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We record a quick video call catch-up after a hot, sleepless night and compare two very different “siblings” movies. We review Stallone’s Paradise Alley and Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill, then argue about what makes a character funny versus just plain annoying. 
• video call recording and a quick apology for the sound 
• what we watched and the mismatched viewing order 
• Paradise Alley set in the 1940s and the brothers’ money scheme 
• the youngest brother pushed into wrestling and taken advantage of 
• discomfort with the monkey scenes and why it lingers 
• Stallone’s first directed movie and a Rocky connection 
• Jack and Jill’s twin premise and why Jill grates on purpose 
• Al Pacino falling for Jill and the Dunkin’ Donuts commercial 
• cameos and side jokes that still make us laugh 
• the shared bridge between the movies as “annoying siblings” 
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Transcript

Cold Open And Going Solo

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Here's the fun intro, crack it ten year. Here we go. No one knows what we'll even know. Starting with the movie but now it's time where we are not bad ideas and let's take it at the time that we're Mr. X.

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Oh, maybe we should open this up. Or okay, I'm doing the editing all by myself and I'm gonna open this up. I bought a monster just for that. Not because I like it or anything. No, it's just so we can open this

Why The Audio Sounds Rough

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up. Hello and welcome to Roasty Toasty Ghosty. My name is Matthias, and yeah, I'm all by myself. So Lauren comes later. Okay, so today's episode is gonna be a bit weird. It's gonna be um video call and we have to apologize or I have to apologize for the poor sound. So yeah, you have to bear with us and uh hope we can make it better next week. But here comes the call

Sleep Deprivation And Movie Prep

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now.

SPEAKER_03 2:01

Uh I I did watch the movies.

SPEAKER_04 2:03

Oh, you did? Good.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

I did.

SPEAKER_04 2:06

I also did, and then I fell asleep and didn't want to talk to you.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

You just did not want to talk to me.

SPEAKER_04 2:20

Yeah. Uh mean yeah, I mean uh I the night before I really did not sleep well. I maybe got three hours or so.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Why yeah?

SPEAKER_04 2:33

I don't know. It was warm.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:36

But it's been really warm.

SPEAKER_04 2:38

Yeah, so I had so much trouble falling asleep. It was a little bit chillier uh on Friday, so that's why I could sleep and I fell asleep maybe. Yeah. I think I fell asleep at like after nine or something.

unknown 2:58

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 2:59

Yeah. But I I did stay I did stay awake for the movies at least.

SPEAKER_03 3:06

Okay. Well, I kind of fell asleep through the second movie.

SPEAKER_04 3:13

Which one did you start with and which one I started with uh uh twins, the twins one. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

Yeah, and then I watched uh Stallone after that.

SPEAKER_04 3:28

Yeah, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

Is is that the order that you watched too?

SPEAKER_04 3:33

No. I watched the other movie. Yeah, but we we watched the same movies at least, so we did. Well, yeah, we we didn't really plan this too well,

What We Watched And In What Order

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but uh you know, it's something but I did watch the movies, yeah. So do you wanna movie on?

SPEAKER_03 3:58

Oh, we can do that.

SPEAKER_04 4:00

Yeah. Wait a minute, robot voice.

SPEAKER_03 4:07

I'm not a robot. But you got calling me a robot, you're a robot.

SPEAKER_04 4:13

That's how much you miss me. That you're starting to develop a robot voice.

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I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 4:21

No, okay.

SPEAKER_03 4:25

I don't know if it's that bad.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

Okay, okay. So let's move on.

SPEAKER_03 4:36

Okay. Let's see. We watched the two movies. Yeah. Right. I remember Stallone's movie was Paradise Alley.

SPEAKER_04 4:45

Yeah.

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And then there's the twins movie.

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Jack and Jill.

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Yeah, Jack and Jill.

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Mm-hmm. That's true.

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That yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That much is true.

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Okay, so who's gonna start?

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I I I can tell you kind of about Paradise Alley.

SPEAKER_04 5:07

Okay, yeah.

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I can try to remember

Paradise Alley Review And Standout Moments

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what happened.

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And I can even fill in if I fell asleep. Yeah. I can help you. It's okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

Okay. Okay. So Stallone? Oh, it's it's the the forties. It w it took place in the forties.

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Yeah.

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And it's kind of sad, I think.

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The movie?

SPEAKER_03 5:31

Yeah. Stallone has two brothers.

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Yeah.

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One is like very serious and the other one is large and kind of dumb. But he's learning.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:47

He was kind of cute though. Yeah. I mean, come on. And Stallone is the brother that just wants to make money. The greedy one. But the the serious brother ends up being the manager for the the bigger he's the youngest, but he's a big guy.

SPEAKER_04 6:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

And they put him into uh wrestling or something. They take advantage of him. And uh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:20

Yeah.

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That's that's what I got.

SPEAKER_04 6:23

Yeah. I mean that. It's uh good summary.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

I don't know really how it ended, but I know that that was basically what was going on.

SPEAKER_04 6:35

Yeah.

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But I liked what I saw.

SPEAKER_04 6:38

Okay, good.

SPEAKER_03 6:39

The the parts that I did see, I I enjoyed them. What did you think about the movie? I mean what did I miss?

SPEAKER_04 6:48

I I think uh it's a pretty uh it's a good movie. I mean, it's not a favorite, but still uh I don't hate it.

SPEAKER_03 7:01

Have you seen it before?

SPEAKER_04 7:02

I have. Okay. Um there are parts like I I'm I'm not uh that comf comfortable with uh uh the monkey parts of the movie. I I didn't didn't really like those parts where where they got the monkey and then like it kind of seems like the monkey. Yeah. That's so cruel. It feels I didn't like that either. No, that's like the thing that's in my head every time I see this movie, it's like oh, yeah. But uh other than that, I think it's it's it's a uh it's a pr uh it's an okay movie at least.

SPEAKER_03 7:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 7:49

Yeah. And uh it's Stallone's first directed movie, like his Okay. Yeah?

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Yeah.

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So that's pretty cool. What else? In some ways I it kinda reminds me of uh Battle Creek Brawl. I don't know why. I think I think it's uh like the music, I mean it's both both are like set at uh basically the same time. And uh I feel like they could be like a connected universe if if you just wanted to.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:30

Yeah. And uh yeah, so i it would be kind of fun to think it about it like that. But that's just my head. Uh uh so what did you think about this movie?

SPEAKER_03 8:42

I did like it. Um, but I I noticed that there was a connection to Rocky as well.

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Yeah.

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In which uh his brother is the singer.

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Yeah.

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In this one too.

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But he uh Stallone also Stallone also uh sang the theme song.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

I thought that was him.

SPEAKER_04 9:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

I wasn't sure. No. But it sounded like him. But it could have also been his brother.

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Yeah, true.

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I guess it was him.

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It was uh Sylvester, I think.

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That's cool.

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Yeah. So yeah.

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That's it.

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Uh yeah, probably.

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No more.

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No more

Jack And Jill Review From Annoying To Funny

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Paradise Alley.

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Tell me about Jack and Jill.

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Okay. This movie uh stars Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler.

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Yes.

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As Jack and Jill. So they are twins. Jack is not thrilled about his sister Jill, because she can be seen as pretty annoying.

SPEAKER_03 9:56

She is really annoying.

SPEAKER_04 9:58

Yeah, she is.

SPEAKER_03 10:01

Really annoying. I mean, if you put her in anger management, then then he would have a good reason to require anger management.

SPEAKER_04 10:10

I feel like she and Jack Nicholson would go so well together. Yeah. But in this movie, it's Al Pacino instead. Al Pacino falls in love with uh Jill, and uh Jack needs that to happen because he needs uh Al Pacino to do a commercial for them.

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Dunkin' Donuts.

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Yeah, Dunpuccino.

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Which I I was just there before you called me.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:41

Before I called you, actually.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. And the the commercial that they showed at the end, yeah, I thought it was kind of fun.

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Yeah.

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I liked it.

SPEAKER_04 10:53

Yeah. Like, no, get rid of it. No one can burn it. Burn it. It was funny. It was. Yeah, so what did you think about this movie?

SPEAKER_03 11:04

I I liked the movie. I thought it was funny, but she was really, really, really annoying. Yeah. I didn't like her.

SPEAKER_04 11:11

No. Yeah, I mean, in a way, I kind of found uh Stallone's character in the uh in Paradise Alley kind of annoying too, because he he was so into like uh making money and like doing all the schemes and yeah, everything. And so I kind of feel like that's the bridge between these two movies. Annoying siblings.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

Yeah, so it's uh siblings movies we watched this time. Yeah, but yeah, I kind of like uh uh Jack and Joe. I think it's like one of the Adam Sanders most hated movies. Probably yeah. But it's uh it has fun cameos and Johnny Depp was there.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

Oh, he was that was so random.

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Yeah, and uh I I like uh David Spade, his cat who got her butt-kicked by Jill. Yeah, and the and also really funny. Yeah, and they also made fun of Rob Schneider.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

Yeah. Yeah. It was a really funny movie. I laughed many times.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

Yeah, yeah.

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I didn't count how many times, but it was a lot.

SPEAKER_04 12:41

Yeah, good. That's what the movie was intended for, I think.

SPEAKER_03 12:48

Yeah. So I didn't because I did that.

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Good.

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If I wasn't supposed to laugh, then that's too bad.

SPEAKER_04 12:55

Yeah, then you failed. Because I did. But but you didn't fail since I didn't. No.

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I did laugh.

Closing Notes And How To Support

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Good.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so that was it. That was the call. So yeah, thank you all for listening to this short episode, and uh, hopefully we will do better next week. And uh yeah, we hope to see you then. Bye bye.

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Thank you for listening to the Roasty Toasty Ghosty Podcast.

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We hope you enjoyed this episode just as we enjoyed making it.

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And we'll be back with another one next Tuesday on a podcast provider near you.

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Goodbye, Matthias!

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Goodbye, Lauren.