Hi everyone and welcome to the Nelly of North Forkhouse. It's in the podcast and it's hosted by Northern nerds. I am one of your horse, Sam. And I am the other horse, Paul.
I'm joined by, oh, we had no fucker. No one's here. No one's here. It's been a minute.
It's been something. When was the last time we did an episode? Just me and you, Sammy? The one that comes to me head straight away, of course, was just two, but I could be completely wrong.
Because fuck me, do I not remember what we've done? Was it not just the conversation of nerds? Was it when we started to find all? When we rebooted to the bed of our gosh, shall we see it?
The bed of our gosh. The bed of our gosh. So yes. Hello everyone in the chat and good of all the New Year's and not sucked.
I told you I'm not sucking anyone this year. Oh my god, they've come up with that. They're still in that name again. Which one?
Pummy. Pummy. Yes, thank you for joining us tonight on Nelly. What is New Year's Eve?
Up New Year's. We're everyone celebrating the young in party. Another year in the bag. Yeah, 2024.
How fucking old are we? Oh my gosh. It's sort of pressing to think about. I'm not sure what it is.
But yes. But what are you? It's been a year. What a year.
It's been something. I was thinking today when I was posting about the year and I was like, holy shit, we've done so much this year. Like so much. We've done so many people.
Yes, that too. Well, Lee is 14 into Ping this as we get around. Lee just comes in the mind straight away. Oh, Lee comes.
Okay. Yes. And we haven't had a drink yet guys. But yes.
We're the other ones. Yes. If you watched Friday's episode, they said that did get on and they thought down. Okay.
Very fast. Yeah. Just having the time I've got the time to ask you to? Okay.
Maybe I'm gonna wait a little bit for you. Thanks. Go mansion. I wish I would be happy for you.
Okay. John Wayne did a party here on time. I wish I was grateful for you. I want to leave a question on time.
Just as long as I assume we're all weekend. some some loves because she has dressed herself up. Oh, she made an effort. She doesn't like to huck off tonight.
So yes, well, that's one of my that's one of my resolutions for this year is to stop coming on the podcast and looking like a trump because I have done it multiple times. Stop lightly. That's fine. Hobo Lee.
Yes. Yes. Please presence has just made me up my game. Yes.
The fact that all the women just lust after him and just want to be him. But yes, um, I will say one thing before we get started and this is just for goodwill because like, because this is the last episode of the year and I might as well get it out of the way because Graham's not on here. I know that's fuck the Tories. Are you happy?
Good. Oh, yeah. Happy. I finally did it.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god. He said it.
He said it. Good. Well, did you hear it? He said it.
Oh, thank you, Jake. Oh, I'm getting a lot of love. What happens when you put makeup on? And you have a wish, bless her.
And you wash your hair. Now the question is she went pants guys. That's the exciting thing of the you know what? I can't not with the position of my camera now as I realized the other day.
I am wearing trousers. So I kind of want to do it more. She's not going off all the walls and grommet on us now. I thought all the youngsters are in there but we didn't get that reference there as well.
So yes. So what are you going to ask this? I'm not going to ask you the most cringiest question of 2023. I'm going to ask you what?
No, I'm going to ask what has been what how has your 2023 been? What you've been watching? What you've been liking? What is going on?
2023 is one of those years that went over really quick. What it felt like 10 years in one. It felt like a fucking long year. It's been it has been something I have had the biggest year I've probably had in the last 10 years.
I have had weddings. I have had big birthdays. I have had holidays. I have had a getaway.
I have done stuff with Nadiuk North that I wouldn't have even dreamed of doing a few years ago. Like it has been the biggest year. It has. It's been so interesting.
Like if you look at the start where everything that we had like ideas of grandeur and where we wanted to go, we might not have went in all the directions that we thought. But I think as a whole it has been a positive experience. Like with experience stuff we may have changed not just a little con but a massive convention at Sunnycon. And we were on the main stage where I believe it held up to 200 people.
We hit 200 people mark. That place was still packed though. That was a lot of people and a lot of people walk and pass as well. But if we go before that, at the beginning of the year it was Nurgfest where the guest judges for the cosplay competition, I will never do that again.
But that's just because I am no cosplay. That's the only reason. So yeah, we did Nurgfest which was crazy. That was like I wasn't it wasn't Sunnycon.
Sunnycon is different. We are kind of performing there. So that wasn't what we were doing at Nurgfest. And it was it was nicest to interact with people.
We had a little safe space. And the creep suburb born that day. I think that's when we got introduced to everyone. That's where we met.
We met the Lee and he touched us in appropriate ways. Oh, that's right. He caught me in Michael eating a burger outside and came wandering over and I was like, huh, you know, it was like, oh, okay. And we said about the cosplay competition.
And I have to say this, you, Jake and Goodwill, ran that so well. And from what I heard the feedback, this is the first cosplay competition that no one argued about the results because there's normally lots of fights and swabbles and saying, oh, that wasn't fair. But the judging the said was the best judging the hard. And guess what?
They dropped us for the pretty girls. But yeah, so no, they dropped us professionals. Like them girls know them girls know exactly what they're talking about. But that was it was such a good day.
And monsters was actually born at Nurgfest. Yeah. Monsters was literally born at Nurgfest. Paul shouted over to us from the table and went, I've got it monsters of no.
I was like, yes. And that is exactly how it happened. No, what a lie. A splessor.
Sammy always likes to do a little side projects. She had a great idea of doing it at Game of Thrones one, which again, which was a fun little project, but it's one of those things where it has its legs and it's hard to keep running with that. But I knew you were itching to do something on your own, not in your own. Sorry, that you wanted to be, like you, you're the star.
You're the big meme on the brand. But I also, I wanted to just, I just wanted nonstop horror. And we don't do that here. We have a set time and play as far as it.
So that's great. And I love that because we kind of got our own little thing when it comes to October. So I love that. But I just like, I'm so into horror that I don't want to stop talking about it.
So I wanted to do something horrible. My original plan went it's up. And so Paul stepped in and say it's my book. Yeah, the game of Thrones one was, it was such a great idea in my head.
But when it comes out my mouth, not so great. Because yes, I know, I know what I know. I know what I know. But there's so many people who know more than me.
I realized that is that we were going on. And I was like, I can't keep this conversation going. Yeah. And that's, like, as I said, brave thing to do as well to admit that and to put your hands up and say, look, this isn't something I want to keep working on.
And that's fine. And so then we introduced the lovely Dan and used to just bromance and like, that was made magic together. And it is one of the most anything and it's different to the normal horror podcast that you see out there as well. Because a lot of people do like the talk or horror movies, but I think you use doing it in a different way.
And I really find that in the team. We like to bring the facts. Yes. We like to bring the factoids.
And for me, it's just, it's such a great, it's a great talk point. Yes. Just he's a fact. We kind of we've learned.
I mean, if you've watched monsters, you've seen many times our tangents are legendary. And I would like to say this is this is the year of the nerdy entrepreneur, shall we say it? Because nerdy up north, as a whole, we did have a faction, like in wrestling terms, where there's kind of like everyone wanting to move in the right direction. But also, there can't be like ideas and saying, this is good.
This is good. And we made the decision, because we have so many talented people that want to do stuff with us. And that's what I love about was like the cream always rises to the top, shall we say. And when we introduced Goodwill and Graham, it was like the sexiest marriage I've ever seen.
It was magic. Yes. And it was literally just looking at them going, you want to talk about Trek? You want to talk about Trek?
Let's make this happen. And it was the easiest thing to put together in the world. And I mean that generally, because sometimes when you look at these projects, it takes a lot of planning, it takes a lot of commitment. Literally, it was just like, do you want to do it?
Yeah. And to be honest, I know I'm quite hands on the stuff. And the moment I took my hands off the rails and they ran with it, they made that sure better than anything I could have ever been involved in. Like they haven't made people love Trek this year.
That's never watched Trek. Fucking take that. That is so true. So trend setting nerds that we've got are involved with here.
So what give Goodwill and Graham a clap? They're well done. Trek ambassadors. Honestly, honestly, I get quite envious.
I opened my game when I came to the intro. I was like, I even started researching B movie hosts to find the best one. And I think I stole from Sirngali who is actually still going today. He is still horror hoist.
But he's kind of changing his intro. So yeah, I upped my game when I heard Michael's intro because it is one of the best intros. I absolutely love it. I tried it.
I did try my damn hand out at the door. I did his intro for when we did when we took a space when Trek was not on, which one was that was up turtles. We did turtles in that? We did a lot.
We've done a lot. We've had a lot of emotions this year. But as well, and just to say how amazing Jake is taking the whole game and up and off the twitch has become a revolutionised since those boys have been involved. Like the games they are playing, like the made power was similar to same entertainment at times.
But Jake has been hard at work at all these little projects as well. He's been interviewing other, he interviewed Slime Sloop. He had an interview. So that was like kind of like the starting point of Jake's ramble cast now.
And I'm so excited to say where that's going to go as well. Because it's like I love people that know what they're talking about, but when they're passionate about as well. I'm just having the big man mountain Adam that is the sexiest nerd that has ever lived being involved. Like women just need to watch this just to basically rub themselves while watching Adam.
Oh my gosh. I can't even think about what he's just said there, but he's actually hurt. Adam is Adam is a beautiful man. And the screen does not do that face justice.
I've seen him in real life. But ramble cast is brilliant. If you have not, I saw urge you to go and listen, watch the game of games of the year or games that you liked the video or I'm really sorry if I'm butchering the name Jake, I know we are in the chat. I'm so sorry.
But I fucking love that episode so much listening to all four of you is just beaming and bouncing about each of these games was just it was lovely. It was really, really nice. It was such a coherent flow as well to the conversation. It was great.
Yes. And that's the thing. That's what all about here at Nerd and Office passion. Like what you love.
I couldn't give a fuck if you don't like something. Like that's not what I'm interested in. I don't want to know like ins and outs like who developed and who was the programmer of this? No, tell us what you felt when you're playing the game.
That means so much more to me. That story is so much more interesting. But yes, and like I said, we did lose a few members. Let's be honest.
Like I'll talk about this publicly and I won't go into much deal. It was a very sad affair. I did lose a lot of confidence after that whole episode. I'm sad that they went.
But I do think it happened for reasons and I do wish them well. Whatever they're doing going forward. But we did get other members, other people joined. Like I say, we've had Sarah Page join.
She's giving birth to twins. So congratulations Sarah. We've had Lee joined. We've had Adam, come on a few times.
We've been introduced to the wonderful Sonia. So many interesting people. As I mentioned before, goodwill, Jake, their confidence grew out this through this year. It's just been like, I mean, that sounds really weird since.
But it's like proud father syndrome. It's like, yes, my sons are doing well here. But yes, I totally understand that. For what we lost, it is sad.
As we lying, if I said it wasn't, it was a really sad time. But we rebooted and we did actually reboot. And we went with two point or and that first episode of two point or is probably one of my favorites. Just because we just, it was so natural for us just to be like watching all these movies and like talking about them.
It just floored lovely. It was such a great like, let's start again. I think that's the thing. We've never stood still when we've been doing these things.
It's all about evolution. It's all about growing. It's all about improving and being the best what we can or just having as much fun as we can. And that's the thing when we stop having fun.
That's when we'll probably stop doing this. And the three years or two, well, three years for the group. So two and a half years for the podcast that we've been going on. Oh my god, look at what we did.
And we kind of ended the year in not end of the year, but we event wise, the 24 hour live stream in October. All the shit, the bed. You did that. You're not going to be able to say because YouTube's a content put it down.
But yeah, it's true. But we did. We did. I will always have nightmares of Jake dressed as Sonic that will live long and prosper.
That was just brilliant. It was the lead up to it. So you've gone to the toilet and everything was black. I think like I couldn't say anything in all that.
He was Jake was Prince. Sammy Sammy. I've got some initial. Yeah.
fucking Sonic soon. And like it was about what? Three six. I remember I think we did.
I think it was before six because I think it was half six. I shouted that Lee because Lee fell asleep live on stream. So yes, we have anyone had a sleeping fetish that there is a video of Lee sleeping on on camera. Yeah, Lee just went for it.
He went to sleep. But yeah, that was so funny. But honestly by about eight nine o'clock, I was I was done with the lose. I was done.
I really was I had to keep going outside just to give myself a head shake and we go and I just remember someone asking how I just want this over with. Well, we raised close to 2000 pound for breast cancer. No, it was a breast cancer. It was cancer.
It was cancer research generalize cancer research. Yeah. Can't remember. It was even raised all the time.
I was looking at old forced to try and figure out my timeline of the year and we raised over 200 before we even fucking turned the camera on. Yes, that was even turned the camera on. We just we had more we had money in there. Yeah, you know, it's a good people.
That's what we'll see. Really, really are. But yes, yeah, has been something. And let's not forget good.
We'll try to blind someone out. Good. That's any kind as well. Like the guy is vicious with a Pokemon card.
Just say don't give good will Pokemon cards. If we are at Suny Khan next year, just putting that out there. But we did we had every time we've had interactions whether it be in a convention, whether it be through zoom, whether it be in real life and Lee is pending fucking shit, tongue the money on fucking cards. Watching you.
I'm doing I'm sorry. Yes. I have to sit and watch and do it. And but yeah, it's just we have such a great chemistry and it works because of that great chemistry.
If we don't have that, then we don't have any of this. I'm just to say as well. I know this is going to be like Sam cheesy as fuck. If it wasn't for the guys in the chat or the guys who watch or the guys in the discord, the guys in the Facebook group, the guys on Twitter, the guys on Instagram, the guys on TikTok, everyone that follows us, everyone that presses that like button, everyone that presses subscribe, everyone that comments, everyone that gets involved in the community.
This we wouldn't have or be doing any of this. This is because you support us as much as you have. Use me this as fun as as much as as much as much as we love taking the piss out with tiny, tiny Chris. We love having done an abuse with dildos and we love having Graham talking about the Tories and even though he's a secret Tory, I'm sick without now.
You guys all make what we do worth it. And I'll say this for the last time this year, I do love you and I consider everyone close, close friends and use me the world for us. Now let's talk about a highly racist movie from the US. Yes.
Let's end that's end 2023 with a movie that turned 40 years old this year. One of, if not, one of my favorite movies, when I talk about the Ghostbusters was the only thing I watched growing up this run alongside it. It was this and Ghostbusters. I knew this movie before I could talk proper English.
Yes. And I still can't do that today. So let's get the elephant out the room. Like, I love this movie.
It is one of my all time favorite movies of all the time. Main Sandborf watched it back quite recently. I watched it yesterday. I watched it yesterday.
And just finished it before we came on. So this movie was made in 1983. So well, 40 years ago, this is movie is made. It's from a different time, a different era.
Yes, there's language used that is not appropriate for today's viewing. There's scenes, which I'm trying not to laugh at because I've got to be saviors where Blackface is used. And again, you have to remember it's very much of the time. It wouldn't be done the same way now.
But even at that time, I do don't think it was done untieceful of that. If we could take out all those little bits, we could still talk about a movie that's still genuinely fucking funny. Even if we took them bits out, which we are probably going to do because I can't see how we're ever going to get around talking about that. But yes, the language, the use of Blackface, it's all incredibly inappropriate.
But it's very much of the time. So. Very much of a 40 year old film because I am exactly the same age as this movie. This is celebrated in 40 years, along with me.
Didn't realize until I probably did, but I probably forgot that it was directed by John Landis. Yes. I want to get this part out the way with first. So John, I have to have my reading.
John Landis, I'm going to get the Bruce and Bit out the way. John Landis did this. And then straight away, did Twilight Zone instantly straight away. And obviously the incident with Big Morro and the two kids happened and John Landis is the first ever director to be charged and sent to trial for manslaughter.
He asked Eddie Murphy, who he has worked with quite a few times to be his character witness. And Eddie Murphy went, no. That was a big fall note. That was a big fall note.
And he said no. And he's written, I actually get what he means because he says, I don't want to say he is innocent and I don't want to say that he's guilty. But if you're putting kids on a movie set with a helicopter in midnight, what does that say about you? And breaking every law that likes it for working laws, that was going out of the time as well.
So yeah, yes, massively John Landis should be in fucking prison, but he's not. He got away with it. And I was reading that and I didn't know I knew that had fallen open. I didn't realize that was the reason until I was reading it.
Apparently that was part of the reason. The main reason was the filming of coming into America. That was the big because, partly then that was when him and Eddie Murphy had a fight on the set where they actually caught each other in the face. Apparently not so, but that's because then Eddie Murphy refused to speak to him all the way through the filming of coming to America.
So that's the uncomfortableness was because if you go back, I think that's the movie's not made. So Netflix got the documentary. There's one about coming to America and the talks all about it. Because with Eddie director, he's a very arrogant man.
And he was very big because he did make a lot of big hits in the years. He was the go to guy for things. And he did launch, well, he credits himself as launching Eddie Murphy's career because Trent Bliss is was the mid movie that catapult Eddie Murphy to start him. So yes, Eddie Murphy has nothing but lovely things to say about this movie.
Everything that I read, Eddie Murphy's like, it was so much fun. I didn't even feel like I was working. And I think that's more down to I cried, I don't know anything else. And watching them, they're too chemistry in this movie.
And then thinking to me, self, he was meant to be in Ghostbusters. Oh my god, how much fucking magic would that have been if Eddie Murphy was in goes, I will never regret what we have of course, that is, you know, that's my thing. But I just think to myself, oh, what if it would have been a very different movie, I think it would be a totally different story to put. Come on back, I talked about like the actors in this, like, I just want to give Dan, I'd write these props, because I don't think he gets the props, like the accolades for his acting, because he's always been one as a great comedian.
That's like, he's timeless, perfect. He's facial expressions. He's a very facial like actor when you see, like things he does, he's he was better than Jim Carrey ever could want to be type thing. And like, facial expressions.
But in this movie, the act in that Dan, I don't know, great does because he plays a pompous twit at the start and going through the worst time of his life and how he played it. Because if you think you watch him, gorsbusters, and he's very sweet, he's very like, nice guy. Well, you could bumble and raise stands. And in this, he's someone that you want to punch repeatedly in the face, you wouldn't get bored of kicking this person in the nuts.
I totally agree with you. What I love about Winthorpe is how would you fucking despise him to start with, but in the even just the very second he is pinpointed as a thief. You're like, oh, no, that's either dick, but he's not that. Yeah.
But I totally get what you mean by Dan, I encourage facial expressions because when he's when he's lawless, Winthorpe III, his face doesn't change. No, it's just straightforward. And I am better than you. When he's in the run, he's in prison, he's dancing, getting down in our face when he's Santa Claus.
Dan, I should be the son of that everyone. Can we just talk about the scene and get it out the way with because I have to and I still do this day, put my hand up to not look at the salmon scene. I can't. Well, it's mixing with the beard.
Oh, it's vile. If there's a reason I don't eat salmon. Oh, I hear this. If anyone in the chat hasn't seen tren, Liz, just to see where have the bean for the last four years.
But the premise is these two old rich guys, the dukes, the dukes, Mortimer and Randall. Randall, basically run this finance company that do buy and sell like Wall Street and buy, you'll be in America. And they've got this Harvard educated windthorpe, which is an upgrades character who bumps into this kind of down and out basically con manner in a way that is Eddie Murphy. And they basically have an interaction where Eddie Murphy's character is accused, but they have a social experiment, shall we say?
It's great because it's a very serious scientific experiment. Again, it still holds up to the current argument as well. It's like, does the person make you or give get you the situation or does the environment that you were brought up with? The privileges that come with your upbringing, because this is very much about white privilege.
That's no word of a lie. It's basically saying, anyone who was given this privilege will thrive. Or if anyone was not given this privilege, they would turn to crime. So that was the bet.
And the make of $1 bet, which, from that $1 bet, the ruin done at Roy Winthrop's life, where he's fiance leaves him, loses his house, loses his bank accounts, everything goes wrong. And then Eddie Murphy's character. What was his name again? I've gotten to know.
Billy with Ray Valentine. He is given all the things that don't grow hard. And the experiment is, can he thrive, giving all the benefits of someone with privilege would have? That was to reverse their roles.
Yeah. And I like it's one of those things now. And again, probably people say it's a privilege. This movie would work now if you remade it.
Because it would work in any type of environment with type this idea. It has done for many years before it. It originally comes from, oh my god, you like them, the three stooges? Right.
Was it from there? It comes, the idea came from there. And also two tennis players, brothers, who made a very similar bet over opponents. All right.
There were two, there were two, it was similar rivalry. And they made a ridiculous $1 bet to pin two other people against them. It was something that was signed, but yes, it was a three stooges. Yeah, I think it was the three stooges in the tent.
So it has been played before to where I guess this would be done again. This isn't this is a movie that you could take the concept for. Not redo it, redo it, don't need to redo it, but you can take the idea for it. Well, the idea was kind of used over and over in the 80s.
I think Bruce D'Amelian comes under a kind of a similar type of bracket. Take a black man out the slums, give him all the money in the world. What can he make of himself? Can he change a down and out person type thing?
If that makes sense. Well, you're funniest to say of Bruce D'Amelian's because do you know who the original people it was wrote for? Was it was it any Murphy was it all? No, it was Richard Pryor.
It was written for 10 places. It was written for Richard Pryor and Jean Wilder. Right. Originally it was written for and you can kind of see that dynamic when you know that and then you watch them too and you're like and Pryor dropped out.
Right. He said no and Jean Wilder was still on the shelf and then Eddie Murphy was picked and Eddie Murphy said he wouldn't do it with Jean Wilder because then he is replacing Richard Pryor and he can't be that person. He will not be the person to replace Richard Pryor. Jean Wilder said that's a problem.
I'm out and that's when Dan Aykroyd came in. And history was made from that day. And as I said before as well, this is like say the movie that is because I know Eddie Murphy I think did Raw. That was a bit that was the stand up that kind of kind of like brought Eddie Murphy out of like say the Saturday Night Live and onto the big screens.
Then he did this and this basically catapulted him across the world. This made Eddie Murphy the star of the 80s like one of the like there's not many people out there had bigger movies in the 80s than Eddie Murphy and this is the one that made and his performance in this as well is a little bit more cooler than he had Dan Aykroyd because he goes from the craziness pretending to be a Vietnam veteran with no legs. Even though he's on his car. That's his first introduction.
And then it's kind of like a slow build where he's showing this mansion where he's getting talked around it and it's so clever he's doing because he's all this is nice and he's slowly picking things up and he doesn't believe that. He's putting that there. Then he goes to the bar and meets the people who he was in jail with and then he's like she was off and he's got all these people come back to his place. And he starts taking a little bit of ownership to the property as well.
Like people's want cigarettes. People are putting up and coasters on it's kind of like so interesting. The change as soon as he like I think because he calls back to the house he's like oh okay this actually is happening and that's instant changing them of like the course of the thing. And then when he's like should I do some more audios?
He's like fuck them. The best part about this movie for me is the sort of the language because it's not the fuck is not used as a bracket between one word to another. It's actually used for comedic timing. I just love it.
I love the fact that in the dancing scene when they're in the party. The one thing my dad always used to point out was as a kid right? So the all-dancing and there's a woman right at the camera she's right here with a red top on and a necklace. She looks directly at the camera.
She looks directly up like that. Smiles and then puts her eyes back down again and my dad always pointed it out as a kid. So now as an adult I'm looking and waiting for her to look at the camera. See I didn't know what it's like because I was one of the gortles and he's wearing women to stop the tops off.
Did they just do that? I don't know but I really wish it at the time. I really want to go and see people dancing to stay at the tops off back to see a good time. The one who was dancing and took her top off first.
Our boyfriend Stanley was like that's my girl over there and he's like fucking proud of the back. She's dancing with no top on in front of all these people. Is that what we did? Is that what happened?
That's why it was the best era shall we say. And we'll come back to the other scenes. Let's talk about the greatest scene in movie history. If we're talking about people taking the tops off because as I said in this screen, Jimmy Lee Curtis went to the gym.
I've got a tits out in train places. Man what a pair. I don't want to sound sexist or like lurchin everything like that but Jesus Christ. When Jimmy Lee took that top off as like the angels started singing and everything was good in the world.
Jamie Lee's body tits and everything is just fucking on point. She looks incredible. You know they didn't want her. John Landis had to actually fight for Jamie Lee to be in this movie because the only thing she done up to this is the mainstream for her because the only thing she did at that point was horror.
Yeah, no, I'm not. This was our breakout in the mainstream with Australian places and the studio didn't want it. She doesn't credit this is a good time by the way. Right.
Oh, she doesn't know. This is not just trading places. It's just when she went mainstream, horror-treat her right? Right.
The mainstream didn't. Yeah. So she kind of has some she kind of has some like mixed feelings towards it but I've never heard a bad amount of um, trading places but they really had to fight for her. I've got the date because Jimmy Lee fucking makes this film.
She does and her chemistry would down up road as well. Um, it's again subtly done but you can tell this chemistry and as that building goes on, yeah. And when she looks after him when he's not well and stuff like that and I love how she treats him as a business at first and kind of your investment. I'm gonna make my money sign get off my back because next year she was a work-and-go in this movie and she was working.
And she was working and she had a goal in mind and she had a figure and she knew what figure was needed in order to take her out of the position she was in and he was just gonna top that figure off and she would be able to do what she needed to. And let's just before we go any further and we have her son from a rocker. All right. Hello.
Happy New Year. Welcome. Welcome to the chat. I just want to point that out before I forgot it.
So hello. Hello. Going international now. Yes.
Definitely trading places. So yes, all the actors in this are absolutely brilliant. Like from the two, can I have an old balance actually? Because one of them you think off is quite nice and the other one is like a complete art.
Yeah but the one who's quite nice is the scheming evil one. Like he's coming off with these ideas. Well you think of him as a nice grandpa and all that you think is, oh grandad has had a great update. Grandad has had a min scientific idea.
Do you know up until that movie was done. This is gonna be, I didn't write the law down. What I found interesting I wrote down and this was one of them. So it's Ralph Bellamy and Don, Don, don't ashamed me.
Yeah, it's like Don because he's like a mafia Don, it's like a mafia Don, it's like a wire left. Don is seeing me and Ralph Bellamy as of trading places, 99th film. It was his 99th film. Don is seeing me was 40, he's 49.
Eddie Murphy was two. Eddie Murphy used to call it. He's like between us all. We've done this amount of movies together.
Isn't that so much fun and they did not find a funny side of us. But them two are absolutely. Don has seen me, I'm really sorry if I'm butchering his name, but isn't he a grumpy old man or am I thinking of someone else? That's what the Matthew?
It looks very similar, but definitely. Jack Lemon isn't it? Yeah, like Don was out of cocoon with Steve Guttonberg. That's the one.
Yeah. I've seen cocooners. Yes. Not many people in the chat will.
Cocooners about all people getting younger, but yeah. I'm dealing with horror movies. Generally thought it was a horror movie as a kid. That's Steve Guttonberg in so it's terrifying.
I even like the guy who played the Chief of Security. Oh, I've got his name. I'm going to get him in the breakfast club. Yes, the principal from the breakfast club.
Yes, that's it. See, that's why I got you in here. Oh yeah, his character. And there was a bullish bashoomie as well.
John Bashoomie as well. Oh. John Bashoomie as well. No, oh my God.
Yeah, I know what you mean. He's the one that was dressed up as a gorilla in the tree. I'm not a fucking gorilla. That's one of my favourite lines.
Yes. Can you hear me okay? Because I feel like I've just knocked something. I know you're coming through really clear.
I'm good. Yes. Don't worry. If Goodwill's Fucking Quiz wasn't there, I would be able to ask people.
Yes. It's blocking me view. But yeah, John Bashoomie. Oh, blushi.
Blushi. Blushi. No, we got it. Yes.
Yes. Yes. I feel like that was kind of like a bit of a cuddle. And then all Chris said this in the Discord earlier.
Did you notice that he's the reg that in coming to America? Yes, it's the two. It's more than that. It's the Duke Brothers.
I've only ever seen that film once. Anthony pointed out through it. I was thinking, oh my God, it's the Duke. Yeah, it's basically because at the end of the film, they lose everything and become homeless and stuff.
And then coming to America, it was kind of like a little nod. Apparently, John Nandis didn't want that in. The writers had a force him to put that in, because he didn't want it to be referenced. But yeah.
But not the whole film. Like the comedy, as you said, it is very much of its time. A lot of the jokes are very much, wouldn't pass a lot of the things to hear. But you would not be able to put this out right now.
That's just how much you were, isn't your movie. But that train scene is some of the funniest shit you've ever seen. Like when I'm trying to think of where Eddie Murphy's character comes in. And he's like, my new year.
I'm not going to do the accent though. So that's very important. I'm held out from Sweden. And the bottle is like, but you've got Leida Holden's on.
Are you not from Sweden? I'm not from Sweden. Apparently, nobody knew that Jimmy Lee was going to pull that accent out. Thought she was just going to chop normal and then just had the kind of role with it.
And that is, I mean, that's saying alone is, it is funny, but it wouldn't be for you to. And then we'll have the famous, because I almost put a picture in the film, Neil. I was like, no, that'll get taken down pretty quickly. That'll get us cancelled pretty much, yeah.
I've got to go down that balloon. And the comedy in this, now I know what it is this year. I watched this movie quite regularly. It was like, I know what the Bayden from start to finish.
It's like, Gospels does nobody will sit and watch it with us, because I see the line before it's even happened, especially Eddie Murphy's way is getting it. We could have made it, baby. Bitch! I fucking love the line.
But what I know what it is tonight, when I was looking at it, I was kind of like looking at it just to see what, you know, talk points and what I would like to bring up. And I know what it is, the pacing of it. Yes. How it is actually quite slow to get to the punch line.
And if I take down that core, he's saying, for example, where he gets off the bus, he's just done the thing with this all over the summon. And he gets off the bus and he stands in in front of a shop. He dog pisses on his leg. Oh yes.
The rain then hits him. He pulls the gun out. It goes blank and then he drops the gun and it goes off. It's like the worst thing, like everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong and can't get any worse than that point.
Right in that minute, but it is so brilliantly pierced in time. If you just sped that up and rushed it, you don't have the same effect with that gunshot shot. Fucking hilarious. Well, just Danakrode's delivery of that as well.
It's like, because you've went from the kiosk and gone to the office, like, even his last chance to get his job back, or he was planting the drugs in Van Pang's drawer. And he gets caught on his leg. But as you said, the same before that, it just makes me yuck. It's not just basically the one after his way, the salmon for his beard.
It's where he's chopping the lumps of fatty beef and putting them in his pockets as well. And it's just like, oh, the meatiness. It's gonna be rubbing the cloth. The whole thing with Danakrode is Santa Claus.
It just makes my skin crawl. But it's when Billy Ray has finally heard the plot. He knows what's going on. And he sees him and he shouts, when thought and Danakrode just turns around and goes, I swear that is how I used to communicate with my dad when I was younger.
I think I actually remember watching it as an adult, like years after it, because honestly, this was on all the time, along with Gorspusses. And it's my love of Danakrode. It's probably the reason. There's no reason for me to love this as much as I did as a kid.
For how young I was, there's absolutely no reason. Apparently, the only thing I can put it down to, it was Danakrode. I didn't get it. I didn't understand any of it.
But I just fucking loved and watched it. I remember watching it as an adult. But that's the thing, the movies in the 80s, like I know I keep harping on and people are gonna get to store-bought of me saying this. The risks that movies used to take in the 80s, like the stories used to tell, like how clever they were.
If you think about like, like you said, trading places, the great actors with Danakrode and John Goodman, some of some of the occasion, Bruce's millions, licensed to drive. It isn't fucking saddles. It wasn't saddles. That was on Mel Brooks.
It goes in a whole different genre of all together. But like simple stories, it doesn't have to be like a blockbuster. It doesn't have to have these mega special effects or these mega like entry levels into the next franchise. Oscar.
Yeah. It was just silly comedies, like stupid films where proper comedians like who go on and just do like have fun. Because like, see, if you imagine how much fun Danakrode must have had making this movie though. I just see it all over his face.
Yeah. Because he looks, he just looks so fucking damn proud of himself and he really, really should be. Because this was just, it was all chef's kiss for Danakrode on this one. He was so brilliant as Lois Winthob the third.
I love the fact that even on that scene, when we go back to when he's planting the drugs and he doesn't know half the shit of what he's talking about. And he's like, and a marijuana cigarette. And he's. Everybody instantly goes from being that Santa Claus to being Lewis again.
The space changes, the voice changes. He just goes straight back into who he was. I love the fact that Billy Ray picks the jungle. Yeah.
He's chopping everything out. Just reminding everyone that he is still. He is. This is one of the best co-opincense movies as well.
Because the whole plan to get there, and it's so simple as well, to get the news on what the Stock Exchange is going to be. What's kind of best thing to buy, one thing's the best on a cell. And how do they play that out? Where, and again, that was my first experience other than like, afterwards watching Wall Street with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen.
I was like, I was like, I was saying, one of the Douglas is saying like how Wall Street works. We've seen that like the chaos and just trying to fathom what's going on. And just seeing the smugness and the brilliance of like say, Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy's characters getting. He is not writing anything on that paper.
No, no, no. No, no. He is not writing anything. But what is hilarious about that whole scene?