Welcome to the show. Hold on. Okay. Oh, what's this?
I'm gonna let it ride. Uh-huh. What a fitting tribute to me, to President of Kingi LLC. Well, that's right.
That can only mean one thing. The President, John Kennedy, has been assassinated a second time. Don't ask me. Don't look as grave.
No, of course. It's Dan's birthday. Oh, I turned 34. Dan is 34 years old.
Older than Christ. That's right. I outlived the big man. This is a son.
The big man's son. The big man's son. Big man Jr. Yep.
No, I think when everybody is listening to this last week, last Tuesday, will have been your birthday. So, you know, reach out and say Happy Birthday to Dan. But this is Dan's birthday. Actually, let me give you my address.
You do it in person. Let me talk to myself. Yeah. This is Dan's birthday episode.
That's right. Rob, for your birthday episode, we did Ed Wood sort of a... I'd stop sort of calling it inspiring, but a heartwarming sort of story of like a ragtag group of friends against the odds, you know, finding joy and meaning in life in a world that's telling them you're weird. You're too funky freaky.
This movie is pretty similar to that, right? Where everybody's finding the good in other people. This is a movie where you get yelled at by your boss's boss. Oh, man.
And they're like, you aren't being funky freaky enough. Too funky freaky. No, not funky freaky enough. We like it now.
Not in the way that I like. We're doing network. We're doing network. 1976 is network.
Of course, the bicentennial. How appropriate. How appropriate. This is a...
This is a fucking rules. This is a fantastic movie. I watched this movie and I think to myself, fucking what's his name, West Wing Guy, Aaron Sorkin wishes. He could say that.
He is like, he is unfit to lick the bottom of Patty Chiyevsky's boot. It is like, it is crazy how good this is. And it does like, it's so dialogue. It feels like a play the whole time in a good way.
It feels like a play. There are a lot of monologues, a lot of dialogues. There's a lot going on in this movie. A lot of words.
It's micro, it's macro. It's personal, it's societal. It's crazy. I've seen this movie maybe two other times, right?
And I loved it before too. But I also, for some reason, I thought it was much longer. I thought it was closer to like two and a half hours or something, which for whatever reason kept me away from rewatching it, I guess more often. But it's two hours.
It's like, and it fucking cruises. Watching this movie and you're like, oh my God, every scene is just like rolls right into the next thing. And everything is like the way that it's all building up and then falling down. Scenes straight up used to have arcs.
They did. Whole scenes would just have an arc too. Yeah. It's sort of like a narrative fractal.
People basically used to write movies. They wrote movies. I mean, is this movie not correct? That television brain has destroyed us all?
Right about it's completely internet. It's crazy. It is. It is.
They're like, this movie is 50 years old and they're like, let me just, I don't know, call the shots for the next 50 plus years and just to get ahead of everybody else. Yeah. It's also like, I think the thing, so I don't know why did I pick this? Well, let me tell you.
I was just trying to think of like a movie that's important to me that isn't like the dumbest comedy, just the most shit for brains movie I've ever seen in your life. And this one jumped out. This was like a real sort of like, this is a, this is a, for lack of a better word, a red pill sort of movie. Like if you see this one, you're like, I saw this one was like 19 or 20.
Perfect, right? Cause like at that age, you're kind of like the system. It's like, I resent the system, but life's good. I don't know.
It's just like, it's the, I don't know the fucking Ned Bee speech. It rocks you to your core. The Ned Bee speech is so good. I think, I think this works.
I really think it works for like all ages, maybe not children, but like when you're, I think this is just like, it's a good reminder. Yeah. Yeah, that's probably right. I think when you're like 19 or whatever, it, it scratches that sort of like freshman year college sort of like, all right, I'm getting a feel for what the world is and the world is bullshit, isn't it?
And then you watch this and you're like, yeah, man, like it's all fucking fake and whatever else, right? And then, you know, watching it now, you know, for me, about 42, I'm watching this. I'm like, I'm laughing at like how fucking like spot on these things are having through so many fucking bullshit things like this. I think it's like, yeah, beyond, I think it's just like it reframes bullshit in an important way where like saying like, you know, it's a thing.
Right. I find it very, I find it very frustrating when people get like publicly mad at politics. Politicians for doing something sort of like, say, feckless or, you know, something that doesn't seem to make sense. If the goal is, you know, the preservation and prosperity of democracy or whatever, like because that's not the point and I think at this point that so obviously not the point.
Yeah. And I think this movie just like underlines that 50 times that like all anyone's doing is serving that mighty, mighty dollar. Yeah. It's all.
I mean, right, the Met-Beides beach is the whole thing, right? But like, I don't know, when you're, when you're kid, it's like 19, I'm the same kid, but like when you're younger and you hear that, you're like, yeah, it is all bullshit, right? But you're still like young and you haven't experienced it yet. Right.
Not really. And then you get older and you're like, oh my God, it's just like constantly in your face all the time. And then you watch and then you're like, yeah, Ned, I don't know man. Well that explains it.
Yeah, cause I do think it's like five minutes into five minutes being. Right, there is a sense I think, especially when you're younger, that like the problem with the world isn't, the problem with the world is like the specific people in charge are not up to the desk. And that is incorrect. Right.
None of that shit happens by accident. Like this whole movie is, it's not like, it's not conspiracy minded at all. It's just like, it's like just showing you the gears turning basically. It's like, this is how this organically, you know, it organically happens because the interest of people at certain levels all sort of like reinforce these, uh, yeah, I mean, like it's, it's, you know, it's accusing, you know, people or whatever, accuse like individuals of being corrupt and not like the entire system being corrupt.
Yes. And that's the, that's the case is that like, you know, whatever your insurance claim was denied, your, whatever, it's something is your job's a joke. Your broke, your love life's the way. That's the thing.
But it's all these systems that we have in place, right? And it's like, well, I don't know. I mean, you could say like, oh, you know, we live in a democracy to party system or whatever. But of course, like, I think, especially in the last like 15 or 20 years, it's been increasingly, like just clearer and clearer that we're like, it's just that.
Aw. I don't know, actually two teams here. I think there's only one team and they're against me. Oh man, heightened contradictions for dinner.
We had heightened contradictions for breakfast and lunch. Yeah. But you're right. You're it's it.
I don't know. I feel like this movie pulls down the veil a bit on like on society, on like our systems and just shows you like you said, like the gears turning sort of behind the curtain, like how the sausage is made a little bit and it's gross. It's gross. Like, I think the thing I really appreciated watching at this time is like how guilty every single person in the movie.
Yeah. Like how can I say that I guess more than more than guilty? Like, I and I think having like the fate done away character at the center of this, like apparently she may or may not be based on a real programming executive. But regardless, I think she fits the like glorious stynum second wave lean in feminist model and like really just sort of like very quickly dashes like the idea of that being a possible path of liberation, right?
Yes. Like as much as anything else. And she I mean, clearly like she yes. I yeah, she even calls out at one point.
She says something about Mary time and more and how like something about the show being more popular in Mary time or something like that, right? Sure. Like the very time and more like you're saying the second wave feminism kind of thing of like women in the workplace and that kind of thing. And it's not it's not a savior.
It's just adding more people to the already, you know, dysfunctional system that we're working with here. Right. It's just it's just window. Yeah.
It's getting different people to serve the same. Exactly. Tubes. You're just tubes.
Your cogs are tubes. But yeah, and it's like I think it's right. I think it's like so I don't know depressing and like depressing on one hand, but also kind of cold comforting, I guess is like everyone in this movie is also motivated by a sense of wanting to do better, whether it's for themselves or like for other people. And it just gets corrupted because they're trying to do it within a framework that isn't designed for anything but exploitation.
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We'll have to figure that one out. But we should do another movie with just a big guy yelling. Big guy yelling, huh? Yeah.
I'm do Barton Fink. I just watch Barton Fink again. Did I? It's good.
Yeah. Did you were you showing the life of the mind at any point? Yeah, I was because that's good. That's really good.
Um, speaking of the cones, just real quick sidebar, um, I went to the cinema today and I saw the movie, Honey Don't You did? I did. The what do you think? Is it Joel Cohen?
Believe so, right? No. I can't remember which Cohen brother it was. It is Joel Joel.
It's good. Not great. I find, see I watched that movie drive away dolls from last year. Also Joel Cohen.
Yes. And that was also fine. Sure, you know. Also starring his, his muse.
Yeah, Margaret Quillie. Margaret Quillie. Public. Yeah.
Um, playing, uh, she's again in this one. There's a lot of like in that one lesbian sex scenes in this one lesbian sex scenes. Um, yes. I swear to God, I heard somewhere he's doing a lesbian trilogy.
I think so. Um, his writing partner is, uh, lesbian Ethan Cohen. Yeah. Yeah.
Just kidding. Yeah. Um, and that's who he's been writing her names to films with. Um, it's like a detective movie.
It's not bad. It's just, it's, it feels like just a regular movie as opposed to like a Cohen's movie, you know, you watch a Cohen brothers movie and you're like, you expect like a certain visual style or like, uh, language and all this kind of stuff. And that's not really present here, which is interesting. I don't know.
I don't know how I feel about it. But by the way, Trisha Cook is the name of the writer. Um, she's an editor and she, I mean, she's mostly an editor. She edited the big Wobowski and O'Botherwear art that.
Good movies. So that's probably how they got connected. Probably. Yeah.
Um, I haven't seen either of them. They looked at the trailers as like the seems a little annoying. The humor of it does not seem ha ha funny to me. It seems insistent upon itself.
Uh, driveway dolls. I hear. Okay. Driveway dolls is trying to be funny.
I think this one is not trying as hard to be funny. I think it's going for much more of a like a lighthearted detective story. I'll say that. Um, okay.
Yeah. Yeah. Like if you, if you watch it, like you might, there might be some stuff in it that you enjoy, but I can't like wholeheartedly recommend. Very good.
But I did see, uh, sorry, go on. I was gonna say barbarian bar bullets. Dude, I haven't seen it yet. So I was actually, I was just gonna, we should watch barbarian, but I saw weapons.
Oh, no, no, not barbarian. I meant the new one. I saw weapons. Sorry.
Do you like it? I like that one very much. I won't say anything about it. It's best to go in fresh.
Good. Yes. Good. You know the premise, right?
It's a true story on whatever date. Uh, the kids and the kids when they sing around. That, that little narration speech or whatever takes place in the first two minutes of the movie. So that's like, that's where it like, that's the starting point.
It's almost, I think I heard somebody describe it as like they're already like starting at the movie starts at the beginning of back to. Mm. You know, his name may be Zach Kregher. I think a better name for him would be Craig Zagger because he's eggs.
He does. Don't you think that's a better name for a guy like that? He's his next movie is going to be Resident Evil, which that's sick. Actually, that's a cool.
I think it's cool that he's like, I just want to make, I want to make the dumbest movie ever seen in your life. I mean, I got mad respect. There has not been a successful, I mean, I guess there has been successful. Yeah, but hold on.
What are you talking about? We watched the first one and it's like the good one. Yes, we watched the good one and it's bad. Like it's not great.
We loved it though. It was that they made a new one like four years ago or something like Resident Evil, like Welcome to Raccoon City or something like that. Also pretty bad. I don't know.
Resident Evil, Welcome to Mooseport. Yes. That one was actually Gene Hackman's last movie was the Resident Evil Welcome to Mooseport. But I mean, this guy doing a Resident Evil movie.
Come on. It's got to be a hoot. It's going to be great. He's good.
The man's got the chops. Are you, have we talked about this? Are you a white as kids you know? I don't know.
He loved it. He was in that group. I know he was in that group. I know that he like, I forget the guy's name Trevor Moore, right?
Trevor Moore. I don't know. I think he wrote this like after that and he was very affected by it. I don't know.
There's no connection. It felt like, but I don't know. What if that means? Well, there's some good stuff.
They did some good stuff. I'll leave a couple of links. There's one sketch where I'm going to do this. It's like at the Ford Theater.
It's like they're explaining it. Basically, there's a play happening and Abraham Lincoln won't stop yelling at the actors. He's like, no, he's like in the way that somebody would like yell at the screen during a movie. He's yelling at them.
And that is the reason he was beat. He was in shot. Yeah. It's pretty good.
Network. 1976 directed by Sidney Lumet. Sidney Lumet, the candelabra from Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, the candelabra.
Why are you laughing? What's the name? What's the name? Lumiir?
I believe so. No, those are the guys who directed the train movie. Oh, no, that's Trip to the Move. Moon, right?
Oh, there's Lumiir. Lost here. Of course, Sidney Lumet directed a ton of movies before this, but Serbiko, Dog Day Afternoon. Hello, hello.
Let's see. The Wiz. Directed to Child's Play, but not that one. Yeah, I got to watch.
Oh, the last movie he directed was Before the Devil Knows Your Chat. That was a good movie with Ethan Hawke and Phil Sigh-Horseman and... Oh, that's homemade. Oh, that's homemade.
Oh, that's homemade. She has white gold status. Look, you're sort of carved out in this for yourself as the lady appreciator on this one. On the show?
Uh-huh. That Chica is full. I think Marissa Tomei and my cousin Vinny is just the most beautiful anyone's ever been. Ever.
Ever. Just ever. We were talking to... Burn my house down.
Just to make eye contact with her. Tomei, step on me, please. No, we were talking before a record about... I was away last week, right?
While on the vacation one night, my cousin Vinny was actually... We watched it. It was on TV, so we watched the whole movie with commercials and everything. This was not a super fun trip.
That watching that was a highlight of the time down there. That'll unite a nation, really sure. I mean, a little so wide... See ya.
Forget it. Fucking bully. My biological clock is ticking like this. I mean, it's so good.
She's... Yeah. It's absurdly... Yeah.
It's absurd. It's not even... Yeah. But white gold.
Yes. And that is before the Devil Knows You're Dead, a movie you like? Yeah. I have not seen it.
Have you seen the movie Find Me Guilty? Find Me Guilty. No, I haven't. Where Vin Diesel stars as like an Italian gangster that is put on trial who represents himself in court.
That's like the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my life. Is it a comedy? Yeah. I mean, there's like comedic elements to it for sure.
Well, great. Because when I think comedy, I think Vincent Diesel. You like that one? Maybe that's our double feature.
That sounds crazy as hell. Yeah. Let's see. Peter Dinklage is in it.
I don't know. It's like an amazing movie though. I remember the movie is like 20 years old. I remember seeing it when it like came out on DVD and being like, I don't...
Maybe if I watch it now, I would get it. But at the time I was like, I cannot get past Vin Diesel being in this. And this was in 2006 when like Vin Diesel wasn't only known as the guy from the Fast and the Furious movies, you know? Yeah.
He's been in a couple of other things. Well, listen, I'm looking at the poster and it does look like a fake movie. Yeah. But part of the reason it looks fake is because Vin Diesel has hair kind of...
It's got the weirdest hair. The weirdest hair I think I've ever seen on a person. It's so weird to see him with the hair like that. It's this male pattern baldness hair and you're like, I know that he is fully bald.
And I don't... It's just like very hard to separate the odd from the artist. If he's not wearing big goggles, I don't know. I just don't know what to do with this guy.
Big goggles are an undershirt, an A-frame shirt. I don't know what to do with that. That's right. That's right.
Man, I had a Corona beer the other day. I felt like family. I felt like it's not a major way. I felt like Familia in a major way.
Yeah, for sure. For a few minutes there, I was living life a quarter mile at a time. That's good. That's right.
A few minutes. I drank it really fast. Movies written by Patty Chiavsky. Patty Chiavsky.
We're with the movie Marty. You ever see that? It's Ernest. Is that the one where Jimmy Stewart thinks he sees a rabbit?
That's Harvey, of course. Oh, okay. Nah, this is like Ernest Borg 9 is an older guy. He doesn't have a girlfriend.
He's just kind of this like shlubby dude. It's basically about him trying to find a woman, try to fall in love. He also wrote Altered States. That's a fucking movie about, was it William Hurt?
It's about William Hurt. William, is it William Hurt? It's got to be. William Hurt goes into a sensory deprivation tank.
Oh, yes, yes. And it's all about him like regressing. And he eventually like, he becomes like a pile of goo. It doesn't mean that.
Eventually he becomes like a star child, but he turns into like a caveman first. He regresses to caveman status. That's loco. It's like Manus for yourself.
I was like, I'm getting down to my most primal fucking, you know, most masculine versus myself. Yes, he's the most masculine version of himself. He's saying things like, Jamie, look this up. Jamie, look this up.
Look this up. Jamie, can you bring that picture up? I'll give you a picture. Jamie, he's laughing back there because we were talking about this earlier.
Oh my God. Have you ever listened to Rogan? Like, what's the most Rogan you've ever listened to? I want to say like years and years ago when it wasn't so fucking political to like listen to Rogan, all of his episodes are three hours long, which is too long.
And he does like three of them a week, which is crazy. Yes. He's also like not smart or into how to listen to speak. Like, I want to say in the early 2010s, maybe I listened to some of it when there were like comedians that I liked on there.
That was really it. The O'Von. Yeah. Yeah.
Rich Voss. Of course, Rich Voss. Let's see. Ari Shafir.
Yeah. Oh, man. So my favorite comedians. So my favorite comedians.
Let's see. Rich Voss, Johnny D'Sani, Mark Deir Park. Oh, yeah. And I don't usually like like chick comedians, but Amanda Nestle, pure life.
That was good. Why are they after rhyme? Rich Voss doesn't rhyme. We have to rhyme.
I don't know. Why are we talking about Rogan? Altered States caveman status. Deprivation tanks.
Rogan's a depriation guy. Yeah. Oxygen deprivation to his brain because he's so fucking stupid. I need some like nibble deprivation.
That guy's got huge nips. He's on the hips and no brain. He's on the hips and no brain. It looks like a, you know when old dogs get skin tags?
Looks like that. So, Paggie Chiyevsky. Paggie Chiyevsky writes a perfect script. Right.
Paggie Chiyevsky. So it should be said. This is Zionist. Let's get that out there.
Paggie Chiyevsky's been dead since 1981. Well, what did he say? He was just, I mean, he was like very into Israel in like the 70s who like he, he wrote copy for the ADL on credited. He turned down, so Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave were both in consideration for the lead in network, the Faitan away role.
And he rejected them both because he believed they had anti-Israel leanings, which I don't know about Vanessa Redgrave as much, but I mean Jane Fonda definitely. That tracks. Yeah. Interesting.
Yeah. You know, I think it's like, because it's like, you know, Bernie is the same way. Right. Kind of.
Bernie Sanders. Yeah. Not to the same extent, but like he's, he's like a little more sympathetic than maybe you'd expect, but I think there's just like being, being like an American Jew in the 20th century. You were like more prone to that.
This part, this moment in history. Yeah. But you know, he's also like, he's like a, he's like a lefty generally speaking, like he's like publicly opposed to McCarthyism and all that kind of stuff. So that's good.
Yeah. PoBuddy's nerfic day. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, this movie is like, it's funny because it seems like, I don't know, he, he's one of the, like, as you might expect with those politics, like he believed that like the term Zionist was like something used by, I mean, the Wikipedia page says Marxist anti-Semites, which like if this guy's not a Marxist, I don't know what he's doing.
I don't know how else to engage with the movie network. Yeah. If he's not, if he's not a Marxist. Hmm.
All right. I'm not sure where we're, where Patty falls on Marxism, I guess. Okay. I don't know.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know.
We're talking a lot about how like the politics of this movie feel relevant and the observations all feel like true. Yeah. Um, this movie just works, man. Yeah.
I mean, this is like a very, very well written movie, very well directed movie. Yeah. Modo. Modo.
Speaking of Modo, um, Miss Miss Fade on Away, of course, uh, Bonnie Clyde, a few years earlier. She has a fucking crazy face, huh? Yeah, she does. She's, you know how some people look like lions, kitty cats, Ron Perlman famous.
Ron Perlman. That guy has also got one. He has been amazing. Jesus.
Uh, but yeah, she's a, she's got cr, it's the cheeks, man. She's got those crazy cheekbones. Those cheekbones could cut glass. That's what I've heard.
It's crazy. Yeah. Um, but you know who's another one. William Holden.
That William Holden. Hey, you know what's crazy in this? Being like your middle aged. Oh, yeah.
Referring to him as middle aged is psycho. Yeah. How old is William Holden at the time of making this? Let's see, uh, 18.
He's about 60 years old. That's crazy. That's pushing it. He's 50, he's like 57 in this movie.
He looks bad for 57. He looks bad. Yes. He looks like he's got like, he's got like a level of, of jowl of a much older man.
He's like, he's already at like, like, I don't know, he's got the Philip Baker Hall syndrome. Yeah, I guess. He does. He looks old.
He's got a droopy dog face. Oh my God. What happens in another 20 years of this guy? His face is just dragging on the floor.
He's just a skeleton. That's crazy. Um, a living skeleton. Peter Finch.
Uh, it's a weird deal in his last role. The first man to ever receive the best actor award, posthumously, Dan. Interesting for this. For this.
That's cool. Um, and this was his last role, of course, because he shot in the head and chest at the end of the film, right? On, on screen. Yeah.
That was it. Uh, I thought that this was, was Albert Finnea first. Finnean Finch. Yeah.
So I mean, talk about jowls. Yeah. Yeah. Same sort of, same sort of phenotype.
Yeah. I guess British. Yup. Is he British?
He is British. Yeah. You can hardly tell with his spot on America, his bang up American exit. Just getting anything in and out.
Yeah. It's gotta be hard. You're yelling to yelling another man's, uh, telling you're, I can't be. Um, he also got Robert Duvall.
Wait, what is, what was that? That's my Duvall. It's, it's got a weird way of, uh, it's got weird cadence. It was flanks.
No way. Sorry. He's down. All right.
Well, you, you, you sound like a, what's his name? Bob Einstein. Uh, say Larry. Like Larry.
Yeah. That's Bob Einstein. Super Dave. You want to know, see, when I think of Robert Duvall, I think of one thing and one thing only.
The Saturday TV Fun House short where Ben Affleck gets JLo, a dog that looks like Robert Duvall and spends months training it to say I love the smell of napalm in the morning and then she doesn't like it because it doesn't sound like him. It doesn't sound like him. It just goes, I love the smell of napalm in the morning. So that's what I think of when I think of Robert Duvall.
First thought always. Um, I pulled this clip of Robert Duvall. Uh, it's going on the main board by the way. Oh good.
It's a big fat big. Yeah. Yeah. That got me.
That's like, that deserves, um, I mean, it's not on the level of shit out. Greater. No, whatever. But it's like pretty good.
It's pretty good. It's a cousin. I don't know, for like months on Blank Check, Griffin kept calling things a big titty to hit, right? And everybody was grossed out by that.
And he's like, what? What? And then I heard it in this movie. I was like, is this where you heard it?
Is this where he got this? Probably where he heard it, right? It's a big fat big ton of that Larry. Um, yeah, Duvall is, uh, he's always great.
Uh, seems he's one of the, when he's mad, I feel scared. There's not a lot of actors where they're like mad on screen and I actually have any sort of reaction to it like that, you know. It's like a, yeah, I think there's just like a wild dog energy to the way he gets mad. Like, in this especially, like he really, the cut throat of it all really reads.
Yeah. I don't know. It's like he doesn't care who he steps over. Like he's bloodied and dying along the way.
It's true. Um, yeah, we said, uh, Ned Beatty. Ned Beatty, uh, plays Arthur Jensen, like the head of the, what's this, the head of CAA, the paraglour? Yeah.
Right? Yeah. Um, who's in the movie for a total of like five minutes and, you know, some seconds. Uh, nice work if you can get in.
Yeah. I'm not a supporting actor for this role. Um, I like that there are other conversations had with him and he's not even seen for them. Yeah.
Right. It's like Duvall being like, well, like that with him. I know. So he's standing on the other.
Yeah. Uh, in the, I think it's in the IMDb trivia, but, uh, he has a quote of saying it's something to the effect of like, no actor should ever turn down a role. I was in network for five minutes and I got a best supporting actor nomination. Like, oh yeah, which Ned Beatty fucking rules, man.
I love this guy. He's so good in this. It's like, I don't know. I mean, it helps that it's like also one of the most iconic shots of all time.
It's incredible. Of course. The dialogue is amazing. But the way that he delivers all of it is just so good.
All of this like, you know, fire and brimstone. He's like, am I getting through to you? Oh man. And he goes right back into it too.
That's the part I forget. Cause I feel like when you see this clip down, that's where it cuts and you forget that it veers right back into the rage. Um, and, oh man. Yeah.
Okay. We'll talk about it. Just a couple of quick shout outs here. I'm going to talk about Smith, who is the attorney in my cousin, Finney, that Finney goes up against.
He is the prosecuting attorney. Wow. Small world. And he has a very small part in this, uh, in this movie, he comes in and he says that it's like kind of early on when they're like, it's after, uh, Howard says that he's going to kill himself and they're like, yeah, they want to put him back on the air and they're like, no, they really don't.
And he's like, no, I'm serious. They want to put him back on TV. Like, okay. Um, and, uh, also, uh, in an uncredited role, uh, Lance Hendrickson plays a network lawyer at cons, how cons, did you spot him as it was happening?
I did spot him. Yeah. I did not. I got to go go back and look at that.
It's the scene like towards the end when, um, yeah, when, uh, they're, they're complaining about like, uh, they're getting like, they're going over the contract and con. Yeah. That was great. I'm at con is like, all right.
And now I'd like to address, uh, line, you know, 72 small a small a really, um, can I just say something about Lane Smith, the most face I've ever seen on one face. Where do you quit hogging all that face? Save some for the rest of us. Yeah.
And then somebody with a small face, like Lane Smith got to this guy. If I can took something to space kept it for himself. Absolutely. Um, and then Gerald Ford, that makes our kind of cameo in here.
Is Patty Hearst in the movie or are they just talk about Patty Hearst? I think they just talk about Patty Hearst. There's a Patty Hearst kind of analog right in a Marianne Gifford, Kathy Cronkite's character. Yes.
Gaby, some relation there, right? Probably Walter Cronkite's daughter, Kathy. Um, that's fun getting, getting Walter Cronkite's daughter for this picture. Yeah, that is fun.
Uh, it's good. That's good. Uh, it's funny. Yeah, there is like, there's, I don't know the name of the Patty Hearst group was that kidnapped her and whatever, but there is like, Oh, the, Oh, the, sorry.
Oh, the fake one in the movie. Yeah. There's the real one. Um, and then there's the fake one in this, which is the, what is it?
The ecumenical, ecumenical, and ecumenical liberation army. Ecumenical liberation army, which is it? Yeah. Is the Patty Hearst one, the people's liberation army?
No, that's the, that's the car. That's, that's China. That's the Chinese military. All right.
I'll figure out. Um, so anyway. Um, Patty Hearst liberation army. What's Patty Hearst liberation?
Patty Hearst, of course. Uh, mother and. Symbianese liberation army. How could I forget?
Yeah. It's the craziest shit in the world. Other in law to Chris Hardwick, of course. Um, of course.