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Dan: On this episode we discuss Breaking News from Yuba County. ...in Yuba County? What is it? Breaking News IN Yuba County? Elliott: Breaking News IN Yuba County. Stuart: I'm glad that we nailed it in the first try, by the way. That's perfect. What a perfect intro. Elliott: 100%. Flawless victory.
Official Show Notes[]
Here we are in No-vember, best known for having “no” theme. And we kick the month off with one of the most star-studded movies that absolutely made no cultural footprint whatsoever that you could hope to see — Breaking News in Yuba County.
Movie Summary[]
Premise[]
A woman takes advantage of her growing celebrity status when the police and the public think her dead husband is just missing.
Final Judgments[]
“I didn't hate this.”
— Fall Asleep to This on a Sunday (Dan) @52:27
“It was not funny enough or unreal enough.”
— Bad-Bad Movie (Elliott) @53:17
“It didn't really work for me. BREAKING NEWS: I didn't care for it.”
—Bad-Bad Movie (Stuart) @54:41
Better Than Worse Than[]
- Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen novels
Episode Highlights[]
Tangents[]
- Elliott Kalan's sorry-not-sorry for his name @0:41
- The Scheduling and Construction of Pyramids @1:23
- Nicolas Cage's Pyramid Tomb
- Longish, puckish movie titles @3:11
- Movies and books that did it better @4:46
- Stuart's quote contract @5:14
- Blacklisted Scripts @6:06
- James Spader (in a hat) @8:34
- [...]
- 4K, 4D, and Forky films @49:30
- 4D Dune effects
Quotes[]
- “My name's Elliott Kalan and I'm here to say my name's Elliott Kalan in a major way”
—Elliott @01:24
- “My name's Elliott Kalan and I'm here to say my name's Elliott Kalan in a major way”
Stuart: I mean, aren't most pyramid tombs pre-bought, though? Weren't the pharaohs like, "yeah, start building that shit. I know I'm not dead yet but I'm gonna die at some point." Dan: That's true. They didn't wait around. They weren't like, by the time the pyramid was done, "Ugh, bury this rotting pile, I guess." Elliott: "Hatshepsut just died, we gotta get this pyramid done yesterday! Like, chop-chop, let's do it." Stuart: Uh huh. Uh huh. Dan: ...Uh, This is a movie podcast — Elliott: — This is a podcast where we talk about the scheduling and construction of pyramids.
- — @1:37
Sponsors[]
- Storyblocks @57:14
- Green Chef @59:58
Listener Mail[]
Mailbag Song[]
- Letter Pitcher Randy Johnson @1:04:00->1:05:08
Letters[]
- songs you like from movies, even outside the movie @1:05:08
- "Who's Johnny?" from Short Circuit (Dan) @1:06:16
- killer soundtracks from the '90s : The Crow, Judgment Night, American Werewolf in Paris (Stuart)
- Kiss From a Rose c/o Batman (Elliott)
- the Kills, as featured in Titane (Stuart)
- The Ecstasy of Gold from The Good, the Bad, the Ugly. "The Best of Godzilla vol. 1 (1954-1975)". "Chakku Chhuriyan Tez Kar Lo" from Zanjeer (Elliott)
- advice on watching scary movies like mother! despite being scared @1:09:55
- mother! is more stressful than scary
- "the only thing for it is to do it" (Dan)
- Dan is a Cenobite, but for scares
- Don't start with the French crazy horror genre (Stuart)
- Start with atmospheric/eerie movies (Elliott)
Recommendations[]
- Primal Rage (1988) by Vittorio Rambaldi (Dan) @1:16:05
- Titane (2021) by Julia Ducournau (Stuart) @1:17:34
- New York Ninja (2021) by John Liu and Kurtis Spieler (Stuart) @1:18:35
- Dear Comrades! (2020) by Andrey Konchalovskiy (Elliott) @1:20:17
Stinger[]
Dan: On this episode we discuss: Breaking News in Yuba County. Elliott: The only comedy movie that dares to shoot the moon by having 0 laughs in it. Thus making it the funniest comedy movie ever made. Dan: I — Elliott: No, lets do another one. Stuart: — raves Aaron Sorkin. Dan: Here, I — Elliott: Dan's gonna be like, "I laughed twice. We can't say that journalistically, so let's do another one." Dan: I chuckled a couple times Elliott: Ok.