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It is the 30th of July, 2021.
The best year ever.
And Daniel, I think, is still stuck in the 29th of July, like a dweeb.
Yeah.
Well, not like me and way ahead in time.
And yeah, we've we have made up, I think, a little bit for our our wobbly, unproductive July by just just released episode 90 of the main show, which is a fucking banger.
I think I'm very pleased with that one.
Lots of lots of references to ivermectin and scientific studies.
Yes, indeed.
Yeah, I just I just I just hate Brett and Heather so much.
I love kicking the boot in, you know, hate them.
But this isn't about them.
We're taking a break from kicking Brett and Heather.
Although they might come up, who knows?
It is, I don't speak German these days, and Brett and Heather never far from our minds.
I don't speak German increasingly now, just an IDW podcast, but there you go.
I wonder how did a podcast that started off being about Nazis turn into a podcast about the IDW?
I just can't, I can't understand this, Daniel.
It's so obscure.
How did this happen?
What happened?
Almost as if there's some connection there.
Almost as if.
But to finally get to the point, we're talking about this bonus episode is about In The Loop, which is a movie that was released in 2009 directed by Armando Iannucci.
Iannucci?
I should know how to say that because I've been listening to him for a very long time.
My first exposure to Armando Iannucci was as like the third or fourth person with him.
Stuart Lee and Richard Herring on the TV show, TV, radio comedy program Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World, which is also featured Tom Baker for the Who Heads who might be listening.
Armando was like the third cast member on that in their show.
And I remember listening to that when I was a student.
But yeah, Total, by the way, I forgot about it, written by him and Tony Roach, Tony Rock, something like that.
Simon Blackwell and Jesse Armstrong, starring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini and Chris Addison.
I suppose he's the I suppose he's the nerdy aide.
He's with the glasses.
Toby.
Yeah, Toby.
That's right.
And that's funny.
Wikipedia doesn't have the woman that plays the American politician in the...
Or her aide, Anna Chlumsky.
I can't say anybody's name. - Mimi Kennedy.
Yeah, she's not listed.
The women aren't listed in the starring bit on Wikipedia.
This is rank sexism.
Definitely.
For sure.
Or David Rash, actually, for that matter.
Who's in it as well?
David Rash.
I don't know.
People might remember him as Sledgehammer.
I used to watch that when I was a kid.
Lots of people went on to do to do other stuff, because like Zach Woods, the creepy Omen child, he did, I think, a season or so of the American Office down the line.
And Anna Chomsky.
Do you do you know what she's best known for, by the way?
Wasn't she in movies as a kid?
Wasn't she in a Macaulay Culkin film?
She was in My Girl and My Girl 2.
Yeah, that's right.
The one where, spoiler alert, Macaulay Culkin has his first on-screen kiss.
And I think his first real kiss ever.
He was like 12 at that point.
And he dies after being stung by a bee.
I saw that movie theatrically when I was a small child, and I have fairly fond memories of it, honestly.
It's got Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis, and it's kind of a charming slice of life kind of story.
Wow.
I've never seen it.
I've never seen it.
I just remember the poster, you know, with...
Macaulay Culkin and a girl who I recognized.
I actually recognized her when I was watching this.
I was thinking that's the girl that was in that movie with Macaulay Culkin.
The first time I saw this movie, I definitely had that moment of like, where do I know?
Where do I know you from?
And then suddenly you realize and go like, holy crap.
Yeah, no, definitely, definitely a moment.
But I was yeah I I'd completely forgotten David Rash was in this and I used to love Sledgehammer I used to stay I was when I because I'm so old now um I remember when TV used to just stop at night TV when I was a kid TV used to BBC you just you say yes thank you for watching BBC we're closing down now and then they play the national anthem at you and then the TV would go For hours.
A joke from the young ones.
People who know the young ones will remember that.
But yeah, that's a thing.
I remember that.
ITV used to...
I think ITV used to quit a bit earlier than the BBC, if I remember rightly.
But I remember when ITV started going all the way through the night and that was like a big thing, especially for us kids.
TV just goes on all night now.
And of course, we'd all stay up and watch it.
I remember I used to watch stuff like, because of course they used to put El Cheapo American shit that they just imported, you know, in the middle of the night when nobody was watching.
So I used to, as a kid, 11 years old or whatever, I was staying up till 4am to watch WKRP in Cincinnati and Married with Children and Sledgehammer.
