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Alone at Weirdingwaymedia dot com weird Welcome
back to midnight Viewing. I'm your host,

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Father Malone. Welcome back to midnight
Viewing Anthologies. Tac Antonio Lapour is

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on location filming. That's true.
But in his stead we have a very

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very special guest. This is an
actor and a director and a producer and

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of late an author, mister Christopher
John featherol Is. If you bought any

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airwalks in the nineteen nineties, it
was probably due to this fella. Chris

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wyt to introduce yourself. Say hi
to the midnight viewers. Hello midnight viewers.

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Yeah, that is true. I
had a nickname of Bigtail there for

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a while due to that airwork commercial. Well, thank you for having me

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on. I appreciate it. You
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me in a nutshell. Thank you
so much. Hey man. You know

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that's that's not nearly enough of the
facets of who you are and what you

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are in this world. But I'm
happy to give them the cliffs Notes versions.

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Remember Cliff's Notes, you and you
probably, but the kids today don't

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they even have textbooks today. I
don't even know. I don't know.

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I'm so out of the loop and
I don't care to know. And that's

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the problem. I'm the problem.
Chris is on board tonight for a very

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special episode This is Our Is this
our first comedy anthology? Oh? My

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god, I think it is?
And got to start at the top,

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I guess because we're doing Monty Python's
The Meaning of Life? Tired of questioning

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your own existence? Not much happened
at the moment, is there now?

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In a special limited offer, don't
stand that call bing No, you've never

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seen undercop before. The meaning of
life can be yours. Yes, it's

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all here and you. Unabridged translation
by Monty Python, Comy What's it all

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about? Philosophy? Ah, that
sounds wonderful? Is that a sport?

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No, it's more of an attempt
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meaning of life, including why you
were born? And what are you doing?

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Small? It's a birth? Wonderful
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do? Nothing? Dear? You're
not qualified? Why things don't always work

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out? The mill's closed way destitute? I've got no option but to sell

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you all for scientific experiments. What
dreams means? Wouldn't you like to know?

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Let's just say this. Why people
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hurt you? Why you like sex? Sex? Sex sex? Why wary?

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How to talk to waiters? Good
afternoon? Seven? How are we

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today? Better? Bucket? Where
diseases come from? Hello? Can we

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have a fact? You know?
Sir? It's reddish brown? It's sort

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of yeah, yeah, I know
that it is, but I'm using it?

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And why we've all got to go
sometime? This is mister death cravy.

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Well, let's cast rather a gloom
over the evening, hasn't it?

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Then We've said much about the meaning
of life, so farever, don't let

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the meaning of life? Why are
we pass you by? He ever wanteds

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to know what it's saw us.
O's gonna really let Monty Python explain it

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for for you in the film that
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death after life. Don't take a
why? Yes, the meaning of collect

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because before we get to all the
Shenanigans of Monty Python's their history, your

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history with them, our history with
them together. I don't know. Tell

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me about the book you've just written. Is it in any way involving dragons?

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You know it does. That's a
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done your research. Yes, it's
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It is Lizard versus Wizard. It's
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pile of fun. Why in twenty
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the Wizard before? I know?
Right? That's sounding good for you,

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Thank you, thank you. Yeah. No, it's a book about whose

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point of view are we taking here? Well, this is kind of the

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fun thing with it, and I
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than me will probably be able to
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know of any other books or movies
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culture where it takes the perspective of
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POV. Dragon POV that already sold, by the way, Chris, in

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addition to the lizard wizard thing.
Yeah, why hasn't there been a popular

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entertainment told from the dragon's point of
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Please continue? What's the story about? All right? So we're with the

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dragon starts a little tragic. The
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her her home, her mate,
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By the way, can we swear
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Yeah? Oh, I don't know
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zephyr ignitis. You know. When
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on the war path. She goes
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down this wizard and take them out. But along the way she makes some

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friends. So she gathers her little
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out find some strange new land,
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big fire breathe in magic battles.
You know why no one came up with

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lizard versus wizard because they weren't thinking
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like the way you think. Man, Yeah, you're right. I want

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to watch some wizards burn. Well, you could listen to them, and

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I do the audio book as well. You know, usually usually it's the

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dragons whose time has passed. But
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think, right, Yeah, for
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And it's fun too, because you
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know, in our world, in
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as this big, terrifying monster beast. In her world, she's the great

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protector of all things and can't even
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a terrifying thing. She sa,
hey, man, but no, wizard's

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gotta kill wizard's got to take out
the dragons. So this wizard's name,

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what's that? It's this wizard's name
Zeohazen. Okay, I'm gonna write that

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down. I'm gonna write a letter
against him. Yeah, no, you're

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gonna write a letter speaking of how
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Er, Right, you gotta choose. Wait, you on the side of

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the lizard of the wizard. I
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said you've got an audible version.
There's an audio book out there. Yeah,

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and if you do what kindle unlimited, it's free. You can just

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go on there right now, look
up Last of the Giant Fire Lizards and

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start flipping pages. God, that
sounds so wonderful and easy. And where

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else can we get this book?
Amazon's the place. It's exclusive Amazon and

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fantastic. Now, maybe you don't
even need to leave your computer or your

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phone or however you're listening to this. The device in your hand can get

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you a dragon story from the dragon's
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stop what you're doing and read that. Keep this podcast open on its own

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little window. But now you can
come back to this man, this is

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is pre recorded. They need to
live that live, you know what I

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mean? Stop and pay attention our
shenaniganst will wait, that's true, that's

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true, Chris further off, and
I meant back in what nineteen ninety five

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four sounds by right? Yeah?
We were projections now, we were projectionists

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at the New Wilshire Theater in Santa
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Euclid Street mentor oh no, I
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showed movies together and that was a
lot of fun. Two screenhouse then owned

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by Landmark Theaters. It's now a
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but yeah, no longer, no
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these cinemas here in La now a
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it and saw that there was a
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and this was the last time he
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for real, it really hurt,
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beautiful theater. It was an old
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back there. There was a backstage
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fun at that backstage area. I
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filled with old canisters of old films. We had an original print of I

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believe Alien back there. We had
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We had the Seven Samurai. No
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we did? Where was I?
You were yet employed? This predates you

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when we were sort of still putting
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were loading those prints in. Man
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nostalgic, and I'm not being nostalgic. It was a good time. I'm

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happy I'm living right now though,
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the sort of right before the fall
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it, yeah, and touching it
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of cellulide. I did too.
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posted some silly plug in the book, you know, some of my old

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old lives, and one being a
projectionist that I went. You know,

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I bet I could still threat up
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It just absolutely that never goes away, you know. Yeah, remember

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this trick. There's a hair in
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fingers, put a drop on one
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Hey gang, Hey, everybody listening. You know when you see in

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the old movies the cartoon and they
put in the hair in like what is

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the hair like? That's how you
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projection's tricks of the trade. There's
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still has thirty five Yeah, I
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a platter. I think they got
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all left no. I know back
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there's a Coolidge Corner. Still this
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that. I think we now,
no, we don't have one here in

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Las Vegas, but we do have
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or you know, calendar, let's
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So that's a step in the right
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In rewatching this movie, I was
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love with thirty five millimeter film grain, the type of stock they're using here

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in England in nineteen eighty two.
There's just something so specific and you just

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want to grab a hold of it, right like, yeah, yeah,

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it still feels I mean, there's
a datedness to it because they're doing you

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know, some kind of period bitch
throughout, but it does still feel incredibly

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vibrant and I mean gorgeous. It
doesn't the cinema, oh fucking a cinematographer

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here. I know every technicality in
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The filmmaking in general is fantastic.
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of dive into the nuts and bolts, because I'm sure we both have a

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lot to say because this is just
one of those movies. How did this

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movie first come into your life?
How did Monty Python first come into your

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life? And in addition, meaning
of life? Right? Yeah, I

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know that's tough, but it is. I mean, there was a period

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of my life in high school,
so this goes all the way back to

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you know, some of my first
introductions to comedy was Monty Python. For

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me, it started Charlie Chaplin,
a little bit of Stooges, you know,

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but by the time I'm twelve or
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I want to say. It was
Holy Grail. That must have been

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my inst It's most people's entry level
drug. Yeah right, but there was

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such a I had a buddy,
you remember, I'm gonna give him a

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shout out, mister Jeff Mattis you
remember, my God, of course,

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I remember Jeff Mattens. Grew up
together and that was one of our first

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real big bondings. We memorized sketches
from Flying Circus together and would quote them

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on the way back to school and
you know all that. So it's hard

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to say what really was the first
thing. It feels like all of it

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all at once was just right.
Oh, I know, it's such a

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flood because once you get once you
get hold of any of it, you

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want all of it. And there
was so much out there. Yeah.

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And then so then going through some
of the you know, rewatching something like

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Meeting of Life, you really see
that, like, I mean, the

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style is just clear that you know, they have some tricks that they do

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over and over again that are incredibly
funny, and they're aware of, oh

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how do we top the trick and
twist it? So there's a great I

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think Meeting of Life is kind of
this build up of what they do to

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okay, our sketch work at least, or I don't know, you could

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just see the history through it.
But what was the question question first Community

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of Life? I think you kind
of answered it to a team getting into

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Holy Grail there. I think they
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be, and that comedy became our
comedy. And I still see it,

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and I mean you'll see it when
you read the book. You'll see a

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lot of it in there. You
go that, yeah, wait, no,

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I always got that bit of a
vibe from you anyway. Yeah,

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A python leaning, Yeah, for
sure. What was your into the Hole?

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It was the Python's the Meaning of
Life? Oh is this? Oh

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goodness? Well, this movie came
out of nineteen eighty three. By nineteen

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eighty four, I was eleven years
old and this was on cable and I

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watched it a lot. How many
times have you seen it? I could

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not calculate. Oh really, okay, yeah, sincerely. It's one of

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those. And you know, it's
funny. This is a phenomenon I've been

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noticing lately because I listened to a
lot of podcasts and a lot of movie

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podcasts, and sometimes people are like, oh my god, that's crazy.

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like twenty. Like if I fall
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on a loop, right, I
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then I renting videotapes and so what's
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wise was and Now for Something completely
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television. It's a real cheat of
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see just a little bit something different, just like a whole different take sometimes

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and a touch of higher production quality, you know, a little more money

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for that. Yeah. But what's
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seems hampered because it's not them directing. They have an outside director, so

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it still feels straight and television bound, even though they've got a higher budget.

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the series, I think he was
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that makes perfect sense. Yeah,
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until Holy Grail and then it was
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death and that that movie is gorgeous. But you can tell there are two

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arring parties in that one, right. Yeah. But I think we can

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all agree that Life of Brian is
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sure. And here's my fun story
about Life of Brian. So I met

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my height of Monty Python Craze and
I take a little break, I decided

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to go down to the video store
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Flash Gordon. Now I'm late to
the game on the Flash Gordon. You

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know you're never too late for Flash
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in the first ten minutes theme song
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is a fairly religious household that I'm
growing up. My father says to me,

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what is this song, Flash Savior
of the Universe. No, no,

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no, no, turn this off
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I try to explain it to her, and I'm a little more down to

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earth. Okay, fine, mom. So I walked down to the video

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store, and this is when I
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Let me rent that and see that
one flew right over her head and it

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is And the whole time Auggle's hands
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to walk in the room and go
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yeah, perfect felt, and what a

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perfect story. I love that.
That's what got you there. That'sh being

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the Savior of the universe was too
too blasphemous, too blasphemous, So let's

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downgrade and go to life. Abro. They follow up. They follow up

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Life of Brian with Hollywood Bowl.
Yeah again seeing too many times, and

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but you know, it feels good
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it's still not quite it right,
It's not what we're looking for. Not

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coming off of Holy Grail and Life
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if you haven't read his book,
I'm speaking to the everyone here. If

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you haven't read Michael Palin's he's published
his his Dye from eighty two to eighty

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nine, Halfway to Hollywood, and
he describes everything and every time they wanted

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to do a movie, it was
and we all know this a hard scramble

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to find the fucking financing to get
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nineteen eighty two, MGM says,
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thousand dollars do whatever you want.
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to abandon it, yeah, and
it's Terry Jones who sort of comes in

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and has a leveler Welsh head and
gets them back to the table and their

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initial script is going to be the
movie is going to be called The seventh

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stages. Mad. It's going to
be one character and we're going to fall

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him through the seven stages of his
life. That character is supposed to be

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played by Terry Jones. I don't
know when the switch comes where they're just

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like, fuck it, let's do
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they did. Yeah, this is
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they fucking go back to the well, but do it in a narrative format.

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political, religious, wonderful statement for
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their instincts, all of their comedy. But this is almost a perfect meld

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of we're going to tell long form
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work together in a way that feels
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they buffer it with Okay, here's
our short film presentation, which is very

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Maudy Python to just break a fourth
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great glue to piece those two things
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pomping at midway through, right,

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just yeah, and then bringing all
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there's a feeling of okay, this
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to this and it is kind of
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a we're well aware of that and
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See what what I love about it
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Life of Brian is, but it's
about them. They each sort of allow

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themselves to go out and do their
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go off and make a fucking short
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keeps filming. It was supposed to
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minutes at least. It's totally absurd. I now I was a little too

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young to snuck in at this point. We have seen it in the theater,

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but I could imagine going in blind
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Life and this coming on. I
guarantee you you know you know this,

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you've worked in theaters. The poor
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it's just it's part of the movie. Go back. It's already started.

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This is not a fifteen times and
I know it's okay. Go back

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in. It's part it's part I
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and they you know, and they
with it. They immortalize this.

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Like something that I think there's been
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in our lifetime, is this.
Oh you get the featurette and then maybe

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the little advertisement, you know,
the cartoon and then this and then the

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that, like it was a whole
train of entertainment leading up to the big

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whatever. So they kind of give
you that experience again with us too.

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Yeah, and that's an experience that
was just we just missed it, right,

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It's the one we've been chasing our
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So yeah, it's wonderful when they
could do something like that. Grindhouse

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did something similar to that where they
give us trailers and between trailers and go

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to the snack bar, and shit, you want that experience when you go

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to I know, we tried to
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at all possible, I would throw
in that John Waters no smoking ad remember

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that, remember of beauty? Yeah? Yeah, I think yeah, And

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I love it when I think Deadpool
doing some of that now, like they're

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doing the cell phone ad in front
and whatnot, so like, yeah,

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that's great, and that's cinema history, like that's stuff that like now that

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has gone and you can't even go
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So yeah, oh man, let's
let's okay, let's just start at

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the top. Let's talk Crimson Permanent
Insurance. Everyone knows Monty Python and they

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don't need to get into it further
into that, but this is just a

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lovely end to their careers. No, I mean, this is a lovely

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end to Monty Python. Yeah,
because everything else is just you know,

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the Contractual Obligation album and this and
that and Little Specialists and stuff and it's

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cute and all CD ROMs, but
like this is their last thing together.

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Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Crimson
Permanent Assurance. What are your thoughts on

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Crimson Permanent Assurance, sir? I
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I think before we even get into
this, you said this is the first

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comedy anthology that you're doing. Yeah, man, is this also the first

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musical anthology that you're doing, because
this is really a musical film as well.

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I agree with you on that,
and this is our first musical as

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well. Even had a musical segment
of a thing there you go. Yeah,

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and very Monty Python too. They've
always been good with the songs.

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There's moments within the Crimson short that
I'm thinking, if this is all there

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is, like, I'm fired with
that. Pirates and corporators, this is

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fantastic. I wanted a sequel,
Yeah, for sure. I love that

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they reprised them too, that we
get to that we get to see just

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moments before the big, you know, finale of through. But so there's

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so much that goes on, and
that just the the very big Corporation of

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America. I mean it's almost like
you gotta go frame by frame to kind

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of hit all these jokes, and
I ended up rewalking. Now, I

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haven't seen this one as many as
you have. I'm under a dozen with

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with us what, which makes me
sound like a nube. But the more

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that you go through the like,
the more that I watched these, the

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more there's jokes with between the jokes. So catching some of those is pretty

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fun on these on these reviewings.
So I think my favorite bits from it

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are the using the environment to create
their own weapons, the fan blades that

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become swords, and the I don't
even have the note sticky thing that you

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tack notes to and then put a
little stamp on the end of it.

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Yeah, just fantastic. He would
do that like throughout this is that was

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going to be when they're when they
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little note spindles, and and I
remembered, uh, there was a sketch

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he had done for Fisher King when
he was trying to figure out who a

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parry character was going to look like. And it was the shot of what

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was drawing of him like on one
knee holding up his sword, and the

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sword itself you could tell was the
emblem of a buick. That's awesome.

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Yeah, so the obvious this is
on Gilliam's mind, the repurpose, Yeah,

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trash becoming or different things becoming different
things. Yeah, which yeah is

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probably you know, I probably should
have started there with time Bandits and its

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preceded this. Yeah, twelve Monkeys, those are in my pantheon of some

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of the greatest epp And well you
can't I mean Brazil saying yeah, yeah,

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do you know, speaking of our
time at the New Wheelshure, the

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their first film I projected was the
reissue of Brazil. Yeah, so that

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we must have screened that again or
something, I feel likely did it became

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a yeah, yeah that was magnificent. What what a fucking fantastic movie,

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mister. You know, look,
he could have done nothing else but that,

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and he'd be secure. See the
pieces of everything else in Brazil.

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Right, there's almost a oh I
figured it out finally, Like here's the

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story I'm trying to Yeah, yeah, it makes me want to weep.

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It's so good, you know.
Okay, so this is Crimson Permanent Assurance

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is. First of all, we
started started out animated. I guess it

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was just a regulatory gilliame thing,
and then asked well could I just do

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this as a short and they said
yeah, that's fine, and then he

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just kept it like like whoops,
what did I do? Like, come

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on, man, like, did
I make my own movie? Yeah?

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You took a sizeable person, made
this short film for yourself, you know,

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just testing ship out in between time
bandits and fucking so a little side

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project. Yeah, I mean you
say it started as animated. I caught

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this time around. It's acme stone
cutting is on the sales, so like

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there's a little like hey cartoon nod
right out the gate. Yeah right,

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we're a little quite honestly, they
do kind of you know, if you

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put together the ministry of silly walks
and slapping people off the dock with a

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fish, they are kind of the
Looney Tubes, you know, they're the

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human British Looney Tunes, and police
might be the bugs, you know,

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yeah, man. And that's what
always delights me about their comedy is there

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are so many points of view there
and they're all sort of equally good at

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different types of comedy, like some
might shine higher than others, but like

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they can all do it. I
today really sent my mind to figure out

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who my favorite Python is. Now
seems to be an obvious answer, but

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then you think and you go,
well yes, and it all no,

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there's no thinking. It's I'm picking
this one and then whatever the next one

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you think of, you go,
oh no, but him, oh no,

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but him. And I think at
the time that this movie came out,

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it was Eric Idel, Eric Idol
for me, because he's the fucking

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the musical one. He seems incredibly
clever, just like like you, you

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just want to I don't know,
you want him as a friend man.

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He would be like hanging out with
a cartoon character, but a refined cartoon

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character could also do the silliest things
on earth. He has my favorite line

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of dialogue from any of Monty Python, which is back in Flying Circus,

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and it's a stupid non secretary joke
where he comes on and says what's brown

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and sounds like a bell dung every
time. That's the delivery too, because

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it's a silly joke, but it's
his delivery. The joke is worthless without

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the how debonair, he always seems
to be doing things. Yeah, it

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was Eric Idle then, but I
think I've come around to Terry Jones.

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Really. There's just something so disarming
about him. And when I think of

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his work outside Python, he wrote
Labyrinth, he wrote it. Yeah,

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I didn't know that. Yeah.
And then he made Eric the Viking.

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H's is so good. And then
he's all those like medieval documentaries and he's

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he just seems sweet and funny and
Welsh. He got a lot of Welsh.

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It might be the nice one,
yeah, but like and then he

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directs this and I think of their
movies. I mean, I love the

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look of Holy Grail, But I
think this is the best directed mood.

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That is a tough call. It
might be with the some of the dance

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numbers that they have in there.
I think I'm thinking specifically, I'm thinking

406
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:26.240
of every sperm as sacred h that
sequence. I could watch it over and

407
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:27.920
over again. It's as good as
anything that came out of Hollywood in the

408
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:32.039
Golden Age, I would agree.
I Yeah, I was thinking to myself

409
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:33.880
that, like, as far as
you're talking to musical anthologies, I was

410
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:38.240
like, this kicks Singing in the
rains ass Man is a disjointed mess.

411
00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:42.000
Like I mean, that's all good
pieces, but like there, come on,

412
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:45.119
do you remember Singing in the Rain
played at our theater And Meryl Streep

413
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.079
came in with her daughter and they
went and sat in theater. Meryl Streep

414
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:52.240
came out and got candy, and
then she went back in, and then

415
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:53.799
she came back out and got popcorn. She went back in, she came

416
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:56.880
back out and got like a hot
dog. And I was standing at the

417
00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.720
counter and I said, well,
you're a big eater, and she gave

418
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.519
me the dirtiest look and said,
this is all from my daughter, and

419
00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:11.960
then went back into the Venner,
Terry Jones direction of the movie, which

420
00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:17.480
the musical portion of the of the
movie, like like that sequence is fantastic.

421
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:21.880
And here's the thing, Like the
other movies are fantastically directed, but

422
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:25.920
they are more narratives. So I'm
more impressed with Jones on his own here

423
00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:30.319
because he's given dozens of genres that
he has to hop through. We go

424
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.359
to World War, We're fighting the
Zulu battles in Africa at one point,

425
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.240
very seamless going between one to the
other. It's, you know, kid

426
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:40.640
cover and head and then oh now
we're in war, you know, and

427
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.160
the same pulling out of the same
guy. You know. Yeah, as

428
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:48.039
cinematic as anything that Gilliam's doing,
except it doesn't have that sheen of fairytale

429
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:52.519
on top of it. Yeah,
yeah, I'd agree. I think they

430
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.039
do play. Like I said,
I'm a big chaplain and old school sylent

431
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.319
movie guy too, and I think
Python is always understood that, and maybe

432
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:05.799
Terry specifically, And I think of
things like where you set the camera up

433
00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:07.559
and you let the actors and the
comedy do its thing, and it doesn't

434
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:10.759
have to be about quick cutting and
moving around. And there's things like the

435
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:14.960
jumping to the end now, but
like the death coming off the cliff,

436
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:17.319
and it's just this upshot from the
grave, everybody in the rim and everybody's

437
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:22.559
got their little behavior, and it's
that you get a lot of comedy in

438
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:24.920
one shot. And it's pick your
composure, you know, pick your shot.

439
00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:30.880
Yeah, but not agree with more
that. Yeah, like that shot,

440
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:35.599
just the holding while Death is making
his way to the cabin. Just

441
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:40.680
the sort of sparse and lonely footage
that we can jump around. It doesn't

442
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.720
matter. I mean, life is
full of choices. We when we get

443
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:51.079
to the death, we'll get to
the initial portion of death. But the

444
00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:57.079
main bit of it is here at
this English sort of cabin and a dinner

445
00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:01.039
party being thrown. Death shows up. It's as look, it's a hilarious

446
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:05.640
sequence, but the scene itself is
as tense and as well directed as anything

447
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.319
that was coming out of Hammer or
Amicus in the seventies. It really feels

448
00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:14.960
eerie and some and like a great
easy practical effect that Stow worts to this

449
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:17.079
day of death crossing through the table
in the middle of the room to kind

450
00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:22.400
of prove that I am dead.
Oh, just from the way you frame

451
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.160
it, it looks like he's walking
through a table. You know, it's

452
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:28.799
great. We don't need to see
the skull and the flaming eyes. It's

453
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:32.640
just a fucking skeleton. He's got
skeleton hands. Man. They were so

454
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.559
proud of the articulation of those hands
when they figured out that they could make

455
00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:44.599
it squeeze the balls. Yeah.
Do you know how dumb I am?

456
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:47.680
I hadn't. I did not realize
that that was John Clee says death.

457
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.359
I figured it out this last time
around. There was one. There was

458
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:54.839
I can't even remember the word,
but there was a word in there where

459
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:58.519
I went, oh, that's Clee's
And of course it is, because where

460
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:04.039
is he in the scene? That
was one thought follows the other exactly like,

461
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.719
oh, it's Clease, Oh yeah, where is he? Yeah,

462
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:10.840
Gilliam is in the scene, and
Clease isn't in the scene. I wonder

463
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:17.519
who's my favorite gigantic death? What
Gilliam as the dumb American is kind of

464
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:21.639
my favorite thing in that scene of
just let me ask you something here.

465
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.320
For so many years I had no
idea who that human was, just because

466
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:30.519
I started watching it at eleven,
and then you go, when I started

467
00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.880
watching Flying Circus. He's not on
Flying Circus, but a few times he's

468
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:38.239
mostly the animator. Yeah. So
seeing this guy, I'm like, well,

469
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:40.719
he's just might be one of these
actors they work with from time to

470
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.840
time. But no, no,
that's of course co Python And he's great

471
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:52.239
in the scene. Mister death,
mister death, shut up you. I

472
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:55.400
love this thought of the English of
us. You Americans. You always talk.

473
00:34:55.480 --> 00:35:00.760
You Americans just talk and you say
and I just want to say this

474
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:07.960
one thing, it dead now to
shut up. And it's kind of a

475
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.880
perfect takedown, like yeah, I
mean he goes after the English as well,

476
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.880
the English as well. For me
watching it today, I realized it

477
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:19.400
was Cleee on the line. Wow
when she just missed her death. It

478
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:21.400
was like, oh, that's clease, that's what it is. Yeah,

479
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:27.039
because he's the yes, he's the
yes whatever, like in the birth scenes.

480
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.119
Yeah, o my god. The
mother the World War One sequence,

481
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:38.559
man fighting against man demonstrated his you
bastard. Nobody says bastard better than John.

482
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:44.719
Please. If I could have him
say it to someone once in my

483
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:46.880
life, I would never say the
word again, you know, just if

484
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:52.480
he was with me, just retire
it, you know. I go okay,

485
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:53.760
I promise I'll never use the word
again. Thank you for that.

486
00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:58.039
I kind of wanted. I wanted
him in full Faulty Towers mode, doing

487
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:01.000
like a GPS for me. Take
a right, no, the on the

488
00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:05.960
right. You know, Oh it's
not too late. Somebody makes that happen.

489
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.599
Angry John Clie, you always seem
the angriest of the group. Yeah,

490
00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:15.840
I already seemed to agree that he
was all right, heard it?

491
00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:21.079
What's your favorite sequence in this movie? I'm wondering, Oh, good god,

492
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.199
you're gonna make me pick right?
You do? Do you know?

493
00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:28.320
I've been listening to a few podcasts
about this movie, and the consensus seems

494
00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:31.519
to be that it's not all that
funny. I would defy everyone to go

495
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:37.719
to it. Yeah, go fuck
yourself, man, because I every scene

496
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.079
in this movie makes me laugh,
with the exception of one, and I've

497
00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:47.400
never liked it, which is middle
age middle age where where they're having a

498
00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:53.079
conversation about philosophy. This conversation isn't
very good. That's equal okay, that

499
00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:57.519
bad? Yeah? Yeah, because
the organ transplant I think starts middle age.

500
00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:04.400
Yeah yeah, no, that's amazing
and very classic classic Python, even

501
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.559
with a blood Spray. Do you
know my favor I'll give you that.

502
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:12.320
I was trying to, Yeah,
that that does seem to be this kind

503
00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:14.519
of talking point that people throw out
as like, oh, this is the

504
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:21.880
lesser of their films. And I
mean I may have thought that too on

505
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:25.119
the first viewing or so, because
in comparison at the end, yeah,

506
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.159
you know, but in reviewing you
go, well, make the list,

507
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.400
like, what are the jokes that
killed you? Okay, well, Crimson

508
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.639
Pirate it starts off, so that's
fifteen minutes of funny right off the top,

509
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:40.119
So that part's okay. Then we're
into every sperma sacred, so that's

510
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:44.400
brilliant, you know, And you
start going through the legs. I'm an

511
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:49.239
hour fifteen in and I'm laughing my
ass off, and even the goofy like

512
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:55.159
the tigers eating his leg, like, it's still pretty goddamn funny. That

513
00:37:55.280 --> 00:38:00.239
might be my favorite scene. That
one has grown so much on me that

514
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:06.239
like it on its face, it
feels like another kind of this is what

515
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:07.719
we do. We go, oh, you got bit by something, mosquito,

516
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:10.360
Oh got the whole leg, you
know, and it feels like,

517
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:15.079
all right, this is just you
know, more Monty Python doing its old

518
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:17.360
stick. But now there's a lot
going on in there. There's some break

519
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:21.119
into the fourth wall there. I
mean one of the probably one of my

520
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:23.000
favorite lines is, oh, we
better put together a party. What you

521
00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:25.679
really think there's time for that?
No search parties, all right? Right?

522
00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:30.199
Right? And that it's that flip
flop that they do that is just

523
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:37.320
glorious and timed so beautifully every time, not to mention just the practical effect

524
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:42.079
of the cylinder who's been sliced into
pieces sliding apart like something in a Saw

525
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:46.119
movie these days, or like one
of the greatest practicals. It's always startling.

526
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:51.079
I'm always waiting for it, you
know, like, yeah, down

527
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:55.079
you go, piece by piece.
Yeah. And I mean we should probably

528
00:38:55.079 --> 00:39:00.000
shout out to the sheer number of
insane extra scenes. You know, we

529
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:06.440
start with thousands of children dancer,
and then we're getting into like fights with

530
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:12.679
Zulu warriors where they're just constantly battling
in the background while they're shaving, Like,

531
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:19.519
yeah, that had a studio behind
them and he utilized it. I

532
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:21.920
feel like there was a like,
what, we still have some money left?

533
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:24.119
Can we get some more kids?
You know? Do you know it's

534
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:29.960
funny. Evidently he spent a far
too large portion of the budget on the

535
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:35.719
every sperm iss Sacred sequence and withheld
that information from the rest of the group.

536
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:38.840
And so what if that were the
only thing that came out of this

537
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:43.559
experience, it would be worth it. It would still be a viral today

538
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:45.320
on the Internet. It's gonna be
like, oh, have you seen Sperma

539
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:52.760
Sacred? I mean, you know, Life of Brian is a very wonderful,

540
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:57.920
sort of damning take on the sort
of vagaries of organized religion. But

541
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:04.800
having grown up Roman Catholic, this
one grabbed me right where I lived and

542
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:12.960
in a lot of ways made me
sort of reevaluate how the Bible in God

543
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:19.960
was being disseminated to me. And
absolutely it made me. It turned me

544
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.679
into a Martin Luther. Not that
I'm Protestant, but not only this scene,

545
00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:28.559
but then we get a slice of
Protestantism, not only in the sort

546
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:32.639
of dialogue between how sex between Graham
Chapman and Eric Idol about how sexless they

547
00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.480
are, but we get that chapel
scene, which is my other favorite joke

548
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:39.599
in the movie, the prayer that
Michael Palin is doing. It made me

549
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:45.920
think about that that really is every
prayer, isn't it. It's just ooh

550
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:50.239
you are so great, You're absolutely
huge. Gosh, we're all really impressed

551
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.719
down here, I can tell you. I know you think we're sucking up,

552
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:58.039
but really it's just because you're that
great. Yeah. Yeah. And

553
00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:00.199
then the complete opposite of that when
they go to the is it the final

554
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:05.639
prayer? The final song is we're
terrified of you? Yes, please don't

555
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:15.440
boil us and smash us. The
better absurdity and like that's all Jones.

556
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:19.079
But you know, back to every
sperm is sacred, so that one is,

557
00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:22.280
like I said a little more pointed, it's very much about the Roman

558
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:27.440
Catholic idea that you shouldn't wear a
prophylactic to stop procreating, which is absolutely

559
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:36.000
ridiculous, making sperm sacred, and
then turning it into a musical number using

560
00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:39.280
the children who have to be sold
off to medical experiments because they're so plentiful

561
00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:45.119
that they can no longer afford to
feed them. At the end of all

562
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.320
that absurdity, the dragon comes into
it, speaking of you. It's so

563
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.840
gluten, so good you're here,
Because that is my favorite part of that

564
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:58.039
sequence, when the fucking dragon comes
out into the parade of Every Sperm is

565
00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:00.440
safety. Oh my god, it
kills every time here all of a sudden.

566
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:07.320
It's a Chinese dede to anyone who
says this movie is not funny,

567
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.960
man, go jumping a lake.
It's for real to turn that's sort of

568
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:16.880
like, you know, religioso political
hot potato into one of the funniest things

569
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:22.800
and also again one of the better
musical sequences from the nineteen eighties. Anyway,

570
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:29.079
Oh at least yeah, And I
mean you might need to stack it

571
00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:31.960
up to some other like real leal
musicals. I think it holds. I

572
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:36.960
think it holds itself in that department. It beats anything in best little whorehouse

573
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:40.599
in Texas. I'll say that for
sure. Little Shop of Horrors. Maybe

574
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:45.360
that's that's a tough fun because that's
yeah, but any other like Annie,

575
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:50.719
get me, come on, I
got a soft spart in my heart frame.

576
00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:52.400
We all do. And we all
love John Houston, come on,

577
00:42:52.480 --> 00:43:00.920
man, come on, Every sperm
And then I love the kids trying to

578
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:04.480
argue them out of selling them off
the medical experiments too of like, well,

579
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:07.719
can't you just cut them off?
I mean, isn't it no God

580
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:12.880
knows every trick. Evidently a lot
of adr in that scene because there were

581
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.920
so many kids python being sensitive to
that, they just had them say on

582
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:21.039
their lines in eighty yard it later
really so that kid didn't say, can't

583
00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:23.679
you have your balls cut off?
And Michael Palin did not say if I

584
00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:27.400
could wear a little rubber thing on
the end of my cock, He said

585
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:30.079
like on the end of my sock
or something like that. Yeah. Yeah,

586
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:32.000
so they did the whole vacuum fuck
you kind of thing. Yeah,

587
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:37.719
yeah, that's great. Well,
that's I see. And you can tell

588
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:42.119
that there's a little bit of you
know, social consciousness to them or whatnot.

589
00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:45.000
There's a couple of there's a couple
of actually very forward thinking jokes throughout

590
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:49.159
the movie that you're like, wow. Uh. The one in particular that

591
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.239
comes to mind is at the end
with the maid cleaning up the slop,

592
00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:58.920
who his great speech and there's something
so off color that he has to take

593
00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:00.239
the bug at a slop and dump
on her head and Goro, sorry,

594
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:06.199
didn't know we had a racist and
there I know, it's such a wonderful

595
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:09.880
scene. And then and there again
it's it's Terry Jones with the horrible racist

596
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:13.960
getting the bucket dumped on his head. And what is being swamped up is

597
00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:22.440
Terry Jones, who is the most
vile character in cinema history. It somehow

598
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:28.400
survives the explosion. He fucking lives. Is he in the end scene?

599
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:30.519
I don't think he's in the end
He's not in heaven. I mean they

600
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:35.199
were like, we're not rebuilding that
rib cage, yeah, carding it to

601
00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:37.280
a new location. Are you out
of your fucking minds? It's not going

602
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:42.639
to survive the day. We've got
the damn Orphans and the Blue Warriors were

603
00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:45.599
fine, you know what? Okay, let's you know, can we let's

604
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:49.199
talk about the end of the movie
when everyone goes to heaven. Let's talk

605
00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:53.000
about getting to heaven when everyone dies
because they've all been poisoned at the same

606
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:59.239
time except Michael Palin, who in
the film's only ad lib, I didn't

607
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:04.960
eat the salmon. Yeah, I'm
still a mystery there she's spirting out.

608
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:12.199
Another spectacular joke is should we take
our cars? Why? I don't see

609
00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:19.039
why not? Yea better than walking? And then cars up into the turtle

610
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:25.360
tunnel of life. Oh, really, the most absurd thing ever. And

611
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:29.920
I don't know. I can't.
I can't. It must be what I

612
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.320
think. It's what I don't know. I don't understand what younger folks are

613
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:37.360
thinking about this movie other than dad
jokes. I heard that a few times

614
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:45.159
in reference to this film Ghost Cars
going to Heaven. It's not I should

615
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:50.519
just trying toscend time, you know. But when they get to Heaven,

616
00:45:52.000 --> 00:46:00.320
okay, God is played by Graham
Chapman. That's God and as the former

617
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:04.440
on stage okay, supposed to be
not back around. I was wondering why

618
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.440
they didn't make him look like Burt
Macarat since they referenced him earlier. Right,

619
00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:13.079
he's more a Tony Bennett looking God, Tony Bennett or I was getting

620
00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:16.760
Burt Convy. Okay, yeah,
but the sort of Tony Bennett delivery.

621
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:22.480
Yeah, here's what I came to. Well, rewatching the scene. Then

622
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:29.480
this musical number, the film's fifth, sixth, I don't know. Yeah,

623
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:37.159
I think I counted him at least
seven. I think where are my

624
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:42.519
notes? Six? It's it's a
musical. If you have six fucking musical

625
00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:45.639
numbers, you're a musical. The
last musical the genre in my mind is

626
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:50.360
horror. That's there in hell right, you would think. Yeah, it

627
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.199
kind of seems like it. I
mean, everybody's still bloodied up. There's

628
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:58.719
still a separate head from the war. Yea. Nobody's like you messed up

629
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:01.480
body. Yeah. Yeah. The
head on the plant always amused me.

630
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:10.039
But if every day of eternity is
Christmas, that's pretty hillacious and you have

631
00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:15.559
to watch that show every day.
Well, now we're getting into the weeds.

632
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:23.280
Yeah, oh my goodness. This
actually so they reprise the transplant song

633
00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:28.159
at the end of the movie,
the Galaxy song thank You, and he

634
00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:31.519
says in that scene earlier in the
film after the song plays, her reaction

635
00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:36.679
to it is well, I feel
pretty insignificant now, and he goes,

636
00:47:36.760 --> 00:47:39.119
yeah, so why don't you give
us your liver? Okay, reprise the

637
00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:44.800
song as your audience is walking out
of the auditorium. You now need to

638
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:52.199
feel insignificant. Goodbye? Great and
then yeah you kind of yeah. Feeds

639
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:57.400
into that there, And there is
a reading of this movie that could be

640
00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:01.599
made where this is them as much
saying fuck you to everybody, including their

641
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:08.760
audience, as anything else going on. I mean, it's actually pretty contemptuous

642
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:14.039
at the end because the film technically
has a narrator and that Michael Palin shows

643
00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:17.239
up in the middle of the film
and then at the end of the film

644
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:21.840
not only giving us the meaning of
life, which I think most people are

645
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:23.719
taking is really pithy, but really
it is the meaning of life. Like

646
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:27.039
as it turns out all these years
later, I go, oh, yeah,

647
00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:30.000
no, that's it really well,
And I think contemptuous is like you

648
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:35.519
really hit it with that when what
Yeah, but it's kind of like idiots,

649
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:37.039
like what were you thinking it was
going to be? So yeah,

650
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:39.920
the actual meaning of life is as
simple as can be and you should have

651
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:44.559
figured it out and you're o.
And then he launches into this attack on

652
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:49.000
we can't get anybody out to the
sotting cinema. Yes, they're all He

653
00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:57.519
references Friday the thirteenth. Here Friday
the thirteenth. Reference. Oh, he

654
00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:01.599
says, like you know you want
like like masked killers, like stabbing with

655
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:07.119
knitting needles. That's the bloody the
bloody video. Jaded audience like fuck you

656
00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:14.840
all bye. Yeah, I mean
maybe that's it is pretty good. That's

657
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:20.000
last like and then we're gonna pull
out of our old show to be like

658
00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:23.440
see you late a suckers. Yeah, yeah, exactly, because that could

659
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:27.880
be seen as sort of elegaic,
you know, but that we get,

660
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.639
Oh, here's the taste of the
past as we end it all. But

661
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:36.800
it's also like bye, and is
this like maybe this is some sort of

662
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:39.280
commentary in general, like was this
the meeting of our lives? Like we

663
00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:44.960
did this stupid fish walk, silly
walk, you know, bullshit, and

664
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.880
that's that and then salmon, that's
bad and we're done. Do you know

665
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:54.559
that the last time Monty Python performed
together as a group was the fish scene

666
00:49:54.679 --> 00:50:01.000
at the opening of this movie on
camera? Yeah? Yeah, really yep,

667
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:06.920
them as the fishes, which is
also another tie around throughout the movie

668
00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:08.639
that keeps coming back. We're seeing
a lot of this through the fishes.

669
00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:13.360
It's the fishes who have been asking
the questions. After all, none of

670
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.840
the people in this movie give a
shit about the meaning of life. Really,

671
00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:19.960
Yeah, they're just living their lives. The fish are the ones who

672
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:24.239
are being told the tale I believe, yeah and I And they're in multiple

673
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:29.360
places. We know they're in heaven, but they're also down on earth because

674
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:34.679
they see they see wonder where that
fish is gone. Yeah, they love

675
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:37.679
that part. Yeah, they exist
in multiple realities are they going once?

676
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:44.280
What's also greatest that they love the
dead middle of the movie where they just

677
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:45.920
call themselves out and they go,
wasn't I supposed to be the meaning of

678
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:50.920
life? Like we said much about
this, I mean, should we talk

679
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:57.159
about boobies for a second? Like
there an inordinate number of movies in this

680
00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:01.960
movie, for we don't see a
lot of that these days. And you

681
00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:07.079
know, in true Monty Python fashion, it's not only do they call themselves

682
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.199
out for being gratuitously sexist, for
showing some embossing movies and slow mo,

683
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.440
but on one of my favorite scenes
is the sex it, you know,

684
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:20.440
growing and coming off the heels of
and I'm assuming these are the same Catholic

685
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:23.519
kids that were just saying about please
don't boil us. Oh no, these

686
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:30.360
are Protestant kids now, so why
would you be doing that in the Catholic

687
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.239
school? Right? Right? The
only thing that really remains from the Seven

688
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:37.840
Stages of Man when it was going
to be one narrative is the the prep

689
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:45.599
school into the war. That's one
character, okay, and presumably we would

690
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:47.840
have followed him coming back from the
war and on and on until he died.

691
00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:57.599
But let's talk the sex ed scene, because it's again I find it

692
00:51:57.639 --> 00:52:00.800
funny on so many levels that what
they're saying is kind of true. Like,

693
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:05.199
first of all, it's absurd that
they would be performing sex education.

694
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:08.159
They would before having sex in front
of their students in order to educate them.

695
00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:15.840
School still in existence. Yeah,
and even funnier though that isn't nobody

696
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:20.079
is interested at all. It might
as well be algebra, right, Yeah,

697
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.840
and that it's kind of the genius
of the scene is the disinterested kids.

698
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:30.760
Are you watching football? The hilarious
part is if those kids would listen,

699
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:36.880
he's actually giving them really good advice
forget Yeah, one of my one

700
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:40.840
of my other favorite wivees, how
do we stimulate the glitterists? How do

701
00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:49.920
we do the foreplay stimulate the glittering? How about the kids right for the

702
00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:57.119
glitterists? Like a bowl and a
china just racing to the glitterists. Jesus,

703
00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:00.599
he's so gentle in that scene.
And if you know what's funny,

704
00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:06.199
is like it's very that agrees.
He can hide that anger really well and

705
00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:08.039
make you think he's paternal. But
then in the next scene he's going to

706
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:15.559
fucking trip you. Yeah, yeah, which is the other great, Yeah,

707
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:19.840
can we have some sort of a
reason to show adults beating the shit

708
00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:22.519
out of children? And you know
football, and you know, a lot

709
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:28.039
of them went through that prep school
existence. I know, specifically Eric Idle

710
00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:34.360
has spoken about how soul crushing his
life was that in there. So I'm

711
00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:37.599
glad that they were, even as
late as the nineteen eighty still hammering hard

712
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:44.360
on that institution. You know,
make sure this doesn't rear its ugly against

713
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:47.480
theere, which I'm sure it exists
out there. I'd read or I guess

714
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:52.840
it was in The Money Python The
Truth, one of the documentaries that they

715
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.159
did. When they were talking about
this, it sounded like they wrote a

716
00:53:55.199 --> 00:54:00.599
lot of it separately, but you
it sounds like there was a little more

717
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:05.039
cohesion to what I had read.
Do you do you have any I know

718
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:08.639
that they went to Jamaica together to
do it. I heard that, and

719
00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:12.400
that's when they sort of came to
the impasse. But that was also Jones

720
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:15.360
bringing them back to the table.
That doesn't mean that they were necessarily in

721
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:17.400
the room together, because I don't
think those guys were ever in the room

722
00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:21.440
together. I feel like they wrote
alone to begin with. Well, there

723
00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:24.719
were partners. It was Chapman in
Clice, it was Palin and Jones,

724
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:30.199
and it was Idle by himself and
gilliam by himself sing a track number six

725
00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:37.320
from the soundtrack, Isn't it awfully
nice to have a penis? To get

726
00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:40.239
the lyrics? If I really good
to have a dome? Well, it's

727
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:44.719
a stiffy. It's divine to own
a dick. I mean the tiniest little

728
00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:49.360
tajo to the world's biggest prick.
So three chances for you, Willie or

729
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.719
John Thomas. Hooray for your one
eyed trouser, steak, your pizza of

730
00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:54.719
pork, your wife, best friend, your posse, Oh, your cock.

731
00:54:54.960 --> 00:54:58.360
You can wrap it up in ribbons, you can slip it in your

732
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:01.440
take it out in public, or
they will stick you in the dark and

733
00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:09.800
you won't come a little bit of
nol coward. Right before a man explodes

734
00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:19.239
from over eating. Yeah, and
while we're on they see him waddling into

735
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:24.800
the room again. There seems to
be a shift in that man exploding scene

736
00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:30.199
where Clice is, you know,
being a very good server to the and

737
00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:37.000
probably the greatest two or three of
the greatest poop takes ever. The opening

738
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:43.360
of the menu of spray and it's
just gorgeous, and then the folding of

739
00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:46.039
the menu afterward and tucking it under
his arm and it's still dripping out.

740
00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:55.559
Come on, I have tried bucket. That's a hurting point. But there's

741
00:55:55.599 --> 00:56:00.119
a moment where you see him go, here's your way. I know you're

742
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:04.960
going to blow up, as if
I've been plotting this for some time.

743
00:56:05.719 --> 00:56:09.480
I've read accounts of that where people
think that he was not doing anything,

744
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:13.360
like he was not in on that, to which I would say, he

745
00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:22.440
runs for cover ye dives like action
stunt, and then looks back up and

746
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:29.039
goes like, I can't find that
writing. I'm not gonna look at it.

747
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:32.719
But that's all good because Chrios said
is awesome, and Clason is simmering

748
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:37.440
anger is fantastic. We haven't really
talked about Michael Palin, however. Oh

749
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.639
and then you think, well,
maybe he's my favorite, Yeah, because

750
00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:44.760
you know what I do not love
right, right, And that's the thing,

751
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:46.199
right, Okay, So not only
that, and now I've said what

752
00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:49.960
my favorite scene in the movie is, which is the Zulu sequence, but

753
00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:54.159
like, honestly, really it's don't
stand there, Gop and what like you've

754
00:56:54.199 --> 00:57:00.199
never seen the hand of God before
his sergeant major little full metal jacket bit

755
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:08.440
is it's incredible, don't there goping
Hanna go before? Like and then this

756
00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:13.000
is the brilliant like one, two
boom, we've segued. We're into something

757
00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:15.960
else. Three absurd stupid things just
happen. You're still processing that, and

758
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:21.800
you're into something new already. To
me, this is where I think most

759
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:24.000
people wanted this for the entire movie, because this is as close to the

760
00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:28.639
old series as you could get,
including Chapman as the you know, stop

761
00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:30.920
that it's silly a character, you
know, like sort of repurposed here and

762
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:36.119
then because yeah, the jokes just
keep flying here and everything is brief and

763
00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:39.320
great and in and out. But
you know, that doesn't mean that the

764
00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:44.679
rest of the movie doesn't work.
But this scene, in particular, the

765
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:47.280
way it's shot with that fucking fish
eye lens. When when when when his

766
00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:51.880
face rears up into it, The
idea of a Sergeant major who was so

767
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:58.360
blase at the hand of God appearing
and then being the strictest task master in

768
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:04.639
the world but also the most reasonable. I can't love this character anymore than

769
00:58:04.639 --> 00:58:07.079
I already do. And I don't
know, I don't know if this works

770
00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:12.280
if it's not Palin like, there's
something about this is one of those bits.

771
00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:15.400
And they do this sometimes too,
where they write a bit where you're

772
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:19.159
like, oh, I see what
they're doing from the beginning, I know

773
00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:21.760
what the joke is. Once the
first guy goes away, you're like,

774
00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:27.320
here's the stick most comedic troops you
kind of I'm ahead of you now,

775
00:58:27.960 --> 00:58:31.800
it doesn't matter. Palin sells every
moment to where somehow it just gets funnier.

776
00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:36.760
And some of that is the volume
and and I mean we talk about

777
00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:40.440
Clice being angry. Who's the better
scringer? Yeah, no, no,

778
00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:45.639
Based on this information and given to
us from your scene, it's clearly Michael

779
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:50.000
Palin, which is so funny because
he seems like he's the nicest one in

780
00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:52.079
the in the thing, you know, just like the most personable and like

781
00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:58.159
the charming one. Like when Life
of Brian was under attack in England at

782
00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:01.280
the time by like religious and such, it was Palin who was really sort

783
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:07.159
of bridging the gap between the angrier
pythons and the sort of rational conversation that

784
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:12.320
needed to be happening. But it's
good to see, he could also have

785
00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:15.480
done that if he wanted to build
the fuck off on those religious leaders,

786
00:59:15.559 --> 00:59:17.239
Like if this Pergeant major had shown
up, we could have had a different

787
00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:22.679
story. What went down in the
seventies with Python. Yeah, in her

788
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:34.239
last movie, Yeah all right,
Oh you're back out again, back,

789
00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:37.599
you're back. All right. If
we're gonna talk, just to take a

790
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:40.039
quick segue, if we're gonna talk, favorite lines. Yeah, I gotta

791
00:59:40.039 --> 00:59:47.000
say, probably the greatest line Monty
Python final answer for me is Life of

792
00:59:47.079 --> 00:59:53.079
Brian. It's the crowd scene.
We are all individuals, we are all

793
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:59.880
individuals, and the one guy I'm
not, I'm done. Like that's the

794
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.000
It's the greatest piece of written comedy. One of those slight lines. Right,

795
01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:07.400
we're gonna set it up, you're
gonna watch us through it, and

796
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:15.559
you're still gonna fucking laugh. I'm
not my god, Yeah, dad jokes.

797
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:19.599
Who says that I was the gen
zers? You know what? I

798
01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:22.840
wasn't in ourselves now, I wasn't
offended so much as sound for that person

799
01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:27.760
that they were. They couldn't see
what was going on here. But then

800
01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:30.320
I think, like, look,
I've loved this movie since I was a

801
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:35.719
kid, but this wasn't my favorite
Python movie. I don't know that it

802
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.480
is. It might No, it
definitely is now, But I think a

803
01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:44.679
lot of that comes from having experienced
with those guys had experience which was a

804
01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:47.960
life by that. But you know, it's easy to love Holy Grail.

805
01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:52.639
It's a bunch of angry young men
fucking jetting out on their own for the

806
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:57.199
first time, cinematically fucking with a
lot to prove. They don't have a

807
01:00:57.199 --> 01:01:00.320
goddamn thing to prove here, They're
just they're ruminating. Yeah, So a

808
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:05.559
lot of the humor comes from the
sort of the overall absurdity of life and

809
01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:09.559
not necessarily something so in your face, And that might be part of the

810
01:01:09.719 --> 01:01:14.679
joy of finding the other depths and
levels on it, because it's very much

811
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:17.679
as a kid. It's a Python
and the stuff that's funny to you as

812
01:01:17.679 --> 01:01:22.039
a kid is Yeah. But then
you add in this, Okay, there's

813
01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:25.159
stages of life that at twelve,
fourteen, twenty we didn't hit yet,

814
01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:30.039
so we don't necessarily know some of
the nuance that's going on and some of

815
01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:31.440
what they're doing for these later bits. So yeah, I think as we

816
01:01:31.519 --> 01:01:36.599
grow up, I mean, this
definitely hit me different rewatching it to you

817
01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:37.559
know, kind of prep for this
show. I went, yeah, I

818
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:40.719
get to watch it again and went, there's a lot like I was a

819
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:45.000
little stunned at how I always knew
it was deep because it's the meaning of

820
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:46.360
life, and I knew that they
were weaseling stuff in there, and some

821
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:51.039
of those were my favorite lines,
but this was really like, wow,

822
01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:55.039
do kind of they don't back off
on the even though they joke about we

823
01:01:55.079 --> 01:01:58.519
haven't told you anything about the meaning
of life in the middle of the film,

824
01:01:58.599 --> 01:02:00.800
not they really have. They've hit
a lot of stuff coming up to

825
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:06.039
that point. It's just not been
spoon fed. And then they go all

826
01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:08.400
right, now we'll spoonfeeds shit.
See how that goes? Yeah, I

827
01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:10.920
go handed to them. Think you
grow with the movie, you know,

828
01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:17.519
I feel like I certainly have.
Okay, speaking of sort of sequences that

829
01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:22.159
this scene actually helped me out in
my life. When I was in eighth

830
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:27.280
grade, I had a mean old
nun as our teacher, and one day

831
01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:31.280
she tried to pull this bullshit where
she gave us this science quiz with information

832
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:37.159
that she had not thus taught us
about astronomy, and on the quiz it

833
01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:43.199
was all about the Milky Way,
and it just so happens that I had

834
01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:47.239
heard the Galaxy song on a loop
in my head. So I fucking aced

835
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:52.639
her stupid quiz because I know that
we were fifty thousand light years from Galactus

836
01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:58.920
for points, I know that the
Galaxy Way bulges in the middle sixteen thousand

837
01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:00.880
light years thick, but out by
asid it's just three thousand light years wide.

838
01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:09.920
Sorry, sister amadis once again the
old science first religion science wis and

839
01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:14.119
the genius of Eric Idol, and
no reason I loved him so much as

840
01:03:14.159 --> 01:03:17.679
a kid, Like he wrote the
first They Might Be Giants song with Galaxy

841
01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:21.679
song, I was gonna say,
it reminds me very much of that.

842
01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:25.360
I didn't not surprise to hear he
was involved in that. I no,

843
01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:30.440
no, I'm just saying, like
he wrote what they were going to be,

844
01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:34.559
basically making their career on. You're
saying they ripped him off. Basically.

845
01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:40.079
I think John and John might owe
Eric Idol if you here comes the

846
01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:45.000
science, I would pay it to. Yeah, right, I shouldn't suggest

847
01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:47.639
that. I'm sorry, you just
started some ship. Now we're in the

848
01:03:47.679 --> 01:03:54.239
middle of the Python lawsuit. Another
one one and you know what now and

849
01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:58.199
now, eric Idol seems like the
most reasonable all if you see him,

850
01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:01.440
like he's the he's not taking ship
and letting everybody know exactly what's up and

851
01:04:01.480 --> 01:04:05.280
who's doing what to whom? You
know. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

852
01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:10.480
I mean there's a big part of
me that wish is they were best friends,

853
01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:15.239
just because you'll want him to be. But the chemistry is the chemistry,

854
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.320
And I mean, I don't know
if we get what we got if

855
01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:25.199
they liked each other a little more, but we wouldn't have because those five

856
01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:28.639
personalities strengthened up against each other,
thank god, you know. But like

857
01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:31.840
it's interesting to see those pairings though, to think of Eric Idol sort of

858
01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:36.840
off on his own doing the same
amount of work as a bunch of writing

859
01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:41.320
partners who are doing it's hard on
your own. Yeah, you know.

860
01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:47.400
So in a way, he's my
favorite Python. Now it's Eric Idol everybody

861
01:04:48.280 --> 01:04:50.960
by the end of the week,
Clice, because it always is. Because

862
01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:54.760
as much of a dick as he
is, and you know, that bitter,

863
01:04:54.880 --> 01:05:00.000
cranky old man, he's become like
there's something about that guy, Yeah,

864
01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:05.360
what is it? I you know, he's he's aera dype, but

865
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:10.840
willing to fucking roll around in the
mud and be stupid, oh for sure.

866
01:05:10.960 --> 01:05:14.119
And you know, I see his
tweets all the time, and he's

867
01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:18.199
a pretty conscientious dude who also doesn't
take shit and loves calling people out for

868
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:21.280
their shit. So there's kind of
a there's a bit of a warrior to

869
01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:25.400
him that like, maybe you need
to be cantankerous and you know whatever,

870
01:05:25.480 --> 01:05:28.960
now you're old and not even be
k like be as old man as you

871
01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:31.280
can right now. I feel seated, though, because he got to be

872
01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:36.800
cantankerous his whole motherfucking life, just
because he was so talented. Yeah,

873
01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:41.320
right, was on the wall for
him from day one. He was like,

874
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:43.639
I'm sixty five. I just got
to get there. I guess.

875
01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:46.280
Yeah, he was one of those
guys born born that aide. But you

876
01:05:46.280 --> 01:05:50.239
know what, let's talk my favorite
python Graham Chapman, all right, I

877
01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:54.400
have to say, and this is
I would guess that Graham would have it

878
01:05:54.440 --> 01:05:59.039
no other way. My favorite Graham
Chapman moment of all time is the moment

879
01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:01.679
where he wasn't actually live, but
it was the live show and they had

880
01:06:01.719 --> 01:06:05.920
his urn of ashes sitting on the
table and I think it's Clease that crosses

881
01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:15.440
his legs and kicks it over and
spills them all over the play even after

882
01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:20.440
death. Do you remember that incredibly
dangerous club he belonged to. It was

883
01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:25.639
a it's a group of British adventurers, and most of them, including Chapman,

884
01:06:25.679 --> 01:06:28.559
I think at that point, knew
he was terminal. And they do

885
01:06:28.639 --> 01:06:33.079
things like bring double decker buses to
mountains and then ski down the mountain while

886
01:06:33.159 --> 01:06:43.119
riding inside the double decker bus venture
Club. Yeah you know, I mean

887
01:06:43.159 --> 01:06:49.400
really it's jackass, just like stylish. Yeah, check ass. Uk Graham

888
01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:55.800
Chapman was the perfect front man for
or rather leading man for Python. I

889
01:06:55.840 --> 01:07:00.039
think I think there's no question that
you would want him over Clee to be

890
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:04.360
King Arthur to be Bryan. Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

891
01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:09.440
yeah, No, there's a he's
got much more of an everyman you know,

892
01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:12.880
old school ever man tol him for
sure. Yeah, there's a depth

893
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:15.320
just looking into that guy's eyes.
Yeah, and I know he was a

894
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:17.480
drunk and everything, but like,
who fucking gives a shit, you know

895
01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:20.519
what I mean? Like the man
was living, go do dramatic stuff.

896
01:07:20.559 --> 01:07:24.159
Because I feel like he's the guy
that would have like killed it in some

897
01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:27.960
dramatic roles as well. He absolutely
would have. Like it's kind of a

898
01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:30.280
shame because the only other real sort
of big performance we got from him was

899
01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:34.360
Yellow Beard, and that he's great
in that movie. But that's a terrible

900
01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:38.320
move. It's not that. Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't live up to

901
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:42.400
him. Yeah, it's a whiter
shade of pale of python. You know,

902
01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:46.360
it's just kind of going through the
motions here. Yeah, but you

903
01:07:46.440 --> 01:07:53.280
mentioned boobies and his sequence. How
did we get off topic? This man

904
01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:56.199
is about to die. I mean, clearly, when I was thirteen,

905
01:07:56.360 --> 01:08:00.119
there was no better scene in the
movie than mister Jarrett's death. Who how

906
01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:05.599
metafucking physical was this that we're watching
this guy who has chosen his means of

907
01:08:05.639 --> 01:08:14.239
execution. His crime is the means
of execution because it's for making a gratuitous

908
01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:16.920
sexist joke in a movie. This
is the gratuitous sexist joke that he's going

909
01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:20.880
to be punished for. I don't
know, it's a Mobius strip. Yes,

910
01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:28.000
so snake Ahead eating itself and yeah, and that's yeah, and again

911
01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:30.359
that's kind of the genius of the
We're going to call it out while we're

912
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:34.119
doing it. And you know,
a lot of comedians haven't figured this out,

913
01:08:34.159 --> 01:08:38.520
and we are living in an arrow
where it's you make some of these

914
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:43.399
jokes the wrong way, you expose
yourself as being somebody who's not very you

915
01:08:43.439 --> 01:08:46.560
know, not very forward thinking or
whatnot, or very conscientious or tolerant.

916
01:08:46.760 --> 01:08:54.199
And they named every joke. There's
just they know exactly what they're doing and

917
01:08:54.239 --> 01:08:58.319
how to do it. And there
you go. Yeah, and speaking just

918
01:08:58.439 --> 01:09:01.720
on a performance level, when we
see Graham Chapman for the first time in

919
01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:10.560
his panic, I genuinely feel for
that man. He seems terrified, like

920
01:09:10.680 --> 01:09:14.640
that is terror. That's not acting
fear well. And this is the other

921
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:16.800
level of the joke, you know. So we've already got a couple levels

922
01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:21.000
of the joke working on and now
he's chosen his own methods and it is

923
01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:25.880
to die by being chased off a
Clifton by as many boobies as possible,

924
01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:33.079
and he's terrified of it. Chose
it number two. You chose it because

925
01:09:33.079 --> 01:09:42.119
it's boobies. Oh my god,
it's the most sophisticated joke about the stupidest,

926
01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:45.279
most sexist thing. It's that is
them in a nutshell, my god,

927
01:09:45.399 --> 01:09:48.640
and they exist in a lot of
nutshells, but that is what they

928
01:09:48.680 --> 01:09:51.520
existed. That is just yeah,
it's brilliant. That's why they are who

929
01:09:51.560 --> 01:09:56.039
they are. And then it does
end as you said, just so beautifully

930
01:09:56.039 --> 01:10:01.279
with that body falling through the air
into his casket. Jectory that is forty

931
01:10:01.279 --> 01:10:06.079
five degree angle is out of the
window. This is not possible that,

932
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:13.199
yes, stuntman can't fall into a
bag with hist accuracy, as mister Jared

933
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:15.600
falling off of a clip to his
death into his own coffin on the sea.

934
01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:18.079
That made me wonder as a child, can you do that? Can

935
01:10:18.119 --> 01:10:20.399
you just be buried on the beach
in a coffin like that? I don't

936
01:10:20.439 --> 01:10:24.079
think you can. I don't think
you can't either, But I guess if

937
01:10:24.119 --> 01:10:28.239
they give you your choice in that
world, evidently that's what all of those

938
01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:30.840
pieces part of the choice was.
He like, all right, we need

939
01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:33.880
boobies, the helmets on the women, we need shore. I like the

940
01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:38.720
ocean. I need to be able
to make a jump that can end up

941
01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:43.600
in the Guinness Bugle World records.
I don't know. And you know what,

942
01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:46.159
in that sequence, we just can't
keep talking about the movie I guess

943
01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:51.039
because we get Gilliam at his best
in the next sequence, which is these

944
01:10:51.159 --> 01:10:59.079
leaves, the suicidal leaf in autumn. Yes, in the fallout therein when

945
01:10:59.159 --> 01:11:03.720
he's discovered being killed himself and a
perfect Python joke. We don't need to

946
01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:06.600
see the foot drop into the frame
when all of those leaves give up at

947
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:13.600
once, right right? Yeah?
And this is another thing that I love

948
01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:16.000
about them. They they take a
Rando perspective on something. They'll go,

949
01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:19.560
you know, what's what is fall
like for a leaf? Isn't that just

950
01:11:19.760 --> 01:11:25.000
mass suicide? Can I see these
think tank meetings with them? They're like,

951
01:11:25.079 --> 01:11:28.159
yeah, but this is all Gillium. So it's Gilliam alone in a

952
01:11:28.199 --> 01:11:32.159
room talking to himself, going like
trees leaves, it's mass suicide, which,

953
01:11:32.159 --> 01:11:35.640
by the way, brings up a
good question. Does Gillium ever become

954
01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:44.119
your favorite? No? I'm sorry, but no, Gilliam is one of

955
01:11:44.159 --> 01:11:47.199
my filmmakers. He's one of my
favorite. That would be my distinction if

956
01:11:47.239 --> 01:11:57.239
I said performer versus director. I
think here's the thing. When they were

957
01:11:57.279 --> 01:12:03.640
doing Flying Circus, he very well
could be my favorite Python member more often

958
01:12:03.680 --> 01:12:08.439
than not. As a kid,
probably who was my favorite Python member for

959
01:12:08.520 --> 01:12:13.760
the animations. Yeah, because there's
integral to every other performance on in that.

960
01:12:14.119 --> 01:12:16.239
But wait, yeah, once we
get into the film, he's behind

961
01:12:16.279 --> 01:12:19.920
the camera and occasionally, you know
a little part. He's very funny in

962
01:12:19.960 --> 01:12:25.600
that in Holy Grail, but I
don't consider him on the par with any

963
01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:30.560
of the others. Yeah. No, he's there because he's a good animator

964
01:12:30.600 --> 01:12:33.039
and he's really funny. But he's
not there because he went. He wasn't

965
01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:36.720
in the foot like parade or whatever
the fuck they were doing for Cambridge.

966
01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:42.239
Right, what we're getting into the
wage here, But do you know how

967
01:12:42.279 --> 01:12:46.960
he came apart came into the group. I believe he had been running in

968
01:12:47.159 --> 01:12:51.600
San Francisco, I want to say, like sort of humorous magazines and such,

969
01:12:53.159 --> 01:12:56.760
and accepted a job in England basically
doing that like you know, like

970
01:12:56.840 --> 01:13:00.399
photo funnies kind of things, you
know, and anime without animation kind of

971
01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:04.880
a thing. G Yeah, And
I think I know it was like either

972
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:08.760
Palin or one of them sort of
befriended him, and then you know,

973
01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:12.399
these guys all eventually sort of came
together and then he got brought along.

974
01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:15.359
So that's I'm not I'm not trying
to diminish his role or anything. But

975
01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:17.119
you no, no, not at
all. I don't know what I mean.

976
01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:19.479
Like, it's not like he pulled
him in and they know he wasn't

977
01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:25.000
good as any of them or anything. It's clearly he made Fisher King,

978
01:13:25.039 --> 01:13:27.119
you know what I mean? Like
what am I gonna say? Yeah,

979
01:13:27.159 --> 01:13:31.000
like, yeah, yeah, Fisher
Like I said, twelve Monkeys, Fisher

980
01:13:31.079 --> 01:13:34.680
King, Like just with's a one
two punch right there. Man. The

981
01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:40.399
eighties general, the eighties for Gillium
were fucking great, ridiculous. Yeah,

982
01:13:40.760 --> 01:13:43.680
just yeah, to the point of, you know, not to get off

983
01:13:43.960 --> 01:13:46.760
money in general, but you know, you're probably the same way of like,

984
01:13:46.800 --> 01:13:49.439
who's my favorite director of this decade? Kind of a thing, and

985
01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:53.239
he had a decade for me there
it was like everything it does, I

986
01:13:53.520 --> 01:13:58.119
just I'm there. Yeah, there
in ways we couldn't be for other filmmakers,

987
01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:00.039
even as good as they were being, there was something fucking unique about

988
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:03.680
Terry Gillam, and it was something
that made me so proud as an American

989
01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:08.520
that he was the American in Python. Yeah, there is a little bit

990
01:14:08.560 --> 01:14:10.520
of there is a little bit of
like, see, we can stand with

991
01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:14.800
you guys in the comedy, but
in another way, maybe in another way,

992
01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:16.319
And then we got Robin Williams and
we were like, okay, maybe

993
01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:25.439
we beat you, but that's a
man. King is just absolutely fucking brilliant,

994
01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:28.600
and that, you know, Brazil
is his best movie. It's a

995
01:14:28.640 --> 01:14:31.720
fucking achievement. But I'm not gonna
watch Brazil as much as I'm gonna watch

996
01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:35.760
Fisher King just for the sweet heartedness
of it all, you know. And

997
01:14:36.039 --> 01:14:42.079
yeah, there's I think that's probably
his emotional that's where, you know,

998
01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:45.920
the most human he's been was with
Fisher King. It's the least cynical,

999
01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:50.760
yeah, for sure. And just
yeah that it's probably it is my favorite

1000
01:14:50.760 --> 01:14:55.439
Gillian the film is. It just
hit so many goddamn levels for me.

1001
01:14:56.079 --> 01:15:00.119
Uh yeah, that's hard to beat. So no, he'll never be my

1002
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:05.600
favorite python, but he's just as
yeah, man like, he's as hard

1003
01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:11.319
as any of those motherfuckers for sure, for sure. Any other notes,

1004
01:15:12.399 --> 01:15:15.199
I'm running out of topics with the
meaning of life. Yeah, you did

1005
01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:18.840
mention one thing which we talked a
little bit about, but there is this

1006
01:15:19.920 --> 01:15:25.479
and I don't feel like this was
much going on a lot in Flying Circus

1007
01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:30.359
as much, but there is this
educational element doing the mad comply as well,

1008
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:32.800
just like oh yeah, there's a
lot of history, and I mean

1009
01:15:32.920 --> 01:15:38.319
just the religious conversations with Protestant versus
Catholic, and then we get into a

1010
01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:45.479
little bit of history of you know, it's these are clearly thinkers doing silly

1011
01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:49.199
things, and it's yeah, a
perfect mesh. Then again, like this

1012
01:15:49.279 --> 01:15:53.520
movie playing to each of their member's
strength because as great as they are,

1013
01:15:53.640 --> 01:15:58.880
silly at the silly and the physical
stuff. And these guys started out as

1014
01:15:58.960 --> 01:16:04.279
writers. And so the conversation between
the Protestant and his wife is so verbose

1015
01:16:04.439 --> 01:16:09.640
and you can feel that I believe
that's Chapman writing that stuff, like where

1016
01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:15.199
where like you said, he this
is a natural conversation that in any other

1017
01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:17.359
movie would have been an exposition dump
of a character to let us know what

1018
01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:27.399
was actually going on in is supremely
educational and it's fucking hilarious. Give a

1019
01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:33.399
little you realize this poor clueless woman
played by Eric Idol, who is more

1020
01:16:33.399 --> 01:16:38.800
than twice I didn't realize that sex
is the thing, because that's how sexless

1021
01:16:38.800 --> 01:16:44.119
the Protestants are, which I loved
in comparison to out the window the endless

1022
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:49.239
stream of children during the entire scene. The house is like a clown car

1023
01:16:49.279 --> 01:16:54.239
of children, and you know that
they just looped them, but the effect

1024
01:16:54.319 --> 01:16:59.840
is just awesome, and I feel
like they were even they must have been

1025
01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:02.279
the Protestants scene going, can we
make it just a little longer? Can

1026
01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:05.399
he bitch a little bit longer about
something? Just so we could see a

1027
01:17:05.399 --> 01:17:11.279
few more orphans go by? And
Chapman's so good in that scene, like

1028
01:17:11.439 --> 01:17:14.560
do you have one of those?
Well no, but just you know,

1029
01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:19.520
yeah I could, and just clueless
that she's kind of getting like, wait

1030
01:17:19.560 --> 01:17:24.079
a minute, what's going on over
there? But I'm just explaining something to

1031
01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:27.560
you, Honey, We're not going
to have sex any more than we already

1032
01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:33.279
have. Sorry, why don't we? And he's just going, yeah,

1033
01:17:33.600 --> 01:17:42.000
black mama Tickler. Now, speaking
of Graham Chapman, the image that I

1034
01:17:42.039 --> 01:17:45.520
saw of the movie before I saw
the movie. It was in a magazine

1035
01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:51.439
I believe, was the middle of
the film portion the wonder Where's the Fish?

1036
01:17:51.760 --> 01:18:00.680
With Chapman in this fucking outrageous you
know, of course in Wig while

1037
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:05.600
Terry Jones, God bless him with
fucking these like oh my god, Freddy

1038
01:18:05.680 --> 01:18:11.960
Krueger like some nightmare arms that are
so long but bend in six places but

1039
01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:17.880
still has finger mobility. It's a
real nightmare sequence. Like and that might

1040
01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:21.479
be the scene that ends up turning
a few people out where they go.

1041
01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:26.239
This is lesser because it is really
bizarre, even for them. It's kind

1042
01:18:26.239 --> 01:18:31.279
of out there. But the elephants
making his way down the hall with the

1043
01:18:31.359 --> 01:18:35.920
tray and it's not the worst looking
creature mask ever. It's did you wander

1044
01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:40.560
off a Star Wars set? To
go over here? Yeah? I thought

1045
01:18:40.560 --> 01:18:45.399
the Henson people were involved or something, because cartoon comes horrifyingly close to the

1046
01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:55.159
camera just there's some random there's some
gas blow ground behind him, and like

1047
01:18:55.199 --> 01:18:58.399
we're in a manor home but somehow
we're in a hallway that's like a steam

1048
01:18:58.479 --> 01:19:02.520
tunnel. Like well, I don't
know who wrote that one. I was

1049
01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:04.640
going to say, who wrote this
one? Was this, like, Okay,

1050
01:19:04.680 --> 01:19:08.079
we have all these random beasts.
What do we do? Put them

1051
01:19:08.079 --> 01:19:14.119
together? Let's make a stew all
right, the arms alone Terry Jones like

1052
01:19:14.279 --> 01:19:17.399
talk about breaking the fourth wall.
He's you know, that's the Obviously they

1053
01:19:17.439 --> 01:19:21.439
loved their mechanics because not only did
we get the ball squeezing specter of death

1054
01:19:21.479 --> 01:19:26.119
at the end, but he's really
selling the fingers right to the camera.

1055
01:19:29.079 --> 01:19:33.399
Yeah. I should have looked up
the Mechanical Effects engineering Terrible podcast. Yeah,

1056
01:19:33.439 --> 01:19:35.479
I know. And was it the
same? Was it like did they

1057
01:19:35.560 --> 01:19:40.479
just repurpose for the skeleton hands at
the end. I have no idea again,

1058
01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:45.239
thing it might be, yeah,
exactly, I mean it probably was,

1059
01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:48.880
right, like, we've got this. I wonder, yeah, I

1060
01:19:48.920 --> 01:19:51.520
wonder if they had filmed the death
scene first, and now what do we

1061
01:19:51.560 --> 01:19:59.920
do with these? I got an
idea, that's your idea. Yeah,

1062
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:03.640
can we make the arm a little
longer and then we put another elbow in?

1063
01:20:04.439 --> 01:20:10.079
Scene is missing as some kind of
David Bowie freak somewhere. Can we

1064
01:20:10.119 --> 01:20:14.520
have some stardust come in with spigots
over his nipples? It's it's weird and

1065
01:20:14.600 --> 01:20:17.600
wonderful. But I do remember looking
at that image in a magazine and going

1066
01:20:17.680 --> 01:20:21.680
what the fuck is it? I
mean, I was python, I'm like

1067
01:20:21.720 --> 01:20:25.119
what. I hadn't seen the movie. I'm like, I don't know what

1068
01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:28.880
this. I thought it was a
scene from Rocky Horror Picture Show. And

1069
01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:31.399
so so when I finally saw the
movie, I was like, wait,

1070
01:20:31.479 --> 01:20:38.199
what is this? Like, where
was that right. Oh, but when

1071
01:20:38.199 --> 01:20:45.239
it hits hard, yeah, oh
yeah, anything else taking home those arms?

1072
01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:50.359
Oh yeah, I mean I hope
Jones walked around the village in those

1073
01:20:50.520 --> 01:20:58.359
late at night, buried me be
buried in them. You can't close the

1074
01:20:58.399 --> 01:21:04.520
top in lits. It's death proof. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

1075
01:21:06.359 --> 01:21:12.840
I think that's gonna do it for
us here at midnight viewing anthologies. Attack

1076
01:21:13.680 --> 01:21:15.840
boy, any any you want to
sum up the sum up your thoughts on

1077
01:21:16.079 --> 01:21:20.119
meaning of life? Here are any
closing remarks. Now we said it all,

1078
01:21:20.199 --> 01:21:24.600
but I do want to ask you
to tell our listeners once again how

1079
01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:28.119
they can get a hold of all
of your fucking fantastic stuff. Your book

1080
01:21:28.279 --> 01:21:31.199
goodness, have videos out there.
You got a website, yeah, all

1081
01:21:31.239 --> 01:21:36.880
sorts of stuff, all those socials. Yeah, well, head on over

1082
01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:40.640
to Amazon, and that's where that's
the best place to go. You get

1083
01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:44.079
the last of the Giant Fire Lizards
out on ebook, paperback, then audio

1084
01:21:44.079 --> 01:21:45.960
book. You can also check out
a little bit more if you want to

1085
01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:50.000
learn a bit more about the dragon. I'm on Facebook at Giant Fire Lizards.

1086
01:21:50.319 --> 01:21:58.520
Website is Giant dash Lizards dot com. And there you go. Everybody

1087
01:21:58.600 --> 01:22:00.800
fucking head on over there, right, now and do yourself a favor and

1088
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:03.039
read. You know, you don't
even have to read. You can just

1089
01:22:03.079 --> 01:22:06.319
listen to it. You can be
lazy. We're all lazy these days.

1090
01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:09.800
You're listening to this right now.
I'm going to be listening to something later.

1091
01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:15.520
I'm gonna be listen to that book
Motherfuckers Hire Lizards Baby. All right.

1092
01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:17.279
For Antonio, I'm gonna speak for
him. I want to say thank

1093
01:22:17.279 --> 01:22:28.119
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1094
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