This week, it's a Guest Makes Mike SCREAM, as Vin Craig returns to the podcast to make the Mikes watch one of his new Halloween favorites, Adam Sandler in HUBIE HALLOWEEN!
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[00:01:03] Amazing. Good job, Mike. Thank you.
[00:01:06] I'm Mike Smith and joining me as always is someone who knows that water sucks.
[00:01:12] It really, really sucks. Water sucks. It really, really sucks.
[00:01:16] Mike's creature.
[00:01:17] How are you doing today, Mike?
[00:01:18] I'm doing great. Something about Gatorade and HTO. I don't really remember what those ones are.
[00:01:25] It has been maybe like 15 years since I've actually watched the Waterboy in full.
[00:01:29] But that was like, for whatever reason, that moment's one of the sticks out to me where there's just like 10 Henry Winklers singing.
[00:01:35] True.
[00:01:36] And our guest today at some point will surely utter one of the most insanely idiotic things you've ever heard.
[00:01:42] At no point in his rambling, incoherent speech will he even come close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
[00:01:49] Everyone listening to this podcast will be dumber for having heard it.
[00:01:52] We will award him no points and may God have mercy on his soul.
[00:01:57] Vin Craig, welcome back to the podcast.
[00:01:59] A simple no would have worked.
[00:02:04] What's up, boys?
[00:02:05] Hey, Vin, it's been a little bit since you have been on the podcast.
[00:02:09] My microphone broke and I don't know if I've told you that until right this second.
[00:02:14] Which I think I thought you made your microphone that you're using right now.
[00:02:18] It's just no, no, no, no, no.
[00:02:20] That was no.
[00:02:21] My other my previous microphone.
[00:02:23] Right.
[00:02:24] Prior to this one broke.
[00:02:25] And I just like was not in a place where I was getting a new one at that moment.
[00:02:30] Just like spiritually.
[00:02:31] You couldn't handle it.
[00:02:32] No, like fiscally.
[00:02:34] I was like unemployed for four months because I thought it'd be fun.
[00:02:37] Yeah, yeah.
[00:02:37] Just try that.
[00:02:38] Yeah.
[00:02:39] Two months for two of like for the three.
[00:02:41] I was supposed to be unemployed for like a month because I had a job lined up through
[00:02:44] a person which I still don't have.
[00:02:46] I got another job.
[00:02:46] I'm working at a cheese shop.
[00:02:47] It's incredible.
[00:02:48] Hell yeah.
[00:02:49] Nice.
[00:02:49] Yeah.
[00:02:50] People love cheese, but I'll talk to you guys about that on Mike and Mike eat cheese.
[00:02:54] Right.
[00:02:56] Yeah.
[00:02:57] Yeah.
[00:02:58] Yeah.
[00:02:59] I'm going to be back.
[00:02:59] It's our charcuterie podcast.
[00:03:01] Yeah.
[00:03:04] Pretty good.
[00:03:05] Pretty good.
[00:03:06] Yeah.
[00:03:07] No, Vin, it's great to have you back.
[00:03:08] What have you been up to other than being unemployed for the last year or so?
[00:03:11] Well, OK, four months.
[00:03:12] Yeah.
[00:03:13] Yeah.
[00:03:13] So a year or so since you've been on the podcast.
[00:03:15] But during that time.
[00:03:16] Oh, right.
[00:03:17] Valid.
[00:03:17] No, you're valid.
[00:03:19] God, I moved.
[00:03:20] So I moved.
[00:03:21] I'm living in my own place now.
[00:03:22] Nice.
[00:03:23] With my roommate, Steve, who's just the best.
[00:03:26] I have so many good stories about him.
[00:03:29] We really were like polar opposites.
[00:03:31] He's like very literal, very forward thinking, very motivated.
[00:03:35] And you guys have met me.
[00:03:40] So, no, it's been fun, though.
[00:03:41] It's been fun living on my own.
[00:03:43] I got a sick movie viewing set up in my living room where it's like just couch and TV centered living room.
[00:03:51] And I show him movies all the time and it's great.
[00:03:54] And yeah, so I got a job at a cheese shop.
[00:03:57] That was a lot of fun.
[00:03:58] People are so stoked to buy cheese all the time.
[00:04:02] And I'm coming from like the restaurant world where, you know, when people walk in, you're like, hi, right?
[00:04:07] Like, welcome to the restaurant.
[00:04:09] And they're like, fuck you.
[00:04:10] You're like, right this way, please.
[00:04:12] Thank you.
[00:04:12] Please write this way.
[00:04:14] And just with cheese, it's different because people have to come talk to me.
[00:04:19] I know I like probably know a little more than them.
[00:04:22] Right. Right.
[00:04:23] So they have to come in and talk to me and have to be very nice to me.
[00:04:27] Hell yeah.
[00:04:27] You know what I mean?
[00:04:28] Yeah.
[00:04:29] No, that makes sense.
[00:04:30] Other than that, uneventful year.
[00:04:31] Gonna be honest.
[00:04:32] I can't believe a year has gone by.
[00:04:35] That's crazy.
[00:04:35] Yeah.
[00:04:36] I think I think the last time you were on, like, you must have been on at some point last year.
[00:04:40] And I'm trying to pinpoint when was there a new fast and furious last year that you were on for fast.
[00:04:44] I was on.
[00:04:45] Yeah, I think it was one of the last things I did before I moved out of my parents house.
[00:04:49] Okay.
[00:04:49] Yeah. So I think you were on our fast X episode back.
[00:04:52] So it's been a year and a few months then.
[00:04:54] Yeah, roughly something like that.
[00:04:55] Cause I remember we tried here.
[00:04:56] We were going to do the, uh, the in person episode when I was back, back in like January and you couldn't make it.
[00:05:01] We were doing the Godzilla minus one.
[00:05:03] Uh, I never got to see it.
[00:05:05] You never saw it.
[00:05:06] Damn.
[00:05:06] No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I saw the movie.
[00:05:08] It's great.
[00:05:08] Um, I meant I wasn't able to see it before, before the podcast.
[00:05:12] Oh, okay. Before the episode.
[00:05:12] Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha.
[00:05:13] Actually that got me a huge tip at the cheese shop because this one guy came in wearing a Godzilla
[00:05:18] minus one shirt.
[00:05:19] Hell yeah.
[00:05:19] And I was like, that movie cooks.
[00:05:21] And we talked about Godzilla for like 20 minutes.
[00:05:23] Nice.
[00:05:23] Uh, and he, he left and my coworker was like, wow, I didn't know you like Godzilla that much.
[00:05:27] And I was like, I don't, I just culturally, like, I have a very like pop culture driven,
[00:05:34] like interest in things and brain.
[00:05:36] Sure.
[00:05:36] So he picked up.
[00:05:37] I know where, yeah, it worked out.
[00:05:39] Yeah.
[00:05:39] It was my roommate say I have approximate knowledge of many things.
[00:05:42] Yes.
[00:05:44] Yes, absolutely.
[00:05:45] Uh, so yeah.
[00:05:46] And in the past you've, uh, talked to us about, you know, you're also an actor, you pop up
[00:05:49] and things here and there, you were in a, the dead don't die.
[00:05:52] You're the guy, uh, the guy, uh, behind Danny Glover eating some chicken wings.
[00:05:55] Uh, you were in paint with Owen Wilson, uh, which I got to see in the Roxy annex last
[00:05:59] year.
[00:06:00] You were in an episode of girls five ever, which we talked about back then.
[00:06:03] And you just told us about, uh, something that we can't really talk about on the air.
[00:06:06] Um, but, uh, a pretty exciting project that you're going to be part of.
[00:06:09] Um, uh, but I won't say any more than that, but, uh, when we, when that, when that movie
[00:06:14] gets released, we should definitely have you back on and talk about it.
[00:06:17] Has there been anything in the, in the past year or so that, uh, you would want to tell
[00:06:20] people about?
[00:06:20] I talked my way into an audition to a Steve Carell, Tina Fey show.
[00:06:26] That's filming like all over beacon right now.
[00:06:28] Really? Hell yeah. Yeah.
[00:06:30] Nice. Um, it's called the four seasons.
[00:06:32] Uh, my roommate and my housemate, uh, have both met Steve Carell.
[00:06:37] He goes into their restaurant all the time.
[00:06:39] I've been seeing photos of Steve Carell in beacons.
[00:06:41] That makes sense that he's filming a show there that that tracks.
[00:06:44] Oh, for sure. So yeah, this woman came into the cheese shop, shout out cheese shop.
[00:06:48] Uh, wearing a hat that just said film. And I was like, Oh, do you, do you work?
[00:06:53] I was like, I like that hat. Do you work in film?
[00:06:55] She's like, yes, I'm a producer. And I was like, Oh cool. I like, I'm, I'm an actor.
[00:07:00] And she's like, I'm actually producing the Tina Fey, Steve Carell show in town.
[00:07:03] And I was like, Oh, let me redo this then. Hi, uh,
[00:07:06] Vin Craig, SAG after a five, six. And she started laughing.
[00:07:09] So I was like sick. Hell yeah. Here's some free cheese. Do you like me?
[00:07:13] So yeah, I made her a sandwich. Uh, and then I did the very inappropriate thing.
[00:07:17] And where I, I interrupted her lunch. Um, and I popped my head out and I, I was just like, hi, I know this is the, the inappropriate thing to do, but do you've like, I didn't even try to, I didn't even ask her about the Steve Carell show.
[00:07:31] I was like, uh, you know, could we like exchange contact information? Are you an Instagram? She's like, I'm not on Instagram. So it's like rats foiled.
[00:07:39] Uh, and then she goes, but people, yeah. Um, the old, yeah. Uh, and she's like, but give me your email or I'll give you my email. Send me your, uh, real and your agent's info and I'll pass it along to casting. And true to her word, she did. Wow. Amazing. And I auditioned for the role. Ooh, I don't think I could say this. Kyle, can you bleep this out? If you can, this is really funny though. I want to get their reaction. Uh, I auditioned for the role of. Well, I was like, hell yeah. Yeah.
[00:08:10] Yeah. They found the guy. Honestly though. So the other, the thing that happened to me within the last year is I lost 40 pounds. Um, congrats. Yeah. You look great. Thank you very much. Thank you. And I think, I think that might've lost me the role. Yeah, I don't know. Exactly. We bleep it again when he says it. Cause it'll be fun. I think it'll be funny. Let's keep the mystery alive. Do they have, do they have any auditions for? Is that a potential role that you forgot for just guy to, to, as far as I know, this is the only,
[00:08:40] the only other role in the show. I know that I haven't looked at any scripts other than this scene. It's Tina Fey, Steve Carell and. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. That's so funny. Um, yeah, but whether, you know, I might get that still, I think they're filming the pilot right now. And the thing I auditioned for is kind of deeper in the like show. Okay. Yeah. Very cool. Well, good luck then. I hope you get it. Thank you so much. And, uh, so the reason you're here today is because you texted us kind of out of the blue a couple of weeks ago. I can't believe you boys let me get away with this.
[00:09:10] You know, uh, you just happened to come at a sort of like period of the podcast where it was like, Oh, we really don't have that much planned for Halloween stuff. It would be good to have something on the books. Uh, and so in the past, we used to do a lot of Halloween stuff. That's true. In the past, we used to do guest makes Mike watch where, uh, no, we called it guest makes Mike scream. Uh, where every week we'd have a different guest come on to make us watch a horror movie or a Halloween esque movie. Then I think you were one of those guests. Didn't you make us watch the Munsters? Was that you? No, I would never, I would never do that to you.
[00:09:37] Okay. That was Ash. That was Ash who, uh, by the way, if you haven't seen the Munsters, Finn, it's pretty good. Rob's actually, I thought it was decent. I thought it was fun. Uh, for a lot of love for the original. Yes. Uh, did you make us watch one though? I feel like you were involved with the guest makes my scream at some point. This would have, this would have been a few years ago. It's okay. That feels like a lifetime ago. Yeah. Yeah. We were weekly standout.
[00:10:00] My standout memory is when I made you guys watch Alita battle angel, which I myself also did not had not watched fully. I can't believe you brought this up, but it's now one of my favorite movies. I was the one defending that movie, uh, for that entire episode. And then halfway through, we discovered that Vin had left halfway through the movie to go audition for a Mark Ruffalo show. Oh yeah. The one that was the HBO show, right? That was filming, uh, in the Hudson Valley. Yes. So see, I had good reason. Fine. But did you get that role? Uh, no, I got cast in a musical and flew out to LA. Uh,
[00:10:29] like a week later. All right, fine. Okay. But hear me out. Let's, let's do, let's do it again. Let's do one more. Let's take Alita. We're going to scrap our plans for this episode. And we're just talking about Alita battle angel, uh, which I have not watched since it was in theaters five years ago. I've seen it three times. It's incredible. I did buy the blu-ray. I do have it at home. So when I, when I get the itch to watch Alita battle angel, I've got it. And I'm sort of on a Robert Rodriguez kick. Um, just because I, I recently hosted a screen
[00:10:59] of grind house, uh, at the Roxy, uh, which was amazing, super fun. And I was like, Oh yeah, Robert Rodriguez, this guy, he makes some movies that I like. He makes movies. Yeah. So part of me is like, maybe I should go back and watch spy kids. I don't know from best till dawn. That movie rules. But Alita battle angel, probably his best movie in years. Uh, I think partially cause it's him and James Cameron working together. In any case, we're getting off topic. We're not talking about Alita today. Let's not, let's not open that can of worms. Uh, no, you texted us, uh, because he were like, Hey, can I get you guys to watch Hubie Halloween?
[00:11:28] Hell yeah. And Mike D was on a flight at the time. He was flying out to Los Angeles. What a catastrophic text to land to turn my phone back on.
[00:11:37] I had control of the podcast and I was like, yeah, sure. Why not? I don't know. That'd be fun. Oh God. Incredible. And so, yeah, so that's what we're doing today. Vin is making us watch, uh, Hubie Halloween, uh, the Adam Sandler Halloween movie, uh, which came out on Netflix back in 2020. And, uh, we're going to get into it right now.
[00:11:58] It's Halloween Eve. Danger is afoot. I'm going to make sure every citizen in this town is protected.
[00:12:08] What is that monitor? Looks like he made that sash from one of your mother's scarves.
[00:12:13] Ha ha!
[00:12:16] There's something off in this town.
[00:12:19] We got an unsolved mystery here.
[00:12:21] I say Marco, you say Polo. Marco!
[00:12:25] Weirdo!
[00:12:27] Oh, Hubie, don't go out there.
[00:12:29] Salem needs me.
[00:12:35] Not sure what's happening in this creepy town.
[00:12:38] The police department is advising everyone to stay home and lock their doors.
[00:12:42] What are we screaming at?
[00:12:52] You know what I think done it all way a wolf.
[00:12:57] Think you've been watching too many scary movies, Louise?
[00:13:02] All right. That was the trailer for Hubie Halloween, uh, from the year 2020 starring Adam Sandler in the lead role as Hubie, whatever his name isn't actually Hubie Halloween, but it's something.
[00:13:13] It's Hubie something.
[00:13:14] Hubie Dubois.
[00:13:29] Hubie Dubois.
[00:13:30] But also, I love this movie so much.
[00:13:34] And I think that the energy of it speaks to the energy of, like, the Sandler movies I, like, I loved as a kid.
[00:13:41] It's the similar sensibility to, I also love, admittedly, I think Grown Ups, both of them are, like, really solid movies.
[00:13:48] Okay.
[00:13:49] Interesting.
[00:13:49] They're, they're fun watches.
[00:13:51] Say what you will about Grown Ups or Grown Ups 2, but Chocolatey Wasted has absolutely made it into the, like, pop culture lexicon, I think.
[00:13:59] Yeah, yeah.
[00:14:00] Because Sandler can't miss.
[00:14:01] I mean, that was a big line.
[00:14:04] Uh, no, I saw Grown Ups 1 in theaters and did not like it.
[00:14:07] I have not seen Grown Ups 2.
[00:14:09] I have not seen the second one.
[00:14:10] It's an insane movie that takes place over the course of, like, two days.
[00:14:14] It's, like, almost in real time.
[00:14:16] Okay.
[00:14:16] And Stone Cold Steve Austin is in it.
[00:14:18] Oh, my God.
[00:14:19] Great.
[00:14:19] Uh, and it's, it's profound.
[00:14:22] It's insane.
[00:14:22] If you watch it, like, it's, like, an experimental film, I think it plays a lot better.
[00:14:28] Amazing.
[00:14:29] Interesting.
[00:14:30] Okay.
[00:14:30] But I guess, I'll, I'll pocket those takes for, if you guys ever do a Sandler Complete Works.
[00:14:36] You know, that's, of all the people who, uh, I've gotten requests for to do, like, a season of the Complete Works on, I feel like Adam Sandler comes up maybe the most.
[00:14:43] You know, I don't know if you feel the same way, Mike D, but I feel, I feel like whenever, like, we're in the process of, like, picking out a new season.
[00:14:49] Like, Adam Sandler's name comes up.
[00:14:51] Yeah.
[00:14:57] Yeah.
[00:14:58] But, like, you know, does his goofy comedies and stuff, has some classics to his name in that front.
[00:15:02] But then also, you know, does branch out and work with interesting filmmakers from time to time.
[00:15:06] You know, you have your punch-drunk gloves and uncut gems.
[00:15:10] Funny People, I think, is very underrated.
[00:15:11] The Meyerowitz stories, uh, which is great.
[00:15:14] Uh, yeah, there's, there's so many good Sandler stuff in there mixed in with, like, your Jack and Jills, uh, and what have you.
[00:15:20] Or, or, like.
[00:15:21] Which even has, it's, like, it's, Al Pacino's unbelievable.
[00:15:25] Yeah.
[00:15:25] Like, here's, here's the thing about Jack and Jill.
[00:15:27] I have never watched it, but I have watched the Duncan Chino scene on Twitter a million times.
[00:15:32] Right.
[00:15:33] Because it is genuinely very, very funny.
[00:15:35] And I have not watched most of the Adam Sandler Netflix stuff.
[00:15:39] He was, he was one of the first, like, adopters of Netflix to, like, sign a deal with them and, like, just pump out a bunch of movies.
[00:15:44] Because he was, like, you know, a very consistent box office comedy drawl.
[00:15:47] Like, if Adam Sandler had a comedy movie out, it would make money.
[00:15:50] It was a hundred million from him.
[00:15:53] His run was, and I, of course, I know this.
[00:15:55] Uh, his run was a hundred million plus every Happy Madison produced Adam starring movie from Waterboy through Pixels.
[00:16:03] Right.
[00:16:03] That's, like, 98 through 2015.
[00:16:06] Just guaranteed box office smash.
[00:16:09] And so you have to imagine, like, whatever deal he struck with Netflix must have cost Netflix a fortune.
[00:16:14] Yeah.
[00:16:15] It was a four, I think it was a four movie, like, however many hundred, like, or tens of millions of dollars deal.
[00:16:20] Right, exactly.
[00:16:21] And he's definitely renewed it because he's definitely made more than four movies for Netflix at this point.
[00:16:25] I think he pumped out those first four in, like, a year or two years.
[00:16:28] They came out very quickly.
[00:16:30] Yeah.
[00:16:30] And it was stuff like The Ridiculous Six.
[00:16:32] Murder Mystery was one of the movies that he made.
[00:16:35] Sandy Wexler.
[00:16:36] And I have seen, I think, none of the Adam Sandler Netflix movies.
[00:16:39] Except for, I did watch You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.
[00:16:43] Good movie.
[00:16:44] Yeah, it was pretty good.
[00:16:45] And that's the one that is, he's like a supporting actor in that.
[00:16:48] He plays the dad to his real life daughter.
[00:16:50] And it's more of a teen comedy starring her.
[00:16:53] He's great in it.
[00:16:54] He's really good in it.
[00:16:56] Yes, he is very good in it.
[00:16:57] But yeah, I have not seen most of the Adam Sandler Netflix stuff.
[00:17:00] But Hubie Halloween is the one that I feel like gets brought up the most as like, hey, this is pretty good.
[00:17:06] Like, this is like the classic old school Adam Sandler stuff.
[00:17:10] And Vin, I did notice you have logged this movie six times in the letterbox.
[00:17:14] Would you believe me if I told you in the span, I think I actually watched it nine times?
[00:17:19] And just didn't log a couple of those.
[00:17:22] Like a couple of them were like, it was on in the background.
[00:17:24] But I was paying like enough attention to follow it.
[00:17:27] Yeah, fair enough.
[00:17:28] But it seems like it has become like a Halloween tradition for you to just watch Hubie Halloween at some point.
[00:17:32] A hundred percent.
[00:17:33] I'm sorry.
[00:17:33] I actually have it on right now in the background.
[00:17:35] I'm silent.
[00:17:36] And June Squibb just entered with her boner donor shirt on.
[00:17:41] Incredible.
[00:17:42] That is one of my favorite running gags in the movie.
[00:17:44] It's just every shirt that she has is very funny.
[00:17:46] I'm a big fan of I shaved my balls for this.
[00:17:49] Yeah.
[00:17:51] God, yeah.
[00:17:52] She rules.
[00:17:53] I'm so sorry.
[00:17:54] What were you saying?
[00:17:54] I'm saying this has become like a Halloween tradition for you is what it sounds like.
[00:17:57] It sounds like it's going on right now.
[00:17:59] Yeah.
[00:18:00] Yeah.
[00:18:00] Yeah.
[00:18:00] This is my third.
[00:18:01] This would be my third watch this Halloween if I was paying like full attention to it.
[00:18:06] Because I watched it and then I had the idea to text like and then I feel like it was like a few days later.
[00:18:11] I was like, oh, my God, wait, could I get them to let me talk about this movie with them on microphone?
[00:18:17] And then, yeah, you guys were into it.
[00:18:19] So I was stoked.
[00:18:20] So last night I showed it to my roommate.
[00:18:22] So, yeah, my roommate Steve, his succinct.
[00:18:24] I love it.
[00:18:24] He doesn't have a letterbox, but his review system, very simple.
[00:18:27] X amount of stars would or would not recommend to a friend would or would not watch again.
[00:18:31] Okay.
[00:18:32] This was easy.
[00:18:33] Three stars would recommend to a friend would watch again.
[00:18:35] Wow.
[00:18:35] Gotcha.
[00:18:36] And yeah, we just laughed so hard.
[00:18:38] It's such a fun.
[00:18:39] I think it's so funny.
[00:18:40] Yeah.
[00:18:41] Yeah.
[00:18:41] No, I I maybe don't love it as much as you do, Vin, but I am totally fair.
[00:18:46] I do like it a lot.
[00:18:47] I I was kind of hovering between three and three and a half.
[00:18:50] And I think maybe the three was just like I was a little hungover when I was watching it.
[00:18:54] So maybe it was just like a, you know, one of the and it was kind of the perfect like wake up.
[00:18:58] You're hungover.
[00:18:59] Watch Hubie Halloween.
[00:19:00] It's very easy to watch.
[00:19:02] That's what it ultimately comes down to.
[00:19:04] And that's I love I love like movies that are Halloween without necessarily being scary.
[00:19:09] Yeah.
[00:19:09] Like horror.
[00:19:10] Because look, saw sure.
[00:19:12] But it's like nothing.
[00:19:13] There's nothing Halloween about saw.
[00:19:15] Right.
[00:19:15] Sure.
[00:19:15] Yeah.
[00:19:16] And you're not going to get like unless you got a your friends with a bunch of freaks.
[00:19:19] You're not going to get a group of friends to watch saw on Halloween or whatever.
[00:19:22] Right.
[00:19:23] Like, I mean, you could.
[00:19:24] Yeah.
[00:19:24] I love actually.
[00:19:26] Whoa.
[00:19:26] Whoa.
[00:19:27] Yeah, of course.
[00:19:28] Obviously.
[00:19:28] I got a group of friends to watch all 10 movies with me last year when I watched all 10 movies.
[00:19:33] Yeah.
[00:19:35] But I think if you're looking for like, you know, if you're looking for something to throw on at a party.
[00:19:40] Right.
[00:19:40] You're not putting saw six on.
[00:19:42] Yeah.
[00:19:42] Even though it's a pretty great indictment of the health, the American health care system.
[00:19:46] And we all should watch saw six.
[00:19:48] Finally.
[00:19:49] But you're looking for something more like Ghostbusters, Hocus Pocus, that kind of thing.
[00:19:53] Right.
[00:19:53] And Halloween, I think, fits kind of squarely into that category.
[00:19:56] Yeah.
[00:19:56] It's just it's fun.
[00:19:57] It's easy watching.
[00:19:58] It's Halloween without being like a gory, like gross.
[00:20:01] It's just it's celebrating the season.
[00:20:03] And that's what I appreciate about it.
[00:20:04] And it's celebrating thermoses.
[00:20:06] Yes.
[00:20:06] Which is also nice.
[00:20:08] So, yeah, no, I really enjoyed it.
[00:20:10] I had a lot of fun with the movie.
[00:20:11] It did remind me of the classic Adam Sandler movies.
[00:20:15] I think for me, Adam Sandler sort of fell off a little bit in the mid 2000s.
[00:20:18] Like I his comedies weren't really hitting for me a lot.
[00:20:21] And I think what I really appreciated about his older stuff is they go to really weird,
[00:20:24] abstract places like Billy Madison, where he's like constantly hallucinating, like a
[00:20:28] giant penguin and like that, like kind of just odd shit that is in all of his movies.
[00:20:32] And so Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, the water boy.
[00:20:35] I was a big little Nicky guy.
[00:20:36] I know people don't like that one as much, but anger management.
[00:20:39] You know, I never saw anger management, actually.
[00:20:40] Oh, it's so good.
[00:20:43] I'm going to make my watch list for next year.
[00:20:46] But I love those ones.
[00:20:48] And then there is like a period in the 2000s where it's like, oh, no, I think he's just
[00:20:51] getting kind of lazy.
[00:20:52] Like now it's like, OK, Sandler's going to go off to an exotic location.
[00:20:55] A beautiful woman's going to be his wife.
[00:20:57] Some mild troubles will happen and then everything will be fine.
[00:21:00] And so you get movies like Just Go With It or Blended or, you know, Click was a weird
[00:21:05] one.
[00:21:06] Like that was like if it's a click is a weird movie for sure.
[00:21:10] Yeah.
[00:21:11] Yeah.
[00:21:11] That's the weird thing about click is like it's it's leading very heavily into like a
[00:21:15] real emotional, dramatic weight that it's going for.
[00:21:18] But it's because you're in there for like a goofy Adam Sandler comedy.
[00:21:21] I don't think it really lands.
[00:21:22] It feels very strange to me.
[00:21:24] I remember I can't imagine this movie has held up all that well.
[00:21:27] But I remember I remember laughing a lot when I saw You Don't Mess With The Zohan in 2008.
[00:21:31] I love.
[00:21:33] Yeah.
[00:21:33] So good.
[00:21:34] So funny.
[00:21:35] I haven't seen it since then.
[00:21:37] I can't imagine how it plays now, but I did like it at the time.
[00:21:41] Don't want to think about it.
[00:21:42] Yeah.
[00:21:42] Yeah.
[00:21:42] Fair enough.
[00:21:43] But like grownups to me was like, all right, he's just getting lazy.
[00:21:46] Like this is he's getting his friends together, making a movie and like hanging out in exotic
[00:21:50] location.
[00:21:50] And now I look back on that and like, eh, good for him.
[00:21:53] I don't know.
[00:21:53] That's what I'm saying.
[00:21:54] Everybody got mad that he figured it out.
[00:21:56] Right.
[00:21:56] Yeah.
[00:21:56] He's getting paid a lot of money just to hang out with his friends.
[00:21:59] Yep.
[00:22:00] And that's what I always respected.
[00:22:02] Yes.
[00:22:02] I will say I saw him live a few years ago.
[00:22:04] I saw him do a live show for my friend's bachelor party in Hershey, Pennsylvania back in like
[00:22:09] 2019.
[00:22:10] And it was incredible.
[00:22:11] It was it was an amazing show.
[00:22:13] Like he he performed live.
[00:22:15] Rob Schneider open for him.
[00:22:16] Rob Schneider was terrible.
[00:22:17] But what?
[00:22:19] You mean Rob Schneider was bad?
[00:22:22] No.
[00:22:24] He could have predicted such a thing.
[00:22:25] But yeah, he was a really fantastic live performer.
[00:22:29] And yeah, I think that I think it was 2019.
[00:22:31] It would have been like around that time.
[00:22:33] And it would have been around the time that uncut gems was coming out.
[00:22:35] And so there was a lot of like big like Sandler reappreciation happening, which was pretty
[00:22:39] cool to see.
[00:22:40] But yeah, it was a phenomenal live show.
[00:22:41] Like he did the Chris Farley song and it brought me to tears like while watching him.
[00:22:44] It was amazing.
[00:22:46] And I saw him in Pennsylvania.
[00:22:47] And the the cross side guy from Happy Gilmore happened to live in the area.
[00:22:51] So he brought him out on stage.
[00:22:52] And yeah, stuff like that.
[00:22:53] Just really, really fun stuff.
[00:22:55] Incredible.
[00:22:56] So yeah, I mean, you get you get the sense that he's just like a really chill dude that
[00:22:59] likes to work with his friends.
[00:23:00] And so he does.
[00:23:01] But yeah, Hubie Halloween was a very pleasant watch for me.
[00:23:04] Mike D, I saw you gave it two and a half stars in Letterboxd.
[00:23:06] What's your take on Hubie Halloween?
[00:23:08] Yeah.
[00:23:08] So I think I think there's a lot of like individual funny things in this movie that are very funny.
[00:23:13] You like the June Squibb t-shirt gag.
[00:23:15] That's great.
[00:23:16] The thermos stuff is great.
[00:23:17] The the ever increasing violent things that get thrown at Hubie is very funny.
[00:23:23] There's one moment towards the end where like a tuba gets thrown.
[00:23:26] A literal flaming spear.
[00:23:29] So like very funny.
[00:23:31] But but there is.
[00:23:33] So all those individual running gags.
[00:23:35] There's, you know, a bunch of jokes that are very funny.
[00:23:37] Steve Buscemi.
[00:23:38] Great.
[00:23:38] Love him.
[00:23:39] Yeah.
[00:23:40] But just overall, it didn't really come together in any kind of like this is a good movie way
[00:23:45] for me.
[00:23:45] It came together.
[00:23:46] It's like, oh, I'm enjoying this thing.
[00:23:47] And then now we're doing something that is weird and awkward.
[00:23:50] And this character that he's performing that Sandler's doing feels like it would be right
[00:23:55] at home in the Billy Madison era.
[00:23:57] But here we are in 2020, I guess, when this movie comes out and you're like, I don't really
[00:24:01] know about this one.
[00:24:02] I feel like it skirts anything being like overtly bad, offensive, wrong, you know, like
[00:24:09] morally incorrect.
[00:24:10] But like it's pretty close, I think, every now and then.
[00:24:14] So there is that.
[00:24:14] And then and then I was thinking about it.
[00:24:17] My preferred like not really spooky something is afoot in Salem on Halloween movie is my beloved
[00:24:23] Hocus Pocus.
[00:24:24] And how dare you be Halloween.
[00:24:25] You're a big Hocus Pocus guy.
[00:24:26] Yeah.
[00:24:26] Try and encroach as if that's a unique thing to Hocus Pocus.
[00:24:30] But but like for me, that's that's the pick is if I'm going to watch a like, you know,
[00:24:35] a movie like this where I just kind of a goofy sort of a family movie, although Hubie doesn't
[00:24:40] really feel like a family movie, even though it seems like it's sort of positioned that
[00:24:43] way in some weird way.
[00:24:44] I think that might just be like the Netflix of it all.
[00:24:46] But one of those kind of like you're like you're talking about, Vin, like autumnal, not
[00:24:50] really actually a scary movie kind of thing.
[00:24:53] I'm going Hocus Pocus and and not not Hubie.
[00:24:55] That's super valid.
[00:24:57] You come for the Hocus Pocus crown.
[00:24:58] You best not miss.
[00:24:59] You best not miss.
[00:24:59] Exactly.
[00:25:00] That's what I'm saying.
[00:25:01] I just don't.
[00:25:02] So I got to that movie very late in life.
[00:25:05] Very fair.
[00:25:06] Yeah.
[00:25:06] And I should probably watch it again.
[00:25:09] I just don't have the.
[00:25:11] How dare you?
[00:25:14] I got to show Sam.
[00:25:15] Late in life, right, Mike?
[00:25:16] I think.
[00:25:16] No, I saw it when I was a kid and didn't like it that much.
[00:25:19] Wow.
[00:25:20] Yeah, it's fine.
[00:25:21] And I have seen it more in the last couple of years because my girlfriend's a big fan of
[00:25:25] it.
[00:25:25] And so we've like we've watched it at home.
[00:25:27] We played it at the Roxy a couple of times and we went there and all that stuff.
[00:25:30] So I've seen it like two or three times as an adult.
[00:25:32] It's OK.
[00:25:33] It's fine.
[00:25:34] I've grown.
[00:25:34] I've grown to like it more because I have to, you know, under duress, under duress.
[00:25:40] Yeah.
[00:25:41] But yeah, I don't know.
[00:25:42] It's it's it's an OK time.
[00:25:43] It's it's fine.
[00:25:44] I would say I think I prefer Hubie Halloween.
[00:25:48] Wow.
[00:25:48] Focus, focus.
[00:25:49] Yes.
[00:25:49] Yes.
[00:25:50] Cal.
[00:25:50] You may have you may have torn the podcast asunder, Vin.
[00:25:55] That's right.
[00:25:56] What I've been aiming for all along.
[00:25:58] Mike and Vin go to the movies.
[00:26:02] I did.
[00:26:03] I did have you sub in for my D one week.
[00:26:04] I think it was like Zombieland.
[00:26:06] Zombieland.
[00:26:06] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:26:08] Was it?
[00:26:08] Did I make you guys watch?
[00:26:09] Oh, no, it wasn't upgrade.
[00:26:10] It was.
[00:26:10] Wait, did we do upgrade and Venom on the podcast or do we just do?
[00:26:14] Definitely.
[00:26:15] We definitely did Venom.
[00:26:16] I'm not sure if you were on for upgrade or if we even did an upgrade episode.
[00:26:19] I mean, that was Venom 2 recently.
[00:26:22] And I was so mad they didn't get a new Eminem original rap song.
[00:26:27] Oh, dude, that was incredible.
[00:26:29] The knock, knock and let the devil in thing.
[00:26:32] Parentheses again.
[00:26:33] Again.
[00:26:34] Yes.
[00:26:34] Yeah.
[00:26:35] Just just reprise.
[00:26:36] Play the same song.
[00:26:37] I mean, Venom 3 comes out this weekend.
[00:26:39] You never know.
[00:26:40] Could happen.
[00:26:41] Could be back.
[00:26:41] Could be back.
[00:26:42] This one's the last dance.
[00:26:43] True.
[00:26:43] Yeah.
[00:26:43] Like Michael Jordan is the last.
[00:26:45] Yeah.
[00:26:46] The audacity.
[00:26:49] Just like Michael Jordan.
[00:26:51] Right.
[00:26:51] Oh, my God.
[00:26:51] That's so funny.
[00:26:52] If it makes you feel better, one of my best friends, Sam Rebline, author of Edenville,
[00:26:58] Hocus Pocus, one of his all time favorite movies.
[00:27:00] He rides for it so hard.
[00:27:01] Hell yeah.
[00:27:02] And I it's one of the few things we just don't really align on.
[00:27:07] The 30 year old dude, Hocus Pocus is strong.
[00:27:12] There are dozens of us.
[00:27:14] Dozens.
[00:27:16] That's funny.
[00:27:17] But yeah.
[00:27:18] So, so if you'd be Halloween, Mike, it didn't do as much for you, but you liked like aspects
[00:27:21] of it, right?
[00:27:22] Yeah.
[00:27:22] Yeah.
[00:27:22] It definitely, it definitely has its moments.
[00:27:24] It definitely is fun.
[00:27:25] And like, it is undeniable that Adam Sandler is entertaining and fun to watch kind of like
[00:27:29] regardless of whatever's going on.
[00:27:31] But so much of the like stuff around him, you know, the regular, the friends he brings
[00:27:35] on vacation with him to go make these movies every now and then it's like, all right, okay.
[00:27:40] It's the, it's been the same thing for 20 years.
[00:27:43] I think we're fine.
[00:27:44] But like some of them are very funny.
[00:27:46] Like Maya Rudolph is amazing.
[00:27:50] Oh, she cooks.
[00:27:51] She's so good in this.
[00:27:52] And yeah, I mean, so yeah, I mean, I have fun overall.
[00:27:54] It's just like, you know, it's one of those things with like, like with Venom, it's like
[00:27:58] a little bit of, yeah, but we're joking though, right?
[00:28:01] It's kind of my reaction to it.
[00:28:03] Sure.
[00:28:03] Yeah.
[00:28:04] Yeah.
[00:28:04] That's all.
[00:28:05] It's not terrible.
[00:28:06] Definitely not the worst movie ever.
[00:28:07] Fair enough.
[00:28:07] Certainly not the worst Adam Sandler movie.
[00:28:09] There are so many worse ones.
[00:28:11] That's valid.
[00:28:13] Mike, I do want to ask you, did you watch this with anyone or did you watch it alone?
[00:28:16] I did watch it alone, which is for sure part of the problem of releasing a movie
[00:28:20] like this on Netflix.
[00:28:21] Yeah.
[00:28:21] You can definitely recognize like this would kill in a theater.
[00:28:25] No, because this, this has been like, I think a recurring theme on the podcast almost where
[00:28:29] I will make you watch cause we do Mike makes Mike watch every month and every once in a
[00:28:33] while I will make you watch like one of my favorite goofy comedies and you're just like
[00:28:37] stone-faced the entire time.
[00:28:39] Just, just nothing.
[00:28:40] I think you're just not a comedy guy on your own, like by yourself.
[00:28:42] Yeah.
[00:28:43] Yeah.
[00:28:43] It's definitely part of the struggle of some of these movies.
[00:28:46] You know, there, there are a lot of them, even like horror movies in general and
[00:28:49] stuff.
[00:28:49] It's like, these are built for the communal theater experience.
[00:28:52] Uh, and when you remove them from that environment, there's just, you notice the like pause for
[00:28:57] laughter or the pause for whatever you notice all the weird timing stuff and it's just like,
[00:29:01] okay, this isn't, it's not hitting or whatever.
[00:29:03] Um, so yeah, I definitely, definitely recognize that.
[00:29:05] I also did watch this and to podcast time travel spoiler alert.
[00:29:09] I watched Mishima, a life in four chapters and Hubie Halloween together as a double feature.
[00:29:13] Um, which we have to talk about that movie right after this and man, that's going to be some whiplash.
[00:29:18] That's going to be some whiplash.
[00:29:19] And it was some whiplash to go from pressing play on Mishima to pressing play on Hubie.
[00:29:23] Did they inform each other at all?
[00:29:25] Like what was that dance like?
[00:29:27] Like when you think about it, Yukio Mishima was really the Hubie Dubois of his time.
[00:29:34] Hubie also tried to stage a right wing coup.
[00:29:36] You're right.
[00:29:38] And reinstate imperialist Japan.
[00:29:40] I mean, hey, Rob Schneider's in this one.
[00:29:41] You know, that's what I'm saying about some of the guys in the, in the queue, the supporting
[00:29:45] cast that were like, we still got to bring him along.
[00:29:47] Although I get, I recognize this is four years ago, so who knows now?
[00:29:50] Um, but.
[00:29:51] Oh yeah.
[00:29:51] I can't imagine he's showing up in, uh, Gilmore too.
[00:29:54] Right.
[00:29:55] Right.
[00:29:55] Which is happening.
[00:29:57] Happy Gilmore too, is a thing that's real.
[00:29:59] That's, that's going to be on Netflix.
[00:30:00] I've been trying so hard to get on that movie and it's just not happening.
[00:30:04] It's not going to do it.
[00:30:05] I I'm trying.
[00:30:07] I've applied for extra work in every conceivable way.
[00:30:11] I went to the open call in New Jersey.
[00:30:13] Yeah.
[00:30:14] I was the hundred and 80th person to go of the thousands of people that showed up.
[00:30:19] My God.
[00:30:22] That's amazing.
[00:30:23] And speaking of, I mean, so this movie actually does call back to several, uh, other Adam
[00:30:28] Sandler movies, uh, including Happy Gilmore.
[00:30:30] Uh, a Julie Bowen is his love interest again, who is also the love interest in Happy Gilmore.
[00:30:34] Incredible.
[00:30:34] And she has a name with, uh, that starts an alliterative V name, which is the case with,
[00:30:39] uh, all of the like old Sandler movies.
[00:30:41] She's violent, Violet Valentine in this movie.
[00:30:43] But Veronica Vaughn though.
[00:30:44] No, Veronica Vaughn.
[00:30:45] That Veronica Vaughn is one fine piece of ace.
[00:30:49] I've always been partial to Vicky Valancourt myself.
[00:30:52] Vicky Valancourt.
[00:30:53] Yes.
[00:30:54] And so, yeah.
[00:30:55] So, I mean, just to that end, it almost like feels like it's an extra like addition to
[00:30:58] the canon almost.
[00:31:00] Um, just like bits like that.
[00:31:01] The fact that Ben Stiller pops up as his character from Happy Gilmore in the first two minutes.
[00:31:06] And he's locked in.
[00:31:08] Yeah.
[00:31:08] So good.
[00:31:09] Yeah.
[00:31:09] He's, it's fantastic.
[00:31:10] It was like great to see him here.
[00:31:11] Also like the bully kid is named O'Doyle and there's an O'Doyle rules that pops up in the
[00:31:16] movie.
[00:31:17] Oh yeah.
[00:31:18] Nice to know that that, by the way, my latest Letterboxd review is purely all like ping
[00:31:24] ponging off of yours.
[00:31:26] I was like, wow, it's nice to know that family didn't die in that car crash.
[00:31:32] Their legacy lived on.
[00:31:34] Yeah.
[00:31:34] No, like the, like that, that O'Doyle rules happens like in the background.
[00:31:37] Like it's an 80 yard line as like the kids are like biking away.
[00:31:40] And that got me more excited than like any Marvel cameo in the last five years.
[00:31:43] Like just, I was so excited about that.
[00:31:46] And Billy Madison, like, especially it was like the movie that I was like so obsessed with
[00:31:50] from the Sandler canon for such a long time.
[00:31:52] Like I, I must've watched that movie a million times when I was in like a middle school and
[00:31:56] high school.
[00:31:56] I haven't seen it in forever, but there's still so many bits that are burned into my brain
[00:31:59] and O'Doyle rules is absolutely one of them.
[00:32:01] So I was very excited to see, to hear that.
[00:32:03] Funnily enough, when I start to like, when I get excited about this movie in my head, I say,
[00:32:07] I do it to the, like in the cadences of him saying nudie magazine day, I'm like,
[00:32:12] Hubie Halloween day, Hubie Halloween day.
[00:32:17] Hell yeah.
[00:32:18] Yes.
[00:32:18] So yeah, I mean, to that end, it feels like more tied into like the, the canon of like
[00:32:23] Happy Madison classics, I guess, than other movies do.
[00:32:26] But yeah, other bits in Hubie Halloween that you want to give a shout out to Vin, anything
[00:32:30] in this movie that you want to just, just throw out there?
[00:32:33] Yes.
[00:32:35] I, he, I love that he's dressed as chubs.
[00:32:37] That was, that might've been the other thing you were talking about when we were texting.
[00:32:41] Oh man.
[00:32:41] Yeah.
[00:32:41] He shows up in one of the sequences, which is really funny of him getting past Kenan Thompson
[00:32:45] to get to the police station, like the police chief.
[00:32:48] Yeah.
[00:32:48] And by the way, Kevin James, unbelievable in this movie.
[00:32:50] So funny.
[00:32:51] He's pretty good.
[00:32:52] The bit where he's like, he may ask for the, the Charles Hershey's kiss and he's like,
[00:32:56] down to my last 30.
[00:32:58] So, um, God, I love the couple with the pig that gets killed.
[00:33:05] And I love when she goes, why don't you stop eating your own boogers, Dan?
[00:33:10] They're very fun.
[00:33:11] I think the, I think the, the running bits in this movie are very funny.
[00:33:15] Just like all of them.
[00:33:17] Yeah.
[00:33:17] Yeah.
[00:33:18] I do.
[00:33:18] Uh, when he gets to, when he goes to bother Kevin James for the first time and he gets
[00:33:22] like, like he's closes the window and he just put like, it's just his mouth, right?
[00:33:26] Just his lips.
[00:33:26] The camera's just his little, like his lips with a little mustache.
[00:33:30] Just like talk mumbling incoherently.
[00:33:33] Yes.
[00:33:34] One of my other favorite running bits is the old Frankenstein trick.
[00:33:37] Oh, classic.
[00:33:38] Oh yeah.
[00:33:39] Frankenstein.
[00:33:40] And everybody turns around and then that person disappears.
[00:33:42] Uh, and everybody's like, ah, they got us with the old Frankenstein trick.
[00:33:46] Rats.
[00:33:46] Well, that's what I love.
[00:33:47] Part of the thing I love about this movie is sort of general statement about the bits,
[00:33:50] but like she got the happy Halloween or shirt.
[00:33:54] Jim's group's friend.
[00:33:55] Um, is that, is that this movie makes whatever joke it wants and it doesn't care if it like
[00:34:03] makes sense in the world or not.
[00:34:05] It'll step into like absurdity momentarily.
[00:34:08] Yeah.
[00:34:08] Within the first 30 seconds when Hubie catches the boiled eggs or the eggs in his thermos and
[00:34:14] drinks them.
[00:34:15] And then projectile vomits.
[00:34:17] And says Rocky Balboa style.
[00:34:18] And then instantly, instantly projectile vomits.
[00:34:22] Uh, during the opening credits.
[00:34:25] Yes.
[00:34:25] And you didn't immediately stand up and cheer.
[00:34:27] You didn't immediately stand up and clap.
[00:34:29] Yeah.
[00:34:30] That was the moment where I was like, all right, Sandler's back.
[00:34:32] This is it.
[00:34:35] God.
[00:34:35] God.
[00:34:36] Yeah.
[00:34:36] And then it just, that into him do it, pretending to be the, like the animatronic.
[00:34:42] Yeah.
[00:34:42] Yeah.
[00:34:42] And Julie sees him, by the way, Violet Valentine is like ready to go to town with this guy the
[00:34:49] whole time.
[00:34:50] Scene one.
[00:34:51] Yeah.
[00:34:51] Yes.
[00:34:52] I, that's that Sandler magic.
[00:34:54] You know what I mean?
[00:34:55] I do really like when you're like, Oh, okay.
[00:34:57] Yeah.
[00:34:57] I think you're watching this movie and you're sort of like expecting to have him like win
[00:35:00] her over by the end or something.
[00:35:02] Like, like she's like, doesn't give him the time of day or whatever, but no, she, she's
[00:35:05] been dreaming about Hubie her entire life, which is very, very funny.
[00:35:09] And I think Julie Bowen plays that really well.
[00:35:11] I think she's really great in this movie.
[00:35:12] Yeah.
[00:35:12] When she threatens to beat up Melissa Villasenor, it's so funny.
[00:35:16] And then they do the bit where the cat's eyes get wide too.
[00:35:20] You know what?
[00:35:21] Maybe this movie does rule.
[00:35:22] I'm telling you, if I'm telling you both, if you actually, if you had watched this movie
[00:35:27] with me in the room with you, I think you would have both rated it half a star higher
[00:35:32] baseline.
[00:35:33] I, I watch a lot of comedies by myself where I'm kind of quiet.
[00:35:36] Like I'll, I'll like kind of quietly watch comedies by myself.
[00:35:39] I laugh out loud every time I watch it.
[00:35:41] I can't help it.
[00:35:42] I don't know why I, Oh, actually I do know why it's because it's very sincere.
[00:35:47] Yes.
[00:35:47] I love a sincere comedy and we're in this, like, I feel like we're in this like snitching
[00:35:52] eating its own tail cycle of like comedies just becoming more and more cynical.
[00:35:56] Sure.
[00:35:56] And this movie, it just feels, it's just like, doesn't feel like it has that.
[00:36:00] Like everything feels earnest.
[00:36:02] And I think that's going to, I think that's going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.
[00:36:05] Yeah.
[00:36:05] Yeah.
[00:36:06] I mean, oh, sorry, Mike.
[00:36:07] I was going to say, I think the thing that while Hubie as a character feels like maybe
[00:36:12] 20 years out of date, so to speak or whatever, like I was talking about before.
[00:36:16] But I think the thing that saves this movie from being weird or like, like that ableist
[00:36:22] basically is what I'm saying.
[00:36:23] Um, I guess is, is that like, no, Hubie is just really nice and like the movie believes
[00:36:29] in him and everyone that's mean to him is punished for it.
[00:36:32] Um, and I think that's the thing that, that like saves, that makes this movie not feel
[00:36:36] so like, not actually feel that outdated.
[00:36:38] Uh, you know, like you can see the version of this in, uh, sorry, Vin's cat just walked
[00:36:45] out of my, uh, Milo, Milo's here now.
[00:36:49] Hello, Milo.
[00:36:49] Hey buddy.
[00:36:50] Does Milo have some opinions on Hubie Halloween?
[00:36:52] Milo, would you like to speak in the microphone, please?
[00:36:54] Did you like Hubie?
[00:36:55] I know you watched it.
[00:36:56] You were here with us.
[00:36:57] Man, there was a chance.
[00:36:58] By the way, this is my downstairs neighbor's cat.
[00:37:00] It was a chance.
[00:37:00] We were going to get a real like cartoon meow.
[00:37:02] Yeah.
[00:37:03] I was really hoping.
[00:37:04] I was really hoping.
[00:37:06] Um, but the, the, this movie gets saved from feeling outdated and ableist and weird by not
[00:37:13] being mean.
[00:37:14] Um, which I think in Billy Madison, happy Gilmore era would, this movie would have been mean
[00:37:19] and it's not.
[00:37:20] And that's, I could see that.
[00:37:21] I mean, yeah, Hubie like from the outset, like seems like he has some kind of like mental
[00:37:24] disorder or whatever it is.
[00:37:26] Yeah.
[00:37:26] But I think it's also just like, I don't know.
[00:37:29] I don't think it's meant to be any specific thing.
[00:37:30] I think he's just Hubie and he's a weird dude.
[00:37:32] Yeah.
[00:37:33] I just, I've always read him as like, like a very stinted adult.
[00:37:37] Yeah.
[00:37:37] Right.
[00:37:37] Yeah.
[00:37:38] And this, that's what I mean.
[00:37:39] Like the movie, like is like almost like, Oh no.
[00:37:41] Oh yeah.
[00:37:42] It doesn't, it doesn't actually go there.
[00:37:44] Um, which I think is like, thank God, you know, it's like what I'm saying.
[00:37:47] I think my last letterboxd review for this was like in like pretending to be somebody
[00:37:51] from the town being like, Hey, you doing anything this afternoon?
[00:37:53] No.
[00:37:53] Why?
[00:37:54] I was thinking about going and bullying that obviously mentally disabled guy that works
[00:37:57] at the deli.
[00:37:58] Right.
[00:37:59] You want to come?
[00:37:59] Oh yeah.
[00:38:00] Actually, that sounds like a great way to spend our day.
[00:38:02] Let's go do that.
[00:38:03] Yes.
[00:38:04] That's what everybody in this town has that energy.
[00:38:07] Yes.
[00:38:07] Except for June Squibb and Julie Bowen.
[00:38:09] Right.
[00:38:10] Uh, yeah.
[00:38:10] When like Ray Lio shows up and throws him into the, uh, the grave of his father during his
[00:38:15] father's show.
[00:38:17] Michael Chiklis, the priest.
[00:38:18] Yeah.
[00:38:19] Who, who he's like, and the kid's like, you want me to go kick his ass father?
[00:38:23] And the priest is like, not yet, but stay close.
[00:38:26] Yeah.
[00:38:28] Even if they all get their comeuppance is like everybody's trying to score points on this
[00:38:31] guy.
[00:38:32] Yeah.
[00:38:32] Yes.
[00:38:33] One of Ray Liotta's final film roles, by the way.
[00:38:35] I mean, uh, you know, he died like two years later.
[00:38:37] I think he's really good in this.
[00:38:38] Yeah.
[00:38:39] He's great.
[00:38:40] Um, that actually, I'm glad you brought up the funeral scene though, because that scene,
[00:38:44] I always think of you guys because it, first of all, it's an incredible bit,
[00:38:48] but when he's in the grave and the grave like filler comes over and he's, he like, he's
[00:38:53] like, Oh, he's like, someone's in here.
[00:38:55] Whatever he says.
[00:38:55] The guy grabs his chest and he goes, the dead speak.
[00:38:58] Yeah.
[00:38:59] And then falls on Hubie and he's like, Oh no, my soup.
[00:39:03] He actually says, and it kills me.
[00:39:04] He says, ow, my soup.
[00:39:09] Yeah.
[00:39:10] The dead.
[00:39:10] That was a very good moment.
[00:39:11] Yeah.
[00:39:12] I'm always like, yeah.
[00:39:13] I was like thinking of the boys.
[00:39:14] Um, sure.
[00:39:16] Cause you know, star Wars.
[00:39:17] Yeah.
[00:39:18] Yeah.
[00:39:18] No, we got it.
[00:39:19] I got it.
[00:39:19] Okay.
[00:39:19] Okay.
[00:39:19] Yeah.
[00:39:20] No, you guys are okay.
[00:39:21] Oh, okay.
[00:39:22] I see.
[00:39:22] Okay.
[00:39:22] So a couple of years ago, the ninth star Wars movie came out.
[00:39:27] Sorry.
[00:39:28] Carry on.
[00:39:28] How did the opening crawl start?
[00:39:30] The dead speak.
[00:39:31] There it is.
[00:39:32] There it is.
[00:39:33] Somehow Hubie came back.
[00:39:36] Make, give us Hubie Hanukkah.
[00:39:38] You cowards.
[00:39:39] Whoa.
[00:39:40] Hey, that could be a pretty good idea for a sequel.
[00:39:42] Actually.
[00:39:42] Once happy Gilmore two is finally finished.
[00:39:44] I don't think that was, I think I heard that somebody else say that first.
[00:39:47] I don't think I don't want to claim credit for that.
[00:39:50] It should exist.
[00:39:52] Um, but yeah, but you do have a huge ensemble cast here and a lot of it is like, you know,
[00:39:56] the Sandler regulars, you have Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Steve Buscemi, who's in a bunch
[00:39:59] of them, Tim Meadows, all that stuff, which Tim Meadows is always great.
[00:40:02] Always.
[00:40:03] So always super funny.
[00:40:04] So funny.
[00:40:04] Yeah.
[00:40:05] But then you get like other people who aren't normally Sandler regulars, or maybe they've
[00:40:08] been in like one or two Sandler movies, but like Ray Liotta, like Michael Chiklis, George
[00:40:12] Wallace pops up in here as the mayor of Salem.
[00:40:15] He's so funny.
[00:40:16] He's very great.
[00:40:17] Yeah.
[00:40:17] So, so great.
[00:40:18] Um, yeah.
[00:40:19] Mikey Day pops up.
[00:40:20] Kenan Thompson pops up.
[00:40:21] No, it's Shaquille O'Neal, who I think it wasn't Shaq in one of the grownups movies
[00:40:25] or something like that.
[00:40:25] Was it Vin?
[00:40:26] Uh, yeah, that'd be grownups too.
[00:40:27] He plays, uh, Peter Dante and him are police officers and he plays Tim Meadows, a younger
[00:40:32] brother, uh, which is obviously very funny because he's much bigger than Tim Meadows.
[00:40:37] Yes.
[00:40:37] Right.
[00:40:37] You see, you understand.
[00:40:40] Very good.
[00:40:40] Very good.
[00:40:41] Um, but, uh, yeah, no, it's, it's a good, uh, it's a good group of people that they like
[00:40:45] created for this where it's like, it does feel like it's, you know, the whole gang back
[00:40:48] together to make this one thing and kind of like, I don't know, it feels fun.
[00:40:51] It feels good.
[00:40:51] Yeah.
[00:40:52] It all feels very well intentioned.
[00:40:53] Yes.
[00:40:54] Yeah, it does.
[00:40:55] Yeah.
[00:40:55] Any other bits in Hubie Halloween that you wanted to give a shout out to Vin?
[00:40:58] Any, any like random jokes?
[00:40:59] Are you, are you watching the screen right now to like see what joke is happening in
[00:41:02] front of you?
[00:41:03] Yeah.
[00:41:03] I'm just peeking over right now.
[00:41:05] Uh, Steve Buscemi is escaping the house as a werewolf.
[00:41:07] Right.
[00:41:08] Um, no, the, the bit with the, the O'Doyle kid, uh, when he, when they call him out for
[00:41:12] not being able to read and then he, for some reason is the one who like out loud tries
[00:41:18] to read the sign that says ghost.
[00:41:21] It's a ghost.
[00:41:22] Yeah.
[00:41:22] Yeah.
[00:41:23] I'm not gonna, I don't want to, I don't want to make fun of him.
[00:41:25] I don't want to make fun of a kid that can't read Mike, but if you want to do that, go
[00:41:28] ahead.
[00:41:28] Yeah.
[00:41:28] Wow.
[00:41:29] Wow.
[00:41:30] Uh, I love that again, back to the peanut scene when, uh, the wife is like, we're eating
[00:41:35] peanut tonight.
[00:41:37] That's like the line that that scene goes out on.
[00:41:40] Um, and oh man, the, the shirts incredible.
[00:41:44] I was just fun.
[00:41:45] I don't know, man.
[00:41:46] It's just fun.
[00:41:46] And it's like, it's like a feel good movie for me.
[00:41:48] I don't know why.
[00:41:49] Hell yeah.
[00:41:50] Oh no, I know why it's cause it's designed by design.
[00:41:52] It feels like, yeah.
[00:41:53] I mean, I will say it.
[00:41:54] So, I mean, QB Halloween, obviously it's a Sandler movie.
[00:41:56] Um, but it also is co-written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy who did, who also wrote like a
[00:42:02] lot of the best Sandler movies.
[00:42:03] He wrote Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, Wedding Singer, Waterboy, Big Daddy, Little
[00:42:07] Nicky.
[00:42:07] I'm like going down.
[00:42:08] It's like, oh yeah, he, he was like credited on almost all of these like big ones.
[00:42:11] The OG guy.
[00:42:12] Yeah.
[00:42:12] He actually came to my high school when we did the musical of The Wedding Singer, which
[00:42:16] he wrote.
[00:42:16] Oh yeah.
[00:42:17] And we were all backstage like, oh my God, is he going to come talk to us?
[00:42:20] Which, who's he going to compliment?
[00:42:22] What's he going to say?
[00:42:23] The kid that was the lead, he was like, so he was like an egomaniac and he was so like
[00:42:32] determined that he was gonna get a compliment from this guy.
[00:42:35] And he came back, Tim Hurley came back.
[00:42:37] He was like, eh, good show guys.
[00:42:38] I really liked Mr. T.
[00:42:39] Goodbye.
[00:42:42] And that kid was devastated.
[00:42:44] Nice.
[00:42:45] He wanted it too much.
[00:42:46] Yeah.
[00:42:46] He wanted it too much.
[00:42:48] That was fun.
[00:42:49] Look, I was like, maybe he's going to say something about me.
[00:42:51] Of course he wasn't.
[00:42:52] Of course there was no world where he was going to say something about me.
[00:42:55] Actually, I did play the Steve Buscemi part though.
[00:42:57] Did you?
[00:42:57] In Wedding Singer.
[00:42:58] Yeah.
[00:42:58] So he might've, I kind of cooked that role as a kid, not really knowing what I was
[00:43:02] talking about.
[00:43:04] Yeah.
[00:43:04] I actually only watched Wedding Singer for the first time, like two, three years ago
[00:43:07] maybe.
[00:43:08] And it was on a plane and it was good.
[00:43:09] I liked it.
[00:43:10] It was fun.
[00:43:11] But there's like one line in Wedding Singer that has always stuck out to me, like since
[00:43:14] I watched it.
[00:43:14] And it is when like John Lovitz is behind the curtain and he's like, he's going insane
[00:43:19] and I'm reaping all of the benefits.
[00:43:21] And he like just slowly closes the curtain.
[00:43:25] Oh man, that's funny.
[00:43:27] But yeah, but Tim Hurley, I mean, like work with Sandler and SNL.
[00:43:30] And like, if you look at his, like, you know, his Wikipedia page as a writer, all of his
[00:43:33] movies are Adam Sandler movies, like every single, every single one of them.
[00:43:37] And they tend, and they are in general, a lot of the best Adam Sandler movies.
[00:43:40] So that's, but he hasn't really worked on a ton of the Netflix stuff except for this.
[00:43:45] And he is also working on Happy Gilmore too.
[00:43:47] So that is, that is exciting.
[00:43:48] That's good to see.
[00:43:49] We love that.
[00:43:50] Yes, absolutely.
[00:43:51] Vin is running away.
[00:43:52] Where is he going?
[00:43:53] Sorry, I had a, it's been very dry in here because our, our downstairs neighbors started
[00:43:58] turning their heat on.
[00:43:59] Right.
[00:43:59] Which is like getting our apartment a little hot too.
[00:44:02] And it's just been drying everything out.
[00:44:03] So I had a pot boiling on the stove, like simmering with a little bit of water in it to
[00:44:06] like get some steam in the air.
[00:44:08] Shout out Irene Craig.
[00:44:11] And I, it just like occurred to me, I was like, oh right, that's, there's like a, like
[00:44:15] a boiling pot of water on behind me.
[00:44:16] I should go check on that.
[00:44:17] Nice.
[00:44:18] Good job.
[00:44:18] Fair enough.
[00:44:19] It was good.
[00:44:19] Yeah.
[00:44:20] We stay in fire safety here.
[00:44:21] Yeah.
[00:44:22] Yeah.
[00:44:24] It's a controversial take, but you boys stick by it.
[00:44:26] And I appreciate that about you.
[00:44:28] Mike D, any other random bits about Hubie Halloween that you want to talk about?
[00:44:31] Anything that stands out to you?
[00:44:33] I thought this, the driving, like the monster creature feature thing or whatever segment is
[00:44:39] very fun set piece.
[00:44:40] When I was a teenage zombie, is that the name of the movie?
[00:44:43] I think so.
[00:44:43] Yeah.
[00:44:44] But when it's a Tim Meadow and Maya Rudolph, it's like trying to like turn her on and he's
[00:44:50] like licking the fake hand.
[00:44:51] Oh, sucking the little fingers?
[00:44:54] Yeah.
[00:44:55] And like Maya Rudolph's whole thing is just like how much her husband does not turn her
[00:44:58] on.
[00:44:59] That's the whole movie.
[00:45:01] But then that culminating in Tim Meadow driving that car with like the fake head sticking out,
[00:45:07] like the severed head thing.
[00:45:09] It is like kids in the ghost face mask throwing eggs.
[00:45:11] He picks up the scream kids.
[00:45:12] Yeah.
[00:45:12] Yeah.
[00:45:13] In the back of the car and everything.
[00:45:15] Just that whole set piece is very funny.
[00:45:17] And that's what leads into Hubie jumping over the fence and running through the woods where
[00:45:22] the tuba and the flaming spear.
[00:45:25] And at one point he runs past bears who stand up and throw shit at him as he runs past them.
[00:45:31] I'm sorry.
[00:45:31] And you didn't immediately give us five stars.
[00:45:33] Are we talking about the same movie?
[00:45:35] What was I thinking?
[00:45:37] I'm sorry.
[00:45:37] Jumps.
[00:45:38] No, no, no.
[00:45:38] Grappling hooks.
[00:45:39] My friend.
[00:45:40] You're right.
[00:45:41] Grappling.
[00:45:41] Grappling thermoses.
[00:45:42] Yeah.
[00:45:43] And I do like the payoff to that, the thermos bit when he's in the cord maze and he's like,
[00:45:46] I don't have a compass on this thing.
[00:45:49] He's got everything else, but no compass.
[00:45:51] And the thermos ultimately saves the day at the end because when you do find out that
[00:45:54] June Squibb is the one behind all these like kidnappings, these vanishings, you know,
[00:45:59] he runs back to home and she's about to like light everybody on fire, like burn them at
[00:46:03] the stake like the witches are selling.
[00:46:04] Casual.
[00:46:05] Maintains the casual tone of the movie.
[00:46:07] Yes.
[00:46:08] Mostly a kid's movie.
[00:46:09] And he's able to throw his thermos and like throw the soup flies out of the thermos and
[00:46:14] it douses the match before it hits the gasoline.
[00:46:18] Yeah.
[00:46:19] Him offering people soup is a good runner also.
[00:46:21] Yes.
[00:46:22] What about your friends?
[00:46:23] Want some soup?
[00:46:25] Also a great runner is how easily Hubie is scared at everything.
[00:46:29] Just any random Halloween thing that like pops up.
[00:46:32] He loves Halloween so much, but every time like, you know, he walks into a room and
[00:46:36] like, you know, an automatic skeleton goes, boom, like he just like freaks out and like
[00:46:40] breaks a window.
[00:46:41] But he's like seemingly put himself in a situation where and I think that's like that when you
[00:46:46] get to the heart of it, that's a super compelling like pitch for a movie to me, like a guy that
[00:46:51] loves Halloween so much, but is terrified of everything.
[00:46:55] Yeah.
[00:46:56] Like when you boil it down to its bones, like that's great.
[00:46:59] Yes, absolutely.
[00:47:00] No, I love that.
[00:47:00] I like when, uh, to, to like in that runner when he, uh, I think he's when he, when he's
[00:47:05] in the woods or whatever, he, uh, runs past a rock that has the word boo paint spray painted
[00:47:09] on it.
[00:47:09] And that scares him.
[00:47:13] Nice.
[00:47:13] Oh man.
[00:47:14] Good stuff.
[00:47:15] I feel like I had like one other like really funny bit that I'm trying to remember and
[00:47:18] I'm blanking on what it is.
[00:47:20] Uh, and it's, it's going to drive me nuts.
[00:47:21] I know as soon as we finished the podcast, I will remember it.
[00:47:24] Vaguely, vaguely.
[00:47:25] What part of the movie is it?
[00:47:26] I can't even tell you that.
[00:47:28] Uh, is it the A-U-U?
[00:47:29] Oh, drop a log, drop a log in a trash can.
[00:47:33] Yeah.
[00:47:36] Yeah.
[00:47:36] That was great.
[00:47:37] That was very funny.
[00:47:37] Yeah.
[00:47:38] I'm blanking on what it was.
[00:47:39] I'll, I'll, I'll come back to it later.
[00:47:40] But, uh, in any case, is there anything else, uh, in Hubie Halloween that you guys want
[00:47:44] to mention before we start wrapping this podcast up, guys?
[00:47:46] Um, I think, uh, I think all the kids give good performances.
[00:47:50] I like Noah shop a lot in this movie.
[00:47:52] I was going to ask notorious child hater, Mike Smith.
[00:47:55] How did you think of all the child actors?
[00:47:57] Yeah, the kids are fine.
[00:47:58] They're fine.
[00:48:00] Yeah, they're fine.
[00:48:01] Uh, I, I think, yeah, Noah Schnapps, uh, I think he's whatever.
[00:48:03] I think the girl that, uh, he has a crush on is actually very good in the movie.
[00:48:07] I like her a lot.
[00:48:08] I actually just learned her name like 10 minutes before we started recording and it's gone
[00:48:11] now.
[00:48:12] Paris Barelk.
[00:48:13] Paris Barelk.
[00:48:14] Yeah.
[00:48:14] Is the name of that, that actress.
[00:48:16] Uh, yeah.
[00:48:17] So the, she's pretty good.
[00:48:18] And, uh, you know, you get, you get it.
[00:48:20] The kids feel like a sort of an unnecessary subplot to me, but they are, they are also
[00:48:23] like, you know, a key part of, uh, the family that Hubie, uh, gets by the end of the movie.
[00:48:27] Yeah.
[00:48:27] Uh, because they are the foster children of Julie Bowen's character.
[00:48:30] I love that her character is like so pure of heart that she doesn't have children of
[00:48:33] her own, but she has foster children.
[00:48:35] Uh, and like is raising a family.
[00:48:36] It's their work around that, uh, now you don't, you can imagine a world where her and
[00:48:40] Kevin James never had sex.
[00:48:42] True.
[00:48:42] That's how, that's how I read it.
[00:48:44] Sure.
[00:48:44] Yeah.
[00:48:44] Specific version of Kevin James.
[00:48:46] True.
[00:48:47] Yeah.
[00:48:48] Uh, the one, the one hit on him in that meme that went around where he's like, yeah,
[00:48:52] just Kevin James.
[00:48:54] Yeah.
[00:48:55] That's one of the weirdest memes.
[00:48:56] It meant it was nothing.
[00:48:57] It was such a weird thing that, uh, took over the internet for like a month with that
[00:49:01] Kevin James struggling meme and it was everywhere.
[00:49:02] It was never funny.
[00:49:03] I don't know.
[00:49:04] I just never, I disagree.
[00:49:06] I thought it was very funny.
[00:49:08] Wow.
[00:49:08] Interesting.
[00:49:09] I mean, I've also just like, yeah, he's good in this movie.
[00:49:11] I've also just never found Kevin James that funny period.
[00:49:13] So maybe just the image of him.
[00:49:15] That's fair.
[00:49:16] That's super fair.
[00:49:18] Uh, I don't know.
[00:49:18] Were you a King of Queens guy?
[00:49:19] I was never a King of Queens guy.
[00:49:20] Big time.
[00:49:21] Yeah.
[00:49:22] I liked it.
[00:49:22] I used to, I didn't like follow it, but if it was on, I remember in like the, like the
[00:49:27] I'd be like, cool.
[00:49:28] That feels like an ultimate, like it's a background show.
[00:49:30] It's on like, you know, on a hotel room when you go and you walk in and then you leave it
[00:49:35] on.
[00:49:35] Wow.
[00:49:35] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:49:36] It was the show that was on.
[00:49:37] I distinctly remember when I was turning off my Nintendo from playing Resident Evil 4
[00:49:42] and like just to put us in the year.
[00:49:45] Sure.
[00:49:45] And you would turn it off at the same time every night.
[00:49:47] Yeah.
[00:49:47] No, no, just one night in particular.
[00:49:49] And I ended up watching King of Queens one night, like way more than I usually did.
[00:49:52] Fair enough.
[00:49:53] I remember when Jerry Stiller died, like I saw a lot of remembrances for him for King
[00:49:57] of Queens, much more so than like as Frank Costanza in Seinfeld, which to me is like
[00:50:01] the greatest comedic performance of all time.
[00:50:03] And, uh, I was throwing hands.
[00:50:05] It was, it was a rough time, but he'd be Halloween.
[00:50:07] What a picture.
[00:50:07] What a picture, a triumph.
[00:50:09] I also just noticed I, cause I wrote down every like thing his thermos was.
[00:50:13] I made every note.
[00:50:14] Uh, but now I realized the notes are on my phone.
[00:50:16] Um, which you're using to talk to us right now.
[00:50:18] Yes.
[00:50:19] Yes.
[00:50:19] But I also, I missed one cause he, when he goes in the corn maze, he puts eye black on
[00:50:24] and that comes out of the thermos also.
[00:50:28] Oh man.
[00:50:29] God, what I, I thank you guys for letting me come on and talk about this.
[00:50:31] I really do love this movie and I hope that more sort of earnest comedies keep coming
[00:50:36] out.
[00:50:37] Yeah.
[00:50:37] I mean, sorry.
[00:50:38] No, it just, it's like, it's some feel good content in a world.
[00:50:41] That's like, you're constantly being bombarded with, uh, everything sucks.
[00:50:45] Say, you know, quote everyone.
[00:50:47] Yeah, sure.
[00:50:49] Yeah, true.
[00:50:49] Uh, I mean the, the biggest compliment I could pay Huey Halloween is I could see this playing
[00:50:54] in theaters.
[00:50:55] Like I kind of wish that had come, this had come out like in September of 2020 or something,
[00:50:59] or I guess it couldn't have because of, you know, the whole thing that was happening
[00:51:01] at that time.
[00:51:02] But like of all, of all the Sandler Netflix movies, and again, I have not watched, I don't
[00:51:06] think any of them, but this one feels the most like a real movie to me.
[00:51:09] And maybe it's because it's the one that I've seen.
[00:51:11] However, the rest, the rest of them, like don't, don't seem to have like any kind of
[00:51:15] cultural footprint.
[00:51:16] Like I can't, I couldn't tell you anything about murder mystery or whatever.
[00:51:19] Murder mystery is actually pretty good.
[00:51:20] The first one, I think the first one's a lot of fun.
[00:51:22] How is murder mystery too?
[00:51:23] It's fine.
[00:51:25] My, my baseline, my baseline, I'll watch any Sandler movie.
[00:51:29] Like that's my baseline.
[00:51:30] Have you watched all the Netflix stuff?
[00:51:31] Like everything he's put out on Netflix?
[00:51:33] Yep.
[00:51:33] Okay.
[00:51:33] I believe so.
[00:51:35] Have you watched his new special?
[00:51:36] I've meaning to watch that and I haven't watched that yet.
[00:51:37] I have not weirdly enough.
[00:51:38] The only ones that his eye that are my blind spots are like, uh, going overboard, which
[00:51:43] is like his first movie.
[00:51:44] Right.
[00:51:44] He's like a, that's like an eighties, like a student, a student, right?
[00:51:48] Yeah.
[00:51:49] It's like before he was on SNL.
[00:51:50] No, no.
[00:51:51] I think it was before he was on SNL.
[00:51:52] It was very early in his SNL career, but it might've been 89, but he's like a comedian
[00:51:57] named Shecky who was like on a cruise ship.
[00:51:59] Okay.
[00:52:00] Mixed nuts.
[00:52:01] I haven't seen like the nineties airheads, like the supporting stuff.
[00:52:05] Right.
[00:52:05] Uh, punch drunk.
[00:52:06] You haven't seen airheads?
[00:52:06] I know punch drunk love.
[00:52:08] That's like my big blind spot.
[00:52:09] You've never seen punch drunk love.
[00:52:10] Oh shit.
[00:52:11] Nope.
[00:52:11] You should watch it.
[00:52:12] It's great.
[00:52:12] He's amazing.
[00:52:13] Yeah.
[00:52:13] Yeah.
[00:52:14] Cool.
[00:52:14] Yeah.
[00:52:14] He's, he's amazing.
[00:52:15] Yeah.
[00:52:17] Cool.
[00:52:17] We're on a delay now.
[00:52:19] That's okay.
[00:52:20] We got it.
[00:52:21] We got here to the end.
[00:52:22] Thank you for, uh, thank you for having me.
[00:52:24] Of course.
[00:52:25] Yeah.
[00:52:25] As always.
[00:52:28] Perfect.
[00:52:29] Yes.
[00:52:29] Okay.
[00:52:30] So, uh, all right.
[00:52:31] Yeah.
[00:52:31] That's going to bring us to the end of this week.
[00:52:33] I said Mike, Mike, go to the movies.
[00:52:34] Vin Craig, if people want to find you, where can you, where can they find you online this
[00:52:37] week?
[00:52:37] Uh, Vincent J. Craig on Letterboxd, baby.
[00:52:41] All right.
[00:52:41] And that's the only place you don't want to follow you anywhere else.
[00:52:43] No.
[00:52:46] It's good to have batteries.
[00:52:47] Yes.
[00:52:48] Fair enough.
[00:52:48] Uh, Mike D.
[00:52:49] Where can we find you online this week?
[00:52:50] You can find me at MD film blog on a Twitter and Letterboxd and blue sky and follow me on
[00:52:56] blue sky.
[00:52:56] People actually came over there this time after Musk, uh, announced that they were removing
[00:53:00] the block feature or whatever the fuck they're doing.
[00:53:02] Uh, and all of a sudden people are active and making accounts and getting on there.
[00:53:05] So, um, we can do it.
[00:53:06] There's momentum this time.
[00:53:08] So blue sky.
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[00:53:21] Yeah.
[00:53:22] You got, I put in the legwork.
[00:53:24] You did.
[00:53:24] You put in the legwork.
[00:53:25] Uh, but, but I wore you down.
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[00:54:11] Check out the main podcast, the complete works to keep up with all of our Roy Scheider movies.
[00:54:15] We are recording our Mishima, a life in four chapters episode after this.
[00:54:19] So that's going to be fun.
[00:54:20] Vin, you got, you got some Roy Scheider opinions you want to share?
[00:54:22] Wait.
[00:54:23] Oh, have you guys done all that jazz yet?
[00:54:25] Yes.
[00:54:25] Yeah.
[00:54:25] We passed all that jazz.
[00:54:26] Oh no.
[00:54:27] I love that movie.
[00:54:29] Yeah.
[00:54:29] That should change my life.
[00:54:30] Yes.
[00:54:31] That movie is incredible.
[00:54:32] We are, we are in the eighties for Roy Scheider now, but if you have any, uh, like post post
[00:54:37] 83 Roy Scheider movies that you'd want to join us for.
[00:54:40] Not even Thomas Jane's The Punisher?
[00:54:43] Oh, I, I know somebody who's in that.
[00:54:47] Do you?
[00:54:48] Roy Scheider?
[00:54:49] I, my father, Roy Scheider.
[00:54:52] No, uh, Marcus Johns, the guy who wrote the musical I did in LA is the kid that dies
[00:54:59] in that movie.
[00:55:00] Really?
[00:55:00] That's wild.
[00:55:03] Um.
[00:55:04] Incredible.
[00:55:04] Can we get him out of the pocket?
[00:55:06] So it's so highly unlikely.
[00:55:10] I can't, I have not spoken to him in, it's been a while.
[00:55:15] Uh, and we never, I'll tell you guys this off air.
[00:55:18] He's great though.
[00:55:18] He's a cool dude, but I, I don't, I don't think he would listen to me.
[00:55:23] Well, fair enough.
[00:55:24] Anyway, but if you want to come on for the Punisher and tell us about your friend being
[00:55:28] in the movie, uh, then by all means, uh, you absolutely can.
[00:55:31] Friend was a strong choice of words.
[00:55:33] Sure.
[00:55:34] I got, I know him.
[00:55:35] I know him.
[00:55:36] We worked together.
[00:55:37] All right.
[00:55:37] That's going to wrap things up.
[00:55:38] Vin, thank you so much again for joining us on this podcast and for making us watch Hubie
[00:55:42] Halloween.
[00:55:42] And I do it again too.
[00:55:46] It's gotta be a Hubie too.
[00:55:47] Yeah.
[00:55:47] One of these days we're going to get, we're going to get Hubie Halloween too off the ground
[00:55:50] or Hubie Hanukkah or whatever it's going to be.
[00:55:52] I would take Hubie Halloween or Hubie Hanukkah.
[00:55:55] Yes.
[00:55:55] Either one will work.
[00:55:57] That is the end of this week's episode of Mike's My Go to the Movies.
[00:55:59] We will see you on the other side.