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The comments on female guests "screaming/shrieking/yelling" during live shows are getting boring. I've listened to the episode and she is matching the volume set by the men, but nope apparently it's just her fault and she's the one no one can listen to. We get it y'all.

Oh I thought it was only lesbians whose voices people hated. Way to branch out. So I did not watch this movie. I did not understand much of the podcast, but it sounds like I wouldn't understand it even if I saw it. I read a couple of true crime books lately, and I'm really kind of sick of how media makes serial killers seem cool (no snowman pun intended) and smart. Or the whole Ted Bundy was hot thing on Twitter. I can't. But anyway, I don't know anything about Norway but I was listening to this thinking "are there really that many serial killers running around Norway?" I thought it was a safe place to live. So I found some Norway crime statistics and it says 24 people were murdered in Norway in 2015 (the most recent available data). By comparison, the FBI reports the United States had 15,696 murders that year. I think Jo Nesbo has murdered more fictional people than have actually been murdered in Norway. I don't know where I'm going with this, but I think it's weird that we WANT violence where there isn't violence because it's "interesting"?

Agree 100%. Blazing Saddles is a movie I like a lot more on paper than I like as a movie. Young Frankenstein just makes me laugh like crazy. I'd also be fine with Airplane being on the list.

I definitely think Mel Brooks should be represented although I prefer Young Frankenstein to Blazing Saddles.

I'll just add that Norwegian/Scandinavian art and literature is quite often dark af -- serial killers, existential detectives, gruesome bloody scenes, etc. It's also the home of Satanic-based death metal music, even though most of the country is really quite secular. I've read a lot of Nesbo's books (including this one), but also many similar Swedish and Icelandic books. Basically what I'm saying is, this is a genre. It's not a Jo Nesbo thing. My theory is that it's about the long dark winters and maybe Nordic/Viking mythology. Anyway I haven't listened to the ep yet (nor watch the movie) but as I said in the mini-ep thread I'm quite curious because the book is very good. I'm in for a fun weekend lol

For what it's worth, I had a hard time with all of them, which I mentioned. "Erin yelling, Bryan booming, Jason yelling. Poor Paul."

I just started, but this episode seems like a complete mess. Erin yelling, Bryan booming, Jason yelling. Poor Paul. I was really looking forward to them covering this..."film"...but I'm not sure I'll make it through if this continues.

My poor ears :( Erin, please stop screaming the entire time.

Scientology strikes again!

Hey man, it sounds like you’ve got a great positive attitude going into this. I wish you luck whatever the outcome, and if you ever need a place to vent your frustrations, we’re always here

I apologize but my demented upbringing made me think of this when you called me boo.

I know it's a bit early but the poll so far indicates that most of us think that one Marx Brother's is enough. Well, fun fact in 2000 AFI made a list of the best comedies. The top 10 were. 1. Some Like it Hot 2. Tootsie 3. Dr. Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb 4. Annie Hall 5. Duck Soup 6. Blazing Saddles 7. MASH 8. It Happened One Night 9. The Graduate 10. Airplane! Of those only Airplane! and Blazing Saddles aren't in the Top 100. Now before I personally lobbied for Airplane! but seeing Blazing Saddles I think we would be remiss to not have a Mel Brooks movie on the list. So if we have to cut one of these out like Zeppo, would you pick either Airplane! or Blazing Saddles to replace it or something else entirely?

I meant to add that the gastric bypass is most likely off for now because of needing the stent. I see the surgeon in a month to make it official. That's OK. I have a great mentor who is working with me to lose weight by eating right. I want to lose as much as I can that way so that if the surgery does happen I will be better prepared and have shown I can make the needed changes. If it doesn't happen I still win.

It will be. I had to see a cardiologist to get cleared for a gastric bypass. They did a nuclear stress test since I can't run on a treadmill. The test showed a possible blockage in the front of my heart so a cardiac catheterization was the best way to find out for sure. I didn't think anything would show up because I had the same procedure five years ago and it showed nothing. I also was having no symptoms now. It was purely diagnostic. Well the catheterization DID find a blockage and they put a stent in right then. A week later I still don't feel well and my body is adjusting. I also have a bad cold that makes me cough. The cough inflames the chest wall and the stent irritated the wall so it can really hurt. I saw my primary care doctor yesterday morning and she gave me some medicines to help deal with the various issues. I should be up and running sometime next week, just in time for multiple showings of my next pick. Thank you all for the well wishes and care. I have a great group of friends here and I am very grateful.

That sounds serious. I hope everything is okay with you

Erin screaming and Bryan seemed hellbent on over-emphasizing everything he said. Glad it gets better later on!

I'm with Erin. I think Michael Fassbender was Oleg's father. Also, thank god they addressed that part of the movie was 7 years earlier. I missed that and halfway through, one of my notes was "it's this movie not in chronological order?"

Almost like a certain “Goonies Conundrum...”

Quick note on Scandinavian privacy. They don’t believe in curtains or blinds. I live in Scandinavia and The Who gives a hoot attitude to personal privacy is amazing. I have lived in plenty of apartments and spent many an evening staring At the apartment building across the street invading people privacy with my eyes. I once spent an hour watching the most ackward 3 person dinner party in fascination. It Was made even more awkward when I locked eyes with the third wheel at the table . We shared a look that made us both sad. Anyway love the show

I' very curious to hear what people who didn't grow up with The Marx Brothers made of this movie. To me things like The Marx Brothers and Three Stooges are very formative in a lot of people's youths. When view outside of that, some of that joy I think is often lost. I myself never watched The Marx Brothers movies growing up. As far as "classic comedy" want I was more into Abbot and Costello and Chaplin, so these two movies were completely new to me. I knew Groucho from "You Bet Your Life" and knew of him and his quick wit and iconic look. That's about it. Also from cartoons and that I knew about Harpo being a silent clown. So I watch these movies now and I enjoy them enough but I don't love them. I recognize what makes them great and there are good bits but more than anything else I see their DNA in comedies I do love. For me I enjoyed A Night at the Opera more because there was a story. I liked having a break from the jokes. I liked having a breather. The highs might not have been as high but having a clear defined hero and villain made their antics less malicious seeming as well. Also, the piano bits were delightful and a nice change of pace. I said it in Duck Soup and I'll say it again now, Airplane! should get one of the Marx Brother's slots on the list. To me it is the perfect evolution of the Marx Brother's. It is wall to wall jokes that run the gambit of different styles. And from A Night at the Opera it has a story with beginning middle and end and a love story. However, rather it takes those elements and makes it part of the comedy rather than being separate from the comedy. All that said, I wouldn't not watch another Marx Brother's movie, but I don't think I'd ever seek them out.

For me, I think I’m on the same page with Amy in the sense that I think the jokes landed better for me in A Night At The Opera than they they did in Duck Soup. Still, I think, of the two, Duck Soup has more cultural relevance so I’d pick that one to stay. On a personal note, one of my favorite bits in the movie was this one between Groucho and Chico: -Groucho: Here are the contracts. You just put his name at the top and you sign at the bottom. There's no need of you reading that because these are duplicates. - Chico: Yes, duplicates. Duplicates, eh? - Groucho: I say, they're duplicates. - Chico: Oh, sure, it's a duplicate. Certainly. - Groucho: Don't you know what duplicates are? - Chico: Sure. Those five kids up in Canada I loved this joke because it reminds me of my father - who just passed away in December. While we were arranging his funeral, people would share personal stories about my father, many of which I had never heard. One of which had to do with the Dionne quintuplets. Born near Callander, Canada in 1934, the Dionne children were the first known quintuplets to all survive infancy. It was a huge deal at the time. So much so that it managed to get a reference in A Night At The Opera. (Chico is mistaking “duplicate” with “quintuplet.”) How this relates to my father is my that father was born in the town of North Bay, Ontario which is just south of Callander. When he was a kid, apparently the idea of quintuplets was still a major oddity and their existence attracted a bunch of tourists who would drive up there hoping to catch a glimpse of where they lived. Evidently, these tourists would often stop my father and his pals and ask them for directions to the quintuplets. As polite as can be, my father would give them careful and detailed directions - in the completely opposite direction! When I heard this story, I asked if it was to protect the quintuplets from gawkers, and I was told, “No, your father and his friends just liked messing with them.” Lol I really love this story about my father as a kid, and I like the idea that my father shared a bit of the same anarchic spirit of the Marx Brothers. It was nice to be reminded of that story as I was watching the film. I also want to say he eventually met Groucho, but I might be misremembering. He worked in advertising for most of his life and I know he had contact with Jerry Lewis (annoying), William “Bill” Shatner (class act), and Gilbert Godfried (...). However, I have a distinct memory of him telling me about Groucho and saying that he liked him.

Looking back, I wish that Lucius Charms had accepted the limerick suggestion of "U2." From Liverpool there once were four lads, You have seen them in those iPod ads. They'd all put on suits, and get on their boots, And play music for all of our dads.

I'll tell you a story about Johnny McGory! Johnny McGory was named Irish Person of the year, on account of the vote being rigged by a pack of drunken Americans, and he returned home to Ireland a very minor celebrity, but the glory soon faded, and the modest stipend he had received was soon frittered away on drink and drugs and the company of loose women. So Johnny McGory was forced to take a job illegally harvesting peat in the bogs of County Kiljoy, and the work was filthy and back-breaking and the head turf cutter was a right gobshite, but labour laws are rarely enforced on work performed under cover of darkness. So Johnny McGory decided to stick it to his boss by listening to podcasts at work, until one night when he heard a throwaway comment to which he took exception, and so filled with righteous indignation was he that he threw down his shovel, logged onto the Internet, and posted a blistering critique on the message board for that podcast. Then a pooka showed up, and Johnny McGory drove it away with his belt. And that's a glorious tale of Ireland!

When is Perry Farrell gonna guest star on the Andy Daly Porno for Pyros Project?