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It seems as if somebody isn't familiar with Titanic 2

It only takes 10 minutes for the dog to start rapping. At least I can confirm I have already seen this movie?

This is the one that we watched I'm pretty sure Also just feast your eyes on that hair and beard.

What/who the hell is that eyeless thing on the top right corner? Why is the man's left hand a completely different skin tone than the rest of his body? Is that Speedy Gonazles in the lower right corner? What do they mean, "the legend goes on..."? So many questions!

With a cat MC?

Good taste does

Trust me when I say you are going to have even more when this movie is over. You are welcome!

So who gets thrown in a dumpster in this one???

Looks like Meow the Jewels, the Run the Jewels remix album with cat samples.

I feel like maybe this is a metaphor for depression or mental illness on the Meg Ryan half. Meg Ryan is clearly depressed or at least suffering from extreme anxiety. No one who is mentally well on their wedding day is going to be wishing to be an old man with most of his life past him because she "fears life". What exactly is there for Rita to fear? She has a very good life. Logically she has nothing to be scared of. I have both depression and anxiety. I get it. I often fear things that make no sense. So I can understand fearing everything going forward even though everything is ok. However I see a therapist and I'm on medication. I would never get married if I was feeling like that. I'd be in back to back sessions and uping my Cymbalta. I kind of even see the "losing his wife to a stranger" as a metaphor for mental illness and a depressive episode. The people in your life do lose you. You become a stranger and in a way you "go away" .

So I was unable to find this movie online anywhere or to rent or buy reasonably BUT I did listen to the episode. Much like my fellow country men as a Canadian who happens to live in Japan I feel I must chime in on Molson's and Kirin. As far as my knowledge goes their is nothing literally linking these two combines. The first Japanese beer that was imported to America I believe was Sapporo beer in the early mid eighties. While Kirin, Asahi and Sapporo are all available in America more easily now, these beers are actually no longer imported. They are now manufactured and brewed in the United States. In 1996 Anheuser-Busch took over producing Kirin for the American market. In the early 2000s Coors and Molson merged with Coors, so the two brands don't even share a American based manufacture. However, what both these beers have in common is being the generic go to beer. As mentioned in Canada you have Molson's and Labatt's and those are the big two. No matter where you go in Canada you'll find them. They aren't the best but they are the go to standard lager beer. I don't think my grandparents every bought anything else. They had their one brand and they knew what they were getting and it was affordable. Similarly Japan you basically have Kirin or Asahi. Easily a good 95% of restaurants are going to have Kirin or Asahi. They are the big two and the standard go to lager beer. Yes there are other national brands like Sleeman's or Sapporo that you can get and aren't that rare but you have the classic big two. In that sense yes there is a spiritual connection between Molson's and Kirin, but no actual connection. For beer fans wanting to try a good Japanese beer that is often imported, see if you can track down Hitachino or Minoh beer(their stout is excellent). There are technically better ones but not sure of their availability.

What if he was a hairstylist?

Okay, last thing. (Sorry, fell down a rabbit hole.) Prelude to a Kiss in 1992 wasn't only capitalizing on Meg Ryan stardom or the trend for rom-coms at the time. There seemed to be an equal trend of adapting plays into movies in the early/mid 90s. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1990) A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin (1992) Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet (1992) A Bronx Tale by Chazz Palminteri (1993) Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin (1993) Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon (1993) Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare (1993) Bar Girls by Lauran Hoffman (1994) The Madness of King George (1994) The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan (1994) American Buffalo by David Mamet (1996) Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (1996) The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1996) Plus a SLEW of Shakespeare remakes-- from 10 Things I Hate About You, She's the Man, and even the Lion King to pretty much everything by Branaugh or Kevin Kline

I called it playing “got-your-nose” with baby rhinos, but the courts chose to call it “Ivory Poaching”.

Not much was said in the episode about The White Hotel, the book that Peter reads and discusses with Rita. Like many things in the movie, it’s brought up in a clunky way with Peter saying “I read The White Hotel today” and expecting Rita (and the audience) to know what it’s about as if it was a book that everyone was talking about and in the cultural zeitgeist at the time. The White Hotel came out in 1981, 7 years before the play and over a decade before the movie. But despite its awkward introduction, I can see why the playwright chose to have his characters discuss it. It is the story of a woman who overcomes her neurotic fears of life through her therapy with Sigmund Freud only to be exterminated by the Nazis during the Second World War. The book posits questions like, given the world's cruelty, should she have refrained from seeking help, from pursuing a cure? What was the point of all her efforts to find health if she was only to die so soon after acquiring it? In Prelude I think Rita is meant to be a woman consumed with fear. Her insomnia, her reluctance to have kids, her questions to Peter right before the wedding, her getting her veil caught on her sleeve, and her tripping in the aisle are all meant to reflect that anxiety. And so what the play/movie is trying to suggest is that we cannot, indeed should not, govern our present lives by our fears for the future. We do not know what life holds, but we do have the capacity to make choices in the present that can make us happy in the present. The only problem is that Meg Ryan has such an effervescent presence on screen, that those fears come off more like quirks than deep-seated anxieties.

So I will say I didn't watch this movie, but reading the Wiki for it makes this seem like the template for every rom-com where the characters have to have certain quirks to make sure the audience feels that they should not be together, They Came Together might as well be a parody of just this film. As a librarian I can say that there isro no real reason Baldwin should be a big muckity muck just from microfiche. By this point in the 90s that type of product was small, especially in comparison to the wider used format of microfilm which could contain months of information on a single roll, while microfiche were flat singular sheets. Even then, microfilm were bought in massive quantities as most libraries would only really get microfilm of their local paper for local history preservation and maybe one national paper if the budget allowed for it. Libraries in larger cities will usually get the local papers as well as a number of national papers, and university libraries will do the same depending on how big the college is. In essence, this film is really bullshit in making it seem this was a lucrative career option for anyone, not realizing or caring how niche the fiche really is. And no I don't regret writing that last bit.

Conspiracy theory: June refuses to do body switch movies. I mean her "technical difficulties" during the Face/Off episode? Don't buy it.

The least realistic thing in the movie is that the guy can just start styling Meg Ryan's hair after looking at pictures of her. One can learn Alec Baldwin likes Molson or spaetzle from a diary. But I definitely wouldn't just pick up how to style hair unless it was something simple like a pony tail or a simple braid.

I’m just confused as to how Jason and June are so lost on why the title works. Let’s break it down: Jam (noun) - an awkward situation or predicament -- The Tunes found themselves in a bit of a JAM when they are kidnapped by aliens from SPACE. Later, the basketball players who have their talent siphoned away are also in a jam, caused by the same space dwelling aliens. Jam (verb) - slang term for a slam dunk in basketball. --This is the reason for its use in the title of the popular video game NBA JAM. In Space Jam, we once again reference the aliens from space and the generally fun-to-watch action of the slam dunk. Jam (noun) - slang term for one of your favorite songs - “Yo! Hit ’Em High is my JAM!” -- The soundtrack for Space jam was quite popular, with a number of hits including R.Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly”, which people may shun now, but was enormously popular at release and for years after. The title works in many ways, none of which are that much of a stretch to reach. Jason, June, stop hatin’.

Bo Burnham

Sorry for putting my politics into this. But I'd like to hear a interview with Andrew Yang. I know this is probably just a show for entertainers to talk to Conan but I'd like to quantify how the mainstream press constantly sees and treats his campaign as a joke and under represents him like others polling less or equal to his numbers like Mayor Pete and Beto. Check out #YangMediaBlackoutt on twitter. He's a smart dude and does great interviews like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87M2HwkZZcw

Jordan Schlansky

Steve Carell

I relistened to this episode today and I love Jason’s description of Paul googling Mario Lopez’s chest hair as like a “a character in a movie who is trying to hack a system.” I work in publishing. That is the kind of detail I like! Jason, if you want to write a book, call me.