Jimmy Pardo • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #177

I invite a special guest 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 Barry Jenkins, Bobcat, Goldswaite, Kevin Smith and even Cred Lamboles. But this week it's the brilliant comedian and podcaster mister Jimmy Pardo. Huge announcement coming up, I will be doing a massive live Films to be Buried With Film to be Buried With absolutely live at the south Bank Center

on Saturday, the twelfth of February. Come along, bring a date nearly Valentine's It's going to be a fucking smasher Tickets are available at Southbank Center dot co dot UK and Plosive dot co dot UK. That's Films to be Buried with Live at the south Bank Center Saturday, twelfth February. Head over to the patron at patreon dot com Forwards the Lash Break Goals Team, where you're getting next to twenty minutes of chat with Jimmy. We go deep, we

talk about beginnings and endings. He tells me a secret. The whole episode is also available uncut as a video. Check it out over at patreon dot com Forwards. Slash Break Goals Team Final Bit of Admin ted Lasso Seasons one and two are available now on Apple TV Plus. You can watch the whole show in one go, and Super Bob is now available on Amazon Prime in the US, the UK and other places. Get amongst them. Right enough with the Admin, Let's do the show. So Jimmy Pardo.

Jimmy Pardo is a comedian who is also known as being one of the first podcasters ever. He's a true pioneer in the game. His podcast and Not Funny It's still going massively strong. He also happens to be producer of this show, Buddy Piece's Favorite Man. So Buddy lost his ship. When we managed to book Jimmy. We recorded this on Zoom. He was a true delight and I think you're gonna love it. So that is it for now.

I hope you will, and I very much hope you enjoy episode one hundred and seventy seven of Films to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With. It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today by an actor, a writer, a producer, a podcaster, a comedian, show guy, a competition guy, a hero, a legend, and for the record, Buddy Piece the producer of this show, his favorite comedian, and he has never been more excited about me having a guest started in my life. Please,

welcome to the show. It's the brilliant It is Jimmy bad I. Oh, hello, thank you for that. That was very kind. I should I should point out, just because I maybe reaching some folks that don't know me. My acting resume is very very small and my writing is even smaller, so you have very neat hand drits. Again, that is why. But oh, thank you, thank you for complimenting me on that. I worked very hard. According to you, you're in dream Girls. You're in the film Dreamcast. Here's

the truth, please. I was cast in dream Girls. Okay, I went to the set. I was I was on hold for two weeks and so they paid me for two weeks. And I went in every day for two weeks. So you're just waiting for two weeks. I just was waiting. But they paid me for two weeks. And um, I had to cancel some road giggs of comic so, which was fine. I'm getting paid. I'm sitting home and I literally was like two miles from the studio from the stage, and I was cast to play the owner of the Oh,

the Crystal Ballroom. The Crystal Ballroom is proud to present the Dreams. That was my line, very good, very lovely delivery. And I rehearsed that line one million times. And uh so my call time was at four am. Yeah, and I get there at four am and they said, hey, you're first up. Let's get you into makeup. They rushed me into makeup. I get into wardrobe, I'm I'm, I'm ready to go. It's freezing outside, you know, it's now.

It's now. It's four forty five in the morning. And they say, hey, it turns out the lighting guys set the wrong things up. We're gonna do this other scene first and then we'll get to you. I'm like, okay, great, they go shoot me more than an hour or so, all right, great, fine. It turns out they shot the big, huge dance, like some big crazy dance number, you know, Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson and Rose I forget, I can't think of I'm panicked. And it went on, Brett, I'm

not kidding. It went on until ten o'clock at night, and I was saw him there all day long, and I got to say, guys, I'm only two miles away. Let me go home. Let me let me just go home. You call me, say get over here. I'll literally be here. And we can't do that. We can't do that. So at about ten o'clock at night, they say, hey, we're finally ready for you. By the way, they think they did it just in the middle of a break. They

took it. Beyonce said I need a break. They said, all right, you know what, let's shoot this guy while she's on this break. Yeah. They bring me in. I do. I'm not good. I do two takes. They go, thank you, very much, so I literally was they used me for three minutes, three minutes, and then I found out the day before the premiere they cut my scene, so I'm not in it, but they still I still get credit,

I still get residuals. I still get residuals. I get residuals, which were great for a while, and now of course they're pennies. How I have talks about this before, but I'm I say this seriously, this is not a gike. I think it is incredibly hard to have one line. I think it is much harder to have one line than it is to have three big scenes because you've got so much pressure on that one fucking line. You've

got your fucking panicking. You will say. The likelihood is if you've got one line, there's other people having lines around you, so you just really need to nail that one line and not make a thing of it. But oh you're doing is thinking about your one fucking line. One line. Is people should get oscars for delivering one line. Well, because it's much harder. I want again to your point.

I was panicked about it. And by the way, we only did two takes because the first one I kind of stumbled over the one of the words because the adrenaline got me. Yeah, you know, after being there for fourteen hours doing nothing, the adrenaline got me to saying that line a million times. Yeah, and so it's like it was time and you know, Bill Kannon, the director points it, says you know, he didn't say actually, just pointed, and I said Ladies of Doublin and then dreams like

just and then he goes, let's do it again. He goes, I love the energy, but let's go the words, right, but yeah, of course great, And then I don't want more time to get out. But it was you would think, I mean, to your point in the in the intro, I'm to use your word a presenter. I've hosted many a game show, many a talk show, and this was just being an MC at a nightclub. And even that was like, oh, I'm very good this right, So it's stressful. Nightmare.

It's a night Yeah, well listen, you got your residios. I did, and I'm proud of you, thank you very much. That's so hard. Yeah, god, I think it's a nightmare. One line is good luck to you, good luck to all the one liners out there. I have nothing but loving respects, because that is hard. Now. Jimmy Parto, as I mentioned in the intro, the producer of this show, who has always been very good to me, I would say from day one, he said, when can we get

Jimmy Parto? He's so obsessed with you, He's obsessed you. And I was thinking about it. If unless I'm wrong, you tell me you were like a pioneering podcasting right, you were one of the one of the outlets. You started it right when you invented you invented the podcast podcasting and the internet. Um, two thousand and six, we started our podcast and it was The Truth For the first year, maybe two years, it was me, Ricky Gervais and the Onion and we would rotate the number one

spot on Apple and so like that's how early. And I was And now I don't even know if I'm on the chart because all these famous people if it started podcasts and you know, try to compete with Joe Rogan and his nonsense. Um, but it Yeah, I've been doing it that long where it was literally me and

Gervais and uh. We had Stephen Merchants on my show once and we talked about those days where it was literally it was podcasting was the wild West, and now you know, people signed contracts and stuff to do them and it's it's bananas. Yeah. And do you do it every week? Have you done it every week since then? Yeah? Well, I mean we don't. We take obviously some holiday off and uh, you know, when my son was born, we took a you know, took some time off. But yeah, we do. Uh we do two shows a week, and

during the pandemic we did three shows a week. No way. Yeah. Do you think you would go mad without it? Uh? Now I would, Yeah, you know, it's uh, you know, I started, I was I was a guy in between gigs, you know, I had I was you know, uh you know, probably waiting for some pilot or something to be picked up or whatever. And this this guy, Matt bell Nap, who was now my co host for fifteen years. He was just a fan of mine and he came to me and said, uh, hey, you know, I was only

a live talk show with the UCB Theater. And he came and he and he came in. He's like, hey, what if we turned that talk show into a podcast? And I was like, I don't know what that means. I know Ricky Gervaiz's show, but I don't really know what that means. And uh, He's like, we'll just we'll just record it. We'll just so we sat down to my dining room table and we started it. And then it still was weird, like I felt like I was doing cable access television, like who what am I pretending

to do? Radio? What am I doing? And then uh, it exploded and here we are. So I'm grateful. I mean, I'm very very lucky I have a fan base and and I can't be more grateful. It must be, I would imagine, particularly when you've been going for so long and so regularly, your fans must be you've been in their heads ye twice a week for years like that is so kind of intimate. I imagine everyone thinks you're their dad or their brother or there. You know it is.

I jokingly say that I'm their hero, and yeah, that way, that's what I meant. Yeah, but yeah, but it is weird to your point, like I In fact, I was just talking about this with my wife today about how our audience has kind of grown with us, and that like they're moving along with us. So they've been a lot of these people have been with us for fifteen years. Wow, yeah,

that's so wild. And and and do you have you had experiences where people like will say something to you about your wife and you'll be like, well, oh yeah, no, I must have talked about that. Yeah. But by the way, they could do that that day and I won't remember what they were talking about it. They'll make it. They'll call back to something that that they just heard them like, I don't know. They go, you just said it, like, all right, say a lot of things. I'm gonna keep talking.

That's amazing man. And they all your guests you have, do you just like I think if I may for me, people keep saying why why do you still do the podcast? And I go, well, actually, it's sort of a privilege to have a long conversation with anyone because you don't really in life, you know what I mean. Like the sort of conversations you have in a podcast one to one you don't have, they don't really happen. It always feels pretty special to have. I'm always very great fun.

You gave me an hour of your life, you know what I mean, Like it's not fucking I'm the other way where they're lucky to be spending an hour with me. That's how I feel when they come and do my show. Um, you know, you know, you know, my shows a little more of hanging out of the green room of a comedy club, and so it's, you know, we don't get deep, which is what I love about your show. By the way.

I love that you truly take an interest in your guests, not that I don't, but it's like you're asking real questions as opposed to me just kind of set people up for a joke or whatever. But I do enjoy you know, I enjoy it. And you know, we started by just booking dudes I thought were funny, just funny friends.

And then it's got more popular, you know, obviously, then you expand to your you know, John Hams and Cornan O'Brien's and you know, some musicians will come on from you know, Sticks or Argos, Spewagon or Chicago, and it's been cool. I've been, you know, I've had my hero is Richard Lewis, and so I had him on one week. I had Paul Raiser on, who was another one of my hero start when I started comedy and had a guy with Richard Lewis, I was he. Oh, it was

everything you wanted it to be. You know, it was like he you know, he shipped all over me in that Richard Lewis neurotic way. And we now text each other every now and then, which, you know, me as a young open micro I think that I would be texting with Richard Lewis. Are you kidding me? You know? So? So it's brought that kind of joy to me. Um and uh again, I'm very lucky to have it, very very grateful. Jimmy part I, yes, oh shit, I've forgotten

to tell you something. Fuck, oh shit, Jimmy. Yes, No, I should have. I should have told you. Maybe Boddy should have told you when he emailed you. I should have. I feel like an idiot. I should have gone No, I should have. I should have said it. I'll just say it. I don't know how you're gonna take it. I'll just say it. Well, okay, so here we go. You've died. You're dead, dead and dead. You're the one they sent to give this news to me. Yeah, and I forgot. I got distracted by you got cool stories

and stuff. I was like, oh, and then I was like fuck, yeah, UM, so sorry, I guess I'm curious as to why you why white guys that I met very recently. Why why not a family member, because we're family members who listened to your podcast. Good Safe and I'm just here announce all right, why did you? How did you die? I have Uh it was, um, I forget the fur. There's a phrase for this that uh uh when I guess I manifested. It is what happened now that I know I'm dead. I had a great

fear when I was on the planet Earth. Uh, that I would be framed for a crime and go to prison. That is that was truly was my greatest fear in the world. Um, because I will never I'm such a straight lace dude, I will I never did anything wrong. And um, I'm trying to stay in the tense of that I'm dead. I'm talking about the past. Um. And so I then went to prison if it eventually happened, I was framed and went to prison and I got shived in the yard? Is that an American bum? Uh? Stabbed?

I got stabbed? Oh stabbed in outside? And uh ship is not a British thing, no, she and the tip shit is I thought in the yard man like in the back. Yes, I got the shipped in the yard. No, but it will be now. Don't think I'm not gonna call my my ass in the yard from here on out. Uh. Hey, that's I went back. I got shifted in the yard. I got yeah, okay, I got so drunk. I fell in my yard. Um yard is like a in prison. It's where they go outside. It's the godsend. You got

shifted in the god you guys use garden. I forgot, yes, okay, you got right. Two questions. Firstly, what were you framed for? What was I was? I appreciate you asking. I was framed for stealing some art. Um, I'm not a big art guy. I don't know why they and I I said in court, this isn't me. You guys are framing the wrong guy. I said, I couldn't. I couldn't name h the cassi And they went that's when that's an artist, went and then I, oh shit, they've seen my hand.

And I was like, well anybody could do that, you know, it's not like I mentioned van go damn it, I did it again, um it Uh They've I got framed for that. Some some local businessman set me up, and uh, who is the legal businessman? I got put away for ten years and then I last six yeah, ten years, six years in shift in the bomb outside in the garden. But why who shift you? Why? I believe it was

it was it was an order from the outside. I believe the guy that actually stole the yard wanted to silence me and um and then said, you know, we gotta take we gotta take her a part of Wait, wait, wait till his pants are down to the garden, and then shove a knife right up right up his yard. Because you spent those last six years just went around the prison guard this local businessman, and everyone's gone, yeah, this local businessman. He sounds like Trump, Yeah exactly. And

they knew what I was talking about. They they'll running come across this local business man. Is there anyone like a business? Thank you for understanding it. Um. By the way, I don't know, ten years does seem like a way too long of any have a sentence for what I did. But I think you started at pocaste right now here. He's quite popular. He is a popular artist from what since I've learned. I've read about him a lot in

the prison library. I read a lot about the art that I've claimed to have stolen um, but it still seems like a long time, ten years. It does, it does to me. But I also am not an art guy. I couldn't name a money Damn if I if I showed you, if I showed you art, could you name them? Because I could not? No, I could, I could name I can't can't pronounce it, but I could name Van Gogh. Uh is that starry night? If I saw starry starry night? I think that starry starry night from this song? Uh?

And that, by the way, that would be the only way I know it too, is from the song no question about it? Yeah. Um, do you worry about death, Jimmy Potter? You know I here's the truth. I never did until my son was born. When I used to say, I want to live to be eighty and then I'm good, I'm done. I I you know what happens after eighty, and so take me at eighty. I'm fine. And the second my son was born, it's like, no, I want to be two hundred years old. I want to see

him live life and do everything. And you know, I want to see you by grant. I want to see my grandkids, and so I worry about it, maybe every second I'm awake. But yeah, that makes that makes more sense to me. Yeah, yeah, hell, Oh it's your son now, man asked. He is fourteen and uh, he is a huge fan of yours. He uh he loves the program. Oh lights lights, say him. Yeah he is. Uh, he

very much loves the program. Well, that's very kind, and and say thank you to him for coming into the world and making you think about death every second if you're working about He's also very funny. By the way, my son, my son will be a comedian. There's no question in my mind. Dude, I'm trying to talk him into anything else, anything else. Please, I'm begging you because he's also look bad. You're gonna make me look bad. You become a comedian. People see him. I'm a bad dad.

Come on, it's day. He's gonna talk about mebe on stage and it's going to be uh. That said, I think he's gonna be good, so he'll be able to carry me when I'm eighty three years old. Would you ever like in your fantasy life, like do gigs together? Five a son gigs? Would you like that idea? Or would you do see us being the Trumps? Um, I don't. I don't see that. I don't know. I don't know what happened for you? Could he happened for you? That's it seems very full right, And I love it. I

did try to. I did try. You know. His school wanted me to uh, And I did it. They wanted me. I hosted the talent show for their middle school, the uh and you know, uh, anybody could have done it, but I did it. And I tried to convince my son to co host it with me, and his response was dead, I don't want to overshadow the other kids. So uh. He was very thoughtful and that he felt going up there all night long would be unfair to the kids and only had three minutes. So I was

just taking he doesn't call you the other kids don't know? No, he does not. He wasn't. He was certainly not worried about overshadowing me. Yeah, I would love if that was my nickname. What do you think happens when you die? I don't know. I don't know. You know, my mom passed away. Boy, we're going out four years now, twenty seventeen, New Year's Eve, and sorry. Just today a song came out.

I was I was taking a walk and a song came on the iPod and it reminded me of my mom and I literally, out loud to nobody, just walking by myself, was just I said, thank you, thank you for my great childhood, thank you for things you did. I don't think I told you enough while you were with us. And so do I think she can hear that? I don't really, I don't know. But what if you can? Well, you know, what if? What if what we see in movies or here is real? And she was able to

hear that, and and and it worked. At the same time, I probably just looked like a nut walking down the street talking to myself. So I don't know, Brett, I don't know. Listen, I really like that, And I think about that stuff a lot. The fact that you were like compelled to say that to me, I go, well, that's there's a bit of magic there, Like you're not insane, I don't think so for you to say that, you're not saying it for a laugh, you know what I mean? Like, right,

there's something that brought that out of you. I don't know. I'd like it and just to build up what you said and without patting myself on the back. Yeah, not doing it for anybody, you know what I mean. Not. It wasn't performative. It was like just I felt the need to say it, and you know, it felt it felt good, It felt like yeah, I don't know, I don't know, felt like I connected with her for just that couple of minutes. I really really like that. Well,

Jimmy Patty, Yes, there's a heaven. Oh there is, Yeah, there is. Actually, it's great. It's filled with your favorite things. What's your favorite thing? Oh, my god, I bet the end of the other than my wife and son, I would say comedy. I mean that's it's filled with its water world comedy. The seats are made of old Richard Pryor albums, the wolves are made of Steve Martin figurines, and the toilets are made out of mics, which is what it sounds odd, but actually quite comfortable. Anyway. In

this heaven, everyone's so excited to see you. They're huge fans, and they want to talk to you about your life. But they want to talk to you about your life through film. All right, do you like films? I go to the movie. I love the experience. I love even though these movies now they released at the same time streaming now that we can after the pandemic or back when I was back on Earth, there was a pandemic back in the day. I oh, it was awful. We were locked down for a while. UM, I still go

to I would still go to the movies. I love it. I love the experience of going there, getting the popcorn, getting the drink, sitting in my seat. I love it. What's the drink you get? I get a Coke zero. I'm I'm addicted to coke zero and uh and the medium popcorn which is always too much, but I eat it all and Uh, I love it. The first thing they went to nine in Heaven is what's the first film you remember seeing, Jimmy Pott. I don't. I don't know. I'm guessing this has been said a million times on

your program. Uh. The first movie I remember in this contradicts my point of going to the movies. Uh was The Wizard of Oz. Where I grew up in the I grew up the South side of Chicago, and we were not rich. We were very In fact, we were poor, and so we we had a very small, maybe thirteen inch black and white TV. And the Wizard of Oz was of course magical and in color. So we would go across the street to our friend, the Miller's house to watch the Wizard of Oz. It was a and

it was a big event. It was like a big deal, the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is on. Let's bring the kids over to watch it so we could see it in color, all right. You didn't know there was a kind of sex exactly. So it was you know, just magical, just unbelievable, and uh do I do I love the movie? I don't know if I

if I love it. I like the Wizard of Oz, but as a kid, I just love the experience of, you know, again going over to the neighbor's house and watching it on a bigger TV and in color, and just you know, hoping one day to have a color television. How many of you were the kids? How many siblings do you have? Just my brother, myself, and then my mom and dad, So it would have been the four of us over there, and they were just uh, I

think there were four people as well. Is he you remember a younger He is two years younger than me he lives in Chicago. Okay, I like that very much. Do you remember thinking, uh, so you didn't think I want to I want to do that. I want to be I want to be something to do with that. You just thought I want to kind of tea me that was a very materialistic. Yeah. I think I think if we were to ask my parents, I was probably performing.

I know. I certainly was like when I would watch Batman and Robin, I would go to school and do little shows before class, you know, being Batman and Robin with my brother. I would force my brother to be Robin if we would do little skits for the class too. I'm gonna say nobody's enjoyment. Like, I don't think anybody wanted it to be happening. Um, So I think it was. I probably was like I want to do that one day, and uh and I love musicals, so I probably was

like I want to do specifically that. Yeah. Yeah, and I don't have the talents to be in musicals. But hey, hey, hey hey, no none negative Seth took. But they say you got the Tali, Well, it's not negative, it's fact that you got a Tali kid. You gotta know the way I don't have the singing ability. I wouldn't have ituzz what's the what's the film that scared you the mice? Do you lot mean scam? You know what I do?

And this that question panics me because I I literally freeze up because I love so many scary movies that I have a tough time pin pointy one and so I think at the but at the end of the day, there were two. There was a mini series called Salem's Lots. I don't know if it was a two night event with Lance Kerwin and David soul and back. I don't know, a seventy late seventies, and that's I remember that scared the hell out of me. But more recently was my wife and I were given a she was my girlfriend

at the time. We're given a VHS tape and somebody said, hey, watch this movie. You're You're never gonna believe this movie and it was the Blair Witch Project, before there was any hype, before anybody was talking about it, and we sat on my couch and it's scared the I mean it, look, it's scared the fff out of me. It was like,

are you sure is this real? What the fuck am I watching like it was, yeah, it's it's so and then you know, and then my mom, and my mom was the one that got me in a horror film. She she loves horror movies, and I was like, I actually went back to Chicago. I said, you gotta see this movie. And watching it a second time, he's not scary in anyway, shape or form. You know it's not real. You know, it's fak. She had heard that it was not real, that it was just a movie, so she

wasn't as scared. She just kind of enjoyed it. But wait, scared the hell out of me. I have never heard of everyone who's ever been on this. I've never heard someone say that their mom was really into horror and got him into it really like that. It's so fascinating. I don't know what to ask you about it, but I've never heard it before. I wanted to tell me more. Do you know why your mom loves loved I don't know.

I know that she I remember her and my aunt waiting in line three hours to see The Exorcist, and uh, anyway, I guess it was freezing outside they had to wait in line. I want to say she made Peter pants when because once she was able to be inside, like she got scared in Peter Pants, I think, um, but she was always into him. And then she she took me to see Halloween, the movie Halloween. Yeah, what was that? Seventy eight? Is that Halloween or seventy seven? So what

was I you know, probably ten or eleven? Uh no, Jim, you know how old you are, your loving health at that time, but maybe too soon to see that movie. So it but I still think it's one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Uh So we would that would be our running thing. We would see We would see horror movies all the time, my mom and I we would uh great, And would you like howld each other? Like? Was it like? Would you hold hands? Would you be scared? Was it you was separate? People?

Just no, it's not Harold. In Maud we was me and my mom. We're heading Come on, that's normal, come on, normal stuff. Uh yes, I don't know. Again, I don't know what you guys do over there in the UK. It's not normal the UK. We did not make but going fair enough, I don't I'm learning. Um No, we would probably sit there and I would probably uh, just close up and watch the movie and then we would talk about it. Non. My mom also loved she loved uh and this is something that my son has uh

adopted as well. Love to talk about the movie afterwards, like at length. And I would be like my mom, my mom, we were talking about it, and we'd be seven minutes and I'm like, we've covered everything, but how

are we still talking about this? And she would want to just keep talking about it, talking about it, my son, I guess I. In fact, I just told him two days ago, boy, you and your grandmother you would just love going to the movies together because she she too enjoyed over discussing the movie after we had seen it. I know you that's FU cool. What is the film that mights you cry? That might are you a cry dude? I cried? You know, I'm that I'm the guy that cries.

The commercials I'll see ah, you know a dad giving his kid a Christmas gift and I just sobbed like a jackass. Um. There's there's two that come to mind, and one was a movie called In Country with Bruce Willis. I don't know if you saw that. It's about a guy that comes Home from Vietnam and yeah, it's an okay movie. It's okay. And but Roger Ebert's review said he had never he had never cried. I'm paraphrasing. Maybe he didn't say these exact words, but he's like, I wasn't.

Maybe he said I wasn't prepared to cry as much as I did, but I or I'd never cried like this. So I went to the movie and prepared to sob because Roger Ebert told me I would. And I'm not crying at all. I'm watching the movie going, what the what's he talking about? This is it's and and the movie's just okay, it's it's it's good, it's not great, and I'm not crying. And then there's a scene where they go to the wall in Washington, the Vietnam War

Memorial well whatever. I don't know exactly what it's called, and I don't know what the hell happened, But all of a sudden, it goes from well, I'm not crying, what's it all? Gone? Just sobbing like I've never sobbed in a movie. Like it was unbelievable how much this moved me so much. So years later, I'm in a hotel on the road as a comic and in Country comes on and it's literally three quarters of the way through it. I was like, hey, you know, I'll watch

this while. I watched this while I'm getting ready for the show. And so I'm getting dressed and I'm watching it, and then that fucking scene comes on and all of a sudden, I'm pounding on the bed because I'm sobbing so much again, like this scene just gets me, and now I gotta go to comedy and I'm drained because I just sobbed like an idiot. So that is one where I cried like crazy, and then the other one was Goodwill Hunting. The second time I saw it, I

was on a plane. I was a spokesman for a shopping mall in Oregon for about five years, and so we were shooting some commercials in Hawaii, and so the people from the mall are on the plane, the advertising companies on the plane were on the plane, and there was I no longer can sit in the seats. In fact, I would panic if I did. But I was in the middle of five seats. You know how the bigger jets have the five seats in the across in the middle.

I was in the middle seat, and it was back when you didn't have a screen in front of you on a seat. It was the big screen. And so they're showing good Will Hunting and I was like, well, I don't know if this is gonna to watch this. You cried at the movie theater. You really want to make a scene here? And then I was like, hey, you're not gonna cry. You've already seen the movie. You know what happens. And all of a sudden, the end of Goodwill Hunting calms and I'm making I'm not kidding,

I'm making a scene on the plane. That's how much I'm I'm trying to hide. Um, you know, I'm putting my jacket on my head. It was so those are the two that come to minded that. But I'll cry it every I cried it, brave, I cried everything. Oh yeah, I mean, you're any human. What's the film that people don't really like? It's not critically acclaimed, but you love it. I'm conditioningly, Ah, I am gonna get hate mail for this.

I don't know if I I very much enjoy Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band The Peter Frampton Beg's movie. Oh okay, I haven't seen this. I don't know why you're gonna get tell me why you're gonna get hey Man. Because it's horrible. It's absolutely horrible, because I deserve it exactly because they're not wrong. Um it. Yeah, here's the I know this is blad I'm I like the Beatles. I'm not bananas for the Beatles. I'm huge into you know, if I pan the camera you would see I have

a gazillion albums. I loved music. I wash in the music business before I was a comedian, worked for MC Records. I'm crazy for music. I've been to thousands of concerts. I'm just not a Beatles guy. I'm not a Beatles guy. But for some reason, you give me the Beg's and Peter Frampton who with the Beatles, and I love it. Okay, I'm starting to under time way hey Man's coming from. It's coming. There's no question it's coming. Uh. In the movie.

The movie is atrocious. It's absolutely atrocious, but I think it brings me back to my childhood and I have great memories of going with friends. Uh. There was a thing back when I was a kid that when soda was in um in glass bottles and you'd have the metal pop top. Uh. If you brought six of them, you got to see the movie for free. So we would go. We saw. I must have seen Sergeant Pepper that summer twelve times, you know, and I'm never paying

for it, just bringing these bottle caps. So I kind of have a memory, you know, great memories of it. And and then my son became obsessed with it for a little while too, uh, and he loved it. And then now if I say, hey, do you want to have to Sargeans Pepper, He's like, no way, man, So he at least has grown past it. I have not. That thing is getting beating up at school, no way, exactly. I don't know what the kids are at too. I'm

sure I'm embarrassed my son on a regular basis. On the other end of this, guy, O, what is a film that you used to love? You loved it a lot, but then you've watched it recently and you've gone out. No, I don't lie, they said anymore. For whatever reason that might be. There's two of them, and they both and they both bumm me the hell out that I don't uh, one is Lost in America, the Albert Books movie. Oh really doesn't know? Well, yeah, we watched it over lockdown,

and I remember quoting the movie. And I'm not a big movie quarter guy. I can't. I'm not great with that. And I would And by the way, I've been misquoting it for thirty years. Um uh. By the way, my favorite, my most famous misquote is from Titanic. Um I I went to, I would I would have gone into this, this very grave I'm in now. I would have said that that Billy Zane said around the drinks here am I good man? He never says it, not once, doesn't

even come quach sang. It never is a drink. Uh, never even orders the drink exactly if I can complain of dehydration the whole time. It starts to sucking on some of the ice when it falls off the iceberg. That's how much you watch it. It needs a drink. So I misquoted Lost. But I loved Lost in America. I thought it was the greatest movie that. I just thought it was amazing, and then we watched it because and it was one of those that my wife and I both were like to my son Oliver we gotta

watch Lost in America. You know, you're finally old enough you can get it. You're gonna you're gonna love it. And I'm sitting there watching it, going, there's no way he's liking this. This is it doesn't hold up. And then I'm looking over at my wife and she has a look on her face like what the hell happened? This doesn't hold up? And then it was over and Oliver's like, really, that's the movie and I'm like, no, it just and it and it kills me because Albert

Rooks is a genius, one of my heroes. But what was the line you said that was wrong? But you've been saying that is it's something about the nest egg nest. You can't you don't even say it, don't you you don't even don't even don't you can't say nest, You can't say hey, you don't even say it. And I don't think he says any of that. I think it just it's funny. You should you say in something because that's good. Uh, well, listen, I will do that and then I'll ask her a skit and then give sort

of pseudo credit to Albert Brooks. Yeah, summer is it? Give him you your penny residuals from the dream guys more than happy to do it. And I still cash those checks, by the way, because if I don't, I think some accountant's gonna panic, like, why I can't balance my sheet? That guy won't check? Won't cash this three cent check? H The other one was My Bodyguard? Did you ever see My Bodyguard? Very very big? Is that we were Billy Christ No, no, no, it's uh Chris

make peace and Adam Baldwin nineteen nineteen eighty. I think kiddies being bullied gets a big guy's Flamerand yeah, Ruth Gordon's in it. Martin Mall. I saw that movie and was like, I love it, and I loved it forever and I think I still love it. But the truth is it's it's not It's not what I thought it was. So those those are the two that come to mind. I think we talked about this in the Riots from

I think we talked about that film. It's the message of my Bodyguard, punch him in the knives and he'll leave you alone. Is that? That's it? And and what we were discussing in the right room is has that

ever worked in the history of people being bullied. You tell, I don't know I've ever had the balls to punch anybody, So I don't know, you know what, my fear would always have been in And I think about this whenever you see a fight on the on the school yard, or if I was in if I was ever head been winning one is, you might win that fight, but that guy's not gonna go No, he beat me, it's over. He's gonna you gotta look over your shoulder for the rest of the time you're at school because he's gonna

he's gonna retaliate. Yeah, that's in those films. It's always the bully who gets hit. Guys like ah sort of cries and runs away and that's the end of it. And you're like that did it, And you're like, did he I don't know. I don't think you did. I think that guy can cut back and shi yah, he's gonna shive the yard. She's gonna shive you Ryan, you yard. Damn right, you just started a war. Right. Good answers.

What is the film that means the mice to you, Jimmy pot But not necessarily the film itself is any good? But because the experience you had around seeing the film will always make it special to you. Um. There was a made for TV movie in the seventies called Brian Song. I don't know if you ever saw that. It was about the football player from the Bears, Gael Sayers tell me, but James Kahn played his best friend, Brian Piccolo, and it's a true story about this football player who died

but their friendship was so magical. And then he gives the speech at the end about how he was a great player and the reason that I'm not a big football guy. In fact, I don't for that. I mean American football. Thank you, I appreciate it. Not a huge I'm not a huge American football I grew up in Chicago where the Chicago Bears were like everything, and I just didn't care. Not that I rebelled, but I think it was my own private You know, you're all into

that and I'm not. So aren't I cool? Nobody? Um, But this movie, the reason that it means a lot is because it was the first time I can remember my dad crying. And you know, when you see your dad, who you know, who you see? I think, is this just this strong? Not my son sees me cry every day, and so you know, this illusion is gone. But my dad never did. He never cried. He was and to me, he was still like this big mountain of a man.

And and and so we're watching this movie and I remember getting choked up and crying and not wanting to cry because I thought I would embarrass myself in front of my dad, Like you can't cry. You know, you can cry in front of your mom, and you can't cry in front of your dad. At least that was the mentality of a South Side Chicago kid growing up. And I remember the movie happening, the scene happening, and I'm crying and trying not to so I'm not embarrassed.

And I look over because I hear my dad trying to stifle and he's crying, and it was like, oh, it's okay, it's okay to cry, it's okay to have this emotion. So for that and I don't I don't know if it's a good movie or not. I can't remember, uh, you know, I haven't seen it in forty years or whatever, but that was that's I do. I remember, that's the first time I really cried in a movie. And It was the time that I remember thinking, oh, my dad's a person. Yeah did he see you see him crying? Boy?

That's a good at me. You don't you're looking at me. I don't know, and I don't know if we ever talked about it. I don't know if it was discussed. I'm guessing knowing that again the South Side Chicago, Pardo Way, I don't think. I don't think it was ever discussed. Fasting? Is he still? Is he still with us? He is seventy eight years old? And uh, still great? He went golfing yesterday. He's doing great. And can you ask him and then get back to me if he saw you

see him crying? Here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna say, hey, Dad, remember when we watch Brian's song and we when we both cried. He's gonna go Uh, I don't. I don't remember seeing the movie, and I don't know what you're talking about. I never cried. I never cried. What shut you fucking dat you mouth? Yeah? My dad in the mob? Uh yeah, I will be Bret. I promise you, I will ask you. I appreciate it, but I guarantee he's not gonna remember Okay, okay, I appreciate you trying here.

What is the film that you must relate to? You know what I already mentioned, It's My Bodyguard. I think because I grew up. You know, I'm not the tallest guy now. I'm five foot four and a half. I'm a I'm a short man. So in grade school I was a really short kid. I was a I was the guy in my Bodyguard. I truly was the kid in my Bodyguard. I was Chris make Peace. I kind of even looked like Chris make Peace when I was

that age. I had the big seventies hair that was way too long and unkept, and I would get bullied a lot because I was short, and it was you know, it's as we as I'm an adult now I understand bullying. It's the kid who's not being treated well at home and he needs to lash out and and pick on somebody smaller than him. And I just happened to be smaller than everybody, and so I got picked on a lot. Uh, grade school, high school, all of it. But I would

always get out of it by my line. My big line was always, um, why do you want to do this? You know you can beat me up. What are you gonna prove if you do it? And they always go yeah, okay, like it somehow worked. That's like like it always got really close to me, you get my ass kicked, and it never really happened. Thank thank god, because I don't know what I would have done if I ever got really hit. That's the fucking answer. That's the answer we

were looking for. That's really brilliant. Oh well, you're welcome. I look, a tall guy couldn't have given you that answer. That's the answer. You look, a tall guy couldn't have done it, these two guys. So I think it's it's a combo though, Brett my Bodyguard, the Chris make Priece roll. And then also the movie Breaking Away. Did you ever see Breaking Away? Yes, the bicycle movie based on a shutting Bloomington, Indiana. Yes, I have seen it. Is that you on a bike, that's me on the bike. It's

it's I. I related so much to that character. Kind of again, kind of the outside, not the outside of a kind of the you know, a nerd before or nerd was cool, you know, kind of didn't fit in, didn't know how to, you know, wanted to be in musicals. But I grew up. I'm in Chicago, so you're supposed

to be into sports, so not really, you know. So you know, I got a bike from my eighth grade graduation because of that movie, uh, you know, a Japanese racing bike, because I thought I was then gonna be a Japanese or a you know, a champion cyclist like this Dave Stoler. In the movie, they were just graduating high school and trying to figure out how to be adults.

I was graduating eighth grade when that movie came out and trying to relate to what am I gonna do because we were moving to a new town and so I So those are the two movies I very much relate to. That's a really good What is the sexiest film you've ever seen? Jimmy Poda, I don't know if it's the sexiest. Um, well, but but that is the question. Yeah, I understand, I know my assignment. Um here's here's what I'll say. This is the first time I remember getting

stimulated in a movie theater. Okay, and it was the movie Dressed to Kill with Angie Dickinson and Michael Caine. Yes, exactly. And the first scene is it. It turns out not to be Angie Dickinson, but it's a body double in the shower, and it's full nude. It's full it's full on.

And I remember and by the way, I was there with my dad and his second wife, and I remember being again embarrassed in front of my dad for another reason, like I'm with my dad, I'm not supposed to be seeing this, and and get and literally literally getting, you know, probably got e wrecked. You know. It just really was like holy for what's happening here. So I'm gonna go

with that. Please call you when you call your dad to ask if be so you see him crying, can you always ask him if you buy that skip face dressed a kid? I you know, here's what he may remember that one. For this reason, my mom and stepdad had we were staying with my dad for the weekend because they were obviously forced if my dad had a second wife, and so we would occasionally, like I think

every other weekend, we would then stay with him. So I think we went to see it on a Saturday night, and my mom and stepdad went to see it on a on Friday night. So we went to see it, and we came home and the phone is ringing, and it's my mom about to tell my dad, Jim, don't take the kids to see at Resticill. There's weird nudity at the front of the movie. So my dad's name was Jim. She wasn't talking to me, um, so it was so he may remember it for that reason. And yeah,

but that one. And then I have to Olivia Newton John in Greece when she shows up at the end in those hot pants and then then the bigger hair and the outfit. Uh con and you know I was I was the right age for that. I'm really sorry. I think I missed a part of your story. Did your mom say don't take him to see the film after you've already seen the film? Yes, okay, right, it wasn't that. Your dad went, yeah, let's say it wasn't. Well, you know what, we're divorced through you. I'm taking about it.

It wasn't bad twice, okay, No, And I think my dad was. I think he was genuinely embarrassed that because I mean, it's full it's full frontal nudity. It is. Yeah, it's the it's the real deal. Uh, except it's not her. What is there's a subcategory to this question. Yes, troubling bonus, worrying? Why dones? What's the film you found a rousing? You weren't sure you should? I listen, my erections have respect for movies. They know when not to happen. So I

think I know. I don't think it's ever happened. Honest to God, I think that I think my my, my boners know their place, and uh they don't. You know, I'm not watching anything next to your dad? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, I don't. I don't know. By the way, I'm sure it happened last week, but I can't. You know what. I believe you. There are people that avoid this question that I don't. But I believe you. Your your bonus have respect, and you have respect for your bone, and

for that I am grateful. They know when to show up, they know when it's proper. Yeah. Out of curiosity, And I apologize, I haven't asked yours on any of these. You mustn't, it's not I apologize. I don't know how heaven works, but I thank you for giving me the rules. Uh? Can I ask on this one though? Just because I literally don't know if it's ever happened to me? What what? What movie is it for you that it happened for you? Oh,

I'll never answer that. This is I would never do this podcast, but I'll give you a yeah, I would never do this. This impossible. I don't want anyone agrees to do it. It's absolutely impossible. What you gott fucking say? One film for everything? Ridiculous. It's fun, ridicous concept. Disagree with you. It's a great concept and it's a lot of fun. I'll give you an example of one. Well, you know, there's the simple answers of the Little Mermaid, that sort of thing. People who's getting who? Who? I

don't know. I'm not saying I did it. Sounds like you're saying you did it. Sounds like you're saying I said I have not. I'm sad, I'm not I did again. I'm hearing it as this was the one that I I'm not saying that The Little Mammaid is fair season lovely looking, mammaide, good luck, all right, very fair fair. Uh, what objectively, objectively is the greatest film of all time might not be your favorite, but it's the pinnacle of cinema. You know what I love Rocky. I think Rocky is flawless.

I love everything about Rocky. I think it deserves more praise than it gets. I think so Stolone's turned into a punchline. So I think it the movie unfairly is maligned in retrospect. But I think it's that. But I will say this, and I had never seen this movie ever into that I'm about to speak of until I was married to my wife and her favorite movie is Singing in the Rain, and I had never seen it, and she brought me to see it, and I walked out going. However, I never seen this movie. I love

musicals and I love dance scenes. So I may want to say Singing in the Rain. I may want to say that, Timmy pat Day, you have just completed the podcast that is entirely the correct answer. Is that true? You just said the fucking secret the correct answer really the greatest film of all time? Yeah, singing in the Rain. Well, I will tell you if you and I talked about this ten years ago, I would have said Rocky and uh or the godfathered me the go everybody says the Godfather.

It's easy to say. Sugar's list, I think is up there, but Singing in the Rain ticks all the boxes. It does everything, it does everything. It's fucking brilliant. It's brilliant. Is that now? Is that your favorite? Not all of ask questions. I think it's one of you I have, I will, I will say that. I think Seeing the Rain is one of the greatest films of whole time. And it holds up in every way. And it's fucking funny.

It's amazing for no how funny it is. And it's joyful, and it's got a good story, and it's fucking amazingly made, and it's fluless, it's pretty. And you see gene Kelly, I mean the two Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly dancing. And you know, I mean I could watch that most as supposes on a loop. I could watch that for forty eight hours straight. It's fucking funny, ill. Oh my god, I eat them love it. Good Man, good Man twenty

thousand points, Well, thank you very much. I didn't know points are on the line, but I'll take them with They weren't until you've got started getting the questions right, never more excited. What is the what is the film you could or have what's the most over and over again. When I was a young boy, it was Airplane. I think I saw the movie Airplane eight million times. Um nice, and I still I watched with my son recently, and

not every joke holds up, of course, but it's still great. Uh. But the one that I watched minimum And by the way, I guarantee nobody's ever said this, and if they did, I'll be amazed. Woodstock the movie, the documentary, really it is. I watch it. In fact, this is weird. This is another one that goes back to my mom in a way. We they used to run it on New Year's Eve

in Chicago on TV every year. I don't know why, but they would and late at night, like after like starting at midnight, so you'd celebrate we you know, as a kid, would celebrate that, and then you're wired from celebrating New Year's Eve and then here comes this three hour documentary. And so I would stay up with my mom and we would watch Woodstock the documentary, and I think so I still watch it. Probably once a year. I watched that documentary and I don't think I would

have enjoyed Woodstock. I don't think I would have liked going. I'm a guy that doesn't like mud. I don't like filth, I don't like I don't get high, I don't live that lifestyle. But I there's something about the movie and the idea and maybe the nineteen sixty nine that time that I think I just kind of like the concept of it. So I watched that that. Oh I like, if I walk out right now, my wife and son would ever say, Hey, you know what we never watched

which doctor? Want to watch it? Yes, let's do it like I'm in Yeah, really good. Never had never come up on the side, Uh what is we don't like it to be negative? Timmy Poto, I didn't know. I don't love being negative. But well, we're here, we'll do it quickly. Okay. It was what's the worst film you've ever seen? Jimmy pot and I, uh, well, I don't know if this one's the worst. But the only movie

I ever walked out of was Vegas Vacation. I walked out of Vegas Vacation, which bombed the hell out of me because I loved the previous you know, Three Christmas European and the original Vacation. But I think the worst movie I ever seen, I was, in fact, Jimmy car kind of who made reference to this when he was on with you about how when you're on the road is a comic and you have to kill time during

the day so you'll, you know, you'll see whatever movies playing. Um. I was in Lake Tahoe where they have a total of one movie at least at the time, they had a total of one movie theater, and they were playing Pirates the car mean two Dead Men's Chest. Yeah, And the only reason I didn't walk out was I had nothing else to do. Like it was the oh, I mean, it was like, if I leave here, I'm gonna go and be bored in my hotel room. So I'll wait this out. I hated every second of it. So I

think that's my answer. Did you like the first one? I did, look the first one, so I kind of was excited for the second. One's fucking great. Yeah, yeah, fast one's fucking great. Yeah. He gets very complicated and he becomes a clown. I think I think Johnny Depp, it's I always joke around with my son, that son. You've never believed this, but Johnny Depp was once one of the greatest actors in Hollywood, like he you know, Donnie Brasco, are you kidding me? He's fullest in that movie?

And uh yeah it so that bummed me out. So and then I, I'm sure I went up on stage and talked about it for way too long to nobody's enjoyment. Did you talk when you when you were in that hoightel room watching h in Country and then yourself to death and then you went on stage? Did you talk about that when you went on stage? I would imagine, yeah, yeah, I don't know. Bred you've never seen me do stand up.

I don't have much of an act, so I will just kind of talk about whatever's going on and hope to god I find the funny and that they also agree that it's funny. That's that's what happened that up. What is the film you're in company? You're very funny. What's the film that made you laugh the most? Jimmy pot the one that comes to mind, I will say last, obviously Airplane. I laughed the hardest airplane for years. Uh uh,

this is spinal tap. You know. Those are probably the two real answers that that I've laughed the hardest over time. But when I went to see and this is embarrassing. I went to see the Corey Hayne Corey Feldman movie Licensed to Drive. I've fucking seen that, yeah, and it's

not a good movie. But there is a scene where there's a drunk guy driving singing along to some Frank Sinatra song and he's just swerving and he's hitting things and and and and it is oblivious to it because he's drunk and he's just singing and he's going crazy with the Sinatra And I remember thinking it was the

funniest thing. Like I couldn't stop laughing at the scene, and I literally brought this is no joke, I yelled at at one point he's about to hit something on the screen and I go, oh no, like I yelled out in the middle of the movie theater, enjoy like with with with it, just thrilled that it was happening. So is that the hardest That might be the hardest I laughed in a movie. But I don't. I can't say License to Drive it's the funniest for you, know what I mean? I love that. That's the that is

the answer one. I want that and I respect you for it. Great, You've been wonderful. You ain't put a foot wrong. You actually scored eight billion two thousand and three, which is pretty good, thank you. However, when you were framed for stealing a work of art, I believe it was Ory Storry Night by Vincent Bach because it was the only painting. What got you in trouble in court is it was the only painting you could name, and that was the painting that had been stolen. Just ship luck. Yeah,

but it was stolen. And you were like, no, I didn't know that because of the song, and you started singing the song and that they said you, what is that you singing? And you went, I told you haven't got a good voice. And I was in the jury, and I would believe it yourself. You got frame for it. It was actually a local businessman, as as you kept telling people in this prison. Six years in that prison, you had a lovely time, surprising that you got on

with everyone. People were a bit like, you're obsessed with banging on about this local businessman. Anyway, word got out to the local businessman. He was the only businessman in town who was local, and he's like, I got down and so he had someone else framed, got them in prison. They made a ship. He said, next time he's in the garden, stick that ship up his yard and you got shipped around the yard. Yeah. I was doing a prison visit with a coffin, you know what I'm like,

And I'm like, where's do be part? I'd love to catch up with him and seeing him in six years since he got put away. And I'm walking around the garden just admiring the flowers and the taypii that's been done by the inmates, and there you are, dead in a bush with a ship sticking out of your yard. And I'm like, oh man, this poor guy. So I have to get a hold of you. But you've been eating by rodents as well, so yeah, it's not the most tygenic prison. Your body's a mess. I'm like, do

what I can. I chop you up, stuff you and I'll put you in the coffin. And I'm like, oh, there's like a bump in this coffin. What is it? And I lift up your body and they're at the bottom of the coffin is the DVD for Breaking Away? And I'm like, oh, that's what that's what he'd want. That's what he would have wanted. So I just stuff you in the coffin, put the lid on, I send you off to the other side. And on the other side,

it's movie night every night. And when it's your movie night, you're showing everyone breaking away, right, yeah, damn right, Jimmy part. What delight you? Uh? Thank you? What would you tell people? What would you like people to look out for to, what to listen to? Well, you know we talked about it. My podcast, Never Not Funny is uh nothing but joy. It's it's uh, well, I mean less unless I'm being

cranky that day, but it's, uh, that's fun. I also have a web series called Jimmy's Records and Tapes, which is on YouTube at YouTube dot com slash Never Not Funny. There's links on Never Not Funny dot com or Jimmy part of the comp to all these things. And that is me talking about music and just uh kind of just riffing off the top of my head about my top five favorite songs of a certain genre yacht rock or songs that are so bad you'll love them, and so that I do that for fun because of my

love of music. But the podcast is really good. Where to find me if you enjoy my nonsense that's very good. Jimmy Parday, good luck to you. Thank you for your time and you've been really thank you. Thanks for having me having Lovely Death. I was easy. Good day, bye bye. So was episode one hundred and seventy seven. Head over to patreon dot com Forward slashback Goldstein for the extra

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