[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my coast and best friend, Cody Lena. Discuss various pop culture topics and narrow it down to truly the best of all time.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Every day, Nick and I, we wake up, we look in the mirror, tell the world, come see how good we look. All right? We go to the bathroom, we piss.
Go, and then we come on this show, and we are the voice of a generation.
I couldn't find an elf quote to put in there. Nick, I need your help workshopping this bit. Okay, so I got man Talladega. Good night, step brothers. I can't get elf in.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: We. We do like Christmas.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Yeah, we're okay with.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: We like Christmas. I think he says that a lot.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: We do know Santa that one time met Santa.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: We are pro. Very pro. In fact, throwing snowballs at children at an aggressive rate, too.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: Yeah, fast. The faster and harder you can throw, the better. I want these kids coughing up blood and snow.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: And some would say, yeah, a rate that is almost. You're like, well, you're too good at. You shouldn't be. It's the same reason why you can't just let, like, LeBron James just go back to college because he doesn't have eligibility.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: Why can't he do that, though? He should have eligibility. We bullshit. Well.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Or no, he doesn't have eligibility because he got money to play basketball. So you lose your amateur status.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: He shouldn't lose his amateur status. He should regain his amateur status when he becomes an amateur. So I'm saying when he retires at 100, because he's still balling out of control, probably better than 50% of the people in the league. And he's like, I'm going to go back and get an education.
I'm going to get my degree in accounting. I feel like LeBron would probably get an accounting degree.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: It makes sense.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: He's into it.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: Smart guy.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: And then you got a 60 year old man styling on these 19 year olds. That's going to be so fun to watch. I will watch. That's march madness that I will watch.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: I mean, what's interesting, I wonder what's going to change if that rule is still in effect, though. Because now, even though they're still amateurs, they can make money off their name and, like, maybe he could, and it would be great. I do know you can go play as long as it's not the sport you made money in. So LeBron James, because, like, Jr Smith, who played with LeBron James, now plays collegiate golf.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Oh, good.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: On a collegiate golf team while he's getting his education and doing well on the collegiate golf circuit.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: I guess professional athlete. It's whatever. Yeah.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: So there is the. Like, I'm not saying LeBron James should go play football. I think maybe he's just old enough, but I'm okay with it. If he wants to go do it at, like, a d three school, like, start small, right. Don't go to Alabama right away.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: Yeah. What if it's, like, something wild, though? What if he's like, fuck that, and he joins, like, the debate team, and they're like, hey, we're the university of. This is. This is Doug. He's our math whiz. This is Chris. This guy knows everything about history. This is LeBron James. He's six foot nine, and we're all scared of him because we're just a bunch of nerds.
[00:03:29] Speaker A: This is mostly for intimidation for the other team, because it's incredibly challenging to talk against LeBron James. Most people just defer and.
Right.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Anyone whose nickname, legit, known worldwide, not a joke. No, hyperbole, is king. Yeah, probably defer to him in most situations.
Who's the dominant male in this room? I mean, it's the one we all call king. Probably. That guy.
Sure as fuck. Not us liberal cucks over here. Me.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: And I'm going to tell LeBron James he's wrong.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: No, I'm sorry, 5969. Do you see the difference here?
[00:04:13] Speaker A: It's not going to happen like that. I'm going to be like, yeah, that's a good point. LeBron James, I do think we should have more prisons.
He's, like, advocating for a more extreme death penalty. Like, he's like one of those guys.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Super death. What is that? We don't do court anymore. No more court, no more trial.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: I don't like that. I think that's a bad idea. You start to be like our own constitution. Amendment eight says, no unfair, unjust punishment. And then LeBron James just looks at you, and you're like, I mean, but that's like, you can get amendments changed.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Yeah, we change them all the time. Women can vote now.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: We can do that.
[00:04:54] Speaker B: How do you feel about that?
[00:04:56] Speaker A: That's cool. He's like, I love the ladies. Like, yeah, me too, dude.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. Yeah.
Actually, I do want to say for the record that if LeBron James was shooting for the super death penalty, I would probably tell me stupid shit right.
[00:05:09] Speaker A: To his face, and then immediately, I'm.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Not going to run, dude, so fast.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: Well, I think what you have to do is you're just trying to put as many obstacles so you do a table flip, push your own people in front of you.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: Oh, God, I have your people.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: To at least give yourself the semblance that you might be able to get to a locked room.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: Am I trying to escape LeBron James in your mind's eye right now? Am I trying to escape LeBron James during a debate?
[00:05:36] Speaker A: Yeah, you're on a debate stage.
You do have the back to get some. I think your goal is you're trying to get to a locked room, and hopefully one of LeBron James handlers can calm him down.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: This is how you escape. Write this down, everyone. I used to do this all the time. I did it to nick a hundred times. He probably doesn't even know. I would lose tails all the time. In theater, this is what you do. Not hard walk behind the curtain, sprint to the other end of the curtain. So as soon as you see that curtain flat move, they're coming in to find you. Just go back in front of the curtain. They'll never look out there. They're dumb. Everybody's dumb. Go right out the front door. You're free to go. The crowd's not going to spoil it and give it away because they think it's part of the bit.
[00:06:17] Speaker A: Oh, sure.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: Yeah, look at this.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: They must have planned this. This is a little funny thing. Look, now he tricked him. He got.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like Scooby Doo's play.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I get it. Yeah.
[00:06:28] Speaker B: Now, dude, I escaped.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: No, I got away from LeBron. I ran away from LeBron James.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: We should start a group of people who can get together and just talk about how we escape LeBron James.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: The various. And it's a small group.
It's a hard group to find because.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: We'Re sneaky and that's what we're talking about.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: And that's mostly what it is I'm trying to figure out. I'm like, was LeBron James Anchorman three?
Not Anchorman three. I'm sorry. Anchorman two is the one, because there's the big battle between the anchors, but it's like on a national. Kanye west is there, is what I'm saying. So there was a few, but it does not appear that LeBron James made that, apparently. Do LeBron James and Will Ferrell not know each other?
[00:07:16] Speaker B: They got to know each other.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: How would they not know? But when you type in LeBron James, will ferrell, there's not a lot of great content. And this just feels like, what are we doing we.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Oh, my God. This is why we've been put on this earth. Two reasons to put on this earth. To bring LeBron James and fucking will Ferrell together in an embrace that will shake the very foundation of our society and to kill God. That's our mission.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: And I think we need the two of them.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: Yeah, we need the power to do it.
[00:07:49] Speaker A: I think that's what it. But, like, there are no photos. If you look on the Internet, there are no photos of LeBron James and Will Ferrell just hanging out there was LeBron James or Will Ferrell went to a Lakers game, but that's not like, that doesn't count.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: Well, at least we know. We know for a fact that they aren't the same were the start.
[00:08:09] Speaker A: They were in the same room at the same time.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Will Ferrell play basketball? He did a movie. Okay, basketball movie. What was it called? I can't remember. But he was a Duncan on fools.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: Left and right, all semi pro.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: Semi pro. So we know he got game.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: Yeah, he's there, but, yeah. So we'll move aside from LeBron James to Mr. Will Ferrell. And here we are, folks, in the final four, where we have the winner of Group A, elf going up against the winner of Group B, Talladega Knights. And then we have the winner of Group C, Anchorman, going up against the winner of Group D, step brothers. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Start with elf and talladega knights.
I'm having a problem here because I don't know how much points I give elf because it's a.
I mean, some people probably celebrate the night before Talladega by watching talladega nights. Sounds great. The world over. People celebrate Christmas by watching it.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: Yeah, man, but it's weird watching a Christmas movie. Not during Christmas time, though.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: It sure is, budy.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: It is amazing how much it feels, right? Everything feels normal when you're watching it during Christmas. The second we cross over that, December 26 and on, you're like, why is everyone going with this? This is ridiculous. There is something to be said, truly, about Christmas magic, because this plot is 100% driven by that. And if this was just like, imagine if this movie, if elf himself wasn't there in December, right? If Buddy doesn't get to New York City in December. But he got there in like, it's brutal New York heat. The sidewalks smell like piss. They're loaded us up with trash. And now you have this guy in an elf costume trying to be like, where's Santa?
I'm not going back to what we've already talked about. But I'm saying the only reason this happens is because of Christmas magic and how powerful.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: Well, Nick, here's the fucking deal. It makes total sense. I thought about it. If someone shows up to me on Christmas Eve dressed like an elf, and they're like, dude, Santa just crashed in the park, and we have to help him. I can't afford not to take that seriously. Yeah, any other day of the year, I can just walk right by that guy. Don't make eye contact, don't acknowledge.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: But on this day, this is coming.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: This is it. I got to make sure he's wrong. I got to check this.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: Well, and this could be a Tim Allen situation where.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Absolutely, we don't know, maybe save Santa Claus. I might have to do a futurama situation where Santa Claus gets so behind schedule that he needs someone to help, so I have to ride shotgun with Santa Claus.
I don't know. Maybe I get a fucking magic flying reindeer pet out of the situation.
[00:10:55] Speaker A: You got the space in your backyard. I've said that.
I've walked in your backyard and been like, you could easily get one reindeer, maybe two.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: Maybe two.
I was like, I said, at least two. And then Catherine put the kibosh on the reindeer stuff again this year, dude.
[00:11:10] Speaker A: I mean, I understand that a. No, it's not their natural habitat. It's not nearly cold enough. What about all the grass? What about our garden? Are they going to eat that? And yes, these are wonderful questions to be asking. But also, flying deer, flying reindeer.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: That's it. That's it. Are you kidding me? And also, you can't get a DUI on a reindeer because the reindeer is driving. He's not drunk.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: These are facts. These are facts. The problem is, Cody, I did get your reindeer drunk.
Every time I went to go use the bathroom, I did give it just a little bit, kipped it back a little bit just to be like, have a fun ride home, buddy.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: My head was more, like, going to be like, whoa. Like, more of a roller coaster.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: But, yeah, cool. So reindeers can metabolize that, then you looked it up.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Everyone knows get a reindeer. Drunk animals can get drunk, right?
[00:12:04] Speaker B: They shouldn't.
[00:12:07] Speaker A: I'm not saying I'm getting them drunk. I'm just saying there's a universe. Like, alcohol impacts the species. Like, if you are a brained animal, okay. Alcohol has to impact you, right? This isn't a soup.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: I don't think it's a dumb thing, but I also don't know enough to talk. I could be talking on my ass so fast. I have no idea, dude. Maybe there's a duck out there that just runs on alcohol. People get like, bodies are weird. Bodies are weird. In the human species, we start adding animals in the mix. Dog, there's animals out here that eat rocks. So the rocks will chew their food in their stomach.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: Dude, just get teeth. My dog just, here's my thing. I know that some, I know, like, bats and they are known for eating because a lot of it's like eating old fruit, right? Fruit that's gone bad.
And the sugars are now being turned into alcohol. Man, I miss science. In 1850 to, I think, like, 1900 is probably the best time for science. We now have enough technology to do some cool stuff, but there are still no laws. There are no organizations for the safety animals, people, anything.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: Like, fuck that.
[00:13:24] Speaker A: No one cares. You could get all the like, I could publish Professor Keller and the study of which animals get the drunkest and are dopest to party with.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: I'm saying if anyone gets a time machine, they're like, I'm going to go see the Beatles. I'm going to go kill Hitler. Fuck that shit. Nick and I are going to go back to the 18 hundreds, and with our combined knowledge, we're just smart enough to get a couple of medicine things right, but just wild enough that we could change the world, dude, of medicine. We could get in there.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll just go back in time. We'll find all the big questions that we can't answer anymore in society, mostly about animals getting drunk. We'll go back in time, do that research then, and then publish it then.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: And then we move forward.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: How would that can't impact the time paradise. That's not going to be that big of a time paradox situation, right? What did we really change? It's something that we couldn't do now anyway, and by having it, we just know it. There's no, like.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Because all these liberals out here won't let us get animals drunk.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's like, what would that change?
[00:14:27] Speaker B: PETA's on my ass, dog. Okay? I'm going shot for shot with my boy Stuart. And all of a sudden, PETA's got a problem with saying I'm still, like.
[00:14:38] Speaker A: Even I'm trying to party with these animals. They're still over there killing them. Why are you focused on me? I'm not killing anyone. I mean, yeah, we did learn that a rat can't do a full shot of Everclear. And maybe to some that was obvious, but that is what science is about.
[00:14:53] Speaker B: At the end of the day. Yeah, that is what is the point I'm trying to make is I think I have to go talladega nights on this one because elf is amazing and I love elf, but the second I watched it and it wasn't Christmas, I don't want to watch it. I don't want to be here.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Isn't that, like, it really felt like I had to sit through, like, on Christmas? Like I said, I'm an avowed. It's not my favorite. I'm happy to move Talladega on overall, but it's like, at least around Christmas, if someone's like, elf's like, hey, we're going to watch elf. I'm going to be like, all right, fine, I'll watch it.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I love elf around Christmas. But the second it's not Christmas, I have, like, a violent reaction. And it's not even that it's a bad movie. It's just like, this isn't okay. Yeah, this isn't okay.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: And I think to that point then, because I think there's going to be a lot of people who are like, you're being ridiculous.
You have to move elf on.
Hey, folks, to those.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: Watch it right now.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: Pause it right now.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: Go watch it and come back and talk to us.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: If there's a will Ferrell movie that you can only watch, and I'll be generous and give you October, October, I'll be generous and give you, well, I guess, like November 1 through December. That's two months. That means there's ten months out of the year that we cannot watch. It is unwatchable. It is, in fact, an unwatchable film. If it's not those two months. Caldega nights year round, still year round, baby. I was just fine. Even though it's not NASCAR season right now, NASCAR season doesn't start for another, like two, three months.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Yeah. But really big into NASCAR.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: I just know that it's just got to be a little bit warmer.
NASCAR always starts way earlier than I think. All of a sudden, I'm like, whoa.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: What?
[00:16:35] Speaker A: That and horse racing are the two things that when they come up, I'm always like, it's March. What are we like? I still have, like, 3ft of snow around me and I'm like, there's places in America that you could race. A horse would die here if it tried. So that's what we're saying, folks. Take that logic. And like Cody said, if you don't believe us, please go watch it right now, please go watch Elf right now and try to get through it. And you won't.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: It's not that it's a bad movie. It's just the vibe is wrong. The vibe is wrong?
[00:17:06] Speaker A: Yeah. And it accentuates all of the issues that we've previously discussed when it comes to the movie elf. So I'm with you. We'll move Talladega Knights on where it will go up against Anchorman or to.
I think I'm going to say something kind of controversial.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: And I think Anchorman has been thoroughly ruined in the sense that as I was watching it, almost every line in that movie, I have heard someone else say, and then, so I'm watching the movie, but now I'm thinking about my friend in high school, and then I'm like, well. And that wasn't really funny when they did it. And then immediately next, there's another line, and then I'm doing that. I'm rarely in the movie. And then also, if I don't notice a line, every line almost sounds like it's written to be a quote. Right? Like, even if you're listening to someone like, wow, you opened the door pretty hard there. You're like, is that a quote?
[00:18:10] Speaker B: Is that something that people.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: I'm like, going back in my own head and be like, someone said that joke to me too.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: That's a problem. So Anchorman suffers from the fact that it was such a defining point of a whole generation of kids, like our age, good boys our age, everybody watched it and was formed. It was formative for us, so it became life. That's why no one wants to watch their own life. All day. I hear people quoting this shit all the time. Still takes me back when I'm watching Anchorman, I'm not watching Anchorman. I'm at work. I'm at the park. I'm living my life. I'm back in the high schools of school and college. Yeah, but not in the way that I want to be.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: Yeah. These aren't places I'm trying to get back to either, necessarily. I'm pretty good now.
And the other part, Anchorman. I'm not saying that Anchorman isn't funny, but in watching it now, it really plays like a movie that is full of sketches and not in and of itself a coherent narrative.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: The story of the movie is not the most important part about the movie.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: That is not at all I want.
[00:19:16] Speaker B: To take away from the fact that Anchorman again forged us. Nick, would we be here today without Anchorman doing this show? I don't know.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: I mean, we're talking to the people. Ron Burgundy talked to the people.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: I have a mustache. Ron Burgundy had a mustache.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: That's undeniable. It's undeniable what it's shaped us into. I think was watching it. I watched Anchorman and then immediately I was like, okay, I need to just rewatch step brothers right now. And I felt like I needed that cleanse because a, I wanted to see, okay, maybe I'm wrong about step brothers wasn't because step brothers has the very irreverent, like, whoa, that's such a random reference, while still being a nice, cohesive through and through story. And if I think the message of Will Ferrell's movies is about toxic masculinity and pointing out how inherently dumb these guys look and taking that down, I just think he does a better job in step brothers of doing that and then also redeeming them. Ron Burgundy is not really, I think.
[00:20:22] Speaker B: He does the same message in Anchorman.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I do, too.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: I want us to come at it from this, because everything you're saying I, to a degree, agree with. But I don't want to forget the point.
If you could wipe out the social conscience of all these movies and we watch them for the first time today, I think we'd laugh more at Anchorman. I don't think anchorman, it's suffering from success. Anchorman is the definition of suffering from success. Because I've talked to people who've never seen stepbrothers. Right.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: And we've said this before, that step brothers is maybe of all of these, when you watch it the first time is probably the worst. I would say outside of Elf, when it's not during Christmas season, but most of us watched it on Christmas season.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: I'm not even in this discussion.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: I'm not going to do it catching strays over here. I'm just always. Any chance I get, I don't like it.
I do agree with you. I do think that it would play a lot better if it wasn't so tied to all of this, because like I said, I just spent most that movie being like, yeah, I remember this line. Or like, is that a quote? That's got to be a wait, when do they use that? And it just really dampened the experience overall.
The one thing that's crazy about watching Anchorman is how loaded with stars it is. And knowing that at the time, none of these guys are really like, Paul Rudd is maybe the most famous outside.
[00:21:52] Speaker B: Padd's about to break through. Yeah, he's at the.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: Paul Rudd's been here. Paul Rudd's been here. He was in clueless and all this, but Paul Rudd's about to have his own major breakthrough.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: I don't know if that's true about Paul Rudd. I think we all just look back and see Paul Rudd as being way more famous than he was. But he was playing a bit part in this Movie. He played a side part in 40 YEaR old virgin. I don't remember Paul Rudd actually going to be the leading man until recently.
[00:22:18] Speaker A: Oh, no, I'm agreeing with. But I'm just saying in Anchorman.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: I think Paul Rudd's the second most famous when it's released. At the time of its release. Paul Rudd's probably the second most famous guy on that roster. On a roster that eventually had, like, Seth Rogen's in there. Jack Black is in know. I mean, Jack Black's probably at that time, pretty famous, but he only has his small.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: We got. Let's just give credit where credit is due. That Movie probably needed some star power, and we have to thank Christina Applegate for that because she's by far the biggest name on the marquee of that movie.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: Right. And the only one who's.
It's not that she's not funny in it, but she feels like she's the only one who is trying.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: She's a good actress.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: She's an actual actress amongst.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: It's nice to have her because she.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: Grounds you in this world. That's ridiculous.
[00:23:11] Speaker A: None of it matters, Cody. Here's what does matter. I'm going step brothers.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: I hear.
And. And some of this is, I mean, just putting the Monkey on the table or putting the Elephant in my pants, whatever it is. I don't know where these animals need to go. All I know is I'm trying to get them drunk. Step Brothers is my favorite. I think all this said and done, and it is the movie I go back to the most. Okay, so I have my biases, but I think I can be vindicated in this by saying I think step brothers is better than Anchorman and does better at what Anchorman was trying to do.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: I'm at this point, I think at this point in my life, I would rather watch step brothers than Anchorman. But I think of the movies, I think Anchorman is the better one. I think it's mean. The message might not be the same, but as a watch, I think it's a more powerful, funnier watch, and I think it did more for pop culture. I think it did more for Will Ferrell's career. I think it did more. I think it was just more.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: And I'm going to go with Anchorman. I don't think I can fully disagree with you.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: I mean.
[00:24:14] Speaker A: No, you can't. Don't get me wrong. It's not that I think step Brothers has its fans, but it's nowhere near an anchorman level. There's no step brothers, too.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:24:24] Speaker A: More brothers.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: More brothers. I would love to see what those guys got up to, though.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: They could have kept going. I could have done a series with those guys. Let's just move it straight into a series and let's get going. All right, folks, we'll settle this the only way we know how with the american voting coin of 2004 is brought to you by random.org. We got John Kerry facing up, which means George Bush is on the other side. Low seed gets a pick. Anchorman was the 15 seed. So, Cody, what are you going to do?
[00:24:52] Speaker B: I am going to go with John Carrey because we mistakenly said he was from California for the first 300 episodes of this show. Yeah.
[00:24:59] Speaker A: And movie takes place in San Diego.
[00:25:01] Speaker B: That's it.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: There we go.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: Perfect.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: That's all we need. All right, we'll flip George Bush. So now we have Talladega knights going up against step brothers.
[00:25:09] Speaker B: Talladega Knights had the funniest line of all four of these movies. The funniest. And it's the first time I really realized what was happening. I've watched the movie. This is probably like my third time watching it, but I never registered this line until diswatch. And it is right after Will Ferrell's character goes crazy and gets put in the hospital. And he comes home. He's been gone for less than an hour, mind you. He comes in the door and Dale's with his wife. And he's like, we're getting married. I want you to be the best man. He's like, what are you talking about? I lost my job. You're married. My wife is the worst day ever. And he goes, hey, you lost your job. You lost your wife. You don't need to lose your best friend.
It's so good.
That'd be like if you walked in and I'm marrying Kellyanne. I'm like, Nick, think about this.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: Think about this. You don't want to. Hey, man, you don't want to lose me, too.
I think between the thing with Talladega Knights versus step brothers is you have your very grounded Ferrell, funny character. This is a like versus a true character. Character. Like Ricky Bobby. Right. Like Talladega Knights. Ron Burgundy is a think. I don't even think I remember the name of his character in Step brothers.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: Dale.
[00:26:27] Speaker A: Dale.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: Brennan. Brennan.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: He's Brennan Brennan. But it's. It's. Yeah, he's just a guy. It's just where this is the crossroads I'm at. I mean, it's similar to Anchorman, but I just knew where my heart fell on that. I like my. Do I like my will Ferrell as just a guy Joe schmo, but he just gets to be as funny as he wants to be? Or do I like turning him up a little bit and letting him get inside of a character? Because I'll say it's hard for me not to say. I think Talladega Knights is definitely sillier and I like him more. And I do enjoy when Will Ferrell's just silly, but everyone is so locked in about how they try to keep it real. Right when he thinks he's on fire and then he goes to the rehab and he stabs God, that line. Don't you put that on me, Ricky Bobby.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: Don't put that evil on me. I'm leaning. Talladega Knights. I think both these movies are very good. I think step brothers, probably as far as, like, a story and a message is a better one, but Talladega Knights is just funny. Will Ferrell can make. Will Ferrell doesn't care about the script. It doesn't matter if you give him a funny situation. He's like the best sitcom movie Guy ever. You give him a situation and he's going to milk every ounce of funny out of it.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: Cody, let's just do this. I'm not saying this isn't a deciding factor, but let's just go back and forth until we can't come up with bits. You be Talladega knights.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:56] Speaker A: I'll be step brothers.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:58] Speaker A: You can always feel free to help. If there's just one, you feel like the other.
But I just want to see for the science of it, does one have more memorable moments or quotes, too? Like, if you want to throw a.
[00:28:11] Speaker B: Start, I got Talladega knights when they're discussing their favorite type of Jesus, baby Jesus versus all that whole lot. That dinner scene is phenomenal. Talking to grandpa, threatening grandpa's life. So good.
[00:28:25] Speaker A: Even if I put them head to head, though, I'd go tell digging it, because I'll give you then the dinner scene with Brennan's brother and the dad just being so enamored with how cool. He is also, there's a line when now I can't. Adam Scott. And he's like, yeah, man, sorry I couldn't make the wedding. I was on a super yacht with chef Bobby Flay, Mark Cuban, Chris Daughtry, and it's played for, oh, look at those douchebags. You'd hate to be on that boat. And now I'm like, that sounds like a cool trip, man.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: Why are they all in the same boat?
[00:29:00] Speaker A: It's clearly just meant to. In 2006 or seven or whenever this came out, it's just stray shots at Bobby Blay, Chris Daughtry, and Mark Cuban. And I'm like, yeah, dog. I don't even think we had shark tank yet, though. So I got to talk to Mark Cuban about some of the best shark tank moments. Like Chris Daughtry's grabbing his guitar, playing the hits, and Bobby flay chefing up.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: I think we can do this all. Both these movies have so many good things. Talladega nights, the cougar in the car, Nick. I think the bit count might be equal. I just think we could do this. Too long, too powerful. Let's think. All right, you're on step brothers. I'm on Talladega nights. The bad thing about. The worst part about Talladega nights is Amy Adams characters in the movie. She never gets really like. You can tell she makes almost no sense. She makes almost no sense.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: And she is so unnecessary to bringing him back. If you wanted a love interest type character, his kids, right, you have the mom.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: He could have done.
[00:29:56] Speaker A: You have Jim lynch mother right there. Or the dad. I mean, you have the whole dad storyline. Yeah. All right, worst part of stepbrothers.
[00:30:06] Speaker B: I.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: Can'T think of one. It's a perfect movie. No, yours has a bad one, mine doesn't, so I'm going to have to go with that. I would say worst part of stepbrothers has got to be, if I'm being honest, if I'm being really honest with.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: Yourself, I appreciate this. Yeah, open up.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: I don't really care for the Catalina wine mixer ending.
[00:30:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: I just don't really need it.
I get what it does, and it's funny, but this is where I'm like, he's not that great of a singer, so the fact that everyone goes along with. He's, like, the songbird of a generation.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:44] Speaker A: I just don't buy it. And it just is almost too dumb to end it on when it's, like, otherwise fairly grounded.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: All right, Talladega knights got to go. I'm locking it in. I don't care what you do.
[00:30:54] Speaker A: I think I'm going Talladega nights. I think at the end of the day, this is where if I really want that wolf, and I think I'm trying to also be pure to what I think other people want from their will Ferrell as well. I think I got to go Talladega nights because like you said, it is funny off of the first rip, and then it's only funnier with more viewings. So I think I'm with you. I think we got to move Talladega nights on, which I think is controversial. I want to say that, but I'm going to tell you all right, now, go do it for yourself. Go rewatch. Because you might be like, that one's like the dumbest one. No, go back. Because they laced that with some really brilliant stuff.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: It's got it in there.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: Everyone's running on, pardon the pun, but everyone's firing on all cylinders. Everyone's crushing it. All right, well, that is it for us, folks. Talladega knights on the boat. Thank you all so much for listening to this episode of run the competition. If you want about your boys, a few things that you can do, as always, share with a friend, tell a friend, wherever you're listening to this, make sure you hit that, like follow and subscribe and give us those five stars, please.
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[00:32:15] Speaker A: Yeah, both of those. We would be equally as good of experts in as always. Shout out to Charizard for that intro music. You want to hear more of their stuff, head over to Bandcamp. Type in charizard and replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. You got a new season coming to you on Monday, but until then, I've been Nick Carey.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: And I'm Cody Leno. If you don't shoot big Red, then fuck you.
