The Worst Idea Of All Time - Replay S01E39: Farrier
Episode Date: March 23, 2024Please enjoy this victory lap of Season One episodes as we celebrate 10 years of The Worst Idea of All Time. New episodes posting on our Substack.Original Description:Guy and Tim are joined by beloved... kiwi journalist David Farrier. This week: Tim has to buy a $250 T-shirt; enthusiastic letters from fans, some Insane Clown Posse, rampant capitalism and more Paddy Shwartz! Also, physics, CGI animals, #instagramchat, more defence of David Spade and what's the deal with cross-desolves? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello everybody, it's Timbo and I'm back and you might be able to hear some lawnmower action going on in the background.
Clearly that is not me, that is my wife.
Very special guest on this episode.
You might know him from the series he did for Netflix, Dark Tourist.
You might know him from Tickled, one of the absolute craziest documentaries ever.
You might know him from his current work, Web Worm,
which is a truly fantastic newsletter that David Farrier puts out.
Obviously, who it is is David Farrier.
You might know him from Armchair Expert.
But before all of these projects that he engaged in
he was the coolest weirdest journalist knocking around new zealand um who was allowed to be on
the tally and david ferry i think is one of those guys that new zealand kind of owes him a real debt
of gratitude which i don't think we sort of recognize.
But he really contributed a lot of cool weirdness to the nightly news.
And there used to be sort of like a late night news situation
in New Zealand.
It kind of changed names a few times,
but David was often involved and he would get like death metal bands
to play
into the,
into the weather report.
And he'd be covering,
you know,
we all the weird oddities that you've seen him do with a proper international
budget now,
but he was doing them in New Zealand,
earning his stripes and learning how everything worked.
So anyway,
my key point here is very grateful to have had David Farrier on the podcast
and have that locked away, that record.
No one can take it from us, not even David himself.
So it's fun to flashback 10 years ago
and listen to a man who was destined for such great things
have to sit through our 39th watch of Grown Ups 2
and a long overdue apology to david
sorry that we talked uh through the actual watch itself and you missed a few a few bits in there
um but i hope everyone enjoys this collegial slightly frustrated um warm conversation with a
kiwi icon david ferry
okay hello welcome along to the Worst Idea of All Time podcast.
My name's Guy Montgomery.
My name is Tim Batt.
And this week we have a very special guest.
What's your name?
David Farrier.
It's nice to be here with you guys.
Big fan.
And it's nice to be sitting here after watching Grown Ups 2.
For me, for the first time.
That's right.
David Farrier, 3 News reporter.
And kind of freelance journalist.
Freelance everyman.
Parrot owner.
Pink t-shirt wearer.
Actor.
Actor.
Dreamer.
Short poppies.
Dancer.
Lover.
Visionary.
Food critic.
All true.
I'll take any opportunity that comes my way, including being here with you guys on this podcast.
Thank you. And the first thing I realized, I don't know how quickly we want to get into this. including being here with you guys on this podcast.
Thank you.
And the first thing I realized,
I don't know how quickly we want to get into this,
but I got this film confused with the Hot Tub Time Machine film or franchise in my head,
where you've got this big ensemble of comedians
in their sort of 30s, 40s, 50s, all coming together.
And today. So, yeah, there you go. And so, 40s, 50s, all coming together. And today.
So, yeah, there you go.
And so, I mean, what were you expecting?
You were just expecting more time spent in a jacuzzi, presumably.
Well, no, I just thought this film,
because I haven't seen either of these movies,
and I thought that, for some reason,
I thought it was about a group of friends travelling back in time
to sort of relive their youth another time.
But, of course, being called grown-ups, I thought it was about that.
I see.
But of course, that's hot type time machine.
In a way, it's not not about that.
Yeah.
No, this is about a group of men who are...
Regressing.
Yeah, regressing.
I don't know if they've ever gone,
never not regressed.
I mean, I don't think they've ever matured beyond puberty.
They're just goofing around.
Just a couple of guys,
could be anyone, just goofing around. They're just having a around. Just a couple of guys, could be anyone,
just goofing around.
They're just having a day together.
And I mean, for me,
this film was just...
You sound like Peter Dante,
cast member of Peter Dante.
Jesus.
An oppressor he did for the movie.
Trying to describe...
You're actually quoting
a press release for the movie.
It's about...
This film is about a group of guys
walking around their town
from shop to outside location to another store to a home.
Yeah.
Just living their lives.
You had a lot of questions throughout the viewing, David, about like, where's the story?
It was weird for me because I listened to the podcast and so watching it for the first time, I had so, because I knew you could answer any questions I had as the movie went on.
Yeah.
So, of course, I'd tap into that.
But it's such a weird experience because...
Well, a lot of your questions don't have answers though.
Like, where's the plot?
There's no answer to that.
I can genuinely say I have not watched a film before
that's got no plot points and mainly no conflict.
There's no point where I'm worried
for any of these characters and their lives.
But that's not necessarily no conflict. That's just that's poorly made you're not invested in any one
or thing in the film it's both i think it's both yeah but i mean it's a lot of time to spend with
something in which you have no investment or interest no and it spreads your interest for a
year mate it spreads it seems to just spread things too thinly. There's so many people popping up.
The instant you maybe start to think,
oh, this is a character I'd like to spend more time with,
you're on to 10, 15, 20 other people.
When did you think that?
I thought at the beginning.
I thought the guy, a couple of them.
Who was the one that was a bit like Kevin James?
His brother, the principal.
The principal cardio.
There was a guy in there.
I don't even know.
That's the thing.
I can't even remember a lot of those characters.
There was nothing.
It scrambles your brain, doesn't it?
They do.
And they introduce characters at the right at the start, especially.
Just like, all right.
Okay, you got that one.
Now, here's three more.
Okay, now here's nine more.
Now, here's 27 more characters. And now here's nine more. Now here's 27 more characters.
And now...
And all in a new setting.
Here's 121 new characters to learn.
You could feel the directions on the script
just jumping out at you.
It's like, right, now we're in a house.
Now we're in a Kmart.
Now we're in another house.
Now we're at this lake.
And you're just jumping from location to location.
Someone's cousin works in like set design
and building
like the mafia
of Hollywood
is Adam Sandler's
cousins who work
in set design
and building
and he just like
they just muscled
in to hire out
a whole lot of work
for themselves
they wrote the script
they wrote the script
because there is
that mystery of
it's Adam Sandler
it's him
without Adam Sandler
this film wouldn't exist
yeah but he occupies this place in Hollywood now where he can get It's Adam Sandler. It's him. Without Adam Sandler, this film wouldn't exist. Yeah.
But he occupies this place in Hollywood now where he can get...
Because people go to this film.
So he gets a return on these terrible films.
And so he keeps making them.
Well, I mean, there's a few points because in discussing it
with several different people through the podcast,
there's a few points which are constantly raised.
And one of them is that,
do you not think it looks like a lot of fun
for them to make that movie
because no one's invested
in the product
it's just that
because hasn't Adam Sandler
talked about this
he just does a movie
if it's fun
if it's like
essentially
he did that one
with Drew Barrymore
because he wanted to
go to the location
so it was a holiday
with a movie tech guy
so he'll do that film
but yeah they are
they're joking around on set
there's nothing
there's no big investment
from them
they turn up each day
they probably get fed quite well
they're with their friends
phenomenal catering
probably get Blaze pizza
yeah
get that juice
what was the juice
they kept
oh they get Mott's
Mott's juice
that's the juice of choice
in Grown Ups 2
want to try some Mott's juice
oh yeah
I'm craving some Mott's juice
some Pepsi
maybe we can nip down to Kmart
and see what they've got
Guy
do you know what I like to do when I'm on Venice Beach
after I visited my mate Paddy at Gold's?
And I've also just got a slice.
You've had a pretty intense workout throwing some tin around.
And you've got some Blaze pizza.
Throwing a slice or two of Blaze pizza down me.
On this already perfect Sunday, Tim,
what could you possibly want to top off that perfect combination of activities?
I actually forgot where I was going with that.
You want Mott's juice
Oh yeah Mott
Something I liked about
The film
I'm big into
CGI creatures in films
And they made real good use
Of that CG deer
Yeah
Just trapping through the house
Clearly wasn't real
It was clearly
It wasn't bad CGI
I think it was pretty bad
I think that was pretty bad CG
Do you think the dog is real
no there were a
couple of scenes
where the dog was a
prop where someone
was definitely
holding it up
it was never CG
but there was a
couple of points
where it was a
real dog
but like
definitely
they put a weird
filter on it or
something like
Mayfair the dog
comes out looking
real odd
no it does
like Mayfair
are you quoting
Instagram filters
as like colour grades
on one animal
that is funny
David Spade
what's he been doing
until now
oh Josh Shootme
was pretty good
what was that
just the other day
Joe Dirt
Joe Dirt
meet Joe Dirt
he's doing a second
Joe Dirt film I think
I think he's been
doing some stand up
I've seen some stand up videos
he's done some stand up recently
he did a really good WTF back on the club circuit i haven't heard that one i would love to hear that
i write david spade it was but the other thing like when how do you feel about jumping around
i felt weird it dragged it started off very pacey and you were jumping from location to location
there were a lot of gags coming thick and fast but i think like the last third went pretty slow like it was just yeah man it was at the one party it drags well god it
dragged and then by the time the credits ran i was picturing people because when the credits are up
i'm always reminded that i'm in the cinema i've just seen a great film as opposed to when in your
lounge now sure and you're wondering about the discussions people are having when they're leaving
that cinema like guys that oh god that was good you know let's oh god i want to see it again you
know it's a very different discussion to when you leave that film to when you've left interstellar
i thought you were going to say interstellar yeah it's such a but people paid money to see that but
what do you talk about on the ride home after growing up remember when that no because well
okay a brass i remember atlas i imagine like a 14
year old teenage boy is probably who's gonna love this movie do you know i'm saying that was way too
sophisticated i'm thinking if i'm as a 14 year old teenage boy if i left a movie like that i can't
imagine enjoying it as even though i probably would have back then but i'm like you just quote
you'd be quoting you'd just be quoting you, you're going, that poor old lady.
Who wants to watch me climb a rope?
And you're just walking out the cinema,
just drop parroting your favorite tidbit. I know this is slightly a different point
to the one you're trying to make,
but I love that you're grabbing catchphrases
from all these accidental side characters.
We then probably made it up on the day
and no one wrote that in the script.
That would be one.
That would be one that would in the script exactly what we're
supposed to be saying is like what or um or burp snarting like one of us busts out one of those
that's what they intended to be the catchphrase what do you mean to take away from that movie
i guess you just meant to have had a laugh did you have a laugh i know i love i really the physical
gags god they got me whenever an inflatable boat was inflated suddenly, hilarious.
Twice.
Shaq.
They went back to that water fountain.
Shaq in that little playhouse, just kind of his head poking out.
Shaq's so big and the playhouse is so small.
That's funny.
That's juxtaposition.
Jinx, personal jinx.
Timbac, Timbac, Timbac.
Thanks, mate.
We're friends.
Thanks, mate. I took some notes. I'm just, Timbatt, Timbatt. Thanks mate.
I took some notes.
I'm just going to have a look through the notes that I took.
Oh,
that fitness class with the woman.
It's squat Robux 101.
Yeah,
squat Robux.
John Lovitz. Oh,
Janitor came in and started sort of,
cause I mean,
I've been,
I don't know.
I've been reading a few essays recently,
like,
you know,
people talking about the roles of female in film and,
and sort of how in the role specifically in fast and furious how females are used in those films and
like males and all that kind of stuff yeah but females in this film are just kind of god it's
the worst example they've got nothing they've got they're either to do with a male character
or they're there for a gag and that particular scene was the worst case because they're just
they're all idiots you know this, the janitor wanders in
There's obviously a janitor
Obviously
And suddenly they're squatting
They're turning around
They're slapping their bums for him
There doesn't appear to be a Gina Davis of our generation
We need one
When old hottie dude walks in
Paul Hudson
Then it instantly goes into
Oh, you're so hot.
Yeah, they're all swooning.
Oh, he's gay.
They get really angry as well when they find out he's gay.
Like mobbish.
That scene for me, I guess, was stuck in my head because it was so, God, it was dumb.
It was real dumb.
You've got to meet the movie on its terms, though.
That's the Dom Corey-ism.
That's the Dom Corey-ism right there.
And this is not a movie that is looking to impact social change.
Yeah, true.
Four guys get together and I believe, I'll quote yourself David, they have a day.
That is the movie.
They're walking around the town.
And what a day it was.
It was a bed.
That's the funny thing.
Just back to that deer coming in.
Yeah.
Were they, because I thought when that deer coming in yeah were they because i thought
when that first started i thought they just moved into a forest or something like they'd moved house
or something and that would be part of the plot connecticut and they're in connecticut around
like well obviously they own some land because you know when they're doing the scene at the front of
the driveway like they're they're somewhat removed from the house like there's trees around the house
there's an off chance maybe they live near a nature reserve
and there could be some deer
that would wander in.
Maybe a curious deer wanders into the...
I don't think it's rural, though.
It doesn't look rural,
but it's a leafy town.
It feels like there's trees everywhere.
Like a lifestyle block.
It was such a bold start to the film
and it didn't have a lot to do with the rest of it
except for in the end when that deer hilariously got the bad guy in the nuts.
You would not have been a hit in the script writer's room for this one, Dave.
I was pissing on everyone.
Yeah, the deer just starts urinating
because it's funny when animals piss on people, man.
It's funny.
It's comedy. It's comedy.
That's hashtag comedy.
Hashtag hilarious.
Yeah, a lot of physical, I guess for me, the thing I take from the film was I really enjoyed the physical gags.
The poo coming out, the ice cream coming out from the ice cream dispenser.
I need to ask you an important question, David.
Because you've only seen the film once
so this is great did you i love that about you did you notice a um a huge amount of product
placement did brands pop out at you or was it i mean it was the kmart they were in or the
walmart there was a kmart that is sacrilegious on this podcast it's so i thought i didn't think
kmart was an American thing.
I thought it was just all Walmart.
Someone else said that.
I thought Kmart was Australasia.
Why do New Zealanders think that we started Kmart?
I thought we started Kmart.
It's an American brand.
Maybe Kmart is launching in America now
and they just thought,
well, how can we get our name out there
and whack a shitload of money in an Adam Sandler flip?
Kmart jumped out
and when they're in that supermarket
towards the end there,
or the middle,
when was it?
I don't even know.
The supermarket.
It's in the third movement.
There were products jumping out.
But I mean, what sort of product placement does that put in your brain?
I mean, do you leave thinking, I saw that juice in there.
I better buy some pizza, juice, milk, grated cheese.
It's not like a car or something they're driving.
It's like a juice behind some dudes in a cinema.
They're not going to be anything specific.
They're just like, just go out there and buy some shit.
That's the product placement of the movie is commercialism.
Yeah, but that's the beauty of product placement.
I love it.
I love it.
What do you want after you watch that movie?
What do you want to walk out of the door and buy?
Fuck, do you know what I could go right?
I could go a Mott's juice box right now.
I could down Mott's.
David, right now, one thing. You walk out the door, what would you go and buy? Oh, Mott's, hands down. That's all there. I mean go a Mott's juice box right now I could down my them David right now one thing
you walk out the door
what would you go and buy
oh Mott's
hands down
that's all there
I mean it's that delicious
so refreshing
we don't have Mott's
we are actually
just a word to anyone
if you do work at Mott's
we are still
interested in sponsorship
from wherever that may come
we need money
because number one
apparently I have to buy
a $250 t-shirt
because someone
called me on my bullshit
that's right
good work fans
so in an early podcast
David
Tim Batts said
you know that catchphrase
what that Tim Meadows
tries out through the whole movie
Tim said at some point
I haven't heard the quote
but he said
I would spend
so I made a t-shirt
with that
catchphrase on it
I would spend
like $250 on that
and someone
a fan
has made the t-shirt Jesus and set the price tag at $250 oh that and someone, a fan, has made the t-shirt
and set the price tag at $250.
Oh my God.
But I love that they've gone to a lot of trouble too
because they've looked at the current currency conversion
because it's a US store.
So they've got exactly this odd amount
which equals exactly $250 in New Zealand.
No, but that's exactly the sort of audience member
you guys have got.
That's exactly who's listening.
It's that kind of brain.
And I do think you should spend
that money on that too
I have to
there's no way around it
but like
that's a lot of money
that is
I'm gutted
I'm super gutted
but there's no way around it
quick stray observation
two things I wanted to raise
briefly
please
the scene where they're all
sort of jumping nude
into the water
yes
off Suicide 35
off the top rock
they were off,
they were going,
they were doing the whoop whoop
often,
which is a juggalo,
sort of,
I think it's a juggalo phrase.
That's what I'm wondering
because the juggalos,
I don't know a lot about juggalos.
They're fans of Insane Clown Posse
and their catchphrase is whoop whoop,
which is what they were doing.
Maybe I was mishearing it.
Was it more of a woo woo?
No, dude,
I reckon you're on point
it was a bit of a woo woo
yeah well they were
that's a juggler
I mean it feels like
it does feel like an odd match
as far as a
affiliation with the juggalos
for grown ups too
I don't feel like
they're really targeting
the juggalos
but that's the beautiful thing
about juggalos bro
it is like
a brotherhood
it's very egalitarian
they don't look
through a lens of age
or upbringing it's all about inclusion
um it's real lovely listening to the music of insane clown posse so i'll be curious about that
link whether there's anything in there or that was purely just you know the icp got investigated by
the fbi for a while because that was tax evasion wasn't it or something i thought it was i thought
the fbi were concerned that it was a gang all right there was a
court case right and they basically had to determine if the juggalos like was a gang
turns out they're not i think i really enjoyed that moment with the juggalos um oh god it was
terrible film i had some other points you got another point i wrote down some well listen
while you're finding that I've actually just
dug something up
I'd like to do
oh yes of course
yeah yeah
while you find a point
if you would like to
we got a message
on our Facebook page
and this is
I mean we've received
a few messages
over the course of time
this is pretty
pretty impressive
well written sort of bit
from VR DLC
it's a very unique name
presumably a pseudonym.
V.
To try and hide from, you know,
whoever that may be on the internet.
V.
V.
Okay, I'll read to you.
Thank you very much for this.
It says,
I just started listening to this,
just finished episode seven,
and I'm honoured that you have decided
to share your slow descent into madness
with the world.
I have to say,
I enjoyed Grown Ups 2,
and even I don't ever really want
to watch it again,
and even I don't ever really want to watch it again. And even I don't ever really want to watch it again.
I love movies that are disasters.
Not just bad movies, but actual shocking disasters.
About once a year, I get the itch to see a genuine disaster.
And Adam Sandler, surprisingly enough, rarely provides one.
R-A-R-A.
So like, very occasionally.
His bad movies are simply unfunny and boring boring like the first Grown Ups was.
But every once in a while, there is a disaster.
There's an old dog or a Nick the Bus Driver
as a tiny dicked porn star.
I don't remember the name now,
but he has a micro penis
and makes a condom out of a pen cap
so Christina Ricci doesn't get pregnant.
What I feel makes Grown Ups 2 so special
is that they didn't even try.
They didn't try so hard that there isn't even a plot.
There are no real antagonists.
The closest thing to a problem that any character has
is Sandler doesn't want a kid,
and it's resolved when he decides that he does want a kid.
That's it.
And between the opening and closing scenes
of Sandler and his wife in bed,
there's an endless stream of sketches.
Hearing you share your highlight of the recent viewing
makes me smile,
because it makes me remember my favourite moments.
The winks at the cameras, the non sequiturs,
and most importantly, John Lovitz, who I'm sure you have heard by now was not merely a critic character on the simpsons
but had his own amazing show called the critic when i watched grown-ups too i had to stop and
go back numerous times in order to send the highlights of the film to my friends via snapchat
i lost a lot of friends that day but the ones who stayed will be my friends forever
thank you for sharing this with us i couldn't do what you're doing and i liked grown-ups too isn't that a fucking incredible message thank you so much
so well written yeah well articulated and all pretty pretty good points although you know i
wouldn't call it a disaster you know it's it's not a good film but it's not a disaster like The Room is a disaster. No, and this is the point.
So when Guy and I were kicking around movie titles for this kind of concept
early on before we started, an early front runner was Con Air.
But I was like, I genuinely think that movie is awesome.
I completely agree.
That's a sweet movie.
Too good.
And still Steve Buscemi, which I don't think I've ever thought of.
And the other thing and
then so like the room i kind of came to the list and i was like no because the room's so bad that
you would enjoy multiple viewings because it's bad you're not enjoying this film because it's
terrible you're enjoying it there are some gags that are funny yeah laughing at the gags exactly
it's zero it's not a negative neutral it's zero this movie is nothing i always wonder
what was it like for you watching watching it with us how did you feel we engaged with the film
i felt you i was impressed at the beginning that it was uh your cell phones were turned off but
then i thought you'd be sort of right into it but you drifted at times you know there was a lot of
talk between the two of you uh and i that made it difficult for me to watch at times because I missed certain lines.
I was trying to remind Guy.
For instance, at the end where Adam Sandler is talking to his unborn child through his wife's stomach.
We could probably recite that.
You were talking over that.
We could do it now.
And I didn't know what happened.
And you wanted to know what happened.
Well, I did because obviously it's him coming to terms with the fact he's a father.
And that was the one, as your listener pointed out, that was the one bit of conflict.
He didn't want this baby.
That was the resolution to that.
Your bars seem too high.
And I couldn't hear.
Okay.
Well, do you want to know what he says to the baby?
Please.
He makes a joke about how he wants to sleep with the ballet teacher that he's saying to
his unborn fetus.
Yeah.
He's like, tells him, hey, and you do ballet.
Because I got to see that teacher again. Oh, God. Yeah. fetus yeah that is and like he's like tells i'm a first hey and you do ballet because i gotta see
that teacher again yeah oh god yeah and then then he's like and he's like no i'm just kidding your
mom's totally all good uh okay i'm gonna have sex with your mom now watch your head and then just
when they're about to have sex he does a burp a fart and a sneeze at the same time and he says
he did it for the baby there's your conflict resolution there's your foreplay god jesus is that it sandler is a storm of sexuality okay here's a hurricane i thought
maybe there was a moment of some sort of level of well in fairness we should have given you the
chance to to no you accurately portrayed and you have seen it how many times 39 jesus uh foley effects was my last point oh yes that fight towards the end yeah uh the
effects were very loud the punching the punching um people falling over it was overboard it was
it was really effective it was like a cartoon yeah there's a weird cartoon moment within it
um and we'll go back to your your point of audio production and and just
a tick dave bookmark that where um the principal who has had blue paint constantly poured on
himself and his belongings and some sort of weird recurring end of year gag so he has had paint
poured on him on the last day of school by his students he goes with it and dresses up as a smurf
he then jumps out of a tree house which is he is inexplicably inside of for the party.
Rumpus swaying, looking at his wife and children.
Lands on four people,
and in the only moment of true cartoon physics in the film,
they then become completely painted with blue paint also.
I noticed it happen, but I thought I'd missed something.
You haven't.
It doesn't...
So the universe of Grown Ups 2 noticed it happen but i thought i'd miss something you haven't it make it doesn't so they've the
universe of grown-ups too is not a universe where the physics are that different um you can't die
you're immortal we learn this because nick has multiple fatal injuries throughout the film and
yet it's fine they all do when they jump off suicide 35 they all so that's what would
be i'm completely fine with it because some movies go let's remove death because death's a bit of a
bummer so in our universe death doesn't happen and there's cleavage everywhere you don't need
to worry about these characters dying at any point exactly but this blue paint the blue paint
introduces a level of cartoon physics to the universe they've built which is referenced
nary no for a second in
any part of the film.
Who's David Spade in the tyre
is pretty cartoonish. It's possible
though. No it's possible. You can roll the guy in a tyre.
I completely bought that. The transfer
of blue paint. The transfer of blue
paint is metaphysical.
I bought into the tyre.
I was there with the tyre.
I was sold on the tyre.
The blue paint, I was confused at that moment,
but I thought I'd missed something and there was some other paint involved.
But yeah, you land on someone as a blue painted man
and suddenly the other men are blue.
We better get to our regular features
before we burn out the clock too much, man.
So we gave you a vague rundown
on what was required during the film.
First of all, we'll go for...
Which is the part of the podcast
where we talk about
Patrick Schwarzenegger
son of Arnold
how did you find out he was the son of Arnold?
we google a lot of stuff
we look at the credits I think
what I love about our Facebook page
is that we've become a real dumping ground
for any small titbit
on anyone who's in the film or it's production
or anything. People go
hey did you read this? We're like nah
The page was going bananas when Paddy got with
Miley. Oh yeah Miley Cyrus and her have recently
hooked up and everyone was
just chomping at the bit to let us know.
I've said it before I'll say it again and I felt like a proud parent
that we'd sort of tabbed Paddy Schwartz for greatness
Was that the photo that Schwartzy
Arnold Schwarzenegger posted up on his Instagram
weeing next to? He was weeing next to his son?
Yeah.
That was an unusual photo to Instagram.
It was a real one.
Real proud of the man you've grown into, son.
Favorite moment.
There were a lot of sort of facials of him just standing.
Great face.
The whole movie actually was fun watching extras where things were going on,
where they were looking, what they were doing, what their faces were doing.
Yeah.
But I think for old Paddy, Paddy Schwartz, probably...
Paddy!
Paddy!
Paul, you know our boy Paddy's coming over here.
Paddy.
Yeah, boy.
Probably the old...
Paddy Schwartz is a juggalo.
I like it.
Yeah, I like that. Because I imagine Paddy Schwartz is a juggalo I like it Yeah I like that
I love where you're getting to
Because I imagine Paddy Schwartz
Going off to like
The big meeting of the juggalos
Face painting going on
Yeah
Real fuck
Oh yeah
Paddy Schwartz juggalos
Paddy I don't like you
Going to these parties
Shut up dad
I'm a juggalo now
Deal with it
Patrick
I did not get to where I am today
By going to frat parties every weekend.
You need to listen to me.
It's about acceptance, Dad.
I'm going to meet my brother.
Patrick, I love you,
but you need to listen to what I'm saying.
Who the fuck is Arnold Schwarzenegger from, bro?
Apparently Venice all of a sudden.
Not Venice Beach, but actual Venice in Europe.
A European version of Textedit.
Yeah, it, for me,
kind of believing he was a juggalo
and had that in his background,
his character made a lot more sense to me.
And so that was my menace.
Good party time.
It's time for us to jump in the bus.
Because.
All aboard the bus.
Da, da, da.
Ba, ba, ba.
Ba.
Da, da, da, da. Roll up. Roll up. Roll up
Roll up
It's a magical mystery tour
Roll up
Roll up
The mystery tour
The Steve Buscemi mystery tour
Is coming to take you away
Coming to take you away
Too much singing bro
Yeah man Too much We gotta bro. Yeah, man.
Too much. We've got to pull it in.
A lot more.
Pull it in, boy.
Should have been in.
So we told you about the Steve Buscemi mystery tour?
Yeah, yeah.
Roughly the fact we don't, we haven't watched the first film.
That's right.
We haven't.
So we don't know where, what his character's backstory is at all.
He made some, he references an injury.
He's got an injury.
We want to know how he got it.
Did he do goalposts?
Yeah, he did.
Was it goalposts?
Touchdown symbol, goalposts, yeah.
And he's only got 40% feeling in his body.
And his arms have been in that position for two years.
What could cause that?
What could cause that?
Dr. Farrier?
I'm imagining...
I'm imagining...'m imagining I mean
from the goalposts
I'm imagining it was
some sort of football
injury
so I'm imagining
in some sort of comical way
Steve Buscemi
made his way onto the field
what do you call it in football
the pitch
the field
the field's good
and I think maybe
got targeted by some
gridiron players
that were playing
and got
taken out yeah got taken out.
Yeah.
Absolutely taken out.
And it was comical because Steve Buscemi's character was never meant to be on the football field.
He's an older guy.
He looks a bit funny.
And he just got annihilated.
How did he get on the field?
Was he following a butterfly maybe?
I think perhaps this is just the whole reference to the water boy.
He was a water boy perhaps.
A comical sort of water boy.
But maybe my brain is just getting confused from the other anims in the film. And the water boy somehow made a water boy Perhaps A comical sort of water boy But maybe my brain Is just getting confused
From the other anims
In the film
And the water boy
Somehow made it onto the pitch
Somehow maybe
Got into uniform
I smell trouble
He's wearing a helmet
That's crazy
Yeah exactly
And then suddenly
Boom maybe
He gets given the ball
Accidentally
Uh oh
Here's trouble
And he becomes
You know he doesn't know
Whether to run or just
But he freezes
He freezes
He freezes
What's going to happen to him?
And then the other players on the other team, they all tackle him very hard.
He just slams down on the ground.
You've really sold Guy on this one.
Yeah, there's probably some wires involved.
He goes flying back, hits his head.
There's a real sort of shattering moment.
And that's what happened.
That's what happened to him.
Good theory. That's good, man. Shit, you came in hot with the What happened That's what happened to him Good theory
That's good man
Shit you came in hot
With the features
That's very good
Yeah well I really
I took the lead from that
That sort of goal post
Simply made with his hands there
At some point
I was invested in that
My favourite one of those
Is that he's a time traveller
And he kicked his own ass
Yeah
That's my favourite so far
And I thought of it
So it's a really weird one
To pick as my favorite
that's all right very like you're allowed to be proud of yourself but uh the one one thing and
you may have discussed this before the one bit of credit is a pretty high chance
is um and i guess you know that whole i like it wrapped up where it began you know they went to
bed and that was one day and you could almost imagine them,
you know,
they wake up again,
does the same day.
This is what I forgot to finish my sentence with you before,
but Salma Hayek actually says,
um,
we got to get some sleep because tomorrow is a big day.
Oh,
that's because you were talking over that bit.
I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
So something important did no,
no, no, no, no no We don't know what it is
But just like
If that's a normal day for the
Like that's not a big day
Tomorrow is the big day
Jesus
That was just like a warm up for Monday
Has there been any talk of a Grown Ups 3?
There must be if it grows that much
We actually tried to get one started
We tried to commission it
Grown Ups 3D
We're thinking about submitting a script
Oh god that's good Jesus We're thinking about submitting a script.
Oh God, that's good.
Jesus.
We're probably running out of time, Tim.
Should we just whip through
our shining lights?
Hold on.
David would like to know
the status on Grown Ups 3.
It's going to happen.
Guaranteed.
I mean, if it made that
what you want,
made like 230 mil,
made for 80 mil,
that's a decent sort of profit.
That's good for a studio.
There's been talks
about the script already.
Like David Spade did an AMA, I think.
I think it was an AMA.
So many questions here.
Is David Spade still doing stand-up?
I imagine he's doing stand-up in LA and stuff.
I've seen some club videos of him doing his stuff.
Yeah, right.
He's good.
He's good.
No, it's going to happen.
And I mean, they ad-libbed that whole movie.
So why would you submit a script? He's got to deal with Netflix. He's just going to happen. They ad-libbed that whole movie, so why would you submit a script?
He's got to deal with Netflix.
He's just going to whack it in there.
Do we know...
The editor in that film,
I picture them sitting in a little booth
and just being handed a bunch of footage.
You've got a couple of cameras there.
Hey, we took your video camera for three months.
Here's what we got.
Make me a movie.
This editor is probably getting paid quite well, you know,
and he just slapped it.
There was that fucking fade.
Yeah, the cross dissolved.
Steve Buscemi laughed.
And that was just like an editor just giving up
and just being like, oh, Jesus.
There's no transition.
There's no way into this next bit.
I mean, in a newsroom, we use the fade,
like the sort of fade between shots
when we're pretty desperate
sure
and we don't use it that often
but that's for a story
that you may be throwing together in an hour
yeah
in a feature film
to do
to fade out
it's almost
just admitting defeat
it's almost worse than that
because it's a cross dissolve
so it's not like it goes too black
which would not look good
but
it just bleeds into the next scene
it crosses off into what the next scene it crosses
us into what the next scene is so it's like you're watching a vhs family video for a dad
who's just got this new bit of kit that lets you edit vhs home videos it's got that screeching
break sound effect from powerpoint exactly you would like a star white would not be out of place
after it happens you'd be like yep that's the tone i think that's the one place where the editor
really fell over.
I think the editor did a pretty...
I'm not an editor, I can't talk about this,
but I think he did a pretty good job.
DOP, terrible.
There was some terrible stuff in there.
There was a couple of weird zooms
and a cut to another shot.
Editor, great.
DOP, get rid of him.
Set design?
I can't agree.
There was no set design.
I thought it was reasonably well shot.
There was some pretty dodgy stuff.
There was some pretty weird zooms and then cuts.
We can disagree.
That's fine.
Real movie vibe.
That's all good.
Real strong movie vibes.
Suddenly the podcast gets really boring.
A genuine disagreement.
Oh, no.
Listen, the concept is two guys watching a movie once a week for a year mate
like this is
it's insane
okay
let's do our shining lights
and get out of here
I'll finish
I want to go to this barbecue
I don't want to be here
yeah you've missed a dinner
or something
remotely
okay
oh but thanks very much
for coming David
it's been a real pleasure
hey David
thanks for having me on
thank you
I'm looking forward
to the other episodes
so the shining light is
we just all mentioned our favorite moment from the movie today.
Do you know what?
Yeah, I got one.
Guy, you just looked at me like, do you remember your go on?
I do.
I was scrambling for help.
Well, it's probably been mentioned in the real early on ones,
but it was something about the fact that David was here.
The jump off Suicide 35.
I was like, yeah, cool.
All right.
Some stunts.
Yeah, good stunts in there.
For me, definitely inflatable boat going up
because God, I want to try that now.
I've never seen it happen.
Physics were a bit messed up.
The guy that was inflating the boat never got blown backwards.
He always just exploded out from where he was and everyone else flew back i was very good at physics
very good that bit i've but hilarious you know hilarious you can get past the physics of it a
very good bit a very very good but uh mine i think as we mentioned before but i just noticed
it today and i love it uh is sherry uh the that's her name in real life sherry terry
sherry terry yeah she's wearing that t-shirt penny you're pretty shiny penny uh she's wearing
a t-shirt you probably noticed that david of it says it says i and it's got a picture of adam
sandler and characters lenny fader lenny so it says i lenny fader lenny on a t-shirt that she's wearing. Isn't that crazy?
It's quite cool.
You are going fucking mental.
It's all there, mate.
It's all there on cell phone.
All the main ingredients are in there for a good time.
We cannot, we would be remiss to finish the episode without also thanking Paul Scheer.
Yeah, absolutely.
For being a good man and including us in his list of 24 hours of ideal podcasting.
Very, very generous a very generous very generous
man and from our home here in australia uh i would i just like to say cheers and to live every moment
and love every day because before you know it your precious time slips away. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.