Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (with Nick Costa)

Singer-songwriter Nick Costa joins me to discuss one of his all-time favorite films, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

I hadn't seen the film since middle school and I was absolutely blown away with its level of jokes, musicianship, and artistry. Nick has seen it enough to basically quote the whole thing. We discuss our early associations to Judd Apatow's work, being a session musician in real life and seeing it portrayed comedically, a bizarre story from my childhood regarding my mom and Blink 182, and a HARROWING ghost story that Nick tells from his childhood.

Warning: this episode is awesome.

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The Cast:

John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox

Conner Rayburn as Young Dewey

Kristen Wiig as Edith Cox

Raymond J. Barry as Pa Cox

Margo Martindale as Ma Cox

Jenna Fischer as Darlene Madison Cox

Angela Correa as Darlene's singing voice

Tim Meadows as Sam McPherson, drummer and drug dealer

Chris Parnell as Theo

Matt Besser as Dave

Chip Hormess as Nate Cox, Dewey's brother

Jonah Hill (uncredited) as older Nate

David "Honeyboy" Edwards as the Old Blues Singer

David Krumholtz as Schwartzberg

Craig Robinson as Bobby Shad

Harold Ramis as Kvetch L'Chaim

Simon Helberg as Dreidel L'Chaim

Philip Rosenthal as Mazeltov

Martin Starr as Schmendrick

John Michael Higgins as "Walk Hard" recording engineer

Ed Helms as Stage manager

Jane Lynch as Gail, the news reporter

Angela Little Mackenzie as Beth Anne

Skyler Gisondo as Dewford "Dewdrop/Dewey" Cox Jr.

Lurie Poston as a Cox kid

Jack McBrayer as DJ

Nat Faxon as Awards show stage manager

Rance Howard as Preacher

Odette Yustman as Reefer girl

Frankie Muniz as Buddy Holly

John Ennis as The Big Bopper

Jack White as Elvis Presley

Adam Herschman as Jerry Garcia

The Temptations (Otis Williams, Ron Tyson, Terry Weeks, Joe Herndon, Bruce Williamson) as themselves

Eddie Vedder as himself

Jackson Browne as himself

Jewel as herself

Ghostface Killah as himself

Lyle Lovett as himself

Gerry Bednob as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Cheryl Tiegs (unrated version) as herself

Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Justin Long and Jason Schwartzman (uncredited) as The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, respectively)

Patrick Duffy (unrated version, uncredited) as himself

Morgan Fairchild (unrated version, uncredited) as herself

Cheryl Ladd (unrated version, uncredited) as herself

Don Was (uncredited) as himself (bass player behind Jackson Browne, Jewel and Lyle Lovett)