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- 1:45Speaker 1: Welcome back to Cuff's Basement. Back to school. Back to school.
- 1:50Speaker 1: To prove to Ryan I'm not a fool. My shoes
- 1:56Speaker 1: tied tight. Hope I don't get in a fight. We're
- 2:00Speaker 1: continuing back to school month here on Cuff's Basement. And
- 2:04Speaker 1: it's Tim, and I'm with riggity, riggity, riggity, riggity, Ryan.
- 2:08Speaker 3: What's going on? Hey, everybody.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Yeah, back to school. We started our first ever back
- 2:14Speaker 1: to school month. It only took us like eight years
- 2:16Speaker 1: or whatever with a bang-up breakfast club.
- 2:20Speaker 3: We started senior year. Yeah.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Exactly. Starting senior year, yeah. And now we're continuing with
- 2:27Speaker 1: an absolutely incredible– well, we'll talk about the age range
- 2:33Speaker 1: of these characters, but a very unknown, underappreciated high school
- 2:40Speaker 1: movie from 1995, right?
- 2:41Speaker 3: 95? Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, it's 95, yeah.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Called Angus. And this, this, yeah, I don't, I feel like,
- 2:53Speaker 1: what is your impression of this movie in the sense of,
- 2:55Speaker 1: do people know what this is? Like, I feel no.
- 2:58Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
- 3:01Speaker 1: I don't feel like anybody knows what this movie is.
- 3:03Speaker 1: It was a random high school movie that came out
- 3:07Speaker 1: in the mid-90s. So there's a lot of them. There's
- 3:11Speaker 1: a lot of really good ones. But I think this
- 3:14Speaker 1: one stands out as different. And Angus, personally for me,
- 3:18Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about it when we get into
- 3:20Speaker 1: the movie itself. Personally for me, as far as what
- 3:24Speaker 1: do I specifically identify with, do I think... Breakfast Club
- 3:30Speaker 1: is the ultimate depiction of... Chucky just jumped on the table.
- 3:33Speaker 3: No.
- 3:34Speaker 1: No, go away.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Go away.
- 3:37Speaker 1: I'm pausing. I'm going to spray him with a water bottle.
- 3:40Speaker 1: All right, we're continuing. I couldn't find the spray bottle,
- 3:42Speaker 1: but I poked a hole with a nail in a
- 3:44Speaker 1: water bottle and sprayed him away. Do I think, like... Okay,
- 3:48Speaker 1: I love Breakfast Club, and it's a great representation of, like,
- 3:50Speaker 1: those years. But do I think it is totally realistic,
- 3:53Speaker 1: like it was high school to me? No. But for me, Angus...
- 3:59Speaker 1: was high school. Not really. So like, especially cause a
- 4:03Speaker 1: thing that's unusual about Angus, there's a few things that
- 4:06Speaker 1: are unusual about Angus, but one is they, they're freshmen
- 4:08Speaker 1: in high school.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Yes. Yes.
- 4:12Speaker 1: And I feel like every high school movie is like
- 4:15Speaker 1: 35 year olds that are portraying seniors, like 35 year
- 4:20Speaker 1: old actors that are playing seniors in high school. You
- 4:22Speaker 1: know what I mean? Um, like I can't hardly wait.
- 4:27Speaker 3: Yeah. Sorry. What? they have so much like the freshmen,
- 4:30Speaker 3: like this is about a freshman, but like everyone in
- 4:33Speaker 3: this movie is a freshman, but they seem to have
- 4:35Speaker 3: so much like power. Like there's no like seniors who
- 4:40Speaker 3: are tougher than Rick kind of thing. You know what
- 4:42Speaker 3: I mean?
- 4:43Speaker 1: Well, I think an important thing is, um, that they,
- 4:48Speaker 1: like the actors are young. Cause usually the James Van
- 4:52Speaker 1: Der Beek was over 18 when this movie came out,
- 4:54Speaker 1: but the actors in it are young. Like they seem young.
- 4:58Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:58Speaker 1: They don't seem like, you know, in Can't Hardly Wait,
- 5:01Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I love Can't Hardly Wait, but
- 5:04Speaker 1: they all seem like they're 25 to 30, which they are.
- 5:07Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
- 5:09Speaker 1: But, you know, this movie is, well, what's your background
- 5:12Speaker 1: with this movie? Did you see this at the time? Like,
- 5:14Speaker 1: when did you be, when did you first see it?
- 5:17Speaker 1: And like, are you a fan of this movie?
- 5:20Speaker 3: Yeah, I first saw it. It used to be on
- 5:22Speaker 3: Starz a lot. And we had Starz at home. So
- 5:26Speaker 3: I used to see this a lot there and always,
- 5:29Speaker 3: always love this movie. Always have. It's really kind of...
- 5:34Speaker 3: It sucks that it just never really got... I think
- 5:37Speaker 3: people who like it or people who've seen it love
- 5:39Speaker 3: it and respect it. But it's never really gotten a...
- 5:44Speaker 3: It's not like any streaming places that I know of.
- 5:47Speaker 3: I don't think at least. It's probably available to rent,
- 5:49Speaker 3: but like I don't see anything. But, yeah, always loved
- 5:56Speaker 3: this movie.
- 6:00Speaker 1: The director is nobody famous. The director is, what's his name,
- 6:04Speaker 1: Patrick Reed Johnson, and he was more famous for being
- 6:06Speaker 1: a writer. He wrote Dragonheart, was his big claim to fame,
- 6:11Speaker 1: with Dennis Quaid and Sean Connery.
- 6:15Speaker 3: Yep.
- 6:16Speaker 1: And then, I don't know anything else he directed.
- 6:20Speaker 3: Baby Stay Out?
- 6:21Speaker 1: Oh, Baby's Day Out, yep, obviously.
- 6:24Speaker 3: I've never seen Space Invaders.
- 6:26Speaker 1: I've never seen that either, but nobody has. He directed
- 6:31Speaker 1: episodes of the Dinosaurs TV show to date ourselves.
- 6:34Speaker 3: When?
- 6:36Speaker 1: And this was actually written by a female screenwriter, which
- 6:41Speaker 1: isn't all that common. She wrote for My So-Called Life,
- 6:44Speaker 1: The Wondering... Oh, she was a producer, actually. She was
- 6:48Speaker 1: a producer on those.
- 6:49Speaker 3: Writer.
- 6:49Speaker 1: She wrote 25 things. Let's see what else she wrote.
- 6:52Speaker 1: She wrote... She wrote some 90210. She did write some
- 6:59Speaker 1: My So-Called Life. She did write some Wonder Years. She
- 7:01Speaker 1: did write 30-something Doogie Howser. So she was a television
- 7:05Speaker 1: writer for the most part. And this is based on
- 7:08Speaker 1: a short story by... What's the author's name? Chris Crutcher.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Who I'm not really familiar with.
- 7:16Speaker 3: Yeah, nor am I.
- 7:17Speaker 1: I know that one thing that was changed in the movie,
- 7:20Speaker 1: which if you read any trivia, I'm sure you saw this,
- 7:22Speaker 1: was in the short story and originally in the script,
- 7:25Speaker 1: Angus's dad is gay. And I think his mom is
- 7:27Speaker 1: gay too. And Hollywood in 1995 thought that would be
- 7:32Speaker 1: too weird given that this movie is already kind of
- 7:35Speaker 1: a little bit against the grain.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Did you find it so bizarre? Like I was watching
- 7:41Speaker 3: on YouTube like trailers for this movie and stuff and
- 7:45Speaker 3: All they keep saying is from the producers of Cool
- 7:47Speaker 3: Runnings because Cool Runnings was such a big hit. And
- 7:51Speaker 3: the same people made this movie. You know, it has
- 7:53Speaker 3: nothing to do with Cool Runnings. It's so strange.
- 7:57Speaker 1: That was their one thing that they could latch on
- 7:59Speaker 1: to to sell people in this movie, because like one
- 8:02Speaker 1: of the problems of this movie, not problems, but the
- 8:05Speaker 1: reasons it wasn't popular and didn't make money. is these
- 8:10Speaker 1: guys that star in it are not, like, they're supposed
- 8:14Speaker 1: to be high school losers, but in Hollywood terms, it's, like,
- 8:18Speaker 1: Rachel Leigh Cook, who's smoking hot, wearing glasses, is a
- 8:22Speaker 1: high school loser. Or, like, a fat kid is maybe
- 8:27Speaker 1: Rachel Leigh Cook, if she had put on, like, 15 pounds,
- 8:32Speaker 1: is a high school fat kid in movies. The main character, Angus,
- 8:36Speaker 1: actually is... Very fat. And Troy actually does look like
- 8:42Speaker 1: he would be a loser in school.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:46Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 8:47Speaker 1: So I was just like, this movie is starring Charlie Talbert,
- 8:52Speaker 1: who essentially never did anything ever again of note. Like
- 8:55Speaker 1: he never starred in anything. And of course not. He's
- 8:59Speaker 1: like a fat guy with a speech impediment. And he
- 9:04Speaker 1: starred in this movie. What other movie would he ever
- 9:08Speaker 1: possibly star in where he wouldn't be the best friend
- 9:11Speaker 1: or a muscle character or the fat party animal character?
- 9:16Speaker 1: He would be the leading male role. Zero movies would
- 9:20Speaker 1: exist for him to be in, right?
- 9:23Speaker 3: Zero, especially at this time or even later into the 2000s.
- 9:28Speaker 3: I think, if I'm not mistaken, he's in Van Wilder.
- 9:32Speaker 3: for a very small part. And I remember just being
- 9:36Speaker 3: like beyond when I saw Van Wilder being like, holy shit,
- 9:41Speaker 3: it's Angus. Like he's in this movie. Yeah.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Let me, you might be right.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Uh, he's, he's in one scene. It's like not even
- 9:49Speaker 3: a big scene. Yeah.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Oh, he's in Joe dirt too. Um, he is in
- 9:55Speaker 1: Van Wilder as stomach guy.
- 9:59Speaker 3: Yes. They're doing, auditions for Van's assistant, and he just
- 10:03Speaker 3: shakes his stomach. He's in it for three seconds, but
- 10:04Speaker 3: I was like, that is Angus when I saw it.
- 10:08Speaker 1: He also had a very, very small blink-and-you-miss-it role in
- 10:12Speaker 1: the Watchmen television series.
- 10:14Speaker 3: Oh, really?
- 10:15Speaker 1: He played a.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Cop in one scene. Yeah. I saw on YouTube he
- 10:22Speaker 3: did an interview with somebody about the soundtrack to this movie.
- 10:25Speaker 3: I didn't watch the interview. I just saw it when
- 10:27Speaker 3: I was searching the Angus trailers and stuff on YouTube.
- 10:30Speaker 3: That was from like two or three years ago.
- 10:32Speaker 1: You better believe we're going to talk about the soundtrack
- 10:34Speaker 1: of this movie.
- 10:36Speaker 3: We absolutely do.
- 10:39Speaker 1: So Charlie Talbert is Angus, the male lead. His best
- 10:43Speaker 1: friend is Chris Owen, who you would recognize as the
- 10:47Speaker 1: Shermanator in American Pie.
- 10:50Speaker 3: Tons of movies. Tons of stuff. The Mist. Tons of stuff.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been like a nerd background character in a
- 10:58Speaker 1: lot of movies. And in American Pie, he's a ginger.
- 11:04Speaker 1: He's awkward looking. But he's still.
- 11:09Speaker 3: Tall.
- 11:10Speaker 1: And when this movie came out, he was very young.
- 11:13Speaker 1: So he's supposed to be... He's playing a high school
- 11:16Speaker 1: freshman who... is one of the smallest kids in the
- 11:20Speaker 1: grade and gets bullied a lot as a result of that.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's so interesting that he, based on how
- 11:30Speaker 3: he looked, was able to work for years in movies.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Yeah, this is probably the best acting performance he ever
- 11:39Speaker 1: gave and the best opportunity to give a good acting performance.
- 11:42Speaker 1: I love his performance. In this movie and his performance,
- 11:46Speaker 1: I thought it was awesome.
- 11:48Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. We had
- 11:54Speaker 1: paused because Cece's being really loud upstairs. And then Ryan
- 11:57Speaker 1: started talking about the making of Dragonheart, which apparently he
- 12:01Speaker 1: has seen. So I need this to be on the podcast.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Tell me about the making of Dragonheart.
- 12:06Speaker 3: All right. So we start with a view of crystal
- 12:08Speaker 3: clear water. So... Dragon heart is, uh, people may know
- 12:14Speaker 3: is the seat, the CGI dragon movie voiced by Sean Connery, uh,
- 12:20Speaker 3: starring Dennis Quaid. Um, Patrick Reed Johnson is the writer
- 12:24Speaker 3: of the movie. That movie was originally going to be
- 12:27Speaker 3: made by the Jim Henson company. And the dragon was
- 12:31Speaker 3: going to be like a fully like Muppet puppet dragon,
- 12:35Speaker 3: like a, uh, animatronic. And he was going to direct it.
- 12:42Speaker 3: I think it was made by Universal. They were like,
- 12:46Speaker 3: we will make this movie, but he is not proven
- 12:50Speaker 3: enough as a director for us to believe he can
- 12:55Speaker 3: do this movie. So if you get another director, we
- 12:58Speaker 3: will give you more money. And he got phased out
- 13:01Speaker 3: of it pretty much. But he also has a history
- 13:04Speaker 3: of visual effects and stuff as well.
- 13:10Speaker 1: You're talking about the director of Angus.
- 13:12Speaker 3: Yeah, Patrick Reed Johnson.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Okay.
- 13:15Speaker 3: All right.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Well, so other than Angus, his best friend Troy, the
- 13:19Speaker 1: female lead, the beautiful Melissa Lefevre, the most popular girl
- 13:23Speaker 1: in school, is portrayed by Ariana Richards, who famously was.
- 13:26Speaker 3: I wrote great name. When they said her name, I
- 13:28Speaker 3: was like, great name. What a name.
- 13:30Speaker 1: What a great hot girl name, Melissa Lefevre. Ariana Richards
- 13:34Speaker 1: plays Lex in Jurassic Park, most famously.
- 13:37Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 13:38Speaker 1: She was also in Tremors.
- 13:40Speaker 3: She's in the first Tremors?
- 13:46Speaker 1: She is in Tremors 1 and Tremors 3. She plays Mindy.
- 13:51Speaker 3: Okay. Wow.
- 13:53Speaker 1: She kind of never really did anything after Jurassic Park
- 13:57Speaker 1: was 93, Angus was 95. Lost World, right?
- 14:01Speaker 3: What? Aren't her and Tim in the beginning of Lost World?
- 14:06Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but she was not even really in that movie.
- 14:08Speaker 1: She never really did anything of note after Jurassic Park.
- 14:12Speaker 1: But still, I will always love her. And the high
- 14:17Speaker 1: school quarterback, handsome guy, dickhead is the one and only R.I.P.
- 14:24Speaker 1: James Van Der Beek.
- 14:28Speaker 3: Question for you. I know we did this a long
- 14:30Speaker 3: time ago. I always had a problem with Varsity Blues
- 14:34Speaker 3: because of this movie. Because it's about Mox struggling through
- 14:40Speaker 3: life and you're supposed to be on his side. And
- 14:41Speaker 3: I was like, fuck you, Rick. That's all I ever
- 14:46Speaker 3: saw it as in my head.
- 14:48Speaker 1: Aren't the uniforms the same colors too?
- 14:51Speaker 3: That dark blue, right?
- 14:52Speaker 1: It's more of like a royal blue.
- 14:55Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes, they are.
- 14:57Speaker 1: I don't want your laugh.
- 15:01Speaker 3: After he was humiliated he goes off somewhere else and
- 15:04Speaker 3: there's a whole new way actually it could work he's
- 15:06Speaker 3: only a freshman in this movie.
- 15:08Speaker 1: It could work he could be Mox he could be.
- 15:11Speaker 3: I always wanted to know what happened after the Rick
- 15:14Speaker 3: Santra that's the people who made Varsity Blues that was
- 15:16Speaker 3: what their interest was.
- 15:18Speaker 1: The only other two people I think are worth mentioning
- 15:21Speaker 1: is Angus's mother is Kathy Bates her character's name.
- 15:27Speaker 3: Is probably the most famous person in this movie at
- 15:28Speaker 3: the time yep At the.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Time, honestly, I think that the most famous person in
- 15:35Speaker 1: this movie at the time was George C. Scott, who played.
- 15:38Speaker 3: She had won an Oscar five years before.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Oh, she had?
- 15:43Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Well, he won an Oscar how many years before?
- 15:48Speaker 3: George C. Scott?
- 15:49Speaker 1: Yeah, he won an Oscar. Didn't he win Best Actor?
- 15:52Speaker 3: Didn't he famously turn it down? He was one of
- 15:54Speaker 3: the people who refused it, right?
- 15:56Speaker 1: Oh, really? Is that true?
- 15:57Speaker 3: I'm looking this up. I think so.
- 15:59Speaker 1: So George C. Scott, who most famously played Patton, he's
- 16:02Speaker 1: been around forever. He's been an actor. He was born
- 16:06Speaker 1: in 27, died in 99. He plays Kathy Bates' father,
- 16:12Speaker 1: Angus' grandfather. I got a look at his... He won
- 16:20Speaker 1: Best Actor for Patton in Patton. But I don't know
- 16:25Speaker 1: if he turned it down. Oh, earlier at the 8th
- 16:32Speaker 1: Academy Awards– wait a minute. I'm seeing this somewhere. Hold on.
- 16:35Speaker 1: I'm going to find this at the reference here. I'm
- 16:41Speaker 1: going to pause it so we can verify what Ryan said. Okay,
- 16:45Speaker 1: Ryan found it. Ryan, go ahead.
- 16:46Speaker 3: Yeah, so he won for Patton, as you said. The
- 16:49Speaker 3: producer of the movie accepted on his behalf. He had
- 16:53Speaker 3: been nominated for Best Supporting Actor before and also declined
- 16:56Speaker 3: that nomination. They continue to nominate him after he famously
- 17:02Speaker 3: is one of his very few quotes about it was
- 17:04Speaker 3: he discussed the ceremony as a two hour meat parade,
- 17:08Speaker 3: which is a great way to put it. And he's
- 17:13Speaker 3: been at he every time he is nominated, he asked
- 17:15Speaker 3: them to please remove him from future consideration.
- 17:18Speaker 1: That's amazing. Good for him. Good for him. And so
- 17:21Speaker 1: he basically is playing grandpa in this movie. He that's
- 17:24Speaker 1: him in real life. He's playing himself.
- 17:27Speaker 3: I want to do a quick, another cast and crew
- 17:29Speaker 3: shout out here. The cinematographer of this movie is Alexander Grzynski, uh,
- 17:35Speaker 3: who shot a recent cuffs basement classic known as stone cold. Oh,
- 17:43Speaker 3: so he went right off that set and ran to Angus.
- 17:49Speaker 1: I had to point out, um, So do you know,
- 17:54Speaker 1: we'll get to it later, but the actor who plays
- 17:57Speaker 1: the chess player?
- 17:57Speaker 3: The second I saw him, I said, I think I
- 18:02Speaker 3: know who this is. Then I waited and I was like,
- 18:04Speaker 3: that's him.
- 18:05Speaker 1: There's a random man we'll talk about later who has
- 18:10Speaker 1: a small role in this movie, but somewhat significant. And
- 18:13Speaker 1: it's the director of RoboCop 2 plays that man.
- 18:17Speaker 3: He's also the director of The Empire Strikes Back.
- 18:21Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, there's that too. I thought you were going
- 18:23Speaker 1: to say On Deadly Ground with Steven Seagal.
- 18:26Speaker 3: That one too. Also, I cannot believe they didn't let
- 18:30Speaker 3: him talk because he has a very famous voice. Okay.
- 18:34Speaker 1: Well, should we just get into it?
- 18:36Speaker 3: Let's do it.
- 18:38Speaker 1: We'll explain as we go why this movie. I mean,
- 18:40Speaker 1: this movie is special to me partially for nostalgia purposes
- 18:43Speaker 1: in the sense that I saw this when I was
- 18:45Speaker 1: this age. And really the reason that I got into
- 18:49Speaker 1: this movie originally was with Ben. and it was because
- 18:53Speaker 1: of Green Day. Because Ben and I were really huge
- 18:56Speaker 1: Green Day fans, and I guess Green Day's producer, record producer,
- 19:02Speaker 1: produced this movie. Really? And as a result, I don't
- 19:06Speaker 1: remember the guy's name, but as a result, they were
- 19:08Speaker 1: allowed to use, not only is Green Day in the soundtrack,
- 19:11Speaker 1: but in the movie, they talk about Green Day. They
- 19:14Speaker 1: talk about going to a Green Day concert, and how
- 19:16Speaker 1: they like Green Day. And they had released... There was
- 19:20Speaker 1: like a B-side that didn't make an album. I think
- 19:23Speaker 1: it might have been Dookie. And the B-side that didn't
- 19:27Speaker 1: make the album was called J.A.R. And I don't know
- 19:30Speaker 1: how it didn't make an album because it's like maybe
- 19:32Speaker 1: the best Green Day song ever. But they put it
- 19:35Speaker 1: on the Angus soundtrack and it's featured in the movie
- 19:37Speaker 1: multiple times. And Ben and I loved that song. So
- 19:41Speaker 1: I literally like, because you couldn't really get the song
- 19:45Speaker 1: anywhere because it wasn't on an album except for the
- 19:47Speaker 1: Angus soundtrack. So I remember like renting Angus listening to
- 19:51Speaker 1: the end credits holding a tape recorder up to the
- 19:53Speaker 1: tv to record jr so i would.
- 19:55Speaker 3: Have man i remember doing that to the radio so
- 19:59Speaker 3: many times and you can hear people in the background
- 20:02Speaker 3: and stuff oh my god um yeah This must have,
- 20:07Speaker 3: that song had to have done well after because when
- 20:10Speaker 3: they released, I think in like the early 2000s, was
- 20:13Speaker 3: it International Super Hits was their greatest album name?
- 20:15Speaker 1: Yes, yeah.
- 20:16Speaker 3: J.A.R. is on it.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Yes.
- 20:18Speaker 3: So it must have done well, yeah.
- 20:20Speaker 1: They had a couple B-sides that were huge that they
- 20:23Speaker 1: would play at concerts, like Maria, I think is the
- 20:27Speaker 1: name of the song, Maria, Maria, like Green Day always
- 20:31Speaker 1: played that at concerts, but it wasn't on an album,
- 20:34Speaker 1: it was on International Super Hits, but Anyways, I mean,
- 20:37Speaker 1: we'll talk about it, but this whole album is just
- 20:39Speaker 1: nothing but bangers. The movie starts where it's narrated by
- 20:44Speaker 1: the main character, Angus, who's a freshman in high school.
- 20:48Speaker 1: And I will read parts of the narration. It kind
- 20:51Speaker 1: of sets the tone. My mother named me after my father, Angus,
- 20:56Speaker 1: a cow's name, which didn't help matters much because I
- 20:59Speaker 1: was a big kid. My mother was in labor with
- 21:01Speaker 1: me for two days, but my dad's the one who
- 21:03Speaker 1: died in childbirth. He died of a heart attack waiting
- 21:05Speaker 1: for her to deliver. But this wasn't really my problem.
- 21:08Speaker 1: In fact, I thought my family life was relatively normal
- 21:11Speaker 1: until I started getting expert feedback in kindergarten. And it
- 21:15Speaker 1: shows Angus as a kindergartner at a birthday party. And
- 21:18Speaker 1: somebody says, Angus Bethune is a fat kid. He's so
- 21:23Speaker 1: hungry he eats his boogers. And he says, this was
- 21:27Speaker 1: my problem. Rick Sanford. Rick Sanford is a kid in
- 21:31Speaker 1: his class who was later played by James Van Der Beek.
- 21:34Speaker 1: But at this point, they're in kindergarten. And Rick says, hey, Angus,
- 21:39Speaker 1: want to play pin the tail on the donkey? You're
- 21:41Speaker 1: the donkey. And Angus's reaction, God bless him, is he
- 21:45Speaker 1: punches Rick right in the face. And what does someone
- 21:49Speaker 1: in the background yell when he punches Rick in the face?
- 21:52Speaker 3: He broke his nose.
- 21:54Speaker 1: He broke his nose, Angus. I met my friend Troy Wedberg,
- 21:58Speaker 1: my best friend Troy Wedberg, the day he charged five
- 22:01Speaker 1: cents to see... And what is Troy charging five cents
- 22:06Speaker 1: to see in the boys' bathroom?
- 22:08Speaker 3: His cousin's pubic hair.
- 22:10Speaker 1: My cousin's pubic hair. Rick Sanford comes out and says,
- 22:16Speaker 1: you're a liar. And he rips the pubic hair out
- 22:19Speaker 1: of his hand. And I love this line. Angus immediately
- 22:23Speaker 1: steps in between Troy and Rick and, trying to be intimidating, says,
- 22:27Speaker 1: give him back his pubic hair, Rick. Angus continues, I
- 22:34Speaker 1: fell in love with Melissa Lefevre the day she threw
- 22:36Speaker 1: Alex Emmerglock across Tarlow's roller rink. And I like this line.
- 22:41Speaker 1: I think it's very realistic how kids talk because in
- 22:44Speaker 1: a badly written movie, it would be like, I fell
- 22:47Speaker 1: in love with Melissa Lefevre when she threw someone across
- 22:50Speaker 1: the roller rink. But that's not how kids talk about memories.
- 22:53Speaker 1: Like you would say Alex Emmerglock and you wouldn't call
- 22:57Speaker 1: it the roller rink. You would call it like You know,
- 23:00Speaker 1: whatever the local roller rink was called. You know what
- 23:03Speaker 1: I mean? You would call it Tarlows.
- 23:06Speaker 3: High impact moment. Every detail. Yep. Yes. Yes.
- 23:10Speaker 1: And she saw some kid who was being a dick,
- 23:12Speaker 1: so she just tossed him across the roller rink. And
- 23:14Speaker 1: ever since that moment, Angus was in love with her.
- 23:18Speaker 1: He continues, Melissa was the kind of girl that made
- 23:20Speaker 1: you ache because you know she was put on this
- 23:22Speaker 1: earth out of your reach only to make you feel bad.
- 23:27Speaker 1: As we got older, Rick Sanford got more and more popular,
- 23:29Speaker 1: but the worst part is he got Melissa Lefevre. And
- 23:33Speaker 1: Rick is the quarterback of the football team. He's dating
- 23:36Speaker 1: Melissa Lefevre. And now it is present day. Angus and
- 23:43Speaker 1: Troy are on the football team. Troy looks insane in
- 23:46Speaker 1: his football uniform.
- 23:47Speaker 3: I lost it. I was like, I forgot Troy plays football.
- 23:50Speaker 3: I was like, this poor kid. Props to him, though,
- 23:52Speaker 3: for doing it. My God.
- 23:54Speaker 1: He's like five feet tall, 90 pounds soaking wet, and
- 23:57Speaker 1: he's on the football team. He obviously doesn't play it down,
- 24:00Speaker 1: and he looks ridiculous in his uniform. He has huge
- 24:02Speaker 1: pads on.
- 24:03Speaker 3: The pads are literally wearing him. I don't know how
- 24:06Speaker 3: to describe it, yeah.
- 24:08Speaker 1: And Angus says, Rick had everything. The looks, the talent,
- 24:15Speaker 1: Melissa Lefevre, and I had Troy. Yeah. So this soundtrack
- 24:22Speaker 1: I want to talk about right now. So this soundtrack
- 24:24Speaker 1: was J.A.R. by Green Day.
- 24:29Speaker 3: Ash.
- 24:29Speaker 1: Do you know Ash? The band Ash?
- 24:32Speaker 3: I don't. No.
- 24:33Speaker 1: So people called them the Irish Green Day because they
- 24:36Speaker 1: were similar to Green Day. They were very popular in Ireland.
- 24:40Speaker 1: But they formed in Ireland. So they have a song,
- 24:43Speaker 1: like their most famous song that I love from this
- 24:47Speaker 1: movie is Kung Fu. Listen to Kung Fu by Ash
- 24:52Speaker 1: on Spotify. It's an awesome pop-punk 90s song. Dancehall Crashers,
- 24:59Speaker 1: The Riverdales, The Smoking Popes, Weezer. Weezer has a fantastic
- 25:03Speaker 1: song in this movie. You Gave Your Love to Me Softly,
- 25:07Speaker 1: which Weezer wrote for this movie. The Goo Goo Dolls,
- 25:11Speaker 1: Ain't That Unusual, fantastic song. The Muffs, Tilt, Whiteholmes, um,
- 25:19Speaker 1: pansy division, deep water and love, spit love. Am I wrong?
- 25:24Speaker 1: All every song in this movie is, is amazing.
- 25:28Speaker 3: It's a great soundtrack. It's also sadly like one of
- 25:31Speaker 3: those soundtracks when you bought the CD, not all of
- 25:34Speaker 3: the songs are on the CD. I remember that being
- 25:37Speaker 3: a big thing and being like, cause I don't think
- 25:39Speaker 3: the Weezer song is on the CD.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Yeah. That was a huge bummer when it came to
- 25:43Speaker 1: buying soundtracks because like, let's say that, um, you know,
- 25:47Speaker 1: there's a really popular song. I'd say Broadway by Google
- 25:50Speaker 1: dolls was in this song. And then maybe another Google
- 25:53Speaker 1: doll song was, was, was in this movie. I mean,
- 25:55Speaker 1: not in the song. When you go to buy the CD,
- 25:58Speaker 1: like the studio paid for the rights to have it
- 26:00Speaker 1: in the movie, but they, you also have to pay
- 26:03Speaker 1: additionally to have the rights to sell it in the soundtrack.
- 26:06Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 26:07Speaker 1: So like a huge thing was, um, I think it
- 26:11Speaker 1: was Royal Tenenbaums. There was a Rolling Stones, oh, Ruby Tuesday.
- 26:17Speaker 3: Okay.
- 26:17Speaker 1: The Rolling Stones song is in Royal Tenenbaums, right?
- 26:19Speaker 2: Yep.
- 26:21Speaker 1: And I bought the soundtrack. And I think they have
- 26:23Speaker 1: She Smiles Sweetly by the Rolling Stones on the soundtrack,
- 26:26Speaker 1: but they did not have Ruby Tuesday. Because that's like
- 26:29Speaker 1: a really popular song and it would cost too much
- 26:31Speaker 1: money to put it in the soundtrack. Because it already
- 26:33Speaker 1: cost so much money to put it in the movie.
- 26:35Speaker 3: Yeah. And a lot of bands also... like a lot
- 26:39Speaker 3: of the bands also don't like want them on the
- 26:43Speaker 3: cd sound or like the albums too they don't want
- 26:45Speaker 3: them like released on soundtracks they just want them the
- 26:47Speaker 3: movie only i've heard a lot of those kind of
- 26:50Speaker 3: stories too um yeah.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Yeah that and fair if that's what you want but
- 26:57Speaker 1: that was a bummer when you'd be like oh my
- 26:59Speaker 1: god i love this song in this movie i'm gonna
- 27:01Speaker 1: go buy the cd and then it's not on there
- 27:03Speaker 1: yeah yeah because you gotta remember back in the day
- 27:06Speaker 1: like You don't even know what the name of that
- 27:09Speaker 1: song necessarily is. You might not even know the band.
- 27:12Speaker 1: You just heard it in the movie and you have
- 27:13Speaker 1: no way of looking it up. So then you go
- 27:16Speaker 1: to the CD store, you go to Newbery Comics, you
- 27:18Speaker 1: buy the soundtrack to the movie and you look at
- 27:21Speaker 1: the back tracks and you're like, I don't know these bands,
- 27:23Speaker 1: I don't know these songs, but I got to assume
- 27:25Speaker 1: the song I love is on there. Then you listen
- 27:27Speaker 1: through the CD and you're like, what the fuck? It
- 27:29Speaker 1: never appeared.
- 27:31Speaker 3: I remember you used to watch the end credits of
- 27:34Speaker 3: the movie to see the listing of the songs in
- 27:36Speaker 3: the movie and then try to find a way, even pre-internet,
- 27:42Speaker 3: to find out which song it was.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember this, Ryan. This is so sad. Because
- 27:47Speaker 1: when you watch movie credits, which no one would ever
- 27:51Speaker 1: do anymore for any reason, you wait until the very,
- 27:55Speaker 1: very end because that's when they start listing the songs. Yoda.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Now Yoda's down here too. You guys are killing me.
- 28:01Speaker 1: I would never spray Yoda because she would never forgive me.
- 28:04Speaker 1: She's a delicate little flower. But you can't be on
- 28:06Speaker 1: the table, sweet pea. You would wait until the very
- 28:10Speaker 1: end of the credits because that's when they show all
- 28:13Speaker 1: the songs. And you would have to just guess because
- 28:15Speaker 1: I'm making this up. If you're watching Angus and there's
- 28:19Speaker 1: a song, you don't know the band, you don't know
- 28:21Speaker 1: the name of the song, but you can remember that
- 28:23Speaker 1: there's a line of like, we went to the park.
- 28:26Speaker 1: And then you would read the credits of the movie
- 28:28Speaker 1: and it would say like park song by a band
- 28:31Speaker 1: you've never heard of. And you'd say, okay, I think
- 28:33Speaker 1: it's probably that, but you weren't sure. This is all
- 28:36Speaker 1: insane to describe that. Like we actually, our children will
- 28:39Speaker 1: never have to do this.
- 28:41Speaker 3: There was a miracle point in time, a slight, a
- 28:44Speaker 3: slight breakthrough when I don't know which chain did it.
- 28:50Speaker 3: One of the chains had that machine that you could
- 28:53Speaker 3: scan the CD and And it would give you 30-second
- 28:56Speaker 3: samples of each song if it was in this.
- 29:00Speaker 1: The Wall did it at the Natick Mall. Do you
- 29:02Speaker 1: remember The Wall?
- 29:02Speaker 2: The Wall.
- 29:03Speaker 3: I do remember The Wall. Yeah.
- 29:05Speaker 1: Because Newbery Comics was obviously the best CD store, but
- 29:08Speaker 1: they didn't do that.
- 29:09Speaker 3: No, yeah. They didn't have anything of that type. But
- 29:12Speaker 3: I think the Border Bookstore had it. And that was
- 29:17Speaker 3: just a gift. It was just like, does this have it?
- 29:20Speaker 3: Is it on here? Can I do it now? This
- 29:23Speaker 3: of course is just completely defeated instantly. But, um, that
- 29:27Speaker 3: was just such a funny thing to think about. Cause
- 29:30Speaker 3: it would be, I remember this empire record, same deal.
- 29:33Speaker 3: Empire records, especially committed the crime of not all the
- 29:36Speaker 3: songs being on the soundtrack.
- 29:41Speaker 1: We should do an all-time great 90s soundtrack, and Empire
- 29:45Speaker 1: Records would be on there. Sugar High, I remember loving that,
- 29:48Speaker 1: and Renee Zellweger sings it in the movie. Fantastic. But, continuing.
- 29:56Speaker 1: Angus narrates while they're at a football game, so it's
- 29:59Speaker 1: a football game, you know, Friday night. Growing up, you
- 30:02Speaker 1: wait for the one moment that's truly yours, that makes
- 30:04Speaker 1: you believe every once in a while the good guys
- 30:07Speaker 1: can win, and I was still waiting for that moment.
- 30:10Speaker 1: And I, that's a feeling I had growing up, like,
- 30:14Speaker 1: I feel like when you're a little kid, everybody's friends,
- 30:17Speaker 1: you're so hopeful, everything's pretty positive, and then when you
- 30:19Speaker 1: get to middle school, things start to suck, and you're like,
- 30:22Speaker 1: wait a minute, like, Good things happen to bad people,
- 30:25Speaker 1: and bad things happen to good people. What is going on?
- 30:27Speaker 1: This isn't how movies and television told me life was
- 30:31Speaker 1: not like this. So it could be a very disappointing time.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Angus is enormous. Not only is he fat, but he's tall.
- 30:39Speaker 1: So he plays O-line, and he's very good. Now, the
- 30:42Speaker 1: irony of this is he has to protect Rick, James
- 30:45Speaker 1: Van Der Beek, who he absolutely hates. And do you
- 30:50Speaker 1: remember what Rick says when they're about to go run
- 30:55Speaker 1: the play?
- 30:58Speaker 3: No.
- 30:58Speaker 1: He says, you better watch my ass. And Angus says,
- 31:02Speaker 1: I'm watching it. And he says, I bet you are. Like,
- 31:04Speaker 1: basically calling him gay.
- 31:06Speaker 3: Yes. Yes, okay.
- 31:09Speaker 1: And the way that this play transpires is just so perfect. So,
- 31:13Speaker 1: Rick snaps the ball. Angus wrecks two D-linemen. And Angus says,
- 31:19Speaker 1: I was impenetrable. I was a wall. And Rick has
- 31:23Speaker 1: all the time in the world to throw the ball
- 31:25Speaker 1: because of Angus. He throws a pick. So he completely
- 31:29Speaker 1: fucks up. Then Angus runs over and nails the cornerback,
- 31:34Speaker 1: causing a fumble. So not only did he demolish two defenders,
- 31:40Speaker 1: but he also caused a fumble with his tackle. Rick
- 31:42Speaker 1: recovers the fumble, scores the winning touchdown, and is lifted
- 31:46Speaker 1: on everyone's shoulders. While Angus is laying there completely concussed.
- 31:53Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Very, very fitting moment. Angus is really sweaty the rest
- 32:01Speaker 1: of the movie, like not during football. He's just in school.
- 32:05Speaker 1: He's just like a big fat kid who's constantly sweaty.
- 32:07Speaker 1: I can definitely relate to that. I am and was
- 32:11Speaker 1: a very sweaty person my entire life.
- 32:14Speaker 3: His line, I don't sweat, I rain, is amazing. It's
- 32:17Speaker 3: just amazing. It's amazing. Yep.
- 32:21Speaker 1: It cuts to they're in science class, and Angus is
- 32:23Speaker 1: very smart, so he's presenting this experiment he's working on.
- 32:27Speaker 1: E from Entourage is in this movie as just like
- 32:31Speaker 1: one of Rick's cronies.
- 32:34Speaker 3: Okay.
- 32:34Speaker 1: What is his name? The Redhead. The main character in Entourage.
- 32:42Speaker 3: I didn't really watch besides what's his name, the guy
- 32:45Speaker 3: from Devil Wears Prada.
- 32:48Speaker 1: He's oh Vince he's the oh Kevin Conley Kevin Conley
- 32:53Speaker 1: he was uh in Unhappily Ever After I also think
- 32:57Speaker 1: he might have been a member of Leonardo DiCaprio's Pussy
- 33:00Speaker 1: Posse okay if you don't if you don't know what
- 33:03Speaker 1: that is yeah what I'm sorry what he was in
- 33:06Speaker 1: the notebook oh he was I don't remember him in
- 33:09Speaker 1: the notebook.
- 33:10Speaker 3: He is uh spoiler alert he is uh killed in
- 33:13Speaker 3: World War II with uh Ryan Gosling.
- 33:18Speaker 1: Good squad good so if you don't know what I'm
- 33:22Speaker 1: referring to with the PP Leonardo DiCaprio when he was
- 33:26Speaker 1: a teenager in his 20s had a group of problematic
- 33:29Speaker 1: bachelors that called themselves that in Hollywood and would try
- 33:34Speaker 1: to sleep with as many women as possible it was
- 33:37Speaker 1: Leo it was Tobey Maguire I think it was Kevin
- 33:39Speaker 1: Conley there's a bunch of other.
- 33:41Speaker 3: People too he directed the 2018 movie Gotti starring John
- 33:45Speaker 3: Travolta as John.
- 33:46Speaker 1: Gotti Kevin Conley did Yeah. No, he did not.
- 33:51Speaker 3: It says he directed the movie Gotti. Comey was hired
- 33:54Speaker 3: after a number of other directors, including Barry Levinson, were
- 33:57Speaker 3: attached to the project during its lengthy development process. The
- 34:01Speaker 3: film was a critical and commercial disaster and is one
- 34:04Speaker 3: of the few films to hold an approval rating of
- 34:06Speaker 3: zero on the website Rotten Tomatoes.
- 34:08Speaker 1: Hey, random thought. Now that we're talking about Gotti and
- 34:11Speaker 1: we saw The Odyssey this week.
- 34:13Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 34:14Speaker 1: I never really got Armand Asante. Like why was Armand
- 34:17Speaker 1: Asante a big thing for a while? Like he was
- 34:20Speaker 1: the lead in the nineties odyssey, which is a very
- 34:22Speaker 1: big deal. He was the lead in Gotti. He was
- 34:26Speaker 1: the villain, main villain in judge dread with Sylvester Stallone.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Why was he ever a thing?
- 34:34Speaker 3: I don't, I don't know. I'm not sure whatever got
- 34:37Speaker 3: him like his clout initially. Yeah.
- 34:41Speaker 1: And like, He's fine playing generic mafioso Italian guy, but
- 34:46Speaker 1: he plays every character the same. He only has one mode,
- 34:49Speaker 1: like John Wayne. And him playing Odysseus is patently insane.
- 34:54Speaker 1: I haven't seen the 90s Odyssey, or at least if
- 34:56Speaker 1: I have, I don't remember it. But yeah, I don't
- 34:59Speaker 1: know why he was cast in that.
- 35:01Speaker 3: I saw it in high school, yeah. We watched it
- 35:03Speaker 3: actually in 9th grade, yeah.
- 35:05Speaker 1: But I love in this moment in science class, the
- 35:08Speaker 1: teacher has no respect for Angus. is barely paying attention
- 35:11Speaker 1: to a science experiment. And when the bell rings, the teacher,
- 35:16Speaker 1: just really annoyed, goes, Angus, you were called to the
- 35:19Speaker 1: principal's office. And then turns to Rick and goes, hey, Rick,
- 35:21Speaker 1: great touchdown.
- 35:23Speaker 3: Well, I did like what's his name? Kevin Conley says,
- 35:25Speaker 3: do you see my block?
- 35:27Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So Angus goes to the principal's office.
- 35:34Speaker 1: The principal sits down and tells him, do you remember
- 35:36Speaker 1: what he says?
- 35:37Speaker 3: He has some news. He got a letter from Jefferson
- 35:41Speaker 3: that he's been accepted or has an interview and he
- 35:45Speaker 3: has to do a science project for the interview in
- 35:49Speaker 3: order to guarantee acceptance. And it's a. It's almost like
- 35:55Speaker 3: a pre... He would leave high school. It wouldn't just
- 35:57Speaker 3: be like he's accepted to college three years early. He'd
- 35:59Speaker 3: be gone.
- 36:01Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't know.
- 36:03Speaker 3: Is it a junior college? Is that what.
- 36:05Speaker 1: You call that? It's a private school that specializes in
- 36:08Speaker 1: science and only takes elite academic students.
- 36:14Speaker 3: Oh, it's a real school.
- 36:16Speaker 1: What is a magnet school? Because I don't know what
- 36:20Speaker 1: this means. A magnet school... Magnet School, Magnate School, is
- 36:27Speaker 1: a public school that has a specialized focus or program
- 36:29Speaker 1: designed to attract students from a wider area. For example,
- 36:33Speaker 1: there might be a school that specializes in the performing arts,
- 36:35Speaker 1: one that specializes in science or law or international studies. Typically,
- 36:41Speaker 1: unlike a typical public school, students have to apply to
- 36:44Speaker 1: get in, even if they don't live in the immediate neighborhood.
- 36:48Speaker 1: The reason... The name comes from the idea that it
- 36:52Speaker 1: magnetizes students towards a particular program or theme.
- 36:56Speaker 2: Oh.
- 36:57Speaker 3: Okay.
- 36:58Speaker 1: All right. I didn't know that. But that's what he's
- 37:00Speaker 1: getting into. Jefferson is a science magnet school.
- 37:04Speaker 3: Okay.
- 37:06Speaker 1: All right. And he goes home. He tells his mom,
- 37:09Speaker 1: Kathy Bates, who is excited. Kathy Bates loves him, is
- 37:12Speaker 1: a really good mom, thinks he's perfect.
- 37:15Speaker 3: Love the line that she's a truck driver and her
- 37:18Speaker 3: CB name is Bruiser. Yes. That was great.
- 37:22Speaker 1: Yes, yes. So his father passed away, as we talked about.
- 37:25Speaker 1: His mom is a truck driver. And his grandfather lives
- 37:29Speaker 1: with them. His grandfather is played by George C.
- 37:31Speaker 3: Scott.
- 37:32Speaker 1: And a frequent joke in this movie is that the
- 37:35Speaker 1: grandfather always randomly falls asleep because he's old. And whenever
- 37:40Speaker 1: he falls asleep, when Grandpa falls asleep, what does Angus do?
- 37:44Speaker 3: He plays a song that is like that. I always
- 37:48Speaker 3: think of the salute your shorts opening, but it's this
- 37:50Speaker 3: famous horns thing. Yeah. Military horns thing.
- 37:53Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 37:53Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 37:54Speaker 1: It's called Reveille is the name of the song.
- 37:56Speaker 3: Okay.
- 37:57Speaker 1: And grandpa wakes up and they're discussing that he's getting
- 38:00Speaker 1: married to a woman named April, who is 30 years
- 38:03Speaker 1: younger than him. So grandpa is 72 and April is 42.
- 38:08Speaker 1: And Kathy Bates is very upset about this. Who gets
- 38:11Speaker 1: married at 72? This is ridiculous. Um, they're, they're, they're
- 38:15Speaker 1: eating dinner to the three of them. And then grandpa
- 38:17Speaker 1: falls asleep. So she just gets, she gets up annoyed
- 38:21Speaker 1: and walks away. And then Angus says, she's gone. And
- 38:24Speaker 1: you find out that grandpa was pretending to fall asleep.
- 38:26Speaker 1: Just so Kathy Bates would shut up and leave him alone.
- 38:29Speaker 3: I love when she is complaining about the wedding to Angus.
- 38:34Speaker 3: And he's like, why is she talking to me? Like
- 38:35Speaker 3: I'm not in the room. And he's like, why is
- 38:37Speaker 3: she talking to me? Like I'm an adult.
- 38:40Speaker 1: I think that, yeah, that's a really good point. Grandpa's
- 38:42Speaker 1: my favorite character in the movie.
- 38:44Speaker 3: He's great.
- 38:45Speaker 1: Pretty hands down. Grandpa's my favorite character in the movie.
- 38:49Speaker 1: Back at school, Troy is listening to the radio while
- 38:53Speaker 1: he's hanging out with Angus. And he explains every time
- 38:57Speaker 1: they play Green Day on the radio, the first caller
- 38:59Speaker 1: gets two tickets to the Green Day concert that's coming locally.
- 39:03Speaker 1: So Troy, as a result, is listening to his headphones,
- 39:06Speaker 1: listening to the radio all day in school to try
- 39:09Speaker 1: to hear Green Day and win tickets.
- 39:11Speaker 3: The calling the restaurant across the street from the school,
- 39:14Speaker 3: the lunchbox. Brilliant.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Brilliant. Did you have like an across the street school
- 39:20Speaker 1: restaurant that kids hung out at?
- 39:21Speaker 3: Like, don't we, we couldn't leave the school premises.
- 39:26Speaker 1: Um, no, I know, but like after school or after.
- 39:28Speaker 3: Sports, it was, called Vito's. It was a pizza place.
- 39:35Speaker 1: When Megan went to Marion, it was Friendly's in downtown Framingham.
- 39:38Speaker 1: All the kids hung out at Friendly's all the time,
- 39:40Speaker 1: which was like a perfect high school hangout spot. By
- 39:44Speaker 1: the time I went there, Friendly's was not cool anymore.
- 39:46Speaker 1: Nobody went to Friendly's.
- 39:48Speaker 3: Well, it's always been– it's always cool. I don't care
- 39:51Speaker 3: where it is now. I think it's one of– Oh, no.
- 39:53Speaker 1: I just think that like the kids in my high
- 39:56Speaker 1: school class were just wrong. Because I feel like Megan–
- 39:59Speaker 1: Megan loved high school. And granted, like Megan was a cheerleader.
- 40:04Speaker 1: She was popular. From my understanding, attractive is what people
- 40:08Speaker 1: told me. So Bridget and Megan being my older sister's– uh,
- 40:14Speaker 1: who were five years older and seven years older. So
- 40:16Speaker 1: like when I'm 14, they're 19 and 21. And they
- 40:19Speaker 1: would like, sometimes not often, but they would sometimes pick
- 40:22Speaker 1: me up. Like people knew who they were. So dickheads
- 40:26Speaker 1: at school would make comments about, Oh, your sisters are hot.
- 40:29Speaker 1: Your sisters are hot. And I just knew like, cause what,
- 40:32Speaker 1: what does every guy do in that scenario? It's like, Oh,
- 40:35Speaker 1: shut the fuck up. And like, get all mad about it.
- 40:37Speaker 1: And like, what does that, what does that do? That
- 40:39Speaker 1: just makes them want to tell you more. A thousand
- 40:42Speaker 1: times worse. A thousand times worse. So I was smart
- 40:45Speaker 1: enough to realize, like, I squashed it right away. It
- 40:47Speaker 1: never bothered me, and I squashed it right away. Whenever
- 40:51Speaker 1: somebody would say something like that to me, which would
- 40:52Speaker 1: happen a few times a year, I would say, they
- 40:55Speaker 1: are so sexy. I would make a comment like that,
- 40:59Speaker 1: and they would just like, what? You think your sisters
- 41:03Speaker 1: are sexy? And I go, have you seen them? I mean,
- 41:06Speaker 1: it's tough enough living with them. I mean, my God.
- 41:09Speaker 1: And they'd just be like, oh.
- 41:10Speaker 3: I like how you're talking about like they are crazy
- 41:13Speaker 3: for questioning it now.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Then they would never bring it up to me ever again.
- 41:19Speaker 1: But yeah, so like the kids in my class were
- 41:21Speaker 1: just scumbags. Like they would before and after school, instead
- 41:24Speaker 1: of like going to Friendly's to get a bite with
- 41:26Speaker 1: some friends and hang out, they would like take pills
- 41:28Speaker 1: or drink or smoke weed in somebody's car at somebody's house.
- 41:33Speaker 3: There was a corner on one of like, cause like
- 41:35Speaker 3: the high school was literally in the middle of the neighborhood.
- 41:38Speaker 3: So it was a corner that had like a brick wall.
- 41:39Speaker 3: People would smoke at, you know what the funny thing is.
- 41:42Speaker 3: I'm curious. Cause you guys obviously went to school near one.
- 41:45Speaker 3: We were so close to the Arsenal and Watertown mall,
- 41:48Speaker 3: but a lot of the kids did not like hang
- 41:50Speaker 3: out in the mall. You know what I mean? It
- 41:52Speaker 3: was kind of weird. Yeah.
- 41:54Speaker 1: Yeah. I'll never forget that. My teacher, Mr. McGarry, shout
- 41:58Speaker 1: out Mr.
- 41:58Speaker 3: McGarry.
- 42:00Speaker 1: I ran into him at church or something like years
- 42:02Speaker 1: after I graduated. And I said, who is some of
- 42:05Speaker 1: the worst classes you ever had? Especially like in my day.
- 42:08Speaker 1: Out of the four years I was there. And he goes, oh,
- 42:10Speaker 1: the worst class is definitely your class. And I said,
- 42:14Speaker 1: what about Paul's class? Because Paul's class, they would always
- 42:17Speaker 1: do pranks. And Mr. McGarry said, no, I'll tell you
- 42:21Speaker 1: the difference between Paul's class, 03 and 04. 03 would
- 42:26Speaker 1: like cause a prank. They would do something like put
- 42:29Speaker 1: a thumbtack in a teacher's chair or some cliche thing
- 42:32Speaker 1: like that. Your class was bad people. Like you had
- 42:36Speaker 1: bad kids in your class. Instead of playing a prank
- 42:40Speaker 1: on a teacher, they would like– Mr. McGarry didn't say this,
- 42:44Speaker 1: but they're the type of kids that would probably date
- 42:46Speaker 1: rape someone. That's the difference between Paul's class and my class,
- 42:50Speaker 1: and I'm not proud of that. They're all scumbags.
- 42:52Speaker 3: Wow. That was definitely the class ahead of us. I
- 42:55Speaker 3: was 03. But the class ahead of us, the teachers
- 42:58Speaker 3: were beyond psyched that they were gone. They were like,
- 43:02Speaker 3: thank God 2002 is gone. That's all they would say.
- 43:05Speaker 3: They were like, thank God.
- 43:08Speaker 1: So Troy and Angus are in this assembly and Troy's explaining,
- 43:13Speaker 1: if you go to Jefferson Nerd High, you might as
- 43:16Speaker 1: well be a monk because you won't get any babes.
- 43:18Speaker 1: And then they start making fun of each other and
- 43:20Speaker 1: Angus goes, what do you know about babes? You play
- 43:22Speaker 1: the accordion. You're short. And Troy says, you're fat. And
- 43:26Speaker 1: then they just angrily high five and say, but, and
- 43:30Speaker 1: I like that little moment between them. Like, cause you do, you,
- 43:34Speaker 1: you know, Angus is so accurately moody where, you know,
- 43:37Speaker 1: Angus is a really good kid and you don't hold
- 43:39Speaker 1: it against him. He's not like a whiny little bitch,
- 43:41Speaker 1: but he's very moody and tough to be around as
- 43:44Speaker 1: a teenager. Um, but you still love him. And that's
- 43:47Speaker 1: a great moment where like you do shit on your friends,
- 43:50Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, you need to
- 43:51Speaker 1: remind each other like, okay, why are we doing this?
- 43:53Speaker 1: We're friends. So whenever they get really mad at each other,
- 43:56Speaker 1: They just angrily high five and say buds.
- 43:59Speaker 3: And I think that later that comes into play a
- 44:01Speaker 3: lot at the end. Yeah. Yes. Yes.
- 44:04Speaker 1: So there's a vote for the winter ball king and queen.
- 44:08Speaker 1: And Troy says, you know, it'd be funny, Angus, if
- 44:10Speaker 1: we went to the dance. And Angus is like, what
- 44:13Speaker 1: are you talking about? I'm not going to the dance.
- 44:16Speaker 1: And he's, you know, like watch people spaz out on
- 44:18Speaker 1: the dance floor. Look at the dildos standing around pretending
- 44:21Speaker 1: they don't want to be there. But secretly they do.
- 44:24Speaker 1: And Angus says, Troy, we are those dildos. And then
- 44:28Speaker 1: Angus realizes, oh my god, Troy, you told your mother
- 44:32Speaker 1: about this, and now she's making you go. Why did
- 44:35Speaker 1: you tell her about it? And Troy's like, I don't
- 44:37Speaker 1: tell my mom everything, but yes, that's exactly what happened.
- 44:42Speaker 1: And then he says, he's listening to his headphones still.
- 44:44Speaker 1: He goes, oh shit, Green Day, I gotta get to
- 44:46Speaker 1: the payphone. So he turns the corner to run to
- 44:48Speaker 1: the phone, but he runs directly into Rick Sanford, James
- 44:52Speaker 1: Van Der Beek. So I love– I don't remember what
- 44:56Speaker 1: Rick says, but he says something really mean to Troy.
- 44:59Speaker 1: Do you remember what it is?
- 45:02Speaker 3: I don't remember. I just remember because when he runs
- 45:04Speaker 3: into– yeah, I don't remember. Yeah.
- 45:07Speaker 1: So give credit to Angus because even though he's a
- 45:09Speaker 1: loser and a nerd, he's a big kid. So when
- 45:12Speaker 1: Rick says something to Troy, Angus' reaction immediately is to
- 45:17Speaker 1: fight him, which I love.
- 45:18Speaker 3: Yes.
- 45:18Speaker 1: He just shoves Rick to the ground so hard.
- 45:21Speaker 3: Yes.
- 45:23Speaker 1: And– The principal runs over and says, Angus, if I
- 45:28Speaker 1: see you fighting again, you're not going to get into
- 45:30Speaker 1: Jefferson because I will suspend you. If I see you
- 45:33Speaker 1: do that to any other kid again, I will suspend
- 45:35Speaker 1: you and you'll blow your whole shot at Jefferson. And
- 45:38Speaker 1: then Angus is like, fuck.
- 45:40Speaker 3: And worse news. again, just cause he did a good
- 45:44Speaker 3: job with this part. You just see Vanderbeek's face and
- 45:47Speaker 3: you're like, Oh, now he knows he has something on Angus.
- 45:51Speaker 3: He can do something to Angus.
- 45:52Speaker 1: Cause that's the thing is Vanderbeek can't really make fun
- 45:55Speaker 1: of Troy and Angus. Like he can to a point,
- 45:59Speaker 1: but he knows that if he crosses the line, Angus
- 46:01Speaker 1: will just kick his ass. So now he knows, Oh,
- 46:04Speaker 1: I can do anything I want to Troy and Angus.
- 46:05Speaker 1: Cause Angus can't stop me. And Troy certainly can't stop me.
- 46:09Speaker 3: It was so rewatching it. Cause I hadn't seen it
- 46:11Speaker 3: in a really long time. Like, I remember the ending
- 46:14Speaker 3: of this so much, but like, I was like, Oh,
- 46:17Speaker 3: this movie from the beginning has shown you that Angus
- 46:19Speaker 3: is just physically stronger than Troy throughout the entire movie.
- 46:23Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 46:23Speaker 3: So it's like, you mean Rick? I'm sorry, Rick, excuse me. Yeah.
- 46:27Speaker 3: It's stronger than Rick. So you're like, well, how does Rick?
- 46:30Speaker 3: And I was like, how does Rick become like a
- 46:33Speaker 3: threat to him? And then this is why. And also
- 46:35Speaker 3: the movie is doing a great job of telling you
- 46:37Speaker 3: that the physical, you know, intimidation and shit is not real.
- 46:46Speaker 3: It's not power.
- 46:47Speaker 1: It's not real power. You're exactly right. Grandpa every day
- 46:51Speaker 1: goes to the park outside and plays chess with a
- 46:53Speaker 1: random man, and this random man in real life that
- 46:57Speaker 1: Grandpa plays chess with directed The Empire Strikes Back.
- 47:00Speaker 3: Yep. His name is Irvin Kershner.
- 47:02Speaker 1: How did he direct The Empire Strikes Back, and how
- 47:04Speaker 1: did he never really direct a big movie ever again?
- 47:08Speaker 3: I'm not sure you want to ask this question, but he.
- 47:13Speaker 3: Also, I think we talked about it when we did
- 47:16Speaker 3: Star Wars. So Irvin Kershner was a professor at USC
- 47:21Speaker 3: where George Lucas went. And when George Lucas made Empire
- 47:25Speaker 3: Strikes Back, obviously Star Wars had exploded and become a
- 47:28Speaker 3: massive hit. Lucas, instead of... What would usually happen is
- 47:32Speaker 3: the company who made Star Wars, like, let's make a
- 47:34Speaker 3: second one. You do it, whatever. Lucas wanted control over it.
- 47:39Speaker 3: So he's like, I will finance it with the money
- 47:42Speaker 3: I made. You guys just release it. Because Lucas had
- 47:45Speaker 3: that control and he had to produce the movie and
- 47:47Speaker 3: do all this stuff, he said he couldn't direct the movie.
- 47:51Speaker 3: And he had to hire somebody he trusted. And he
- 47:53Speaker 3: trusted this guy who was his teacher. So Kirshner came
- 47:56Speaker 3: in and kirshner did a lot of things that if
- 48:00Speaker 3: you read about look up watch interviews that are what
- 48:03Speaker 3: make empire great yeah.
- 48:06Speaker 1: Yeah but how did he not get anything big ever
- 48:08Speaker 1: again it was just because like oh he's a nobody
- 48:10Speaker 1: he was just a teacher at usc.
- 48:12Speaker 3: I think i mean because he became like he did
- 48:14Speaker 3: robocop too he did i think i think he did
- 48:16Speaker 3: one of the james bond movies i just think because
- 48:19Speaker 3: star wars was so not seen as Irvin Kershner directed
- 48:23Speaker 3: this movie or like Richard Marquand. It was George Lucas's baby.
- 48:27Speaker 3: So I just never thought these guys were given credit
- 48:30Speaker 3: for anything that they were doing as directors. My opinion.
- 48:33Speaker 3: Got it.
- 48:34Speaker 1: Got it. So every day Grandpa plays chess with Irvin
- 48:37Speaker 1: Kershner in the park. And Grandpa says, Angus, will you
- 48:41Speaker 1: talk to this Melissa girl before I die, please? And
- 48:43Speaker 1: Angus says, I just can't, Grandpa. It's not possible. And
- 48:46Speaker 1: Grandpa says, Angus, live by these words. Screw them. Who
- 48:50Speaker 1: cares what they think? And I think that this movie
- 48:53Speaker 1: really accurately captures the anxiety of, like, you know, there's
- 48:57Speaker 1: so many things that I was just terrified to do,
- 49:00Speaker 1: not being an adult and not having life experience. Asking
- 49:03Speaker 1: out a girl in high school, terrifying. Even, like, you know,
- 49:08Speaker 1: if my dad, we were at a restaurant, my dad
- 49:09Speaker 1: would be like, hey, can you go up to the
- 49:11Speaker 1: counter and ask for to-go boxes? That would just seem
- 49:14Speaker 1: overwhelming to me. It's just like talking to an adult.
- 49:17Speaker 1: I don't know how to do this. Like, what if
- 49:19Speaker 1: I look stupid? You know what I mean? Yeah. It's
- 49:23Speaker 1: almost like you were high all the time. You weren't high,
- 49:26Speaker 1: but it's that internal crisis, as Ben calls it, when
- 49:29Speaker 1: you're high and you're just like overthinking and overanalyzing everything
- 49:33Speaker 1: and worried what everyone else thinks and feeling like you're
- 49:35Speaker 1: not knowing what you're doing. That's what being a teenager is.
- 49:38Speaker 3: All the insecurities at the forefront. That's the number one
- 49:41Speaker 3: thing you're thinking about. Yeah.
- 49:43Speaker 1: Yeah. And if I saw a hot girl and I mean,
- 49:46Speaker 1: I would, it would be better if I like knew
- 49:48Speaker 1: her and had some sort of relationship with her. But
- 49:50Speaker 1: if I was single, obviously I wouldn't have a problem
- 49:53Speaker 1: with asking her out. And what's the worst thing that happens?
- 49:55Speaker 1: You get rejected. Okay. I've been rejected plenty of times.
- 49:59Speaker 1: It's not scary to me anymore, but at age 14, 16,
- 50:04Speaker 1: my God, there was nothing scarier.
- 50:06Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. it's life is over. But I, I love
- 50:09Speaker 3: the line here with the grandfather where, when he's talking
- 50:13Speaker 3: about this idea and he's like, I'm just, I'm just
- 50:16Speaker 3: the fat kid who's good at science. And then he says,
- 50:19Speaker 3: aren't you're not the fat kid who's good at football.
- 50:22Speaker 3: And it's this weird thing of like, it sounds like
- 50:24Speaker 3: he's like doubling down the insult, but he's also saying
- 50:28Speaker 3: to the, like, there's more to you than just that,
- 50:30Speaker 3: even though it's the same thing. Yeah.
- 50:32Speaker 1: And, and grandpa always says, also says you're not fat.
- 50:35Speaker 1: You come from big people. You know, you're not not
- 50:38Speaker 1: normal just because you're big. I'm big and I'm normal.
- 50:40Speaker 1: And Angus says, you are not normal, Grandpa. And Angus
- 50:46Speaker 1: has a reminder multiple times a day. Grandpa, you have
- 50:49Speaker 1: to take your pill because Grandpa, he's falling asleep. He
- 50:52Speaker 1: doesn't remember when to take his pill. So Angus has
- 50:55Speaker 1: got to remind him. And I think, yeah, we'll end
- 51:00Speaker 1: with basically this whole sequence. We'll end part one.
- 51:05Speaker 2: Okay.
- 51:06Speaker 1: I'm going to plug my computer in. This is a
- 51:10Speaker 1: perfect high school moment. They're in the auditorium again for
- 51:14Speaker 1: a pep rally, and it shows an overhead of the crowd.
- 51:19Speaker 1: Every single person in the auditorium is wearing blue, and
- 51:23Speaker 1: Angus is wearing red. And Troy goes, didn't you see
- 51:26Speaker 1: all the flyers? This was school spirit day. You had
- 51:29Speaker 1: to wear blue. And Angus goes, nobody reads those. And
- 51:33Speaker 1: Troy's like, apparently everyone does but you. And Angus is
- 51:36Speaker 1: just red and sweating. And I think that I would,
- 51:40Speaker 1: if like, if there was, there was an event where
- 51:43Speaker 1: it was for like breast cancer awareness for work. And
- 51:46Speaker 1: I just did not get the memo that you had
- 51:48Speaker 1: to wear pink. Now, like, okay, that sounds obvious because
- 51:50Speaker 1: it was for breast cancer awareness, pink ribbon. But I
- 51:53Speaker 1: showed up and I wasn't wearing pink. And I was like, oh,
- 51:56Speaker 1: what an idiot. But I didn't, I moved right along.
- 51:59Speaker 1: In high school, this would be a nightmare if.
- 52:02Speaker 3: This happened to you. When they cut to that shot
- 52:05Speaker 3: of the crowd from above, and because, of course, he
- 52:07Speaker 3: is so much larger than everybody else. And I was like,
- 52:09Speaker 3: just leave. Just get out. Just get out of the room.
- 52:12Speaker 3: It's like, what are you doing? Yeah. Oh, my God.
- 52:15Speaker 1: Yeah. And I remember because I went to Marion and
- 52:18Speaker 1: we had school uniforms and you could pay. I think
- 52:20Speaker 1: you had to pay money. It was like $ 10 for
- 52:23Speaker 1: like a fundraiser for a dance or something. But they
- 52:25Speaker 1: would have random dress down days. Or they would have
- 52:30Speaker 1: theme days. Like I remember we had a 70s day
- 52:32Speaker 1: and you dressed like it was the 70s or something. Oh, wow.
- 52:35Speaker 3: OK.
- 52:35Speaker 1: Or you could just do a normal dress down day.
- 52:37Speaker 1: They would have them like once a month. And I
- 52:39Speaker 1: remember every day just having that paranoid teenage anxiety of
- 52:43Speaker 1: I'm in dress down day clothes. And obviously I had
- 52:46Speaker 1: thought so much about what I was going to wear
- 52:48Speaker 1: and what message I wanted to send with my outfit choice.
- 52:51Speaker 1: Overthought it horribly. But now we're on the way to
- 52:53Speaker 1: school and I'm like, what if it's not dress down day?
- 52:56Speaker 1: What if I– thought it was today but it's not
- 53:00Speaker 1: and i'm gonna be dropped off and my mom's gonna
- 53:02Speaker 1: leave and i don't have a cell phone and i'm
- 53:05Speaker 1: just gonna be at school not in my uniform and
- 53:07Speaker 1: everybody's gonna think i'm a fucking idiot like i would
- 53:11Speaker 1: have these paranoid thoughts just being a teenager.
- 53:14Speaker 3: Again insecurity to the forefront yeah it's all there.
- 53:18Speaker 1: Yep and i you know andy said in my best
- 53:22Speaker 1: man speech that he was like astonished by me in
- 53:25Speaker 1: high school because i didn't care what people thought And
- 53:27Speaker 1: that definitely is not true. I was probably better on
- 53:30Speaker 1: the spectrum than most kids. But I remember at the
- 53:33Speaker 1: end of senior year, after a certain date, seniors didn't
- 53:38Speaker 1: have to wear uniforms anymore.
- 53:39Speaker 3: Oh, really?
- 53:41Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was like two weeks before graduation or
- 53:44Speaker 1: something like that. So when that happened, I did wear
- 53:48Speaker 1: my uniform. I continued to wear my uniform, but I
- 53:50Speaker 1: cut the sleeves off my uniform. So, um, that, that's
- 53:55Speaker 1: an example of me just like not giving a shit really. But, uh, yeah,
- 54:00Speaker 1: not when I was a freshman, for sure. When I
- 54:02Speaker 1: was a freshman, it was terrifying, especially cause going to Marion,
- 54:06Speaker 1: I didn't know anyone like a lot of these kids
- 54:09Speaker 1: in high school. You went to high school and you
- 54:11Speaker 1: had friends, right?
- 54:13Speaker 3: And I mean, middle school and freshman year of high
- 54:16Speaker 3: school were both brand new schools.
- 54:19Speaker 1: New, new buddy, you know, new, but you know, new buddy,
- 54:22Speaker 1: you knew nobody.
- 54:24Speaker 3: For sixth grade went to a whole new school didn't
- 54:26Speaker 3: know a single person in my class and then freshman
- 54:29Speaker 3: year of high school i knew two kids but you
- 54:32Speaker 3: were separated into clusters in high school in different groups
- 54:36Speaker 3: and they were of course day one immediately ripped away
- 54:40Speaker 3: and it was all different people.
- 54:41Speaker 1: Yeah i also knew two kids but they were not
- 54:44Speaker 1: my friends at all and um because a lot of
- 54:47Speaker 1: these kids too like okay i went to catholics like
- 54:50Speaker 1: andy he went to catholic school his whole uh, wife
- 54:53Speaker 1: or no, no, I've been to a certain point, but
- 54:55Speaker 1: he went to St. Bridget's and then St. Bridget's kids
- 54:58Speaker 1: would go to Marion. So he went to Marion with
- 55:01Speaker 1: a ton of kids that he knew. My first day
- 55:03Speaker 1: of freshman year at Marion, it was like the first
- 55:05Speaker 1: day of prison. We go into the cafeteria and I
- 55:08Speaker 1: didn't know anyone, didn't know where to sit, was terrified
- 55:11Speaker 1: about where to sit. Uh, just hell, hell on earth,
- 55:15Speaker 1: complete like panic attack, hit my stomach.
- 55:18Speaker 3: Absolutely scary. Yeah. Same feeling here. Absolutely. Yep.
- 55:22Speaker 1: Yep. So anyways, they are having an assembly, and there's
- 55:26Speaker 1: a very hot girl who I recognize, but I don't
- 55:28Speaker 1: remember from what. Do you recognize her, the recycling girl?
- 55:32Speaker 3: She did look very familiar. I got to look her up.
- 55:36Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah.
- 55:38Speaker 1: But she's just like a– she's dressed as a recycling bin,
- 55:44Speaker 1: but it's kind of a– She's not in Gaudi. She's
- 55:48Speaker 1: not in Gaudi.
- 55:49Speaker 3: I was open to a computer to Gaudi, yeah.
- 55:51Speaker 1: Recycling Girl is Lindsay Price. Let me look her up.
- 55:54Speaker 1: I definitely recognize her face. Lindsay Price. She was in.
- 56:00Speaker 3: I.
- 56:03Speaker 1: Don't know any of these movies. Recently she's been in Black-ish,
- 56:06Speaker 1: Two and a Half Men, Hawaii Five-O, CSI. So she
- 56:12Speaker 1: must have been in something at some point. A lot
- 56:15Speaker 1: of TV shows. Club Dread.
- 56:17Speaker 3: Oh, Club Dread. Okay.
- 56:18Speaker 1: She was in Beverly Hills 90210. Oh, I think that's
- 56:23Speaker 1: what I recognized her from. She was in 71 episodes
- 56:25Speaker 1: of Beverly Hills 90210. Anywho. So she's wearing white spandex
- 56:32Speaker 1: and looks really good. And Troy whispers to Angus, I'm
- 56:36Speaker 1: getting a boner. And Angus looks at him like, what
- 56:39Speaker 1: is wrong with you? Why would you tell me that?
- 56:44Speaker 1: And the principal comes up and says, we will now
- 56:48Speaker 1: announce the votes are in. We are now announcing the
- 56:51Speaker 1: winner of the winter ball king and queen vote and
- 56:55Speaker 1: to announce the queen will be the captain of the
- 56:57Speaker 1: football team rick sanford and rick comes up and he
- 57:01Speaker 1: gives some cheesy speech he's like i'm so happy that
- 57:04Speaker 1: we're starting our high school career we're meeting new friends
- 57:07Speaker 1: and you know starting our adult lives and then troy
- 57:10Speaker 1: just goes i appreciated that And Rick goes, the homecoming
- 57:20Speaker 1: or winter ball queen is, not a surprise, Melissa Lefevre.
- 57:25Speaker 1: So Melissa Lefevre comes up and accepts the win, I guess.
- 57:33Speaker 1: And they have a girl come up to announce the king.
- 57:37Speaker 1: And Troy and Angus are in the crowd. And they go,
- 57:39Speaker 1: don't have it be Rick. Don't have it be Rick.
- 57:41Speaker 1: Don't have it be Rick. And the girl opens the
- 57:44Speaker 1: envelope and says the Winter Ball King is... Ryan?
- 57:51Speaker 3: Angus Bethune?
- 57:54Speaker 1: And then everyone is in complete stunned silence. Everyone in
- 57:59Speaker 1: the cafeteria turns and stares directly at Angus. And then
- 58:04Speaker 1: Troy yells out, Holy shit!
- 58:09Speaker 3: I also love... He does this shocked face the whole movie,
- 58:12Speaker 3: and I just think it's funny every time.
- 58:14Speaker 1: Oh yeah and the principal starts to clap but no
- 58:18Speaker 1: one else does so he awkwardly stops clapping he doesn't
- 58:21Speaker 1: understand like this is clearly some sort of prank and
- 58:24Speaker 1: then Troy being Troy being the absolute man he goes
- 58:27Speaker 1: and pulls the fire.
- 58:28Speaker 3: Alarm such a wonderful move I love when the principal
- 58:32Speaker 3: is clapping the girl just shakes her head for him
- 58:34Speaker 3: to stop like you said you don't get this no
- 58:38Speaker 3: wonderful like Troy is a god that's what I wrote
- 58:41Speaker 3: my only note on that was that yeah.
- 58:43Speaker 1: And that's where we will leave off. We will continue
- 58:46Speaker 1: this in part two. Angus was just elected basically the
- 58:49Speaker 1: homecoming king. As a prank, he immediately realizes. And we
- 58:53Speaker 1: will continue our Angus conversation and the remainder of the
- 58:57Speaker 1: film in part two. Thank you for listening.
- 59:05Speaker 3: I also completely forgot this was so early in this movie.