Brendan Hunt - The Resurrection! • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #174

a special guest over, I tell them they died. Then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the most of them. But not this week. This week I use my newly acquired shamanic powers to bring back a former guest from there dead and ask them twelve new questions. And this week it is the comeback of the brilliant co creator, brilliant actor, writer genius from Ted Lasso coach Beard himself is the brilliant mister

Brendon Hunt. Now, normally I would say to go to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward slash breakgastein where you'll get an extra twenty minutes with Brendan. You get a secret, you get a video. You can find it all at patreon dot com, Forward slash break golasting. However, this week's Patreon was so special and Brendan shared a secret that was very moving and I thought might actually

be useful to people. So I asked Brendon if he would be okay with me including it in the main section, and he agreed that he was very happy to and then it would be a nice thing. So the patren is now included for everyone. I hope you find it special in the way that I did. And that's it your TV homework. Get caught up on ted Lasso if you haven't, it's on the Apple TV Plus app. Also, the film we made in twenty fifteen, super Bob, is now available in the States on Amazon Prime, So get

round to watching that romantic comedy. You'll fucking love it. So Brendan Hunt, you know him, He's a wonderful man. He's a very special boy. We recorded this in the office where we are writing season three of ted Lasso. It was the end of the day. We went to separate offices so we could record it over the zoom and get the audio right. However, it's quite mad because we're literally next door to each other. I think it's a really lovely one and I think you're gonna love it.

So that is it for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode one hundred and seventy four of Films to be Buried with the Resurrection. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried with the Resurrection. It is I Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today by an actor, a writer, a co creator, a producer, a improver, a man that every single person I run into in the street seems to know, a father, a lover, and a Emmy winner. Please, welcome to the show. The Magnificent. He's back.

He's back from the dead. It's the brilliant. It's mister Brendon Hunt. Thanks for having me. Oh, thanks for doing this, Brendan. For the listeners at home. Brendon and I are separated by a wall recording this on zoom in offices right next door to each other, in a move that frankly is stupid. But you know, he cares about his audience. People. He wants his precious video. I mean, if we didn't do it this way, people couldn't watch me drink this water.

You don't know how much people And by people, I mean, of course Brenda Brown wants to see your face. And if we did this face to face, we couldn't record it. And Brenda Brown would it be able to watch her precious Brendon's face. And that is why we're doing well anything for Brenne. Brene deserves it. Now tell me this, young Brendan. Yes, we are currently working in the writers' room season three of ted Lass. I ever heard of it?

Have you found since? I can't remember at what point we recorded this podcast, but I think it was before when you first did it. It was before everything happened in terms of before people watch the show. How has life changed for you? Tell me one thing that you absolutely love about it and one thing that you absolutely hate about it. One thing I actually love about it is the ease with which I apparently can attend any

soccer game in this country. And I'm calling it soccer because I'm referring to in this country of the country of the of the United States, with their curious naming traditions. That's been pretty great. Like up till now, I got reared as a football fan in Europe and was within a lots of Bias games. And then when we were doing Ted Lasso, and I was going to tons of Arsenal games and in LA and go to you know, you used to go to Galaxy games. Now I'll go

to LAC games. But I've seen and I've been to a couple of World Cups, but I've been a precious few United States Internationals in the United States. And now I've been to two straight wins over Mexico in two different cities, and those are the biggest games we got over here. And I don't think that happens without Ted Lasso, So that part has been great. Can I say, as a as a as a witness, the joy that any soccer fan has when they see Brendon Hunt is really wonderful?

Say he is that good? And rightly say you know what I mean. I don't like any of that, but I will say I've been making these little videos before each round of World Cup qualifiers for the US, and I think great, and um, I've been saying, you know, trying to get people to realize, you know, non soccer fans, to realize in twenty twenty six, we're gonna host the

World Cup. It's a big deal. Get ready. In fact, the team we're gonna have on the pitch then the team that's already playing now, because they're like eighteen, nineteen twenty and they will be in their prime in twenty twenty six. So I've been saying, these are the guys, these are these are the guys, These are the guys.

Coming back from the last game I was at, which was only a week ago, a kid stops me at the Chicago airport and says, hey, sir, and he appears to be wearing a US Soccer hoodie and I'm like, oh, hi, young fans, I had this made because of your videos. And look down and it is not at US Soccer crest. It says, these are the guys in the mode and shape of the US Soccer crest And I was like, oh,

that's that's really neat. You fucking invented the slaging that is going to take them over the way to the finals. I mean, where they will be size sweltering slogans is all take right, yeah, I mean, we're coming home. Of Football's coming home has worked. It's been nothing but the trophies. It's worth so well and you know, arguably makes little sense, and yet it's filled with such meaning. Brendan Hunt, you have been brought back to life. But when have you

been brought back to? Is there a time you would like to come back to and change something, any regrets you'd like to fix or will you come back to now? Um? Gosh, GM and I'm coming back to now. Yeah, I'm coming back to right now on this moment. I regret. I'm not changing that damn thing. I mean, plenty of mistakes, plenty of bad choices, but here we are. That's really nice. It's nice that you've chosen this moment, and it's also nice to know that, armed with all the knowledge you had,

you wouldn't go back and stop COVID from happening. So that's lovely. Thank you, thank you so much from everyone. No, that's a lovely, lovely thing to do. I do always think that when people said, oh, I'd go back in time and kill Hitler or whatever, you think like it's a bit more complicated than going back in time. You've got to find where he is. You've got to get in you know, there's it's not it's not like you know, just turn up in front of him, you have to,

I guess join the Nazi party. Like there's a whole there's a lot going on, and like Austria is not that small if you want to even go like back to baby Hitler. Yeah, like there's more than one maternity ward in Austria can just roll up. Yeah. And at the time, he's not famous. So when you're asking people going, is anyone say I don't hit that the baby and was like what, No, he's not even like famous son of someone also a very common name in Austria, like hands,

I'm looking for Hitler. Yeah, I mean, welcome to Spain. You're looking for Lopez. What are we talking about? Not that easy? No, your rights come back to now well done? How is a one last question I think everyone would like to know. How is your beautiful son? He's great, you had a baby in England, where babies first came from, and you have a lovely British son. Beautiful British boy,

have a lovely British boy. He's mean, he's only he's almost ten months old, but like so much drinking, oh my gosh, and like he can hold it down for most of the time, but then suddenly switch flips and you do not want to be around him. Yeah, that's my boy. That's a good boy. He's a lovely, lovely boy. How do you feel ten months into being at that? I mean, I feel pretty in touch with the magic of it. I mean, for lack of a less mushy word,

I mean, it just it's it's incredible. But I mean, the things that people have to say about parenting, you know, some are proving to be true and the one is and they say like, you'll never love anything more. And I've heard them people say like, how can that be. I already love as much as I possibly can. People say like, what, ha ha, you don't. You don't reappropriate that love. You find a whole new section of your heart that you didn't know existed, and it's twice as big.

And I mean, I think I find that all to be true. Like he's at a stage right now where he's he's very, very social. He loves people as long as they don't come in too hot. But so when I come home like this a little ritual. Now, I come in, I just opened the door and he's almost always in the living room, and uh, and I lock eyes with him, and he like, look at me. And

take a moment and this giant smile. It is like I mean, it's it's literally pure, you know, And you know, he's a he's been a little sick this last week. He's got a running nose and like that just I mean he I mean, there's a lot of kids that have a lot of worse off of course, is just

a running nose. He will be fine, but it's his first sickness, and so it just breaks our heart here and him like try to breathe as he goes to sleep, and he doesn't know how to blow his nose, and you know, we had his medieval like SnO sucking device, you know, to try to clear his passageways. And anyway, he's he's great and he's so funny. And he sat up in his crib the other day for the first time,

all by himself. We saw it on video. It's captured by the you know, the very the very advanced surveillance to which we subject our children nowadays. Out of love, I really really love it. May I may I may

I say what happened yesterday at the Apple event? Ted last I did did a panel yesterday at the new Apple store at the Grave and Tim Cook himself was there, the wonderful Tim Cook, and Brendan is a very proud father, showed him the video of his son sat on a cat table, parting, I mean, you make it sound like it went to the Hey, I'm missed the seat. Let me tell you something, you're you know. I think I

was showing the video to the lovely Juno Temple. And then he started laughing or laugh crying, and then Tim Cook over there like what are you looking at? I'm like, oh, well, mister Cook, it's just a footage of my child, and I like, did a terminator scroll of the correct way to say this to a man of Tim Cook statues passing gas, which is afraid I never used a really good video. They do that, don't they. Okay, Brendon, you've come back to earth at this specific time in the world,

and you've come back. I brought you back to life because you know what, I missed you, and I thought, yeah, he's worth he's worth keeping around. That to I think I've killed him prematurely, so I brought you back. You're back to life, but in this life weirdly in a way that wasn't dissimilar to the heaven you were in. People are still interested in films, despite what TV would have you have you believe, And the first thing people want to ask you is what was the last film

you saw? Brendon Hunt, And you know, when people ask me that, I think I am forced to tell them. I'm like, well, it's one of the movies that Brick Colston doesn't really like talking about, but it is the actual answer to this question. So I hope he'll forgive me when I say, Titanic. Wow, Wow, we were I mean absolutely fascinating, fascinating that that's the last film you saw.

If the reason it's the last film you story because you haven't seen in films in the nineteen nineteen ye, I'd beel like, yeah, okay, but like this week you watch Titanic. Yeah. I mean, I'm presuming the question does not mean in the theater. If it doesn't, I have a different answer. But at home it will be last night last week. We're just flicking through channels and I'm like, fucking, hey, Titanic, but channels, you know, through apps and letting me app

suggest thing and Titanic. I had not seen Titanic since it came out in theaters. I remembered being like simultaneously impressed and underwhelmed by Titanic. I found it a bit too sentimental in a way that did not grab me. Right. But now, pretty good movie. That's good. Pretty good movie,

that Titanic. That's good to ea. Well, since you described having a baby a bit like being the grin chey stole Christmas and your heart Grys two sides is big at then of course you left titan I mean, I would imagine with a heart that big Titanic is gonna get you. Yeah, I'd like to hear it. Yeah, it was very vulnerable, You're very vulnerable. What's the what's the what's the last money you saw in the cinema? For the record, I believe it's the irishman? Oh? Great, maybe

really is oh man. I was ready to be disappointed, but like solid solid, Oh, I was all excited to be disappointed. Well, all people talked about with the weird CGI and how long it was, and like, yeah, yeah, CGI is a little weird, but you know there's spaceships can't make noises when they shoot leaders in space either, So like we forgive some things and they did not feel long. I mean that thing, that thing truck. I loved it a great Brendon Hunt. It's a good question

for you days one. Who do you think should play you in the film of your life? A bit torn here between the part of me that is an artist and wants to just present the truth and then the part of me who goes to movies and sees that like those people are prettier than normal people. Um so I will create a hybrid actor named Steve Bushalom, and Steve Bushalomy has been cast in the role. He's perfect. Steve is the best actor of his generation. Ah, what

a great answer. He's got everything. He's got everything that makes you up. Listen. And for the record, I think if you asked again Brene Brown, who do you think should play Brendon Hant, she'd say, lugging Brendon, you ain't gonna get hotter. Oh oh, Brene, he's your movie. Start right there, knows I'm going to Austin next week. I gotta get in touch with Burnee quick. Oh my god,

you're gonna You're gonna break up our marriage. And that would be really bad because he's got a very happy marriage and impermanence, you know, impermanence and central concept of our lives. I don't know if you two should be. It seems risky. Now, next question, speaking of romance, what's

the most romantic? I had a little trouble with this one, but I think the answer is Amalie, Okay, okay, you know it's not all like you know, in fact, reultively little of it is is you know, like heterosexual couple long for each other count romance. But like the movie is romantic. It just it's a it's a very romantic view of Paris and you know, damn you're the only view of it I have. But a romantic view of

old shut ins and in a romantic view of Forks. Well, it's just a very very lovely, lovely and effective movie. Not a great Broadway musical. It never made its Broadway effect it trying, but it really holds up knowing a bit about the plays you write and the things that you're interested in, you're a very romantic man, I'd say, Brendan Hunt, Well, how do you define romance? I mean,

I guess there's two definitions, you know. The one is, you know, kind of the version of being in love with someone that is sort of like a game, you know, because it can't just be each other's company for some reason. It also has to be well timed boat rides through suitably placid seas. But I think there's also, you know, just romantic views of things, you know, like one can have a romantic view of football, you know, one can

have a romantic view of technology, I guess. But in the end, the most important thing to have a romantic view of his people and not even necessarily any individual person. And yeah, if that is the case, then I think Emilie does that. What is the best film you ever saw that you never want to say again? This one too. I was like, gosh, I don't know, and then I then I thought of the answer, like, oh, that's definitely the answer. Dances with Wolves. Really, I think I'm good

on Dances with Wolves. Yeah, that's funny. Why everything a mild curiosity about it? But like I remember loving in the theater, like it had been really built up, Like this is a truly important American masterpiece from a guy who you love, from Bull Durham. You don't think he has his in him, but he does. Then, Also, the two main characters in this great, great epic of the Native American experience are white people. And that's the part where like I just I think that's going to be

a problem going forward. You know, Yes, that's a very good point. Yeah. I mean, I bet the technique of it all is really great and the acting is still really great in this in the cinematography for sure. Um. But like, yeah, I'm good, I'm good in that. You can you can stop dancing now, thank you. What is the best action film you've ever seen? Would you like to be in an action film? I think you'd be very good in an action film, Um, in the right part. Yeah,

I think there is. You know, there are archetypes that I could that I could maybe do, but you know, they want to end up in a shitty action film or they have something shitty to do in an action film. It's very interesting that action and romantic comedy, both of them when they're good, amazing, quite easy to do them. Shitty ones interested, Yeah, they're both like a bit a

bit inexplicable when they're inexporable or experable. Um, you know the bad one when they when they don't hit Yeah that um, And I think the answer is, or my answer is a movie that unfortunately have not seen in a very long time and arguably has a sequel that is the better answer. But I think the answer is the Road Warriors. I mean, but now, fucking Fury Road

is incredible. You'll put in Road Warrior about Fury, right, Okay, I am at this at this time, at this time, But maybe I'm being romantic by choosing, you know, the older DNA, But but I mean, it's and I'm going to give it more points for the originality of it. You know, it's the first of the movies that look like Burning Man, and there's been an awful lot of movies that look like Burning Man ever since then, and in a few good music videos as well. So yeah,

Road Warrior. And also, like I you know, I think there's like an era of Mel Gibson movies where even knowing about him what we know now, you can still like him because it was st that we didn't know yet and maybe he wasn't that crazy yet, maybe like fame drove him mad, but like yeah mad Road Warrior. Lethal weapon. What's the cutoff plane? Cut off point is

probably the Patriot? Okay, I don't really I don't have his Ubra in front of me, but it's definitely it's definitely before a Passion of the Christ, which he's not technically in but still fascinating. So you think it's okay up to the Payriot of all the films, if you had to, which film do you think you could have made?

And why? I think Ferris Bueller's Day Off really good shout because Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a lot is you know, we've talked about a little bit actually before I think last time, So pardon me if I'm repeating too much stuff. Yeah, and I think I said like

I'm more Cameron than I was Ferris Bueller. But that's why I think this is the answer here, because like Ferris Bueller is such a fantasy fulfillment and yeah, I mean it was a teenager in Chicago in the eighties and I'm a teenager from in the eighties, and uh, you know, it's sort of anti establishment, a little bit romantic, has you know, a stream of consciousness adventures sort of and builds to a kind of perfectly executed comedy finale

that I would certainly have been aspiring to do. You know, I mean that movie is that movie is fucking genius, but a genius that felt like it was some kind of through some kind of you know, heightened prism, a version of of of my life or a life I wanted to to be living. So yeah, I love that. I don't know if we talked about this last time, but it's interesting you you think you were Cameron Monan Fairies, because I'd say, now, you're a Fairis. You're fun. You're

really good at fun. That's why I always say about you. You're fun, like you know how to be fun. Like you're fun. You're like good at carry out, you like you can do You're like fun. Like you look across the rovie like, who's that fun guy? Oh, it's Brended. He's fun in the way that I admire and I'm jealous of because I think you live across the room, you guy. He is not fine. That guy looks and then that guy goes home and he wakes up in the morning and he's all alone. He's got nothing but

his pain. Yeah, there's a camera in every Ferris. We know this beautiful, beautiful? What film have you pretended to like to impress people? I have the same answer for this question as I do a question you have coming up? Okay, so should I wait until the second question comes and tell you, Okay, if it's one film you're gonna say later, I'll say that's the film you pretended to like. Okay, great, Yeah, fun,

isn't it. I'm not going to wager this time. However, I will make no wagers whatsoever, and your ability to partake my answers I have paid the price literally in the path I see any reason I asked you backwards, I need to cut a quid. What what is the film that you've never seen that you think it's mad?

You've never seen it? There are so many like I feel you feel like you've seen a bunch of movies and all the time someone you love a respect says and then there's you know, blankety blank, and it's something of course you should have seen by that you feel like such an ass as person assumes you've seen it. Yeah, so give me the big which is why I tried to. When someone says like, oh, oh blank and like they haven't seen it, I don't go you haven't seen it?

That's just the fucking worst. But Friday, that is mad. What's the film you love that you don't expect anyone else to like? Ring of Fire? Is Ring of Fire? The Dragon film yea with Christian I think that's the name of it. I loved it for a brief movie and you thought, you thought you've got no, it's not

Ring of Fire. Yeah, but that's what you mean. Right Another time where I'm mentioning a movie that I haven't seen so long, but I fucking love You're our butler McConaughey, Rain of Fire, Rain of Fire with a G yes one letter off from a Johnny Cash's autobiography, totally different, go on. I mean it's it's it's silly and like it's you know, sometimes you love a movie because of

like the circumstances when you saw it. And I was in Edinburgh doing the festival with Boom Chicago, and um, we had an afternoon off from like let's go see a movie. They got movie theaters in Scotland, right they do. And we went to a place called the Odeon, thinking like this is the only theater in England called or in Britain called the Odeon. Change people, doesn't change, um, but I'll never forget that The Odeon is where we saw Rain of Fire, like knowing nothing about it, like

a McConaughey movie. Oh great, McConaughey. Sure, and you know the mcconnais stance was many years off. But like the just the ludicrousness of this movie, that dragons have been under London this time, they just decided to come up randomly. You know, Jared Butler gets a dig in at Americans, which I kind of love. Yeah, it's just it's nonsense. It's an absolute nonsense movie and sometimes sometimes that's all you want out of a movie. But no one else

is gonna like that. That's gonna leg it at all because they didn't have the right place, right time element of seeing it. Quick sub question about your life. You mentioned Burning Man. I don't think we talked about this last time. I've been to Burning Man once. You've been many many times. Can you please tell me about your first experience there? How come you went? And did it change your life? It did? That is a long story.

There's a story that's mostly of things going quite terribly and being shown around by someone who claimed that they knew how to Burning Man. They lied. It is also the tale of being in a van where all four of the people in the van were Israeli's who'd known each other for a long time and bickered in Israeli for the entire time your nuts speaker is Raeli, and so it was a lot of like and then moments

of Brandon. It sounds terrible, but it is fine. We're just having a little chet about what our plans are for tomorrow. And then when we sort it out, we're gonna come back and we're gonna let you know, just going at each other. And then you know, it was horrible for two days and then like the last five hours was like this place's magic and I want to come here every time for the rest of my life. Oh wow, I mean, I can get into it, but

I feel like I'll be taking your time away. It's a long thing, man, I wouldn't know that's five hours. Can you give us a taste, because people are going to be annoyed if we taste so like the it had been terrible weather. And then the last day, which is the actual burn, last day we were there and the burn is actually not that important, and now you know, but you don't know if the first time they had to push back the burn several hours. I was unprepared.

I was wearing like essentially like clothes that I had purchased because I've been hired to mc a fetish party in Amsterdam, and like, I just moved back to the States from Amsterdam, so I didn't have a lot to go on. I did not know how to get dressed for Bernie Man. So I was wearing this like shiny short sleeve shirt and essentially a dress made of straps. And what I didn't know is in the desert at night, it gets fucking cold, and so I'm freezing. All the

Israelis are sleeping. They told me to stay out, you know, for as long as I wanted, and you know, there's good music out there. That burn has happened, and I'm dancing and and I'm for the first time in the whole three days, I'm making eyes with someone and she's kind of looking back to me, and she's she got long red hair. She's very pale. I wonder now if she was rushing, because she seemed to be alone, and like I didn't know was going on and what she

thought about the place. She was wearing full on white lingerie, like you know brod Garter's lace, which is a thing you can do. A burny man. Sure sounds, but you know, when I dance, I go for it. She's she's going for it. I don't quite run up the croach like kind of go to her, but I feel like contact has been made. And then she starts to walk away. She grabbed a bag and walk away, and I track her.

I see where she across the plia, the wide open plia filled with lit up you know, art cars and vehicles and lights everywhere, and I see where she'd going that way, like great stop. Real quick, opened my backpack to pull out the long John thermal underwear that I had had packed. I'm gonna put these on over my boots real quick. I see her. She's right there, and those have not been burning. Man. The notion of thinking you can keep tabs on someone who is more than

seven feet away from you is highly highly uninformed. And so I reached down, but I'm by keeping a nut at her, and I'm the ram. I think i'd opened the plastic. I hadn't even open the plastic of these long Johns I bought, you know, on the road up. And I'm trying to get mover of my boots and like I'm looking at her. I'm looking at her like why is this a problem? And I fall into the dirt.

The problem is these large long John's were a boy's large, so I was essentially essentially trying to fit, you know, a condom onto my leg um. But I laid down there and all, you know, after wild style, I follow my back and I look up and it's the most beautiful sky I've ever seen in my life. And I look down and it's this, you know, landscape of of man made beauty, of all these cars and lights and

structures and everything. And that the combination of the natural beauty and the man made beauty, you know, and my own stupidity being blown into my face was a powerful cocktail. And uh, I haven't been back in gosh. First of all, that was in two thousand and eight. I went to I went five times total, having back since twenty fifteen, and I hope I get to go back next year. There would be no ted Lasso, we would not know

each other like. It absolutely changed my life and uh and made me a better everything I do basically, Brendon, I mean, I'm tempted for you to tell us more. I mean, we've moved got heist too. But and and lady Lady White Lunger, I never saw again suffice to say, I lost track of her in that in that moment. Yeah, maybe she'd been taller, but no, just didn't happen. What a fucking story. I do one night more. But maybe I'll ask you, you know, I suppose i'll see I'll

probably see you again after this. Uh, what's the what's the film you would show a lover as a test to see if you should be together. I've actually done this on accident, and I thought for many years that I failed the test, but now I realize the other

person failed the test. So I'm living in Amsterdam, and I have this friend who is a like she's a professional dancer, kind of show girl, and like we had this weird relationship where we'd met like five times in five different cities and and like we and in Edinburgh actually was the first one, and um, we'd hit it off and you were occasionally romantic and uh, and I had this massive crush on her, and she'd been doing a show in Russia and then she comes to Amsterdam

to uh to stay with me, and oh boy, in a sign of how fried my brain had become. After four and a half years of living in Amsterdam, I did not make the right decisions. And one thing was because i'd just seen Rushmore for the first time fairly recently, so you know, she's in Amsterdam for two three days. There's probably very specific things she wants to do to have a good time in Amsterdam. And I was like, you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna watch a

movie it's gonna blow your mind called Rushmore. It did not land with mine, with my international show girlfriend in the way that I had hoped it would. But as the years have gone on, it has proven that that maybe that you know, I was over romanticizing there, I go that relationship to the point of having rose obscured glasses. That's funny because you you're like, this is this is me, right, this is us, this film is us, and she's like, this film is not me. I do not relate to

this film about a weird little boy. But thank you for saying me. I just don't. We're gonna have a fun night. I've got twice this. You're crying and there's this weird little boy living his life, putting on place. So this is Amsterdam, huh yeah, yeah, what it is? We watch indie movies inside, that's it. Yeah, I've been outside a lot place. Can we stay here? Don't make me do more drunks? And what is the film that

made you the most uncomfortable? Brendon Hunt? I enjoyed Blue Velvet so much, and I enjoyed Wild at Heart so much, and I was like, well, I gotta go back and see what else this guy's doing. Let's check out this a razor head movie, Like, oh, look at that poster. Guy's going a razor for a head. This is gonna be great. I'm I'm sad to say that that is one of the few movies that, despite having rented it at great cost, what five the name, I did not

complete a Raizor Ahead. By the time it got to the part where the tap dancing girl with all the goiters and it jumps around and crushes all the feet his heads, I was no longer I was no longer able to suspend my disbelief that I was enjoying myself. So you so you don't know what happens at the end, I mean no one does, but you know I don't really know what happened in the middle either. Well, as a huge David Lynch fan, and we'll defend into the Death. I'm sad to hear that, but it is a film

that will make you uncomfortable. I love it. It makes me very uncomfortable. In fact, I find it terrifying, and I don't even know why. I remember the first time I saw a Rais Ahead. I went to my sister. I've been watching it at middle of the day with headphones on, and I went to my sister said, I'm shooting my pants and she said mine. I said, I'm wanting a Raise Ahead, and she said, why is it scary? And I said, I don't know. I don't know, but

I'm absolutely terrified. And that's magic. That's what you want for a film, isn't it objective? It is roll. Yeah. If you could show a child one film, one film, Mandy, what would it be? I think Fantasia? I say, well, I mean, you know what you think animation right off the bead with with kids, And I don't quite know, but I do think Fantasia is a goddamn magical movie. Um and it holds up well. Watched it again last year. Oh shit, we we talked about Fantasia last time too.

I've again brought up a film that I mentioned before. It's a part of me. That's that's that's two pa. But I didn't talk about it in this in this way, so I'm gonna yeah, that's okay. Sally Forth. Also, no one ever mentioned You're the only person he's mentioned ever on this show. I think, yeah, it's allowed to repeat. I mean, it's just it's as an adult, it's just great, like they took such big swings with it in ways

they didn't have to do. And U, I mean, it's great, and I think there's just so much in it for kids, and it's like a wide variety of things. It's like it's delightful and it's scary and it's heroic and it's beautiful and you know, I like, I like kids learning about music as well well, you know, I like classical music getting it's shout with kids. So yeah, Phantasia, it's it's lovely. Speaking of big swings, can we talk about this? We can cut it, but I would love to ask you,

you know, publicly. In season two of Tech Last we made an episode Beard After Hours, in which you it was a Beard episode and it was a wild and bids in a Wild night, and so it was quite a long shoot that one because there was very high, you know, big stuff happening, stunts and lots of locations and lots of stuff. How was it for you? You? You were brilliant and magnificent and I'm very proud of the episode and everything you did in it. But how actually was it for you to be in that position?

Did you find it stressful? Was it a joy? Was it did you feel pressure? Like? How was it? I didn't feel pressure, but only because there's a part of my brain sometimes that I mean, my brain lets a lot of bad feelings in, you know, or at least there's a lot of bad feelings trying to get in, but there's a part of my brain that successfully goes this this bad feeling is really not going to help you, and specifically, this bad feeling is not going to help

you do your job. And pressure was one that I was able to identify, I guess, and like just didn't let it in. So it was partially a joy and was partially incredibly stressful and tiring. A joy because you know, since you and Joe had written that episode, like, I just felt very taken care of, and you know, and we were in the we were in the hands of the great Sam Jones. So it was like, I don't have to worry about a lot of that stuff, you know,

like these guys are sucking. These are my friends and they and they want they want good things for me. So so this is fun, but you know, just physically very tiring for a for a for a guy whose Pilotti studios had all closed down due to a pandemic, and it'd been lugging his fish and Chip's ass around London for five months. So yeah, it was very like tiring of these night shoots and you know the other the other episodes we were shooting at the same time,

you needed me for some day shoots. Yeah, fucking I remember which I you know, I myself offered to go in to do that because I'm a goddamn hero um but also an idiot, like I should have been saving my energy. And as I've said publicly, I will say again, I don't think I did my best dancing. I think I could have been dancing better. Oh, you fucking Jakin. If I hadn't been running so much in earlier episodes and just you Jakin getting cramped, you couldn't. They're a gun.

They're a gun's very powerful. Yeah, like it's all armed dancing in that episode because my legs were just jacked from all the running away from from the hooligans. Right, There's two things I'm gonna say. One is this is from well three things. One, it was really really fun when we shot that because it was all night shoots. We rode together and you, me and Jay and Sam, and it was really fun. And we had like lunch time, which was always like midnight was really fun, always fun.

But the day we filmed the nightclub sequence, not only were you brilliant, but like you were kind of conducting an entire a massive room of extras, all dressed up burning man style, and like we did a couple of times, you were dancing all fucking day. And there was a bit where you sort of talked them through how we were going to do it, and you like danced, you

like choreographed them. You danced like you did the thing where you crouched down really slow and then you popped up and I was like, this is this is wonderful. This is just really really great. And then the other thing I say is, if you don't mind, thierryon Ri is one of your heroes, correct, and you have been a huge football fan. And we had tierryon had Garyneka in this episode, and there was they were both brilliant and lovely and we had a nice time with them.

But there was a moment I'd spent more time with them because you were busy, And there was a moment where it was like lunch and Thierry and Gary were in a room together, and you came into that room and I left you alone so that you could have lunch with Carolinaka and Terry and Ree and you were in there for an hour, just like locked in the room, the three of you, and you came out and you looked like h know, Schwartzenegger in Twins after he loses his virginity. You have the same look on your face.

And I said to you, was that the best moment of your life? Like rank it birth of your son, lunch with Terry and Garry. I don't know if you ever were able to rank them. It's personal, Quarry, but I'm not gonna answer that. I'm definitely not gonna answer it in public. That was a very special time, very special day. Oh yeah, and also you you tell us

how was that lunch? I mean it was great. I mean they You know, you think, like you meet these guys, you know, Ralics whatever, and you're like, oh, I don't want to talk about football with them. I'm sure they could turn talking about football. Oh they want to talk about a football all they want to talk about. I mean I got the sense that Linaker even more than than Red. It was like football football and uh and Terry and was happy to go along for the ride.

But like you know, like the French national team roster came in for for the Euros while we're there, like Terry us like you know, having like little celebrations and stuff. And you know, they both played at Barcelona. They both had things to say about Barcelona and I tried to just not ask any questions. You know, these guys just just chatted it up the whole time. Yeah, it was just really really cool. They they sure love Lionel MESSI tell you what good stuff. It's a little bit of

insider inside, it's a little bit of gossip. They actually really like Messi controversy, controversial pedia, but actually think he's really good breaking there's the poll quite When this episode comes out, Brendan spills doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Welcome to the Patriot section. Oh, welcome back, Brendon. Han't you lovely to have you back. The VP's have been asking for you. That's one another reason I brought you back. They're all like, where is he going? He was the

most fun? I said, he is fun. He's fucking fun. That's like his thing. He's really fun. I don't know how he does it. I don't. I want to learn his ways. First thing they want to know is have you got a secret for them? You've got a new secret you've never told anyone. I mean, what comes to mind is not not a fun secret. But you know, we talked about things here. You don't want to hear about an entred of course, please tell me a secret. Okay, it's not fun, No, I you know I always yeah,

of course you can. Yeah. Yeah, it's a distant it's a distant sentence. But you know I talked about your last last time, about like you know, high school was rough, but there was a peer period in high school where I wanted to die and I slept with I basically

had opened a bottle of Thailand. All you know, which I think is I'd be profn Maybe she seen a mint him, but over the counter pain killers, and I just emptied it out under my pillow so it could just be there so when at a moment's notice, when I'd finally had enough of, you know, life, I wouldn't have to go through the extra step of trying to open one of those bottle. I mean, they're child proof, child proof, and I was technically a child, so that was an obstacle I had to remove from the process.

And eventually my mother found it, and she, you know, she like made me write down the addresses and phone numbers of all my friends because at that point she just thought I was going to run away too, which I eventually did. And yeah, I was. I was really quite quite close to at least a solid attempt at ending things. And golly, I'm sure glad. I'm sure glad. I didn't, you know, I mean, things, things get things

get better. I speak for everyone when I say I'm very glad you, and I'm very sad to hear that. And I wonder if was there was it a incremental changes or was there one thing, like was there a specific thing you can remember where you were? Like I

don't feel that way anymore. Great question. Um, I think it was incremental, But I think the main thing was going to college, you know, getting getting out of the house and you know, no longer being in a you know, kind of a dysfunctional domestic setting, a domestic setting with good intentions but but poor execution, and to be in a to be just not there at all was really

good for me. And then further to be in a in a theater program, you know, where it was really about, like, hey, let's talk about your shit, because you know, if talked about your shit and it weighs you down just a little bit less. And I think that is a an absolute truth. I think that's why people should go to therapy. And people who are like, yeah, theater people, isn't theater just therapy? Like, fuck you for being right, Um, that's

very rude. How dare you so? Yeah? You know the like And I guess all all that is, you know, why did I not kill myself because of the I went to a different process, the process of finding myself a bit more instead. Oh no, Brett, no, Brett, don't do this. Oh oh Roy Kemp's not so mean people. He was smiling that whole time. Oh, come on, get me misty in here, hay may get in there, um send hang in there, people, hang in there. You never know, you don't know what might get sorted before too long.

Thank you for sharing that, Brendon. What is the best soundtrack to a film? This is a very tough question on one hand, but on the other hand, is only one right answer, and it's Purple Rain. Now, Purple Rain is one of the is one of the best albums of all time, so it must be one of the best soundtracks of all time. I mean, that is nine nine amazing songs lined up perfectly. It's just it's just exquisite.

It is. It is absolutely perfect. It is one of the greatest artists we've ever had at the peak of his powers. And yes, I know he made approximately fifty other albums, but I mean, Purple Rain is fucking is fucking it very very good. Whoever little little treat for the Patriots, It's a fucking bang of Purple Rain. I mean it is. Come on, come on, and why are you complaining? It's a banger. What's the best film to watch on a plane? I have rules of watching a

movie on a plane. I don't like watching big movies on a plane. I want to watch a small movie that is perhaps tvsized. For that reason, I have chosen The Odd Couple. Now, as you know, these people might not that I have. I've done a lot of watching The Odd Couple to you know, his research for a play that I wrote that is you know, has a very Odd Couple inspired. But The Odd Couple is not well directed as a film. It is not visually striking,

it is very dated. But the fucking performances are unbelievable. Jack Lemon himself already amazing, and as good as Jack Lemon is in that movie, Walter Mathou might be twice as good. Walter Mathau, I think, gives in that film one of the greatest single comedic performances of all time on film. He's fucking incredible in that movie. I highly recommend it again. The movie itself not perfect, not perfect, but wish you wish Mike Nichols had directed it like

he directed the play. But Walter Mathau worth the price of admission. That is a really really good, unusual and very smart had good ten points ten points, Wow, the first time you've scored. Actually, what is if you could only show your parents one film, what would it be? What a film, would you like to say your parents? Oh boy, she and I'm gonna take a walk down childhood drama one more time. What I wrote down is not that great an answer. I'm gonna have to run

around to get out. Good Philamina, Philamina. I'm more thinking of my my mom than my dad. Now, my mom was not, you know, held hostage in a Irish nunnery by anything but good news. She did have a child very young and during the social media's the time had to go go away and let that child be given up for adoption. Fun fact that the girl has found us and now I have an older sister, so that's

kind of lovely. But you know, I think my mom never quite gave herself enough credit for a that being a very traumatic event for her and be that other people had gone through it. And you know, Philamina is a fantastic movie, and you know, I was really struck by, like that's pretty mub seen that that has taken this sort of moment in time of the Catholic Church misusing its power and kind of gave you a hint of like the scope of it, but in a very like

personal way. And I think it would have helped my mom know that she wasn't alone. All right, I'm gonna that. Whoa. So now what what what? What film have I pretended to like to impress people? Oh? Okay, the film? Yeah, the rais ahead. Oh yeah, No, David Lynch is the best, an he's never he is the best. He never had a swing a miss, never once. I do for rewatch. Obviously a genius doesn't need my approval. But but yeah, it was. I just got to it at the wrong time.

As much as I came to Rain of Fire at the exact right time, the universe was true for a Razorhead. But then you know that's boring because those movies show up in the same sentence all the time. And here we are again talking about the Razorhead Rain of Fire. Academy, Brendan Hunt, you have been wonderful as always. I'm glad I brought you back to life, and having listened to your answers to these questions, I've decided I'm gonna let you live. Wow, maybe not forever. So what's your back? Son?

What's your back? But before we go, my lawyers here, your lawyer, and he wants you're doing your will. I don't know if you knew about that, And the lawyer wants to know what is the one DVD you would leave to your loved ones. I guess I gotta go with a good old yellow submarine, you know, m And

that's uh. There's a lot of a lot of the DNA of what made me in that movie and a lot of uh, well, one real big ending that tells you a real good message for all you need truly is love and um and the animation holds up and some of the jokes hold up. You know, submarine have a good time, Brett Hunt, Uh bloody love you there. I mean, I've said it, it's out there. Thank you for doing this. I love you brand I'm not gonna run over there and hug you, but I do. I

do love you. But two, if you had a double Patreon, they get two hugs. But so they really start to cough it up, you know what I mean? You want the hugs? You gotta paint. Uh. What is there anything other than ted Lassie that people should be looking out for with you or listening to or anything you'd like

to promote? You have a play. I have a play going up next summer at the Kirk Douglas theater she'll call the Art and it was supposed to go up on March eighteenth of twenty twenty, but then Tom Hanks got sick and a lot of stuff got canceled. The sets were up, it was ready to go. And if Ben announced is going up next summer, but now Ted Lasso might be getting in the way of that, we'll see. Hopefully it can still happen. They just may have them dates around, but they are couple at the Kirk Douglas

in summer of twenty twenty one. Knock wood on all that. Very very good Brendon Hunt, have a wonderful life. Love to your boy. Good day to you, sir. Thanks for having me Brandon. So that was episode one hundred and seventy four. Head over to patron dot com forward slash Brett ghostin where you can see the video with Brendon and lots of other guests. Stuff is there, Guy to Apple Podcasts. Give us a five star writing right about the film that means the most to you and why

it's a very nice thing to read. Helps with numbers, et cetera, et cetera. Blah blah blah. You get there gist by this point. Thank you so much to Brendon for doing this show, Thanks for sharing his secret with us. Thanks to Scoopings Peep in the Distraction Pieces Network. Thanks to Buddy Peace for producing it, Thanks to ACAS for hosting it. Thanks to Adam richardson photographics and LEAs A Laddin for the photography. Come and join me next week

I will be joined by another amazing guest. I won't tell you who, but it's a really great one as usual, Come on, I hope you're all well. Thank you for listening. So that is it for now. Have a lovely week, and please, now more than ever, be excellent to each other. Six