Pop Culture Minisode (S2, E16 “There’s the Rub”)

New York. Walter Cronkite a special report. There's been a triple clown fellow sighting taken out of Los Angeles, California. Daniel Romo standing by the clown pillow. You could have seen it when Roy was on the phone and a side side clown pillow at So check them out and don't miss clown pillow. Can we add a little bit to the clown pillow hunt? The Grandma cookie jar. Has everybody been noticing the We'll put a photo up on

the Instagram the grandma on that phone. This is something that Walter Cronkite and his team are already investigating, so there will be special reports. I'm I'm thrilled to say it. So, yes, we need to make sure we are hunting for the clompolla, the Grandma cookie jar, and occasionally the weird painting at the entry way of the house, but that's not as important as the Gramma cookie jar and content. You look, you confirm these sightings, and I'll get Walter to cover it.

It's it's tough, it's tough, but I'll get them to do it. According to NASA scientists, theonds of a triple clown pillow sighting our five hundred billion, thirty seven to one. And that's the way it is, is Walter Cronkite, Good evening. This has been a special report from New York. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. Not Riley. Do you even know who Walter Cronkite is? They don't know?

Do they know? I don't don't you don't know? I mean, Walter Cronkite was the anchor of all anchors in the fifties, sixties, and I think maybe part of the seventies. Here's two YouTube videos you need to look at and you will understand who Walter cronk had is one you're gonna have to google when JFK was assassinated and watch Walter corn And then I need you to also google the moon

landing and watch. Do you agree, Walter? Yes, Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America for decades because of the quality of his delivery and his his journalism. He never gave his opinion. It was a different era back then. He just reported the news. When I was growing up, nobody, no news organizations did not give their

opinions when I was growing up. All you need to see him take those glasses and you're right, and you're like, right, it's amazing that I think that was the moonland No, that was the Kennedy was assassinated when he took the glasses off because he looked up at the clock to see what the time was. It was devast It was a devastating piece of historical footage. Better than cs I Classes taking off was that SI Miami, David Caruso. The sunglasses were a character of their own. Uh you know what,

David Caruso's as legendary. I actually did an episode of c s I Miami with him. He's a he's a terrific guy. Yeah, he's a terrific guy. It's called killer Regrets. I still get residuals from it. I mean, so many years later that show paid so well. It's amazing. And no, and you know, David Caruso and I here's another story. We're up four NYPD Blue at the same time, and it came down to the top five and he was going to get it because he was did Jimmy Smith's part. Yeah,

it was the day Vin Caruso. It was originally David Caruso. And David Caruso did a year or two and then he became kind of a movie star and he left to do movies. Yeah, because remember he's famous for quitting that show and then having sort of a failed movie career. He should have stuck around on NYPD Blue. I don't know if he had a failed movie career. I think, you know, he did what, you know, he made his choices and then he came but a terrific actor. I mean,

he's just such a remarkably talented guy. Um Miami Viginia. So yeah, I would put Caruso in the category of a cron kite. Uh. He took his glasses off. He didn't flip his sunglasses off, but I get you know, the gesture. I get it. So experience. Yeah, oh god, we're off to a quite a start. You want to take a break and towel off, We'll come back. No, no,

go ahead, now let's do it. Let's rock this. Speaking of toweling off, okay, so for this off this one, you let us know if this is a pop culture reference. Not really sure. So first up, we have the Moonies. So Emily said, grabs cucumber water from the spot and she said, Lord, LIS's careful, mom. That's how they got you in the Moonies. So the Moonies was found in nineteen fifty four. It's called the Unification Church and is classified as a new religious movement and labeled as a cult.

So they have an emphasis on marriage and the reason for Moon's infamous mass weddings. A blessing ceremony in two thousand nine included twenty thousand couples from around the world getting married at the same time. Neil Bush is a famous for promoting Moon in Asia and around the United States too out nine and it currently has one to two million members. Who's Who's Neil Bush Part of the Bush family. Oh, he's part of the one of the Bushes, you know, the Moonies, which is Reverend Sun Young Moon

by the way, the doctors. I think he called himself a doctor. That was my generations kids growing up, introduction into cults. That's the first cult we ever heard about. I've ever really heard of them until this, and I kind of looked culticionato. I enjoyed those documentaries, but this one, I was not aware. They were very much part of the news cycle for a long time. When I was growing up, all you heard about was the Mooneys, this Mooney's that I know, mooning as something else. So we'll

give you that as pop culture. It's borders on history, but we'll give it to you. It's definitely part of pop culture. It was, it was ingrained into the fabric of America. What's next? So next, next up, we have Emily and Laura Lai check in once they're having at the spa, and Bobby at the front desk says, ah, yes, welcome to Birch Grove. My name is Bobby. I have everything all set for you. Do you have luggage? Lorelie says yes, it's in Luca Brazzie's mobile out front. Um,

So Laura Lai is referring to Luca Brazzie over my head. Sorry, it was totally over my head guy film Godfather, god got it. So lou Go Brazzi was portrayed by Lenny Montana and was Don Corleone's quote unquote personal enforcer. We know what that means. Um. The Godfather filming face pushed back from the Italian American Civil Rights League, which was run by Joe Colombo and Frank not Frank Sinatra, but they agreed to back the film if they took the word mafia out, so that meant some members were on

set while filming. This is why Lenny Montana was on set and cast as Luca Brazzi. So he was just cast. He had like a real dude. Oh yeah. And and do you know why do you know why Frank Sinatra was so opposed to using the word mafia. Um? Because in the Godfather they do tell the story of how Frank Sinatra got out of his original band contract because I think Tommy Dorsey wanted to sign him and make

him hugely famous. And that was that was mom. And the scene is with the studio head out here and Robert Duvals comes out to say, give Frank's Johnny Fontaine the part, which really Frank Sinatra the part, and the studio head is like, Johnny Fontaine never gets that picture, and I'm gonna tell you what you know, and he goes into that big speech and then he says, no, get the hell out of here. You know, I don't care if it's Don Corleone. You can't muscle me. You know,

this kind of thing. And then Robert Duval has his spoons cut his prize horse's head off and put it in his bed. So the guy wakes up. The studio head wakes up covered in horse blood, and then then he sees the horse's head and then all of a sudden, Frank Sinatra, I mean, Johnny Fontaine has the picture. So I think, uh, Frank Sinatra was justifiably a little perturbed that this story was being told um life. Yeah that's that's in The Godfather, but it's a story that came

out of real life. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to have to watch this Godfather in one of these I mean, I don't know if the details are exact. Maybe you know, somebody can email and who knows more about it than I. But that's that's the rumor that Frank Sinatra that that the some muscles never put a gun to the head of the band leader and said, either your brains are going to be on that contract or that release or your signature. Make your choice. How many of us have

seen The Godfather? Just one? Oh, you've seen it? To Riley seen it, I've seen I've seen it hundreds of times. Gives a whole new meaning to getting a Charlie horse in bed. You don't know that iconic scene where the studio head wakes up and he's like like in his satin sheets and they're kind of wet, and he like peels them back and there's like blood and he's like, what,

what the heck is this? And then he peels it covers back and he sees the horse's head and he goes and he screams, and they cut to a wide shot of his mansion and you just hear these screams. Nothing next thing, you know, there was sort of a horse and animal house. That's the only there's a horse that kind of a different situation. But yeah, there was a horse and a different films, different types, different type of film. Yeah, super secret compression, but that's an interest.

I mean, if you could do the remake of The Godfather in the spirit of the Animal House, that would be interesting, would be interesting. Yeah. Continuing with the front desk, Emily says, well, we intend to leave your completely different people. Lord Lie says, yes, I'm going to be Ted Nugent. Ted Nugent is a rock musician and guitar showmen, responsible for a few memorable tunes such as cat Scrush Fever

and Stranglehold. His early band, The Lords, were given the chance to open for The Supremes with Diana Ross in nineteen sixty two after they won a local Battle of the Band's contest. Ted was only thirteen years old. I was just laughing because Scott, when Riley and I were like reviewing this last night, I'm like, can you name some Ted Nugent hits? And She's like I just did, And I was like, oh, I literally don't think I've ever heard of Ted. You you know you've heard these songs,

you just don't know they're his. That's how big. These like Stranglehold and cat Scratch Fever, You've heard them many times. There's my soundtracks of Super Bad, Entourage, and Friday Night Okay, they have some jam and songs. I just remember in Ocean's eleven Brad Pitt and George Clooney saying something like Ted Nugent wants his shirt back or something like that. There was a Ted Nugent joke that was solid well, and he never wore a shirt when he performed. He

wore a loincloth. Yes, a joke wrong them because he was always you know, you know, he was a ripped rock star and a great guitar player. Great, forgive me that if I got the joke wrong, but I feel like I got it anyway, Continue right. By two thousand nine he had played over six thousand concerts, and like you said, spending a deal time and winecloth on stage, you don't want to be in the front row for that one. Ry is talking about having a Friday night

alone with her mom was at the SPA. Roy says, actually, I was thinking of pulling a kind of Hermit thing tonight. Dan says why. Roy says, I don't know. JD. Salinger seems to dig it. JD. Salinger is the writer of The Catcher and the Rye. Roy's referring to the author's reclusive, light rife style after he published Catcher in the rye Um.

There's a whole mystery behind Salinger that he was a hermit, but he was seen out in different places with Vogue models, partying with Vivian Lee and more so, it's not really reclusive. I definitely read it, but I have no memory of Catcher in the rye I definitely read it. I know I read it in school, and that nothing. I couldn't even tell you the plot, nothing, no, no retention of it whatsoever. I know I read it. Nothing there, it's

a blank space in there. I think they're starting to ban it now in lot of schools, and that's so sad to hear they're banning that. Soulder once dated the daughter of play right Eugene O'Neill, but she left him for Charlie chap lanaging getting dumped for Charlie Chaplin. It's like I fatally did a deep dive on Charlie Chaplin the other day for some reason, Like I just went to town on Wikipedia because I wanted to know, like are any of his heir still alive? Like how old

was he? I don't know what inspired this may I don't know why I did that. Is Geraldine Chaplin still alive. Yeah, there's a ton of children and grandchildren, and the Chaplain

name continued. I think I wanted to know what Charlie Chaplin looks like like when he wasn't with that, you know, Charlie Chaplin look and did you find out normal average dude, your regular old chail, old black and white dude, because there's only black and white photo, ordinary black and white dude, no color, the most gifted physical comedian and the history of the world, but just their normal dude. That's why he was then assuming. So Jess runs into Dean as

he's leaving. Jesse's oops, you're doing that towering over thing. Huh. I tell you you really got that down. It helps that you're twelve feet tall. But this Frankenstein scale really adds to the whole where he says Jess, Jes says, Okay, I'm going look, man, I really just droppings off some food. So don't get all west Side story on me. Okay, Frankenstein. First of all, the fact that we discovered something about Frankenstein has blown my mind. Reveal reveal it It It blew

our mind. Okay, so this is crazy. Frankenstein isn't the creature. It's the doctor. It's like Dr Victor Frankenstein, isn't it Frankenstein? Probably? But the fact that, like any time I've ever seen a picture of the monster, I was like, oh, there's Frankenstein. But no, that's not correct. That is correct. It's called the Frankenstein monster. That is correct. That's Frankenstein is associated with. That's the monster's name. It's Frankenstein. I don't know you're saying, well, then,

what is the monster's name? How creature didn't receive a name? No name. The creature didn't receive a name because after sparking it into life, Frankenstein realized that creating it was a mistake. So it's just referred to as creature. No names, just John Frankenstein. We've all been blowing it for like John Doe. Yeah, we've been blowing it for a really long time. Fact, you had no name. His name is not Frankenstein from what we researched and learned last night.

That is fascinating. So finds tell somebody Frankenstein. I have to correct them now. It's not the monster. Correct. If you google Frankenstein, you get a photo of Dr Frankenstein from like the original movie or whatever. Can you give me, uh, it's alive? Can you give me one of those it's alive? Can Eastern? Can you find that clip from from the Gene Wilder the mel Brooks film Frankenstein Young Frankensteine. No, No, the original film has a great it's alive, which based

It's alive? You know? Can we get one from everybody? Amy? Can you do one? Just a matt Way minute. Let me let me help you imagine the monster animating. He's animating, he's coming to life. He's you know, and then you see it and your dr Frankenstein. What do you say? Wow? Good Riley, give me it's a live it's a look at Wow. You dug deep on that one, Sisters. Now I'm getting flashbacks of Berkeley and I took film classes, which going too another day. But about it. Oh, yeah,

that's a vampire. That's a vampire. Yeah, like Dracula. I think I had to watch that movie time and I didn't like it any of the time. Just also hard to keep my eyes open. It was kind of boring. Yeah, it's not the kind of thing you invite the girls over. And you know, I have John food and so that's

watching it was no Poulter Guy, there was no Nightmare. So. Other films featuring Frankenstein include Young Frankenstein, which we mentioned last week, Scooby Doo direct Reluctant Werewolf Van Helsing Frank and Weene, and the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine featured a scene with the Frankenstein monster drinking a potion becoming John Lennon. Wow, I know, Wow, it's alive. I said that every time

I wake up West Side Story. So now with the West Side Story musical from nineteen fifty seven that was adapted into a film in nineteen sixty one, and then recently, Redone just got an Oscar nomination for he did for directing one of the he's got a few nominations. One of the supporting actress, I forget her name, and right, yeah, the supporting actress. Yeah, she's she's been getting a lot of attention, a lot of awards. Nomination is good for her.

I've never seen West Side Story, either of them. Right, you know what, let's get her name. We should say her name. She deserves she deserves name recognition at this point. For god, she just got nominated and she's the one who hosted SNL. She definitely hosted SNL. I wonder who while Scott looks that up. I've never seen West Side Story, have you writed? I've never seen any of them. I have not seen West Side Story. I've been you've never seen the original West Side Story Goods. I just TV

so much more than movies. So for me, I'm just like so much on the opposite, on the opposite. The film was dedicated to Steven Spielberg's dad, Arnold Spielberg, who died at a hundred three. Scott, I've seen all the song movie you cultured slab you look at you for? She saw all the songs, even the Chris Rock. I thought that, how was that? How was that? Yeah? You know I heard it was not that he tried because

he was such a fan of the movies. But no, and the producers are milking that thing for all they can. Sorry back on something important West Side Story. What is her name? And my favorite person in the whole wide world? Audrey Hepburn, the star of Funny Phase and Breakfast at Tiffany's, was originally asked to play the lead character of Maria, but Natalie Wood ended up starring as Maria. What really Natalie Wood was so great in that I can't imagine

anyone else playing that role, even Audrey Hepburn. I think Audrey Hepburn was just too I don't know, just she just seemed too sophisticated and almost royal for that role. Natalie Wood was perfect for that role because she seemed like she was of the people. She had that kind of beauty, but she wasn't you know, there was no air of well, I'm sorry, what what's what's the word I'm looking for? She just seemed more more accessible than Audrey Hepburn, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, like the

opposite of hippo lutant standard earth. I don't know what is the woman's name that was nominated for the Oscar for West Side Story. I've got a listen, oh, Arianna. That's right, ye, Arianna Depose has landed an Academy Award nomination. Man, she must be over the moon. Good for her, Good for I love these stories where people just you know, they they get in these great films and get nominated. Wonderful Dune, Dune did Big, Big two, Power of the Dog. Anyway,

go ahead, We're going to the Academy Awards. You'll probably take a limo, which takes us to our next pop culture fence. Let's go, and we should get on the red carpet. I can't get no, you know, we gotta take a limo, but we should go to the front. And then does Seacrest? Does Seacrest do the red carpet anymore on at the Oscar? Nope? But Sam Rubin does from KTL a channel. That's our connection, that's my guy.

He's not going to say who the hell are you and what are you doing here and call security out. He's gonna interview us happy, let's go. Let's go, only if Scott Silly walks in. I'd literally rather watched ten episodes of Gilmore Girls than watch the Oscar. No, no, not watch go to the Oscars. I'd rather watch ten episodes of Gilmore Girls in my bed than I know. The way you do it as you go to the you go and then you stay for a couple of minutes, and then you leave, and then you just go to

the parties. Afterwards, you hit the Vanity Fair party. I gotta get myself an invite to that. There you go, let's go, let's all go. Were the I heart you know where the the I am all in team, and I think we're gonna look fabulous. We're gonna look good in a movie theater again, Riley, have you gone in a movie theater in the last two years? I did actually go into a movie theater. What did you see? Um? It was like the Wife of the Bodyguard or the

Bodyguards Ryan Reynolds thing. Yeah. I have not been in a movie in two years, almost to the day. The last movie I saw was and I love Ben Affleck, but this is a bad Ben Affleck movie. It's like a basketball coach. Oh god, yep, that was my last movie. I can't wait to go back to the movie theater. I love the movie theater. Yeah, that was That was not a good film. It's not a good movie. The way way back or just something back? What were just

talking about? What we're just talking about? Who? Who are you mentioning? Before we got on this? Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds, you know that guy? You just never see him. You never see him around. He's just the radar. He should come out, he should come out more, and he should do more things, you know, because you never see the guy did where it was like a computer game

was actually totally entertaining. Every time I turn around, you know, I see Ryan Reynolds on a commercial for like I mean, it's just it's endless. It's like him. It's okay, it's him, the Rock. The Rock is always taking people into his gym, and this is how I pumped my arms. When is Anthony Hopkins going to take us around his gym and show us how he pumps? When is this going to happen? I also have some bad news. I've never seen driving

this Daisy. Oh, really excellent film, excellent, It was it Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy that Jessica Tandy and weirdly Dan Akrod's in there. Dan Echward was an excellent thespian. He's excellent everything he does, He's the whole thing. Really great actor, that guy, very versa. What do you what do you got about it? Riley? What do you what you got? What do you got for us? Well? You got over there with the driving miss Davises? Are you talking about it? Let's go so convinced that she would

lose out we were talking about Jessica Tandy. Um she made a hundred dollar bet with her manager that she would not win the Oscar that night, and she did in fact win the Oscar that night. Morgan Freeman sadly did not win, but he did win a Golden Globe for his his performance, and it's said to kind of like skyrocket his career after that. I love Morgan Freeman mm hmm. I love when he played the president in Deep Impact. That's how I love my Morgan Freeman. He's

so and he sacrifices himself in that movie. I think, very commanding present presence, very commanding presence and an easy presence. You know it's not He's not like forcing himself on people, isn't it right? He's yeah, that's right. So understated. He just opens his mouth and outcomes that voice and there you go. So a little quote from Driving. Miss Daisy thought this was funny. Uh ms. Daisy says, did you have air conditioning checked? I told you to have your

conditioning checked? And Hook says I had the air conditioning checked. I don't know what for. You never allowed me to turn it on. Next up, we have Loura explains to her plans for the Spall weekend. Rory louras Rory, you have to do something bad when Mommy's out of town. You've seen Risky Business right now. I'm not asking for prostitution ring, but somehow floating crafts game or something so.

Risky Business is film starring Tom Cruise f. Tom plays Joel, who's at home alone and gets into trouble when a lady of the night Rebecca day Mornay, Rebecca Morner, good morning, good morning. You said day morning, yes, day morning. You're fine with how you said it, good morning, day morning, good morning, day morning morning. He was amazing in hand the Rocks the Cradle, but I've also seen he does. I saw her at a restaurant once, sitting with a

bunch of people and everybody was wearing black turtlenecks. They looked so cool. Really, I love the black turtle next wetter. I don't love a black turtle. That it was wintertime and they were so sleek and so cool that it was just like I think everybody in the restaurant was just staring at them the entire time, and they didn't notice anybody. They were too cool. Notice, Risky Business was a good movie. That it was a great movie. It's

a good movie. But I love pop gunop Gun. I will definitely be in a movie theater to watch Top Gun, Maverick and the New Jurassic Park. I gotta do it. Wait wait, wait minute. So Risky Business was such a beautifully cast film. Every role was perfectly cast and what a script. Oh my goodness. And then the iconic scene where he slides in with his underwear and his shirt

and his ray bands. Um, that's been like, you know, the inspiration for so many for Halloween costumes over the years, like David Arquette dressed as Jewel and never been kissed. And actually the sunglasses jewel wears are ray Ban wayfarers. Those are the model. The annual sales for them skyrocket two thousand percent after the movie release. And I think the same thing when they did Top Gun the ray band aviator right right, Yeah, I remember when those wayfairs

are the hottest things ever. You remember when Joe Pantalon Joe panto Leone is the pimp in this film, Guido the Killer Pimp. Oh my god, just fantastic performance. Kind of cool. If you zoom in childhood, photographs of Tom Cruise can be seen in the living room. I like, I enjoy that touch. Yeah. So next up we have Laura Line Emily go out to dinner outside of the spa. Loorla says, I just love the idea of shrimp cocktail with a steak dinner. You know, it's so casino, Big Joe,

steak and shrimp. Hey save some for the winner. There. Casino is a film from five directed by Martin Sorcese about monsters who moved to Las Vegas to make their mark. Um, it's very much about the casinos and mobs in nineteen seventies and eighties, starring Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. Jaron Stone's fashion in that movie is so epic. So the costume budget for the film was a million dollars.

Robert de Niro had seventy different costumes throughout the film and Sharon Stone had forty, and both were able to keep the costumes afterwards. Her clothes worth so cool. Were you were you? Were you? Screw? Did you see the film? Did anybody see the film? Were you you? Didn't? Okay, because I was screaming. I was screaming at the screen. Do not marry that woman, Bobby, don't do it, and he did it. Didn't take my advice. I apologize for my lack of seeing film. You said, you're not a

film person or TV spending my life watching television. Then nineteen seventy four. That's nobody's holding that against you. Yeah, I've seen a lot of TV though. It's okay, all right, we're going to get into that. Yeah, we'll get there. Keep going, ready, So the last little fact. In Casino, the F word is said four hundred and thirty five times, including in the narration, two point four times per minute

on average. The record was later broken by The Wolf of Wall Street in two thousands, their team, which had close to six hundred years of the word. I just saw that again the other night. Really six hundred six said, I believe zero times on the show. We don't we don't know, We're not over here. I think I said that. I think maybe said the B word, and I've said the say word. Maybe you've you you know what I say. You need a little mouth. Watched that a little bit.

You're the one moms still do that is that's the little thing. Oh my gosh, my mom did that. She would do that and she'd be like, ready, you're washed her mouth that was up and I was so rude. I would just go do it? Do it anyways? Fun time? Um, so that's it for your pop culture. Wonderful but obvious. This is kind of becoming a thing, right, it's so fun. Hey, what do you think You're happy? Yeah? I give it, but I mean, I mean, does the fan base seem

to like this? Separate many things? Get right? Yeah, because it's just we were going on too long. We're going on too long. It's easier to yeah. Yeah. You know when they forced when they forced John Rockefeller to break up Standard Oil, he broke it up into twenty four different pieces and it was the best thing I ever did. That's when we broke it up into three pieces until next time. All Right, everybody, thank you. That's gonna do it for pop culture. Riley, Yes, thank you? Thank me?

Are you? I'm on my phone today and I'm not on my computer. I'll be back on my computer, but I have two words for you. Strawberry Dakri. Is that what's going on over there? By pull the pulside your pool side. This entire thing just in in my yard. And there's like a leaf in my screen because I had to prop it up on a toolip. You look like you're on vacation. It's fantastic. I look like I'm

in Jurassic Park right alright. Anyway, um so that's going to do it for another minisode of our wonderful new band. Riley Pellucis in the minisotes the pop cultures. All right, that was fun. Best fans on the planet, thanks for down loading. Thank you Riley, thank you Amy, and we will see you next time, honest one. Hey everybody, and don't forget follow us on Instagram at I Am all In podcast and emailis at Gilmore at I heart radio

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