Speaker 1: Weird, Weird.
Speaker 2: Welcome back Midnight viewers, and welcome back Ripley Gene, and
Speaker 2: welcome back me. The m was on a hiatus last
Speaker 2: week you were there. I was sick, sick as a dog.
Speaker 2: I don't know dogs are sick?
Speaker 3: YO.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Happy New Year? Do we continue to say that now?
Speaker 2: Is it too late? Ask Larry David. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: Father Malone's weekly roundup. I'm Father Malone and with me
Speaker 2: as always is the dog obsessed with Colin Jos. Don't lie.
Speaker 2: You sit still for exactly one television show, Pop Culture Jeopardy,
Speaker 2: and only half the time before we start. I have
Speaker 2: a quick question for Star Wars fans, What the fuck
Speaker 2: A said? What the fuck is wrong with you and
Speaker 2: not watching and embracing and crowing about Skeleton Crew. It
Speaker 2: also means what the fuck is wrong with you and
Speaker 2: the attitude we used to be the red headed step
Speaker 2: children of fandom to fantasy for science fiction, to science
Speaker 2: fiction for fantasy. Here are my Star Wars bona fides.
Speaker 2: I saw it before the addition of episode four to
Speaker 2: the opening crawl. I'm a little bit older than the
Speaker 2: series itself, but it may as well be my foundation
Speaker 2: for space opera and eventually sci fi, as it was
Speaker 2: seemingly for everyone in my generation, well not everyone. The
Speaker 2: main cross section of gen X that sided with the
Speaker 2: Boomers and their hatred of Star Wars were Star Trek fans.
Speaker 3: Trekkies. Oh don't call us trekkies. That's the name applied
Speaker 3: to us. We prefer trekkers. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I had friends who had an organized starship club that
Speaker 2: was connected to some greater star Trek fan run starfleet.
Speaker 2: This is pre internet, all communication by phone and really
Speaker 2: by mail, and they had ranks and duties. It was
Speaker 2: the nerdiest of the nerd shit, and I loved them.
Speaker 3: But there are others.
Speaker 2: I had hardcourt doctor who folk who wore the scarf
Speaker 2: and blistering heat and had quotes at the ready. Loved them,
Speaker 2: and Gundam fans loved them. Doune fans, well we all
Speaker 2: felt pretty bad for done fans. Star Wars kind of
Speaker 2: robbed it and then the movie, which I loved. Don't
Speaker 2: get me wrong, but Doune fans seemed a little sad
Speaker 2: in their Harconin finery at conventions. Harconin say what you
Speaker 2: want about the Lynch film. They at least said the
Speaker 2: villain's name correctly, but Star Wars fans were the underdog.
Speaker 2: It was the biggest and most popular science fiction phenomenon
Speaker 2: the world had ever seen, but fans were basically tolerated
Speaker 2: at conventions unless it was a Star Wars convention. Then
Speaker 2: all the Star Trek pricks could piss up a rope.
Speaker 2: And to be honest, I know Star Trek people who
Speaker 2: now sneer if I bring up Star Wars. So how
Speaker 2: did this fandom slide so effortlessly into the worst thing
Speaker 2: this side of Snyder's Minions. Star Wars was the spiritual
Speaker 2: one Jedi and shit Yoda yo. Suddenly people are calling
Speaker 2: for the heads of the heads of lucasfilm.
Speaker 3: Look, on some level, I get it.
Speaker 2: We all got older, and when Lucas brought it back,
Speaker 2: he kept it pitched at kids. So all that fan
Speaker 2: fictioning we'd been doing in our heads for a decade
Speaker 2: and a half as we matured into adults became a
Speaker 2: null and void. We were counting on Star Wars aging
Speaker 2: with us, Nope, denied. Even with some of the darker
Speaker 2: shit in the later prequels. It's not meant for older
Speaker 2: fans who should be savvier and watching proper sci fi anyway,
Speaker 2: And even by the time of the prequels, the market
Speaker 2: was already flooded with novels and comics and video games,
Speaker 2: stabulishing other tributaries from the main theatrical river. That's putting
Speaker 2: aside what we all managed to put aside when we
Speaker 2: were bitching about the prequels, the fucking Holiday special. I
Speaker 2: know it can't be fun, but I'm really with Lucas
Speaker 2: about purchasing them all and burning them. And then after that,
Speaker 2: the original trilogy was followed by two fucking horrendous TV
Speaker 2: movies about the Ewoks, one featuring Wilford Brimley as a badass.
Speaker 2: There's a sequence of fetish shots of him gearing up
Speaker 2: for battle. It's Wilford Brimley. I am now not going
Speaker 2: to do the diabetes joke. It's a terrible affliction. Along
Speaker 2: with those misbegotten horrors, we had a animated show about
Speaker 2: droids and a fucking another one about the fucking Ewoks. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know how many of my fellow Star Wars
Speaker 2: fans are also students of semionics, but I don't think
Speaker 2: you need to know too much about it to figure
Speaker 2: out what these signs and signifiers might have held for
Speaker 2: the future of the franchise might not be pitched at
Speaker 2: the age we'd hoped. And then we got the prequels.
Speaker 2: Your mileage may vary, but at least their original and
Speaker 2: not nostalgic carbon copies. And with those, Lucas eliminated any
Speaker 2: other Star Wars media. No more canon, he said. And
Speaker 2: after that we get the fucking felony verse. Is that
Speaker 2: the name for it? I don't care. I'm not a fan.
Speaker 2: His stuff has always been circling the original trilogy drain,
Speaker 2: all the same missions in different low coals, all the
Speaker 2: same goals, same quests. I know he created a lot
Speaker 2: of characters you're all in love with, and I like
Speaker 2: some of them too, but it just seems like he
Speaker 2: was the guy who stuck around the office long enough
Speaker 2: and was obsessed enough that somebody eventually just said, here, man,
Speaker 2: i'm tired.
Speaker 3: You take it from here.
Speaker 2: And then we had the fuckeroo of the new sequels,
Speaker 2: and then more TV series, and then more prequel movies
Speaker 2: and new terrible series. I get it. It's frustrating how
Speaker 2: much mediocrity got thrown at us in the pursuit of
Speaker 2: paying off the bill Disney had spent for lucasfilm, but
Speaker 2: as fans, you've certainly lived up to.
Speaker 3: The fanatic part of the word.
Speaker 2: So either shut up and leave or give everything it's due,
Speaker 2: because right now there are two Star Wars properties that
Speaker 2: are as good as anything we've gotten since nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 2: and if I'm being really honest, since nineteen eighty and
Speaker 2: neither one has the nostalgia bait of a baby Yoda.
Speaker 2: Two properties that could not be more dissimilar in plant,
Speaker 2: in theme, in execution, and or is obviously one and
Speaker 2: guess what, it absolutely slakes the adult thirst for Star Wars.
Speaker 2: Complex characters navigating hostile situations, sharp dialogue, motivations are clear
Speaker 2: and concise, and the storytelling is fucking awesome. On the
Speaker 2: other end of the spectrum or galaxy, we spend a
Speaker 2: lot of time on the outer rim, don't we. But
Speaker 2: that's not where this week's selection lies. Quite frankly, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure where this series takes place, and that's kind
Speaker 2: of the point. That's right doing what even the Lucas
Speaker 2: wasn't ever really capable of. John Watt and Christopher Ford
Speaker 2: have given us a kid Star Wars that's just a god,
Speaker 2: damned light God. It took us a while to get here.
Speaker 2: But put down your sabers and just relax. Star Wars fans,
Speaker 2: we're talking about Skeleton crew.
Speaker 1: What are you in for?
Speaker 2: What are you in for?
Speaker 3: I found something buried in the woods. This is unacceptable.
Speaker 3: Do you understand?
Speaker 1: What do you think it is?
Speaker 2: Don't touch anything?
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 3: We're lost, really lost. Stay together, we just need some directions.
Speaker 1: Home alone kid, Hey wall, where'd you two find an
Speaker 1: old Republic credit?
Speaker 2: Over here? Quick?
Speaker 3: I'll get you home. We'll make a partnership, but we
Speaker 3: have to move faster. I need you to take the controls. Okay,
Speaker 3: leil lel. A crew of murderous pirates is coming from.
Speaker 1: Something's wrong.
Speaker 3: They're not going to just turn up. We need to
Speaker 3: find them. We're not alone on there, be warned. Every
Speaker 3: booby traps.
Speaker 2: Russ when none day ago. If you hear this, don't.
Speaker 1: Give up no matter what.
Speaker 2: Here's what you probably keep hearing goonies, and it is
Speaker 2: that it has that flavor. It is, after all, about
Speaker 2: four tweens engaged in a story that sets them on
Speaker 2: a quest for hidden treasure, just like our one eyed
Speaker 2: Willie Chasing Gang in a movie that's not as great
Speaker 2: as you remember. But really, this is Treasure Island, and
Speaker 2: it's the fucking best adaptation of that book since Wallace
Speaker 2: Beery stomped his peg leg through the nineteen thirty four edition.
Speaker 2: I know Tim Curry is in that Muppet flick, but
Speaker 2: that's not great. Tim Curry is great. That's a common
Speaker 2: mistake people make. They remember a movie that Tim Curry
Speaker 2: is in and then remember it as a good movie.
Speaker 3: It wasn't.
Speaker 2: Tim Curry is just awesome. Filling in the traitorous adult role.
Speaker 2: Here is Jude Law as a pirate with dozens of
Speaker 2: aliuses and a connection to the force. Also aiding them
Speaker 2: is a droid, a fucking pirate robot with a creature
Speaker 2: living in its skull, and it is voiced by Nick
Speaker 2: Frost from Sean of the Dead and other Edgar Wright properties.
Speaker 2: He's pretty much the best first mate you could ever
Speaker 2: hope for. If AI is going to speak like a
Speaker 2: pirate and give us this kind of automaton, then take
Speaker 2: over already.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: I say automaton just like I say automobile. We get
Speaker 2: locales we've never seen before in this universe, including Suburbia,
Speaker 2: which I thought we'd never see, and quite frankly, I
Speaker 2: hoped we never would. So I was pleasantly surprised by
Speaker 2: how comfortable it all was, and a nice reminder that
Speaker 2: not every story in the Star Wars universe involves grand
Speaker 2: prophecies and mystical objects. That's why and Or works so well.
Speaker 2: It stripped the storytelling away from the Jedi and all
Speaker 2: the controlling forces and turned it over to ordinary folk
Speaker 2: in this universe. Yes, all have their part to play
Speaker 2: in the grand scheme, but the stakes in the situations
Speaker 2: can be just as great if they're personal. Adding to
Speaker 2: that personal touch are the adults on this suburban world
Speaker 2: of at at in real characters, not just scolds or
Speaker 2: obstacles or bumblers. Tell me, every adult besides the Fortellis
Speaker 2: were not total fucking idiots in the goonies. One of
Speaker 2: the parents here is a straight up practical alien, by
Speaker 2: the way, as is one of our child leads, and
Speaker 2: it always works. Who knew you could have an alien
Speaker 2: character filmed beside the other actors and not laid in
Speaker 2: by some bleary eyed keyboard monkey months later. It must
Speaker 2: have been so distracting for the other actors to have
Speaker 2: an actor present in the scene with them, and not
Speaker 2: a fucking tennis ball. Speaking of practical Phil Tippett's shop
Speaker 2: did a stop motion character in one of the later episodes,
Speaker 2: and I think it's the biggest creature they've done. Maybe
Speaker 2: that space Slug was bigger.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe that was a puppet, not slow motion.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There are more obsessive nerds out there with the answers. Anyway,
Speaker 2: all the kids here are great, the characters and the actors.
Speaker 2: Not a whiff of precocious to be found. And along
Speaker 2: the way they managed to encounter a whole host of
Speaker 2: new and interesting characters, including that werewolf from the original
Speaker 2: New Hope Cantina, and he's awesome as an antagonist. Interesting characters,
Speaker 2: interesting choices. I never thought in my life i'd see
Speaker 2: a scene where Jaliel white Erkele shares the frame with
Speaker 2: Jude Law, but this series does that, and it gives
Speaker 2: us my absolute new favorite character in the whole goddamn shebang,
Speaker 2: a bounty hunter named Pocket played by Kelly McDonald from
Speaker 2: Trainspotting and Brave and Boardwalk Empire. Goddamn she is awesome.
Speaker 2: I keep saying awesome.
Speaker 1: A lot.
Speaker 2: But then there is that Goony's Eighties connection. What that
Speaker 2: movie did get right and is replicated here is the
Speaker 2: sense of actual danger. There seems to be a concerted
Speaker 2: effort behind the scenes to give us genuine thrills, and
Speaker 2: that includes some truly harrowing stuff. And every episode since
Speaker 2: I'm waxing, Rhapsodic always managed to defy my expectations. By that,
Speaker 2: I mean they telegraph stuff and deliver on that, but
Speaker 2: then there'd be some twist or innovation I wouldn't see coming.
Speaker 2: This is coming out on If you're listening to this
Speaker 2: episode the day it comes out, it is the Monday
Speaker 2: before the season finale. So I'm recommending the show at
Speaker 2: a bit of a disadvantage. But unless the ending turns
Speaker 2: into some sort of deep fake remember all these folks situation,
Speaker 2: I feel confident you won't be let down. I know
Speaker 2: it's been a long trek Star Wars, but everyone should
Speaker 2: just fucking chill out. Stop obsessing it what came before
Speaker 2: or what might annoy you in the future. Right now,
Speaker 2: there's as good as you're going to get for the franchise.
Speaker 2: And or watch the first season, Skeleton Crew. Watch the
Speaker 2: first season and can we please get a musical biopic
Speaker 2: of figuring Dan and the Modal Nodes. They'd finally have
Speaker 2: a legit reason to do a musical Star Wars you
Speaker 2: know what, fuck it while I'm at it and fan
Speaker 2: fictioning all over the place remake can bo jest on
Speaker 2: Tatoween with the sand People only the sand People are
Speaker 2: the French Foreign Legion defending against Imperial troops as they
Speaker 2: try and get a foothold here in the Outer Rim.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I get it. The Outer Rim is cool.
Speaker 2: You are correct, Ripley.
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 2: One more recommendation Skeleton Crew related. I know Christmas is over,
Speaker 2: but Jude Law plays Kate Winsland's brother in The Holiday,
Speaker 2: which is a Christmas movie, but really it could be
Speaker 2: said in any holiday. I encourage you to see it.
Speaker 2: It's Jude Law's best performance. I'm speaking specifically as the
Speaker 2: play within a play character of mister Napkin Face.
Speaker 3: So it's time for you to choose young or Ripley.
Speaker 2: No, I told you that pop culture Jeopardy is not
Speaker 2: an option here at the roundup. Weekend Update is, but
Speaker 2: I get to choose the era. What are Weekend Update
Speaker 2: anchor or anchors that aren't my favorite?
Speaker 3: For two hundred? Who is Colin Jost? Take it away,
Speaker 3: hp J, Thank you HP.
Speaker 2: There's currently a chimp with a camera strap to its
Speaker 2: back roaming your property. Just act naturally. Oh, I see
Speaker 2: what you're doing. You're going Colin Jost adjacent. You're going
Speaker 2: with Colin Contemporaries.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Here's a quick SNL fact the board that indicates what
Speaker 2: sketch goes where while they're planning the show. Each week
Speaker 2: has had the same category of cards basically since the
Speaker 2: first season fifty years ago. Cold Open, Monologue, Music Break,
Speaker 2: Weekend Update, week in, week out. The styles of comedy
Speaker 2: have changed, the performers have been replaced with others the
Speaker 2: music guest after music guest after music guest, but the
Speaker 2: format was always solid. That would change after the two
Speaker 2: thousand and five hiring of Akiva Shaffer, Andy Samberg and
Speaker 2: Yorma Tacone, a Berkeley bred comedy trio that had already
Speaker 2: established themselves as the Lonely Island. After them, a new
Speaker 2: card hit the board, the SNL Digital Short. Now, I
Speaker 2: don't think SNL was in any sort of trouble when
Speaker 2: they came along. As a matter of fact, the year's
Speaker 2: Lonely Island were on SNL appear now to be one
Speaker 2: of the show's patented golden ages. The writing and performing
Speaker 2: were in sync and absolutely sparkling. But what Lonely Island
Speaker 2: did was managed to pull the show kicking and screaming
Speaker 2: into the twenty first century. All the shouts of diy
Speaker 2: we kept hearing at the end of the nineties are
Speaker 2: embodied in These guys have an idea for a sketch
Speaker 2: that would be impractical to mount in the studio, run
Speaker 2: down and film it with some home video equipment. Bam,
Speaker 2: two minutes of comedy to plug in wherever you need
Speaker 2: it now. It may be said that the current iteration
Speaker 2: of SNL maybe leans a little too heavily in the
Speaker 2: pre tape arena, but pretapes were still pretty sparse at
Speaker 2: this point, and remember they once had Schiller vision. And
Speaker 2: even as the shorts became more elaborate, they seemed to
Speaker 2: become more innovative, employing the full resources of SNL's production
Speaker 2: staff and performers, and frequently directed by Shaffer, whose progress
Speaker 2: as a filmmaker you can just watch season season. It's
Speaker 2: like film school and action. The shorts with spotlight hosts
Speaker 2: in truly unexpected in thrilling ways and meander down every
Speaker 2: comedic attitude with Lazy Sunday and Natalie's rap as monster
Speaker 2: hits for them and the show employing this here YouTube
Speaker 2: thing something the show barely understood. Apparently they were pretty
Speaker 2: quickly giving out one of those Lorne Michael's Bobbles, a
Speaker 2: mid budget paramount Starr, but they at least got to
Speaker 2: rewrite and direct it. That was hot Rod and it's okay,
Speaker 2: there's some very funny stuff, but you can tell it
Speaker 2: to rewrite of a plot in characters they'd never have
Speaker 2: come up with, kind just kind of a tail ender
Speaker 2: of that whole Aren't White trash? Hilarious cycle of films
Speaker 2: like Talladega Nights and Joe Dirt? How is the Lonely
Speaker 2: Island's first film not going to be music driven? And
Speaker 2: evidently they basically had to finish the season, go make
Speaker 2: the movie during the summer and be back for the
Speaker 2: show and then do post every other week or something.
Speaker 2: It sounds hillatious That pressure Cooker seems to work well
Speaker 2: from Studio eight h, but not necessarily on location in Canada.
Speaker 2: I will say that the riot scene is very very funny,
Speaker 2: but that's about all. It wasn't until after they'd left
Speaker 2: SNL that they hooked up with John Appatoo, who caught
Speaker 2: into their idea of a music mock documentary. I Los
Speaker 2: Spinal Tap but plugged into the proliferation of self funded
Speaker 2: tour in depth look into the private lives of pop
Speaker 2: stars that seem to be everywhere one direction. Katy Perry
Speaker 2: the Bieber from twenty sixteen This is pop Star, Never stop,
Speaker 2: never stopping.
Speaker 3: Okay, where to start? Ever since I was born, I
Speaker 3: loved music as soon as I could. I started a
Speaker 3: band right away.
Speaker 1: We knew he was something special. Immediately, I said, Man,
Speaker 1: this guy right here, he's gonna make it big.
Speaker 3: Call it for real. I should be saving the record industry.
Speaker 3: Everybody's waiting to see, like what he does next.
Speaker 1: Connor's hot.
Speaker 2: You tell me you didn't see him and say, yo,
Speaker 2: he's the stars.
Speaker 1: All so expressive. Connor currently is thirty two people on
Speaker 1: his personal payroll. Sure, Connor surrounds himself with people who
Speaker 1: are agreeable.
Speaker 3: Like Cartney and Kanye and Yeah, I was all my woodwork.
Speaker 3: It's kind of my passion because it was a mask.
Speaker 1: Still me, I'd love to get Connor to the point
Speaker 1: where he's just kind of everywhere, like oxygen or gravity
Speaker 1: or clinical depression. He's just everywhere.
Speaker 2: I make sure all the instruments are tiptop. No one
Speaker 2: really plays guitar, but we got him here and pays
Speaker 2: he wants one.
Speaker 1: A genius. It's pronounced to bora.
Speaker 3: What's the origin of that. I believe it's not a competition, not.
Speaker 1: Because I'm so in a way, being righteous is my weakness.
Speaker 3: People say I'm so well pretentious for the gene years,
Speaker 3: you know, it takes a village to make me looked out.
Speaker 2: Originally titled Connor for Real, the idea was more focused
Speaker 2: on the one character. It was Appata who suggested that
Speaker 2: what makes the lonely Island so damn good is there
Speaker 2: are three of them and their friendship, and perhaps they
Speaker 2: ought to focus on that, and thank god they did,
Speaker 2: because that's what forms the beating heart of this film
Speaker 2: and ends up elevating it above the dozens of musical
Speaker 2: misfires we've had between Spinal Tap and Now. Samberg plays
Speaker 2: Connor Friel and Now Connor for Real, who was once
Speaker 2: Kid Connor, part of a pop rap boy band known
Speaker 2: as The Style Boys. Tacone plays Lauren Boschard, kid Contact
Speaker 2: of the Style Boys and now Connor's DJ, and Schaffer
Speaker 2: stars as Lawrence Done kid Brain who quit the business
Speaker 2: and became a farmer. It's weed, I'm spoiling that joke
Speaker 2: as a fellow cannabis cultivator Kid Brain forever fuck Connor
Speaker 2: in Contact so kind of like Destiny's Child are the
Speaker 2: supremes The Style Boys. Standout was Connor and he blew
Speaker 2: up huge. He's an amalgam of every self obsessed entertainment
Speaker 2: type of the last of like a hundred years, and
Speaker 2: as he's about to release his sophomore album, that's when
Speaker 2: the film begins. Predictably, things go south, very quickly and
Speaker 2: very hilariously. They're aided ably by a heavy hitting supporting cast,
Speaker 2: in addition to the seemingly endless array of music industry
Speaker 2: icons playing themselves. Fellow SNL veteran Tim Meadows. Is there
Speaker 2: anyone better than Tim Meadows? Anyone who immediately sends you
Speaker 2: it ease when he shows up in something he plays?
Speaker 2: He plays Connor's manager and once the fourth member of
Speaker 2: Tony Tony Tony, Tony Tony Tony Tony also appearing are
Speaker 2: other SNL players like Maya Rudolph, Joan Cusack, she was
Speaker 2: on SNL for one season.
Speaker 3: Am I the only one who remembers that?
Speaker 2: Bill Hayter, Kevin Neeland, Jimmy Fallon, and Chris red as
Speaker 2: A Kanye Tyler, the creator mashup Hunter, the Hungary who
Speaker 2: proves to be Connor's salvation and destruction. The documentary style,
Speaker 2: while drawing unnecessary comparisons to spinal Tap, allows this seasoned
Speaker 2: group of sketchwriters to effectively give us a dozen cent
Speaker 2: pieces that operate remarkably well as a whole. And that
Speaker 2: is in no small part to the central performance by
Speaker 2: Andy Samberg. As much as he's been the face of
Speaker 2: Lonely Island and gotten a lion's share of the attention
Speaker 2: over the years, I think Samberg is wildly underrated as
Speaker 2: a performer. Like the best of SNL players, he can
Speaker 2: navigate not only the different layers and styles of comedy
Speaker 2: whatever the given setup, but he's also pretty dynamic as
Speaker 2: a dramatic actor. Check out Palm Springs, the comedy from
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen that The Lonely Island produced and Samberg co
Speaker 2: stars alongside recent Penguin Megastar Selfia fl Cone, herself, Kristin Milioti.
Speaker 2: That is a very funny but very serious film about Wow.
Speaker 2: I can't get into that. There's too much plot in
Speaker 2: that one. We just don't have time. Just watch it,
Speaker 2: Palm Springs. It's amazing and more to the point, Samberg
Speaker 2: is great there, and he manages one of my favorite
Speaker 2: sleights of hand here. He takes an arrogant prick of
Speaker 2: a character and slowly makes us care for him and deeply.
Speaker 2: Apataw was definitely onto something. I think this is their
Speaker 2: most successful work to date, and it's undeniably because of
Speaker 2: the dynamic amongst the Lonely Island themselves. Even though Shaffer
Speaker 2: isn't on screen as much as the others, the scenes
Speaker 2: where all three or together feel natural and joyous, even
Speaker 2: when it's a scene based entirely in conflict. I'm going
Speaker 2: to get back to Shaff in a second, but one
Speaker 2: of the central sources of the Style Boys fracturing in
Speaker 2: the film is Connor's theft of a Verse, written by
Speaker 2: Lawrence's kid Brain. It's the catchphrase verse, and it's what
Speaker 2: propelled Connor to superstart him ahead of his first solo
Speaker 2: album and you can hear why.
Speaker 1: He's kinda bitch. Say word word dok D Sorry yeah,
Speaker 1: squirrel j ballance.
Speaker 3: In my check.
Speaker 1: On Honey Baskins door, now broaking with the boy.
Speaker 3: Watch me.
Speaker 1: Swinky put my mamma pet music concis like a mother
Speaker 1: creak up.
Speaker 3: Patrick Stewart money. You don't conn.
Speaker 2: It was Shaffer that came up with Patrick Stewart money.
Speaker 2: I said he wasn't in the film much, and that's
Speaker 2: to be forgiven, even though he shares directing credit. You
Speaker 2: get the idea Shaffer is the one dealing with the
Speaker 2: annoying on st a while, you know, actually directing the movie.
Speaker 2: Do I have a favorite Lonely Island guy? Obviously Shaffer.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if I'm being subjective or not,
Speaker 2: but I've seen mcgruber. I'm gonna go with all of
Speaker 2: Shaffer's SNL digital shorts as precedent and the work done
Speaker 2: here and say it's him doing the directing. Oh and
Speaker 2: he did that Chippendale Rescue Rangers movie, which I don't
Speaker 2: know how it isn't spoken of as fondly as Roger
Speaker 2: Rabbit was in its day. Are we just living in
Speaker 2: a post mash up culture? The idea of crossovers is
Speaker 2: so pedestrian.
Speaker 3: Now are we that jaded?
Speaker 2: Speaking of jaded, I was feeling pretty defiant about the
Speaker 2: prospect of a Naked Gun remake till I heard Shaffer
Speaker 2: was directing with Liam Neeson as Frank Drevin. That's coming
Speaker 2: out later this year, and we're definitely going to be
Speaker 2: covering it. I haven't even mentioned the fucking music, Make
Speaker 2: no mistake. Even if the music had been straight pop
Speaker 2: numbers with no irony in it, it would still work
Speaker 2: as a movie. It would stand as a comedy without
Speaker 2: any music. But then less we forget it's the Lonely Island,
Speaker 2: And really they're one of the best musical acts of
Speaker 2: the past twenty years.
Speaker 3: Think about it.
Speaker 2: How many times have you listened to I'm on a
Speaker 2: Boat or Lazy Sunday or G'Z in My Pants or
Speaker 2: through It on the Ground. I bet it was a
Speaker 2: lot more and a lot sooner than the last time
Speaker 2: you put on LMFAO's Party Rock. Because musically they're just
Speaker 2: as earwormy as the best of whatever genre they're locked onto.
Speaker 2: But they're incredibly clever lyrically, even when it's nonsense and
Speaker 2: the songs in this film do not disappoint. From the
Speaker 2: opening banger, the unironic irony fest, I'm so humble with
Speaker 2: frequent collaborator Adam Levine, I'm allowed to say banger.
Speaker 3: I'm just under the age cut off limits.
Speaker 1: About that so oppressive mishalf Frequently I mentioned all of
Speaker 1: my success is way. Girls say that I should model
Speaker 1: my Familey's fool from all the rock swallow, I'm the
Speaker 1: most bit of will, has a bit of bull reel
Speaker 1: normal Larry Arnold's watch norma ary.
Speaker 3: I hate compliments. Put them in the mortuary.
Speaker 1: I'ms ordinary that it's truly quite extraordinary, not adition. But
Speaker 1: I'm winning.
Speaker 3: You will give me a needing because I'm sulting.
Speaker 1: People have them done.
Speaker 2: I'm not you too, the virtue signaling panic fest equal
Speaker 2: rights this way straight we k straight and gayskay sure
Speaker 2: and change suth up beauty my gay.
Speaker 1: We can't live this weight gay.
Speaker 3: We can't turn away the gate.
Speaker 1: And so wan make the South the time of changes
Speaker 1: now sports Lying in bed next to ten beautiful girls,
Speaker 1: all straight, and while the made left everyone at them,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the world high wings. How is
Speaker 1: it that I can't have so much straight sex, while
Speaker 1: some door repressed, not gay, happen sex not gay, putting
Speaker 1: on a wedding dress. I assume I don't really know
Speaker 1: that much about it. Beef jerkey tastes good, politics are
Speaker 1: reported and if girls want to have sense with me,
Speaker 1: because it says this so Bet and.
Speaker 2: Gage, I'm not Connor would like you to know he's
Speaker 2: not gay. To a duet with Hunter two bandidos that
Speaker 2: has a bit about a digeridoo that made my late
Speaker 2: wife laugh so hard I thought she was going to
Speaker 2: pass out in the theater. Sincerely, when's your first cousin
Speaker 2: with the digii do?
Speaker 3: And when you came, you know what sounded like? Wow
Speaker 3: wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: All of the music here is not only as good
Speaker 2: as anything we've gotten from Lonely Island's solo work, but
Speaker 2: it's much more pointed, filling out this universe rather than
Speaker 2: just devolving into joke machines. For those of you who
Speaker 2: haven't seen it, there is a scene between Connor and
Speaker 2: his manager and a swarm of angry bees that is
Speaker 2: just incredible. I envy you your first watch Future running
Speaker 2: Man director Edgar Wright had this to say about the
Speaker 2: scene quote, there has to be a special Academy Award
Speaker 2: for the bees scene in pop Star Never Stop, Never
Speaker 2: Stopping as usual, his instincts are correct. I'm gonna play
Speaker 2: just a piece of it, but just having the audio
Speaker 2: won't do it justice.
Speaker 3: I think, like, are you wearing sunscreen? It's overcat, it
Speaker 3: can still burn you through the cos.
Speaker 1: Am.
Speaker 2: I just gonna keep heaping praise on this movie. You're
Speaker 2: fucking right, I am. The Christmas season was filled with
Speaker 2: duds and the horizon looks so murky. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go on and on about something that's legitimately worth not
Speaker 2: only a watch, but a rewatch and then a listen
Speaker 2: to the soundtrack and any further exploration of the Lonely
Speaker 2: Island catalog. And you should definitely be listening to the
Speaker 2: Lonely Island Seth Myers podcast, where all three members and
Speaker 2: Seth Myers are doing an episode by episode analysis of
Speaker 2: all their digital shorts. People use the word obsessed a
Speaker 2: little too casually these days, cheapening the word I am
Speaker 2: obsessed with that show, you will be too. I don't
Speaker 2: know if this movie will be as formative for the
Speaker 2: current generation as Spinal Tap was for mine. But it
Speaker 2: deserves to be just that, a music and comedy foundation
Speaker 2: that others can build on.
Speaker 3: And that is it. That's right. Only two choices this week.
Speaker 3: I did mention I've been ill. Lady.
Speaker 2: Thank you once again for joining us here at Father
Speaker 2: Malone's weekly roundup, and thanks for sticking with us here
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Speaker 2: only series like Cable Box Theater where noise Junkies host
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Speaker 2: at early cable television theatrical presentations. We just dropped a
Speaker 2: new episode where we tried to drive each other insane
Speaker 2: by selecting the worst made for TV, fair imaginable for
Speaker 2: each other. I chose the Day my Kid went punk.
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Speaker 2: just listening is enough. I'm truly thankful until next time. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we're gonna leave you with the lonely eyelands l.
Speaker 3: Thank them losing the mind. Drop in today to treat
Speaker 3: a car or a bottle of pills. And after that,
Speaker 3: I'm on a fishing quest.
Speaker 1: Put my mind, body canceled to the test, and after that,
Speaker 1: I mean my total spirit. It's a rattlesnake, so I
Speaker 1: have to give it then a drinkle his blood and
Speaker 1: steal his powers and slither around in the dirt for hours.
Speaker 3: And after that I start jerking off.
Speaker 1: Up on a mountain, jerking off down by.
Speaker 3: The lip, jerking off.
Speaker 1: And that's when I had my epiphany, if you can't
Speaker 1: spend your whole life jerking off.
Speaker 3: And after that, I'm going back to the city.