How Did This Get Made? - Matinee Monday: Blues Brothers 2000 LIVE!

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

Live from Onion Fest in Chicago, Paul, June, and Jason break down Blues Brothers 2000—a sequel that nobody wanted and was oddly released in 1998. They discuss the "stripster" club, child abduction, the return of the car pile up, and June's favorite character SCRIBBLES. Stay tuned to the very end for some bonus amazing Second Opinion songs! (Originally Released 07/19/2018) UPCOMING TOUR DATES IN: Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, & London! Go to hdtgm.com for tix and info.Pre-Order Paul’s book about his childhood, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, wherever books are soldFor extra Matinee Monday content, visit Paul's YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheerHDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerFollow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer/Check out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm ESTSubscribe to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: www.thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcastCheck out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.comCheck out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmWhere to find Jason, June & Paul:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on Twitter

It's just like the original. Without the good songs, one of the leads and the Coke. But hey, this one has a lot of car crashes and a kid. We saw Blues Brothers 2000, so you know what that means. I'm gonna take you from the globe all the way to the road Random games and street fights help to blow off steam Just to suck a punch to our life and tell me to bring Shocked neighbors to burn them and count them standing alive They call it a bed, they call it a house They call it a house, they call it a house They call it a house, they call it a house

They call it a house, they call it a house They call it a house, they call it a house They call it a house, they call it a house They call it a house, they call it a house They call it a house, they call it a house They call it a house, they call it a house They call it a house, they call it a house The rules random games and street fighter hope to blow off steam just a sucker punch the odd life Attempt to bring sharp native bird damn it captain stay in the lock they call it a badass and he's all the line Cranky they eight minutes cuz they cool design cuz a bad Jim Barney looking kind of nice

All the junkie and little Jason is getting laid Judas making sure all the monkey shots get me paid They judge a bunch of movies one they make in the grade. Here's a real question for you, how did this kid make? Hello people of Earth! Hello Chicago! Hello! Hello! We are so excited to be here in Chicago for a movie that defines you.

Chicago, this is your movie. You love it. Booing. Everyone in the audience right now is dressed as characters from Blue's Brothers 2000. Don't let them tell you differently. Pfft.

Oh, my goodness gracious. What can I say except, I'm sorry. Um... A sequel that no one wanted, including the people seemingly in the film. Um, we're gonna get into this two-hour-plus film, um, and we're gonna do it with two great people.

First, my co-hosthost Jason Manzucas! I've got Jax! How we doing Chicago? Did I fuck your girlfriend? Is that why you made me watch this movie? Because this was trash. The year 1998, the movie title, 2000. I remember you and I, Jason. I wish the Y2K virus had erased this movie from existence. This...

This movie is heartbreaking. It is so long. And we were talking a little bit backstage. It has... That's right, we talked backstage. Now, you know, now you know how the pod gets made. It has tones of Nothing But Trouble, another movie featured on this podcast.

It is... I think I coined the phrase backstage. It is ackroydian, this movie. The... The Blues Brothers is, to me, a beloved film of its time. This seems somehow much more ackroydian in a Nothing but Tr trouble kinda gross way. This, yeah, this movie, this movie has a kid in it

who should be dead 10 different ways. This is a movie, the central story of which is two men abduct a child and try to murder him as fast as possible. They are unsuccessful and sing songs. This is a hate crime? This is, like, unconscionable what they're doing. These men have a...

There's a child. There's an hour and 20 minutes of the movie where the kid doesn't talk. But he sure can't dance. Why is he there? Well, for his bongal ability, of course. I hated this movie. We are gonna get into it, but we gotta bring out.

I hated the movie. I wanna answer the question you're gonna ask me at the end of the show. Would I recommend seeing this movie right now? No, don't boil it. The answer is no, I hated this movie. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Well, Jason. Shows over. Go home.

Maybe, maybe, Jason, you will change your tune because tonight we have a Blues Brothers expert on the show. What? That's right, she's my other co-host. Please welcome June Diane Ravel. Oh! Oh! Oh!

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Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go.

I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Hi, Paul. How are you? Very good. June, talk to me about the Blues Brothers. Are you a fan of the first film? Never saw it. Okay. So, I'll take you through the scope of my knowledge and I'm aware of the Blues Brothers. I am aware of them. I've seen them in TV packages of the greatest,

you know, comedy bits and sketches and a lot of SNL, you know pieces. If you go to if you go to like a Universal Studios, they come and dance around a little bit. Yeah, I'm aware of them. Wait, what? Oh, yeah, they have a blues mobile that drives around Universal Studios and they'll get out and do a little blues session, yeah.

It's another reason. Like, they'll pull up right in front of a wizarding world of Harry Potter and they're like, wizarding world of Harry Potter and like bam bam bam bam da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da I'm being very excited to see the Blues Brothers just pull up. If you told me that Dan Aykroyd was actually there doing it, I would genuinely believe you. Now, I don't know, so not having seen the first one, I mean, not having seen anything really of the Blues Brothers, I don't know if I had a better experience than the two of you

or a much worse one. I don't know. Well, I think you had no expectation. So like when you, when I watched this movie, I had put it off like any normal human being until it was assigned to me for this podcast. By you, you made us do this. We said, Chicago, you pick a movie, everyone voted in Chicago. Yes, and this was it said Chicago, you pick a movie. Everyone voted in Chicago.

Yes. And it was Blues Brothers 2000. Everybody in this town voted and they said this movie is what should be done because we most connect to it. So I will say like in the sense of there is a moment of. Oh, like was that moment in the first screen when it said 18 years later apropos of nothing and I and I threw up my hands and said what I you can't wound it. I rewound it. I was like what did I

miss that's what I did and I was like you can't start a movie 18 years later That's what I did, and I was like, you can't start a movie 18 years later. That, the hubris, the hubris of saying you all saw the first movie 18 years later. Wap, wap, wap, wap, wap. I was like, you go fuck yourselves, Chicago. No, you know, nothing, you know, the reaction I had to nothing but trouble was a physical one.

It made me feel ill and I felt nauseous and gross and I didn't like it. Watching this one, I had the same reaction of like, oh, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's gross. It's so weird. Now, I watched it on the plane here, and I found the only way I could consume it was to watch it in 10-minute increments.

Oh, that's so long, though. I know, but what I would do... You kept it in your life so much longer. I was so proud because I didn't pause it. I didn't have a choice. I couldn't go for more than 10 minutes. I'd go for 10 minutes and then make that window little and then respond to some emails,

see what's going on in the news. Look at Instagram, just get out of that for a second. And then I would head back in. One of the only experiences where pouring yourself into Instagram is more satisfying than what you are doing. Well, my watching of it, I was like, it was one of the first times ever I watched a movie completely undistracted to how this could make movie.

I was like, I am in and if I get, if I just commit to being here, it will be over sooner than if I keep on stopping it. And I remember and I was like, oh, it's almost over. And I was like, I'm doing it. And I never stopped it. And there was a- It was two hours long. Why do I feel like that's also the description

of the first time you masturbated? Ah! Three though. Three hours. I'm doing it. Took three hours. I watched masturbated. Three, though. Three hours. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I watched this movie. I watched the first half of this movie,

and I said to Paul after dinner last night, oh, I've got 45 minutes of this movie left. Didn't watch it. Got up this morning, put it on. I had an hour and 15 minutes left. I was devastated to learn that I had more than five. I was so mentally prepared for 45 minutes, and then I'm out.

I had an hour and 15 minutes. I was heartbroken. I literally was like, I might jump out the window instead. This movie, I was thinking about it, how can I compare this movie? I was like, it kind of feels like someone's like, hey, you want to have Dan Agriade over for dinner. That's a cool idea.

Yeah, that would be fun, talk to Dan Agriade. And then he comes, and he comes early. You're like, oh, that makes me feel awkward. And then he gets in, he's going to go in the kitchen too and kind of add his own spices to things. All right, that's a little weird. No one else is able to talk at the dinner. And then he holds court in the living room,

and he doesn't leave. And it's like 2 AM. And you're like, come on, Dan, let's go. Let's go. And he's like, maybe I'll sleep over, because I'm a little too drunk to drive. All right, then you wake up the next morning, and he's still there.

He's like, I made breakfast, but it's like pancakes with eggs in it. It's, I don't like it. It just felt like that. Yeah. You forgot the part where he also sings 11 full length songs. Not a verse chorus and a verse, 11 full length songs. I would not a first chorus and a verse eleven full length so I felt so resentful.

Well, so resentful of the of the things that were not cut. I've never watched a movie and all I was thinking of was like should have cut that out should have cut that out every way. We're staying on this for so long like all I was doing was just cutting time out of the movie. I do want to ask a question, because we were talking about this a little bit. Again, backstage, where we happened to talk.

How many of you here have never seen the first Blues Brothers? Oh, wow. So large chunk. And how many have seen the first? Let's all agree we're gonna clap, and you don't have to raise your hands. Half of you are clapping, half of you are raising your hands. Let's all agree we're gonna clap and you don't have to raise your hands. Half of you are clapping, half of you are raising your hands. Let's all agree to do clapping.

Okay, so you have seen Blues Brothers 1. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have not seen Blues Brothers 1. Yeah. 75-25 about?

Yeah. You want to see Blues Brothers 1. 75-25 about? Yeah, you want to see Blues Brothers 1. Just, I'm just kidding. Well, here's the... And we'll never see Blues Brothers 1. Here's the thing, right? You're making a sequel to a movie where, arguably,

the least interesting character is the one who's still living, right? Like, and I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that in a way, but like the character that Dan Aykroyd plays is not the funny one. He is the straight man, you know, he is not the funny one. So that's a tricky situation. And then you surround him by two other people who do not have the energy or electricity of Belushi. Like if you put Chris Farley in this,

I'd be like, okay, there's something there. There's an idea there, but it's John Goodman. Great, always great, even great in this, but okay. And then Joe Morton, great, always great, horribly miscast in this. And also, like for the majority of the movie is one of the antagonists. You could say that Dan Eckroyd's effort to replace, to replace, John Belushi was to cast John Goodman and a child.

And I will tell you something that makes this movie all the sadder. So Dan Akroyd owns the House of Blues performs a lot as the Blues Brothers with Jim Belushi great actor Jim Belushi. Oh no Chicago what Jim Belushi. Oh, no! Chicago, what? Oh, and, and, and Jim Belushi. Wow. Not a big fan of according to Jim here in Chicago. Jim Belushi said no.

They are performing together as the Blues Brothers. Dan Ekker goes, let's make another movie. He goes, no. So at that point, if you're not dissuaded by the fact that your partner has passed, that you were duo and you want to continue, then the person that you're doing and you want to continue. Then the person that you're doing the thing with says no and you keep on going.

That is what this movie feels like. Too many people said no and he said, nah, I got this one. Yeah. This movie is disrespectful. I mean, this is a... I wrote... I wrote here, too, like, we also are learning with is it jaker elwood who he is el way. Elwood you're also learning with elwood that John Belushi is past and

they do it. They deliver a lot of information in this movie off like camera like Frank Oz famous director who is in the first movie delivers the news to elwood and goes oh he has no his brothers dead, which I mean, what hoop do we have to jump through for that information? Not to come to pass. Like how does he know he's been he's not been he's been in prison short, but nobody's told him about all the major deaths in his life. So here's my question, because I don't know what happened 18 years before, but was so John Belushi wasn't in prison to know they both were

for arguably the same exact thing. Okay, so they were both in prison, but different prisons. No same prison same prison and he didn't hear the news. That's I think this movie hypothesizes a world in which Jake was released and then then and Elwood's really in that 24 hours. He was waiting for the bus. Well, no, no, no. I think why does he have to wait? Because I thought I thought he was waiting for Jake to pick him up. Yes. Yes. So then they come down and they're like, Jake's not coming. F. Y. I. R. I. P. And but none of that is spoken. That's in an in an in an area like an above shot where they're just like

and then it cuts into it and he's like, I'm so sorry. And that's it. And he arguably has no reaction to that. And he doesn't. Oh, drop. Yeah. Nothing. And then one of the strippers comes to pick him up, and she's a day late. Like, why isn't, why wasn't she, if she was the one that was meant to pick him up, why wasn't she there, he stood there overnight.

So wait, was he waiting for his brother though? Yes. So his brother was out of prison. Yes. Oh, so he wasn't in prison with him. No, no, they went to prison together. I'm saying, I'm saying I'm a fan of sectioning the idea that Jake was released earlier. Why and then died outside behavior. What did Elwood have bad behavior in prison? I believe I did Jake get out and Elwood not? Well, here's what I would...

Because if it's me, my presumption would be that Elwood would get out early and Jake would be like in a lot of trouble. Now... Having not seen the first, I agree. I don't mean to retcon this and make it like solo, but if you remember in the first Blues Brothers... Oh, Hunshot first Blues Brothers, he is... Oh, Hunshot first, baby.

Hunshot first. Whoo! JK, that movie was terrible. Um, but in the first movie, they make a reference to the fact that Elwood has a, like, 107 parking tickets. So I imagine that they tacked on the parking ticket time. I see that. Yeah, that's what that in my mind.

I'm going they both got the same sentence, but he had 107 unpaid parking tickets, so here's an extra year. So this movie is actually now that we're talking about it. What are we talking about a lot like solo? Actually, now that we're talking about it, a lot like solo. It is a related movie, solo's obviously a prequel, this is a sequel, that I wasn't looking for, did not want,

that sought to answer questions that I didn't want answered, introduced characters that I didn't care for, and at the end of the day was like a radical rewriting of a history that I thought was cool the first time around that I now realize is straight trash. So it makes you not like the first one. No, I still like the first one, but I mean like...

Well, the first one is so simple, right? The first one, the idea is Jake gets out of prison, they gotta get the band... They're in prison again in the first one is so simple right the first one the idea is Jake gets out of prison they got to get the man is in again in the first well Jake is in prison Elwood's picking him up. This movie is a photocopy of the first movie, but doesn't make any sense. So the first movie the idea the first movie is Jake gets out of prison. J Elwood picks him up. They go back to where they were raising that orphanage which you see the exact same scene, essentially, and they're like they're shutting us down. You got to raise money. So to raise money, they get the band back

together to perform a show. They get the money into the county Bursar, but to get the money in there. They create one of the biggest traffic accidents craziness of all time and they go to jail. That's the movie in a show, but they they do successfully save your finish. What is the plot of this movie? He gets out. He goes to the orphanage. She's like mentor a young boy. He steals a child, transports that child across state lines, forces that child into labor. The child. Well, he does a fully furnished the child has a fully furnished bedroom

in the trunk of the car. It's so lazy to, no, it's so lazy to the way they deal with him, what's his name, scribbles? Yes, the answer for the rest of history is yes. His name is Scribbles. I know it, but I'm not gonna tell you because Scribbles is literally infinitely better. I wish the kid's name was Scribbles. The movie would be watchable if every once in a while

they said, where's Scribbles? When the strip club burns down and he says, where's scribbles? Or if they're like, hey, get scribbles of PB and J at the strip club, also scribbles don't eat that. Well, the strip club... I mean... Oh, boy. Put your stuff in the trunk. Open it. Uh-oh, scribbles.

This... That is... That's a t-shirt right there. Where's Scribbles? Oh, wait a minute. Just the kid's image and Scribbles. Holy shit. How about it just like the Blues Brothers, but then you just put like Scribbles in the center,

like Blues Brothers and Scribbles. Here's the thing, from now on in all of history, if you can't remember anyone's name, Scribbles. Oh, hey, how was that date you went on with Scribbles? How was it? Ugh, he really was a Scribbles. I mean, he had like a long thin dick that just scribbled all over me.

So, June, you were saying about scribbles. We're having fun, Chicago. So, and by the way, his name may not have been scribbles, but it felt like scribbles. It felt, that's what I heard. But can we just talk about this? Yes, but what I was going to say about him is they go to such lazy lengths to show he's like his welfare is not endangered like they keep on showing him falling asleep in the back of that

car as though we're supposed to be comforted by that or it's like I don't know if it's comforted or it's to make sure we understand. Don't worry. Scribbles won't talk in this scene. If you're worried, right? If you're worried about where he is, that's true in the back. While the car is on fire in a hoop, pootie hoop or underwater, wherever, wherever they are, this, this car, this car is all but launched in space. This car, this car is all but launched in space. I wrote, I wrote, I thought child in it. I thought at the end, I was like,

the only way for this movie to make sense in the ending is for that police chase to happen and the car just to lift off and go into space, like fucking eat tea past the moon. And I was like, and it would have made sense. And I was upset that it didn't happen. I was like, it would have made perfect sense of the car, launched up, and they just lived in space.

Blues Brothers in space. Well, Joe Morton does. Joe Morton flies into the sky and is transformed by the blues into a Blues Brother. His police uniform is replaced with the suit and the glasses and the hat, and he comes back down and everybody's like, okay, cool.

He invoked the calling of the blood. They have just seen magic. Literal magic. I'm not talking Harry Potter, like, sort of magic, like, fantastical magic. I'm talking like, a man that, the spirit of the blues lifts him out of the tent, a hole is created in the tent that he can go through.

He goes all the way up into the sky. I don't even want to continue talking. I'm so angry. I want to, I want to just quickly go back to the beginning and just also show, because you said lazy writing, and it made me go, this is a perfect example of it here. This is in the beginning of the movie. I can't watch a lot of clips of this movie.

This is where the stripper comes and picks him up. Here we go. Don't look, June. It's all acroid right now. It's full acroid. So here it is. Strippers pulls up. Right? They don't say anything. She doesn't say a word. You keep the lights for a second. They didn't say a word. It's next transition night. Now I'm going gonna hit play again.

I've not done any editing here. I work for a friend of yours. Who's that? Your old grandma? Will you pause for a second? This is what I want to go for a friend of yours. Who's that? Your old mama? Will you pause for a second? This is what I want to show, like, they're... How long have they been driving? That's what they... From day to night, that's what I'm saying. How long have they been driving? And he just was like, she pulls out, and he's like, okay.

And it's not until here. This scene hypothesizes they have been stone cold silent from day to night when she first drops a little piece of information here where she sets up the plot like, so when she pulls up at the prison, you might be, and because they just cut straight to this, you would presume, oh, he knows who she is, and he gets in the car and we find ourselves here.

Great, but she is only now explaining why she was there to pick him up. Jason, may I even say to you that when you have the camera set up on the side of the road and she pulls over, why not just go, hey, I'm friends with your friend the drummer, get in, done. We shot it already, all she needed to do is shoot 20 more seconds. One, yeah, one.

Got it, done. It's in the can. We don't even have to shoot this scene. Yep. Oh, yeah. Oh, this movie's full of that nonsense. I also feel like at the beginning of the movie, you care so little, well, again,

not having seen the first one, but for Dan Akroyd and for John Goodman, I didn't care about any of these characters and for Scribbles. Well, there is... And I felt really resentful that they start parading around strippers in every scene in the first 15 minutes of the movie to cover up the fact that we don't care

about our leads. Well, we're out there on this question. I want to ask you this question, June. What are the personalities of these people? Like, how would you describe Elwood? Like, what type of person is Elwood? Which one is he? He's Dan Atford.

Dan Atford, yeah. He's a maniac. He's not a well man. I mean... But is he? I mean, like, what, like, what, what do you... So, at one point, I thought he's grieving. Got it.

And that accounts for like this insanity and this sort of rant. Yeah, and this mission he has. I mean, to answer your first question though about the plot of the movie, I don't know what it is. I don't know what they are trying to do beyond get back together. I wrote it down, and this is what I was able to piece together,

because two hours, and none of it is plot. And I'll just add, they don't all get back together, well, not even Joe Morton, but just everyone in the band, but Joe Morton, they get back together at minute 50. That's unacceptable. Here's the other thing I'll say. The way that he gets people to join his cause is by ruining their lives.

Like, he goes to the strip club, and the guy, the guy who's the drummer, says, I got a good deal here, man. I like what I'm up to. I don't want to join. I don't want to put the band back together. Dan Ackroyd gets his place burned down by the Russian mob and the guy's like, I guess we're on the road. It is the ruins their life, but what is his goal to just get them back together

and singing, but you see the first movie had a goal of we need to raise money to save the orphanage of the plot of breaking to great. I'm into it, but like here it's like there's no plot. He's like we got to get the orphanage. The plot of Breaking Two. Great, I'm into it. But like here, it's like there's no plot. He's like, we gotta get the band back together so we can play in the battle of the bands, which is again revealed to be only two bands. Not really hard. Well, the harshest competition. And it's also a battle of the bands in Louisiana. It's not even in like their hometown Chicago and it's not even like a or money. It wasn't for money. It wasn't for anything. And the kid when introduced to him scribbles scribbles doesn't seem to be like I love the blues or I like music or I'm a musical kid.

There's none of that. There's no arc with them as a, there's nothing. They learn nothing from each other. They barely speak to each other. Genuinely, they barely speak to each other. Their relationship is deeply problematic. Scribbles and Elwood. Scribbles and Echo-oid. Yeah, there's a scene that the very end

where they have a sentimental moment together and I felt the music changing and I felt that we were going there, and it was really scary. My favorite moment in the movie early on is when Dan Akra reveals to Joe Morton, the police chief, that he is the son of Cap Callaway, the illegitimate son of Cap Callaway. And he goes, it's not true, it's not true.

And he goes, call your mother. And he goes, it's not true, it's not true. And he goes, call your mother. And he goes, hey mom, there's a guy talking about Cap. Hangs up. Hangs up? What information transpired? Something so profound just happened between him and his mother. Something his mother never wanted to admit was true.

He called and hangs up on her. But for him to have hung up on her, he must have, this guy's talking about Cab, and you're like, Cab Kelly, I fuck him, and you're his kid. Like, she would have to have bulleted that information out because he gets confirmation and is repulsed by it, but no more than four seconds pass. Also, why does Joe Morton take this meeting? So, Joe Morton, who's like, whatever,

commissioner, police chief or whatever, he says, so what can I do for you, Mr. Blues? What? Is he just taking meetings with randos off the street and their wards? Like, what is this? Oh, my god. Well... Did you notice, I don't know all the characters' names, and it's okay.

But... I got them all. The guy, okay so the guy got all the strip club. It's got scribbles, scribbles, scribbles. It's got scribbles, scribbles, um... Thank you guys! Scribbles... Skibbles, Skibbles, Skibbles, Skibbles, and Skibbles. That's actually the, that's the full band.

The guy who owns the strip club, Willys. Yes. So did anyone else notice, again, maybe it was in the first one and I didn't see it. In his little office area, there are photographs of women up, like pasted up on the wall and in a collage so tightly cut together that you can't even see any of the wall. There's just like, faces of women,

faces of women, and they're not, they look like missing people pictures. Like when you have to hand over to the police. Like milk carton girls. Yeah, like they look like, you may to hand over to the milk carton girls yeah look like I you may need to find it Paul it looks like it's really like a zero like the way one in your life it looks like wallpaper made out of milk

carton photos like oh let me pass this picture along she's smiling she looks like herself we haven't seen her in a year representation She looks like herself. We haven't seen her in a year. Answers to Nancy's. I'm trying to find it. Too much trouble if it's not too much trouble. Oh, it's and I will. I will. I will go back to the fact that I found it so unsettling that they made the kid a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the strip club. Well, you've been.

I mean strip comes to offer food PB and J they got wings, June wings, a basket of fries. I'd be like, okay, cool. What is it about PB and J? He is not like serving food. That's just like, well, crystals got some peanut butter and I think I think Diane has some jelly from a she like to have that snake yeah like strippers keep like I like the idea with the strippers in the back room all just like making P.P. and J. Sam it seems like cobbled together in a way that I hear what you're saying I don't want like some strippers loose bread well look I don't think that's doing it for me.

This strip club got a few issues. One of them bread. One of them being that they're not, they're never naked. And I mean, well, no. Okay, man. Okay, man. Okay, got it. So that was a real issue for you. Is that a problem for? No, I agree with you, Paul.

Let's let's get them. Let's get them titties on screen. Because keep in mind scribbles is here. No, and I they're never naked Paul shear You know me Photoshop that on the on the box art for this movie You know me that come for the tea I stay for the a and No, I think what I think about it is like it's so trying to be an arm movie

That is also a PG movie like we'll go to a strip club that looks like the worst set like on a Disney sitcom. Like it's so bad. It's called a stripster club and I thought, oh, that's weird. And then someone goes to your stripster club. I've never heard that as a term. The Russians called it a strip. But it also on the sign it says stripster. That's can't be true. No, I wrote it down and I re-round it. If that is true, honestly, if that is true, the show is over. I'm going home. It is stripster. I'm not getting. I will straight walk home right now. I will. I will try to find

all of this because I saw in the photos. I saw in the subtitles that the Russians called it a stripster club and I was like these dumb fucking Russians. By the way, Paul, there's no need for them to be naked actually. They could be in whatever they please. Yeah, Paul. Yeah, Paul, they could do whatever they want. But what I'll say about them, if you're worried they weren't, I guess, provocative enough for your...

No, I just... ...for your taste, the outfits they were wearing to me were, were in many ways like more risque than just being naked. They were those weird like 90s, very high cut songs and all sorts of things. I wasn't worried about the provocability. Is that a word? The provocability?

Oh boy. Now you're trying to sound all smart because you are a real perv. Okay. Jason. Yes. I can't show this on the big screen, but can you pass that to Jason, please? So I'm passing to Jason.

I'm passing to Jason the logo of the club, which is in neon. It says stripster, June has fallen out of her seat. No! That's it, black it out, we're going home. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. The show is over, the series is over. It's a wrap on how did this get made. You did it, Akroyd. You broke the show. Congratulations. Your dream came true.

Holy shit. Stripster Club. What world are we living in? That's not cool. What? And, like my good friend Paul says, and no titties. You're gonna call it a stripster club. And you're not even gonna let scribbles

get an eyeball on some titties. Come on, acroid. If I'm not getting hard 2000 times, then why am I seeing Blues Brothers 2000? Here I get it. Who am I? Who am I? Read, read, read. Stripster. Nope, not doing it. then why am I seeing Blues Brothers 2000 here? I guess who am I who am I read read read stripster nope not doing it Jim Belushi what stripster club fuck you movie

out of a movie that is based in musical performances. I could also say that Dan acroids lip sync is some of the worst. Just take a look. He's also like looks like he needs a little powder. He so he sings a song, sings about a verse in a course, then is over in another side of the bar. Seemingly, the lead singer has left the stage in the middle of the song to have a dialogue scene. And then leaves the bar. Yes.

He then drinks with the Russians and then drives them and leaves them in the song is still going. He sets up his leaves and they keep the song playing in the background. This is the shit that's not even lazy. It's insane. It is insane. And oh God.

Here's the thing. I think all of the events of the movie take place in like seven hours. It's not that, but it's like, I feel like the whole thing takes place in 70 hours. It's so, like so much happens all the time, including a drive from Chicago to New Orleans. I mean, I wrote down here 30 minutes,

and all we have had is half a song in 30 minutes. It like, they don't. Oh, and because you were like, give me those songs. Well, I know. But when Paul told me we were doing Blues Brothers 2000, he was like, so get ready for some great tunes. Tits and tunes. The... Tits and tunes.

The Paul Sheer story. The... Yeah. The, like, but the idea, like, it's... But you would think like, all right, well, the plot's terrible, but at least they'll have some good numbers. No, they don't. I have one. I

think only one good number, which is the the phone sex operations. Yeah, that was great. I thought that was great and I thought the battle of the bands. Oh, yes, and it was great. They were just the all star band basically, but by the time you got there, did you care about any by the time I got there? I had to By the time you got there, did you care about anything? By the time I got there, I had to watch Blue's Traveler? Yeah. Now, did anyone ever tell Aretha Franklin that the camera was running for this walkthrough

of her most famous song, Respect? Like, I think she's amazing. I feel like so much, she's like, oh, no, just do that. Yeah, and then I hear, and then I'm this, version and then I'm this and then I do that thing and then turn around like it sounds sleepy. It's like I don't it just I guess maybe it's better now in an out of context.

It I guess that the problem with this is that in the first movie, she does the exact same song with the exact same situation, and it's awesome. Wait, no, it's not a fact? Oh, it's think? Oh, think. It's think, sorry.

Sorry. Not the same song. No, listen, I agree that I thought it was... Oh, boy. Thanks. Oh, boy, It's think. Sorry. Sorry. Not the same song. No, listen. I agree that I thought it was... Oh, boy. Thanks. Oh, boy, don't cross Chicago in a Chicago movie. I thought it was a strange energy level,

but I was so happy to see her. Oh, yeah. And be with her. Yeah. I was so thankful to be out of that car with those guys and spend some time with those ladies and those hats that I... I was just thrilled to be there. Arguably one of the highlights, it just felt a little slower

as the whole movie felt a little slower, but yes. Well, it didn't feel... There's something about it feeling less meaningful in a Mercedes dealership than like us. When it was in the restaurant, the diner or whatever the restaurant was in the first movie. But I will say the movie really does, this is actually sadly not one of them, does the phone sex one is one, does come alive sometimes when they go and they visit

with someone and have an experience in that world and it tends to be someone iconic that we're interested in. That I thought a lot of times was great, but it was also like toxically poisoned by the nonsense that that there that acroids injecting into it. Here are the two moments that I laughed at. Number one, would acroid, would start eating the Doritos and just throwing them?

What? I wrote down, dad joke. It made me laugh. Like that was like, yeah. All right. Doritos made me laugh. It made me laugh. And the police car piled up made me laugh.

The police car piled up. It made me laugh. And the police car pile up made me laugh. The police car pile up. I also laughed at the police car pile up because it was, it had the genius bit of being so many cars. So long. Well. It really, it was surprising how long it was and then it went longer. And then it really made me laugh. That was funny.

And the other thing that made me laugh, and I am ashamed to admit this, was the visual of shaving cream head. I... John Goodman is like, Oh no! It's happening! His thing acted up, and Goodman is like, oh no! It's happening, his thing acted up and Hector is like... And he's got the glasses.

He's got the glasses in the shaving cream. Pumple bacteria was a highlight of this movie. That made me laugh so hard and then it cut straight into the blues mobile and he has like a dab of shaving cream that John Goodman is wiping off. I like I like that kind of stuff. I like the fact that like in Ghostbusters Bill Murray has no marshmallow on him and they're all covered like I like that. I will say with the cars it's funny, but it is a call back to the first movie where they wreck a hundred and three cars in the movie and in this one hundred and four. So that's why now, June, did you have a Nintendo when you were growing up? No.

Oh, okay. Jason, did you have a Nintendo? I did not. So you guys probably never got to play the Blues Brothers 2000 video game right wait also during the phone sex song yes was it weird that they were also shooting a commercial for the phone sex service. I thought that was weird here is a taste of some of the electric gameplay of you. Here is a taste of some of the electric gameplay of Blues Brothers two thousand the video game playing in story mode. World One Chicago. This is you

World. I think that said prison planet. This is who is this game for it's just wait so this is inside the prison yes is that scribbles yep scribbles has sent Elwood a postcard and he's jumping out of his prison bed where the queen is like the special effects are like virtuosity yeah that is a little the little the game play in there which seemingly takes place after Blues Brothers 2000 and he's back in jail because he's getting a postcard from Scribbles and walking past a giant picture of the Queen Erica Bado who was a shining part of the film for me. She was great. I mean, it was insane what was happening, but

it was also very much so enjoyed her. Would you think that the first movie had a lot of supernatural elements? I was going to say are there people floating up into outer space and no which is which is people in a rat. No, I will say that in both movies Paul Schaefer wears all of his own clothes. So I had him taking shots. I wrote down at one point I said I know the first movie and I'm only getting 40% of these references. Why was he such a dick to the blues traveler or John Popper? Why? Why didn't

he go and like support a young blues band? Yeah, he's like nope. And he gets away like oh that's a real likable character traits. The guy is trying to put together the best band ever is like, hey, we got a cool band. We're young kids. Fuck you. I felt like I don't know. I thought he was trying to do a nod, like say they're actually so amazing and he missed out when well. Oh, I see. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. And then it's John Popper who's playing harmonica for scribbles anytime scribbles is playing. Oh really that's John Popper's harmonica. Yeah. Interesting. The fact that I know that is depressing. It is.

I did think that's the actor who portrayed scribbles did a great job. Yeah, he was right. His actual name is Skribbles. He was sweet and great when they're playing the when they're the blue grass band when they're basically doing the soggy the soggy bottom boys with fake beards and bluegrass. Yes conjure spirits? Do they made those... Does their rendition of this song conjure restless spirits? Yeah.

Like, that's what I'm saying. We... The way that we are viewing this movie, Joe Morton flew into the sky. That's real. Horses, CGI horses, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, That's what I'm saying. We the way that we are viewing this movie Joe Morton flew into the sky. That's real horses. Cji horses came down and rained. Not death, but just rain from the sky. Like yeah, we are in a supernatural fucking world. I mean yeah, I mean these are these ghost riders here flying. You These are these ghost riders here flying. You, they're CGI ghost riders.

See, this is 100% Dan Aykroyd. This is what his ghostbusters would have been. Yeah. But does he think like this is a genuine question? There were moments like that where I thought, is this a joke? Is this, I'm not trying to be a bitch. I'm genuinely wondering, am I supposed to laugh at that?

I don't think so. No, that's sort of like the power of music has brought back these ghost writers. You're supposed to, and you did laugh at the Doritos bit. Well then, this movie's a success. Oh my God. Did you laugh at the fact that the police officer was in such a horrible car accident

that she didn't lose her hat, but the brim of the hat was broken up? Oh, my God. In that... In that car pile-up... I'm not even kidding. In that car pile-up, 104 cars? Yes.

Okay. Let's say... Minimal two people to every car, okay? There must have been over 210 dead people because of that pile up. Not a single person should have survived that. I'm okay with those people dying because at any point you would be like, oh shit, there's a 20, a 40, a 60, an 80 car pile up in front of me.

I'm gonna slow down. You're saying that no one at any point started like hit the brake. Like I see some... Not only that, they are launched into it as if somehow there's a ramp leading up to the car pile up and in the first movie when cars were launched they were flying off a bridge this one there on

a like the cheapest thing is like we got a road outside of town yeah we'll launch these cars I mean they were just crack I have expected Merle Haggard to come over the thing and be like well looks like these blues brothers got them into got themselves into quite a situation and for like Roscoe Pete Coltrane to come out of one of those cars. This movie is not afraid about hazard reference for the for the young people not this movie not afraid to launch a lot of things into the air like the boat nothing yeah they throw out thetacks and the car hits thumbtacks

and is launched into the air as if hitting thumbtacks is explosive. And I did not understand why the boat also, when their car came out of the lake, drove into a lake in this world. We gotta talk about the car is also a submarine. Out of a lake. We got to talk about the car is also a submarine. Out of a lake.

Roll up your windows. And then the car gets, see in that moment, was I supposed to laugh at that? Was that the right response? Sadly, I think yes. I think that is a joke. You know the joke that I laughed at the artist? There's one shot of the car and the owner of the strip club, Willie,

is literally laying on the like like in the back window, like his body. His body is like shoved in there like a maybe like it was. It wasn't called attention to just an overhead shot. He's like, oh, I could probably fit up in that ledge and it wasn't the kid. It was just an overhead shot. He's like, oh, I could probably fit up in that ledge. And it wasn't the kid. It was Willie. Yeah, because the kid is on a lap in the front seat. It's sitting on the lap of a stranger in a car full of strangers.

Now, Paul, I did find you in that very position once when you got locked out of our home. Well, what? No, but to be truthful, I put the car seats down. All I know wait. Whoa, what wait? Okay, if you don't think we're gonna unpack this wait, you were locked out of your own home. Were you inside of it? I was inside and I woke up in the morning and Paul was not there and I had a heavy sleeper. And I had a complete panic attack. June is a heavy sleeper.

So I knocked her out. I went to the bedroom window and knocked on that window. I tried to get around the front. At what time? Midnight-ish? Yeah, midnight one. I did even a thing where I climbed over and tried to get in through a way that I know how to get in. That didn't work. And so I was like, well, I'm here.

So what I find out is the next morning I wake up, Paul's not there, and I completely freak out. I look at my phone and I see a series of texts, and I'm just scanning, scanning. My eyes aren't even reading what I'm looking at. I just see the last one that says, I'm in the car. And then I raced outside to our driveway and Paul had a Prius and was... In the trunk. I had put down the two back seats

and made it into a bed and then slept in the trunk. With like a towel, with like a beach towel over it. A beach towel and a sweatshirt for a pillow. What? It was so disturbing. That is harrowing. Oh my God, and I had to not... Drive to a hotel!

Thank you, there were so many. Drive to a hotel! Drive to your house, drive to Rob Hubel's... No, not here in my house. No, not here in my house. You'll see, I was saying go to a hotel. I don't want to have to give Paul my address. Okay, we have friends who live near us go to anyone's house

and say I'm here, I've been locked out. So unfortunately I had a terrible reaction, which was to laugh. But I was okay with it. I had a good time. My legs have been in the car. I was like a little. I had a good time. I liked it in the car. I was like a little whirly back there. Oh, my God. What if that became like a thing that you like did

every once in a while just to like, you know what, I'm just going to go crash in the car. Just mix it up, keep the relationship alive. Sometimes I just disappear and you'll find me in random autos. Cut to the, you're like, wake up, the car's been stolen and you're find me in random autos cut to the you're like wake up the car's been stolen and you're in the back seat um all of that all of that was to say it is a funny image when a man's sleeping in the back window of a car they had two cars but then they got reduced into one

so the whole band was often crammed into the one car also I would say that we're talking about that sequence where they're all runningammed into the one car. Also, I would say that we're talking about that sequence where they're all running back into the one car. They drive into the Carnival in a painted version of the cop car. Then they park that. And then through a series of circumstances that we don't see nor has anything alluded to the next month. We see cargo. Okay, go ahead.

Next scene. They're in a flaming car. Yeah, in a hoop of fire and like wait what happened where and I don't know much so much so that I was like oh cool. This is a cool stunt and then it cuts to them in the flaming. and is like, what? I wrote like this movie feels like someone telling you about a movie. And you're like, but wait, wait, wait. But how did they get in the car? Or someone telling you about a dream. Someone telling you about a dream of a movie. Yeah.

And you know, until he's out of jail and he's waiting for a long time, like how long? I don't know, like a day. And then... They're in the flaming cut also. Also he has a remote control for the car. At one point he's on stage singing. He pulls out like a an RC remote control from Radio Shack that he has no visuals on

whatsoever. And he drives the car up to where they are so he can pick them up. To do that, he must have plowed down a hundred people. Dozens are dead. I would have loved it if there was a death count on the bottom left-hand part of the screen throughout the entire ring. Ding, also be they're constantly they're being chased by Joe Morton and his police and also the Russian mob and everybody by the way. I will say the Russian mob played so tastefully so smartly like a really organic. It felt like that big old Morton's in movie. I was like wow. I'm getting this in a way different way. Just subtle, subtle stuff.

Why? I have a question about this. Why? What was the scene? Okay, full disclosure. I watched part of this movie times two. Which I didn't even know was the thing. Because it was interminable to watch. So I times-tuned it. Why were they edged? I wish you had shot us a text. Interminable to watch, so I times toed it.

Why were they? I wish he had shot us a text and let us know like that was possible. Yeah. Why, why were they at the Russian Mafia funeral? Oh, because their friend runs the funeral cemetery. Oh, right. Okay. The ponytail runs the funeral.

So he just happens to be having a funeral for the Russian mob. No, for the nephew that died that we didn't see because no one died in the car accident because when the car does do all those flips, they specifically say no one got her. I thought I thought that his nephew passed at willies Oh in the fire? In the fire. Maybe. So, let's be clear.

L. Wood Blues has abducted a child, forced him into labor and taken him across state lines, and has murdered a man. All in a day's work. Also, I wanted to talk about that scene in Willys again, where they flip the car, they take off, and the Russians are chasing them. They throw the carpet tax out, they do,

and then the car flips over and lands in front of the Stripster Club, which means that they just did, like, a giant circle. Now, in the first movie, do they do, do they play that joke question mark of the police car being able, their car being able to do all these sorts of... Yeah, yeah. That thing where they slide, that thing where they slide into parking spots,

really got overused in this. That's from the first one. I was gonna ask, what, it was the car that they get, That's from the first one. I was gonna ask, what, was the car that they get, is that from the first movie? I was asking, I was wondering that too. Are we meant to believe that's the original car? Yeah. It's just been in BB King's lot the whole time?

No. Wait, it's not? This guy's saying no. Because when the car pulls out, the sheet of paper. Hey guys, everybody shut up. We're listening to this guy for some reason. We've decided that he's the audience's answer. He sounds like he knows what he's talking about. He's got a backwards baseball hat, guys, so he must know he's talking.

Here, I'm going to give you the mic just because I won't be able to reach you here. Pass it. This is the first time. Wow. Whoa. This is... Paul, why now? Paul, you are in a position of weakness right now. Why would you do it now?

But when Paul more attention to it, it might go bad. Here we go. When the cop pulls out the fake printer paper and it makes a terrible rip sound, her screen says 1990 Ford, whatever the shit car. OK, so it's not the same car. Thank you for respecting the microphone. Thank you.

A thoughtful, brief answer. And also, I appreciate and I'm also fear, like, you watch this movie so intently that you saw Dot Matrix printing, and I applaud it, and I'm sorry. Like, you took time to read in this movie. Well, you know, he's talking about reading. I've now been interested in watching movies and subtitles

and I noticed a couple of things in here too. When like they're singing in the song, like, you know, one of the singers was like, whoo, and they kept on subtitling it. Whoops. Whoops. And that made me laugh. And then at one point, why are you reading these in subtitles? Because I just like it gives me focused on it. And then and then the other and then the other one was on there. Pull into the Queen's Palace.

And then the other one was when they pull into the Queens Palace, he goes like, Entree, and he goes, Merci. And they just wrote, Speaking French. Like the simplest French. Whoever was doing Close Gap, you're like, fuck it, Speaking French. That made me laugh. And now, as we have a few shows here in Chicago, I've found so many, like close captioning people,

like, fuck this, like, so many weird choices. Great to see James Brown again. Always great. Did you guys stay for the post-credits scene? No. No. There is a let me let me guess agent Colson and Thor's hammer

there is a post credit scene that is so long. It's James about we're not going to watch it, but it's James Brown doing a full number. Oh, that's great. I'm into that. Yeah, full number, capes and everything. Yeah, the full two minutes at the end. If you want to check it out, I would like that. Yeah, and it's a great, you know, I don't know where this fit in the movie of it ever fit in the movie and then and then here a little ad Universal Studios. You know what? Universal Studios, you know, it says, I will give everybody here money if they go to Universal Studios and ask for Babs. That is a callback from either Blues Brothers or Caddy Shack where they also put that in there. Okay, then just

yeah or Animal House right? You don't get any animal house, right? So you don't get anything. Animal house, yeah. Disagregate. All right. That's a John Landis joke. Oh, John Landis. All right, let's get into the crowd, maybe talk to them a little bit, see what they have to say. I don't know, Paul. I don't know. Let's see what we got here.

Hold on, all right. Here we go. Sir, your name, one thing that could have added to the Blues Brothers, that, like the car flying up into space, that would have felt organic, but is insane. This may be an impossible task for you guys. Just something insane that could have happened.

UFO, Bigfoot, whatever. You got your name, your that, and your question. My name is Skip. The Blues Mobile on a roller coaster. What's your real name? Great. That sounds made up. You nailed it by the way.

Blues, Blues Mobile on a roller coaster. Great. And when the boat... Your name's not Skip. Yeah. Is it Skip? It really is. It's your God given name is is skip my parents given name is

skip yes well Wow security get this heathen out of here the Roman centurions will take you away. All right, all right, skip. All right, skip, what do you got? We just take questions from anybody with a weird name now? All right, skip, bring it. So when the boat flies up in the air and then lands on the white supremacists,

they're then at the queen's dance at the very end? Uninjured. Yeah, did they not blow up, or did she revive them, what do you guys think? Well, she then turned them into rats. So I don't think she had any great fondness for them. I was surprised by that as well. I felt like the movie was saying they will be punished

by blowing them up for their beliefs. And I was also shocked, skip, that they were alive. I didn't hear that response. It was awesome. You didn't miss anything. What? All right. But, but again, if we're talking about laziness, why not put a bandage on Darrell Hammond's face? Yeah. Like, oh, yeah, he's a little hurt. Like just give give me something here. I mean, we watched the boat fall on his face. Yeah. He literally was like this.

Looking up. So, it's impossible for him to live. And they also didn't need to be at Erika Badu's place, because they're only there for two seconds, and then they get turned into rats. Your name, your unbelievable thing, and your question. My name is Adriana, and I was kind of hoping that there'd be more connection with the Queen

and maybe like she had brought them there and there'd be like a moral and some kind of like fairy tale type thing at the end. Like maybe that would have been. Yeah, the battle of the bands is super anti-climactic because they're up against the best band of all time. They've also been turned into green zombies. They perform, and it's the end of the movie.

There's no reason... They've learned nothing. Remember when they were zombies? And that that was, like, part of the movie that we all watched. All right your name your unbelievable thing that could happen in the movie and your question. My name is Dan. I'd like to see some vampires in the scene with the zombies. Love it. Two quick Russian questions. The first is would the movie be better if the Russians formed a blues band to compete in the battle of the bands? Yes.

Second. Wow. I would have loved that, Dan. And I want you to understand right now, this second thing better be better than what you just said. Yeah, you're right now in such a rare era. Or right now you can sit down a champion or you can go to for a broke Do you want to double down? I'll double down He's okay, okay, Dan

Here we go. Here we go, Dan. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. What do you got number two? Speaking of acroid. did you catch the Russians talking about drinking vodka out of a skull? Whoa! Yeah, yeah. Dan, you did it. I caught it, but who cares, Dan? That is, that is.

You should have started with that and ended with the other. Just saying, Dan. The reference that he's making there is that Dan Acroy has crystal skull vodka. That's his vodka, so that's whyrait has Crystal Skull Vodka. That's his vodka, so that's why he was promoting it. Okay, sir. Did that existed that time? No. Yeah, Dan. Oh my god, the audience murdered Dan. It didn't exist at that time. Also Skip, shut up.

Okay, come over. All right, your name, your unbelievable thing, and your question, go. My name's Noah. I think it would be unbelievable if they revealed that Scribbles was John Belushi reincarnated. Ooh, yes. I love that. I love that. Or with Belushi's son or something. Yeah, that could have been a good one. Um, I just wonder, when I think of New Orleans, the two things I don't think of are Albert Einstein

and King Kong. Yes! Yes! I couldn't figure that out at all! I just wondered if anyone else noticed that they were so prominently featured on the stage. My presumption was, is that an actual place that has those things that they just used?

You know what I mean? That's what I couldn't figure out. I was also like, okay, King Kong, oh, Lewis Armstrong, okay, cool. And Einstein? All right, well, Paul's running up to the balcony. Don't you fucking look at us. Don't you look at us.

Don't even look at us. I'm here in the balcony. Woo, woo! All right, oh yeah. Paul, be safe up there. Be careful, Paul. I am seeing the entire band from the Blues Brothers. Alright, sir, your name, your unbelievable thing,

and your question. Will and maybe they could have went to someone who plays more exciting? Okay. Sure. And, um, that's your unbelievable thing. Will, we're off to a great start. J K. This is awful. My question is why were Illinois cops going across state line chasing? Wait, what was it? What did he say?

Were Illinois state cops going across state lines? And yes, great question. Also, how were they able to be there so quickly? Great job will so far will is best representing about a hundred and four of their car where they must have a lot of cars because they had to get new cars they all got new cars yeah all right sir your name in those cars was the band the cars your name your unbelievable story point and your question. My name is Caesar.

My unbelievable story point would have been what you said, where they go up in the space. But there was like a Belushi in the constellations. Ooh. Thanks. So they don't start following like cartoon logic until they're in the suits, till Goodman and Scri they're in the suits, until Goodman and Scribbles are in the suits.

That's when the music starts. That's not part of a performance, all that. Um... What if they all died in the fire? Oh! No. Caesar, I know what you're doing. I see what you're trying to do.

And I mean, is this a Jacob's Ladder scenario? I think not. I think not. All right. It would explain why the car flipped out with those carpet techs. I don't know. It seems like this is Elwood's fantasy. He never got out of jail.

He never got out of jail. Oh, wow. So do you think like, if this movie, if the last, if there was a subliminal shot at the end of this movie, there was just Elwood in an electric chair? That, that would make Caesar some sort of genius. But at this point, without that, Caesar is just some balcony monster. All right, ma'am, your name,

your unbelievable story point, your question. My name is Makayla. My unbelievable point would be the gray hot dog from Nothing but Trouble. And my question is, at one point in the movie, they say all the lawmen from two states are awaiting on that road. My unbelievable point would be the gray hot dog from Nothing but Trouble. And my question is, at one point in the movie, they say all the lawmen from two states are awaiting on that bridge.

So what's happening in those two states that don't have any cops? Yeah. Are they experiencing a purge scenario? I would love it. I would love it if they made a purge movie that took place during the four hours. Um, well, we're also talking about a chance to open up the Blues Brothers

EC, uh, ECU, right, our extended universe, right? So it's sort of like, let's get in there. What, what's going on in different parts? We're scribbles now. He's older. What happened to Willie after the movie? Scribbles is, yes, scribblesbles now? He's older. What happened to Willie after the movie? Scribbles is, yes, scribbles is now quite a bit older. Ma'am, your name, your unbelievable story point, your question.

Hi, my name is Sarah, and my story point is when they go under the river in the car, and he says, hold your breath. Yeah. Maybe the car actually fills with water. maybe the car actually fills with the water? Well, he said roll up the windows. No, he did say hold your breath too. Yeah, no, he said, how long can you hold your breath? It was weird. But no more weird than the rest of the magical realism that is a part of this movie.

But why would you say how long can you hold your breath? Yeah. If that's not part of the thing. If there's no water rushing in, I get it. It would be like me going like, like inviting someone over to my house and going, are you afraid of heights? But I live on a one story house.

That car. And it's like, yeah, I can ask you that question. It has no bearing on what's about to happen. When they are in that car with a child, it is riddled with machine gun fire, driven in a loop to loop while on fire, submerged in the water, and driven across the bottom of a lake or a river bed.

It is, they are actively trying to kill that child. And also he's been gone for a full seven days. Yeah. And the nuns don't do anything about it. The nuns are at a week. The nuns are like, we should tell the police. Maybe call them, maybe. That orphanage should be shut down.

And why would they ever hand scribblesbbles over to Dan Akroyd? He just got out of prison. They said you should mentor him. But even that, Jason, he's the last person who should mentor him. He's not even off parole. He literally left a... Hey, guys, don't get mad at me. Jason, he's a maniac. I didn't... Okay, okay.

I did write that part of the movie. I did a rewrite on the movie, I introduced scribbles. All right, sir, your name, your unbelievable plot point, and your question. Okay, so my name is Dovid, my unbelievable plot point is when they do the loop-de-loop instead of landing, they continue on a path and end up in a bone-stripping machine that saves us all half an hour time. I love it from nothing but trouble.

From nothing but trouble, yeah. And my question is, so I'm Orthodox Jewish person and is that... Mazel tov? Is that... Stop bragging. Well, yeah, exactly. So, is that what happens in church? Yes. Yes.

That is what all church is. Oh my God. Holy cow. Well, we're really barreling through this movie. And obviously, we have had a lot of opinions, right? Now it's time for Second Opinions. Well, one and one is two, six and two is eight. Come on, baby, this movie wasn't great.

Hey, hey, baby, don't you want to go? And here's some second opinions in Sweet, Chicago. Give it up for Lindsey. Wow. Chicago, bringing it. Coming in hot, Chicago. What an amazing second opinion song. We picked one, but there are six others. Stay tuned after the episode to hear the rest.

All right, here we go. These are five-star reviews, cold from Amazon. By the way, I was shocked that one of those was Jeff Tweedy. Yeah, amazing, right? You know, Chicago really brought it. I mean, you'll obviously listen to the other six when you finish this episode, but Chancellor Apper was great, Jeff Tweedy was great.

So good. Kanye, really great, lots of great. Rob Bogojowicz was great. Recently, recently pardoned from whenever this episode comes out, Rob Bogojowicz is here. Great voice. Great, great voice.

Lots of Chicagoches here. Great voice. Great, great voice. Lots of Chicago repping. You'll be surprised to find out that 69% of these are five star... 69! 69! All right, here we go. Someone has said, okay, a musical with a story what's not to love by a nanny mouse. Put it together, you got it. Okay, I didn't write it. Also known as Dan Eck, right? I'm a fan, always have been, love the action, love the music, sorry if it sounds like I'm a fan, always have been. Love the action, love the music.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm dating myself. My age, I'm really engaged. To a woman. Five stars. Honestly, honestly, what am I doing wrong? Somebody who rates this movie five stars is engaged to be married, and I am withering on the vine.

I just like that he put a dad joke in, he goes, I'm dating myself, actually I'm engaged. Then it was like, to a woman. There's so many things going on here. Who is not myself? This is from Susan Klase. She writes, this movie is so great, sometimes I watch it three times in the same week.

Five stars. How? Oh, Susan. Oh, I'm worried. That's like honestly, that is evidence that can have her against her will committed to an institution. That is enough to have her committed against her will. Um, I just want to say this next review is not written by me,

but, uh, it's by RJ Nobleman, and, uh, the title of the review is Excellent, a Real Thriller. and the title of the review is Excellent, a Real Thriller. And it goes on to say, great movie. Ackroyd was excellent, but the best cast member was actress model, Shan Johnson, the exotic dancer. The model actress, former Soul Train dancer,

is a rising star. Oh, I'm going gonna stop you right here. Superb. Why did you tell us at the beginning that this wasn't written by you? I was confused until this part of the review, where without letting us know, we might have thought this was you. Paul, you gotta be cooler than this man. Let me talk about Shan Johnson.

This model actress, former Soul Train dancer is a rising star. Superb. I hope to see her in many, many more movies. She is the next J.Lo. Five stars. Well, here we are 18 years later. By the way, I thought she was great. Sure. No, I have nothing negative to say. It's an odd take away. If your entire review is focused on a character who has arguably like four

minutes of screen time, sure, in a two hour, 15 minute movie, yeah, I mean. But besides that, does a great job. Wow. Do you want, do you want to just touch on the battle of the bands? Cause that- No, no, no, no, no.

We're so close. We're so close to being in bed. All right. So, yeah, I mean, I fast forwarded that whole part. I will say this. I watched the Gator Boys. What is it? The Gator Boys. I watched the Gator Boys because that was a just like wall-to-wall

superstar group of musicians that was great. It was BB King and Beau Diddley and Jeff Luralls. like wall-to-wall superstar group of musicians that was great. It was BB King and Bo Diddley and Jeff Lue Rawls. And Skribbles Bond. And Isaac Hayes is in there. Skribbles Clemens, Skribbles Jack DeLante, Skribbles Diddley, Skribbles Thadis, Skribble Hayes, Skribble Doctor, Skribble King,

Skribble McDonald, Skribble Musclewright. It's Dr. Skribbles. Ha ha ha, you're right. Skribbles Rawls, Paul Skribbles, Cocoa Skribbles. No, it was an amazing band. It's an amazing band. I watched that because I was like, this is gonna be great, and it was.

And then I fast forwarded all of the Blues Brothers song because I was like, this is gonna be terrible. Until I saw that Skribbles was singing, and I turned it on for Skcribbles to sing and I was... What was his voice like? Pretty great. Pretty great. Which, by the way, could have been a plot point. The deep soul of a blues man.

Any of these things could have been a plot point. I was genuinely excited to hear him sing. I mean, not excited enough to watch it, of course. It was uneventful. A couple facts about the movie. Name number four on Entertainment Weekly's top 25 worst singles ever made. Dan Akroyd lost 90 pounds before he shot this movie.

Macaulay Culkin. Wow, so this was him in his prime, feeling himself. Yeah, but yeah. Macaulay Culkin was supposed to play scribbles. Wait, but that age, does that line up? I don't know. 1998. No, he was... I feel like Macaulay Culkin was older at that point.

Look, I just... I guess it was a different version of scribbles at one point. Maybe... I don't believe... I don't believe a Kieran Culkin, more than a Macaulay, but I don't wanna get all Culkin in here. The budget, 28 million.

It only will lead to a discussion of fannings. The budget on this one was $28 million. What? The opening weekend, it made six six and it topped out at 14. To put it in some comparison, the top three movies of 1998 were Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, and there's something about Mary. This movie came in 107th out of all the movies made in 1998 and it was beaten by Godzilla, Jack Frost, Spice World, and the Avengers. And I will say one thing about Macaulay Culkin.

I have a feeling that Dan Akraed along the way watched Home Alone and didn't realize that time had passed. And said, we gotta get that kid. He thought he was getting that kid, yeah. And then probably someone said, he's much older now. And he's like, we'll make it work. I bet you're right.

Yeah, that would have been what I thought. Well, Jason, you already gave us an inside look at this, but... Nope. My answer to, should you watch this movie is, no thank you. June, would you watch this movie? Yeah, no. I'm gonna also put a big no on the board,

but I will say that this movie made me want to re-watch the first one. Yeah, yeah. I am interested now in watching the first one. The first one is fun. The first one, it's got John Candy in it. Yeah, like that alone, yeah. There's like really iconic comedy beats

and funny, like great musical numbers too. Yeah. So there we go people. Like Respect from Aretha. You son of a bitch. Anybody want to plug anything? This is going to be a little bit. Where are we? What time of year is it?

Let's say we're in June, July. You think June, July? No, I'm good. All right. Um, I mean, you can check out Grace and Frankie on Netflix, because it's always there. Excellent show. You're fantastic in it.

I will plug this new podcast, mini series that I'm doing with Amy Nicholson, called Unspooled. Thank you. Listen, subscribe. We talk about good movies, many series that I'm doing with Amy Nicholson called Unspooled. Thank you. Listen, subscribe. We talk about good movies, and it's been crazy for me to watch

like Blues Brothers 2000 after watching like Bonnie and Clyde. I'm almost having so many high highs and so many low lows. I'm like a bipolar movie watcher now. My hatred is so much deeper and my light is so much higher, but check it out, unspooled. Why don't you bring me over there? What?

Why are the rest of us at this day here? Meanwhile, we're just in the toilet. Yeah, sounds great. We're just watching the toilet. Yeah. Sounds great. We're just watching the toilet movies. Just be thankful we didn't watch Honey. Guys, Chicago, you really fucking did it. Chicago, you guys have done it, and we couldn't do this show without Nate Kiley,

who does all of our research. Also, Averill Halley cuts all these amazing video clips. Kelly Alto puts a lot of this stuff together. A big thank you to The Onion for bringing us here and a huge, huge Chicago thank you to you all. We can't say thank you enough. You guys sold out four shows in this city, which means we will come back all the time.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And now it's time for second opinions. Come on. Were you watching the same show. I mean, come on.

Well, you're even watching the same show. It doesn't have Jim Belushi. How bad can it go? Your opinion's wrong. Gonna give you mine My second opinion, I believe it's time, hi-day Were you watching the same show? We're in the second city

A second opinion Kirk, Kirk, Kirk, Kirk. You ever, Kirk? All right. Woo! Now it is time for second opinions. Woo! I've been staring at the screen for an hour,

Writing this review for an hour, Thankful I belong to Prime. I know my review is gonna kill it, and I cannot wait to send it. Stars can give it five. Every actor great, every scene was strong. 80 yard the lines, but I love the song. Oh God, I hope a director's cut is on DVD.

My opinion is bad, but it's mine, and you're finding that I don't know this movie blows. There are more just like mine here online, and it's haunting. But now you know just how far some second opinions go. Yeah, amazing. Give it up for Meg. Moana Meg. And now it's time for second opinions.

You writing that Amazon review using all caps and defensive speech, so I know your love is true. And you, gave five stars to this drool. You never even wrote about the plow holes I've been jumping through. You know I try like June to forget this film, but it's just so hard to do. Every time I read a five-star review. Amazing, isn't it? Karen, give it up for Karen. All right, now it is time for Second Opinions.

A-p-n-d-o, a-p-n-d-o. Hey Chicago, what do you say? Second Opinions is on the way. Amazing, what's your name? No touching Jason. Don't do it. I didn't like it. Alright, now it's the video.

Okay, great. This will be fun. Alright, we'll have you go last. And now it's time for second opinion. You better think, think about a thing. And now it's time for Second Opinions. Whoo! You better think. Think about a five-star review, great. Think. Think about how Divis can met. Oh, Jason, June, and Paul.

It's Parkers. Jason, June, Paul and Scribble's second opinion. Amazing! Give it up for Emily! All right, the very special, sorry, it's a very special second opinion song because you are going to play a part in this on the screen will be words and follow along. Just fucking bring it.

As they say in rad, balls out. All right, here we go. But, balcony, that doesn't mean take your balls out. Just so you know. And also, skip, keep them in your pants. All right, here we go. Let's see if this works. This is how we do it.

It's second opinions. It's second opinions. It's second opinions. It's second opinions. It's second opinions. It's second opinions. This is how we do it. It's Friday night and it's time to write. Time to share with my love this Thursday. So I put it on my laptop and I put it up.

Don't like this. Don't give up. But yes, the same. I rate it. Read my review and you will be stated. This dude, this dude, this dude, he's good. All right. Just because I watched it while I was high,

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