somebody should write a play about them.

But truly, like, they're cut right away.

You would never catch on.

Truly, like, you automatically sympathize with these people.

So you do have to go a long way to make him unsympathetic.

And they do.

And they do.

And they succeed

very quickly.

Anyone else?

Oh, I had, I caught something that I don't know if you caught.

I think if we're going to the same place.

Are we going to the same place?

Right before the show starts.

Oh, yep, got it.

All right, got it, yeah.

Please.

What are you going to do?

I don't have it as a.

And I only caught it because I happened to be watching the movie with subtitles on or whatever.

So I read it because otherwise I would not have caught it.

I had to rewind it because, like, wait a second.

Okay.

So they're going around being like, five minutes or whatever, two minutes to show or whatever, okay?

Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.

And then somebody, a bunch of people run through frame and somebody goes, yo, hey, yo, Adrian, showtime.

Yo, Adrian, Showtime.

Amazing.

Yo, Adrian, Showtime.

I also wanted this movie.

Also catch during intermission when like it had gone so well, I guess the first half of the show, they sort of did a, or maybe it was out, maybe it was after the show and, you know, the audience was giving standing ovations, and they sort of panned over all of the dancers in the dressing room celebrating, and one dancer just threw her bra on top of the other dancer's face.

Yes, like a gigantic bra.

I couldn't tell if someone was.

How gigantic.

I couldn't tell if someone had thrown it on her or if she had taken it and thrown it on her own face.

Like, see, it was so strange.

In what kind of ridiculous movie do I not even notice that?

You know what I mean?

Like, that just wasn't.

Like, any normal movie, I'd be like, what the fuck?

But that didn't even, like, pass through my brain.

Maybe that's a dance thing.

At the end of a successful show, everybody put your bra on your head.

I do have a question about Broadway stuff.

Again, and I'm opening up to all of you.

In a Broadway show, does the director or...

choreographer stand in the booth of the lighting tech and go,

give me a spotlight now, bring down the lights, give me a wash,

like he was calling.

That's the role of a stage manager.

Yeah.

But he was calling it as if he was improvising it, too.

He's like, spotlight now.

Now, give it a spotlight.

He was like creating it on the spot.

That was the most insane thing I've ever seen.

Like, to give him a role.

Like, that would have been done in tech

long ago.

Nothing in this movie, like, you see

an hour of rehearsals and nothing would have prepared you for this final show because nothing links up to anything you saw before.

There's not like, you know, not to go dirty dancing, but there's not like one move you're worried about, or there's nothing you're connected to.

There's no conflict.

I mean, really, there's no conflict.

The only thing that happens is like, he's a guy who can't catch a break, he catches a break, and he was right all along.

Like, I mean, like, there was no, like, he's like, if only I caught a break, then I'd be the biggest hit on Broadway.

He catches a break, and he's the biggest hit on Broadway.

Like, nothing really

happens.

No.

What happens is he happens to all the other people in the movie.

The conflict is between those poor people and this sociopath that is ruining their lives.

His mother is like, how did he learn to do this?

What?

Nobody cares about him.

So John Travolta is quoted as saying that Stallone is his favorite director because

he knew how to make him look best on screen.

So fuck you, Quentin Tarantino.

I will say he looks super amazing.

His body was rocking.

He's insane.

There you go.

Then you guys agree.

So best director.

Here are the two taglines of the movie.

I just want to read them because they're pretty fucking amazing.

This is the tagline how they sold the movie.

Tony Monero knows the old days are over, but no one's going to tell him he can't feel that good again.

See, that's interesting.

Hey, bro, are you gonna see Staying Alive Man?

Well, I don't know what it's about.

Oh, dude, well, the tagline says it all.

Here's another one:

it's five years later for Tony Monero, and the fever still burns.

That's like

that one is really upsetting, too.

See a doctor.

I saw the movie, I just didn't feel like the fever was still burning.

Ew, gosh, oh, gosh.

Well, I feel like this might be

a good time to talk to everybody in the audience because I'm sure I see people with sheets of paper out here.

You guys have questions, we'll probably have some answers for them.

I have, while you get ready and walk out, I have a request for you guys or the internet nerds.

There's a lot of slow-mo dancing

where everybody's faces look like sex faces.

Everybody's dancing faces are horrible looking.

You know what?

I'll do a super cut.

Oh, you got one?

Well, while you're talking about it, I'll just play it.

Yeah, so if you could, if somebody could make a super cut of all of the gross slow-mo sex faces,

yeah, that's a good one.

Yeah, they're

Jackie is hot.

Look at him.

Oh, yeah.

This is them just hanging out, too.

She is a badass.

Yeah, she's

Jackie is a fucking badass.

She's my favorite person in this whole entire movie.

Yeah.

I want to see a spin-off with Jackie.

Yeah.

But yeah, she married Richard Marks.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

She did like, she has like seven credits and then married Richard Marks and then they got a divorce.

She got that sweet Marks money.

She got them Marks books.

Anybody have any questions?

Things that we might have missed?

Okay, okay.

I'm going to go to you because you have a sheet of paper in your hand.

Oh, both of you have sheets of paper.

Okay.

Your name, your one-word review of Satan's Alley, and your question.

Here we go.

My name is Wren.

My one-word review of Satan's Alley is what the director said.

Perfect.

Right.

Love it.

Here we go.

What's your question?

So I came from Warsaw, Indiana, to ask June this question.

Wow, Warsaw, Indiana.

Here you go, June.

You might get shot.

I'm terrified.

So at the end of this movie, between the oiled up John Travolta, very muscular, and Jim Varney from Earnest Goes to Jail.

No, let me finish.

Let me finish.

Which one of those two is more, as you would say, oozing sexuality?

Great question from Indiana.

The question to June.

Who oozes more sexuality?

I think you know the answer.

Jim Varney, I'll be like.

Is that real?

You would take Jim Varney, Ernest, over

like, like

the perfection of Travolta at this point.

This is what you have to understand.

I agree that Travolta looks better in this movie.

Of course he does.

But

the sexuality that I'm interested in is not just about

the looks.

Like, Varney as bad Ernest

is channeling something else.

It's not just about the physical for me.

I feel like

a woman in her 20s would choose John Travolta, but a grown woman would choose.

Let's not age me, Katie.

Yeah, be very careful.

Be very careful.

I mean, Katie, say what you mean.

A girl chooses John Travolta, a woman chooses him.

Thank you.

Would this movie have been better with Jim Varney, not as Ernest, just he got this script and he did it.

What do you think?

Would you like to...

I think he could have done it, actually.

Jim Varney in the role of Tony Monero.

Jim Varney can do anything.

Oh, he has passed.

Could have done anything.

Could have done anything.

I will say again, this conversation is very upsetting.

Your name.

A piece of advice for Tony Monero and your question.

Here we go.

My name's Jay.

My piece of advice is

burn fire.

Right.

I was wondering if that's where Artie Lang got fire from that.

Well, that's from ACDC.

And first, I just want to know if you guys noticed that the costume for John Travolta in the end was a precursor to the Ultimate Warrior costume of the 90s.

Oh, it does look like the Ultimate Warrior costume.

It's very similar without the face paint.

But if you put face paint on him, that's...

He's the Ultimate Warrior.

From WWF.

Oh, oh, oh, yeah, okay.

I knew that.

I'm cool with wrestling.

Ultimate Warrior, R.I.P., much respect.

Oh, absolutely.

But I also wanted to ask if you guys would give the patented How Did This Get Made offer to have this group write the movie version of Satan's Alley.

We could get into real rights problems.

I mean, we could, I mean, we'd have to write it with our bodies because there are no words in Satan's Alley.

Well, it's one of those things that we could take the music from Frank Stallone.

We could take what

choreography we've seen in the movie, and we can extrapolate outwards and create something, I bet, pretty erotic,

like really deep.

You'd have to find an actor that would shove people aside and choose his own adventure of a show.

I will say, I will say, if you're going to modernize this part, the only person that comes close to the

ferocious male magnetism and dancing capabilities is Channing Tatum.

I think

Magic Mike 2, Magic Mike 2, Satan's Alley, this could be it.

Channing Tatum.

Gets out of the strip club.

Satan's Alley.

Wait, I have a question about this.

Okay, that show was a hit, right?

Satan's Alley.

Got a standing ovation.

Now, every night they do it again, does he push her out of the way?

Like, do they go, well, we got to keep that because that's what people responded to?

Or do they go back to the old way?

Or does he just die?

Because when he goes out to strut, he does disappear.

Was he a ghost the entire time?

Did he never exist?

Did he die on stage?

Amazing.

Like Black Swan, that was his final swizz.

I wonder if they ever had an idea to make this a trilogy and what the third movie would have been.

Oh, man.

Breakdancing?

Beat Street.

Okay, what is your name?

What is another title for Staying Alive 2, or Staying Alive 1?

And what's your question?

My name is Jordan.

And actually,

I was going to ask about the name of the movie Staying Alive.

And I thought that the name should be from one of the many May Frank Stallone songs.

And so I was going to ask you guys, what do you think is the thematic significance of the title staying alive, considering it has about 30 seconds of playtime at the very end of the movie?

Ooh, great question.

What?

Well,

I'm going to gander a guess.

You got to stay alive to get these great parts.

If you kill yourself, you're never going to be on Broadway.

That's just the facts.

I guess I feel like it's probably just the thing that has name recognition for that character.

So instead of calling it Saturday Night Fever again,

they called it Staying Alive, linking the two, though, because that's the song from...

How about Sunday Matinee Fever?

Sunday and Wednesday matinee fever.

Sunday matinee bronchitis.

To me, it's like trying to stay alive even with these dumb broads trying to like keep you down.

That's what most movies are.

Because they are life.

All right, your name.

Who would you cast as the lead role in this movie if you could recast it?

And your question, go.

I'm Ronnie.

I'm from Huntington Beach.

I would definitely recast this role with Frank Stallone.

Current day?

Modern day Frank Stallone, obviously.

My question is, he invited his mother to this movie with a pulp fiction-esque gimp costume montage in this?

I saw that.

Well, yeah, they were all covered in leather.

Well, you were just saying, wait, wait, is it appropriate to bring your mother to a show where there's people in the middle of the movie?

Well, she has asked him not to take his clothes off.

And he definitively takes his clothes off in this movie.

Which never gets comment.

There's a lot of setup for jokes.

Like, here's one.

He never gets a message.

He asks the guy at the front desk like a dozen times, any messages?

Never once does he get a message.

Because when the call comes, guess what?

He's there.

Well, I mean, there's a really funny joke in it.

Like when he's really upset, like he gets bumped by this like a real rich, cool Italian guy, Sylvester Stallone.

You guys remember that part?

No, where was that?

Wait, you don't remember that Stallone was in this movie?

No.

Oh, I got to play that clip.

I have that clip.

I missed this.

Oh, Stallone.

This is the best, a most unnecessary cameo.

How is he dressed, sir?

He's dressed like Craven the Hunter.

All right, I'm going to play it.

That's awesome.

June's going to queue it up.

This is the best.

You'll see it.

We have the sound off, so you can just have to watch.

I think

there, boom.

Blink and you miss it.

Totally missed it.

All right, let's see.

Can I just point out the real-time shooting of him going from point A to point B?

It felt like we saw him walking for 30 minutes over there.

Everything was real time.

This movie reminded me how disgusting New York was.

Like, it really looked gross.

All right.

How are you, sir?

All right, who, your piece of advice to Tony Monero, your name and your question.

Here we go.

My name's Tony.

My piece of advice is stop being a dick to everyone

and stop stealing my name, please.

And now, Satan's Alley is also the name of the fake movie in Tropic Thunder that Robert Downey Jr.'s character is in with Toby Maguire.

Is that movie in a movie an adaptation of this show, or vice versa?

Boom, mind explosion.

Amazing question.

Question of the night.

The fact that anyone's raising their hand means they can beat that?

Great observation.

Wow, three positive arguments.

Let's see.

Beat it.

Okay, my question is,

given that this movie was so like a 90-minute music video and so dreamlike and ended at the same note as Saturday Night Fever begins, do you think it's plausible that this movie was just a dream pretty much?

Oh, is it?

You're positing this was a Jacob's ladder scenario.

And then Tony just wakes up and he's like, time to go to my job at the paint store.

You know, well, that actually feeds into what I think because he disappears.

Like, he literally disappears.

Like, that, I'm not making that up.

He disappears.

You're right, though.

It does feel, here's the thing.

It feels at the end of the movie like he's not,

like, he's not going to return to this show.

He's not going to return to dance.

Like, he's walking into another

dimension.

Kind of.

Like, it has, there's a sense of like, I'm leaving everything behind and I'm just gonna continue strutting.

Like, the third movie just picks up of him walking into becoming like a beekeeper or something like that.

Exactly.

Like, there's gonna be no connection

we just watched.

What if, what if he was beamed up by the race of aliens from Battlefield Earth

and he starts a whole new planet?

This might be a prequel to Battlefield Earth.

They were watching Earth and were like, he is clearly its highest form.

He showed all those rat brains what dance is for.

He renounced all of the weaker sex.

And succeeded only on his own.

We will take him.

Now we're on Hubbard demands it.

Sir, you have a question?

Yeah, I wanted to address the.

I have feelings for the Bee Gees.

They wrote like five or six new songs, and yet all their songs are kind of used in all the wimpy dialogue moments.

And then, like, is Frank Stallone all over?

Are the Bee Gees, were they like the abused first wife?

Like, like, like, and now, and Frank Stallone is the trophy songwriter of the Trophy Punters song.

I can't see, but is that a member of the Bee Gees asking that question?

Barry Gibb, get out of here.

Without a doubt,

well, I'll set this up.

Obviously, we have an opinion about this movie, but now it is time for a second opinion.

These are five-star reviews that were pulled from Amazon.

I actually pulled a couple because they're so fucking good.

One of the best ones, all right, this one is

It's titled Andy Warhol Loved It

by Unlucky Frank.

And

this is just a part of his gigantic post.

If you appreciate Kama Sutra paintings, you're gonna love this flick.

The routines are sexual.

There are tons of tight butts, legs, and thighs floating through the shots.

Reason enough to give this five stars.

Now...

That he delineates paintings.

Karma Suita Poole.

Paintings.

This one, I think, goes to answer your question about staying alive.

This is titled Good Movie.

He did give it five stars, though.

It's good.

By Edwin Perla.

And he writes, it is a great musical movie about something that happens every single day

in everybody's life.

What?

And you can learn how to stay alive.

Wow.

Wow.

So for this person,

this movie is a how-to.

How?

It's a resource.

Wow.

Oh, fuck, wait.

Hold on, shit.

I feel on the verge of death.

Put Staying Alive in.

I need to remind myself how to do this.

Oh, my God.

Now, Jason,

you joke, but

S.

Bogus

writes Staying Alive to Stay Alive, continues this thought by saying,

watching, exercising to both soundtracks of Saturday Night Fever and Staying Alive with John Travolta would definitely make the change of many lives.

If you have not danced to one of the songs per day,

you would not need any weight loss.

You would not need any over-the-counter medications or supplements.

I watched this, and having lived those days it's amazing how music was the cure

to everything.

Overall, great health.

Many obese persons would never have weighed heavier than

the normal muscular body mass of one that is structurally built.

It's a fun dancing experience that might help with depression.

I would send a major recommendation to just work out to one of these songs by dancing when you have a few moments alone or not daily Paul can I ask you a question yes do you have one of these songs on your computer I do I do queue it up yeah you got it

you got it

everybody up Everybody needs this exercise.

You podcast listeners are disgusting human beings.

We're all dance.

So this isn't for us, this is for everybody.

We're all gonna get up and dance to this.

All right, ready?

Here we go.

Let's go.

Get out.

Okay, I know you right now are listening to the podcast, going, What is happening?

Basically, a full-on dance routine is breaking out.

So just picture me, June, Jason, and Katie Dippold dancing on stage aggressively.

This is the end.

Reminder, you're not really dead.

Push the person left, chop them down.

Take the stage.

Take the stage.

Try and lift someone.

I'm kidding.

Don't do that.

In the middle, you guys fucking dance.

I have got a moment on the head.

amazing.

Wow.

What an amazing love story between the two of you.

I really got it now.

I really understood it.

That one was a big fuck you to the podcast listeners.

What's going on?

What's going on?

What's going on?

Edit it out.

I'm leaving that in.

Here we go.

And so he concludes by saying, if you do that,

amazing results will come naturally.

Try to treat your body as what you expect from it and overall terrific health.

What would it hurt to try?

You guys, seriously.

I am realizing that a lot of people found this movie not having any understanding of like the song staying alive or the cultural reference, like just literally saw it in the library or the video store.

Wait, wait, wait.

I found it.

That's the first place?

Honestly.

Yes.

I feel like both of these gentlemen found this movie in the library.

In the library.

Okay.

I'm dead serious.

And are deeply troubled.

Well, one guy was like, there's lots of close-up pictures of butts and stuff inside.

They're like, you're going to have to bring that back.

It's really quite sad though.

They just saw the title and thought I need this

They thought of it as like a self-help tape

yes

The final

the final five out of five star review is one of my favorites

This is actually the review is the VHS tape

Not the PVD

pity the people who use VHS

It was only 2001 it was only 2001.

Oh, that poor person doesn't have a blue ring.

This is written in all caps.

I will not read it yelling, though.

I fail to understand why so many people slate this movie.

Hey, yes, the script is not written in any way to reflect an intellectual plot or a masterpiece.

The journey of the character played by John Travolta is only skinned deep, but how much can you go in two hours?

A lot of movies would disagree.

And plus, how much can you go in two hours?

I work as a professional actor slash dancer, having qualified from one of the top academy in the world.

And I have met and worked with Sly, and no other filmmaker can give an audience an adrenaline rush like this.

The film inspired me throughout my time at drama school.

It inspires me.

It's honest.

It's real in observing the mechanism one goes through to succeed.

Yes, it speeds it up a bit,

but it's a film for God's sake.

It's escapism.

The ideology of a guy wanting to be in a Broadway show and how he gets there is full of conviction for me.

Get this movie onto DVD quick.

it's simply the best for any aspiring dancer and actor to draw inspiration from honest experience it

so he he is using that as

as a manual a manual for success everybody's getting so much life-affirming

content from this movie which is about a monster destroying the lives of those around him in order to succeed.

Yeah, but day by day, did he not stay alive?

You got me there, June.

You could argue he started the movie alive and finished the movie alive, so he did it.

Is

there anything else we'd like to chat about?

Anything that we missed?

Anything from the audience?

We missed anything that we...

There's a a glaring all right this guy says there's a glaring thing that we missed it's better be good here we go

go for it it's actually not from the movie but it I wanted to let I wanted to

did you guys know that this was a choose your own adventure book it was made into a choose your own adventure book what

hold on let's all leave right now and go to eBay

look at me look what I'm doing all right

I am

do you have a picture of it?

He has a picture of it.

You're starting up your phone.

So it's a choose your own adventure book.

So I guess you can fall in love with Jackie or you can treat her like shit?

I think the only option is you treat her like shit.

That's the only option.

Take no for an answer?

Go to page 36.

Don't take no for an answer?

All the options are like that scene in Terminator where it's like someone knocks on the door and it's like, Fuck you, asshole.

It's all like, tell someone to go to hell or tell someone to fuck off.

I'm going to look at the...

well, this is amazing.

I imagine some chapters end just like, fuck you, you'll go to page 25.

He yells at you, go back, you made the wrong choice.

If you're a man, choose whatever page you'd like.

If you're a woman, turn the next page, dummy.

Which.

It's not on eBay currently.

Which leads me to my question.

Like, literally, who is this movie for?

I mean, A Choose Your Own Adventure book is for children, right?

I mean, is this for children?

Like, should children be reading A Staying Alive, Choose Your Own Adventure?

Yes.

In a word, yes.

I read all the Magnum PI Choose Your Own Adventures.

Worth it.

Oh, my gosh.

Well,

anything else from you guys?

Anything else at all?

Oh, oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

You guys.

Okay, well, geez.

We have two more from the crowd.

We don't know if we're doing it.

Sorry, here we go.

What do you got?

Come to me.

I would just like to point out that if you hunt around on YouTube, you can find a great making-of featurette featuring Stallone and Travolta.

And you asked who this movie is made for.

The host of that little piece is Geraldo Rivera.

Get back out, leave again.

We got homework.

I do want to say this:

our audiences are the fucking best.

You guys, you guys

are

I feel bad for your lives.

But you get it.

Would you recommend watching this movie?

100%.

Instantly.

Yeah, yeah.

I would not only recommend getting it, but searching Frank Stallone and getting that album.

I can't, I literally can't stop.

Please,

please fuck to this tonight.

Please, you're here with your boyfriend or your girlfriend or somebody that's it's a date, you whatever.

Go home and be like, well, I said fuck to it.

Should we fuck?

Yes.

Fuck to it and tell us about it on the message boards.

I have a weirdos.

I'm going to argue and I say it's a better finger bang song.

Find more movie.

I am so sorry, June.

I am so sorry.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Sorry about that.

Well, we have.

This is for me like a top 10.

How did this get made movie?

Yeah.

Well, it was a huge hit, by the way.

And that, well, thank you guys for coming.

That's it.

That's our show.

We did it.

We did it.

It was great.

Thank you.

Thank you, Katie Dipole.

Give it up.

Thank you guys so much for coming out.

Well, we definitely did it.

That was another live episode live from Largo.

If you want to come see us at Largo, go to Largo-LA.com.

Big hand for Katie Dipold.

She's an amazing, talented writer.

She's written on parks and recreation, of course, wrote the hilarious movie The Heat, and is doing so many more cool things that are probably secretive and I can't share with you.

And a big thank you to July Diaz, who recorded the episode.

Amazing job.

Amazing.

And everybody who helps us out.

I'm talking about Leanna Waldron, who does all of our graphics.

I'm talking about Avril Haley, who does all of our amazing clip pulling.

I'm talking about Nate Kiley, who gets all the research done.

I'm talking about all these people because I love all these people.

They're so good.

And of course, Katie Dyer, who helps us out with the social media aspect of the show.

All right, everybody, that was a lot of fun.

Have a great day.

Adam Pally here.

And I'm John Gabris.

We're a couple actors and best friends who you may know as the hosts of the TV show 101 Places to Party Before You Die.

Now, we're bringing you a comedic look at health and wellness with our new show, Staying Alive.

We'll have guests like our friend, actor Jerry O'Connell, ketamine therapist Dr.

Steven Radowitz, Paul Scheer, Ego Woda, Jillian Bell, Dr.

Doolittle.

Staying Alive with John Gabris and Adam Pally is out right now.

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