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It's just like the original. Without the good songs, one of the leads, and the coke. But hey, this one has a lot of car crashes and a kid. We saw Blues Brothers 2000, so you know what that means. Woo!

They call him the bad ass and he's on the line.

Hello people! Hello Chicago! We are...

So excited to be here in Chicago for a movie that defines you. Chicago, this is your movie! You love it! Booing! Everyone in the audience right now is dressed as characters from Blues Brothers 2000. Don't let them tell you differently.

Oh my goodness gracious. What can I say except I'm sorry. A sequel that no one wanted, including the people seemingly in the film. We're going to get into this two hour plus film and we're going to do it with two great people. First, my co-host Jason Manzoukas. Jerks!

How we doing, Chicago? Did I fuck your girlfriend? Is that why you made me watch this movie? Because this was trash. The year, 1998. The movie title, 2000. Um, I remember you and I, Jason... I wish the Y2K virus had erased this movie from existence. This...

This movie is heartbreaking. It is so long. And we were talking a little bit backstage. That's right, we talk backstage. Now you know. Now you know how the pod gets made. It has tones of Nothing But Trouble, another movie featured on this podcast. I think I coined the phrase backstage. It is Ackroydian, this movie. LAUGHTER

The Blues Brothers is to me a beloved film of its time. This seems somehow much more Akroidian in a nothing but trouble kind of gross way. This, yeah, this movie, this movie has a kid in it who should be dead 10 different ways.

This is a movie, the central story of which is two men abduct a child and try to murder him as fast as possible. They are unsuccessful and sing songs. This is a hate crime? This is like unconscionable what they're doing. These men have a... There's a child!

There's an hour and 20 minutes of the movie where the kid doesn't talk. But he sure can dance. Why is he there? Well, for his bongo ability, of course. I hated this movie. Jason, we are going to get into it, but we've got to bring out... I hated the movie. I want to answer the question you're going to ask me at the end of the show. Would I recommend seeing this movie right now? No, don't spoil it. The answer is no, I hated this movie.

Show's over. Go home. Maybe, maybe, Jason, you will change your tune because tonight we have a Blues Brothers expert on the show. What? That's right. She's my other co-host. Please welcome June Diane Raphael. Hello, June. Hi, Paul. How are you? Very good. June, talk to me.

About the Blues Brothers. Are you a fan of the first film? Never saw it. Okay. So, I'll take you through the scope of my knowledge. And I'm aware of the Blues Brothers. I am aware of them. I've seen them in TV packages of the greatest, you know, comedy bits and sketches and a lot of SNL, you know, movies.

If you go to like a Universal Studios, they come and dance around a little bit. Yeah, I'm aware of them. Wait, what? Oh, yeah. They have a blues mobile that drives around Universal Studios and they'll get out and do a little blues session. Yeah.

That's another reason. They'll pull up right in front of Wizarding World of Harry Potter and be like... Gryffindor. Is that it? That can't be right. No, they don't do Harry Potter themed stuff. They don't do Harry Potter songs? Okay, good. No, but they are...

out and about, and I remember as a kid going to Universal Studios and being very excited to see the Blues Brothers just pull up. If you told me that Dan Aykroyd was actually there doing it, I would genuinely believe you. Now, I don't know. So not having seen the first one, I mean, not having seen anything really of the Blues Brothers, I don't know if I had a better experience than the two of you or a much worse one. I don't know. Well, I think...

you had no expectation. So like when I watched this movie, I had put it off like any normal human being until it was assigned to me for this podcast. By you. You made us do this.

We said, Chicago, you pick a movie. Everyone voted in Chicago. Yes. And it was Blues Brothers 2000. Everybody in this town voted and they said, this movie is what should be done because we most connect to it. So I will say like in the sense of there is a moment of, oh, ah,

Was that moment in the first screen when it said 18 years later apropos of nothing? And I threw up my hands and said, what? I rewound it. I rewound it too. I was like, what did I miss? That's what I did. And I was like, you can't start a movie 18 years later. That, the hubris. The hubris. The hubris.

Of saying, you all saw the first movie 18 years later. I was like, you go fuck yourselves, Chicago. No, you know, nothing, you know, the reaction I had to Nothing But Trouble was a physical one. It made me feel ill. And I felt nauseous and gross and I didn't like it.

Watching this one, I had the same reaction of like, uh-oh, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. It's gross. It's so weird. Now, I watched it on the plane here.

And I found the only way I could consume it was to watch it in 10-minute increments. Oh, that's so long, though. I know, but what I would do... You kept it in your life so much longer. I was so proud because I didn't pause it. I didn't have a choice. I couldn't go for more than 10 minutes. I'd go for 10 minutes and then...

make that window little and then respond to some emails see what's going on in the news look at instagram just get out of that for a second and then i would head back in one of the only experiences where pouring yourself into into instagram is more satisfying than what you are doing um i well my watching of it i was like it was one of the first times ever i watched a movie completely undistracted to how this get made movie i was like

I am in. And if I get, if I just commit to being here, it will be over sooner than if I keep on stopping it. And I remember, and I was like, oh, it's almost over. And I was like, I'm doing it. And I never stopped it. And there was a few hours long. Why do I feel like that's also the description of the first time you masturbated? Three, three hours. Took three hours.

I watched this movie. I watched the first half of this movie and I said to Paul after dinner last night, I've got 45 minutes of this movie left. Didn't watch it. Got up this morning, put it on. I had an hour and 15 minutes left. I was devastated. I was devastated.

to learn that I had more than five. I was so mentally prepared for 45 minutes and then I'm out. I had an hour and 15 minutes. I was heartbroken. I literally was like, I might jump out the window instead. This movie, I was thinking about it. I was like, how can I compare this movie? I was like, it,

kind of feels like someone's like hey you want to have Dan Aykroyd over for dinner that's a cool idea yeah that would be fun talk to Dan Aykroyd and then he comes and he comes early you're like oh that makes me feel awkward and then like he gets he's gonna go in the kitchen too and like kind of add his own spices to things like all right that's a little weird no one else is able to talk at the dinner and then he like holds court in the living room and he doesn't leave and it's like 2 a.m. you're like

Come on, Dan, let's go. Let's go. And he's like, maybe I'll sleep over because I'm a little too drunk to drive. All right. Then you wake up the next morning and he's still there. I made breakfast, but it's like pancakes with eggs in it. It's I don't like it. It just felt like that. Yeah. You forgot the part where he also sings 11 full length songs.

Not a verse, chorus, and a verse. 11 full-length songs. I felt so resentful.

I'm so resentful of the things that were not cut. I've never watched a movie and all I was thinking of was like, should have cut that out. Should have cut that out. Every scene. Why are we staying on this for so long? Like, all I was doing was just cutting time out of the movie. I do want to ask a question because we were talking about this a little bit, again, backstage where we happen to talk. How many of you here have never seen the first Blues Brothers?

So a large chunk. And how many have seen? Let's all agree we're going to clap. You don't have to raise your hands. Half of you are clapping. Half of you are raising your hands. Let's all agree to do clapping. Okay, so you have seen Blues Brothers 1. You have not seen Blues Brothers 1. 75-25 about? Yeah. You want to see Blues Brothers 1. I'm just kidding. Okay.

And we'll never see Blues Brothers 1. Here's the thing, right? You're making a sequel to a movie where arguably the least interesting character is the one who's still living, right? And I'm not saying that in a way, but the character that Dan Aykroyd plays is not the funny one. He is the straight man. He is not the funny one. So that's...

a tricky situation. And then you surround him by two other people who do not have the energy or electricity of Belushi. Like, if you put Chris Farley in this, I'd be like, okay, there's something there. There's an idea there. But it's John Goodman, great, always great, even great in this, but okay. And then Joe Morton, great, always great,

horribly miscast in this. And also, also like for the majority of the movie is one of the antagonists. You could say that Dan Aykroyd's effort to replace

To replace John Belushi was to cast John Goodman and a child. And I will tell you something that makes this movie all the sadder. So Dan Aykroyd owns the House of Blues, performs a lot as the Blues Brothers with Jim Belushi. Great actor, Jim Belushi. Oh, no. Chicago, what? What?

And Jim Belushi... Wow. Not a big fan of According to Jim here in Chicago. Jim Belushi said no. They are performing together as the Blues Brothers. Dan Eckert goes, let's make another movie. He goes, no. So at that point, if you're not dissuaded by the fact that your partner has passed...

That you were a duo. And you want to continue. Then the person that you're doing the thing with says no. And you keep on going. That is what this movie feels like. Too many people said no. And he said, nah. I got this one. Yeah. This movie is disrespectful. It is.

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I wrote here, too, like, we also are learning with... Is it Jake or Elwood who he is? Elwood. Elwood. You're also learning with Elwood that John Belushi has passed, and they do it... They deliver a lot of information in this movie off, like, camera. Like, Frank Oz, famous director who was in the first movie, delivers the news to Elwood and goes, oh, he doesn't know his brother's dead, which...

I mean, what hoop do we have to jump through for that information not to come to pass? And also, like, how does he... He's been in prison, sure, but nobody's told him about all the major deaths in his life. So here's my question, because I don't know what happened 18 years before, but...

So John Belushi wasn't in prison too? No. He was. They both were for arguably the same exact thing. Okay, so they were both in prison, but different prisons? No, same prison. Same prison and he didn't hear the news? I think this movie hypothesizes a world in which Jake was released and then Elwood still had time. Really? In that 24 hours he was waiting for the bus?

Well, no, no, no. I think. Why does he have to wait? Because I thought I thought he was waiting for Jake to pick him up. Yes. So then they come down and they're like, Jake's not coming. FYI, R.I.P. And but none of that is spoken. That's in an area like an above shot where they're just like, and then it cuts into it. And he's like, I'm so sorry.

And that's it. And he arguably has no reaction to that. Like, he doesn't, oh, drop. Nothing. And then one of the strippers comes to pick him up and she's a day late? Like, why wasn't she, if she was the one that was meant to pick him up, why wasn't she there? He stood there overnight.

So wait, was he waiting for his brother, though? Yes. So his brother was out of prison. Yes. Oh, so he wasn't in prison with him. No, no. They went to prison together. I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm fan fictioning the idea that Jake was released unannounced.

Why? And then died outside? Did Elwood have bad behavior? What? Did Elwood have bad behavior in prison? I believe he might have. Why did Jake get out and Elwood not? Well, here's what I would... Because if it's me, my presumption would be that Elwood would get out early and Jake would be like in a lot of trouble. Now... Having not...

Not seen the first. I agree. I don't mean to retcon this and make it like solo, but if you remember in the first Blues Brothers, Oh, Han shot first, baby. Han shot first. JK, that movie was terrible.

But in the first movie, they make a reference to the fact that Elwood has like 107 parking tickets. So I imagine that they tacked on the parking ticket time. I see. That, yeah. Yeah.

In my mind, I'm going, they both got the same sentence, but he had 107 unpaid parking tickets. So here's an extra year. This movie is actually, now that we're talking about it, a lot like Solo. It is a related movie. Solo is obviously a prequel. This is a sequel that I wasn't looking for, did not want, that sought to answer questions that I didn't want answered.

introduced characters that I didn't care for, and at the end of the day was like a radical rewriting of a history that I thought was cool the first time around that I now realize is straight trash.

So it makes you not like the first one. No, I still like the first one. But I mean, like... Well, the first one is so simple, right? The first one, the idea is Jake gets out of prison. They got to get the... They're in prison again in the first one? Well, Jake is in prison. Elwood's picking him up. This movie is a photocopy of the first movie, but doesn't make any sense.

So the first movie, the idea of the first movie is Jake gets out of prison, Elwood picks him up, they go back to where they were raised in that orphanage, which you see the exact same scene essentially, and they're like, they're shutting us down, you gotta raise money. So to raise money, they get the band back together to perform a show, they get the money into the county bursar, but to get the money in there, they create one of the biggest traffic accidents craziness ever.

of all time and they go to jail. That's the movie in a nutshell. But they do successfully save the orphanage. What is the plot of this movie? He gets out, he goes to the orphanage, she's like, mentor a young boy. He steals a child, transports that child across state lines, forces that child into labor,

The child has a fully furnished bedroom in the trunk of the car. That's not safe. It's so lazy to the way they deal with him. What's his name? Scribbles? Yes. The answer for the rest of history is yes. His name is Scribbles. Scribbles.

I know it, but I'm not going to tell you because Scribbles is literally infinitely better. I wish, I wish the kid's name was Scribbles. The movie would be watchable if every once in a while they said, where's Scribbles?

When the strip club burns down and he says, where's Scribbles? Or if they're like, hey, get Scribbles a PB&J at the strip club. Also, Scribbles don't eat that. Well, the strip club, I mean. Oh, boy. Put your stuff in the trunk. Open it. Uh-oh, Scribbles. This, that is, that's a T-shirt right there.

Where's Scribbles? Just the kid's image and Scribbles. Holy shit. How about it's just like the Blues Brothers, but then you just put Scribbles in the center. Like, Blues Brothers and Scribbles. Here's the thing. From now on, in all of history, if you can't remember anyone's name, Scribbles. Oh, hey, how was that date you went on with Scribbles? Scribbles.

How was it? He really was a scribbles. I mean, he had like a long, thin dick that just scribbled all over me. So, June, you were saying about scribbles. And by the way, I...

His name may not have been Scribbles, but it felt like Scribbles. It felt, that's what I heard. But can we just talk about this? Yes, but what I was going to say about him is they go to such lazy lengths to show he's, like, his welfare is not endangered. Like, they keep on showing him falling asleep.

in the back of that car as though we're supposed to be comforted by that. Or it's like, I don't know if it's comforted or it's to make sure we understand, don't worry, Scribbles won't talk in this scene. If you're worried, Scribbles is asleep in the back while the car is on fire in a hoop, hoopty hoop, or underwater, wherever they are. This car is...

This car is all but launched in space with a stone cold child in it. I thought at the end, I was like, the only way for this movie to make sense in the ending is for that police chase to happen and the car just lift off and go into space like fucking E.T. past the moon. And I was like, and it would have made sense. And I was upset that it didn't happen.

I was like, it would have made perfect sense if the car launched up and they just lived in space. Blues Brothers in space. Well, Joe Morton does. Joe Morton flies into the sky and is transformed by the blues into a Blues Brother. His police uniform is replaced with the suit and the glasses and the hat. And he comes back down and everybody's like, okay, cool.

He invoked the calling of the blood. They have just seen magic. Literal magic. I'm not talking Harry Potter, like, sort of magic, like, fantastical magic. I'm talking, like, a man that... The spirit of the blues lifts him out of the tent. A hole is created in the tent that he can go through. He goes all the way up into the sky.

I don't even want to continue talking. I'm so angry. I want to just quickly go back to the beginning and just also show, because you said lazy writing, and it made me go, this is a perfect example of it here. This is in the beginning of the movie. I can't watch a lot of clips of this movie. This is where the stripper comes and picks him up. Here we go. Don't look, June. It's all acroid right now. It's full acroid. So here it is. Stripper pulls up.

Right? They don't say anything. She doesn't say a word. You keep the lights for a second. They didn't say a word. It's next transition night. Now, I'm going to hit play again. I have not done any editing here. Who's that? Will you pause for a second? This is what I want to show. They're...

How long have they been driving? That's what they... From day to night, that's what I'm saying. How long have they been driving? And he just was like, she pulls up and he's like, okay.

And it's not until here. This scene hypothesizes they have been stone cold silent from day to night when she first drops a little piece of information here where she sets up the plot. So when she pulls up at the prison, you might be, and because they just cut straight to this, you would presume, oh, he knows who she is and he gets in the car and we find ourselves here. Great. But she is only now explaining...

Why she was there to pick him up. Jason, may I even say to you that when you have the camera set up on the side of the road and she pulls over, why not just go, hey, I'm friends with your friend the drummer. Get in. Done. We shot it already. All she needed to do is shoot 20 more seconds. Got it. Done. It's in the can. We don't even have to shoot this scene. Oh, yeah. Oh, this movie's full of that nonsense.

I also feel like in the beginning of the movie, you care so little, again, not having seen the first one, but for Dan Aykroyd and for John Goodman, I didn't care about any of these characters. And for Scribbles. And I felt really resentful that they start parading around strippers in every scene in the first 15 minutes of the movie to cover up the fact that we don't care about our leads.

Well, I wrote down this question. I want to ask you this question, June. What are the personalities of these people? How would you describe Elwood? What type of person is Elwood? Which one is he? He's Dan Aykroyd. He's a maniac. He's not a well man. But is he? So at one point I thought, he's grieving. Got it. And that accounts for this insanity...

His grief. Yeah, and this mission he has. I mean, to answer your first question, though, about the plot of the movie, I don't know what it is.

I don't know what they are trying to do beyond get back together. I wrote it down, and this is what I was able to piece together. Because two hours, and none of it is plot. And I'll just add, they don't all get back together. Well, not even Joe Morton, but just everyone in the band but Joe Morton. They get back together at minute 50. That's unacceptable. Here's the other thing I'll say.

The way that he gets people to join his cause is by ruining their lives. Like, he goes to the strip club and the guy who's the drummer says, "I got a good deal here, man. I like what I'm up to. I don't want to put the band back together." Dan Aykroyd gets his place burned down by the Russian mob and the guy's like, "All right, I guess we're on the road."

It is. He ruined their lives. But what is his goal? To just get them back together and singing? But you see, the first movie had a goal of we need to raise money to save the orphanage. The plot of Breaking 2. Great. I'm into it. But like here, it's like there's no plot. He's like, we got to get the band back together so we can play in the battle of the bands, which is again revealed to be only two bands.

Not really. Well, the harshest competition. And it's also a battle of the bands in Louisiana. It's not even in like their hometown, Chicago. It's not even like a... Or for money. It wasn't for money. It wasn't for anything. And the kid, when introduced to him... Scribbles? Scribbles.

Doesn't seem to be like, I love the blues or I like music or I'm a musical kid. There's none of that. There's no arc with them as a... There's nothing. They learn nothing from each other. No, it's crazy. They barely speak to each other. Genuinely, they barely speak to each other. Their relationship is...

deeply problematic. Scribbles and Elwood. Scribbles and Aykroyd. Yeah. There's a scene at the very end where they have a sentimental moment together and I felt the music changing and I felt that we were going there and it was really scary. Um...

My favorite moment in the movie early on is when Dan Aykroyd reveals to Joe Morton, the police chief, that he is the son of Cab Calloway, the illegitimate son of Cab Calloway. And he goes, it's not true. It's not true. And he goes, call your mother. And he goes, hey, mom, there's a guy talking about Cab...

hangs up. Hangs up. What information transpired? Something so profound just happened between him and his mother. Something his mother never wanted to admit was true. He called and hangs up on her. But,

For him to have hung up on her, this guy's talking about Cab and you're like, Cab Kelly, I fucked him and you're his kid. She would have had to have bulleted that information out because he gets confirmation and is repulsed by it. But no more than four seconds passed. Also, why does Joe Morton take this meeting?

So Joe Morton, who's like, whatever, commissioner, police chief or whatever, he says, so what can I do for you, Mr. Blues? What? Is he just taking meetings with randos off the street and their wards? Like, what is this? Oh, my God. Well... Did you notice, I don't know all the characters' names, and it's okay, but... I got them all. Okay, so the guy who owns the strip club. He's got scribbles, scribbles, scribbles...

There's a guy, Scribbles, Scribbles, Scribbles, Scribbles, and Scribbles. That's actually the, that's the, that's the full band. The guy who owns the strip club, Willie's. Yes. So did anyone else notice, again, maybe it was in the first one and I didn't see it. Yeah. In his little office area.

There are photographs of women up, like pasted up on the wall in a collage so tightly cut together that you can't even see any of the wall. There's just like faces of women, faces of women. And they're not, they look like missing people pictures.

Like when you have to hand over to the police. Like milk carton girls? Yeah. They look like, you may need to find it, Paul. It looks like if someone in your life went missing. It looks like wallpaper made out of milk carton photos. You'd be like, oh, let me pass this picture along. She's smiling. She looks like herself. We haven't seen her in a year. The best representation. Answers to Nancy. And there are those photos.

I'm trying to find it. If it's not too much trouble. Oh, it's okay. And I will go back to the fact that I found it so unsettling that they made the kid a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the strip club. Well, you've been... I mean, strip clubs do offer food.

PB&J? They got wings, June. Wings. Like, if they gave the kid a basket of fries, I'd be like, okay, cool. What is it about PB&J? PB&J is not, like, serving food. That's just like, well...

Crystal's got some peanut butter and I think, I think Diane has some jelly from when she used to have that snake. Yeah. Like strippers keep, like, I like the idea of like the strippers in the back room all just like making PB&J sandwiches. Yeah, it seems like cobbled together in a way that I don't like. I hear what you're saying. Guess what I don't want? Like some strippers loose bread. Um,

Well, look. I don't think that's doing it for me. This strip club has got a few issues. Loose bread. One of them being that they're never naked. And, I mean, well, no. Okay, man.

Okay, got it. So that was a real issue for you, huh? Who is that a problem for? No, I'm just saying... I agree with you, Paul. Let's get them titties on screen. Because keep in mind, Scribbles is here. No, and I... They're never naked, Paul Scheer. Photoshop that on the box art for this movie.

You know me, I come for the T, I stay for the A. And no, I think what I think about it is like, it's so trying to be an R movie that is also a PG movie. Like, we'll go to a strip club that looks like the worst set, like on a Disney sitcom. Like, it's so bad. It's called a stripster club. And I thought, oh, that's weird. And then someone goes, oh, you're a stripster club.

I've never heard that as a term. The Russians called it a stripster club. But also on the sign it says stripster. That can't be true. No, I wrote it down and I rewound it. If that is true, honestly, if that is true, the show is over. I'm going home. It is stripster. I swear. I'm not kidding. I will straight walk home right now.

I will try to find all of this. And find the photos. I saw in the subtitles that the Russians called it a stripster club. And I was like, these dumb fucking Russians.

By the way, Paul, there's no need for them to be naked, actually. They could be in whatever they please. Yeah, Paul. Yeah, Paul. They can do whatever they want. But also, what I'll say about them, if you're worried they weren't, I guess, provocative enough for your taste, the outfits they were wearing to me were in many ways more risque than just being naked. They were those weird, like, 90s, very high-cut...

thongs and all sorts of things. I wasn't worried about the provocability. Is that a word? The provocability? Oh, boy. Now you're trying to sound all smart because you are a real perv. Okay. Jason. Yes. I can't show this on the big screen, but can you pass that to Jason, please? So I'm passing to Jason. I'm passing to Jason the logo of the club, which is in neon. Okay.

It says, stripster, June has fallen out of her seat. No! That's it. Black it out. We're going home. Thank you, Chicago. This has been great. The show is over. The series is over. It's a wrap on How Did This Get Made. You did it, Aykroyd. You broke the show. Congratulations. Your dream came true.

Holy shit. Stripster Club? What world are we living in? That's not cool. What? And like my good friend Paul says, and no titties? You're going to call it a Stripster Club and you're not even going to let scribbles get an eyeball on some titties?

Come on, Aykroyd. If I'm not getting hard 2,000 times, then why am I seeing Blues Brothers 2,000? Who am I? Who am I? Read, read, read. Stripster? Nope, not doing it. Jim Belushi! What? Stripster Club? You movie!

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He's also like, looks like he needs a little powder. He, um, so he sings a song, sings about a verse and a chorus, then is over on another side of the bar. Seemingly, the lead singer has left the stage in the middle of the song to have a dialogue scene. And then leaves the bar.

Yes. He then drinks with the Russians and then drives them and leaves them in... The song is still going. He sets up the... Leaves. And they keep the song playing in the background. This is the shit that's not even lazy. It's insane. It is insane.

And, oh God. Here's the thing. I think all of the events of the movie take place in like seven hours. It's not that, but it's like, I feel like the whole thing takes place in 70 hours. It's so, like so much happens all the time, including a drive from Chicago to New Orleans. Yes.

I mean, I wrote down here 30 minutes and all we have had is half a song in 30 minutes. Like, they don't... Oh, and because you were like, give me those songs. Well... I know. When Paul told me we were doing Blues Brothers 2000, he was like, so get ready for some great tunes. Tits and tunes. The... Tits and tunes. The Paul Scheer story. The...

But the idea, like, it's... But you would think, like, all right, well, the plot's terrible, but at least they'll have some good numbers. No, they don't. I have one, I think only one good number, which is the phone sex operation. Yeah. That was great. Yeah.

I thought that was great. And I thought the Battle of the Bands band was great. The all-star band, basically. Yeah, but by the time you got there, did you care about anything? By the time I got there, I had to watch Blues Traveler? Ha ha ha.

Now, did anyone ever tell Aretha Franklin that the camera was running for this walkthrough of her most famous song, Respect? Like, I think she's amazing. I feel like she's like, and I'll just do that. Yeah, and then I'm here, and then I'm this, and then I'm this, and then I do that thing, and then I turn around. Like, it sounds sleepy. It's like, I don't, it just, I guess maybe it's better now and out of context. It sounds,

I guess the problem with this is that in the first movie, she does the exact same song with the exact same situation, and it's awesome. What? No, it's out of respect? Oh, it's Think? Oh, Think. It's Think, sorry. Sorry. Not the same song. Now listen, I agree that I thought it was... Oh boy. Yikes. Oh boy, don't cross Chicago in a Chicago movie.

I thought it was a strange energy level, but I was so happy to see her. Oh, yeah. And be with her. Yeah. I was so thankful to be out of that car with those guys and spend some time with those ladies in those hats that I...

I was just thrilled to be there. Arguably one of the highlights. It just felt a little slower as the whole movie felt a little slower. But yeah. Well, it didn't feel, there's something about it feeling less meaningful in a Mercedes dealership. Ha ha ha!

Than when it was in the restaurant, the diner or whatever the restaurant was in the first movie. But I will say the movie really does, this is actually sadly not one of them, does the phone sex one is one, does come alive sometimes when they go and they visit with someone and have an experience in that world and it tends to be someone iconic that we're interested in. That I thought a lot of times was great, but it was also like toxic.

toxically poisoned by the nonsense that, that they're, that Ackroyd's injecting into it. Here are the two moments that I laughed at. Number one, when Ackroyd started eating the Doritos and just throwing them. What? I wrote down dad joke. It made me laugh. Like that was like, ah, yeah. All right. Doritos made you laugh. It made me laugh. And the police car pileup made me laugh.

The police car pileup... Genuinely made me laugh. I also laughed at the police car pileup because it was... It had the genius bit of being so many cars. So long. Well... It really... It was surprising how long it was, and then it went longer. And then it really made me laugh. That was funny. And the other thing that made me laugh, and I am ashamed to admit this, was...

was the visual of shaving cream head. John Goodman is like, oh no! It's happening! His thing acted up and Hector is like,

And he's got the glasses in the shaving cream. Puffball bacteria was a highlight of this movie. That made me laugh so hard. And then it cuts straight into the Bluesmobile and he has like a dab of shaving cream that John Goodman is wiping off.

But I like that kind of stuff. I like the fact that in Ghostbusters, Bill Murray has no marshmallow on him and they're all covered. I like that. I will say with the cars, it's funny, but it is a callback to the first movie where they wreck 103 cars in the movie. And in this one, 104. Wow.

So that's why. Now, June, did you have a Nintendo when you were growing up? No. Oh, okay. Jason, did you have a Nintendo? I did not. So you guys probably never got to play the Blues Brothers 2000 video game, right? No, no, no. First time. Wait, also, during the phone sex song, was it weird that they were also shooting a commercial for the phone sex service? Yes.

I thought that was weird. Here's a taste of some of the electric gameplay of Blues Brothers 2000, the video game. Playing in story mode, World 1 Chicago. This is you. World 2... I think that said Prison Planet. Um...

This is... Who is this game for? It's just... Wait, so this is inside the prison? Yes. Is that Scribbles? Yep. Scribbles has sent Elwood a postcard and he's jumping out of his prison bed where the queen... This is like the special effects are like virtuosity. Yeah.

That is just a little of the gameplay in there, which seemingly takes place after Blues Brothers 2000, and he's back in jail because he's getting a postcard from Scribbles and walking past a giant picture of the queen, Erykah Badu, who was the shining part of the film for me. She was great. I mean, it was insane what was happening, but...

I very much so enjoyed her. Would you think that the first movie had a lot of supernatural elements in it? I was going to say, are there people floating up into outer space? And witches turning people into rats? Nope. I will say that in both movies, Paul Schaefer wears all of his own clothes. That's right, I'm taking shots. I wrote down at one point, I said, I know the first movie and I'm only getting 40% of these references. Why was he such a dick to the Blues Traveler?

Or John Popper. Yeah, why didn't he go and support a young blues band? He's like, nope. And he gets away. I'm like, oh, that's a real likable character trait. The guy who's trying to put together the best band ever is like, hey, we got a cool band. We're young kids. Fuck you. I felt like, I don't know. I thought he was trying to do a nod, like say they were actually so amazing and he missed out. When? Oh, I see. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

And then it's John Popper who's playing harmonica for Scribbles. Anytime Scribbles is playing harmonica, that's John Popper's harmonica. The fact that I know that is depressing. It is. I did think that the actor who portrayed Scribbles did a great job. Yeah, he had about four lines. His actual name is Scribbles.

I thought he was sweet and great. When they're playing, when they're the bluegrass band, when they're basically doing the Soggy Bottom Boys with fake beards and bluegrass, do they conjure spirits? They made a ghost. Does their rendition of this song conjure restless spirits? Yeah. Like, that's what I'm saying.

The way that we are viewing this movie, Joe Morton flew into the sky. That's real. Horses, CGI horses, came down and rained, not death, but just rain, from the sky. Like, yeah, we are in a supernatural fucking world. I mean... Yeah, I don't like it. These are these ghost riders here, flying. They're...

CGI ghost writers. See, this is 100% Dan Aykroyd. This is what his Ghostbusters would have been. But does he think, like, this is...

A genuine question. There were moments like that where I thought, is this a joke? Is this... I'm not trying to be a bitch. I'm genuinely wondering, like, am I supposed to laugh at that? I don't think so. No, that's sort of like the power of music has brought back these ghostwriters. You're supposed to, and you did, laugh at the Doritos bit. Well, then the movie's a success. Oh, my God.

Did you laugh at the fact that the police officer is in such a horrible car accident that she didn't lose her hat but the brim of the hat was broken In that in that car pileup. I'm not even kidding in that car pileup 104 cars. Yes. Okay, let's say minimal two people to every car Okay, there must have been over 210 dead people

because of that pileup. Not a single person should have survived that. I'm okay with those people dying because at any point you would be like, oh shit, there's a 20, a 40, a 60, an 80 car pileup in front of me. I'm going to slow down. You're saying that no one at any point hit the brake. Not only that, they are launched into it as if somehow there's a ramp there.

leading up to the car pileup. And in the first movie, when cars were launched, they were flying off a bridge. This one, they were on a... Like, the cheapest thing is, like, we got a road outside of town. We'll launch these cars. I mean, they were just... I half expected Merle Haggard to come over the thing and be like, well, looks like these Blues Brothers got themselves into quite a situation. And for, like, Roscoe P. Coltrane to come out of one of those cars...

That's a Dukes of Hazzard reference for the young people. This movie not afraid to launch a lot of things into the air. Apropos nothing. They throw out the thumbtacks and the car hits thumbtacks and is launched into the air as if hitting thumbtacks is explosive.

I did not understand why the boat also, when their car came out of a lake. Yeah. We got to talk about the car is also a submarine. Out of a lake. Roll up your windows. And then the car gets, see in that moment, was I supposed to laugh at that?

Was that the right response? Sadly, I think yes. Yeah, wow. I think that is a joke. Oh, okay. You know the joke that I laughed at the hardest? There's one shot of the car and the owner of the strip club, Willie, is literally laying on the, like, in the back window. Like, his body... His body's, like, shoved in there. Like, it made me, like...

It wasn't called attention to. It was just an overhead shot. And he's like, oh, I could probably fit up in that ledge. And it wasn't the kid. It was Willie. Yeah, because the kid is on a lap in the front seat. Sitting on the lap of a stranger. Yeah. In a car full of strangers. Now, Paul, I did find you in that very position once when you got locked out of our home.

Well, no, but to be truthful, I put the car seats down. All I know is... Wait, whoa, what? Wait. Okay. If you don't think we're going to unpack this... Wait, you were locked out of your own home? Were you inside of it? I was inside and I woke up in the morning and Paul was not there. June is a heavy sleeper.

So I knocked real loud. I went to the bedroom window and knocked on that window. I tried to get around the front. At what time?

Midnight-ish? Yeah, midnight one. Okay, got it, got it, got it. I did even a thing where I climbed over and tried to get in through a way that I know how to get in. That didn't work. And so I was like, well, I'm here. So what I find out is the next morning I wake up, Paul's not there. And I completely freak out. I look at my phone and I see a series of texts.

And I'm just scanning, scanning. My eyes aren't even reading what I'm looking at. I just see the last one that says, I'm in the car. And then I raced outside to our driveway and Paul had a Prius and was... In the trunk. I put down the two back seats and made it into a bed and then slept in the trunk. With like a towel, with like a beach towel over him. A beach towel.

And a sweatshirt for a pillow. What? It was so disturbing. That is harrowing. Oh my God. Drive to a hotel. Thank you. There were so many. Drive to a hotel. Drive to your house. Drive to Rob Hubel's. No, don't come to my house. You'll see I was saying go to a hotel. I don't want to have to give Paul my address. Okay, we have friends who live near us. Go to anyone's house and say I'm here. I've been locked out.

So, unfortunately, I had a terrible reaction, which was to laugh. But I was okay with it. I had a good time. I liked sitting in the car. I was a little whirly back there. I was having a good time. What if that became a thing that you did every once in a while? Just to like, you know what? I'm just going to go crash in the car. Just mix it up. Keep the relationship alive. Sometimes I just disappear and you'll find me in random autos. Cut to the, you're like, wake up, the car's been stolen and you're in the backseat. Oh!

All of that was to say it is a funny image when a man's sleeping in the back window of a car. Well, that was the thing. They had two cars, but then they got reduced into one. So the whole band was often crammed into the one car. Also, I would say that we're talking about that sequence where they're all running back into the one car. They drive into the carnival in a painted version of the cop car.

Then they parked that. And then through a series of circumstances that we don't see, nor is anything alluded to, the next moment we see Cargo, okay, go ahead. Next scene, they're in a flaming car in a hoop of fire. And we're like, wait, what happened? What is going on? So much so that I was like, oh, cool, this is a cool stunt. And then it cuts to them in the flaming car and I was like, what? What?

I wrote like this movie feels like someone telling you about a movie and you're like, but wait, but how did they get in the car? Or someone telling you about a dream. Someone telling you about a dream of a movie. Yeah. And you know, so he's out of jail and he's waiting for a long time. Like how long? I don't know, like a day. And then they're in the flaming car. Also, also, he has a remote control for the car.

At one point, he's on stage singing and he pulls out like an RC remote control from Radio Shack. That he has no visuals on whatsoever. And he drives the car up to where they are so he can pick them up. To do that, he must have plowed down 100 people.

Dozens are dead. I would have loved it if there was a death count on the bottom left-hand part of the screen throughout the entire movie. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. They are also being, they're constantly, they're being chased by Joe Morton and his police and also the Russian mob.

By the way, I will say the Russian mob played so tastefully, so smartly, like a really organic, it felt like that Viggo Mortensen movie. I was like, wow, I'm getting this in a way different way. Subtle, subtle stuff. Why? I have a question about this. Why? What was the scene? Okay, full disclosure. I watched part of this movie times two.

Which I didn't even know was a thing. Because it was interminable to watch. So at times, toot it. Why were they at... I wish you had shot us a text and let us know that was possible. Yeah. Why were they at the Russian mafia funeral?

Oh, because their friend runs the funeral cemetery. Oh, right. Okay. The ponytail runs the funeral. So he just happens to be having a funeral for the Russian mob? No, for the nephew that died that we didn't see because no one died in the car accident. Because when the car does do all those flips, they specifically say no one got hurt. I thought that his nephew passed at Willie's. Oh, in the fire? In the fire. In the fire.

Maybe. So let's be clear. Foot Blues has abducted a child, forced him into labor and taken him across state lines, and has murdered a man.

All in a day's work. Also, I wanted to talk about that scene in Willy's again, where they flip the car. They take off, and the Russians are chasing them. It's like, throw the carpet tacks out. They do, and then the car flips over and lands in front of the stripster club, which means that they just did, like, a giant circle. Now, in the first movie, do they play that joke, question mark, of...

The police car being able, their car being able to do all these sorts of... Yeah, yeah.

That thing where they slide into parking spots really got overused in this. That's from the first one. I was going to ask, was the car that they get, is that from the first movie? I was wondering that too. Are we meant to believe that's the original car? It's just been in B.B. King's lot the whole time? No. Wait, it's not? This guy's saying no. Because when the cop pulls out the seat of the car...

Hey, guys, everybody shut up. We're listening to this guy for some reason. We've decided that he's the audience answerer. He sounds like he knows what he's talking about. He's got a backwards baseball hat, guys, so he must know. Here, I'm going to give you the mic just because I won't be able to reach you. Wow. This is... Paul, why now? Paul, you are in a position of weakness right now. Why would you do it now? When the cop pulls out the fake...

printer paper and it makes a terrible rip sound her screen says 1990 ford whatever the shit car okay so it's not the same car thank you for respecting the microphone thank you a thoughtful thank you brief answer and also well done i appreciate and i'm also fear like you watch this movie so intently that you saw dot matrix printing and i applaud it and i'm sorry

Like, you took time to read in this movie. Well, you know, he's talking about reading. I've now been interested in watching movies in subtitles, and I noticed a couple... Oh, I only do that. A couple of things in here, too. When, like, they're singing in the song, like, you know, one of the singers goes like, whoo! And they kept on subtitling it, whoops. Whoops! Whoops!

And that made me laugh. And then at one point... Why are you reading these in subtitles? Because I just like... It keeps me focused on it. And then the other one was when they pull into the Queen's Palace. He goes like, Entree. And he goes, Merci. And he just wrote, Speaking French. Like the simplest French. Whoever was doing Close Gap, he was like, Fuck it. Speaking French. That made me laugh. And now...

As we have a few shows here in Chicago, I've found so many close captioning people like, fuck this. So many weird choices. Great to see James Brown again. Always great. Did you guys stay for the post-credit scene? No. No. There is a... Let me guess. Agent Coulson in Thor's Hammer? There is a post-credit scene that is...

so long. It's James, we're not going to watch it, but it's James Brown doing a full number. Oh, that's great. I'm into that. Yeah, full number. Oh, with the capes and everything. Yeah, the full two minutes at the end if you want to check it out. Oh, I would like that. Yeah, and it's a great, you know, I don't know where this fit in the movie or if it ever fit in the movie. And then here, a little ad, Universal Studios, you know. What? What?

It says... I will give everybody here money if they go to Universal Studios and ask for Babs. That is a callback from either Blues Brothers or Caddyshack where they also put that in there. Oh, okay. Or Animal House, right? So you don't get anything. Animal House, yeah. Disregard. All right. That's a John Landis joke. Oh, John Landis. All right. Let's get into the crowd. Maybe talk to them a little bit. See what they have to say. I don't know, Paul.

I don't know. Let's see what we got here. Hold on. All right. Here we go. Sir, your name, one thing that could have added to the Blues Brothers that, like the car flying up into space, that would have felt organic but is insane. This may be an impossible task for you guys. Just something insane that could have happened. UFO, Bigfoot, whatever. So your name, you're that, and your question. My name is Skip. Okay.

The Bluesmobile on a roller coaster? What's your real name? Great. That sounds made up. You nailed it, by the way. Bluesmobile on a roller coaster. Great. And when the boat... Your name's not Skip. Is it Skip? It really is. Your God-given name is Skip. My parents' given name is Skip, yes. Well... Wow. Wow. Security, get this heathen out of here.

The Roman centurions will take you away. All right. All right, Skip. All right, Skip. What do we just take? We just take questions from anybody with a weird name now? All right, Skip. Bring it. So when the boat flies up in the air and then lands on the white supremacists, they're then at the queen's dance at the very end? Uninjured. Yeah. Did they not blow up or did she revive them? What do you guys think?

Well, she then turned them into rats. So I don't think she had any great fondness for them. I was surprised by that as well. I felt like the movie was saying they will be punished by blowing them up for their beliefs. And I was also shocked, Skip, that they were alive. I didn't hear that response. It was awesome. You didn't miss anything.

What? All right. But again, if we're talking about laziness, why not put a bandage on Daryl Hammond's face? Like, oh yeah, he's a little hurt. Like, just give me something here. I mean, we watched the boat fall on his face. Yeah. He literally was like this. Looking up. So it's impossible for him to live. And they also didn't need to be at Erykah Badu's place because they're only there for two seconds and then they get turned into rats.

Your name, your unbelievable thing, and your question. My name is Adriana, and I was kind of hoping that there would be more connection with the queen, and maybe she had brought them there, and there'd be a moral and some kind of fairy tale type thing at the end. Maybe that would have been...

Yeah, the battle of the bands is super anticlimactic because they're up against the best band of all time. They've also been turned into green zombies. They perform and it's the end of the movie. There's no reason. They've learned nothing. Remember when they were zombies and that that was like part of the movie that we all watched?

All right, your name, your unbelievable thing that could happen in the movie, and your question. My name is Dan. I'd like to see some vampires in the scene with the zombies. Love it. Two quick Russian questions. The first is, would the movie be better if the Russians formed a blues band to compete in the Battle of the Bands? Yes. Second... Wow. Wow. Wow.

I would have loved that, Dan. And I want you to understand right now, this second thing better be better than what you just said. Yeah, you're right now in such rare air. Or right now, you can sit down a champion or you can go for a broke. Do you want to double down? I'll double down.

He's Dan Aykroyd-ing it. Okay, Dan. He's Dan Aykroyd-ing it right now. Here we go. Here we go, Dan. Okay. Okay, okay, okay. All right. What do you got? Number two. Speaking of Aykroyd, did you catch the Russians talking about drinking vodka out of a skull? Yeah. Yeah. Dan, you did it. I caught it, but who cares, Dan? That is... You should have started with that and ended with the other.

Just saying, Dan. The reference that he's making there is that Dan Aykroyd has Crystal Skull Vodka. That's his vodka, so that's why he was promoting it. Okay, sir. Did that exist at that time? No. Yeah, Dan. Oh, my God. The audience murdered Dan. It didn't exist at that time. Also, Skip, shut up. Okay, come over here.

All right, your name, your unbelievable thing, and your question. Go. My name's Noah. I think it would be unbelievable if they revealed that Scribbles was John Belushi reincarnated. Ooh, yes. I love that. I love that. Or was Belushi's son or something? Yeah, that could have been a good one. I just wonder, when I think of New Orleans, the two things I don't think of are Albert Einstein and King Kong. Yes! Yes! Yes!

I couldn't figure that out at all. I just wondered if anyone else noticed that they were so prominently featured on the stage. My presumption was, is that an actual place that has those things that they just used? You know what I mean? That's what I couldn't figure out. I was also like, okay, King Kong. Oh, Louis Armstrong. Okay, cool. And Einstein? All right, while Paul's running up to the balcony, don't you fucking look at us. Don't you look at us. Don't even look at us.

I'm here in the balcony. - Paul, be safe up there. - Be careful, Paul. - I'm seeing the entire band from the Blues Brothers. All right, sir, your name, your unbelievable thing, and your question. - Will and maybe they could have went to some place more exciting? - Okay, sure. - And that's your unbelievable thing.

Will, we're off to a great start. JK, this is awful. My question is, why were Illinois cops going across state lines chasing? Wait, what was it? Why were Illinois state cops going across state lines? Yes, and also, how were they able to be there so quickly? Good job, Will.

So far, Will is best representing the balcony. Well, I mean, 104 of their cars... They must have a lot of cars, because they had to get new cars. They all got new cars, yeah. All right, sir, your name... And in those cars was the band The Cars. Your name, your unbelievable story point, and your question. My name is Caesar. My unbelievable story point would have been what you said, where they go up into space. Okay. But there was, like, a Belushi in the constellations. Ooh! So...

They don't start following like cartoon logic until they're in the suits, until Goodman and Scribbles are in the suits. That's when the music starts that's not part of a performance, all that. What if they all died in the fire? Caesar, I know what you're doing. I see what you're trying to do. And I mean, is this a Jacob's Ladder scenario? I think not. I think not. All right.

It would explain why the car flipped out with those carpet tacks. I don't know. It seems like this is Elwood's fantasy. He never got out of jail. He never got out of jail. Oh, wow. So do you think, like, if this movie, if the last, if there was a subliminal shot at the end of this movie that was just Elwood in an electric chair...

That would make Caesar some sort of genius. But at this point, without that, Caesar is just some balcony monster.

All right, ma'am, your name, your unbelievable story point, your question. My name is Michaela. My unbelievable point would be the gray hot dog from Nothing But Trouble. And my question is, at one point in the movie, they say all the lawmen from two states are waiting on that bridge. So what's happening in those two states that don't have any cops? Yeah. Are they experiencing a purge scenario? I would love it. I would love it if they made a purge movie that took place during the four hours.

Well, we're also talking about a chance to open up the Blues Brothers ECU, right? Our extended universe, right? So it's sort of like, let's get in there. What's going on in different parts? Where's Scribbles now? He's older. What happened to Willie after the movie? Scribbles is, yeah, Scribbles is now quite a bit older. Ma'am, your name, your unbelievable story point, and your question.

My name is Sarah, and my story point is when they go under the river in the car and he says, hold your breath. Yeah. Maybe the car actually fills with water. Well, he said roll up the windows. No, he did say hold your breath too. Yeah, no, he said how long can you hold your breath? It was weird, but no more weird than the rest of the magical realism that is a part of this movie.

But why would you say how long can you hold your breath? Yeah, if that's not part of the thing no water rushing in yeah, I get it it would be like me going like Like inviting someone over my house going are you afraid of heights? But I live on a one-story house that car and it's like yeah I could ask you that question has no bearing on what's about to happen when that car when they are in that car with a child and

It is riddled with machine gun fire, driven in a loop-de-loop while on fire, submerged in the water, and driven across the bottom of a lake or a river bed. It is... They are actively trying to kill that child. Yeah.

And also, he's been gone for a full seven days. Yeah. And the nuns don't do anything about it. The nuns are at a week. The nuns are like, we should tell the police. Maybe call them. Maybe. Maybe.

That orphanage should be shut down. And why would they ever hand scribbles over to Dan Aykroyd? He just got out of prison. They said you should mentor him. But even that, Jason. He's the last person who should mentor him. He's not even off parole. Hey guys, don't get mad at me. Jason, he's a maniac. I didn't. Okay, okay. I did write that part of the movie.

I did a rewrite on the movie. I introduced scribbles. All right, sir, your name, your unbelievable plot point, and your question. Okay, so my name is David. My unbelievable plot point is when they do the loop-de-loop instead of landing, they continue on a path and end up in a bone-stripping machine that saves us all half an hour of time.

I love it from nothing but trouble. From nothing but trouble, yeah. And my question is, so I'm Orthodox Jewish person and is that... Mazel tov? Is that... Stop bragging. Well, yeah, exactly. So is that what happens in church? Yes. Yes. That is what all church is. Oh my God. Holy cow.

Well, we're really barreling through this movie. And obviously, we have had a lot of opinions, right? Now it's time for second opinions. Well, one and one is two. Six and two is eight. Come on, baby, this movie wasn't great. Baby, don't you want to go? And here's some second opinions in Sweet Home Chicago. Woo!

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What an amazing second opinion song. We picked one, but there are six others. Stay tuned after the episode to hear the rest. All right, here we go. These are five-star reviews. Colt from Amazon. By the way, I was shocked that one of those was Jeff Tweedy.

Yeah, amazing, right? You know, Chicago really brought it. I mean, you'll obviously listen to the other six when you finish this episode, but Chancellor Rapper was great, Jeff Tweedy was great. So good. Kanye, really great. Lots of great... Rob Blagojevich was great. Recently pardoned from whenever this episode comes out. Rob Blagojevich is here. Great voice. Great, great voice. Lots of Chicago...

Ripping. You'll be surprised to find out that 69% of these are five star. 69! 69! Alright, here we go. This one is said, okay. A musical with a story, what's not to love? By A. Nani Mouse.

Put it together. You got it. Okay. I didn't write it. Also known as Dan Aykroyd. I'm a fan. Always have been. Love the action. Love the music. Sorry if it sounds like I'm dating myself. My age, I'm really engaged. To a woman. Five stars. Honestly, honestly, what am I doing wrong?

Somebody who rates this movie five stars is engaged to be married, and I am withering on the vine. I just like that he put a dad joke in. He goes, I'm dating myself. Actually, I'm engaged. Then it was like, to a woman.

There's so many things going on here. Who is not myself? This is from Susan Clace. She writes, this movie is so great, sometimes I watch it three times in the same week. Five stars. How? Oh, Susan. Oh, I'm worried. That's like, honestly, that is evidence that can have her against her will committed to an institution. Oh.

That is enough to have her committed against her will. I just want to say this next review is not written by me, but it's by R.J. Nobleman. And the title of the review is Excellent! A Real Thriller. And it goes on to say, Great movie! Aykroyd was excellent, but the best cast member was actress model Shan Johnson.

The exotic dancer. The model, actress, former Soul Train dancer is a rising star. Paul, I'm going to stop you right here. Superb. Why did you tell us at the beginning that this wasn't written by you? I was confused until this part of the review where, without letting us know, we might have thought this was you. Paul, you got to be cooler than this, man. Let me talk about...

Shan Johnson. This model, actress, former Soul Train dancer is a rising star. Superb. I hope to see her in many, many more movies. She is the next J. Lo. Five stars. Well, here we are, 18 years later.

By the way, I thought she was great. Sure. I have nothing negative to say. It's an odd takeaway if your entire review is focused on a character who has arguably like four minutes of screen time. Sure. In a two hour, 15 minute movie. Yeah. I mean, but besides that, does a great job. Wow. Do we want to just touch on the battle of the bands? No, no, no, no, no. We're so close.

We're so close to being in bed. All right. So, yeah, I mean, I fast forwarded that whole part.

I will say this. I watched the Gator Boys. What is it? The Gator Boys. The Gator Boys. I watched the Gator Boys because that was a just like wall-to-wall superstar group of musicians that was great. It was B.B. King and Bo Diddley and Lou Rawls. Scribbles Bond. And Isaac Hayes is in there. Scribbles Clemens. Scribbles Jack Delonte. Scribbles Diddley. Scribbles Thaddeus. Scribble Hayes. Scribble Doctor. Scribble...

King, Scribble McDonald, Scribble Muscle Right. It's Dr. Scribbles. Oh, you're right. Scribbles Rawls, Paul Scribbles, Coco Scribbles. No, it was an amazing band. It's an amazing band. I watched that because I was like, this is going to be great. And it was. And then I fast forwarded all of the Blues Brothers song because I was like, this is going to be terrible. Until I saw that Scribbles was singing and I turned it on for Scribbles to sing. And I was... What was his voice like?

Pretty great. Yeah. Pretty great. Which, by the way, could have been a plot point. The deep soul of a blues man. Any of these things could have been a plot point. I was genuinely excited to hear him sing. I mean, not excited enough to watch it, of course. It was uneventful.

A couple facts about the movie. Name number four on Entertainment Weekly's top 25 worst sequels ever made. Dan Aykroyd lost 90 pounds before he shot this movie. Macaulay Culkin. Wow, so this was him like in his prime, like feeling himself. Well, yeah, but yeah. Macaulay Culkin was supposed to play Scribbles. Wait, but that age, does that line up?

I don't know. 1998? No. I feel like Macaulay Culkin would have been older at that point. I guess it was a different version of Scribbles at one point. I would believe a Kieran Culkin more than a Macaulay, but I don't want to get all Culkin in here. The budget, $28 million. It only will lead to a discussion of fannings. The budget on this one was $28 million. What? The opening weekend, it made $6 million.

And it topped out at 14. To put it into comparison, the top three movies of 1998 were Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, and there's something about Mary. This movie came in 107th out of all the movies made in 1998. And it was beaten by Godzilla, Jack Frost, Spice World, and The Avengers. And I will say one thing about Macaulay Culkin.

I have a feeling that Dan Aykroyd along the way watched Home Alone and didn't realize that time had passed and said, we've got to get that kid. And then probably someone said, well, he's much older now. He's like, we'll make it work. I bet you're right. Yeah, that would have been what I thought. Well, Jason, you already gave us an inside look at this. Nope. My answer to should you watch this movie is no thank you.

June, would you watch this movie? Yeah, no. I'm going to also put a big no on the board, but I will say that this movie made me want to re-watch the first one. Yeah. I am interested now in watching the first one. The first one is fun. It's got John Candy in it. Yeah. There's like really iconic comedy beats. And funny, like great musical numbers too. Yeah. So there we go, people. Like respect for Maritha. You son of a bitch.

Anybody want to plug anything? This is going to be a little bit... Where are we? What time of year is it? Let's say we're in July. June, July? No, I'm good. All right. I mean, you can check out Grace and Frankie on Netflix because it's always there. Excellent show. You're fantastic in it. I will plug this new podcast miniseries that I'm doing with Amy Nicholson called Unspooled.

Thank you. Listen, subscribe. We talk about good movies. And it's been crazy for me to watch like Blues Brothers 2000 after watching like Bonnie and Clyde.

I'm almost having so many high highs and so many low lows. I'm like a bipolar movie watcher now. My hatred is so much deeper and my light is so much higher. But check it out. Why don't you bring me over there? What? Why do the rest of us have to stay here? Meanwhile, we're just in the toilet. Yeah. Sounds great. We're just watching the toilet movies.

Just be thankful we didn't watch Honey. - Guys, Chicago, you really fucking did it. - Chicago, you guys have done it and we couldn't do this show without Nate Kiley who does all of our research. Also, Avril Hally who cuts all these amazing video clips. Kelly Alto puts a lot of this stuff together. A big thank you to The Onion for bringing us here and a huge, huge Chicago thank you to you all.

We can't say thank you enough. You guys sold out four shows in this city, which means we will come back all the time. Thank you. And now it's time for second opinions. Come on. Were you watching the same show? I mean, come on. Were you even watching the same show?

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Kirk. Give it up for Kirk. All right. Now it is time for second opinions. I've been staring at the screen for an hour, writing this review for an hour. Thankful I belong to Prime. I know my review is going to kill it, and I cannot wait to send it. Stars can give it five.

Every actor great, every scene was strong. 80-yard the lines, but I love the song. Oh, God, I hope a director's cut is on DVD. My opinion is bad, but it's mine. And you're finding that I don't know. This movie works just like mine here online, and it's haunting. But now you know just how far some second opinions go. Yeah, baby! Woo!

Give it up for Meg. Moana Meg. And now it's time for Second Opinions. Second Opinions.

You writing that Amazon review. Using all caps and offensive speech. So I know your love is true. And you gave five stars to this drool. You never even wrote about the plow and jumping through. You know I tracked June to forget this film. But it's just so hard to do.

Every time I read a five star review. - Karen, for Karen. All right, now it is time for Second Opinions. ♪ Opinio, Opinio ♪ ♪ Hey Chicago, what do you say ♪ ♪ Second Opinions is on the way ♪ - Amazing, what's your name? No Touching Jason.

Don't do it. I didn't like it. All right. Now it's... Here's a video. Okay, great. This will be fun. Well, all right. You know what? We'll have you go last. Okay, great. And now it's time for second opinions. You better think. Think about a five-star review. Great. Think. Think about how did this get made? Oh, Jason. Jason. Paul and Scribble.

Second Opinion! Amazing! All right. It's a very special Second Opinion song because you are going to play a part in this. On the screen will be words and follow along. Just fucking bring it. As they say in rad, balls out. All right, here we go. But, balcony, that doesn't mean take your balls out.

Just so you know. And also, Skip, keep them in your pants. All right, here we go. Let's see if this works. It's Second Opinions. It's Second Opinions. It's Second Opinions.

It's Second Opinions. This is how we do it. It's Friday night. And it's time to write. Time to share with my love this movie. So I put it on my laptop and I move it up. Don't give up. Read my review and you will be persuaded. This movie's good.

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