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Hey HDTGM Family! In case you missed it from a while ago, here's the shirt Paul and Jason were thrilled to see on me... Gish & Gertz! Made by yours truly and yes... I did send the guys their vey own based on their request. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WRHzXHYa6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Comedian Jamie Loftus tells a story about a friend of hers that worked on the set of Master of Disguise. Apparently, parts of the turtle scene were filmed on September 11, 2001. Despite the fact that America had just suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history the director didn’t let anyone go home and the entire cast and crew had to work a full day. Imagine trying to process a national tragedy of that magnitude while holding a boom mic over Dana Carvey in a turtle suit. That director should be brought up on war crimes.

This movie was at least on the short side which made it relatively painless to watch. I didn't find it funny but there've been plenty of other movies for this podcast that were more of a chore to get through. I've been hung up on one particular detail in the film, which I noticed during the film's master of disguise training montage. Pistachio is seen reading "The Master of Disguise for Dummies." Of course, the For Dummies series is very well-known and widely available, which raises the question of why such a book would exist if being a master of disguise is supposedly a hereditary secret. Presumably, the intention of such a book would be to allow anyone who read it to be able to become a master of disguise, regardless of lineage, and it would mean that the Disguiseys' talent really isn't that special or unique to them, which would undermine the film's premise. In this universe, this book shouldn't exist, and the only justification consistent with the film's plot for such a book existing would be that someone in the Disguisey family made their own "for dummies" book and infringed upon that trademark (oh dear.)

Or....this is a meta commentary on the inscrutability of this movie. The book is intended for viewers of Master of Disguise, the film we are watching. This movie happened to us, we are the "dummies". Half the book deals with the Magic vs. Acting? debate, and there is an entire chapter devoted to Bo Derek entitled "James Brolin's Vagina".

As Don Henley observed, this is the end of the innocence.

I remember renting the vhs from the local video store as a kid. I think I liked it because I was a child and it was a movie. But was also deeply disappointed in what I was given? I know that I was mostly upset by the lack of Turtle work. I felt like the trailer promised me more of that nonsense than I got. I think that this was the first time I was let down by a movie and realized movies could be bad

Hi everyone! Paul wondered where the $16 million budget came from. Might I suggest the soundtrack? Consider these songs: Walking on Sunshine; Papa Don't Preach; Whip It; Eye of the Tiger; Conga (Miami Sound Machine); U Can't Touch This (M.C. Hammer); Happy Face (Destiny's Child); and the themes from Jaws and Chariots of Fire, just to name a few. This is the soundtrack to a major blockbuster film, not this movie. Perhaps the director said to the music director, "use a song like this" (names the most obvious placeholder song he can think of)....and then they were too lazy to find a cheaper version, so they just used those exact songs.

Is that picture Paul McCartney’s Iggy Cardust?

Holy shit,This picture is nightmarish. It’s like he’s trying to mash Ziggy Stardust and Cats together.

If you can't reproduce with cats, than get the hell off my island! Love, Dr. Moreau

How are people supposed to know what I dislike if Calvin doesn’t pee on it?

I’m shocked!!!

In case anyone questioned my bona fide as a fan...

https://soundcloud.com/ender/puhlllllllllllugs it's time for a little something called puhlllllllllllugs!

For sure. A lot of women's perfume for me falls into either floral, baby powder, musk, or middle school bathroom which is a hodgepodge of all three. Oh man, durian. I'd heard so much about it but had never experienced it until a couple of years ago. I was grabbing some cream wafer cookies at my local Asian market and noticed they'd started carrying the durian flavor. So I bought a package (along with my usual packages of taro, coconut, and strawberry), got home, and then was assaulted by the smell. The smell. There was no way to know before I opened the wrapper what awaited me. It was like breaking the seal on an ancient king's tomb; curses and reanimated bodies and all. But surely the taste would make up for it! Nope. Durian is just not for me. And maybe the real thing would be, not artificial cream sandwiched in a cookie, but I'm not dying to find out. I put the rest of the cookies in two, TWO Ziplock bags (the smell permeated through both of them), and tossed them in our outside garbage can. That garbage can smelled like rancid death for days after the city emptied it.