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The second of two episodes on funky white boy and alleged sexual predator Brett Ratner’s rise and fall, including multiple Chris Tucker movies, a cameo from Roman Polanski, and a one way ticket to Israel.

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jer

Second. (Better than first)

georgia

the rat man returneth, let's gooo

Dick Waglin

Kali definitely isn't demonic or buddhist.

Tea for the Tillerman

Big fan of the show. Would you guys ever do a TWA flight 800 ep? God bless.

Kryn Benski

Norm undershot YC’s age so kindly, that he’s now 16

DaFunkBackToDaPunk

Does anyone’s else’s brain change “Russell Simmons” to “Richard Simmons”?

Michael S. Judge

Liz's favorite type of pig perfectly describes Nicholas Rossi/"Arthur Knight." Interesting.

L

I fell asleep in aviator in the most uncomfortable cinema chair ever

Char Kelly

Brace being tongue twins with a Skarsgard is by far the biggest revelation in this episode

Graham Hoese

This dude looks like Harvey Weinstein and Jonah Hill made an unholy gene spliced test tube baby

weedworf

Im really glad u guys clarified who Russel Simmons was last ep because before u did I was like « ratner was friends with the gay workout guy?? »

emalco

Lucy Lawless is the opposite of right wing! The Hercules guy, Kevin Sorbo, is the weird MAGA one

Jon Wrokken

I feel like Liz described a pig version of Nathan J Robinson

Hana

Never defame Lucy Lawless! She's no Australian. Kiwi. Another colonial outpost, yes, but...

Jess 🐞

Gotta set the record straight for my 4 year old self who loved Xena : Lucy Lawless is cool and definitely not crazy. HOWEVER the Xena tv series was a spin off of the 90s Hercules show feat. Kevin Sorbo, who DID go crazy right wing, and posted a bunch of stuff after Jan 6 about how the people who stormed the capital were leftist agitators. Lawless publicly went off at him. Xena was cool for its time (super dated & has not aged well, full of problems now). It featured the first lesbian kiss on network TV and also apparently the first interracial relationship on New Zealand* television (in the 90s, which is crazy to me & maybe not accurate?), even though the show was not overly about romance. Very cool plot arcs about the complexities of making amends for being a total scumbag. The story is kind of like her 12 step recovery from being an evil warlord. *edit: New Zealand not Australia. Also the props and costumes were by Weta pre-LOTR, and you can see them gearing up towards making those films so idk how that slipped my mind.

absoluteboi

what's the name of the website liz mentioned at the end? sounds like a good content farm.

Demented Avenger

A total tangent: have you ever listened to the Rialto Report? There are sometimes tales of crimes for the Other Hollywood, some of which may be relevant

Sneb

Brace is absolutely on fire in this episode. He really is a crazy ass white boy

alec_irl

for the record the guy from Popeye who wants the burgers but can pay you later is J. Wellington Wimpy

Mark Owen

Trump said he'd want Oprah as his running mate, decades back.

sensorsweep

whoa.. his grandfather was Polish (sorry Liz) and for some reason moved from Havana to Miami in 1960

Chairman Corn

Does anyone know what Liz says right before the third break? She says the sexual perversion of these dudes has to do with something but she whispers it. Can’t understand what she’s sayin. Thanks!

Michelle

Wasn't expecting a deep dive on James packer but, as an Aussie, highly appreciated it. The pics of him fighting his bestie David gyngell are a fun google search

Andrew Irwin

Fourth Cum Town reference AND Cool Adam does the voice? Nick Mullen guest by Spring, can’t wait 🫶

Alaina Nuvola

If you're really in the mafia you don't want to be called a rat.

Shiv

w his funky ass

Dohn Jenver

Jonathan demme (rip) directed silence of the lambs also many music videos

ploob

Fafa Foo Hi ! Fafa Foo Hi !

Sean

goated Bigelow flick before the CIA got to her

Shiv

Let me fill in for Liz on the Mulaney aside bc I could feel her thinking, “my girls know”

MoldyTolge

One of the best openers After the Sunset sort of holds up, I was surprised how good it was

Do They Ever Shut Up

William gibson is God and this is like probably the better of things that has come from his works.

CJ

"the absent father"

Mike Malloy

- No chance Roman Polanski watched and loved Rush Hour. Bulworth-era Beatty checks out. - AV Club did not launch any careers but they used to be solid and Sean O’Neal used to do a good bit where he used a photo of Brett Ratner reading The Big Butt Book for any article that mentioned him

K H

How about the hashtage defundIsrael?

Adam B

“Bananas in Pajamas but sexual assault” killed me lmfao

I am become reply guy

I’m 100% certain Liz has already explained what a colonic is on the pod

Gabriel Mathews

Hilarious mangling of the Skarsgard lineage

Jill

I was wondering if Brace knew the other Brace

Jordan Williamson

I just watched “The Addiction” (1995, dir. Abel Ferrara), a cool vampire movie, which was produced by Russell Simmons and noticed it has Antony Blinken listed as a co-producer

Hugh Corrigan

Crazy to not have seen silence of the lambs. Absolute classic!

Tim

Anyone got the name of the organization Liz mentions that identifies people with sa allegations moving to Israel?

Oliver Crane

There’s an incredible book called Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow that’s one of the earliest examples of middle-class Jewish guy getting obsessed with black culture/jazz. Written entirely in ‘30s hipster slang, Dylan stole pieces of it for his own memoir.

Graham Hoese

Trying to put the strings between Al Malnik, Jean Luc Brunel, and mfing Steve Mnuchin hurts my brain. Insane all these people are separated by like one degree or less.

tubularballs

how do i listen to this show not on patreon- doesn't work on my castro app anymore. don't tell me i have to dl a third app

Ian H

Yeah isn't it Bali's main thing that it's like the southernmost extent stronghold of Hinduism?

Gordon Schmidt

On Reds being the only film to cover the Russian Revolution, there's a BBC series from the 70s or 80s called Fall of Eagles that partially features those events. Lenin is played by Patrick Stewart!

Shiv

how can it not be w the person who was on a TV show that alex was also on 🤔

meyer

the way brace’s funky ass just casually dropped “penis foods” as a category rly got me

snapplepeachtea

i knew there was a reason to hate keanu reeves.

Alaric

need to see that yung chomsky/baba booey clip

Phil Darovic

Thanks for not putting a timer on and ending the episodes at exactly 1 hour. True class

Michelle

I never thought about it before, but the policy regarding pants and dipping sauces is one that needs to be embraced by all societies. Oh, and don’t eat shrimp and jack off.

NYCM&AHole

You might even say Israel sent him a RATline

sadie

Ahhhh so good love you guys

MrMojoRisin

do you guys not like letterboxd cause you've only seen like 10 movies between the two of you?

Luke F

Listen in browser, dawg

Pearl

great one/s

Sarah Ernst

Twin towers = David Robinson and Tim Duncan…. 9/11 = lebron James

Marcus

Liz's family has some top teir pet names.

Andrew Irwin

Liz stopping herself from saying “muscle mommy”

Tim O'

👁

Alex Dima

what’s the name of the website that tracks sex offenders who move to israel?

Christopher Price

Superbad has a list of penis food early in the movie

The Children of Jack Acid

"The Rectademy would like to acknowledge all the great people we've colost this year..."

Alexis Diaz 🇨🇺

Why was it so hard for Liz to say Lipstick Alley is exclusively black women? That’s literally the entire point of the website and the reason why it’s been around for two decades. Instead she said it was about basketball and celebrities when two of the main forums are called The Culture - the African Diaspora Forum and The Front Porch! I’ve always suspected she had a chip on her shoulder over bw but this confirmed it for me. She’s funky for that and I hope she’s not a font.

BeanCurd

yes there is a ton of history and scholarship about the phenomenon of the Jewish-guy-obsessed-with-Black-culture. see some of Josh Kun's work. and anyone who has hippie/boomer Jewish parents can rattle off a list of embarrassingly cloying things they've heard them say about black people.

Daniel Dresden

also having this problem. the stream constantly crashes on this site and they wont let you download the eps anymore. i have to reload the page in chrome like 5 times each episode and then hope it doesnt crash again when i go back to the spot i was at.

J

Adam Friendland :^)

Robert

Say what now

Robert

Just got a colonoscopy boys, don’t worry, it ain’t that bad, you wake up feeling like you took 5 hydros.

Caz VanDevere

Great episode! Brace was about to say something about the hobbit movies when Liz interjected- what was it?? What was the thought?! :(

Anon Ibid

Liz calling the hindu goddess Kali a buddhist demon 🙃

Fernando

Adam Friedland !

Alec Gutteridge

Your description of the packers, ‘I guess they own some casinos’ is pretty mild, that family literally owns this shitty country (they have held an entire state held to ransom for about 5 years) them and the Murdochs - as an Australian Liz I also instantly write off anyone who comes from here, correct impulse

Shiv

I’m w YC giggling at, “I’m not thrilled by psychology”

Shiv

jacking off + eating shrimp = insane

meyer

dudes rock

Aaron Christmas

Brace, make the first podcast you ever listen to the A24 podcast with Nathan Fielder and the chick from Euphoria

Lawson

God damn "I'm not thrilled by psychology" is a bar.

Tvvvv

Haven’t fully listened to the episode yet so I don’t know if they mention this. A major gag of the Roman Polanski cameo in rush hour 3 is that he digitally anal cavity searches Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as a form of like punishment.

Tvvvv

Rush Hour 2 is the best Rush hour. I have always loved the boldness and laziness of having Chris Tucker (Detective Carter) reveal the plot mechanic behind all three films by having him say the line, “Follow the rich white man,” as a way to get the characters to solve the case and get them to the last act of the movie.

Joseph Boyle

"I don't fully do" - one of my favorite Brace nuggets

ploob

Brace should watch Upstream Color

Jeremy C-M

RATS DON'T HAVE VALOUR

Thomas Speae

James Packer or his father once showed up at Rupert Murdoch’s house in an attempt to beat him up. Rupert hid.

Hall wingfield

Liz is on it so "exclusively black women" seems like a bit of a stretch

SMP500

Came here a year later for this

Paul Brewer

See also, Nicholas and Alexandra, featuring a future Doctor Who as Rasputin

Paul Brewer

Was I the only one who found the snide snobbery about Letterboxd a little hypocritical from two PODCASTERS, sharing their opinions twice a week? Probably.