James Acaster - Judgement Day • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #200

lakes where he's sitting and rubber ring and stuff. That would also be pretty cool if you ask me, I do actually want to ask you, and I have, so please reply seeing Jay and Barry, thank you very much. Every week I invite a special guests over. I tell them they've died. Then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the most of them. Previous guests include Ped Pambles, Jed Lambles, and even Mary mccampbell's. But this week is different. It's only episode two hundred.

We did it, Joe, So to celebrate this milestone in all our lives, I've gone back to the beginning again and tied it up with the end in the perfect circle of life. Today is Judgment Day. The world has ended. The Genie James a Caster guest number one stands before me. He has one chance to prove why I should send him to heaven and not to hell. You know that sort of thing. Check out the Patreon at patreon dot com, forward slash Brett Goldstein, where you get an extra thirty

minutes with James. We talk film, scores, secrets, many more stuff, many more stuff. Yeah, why not you get all of the episodes, uncut and ad free and often as a video. Check it out over at patreon dot com, forward slash Brett Goalstein and don't forget tickets are truly selling fast for the big live films to be buried with at Hackney Empire on July second. Make sure you get the ones you can from plosive dot co dot uk and Hackney Empire dot co dot UK. James a Caster, come on,

you know and by now he's a genie. He's a podcaster. He's a rapper, he's a musician, he's a stand up, he's an actor, he's an author. I was delighted to have him back, as I have for the last two hundred episodes. I will talk about the future of the show and tell you what I think about this whole two hundred milestone, what it means for me and what it means for you the listener. We'll do all of that at the end, but for now, I think this is a great one and you're going to love it.

So I very much hope you enjoy Episode two hundred of Films to be Buried with Judgment Day. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried with Judgment Day. It is I Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today for the probably sixth time, so for fifth time to the show. He's an actor, he's a writer, he's a podcaster. He's a musician. He's a rapper, he's a producer, he's a creator. He's an islander. He's a soft boy. He's a man. He's a lover. He's a fighter, but only with his

own audiences. He's the one of the greats. And he's an old time hero and a legend of the stand up circuit and of kettering, please work, and of food. And he's also a genie and he's a lovely boy. Please welcome to the show. It's the wonderful, it's the brilliant, it's the incredible. It's mister Jay Pacastre, thank you, Thank you, Brett. Welcome back, James A. Caster. How are you? I'm good. I'm excited to be back. I didn't foresee it. How the heck are you very good? I'm excited. I've got

all my answers to your questions for Judge? Am I the first judgment day? You listen? This is episode two hundred, which is a huge deal. You did the very first episode of Films to be Buried With and then you did the one hundredth episode of Films to be Buried With the Resurrection, and it only seems right there as I reached two hundred you should come back and what has happened is a whole new, a whole new, absolutely thrilling format. But first let's just check in because you know,

I'm obsessed with knowing about this side of you. You know, you're often considered the best stand up in the UK. Not my words, but the words of many, and yet hate stand up? Quit stand up? And now where on the street is? And every time I look at listing back to stand up? What's happened? How's it going? Are you okay? Well? Yeah, boy? I was doing some of this year? Is this year okay, yeah, yeah, loads of charity gigs. There's there's a lot of charity gigs, so

I said yes to them, good boy. And then my friends have ordered a small tour of Scandinavia. Because I've never been on Scandinavia. I thought i'd do that. And because I did those, some other mates have offered me one off gigs and off I'll do that for a bit. So I just thought to see how it feels. How's it feeling? So fair fine, but I'm probably just going to do it until the end of this year, every now and again, and then not do next year. I

reckon and stop, what are you doing? All new like stuff? Yeah, because I can't remember the old stuff. But mainly what I'm trying to do at the minute is to memory the stuff that I don't like about stand up because like I get really but get really wrapped up in being able to control it or not. And you know, because it's interesting me and you we started out a similar time. I started just after you, different career paths, and very proud of each other, I hope. I'm very

very proud of you. And I've spoke to you recently about stand up and you've been like, mate, it's the best thing. Just hold on to that stand up man. No one can tell you what to do. You just get to go and stage. You be your own boss. Oh, it's the dream. I love it so much. And I was like, Bret never used to love stand up. I guess working in scripted to be the worst thing in the world if it's made him go like this. But

then like, there's that thing, isn't it of control? So like, I think you enjoy stand up because you get to just have a one hundred percent control, or yet more control than you do maybe when you collaborating with a lot of people are making something. Now, it doesn't mean that one's better than the other, but you clearly a person who appreciates what both mediums have to offer. Now, I would say, for me stand up, I don't have enough control because the audience can do whatever they want.

And then that really that's really wounded me up always. And so what I'm trying to do now is go accept the fact that what you want is never gonna happen. You're never gonna go on stage night after night, and they respond exactly the way you want them too. They don't talk to each other. They don't shout out, they don't go on their phones. Occasionally you might have that gig. But sometimes I've had those gigs. I'll go, yes, that was it, and then someone will come up to me

and goes, oh, someone was talking behind me. The whole show couldn't hear, And I'm like, oh, I thought I had I thought I had the gig. I didn't have the gig. But and so I'm trying to let go at that, and I'm doing some solo shows. The only reason why I put solo shows in is to try and combat my fears by doing a exposure therapy and turning up to the gigs and telling the audience they're allowed to do whatever they like for the whole show. They don't have to shout out, they don't have to

do anything like that. It's not it's not a heck demandatory. It's not here I am do your worst. Let's do this me versus you. It's just me saying at the top, you can do what you want and you won't get in trouble. I'm not gonna have a go at you little contract with the audience at the start, and then I kind of like do a show and sometimes people have heckled for the whole thing, and sometimes people have

just sat there and listened. Sometimes loads of people have been on their phones during the show, or we're walking in and out the room or talking to each other. And I find that because I've made that contract at the beginning, it's fine. I don't get annoyed about it, and it feels like, oh, there's something in this. And if it wasn't as busy trying to get other things off the ground, I'd probably just do that every night

and be like, let's explore this. There's something here. But as it is right now, I think it's maybe just this year. Well maybe I say this. I don't think that what I love about stand up is control. I think that's not the way I see it at all. I mean, I'm sure there's a part of it that is in terms of control, in terms of you're in control of what you're putting out and you don't have to compromise or discuss with people your material, you can just do it. That is control. But stand up, I

see is like freedom. It's like, I hate to say this because I sound like an absolute fucking dickhead, but it's more like surfing because you have no control. You're right, you don't know what's going to happen. The other night, I had ad a mad gig in Kingston, this fucking guy joining it. It was insane, but it wasn't. I wasn't like, hey, I'm trying to do this thing and you're running this thing. It was like, oh, okay, we're

going this way now. It's like being in the moment and trying to just have fun with the wave that is currently in front. It's the closest I get to being sort of Zen's like, okay, well this is the thing, so what's this thing? Just like, let's have fun with whatever this thing is. Because I don't have control over it, all I can do is try and have some fun with it. Whereas the other things that I do don't quite work like that because you have to you have

to edit it. You have to make it into a thing where it stand ups like, I don't know what it is. It could be anything that night, you know what I mean? Well, I see, I'll see what's happening here. Yeah, well it depends what your main thing is, right, so whatever. We comedians like to do a lot of different things. Yeah, and when you've got your main thing, you really want that to be good. And that's where the anxiety is and the pressure is, this has to be great. I've

got a thing that everything like that. Everyone likes this thing, right, I've got to make this thing good, and then everything else is like, oh this is a laugh, So it doesn't have to be good. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna stand up like Cowabunga. You know, this is I love it.

This is just you know, going to play and squash with my friend after work and then you know, probably the same way that I you know, I'm record podcasting as podcasting with my friend Peed Pambles and were like, h it was fun and and then I've got to do like you know, stand up and gone, James, You've gone. You've gotta show them, You've gotta show them your number one um. And actually what's been nice is coming back and not doing that and going no, no, I don't

have to be immaculate. This doesn't have to be the perfect thing. Also, I mean, you know, I want to try and get better in any field, whatever it is I'm doing, I'll go, well, what's how can you improve on this? And you know it was stand up I'm like, the main thing that you're really mad at in stand up is just being relaxed in the moment and doing the gear and not shouting at a bunch of people

who have paid to see you. So let's if you're if you're going to go back to that and maybe even spend the rest of your life doing it, you might want to sort that out first before you do anything else. So it's like, this is the thing that your shit is starting at comedy, so let's work on that. But absolutely fascinating, fascinating. Well, I'm excited, listen. I'm excited that you're doing gigs again. Even though I don't know if I've said this on a podcast, but you're the

good Will Hunting of stand up. You're the you know, you're this mass genius who doesn't appreciate that he's the maths genius. And I'm ben affleck on the building side again. If you're not doing standoff and you're still there on the building side with me just doing podcasts, I'm gonna be fucking furious and we ain't gonna be friends anymore. My lad aren't of a zoom Carl. I hope you don't show up that's the best part of my day. To Boston. Accent really good, you're very good accents. You

get everything. Get in the car, James A. Casta. You have died, yes and again, but don't worry. So has everyone. Why because it's Judgment Day. Judgment Day is here. Finally, Judgment Day. You stand on the precipice between heaven and hell. For me to decide where you go, you must first tell me the very best and very worst thing that you did in this lifetime and answer some questions about film. But first let's hear the best and worst thing you

think you did in this lifetime. Oh Jesus, A big question. Yeah, to just throw a person? Yeah, but I do know the answer. Absolutely. The best best thing I've ever done is um. I made a particularly good batch of treats a broccoli pasta the other day, probably the best I've ever made. Um. So that's the best thing I've ever done. Best thing. The best thing you've ever done is carbs. Okay, yeah, of course you would think immediately categorize it into into carbs. Okay,

very mind. Who was in charge of judgment David? Okay, that's that's your This is the best thing okay, anti because anti Carb Goldstein, as it is in charge of judgment day, I'm not going to hell depends. The worst thing you did was make someone eat that past that we've both freeliate it. We loved it. And then probably the worst thing I've ever done. Some people felt that me and Ed bullied you too much when we did the last Man used to be buried with? Did they? Yeah,

that's I don't know what that says about. I don't think we were bullying you that. Even if you did, and I genuinely have no recollection, I didn't think about it for a second afterwards. No, because we weren't bullied. It was all a bit of fun. And also you were saying loads of stuff about us. But the differences afterwards you asked for your stuff to be cucked. It

was generally out of order. That's really funny. That's like me and you going on roast battle and I make the cut all my roast jokes and it's just like glad, Yeah, it's just horrible. Breakastood there me laying into you. Jesus Breadchast stood there and looked sad, and then the show ended. So weird. Okay, So that's the worst thing you did. I mean, they're pretty we'll see. We'll see what I got to say as as person in charge of judgment day so far undecided. They're both pretty minimal things, so

neither the probably cancel each other. Rats, you're still balancing, so let's see how you get on with the film questions. Now, Really to get into Heaven or Hell kind of depends on these next questions. Okay, Okay, yeah, I think that's fair. I think this is this format works. What is the fa film that you saw, James Acasta when you were too young to see it that affected you the most? I would say, because it's the first film that I remember seeing when I was too young to see it.

And I wasn't like massively too young, but definitely in my house Bread, we weren't allowed to watch any films that were, you know, not appropriate certificate wise. So the first time I saw a film that was like a little bit too old for me was when I was one of my friend's house, Steven's house, and he put on Drop Dead Fred and it was like a film that obviously I could understand because it was all like

it was about you know, imaginary friends and whatever. It was quite childish in a way, and Rick Mayles, you know, the way that he was was very Kids could understand why it was funny, but there were swears in it, and I remember being like like for ages. So I think there's a bit right at the beginning where the little girl swears because dropped dead fred Tatter swear word and I really fought for a long time our man

had come leave. I watched that film. I can't believe I watched it in The little girl swore and it really stopped me for a long time. And then you know, Rick Mayle's comedy stopped me for a long time as well. I remember seeing that early on, and I can definitely there were sometimes when I do bits of stand upon whatever, and I'm like, you're leading a bit, a little bit into Rick mail sometimes, yes, I see that, especially drop dead Frederick Mayel we ever talked about on the podcast

we have in real life. The first gig we did together, I used to run an open mic gig called funny How Yes, and James a Caster came down to do it, and I always remember that what happened was you were very Rick Mayle esque. You did you did your excellent stand up, but in the middle of it. I mean, it's a fucking weird gig, a pup that usually had about four people in the audience, and a man fell

asleep in the front row. One of the four people in the audience fell asleep, and you leaped towards him with the mic in your hand and clapped back to make in his face yea, to wake him up, and then just carriage out. I do you remember that I was eating popcorn? Was I think you have some popcorn on his lap? That's in my memory. My memory had popcorn, Yeah, a popcorn and then fell to sleep in the middle of your five minutes set. Yeah, you wake him up

with the make also the listeners for the listeners. That's the first time I met Brett and I had turned up and I was not on the billy and I turned up just chancing my luck trying to get on, and Brett said perfectly reasonable, said I'm sorry. You know, I've got the lineup sorted for tonight, and you know, probably was thinking, plus I don't know you and you

could be shipped, and you know I was. I just started out, so I was pretty ship and then I went but I've coupled the way from Catherine and I got to go home on the train and it's an hour and you were like, oh, okay, it put me on. So it's true. That's true. Our friendship started, well, so that's any to know each other started with anyone's trying to get Yeah, well yeah, I think I was like that Rick male dude. It was weird. But then we had a gig in a hut at the end of

the garden somewhere that was really fucking racist. If we did a racist gig. We did a racist gig at the Bottle of Guys. You remember that terrifying much of a We weren't hired as racist, the audience were racist, and we both we both had to deal with that

one stage. Fascinating. Then we were friends after that when would have been for a real But anyway, a little tip for any open mag is trying to get on lie about how far you've come to get there, and see if if you could play one character in a film, which one would it be? James A. Custer, Napoleon Dynamites. Oh my god, you'd be good. I love the Poleon Dynamite,

massive soft spot for it. I don't know if it's still got that cult status when we when it first came out, me and normal mates are watching it and talking about it and quoting it. And then the guy who made it didn't really do much after that. I think he did the Jack Black film and it didn't really do that well. The Natural Libra one, even though it sounded like an absolute slam dunk. It's like he's just made the Polian Dynamite and now he's making a film where Jack Black plays a monk who wants to

become a wrestler. Are you're thinking that sounds great? But actually you know, oh, when some people ask what's Napoleon Dynamite about, you go spout the Poland Dynamite. It's not really about it. If it's about a character and you just see I mean he just leads up to the go to the school dance and doing his dance, that's kind of it. It's not like there's a whole story, there's a storyline. I never gard about it. So then, really I think Natural Libra the best stake there was.

I've got a storyline for this one. It's like, no, no, I don't do that. Don't don't have a storyline. The mistake was cut. Yeah, right, you should have just had a film where Jack Black as a wrestler or Jack Black as a monk. But I think the wrestler would have been a better one. Um. But I loved Napoleon Dynamite. I thought that the character was amazing and I can't remember the name of the actor. He had a few roles after that. I remember really enjoying Blades of Glory,

But in general you kind of go, that's all you needed. Man, You did Napoleon Dynamite and you were mortal now because that's it was. It's one of the great cinematic roles. And I would love that. I would love to just I have enough of well, I have enough complish in my acting to be like, yeah, I reckon, I'll be able to get loads of bites at this cherry and loads of different No. No, I think I've got a fluke. Get one role that is the absolute, yeah, an absolute

humming like that one. Nail it and then like that's all I need, and then do one Will Ferrell film and then yeah and go go quiet. You get to do a Will fall film. You're John Header, Okay, John Header. Yeah, that's what that's what I'd like to I'd like to be a Napoleon Dynamite. It was a toss up between even though the person who did this other role has gone on to be huge, but it was a toss up between and because it's the same era for me,

you're probably a Dynamite or Johnnie Darko. That was the That was the toss up because I was like, I'd be cool to be in one of those type of films that were like, I just want to be like the titular character in a cult classic. Okay, Okay, that is a fair fucking dream to have the titch in the character in a cup classic. Okay, super Bowl. There you go like, you don't know what I'm talking about, but you but your Napoleon Dynamite that's said mash up

you is a Napoleon Dynamite and Buddy Cup film. You'd be good. Bunny dark I think if they remake Donnie Darko, which, let's face it, the remaking everything these days, so it's not off the cards. Make a Donnie Darko TV series, Yeah, I'd cast you was Donnie and it's like Donnie's grown up, which would then really really make people think, what hold on? What happened at the end of the film if he's grown up now, Yeah, I'm not sure I understood at the time. Down welcome to you. Yeah, what is the

worst date slash time you've ever had a film? This is the hardest one, okay, because I've not really had many like times were gone the cinema on a date. I think you only really make those mistakes really when you're in early on in your dating career, when you're you know, late teens, early twenties, whatever. That's just me. Other people might have been dating a lot earlier than that. But like I'll be like, let's go to the certainly made out. You certainly made up for the last time,

thank you Brooks. But like you'd be sitting there at the cinema thinking, why have I? Why have I suggested we come here? We're not even talking to each other, And then you just don't make those mistakes anymore. So, you know, there was stuff like Day After Tomorrow. I remember going to see on It on a date when I was like, you know, late teens. I actually went on a date to see The Breakup the Vince Law

and Jennifer Anderston film. First date, going to see the breakup, even thinking to myself while watching it, this is gonna be a great story when we're married. So the first thing we saw together them was the breakup. But I didn't really you know, I didn't like this or I didn't hate them. It wasn't a bad experience. I thought about saying Snowtown, because that was that was me and you're going to see that. But I didn't hate that film.

It was you hating it. And then you leave them with PTSD and met us being like, oh, that's thought. It's quite a well made film about a horrible thing. Um that film, Yeah, it really really affected you in a bad way, I would say. So I'm just gonna go by like the relationship I'm in now and the worst film we went to see together, just like it was early on in the relationship. I remember being angry that we've seen it for it was such a long film and at the time actually still now I love

you know. I was like, I just started seeing this person. All I wanted to do was be around her, talk to her. And now this fucking film is getting in the way, and we're sitting here and this is three hours fucking long. I just want to talk to her, and this is bullshit. That film was Once upon a Time in Hollywood, which could absolutely I think it's his worst film. I hate it. I think it's shit. I think that everyone who likes it is an idiot. It's one of the only films I feel that way about

most things. You go out subjective and with that when I'm like, no, no, you're wrong. It's bad. It's bad. By his own rules, it's bad. And it's like it's it's it's like he doesn't know why his previous films were good and why they worked. That's what annoys me

about it. His rules. We're not rules, but like it's it's like, you know, sometimes like people make something it could be anything, a stand up show, book, whatever, and they organically discover it and they make this thing and they really engage with it and it's great, and then they try and replicate it and they just replicate us on the surface without thinking about why they made all

those decisions in the first place. And I was watching God Dawnwards upon a Time in Hollywood, and most people complain with that film about the acting stuff, about all the him being an actor and him being on set doing the scenes and they're like, oh, that bits so slow and blah blah blah. I like those bits. Yeah, I think that's I think that should have been the film.

The film should have been this guy is a struggling actor and his relationship with a stuntman and just them on sets and then talking to different actors and just do that film. But it said. He's like, no, God, I did Inglorious Basses and Jango Unchanged, which I've bought fought, were both great, and he's like, I've got to do that again. Well, I'm doing a Hollywood film, so I got to do a Hollywood one. Oh there was the Manson Family. I'll do that now. Look that's fine if

you want to do that, do that. But no punintended here. The execution was absolutely atrocious. Here's why, Bradley, Here's why, and I am angry about it. I'm still angry about it to this day because every time I hear people go on about it being brilliant, it really makes me angry. In Inglorious Bastards and in Jango Unchained, yes, even though he doesn't need to, he shows you why the bad guys are bad. He doesn't really need to show you

why the Nazis are bad. We all know that. He doesn't really need to show you why slave owners are bad, but he does it, and he goes just so you know the pieces of shit and not just the group, but the specific characters were dealing. We have in the film are bad people, and here's them doing bad things, and here's why you should hate them. So you're like, right now, he doesn't need to do that with those films because they're two of the biggest bad groups in history,

so we already know that going in. But then he does this. One is the Manson family, which not everyone knows about, right. I know they did some bad shit. I don't know all the details of it. I know they're not good, but they're not as notorious, I'm going to say as Nazisans and slave owners. Those people have been heavily discussed. We know that they're the worst people ever. And then the Manson family, it's like, oh did they do again? One? And then in this film all the

shows you is they're a bunch of dirty hippies. So he doesn't like that, and Brad Pitt goes onto the ranch and at nine point on the ranch, do any of them do anything bad? They're all hanging around, hanging out, and he doesn't like it. Brad Pitt's like, I don't like this fucking by Jeff fucking hippies. And he's walking around and he's saying to them, like the fuck you doing on this ranch? And they're like, the guys that we could be here, doubt it, just doesn't believe them.

Then he goes in and the guys like, yeah I did, actually I did say they could be of Bruce den I's like oh, And then brad Pitt goes out and one of them put a knife in his tire. Because fair enough, because as far as we're concerned as the audience, if you didn't tell them it's a Manson family, I'll be like, yeah, yeah, they're just the guy's are allowing them to hang out on the ranch. Big old Brad Pitt.

It seems like a Tory, by the way, has decide also, who may have murdered his wife will get under that in a minute. He's decided he doesn't like him, he's been proved wrong that they are allowed to be in there. So one of them's gone, go fuck yourself, and then he beats them up. It's so violently it's knocks their teeth out of some ship drives away and you're made

to go, yeah, good on you. And like at one point, like one of them, like you know, goes to get the person who's on who's on a little horse ride. He goes, he's beat it up our friend and he gets back on his horse. He's there too late because Brad Pitt's driven away. So I've not been told why any of these people are asshole ship. And at one point Manson has shown up at the house and just looked at shot Sharon Tate. Yes, he just looked at

her and that's it. Yeah, they haven't shown you anything else has happened there, even though we know what happened there in real life. But like it just has a little look and he goes up. So they're not they're not doing it in nearly anywhere near as much as they did with the bad guys in those other films and Baron in mind. Yeah, with Sharon Tate, obviously she's not in it enough. Margaret Robbie's not given enough to do. And you know she is the real life person in

it who was the victim in real life. So like they're not really doing her any kind sort that they're doing her a massive disservice throughout the film. Also, you know you're doing her any favors. Yeah, no, not doing her any favors. Actually, And Brad Pitt, main character, main goodie, who was supposed to think is awesome, there's this whole thing of like he may have murdered his wife, and they they pretty much make it that he did. He

pretty did it. Harpooned do and I just see it and she's fucking dead, and uh, that's so that's like, sorry, sorry, sorry, Quentin, you're good guy in this film? Is a guy who killed a woman? Is it? That's that? That that that's goody? And also at one point he's on set and Kurt Russells, They're going, I'm sorry my nagging wife Zoe Bell. She just such a nag because she's popping nag. She's such a naw. She doesn't like you being on set because you killed your wife. So she's a knack. So so

fuck women all the way through it. At the end when they do the whole you know, spoiler alert, you haven't seen the end of once ut the time in Hollywood, but they give you three characters, two of whom you've not seen before. Of the Munson family, one of whom you have. But it was just the nice guy who was riding a horse early on when his defenders mate. So none of them have done anything wrong yet they're in the car, they're planning, Okay, we're going to go

in and they're kind of planning the murder. But again, like you don't merely know these people. You've not seen most of them for the whole film. And then they walk into the house like, Okay, we're going to do it, and then they change their mind at the last minute and go and actually, let's go in this house and do it there. So people, the characters in this film aren't even gonna go in there. They decide instead to

go in there. So they even decide they even go in the house because they decide we're going to go in there. They go in a DiCaprio's house and there's two women and one man, and the man gets bitten by a doggie and the women get absolutely turned to patty. It's it's some of the most violent stuff I've ever seen in a Tarantino film. One gets absolutely burnt to deaf, and a swimming pool he ever, gets her face repeatedly smash into a coffee table until it's a pulp and

there's nothing left. And that is how he deals with, Yeah, fuck you for killing Sharon Tate. I'm now going to absolutely just horrifically butcher two women who you have not got to know. Throughout the film, you've not seen them do anything. They've done nothing, so you've not even said I haven't done it, like like I did with the Nazis when I wanted you to see why they were bad. With these two, they're just all you need to know is there were two women who might have gone in

a house and that's it. And now we we've done this to them. And at the end, when Brad Pitt's characters getting in that ambulance, DiCaprio's like, you're a good man. That's like the line, and then he goes away and then everyone's like, what a great film. It's like, No, that is abhorrent. And I was absolutely furious by the end of it. And it was the most angry I've come out of a film when I've been on a date. Luckily, my girlfriend was also angry about it. We got to

both round about it together. And be like, dah, what the fuck, But like, I hate that people like it, And also I don't even hate I hate that people like it, but I also I hate it when people aren't angry about it, when people just go no, it's all right, no, no, no, you should be furious about that film. You should be absolutely livid about that shit.

Everything that people have said to Tarantino over the years about the violence in his films that I just think is like, oh, often it's like tory nonsense having a go at him. Sometimes with this it's like, no, no, this is this is the thing. This is what they

should be angry about. Is this piece of shit? And then never mind beating up Bruce Lee and humiliating him in it, which was the main thing people are angry about apparently online, which I mean, absolutely be angry about that, but there's a whole bunch of other stuff in that film that I was like, people are not gonna be angry about that. You're really burying the lead with the Bruce least. Yeah, what if you could live in the world of one film, which would it be fair enough?

I would done with that bit. Now I would say, this might seem like if you're about the same words the time. But then I would help the Manson family kill Leonardo DiCaprio, and you could live in the world of one film, which would it be. This is going to seem like a stupid answer, and it's even going to seem like the wrong answer, But I honestly would like to do this groundhole day interesting go on. I would just like that. I would like to do that.

I would like to as long as I knew that it was gonna it was going to repeat over and over again. Yeah, and at some point it would come out of it. But as long as I kind of didn't just completely lose my mind and go in sane, which is what would happen in real life if that happened to you, You mind, you don't unravel. But why, Okay, you're in Grundog day. You know Gruandog day. You know that, you know what that world entails. What are you doing

on your what's your best day in grund Dog day? Well, I just I just think I just do a lot of exploring because like you know, when he's in the car with the two drunk guys and they just say no consequences because of though tomorrow who do what you want.

So I think I would just be like, right, well, this is just going to go on forever, so today, let's go to this place and say and I think I would just try a different thing you every day and then start putting things together and being like, oh, okay, I know that this happens over here, and actually I could use that to my advantage over over this place.

I would do stuff like I'd definitely do a robbery at some point and get away, but in a way that it's like completely victimleist the way that I do it, you know, so that I'm able to just tight that when he times it, when those two people like drop the coins and then he just goes and robs that van, and he all he has to do is walk past at the right time and pick up the bag and carry on walk. That looks great. I'd love to do that. All that stuff I wouldn't do, the whole you know,

tricking people to fall in love with me. Stuff you wouldn't need. You wouldn't need to trick anywhere. And James, no, thank you, Bret. But like, yeah, I mean that that bit of the film was a bit sinister, but like the rest of it. I would. I would like very much to do that, and it might be that eventually, you know, maybe i'd you know, think I'll go completely mad. Yeah, I really want this day to stop repeated. Who would

you be? You know, I'm assuming at some point years in you'd you'd be lonely and want maybe a girlfriend. So who would you be trying to go out with? Not in a sinister way, just getting to know them straight up contentually in grand have day so in so hold on you know everyone that lives there. So when you say the world of the film, I have to be there in Punk's attorney. Yeah, you're where did you think you were? I thought it's like the world like my life here in you a loop? No you haven't.

You picked the time loop, but you picked Fox Tuity. Okay, who would I try and fall in love with? Yeah? I mean not not not Andy McDowell actually, because I don't really get one. If I don't get upon rewatching with that with that film is why he falls it. Why he fans like, I don't really get anything that's like that, this very cynical man. It makes more sense at the beginning when he's like fuck her and he

just doesn't like it. He's really rude to her. That makes more sense for that character that he would see this like actually quite optimistic, you know, nice person and go no, thank you. And it's just weird that at one point he decides I'm going to make her fall in love with me, and I don't really explain why in the film. I mean, really, my favorite my favorite character in it is a is the cameraman. Okay, Chris Elliot, Okay, Chris Elliott. Yeah, you're going to fall another cabin boy.

That makes sense. Yeah, is great. It is funny in all the films I've seen them in. You know, I haven't seen There's Something about Mary in a long time, and I'm pretty sure that if I did see it again, there'll be a lot of stuff I don't approve of in it. But like I remember thinking he was good at it. Okay, that's an excellent answer. What is your favorite children's film? I've got it down to three. Okay, so I've got it down to you know, I really

love Pixar films. Yeah, and my favorite Pixar film is Coco. Excellent choice. So I was just gonna say Coco because I was just like, you know, I love Pixar, so if I look at the whole all of the Pixar films, that's my favorite one. So that's my favorite kids film. But then when I was trying to jog my memory about some other categories, I was looking on the internet and I saw two other films are like, oh shit, I maybe love them more than like in terms of like,

so Paddington two, yes, and School of rock Oh. I mean, look, you know School of Rocky is one of my top ten. Yeah, I don't. And it's funny. I would never have thought of it as a kids film. I suppose it is. I watched it with my nephews recently and it was one of the most exciting things. They're both in primary school. I was really excited to watch it with them that they watched the first time. They loved it. But also the oldest one, he's nine, and he very much likes

things to be done in life. He wants things to be done the right way. He's a big, big fan of following the rules. That's your boy. He was so stressed out watching School of Rockley. He kept me going, this man is an idiot. Oh no, can't you see he's ruin so many people's lives. It's gonna the police are gonna come, it's gonna be in so much trouble, Uncle James. I can't well, I'm so I'm so stressed out. And then at the end he was so happy where it ended up and he was like, you wake to

watch it again. So yeah, it's completely I remember seeing Jack Blackdoer speech about it saying like, you know, when I think that the premier there, so it's on the DVD actual or something of him saying we wanted to make a kids film that was like kids films used to be when kids films were good. So out of the three of those, I would say that School of Rock is my favorite. Okay, I think Paddington two is

also a perfect film. Yeah, I just think, you know, the School of Rock is just like absolutely it's it's it's a perfect film, and it's just in terms of messaging and what I like, it's just aims aimed at me one hundred percent. And then Coco is my favorite film of my you know, favorite production company you make kids films, so you know, really good. I mean, that's a really good three. I'm going to go with School of Rock because of the experience you had with your nephew.

He is absolutely definitely an acoster. Yes, that's lovely, very lovely. What is the film that you didn't think you would like that you ended up loving now? I I think this is the only answer for this for everyone should have, because I don't think anyone saw. When I saw the poster for this film, I thought, oh, they're making the worst film ever. Congratulations, they're making the worst film ever. What a bunch of idiots, bad luck guys. And then I saw it and I thought, that's one of the

best films I've ever seen. I refer, of course, to the Lego movie. Really good answer, what's a clever boy? That's a really good answer. Of course, we forget the Lego movie. Yeah, and it's stupid awful A cash hint, Yeah, what a fucking stupid idea. You're trying to make a Lego film. It's obviously going to be bad. Little did I know that the people who were making it, And I'm sorry that I don't know their names because and

Chris Chris, Is that true? Yeah, so they have a track record, I'd say for making films that I see the poster and I go, what a pile of shit, and I see the film and I go, that was perfect. That was immaculate. So Clouded with a Chance of Meatballs, Lego Movie, and into the Spider Verse are all perfect, amazing films. They feel exciting and original even when they're doing you know, one of them is like a brand is Lego, and one of them is you know, a

whole Spider Man. So it's like, you know, really, those things shouldn't be shouldn't feel original. It should feel because they're doing it from pre existed ideas, and yet they still make them feel exciting and fresh. And the stuff that they the way that they do it is really innovative. I couldn't believe that Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was good. I couldn't believe how good it was. It's really good. So like my top three films that fit

this category are all by the same people. Amazing, really good. That's really good, absolutely right. And also they changed everything because I've completely forgotten that the Lego Movie sounded ship and now we go, oh the Lego movie. Yeah, that's why the amazing movie was such a thrill. Here we go.

Here's the question, the reason I brought you back? What is the single most erotic moment in a film, James Slamcaster, Listen, I don't tend to watch films and find the erotic as an adult, even when they're trying to be sexy. Of course, why would you, Well, even when they're trying to be I just think I just don't really find it that. Yeah. I had to think really really hard about this and be like, like, honestly, are there any moments in films that you really are so hot that's

really sexy and erotic? And there's not, But they're having said that once there was a moment in a film that I definitely thought was erotic and sexy. And so my answer for the moment in the film that's the most erotic moment in the film is the entirety of American Pie. I watched that when I was thirteen years old, and it was it was the sexiest thing I've ever seen in my life. I couldn't believe. I couldn't believed what I was seeing. There were boobs in it, yeah,

there was. It was mums shagging people on pool tables. It was very sexy and it was extremely erotic. It may I had not seen pornography at that point, it may as well have been that I've sat down to watch a pornographic film. That's how erotic it was. It blew my head off my shoulders and into space. It was so sexy. What a lovely, classy answer? Well what what? What? What? What? What did you do? Think The answer was going to be, Oh, I mean, listen, wild things. It could be there's a

hundred films, there's a thousands. Anyone that comes to this podcast and goes like, I don't really think of films is sexy, I'm like, you fuck off the same ways you do about once put time in Hollywood. I'm like, you're a fucking liar or you're mad. You have to remember, yeah, you are a walking erection. So you of course you find any films sexual. Like most of the time sex in films, it's like, yeah, whatever, and like and because it's in there to serve a purpose a lot of

the time. But when you're first, when you're thirteen years old and you see American Pie for the first time, yeah, it's true. What is that not erotic? No, it is absolutely erotic. But for you to say that was the last time that film, I honestly can't remember a time, he said, I thought, I'm not I'm not saying this just to appear like I'm I'm I'm a real good boy. Hey I'm I'm like sex, I'm a grubby, little little pervo. But like, but let's not look at the film. Oh yeah,

there it is so sexy. There it is there. I really thought, I really really thought about it, and there it is. There is That's what it is. There it is imagine saying that during the act. There it is horrible. It is absolutely horrible. There it is. No, that's not you know, that's just there. It is. What's the film that you don't care about as a whole, you know, a big fan of the film as a whole, but

there's a single sequence in it that you fucking love? Yes, Brett, Yeah, I really enjoyed these questions and thinking of the matching I actually pleased my answers. This is not only that I don't really care about the film, but I like the sequence. Yeah. I don't really care about the entire franchise, but I like the sequence. Okay, interesting, even though I've watched the entire franchise twice and we'll probably watch it

again because I find it comforting. But though I think all the films are bad, I refer to the film is Harry Potter and the definitely Hallows Part two. Oh okay, interesting. I just think they're bad. They're pretty bad films with amazing some of the best casts we've ever seen on the screen, but generally has been with Harry Potter. I don't think the stories are ever really very good and a lot of the I love the world building. That's what I love in Harry Potter. I love the world building.

Couldn't care less about the stories. I think there's bad stories. But here's the thing. I get chills every time Neville chops the head off Neguini with the sword of Griffin door that sequence when you've seen this little kid literally you know, started off as a little little boy in the films, who's just going what is it always me? And hang it up hanging from the ceiling, and he's a little clumsy boy, and then in the final film

he's he's fucking ripped is it tall? And he's main And the way that the angle that they shoot her at, the way that he swings the sword up so that the snake's coming up, because the snake's coming. You don't even see. They don't make a big deal that he's going up to the snake. They're just showing the snake and you don't know what's going to happen. And then he just appears into shot and he swings the sword

upwards and chops its head off. And definitely you always think of what Harry's gonna Harry is probably gonna have to do all of this himself, but it's Neville. Nevill comes up chops again his head off, and within the same battle as well, Muma Weasley, Julie Walt's character kills Bela. Tricks were strange, saying get away from my daughter, you bitch, and kills her. And that's one of the best bits in cinema history as well, those two moments, which are

like probably within five minutes of each other. I absolutely love them. And she does she say get away from my daughter, you bitch. Yeah, an alien like an aliens. Joe I didn't even think about that, get away from her, you Bitch's it is. She does do that because she taught her a bitch. Because it's like a big deal. It's like, well, that character, it's like a very good

decision for that character. In fact, I would say it's more effective than it is when Ripley says it because she's a bad as she'd be calling everyone bitch, like everyone's a bitch on that space. Yep, the Weasleys aren't going around and going you fucking bitch to each other, so like, well, that's the thing. I watched them all again recently because i'd watched the reunion thing that they did on TV with all of them having the reunion, So maybe want to watch all the Harry Potter films again.

So I did it, and it was very comforting. But really the only moment I enjoyed with those two moments in the final film worth fourteen hours of your time, A long time, a long old time, and yet worth it. Those are the only two worth it. Those two bits are like you probably probably feel it. They're great, really good, really good. Answer. What is the film that has stayed with you the longest after seeing it? Scream too, Love, Scream too, Love, Scream Too. I've never seen a horror

film before. I no exaggeration, didn't sleep for two weeks. I was terrified that someone was going to burst into my bedroom and kill me because I was watching a film where people were getting killed was executed without courts. Seemingly. I couldn't see anything that they're done to deserve it. It was just someone burst in and stabs them. And so I was like, Oh, that could happen at any moment. That's the thing that could happen. And I didn't sleep properly for two weeks. Took me ages to get to

bed every night afterwards. I haven't had a film before since that has done that to me, where for two weeks, I'm thinking about it every single day and it has affected me mentally, and it's affected the chemicals in my brain that an American play, Well, there's the chemicals in my dick. That's how you get a bone in it, chemicals. Your dick fills up with chemicals. Yeah, it takes the chemicals from you, from you tell me. Yeah, yeah, I think that's the way it works. But yeah, I was

absolutely terrified as scream Too. It became less and less with each horror film that I saw, to the point where now I just don't think I'll ever be scared by a horror film again. I just love horror films. But like there was Screamed Too, and then I know what you did last summer. Oh, actually, probably I still know what he did last summer. I think I probably

watched it first because who can. Yeah, the bit where Jack Black gets killed shouting shouting out to Jack Black again in I Still Know What he did last Summer is really upset me, really chill because he starts crying in it and begging the guy not to do not to do it, And that really really got to me because it was too human and really really really felt for the guy. Hannibal, Yes, where he has a lot of a load of bits in Hannibal that stuck with

me for a very long time. Obviously, that eating his brain, eating his brain. Obviously, couldn't stop thinking about that. I couldn't stop thinking about the guy chopping his face off and feeding it to the dog. Let's probably other bits as well, But yeah, that was that was quite unpleasant. On the other hand, Yeah, yeah, what is the film that made you feel better about the world? No, here's

the thing as well. Third time on the pod. I don't know what films I've mentioned before and what I haven't. Apologies to any listeners if I've mentioned this one before the rest of them. I'm pretty sure that I haven't, although I screamed too. I might have. I think you might have scream too. But it doesn't matter because I haven't listened back to them, and hopefully no one else as been enough. These are my honest answers. It's been a hundred episodes since we let no rule that I

couldn't repeat films. You know, some films do take more than one accolade. Sure, maybe I should have made that rule. That's on me. That is on me. No, No, the film that made me feel better about the world? Did you say yes, Life in a Day? Oh no, I'm thinking I think you have. I think you didn't mention that last time. Yeah, this is a different category, but but it's the only film that fits this. I don't think any of the films make me feel better about

the world. Oh my god. So films don't give you banners and they don't make you feel better about the world. What did they do for you? Entertainment? I really like them, really cool, But like fiction films. If it's fiction, you know, I'm not a fucking idiot. I'm not going to fool for it and go that must be what the world is like in that story that someone made up, So forget it. When they're all like, hey, all you need to do is be kind and then your football team

will be all right. I don't believe that stuff, right, that stuff isn't a trick me. The football team are all right, they get relegated. Spoiler massive spoiler. Well, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm talking about Dam's United. That's very much not the message of that film is all you have to do is be did your football team will all right. It's being mean to them, but then they'll sack you, I think, but no, no, to

be fair to you. Yeah, that's that's that's a good thing about Teddy Lassu is that be kind and the world will ship on you. Yeah, that's the message, right, which I like it. I like that, But I think fiction films, yeah, don't make me kind of feel optimistic about the world a lot of the time because of that, because it's made up. So documentaries are the only things that can really make me feel better about the world.

And most documentaries can be quite sad and arresting and sober, and some are about really amazing things that are happen, but still kind of bumm you out. Three identical strangers things like that. You go on an incredible film, but at the end you go, oh, I don't know, the world was more messed up than I thought it was. Fuck me. Life in a Day, yeah, just goes here is just normal. Like literally, this is just regular mundane things and every single day on the planet, these kind

of things are happening every single day. And they even show you not they still show sad stuff and whatever in it, but it does make you feel at the end of the film, what a beautiful thing that I'm lucky to be a part of. And that is that's the only one that makes me go the world is beautiful, life is beautiful. Even the film Life is Beautiful did not make me think that life is beautiful. That guy, that guy's mad, But no life Beautiful is an makes the film, But that is the only life in the

life of a day. I can still watch that now and feel quite warm about it and feel like I'm not even being manipulated because I love how it's just all presented as is. There's a bit of music going on over the top and whatnot, but like they are just going here, you go make what you want of this, and some of it is clunky or cringey, but they just let it be and by the end, I just feel like I'm really looking to be alive. Yeah, so yeah, that is my only answer. I can't really think of

any other film. No, that's a very good answer when you've answered it in a different way, even though I think every answer you've given so far you gave last time, but then completely different thing. I can't help it. I know this is this is a big film, and also like genuinely like I don't know. I'm looking at my DVD collection right now. I bought all of my favorites

on because I want physical copies of them. That's all my DVD collection is, and I'm looking over at it and going, I mean, they all make me feel like more positive about the world because that film exists in the world, so you know, what a great world. Because I can watch Sorry to Bother You or The Lobster or whatever. But like that made me feel happier about the way that it makes me feel the world. They're showing how me how great the world is. Which is

your favorite couple in a film, James Lancaster. I know I haven't mentioned this one before. It's not even a film that I particularly like, I think it's okay, But this is the main couple where I genuinely forgot that. I was watching two actors and I felt like they were genuinely in love with each other and it was a proper couple, and it is the most real, And it's one scene in the film. They're not in it for the rest of you together for the rest of it.

It's one scene, and I totally believed it. So the film is other people. Have you seen other people? Jesse Plemons his mother cancer in it, and you know, there's loads of actors in it that I like. So I've watched it and it's it's fine. So it would have done better. I think back in the Donnie Darko kind of area. It feels like that more that kind of indie film. But it's it's cool. It's got some good

jokes in it, and all the performances are good. Jesse Plemons is, I think, from what I remember, on a break. So his character was on a break from his boyfriend who's played by Zach Zach Woods, who he might know

as Gabe from the Office from the American Office. There's a scene where they basically he basically like, hasn't told his parents that they've broken up, his dad that they're broken up, So they visit and they pretend they're still together, and then there's a scene after that where they're laying in bed together just talking and being very tactile and just like having a conversation in bed, and that scene, I honestly just completely bought they were in love with

each other, and I haven't ever got that from I remember thinking when I saw these questions, I didn't even have to think. If you would ask me that on the spot, I would have known my answer straight away, because it's really stuck with me. Like I remember watching it, and look, as far as I'm aware, you know, I think I think they're both straight, and I don't really really back straight actors taking those kind of roles. I think, you know, your greedy boys, leave them alone. They're not

you cut your own roles. Other people need to work in this industry, God damn it. So you know, I wouldn't necessarily be liked, and I support everything about that casting choice that I think it's great, But my god, if I didn't watch that and think, man, they might be a real couple outside of this film because I've never and I've seen films where there's a couple in it who are a couple in real life. Never. Never, I've never believe a couple who are a real couple

as a couple in a film. No, never buy it. Don't care. Yeah, don't, don't buy it at all. But it's weird. It's weird that you would choose to do that. Yeah, I think it's weird. Also, there's so much stuff that when it's like, you know, couples in films and you kind of watch it and think, have you ever been in a relationship ever? Like the way you're acting with

each other, that's not how couples act. The way Plemmens and Woods act in this scene is like, that's how a couple talks when they're lying in bed with each other, and specifically as well, they're in a complicated stage of their relationship and then they managed to communicate it all with body language and everything. And also at the time, you know, both actors, I liked them, but I mainly knew there was gained from the office and the whatever his name is in Breaking Bad, So I didn't know

Plemons obviously. Nowadays, yeah, you know, he's a he's a titan, he's a movie star. Yeah, but back then I was like, oh yeah he was. It was Landry or whatever in Friday Night Lights, And but I gave up on that before the end of the season once, so I don't really know how he did in that. And then he played that psycho in Breaking Bad and that was a

really good role. But you know, I don't know if he's a great, great actor because you know, that character was like no emotion, which I'm pretty sure I could play a character and no emotion, So I don't know if that's a good good actor or not. It could do no emotion. I think you could play an act character had no emotion because the director would keep going, sorry, can you just try to not share disdain either, because that cancer is an emotion, So sorry, I'm trying to

do no no emotion. The thing is, that's what you know, people don't understand about acting half the time. It's how you look. It's everything to do with it. And Jesse Plemons, he's got those eyes are quite close together. You know, he looks like there's something going on there. You like, he can do he can just do dead face and you're like, well, fuck, I'll do dead face and it just looks like I'm being sarcastic. It doesn't it doesn't really work. Yeah, do dead face right now? Yeah, it

look like you're taking a piece out of some way. Yeah, I don't know if it would work, but yeah, that's my answer for the best couple. I mean, I wouldn't necessarily recommend people watch the hold of that film, but I'd say at least like fast forward to that scene, watch it, and it's a masterclass that's really excellent. I mean, this is the one I do have an answer for. Of course, yep, come out and miss Piggy. Well, that

would be on. That would be my prediction for your answer. No, my answer is Donald's having Julie Christie and don't it now that's my answer. I've not seen it, Well you should. What's the film that inspired you to do something? Jack as the movie? Well, I saw it. Afterwards I wanted to do Jackass. Oh yeah, you love Jackets. I love Jackass. After I saw the first one, me and my friends were like, let's go and jump off of stuff and feel myselves doing it. Do you have these videos? My

friend Matthew will have these videos. I've asked him never to show them to people ever, but we used to. This was before people had camera phones and my friend Matthew had a camcorder, so we would film myselves all the time. And thank god YouTube wasn't a big thing back then or what, because you know, I feel so sorry for teenagers growing up now with YouTube who would just put stuff on there. And then I think they're more savvy than we were. But then I think even

teenagers know now not putting anything online. But like we would have if we if we'd known that we could, if somebody has said to us, you can put that online, we would have thought, yeah, well we're brilliant, so we're definitely gonna put it online. Did you do it with like the introes as well? Would you say, I'm James Acaster,

this is jumping up a building? Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah, Okay, definitely like going like oh going like we're gonna jump, We're gonna jump over these shopping jolly is there we go just like really stupid stuff. But I remember just being watching that first Jackass film and being so absolutely amped with like I just want to go up, Like I remember as soon as the film finished we were

we were on these raked seating at the cinema. I was like, I'm just gonna jump on my chair and I'm gonna jump down as far as to see how far down the raked seating I can go, because I was like, I didn't do that, but I was so ampt that I was like, that's what I want to do, because I want to be like Jackass. How is Jackass Forever? It is? And I do not say this lightly a masterpiece, It is their best. Is the best Jackass film. I would say There's only two stunts in it which I

didn't love. Normally, in Jackass films, there are a handful that I love, a lot that are just okay, and a couple that I hate, but it's worth it for the ones that I love. The ones I love are like, this is cinema at its finest. Jackass Forever. Yeah, there were two. There was one that I think is okay, there is one that I don't like. The rest of them, ten out of ten, I absolutely love it, and by the end, I was like, that is beautiful what they've

done with that. They've got They've got the new class in, they've got the old hand, the old guard and they're a minute together, and you completely forget that that lot are new and those that this lot have been at it for a long time. You just completely love the new lot. I bet they're going to do more films with just that new lot. Now, this is the parson of the torch. I'm going to throw my name into the ring. Join that jack new Jackass crew. Jack Ast,

please do Jackaster. I just called myself Jackaster and Joy Jared. Look, if the people who make Jackass approached me to at least to just like guest on one stunt, I'd absolutely do it. I don't think I could. I mean obviously obviously obviously no one's offering me. But in my wildest dream, we don't know who listens to this. If you are involved in Jackass listening to this, please hire Jackaster for your next film. Yeah, and I would do a stunt.

I probably can't do the whole film because you know, as people know, I am older than I. Look, do you have a dream dream stone? You could do one stone? What was it going to be? From the jacket? From the entire Jackass series, all the Jackass series, all the stunts they Unless you've got your own one you want you've invented, well, the most iconic ones I don't think I could do. I couldn't do putting a toy car up, but because I just don't think it would be I

don't want to do. The ones that are just like that are like I mean that for one, that's like the best one they've ever done. It's iconic, and I think anyone trying to do that one again, it's almost disrespectful, right right, Ryan Dunne did that. It's no longer with us. I think if you stick a toy car up your butt, um, you're saying that you're basically just that you're you're as good as Ryan Dune. And that's that's disrespectful. Um. I also,

I don't think it works. I think part of the reason why it works is because you know it was done however long ago. And he clearly doesn't want to put the toy car up his butt. And I'm not saying I would want to put the toy car up my butt, but I'd say it's twenty twenty two and less of us have a problem with putting it stuff up our butts these days. And I reckon, I said,

if someone told me put that up your butt. People will be able to see in my eyes, he doesn't want to do it, but it also doesn't think it's a big deal. And I think what you really need in a jackass stunt like that, it's for the person to be like, I really don't want this up my butt. But I think I'll just be like, nah, be fine, It'll be all right. So what's your choice? What do you want to put up your back? Put something in my buck, because again, I just think I'd be okay

with it, I would say. I mean, there's a lot of their stunts that like, there's a lot of good ones. I mean, the high five is my favorite one where they've got a massive hand and they pull it right back in a spring and I split spring loaded finger and then they let go and it just smacks people as they walk in the door. Obviously, Johnny Knoxall has got a pretty good deal in that because he just stands there and let's the hand go and it smacks other people. So I'd like to be in that one,

but not be told that I'm gonna get smacked. So I'd like them to prank me one day and walk in and get smacked by the big hand, and then I'll be pretty happy about that. James A. Caste, You've been excellent for the fifth time. Thank you for doing such a special edition and for being the person that started and may well have finished this podcast. However, you're on the precipice of heaven and hell. Your best and

worst things you told me you did. One was carbs, the other was being mean to me, neither of which really amount to a Hillobeans in this crazy town, which made me think I might I might let him live. And then I heard your answers, most of which you'd said before, and I thought, I'm about to kick this fucking guy into hell. But you got one last chances. You can give me one film that is meaningful in the hope that I will spare your life. What film

are you going to give me? Before I made my fatal decision, christ might look, I know I haven't prepared this one. I'll focus so much on the other ones that I don't really have an answer, but I will give you an answer. Yeah, I'm gonna say yeah, just because I'm looking over at my DVD collection now. Yeah, And it's the film that I was like, I would like to watch that now and I think it's a beautiful film. I would say the farewell. I'd like to

present you with the farewell. Oh James, you've only bloody done it. Yeah, James at the Slamcaster. You're going to heaven. And I tell you what it was, right up to the wire, that was. But I fucking love the fairwell. What an excellent life saving answer. I don't mean life saving. You're still dead, but you are going to heaven. Congratulations, Thank you. I hope you have a wonderful time there.

There's lots of your friends there actually, because I've killed so many of them, and you give me a list of the people you like the most, and I will not resurrect them and make sure that they get to stay there with you. It's wonderful news. I'm very proud of you. You've done a tremendous job. Actually, you've lived an incredible life. You've touched many many people, and you've also touched their minds. Will you please tell people what

to look out for. You've got a book out, you've got the biggest podcast in the world, I in Menu on the record, and you've also got your stand up that you're only doing for charity. Now is there anything Is there anything else we need to look out for? Well, okay, So my book comes out in August. It's called James Akass's Gude to Quit in Social Media being the best year you can be in Cuing Yourself of Loneliness, Volume one that comes out in August. It's a very very

silly book. Listen to the Offmented podcast on me and pen Pamples talk about food and ask people their dream meals. I must get him on one day, yea, and yeah, I think everything else it's a secret. I know one of your secret projects. And let me tell you it is going to blow people's little pants off. Yes, people's pants are going to fall off when they discover that project. And when I say, this is the man who said there was no such thing as erotic cinema and he

made this project on my days. Yes, he was hiding in plain sight all along. James Acasta, Thank you. Think it does mean a lot to me that you started this show and that you are here for the two hundredth episode. God bless you and keep you and have a wonderful time in eaven. Thank you. Bradley. All right, I love you. Good good day, good day. So that was episode two hundred. Head over to Patreon dot com Forward Last Break Goals Team for the extra chat, secrets

and video with the Genie. Don't forget to get your tickets for the live show at the Hackney Empire Do You Live Second. Tickets are available at Hackney Empire dot co dot uk or Plosive dot com dot uk. Salok.

I want to make too big a deal of this, and I don't want to cry, but I started this podcast a few years ago with the help and advice of Scrubia's Pip, and with long suffering producer and the theme music man, Buddy Peace, and with photography by Lisa Lydon, and with the fantastic art by Adam Richardson from Podbible, who's got his own life and never wants to do it, but keep making him do it. And through the years this thing has grown into live shows at the BFI

and beyond into sequels and now into trilogies. And all of this happened because of the people that listened and cared about it, So I thank you. It's been a real privilege to spend time with the amazing guests I've had, and an honor that any of you have listened. I am going to do one more bonus episode next week, and then, if you can bear it, I'm at least going to take a break. I always said i'd stop

at two hundred. I'll have a think about it. I do love doing this and I'm sure that i will continue, but I'm very busy and it's quite hard to do this as a weekly thing. So I'm just going to take a month off. I'm going to think about it. Might come back and do it as seasons. I might do it, who knows. I'll probably carry on doing it as normal. Who is you know what I'm like. I can't stay away from it, but we'll see. But I'm

definitely going to stop for a bit. I'm going to give you one extra bonus next week because I've got a really fucking great one in the can, and then give me a minute to think about it, and I'm sure i'll be back. But i want you to know it means a lot to me that so many of you have written, and so many of you care about this show. I care about it too. I'll be bad. Just give me a little break. I love you, I'm

grateful to you. I'm thankful to anyone who has listened to this and who has talked about it, and who has shared it with their friends, and I hope I see a lot of you at the live show at Hackney. I do have to give a special thank you, special shout out to Buddy Peace, the producer and the man who did the theme tune. He's the heart and soul of this show. He's the guy who answered the phone at midnight when I'm like, oh, I just need to get this thing in the fucking podcast, and he does

it all. He's the reason this show works. It's fucking brilliant. I'd recommend him to anyone. And best of all, he's an incredible music guy. Listen to all this stuff. You can find it on band camp, I think on Spotify, Buddy pieces amazing. All the Christmas music you get, that's him. He's fucking brilliant and I'm very grateful to him. So thank you, Buddy. And I know he's had to listen to this because he's the one editing it and he's probably being sick in his mouth as he listens. But Buddy,

I love you. You're brilliant. Thank you. I hope you're all well. Thank you for everything, So that is it for now. In the meantime, have a lovely week and please be excellent to each other. Six