Free With Ads - Over The Top

Episode Date: April 23, 2024

This week Emily and Jordan watched the Sylvester Stallone classic Over The Top, about a trucker who meets his son and also arm wrestles. This movie was picked by contest winner Shannon Pace. Thank you for boosting or joining MaxFun during the MaxFun Drive Shannon!If you would like to pick the next Free With Ads movie, you can! Here's how: pre-order Jordan's new graphic novel Youth Group. bit.ly/youthgroupbook.  Then shoot us an email at [e-mail] with the receipt and you will be automatically entered into a contest to choose the next Free With Ads movie.Come see Jordan Morris at the YALLWEST Book Festival in Santa Monica on May 3rd and 4th. Get your tickets to see Jordan here. And if you can't make it to LA, pre-order Youth Group here for a discount.Visit Emily's ETSY store right now and buy some stuff!

🎵 This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why pay Paramount plus 12 bucks a month to watch Sylvester Stallone in a reality show with his actual family, when you can go on YouTube for free and watch him bond with a fancy son in a beautiful truck, which is like a metal son that you can ride inside. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming.

Today's movie was chosen by MaxFun member Shannon Pace, who was randomly selected from people who supported our show during the MaxFun drive to pick this week's movie. She picked Over the Top, the 1987 family drama slash long-haul truckin' slash arm-wrestling classic starring Sylvester Stallone, the Italian Stallion himself. We are going to be talking about this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads.

But first, we're going to issue a few corrections to some mistakes we've made on previous episodes. It's a segment we're calling We Fucked Up. We fucked up. So this first one is from Jake. And I'll mention these are people who have emailed us at freewithads at maximumfun.org. So this one concerns our conversation about the conehead rap. Matt, can we play a little bit of the conehead rap to refresh people's memory? You think I have that just ready to go?

It's in the doc. Yeah, it's right here on my computer. You don't have to hold your cone alone. But never hold my cone alone. So this fucking bop plays over the credits of the Coneheads movie. And Jake had something to say about our conversation. Okay. This is from Jake. I would like to ask you to wield your power more responsibly moving forward.

Oh, God. The Conehead love rap is a deadly earworm and has been stuck in my head all week, slowly draining attention and IQ points. Additionally, on the segment, you quoted the lyrics as, you don't have to hold your cone alone. But it actually goes, you don't have to hone your cone alone. What? Which rhymes even better and makes sense given the last line of the song, let's hone cones in our own home. Our cones are zoned for each other.

Let's hone cones in our own home. Our cones are zoned for each other. And I know this because I looked up the lyrics to check, couldn't find them, and transcribed them, and submitted them on Genius, currently pending approval. Genius is the lyrics website where you go to source lyrics and their meaning. But when it comes down to it, you were right about what matters. It's about not having to jack off.

Yeah. Or it's like mutual jacking off. You don't have to hold your cone alone. You hold the cone, I hold my cone. I think what Jake is saying is that we got something wrong about cone heads lore. I know, but I want to talk about this now.

I agree. This is a better thing to talk about. You get a vagina, I get a cone, honey. Sure. You get a vagina, I get a cone, honey. Sure. You get a rod, I get a cone. Those are parts of the eye. That's right. I probably made that joke in the episode.

Yeah, those lyrics are actually the real ones to that song. That's right. So don't fuck with me, buddy. So I did look on Genius, the lyrics website, and Jake's lyrics have not been approved. So apparently Genius doesn't believe this is a real song. Wow. Okay.

Maybe they're asking Dan Aykroyd first. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got to run it by Aykroyd. He is too drunk on Crystal Head Vodka to respond. Have you had Crystal Head Vodka? I have. Kind of good, huh? I drink it right out of the bottle.

Yeah, right from the skull. Right from the skull spout. Right from the dome. Emily, you got an email there? I do. I can't wait. It's about one of my favorite subjects. This is from Corinne.

I think that's how you say the name. I have input on Jordan saying being good at bowling is a warning sign in the fingering episode. The fingering episode. Is that what they're calling our Grease episode? I think so. Because I talk about fingering episode. The fingering episode. Is that what they're calling our Grease episode? I think so. Because I talk about fingering so much. The Grease 2 episode will henceforth be known as the fingering episode. Also, all the other episodes. Listen, yeah, buckle up because there'll be plenty of other stories.

That was but a mere fraction of the fingering tales. Maybe for some context. I think it should be called the first digit fingering episode. That's right. Yes. Digit one. Digit one. Okay.

So she said, what? Oh, so I guess I was saying in the episode that I didn't understand why all the Grease characters were so horny at the bowling alley because I thought like bowling bowling is is kind of an is the anti-horny sport yeah I guess and I disagree you refuted that yes I think we've figured out I can just get horny anywhere but uh but yes uh go on okay Corinne writes she said the fingering episode I mean the grease two episode but you know what agree with you. My husband was a total bowling kid in high school, like on a league, still has his trophies when we met, and still good at bowling to this day. He also still has his custom bowling ball and his own shoes that he brings whenever we go bowling, maybe once a year. And he is totally sweet, amazing, nerdy person with a big dick.

So, congrats. So, I think it could be a red flag depending on the person or the greenest flag in my case. Oh, I love that. Do you think the husband hacked into Corin's email to send this? No. And my husband's dick is so big and he's really good at bowling. But this is about fingering, Corinne. We're not talking about dicks.

What's his digit game like? Thank you. Let's see that index. Post index on main. How's his pointer? How's the husband's pointer? Well, thank you very much. If you feel like we've fucked up, please give us an email.

But don't be a big dick about it. No, yes. Don't be a Corin's husband about it. Yeah, that's right. Free with ads at MaximumFun.org. Yeah, we don't want to hear that we got the date of something wrong. That's not fun to talk about. We don't care, and we won't read it.

Yeah, give us a correction that lets us talk about fingering. Yes. So, why don't we get into Over the Top? Yes. Emily, had you seen this movie before? Never. I'd never even heard of it. Really?

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah, because I think of this as kind of an Emily movie in some ways. Really? Yeah. Because all these people look like my relatives? Yes, the arm wrestling competition was shot at the Fleming family reunion. Just people screaming at each other's face.

I think more of the bar was more. But those are all the guys, God, I want to go to that bar. That's another bar we got to go to. God, I know, right? Matt, we were talking about this movie earlier today. And not only have you seen this, but your wife sat you down and made you watch this? She introduced me to this movie. My gosh.

Yeah, she was like, you've never seen Over the Top? She sounds like Buffalo Bill. I don't know why. She's like, you've never seen this movie? It's such a great movie, man. Put lotion on your skin and watch the movie. Or else you'll watch this over the top again. You can lotion your skin while we're watching Over the Top.

You don't know what Sly Stallone is. I'd fuck me while I was watching Over the Top. But yeah, this was a movie that she grew up with, which I did not. And she said I had to watch it. And I said, well, what's it about? She said it's Sylvester Stallone plays a trucker who finally meets his son for the first time and they go on a cross country journey and I was like that's great and she said also it's mostly about arm wrestling yeah the question what's this movie about is an interesting thing because it is about

nine things you told me it was about arm wrestling and and then I watched it, and I was like, when the fuck are they going to arm wrestle? Like, I'm bored. So bored. When is this child going to go away? See, I liked the thing with the family, but for me, when the arm wrestling started, I said, okay. Yeah. We're talking a different movie than I thought. Let's go. Yeah, exactly.

Another movie starting in the middle of this first movie. I hope a cartoon happens. Matt, our listener, Shannon, who suggested this movie, has kind of a similar story to you, or to your wife, rather. They write, Thank you for selecting me in my cheesy-ass arm-wrestling movie. My sisters and I watched Over the Top with my dad probably 20 times when I was growing up.

It's cheesy garbage, and I love it. So I guess it was kind of a family thing, and I think there's a lot of dad energy in this movie. There is and there's daddy energy in this too. Oh okay. I want to hear about the distinction. Oh you want to know the distinction between dad and daddy? Yeah. I don't want to fuck my dad

but Sly Sloan is daddy and I definitely want to fuck him in this movie. This is the hottest I think he has ever looked. Oh yeah? Is this movie. So yeah, let's start talking about it. How do you, going into this movie,

which you hadn't heard of, how did you feel about Sly Stallone? I've been forced to watch all of his movies because I unfortunately fuck men. Boo. Fucking men suck. been forced to watch all of his movies because i unfortunately fuck men and and boy do i constantly including the writer's room at midnight just fucking talking about the genius of rocky and how he wrote the script and everything which he also he co-wrote the screenplay for this he did he did um they can't all be when he had to have another guy come in and help him.

Right, this is a two-man job. They wrote two different screenplays, and then they just mashed it together. Hey, can you write something about a family? You guys, did you write something? I'll be over here writing an arm wrestling movie. Everybody's books are there. You write whatever.

I think they just wrote two screenplays, and then they took the pages and shuffled them like two decks of cards. And then just threw it to a director. Start shooting! Exactly. So, yeah. But honestly, yes, the Rocky movies are great.

It's true. They're amazing. But it's one of these things. You kind of get sick of hearing about it. You do. But this movie, I'd never... Oh, yeah. I just forgot about Rhinestone.

The movie Rhinestone. Oh, yeah. Sure. I love that movie. Right. But he's not as sexy this movie oh god it's just he's a little leaner right he's not so big and scary he's he's still very like jacked and everything but he's got this lean sexy still very manly but he's not like

like you know okay i was talking to a man about this. Boo, man. No. I was talking to him and I was like, God, he's so hot in this movie. And he was like, really? He looks so little. And I'm like, what do you think women like?

Do you think we want to be scared to death by men? Sure. I want a guy that looks like- Don't you guys like big meat triangles? Big, scary fucking guys where it's like, you could kill me. And he was like, well, what about Arnold Schwarzenegger? I'm like, what the fuck about him?

I don't think any- Are people, are women, people who are attracted to men into Arnold Schwarzenegger? Yeah, I mean, I can't say. But I do think you're on to something with, like, the super jacked action guys, especially around this time. You want the leaner guy. We're probably more for the fellas.

Exactly. Like, it's a way, like, I don't know if it's, like, we liked imagining ourselves like that. Yes. Or, you know, it's a way to kind of work out some of our same sex attraction that maybe we're embarrassed of. So if you guys were to, okay, if you were to look at all these action dudes, who do you think people who are attracted to men would want to fuck? Okay, we've got Sly Stallone. Who are we choosing from?

Yeah, Sly Stallone, Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Let's see. I'm going to throw Swayze in there. Swayze. You've got to put a fucking Swayze in there. Swayze wins, right? Swayze wins at all these contests. Yeah, Swayze's going to win for the ladies, I think.

I think, yeah, anybody who's attracted to men, I think. I don't know, but yeah, Swayze wins for me. Okay. But yeah, the last place is going to be Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger looks like a giant block of sharp cheddar cheese. I just think his head looks like it's made out of sharp cheddar cheese. This was a big time for triangular men. He just doesn't look like he's for me.

I don't know. I like the little waist. I like a little waist, but I also just like his arms in this movie, which that's the whole point of this movie. He's an arm wrestler, but it's like they're just, ugh, fuck. So let me put forth a theory here. Okay. Let's start talking about the actual plot of the movie. Also, the sweat in this movie.

Oh, everyone is so. The sweat budget in this movie. I know, right? The moisture. You probably had to put tarps over all the cameras. This is the sweatiest, gruntiest movie. If you like grunting. Oh, yeah.

Half of the dialogue is. And that's just Sylvester Stallone saying his lines. Yeah, that's Sylvester Stallone ordering a sandwich. Erky, erky, erky. Yeah, that's true. So yeah, let's talk. So we start with our guy, Sylvester Stallone, playing Lincoln Hawk. Is there a better name in all of movies?

What the fuck? Lincoln Hawk. Amazing. He's trucking across the country with an 80s ass song. The movie, the music in this movie is wild. A lot of it was done by Giorgio Moroder, who is like one of the big disco producers. And also like Daft Punk kind of brought him back for like, you know, it kind of made him cool again, you know, in the 2010s. But he did a lot of music for this movie.

There's like two or three Kenny Loggins songs, but they could all be Kenny Loggins songs. Yeah, that's true. That's how good they are. Yes, this soundtrack is Loggins core. I love it. I know, I do too. It's really fun.

It just doesn't sound like what this guy would listen to. Absolutely not. He seems like a Springsteen man to me. Yeah, like all the blue collar trucking dudes in this movie were probably listening to country music. That's true. Or Springsteen or like ACDC. Yeah. But here's, Matt, play a little bit of one of the opening songs from this movie so people can get a taste.

The road before us leading to what we need. Oh yeah. I'm just driving around A never ending storm Can't wait to meet my son To the danger zone Just all of these fucking songs I'm gonna go arm wrestle some guys

So that's the music If that's not Kenny Loggins It's Loggish Kenny Loggish He's Loggish. Kenny Loggish! He's Lincoln Hawk. He's driving around a truck full of brute cologne, and we get the slogan, smell like a man. I would like to talk a minute about all of the amazing product placement.

It's wild. Stuff in this movie. Yes, so the first one on the side of his truck. Oh, absolutely. Just a great beat. dad's playboy. I don't know what Brute smells like. Is that what our granddad smelled like? I think so, yes.

God, that shit stinks. My granddad reeked of that shit. And he was like a traveling salesman. My dad's dad. I think that's what he did. All I know is he wasn't allowed to meet me for some time. Oh, my. Maybe he was an arm wrestler on the side.

A secret arm wrestler. I think he wasn't very faithful to my dad's mom oh okay kind of like to drink but uh he drove a truck not a big rig truck but just a little little like a red truck kind of thing but he would wear like um wife beaters i know that there's got to be a better word for that tank top the thing yeah the shitty tanker shirt The undershirt. The undershirt, yeah. He'd wear that, and he always had these little alarm clocks that were in a little square, the little tiny black alarm clocks, which he left behind all the time. We had so many fucking alarm clocks. Fuck. Every time.

Dude was punctual. Dude was just punctual. He would like, yeah, but God, did he smell insane. Was that what he was selling as a traveling salesman? I don't know. I need to ask my dad again. I kind of black out every time he tells me what anyone does for a living. A lot of family mysteries.

Yeah. But he used to take me and my sister to Chuck E. Cheese's every time he would visit, and he'd drink like two pitchers of beer by himself over by the stage. Good guy, but he smelt like that. Yeah, and then he it punched pasquale in the face for looking at him weird probably like italians he had a lot of texture to his red nose yes so uh lincoln hawk is trucking across trucking across america and lincoln hawk is a whisper talker he's such a soft talker in this. Oh, fuck.

Is this? I wonder. So hot. Because we've talked about Roadhouse. Yeah. We both love Roadhouse. Yes. And I think something you like about Roadhouse is that Swayze is like kind of a softer action guy.

He's into Tai Chi. He's into philosophy. He doesn't need to advertise it. No, he's kind of more of a passive. He'll rip your fucking head off if you fuck with him. But he don't want to fuck with you. Do you think maybe part of what you like so much about Stallone in this is he's a little softer and quieter and he's not an aggro Rambo guy,

but he's just a... Yes, that also. He's like the parenting, the dadding in this is so cute. He's so patient with this fucking brat. I know, with his fancy shitty son. I know, I know. So he's speaking of fancy shitty son. He's showing up to his son's graduation from like Army Academy.

Yeah. And he gets out of the truck and he's wearing a tie and suspenders and a wallet chain. And I know what that's supposed to be signaling in the 80s is blue collar dude, but now he looks like the lead singer of a ska band. Also, we should specify his son is like, what, nine? His son is very young looking. I think he's supposed to be graduating high,

is he supposed to be like 16 or something? I think he's supposed to be graduating high is he supposed to be like 16 or something? I think he's supposed to be 12. This is an army junior high. I think he's graduating 6th grade and going into middle school. That's what that is. Going into high school. I bet that he hadn't even got a chin hair yet.

He is a baby. The kid is very young and he has chubby baby cheeks. He's so cute. He's a very cute kid actor. The character is kind of annoying, but written that way. He's supposed to be, though. Yeah. So we find out that the kid doesn't know Lincoln Hawk.

By the way, this is a weird thing about this movie. The kid's name is Mike, so his name is Mike Cock. No. It's not like, come on, movie. Wait, wait. At least Sylvester Stallone's name isn't Lincoln Hunt. But wait, is his last name that? Or did he have his mom's last name?

Yeah, maybe it's not. But I think that's a weird little joke in this movie that feels kind of fucking gross and mean. I don't know. Anyway, so all right. So he's never met his dad. And his dad is taking, he kid lives with his grandfather and he's taking he's supposed to take the kid cross country to to meet his mom who's in the hospital this all comes out in like the first two minutes of this

movie it is so efficient this movie is like all right mom's in the hospital kid doesn't know dad we're getting in a truck and we're going it's so fucking fast i really like how i disagree because the whole like academy thing i immediately anytime i see like a military academy i'm like oh god those kids so i know oh god and he's got a little tie on and his little jacket with all his medals and so they're driving cross country to to see mom in the hospital and he's also i'm sorry to interrupt but he's also asking um wait why don't why aren't we flying there which very quickly signals that he's a rich kid right he also has never seen this man before in his life he's never met this man before in his life and save for one time which he runs away, he mostly is cool

just being around this total stranger who has pictures of him. I don't know about that. He seemed like he was, hated him. At the beginning. He ran in the middle

of a street and almost got hit by cars. So for basically one day, this kid fucking hates Sylvester Stallone. Yes. You're right. He gets out of the cab.

He runs across a freeway. Terrifying scene, by the way. That is so scary. So scary. And so it's just Stallone. Yes. You're right. He gets out of the cab. He runs across a freeway. Terrifying scene, by the way. That is so scary. So scary. And Sylvester Stallone has to bear hug him back in the cab. Yeah, also,

Sylvester Stallone, let's get some cardio going. That kid was out running you pretty easy. Yeah, right? Well, he's in military school. I mean, come on. Yeah, that's true.

He's very strong for a little boy. That's what America's military is known for, running. So they stop after he, after they, after he grabs him and puts him back in the cab. They go to the bar we've been talking about. God damn it, I want to go to that bar.

Yeah, I know. You know, I'm like trying not to drink before my birthday, which is this Sunday. I'm trying to like de-bloat. Also, my eczema, I'm trying to let that not flare up. And then I'm going to also do that before the tour. Oh, yeah, sure. The Good Mythical Tour. But goddammit, stop showing me these movies. I know, I'm sorry. You're going to do this to me.

It's going to be so hard. I just want to go to this fucking, the wood on that bar looks like... Matt, find us some Kirk Cameron movies to watch. You got it. Christian Kirk Cameron movies to watch. Something where people just drink water all the time. Or a Hallmark Christmas movie where everyone drinks cocoa all the time. Ooh, yeah.

Yummy. So yeah, this bar is fucking awesome. All of Emily's relatives are there. Everybody's wearing a trucker hat. Everybody's smoking. Everybody's drinking. I mean, it is great. It's definitely like, I just want to hang out there.

I do. And so the kid has like a dorky order. He's like, he's talking to his professional, and he's like, you're going to die of cholesterol poisoning. And that's one of those like, oh, this was like an 80s thing where you were, I mean, I guess you have to be worried about cholesterol. But I remember, like, when's the last time you've heard about cholesterol? Oh, I had to, I got a physical not too long ago because the last physical I had, I had high cholesterol.

Oh, yeah. Which kind of runs in my family. Okay. People are all taking medication for it, whatnot. But, and I was like,

okay, what do I got to do? I got to start eating fucking Cheerios and shit. Yeah. And then I went back to the doctor and they were like, hey, it's looking good.

And I was like, no shit. Did you have a bowl of Cheerios? I had one bowl of Cheerios on December 18th. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I think about it a little bit.

I had a tiny box from a Holiday Inn lobby. Yep. And now I'm cured. That's not my impression, by the way. I don't think you sound like that. That's me when I go to the doctor. Yes. I'm a spooky bridge troll.

I have some welts on my feet. I ate too many goats. I devoured the billy goats. But can I ask a question? Yeah. So where did he get that putty that he's squeezing? Oh, yeah. He's got like a stress ball kind of thing.

It's like a clay putty kind of thing that he keeps squeezing. And that's how he gets found out, I guess, that he's an arm wrestler. I think that's how. Yeah, so I think it is a little. So this is where the first time we see arm wrestling in the movie, and we will not see it again for an hour. Yeah.

So they're eating at the diner. Sylvester Stallone is squeezing this stress ball. And a tough looking dude come up to him whose name is The Smasher. Smasher. The Smasher, who has beautiful diamond earrings, by the way. Yeah, I noticed that. Smasher looks great.

Yeah, made me want to get a second hole in my ear. Yeah, I know. Smasher's got a second hole. Yeah. And Smasher challenges Sylvester Stallone to an arm wrestle off, and I think it is kind of a Roadhouse situation where he's just famous.

Like he's famous for arm wrestling. They go into a back room where everyone is already waving money around. They go and everyone was fucking ready for this. Can I say this was what were you going to say Matt? You were going to say something producer Matt? I'm sorry but

it is the one clip that I pulled out for myself. I love it so much i love smasher because he shows up there and he says sounds like a ninja turtles villain i know right he has the funniest line uh when he he introduces himself to uh to hawk now i've been hearing on the road lately is this hawk is a man to beat. I can't believe everything you hear. I don't. I don't believe anything.

Kill him, Smasher. I don't believe anything. He's like, but who's the kill him, Smasher? I just love, kill him, Smasher. Like all the villains in this are so classic 80s where it's like they're just already mad. 80s jerks. They're already mad. They have a where it's like they're just already mad. 80s jerks. They're already mad. They have a mullet and they're mad at you.

And they have five dumb friends who are yelling. Or you're a rich man who's just mad. Yes, the two kinds of 80s villains. An asshole rich guy. Or a poor rich guy. A poor mad guy. Rich in rage. Rich in rage.

That's a great country band. Being rich in rage. Oh, yeah, Rich in rage. Rich in rage. That's a great country band. Big and rich. Rich in rage. I really love him being like, I don't believe in anything. Nothing. Not climate change. Not the Constitution. I'm a nihilist.

Not a mother's love. I don't believe in anything. The kid's like, I'm more of an agnostic. I'm a secular humanist. I'm like a tuna sandwich for a secular humanist. Pescatarian? I'm a pescatarian humanist. And I'm like a trout. And I'm

allergic to penicillin. Don't give me any penicillin. I'm allergic to penicillin. Oh yeah? Yeah. If I ever have to go to the hospital, tell them not to give it to me. By listening to this, you're now our emergency contact.

Yeah, well, I need one. Or more than one. My favorite thing is, I was watching this, and the drama that when he had to get up and walk over to the whatever saddle thing. The arm wrestling room that is already set up and people have made bets. And full, packed full.

It's full, yeah. And the way he's like, and he just has this really intense face. And I was like, this is how intense people get over arm wrestling? Like, I want there to be a parody movie and it's about thumb wrestling. I really want that to be in there.

Thumb wrestling is about as much fun to's about thumb wrestling. I really want that to be in there. Thumb wrestling is about as much fun to watch as arm wrestling. I think that's just the challenge of this movie. The shit's not that fun to watch. The most exciting part is when he does a little thumb wrestling thing. When he goes over the top

and grabs the top of the hand. Speaking about finger blasting, that's probably... I would go under the top. Under the top of the hand. Speaking about finger blasting, I mean, that's probably... Sure, you're right. I would go under the top. Under the top. Over the under. Two in the top and one in the bottom.

Kill the Smasher. They call that the Smasher. Kill him. I don't believe in anything. Not the pig, not the stink, not nothing. I don't believe in anything not the pig not the stink not nothing I don't believe in the stink hey Corinne

this is the fingering episode this is also the fingering episode digit two yes the second digit alright so we get the first arm wrestling scene there's so much grunting

grunt grunt grunt sweat so much sweat but Celestia Stallone wins, grunt. Sweat. So much sweat. But Celestia Stallone wins and impresses the son. He like fucking loves this. And he's kind of on board with his dad for a while. Yeah. Like he stopped being mad at him.

Right. Well, I did notice that. Okay. So the big, scary, bald guy. He's like our main kind of opponent, villain guy. Yeah. He kind of comes back at the end. And I think he's the tallest guy in the movie oh tallest guy oh um i when he walked into the bar he had just finished like beating smasher

or whatever his name is and he sees a little boy and he's playing with the squeezy putty yeah but he goes and he grabs the little boy's hand uh-huh at the bar and he goes where'd you get that and it's like why are you holding this little boy's hand it's weird i hate it and also does does lincoln hawk have a signature stress ball that i think everybody uses those yeah whatever right but he's like it's my dad's and he's in there and it was like and then he kind of like i think let's go with the kid's hand and i was like what a great way to introduce this guy ain't right. Right.

Sure. Not only is he competitive or whatever, he just ain't right. Right. Like, something's not right with him. And all of the, and we'll see him later in the arm wrestling contest, which I think is like easily the best part of the movie. And it is like a shame. When we get there, it's like, I want to see a movie about these weirdos.

Yes. But it's a movie about Sylvester Stallone and his fancy son. Yes. And, you know, whereas that has it has a lot of charm. The fucking weirdo arm wrestlers are so great. I know. I just want the movie to be about them. I know.

Anyway, so so so Lincoln and Lincoln and his son are off to a great start. They decide to sleep in the truck, and Sylvester Stallone says, if your neck gets sore, you can use my shoulder for a pillow. Oh my God. And then when they wake up in the morning, he's sleeping on his son's shoulder.

It's the cutest fucking shit imaginable. I know I just got done saying I don't really care about the father-son stuff in this. This scene is so cute. It is really cute. It is. His patience with this snotty little boy is what really it's sweet because the son is so shitty because that's to me i'm like this is such a good dad he's like instead of getting a little bit you

know reactive when the kid is like being just so like hurtful towards him but that's how kids are sure he just goes well i'll use this as a teaching moment and you're like what a fucking good dad it's really cute it's a good example of a good dad if people are going i want like what's a good example of a tough manly guy who's also yeah fucking lincoln hawk good dad yeah um so yeah so and and. So then we get a scene of them in the morning exercising together. I know. That was funny. We get another Loggins-ish song.

And, you know, something I liked about that is we watch these movies with these buff dudes. Yep. And we never see what their workout regimen is. And you're like, it's like when Arnold Schwarzenegger plays like a dad. It's like, why is he so jacked? We need to see him doing some sort of exercise. Right. This is like, oh, yeah, this guy gets up every morning

and he does exercises like on his truck. Right. So I like seeing that. Something that's interesting that I didn't know about, I was talking to someone about it. The reason why truckers and arm wrestling go together, is there's something about, is it power steering doesn't exist yet? So they really have to manhandle that steering wheel.

It's really hard to turn that thing. So that's why maybe they're buffer than normals. Yeah, their forearms and stuff are so strong. Oh, interesting. Because all of those guys are truckers. The competitors are all truckers. But then he's also got this pulley thing in the car that he uses to lift weights or to pull on.

So yeah, so he's steering with one hand and he's lifting a weight with the other one. Yeah, it's really cool. It is cool. That whole rig. But I was also thinking about, oh so they're working out together, and then it made me go, oh, that's an interesting interaction.

But what things did your dads teach you? Activities similar to that. Oh, boy. Yeah. Thad. Oh, yeah. Sorry to bring this up. No, no, no.

That's okay. So not a lot. Thad had other stuff to do. Yeah. He was busy. But let's see. So we did a little bit of T-Ball and we did a little bit of Catch in the Backyard.

He had a big record collection and he sat me down and we listened to all of Elton John's albums. Oh, that's cool. I still really like Elton John to this day, like listening to the vinyl with my dad. So no viable skills. No, no skills.

Not a skill. Yeah. How about you, Dad? Lay-ups. Upright bass. No, he tried to get me to play all kinds of instruments, but he taught me how to do lay-ups and basketball. Oh, cool.

Okay. And ride a bike. Aw, come on. Get out of town. That's sweet. What about you, Matt? Oh, my dad taught me good ways to kill myself. What I mean is that every time I would go outside and play,

he would tell me, that's a good way to kill yourself. Because if I would play in a tree, good way to kill myself. Go on a skateboard, good way to kill myself. He taught me there are basically a thousand ways to accidentally die. Right. I'm so sorry I brought this up. No, he taught me there are basically a thousand ways to accidentally die. Right. I'm so sorry I brought this up. No, he taught me other stuff, too. He taught me masturbation is good for you, and you won't get prostate cancer if you do it.

That's sex positive. Yeah, he was very sex positive. I understand a sex positive king. My church said that as well. Really? Yeah. Look at that. I had sex ed through the Belmont United Methodist Church.

They had all of our parents. It was for a weekend whole thing. It was like, yeah, a whole weekend thing. All the pastors came down, all the parents, the youth group pastors and stuff. And it was like all the sixth graders. You guys talked about jacking off? They said that masturbation was a great way to, you know, if you have urges and stuff, you won't get pregnant. You won't get STDs,

it's not a bad thing to do. Wow, I mean, it kind of makes sense, right? But they did. If you're trying to, like, curb some horny kids. But I do remember them saying, but if it gets in the way of your life, your homework, your friends, your relationships and stuff, then it's bad. Maybe cool it. That's true of everything,

I think. That's true, but I think that they, like, we'd all get the green light and go, oh my God. Jacking off, playing over the ring. What I really wish they would have said is, wash your hands. Because, boy, I was like, why do I always have itchy down there? Why? Oh, yeah. Why am I only always-

I bite my nails all the time, and I never fucking wash my hands. But yeah, and then we had Planet Parenthood. Planet Parenthood. Planet Parenthood. Welcome to Planet Parenthood. Well, Planet Parenthood. Planet Parenthood! Welcome to Planet Parenthood. Well, that's much like Silverstone had Planet Hollywood. Yeah, it's where Bruce Willis comes and performs abortions on you. Plays a little rock harmonica first.

And the baby just goes, I'll just kill myself. Oh, baby, I don't know what to do with those. I'll just travel. All right. Let's get that baby out of here. But yeah, no, they had planned Parenthood come and come and do these little plays for us. Fucking Methodists. Is that a church? Yeah.

Methodist church. Way to go. That's crazy. Belmont United Methodist Church. I had a great church experience. That's why I'm so hopeful all the time. Do they believe in God? Yeah. Crazy. Wild, man.

Not me, guys. You know why? Because I don't believe anything. Thank you, Spencer. That is so fucking brilliant. That's why I would get fingered in church lock-ins and stuff. I was just going ham, you know? All right, well, let's finish talking about this thing. So he takes the son to another diner with a cool 80s arcade in it.

I always pause and see what the arcade games are. Oh, yeah. We had a Mario Brothers, not Super Mario Brothers. This is the one where you're fighting turtles who come through pipes. We kind of get one screen, you kill them all, and you go to the next screen. We got a Punch-Out!! and we got kind of a Nintendo multi-cade with a bunch of different games on it. Is this interesting? Some say it's the most interesting part of the podcast.

I was just looking at one of those kids' sweet mullets. Oh, yeah. I was very distracted by that. In the arcade are some fucking classic 80s jerks. Yeah. Oh, these 80s jerks. And yeah, these are shitty kids with mullets. They're about the son's age.

And Sylvester Stallone makes him challenge the shitty kids to an arm wrestling match. Yep. And he and this kid, who is just a fucking asshole from word one. He's already game. Yeah. He's like, hey, this kid wants to challenge you to arm wrestling. And he's like, that whip? I hate him already. That's right.

And one of his friends says, kill him. Kill him. Just like Smasher's friend. They all look like the guys from the bar if they hadn't eaten their mushroom from Mario. Yeah, they do. I had a video game reference. Are you proud of me?

It was a fucking home run, Emily. I did it, I did it. Give her her flowers. Good video game reference. Thank you. So he arm wrestles this kid. He loses once, and then Sylvester Stallone tells him

to go back and get back on the horse. So the kid's arm wrestling again, and Sylvester Stallone turns the kid's hat backwards. Yeah. And that's like the fucking magic spell. We're going down. He wins. Oh my god. I love you dad. And so

they go out to call mom to tell her about the arm wrestling victory and we see the mom like three or four times in this. Also only can there be a song for only woman? Yeah. Bechdel test. She's dead. for only woman? Yeah. You got it. Bechdel test. And she's dead.

Spoiler, sorry. Yeah, not a lot of women in this movie. Mom, so we see her maybe three or four times, and she's always on the phone. They do such a good job of making her look progressively sicker each time we see her. But she's got a fabulous negligee and little robe ensemble. I know. It's like by the last phone call,

she's like kind of green and coughing. Like if we see her one more time, she would be a skeleton on fire. Because that is how much she is deteriorating. Yep. This is the last time we'll see mom, unfortunately. But kind of between that. Bye bye, mom. Bye bye, unfortunately. But kind of between that. Bye-bye, mom.

Bye-bye, mom. We get to the hospital, and mom has passed away. This was sad. This was very sad. And the kid is mad at Sylvester Stallone for driving him across country instead of flying. And the kid just jumps in a taxi and the taxi drives off without if you're a taxi driver and a 12 year old just jumps in do you have to go is a fair the kid had cash yeah what am i supposed to do as a free country so so the kid goes to live with his

evil grandpa who is who is i think you know we we have rich jerks and we have poor jerks. The grandpa is a rich jerk. Sylvester Stallone goes to his mansion to get the kid back. He uses his truck to bust down the doors of the mansion. God damn. The mansion they're using this was the mansion from the Beverly Hillbillies. Wow, that's cool.

I know. That's a fun fact. So bust down the gate, and so that gets Sylvester Stallone sent to jail and to get out of jail he has to give up custody of the kid and that Weasley secretary guy who was sitting in front of him whoever played that part great job

oh yeah there's a Weasley secretary who kind of brokers this deal the guy's just a real piece of shit a real wormy piece of shit he's just doing his job though but then we get to the good part of the movie a real piece of shit, a real wormy piece of shit. He's just doing his job, though. But then, we get to the good part of the movie. Yes. We get to 80s Vegas.

80s Vegas. How bad do you want to go to fucking 80s Vegas? Again, bad for my mission of trying to keep the drinking to a minimum. I was like, gotta go to Vegas.

I want to go to Vegas. Me too. Scratching myself. Gotta get a shrimp cocktail and a prime rib dinner. Drink outside. I have to get a yard of margarita and a plastic guitar. Yeah, exactly.

My favorite thing was the kid is just fighting to get there. He's going through baggage shoots and stuff. So Sylvester Stallone is in Vegas for the arm wrestling competition and the kid, in the same way that he gets in the taxi, just gets on a plane and runs around the airport and hides from Grandpa's goons in the baggage carousel.

It's wild! You could just do anything in an airport in the 80s. I know, and my favorite thing is by the time everything's going down that kid is sweating like his dad. And I'm like, hey, they're the same. They're a couple of sweaters, a couple of glandular gents.

A couple of sweaty gabagools. So Lincoln Hawk sells his truck, but he keeps the Hawk hood ornament. Yeah. And then, yeah, then we get to the arm wrestling contest which is like so fucking fun it's great um and i think it's time for hunk watch yay you already mentioned being very into sylvester sloan in this movie yeah that's hunk did you see

the female arm wrestlers i did see a little bit there are some very brief shots again not a lot of women in this movie yeah there's some very brief shots of the female arm wrestlers. I did see a little bit. There are some very brief shots. Again, not a lot of women in this movie. Yeah. There's some very brief shots of the female arm wrestlers. They are all wearing like neon spandex. They're arm wrestling each other. Oh boy. Really? And just these very brief shots of them.

And it's probably just like being deprived of other women for 90 minutes. It's like, ah, there's one! Oh, one who's alive. Yeah. Oh, yeah. A healthy lady. She's very healthy, very strong. This makes me immediately think,

have you seen Love Lies Bleeding yet? Oh, no. You said it was great, right? So good. It was crazy. Some body horror stuff in there. I don't want to spoil anything. Okay.

Hot. All right. I mean, I think it's for everybody who's into everything. Okay. I am into it. That's me. Well, yeah, honestly, I was like, am I gay? I was watching it and going, fuck, this is hot.

Yeah. Definitely, definitely see that movie if you're into those arm wrestling. So, whew, the arm wrestling women. Anyway, and then just like the cast of characters in this is so fucking good. I think a lot of these are actual like arm wrestling champions. Oh, really? Yeah, I think so. I think a lot of these guys were just and they do these weird like the fucking format of this movie is so strange.

They do these two camera monologues like they're being interviewed. It's the original office. Yeah, exactly. Yes. Yeah. And they, you know, they're always looking at the camera with this like, can you believe this guy? Oh, yeah. Well, there was one that are super duper bad, dude.

Yeah. Big bald guy. He's wearing a hat that says like jail security guard. Oh, yeah. Kind of a sparkly hat that says like Vegas jail security or something like that. Woof. a sparkly hat that says like Vegas Jail Security or something like that. But my favorite thing, I was talking

a little bit about the Brute product placement. My favorite, so there's a lot of Budweiser shirts. A lot of Budweiser. Amazing. A lot of Carl's Jr. cups. Oh, yeah? Yeah. And then, I mean, we'll talk about his cap, the Bonneau cap or whatever

which is, I guess, an old gas station market type yeah the cap that sylvester stallone like turns around to juice himself up is from you researched this cap i did and it's like a town in south carolina but then i researched like the brand and it looks i'm not and it's from 1921 and it's like the only three of them left are in California. Okay. But it's like gas station, like food, snacks, all that kind of stuff. Okay. But I don't know. So I'm assuming it's just like that's his favorite gas station.

Yeah, because he's always on the road. But my favorite one is there's one of the competitors is wearing an Alka-Seltzer tank top. Oh, yeah. an Alka-Seltzer tank top. Oh, yeah. And I was like, I really wish I could do this and it just put my favorite over-the-counter drug of choice

just lactate. Pepto-Bismol. Exactly. Lexapro. Just fucking whatever you need. Cross it. So I was like, I want that Alka-Seltzer tank top so bad.

And I do want to briefly talk about the costume. I was going to ask. The costume designer for this is Tom Bronson. If you watch the credits at the top of the movie, he gets like a center screen billing with like a line underneath it. And you're like, whoa, okay, why is this guy so special? Because the costumes rule in this movie.

They do. So hard. I want to wear a perfect white t-shirt with suspenders all the time. Like it looks so cool when he was wearing it. Like, and the kid had a cool shirt on. I mean the Alka-Seltzer shirt, every single thing that, um, that Stallone and the kid and everybody wore, I was like, I want all of these clothes so bad. And, um, I looked up other stuff he'd done. It looks like he became a Stallone favorite after Rocky III. Okay.

Because he did First Blood. He also did Beverly Hills Cop. Another great aviator jacket with the sleeves slightly scrunched up. And I do that because I think it looks so cool. I've always wanted an aviator jacket because of the Beverly Hills Cop. Rambo, First Blood Part II, Rocky IV, Cobra. He did Cobra.

Oh, hell yeah. If Cobra ever is on Free With Ads, that is the coolest looking clothes in the movie. Oh, God. Now I'm just realizing, I think Stallone is stylish as shit and I want to dress like Sylvester Stallone. He always looks great.

Yeah, I think that was part of his deal. He always looked cool. Yeah, he'd always like, I think that was kind of part of his deal. He always kind of looked cool. And yeah, in Tango and Cash, he's like the stylish one to Kurt Russell's like kind of slob guy. I actually, I will say, I have this movie on Blu-ray

because I got it in the three pack with Tango and Cash. I have Over the Top, Tango and Cash, and Demolition Man. I love it. So this was fucking pristine while I was watching it. 5K. So many Ks. I have Over the Top, Tango and Catch, and Demolition Man. On Blu-ray. I love it. So this was fucking pristine while I was watching it. 5K. So many Ks. I want to say that there's a couple other things that he did that I was looking up. The costume designer.

Yeah, the costume designer. He did The Torkelsons, which is one of my favorite TV shows. Oh, I've never seen that. Very Southern. He did The Waterboy. And he also did some movie called Balloon Farm. And then something called Trailer Court Justice. These all sound great.

I know. I want to see it. What a career. I know. But yeah, everyone does look really cool in this movie. Super cool. Everything is 80s in just the best way. Absolutely.

So shout out to Tom Bronson. You do your job well. All right. We have to talk about some more of the insanos at this arm wrestling competition. But first, we're out to Tom Bronson. You do your job well. All right. We have to talk about some more of the insanos at this arm wrestling competition. But first, we're going to take a little break. We're back. It's Free With Ads. We're talking about the climactic arm wrestling competition.

Finally. Yeah, I know. After a long stretch of no arm wrestling, we get a lot of arm wrestling. All the guys that have arm wrestling are so great. There's one dude, John Grizzly, who eats a cigarette and then later drinks gasoline.

So you have this guy who is just a cartoon character in the middle of this. Fucking great. He's got a big beard and he's got curly hair. Oh, I saw that guy. Yes, yes. Since I grew the beard, people have been telling me I look like Jack Black. People have been stopping me

to ask me if I'm Jack Black. That's fucking bullshit. Tell me I look like John Grizzly from Over the Top. That's who I want. I think I do actually kind of look like the guy. Now, I will say this. I don't want to say that we read the comments all the time when we're on Good Mythical Morning.

Sometimes you accidentally read the comments. Sometimes we we do but a lot of the comments i've been seeing about how great you look oh my gosh thank you commenters i'm not seeing any jack black comment okay well thank you very much it's very nice not that jack black is no no people are horny for jack here's what it is you and i talk about this when people give us compliments it's always somebody they they talk about this when people give us compliments. It's always somebody, they compare us to somebody older than us. Right, yeah. Which that's the thing.

Jack Black is... Or somebody that they think is funny, you know? And I think that's what they're saying but also it's like, I don't want to... I'm starting to bum people out

because every time they do that I'm like, is it the thinnest person you've ever met? I know, I do that too. I get in people's faces about it. Are they famous for being attractive?

Yeah. Why'd you tell me? You told me I look like someone who's famous for playing ugly characters? Yeah, no, then they go, it's someone, it. Are they famous for being attractive? Yeah. Why'd you tell me? You told me I look like someone who's famous for playing ugly characters? Yeah, no, then they go, I'll, like, be a dick about it. It's someone, it's a relative, and I'm like, is she 70?

And they're like, yes. And I'm like, no, then. I don't want to know. Does she hang around in her attic in a wedding dress? Yes. Yes, that is me, that is me. I get Daniel Stern,

who played, you know played opposite Joe Pesci one of the wet bandits in Hallowen. But he's hot. That's what I think. And then I also get John Turturro. I don't see that one.

Yeah, I don't see it either but people say it. I had once when, okay, another church story real quick. Please, yes. Oh, I love these.

Come on. Our church hosted an orgy and said it was good for team work. No. I definitely pulled around during this mission trip. Our mission trips were not converting. It was just if there was like a tornado that happened somewhere, we'd like load up the youth group and do like we'd stay on the floor of a pastor's parish. That's great. And then help people like pick up rubble or repair their house.

And one time, I think we went to North Carolina because there was, it was either a tornado or I can't remember what damage happened, but there was this guy and he goes, older gentleman. He goes, you know who you remind me of? And I'm like, uh-oh. Uh-oh. And I'm like 15. He goes, my favorite actress. And I'm like, who? And. Uh-oh. And I'm like 15. He goes, my favorite actress.

And I'm like, who? He goes, Tori Spelling. And I was like. That's your favorite actress? I was just like, I'm going to kill myself. Your favorite actress is Tori Spelling. That is the worst thing you could say to a 15-year-old girl is no offense to Tori Spelling. But like the bullying that Tori Spelling got.

I was like, great. I'm not even the famous one. I'm the one who looks like the famous one who gets tons of shit for her looks. But yeah. And to be like, that's my favorite actress. I know, I love that. Not even like, oh, I think she's the hottest.

Right. It's like, I just think her acting's really good. I love the act. I love Tori Spelling's acting. But then I couldn't like say anything bad. I had to go, thank you. And then I just like walked away. I love Tori Spelling's acting. But then I couldn't say anything bad. I had to go, thank you. And then I just walked away. I'll never forget it.

I'll never forget it. So I am going as John Grizzly this Halloween. If anybody knows where to get a camo tank top and some cigarettes that I can eat. Oh, actually, I know all of those places. I'm sure. I have edible cigarettes right now. What? Why?

And you go to an Army-N Navy surplus store for those tank tops. Got a group costume this year, everybody? Let's do it. Over the top? Absolutely. I'll be the gasoline. You can drink me. Oh, yay.

I love that in this movie, it has cartoony stuff like John Grizzly eating cigarettes and drinking gasoline. And then also, the wife dies of cancer. Yeah. Yeah, this movie it's a good value because it's nine movies i think i would be the little kid because he had this cool t-shirt that i liked the t-shirt and then i want to know what i look like with a brown bowl cut i bet you'd look worse yep i would so you know that's kind of the end of over the top.

Wait, he wins. He does win. He does win. He wins. He wins. And he wins the custody of the kid. My favorite thing is the grandpa like kind of tears up when he wins and sees the son and him like so happy together and so proud of it. It is a great piece of grandpa's nonverbal acting when so grandpa like comes Grandpa comes in at the very last minute. He's always been calling Sylvester Stallone a loser. Yeah. And he sees him win. And yeah, he sheds a single tear. And it's a nice moment. I know, because it was really sweet, man.

It was. That little boy and Stallone had great chemistry. They really did. It was really cute. But I will say this. I wasn't sure he was going to win. Because as we know rocky like the twists and turns you're like he might throw he might get his arm ripped off i don't

fucking know like but and yeah they had to strap their hands together do you remember that yeah oh yeah someone says get the strap on i think it's get the strap on but the guy says it's get the strap on, but the guy says it like, get the strap on. And I'm like, ooh. You're going to need a hyphen in there, brother. But my favorite thing, they finally admitted that the sweat was too much. It was just like, it's too much sweat now. You're going to have to get the strap on. They are fucking drenched.

Everybody at the end of this looks like they just got off of a water slide. They do. They really do. So he wins. Grandpa cries. They drive off together and the final torch song plays. I don't know if this is Kenny Loggins. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. But it kind of rules.

Matt, do you want to take us out with a little bit of this thing? Sure. Take it higher. thing. Sure. Yeah. That's the name of the movie I love it That's what the movie is Alright, before we get to our reviews of this movie We want to talk about some of the best lines in the movie Alright

I had a little bit of a hard time with this Because I think the best sounds in this movie Are the music and the grunting Yes I consider just having Matt put together a montage of grunts, but I'm like this is maybe not the best use of Matt's time. Maybe for our trailer

for the next episode, you put together a little montage of grunts for Instagram. Yeah. Oh yeah. But this is I did find a line that I liked. This is Sylvester Stallone in his weird to camera moment

talking about how turning his hat around gives him the juice. Nice. What I do is I just try to take my hat and I turn it around and it's like a switch that goes on. And when the switch goes on, I feel like another person. I feel like another person. I feel, I don't know, I feel like a, like a truck, like a machine. I feel like a truck.

You know, another person, like a truck. Like a truck. You know how a truck is another person? Thomas the Tank Engine. They are so desperate in this movie to link the sun truck story to the arm wrestling story. It's like, yes, arm wrestling makes me feel like a truck. Like a truck. Like a truck.

Like a truck. I'm as strong as I could be. I'm a truck. Emily, what do you got line wise? Okay, so I love kid comebacks. Like whenever there's a kid movie and two kids are like, you suck. Well, your mom, you know, I love back and forth kid stuff. But I thought this kid had a great comeback.

It was when the kid was doing Coming Back for that second round of arm wrestling because he lost to the mullet, bud-neck looking guy. for that second round of arm wrestling because he lost to the mullet, bud-neck looking guy. And he comes back and this is the altercation or the lines between the two kids. This is going to hurt, Wimp.

What do you think of that? I think your breath stinks. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. You better put the kids... You better put that in there.

Kill him. I don't believe in anything I just really think that That I think your breast Is really Great comeback It's a fucking hot comeback It reminds me

Okay so Sick burn I got one more little Little story about myself Please There's this great We have a lot of family videos The Flemings do

It's It was just Easter There's a classic video Of me being Just the worst I was a very annoying Kid and thought I was hilarious. Was not too different from now. But I was bullying my sister about getting all the ink for the eggs mixed together.

And I was like something about how, God, you're so stupid. And my sister goes, I'm not stupid. I'm Mary Brynn. Aww. Isn't that cute? That is very stupid. I'm Mary Brynn. Aw. Isn't that cute? That is very cute. I just thought that was really good. That's her name.

That's her name. Oh, that's really cute. Isn't it? And then I just looked at the camera and went, God. Like Jim from The Office. I'm like, fuck. And they're filming it. And they're filming it.

And it was so every time it comes on, they're like, you're an asshole. I'm like, I am an asshole. Let's replay Emily being an asshole. I'm like, I am an asshole. Let's replay Emily being an asshole. That's really what they do every year. And then my sister will film it with her phone and send it to me every year, reminding me I'm a horrible sister. Oh. Sorry.

You're a wonderful sister. You're a wonderful podcast co-host. I don't know. I don't know. If Brynn listens to this, she's going to go, time for me to comment on Reddit. Say all the ways I'm not a good sister. Brynn is going to start some lurker accounts. Listen, we need to, let's take a break. of this she's gonna go time for me to comment on reddit oh brittany all the ways i'm gonna start some lurker accounts uh listen we need to let's take a break let's open up our lurker accounts let's make some comments and then we're going to come back and talk about what we thought of this

movie We're back. It's Free With Ads. We're going to talk about what we thought of Over the Top. Emily, you want to go first? I hated the beginning of this. And then as soon as the bar stuff started going, I was like, okay, cool. And then it was so I liked parts of it. It was super fun.

I do not regret seeing it. I'm glad we did this movie. I'm glad it was suggested for us. Yes. I'm going to give it a five. Okay. I think that's fair. Yeah.

But we should say we're ranking this movie on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials. Yeah. You're giving it a five. I am. I think that's really fair. I think this is like- A lot of Juvederm. What's that?

I think it's like, it's Botox stuff. I think that's what it is. Okay. Those were my ads. Oh, those were your ads. Yeah. I'll go next. Okay. Because I'm the other host and you've already gone, those were your ads. Yeah. I'll go next. Okay. Because

I'm the other host, and you've already gone, so I'll go. Thank you for explaining that. So you went, and now I'll go, because there's two. Okay. Chapter two on this American life. I'll go next. Oh, fuck. This week, stories about

people who get birds. Chapter one, seagull. David Sedaris is here to talk about a trash bird he found on the beach. If you guys are going to do this bit for a while, I'm just going to go finger myself. In the fucking corner for a minute. Because the bit's making you horny? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My This American Life bit.

Me talk horny one day. Me talk horny one day. Hooray. So, yeah, I'll go a little bit higher than you. I absolutely agree with you that, like, as fun as it is that this movie is so all over the place, you have the truck stuff, the sun stuff, the arm wrestling stuff. It's such a mishmash. Like, it's fun in theory, but, like, when you're watching it, some of it is so fucking boring.

And like the sun stuff is cute, but there's like it takes them so long to do anything. Yeah. And like when the arm wrestling shit starts and it's so much fun, there's just the sense of like, why isn't this the movie? I know. Why isn't this the movie? why isn't this the movie? I know. Why isn't this the movie?

Like, just do Rocky for arm wrestling and pick some of these weirdos, give them backstories, and give everyone a history and do a crazy arm wrestling movie. Yeah. But instead you have this, like, schmaltzy son stuff. I do think if you're looking for

kind of a good, bad movie, if you want some, like, 80s vibes, this movie has them in spades. It's a fun movie. It's a fun movie. It's a cool watch. But there's this weird disconnect because some of it is kind of fucking boring. So I'm going to go ahead and give it a seven.

I have a little more affection for it. My heart was warmed watching it. But if you do sit down to watch this, just be prepared for the fact that, like, it's a little more fun to talk about than it is to watch. Yes. Well, that's over the top. Emily, anything going on this week you want to tell people about?

No. I mean, I've got my birthday coming up. As you will have passed when this episode airs. But it's Emily's birthday month. That's true. So you can wish Emily a happy birthday in the comments of Good Mythical Morning videos. Yes, I will probably be having some new Flem Gem stuff

come out on my Etsy store. And then also I did the Painted Matchbooks event with King Margo, my buddy Caitlin, who's an amazing artist. We have a few of the limited editions left, and then there's, of course, the ones, the red ones that'll always be around. And you can

get them on kingmargo.com if you're still interested in getting them. And I will sign both of them. And for me, this movie was generously chosen for us by Shannon. Thank you, Shannon, and thank you to everybody who went to maximumfun.org slash joined and supported us during the MaxFunDrive.

Yes. I have another opportunity for a listener to pick a movie for us. Here we go. Here's how you do it. Oh, I'm excited. If you want to pick a future movie for us, here's what you have to do.

You've heard me talk about it on the show. I've got a new graphic novel coming out this year. It is called Youth Group. It's with a great artist named Bowen McGurdy. Is there any fingering? There's no fingering. I'm sorry.

Maybe in the sequel. Maybe you bite, I'll write you a little note that says, get fingered. So, yeah, there you go. Listen, we want to do a sequel. And the best way to do that is to have a lot of pre-orders. So if you pre-order Youth Group, you can do that at Amazon, you can do that at Barnes & Noble, better yet, your local indie bookstore, and you send us your pre-order receipt, we will pick a random person who has pre-ordered to pick a movie for us in the future.

You can just make us watch Over the Top again, by the way, if you want. We will re-review Over the future. You can just make us watch Over the Top again, by the way, if you want. We will re-review Over the Top. So yeah, go to bits.ly slash youthgroupbook. You can see some of the art

and you can get a bunch of those pre-order links. Just shoot us an email to freewithads at maximumfun.org. Give us your pre-order receipt and we will enter you into the contest

to pick a movie for us in the future. Get it, you guys. Get it. Why not? Get it, you guys. Get it. Why not? Get it, get it, get it. Well, see you next time. We don't believe in anything. Get him, Smasher. What are we watching next week?

Tune in next week when our movie will be Death Becomes Her with Bria Grant and Mallory O'Mara from the Reading Glasses podcast. Okay, bye! Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows. Supported directly by you.