Latest / I Am All In with Scott Patterson / Pop Culture Minisode (S4 E14 "The Incredible Sinking Lorelais”)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I am all in you, I am all in with
- 0:18Speaker 1: Scott Patterson and I heart radio podcast Everybody Scott Patterson,
- 0:22Speaker 1: I Am all in Podcast Pop Culture, Season four, Episode fourteen,
- 0:26Speaker 1: The Incredible Shrinking Laurel I or is it Laurel Lies?
- 0:30Speaker 1: Is it Laurel Lie? The Incredible is Laura Lie? Yeah right,
- 0:37Speaker 1: it's Laurel Lines. And I say it and an ass appears.
- 0:42Speaker 1: It's amazing. Janet and Paris. Janet and parents arguing about
- 0:49Speaker 1: Janet's boyfriend hanging out in their college dorm room. Paris,
- 0:56Speaker 1: I should just tell her Asher Flemings my man so
- 0:59Speaker 1: she can compare her circle. Nineteen seventy two Lou Frigno
- 1:03Speaker 1: with Frigno with him, It's a good line. Starting in
- 1:07Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one, Lou Frigno uh started competing in body
- 1:11Speaker 1: building competitions. In seventy two, he placed second in the
- 1:14Speaker 1: World body Building Guild MR America competition. LOUI even won
- 1:19Speaker 1: the International Federation of body Building Fitness MR Universe title
- 1:23Speaker 1: in ninety three, but didn't get cast as the Incredible
- 1:28Speaker 1: Hulk in nineteen seventy seven. He didn't so who back
- 1:34Speaker 1: in the day and this was on the Hulk scared me.
- 1:39Speaker 1: I used to have nightmares. He's turning into the Hulk,
- 1:43Speaker 1: Like I was so terrified at the Incredible Hulk. But
- 1:47Speaker 1: the Hulk in like the Mark Ruffalo Hulk is way
- 1:50Speaker 1: less scary. If you watched The Incredible Hulk from the
- 1:53Speaker 1: seventies and you're a kid, it was a little scary.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Mark Ruffalo turns into the Hulk, or no he does.
- 2:01Speaker 1: He's such a nice guy. How could he be scared
- 2:03Speaker 1: to him? Well, he's so Bruce Banner. But then the Hulk,
- 2:06Speaker 1: I think, is like c G I but mover or no.
- 2:09Speaker 1: That was scary when he when like, um, oh my god,
- 2:11Speaker 1: who played Bruce Banner? Don't tell me? Oh my god,
- 2:14Speaker 1: what was that guy's name? That actor, that famous actor
- 2:17Speaker 1: that played Oh wait a minute, here's a correction from
- 2:20Speaker 1: the staff. And he didn't get cast as the Incredible
- 2:23Speaker 1: Hulk until Hill till seven. Okay, Jackie who played Bruce Banner?
- 2:30Speaker 1: It was yeah, he was famous, wasn't it. The Bill Bixby? Yes,
- 2:36Speaker 1: Oh god, Scott, did I just get you nailed that?
- 2:39Speaker 1: You nailed that Courtship Bavetti's father Bill Bixby, and I
- 2:42Speaker 1: actually googled randomly the other day, did the Hulk ever
- 2:47Speaker 1: get cured? And I think the answer was no. Like
- 2:50Speaker 1: at the end of the remember how sad that was
- 2:52Speaker 1: at the end of the show when they played that
- 2:54Speaker 1: sad music, and like Bruce Banner would walk up or
- 2:59Speaker 1: was it, yeah, Bruce Banner, not David Banner. Shoot, was
- 3:02Speaker 1: it David Banner or Bruce Banner? It was David Banner.
- 3:05Speaker 1: David Banner, okay, And David Banner would walk off with
- 3:08Speaker 1: his like backpack and it was so sad, and You're like,
- 3:11Speaker 1: oh no, he's still the Hoholk and he's just like
- 3:14Speaker 1: off he goes sad. What a show? What a show?
- 3:19Speaker 1: What a show? What it really was? It really? What
- 3:22Speaker 1: a concert? Right? I was watching a ton of old
- 3:25Speaker 1: Wonder Woman the other day. Has such great television in
- 3:29Speaker 1: the seventies. Do yourself a favorite people wonder Woman. In
- 3:35Speaker 1: the sixties, you watch the original Batman. Then you get
- 3:37Speaker 1: to the seventies, you get all that great stuff. Six
- 3:40Speaker 1: million Dollar Man, I mean totally Bionic Woman. Okay. Rory
- 3:45Speaker 1: got a job card swiping dining cards at Yale. Glenn
- 3:50Speaker 1: is getting impatient because she is trying to study and
- 3:53Speaker 1: card swipe and talking on the punk Glenn. Everyone is
- 3:57Speaker 1: going to be sorry one day. Everyone looks off. Rory.
- 4:01Speaker 1: You really gotta stop watching Taxi Driver. Glenn. Roy is
- 4:05Speaker 1: referring to Glenn as the taxi driver character that Robert
- 4:10Speaker 1: De Niro portrayed from the film the same name as
- 4:13Speaker 1: main character Travis is in a decaying mental state of
- 4:16Speaker 1: chronic insomnia and loneliness brought on by post traumatic stress
- 4:22Speaker 1: syndrome from the Vietnam War. UH. Taxi Driver is a
- 4:27Speaker 1: ninety six film by Martin Scorsese story Robert J. Hero.
- 4:31Speaker 1: The scene where Travis Pickele is talking to himself of
- 4:33Speaker 1: the mirror was completely ad libbed by Robert jer you're
- 4:36Speaker 1: talking to me. You're talking to me. I'm the only
- 4:39Speaker 1: one here talking to me. Uh, you must be talking
- 4:42Speaker 1: to me. The screenplay details, Um, Travis looks in the mirror.
- 4:49Speaker 1: That's all the screenplay said. Travis looks in the mirror
- 4:52Speaker 1: and then shocked to know that I've never seen this movie.
- 4:55Speaker 1: You've never seen Taxi Driver. And I'll bet money with
- 4:58Speaker 1: Albert Brooks and sil Shepherd. No, but I love Sibyl
- 5:02Speaker 1: Shepherd and I love Albert Brooks. In was he and
- 5:04Speaker 1: Aaron Brock and Peter Boyle and from Everybody Loves Raymond
- 5:10Speaker 1: Peter oh Man, you gotta you have to see Taxi
- 5:14Speaker 1: Driver was Albert Brooks in No wait, he's not an
- 5:18Speaker 1: Aaron Brockovitch. Just I'm gonna I don't know, but I'm
- 5:23Speaker 1: gonna prepare you when you when you see Taxi Driver.
- 5:25Speaker 1: I'm gonna prepare you for one thing. Okay, Harvey Ky
- 5:27Speaker 1: tells in this now you will watch it because civil
- 5:30Speaker 1: Shepherds and and you gotta see the scene where Robert
- 5:34Speaker 1: de Niro where Travis Bickle gets a date with Sibyl Shepherd,
- 5:40Speaker 1: right with a young Cibyl Shepherd, and where he takes her.
- 5:43Speaker 1: You've got to see the movie just for that scene.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Anyone care? It was Albert Finney in Aaron Brockovich, right, Um, anyway,
- 5:54Speaker 1: that's all that was written in the script. Travis looks
- 5:56Speaker 1: in the mirror, and then de Niro took care of
- 5:58Speaker 1: the rest with his amazing talent. Um Martin Scorsese claims
- 6:03Speaker 1: that he got the inspiration for the scene from Marlon
- 6:06Speaker 1: Brando mouthing words in front of a mirror in Reflections
- 6:10Speaker 1: of a in a Golden Eye from an old Brando film.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Paris is upset again at Janet, saying her boyfriend put
- 6:18Speaker 1: a big crater in the couch when he sat on
- 6:21Speaker 1: at Janet, you're so full of it Paris, Paris, kids
- 6:25Speaker 1: were skateboarding up and down it. Gandalf the Gray is
- 6:29Speaker 1: still falling down it. It was a big hole. Gandalf
- 6:32Speaker 1: as a wizard. In J. R. Tolken's novels The Hobbit
- 6:35Speaker 1: and Lord of the Rings, Paris are referring to Gandalf
- 6:38Speaker 1: falling down the whole the battle with ball Rog and
- 6:43Speaker 1: landing on top of the mountain, as he did in
- 6:45Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings. Lourel I upset at Suki for
- 6:49Speaker 1: not being more involved in the decision making of the
- 6:52Speaker 1: in Laurela Suki, for the past six weeks, I have
- 6:54Speaker 1: taken every meeting. I've been in and out the in
- 6:58Speaker 1: round the clock. I haven't had a second for himself.
- 7:00Speaker 1: And I just asked for one hour to get my
- 7:02Speaker 1: hair done, and then two seconds into the shampoo we
- 7:04Speaker 1: get a phone call from a guy it sounds like
- 7:06Speaker 1: kids in the hall character telling me I have to
- 7:07Speaker 1: get in the end today. Uh to okay a sink
- 7:11Speaker 1: and I wouldn't know how to okay? Because I don't
- 7:13Speaker 1: know what makes it okay. You know what makes it okay,
- 7:17Speaker 1: which is why you said you're gonna be there whether
- 7:19Speaker 1: or not it was okay, all right. The Kids in
- 7:21Speaker 1: the Hall as a Canadian sketch comedy troupe for consisting
- 7:25Speaker 1: of comedians Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mike McKinney,
- 7:30Speaker 1: and Scott Thompson. Uh. Their names came from nineteen fifties
- 7:35Speaker 1: TV sitcom comedians, said Caesar, who would attribute a joke
- 7:40Speaker 1: that did not go over well or played worse than
- 7:45Speaker 1: expecting to the kids in the Hall, referring to a
- 7:48Speaker 1: group of young writers hanging around, I got into it,
- 7:53Speaker 1: so he's he'd tell a bad joke and they go,
- 7:55Speaker 1: that's that's because the kids in the Hall. Uh wrote
- 7:57Speaker 1: a bad joke, alright. Visiting Rory's visiting your professor of
- 8:01Speaker 1: game theory at Yale in his office, making up an
- 8:05Speaker 1: excuse about her notes. Uh Rory, Okay, Well, I have
- 8:09Speaker 1: something down here, but I cannot, for the life of me,
- 8:12Speaker 1: read my own handwriting. Seriously, if I had this analyze,
- 8:16Speaker 1: Shirley's Theron would be playing me in a movie because
- 8:19Speaker 1: I'd be a serial killer and pretty girls like to
- 8:22Speaker 1: get fat play serial killers because they went an oscar
- 8:24Speaker 1: and I'm sorry I should go on. That was that
- 8:31Speaker 1: was pretty funny. Yeah, Rory is referring to charlie's Theron's
- 8:35Speaker 1: role in Monster and Monster. She was in Monster. Yes, yes,
- 8:40Speaker 1: that's the name I felt. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm
- 8:42Speaker 1: thinking of I'm thinking of halle Berry wasn't. Halle Berry
- 8:46Speaker 1: was in Monster's Ball. So both incredibly attractive, very talented
- 8:53Speaker 1: actresses played in films where they were but halle Berry
- 8:57Speaker 1: didn't gain any weight for that. Um anyway, I don't know. Uh.
- 9:01Speaker 1: She's preferring to Charlie Stron's role in Monster as serial
- 9:05Speaker 1: killer Eileen, a prostitute who murdered seven of her male
- 9:11Speaker 1: clients between one year. She whacked seven seven John's the
- 9:18Speaker 1: real Aileen Knows, a notoriously uncooperative person, gave writer and
- 9:25Speaker 1: director Patty Jenkins access to hundreds of letters she had
- 9:28Speaker 1: written and received in order to gain insight into a
- 9:32Speaker 1: Leen's life. Grandma Tricks is criticizing Richard's mustache tricks. It
- 9:42Speaker 1: makes you look like Adolph Mendu was an American actor's
- 9:49Speaker 1: career spanned both silent films and talk as. He appeared
- 9:51Speaker 1: in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris,
- 9:54Speaker 1: where he played the lead role Stanley Kubrick's Passive Glory.
- 9:58Speaker 1: That's right. He was that commanding officer that was on
- 10:01Speaker 1: the side of Kirk Douglas. Um. None of this is meaning. Oh,
- 10:06Speaker 1: you have to see Passive Glory. Passive Glory is one
- 10:09Speaker 1: of the best war films you ever saw. It was
- 10:10Speaker 1: maybe one of the best films Stanley Kubrick ever directed.
- 10:13Speaker 1: I mean really just it's such a fast paced film
- 10:17Speaker 1: and it's so full of tension. Stanley Kubrick lost me
- 10:20Speaker 1: because I watched that Tom Cruise disaster. What the the
- 10:25Speaker 1: eyes wide shut? That was a great film, very watchable film.
- 10:30Speaker 1: I love Tom Cruise more, I really love him. And well,
- 10:33Speaker 1: that's very challenging material for a box office movie starting
- 10:37Speaker 1: to get involved in. But it was a great But
- 10:41Speaker 1: I just want top Gun. Stanley Kubrick, please, thank you.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Wait a minute two thousand one of space on it.
- 10:46Speaker 1: I never saw it. I know I do need to
- 10:48Speaker 1: maybe see that. I never saw clockwork Orange. There's a
- 10:50Speaker 1: lot of things I never saw. The shining I've got
- 10:52Speaker 1: a lot to do. Shining was my least favorite. Stanley
- 10:55Speaker 1: kuber Um anyway, he played uh Stanley Krubridge Pass of
- 11:02Speaker 1: Glory with Kirk Douglas. Great performance by all players. Um.
- 11:07Speaker 1: He had over one d and fifty one film credits
- 11:10Speaker 1: from nineteen sixteen to nineteen sixty one. Tricks Is referring
- 11:13Speaker 1: to Adolfs mustache. The men jew mustache was named after him. Um.
- 11:19Speaker 1: In another very funny tricks line or no, this was
- 11:23Speaker 1: Adjason line, Jason is running away from Grandma Tricks in
- 11:27Speaker 1: Richard's study Laura, I You're hiding from my grandmother, aren't you, Jason?
- 11:32Speaker 1: She is scarier than Nick Nulty's mug shot. That yeah,
- 11:39Speaker 1: that was good. Nick Nalty is an actor known for
- 11:42Speaker 1: movies The Thin Red Line, The Warrior, The Prince of Tides,
- 11:46Speaker 1: and Affliction. In two thousand and two, Nulty was arrested
- 11:49Speaker 1: on suspicion of drunk driving after he was pulled over
- 11:52Speaker 1: in Malibu, California. When Nulty was put in cuffs and
- 11:57Speaker 1: taken to the police station, he had a post from
- 11:59Speaker 1: mug shot that would go down in history, and there
- 12:03Speaker 1: it is. Grandma tricks Is asking Laurelai about her financial state.
- 12:09Speaker 1: And assuming she is in financial trouble with opening the
- 12:13Speaker 1: in Tricks, unless your partner is a Rockefeller, you are
- 12:16Speaker 1: in serious financial trouble. Uh. As we know, John D.
- 12:21Speaker 1: Rockefeller was an oil magnet and one of the richest
- 12:23Speaker 1: men in American history. And why did he become so rich?
- 12:28Speaker 1: Do you know this? Berkeley? Berkeley? Hello Berkeley? Yeah, I'm
- 12:34Speaker 1: thinking are you sleeping again in the back of the class.
- 12:37Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the Rockefeller Why? Why did
- 12:40Speaker 1: he become so rich? He was? He was rich? And
- 12:41Speaker 1: then give me a minute. Do you know what the
- 12:43Speaker 1: government did to him? They broke up his company and
- 12:47Speaker 1: so he he broke it up into twenty four different
- 12:50Speaker 1: LLC's and guess what he became twenty five times richer,
- 12:55Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Tricks is comparing her not having
- 12:57Speaker 1: money like John D. Rockefeller. Uh, when Rocket Fellers was
- 13:04Speaker 1: at its wealth, is his money equals Uh his money
- 13:08Speaker 1: equal to three hundred eighteen billion in two days money? Wow,
- 13:13Speaker 1: that's that's pretty darn good. Now there are one hundred
- 13:17Speaker 1: and fifty descendants, uh, and which some still run Rockefeller
- 13:22Speaker 1: and Company. Well, well, well, then we learned something about
- 13:28Speaker 1: this episode. Next episode is they skip Selene dion I
- 13:34Speaker 1: think we've done her a couple of times before. It's
- 13:37Speaker 1: like where it's like it was, okay, I hope she
- 13:41Speaker 1: gets better. We love Yeah, I don't know what's going on.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Is ill? What is it called stiff person syndrome joints
- 13:52Speaker 1: her joints or stiffening or something like that, honor, I don't. Well,
- 13:56Speaker 1: we send her the best and she's an extremely gifted
- 13:59Speaker 1: person and wonderful personality, wonderful person, super funny. I love her.
- 14:04Speaker 1: I love her too, so speedy recovery and all the
- 14:08Speaker 1: best to Celine dion. Um. Anyway, that's gonna that's gonna
- 14:12Speaker 1: do it for pop culture kids. I hope you enjoyed
- 14:15Speaker 1: it and we will see you next time. Best fans
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- 14:34Speaker 1: they did have some harsh comments on them, like they
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- 15:17Speaker 1: this one's so good, you guys, this one's so good.
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