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Evita

🕑 Added 2024-11-21 05:00:08 +0000 UTC

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Jon Ryves

Will get to do Pat Roach in the next mini-series at least

films

Sup?

AgeofWalnut

How does he know so much

Chris L Kendall

I’m 61, never saw Evita and whenever I come to a balcony or leading edge on a jobsite, I’m singing don’t cry for me

ian

their job is to talk about movies

Joy Wyr

Pro-Doer Ben! On a recent episode you were talking to the guest about your annual Slow Christmas project and the idea of an anti-Chipmonks band, Sloths or Hippos perhaps. This is extremely my bag, baby, and a lot like some work I've been on recently. I just wanted to share for you to enjoy. Thanks! https://youtu.be/NwmG4T84RlU?si=8nrHn7uUggPUJiJ4 https://youtu.be/E0iHVMGBDi0?si=9PVq0lNXg_v9VOWz

Belen Battaglini

I don't know. Did you read my comment or just jump at an opportunity to say what exactly? If you don't remember it, then what? Are you just replying to my comment to what end? Same as Zach Zweifler... Saying nothing on topics you don't know anything about is good. I would actually appreciate that, but that's not what happened. Asking communicators to be minimally responsible when doing their jobs doesn't feel like the craziest thing in the world to me.

Johannes Wiberg

I'm pretty sure that was mostly the patriarchy reacting to a woman being both a challenging overt sex object and a powerful person at the same time. "Ego-driven and unpleasant" is a pretty vile thing to say about a person who you probably mostly know from tabloids who had their knives out for decades. But perhaps you know her privately?

Johannes Wiberg

David was iirc the only one mentioning it at all. Saying "I don't know" is ignorant but what would you have them say? They came for ALW not Argentinian complex politics.

Steven

Janet erasure

Mike Ostrov

♪ Nails, dimples, ears, scrunchie ♪ ♪ Purse, lunch box, teeth, Milhouse... ♪

Zach Zweifler

Marie was the Madonna expert. What are you referring to?

Belen Battaglini

As an Argentinian listener with knowledge and love for politics and history, this was not surprising, but still quite disappointing. David at least has a bit more nuance, but some of the comments, especially from Marie, felt extremely ignorant. I'm not asking for much, but a min. amount of understanding on certain topics feels like the minimum if you put content out there for many people to hear.

Matt Skoufalos

Goodnight and thank you Griffaldi You've podded your cast, what more could we ask of you now?

Matt Skoufalos

Truly, he worked it like a wookie

Anthony Regina

Several weeks in December. It’s on the schedule.

Anthony Regina

Also, B&B I had to watch with the sound down to sneak it. I grew up with The Simpsons as my primary obsession , but there was a very brief period where, after a joke about Grandpa patronizing a sex worker in the Unkie Herb episode, I was not allowed to watch it for a few months. That didn’t last.

Anthony Regina

It rang so so true. And when you’d ask your parents they wouldn’t even have a real reason. It was just weird disgust because the person had been around a lot. My mom’s big one was Bruce Willis. She didn’t think he could act and just groaned when he was starring in a movie. Demi Moore being linked with him at the time kind of dragged her along as well.

Anthony Regina

David just saying 1,000 global sociopolitical things that none of us dumpy-ass podcast listeners know the first thing about: “I don’t know anything! I’m just a dilettante!” Brother, own your expertise. I’m sure half the listener base has to look up “dilettante”.

Michael Henley

Oh, absolutely. I grew up in a house very much like that. Madonna, The Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, all the classic 90s parent-hate things

Rad Rodge

Like real revulsion, not even like dismissive laughing

Rad Rodge

Truly the most accurate thing in the world is that parents hate Madonna, one of the few post-1980 music figures that I’ve ever really heard them express much of an opinion about and their opinion is disgust

Rad Rodge

One of my grandfathers collected stamps and I have STILL not heard anyone try to say “philatelist”

Rad Rodge

When Griffin is like “whenever the word is said,” I was discombobulated because I have NEVER heard someone attempt to say the word until this episode, not ever in my life, I’ve read the word many times but have never heard anyone try to actually say it ever before, where was Griffin hearing people say “philatelist”??!?!

Rad Rodge

“Don’t cry for me, Special Features” brought me great joy

Chauncey Telese

My mom loved this movie and we listened to the soundtrack all the time for a year. I still remember seeing it at the Arclight Dome. The songs still pop in my head frequently.

Norman Normalperson

Jimmy Nail's singing career was launched after he shot to British TV fame in "Auf Weidersehen, Pet". The show also gave us Pat Roach who was the Nazi who takes a propeller to the face in Raiders, the head goon in Temple of Doom who gets crashed to death, and was deleted from the Last Crusade (Rude). Perhaps most significantly it gave the world Timothy Spall. The show was written and created by Franc Roddam who would go on create the popular cooking show MasterChef.

Laura Bee

To this day my sister and I say “YES GREG.” from A Very Brady Sequel

Darnon

Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast is live again in a shift to a fictitious lore podcast about a future Martian Revolution.

fartinscorcese

Antonio Banderas plays a riverboat captain in Paddington in Peru, no? Is he a boats guy now? A navalophile?

Zwoozy

Left out of the Madonna v. Gaga critical reception to their acting: Gaga off-stage presents as friendly and altruistic, Madonna is relentlessly ego-driven and unpleasant.

Buzzy Jackson

🙌

Lobo

Me relating to Marie at the discovery that David and Griffin were raised in anti Madonna homes totally forgetting that I was also raised by gay men

FiddlersGreenDay

Nice Glasslands mentioned, Marie.

Nicholas Ewers

David is so knowledgeable about things on this episode!

Andy Germuga

I believe Che being explicitly Guevara is a Hal Prince idea so it is not like written into the score but was a directorial concept that some people continue to use.

Anthony Regina

So where’s the link to that cover

Dankmeister

Great little play on words that Griff made that I don’t even think he realized. When they were trying to figure out the Sandra Bully movie and Bardi says “28 Days?” Then Griff just says, “Later.” Haha.

Christopher Teuma

I'm Australian, is it wrong to say you couldn't tell if he was a singer guest starring on a TV show or a TV star doing a song?

Christopher Teuma

Vase vase, forehead forehead.

Christopher Teuma

That was a "today years old". I'm actually disappointed I've now in 2024 finally seen Evita but have still not seen In Bed With Madonna

Christopher Teuma

It was mostly on in the late evenings.

Christopher Teuma

2017

Christopher Teuma

So what you're saying is he's not Che Part I, he's Che Part II?

Christopher Teuma

I was listening to the I Wanna Hold Your Hand episode, and I think it's important that Ben stumps for the The Beatles are your parents music crowd while David lives in the real world with the rest of us. U2 on the other hand require a further discussion. Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Flood are integral to what you're hearing, but think of it like those crazy LED light shows they've been doing, that's a U2 move right? But it's not like they designed the lights or the lighting sequence. But it's a U2 artistic decision. Brian Eno doesn't always sound as Brian Eno as he does on Apollo with Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois. And Depeche Mode don't sound always sound as Depeche Mode as they do with Flood. Smashing Pumpkins never got that 1979 sound again. Where maybe Nitzer Ebb are fine with or without him.

Stephen David Miller

I can’t be the only person who finds it hilarious that this was developed by “Stone and Parker”

Richard

What ever this, please more. The intimacies of seeing movies and the background is so great

Blake Anderson

U2 rant good. U2 also good thank you David

Douglas Wykstra

A lot of people don't realize that Guevara was born in Argentina. Perón came to power when he was an 18-year-old student at the University of Buenos Aires, and he left Argentina to become a revolutionary shortly after Eva Perón's death. It's one of those historical coincidences I'm sure Webber and Rice were pumping their fists over discovering--the failed revolutionary promise of Peronism escaping to other lands by other names as it dies in Argentina.

Ralph

Actually in the show Che IS Che Guevara. In the movie version they changed it to just be like “Che-Everyman”.

MoCoSwede

Michael Cerveris should have been the guest on this episode. (He played Juan Peron in the most recent Broadway revival, and was the best received part of the production).

Steven Ray Morris

Not me screaming, “Selena!”

michael clarke

twin peaks season 3 when?

The Mad Jay Woman

This is perfect timing even if it is going to bring back strange ‘90s flashbacks …Like me just casually pointing out some minor historical facts the musical gets wrong to my then boyfriend and his failed film student brother flew into tirade about how nitpicky I was being (I wasn’t angry I was just making polite conversation). Mind you this was a guy who had just gone into LENGTHY DETAIL about the Star Wars rerelease correcting the shadow on the Emperor’s face… Anywho film bros SUCK and I’m thrilled to hang out and listen to y’all talk over this movie!

Cale Woods

U talkin’ U2 to me?

Chris

Can't believe that while David was recapping the 1997 MTV Movie Awards he neglected to mention that they gave the Lifetime Achievement Award to Chewbacca.

Danielle

Who’s That Girl is so slept on as a movie.

Tyler Duggan

That Vanilla Ice story is… wow. Someone who runs the wiki page, get typing.

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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AJ McKeon

Fixed

Deren Ney

I love this show so much, thank you.

David Michael Perez

I literally did a spit take at the Vanilla Ice story

HappyCroc

Well of course philatalist sounds weird if you say it like that! It's 'lat' as in 'flat', not 'late'. Still an unusual word either way.

Peter Klaven

Nachos were definitely in theaters in 96. I know this because I could never afford most times 😂 always had to get a small popcorn.

Seán Lynch

A favourite bit of the podcast continues to be David explaining very specific British Guys to the rest of the crew. Now that Jimmy Nail's been covered, can't wait for David to work his way through the rest of the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet cast.