Chapter 1: What is the purpose of the Cruel Classics podcast?
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Come up first, we have Adam Curl's show 1890, Pamela Adlaw, Bobby Hill, Matt Hatchett, Gina Grad, Brian Bishop from 2016.
The game. Yes. The game is you have to guess what the critics' score was on Rotten Tomatoes. Okay. You can go above. You can go below. It doesn't matter. Well, I always look at ā I love the thing on ā when you look at Apple TV, is that the tomatoes? Yes. And then you look at ā if you scroll down, the customer reviews. The audience score. Those are always right on point.
Those are the things that I look at. They're completely my feeling.
So these are like the reviews, the written out reviews.
Yeah. Like the people are saying, I was looking for this everywhere. And, you know, but I mean, I like knowing what people think. But the customer reviews are my jam. Well, write down your score now.
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Chapter 2: What game do the hosts play related to movie ratings?
I said 89. Wow. And I wrote it. Wow.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Certified Fresh at 78%. All right.
All right. I always say to people, what are you expecting out of a comedy here? You know what I mean? Yeah. What are you looking for?
Funny movie.
Yeah. Insightful. Yeah. All right. 78. There's Titty and Bush. Yeah. Next up. Are you reading the poster? All right.
Next movie in the game. 1986 film starring Rodney Dangerfield as a business magnate who decides to prove to his son that college is not that bad and he goes back to school.
This is one of those movies that there's no way I'm going to be able to figure this out because I love it so much from my childhood that I can't get a read on if everybody else loved it or if it was just me. I wish I liked Rodney Dangerfield. Everyone in the industry loves him. They look up to him. They always say he got everyone their start and everything. And I met him one time.
He came on Loveline, the TV show, to do his movie Meet Wally Sparks, which I'm guessing would be rated a little bit lower than Back to School. And I did the move where I was going to go in like I do with all the guests and just say hi before the show. And then I always give them the speech of, you know, say whatever you want. If the show is bad, it'll be my fault, but not your fault.
So just go in and just chime in because it's a weird format. People are telling their problems are on the phone. They're in the audience. It's not a usual format. I want I want them to make sure they could feel comfortable giving. Some people don't feel comfortable giving advice. to, you know, teens on TV. So I was like, talk, say whatever you want.
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Chapter 3: What insights are shared about Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
And I was like, OK, I was just glad to have you on and say whatever you want. Yeah, OK. Like sort of like, what are you doing in my dressing room? And I'm like, I'm just I was almost a little confused, like maybe just doesn't know who I am. But he I said, just come on in and have a good time. I think he was like getting high in his bathrobe or something. And then.
After the show, they do that move where the producers run out and they have the cue cards and they do the thing where you go, Hi, I'm Rodney Dangerfield. Watch me tonight on Loveline. Hi, I'm Rodney Dangerfield. Watch me coming up tomorrow on Loveline. You get like three of those.
It's the same thing you do when you do the Tonight Show and Jay Leno's got to do the affiliate thing and you have to stand with them. He's like, Connie and Steve, thank you for watching. More local news after this. And you do... He was like, I got to go after the show. The producers were like, no, just sit there for one second while they go. Hi, I'm at Rodney Dangerfield tonight after Road Rules.
And he's like, I got to go. And we're like, just hang out. We could have been done with it by now. And we're like, what do you got to do, Rod? And he's like, I got to get a haircut. Wow. Can we just hold off on the haircut for four minutes? No. He just got up and left. And I was like, what a fucking douchebag. And then he died.
Anyway. 14%.
He'll be missed. All right. Back to school. Robert Downey Jr. ? Yes. Sally Kellerman. Okay. Now, this is one of my, if you saw this movie when you're 14, you think it's 94. Yep. But if you saw it at 44, probably not as high. It's still not bad. Burt Young. I'm going to say, I have no idea. I sort of remember being amused by this movie. I've never seen this movie. I've never seen it.
I'm going to say 61. I said 70.
Wild guess.
Okay.
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Chapter 4: How does the conversation shift to the documentary about Boondock Saints?
51-51 with the audience. The critics are right on on this one. Oh, I like that. That's the audience score.
All right. All right. Next up, 1999 film that retells the classic Shakespeare story, The Taming of the Shrew, in a high school. It stars Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larry Miller.
What else do you do that's wrong?
Movie is 10 Things I Hate About You. I enjoyed this movie, and I enjoy Larry Miller. I love him in that role, that concerned dad role. I saw him gassing up his car the other day in the valley. Larry. Yeah. We love Larry. I wanted to say hi to him. I was a little starstruck. No easier guy to say hi to. We're driving to Florida. Maybe he's gassing up the car to go to Florida.
This is a fun, nice movie. It made me marvel at the high school, though. It made me angry at my high school. It was like up on a bluff.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, did you say that?
Yeah. You ask very good questions.
Very young David Krumholz in this, too.
Sadly, it's the best thing I do on the show.
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Chapter 5: What interesting items did Troy Duffy find in his collection?
Oh, and so it's in downtown LA? It's right off the time, man. Oh, I got to get the hell out there.
First thing I saw when I walked in is a propeller from a battleship. Thing's seven and a half feet tall, weighs like 10 tons. It's three feet thick, a solid steel in the middle, tapers down to three inches. Wow. I got it mounted on this thing. The shit you find when you go through this place is unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Chapter 6: How did Troy Duffy describe his home and yard?
I love that, and I now will invite you to my home, Troy, because every lighting fixture, everything hanging from the ceiling, every sconce on the wall, I collected, scavenged every one of them. Back me up, people.
It's true. How did you not hear about old good things? How did you miss this, dude?
When you walk in there, it's going to change your life. I guarantee you.
I would go down to Cleveland Wrecking and stuff like that down there and look in bathtubs and old cast iron sinks and just everything.
But I've never been to this place. This place has more high-end stuff. You know those old cage elevators in New York City? Yeah. Sure. They got one of those. It's like all brass and copper.
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Chapter 7: What humorous anecdotes did they share about Jimmy Kimmel's pizza oven?
Oh, I love it. And all you can use is a gazebo. I mean, the place is outstanding. I'm going to send you some pictures of my yard. The second thing I want to plug, and we have a connection here that you don't know about. Jimmy Kimmel's pizza oven was made by my current stonemason, a guy named Chuck Agnew.
Now, hold on a second. Jimmy Kimmel has had three pizza ovens. Oh, he has. No idea.
Chapter 8: What reflections did they have about the nature of crime and human behavior?
He has the pizza oven of his first house. Jimmy built the pizza oven the size of Fort Knox and then got divorced 10 minutes later. And as the bumper sticker says, you can't take a pizza oven with you. That's one thing you can't take. Easy bake, that goes with you. Pizza, not so much because it's a big smokestack and bricks and everything.
Then he moved to another house, and that's probably where your buddy put the bricks together and built Jimmy.
This particular guy is a goddamn genius. Yes, it's a niceā I think we sent you some pictures, but I'm going to resend a bunch of stuff of this guy's work. He is an amazing stonemason. I mean, what he's doing, I will invite you to my house. As a matter of fact, you can do your blog from there one night, because I'm planning on having the party once the whole side yard's dialed in.
I got pools, outdoors, stuff. You're talking about my podcast, right? Podcast. Right, right. I'm not the most technically savvy guy in the world here. Well, I can't spell, so I can't do a blog.
Yeah, so we can have a grand opening of your yard podcast.
It's exactly right. And my full intention is to get drunk and actually name it. It's like Hef's got the grotto. My spot is cool. I need some name for it. It's got to be the something. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. It can't be like, come and meet me in the side yard.
It sounds stupid. Yeah, dog runs. No good. No. You come up with something good. But you've got to wait until you get drunk and you get in there. You know what? That's when it's flowing. I'm going to bring the Mangria.
Yeah.
All right. All right. I got my own version of Mangria. Troy Duffy, everybody. Troy, we're going to have fun in each other's yards. Want to have fun in each other's yards without going to each other's yards? How about go to meeting? Oh, man, that's why they call me Ace. The graphic novel Boondock Saints is out, and Troy will be signing it Monday, November 21st, 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble.
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