God Awful Movies - 442: Best Friends Recycled
Episode Date: February 6, 2024This week, Michael Marshall joins us for an atheist review of Best Friends Recycled. In our ninth foray into the Donald James Parker filmography, we dive into the direct sequel to the adventures of T...ony and Jackson from Best Friends Eternally. In this installment, almost nothing happens again. --- To get tickets to see us live in Orlando, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/god-awful-movies-live-in-orlando-florida-tickets-778242784117 --- Check out more from Marsh on Be Reasonable and Skeptics with a K --- If you’d like to make a per episode donation and get monthly bonus episodes, please check us out on Patreon: http://patreon.com/godawful Check out our other shows, The Scathing Atheist, The Skepticrat, Citation Needed, and D&D Minus. Our theme music is written and performed by Ryan Slotnick of Evil Giraffes on Mars. If you’d like to hear more, check out their Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EvilGiraffesOnMars/?fref=ts All our other music was written and performed by Morgan Clarke. To hear more from him, check him out here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/
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And he remembers the Jezebel incident and he realizes that he's never told her about
it.
So he's like, hey, actually, I have some very serious stuff to talk to you about.
I once several months before we met had sex with a woman.
Yes.
She is wrecked by this news.
Destroyed by the thought of him having consensual sex with another person.
Which I mean we're all destroyed by that fool, but he's destroyed for a different reason.
God awful movies. Movie!
Welcome back to the Gamecast, where each week we sample another selection from Christian Cinema because somehow that seemed like a good idea once. I'm your host, Noah Lusian, so he's gonna be unable to join us this week, but sitting 900 miles to my northeast isn't my bad friend Eli Bosnik Eli.
How are you this fine afternoon, sir?
Poppin' Marsh's DJP Cherry, that's how I am, Noah.
Fuck yeah, yeah, we are excited.
Hell yeah.
To welcome back the host to be reasonable,
the co-host to scout this with a K
and the project director of the Good Thinking Society,
Michael Marshall Marsh.
Welcome back, sir.
It's great to be here.
And you know what?
I held off for so long never being exposed
to Donald James Parker.
I thought I'd lasted out and never have to see him.
And yet here we are, you finally got me.
This is worse than when I eventually got COVID.
Yeah.
This is like I went long enough avoiding DJP
and now he's finally got me.
There's no vaccine for him either.
No, there is no. There is no vaccine.
I became obsessed in high school
with being the first person my friends smoked pot with.
That's what I feel with about John L. James Parker.
Yeah, right.
I want to punch my friends in the chest while they're watching it so they cough real hard.
Get the full experience.
Marsh, do you see he's curing cancer with natural means?
Marsh, Marsh, I have so many times in my notes I have just written, welcome to the
Gramps of Earth
So okay, so tell us what will we be breaking down today Marsh?
So we watched the bafflingly titled best friends recycled
It's the story of how smart funny attractive and desirable Donald. Parker thinks we'll think he is.
Yes. Well, he has to point it out. He has to point it out several times.
Yeah, he can have all the characters pointing all of them in order.
At all times. Yeah.
Yes, exactly. And Eli, how bad was this movie?
Well, if you love Donald James Parker's hilarious back-and-forth banter, but you long for the serious hard-hitting movie-making of the unexpected
Bar Mitzvah and Philadelphia. You will love this movie.
Yeah, so this is actually, I went back and I counted, this is the ninth Donald James Parker movie that we've done.
I wrote a list of my notes and I'm like,
it's just not funny for that long.
I shouldn't do it, it's really depressing.
I believe this is the first direct sequel though.
So quick refresher, in Best Friends Eternally,
Donald James Parker talked his atheist best friend, Jackson,
out of burning in hell for all of eternity.
But just as Jackson was being saved by Jesus,
Donald James Parker was being seduced
by a much younger attractive woman
who turned out to be an evil slut lady named Jezebel.
Oh!
So Jezebel was in the first films.
This was not clear to me.
I must have missed that when you guys went through it.
So I was baffled whenever they kept referring
to the Jezebel incident.
Completely baffled.
Oh, yeah. Right, right.
No, that was the first movie. Completely. Oh yeah. Right, right.
No, that was the first movie.
And Noah, this, that movie was so crazy.
You forgot someone shot him in that one.
Yes, they did.
It didn't even occur to Noah to mention someone shot him in that one.
Right.
All right, so does anything you guys want to nominate this one for being the best to
be the worst at?
Yeah, I'm going to go straight in with best worst health scare.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Because I did not see this coming.
Maybe it's because I don't know much about Donald James Parker, but he mentions to his
newfound love that he had sex once, and she immediately assumes that means he's dying of
AIDS and she can't marry him, and he has to go and get an AIDS test and basically just
kill himself now because his future's dead, because he's definitely's definitely gonna develop HIV because that time he had sex that once.
I did not see that coming. That was a wild reaction to someone having one slip with somebody. Yeah, amazing.
It's so fucking amazing.
Podcast listener, I cannot emphasize to you enough how hard a right turn this movie takes into being about whether Donald James Parker has AIDS
because he had consensual sex with another adult in Milwaukee once.
Specifically AIDS, not like asexually transmitted disease even, but specifically, I put best
worst AIDS, Marsh.
I had very similar thoughts.
Yes.
If I can part the curtain slightly for you,
podcast listener, when we get a really good one,
I like to shoot, because I always watch first,
I like to shoot no little message,
just like, hey, you're expecting this,
but you're gonna get this.
I was literally just like, hey,
whatever you're expecting, it's so much worse.
And all my messages back from Noah's,
they won't stop saying AIDS.
My God, my God, how many times are they
going to say AIDS?
It's incredible because like, and the listeners may not, may not understand what we're really
talking about here. There is no indication that the person Donald James Parker had sex
with had AIDS or no, as far as I tell, was the type of person in this movie universe
who might have had AIDS. It was just somebody he slept with and therefore
like all premarital sex results in AIDS every single time.
I put in my notes at one point. I would love to see Donald James Parker take a stab at
the ratio of AIDS per extramarital sexual liaison.
Right?
100%. 99.
Yeah.
And just be clear, this isn't us advocating like go out there and raw dog. You'll be fine. That's not
One third of us is probably thank you. We're in a time. No, it is neutral
Marshes against and I am for I ain't gonna be your Sweden here, man
And I'm gonna take best worst chess
And I'm gonna take best worst chess
So look we've seen some bad chess across these movies But this movie is going to begin with two old men having an argument about whether or not you're allowed to take moves back a
Privilege that I had lost when I was three and a half
And I wrote down oh he's trying to heath this game of chess.
I'm just going to leave that there and when everyone else decide what that means.
All right, we're all itching to dive back into the Grams of Versa.
We're going to keep the break brief.
When we come back, we'll dive into all the budgetless nonsense that is best friends.
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And then after bell well, that's when Jackson meets two lovely ladies
And you know he thinks they might just be the perfect to set up with you know me, but he's not so sure
He's not sure Donald Donald. Yes Chip Ross Eddie
Me, but he's not so sure. He's not sure. Uh, Donald. Donald.
Yes, Chip Rose, Eddie.
I've been typing the script for six hours.
At this point, we're going to have to make two movies.
Does this story, uh...
Yeah, no, most definitely because I have...
Oh, Heavens to Betsy.
I have a full 200 more pages of truly
whip-crack banner between me and my lady love to go through, so...
Oh, okay. Hey, uh...
I guess I'll go get more paper then?
Yeah, yeah I could use a refill on the old H2O!
Hey, hey Chip!
Yeah Donald?
Why are you making these movies?
I have no idea Donald.
I have no idea.
So inexplicable.
They don't appear to be related. What the fuck is happening?
And we're back for the breakdown and we're going to open up on Donald James Parker with Jackson.
That was his best friend from Best Friends Eternally and they're playing chess together.
Right. And it is a bad sign that the movie had to scrimp on the chess set budget because this is
the I'd say the cheapest chess set I have ever seen in my life. It's just yeah, it's a bad sign that the movie had to scrimp on the chess set budget because this is the I'd say the cheapest
Chess set I have ever seen in my life. It's it's yeah, it's a placemat. It is a placemat. Yeah. Yeah, it's just it's a
Fabric chessboard with chess men on it. Yeah, so and we get like a
So we watch this for a second
We watch Donald James burgers start with e4 and then Jackson just sitting there going well shit. I have never
Donald James Berger start with E4 and then Jackson just sitting there going well shit. I have never
That was a real thinker
There I wrote my notes their chest openings appear to be move the pieces
And also so the music cuts in the music and the font of this fucking movie are sure that it is a soft core Star Wars themed gay porn
Also, it's rare that I say like I'm so glad our medium exists
Versus these movies because we get to describe their quote-unquote banter rather than you having to experience it
Because it's it's like two pretty far gone dementia patients
Referencing a Marx Brothers movie that does not exist
Two different Marx Brothers movies so like one is doing one movie the other is doing it right? Yes, they don't realize yeah neither of which exist
Yeah, and so and we're gonna get this like montage of them being buddies right we watch them fish and we watch them hang out together
We watch them play chess a different time with a different set of chess men.
Same placemat board, but different chess men.
And I only bring this up because there's this great moment where they're like,
you know, they're like, okay, we'll just be mulling over a move.
But they haven't decided whose theoretical turn it would be.
So they sit there mulling over the move and then they both go to move a piece at the same time.
And it cuts away.
No way. Oh, damn it. Yeah.
Maybe one was like gonna like react defensively to whatever the the attack. Yeah, right.
Slaps his hand. How dare you, sir?
Yeah, right. There's also there's a part during this like hanging out with my buddy montage where like Jackson sat on the on the sofa and
Like Donald James Parker Tony, he's just like kneeling over the arm of the sofa
Staring at Jackson's chest from like three inches away And it's such a weird thing like he just comes in and starts kneeling next to the arm of the sofa where his friend is
It's it's it's remarkable. See I don't know what that was
I think these are all scenes from the first movie and maybe that had some significance there and I don't remember it because you know I've tried to scrub most of this from my mind but yeah.
So but eventually the song fades out and we see them mid-chest match. Donald James Parker
makes a move and then Jackson thinks that he's got checkmate but he doesn't so he starts
talking shit about how bad he's about to checkmate Donald James Parker.
Oh god, he's such a patronizing dick. It's it's unsufferable. And I don't know whether
you're supposed to think, oh, this is like hilarious back and forth, or whether you're
supposed to think this man is like the most obnoxious and irritating person ever. Because
I've never seen these characters before. I thought they were trying to establish
him as being a horrible, obnoxious, irritating person you're supposed to hate.
No. But they don't. This is meant to be like friendly, frothy banter back and forth.
No, this is friendly banter, right? This is Donald James Parker and whoever the fuck this
guy is being like, you know, when you and I are fucking going, when we play, like, why
isn't this a movie? We are just like Seth Rogen, but we're filled with the light of the Lord.
Filled with the light of the Lord. That's exactly what I was going to say. We need to capture this.
Well, that's the thing, Marsh. That like Donald James Parker, the guy writing this dialogue,
is the least likable human being you've ever met. He is the most irritating bastard you can imagine.
So this is to him what dialogue should sound like, right?
Yeah. And again, it would be bad if they were speaking it in regular time,
but they're all apparently being fed their lines through an earpiece attached to like a mimeograph or
something. Because it's like, I'll tell you what, Jackson, if you think you've got me got.
If you keep the camera rolling to keep all this
in the movie.
This was actually written in the script.
Oh, it's too far forward.
We're on the tape.
Yeah, it's like every line has to be like bounced off a satellite on the moon.
And we visit it.
It's got there's a delay.
Just wait.
It'll come.
It'll come.
Okay, we've got it now.
And also, by the way, when he's not talking, Jackson smacks and slurps his goddamn mouth
so fucking much, I felt like his tongue was doing parkour in there. It was so gross.
I told him, don't put six Jolly Ranchers in your mouth right before they turn the camera on,
but would he listen? Right. No, it's it's Heath eating a fucking caramel.
Right. Oh, speaking of Heath, this is also where he decides it.
Because John Lowe's James Parker is like, ah, but I'll get you with the secret.
But my bishop is right fucking there and I took your queen move.
And then he's like, oh, I should probably you should probably let me take that move back now.
Huh. And I'm like, OK, Heath. All right.
Like all serious chess players.
Yeah. This is why he says like, oh, because he lets him take the move back,
he says, are you all you won? Which reminds me, what about the one you or me? It's like,
so you're even then you've just right.
No, obviously, right.
Right. But this is where Jackson's going to introduce the plot. He's like, remember
from early the last movie, you agreed to let me pick out your next wife for you.
Yeah. Like he's browsing a catalog. You just like pick him on right off the shelves.
Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Exactly.
And Donald James Parker is like, well, I don't know about that.
I don't know if I'm sufficiently recovered from the quote, Jezebel incident.
Fuck yeah.
Now, this is a reference, of course, to the first movie,
but I guess Marsh didn't know.
I didn't know that.
I held back this information from Marsh on purpose
because I wanted it to be more mystifying, if anything.
I assume the Jezebel incident was about an article where Donald Parker got me too.
Just like, oh, yeah, there's that expose in Jezebel about him.
OK, yeah, right, right.
I feel like Donald Parker would get me tooed
if he wasn't too busy doing bits to sexually harass people.
Like, I'm sure there have been several Christmas parties
where he's been like, you know,
in the saying of the old Marx Brothers move up,
you're gone, never mind.
I was gonna take my dick out and put it in my coffee cup,
but you've already walked across the room.
Oh, Donald, now your dick's in the coffee cup
for no reason.
Again.
Yeah.
So yeah, and so, you know, Jackson's like, well, come on, man, you got to get back on that horse. Even if your rear end did get bruised. And he goes, it wasn't my
rear end that got bruised. And I'm like, wait, what?
There's a lot of weight. What's it? Yeah, every line of dialogue could be followed that way. Yeah. Tien us up man
You know how Christians constantly fall for that the Leviathan had a big old tail
It's a dick joke, but they don't know it's a dick joke because they're afraid of their own dicks
That's how Donald Parker writes his own movies like he's trapped by his own words
He just constantly be like what should go up there and we're like, I did you write the ditch?
Are you pranking you, Donald James Parker?
Right, right.
And then he's like, oh, and hey,
I got us approved to go visit that prison.
And I was like, what a lazy way to introduce the fact
that the next scene is gonna happen in a prison.
But no, we're never gonna hear about this again
in any fucking way.
No, and this is baffling to me,
because I thought, okay, this is definitely going to come up.
So why did they bring the prison up here?
Do you think there was a scene that either got deleted,
they can't have been a scene that was deleted
because there's no way Donald J. Parker
hasn't like filmed something and immediately released it.
There's not nothing on the cutting room.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
Maybe they showed up at the prison and the guys were like,
no, actually we saw your last movie.
So we decided no.
We watched Best Friends Forever or whatever the last one was and we actually all got out
of prison because it violated the Eighth Amendment.
Yes.
All right.
So then we cut to this diner where a bunch of Christian single ladies are complaining
that there just aren't enough good Christian men available.
Oh, this diner being Forts Restaurant on the Square.
Yes.
And I know that because we hang on the sign
for the restaurant for about like 15, 20 seconds.
Yes.
And there's no way that this isn't like deliberately there
because this is the only way that you were allowed
to film in there is if you put up on the screen,
the name of the restaurant
and just parking out back as well.
That's a real plus.
I even, I looked up the thoughts online.
It is a real place.
It describes itself as a steakhouse with an Italian flair
and it turns out an MSN email address.
So that's the level of quality we're working with.
Okay, all right.
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It's just every single one of them is like,
yeah, the staff hiding behind their phone,
taking pictures.
It's really funny.
Amazing.
We should, as we do our live tour,
we should like write down all the terrible restaurants
we've accidentally seen and gone and eaten them,
do our own diners, drive-ins and dives,
little, you know, interview with the owner.
Okay, so what does John O'Parker have pictures of you doing that you will let him be in his
restaurant?
So, yeah, so these four women are talking, there's two younger women and two older women,
right?
Yes, and these women are the hot and horny singles in your area that you might have
read.
Yes, you've seen so much about it.
And the one of them that you know immediately is supposed to be Donald
James Parker's love interest. She says, well, you know, the most important thing is to find
a man who isn't bald and doesn't have a gut. And I'm like, okay, it's slice to Eli aside
here. I'm surprised that she didn't mention how important it was to have an obsession
with self aggrandizing films and a Mickey Mouse voice. You know, what I'm looking for
is a guy who looks like, you know,
remember the fly, what if there was a Q-tip
in the machine instead of a fly?
Well, that's what I'm looking for.
I wanna see the popcorn guy on Casual Friday.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what gets me wet.
And there's this great moment where like a handsome guy
walks by and one of the younger women goes
for the sexy cougar growl thing, but she fails entirely.
She fails to make a growl sound.
And I would have watched the rest of this two hour movie had just been her being like,
go, rah, rah, rah.
I don't know how to.
You're saying roll my arms.
I roll, I roll, I roll, I roll.
I roll, I roll, I roll.
Roll your arms.
So yeah.
But yeah, but we established that this, what this older woman is looking for is an Rararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararararar dropping on these women. Has he gone there for that reason? Cause he was just saying, like, I'll leave the one to pick out your next wife.
And then we see him like just hanging out in a diner,
tuning into random strangers conversations.
Is he on the prowl?
Cause he's also, he's wearing like a beige shirt
and against a beige wall.
Like he's gone camouflage.
So he's like,
like a native to observe these women in the wild.
So yeah, so, but the women, the older women are like, you know, what I want is a man I
can submit to wrote Donald James Parker, then paid a woman to read.
But the young women are like, well, I don't want to submit to no man.
That's that's old fashioned.
I 100% initially thought the submission talk was like BDSM stuff because I forgot that
in the world of this movie, wives submit to their husband.
And I thought it was just that this woman was just like
really open and comfortable about who she is
and what she's into and you're like, good for her.
Bringing that up over lunch.
But no, this was, I need to be property.
No way less healthy than beating the shit
out of your partner, Marci.
This is some perverse shit right here.
Some harmful garbage right now.
So, but the younger women are like, I'm not gonna submit to no man., but the younger women are like, you know, I'm not going to submit to no man.
And so the older women are like, how many times have you all been divorced?
And they're both like three.
79.
Yeah, I wrote my notes.
I see because Marsh and I were writing notes at the same time.
And then he stopped and I wrote my notes.
Oh, I'm assuming Marsh stopped writing notes for this scene because Nicola has kicked his
television to pieces. wrote in my notes, oh, I'm assuming Marst up writing notes for this scene because Nicola has kicked his television
to pieces.
So yeah, so these older women explain all the wonders
of submitting to your husband.
They say like, well, you know, I just figured, you know,
God gave him a penis so that it could have a third vote
when we argued.
Literally.
Yeah.
And that was great.
And they're like, well, I don't want my husband to make all the decisions. They're like, well, you know, my husband was
a great leader and he never made rash choices. And I'm like, yeah, no, that sounds like men,
the men that I've met in my life.
Absolutely. Especially the ones who are devout Christians who force their wives to submit
to them. Oh, yeah, yeah. Never.
And cool, great decision makers. Chill people who I do not see photos of during vulgarity
for charity. Let me tell you. great decision makers. Chill people who I do not see photos of during Volgarity for Charity.
Let me tell you.
And is this where she says, you know, my responsibility,
like my husband's responsibility is to be in charge
and my responsibility to God is to be submissive?
Yes.
At which point, I think Doris or one of the other ladies says,
gag me with a spoon.
Okay, she also thought this was a king conversation.
She's on the same page.
Yeah. The way that nobody involved in the making of this film understands what
gag me with a spoon is a reference to.
It's so beautiful.
It's like when you see a baby swear or give the middle finger by accident.
It's like gag me with a spoon and the entire restaurant's like, why?
Why a spoon?
I don't get it.
And then we get this great bit where like one of the women is like, so wait, are you
saying that it's my fault that, you know, all these divorces are my fault that I had
because I wasn't a doormat. And then like they have to dance around the fact that that
is exactly what they're saying. Yes, that's absolutely what they're saying.
So the two younger women wander off. They're like, well, we don't want to have this conversation. And the two older
women, this is Doris and Julie, they said they're going like, oh, all the damn feminism
in the church now. Yes. The feminist movement sure has been successful in infiltrating the
church. Baptist fucking church. Yeah. If there's one thing we can say about the modern American religious scene is that
it's dominating philosophy is feminism. And that's what they call the zero-thwave feminists.
And since the next scene also takes place at the same restaurant immediately after that,
we get another establishing shot. We go back outside and look at the sign again.
Which can only feel like a contractual obligation as part of the location.
You said you'd show it twice.
It was going to get at least twice.
He's sitting there while Chip is editing Chip.
It hasn't been seen.
There's no one seen the front of my restaurant for like 25 minutes.
Yeah, right?
Right, yeah.
You promised me Chip.
My lunch hour.
I wasted my lunch hour on your movie.
So yeah, so but Jackson invites himself over
to that table to chat with Julian Doris.
By the way, their dishes and stuff have now been cleared away
leading into this scene.
So what are they waiting for?
Oh, you know everyone in this movie is a sit at an empty table
for an extra hour just talking person, right?
I mean, they're all drinking glasses of water
with a single slice of lemon.
So like they are gonna be super popular in that diner.
Yeah.
Can you bring me more sugar too for this water?
So yeah, so he sits down at the table, doesn't ask permission or anything.
He just sits down and he's like, hey, you know, I couldn't help but listening in on
your conversation like a weird fucking creep.
And it just so happens that I know a great guy who's looking for a woman to submit to him
Yeah, what any would either ladies like to marry my BFF even calls him his BFF. Yeah, like 60 something
He calls me BFF. It's cringe worthy. Yeah, if you have a best friend
That's not a dog in a Disney movie that I'm watching during the day because I have the flu you need medical help
I thought you were my...
Never mind, never mind Eli, you know, never mind.
All right, no illusions.
I challenge you to introduce me to anyone
as your best friend the next time we're in public.
Oh, BFF in particular, yeah.
BFF, yeah, obviously.
This is my BFF-y line.
So they start talking about, you know,
he's like, would either you be interested
in being the love interest
and they have to
spend a few minutes talking about how 65 is pretty old, but you can still be hot and
spry at 65, right?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I mean, if it was the right 65-year-old, we would spend the rest of the movie talking
about how intellectually and sexually dominant he was for sure.
Yeah.
And it's great because she does say, like, oh, she talks about, oh, I like 65 seems a little old. And he actually says, you did say you liked older men. And
he's basically almost saying, like, Oh, check the tape. If you could just rewind the tape.
Yeah, right. Right. Right.
You can bring me a tape saying it. Throw in the red flag.
We wrote in the script that you like older men. Yeah. And she says 65 would be at my
limit. It's okay. So what's the problem here? It's at your limit and not over your limit.
Right. Yeah. Exactly. What do you's the problem here? It's at your limit and not over your right. Yeah, exactly limit is so
But but you know she says the woman to Doris is she's like, oh, yeah, no, I would definitely be interested and and
Julie is like, I don't know. I'm pretty physically active. I don't think a 65 year old could keep up with me
That's not a sex thing by the way. Don't get excited. No, sadly
So but they agree to meet him there at six he's like, I'll tell you what why don't you guys just come here early and I'll show up with him
at six and we'll pretend that it's not a date and I'm like why the fuck are you setting this
shit up like you guys are in middle school. A 14th century farce and I will say can I say
this movie genuinely made me appreciate Shakespearean and other farces more. Right?
Because watching this play out,
like people trying to push their fists through a pound of Play-Doh,
I was like, oh my god, wow, it really is impressive how quickly those things can be established.
It played out when everyone's not a fucking idiot.
I'm like, ah, I wonder what the scene's the other way.
It's almost like in the script, he's painted himself into a corner.
That wasn't there.
Like he's painted the corner and then painted himself into it.
It's like that you're a guest speaker at QED Instructions, right?
Which have now been idiot-proofed.
It's like, and by the way, don't sexually harass anyone.
Don't sexually harass yourself.
Don't sexually harass people outside of the hotel.
Bring them inside and then continue to sexually harass people outside of the hotel, bring them inside, and then continue to sexually
harass them there.
It's the, we spelled this out because Eli's ruined it
for everybody of Farz creating.
So, okay, so now we cut to Donald James Parker's house
where Jackson's playing chess with him some more.
And Jackson, he's trying to figure out how to trick
Donald James Parker to go into dinner with him on Friday
and meet Doris and Julie.
So what he's gonna do is he's gonna sit there
and lick and smack at us for 30 goddamn seconds
while he brings up the nerve,
like a goddamn 12 year old boy
at his first school fucking dance
to ask Donald James Parker on a date.
Like the stage direction said behaves suspiciously
and he's acted every single letter of that
stage direction. He's not letting a single space go unacted.
Yeah. And so he's like, hey man, do you want to go to dinner with me on Friday up to Fortes
where they have parking in the back apparently and mirror specialist? And he says, well,
you know, I'd love to, but Friday is when I'm going to start my fast. He says, I'm fasting.
So God will tell me what to do to help orphans and widows.
Yeah.
He really, he wants to help the widows and the orphans and his solution is don't eat
for a while.
Yeah, that's going to name it.
That's going to absolutely solve it.
That should help.
You don't see enough widow centric charities.
Can I say that?
I would like to see more people just going up to lady
at her husband's funeral being like,
so you want some fucking money?
At what age you stopped being an orphan as well?
Like if you're 60 and then your parents die,
are you then an orphan?
Are you an orphan then?
These are great questions.
Right, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, so I don't honestly,
I don't know what else happened in this scene
because I just wrote my notes.
If I don't make it and the investigators
are reading these notes later,
let it be known that it was Jackson's disgusting cacophony
of mouth noises that did me in.
I used to drink soup on our podcast
and I've never seen Noah in as much pain
as he was during this scene.
And it's so hard because like so far the tension
in this movie has been a restaurant booking.
That's the height of tension.
Yes. How can we get this restaurant booked? And he says, oh, do you want to go to
Forte? And he's like, oh, but the chicken there is amazing. It's always delicious. Like, yeah,
you might as well have fucking ended that description of the chicken with a fucking discount
code. Right. This is Forte's slash best friends. That's B-E-S-D. Yeah. Right.
Again, I just have to talk about how belabored this language is because unless you watch this
movie you won't understand it, right?
The line that Donald James Parker meant to write is, fine, twist my arm about it.
This is what he said.
Why do I have this sensation that my arm is being twisted behind my back?
What?
Every line is written like that too. But eventually he does agree to go. So we cut to
the restaurant where Doris and Julie are already waiting. Jackson walks up and he, this is great
bit where he's supposed to be, you know, poorly selling that, oh, we just ran into each other,
but he's such a bad actor that we don't know that, right? We just have to pick it up from context.
He's poorly selling the poorly selling. It, it's like a metaverse thing.
Yeah, exactly. It's impossible to tell from his regular acting because of how bad it all is.
That's just, I can't tell what he's going for. Yeah. Right. And as Mars probably didn't notice,
but I would imagine Eli noticed the girl, the hostess here is the girl from Gramps Goes to College.
Hell yeah, she is. An extended Gramps averse here.
So they sit down like he's like,
oh look, I've just run into two women
that are sitting in a restaurant
with two open chairs across from them.
What are the odds?
Let's sit down.
Now, Donald James Parker is so stupid,
he does not figure out that this is a setup at this moment.
No, right?
No.
It takes him a while. Which means we could trick
Donald James Parker into eating with us so fucking easily.
Oh, what he just said.
He could just hang out in his town and there's no question we could be like, hey, this bathtub full of urine doesn't have anyone sitting in it
and he'd be like, alright then.
Oh my, you really, like, why do I have the sensation that my arms... I also just have to point this out.
The very first thing that Donald James Parker has written for this woman to say about him
is, Tony, your slim build reminds me of a runner.
He wrote and then paid an attractive woman to say to him.
Very normal thing to say to someone the first time you meet them.
The first thing you say.
Yeah, absolutely normal stuff.
I know a woman in Tokyo who will let you lie in her bathtub while she vomits on you.
She would have said no to this lie.
She would have been like, absolutely not.
My man, what's going on?
That's gross.
Yeah.
So she says that they bond over cycling.
They're both bicyclers, right? She goes, do
you take supplements too? And he says, are you kidding me? I'm possibly the dumbest person
there is. I take dozens.
Yeah, both me and Noah's notes are like, huh, Marsh? Huh? You thought it was just that?
What if the grams are first?
It is dangerous too, right? It is dangerous. It's like, it's like, Marsh, we, Marsh, you're
getting to experience what we all get to experience in a be reasonable episode, right? It is dangerous. It's like, it's like Marsh. We, Marsh, you're getting to experience what we all get to experience in a be reasonable episode,
right? Because Marsh knows the people on be reasonable are crazy. He gets,
he needs to get them to admit it. And that's what it's like with the Dan
James Parker movie. It's like, say cancer, just say cancer and he'll do a weird fucking thing.
But yeah, they bond over how health conscious they both are incorrectly.
And then the server shows up to take their order and then correct me if I'm wrong.
The movie passes out from boredom and then wakes up after they've ordered.
It's like the camera blinks us and we fade to black and then unfade to black at the same
table at the same time.
But we've just censored out what food they'd ordered.
Like we weren't allowed to out what food they'd ordered. Like we weren't
allowed to say what they were actually eating. Maybe that was part of it. Maybe four days,
they like to keep their restaurant at their menu a bit of a surprise.
Oh, there you go.
You can show the restaurant, but don't say what we're cooking. That's a surprise when you get here.
That's trade secrets.
And can I throw this out there? I'm going to call my shot here. I'm going to say it's not possible
to watch whatever
Donald James Parker does when he orders food without punching him
So what I imagine is they set the camera up and he was like and then each square of said tacos needs to be and the people
Just running out and hitting him from the can they were like, you know, we'll just won't show it in the movie
Right
Cruising all along his other side.
Yeah.
You've got to heat the soy milk to like 80 degrees,
but no higher than 80 degrees or it'll burn.
Okay.
Now you did COVID.
Yeah.
So then DJB loudly announces that he's got to go wash his hands
before he eats, right?
So he walks away.
Yeah.
He washes his hands.
He's a real catch.
He's the kind of guy who washes his hands,
snap him up ladies.
Yeah.
Right, yeah, exactly.
So, and this is, God, Jesus,
the error gets required to write this scene
is just staggering.
He walks away and everybody's just like,
so him, huh?
The guy who wrote the lines that we're saying now.
So there is one line that's not about how cool he is when they get up,
because they need to determine that Julie wants him, but Doris doesn't.
So Doris says that he's too scrawny for her.
I want to tell James Parker to run an inside tackleer.
Fucking bitch, who's scrawny now?
Yeah, yeah.
Or Bristol will be right fucking now.
But her line is essentially saying, well, if anything, he's too fit and healthy and sexy.
Yes, right. Yes, exactly. Exactly.
Yeah, and Julie's like, well, I sure like how he acts young for his age.
Yeah, trying to resist the passage of time is a big turn on for her.
He's really into that.
Yeah, we've talked on occasion about making God-awful movies the movie.
And one of my conditions is now that just every so often an extra will have to wander by and be like, wow, that past gadgets, there's beard is as thick and virulent as it is delicious.
I love that you used virulent.
Those are the words my brain provided.
This is also where she says, you know, well, if I have to decide now after like 25 seconds of interaction, she's like, I'm not sure, but if I have to decide right now, yeah, I'll
marry him.
That's basically what she says at this point.
Yes.
She's leaning towards smash.
And then there's a moment to her, Jackson's like, so do you go bicycling with him?
And he's like, oh, I could never keep up with Donald James Parker, the fucking speed demon
blur of a bicyclist that he is. And I realized at that moment
that that's what the Recycled is doing in the title. Because they're bicyclists, cycles, and they're
Why the fuck else would it be called best friends, recycles?
Great question.
So I wondered if it's because like they were married and now they're getting married again,
and does he consider that like recycling?
Well, sure, sure. But then, but it's a double,
it's a double meaning.
It's very clever, Marsha.
He's never done a double meaning.
He's, he struggles for one meaning.
I don't think he's done a single meaning.
I was gonna say, yeah.
And also he has, and I have to point this out,
he has resting mortified by the second tiny head
growing out of your neck face.
He sits back down at the thing
and he's just supposed to be chatting
with the chick, but the whole time he's staring at her like she just vomited and didn't realize.
And the conversation they have, because obviously she loves cycling too, and they have to have a
long conversation about cycling, but they start bonding over what width of tires they use on
their road bike compared to their hybrid bike and the various weather
suitability of those tires. Oh, gosh. So then Jackson and Doris get up to each use the bathroom
such that they leave Julie and Donald James Parker alone. So they bond over. She's like,
hey, do you love alkaline water? And he's like, I do love alkaline water.
Mer still has to do it.
I also think Walt could be turned into magic, yes.
Magic water, that's the thing is the,
it's the fuck, nonsense is the background noise
of this film.
It doesn't even need to be at the forefront.
There might as well be someone doing like homeopathic
distillations in the background of one of the scenes
just whacking water around to the four directions. someone doing like homeopathic distillations in the background of one of the scenes, just
whacking water around to the four directions. The way it just comes by with a pair of dowsing
rods to try and find the food. Yeah, right. Don't mind me just finding bombs for the government.
Yes. And so, and of course, they're trying to do this thing where like they have so much in
common. So he'll be like, you know, I like alkaline water. I also like alkaline water. I take a lot of supplements.
I also take a lot of supplements, but they go one too far.
She's like, you know, well, you know, my wife died about three years ago.
And she's like, my husband also died about three years ago.
Like, no, that doesn't count, ladies.
No, they're crushed into each other and they both smoothed their both eyes.
They killed each other in a murder homicide.
They killed each other in a murder homicide. So, so yeah, so, uh, murder homicide.
Murder homicide, that's right.
Stick it to it.
I have, Marsh gave me COVID through the long way and now you're here.
I am.
Yep.
You know where you're at, man.
Fighting through my illness.
My co-fund me keeps getting rejected.
So then they have this bizarre fucking moment
where they're like, hey, you know what would be funny
is if when they come back,
cause like this is where Donald James Parker
starts to think, hey, wait a minute,
this has all been a setup, hasn't it?
And Angel is like, yeah, it was a setup.
He's like, hey, here would be a fun thing that we could do.
Why don't we pretend like we're leaving to go make out
when they get back? Not just make out, an extreme make out session. And the word extreme is a crazy
inclusion in that sense. They're gonna do it on a skateboard. Yeah. So and then she says,
oh, I got an even better one. What if we just pretend to hate each other
when they get back and then go make out?
And I'm like, I've had that one used against me before,
Donald, don't fall for it, but he does.
Yeah.
Cause he has to then reiterate, okay, we'll do that.
But like everything I say is a lie,
cause I actually really like you.
And the part of the conversation where he's talking
about how he likes her is so stilted,
it feels like it's part of a language learning app for non-native speakers.
Right.
Because he said, I prefer dark hair and brown eyes like yours.
And she says, yes, Doris prefers bigger men and she might as well carry on, I like riding
my bike but I don't like hamburgers.
What time did the supermarket open?
Don't speak about our sponsors like that, Marsh.
We're making good money off those people.
So Doris and Jackson come back together at the same time.
Apparently they have, you know, similar shitting times.
From somewhere that wasn't the toilet, because they went off to the left behind Judy to the
toilet and came back from the other side.
So I don't know why they've circumnavigated the restaurant.
They went to go look at the big fogged up dessert case.
So they come back and they sit down and Julie and Donald just start like
jabbing at each other verbally, but it's Donald James Parker line. So it's all nonsense. She says to him at one point, oh, I thought you couldn't be contained because you consider yourself
the container. What does that mean?
Could that possibly mean? Thank you, Amarsh.
At one point he says he taught English and she's like, I hate English.
It's a stupid language for stupid people.
Yeah, he goes, I taught American literature and she goes, I hate American literature.
I like British literature.
I mean, she's got a literature. I like British literature.
I mean, she's got a point.
British literature is superior.
Hey, you had a head start.
Like, my house has all been in the entire American canon.
No, that's fair. That's fair.
Yeah. We all know that, Marsh.
You win.
Right. Yeah.
You've got fucking Mike Tyson over there in Shakespeare.
Our best guy is like, fuck, I don't even know.
It's a hurtful. It's hurtful to rub that in, Marsh.
Check your privilege.
So yeah. And then this is also, of course,
where we were reminded that Jackson was a professor of science.
That's what they actually say, a professor of science.
Like he's going to assure us that we did, in fact,
a vote from filthy monkey men in a second.
So then, okay. So we cut to the end of the meal.
Apparently they've just kept up the hateful deception,
the container barbs the entire time.
And then they're like,
so we're gonna leave and go make out.
And Jackson and Doris are like, what?
And then they leave.
Yep.
And it's fucking pointless.
The whole thing is fucking pointless.
It's just impossible.
Absolutely, yes.
Yeah, well, and then, look,
if there was any chance of this being funny
at all, and there wasn't, but even if there was, it's going to be undercut by the fact
that for like the next three or four scenes, we're going to see Jackson and Doris go like,
wait, why would they do that? This doesn't make any sense at all.
I sure am bamboozled by any chicanery that was played upon me.
Yeah. No, Jackson even says,
I'm concerned for Donald James Parker's mental health.
And I'm like, well, okay,
fuck a rare moment of agreement with the film.
I suppose that's a good place for a quick break.
But we'll be back in a minute
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you and I will meet for the first time oh yes Donald I'm very excited okay good
also did you make sure you didn't have any breakfast?
Yeah, but I'm confused. Why couldn't I have breakfast?
Well, for the last movie, the actress I hired got a terrible stomach bug right at the start of production.
She was just throwing up in every scene with me.
It was a regular Cambrian explosion coming out of her, you know?
Right, right. Well, I didn't have breakfast, so I'm
sure I'll be fine. Shall we run it? Sure, sure. All right, here's the script. Okay.
Oh, Tony, I'm as attracted to you as I find you funny. Funny? You mean a money, buddy?
Oh, Tony, what a clever and interesting response. Sorry, I need the bathroom.
Man, another girl with a stomach flu.
I must be going around, Chip.
Yep, must be going around.
And we're back for more of this shit.
And we're going to rejoin the action outside the restaurant with DJ P and Julie
just yucking it up about how confused their best friends are now.
There's this great moment where she's like, wow, you were so witty, I could barely even keep up with
you. Again, that's a line he wrote and then paid a woman to see him.
It's so bad. It is so bad. Like, where is your dignity, lady? I don't care. He can't have been
paying that much. I've seen him. Exactly. We'll come to why.? I don't care. He can't have been paying that much. I've seen him. Exactly.
Will come to why.
I've seen his house.
He can't have been paying that much.
He has the same financial management firm as we do.
He's not doing well.
No way.
Right.
But yeah, so we cut back into the restaurant
where Doris and Jackson are still like,
I don't understand why they would have done the thing
that they did. And then we go back out. Donald James Parker wants to go back in and explain the joke
to Doris and Jackson and Julie's like, you know what? Fuck them. Just fuck them. Yeah.
So they go off to like hang out, but she has to she has to be clear that you know
She's no fucking whore. They're not gonna kiss on the first date
There's not gonna be any of this necking. She's heard so much about it's 2024
Right on the pacing of all this is just so glacial as well
I mean it feels like this is at least a third of the movie
Just them talking about how great the prank this was and then then cutting back to their friends, and they're just like, but that was strange.
They were, they say, the friends say,
they were insulting each other as if they were married.
It's like, okay, first of all,
you guys have really bad marriages.
If that's what your marriage is like, it's very bad.
I know why your spouses killed themselves.
She's on the same Halloween night.
All four of their spouses,
all four of them have dead spouses, right?
Yes, they're all.
No, I think Jackson is supposed to be divorced
because he only found Jesus recently.
Yeah, his one's escaped.
Okay, fair enough.
I haven't got his full backstory.
That's not fully clear to me.
No, you gotta go, but you have to watch all of them, right?
You really have to watch them in order.
You know, Marsh, you're always,
oh, I'm the guy who does the research,
but you did not watch eight Donald James Parker movies leading up to this one. I'm just saying.
So now Jackson's starting to catch on, right? We go back in and he goes, hold on a second.
Well, actually hold on a minute. Hold on a whole minute. Hold on. I'm getting. And we
do hold on a minute because we see him like think this out loud, like one eighth of a thought
at a time.
And it's like sometimes I like to watch the film at like double speed or heart 1.5 speed.
It's like the script writer was writing this at one quarter speed. So you have to like write
way to carton pick in moment. No, that's not it. Hang on. I'm just gonna get there. You know where
you're going. Jesus, kill me. I think thoughts are a conscious effort
for the cast of this movie.
Like I think the philosophical zombie theory
has proven true by the cast of all
of Donald James Parker's movies.
So is counting, we'll get there, but yeah.
So they go outside to see, they're like,
you know, I bet they're just outside laughing
and giggling and stuff at how silly we are.
So they go outside to look for them, they're not there. Dorisis is like well, maybe they're actually out having an extreme makeout session
I remember back in high school
There was this place that some people would go lovers lane and then other people would go down there and just you know
Flick their beans to the concept
Might be down there we could why don't we what go. Why don't we go watch young people have sex?
So yeah, but they do.
They go off together.
He promises to tell her the story of how he became a Christian, so he's going to play
her the first movie on the drive.
Yeah, it's great because he says, and this is a direct quote, you know, we all do things
we come to regret. In fact, I just became a Christian. It's like, yes.
So then we cut to Julie and DJP.
They're sitting on his Dodge neon or whatever, looking at the stars.
Julie says, wow, I haven't done something so zany in years.
They're talking like they pulled off the prank of the year.
They fake argued for a bit and then walked out.
It's not that zany.
No.
Get over yourself, yeah.
Oh, they try for more witty repartee.
It turns into just randomly misquoting Hannah Barbera cartoons.
Yes.
So he says, well, that would make me smarter than the average pick a nick basket boo boo.
I said, what?
Because like she said, smart and the average bear,, boo boo. I said, what? Cause like she said,
smarter than the average bear,
she was quoting Yogi Bear,
you're just naming related things.
Cause at no point does Yogi Bear ever claim
to be smarter than a picnic basket.
It's just, yeah.
Our graduates are loony tunes.
This is the other thing that I realized as well,
is like, we're at a point of media availability
where there can be an entire universe of nonsense
unrelated media that Donald James Parker contains in his head.
But like it's a cinematic universe, right?
He's like, oh, don't worry.
I don't need to watch any movie after the year 1948 because I've got all of these golden
oldies on the Turner classic movie.
Yes. Yeah. Right. Well, and okay. And then we get this bizarre fucking retcon. And I just love
Marcia's experience through this. Okay. So in the previous movie, his character loved the
book Dandelion Wine by Raid Bradbury. But after that movie came out,
somebody clearly one of his viewers wrote into him
and said, hey, you know, that book that you were promoting
there has a lot of witchcraft and Satanism in it.
Maybe you shouldn't have promoted that.
So this conversation that they suddenly
and out of fucking nowhere have about Dandelion Wine
is his way of dialing it back,
dialing his love for that book back a little bit?
Right, because that was not in any way clear. So she says, actually, I like American novels,
but there's this one book I really love that nobody but the really smartest people in the
entire world have heard of. You've probably not heard of it. He's like, I know that book.
Don't get me wrong. But then he says, and she says, but there is one chapter
that I don't like. And he But then he says, and she says, but there is one chapter that I don't
like. And he immediately comes in as the one about witches. And he talks at length about the
witch chapter. And I really wanted to say, no, no, no, not that one. I mean, the other chapter,
you know, where a kid has to go to Wisconsin, it's fucking criminal. That's fine.
Yeah. No, that's not okay. We really hate that one. Yeah.
But yeah, but this turns into this weird conversation of them both agreeing that
witchcraft actually plays a very big role in Satan's deception of mankind.
Yeah. And by the way, if you haven't seen the YouTuber who traveled to Donald James Parker's house to ask him if he's worried about witches, check it out.
It's phenomenal.
Oh, it's not a real thing.
Oh, yeah. No, absolutely. Look up Donald James Parker interview.
The video is called like I interviewed Gramps or whatever and it fucking rules.
Amazing.
Does Donald James Parker being like, please put me on be reasonable Marsh.
So crazy.
The lion ain't got nothing on me.
I was going to ask how the YouTuber managed to find his house, but it turns out
he just self-doxed on a regular basis.
In the movies.
Yeah, exactly.
We'll get there.
We'll get there.
Yeah.
So here is an actual line listeners from this conversation that the two of them have she says at one point and
Again apropos of nothing. This is as related to dandelion wine by Ray Bradbury. She says and I quote and
You know it is in proclaiming the blood of the lamb that we overcome Satan
in proclaiming the blood of the lamb that we overcome Satan. I think if someone says that and they don't turn into a monster that you're going to fight
in Bloodborne, that's a bad sign.
I don't know what proclaiming could possibly mean.
Right.
So yeah.
So yeah, then he asks her how she feels about speaking in tongues.
Now that was a major point of contention.
And like the major point, like the conflict in the previous movie was about whether
spraying in tongues was satanic.
OK, I also didn't have that context.
So I was like, OK, that's the thing he's just just bringing up.
But I thought, well, to be fair,
his dialogue is almost indistinguishable from speaking in tongues.
So I can see why this is going for him.
Sometimes people accidentally recite Donald James Parker scripts while they're attempting to speak in tongues so I can see why this is going for him. Sometimes people accidentally recite
Donald James Parker scripts while they're attempting
to speak in tongues.
Yeah, right, never tell what you're gonna get.
So yeah, they talk about their dead spouses for a bit.
Then they have this weird like,
does God have a plan for our lives moment?
What?
Of course he does.
That's their only...
Or Christian wouldn't think it,
but actually Donald James Parker is dumber than mainstream Christianity
Right. He's like well. No, God can't have a plan for us because then we wouldn't have free will and it's like
No, like I can have a plan for something that does or does not happen. Yes. Yeah, yeah, right
So yeah, it's it's so funny
But then he's like, wait a minute, are you saying that God's plan was to kill my wife with cancer and your husband with cancer and Doris's husband with cancer?
Because we only really know the one thing that people die of.
Well, we do know two diseases, but we're saving the second disease from the last third of the film.
Oh, that's right. Yeah, no, we're going to do, get a lot of use out of that one at the end. So, but yeah, but then they lament the fact
that it's really hard to believe in God these days,
what with all the access to information.
So yes.
And he says about how it's all the fault of the internet
and misinformation.
And again, I didn't know anything about who
Donald James Parker was as a person.
And so I said, oh yeah, there is no way
that Donald James Parker didn't go full queue
and on during lockdown. And then I checked and in yeah, there is no way that Donald James Parker didn't go full Q and on during lockdown
And then I checked and in 2020 he did make the movie hearts are Trump United
We will win practically a Q and on slogan at that point we we did watch that movie
You're wondering is there a rumble against Antifa in a shopping mall? Yes, there is there is a
Antifa in a shopping mall, yes, there is. There is a rumble against Antifa in a shopping mall in that film.
I must have listened to you do that and then not have registered that.
And then blacked out from sheer terror at what humanity is.
You haven't done the next film in this trilogy, which I looked ahead.
No. It's a tirade against vaccines and chemotherapy.
No, no, we have not done that one.
It's delightful. Yeah. And it's called Best Friends Genetically Modified.
So that's, it's very promising.
I'm not gonna say who shoots Donald James Parker,
but whoever you're guessing, podcast listener, you're wrong.
Yeah, nope.
Nope, it's gonna be a fun one.
So, but before we get to this,
we've got to finish this one.
So we cut to Jackson and Doris.
They're in Jackson's car, driving around,
seeing if they can find Donald James Parker
and Julie making out, I guess.
Right?
And honestly, normally I would not even talk about this scene
because nothing happens in it,
except that there's just an amazing moment
where the music cuts out
and then the scene keeps well anywaying for like 40 seconds.
It's like they were being played off.
And you know when the Oscars sometimes
they try to play them off and they just say no.
So the band goes like a... Yeah. yeah it was like that but for a movie.
So okay so then we cut over to Julius dropping Donald James Parker off
at his house after their fun night at Make Out Point or whatever. We issue it's at his house but
like all of the outdoor shots just at night here to take place with no background
So it's just completely pitch black behind them
It was when they were in the parking the famous parking lot of Forte's because we know they've got parking in the back
But that was just a plain black background. They aren't here and I thought is this also shot on a soundstage
Have they faked the whole thing like the moon landing?
Interesting Is that why the door stalls in this guy? Oh, interesting. Interesting.
I did notice Donald James Parker's flesh
was rippling in a way that wouldn't have made any sense
in an oxygen-free environment.
But they decide that they want to see each other again.
So she invites him to her church on Sunday
and maybe a bike ride after a weather permitting.
But she says that in her absolute best fuck me voice.
It's like, oh, do you want to come to my church and maybe for a bike ride after a weather permitting. She says that in her absolute best fuck me voice.
It's like, oh, do you want to come to my church
and maybe for a bike ride?
Ah, this doesn't work.
That's not a seductive offer.
She says, I want to see you again.
And he says, I think that can be arranged.
And I just want to say,
if you're a female identifying person
and you say, I want to see you again to someone and they respond with, I think that can be arranged, legally you're a female identifying person and you say I wanna see you again to someone
and they respond with, I think that can be arranged,
legally you get a Baxis.
Just so you legally-
Right, yes, absolutely, absolutely.
You did not say that.
Like in the chess game, yes.
Exactly, exactly.
Exactly.
Well, there's also this great moment here
where she's like, you know, look, we had some fun tonight,
but I don't, her actual line was,
tonight was fun, but I don't live in fun land, right?
She says I don't want to have a bunch of fun and joy in my life. I'm a Christian damn it
I want a God centered relationship. Yeah, and it's because he says that she's pretty like his granddaughter
Right. She's like, hey, when you compared me to your granddaughter just now, you were basically describing my labia menorah.
So I really need you to know that God is number one.
And then she quotes her crazy person, Bible,
because she doesn't have enough fucking crazy virginity quotes from the regular Bible.
She's like this.
Where's my Bible says they're going to eat the blood out of your dead eye sockets.
They're coming. They're coming.
Never stop running.
And he's like, yes, that is an equally valid version of the new chapter.
Yes, yes, right, right. Oh, God. He says, do you want me to pick you up for church?
She says, no, we'll just both be there. And he's like, oh, this sounds lovely. Where is it?
And she says, it's at the corner of Harper and Third. And he says, and I thought about this for a very long time last night.
I'm very familiar with that intersection.
Yes.
What?
Is there a backstory?
Was that in the first film?
I don't think.
The intersection.
All the intersections in town.
I wrote, is that where the traumatic Jezebel incident happened?
Did he have something done at that intersection?
That's where he bruised his hog.
And then at the end of the scene, he says sweet dreams. And I'm just saying, million dollar idea.
You know, those like cricket buttons that you hide in someone's house
and it makes it cheap every we should do that.
But with it's Donald James Parker saying sweet dreams sweet dreams.
You hide it in someone's house and it doesn't go off for a hundred hours or whatever.
I think it's great.
No, it's good.
I like it.
So then Donald James Parker is at his house.
He's walking around singing.
He comes into his bedroom.
He kneels down at the side of the bed like a fucking four year old to pray.
He's going to say his prayers.
Oh my God.
Oh, and this, this scene, the camera is on the side of the bed, but it's sort of shot
like there's a real estate agent trying to convince you this is to a double bedroom. I know it doesn't look like, but we can get
a double bed in.
There's a double bed in the double bedroom. It must be. I also, I just have to talk about
the terrible filmmaking that's doing here, right? Because it's supposed to be the like,
Lou, Lou, Lou had a good old time, but Donald James Parker is so enamored with himself that he just at pace sings an entire
oldie song.
He's like, something tells me a man to something good.
First verse.
Here we go.
He has to get all the way through that song.
And then he has to have his phone ring, right?
Like it says so that he can ignore Jackson's phone call.
And the whole time he's doing this, he's kneeled over ready to pray.
So he kneels over ready to pray and then sings the last three verses if I'm into something.
God gave a baby cancer out of spite when he heard that because that opens up the line to
God. He was like, Oh, fuck. You know what? Typhoon. Yeah.
Typhoon. Fair. Equal exchange. Absolutely fair. Yeah.
So yeah, Jackson calls me. He ignores it. He's like, oh, you tricked me into meeting a woman that I then fell in love with. I'll torture you a little
bit longer. And then he does his prayer, right? Where he's like, oh, hey, God, just want to let
you know if you want to meet a Mary, Julie, I'm totally in. Also, she's a big fan of your stuff.
So if you want to put in a good word for me, that'd be awesome. Yeah, he's basically asking God to be his wingman in this scene.
Yes! Yeah.
He's all in on Mary and Julie. You've walked her home once, but that's it. You're all the way in.
Yeah. So then, okay, so we cut over to Julie calling Doris, and they have like the same goddamn
repartee as Donald James Parker and Jackson have.
Yes, the literally the only reason for this scene is so that both Doris and Julie can agree that Donald James Parker won their fake insult fight.
And just to be clear, he was much cleverer than you. Yes, much cleverer, but I still like him.
Yes. So yeah, she tells Doris, but I made it clear that if he wants to marry me,
he needs my father's permission.
My heavenly father.
Oh, God.
I wanted Doris to be like,
did you just play the trombone after your own words?
Do you have a sound board?
So, okay.
So then we get what Donald James Parker
thinks is a proving scene.
This is where he stretches, where he touches his toes.
I'm sorry, touches the shit out of his toes.
I was going to say, I really need Donald Parker to be more stretchy before he brags in this
scene about it.
He is not well.
No, and he's very clearly bending his knees to touch his toes, which makes it a lot less
impressive.
Totally.
Totally.
It's like, yeah, I got up when he was, so I'm doing this.
I'm like, I bet I can do that.
I got up.
I got up and I'm like, oh, actually.
I do the same thing.
I was like, I need to know I'm more flexible than Donald James Parker.
And in fact, I am.
And then I was like, oh, that's actually kind of, that's kind of difficult.
And then I watched it and I'm like, oh, he's bending his fucking knees.
That asshole.
The cheater.
I can do it, but I have very long arms, so it's not really that much of an issue for
me.
I'm basically going to rangatang in the, in the car.
Yeah. I can skisper with my arms. not really that much of an issue for me. I'm basically going to rangatang in the middle of the card. Yeah, I can skip.
You almost can't help but touch your knees.
Marsh touches his toes by breathing out too hard, so it doesn't really.
Also, as he's like bent over touches his toes, and then his friend comes round,
and he so he stands up to speak to him, but his head is out of shot throughout the whole thing.
And also by the sound of the echo, his head is out of shot inside a cathedral
off the top of the screen, because it's so echoey up there.
There's this weird thing about this shot and it's barely worth mentioning but I do have to talk about it.
His face is glazed in a half beautiful ray of sunlight and I know it's just a coincidence right?
I know that in nine movies there was just by chance the camcorder was going to pick up something beautiful
But it's so weird to him be just being like oh, yeah, I sure do like M&M
So I like to lick them and then the candy is cut while this beautiful ray of sun cascades across his parchment skin
It was nuts for me. Well, okay
So here's what's so fucking funny about this because this was golden hour, right?
Like so it so right before right after sunrise right before sunset. There's this like, you know
45 minutes or whatever where this is you get beautiful lighting no matter what you do
So somebody told him about that he's like, oh, I'm gonna do my stretching scene in the golden hour
Which means that I already had to wake up at like 5 30 in the fucking morning to do this dumb shit or whatever
But they're inside. So like, he like, yes, we get this one gorgeous
shot of him, but every time it cuts over to Jackson, he's just drown out in shadow and
shit. You can see the golden hour light coming through the window here and there.
This is fine. I also had lighting notes. This is what I was saying. Yeah.
I also had lighting notes is what I was saying. Thank you.
But yeah, so but Donald James Parker tells Jackson off
for introducing him to a beautiful,
younger woman that seems romantically interested in him.
Right. Yeah. And he tells him off by saying, well, the next time
you put me on the menu for some female consumers,
so that is the DJP magic right there.
Isn't it? Yes.
Only he can write dialogue like that.
Also, there's just an amazing moment.
Donald James Parker literally wrote the lines backwards at the end of the scene, right?
So, what's supposed to happen is Donald James Parker is supposed to sing a joke.
Oh, yes.
And then his friend Jackson is supposed to go,
Well, you think you're the lead singer of Up With People, so I'm gonna go.
But they said the lines in the wrong order, so he says, you think you're the lead singer of Up with
People for no reason. And then Donald J Parker goes, Oh, love my little lady and dancing.
That line made sense. No second takes.
I think Jackson, I think he said to Jackson as well,
well, you need to get something that rhymes with life in this scene.
And I wrote my notes, please me knife, please tell me.
He didn't. And then I thought, actually, fewer things rhyme with life
than you might think. You really have only got a couple.
You've got strife, you've got writhe, you've got fife.
Fife. OK, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah
Yeah, I would have thought I would have been one. Yeah. All right
So then we cut to Julie and Donald James Parker on Sunday
They've just left the crowd of the church service and they walk out now
This is what's really happening is that Donald James Parker is such a bad
Writer that he's writing the exact same fucking scene that was in his previous movie, but he's aware of that
So they walk out of the church and she goes, so what did you think of my church?
And he goes, whoa, this is like deja vu in reverse.
And I'm like, that would be remembering something after it happened, wouldn't it?
Yes, or it'd be something you've never seen.
Right, yes.
Or it'd be something you have seen before, but don't remember.
Which is an experience I
think Donald James Parker probably has. Yeah he has reverse deja vu all the
fucking time. So yeah no he goes oh you know this is such a badly written movie
that this is the exact this is like the reverse scene and so they have to talk
about her church which he's not all that impressed with, apparently. Yeah, well, you know, they're talking in tongues and singing and dancing, and he's, his words
that he wrote about himself, kind of reserved and stoic.
Yes, reserved is what I was going to say about this man.
And then she says, well, haven't you ever done the wave at a ball game?
And he's like, oh, yeah, I've gotten pretty wild.
I have stood up in sequence and then sat back down again.
You're right.
I've gotten pretty fucking wacky up in this bitch.
Let me tell you.
He says at one point in this conversation, he goes, quote,
some people at my church believe that emotional music is a tool of the devil.
Well, yeah, I've got this as well. I've written down emotional music is the tool of the devil.
And the next line is the devil certainly has a field day with those outlets.
Yes.
And then the words, worshiping in spirit and truth just went shooting through my head.
And then I wrote, I'm just reduced to transcription. I can't do anything other than write down
what they're saying.
This is my life now.
There's no about.
Yeah, no, but that's just the thing.
They are now talking about whether or not dancing
is necessarily satanic.
And that's the shit that only Donald James Parker can bring.
That's like his, it's like a foot shot to tear into.
Those are the questions only he is remembering in
Graham's shoes when like just 12 minutes of the movie suddenly
were about how Satanic Harry Potter is. It's like that. You
always get at least one with James. Oh yeah. And this one we
get to this is the first one we get to here. Anyway, so they're
about to leave Doris walks up and they're like, oh, you know,
we're about to go to lunch, Doris. Would you like to go with us? And she says, sure, let's talk about Jackson.
All right.
This is where we learn that Jackson doesn't go to one church. He goes to every church because he's still trying to find one that lines up with his
batshit theology.
Yes. Yeah. Jackson has some convictions about what the Bible says that don't exactly mesh with mainstream Protestant theology is the line.
Yes.
I was just like, yeah, he just thinks bats are birds and he's gonna die on that hill.
When she said the line, if he's into the Bible, he doesn't feel comfortable in the world.
And I wrote in my notes, no Amalekites to smash. I get it.
Yeah. doesn't feel comfortable in the world, and I wrote in my notes, no Amalekites to smash, I get it. I think I'm gonna get a big rock,
nothing to do with it.
You guys freely admit that the entire world
is off limits to your weird, crazy fucking shit.
But yeah, we get a scene after that
where apparently Doris has gone to Jackson's place
to talk to him about how spiritually lonely he is.
Mm-hmm.
And he says he's lonely because trying to hook up
with Tony these days is
impossible. But like she was stood with him in the last scene, so it's not that difficult.
And also it's been like a day. It's been two days or something. It's not that difficult
to hang out with Tony. You had dinner with him two days ago and you've seen him since.
And yeah, you saw him Saturday in the morning. Yes.
Well, you know, if you consider someone to be your best friend, like a five year old
kindergartner would, then it's really important you see Tony every day and that you trade your
cupcake for his Twinkies. No, that's true. That is true. That is true. Yeah. Yeah. But so they talk
about the weird theological minutiae of what he doesn't like. And at one point she's like,
yeah, I've never even heard of a religion that believes
Whatever the fuck you're talking about. Yeah, she's like, oh
Because his point is basically that he doesn't think Paul
Means that you're literally saved forever when you're saved, which is fucking idiotic You apparently need to update your salvation like car insurance or a subscription to chess.com
your salvation like car insurance or a subscription to chess.com and Doris's response in Donald James Parker's defense about himself is, well, that's bizarre and biblically inaccurate. And
he's like, it is. It is. Yes, it is. But I do like the fact that Jackson only became a Christian
very recently, but now he thinks he understands the Bible better than anyone who ever lived,
which is like just pure white boomer comfort.
Better than Paul of Tarsus, yes.
Yeah.
Like the confidence of a white boomer is remarkable.
So then we cut over to Donald James Parker's place.
His granddaughter has been gone for the last three days, right?
We've written her out.
She's just showing back up.
This is Madison from the previous movie.
She's fucking great. She comes in, she's like, hey, Gramps. And she's, he says,
hey, I fell in love with what we were going to. And she says, well, I was only gone for,
and she pauses for like 18 fucking seconds and goes three days.
I think she was waiting until it was exactly three days. Hang on, it's still two days.
Two days, 49 minutes, 57 seconds.
Oh, God.
And so he's like, yeah, I met somebody and she says, you're quite a catch.
And I wrote, he wrote and then paid a 21 year old girl to say to him.
Yeah, she says that.
She says, I'm speaking from an impartial viewpoint as a woman, which
is a woman he hired to read those words. I've already written about it.
Yeah.
Yeah. But she warns him. She says, you know, take it slow.
Yeah, it's great. She says, would you like a little bit? She says, would a little bit
of advice be welcome? And he says, sure. And I wanted to say, okay, so first off, try and
shoot both sides of this conversation with the same lighting profile that will feel like it's happening at the same time.
And also if you just pause for like 10 seconds or so,
you get a sample of the room noise
that you can use to equalize the sound profile.
Do you feel like this whole thing's happening
at the same time?
Yeah, but his actual response to the advice question
is better because she says,
would some advice be welcome?
And he's like, I'm not gonna listen to you
because you're not me.
And she's like, all right, well,
I guess I'll keep talking then.
Yeah, he goes, you could say advice, sure.
Free country, bitch.
Starts playing with a ballast song menacingly
in front of her.
Okay, you know what, I'm just gonna go to my room.
But yeah, but ultimately she's like,
most importantly of all though, let God lead.
And I'm like
It's weird how Christians always do that shit where they'll be like the most important thing is and then they'll say the least important
Possible thing right after that. Oh every time. Yeah, and then she says now
Are you ready for me to make you some lunch? It's like she's only just walked in what does this woman?
I when he first started talking about her
I assumed it was like his in-house carer or cook, because all he talks about is like, well, Madison's going to be away,
so she won't be able to cook me meals, or Madison will be back by then and she can
cook me. As soon as she walks in, she hasn't even put a bag down and she's making this
guy food. Can he not just make his own food? He's 65.
Yeah.
Cater to yourself, Jesus.
No, but that's just the thing is he wants to establish good and goddamn well that he's
not the kind of sissy boy that cooks his own food women make his food damn it
Oh my god. Yeah, it's so explicit about that later in the movie. It's amazing
Yeah, he's not the kind of man who's a sissy man who's self-sufficient and gave
Exactly alright so plot wise clearly he thought boy meets girl is all he needed
We're gonna call this then the end of act 2 and I'm gonna give Act 3 the hard sell.
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So are you sure they don't want us to...
Yeah, very sure.
Absolutely positive, yes.
Ha ha ha.
Can I ask you something, Tony?
Oh, well, of course, Julie.
Do you believe that God has a plan for our lives?
Oh, no, Julie.
That would take away our free will.
I suppose that's true, but isn't God omnipotent?
Indeed, he is, Julie, which is why God must be born afresh each day from His great wonder egg.
Wonder egg?
Yes, yes, the universal source of all his power.
God is born each day knowing nothing, and then, as the sun sets,
he seals himself back inside so that the universe doesn't collapse in on itself
due to a known time paradox of both being seen and unseen at the same time.
Right, but what is he going to do when Christ comes back?
The egg will fail to form, and all that has ever been will collapse onto itself, infinite
realities with infinite cards, knowing all and seeing all, including himself.
Ah, and that's why we're not allowed to masturbate.
Right, got it.
This is not dumber than what we actually believe.
No, it's not, Julie. It really actually is not.
And we're back for even more of this shit.
We're going to rejoin the action with Doris and Julie having tea together,
talking about Jackson and his weird, crazy relationship to the Bible.
And Doris is wearing a ring that is so large that I think it means she's part of a secret society of terrorists.
I think that's what I'm reading.
Blackbird's coming for it.
Also, I just have to point out that I've never been more certain than this was a scene where one actor held the camera while the other one was talking and then the other actor held the camera.
I think they did it in real time and we're just watching them hand the camera back and
forth.
Oh, it's so bad.
And there's like completely different audio signatures on either side of the conversation.
They're in the same fucking room.
But whenever Julie talks, it's like, whenever Doris sucks, it's completely different.
It's echoing down from Mount Olympus for some fucking reason.
Yeah.
And it's so bad because like we're an hour in and all that's happened in this movie is
that four elderly people have been on one date.
And that is the sum total of what we spent the last hour on.
That's everything in this film.
Yeah.
So they're talking about where Doris and Jackson
are gonna go on their next date.
And they're like, well, we thought we were gonna read
some of the same books.
And I thought, oh, well, you know, that's a lovely way
to get to know somebody.
Hey, we're gonna both read this book
and then we can talk about it, right?
But of course this is this movie,
so Julie has to shit on it.
She's like, that's a terrible and stupid idea.
Stupid, we should shut down all the libraries
and replace them with the blood of the lamb.
Yeah. No.
What she recommends Doris do, and again, this is a Donald James Parker special,
invite yourself over to his house to change his religion.
Great. No, to Bible study with him. Yeah.
Well, I actually saw down and Julie saw down on reading.
Reading was the thing she liked doing.
It's one of the few things.
Right. It's a bike riding and reading of the two things we know she likes.
And she says, and this is her actual quote. I love this so much. She says, I just think
it's rather droll to think of two people sitting at a library on a date. And I'm like, well,
if you spent more time at them, you might learn what droll means. If not else, they
would be probably.
Then you would say a totally different word in that situation.
Yeah, she just has a different understanding of the word drove and more mainstream Protestant.
And that's where she diverges theologically from that religion.
There it is. We found it, everybody.
Yeah, so Doris thinks that's a great idea.
Her and Jackson can Bible study over at his place sometime.
And then they're like, so would you like to fail the Bechtel test
about a different man for a minute?
And they're like, well, you know,
we haven't complimented Donald James Parker
and he's just off camera about to explode
from the lack of attention.
So yes, let's talk about him more.
And of course, this is where Doris Warren's Julie
that Donald James Parker is probably moving a little fast
because he's almost dead years old.
Right.
This whole bit is just astonishing because Julie's saying, well, you know, we went to
church, he's going to go to church on Wednesday and then we're going to go for food on Friday.
And Dora says, oh, a double header then.
So that's not a double header because you go to church one day and then food two days
later.
In what world is that just two days?
And one of those dates is church.
It's not even a day.
Right. No, it's a header and a half on different dates.
Exactly. But I thought, oh, this is, that's too quick for Doris because for them, church
is like practically first base and therefore dinner is the equivalent of hand stuff. And
I think that's why this is old one too fast for her.
The anti-Kara, yeah. So then we cut to Jackson's backyard for some Bible study
and we get the, like of all the moments that I had
in this movie where I'm like, ah,
and Marsh has to watch this.
This might have been my favorite, right?
He goes, what part of the Bible would you like to read?
And she says, Sons 91.
He says, why did you pick that one?
And she says, have you ever watched
It's Supernatural with Sid Fox?
Fuck, Yeah.
I do not think you know.
That's a non-zero percentage of our scathing content.
Fuck yeah.
This is true.
This is like if we were watching a movie and Carl the Pug of Pegacorn on screen,
yes, Tony D.
And they were just like, yeah, no worries about it too.
It's they have no idea.
Sid Roth, she says, well, you know,
Sid Roth says, if you pray this prayer every day,
then nothing bad will happen to you.
And I'm like, well, I bet your dead husband wishes
you'd got that shit going earlier.
And she raised him with him
because he's meant to be the scientist.
He's all like an assurance.
Oh, cause, and that's very scientific and
In talking about he says well, you know, I'm sure it would be fascinating if we talked about that, but we aren't going to
The writer knows nothing about anything at all specifically not anything real and so this would not go well
Yeah, so yeah, and then we cut to Donald James Parker and Julie
They're also reading the Bible together and that that turns into like a year long dating montage,
both in the sense that like we're trying to time jump a year
and that it takes us a year to get through
this goddamn montage, right?
Oh, it's so bad.
It's the entire song.
At one point the song comes on and the song is so bad
that I genuinely had to turn the volume down
in case my neighbors heard it and thought I was into it.
So I was like, okay, I can't justify this.
I've got to turn it down.
But they play Frisbees.
They play Frisbee fishing.
There's a 45 second shot of them fishing for one bit of it.
45 seconds long of just them fishing.
Jesus, the song went on so fucking long
that just as I'm like, oh good, he seems to be
wrapping it up, another voice came on
and it became a duet and I'm like
Another singer in this song it's not illegal to have
I just want to point out in this montage they do four different frisbee tosses and they miss three of them What so he keeps doing these dick fucking throws that are way the hell up.
He wants to show off that he can throw a Frisbee
under his leg or behind his back or whatever.
But every throw, like she would have to dive for it
and she misses it every fucking time.
I'm like, just throw the Frisbee regular,
you fucking asshole.
Because he's doing a trick fucking for us.
I mean, look, I don't want to compare this
to certain members of the podcast
who may or may not be here right now.
But I'm just saying, I feel like if we were to interview certain member of Puzzle on a Thunderstorm,
LLC's fiance, is about how hard said spouse through a frisbee the first time they decided to toss one around.
They were romantic frisbee in the park.
There would be a parkerian comparison being made.
That's on site. It's on site. I don't want to speak out of turn. I was just watching and thinking I really want this montage. The Frisbee seem to be the same except we see the catches,
not the throws.
And they're just throwing themselves,
like diving around and I'm like,
roll around in the grass.
It's flashed with mud.
So also there's a bunch of biking in this montage too.
And I only point that out because there's this one point
where he's like kind of trying to wave for on like,
no, no, you know, you know,
you're not gonna be able to do that. You're not gonna be able to do that. You're not gonna be able to do that. Washed with mud. So also there's a bunch of biking in this montage too.
And I only point that out because there's this one point
where he's like kind of trying to wave for Ron,
like, no, no, you bike ahead of me.
But he almost face plants because he's trying to do that.
He's trying to look behind himself one hand
and he's like, oh, shit.
So that was kind of fun.
Also, we see Christmas and he's like,
for one thing, like he's using a Santa puppet to delight her at Christmas. And I think that's because he still like to
compare her to his granddaughter, the only woman that he's got in his life. So that's
him like trying to delight her. Eventually she's like, yeah, stop with the fucking puppets.
And I think it's not pleasurable. We watch exchange Valentine's stuff, right? It's been
a whole year. See him slowly read out the entire Valentine's card out loud, but under the music.
So we can't hear what he's saying, but we do see him reading it out.
And it's so, it's like a minute of him reading the essay that she's written in this Valentine's card,
but we don't get to see what it is because the music's like loudly singing over the top in that duet.
Oh, God, it's nuts.
And the second to last scene in this montage, they're riding bikes
and he goes to try to hold her hand while they're riding. And she's like, no, I would
fall. I would fucking fall. And she won't do it.
It's the best.
And then we end with a still shot of her smiling. That's the final scene. And I'll say she
is lovely. So the montage, like Heath wasn't here to compliment her. I thought it, you
know, so the montage ends with the two of them,
they're on this bench.
Now this is this fucking scene you've all been waiting for.
Well, every scene from here on out
is the scene you've been waiting for,
but this is the first of them.
Yeah.
So he's like, you know, well, you know,
we've been seeing each other for almost a year, huh?
And she's like, yes, that is what we established
with that Mont montage just now.
She says like, yeah, it's 11 months, eight days
and so many hours or something.
So it's literally almost a year.
She's like, you could've not as mathematically
as close to a year as you wanted to get.
I wrote in my notes, oh no, she's gonna hang herself
and carve her name on the beam.
Oh.
Yeah, but he needs to have a serious conversation here. He's like, you know, I've been really
patient in the year that we've been dating. And then I'm like, oh, he's going to ask for
mouth stuff, isn't he? Right?
Yeah. Okay. I'm just glad to see that we were unified as a podcast and being like, if Donald
James Parker talks about how this young woman needs to put out right now, I get to turn
this movie off as like a hell-passing. Like Osha says, I get to turn this movie off as like a hell passing. Like Osha says, I get to turn this movie off before he unveils his wrinkly balls.
Yeah, so he says, he says, look, I'm not going to propose to you all fancy or anything. And
I'm like, oh, yes, the ladies love that when you refuse to be all fancy about it.
Yeah, he says, I want to dialogue about marriage.
And I wrote, what every little girl dreams of.
Yeah, he says it up with like kicking the tires.
We need to be kicking the tires about marriage.
And she says, that sounds fair enough.
And those are the words that every guy dreams
about one day hearing.
That sounds fair enough.
Got a proposal that's more akin
to a used vehicle purchase. Finally.
And I was wondering if the tire kicking process involved like narrow road tires or some of the wide like hybrid ones. That we watched them talk about for 10 solid fucking minutes earlier. Yeah.
So yeah. So basically he says, do you want to ask me to ask you to marry me? I'm like, Jesus,
Heath. Fuck. Just for real. Say your fucking piece.
And she's, and he says, you know, we've been really disciplined in the area of sex,
but we at least need to talk about it.
And she says, right.
Yeah. Wow.
This, this is almost as intense as that time you gave me a compliment that I
looked like your granddaughter.
Should we go get a hotel room by the highway?
Yeah.
You can spatter the walls with a jack-o-lantern.
But then he remembers his dark secret, the Jezebel incident,
and he realizes that he's never told her about it.
So he's like, hey, actually,
I have some very serious stuff to talk to you about.
I once, several months before we met,
had sex with a woman.
Yes.
She is wrecked by this news.
Destroyed by the thought of him
having consensual sex with another person.
Right. Which I mean, we're all destroyed by that forward,
but she's destroyed for different reasons.
Two of us.
Two of us.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Maybe that's why the performance was so good is that. destroyed by that fold, but she's destroyed for a different reason. Two of us.
Maybe that's why the performance was so good is that before the scene he was like,
and I want you to know this is real.
Someone really let me lie on top of him and she was like, ah!
Yeah, right, right.
It's her Kubrickian ice block.
But it's crazy, right?
Because does she really, she does know he was married previously.
She must assume he and his wife probably also had sex.
He has a granddaughter.
Yeah, that's only-
He's got a granddaughter, you're right.
He keeps bringing it up.
Weirdly whenever he's like talking about sex,
he keeps bringing the granddaughter back up, yeah.
Yeah, but she cries at his lack of chastity
and this is where she says, and I quote,
have you been tested for STDs, especially AIDS?
Why especially?
They don't, I don't think they especially test you
for a particular one.
It's like she'd be fine if it was just her piece,
but if it's AIDS, she's out.
Yeah.
Mr. Parker, thanks for coming in.
Of course, we'll do a standard STD test,
but I want to know, did you get down and dirty like like a real dog because then we'll test you for AIDS as well
Test me for all of the sexually transmitted diseases, but check check check the AIDS two or three
Take sick vials and test them all
Different days of the week that one okay look
I want to explain the journey that I went through in watching that because she says that and I laughed loud for a while
And then I thought the movie was gonna move on so I pressed play again
But then she just kept talking about AIDS
So I would keep laughing and pausing the movie and then calming down and then I would start the movie
And she would say AIDS again, and then I would laugh and have to pause the movie
I made it through this eight minute sequence in like 45 minutes. Every time I restarted it,
she would say a different somehow more spectacularly insane thing about AIDS.
And then this goes on for the next 10 minutes of the fucking movie. It's amazing.
She says like she basically I think even explicitly says, well, if you do have AIDS, I won't marry you. And she's made to be the good person here. That's the. She says, like, she basically, I think even explicitly says, well, if you do have AIDS,
I won't marry you.
And she's made to be the good person here.
That's the, oh, yes, that's a very moral thing.
But imagine if she had that kind of conditional for any other kind of health issue.
Like, look, if you have arthritis, I'm not going to marry you.
You should have thought about that before all of the cycling.
Donald James Parker.
Yeah.
Yeah, she makes it very clear that if he's got the AIDS, this relationship is over.
I'm like, what an insane thing to include in your fucking movie.
She leaves, she's like, let me know when you find out if you have the AIDS and then she...
AIDS.
And she says it's his fault for not telling her about the affair that he had before he met her.
She says it's an affair.
CAUSE IT'S AN AFFAIR!
You should have told me about the affair earlier.
It's not an affair, it's a relationship before you even knew each other, before you knew either each other existed. It's not an affair. It's a relationship before you even knew each other,
before you knew either each other existed.
It's not an affair.
Sounds like Monaghani to me.
I don't know.
So we got back at his house,
the granddaughter, Madison comes across him.
He's crying in the living room and she's like,
hey, what's wrong?
And he's like, I probably blew it with Julie.
And she's like, well, you know, don't forget that like, I probably blew it with, with Julie. And she's
like, well, you know, don't forget that the future lies in God's hands, not Julie's. And
she's like, and he's like, you know what's useless when you're actually upset is fucking
religion. And then they get into like the technicalities of his aides. Again, there's
no reason for him to believe that he has AIDS. And she's like, well, I mean, you know, as
long as she never made, you know,
contact with open source with your blood.
And I suppose there's, you know, this kind of thing and the dynamics of where you would sleep.
And it's like, he had sex with a lady in Minnesota.
Once.
Once.
Yeah. So we, we, we cut over to Julian Doris commiserating overall his whoring and wondering
what to do if he has the AIDS as well.
I thought that was just going to be a funny fucking thing they said in the one.
But the rest of the movie is now about whether or not he has AIDS,
as though the odds of it are very, very high.
Which they're absolutely not, yes.
And in this scene, Doris suggests that she get AIDS on purpose so that they could have sex.
Okay, I don't think that's what she suggests.
I think Doris is suggesting that they have like a celibate relationship.
It's just like, marry him, but you can still marry him, but like, even if he has AIDS.
But the thing is, before that, Julia said, well, you know, if it's negative,
I've got an agonizing decision to make.
So, what, if it's negative, so like, if it's positive
and he does have AIDS, then this decision's made.
It's not a difficult one, but if it's negative,
if he doesn't have AIDS,
you've got a difficult decision to make.
Yeah. Why?
She definitely, I want to stand my ground and say
the door is definitely suggest that Julie gets AIDS.
I look, I got, I was lied to about how many people
a robot shot in last month's bonus episode.
And I'm traumatized from that gaslighting.
And I just want to, I want to stand my ground right here
and now and say, you're wrong, Mark.
You're wrong.
Doors tells Julie to get eighths.
The next joke I'm going to have is going to make it even worse
where you're like, because she says,
do you love Donald James Parker enough to live without sex?
And I'm like, you've been living without sex
with him for a year now. Well, obviously you do and then she's like
Well, I don't think so and I and she's like well, you know
I saw a movie one time where somebody married somebody even though they had the AIDS
Fucking Julie says well in movies you can fly faster than the speed and fucking bullet
You loving someone with AIDS.
What the fuck are you?
Do you hear yourself right now?
You sound like an idiot right now, Torrance.
We really have to point out.
I know all of the listeners know this,
but like these days with very commonplace medications,
sex with someone who has AIDS,
doesn't mean you will get AIDS.
Your undetectable is untransmitable
as long as you take precautions.
And they're, their viral Lord is Lord
because it's kept down by the medication. The chance is actually pretty decent that you won't. And that's
kind of like one of the medical miracles of modern AIDS treatment and stuff that clearly this movie
has no idea about and has never heard about. To this movie AIDS is the death sentence that it
was in the 1980s and it's not moved on since then. And also it's like a one in three shot every time
you have sex with someone. Yeah. Yes.
And which is why it is the official position of Puzzle and a Thunderstorm LLC, including
Marsh, that you do not need to wear a condom when you have anonymous sex.
Thank you, Marsh.
Now, I have to point out to the listeners that at this point in the movie, I'm like
Eli, I'm making it through this movie 12 seconds at a time.
I'm dying 11.
I messaged Eli.
I just said, I got to the AIDS.
And the next message I sent him was,
I can't tell if I'm misspelling this.
I cannot see through the tears.
So I'm in that position.
So I had already like used all my Kleenex,
blowing my nose and wiping my eyes
from laughing at the AIDS stuff already.
So I'm opening another box of tissue.
And my wife walks in, and I'm just,
I'm like, my entire face is just covered
in a glaze of tears, I can't catch my breath.
I was literally thinking right before she walked in,
how hard can I laugh before I have to call
the fucking cardiologist and really worry about this shit.
And she walks in and I'm trying to tell her what's happening
and I just keep going, there's so much AIDS. So much AIDS. Just stick around, they're gonna say
AIDS again. There's so much AIDS, but also there's almost, there is no chance there is any AIDS.
Right, but there's also no AIDS. I also love that at this point, not one person has thought to check
whether Jezebel or Bell even has
AIDS. No one's like, oh, I should probably call her because if I'm getting an AIDS test,
I should just give her a check. Like a call to say, hey, maybe you want to as well, or
maybe you could confirm that you don't have AIDS and like, we'll be all right from here.
But yeah, she doesn't matter. It's not important. It's all about Donald J. Barger.
No. No. So, okay. Then we cut to Jackson and Donald James Parker at his place,
awaiting the AIDS results. Right, Jackson's like, how long is it going to take yet? He's as well.
It'll take about one to two weeks to get the results. I'm like, that's vague. It's awesome.
No, the amount of things that think about the amount of things Donald James Parker had to not
Google, not just not refused to Google, waiting one to two weeks for his AIDS results to arrive by mail.
Yes, yes, right. They're just going to mail them to him.
He goes, you know, he says, so Jackson, you want to go out and fish?
And Jackson has to go like, well, not if you have AIDS.
I don't want to stay next to you. Obviously not.
What they suggest is even crazier.
So, well, you know, I've got an idea
to take your mind off your health anxiety.
Do you want to help me find the natural cure for cancer?
They don't want you to know about.
That's like where the movie goes from there.
He says, well, you know, we could research natural cures
for cancer together.
I bet you'd love that.
And Donald James Burke is like,
oh, that's actually a great idea. Jackson, let's do that.
These responses, well, you said you wanted to go after the cancer thing.
And of course, in my notes, I just wrote, welcome to the Gramservverse, Marsh. Welcome to the
Gramservverse. So yeah. And then he laments all of the suffering and misery it caused
him having that sex outside of wedlock that time, right?
Yeah. He laments all the consequences. I think you've got no consequences. You had sex and
now you've imagined yourself into AIDS that you obviously do not have.
I have AIDS.
So then we come back to Julie. She's meeting up with Madison to talk about Gramps's pre-AIDS,
I guess.
Madison. So it turns out she knows Madison as well. It's the first time they've been
on camera together. Why is she there? It's certainly not the pastor back there. It's
here either because they'll go straight into what about the guy?
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
She's grieving like he's dead as well. Yeah.
She's like, oh, it's, she's heartbroken, but he's not dead well. Yeah. She's like, oh, it's she's heartbroken, but he's he's not dead.
He doesn't even have a no.
He's not grieving about the fact that he had sex with someone before she even knew him.
And I am losing my mind watching her do.
So fucking weird.
Everybody on Facebook tells you you're the weirdo.
I get it.
OK, but this is also where Madison suggests something really controversial
because it's just a throwaway line and they do sort of at it but at Madison is like, hey,
do you think God who is omnipotent and omniscient would heal grandpa's aides and they're like,
yeah, maybe. Yeah, fucking Julie says, Julie says, I, and I quote, I hadn't even considered that good point.
And I'm like, divine AIDS reversal, is that a good point?
Is it? But also, like, how would you not thought of it?
It is literally your entire thing is that God does everything and can do everything.
How did it not cross your mind that your God could do that when that's what you definitely believe?
He invented AIDS. Yeah, if anybody can.
Yeah.
And she said, oh, I just can't bear to think of him suffering.
He's like, he isn't suffering.
He doesn't even know what has AIDS.
He obviously has AIDS.
But then I did write, OK, if this movie ends
with him finding out he does have AIDS, I'm back on board.
And it's not that many movies I can say that about.
But this one is true.
Oh, my God.
I will say, Donald James Parker, eight movies in the whole.
But if he was just has AIDS and she's like, you son of a bitch and slaps him and that's
the end of the movie.
Come on.
We're watching this every year at Christmas.
Fuck yeah.
So yeah, but she's like, but Julie decides she can't.
She just can't not call him.
So she calls Donald James Parker and I still know news on the AIDS But she suggests that maybe they can wait on the AIDS results together
So they decide to meet at the park together at 3 p.m. Is that what she said to him?
Well, you know absence makes the heart grow fonder and I wrote yeah, I'm realizing just how much I love plots
Right yeah, so okay
So he comes in with his mail and this is again
This is a throwaway scene except for the fact that he shows us his mail in this. Right. Yeah. So, okay. So he comes in with his mail. And this is again, this is a
throwaway scene, except for the fact that he shows us his mail in this scene.
And it is his mail, his actual mail. That's how meticulous the filmmaker Donald Parker is. The
letters he shows are to Donald J. Parker. And not just to him, but it's addressed to him at his
home address, which is not blurred. He just doxxes himself on the front of his letters.
Real doxxing.
And I looked him up on Google Maps
and there's a picture of his house in the notes.
There is.
For us to look at.
Podcast listener.
He's got a lovely yard he's got there.
Marsh has included a picture of Donald James Parker's house
in our notes and we can't share it with you
because we don't want to dox him.
But I take back everything mean I've ever said about him.
It is.
This is like a get back on your feet house.
You know what I'm saying?
This is like a, hey, buddy.
So the center said, you're just free and clear, right?
I thought you'd check in with the parole officer.
Also, just to throw this out there, title James Parker uses the same financial planning
firm as us.
And I felt bad about it.
I was like, so did I.
Well, fuck.
I feel like any decision that I have made that Donald James Parker has also made, I
now feel is a bad one.
Right, yeah, exactly.
We really got to get everybody out of the way.
Why are you taking Donald's money too?
What kind of sucker am I?
Try to break up with me.
So, but he does find in the mail he has his AIDS results.
So rather than look at them, he just slips them in his back pocket to go to the park
to meet with Julie.
His back pocket, that is the craziest pocket to put something absolutely vitally important
in.
That's the kind of the sit on it and squish it kind of pocket.
Put it somewhere safe.
Look, I'll admit I'm kind of the romantic of the podcast and there's nothing more romantic than letting your lady love find out if you have a.
It's so fucking weird, because when he gets to the park with her,
she's like, oh, you got the results.
He's like, yeah, I wanted you to read them.
And I'm like, so you want to give her the responsibility of telling you you have
AIDS? If you do.
What?
But yeah, but she says, hey, look, before we even see these results,
I want you to know that I do want to marry you.
And he's like, well, now I don't want to marry you if I have AIDS.
Right? I wanted her to have gone out and got AIDS as well,
so that they're like, it's fine.
Oh my God, a montage of her just sharing needles,
having anonymous anal sex in bath houses.
Sort of like a Romeo and Juliet ending.
Which is less of an effective eighth than a lot of historical narratives would have you
believe, everybody.
No connies.
Puzzle on a Thunderbolt.
And also Marsh.
So yeah, so he has her the envelope.
She opens it, the music swells, and as she reads, she starts weeping uncontrollably.
And we're like, oh my God, did they give him fucking AIDS?
I'm chanting AIDS at this point.
I'm in isolation with COVID and I'm going, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS.
Anna's like, do you need something?
I'm like, no, I'm chanting for Donald James Parker to get AIDS.
And she was like, again.
And I was like, you know, that's just right.
Why not to block capital? Please's right. Right. Right.
My not to block capitalists, please have it. Please have it. Please have it.
Yeah, right. Right. Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. And so she opens the envelope and she reads it. She cries and she says, you know what?
I want to marry you anyway. He goes, what do you mean anyway? It's so long that she doesn't
give him a specific answer to what the goddamn envelope says.
I thought I was hoping this was shenanigans.
I hope and this was like she was doing the slow rolling thing of like,
oh, I'm so sorry to tell you that you don't have AIDS.
Yeah, right. Right.
But she's not.
According to the envelope, he does have AIDS.
But then he looks at it and he goes, they've set the wrong results.
That's not my blood type.
Yeah. And this is such a serious violation of patient confidentiality.
This is several losses.
There's a person out there who has AIDS, who now thinks they don't have AIDS.
Right. Yes.
Just texting the group chat.
Everybody come over and help yourself to my ass.
Yeah. Right. Right.
So yeah, he's she's like, well, you better call the doctor and find out.
And he's like, oh, I don't have doctor and find out. He's like, oh,
I don't have the doctor's number on me. Why not? Right? You think you've got AIDS?
Why don't you just save the doctor's number in your phone? Also, you could just look at the history you called him before.
Yeah. Or you could look it up online. There's so many ways that don't involve driving back to your house and establishing a different fucking scene.
Yeah. I mean, to be fair to the doctor, he is the first person to request his age results by mail in 35 years.
No, that's true. Yeah, actually.
So they were probably really thrown.
And there's one line as well. We just have to, we skipped over,
but only because this is where she does actually propose to him anyway.
And what she says is, I propose a proposal of marriage.
Yes.
Because that's such an awkward line and even more awkward that she stole it from Heath.
Yeah, so they go back to his house. He calls the doctor and the doctor's like,
yeah, we'll call you back. And I'm like, oh my God, what the fuck is this thing doing?
Why are we here? They start talking about finances. They're like, well,
do you still want to kick the tires? What are we going to do?
We both own the houses.
So how are we going to sort that?
I really wanted them to have a violent disagreement
over finances and that would be the deal.
And that breaks them all up.
That would be awesome.
I'm glad you've got it.
A Roth IRA, you stupid bitch.
Where are you doing your taxes in 2002?
Get the fuck out of my house.
Yeah, but instead it's like, well, you know,
we both own our property outright because we
proceed the kind of property price inflation that's
crippled following generations and
condemned them to a lower standard of living than us.
So, you know, that's pretty neat for us.
Yeah. It works out well on ours.
She says we could sell my house and put the money
into our savings account. I'm like, what?
Of course he does.
I guarantee you,
Donald James Parker has whatever
he sold his house for just sitting in his savings account, losing value like a fucking
NFT.
Well, no, because it wouldn't all fit under the mattress. They said I asked for it and
we invested in gold many years ago.
It turns out $500 bills.
That's just a monopoly thing.
They won't even give you those things.
Back to ride gold IRAs from a public square.
I've got most of my money in seeds actually.
And cats even said that in heaven, there's a special house for me.
I watch.
All right.
So now it's later. Madison's there.
They're all waiting for the call about the AIDS.
So they get the call about the AIDS.
Yes. He literally says, they might not call.
And then the phone immediately rings.
Like, he doesn't get the word out.
Yeah. Never mind the calls.
So we get it. His side of the conversation. He Yeah. Never mind. They called.
So we get his side of the conversation.
He's like, okay.
All right.
Apology accepted.
It's just such a weird way to find out you don't have AIDS.
It says you don't have AIDS.
Apology accepted.
Yeah.
Right.
Well, and then, but now he wants to slow play Madison and Julie, right?
He gets up and they're like, well, what was the answer?
And I'm like, what was the answer?
What could the, they clearly didn't just tell the man
he has AIDS and then he said, apology accepted.
What the fuck do you think happened?
Unless he was like, I'm sorry to tell you you've got AIDS.
You have AIDS.
Whoa, he accepted.
Click.
Now I really want to do some AIDS based shenanigans.
Right, yeah.
Do you know anyone in Manchester who has AIDS?
I have a great prank for QED this year.
I feel like I really know the town now.
And apparently not only did he pass his AIDS test, but he passed with flying colors.
He goes, I don't have any sexually transmitted diseases.
So. Braggie.
Just boasting that to his granddaughter.
Yeah.
What a family moment.
Oh, good, Grandpa.
I was worried that you had the crabs.
I really wanted Doris to be like asshole.
Except for a lot of people have some form of herpes.
So, yeah.
And Madison says, oh, good.
I want to give you guys a hug.
And he says, well, you better,
because you need to love your new grandmother.
And that's how he tells her that they're gonna get married.
That's how he tells Julie
that they're gonna get married too, I guess, apparently.
Now, to be clear, that should be the end of the movie.
It's not, right?
That should be where the freeze frame is.
Instead, Julie then goes,
hey, here's a problem with the heaven vision that all Christians have.
You and my husband are both going to be in heaven. Are you guys just
plugging up holes like a pair of plumbers? Or how the fuck would we handle that in our
stupid imagination world? And he's like, you don't have to stop loving your dead husband.
You just have to love us equally. And that's the fucking freeze frame.
It's such a weird bit, right? Because like, after the movie should end, Madison leaves,
she goes off to school. They have this weird theological conversation. He points out that
Doris is no longer her best friend because he gets to rank himself above Doris now. Actually,
he's moved Doris down the rankings. And this not how adults talk no adults have ever spoken this way
These are like aliens pretending to be humans. These are the text. I said marshal foreign
Best friends and what would happen in their order if one of them died
And then the final line of the movie Donald James Parker turns to Julie a says and I quote
Donald James Parker turns to Julie and he says and I quote and now I think it's time we invite the Holy Spirit to reside in our new household and the movie
fucking yeah all right well Marsh thank you for sitting through the unique
insanity that is the Donald James Parker filmography with us man yeah this was next phase they say you think you never forget your the Donald James Parker filmography with us, man.
Yeah, this was next period. They say you never forget your first Donald James Parker film.
Yes. I never will. As you'll always say with me.
No, no. And next time you're on a movie podcast,
especially if it's not ours, warn them that you might have AIDS as a result.
All right. Well, that's going to do it. I guess for our review of Best Friends Recycle,
but that's not going to do it for the episode just yet because we still need to lure you back
in next week.
So Eli, tell us what's on deck.
A tenacious nurse who helps people who have reached the end of their lives come to terms
with God and heaven is assigned an unexpected patient from the creators of a box of faith
and before all others comes this faith family drama slice of life.
That's the IMDB description. Yeah.
We'll be watching A Time for Heaven.
Oh, damn it.
Lucky us, I guess.
So with that, to let's say look forward to,
we're gonna bring episode 442 to Immersible Close.
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Marsh never did find out in what way these best friends were recycled.
did find out in what way these best friends were recycled. Madison went on to get kicked out of college for watching a PG-13 movie.
There's still another movie in this trilogy, and it does, in fact, get crazier. All right.
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