Groundhog Day with Stephen Tobolowsky!

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Welcome to Movie Life Crisis.

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Join us as we watch the best movies from 30 years ago.

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Columbia Pictures presents I'm gonna be having a problem.

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Bill Murray, I'm reliving the same day.

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Over and over.

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In a story about a weatherman who's living life.

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What?

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Like there's no tomorrow.

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Don't drive angry because there isn't.

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I am in a normal.

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I have been stabbed and shot and frozen electrocuted.

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You're God.

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I'm a God.

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Another D-God.

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Groundhog Day.

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Rated DG.

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At theaters Friday.

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Man.

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Groundhog Day.

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Groundhog Day.

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Bangor.

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Oh yeah.

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Such a great movie.

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Dude.

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One of my all-time favorites.

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Movie Life Crisis Season 3.

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Episode 3.

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Groundhog Day.

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Literally one of my favorite movies ever.

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It is also very high up there for me.

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And it's shocking how many people haven't seen it.

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Yeah.

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We, my wife actually set up a movie screening of it in Nashville for my birthday, which is the day before Groundhog Day.

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And we had like, I don't know, 25 people come out.

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And at least five or six of them had not seen the movie before.

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And like everybody is, my friends are all in their 30s and 40s.

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I couldn't freaking believe that the thing that you've seen it.

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I'm shocked.

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Everyone was loving it.

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Everyone was freaking gaggle in and like having a blast.

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And then we hung out afterwards and talked about it.

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I mean, officially it was the first movie life podcast episode movie screening.

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Yeah.

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Which was a rip-roaring good time that you missed.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, dude, it was incredible.

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Dude, as soon as she told me she was going to do that, I was like, he is going to lose his mind.

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That's going to be awesome.

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It's the coolest man.

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And seeing the movies and theaters, especially with other people.

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Like everyone's laughing and we're having popcorn.

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Like it was so much fun, man.

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I just want to be able to do like three or four movies a year that way.

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But even one a year would be awesome.

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I don't.

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That's what I don't understand.

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That's why, I mean, we talked about this before.

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But like the social aspect of watching a movie and everybody being scared at the same time or everybody laughing at the same time or everybody being shocked at the same time.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's because you can tell me because I've seen this movie.

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Like we did an interview with Stephen Tobelowski who plays Ned Ryerson and we'll play the highlights that interview here in a few minutes.

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We just got done with it.

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And we had an phenomenal time talking to him for like an hour.

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I don't believe.

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But I was telling him like this movie is the closest thing to a ritual that I have.

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I watched it every year the day after my birthday.

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But I haven't seen it in theaters.

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I saw it on the 20 year anniversary at the Belcourt and Nashville where we did the screening last week.

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So it's been 10 years since I saw it in theater.

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And it's so much different seeing it with everybody else there.

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Also seen it at the same time.

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Yeah.

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It's just not the same.

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And it's so awesome.

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That's.

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Yeah.

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It's way more fun seeing it in the theater.

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Yeah.

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You miss something at home.

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You totally do.

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So a lot of stuff going on.

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An incredible movie that we really love.

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Our movie life crisis screens this movie at the Belcourt.

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Jeff and I get an hour with Stephen Tobelowski who plays Ned Ryerson.

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Just freaking a lot of stuff happening.

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Yeah.

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This is everything's coming up Millhouse.

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Everything's coming up Millhouse.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We would sleep right on through to February 3rd if we were Phil Connors because we already are crushing life.

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We don't have to learn the piano.

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We can just move right on.

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I would like to learn piano.

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Can I have?

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I would too.

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But I think it would take me the whole 10,000 years.

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Yeah.

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That's a long time.

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Yeah.

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What else?

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I don't know, man.

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Just give us just an opposite.

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Let's get this thing cooking.

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All right.

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Groundhog Day is a 1993 comedy drama directed by Harold Raimis.

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Bill Murray starts his Phil Connors, a weatherman covering the annual groundhog day event in Punks of Tony, Pennsylvania, who finds himself stuck in a time loop.

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Initially, Phil takes advantage of the situation and indulges in selfish behavior, but soon realizes his actions have no lasting impact.

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He then uses his knowledge of the day's events to improve himself and his relationships of those around him, including his producer Rita.

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Through repeating the same day, Phil learns to live life to the fullest, be kind to others and appreciate the beauty of each moment.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's an upside.

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Yes.

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Do you know who's an upside that?

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I am DB.

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AI is going to take over our podcast, and we're not going to be able to do this.

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We're going to say, what would a chubby white guy think about Groundhog Day?

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And it would just list out all the things.

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It wrote that whole thing.

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I said a five-sentence synopsis of Groundhog Day, and that's what it gave me.

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Oh, man.

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That's awesome.

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So once AI takes a year in my jobs, we can really focus on the podcast, but by then it'll be better at the podcast, too.

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Yeah, it's going to be way, way better at the podcast.

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We can probably feed the AI, our podcast transcripts, which the AI will also transcript and go like, here's how we talk about movies, make an episode for us.

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There's a movie that we don't want to watch.

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Just go like, just spit out an episode, and then there's the other AI that will mimic your voice.

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They will just do the whole thing.

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Yeah, that sounds great.

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Let's do that.

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I don't want to do that.

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This is the part that I like talking about the movies.

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Even if we're not recording this, I would still call you and say, let's talk about this movie and we would talk about it.

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So I'm actually a little upset. We didn't get a chance to talk to Stephen Tobelowski more about when a date with Tad Hamilton, because I really do love that movie.

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Yeah.

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Well, maybe we'll come back for that.

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Yeah, 2005, we'll have him back.

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All right, budget.

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This movie budget somewhere in the $14 million to $30 million range.

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Let's call it $20 million.

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It grossed $105 million.

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Number 10 on the year, 1993.

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But the story of this movie is not really the story of 1993 box office.

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It's really about what it's done in the years since then.

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Now, 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, you know, they put in the frickin' library of Congress for significant contributions to the arts.

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It's all that stuff.

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Yeah.

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But it did do well in the year.

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It was released, you know, number 10 in the year.

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That's a big movie.

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It did well.

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But it didn't, I think, had people seen it how they see it now?

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Because even people like Ebert went back and changed his review of it.

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He went from three stars to four, and he was like, I was wrong.

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Yeah.

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So awards, you want to talk about awards?

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Yeah, go ahead.

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Hit me with the awards.

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All right.

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So film critic Circle Awards in New York, it came runner up to Shindler's list, our last movie, for Best Screenplay.

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So I wrote that down.

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BAFTA Awards, it won Best Original Screenplay at the Saturn Awards, which apparently is really big.

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And I didn't realize how big it was, because I had never heard of it before doing this podcast.

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Andy McDowell won the award for Best Actress, but it also had a nominee nomination for Best Fantasy Film, Best Actor, Best Writing, Best Director, Best Costumes, American Comedy Awards, Murray and Chris Elliott were nominated for Funniest Actor in Supporting Actor, and Best Traumatic Presentation at the Hugo Awards, and at Lost to Jurassic Park.

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So Jurassic Park's quite a bit more dramatic than this.

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So I could see how it could lose, but dude, that's really putting it up against some really great films.

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For the type of movie it is, I'm surprised it got that many knots.

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Yeah, I think this thing, I mean, it did pretty well in the moment, but even as well as it did in the moment, it is nothing to do with the cultural impact that it still has.

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But yeah, people knew about it right from the beginning.

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This wasn't like one that caught on later on video.

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It was good from the get-go, and it's still good now.

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Yeah, it's speaking of the cultural impact.

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Like, here's just a couple.

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It's ranked eight on AFI's 10 Greatest Films of Fantasy.

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Yeah, how many films are fantasy?

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And this is number eight.

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Yeah, well, I mean, I think Star Wars and Tolkien are both fantasy.

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Right, that's what I'm saying.

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It's a pretty good stuff there.

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Right, right.

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The magazine voted it.

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One of the 50th greatest comedies of all time.

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I came in four for BBC 100 Best comedies of all time.

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The New Yorker was like, this is director Harold Ramos's masterpiece.

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This is best movie.

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Like, it's ridiculous how many people are like, you know, this is the best movie of the last 40 years.

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And I put it up against a wonderful life.

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Like, Jonah Goldberg said he puts this in the same categories.

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It's a wonderful life.

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And it's one of the most timeless films and uplifting.

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And everybody should watch it all the time.

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And I was like, God, okay, done.

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Yeah, dude, literally.

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I mean, we were standing outside the theater waiting on the movie to start last week on February 2nd.

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And one of my buddies was like, when's the last time he saw this movie?

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I was like, February 2nd, last year.

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Yeah, watch it every year on Cravalk Day.

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All the time, every year.

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Yeah, sequels spin-offs and nothing.

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They've talked about making a sequel to this over the years.

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And actually, are they actually going to do it?

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There was a Groundhog Day musical.

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Nice.

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Where the music and lyrics were written by Tim mentioned, who I don't know if you know is ridiculously funny.

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Yes.

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Yeah, the whole thing's on YouTube.

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I watched it.

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It's not the same as the movie, obviously.

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The lyrics are pretty funny, though.

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Like, it was pretty good.

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It was in 2016.

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And it was in the Old Vic in London.

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It didn't do great, but it did pretty good.

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And people still talk about it.

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Yeah, and honestly, Groundhog Day wasn't the first movie to do the kind of time loop thing.

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That's been around in science fiction for a long time, but I think it was the most popular movie to kind of ever make use of that.

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So anytime I see a movie that kind of does that, like, what's the time cruise movie?

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Edge of Tomorrow.

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Edge of Tomorrow.

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Or, like, Looper with Bruce Willis.

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I like that movie, too.

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Yeah, what's the one with...

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What's his name from Brooklyn Nine-Nine?

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Yeah, Palm Springs.

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Palm Springs.

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That was cool, man.

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Yeah, that was super cool.

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That's the most like Groundhog Day, but every one of those.

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Anytime there's a time loop movie, it's always like Groundhog Day meets alien explosions.

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Yeah, that's the edge of Tomorrow.

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Yeah.

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Which they're making a sequel to, by the way.

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And I'm very excited.

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When's that coming out?

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I'm ready.

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I don't know.

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I'm also ready.

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Is he gonna run?

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Yeah, I do.

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In the big middle.

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I saw last week that Tom Cruise's 50 plus movies, only five of them has he not run.

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Yeah, I could see that.

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He's a good runner.

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Likes to run.

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Do you remember winning where you first saw this movie?

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I'm 99% sure this was one of the ones.

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Because we had a copy of it, you know, how you get the VHS tape.

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It's got the sticker on it.

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This was one of the ones where the sticker was on it, and there was another sticker over it.

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I probably recorded over an Olivia Newton John concert.

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My mom had.

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And it was one of those where it was like groundhog day.

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It was like numbered.

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Groundhog day was the first one.

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So I could always rewind it all the way and watch it from the beginning.

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The song in the middle, which is very poignant for what's happening in the movie, is that you don't know me by Ray Charles.

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Yeah.

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You and me.

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Dude, I used to love that.

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And my mom had this anthology on record that we used to clean the house to that was Ray Charles.

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And I was like, I can now have this on tape.

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And I can remember standing in front of the TV, holding the tape recorder up to the speaker so I could get that.

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Even though it was going to have slaps in it, and I wasn't even going to have the whole, you know what I'm saying?

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Like I wasn't even going to have the whole song, but I get to the end of my dad's like, you know, I could just show you how to record the record.

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We have a record player with a tape.

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The fact that I could have it on, like that's what I remember is trying to get that song.

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Kids don't know the pain of trying to get a song that you didn't have when we were kids.

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They didn't really hold enough freaking boom box up to a TV speaker to try to catch a song while it's playing on a movie.

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And it's not a TV speaker on the TVs we have now.

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It's like a tiny little, I might as well have had a can with a string holding it up to the microphone.

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It was really tinny and that's fantastic.

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Dude, the music in this movie is really good.

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I didn't have anything in my notes about it, but like there's some great songs in this.

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Dude, even the weatherman's song that they play in the beginning.

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It's kind of catchy.

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It's got that guy who kind of sounds like Kevin left that band up more than once.

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He's like, who is this band?

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It's like, that's the only thing they ever did.

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That's a great song.

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And Harold Raimis helped write the song.

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Yeah.

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Of course, baby wore me up on your weatherman.

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You can only play that so often.

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Yeah, he's already written the whole movie and directed it and cameo in it.

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Why not write the song too?

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Yeah, knocking it out.

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Like freaking the glorious song from whiteman can't jump that Ron Shelton wrote and directed the movie and it's like, let me write the song too.

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It's like, all right, dude.

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That's some other people make some shit.

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What?

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So when do you remember the first time you saw it?

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I don't.

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I've seen this movie so many times.

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This movie in my brain has gotten kind of worn out.

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Yeah.

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I've watched it so many times.

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There's no chance I can go back to the first even dozen viewings.

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But I've always loved it.

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So do you think when you like Homer says every time I learn something new, it pushes something old out of my brain?

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Like that time I take that home when making course and I forgot how to drive?

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You're drunk.

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And how?

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I'm wondering that.

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Is it slowly going to be?

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Because like, we just talked to Steven Tablowski and that dude's remembering stuff from when he was five.

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Yeah.

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Dude, I definitely think there's a limited amount of space.

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That's why one of the things I like about the podcast, we talk about stuff from when I was a teenager and I would have never remembered it if we weren't talking about it, unlocks it.

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So yeah.

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I mean, I think we probably didn't own this and I probably just, you know, even as a kid, I had my comfort movies.

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It's like, I went to Blockbuster.

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Nothing good came out.

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I didn't rent striking distance again.

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It's like, I'll just, I'll do Groundhog's Day again.

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I like that one.

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I'll just do Groundhog Day one more time.

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Ah, it's awesome.

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Yeah, man.

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Let's do ratings one to ten.

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How many chimney dogs?

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No sevens.

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So this one got an nostalgia bump for me.

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Because again, it's one of those comfort movies.

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The quote ability, it got a quote ability bump.

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It got a rewatchability bump.

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And the rest it kind of gets honestly because I thought it was well written, well thought out.

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It's still kind of a mystery.

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You don't know why they're in the time loop.

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It's funny as hell.

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Andy McDowell was kind of hot.

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Like, great soundtrack.

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It literally checks all my boxes.

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And I wanted to give it a ten.

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But we all know how I feel about that.

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So I gave it a nine point five.

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All right.

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That's the most predictable thing.

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And all the history of the world.

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What?

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You, I'm sure gave it an eleven.

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I gave it a ten.

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A ten.

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A ten.

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A ten.

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Nice.

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Dude, I absolutely gave it a ten.

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Not that it's a perfect movie.

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There's definitely some stuff that I would have maybe done a little bit different.

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Yeah.

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I mean, when I, when I give a movie a ten, I'm going like, if it's on, if I'm at a hotel and I could click on the TV and Groundhog's day is on, done.

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I don't need to pick up the controller again.

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You watch it even with ads.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Dude, I don't, yeah.

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Because again, we've talked about this.

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If you're watching something on TV, you feel like you're doing it with other people.

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Like other people are also watching this.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Which is a very powerful movie.

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Motown Philly's on the radio.

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There's more than one person.

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Yeah.

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Dude, I'm gonna turn it up, I'm gonna turn it up real loud.

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Right.

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And not that I listen to the radio and probably never will again.

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But yes.

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But you'll be somewhere where somebody will have the radio on and you have control of it.

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Yeah.

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And you might hear a jam.

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Yeah.

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Dude, it's like a league of their own.

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I could improve it.

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I got some things I could improve it.

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It's such a fantastic movie and it's one of my all time favorites and it will absolutely get a ten.

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I don't know that I'll ever give a movie a ten.

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Yeah.

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That's fine.

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I don't know.

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Speaking of which, since we're talking about Chimey Dogs, the tip top cafe, it was created for the film and it became an actual restaurant after that.

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Yeah.

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The tip top bistro.

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It's awesome how much.

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I mean, they do a Groundhog Day festival like at this in this town every year.

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We really should go there next year and drink and the screen the movie and do another podcast.

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Step in the puddle and step in the puddle.

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You can yell at me and watch that first step.

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It's a doozy.

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Yeah, except there's no puddle anymore.

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They freaking paved over that and put a plaque there and said, this is where Bill Murray stepped in the movie Groundhog Day.

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Yeah.

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That's so cool though.

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That's incredibly cool.

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It's like Illinois doing it right.

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You know, you know, I like stuff like that.

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I'm taking the trip to Disney World.

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It's 14 stops because I got to see the largest bottle of yarn in the biggest orange gym sock and it's only 30 miles out of the way.

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We can see the world's biggest rocking chair.

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Everyone.

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Let's go.

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Yeah.

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Why not?

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How many times are you going to see that in your life?

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I'm good with zero.

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I'm fine with you.

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It's a fine number of times.

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I like it.

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It's the trip.

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It's the journey, man.

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It's not the destination.

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It is the journey, I guess.

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All right, before we start on our best, we're going to just put the actual best of the podcast, which is us talking with Steven Tobelowski, who is, I can't even believe he did it.

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It was the coolest thing, man.

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It's super nice of him to chat with us and he is smart and hilarious and really great at his job.

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Wonderful storyteller.

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I'm going to read an intro just so we have it and then we're going to jump in some groundhog day stuff.

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I wrote out a thing.

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I'm professional and prepared.

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All right, people.

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Today we have a real treat and interview with actor, writer, director, podcaster, musician, Steven Tobelowski, Ned Ryerson and the flesh from Groundhog Day, which is obviously what we asked him to come on and talk about, but so much more than that.

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Steven has over 200 film and TV credits in a career spanning back to 1977.

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He was in space balls, Delmond Louise, basic instinct, Memento, and a movie that no one likes as much as Jeff and I do when a date with Tad Hamilton.

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I'm not joking.

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I love that movie.

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I miss Ron, just romcom with a killer ensemble cast.

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TV credits from Seinfeld to California, the Goldbergs, Deadwood, Archer, Silicon Valley.

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That's just the shows that I like.

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There's like 100 more.

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He's been podcasting since 2009.

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He's written three books and he was in a band with Stevie Ray Vaughn.

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Steven, can you believe that that is the career of one person when I read it like that?

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No.

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No.

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And you left out all the diseases I've had, didn't even get into the medical stuff.

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I just, that seems like that's 10 lifetimes there in those like three paragraphs.

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Does it feel like 10 lifetimes?

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It feels like it feels like that sometimes more.

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You know, and also some of the things were epically great and some of them were horrifyingly terrible and they all have irony to attach to them which makes them seem oh, so much sweeter.

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So you know, you look back at your life and you go like, oh, that didn't really matter, did it.

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And learning how to roll or skate.

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That was such a big deal at the time and you know, and now it doesn't really seem to be one of the big important things in my life.

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I feel the same way about quicksand watching a lot of bugs bunny cartoons.

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I thought that was going to be a problem and it's not, it's not a problem at all.

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Well, sorry, we could spend literally days talking to you about your career and our wives when kids would miss us, but it would be totally worth it.

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But your time is valuable.

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So I'm going to jump right into groundhog day and just ask you some questions about that.

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What was that audition process like?

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How'd that roll come to you?

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That was, I had an audition, I remember with Harold Ramos and I had just worked on the part kind of in my dining room with the dining room table was all I was working with.

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And so I told Harold Ramos, excuse me, but this is going to be kind of broad.

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I think it could play in the Roman Colosseum and he says, well, it's fine.

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I'll read with you.

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And that's the first thing.

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Harold Ramos read the part of Phil Connors with me, he's reading Phil Connors.

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And later I remember at a charity event long after groundhog day, I said, like, why did you choose to read with me?

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And he said, well, because Stephen, I'm an actor as well as a director, I said, but you're the guy who can hire us.

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I mean, that was terrifying having to add off of you and it's like, oh my God, you know, and anyways, I'm really happy that, but I remember I was so over the top and I un-sipped his pants and sipped his pants and went down and tied his shoes.

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Oh, well, I can't even have you doing Ned Ryerson all over my really, you know, abused him, but it was a lot of fun doing that.

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Yeah.

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And I ties into my next question a little bit, which is that a part of it is the casting as direction, the editing, the music, whatever, but it's, it's lightning in a bottle, right?

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Did you guys have any sense on the shoot that this movie would have the legs, would have the penetration of the culture that it ended up having?

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God, no.

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And in fact, Trevor Albert, our producer, who probably had his, you know, had a bigger overview than he would certainly had no idea.

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He called me up a month after the groundhog day had been released, called me up at home and said, Stephen, I think we may have a hit and I go, we do because his groundhog day, if you remember, got good reviews, but not great reviews.

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I mean, it was like it was, they said, it's a good Bill Murray movie out of five stars.

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You know, we've got three and a half or four stars of one of, you know, and Trevor said, if, and I, he taught me about the movie business, he said, most people go to a movie the first week gets open.

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The second week traditionally is almost a 50% drop in people who go to the movie and then it goes down that way.

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He said, we had more people see it the second week, more people see it the third week than the second.

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He says, now it's the fourth week and we have more people than have seen it in every week.

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That means repeat viewings right off the bat and that means word of mouth.

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We may have a hit, but we still at that point, their hits and their hits.

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You know, there's, it's not a hit like groundhog day had been a hit, which is like, it's an evergreen.

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It's like every year on groundhog day, people are going to be showing groundhog.

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It's the closest thing to a ritual that I have not being religious is watching groundhog day on groundhog day.

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Yeah.

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I mean, obviously, you know, when you put Harold Ramos and Bill Murray together, you're going to get probably something pretty good.

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But to me, as much as I enjoy stripes and stuff like that, it's like, I don't watch those every year.

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They don't, I don't, I mean, we finished groundhog day.

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We spent 30 minutes in the theater.

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This is a week ago talking about the movie, the philosophical underpinnings of the movie.

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Yeah.

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Well, there was an alchemy that kind of happened during groundhog day that's never happened on any other film that I've been a part of or TV show I've ever been a part of.

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And that is, so Bill and I were shooting first day, we're shooting street scene and they're about there were in the original script about nine street scenes in the script.

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And I think it's been cut down to five, but there are about nine of net encounters in various incarnations in the script.

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So we were shooting all that kind of Ned stuff.

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And at the end of the first week, there was a huge set piece.

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It was Bill realizing he has no consequences.

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And it's him doing what Bill Murray does best in a movie, particularly at that era, him going nuts and having no consequences.

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So it was Bill like spray painting the inside of his room at the end.

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Then next cut he's there with the chainsaw, chainsawing the furniture in half.

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Then he's in the bathroom, cutting his hair into a mohawk and anybody who knows anything about filming any time you spray paint something or cut something in half, you have to have doubles, triples, quadruples, you'll clean the walls, you have to start all over again, reset the room every time you do the shot.

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World Remus saw the footage at the end of that first week.

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And to mention something Alan Parker told me in Mississippi burning, he said the way all the studios are looking over your shoulder that first week to see how their money is being spent.

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He says, so yeah, this is what we're shooting on Mississippi burning.

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Every church burning, every lynching, every gang torture, murder, rape, anything we could do that first week, we're filming that.

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And then we're going to do all the Franny McDormand talking scenes at the end of the movie.

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You know, we're going to do that at the end of the shoot.

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So this is the first week when studios are looking over their shoulders to see what Harold Remus is doing.

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So they get some Ned scenes, they get some Andy scenes in there and they get this huge comic nut scene with Bill going nuts.

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And Harold Remus said to Danny Rubin the writer, he said, we have to decide what kind of movie we're shooting.

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What's the story we're telling?

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He says, is this a story about builds just having no consequences?

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He says, this is a story about man and how we used the time of our life.

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And Harold Remus took that footage and threw it away.

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Just a week, they're looking over his shoulder and threw it away.

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And he told Danny Rubin, he said, I am a practicing Buddhist.

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And we believe that it takes 10,000 years to perfect a human soul.

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And that is the story we're telling in Groundhog Day, the perfection of the human soul.

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And so that came into the movie kind of after we started shooting.

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And a lot of rewrites started happening then.

00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:11.640
And it developed this rich kind of philosophical texture after that.

00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:13.880
That's the best part of it too, to me.

00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:18.000
Well, and that was some of the tension between Bill and Harold as well, right?

00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:23.039
Because Bill kind of wanted broad comedy and Harold was going, I want to tell the Buddhist story.

00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:24.640
I don't know anything about that.

00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:30.440
I all I know is that in every scene I had with Bill, he's one of the best actors I've ever worked with.

00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:35.839
He was in the moment every shot, every take.

00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:36.839
That's awesome.

00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:40.000
Did you, so did y'all film all of your shot?

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:41.839
Like you said, it was nine times.

00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:43.440
Is it just one after another?

00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:56.319
It was even more amazing than that because Harold Ramos had not decided what the day of the movie would be because Groundhog Day, the day has to be repeated meteorologically.

00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:58.839
So Bill and I had no schedule.

00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:05.160
We were on Will Notifies, which meant if it rained, we were called to the town square.

00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:10.119
Let's redo the street, first street scene in the, which was our longest scene.

00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:11.119
Redo.

00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:12.200
Let's do it in the rain.

00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:13.200
It's snowed.

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:14.640
Let's redo it in the snow.

00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:15.640
In the gloom.

00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:16.640
Let's do it.

00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:17.640
It's sunshine.

00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:18.640
Let's do it.

00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:20.480
And so we were always running down to the town square.

00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:32.559
And I think that the propositional feeling of like you got to be ready at any second to jump down there and do the big scenes also helped give Groundhog Day kind of a bit of a jolt.

00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:37.680
I had a question about one of those scenes that is when Bill hugs net and propositions him.

00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:43.319
I saw on a video or something that Harold had given Bill that note like go do something to him.

00:26:43.319 --> 00:26:44.319
Don't tell him what it is.

00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:45.319
Is that true?

00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:46.319
That was an improv.

00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:47.319
Yeah.

00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:48.319
See, I didn't hear that.

00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:59.079
No, that's just the other piece of the puzzle I knew Harold was behind this somehow, but I didn't know how people always assumed that Bill and I did a lot of improvisation.

00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:05.640
We did very little improvisation, except that scene, which wasn't in the script.

00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:12.960
So Harold Ramos had, Harold always believed, and this is something for young directors out there.

00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:15.319
Listen to Harold Ramos because he's a genius.

00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:20.799
Harold said comedy lives in the two shot, not in the singles two shots.

00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:30.960
So Harold had already set up the cameras over our shoulders, over Bill shoulder, my shoulder, and just, he said, Stephen, meet here and Bill, meet you there.

00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.200
We had no idea what was, I had no idea what was going to happen.

00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:36.359
And Bill started that thing.

00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:43.240
And it's the only scene that we had in the movie that was improvised.

00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:45.480
And I had no idea what it was.

00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:48.400
And Bill's like, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:53.680
And then I run off with the sick and Harold Ramos goes, cut print.

00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.160
And I said, do we have to do any?

00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:57.000
He says, we got it all, man.

00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.000
That's it.

00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.000
We're moving on.

00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:00.000
That's awesome.

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:01.000
So that was it.

00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:02.000
Yeah.

00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:03.000
You absolutely got it.

00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:07.400
That was such an incredible reaction by you as Ned and by you.

00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:09.000
Shame on them both.

00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:11.000
Oh, my God.

00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:12.000
It's incredible.

00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:18.119
And I actually did have a question about improv, so I'm guessing that a lot of the Ned stuff was on the page.

00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:19.119
I'm a right.

00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:22.039
Like, there wasn't that you didn't, that was not character embellishments.

00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:23.039
That was on the page.

00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:26.319
It was character embellishment, but it was on partly on the page, you know.

00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:36.039
And some of it was based on my insurance salesman, Dennis Sokel was our insurance guy.

00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:40.720
And you know, Dennis was this really kind of high energy kind of guy.

00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:49.839
So anyway, we have some whole premium life and you're going to really want that Stephen because now you're married, you have a child, you're going to need whole premium life.

00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:51.799
That's really what you're going to need.

00:28:51.799 --> 00:29:09.279
So anyway, I kind of morphed a little bit of Dennis in there and I remember when the movie came out, I get a phone call from Dennis Sokel and go, Stephen, I just saw your movie Groundhog Day and I had no idea you were playing an insurance salesman.

00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:11.000
And I got to tell you, it's wonderful.

00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.880
Most of the time when I go to movies, people are making fun of insurance salesmen.

00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:19.599
But at least, you know, you at least made insurance salesmen look good.

00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:20.599
Honest portrait.

00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:26.839
And you didn't even do a ride along with him as an insurance to get into character.

00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:28.599
No, no, no.

00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:36.279
You know, we both Bill and I kind of I talked to Harold Ramos, I remember after the first take went remarkably good in the street.

00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:39.839
And I remember I talked to him, I said, Harold, am I too broad?

00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:43.160
I mean, I feel I'm huge on this.

00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:54.200
And he said, Stephen, you know, the Schlamir and the Schlamazal in Jewish comment, the Schlamir is the guy who spills soup.

00:29:54.200 --> 00:30:01.240
The Schlamazal is the guy who gets the soup spilled on you are the Schlamir, Bill is the Schlamazal.

00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:10.519
Put another way in comedy, you have one guy who has to represent the world and one guy who represents the aberrant force in the world.

00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:15.559
Bill has to be the world in this, so he cannot be broad.

00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:21.079
You are the aberrant force, you do whatever you want to him, whatever you want.

00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:24.319
He nailed it too, because you killed it, I'm telling you.

00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:25.319
And it was great, man.

00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:32.839
Ned Ryerson is such a chaos agent in that movie, it's delightful, it's a great character.

00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:45.079
And it comes in at a very unique time in the script, which is so cool in terms of because you get the idea what the story is before you get the first Ned Ryerson.

00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:54.920
And so it's really kind of like a new act one, where you realize this Ned Ryerson is going to be an apparition that haunts Bill for the rest of eternity.

00:30:54.920 --> 00:31:00.000
You know, it's very cool the way it comes into the script, it's good stuff.

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.279
One question I've always had about this movie, literally since I was a teenager, watch out for that first step.

00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:05.279
It's a doozy.

00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:10.480
Did they reuse that same take of you or did you just do that exactly the same of a bunch of times?

00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:12.200
They didn't reuse anything.

00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:19.400
We re-shot everything and it's hilarious.

00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:32.480
When we did the water, again, that was another scene that we did in all sorts of weather conditions, because and Bill really hated that scene.

00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:35.680
It was so cold, I can't even tell you how cold it was.

00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:38.480
It was so cold that it couldn't snow.

00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:39.480
It couldn't snow.

00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:40.880
It was so cold.

00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:42.880
It was freezing.

00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:50.880
Below, I mean, your hands would just, so we all had these packets in our shoes, in our hands, in our hands.

00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:55.359
They weren't like the deer hunters used, all this stuff to try to keep us alive.

00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:59.039
And Bill had to wrap his foot, first of all, in Saran wrap.

00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:10.359
And then he put this neoprene sleeve over the bottom of his leg where the skin divers used, then he covered it with socks, and then he covered it with his pants.

00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:21.799
And the instant, you know, he stepped in that water, which was a man-made puddle, and they sprinkled styrofoam, flax on top of it, so it would look like ice or snow.

00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:26.839
As soon as that shot was over, it was the torrent of expletives, as we call it.

00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:35.319
A virtual waterfall of every, every vicious expletive to our God in heaven and to Satan below.

00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:50.039
And Bill was not happy in the, he, you know, hopped back into the room behind us, the storefront, and the ladies from costume and makeup had blow dryers on heavy, on super hot.

00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:54.559
And they were blow dry in his foot, so he would avoid amputation.

00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:55.559
That's awesome.

00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:56.559
Yeah.

00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:57.559
Every time.

00:32:57.559 --> 00:32:58.559
Every time.

00:32:58.559 --> 00:32:59.759
That's incredible.

00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.759
That spot in the street of Woodstock, Illinois, by the way, Stephen.

00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:05.359
They're now as a plaque with Bill's footprint in it.

00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:06.359
Yeah.

00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:08.680
And there's one on the building behind that says Ned's corner.

00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:09.680
There you go.

00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:11.319
That is absolutely incredible.

00:33:11.319 --> 00:33:15.279
Well, well, look, man, you've been very generous with your time, and I want to take up too much of it.

00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:19.440
You, you get for one more question, and then we'll, yeah, let's do, let's do another one.

00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:20.960
Then I'm going to pick up that grand baby again.

00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:22.200
Do not blame you.

00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:26.319
We end every episode on these 30-year movies, asking the same five questions of each other.

00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:27.519
You know, is it worth watching?

00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:34.279
Who, would we recast it, you know, is it good for kids, you know, basically does it, does it work in the modern era?

00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.960
And I wanted to ask you one of those questions, which is, could we still make this movie?

00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:40.960
Would someone pitch and make a broad comedy like Groundhog Day?

00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:43.000
I think they could.

00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:49.119
And, of course, they'd have to have an amazing script, which Groundhog Day did.

00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:52.920
It wasn't just a rom-com, but rom-com was substance.

00:33:52.920 --> 00:34:04.440
And what you touch on, too, is fascinating, because I think one of the staying powers of Groundhog Day is that we shot it in the coldest place in the world, you know, in the winter.

00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:08.800
And so we were wearing winter clothes and not spring or summer clothes.

00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:11.320
So the fashions were covered up.

00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:12.480
So it dizzy.

00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:16.760
So the hairstyles were covered, the big shoulder pads were gone.

00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:21.159
All you had were people wearing puffer vest and toboggan caps and scarves.

00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:22.840
So it looks the same as it does now.

00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:24.559
So yeah, you could do it now.

00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:31.480
Let's get a good script and get somebody who has, you know, kind of the magic, the bill and Andy did and all that.

00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:32.719
Harold Raimis, my God.

00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.840
Yeah, because Jeff and I are very eager for the return of broad comedies to the theaters.

00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:42.400
It seems like they go straight to Netflix or, you know what I'm saying, they're not, or they're, or they're pressed each TV.

00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:43.400
It's a different year.

00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:49.239
And when they shoot for Netflix, and when they shoot for television, the same shots are in it.

00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:50.400
You know, they don't have the long shots.

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:51.880
They don't have the vista shots.

00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:55.400
A lot of it is just two shots, close ups, every, it's television.

00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:59.639
I don't like, I want to be able to sit in there and laugh and eat popcorn.

00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:06.320
Watching Groundhog Day in the theater, man, last week, I can't tell you how much better and experience it is to have people laugh and read in popcorn.

00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:09.519
I was like, this is, I wish we could screen every podcast movie in the theater.

00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:10.519
It's incredible.

00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:14.440
The last time I saw Groundhog Day for real was at the Academy.

00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:18.280
And they were honoring Groundhog Day for, I guess, 25 years or something like that.

00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:24.119
And they brought several people who were in the show to be there and to answer questions and stuff on stage.

00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:26.519
So they had me there, they, they had to come.

00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:34.599
But they also had the little girl who was having piano lessons, who gets thrown out of piano lessons by Bill Murray.

00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:43.719
And the entire audience of all these actors, producers, directors, when they introduced her, gave her a standing ovation.

00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:44.719
That's true.

00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:53.599
It was a grown woman, of course, and when they showed the movie and she came on screen, everybody started screaming and applauding.

00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:55.760
It was a wonderful experience.

00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:56.760
That's awesome.

00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:57.760
Amazing.

00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:59.480
Well, listen, man, thank you so much for your time.

00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:05.679
We have thoroughly enjoyed your work in this movie and when we did sneakers last year and it's been an absolute delight talking with you.

00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:07.039
Good talking to you guys.

00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:08.639
I really enjoyed Groundhog Day.

00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:10.639
It was a wonderful experience.

00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:16.840
All right, anyway, this movie that Jeff gave a nine and a half and I gave a 10, let's get into the best.

00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:17.840
It's pretty much all best.

00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:19.599
I got almost nothing for worst.

00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:23.559
So I don't have anything for worst or much for worst either.

00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:31.440
Best scenes, my first best scene is Phil Bill Murray at the bar and then the car chase scene with Gus and Ralph.

00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:34.840
Oh, the bar at the, at the, at the bowling alley.

00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:35.840
Yes.

00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:38.360
Like, dude, I was in the Virgin Islands once I met a girl.

00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:40.599
We had lobster drink, penny coladas at sunset.

00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:42.280
We made love like sea otters.

00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:43.679
That was a pretty good day.

00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.920
I couldn't get that day over and over again.

00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:46.920
Oh, man.

00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:51.800
Like, from that point to then it's like, if we wanted to hit mailbox, we could have let Ralph drive.

00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:52.800
Yeah.

00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:55.679
He, uh, dude, man.

00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:58.000
And then, dude, he's freaking don't drive on the train tracks.

00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:59.360
That's when I happen to agree with Phil.

00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:00.360
Yeah.

00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:03.320
And like, I'm betting he's going to swerve as he's freaking driving towards the train.

00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:08.760
Just seven great quotes in a two minute stretch and then he gets pulled over by the cop.

00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:14.039
And of course he's like, and some flap jacks is too early for flap, too early for flap jacks.

00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:15.039
Man.

00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:21.239
It's the first night that he figures out that living in the time loop is actually has some benefits, which is that he could do whatever he wants.

00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:22.239
And there's no consequences.

00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:23.239
Yeah.

00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.239
Because he goes to sleep in prison and he wakes up in his freaking hotel room to sunny and share.

00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:28.239
Right.

00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.360
Which leads me to my favorite best scene.

00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:36.679
And I hope that it's okay that I'm picking a scene that reoccurs over and over.

00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:41.199
Because the part where he talks to Miss Lancaster.

00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:42.199
Miss Lancaster.

00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:43.199
Yeah.

00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:44.199
Do you ever have Deja Vu, Miss Lancaster?

00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:45.199
Why don't you?

00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:46.199
I don't think so.

00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:47.199
I don't think so.

00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:48.599
But I'll check in the kitchen.

00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:49.599
Dude.

00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:55.280
And when he's like, uh, did you see a tall gentleman with a, like, nightstick and hat?

00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:57.559
I was like, oh, god, did like state official?

00:37:57.559 --> 00:37:58.559
Yeah.

00:37:58.559 --> 00:37:59.559
I don't know.

00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:03.719
Like the way he mined nightstick, yeah, seared into my brain.

00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:04.960
I don't know why.

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:10.159
Dude, every encounter with her and are you going to check out today, Mr. Connors?

00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:11.159
Chance of departure.

00:38:11.159 --> 00:38:12.159
80%.

00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:13.159
80%.

00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:24.320
And then he's like, 75, 80, 70, like that turn around like he's already starting to walk out of the door and he turns around and says, like, 75, 80, like you can tell it's, it's really good.

00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:27.599
Dude, and that part, I mean, that to me is like, that's how genius the writing is.

00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:36.159
Because the, like that's a callback to the day before, which only he remembers, like they get in this big, long thing where like, he asks, she asks about the weather, just be nice.

00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:37.159
He's a weather man.

00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:38.159
So he launched into this whole thing.

00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:43.159
Well, that's going to accumulate up at high outs and we're going to get a little, and dude, and he does it freaking so perfectly.

00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:48.199
He's like, teens today, uh, 30s at later at night, chance of precipitation tomorrow.

00:38:48.199 --> 00:38:55.519
And did you want to talk about the weather or were you just making all of this moisture coming out of the South that's going to push off to the East, hit out too.

00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:02.960
So the next day, they don't have the weather conversation, and he goes like, chance of departure today, he's calling back to the day before, but only he was there.

00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.960
It's such a genius.

00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:04.960
Yeah.

00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:05.960
Yeah.

00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:13.000
Cause she's like, you know, where you can check out chance of departure 100% and then the next day it's 80, seven, 75, 75, 80.

00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:14.000
Yeah.

00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:20.760
It's just, and this movie's so well written and so well acted and so well edited and so well shot and it's a fricking wall to wall jams.

00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:31.880
What about, uh, yo, mama, no hot water, oh, there wouldn't be today, okay, and he's like, all right, and she just walks off, oh man.

00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:37.679
One scene that that was happened in the bed and breakfast that didn't make my top three, but that was very close was the fricking Jeopardy scene.

00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:43.519
Oh, one with a finger like, he's like, swigging out of a bottle of jim bean.

00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:45.800
What is Teddy Caca?

00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:46.800
And they're all clapping.

00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:51.360
He's freaking eyeball in the old people while drinking Jack Daniels or whatever while answering.

00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:56.800
And dude, cause he's like sitting in the freaking easy chair and they're all like looking at him.

00:39:56.800 --> 00:40:11.039
Like he's like drinking out of the bottle, he puts the bottle down and he turns and the guy's not even finished reading like, he's not, I like to back not even finished reading the question and he's like, what are the finger likes, like just staring right into the guy's eyes.

00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:12.039
So good.

00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:13.440
What's your next best scene?

00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:22.519
Uh, my next one, I think is Ned Ryerson all, all the scenes with, uh, Steven Topelowski, cause you mean the sidewalk scenes or every single that scene he was in in the movie?

00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:26.079
No, no, all those sidewalk scenes were a meeting every time.

00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:33.360
The Bing Bing again, like that, I, so I used to quote that way more than I do now.

00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:34.360
Yeah.

00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:41.079
But ever since I watched this again, like whatever day it was Tuesday, like the kids will ask me something in class and they're like, hey, is this right?

00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:42.079
I was supposed to do that.

00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:44.320
I was like, Bing, you got it, buddy.

00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:53.679
And they're like, um, okay, thanks and then just walk off like even when I was telling people, hey guys, we might get Steven Topelowski to come on the podcast.

00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:54.679
It's ridiculous.

00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:55.679
And like who's that again?

00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:57.639
I was like, he's the guy, please, Ned Ryerson.

00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:01.360
Like don't, don't say you don't remember him, cause he sure is heckfire, remember you.

00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:02.360
And they're like, what?

00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.519
I'm like, yeah, case Western high, buddy, case Western high, come on, buddy.

00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:12.280
Did the Whistling belly button trick senior year Bing, did your sister marry Kate a couple of times until you told me to shop Bing again?

00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:20.760
Oh man, dude, I, all those scenes are incredible and, uh, and Steven just, I don't know how much of the interview we're going to edit, we had way more time than with him than we expected.

00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:21.960
We're not going to run the whole thing.

00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:33.480
So I may be repeating some of the stuff he actually talked about, but he said like they filmed all those back to back to back to back and in all the different weather conditions cause they, so much of the movie was outdoors, they didn't know what kind of weather they were going to have.

00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:36.840
So like if it was cold, they filmed, sunny, they filmed, it was raining, they filmed.

00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:41.719
So they just shot all of those scenes like him and Bill, yeah, right from the, right from the jump.

00:41:41.719 --> 00:41:43.239
And dude, yeah, we should leave that in there.

00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:44.239
That that part was so good.

00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:45.239
That was cool.

00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:46.239
Yeah.

00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:48.039
I never would have thought of that.

00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:49.320
So what's your second one?

00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:56.400
My second one is when Phil kidnaps Phil side of your eye side of your eye, dude, that's just, I've quoted that so many times.

00:41:56.400 --> 00:42:09.920
Like Steven Tobelowski talked about him and Bill Murray made a freaking Super Bowl commercial two years ago for Jeep, like parodying that scene, but, but Phil Connors decided like he can't, he's not going to make it.

00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:33.840
He'll never get out of the time loop and it's the groundhog's fault and he freaking steals the car and he steals the groundhog and his brother Brian Doyle Murray and the cops and Chris Elliott and Annie McDowell all chase after him and dude, he's just, they're, dude, they're screeching around corners with the sirens on and like talking about like, oh, my God, he's really lost it and then it cuts to the truck and he's just like, calm as shit holding the groundhog just going like, just check your mirrors side of your eye side of your eye.

00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:34.840
That's pretty good.

00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:35.840
Don't drive angry.

00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:36.840
I don't drive angry.

00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:41.960
That's pretty good for a quadrupad like he's just freaking chilling, having a good old time with the groundhog.

00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:42.960
Oh, man.

00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:46.159
I can't wait to teach Jake at a drive side of your eye side of your driving.

00:42:46.159 --> 00:42:47.960
I'm going to say it a thousand times.

00:42:47.960 --> 00:43:08.599
Uh, it's pretty good for a quadrupad and then also the button on that scene is one of my favorite quotes from the movie, which is when he freaking drives the truck into the quarry and it goes down like 200 feet lands on the top of the cab and gets smushed flat and Chris Elliott who's filming it is like, he might be all right and the freaking truck explodes and he's like, no, probably not now.

00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:15.199
Dude, I put that down as one of my quotes like how many times if we said that dude, that's one of my quotes too.

00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:16.199
I've said that so many times.

00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:25.920
Like we watch football people will get hurt and like he might be okay and then they'll show the replay and I'm like, ooh, probably not now, no, cats like we got it.

00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:26.920
We got it.

00:43:26.920 --> 00:43:30.440
Chris Elliott, I mean, he, he had a really high batting average in this movie.

00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:32.119
He had a bunch of killer lines.

00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:33.119
Yeah.

00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:35.119
Look at Foxy tonight.

00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:38.280
It's just, it's so good to be selling cookies.

00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:39.280
Yeah.

00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:42.599
So that was my second scene, which is your second one is Ned Ryerson.

00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:43.599
Right.

00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:44.599
Ned Ryerson.

00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:56.760
My third is the montage in the middle, the, the him going through over and over and over trying to get, get down in his mind, all the things that Andy McDowell love so he could fix it.

00:43:56.760 --> 00:43:57.760
Yeah.

00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.400
When he's trying to trick her into having a perfect day by just doing it a million times.

00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:01.400
Right.

00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:11.679
And, and because he, because he starts to get really good at it, he gets all the way to the end of the night and he's like, he says it out loud.

00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:15.519
He's like, whatever it is, like no white chocolate, no, no fudge.

00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:16.519
No fudge.

00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:17.519
Yeah.

00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:18.519
That's what it is.

00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:20.880
Back to the tune of one of my favorite Ray Charles songs.

00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:24.119
You don't know me that I can't not put that in there, man.

00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:26.679
That's, that's a great, that's a great scene.

00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:31.599
And also, man, like, and it ends with a little, like, quick cut montage of her slapping in a million times.

00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:32.599
Yeah.

00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:33.599
Yeah.

00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:34.599
Yeah.

00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:42.880
And for whatever reason, my whole life, whenever I would see that scene, I would always think about video games, like you get, when you were little or you get stuck on a video game, you just keep playing the same level, it's like, well, I gotta do this exactly right.

00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:43.880
And then right here, I gotta jump.

00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:44.880
Yeah.

00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.000
And then like, you just do it a hundred times until you memorize every single movie of to make to get through that level.

00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:54.800
And that little scene is like a perfect film encapsulation of what that's like, playing video games.

00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:55.800
Yeah, dude.

00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:56.800
And even he says it.

00:44:56.800 --> 00:45:01.360
He's like, maybe the real God's not, I'm nipping it, maybe he's just been around for so long.

00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:02.360
Yeah.

00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:03.360
He knows everything.

00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:04.360
Maybe just use his tricks.

00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:05.360
Yeah.

00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:06.360
That's fantastic.

00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:07.360
So what's your third?

00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:08.360
That's a great scene.

00:45:08.360 --> 00:45:17.639
Uh, my third is the kind of last, the kind of the last scene at the dance, the final kind of, uh, like penultimate scene in the third act, like Phil's actually a great guy.

00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:26.159
Like he's, dude, he's, he's at the, like, uh, any McDowell and Chris Elleator at the bar and Chris Elle, he's like trying to flirt with frickin' Nancy really badly.

00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:27.159
Yeah.

00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:28.159
And they walk in.

00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:31.119
It's like, oh, I think Phil's already in there and they go in and he's frickin' jammin' out on the piano.

00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:32.119
He's got sunglasses on.

00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:34.559
He's wearin' the frickin' button up collar shirt without the collar.

00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:35.559
Yeah.

00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:39.480
And, and dude, and he's dancing with any McDowell and everyone's like, congratulations.

00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:41.360
Like, hey, man, thanks so much for fixing my back.

00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:42.679
It's like, I was gonna choke to death.

00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:46.199
You got his WrestleMania tickets, like you fixed my car tire.

00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:47.880
And she was like, what is happening?

00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:49.320
And he was like, I really don't know, honestly.

00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:50.320
Dude.

00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:51.320
He's like, thank you, Dr. Connors.

00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:52.320
And she was like, Dr. Connors.

00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.760
It's kind of a very title.

00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:57.079
It's the guy from the Motor Club.

00:45:57.079 --> 00:46:00.199
He's the fastest track in Jefferson County.

00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:02.760
Dude, now I can't think of his friggin' name.

00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:08.679
The guy that won the WrestleMania or got the WrestleMania tickets, uh, that was his first movie.

00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:09.679
Yeah.

00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:10.679
Michael Shannon.

00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.480
Michael Shannon, this, this first, uh, debut for cinematic, uh, movie and dude.

00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:17.119
And then she bids on him.

00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:18.119
Yeah.

00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:20.440
For, for the, uh, a date with him.

00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:21.440
And that's, oh man.

00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:22.440
Great stuff.

00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:23.440
Yeah.

00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:43.199
But, I mean, I like that as the kind of a great ending to the movie because it's taken in whatever 10 years or 40 years or 10,000 years, but he actually has gone from being a totally self-involved, egocentric, shitty person to a genuinely great guy who plays at piano and like fixes people's backs and can, no CPR and catches kids coming out of catches kids.

00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:44.199
You've never thanked me.

00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:45.199
You've never thanked me.

00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:46.199
I'll see you tomorrow.

00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:47.199
Maybe.

00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:48.199
Maybe.

00:46:48.199 --> 00:46:49.199
Oh God.

00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:50.960
So I, it's the transformation, right?

00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:51.960
Like it's his character.

00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:56.800
It took him a lot longer because he was way shittier to begin with, but he became a great person.

00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:57.800
Yeah.

00:46:57.800 --> 00:46:58.800
He tried to fake it for a while.

00:46:58.800 --> 00:46:59.800
It didn't work.

00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:00.800
And then he just actually did it.

00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:11.400
And they were talking like, like that thing, that sequence that he took, that's the, um, coupler, Ross model or whatever it's called, uh, the five stages of death and dying, you know what I'm talking about?

00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:12.400
Yeah.

00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:15.400
Yeah.

00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:21.159
Yeah, bargaining, depression, acceptance, I think, as a way, because, but like, they, that's, that's kind of like what they used.

00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:22.159
I was reading.

00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:26.719
Yeah, the five stages of grief that he had to go through, that's like, I'm not actually getting out of here.

00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:28.920
I better just actually be a, use my time wisely.

00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:29.920
I'm going to cry forever.

00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:42.559
And when he's sitting there and he's like, gust of wind, dog barks, cue Doris, fix your brawny, like, Felix, yeah, like that's, God, it's so good, so good.

00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:44.159
What's your, what's your third favorite scene?

00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:45.159
Did you get your third?

00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:48.840
Yeah, that's, so I got Ned Ryerson, Mrs. Lancaster and the montage.

00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:49.840
Oh, yes.

00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:56.039
I mean, it's hard, it is hard to pick scenes for this because so much of it is repeated, but, um, but it's funny, we didn't have any of the same ones.

00:47:56.039 --> 00:48:00.760
The repeated part and how it changes each time is part of the thing I like about it.

00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:01.760
Oh, yeah.

00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:11.920
Well, it's cool to see all the actors too because it takes a really good acting and really good directing and really good writing because they all come back and do the almost the same thing, but slightly different as the day is like one more day.

00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:12.920
Right.

00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:19.519
Yeah, that's what Stephen told us he was saying, like, you got to turn on the same foot, you got to raise your hand the same way, you get to point the same way.

00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:20.519
Yeah.

00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:24.559
And not only that, but like in the background, like the car has to, has to come through the background at the exact same time.

00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.159
Textures have to be holding the bag in the same hand as they were.

00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:28.159
Right.

00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:29.159
There's so much stuff.

00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:32.159
There's a continuity expert on the thing that was pulling their hair out.

00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:34.599
I'm sure there was our quotes.

00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:36.880
That's the rest of my paper is just filled with quotes.

00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:37.880
Yeah.

00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:38.880
I have like four pages of quotes.

00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:42.559
I just, I'm just going to do the ones that, so this is what I'm going to do.

00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:49.760
Instead of giving you three that I tried to narrow down, all right, I want to do the ones that I quote the most still.

00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:50.760
Yeah.

00:48:50.760 --> 00:48:54.360
I have top three and then I have like seven bonus, bonus entry.

00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:56.679
Give me one of yours.

00:48:56.679 --> 00:49:00.719
My first one is when we already said is he might be okay and then they truck blows up.

00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:01.719
Yeah.

00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:02.719
No.

00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:03.719
Probably not now.

00:49:03.719 --> 00:49:08.719
Chris Elliott as Larry, the camera guy, after Phil Lacks Groundhog drives into the quarry.

00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:10.079
Larry the camera guy.

00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:15.519
Even before he was a cable guy, he was a camera guy.

00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:20.760
When Rita asks him, do you ever have deja vu and he says, didn't you just ask me that?

00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:41.880
I do that once a month when somebody asked me that because you know, I'm interacting with two hundred eighteen year olds all the time and they learn about something like deja vu or somebody talks about it in one of their other classes and they start asking me and I say that and it never fails to not get nobody ever laughs ever.

00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:42.880
They don't get it.

00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:44.519
They don't understand the reference.

00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:45.519
No.

00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:46.519
They don't get it.

00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:49.000
I'm horribly wasted where I'm at.

00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:50.000
Yes.

00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:51.000
That's why we do the podcasts.

00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:52.000
Right.

00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:54.440
You can do those jokes here where people appreciate them.

00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:55.960
Nice.

00:49:55.960 --> 00:50:04.599
My next quote is another one that I've already done, which is when Phil is driving with the Groundhog and he just is saying, don't drive angry.

00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:06.239
Remember, check your mirrors side of your eye.

00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:07.239
Side of your eye.

00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:08.719
That's pretty good for a quadrupad.

00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:09.719
Yeah.

00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:15.440
Those are all quotes that he does in the truck that I freaking, I also have that.

00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:25.000
And do there's still so, there's still so, I mean, like we say in the outro of the podcast and remember, don't drive angry.

00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:25.920
Right.

00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:26.920
It's in the podcast.

00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:27.920
Yeah.

00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:28.920
That's how much we say it.

00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:29.920
Yeah.

00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:30.920
It's ingrained in there.

00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:31.920
That was definitely one of mine.

00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:42.199
I don't know if you know, but the Groundhog bit him right after he said that, and they did it so badly that he had to get medical treatment for rabies just to make sure.

00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:43.440
That's awesome.

00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:44.599
That is awesome.

00:50:44.599 --> 00:50:45.920
The Groundhog had a name too.

00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:50.960
Like it was like Phil, the Groundhog played by like freaking Colleen, the Groundhog.

00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:51.960
Lassie.

00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:52.960
I don't know.

00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:53.960
I didn't see that.

00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:56.719
I also put side of your eye.

00:50:56.719 --> 00:50:57.719
Side of your eye.

00:50:57.719 --> 00:50:58.719
Don't drive angry.

00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:00.719
All right.

00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:01.719
What's your next one?

00:51:01.719 --> 00:51:07.800
My next one is because we're supposed to stand in the hallway and greet everybody when they come in.

00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:16.679
I almost always say, and I try to say just like him and I go, morning, off to see the Groundhog.

00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:19.199
And they're like, what?

00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:20.519
Don't mess with me, poor chop.

00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:21.519
And one day is tonight.

00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:24.079
And I'm like, think it'll be an early spring.

00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:26.679
And they're like, what, Mr. Hall, what are you doing?

00:51:26.679 --> 00:51:29.000
Like, I bring it every time.

00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:33.559
I don't even think that would make that actor's list of favorite Groundhog Day quotes.

00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:34.760
No, it definitely wouldn't.

00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:37.480
But I use it so much, and that's why I put it in here.

00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:38.480
Yeah, that's amazing.

00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:39.480
Yeah.

00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:43.559
The other one I had is also from Chris Elliott, which is another one that I use a lot.

00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:47.599
When they're I being him and the freaking morgue, he was a really great guy.

00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:50.280
We are really, really liked him a lot.

00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:57.000
I tried to find a clip of it on YouTube, and I legit could not, and I'm so angry at it.

00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:59.760
Oh, man, that's funny, I clip.

00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:05.079
Just because we really, really liked him a lot.

00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:09.360
Dude, when he did a fantastic job, he did a great job.

00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:11.840
And when they wanted to, you want to come to the Groundhog dinner?

00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:12.840
No, thanks.

00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:13.840
I had Groundhog for lunch.

00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:16.199
I've seen Larry E.

00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:20.199
Ah, like, dude, man, just everything with Larry, he was good.

00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:21.199
That's stuff.

00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:28.920
Dude, I don't know how this movie can be so, like, thought-provoking, and also be that jam-packed full of hilarious dialogue.

00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:29.920
Yeah.

00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:33.119
And we talked about this in other movies.

00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:35.079
What do you think makes it so portable?

00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:42.639
Is it because we like it so much, or it hits the funny bone that we think that stuff is funny?

00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:43.639
Yeah, I don't know.

00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:47.239
Like, it's weird because it's not like comedy's universally.

00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:54.679
You can say something really funny, and someone who has a totally different set of experience than you might, or that has no real sense of humor might go like, I don't get it.

00:52:54.679 --> 00:52:56.760
But I mean, there are definitely people who are graded it.

00:52:56.760 --> 00:53:01.320
You know, like, like Harold Raimis is a great at comedy, Bill Murray is great at comedy.

00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:05.880
Mel Brooks is great at comedy, Adam Sandler is great at comedy, Mike Myers is great at comedy.

00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:07.159
Doesn't mean that everybody likes all of them.

00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:11.000
Like, my mom, the whole time I was growing up, thought that the Simpsons was so dumb.

00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:12.000
Yeah.

00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:14.639
And like, my brother and I never stopped watching it and never stopped quoting it.

00:53:14.639 --> 00:53:16.880
I have no stopped 30 years later.

00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:18.760
So I don't know, man.

00:53:18.760 --> 00:53:19.760
Yeah.

00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:26.039
For instance, Kat saw this movie twice in her whole life, hates hates it.

00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.039
White had it fired a thousand sons.

00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:33.719
I'm talking to her about it this morning, like we're getting ready for work and talking about it.

00:53:33.719 --> 00:53:34.880
And I'm like, so when's the last time you saw it?

00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:35.880
I don't know.

00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:36.880
It's so stupid.

00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:37.880
I don't want to watch it.

00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:39.800
And I'm like, but what don't you like about it?

00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:42.559
Like, like, you really should watch it again.

00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:43.559
All right.

00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:44.559
I'll watch it again.

00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:45.920
So I'm going to make the whole family watch it.

00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:46.920
Oh, yeah.

00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:49.400
I'll make sure to tell you what they thought.

00:53:49.400 --> 00:54:00.599
I've made a bunch of people that I really like that have good senses of humor sit with me and watch the movie, I spy, which you and I both love and will and no one ever thinks it's funny.

00:54:00.599 --> 00:54:01.599
And I'm doubled over.

00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:03.599
Godaz! The fly has jacket.

00:54:03.599 --> 00:54:04.599
All right.

00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:06.000
Killer Rob's and ain't going to nobody at no dinner clock.

00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:07.000
Rip.

00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:08.000
Ain't no party.

00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:10.639
Kelly Rob's ain't going to go in to another, eleven o'clock.

00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:18.960
Now, when you get up sit down, well, I got ice on it, that probably helps.

00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:22.960
Godaz! Godaz! The fly has jacket.

00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:24.960
You can hear a hard, much.

00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:25.960
Oh, man.

00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:26.960
What?

00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:28.159
I want to watch that movie now.

00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:29.159
I do that.

00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:35.159
If only this podcast makes it to 2000 or 2001 or 2002 or whenever that movie is because I love it so much.

00:54:35.159 --> 00:54:42.360
But I'm saying like, that movie should be universally beloved and lauded as a frickin touchstone of American comedy.

00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:43.360
And it's definitely not.

00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:44.360
No one likes it.

00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:45.360
But me and you and Will.

00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:46.360
Right.

00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:47.360
There's 11 people.

00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:48.360
I don't know.

00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:50.360
I figure out what it is.

00:54:50.360 --> 00:55:02.320
I mean, I know you're like you said, it's just different types of comedy, like different people laugh at different things, but man, I just can't believe somebody wouldn't like this movie or think it's as funny as we do, like it's so good.

00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:14.960
I think the good news is that humor being subjective is going to be one thing that makes it hard for AI to take over for us because if everyone doesn't laugh at the same stuff, you can't program a computer to make consistently funny stuff.

00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:23.480
You can keep trying though and have it make really bad jokes over and over, which if you ask AI to make some jokes, it does make really bad jokes over and over.

00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:24.480
Yes, it does.

00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:25.480
All right.

00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:26.480
I got some bonus quotes.

00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:27.480
Some of them I've already frickin said.

00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:28.480
Yeah.

00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:29.480
Do the thing.

00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:30.480
Tell me some more.

00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:31.480
I got a couple more too.

00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:32.480
Let's see.

00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:33.480
Oh, dude.

00:55:33.480 --> 00:55:42.400
This is one that I, it's not funny, but I just frickin love it when Phil's having his frickin meltdown while doing the groundhog recording and he's like starting to go off the deep in.

00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:43.400
Yeah.

00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:46.800
A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat.

00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:47.800
What a hype.

00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:48.800
Groundhog.

00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:50.039
They used to mean something in this town.

00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:53.280
They used to pull the hog out and they used to eat it.

00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:54.280
You're hypocrites.

00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:55.280
Oh, yeah.

00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:56.280
Oh, man.

00:55:56.280 --> 00:55:57.280
Fantastic.

00:55:57.280 --> 00:56:02.960
Dude, that one never fails to make me laugh because when he says you're hypocrites, he looks away from the camera.

00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:03.960
He's like looking at the town.

00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:04.960
You're hypocrites.

00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:05.960
He's like, y'all.

00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:06.960
You're all the people.

00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:08.440
Ah, so great.

00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:13.360
Speaking of that, I have on here because I do this, um, I mean, I'll do it very often.

00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:15.800
Because I'm not, this is not good.

00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:20.400
But when I count down, I'm like, all right, guys, look, I'm giving the ACT test.

00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:23.239
I'm like, oh, yeah, you got, you got, make sure you finish up.

00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:28.599
You have three, two, one, all right, put your pencils down and I do that.

00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:29.599
I count down.

00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:30.599
You do the middle finger.

00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:32.880
Larry, you shoot the bird on the, on the one.

00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:38.920
And then the only other one that I had that I, uh, I don't say a lot, but I think about all the time is like, uh, there's a snowing in space.

00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:42.559
Don't you have some lines you can keep over for celebrities or emergencies?

00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:43.559
I'm both.

00:56:43.559 --> 00:56:44.559
I'm both.

00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:45.559
I'm a celebrity in an emergency.

00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:47.559
Oh, man.

00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:51.199
Everything, the whole thing is so well-ring.

00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:55.920
Uh, dude, I like the one where he says, uh, I'm a god.

00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:56.920
I'm a god.

00:56:56.920 --> 00:56:57.920
I'm an a god.

00:56:57.920 --> 00:56:58.920
I'm an a god.

00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:01.039
And then she goes, yeah, this is, trust me, you're not.

00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:03.199
This is 12 years of Catholic school talking.

00:57:03.199 --> 00:57:05.239
Uh, I, that hits home for me a little bit.

00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:07.039
So I, uh, I like that.

00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:08.199
Yeah, I think she got off the line.

00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:09.679
I had 13 years of Catholic school.

00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:10.679
Yeah, she did.

00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:18.519
The, the other thing is, uh, like when we're playing stuff, uh, like me and the kids are doing some stupid, trying to throw something and something.

00:57:18.519 --> 00:57:28.239
And he goes, like, you know, when they were throwing the cards, trying to stay awake, and he's like, be the hat, be the, be that, and you'd want to just like, catty shag when he's like, be the ball, like that whole thing.

00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:30.039
I do that all the time.

00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:36.639
I'll be like, all right, you got, CC, you got, you got to be the rag, be the rag, throw it and be it.

00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:38.800
And she's like, okay, she has no one I'm talking about.

00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:44.119
The funny thing is that I, I don't say, be the hat, be the rag or whatever, but I say all the time.

00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:45.119
You got to want it.

00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:46.119
Got to want it.

00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:47.119
What's that?

00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:48.119
Where do we get that?

00:57:48.119 --> 00:57:49.119
Cause I do that all the time.

00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:50.119
That's from that same scene.

00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:51.119
Oh, yes, it is.

00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:52.119
Okay.

00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:53.119
Yeah, it's like, got to want it.

00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:58.960
But dude, like, if, if I'm playing golf, which I never do, cause it's terrible, uh, and someone is like, you got to want it.

00:57:58.960 --> 00:57:59.960
Got to want it.

00:57:59.960 --> 00:58:00.960
Got to want it.

00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:01.960
But dude, playing basketball, somebody shooting free throws and they missed like 300.

00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:02.960
I'm like, you got to want it.

00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:03.960
Got to be the ball.

00:58:03.960 --> 00:58:09.960
That's how Wolfie's like, uh, going to put his clothes in the hamper and he freaking misses 90% of the time.

00:58:09.960 --> 00:58:10.960
Like, come on buddy.

00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:11.960
You got to want it.

00:58:11.960 --> 00:58:12.960
Got to be, got to be the clothes.

00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:13.960
That's awesome.

00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:23.800
I want to do, do, do other people do that by the way, you think, like, bring up quotes in context to make them fit and it makes it sound like you said it or do people just yell out quotes.

00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:26.000
I don't think anyone does that as much as you do that.

00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:31.320
Like, I know the quotes, but if, if I don't, if I'm not talking to someone that I think would also know the quotes, I don't use the quotes.

00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:34.199
I use the quotes just because I think it's going to be funnier.

00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:42.719
No, I love that about you, but I'm just saying like, I drop quotes with you and with my brother and with people like that are going to get the quotes, but I'm just talking that friggin civilians, normal people.

00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:46.320
I just talk to normal person and I don't drop a bunch of quotes on them that they're not going to know.

00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:47.320
Civilians.

00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:56.559
Like one of my buddies posted on Facebook the other day has been posting like Simpsons memes and he posted one about car holes and they just frickin typed in there and was like, he's running account for jeans operation out of his car hole.

00:58:56.559 --> 00:58:57.559
Car hole.

00:58:57.559 --> 00:58:58.559
Oh man.

00:58:58.559 --> 00:58:59.559
Cut that out.

00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:00.559
Those things give you a homework answer.

00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:05.000
I mean, give you cans of home man freaking what a great episode.

00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:06.960
I forgot about that one.

00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:07.960
That's so good.

00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:08.960
All right.

00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:09.960
Characters.

00:59:09.960 --> 00:59:11.599
My number one character is Bill Murray.

00:59:11.599 --> 00:59:12.599
Yeah, absolutely.

00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:13.920
Phil Connors kills it.

00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:17.639
I think like Bill Murray was obviously a comedy legend at this point.

00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:18.639
He done SNL.

00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:19.639
He done Caddy Shack.

00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:20.639
He done stripes.

00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:21.639
Yeah.

00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:24.519
Everybody knew Bill Murray was one of the funniest people in the world, yeah, totally.

00:59:24.519 --> 00:59:29.320
But I think this is maybe the first time we see him do more than just like straight broad comedy.

00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:34.719
I actually got to play a character that had some depth that had some range that like had some pathos.

00:59:34.719 --> 00:59:44.920
And he even said, you know, this, I think the reporting is that the struggle between him and Harold Raimus during the filming was that he wanted this to be just straight comedy and Harold Raimus really wanted to get into the fills the fills off.

00:59:44.920 --> 00:59:45.920
Yeah.

00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:46.920
He wanted both.

00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:47.920
Yeah.

00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:48.920
Yeah.

00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:49.920
But in like 20 years later, Bill Murray's like, I think that's the best work I've ever done.

00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:51.880
I think it's the best work that Harold's ever done.

00:59:51.880 --> 01:00:03.679
And it kind of set the stage for the second half of his career where you got to do more like frickin weird stuff and Wes Anderson stuff, but he's been able to play character like loss and translation where you got to play characters who like weren't just like kind of cornballs.

01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:09.119
And even in those movies, though, the comedy, Bill Murray is still under all of that.

01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:12.280
And you can, you can tell they he's just a funny dude.

01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:13.280
Yeah, dude.

01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:15.079
He's always funny, but he's able to do more than that.

01:00:15.079 --> 01:00:18.360
And I think this is the first movie we saw him be able to do more than that.

01:00:18.360 --> 01:00:21.599
But he was so frickin genius for this, for this part.

01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:23.400
I love me some Bill Murray.

01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:27.599
And he's so believable, he's so believable as a dick early in the movie.

01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:28.599
Right.

01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:29.599
He's curious.

01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:38.039
And then he's like, you know, you believe at the end that frickin any McDowell fell in love with him because he's awesome with piano and he's like frickin fixing people's backs and everyone loves him.

01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:39.039
People are morons.

01:00:39.039 --> 01:00:43.320
People like blood sausage.

01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:49.880
Listen here, do speaking of which, have you ever had a sweet vermouth on the rocks with the twists?

01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:55.960
When I went to see the 20th anniversary of Groundhog Day at the Belcourt here in Nashville, they always have a drink pairing with the midnight movies.

01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:58.400
And that's drink pairing was sweet vermouth on the rocks with the twist.

01:00:58.400 --> 01:00:59.400
You get it.

01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:03.679
I didn't order one because it was like $9, but I took a sip of some ones that I was there with.

01:01:03.679 --> 01:01:04.679
Horrible.

01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:05.679
Absolutely horrible.

01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:08.920
I don't like the face Bill Murray makes when he drinks that.

01:01:08.920 --> 01:01:11.960
He fits it back in the proper face.

01:01:11.960 --> 01:01:12.960
Yeah.

01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:13.960
It's bad news.

01:01:13.960 --> 01:01:14.960
Yeah.

01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:15.960
All right.

01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:16.960
So you got Bill Murray is your first.

01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:17.960
Bill Murray.

01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:18.960
Yeah.

01:01:18.960 --> 01:01:19.960
My second is Andy McDowell.

01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:20.960
Nice.

01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:21.960
You know, my type.

01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:22.960
She was, she hit all that.

01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:23.960
She was mugging hot.

01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:24.960
I thought.

01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:26.480
And then I thought she played it really good.

01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:32.320
She like turned on her accent or something like she was like extra, I don't know, sounded southern or something.

01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:33.320
I really liked it.

01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:38.480
And just the way she played it, she didn't want to let him get too close.

01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:45.360
And then when she started to see all of the things about him, she, uh, she turned the corner.

01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:46.360
And I liked how she changed too.

01:01:46.360 --> 01:01:47.360
And it was good.

01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:49.519
Andy McDowell was in a couple of my favorite comedies growing up.

01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:50.519
She's in this.

01:01:50.519 --> 01:01:53.440
She's in multiple movies that I've seen 25 times.

01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:54.440
She touched my baby Steve.

01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:56.199
And she touched my baby Steve.

01:01:56.199 --> 01:01:57.719
And I never loved her in those movies.

01:01:57.719 --> 01:02:00.360
I kind of thought like, man, she's kind of holding things back a little bit.

01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:12.360
And I think now that I'm older, I have a more appreciation for what she was doing, what she's doing in these movies, because I think that it's got to be really hard to be the straight person next to like, wacky Bill Murray, and she does such a good job of that.

01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:17.039
All of that stuff going on around her, like she grounds it so well with their performance.

01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:21.280
And I actually, so I really appreciate her as an actor now when I didn't, when I was young girls.

01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:26.519
God, Andy McDowell is such a fricking wet dish towel of an actor, you know, I'm like, she's doing it perfectly.

01:02:26.519 --> 01:02:31.000
She's keeping it like right here, well, they're doing crazy shit.

01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:38.480
Dude, imagine having to keep a straight face while friggin Bill Murray and Chris Elliott go back and forth right there in the bar.

01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:39.480
Yeah.

01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:44.159
Or dude, when he takes the entire fricking cupcake and shoving his mouth with a cigarette in his other hand.

01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:46.960
What a friggin.

01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:49.760
My second character is Steven Tobolowski, Ned Ryerson.

01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:50.760
Oh man.

01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:51.760
He's my third.

01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:56.800
It's a genius performance by one of the finest character actors of my life.

01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:57.960
It's so spot on.

01:02:57.960 --> 01:02:58.960
It's so funny.

01:02:58.960 --> 01:02:59.960
It's so memorable.

01:02:59.960 --> 01:03:05.400
It's so, he's so perfectly plays the annoying persistent insurance agent.

01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:10.360
And when people quote stuff from this movie, a big chunk of it is his stuff.

01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:16.000
Dude, when I told people we're doing ground on day for the podcast, a lot of people were throwing Ned Ryerson quotes that.

01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:17.000
Yeah, of course.

01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:18.000
Awesome man.

01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:21.679
His delivery is so fantastic that it's just, it's great.

01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:22.679
That's really good.

01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:33.039
And he talks about in our interview, which we may or may not play this part of, he was asking Harold Ramos if he was, if he was going too broad with it, if it wasn't like way too big of a performance and Harold Ramos is like, no, no, you're perfect.

01:03:33.039 --> 01:03:34.039
Yeah.

01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:38.800
That's the genius of Harold Ramos, because I can easily see how an actor might have felt like, man, this is really broad.

01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:41.480
And Harold is like, no, you're doing exactly what I want.

01:03:41.480 --> 01:03:42.480
Exactly.

01:03:42.480 --> 01:03:43.480
Like, don't do less of that.

01:03:43.480 --> 01:03:44.480
That's right where I want you.

01:03:44.480 --> 01:03:45.480
Yeah.

01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:46.480
Yeah.

01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:47.480
Yeah.

01:03:47.480 --> 01:03:48.480
Steven Tobolowski is my third.

01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:49.480
Who's your third?

01:03:49.480 --> 01:03:50.480
My third is Chris Elliott.

01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:51.480
Oh, he's so good.

01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:52.480
Larry, the camera guy.

01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:57.480
But he's not like, I mean, you know, he's like the, whatever fifth lead of this movie or something.

01:03:57.480 --> 01:03:58.480
Yeah.

01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:02.239
He's just got some, he's got some amazing quotes, some great deliveries.

01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:03.239
And he's in a lot of it.

01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:04.239
Yeah, he is.

01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:07.639
Like, he's sometimes is the straight man to, uh, to Bill Murray.

01:04:07.639 --> 01:04:09.239
And then sometimes he's cracking jokes.

01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:11.280
And he's, dude, he delivers it deadpan.

01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:12.280
Yeah.

01:04:12.280 --> 01:04:13.280
He was a really great guy.

01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:15.079
We really, really liked him a lot.

01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:16.760
Why would anybody still a crown hog?

01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:18.760
I could think of a couple of reasons.

01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:19.760
Perfect.

01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:27.320
Oh, man, like I don't, yeah, I don't get it out.

01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:28.320
People can be.

01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:30.519
Did he actually call himself the talent?

01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:35.079
Like, all it pretty with goddess like all of us on us.

01:04:35.079 --> 01:04:36.079
And dude, he does the freaking thing.

01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:39.400
He's like trying to hit on Nancy at the bar.

01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:41.280
And he's like, oh, yeah, I'll go in there with you.

01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:42.280
And she turns leaves.

01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:43.280
Let me just drop a tip real quick.

01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:44.599
And he throws like three ones on the bar.

01:04:44.599 --> 01:04:47.039
And then as soon as she leaves, he goes and grabs back to the bar.

01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:48.039
Yeah.

01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:49.039
Oh, man.

01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:50.039
That stuff.

01:04:50.039 --> 01:04:51.679
And then he goes into the frickin the dance.

01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:53.679
And he's like trying to put his arm around or real casual like.

01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:54.679
And she just kind of flings it off.

01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:56.239
And he's just like sticks at this pocket.

01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:57.239
He just keeps dancing.

01:04:57.239 --> 01:04:58.239
Yeah.

01:04:58.239 --> 01:04:59.239
Yeah.

01:04:59.239 --> 01:05:00.239
He just had so much.

01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:01.440
He had so many moments where he's like, God, that guy's so funny.

01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:02.440
Yeah.

01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:03.440
Cause he's like talking to her.

01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:06.800
And he's like, yeah, people don't, people don't know what's involved.

01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:07.800
Like, it's an organ.

01:05:07.800 --> 01:05:08.800
I just point the camera.

01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:09.800
Yeah.

01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:10.800
There's a lot more to it.

01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:11.800
I'm an artist.

01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:12.800
Yeah.

01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:13.800
Larry was fantastic.

01:05:13.800 --> 01:05:14.800
That was a good choice.

01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:17.800
I just, I wish there was four because I would add him to.

01:05:17.800 --> 01:05:19.880
I like to add any McDowell in what she did.

01:05:19.880 --> 01:05:20.880
Yeah.

01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:21.880
Dude, I'm glad that you recognized her.

01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:24.760
We need to figure out when we can get, I mean, Chris Elliott to come on the podcast.

01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:25.760
Yeah.

01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:26.760
It would be fun.

01:05:26.760 --> 01:05:27.760
Dude, frickin Kingpin.

01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:28.760
1996.

01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:29.760
There's something about Mary.

01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:30.760
He's been in a bunch of great movies.

01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:31.760
All over it.

01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:32.760
Yeah.

01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:33.760
He's, he's good.

01:05:33.760 --> 01:05:34.760
Cool.

01:05:34.760 --> 01:05:35.760
You want to talk about writer directors?

01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:36.760
Yeah.

01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:37.760
The original writer, this was Danny Rubin.

01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:38.760
Yeah.

01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:40.719
He came up with the, the, he wrote this as a spec script and then shopped it around.

01:05:40.719 --> 01:05:42.519
I don't even think he was represented at the time.

01:05:42.519 --> 01:05:43.519
Yeah.

01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:44.519
It got picked up.

01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:47.519
Harold Raimis got attached to direct and the studio wanted to make some changes.

01:05:47.519 --> 01:05:53.639
So Harold Raimis did some rewrites and then actually I think he, he and Danny Rubin actually buttered heads over the kind of direction of it.

01:05:53.639 --> 01:05:54.639
Right.

01:05:54.639 --> 01:06:00.280
Because the script that Danny Rubin had originally shopped was pretty, um, like kind of art housey.

01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:01.840
You know, like it started in the middle of the time loop.

01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:03.599
They never never got a guy there.

01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:04.599
Yeah.

01:06:04.599 --> 01:06:05.599
Yeah.

01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:06.599
Yeah.

01:06:06.599 --> 01:06:07.599
Yeah.

01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:09.079
And he really wanted to keep, he didn't want to be like a formulaic romcom or just a broad comedy.

01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:20.360
But Harold Raimis was obligated to the studio to deliver that and they tried to, and honestly, man, they threaded the needle perfectly, but I could see why if you wrote this thing that you thought was really groundbreaking, uh, you wouldn't want anyone to be with it.

01:06:20.360 --> 01:06:21.360
Right.

01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:22.360
Yeah.

01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:23.360
Agreed.

01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:26.199
I mean, personally, it's like if I wrote something and Harold Raimis wants to make it funnier, I'm not going to say shit to him.

01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:27.199
Yeah.

01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:28.199
Let him let him do his thing.

01:06:28.199 --> 01:06:31.400
But, uh, yeah, but that's, you know, that's his, that's his thing.

01:06:31.400 --> 01:06:32.400
I'm sure that was his.

01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:33.400
Yeah.

01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:35.599
The first movie that he got credit for writing.

01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:38.800
So like he's probably been working on that forever.

01:06:38.800 --> 01:06:39.800
Yeah.

01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:49.159
And I mean, he got a bathtub for a best screenplay, you know, uh, speaking of Danny Rubin wrote a book in 2012 and the title of it is How to Write Groundhog Day.

01:06:49.159 --> 01:06:50.159
That's awesome.

01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:51.159
I need to get that.

01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:54.119
I want to write Groundhog Day.

01:06:54.119 --> 01:06:59.239
He also wrote the Italian remake of Groundhog Day, by the way, nine, two, seven, four.

01:06:59.239 --> 01:07:04.760
Uh, Harold Raimis, I didn't even, I didn't even Wikipedia him because it's just like, dude, that's Egon Spangler.

01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:05.760
Yeah.

01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:06.760
That's friggin stripes.

01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:07.760
That's meatballs.

01:07:07.760 --> 01:07:08.760
Yeah, but you know that.

01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:09.760
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:10.760
Can I just list off the movies?

01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:11.760
He directed.

01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:12.760
Yeah.

01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:22.559
Yeah, National Empence Vacation, Club Paradise Groundhog Day, Stewart Saves his family, multiplicity, analyze this, bedazzled, analyze that.

01:07:22.559 --> 01:07:23.559
Yeah, dude.

01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:24.559
Are you kidding?

01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:34.920
That's like, yeah, a wheelhouse of wonderful movies right through our entire childhood into our young adulthood that we quoted constantly.

01:07:34.920 --> 01:07:35.920
Absolutely.

01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:37.960
And like, it was a great actor.

01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:43.679
Was a great hilarious actor who would drop into stuff for an episode or two or have a little cameo in a movie and you're like, dude, he's great.

01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:44.960
He's super funny.

01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:47.760
And they would just go off and like write or direct something incredible.

01:07:47.760 --> 01:07:57.199
He was the doctor in the movie with, uh, Uncle Jack, people who speak in metaphor should shampoo my crotch as good as it gets.

01:07:57.199 --> 01:07:58.199
As good as it gets.

01:07:58.199 --> 01:07:59.199
Yeah.

01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:00.199
Great, great shit.

01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:05.599
But he wrote animal house meatballs, stripes, ghostbusters back to school, armed and dangerous.

01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:09.559
Caddyshack too, ghostbusters too, like come on, man.

01:08:09.559 --> 01:08:10.559
That's ridiculous.

01:08:10.559 --> 01:08:12.559
I mean, he's a, he's a Titan.

01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:14.360
There's no, no question.

01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:15.360
I don't know.

01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:16.359
What else?

01:08:16.359 --> 01:08:17.359
You got any other good?

01:08:17.359 --> 01:08:19.119
I think I have a couple more good that I want to mention.

01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:20.119
Yeah, go ahead, man.

01:08:20.119 --> 01:08:21.119
It's one.

01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:22.119
Let me go.

01:08:22.119 --> 01:08:23.119
Not deep gut.

01:08:23.119 --> 01:08:29.199
Tom Melonovich is the guy that tells him you're wearing that, uh, precipitation on your head.

01:08:29.199 --> 01:08:34.800
That guy, that stage trooper was the guy in rookie of the year later this year.

01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:35.800
Nice.

01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:41.560
That hits the home run or that strikes out trying to hit the home run, the big guy, he does, or whatever his name was.

01:08:41.560 --> 01:08:44.039
That's him playing that, that part.

01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:52.600
And then the last thing, the last thing is, um, the winning bid for Phil Connors was $339.88.

01:08:52.600 --> 01:08:56.560
Uh, an amount that appears to be arbitrary.

01:08:56.560 --> 01:09:02.920
But if the decimal is dropped, that means it's 33,98 days.

01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:08.960
And that works out precisely to 93 years and 43 days minus a minute.

01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:20.800
So from January 1st, 1900, not counting leap days, 93 years and 43 days ends on February 12, 1993, the day groundhog day was released in theaters.

01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:23.079
That's weird.

01:09:23.079 --> 01:09:25.640
That is awesome.

01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:28.520
I think that's total bullshit, but I still like that math.

01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:31.840
Oh, also, I put this in here and I forgot about it.

01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:43.840
The last time it's February 2nd and, uh, Phil has been like, uh, ice sculpting and he turns and kisses her and it starts to snow and he like pulls back just a little bit.

01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:55.199
Um, like when I saw that, like he was looking at the snow and I was like, wow, I don't remember why would he then I realized like it maybe didn't snow the last time that happened.

01:09:55.199 --> 01:09:57.720
And that's for shadowing that the loop's broken.

01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:02.359
And he's, because he, he like gets a, he feels different.

01:10:02.359 --> 01:10:06.520
It's like, uh, it's a wonderful life when the snow starts to fall.

01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:07.520
Yeah.

01:10:07.520 --> 01:10:09.840
It shows George that he's back in reality.

01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:11.279
So like, that's pretty cool.

01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:12.840
I didn't really have any worse for this.

01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:17.119
I thought that maybe there'd be some like jokes that would be inappropriate, but honestly, there was.

01:10:17.119 --> 01:10:22.600
I think I even noticed any unless you don't like, uh, making fun of groundhogs, uh, other than that.

01:10:22.600 --> 01:10:23.600
Yeah.

01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:24.359
I think every joke that you told this movie, you can still tell.

01:10:24.359 --> 01:10:28.199
And it's definitely still funny because I just laughed my ass off about it like six days ago.

01:10:28.199 --> 01:10:29.199
Yeah.

01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:30.199
And again, when we send it out loud.

01:10:30.199 --> 01:10:31.199
Yeah.

01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:37.359
And again, 20 minutes ago, when we imitated repeated the quotes, yeah, I don't have any worse either.

01:10:37.359 --> 01:10:41.079
And old tech, honestly, uh, Steven Tobelowski said it like the movie shot and winter.

01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:42.399
They're all wearing like winter clothes.

01:10:42.399 --> 01:10:44.520
There's not really even any dated fashion.

01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:46.199
It's before the era of cell phones.

01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:48.359
So it's not like anyone's holding an old cell phone.

01:10:48.359 --> 01:10:50.079
It's just like there's no phones in this movie.

01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:51.079
Right.

01:10:51.079 --> 01:10:55.119
I get actually, there's no really old tech, honestly, except he's talking on a payphone.

01:10:55.119 --> 01:10:56.119
Timeless.

01:10:56.119 --> 01:10:57.119
Timeless, man.

01:10:57.119 --> 01:10:58.119
Yeah.

01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:03.119
Even the, um, the alarm clock, that alarm clock just got re-released.

01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:16.800
The exact one, the Panasonic RX 293 wavehumper, like that, like they re-released that exact one at the 20 year thing and you can still find him.

01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:17.800
So five questions.

01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:18.800
Yeah.

01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:19.800
Five questions.

01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:20.800
Is it okay for kids?

01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:21.800
What age?

01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:22.800
Dude, don't you think this is for everybody?

01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:23.800
Uh, absolutely do.

01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:27.960
Like I can't, I couldn't, I didn't see anything that I wouldn't show CC.

01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:28.960
Yeah.

01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:29.960
She's five.

01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:30.960
But I think all ages.

01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:31.960
Yeah.

01:11:31.960 --> 01:11:34.680
Uh, would this movie get made if it were pitched now?

01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:38.319
Uh, my answer was they kind of already did remake it in 2020 with Andy Samberg.

01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:39.319
They called it Palm Springs.

01:11:39.319 --> 01:11:40.319
Yeah.

01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:45.359
And that one they showed why it happened and I liked the fact that they didn't show why it happened in Groundhog Day.

01:11:45.359 --> 01:11:46.359
Yeah.

01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:47.359
And that was a big point of contention.

01:11:47.359 --> 01:11:53.000
The theater like was insisting that they show why it happened and like, Harold Ramos and Danny Reuben fought back against it.

01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:54.000
Yeah.

01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:55.000
And I'm glad they did.

01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:56.000
That was a great choice.

01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:58.479
I think not knowing is way better.

01:11:58.479 --> 01:11:59.479
Way better.

01:11:59.479 --> 01:12:01.399
But yeah, that's a really similar movie.

01:12:01.399 --> 01:12:05.840
And Steven, to Alaska, you just told us that he thinks you totally could reboot this if you had a great script.

01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:06.840
Right.

01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:09.640
And I'm going to defer to him on that because he's been doing it for a long time.

01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:10.640
Way, long time.

01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:11.640
Yeah.

01:12:11.640 --> 01:12:13.560
So you would do a movie over a TV show?

01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:14.840
I would hope so, man.

01:12:14.840 --> 01:12:15.840
Don't you think?

01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:22.000
It would get imagine freaking 10 seasons of the same day that would never, that would never fly.

01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:23.000
It's got to be a movie.

01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:25.600
I didn't do any recasts.

01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:28.960
I don't want, I don't, I really like all the people in this.

01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:29.960
I really do too.

01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:39.319
And I don't want to redo it, but I did a little bit of recasting because I think the person I got for Phil Connors is Jason Siegel.

01:12:39.319 --> 01:12:40.479
Oh, man.

01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:41.479
Good call.

01:12:41.479 --> 01:12:44.960
Because he's kind of, he can be kind of grumpy and kind of dickish because he's also really funny.

01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:45.960
Yeah.

01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:46.960
I like him.

01:12:46.960 --> 01:12:47.960
Good call.

01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:51.359
I thought Annie McDowell's part, I looked around for a little bit.

01:12:51.359 --> 01:12:55.920
I was trying to find like actions with curly hair and I finally just settled on Margaret quality.

01:12:55.920 --> 01:12:56.960
I don't know who that is.

01:12:56.960 --> 01:12:57.960
Do you know who that is?

01:12:57.960 --> 01:13:01.880
She was in a TV show called The Made, starring alongside Annie McDowell.

01:13:01.880 --> 01:13:03.039
She's Annie McDowell's daughter.

01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:04.039
In real life?

01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:05.039
Yeah.

01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:06.039
Oh, shit.

01:13:06.039 --> 01:13:07.039
In real life.

01:13:07.039 --> 01:13:08.039
In the show and in real life.

01:13:08.039 --> 01:13:09.039
In the show.

01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:10.039
Oh, yeah.

01:13:10.039 --> 01:13:11.039
Wait.

01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:12.039
I've seen this chick before.

01:13:12.039 --> 01:13:15.359
She was in the movie with Brad Pitt in the Hollywood movie, wouldn't she?

01:13:15.359 --> 01:13:16.359
Yeah.

01:13:16.359 --> 01:13:17.359
That's the chick in that.

01:13:17.359 --> 01:13:18.359
Yeah.

01:13:18.359 --> 01:13:19.359
Once upon a time.

01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:20.359
Yeah, that's the one.

01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:21.359
Yeah.

01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:22.359
So I thought that'd be fun.

01:13:22.359 --> 01:13:23.359
She's like 28.

01:13:23.359 --> 01:13:24.359
I think she could, she could probably do it.

01:13:24.359 --> 01:13:25.359
She's a good actor.

01:13:25.359 --> 01:13:26.359
Yeah.

01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:27.359
Totally.

01:13:27.359 --> 01:13:30.359
Uh, the montage that I like so much.

01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:31.359
Pump it around.

01:13:31.359 --> 01:13:36.479
Yeah, that would fit perfect.

01:13:36.479 --> 01:13:50.039
I wanted to work into our podcast at some point, just like maybe as our sign off, like we in the house, you know, kick it cut close, help me out, and add it up together, add it up together.

01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:51.039
Eagles of the BB posse.

01:13:51.039 --> 01:13:52.039
Yeah.

01:13:52.039 --> 01:13:53.039
We in the house, you know, kick it.

01:13:53.039 --> 01:13:54.039
What's the extra B stand for?

01:13:54.039 --> 01:13:55.039
BB B.

01:13:55.039 --> 01:13:56.039
What's that extra B for?

01:13:56.039 --> 01:13:58.039
Type out.

01:13:58.039 --> 01:14:04.520
Oh, man, I, um, can I blend Bobby Brown in Simpsons quotes and some, and make it in work in his podcast?

01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:10.399
I don't, my thing is, I make fun of the kids for having bad hip hop Tourette's.

01:14:10.399 --> 01:14:12.359
And I just realized we have the same problem.

01:14:12.359 --> 01:14:15.840
It's just not the hip hop that we, it's the hip hop we listen to.

01:14:15.840 --> 01:14:19.359
I can easily see listening back to fricking the hump it around record.

01:14:19.359 --> 01:14:24.079
Why my parents thought that was terrible when we went out dude, I listened to good enough the other day.

01:14:24.079 --> 01:14:26.800
Oh, Bobby, what are we doing, buddy?

01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:30.399
Uh, yeah, that's, that's super filthy.

01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:33.439
That is not kid appropriate while we're listening to that.

01:14:33.439 --> 01:14:34.439
It was fantastic.

01:14:34.439 --> 01:14:39.119
Can you still watch and enjoy this movie in 2023, uh, I mean, obviously, it's one of my favorite movies ever.

01:14:39.119 --> 01:14:40.119
Yeah, a thousand times.

01:14:40.119 --> 01:14:41.119
Yes.

01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:42.119
Cool.

01:14:42.119 --> 01:14:43.119
So what else?

01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:44.119
Nothing else.

01:14:44.119 --> 01:14:45.119
I think that's it.

01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:46.119
We may release the full Steven Tobelowski interview on Patreon.

01:14:46.119 --> 01:14:54.840
Um, if you guys should listen to that, it's your, if you are on Patreon or if you want to support us, our lowest tier is five bucks a month, we do bonus movies from different years.

01:14:54.840 --> 01:14:59.279
So I think we're talking about doing the 89 Tim Burton Batman for our first Patreon movie of the year.

01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:00.279
Yeah.

01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:05.159
And I think we'll probably also set up like Apple and Buzzsprout both have the way to do paid bonus content.

01:15:05.159 --> 01:15:08.279
So I think whatever the Patreon content is, I might just duplicate to those places.

01:15:08.279 --> 01:15:16.720
So anywhere that you want to subscribe, yeah, dude, I'm telling you, even if you do it just for the Steven Tobelowski interview that dudes got tons of stories and he's such a good story teller.

01:15:16.720 --> 01:15:17.720
Yeah, he's fantastic.

01:15:17.720 --> 01:15:18.720
So good.

01:15:18.720 --> 01:15:23.239
Yeah, he's, uh, he went deep on all kind of stuff and he friggin, it was awesome to talk to.

01:15:23.239 --> 01:15:28.439
But yeah, we'll have some bonus movies coming on Patreon, we'll probably put the full Tobelowski interview up there.

01:15:28.439 --> 01:15:35.359
And we'll, I'm going to try to do another in person podcast movie here in Nashville, maybe Jurassic Park the summer, if I can get that set up.

01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:37.680
So we've got some cool stuff coming.

01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:44.279
We're going to try to get some more interviews and some more fun guests and, but, you know, a lot of just Jeff and I doing the same old stuff.

01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:45.279
Yeah, man.

01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:47.680
And what's, you know, the next movie, right?

01:15:47.680 --> 01:15:48.680
And he's a proposal.

01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:49.680
Yes.

01:15:49.680 --> 01:15:56.399
Is that frickin, uh, Woody Harrelson, uh, Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, uh, Robert, no, Robert Redford.

01:15:56.399 --> 01:15:57.399
My favorite.

01:15:57.399 --> 01:15:58.399
Don't have it seen.

01:15:58.399 --> 01:16:00.000
Sort of set in a room with him and talk.

01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:04.680
Uh, I haven't seen that movie in so long, so yeah, I think I've only seen it a couple of times.

01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:05.680
So I think this will be a good rewatch.

01:16:05.680 --> 01:16:08.760
Uh, that's, it's a pretty big movie for the year.

01:16:08.760 --> 01:16:10.800
So like that's, that's totally was.

01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:15.840
But yeah, I mean, you know, just, just wrapping it up and this is, this is such an incredible movie.

01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:16.840
It was so cool to talk to Steven.

01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:18.319
It was so cool to see it in person.

01:16:18.319 --> 01:16:19.319
Yeah.

01:16:19.319 --> 01:16:34.520
And I'm honestly so grateful to be able to go back in these, watch these movies and talk about them with my closest and oldest and chubbiest friend and, uh, and then put it out there for people to listen to who then afterwards will say that they listened and enjoyed it.

01:16:34.520 --> 01:16:35.520
It's friggin.

01:16:35.520 --> 01:16:36.520
Yeah.

01:16:36.520 --> 01:16:37.520
It's my favorite thing to do.

01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:40.560
And, uh, this, this is easily my favorite thing to do and I look forward to it every other week.

01:16:40.560 --> 01:16:41.560
Yeah.

01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:49.760
So even though the, the hard part, and I don't even have the hard part, you have the hard part, but even the hard part of like watching it and writing up notes and coming up with stuff to say, I do that.

01:16:49.760 --> 01:16:50.920
It's so much fun.

01:16:50.920 --> 01:16:51.920
It's an absolute blast.

01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:56.720
And I'm, I'm just really thrilled that we're able to keep doing this and have it so much fun.

01:16:56.720 --> 01:17:06.479
And I'm excited that we're going to be able to maybe do more stuff this year, maybe get some more video stuff going, maybe get some more patreon stuff going, but, uh, just continue it for it can have an absolute blast with these movies talking to each other.

01:17:06.479 --> 01:17:07.479
Absolutely.

01:17:07.479 --> 01:17:08.479
So thank you all for listening.

01:17:08.479 --> 01:17:09.479
Yeah.

01:17:09.479 --> 01:17:11.960
Uh, we'll see you in two weeks for indecent proposal.

01:17:11.960 --> 01:17:12.960
Groundhog day.

01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:17.399
You can find, uh, have a 4k blue right in my house if anybody wants to come over.

01:17:17.399 --> 01:17:20.720
The, uh, it was like $3.99 all the places I was looking.

01:17:20.720 --> 01:17:21.720
So nice.

01:17:21.720 --> 01:17:22.720
All right.

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All right, cool.

01:17:23.720 --> 01:17:24.720
Hi, Candillas.

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